skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A motorbike is usually OK on the Sinai.

Funny enough, for the Sinai they don't care about me being kidnapped, they care about my Jeep being kidnapped and used by ISIS against them. So a good vehicle like my Jeep is not allowed across the Sinai, but they don't care too much (or at least you can talk your way through) on a motorbike.
> That is a district court case with no value as precedent.

The relevant cases are listed after the text I quoted, the quote is merely summarizing existing precedent.

> It's also questionable whether you can really get away with calling the entire software market an "aftermarket" of the device market.

I mean, it's your claim that the "iOS software distribution" market is a separate antitrust market that Apple has monopoly control over. Not the entire software market.

My point is that the courts are unlikely to see this narrow definition as a valid and separate market. If customers don't like the fact that they can only get apps from the App Store, they can simply buy a different phone that allows side-loading.

Otherwise, if we accept your premise that every company that controls the distribution of software on their own phone has an antitrust violating monopoly, then even a company with 1% smartphone marketshare would be liable, which makes no sense.

The rest of your post has to do with Apple's 30% commission and is kind of tangential to my main point. After all, even if they charged a 0% commission, according to your logic they would still "have a monopoly on distribution of apps to the set of customers with iOS devices ". For what it's worth I think Epic has a stronger case there.
In a limited timeframe, sure. Beyond that, I'm genuinely scared.

Murphy's law comes to mind. A small probability of badness + enough time = a near inevitable disaster.

It only takes one person to overreact for us all to start nuking each other.

I see no easy way out, apart from striving to become a multi-planetary civilization. Even then, it'll be a matter of time before the same pattern emerges.
> And obviously providers will charge more if they can, less if they have to.

When prices are based on ability-to-pay rather than cost of provision, then that means there's a competition problem.

While Norway may have more expensive labour, I'm sure they farm out as much as they can offshore.

I wonder if Ericsson or Nokia charge lower prices for the same equipment in poorer countries.
Incoming speed doesn't help the attacker unless it beats the sensors, which operate at the speed of light. Mach 3 missiles impact Mach 0.1 shrapnel at about Mach 3.

That helps the defender. The faster the missile goes, the harder it gets hit by defensive shrapnel.
> Or to find a way of life that doesn't include "people at the top" as the primary decision making apparatus.

How exactly does that work? “Mr. President, a foreign nuclear submarine just surfaced off the coast of Florida. They are not responding to our hails and their launch tubes are open. What do we do?” “Well we need to have a referendum and ask everyone, regardless of training, intelligence, and with no clearance or access to intelligence briefings what orders I should issue.”

The point of having leaders is to lead. Humans don’t do well without leaders. The most successful leaderless movement we’ve seen was the Occupy movement and nobody would ever call that any kind of success. It’s is in our nature as much as it is in the mathematics that describes our society.
MMV is reasonably powerful, but straightforward, can produce & consume rename listings, and is included in a lot of distros.:
https://git.deb.at/w/pkg/mmv.git
TikTok to sue Trump
Michigan College Will Digitally Track Students’ Movements at All Times
Yeah I stopped reading the economist a long time ago. Zero good information from them
a) It's an opinion that global market share is irrelevant, but I will report the fact that Apple has 58% USA market share.

b) source?

c) But can Apple be a monopoly with 58% of the market and a trillion dollar competitor with 41% of that market...and 75% control of the global market?

A question for the courts, for sure, but it certainly isn't obvious to me.

reference: https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/united...
Why? Should we apply the same logic to Linux? Why should we arbitrarily restrict user value because something costs money?

Isn’t the main problem that users are not willing to pay for the browser they use?

Google Chrome is probably maintained by much more than 12 people, so if we restrict Firefox to that, everyone is just going to move to Chrome anyways.
Lots of people don't think "digital" things are real, which lets Apple get away with putting 30% tax on an increasingly large part of the economy.

You can sell a paper book, but an e-book gets 30% Apple tax. You can sell a CD, but an MP3 gets Apple tax. You can sell Carcasone game on cardboard pieces, but an app version must give Apple a cut.
It should not be just cabs, it should be all cars
Tony Sale is someone I really wish I got to meet before he died. The WW2 stuff is interesting enough, but he also spent a lot of time running around London chasing and bugging communists with Peter Wright. He would've been working only a few rungs under an alleged soviet mole, which isn't something every get's to do.
There's a couple factors going on. One is the fact that Youtube's algorithm recommends videos based on a set of engagement-related metrics. Hitting Like/Subscribe is a big measure of engagement, but according to people do this for a living, the most important metric is watch time. This is true both for the video _and_ your channel, so having a lot of long, fully watched videos will cause your channel and its videos to be recommended more often.

