skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “What would be the point?” he said. “If someone doesn’t look good, I’ll just say they didn’t comply; and if they do look good, I’ll just say they did.”

Don't think you're supposed to say that bit out loud....
Jerky sounds like it would work, but probably not a great idea to eat every day. I've heard a lot of people saying kids should eat harder to chew foods but not a lot of suggestions about what hard-to-chew foods would actually be appropriate, healthy, not a choking hazard, and palatable to a toddler.
Phew. Read that as "in-breeding" at first.
I wish I could be on the other side of a bet against most of HN, betting against all of the wannabe lawyers who don’t understand what a “monopoly” is and posting examples of market collusion showing how Apple/Google could be charged based on the App stores.
> "72% and 89% are as close as 75% and 50% in terms of being double the likelihood for a Republican win."

In a postscript (P.S.) Andrew Gelman clarified that the forecast distributions are close and not the probabilities of winning [0].

> "I’m not saying that 72% and 89% are close in probabilistic terms. I agree that there’s a big difference between 8-1 odds and 3-1 odds. What I’m saying is that the large difference in these probabilities arises from small differences in the forecast distributions. Changing a forecast from 0.54 +/- 0.02 to 0.53 +/- 0.025 is highly consequential to the win probability, but as uncertainty distributions they are similar and they are hard to distinguish directly. You can get much different headline probabilities from similar underlying distributions."

[0]: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/08/14/new-fiveth...
You're arguing for a future where you own nothing and rent everything. Look at how many industries are using the idea of software licenses to retain control over your devices after you buy them so they can render them useless, or at least less useful, unless you pay for a subscription of some type.
The Soviets were the first to deploy operational ICBMs.

They also had the first Submarine launched ballistic missile.

They had the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons for many years.

They developed the most potent nuclear weapons.

Can you be more specific?
Unlike Chrome profiles, multiple Firefox containers can be used in the same window. Containers are different from profiles:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Containers are also extensible through add-ons. For example, the following two add-ons automatically isolate Facebook and Google into separate containers to reduce the impact of their tracking:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...

Temporary Containers goes further by allowing the user to create disposable containers either automatically or on demand:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

Firefox's two-tier approach (profiles and containers) to data isolation is much more flexible than Chrome's profiles. Containers handle many common use cases (e.g. logging on to the same site with multiple accounts simultaneously), and are very easy to use.
Except if having the choice of more than one app store was important to you, why did you buy an iPhone in the first place? You could have bought something else and and avoided the problem entirely.
Cuckold
Really? This seems like the exact sort of thing GPT-3 would be very bad at. The statements aren't the product of an internally consistent logical model, they are statistically plausible word sequences learned in a really clever way from a huge corpus of text.

That said, before dismissing it sight unseen there are effective and quick ways to test its powers with mathematics. You could prime an instance with the axioms defining a group, or a topology, and ask it to produce proofs of varying difficulty from intro abstract algebra or topology textbooks. Whatever the answer it would make an interesting blog post. What happens when you ask it to generate repeated outputs for the same prompt? What happens if you ask it to prove an untrue proposition?
I recently requested a Lyft “wait and save” and had to suffer through 3 cancellations (I was going to the airport). I think there are definitely cracks in the “independent contractor” model if Lyft can quote me a definite timeline (15 min wait), have 3 drivers cancel on me because the fare was too low.
Was Rhianna the first person to introduce makeup designed for brown and black women? I wonder if there were dozens of others before her that would have been just as or far more successful if they had the connections or name-brand recognition as Rhianna.

In short, I am wondering if survivorship bias is at play.
Windows file systems work very differently from Linux. If a file is open, Windows will put a lock on it that prevents moving or deleting the file -- and the executable image of a process is open for as long as the process runs.

This is different from the Linux situation, in which a file's name and directory location are separate from its inode, or the data structure holding actual information about the file including where the data lives on disk: once the inode associated with a file name is looked up and the file opened, anything may be done with the file name, including changing or unlinking it. Inodes with no links will also only be freed once every open file descriptor on the unlinked inode is closed. So a process will keep on chugging even if its executable file on disk is deleted, as though nothing happened -- because the file itself is only deleted once its inode is closed and unlinked.
Former Uber security chief faces criminal charges for hiding 2016 breach
> none of them are an excuse for driving cars into crowds.

Certainly but why the generalization? You could not say "none of them are an excuse for bombing people" when talking about discrimination against muslims or would you?

