skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only, that death serves as a moment in time when there is some redivision of resources, and as a way of making room for the next generation(s).

A million years * the per-capita-per-annum-consumption and your best contribution to society and the environment would be to jump off a bridge. Nobody would have children for fear of further dividing that meager pie.

Earth's population would skyrocket.
But was it stable? I don't know Japanese history very well. If it was stable (until upset by the outside) then it'd be a good example.
> Human brains are not evolved to handle a million years of noise and notifications. There would be an incalculable amount of damage to a person's personality from all the ups and downs and vagaries of life.

Source?

> If a thing thinks, it will be finite and want to be.

I disagree.

This isn’t a serious comment if you’re presuming to speak on behalf of every “thinking thing”.
I agree. Waterfall is primarily a discussion point on why Agile is the way to go -- hence an anti pattern. Nobody actually does waterfall.
I have a flight tracking app for my phone and see aircraft flying in circles over where I live all the time. Dozens and dozens of times each day.

They're people in small planes practicing.

Also, I live near several military bases. The interesting and loud stuff that I see flying by out my window NEVER shows up on any app. I expect this web site is similarly, deliberately, incomplete.
The goal is more power and control, as always, regardless of effectiveness. It's the same reason the police have been turning protests into riots.
I own old computers, from my perspective:

SSH

Writing things

Being productive and having productive workflows in old software, well that's not a sin.
Ahh gotcha. If you need event introspection, doing it in-house is extremely likely to be more expensive (and definitely time consuming) than offloading it.

For example: if you are sending serialized data on your bus - you will need to write something that will deserialize it before inserting it into your elastic search cluster - and now you're managing even more infra (message systems, decoders, document storage).

There is definitely a price attached to the luxury - but we're betting that it'll be significantly less than doing it yourself.
I like this article alot. I love archaic health ideas and what older cultures did to prevent and understand ailments.

stuff like humors[1] or why a barbershop pole is red/white/blue[2]

[1] - https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/shakespeare/fourhumors.ht...

[2] - https://www.rd.com/article/barber-pole-history/
Is it as "simple" as retraining a model on an identical (but translated) dataset, if such a dataset were to exist?
They were well prepared for this, with what must've taken months of planning. They added the payment option, got banned, filed the lawsuit and published their 1984 parody ad, all within 24 hours.
Thank you! We felt the pain point while actively trying to build observability tools in order to debug our messaging systems. We built plumber to standardize some of our internal tools and then decided to open source it to help others who are feeling the pain.
It might make sense, especially for where salmon farms are usually placed, or it might be overly destructive in terms of resources and environment. The analysis needs to be done before we can make a conclusion about it, but I'm sure other parties have already come to the conclusion they want.
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Uh, that is about iPad, so Apple's walled garden didn't help.

And kids shouldn't be able to buy things with their parents' cards, which is something completely unrelated to a platform being open or not.
John Carmack was following this routine and some days he would come to office in the evening when no one was there and will leave before any one arrives.
https://www.ibm.com/products/power-system-s922/pricing
> closed hardware (that owns its entire stack) even be legal to sell?

Two thoughts:

1 - As software goes into everything, keep in mind that the universe of devices to which this applies will grow to include the set of "non-organic physical objects."

2 - And this will means that surprising outcomes could come of requiring everything to be open. Who do you trust to verify the software in your used car/refrigerator/lightswitch/water heater/etc? For devices where physical safety is at play, how do you verify that the (possibly aftermarket) software is up to code or other certification? Imagine every car sale or home inspection required a software assurance verification of every embedded system. Closed systems implicitly provide some level of assurance here.
That's a severe abuse of terminology, almost to the point of ignorance. A tensor is an algebraic object (not limited to linear algebra) with a very specific definition.
Maybe something like this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776
I think suicides would go way up. People would get bored with life after a couple hundred years. If everyone lived that long life would stagnate into a boring grayness.
Webpages that do background work will need something client side, not server side. Javascript + a timer to kick things off periodically should be enough for that.

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean by 'background work'.
Ah, Cold War... Probably, these two Russian agents who committed an assasination attempt (led to innocent human casualties), using chemical weapon on the soil of a NATO country, were particularly nostalgic.
I see it as more hopeful than that. With a long time to think about things, I think people would cooperate to organize society better. If their lack of organization for 100s of years leads to no improvement in quality of life, eventually they'd do something about it.

Also, with that much time, differences in education would smooth out, and even people who started with a small amount of resources would eventually be able to build up to financial independence, which gives labor more negotiating power.
HN is predominantly American so "degrees" is implicitly assumed to be "degrees Farenheit", but for the non US folks here, 130F = 54.4C.
Is Apple's app store actually protecting you from anything, or do you just get the illusion that its protecting you?