The second factor is that one factor you get paid on as Youtuber is video length. Getting people to watch longer videos makes your revenue go up.
Microsoft is absolutely a GSuite competitor and has arguably been in the space longer.

I moved most of my custom domain emails off Google some months back and onto Microsoft 365 and it's honestly a great experience.
Same in Perth, Australia, a major city -- and IIRC, Canberra too. This was 2013-ish. I was amazed, appalled, and confused -- a service visit was unnecessary. I think if you signed up for the massively overpriced privatized carrier Telstra, it was faster -- but any competitor ISP using their copper had that two-week setup delay.
The end goal is well understood, but I think the person you are responding to wants to know (as I do) what is the justification given to get there?

Are they just saying "disconnect the machines" without giving any reason to do so?
The lack of competition is the actual reason. When Google was entering markets with their Internet service suddenly incumbents got capacity to provide competitive speed at slightly lower price. Essentially causing Google to give up with that initiative. If a company with "unlimited" amount of money like Google can't enter to compete, no one can.

And if there is no competition, you no longer charge competitive prices, you charge what people are willing to pay. The whole promotional plans they offer are used to figure out how much you are likely to pay. Once the promotion expires and you don't call to get it extended, you are basically saying that you're ok with increase. Once enough people don't do that, the price will go up.
This, of course, is the correct answer.
When walking through the Pima Air and Space Museum, where NATO and Soviet-bloc aircraft of matching generations often sit almost side-by-side, the similarity of the aircraft was striking.

While some of the similarity can be explained by espionage, much of it comes from the confrontation between ingenuity and Nature. These instruments of war, built by professionals who deeply respected their adversaries, memorialize the extent to which each side was desperate to prevent the other from gaining an operational edge. It is the science of life and death, confronting not entropy (as we do in the case of Covid-19) but other humans.

As a scientist who builds instrumentation, looking particularly into the landing-gear wells and bomb-bays, I felt great connection with those who built the instruments. People, just like me, built these things because they felt that they had to in order to defend their homes. I have promised myself never to build weapons unless the United States is attacked -- devoting instead a portion of my time to non-proliferation work -- but it is easy to see how humanity reaches such a point.

I see in today's era of closing borders and increasing nationalism the prospect of conflict not seen since the 1940s. Tectonic stresses have built for decades; we must find ways to relax them gently in a way that is beneficial to everyone, so that humanity might prosper and thrive for generations to come.
I agree, although sometimes it works. The same is true of other search engines, although they are sometimes better, sometimes worse, than Google. (But often I don't need web search that much anyways. I have man pages, Wikipedia, books, etc.)
> The Weimar Republic didn't have a contracting money supply in that period

And the German Papiermark was not the default reserve currency for the entire global financial system.
Ironically, for “competition” you might well have said “free market capitalism”.

Except that provision of basic mono-utilities such as drinking water, roads, and The Internet is probably best provided by the state. At least the cell phone tower part, leaving the internet exchange part upwards to private companies.

(This pre supposes a level of benevolence / lack of malevolence from the state, or a faith in protocols further up the stack to have end to end security. At least one of these exists.)
Zero Mass Water -BUSTED!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc7WqVMCABg

You can do your own research for the other solutions presented in the article.

I find the idea of groundwater recharge interesting.

We dump large amounts of water into the sea having used the Earth as a Atmospheric Water Harvester. We need to be keeping all that.
miles? minutes? metres? My high school maths teacher would like a word
Absolutely, yes, but if you are writing your own apps rather than being paid to write apps for other people, there's a strong luck element as with any entrepreneurial activity. I have six apps out right now, of which just one accounts for 90% of my revenue. Rather than setting out to write apps, I think it's better to think about an app as merely a vehicle to deliver a service, a product, some unit of customer value, from you to your customers. If you have something to offer that is of high value, you can definitely make a lot of money from an app. If you don't, no matter how well designed and built the app is, it is likely to fail.
This is a textbook false dichotomy. You're basically saying there are two choices 1) use whatever is convenient with absolutely no regard for privacy or 2) don't use computers at all and put on a tinfoil hat.

> Where do you draw the line?

Clearly they've drawn it to exclude Google, what's the problem with that?
At least in India, the situation is far better now in terms of reliability. My internet goes down maybe once in 5-6 months, and when it does, it's back within 24 hours. Mobile internet is cheap and fast enough (I pay around $7 for 84 GB) that I can use it as backup.

My work is entirely online. I haven't worried about not having internet for a while.
A few months ago I started an Etsy shop, but I couldn’t create an account using a fastmail address. I got an “unknown error.” And the help desk suggested I use a more mainstream email service. That solution worked, and then I switched it to fastmail.

