skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> There's no wealth-test that prevents a person from losing all their money in highly-leveraged investments - from real-estate to fancy public-market securities.

That is an exageration for publicly traded securities. It used to be possible (in the roaring '20s) to be 10:1 leveraged in public stocks. The SEC forbid that because so many people were wiped out. Nowadays retail stock accounts can under-perform, but it's a big deal when a lot of people see their portfolio decline by 30% -- think 2009.

People have gotten wiped out in large numbers on real estate. I just think it is an exaggeration to say people are taking huge risks with a normal stock account
Yes it would be.
Or I can use an adblocker and give such businesses the finger. I will continue to do this. If they don't like it, the ball is in their court. Let them try to stop me, ruining their site in the process for anybody who pays for a subscription while blocking their ads, or offer an ad-free service to people who pay. Either way, using an adblocker is a clear win for me and nobody can provide me with a compelling reason to stop. Whining about how I'm being unfair to the poor w'ittle corporation isn't persuasive. It was never my intention to follow the rules of the game they want me to play.
If I'm reading both the Apple prompt details and the Twitter statement correctly, what that tweet is saying is that Facebook will not request access to the IDFA at all, and will also not allow developers using Facebook's SDK to request it. This means they won't trigger ("adopt" per the tweet) the prompt notifying the user of tracking, since they aren't using the IDFA to track anymore.

The rest of the tweet goes on to describe how to comply with that policy from Facebook, and to suggest alternate methods for developers to track users on iOS, including Facebook Login or Advanced Matching.
I don't really understand what the drastic difference there is supposed to be. If you want to use all the units as a shared living space, just leave the common-area connecting doors propped open. This is functionality that many duplex and triplex units already have.
If you lived in California, and do business in California, and you incoporate in Delaware you still have to pay $800 tax per year for California. You cannot escape it.
I didn't suppose that it would run on your laptop. What is possible on top end supercomputers scales up as well as technology improves.

In regards to scaling why can't we use more compute to run the a single ai faster and faster instead of simulating more AI especially if its running on a supercomputer with a high bandwidth communication between nodes?

If between point A and point B you have 100 times the compute why don't you effectively simulate a century of thought for your single AI instead of simulating 100 AIs.
It was a "self-certified" wealth test

People working in the industry know that self-certified means lie through your teeth all day every day with a straight face.

People working in the industry know that you can create illiquid investments, trade one unit of it and say you own the rest at the same price, and viola you are a multimillionaire. I did it with crypto assets 6 years ago using Counterparty.

People working in the industry know that you just need a lawyer or CPA to sign off on that.

The prohibition is on the companies selling securities, not on the investor, so the company just needs a way to cover their ass (CYA) and there is no consequence for the investor. "Self-certification" is a code word for lying, or stretching the truth, just checking the box.
2021 starts in less than 5 months. I think a lot of people are still so used to seeing 202x dates as "far future" that it's really easy right now to lose perspective that that future is already here.
A compressed header that looks good on mobile? Wow.

The rest of the design looks well crafted too.
Over the years I have some notes about TDD:

* Writing test first is simply unnatural. Way more developers need exploratory session to even discover what are they supposed to do.

* That's because our spec is always vague and no amount of Agile process can help it.

* If you have a bunch of idempotent functions, they are the easiest to write tests on. So I would start there.

* Some languages are easier to do unit tests on, for example: Go. It gives everything you need: test runner, benchmarker, data race checker, unit test struct is part of std library, etc.

* This DSL: `describe(){ it "should work" { result.should eq true } }`, is nuts and counter productive. People are already not writing tests and you are adding another friction?

* To write or to not write mock? This is a controversial one, but in my opinion, it is simply practical to test directly on the database you are using. Your CI/CD should just prep the database you need instead of mocking. Once again, people are already not writing tests, don't add more frictions.
Very true.

There are EVs with inferior cell gravimetric power density, who in the end manage to have superior pack gravimetric density, and superior mass fraction (cell weight/car weight) than Model S.
Which means Facebook will be able to charge less money for it, so hopefully their relevance will decline over time.
I think it is. I have the best of both worlds. Most of the time I download apps from a store that is roughly as safe as the Apple store. (Maybe not quite as high, but I don't think that this changes the argument). However if there is some software that Google doesn't like I can install it myself. Or I can run a patch that some developer posted on GitHub and test it before it has been merged and published.

It shows that there is some convenience from a "single" app store, such that people won't flood away and lead to a race to the bottom in quality. But it also shows that you can maintain that experience while allowing users to install whatever they want.

