skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how you start ftp-server in the SD-card. I have
never found any other useful application you could start yourself:

SDCARD/$ cat autorun.sh
telnetd -l /bin/bash &
tcpsvd -vE 0.0.0.0 21 ftpd &
Yep, it's one of the reasons smelting where you mine is popular with train based logistics, since that doubles your density
> actual harm => consumers end up paying more for the apps because the app developers have to increase their price to cover Apple's cut (which is more like a shakedown).

So what? All markets work like this. Food prices go up whenever there fuel prices increase, so the grocery store increases the cost to cover the higher cut taken by the supply chain. Apple created this entire market - they could've been far more anti-competitive than they are. Why should the free advertising, access to a market that has users that spend more on average, be free to anyone?

> I don't see any reason why a company needs to pay any percent of their revenue instead of a flat fee.

You're the one making the claim - you have to prove why it's wrong to charge a percentage of revenue first.

The Internet Explorer argument just doesn't apply. They had market dominance - Apple does not.
The problem is that not everyone is in control of their computing environment, especially on university clusters. Yes, it's possible to install your own compiler (and in some cases, this might require recompiling a bunch of things due to C++ ABI issues), but for many users, that's a difficult task!
I'm surprised they could steal the certificate, as it should have been stored on an HSM.
It seems worth considering startups and entrenched near-monopoly situations differently. Competition is hard to bring back in the latter, and certainly consumers might well benefit from the right interventions. It doesn't mean a purist law to prohibit proprietary closed devices is necessary.

And I'd argue with your example of Facebook that they should at minimum be compelled to enable universal linking so that other app vendors can intercept outbound links directly, and users can choose their web browser etc.
Exactly. Meditation is just a tool with many uses.

My current use is to create a quiet time for meta-cognition where I can organize my thoughts.

Some people use it to try to let go of thoughts and be mentally still, others might use it as a chance to observe and focus on their senses. There are likely thousands of uses for meditation.
Thanks! Before everything locked down, I was lucky to have a lot of day-to-day support from my family, friends, and colleagues.

One of the ways I tried to demonstrate appreciation for their help was by actively working to structure my life and career so I could be less reliant on them in the future. I had no idea how soon I wouldn't have any choice, but my preparation for self-employment and plan to minimize outside child-care definitely made handling the COVID-forced changes easier.
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Stanford hosted a "Hacking for Recovery" class in which students presented well-researched action plans to help existing businesses recover and new ones to start, post-pandemic. From "AntiCovidA.I." to a pandemic advisory service for travelers, the results are worth the read.
I agree that the market economy is the underlying problem of it all. However, I wouldn't completely dismiss computer scientists' lack of knowledge in social science as part of the reason. I'm hopeful enough to think that, knowing the incredible harm the software they are writing could inflict on other people or society as a whole, some computer scientists would be less willing to participate in it.
That one's still firmly in the territory of being a good rule to follow if you're trying to communicate clearly, without being distracting, and aren't aiming at some kind of particular, very colloquial register. Perhaps in 30-50 years that will have changed.
So they should take 5% of regular app purchases, too. Problem solved.

Would hardly even create a dent in Apple's revenue and they apparently don't know what to do with the money anyway except put it in a giant pile, so no loss for society.
That seems a bit disappointing. It might suggest that IBM is backtracking on their openPOWER approach.
we're planning on this too. Our class hasn't started yet but the plan is to find kids /from the actual class/ that're interested.
Hardware is a physical product you buy. You don't buy Amazon or Facebook. They are a service not a product. The meaningful distinction is that you should OWN the hardware you buy and thus it shouldn't be limited by the manufacturer except for things that are vital for product function.
> it doesn't make business sense

If it didn't make business sense then Google wouldn't be showing them in the first place. It plainly does make business sense. Google shouldn't be afraid to pay for what it uses.
To be fair, this is a somewhat common sentiment that I’ve seen on HN. Similar is the “non tech oriented parent” point, where you don’t have to worry about your parents phone getting a virus.
“consumers end up paying more for the apps because the app developers have to increase their price to cover Apple's cut”

I think it will be hard to defend that argument in court, given the historical development of prices for apps.

Also, Apple will likely argue that prices could go down because they provide developers a huge market relatively cheaply, so that they can make up Apple’s cut with increased number of sales.

I also think one could argue Apple is your partner when you publish on the App Store (evil partner, maybe, but developers sign a contract with them)
Bullshit. I've got plenty of money and a pill-addicted wife-- trust me those f'ing things cost upwards of $200 a week during some stretches. Reason for taking them has nothing to do with how much we can afford and everything to do with feeling "pain-free."
Stenotype might very well be on the way out, but I still want every trial transcript to be edited by an actual human with expert training and who is strictly regulated and held responsible.

