skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well... the protests are (initially) about police violence. Too much police vigor in controlling them is likely counterproductive. But ignoring the violent element within the protestors also isn't a good idea. But if the police are going to do anything about the violent ones among the protestors, it almost certainly is going to have to involve an element of violence. That creates more claims of police violence, and more videos, which leads to more protests...

This creates a very difficult environment for law enforcement. It's not completely clear what the best strategy is for dealing with all this.
Anyone who’s read Babar the Elephant knows that trick :-)

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The state has its own interests and does far more than just protect the people. Also in places like Portland a great deal of the destruction is coming from the state via the police. The state is not a benign entity here to protect us but a powerful force with its own motivations. I learned a lot about this from listening to talks by Noam Chomsky but there’s other authors that talk about this if he’s not your type.
Reminds me of a program I read about a while ago in Iraq. Planes would circle cities with a camera and some huge hard drives installed. If an IED went off they would rewind the tapes, and watch every stop the people who planted it went through before and after planting the bomb. From that they could unwind very complex networks of insurgent activity. The equipment was mostly off the shelf, and relatively cheap.
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My prior in such a situation would be to assume that "stealing userbase" is very hard. It depends on the kind of application, of course, but once you have paying / committed user, I'd assume the friction to change (and natural risk/change aversion )would be in favor of the incumbent.

That being said, arriving afterwards with a message of "we're like X,but faster" could be a good marketing catch, but probably not for any kind of enterprise app. (The only good marketing catch in this case would be "we're like X, but cheaper.")

No idea how such an hypothesis could be tested. We would need records of user switching from an app to another.
Fundamentally, scale does matter.

If you have a small pub in the middle of nowhere you can be a selective as you want. If your pub chain feeds 50% of the people in the country you damn right will have to be heavily restricted in what you can do.

It doesn't matter if it's monopoly or not. After you cross a threshold the rules should be different and it's just amazing Apple has been allowed to grow so big with basically no oversight.
Imagine the wealth inequality this would lead to
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It's not false though? Games are a thing. In the sense of how systems run and how actors make decisions in it, not in terms of video games. Any change that makes it convenient to run a competing app store will almost certainly change the experience of using iOS, even for those who choose not to use an alternative app store.

If there's a way to allow easily & conveniently running one's own software without letting competing app stores work, I'm all for it. In fact there is a way to run your own software, it's just inconvenient, because time-limited so you have to re-install it periodically, which effectively kills any possibility of running a successful app store via that method.
If I wanted a PS4 game I could go to gamestop or walmart and buy it. I can buy games used. As closed as consoles are there's much more choice in where you get your software than iOS devices.
> It stings having to pay an extra $15k / yr, but for our kids learning and mental health I'd happily pay double.

Austinite here w/family in Dallas. Dallas is unusual compared to Austin/Houston in that nearly anyone coming from a wealthy family living in Dallas proper goes to private schools. I'm not from Dallas but have friends who attended Hockaday, Ursuline, Jesuit, and BL. I always thought it was really odd how many of them went to private school versus my Houston-area friends, who nearly all attended public schools in the suburbs, or one of the better inner-city public schools like Memorial or Lamar. Don't know as much about Austin but from what I hear the public schools here are pretty great too.
You're right in theory, but possibly not in practice.

Consider two vendors: A and G.

A provides a full walled garden.
G provides a walled garden, but lets you side-load whatever you like, you can ignore the apps in the garden.

Everyone making apps for A puts them in the walled garden, so if you own an A, you buy an app from the garden.

For G, vendors decide for themselves whether to use the walled garden. Many choose to sell direct and avoid both the markup and the hassle of getting their apps approved.

They also get to make even more money by embedding surveillance capitalism into their apps if they sell direct. Or include completely unmoderated and unregulated adtech.

As a user, isn't G better than A, since I have the choice?

It is better than A, provided that every app in A's walled garden is also in G's walled garden. However, if in practice the apps I want to use are in A's walled garden, but sold direct on G to avoid the 30% hit, then in practice, as a user, I am better off with A if what I want are apps from the walled garden.

Of course, I can always do my research to figure out whether a side-loaded app on G is safe to use. But if what I wanted was to buy apps without having to think about them, then I can be better off with A in practice even though in theory, G provides everything A provides, and more.

Now, is there really a problem getting all the apps I use on A from G's walled garden? I don't personally know, since I don't want to go to the trouble of sorting out what is available in G's store versus what I have to sideload. So there's plenty of room to argue that in practice, G is superior to A.

