skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its tough to take advice based on analogy to a fictional character.
BTW if Apple is protecting customers so much they should ban consumable IAPs because they're being used to drain money from people via addiction.
The USPS has mandates from the federal government like having to deliver mail to far flung unprofitable areas and to deliver mail on Saturdays. Lets see UPS get saddled with these requirements and then "look at what UPS has been doing the past x years".

There was a time when taxpayers were taking money out of USPS, maybe it should be returned to USPS with interest?
Nope. If a person "owns" a piece of hardware, it should be legal to jailbreak it without any consequences (except perhaps lack of support for 3rd party software) and companies that sell products that build off of jailbroken products should be 100% legal. Edge case products like Prima Cinema can simply lease the hardware with restrictions on how can be used under the terms of the lease. If Apple feels so strongly about locking down their platform, they can adjust their business model and lease their hardware to customers. However, companies should not be able to legally "sell" products that transfer ownership if they are going to include "strings" restricting the usage of the product.
People who don’t want to exposed their non-technical family to the Wild West of Android.
They weren't surprised at all by the lawsuit. They wanted a lawsuit. The only person who could change the TOS was a judge and Epic could only sue if Apple enforced the TOS on them.

Plus, if you don't think Epic had already talked to lawyers and lobbyists in Washington DC and already been given a heads-up that they might win, then you don't know business that well.
If you are a parent, you decide for yourself.

I question the validity of presuming this question has a correct answer for all parents under all circumstances.
At least in terms of their banning xCloud, they recently filed a patent to make their own cloud gaming service. I would definitely say that sounds anti-competitive to ban competitors that are ahead of you from your store, so you have time to make your own.
The movers-and-shakers of web-tech are the large corporate (esp the two that control the browsers) and what are their incentives to simplify web tech, thereby lowering the bar for competitors.
Why this can’t be a part of parental control function where you can restrict certain function on devices you control?
How would this compare to cross-platform dev in, say, heaps.io
Yes, if there're 2 mines left, that would require a guess. But not so if only 1 mine is left (or 3 of them)
Thanks - I'll check out the Mac Client.

The iOS app is okay, but I think it's extremely slow and a lot of things require the web UI (which has tons of buried menus and hard to find features).
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Good for him and I wish him luck!
I think that the right legal and political concept to accomplish essentially the same goal is the “right to repair”. This is a concept that lots of people (outside of technology) have an immediate connection to, and the downsides of not having it are more clear (waste, less competition, bricking when companies go out of business).

From a regulatory standpoint, it seems easier than attempting to hand ‘closed’ hardware - less line drawing on what counts as firmware and more focus on what consumers need to properly use and maintain a device over a long period of time.
IBM is dying a slow death; they still "milk" the market with old stuff like AS/400, because of a superb lock-in.

The "Power" business is still doing ok; but I'd bet in a few years one of the other big guys will go at it (maybe Nvidia?) and start eating at their market share.
That some people have negative reactions – including anxiety, hallucinations, & seizures – to intense meditation has long been recognized. Here's a story from 18 years ago in the SFWeekly:

"Bad Vibes- Warning: Meditating may be hazardous to your health" SFWeekly, 2002-08-28

https://web.archive.org/web/20091114023754/https://www.sfwee...
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If we could live a million years it would allow us to produce a better society by making ultra long investments.

Looking at a century’s candlestick chart for a stock would be something like looking at a weekly chart today.
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You'd have Mistborn-esque tyranny with God Kings that last virtually forever (unless assassinated).
This is something I hadn't thought about until the article pointed it out. According to the first link in google (https://www.braze.com/blog/in-app-purchase-stats/) the average iOS IAP in 2017 was $1.08. If you compare that to Square and Stripe's fee structure then the processing fees charged by the credit card processors is about 25%. This means Apple's taking for themselves much closer to a 5% cut which seems much more reasonable for the services provided.

Why Apple doesn't switch to a 5% + $0.29 structure is anybody's guess, however...
The last time I checked (which was quite a while ago) you could configure and price at least some categories of POWER servers on IBM's website much like you can with Dell or any other x86 vendor. The big difference though was in the amount of sticker shock when you see the bottom line price.
Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, is said to have practiced mindfulness meditation (vipassana) in the 5-4th century BCE. Though I haven't heard him referred to as the person who invented it.