I'm fine with lawyers using software to optimize their work. But I don't ever want to replace lawyers themselves. I can understand the temptation to create a law AI, since so much of what lawyers do is systematic and procedural. I still want a licensed lawyer to review and sign off on any arguments.
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I've heard years ago that wearing googly eyes on the back of your helmet is a good way to cut the chance of a cougar attack on a bike. Just like you I think I'll go grab some today!
Thanks... the menu structure is somewhat different on the website, but I finally found it. I spent 20 mins looking for a way to contact someone before giving up, assuming it didn't exist.
> I'm really happy with my closed hardware as the tightly controlled environment promises the customer that the software run in it will be high quality and on some level will be vetted before allowed to the platform. This also attracts other developers to create high-quality software,

I am not sure whether this is sarcasm or not.

Since it seems like it is not, let me say that most closed platforms are absolutely garbage. Let us not think only of the iPhones and the Androids of the world, and instead focus on everything else. Think industrial control. Even the cinema stuff mentioned by the GP I'm sure contains software of the worst quality.
Yeah, "me and a friend" (I'm assuming that's what it said) is fine.
Interesting. From what I understand, an 'eye' pattern can be computed by taking variations of the standard map.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_map

Cellular automata and reaction-diffusion is well observed in biology as morphogenesis.

I'm curious, is there a color-specific advantage to monochromatic patterns that can be explained by theory?
J seems like a language I should learn using flash cards. Make a flash card for each character, for each operation, and just learn all the operators, and then I will know J.

Any truth to this?

I suppose it might be like telling someone, "you know conditionals and loops, now you know how to program!"
That does not solve the initial distribution problem.
I think it's great that you gave your children a break this summer. Sometimes kids really need to just relax and play. It's been a hard year. Learning isn't linear, so they will likely catch up quickly. Also, there a ton of great apps and youtube videos for teaching fractions (you might not even have to help). Let me know if you'd like some recommendations.
She does not live with us. We have a great relationship with her and are confident that we're aligned on the importance of social distancing. I'm in an at-risk group which makes it especially important that we protect ourselves.

She's been working for our family for a bit over a year. We originally hired her as a full-time nanny when wife decided to do a dev bootcamp.

She has a bachelors in early childhood education/development and is personally interested in crafting positive developmental experiences for kids. Our girls really appreciate her and get a lot of value (and education) from the time they spend together. We'll supplement her efforts with more structure in the form of a curriculum.

It is very expensive (relative to our income). We live cheaply and don't do many luxuries. It made sense for us to invest in high-quality childcare for our girls.
At the beginning you said nope but based on your explanation I feel like you meant to say yep... e.g. yes, we should make it illegal.

Ahh, I see the problem - thanks Osiris - there are 2 questions, each of them opposite.

> Should closed hardware (that owns its entire stack) even be legal to sell?

and

> Yes, it's legal today but should we make it illegal?

Good thing I'm not a lawyer!
I got an email asking what's HN's policy on GPT-3 generated comments. I think it's covered by the fact that we don't allow bots on HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). The purpose of the the threads is human conversation.

Obviously there's an infatuation right now with GPT-3. That's normal. If people keep posting these without disclosing them, I imagine there will be two consequences. One (good for HN) is readers scrutinizing comments more closely and raising the bar for what counts as a high-quality comment. The other (bad for HN) is readers accusing each other of posting generated comments.

Accusing other commenters of being bots is not a new phenomenon ("this sounds like it was written by a Markov chain" has long been an internet swipe) but if it gets bigger, we might have to figure something out. But first we should wait for the original wave of novelty to die down.
Background: We're in the bay area and our kids are 10 and 8.

We were lucky enough to get an au pair right before the lockdowns started in our area (literally picked him up the night before local lockdowns went into effect). We've had really positive experiences with the au pair program in the past, and our current one has been great, so we've treated him really well. Because of that he's agreed to extend until next summer, and that application went through before visas were locked down. This means that there's a dedicated person here for the kids for 45 hours per week, or about 9 hours per weekday.

We have a decent sized house, but it's hard to get any real focus time because even with the au pair and school the kids don't really respect boundaries. So the kids do most of their schoolwork in their rooms or at the dining table. They work in blocks of about 2 hours, and I schedule breaks to coincide with theirs. During the breaks we try to go for a short walk or something to get the wiggles out, and then it's back to work. Tuesdays (and sometimes Thursdays) I go to my spouse's office where I can isolate and get some real work done until late. We trade that time for Fridays, when I stop work a couple hours early so the au pair can leave if he wants to. If I need to be able to really focus I leave the house and go to a park where I can tether and crank out some real work. This is difficult though, as I need 2 laptops and a phone to get work done.

