skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that is how it works presently in the US. Nonetheless, parent's comment is interesting to consider. Why is it that way? Why don't Subaru etc just set a price, you buy the car, and be done with it? The answer is either that it works better or that it's too hard to change. The latter explanation seems facile; with so much money, people and tech involved, it seems likely that the status quo would have already changed to having fixed prices.

Years ago, Saturn dealerships sold new cars at a fixed price. No negotiations. I considered one and rejected it as the price seemed too high. Didn't even talk to a sales rep. The current car sales regime nearly forces me to talk to somebody, and then they can hound me until I buy or they give up.

It might be possible for car manufacturers to motivate sales through some other means, but apparently this way works, no matter how sucky it is.
That's because it wasn't till the 1950s that this became common: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/17/realestate/streetscapes-c...

A big mistake, in my opinion. If anything good can come of COVID, it's taking back this incredibly expensive real estate that we give out for free. Yes, free. No permits needed.
Apple and Google are totally not acting like a cartel.
I definitely have looked into Norway, though it is one of the most expensive places to live.
You are right, navigating through the eco-system is the challenge for digital health solutions. We are current in hybrid mode, D2C and B2B2C. We are a digital clinic, so we are handling the insurance, not our physicians.
Thanks for introducing a new (to me) idea. I didn't watch the video but I felt the write-up could have been more cohesive. Perhaps just a conclusion to tie all the ideas together. I'm also left wondering why we would use this WME approach over other document embedding techniques (averaging word vectors, paragraph vectors, smooth inverse frequency weighting, etc). Is it faster, gives better similarity estimates, etc.?
This American Life had a great episode called "129 Cars" about the overall dealership phenomenon.

> We spend a month at a Jeep dealership on Long Island as they try to make their monthly sales goal: 129 cars. If they make it, they'll get a huge bonus from the manufacturer, possibly as high as $85,000 — enough to put them in the black for the month. If they don't make it, it'll be the second month in a row. So they pull out all the stops.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/513/129-cars
I don't use those products, they only work for very specific types of queries. While I expect they will make it more broadly useful, I don't see it replacing content sites altogether.
I’ve always been curious about the fake-fish situation but it feels like there’s nothing I can do about it. It would be neat if I could get a cheap little pocket-sized DNA tester that I could test fish with. AFAICT the technology isn’t quite there yet but maybe future generations will be able to DNA test their food as casually as I would snap a picture with my phone.
That was "Windows RT" (not to be confused with "WinRT").
Hawaii if flying didn't feel risky(virus) and logistics were easier. The 2 week quarantine makes a hard move harder. I'm not sure I actually want to be in a hotel. I am "settling" lol for Santa Cruz. I really thought I wanted to live in so cal for awhile too but watching the reactions to blm and covid makes me second guess that. Actually made me really unsure where I might want to live. Also thought about Florida in the future.
We should be focusing more on not touching our faces and keeping a sufficient distance over masks.

People seem to treat masks like a plus 2 magic item in the game of Pandemic. Once they have one on, they think they are exempt from the need to keep their distance. They also tend to touch their face more, not less, because they fiddle with it etc.

I had some utter and complete asshole blow his nose under his mask standing next to me in a store. I think "don't blow your nose in a crowded public space" would be a vastly superior rule to "wear a mask."
Fortnite is currently unavailable on Google Play
Do you have any idea how much utter garbage Google forces vendors to ship with a phone simply to have access to a web browser and the Play store?

Or perhaps you're one of the lucky few who haven't been woken at 4am to an urgent notification:

"YOUR PHONE HAS TOO MANY MEMES. WOULD YOU LIKE TO DELETE MEMES?"