Although the situation has gotten much better the past couple years, its still not uncommon to find apps on the app store that charge like 10$ a month for some wallpapers or something of a similar nature. Furthermore, every few months there are new news articles coming out about how ""XYZ"" app is collecting ""ABC"" data from iPhone users(like apps scraping clipboard data, or apps trying to access the microphone or camera when the user thinks there should be no recording going on).

The claim that the iOS is actually protecting users seems dubious at best. Apple tends to exert control over the app store, but it always seems to be in response to users finding out that some app is doing something evil rather then Apple protecting users up front to begin with.
> . ~2 million apps are on the app store.

Having a large customer base is not an argument against them being a monopoly. Quite the opposite, it is evidence of it being a monopoly.

> Charging a fee for giving developers a huge market that spends money is not exactly unfair.

It is unfair if they are engaging in anti-competitive practices to prevent competitions from competing.

> What would make it fair? Lowering the fee?

Allowing alternative apps stores to compete against apple's would make it fair, and giving users the option and ability to do this, easily. So, specifically I should be able to install a Steam, or epic app store, on the iphone, without apple having any ability at all to stop me, or take a cut.

> What actual harm is Apple inflicting on the market by their behavior? Developers make less money? That isn't good enough.

Of course it is. If you have a monopoly, then the harm is on the customers of the market. That includes both buyers and sellers. That is how monopolies work.

And also, it is not just developers making less money. Instead, the monopoly place in the market, prevents developers from passing on the savings to the consumer.

So the fee would have to be literally 0%, for me to even accept the idea that consumers aren't harmed by it.
This isn’t a clear argument.

Many customers and developers want the service the App Store provides and are willing to pay for it.

I.e. it’s not a shakedown, it’s a service just like any other.

But even if you argue that people should be allowed to have someone else provide a different service (which is technically problematic since they will still need to use Apple’s API’s), there is no reason to presume that more stores equates to lower prices.

It doesn’t in streaming for example, because of exclusive content.

It also means developers will need to support multiple stores and pass that cost on to the customers.
The source is this Fox News interview:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-seeks-to-starve-post-...

No timestamp because I couldn't bring myself to listen to all 40 minutes.
hackernews is not an advertising platform, do not spam.
Recording instruments while monitoring them starts becoming really difficult after ~10ms. 2-8ms is ideal in my experience
Because you can buy the same exact item on Zalando and put it on fire if you want to

Imagine if you could buy shoes only at Walmart because you bought the shoe rack there.
I think this comparison is in bad faith. I would put it like this, it should definitely be illegal to be anti-competitive on general computing devices once you hit a significant revenue(the revenue bit only to allow small players to compete first and not be stifled).

Devices like Kindle are one purpose devices. It is supposed to be a replacement for a book. The integration with Kindle Store for ebooks can be complained about, but Amazon gives you the freedom to use ebooks from anywhere, infact if you can live with the bad experience you can use the browser itself to download them on the device.

iPhone is a different ballgame, it is an ecosystem creating device. I have no problem with them restricting the APIs for third party developers if it improves security on the device, that's a good thing. But then the rent seeking on apps like Spotify is just bad for upcoming companies and would be for users in the end. This is not just limited to software, they can use the same leverage to even kill companies in hardware space.

Sure, Apple doesn't have a monopoly in terms of device share, but they absolutely are in a position to kill a company.
OK. But I'm not sure of the source of the reviews or the qualifications/interests of the reviewers. I just linked to goodreads in a hurry since you asked for an indication of the synopsis, which is fair enough.

Whilst Whitaker's tone does get polemic at times, that's because his conclusions are evidence based, and this is a public health crisis, on a similar scale to the opioids crisis in USA, and corrupt in the same way that tobacco corrupted the medical industry for a time.

Whitaker presents references to the studies and he does seem to have made sustained, energetic efforts to research this subject exhaustively.
And Android, the only other realistic option, has effectively the same policies. Technically you can side load or use an alternative app store, but that means you don't get Play Services. And it's pretty impractical to develop apps without using those services.
I'm sure they do but the situation is a bit different. Its a bigger leap for the consoles to implement a third party store than Apple. They don't allow unsigned code on consumer devices and the cert process is even more entailed than Apple. There's no tooling or infrastructure to install third party apps onto the consoles outside of the first party store. Apple has a ready made developer flow that is artificially blocked through provisioning profiles and the like.
> Google complies with all the relevant laws.

Yeah, they use every loophole the system provides to pay the least amount possible. If I used every loophole to take advantage of a system and make it do what I want, I'd be labelled a criminal. I'd be called a hacker. But since it's a big company and the system isn't a computer, well... I guess it's OK then.

