skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Private entities shouldn't be forced into doing anything on a whim.

It's not a whim. They're being investigated by the EU and US Congress for being monopolies and suffocating smaller players. They're sucking all of the air out of the environment, making it incredibly difficult to gain traction on your own.

Don't trust me? Ask DHH.

> You can arguably stop them from doing some things, but there is no reasonable basis for compelling companies to do things as you are saying.

The government can absolutely tell them what to do. Apple wouldn't be where they are today if the US Government hadn't intervened against Microsoft and forced them to pay Apple.

Apple exists because of antitrust and the DOJ.

> You don't get to tell people what to do simply because you want it to be that way. That's tyranny.

I'm glad the tyrannical government put the FDA in place. And the FAA. Can you imagine if those industries could act however they wanted?

> People have rights.

Companies aren't people. Despite Citizen's United.
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From a practical point of view, if you're a developer and you don't target iOS you're going to lose. It's a duopoly and Apple really controls the affluent segment (ie the users willing to buy apps or pay for in-app services) pretty strongly. And the user base is very sticky. If some big app owner like Facebook or AirBnb came out and said "We're only supporting Android now, so please switch phones to use our service" they'd just go out of business. That's the essence of monopolism.
Haha! Soooo maaany diiicks.

https://github.com/beezeetee/TDPDNE
It's not just about restoring the previous status (actually, you rarely can't). It's sometimes about strengthening that relationship. It changes it anyway, not necessarily in a bad way.
It's a bit pedantic, but okay. I philosophically believe that we deserve to choose - you are right that the reality is different. I would like to make it the same.
This is not pro-consumer behaviour. This is pro-Apple behaviour. They enjoy the lock in + fees that the app store generates. They're even stifling web apps to maintain this monopoly.

If they were so pro-consumer, why do they allow spyware such as Tiktok to exist on their platform at all?
From the Verge[1] article it seems like there was someone else providing access to the accounts? So was it social engineering or not?

> Intriguingly, Sheppard and Fazeli may just be middlemen for the scam — “an unknown individual” with the handle “Kirk#5270” is believed to be the one who got access to Twitter’s internal systems. It’s not clear if the Tampa teen is Kirk#5270, though it sounds like that’s possible. The Sheppard complaint is dated July 22nd, and the Tampa teen wasn’t arrested until today. Originally, “Kirk” claimed to be a Twitter employee, according to a Discord chat log:

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21349920/twitter-hack-arr...
> You're no entitled to a "feature" of my phone blocking functionality that doesn't affect you.

I respect that you would prefer other stores, but I would prefer a single store, that's all. I don't think I'm entitled to anything. I bought an iPhone with the expectation of a walled garden, but if that changes then I can re-evaluate my phone choice. BigCorp doesn't own me anything.

Also, a second store would affect me. I will have to make a decision on whether to trust a separate store or not use those apps. I'd prefer not to have to make that choice.
How did you get access to gpt-3?
What if you don't for gpt-4?
Would you agree that to be a monopoly means to have exclusive control of App distribution? Looking across the market Apple has exclusive control of only a small minority percentage of all App distribution.
Cancel culture is when you, Johnny Depp, get indirectly accused of domestic violence by your wife, Amber Heard. Your employer immediately fires you and #MeToo people start lambasting you despite lack of any evidence. Meanwhile you are the one who is truly abused, and when you provide evidence, nothing really happens to your abuser.

Cancel culture is when you, Daniel Vávra, are creating an RPG game set in 15th century Bohemia far away from Prague. And you don't include any black people in the game, so you are literally Hitler. I live in the Czech republic in a large city. Do you know how many black people I see nowadays? About 5-15 per year. Counted 7 this year so far if you are wondering. Were there any black people in rural 15th century Bohemia? Doesn't matter, we want your game to fail because you are racist!

Do I need to go on?
>As such, it is their job to be putting out these works regularly, just like everyone else.

This framing of human creativity purely in terms of "outputting", "consumption", and mere "entertainment" ignores possibilities outside the sphere of the market, and outside production-for-sale. Art may well suffer from the compulsion to "put it out regularly". I think the fact that art lived through patronage for much of human history is the only reason we have so much good art today.
>orchestra/symphony, opera/musicals

You've chosen the arts which require massive organisation and expense. What about painters, singer-songwriters, writers, poets, etc.?
That's just dumb. You knew going into what Apple was like. Most of the phones on the earth are Android. How is Apple a monopoly?
> you can take on Twitch or Discord

Microsoft already tried to take on Twitch, with Mixer, and failed. (Gamers will probably be wary about jumping onto Microsoft's next doomed platform.)