Prohibitions on bloatware, my arse!
It's a shame PHP borrowed so much from Perl but not separate "eq" and "==" operators that coerce to string and number before comparing. I want always one or always the other, not both unpredictably.
Just in case you are serious about having a messiah complex, I am prone to having a messiah complex, thanks to schizoaffective disorder. It took me a while to figure out which medications actually help me, without too many unpleasant side effects, but I am very grateful to have discovered the cocktail that works for me now.
North.
Apple has 49-65% of the phone+tablet market in the USA. People keep forgetting it's irrelevant if Android is more popular the world over. Countries only bring anti-monopoly decisions based on their country's market, not the world market.

Further, the market for "smartphones" is not Apple vs Google. It's Apple vs Samsung vs Motorola vs LG vs Sony. Those are smartphone makers. At the 50%+ marketshare, Apple has more than double the market share of it's next biggest competitor.

Further, as pointed out elsewhere you don't have to have a monopoly for being sued for anti-competitive behavior.
I've been less sick this year than most. I'll probably continue wearing a mask on public transit at the very least. I'm not quite clear what your hope is about the normalcy of being germy and ill, but I think that statistically, we must accept that any group of 1000 people will certainly have somebody asymptomatic but shedding some virus or another. Just as the younger generation is more accepting of wearing gloves/condoms during sex where they receive proper sex ed, wearing masks may continue to be seen as a common sense measure for the foreseeable future.
Entirely fair, the comment was a bit of a snipe and for that I apologize.

There is definitely more of a "community" aspect around gaming, wherein everyone wants to get the midnight release or download the DLC the moment it is ready -- I can see how that creates technical differences in terms of the value console platforms may deliver to a developer.

I would be unkind, though, if I didn't say there does seem to be a rough equivalence. The value provided might be different, but we can clearly see the lines get more blurry with hybrid devices like the Nintendo Switch.

I would assume Epic is targeting Google and Apple because they have much higher gross margins on services (I think 60-70%, which is pretty normal for SaaS, vs around 30% for something like Xbox Live), plus the additional scrutiny mobile phones are under in general. Probably makes the case much easier. The cut does seem pretty hefty when considering most of that money is just going straight into profit margin. Irrespective, I wouldn't be surprised if decisions in the mobile realm find there way as precedent in other, similar cases.
I'm on my way to look up DKIST, but after SOHO, it's hard to imagine needing ground based solar observatories. Of course, SOHO will eventually come to end of mission, so we definitely need other observatories. It's just the SOHO imagery is stellar.
That's called an oligopoly and falls under the same rules as monopolies
Almost, but not exactly. If you import a Python file you get exactly what's in that file. A stored proc is not tied to a file- you can change the file and forget to update the proc, or change the proc without updating the file.
Really excited to try this out. I work in document capture and the products that the company I work for offers have absolute garbage "machine learning" capabilities. If this works well it could save us a lot of time building out our complex rules for extracting Invoice data.
Very solid analysis. And it doesn’t even cover payment fraud, support, and legal costs. I have friends involved with Xbox at Microsoft and they have to do an extraordinary amount of research for rights holders in older games when doing compatibility updates.
Epic is not a virtuous actor since it basically promotes exclusivity - we have seen that for a number of games, and more recently with Rocket League.

Steam, for example, does no do that: you can sell your game on Steam and outside of Steam at the same time and Valve will have no problem with it.
And because of the great effectiveness of the American government, MS lost their dominance in the PC operating system market and rank nowhere near the top five most valuable companies in the US like they did 20 years ago.
On HN we go by article quality, not site quality. The big sites all have occasional good stuff among reams of...less good stuff.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Hardware/OS vendors should not be allowed to include app stores out of the box, much less prevent sideloading.

We'd be nowhere near where we are today if PCs couldn't run Linux, and earlier PCs couldn't run whatever you wanted from a floppy.