They're hacking the system and you're fine with it because "technically they're complying with relevant laws". Just because something is legally possible doesn't mean it's right.
In the Arthur C. Clarke novel City and the Stars, human civilization has survived a billion years and human lifespans could too, theoretically. There, most humans live as long as they can until boredom overtakes them. Then then they sort of clean up their memories -- keeping only the most valuable memories and deleting the rest -- and then go into hibernation for thousands of years. Society has reached a steady state so very little changes over time, but just enough for a person to rise from hibernation and start a new life.

I suspect that limits of human psychology will probably result in a society like this, if we were to ever stretch our lifespans into millions of years.
> I'm getting downvotes but I'm sort of serious about this

Cities aren't "destroying themselves". Sure there will be a little change from large office blcoks where companies cram as many people as possible into each square foot, but cities aren't going anywhere.
> Not a parent, but fwiw even the fully grown adults I've interacted with are starting to show serious deficits in social skills after months of relative isolation. I've historically been on the socially awkward side, so its kind of refreshing to be the comparatively graceful one.

Huh? I've not experienced this at all with anyone I've seen during the pandemic - even with people who I've only talked online with. This includes people who have basically not seen anyone in person for months and aren't working.

What are these "serious deficits in social skills" you're noticing in adults?
Yea, I think a pattern that modulates between two vowels works best, like OoohWaaaOoohm. I think you find this in many religions, for example the call to prayer, but I don't want to be shouting Alla, neighbours will call the police for sure.
Correct. It's been perfectly legal since 2010.

>The U.S. Librarian of Congress ruled on Monday that consumers who circumvent digital protections on smartphones to install unapproved applications—a practice often colloquially known as “jailbreaking”—for noninfringing reasons should be exempted from prosecution under the anti-circumvention section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

https://www.macworld.com/article/1152935/jailbreak_exemption...
That's a reasonable perspective. But the parent comment talked about a different kind of thinking. Constantly judgemental thinking is not healthy. If you just sit there meditating, and your idling mind (often) jumps to uncomfortably self-critical and doubtful thoughts, that is an unhealthy mental habit, right?

Here is how meditation can help here. (1) You become okay with having those sort of thoughts - you don't have to flee from them or push them away. (2) You can observe exactly based on what you criticize yourself, or what you feel hung up on. (3) After meditating, with a clear mind, you can rationally consider those matters. "Huh, do I really regret <xyz> decision? Why does <abc> aspect of it bother me now that I notice it?". You can resolve this conflict now.

This is my experience. Besides this, it just feels good to be calm.

> Why would I want to get unhappy again because someone tells me it’s good for me?

I also understand this sentiment. Sometimes if something gives you anxiety or intrusive thoughts, its better to leave it and let it slip by your thoughts rather than to bring it into attention. But even so I want to tell you this - a lot of the benefit of meditation comes not from exercising your cognitive and reasoning abilities, but from just being okay with how things are. It's really that simple.
> We make it illegal for someone to come into your home and take your stuff

It's not illegal however if you signed a contract to that effect, which is what you did when you started using the platform.

A better analogy is that you're renting some furniture and the furniture is found to be unsafe. The company can come and take it away, either replacing it with something else or refunding you.

In the software world nobody but the creators or IP holders of the software actually owns the software. They just provide you the license to use it.

It's illegal in many countries to modify the software so if you had a closed-source word processing application it would be illegal to mod it or to use it as part of a data transformation pipeline. You can only use it for the purposes stated when you bought it.

If there was a way to limit your oven to bake recipes the manufacturer allowed or to use specific approved ingredients, and would come with some sort of value-add to make consumers ignore that as a problem, I'm sure someone would actually do this.

(please note that I am stating facts as I see them and not necessarily agreeing with the state of affairs)
I find the concept of consciousness applied here a bit disturbing. Shouldn't we treat the observation as information leaving the observed system and propagating causal effects to other systems? A data recorder is not conscious, but notes information that passes through it and, therefore, observes a single state instead of a superposition.
A handgun won't be of much use if you're jumped on from behind by a beast 3 times your weight and many times your strength.
Sure. This excerpt you shared supports what I just wrote in my post, no?
I disagree, the JRE is a virtual machine; if not for the OS, how would you protect against it? Isn’t the OS itself responsible for authorizing whether the invocation of the JRE process is authorized, rather than the virtual machine itself?

Are there any comparable virtual machines that require signed bytecode by default? I’ve personally never heard of it, most of the time it’s verified when the package is downloaded, rather than when it’s executed.
Soy isn't very appetizing to humans in large quantities, so if it wasn't for animal feed, we wouldn't' grow nearly as much as it. Likewise for corn, which is a not so great staple for humans, and often just used as a sugar substitute. Yes, we can live on animal feed, but we can't really thrive on it, and a lot of land is only suited to such.

