skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not any sort of expert in this and can't really re-litigate what happened at the hearing. It can't be the case, though, that Epic is pulling some clever Grand Admiral Thrawn Hyperpoker move here if every commenter on the internet along with United States District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers can tell what it is after about 3 seconds thinking about it.
And what would you consider the reason for its failure on Android?
I will personally give you a blowjob if you can do this in Flash or Powerpoint in a few hours :)
The UI is complicated, yes. But the actual video calling is better than I've experienced in any other product.

Google Hangouts/Meet invariably slows down my whole machine and causes the laptop fans to spin up. Zoom never does that. And the video streams in Zoom have higher quality to boot.
Show HN: SQL powered Log management and Security Analytics
You're still at it???

> You din't, really. On the third attempt you said "I see our testers doing this all the time - but I don't know what libraries they use" and "various people have scripted UI exploits using selenium or appium. I just asked one of the people familiar with those two tools"

Because I see this sort of test being done almost daily... I work in security and not specifically in testing. I mentioned what frameworks are used in a security context. You are beating a dead horse, focusing on what doesn't matter. I suggest you get off hacker news, go educate yourself, and stop pontificating.

When I said that I "just asked" I meant that I just now asked, not that just asking was all I have ever done. You're being foolish, projecting in every comment that you know more than everyone else.

PS. Please quote properly. I wrote that the security team uses selenium and appium not whatever it is that you are pretending I wrote.
The challenge is getting them to stop eating once the tumors are gone.
It appears that the obesity rate in the UK is about 30%, whereas in the US it's around 40%. For historical context, it seems that the US was at about 30% roughly around 2000.

So I guess that the US is fatter, but the UK is still one of the fattest countries in the world. The BBC claims the UK is getting fatter faster than the US too.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41953530

http://www.oecd.org/unitedkingdom/Health-at-a-Glance-2017-Ke...

Teeth are probably a myth. People see Americans on TV, of course they do extreme things to make them blindingly white.
> My point is that if Netflix thinks they can do better, it would be great to see their code contributed to the public, since they're using an open source program to do all their encodes.

This really is their core business and somewhere they can have a competitive edge, though. Even if you think it's unethical or that it might make business sense to contribute back to the upstream projects, you can see why they might want to keep some of that secret sauce in-house.
Honestly, this happened in every section of any big/ semi-big news lmfao. You just skip pass them real fast.
I think some of the AI are trained by forcing them to play random moves every so often. That might bias them towards larger, more flexible openings where there are large regions of the board that make sense to play in rather than specific move sequences.

But if I were guessing, the AI probably doesn't like fighting joseki because it knows how the fight will end. AIs are much, much better than humans at working out who won a fight.
> clang and llvm are also open by choice

I do like the fact that we now have two competing compilers and llvm brought a lot of innovation, but everyone know that only reason Apple invested in these projects is to avoid GPLv3.

And yeah at the same time Apple's locked platform and Webkit-only policy saves us from Chromium monopoly over the web and helps Firefox live. So yeah world is not just abstract "good and evil" obviously.
8 years is a bit less than half of Google's existence.
It's still not a given that we have universal markers for cancers; cancers evolve in each patient in a variety of ways, making it hard to come up with a single protocol that works for everyone. Hence lots of work is needed on the biology part.
That would be really really hard to achieve in nature. What about a millipede? To me they're the closest thing to a legged and a tracked-like creature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xysbNbvUDZA
> x264 will not align keyframes across resolutions and encodes. In addition the pershot encodes optimize more than just idr frame placement. They also optimize other encoder parameters such as aq.

Sure, that's true. (Though I don't know why it matters that keyframes aren't aligned.) But at the end of the day the point is that Netflix has a better rate control algorithm, and this could be built into x264, even if it might require a significant amount of work. (Which I'm sure the x264 developers would be willing to do for a substantial quality improvement.)

> That isn't how this works. It's not a strict tradeoff between more artifacts and less sharpness by changing resolution.

Of course it's not a strict tradeoff. It's a loose one. And yes, it may look better or worse. That's really my only point in that section of the comment: that bumping up the resolution earlier in the ladder as they're doing is not a pure win, and it may look worse to some people depending on their viewing conditions.
Same here. I think maybe they're using "squad" where I might use "tribe"?

The subject is interesting but I too am having more difficulty comprehending than I expected.
To a degree. And at least I don't have a physical corporate device implanted in my brain.
GoodRx doesn’t solve affordability either it papers over it by giving a small handful of people access to affordable prices, while putting themselves in a position to lock in the status quo — ultimately solving nothing for everyone.
This isn't a bunch of slides with hotspots lol

But to your point, isn't what you described most of the web?
There's two possibilities.

1. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo have all negotiated smaller rev-share agreements with Epic. Maybe this is in exchange for marketing or console bundles or something else that improves the health of the platform.
2. Epic thinks they can use any victory they get out of Apple to force game console manufacturers to do the same thing.

Personally, I think it's the latter - Epic's ultimate goal is to get their hands into the game distribution pie. One of the things Epic contemplates in the lawsuit is "we want to run our own iOS app store in competition with Apple's App Store". You bet their ass "Epic Game Store on Switch" is going to follow if they win the Apple lawsuit.

(For the record, I happen to want Epic to win, though I don't want EPIC to win. I hate locked-down hardware.)

You are correct in one critical way: there's no way in hell Epic would try this shit with console manufacturers. You know how Apple tried to threaten developer tools access and basically tried to take UE4 users hostage? Yeah, imagine that, except console manufacturers have far more leverage. First, console is Epic's core business; second, console developer access is very strictly guarded. Had the courts not enjoined Apple from revoking Epic's UE4 developer account, they could at least have hypothetically continued to support iOS customers.

This isn't true on console: the developer tools are confidential and highly guarded. So, instead of "we might revoke your dev account access", it's "give us back our devkits, delete all your copies of our SDK, delete any UE4 code that uses that SDK, and stop selling UE4 on our platform". Epic wouldn't be allowed to support PS4/Switch/Xbox developers in any capacity. Just the mere act of a licensed console developer asking an unlicensed engine provider for support with the console SDK would constitute a breach of their confidentiality agreements.
Why would they struggle to maintain Unreal Engine? The developer tools/SDKs are free to download and you don’t need a developer account for that. All they will lose is access to pre-release tools such as betas or the Apple Silicon transition kit. It just means they might not have a release ready on launch day, but should be fine after that as the tools are made public.
> not getting the special treatment they want

They are not asking for special treatment.

They are asking for the courts to curtail Apple's absolute power over how applications can be installed on an operating system designed for general computing.

That would be a game changer for the entire developer ecosystem.

Whether that's good or bad is another debate, but the industry-shifting impact it could have is undeniable.
What else do you use besides GoodRx?
> the endless stream of wallet provider hacks is not convincing anyone that it's secure

Does the endless theft of money through central banks' intentionally inflating the money supply increase your faith that government fiat is secure? Hacks against centralized wallet providers don't count as security weaknesses in decentralized protocols such as bitcoin.

Perhaps the current danger with Ethereum-based DeFi is that its far too centralized, and typically (but not necessarily) contracts deployed on it are also far to centralized in their design, governance, and security reviews before deployment.
Turrican Returns to Modern Consoles
I read we can decode signals reliably, but the hardware required is the size of a large desktop, so not something anyone could feasibly lug around. With that said, I think the use of GPUs is relatively new in the field, and I don't believe anyone is using ASICs, so there may be some significant gains possible.
From this[1], seems like their prices can go toward the deductible. Anyway, I agree with you regarding the fake price gouging, so you can get the insurance "discount".

If we could pay prices that insurance pay, well, they are expensive, but they aren't "ruin you financially" expensive. And if the prices would be clear and same of everyone we finally could get them down through competition.

[1] https://www.goodrx.com/blog/how-to-use-goodrx-with-high-dedu...
So to put it cynically: In FF 80 the situation is crystal clear, not at all confusing as the original article claims: It doesn't work.

In FF 81 it will be confusing to the non-experienced again: You need to fiddle with config and environment variables. Well, unless a new bug comes up...
Fair enough, I'm not arguing that they're obligated to or anything, I just think it would be nice. I do suspect that catalogue matters much more at this point than any tiny competitive advantage they get through better encoding. And they've certainly been willing to share advances (like VMAF) in the past - that's why this tech blog exists, after all!
Asteroid collision in neighboring star system
Apple will do just fine arguing that their devices are no different from Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, Roku, Cable Boxes, Keurig, Vzw feature phones. I would be extremely surprised if the courts just up and anti-Tivo’d every device on the planet.

You try to make a case about how phones are somehow special but they’re really not. You have millions of people who only have an Xbox and so you can’t reach them unless you contract with MS.
do you actually need to download unreal engine from the app store to build unreal engine games on ios or do gamedevs download the unreal engine tools and sdks on a desktop and then compile their games for ios from the desktop and sign them with their own app store dev accounts and upload them to the app store
Imagine if Microsoft would charge for every application that you buy and install? People would shout and scream about monopoly.

If you want to charge people to use your platform there are other methods, e.g. developer licenses.

Your initial comment doesn't change my point, just moves the goal post. If I want to deliver no IPhones, I'm stuck with the system. And you can make the same argument for the Play Store.

I don't think PC/XBox quite fit in the same ball-park. The engagement model is very different on those compared to mobile devices. Which is why video games still cost 60$ but most people won't pay more than a couple of dollars for an app.

