skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the EU and Australia massively over estimate the amount of money their "news" links bring to google.

For google this will be a pure economics game, and when they passed the other laws Google looked at the numbers and noped out.

The same will be true for Australia.

I do not see the UK, US, or any of the emerging economies pulling this, so the EU and Australia will alone in this battle and the amount of money being demanded it seems to me most likely exceeds google profit, so they will just end the service to the nations, and blacklist the sites from search

Search will be fine because 3rd party sites will be indexed so it will be a 2 hope, and given the incestuous nature of "news" today where every story is written more or less than same on 100+ sites all over the globe I am sure people will find the news they are looking for just fine with out those sites in the index

The Eu and Australia are massively overplaying their hand
Haha, that's a good one.
> "It seems there are two distinct branches of computing emerging - one where performance matters, and one where it doesn't."

The unfortunate corollary being that the prevalence of developers who treat it as if it doesn't makes it darned hard to find one who treats as if it does when you need one.

> "Applications made for "consumers" tend to be made like a cheap car"

Not really a great analogy. The Prius has a reputation for quality and reliability; it's often seen used in taxi fleets, where those qualities are a must. Luxury cars often have high maintenance requirements and poor reliability since cost is not a concern to their owners.
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I don't need five stores. I need to be able to install native apps from the web.
I use it as needed, but I think it’s way too complex overall.

Here’s an example: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/master/RenderSamples/...

Win32 equivalent: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/master/RenderSamples/...
I'm not suggesting anything, I'm wondering what mechanisms other that political pressure might make progress in the Middle-East, given the historical context that the OP mentioned.

Also, the guidelines: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
The duopoly controls distribution. That's the classic definition of a cartel.

Google and Apple are a cartel.

They made the world worse than it was for software distribution. It used to be open in the 90's and 00's.
>It would be trivial for Visa to notice an account suddenly starts making purchases from out of the country, or exceeded some threshold of declines, etc. But, they don't care.

I've had CC companies send me fraud alerts plenty of times and have had them block payments automatically as well. So please don't make straw man argument.

Moreover, what I love when I go on a vacation to a foreign country is having my credit card stop working and trying to figure out how to make an international phone call to get it fixed. Credit card companies value improved customer experience over catching some larger percentage of fraud.
Time immemorial: Man who builds a service on the backs of creative people then dictates what they do.
If "cross platform" is one of the requirements, then Hell No.

Ditto for "in depth documentation". ;)
Perhaps the big winners from GPT-3 will be patent trolls? Easier than ever to mock an idea up and use the implementation to do a land grab in form of a patent? [Not saying I advocate this strategy, am just wondering if the low barrier to entry will enable it]
But if you put out a concept album, do you expect it to pay your bills for three or four years? I don't think that's a reasonable expectation. If you want to make a living off music, then you might need to put out more music, or do other things like playing in a cover band or being a studio musician.

Compare it to actors/actresses who do hollywood movies, but also do indie films. If you want to make a living, you might not be able to do whatever it is you want, and might need to put out some more mainstream stuff.

Only a few people really get to do what they want in the arts and make a living.
Can I ask how it's clear that people don't want to listen to LPs? I think there's a percentage of people that will listen to what's popular in their playlists but there are also plenty of people who listen to LPs and are fine waiting 3-4 years. I believe more records were sold last year than in history.
Vatican allegedly hacked by China ahead of key talks
Wow, that response demonstrates exactly what is wrong with this library and its developers.

"You can carry on using the old version" is a real cop-out which does not address the substance of the complaint in any way whatsoever.

Yes, I know it's being removed in GTK+4. You didn't have to remove it. You chose to. And to hell with the consequences. You could have kept it pretty much indefinitely with near zero maintenance overhead if you cared about compatibility and the extent to which that core functionality was used.

I am always surprised at how much time gets wasted on trivia, and yet a simple maintenance issue like this is too difficult despite requiring much less effort.
I don't think anyone is disputing that ROI is better with software.

That said, programming for 10 years before getting a job in the are is not uncommon. Most of my peers did it for at least five (I learned 15 years before, but I grant that's not that common).
I dunno. I was pissed off when Google removed ability to listen to wakeword on Nexus 6 with the screen off. I used quite a lot of stuff through it.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/309497-the-amd-ryzen-7...
I don’t get it. Why would having his basic needs met stop him from being a Walmart greeter? If someone wants to be a Walmart greeter they can still do that. Basic income and social support doesn’t stop that.
But then, simply don't run that software. Vote with your wallet. Use a competitor that remains on the App Store. Why deprive others of the choice, in favor of a single entity in charge- a single point of failure? I thought it was a truism in tech that monocultures are a bad thing?
This tendency to hyper-analogise everything oh so sinks my boat.

