skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am young, how much of the world has Murdoch influenced?

That's a testament to his influence, that you can't even imagine a different world.

> Has it all been bad?

Their stance about climate change alone is bad enough to wipe out anything positive they might have done. But yeah, nearly all of it has been bad.

> Sounds like a player that made it.

That's what people said about Stalin and Mao too.
I think this is the original source...
https://www.gapingvoid.com/blog/2014/01/22/information-vs-kn...
Season 1 of The Dream podcast is an easy and informative look at mlm.
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/the-dream
I have no idea, I'm not a scientist, I'm just a transhumanist.
I mean to be fair I'm getting payment processing and hosting but yea it's a pretty steep fee.
To play devil's advocate, with people tied up in legal pyramid schemes there's some degree of oversight and public scrutiny. The companies can't egregiously screw too many people too bad. Anybody who does a little homework can see that it's a scam because there's a small number of the schemes around, and Coffezilla has talked about them all ad-nauseum. Vs. if those people were tied up in illegal/underground pyramid schemes, those schemes might be 1,000x more predatory and exploitative.

Like payday loans. They're horrible and predatory, but they'll only take your car, not break your kneecaps if you can't pay.

Addressing market failure in the United States is more damage control and harm reduction than anything. Our Chesterton's fences are in the form of duct tape on top of duct tape.
This is really fun, and inspiring! Have you by any chance played Stronghold Crusader before?
They don't seem that conflicted to me. I have always assumed their SMS-only 2fa was an attempt to sell people on SMS as 2fa. But all I want is to use my Yubico.
And yet they have the longest software support for smartphones in the industry by a large margin. Plus they offer consumers the ability to replace the battery for a fee.
But they only have SMS 2fa.
Isn't that better? Like if you're selling sailing equipment, I can't imagine that excluding <ethnicity> possibly make things better for those people who also happen to like sailing.
Actual substantial longevity - beyond quality of life enhancements - is something I greatly fear. It would change everything.

Enhancing health basically means you live longer. If you don't want to live longer then don't be healthy.
classic. in the professional leagues whenever you do something like this it's properly vetted and even with that you want to bake a velocity check inside of it (ie don't erase more that 5 instances at a time). I cannot believe if you're expecting to see 3 instances go away but the tool says it's gonna do 500 you're going to be: sure thing boss. go ahead.
Matplot++ – A Plotting Tool for C++
Probably about 20 years, just try to hold on until then.
It is needed as an alternative to crap noname bottom dollar Chinese replacement batteries manufactured with no quality control.
No one is saying gambling should be illegal or the government should somehow force people to stop gambling...

But there is so much that could be done to try and limit the damage it's doing to poorer populations, and increase the good it's doing for those populations at the same time.

Bans and restrictions on advertising lotteries, limiting points of sale per sq. mi., actually using the funds as claimed when instated, focusing on the types of gambling and their effect on addiction rates (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-excess/202003/pro...), changes to the actual act of playing the lottery (even things as simple as purchasing process can have profound effects on how people get their "hit" from gambling).

Look at cigarettes, they're still legal, yet through policy America has gone from a country where the vast majority of adults smoked (almost 70%), to one where less than 15% of the population does.

Now this being HN I need to put the disclaimer that I'm not saying every piece of tobacco legislation maps perfectly to gambling if you Ctrl+F replace... but it shows how truly vast the gully between banning something and letting it proliferate is.

If there was truly interest in helping these people there are countless levers that could be used to try and balance the scale. But there's the perverse combination of financial incentive to do nothing, and political disincentive to do anything as long as politicians can get away with their treatment of these people.
Apple batches credit card charges, so the per transaction fee will be much lower in practice. Also, nothing stops them from charging 10-15% for the first dollar and 5% after that.
This entire thread is full of anti-DST madness, and since it’s HN, I can only assume you’re all from areas that don’t have a massive swing in the length of days. DST is amazing.
10% is not reasonable, 1% is not reasonable. The problem is not how much Apple charges, that's up to them. The problem is Apple's heavy hand saying what a user can see, what they can install, and what the developer can say to their users. This is the problem. If they decide to charge zero, it won't fix anything.

And don't get me wrong, I think Apple is a great company. But they are sitting in a monopoly today. Maybe some folks here are too young to remember but companies like microsoft got punished in the past for having too much control over people' choices and, in my opinion, it was way softer comparing to what Apple is doing today.
What i did today was more important than what I didn’t do. Make it a tautology !
Anyone don't want longevity for humans? I think death is a beautiful thing and for a lot of us including myself life has been really tough at times. The fact that there is an equalizer in death makes life comforting at times.
one weird trick to save millions on your AWS bill.

cloud providers hate him
Just block their JS. It is still readable unlike many publishers insisting their site runs like a SPA.
Not to mention a huge percentage of people simply saying “it’s not happening” despite all evidence
I regularly cross compile for Windows from Linux, and I don't need to buy any hardware from Microsoft.
Well, the problem is that Python and PHP are actually bad languages for expressing code like that. For expressing C. For one, they're not statically typed.

