skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, in France similar laws exists and the unemployed rate is at 7% (but is likely below the actual rate, as you have to be actively looking for a job to be counted as unemployed)

This is effectively how the unemployment rate is counted in the US too: you have to be actively looking for a job (be a jobseeker) to be counted in the unemployment rate.

There are millions of people who are no longer jobseekers for whatever reason. Most often it is due to becoming more and more demoralized/demotivated (Americans statistically, adjusted for population, have this problem by far the worst of the entire developed world), having a legal record that makes a person virtually unemployable (we lock up our citizens at a higher rate than anyone else in the world), people having to be full-time caretakers for a family member (due to a lack of proper and adequately funded social insurance), disabled people trying to get benefits for several years—and often failing (Of the developed world, only in South Korea is it harder to claim disability benefits: this really says a lot because the perception around disability in Asia, but especially Southeast Asia is deplorable).
And all the mutations in DNA as well to produce a living breathing thinking human being! Indeed we are all incredibly lucky.
Everything besides what remains after you run a minifier is superfluous. (Which is more of a JS thing, but bear with me.) Lots of reasons we don’t write code that looks like that.
/My guess is this will change as it’s become more or less a requirement to have a cell phone to function in western society./

I think that time has already arrived... I remember seeing reports that a cellphone was generally the most-valued item amongst the homeless in the US.

(Not quite a quantitative study, but here's an article on the importance of cellphones for homeless people, and challenges they face: https://www.calhealthreport.org/2019/01/11/expired-lost-stol... )
> In a few weeks most of the developers on the Servo team will get another job.

There's a pandemic, probably a global recession, massive tech layoffs everywhere, and tech interviewing is an absolute nightmare no matter how good you are. I'm not sure I'd be as confident unfortunately.
Eich was CEO from March 24 to April 3 of the same year. I highly doubt that was much of the problem.

Certainly losing his technical talent is likely to have contributed to the problems, but I suspect it's 100x more of Chrome's dominance and Mozilla's reliance on Google's search engine contracts for revenue.
The Strategic Advantages of Phosh for Mobile Linux
Revenue is not profit. I am not saying I believe them but it was in their earnings report. I think maybe it doesn't turn profit the same way that movies lose money.
Don't you have unlimited data plans in the US? Or local Wimax ISPs?
> But it's hard to make that connection. People seem to accept identity theft as "something that just happens sometimes"

A little like the way people talk about "cyber warfare".

In real warfare, the enemy can attack your forces no matter what you do.

In cyber warfare, you can build impenetrable defences. The only way the enemy can attack you successfully is if you make a mistake.

This kind of thinking IMO is perpetuated by absurd tv shows where e.g McGee can hack into any computer system by tapping on his keyboard for a few seconds.

It's harmless on TV, but in the real world it leads to complacency about security. People saying"poor Equifax, they were attacked" instead of "Equifax's security was a joke, and they left their system wide open for anyone to plunder".
Doesn't really seem like a research problem?
I personally think reasons like this are just pulled out of thin air to justify simple style preferences. For example, `this` is an entire word that the editor draws in a different color, so it seems unlikely that `_` is easier to scan for. Even I'm not claiming to have objective reasons for preferring `this`.
If you care about describing the details, you can compress your description better if it's a low-entropy state.

But of course, cosmology is full of more mundane explanations about how the limit of the possible entropy of the universe can grow with time, so a high-entropy state suddenly has a lot of room to increase even further.
Yes, this is so true. My spouse has a rare chronic condition and moving anywhere rural is a non-starter. Even with great doctors in a big city, it's still a struggle getting the care she needs. I can't imagine if we lived somewhere with less than stellar healthcare.
You mean governments nationalize the factories?
>... I am not sure there is obviously a better choice here, if the launch costs no longer dominate.

I'm basing my entire comment on existing costs due to SpaceX efficiency. We'd need (IMO) more cost reduction.
If users really did have control over the generation of their data and come together to aggregate it, then they would be able to do more than just apply DP. They would probably not just give the aggregate data away for free (or "exchange" it for something they already get for free, e.g., carrots).
There's a related anecdote about John von Neumann: he used to joke that he has superpowers and can easily tell truly random and pseudo random sequences apart. He asked people to sit down in another room and generate a 0/1 sequence via coin flips, and record it. Then, generate another sequence by heart, trying to mimick randomness as much as possible. When people finally showed the two sequences to him, Neumann could instantly declare which one was which.

People were amazed.

The trick he used was based on the "burstiness" rule you describe: a long enough random sequence will likely contain a long homogeneous block. While humans tend to avoid long streaks of the same digit, as it does not feel random enough.

