skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that a problem? Then Apple could just start charging for actual distribution – i.e. actually charging at the point where they claim to be delivering value, rather than inserting themselves into a transaction where they add nothing.

The argument against that is then generally "but what about free apps?", to which I say: unmonetized apps get distributed by Apple for free. Monetized ones pay for distribution + a fee (maybe 30%).

So if it costs Apple $300 to deliver your app + updates to X devices every month, they charge you $390.
Yes, a lot of her policies were closer to the Green party in Germany, who have been asking for the immediate end of nuclear power for a long time.

I'd prefer nuclear of coal as well, but there's a significant number of people that are terribly afraid of it on a pre-rational level. From what I understand, it's the idea of a run-away process that "doesn't feel natural", i.e. can't stop it burning by just not putting in more coal. It seems like "humanity should not meddle with the power of the gods", but they're usually explicitly anti-religious.
There is also another alternative for search... Use search agregator (https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/) and do the search on all those sites (and more) at once. I am self hosting it and it works great.

One more search engine to try is qwant.com.

For phone just use microg lineage (https://lineage.microg.org/) and use aurora store instead of play store (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/) for apps.
Orange and Banana republic next
A Do-It-Yourself paper digital computer (1959)
Customer service is an interesting one.

The independent ISPs (especially Internode and iiNet) had excellent reputations for customer service until they were all taken over by TPG.

Nowadays Aussie Broadband has a pretty good reputation and interestingly has basically followed the same model: not always the absolute cheapest, but competes on benchmarks like speed, and with an engineering-heavy management team.
Any idea why Runnaroo gives you better results than DDG? It doesn't seem to have better data sources.
That is what you get with a 2T gorilla in the room... Some china is going to fall and some arms turned out to be twisted...
I think given the nature of modern multi-nationals with vertical integration and hugely diversified product spaces, we need to rethink anti-trust in general.

My test is fairly simple: are you generating value and capturing some portion of it at the point of generation, or are you doing something else? Anything that is "something else" should at the very least be questioned. Questions 10x if the party doing "something else" is trying to encourage information asymmetry as part of this. e.g. Apple telling app developers that not only can they not integrate another payment option in their apps, they can't even inform users that such an option exists elsewhere.

Arguably the main issue in this case is that Apple is not just requiring themselves to be the payment gateway in transactions where they are involved (getting an app onto your device), they also want to insert themselves into transactions where they provide no value (e.g. subscriptions). In the case of my Spotify subscription, Apple is not paying for bandwidth, payment processing costs, or anything else, but they still get a cut.

If you're capturing value from a transaction you're not directly involved in, I think that's a problem. Apple's argument is that they are enabling such things by building the device/operating system, and historically that has been a valid argument, but I think we've come to the point where that just isn't enough anymore. You need to either directly be providing value in that particular transaction, otherwise it's problematic. You just end up with too many cases like this.

Is running the App Store expensive? Then charge for actual costs. But this sort of bait and switch of "we're providing distribution but are inserting ourselves in subscriptions we have no hand in" is only possible due to their market position.
Great work. I used to keep the MSDOS 2.11 version of debug.com too. All the debug.com goodness in a tiny .com file compared to bloated more recent debug.exe versions. Of course you had to patch it (with debug) to stop it exiting immediately due to the wrong OS version.
I've thought about this quite a lot too. I think other people's comments about fragmentation are quite correct. I'd also just add the UX and DX angle. After developing and releasing a few apps in SwiftUI and playing around with Jetpack Compose, to me developing mobile UIs for the web feels much slower in comparison and end result is always lacking and developer tooling is a little all over the place. I know it's not that important to everyone but I do feel that I'm able to produce a much higher quality UI/UX natively and faster than I could with web technologies. I think there is also just a fundamental difference in how we use our computers with a mouse and keyboard vs the way we use our phones, there is a much higher level of fidelity of interactions and subtle gestures on mobile that are quite hard to replicate on the web, it always just feels a bit off. Desktop apps with a lot of input and forms and clicking around suit the web's model much better and I think in that context the web is excellent. Having said all that I think developers should be free to choose how they want to develop and distribute their apps as my opinions aren't shared by everyone, I support opening up more web APIs to make web apps more useful on mobile as there are likely whole classes of apps that would work well there.
I think Google's invasion of privacy can be regarded as a kind of "symbiotic parasitism" - they are able to leverage the information they harvest from you to improve search quality. A proxy won't give as good results as letting Google spy on you.
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>> Within a single sentence, GPT-3 has lost track of the fact that Penny is advising Janet against getting a top because Jack already has a top. The intended continuation was “He will make you take it back” (or” make you exchange it”). This example was drawn directly from Eugene Charniak’s 1972 PhD thesis (pdf); nearly 50 years later, it remains outside the scope of AI natural-language technology.