Julia is a dynamic language that seems to do better because it was designed for this purpose.

But it doesn't seem to have panned out in practice in Python, or PHP as far as I know. Those languages have huge piles of C, and whenever you call into C, the JIT gets confused. People don't seem to rewrite their huge piles of C in Python or PHP. In Python, it's more likely Cython.

I'd like to see pointers to counterexamples -- where people actually wrote some C-like code in Python or PHP and let the JIT do its work. I haven't seen it, aside from the PyPy project itself, and maybe a few other examples. I think you would still take a significant performance hit.

The issue is that C compilers in 2020 are even better at compiling the example I showed. They do amazing things with that kind of code that state-of-the-art JITs don't in practice.
Glue bird traps: Macron suspends use amid EU row
This pretty much reads as a rephrasing of your previous comment.
General fitness and strength training is just about the closest thing we have to a miracle cure for a wide array of common issues.
It's a breach of the EULA which is very different from being illegal.

And Craig Federighi has talked on quite a few occasions about supporting the hacking culture within OSX. Which is why Apple never went after Hackintosh like they could have e.g. by enforcing SIP.

There are hundreds of Github projects and websites right now detailing how to setup a Hackintosh Mac and not once has anyone ever received a cease and desist.
Without DST, I either bike my kids to school in darkness at 8am, or the sun rises before 5am in summer. This is in San Francisco.
I'm not sure I'd want to buy anything from Lenovo, due to their labor practices:

> "Shipping records show that since the start of the pandemic, Lenovo has imported an estimated 258,000 laptops from a Chinese manufacturer that has participated in a troubling labor scheme and been singled out by the U.S. government for violating human rights. The revelations serve as a reminder of how much of the supply chain is tied to forced labor and how many products that will aid us through the Covid-19 pandemic may be manufactured under duress. The Lenovo computers were made by the manufacturer Hefei Bitland, which participates in a Chinese government program to provide factories with cheap labor from persecuted Uyghurs."

Source: https://theintercept.com/2020/08/21/school-laptops-lenovo-ch...
Pointer Pointer – A website that points to your pointer
Can you elaborate on the details that makes crypto insecure?

I'm writing a library called CryptographyIO and I want it to be secure.
For the vast majority of our history, there had been little to no technological changes.

Only difference is that in the last few centuries, there had been technological and scientific changes.

What changes? it's certainly isn't that old men die faster so that we embrace newer ideas faster. The old guards probably lived longer on average thanks to medicine.
It doesn't have to be all or nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdCB9yE9Hcc
I think we stagnate because we accumulate experience. As we grow old, we gain wisdom, but our wisdom is centralized in the past. We can't shed our experiences without forgetting ourselves.

Steve Jobs also talked about "the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything." But I can't be a beginner again and again and again: some day my biases/old-dreams and stale-ideas/past-successes will dominate. Nobody has an endless capacity for creating the new.
not supposedly, already bought

Warrent Buffett already bought a gold miner

It is a very smart move, tbh

If stocks at some point start falling, everyone will rush even more to precious metals
Those don't fit in your comparison here. While Google Play might be seen as the only way, there is nothing to stop you from going to some other store (F-Droid e.g). Also you are not forced as a developer to go Steam or Epic. You could just offer a download from your website. Also, at least with Steam and Epic you can generate keys that you can sell outside of those stores in which you keep 100%. That's choice.

You don't have that choice in iOS.
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I meant that you still have an offline copy of the mailing list and can see the full picture of what's publicly going on, and you have everybody's contact info. You can see who's involved with what problems and get to work during the downtime.
best of luck

hope it's nothing

my grandfather had something bad around 70, so i'm hoping it's not genetic. anyways, a long time until i have to worry about it
I don't know what the Byzantine generals problem is.

Two stage commit is important because it has:
1) Predefined transaction id prior to final submission that allows you to validate the status, so if your request to commit gets 503'ed or you get a timeout you can reliably query to know if it was processed or not
2) Unlimited resubmissions of the final commit. It doesn't matter if I perform the final commit api request 1 time or 100 times, it will never cause a duplicated transaction to occur. So if I get a timeout or a 503 I can resubmit knowing that if my original commit request went in my new submit will be a no-op, and if my last commit request didn't get processed then this time it hopefully will be processed.