So, all he did was he quickly checked with a glimpse, which of the two sequences contained the longest homogeneous block, and recognized that as the one generated via the coin flips.
Your vote should still show in the "popular vote", right? Popular vs electoral college results might result in a reform, later. Please get on record with your decision, please vote.
Also, rural endpoints can be shared among multiple households, AFAIK small African villages often share one WiFi hotspot, and sometimes one phone/tablet/computer.
Omg. I believe safari does that and I freaking hate it. I see how it makes every website act like an app, but these have real user values: you wouldn’t design a folder explorer by hiding where you are in the tree. Oh wait, actually that’s what macOS does already...

On the other hand, this is the default behavior on mobile browsers and it doesn’t seem to disturb anyone.
I guess I'm lucky that around here there are shops that cater only to steel frame buyers (like Stone's Cyclery in Alameda), shops that sell mostly cargo and family bikes (Blue Heron in Berkeley) and several others where you won't find anyone from the carbon and lycra crowd hanging around. Those folks are well-served by places like Mike's Bikes, but I don't want to go to a bike shop where most of the customers arrive in cars.
Thanks for the reply. I was wondering if you were using the headfull chrome approach! I for one would definitely love to read some more specifics on this in the future when you have time! (And if there's anything you can open source please do!). I did a quick side project proof of concept of automating recording a webpage with video and other elements a few months ago. It's a shame there's not a way of just using headless chrome but my research let me to the headfull docker approach, so I'm happy to hear I landed on the same approach you did! Did you discover any novel tricks beyond what's been written about/open sourced already? What was the trickiest part for you?
Replacing the cassette and chainrings every time you replace the chain is excessive. Chains wear most quickly so have the shortest lifespan. I generally replace the chain when it’s worn by 1/16th of an inch over 24 links (see https://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help/when-to-replace-a-...), which is around 3000km for me. Cassettes easily last for several chains — you can tell when they need replacing because the teeth look like shark fins. Chainrings last even longer.

I’m also not convinced that a worn chain actively wears the cassette and chain more quickly. How would that happen? The loads involved are the same. In my experience putting a new chain on a worn cassette just results in the chain skipping over the teeth when under load. If you notice that it’s easily fixed with a new cassette.
It’s obviously not rent seeking by anyone’s definition. This is really one of the most absurd claims that gets made about this situation.

It is literally the definition of rent-seeking: "when an entity seeks to gain added wealth without any reciprocal contribution of productivity." Apple isn't making the games, or even the engine. It's just extracting money from the developers that are making the games.

Apple is today putting more effort into developing their software platform than anyone in history.

True, because Apple won't let anyone else develop their software platform. By that token, Google is putting more effort into developing their software platform than anyone in history, and so is Microsoft, and so is Epic.

For comparison: Apple also puts a lot of effort into MacOS, and MS into Windows, but developers can sell games there without Apple taking 30% off the top.

If they stopped doing that - how long do you think it would take for Google, or frankly any number of other players, to eat their lunch?

This is irrelevant to the question of rent-seeking behavior.

They continue to be in the leadership position because they are continuing to innovate as fast as they can.

Apple is not the most common smartphone in the world, or even the Western world. It is simply the most profitable...because of the aforementioned rent-seeking.

Every part of the platform contributes to its success. Fitness tracking, the watch, the massive investment in APIs, Accessivility, dealing with supply chains, governments geopolitical risks, etc. etc.

All of which were first developed by third parties...Apple only began working on those products after third parties proved the market demand existed.

I’m delighted to let them take 30% for all this, because I didn’t have to do any of it.
Wow. Just wow.

Neither did Epic.

Epic is the reason people even think of iPhone as a gaming platform today. Not Apple. Epic.
>Microsoft already does exactly this on console.

Yes, and that's also bad.
As an European I’d say over half of my mobile payments are already via a QR code (it triggers a direct debit from my bank app). It’s infinitely faster than going through online checkout forms.
I didn’t even know this Dino game existed and suddenly fear that a massive procrastination wave is unfolding.
Seems English tables of the 18th century were quite the culinary scene: this is exactly contemporaneous with the famed Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sand...
Another one is just plain ole organic matter, like mulch. Back in my days as a firefighter, our district included the county landfill. After one of the hurricanes that came through, they had gone around collecting all the downed trees, and chipped them up into mulch, and located this HUGE pile of mulch at the landfill, where county residents could come and get free mulch / wood chips for their gardens or whatever. Sounds great, right?