There is lots of research on the meditation's effectiveness [0]. That research includes "47 trials in 3,515 participants suggests that mindfulness meditation programs show moderate evidence of improving anxiety and depression".

While I started meditating to reduce my anxiety (and it has), the goal of mindfulness meditation isn't reducing anxiety - it's awareness. Some people who start meditating, including myself, might start becoming more aware of their pre-existing anxiety. The good news is, once you become aware of the source of your anxiety, you can do something about it.

[0] https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/meditation-in-depth
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Death is the only sure thing.

Even if we could live for billions of years, the Heat Death of the universe will eventually reap us.

So we must understand and embrace Death before we massively extend our lifespan. This is only one of the many things we must do.
I like the idea that we should make the fact that it isn't real science concrete so people know what they're getting into.

Allying it with the bit of universities that have abandoned any idea of the value of ideas being linked to actual evidence though is a terrible idea.

Make it part of the engineering department, those guys get the meeting place between a technical discipline and something that has to actually exist in the real world.
Cool concept. I wish it had some filters to only show posts with X votes, date, etc since right now a lot of noise posts are filling up the search.
> So the question is, should consumers be able to knowingly buy restricted hardware such as Prima Cinema?

If this would be restricted then you should keep it legal to buy but illegal to sell. Making the purchase illegal would only further criminalize the consumer.
Call a spade a spade. Not even the mafia extorted businesses for 30%. I'd argue an act of digital eminent domain is in order. Imagine being a store owner and having to give a 30% kickback to your landlord.
Me. My life is too full of other things to want to worry about the latest bit of malware floating around on Android, or whether my phone will stop getting updates a year or two after I own it.

To me, a phone should work for me, not the other way around. I'd rather spend my time living my life than fussing with the technicalities of my phone. I'm willing to pay extra for it.

I also went with iPhone because I trust Apple to vet its apps better than any other vendor. When someone else does as good a job, I'll head over there. But for now, iPhone is where it's at.
Me. It limits the attack surface and all the problems that come with openness, very visible in the Android world.

The problem is that giving a choice to users is risky and not acceptable at scale because people are not smart, they do dumb things all the time; like pasting untrusted scripts into devtools console and getting hacked. Or replying to mail scams.

So I am happy I can hand an iPad to my parent and not be there to secure all activities they do online.
I will add to this: I wish my parents had stuck with iPhones. The amount of IT support that I had to do after they switched went up quite a bit. It's been a few years so they've adjusted (and I've just ignored their complaints and told them to fix it themselves) but who knows what garbage they've installed on their phones! They're not tech savvy. It would be quite nice if they had stuck with iPhones.

I remember they got Samsung tablets and when I had looked at them to see if I would like to buy one... I saw they were completely full of - essentially - spyware and malware.
I remember a lot of posts (and a lot of them being flagged) but I have no solid numbers to base this on. But I also let myself get caught up in the politics in general and probably noticed them for that reason as well (my brain was primed to notice them).

I need to start taking year long retreats every four years.
> Increasing our fertility period in proportion to our life span will bring the risk of overpopulating Earth. With the current birth rate per person, the number of million-year-old people could increase to the untenable level of a hundred trillion. Moderating that would require a public policy that limits the birth rate to the desired level. Alternatively, travel ports could launch people into space to balance the birth rate and maintain a terrestrial population suitable for the available supply of food and energy.

Wait, does it imply that the current population trajectory is sustainable?
The article says:

> Trump said on 13 August that he opposes providing additional funding to the USPS to make it more difficult to deliver mail-in ballots.

That comment links to another article, where the first paragraph states:

> Donald Trump admitted on Thursday he opposed additional funding for the United States Postal Service (USPS) in order to make it more difficult to deliver mail-in ballots.

I searched Google and YouTube but can't find the original source, only commentary on it. Does anyone have a link?

Edit: Maybe it's referring to https://youtu.be/0ieLG29X_oE?t=840. I don't know much about the facts here, but Trump seems to be asserting that Congress is bundling $15–25B in USPS funding in a mega-bill that includes trillions of dollars of bailout money for states, and thus the bill has stalled. He also keeps harping on the failures of mail-in voting (but says absentee works well). I don't know what to make of it, but it's certainly frustrating that multiple news orgs are claiming that Trump is intentionally hamstringing the USPS to harm democracy, when I don't take away any such conclusion from that shitshow of an interview.
Me. I like the sandboxing. I like Apple Pay (especially for subscriptions). I like the new random-gen email addresses system. I like that apps have to use these things and can't just opt-out, because I may have to use the app for work or something.

