skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let us stick with steam power because making diesel trains is too easy.

The problem is that GPT3 is a technology you got to utilize or get kicked to the curb by the competition.
> qualcomm has a virtual monopoly for mobile processors

Not even close. Qualcomm has about a third of the market: https://cntechpost.com/2020/03/24/samsung-surpasses-apple-to...
From the guidelines[1]:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Maybe enough people flagged it for being off-topic

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
apple's bestselling devices though are content consumption devices, and people spend most of their times in social apps there. That entire ecosystem is dependent on ads, and in particular on the advantage of having targeted ads, which is what made G & FB rich
I bought a Moto G6 in the fall for $150, for the simple reason that I couldn't find any phone at any price that I didn't hate, so I figured it might as well be as cheap as possible. (In the past, I was happy to shell out for flagships, though not always super close to the release date, but sometimes multiple ones at once.)

What a fortuitous coincidence, because once the pandemic started I've been using the phone once a week or less. If I'd paid $500-1000, I'd be pretty unhappy with myself right about now.
> We are speaking very much out of topic.

You do understand we're talking about NATO and Russia, right? I mean, there is no clearer example of why NATO was created and exists up to this day that Russia's attack and invasion of Ukraine. The reason why Russia dedicates itself to weaken NATO is precisely that as well. You cannot talk about NATO without discussing Russia's historical aggression and expansionist agenda towards all its neighbouring states.

Knowing that, and as you are a self described peace activists with an axe to grind against NATO, why do you intentionally turn a blind eye to the very core of the problem?
It's amazing, not depressing. Music is an incredibly effective marketing channel.
Long suites of thematically consistent music of course predates recorded music, so I don't think you can chalk it up entirely to the recording medium.
When has Apple initiated a patent lawsuit since Cook became CEO?
Because we don't have any efficient way for states to figure out exactly how much people were making before. Lawmakers have been on a campaign to defund, stifle, and keep unemployment insurance hard to access. This has resulted in ancient systems (even by government standards) that makes it very hard to figure out how much people make.

I cannot find the specific reference for it, but I believe I heard people saying some of these systems were having a hard time paying out over $1,000 a month because they were so old and outdated.

This is the case of "don't let the enemy of the perfect be the enemy of the good" that is repeated a lot in policy making. Sure, we could create a more perfect solution, but what are the costs associated with crafting that perfect solution under the specified given time frame?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/19/outdated-technology-may-slow...

https://www.marketplace.org/2020/06/05/when-does-the-expande...
I'm arguing that Twitter is now critical infrastructure, like banking or power grid, and needs to take security seriously. If they don't do it themselves, they'll get regulation like HIPAA.
Presumably a well-paid professional orchestra could record more than one decent song a year, or at least one "every 3-4 years"?
hmm[0]

If I was the leader of this country, I'd see placing market pressure on the citizens would coerce them to yield to market efficiency. That is to say, if people have to pay for college, it would push more people towards degrees that run the economic/productive component of this engine (due to the higher salaries from the demand). The wealth generated from this omni-cultural push will benefit the country, both it's leaders and it's citizens. Deep down in the depths of the human mind is a little chunk of the brain that is terrified of death and inferiority. This goop collectively bubbles up to the surface sometimes, taking the form of war.

If this is one of the prices to pay to live in a country that no other country in the world could conquer, i'd say it's worth it. Human history is full of evidence that reality.

[0]This comment is just a one dimensional thought experiment
Launder them.

Possibilities are endless. Coolest thing I heard was use the bitcoin to rent bitcoin miners. Then spend the resultant cleanly mined coins.
Once you buy an apple product you lose freedoms others have. So, while no one forces me to buy from apple, once I buy apple I'm forced to buy only what apple sees fit.
How many? 5000 servers? As a public company it should not really matter at that size. Developers are way more expensive.
I guess it depends on how you count, but not really, at least not for the first 6 years or so. The first two-ish were high school, the next four were college, and the next six were in graduate school (so on a grad student's salary). After that I got a "real" job.

For what it's worth, I do other artistic pursuits as well. I did music for about 15 years though I wouldn't say I was ever good. I've been writing for about 10 years. I would say I'm just now barely at the point where I think I can write half-way decently.

