skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely agree that from a developer point of view, this is awful, but just to play devil's advocate here, the reasoning generally given for these is that bad actors tend to tweak their apps to bypass rules a lot faster and efficiently if you always tell them exactly what to fix to get unbanned. I agree developers shouldn't be treated like this, but it still is true that malicious apps are a real problem and bad actors continually try to break things and minmax ways to get around the rules.

As users and developer, that's a side that we don't really get to see, so it's hard to judge how justified these techniques are. What alternative solution do you propose that would help developers without at the same time making bad actors lives easier.
I'm not sure that they are. I did say that something smells rotten (products getting worse and prices going up), but this alone is not justification for punitive measures.

The government playbook in this sort of situation is normally to start subpoena'ing emails, execs etc. and look for hard evidence of actual anti-competitive practices. They're not only interested in a business model as it's described in the media, they want to know what company execs actually did. If they find something they file a suit.
> I have never heard of a bank simply taking money from someone’s account. If a bank did something like that, they would be hauled into court in no time and lose their license. Technically it’s possible; legally, it’s a death sentence.

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

https://www.thenationalherald.com/archive_general_news_greec...

https://www.cadtm.org/The-Troika-s-Policy-in-Greece-Rob-the-...

People have such a short memory.
Modding cars has been a thing since time immaterial. Tesla is fighting against a long tradition I enjoy, and I hope they lose.

I don't want every piece of tech in my life to become "look but don't touch". There needs to be a right to repair and tinker with the things you own. We're slowly becoming serfs to our own possessions and the giant tech monopolies that control them from afar
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Damn. This has me wonder: had you ever done a psychedelic prior to this?

I had ketamine during wakeful surgery.

Loved it. Grateful it was available.

But I had prev. experience w/ psychedelics & had learned/practiced how to: let go, place attention on what's positive & cease to have expectations.
By the way, I know it might sound like a "trap" or similar, but I am starting a new podcast and I would like to see if you're interested in having a nice chat with me. I'm not trying to extract any specific controversy, or to be sensationalist - there are no sponsors, I do it with total freedom, and the VC I am involved with allows me to do what I want - so, no traps or hidden agendas (if you can believe that). Email is my HN username @ gmail.

Even if you just want to say no, just say hello in any case :)
App availability isn’t the only cost in switching. Even if so, a duopoly is still a concern as a consumer.

Having to chose between only AT&T and Comcast for cable because they are the only providers to your area is not a fair choice. Sure, nothing stops me from moving. I can get power, water, and commute from elsewhere too. But it’s a pain and sucks.
They did a decent job with credit cards eventually.

Developers leaving won't happen, Apple and Google will cut a deal with big guys (Netflix, Amazon) and ignore smaller players (even Epic in this case)
This is an area that I find unbelievably frustrating. A lack of computing resources in the current day is kind of insane. You can buy an 8GB GPU for <$1000. Even with the rest of the costs, the cost of hardware like this is a drop in the bucket when your main office is housed in Mountain View! Especially on a project that ends up being public-facing, these are missed opportunities where a little can go a long way.
If you've been to Zurich and your mobile reception was bad, you either were using a bad provider or your phone has issues. I'm on the swisscom network, and the only time I lose 4G is when I go to the mountains.

And if what you say is true I suspect the provider dependency is also true in the US as I hit quite a few holes when using an AT&T sim card on a road trip through the US.
> The tricky part about this is that every new technology looks this way at first - cool but of limited utility - until it's not

The really tricky part is that a lot of promising-at-first-but-ultimately-useless technologies look exactly the same way.
Notably, you don't need a relay for the RESET pin. Since the Pi and the mobo already share a ground courtesy of the PS/2 connection, you can just tie the RESET line to a GPIO pin and leave it floating (configured as an input, high-impedance state) when you don't need to reset the motherboard. When you do, configure it as an output and set it low, which pulls the signal to ground and places the mobo into reset. A moment later, turn it back to an input and the mobo's pullup raises the line and the chips come out of reset.

If you're feeling extra cautious, use a small FET and raise the gate to pull the pin low. More details in my other comment here.
Just note that VTM is the main commercial TV station in Belgium, and the name is most likely trademarked there as well.
Really? I’m an iPhone user and even I admit that Google Maps, Google Photos and whatever Google is calling their voice assistant today are better. If I were serious about photos I would use Lightroom.
The sad thing is they didn't had to do this.
They could have literally just waited a while and released this. But I agree, reading the article, it feels like it was going to happen no matter what.
Apple is pretty good at listening to developers and overturning their mistakes. This is an example.

To have a good App Review system, there are going to be mistakes made. Having actual people there the developers can appeal and talk to is critical.
They can take 0, that's Google's cut on Google Pay.
Context shifts at different speeds for different markets.