The fact that consumers are lazy and stores are easy shouldn't prevent decisions beneficial to everyone.
As meta, I suggest most everyone is vastly underestimating the magnitude of potentially transformative improvement being left on the table by current science education. But that's a discussion for another time.
As another outsider looking in I've been shocked lately by the state governors. I thought Trump was aberration, but seeing how many mini trumps are running states shows that he is more of the norm than I ever realized. If I was in one of the saner parts of the country I'd be joining secessionist movements, they country just seems ungovernable as is.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.12177.pdf

I only read the abstract.
Major Microsoft Outage
Xbox Live And Teams are down. Not sure what else is affected.
I'd argue that high socioeconomic people on these selection boards would be likely to select high socioeconomic students. The sports, hobbies, etc will all be familiar. This isn't a "white" issue.
All Microsoft services appear to be down
My Azure services are down, Bing isn't working, Office isn't working, MSN isn't working, Xbox Live is down. Seems like a major outage of Microsoft services.
This is not really relevant, but I found body building made me a better programmer.

I'm not sure if it's just healthy body healthy mind, or building up discipline, or something else.

I'm not much of a body builder compared to most, mind you, but I keep at it.
This was on HN previously, and one stood out to me, there was a single family house (Either New York or Kings county), it had a small yard, the only change was one of the corners was converted from a bathroom to an entrance I think. All else has remained the same.
I hope Epic wins this. I would buy from Apple again if they would open their platforms. I think it's ridiculous that when I was working on an app, the app would expire after a week unless I paid them more money for the privilege of keeping an app I wrote on a phone I paid for. Nevermind software other people made that I should be free to choose to run.
> Better systems for preventing transmission of disease generally as our cultural default.

That's a great way to turn our immune systems to rubbish. In a normal set of circumstances, we get sick and we recover. After a lot of these long-term lockdowns end, I think you're going to see a lot of people getting sick from regular bacterial infections at a higher rate.

Look at what happened when peanuts were removed from a lot of schools in the US to help kids with peanut allergies. More kids developed peanut allergies due to not having exposure (see Coddling of the American Mind)
There's no new tatic, it's just adjusting to a different communication style.

What boggles me is the lady who drove the Lincoln and tried the Wrangler. The salesman should have suggested a different vehicle.
I guess it depends on what you mean by “all”?

I did it with a cup of boiling water and most of it fell back down as water.
If it were just me and I could go anywhere:

In US, I would get somewhere with a lot of land. Montana, ND, Wyoming, something like that.

Outside US, Probably Norway for a while. Would also love to try out New Zeland or SE Asia.
>I'm surprised this was 44 against 1 in the vote. Seems like it's very likely to cause issues.

On the other hand, seems very much like the kind of crap that you're better to rip the band-aid and fix, than to keep for an eternity lest the fix causes issues...

>Or just deprecate "==" for "===".

As if this would cause less issues?
I was kind of expecting that this was going to demo some step forward, but this has all the same tells has the last several high profile deepfake demos.

> Voice is clipped

> Chin

> head bobbing
My salary as a CEO was only $1 last year, therefore my children need access to this school.
No nationalistic flamebait here please.

No regional flamebait either for that matter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, in C you can cast any random set of bytes to an int, so there's that...
I keep wondering how I can Man-in-the-High-Castle my way back to the timeline where Scheme replaces HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Also where Al Gore wins the 2000 election.
The goal has shifted. The lockdowns and extreme shutdowns were in an effort to keep hospital resources from becoming overridden thus causing even more death.

The new goal of attempting to prevent the actual transmission of the disease itself has been disastrous.
And conventional current doesn’t exist because electrons are what’s really moving. It’s still not a bad mental shortcut.
"Why the ship came so close to the lagoon is not clear and is being investigated by police."

(from the article)
That’d work great for many sites, but you’d lose a lot of the dynamism that makes the web so great.

I think a compromise solution would be to extend the ADA to cover websites, so companies have to produce sites that can be understood by screen readers and other assistive devices. That would more or less give you the outcome you want, but without the need for a prescriptive solution.
Probably Porto, Portugal.
I agree very much with this idea. I'm working on bootstrapping a body building hard company at the moment.