This wasn't a traditional au pair experience, so we plan on some really nice thank you gifts for our au pair at the end of his contract, and hopefully we'll be back in school next fall and can go back to something a little more normal.
If I could install iOS on a Samsung device or Android on an iPhone that would be different

I'm with you there. I'm so mad that I can't install iOS on any device I want. My Android phone? Nope. My HP laptop? Nope. My car entertainment system? Nope. My TRS-80? Nope. My waffle maker? Nope.

I even tried to install iOS on my cat, and she rebooted all over the rug.

Clearly this is a massive conspiracy by the Apple industrial complex to control what I do with the things I bought and paid for with my own money.
No, the entire conception of rights is tied to liberalism, and itself is not the end of human moral ideology. Rights are good compromises: If we all broadly agree that humans are entitled to some right R, then R will become a social institution which we enshrine and protect, and that is good enough for society to make progress and people to get on with their lives.

For a deeper look, try this Marxist approach, "The Problem With Human Rights" [0]. As both they and I want to emphasize, the goal isn't to take away rights or to disenfranchise people, but to explore exactly what we mean when we say that people are endowed with inalienable rights and what we want governments to do about it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhRBsJYWR8Q
A100 has a 20% edge on energy efficiency for HPL, along with higher intrinsic latencies. It's also 6-12 months behind A64FX in deployment. https://www.top500.org/lists/green500/2020/06/

HPCG mostly tests memory bandwidth rather than interconnect, but Fugaku does have a great network.

Adding DRAM to a GPU-heavy machine has limited benefit due to the relatively low bandwidth to the device. They're effectively both HBM machines if you need the ~TB bandwidth per device (or per socket).

Normalizing per node (versus per energy or cost) isn't particularly useful unless your software doesn't work well with distributed memory.
It's a common meme that "With a free service you're not the customer, you're the product." Well, you may be Apple's customer at the beginning when you pay for the phone, but immediately afterward you become their product. You're being sold for the 30% tax. And to enforce that tax Apple maintains ultimate control over the hardware you supposedly bought, blocking you from doing things that would threaten Apple's revenue streams.
Bad ideas die one generation at a time.

I’m all for a limited lifespan.
I also like having a car with an automatic transmission and engine instrumentation that tells me when to get the oil changed and perform maintenance. My interaction with my car is strictly monetary and burns none of my mental cycles.

I have 4 other people in my house, plus I'm the "tech guy" for maybe another dozen people. I appreciate how simple that job is when everyone has iPhones.
Oh. There is telnet too. Funny but not useful.
I get that, but I firmly believe that solutions, certainly ones as highly touted here, should operated in the problem domain. We've yet to identify, in 11 years, a concrete problem that blockchains are better at solving than any other solution.
This is a good argument for enforcing open hardware at the boot loader level and requiring open driver specifications for the hardware.

It is a strong counter argument for requiring openness at the App store level.
Likely as their current release is code named Stand with Hong Kong, right there in the downloads page:

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/
Alibaba, I think. Probably the 'natural' choice for Chinese-facing developers, but I think Azure has a region there as well.
Cats too! "Dachhase / roof bunny" was a thing during WWII.
Generally wages there correlate to the amount of productivity of the field.

Embedded / firmware takes a lot more tedious work, often requiring more people and time and that's just for a single purpose device. Whereas a few Web developers can create a web service that runs an entire profitable company with tens of thousands or millions of users. Of course that's the generalization but I'd guess it's a 1:10 or at least a 1:5 ratio on the income/profit vs development time/effort required between web dev and embedded.

I strongly believe that projects like Nerves can help lower that ratio and make a lot of IoT type projects follow economics more similar to web development. Sure a RPi costs $35 per unit, but lets say you're making a veterinary monitoring system which costs $100k for the software it fits into the budget much easier if a couple of devs can implement it in weeks versus the months and/or large teams it used to take. There's a lot to be said for the long-tail of economics in areas where leveraging more productive tooling can increase productivity and profitability.

Unfortunately that only generally applies to roughly pre-canned hardware and commodity sensors, etc. You won't get that effect when building say a new Camera Sensor CCD chip.
That's just the tip of the iceberg

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/mar/11/my-kids-spent-...
We used to joke about the fact that no matter what you do to educate users, if told that to see a video of funny dancing pigs[1] all they have to do is give the installer root privileges...

