skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's kind of like saying walmart has a monopoly on who sells what at walmart. you can buy your same exact plastic garbage can at target instead, so there is no monopoly. just you can buy the same app for a non-apple phone. so there is no monopoly on the apps.

now as far as what you sell within your own store, digital or brick store - that's not a market. in fact, the same apps on google's store have a much larger marked due to many more users. and amazon's store. and aptoide. and a whole bunch of other stores, which all sell the same app.

so not only does apple not have a monopoly, they have a small share of the app market for the apps they sell in their store.
ok - You have a point. Researching this area is worth it. Can you see that the others also have a point? That is, measuring helmet g-forces is a proxy to find head g-forces but they are not one and the same?

However, the real issue is not g-forces on _corners_ it is the g-forces on _head/helmet hitting the ice_ where 5 g from the first are rounding errors compared to 55g from the second.
I assume the USGS still holds the same data, no less accessible than before.

So, if Google has put their copy of the data behind a wall, or deleted it, it's no less accessible than if Google had never been allowed to make that copy.
If you think Intel isn't a building on fire you either don't work in tech or haven't spent more than 10 seconds looking at what has happened to them over the last 5 years.
Case in point - Bulgaria. Overstaffed state administration consisting of more than 400 thousand people spread throughout the whole country, for a population of 6.5m. All that staff are regular hard voters for the currently ruling party, in exchange for promises for pay increases and bonuses. There is also strong resistance to introducing any effective electronic governance because it might render these people unemployed, and that would also compromise the whole power structure.
I'd retest. you either have some of the worst luck ever, or you had a false positive test.
Its wily political speak. The devs keep 100% of what they make. What do they make? 70% of the price on app store.

They keep 100% of the 70% of the store price. Truthful statement, just one that is designed to mislead you.
> In some jurisdictions they are required by law to grant refunds.

I think the jurisdiction you’re talking about is the EU, and it’s not quite that clear cut.

As a general rule online merchants do need to provide refunds, unless it’s a digital good, and they provided an explicit warning during the checkout flow that the sale isn’t refundable.

If you ask for refunds from Apple for apps they’ll introduce that warning into the checkout flow for future app purchases, which will disappear again after enough purchases.

So Apple do have some basic, compliant, controls that means you can’t just keep buying apps and getting refunds.
Is there any legal obligation Google has to 2nd hand owners of these glasses, or is it just a kind gesture that they're refunding everyone?

I have to wonder what kind of secret sauce north had if they refund 100% of the revenue from the company after acquiring....unless they only sold a few units and this was just an acquihire
AI Systems Use Mad Libs to Teach Themselves Grammar
I think this is where we get into the weeds. How do we specify what is a general purpose computer? How do we specify a legally mandated mechanism for installing software? I'm not expecting you to do so now obviously, but isn't the fact that it's so hard part of the problem? This is an incredibly tricky area to start legislating about. Theres much more to this to hitting Apple with a 'monopolist' stick.
Apple's responsibility is to the transaction. Their job as a marketplace is to make transactions happen. By making the initial transaction happen, they get their 30% cut (if you think 30% is too high, that's fine, but that's not what we're talking about here).

The customer's experience is now in the developer's hands. If the experience is botched, somebody has to cover the full refund. Since the bad experience happened outside of the transaction, it's not Apple's responsibility, it's the developer's; they need to shoulder the full refund. It wasn't Apple that fucked up.

If the user didn't understand the app before buying, that's still on the developer. If the app has issues because of some dependency on wonky Apple implementations, that's up to the developer to communicate to potential clients. The developer is responsible for the experience after the purchase is made, therefore they are responsible for the full refund if the client wants one.
Yay! Codespaces soon! Discussions too.
The programming test is just one aspect of a candidate, in my estimate about a third of the total "score". Take-home exams bias towards evaluating programming ability but bias against other desirable candidate qualities such as experience.

Their desperation to get the job doesn't necessarily carry over to their day-to-day programming. If they take a month to do a week-long task, I would want to know.

In terms of cheating, that can be easily resolved by asking detailed questions about the candidate's submission. It is also helpful to show that you took the time to review it. (There's nothing as frustrating as taking a day for a take home test and getting no response).
Ha, new account with magical information!
I suppose, in a way. It's really easy to give up Facebook and Twitter. Which I've done.

Giving up Amazon is different. They actually ship me real, tangible items I need. Items that I'd have to track down from different retailers who would more than likely take longer to get those items to me. I'm making an effort to get certain items from other sources (electronics from Newegg, for example), but I'm still a Prime member.

