skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
English obscures it a little, but note that verbs in your sentence apply to "large parts of"; differently stated: "to destroy a great number or proportion of".

Decimate means quite specifically to remove or destroy a _portion_ of something, rather than simply to destroy something, even in most modern usage.
California wealth tax could become first of its kind in the U.S.
My Azure-based site is working OK.
yeah, the most important piece of software on the planet.
Fortnite was among the top 10 highest grossing games on the App Store, why would they want to abandon the mobile versions?
NSA: Drovorub Linux Malware Advisory
The thing is, an open ecosystem that allows users to run any software they want on their devices already exists, including on Apple devices, in the form of the Web.

And despite all of its flaws it's the most successful software deployment platform the world has ever seen, to the point where even Apple can't afford to not include it on their platforms when we all know they'd rather not, because it's simply too valuable to consumers and would make their devices obsolete if they didn't include it.

There's no central gatekeeper for the web, and sure, it has its dark corners, but it has not devolved into absolute chaos as you so adamantly suggest all such ecosystems would, and continues to deliver such an incredible amount value to consumers and businesses alike.

The web was only possible because it was developed in an era before everybody was using closed down devices where the manufacturer dictates what software you can run on it. And at this rate, if the web ever falls out of favor (and Apple for one is doing everything it can to make sure it does), you can definitely be sure that nothing like it will ever be allowed to exist again.

As a community of founders and makers, I'm sure we can all imagine what a sad world it would be to live in if we had to first convince some platform gatekeeper that our idea is worthwhile and make sure our ideas don't conflict with their interests before being allowed to turn our ideas into reality and deliver them to users, let alone having to pay a cut of our revenues to them for the privilege.
That makes sense for GUI systems. If you have lots of elements with alignment constraints, a constraint solver is the right tool for the job. 20 years ago, they were obscure pieces of software, though, and rather alien to people who were thinking "word processor".
This has nothing to do with the article.
I actually find with all the information that is available to consumers these days through various websites and forums that it is very easy to take advantage of the current system in your favor.

It’s important to remember with new cars there are a number of ways the dealership gets paid not just what they the sales price is for a car. There are holdbacks from the manufacturer where they pay a certain amount per car sold. The amount often goes up based on hitting some sales goal for the month. On top of that there are other manufacturer incentives once again usually based on a specific sales goal whether on a particular model or just overall. Not to mention the profit on any trade in.

If often makes sense for the dealer to sell an individual car at a loss to help them make these goals.
You can distribute an app for free if you are part of their developer program - which is something like $99 for all the needed software and tooling (perhaps one of the lowest SDK prices historically?). They will actually subsidize all your bandwidth / storage / distribution costs in that case.
Your definition of “worse” may be other peoples’ definition of “better”.
It says they use site speed in ranking, and, well, I'm sure it would come as no surprise if Google's (largely) having served a page/site increases the speed just enough.
I wish this guy looked at the camera:

https://1940s.nyc/map/photo/nynyma_rec0040_1_00238_0016#16.2...

There's just so much history here. I hope we don't lose it.

edit:

YES and with a pipe :) https://1940s.nyc/map/photo/nynyma_rec0040_1_00020_0001#16.8...
You would have to be insane to move because you've recently been given remote work privileges, especially in the middle of a recession caused by an ongoing pandemic.

Companies provide remote work options all the time and once you move they ask you to come back into the office out of the blue thenlay remote workers off if they cant come back into the office.

The other thing you need to keep in mind is a lot of the places you want to live have people who don't want you living there. If they find out you work remote and don't need anyone they will start screwing around with your life.

If you move and work remote be extremely careful, dont assume you're welcome anywhere in the countrh a lot of places are filled with backwards luddites who hate anyone in STEM fields. Yes, this is a real thing.
It definitely was about MS forcing OEMs to pay Windows license fees for every PC they shipped whether or not the PC ran Windows.

It was also about the the productivity software market and the lack of interoperability

And browser bundling.

And the lack of interoperability with MS’s network stack.

MS had to make minor concessions on all four fronts.
I kind of agree, but it's hard to separate knowing that it's fake from my reaction to it. If this were presented without that context, I might feel like it's off, but not necessarily question it, especially if it came from a source I believed to be legitimate.
No? My old iPad 2 still works and can download apps from the App Store, albeit many apps don't support the iOS 9 it still has since it's super old. Given that it came with iOS 4, i'm happy with the 5 years of updates it got and how it still works.
I don't believe so.. As part of Epics business strategy since the Tencent investment they have been working to reduce license and distribution costs across the industry to the benefit of a lot of developers; and themselves of course.

Now Epic is worth over $18b, has some VERY big name investors, and controls the most popular game on the planet. They have the power to sway public sentiment against Apple, a legal leg to stand on as far as anti-trust, deep pockets, and powerful friends.

