skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spoiler alert: The whole realization is that the entire concept of you is artificial. The idea that there is an ever-present unchanging thing called "you" is fairly straightforward for the uninitiated to grasp. The idea that there is no "you" separate from "me" is harder— by a lot.

What attracted me to it was how well it blended in with our modern ideas in physics. Not just the idea that a wavefunction never dies to zero (unless there is a truly infinite potential somewhere), and that we are part of a large many-body system. But also the idea of the big-bang at the universes (re-?)conception: That spacetime itself started at a point and expanded. It is one thing- a big blob of clay- out of which lumps are formed. One is you and one is me. But we are connected. Your existence would be different if I didn't exist.

To kill the ego is to come to an intuitive understanding of this- by being aware and present.
Then he will certainly be able to say a measurement happened.

That’s something only conscious beings can do.
Keep in mind the best shark experts have no idea how sharks reproduce.
Because the cost of going to another platform is far higher than the cost of going to another physical store.

You don't invest ~$1000 to go to a physical store.
Came across this upcoming webinar on the topic: https://www.timescale.com/webinar/5-ways-to-improve-yourpost...
> right.. when someone eats at a place and gives it a number of stars rating how good it was, it tells you the same about how good it is as instagram marketing.

There are distinct demographic trends in online reviews activity that are broadly similar to those involved in instagramming meals, which makes the biases in using aggregate ratings similar to those in favoring Instagram or marketing targeting the same demographic, yes.

(You can get better information from online reviews, but it takes more than blindly following aggregate ratings.)
... in a function having the same name, with a goto to an identical label name, and an error message string literal with exactly the same text, all in a file also named pch.c ...
The engine is open source isn't it? They can't stop you from downloading the source and compiling it, right?
I'm a little confused at the current situation in the US. It seems in the UK that the priority will be to get schools back full time in September. My kids have been in school 2 days for the last few weeks before summer and just had a couple of days in a tennis camp. Are most US schools going remote for the foreseeable future?

I'm a single parent so have been working a full time software architect job from home while looking after the kids 3 days a week. To start with we did quite a lot of learning but it dropped off to survival half way through lockdown, they were 4 and 6 so couldn't work independently. It's been a tough year so feeling pleased we've done as well as we have. I really feel getting the kids back in some kind of social environment with some kind of education is an absolute priority for us right now. Let's see what happens!
Methane is a lot more powerful of a greenhouse gas than CO2. Turning CO2 from the atmosphere back into CO2 is net even. Turning CO2 into methane is net-bad.
That sounds odd. I work at a hospital and if you're not patient facing or need some sort of specialized equipment then you're at home, likely through the end of the year if not longer.

Running into a store for 10 minutes is very different from spending 8 hours in an enclosed space.
People can have devices without explicitly choosing them, or understanding the consequences if they get to have a choice, and the rights of those people are needlessly restricted.
To be charitable:

If the only people arguing about this lawsuit fell into either my camp or yours (ericmay's), I'd be a lot less irritated about this whole debate.

I fundamentally disagree with you, but at least your arguments are relatively internally consistent. At least I understand where you're coming from.

Give me a hundred people saying, "I like Apple being a dictator", just get rid of all the awful arguments about how, "there is no right side, and both of them are in the wrong."

I couldn't care less whether or not people like Epic in particular. If you spend all of your time getting picky about who can and can't advocate for you, then eventually people will stop advocating for you altogether.
> And this is not illegal.

Maybe it should be. This isn't just about Apple. It's about all e-waste as well.

The idea that I can't do anything with a perfectly workable device once the company providing software to it cuts it off is ridiculous.

How much waste are we producing because we think the company that made a physical device should have 100% say on what happens on said physical device?
kinda of like avoiding any opportunist predator
spammer, hacker, advertising ...
If you do anything chances are really good they will just move one to something that is not.
Well it's what it is up front.
A games consoles plays games and streams some video.

A mobile phone is a camera, gps, web browser, telephone, messaging, food delivery, music listening, video watching, taxi calling, banking tool etc etc etc device.

living your life, Apple and Google get 30% of your transactions.
For OLTP, COW is horrible. For OLAP it's usually fine. I've had good results with Postgres and ZFS with LZ4 compression.
> America is great. Online gambling is illegal but you can have an app to punt the market all day

Not all day. If you have less than 25k you are subject to pattern day trading restrictions.

