skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if a nation had a back door installed

So far no nation managed to install backdoors on all phones and laptops. I have no reason to believe it will be different with brain implants.

> Literal mind control

It’s very far to that.

> that you can't escape from at all

You can always turn it off. With some hardware button.
I think you have been bamboozled by the poster above my friend
> In that case, you lose nothing even if Epic wins:

Another commenter put it really well [1]:

A sufficiently powerful company or group could promote a third party app store by negotiating exclusive deals. Imagine a "EpicTwitBook" store being the only way to get Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and Fortnite.

Previously those apps were forced to make concessions to be on the iOS store, and I could download "Instagram, the version that makes Apple happy" app.

But now, that version of the app is gone! I google "Why is my Instagram gone" and get an article that says I have to sign up to the "EpicTwitBook" store, and download the "Instagram, the version that makes Advertisers happy" app.

I would prefer the first version but I don't get a choice.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24287421
They would've spent multiples of that internally, just fumbling about trying to reproduce the vulnerability.
Well, apparently not, narcissists for example quite happily agree that they are narcissists - any other way to be seems dumb to them:

https://psychcentral.com/news/2014/08/06/it-takes-just-one-q...
The solution would be to return missed calls when you are available. Or if you need to call someone regularly across the world, you would ask, "What hours are you available for contact?"

Anticipating that someone is available at a certain time is a bit silly imo; you have no idea what life brings them that day to assume that they are free to take your call right then and now, so you might as well just try calling when you can, and crossing your fingers that they are free to pick up. Maybe I miss your call right after work because I'm taking a nap, for example. No timezone information could have helped you connect that call.
In my experience working with critical hardware and software with sensors, I believe this is pretty much settled, because those components are fixed and well known.

We know with precision how to maintain those, the rate of failure and audit or overhaul times. In fact, right know sensors could "call home" when there is a problem.

The heart of the matter is what is not known, like the wild board getting in the road, or a cyclist that appears from the side, or the road is wet, there is ice or snow on the road.

Usually what happens for accidents is all of the above, like it is dark(you don't see cars but specular reflections of lights), it is wet, there is ice and snow and a cyclist appears out of nowhere.

Those things are extremely unknown and hard to model, and AI does not work there.
Case-Insensitive Ext4
What brand of prescription methamphetamine are you taking? It seems from a quick google like it is only prescribed exceedingly rarely?
Definitely less "insane things" these days than back in the day. I remember jailbreaking Sony PSPs for all my classmates in middle school :D Later when iOS became big, the only common "insane" thing was app store account sharing.
Some people seem to be able to shrug off bullshit at work, just go home and think about things that “matter”. If I see bullshit, things that are wrong, or just legitimately hard problems I have a very hard time not working hard to fix it even though I would not really care about the outcome in 10 years.

The dilemma is the balance between doing work that matters, maybe finding something where I care more about the outcome, or learn to brush things off and focus on other things in life that matters.
business hours would just follow whatever the national stock exchange settles upon, like they do now. people in finance in SF keep eastern time.
Those legacy banking infra projects are so nice, infinitely milkability™️
While I’m not a vaccine sceptic nor do I subscribe to any of the wild conspiracy theories surrounding vaccines I did grow up in Sweden during the Swine Flu. The vaccine, Pandemrix[0], used for the Swine Flu in Sweden caused an increase in the chance of getting narcolepsy for children aged 12-16. Because of this I am a bit vary of a new vaccine developed very rapidly in response to a novel disease.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix
> The mayo comparison doesn't hold. People go to multiple shop. Apple only allows one shop.

It would hold up if you said Costco or Sam's Club instead of Walmart. People who pay for a Sam's Club membership do a large amount of their shopping at Sam's Club. Sure they could go to other stores, but that's significantly limited.

Also, people can play Fortnite on their laptop or their Android tablet.
Natural monopolies are ones where the barrier to entry to provide a service is high. Like a nuclear power company. This fragmentation isn't really in the same category, since clearly many companies have the ability to create a music streaming service or game store with some form of content.
While I agree with your sentiment, in practice that’s a harder goal because it means changing millions of people’s daily rituals and businesses schedules. Everything from daily meetings, times of worship, business opening hours, class schedules, shared spaces (eg conference rooms, hired gym spaces for yoga, karate etc)...everything would have to change and everyone would be required to make that change themselves for it to work.

There is no “just” in “just stop the DST keeping the natural local time”.
The big difference between him and top notch medical experts seems to be this : piles of cash and cutting edge tech across all disciplines thrown at a problem. It's not common that a research proposal gets granted hundreds of millions of funding.

But here is what I've learned from Tesla/SpaceX: Cutting-edge tech changes the initial conditions of a problem. How things are measured, analyzed, manufactured, simulated etc.