To be clear, I am very aware, and very grateful that one of the things I happen to like doing also pays well. I was responding more to the "you can't imagine the level of effort required to do this work" aspect of the ancestors' comments. Yes, I can imagine, thank you very much. While I don't like where we're going with funding models for art, that doesn't mean that understanding the effort is the limiting factor.
I can't tell exactly anymore? I just remember standing next to the vet, while she picked them off of it on a table with tweezers. Under bright lights and a looking/magnifying glass on a flexible arm. They've been maybe a millimeter long, at max. 2mm ? I could barely see them, if not for the bright lights and they being black brownish on a white sheet.

edit: This had to be the summer of 1981, 1982 or 1983, not later.
also the DOJ release and complaints: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24012968
I'll always have a soft spot for my Lumia. I loved it too
You can always send money to your favorite musicians.
Discussing Sherman act is a good starting point as it illuminates the spirit of the antitrust law and illustrates the letter.

Do you think the EU definition of monopoly is different enough to allow Apple be classified as a monopoly? Please, make your case!
Race? Really? Which races are involved? Aren’t we all Semitic? Especially concerning Yemenite Jews who are literally Arabs who converted to Judaism en mass before the 7th century. The article doesn’t reduce anything to politics. It “exposes” a very effective propaganda machine. Anyone who studies the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is aware of this. Not going into why you want to compare Bedouin raids to a state sponsored violence. Bedouin tribes attacked both Jews and Arabs since before the time of Mohammad.
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People thrive when they have a purpose in life and problems to solve. Take away their problems and purpose and:

1. they'll invent problems

I.e. "first world problems". We (in America, anyway) live in an incredible utopia by any historical standard. But I read on the news every day about an endless series of phony crises. (The coronavirus thing is a real crisis, but even so, by historical epidemics it is not that bad. The bubonic plague, for example, killed something like 35%.)

2. they'll be miserable and self-destructive

This is a well known problem with the offspring of very wealthy people who never had to try at anything.

3. they die

People often die shortly after their retirement. They don't survive the loss of purpose.
That's probably going to the person who is managing it, I would assume? The actual people doing the unskilled work are likely making minimum wage.
Like Tesla....
1. You also need to take into account non-wage compensation (e.g. healthcare).

2. This also provides a certain amount of "rough justice" for replacement of unreported wage income. While ordinarily that would not be an appropriate use of the UI system, these are not ordinary times.

3. Excess UI benefits will not last forever, while the effects to lower wage workers in food/hospitality and other industries will leave financial scarring for years. Giving people a little more upfront, then slowly phasing it out, gives laid off workers a reasonable opportunity to plan on a career change, if needed, or to reduce household expenses going forward. (E.g. finding a cheaper apartment).
Or lost their wallet/password
You can run third party apps and Steam on macOS-equipped laptop computers just fine. Why it should be any different on pocket or tablet iOS computers?
Yes, because the SEC isn't stupid, and would trawl through the data, until they found:

* A set of freshly opened accounts.

* That only shorted a single stock.

* Right before a major hack.

* That cashed out all at once.

* That never traded again.

And then they'd start calling the owners of those accounts, and asking questions. Most of those accounts would be legitimate traders, but that's fine - there's not that many accounts that satisfy four of those five criteria. A few sql queries can narrow it down to the point that basic detective work can solve the rest.

The problem with playing stupid games on the stock market is that there's a very clear paper trail that will link you, as a human being, to the money that you're hoping to make. At least with bitcoin, you can theoretically isolate yourself from the source of the funds, through tumblers, transferring money in and out of shady exchanges, etc.

This is also exactly how the SEC catches insider-traders. By analyzing the flow of trades, and following up on suspicious ones. If the first and only trade you've ever done in your life is a $200,000 short[1] on your employer twenty minutes before a disastrous earnings, you might soon be talking to a very nicely dressed man who would love to get another conviction under his belt.

[1] If you think you're playing 34-d chess, and have done a bunch of other options trades surrounding it, to disguise it, you're just as likely to piss away all of your money before you even get a chance to insider-trade. That's the beauty of options - they will part a fool from their money before they can spit.
Keyboards should be truly split for two reasons:
a) different people need the spacing between the sides to be different. Ideally, based on the length of your shoulders.
b) some people, like me, like to put our pointing device (mouse) in-between the two halves
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24015210 - our replies crossed.
But app developers can't make their own app store for iOS
Or maybe he doesn't want to waste the time writing a dissertation-length critique as a comment on an Internet news aggregator? The name being pretentious and tendentious is a quick heuristic to determine that the overall ideology is nonsense.
Not forcing people to be a developer to sideload apps isn't addressing the elephant in the room that you need to have a Mac ($800+) to build them. Your solution would best be 'allow downloading and installing .app packages from websites'.
> if 'proper use' would mean using exclusively the new extended API? Is that meaningfully different from building a new windowing system (cf wayland) and implementing x11 on top of it (cf xwayland)?