But this goes to show how basic the opsec is for some companies. Similarly with Twitter, each time I create a dev account for a bot, if I use fastmail my account will get locked 3-4 times in the first 20 minutes after creating the account (and not so with gmail). I’m not sure why they think that bad actors can’t also sign up for a Gmail account, and are more likely to use fastmail.
Other than the Google web search (which I don't always use; sometimes I use other web search engines, and often I don't need any web search at all), the other Google product I use is V8 (although not Chrome or Chromium, I do use V8).
Yah, I'm paying ~CAD$35 for 4gb of data (incl. voice/SMS), and while I could upgrade to 10gb for $50, I'm holding out for a 90%+ reduction in prices.
Not sure. Some limitations were removed when EU rules for roaming charges were put in place. To be fair, my “IOT” plan is Denmark-only.
As I understand it, chewing tougher food earlier in life makes the jaw grow to have enough room for more teeth. I wasn't aware this was considered a mystery?
In Israel the caller pays for a mobile call, while in other countries the owner of the mobile pays.

This one change alone is enough to explain quite a bit of the disparity in prices.

I'm actually surprised the source article makes no mention of this.
But others' freedoms aren't. Apple shouldn't be allowed to have this much control.
> because "nuclear" is a scary word owing to activist efforts decades ago.

Right, activists... not those pesky meltdowns spewing radioactive waste across Europe and into the pacific, it was the activists.
> that doesn't preclude us from stopping Uber and Lyft.

I really really hope that you fail. Thanks to Uber, my wife can enjoy safe and reliable transportation. But some whiteknighting woke people cannot tolerate that, I guess they hate women? Oh wait, my wife is an evil capitalist who's exploiting poor User drivers, right? How ironic
Every time I see articles like this I think ‘Great, so where are they going to get access to unlimited free energy?’ That’s about what it would take for ‘Atmospheric water harvesting’ to be economically viable.
The title, and some of the context of the article, made me think of the 0G Manifesto [1]. I realize that the article suggests that German citizens want reliable bandwidth, and are not necessarily thinking in terms of a 0G solution, despite the opening digression about radio enthusiasts. But wouldn't it be liberating to have a fully decentralized mobi-net, hosted by everyone, for everyone.

[1]: https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/pub/0G
If they are advanced enough, they would have even better methods than nuclear or fission power. More advanced methods of energy generation.
YaCy is the only one I'm aware of. See https://www.yacy.net/demonstration_tutorial_screenshot/
> Intel: still the undisputed king of single thread performance.

Certainly by sales volume.

> For some applications that’s all that matters.

Is this one of them?
Are you saying that the Korean war started when North Korea was invaded? I was not under the impression that was the historical consensus.
No it’s about the military industrial complex milking the US defense budget for all its worth.
I've always been curious how 1B numbers is enough? Will they rotate/reuse them?
You would mess up all of your communication as well though.

So its kind of a double edged sword.

Additionally accompanying infantry can potentially use lasers to guide the tank.

Or line of site drones that make full laser communications possible until the spark gap can be identified and destroyed.
Well, the only reason they didn't get democratized is because they had enough artillery to turn Seoul and Incheon into a puddle. It's the same mechanism, mutually assured destruction.
SF cab experience was terrible before uber/lyft. Calling a dispatcher was about as useful as yelling into the wind.

When a cab did pull up, they would crack their window with doors locked and ask where you were going. If the ride wasn't lucrative enough they would drive away. Many would take longer routes because it was 'faster' unless you spoke up. Good luck trying to pay with a credit card, and after paying with cash, they somehow never had proper change forcing you to either escalate the situation or just round up significantly.
The biggest single dump of KGB archives was from Mitrokhin, who in the burst of freedom after the union dissolved walked off with a few hundred thousand papers he'd copied (The book version is a good read).

If possible, could you point me to the book you're referring to. I'm really interested in reading this.
Six Tools for Clearer Communication
I've used 2.93 TB of data in 7 months on my £30/month unlimited 5G plan. So £0.07 (USD $0.09) per GB, I guess?
Cultural heritage aside, it's incredible that someone can rob someone to the tune of eight million dollars, and their punishment is a few years of house arrest, while someone who steals candy from a bodega gets to spend years if not decades in prison.

I don't want these two dingdongs to rot in prison; I want our justice system to treat all criminals proportionally.
An analogy that comes to mind is that at an atomic scale, solid objects are mostly empty. However, bombard them with a lot of neutrons and it can have noticeable effects.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/20/21031694/amazon-employ...
I did not downvote, but I think it's because you kinda missed the crux of my question is - what is fine-tuning, like what do you have to actually do?

Has anyone done it and demonstrated that it can be done on GPT to get useful and reliable output for some domain? If we exclude fake news/ twitter-bots or something equally silly.
Amortized over 100m customers, in a country where network engineers can be found for $250/month, they're pretty close to free.