And anecdotally, Discord replaced Skype for a lot of people in the gaming community, and I don't see people leaving it very easily.
Wow this is really not good.
Why not let consumers decide if Apple's 30% uplift is worth it? Clearly for yourself that is the case, but others may come to a different conclusion.

Most markets offer a variety of tradeoffs in price vs. quality. Consumers rarely pick the cheapest product. If Apple's app store is superior, they will have no problem in justifying their 30%.
If only the customers knew of the unpublished GSM setting in the HLR that forces all calls to not be anonymous. :-) I had it when I worked in the cellular industry. Sales companies and scammers despised it. And yes, if you had your own SS7 link, you could spoof caller-id, but that could be fixed with a law by holding telco's accountable for mismanagement of their SS7 signalling network and bumping switches off the network that repeatedly violate policies.
My experience is that it's a opaque query tool and the wikidata editing process does nothing to make it easier. Maybe if you know the ins and outs of your data and at least a basic understanding of the query language.
Using GPT-3 to Generate Fake Bob Dylan Songs
I've been playing with OpenAI's new language model, GPT-3. It's not open to the public yet directly, but you can interact with it using the premium version of AI Dungeon.

I supplied the AI system with the following prompt:

"You are a respected folk singer, famous for writing moving and meaningful songs that seem to capture the spirit of the times and the pulse of society. You have been invited to sing a new song for a group of important thinkers. Here are lyrics you have sung in the past:"

I then supplied the lyrics to three Bob Dylan songs ("Tangled up in Blue", "Like a Rolling Stone", and "Just Like a Woman"; here is the exact text I gave it: https://pastebin.com/YxaPF189). This text was used in order to "condition" the model— to give it a sense of context for what I wanted. The idea was to get GPT-3 to write me new song lyrics based on a new song title given by me in quotes.

In some cases, I supplied the song title several times and combined the output together. Other times I took the partial lyrics already generated for the same song title and included that as part of the conditioning text. But aside from that, this is pretty much direct output from the model without any intervention from me conditioned only on the Dylan lyrics. I tried a variety of different titles to see what would happen. Included here is the vast majority of the output I got, so there is very little cherry-picking on my end to find the best stuff.

To me, it definitely sounds reminiscent of Dylan in certain ways. The titles have a big impact on the lyrics, though— when I supplied the title "Putrid Smells and Acrid Smoke," the results sounded more like a death metal song than folk music. Other parts are truly bizarre and amusing, like its exhortations to get drunk and commit credit card fraud. There is certainly a lot of stuff about the moon being out, as well as many "Oh, baby" exclamations.

Anyway, here are the lyrics the AI generated:
https://pastebin.com/qyBuTMB6
I really hope at some point in our lifetimes, the deleterious effects of animal protein are pervasively understood by educated Americans to the point where consuming animal parts for their anti-inflammatory benefits would be an oxymoron on par with smoking to prevent cancer.
An overwhelming body of scientific evidence suggests that humans are omnivores and not carnivores and the human body evolved to process animal protein on an occasional basis(like alcohol) and not because it’s good for us on a daily basis.
It's a serious blast to the past, and not necessarily a good one, to see versioning treated like this, where they'll pick 3.9? as a form of alpha/beta/RC phases for 4.0.

I think semver (more-or-less a formalization of what was already becoming popular before semver got published) makes more sense. Go ahead and use 4.0-alpha.1, 4.0-beta.1, 4.0-rc.1 as needed. The strings still sort fine.
Even if TikTok was openly promoting socialism - so what? The constitution doesn't split hairs about free speech. We're free to use speech to promote the political philosophy of our choosing in this country. The antidote to 'bad' speech, as per the constitution, is more speech, not to outlaw the speech you don't like.
Not to mention, the EU just ruled recently on what Apple can or cannot include in their actual hardware:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22204174
"Nobody is forcing them to be iPhone developers" - HN
tl;dr: a monopoly with deep ties to government.
Because it makes apps more expensive.
I don't bother traveling with the Advantage2 at all... it's a bit too big to do that comfortably.

I find it pretty easy to switch between laptop keyboard and Advantage2, so no problems there. So the Advantage2 remains on my desk while I just use my laptop's keyboard for meetings/on-the-go. I think the layouts are so different, my brain processes them separately.
Sure, a useful representation is important, and it demonstrates the universal power of the complex numbers. (Same with groups vs. linear maps vs. matrices.) But the proper way to understand the field of complex numbers is indeed to do it in all its abstract generality, i.e. simply as the algebraically closed extension of the field of reals.
"Everything Apple is doing is helping make a better app store for me." - it is the benevolent dictator fallacy[1]. You cannot say dictatorship is good because one dictator seems to have done good things. In the same way, just because Apple has been nice so far (in you opinion at least) doesn't mean that the practice itself is good.

[1] Don't google it. I made it up.
ARM makes GPUs?