> but I realised early that was my issue and no-one elses

They issue arises when people are bullied or considered inferior for that.
it is a defacto 'duopoly', or an informal cartel...
plenty of laws around it if you are not too lazy to google them...
>this puts the multitudes of other vendors/manufacturers out of business, and your own employer might be among their numbers one day

This is basic capitalism, Amazon built a better mouse trap. The rise of the internet destroyed those businesses, Amazon is just the name that got attached to a business model that was inevitable. Now we can debate the values of capitalism, but Amazon the company isn't the problem, if not them it would just be someone else. The unfortunate fact of progress in capitalistic society is that some jobs disappear, we don't have many loom operators today either.

>Their having this data on its own isn't harmful, but as others have noted, it represents harm in the sense of what how it _could_ be used if applied maliciously

This seems to be the crux of the issue, the idea that the data's very existence is somehow a threat. I don't buy the vague handwavey "bad government" versions are valid, if the government has fallen to fascist ideology then Google knowing your step counts and favorite coffee shop are the least of your problems.

And I don't worry about Google falling into some Orwellian nightmare for the same reason I don't worry about the government falling into it, Google is just a bunch of people. On average, they're going to be reasonable people who think using the data to bust down the doors of private citizens and harm them is bad. More importantly I fail to see how it makes shareholders any money to pursue that course of action.

>They shut down the internet, but what if instead the government started demanding data from Google or Facebook to identify and track down members of the opposition?

The Inquisition and the Nazis managed this just fine without Google. If you're relying on privacy to keep you safe from fascists, bigots, nationalists, and hate you're going to have a bad time. Those people don't care about your privacy, and if they can't get the information from Google they'll get it from your neighbors, your friends, or from you by introducing a tire iron to your knee caps.

The fight against fascism starts way earlier than when they start searching for individuals to disappear. If a society reaches that point, the presence or absence of Google won't save you.
Do you believe that humans are the being at the end of the chain of control?
Very well said. Gig workers are in that nebulous, legally undefined category between employees and contractors.
Bliss: A language for systems programming (1971) [pdf]
Or if people took more responsibility for their actions.
One thing that is essay to miss if you glance at the map, is just how much cheaper mobile data plans are in Denmark than in Norway.

I recently learned about this when a friend of mine pointed it out to me while we were talking about the pricing of the mobile data plans here in Norway.

Here is a Danish website comparing providers in Denmark: https://telepristjek.dk/data-billige-priser/

Here is a Norwegian website comparing providers in Norway: https://www.tek.no/mobilt-bredbaand/

You’ll be able to read the tables even if you don’t speak Danish nor Norwegian, since the tables show contain the word “GB” for gigabytes of data, and the price which is in DKK and NOK respectively.

In addition to those tables mentioned, some currency exchange rates are useful to make sense of the data if you live in another country:

100 NOK 🇳🇴 ~= 70 DKK 🇩🇰

100 DKK 🇩🇰 ~= 143 NOK 🇳🇴

100 NOK 🇳🇴 ~= 9.42 EUR 🇪🇺

100 DKK 🇩🇰 ~= 13.43 EUR 🇪🇺

100 NOK 🇳🇴 ~= 11.10 USD 🇺🇸

100 DKK 🇩🇰 ~= 15.84 USD 🇺🇸
> We encourage you to review the other ways to distribute your business app and choose one that better meets your business needs."

At least that won't take long. Lol.
Yeah the focus on making the “perfect unboxing you” is a brilliant business move but it’s kind of dystopian. Just imagining all these kids watching endless algorithm-recommended unboxing videos.
There are plenty of indy iOS app developers who won’t go near Android and are doing quite well. I’m sure there are some Android only indy developers making a good living. I just don’t follow that market.

There are plenty of markets and Technologies I won’t touch with a ten foot pole.
are you serious? Historically you are on the wrong side of the argument. MSFT lost their case in the 90s, of 'other' but not that much different reasons... to their core they are anti-competitive.
Also we have the break up of the original Bell system and several companies were formed out of it.

GOOG and APL most likely will lose this one.
30% of the app price is high, but not insane. They're handling 100% of the distribution, installation, verification, and payment processing. 30% of recurring revenue is highway robbery, because they offer NOTHING to subscription content.
That doesn't make any sense, PPP is used to come up with "real" exchange rates based on price differentials. If you used PPP as the exchange, all countries would have the exact same price per GB.

For example, if a GB is $1 in America and 2 euros in Germany, then we would use a 1:2 ratio for converting the price. So Germany's PPP price would now be $1 in dollars as well. As you can see, this isn't very helpful.

PPP's fundamental assumption is the law of one price, so it's no surprise that all the prices would be the same using it.
I've heard many stories of Google accounts being terminated without the possibility of appeal due to some minor terms of service breach in one of their peripheral services.
> I've looked at the Windows laptops extensively

You can also take a look at linux vendors like System76. Check their line-up here: https://system76.com/laptops

Among Windows laptops did you consider the ASUS Zephyrus G14?
OK, from the last part of the comment there, you demonstrated that my good faith belief was wrong, so I'm not going to waste more time with you. Have fun stewing in your own juices. In your community of one you'll always be right.
But overall UK probably still ranks as treating its basic citizens with better decency than the USA due to healthcare access among other things.
> They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown

If you bring up Andrew Wakefield with a doctor, they may well be annoyed, but it's very much not because they think he's right.