So Apple is claiming that allowing people to install whatever they want, or having multiple App Stores will lead to crumbling of the convenient and secure ecosystem that they have created. However Android has shown that this is not the case.
Imagine I am implementing a service that queries 20 separate MySQL database servers to generate a report. (I'm not saying this is a good architecture, it's merely to illustrate the point.) I know that sometimes one of the MySQL instances might be down, e.g. due to a hardware failure. When this happens, my service is supposed to return data from the other 19 databases, along with a warning message indicating that the data is incomplete.

I would like to write a test to verify that my code properly handles the case where one of the MySQL instances has experienced a hardware failure. The point is that I can't do this as a strict black-box test where I merely issue calls to my service's public API.

[edit] And of course "testing the externalities" doesn't help here. I can test the MySQL instances and verify that they are all running, but that doesn't remove the need for my code to handle the possibility that at some point one of them goes down.
Let's keep in mind that even a 2020 EV on par with ICE TCO is also very much less polluting ;)

Just a tiny reminder
TFA also mentioned the Mozambique explosives company buying it had links to Hezbollah but I'm guessing a lot of people didn't read the article, which is too bad, it's a really good article.
Excellent, I don't want companies creepily looking at my every move. The fad of "targeted ads" is just a bad excuse for intrusive technology. I don't want companies knowing my interests or what I want to buy, unless I decide to do so.
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Eh, artists have bills to pay. I try to buy e-books to support my favorite sci-fi authors, but it feels a bit silly that downloading the epub from libgen is literally less hassle than buying it on Google Play.
I agree that they would help in the regression testing process, especially in diagnosing the cause. However, I think those are usually just called "unit" tests, not "regression" tests. For instance, the internal implementation of a feature might change, requiring a new, internal unit test. The regression test would be used to compare the output of the new implementation of the feature versus the old implementation of the feature.
Ladders and funnels.

Figure out how to get people into the funnel. Then figure out how to get them to climb the ladder.

Think of motivation.

Also, go read the Way of the Wolf. Best salesbook there is.

If you have time, any video about Dan Kennedy on youtube is gold. Study the content of the videos.
I hope you realize what this means is that ads as a monetization model for apps is getting decimated. These apps will now have to explore alternate monetization models such as either making themselves paid or subscriptions. And guess what, Apple takes a 30% cut of it. If you are thinking Apple is a benevolent savior of privacy, you are absolutely wrong. All they are doing here is to hurt advertising so that more apps move to other models which lets Apple extract more value.

Get ready, as a user, to pay for these apps which were once free.
> The whole obfuscation is necesarry if one is blowing the whistle on someone or is posting something offensive.

Agreed -- I don't think personal posts need the anonymization as much as perhaps political discussions in oppressive regimes (at which point getting the technical security stack right seems higher ROI than worrying about de-anonymization).
When I'm walking with my 8-year-old, we both scramble right the hell out of the street if there's a car anywhere in our vision. Neither of us could care less about a bike somewhere. It sure doesn't feel like we're being irrational.
As others said, I think the language is great. Things get uglier when you want to go from OCaml to real world OCaml. The standard library is lacking, which means you have to use Jane Street libraries or other third-party library which may not be very robust, stable, documented. Jane Street libraries are fine but they significantly increase the complexity of the langage. They also encourage you into doing things a certain way (using sexp, ppx). Also, I find monad-based asynchronous programming to be quite tedious. I feel like a lot of the simplicity and elegance of OCaml is being lost. In terms of fun, I'd rather write a server in Go than in OCaml.
Question is, would you use their UI/services a lot if you also had a Stripe account connected to it?
Except our title is

SATCON1 Report on Impact of Satellite Constellations on Astronomy

and orbital debris does have serious consequences for astronomy.

So I'm still going to say: Phrasing!
In what market are Apple and Facebook competitors?
The WinRAR post doesn't say that the file was submitted to VirusTotal, only that the CA said it "looked like a file used by hackers". Either there was no VirusTotal record for it or there was and WinRAR omitted that fact because it weakened their argument.
Well, I'm Scottish, I've been Scottish all my life! Lived in Scotland all my life.. That page is mostly nonsense.
This looks great.

The use of React components gives a post-apocalyptic feel to it.
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Most of the US still lives in really crappy old homes built in the last century, with asbestos insulation, tar shingles, fiber board, and wood rot.
Doesn't really compare with building standards in Europe, even Eastern Europe.
China also has modernized and built some awesome cities.
Middle East, and Asian cities are also pretty modern.
I'm not really sure who you are comparing to? India? Africa?
On the plus side, you don't have to worry about your soda fizzing over...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJiUWBiM8HE
Bolt is just as bad as E-Golf, it was shoe horned into a Trax chassis and worse the Bolt EUV follow on vehicle is still saddled with slow charging.
That's neat, thank you!
Which is why there shouldn't be any prohibition exclusively in the securities market. There are even higher wealth tests in some aspects of the commodities market.