But I do not think it is necessarily superior.
a bit of recent history - in 1991 or 1992, soon after Ukraine independence a "train of friendship" - a train loaded with several hundreds of Western Ukrainian ultra-nationalists (many wearing insignia and uniforms of OUN-UPA - Ukraine nationalistic organizations which collaborated with Nazi and committed genocide of Polish and Jewish populations in Volyn region in order to make it majority Ukrainian territory) tried to come to Sevastopol. Combined police and Russian Navy forces blocked the train from coming into the city . Small group of the nationalists made their way into Sevastopol by boats, yet being mostly non-armed and outnumbered they could do nothing.

Things were different in 2014 when volunteer battalions of such nationalists were organized under the cover provided by the Ministry of Interior Affairs and thus were legally armed, and "the trains and buses of friendship" were about to go to Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. Well, they did still go to Eastern Ukraine while the Crimeans got lucky that Putin decided that it will boost his rating.
As long I own it the vendor should unlock it, it the past the phones were locked to work only with SIM cards from the provider you bought the phone, when the contract expired the phone still remained locked and you had to find someone to unlock it for you, Then (hope my memory is not mistaken) something changed(probably laws) so carriers had to provide you with a code to unlock your phone when the contract was over. I think should be the same with game consoles if and only if they are subsidized , when I paid the full price then is my hardware. Preventing piracy should not affect my property rights and hardware should not brick itself if somehow detects I want to use it as I want. If Sony does not like this they could rent me the hardware for cheap or free because the bastards are locking already online features behind subscriptions.
SF is a big city, #16 in list of most populous cities. There are eg 317 cities over 100k population in the US, and 466 50k-100k cities.

https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/best-small-cities-in... lots of cities on that list are <10k and almost all are <100k
Don't dismiss the idea for a shortage of imagination about the application.

If we had the technology, I imagine we'd also have the technology to forget some percentage of what we knew every year, or at some cadence.

Or perhaps better, forget everything to experience the world fresh, then at some point have previous knowledge restored and available for reintegration.

Perhaps you could merge conscious entities. Or divide them. Install experiences. Delete them.

Maybe an artificial god in the future can perfectly simulate the universe to recreate everyone who has ever lived and died. That would be so weird and amazing, or would really suck if they were malevolent.
> Everything costs money, so if you can "make more money out of the money you already have", then that's quite appealing. As if creating money out of money makes any mathematical sense.

Do you have a job? Does your employer make money? Aren’t they “making money out of money” by paying you?

The use of capital to generate wealth is one of the basic features of our society.
Reminded me of this:

"In the strict sense, it is not true that one's character is unchangeable; rather, this popular tenet means only that during a man's short lifetime the motives affecting him cannot normally cut deeply enough to destroy the imprinted writing of many millennia. If a man eighty thousand years old were conceivable, his character would in fact be absolutely variable, so that out of him little by little an abundance of different individuals would develop. The brevity of human life misleads us to many an erroneous assertion about the qualities of man."

- Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
As PyPI is not a curated repository, I don't see how that could be done.
The problem is that once you go down the streets dressed as a Batman to do justice, you'll find a villian dressed as a penguin

Apple store is not more secure because it's a walled garden, people will always find other ways to scam other people

Apple could just make sideload possible declining responsibility

It doesn't sound very hard to me, for a company like Apple which employ some of the best talents in the World
Unfortunately many of the people who've left San Francisco have moved to Austin and are enacting exactly the same policies. It's already created a dramatic shift in the city, and I can easily see Austin strongly resembling San Francisco from a quality of life / lawfulness perspective in just 5-10 years.
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Yaar, me too, but there is a process again to develop it, albeit in black and white. I still have some Kodachrome left over AND some Agfa Scala! My dad’s Kodachromes from the 50s are still perfect. I miss Cibachromes, though. The ultimate combination.

RVP50 is not good for people. Never was.
Speaking of FUD, come now. Me choosing to buy an Apple or recommend Apple to my family doesn't "make the entire society worse."
Why compare to Square's or Stripe's fee structure? It's ridiculous to claim "This means Apple's taking for themselves much closer to a 5% cut" as if Apple is paying a $0.29 processing fee per IAP.

If developers had a choice in payment processors, they could choose one with smaller minimum per-transaction fees, aggregate multiple payments from the same customer, try out subscriptions instead of microtransactions so the payment processor takes a smaller cut, etc...
Taking things one day at a time, and learning to be patient with everyone: the teachers, my kids, ourselves. We have shifted our kids' babysitter toward more teaching-assistant type duties.

