skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US has a reputation as being more "conservative" than Europe. In some areas that reputation is justified, in others not. (And the situation is dynamic and changes over time.) If one wants to compare politics overall between the US and Europe, focusing on one single European country may not add that much, especially a country like Switzerland which is in some areas an outlier.

> Switzerland is traditionally more slow-moving in terms of laws because of its insistence of making sure legislative changes are accepted by the population at large (with its initiatives and referenda), whereas in the US and many other countries, interested parties anywhere on the political spectrum can often quickly decide an issue if they happen to be in power.

Ireland approved same-sex marriage in a national referendum in 2015. (A referendum was necessary because the opposite-sex definition of marriage was enshrined in the Irish constitution.) Five years later, Switzerland still hasn't had a national referendum on the topic. So I'm not sure if Switzerland's slowness on this issue has anything to do with its political emphasis on referendums.

And in the case of the US, it wasn't achieved nationally through legislative changes, but rather through a decision of the US Supreme Court. The US Supreme Court has a long history of being far more willing to get involved in heated social and political debates than equivalent courts in many other countries, whose constitutional court instead tries to dodge them and leave them up to the democratic process.

> This doesn't mean that the general attitudes of the population towards LGBTQ in Switzerland are or ever were worse than in the US

I don't know enough about the culture of Switzerland to disagree, so I will accept your point. But, it still represents an area in which the US legal system is to the left of Switzerland's, even if substantial pockets of US culture may be to the right of Switzerland on the same issue. Law, politics and culture are deeply interconnected, yet distinct.
Indeed. This (CLOUD) of course runs counter to GDPR. Comply with one and fall foul of the other.
Can someone explain this in the context of evolution? How is this "mating ritual" an adaptive advantage? How does going from two of the species to one a benefit? I understand they're mating, but that's not immediate.
In many ways Windows Phone came out at the wrong time (i.e. way too late) but it felt like a real sweet spot for UI. Android had stalled out on 2.x for a year or more while they focused on tablet UI (woops) and iPhone was starting to feel very samey. When I saw the WP UI I was immediately sold. That plus the keyboard made for a phone that was a genuine joy to use.

But... no apps. And then they pissed everyone off by announcing that Windows Phone 7 devices wouldn’t get an upgrade to 8. That was the point at which I realised MS didn’t really understand what they were doing and switched to iPhone. I still think there was potential there, but alas...
Credit cards vs debit cards has nothing to do with security. Both debit and credit cards have chips, both have instant and contactless transactions, both can be setup up for 2FA with your bank when you purchase online (not all banks may offer this feature, but a lot do).

The main difference is that credit cards allow you to carry a balance. Why use a credit card? Because most banks offer cash back deals when you do. I get a 3% discount on all my transactions when I use my CC, some get points to travel for free. Credit cards help you build a good credit score to get better interest rates on loans and mortgages.
I regard all books as a conversation between the author and the reader. If the author is the only one saying anything, you are passively consuming it. To have a proper "conversation", you have to criticize the content and compare what you know with what the author knows.

HN is actually a nice product that does this - someone can share an article and other people can compare notes (and even have a conversation with the author!)

I also make sure to take notes. If there are no notes worth taking, maybe the book wasn't worth reading in the first place? Some information dense work needs you to even write a kind of glossary, comparing the author's terms as she defines them, instead of using terms you're familiar with. This is especially the case with technical/academic work.
But if I buy the food and take it out of the restaurant I can do what I want with it.

Why can I not do what I want with an iOS device no matter where I take it?
Here's an estimate of ARM's revenue per chip at 10 cents (profit maybe half that).

[1]https://qz.com/741078/a-company-that-doesnt-really-make-chip...

Here's an estimate of youtube (not exactly tiktok, but not exactly not), revenue at 10 to 30 cents per view.

[2]https://influencermarketinghub.com/how-much-do-youtubers-mak...
Get hired at arm with equity comp.
The average US card user has something like 5+ cards. You are not supposed to re-use or write down pins. PIN use would not scale past one or two cards.
You obviously don't have much experience with China. China is an authoritarian state and all companies are subject to secret control by the state, essentially branches of the military. There is no legal recourse or protection from such intervention. The government can mandate spy code be inserted and any data they want.

You're well intended here, but ignorant of how China operates. There is literally no way to enforce what you suggest.
Question from a non-ML expert: How can I be sure that my code working with one version will still be working after they update/re-train the models?

More specifically, for DOTA, they could track the progress and make sure there wasn't important regressions.. but this seems so general, how can they make sure it makes everyone' use-cases better?
The CEO of Spotify was saying that we have a glut of music and customers don't care much about which music they get, and Spotify has won control of the distribution channel, so there's no money for artists but they need to crank out content to stay in the rat race and lower Spotify's costs even more, or somehow form a strong union and market themselves as premium content.