I guess, if you have money, anything goes.
I think the reason most WISP's are done with industry-grade receivers/transmitters (like Unifi) is the bandwidth/speed limitations of LoRa. I think, for the most part, LoRa is used mainly for remote monitoring and other low-bandwidth applications. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
That's not what the parent said.
There is no panic about the (US) Post Office. The agency is under concerted attack by the President's men, and has already suffered serious damage. The President has explained in detail that a well-operating Post Office would prevent his re-election by delivering mail-in ballots favoring his opponent, and has acted to stop it.
Why haven't we celebrated any major achievements lately?
well maybe the digital word needs Georgism too. The OP is exactly right, what Apple is doing is nothing else than the digital equivalent of extracting land rents.

If Apple, Google et al want to have control over their digital domains honestly instead of breaking them up let's just socialise the economic rents, or cap it at 2% or whatever.
Dynamodb Streams to Algolia
So, if they started renting the phone to you and everybody else, having a single Apple-controlled App Store would be acceptable?

(That may not even be 100% hypothetical. They have lots of money, so can afford getting delayed payment for phones. They might even be able to become a global phone company, too, and rent you a phone and a network subscription)
Agreed re: OpenAI's GPT implementation. It took roughly a year to appreciate how simple it is. https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/0574c5708b094bfa0b0f6df...

Especially compared to StyleGAN, BERT, or pretty much anything else.

I used to hate the OpenAI GPT codebase: zero comments? no classes? What does "mlp" even mean? But over time, I find myself reverting to their style.
>you're frightened that another company might get control and... offer better terms than we have right now?

While some people here might fall for this simple propaganda, I doubt the courts will.

It is totally expected of Epic that they will at the same time make the claim about "freedom" and "choice" while signing exclusive deals so that customers are required to install the Epic store if they wish to play certain games.

If the real issue is my freedom, then let me play Fortnite on the App store thanks. But it's not about my freedom. It's about your $$$.

You're certainly free to do so, and free to say whatever bullshit you think will help you, but you're not going to get a free pass from everybody here.

>What specifically is the horror scenario that you're frightened of?

Really? What sort of horror scenarios have happened with game installers on PCs and Android? Root kits. Spyware. Password capture. Camera activation.

And you know this, so all you are doing is letting us know that you think we are stupid.
Apple Damage Control team working hard here.
How to Drop Out
Apple’s argument was what was in their TOS and acting on it. I don’t know what they would say apart from that? Open question now is whether their TOS violates any law, since law > TOS.
Office = building
a lot of the backlash is a byproduct of the name and the marketing. i don't think anyone is arguing that splitting things into services isn't ever a good idea. lots of companies were doing it before anyone had ever said the word "microservices". then the microservices people came along and created this false dichotomy of monoliths vs microservices when in reality it's a spectrum. what happened to regular old not-so-micro services? it would be like if a nosql database added sql functionality but flipped the order of the clauses around and called it lqs instead, and then claimed it was the greatest thing since sliced bread and raved about how much better than sql it is. that is what people are reacting against.

that and junior developers reading about microservices and deciding that regexservice needs to be a thing.
So I recently built a living room gaming PC. Installed Steam, Epic Store, GOG, Origin, XBOX, Rockstar Social Club, even Twitch. Pretty much anything where I have a library of games. And let me tell you, what a pain in the ass it is!

I keep all the games organized in Playnite. If I try to launch Epic games from Playnite, most of the time nothing happens. So I start the epic client and... oh look, it logged me out again. So now to play Maneater or whatever I have to log into my password manager with its complicated passphrase from a tiny HTPC keyboard, grab the password, paste it into Epic, wait for Epic to update, click the game icon again, and now it launches. Heaven forbid I actually set up 2FA, cause then I'd have to go through that too!

To say nothing of the fact that the Epic store runs like ass on a brand new third-gen six-core Ryzen CPU with an current-gen GPU and 16gigs of RAM.

Some of the other game stores behave just as bad as this... the only ones that actually seem to work reliably are Steam and GOG, and they've been around a while. Origin constantly nags about updates and "you logged in from another PC" bullshit, Rockstar can't seem to hold on to a session cookie to save its life, and the Twitch client is just a mess all around. XBOX kind of sucked in Beta but they finally fixed the worst issues there.

Multiple launchers is NOT ideal. We all have this fantasy idea that competition will make everything better but really what it results in is now we have a bunch of garbage launchers running on startup (and if you don't have fun waiting for them to update every time you launch them). Just like with streaming... competition is making everything worse

If you "don't spend time in an app store" you're either only using one or two of those launchers or you're lying. The last time things "just worked" was when Steam reigned supreme and unchallenged. (And that's not necessarily a good thing, nearly everyone knows that Valve is a good citizen solely because of management, and I have no doubt that one day that will change and Steam will suck.)
LinkedIn is website designed to make us hostages to recruiters, and Brazil has always been huge on kidnappings. Match made in heaven
Isn't that only with non-cash accounts?
What happened to the company and the 20+ people? Did it indeed just wind down, everyone lost their job?
What is the advantage over Matomo ?
Fan profiles on Upbeat, music's 5-star system
Prediction algorithm already outperforms the RMSE of the winner of Netflix's $1m competition (5-star system works better for music than movies). Create your fan profile today featuring every song you love but sorted for the taste of whoever is visiting your profile.
I don't think getting a new phone necessarily has that low a switching cost for many people.
A company that have a dominant position in a large ecosystem and can make or break an entire business model?
Most of the German "wunderwaffe", really. The V2 programme killed more during its manufacture than it did as targets.
What makes you think that IBM sales people and management cares about "the way of the future"?