I don't think that's the real disagreement we're having though. I think the misalignment is on whether 30% fees are acceptable or not.
> 12k? Never heard of. Let's go with 8k, which is 7680x4320.

If you have a few million dollars to spare, you could jump to 16k: https://www.techradar.com/news/sonys-16k-crystal-led-display...
The key advance is the increase in order of magnitude and precision of placement of filaments embedded in the brain.
I don’t think that’s entirely true because brains are quite adaptable. In similar sorts of studies, humans managed to train themselves to use the electrodes to direct things. It may never be ‘perfect’, but I think you’d be surprised how much could be achieved using such a method.
A Command Line vs. GUI Meeting
And some of those norms and laws are different in the sense that they are objectively worse.
Webify: Turn a shell command into a web service
>Of all the non-FAANG gaming companies

So, out of all of them?
How do they decide where to place the electrodes?

And how do they keep them fixed in the right position?
Excellent article - goes into some detail on the myth of oversubscription (well, inflation of reality)
I could imagine a MiTM scam where the scammer relists the owner's property, and provides the mark with the scammer's email, phone number, mailing address etc.

Depending on how sophisticated the scammer is, the MiTM between communication can be transparent to the victim.
Pinterest cancels office lease in unbuilt project, citing work-from-home shift
The article's actual title—Pinterest cancels huge SF office lease in unbuilt project, citing work-from-home shift—was 6 characters too long.
Many research papers are undated too. It’s aggravating, but I can see why authors do it (especially for any blogs with ad revenue attached).
> I really think that all of this DeFi stuff is playing with fire. If these tools scale large enough, it's easy to imagine breaking the right link in the system at the right time to cause catastrophic failures.

We've already been through this with algorithmic trading in stocks: the flash crashes of 2010-12. Some were way bigger in terms of damage than the entire crypto market.

So yes "there will be blood" but you'll see all of the DEXs and other mechanisms eventually implement the same techniques that NASD and the stock market implemented to fight it: limits on price movement, kill switches (probably automated), market pauses etc.
> A phone and neuralink could work together and figure out when I'm holding it and unlock automatically and then lock it when I stop holding it.

I mean, maybe, but I feel like you’re missing the potential of this device!
I just did it manually. That is, I posted the stub like I would any other comment, and then used a REPL to move the replies to my top-level comment and make them children of the stub. There's no specific code support beyond that, though I've done it often enough that I've thought maybe I should write something. Does that answer your question?
Expect to see a lot of 787s disposed like this because carbon fiber recycling is a lot less viable than aluminum.
This is a really bad comparison. Making it easier to vote has a big affect on how many people vote.

Requiring a hand delivered check vs wire transfer to buy house has a minimal effect on how many people buy a house.

Plus, the US has elections far more frequently than how frequently an average person buys a house.
yeah I guess so, at least purchased most of its stock?
First Look at Neuralink: Like Putting a Phone in Your Brain
If IsReady, ConvertToX, and GetColor can return errors then this isn't that far off. But then you're not making an apples to apples comparison. You would have to extend your functional example so that it also handles errors. Unless it already does, and I am missing something.
But Windows had 90%+ of the market. iOS does not.
As I understand it, the idea is that it's a "sandbox" or "test" network. Confidentiality implies a "production" use case, and HAM doesn't want to be the venue for those. You can play around with encryption if the keys are public but you can't actually keep secrets. Even if the secrets are non-commercial. It's a place to play with radios, not a personal communications network.
Apparently streaming apps can but not others, see

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24311230
Ad hominem is not simply an attack; it's disparaging someone to undermine their argument.

Which is why it is also fallacy. Attacking the man does not undermine the argument, so the argument stands unassailed. Anytime we say "you..." it is the beginning of an ad hominem fallacy. Informal fallacy is invalid argument.

The rest of your last comment is all ad hominem fallacy. It's all you you you with you.
Okay, but it is Neuralink’s responsibility to say everything they do. If the only thing OP can find is that they guarantee a “limited attack surface”, that’s frankly not acceptable for a device in your brain.
That would be my thinking as well. Sure you can train yourself to learn new things "better" but there are some people who seem to be real polymaths at a level which the rest of us cannot seem to attain even with years of practice.
Like in 1939?

They sure fulfilled that contract.
They break it sometimes - iCloud and iTunes on Windows, Apple Music on Android.
> Present an estimated yearly cost curve for keeping the system versus overhauling it

That's the problem, most organizations can't track this.

At a workplace, we replaced a legacy item with something new without doing this analysis... but after that, the move accelerated when it became aware making new features on "New vs Old" was a 2 hour vs 2 week endeavor. The new system covers 70% of the traffic and will slowly be going all the way to 100% of the traffic over the next 1-2 years.
Apple had to not be anti-competitive. If ANYONE else did this they would have the same happen. Even if it was Apple in Epic Game Store. If Apple let Epic willingly break ToS and other small/medium developers would get the hammer, that would be seen as anti-competitive.

