skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd take that bet. I think Epic (Tim Sweeney, really) was prepared to lose that revenue to win the war.

This ruling is what I expected and seems quite reasonable. Epic doesn't get temporary special privileges to break App Store rules (even though they are alleged to be illegal), but also Apple can't retaliate against them in other areas.

If Epic does reverse the payment changes in an attempt to return Fortnite to the App Store until the lawsuit is resolved, I doubt Apple will let them back in unless forced by the court (despite Tim Cook's "Sir, we do not retaliate or bully people").
> The 1400-year-old Armstrong tree

The bare fact that a tree is 1400 years old is pretty strong evidence that it's unlikely to be harmed by a fire.
Oh wow, I didn't expect to see this on here! I wrote this one night for fun, and then shoved it on a Raspberry Pi with Nerves, where it chugged away on my desk for a few months, listing all the devices connected to my network.

The code wasn't very complicated, and it definitely isn't perfect -- I'm not doing any load shedding or applying any backpressure -- but it was a ton of fun to write, and really demonstrated how great Elixir and Erlang are for these kinds of projects.

I didn't keep up blogging, but I did get more involved in open source after this post, and I've been actively coding for fun most nights again. Sitting down and building a small and easily scoped out project really went a long way toward bringing myself out of burnout.
On the other hand if stuff goes wrong in the centralized model it goes wrong for everyone everywhere, and it almost certainly is really your fault.

I agree trade-offs, but I sometimes feel the gain has not been all that great.
I almost wrote this same comment. At this point, I'm probably going to be soft-retired in 4-5 years anyway. But once I know I won't die homeless, I'm excited to get started with this capitalism thing.
Nothing indicates that it is specific to algorithmic facial recognition. Actual humans make mistakes identifying suspects all the time. At the very least, the article should address that and compare the reactions, to prove people are more likely to act despite knowing better when the id was made by a computer.
You could make a project for each Epic, and assign tasks to them as well, so you can have them both grouped by Epic and in one place at the same time.
The second sentence on that page: "This page is a grand tour of reactor development programs from 1945 to about 1970, also known as the nuclear heyday." So yeah, no wonder Oklo is not included.

As for bipartisan nuclear support in the US, IIRC Clinton shut down the IFR (one of the most promising advanced reactor + reprocessing concepts) in the early 90'ies, largely due to anti-nuclear sentiments.
We don't live in 10,000 sq ft, that's just what my new neighbors are building. A lot of it came down to cost. Right now we're in a large home on a large lot in the woods up in the mountains. For the same money I could have been closer to my office in a home half the size with no yard. Some of this dilemma was caused by anomalies in the market at the time we were shopping. People in suburban areas were listing their houses for FAR above market and no one was buying, the stalemate lasted a while and pushed us rural.
Similar and relevant:

Crystal: https://crystal-lang.org/

Sorbet: https://sorbet.org/
I’m familiar with what he is referring to. It’s the least charitable interpretation, and one that disregards Pinker’s explanation and greatly overstates his role. Something you’d only sneak in a comment if you’re eager to throw shade at someone you don’t know but who you constructed an oppressor narrative for anyway.
I guess it depends on the purpose of using a quotation. My belief is that most people cite a quotation when arguing something as an appeal to authority. "Knuth says don't optimize at all, so we shouldn't do it either." In that case, I think understanding the context is key: if you use someone's words to back up your point, but that's not actually what they meant, then context does matter.

Yes, it's true that different people might need to hear different things at different times. If you're trying to tell someone not to micro-optimize ahead of time before profiling, then quoting Knuth is appropriate. If you're trying to tell someone not to optimize at all (let's say you have a valid reason for not optimizing at all), then its disingenuous (or at best ignorant) to use the Knuth quote.
Eh? I currently share a zpool between linux and freebsd, and it works fine without issue.
Just google for "notelemetry.obj"
Plan9 returns an error string instead of an error integer with the empty string signifying success. This seems like a simple and useful improvement to me.
"hen that would mean there is an infinite amount of money to spend reducing very small risks."