My guess, and hope, is that Epic takes Apple to the cleaners.
Not to be overly pedantic but calling .unwrap() is about as far from swallowing an error as you can get. That's gonna panic right away if it's an error case.
Very neat! So every "public" API had a corresponding URL which could be publicly accessed over HTTP ?. Sounds like a HTTP-based overlay network within the domain of your application(s).
Pixel 3a.

Google assistant.

You can't disable it without breaking other things. You can't disable the shortcuts that open it without unnecessarily regressing the rest of the UI. It's bound to "swipe up from a corner" which is an action you accidentally perform on a semi-regular basis. It's utterly and completely useless (to me).
> I don't know how effective something like this would be, wouldn't this just incentivize hiring people that fit your political agenda?

That's what all companies already do: the political agenda of every publicly held large company today is to please its shareholders, and only to please its shareholders. The proposal changes the political agendas of large companies so that they also have to please their workers and communities.

> For instance let's say you hire a bunch of Chinese/Indian immigrants on H-1B visas, they'll just vote in people that benefit China/India

Kind of a pessimistic view of humanity there. Immigrants are just as good as native-born citizens at collectively deciding what's best for the organization they work in.

> Also the 1997-2011 era Apple probably wouldn't have worked under a law like this

Apple would certainly be different, but so would its competition.
Suppose S is the set of all people.

The powerset of S is all possible ways to subdivide humanity into groups of individuals.

Comparing two members of the powerset of S is comparing two groups of people.

Any criterion by which you can divide people will produce elements of the powerset of S. For example, "people that like jazz" are in there. So too are "people who eat peas with a knife".
I am saying that there are many ways to lump people into buckets. What defines the buckets does not matter. They are all in the powerset of S.

If humans are equal, then comparing any two arbitrary groups in the powerset of S should always conclude in equality. At least in some statistical sense.

I am giving a counterexample to equality across arbitrary divisions of humanity (members of the powerset of S). I claim that arbitrary groups of humans are not equally tactful. Because if you measure the tactfulness of any member of the powerset of S where I personally am present it will generally show less tact than members of the powerset where I am not present.
> Further, as pointed out elsewhere you don't have to have a monopoly for being sued for anti-competitive behavior.

Conversely, you can have a monopoly and commit abuses and get away with it in the pro-business United States. Microsoft is noticeably intact, despite what we may have wanted to happen in the late 90s.

Apple realistically has more to fear in Europe.
Is this also against foreign governments like China committing abuses against peoples?

Just claim anything bad against you was hacked.

Or does this apply to videos Google doesn't like?
You mean an administration from the same party as the current administration?

Even worse, the current administration is more concerned about “bias against conservatives” than consumer rights.
One good step is mentorship, outreach, and internship programs for socioeconomically disadvantaged kids starting from elementary school. The tech giants should just embrace this.
How would the ability to sideload apps force you to install apps outside of the Apple store?

I'm not forced to use FDroid just because I have an Android phone. People aren't arguing that the app store should go away, just that consumers should have a choice.

As an analogy, if I want OEM care for my car, I can get that. It's more expensive, but it offers me strict guarantees about where parts are coming from, and I don't need to worry so much that I'll get substandard care.

The existence of a third-party marketplace doesn't change anything about that situation other than forcing the OEMs to compete more and push their advantages and commitment to quality.
> The mere mention of Google, a perfectly suitable competitor,

A perfectly suitable competitor ... which has exactly the same fees, similar policies and do not seem to have any pressure due to the competition to change them, yeah something does not sound right here.

Alternatively I could compare the number of companies I could use to host my web app (100k+) to the number of companies I could use to host my mobile app (just 2). The lack of competition when you compare that to an healthy market is obvious.
Impossible Foods gobbles up another $200M
Please, I not a genius but even I can tell apart an ad from a search result.
My experience with the stock Android experience from Pixel phones is a dream of zero bloatware. What I hate is the bloatware that nearly every handset maker puts on their phones, and the additional bloatware wireless providers add on to it, almost none of it uninstallable.
For the record Flatpak solves the same issue without mountpoint spam by using OSTree zo store flatpaks and their shared runtimes. Not only that, it gets full deduplication of everything and diff downloads just by using OSTree.

AFAIK Snap has no deduplication of installed stuff & not even any dhared runtimes. Not sure if it has diff downloads.
Not to mention zero % financing. Watching a poor car salesman try to work his 4 square when his easiest variable is set was amusing.

“How much would you be willing to finance?” “At this rate? 100x the price of the car.”
> it handles multi-mapping (eg mapping users and posts from a single query)

You can achieve all that with JSON support in SQL, which most RDBMS have. You can then de-serialize JSON rows into Python objects. No need for an ORM.
Archeology is what's called a historical science. One of the features of that designation is exactly the lack of general reproducibility you've identified. Geology (specifically subfields like geomorphology) has many of the same issues even though you've identified it as a scientific field.