For teens, keeping up is tough. Fashion moves fast. Nobody is in fisticuffs over Beanie Babies in 2020.

For chefs? Professional and commercial kitchens have evolved they way they have for reasons. Think there was even a front-page article on this a few months ago, actually.
I am not a blockchain skeptic and I have worked in the field for years (currently @ poloniex). When I interview people and explain to them in detail what we do, they become extremely excited. I think most people don’t really understand this technology and instead base their opinions on journalist-schlock like the linked article. It just misses the point!
Shit happens, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_the_Lifemaker

The prologue is sufficient http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200203/0743435265___0.htm , the rest is a matter of taste.

Personally I found it to be hilarious :-)
Our Ed takedown drug is midazolam. I can’t see benzos being safe being given by non-medics. The safety profile of ketamine is excellent (as I’m sure you know)

Having said that it blows my mind that it is considered necessary or appropriate to give someone ketamine to restrain them.
“Whenever I mention the likes of Newton and their works, I frequently get attacked by some people. Their argument is that Newton was a terrible human being and despite his contributions to Science, Mathematics, and the process of discoveries in general, he does not deserve praise since appraisal implies we would be condoning his behavior.“

I lament atheism, even as an atheist, for the idea that only the Gods (or God) can pass judgement on the human soul is a useful idea. When nothing is sacred, every thing and person is subject to useless and pointless posthumous destruction for there is nothing to naturally curtail the hubris that we can pass judgement on all who ever lived even when we are in fact, not objectively morally superior to our forebears and even if we were, we don’t possess the means to make that determination. The dead are gone, but we still use them to distract us from our lives rather than take what is useful and discard what is not.
I personally don't think 30% is particularly high in normal app selling scenarios. The two bigger issues with Apple's system are

1. The complete control over the ecosystem, which is gated and opaque. No alternatives to bypass the App Store.

2. 30% is fine for single app sales, but when you're an app that sells monthly subscriptions or tons of in-game content, it just doesn't scale the same.
I take it that you find this frustrating. But in this political climate, I find it understandable that people are “triggered“ when you put emphasis on the current state of things, even if it is a fact, than how we ended up here. Underneath those statistics is an injustice at a large scale that span generations, and many people don’t want to build a society on top of injustice, without addressing it first. That’s not a matter of statistics, it’s a matter of values. So when you put emphasis on statistics, people will suspect that you don’t share those values.
> a Python set type is basically a naked hash table, or a dictionary with all keys and no data.

Not exactly. Dicts, as you say, are ordered - but sets are not.
The 8086 uses "traditional" microcode, where microcode is executed to implement the instruction. Modern x86 processors are a bit different, translating an instruction into micro-ops which go into the instruction pipeline. So the 8086 may not be translating in the way you're thinking.

In any case, look elsewhere in these comments for a discussion of the NEC V33 processor, which replaced the 8086's microcode with hardwired control.

As for the 8086's microcode, each micro-instruction is 21 bits: 5 bits for a source register, 5 bits for a destination register, 3 bits for a "type" field, 7 bits for two more fields, and 1 bit to control the flags.

The microcode ROM is the big rectangle in the lower-right of the die photos.
The store should set it's policy, law just ensures equal rights and review process for developers
Competing app stores would raise another problem though.

One that occurred with certifying agencies in the financial crisis of 2008.

In a world with competing app-stores, if a store does its scrutiny properly, and is seen as too strict, then the apps will flock to get listed in other less-strict app-stores. Thus all stores are incentivised to relax the scrutiny to retain apps for their own survival. Sometimes to the point of simply rubber-stamping their approvals on crappy stuff.

Thus the end-users lose the benefits of proper curation.
I'm a blockchain skeptic. Have I introduced you to our lord and savior, the blockchain?
How else does one export their money & long-cultivated digital reputation out of china?
> Killed the semantic web and semantic markup? Check.

Based on what evidence?

> Disabled APIs for blocking ads? Check

They didn't. uBlock Origin and adblocker extensions never stopped working.

> Use Google.com as the default search? Yep.

What do you think Edge does here? Easily changed via policies.

> Auto log into your Google session or nag until users permit it? Absolutely

Doesn't nag you and easily disabled in settings or via policy.

> Trying to destroy the notion of a URL? I thought those were cool.

I only get a little frustrated on Android, but just have to remember to hit the edit icon if I want to change it.
I don't know what over-collateralised loans are to suggest a solution, but I'm trusting you.

I agree that there are cases where blockchain don't have alternatives. Those are where you want a decentralized ledger and you can't trust anyone.

It can accomplish that, but is extremely inefficient doing it, so you really need to decide whether the cost is worth it.
Thanks. Yes, the graphics are drawn on a canvas using JavaScript. The programming language itself is written in C and runs using WASM and is more inspired by BASIC.