Google is in between, I guess. I use DuckDuckGo by default. But, I admit, I sometimes do a "!g" when I'm not satisfied with DDG's results.

But in all, I'm much more disturbed by what the Social Media giants have been up to than Amazon, Google, and Apple, so there's a bit more motivation in that regard.
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I am trying not to speculate too much how we got it but generally I agree. We used alcohol spray and bleach wipes on all our delivered groceries, but in hindsight it seems to me like the delivery drivers were the likely carrier.

In most countries with successful quarantines, these people are regulated and tested, but for us it is kind of the opposite. These are people paid hourly and highly dependent upon a paycheck. It is an incentivized super-spreader paradigm if you think about it.
“Can you keep this confidential? How do you know?”
You are really out of touch with your kids and their friends then.It happens.
Must be a regional thing; I've never heard the term "slice pie".

Almost all the by-the-slice places I've been to take slices from their large or extra-large pies. The only exception I can think of would be Pinup Pizza on the Las Vegas strip (30 inch diameter pie).
"We are Libro.fm, an audiobook platform that makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore“

Can someone explain how this works? Do we actually buy from a local bookstore or do they just pass a commission to the local bookstore on each sale?
HVAC is a likely culprit
invidio.us redirect from YouTube

Zotero connector

Bulk downloader

Emacs capture

...
Atlanta, GA
ATM is still actively in use in broadband networks all over the place. Its a real pain when you're on the ISP side.
Not in the slightest. Samsung tried to launch products that were rejected by Google via OEM licensing. Their commercial offerings are subject to external rules.
Anybody else get bummed out that many times that we create a lightweight thing to compensate for something overcooked (like XML) the new thing eventually ends up overcooked in much the same way?
Python 2

Which is a shame as many would have migrated to Python 3 if it was turing complete
Wow that’s impressive. It’s awesome to be able to see how complex some of these are like cloudformation.
Apple will start applying that exemption if you abuse their refund process. One or two refunds in a short period is usually enough to trigger it, and it disappears again after some “good behaviour”.
Not as weak as you think.

When we go looking for sources of dark matter, we have lots of options of things that aren't lit up. For example looking at the distribution of the sizes of the stars, we expect there to be a lot of giant gas balls that weren't quite big enough to start fusion. We don't see them, but we've got good reasons to believe that they are there and can even make a good guess as to how much of them there are.

However when we try to make estimates for each kind of dark matter that we think of, we come up a lot short of the amount of dark matter which is required to explain the gravitational dynamics of galaxies. This is when we are getting into the territory of imagining new kinds of particles that physics hasn't yet discovered.

Therefore the debate isn't about whether dark matter exists - it obviously does. It is about whether exotic forms of dark matter need to exist.
Do you do those activities for the joy of it or for self-improvement/another goal?

The way the book talks about leisure is that it's time you spend not striving for things. An example she gives is going for a walk without focusing on how many steps you're taking.
I've spent the last 3 months slowly trying to move to WSL/WSL2 on the weekend and the experience has been really bad IMO.

Right now I'm in some state where I somehow deleted my Ubuntu WSL vm and nothing I do will get it to reinstall so that I can use WSL again. I'm so sick of dealing with this OS. It actually reminds me of trying to get my hackintosh to work and wasting an entire weekend testing different .kexts before I could even get to doing the actual work I wanted to do (code).

With that said Catalina/Mojave have been insanely buggy and I'm dying for a middle ground between osx and windows that isn't linux. I wish cocoa was opensourced.

But at least on my 16" mbp I can open it, maybe have sound not work, docker/windowserve/kernel-task consume all of my memory for no reason and have to restart it every few days but I can usually just open it and code and not worry about breaking ancillary stuff that takes me a day or three to fix.
The one big reason is, that ARM64 is a reasonably clean 64bit RISC CPU. That doesn't have so much historical baggage to carry as the x86-based CPUs. Which were never loved, at no time in their life cycle. But due to how history went, managed to kill all the nice RISC designs that once were around. SPARC, Alpha, MIPS, just to name some.
I believe your teacher. People take courses because such courses are mandatory or for credits. Unintended consequence is learning. Even if your goal is to master, you have to scratch the surface first time. Later, you can go back and establish new connections between problems and topics, and see the history behind these problems. Then you will know the depth of ignorance (or things one doesn't have knowledge of).
My wife sacrificed her career for our 3 kids. When you factor in all the costs of working - the daycare, the work clothes, eating out more frequently, maintaining a "professional" wardrobe and so on and so forth - she was only making a few dollars/hour for all her work, less than minimum wage. Then when you factor in the stress, spending so much time away from your kids, it just doesn't make any sense. She was happy and the kids were happy.

