skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are pretty tolerant of things they think they don't have any control over. We waste enough food to eradicate world hunger a few times. Same for unnecessary pollution, corruption, prison system and many others.

> An estimated 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted globally each year, one third of all food produced for human consumption, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.

> The amount of food lost or wasted costs 2.6 trillion USD annually and is more than enough to feed all the 815 million hungry people in the world - four times over.

> According to the FAO, high- and low-income countries discard similar amounts of food — 670 and 630 million tonnes, respectively — but there is a major difference in where and how that loss occurs.

> In low-income countries, loss occurs more often in the earlier stages. For example, in Sub-Saharan Africa, 83 per cent of food is lost during production, handling/storage and processing, while just five per cent is wasted by consumers, according to the World Resources Institute. Conversely, in North America and Oceania, 32 per cent is lost in earlier stages, and 61 per cent is wasted by consumers.

So yeah, food waste is still an issue although more restricted to developed countries.

https://en.reset.org/knowledge/global-food-waste-and-its-env...
Previous story from 2009: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/03/app-store-refunds-wi...
Apple will ban adversary’s account which could be fake ID with balances loaded from iTS cards bought with stolen CCs.
Turkey tightens control on social media
It's Apple's fault that they made a standard ssh feature impossible on ios, yet still allow apps to be called "ssh".

No dvd player manufacturer created a dvd store where they sell dvds called "The Beatles" but every Beatles dvd is missing Ringo because their dvd store censors Ringo, but dvds are still named The Beatles.
Scientists Turn to 3D Printing to Save Devastated Coral Reefs
Friends+Of+The+Word,+Inc.+|+Breaking+Open+The+Word
That's so incredibly awesome. All in real-time with everything else going on in the scene. True masterpiece of modern game technology.
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Emacs 27 includes a native JSON parser (as opposed to one written in elisp, used previously). This matters a lot if you're using `lsp-mode`, since the LSP protocol uses a JSON encoding. I've been using local builds of emacs 27 for quite some time, for this very reason.
Just for a relatable example on most ARM processors that would compare to a low-end x86_64 machine, I notice python programs running far slower with similar memory and core count.

It might be memory issues, x86 machines have very wide memory busses. But I am still left a little confused, and practically it still has impact.
Right now document level classification and span tagging within text documents. These can also be combined (as in the landing page screenshot) so that for a given input, you're learning multiple tasks at once as you annotate.

The core of this platform should generally be independent of the data input type and the output labels, so we're building out other annotation options for our business customers. If there's a use case you would like it to support, it would be great to chat jordan[at]humanloop.com :)
Leading comedy sites start using Web Monetization micropayments
I'd suggest that in Europe innovation is stifled by a strange mix of very old vested interests, the class system (certainly here in the UK), socialistic cultural scepticism around capitalism/profit, and a cynical zero-sum mentality. Sadly I can only see the US going the same way what with the combination of ever-concentrated wealth for the lucky few, plus the faux-socialist destruction of the middle class which the Democrats seem to be working extremely hard at bringing about.
That isn't how monopolies work or are defined or classified. Revenue has nothing to do with market control.

Even if we rewrite the dictionary and legal texts, Apple would be part of a duopoly, not a monopoly. If you try to redefine monopoly to mean that Apple has a monopoly over their own platform, then you better start lawyering up because essentially every company in America has a monopoly.

I think people want Apple to be classified as a monopoly because they see their behavior as unfair. But they aren't a monopoly and your recourse as a free American citizen is to just not buy Apple products. The fact that you are able to buy from a competitor with zero personal harm is absolute indication that Apple is not a monopoly.
White supremacist without further elaboration is a better story for the police and prosecutors than police provocateur (and quite possibly not technically false, either as to affiliation or motivation for the action, even if incomplete because the latter is also true), so if it's actually the latter, the former is a more convenient narrative but not one which would likely be able to be maintained if there was a trial.
This policy apparently has been around since 2009: https://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/03/app-store-refunds...

Of note is that the developer "protection" clause in the 2009 version doesn't seem to be in the current version ("Otherwise, no refunds are available."): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/term...

My memory is fuzzy, but I recall there was pressure from the EU? regarding lack of refunds, so I'm guessing this was Apple's adaptation.

Regardless, it still clearly seems like the right thing to do is to refund the developer the 30%.
I agree, for any hierarchical needs, I just put them on my private git in the form of markdown folders.
There will always be statistical outliers. I'm sorry it was you and I hope that you are part of the majority of humans who experience mild symptoms.
And a lot of regulations make it worse than it needs to be by limiting number of kids per classroom/teacher, it just drives up the expenses even more.