That said, as someone who's been a practicing archaeologist, I would agree that it's not entirely scientific, but only because the interesting questions in it often aren't answerable in a scientific framework.
Montana, ND and Wyoming are pretty seriously different than Norway or New Zealand.
> It was. There was affirmative action for "ethnic minorities" too. Source: born and raised in the USSR.

Can you please link an authoritative source for this?

Edit: found an authoritative source, no air quotes. https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/rightsviews/2017/11/07/sovie...
The entire thing looks like a successful attempt to get standing to sue Apple for their anti-competitive actions, and you know, get some free PR while you do what you need to do to make millions more dollars because why not.
Brendan Eich originally wanted Netscape's scripting language to be a Scheme dialect, but suits forced him to use Java/C-like syntax instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Netscape_and_Java...
You can literally disable it by setting the assistant app to "None".
>You're not going to get within a thousand miles of monetizing the ecosystem by gatekeeping it -- the moment you even so much as assert the position of gatekeeper you're trying to create for yourselves you're dead to me.

On the other hand, at that point they might finally be a great option for millions of Windows / macOS users...
They botched that too. On mobile (web), even if I request the desktop site and set it to the old version in my settings, always goes to the redesign. I have to manually change any link's subdomain to old.

The Reddit apps I've tried stick to the meth-addled idea to use fixed floating header bars, which are useless and really annoy me.
I think in the last thread a bunch of people were adamant Google wasn't a monopolist because plenty of phones shipped with app stores outside of Play. Seems like Google picks and chooses which of those are okay.

It's time to stop lying: Google will absolutely abandon every single rule in the book to ensure they get 30% of Fortnite purchases. It's too lucrative, and Google is too greedy.

This has nothing to do with safety or security. It has nothing to do with playing fair and following their terms. It's about the money.
Interesting that AT&T and Samsung can collude to pre-install AT&T and Samsung bloat on my Galaxy S7 Edge Android device, but Fortnite couldn't collude with OnePlus to pre-install bloat?

(Yes, I see that the carrier and the #1 Android phone seller are involved in one case and not the other, so the Samsung bloat is the more interesting case. If OnePlus were to write its own bloat-ware or acquire/merge-with Epic, would they be allowed to pre-install?)
> My guess, and hope, is that Epic takes Apple to the cleaners.

They're not asking for money, they're just asking for an order ordering Apple to stop their anti-competitive behavior with the app store and with payments. No cleaners are likely to be involved in this process win or lose.
Considering how old the software we used was it definitely could run well on a laptop. However it does mean you have to manage the battery life on a lot of different laptops versus one central area.
So you think Nintendo, Xbox, Playstation, etc. should also have to allow third-party stores on their devices?

EDIT: Or do you think you should be able to buy iOS apps in brick-and-mortar stores?
My friends in the trades have used the word fairly regularly. I'd say yes.
They are slowly coming back online. I'm assuming it is a network problem, because not all of mine were down. Also doesn't seem it was just Microsoft at least according to Down Detector https://downdetector.com/
I tend to agree with this. I found a lot of the arguments from the article for her being "African-American" unconvincing.

From one perspective, I suppose one could make the argument that most "African-Jamaicans" would hold a similar distinction to "Africa-Americans" in that they share a common lineage. If you transitively apply that shared property, perhaps you could say that she's an African American "once removed" or whatever you want to call it. Although I'm not really sure how convincing I find that either.

What I wonder—is this distinction important one way or another to actual African Americans? Or is this actually just a contrived political battle?
Replace White with European and it's comparable to saying Asian.
Sure but in C you usually do that explicitly, on purpose. Here it's almost certainly not what you wanted or expected.. Also, C is 20-30 years older and I don't think I've ever read anyone really compliment its type system in any way other than saying it's simple.
I've had Android phones exclusively for at least 8 or 9 years, use Photos, and have no idea what you mean by the DELETE MEME thing. What is that?
I recall once having a conversation with someone working on computer vision at Facebook, and they mentioned that the company had spent a considerable amount of talent & resources trying to get this feature to work cleanly and they did not get past the uncanny valley problems.
3m06s to 3m15s seemed a bit cheesy and stagey
A retired teacher tangles with Verizon over an outdated phone and nearly $1k
Power And Performance Optimization At 7/5/3nm
Yale reports statistics based on these “buckets” on their own website - https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts (you have to scroll down to the section labelled “University-wide Enrollments by Ethnicity (% of non-international enrollment)” and click to expand it)

You think, if Yale publishes these statistics on their website, that Yale’s admissions officers aren’t thinking about them during the admissions process?
Everything is working fine for me (from India). Able to access outlook, teams and Azure resources.