Users will give the installer root privileges.

History bore this out over and over and over again.

—

[1]: See also: Crapware-laden browser toolbars, Java runtimes, Adobe Reader, Windows crapware, Smart TVs, ...
We'd be so cautious we'd never leave our homes in the first place. When there is that much at stake any risk is going to be too much. People will call each other daring for walking across the street or leaving a window open.

Also, the whole world would be owned by the few people that were there since the beginning, with them seeking rent on everybody else. You'd be hip deep in debt to the ruling class from day one. Forget about democracy in a setup like that.
Don't underestimate smoking, especially it must be avoided at all costs as a programmer. The minute you stumble on a problem which happens all day in the life of a programmer, the brain cues to smoke which actually causes digestive problem leading to constipation and sleep deprivation. Occasional smoking is a joke. Take a look at other profession and you can see smokers have an amazing career such as movies. I have not found a single programmer who has rose to the top of the field while still being a smoker.
This is common FUD for Android, but i have non-technical family members and all of them use Android devices (because they were cheaper). I never had any of them complain about issues with their phones and Android doesn't exactly let you download stuff out of the box, you have to explicitly enable it and it pops up a scary warning whenever you do so.

Yes, people can ignore that warning, but considering it is there and considering all the steps they have to make, at that point it is up to personal responsibility, not making the entire society worse to avoid telling non-technical people that they screwed up.
archived google cache: https://archive.vn/pYoTM
Yes, their primary reason is cobalt is a scare resource and is required for Lithium ion batteries. This is applicable to the rest of the world.
Did I miss something at the airport?

Did your plane ride involve time travel to the 1970's?
Target is across the street from Walmart. But if someone has an iPhone they cannot shop at the Google Play store.
No, this is correct. Hypercorrection for this rule usually comes in the form of saying or writing things like, "would you like to come with Tom and I to the park?" due to not understanding why the rule exists, and just blindly following the pattern.
A $1000 fee, or fees per download, gets rid of hobbyists, passion projects, and open source apps. For example [Bookplayer.](https://github.com/TortugaPower/BookPlayer)

It should be worth it to Apple to review and host these apps just to benefit the platform which leads to users purchasing their products. The current $99 fee I imagine covers their costs to review and host most of these types.
Which Home school program are people following?

Especially looking for California and 2nd-3rd graders..

Is there a curriculum that you follow and use books? Or is there an online Home school thing..

Looking for pointers...
If your tax is linear whole classes of loopholes stop working (it doesn't matter how you split the usage - the total is still the same).

> on a global scale it doesn't matter if a single person (or an entire city) drives 100 miles to work each day. In isolation their decision to drive has an externality of approximately $0 (wrt carbon)

That's such a disingenuous argument. Their emissions add up. That's like saying at individual level gravity doesn't work because you don't feel a gravity from 1 atom.

If you add oil tax the global consumption falls, it's only a matter of choosing a number big enough to make the total consumption fall below the threshold. I don't understand why you're trying to make it so complicated - we don't only have 1 try, we can introduce tax, look at effects, make corrections.

Opening a valve in your tap isn't linear. But you can pretty easily choose the proper level after a few corrections.
"If something controls the weather, perhaps a combo of Physics, Geography and random chance, could that be a god worthy of respect and study?"

Well, no -- not if that's the only thing He does.
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We’re online only until at least October, but we’ve opted in to a full year of remote learning regardless of what the school does.

I’ve switched to stay-at-home Dad mode and work on side projects in my spare time.

My kids are just old enough to be able to manage most of their school work on their own.

I feel pretty lucky considering some of the tough choices others are having to make rn.
> They don’t want to maintain a sales force.

Wow, I didn't realize their culture had changed that much. They were a sales oriented company since the days of Thomas Watson Sr.
Americans describe it in this way because in large swaths of America, 100F is more or less the hottest it will ever get, and 0F is about as cold as it will ever get.

It's not a matter of "getting a sense of the scale". That sense of the scale comes from lived experience of weather, not brief textual descriptions of the scale.
It basically means a multidimensional array in ML.
Older, less insulated buildings, breathe better. The more your home "breathes" the more it transfers heat and humidity to the outside, which defeats most insulation, unless the breathing is done though a heat exchange.
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First of all; Yes in my opinion.

But just as a devil's advocate; what about rentals? You can't just put new wheels on your ZipCar. If we made locked platforms illegal, they would simply become rentals. But at least it would be explicit then.
Even a frequent walmart buyer can still order online. On the other hand most people only own 1 phone and thus are a captive audience which limits the ways developers can reach them.