Here in CA Daycare costs 1800$/mo and 3000$/mo in SF. Out in Houston, where the standard of living is much higher, I hear it's only 600$/mo.
Ligatures support comes in 27 as well.
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Intel – Flourish or Flounder? Moore’s Law Confuses Again
RTFA: https://stratechery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/antitrust...
What about it? This is about anti-trust and I don't think Microsoft has a monopoly on telemetry...
Calculating the fines Portland has levied against the feds for “The Fence.”
They signed up to take a possibly dangerous vaccine but are afraid to have a routine biopsy?
ICYMI lots of issues with that study, https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/doi/10.1093/aje/kwaa155... https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/doi/10.1093/aje/kwaa156...
> Heck, at that biodensity just human body heat would probably boil off the oceans...

...so if we could just harness all of that energy by turning the humans into a kind of battery...and then place them in a simulation of some sort so they don't go mad from having only one square meter of space to live in...and have the whole thing run supervised by the new super intelligent machines we are on the verge of creating...
Openness and security: a balancing act for the add-ons ecosystem
Not even refused to write, refused to let them operate. Microsoft would have made apps for the major online services themselves, if they were allowed to. For example, they created a fairly decent Youtube app themselves but Google, owner of both Youtube and Android, simply refused it access to Youtube.
I'm thinking he is (as am I) in the US. We sometimes forget there are countries outside of this one.
Yeah, agreed that architectural licensees definitely influence future ARM specifications - e.g. Fujitsu was a major driver behind SVE.

IMO, there's an important difference between Apple adding new instructions that are not in the spec, and Apple convincing ARM to add new instructions to the spec and then implementing those instructions.

In the first case, those are Apple-only instructions. In the second, that's just Apple implementing new ARM instructions.

> But they've allowed architecture licensees to do that for a long time

I don't agree that developing specifications and extensions based on the needs and desires of licensees is the same as permitting licensees to add custom instructions not permitted by the specification.

> They don't benefit from bossing Apple around

ARM benefits greatly from limiting fragmentation of their platform by exerting control over licensees.
It wasn't just the scientists, literally everyone had to do it.If you wanted something unique or just unusual ( compared to whatever the norm is set to in Moscow). Smart politicians from the occupied countries used to come up with some creative ideas on how to convince Moscow to give green light for projects and etc.
Why this report is 50B while a recent BBG report said 100?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-20/tiktok-ow...
Facebook keeps putting this bizarre emphasis on stamping their brand on everything they come up with to keep their brandname relevant.

Sounds more like Facebook should restructure as a holding company and keep creating independent concepts to see what succeeds, but keeping the Facebook name is likely an ego-driven decision.
...and if all car manufacturers bought engines from the same factory (TSMC), used the same satnav (except one brand, who had a slightly-worse in-house clone), and an accelerator and gearbox from exactly one source (Google search) would you be more concerned about anticompetitive behavior? What if the manufacturers were allowed to produce "accessories" like batteries, tires, and child seats that refused to work in any other car, and actively sued repair shops that weren't official dealerships?

Apple and Google may be competitors, strictly speaking, but the reality is they've pretty well carved up the market between premium buyers mostly concerned with fit+finish, prestige, and compatibility with other Apple devices, and the operating system and network infrastructure for, well, everything else.

It's absolutely a duopoly, and so minimally competitive: either Google or Apple would happily claim leadership status, but neither party really wants the other to go away lest actual competition or government intervention cause them to lose control of their patch of ground.
It's different when TV manufactures put Dolby in charge of advertising and supporting the feature. Then charge them a cut of their profit, with little to no recourse or dispute mechanisms.

Besides that, it could be argued that running software is the feature. What software does is not a feature of the iPhone. Like a recipe is not a feature of a stove.

We are buying the device, it's a tool, and we should control how it's used.
Debugging features in the game Shovel Knight
> I know I'm in the minority, but I believe a clean separation of government and market would remove the incentive for regulatory capture without damaging free speech rights.

That's myopic though. It's true your "clean separation" would "solve" the problem of regulatory capture, but it would simultaneously re-introduce the problems that regulation has successfully solved [1]. Society is a dynamic system of tradeoffs; solutions to societal problems that are tidy, good, and stable are ever-tempting chimeras.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuyahoga-river-caught...
Fascinating stuff. If you're interested in this, you'll love 'How Not to Network a Nation' by Benjamin Peters [0].

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27310479-how-not-to-netw...
The truth may be some combination of the two - it's certainly arguable that more transparent social network algorithms could be in everyone's interests; it's also true that TikTok would like to find ways to compete with Facebook, and increasing access to their source code may be part of their approach.

Attempting to take a global view, the ability for users themselves to scrutinize source code could be particularly important if & when subsets of them encounter bugs or get stuck in software that increasingly mediates conversations and real-world interactions.