I'm not exactly sure how it will play out, and it sure isn't easy. But I'm chipping away at it day after day and I'm confident I can make a living at it.
> Tens of thousands of developers owe their livelyhood to Jobs' vision. They get to make apps and everything else, all because Steve created platforms and ecosystems that would sustain an entire industry.

That's typically a broken window fallacy. You can't take this a proof of anything because you do not know what the world would have looked like if Apple did not exist - such developers could have gone and made other things on other platforms as well. A great artist will be able to produce great work even if they have to use spaghetti instead of paint. Tools are just tools.
I just found out about Laravel Mix a month or so ago so I'm not sure. They are customized @vue/cli configs:

Main UI: https://github.com/rundeck/rundeck/blob/main/rundeckapp/grai...

Component lib: https://github.com/rundeck/rundeck/blob/main/rundeckapp/grai...

Storybook: https://github.com/rundeck/rundeck/blob/main/rundeckapp/grai...
PNG is one of those places I'd love to go but I'm afraid that my white skin would just put a target on my back. Port Morseby is literally a 3 hour flight from where I live(brisbane) but it seems more than a world away.
It's just two lines of JavaScript to call into wasm: 1 line to load the wasm, another to call a function in it.

This adds latency, and is easily replaced by a single tag.
I'm trying to parse if you're going after OnePlus, because they build pretty solid phones.

Now of we we're taking about carriers we'd have a different conversation but as someone who's seen a lot of the mobile industry OnePlus is pretty decent on the bloatware in my book.
Which apps specifically do you classify as "utter garbage"? Looking at my OnePlus, I can't see anything I'd call that. The most annoying part is that I can't completely uninstall Duo and Chrome, but neither one is on a garbage level, I just prefer alternatives. Otherwise... I think I used pretty much every other default app.
Same here, everything is down. Azure, Office, Bing, etc.
I think the analogy between mods and refs is a good one (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).

I don't follow sports that do instant replays but I'd expect that people don't agree about them anyway.

The best way to signal fairness is to find a thread like a butterfly option where you can scold one of each side. Readers are alert to that and they love it. Everyone feels reassured that things are fair. That would be analogous to a ref giving a penalty to each side. It's not always possible, of course, and when the scolding is one-sided people will automatically assume that you secretly favor the other team.
An AI can't fake a speech about a subject they never spoke about... yet. Though, to be honest, I think it wouldn't be hard.

1) Collect a corpus of speeches.

2) Use style-synthesis techniques, just like in the art-style synthesis demos.

3) Input a speech about a spaceship disaster and run it in the "style" of Nixon.
I don't know what to say to you that could possibly convince you otherwise. but if you actually believe this you are a complete tool.

You don't have to vet every single program on a computer to prevent the use of peripherals like GPS and cameras. you could just make a feature of the operating system that lets the user control what programs have access to peripherals and when.

And another thing: if your argument is that people are too dumb to know how to use a computer, then they shouldn't rely on computers at all! children shouldn't even be using smartphones in the first place. but I suppose that's a separate argument entirely.
Sure. We are always germy. But if you feel explicitly under the weather and you have to go out to the store to pick up something, it would be great if you wore a mask - even if it isn't covid times.

I've never done that. I've always just gone to the store. I didn't even really think about it, like of course I'm not going to be wiping my nose and touching things, but I'm also not sanitizing my hands the instant I walk into a grocery story - something I now do every single time.

I do wonder what the effect would be of just having sick people wear masks when they go out?
> As a bonus, when the next pandemic hits and everyone is panicking for a roll of toilet paper, you can rest easy knowing you have enough for a year or more.

And make money on Ebay :)
Curious why Norway? Which city?
Regarding your first point, the likelihood of a given infectious disease propagating is partly related to the susceptibility of the population. That’s what makes a novel coronavirus so much more likely to become a pandemic.

