skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple Arcade explicitly forbids any in-purchases or ads. So not sure if we can compare a subscription service to a marketplace like App Store.

In Arcade of course Apple is paying money now to get enough content on the platform to make subscribers come, same MS did with Windows phone etc. Market place always need boosting either on supply or demand side to get started, it is unlikely Apple or anyone else starting a market place will continue to pay once the market is large enough.

Xbox/ PS keep paying since they know that marquee games are reason many times one the console is bought. For android and iOS market to be considered as one market there should be that level of competition at least.

While streaming has reduced privacy to large extent, the streaming business model whether subscription or micro-purchases (rent/ buy or song / album etc) have been always a threat to studios. Everyone is rushing to do original content yes , Netflix, Prime and Apple are already able to produce similar quantity and quality to studio in new content or will soon enough, however streaming companies cannot compete with the back catalogue for next 20-30 years.

Disney+ and is pulling out of other streaming services today. 5 years from now, Netflix may be ready to multiples than they were paying, just for non exclusive access to that back catalogue of Disney.

Disney will not care whether Prime or Netflix is also showing older disney back catalogues as long they have enough people paying for disney+ , where newer and some exclusive content is available. Their ownership of Disney+ means they can always negotiate from a position of strength. Studios are distribution companies first, content producers second. If you control distribution you control the price.

While the studios are taking the ball home today, I am not sure they will not be back later . I am not saying any of this why Apple is why they charge differently for streaming, just that the industry is in flux currently.

P.S. Had Jobs been alive, things would have turned out differently, I think Apple would have likely acquired Disney, it is a good fit, Jobs owned substantial stake in both.
These are all unbelievably resoanable and fair comments. Particularly #2.

Since it’s been a few days, just to respond to only the easiest point, copying a link to the non-AMP website so socially share takes 3 to 4 incremental clicks on mobile, so that’s what I meant by that.

But reflecting you’re spot on, since I can’t quantify the benefit AMP has had on the internet it’s hard to claim the negatives are so eggregious. Thx for that perspective.
I'd recommend StartPage; essentially a proxy for Google.
I don’t agree with the “fairly small changes” part -- it looked like they were talking about 1% change in mean estimate and something like 25% change in variance. Those sound small, but they’re really not!

Or I guess another way to put it is, given the highly polarised two party system in the US, elections tend to be fairly balanced and small differences have an inflated impact on the results.

But whether you see the difference as small (1% difference in popular vote) or large (3x difference in chance of victory), the models are different, and one of them must be better, although it’s probably impossible to tell which it is!

Comparing models across multiple elections and calculating the Bayesian regret is one way to do it. The models get tweaked each election so this isn’t exact, but it could give a sense of the skill of each forecaster.

Does anyone have links for previous election forecasts from Morris and/or Gelman?
For my use case, I choose to be mostly serverless -- I use Resilio Sync. It's not a perfect solution as they still host the tracker and if one device cannot find another then it routes via their servers, but otherwise all my documents are stored on my devices.

Another feature lacking is sharing with a non-resilio user is not possible with Resilio Sync.
Yes.

1. Trump is no longer an unknown.

2. Biden is far more popular than Clinton was at her peak.

3. Biden is male (which is sadly very relevant in US elections).

4. We are no longer in the biggest economic expansion in US history. We may be in a historic recession.

5. There is a pandemic that has killed 60x the number of Americans that died on 9/11, and it is no under control in the US at all.

6. Kamala Harris is not like Tim Kaine.

7. Lots of anti-Trump voters are afraid to be complacent this time.

8. Suburban women, true independent voters (those who dislike both candidates), and older Americans are either breaking for Biden or have substantially switched to Democratic support after going for Trump in 2016.

A better question would be: is anything the same this time around?
cxx is bidirectional so probably because the mapping needs to work both ways, and you will eventually have C++ -> Rust -> C++ where the "inner" C++ throwing would be expected to cause the "outer" C++ to catch?

Not to mention as far as I know std::expected does not actually exist. It was first proposed 7 years ago but is still a proposal, now hoping for inclusion in C++23 (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p032...)
People have been raising flags about this for literally decades now and the other shoe has yet to drop in any kind of meaningful way. Everyone is tracking you online, but for some reason we only care about it when its companies that make good products that we like to use. Would you rather they not target you with ads and sell google searches for a nickel each? Meanwhile, I had an ad in my gmail yesterday for Google Fi, sign up today, its super easy! Except I already have google fi. Google's ad service literally couldn't check my gmail account against google fi accounts (apparently).
I guess depends on the size of the company. How else would you constantly test integrations between different services? Especially if some services can't be easily ran on the laptop.

