skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense. I don't see any language that talks about chargeback fees, so it is my assumption that Apple will eat them.

I'm pretty sure that the "merchant," in this case, is Apple, so they would need to eat the chargebacks.

I don't think that anyone is well-served by refunds. It damages Apple's brand, it damages the developer's brand, it pisses off the customer, and generally makes life miserable for everyone. Even the payment processor is unhappy.

I suspect that if any knucklehead tried to "refund-bomb" a developer, Apple would step on that fairly quickly.
CDC reports the rich sleep better at night
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Sure. The problem is there's little incentive to work. To achieve that, to make it uncomfortable to rely solely on UBI long-term, we'd have to make UBI lower than our current welfare programs. I don't see any proposals for that, much less any support.
And So It Begins. Trump Floats Idea of Delaying Election
The headline is wrong. The number isn't. The headline should have said "Contracted at an annual rate of.." To make snapshots comparable, they are stated at an annual rate, even if the snapshot is monthly or quarterly.

Actually it looks like just the HN headline is wrong. The article states it correctly.
No one suggested that there are any easy solutions, rather that ignoring health and economic experts and basing public policy on fantasy and Internet conspiracy theories has lead to a worse outcome.
> When you compare the last three years of Obama’s Presidency vs. Trump’s first three years, Trump’s deficits will be almost $1 trillion greater at $2.47 trillion to $1.51 trillion for Obama. It doesn’t look like Trump’s tax cuts will pay for themselves.

Just skimming [0], but I think the last president not preside over growth of the US debt was Calvin Coolidge in 1923. In recent years, Bill Clinton was quite unusual for not doubling the debt in his tenure.

It doesn't take away from your point, but Trump has to see a debt blowout of > ~$20 trillion for anyone who believes in data to bat an eye. The US government literally doesn't believe in fiscal prudence.

[0] https://www.thebalance.com/us-debt-by-president-by-dollar-an...
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The creation of that domain must have a story.

"We're getting ignored in the mailing lists. What can we do about it?"
I think UBI only works as a replacement and simplification of existing programs. As a way to replace progressive tax with a flat tax and eliminating other food and welfare programs, but essentially ending up in the same place without all the corruption and loopholes.

If UBI is pasted in without cleaning out the existing cruft then it'll just be another mess on the pile.

However if done correctly, and not as a form of welfare, then it will be a vast improvement (in terms of fairness) with no effect on inflation.
The length of the interval matters. Everyone's heart pauses for a second or so tens of thousands of times a day, but if your heart pauses for an hour you're dead. The economy is a lot like your blood circulation - it relies on a continuous flow of money in order for businesses to keep on running and providing people with stuff, and the longer it's shut down for the worse we can probably expect the damage to be.
You trust your hard drive to never fail during crunch time, or Jane Doe in accounting to not lose the flash drive that gets shared around the office every quarter?

I'd take "generally highly available" vs "trusting my local copy" almost all the time. And as for using something like a Git'd Excel document: most people won't do that, and Github can go down, too.

Just because Google Drive isn't perfect, doesn't mean it's not better/easier/more user friendly than what has been the standard for years.
Why do I need to got authorize this? I can't tell if this interests me or not. BTW we have a few here you can use if it's Terraform based https://github.com/futurice/terraform-examples
There is an easy compromise that does not require means testing:

*Citizens-by-birth (regardless of whether it is acquired territorially or by blood-line) are eligible past majority age, as long as they reside in the country (short interruptions up to a year may be considered acceptable for this purpose)
*Naturalised people and immigrant residents become eligible past residency of equal length to majority age, subject to the rule above
UBI is not a replacement for universal healthcare, in the same way that unemployment benefits are not a replacement for public education: they both may be related somehow, but they do not overlap completely.
Windows 7 extended support is available until 2023.
Consider price elasticity.

Increasing the supply of a good or service will only push the price down when enough of the demand has been satisfied. If the demand far outweighs the supply you're not going to see the price budge for a long long time.

This is basic Econ 101, not Nobel prize territory.
I wonder what Quora’s staff spend their time on. The site is a simple Q&A app, and appears essentially unchanged the last many years and the content is all user generated. Not a huge productivity loss to go all-remote if you’re not productive in the first place ;)
Nano's never done that to me, and I regularly update a single-line authentication cookie in a config file. Do you remember which distro you were using? Sounds like it included a weird /etc/nanorc file.

Debian's has `set nowrap`.
It's high time for legislation banning this crap, or at the very least mandating an up-front warning à la "this product will stop functioning after n uses".
>And according to new research, recyclable aluminium pods are more environmentally friendly than all other capsules, whether they are made from plastic or compostable materials.