It's not the only thing I care about, but it's not all just strict downside.
You're not addressing the real issue here though - should Apple get a cut of the revenue from in game purchases? Once you download the game and are looking to purchase more of the game you've already let the app pass your "shady wild west" internal warning system.
Should a parent really get their children iPhones?

Not your kids. Not your business.
To those who notices planes flying in circles, it doesn't have to be anything sinister. Those might be planes calibrating avionics or ground/airport equipment or doing test flights after maintenance. I have agencies in the region doing both, so you can sometimes find planes doing strange patterns which are their clients.
Given remote work, you can literally move to a cabin right next to Yellowstone so yeah I agree this line of argumentation is not that compelling.
We don't universally praise hand-crafted objects in the real world. We only praise it in situations where the resulting object is significantly aesthetically or functionally unique. In all other cases hand crafting is absolutely considered a quaint curiosity. A good way of thinking of this:

* Mass produced bread <- cost effective product, heavy use of machinery and tooling

* Small local bakery <- higher quality product, still use plenty of professional tooling to make it cost effective

* Making your own bread at home with store bought flour <- Makes use of prepackaged assets to enable a creative experiment

* Making your own bread with wheat you grew in your backyard and hand shaped stone tools <- quaint curiosity
For those that are curious, Bob Hearn is now a pretty successful ultra runner. He seems to especially enjoy multi-day events. I met him at a 100 miler in NC a few years ago.

https://www.irunfar.com/2020/02/age-old-runners-bob-hearn.ht...

He blogs about his running these days here:

https://bobhearn.blogspot.com
Based on the last time this was up on HN I recall the news company lobby estimated that Google would be required to pay something like $1B/year, which is certainly far more money than they make off of news-related searches originating in Australia. The law has some prohibitions on Google substituting Australian news with news from sources in other countries, but I think it doesn’t go so far as to say that Google has to continue to serve news searches. Abandoning the country entirely might be a stretch, given how many other products would be impacted, but disabling news results entirely or declining searches that seem to be looking for news would not be surprising. The law is clearly deliberately vague to give both the government and the news companies the upper hand against Google in any sort of legal dispute, but I think Google would be within its rights to take this to court and demand an enumerated list of all of the news companies in Australia (since the law says the government is planning to make a list) and a list of all of the international sources of news that Google is prohibited from substituting, then stop serving results from either in Australia.
Yes the are providing an eco system, customers and payment processing.
never worked at facebook but the answer is 1) testing 2) rolling/canary/blue-green deploys 3) feature flags 4) having a rollback plan
Older Children Spread the Coronavirus Just as Much as Adults, Large Study Finds:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/health/coronavirus-childr...
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I think it's also that court reporters are legal officers of the court. They have some legal training, and are highly regulated. They can be held responsible for what happens, in the same way as other court officers, like court clerks.

Also, they witnessed what happened in the court room first hand, which is helpful.

While you could certainly improve training for a team of outsourced stenographers, I think most people would feel safer knowing that the person generating the transcript is closely connected with the court, and not just a team of anonymous replaceable people in another country who didn't see the trial, and may only have access to portions of it.

What is the real benefit? It's debatable whether any money would even be saved, paying several people in a developing country less than the salary of a single court reporter. And it introduces all sorts of new liabilities and complications.

Personally, I can't see the cost savings really being worth it. The court reporter is hardly the most expensive part of a trial. I get nervous enough outsourcing my voicemail transcription to anonymous humans, so I can't imagine trial transcripts.

The thing though that I think most people miss, is that this is far more than a technical problem. The courts are an instrument of civil society, and they need to be held to really strict standards. Legal procedures took centuries to evolve, so that people will accept them and time is not wasted re-inventing procedures. This is so much more important than any optimizations that could be introduced. And if it becomes too opaque and complicated, it loses any value because people need to be able to trust it.

This over-optimization attitude can be a real problem for society. I am worried that silicon valley will try to "solve" this problem for us.