But he put an obnoxious self-serving spin on it because that's what rent-seeking billionaires do.
You keep quoting a partial comment and then trying to shift the discussion away from the fundamental point.

The fundamental point is still that, for practical purposes, many people now have to have a smartphone. There are, for practical purposes, two types of smartphone available. If neither of those meets some reasonable conditions that many people would prefer to have -- for example, retaining control of your own device and data -- then this implies a lack of effective competition in the marketplace. Government regulation is the solution to that problem.

Arguing that people don't have to buy the product isn't helpful. Many people are effectively forced into buying one product or the other.

Arguing that people don't have to buy the Apple product isn't helpful. Buying an Android one instead is worse in other respects.
How long until it's available as an easter egg? Would sure be cool!
Before that, 8 MB was iffy, 16 MB good in the early Linux days.
Isn't this basically just namespacing? Not at all unique to OOP.
Presently, security researchers are already finding both major apps doing this on the Apple App Store (Facebook accessing the camera on the News Feed), and spyware apps happening on secondary Android stores (also on the official Play Store). Sounds like an opportunity for more security watchdog businesses.
Yeah, that is price of a single game. Sounds reasonable.
The corporation that just invested in a 100M global re-branding will for sure want to make sure their branding isn't obviously offensive in a certain market. It's a basic service that branding agencies offer. This could be an useful tool for those efforts.
In the long term, I think platforms will find that consumers care more about content than the platforms. It’s just as easy to watch a video on Vimeo or a private site as YouTube, and the quality is usually equal, and sometimes better. Platforms have some lock-in due to networking effects and content storage, but for businesses built around getting eyeballs on unique content (like music), that means basically nothing.
> To illustrate this point, I doubt you'd have any sympathy for Twitter if they had been sending their passwords over http

This is probably off-topic, but companies shouldn't even be sending the passwords over HTTPS; passwords should be hashed client-side and then the hash should be sent to the server (preferably over HTTPS).
Apple does seem to have a massive "hidden" set of R&D projects. I bet all the items the GP mentioned are in some phase of development. Famously the iPad was actually in development before the iphone! I suspect their culture of secrecy prevents internal accountability unless the particular project has internal visibility with execs.
Sounds like a great candidate for a switch to RISC-V
"How much in taxes does the average worker pay over their lifetime?"

How much does the average worker make over their lifetime? Not fucking 200Bn
Student loans make it more complex, but I know a lot of older people who regret not going to college, both because of the opportunities they didn't have later in life (my mother, for example) and because of things they were interested in but never had a chance to learn (a retired friend who would have loved chemistry).
For what it's worth, I had almost exactly the same experience with the same 2011 MacBook as 'lowbloodsugar'. From my point of view, it was clearly starting to fail while still in AppleCare warranty (snow on the screen when doing anything graphics intensive), but somehow it passed their 'tests'.

Shortly after the warranty ended, the Nvidia card failed for good. On the bright side, it was a dual-video system, and I was able to keep it running a few years longer through complicated booting rituals that convinced it to boot with the lower power Intel graphics (although I lost the ability to recover from sleep).

I'm not sure why we have such different experiences with Apple customer service. I was also in the Bay Area, but not Palo Alto. It's possible that with a more aggressive approach I could have gotten them to fix it. Instead, I accepted their verdict, and now spread the word through forums like this that their warranties are not to be trusted.
I think the letting go part they mention is important but letting go can be done in a different way. When you reframe the story, add a new chapter, one where the last battle you lost, but the new one you win. Holding onto toxic feelings is painful, you can either turn it into a good one (revenge), forgive (reframe), or forget (drug use and/or time). Most people forget unless it was really bad.
Someone could write a manifesto. I hear clock cycles are bad for the environment. And what if we want to run that software on our spaceship on the way to A Centauri?
I'm not concerned about the "evil rich". Apparently you are though.

I'm more concerned about how that tax revenue could benefit society.
Especially that Tesla is shorted so much.
That said, shorting even with leverage requires you to have some money to invest. If you are 17 you are most likely broke.
Is there any precedent for Microsoft operating a cutting edge consumer software product like TikTok? Welcome to Skype LinkedIn TikTok. We've make networking fun.
That's just not true.

1. Networking isn't the number one source of complexity, since local apps can be bloated, slow, buggy, and complex.

2. Security is not a consequence of networking. A non-networked system can be insecure, and a networked system can be secure. Security is more normally viewed in the context of confidentiallity, integrity, and availibility along with the concepts of authentication, authorization, and accountability.