I’m holding a reference copy of aarch64 in my hands and I’ve written half an assembler from it.

Granted SoCs often are just as bad as nvidia, but that’s not ARM’s fault or problem, really.
> The scale, speed, and medium is also different.

I don't know how often the thousands of small puritan communities that dotted Eastern colonial North America drove people off nor how many communist youths were alienated from their families during the past 150 years but I would guess the numbers are likely unknowable and am therefore suspicious of any attempt to create a quantitative comparison.
It'd be cool if payment cards had a built-in LCD screen for the PIN as a TOTP. That shouldn't be much harder for consumers than the existing card verification/security code.
Political Scientist Louis Hartz on the Advantages of Decentralising America
The announcement video is quite intense and feels odd for some reason. Maybe it's the aspect ratio or cold intro - not sure. https://youtu.be/z80K3-q3Kqg
agree. twitter is under no obligation to provide secret service level security on its platform because some high profile people use it. IF the government deems such security measures so important, they should pay twitter to implement them,
Video: CISO Underrepresented
I don't think anyone is asking for the blur to encompass the text in a terminal. Is this a bug? I could have sworn when I used Windows Terminal that this wasn't the case, but it has been a while.
Blast from the past: Apple using EU courts to prevent Samsung from selling the Galaxy Tab 7.7 in Europe (2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4285862
Maximite 2: A Modern Basic Computer - Unboxing and First Impressions [video]
If there were multiple stores, chances are that the app developer would choose the least restrictive App Store. So maybe Apple’s App Store rejects an app because it’s doing something sneaky, but some other App Store isn’t as rigorous and publishes the app. If you’ve ever been in the situation where you’re the IT person for your extended family, don’t be surprised when your grandmother tells you that she needs help with some weird problem with her phone and you track down that it’s some app that she got from an alternate App Store. That sort of situation is not a good user experience and isn’t good for the Apple ecosystem. The walled garden is a feature, not a bug. If you want a different experience with more choices, there’s Android - seriously.

Neil Cybart wrote this in a July 6th newsletter: “Billions of people use Android smartphones. However, the press views Android as so inferior to iOS that it’s not a viable alternative for Apple users. That ends up saying more about the competition failing than Apple users suffering from Apple possessing too much power and success.” I had a hard time believing that when I read it, but maybe it’s true.
Once ARM is American it will escalate trade war with China. There's no way China can quickly create any competitive platform.
I meant that there’s no technical reason a musician can’t release multiple songs at one time and call it an album, meaning as long as there is demand for an album, they should exist.
> selling CD's/BluRays's, collectible box-sets, stickers, pins

Hmmm... it's a shame they're trying to sell stuff like this. I want to support artists but the last thing I want is junk.
If you were responsible for securing my stuff, and you put a cheap lock on your door protecting my stuff, and someone breaks in and steals all my stuff, then yes, you should be held liable for your poor security practices.
>And it's odd that cancel culture is being blamed here, and not the employer and their policies.

If someone got swatted, is it the police's fault or the person who called it in? Or when a racist calls 911 to report "suspicious activity" on a black person not doing anything that can reasonably construed as illegal or suspicious, and he ends up getting shot by the police?
I do get those points, and I can agree with all of them. Just with the exception that I no longer believe that there is anything that can save the USA from itself (as in: literally nothing).

It's not that there aren't initiatives/option that will obviously improve the current situation. It's that all the decision making paths towards any such progress are thoroughly corrupted and rigged, with the effects of such improvements being diametrically opposed to the personal interests of those who (both overtly and covertly) run the USA.

These are people with a proven track record of "always winning". Meaning, they will sacrifice anything and everything, before having their own interests harmed. Good luck with that. It could prove far worse than civil war. The current political divide that everyone knows the USA so well for (but is mostly a crafted false dichotomy either way), might "evaporate" surprisingly quickly, once shit really hits the fan. The government might quickly turn to "protect the country at all costs", against any form of "chaos" and disturbance of "order" (and no, it won't matter which party will be in power).

On the other hand, even in hopeless situations, people should never give up hope. However, I certainly expect no improvements as long as those who currently consider themselves untouchable, remain convinced that they are indeed that.
Jeff Bezos himself isn't spared from Jio tax[1], what chance does a measly entrepreneur stand against Ambani and Jio!

[1]https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/23/amazon-reportedly-in-talks...
Germany also uses chips. In fact every country I ever lived used chips + pins.
How broken must your business model be, such that you tell artists what they should do?
How much do we fund arts degrees, compared to, say, engineering, business, and clinical fields? It would be interesting to see the breakdown.
Should a private company be allowed to sell a secure locked down device, with people buying it knowing that you cant 1) modify the bootloader 2) modify the os 3) sideload apps?

