skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only a slight exaggeration

Here's a good one: Each SCE bill includes two added costs that are only added to your bill if you are in CPA, these are:

"CCA Cost Responsibility Surcharge" and "CTC, NDC, PPPC".

These two are calculated based on energy utilization. This amounts to $40 to $60 per month for the bills I have seen. Which, in turn, means it makes CPA bills no different from or more expensive than SCE bills. That's why I called it a scam.

By now opting-out of CPA those two elements of the bill go away. What's just precious is that they place you in a "transitional" rate for six months.

I place this kind of stuff in the category of unnecessary complexity added to people's lives for no reason at all. It provides no benefits at all (or questionable benefits), burns time and financial resources.
It's been proposed and tried before, and I think generally deemed not worth it. a) Almost no one donates, b) the donations would be broken up to infinitesimal levels, helping no one, and c) there are people who devote their working lives to OSS without compensation, other people who write a few cute small libraries/tools but don't need the money, and then there are corporations who contribute to open-source for their own benefit. The proportion of money that would go to your favorite OSS heroes would be embarrassingly small; compounded by the low donation level and general dilution.
Why are the app store and iphone hardware 2 distinct products? the app store is simply a feature of the iPhone product.
https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002016508

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It's counter-productive, it aims at punishing successful where mere "bigness" is used as the proof of "unfair". We don't know how much cheaper Apple products could be if it hadn't have to spread costs of lobbying its interests in Washington DC across their device prices.

> The threat of it seems to be having positive effects already, looking at the front page of HN

it depends on your reliance on that kind of services and varies greatly among the userbase. I'm using Apple since 2014, I've never needed to use any of these services, and I would prefer to have a device that is hard to disassemble and is cheaper to produce without a loss in quality.
"Given enough time, Hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from, and where its going."
Well, as the law is written, the police do in fact have the right (under certain circumstances) to declare a gathering to be a riot, and to demand that it disperse. Those who refuse are in fact breaking the law, and can therefore be arrested, even under your criteria.

And I argue that it should in fact be that way, at least in some circumstances. If you have a large group of people, some of whom are committing, say, vandalism, and the group's boldness is growing as they see that they can get away with such acts, and the group is making kind of a compact body, so that it's difficult for officers to reach and arrest any individual who has committed a crime, then... what? Just let it go on, because it's "just vandalism" (so far)? Then what do you do when it isn't just vandalism (if in fact it continues to escalate)? Or do you just trust that it won't continue to escalate? "Just trust people who are already breaking laws" doesn't seem like a reasonable police approach. Or do you just let it escalate however far it's going to, because violence by the police is unacceptable in all cases?

> I think the large group of people doing work to air their grievances deserves the benefit of the doubt.

I do, too... but not forever. That is, they want to block a road for a protest? Sure. It's inconvenient, but they have the right. They want to block it every day for two months? That's a bit of a different question.
Thank you for your work! We need MORE information about what our government is doing at all levels, not less.
No because I don’t pay for loot boxes, gems, and other useless consumables.
Since when do slot machines require tokens? I thought it's usually either cash, or a card with money loaded on to it.
Why is GraphicsMagick [1] not a more popular alternative?

[1] http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
Hmm maybe, I would want to avoid donating to big projects supported by google etc though and instead focus on smaller community projects, regardless of their usage.

Measuring usage in general I think will be tricky..
That's not what this article and others are saying. That is, people are leaving and housing is falling. Also, much of the appeal comes from bars, restaurants, boutiques, and such. Those too are falling off the map.

I'm not assuming anything.
In case you missed it, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23613719 talks about github sponsors
Lisp has April, which I thought was pretty cool. https://github.com/phantomics/april
> People give C++ lots of hate but thanks to not having an easy way of adding complex dependencies, it has less dependency driven bugs/security issues.

Oh, come on. The number of security issues to things like libssl alone is enormous.
It's crazy to me that it isn't a thing. There's a bunch of stuff (laundry, dishes, RAID snapshots) that I can schedule to run any time, but there's zero incentive not to run them all at peak times.
TSLA: Wedbush analyst sets $1900 price target
I think you are describing Tidelift: tidelift.com
For what it's worth I think the right thing happened to him for possibly the wrong reason, and the community around him is as much to blame as he for enabling the damage he's done for as long as they did. If not for that whole debacle of an email conversation being leaked and made public, he would still be in a position of authority and still be normalizing the acceptance of behavior like his in tech culture.