Could it be ISP issue in any region?!
Yes, the norm everywhere is 30%. It's 30% on Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo eShop, etc. Only Epic's store is less (12%).

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/07/report-steams-30-cut...
Air conditioning will become much less of a luxury as the climate warms. Even in the past decade, summer temperatures high enough (especially indoors) to pose a health threat have become an increasingly regular occurrence in many parts of the world. Worse, some places are approaching the point where the confluence of air temperature, humidity, wind, and sun intensity will raise temperatures above the 35 degrees C wet bulb limit for human survival. In these conditions, air conditioning will not be a luxury but rather an essential life support system. Plans for climate-compatible energy use will need to take increasing needs for AC into account.

Sourcing: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/climate-deadly-extreme-t...
Chattanooga most likely. My company is doing 85% base salary with no adjustment to RSUs. Tennessee is a great place to save money due to 1) no state income tax, 2) no capital gains taxes, and 3) low cost of living. I estimate I’ll be able to save ~$100k more per year than I currently am in the Bay Area. Plus Chattanooga is known for having some of the fastest internet in the country, rolled out by the city a few years ago. Signal Mountain has great schools for when my kids are older, and it doesn’t hurt that it’s a naturally beautiful place as well (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/66/c2/24/66c22405229f125fea23...).

I’d really like to move to Asheville or Charleston, but the taxes make it a bit too much of a premium over Chattanooga.
The Left here, checking in.
No we don't.
In the same way that the The Right, are not literally Nazis.
All fine for me. In Mountain View, CA.
I don't get how any of this relates to anti-competition, since Fortnite doesn't compete with Apple, and is using and capitalizing on the money making potential of the app store (and refusing to pay the fees). Meanwhile Apple's actual competition in the App store market does the exact same ban... In an actual court of law (rather than court of public opinion) there is no way Epic will win especially since Google took the same stance.

At the end of the day Fortnite/Epic is just trying to maximize their shareholder value in leveraging lower/no fees from Apple for a revenue source for them that is frankly optional (iOS/Google Play are just two platforms they can choose to offer their app, and there is competition from the Windows and macOS platforms as well which do not charge these fees). Even if Epic wins you're still not going to jailbreak your phone and install malware the way you really want to.

The "anti-competition" platform is great because consumers just want to install random apps on their phones, but we bought our iPhones/Google phones knowing the app store was restricted to those who paid... we still did it.
I would bet that out of mobile users, the majority of them are on iOS. That’s because 90% of kids and teens are on iOS and not Android.

I’ve read it a number of times but here’s the top link from today’s search for this - https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/08/iphone-apple-watch-teen-surve...
An example: I interviewed an underrepresented minority student from Stanford. He was bright but obviously only understood computing from what was taught in class. So he didn’t do that well in the interview. If it were up to me, I would still have brought him in as an intern. However, the company did not move forward. Under their criteria, they wouldn’t move forward because the student would not have been able to contribute. The company should have changed the criteria to look for raw ability instead of realized ability and to look to nurture the next generation rather than feeding its hiring pool directly.
Can confirm, see same outage -- started about 20 minutes ago (US East).
It would be pretty interesting if all Google had asked was to reduce the apk size by 10%.
Not sure what you think this shows, but there's a lot of reasons why the results they show don't really matter much - or at least might actually reflect an accuracy approximatly what a human would also achieve.

Their headline claim is a "1 pixel change reduces accuracy by 30%". The test process for that number is this:

We choose a random square within the original image and resize the square to be 224x224. The size and location of the square are chosen randomly according to the distribution described in (Szegedy et al., 2015). We then shift that square by one pixel diagonally to create a second image that differs from the first one by translation by a single pixel.

So... they are taking a random square, downsampling to 224, moving and then predicting on that subset of the original image, and measuring the performance against the accuracy of the original prediction.

What this seems to show is that "CNNs aren't as accurate at making predictions on subsets of an image as on the whole image". This is of course to be expected, and is exactly how a human would perform.

There are a bunch of other criticisms too.

Read the ICLR (for which it was rejected) reviews: https://openreview.net/forum?id=HJxYwiC5tm
> Apple has more than double the market share of it's next biggest competitor

Source? The sources I’ve seen has Samsung much closer to Apple than that (30-35% vs 40-45%).
I'm not affected at all lol.
> Amazon blends the inventory together (WHY??)

Because people don’t throw money at Amazon if they can’t because they’re out of stock.

> good sellers get horrible reviews on their product because others ship and commingle crap fake stuff

There are many solutions that Amazon could have pursued but that’s not something you can leave to "move fast and break things".
Except it didn't. People wish that this was true, for lots of freedom related reasons. But it's not. The proof is pretty clear in the situation we're seeing now; if you actually controlled your iPhone, you and Epic could decide not to involve Apple. You cannot do that.