skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nonono.

This is not the right place for that restriction at all. You should have the right to install backdoor tools on a technical level. If you install backdoor tools on equipment without permission from the owner or a properly executed warrant that is the crime and what must be prevented.

Don't conflate restraining the FBI with being allowed to treat the device you paid for and own exactly as a device you paid for and own and is entirely your property.
Thank you! Will do :)
The subjective human evaluations used in research are blinded - the humans rate the accuracy of translation without knowing what produced the translation (whether a NMT system, a non-ML MT system, or a human translator), whereas the football fans in your scenario are most definitely not blinded. There are some criticisms you could make about human evaluation, but as far as how well they correspond to the real-world task, I think they're pretty much the best we can do. I'm very curious to know if you actually think they're a bad target to optimize for.

More to the point, you still have yet to show that NMT "serves no other purpose than to show how well modern techniques can model large datasets", given that they do well on human evaluations and they're actually producing value by serving actual production traffic (you know, things humans actually want to translate) in Google Translate. If serving production traffic like this is not "serving a purpose", what is?
Me and the family bike many weekends on a city bikepath and I can report that there are a lot more bikers than normal these days.
The departure of people from the bay area was also discussed about seven months ago. At that time, I used the uhaul.com website to show the difference in renting a 26' truck from Mountain View to Dallas Texas, and the reverse. (U-Haul does dynamic pricing based on availability and demand). It was $4230 to leave California, vs. $846 to enter it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22080410

Looking at U-Haul's website today, that price has remained the same. Maybe there's a upper limit on their rate calculator? Or maybe demand has stayed mostly the same.
ffmpeg is great. I use it to transcode videos that our users upload directly from their phones from HEVC (H.265) to AVC1 (H.264) - it’s painless: just asynchronously shell-invoke it from Java, .NET, etc. I’m surprised it works well even in tightly locked-down sandboxed environments like Azure App Services (nee Azure Websites). It’s saved my org thousands of dollars we’d have otherwise spent on something like Azure Media Services. It “just works” and I’ve never had it fail to process any legitimate video file.

Props to ffprobe too - that’s part of our file upload + identification + sanitation process.
> just as much on the tech churn treadmill.

Really? I doubt you could run an app written for Android in 2010 (2.2 Froyo) today. But a website written in 2010 using HTML, Javascript, and CSS and no plugins will almost always work.
"As California ISO began taking its emergency actions on Saturday, electricity wholesale costs jumped on its energy market. The prices fluctuate based on how much electricity must pass through the wires. The more electricity that must get through a particular line, the higher the price, much like increased toll prices on a highway during traffic congestion. Prices in locations near the Tahoe area across the state line to Reno and Carson City, Nev., spiked into the thousands of dollars per megawatt-hour, far above the typical costs of under $100."

I smell somebody making money off this scheme and likely "kickbacks" involved.
I agree with you in principle, but disagree in practice.

For every person who knows what they're doing and can trust themselves, there are 1000 who will install malware and other crap and end up at an Apple store getting it fixed, and they'll blame Apple instead of themselves.
Came here to suggest libvips, but whilst checking my facts discovered that even it too has an (optional) dependency on ImageMagick.
All at the same time? Yeah. One app at a time? Just a chance for their competitors to gain ground.

And I would bet anything all the companies you listed would do the same thing if they were in Apple’s position.
A lot of universities may never reopen if they don't bring students back this year. It's not surprising they're choosing to cash the tuition checks as long as that remains a legal option.
I don't think we need to stick to an existing law and second guess what courts think. We need new legislation that lowers the cost of switching across popular platforms down to a single click of a button. That'll solve a big chunk of the problem
Bit rich to go, prove it, but but also what about a similar class which I'm not going out of my way to prove. The American technology angle here is semi-irrelevant, the real problem with Saudi is that the US allied with them in the first place, despite being one of the more regressive nations in the region. They also then went and sanctioned Iran which happens to also be more progressive. I guess the Saudis had more oil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_the_Cathedral this wasn't terribly long ago, and 1935 had a lot going on.

I think about this line a lot:

The last temptation is the greatest treason:
To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
> A monopoly by Standard Oil was pervasive in all of daily living because by the early twentieth century, they had control of more than 90% of the country's petroleum fuel production and logistics which they abused to keep any competition from ever gaining a foothold.

The key point here is that 90% market share constituted monopoly power, whereas Apple's 46% share of the smartphone market likely does not.
Can you imagine the dependency tree for a project with `node_modules`, for a create-react-app it would be thousands of modules deep...
More computation = more data. That's the real problem. Processors will get faster but for some applications we'll never have more data. So yes, new approaches are needed.
That first example is a proper response to an action that is against the app store guidelines.