It is bad enough that this "move fast and break things, bro" culture is going after our voting machines and our nuclear missile silos.
It depends on the reason for banning xCloud and if their product becomes market dominant. The rules are there. It seems unfair to punish Apple for someone else breaking an agreement.
Don’t we have that? I don’t think TSA pre-check goes through the sniffers. Not sure what benefits that gives on arrival. I know there’s an express lane on the US/Canada border though.
Entities and disciplines can communicate without being the same. An idea we seem to be losing, not in small part thanks to social science.
To be clear, I'm not saying that person was wrong to criticize the other post necessarily. I just think it's a testament to the abilities of GPT-3 that it could fool a reasonable person.
No, there is plenty of employee arrangements where you can show up whenever you want, as long as you meet the weekly quota of hours.
> That feels like using an existing monopoly (actually a duopoly w/ google's similar practices) to force developers to purchase products they don't want. Hey didn't want to accept payments via apple, but Apple's market power and decisions were focused on forcing them to.

In order to sell goods in a place like Walmart, a manufacturer is subject to onerous terms. Why is the app store different than a retailer limiting access to their shelf space? I personally feel they are different but I cannot put into words why.
Given that obesity is the cause of a whole host of ailments, I’d say it’s fine to play it fast and loose and put forward this narrative.

Is it scientifically rigorous? No, but sometimes there isn’t enough time for rigor and you’re better of making an educated guess than having no conclusion at all.
Yes, the current government reduced or got rid of much coursework and stopped As levels contributing to an A level.

In the previous system, there was more coursework in some subjects (almost always still <50%), thus recognising the abilities of those who don't do so well in exams, and still recognising the abilities of those who are better at exams than coursework. Exams were split over two years, with most of the material studied in year 1 examined in one go in year 1, and material studied in year 2 (building on year 1 material )examined in one go in year 2.

Now there is an almost total reliance on exams, all in one go at the end of the second year.

Hence (partly) the current storm.
This thought experiment crosses my mind everytime I read the crazy ages of the characters in the book of genesis, the obvious consequence is that space travel and technology would be the dominant science since the earth and this solar system is way too small and boring for creatures who live that long.
Consumers spent 1.6T hours on mobile in H1 2020 – App Annie Report
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Do CS students not already take social sciences classes as part of the general degree requirements at their university?

At MIT, every undergraduate is required to eight courses in arts, humanities, or social sciences. That works out to taking one arts, humanities, or social science class per semester. Specifically, you have to take one from art, one from humanities, and one from social science. You also have to pick a particular field and take a series of courses in that field.

Caltech is similar, but not quite as structure. Every undergraduate must take 36 units of humanities (Caltech has a different unit scale than most others--one term of most classes earns you 9 units, and there are 3 terms per academic year) , 36 units of social science, and 36 units of humanities or social sciences.

For someone who took the minimum number of units possible to get a CS degree at Caltech, 22% of their coursework would be in humanities or social sciences. 20% for someone who took the average CS course load.

I'd just assumed that it was like that at most other schools too.
The 12-core POWER10 will have 120MB of L3 cache and 1000GBps main-memory bandwidth with 96-threads.

That's unified L3 cache by the way, none of the "16MB/CCX with remote off-chip L3 caches being slower than DDR4 reads" that EPYC has.

Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 only has 38.5MB L3 across 28 cores / 56-threads. With 6-memory controllers at 2666 MHz (21GBps per stick), that's 126 GBps bandwidth.

AMD EPYC really only has 16MB L3 per CCX (because the other L3 cache is "remote" and slower than DDR4). With 8 memory controllers at 2666 MHz, we're at 170 GBps bandwidth on 64-threads.

If we're talking about "best CPU for in-memory database", its pretty clear that POWER9 / POWER10 is the winner. You get the fewest cores (license-cost hack) with the highest L3 and RAM bandwidths, with the most threads supported.

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On the other hand, x86 has far superior single-threaded performance, far superior SIMD units, and is generally cheaper. For compute-heavy situations (raytracing, H265 encoding, etc. etc.) the x86 is superior.

But as far as being a thin processor supporting as much memory bandwidth as possible (with the lowest per-core licensing costs), POWER9 / POWER10 clearly wins.

And again: those SMT8 cores are no slouch. They can handle 4-threads with very little slowdown, and the full 8-threads only has a modest slowdown. They're designed to execute many threads, instead of speeding up a single thread (which happens to be really good for databases anyway, where your CPU will spend large amounts of time waiting on RAM to respond instead of computing).