skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google's stance is that you need to use a browser they approve of to access your account

Yeah thats the crazy up situation..... I could maybe access via a imap client, Guess they will ask for an "insecure app password" (I forgot the name of this)

But the thing that blows my mind is that you cannot make your own browser! Thats the problem..... because I was considering to do just that, my own browser, wow, I cannot do it without google approval..... I will need to think about it....
My thoughts on @neuralink

The Good: Explore by direct observation/interaction the brain, cure countless disseases along the way, and eventually augment humans.

The Bad: Privacy, Hacking, identity theft, memory implants, infinite dystopias.

The Ugly: The rich/poor divide will be cognitive.
TypeScript is more than you think
So the court case will wind up being a moot point.

This is a technology forum, so speaking of technology... maybe there will just be some radical streaming or delivery innovation, compatible with Mobile Safari today, that could really change the state of at least games and movies on iOS. I wonder why that hasn't happened sooner.
Smart Helmets get their US test flight at airport
A General Overview of Authorization and Authentication Using OAuth 2.0
Don't out of pocket maximums only apply to in-network care most of the time?

I think you're still on the hook for the full coinsurance amount if you're at a hospital and a doctor from out of your network happens to step in the room without telling you they're out of network.
College Students Question the Price of Their Education
Most of Python math libraries? So a majority of Machine Learning folks is affected.
How to quit your job spectacularly well
The new Fortnite season 4, which should be very profitable, will not be available on iOS.

Plus no new customers on iOS.
> Lyket is integrated with Google reCAPTCHA V3 to provide protection against malitious use, while never interrupting your users.

This means that if you integrate the button on your site, you not only integrate the 3rd party script itself, but you also add Google scripts to your site.
Meanwhile, pirates get the content DRM free and they don't pay a cent for it. Yet another instance where DRM hurts the consumer more than the pirates.
Celera 500L
Lol. Profit of cable seems to be less relevant to a company like AT&T. Especially with most enjoyable content is already available on OTT services like YouTube, Netflix, and Instagram.
They might now buy Android devices instead. It goes both ways.
Elon Musk Creating Cy-Pigs with Neurolink
I was using FireTV Cube and recently switched to latest Shield. Both of them were playing content fine till I went playing with receiver settings and discovered that I didn't have HDR enabled on this HDMI port. After enabling I started to have a lot of jitter and blank outs (though while it worked - picture was better then before).

Solution was to buy "premium" HDMI cables that are rated for 4K HDR
I am really curious how this stub comment functionality works on the backend. How does the dashboard looks dang?
Do you honestly believe, and this is a real question, that all of these brilliant people who come from well known companies spend nearly a decade of their life working tirelessly on building an ecosystem that many thousands of other developers interact with daily, just haven't realized yet that it's completely useless?
IBM at least had the maturity not to freak out at anything resembling a defense contract.
Legally she could have never let them enter the house. Once inside she could have legally stopped the searches at anytime and required both the officer and social worker to leave her home.

What she could do legally matters little when two government officials, one armed, told her that exercising her legal rights would result in them returning with a court order to take her children.
I can't see how Epic wins this.

If Stripe can claim Wells Fargo doesn't want to process porn payments, and that's legal, how can an American court rule for Epic?

Epic are obviously going to lose, and lose hard, or set a precedent that's going to screw every payment provider in America and open a flood gate for fraudulent payments.

You can't force someone to sell something they don't want to, especially because Apple is nowhere near a monopoly in games or gaming sales, they can just point at steam.

If somehow the American courts arrive at that judgement, and I am a non-lawyer, I put my hands up, but surely it's going to set all sorts of nasty precedents?

Edit: The more I think about it the more absurd this is. It's as if some random brand of Mayo is suing Wallmart for not stocking their brand on their shelves.

There is absolutely no way they can win this, unless American courts are going to start allowing "mom & pop" random ketchup brand to force Wallmart to stock it on their shelves. Apple doesn't have a monopoly on phones, it doesn't have a monopoly on games, it's got a store front you can buy stuff from, and if you don't want to play by their rules, then bye-bye. Wallmart choose their suppliers, and sets the markup, why can't Apple?
Have you considered just investing in a tech ETF like VGT or XLK? Both have done well.
That isn't the common use of offer you can't refuse
The harsher that Apple retaliates, the better Epic's court case. Apple is playing right into his hands.