There is. But there isn't an infinite amount of stuff. And since to spend you have to have something to buy the spending stops when the real resource runs out. That's the actual limit - until you use some sort of power dynamics to start moving physical resources from their current uses.

Hence the shortage of PPE at the start of the Covid crisis. All the money in the world; not enough masks to go around. There was "demand", but no "effective demand".

Money is essentially inductively connected to the real economy, not directly connected. As an analogy in electrical terms money is apparent power, and the stuff it buys is real power.
This theory doesn't make a lot of sense to me, I've heard it a few times though. Why would someone buy a house away from the city during a temporary pandemic shutdown, assuming when things eventually open up again more in say max a year or two, they will need/want to be back in the city? I mean permanent remote work is one thing, I guess, but everything else that has 'gone away' hopefully will not be that way permanently (?)
I think it also possibly shows that in general we've not learned to be able to tune out or self filter the information overload that's thrown at us via the Internet.
Combination of multiple reasons that are coming to a head now. Massive heat waves, long running droughts, decreasing rainfall, with more development farther out from urban core etc.
I don't play a nuclear scientist on TV. I wish I could write this, because i think it would be interesting. But I wish I could read it more.
DIY Single-Chip 2D Retro Game Console
It seems some of the decision hinged around this fact from the article: "self-inflicted wounds are not irreparable injury".

I wonder if there could have been a better sequence of events (e.g. sue first rather than sneaking it in)?
Are manned missile trucks even valuable for countering electronic attack? I'm thinking "no". A missile truck can definitely be AI'ed or controlled remotely. Perhaps only CAS can't be made unmanned.

Cost is a huge problem. We now have unmanned carrier launched refueling trucks that I bet are incredibly cheap. Make them a tad bigger, put missiles in them, and you have a super cheap replacement for the F-35. The F-35 can stick around in small numbers for when you really need a human, if you really need a human in the cockpit. Cost has to drive us to this.
It doesn't fit the definition of personal device

Without my phone I could not use my bank's or GitHub's account

A locked console is not much of a problem like a locked smartphone

Even a locked computer is less problematic

Apple sold 2.2 billion iPhones in ~10 years

Sony only sold 440 million consoles in ~30 years
FYI, 12,000 acres are on fire in the Sequoia National Forest, where giant sequoias grow.

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7048/
> In a redesigned shell

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't exit codes an OS-level thing? That would be one hell of a redesign!

Not that I wouldn't absolutely love to have rich/structured return values, but that's already hard to do in a single-language system - even ignoring backwards compatibility, doing this in a traditional OS would require a level of cooperation I don't think the industry is capable of.
Arguably their dogfighting skills are more useful these days for attempting to maneuver away from SAMs, especially ManPADS.
I'm pretty sure this is the outcome Epic was expecting.My impression is that they don't want their stunts to affect the developers using Unreal Engine, but they're OK with Fortnite being off the App Store if they can win a concession for things like a smaller cut or even getting their EGS onto iOS.
If the robotics revolution is here, why is productivity growth so low? American factories underwent dramatic automation during the 1950s and 1960s, and productivity growth was very high at that time. Maybe that was the real robotics revolution?
[Hardin:] ‘Then why rely on him? Why not go to Arcturus and study the remains for yourself?’

Lord Dorwin raised his eyebrows and took a pinch of snuff hurriedly. ‘Why, whatevah foah, my deah fellow?’

‘To get the information first hand, of course.’

