skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But you've arbitrarily defined what a market is.

It's not arbitrary. It's based on whether there are reasonable substitutes. Exxon is a reasonable substitute for Chevron when buying gasoline for your 2020 Ford F150, because you can use either one. Google Play is not a reasonable substitute for the Apple App Store when buying apps for your 2020 Apple iPhone, because you can't actually use it for that.

> By this tortured logic Tesla should be forced to have a marketplace of self-driving implementations which their cars must support because that is technically a market.

It has nothing to do with forcing them to do something. They just shouldn't be able to prevent someone else from producing an autopilot implementation for their cars. And what's so unreasonable about that? It's plainly anti-competitive.
Ask HN: Any anonymous song critque services are out there?
Last year, I saw someone post in a comment here their anonymous peer to peer song critiquing service. Music makers critiqued each other's work - I believe it was three people per round over a few days. But I can't find that link now. Do you know of this or any other new services that do this? (I'm aware of Audiu and synthshare).
When I downvote for low quality, I often have the distinct impression that the recipient of the downvote would not understand or admit to themselves the quality deficit I had in mind and certainly wouldn't correctly attribute the downvote to it. It's always easier to believe that you're being downvoted simply because people disagree with you.

Of course, everyone has to be their own judge in every particular case, but there's so much room for disagreement that generalized interpretations of downvoting behavior just aren't convincing.
GoodRx does not sell anyone's data.
you... You don't have to keep buying iphones.
I don’t see the point of this comment. Of course they are relatively far away. But they are also closer than anybody else.
My point is that Human + AI = AI. There's no AI around the corner as far as we know, but you can argue that the portion of machine intelligence is growing at a crazy rate. So, we're becoming slowly an AI as you correctly pointed out, maybe it's just plain evolution. I wonder if no AI comes out after all (by itself), we'll be the One created through ourselves.
If you mouse over the fire events, you will see a cause of the representative data point for that cluster whether it is "lightning", "arson", etc. as well as other details about that specific fire.
Making it secure will take more time, and companies will not willingly waste time because it puts them behind competitors. Therefore security is a solution that can only be enforced via government regulation, and of course not all governments are going to regulate it, which will naturally lead to a race to deregulate under pain of being left behind.

So we might be able to make it secure hypothetically, but my bets are, we will choose not to. Case in point would be self-driving cars, which are hilariously underregulated.
Not a throwaway here either, just felt strongly enough to make an account and add my $0.02 when I might otherwise lurk.

I believe as you do, that we should explore viewpoints counter to the mainstream and break the echo chamber to expose poor and Illogical thinking wherever it presents.

I imagine MLK would be appalled by the weak, hollow, pandering which is outlined here.
The difference is that the "bait" used in this case is a 24-year-old woman with a wrinkled forehead:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/08/30/magazine/30mag-Ne...

Hambrick was imprisoned for meeting the 24-year-old woman (who he had identified as an adult), not a 13-year-old girl. There were no children involved in any part of his case. Theft from a bait car is still theft, while meeting a 24-year-old woman is not meeting a child. If the middle-aged detective had not provided a false age to Hambrick, then Hambrick would not have been imprisoned.

The fact that Hambrick was imprisoned is a failure of the American legal system's ability to recognize the harm of using false information to induce someone with no criminal record to perform an action that would lead to that person's imprisonment.
You're quoting from Wikipedia. I'm explaining why that sentence from Wikipedia is nonsense.
Of the handful of comments currently posted, yours is the only one that shows evidence of actually having read the article.

Personally, I think it's a good thing that VC funds are trying to include people from underrepresented groups into their club. At least, I hope that's what they're doing, because all this "best effort" language basically means they're not really obligated to do anything.
> Because then you can't make any sort of public facing site with UGC without being burdened with the responsibility of what's being posted.

Now you've got it.

> Run a bulletin board that sorts by last reply?

There is maybe an argument that your level of responsibility somewhat depends on the complexity of the algorithm you use to decide how much amplification to apply to any given piece of content.

I don't think responsibility is black and white.

> Run a mailing list that forwards every message to the end user, and the end-user implements the same sort by default? You're off the hook, even though the end result is the same.

The end result is the same but the agency is not. The end-user chose to apply that sorting, so they have accepted some of the responsibility for what they consume.

If I shoot someone with a gun, I'm totally responsible. If I give you the gun and you shoot them, you are responsible. Maybe I still bear some responsibility for giving you the gun. But you certainly have taken on more responsibility than you would have if I shot them.