In any case, as you say, source code is only part of the equation when we're determining how trustworthy the companies we deal with are.

As it happens, Facebook mentioned some of their contributions to the open source community as part of their testimony[1] to the Antitrust committee hearing today:

"We actively contribute to the open-source community. ... I believe sharing our intellectual property this way helps the entire ecosystem move forward and develop new products."

The TikTok Transparency Center[2] announced by the CEO does not yet include access to source code, as far as I can tell, although it does mention it.

[1] - https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20200729/110883/HHRG...

[2] - https://www.tiktok.com/transparency
There is no competition, because there are exactly two viable platforms for mobile apps. All the others are footnotes.
Embedded systems, running either Linux or an embedded OS, programmed in C or C++ or Rust.
Reading https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex..., they mean “basketball size”. It seems the BBC thinks their readers do not know how large those are.
The Amazon PR writing says the same, they compare themselves to US Retail saying that they are just 1% of that huge diverse market.... really?
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Here (in TW), not only is a pizza a group food, but it's just a component in a meal with other group foods like chicken, fried potato balls, sausages, or noodles, etc.

In fact, US pizza chains struggled here until they started localizing and adding more foods to their menus!
IBM Decided to Halt All Facial Recognition Development
Unrelated, but fun: the .su (soviet union) domain is still active and running.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su
http://www.fid.su/
The harmful impact of Audible-exclusive audiobooks
> Even if we rewrite the dictionary and legal texts, Apple would be part of a duopoly, not a monopoly.

If Apple has pricing power because people don't move to competitors, they are a monopoly in the eyes of the law no matter how many players are in the same commonly-described market segment and what their sizes are.

> If you try to redefine monopoly to mean that Apple has a monopoly over their own platform

If that platform is sufficiently sticky that pricing changes don't induce people to switch to competitors, that's exactly what the law already does, no redefinition needed.

> then you better start lawyering up because essentially every company in America has a monopoly.

No, most don't, though they tend to seek them (what do you think a ”moat” is?)
This might be wild speculation but I just now realized that AMD, Nvidia, and, of course, TSMC are all Taiwanese lead. Did Taiwan have some kind of incubator or have some kind of special emphasis on semiconductors or is this just pure coincidence? I wouldn't be so surprised if Taiwan isn't such a small country (relative to its bigger neighbors). Just wondering.
... except that neutrinos are detectable. Kind of an important distinction.
We had other protocols. TCP/IP won exactly because it was technically superior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Wars
It's a great point about habits. It probably took me a surprisingly long time before it became second nature to make a note on my phone (or more likely just take a picture) to remember something rather than make a note on a piece of paper. And I still sometimes find myself carrying around paper or plastic cards or copies of information that really aren't critical and could just as easily be a photo on my phone.

I suppose there's a downside to everything being dependent on your phone but for non-critical stuff, it makes sense.

And it takes time to get comfortable. I gave up my landline fairly recently after deliberately avoiding using it at all for about 6 months--well, except once when Internet failed. But I finally decided that, while it can be somewhat higher quality and was something of a backup (though it was still from the cable co), it just wasn't worth $40/month as a backup.

ADDED:

>you'll find lots of forms that ask about landline vs cell, or assume landline is the primary phone number, etc.

This is one of my minor annoyances about giving up my landline. I really don't like giving out my cellphone number at random. For work stuff, I just give out my office number which doesn't even have a phone attached :-) But there is some personal stuff where I don't necessarily want to give out an entirely fake number but I don't want them calling my cell either.
I guess my wording was unclear.

I thought with semver if you never did a major breaking change then you had to keep the major version 0 forever.
ITER is nothing more than a money sink to underfund innovative research in fusion power.

Big Oil ️ ITER.
I was discussing it with a friend who is pretty wealthy and entirely self made and I learned that...

The reason my friend is not having kid has nothing to do with economics of having kid.

He has plenty of money to support 10 or even 15kids based on the numbers some people posted on this thread.

Reasons why he does not want to have kids:

1. He dated like 5 different women, most of them confessed their love to him. But they were always busy at education/career, he lost interest in them and decided to shift focus to his career. After years, he found himself to be alone but successful.

2. After having achieved success, he didn't want to take deals where he could lose half of my income like alimony. It took a decade to build this much wealth, why risk losing it with marriage.

3. He needed love/support/care the most when he was younger. Now that he is much older, what's the purpose of all of that even if it comes to him now?

4. He told me that all the women who rejected him when he was young are now confessing that they always were interested in him. He told me that what people are attracted to do doesn't change, later in life they start supressing what they are truly attracted to for things that they logically want from others.