We're already in a world where "proper use" of X11 means relying on ubiquitous extensions. Nobody uses the core font rendering APIs anymore --- instead, everyone uses fontconfig and XRENDER. The transition was gradual and smooth. Nobody had to rewrite applications. Both old-font-API and new-font-API X11 applications shared the same X server, the same connectivity configuration.

The transition to Wayland should have looked like a super-XRENDER, not some bespoke new thing with an embedded X server that will always be a second-class citizen just like embedded X servers on Windows and macOS are.

Making some grand new thing and emulating the legacy thing is harder to get right than just teaching the legacy thing to do something new. Why? Because in any rewrite, you not only have to rewrite the parts of the old system that are bad, but also the parts that are good.
How does arithmetic work under this system?

If $600 gets you nothing, then what does 2 * $600 get you?
Considering Wirth was apparently having that debate back in 1995 and even then it was far from a new idea, i doubt we'll solve it any time soon.

Software will just keep getting bloatier and bloatier and hardware more and more powerful to cope with the software inefficiencies (what? you think hitting hardware limits will solve this? nah, we'll just put more cpus in there so that software can be slow in parallel and of course train users to think slow software is normal).
What do the first two syllables in “monopoly” mean?
Maybe, just maybe, this is a good indication that their earnings were criminally low to begin with. Might have something to do with the relationship of exploitation between employers and employees.
> What's going to happen next is a handful of illiterate or unaccountable users will deface Apple's reputation by bombarding news sites with their misfortune.

Many Android phones already allow you to gain access to root or to replace the OS that the device ships with (and even more of them allow for indiscriminate sideloading, even without rooting). Has Android's reputation been "defaced" over this opportunity for users to run custom software on their devices?
EULAs are not legally enforceable, nor are they legally binding. Clickthrough EULAs are absolutely contracts that users neither understand nor deign to read, and to claim otherwise is to hide behind the threat of the government monopoly on force imposed by legal action.
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While there is certainly more complexity in modern software, it does not necessarily need to translate to increased memory, CPU usage and increased latency for the user. Are you saying that this increase in software complexity definitely increases these requirements?

Java is definitely not a good example of a memory-efficient language when compared to its non-GC alternatives.

It all comes down to economics, software is written as inefficiently as possible as long as it does it jobs and is not hindered by this and this actually the crux of "Wirth's law".
Facebook and Google aren’t hard-coded into the law. The law applies to “designated digital platform corporations.” The executive government can add or remove companies from the list at “runtime” (without passing a new bill), but the explanatory memorandum linked above says that initially only Facebook and Google will be designated.
> I don't see the WTO being involved when China forces majority-owned joint ventures

Did you check? https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds549_e...
Vitamin E research also ends up being a bit YMMV: most commercially available Vitamin E is one form only, alpha tocopherol... except Vit E is 8 different forms: 4 tocopherols and 4 tocotrienols.

The research that has been done so far basically indicates alpha tocopherol-only supplementation aligns identically with unspecified-Vitamin-E-is-bad research.
If you support Apple and Google in their claims to 30% of the profit, then you support Comcast charging an additional fee for Netflix.

And guess what? I don’t have to use Comcast.
Not necessarily so! Gig (and self-employed) workers were included to participate in UI under CARES act, who normally are not eligible for UI benefits [1].

You are correct however in clarifying my statement above.

[1]. https://www.marketplace.org/2020/06/05/when-does-the-expande...
The issue with voice assistants is frequently after they get the thing wrong the first time I might not bother interacting with them again. Especially if there are other people around.
In EVE online, many doubling scams would actually pay out the first few times. This to encourage others to commit bigger sums. Hence, if you 'get in early' it might be worth it to try and get your money doubled.
The Prosperity license seems like a better fit to me, as the GPL/AGPL has a different set of constraints (e.g. customers who want to keep their code closed).

What's wrong with a license that's non-OSI "open" but gets developers paid from large companies to develop otherwise open software?
Because it's actually being debated right now as to whether to replace it with the same, less, or nothing, and setting perception about particular ways is in the interests of people who want a particular outcome of that debate to either occur and not have its supporters politically punished at the upcoming election, or, OTOH, to not occur and have its supporters punished at the election.
If you change all tires if a running car, you are increasing complexity and risk. The blog post describes the fallacy/anti-pattern of starting from scratch. It's usually a people problem when people don't want to understand the Source of the current state and also don't want to fix it. A green field looks so much nicer than dirty plumbing. But it's wrong.