I keep seeing seeing assessments in this vein but they can't really be right - the courts would have to be toddler-level naive not to see through it. They aren't - here's Judge Rogers addressing Epic at the recent hearing (as reported by Sarah Jeong):

"To Epic: Your client created this situation. Your client does not come to this action with clean hands ..... in my view, you cannot have irreparable harm when you create the harm yourself."
Due to the Leidenfrost effect, incidental contact of bare skin and LN2 is not usually a problem (it boils off locally and creates a gaseous N2 barrier). Other things superchilled by it will not be as forgiving, however.

http://cookingissues.com/primers/liquid-nitrogen-primer/#sec...
Heads up, PUBG was released under the EULA and thus the 5% but after release the publisher sued to be able to buy a buyout license. Thus no, Epic gets no new revenue from PUBG.
Not to take anything away from the Neuralink team, but predicting joint movements in a steady gait is one thing. Predicting join movements in starting, stopping, changing speed, and accurately manipulating objects is quite another.
I thought Ethereum's primary aim was to be an unstoppable world computer that runs any code where the fas fee was paid, not money. Bitcoin aims to be peer-to-peer censorship-resistant electronic cash---and at this point its protocol has far higher levels of tested security.
Offer you can't refuse usually means someone has offered you more than you think you're worth so you'd be crazy to refuse it. At least in the US.
That's when you set up dnsmasq or something similar and use your favorite dns server for most of the sites but a specific one for sites that will work better with it.
I thought it was also off Android right now.
It's not too surprising. Media players (chromecast, appletv, etc.) seem pointless if you already have a laptop and you're not too into movies/tv. Not everyone owns a game console, either because they don't game or they play on PC. Finally, some people (especially hn users) think that smart tvs are a privacy/security nightmare, so use them as dumb tvs.
This whole thing is about trying to find and out for pedos to slip into their chats to avoid getting caught in a sting operation.

The bait is always fake. No normal person is going to go to the house of someone who claims to be 13 for sex. It's either the FBI, an actual 13 year old, or someone not mentally able to consent to sex. In no event does going there make any sense to a normal person.

Moreover, the premise of the headline is absurd. Not allowing any victims to be created is the ideal. If everyone willing to engage in pedophilia ends up chatting with a cop and landing in jail instead, that's the best case scenario.
They can do that.

They're just not allowed to mention that the price is cheaper on their website or other platforms.
> They may even have made it worse: from the "ladder" comparisons, it looks like they jump to higher resolutions at lower average bitrates now, so if you're stuck at 1080p you're going to be getting worse quality after these changes than before.

No they have not made it worse. 1080p encoded at lower bitrate can look better than 720p at a higher bitrate. Or vice versa. Even to the trained eye. It depends on the scene dynamics.* In the ladders they posted (called a RD chart) we can clearly see they have made a better selection of the resolution to encode at a given target bitrate increase the video quality. They have posted the BD rates for this stuff, the gains are substantial (30% or more visual quality at the same bitrate).

> Also, something that's kind of weird about all this is that encoders (x264, x265, etc) already have their own rate control algorithms that decide on a frame or scene basis how many bits to use. Netflix taking an approach like this is equivalent to claiming that they're capable of doing a better job than these codecs in an automated way - so why not just contribute the code needed to achieve these improvements back to the projects they're using?

Because they've built a split and stitch encoder on top of the codecs. That means the code is built around x264, not into it.

> Last, it's very weird to select individual frames from an encode and not a selection of frames. The comparisons purport to show that the lower bitrate encode is better than the higher bitrate encode, but in fact (if I understand how they're using rate control correctly) what they are showing is a single frame in the lower bitrate encode that uses more bits than the same frame in the higher bitrate encode. So it's arguably not a fair comparison. And even with that, depending on how sensitive you are to artifacts, some of the "optimized ladder" encodes still look worse.

This is extremely true.

* High action scenes tend to benefit from lower resolution with more bits spent on inter compression while slower scenes benefit from tighter intra compression.
Knowledge-based accreditation, a boon to small hedge funds
> If Apple decides to axe it (cough Hey cough) you and the developer are at their mercy.

Consumers and developers have very different interests. Locked down system is good for consumers, not so much for developers. I'm a consumer, Apple makes its money mostly from consumers, so it makes sense keeping it as it is.
Yeah. I'm certainly not trying to defend the US system, just trying to paint a clearer picture of how it works.

Totally fair to always discuss the huge caveat of out of network providers getting involved without any opportunity to refuse their care alongside the out of pocket maximums for in-network services.
You'd be surprised just how resilient optical media can be. Damage to the metallic substrate is usually a bigger problem than most scratches

Plus, with optical media you can easily make bitperfect copies!
Thank you for joining the discussion. What do you think about the counterargument that they don't need to create a full mind-body interface, that they could offer a lot of benefit just by doing simpler things like predicting limb movements?
Which would be a huge indication that Fortnite is a key feature.

However, it seems bubble colour is important.

"Why'd You Push That Button - Why do iPhone users judge people with green text bubbles?"

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/15/18624681/apple-imessage-a...
It says in the article that they ran out of time. Doing test runs would have required even more time.
> Valve was not fighting an existing store using "stores are bad" as an argument, only to introduce another store. Which is exactly what Epic is doing here.

