skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know how to deal with the flu. Healthy people do not normally die from it.

COVID-19 is on pace to put a million people in the ground by the end of the year (IIRC) and certainly leave many survivors with serious health problems, and we really still know very little about treating it, and it is more contagious and more deadly, especially to the healthy population.

We are past “it’s just a flu.”
I'm happy a VC is providing these insights. If the economics of AI don't make sense by helping increase profits or cutting costs... it's going to be a long road to reaching the "promised land."

I'm biased but in a lot of industries synthetic data has the potential to balance the costs from the perspective of data acquisition and preparation as well as model testing.

This article doesn't focus too much on the edge side of things but one pattern I'm seeing is that edge deployment can be notoriously resource intensive and time consuming.
Constant noise like road noise gives me anxiety but thats a new theory I’d never heard, so its not the noise thats a primary problem, its the fear of missing hearing something else important.
> But it has everything to do with distributing the game.

Because they're the only option. I mean there's no reason why Epic couldn't host the app on their server that people could download. It's not without precedent. But it's just not allowed for mobile.

> designing hardware, OS releases, etc. Epic did not design their own hardware, their own silicon, build entire global supply chains, design UX, etc. Apple and Google did. Do they not deserve a cut?

Seriously? You think Epic should have to pay for the hardware that we consumers buy for thousands of dollars? Apple has some of the highest hardware margins in the world. They don't need software developers to pay for the hardware that we've already paid too much for. These aren't consoles sold for a loss.
If you want to see the author riff on density matrices, check out this recent video: https://youtu.be/wP_Jsxn7BA4?t=1020

And by riff I mean with an actual electric guitar
> Epic did not design their own hardware, their own silicon, build entire global supply chains, design UX, etc. Apple and Google did. Do they not deserve a cut?

Where did the $1k I spent on my phone go?
Yes. Arecibo is mentioned in the episode description, and the x-files episode is mention on the Arecibo wiki page.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751154/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory
It's one thing to be a walled garden, it's another to be a walled garden and forbid all other walled gardens. Will you be okay with it if Apple provides the only walled garden for the entire world?

In general, I think free-form app distribution should be the way to go for any device under the general-purpose computer category. Multiple walled gardens can be spawned on top of that.
If there's one thing I don't understand about other PC gamers, it's why any of them want to use these stores in the first place.

Whenever possible, I buy from GoG, but not because I want to use Galaxy. With GoG, I just download an exe, run the installer, and my game appears in this wonderful launcher called The Freaking Start Menu. It's great.

What do I get from using a client? I don't want my games to be integrated into a social network, I just want to play them, and not be interrupted until I'm done.

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My second choice after GoG is usually itch.io, but my third choice is actually becoming EGS. I'm not sure if this was intentional, but a significant portion (maybe even a majority?) of EGS games don't actually need EGS to run. You can download them with an open-source tool like https://github.com/derrod/legendary, back up the files, and run them. I've personally done this with Journey, Beyond Two Souls, Control, and Detroit.

A handful of Steam games allow this too (one recent example is Ori and the Will of the Wisps), but it's much less common than on the Epic Store!
A Nixon deepfake, a 'moon disaster' speech and an information ecosystem at risk
Arsenal Ship
This is also a reason more companies don't go into open source or target the GNU/Linux desktop. Whenever you do something that slightly disagrees with the Richard Stallman philosophy, or god forbid charge for software, they will froth at the mouth, attack you, and say stuff like "I will fork you and make your company obsolete". Nobody who sells software on the Mac App Store for example ever has to hear stuff like this.
What does putting it over an LCD achieve?
> I'm sure they weighed that against setting a precedent that developers can sidestep their 30% cut

That precedent is being set anyway, the Epic Games store still exists on Android, and you can get Fortnite through it, and this dispute can't do anything but bring more attention to that fact.

