skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is giving a bunch of stuff at cost or for free in exchange for the $100 developer fee in the hopes that one of those applications will become the new Flappy Bird and rakes in billions in 30% cuts.
> Update 2
> Fortnite is currently unavailable on Google Play. More information will be forthcoming soon.

> Update 1
> Apple has blocked your access to Fortnite on iOS devices! Take Action! #FreeFortnite

... well that answers a some of my questions ;)
You're right, though I still think it's worth the effort.
There's a paper linked to here which he says contains all the "spoilers": http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.7048

> If you are impatient and want to get to the conclusion quickly, here’s the link to our paper where the basic theory is explained (Spoiler warning!). We will also discuss several applications of graphical linear algebra that have been developed in recent years.
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Looks like a sweet-spot to me.
Yeah, it seems some of the other commenters miss that point: it’s not as if some disk crashed or something, it’s a bug in a software upgrade that deleted long term storage in addition to short term storage.

In my experience, the best way to mitigate these kind of things is to use PITR, which is always immutable. You make periodic snapshots, keep track of all changes since those snapshots. And then you use a policy to determine just how much data you want to keep here.

The problem is that not supporting delete operations is often very much impractical. Consider for example the recent heat Flickr (or was it Instagram?) has gotten for not physically deleting files but just marking them as deleted/invisible. You sometimes have really good reasons that you must support delete operations, so you must just make sure that there’s a reasonable delay before they are actually completely gone.
Interop comes in many flavors. If I were to consider Julia a replacement for Python, I'd need to know that Julia can interop seamlessly with it, like Kotlin can with Java.

How do you feel about the user experience for Julia/Python interop?
I somehow managed to break it
https://share.getcloudapp.com/6quexyvk

Clicking on any of the remaining spaces results in:

Uncaught Error: what
at LogicGrid.updateKnowledge (logic-grid.js:431)
at LogicGrid.resolveCell (logic-grid.js:175)
at LogicGrid.reveal (logic-grid.js:96)
at HTMLElement.reveal (grid.js:111)
at HTMLElement.<anonymous> (grid.js:61)
Oh, really? Can you actually be fined for destroying disks containing customer information?
For the last 30 years I've lived all along the Mendocino coast, and every time one of the towns I lived in had a vote to underground the utilities, the NIMBY's killed it because it would cause much disruption, yet when the power went out due to weather related issues, they complained about the power outages.
My two cents is going to be that the ad tech MacBook deleted the old S3 bucket for mockup but it wasn’t a mockup at that point
You need to denormalize the non-forgettable information. This way you don't have to worry about what you can delete or not.

Store Invoices, billing, etc, separately. These also usually have a fixed pre-determined retaining policy time. Past that time? Anonymize/aggregate or just delete it.
"A computerised inventory of the collection was started in early 1991,[28] and it was completed in December 1997.[29] The full inventory is not available to the public"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Collection#Collection
(ouch... duplicated, sorry).
Some of them are, not all of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Collection#Collection
The notation is presented somewhat confusingly; this definition given for +:

\x. \y. (\s. \z. x s (y s z))

Isn't different from

\x. \y. \s. \z. x s (y s z)

And usually syntax sugar is assumed such that you can just say:

\xysz.xs(ysz)

Which is much easier to read.

Personally, I find the textual, symbolic representation much easier to reason about; my eyes just glaze over the circuit diagrams.
You may or may not need to set GTK_IM_MODULE=xim to get GTK applications to use ~/.XCompose.

Also, Qt5 broke support for multi-character results when using compose sequences (everything after the first character is ignored).
There were direct connections between Futurism (the Italian artistic movement) and Fascism, and Futurism influenced Vorticism.

Cancelling Pound would be no great loss for humanity.
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That would make sense, thanks for correcting me. I'll put it in the comment.
Yes. Though of course it would also help if the laws were written by tech-competent people.

(That doesn't mean that all people in parliament need to be competent. Most laws are written by specialists, not MPs.)
in order to protect the balance of the flora and fauna

...and electronica, apparently.
>The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think

If we eradicate nature and replace it with technology, will we reach a state without problems? If we turn all planes and forests into photovoltaic power stations and use chemical processes to generate food, and everything becomes an image of our thinking processes, will life be good?
Well, there is not just Android & iOS - there are other Smartphone OS (such as Sailfish OS which I use on my daily device) & with PinePhone we can hopefully see mobile Linux distro explosion, like what happened on PCs in the past.

Basically, I think modern mobile hardware is fine, it's just the software from Google & Apple that makes it often unusable & out of user control.

Thankfully there are people working on that & I'm sure they are looking for contributors. :)
Honestly, I'd rather have Facebook have the money than most governments.
Having punctuation keys as dead keys is too annoying so I use my own keyboard that has dead keys only when used with AltGr as well as some direct AltGr umlauts (ie AltGr+a=ä).
If you haven't tried it yet, here's my seal of approval for Kotlin.