This pattern isn't just a payments pattern thing either. This is heavily used in distributed systems where failures can occur. UPS' API used to use this as well so you could be sure that you don't pay for duplicate shipping labels or cause duplicate shippments.
I was sure this was satire of the kind of response you'd get from any run of the mill mail provider. I can't believe you're being serious...
that's an incredible experience, thanks for sharing!

if you don't mind me asking how long ago was this?
Not just that but something like AES using ECB is indistinguishable from random to the casual observer. Only when you’re aware of why ECB is bad will you understand what to look for to defeat it.
I don't think my original comment was clear about how I view the ToS as a hammer Apple made for themselves to wield. Not for the good of anyone, but apple.

Their goal here being to cover their ass and have a rule, that you already "agreed" to follow, to point at when they want to get rid of your app.
Apple's legal tech has always been years ahead of their electronic tech, I'm honestly curious to see if epic's got some sort of counter to apple's usual legal shenanigans.
Mother Earth is farting!
I do wonder if all these easily found studies have accounted for survivorship bias. I.e. those who can achieve those goals are those most likely to not develop RSI.

Ironically my RSI began within a few months of starting weight training.
Honest question - what has stopped us from bringing extinct dinosaurs back to life? Which variable in the equation is unsolved?
You can sell iOS games on Google Play?
Microsoft has little to do with the hardware you run their software on
It's breach of contract and copyright infringement among other things, so it is illegal. Not taking every opportunity to enforce the EULA is not the same thing as condoning breaking it. If Apple actually wanted to support hackintoshes they could change the EULA, but they never will.
This is true for every piece of software, isn't it!? You can have 2 identical websites, one checks your username+password for real, the other always logs you in. Or even better, one stores bcrypted passwords, then other cleartext ones...

Use battle tested frameworks. For crypto, for sites, for everything.
once you’ve implemented a graphDB you have a document DB.
In a graphDB you may query all vertices with a property x=foo, which translates to get all documents with field x=foo

Effectively you can market a graphDB as a document DB, the reverse isn’t true. What am I missing
Before I realised how dangerous and ecologically unsound they are, I flew a number of backyard 'hot air balloons'.

These often presented amazing shows from the ground - flying in a 'formation', strobing, changing direction and speed as they hit different wind patterns, 'disappearing' as the fuel went out, sometimes dropping burning wax.

Once launched it was so hard to see how far away they were on a dark night or even that they were fire balloons.
https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
> The single large rotor also provides the ability to perform autorotation in the event of power failure.

That's a nice fantasy but when the SHTF nobody ever seems to be able to pull off an autorotation landing without fatalities. You need enough forward speed and control authority to make it work. An incident when you're at or near hover is unrecoverable.
Silent props and how they're used in movies
hmm. I presumed they were still initially sold at a slight loss until economies of scale made them per-unit profitable in the middle of the sales curve.

If that isn't the case, then it makes Sweeny's statement above seem even stranger.
Medical facilities get money to report Coronavirus but not Flu? I knew that our local hospital wasn't taking anything but COVID cases for a while. Kept all the flu cases away.
I would bet that the median developer in the developer program doesn't sell enough on the App Store to recoup the cost of a mid-range MacBook Pro every 3-5 years and an iPhone every other year and the developer program annual fee.
You’re mindset sounds so similar to mine it’s eerie. Good luck with your endeavors.
Yeah I’m going home
Agreed. It definitely makes sense from a harm reduction standpoint, keeping people from turning to more predatory options.

At the same time, it's pretty sickening to see the normalization of dangling a pipedream in front of people trapped in lives of 'quiet desperation.'

It's a 60% best solution, where the next best solution is 20% best.
Usually this is because your app is low quality of looks bad.
I've published lots of apps and followed changes of Apple policy for years, and in 99% those increased the quality of apps published and user experience.

If someone doesn't deserve 30% it is Google.
With Apple at least I speak to a human (or if this in an AI - cudos to the developers, it is super real). While with Google all you get is a bot reply "Sorry, we can't tell you shit. Go figure out a problem and unless you do we will block your account and all RELATED accounts". Well that is some wild shit.
>why is there a policy of prohibiting disclosure of how the money the user pays gets distributed

The same reason Visa doesn't let you let disclose to your customers that using your credit imposes a 3% fee to the merchant. People would use alternatives if they knew
If you're not interested in Jax, you're not going to be interested in Objax. Objax is more for people who are interested in the features of Jax, but find it awkward to write code in it and prefer the API of PyTorch.

I think the features of Jax are quite appealing - there's a reason PyTorch has been trying quite hard to copy its features (vmap, forward mode autodifferentiation, numpy compatibility).
Nice. Is that downloadable anywhere as an actual PDF?
Anyone don't want longevity for humans? I think death is a beautiful thing and for a lot of us including myself life has been really tough at times. The fact that there is an equalizer in death makes life comforting at times.