‘But wheah’s the necessity? It seems an uncommonly wound-about and hopelessly wigmawolish method of getting anyweahs. Look heah, now, I’ve got the wuhks of all the old mastahs – the gweat ahchaeologists of the past. I wigh them against each othah – balance the disagweements – analyse the conflicting statements – decide which is pwobably cowwect – and come to a conclusion. That is the scientific method. At least’ – patronizingly – ‘as I see it. How insuffewably cwude it would be to go to Ahctuwus, oah to Sol, foah instance, and blundah about, when the old mastahs have covahed the gwounds so much moah effectively than we could possibly hope to do.’ Hardin murmured politely,

‘I see.’ Scientific method, hell! No wonder the Galaxy was going to pot.

[and then, much later, Hardin says:]

‘It amounts to a diseased attitude – a conditional reflex that shunts aside the independence of your minds whenever it is a question of opposing authority. There seems no doubt ever in your minds that the Emperor is more powerful than you are, or Hari Seldon wiser. And that’s wrong, don’t you see?’

For some reason, no one cared to answer him.

Hardin continued: ‘It isn’t just you. It’s the whole Galaxy. Pirenne heard Lord Dorwin’s idea of scientific research. Lord Dorwin thought the way to be a good archaeologist was to read all the books on the subject – written by men who were dead for centuries. He thought that the way to solve archaeological puzzles was to weigh the opposing authorities. And Pirenne listened and made no objections. Don’t you see that there’s something wrong with that?’
Funny you mention this. We’re a family with young kids building a new home in Idaho. We’re escaping CA and worried our neighbors will be just other CA transplants.

We’re trying to find a place where people are different than what we experienced in California — small/no families, workaholics, tech obsessed, “progressive”...
Indeed, the rules are slanted to give bad-faith word-salad as much of an advantage as possible. Even the site's layout is hostile to correcting those posts; in addition to the rules prohibiting us pointing out that the article doesn't say what they claim (because we cannot directly imply that they did not read), the formatting of quoted text is messed up and ugly and distracting.

On this current account, I don't really care about overall karma, just per-post karma. I try to post simple but defensible points when I get early top-level timing, and I put effort into upvoting people that I agree with rather than adding on yeah-me-too posts for more karma. But I'm punished for not playing by the rules of the game; I can't downvote or vouch or any other useful features, so (-1, flagged) is a common fate.

In the design circles that I frequent, we often consider Conway's Law for social communities. The API of HN, including the rules, generates the shape of the conversations. The shittiness of discourse here is inherently due to the low-quality rules just as much as the lack of meta-moderation.
Is there a way I can see Hacker News comments alongside the article with a chrome extension or something? I normally click to the comments here first for tab management purposes (comments contain a link to the article but reverse is not true) but I know that's a bad pattern.
What Atlassian's futuristic Sydney tech hub will look like
NSW turns to AI to predict bushfire activity
Fascinating read. And perhaps more.
The sheep in Animal Farm (who repeat talking points independently of applicability or even consistency with the past) were probably a complaint about people not RTFAing in 1945.

If one squints enough, Plato's Cave could be a complaint (circa -375) about opinions via pale shadows of secondary and tertiary sources.

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...
That certainly sound like some of the more extreme attacks on science and mathematics from certain political perspectives.

I think ultimately this is a situation where the process is the product. There is no end goal really. People just feel good about themselves for annihilating the transgressors. People do not feel good about conflicted situations or living with realities.
Depends on the elections outcome, I guess.
What I meant was, we can automate tasks to save a human from doing it with simpler solutions that an AGI.
Encryption isn't about making something impenetrable, it's about making it more difficult. For example, modern encryption is very difficult
for present-day computers to crack, but won't be that hard for quantum computers to crack.

Also, you're discounting the possibility of multiple layers of biometric + non-biometric authentication. Password/Private-Key + retina scan + left big toe-print scan >= Password/Private-Key.