Also, I'm trying use my free time to teach the kids intellectually stimulating stuff they wouldn't learn in a classroom - like how to play poker, how to calculate flooring area from an architectural plan, how a wall is constructed, basic chemistry while cooking in the kitchen.
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The world ruled by greed and cowardice. Russian regime could be taken down without any military involvement, applying solely economic measures like total oil and gas embargo. However, countries like Germany, sponsoring Nord Stream 2 and laundering money of Russian oligarchs in Deutsche Bank (really ashamed of this my CV record), keep this restored Neo-USSR safe and sound.
On the Mac, where the App store is not required, a great deal of software is not in the App store and as a result the user does not benefit from App Store policies for said software. By forbidding sideloading, it forces developers to meet the App Store standards or not play at all. There are developers whose software is present on the iOS app store but the companion Mac app is not.

I don't like the complete lockout either. I like being able to run my apps on my device. But it is most definitely true that the ability to sideload apps results, in practice, in some developers opting out of providing App Store protected apps in favor of asking you to sideload.
Entrepreneurship is far less free, too.

If you own a business, can you really just take two weeks off and ignore your customers?

Can you just clock out after 8 hours?

Can you get sick or go on maternity/paternity leave and just come back to work to a functioning business?

Salaried work is highly appealing. It really doesn’t have to feel like corporate slavery.
IDK. My prediction: Ad revenue peaked. COVID-19 is accelerating the decline. Google and others switched strategies to engagement and "rundles".
> So what? All markets work like this. Food prices go up whenever there fuel prices increase

If it were a monopoly then anti-competitive practices, that would result in price increases, would be illegal .

> Apple created this entire market

It doesn't matter if they created the whole market. That is completely irrelevant to the legality of anti-competitive practices. Now, they are a monopoly, and they are no longer to allowed to engage in anti-competitive behavior.

> they could've been far more anti-competitive than they are

The idea that they could do worse, is not an argument against something as for why it is not bad.

Apple could do many things that are worse than what they are doing now. Maybe, in the future they will hire assassins to kill anyone who does not own an iphone. But that hypothetical world, does not make the current world any better. It is not an excuse.

> Why should the free advertising, access to a market that has users that spend more on average, be free to anyone?

Because the purpose of laws are to help consumers, not to protect apple. The reason why the law should force apple to allow competitors, is because by doing this, this helps consumers.

> They had market dominance - Apple does not.

Apple absolutely has market dominance over apps that are sold on the iphone. They prevent competitors from running app stores on that platform.

This is a huge market.
Imagine trying to get ahead in the company when you're behind a 500 year old middle manager that isn't going to retire for another 999,500 years?

I'd think society would have a lot of trouble moving forward on issues when you don't have the great equalizer of the coffin to kill off old ideas.
Do you have an option (family, friends, whatever) to stay for a while somewhere else?

I have a kid in middle school. While it's less than perfect, it wasn't that bad even in peak lockdown. We have a big house with a big backyard and there are lots of big parks in town. If there is any possibility (even on a rental basis) to go to the middle of the country, you might look into that. (Don't worry, nobody's ever died of boredom from being more than 50 miles from the coast, in spite of what some might have told you.)
Humans are very adaptable. Society would no doubt look very different, but I also have no doubt that if it were physically possible to live a million years that our psyches would adapt.
I've been doing microprocessor stuff since the basic stamp 2 came out. (not that I'm an expert, I've just been fiddling over a long amount of time)

I know that previous me was very scornful of micropython (the original boards were pretty expensive and power hungry)

However, the ESP* and SAM21 microprocessors have changed my opinion. Yes python is still wasteful. but I can now operate in the microamps, and for less than £7

Not only that, these micro controllers has a wealth of documentation and addons.

I feel like I've discovered the arduino all over again.
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>Human brains are not evolved to handle a million years of noise and notifications.

Are you sure? I mean it could be argued we're not evolved to handle 50 years of noise and notifications given that we do not keep all that data but forget quite a bit of it. But then the response is that we handle it by forgetting it - what's the proof that the mechanisms that allow us to handle 50 years by forgetting will cease to work with significantly more data?
>Let me know if you'd like some recommendations.

I would be thankful. I appreciate your time.
The question above was about if something should be made illegal, not what the current state of affairs is.

Also i'm not arguing about who owns the software, i never asked for ownership of the software, i ask for being able to be in control of the software that runs in the hardware i do actually own. This does not require me owning the OS that runs in my hardware.