Life been tough, sure, but never at at any point did I think death is comforting, not even at the lowest point.
Young was also a remarkable polymath, defining Young's Modulus for characterizing material rigidity/elasticity, and performing the Double Slit experiment demonstrating diffraction, interference and the wave theory of light:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Young_(scientist)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%27s_interference_experim...
Perhaps stagnation is due to experience, perhaps it's due to accumulated, age-related brain damage. I doubt we'll know until people do live hundreds or thousands of years.

Surely you can be a beginner again. Pick something you've never done before, and do that. As fledgling as humanity is, humans already have millions of different traditions and areas of study. Just pick one (or many).
There are plenty of people successfully hosting their own email. If you're getting flagged as spam, then you need to take a few steps every once in a while but self-hosted email is still totally doable.
Did you ever hire a nanny? Can that even be done with a newborn? I feel like just a couple nights reprieve to recover the sleep deprivation would be huge.
DNA. There's no recoverable DNA to be discovered after that long, pretty much regardless of how it might have been preserved.
They would? Why? I don't care what my merchant is paying in fees. I care about what I'm paying in fees.
Not to sound too harsh, but ~ 300 MB seems a bit too much. Maybe you forgot to enable image compression.

I did some poking around and discovered that the problem is that all those drawings are incredibly detailed vector art. The "proper solution" is to open each page with Inkscape and convert those vector art drawings into regular bitmap images, probably encoded in JPEG to save space.

Alternatively, you can get a reasonable quality DJVU file for under 50 MB with:

pdf2djvu --dpi=900 --verbatim-metadata -j4 "NASA Workmanship Standards.pdf" -o "NASA Workmanship Standards.djvu"
Since it is near a gun range, I had simply assumed it was some yahoos driving around with their AR's firing at it as though it were nothing more than another road sign on a remote rural stretch.
You were in both portland and seattle? have you considered your correlation to madness? Is it a 100% correlation? I'm sorry, but are you saying protesters didn't have their phones on them? As opposed to literally every other protester who is filming every unfortunate human interaction at every protest?
Dude, if somebody out there somewhere is seriously doing that, they really need some education in effective careers to pursue. That's a lot more likely to improve their lives than complaints about the social effects of the size of bug bounty payouts.

Speaking of privilege, how much privilege is there in believing that ethics aren't important, because you don't know what it's like to live in a place that never even pretended to care about it, and get robbed on a routine basis, because a bunch of other people around you don't care about ethics either, and would rather form a gang and smash anybody who has something they want than work to build a marketable skill?

That is the world you build when you advocate for people not paying attention to the harms of releasing exploits into the wild, because it might pay better than doing the right thing.
The T420 has been one of the best Linux laptops I've ever owned.

Pretty much recommend this over System76 any day.
I have no idea how Apple could claim to make a decision about quality for me with a straight face. Just look at the gaming section: it's full of abusive software with repeatable in-app purchases. Apple is fully responsible for the use of addictive psychology to con people out of their money. They don't even allow you to filter this crap out in their app store. If there were any justice in the world this would be criminal.
For one, we don't have their DNA.

See eg https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/could-scientists-bring-dinosa...
Heh, that's the usual advice. However if you ask certain polyglots, they will tell you that as a general rule (exceptions exist), being in a foreign country or having a romantic partner aren't necessary or sufficient conditions, and in fact can work against language learning.

How so?

Using a romantic partner as a language-learning partner gets old for said person after a while, especially if you're not actively making progress on the language on the side. Unless said romantic partner is a language teacher, it can be annoying for them to constantly be correcting your mistakes. Over time, this annoyance can actually harm the relationship. Also most native speakers of a language aren't always good teachers -- they may know how to use the language but usually can't explain how things work. It's better to get a tutor whose job is to instruct, bear with your mistakes, and go home after. It's easier to for someone to bear with your mistakes if they don't have to spend all their free time with you.

As for language immersion by living in a country, you'd be surprised how that doesn't really work unless you're actively learning on your own or taking classes. Case in point: I lived in a French-speaking province for 4 years but can barely speak French -- I just never bothered learning. You'd think necessity would force one to learn but there are so many ways to get around actually doing it (e.g. hanging out with expats, using gestures/hand signs, Google Translate, etc.) On the other hand, there are folks who've never been in a Francophone country who can speak French at a high level, often through active learning. In fact, many polyglots often become fluent in a language without ever setting foot in the language's country of origin.

The key really is putting in the work. Getting laid in a foreign country may help kickstart the process, but to achieve working fluency, there are no real shortcuts.

(well, there is one, which is that you already know a related language. This is the only major accelerant. You can learn Afrikaans very quickly if you speak Dutch. Similarly for Malay -> Indonesian, Portuguese -> Spanish ... interestingly, this pair is asymmetric: Spanish -> Portuguese is harder than vice-versa)
The new Istio steering committee
Any recommendations for a new battery for the X230?