3. Compatibility is not a consequence of either networking or security.

Your comment makes it seem that you believe complexity comes from having to adhere to constraints. That attitude is the issue! Not wanting to adhere to constraints is why software is bloated, complex, full of thousands of components, slow, etc.
Repost https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23489653
Apple has been a platform since iPod+iTunes?

Spotify also wants to be a “platform”. The creators get a far smaller percentage and they are locking up “podcasts” behind their “walled garden”
> US would lose its last bit of moral high ground in China, the spirit of free market and rule by law.

No it won't change a thing. And to be fair, forcing a sell (which is just forcing it to exit all stakes in the US market) is a far cleaner move than trying to end the company globally like it's doing for Huawei.

> This act is pure bullying and imperialism.

This is nothing compared to overthrowing Iran's democratic government to instate a puppet monarchy, helping the despot build 23 nuclear power plants, losing the puppet to revolution because the CIA assisted secret police killed too many people, claiming the built power plants are evidence of nuclear ambitions, sanctioning the country against UN resolutions, then using the economic aggression as justification to chain imperialize against other people such as Meng Wanzhou who was arrested unlike the CFOs of Banco do Brasil, Bank of America, Bank of Guam, Bank of Moscow, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Clearstream Banking, Commerzbank, Compass, Crédit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ING, Intesa Sanpaolo, JP Morgan Chase, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, National Bank of Pakistan, PayPal, RBS, Société Générale, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Trans-Pacific National Bank, Standard Chartered, Wells Fargo, Ericsson, Nokia who all transact with Iran.

And this is an arrest based on the accusation that she did not disclose (she did, on page 6 of her HSBC powerpoint) Huawei's transactions with Iran in her HSBC loan. The same HSBC with a non-arrested CFO who transacted with Iran and whose drug trafficking heat from the US magically disappeared after snitching their client.

The world will sleep through this like the world slept through the same round of tariffs, executive arrests, banning suppliers and technologies like we did to Japan in the 80s.
If you want to get a bit fancier the next step up would be something like a Logitech X56, which will give you twin throttles, several other slider/knob axes (prop/mixture controls, etc), and a lot more buttons of the stick. That's around $250.

From there you can get to pretty crazy high end stuff, some of which use real airplane hardware.
No no, that’s the cool part haha
yes - not a short term one though, some thing got too hot for too long - it really depends on how the gates are built, the width of the bonding wires etc etc
Yeah they just abandoned everyone who invested in their Lumia phones. I had difficulty finding batteries after 2 years for my 950s.
Doesn't look like it covers 那个 (pronounced nah-gu in Mandarin). I had a black friend in college who told me about how deeply offended he was when he heard his Chinese girlfriend's parents saying this over & over...
You can’t! :)

It’s a fact of life. A different model will generate different outputs for the same prompts. And some of those outputs will be worse than they were.

But, if you use the same prompt with the same model, the output will always be exactly the same (content filters notwithstanding).
Bruce Artwick was the brains behind Sublogic back in the day. He authored an excellent book on interactive computer graphics as well around the same time. I wonder what he's doing now?
I think we should only tax income over some number like $100k. If the money doesn't feed you then it's should be taxed higher. Nobody needs a nice car. People need food
I'm very happy to hear it! It helped me a lot too!
> You keep quoting a partial comment and then trying to shift the discussion away from the fundamental point.

When you try to give a concrete example I show how that concrete example doesn't make any sense to me.

If the fundamental point doesn't translate to any concrete situations then it's a dud.

> neither of those meets some reasonable conditions that many people would prefer to have -- for example, retaining control of your own device and data

But I don't think these are a reasonable conditions.

And I don't think many people want them - I think the number is probably absolutely tiny.

I think using legislation to force Apple to accomodate the unreasonable and abstract preferences of a tiny number of people from a group that isn't specially protected is morally unjust.

But I won't keep arguing it further as I think we probably just have different morals.
Lots of people have the ability to do bad things.

Seems you believe they should therefore all go to prison,

also if they didn't actually do those particular things
Probably Xbox is the closest.
One of my first encounters with computers was Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0.

The graphics are... somewhat dated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhTM1dYu7HA
Well, of course that wouldn't be the move. The move would be to coerce the naive but capable hackers into doing this, and once the payload was delivered, burn them. I don't know what happened, but it's kinda a waste of a huge position, so I don't think it's that far-fetched.
"Mozart isn't releasing enough new material to stay relevant and keep our audience engaged."
Those are lawsuits to invalidate patents not to sue other people for using their patents.
Thanks, will look into this. I imagine these controls should come handy in some other games as well.

The first thing I will need to do is build a PC after a long time.
I try to focus on getting my vitamins from actual foods when possible. I try to only supplement with protein (Orgain powder) for weightlifting, and vitamin d due to inside lifestyle. The biggest benefits from sticking to "real" foods is that it helps keep my caloric intake down while still staying full, still struggling with that though.
> I should be able to drop PDF and other files onto my phone by dragging them into the aforementioned native interface.