Having 3 happy and now successful (my youngest starts college this year) kids is worth far more than whatever other crap I would've spent the money on.
Growth+Sales: The New Era of Enterprise Go-to-Market
There is a good book covering the development of computing in Kyiv written by a contemporary of Glushkov:
intro: http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/MUSEUM/DIFFERENT/StoreEternally.ht... pdf: http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/MUSEUM/TXT/MalinovskiyBN_StoreEter...

See also: http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/MUSEUM/museum-map.html
Are you seriously saying that the advancement in worker's conditions in the late 19th and throughout the 20th century were due only to employers being in competition with one another, and not due to legislative demands and union pressure? That the difference between conditions in, say, France and America are because French employers are just nicer people or have faced stiffer competition?
Flaw in GRUB2 Boot Loader Threatens Many Linux Systems
This thing is still around? Awesome! Back in the day I made an autohotkey script to make my name and threw it on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUr_rZMY61A
Exactly. For the sake of completeness, here is the link to NEWS.27, which lists all changes in the upcoming 27.1 release: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS.27...

My favorite changes are package-initialize becoming unnecessary, GTK & Cairo updates and better image support without ImageMagick.
"Microsoft makes use of Blender to generate synthetic 3D models and images of humans that can be used to train AI models. For researchers, having access to high quality free/opensource 3D software has proven to be of great benefit for scientific projects."
Here's what they linked:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0...

Am I in the minority where all I see in this synthetic human stuff is surveillance and propaganda usage?

What other benefits are there?
Self-Experimentation in Medicine
I’m a big supporter of nationalised healthcare, but the UK doesn’t have a great fertility rate, comparable to the USA, suggesting this doesn’t have that much of an impact on people’s desire for children.
How to automate facial redaction in PDFs
Written by Edward Snowden, fwiw.
This is a fantastic idea! To me, it seems like this would be possible only by human curation and not using any automated system which means someone with foresight will have to invest upfront the capital, time and energy to make this a reality (as opposed to a few talented engineers go off with some ML/NLP thing to figure this out).
The West isn't uniform on this at all. Eastern Europe and up to Greece and Italy have taken a fairly conciliatory stance on China, in particular the latter which joined OBOR. Western Europe is more mixed but still I very much doubt you'll see a TikTok ban in Germany (and neither a Huawei one), and even in the UK I'm not sure if we'll see a software ban.

I think it's more likely we'll see a differentiated response. Strongest in the US and Australia maybe Japan (although that's an unclear case as well), and mixed to not at all in Europe.

On the global stage in general the situation is very different and for that reason alone China's global expansion has made sense. The few billion dollars they've invested in the US have given them extremely valuable knowledge.
I'm surprised you're drawing on anecdata with n=1. My feed has plenty of China videos, good or bad. Now you have n=2.
Makes perfect sense when you put it like that. I didn't realize x kids per carer would mean it can't scale. Thank you.
Related, this is an interesting relatively modern (1993) book about socialist planning + computers + networking:

"Towards a New Socialism" / Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell

http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/
Google probably calculated it into the sale price. It's probably worth it to drop North's customer base vs have to deal with the glasses, sales and support for the next couple years (especially if they have to write bug fixes over time for these glasses).
"When you refund a customer in full, for an app they returned, Apple doesn't refund you the 30% cut" ... ?
Please don't imply that 87% of cases suffer long term effects. This study is limited to COVID patients who experienced acute symptoms, a small subset of all COVID patients.

This is not the flu, but if it sounds too scary to believe, it probably is when it comes to COVID.
> Formation 1997

That's 6 years before the invasion, so slightly longer than a single election cycle, and significantly shorter than the duration of the war itself. I wouldn't exactly call that 'future oriented', especially since 3 of those years were spent under the Clinton administration; Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld pulled the trigger pretty quickly once in power.

It's also incredibly short-term compared to its contemporaries, like Russia's "Foundations of Geopolitics" or China's "Peaceful Rise".
Actually we live in a standalone house and have not turned the AC on all year.

It is broken and we were just backpacking through southern hemisphere summer so we haven't bothered.
Is this an alternative to GitHub Codespaces and GitLab WebIDE?
People have a very optimistic view of what this hearing is going to reveal, and think that it is going to accomplish anything. But it’s largely gonna be republicans performance vomiting rhetoric about tech companies censoring conservative voices with no evidence, and democrats wanting to discuss everything but what the hearing is actually about, anti-trust. I expect a few democrats to make some interesting queries, and the tech news media to report minor stories that are unknown as breaking news.