And yes, i'm sure someone would do the oven stuff if it was possible and making that illegal would also be something that would be needed.
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Me also. I don't want to spend another second of my life dealing with malware.
If it was clearly stated before I bought the oven that it was limited to a certain number of recipes that the manufacturer provided, I actually don’t see the problem. You knew from the start what you were paying for.

And for your complaint that all the other ovens are crap and explode. Shouldn’t you take that up with the people making those ovens, not the one that made the locked oven? Maybe it’s very very hard to make ovens that don’t explode from time to time when people can cook whatever they want in them?

If someone came after you paid them and said, btw, you can’t make muffins in this oven, then I think it’s fair to be upset. But in the current situation, no.
> "You can't argue that Prima Cinema should not be locked down (claiming anti-competitive behavior)"

Yes I can.

> because the paranoid film studios wouldn't even license their content if it wasn't

That's fine by me.
> we'd plop them in front of the TV then struggle pulling them away from it afterwards (google wifi is great for deus-ex-machina internet outages...).

I can totally relate. One day our kids will figure out that our fiber internet service is actually quite reliable, and that I've been using the ASUS router app to disconnect specific devices at needed times. My 9 year old is starting to suspect something is amiss. "Daddy, can you stop buying chromebooks? Maybe you should buy another brand. It stops working all the time but your computer never stops working."
> Apple created this entire market

Which market? 3rd party software on a computing device? Sorry, that was dozens of years prior. Packaged apps on a mobile device? Sorry, I had those on my Treo in 2001. They haven’t really created any market, they just created a software monopoly on their hardware using existing ideas.
> huggingface/transformers has a language-modeling example. It is full-featured but as a result also somewhat challenging to trace. E.g. some large functions have as much as 90% unused code behind various branching statments that is unsued in the default setting of simple language modeling.

I don't understand this criticism of Transformers. Doesn't tracing (in both TorchScript and ONNX forms, which Transformers supports for exporting) just take the relevant model graph and freeze it? I don't think either contains the somewhat-weighty performance code.
This is what screams "publicity stunt" to me. Especially the 2-tier pricing in the iOS app, whereas on consoles everyone[1] got the 20% discount even though Epic is still paying Sony/Microsoft their 30% cut.

[1] https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/the-fortnite-m...
A Sudoku Solver in APL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmT80OseAGs
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I dunno. I'd say it's rather obvious that it's not a magical solution to everything. For one, Elixir is too slow for computation-heavy stuff.

I just gave an example of how happy path programming works in a use case that is pretty common to my day to day. A lot of other stuff I do is similar enough that the same applies, and that's just my experience, not marketing hype.

Some articles might be a little over-excited, but I don't think I've generally read articles that claim Elixir is God's gift to programmers ;). And in situations where Elixir does help, it can be very exciting.
Everyone that plans on moving somewhere should do 1 of 2 things:

1. Not move there because of flight training schools.

2. Lobby to get the flight training school to practice over unpopulated areas.
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Back in the heyday of the Bell system, telephones were owned by the phone company and you leased them as part of your phone service. That’s why they were made of indestructible steel and you could hang up by slamming the handset down on the receiver at full force if you were really ticked off at a telemarketer or something. That also meant phone phreaks tampering with their own phones were in dubious legal territory because they didn’t own the phones.

I think people should have the freedom to consent to buy whatever products they like so long as the functionality of the product is not kept secret. They also should (and do) have the freedom to try and jailbreak it but not to the point of obligating the manufacturer to produce an open system. But even if there is some sort of law that you can’t sell closed-stack systems, you could just migrate everything to equipment leases. IMO this would make matters much, much worse for the consumer in terms of having control over their own equipment (though maybe some equipment would be made to last again).
Oh huh, I can totally see how that works but would not have predicted it/thought to check because it's not my blog. My apologies.
I am not a professional philosopher, so I will rely on the collected knowledge of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [0].

Of the logicians/computational theorists I mentioned, three have their own entries [1][2][3] and are each associated with their own philosophical bodies of work. Von Neumann lacks his own page, but makes up for it by being a recurring secondary character in stories of Russell and Gödel.

The QM physicists fare similarly, but are not credited as Great Men. I am okay with this. Bohr is discussed alongside his Copenhagen school [4], Heisenberg alongside his Uncertainty Principle [5]; but Pauli does not get a full page, being split between [4] and [6], a second Bohr page.

While I haven't shown that these folks are central to philosophy, I think that I've shown that some philosophers definitely consider them to be directly influential upon some part of the practice.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel/

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/

[3] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tarski/

[4] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-copenhagen/

[5] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-uncertainty/

[6] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bohr-correspondence/