Let's be honest, this is what Tencent/Epic want and they want their own store. It was demand #2 on their initial emails to Apple from Tim Sweeney [1].

> Because of restrictions imposed by Apple, Epic is unable to provide consumers with certain features in our iOS apps. We would like to offer consumers the following features:

> 1) Competing payment processing options other than Apple payments, without Apple’s fees, in Fortnite and other Epic Games software distributed through the iOS App Store;

> 2) A competing Epic Games Store app available through the iOS App Store and through direct installation that has equal access to underlying operating system features for software installation and update as the iOS App Store itself has, including the ability to install and update software as seamlessly as the iOS App Store experience.

> If Epic were allowed to provide these options to iOS device users, consumers would have an opportunity to pay less for digital products and developers would earn more from their sales. Epic is requesting that Apple agree in principle to permit Epic to roll out these options for the benefit of all iOS customers. We hope that Apple will also make these options equally available to all iOS developers in order to make software sales and distribution on the iOS platform as open and competitive as it is on personal computers.

Apple's official statement [2]:

> We are disappointed that we have had to terminate the Epic Games account on the App Store. We have worked with the team at Epic Games for many years on their launches and releases. The court recommended that Epic comply with the App Store guidelines while their case moves forward, guidelines they’ve followed for the past decade until they created this situation. Epic has refused. Instead they repeatedly submit Fortnite updates designed to violate the guidelines of the App Store. This is not fair to all other developers on the App Store and is putting customers in the middle of their fight. We hope that we can work together again in the future, but unfortunately that is not possible today.

[1] https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/21807251/e...

[2] https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/28/apple-has-now-terminated-epic...
For this, I think it also matters how people view the car, the class of car, and the cost of waiting or goi g somewhere else.

If you're buying a cheap car to get you from point a to point b and you don't care about amenities, what does it matter? Will that civic the next town over make you much happier than the corolla in front of you (or vice versa, or whatever)? Some people just don't care about cars, or at least not for the type of car they are buying for that use at that point in their life.

Nobody can care about everything all the time, and sometimes people just decide not to sweat the things other people think are vitally important because they have other stuff they care more about.
trading was one of the first ones to be disrupted - algorithmic treating was using old school AI, I'm sure Deep Learning is being used now a days.
How Bacteria Adhere to Fiber in the Gut
>because you're going to need millions

For sure, increasing # of electrodes + bandwidth must be on the roadmap.

You may not need to go as deep and broad as you believe. Most processing happens on the cortex anyway, the interior (white matter) is pretty much interconnection. Also, the action of one neuron could trigger thousands of others in quite remote regions, so you could probably get a decent picture of what's happening without having to cover it all.

I was honestly quite impressed by "the pig demo", I wouldn't have guessed that would be possible with the current state of their tech.
Notes About Android Camera APIs
Man, this is really promising and bring back the 80s memories, btw, do you think this will be the future of browser game? How about webGL? Or web assembly?
It's not dumb, it's smart for employers who want to trap employees.
>High force catch bond mechanism of bacterial adhesion in the human gut

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18063-x
Yea, I just don't understand Epic's endgame here. Even if they win, Apple will never let them back on the AppStore. They sued them! If I owned a grocery chain and one of my suppliers sued me, I would never choose to sell their products again in my store, regardless of the outcome. Suing someone is like burning the bridge. What is Epic hoping for here?

Unless they are counting on the judge actually forcing a store to sell Epic's products, which would be a very scary precedent!
Trust me, I have had to do this myself :(

Needed to increase the NodeJS version from 0.16 to 4.0 because a new shiny thing needed it. I knew it was a major version change but the dependencies didn't exist for the newer node versions... so rewrite something that isn't yours and maintain it forever... or do nothing.
I would argue that this is because there's far less to gain on Android vs. iOS in terms of data collection and privacy by leaving the Play Store. It's pretty apparent just by perusing the two SDKs how much less information you can gain about devices through Apple's APIs.
Doesn't that sound like a market failure? What kind of market supports such a consistent gross margin?
It varies based on pre-existing conditions.

COBRA is just regular health insurance.
I wonder if used bookstores should be thought of as that "third place" (not work or home) a significant percentage of the population like to hang out at, rather than just a retail shop. Would a used bookstore look different if it was designed as a club first, with a great used bookstore as its theme attraction? Borders was sort of going for that with their in-house coffee shops, but they were fairly sterile and mall-esque...not very clubby.
Is it really just our arm that lifts that load though?

Plenty of core muscles involved.
Presumably they start with easy walking and build capabilities incrementally.

The model to push impossible tech has worked... cars and rockets.