Apple have gotten pretty far along that road with Airdrop, it works great.

As for the rest, MS tried some of that stuff and it landed with a thud. The mass market doesn’t actually care for the stuff (how often are you actually taking a Zoom call on your phone and wanting to transfer it? I like the idea but I can’t think of many times it would actually apply).

I’m sceptical it would ever be a thing now. There’s a reason why so many companies make Electron apps: desktop apps just aren’t all that important, and they’re not likely to dedicate dev resources to one.
Even people who work long hours can build close relationships with co-workers. The point of the article is not about working a lot versus less. It's about where you seek fulfillment and rewards within your life.
I prefer art not selected by the government.

"Finishing" a game is a weird concept. I don't know anyone who finished chess.

Small games aren't necessarily cheaper than big ones; it depends on popularity to sustain a low unit price.
Really depends on the search. But looking for any type of product you get more ads then organic quality results
How do you know those language bindings wouldn't exist if GTK+ used C++?
Yes https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4566125/cortana-ser...
Not letting other browsers use their own JS engine (which is what it means to 'forcing them to use Internet Explorer engine on Windows' in your analogy) is because Apple want to disallow write|execute for people's safety.

Perhaps you're right. Maybe it's entirely coincidental that Apple's policy also prevents owners of Apple devices from using a browser with modern features that would allow web apps to effectively compete with the native apps from which Apple gets a huge cut of the revenue because of its monopoly control over the app store.
I write.
That would indeed be amazing to see, such a time capsule. They should really make it a museum. The world doesn't need another beach resort, but a view on the past would be amazing.

I see you even slept there! Did you have someone keeping watch? It must have been a once in a lifetime trip!

Do they really shoot on sight? I really doubt that. But I'm sure you'd have a really uncomfortable time at a Turkish police station when caught.
Especially when Spotify is telling you this because they pay you so little for streaming rights.
My impression is that everybody in the Bronze and Iron Ages were more violent, and my aim is to advocate for less violence overall, including less religious violence. It happens that the religious violence is rooted in religion, and it also happens that the religions are based on mythological histories; if people were more cognizant of the history, they would be less willing to kill for some nebulous-yet-murderous Creator.

The entire history of the region [0] is worth examining, but I'll highlight one sample which is both indicative of the era and also happens to show Israelites conquering and subjugating their neighbors: The Mesha Stele [1] tells of a time when the Moabites were occupied by Omri (or one of his family), a biblical king of Israel. In more modern times, I can point to the Six Day War [2], the conflict which serves as the capstone to the era of Israel's history covered in the original article, and in which Israel achieved a stunning and decisive military victory over its neighbors.

The history of everybody is committing violence against others, and having violence done to them in turn. It's up to us as humans to choose to do better.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ancient_Israel_and_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesha_Stele

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War
It's still a repulsive idea and I believe we should be actively telling our friends and coworkers that it's bad capitalism to use it.
How is this relevant to the topic being discussed?
Yeah, you are describing Braess's Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox

It is a form of Induced Demand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
Maybe it's not the responsibility of the toolkit library to manage window placement?
Actually screen time limits are all done locally and sync between your devices. It in no way allows Apple to record what you are doing.
No one was ever checking. It would have been pointless to try.
Hmmmm.

There is [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVLink

which is supported by [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9

those two combined give you [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_(supercomputer)

currently the worlds number 2 supercomputer(only very recently dethroned) according to the article.

Installed at Oak Ridge.

So they are already there, just needing some premium POWER?
So you think Apple should have allowed spyware? Would you install that on your phone?
You don't even have to go to open source. You can see this hostile behaviour from their top-paying clients!

Microsoft own previous gen Xbox emulator on the next gen xbox (i think it was original xbox emulated in the 360, but i might be wrong) was impacted by the team having to reverse-engineer the GPU because nvidia refused to let the emulator people to have access to the documentation provided to the original team.
Hmm I think I wasn't clear enough with "Stoicism and tangential philosophies". I didn't mean to imply any one philosophy is necessarily a definitive prescription. Rather, they include various good ideas that should be borrowed and amalgamated into a composite that best fits the individual.
It just matters where the zeitgeist is. Startup bros get laid by golddiggers too.
It's interesting he's focused on quantity, and not quality. Maybe it's Spotify's suggestion algorithm but too much of what I hear sounds disposable. Not bad. Not a lack of talent. But a lack of ambition and a willingness to take chances.

Or am I too old for my own good?
I think it can be both without being contradictory.
Changing what gets you prison time with a resulting overall decrease in the prison population is possible.