We know, for example, that cross-immunity from other coronavirus strains do provide some level of immunity to SARS-CoV-2.

Another area of study is how decreased exposure to diverse set of microbes can result in increased incidence of autoimmune disease, and asthma.

While one angle to reduce the spread of disease is to prevent exposure, the other equally important angle is to avoid infection even with exposure (immunity).

I’d be very cautious about recommending population wide masking for extended periods. Our immune systems function by being constantly exposed and tested, and the system can break down if it isn’t provided with a diverse set of challenges to strengthen and build up immunity.

For your second point, I strongly agree that western medicine is particularly inept at providing care beyond treating acute symptoms, particularly chronic/sub-chronic conditions that tend to describe “how we all feel” and that don’t come with a definitive diagnostic test to reference in an insurance claim.
The way things were in the early days is if you wanted rich interactivity you used Flash, or a Java applet. The rather standard and boring 'web page' still hosted it, but the rich features were to be provided by the applet/plugin.

This was both worse and better. Better because it retained the notion of the web as a hypertext system -- not a networked magazine or TV -- worse because what happened in that (usually poorly implemented) little box was its own world outside of the rest of the page.

I don't like the present web stack, but I don't have any particular fondness for the mid-90s one I worked on, either.
Because of the effectiveness of the US government, MS wasn't able to behave anti-competitively and other platforms were able to take root. Today, MS is still one of the most valuable companies in the world, but the overall technology landscape is more diverse.

It's hard to say for sure what would have happened without the antitrust case, but from where I sit, the government accomplished exactly what they set out to do, and just about everyone has benefited as a result.
This reads as pre-planned and co-ordinated to me. My guess is Apple will soon introduce some reduction of platform fees as long as you comply to certain editorial standards in your app, and everybody will be happy.
"In this directory, we give a simple example of how to use the C++ Differential Privacy library.

Zoo Animals

There are around 200 animals at Farmer Fred's zoo. Every day, Farmer Fred feeds the animals as many carrots as they desire. The animals record how many carrots they have eaten per day. For this particular day, the number of carrots eaten can be seen in animals_and_carrots.csv.

At the end of each day, Farmer Fred often asks aggregate question about how many carrots everyone ate. For example, he wants to know how many carrots are eaten each day, so he knows how many to order the next day. The animals are fearful that Fred will use the data against their best interest. For example, Fred could get rid of the animals who eat the most carrots!

To protect themselves, the animals decide to use the C++ Differential Privacy library to aggregate their data before reporting it to Fred. This way, the animals can control the risk that Fred will identify individuals' data while maintaining an adequate level of accuracy so that Fred can continue to run the zoo effectively.

The animals have implemented a CarrotReporter tool in animals_and_carrots.h to obtain DP aggregate data to report to Fred. We document one of these reports in report_the_carrots.cc."

Tech companies love to use that line, "We take privacy seriously."

That seriousness is certainly reflected in this example, which appears to compare users with zoo animals, tended to by a "farmer".

If Fred is anything like Google, he wants this per animal carrot consumption data for some other reason(s) besides simply ordering more carrots.

This example makes privacy sound like some sort of resource allocation problem. What is the minimum carrots we must provide in exchange for animal data.

What if the animals are not "fearful that Fred will use the data against their best interest" but instead they know Fred is using the data for reasons other than ordering more carrots, profiting from that use and not sharing any of the profits.
> Epic stated that they want to create their own separate app store outside of apple, but are unable to because apple does not allow sideloading.

That argument would ring less hollow had they done that on the platform that does allow side loading, but they eventually published on the Google Play store.
Uber says its drivers make $55,000 a year, but some critics cry ‘phoney-baloney’
To me it feels just poor wording, like often in the app store.
I have a permanently compromised immune system. I don't live in a bubble. The degree to which my life revolves around germ control is not immediately apparent to most people.

Suffice it say that I don't agree with you. At all.