There should always be room in society for someone to see the error of their ways and amend, but it's going to take more than a tweet's worth of text to make up for decades of - and let's be honest - sometimes passionate advocacy for reprehensible behavior, and the anecdotal evidence of creepy behavior towards women IRL, and that's not unreasonable. Sympathy doesn't mean one shouldn't expect growth.
A while back, the node event-stream package was compromised when the author passed ownership to a hacker. Not for money afaik:
https://gist.github.com/dominictarr/9fd9c1024c94592bc7268d36...
OpenSSL is notoriously in this situation: maintained by a few guys for whom it isn't even a full-time job, so they can't really do the proper work of trimming the fat that's all there

GnuPG is also maintained mostly by the same original guy, who was going broke a few years back so there was a chance he couldn't work on it anymore (https://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encrypti...). Fortunately the community came to help and now the future of GPG is a little bit more secure

It's not really the same but ssh is literally everywhere. Absolutely none of our sysadmin work would be possible without it, and yet very few of us actually give back to the OpenBSD foundation. If we all gave a penny every time we installed it every year, the foundation would reach its annual goal (https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2019.html) but we obviously don't, so they still need to ask for money

Also not specifically in this way but pretty much anything that Daniel J. Bernstein does is so good that it becomes a crypto standard. It's kinda ok because the software he does are "finished" in the sense that no new features are neither needed nor wanted, and his work is more about the primitives than the actual libraries. Still, there's a lot of the upcoming standards that all depend on what this single guy did.
Some real safety police in this comment section, since when was advertising honest?
FWIW - I think most of us who enjoy Thinkpads don't "see ugliness as a plus". Rather, we think it has a classic look, rather than fashionably sexy. And we do enjoy using the TrackPoint :-)
Yep, it is offensive that the ACCC would even contribute to this nonsensical "debate". There is not a shred of preserving Competition in the News Media and digital landscapes in Australia. There is certainly no way the ACCC has acted in the interest of the Consumer. This whole debacle serves a few financial and political interests and works against healthy debate, democracy and the population's interest.

Access to a variety of editorial positions in the media is not possible for the average Aussie. Newscorp control the opinions of the country and the electorate - a balanced view is not within the grasp of Australia anymore, regardless of how this legislation turns out.
I know you mean well, but I promise you, it wasn't a mistake. :) It's not rapid cycling, it's barely keeping up. It has literally gotten hotter here over the years. That's what I was trying to get at with my original post- what was appropriately-sized in decades past is no longer enough.
> finding and exploiting symmetries

I'm having trouble finding the papers I've skimmed on this (my original search phrase was something about succinct neural network encodings, entropy, yada yada yada), but that's already being done here and there, at least at a high level looking at graph symmetries (results were okayish -- theoretical space bounds aren't substantial improvements, and the compressed representations didn't perform super well). I haven't seen anything interesting yet explicitly dealing with the fact that neural networks represent the real world in some fashion and have a lot of biases imposed on the values the weights can take.

> improvements to it alternatives to backprop

I love seeing these come out. There's the no free lunch theorem and all that jazz, but in practice for real networks this can be a huge win.

> parallelism as well

Not really, at least if I'm understanding the chain of ancestor comments correctly. The arguments are more about the total cost of a given network than the total time to train it. Those are loosely entangled since with low levels of parallelism we're inclined to operate at higher clock speeds or take other energy-inefficient actions, but generally we would expect a parallel algorithm to be no more energy efficient (with respect to total conceptual work performed -- e.g., training a fixed neural network) than an equivalent serial implementation.
Ha, Of course govt. can regulate. Do you know in India e-commerce like Amazon is pure marketplace platform only. i.e. Amazon can't sell their own private label products on Amazon.in
Also India govt. is also preparing regulations to ask for data.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/retai...
Also you end up with a handful of people making 1000s of one liner libraries that link to each other in an effort to game such systems.
This is explained in the text between the headline and the first line.

The text reads: "Pritker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban's transparent public toilets turn opaque when in use."