Of course, that kind of does show a way in which they are better for devs and consumers than Apple, since dispute over store terms with devs are less of a total barrier to delivering/selling (for devs) or getting access to (for consumers) apps on the platform.
Normal people don't know or care which cloud accounts they're logged into. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone talk about a (personal) Microsoft Account as a positive. People care about syncing their photos between their computer and their phone, sure, but neither Microsoft Cloud nor Canonical's whateveritis does that. People don't know how to get their emails from these extra accounts, iCloud included.

These OS-cloud-account systems may make sense for businesses but they absolutely don't help home users.
I've always wanted to see a breakdown of Apple's value just based on the apps. For instance, Apple gets 30% of all money Tinder brings in. Tinder has to spend a lot of money on engineers and hosting the app - but Apple has close to no cost for this. If MTCH is worth 30B dollars based on apps that will indefinitely pay Apple 30% - how much extra market cap can you assign to Apple based solely on this? It must be at least 10 billion. Same must go for Fornite and dozens of other apps that gross huge numbers.

(I know Tinder is on other phones and the percentage could change - but you get the idea).
Quick question: Do console developers like XBox and the Switch take ~30% cuts of every game sold for their platform? Genuinely curious.
But isn't an app fundamentally just a collection of files? What is stopping F-Droid from replacing those files? Are executable bits special or something?
SiFive Raises $61M Series E
Reality has a liberal bias, it seems.
OP's point is that it's unfair for Apple to take a cut when they didn't have anything to do with creating the game.

My point is that Epic does the same thing.

Apple created the app store. The iPhone brand is built on security, reliability, and ease of use. I can completely understand why Apple strongly resists people trying to disrupt that. It's not in Apple's interests because it'll diminish the appeal of their devices, and it's not in consumer interests either.
My Firefox mobile was updated during the night and changed the UI completely, moving the bar to the bottom etc and it is just all bad. I see not having auto updates as a feature. Mostly it is just annoying changes and I prefer to know when updates happens so I can track things that break and blame the update.
Except you're still locked into Apple's webview, thanks to their policy of disallowing other rendering engines. PWAs on iOS will only ever work as well as Apple allows them to.
Epic Games hasn't purchased any app distribution services from Apple or Google. Epic is the vendor here, not the customer. The money flows from Apple to Epic.

What Apple is doing feels unfair, but making an antitrust case against them is going to be a stretch with current laws.
Other stores aren't allowed to auto update apps which is a pretty big disadvantage.
I have no use for a boat. But my parents have one from the early 90s and would love to get an electric replacement. I think $100k is probably the upper limit though...

And I've often thought about how easy (compared to cars) it would be to make a good one. I thought it would make for a good between-jobs hobby project.
The old guard is very enterprise-y for a reason. Their products are complex monoliths that require mid-six figure investments to get moving. Either you have the staff/dollars/organizational momentum to buy their crap and follow-through or it's not gonna work.

I've spent more time than I'm comfortable admitting with Gartner's favorites in the Data Governance and Data Quality areas and they all suck. Desperately looking forward to having someone not-tied to legacy technology enter this space.
I use Android with alternate app stores everyday, so I'm intimately familiar with the issues with them. The most prominent ongoing issue is that they can't auto-update apps the way Google's can. It's not a level playing field.
Covid-19: What do we know about “long Covid”?
Don't Linux distributions like Debian avoid this by backporting security fixes rather than upgrading to an incompatible version?
https://www.debian.org/security/faq#oldversion
You act like european rural folk and concentrate into small villages surrounded by your farms. Instead of driving to walmart for an hour, you shop at your local village.
This vitriol is pretty hilarious. Do you actually understand how business works ?

If you sell a product through ANY distribution channel whether it be online, brick/mortar store, influencers etc you need to pay a fee. It's been this way for centuries.
Yes, I’m not arguing approval for building on a platform. But that’s totally separate from selling it. Apple has commingled this, IMO.