Note that the offending orthodontist is treating adults even though he claims his treatment only works on kids. That this is happening at all actually seems to speak to surprisingly poor regulation of dentistry; if you were a surgeon who was selling a treatment which was not generally regarded as safe or effective, and _you yourself_ claimed it probably wouldn't work for the patients you were providing it to, you would have issues.
Sort of -- im saying that for streaming, this doesnt much; deterministic lockstop does little for the general viewership, and saves relatively little processing compared to recording the stream directly on the player's machines.

Much more notable is the impact it has on casting, where it's presence is clearly felt -- casters are granted much more freedom, and can be much more thorough and descriptive, when complete replays are available (versus simple dumb video).

We agree about the technogoly -- we disagree on its impact
PPP converts everything into USD, just using a different method. PPP has nothing to do with a person's salary. If they used PPP, every GB would be the same price for every single country. That's where the "parity" part comes in.
Uber doesn't have to make "logging in" the same as "clocking in".
You could also hook up a GPIO pin to the wires for the power on button
All but the simplest statistical estimators have researcher degrees of freedom (certainly including multilevel models) so it seems arbitrary to criticize the trimmed mean in particular for that "fault".

Similarly, any estimator can be biased if its assumptions are violated, so I'm not sure why the potential bias of the trimmed mean in particular is an interesting point.

I'm sure that social science peer reviewers have their reasons for their methodological preferences, but trimmed means are great workhorses in other areas of science, like signal processing.

The critique strikes me as potentially valid in its subfield but a bit parochial if it is attempting generality.
I looked into Apollo for local state years ago, after trying to synchronize remote & local state & running into race conditions, I quickly realized it is better to implement GQL fetching inside something like Redux that is lower level & gives more control over determinism & timings.

The holy grail of "fixing race conditions" and avoiding async bugs is RxJS in my opinion, which is why I am working on what I call a "stream management library", its a state manager where your "state" is represented as RxJS streams https://rx-store.github.io/rx-store/
Or, I mean, their personality, possibly? Plenty of ugly people out there with partners.
Wouldn’t dry, arid, sunny places be the perfect fit for this, then? Solar power and a lack of preexisting water would probably make that scenario economically viable
Would be interested in seeing how many robberies are violent and armed vis a vis sentence lengths
That and not drive costs lower by shifting risk onto "contractors"
I don't know. I had a bunch of toys growing up that I retained. They're kept in a little glass cupboard in my house. My nephews love playing with them whenever they're over. Something that lasted two generations certainly seems good value to me.
The CEO of Google refused to use an Android device for years....

https://9to5google.com/2013/03/21/google-chairman-eric-schmi...
No love for Kyocera?
That’s generally because the ‘own workflow’ is insane in the first place (10s of years of managers adding their own crazy conditions).
Problem-Solving Techniques That Work for All Types of Challenges (2017)
Have you discovered any new opcodes?
Sundiver:

Egg sac for a species of star-dwelling creatures. Hopefully they didn't arrive from Betelgeuse...
It would compare the price relative to other goods in the same country. It makes sense to me, what am I missing?
What ever works for you man. That stuff is meth, trash, superficial garbage.
Badly. Google needs to be regulated too.
>It's not unique in this regard, therefore it doesn't matter? Is that your argument?

Yes. Any group that controls information distribution controls what we know about the world. By controlling what we know about the world, they control politics completely. This is axiomatic, there is no way around it, you can't personally observe everything that happens therefore you must have it reported to you. The person or people doing that reporting control your worldview. Google isn't bad for playing a role in that information economy.

>Also, comparing the relative power of newspaper men to Google doesn't make much sense.

You're right, the newspaper and television men of yore were far more powerful than Google is or ever will be. More Americans watched Cronkite than watch all evening network news combined today, and 70% of the people who watched him trusted that his was factual reporting.

No news source in the world today has that kind of trust, definitely not Google.
I live in Lithuania and that also appears to be the case here. The cheapest mobile plans from the main operators start at around 8€/mo for 1GB data with unlimited calls and texts. To be fair I would say these type of plans are actually quite expensive compared to the rest of Europe. But there are plenty of data-only plans which work out a lot cheaper.

