skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There has been nothing indicating that Covid is unique in this regard.

Correct, this has been my observation too. I see people attributing even a loss of smell to Covid, which is actually quite common to all respiratory illnesses.
When I was a kid I wondered how cool it would be if we lived in some dystopia cyberpunk world controlled by all powerful zaibatsu and hacker console cowboys.

Well I guess I have my answer: not that cool.
But Epic did start an antitrust case, and so far a judge has found that “serious questions do exist” and granted a temporary restraining order. That wouldn’t have happened if Epic was as obviously wrong about the monopoly question as you say. https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/21814075/c...
Will The Office look better is all that matters
> 1) Proof-of-work systems are pure, unadulterated energy waste (and an ecological disaster as long as we depend on fossil fuels). They cannot, ever, be allowed to become significant in the economy, lest our future will be building a Dyson sphere around the Sun just to power everyone's ability to pay for a hot dog on their way to work.

Proof of Work gets a bad reputation because people have a hard time wrapping their heads around why it is useful. People don't complain about all of the energy that goes into making concrete, or transporting people around, or making houses cooler, because the impact of these things is more direct and less abstract.

But proof of work has a massive benefit that - as the market shows - well outweighs the cost. Thanks to proof of work, a group of counter-parties that are all fully mutually distrusting can interact with eachother without electing a mutually trusted subset or finding a trustworthy third party to facilitate the transaction.

Within the rest of society, trust is extremely expensive. Large financial institutions are only able to operate within the context of a massive court system with a massive law enforcement arm and necessarily privacy violating technologies like KYC. Proof of Work allows us to throw all of that away and use something much simpler and more privacy preserving! You trade one expense for another, and in many cases, Proof of Work transactions are able to succeed in areas where banks could never reasonably get established. That is _massive_ value added to society. And yes, the cost is this giant proof of work engine that burns a lot of electricity. But it's not _waste_, it's serving a key purpose that nothing else is able to serve.

In areas where trust is cheaper than Proof of Work, you should use trust instead of PoW. But the world is full of places and opportunities where PoW is by far the cheapest way to get something done.
I wish I knew what any of this meant but it sounds awesome
In the same way heroin, in the short term, solves your homelessness problem.
I thought I was gonna hate this but I ended up enjoying it a lot haha, thanks for sharing!
I have nothing to do with that ecosystem, yet I find the arguments fairly compelling. So "maybe your explanation isn't broad enough."

Freedom and chaos are aligned; they're correlated; it's not news. Likewise authoritarianism is usually pretty orderly, at least for some definition of order (generally they achieve their own).

For example the principle of free speech, and the openness of certain platforms, is what enables lots of entities to expose people to their ideas. Including let's say the FSB, who tend to use it to sow seeds of discord, confusion and disorganization among the populace of their old adversary the US. Whereas Russia's internet is partly sanitized of "foreign ideas," a practice that offends our sense of freedom of speech, but you have to admit that it's very hard to infiltrate and subvert the Russian Federation with those ideas as a result. Things are orderly, again for some definition of order.
isnt this.... Vbr?
If you double-click the text, a little popup comes saying "Warning: Content is protected!"

Right-click and double-click both being intercepted

What the hell

anyways the answer is that fuselage used asbestos bonding, and they couldn't separate it cost-effectively -- so they scrapped whatever they could and ditched the rest in a hole
They work in small businesses or for themselves[1] because they don't have to worry about health insurance. Or they become a teacher[2]. Or they don't have to work at all because they are raising kids or getting a better education - again, because they don't have to worry about health insurance.

Eventually, they would join other parts of the economy in the US, but in the short term, the unemployment rate would spike and the economy in general would suffer.

[1] https://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/small-business-2...
[2] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Education/Se...
Or you could actually sell the game for a one time fee.
Most of these changes still maintain the necessity for price transparency, which GoodRx still offers. There will always be some need for an online portal through which to shop for medication, regardless of whether or not there are price controls or if the payments are reimbursed/subsidized by the state.
That seems meaningfully different. The openness here is you own a piece of hardware, another company wants to sell you software to run on your hardware; can that two-party interaction complete without an adversarial third party being involved?

The answer to that question on iOS is a "strong no", on Android it's a "yes, but". On PC that answer is yes regardless if the actions of Epic Store.
Not really. No one outside of specialized applications like HPC will use Intel's compiler for their software. The general public seeing SPEC benchmark figures between gcc AMD and icc Intel may be surprised when they that Intel CPU doesn't perform as well as expected vs AMD when running generic code.
^W (control W) is actually delete the last word in Unix systems.
Please forgive my ignorance, because I still don't get it.