Also if you add terraform/ansible and all that jazz to the table. Where else? Infra team needs dev/stage as well.
Sir Ken Robinson 1950 – 2020
Student deserve the college experience as that's what they pay for.

Some students pay a lot of money to go to a university that has brand recognition, others pay a lot of money to go to a school that's known to be a great party school. If you're 18, going to one of the latter schools, and you look at the statistics of death rates for each age group, you're definitely going to go and party.

I think asking an 18 year old who's thinking, "well I'm still paying this much and everyone else got to do it" to recognize the sacrifice is an extremely high bar to ask of them
Im very interested in learning about your work flows, like how does a typical day look like? I do all my work on a local pc and only use servers for production. So im interesting in how/why you use the cloud stack
Seems spot-on. One trick to estimate a startup's burn rate is to multiply their number of employees by $200k. It's not too accurate, but it's within the ballpark.

So how many employees does OpenAI have? Supposing they have 500, that's a burn rate of $100M/yr.

250 employees, $50M/yr.

100 employees, $20M/yr.
I enjoy while reading that page on extensions to use, it's a list of what can be normally accomplished by browser settings.

Are you expected to run 25 extensions? Many which do similar things and can be done by forcing the browser to delete cookies upon quit/exit/restart?

If the idea is a buffet, then what's the point? You're going to have a gap and DNS is going to be your weakpoint.
Essentially a teleprompter. Been looking at doing something with my external camera for all of the video calls these days.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Teleprompters/ci/2122/N/4...
>You are taking pot shots at exactly the wrong people.

These fantasies tend to come from technocrats and transhuminists.

Transhumanists very much would like a world where everything is sterile and manmade, where the natural world doesn't get in the way of human technological progress and advancement.

The belief that humans are very much above nature and the world around them and that it needs to be controlled and manipulated to suit our whims, whether that's exploiting it for resources, or trying to manipulate it to some ideal state.

The idea that we can leave this world and turn space or some other world into some 'humanified' place that's suitable to us stems from this same idea of human superiority over our own world and the universe and that somehow, we can make it better, more suitable for us.
I wonder how long people stay subscribed to apps on average? As an example, I'd guess that most people don't stay subscribed to games for much longer than a year, on average. So I'd bet that their effective tax is closer to 30% than 15%.
It's more than an annoyance. I literally cannot read the article
I'm a college student on a gap year. I actually appreciate you saying this, but sadly, you have gravely overestimated the ability of college students, especially freshmen, to follow guidelines.
How the pandemic has sped up the passage to postcapitalism
> it has become a muscle memory thing and sometimes I type it involuntarily.

Same. I sometimes even type '!g' into Google itself by mistake
User vote data is personal and private to those users. Of course we don't publish it.

It wouldn't help anyhow. Long experience with imaginary accusations shows clearly that more data doesn't persuade anyone to drop their fixed idea. On the contrary, it just spawns even more accusations.

(In case anyone's wondering, the reason I post these replies is to reassure the general reader, who might be concerned whether there's anything to this, that there isn't anything to this.)
And yet it's surprising how a lot of companies simply won't match offers or try to play games with CoL. Or worst, consider engineering a cost center when it's central to the business.
The fastmail filters are supposedly pretty good, but I can’t personally vouch for them.

I also have a lot of email for record keeping (amazon orders etc.) I just route those to folders myself.

You’re right though that I probably have it easier than most generally.
This seems like the kind of error a small child could make. Doesn’t completely understand what you’re talking about but understands the question and throws out its best guess.
60 million times, staggering to think about.
> it's too much of a coincidence that such a probe would first arrive so soon after we gained the ability to conceive of it

We've gained the ability to conceive of complex stuff only some thousands of years ago. Everything is "too soon" on that scale.
Does anyone have a link to the methodology they use to calculate the biocapacity of the Earth? It sounds very interesting.
This is uncharacteristically poor journalism from the Economist. The graph shows excepting 2009 and 2016 there has been effectively no significant downturn, whereas the title suggests an order of magnitude change in the last two years.
California wildfires rank among state’s largest on record
Tardigrades have DNA armor – we just got closer to understanding how it works
Is your argument that a human can write better prompted fiction than gpt3?
I tried. I failed. I returned. Google is like Gravity. It would be awesome to escape it, but it’s expensive, impractical, and sooner or later, you will be back where you where. :(
> Every time I read a comment like this I wonder if people have actually taken the time to consider what living off the Earth would actually be like.

Parent is explicitly refering to human life post-Sun:

>> extending human life beyond the solar system post-Sol.

It took us only a few million years to get off the trees and invent Bitcoin.

If, by some chance, civilization once called human will exist at that time (2000x longer than current span of human species), all the problems you described should be trivial for them.