I should be able to buy an app at competitive prices wherever. If Apple gets a royalty from that, that’s fine too.
This. So much this. It kills me that people are no longer familiar with simply buying and downloading games.

GOG and Humble Bundle work like this on Linux (though GOG has an optional Galaxy app). You login to a website, buy and download.
The problem fat pointer based implementations are massively slower. Rust aims to provide safety without massive performance penalties. If one wanted safety without performance they would just use java or similar.
You can side-load apps for 7 days at a time with the free developer account as well.
I think you could actually do that. You can run your own code, Apple doesn't actually care what you run if you have a dev account and are compiling your own stuff to put on your machine. So what's to stop you from installing an app store, or at least some semblance of one that would let you run your own apps under an app you compile and put on your iOS device?

I've never really thought about this before, but it seems like it's probably possible. Again, this doesn't help Epic -- they don't want to run apps on your phone, they want to monetize mass user phones, not give code to devs who are willing to put in the effort to install something through Xcode.
That is true. However, the US immigration system seems to select for the affluent, the skilled, and the already the successful. Many of them come to the country with existing contacts in positions to aid them through the process, and with specific plans. That means that many of these migrant are able to leapfrog many of most insurmountable structural barriers that black Americans face in terms of capital, debt, skills, policing, and access to an affluent social network by the simple act of being from anywhere else than America.

When they (the affluent ones to whom I'm referring) establish themselves and settle down, they're then in a position to shelter their children from many of the structural inequities faced by the black community writ large, such as access to quality schooling, housing, and living in overpoliced areas.

This does not mean that the descendants of black migrants are immune to racism in the US. Indeed, even the most affluent family can scarcely hope to protect their children from the overt, and even covert acts of conscious and unconscious racism perpetrated by both individuals and our institutions.

But affluence does open doors, and can be used as a buffer against the most systemicly insidious elements of America's segregationist past.
Yep, this is basically a complaint about DRM. Do apps typically have their own DRM setups or are they using software baked into the play store?
Per Reuters, investors include Saudi Aramco, SK Hynix, and previous investors including Qualcomm, Intel, Western Digital, and Sutter Hill Ventures
Actually Google provides reword program (Play Points) but Apple doesn't.
But then again, how does something like the following work?

https://twitter.com/GoogleAI/status/1293970520753369088

Any idea how it could be fooled?
I meant between Safari and Chrome. Saying Apple maintains their own, yet they share tech.
Yes, and it was glorious. I keep one running for fun, and there are people still working with whatever Maemo transformed into.
Pretty sad that this happened. It is rather iconic.

Interesting, though, I did not realize my Alma Mater took over management of it.
I've always taken it to mean in relation pre-colonial ethnic groups or cultures.

It's specific in its vagueness. It's not meant to describe a specific culture or population, but a class.
It's funny that even on a platform where it's possible to distribute software for free by other means, like Windows, Epic charges 12% to do it on their store.
Frauscher is an Austrian boat manufacture that has been making electric boats for over 70 years!

https://www.frauscheramerica.com/electric-yachts

Their styling, engineering, and quality of build are all exceptional. This Zin boat looks like a shoddy toy. Another commenters mentioned it would make a great tender for a yacht, its size to seating capacity is too small for most yachts. This company looks like another SV VC pump and dump that is to be hyped up so the naive an uninitiated waste time and money on an inferior product...sigh....

As an aside Frauscher's 1414 Demon is one of the sexiest power boats you will ever see. I highly recommend the youtube review!

https://www.frauscheramerica.com/1414-demon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW_siGAYTa0
Apple provides the entirety of the operating system, API, directX equivalent for games, complete set of development and debugging tools, authentication and much more.

If Samsung were to make a whole development and gaming platform, they would charge developers on their platform too. and they'd really need the money because that's truly a ton of work.

The protest is only about the service fee, 30% is too much.
Graphic performance is excellent if you don't insist on say using Nvidia hardware with the open source Nouveau drivers everyone knows sucks. Open source AMD and closed source Nvidia both provide good performance.