I also think there are ways to authenticate your identity outside of static data-points if there's a trusted 3rd party real-time system involved.
The global temperature anomaly is already out-of-range for not only the lifetime of this tree, but much of its evolutionary history. We are entering an out-of-context situation for a large portion of the earth's extant lifeforms.
Can you still comment if you get all the quiz questions wrong?
>No one starts off as extraordinary

Huh? I challenge you to remove from that list of overachievers all the people who had rich, smart, supportive parents. I think you will find it considerably shrunken.
A very cheap way of getting all the netstandard2 dependencies together in one place for the sake of Unity's bullshit is to create a vestigial .NET Framework 4.7 library that imports all of the .NET Standard 2.0 libraries you care about, and then set its output directory to somewhere within your Unity project's Assets/Plugins directory.
> interest rates are very low

I don't see how interest rates can ever go higher. We have been trapped near zero since 2008.
It is using (abusing?) Greek letters. I actually kind of hate that as those letters don't necessarily sound anything like what they look like to English speakers. It is effectively gibberish.
Eugenics is tricky. It is a complex field with legitimate and valuable data that can be used to help people, but can also be used for harm.

Nobody would wish cystic fibrosis, huntington's disease, or downs syndrome on their children, but that doesn't mean carriers don't deserve respect and dignity. The tricky part is how to promote healthier, happier, and smarter children without denigrating others.
Some choice sections:

"...On Thursday, August 13, 2020, Epic Games made the calculated decision to breach its
allegedly illegal agreements with Apple by activating allegedly hidden code in Fortnite allowing
Epic Games to collect IAPs directly. In response, Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store,
where it remains unavailable to the date of this Order. Later that same day, Epic Games filed this
action and began a pre-planned, and blistering, marketing campaign against Apple... "

"...The Court finds that with respect to Epic Games’ motion as to its games, including
Fortnite, Epic Games has not yet demonstrated irreparable harm. The current predicament appears
of its own making... Epic Games admits that the
technology exists to “fix” the problem easily by deactivating the “hotfix.” That Epic Games
would prefer not to litigate in that context does not mean that “irreparable harm” exists..."

"...Epic Games
moves this Court to allow it to access Apple’s platform for free while it makes money on each
purchase made on the same platform. While the Court anticipates experts will opine that Apple’s
30 percent take is anti-competitive, the Court doubts that an expert would suggest a zero percent
alternative. Not even Epic Games gives away its products for free..."

Ouch.

Separately, the aspect of Apple pulling keys for the developer (e.g. Unreal Engine) platform access was granted a preliminary injunction. Which seems reasonable.

I guess Epic has a couple days to decide whether to give in or not: "Fortnite’s next season starts on Thursday, August 27, 2020, and will require an update
of the game to play."
Also "Rediscovering the Small Web": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23326329
For a while I was employed at a shop that was a sort of unified platform and on that platform we would support a number of tools - these tools were usually developed by contractors that would get a complex set of business rules and build a solution to fit - then we FTEs would take care of the plumbing and platform tech debt... Unlike how a lot of places like that might look with outsourcing our contractor pool was pretty steady so while they didn't technically continuously work for the company they were essentially co-workers.

It was an interesting place to be but suffered greatly from a lack of permanence in the roster - for a few years tings were great - then some of our regulars moved on and were replaced with more flaky people. I assume it was just the specific mix of folks that made that setup sustainable while it was.
I don’t think Epic is making that much money from Fortnite on iOS to actually care, I think they are using Apple because a) its an easy target and if they win the ruling can be expanded to other platforms too where they currently make the most money on and b) while they aren’t a major source of revenue now Epic probably has bigger plans for mobile centric games down the line.

Basically now it’s the best time for them to do it, Apple is a huge target and they can gain industry support, Fortnite is big enough that even the average judge, jurist and jury member is likely aware of it and right now they stand to lose very little financially from not being on iOS while the potential future gains are insane.
My older volumes are of type "standard", but that type is not on the price list. I cannot even send a link to the price list, because the region is not in the URL. https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/ Complete lack of transparency.
It's all so new, and far from being fully deployed, to be seen in economical averages.
I believe the heat of a wildfire is literally the trigger for the cone to open up and release the redwood's seeds! (I don't know the exact mechanism for this, though.)
At least 10.000 IU/day are seemingly not a problem [1]. Old recommendations of only 1.000 IU/day are likely way too low as well [2].