Here's maybe another way to think about it. If you're choosing to run a bulletin board, presumably you're doing so to get something out of it for yourself. Is it fair for you to receive that benefit while taking no responsibility for anything that happens on it?
No, not by a long shot. See, for example:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190619142542.h...
If you mouse over the fire data points, it tells you the cause whether it is "lightning", "arson", etc. so you can see which are naturally occurring and which are human made
Want this job? Even if it doesn't get to the level of "all employees need to be running OurCorp Headware (tm)", being required to be running Microsoft Headwindows in order to get a job with medical benefits seems ominously plausible.
Apple needs to allow third party stores and all this goes away.
The demo in which they were able to read limb position was pretty impressive and shows that they should be relatively close to being able to help people that have lost limb control.

The brain is also quite adaptable and learns via feedback loops so getting the electrodes 'close enough' might be sufficient along with some physical therapy.
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Hey you know that and we know that, but the real estate industry is barely able to handle email, let alone secure it.
Go ask Magnus Carlsen I guess
Interestingly, property is the slowest and old-schoolest of all the branches of law. Some systems of deeds and recorders have existed for hundreds of years.

As an attorney I used to look at a lot of boilerplate skeptically but is a RE attorney told me I had to sign in the presence of a clergy, my mother and law, and three local stray dogs I'm marching my butt to a pet store and making some calls without a question.
Blizzard did not do that. Valve (the company behind Steam) did that. Much salt was sown around the Blizzard offices during the lawsuits that followed. Valve won.

Blizzard went on to release a remake of the game that spawned DOTA which was universally reviled, a large part of which was due to them killing incentives to build custom maps with their new IP rules designed to avoid another DOTA incident.

Armchair analysis with no expertise or special access to information, accuracy of statements may vary.
You say there making Apple seem worse, but "They're only censoring the Chinese" doesn't really make them seem any better
> volatile is good for thread coordination.

He has a point, though.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/cv

> Every access (read or write operation, member function call, etc.) made through a glvalue expression of volatile-qualified type is treated as a visible side-effect for the purposes of optimization (that is, within a single thread of execution, volatile accesses cannot be optimized out or reordered with another visible side effect that is sequenced-before or sequenced-after the volatile access. This makes volatile objects suitable for communication with a signal handler, but not with another thread of execution, see std::memory_order). Any attempt to refer to a volatile object through a non-volatile glvalue (e.g. through a reference or pointer to non-volatile type) results in undefined behavior.
I'm personally quite excited to vote by blockchain aren't you?
A lot of the security model on iOS is because the AppStore restricts what entitlements you have. I’m sure the the first thing any third party store would do is drop those restrictions.

I’m also sure that any of those stores would sell out the users to get software on their store: want Facebook? Remove the requirement that apps don’t abuse and invade the privacy of users. Facebook wants access the the home directly? Sure! Epic wants a list of other games installed on the system? Why not?

Malware works by appearing legitimate, and using that to get a foothold.

All companies like epic want is to profit off another company’s work without paying a cent for that - remember iOS users don’t pay for OS upgrades, so Apple isn’t making a pile of money of every user, every year.

The alternative is the Android model - there is no support or upgrades once the hardware has shipped, because once it’s been purchased it no longer produces revenue.
One of my favorite facts about neural interfaces... all electronics use negative charges for communications. But neurons use positive charge in the form of calcium flow. This makes it really hard to bridge that difference.
> No but having an SMS API allows dodgy apps to signup kids for premium content.

So reject the dodgy apps then. What justification is that for denying it to Signal? In particular, what justification is that for denying it to Signal but not iMessage?

> And you use Chrome, Signal and WhatApp on iPhones. Not sure what you are talking about here.

Signal and WhatsApp on iPhones can't send SMS. Chrome on iPhones isn't Chrome, it's Safari with a Chrome logo.
"it was rumored that hackers for big media companies had figured out a way to get through the defenses that were built into such systems, and run junk advertisements in your peripheral vision (or even spang in the ... middle all the time - even when your eyes were closed. Bud knew a guy like that who's somehow gotten infected with a meme that ran advertisements for roach motels, in Hindi, superimposed on the bottom right-hand corner of his visual field, twenty-four hours a day, until the guy whacked himself."

-Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age
If they refuse to run without permissions that make sense to me then they get tossed. You don't need my location for me to play a solo platformer.
Zoom is fine, but like everything it will go down now and then. In that case there are alternatives. If it goes down, why not do just that one meeting in Google Meet?
I absolutely agree with Apple's decision to pull the app. However I don't agree that you should be forced to use the App store. If Epic had the choice maybe parents wouldn't let their children play because of the lack of parental control. That would be a good thing, since that's actually market competition at work. As it is now, Epic's model isn't even allowed to fail.
I am shocked at how many people watch Netflix in their browser. I have multiple different ways (AppleTV, Xbox, TV Smart App) to watch Netflix on my tv, and at least 2 of them support 4k.
Stardock comes to mind as the Obscure Store That We Probably Haven't Heard Of. But unlike Stardock, Steam was also a DRM platform, the first to implement Carmack's observation ("The Internet is the ultimate dongle.")