The second example definitely sounds like vindictive retaliation.
Isn't that issue orthogonal? I don't think the iPhone has the userbase it does because it takes more than 1 click to switch to android. Many people have expensive devices that they like along with the software they prefer.

The fact that android and iOS compete for users is irrelevant to the fact that Apple has a monopoly over access to iOS users and Google has a monopoly over access to Android users. If you want to access people on mobile, you must interact with one or both largely disjoint monopolies.
St. Stanisław of Kraków[0] is a similar figure.

[0] https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14246a.htm
Attacks "on a regular basis" means a few dozen times per year in a country with hundreds of millions of people. Like pretty much all big predator attacks, the risk is really, really small; it's just so viscerally frightening that people get worked up about them.

I live in the US and hear far more concern about mountain lions than deer, even though people here are hundreds of times more likely to be killed by a deer. And do you know what helps control deer overpopulation? A healthy predator population.
The use of feature flags to show/hide features is arguably against the App Store guidelines [1]:

"2.3.1 Don’t include any hidden or undocumented features in your app; your app’s functionality should be clear to end-users and App Review."

1: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
I'm looking forward to this! I love everything about handmade and can never get enough content haha. I've definitely watched a few of the handmadecon videos multiple times.
That's not really a C implementation of GPT-2 since it cannot be used to do the thing everyone cares about: self-supervised learning from text. In fact, it doesn't even use the weights in the same way GPT-2 does, so it's not clear how close it is to GPT-2's inference mode. The source isn't even on the page.
Mr Powers is pushing an interesting conspiracy theory in this article, which I haven't seen discussed yet. I haven't seen anyone else backing it up in other sources, but of course it's still early in the reporting on this issue.

>In particular, California ISO said two natural gas power plants shut down on Friday and, on Saturday, a wind farm and another gas plant stopped producing power.

The state is currently reviewing proposals to extend the operation of old natural gas plants in Southern California. Environmentalists want the plants to remain closed because they use fossil fuels and are cooled using seawater, endangering marine life.

“It makes for a compelling story” if you have blackouts because of a lack of power plants, Mr. Powers said. “We know there is no capacity problem,” he said. “Something odd happened.”
Amazon at one point made a strong attempt to compete, and I actually bought a few apps from there. Also, on Android Epic made their own app store you had to sideload to download Fortnite.
Well, trivially:

$ patch --version
GNU patch 2.7.6
Copyright (C) 2003, 2009-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1988 Larry Wall

License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Larry Wall and Paul Eggert

But also, the GPL requires keeping a detailed ChangeLog, and if anyone's going to be a stickler about that, it's the FSF: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/tree/ChangeLog-2...
What are the "levels" of hash functions?
There have been other notable extreme storms in this area in recent history. Increasing global temperature appears to be putting more energy into the atmosphere so hundred year storms are now common.
Developers being paid to make games sounds great. Why is Epic a bad guy for paying developers?
Riot’s League of Legends launcher’s was done in Silverlight for a while.
"observation" isn't important, it's enough interaction to decohere the superposition, or in another sense, entangle it with the environment. A polarization filter could be considered an "observer" in some sense, but I think focusing on observation results in a less clear and truthful understanding of what a measurement is. A polarization filter rather interacts with the light in a strong enough way to force conditional behavior based on its polarization. This results in photos that have a superposition of different polarizations to probabilistically become one of the polarizations, wrt the respective amplitudes of each polarization for that photon.
I have different experience in China. I have been to Shenzhen where is the biggest market for Apple and I couldn’t believe my eyes. Battery replaced in minutes and I could have watched them. The only thing they said is that I need to bring my own battery - there were numerous sellers on the same floor. I also bought my iPhone XR (2nd hand) for a very cheap price and there is diagnostic for free (computers that have licensed software).

Now when I was asked to pay 400eur for battery replacement for MBP that has double the value I declined. I replaced it myself for some 3rd party battery.
Per page 19 of Apple's FY 2019 annual report [0], the net sales for the 'Services' category (consisting of the following) was $46.291 billion.

> Services net sales include sales from the Company’s digital content stores and streaming services, AppleCare, licensing and other services. Services net sales also include amortization of the deferred value of Maps, Siri and free iCloud services, which are bundled in the sales price of certain products.

Undoubtedly, the App Store makes up a large chunk of that $46.291 billion, but not all of it. We don't know how much money Apple actually makes off of the App Store. For all we know, Apple attributes 50% of the iPhone's profit margin to "Maps, Siri, and free iCloud services" which would dramatically skew the numbers. Services also includes digital media, AppleCare, and licensing which are all non-trivial sources of revenue.