Aaaw! Eugene Charniak is one of my heroes of AI, after I read his little green book, Statistical Language Learning [1] during my Masters. It remains a great resource for a quick and dirty, but thorough and broad introduction to the field of statistical NLP that goes through all the basics.

In fact, now that I think about it, if more people read that little book (it's only 199 pages) we would have many fewer discussions about how GPT-3 "understands" or "knows" etc.

Anyway, thanks to Gary marcus for pointing out Charniak's thesis which I hadn't read.

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[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/statistical-language-learning
> MSFT “lost” the case but the remedies amounted to a slap on the wrist. Meanwhile the market in its broadest sense innovated

That is true, but there is the argument that some of this innovation was possible because Microsoft restrained its behavior while the case was pending.
Yes, maybe I haven't been clear, I tried just to explain what an hash is before introducing hash tables, if someone understood that cryptographic hash functions have to be used for hash table it's probably because my explanation wasn't clear enough... :(

Consider that I'm not a native speaker, so sometimes it's hard for me to send the exact message I would like to send... I will try to explain it better as soon as I will get anywhere I can use a computer :)

Thanks!
smasung built Jio's network.
American teeth vs British teeth. In my (UK) childhood, my dentist told my parents that a little crookedness was acceptable, even attractive, in boy's teeth. So I didn't get braces and have weird British teeth.

I gather this isn't acceptable any more, and all kids (even British ones) get braces. The cynic in me wonders if this is because dentistry is no longer covered by the NHS and can therefore be profitable.
Suggestion, I've a small business with 10 employees. What's the best email solution that won't cost an arm and a leg other than Google Apps?
Single Socket Channel
You can be loyal to truth or loyal to profits, never both.
This is a transcript. I have searched but failed to find the recording.

Does anybody know if it is available?
Ask HN: Do you [bang]g as much as I do?
I love DuckDuckGo but I can't help but notice how much I seem to need to slip across to Google by using !g. The results over there are [sadly] so much better for many things, and much as I want a privacy focused search, sometimes you just need to find stuff...

Does everyone else find this, or have any tips for getting better results out of DDG? And: has anyone come across any evidence from DDG showing the percentage of !g searches they receive?
Fat Man is the “much more complicated” design and the guys picked it because it is more challenging.

Results of the analysis are still classified (declassified document is redacted to death) but there are some accounts claiming that Dr. Teller uncovered that the design was viable and would produce a blast within order of magnitude of the “inspiration”.

If the account above is true it means anything from low single digit kiloton range to low double digit.

But I do not think today anybody would doubt that. The biggest obstacle to fission bomb making are materials themselves. Lack of public data to calibrate would mean nothing to terrorists (1 kiloton is still terror-inducing) and nation states have no problems in accessing nuclear scientists.

Fortunately, getting enough material is what makes this lunacy impractical.
Try cutting Microsoft out of your life.
Great! So now you can elect it as your leader!
That would require actual patriotism from these companies. They have repeatedly demonstrate by playing (legal) games with taxes and by having Chinese slave kids create their products that it is simply not of interest to them. QED
LineageOS tends to disable a lot of security baked into android, so itmight not be a good recommendation. According to Daniel Micay: "It significantly weakens the SELinux policies, rolls back mitigations for device porting / compatibility, disables verified boot, lacks proper update security including rollback protection, adds substantial attack surface like FFmpeg alongside libstagefright, etc. They merge in huge amounts of questionable, alpha quality code from the Code Aurora Forum repositories too. Many devices (including Nexus and Pixel phones) also don't get their full firmware updates shipped by LineageOS. It's unrealistically expected that users will flash the firmware and vendor partitions on their own each month and of course that's another incompatibility with verified boot and a locked bootloader." [0]

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/CopperheadOS/comments/917yab/can_an...
It could be a probe that scans solar systems. I like that idea.
Fingerprinting the Tor browser despite security level “Safer”
Researchers Can Duplicate Keys from the Sounds They Make in Locks
For me, instructive was reading Elliot Roger manifesto. There you could see from his own words why he has no girlfriend and no chance to have one. And you could also see how he is interpreting events he just described in completely twisted way.

And then he makes up rules of female attraction. Fullfills them, nothing and the conclusion is not "maybe my rules are bad". The conclusion is "it is unfair cause I did everything". And it almost does not matter even, because if he tried to tweak on rules, he would still had no success.