Another sign of this anti-pattern is the hyper focus on the green field solution and not to think about simpler solutions (better DevOps tooling, hire C++ developers to rewrite slower lua Code etc)
> how should it be done by the application?

It shouldn't be done by the application. It's the window manager's job to manage windows.

As a user, I absolutely do not want applications to be able to put themselves wherever _they_ want. The windows go where _I_ want, and the window manager gives me a single place where I can manage all that.
There's no way to enforce that.
This makes me feel old. I got fed up in university submitting app patches using GTK in ~1999.

Still hasn't been improved in 20 years? sad.
No central party can issue chargebacks. But if the FBI got the funds, they can just send the funds back.
This is answered below. In short: NATO did not stop the annexation of Crimea.
you should include a reference: https://danluu.com/input-lag/
Not sure where you got 25% from?

> The Commission considers that low market shares are generally a good proxy for the absence of substantial market power. The Commission's experience suggests that dominance is not likely if the undertaking's market share is below 40 % in the relevant market. [1]

Historically the European Commission's antitrust cases against tech giants have largely been against companies with overwhelming market share:

European Commission vs Google: 90% market share in search [2]

European Commission vs Intel: 70% market share in x86 CPUs [3]

European Commission vs Qualcomm: 90% market share in LTE chipsets [4]

Apple's 25% is nowhere near the same level and I expect the Commission's investigation will conclude that they do not, in fact, have a monopoly in the EU.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A...

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_17_...

[3] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_09_...

[4] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_18_...
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

In case anyone is interested in the source.
The hardware is open; you can build or modify the keys as you please. There a number of variants with different key layouts: https://deskthority.net/wiki/ErgoDox
For a lot of people, the idea that they would show up as a "green bubble" means they will never consider moving off of Apple - If you've purchased a lot of apps that you will now lose, you're not going to just move off of Apple

How many people are buying apps for the iPhone and not subscriptions that work cross platform or spending money on play to win games?
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Exactly. Thus why I am somewhat surprised to see that he's being charged in Florida. By the letter of the law, this is an issue for the feds to handle.

Edit: Another post on HN[1] covers the federal charges. So, it sounds like this kid is being charged by both the state and the feds. I don't envy him.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24012968
Does no one think that these types of articles are a distraction while larger corporate entities get that majority of the bailout monies? Small businesses and the general public are fighting over the scraps of these bailout bills while the lion's share go to the larger corporations and to prop up the stock market (which, according to quite a few has been in need of a correction since Clinton - though economics is not my area and I defer to those who are more knowledgeable). It seems to me a bottoms up approach would work better to stem the tide of oncoming homelessness and broad housing/business market crashes that stem from failing systems, rather than putting our faith in "trickle down economics" during a pandemic where the only viable means of shopping is delivery, thus ridding the service sector which is a major vacuum in the whole "trickle down" web.

Admittedly, I could be wrong on several points and do look forward to correction. Please do point out my mistakes.
> expecting a level of security that can prevent children, literal children, from walking right through it

Well, that's your problem.
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the study says 29% gave the password without chocolate as well .

Some where given chocolate before and after , nowhere it says chocolate was offered as payment for sharing the password. Small gifts could have been inducement to establish relationship and trust not the same as a bribe as you characterises it

I find it hard to believe 25 /40 % plus people readily share their password to total strangers , without knowing more details it seems unrealistic

Social engineering is still a problem but am not sure bribes are the real concern . And to insinuate the cost of bribing is as low as candy for significant chunk of the population is just wrong
I completely agree. My snarky comment was in reference to GitHub's marketing emphasis a few years ago on "social coding".

https://docs.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-githu...

https://medium.com/glitch/github-glitch-and-the-future-of-so...
That isn't actually how that works, for a lot of interesting reasons, but the most objective answer I can give you is this. Since the 1970s, the M2 money supply has 15X'd, but inflation has only divided value by 7. Just increasing the supply of money in an economy doesn't cause inflation on a 1:1 scale. If everyone made an extra $600, they would more than likely obtain an additional $280 in added welfare.

I think it's not an unrealistic way of looking at it to say that our floor is $280, and in reality, we could see up to $600 or more in net welfare added.

What you're actually doing is bringing the poor and the wealthy closer together, reducing inequality. In places with a $15 minimum wage, standard of living actually goes up for the poorest citizens.
Why? Did they remove the file picker dialogs from GTK?
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