These things just haven't been challenged in the courts because those wealthy enough don't know or consider this is an issue, and people less wealthy aren't even exposed to these kinds of opportunities and probably also can't afford the court challenge.

I think there is room for a challenge and invalidation of the entire concept because the wealth test actually used to be different kinds of tests as recently as the 70s. Those were no good because it led to arbitrary discrimination by the brokers and companies. And now we are back to that because FINRA licenses are more standardized.

Can likely invalidate the entire concept with more recent case law such as spending is speech via 1st amendment, 5th amendment and 14th amendment equal application of laws in comparison to the wealth/access dichotomy as well as ability to speculate and gamble in other markets.
This ought not be particularly difficult to understand. Black folks don't want the police to go away, we want the police to generally do the job they are hired for.

But also, we don't have a big problem with the extreme rhetoric against the police because for years and years, in the face of overwhelming evidence of misconduct, there hasn't been meaningful reform. Desperate times, desperate measures.
criminal justice turns slow for the wealthy. for the poor you are often accelerated straight to being dead.
Interesting. There's no way they could have seen the rings back then. I wonder if there's a connection.
I agree that opiods are definitely on the riskier side of the spectrum, while THC definitely seem on the safer side - at least for adults. But we know that: that's why opioids are mainly sold after a prescription by a doctor and in a pharmacy. At least we are trying to limit access to opioids.

On the other hand THC is currently almost advertised as being "good for you" (see all the papers/studies around it), and a socially acceptable/fun thing to do. While I don't really see anyone posting on social media a picture of themselves crushing some oxy pills. Overall we can expect the number of people negatively impacted by a THC addiction to be significantly higher in the next few years than for opioids. Even if at the individual level, the effects are lower.

At the macro level this makes THC widespread use worrying - just like the opioids use is worrying. The really interesting thing is the difference in narrative. We know want to lock down one as much as possible, while we want to open the other as much as possible.

PR wise, it's incredible. The arguments used in this article against opioids (it was a great business making lots of money !), are exactly the argument used in favour of THC (it is going a great business making lots of [tax] money !).
With the right decryption tools, you nearly can. All you need is the 2TB precomputed Berlin Tables and the code to implement them.
I understand why everyone's instant reaction might be "good," but if you are in the business of making an app, you will eventually need to get users for your app. Advertising is how that happens. That's because app store discovery was nerfed years ago, to make store search ads a revenue source. This Apple IDFA change will likely force you to redirect your ad spend from the Facebook Audience Network to Apple search ads.
Indeed. Despite multiple assurances that they could have done it as well, I'm still not aware of any modern art coming out of HN.

I too could have invented calculus (after learning about it in school).
HealthGrades.com and RateMDs.com is already a thing.
> and one suspects also the fact the the US SSTs weren't making much progress.

I also can't quite avoid that suspicion. The Concorde was noisy, but not that noisy and Concorde B should be quieter from the aerodynamic improvements.
The "marketplace of ideas" cannot reward what is "best" since disparate people have differing ideas of what best means. Indeed, the marketplace "solves" this problem precisely by invoking another fitness function, a compromise that is predicated by a certain cultural tension and virtually guaranteed to produce results that appear sub-par from every perspective.
Dragonflies visually track prey using only sixteen neurons. That's a testament to how complex a single neuron is, not how easy the task is. Dragonfly eyes each have thousands of facets and sensory cells. How many transistors would we need to process that input, in multiple colors, and identify and track prey in real time? It's a heck of a lot more than sixteen.
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Like they closed up shop and abandoned China as a market?
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Citation? I'm very curious about if this literally means "garage" as opposed to "any kind of off-street parking".

Our tesla charges in.. our driveway. Our garage is too small to hold a car. When we remodel, I hope to convert our single into a tandem with a lift, holding 3 cars.

The tesla will still be in the driveway, though.
I like that this is also called "futuristic".

This is the future if we projected it out in the 90s. (I think the popularity says something about the average age of HN users).

However, if we had projected the future in the 80s or 70s or 00s, we would see different interfaces.

Speaking of cyberpunk, I recommend the William Gibson short story Gernsback Continuum that explores this "projected future" concept in more detail.
Modern scams don't show the 'accredited investor' rules are helpful.

These "are you rich enough?" limits, on just a few classes of potential investments, did not and can not provide any protection against rampant risks like:

* Enron (an audited public company approved for widow-and-orphan investing)

* Madoff

* Fake-documentation or risk-oblivious home lending

* At-home Forex or securities trading in arbitrarily exotic or leveraged ways (Robinhood! Futures! Expiring options!)

