skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The switching costs of going between iOS and Android are obviously not remotely comparable from the switching costs of going between Walmart and Target.

True, but you knew that very well when you bought iOS device (and it might've even been exactly because of the strict review). Same if you moved to that town with the single Dollar General - you knew what you were getting into.

Don't get me wrong - I don't like the situation. But people buy iPhones (at the very least) despite the strict guidelines and developers still put apps in the store despite the strict rules. If either of those components would miss, Apple would not be one of the highest value companies in the world right now. And Apple does not have the market force to simply crush everyone else.
>rather than adding the kitchen sink to web browsers?

Given Chromebooks etc that seems to be exactly the plan
Yeah this has been a common attack since as early as I can remember. Company goes bust? Wait for their domain to expire then register/catch-all and start seeing what mail you get from websites to see where there’s accounts using that domain. Also plenty of more targeted methods too.
Everyone used to buy a Macbook, but not anymore - on one hand, precisely because of all these Apple's policies not being power-user-friendly, but also because there are other alternatives, WSL especially.

As for lack of sideloading being a feature - lack of features is only a feature, when those features can get in the way. The ability to opt into sideloading - as it's done on Android and Win10 - is not intrusive for those users who choose to not enable it. So, no, this can't really be sold under the guise of caring about the users. It's a policy that is in place to protect Apple's interests, and benefits no-one else.
Fun fact - the blue in woad is indigo, and indigo was once banned in parts of Europe to protect the local Woad industry once it became clear indigo is just a better source of the dye. Little bit of fun old timey trade war/protectionism stuff.
> To do that on a module, you have to first import that module - and then all the imports at the top of it would've already run.

Why not just replace the `__import__` function at program startup, when you haven't imported anything? Monkey patching `__import__` at any other time seems like a bad idea.
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That's not at all what Python does. It linearizes the inheritance hierarchy for the purposes of superclass attribute lookup, in an attempt to solve some aspects of the diamond problem, or at least make them solvable. But it doesn't touch the types themselves, only the MRO used by the super builtin. That's why the super builtin type takes both the "current" class and the object instance itself, which was more visible before the whining of people who didn't understand it grew too loud to be borne by the maintainers and the project introduced the `super()` syntactic sugar. Not that I'm bitter about that or anything.

Anyway, your argument seems to be that you should be able to use naively written classes in a multiple inheritance hierarchy. I suppose that's a defensible opinion, but it's also not the case in any language I know of; C++ solves the problem of not calling the "correct" superclass by default by foisting the responsibility of choosing the correct subset onto the derived class author, but doesn't solve the "I called my superclass' method too many times" problem, only the "I have too many (n>1) copies of my superclass' data" problem (the solution to which is also opt-in). Python resolves all three of these, but in so doing requires careful construction of multiple inheritance hierarchies and use of the super builtin that is religious to the point of fanatical. That's a tradeoff made in respect to a feature that, IMO, is inherently sharp.

Aside: "idiosyncratic" is an interesting word to use given that the C3 MRO was originally intended for Dylan.
I agree, but I can also see a future of smaller web-based bookshops with specialised algorithms based on more uncommon, specialized parameters. Think "books about philosophy that used to be popular in the '70s".
Probably the same reason that there were blackouts during Enron's time: 'scarcity' means that prices can be raised.
You should try to use the "sync" command, this is exactly what it solves.
> As always in these situations, I ask what experiment and evidence would you accept that UBI works? Being dismissive is different from being a skeptic. A skeptic also has an experiment and hypothesis that could disprove their position.

That's exactly the problem. I'm not sure a small scale study is actually capable of showing that UBI works or doesn't work. I worry that the only way we're going to find out is actually implementing it.

> If you don't have a position that can be disproven, you're just an annoying gadfly.

Again, I'm pro-UBI. I just don't think that people's claims about UBI can be proven or disproven without it actually being done at scale, both in terms of the number of people given money and the length of time the money is provided.

I'm a physicist. I'm not anti-science. However, I am against the mis-use of science in performing experiments that cannot show what they aim to show.

There is no law of nature saying that for any system you wish to study, there is a simpler, easier to understand system you can study instead which should roughly replicate the results in your bigger messier system. Human economies are complex.
>Getting an antibody test to see if you had Covid-19 months ago is pointless, according to guidelines issued this week by a major medical society.

Many tests are inaccurate, some look for the wrong antibodies, and even the right antibodies fade away, said experts at the Infectious Diseases Society of America, which issued the new guidelines.
For a site that supposedly prides itself on discussions that gratify one's intellectual curiosity, there certainly are some jarring taboos on acceptable topics to be curious about.
I love second-hand bookshops, but you can see the death spiral. The neighborhood in which I live used to have about 7 bookshops; they are down to about 3.5 and some of the remaining ones look none too healthy.