But he ended up building ideology in his head that lead to him killing multiple people which was basically failed plan to kill even more.
It is specifically not a 'declarative' language, it is a general purpose language. OpenSCAD uses a declarative language, AngelCAD does not. If you want a declarative language, use OpenSCAD or implement your favorite language on top of the AngelCAD boolean engine (xcsg).
GPT needs to be capable of at least the following in order to be a viable virtual companion: Memory, Reasoning, Metanarrative, Emotion, Empathy, Intent and Personality. GPT is not, and likely will never be a good conversational agent. No purely neural network based approach will, conversation is not a field you can fit a model to and hope to get something that works.
> if someone obtains access to your bank account and withdraws your money, then YOU have to prove that it wasn't you.

Yes

And it's quite easy

And that's why it's more secure than any crypto currency out there

> Any statistics to backup your claim?

Crypto currencies are used by a small minority of the population and a small minority of them have gone further than trading them

So if you have some stats to backup your claim that "it's easy to have many wallets and backup your seeds" for the general population, I will gladly look at them

Cards are insured, if someone uses your card and it's not you, you simply call and block the card and the amount is refunded

You have up to 180 days

My bank sends me an SMS everytimey the card is used and they call me everytime I use my card in anomalous ways (for example when I'm away from home, it's a red flag for them and they call to ask if it's me using it in another place, of course they must have some kind of model for that, they don't call when I'm away for work)

Can crypto offer that?
I really don't see the point of these. Probably just need to explore available tools a bit more.
> My bet is that they would fail most of the times with no possibility of easy fixes

That's a solid bet. The US has not engaged a similarly sophisticated opponent in generations and with high unit costs of American weapons, any such war would be extraordinarily costly.
We lived in the middle of nowhere for 2 years. Your 25Mbps is a dream compared to the 1Mbs we got on a good day.

I really only managed it (I run a little web agency) by having an office in a nearby town with great broadband, but there was a lot I found I could do from home by thinking a bit more carefully about what I needed when, whether I needed to download X at that partiular moment or if I could get it in the office and work on it later, and so on. The mindfulness around this was actually really good working practice, but definitely frustrating at times.

I think the cap would probably be [strangely] more frustrating to me. I could at least leave something downloading overnight without worrying about any limits.

I'd say: go for it. Living in the middle of the country is an incredible life experience.
Yeah, just read about this recently. But man is following a low FODMAP diet hard!
In this case it's not distinctive in character so they should actually loose the trademark on "minimal fruit emblem with leaf to the side". Apple is arbitrary in this case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_distinctiveness#Arbi...
they shouldn't be able to prohibit apple sellers to use apple as their logo or for that matter anyone else unrelated.

edit: it appears that Apple lawyers never tasted pears and think it's the same thing
I've setup my own instance on a VPS of searx (along with git, blog, private npm and a few other bits and pieces). It isn't particularly hard if you've setup an website on a Linux box before.
Not every decision is going to be entirely rational, especially when it comes to giant corporations with thousands of stakeholders and various internal incentives that may not be visible to outside observers.
E.g., sometimes companies do stuff simply because it's helpful for someone's upcoming performance review. Apple probably has a team responsible for trademark protection and these people have to regularly demonstrate activity to justify the budgets.
I wasn't actually talking about Epic's lawsuit.

But since you mentioned it, I'm not really sure that Epic will succeed with their argument that the "iOS App Distribution" market is the relevant tying product market absent an analysis of the overall smartphone market.
Tracee: Container and system event tracing using eBPF
AngelCAD is not a "another CAD Exchange format". It is a scripting tool that creates existing standard formats such as STL, OBJ, OFF, DXF, SVG and more. It also reads some of those exchange formats. There is no new exchange format.

STEP is an entirely different domain.
What I like the most in it is the realism. Apart from the fact that, for such high-value assets, they get far too much exposure.
I think it's interesting that this story hit the front page at the same time as the one about Facebook's fact-checking shenanigans, which concluded that leaving this in the hands of a private company wasn't working.

Are FAANG (well possibly not 'N') about to face nationalisation? Or United-Nationalisation given that they're all global organisations and having them run by the completely dysfunctional US government isn't a result anyone wants?

Can government really step in to control the workings of the Apple Store and change the rules without drastically effecting Apple's business? If so, what responsibility does government have if that drastic effect stops the business from being profitable?

Can government enforce fact-checking on Facebook (or Google) without affecting its advertising business? Again, if so, what responsibility does it bear if that business collapses?

Can government ignore it and allow the tech giants to continue uncontrolled? That doesn't seem to be working either.
Agreed, I think legislation should just force Apple to allow for competing app stores. At the end of the day, the users make the choice. Epic for example made their own store on PC to rival Steam's 30% cut. And they could do the same for iOS and Android, but on iOS that isn't even an option.
Yeah it certainly is perfectible. I’d just like to retain decent security at the platform level. We know that if sideloading can be enabled, at some point Adobe will require it because they won’t be bothered.

I am conflicted about Sign In with Apple. It’s heavy handed, but I clearly benefit by not having to trust Google or Facebook for this. There should be a standard with several providers, like FIDO, but somehow I don’t see this happening as long as Facebook and Google are utterly dominant.