* State lotteries with awful odds & deceptive advertising preying on the decision-biases of the poorly-educated

* Prosperity gospel solicitations

So rather than proving the value of Accredited Investor restrictions, your example scams (some crypto), and others, just show them to be an ineffectual symbolic Maginot Line, not a wise Chesterton's Fence.
What is better alternative? 7-zip UI is not as good and missing some WinRAR features.
It's actually a pretty interesting and novel use of newest technology. I'm impressed.

Although the text itself reads like an Ad for Sigfox without explaining what it is. Maybe I've been living under a rock but I have no idea what it actually is.

If anybody is as curious as myself here you go:

> Sigfox uses 200 kHz of the publicly available and unlicensed bands to exchange radio messages over the air (868 to 869 MHz and 902 to 928 MHz depending on regions). Sigfox uses Ultra Narrow Band (UNB) technology combined with DBPSK and GFSK modulation.

Source: https://www.sigfox.com/en/what-sigfox/technology#id_technolo...
While Apple is trying to double down on privacy improvements, Google's aiming to build a bigger moat for their ad business with Android OS (>80% mobile OS marketshare) and Chrome (>70% browser marketshare) changes.

Google deserves the same amount of criticism, but the addiction to their free services keep users silent.
Inconvenient and overdesigned, Apple’s credit card may be its next success story
The consistent pricing requirement was removed years ago. This is an article from 2011 about it: https://appleinsider.com/articles/11/06/09/apple_backs_down_...
The main clauses either require a reasonable belief, which is a factual question that could easily go against the CA, or says they need to be "identified" as publishers of malicious software, without specifying how. An antivirus site that has many false positives likely wouldn't qualify.
Maybe think of it differently: what if there were third party app stores that had the same TECHNICAL requirements, but not the same business/policy requirements.

Feels like this is (should be?) as much about USER freedom and choice as it is about DEVELOPERS. While cost precipitated the current set of issues, it's really about the role Apple plays in arbitrarily mediating between customer and service.

So basically, you would strike: log-in, payment, content, etc, but keep the other stuff. Doesn't solve all problems but would be incrementally better.

Each "app store" would have it's own ability to set those policies for apps it carries - but (crucially) users would have the OPTION.

For users that don't care - stick with Apple.
I used this strategy when developing a client library for a web socket API. It was hugely helpful. I could just include the string of the response in my tests, instead of needing a live server or even a mock server for testing. Tests were much simpler to write and faster to execute.
Yeah the scanner has a radar sensor which can penetrate clothes. We used multiple sensors and developed a "morphing" algorithm to reconstruct the whole body accurately.
Can you share any source on this, I am very curious, is it tax?
What you've described is especially pernicious over multiple iterations.

Windows 95 can do 90% of what Linux can.
Windows 3.1 can do 90% of what Windows 95 can.
DOS can do 90% of what Window 3.1 can.

In this (contrived and counter-chronological) example, at each iteration we lost something that was only ever valuable to connoisseurs. In the case of software, we're talking about developers and power users.

But yeah, let's all keep mocking Pollock, and the art history students who cherish the work, until we end up with nothing but the most commercial, easily-digestible, and trite art.

Oh wait...
Do you have a screenshot or video? That sounds nightmarish!
An equivalent claim could also be that some collection of 3-line Python scripts is among the most important accomplishments in computer science and engineering. Being clearly trivial, it probably isn't that great.

So another possibility is that there indeed is such a thing as an emperor without clothes, and he might show up in abstract art.
No that's total expected program cost divided by the planned total of 72 aircraft, not just the first couple. These are extremely expensive machines no matter how you slice it.

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2018/08/30/us-navy-selects...

I don't understand why people persist in the fantasy that removing pilots will make aircraft cheap. That doesn't align with reality. There are some cost savings but when evaluated on a full program lifecycle basis they are relatively small.
Who's using 2.11BSD today and why?
Good. Housing should not be treated as an investment.
Turbo Tunnel, a good way to design censorship circumvention protocols
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Why do humans make media directed at other humans? There's some intrinsic and extrinsic motivation that makes it so, and those conditions aren't met by making media for dolphins.

I understand the hypothetical dangers of an AGI with the "wrong" reward function where "wrong" includes "like humans in terms of species-tribalism and intelligence-smugness", but I don't actually see a media generator AI necessarily having human-esque identity that you're suggesting.
An example of this from my experience: I was working on a side project and ended up doing 2 major version upgrades on a core JS library (maybe routing?) before I even completed the MVP. Definitely not what I wanted to spend my time on at that point.
True, but I would imagine engine noise to be a relatively small part of the sonic boom issue.
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“Free” as in “you pay with your data”?
Great point, I agree GPT-3 & related models will open up interesting avenues for this process.

I have not played around with it, but I can imagine querying it through a structure like LearnFromAnyone [0] where one would ask for a sentence (paragraph? document?) re-phrased in the style of a chosen person or group of people.

0 - https://learnfromanyone.com/