Can you give me an example of how this would work in practice? What two assets would you swap in this manner, for example, and why wouldn't that work with traditional financial instruments?
Wow! That is crazy.
Love how they use "The Dirt" to show it lol.
Guess there are few rockers @ netflix lol.
And yet, today you can buy Control on Steam.
^W is delete-word
There are many non-ad companies whose revenue has not accelerated at all due to covid such as Salesforce, IBM, Atlassian, and DropBox. Sure most of them have not been terribly impacted as well, but the idea of “digital acceleration” simply has been a buzzword, not a reality.

Even for some companies that have had some boost, the spike in share prices has been over exaggerated. One glance at the price movements and it’s fairly obvious. A company like DataDog or Fastly is NOT 2-4 times as valuable just because more ppl are working from home. This market is 99% fed-induced, and 1% actual fundamental improvement
They farmed $4140 before tx fees and interest, so they made about $4k. Not too shabby...
Because if you lifted the idea from somewhere else you should disclose that fact, otherwise it comes off a little disingenuous especially in a show HN where many readers might assume that you came up with this independently.
The reality of the legal system is that all small companies would just get worn out and forced to settle against Apple, regardless of the justice of their complaint.

No company smaller than Epic could afford to file such a case. I wonder whether any company could become large enough without having some way for people to argue that "it is not the general this particular battle needs".
Social media is an orthographic camera
Not trying to draw too much of a comparison here, but Britain did this when they formally abolished slavery. It's still very controversial today, but it did thwart the opposition to abolition among Parliament's pro-slavery lobby and plantation owners, particularly in the Caribbean. Paying off health insurers for years' worth of profits would be very expensive, but on the flip side I doubt it would be as unpopular as the slavery payments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Compensation_Act_1837
There have been persistent rumors of an issue with patents.
It's serious, though I agree it's a bit muddled in all the memes and references.

The core point as I understood it: the internet is quickly blurring the line between a company and a group of friends working together. Two of the limiting factors are our communication tools and financial/corporate structures.

My take: as this model become more prevalent, more alternatives to traditional employment and education routes open up allowing creators, researchers, and engineers to work on interesting problems without having to find one another through educational institutions and corporations.
And how much “effort” is it in selling virtual goods with zero marginal costs?
Ironically, you get some of the best coverage when you're low income, since Medicaid is so generous.
I love this site a lot. The fun thing is that, the missing of TLS connection will allow people to tamper this site which teaches people how to prevent tampering :)
Signal can't send SMS on iPhones (it can on Android). Firefox has to use Apple's browser engine. Just because they don't do it in 100% of cases doesn't mean they don't do it.
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this isn't a fundamental problem for anyone who isn't caught up in this weird ideologically libertarian crypto cult.

Virtually nobody wants to 'actually own' money or do whatever they want with it, they want to buy groceries, pay rent, or put it in their bank account.

If people wanted to actually own stuff they'd buy pinephones instead of samsung galaxies.
> Someone underage, carrying an illegal gun, probably doesn't fall into well regulated.

Except AFAICT open carry of long guns by minors 16-17 is legal in Wisconsin, as long as if you're hunting you have the appropriate license. And the gun itself is very definitely legal - IIRC it's the most popular "modern sporting rifle" in existence, and millions exist in similar configurations.
Top general says no role for military in presidential vote
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness was chosen for a reason in contrast to the term Locke used (estate): individual freedom was supposed to be balanced with the interests of the society that allowed them to exist and be pursued in the first place, which are what courts consider fundamental rights.
actuators and slip rings are going to change the game for robotics
Not sure I follow, did you possibly mean:

It's not possible to get VA-API to work in FF 80 on X11 or Wayland because VA-API has been broken since FF 79. The fix will be in FF 81.

Just guessing, I have not looked into the topic except in this thread. What would be the bugzilla id for that?
Does Spotify control one of the two major music platforms and use that control to require artists to use only their music service (via exclusives)?

And can you explain how I am using Spotify on my iPhone if Apple is "forcing" users to only use Apple Music ?
Huh. Looking at the headline, I had thought that this would mean, "we'll fund your startup, if you agree to meet these diversity hiring targets." But if I'm reading the article correctly, it actually means, "we, the VCs, will try to have more diversity among the people writing the checks."
Pi-sniffer counts nearby Bluetooth devices, even with MAC scrambling
Teeth seem in the USA to be a class marker, where in the UK class markers are different (used to be accent when I lived there aeons ago).
Let's assume your pessimistic case is exactly right, so what? He's allowed to sue one person who is breaking the law while not suing another one. He's allowed to eat the console slice of cake and complain to the courts that the apple slice of cake had the wrong color icing even if they both have the wrong color icing.