Except it turns out that a huge mountain of decaying organic matter, left exposed to the southeast NC sun in July and August will periodically catch fire spontaneously. We went out there a few times to put that mess out. Not an easy task. You have to bring in heavy machinery to dig into the piles in order to get to the seat of the fire...and of course the landfill was nowhere near a hydrant, so we had to call out half the tankers in the county to set up a tanker shuttle... uuugggh.
> The private corporations will quickly increase prices while reducing services.
> This is fairly simplistic

It is a simple view that summarizes really well what happens when public services are privatized. There is more nuance to it, but the main effects are "de-investment", "increase in price", "reduction of service".

> "politicized government can't run services well".

I understand your statement as "a polarizing/corrupt government" as I guess that all governments are politicized, it is in their job title.
Viasat is already available and provides 12-100 Mbps service. Viasat only uses 4 satellites. HughesNet provides up to 25 Mbps service and I think has 5 satellites.

Caveat: Of course I've never used either service myself, so I can not speak to the actual download speeds vs advertised speeds.
Build new ones.
I agree that what we are arguing here is subjective, if only because in this portion of business there is little that is clear cut.

Ideally, Apple would charge a fee proportional to what it costs to hosts the apps on their store, software vetting, etc. I do not think that having no charge is realisitc, in that expecting Apple to pay for all of that is not sustainable, or fair. That said, a 30% fee approaches price gouging when other stores charge around %3, if the Epic filing papers are accurate in this regard.

If you, as a developer, pay ~$200M to Apple for the simple right of access to a market, along with other niceties the App Store may provide, it is hard to say that you help Apple out and they help you out, since the disparity in gain is so large.

I don't disagree that Apple has other incentives for their App Store, only that in this case, and in many others like it, the overwhelming focus is on the revenue stream. $15B is nothing to sniff at.
Steam provides loads of functionality and APIs to developers that is simply not on Epic's storefront: the best controller API out there, networking/server API infrastructure, achievements, friends-list, group chat/voice, a storefront to help people find games, an extensive patching and versioning system, everything is cross-platform and most windows games automatically work on windows thanks to Proton.

It's good that Steam has competition! And I wish Epic's was competing on features, but at the moment their platform only competes by having a lower cut and payed exclusives only. The only benefit to users has been that Epic funded certain games that would otherwise might not have happened.
Probably same applications that require more than 10mbps in non-rural places.
> A 105 groupset is way more reliable (ime) than lower grades. Your gears will shift better, not click, not skip, and not drop your chain during your commute.

Really? I feel like my old 8-speed Sora bike needs far fewer derailleur adjustments than my newer 11-speed 105 bike.

I guess this is because the higher-end groupsets are lighter-weight and have more gears (so, a thinner chain and finer mechanical tolerances).
> Corruption and Incompetence DO go hand in hand!

Yes! There is a simpler reason to in addition to what the parent comment says. Corruption requires removing accountability. When you remove it for moral reasons, you often lose accountability for all reasons in the process. If the act is done in the dark, not only can no one see if you're doing the right job (morally), they also can't see if you're doing job right (effectively).

> How could anything measure Legal Corruption?

One metric I know that I think hints at this is "time to open a business": https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IC.REG.DURS?most_recent...

That's a good proxy for how much corruption—legal or not—you have to navigate to get something done.
If that big compression rates where achievable why wouldn't we be already using them? They would be standard in any network.
They migrated off it.
This is a funny argument because I can certainly imagine myself giving baseball statistics as a prime example of huge effort going into collecting “useless” data! (Unless you manage a baseball team.) I don’t see how your question is less interesting than “who had the 43rd highest batting average in 1934?”, which I’m sure there are multiple places to look up.
You're advocating using base.foo() rather than this.foo() which is not equivalent behaviour and is bad advice.
The work done on infinity blade is practically zero by comparison to the work done on the platform, and it’s ridiculous to suggest that without infinity blade there wouldn’t have been games on the iPhone.

Not only that by Apple marketed the hell out of Infinity blade, and provided development assistance of their own, and Epic received the benefits.

Furthermore, as you point out, Epic wasn’t actually the developer of Infinity Blade.

Why should they get to ‘rent seek’ on the work of other developers?
It was a university robotics club project, I had mainly remembered it was the highest weight class.

I mostly worked on the electronics (my personal main gig was robomagellan), the others were more interested in the welding. I got it crossed with he superheavies from BattleBots.
Cosmology works a lot around that question. There are a few theories that claim that the maximum entropy of the universe is growing with time, so what was high-entropy on the past gets room to keep growing.
What's the limit for how many internet users can use Starlink at the same time?
MDN = Mozilla Developer Network. Most people wouldn't know what this is about. Tell them at the beginning of every web page.
>Who organizes these welders?

>Whose job is it to check the site come up with a safe plan where / before the welders work?