In retrospect, it seems to have worked out pretty well for the company and its customers. Gabe Newell has proven to be a more benevolent dictator than his counterparts at Apple and Microsoft.
Yeah but at least no one else has access to it.
Before my father qualified for Medicare he figured out this hack.

He has a severe chronic condition.

Health insurance for him as a self employed person at the time was $4k/month

Tuition at the local public college at the time came with a senior discount for folks in his age group and insurance for $10k/year.

He loved the classes and saved a bundle on health insurance.

He needed a life flight and weeks of hospitalization related to his chronic illness. The insurance had him covered. I think it was a non-trivial payout for the insurance company.

The following year the insurance company changed the terms with the university to charge more if you didn’t live on campus.

My father went to a different school with a different insurer after that.

He’s finally on Medicare.

We shouldn’t tie healthcare coverage to employment in our country.

It’s stupidly expensive.
I'd guess it means that the average user gets to watch a higher quality video with less buffering. If you also watch netflix on your phone or any data plan, you save money.
Nobody asked the single hard question, so I'll put it here:

Those types of electrodes are known to cause permanent brain tissue scaring after 1-3 years, similar to asbestos scaring.

How do they intend to solve this problem?
You must have a wildly different experience with YouTube Music then me. This forced migration was the final tipping point to push me to Spotify. YouTube Music's UX is _horrendous_ compared to Google Play Music, and the pre-canned radio stations are almost completely missing.
This makes an interesting point. I mean, it could be argued that the systems of reform are increasingly complex. Information relating to the problems is increasing exponentially. Yet our individual ability to process and act on this information seems to be where it's always been. People paid to actively thwart reform are making a lot more than you are, and they're living on K street, not wherever you are.

A nation of people unhappy with deep-seated systemic troubles, and a widespread feeling of helplessness to be an agent of change. Acting local may help us feel better, but often it doesn't do a whole lot to fix the problem.

Marijuana legalization may be a perfect fit for the times in which we find ourselves. The ultimate tool to 'ride it out.' Alternately, you can spend several hours a day deeply troubled after reading the news, or make token financial contributions to public interest groups doing stuff you buy into.

Maybe someone can suggest a post-news-reading algorithm to feel less horrible about things.
lol yes, because signed and encrypted email hasn't been tried.
I actually like the idea, that the brain could start to hack itself. It changes its own premise. Feels loopy too!
How many titles on Netflix are available in 4K? I did a quick search and it’s either incorrect or there’s not that many, mostly original Netflix content.
I totally agree, I am totally unimpressed, Elon knows how to create hype and get smart people to do something. Smart people sometimes can't do it, it take a generation of research to access brain raw information. Codos to him to collect such smart minds but we are away 10-20 years from meaningful read and write to the brain.
Sure but a fair few play on iOS. If Apple user revenue didn't matter to Epic why would they have even started this to begin with?
It seems the website was created using Google Sites[1]

[1] https://sites.google.com/
That particular piece of history sure doesn't help.

But Apple excluding all of Epic's products from their store (the technical reasons aren't that important, the effective result is), while only a single product is actually violating their (already questionable) rules, sounds to me like a heck of a glaring antitrust issue either way.

The real issue here is not so much that Apple is doing all kinds of illegal (antitrust) things (and so do Epic, Microsoft, Facebook and many more). It's that the USA has essentially become a defunct banana republic a long time ago. That particular Microsoft charade, including their subsequent violations and blatant disregards, played a significant part in the whole shift to where we are now. However, for some reason it appears that most Americans still want to hold on to an image of reality that already belongs to the past.

I'm not saying it's better in other places, or even comparing it with any other place. Still, the USA not enforcing its own antitrust rules sounds pretty bad to me. If these companies have become too powerful to effectively prosecute them for violations, then it is certainly on the government for having let those get to there in the first place.
A huge amount of the security model on iOS is by virtue of the AppStore - it’s the AppStore process that ensures apps don’t give themselves entitlements that completely break the platform security model - eg give themselves system service entitlements, get access to user data, etc
While it's true that the UK has recently made itself a lot poorer, these kind of direct comparisons don't really capture the differences in living costs between countries since most expenses also scale with median earnings (rent, services, domestically produced goods.)

Consumer goods made abroad are incredibly cheap in the US in comparison to the UK, but as a Brit living in the US I definitely relate to this observation I recently saw go by:

> As a friend of mine from abroad who lives here put you “you don’t really get that there’s a really high standard of living and nothing works“

- https://twitter.com/__seab/status/1298342388537139200
Unfortunately lots of people love to downvote posts they do not agree with

This behavior has been given blessings.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17996858
The image recognition is almost certainly done by YOLO, perhaps ported to TFLite. The bounding box labels are quite distinctive.