One problem with a lot of 2nd hand bookstores is that they have stuffed their shelves with remainders - these are not a interesting stock choice as they are really just "what was selling - or more likely not selling - on mainstream shelves a few months ago". They can't compete on price moving those remainders compared to "Downtown Book Barn" places, and it crowds out genuine used stock (which will provide more surprises).
> WTF is that all about?

Doing a Google search… someone likes the acting abilities of Yua Mikami.
There are probably thousands of people who would be better pilots than the current average, who have no hope of ever qualifying because of either the cost, or the traditional hiring/training patterns of airlines. Maybe that doesn't bother you as a passenger, but it does seem to bother the airlines themselves, who keep introducing programs to address the issue which everyone here clearly knows better than them about.
I fully realize that some people will find this silly to say, but ice melting and "fires and great vapors of smoke" (which I can see out my window in the western USA now), and other stuff that I think of under climate change, are part of the predictions (of prophets both ancient and modern, if memory serves), for the "last days", before Christ's second coming (in glory). And we can be at peace about things -- we can be ok.

So, in case anyone is curious, I have put reasons I think this, and why I know some of these things, in some depth, at my simple web site, which I hope is very skimmable to find the parts you want: http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854581820.html .

All the best....
I wish I had a write-up but here's a starting point at least:

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorf...

Inside the source code files, they then use a decorator (@tf_export) to define where in the package/module hierarchy a function/class should get placed, see e.g.

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorf...

For instance, the write() function in that module actually gets exposed as `tf.summary.write()` even though it's contained in the file tensorflow/python/ops/summary_ops_v2.py.

Needless to say, this even brings auto-completion of an IDE like IntelliJ to its knees at times.

To make things even worse, things like Tensorboard also make use of global state everywhere, see e.g. the function _should_record_summaries_internal() in the above file. But now the question is: Which module's global state does the function actually access if it gets "moved" to a different module by TF? At the end of the day, I gave up hunting down that bug (_should_record_summaries_internal() always returned False, no matter what) and resorted to mocking the function out whenever I used Tensorboard. To do that (i.e. to find its parent module in the first place), I in turn used the `inspect` package.

This is what I meant by "import magic". :)
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+1 to Darktable, it's an amazing piece of software.

Lately I have been using RawTheRapee [1] for most of my photo editing needs. It's simpler and less flexible than Darktable, but I get better results in less time unless I need some very specific editing. Also RawTheRapee's noise reduction and sharpening are better than Darktable's.

[1] http://rawtherapee.com/
people pretending (jokingly or not) they are social influencers. I laugh when is a joke and disturbing when it is not.
Yeah for sure, even just having a download inside the game after downloading the "game" is pretty strange. When you uninstall it via Steam, those files don't go away automatically either, so now you mysteriously have 90GB less hard drive space. Gives me the feeling that things were pretty rushed up to release.
Those users are already creating new email accounts, so creating a new e.g. FooApp account shouldn’t seem unreasonable to those users.
Ok acknowledged, but what's the point again? Aren't we trying to figure out if all of NYC has been infected by the virus or not? 20k deaths divided by fatality rate (give or take demographic breakdown) gets you the answer today as new cases/deaths are minimal (virus spread is minimal).

You don't like that fatality rate, so be it, but which one you believe in is all that really matters for this exercise given the virus spread <-> delay till death is not a huge factor at the moment in NYC.
I've always wondered this - Does the compiler actually use all that contract information, or is it just the prover?
I recall Harari talks about the cycle of capital in Sapiens, with the Dutch punching above their weight compared to Spain due to how they could fundraise for wars by raising war bonds or selling stock, vs the Spanish king who had to increase taxes but could only get as much out of unwilling people.

It turned out to be a powerful idea. Technology is also developing faster now than ever before. To what extent they're related may be up to debate, but at least according to Harari, there's a very virtuous cycle between science and capital (also empire, but that's a separate topic).
Typically because it was upvoted enough.
Relatedly, I learned about this: https://github.com/ESIPFed/Awesome-Earth-Artificial-Intellig...
One thing that I don't get about this and related stories: if the road surface is damaged as badly as they say, then why are there no pictures of the damage (the one picture showing damaged modules is described as not taken from modules instLled on the road)? Also, I googled several other stories and none of them has hard facts on why it failed, essentially speculating about different reasons.

Something about this story is not quite right, at least the way it was reported in English language media.
> When Apple starts OEMing iPhones, get back to me.
> The cases are not even close to being in the same league.