No. You are not arguing in good faith.
Them doing exclusives is on their own IP isn't really the same thing is it? I will give them a pass on it.

People have to remember perfect is the enemy of the good. Considering Steam's position in the market they don't seem to abuse their position. Anecdotally I know people that have developed indie games and they told me they are generally quite happy with Steam.

We are talking about stores acting as if they are publishers (because with a exclusivity deal that is what is really happening). Steam is a open market place for all intents and purposes.

If Epic is successful we will have every store front acting as a publisher. This won't benefit the consumer (publisher tend to interfere with the creative process) and it won't benefit the developers because those low commission rates will suddenly vanish.

I am all for free markets. But this is not what is happening here. EPIC is flush with cash from Fortnight and dominating the game engine market with UE3, UE4 and probably do the same with UE5 (they have over 25% in a very fragmented market) and they are trying to artificially divide what is an open ecosystem.
Apple's iOS ToS specifically forbids downloading and executing code by the app. (with a definition of "code", and "execute" somewhere in the document)

While you could technically hide this from them during the review stage, apple can stop any app from functioning on any iOS device connected to the internet by revoking the certificate, if they discover it at a later stage.

Are there noteworthy apps that break this term in the wild?
I haven’t finished the Firefall trilogy yet, but Blindsight was pretty good up until the last book at least.
Maybe they chose the smallest market to fight this and set a new precedent?
>Also: I'm reasonably convinced that NetFlix is violating the law, at least in Australia, by advertising that their content is 4K and then arbitrarily blocking access to the 4K streams. This is called "bait & switch", and the fines are eyewatering, even for large corporations.

Nah, they have their asses covered. I went to the website and tried to sign up, and at the first mention of 4k (when you're choosing a plan), there's a disclaimer of:

>HD and Ultra HD availability subject to your Internet service and device capabilities. Not all content available in HD or Ultra HD. See Terms of Use for more details.

If you go to the terms of use, it says:

>4.7. The quality of the display of the Netflix content may vary from device to device, and may be affected by a variety of factors, such as your location, the bandwidth available through and/or speed of your Internet connection. HD, Ultra HD and HDR availability is subject to your Internet service and device capabilities
With this line of reasoning Epic has a monopoly on the Fortnite store. It’s a really absurd interpretation of competition law.
I'm confused by this whole thing--the violation was cured by Apple removing the app, so why are they proceeding to delete the account? It seems that there is no clear justification other than retaliation for the bad PR/lawsuit.
Do You Understand Webpack?
The efforts made by Neuralink’s team are impressive and, IMO, the idea is very serious, with lots of practical short term consequences as well. Someone said that getting electrodes into the brain is the easiest part, but I beg to differ on this, for the simple reason that data is more accessible, abundant and clean than ever. Accessibility of data has obvious implications on the pace of progress in using said data.

Now, on the demo and its tech: some other commenters are concerned about the safety of the lithium battery, but what about the Bluetooth? The stacks I used in my embedded projects were simply horrible and I’m heavily biased against BT even on principle :D

What about the electrodes being, in the end, simple conductors and, so, antennas? I’d hate to be in a NMR machine with a NL in my head (thunderstorms too? An attacker with a jammer?!).

I was expecting a write demo too, but maybe it’s not something you want to be streamed online for the general public.

Last thought: the pig limbs prediction task. I think that the prediction was greatly aided by the chosen setting of the experiment (tapis roulant), but still impressive.
I’m sure that today we saw a very important piece of human history unfold before out very own eyes
I mean... this is the most literal definition of "man in the middle attack" you can get.

And we already know the solutions to that
Nobody sideloads, especially not kids
Every year absolutely mind bogglingly large sums of money are spent on redeveloping existing applications of that level of complexity. These all have a very predictable ending: utter failure, and the legacy stuff ends up living to fight another day.

It is a special kind of blindness: We think that just because our tools and machines are so much more powerful that rebuilding a complex legacy application is now childsplay.

From a UI perspective you are most likely right. But it's the couple of million lines of business logic that will be your Waterloo. In a nutshell: forget about it. A bit longer: it is possible but only by a very experienced crew who has nothing else to do under competent leadership and who can chart an incremental path between where they are now and where they want to be. In 5 years or so. A big bang redevelopment is DOA. Every time.
applied psychology
I too see this. I am using Google Chrome browser in IPhone SE 2020.