Normally I'm quite reluctant to start a new project in a new language, but Kotlin edited on IntelliJ just seems so very smooth. I'm doing a side project which is a game, where most of the website parts are Kotlin.

Most of what I'll say will be a bit vague, I mainly write Python and C++. I'm also not too clear on what benefits come from the language and which from the IDE, my understanding is that JetBrains had a lot to do with it so they are probably connected.

- Compile times seem pretty fast.

- Errors seem clear, haven't been as stumped as I'd expected with a new language.

- Greytext types that are inferred are super useful. I do wonder how I'd do if the IDE didn't tell me what the types were. But it basically means you get all the benefits of type annotation without having to write out the types.

- The style of using a lot of filter/map/reduce makes my code more terse, but the greytext hints keep it easy to understand.

- Great sugars. No need to add getters and setters for every member. Likewise it seems to change the calls to old Java lib getters and setters. Data classes can be short and sweet. One-liner functions in-line for simple stuff to keep simple stuff short.

- Can still do whatever you want with Java libs. Unit testing for instance works much the same.

- Ecosystem has moved nicely with Kotlin. Ktor and Ebean seem to be on board and pretty mature.

- Null safety built in makes it clear where you need to do something about it.
You haven't read the license, have you? :-)

> your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network [...] an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge [...]

An email does not cut it. It has to be a direct link to the source, or some kind of equivalent mechanism to directly download it from a server. Merely providing you the opportunity to ask a human for it does not cut it (an email bot might, but that'd be dumb).
What do you mean? The article says it was a software bug that accidentally deleted both short-term and long-term storage, while it should have been only short-term.
Lack of repairability is the main reason I do not buy Mac Books. Yes, they are more reliable, however, if you encounter a problem, you endure a long wait at a Mac Book repair centre that is miles away. My work laptop developed an issue while I was on holidays in Spain, and if it had been a PC it could have been easily fixed by any of the local repair centres. Of course Apple being Apple, I would have to drive 2 hours to the nearest Apple repair centre with no guarantee it would have been fixed in time before I returned back home.
You are indeed correct, since he was actually fired.
Because it's a fact that contradicts the leftist "English speaking countries bad, EU civilised and good" narrative. That's a reliable way to get downvoted on HN.
Reminds me of petri nets.
I think your unecesserally criticising the person your commenting on.

They never said free/unregulated market. They just said market driven.

Markets and market forces are tools. If left unregulated they, as you pointed out, devolve into optimising for the short term and the narrow bad of monetisable effects (ie the problem of externalities).

But a regulated market is a force to be recond with, and if properly regulated, a force for a lot of good.

So you are both right. We need market solutions (as those are most effective) but within a regulated market that makes sure that market forces are pushing everyone in the direction that is good for society.
Anti-phishing and malware mechanisms should just be "recommendations" to users and not straight blocking and banning. It's sad people don't see that difference. Browsers warn you about potentially harmful websites but still give you the choice.
The US is far from the only federal country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism#Examples

You are not only jumping to a new government policy, but the whole package changes. Including culture etc. Yes.

Many people around the world are looking to migrate. If borders were more open, many more people would migrate. About why? You could go and ask some of them. (Or as an alternative, Googling for 'why do people migrate?' gives lots of results to studies etc.)
Everyone should be looking for a backup strategy that involves at least a hot backup and a cold backup, with some sort of offline validation. However this is easier said than done (because now you've to deal with multiple file systems, decisions about cryptography, lack of interest in creating something that you hope you'll never need, and so on). I wish there was a service (and don't tell me about Backblaze because it's incomplete and doesn't work that well - from my own experience) that would do all these things for you in a reliable and trustworthy way (including giving you snapshots in physical media from time to time - delivering to different addresses, possibly in different jurisdictions, and so on).
Yes, every once in a while. Hence my qualification with 'much of a difference'.
The article doesn't mention GDPR.
The problem with that is that under GDPR you have to support full deletion of an user's data.
Old salt mine is the first emission-free compressed air energy facility (2019)
Yes, deletion also counts as data processing. Unauthorized data processing in this case.
Going from socialism to fascism never was a long walk.
I guess I got confused at "If he thought he was in a superposition he would believe in many worlds."

Do you mean "he can either think he can be in superposition or he cannot be, if he thinks he can be then he would believe in many worlds, which is incompatible with 'traditional' QM, which thus implies 'Traditional QM does not allow Wigner’s friend to be in superposition.'" ?

I don't think the Traditional QM ever explicitly disallowed a person to be in superposition; being in superposition it's just not something "decent people" do, I suppose.

Thus we needed to find other ways to come to terms with what we observe. But the math is the same. The rest is only metaphors that help us reconcile what we observe with how we feel inside.