It's easy to underestimate how profitable it is to run a telco
Not easy, but plannable.
Side note: that channel (DIY Perks) has tons amazing projects. I'll never actually do any of them but the project breakdowns and assembly are fun to watch.
I don’t understand - can’t you value both transportation and education?
Since when does voting by mail equal voter suppression?
UK isn’t that bad. I pay £20 for unlimited data with tethering, and it’s faster than my home broadband. I used more than 1TB one month.
> artificially constrain the number of cars

Why?

Also, if we're doing this, let's also artificially constrain something else, maybe the amount of meat produced, and auction the right to sell meat to few highest bidders? After all, meat production has a lot externalities like methane emissions, etc etc., so why not constrain it?

Then, we must prevent exploitation of poor underpaid workers in Bangladesh, so let's restrict clothes supply, to reduce harmful externalities. Two pairs of basic jeans and 3 shirts should be enough for everyone, right?
Trends in Model Pre-Training for Natural Language Understanding
It depends on the video. Other projects on this channel have more descriptions upfront. Overall it's a general interest channel, not purely about the mechanics of how things work.
Both the 4G infrastructure, and internet lines dug in the ground has beenopened up by law, so new providers can rent their way into existence for a reasonable price. Before then, the national monopoly that was TDC was horrible to deal with, and still is. I signed up for a fiber line for our office with them, and they’ve so far provided as bad a service as possible without breach of contract.
Competition is good, sometimes lawmakers are needed to make that happen.
Given that CA is an at-will employment state, “states with more lax employment laws” really sounds like a euphemism for “states which allow non-competes”—in CA non-competes are unenforceable. Do you happen to have any more specifics? I’d be really interested to know.
Yes, “national security” is used to justify all manner of protectionism in this country. We sure love our oligopolies.
And now they don't anymore.

Already linked it: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines
This study from Cornell attempts to estimate expenses and total costs in Seattle across both platforms https://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...

Drivers received about $23.50/hr according to it.

The Parrot and Reich recommendations https://irle.berkeley.edu/files/2020/07/Parrott-Reich-Seattl... are much more generous in terms of estimating expenses. Neither considers a company car model which might imply drivers taking shifts in one vehicle.
Do you have examples for "trying to search for web pages, published resources that I know are on the web and that I’ve located with Search, prior, and unfortunately, having a harder time with that" ?
I loathe Google Docs for the horrible UX. Dropbox was great (modulo security/privacy) but they are increasingly moving away from what made it great (a simple file system abstraction). My absolute favorite today is Keybase (it includes cloud file storage too) which is the only of my options that I actually trust to be private.
What’s crazy is that the supposed small government politicians who believe that the Post Office is another sign of “big government” doing what private industry should be doing don’t realize that the post office is specifically spelled out in the Constitution as one of the responsibilities of the government.
One of the top entries in this article is a browser extension called minerBlock. It’s there to stop rogue websites using your browser’s JavaScript runtime for cryptocurrency mining.

I don’t know much about mining, but in the era of ASIC miners, how much dollar value does a minute or two of JS mining in Firefox get you? How many visitors do these rogue sites get?

It seems like a lot of effort to get a couple of cents for free, but I assume I’m hugely underestimating. I’m also still puzzled by why my partner’s MacBook was overheating last night, and wonder if I’ve just found out why.
I have read your link, but think this is an unfair argument.

We are not talking about nonsense, we are talking about unexpected input, which will happen in any real-world situation. It might be text about something a kid, or depressed person has done. The text about stirring with a cigar is firmly withing the realm of plausibility.

And what happens is that GPT seemingly goes off the rails.
Search results tailored to your liking?

My what an excellent bubble you’ve built for yourself. No wonder you like Google. I bet your panties got in quite a wad reading about people who don’t like the things you do.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/253/25373/the-mitrokhin-arch...

The original Russian is classified (Make of that what you will - the British establishment very much did not leave no rock unturned when it came to soviet infiltration), the English is (I think) available online somewhere, and the aforementioned book is a summary of his papers.
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/tag/v0.20.1
According to WP, what led to this picture is photo editing.
When the last story came out I picked up one of those cheap HDMI capture devices on ebay to play around with and could not get it to work on Linux. I think there are different firmware versions of this device floating around and only some of them can be made to work reliably.
And let's not forget being assumed to be a spammer by almost all sites, getting rate limited or shadowbanned, not to mention being buried with captchas and having to do unpaid labor to train Google's AI just to access some sites! If you're not outright blocked, that is.

All for having an IP address originating from such regions with cheap internet that you can't do much with anyway.
Not sure if you can still edit your comment, but you may want to put a space between those links.
Afaik, your international coverage depends on the agreements your provider has with local networks.