He's also allowed to believe that there is a stronger case against Apple and sue them first, and then sue the other people later if he wins the first suit convincingly, which is what I personally suspect is going to happen.
Who are these "most people"? I am not aware of any such person myself.

Most (if not all) EU countries protect the freedom of speech in their constitution. In addition ECHR protects the freedom of speech as well.
Would the woman have been legally justified to defend herself and the children? Or was her only legal option to stand there and let the abuse happen?
Problem solved? You made a choice that was best for you using your own free will.
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Looks amazing and while I would like to enjoy such quality and am willing to pay for the premium plan (in fact I do already), I still can't watch the 4K content even in a world where I accept DRM modules in my browser, because some DRM plugins seem to be more equal than others.
Swift selectively shares the objc memory model.
Then why did he sign with Tencent? There is no open platform competition in China.
> doesn't mean they are obligated to write software to allow you

Apple literally doesn't have to write any software! All we're asking is for Apple to remove the software they've written that intentionally blocks any other software from working!

Android has a checkbox to install apps from any source. Hardly anyone even knows about its existence, but it means that we don't have to have a black market for phones with a given app installed (context: iPhones with Fortnite already installed were being sold for 2k+ per pop on eBay when the app was blocked).
Why is coupon clipping for food (without which you starve and die) not a problem?

One of the biggest problems with healthcare today is a lack of price transparency, and GoodRx appears to offer that. Most healthcare systems in the world operate on price transparency, and as long as that's the case, there should always be a need for the services GoodRx offers.
oof, face-palm for me.
People I know that went studying go to Asia had output from their teachers likely worse than you get from the program given the language barrier and general approach. It was about playing games with strong players (playing different styles, which I admit may teach a bit more than Alpha) and having teacher to point you which of your moves were bad and what to do instead (and that's it, only seeing some sequences and hearing "good", "bad"). Because knowing how and when you lost the game is huge. And doing shitloads of go problems of course.

That said, it still may be worth having a teacher/trainer I guess. To motivate you, give you that dopamine in person and all that jazz.

I would say it's more like learning to code yourself rather than at the university than learning assembly from gcc.
Tips for hobby embedded development beginners
1000fps on a 1000Hz display gives you blurless motion without needing flicker:

https://blurbusters.com/blur-busters-law-amazing-journey-to-...

This is probably good enough in practice, although you can see differences even beyond 1000Hz by observing the phantom array effect of flickering signals during fast eye movement.
> most people are using it as a cache

Maybe, I actually have no idea, have you seen numbers?

> Their valuation reflects its use as a cache

How so?

> Did you geo replicate message broker?

No
I am not following. Are you saying apps development is free? That the only cost is delivering the bytes?
Interesting. I always thought it was kind of interesting that "cyber-punk" originally meant a type of near future sci-fi, and the term was borrowed to use in various types of "retro" sci-fi (steam-punk, etc).

Except as a lot of cyber-punk has remained anchored in the 80's aesthetic that was popular when it was created, its kind of become "retro-actively retro". So now if something is "cyberpunk", your not really sure if its going to be a modern view of the near-future, or an 80's view.
Imagine the wild level of data they have on the US population, every person with an illness or disease, their name, address, dob, everything in a billing requirement.

The only problem is it is likely many more people without insurance than with because of the nature of their product.

If that database ever leaks, wow there will be hell to pay, or maybe not, hasn't really been in the past, did people ever get their $100 payout for the other leaks?

https://www.consumerreports.org/health-privacy/goodrx-shares...
Yes, problem solved, though obviously I am wistful for a scenario where everyone wins.
Open Source didn't have as its only unique feature the ability to evade regulation.
Even if you have to pay somebody to tag the scene changes manually that cost would be pretty insignificant to Netflix.
His militia buddies were back at the original car dealership they were protecting. The shooter left there to provide medical assistance, which required crossing a police line - the police didn't allow him to return to his group after that.

This is from the following twitter thread by a NYTimes reporter: https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1298839097923063809
I believe that's called a transition period and we saw how it worked with Obama care.

We could also drag the obstructionist leeches into the capital and roast them like Jim gaffigan just roasted Karen.

When someone's abusing an entire country you don't pay them to stop, you throw them in jail. People are dying are dying by the truckload and we care about
A new compiler for Guile: making things better by making things worse
> Instead you have sideload... the Epic Games Store!

I remember when Valve did that with HL2 and Steam. The outrage was similar [1]. Look how it turned out for Valve.