To many people, the fault you find in the product is the added value that differentiates it from competitors.
No hard feelings.

That's certainly an understandable take, and I'm probably just overly pessimistic.
Google Play store is also 30%.

> For apps and in-app products offered through Google Play, the service fee is equivalent to 30% of the price. You receive 70% of the payment. The remaining 30% goes to the distribution partner and operating fees.
[https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...]
I have an unrealistic idea (more of a thought experiment) that companies should face equal culpability to criminal hackers in attacks. After all, technically the way the hackers use systems /is/ authorized in a sense, even if the method of obtaining authorization is unconventional. Maybe this would get companies to pay more attention to securing their systems.

From a certain perspective, Twitter is an accomplice to fraud by providing the platform and the access to the fraudsters (although I'm fuzzy on whether knowledge of one's aiding of a crime is necessary for an entity to be legally considered an accomplice - probably is).

And yes, the charge count is insane but the US loves holding a bit of life-ruining theater when they catch hackers threatening commercial interests. e.g. Aaron Swartz's conviction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#Arrest_and_prosec...
That's pretty much what public leadership is have you ever seen a leader that doesn't do that? I've never had any liberal arts background, but we sure did learn to persuade people in my biology schooling. It's pretty much required to get anyone to care about saving animals and forests over making money.

Public leaders do the same thing every day to get you to agree with laws or decisions they make.

Corporate leaders do it to get people to buy their shit or work for their company.

Leadership, is literally persuading people to follow you. Because in the end, you're going to be a lot more successful as a leader doing it that way than through orders and fear or something.

As to the rest of your post about the article itself though, I don't disagree with you, having written many persuasive things designed to sway people using facts, and perfectly placed numbers, that's pretty much what this is.
This is completely missing the point. It's not merely about how the store is run, but that there is no alternative. You could have exactly the same with a competing store.
I'm curious, if you didn't like the way it is, why did you buy one? None of these things are new. They've basically been the same since they came out.

You largely had a choice of two products. It sounds like one did what you wanted, and one didn't. You bought the one that didn't and now you're unhappy about it. I don't quite understand that.
Adding the square root of 2 gives you a way of describing coordinates in a symmetry system where you start with a square grid and then allow yourself to make 1/8 turn rotations.
I love the album format. Long live albums.
This is a viewpoint centered around seeing art as a commodity. To me that's like saying we only need so many scientists. Is perceived value the best metric?
These full-length albums have long turned into the exception though, which is kind of sad. Zeppelin IV, Sgt. Pepper or Dark Side of the Moon would never become hits today under these artistic limitations.
Why can't the increased security of the review process be a feature?
Yes. But at the same time, it's easy to get into "blame the victim" mode

Having full blown security could mean nothing is done easily anymore

Prosecuting is important
AI that mimics the brain needs sleep just like humans, study reveals
Providing pressure to identify by race seems like a really bad idea.

What am I supposed to do with this information?

"Hey, I'm going to buy stuff from this store vs that store based on the fact that the first store is owned by someone with the skin color I like."

Or, the negative sense of that. Why are we regressing to caring about how people look?
> I always just assumed that interfacing proprietary IP with the GPL is a tricky legal business. One slip, and all your IP becomes open source.

This persistent bit of FUD really needs to die. Yes, you have to be careful, but at this point it's ridiculously well-known what is obviously correct and what is obviously incorrect when dealing with GPL. I'm sure there are some grey ares that haven't been worked out, but avoiding those is fairly simple.

Nvidia is already in a weird grey area, releasing binary blobs with an "open source" shim that adapts its interfaces to the GPL kernel. As much as the Linux kernel's pragmatic approach toward licensing helps make it easier on some hardware manufacturers, sometimes I wish they'd take a hard line and refuse to carve out exceptions for binary drivers, inasmuch as those can sometimes/always be considered derived works.
It is NOT same for Google, and that's exactly the point.
The trick with Himalayan blackberries is loosening the soil so you can dig them out more easily every time, Weed, amend, weed again.
Sure, when Apple will just sue any competitor for "infringing" on it's millions of stupid software patents
I don't really know the whole story. I'm guilty of not even reading the entire article.

I'm a woman on the internet. I have had my fair share of mansplaining assholes let me know that I'm wrong and stupid and have zero right to have a personal opinion about my own life, so I didn't have a lot of patience for this piece.

But given the topic, I'm guessing he was stalked and harassed by people for whom this topic is a survival issue. So they did their best to make it a survival issue for him.

That doesn't make them right, not by any stretch of the imagination. But trans rights are not about mere scientific opinion. It's a political battle and lives are at stake.

Among other things, LGBTQ individuals are at very high risk of homelessness and homeless individuals have a life expectancy that's about two decades shorter than average.