And if by then, by some chance, due to countless generations of people sharing your view on the matter, they don't set off for the stars - they deserve to burn.
I wonder how many of these problems are severely exacerbated by the high price tags for college education. Especially amidst the pandemic. It seems obvious that when people pay more, they become less flexible on the results they find acceptable.
And that reminds me of Andrzej Sapkowski and CD Project Red deal

https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/2/17927916/the-witcher-autho...
Oracle Launches a Free Training and Accreditation Program
>A computational structural study on the DNA-protecting role of the tardigrade-unique Dsup protein

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-70431-1
In the U.S. context, the obvious answer is "no". It's the land of the free, where unions are the devil and talking about social security is compared to wanting to turn the country into Venezuela.
There's a philosophical side to your question that I am not going to engage with, but for the practical you might be interested in this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoring_rule
Medallions drivers were also contractors, despite not being able to set their rates.
I also use iCloud for all my iDevices. It‘s not fast or as flexible as Dropbox but privacy wise I prefer them over any other cloud sync solution.
Reverse-engineering the 8086's Arithmetic/Logic Unit from die photos
I'm not sure
GPT-3 is pretty stupid and learned with a dataset from internet that include a lot of stupid things.
All these self-hosted platforms would definitely not help an average person in de-googling himself. And these are like 99% of the users.
Social role change in Indian Jumping Ants increases lifespan
If it's loitering, or intended to come back, it isn't functionally a missile.

And why in the hell would you fire a missile without a target that would require it loiter unless you were doing something completely mad like Project Pluto? That just doesn't really make sense at all. Though it reminds me of a torpedo from a Michael DiMercurio book that had to be sedated due to it's carbon based computing matrix being smart enough to basically guarantee a hit on an enemy combatant submarine, but not smart enough to understand IFF.
A widespread lack of interest caused by a failure of a previous technology in the field to live up to it's hyped claims.
There are several ARM dev boards on the desk next to me that have U-Boot in ROM.
Chanduino – A 4chan Browser for the ESP32
I think they appeal to powerusers that probably already use a client like Thunderbird. :) However, their webmail client is just RainLoop, which you can find a demo of here: https://www.rainloop.net/try-now/

Also, they are currently collaborating with sourcehut to develop a new webmail client to replace RainLoop. For the record, I like RainLoop quite a bit and find it to be very speedy.
This is not true, BPE can back off to characters so arbitrarily character strings can be generated.
Good. People need to be held accountable.
University education is basically an economic transaction. The student pays $X to get Y, where Y is certain learning and social experiences, plus a valuable credential, with a certain level of safety and protection.

Due to COVID-19, the university is no longer able to provide the same learning and social experiences with the same level of safety. This isn't the fault of anybody involved in the transaction, neither students nor university could have prevented COVID-19.

Here are the options:

- (a) Cancel or postpone the transaction. Students get their money back, the school is freed from providing their now-impossible obligation. Perhaps they are allowed to re-enroll when COVID-19 is under control again, without penalty to admission status or scholarship dollars.

- (b) Lessen the obligation. Students continue to pay and attend, but get less effective social and educational experiences, and more restrictive safety rules, due to COVID-19.

- (c) Ignore safety. Continue to operate as always, recognizing that a large number of students, faculty and administrators will sicken, and a smaller number will die.

People have mostly decided on option (b). Option (c) is a non-starter for parents and administrators, but a large subset of students is probably quite willing to take personal risks.

Nobody seems to want to discuss option (a), perhaps because it will destroy higher education's finances and force some institutions out of business entirely without massive external support.
The thing is, living beings don’t learn by brute-force trial and error like mathematical optimization models you mentioned. Besides enormous energy spent, an individual organism will just be eaten by predator on another iteration of its
‘error minimization’ loop.

the idea of learning via reinforcement, that came from Skinner behaviorist experiments has been long discredited in cognitive psychology. (I highly recommend Wayne Wickelgren’ work on learning and memory if you’re interested, it’s brilliant and concise http://www.columbia.edu/~nvg1/Wickelgren/ )

Biological plausibility might not be needed for recognizing check signatures or images of traffic lights, where backprop is working just fine, but I believe true cognition would require such energy expenditures that brute-force trial and error will never be feasible. Moreover such error correction imposes artificial constraints that limit the amount of information that can be learned, kind of like those mechanical calculators of the 17th century with gears and wheels and crude mechanical actuators.
> When did we adopt the mentality that students first and foremost deserve "the college experience" and therefore can't be expected to follow safe guidelines?

There are a lot of things that can be expected in the sense of thinking that they ought to happen; but thinking that they will happen is another matter.

Pretending that students, if sent lots of scolding e-mails and forced to sign pledges, will suddenly become models of social responsibility—in a way that, in many places, their 'adult' peers have not been able to do—is just a juvenile trick by college administrators to try to shift the burden of blame from themselves: parents forced them to open their campuses when it wasn't safe; students forced them to close their campuses by making it unsafe.