What's the environmental impact of large burlap bags or those small aluminum/plastic bags that hold less than a pound? Just as good as any other solution that doesn't require customers to recycle?
But you have to know that the "^" sign means "hold ctrl".
And in less than 18 hours. Wish all fake news were debunked so quickly and thoroughly and prominently everywhere.
threeseed is famously (to me) HN's personal MongoDB cheerleader. It always fascinated me. When I read the upstream comment my first thought was "I wonder if threeseed will show up."

Not trying to call you out, I just think the consistency + choice of hobby horse is funny, and you always stand out as the one person defending MongoDB: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I always wanted to know though: why? What compels you, threeseed?
If you’re the admin that needs to configure DNS a certain way, you need to do it by controlling and modifying endpoints. Otherwise, even if you implement network-level DoT, a user can defeat your controls by running DoH on their own, or by just adding an /etc/hosts file.
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> Isn't it better to be happy than to be "the best"?

Have you played Civilization? If you don't strive to be "the best", eventually you're the guys with spears or even muskets being bombed by F-15s. In other words, lag behind the leaders for long enough and you can say goodbye to your freedom. That's basically how the XVI-XIX century colonization happened.
Land that isn't private is still owned by the government, and maintained by taxes. I wouldn't say public land is belongs to everyone, so much as it belongs to no one - there are limits to what it can be used for e.g. can I build a house on such land?
Expanding on this, suppose there is an anti-journal, tentatively titled 'Journal of Bad Science', which features thoroughly refuted, bad-faith papers. Not just rejected papers, as the reasons can be as innocuous as a few spelling mistakes, but clearly and unambiguously bad research.

This would form the basis of the Crank Index of a paper, which can be simplified into a stoplight system: Good research with good sources is GREEN. Getting featured in the Journal of BS earns a paper the esteemed distinction of a blaring scarlet RED, citing a RED paper will mark a paper ORANGE, citing ORANGE research leaves you YELLOW... Throwing together lots of ORANGE and YELLOW citations will nudge your paper up the spectrum towards RED.

This would incentivize researchers to not only care about the quantity of the citations they share with each other, but to be extremely vigilant of the quality of those citations as well.
> Improve information, get more attention.

Clickbait all the documentation! ;-)
> Out of the box, Flipper Zero can emulate remotes for popular garage doors and barriers. You can keep hundreds of remotes in Flipper's memory as well as create a blank remote for the new wireless gate.

I'm struggling to find an honest use for this.
This aged poorly.
I watched The Bit Player last week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bit_Player

Claude Shannon had Alzheimer’s. Nothing protects us from the disease. We should be doing a lot more research into this disease.
comments several months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21990181
I still read NLP as Neuro-linguistic programming. Every. Time.
I kindof think science isn't fixable. Maybe we can get it a little bit better but we just have to live with the suck. At least it makes some progress despite all the flaws.
Change "open source projet" with "online newspaper" and everything applies.

I want to be able to give 20€/month to whatever news article I read with just one click. Instead of liking something, I want to be able to pay quality writings.

The browser is the perfect way to do this. I don't understand why Mozilla did not implement that.

Brave is close, but Brave wants us to view ads. I don't want to pay for a newspaper article talking about climate change through watching their ad for the latest diesel SUV. I want to pay them, but without filling my bank details for a monthly payment.

In France, the largest national newspaper lemonde.fr lets you subscribe in 1 click for 1€, but then you have to send them an tracked postal letter costing 7€ to cancel your subscription.
Having all your tags in one device is great. Also having a backup.
My favorite one was the K-Cup machine.

The first one allowed you use refillable K-cups so you could make coffee really fast using your own grounds.

The second one had a DRM module that didn't allow you to put in 'Unathorized Coffee'.

Regarding Unathorized Bread, I actually found the story of the cancer patients to be far more realistic and made me realize how people get radicalized easily. The story is something that should be read for yourself but I was on the edge of my seat through it.
They'll be negatively effected later if the effects of the lockdown have time to trickle up.
Should have asked them for 5k/hour consultant fee. You have them by the balls, with their entire warehouse system down, and you don't work for them anymore.
I view downvotes as an incomplete feature. If you disagree with some content -- because it is misinformation, or useless, or maybe you just disagree with the argument -- you should be able to explain what's wrong with it. I would much rather have a system where a downvote required a reason, so instead of a downvote it would be more like a comment which can also -1 / 0 / +1 the karma of the parent.
Facts aren't political. They're just reality.

If you feel that facts reflect poorly upon your political position, that sounds like something you should address.