Love your idea.
That only applies to water bills, and if I remember correctly the reason why that rule exists is that the UK was starting to have cholera outbreaks before it was put into place. Usually, I think electricity suppliers here deal with people who don't pay their bills by forcing them onto prepayment meters that require them to pay up front for it and automatically cut them off when the money runs out. So technically they're not disconnected entirely, but they sure aren't getting electricity unless they pay for it.
No, it's only off the Play Store. But you can still download and install it from elsewhere. iOS is unique in that you can only install apps through the store; there is no side-loading.
ML “Recipes” & Analytics for B2B Sales and Marketing
Oh I know, I think it's wrong across the board but you have to start somewhere.
Imagine a world with way less wealth inequality
We were obligated to provide source code for the LGPL parts corresponding to official releases. We were not obligated to make it a community open source project with a live repo, or to accept code for ports to non-Apple platforms. We chose to do those things.

(clang and llvm are also open by choice)
Unreal uses the native compiler for the target platform. Windows this is msvc. Modern consoles are all clang forks. Linux is the only exception where I think they depend on clang not gcc.
Let alone forcibly installing such a chip as "for the persons own good". Or more likely "to stop terrorists" due to needing an excuse.

That's almost definitely going to happen. If the tech were available today we'd probably be hearing disturbing leaks of forced chip installation in people heads in various countries already. :(
Regenerative braking largely minimizes conventional braking on Teslas.
reminds me of https://meaningness.com/eggplant/definition
So can they just make anything bought through iOS cost 30% more, but people can buy it from the website (not through iOS) without the Apple markup? I'd think people would quickly learn to buy from the lower cost option.
I wonder if part of the problem is that if someone finds a sufficiently compelling application, it will be adapted into a product that avoids the need for a license.

I know that the CB band was originally intended to be licensed, but they gave up on that once it became wildly popular in the 1970s, and it sounds like those FRS products are basically designed to avoid the user having to acquire a license.

In that sort of situation, the Ham community is basically an incubator of communications products, 90% of which will remain niche or fail and 1% of which will be tweaked slightly and sold to non-Hams.
TLS is not decentralised, it's hierarchical. There are a fairly small number of root CAs, and an even smaller number of browser makers who define their trusted lists.
Sure, but that's because there's no alternative. If you want users to see your app you have to use the system. That doesn't make it right though.

As for your second point, fair, but at least then we could blame them for being money hungry.
In my current operating jurisdiction that would be most likely Schedule 2 of the 2010 Competition & Consumer Act, Part 2-3 (Unfair contracts) with particular reference to s24(1)(a & c); s20 (Unconscionable conduct) with particular reference to s21(4)(c); s18(1) (Prohibition against misleading or deceptive conduct) in general; and possibly (due to the scale of Apple's market power and active limitations on consumer communications) even s47 (Prohibition against exclusive dealing) which covers such an enormous multitude of cases of refusing to trade that it's almost impossible not to be in contravention as a marketplace unless you accept all participants, and with particular reference to s47(10) which makes it clear that substantially lessening competition is the main offence of this section.
What's so inconvinent about that? I assume you have to go into the lawyer's office anyways. A cheque is just a signed document telling your bank to transfer the money-if you're buying a house then a cheque is the least of the things you're going to have to sign. Was it just a normal cheque? (Not a certified cheque or money order, or anything special) if so many people will already have them on hand.
Kids are technologically clever, and so long as one of them figures it out it's gonna virally spread to the rest of them. That's certainly how it was for me in school.

So, I suspect that lots of people are going to be sideloading in the very near future.
I agree with most of what you say; however.. if you consider some novel ability like speaking a foreign language, I would think that your aptitude in such a skill is a product of many factors, albeit memory and recall being paramount. If what Elon says about this device is true, and we can use it to mentally interface with the web, then I don't see what would stop us from speaking new languages "on-demand". This is a very naive and layman perspective but I believe I've heard Elon claiming ideas like this around the potential for this device. Not sure what the delta is between practical applications like disease treatment and this somewhat sci-fi scenario, but I hope it is large.
Legacy is a special form of good: It means something actually works. Good software outlives its original programmers, great software outlives its original programmers and is still maintainable. You can only get to that level if you make a commitment up front that this software is going to stand the test of time, update your systems, don't get side tracked by fluff and eye candy and concentrate on what matters: the core business logic, at the expense of almost everything else. Do that and you stand a chance of avoiding the legacy trap.

A year of complacency and you have a year of catching up to do and you'll never get that year back unless you want to freeze development.
It's "Elo", not "ELO".

Afaik they analyze the deviation (in centipawns) of each played move to the optimal move calculated by popular chess engines (like Stockfish, Houdini, Komodo, etc); and aggregate in a sort of weighted Brier score.

If a player is constantly making optimal moves, they're likely cheating (they can analyze top level professional matches for upper skill benchmarks). There is some lower weighting for opening moves (which is where the database part comes in just knowing when a game moves from theoretical 'book' openings into original territory).

Each of the sites have different implementations of this: chess24 for example even partially gives your accuracy of book moves and then differentiates between Blunder / Mistake / Good / Excellent / Best move based on the deviation from optimal; but it doesn't show you how it's aggregated into a single value.