Both of these statements are, in their ways, true, but intentionally lost in the mix is the fact that the one body that is sucking out huge quantities of money from students and parents is somehow managing to pretend that it bears no responsibility, and is just the helpless pawn of its customers (and I do use 'customers' advisedly, our university's administration having stated that student safety was a priority and faculty safety was not, since we don't pay tuition).
You still need driver to convert document data to something that printer happens to understand.
I use searx and it's great. There are a lot of instances as well, this site has a list: https://searx.space/

There even are some which are accessible over Tor.
> The question is: which regulators do the social media companies answer to?

That's not the question I posed, kube-system. I asked, "How would Americans be better off with TikTok in Microsoft's hands?"

The issue you raise, about which regulators social media companies answer to, dismisses the conflict of interest that occurs when those regulators' align with the police departments that contract Microsoft to surveil citizens. When that happens, are American citizens better off? Clearly not, when they are being targeted by unconstitutional police actions, e.g. actions that violate the first amendment.
The whole point of tools like OpenSCAD is that you can create complex 3D models without needing to use a GUI. I think this approach is most likely to appeal to people whose background is in programming where we often find that text based interfaces are a more efficient way of getting things done than working with a complicated GUI.
I am currently running a degoogled Android phone. Hardest part has been mapping -- OsmAnd lacks many points of interest as well as Los Angeles street numbers. I am not looking forward to having to go by cross streets and looking up points of interest in a separate app (Acastus Photon).
As a recent highschool graduate, it is rather Unfortunate that many of my classmates seem to lack personal responsibility in the face of this pandemic. Worse, parents and older adults are freely enabling it.
Quite well in my experience... sometimes too well. When you sign up with Migadu, you are essentially your own postmaster and can set how aggressive you want to filter spam on the domain level as well as per mailbox.
Question is if the effect will last or if the birth rate will start climbing due to COVID-19. Then it might have been good short-term but really bad long-term.
That's a fundamental skill of marketing: not making false claims while convincing the customers to jump to false conclusions.
It degenerated to medallions being expensive enough that cabbies had to work extremely long hours to make the payments on them. Wasn't uncommon to have two cabbies, one for the night and one for the day, drive the same car just to break even.

That and the financing for medallion often came from the seller. Not a lot of banks would touch these assets so the interest rates were horrendous on these.
CV is also in some not quite clear state

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozilla-org-wide-updates-imp...
Very well said.

> If Apple could create a world where you lost your phone number when you switched phones, they'd do it in a heartbeat.

Face time is a start? They've dragged their feet on WebRTC implementation and spec compliance for a long time.
>We can hit satellites and ICBM warheads going between Mach 20 and Mach 30.

I think you're forgetting that a lot of anti nuclear defense systems use nuclear weapons themselves. When you only need to be within a few hundred meters of a target accuracy suddenly doesn't matter at all, especially when you have several hours to predict the flight trajectory of the enemy missile.

If laser based CIWS turns out to be viable on aircraft then we would see a focus on bigger aircraft that can defend themselves against missiles but even then they would not directly fly into a missile if they can avoid it.
I was underselling it a bit with “not obvious.” It’s more like “requires secret magics.“
I feel like they have the ability but not the motivation and/or willpower. Obviously lots of factors probably affect it (I mentioned one in another one of my comments), but I'd be curious if e.g. a college student of the same age in (say) Germany would be just as unable to follow guidelines as one in the US.
That is true for most people on the internet. So, it should be fine.
> What is the profitable product that Rust enables?

Surely that's Firefox?
Drop shipping is nothing like a pyramid scheme. It's just a form of arbitrage. You buy from one party for less money and sell to another party for more.
The Ignorance of Mocking Mormonism (2017)
This is trivial. Ban the new thing, and a variant of the old thing will re-emerge. This is akin to observing that if you ban Wikipedia, the market for print encyclopedias will grow.

That has no bearing on whether such a ban is a good idea.
But aren't there multiple hosts for TPB?
That and drivers refusing rides to certain neighborhoods, or customers.
I.E. was loosing market share long before Chrome even was a thing, largely because Firefox was eating their lunch, Chrome later overtook Firefox and IE as you say. [1]

I am not sure how much of EU's intervention helped Firefox however given Mozilla's connection to Netscape. Netscape being the reason MS was being investigated by EU in the first place, it is not implausible.

I am not saying EU did a good job of it, just that can and do fight large American tech companies, it is not unlikely they won't take this up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars#/media/File:Layou...
Gpt-3 is just one of openai's many projects. Theres ~20 authors on the paper, and they all almost certainly did not spend a full year on this project. So 300m is completely wrong.