And to be clear: the statements you're quoting specifically exclude the pandemic, so I'm not sure what you feel is "the completely unprecedented context" here.
Over the last couple of months, I have taken a rather freewheeling approach to understand the recent advances in NLP. This post documents my approach, relevant resources and some learnings. Hope it comes in handy for someone trying to understand the field better!
Of course, laws against property tax increases but not rent increases.
Any interesting technology you're going to make/use?
PostgreSQL’s New Join Type: LATERAL (2014)
I searched for ginger and the few I clicked and checked had no ginger in the recipe or description. I tried messing with the advanced search as well but maybe I am doing something wrong there. I guess it's finding me dishes that go well with some dish I have with ginger?
Earlier post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23997732
That may not have a single answer.
>According to research by Halo, a British producer of compostable coffee capsules, every minute about 39,000 of these pods are made worldwide, while up to 29,000 are dumped in landfill sites.

29 000 every minute.

I find it really hard to believe that this is better than the traditional espresso.

IMO the way this blog post is written makes it seem sponsored by capsule manufacturers, which have huge margins versus traditional espresso.
Not sure this is hacker news material, and even if it were, delaying the election requires the democratic house to approve it.
The other lesson here is before you blast someone on Twitter, double-check your math.
What would I bingle for if I was looking for a template for such an agreement/contract? It seems like the kind of thing you would want to have prepared in advance (in case of emergency, break glass).
The headline changed since this was posted. It's been updated to reflect the new title.
> I'd say we need to incentivize competence and humility.

Problem is I think that the competent are few, and when the cultural norm is that they must be humble then they stand no chance against the many incompetent.

IM(H)O: Science shouldn’t be humble in the face of non-science. As long as it is it will lose. The idea of conflict free great science is a pipe dream. We need a culture that accepts (intellectual) conflict.
Don’t let stupid get in the way of progress. Keep pushing forward regardless of decisions that are going to leave trillions of dollars in assets stranded (oil and gas extraction and generation).

Lots of wind and solar potential left to capture.
Loved the concept and the promotional video is amazing! Now i just want it to arrive. Backed!
It seems if enough users flag it gets killed instantly.

If not enough voters flag it might still catch Dans attention and he might manually kill it.

If a comment is dead we (users with over 500 points I think) might still revive it if enough of us vouch for it.

I'm not sure if we can revive a comment after Dan has used the banhammer.

Also I can confirm that unlike what someone thinks we who flag and vouch are not an elite group.

After 500 you get downvote and I guess vouch as well. You don't have to apply it anything, at least I didn't have to with the accounts that had those privileges, and I don't know anyone important around here, I'm just a bored sw engineer currently located in Northern Europe.
Potentially, if there is a need for the description logic supported by OWL. Some of the logic would be pushed from the application into the data layer, e.g. as a replacement for something like Prolog in the app. If you're dealing with a database and not a "knowledge base" of facts, then it's probably not for you. If you need a graph database, consider regular graph databases instead.

I have never seen a case where a triple store was used because it was necessary to achieve an outcome. It was always part of the premise, to show that a certain task can be achieved using triple stores. The "semantic" label is also problematic, some people think that "semantic" technology is magic and will somehow help them solve their problems.

My experience with semantic technology is from University and a commercial project. An architect who didn't talk to the engineering team decided that "semantic" technology should be used. The project was a catastrophe, we spent most of the time trying to get the technology to work for the simplest things. The situation improved when we started working around the semantic stuff, using a relational DB internally allowed us to improve performance by a few orders of magnitude.

Because all data is stored as triples of subject, predicate and object, the indexing options for improving query performance are limited compared to relational databases. While it's possible to change the graph structure to speed things up, the structure is usually chosen for semantics and defined in an ontology. A change in the structure is also a change of the semantics of the graph.

Given an undocumented triple store, it's quite difficult to figure out the graph structure stored inside. In a relational database you can just run the equivalent of "SHOW TABLES" and go from there. In the semantic world, you need a manual for the ontologies used. It's sad because the whole point of "semantic" technology was to attach meaning to data.

Triple stores also receive way less attention than databases like Postgres or MariaDB and I'd rather use something proven in production scenarios.
Hey HN,

I've been working at Markforged for about a month, and I've been thrilled to be involved with launching a pilot open-source project and our engineering blog [0]. This is the first time we've released an internal tool to the public [1] and I think it is an important step for the team.

AMA about how to get an internal tool open-sourced!

[0] https://engineering.markforged.com/#/blog/post/welcome

[1] https://engineering.markforged.com/#/blog/post/preparing_gom...
Thanks though the article is very sketchy on "liking"
Yeah, the pirate chips are curing the symptom and not the disease though. I think Smart TVs are a really concerning symptom. If 1984 were about tyrannical corporations and not tyrannical governments, telescreens would be spot-on for Smart TVs.
If it matters, you'll need a lawyer. Good luck.
Except he said the conversation could leave you pessimistic, even if the idea improved.