I completely agree with your third point.
> The Tu-95 plane carrying the bomb was far away at the time of detonation. However, the explosion’s shock wave caused the aircraft to instantly lose 1,000 meters of altitude, but it later landed safely.

I assume the pilots were fully prepped, but... still seems like a bad day
It’s funny when Microsoft comes to the Linux world it feels the urge to make it windowy, rather than learning the Linux text CLI paradigm.
It is specifically not a 'declarative' language, it is a general purpose language.

OK, but why?

Edit: Why not is because of the mentioned norm, ie. use the least powerful tool for the job. Alternatively stated, KISS. Asking programmers to delve in to a new set of assumptions, limitations and so on that could otherwise be avoided is creating friction. Unless there is an explicit reason for doing so, it does not seem wise.

Further edit: You make a good point about thought process, and I think graphviz is a clear example of a popular tool where the friction you mention between application-specific concerns and restrictive declarative syntax often lies, sometimes complicating an overall workflow.
>> In Mexico you’ll pay an average of $4.77 for 1GB of data, making the biggest country in Central America also the second-most expensive on average when it comes to buying mobile data

I am a reasonably educated person within the United States. I may be wrong, but I believe that I've always been taught that Mexico was within the North American Continent.

Honest question, Am I incorrect about Mexico being in North America? and If so, Am I also incorrect about what I believe i was taught (its happened before)?
While I of course do not oppose accessibility or Electron per se I think this is bad advice.

0) All advice depends a lot on the product. Most general advice is just useless.

1) Preparing for potential changes in legislation is most of the time not a good idea. As you said you never know what is coming and so you should not try to prepare for everything. Also said games you mention could probably disable the chat if implementing accessibility features was to costly. Also these changes don't come over night.

2) I really dislike what people try to cramp into basic human rights.. Do you also expect this from open source software? Do you really think if people spend their free time they are obligated to implement accessibility or whatever else? In my opinion the user of open source is entitled too nothing.

3) Electron, is, not, fine, just, like, that. There are tons of Electron apps out there which have no right to carry hundreds of megabyte with them and consume that many resources. I am pro choosing whatever you want. But please don't advert Electron as "is-always-fine".. If you even want to force accessibility.. what about energy consumption?
> Utilitarian utopia for demons

Are you a demon? If you go to hell and you see hundreds delighting in your pain, would you say to yourself, yes I may be tortured for eternity, but my pain definitely makes someone happy. Or would you be pissed so many are enjoying your pain.

> People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get.

Heimholtz. Also they make people like that, they kill their ambition through breeding and mental control. And even then, it's not perfect.

> what losses are there to mourn

All these systems assume things don't change. Things always change. Either through evolution or changes on a cosmic scale.

Imagine for a second, meteor hits the main soma production center. Hundreds killed, thousands left without their drug.

Or a rogue solar flare, fries any and all machines. What then?

Or, by freak of nature soma allergic or soma immune individual appeared. Unless humans have God-like insight, do they know that one version of protein won't cause another protein to fit neatly into a Soma looking hole.

There are always things to mourn, the novel doesn't show them correctly.
Dear Mesdames and Sirs, is this the Topic about a mechanistic Worldview and the mechanistical-Thinking, i have heard about ?

And an other kind of... diversity ?

In front of this screen, polarized, asking myself "Do i became too choosey ?" For what Narcissus -the protagonist is meant, to "think of oneself" is any good for, not ? P-:
How I improved my productivity by fixing my workflow and retention issues
I’d argue the opposite. I’m China they can just kidnap you. In America, at least there are rules.
There’s an auto-censoring mechanism on HN which is triggered by certain words:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23259073#23269284
SQLite is public domain
I'm surprised to have to come to the second page for this, was expecting this top or second comment to link to a table where these prices are compensated for purchasing power.

The cost of the labor to keep these networks running should obviously factor into the price as you can't take data from Indonesia and use it elsewhere (you can manufacture things in Indonesia and ship them here, so for goods it might make sense to compare global prices; not so for data plans). The best way to do that is probably purchasing power.
No one claimed GPT3 is an AGI. Why does this article carry such a dismissive and disappointed tone? Perhaps the authors were offended that they were not given access and wanted to "expose" GPT3's flaws?

We should celebrate GPT3 for the achievement that it is: A big step in a promising direction.
I was wondering if it were perhaps a Kath & Kim (AU TV Show) reference.

It's one of their more notable/famous scenes:

Kim: I want to be effluent, mum, effluent!
Kath: You are effluent, Kim!

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kath_%26_Kim
Only if you choose a provider that charges above market rate :)

IIRC, PayPal has offered 2.9% for over a decade