Nobody does any of that. It's not a rich country. They simply can't afford that kind of overhead. Sure the welders could but they can't/won't do that if the rest of the economy/society normalizes it and normalizing that and the whole economy can't afford that. It sucks but that's just how it works. You gotta get rich before you can afford to care about worker safety and the environment. (Obviously it's not a hard cutoff, as you get richer you care more about each).

Imagine the state of workplace safety in the US but in the 1950s. That's where they are right now.
The owner of my local bike shop describes his work as "we're a utility." When I moved here last year, I planned to buy a bike because it's bikeable and it was the first place I went on the first Monday morning I was here. While I was waiting around for them to open, a man rolled down the hill in the parking lot with the chain hanging off his old and originally cheap bike. The owner said "Let me fix that" and did and the man peddled off to wherever he was going without having to pay in about the time it took you to read this.

The shop is run on a sliding scale and weight weenies can buy weight weenie gear at weight weenie prices and homeless vets can get a bike at homeless vet prices and I get what I get at something in between and feel good about paying because I trust that the money is going toward sustaining something that helps people who need help.

But I'm worried that he'll go out of business because the pandemic is killing his parts supply and the new bike distributors are dealing with empty warehouses.

What I see in the article is a bike shop I probably wouldn't patronize because it rationalizes treating some people badly. It's not any more difficult to be nice to non-customers instead of angry at them. I just don't want to deal with angry small business people. Ultimately they are not trustworthy. YMMV.
Been waiting for this to hit the US. During lock down I was playing with VICE / C64 emu, and I know I could do some work with keymaps, but gosh, the keyboard was the single largest pain I ran into!

Speaking of soft reset, I saw someone who did a C64 restoration, it was probably a Youtuber, and they made their power switch have a tap to reset mode, pretty neat feature.

Having real interaction with these retro devices is an interesting point of desire - I feel it very much myself, and it makes such a huge difference. I assume it has something to do with the latency that emulators add to the experience, and especially if you used it in the past, these are real frustrations.

Just imagining a similar hypothetical, if I played a game that made a "fake" modem protocol negotiation noise, it would drive me crazy :)
Should your laptop with 4g modem take a 30% cut?
Doesn't Visual Studio make static/const members bold these days?

I can't find when it started happening, but there is at least someone wanting to turn it off Jan 2019: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/idea/437785/allo...
Same applications as anywhere urban. We folk living out in the sticks may appreciate the outdoors more, but there's still those of us who do use computers.

Example: Downloading modern software over anything at 10mbps is a royal pain- VMs, docker containers, bloated IDEs, gigabytes worth of OS updates, tens of gigabytes for games, you name it.

Streaming services cap quality, or stutter out horribly. Don't even bother trying to stream over satellite (even at 25mbs with hughsnet, for example), you'll blow your cap out of the water in a hurry and it'll make you resent leaving the 90's.
Another animated QR data transfer that uses fountain codes: https://github.com/divan/txqr
Morbid thought: Google Street View right now almost certainly has a 360 panorama of the location of your death. An intersection, a highway, a hospital, somewhere. That panorama will someday be filled with sadness for your loved ones. But you don't get to know its coordinates just yet.
I don’t agree with the breadcrumb mirroring. It’s orthogonal. You can have breadcrumb or not and it wouldn’t matter to the user if it mirrors the url or not.
No one believes Rome can fall
From http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.685...

> During the Sheffield, England influenza epi-demic from 1972 to 1973, the cases of 50 consecutive patients who were initially diagnosed as mild cases and were treated on an outpatient basis were followed. Transient electrocardiogram (ECG) changes were seen in 18 patients, and long-lasting changes were seen in 5 patients.

Like I said, covid is no different than the flu in this regard. The above linked paper is full of other case studies showing similar data, from 1918 to the 2000s.

While reading up on your citation I found tons of literature out there talking about how common this is with other bacterial and viral infections.

EDIT: I grant that the numbers for myocardial inflammation are not insignificant. I'm learning as I go. But I'll stand by my opinion that covid is not (historically) anything out of the ordinary, just another coronavirus that made the jump to people, like so many before, and lockdowns are not going to eradicate it.
I asked for your source because most studies have been refuted and I was curious if you found a legitimate one. Pulling up a random link on Google is not helpful to the discussion.

The Wikipedia article that you point to refutes it on almost every point... Please point me to the section that supports your claims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence

>>> The concept of "race" is a social construct, and "intelligence" has no agreed-upon definition; the validity of IQ tests as a metric for general intelligence is itself disputed. In particular, there is no scientific evidence that the average IQ scores of different racial or ethnic population groups can be attributed to any claimed genetic differences between those groups.
I went to visit LA 10 years ago. I somehow expected nice roads and well maintained infrastructure, because that is what you see in the movies. It was a shock for me to see how shoddy everything looked.
But there is no mono or clap vaccine?