They care about the quarterly report and right now the best way to improve short-term performance is to milk your existing locked-in customers for as much money as possible.
Society has given Kaparty et al a lot of latitude to take liberties with other peoples lives. In my view this creates an obligation to do the best job humanly possible.
Here is a C implementation of GPT-2. https://bellard.org/nncp/gpt2tc.html

I don't disagree that hardware acceleration is key in enabling these models, but I still find it interesting how simple the core techniques are.
>Instead Epic decided to sue Apple in court.

This gives the impression that suing them is what led to Apple terminating their relationship, but that isn't the case. Epic could have sued Apple without the theatrics and they'd have been fine. They didn't even need to violate the terms of the developer agreement to bring their antitrust lawsuit, which is largely about the developer agreement.
IMO the ideal situation for Apple fans is that Apple is forced to offer a choice to developers, either pay a fair fixed charge(like you would pay for webhosting, you have different tiers or plans and fortuneteller with web hosting you have true competition) or a developer could decide to give Apple 30% cut. Probably most developers would chose to pay the fixed fee and the Apple users will have cheaper apps and subscriptions(in app payments) while enjoying the restrictions that nobody can have the option to escape the wallgarden(not sure how are you happy with this though, say in a country Apple is forced to remove all chat apps that are encrypted including browsers and then Apple fans would just say `you should have predicted this,sell the phone and use Android`)
No one is a fan of your work, where do you hear this stuff..

Find people who will pay you to solve the problem you identified within two weeks.
For someone who needs to run Android apps (read everyone not bought into Apple's walled garden), that's as useful as a brick. Do they even have a browser other than Safari?
Use what you know. Should make the decision easier.
One of those two things helps keep the world order from collapsing.
Apple said "Here are the terms, you can use our services if you agree to them, and if you break them we'll close your account."

Epic said "Okay, we agree.", then broke the terms they agreed to, so Apple is closing their account.

This seems like pretty straightforward break of the terms of use to me.

The reasonable way Epic could have proceeded is to have submitted an update with the "third party store" stuff added, gotten it rejected, and then rolled it back while suing Apple.

Instead, Epic pulled a publicity stunt by sneaking it in, specifically so that Apple and Google would remove their app, and then suing, in an attempt to make themselves look like the good guy (which, depending on your perspective, might be true).

It doesn't feel any more mature than goading someone into throwing a punch at you so you can claim to be "defending yourself" when really you were just being a douche and you got what you asked for.
> It's very much arguable that it's necessary for modern life.

Not even arguable. You need a smartphone running iOS or Android + a cellular plan to maintain an acceptable standard of life in America or most other countries today, and the costs of switching from one to the other in the middle of the cycle are prohibitive for most.
For someone who has a massive Steam library, why wouldn't they want their Steam games to be available on iOS as well? (For those games that have ports.) I think there's a huge number of people in this boat.
The Cuban regime controls the numbers that are reported. No independent verification is allowed. Of course, the numbers are always awesome.
PipelineC: A C-like HDL adding automatic pipelining
Not sure, but you can write your own cuda kernels inline if you want to.
Facebook ignored hate speech by India's BJP politicians: WSJ
The draft of the bill is here https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/Exposure%20Draft%20Bill... Probably Google and Facebook (and maybe Twitter) were mentioned as a justification for introducing the bill in the first place, but they aren't mentioned explicitly in the text.

Regarding joint venture requirements in China, a new law on foreign investment went into effect this year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Investment_Law_of_the_... that supersedes the previous separate regulations for wholly foreign-owned enterprises, equity joint ventures and cooperative joint ventures with a unified framework for foreign investment. There're still some sectors where 50% or more of a company's shares need to be held by Chinese nationals, but those exceptions are on their way out. E.g. restrictions in the automotive sector will be fully lifted by 2022 https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-to-ease-rules-on-foreign-...