The driving policy work looks new and innovative.
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Why did they try rescuing the $12,000 pot on their very first attempt instead of planting a bunch of $10 dummies and rescuing those instead? Once they perfected how to rescue the dummies, then move onto the real target.
I receive incorrect email daily because of this. Early adopter problem for early Gmail users. I could have had my first name at Gmail back in the day but I thought “what’s wrong with Hotmail!?”. Same thing for Twitter, but I still don’t use Twitter. I could have probably sold it for a pretty penny though. Hindsight!
Also helps the consumer. My ISP doesn't offer unlimited bandwidth. Covid-19 has me hitting caps from being home so much.
That's all true, but I'm not sure that's relevant. I agree with the GP, not because my posts are downvoted, but because I see respectful, thoughtful posts from established users of reasonable karma downvoted into greyed-out territory for no obvious reason other than that their opinions (or their facts) are not popular. This includes posts I agree and disagree with, so I don't think it's necessarily bias. I also think it is behavior that has become endemic (although I may think so because I find myself having trouble not doing that).

Introspecting into the occasions when I myself downvote out of disagreement it is usually:

1. I think the other person "doesn't get it."

2. I lack the time to offer a substantive opinion.

3. The other party has demonstrated either: a. A tendency to view statements ungenerously or; b. that they already know The One True Way.

4. Some combination of the above.

Edit: List formatting.
I do agree with Epic that the requirement for all IAP to go through Apple is absurd, and the 30% cut is too high. However, I fully support Apple in enforcing the App Store rule.

What else do you want Apple to do? Suppose Apple cave this time, what happens if tomorrow Facebook comes in and use private API to track users? Could Facebook argue Apple is using its monopolistic position to hurt its business? If you say, clearly forbidding tracking is good for the user and taking a cut is bad, who gets to draw the line? One can argue preventing tracking make ads less relevant to user therefore hurt them, and similarly forcing all purchase to go through Apple prevent unscrupulous developers from fleecing users. It's never a black and white issue.

Also, to be honest I always thought bigger developers have special negotiated rate with Apple. As an Apple customer & developer, I am very glad that everyone is treated equally in App Store.
Yes, and Apple considers any ability for any app to do that to be a security flaw that needs to be fixed.

Why shit like this hasn’t gotten apps pulled annoys me :-/
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I'm a mid-level engineer making half that. Please point me towards these entry-level jobs that are offering $200k.
If Apple is a rentier then no, the users don't.

Price respons to cost structure change depends on price elasticity. Not all prices are passed on to purchasers.
Still getting crappy 2.5 MBit/s visuals on an "HD" plan on a gigabit connection in Sweden. Not impressed with their real-world image quality. I don't think you should need to buy a 4k plan to get proper 1080p with a decent bitrate/image quality.
Could you provide any info showing that Apple was definitely going to block all unreal engine powered iOS apps from the App Store? Ideally definitive evidence.
Fortnite is small pataters compared to facebook.
So you are talking about the "blockchain with backdoors" scenario (which absolutely defeats the principle and the purpose of any major existing system) AND making the existing leading chains illegal.

That is certainly is a possibility and a valid view, but to me a very short-sighted one. It assumes social-political systems are static. It makes us take for granted that global top-down Governments (hopefully democratic) will be the only legitimate form of power for a long period of time.

Blockchain or not, that leaves me with a very grim outlook of our future.
> switching back to Comcast's DNS servers

A scary thought (they highjack NXDOMAIN, MiTM http to "bring you important messages", etc)
To serve as a warning to others
This has been there for a while, it is pretty simple to decipher impulses from the cortex. They are just publicizing years of research from other folks i.e. professor Jose M. Carmena from Berkeley and so on. We need more folks like Elon to publicize science...It is actually great work the team is doing.
Replace the '88' with '80'.

VA-API hardware video acceleration was broken in Firefox 79 and won't be fixed until Firefox 81. Therefore, it's not possible to make VA-API work, under either Wayland or X11, in Firefox 80.

See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1656436
Ask HN: Are there newsletters aggregating CS research papers?
Alternatively, is there another way to get a gist of most recent scientific developments without being a researcher?

If there are newsletters that list papers in any other field, please share them too.
Do they have a robot surgeon that installs it though?
If you feel so wronged by this, take it up with the courts and see if they agree?
"supporting a brand as team sports is a thing like supporting a political party as team sports is"

This may be true at times, but the assumption of the same is the root of a lot of the toxic behavior. You cannot be neutral or even in agreement with Apple's position without being a "fanboy", or giving into the "cult of Apple", etc.
“I need to spend an additional $6800 before the insurance kicks in and starts paying out.” This line isn’t accurate, insurance in the U.S. is required to pay for some things at 100% before the deductible is met.