The only things that are fundamentally constraining are the laws of nature. As long as you don't violate them, things can be done, potentially (in principle).

That why Musk has been like: OK, I see a feasible trajectory, so let's throw money and talent at the problem and see how it goes. Which by the way is how progress works. Pushing things.

Experts (especially scientists) have acquired their expertise within certain initial conditions. Initial conditions incorporate assumptions that might be outdated after having thrown money and tech at the issue.

That's why Musk doesn't give a damn about conventional wisdom but in my opinion only cares about the fundamental physics when it comes to basic feasibility.

What seems to be different compared to a lot of others seems to be that he is a scientific mind by training and a hardcore engineer by profession. Plus basic economics literacy and tons of money.

You usually find only one or those traits in people.

Tldr : his mantra is 'question your constraints'... Let's see how well that goes with this project
I'm surprised that insurance companies insure Tesla drivers at all, since drivers are relying on a fake autopilot.

What will likely happen is that Tesla will have to offer their own insurance.

This avoids the whole problem of insurance companies needing to quantify risk pools.
It's not the login. They need to sign the binaries with that account, otherwise those won't run on an iOS device.
I believe this is partly due to long term relationships aspect of the IPO process.

During roadshows, underwriters are essentially leveraging their rolodexes. These relationships constitute a significant part of the value they are bringing to the table.

If there would be a different price for each investor, some would get a better price than others, and those that got a worse price would not feel very good about it, likely deeming it unfair (there are still people behind the processes, and people can't help but experience emotions of fairness and a lack thereof).

As a result, relationships would likely suffer due to this human aspect to it, and weirdly enough, these grudges can easily get absorbed in the 'institutional memory' and linger there long after the original human protagonists have left the organisation.

A way to address this, would be to introduce rules like first-come-first served, which would imply giving up a degree of control by underwriters and the company. This, however, introduces risk for the company which, after all needs that control in order to maximise value.

It's not a simple problem to solve, but maybe there is a better solution somewhere out there...
For me the most important take-away of that article is this:

Do you know "life is short" merely intelectually or do you feel it in your bones as if your body is on fire?
I refuse to use the Slack desktop app, and use Slack only through a web browser. I trust Chrome (Google), Firefox (Mozilla), Safari (Apple) far more than the Slack engineers.
Low payout aside, it's too bad they didn't properly credit the researcher when they disclosed the vulnerability. There's always another path to getting paid for exploits: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_for_zero-day_exploits.
Well, invstors unconscious bias against Black people, against woman and many other (and unconscious positive discrimination of White and Asian men) is hurting the tech ecosystem [1] [2] which isn't good either for current VC and for the society in general.

This action helps the VC to get more fair... and better investors (this is good for their economic performances). Then this can have a positive impact on the tech sector and the whole society...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesnonprofitcouncil/2018/02/...
[2] https://hbr.org/2017/05/we-recorded-vcs-conversations-and-an...
Non-Apple users are also mostly computer illiterate, though.
> And while it's impossible to say what is a lot or a little of a continuous quantity like time, 8 is not a lot of something. If you had a handful of 8 peanuts, or a shelf of 8 books to choose from, the quantity would definitely seem limited, no matter what your lifespan was.

If you had 8 cars to choose from, it wouldn't seem so limited, would it? The idea that you can take a number, and in absolute sense say that it's "not a lot" is bizarre. Even 8 books might seem like a lot in a different situation, like if someone packed that many books in his suitcase for a weekend trip.
At CERN I used to work on radiation measurement and characterization using ram chips (two different types with different sensitivities to neutron energies), but also characterisation with a ccd. With the ccd you can distinguish the type of the particle based on the track that it leaves behind, but the problem is the very low cross section (area, sensitivity) of the chip.
I use an Apple TV 4k into a Denon AVR-X4500 which then outputs in to my 2018 LG 65” TV. Match frame rate is on. All supports 4K Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos (I have ceiling height speakers as well as normal surround). Looks and sounds great.

I also have a second setup which is similar to the above in a dedicated cinema room with projector as well, but with even more speakers.

If you have a receiver, it should be where your video playback devices attach. Only the receiver attaches to the TV.
> You can use a different payment processors.

And you can use a different device to play Fortnite; for instance, a laptop/desktop or an Android tablet w/ sideloading capabilities.
I don’t use Robinhood but I doubt you’re funding your account through the app? Shouldn’t it be a bank transfer/CC through their website?
>>>Like the article said, we have a generation of people who are so lonely and depressed that 25% of them have thought seriously about suicide in the past 30 days. We're living in a death cult.