The technology used is probably something like https://www.smartglassinternational.com/electric-switchable-... which is opaque when unpowered and transparent when powered.
ntpd is now looked after by the Network Time Foundation, but more importantly many distributions use other implementations of the protocol like chronyd.
I take total bill and total consumption and divide. It's a surprisingly high number.
Half life implies that one half of the mehane molecules decay in that period (or that a single one has a 50% of decaying).
It’s extremely hard to square the basic premise of this article: capitalism was created so that passions wouldn’t result in autocratic regimes, with the apparent retreat of liberal democracy across the western world. It’s also hard to square this hypothesis with the re-entrenchment of authoritarianism in countries recently exposed to capitalism, such as China & Russia.
Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator was worth the wait
Xbox has a monpoly on their game store. Sony has a monpoloy on their game store.

Come on - is this argument going to be used for all these too? Walmart has a monopoly on what sells in Walmart.
I've made an iPhone app for testing open source libraries before you use them
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Nowadays, GitHub has thousands of libraries written in Swift. Networking, data, business logic, UI components. Some of them are good for your apps, some are useless waste of time. Usually, you spend your valueable time for adding the UI component from new library to your project just to check how it works. Very often you get frustrated with the quality and rollback your project's state. Instead of wasting time for that, we invented something new. You can check UI components from popular libraries in one app - Awesome Libs!

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And, at the same time, it's a very underused piece of tech

Every time you think you need a custom file format for a given piece of software... you most likely don't. Just use SQLite. You can use the standard OS file Open/Save dialog box and users will never know the difference.

Yes, that means you now have to write SQL statements to manipulate your data. But that also means that you can get lots of complicated data structures on disk and can manipulate them easily, even outside your own software - just fire up the sqlite CLI and point to your file. There are GUIs as well.

Things like UNDO/REDO can also be had almost trivially (see https://www.sqlite.org/undoredo.html)

Sometimes this also means you don't need an external RDBMS even for web apps. I've seen so many apps which co-locate a small database in the same box that might as well have been a single sqlite file. I'm actually maintaining one right now that, although relatively important, will only ever be a single box. But sqlite wasn't 'enterprisey' enough, had to use PG. For a couple of tables.

https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html

Subscribe for my next rant on another underused piece of tech... Lua :)
The iOS App Store supposedly grosses around $50 billion USD per year. Let's say that they were to halve their cut from 30% to 15% (very close to what players like Epic are asking for) - cutting Apple's take from $15 billion USD to 7.5 billion USD.

What is Apple spending 7.5 billion USD on such that they'd have to raise the price of iPhones? They have multiple other revenue sources as well, like developer program fees. None of those cover their costs either? Are you suggesting they're selling phones at a loss?
I have no desire to constrain user choice. I do think there is value to users in putting some constraints on app developers. If you can accomplish that without also constraining user choice then that is the ideal outcome in my mind.
Yes, exactly. It's really quite fascinating--everything just vibrates, like a lot, all the time. The vibrations of some bits have frequencies that resonate with the frequency of other bits. And when they sync up, they change their frequency and then no longer resonate with each other. The whole universe is basically a giant musical instrument and chemical reactions are just wavelettes resonating with other things.
> a senator on the technology committee saying he has never sent an email

Senators who don't send emails don't do so because they don't know how to send emails -- they do it because they're doing seriously fucked up stuff and don't want a paper trail. As the fictional drug kingpin Stringer Bell says in The Wire -- "is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?"
What if the permission enablement was made more difficult? Perhaps like how you get to access Android developer tools only after tapping the build number a bunch of times. Or even, making it something you have to run from a CLI while connected to a computer.

My point is, there are many options that preserve safety for the vast majority of users without making it a total non-starter to use alternative app stores.
> questioning whether one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims was truly a victim or not.

I’ve never really been much of an RMS fan beyond admiration for what he has done for free software, but this is not what he said, at least according to his words as quoted in the post that initiated his cancellation[1]. I’ve pasted it from that post below [2]. The author of that post quoted this and then somehow inferred this [3]. How she (and everyone reading it thereafter) went from one line to the next from “she PRESENTED herself as willing” (not that she actually was willing), “assuming she was being COERCED by Epstein” somehow got reinterpreted as “she was entirely willing”.

Nothing RMS said stated he thought she wasn’t a victim, just that Minsky may not have known due to how Epstein coerced her to present herself.

But hey, the witch hunters got their burning.