Not sure how many people can relate to it.
Not quite. Veganism is a belief system, whereas fruitarianism is a diet. The latter is compatible with veganism since the diet contains no animal products, but you can be a fruitarian who exploits animals in a non-dietary fashion (e.g. wearing leather, buying products tested on animals, etc.).

Also, my understanding is that at least some fruitarians allow for some amount of nuts/seeds and leafy greens, but I don't know if that's universally accepted.
So many people who wonder about the exact cost and do not read the article to the end... And this is the ESA bet against SpaceX btw.
http://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/ESA...
ARM doesn't sell chips, they sell IP. E.g.: their ISA (instruction set) or soft cores (designs that you can integrate in your own chip and then fabricate).

There's nothing special in the chips themselves, it's the business model what's quite different from Intel's.

Historically, ARM (and their licensees) have designed their cores targeting power efficiency over everything else, but there's nothing that prevents Apple or any other licensee from designing a power hungry ARM CPU.
What options are there? Google Play, Apple App Store.

How much do they take? 30% and 30%.

Is there an option where they take less than 30% or where someone can compete on that cut? No.

Is there a different store you can use with the same privileges as these two stores? No.

Can you take your payments outside of the store and manage payment fees yourself so as to not give them 30%? No.
To compare the Norwegian response to the American response, and to presume any competence in America, seems quite irrational at this point to me. There are people out mixing in nyc in ways that will allow virus transfer when it gets back here one way or another. As time goes on more and more people are out. If there was no testing delay I would absolutely agree with you, but we are looking at a week minimum delay. The conditions bear more and more similarity to March. De Blasio (who deserves no respect on how he has handled any of the problems facing nyc currently) is trying to reopen the schools. Maybe only one of these things would be ok, but this is a disaster in the making.
> Keep in mind that Apple is also exclusively building Macs with AMD graphics cards.

Any reason to believe that will continue to be true when Apple move to their own ARM chips? No technical reason they couldn't keep using AMD GPUs, but Apple seems to be leaning pretty hard into getting as vertically integrated as possible.
You know you are in too deep when you thought this was about a specific app.
I think they were creating a walled garden and this was just lip service. Blaming it on state of tech/HTML5/etc was easy. The app store could be open from administration/censors and thus would function exactly like the web even if native code was required. The frustrating part of current state is they censor who, what, and how can be brought to market and the 30% cut is just egregious.
The only major difference I see is that the entrepreneur aims to make money from the innovation as opposed to trying to improve society. Money was clearly a better motivator though.
The fact that that is even a thought screams silly and childish in my mind, but then again life has taught me that 'maturity' really is a social construct and the rule of law and contracts really should be the only baseline expectation of human behavior from strangers.

Also - that plotline from SV where he just buys pizza from thd pizza startup that is operating at a loss seems like the same idea as this but just slightly different. Business is funny
Not always the case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23988446
How is that fraud? "Everyone, buy this product and return it to the store for a full refund," doesn't sound like fraud to me. It doesn't result in personal or financial gain to the people perpetrating it, either.

edit: so who is in trouble here? The person calling for people to do it with their twitter following or the twitter followers? I'm not saying that buying the app and returning it is not fraud if you entered into the transaction in bad faith and with intent to cause damage to the dev, I'm saying calling people to do that is not fraud.
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I have heard people use "a commercial" quite a bit in QC.
Pretty sure it's just a metaphor, and not literal rocket surgery.
Um, google is 1) automatically reading my mail, 2) noticing that I made an air travel reservation, 3) populating my calendar with the relevant times, 4) populating my calendar with a fake hotel reservation disguised to look as if I made it, and 5) sending both email and calendar notifications that I'd failed to confirm that fake reservation.

Items 1, 2, and 3 are ok, and are the feature

The fake reservation and "confirm" requests are straight-up deceptive trade practices - an attempt to steal money and change my travel plans by deceptive means.

For a moment, let's go with your idea that Google didn't do #4 & #5.

First, questions: When did I give Google permission to open up my calendar for anyone in the world to populate? Considering the levels of spam in email, telephony, & text, what idiot thought that was a good idea?

Aside from the deceptive trade practice, this is also a massive security risk - with everyone's calendar open to the world, and without advance warning, it'd be straightforward to route a person into a variety of dangerous situations if they aren't extremely careful - this is way beyond 'click the link ransomware', and up to 'go to the appointment in your ostensibly secure calendar and get kidnapped'. These are just a few quick examples.

So, either Google themselves is directly implementing deceptive trade practices, or they are stupidly enabeling all kinds of new cybercrime.

In short, if Google is actually enabling this kind of access for random 3rd parties, it is a WORSE intrusion than if they are merely doing it themselves.

Either way, I'd expect far more responsible thinking from such a supposedly mature company.