Is that surprising when educators are pushing a deconstructionist approach to so many topics? Young people are just ending up confused and rudderless, and with the rise in single-parent households, kids aren't necessarily getting a comprehensive and emotionally-balanced upbringing either. I'd argue that a lot of this stuff will manifest as mental health issues, but those will be the symptoms, not the cause. The causes are failures to adequately train and mentor our youth, and that begins with how we are failing to train young adults to be parents.... partly because we're failing to hold them accountable for even basic "be an adult" responsibilities and an understanding of consequences to their actions.
No, on Android you can sideload anything. (Do you not use smartphones at all? How do you not know this?)

This hasn't been true for iOS either for the last N years, AFAIK you can sign apps for free to load on your devices, but the signatures are valid only for a week, so you have to reload the apps at least every week.
Six figures include a wide range from $100,000 to $999,999. If you are near upper range, you could sell 10-30% to take some money of the table. If you are at the lower range, either you can sell or keep everything. Without knowing anything more about company and valuations, it is difficult to be more specific.
I have yet to find a compelling anti trust argument.

- if anti-trust is about consumer protection (kind of a European perspective), there's no basis. You buy an Apple device knowing full well that the only apps allowed on that device are vetted by Apple. That's hardly new. The rules have not changed. Few exceptions have been made, and I bet those few have been framed by the best lawyers there are to avoid any possible contamination. So there's no new event or situation that has consumers losing.

- if anti-trust is about protecting against market manipulation : no one forces any one to be on the App Store. The rules have not changed. Few exceptions etc. Apple does have sole control of the iPhone apps "market" but is that truly a market in the sense of competition law? The fact that it's called "App Store" should not obscure the fact that Apple could as well have decided to provide only their own Apple-branded apps, and develop themselves all of the apps they make available to iPhone users. Instead they chose to let third-parties provide apps under a restrictive set of conditions that include the "tax". Would it be any different if they actually licensed the apps from developers for a fee and resell them on the App Store to end users?
A 1000 line highway would take tens of minutes, maybe upto an hour, to drive to the outside lane, it would have its own interesting traffic problems.
Disagree. Epic's battle against Apple seems to based on ulterior motives. They agreed to the App Store terms of service after all. If Epic were to win it would set a terrible precedent whereby contractually requiring payment is unenforceable.
I was diagnosed with Delayed sleep phase disorder and have the same issue where sleep aids only work a few days at a time before stopping with diminishing returns everyday. Nothing but just letting myself sleep when my body wants to sleep has worked.
This is wonderful.

I feel like there is more here however. If our perception of time is manipulable (e.g. flow states, psychedelics, confabulation), how do we use that knowledge to perceive having lived a more enjoyable life?

Is it mastery over self-delusion? Does undivided attention on the passage of time contribute to well-being? What resources would you recommend to learn more (e.g. science? Eastern philosophy? etc.)
I was thinking about the same thing, but it can (and will) create a situation where each big Corp will have its own store with its apps unavailable on the Appstore obviously.
My take on designing a language and an IDE together (2015).

Repo: https://github.com/xixixao/Shem
Playground: http://xixixao.github.io/Golem
Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZipJOan54
Why would they need their own account to just develop the engine? They could use any employee's personal account, or a third party partner company's account, anything
Rouge actors tend to be an issue in all large organizations. Because as an organization gets larger, its middle and top levels are increasingly dominated by zero-sum political games, as opposed to directly relevant outcomes. And if you're a rouge actor, that's precisely the setting you're most comfortable in.
I'm in the same boat right now as author was in the start. Like, it's just a free service that I built as a side project that is clearly very useful to _me_ and a few users that absolutely love it, yet alot of people don't see it useful right now. Definitely learnt some lessons from this article.
Wrong. Pharmacies only determine prices when you pay cash.

Insurance companies and discount cards tell the pharmacy how much they get paid. The pharmacy signs a contract with insurance companies that say how much they will receive.
The tunnels themselves were never the innovation, it was the TBMs. Have they not made progress there? I imagine not much since I haven't seen them on here in a while.
Here is a rundown of what the fed is doing:

Securities purchases - still buying mortgage backed securities (is it 2008?)

Lots of lending and backstopping so rich don't lose.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/fed-response-to-covid19/

In some cases the majority of stimulus went to millionaires and big business.
In some personality tests they try to build Validity Scales into the questions and make it part of the scoring algorithm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_scale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Multiphasic_Personal...

I think the basic technique is to ask similar but different questions in several different ways and then apply stats
And yet medium is more successful then "these guys".
That's super interesting, can you expand? How is wealth treated quasi-collectively despite varying incomes? Is it shared between members? Or do members help with certain expenses like education, health, housing?
I'm rather curious about this
I work on CFD software. We're well aware of this in my work, but the reality is that all our big corporate clients use Intel hardware. We already tell people to set those environment variables in our documentation.