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09600...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5541280/
Move to Alabama, you won’t be disappointed...
Is a razor wire fence, then, an autonomous knife?
Insurance companies are well aware of the geniuses constantly rediscovering that you can overinsure something you don't care about and then cash it in.[1]

They try to protect against that by requiring that you can only get policies on something you have an "insurable interest" [2] in (i.e. independent reason to value it and not want the insured event to happen to it).

They also try to closely calibrate payouts so that they're not significantly more than the market value of the loss (ideally, a bit less) and thus prevent the "moral hazard".

Yes, sometimes you can get ahead of them and get a policy paying $X where X is significantly greater than the actual value to you, and have an expected value (profit * probability - costs) greater than zero. But you will almost certainly have to commit insurance fraud to do so, by hitting one of many "tripwires" that the insurance contracts have: lacking insurable interest, misrepresenting market value, actively causing the incident yourself, etc. [3] Any of those would give them an out.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1494/

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/insurable-interest.asp

[3] My comment on a similar story where the same logic applies; in that case, the fraudster exploited the fact that they weren't charging enough to cover the probability of the event, and insured events she didn't have an interest in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23528221
Evolution of the Calculator (2016)
I see your and MaxBarraclough concerns. In my case, there exist 5-6 codes which do -at their core- the same thing as ours does and they all have been cross-checked against each other within either theoretical or numerical precision (where possible). That's the spirit that sjburt was referring to, I guess, and which triggered me because it is only true to a certain extend.

The cross-checking is anyways good scientific practise, not only because of bugs in the code (that's actually a sub-leading problem imho), but because of the degree of difficulty of the problems and the complexity of their solutions (and their reproducibility). In that sense, cross-checking should discover both, scientific "bugs" and programming-bugs. The "debugging" is partly also done at the community level - at least in our field of research.

However, it is also a matter of efficiency. I -and many others too- need to re-implement not because of bug-hunting/cross-checking but simply because we do not understand the "ugly" code of our colleagues and instead of taking the risk to break existing code we simply write new one which is extremely inefficient (others may take the risk and then waste months on debugging and reverse-engineering which is also inefficient).
So my point on writing "good code" is not so much about avoiding bugs but about being kind to you colleagues, saving them nerves and time (which they can then spend on actual science) and thus also saving taxpayers money...
I use markdown in Writer and physical notebooks myself.

Both lack the ability to easily add pictures.

Bad iPad integration will be a killer for me though.

Worth a look, I suppose.
The research has some value, and was paid for at some cost, and if the cost outstrips the value, that is relevant. I think it's easy to conclude that it did.
Now that I think about it, this might actually explain some bugs I've seen when copying multiple files. Copying one file seems to work but then copying a second the progress sits at 0%, it's probably waiting for the first transfer to sync.
Language Log is brilliant. Perfect morning reading with my coffee. “Orca emits speech-like sound; reporters go insane“ says more about our culture and media than anything I’ve read for years. Thanks for posting the link.
Easily with CI. Every pull request on the GitHub project will build a dozen Docker images whenever a PR is opened, updated or merged.

Granted, there's only a couple base images involved, so CI pipelines will need updating to be more efficient in terms of `docker build --pull` usage.
The setup of the game is simply unfair for a comparison between AI and human. If you want to keep the perfect data link between the simulator's outputs and the AI player computer, then at least let the human play by watching the (God's eye) display with the aircraft sprites sporting those kill-point spears and ditch the HUD. The objective would simply be to touch the enemy aircraft with that spear.

The HUD is cool and all. But how do I know where the enemy is if it is outside of the HUD's field? Think about how the AI knew. :) And while we are at this, maybe just invite a young gamer instead of a real pilot.