I can’t think of even one example of the use of analogy that has helped me understand a subject better than if it were discussed and explained on its own terms.

It seems all analogies do is enable the analogiser to delude themselves in to thinking similar is equal to same.
Everything from composing and performing the entire song, to contributing a couple of claps during the outtro. It's a very loose term.
What's the big deal, he stole some bit coin and embarrassed Jack.

Wall Street Insiders steal billions everyday from Joe6pack with the Governments help and they get to laugh about over a drink after work.

Now we can spend millions in tax payer money incarcerating him....

He should get a reward for exposing how shitty Twatter is. Besides the NSA is reading every txt you send and listening to every call you make. They know where you are 24/7 and what you bought for lunch. No one is punishing them.....

It's all theater for the masses I suppose....we caught the bad guys.....LOL...
I see only $100 billion of cash and short-term investments:

https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/AAPL/financials/annua...

and $100 billion is only one year's worth of Apple's earnings:

https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/AAPL/financials/annua...
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If you don’t put your product in Walmart is your product guaranteed to be a failure?

Tell that to all of the low end TV manufacturers, game systems (see Sega), toy manufacturers, and back in the day musicians who went out of their way to create an edited version just for Walmart.
Judging by your nickname, I think I have reasons to listen. You are that David who writes GPU drivers?

So, what do you think is the most complex thing on an Nvidia GPU?
Politics aside, Famagusta is quite fascinating. There are relatively few recent photos online, mainly due to the army presence and "shoot on sight" warnings.

Never the less, I visited a few years ago. Very strange to see in real life the "nature takes over the cities" so often imagined in films.

http://www.ninjito.com/_2015-04-14-Varosha
So will Ambani become the India's tech Godfather.
If that so then it is interesting if we compare India's tech scene and China's.

For example, the Chinese tech giants (Jack Ma, Pony Ma, Robin Li, et al) seems come from zero, instead of other established rich folks (Dalian Wanda group, Li Ka Shing, Walter Kwok).
Similar thing happened to _all_ of corporate japan. Bubble era left a strong desire to hoard cash. Thus Japan Inc has vast reserves of cash. Ironic, but such reserves have not help valuations even during this pandemic.

There is a lesson on corporate financing here, but I am not sure what it says.
> To be eligible, you'll have to have used your Invoke speaker to ask something of Cortana between July 31st and before today's announcement.

I'm assuming that "July 31st" means 2019? Otherwise, that's a few-hours window.
I was scratching my head as to why Mac and iPad sales would’ve shot up 30% YoY.

Then saw that two weeks before end of quarter they started a “back to school” promotion (in June?) that throws in a free pair of AirPods with a Mac or iPad purchase. Details here: https://www.apple.com/promo/pdf/EN_US_BTS_FY20_TandCs.pdf

With a $479 iPad Air that’s 33% of the price of your purchase.

New Apple products can easily be sold on Amazon or Ebay for close to face value, so this is a extremely easy and generous retail arbitrage opportunity.

My point is I didn’t see any language around this promotion in their earnings report but suspect because it is so generous that both legitimate customers and resellers are taking advantage of this deal, thus disproportionately lifting sales for Macs and iPads vs other categories like iPhones which was essentially flat YoY.

Their surprise beat was then in part influenced by this big promotion and not necessarily totally organic demand...

Edit: They do something like this every year but this one started in Q2 unlike last year in Q3 and includes much cheaper iPads, and is for Airpods for the first time (a much more desirable freebie over Beats)
That makes sense. Unfortunately, as someone else in the thread has mentioned, the ways of monetizing OSS misalign the incentives between user and developer, and they haven't really been very successful anyway.

I develop multiple popular libraries that thousands of people use, yet I've never seen a single cent from them, which is fine for me because I don't develop them to make money. However, it's really hard to foster an ecosystem when companies who extract millions of dollars of value from FOSS don't feel like they need to give back.
Whoa, when I read the quoted sentence of yours I immediately had the same though. Kind of eerie.

Man, RIFT was kind of weird with all their numbers, but it was cool in ideas.
Author here. I agree it's early and we'll have to wait until real products hit the ground to see the full extent of its capabilities and limitations.

I was a skeptic of the performance too ("surely all these demos are cherrypicked") but having played with the beta for a dozen hours and gotten better at prompts, the performance is real, and it's good enough to build the mentioned products around that people are willing to pay money for.

Will these be good, airtight products at the same level as human-designed performance? No. But we're not talking about "self-driving car needs six 9's of reliability to meet regulations or face a PR nightmare" performance.

We're talking about "is this AI therapy bot fun to chat to and better than paying $200 per hour for a therapist?" performance.