> Avoid the Intel compiler. There are other compilers with similar or better performance.

This is not really true IMO, but even as an aside, the Intel compiler has the enormous advantage of being available cross platform. So we can use it on Linux and Windows, and provides MPI cross platform. We upgrade fairly regularly and that provides us with less work.

My own tests found that PGI compiler performance was worse than Intel for C++, and that now appears to have been discontinued on Windows anyway with NVidia's new HPC compiler suite replacing it. GNU can run everywhere, but performance is around 2.5x worse on Linux for our application use case because it doesn't perform many of the optimisations that Intel does. We use MSVC on Windows just because everyone can have a license, and performance is much worse.

The other thing is that MKL is pretty stable and gets updated. If I use an open source BLAS/LAPACK implementation - sure, it works, and it may even give better performance! But it's not guaranteed to get updates beyond a couple of years, and plenty of implementations are also only partial. We pay Intel a lot of money for the lack of hassle, basically.
>Evaluating the effects of SARS-CoV-2 Spike mutation D614G on transmissibility and pathogenicity
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.31.20166082v...

>Estimating the infection fatality ratio in England
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/estimating-the-infection-fatal...
If you’re just now finding your way to Seneca; I would recommend reading “Letters from a stoic”.

Not terse, easy to pick up and read in parts unsequentially.
We are in the authentication space. Sessions is a way to get into the space.
Imagine there's no time zones.
It's easy if you try.
No AM or PM.
And no Daylight Saving Time.

Imagine all the people...
using UTC.

You--ooh--ooh-ooh-ooh

You may say I'm dreamer.
Because I set my alarm wrong.
I hope someday you will join us.
And the world will live as one.
> Switzerland also enjoys some of the best health outcomes, though. Unlike America, Switzerland has the highest average life expectancy, the lowest infant mortality, some of the best cancer outcomes, and respiratory illness outcomes. Switzerland is an often used example because they actually get something for what they pay, unlike America.

A lot of this has to do with following directions. Tell an obese American to work out, not smoke, take medications properly, etc... and they'll just say "yeah whatever"

Our diets are also horrible, most people refuse to exercise, and stress is super high.
> how fast he calculates ridiculously complex equations in real time

The sad part is that this is not sarcasm.
> Source: Years with freq periods of little/no food (and 5 kids).

Can I ask why 5 kids when you cannot afford them? Lots of people do this and I don't understand the logic
Does anyone know how they're detecting this? User agents can be changed and JS APIs can be modified with very little effort. Short of making something absolutely insane and forcing everyone to go along like they did with SafetyNet on Android, I don't see a way for this to actually work...
Me too. Used to drink 1-3 beers after work daily, but cut it down latly because I try to loose some weight.

Anybody tried vaping CBD and/or nikotin?
Hence drastically raising taxes on fossil fuels. The environmental costs of fossil fuels are nowhere close to being represented in the cost of fuel people pay, therefore we have this massive misallocation of resources.

But then society will have to vote for sacrificing luxury today for the benefit of future generations, which typically doesn’t go well.
Actually yes! We are already working on providing session management for FaunaDB users. Using us, you can easily get a FaunaDB token for a user on your backend and frontend. We take care of all the heavy lifting of creating those tokens and making sure they are alive (and of course, providing session management).

We should have something out in a few weeks from now!
For what sort of application? I ran benchmarks of my own scientific code for doing particle-particle calculations and with -march=native I could get 2.5x better performance with Intel vs GCC.

One thing I found that you do have to be careful with though is ensuring that Intel uses IEEE floating point precision, because by default it's less accurate than GCC. This causes issues in Eigen sometimes, we ran into an issue recently after upgrading compiler where suddenly the results changed and it was because someone had forgotten to set 'fp-model' to 'strict'
A clever way to provide life-saving oxygen
That must be a US-only thing. In the rest of the world everyone uses WhatsApp/Telegram/Viber/etc (WeChat in China) and iMessage is not popular at all.
I have an appletv connected to a projector but sometimes I just want to throw on something on the computer when I’m eating/waiting for something else.

And of course because I’m on Linux I can’t get even 1080p encoded at a shitty bitrate unless I force it with a Firefox extension that they can gimp at any time (in a way, many thanks to the engineers who made the extension possible by relaxing checks on the browser).

I don’t understand why most platforms hate their paying users like this - I can and will pirate a Blu-ray quality rip if I can’t pay for it easily.
It’s a good point, except that I have kids in daycare, and I can’t change that schedule. We have to adjust our lives to that. The most depressing time of year is that Monday when it’s all of a sudden dark at 4PM whereas it was daytime on the Friday.