I have been working on the programming language for about 4 years. For the simpler examples I did not need more than one or two days - would take longer with JavaScript.
If you looked into comparing the services from any two different countries, you’ll find completely different sets of market and geographical circumstances. The costs of providing the service will be different, the actual service provided will be different, and the demand from consumers will be different.

If you compare Australia and New Zealand for instance, there’s some very obvious factors that could explain that difference. Australia has a lot more outbound submarine bandwidth than New Zealand has, with New Zealand also being much further away from the rest of the world. Most of Australia has either no service or terrible service. New Zealand has approx the population of Sydney, while having more than 20x the land area. Australia has about 5x the population of New Zealand, so all of your fixed prices per customer are going to be less in Australia.

For any two countries you’re going to get an incredibly long list of factors that influence price. Population density seems like it should have a significant impact on the cost of building and maintaining mobile infrastructure for example. The US has close to 10x the population density of Canada, and Europe has over 3x the population density of the US, which I would expect is a non-trivial contributor to the reason that Canada is more expensive than the US, which is more expensive than Europe.
Things take time. To dismiss it because it hasn’t transformed a massive entrenched industry in just over a decade is pretty short-sighted.
Chrome's monopoly is going to be worse than the IE days. Microsoft was more negligent than intentional. Google has been waiting for the day for a decade.

Look at what happened to Android. Google play services started out innocent, now it's half the OS. And "safety net", like the "patriot" act, is the nail in the coffin.

Buckle in bois for some good old fashioned monopoly fun
Any similar for other cloud services like azure, gcp and especially digital ocean
Uber is a different story, competition is a lot easier and it already exists all over the place (Uber isn't even that profitable which proves this, meanwhile app store is printing cash)
I think the population density of the area where one lives affects the quality of network they experience.
KYC and AML exist for a reason - investigating and stopping massive amounts of financial crime.

People want to convert between fiat currency and BTC, that’s why they end up interacting with these regulations.

You can’t currently live only using BTC, but even if you could, the public ledger of every transaction would make it pretty easy to figure out your scheme and come after you anyway whenever you tried to convert the money to actually do anything.
They're the same link; presumably an accidental double-paste. Still useful to have it working though. :)
Here is the VirtualGlobetrotting: Military - Bases google map [1] The map includes a lot of background information on each identified location.

1. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1OipNxc8-CLspaQsYwF...
Any developer would gladly do so as long as you shoulder the purchasing of the hardware or subscribe to a SaaS that provides such service.
thu2111: Why Experts Can't Say “We Don't Know” & Why NonExperts Are Often Better
Last paragraph of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23638167

thu2111 states:

Health "experts" have the same problem all experts have: they can offer any answer at all and not be held to account, except if they give the most honest answer: we don't know. That answer is one they cannot offer without undermining the justification for their own job and social status. It's why non-experts are so often more correct than "experts" - they can correctly weigh up uncertainty without risking their livelihoods.
There's never been a better time to get your own domain and take back control before it happens.
I’m asking for a discussion about design, no need to be snarky (zk snarky, I could say).
That seems like an odd use of the word "invade". I mean, your definition is implicit, but I'm not sure it's quite standard.

If I search the internet for, say, "soviet invasion of germany" I get almost entirely hits such as plans for invading West Germany for WWIII, or alternate histories where the Soviets invaded Germany at the beginning of WWII instead of signing a pact. Also the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

It's not entirely unheard of to refer to Soviet offensive into Germany at the end of WWII as the "invasion of Germany", but it seems to be somewhat rare and unusual. And with Bing, unlike Google, I didn't find that usage at all.

I wonder if people rarely use the phrase because it seems vaguely to imply sympathy with the Nazis.
I do not understand this. Does that mean in israel the callee pays (as well, or completely) and in other countries (only) the caller?

Or does it mean you share mobile phones and in other countries the owner of the mobile phone pays while in Israel the callers somehow identify on the phone?
Agreed, unless prefaced with the phrase "We don't have a".

When Uber came to Japan, they pushed heavily on their three main points:

- Uber is convenient.

- Uber is safe.

- Uber is clean.

Japanese taxis are (a) everywhere; (b) probably about the safest form of transport that doesn't have armor plating; and (c) are probably cleaner than the a Blue Cross operating theater.
Why’s it inefficient at doing it? Proof of Stake chains have low fees and very low energy costs.

Edit: also, it’s a way of borrowing money immediately from others by locking up collateral until you’ve repaid the loan, else at a certain time the collateral is sent to the loaner. It’s a really cool way of decentralising micro loans and removing financial risk to the loaner. For people who don’t have access to credit it’s proving popular with around a billion dollars in loans locked at the moment.
> The flash dome itself reached 20 km, while the ring of absolute destruction had a radius of 35 kilometers

Is there another term for “ring of bsolute destruction”? When I google that, all of the results are either for a book with that in part of the title, or a guitar effect pedal, or this article itself.