We're talking about "is is cheaper to pay a writer $200 per news article or $0.05 for a good enough article?"
Defragmenting DNS: determining the optimal maximum UDP response size for DNS [pdf]
the Grandparent is saying Google will simply stop showing all news from Australia, regardless of if the news organization is a participant or not.

Thus they would not be in violation of the law as all Australia news sources would be blacklists, not just those participating
And you trust the current politicians who were more concerned about Big Tech being unfair to conservatives than they were about antitrust.

Did anything productive come out of the dog and pony shoe?
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Mhm. Mhm.

I ended up looking at the options in https://github.com/pvinis/awesome-split-keyboards based on your comment. I noticed all the ones that moved the thumb cluster in, also don't have the bottom row that the ergodox does.
It is against the rules to have an account, such as yours, whose only purpose is to defend the CCP.
Broadcom bought Element 14 [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element_14_(company)
Gavin from Zebrium here. Completely concur with #1. We are big advocates of writing good logs and not having to worry about structured vs unstructured (and even if you structure your logs, you'll still probably have to deal with unstructured logs in third party components).

Our approach to deal with logs is to use ML to structure them after the fact (and we can deal with changing log structures). You can read about it in a couple of our blogs like: https://www.zebrium.com/blog/using-ml-to-auto-learn-changing... and https://www.zebrium.com/blog/please-dont-make-me-structure-l....
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> So please don't make straw man argument.

Your anecdata doesn't coincide with reality. Maybe your card company does - probably issued through a bank - but most people's don't, and Visa/Amex proper, etc certainly do not.

You would be surprised by the number of fraudulent orders that are placed on major ecommerce sites daily. It's up to the ecommerce site to detect the fraud, and hopefully refund the order in full before a chargeback hits.

Visa literally has all the transaction data for all issued Visa accounts. They can stop fraud dead, if they had a financial interest in doing so. As-is, they (and their issuers/gateways/processors) actually profit off fraud, via the chargeback fee.

The millions of accounts Krebs mentions in the article? Did they all get fraud alerts when the "carding" transaction was processed on their card... to verify it was a live account and had available balance? Nope.
Words Mean Things. That lawsuit didn’t initiate under Cook.
In my view, the percentages are not the biggest factors that lead to this situation (although it adds to the outrage when the monopolistic accusations are thrown around).

The problem is: all of these big techs want to be a platform, and all of them sell (to their investors) the idea that their platform will be very profitable precisely because it will lock the participants inside a ecosystem hard to escape from.

Apple wasn't always in this business.
Then you need to find someone else to argue with. All I said was that bad security is not criminal currently.
It also proves the point that consumers don’t care....

We have decades of viruses, malware, ransomware, and toolbars on Windows PCs that prove that the average consumer isn’t that technologically savvy.

I’m not saying Macs are immune in anyway to the same exploits. It’s just that not enough people care to create malware on the Mac to make it that big of a deal.
And I bet they started at 10 or 12. I know I did.

Also, "tons" is amazingly overstated. Very few of those 16 year olds are producing "good" music that appeals beyond their immediate demographic, and that's to say nothing of how low of standards many youth demographics have.
Using your analogy, there's is a boundary that can even be considered reasonable. In the example you gave, you know the limits, when you bought and you thought they were reasonable.

But suppose that they define which cars you need to have to live in that neightborhood? You would start to think that now they are being unreasonable..

The thing is, Apple can change those "ok, now this is unreasonable" things behind your back without you even being aware of it. How can you know that you would want that car that the "owners" of your neighborhood did not allowed that car seller to offer you? (And no, this is not a stretch, remember that your digital life is a whole big dimension of your life, imagine a centralized point of control)

You wont feel as you would if they forced you to a limited set of cars, but there are a lot of damages happening by allowing them to do as they please, and not only about your rights as a owner of the product, because there are developers and other technological, social and political issues happening with those decisions being made like that.

Unfortunately it cant be compared as just a house that you have not full control of it, because in that case it would most "damage" you in the end.

The decisions Apple are making hurting digital and material property rights have broader implications to the society in general.
There’s some language in there so that they only have to pay large news corporations that hire professional journalists.
its true, a lot of people need something to do, or to find some meaning in life

i guess the point is, at least as i understand it, we should be able to find the mission in life without that "sword of damocles" as the other poster said

maybe we can have jobs, or communites, or organizations that we serve in and contribute to them without necessarily needing to be compensated by them, but because we believe in them we contribute (our time, mind, effort etc)

also, the "need for purpose" might be a very mondern concept, i wonder how traditional societies (sorry for the loaded word) go a about life in that respect...
Walmart customers are not hostages being prevented to buy in other shops. Analogy doesn't hold.
I seek success and money explicitly so I don't have to give two f*cks about what people think about me. So I can do exactly what I want, specifically things many other people can't do because they've encumbered themselves with "meaningful" relationships and kids.