If you want a Chinese IP address, you might have to file a bunch of paperwork, but it should've been possible for a long time. Otherwise I can't explain how https://www.google.cn/ continues to be operated by Google. (Of course they only redirect to https://www.google.com.hk/ because otherwise they'd lose that ICP license displayed in the footer and get their website shut down, but that's a different issue.)
You don't need a monopoly to be struck with an antitrust lawsuit.
The MAS fees add up to 3% with presumably similar service costs.

30% is just rent-seeking opportunism. 3% shows something far closer to Apple's true costs for all this when faced with the fact that the Mac App Store is (for now) not required.
names, addresses and SSNs of transacting parties are not public
> really hard for me not to question the motivation behind this letter.

What? I think the motivation behind the letter is pretty transparent -- trying to get the app back in the app store. Groveling is pretty consistent with that.

Were you thinking the motivation was something else? What motivation are you questioning?
You might find my comment above to be relevant to yours.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24191507
Red Hat takes Kubernetes to the cloud's edge
Tacit Programming
If Epic thinks that Apple's and Google's store conditions are onerous, just wait until they find out what it's like to ship a game on PS4 or XBox.
I think Apple clearly has their moat, but it's not the App Store. The whole stack, from hardware and OS, is their moat and one that makes them unique. Maybe I'm a fan, but the moat actually makes the user experience better. Epic's Store moat likely won't make anything better for anyone, expect for Epic.

I personally don't enjoy the experience of managing my PC games in 5 different libraries which all log out almost every day, need to be updated every week, push ads, newsletters, free stuff, crashes etc. So I'm not worried how Epic store would somehow overrun App Store, I'm worried how it would degrade the user experience. If people want to side load apps, they can use Android. But even on Android, most people are happy using the Google Play. As a consumer there isn't much benefit for multiple app stores, since every app store will be essentially exclusive to another, so don't really have more choice, just more app stores to manage and get the apps from.

My point was that Epic tries to make this some kind of crusade of freedom and developer rights, while their clear intention is actually get in to kingmaker position themselves that they can strong arm developers and competition to play by their rules (which they're already trying to do on the PC market). This fight is different from Hey's fight, who just wanted to have their app in the store and criticized the rules and way Apple manages the store. So I have very little sympathy for Epic in this and I hope the fail.
This is really well-done. Very polished, and all of the drawing tools work as my mental model thought they might.

Kudos!
>they use arbitrary and inconsistent enforcement

I've experienced this directly a few times. In one case, we had an app in the store for several years and a random update that fixed a crash was blocked for violating the rule around allowing out of app purchases. It took a couple weeks to appeal and get it approved. In that process, we changed nothing functional and resubmitted with a couple bits twiddled to make the package different and that passed.

In another instance, we made three white-labelled versions of the app. Both differed from the original app only in the colors in the design palette, and the name of the publisher since these were to be published under our customers' own accounts. One passed review without comment, and the other was abandoned after several months of back-and-forth.
Game consoles are toys, smartphones are an integral part of people's lives and livelihoods.
Yes PDT restrictions only apply to margin accounts.
Black and white or color?

There are at the moment only 2 large companies (Fuji and Kodak) what can produce color film and one company (resurrected Ferrania) what will in the long term maybe trying to do it. There is one company (Ilford) that maybe potentially could do it when they wanted it but so far they do not.

Any other color film you see on the market is either rebrand of some old or new stock.

There are a bit more B&W film producers:

Fuji (again)
Kodak
Ilford
Foma
Adox
Agfa Photo (I could not recall which of the old plants in EU is producing actually the product)
Bergger
Silberra
Ferrania

There are perhaps some few more that are producing B&W film.

The last 3 are pretty much your definition of boutique market for film. It exists but it is not grande. Even Fuji and Kodak marked is not large but it is growing.
I agree; check out NamedTensor for an attempt to fix this: http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/NamedTensor
I suspect you’d find that a single untrained human, even well-armed, isn’t always sufficient to kill a tiger.

So rather than avenge your buddy and improve the tiger gene pool, you’d get killed too.
I stumbled across J years ago when I was messing with Supercollider[0]. I wish I had a use for J, it's very cool.

Slight tangent, Supercollier is one of the best langs I've ever played with. Smalltalk + J. Totally blew my mind when I first wrapped my brain around it!

[0] https://supercollider.github.io/
Just as a reminder, their phone "independent repair program" has you signing rights to your business away (you are forced to let apple audit you at any time, you have to share personal client data on all of your clients with apple. All of this not limited to Apple repair part of your business) for the right to:

- remove battery / screen from client device

- send battery / screen to Apple with all clients personal information

- wait for replacement unit (at a price not dissimilar to the price of same model 100% working used device)

- mount new battery / screen after about a week

Its designed in a way to not make any economical sense, but sound like Apple is a real independent repair champion.
That ad is incredibly dumb and incredibly awesome.