Perhaps you were overly optimistic about your idea, and the conversation both pointed out how the idea can improve, as well as why the idea is not as good as you originally thought it was.
It is amusing that folks kind of ignore the possibility of multiple storeys (and increasing supply of housing generally).
As simple as Woman. Man. Room. Camera. Divert attention from one crisis by creating another.
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Interesting - I wonder what's the ratio of true vs. false knowledge in the corpus that GPT-3 is trained on. Perhaps someone has performed a study on this for a specific domain?
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Which involves another term: what's a "mistress"? It's what goes between a Mister and a Mattress. :-)
It can also be autokilled but I don't think anyone other than the mods know how or when that occurs.
Why would you use interpreted languages but not JavaScript?
And it is such an ignominious end, even more so when you were identified with your intellect so much.
Well, thats not a fair comparison. A key aspect of valuation here is governed by Gross Margins. Infobip and a lot of the companies mentioned below on this thread have gross margins in the early to mid twenties in contrast to Twilio, which is in the early fifties and thats one major reason for the difference in valuation. The other is growth % YoY.

Disclosure: I am the co-founder of https://www.plivo.com/, a startup in the same space.
Wasn't there supposed to be a senate briefing about UFOs this week?
"Putting words in people's mouths is fun"

Caring about the elderly is entirely besides the point I'm making
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There's a lot of evidence of people choosing not to work if welfare provides a living that's comfortable for their tastes. I have a neighbor (in his forties) that is among that group, he's quite content watching tv, playing xbox and listening to music all day and getting drunk every few days, which he can afford on welfare, and he has a large-ish flat (same one I do), all paid for.

I wouldn't want to live that way, you probably wouldn't either. But he would and he is. UBI would certainly not be lower than today's welfare programs, and it wouldn't even have the modicum of incentive ("you must be looking for work" vs unconditional), so how would it not have a built-in disincentive to work on people that are fine with living their lives that way?
In my understanding (IANAL), the TOS actually talks about two scenarios, "In the event that Apple receives any notice or claim from any End-User", e.g. a case where user asked Apple Support for a refund and "In the event that Apple receives any notice or claim from a payment provider that an End-User has obtained a refund for a Licensed Application", e.g. a case where user asked their credit card company for a refund (e.g. a chargeback).

The "right to retain its commission on the sale" clause may cover both, but at least in the chargeback case it makes sense to have such a clause.
So I have a little disambiguation heuristic:

Neuro-linguistic programming definitely had its day. It seems to have fallen out of fashion in the last 3 decades (it was really just a phenomenon in the 80s -- I remember those days) so it's quite likely that modern references to NLP don't refer to it.

I usually read NLP as "Nonlinear Programming" (nonlinear optimization) which is the community I come from. This acronym is not widely used outside the community so if I'm not reading the optimization literature, I'm pretty sure NLP doesn't refer to it.

Natural language processing is more in vogue these days, so that tends to be my default reading. The term itself seems to have existed for decades, so it's not like it came after the others but this is the most likely reading today.
It literally says "commission", which is the 30% cut.
> The plan is to build Proteus off the coast of the Caribbean island of Curaçao, at a depth of 60 feet (~18m).

An underwater lab at only 2 atmospheres on an island famous for its shore diving accessible by car? This reminds me of a Freeman Dyson quote I referenced [0] in a different thread on underwater exploration:

> [The Russians] are very proud of the space station and for good reasons. They believe that human activities in space are an end in itself, essentially as an international sporting event. They don't sell it under false pretences as a scientific program.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23482656

[1] https://perimeterinstitute.ca/videos/living-through-four-rev...
If someone is giving you money every month, for free, you are less at their mercy. Currently if people dont take whatever work is given to them, including being forced to go to work in a pandemic, they starve. If they have at least a basic set amount coming in every month they have the ability to actually pause and figure some things out. A married couple just through UBI may have enough to scrape by with no work. The work force suddenly has negotiating power because they don't have to take any job that comes along.

I could see society changing as well. If 20 people got together and formed a commune, that commune is essentially self maintaining as they get an income, can grow their own food etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:List_of_active_Martian_A...

I couldn't resist.
Allrecipices.com can do this.
Huawei and TikTok are leading the charge towards regional trading blocs
It's probably very practical for exposing VM hosts apis to VM guests like they do in wsl
Here is what I fundamentally don’t understand. You have one guy make an unfounded, yet emotionally strong claims (every developer hates the appstore) and now his word in written in stone.

To refute him, you need multiple people to show that he’s wrong, a written statement from Apple and consignment from the Queen of England. This seems broken
It's not just a Haskell problem, but I think that Haskellers would rather care about stuff like cryptocurrency, which is obviously unctuous graft, rather than fix the other social problems in their community, like sexism or overly-strict versioning.