Going with just US figures the average spent on a computer in 2020 is 632 usd total. A high end card on the other hand is $400 to $800 each. a 2000-3000 pc with 800-1600 in graphics hardware is probably somewhat up there in the 99th percentile of configurations its pretty niche even so I cannot imagine any even technical challenges whatsoever with all the monitors hooked to the same GPU whereas a high end card ought to support 3 monitors.

So now are we talking about a 2000-3000 dollar pc with 2 dedicated GPUS with 4+ monitors?

Brief research seems to suggest this is challenging. Improving it would also seem not to benefit many users. Even talking merely about windows gamers only 1% used crossfire or sli.

There is even a plausible solution for people who want lots of displays so long as they are ok with a single gpu.

Although supporting 2 to 3 monitors is incredibly common there are actually cards which support 4-6.

For example

https://www.newegg.com/asrock-radeon-rx-5700-xt-rx-5700-xt-t...

There is probably no good solution for multiple GPUs + multiple displays because virtually nobody uses it now and longer term it seems even less will.

The logical decision is to go with the strongest single GPU with enough outputs for the monitors you plan to drive.
> You think Epic should have to pay for the hardware that we consumers buy for thousands of dollars? Apple has some of the highest hardware margins in the world

Sure. If they want to complain about the cost of using someone else's hardware.

Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft etc do it.
I thought they didn't make private registries available because it would "fragment the ecosystem"

Here's the conversation I saw:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33054369/how-to-change-t...

pointing to this:

https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/7203

and also there was this comment:

"It turns out this is actually possible, but not using the genuine Docker CE or EE version.

You can either use Red Hat's fork of docker with the '--add-registry' flag or you can build docker from source yourself with registry/config.go modified to use your own hard-coded default registry namespace/index."
> When will we see the Google Stadia game streaming app on the XBOX?

Bold of you to assume Google will keep that alive for a particularly long time.
Your Mac isn’t ridden with that, because you’re a user that knows that you’re doing. I see “regular users whose Macs are riddled with MacKeeper and other garbage all the time
Do they define performance? This suggests you aren't supposed to discuss the Cloud Products with anyone. Can imagine if everyone follows this it won't be good for Word of mouth
I appreciate the thoughtful commentary. I couldn't disagree more with you more of course.

There are 2 instances where AI breaks the mold you've cast.

Executing rote tasks that no humans need do, and relatedly, while there does seem to be a tough hurdle when it comes to "better than human" execution there is also an inverted survivors bias. Once a technology is production ready it is no longer AI. Cars aren't robots, antilock brakes aren't AI, Once a system outperforms a human it's technology, not intelligence.
Please, in what way is Apple liable for this other than the fact they need to hold someone accountable for the damages? You really can’t imagine this taking place for malware that compromises payment information? They may not be ordered to pay but the headlines would read the same and the negative PR is worth way more than a few million.
How many app developers feel they are getting gouged? I’m an iOS developer and don’t feel that way? Is it when you get big and greedy?
I don't play games anymore and I'm not a big fan of the whole microtransactions/F2P model, but I found that video somewhat uncompelling.

Not that long ago, the MMO standard was $15 a month* (plus the initial $50+). Not to unlock the cool stuff, but simply to play at all. And nobody felt like there was anything sinister about it.

With Fortnite, you can play for free as much as you like, or (based on what I gathered from the video) pay <$10 every 2.5 months to be on the cool track. Seems like a pretty good deal in comparison, assuming that they're rolling out new (non-shop) content at a reasonable rate.

Even if you support them and play their game

How are you supporting them if you don't pay? Sure, they benefit from network effects, but ultimately they obviously need a lot of paying customers. Have we really gotten to the point where people expect to play AAA games for free and view it as audacious if the developers incentivize people to pay for things? As mentioned, I did much prefer the old model because it precluded this kind of stuff from seeping into the experience, but I don't think there's anything fundamentally sinister or wrong with trying to push people towards paying for your game (though I will say the "let me see your Marsh Walk emote" stuff was pretty cringey, but that's another story).