"Being special" is a bad take in my book. Everyone has a unique idea of what success is. Success can skirt the lines of being widely known, rich or surrounded by a family they built.

Just live your life, it's an optimization problem without any real end - so get on with it and stop worrying you're going to make the "wrong" call.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtUfNtgawNY
Intel has good record to provide software, contribute to OSS, support for developers to support hardware than AMD, so possibly they can do better than RADEON on some world if they can provide great hardware.
I agree, but the article really seems to imply marriage, spouse, and kids. It specifically says marriage early on, and then talks about "little league games" and "ballet" which are obviously referring to having kids, which is implicit in the article as well.
This is a tough topic. If we take the approach of effectively turning this kind of crime into job interviews and a way to enter life-long careers we would create a positive feedback loop. Punishment, on the other hand, creates a negative feedback loop. We can discuss the degree of punishment, but it is clear that humans, for the most part, only tend to self regulate if they understand that the consequences of their actions are negative enough.

The seriousness of this incursion has to be put into context as well. There's the money, of course. Yet, I don't believe this is the most serious aspect of the breach. This was a case of mass momentary identity theft and fraud. This kid temporarily stole the online identities of a number of people and committed fraud against everyone watching. He could have triggered a massively negative event that would have led to the loss of one to thousands of lives.

Think George Wells' War of the Worlds and imagine someone playing puppeteer with the accounts of a range of prominent and less prominent people on social media. The outcome could be horrific.
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Android doesn't fit my needs. It doesn't integrate with my laptop and my watch. The hardware isn't as good. The privacy isn't as good.

That would be like telling me that if I don't like the Honda Accord I can buy a pickup truck.

They are different things and are not substitutes for each other.

Android is not a substitute for iOS.
Well, this is cool and all, but:

Boehm believes that the anglerfish somehow boosts its own innate immune system to make up for the loss of the adaptive system.

So it hasn't actually deleted its entire immune system, like the title suggests. Just some part of it.

I mean I hated the title on sight because I don't even know what "the immune system" is. And I've thought about this a whole lot and written a few rambly blog posts about it (probably not currently online).

If you talk about "your circulatory system," you can name specific organs, etc. Same is true if you talk about "your nervous system" or "your digestive tract."

The same is not true of "your immune system."

Your skin is part of your immune system. It helps keep out invaders.

Your saliva and stomach acid are part of your immune system. They help kill microbes in your food to help make it safe for you to eat.

The mucus lining all mucus membranes in your body, including your respiratory tract and digestive tract, is part of your immune system. It helps keep out invaders.

So while it's fascinating that this fish has apparently deleted some important pieces of its immune system, I don't think it is accurate to say "it deleted its immune system" (in its entirety) because the odds are good it still has many systems that help protect it from invading microbes, starting with some kind of skin/scales/hide and including some kind of digestive function.

It's a really interesting piece, but the immune system isn't any one thing. It's everything the body does to try to keep out invaders and white blood cells are just one part of that.
Compatibility might contribute?
There's nothing wrong with speech we don't like, unless (as in this case) it's made at the direction of a foreign government. There's long-standing precedent for preventing that kind of thing.
Damn. And I'm happy when I can get a few people to use my crappy software.
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Agree - if it becomes known AI Dungeon 3 makes $500,000 in profit a year, expect plenty of competitors to pop up and conduct a pricing war down to the bottom.
>In 1997, Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy [1] That experience deeply scarred the company's culture. Prior to that, Apple didn't hoard cash (relative to revenues). Afterwards, it did

In 1996, Apple's market cap was ~$3B and they had about $1.7B in cash and short term investments.[1] That's over half the value of the company. If they had proportional amounts of cash today they would have a trillion dollars.

I think the context of the talk about bankruptcy wasn't leverage like most companies have now, but simply that people might stop buying Macs and no revenue would be coming in.

The hoarding of cash I associate with Fred Anderson, who was CFO from 1996-2004.

[1]https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/0000320193-96...
This promotion happens every year before schools starts. I received a free pair of beats headphones with my iPad purchase in 2018.
The definition of cartel requires collusion. This is reason 101 that HN posters make horrible lawyers.
Nokia n900 had a touch screen smartphone UI based on gtk with X, with a 600mhz arm core and 256mb ram. I had one. It was pretty good.
That's pretty much the same as what I'm saying - demand has outpaced supply and nobody is willing to train.

Policy changes are never able to be timed more than the duration of the election cycle. And frankly, neither party will pony up the money for a technical upgrade that the constituents could care less about.