Full disclosure: I work at a subsidiary of Amazon
It is true, and I don’t see anyone on that thread saying it’s not. I see a guy confused about whether it’s the consumer or developer that eats the fee - it’s the developer.

This is exactly how it works:

* Customer pays $10

* Apple owes developer $7 (to be paid in 4-6 weeks)

* Customer asks for refund, Apple sends them $10 back

* Developer owes Apple $3
Fyi... the keyword "CRDT" appears 50 times in the article.

Some past HN threads mentioning CRDT did not fare as well as OT (Operational Transform):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19886883

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19847622
Several years ago a colleague sent me a 60's or 70's soviet film exploring the idea of the Turing Test. Does that ring a bell with anyone here?
The word "lawsuit", at least in American english, has the connotation of a civil rather than a criminal case.
Moto G9 Plus लीक से पता चलता है कि मोटोरोला के सस्ते फोन में अब फास्ट चार्जिंग
I tend to view Pinboard principally as a way to search more effectively. It's especially valuable because a lot of the things I find on the internet and want to be able to refer to later are PDFs of scans of old documents, and other kinds of things that don't really index well for searching. Basically by putting it into Pinboard and adding some metadata manually (like a correct title and description) I'm preserving my ability to easily find it via search later.

It's also been a valuable way to work with resources that I found years ago and then forgot about. Since I tag things by subject area sometimes just going through a subject tag I see some random person's personal website with extensive notes on the history of something... I found it several years ago and probably wouldn't have remembered it without having it saved.
No problem there: an efficient planned economy would have no trouble whatsoever also planning for bullshit jobs, efficiently.

Incidentally, does not look like bullshit jobs were specific to the USSR, they are indeed everywhere.
Disingenuous silliness to compare TikTok to a "shitty app". I googled and found this page (not sure how correct it is). https://wallaroomedia.com/blog/social-media/tiktok-statistic...

USA 20 Million MAU in 2018, estimated 70 million in 2020?
Someone shout put 'analytic' in the title. It make no sense to me right now.
Ask HN: What do you think are the disadvantages of bootstrapping over VC model?
From the PG essay:

"Bootstrapping sounds great in principle, but this apparently verdant territory is one from which few startups emerge alive. The mere fact that bootstrapped startups tend to be famous on that account should set off alarm bells. If it worked so well, it would be the norm"
It's pretty freaking hard to convince a PM to care about security. For that matter it's pretty hard to convince most engineers, let alone companies, even after a hack. Imagine yourself talking to the general counsel after an elasticsearch db gets hacked about ethical obligations to make customers whole. Then imagine that GC saying literally "ethics? It's not like we're building bridges here".
It's sort to sad to see TikTok being forcibly sold off due to geopolitical factors, rather than on more business ones (e.g. competitiveness).

Despite the controversy with its personal data leakage, TikTok has been massively successful and put the established players like Facebook, Twitter and even YouTube on alert. Competition forces companies to improve and just as we need Android to hold iOS accountable, etc TikTok is a good counterbalance to Facebook.

Another dimension is that the tech space is either dominated by U.S. companies or regionally segmented (e.g. Whatsapp in Europe, Wechat in China). TikTok was exciting as a non-U.S. product that grew viral globally. If ByteDance is forced to sell to a U.S. company, then it's back to the status quo.
Wow thats soo fast!
> I'm providing hard data

Your "hard data" has been drawn from the pool of all studies using a political filter, meaning it has sampling bias and is no longer hard data. I am guessing that is the lowest IFR number you can find, therefore its reasonable to assume that the true one is decently higher.

Here is an example of your hand waving:

> Real IFRs are much lower when you take into account that many people who have "died of COVID" have in reality died of something else, even perhaps the supposedly no longer existent condition of old age.

If one is not thinking critically, this can sound reasonable. But rather this is a huge back door because nobody dies "of COVID" - it's always going to be some other medical condition caused by COVID. In the short time frame involved, there aren't going to be too many people who test positive for COVID then die of unrelated causes. On the longer term, we can simply look at excess deaths.

> I'm not American but this strange "we Americans uniquely suck" narrative just seems silly.

For one, the fact that Americans haven't been able to do basic things like wear N95 masks starting in February. For two, the death toll. The differences between countries are easily explained with culture. Japan had no formal shutdown but yet stayed in control because Japanese citizens did the right thing anyway. Many Americans seem hell bent on doing the exact opposite, in some simulation of rebelling.

In general, it seems like you're skating as close as possible to calling the topic a hoax, without directly doing so.
approximately three million?
Geospatial Queries Using Google's S2 and FaunaDB
Every now and then I run across a site still serving X-Clacks-Overhead.