[1] https://games.slashdot.org/story/04/10/23/0812224/half-life-...
I'm on weasel's side, but I can understand Apple wanting to keep iOS trusted by its users by restricting unapproved software coded to their current native app API layer. What I can't understand is the harm for end users in apps using 3rd party payment processing without giving Apple a cut. That restriction encourages a worse experience for users who now have to go to the vendor's website to complete a purchase they could be making in-app.
It's not really your fault. Pro gamers have enough experience to be able to know that dragging a noob into an expert-level match is going to be a bad outcome.
So maybe do something less violent, like kneel during a football game. People will definitely unilaterally support that, right?
> that 30% cut needs to go down

I think that will be a hard pill to swallow for many other developers. If there ends up being pricing regulation of the Apple App Store, you can be sure that the same thing will come down Microsoft (Xbox), Sony (Playstation), Nintendo, Facebook (Oculus), and every other platform’s digital store. All of these charge 30% (or close to it). Focusing on the 30% figure is the easy path for regulation, but it will have far-reaching consequences.

Notice — when Microsoft signed on to the Epic vs Apple fight, their concern wasn’t the fate of Fortnite and their fight against the 30% App Store fee, or even the rights of Apple to control what is and is not in the App Store. Microsoft’s goal was to protect the access of the Unreal engine for other iOS/Mac developers. Microsoft’s support for Epic is very focused in this regard.
Probably because they feel their time is too valuable for that learning curve, or because even by spending lots and lots of time on learning, you still can't match the productivity of somewhat usable software (please note that I hate Adobe as much as the next guy but they're lightyears ahead of Darktable or Gimp)
iPhones exist right next Android phones in every carrier store. The only place you will see that exclusively sells iPhones are Apple stores.
How Edge Detection in Images Works
I found the same thing. If you draw an 8 with more of an 'x' in the middle, it's fine, but if you draw two o's on top of one another, it can't figure it out. I suspect they need to increase the diversity of their training set.
I'd probably buy it if it got it, but I'm not holding my breath, given all the bad accounts I've read about the company:

https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-puri...
> Why is coupon clipping for food (without which you starve and die) not a problem?

The government already does an awful lot to make food affordable in the US, including subsidizing corn to well below the cost of production via continuous re-authorization of the Farm Bill.

Then there's food banks, and SNAP. Both of which should be expanded.

The government does absolutely nothing to make drugs affordable. At all.

> Most healthcare systems in the world operate on price transparency, and as long as that's the case, there should always be a need for the services GoodRx offers.

Most healthcare systems in the world operate by having the government form a bulk buying organization and negotiating the price of drugs down to a fraction of what Americans are forced to pay even in places without socialized prescription drug coverage.

The reason drugs in Canada are cheap is because the provinces negotiate the prices, not because they socialize the costs. There is very limited socialized prescription drug coverage in Canada. So when the government permitted re-importation of drugs from Canada, they basically refused to negotiate themselves and wanted to instead rely on Canadian provinces to negotiate on their behalf. Nutty.

One way of solving this would be to have Medicare negotiate the price of all drugs in the US.

[edit] There's lots of comprehensive solutions, and none of them involve coupon clipping.
A lot of those graphs seem to show that video quality at 1920x1080 is going down significantly. Does that mean you now need to be on their most expensive plan and using one of their approved devices/platforms to continue receiving the same video quality, now only obtainable with 2560x1440 and higher resolutions?
For background, I've built verifiers for harder languages, reviewed papers for crypto systems, seen the inside of crypto operations & crypto security startups, and help build software for adversarial, investigative, & high performance scenarios. I'm not an expert in blockchain stuff, but I'm also not unfamiliar with the software challenges.

* I would agree that paying consultants to audit contracts is prohibitively expensive. It's the equivalent of paying pen testers to do your unit testing & security engineering - that's a costly way to do your basics

* I disagree that model checkers can't check for stuff like front-running. It's not textbook, but close: the first papers on model checkers were specifically temporal logic for stuff like ordering issues. That was ~35 years ago! Contracts are similar in size, and both computers + solvers have gotten exponentially better. For my day job, we do TLFOPS for $0.20/hr, in Python.

* Reproducible builds, bootstrapping, etc. are real... but the 20%, and skipping the 80% I'm talking about. Verifiable VM IRs + verifiable contract lang subsets + contracts verified against them. Yes, we've seen sw supplychain attacks against some projects. More than that? Buggy contracts, buggy contract libs, & buggy blockchains.

I get that crypto startup people don't know this stuff, but you can hire 1-2 devs (= $500K) that can. Even if verifying against full abstraction is likely out of reach due to the security mess that is the ETH VM & friends, chiseling out subsets and running the model checking equiv of fuzzers isn't hard. The status quo of not doing it makes it look like an industry of folks not running unit tests before pushing to prod. (See: article.) It's not that hard. As more money gets into any company here, my expectations go higher, even if that industry's haven't.
Only for two hours.

As it turns out, my average time to return from distraction to proofread is a little bit more than two hours.