*I realize that Fortnite is not an MMO but it seems to fit the bill for something you would pay a subscription for these days. You could hold the Battle Pass for over a year for the classic $50-60 game price.
For one, Postmodernity != postmoderism.
Did this decision likely get made before the meeting with congress? Curious the lag time on corporate decision making on something like this.

The fight was bound to happen but I’m fascinated by the timing.
For the benefit of other engineers who have not read the article:

The damage was done by a wire rope, not an electrical cable.
Because docker wired in their registry as the basis for everything by design. I think people had to fork docker to get one where you could create your own registry.

I think it's a good idea to NOT be pulling from someone else's image on the internet.
That's because Google made it so third party app stores can't install apps in the background, auto-upgrade or batch install multiple apps.

Users expect to be able to do that, so it is a non-starter to run a commercial app store that Google's already turned into a second class citizen on Android.
No, there is no reason for them to do that. Microsoft has proven otherwise over their entire existence.
Amazon makes its quantum computing service Braket generally available
"nearly nine in 10 patients (87%) discharged from a Rome hospital after recovering from covid-19 were still experiencing at least one symptom 60 days after onset. "

I don't understand how this illness is not taken more seriously in the west given how little we know about it and what little we know tell us it's not a recover / die kind of illness and more like a bell curve with recover / suffer forever / die and suffer forever seems to be the fat part of it.,
Is that something that Caribbean nations should address, rather than USA? Frankly I don't see how policies that don't benefit ADOS meet the ethical burden that USA universities (especially those such as Ivy League universities who historically benefited from slavery in USA) would seem to have.
Wind Turbines get mostly put on existing farm land (or out at sea? or are they clearing forest to put them up?

I also don't see why farmland and solar can't live side by side. mixed livestock farming and panels higher above the ground seems doable.

I'm sure it's possible to grow crops under solar panels too provided you're not blocking all the light. Google shows there are some studies on it I don't have time to read right now.

This ignores cost of course. but I'm arguing against the idea that we don't have the space.
They won’t
Yeah this is exactly what I do too, works just fine. You probably already have something like this, but I hacked a bash+yq script that automatically updates all relevant yaml files with the latest image tag. So getting new code running is two lines:

make image push deploy

kubectl -f somewhere/deploy.yaml
I've found value in individual subreddits - like /r/reactjs for React questions. Common questions still get answered, unlike on SO.
It’s been corrected...
“Almost 2 percent of the kids diagnosed with COVID-19 in the United States, who have developed multi-system, inflammatory condition, have died from it...”
IIRC some games in Google Play supports to apply "item code" to get item, but same game in AppStore doesn't support.
This appears to be a case of no harm, no foul.

There is no environmental damage and no danger to the residents.

The residents that didn't want to see a small construction project, the size of a residential lot, will now have to put up with it for another year.
I can’t wait for this to be used in vehicles

https://imgur.com/F2VHfjs
Look into the Android security model, it's more complicated than vanilla Linux where you can just log in as root and fiddle with files if you want to get something done.
What's a scientific field with non-reproducible experiments? I'm hard-pressed to think of any field with the kind of no-do-overs issues that archaeological excavations have.
It's tough. It takes a lot of energy to move a boat. And boats go slow. Sailboats go 6mph or so under motor. And they use about half a gallon of diesel an hour (for a boat ~40ft) to do that. That's a ton of fuel!

Electric motors are probably 2x as efficient (probably more like 1.5x? I guess?) But even then you have to fill your boat with expensive batteries to even get 1/20th of the range of your normal boat with 50gallons of diesel.
You need to meet my dog who has to pee every 20 minutes when I’m home.