[0]: https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000320193/1a91911...
What’s not “boring” about developing a backend in Rust? Rust is one of the most boring languages I can think of.
> was blocked for violating the rule around allowing out of app purchases. It took a couple weeks to appeal and get it approve

That is impressive. We can't get our app past review because Apple is insisting we are permitting out-of-app purchases (not true, but they are insisting on in-app purchase capability).
> my first-hand experience that This Time It's Different. I've lived on the SF peninsula for 10 years.

Wait, are you saying that your concern is based on a personal experience of 10 years in a place? Besides the fact that your observations might be down to pure chance, there are also strong decade and multi-decade local climate cycles.
One should start from the premise that whatever apple are doing is wrong.

They have implemented their strategy of it being cheaper to pay lobbyists, advertising, events and PR than it is to do the right thing. Eg they don't pay their tax but have a much bigger say in making and enforcement of law than any US tax-payer.

Treating their actions with suspicion and hostility until shown without doubt to be benign is the only sensible response to a company that employs these policies. You're paying for the enforcement of their property rights because you pay a big whack of your income in tax, they don't, they mooch off you.
> Was there gatekeeping from the government for new players to enter the same market?

That isn't what a monopoly is.
How would that be any different than general Internet e-commerce, where there is no landlord forcing everyone to use its services? It wouldn't, and nothing disastrous would happen.
If by "unusually large scale" you mean for FAANG-scale companies, no. It's probably pretty much in line with other global-scale companies. Which is to say: At one point, Google owned 30% of all long-haul fiber runs in the world. I doubt they're at that number anymore, but it's not because they've sold them off. I would not be surprised if Facebook owned only a tiny fraction of that, but even if they own 1% of the world's fiber runs, it's worth them having their own specialized subsidiary.
Why? It's one of the only things that you can get in trouble for without even knowing it was there. You could have taken them yourself or your children, did, it's seen in your house and they assume it's yours, now you can have a big lawsuit. With the quality of cameras and common usage of them I see a huge problem looming. It's used to plant investigations on innocent people. It's turned innocent people into jobless hated people for something they didn't do or simply were accused of.

I don't think it is a black and white issue as much of a tool of entrapment. I am not pro possession of it, but the laws are clearly entrapping innocent people. Romeo and Juliet laws exist for underaged people, should a similar law exist if you make it yourself so you don't get labeled a sex offender for making a video of yourself?

During his time it was about not legislating everything. Dworkin who was anti pornography debated a conservative judge, who saw no difference of exploitation of children as of women. Here she debates a conservative judge on wanting to make it illegal.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zt8KVB8AunQ
Should we not have the liberty to choose a locked-down platform?
You talk like this is some unique problem. This has been solved for a long time. Warranties have terms of service. If your car is under warranty and the engine fails due to a defect, warranty covers it.

If your engine fails because you drove it into a river, then the warranty don't cover it and you'll pay out of pocket for repairs.
that's a very good point. in this case, the actual situation being considered is going from a squo of ~230k to 250k if the tax didn't exist/subject was no longer required to pay the tax.
> Perhaps what you practiced was exactly "thinking about nothing and keeping your mind blank"? That would be the opposite of meditation and could be harmful, I guess.

I mean, it requires prolonged concentration to clear one's head -- but I'll admit that I'm not a meditation expert. Perhaps I was taught incorrectly.

What thoughts should be running through your head while you meditate?
The difference between Apple and Google in this instance is a matter of transparency and predatory actions.
It is wholly fair. Developers have treated Android users like second-class citizens from Day 1. Android apps come out months after their iOS counterparts, with hobbled features that never reach parity. Customers have responded with second-class compensation (favoring advertising). Additionally, what you rationalize as "better" is better thought of as a result of expertise lock-in, as developers with more (exclusive?) experience developing for iOS favor that platform. Android is fundamentally more open as a platform, and Android apps would benefit if companies actually bothered to hire and incentivize Android developers as a priority. An especially damning example: the rapid development of ARKit-based technologies after YEARS of Google making its Project Tango resources available. ARCore still lags behind ARKit even though its underlying architecture had BEEN there for developers to explore and iterate on. They simply wrote off the very concept of SLAM-based interaction until Apple said, "Let's do this." It's embarrassing.
I just ordered one off ebay, let my current battery discharge until the mac shutoff (risk of fire is greatly reduced completely discharged), and yanked out the old one with no special care or care about the glue. Set the new one in place, works perfect.

The second half of my comment was clearly tongue in cheek. Sorry if it seemed personal, it wasn't.
Hello. I read your email to Tim Cook with interest and I sympathize with the plight of your company. But I wish you would treat other platforms with more respect.