I’d like to read more about this - can anyone suggest a better search term?
He would also say that stuff outside of articles as well tho
MVNOs are unable to operate in Canada because the carriers mentioned above won’t let new entrants use their networks. It’s how they protect their oligopoly.
I would be happy to pay Google a monthly fee for all their services. Mainly just so I feel like a customer instead of a product and to give me the peace of mind that if something goes wrong I can talk to a person that can help me.

At the moment I'm looking out for whatever service provider will let me have the equivalent of email, drive, calendar, docs and sheets all in one place.

Does anyone know of any that might have slipped under my radar?

Edit: anything comming up that is I can't see anything on the list that does everything. My best bet at the moment is proton will come up with something.
Quotes to show the basic problem and what's been discovered:

"Physicists have algorithms to compute the probabilities of no-loop and one-loop scenarios, but many two-loop collisions bring computers to their knees....

"Researchers use computers to essentially guess at millions of relationships and laboriously extract the combinations of integrals that matter....

"[With new cohomology methods] When researchers compute the weights, they see that scenarios with the longest-lasting virtual particles — that is, cases in which the particles become essentially real — shape the outcome the most. ...

"Last week Mizera, Mastrolia and colleagues published another preprint showing that the technique has matured enough to handle real-world two-loop diagrams."

I've been hoping for a long time that math'ers would make more sense of QM. Fingers crossed.
> Abolish the police.

Sounds cool. I have had some bad experiences with cops.

Suppose someone breaks into your house because of your skin color or political leanings and there are no police. What course of action do you recommend? Spoiler alert. You are also heavily armed.
I thought Play Services was designed to house more and more of the OS, so that Google could get back some control over updates, instead of letting device manufacturers never update their Android versions.
Drugging your suspects makes sense. It's hard to justify injuring someone before they're proven guilty. Traditional methods like tasers and pepper spray tend to leave evidence thats too obvious to the courts.
This recalls Paul Krugman's famous clownspeak, in 1998, comparing the impact of the internet to that of the fax machine.

By 1998, the internet had failed to transform a lot of industries despite a lot of hype and grifters ( WebVan, WorldCom, etc etc etc).

Regardless, it was progressing fast. People with enough technical understanding understood its tremendous underlying promise--not the promise of a quick buck, but the opportunity to make things that were previously impossible, and the inevitability of eventual transformative change across a whole range of industries.

Remind you of anything?
You could just sign up for a month of Game Pass and get the game for 1 £/€/$.
> The only google service that is really relevant and hard to replace is YouTube.

I would include Maps to this list. Outside of the US (and presumably China although I do not have experience here), Google Maps has no real competitors.
Nutrition is controversial, obviously. It depends how you feel about red meat and saturated fat, plus it's high in sodium. Depending on the brand it can have sugar added, nitrates, and it may be smoked which makes things carcinogenic. It's also quite expensive, and production is bad for the environment if you care about that.

Fine in moderation IMO, but I wouldn't prescribe it for daily use.
Blockchain technology has legitimate uses, but there is an order of magnitude more nonsense trying to be built on it that has no business doing so.
Wouldn't something like Ride Austin also face the same problems as Uber, which is to say, they need to hire every driver as an employee which they do not at this time
> and is a self-applied label

Is it though? You sometimes see people in the "woke" crowd call someone an incel without them self-identifying as one.
Android it is.
It's also conveniently not open source
Agreed - for example music streaming.
> My perception of time went out the window and it felt like I was in an empty void for an eternity when it was only a few minutes.

This was my exact experience with disossiatives as well. I think they can be effectively and safely used, but there's a real danger there. Disossiatives like ketamine and DXM are incredibly powerful.

After my experience in that same eternal void I struggled with a fear that what I'd experienced was the natural state of consciousness, and what would happen to me for eternity after I died. I didn't actually believe it, but the fear was still there and talk. Took a few months for it to wear off.
I’m with you, I’m simply stating the upside. My further point was that it is already treated somewhat case by case by the selection of antitrust cases to pursue.
I've ignored math prereqs my entire life and turned out fine. If you're genuinely interested, it's not too hard to learn the math as needed. It might actually be a better way to learn, because you're learning is always in service of other learning.

I haven't taken that Coursera course, but in college, I believe only calc I and II are the prereqs for intro to data structures and algorithms. Though I know solid engineers who understand applied CS who don't have a good grasp of math at all.
Do you have any idea how many medical procedures cops are trained on? It’s a lot. They aren’t doctors but they are required to assist medically and stabilize until EMT arrives.