- MS was sentenced for making the software, not the hardware

- MS was abusing the dominant position to be the only OS on the HW, just like iOS is the solely possible OS on Apple HW and Apple store is the sole possible distributor of iOS apps, because Apple is abusing of its dominant position in the Apple ecosystem market (which is IMO a separate market from Android). If there were OEMs there would be at least competition in the HW space, like there was in the pc that drove down the prices for end users.

> Microsoft didn’t force OEMs to preinstall IE: it came with the Plus! pack in Win95

I firmly believed on HN arguments were not thrown around without backing them up with facts

It all started before Win95 was even around...

> In 1993, Novell claimed that Microsoft was blocking its competitors out of the market through anti-competitive practices. The complaint centered on the license practices at the time which required royalties from each computer sold by a supplier of Microsoft's operating system, whether or not the unit actually contained the Windows operating system. Microsoft reached a settlement in 1994, ending some of its license practices.

> The DOJ disagreed.

That's the US case

You know Europe has over 700 million citizens, you should remember that thing happens over here as well sometimes...

> - is not being anticompetitive by taking a retail cut on a store for its own platform

nobody has said that

Apple is a monopolist on a closed platform that they refuse to open up to third parties while at the same time acting as gatekeeper by allowing or disallowing apps on the store at their whim

that's clearly an unfair advantage for Apple the software company exactly like MS using secret OS Apis of their operating system to write their software had an unfair advantage (and was sentenced for that)

> argue that Apple is blocking those innovations with its Safari mandatory policy

It's the same circular argument

[1] Apple is blocking third parties from distributing their software freely AND [2] is hindering user's freedom by not allowing to replace certain parts of their system (like for example the browser) even though they allegedly are a source of vulnerabilities because [1]

That's the same thing MS did by making IE undeletable
Here's a hypnotic version with one sum:

https://youtu.be/-qgreAUpPwM
It is very true that GPT-XYZ is fundamentally limited, like all transformer models, but don't misattribute the root cause to the fact that it's just processing text.

The real limitation is that these are feedforward networks that just do perception without any processing of what they've perceived. You can try to hide that fact for a while by increasing the depth of the perception network, basically hard-coding some processing into the single pass, but you're still not capturing any of the "absolutely requires self-feedback" behavior that we care about that takes a human more than a split second to do (aka almost all actual thought).

A statistical model that made good use of what was coming in could absolutely learn (to take your example) math at every level based on nothing but text, transformers are just nowhere close to having that capability because of their design limitations.
This bullshit has no place here!
How do people merge big new filesystems in practice though? Especially one with years of pre-existing out-of-tree development?

I guess one could start by merging a skeleton of the filesystem which supports mount/unmount but then returns an IO error on every operation? And then a patch to add directory traversal (you can view the files but not their contents), and then a patch to add file reading, and then a patch to add file writing, and then a patch to add mkdir/rmdir, and then a patch to add rename/delete of regular files.

Breaking down an existing filesystem into a sequence of patches like that, no doubt it is doable, but it is going to be a lot of work.
I want a private key embedded in a chip, that never leaves that chip, so all encryption and decryption happens on that chip—similar to how chip-and-pin credit cards work now. I'm identified by the corresponding public key. Then I want to embed that chip in my hand. Then I can unlock my car, house, computer, or phone and sign into any online service the same way: you send me a challenge token, I sign it with my private key then send it back.
made my day really
Another decade without embracing nuclear energy. Maybe we can shame people so they don’t fly. that could save almost 1%.

Not to worry, we’ve got some great goals for 2050.

After watching how Coronavirus played out earlier this year, I really doubt if we’re going to address climate change in a significant way. That happened over a few months and many people still don’t get it.

Plan for the inevitable.
There used to be a lot of surplus lab equipment and light industrial surplus shops in San Jose, CA and up the peninsula into Silicon Valley when I went to school in the 90s. Triangle comes to mind.

I suppose rents and eBay put an end to that.
Yeah I agree. The browser does seem to be the preeminent attack vector since it's the easiest way for actors to reach into your systems. I can imagine the next generation of ransomware where your smart devices are held hostage for small-ish ransoms.

To your point about privacy, yeah I also agree. I think the real evil here is how implicit the exploitation of trust is with using Chrome and Google services. Ideally the privacy disclaimers should be more pronounced and end users should know what exactly they're giving up by using these products.

I come from the Chinese mindset where privacy doesn't have the capital P like it does in the US. Most Chinese are fine with the government and private industry infiltrating their lives if the net effect is that their lives are improved. I think a lot of them have not fully weighed the cost-benefit analysis properly, and who knows if there ever will be a tipping point event where people decide technology has too deep a hand in their inner-lives.