Thus, many worlds is not antithetic to traditional QM.
Legislation can change and what you once thought to be forgettable becomes suddenly not.
"Love it or leave it." Sure fire mark of tribalism. <plugs ears doesn't wanna hear criticism of sacred cow>
That's why in different industries there are third-party independent, trusted entities. Apple controls it all completely itself.
I think taxi apps with the exact same user experience will just crop up. You will just have to pay more.
Kotlin really is good and definitely an improvement over Java, but in my experience (like ~1 year) the language itself makes writing unreadable code too easy; it also doesn't help that IDEs like IntelliJ Idea often suggest shorter yet less readable alternatives because it's "idiomatic" Kotlin code. For perspectice, I am writing "enterprise software" and I am big fan of TypeScript.
Oracle cloud has some pretty good freebies. https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev#major-cloud-provid...
An engineering mistake combined with an obvious lack of backups.
In case anybody else wonders what PITR is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-in-time_recovery
If you're reading this you may be interested in Wiimmfi [1], which is a re-implementation of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (WFC) online gaming service that discontinued on May 20th, 2014. It was the online service used to play games like Mario Kart DS online.

Wiimmfi is similar to Xbox Live Project Insignia [2], and to a much lesser extent XLink Kai tunneling for local System Link over the internet. What a wonderful age we live in!

[1] https://wiimmfi.de/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DVKwTtJtS8
My approach is - continue the regular routine. Get dressed for work and change clothes after work is done. Use dedicated computer for work and just turn it off after the work is done. I do have a separate "office" room, so that does help too.

Can't say I'm always successful, but I find that routines like dressing up for work, setting up a dedicated computer, etc. help.
I've worked at MongoDB for seven years right next to our EMEA/APAC support teams. We've never come across and instance where MongoDB was "mysteriously annihilating all the data". We would take any incidence of that whether it was a paying customer or not very seriously. If you know someone this has happened to I would encourage you to get them contact us.

Joe Drumgoole
Director of Developer Relations, MongoDB
Interstate buses and trains post-911 often require ID in the US, and possibly frisking. Seen that at the Las Vegas bus terminal.

Additionally, LEO says they can do whatever they want in the border zone, which extends 100 miles inland of any US border:

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone/
It does say 'higher' not 'highest'.
Tipping isn't racist or sexist any more than language is, but you can have sexist or racist tippers.

I won't eat at a restaurant that decides I must pay X% tip. I occasionally get tips at work when I do outstanding service, and it's awesome but not required. I pay tips on the same way.
Hopefully the author receives ample support through his Patreon link!
Yes! Accidental loss is a data breach, see page 7ff of http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/document.cfm?doc_id=47741
California Blackouts a Warning for States Ramping Up Green Power
> You just can't mention that fact in your iOS app.

And you don't think that is anti-competitive? Apple is free to promote their own services on their platform that compete with others, require them to pay a 30% tax that their own competing service does, and the only escape hatch they give you is "you can use the web, but you can't tell your users"

Am I taking crazy pills, or do other people think this is absurd.

The first rule of alternative signup models on the App Store is, you don't talk about alternative signup models.
Are you trying to discredit using MacBooks in tech or something?
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I can't access the article, but there was a recent ransomware attack on Canon [1]. I wonder if this could be related to it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24185734
Both AWS S3 and Google cloud storage buckets have an option that makes it impossible to delete stored objects for some period of time. The option was added for some legal compliance reasons, but I find it useful as an extra safeguard that important service data is not accidentally or maliciously deleted.
Duh, obviously democracy ranks way lower than morality.

Whether someone should be allowed to campaign for genocide depends on the laws of the country. In modern Germany platforms like that are explicitly forbidden. But the laws of the Weimar Republic were more value agnostic.
Turn on a movie or TV show.

I actually stop work every day at 7pm because that is when Jeopardy comes on.
They’re not more reliable. I’m still using a thinkpad from 2013 as my daily driver. My work mbp failed after 6 months because dust specs got under the keyboard keys and stopped them from registering presses anymore.
He may as well have been cancelled, as I'm utterly unfamiliar with him. Will report back on whether I got any useful bits out of "Guide to Kulchur" and "ABC of Reading" after I've read a bit of them.

The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Sunfish was certainly worth some reflection, although Pound's willingness to translate chinese poetry without knowing much chinese may show his practice (as is most of ours!) was not quite up to his preaching. (Edit: he leads "...Kulchur" by quoting 一以貫之[1], so he is stronger in chinese than I.)

Upon reflection: abstraction and instantiation are always dual, and just as we shouldn't exclusively fly abstract, neither should we exclusively rest concrete. There are more fascinating journeys to be had by skipping between both sides of the duality, passing between them adroitly, adjointly.

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Chinese_Classics/Volume_1...