[1] https://medium.com/@selamjie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec2...

[2] We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that
she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was
being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her
to conceal that from most of his associates.

[3] and then he says that an enslaved child could, somehow, be “entirely willing”.
Same reason any legacy dependency remains; the cost of replacement is higher than the cost of maintenance.
They're literally hanging on the walls of Buckingham Palace for the world to see for £26.50.
Google kills off a lot of things lol! I'm more concerned with raspi and ARM and etc :)

Only functionality missing would be valid cell tower functionality. Wifi and satellite would work just fine
China being a particularly interesting example, as Mao did not permit many passions (aside from Communism).
These arguments feel empty to me. There is only one source of software for the iPhone: Apple. The android ecosystem has no utility to the iPhone user. There is an Apple tax on every piece of software and every digital purchase on the platform. I don’t see where the competition is.
Conversely, we wouldn't be here bickering about such platforms if it wasn't immensely profitable. So, depending on your morals, it's a lesson on what to aim for. I wouldn't run a platform that stifles use, but I'm sure there are industrious people who will be able to exploit such a business _device_ to bring more good into the world.
IBKR offers similar rates and is what I moved to.
One unexpectedly strong benefit of the panels we put on our roof was the lower cooling bill, even before we were allowed to switch on the panels and use the power generated. Our roof geometry only allowed for a 65% solution instead of the 80% we were aiming for, and this unaccounted for improvement almost made the difference.
And yet they had to divert resources to entertain the team member who thought it was a good use of everyone's time to change/replace all "whitelist" and "master" terms to non-offensive terminology.
What is the relative proportion of the number of GPUs now sold for deep learning purposes vs gaming?

I think it is definitely true that historically the gamers drove the adoption of GPUs and almost accidentally enabled the deep learning revolution, but has the balance shifted already and is deep learning now the driving force? And are GPUs going to be completely superseded by custom deep learning hardware or rather not?
You get irrationally attached to things you are one of the authors of, I guess.
Yes, It's dependency system's weakness, but also that's what makes this system very strong:

If one of those base level things break, everyone who depend on it, will come together and replace/fix it instantly.
USB mass storage based authentication also does not protect against malware stealing the keys. A YubiKey (or similar token) performs all of the cryptographic operations in a separate environment that malware cannot access.
None. That’s the point. Both can deceive you in ways that App Store Apps cannot.

One reason people spend so much money in the App Store is because it is relatively safe to do so.
so, where's the flaw? The fact that somebody sometime ago named another corporation a monopoly by the same ridiculous criterion as "too big" and discharged it, doesn't make it anyhow right. Was there gatekeeping from the government for new players to enter the same market? Any quotas or tariffs by chance?
It was an invitation for Apple to screw up. They could have just banned the app. Instead they went full nuclear. Apple stepped in the trap.
No need to re-post! This is your 3rd submission of this today.
This is going to well worth some popcorns when people start to pull out...
Oooh thanks! That's super useful!
The chip is the code.

An FPGA is reconfigurable hardware, you tell it what to become instead of what to execute. An ASIC is able to be only the one thing that the mask used to create it dictates.
Ownership was passed to a contributor who showed no signs of being a hacker until they were added as a maintainer on the project, unfortunately.
The relevant part from the PDF of the filing:

"Just over two weeks ago, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook was asked during a Congressional
hearing whether Apple has “ever retaliated against or disadvantaged a developer who went
public about their frustrations with the App Store”. Mr. Cook testified, “We do not retaliate or
bully people. It’s strongly against our company culture.” But Apple has done just that. When
Epic gave users of its app Fortnite a choice of how they wanted to make purchases, Apple
retaliated by removing Fortnite from its App Store. Then when Epic sued Apple to break its
monopoly on app stores and in-app payments, Apple retaliated ferociously. It told Epic that by
August 28, Apple will cut off Epic’s access to all development tools necessary to create software
for Apple’s platforms—including for the Unreal Engine Epic offers to third-party developers,
which Apple has never claimed violated any Apple policy."

Edit: Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24190556 [much bigger thread, same topic]
This setting has been removed from recent macOS versions.
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Ah yes because any alternative to the current capitalist model, which erodes leisure and meaningful passions for many people, is by default a maoist or stalinist regime. Totally not a strawman, good one!