The cheapest provider sells unlimited data for 2.90€/mo, but the speed is limited and they are a smaller player so their coverage is too. From the big players, truly unlimited data with no speed caps is 20€/mo (the largest capped plan is 120GB for 11€/mo, 0.09c/GB). And of course they have discounts if you have other services from the same provider.
For what it's worth, most of the outbound route (but not the return) was secondary motorways.
I'll stick to my Fremen Windtraps thank you very much.
Scaling Postgres for time series data using partitioning, Django and Architect
We utilise the Architect library to achieve table partitioning in PostgreSQL. It's a garage version of the Timescale extension but it allowed us to stay with AWS RDS.
The only way forward is to avoid Apple products. Some are truly great but if you care about freedom and the open web we must avoid Apple.
Uber and Lyft said they will leave temporarily while they adapt to employing drivers, not permanently.
How about a teller who steals $20 from the till at a Chase Bank? They will do jail time.

I want these two plunders to rot because people have done time for far less serious non-violent crimes.

This is rotten and perhaps crooked. Someone called in favor from the judge.
The video is surprisingly high quality. It almost looks like a movie set, especially the night scenes. It's really great to watch even for just the cinematography. You can tell they the filmmakers really cared about the details.
> Market power is the ability to coerce people into paying more for something via a mechanism other than actually offering a better product or service.

How exactly does Apple "coerce people into paying more for their phones via a mechanism other than actually offering a better product or service", and what is that mechanism?

> But if a firm is able to drive up prices with impunity for any reason, it's likely they possess market power.

How is Apple actually able to "drive up prices with impunity for any reason"? It seems to me, the more Apple raises iPhone prices, the more people are priced out and decide to switch to a cheaper phone instead.
For those on mobile: here are the two links, should they not become split above

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24151123

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24151123
> but also that they are doing everyone a disservice in that their own suggested interventions are unproven and likely pseudoscience.

1. This applies ongoing pressure to fix the hole.

2. It is an incentive to find a hole.

It's possible to find significant problems not spoken about in most current fields. But there is no system to reward and then fix this.

Bug bounties came about because the alternate was selling to BlackHats or extra Karma for non-disclosed releases.
A lot of organisations make the mistake that they think they can fix a garbage process with more technology.

They end up finding that garbage in = garbage out
Words Mean Things.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cartel.asp

“ A cartel is an organization created from a formal agreement between a group of producers of a good or service to regulate supply in order to regulate or manipulate prices. In other words, a cartel is a collection of otherwise independent businesses or countries that act together as if they were a single producer and thus can fix prices for the goods they produce and the services they render, without competition.”

Do you have any evidence that Apple and Google are conspiring illegally to set prices? Are they talking to each other to agree on price?

“Informal cartel” has no legal meaning.
That kids can grow out of, it's harmless than actual 'meth' and other 'addictions' adults almost never 'grow out of'.
How to fix gimbal lock in N dimensions
Employees are told when to work. Uber and Lyft drivers choose their own hours.
Something is cheap or expensive in each country based on what % of the salary of a person living in those countries a good or service costs. Converting to USD and assuming that it looks cheap to an american is silly.
There are arid places with lots of cheap hydrocarbons, or alternatively, lots of sunlight.
America Never Learns the Limits of Bootstrapping
Why not take this the way we should, as consumers:

Cut all big cos out. The Internet already gives us tools to run everything as a community, yet we are not doing that.

We can fund open source software/hardware, crowdsource their continued development. It takes leadership, like the big cos have. But we can get it done.
Raymond Hettinger designed the latest implementation, more or less. He's given some talks about it.
A freelance iOS developer that doesn't use an iPhone is going to raise a lot of eyebrows.
PPP's fundamental assumption is that a product in one place and the same product in another place have the same price. It's used to determine a relative exchange rate, by setting the price of the goods to be equal.

Using PPP methodology for GBs of data, we would first assume that all GBs in every country are the same price. We would then use that fact to come up with a conversion rate between currencies. This isn't very helpful for price comparison, since it's very literally assuming that the prices are equal. Working back from the exchange rate makes much more sense, because we are interesting in the cost difference between a GB here and one there. We can't compare the cost difference if we assume a priori that they must equal each other.
Yeah silly me for looking for relevant “precedents”. I’m going by your own definitions.
Last month my Fido bill was $21.11 CAD for both my girlfriend's (4Gb) and my (3Gb) plan. Due to a variety of factors, including (read: entirely due to) generous CS reps, both are heavily discounted.

Note these are data-only plans, without SMS or calling. We use the Acrobits softphone (iPhone) or the built-in voip client (de-Googled Android) with voip.ms for

- Voice calls

- SMS/MMS (in-app, forwarded to any cell number, or via any email client)

- Transcribed voicemail

- Automatic call recording, and

- Spam-call blocking by configuring an IVR (spam callers can't press "1" to continue).

I've no relation to Acrobits, Fido, or voip.ms aside from being a customer, though I happily recommend all three.