Bonus track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzQWYHHqvIw
If you think about it, it's insane how much infrastructure we take for granted (xxx kilowatt of electricity, xxx mbps of internet, all for dirt cheap).

Maybe in a near future everyone would need xxx petaflops of compute just as you would any other utility. At least anyone who wants their personal AI secretaries to "learn" and "think" effectively.

Historically these utility/infrastructure projects needs to be built by the government since it's a chicken and egg problem. "Internet" companies can only exist after the internet is built. "AI" companies can only exist after gpt3 levels of compute is made available to the everyday person.

(There might be a physics argument to why the economy of scale of compute can't go down that much even with nation-level of investments. Usually it ends up with needing to build a dyson swarm. I really hope they are wrong because I don't think I will live to see it)
> It wouldn't even mean democratic control over everything. It would mean bureaucratic control, very indirectly influenced by a democratic choice between a handful of parties once every 4 or 5 years.

Even direct democratic control would be a nightmare. In practice the bureaucratic layer probably tempers the worst excesses.
Except.. They're not the only ones who can repair it (even though they act like it). And their efforts to hurt independent repairshops show signs of antitrust, which is the topic at hand.
ML runs hundreds of thousands of experiments, each on a slightly different model, and takes the one with the best results.
I'm struggling to understand why the illustration at the bottom left of https://im-possible.info/english/library/grey/grey4.html is impossible. If you don't assume the two horizontal bars are parallel, and the top one is farther back than the bottom one, it make seems to make sense.

Eg it has a side profile of;

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x86 or Arm? AWS now lets you choose both at once for Kubernetes
Kotlin's similarity to Swift is convenient.

I just wish Google would settle on one language for a while and be done with it.
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I know it doesn’t.
Procedural Paintings with Genetic Evolution Algorithm
Simply switching devices helps. If it's after 5pm and I don't have any meetings or tasks that I can complete by 6pm, I turn off the work laptop and put it away until the next morning.
What the OP actually said is the following: "They [prop 8 supporters] very explicitly wanted to take a right away from other people, even though they suffered no plausible harm from those people exercising that right."

This isn't presented as an argument for the legality of gay marriage; rather, it already presupposes that gay couples have the legal right to get married (as indeed they did in California before proposition 8 passed). It's uncharitable and implausible to assume that the OP would be able to present no argument for the legalisation of gay marriage other than "it wouldn't harm anyone". It certainly doesn't advance the discussion to attribute to them a weak argument that they didn't even make.

>But just out of curiosity, what argument would logically allow a same-sex marriage of men or women, who aren't closely related to each other, but exclude two brothers or sisters from marrying each other?

What argument would logically allow an opposite sex marriage of a man and a woman who aren't clearly related to each other but exclude brothers or sisters from marrying each other? Unless you think that there's some kind of analogy between same sex relationships and incest, then same sex marriage is totally irrelevant here. Can't think of a reason to ban incestuous marriages? Then the slippery slope starts from opposite sex marriage, not from same sex marriage.
I think they claim that this was a coding error and not a ransomware case.

The timing is convenient though.
People used to pay money for Trumpet Winsock, then a TCP/IP stack became critical infrastructure, and you no longer paid for it. Web Browsers used to have a commercial model (Netscape), then the Web become so critical, it became commodity infrastructure. Disk compression and encryption? Table stakes. Video decompression/compression? I could go on and on, but ALOT of functionality that used to be commercial add-ons has become commodity, and required OS infra. It's just paid for, and no on charges.

Otherwise, hey, let's unbundle Mobile Safari, and Mail, and Maps, and when you buy an iPhone, the first thing you have to do is buy all the builtin default apps.
I think is more like the typical outside temperatures in the Netherlands (where Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit lived most of his life):

Rarely below -18°C ~ 0°F

and rarely above 38°C ~ 100°F
This can be just calculated risk.

Incredible damage for some users can be negligible damage to the company. In this case just 10TB of data was lost, so maybe thousands of users for the long term storage option.

Losing customer data has potential for big reputation or brand damage, but surprisingly often the damage is relatively small. Putting in too much effort when potential damage to business is minimal may not be worth of the cost.
You’re way ahead of the average. The only improvement I can think of would be to server side copy the backup files to another Google Drive account that the account linked to HyperBackup can not access. That way if the Synology gets hacked it cannot delete the offsite backup too.
that's math, not computers. Math looks strange. Especially the everyday things.
> Simply switching devices helps.

Getting off devices entirely is even better.
You're telling me that there are people who have above-ground wires to their home, who oppose efforts to put these wires underground?

That's incomprehensible to me... and then these same people complain about outages? Wow.
Did they have parking slots over there? In London they are everywhere, blocking pavement, side of the road, gutter etc. You could break your neck if you don’t watch out.
I suppose using a device that's known to not have WiFi would arise less suspicions