Meat is still a useful medium for converting what humans can't consume very well to something they can. Especially pigs, which in much of the world are used as recyclers (not in the west anymore, due to safety issues, and probably not for long in the undeveloped world, but they have bigger problems to worry about).
Yes, it would be interesting to know how much of progress (on racial issues, gay marriage, etc) drives from the new generation replacing the old vs people from the wrong side of history changing their minds.
Let's worry about pushing the average lifespan to 150 before we start talking about the end of civilization. Let's increase our lifespan a little bit and see what happens, rather than theorize about it.
The stink eye can travel from distances way beyond 6 feet.
It's great that you're conscientious, seriously working on ML, big data, adjacent policy issues. Thank you.

In the spirit of "yes, and...":

Can't manage what we can't (or won't measure. So policy wise, we should not delegate judgement, and default to hippocratic until we know more.

ML & big data is following the fad cycle, just like optimization, expert systems, etc. I'm 95% certain that >95% ML and big data is hooey, most value has been realized, the rest is imagined.

But meanwhile, these foolsgold pathogens are wreaking the economy. Or worse.
Mindlessness can be bad too.
Number 4: Having a highly volatile, non regulated investment option with a low barrier of entry that is probably controlled by a handful of bitcoin heavyweights.
> I give my children iPhones. I like having certain family controls over what they use, and further controls over what appears in the app store to begin with.

Okay.. then their opinion is what's relevant here, not yours.

> I like having a single vendor for all my software purchases, that I can trust to issue refunds and discontinue subscriptions promptly.

Weren't they in hot water recently for forcing developers to use their deceptive subscription trial system?
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Thanks y'all. Yeah, basically I was dumb and somehow missed or ignored Factorio's demo. I downloaded and played a bit of the demo last night, and while it's certainly interesting, this type of resource based dynamic system builder just isn't for me if it lacks an adversarial agent.

Then again, while typing this reply, I searched for "competitive Factorio" and found this mod[1]. So, thanks for broadening my gaming horizons!

[1]https://mods.factorio.com/mod/team_competition
Ask HN: How to market the go-live of a side project?
Hi,

I was wondering how I should approach publicly speaking about a new side project launch? Show this be just the Product Hunt path or do you guys recommend something else? I want to do it all free if possible.
The Copyright Act of 1976 is the big recent overhaul of US copyright, which switched copyright to automatic registration and established regimes for unpublished and orphaned works, which was previously largely handled by state laws, usually under common law.

The requirement that the author must hold copyright seems to be implicit in earlier versions of copyright law all the way back to the 1790 Copyright Act; I don't see any provision that would let one copyright a work one was not the author of.

Registration creates prima facie evidence that the registrant is the legitimate owner of the copyright. Anyone who disputes the claim in the face of a registered copyright has the burden of proof to demonstrate that the registration was erroneous.
What is the context for this being hosted at house.gov? I didn't follow the hearings THAT closely. Was this particular letter discussed?
Ah yes, that's true, they in fact were hosted there at some point. I couldn't have picked a worse example :) Or; in a way it is proof that IBM is a bad choice for companies that operate at scale and are low margin and data heavy. Hosting costs must have been a substantial fraction of operating costs for Whatsapp (obviously, long after personnel).
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> not in small part thanks to social science.

I'm genuinely curious what you are referring to here?
I remember the SE/30 had an expansion slot that could have a video card to power an external monitor. I wonder if such boards survived and could be resurrected.
We've only known about quantum mechanics for 100 years. Let's give us another couple hundred years of investigation before we decide there's no way out of the heat death mess.
Well, maybe I'm being too harsh on myself. Timing Ardour on my machine (Ryzen 2950X with 64GB of RAM), it has something on-screen is less than 1 second. But actually loading a "significant" session is more like 6 seconds. There's approximately 300MB of data in the session in total, but most of that is audio data that isn't being read at startup.

I've seen DAWs start up massively faster than this, though. And also slower. Essentially I have some intuition that "correct" software design would appear to the user as a more incremental startup: the window would appear as rapidly as xterm does, and would slowly fill with everything that makes up the actual program. I personally find this hard to design for. Could be me, or the GUI toolkit I use or maybe it just is pretty hard.

As for browsers, "a couple of seconds" has some slop. When I restart Firefox here, with typically 100-200 tabs and the main/primary/#1 tab being gmail (unfair! i hear you cry), I'd say it was more like 5-10 seconds until it is usable.
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Tigers tend to ambush their prey. You don't know you're under attack until its teeth are severing your jugular.
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