To be clear, I'm glad you enjoy Apple products and I'm not trying to talk you out of that -- as if that were possible. But I do want you to understand that my experience with them is different than yours. Apple products don't delight me. I've tried them. Every time an iOS device ends up in my hands (something that happens way too often, including earlier today) it's a frustrating experience. They feel cold, uncaring and limited. Android has moved in this direction, getting more polished but less delightful over the years, but it's still a better experience for me.

Again, I'm not saying your feelings about Apple products aren't valid. They certainly are. I'm glad you've shared them and I admire your efforts to support the iOS platform. I just wish you respected people like me who don't experience technology the same way you do. I'm glad that iOS and Android products both exist in the market. There are audiences for both -- and then some.

And as for the web, we will have to agree to disagree. Not only do I think it's not dead, I don't think it will ever be dead. That's not something I'd say about either iOS or Android. The web can't go out of business or get bought. Anything it's missing can be added. The first web browser didn't support images! On the other side, it wasn't too long ago that people thought Blackberry was here to stay.

Clearly there are many features iOS and Android offer that are difficult to match with the web. For now. Clearly the development tools are more convenient than those available for the web. But there is one feature of the web that other platforms will never be able to match: it belongs to all of us. No one has to take a 30% cut of your revenue. No one gets to decide what you can and cannot make available. In your letter to Tim Cook you make it clear that you made use of that advantage yourself, even if you don't seem grateful. Freedom always comes at a price and it's up to you to decide whether it's a price worth paying. If it's not then develop for the platform you prefer. But please remember that there are people like me who think differently.
As I understand it, AppAdvice has curated content. Nothing about curated content requires special permissions of a phone (location, bluetooth, etc). Therefore, it seems like a good match for the web. Indeed, there is no dearth of app recommendation websites today -- so many that who knows whom to trust, but that is besides the point.

I guess I'm asking: why did you choose to make this an app in the first place? Was that the only way to get commissions from apple?
> Simply adding "Shipped by: X, Sold by: X" text on the product page doesn't really help.

Amazon doesn't even do this, though.

Recently I was helping someone look for memory on Amazon. We couldn't tell the difference between two different listings for crucial ram, both with the same model, speed, size, etc. Figuring out who the seller was can be difficult; the place that used to say the store name simply had a link to Amazon's products manufactured by Crucial. We eventually noticed that in the comparison at the bottom it says who's selling the product you're looking at; searching the page for this store name found no other instances of it.
Yeah having been born in the early 90s, it’s not a great feeling to have been through 4 recessions in my lifetime already. The amount of money that has been spent in the last few months all but cements the idea in my mind that Social Security won’t be a thing by the time I’m retired.
There used to be a Mac app called "Bluephone Elite", IIRC, that could do this for a very specific group of phones. It worked with my Sony Ericcson thing BITD.
I'd argue that a lot of (new) Robinhood traders aren't traders or investors - they're gamblers. Just plain old gamblers.
I dont think government intervention is the solution to resolving the problem here. Epic is going to have to abandon Apple and suffer losses. What this exposes is deep centralization of devices and app platforms and its disgusting and I would expect a strong decentralized reaction to follow. It may not be immediate, but it will happen.
I don’t have insider knowledge, but sewing and baking comes to mind. The fashon industry probably relies heavily on established patterns that are free to copy, alter and use (quite often even from a competitor). And the baking industry can do similar with free recipes.
> Can you please provide one common example in which a plant humans like to consume is less efficient than a domesticated animal humans like to consume?

It would be worthwhile to define efficiency here, as it can mean a lot of different things, but I'll go with the most readily available numbers that fit within the confines of your comment.

Which means calories to the amount of land consumed. Pork provides 3.5 million calories per acre. Broccoli, only two million calories per acre. For comparison, corn (again, not sweet corn) provides 15 million calories per acre. If you actually ate a corn diet, it would be very efficient, but there is a good reason why you probably don't sustain yourself on a corn diet (those who live on Doritos and sugary drinks excepted). It is not exactly great human food.

Now, that is not the greatest comparison as if you stopped eating pork, you probably wouldn't replace those calories with broccoli, but it does ultimately satisfy your question and illustrates that it is not simply a matter of all plant life always being more efficient. As you can see, corn is really efficient (and not just when it comes to land use), which provides a nice margin for the overall efficiency of animal production.
I am not clear on what you're talking about when you discuss "paying Google's costs." It doesn't "cost" Google anything to link to a news article. And it doesn't "cost" a news media company anything to be linked to. "Everyone" is not paying Google's costs in any of the scenarios we're discussing.