I think most people in the US have yet to encounter the potentially dire consequences of the slow erosion of their privacy. Who knows, maybe the net effect for most consumers will always be positive. I'm still using Chrome, Gmail, and am locked into Google's net, but I like to think it's something I'm cognizant of, and paying attention to from far away.
But that doesn’t matter! I hate this argument because it misses the point of biometric authentication as “something you are.” There’s no such thing as compromise or revocation. It’s a piece of public information that can’t be stolen or used by anyone other than yourself.

The world can have high def scans of my fingerprint for all it matters, they can’t produce a living human finger with the same print. And if you can’t reasonably ensure that you’re taking a reading from a living human then you shouldn’t be using biometrics.

Biometrics is not transmitting a picture of a fingerprint, it’s presenting your hand.

Having your email secured by a password locked by a device you trust doing biometric auth is perfectly fine. Having a website somehow store your print isn’t.
Energy density is one of the faux relevant talking points of the nuclear propagandists. It's irrelevant as a metric from a consumer point of view.

Oh, and EROI is another failed anti-renewable argument. EROI of renewables are just fine.
> Why would somebody go through all of the time and expense to execute you if there weren't a reason?

We'll he's got $50K worth of bullets in him. He must have done something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZrFVtmRXrw
> I think that’s a personal statement

I doubt that a major company would let someone at this level of management make such a "personal statement" without signing off on it internally. Even as an individual contributor at such a company, you would invite quite a bit of trouble with this.
I don't think the space force's focus is really on winning Moonraker-style space laser battles
I'm talking about dragging files with the GUI file manager, I shouldn't have to use any commands :(.

What I end up doing is using a "watch" on some command I can't remember that shows overall dirty pages.
They should never have been in the fact-checking business. They're a platform, not a publisher - or at least they ask to be regulated that way.
Browsers in ring 0? Why not, it's 2020, anything could happen. Ditch WASM, more languages support ASM anyhow.
To not disregard physical education in favour of mental formation. mens sana in corpore sano.
As the submitter, perhaps you know more than I.. but where did you find the link between that Tufts profile and the author? Given you've submitted insidetracker more than once, perhaps you're affiliated, in which case I'm curious why the profile isn't properly linked.

If you try and find her on insidetracker you just get a list of her articles, or a vague blurb that doesn't even mention her Tufts appointment
Purification of silicon is by conversion to trichlorosilane, followed by distillation. No fluorine is involved.

The side by products of this process are very quickly hydrolyzed to silica and hydrochloric acid, neither of which is something to worry about as a persistent pollutant.

The volumes are also small. Just a few hundred thousand tons of silicon are used every year for all electronics (PV and ICs combined).
It shouldn't be that hard to imagine. If the objective is to predict human text, at some point the best way to predict text is to capture the kinds of knowledge that humans know and use in text generation. Human knowledge is a strong prior for human text generation, and so it shouldn't be surprising that for a large model its parameters would end up in a portion of parameter space that encodes some human knowledge.
seedr.cc, bitport.io, zbigz.com, offcloud.com exist to solve exactly this problem. Downloading openly from public trackers is extremely risky. Even private trackers have been known to be monitored by DMCA agencies[0].

[0] : https://old.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/4iele6/empornium_...
I'm curious. How does this immortality thing work?
Why not use your own platform? It might come off as a joke, but this is a serious question. Why not dogfood your own needs?
And I swim all the time without drowning, yet swimmers drown all the time. So what?

This isn't a software function, there are thousands of factors involved and a cop is walking in knowing a handful. I don't think you're being realistic.
Is there actually any veracity to this claim or is it general anti-google shit-flinging?

I ask because from what I understand from Google's monorepo, it should be easy for engineers to take direct dependencies on whatever they want.

Of course TF is an exported out library so things might be different, but surely it won't then be a good example of Google's DNA?
sync is your friend.
Completely agree. Unapparent effective price fixing is standard. The modern governments has dropped the ball on trying to understand the modern markets.
An avatar. You really don’t need much else to get a superior experience to a video call. Being able to turn towards the person who is speaking, see the posture they are holding and have 3D audio is far better than 2d faces in little boxes. It’s also lighter on bandwidth so you don’t wind up talking to laggy robots.
> Wow, that's a really low blow. I'm arguing in perfectly good faith. Failing to call the base class initializer introduces misbehavior in multiple inheritance and the way this happens in Python is completely unexpected. Not every language is like this

Isn't this a bug in class C, not your original snippet?

I'm also not sure what you mean by "failing to call the base class initializer introduces misbehavior in multiple inheritance", this seems like an issue related to the MRO of the inherited classes.

If you write class C with class B inherited first, the code runs.

Example: https://repl.it/repls/BumpyPreemptiveQuerylanguage
Nobody here is talking about EBay but I am able to get the books I want on EBay after the local bookstore closed in my town.