skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think another possibility is that connection of our brains to a primitive AI will boot the AI with some human intelligence. Also, an AI based on current silicon seems very fragile. It could make sense for AIs to build synthetic biological bodies.
Remember that Tencent owns about half of Epic. Once this dispute is resolved, if Apple were to try and “punish” Epic, they could encounter some pressure from the Chinese Government. There seems to be a lot of dependent relationships involved here.
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There was always a running joke that Chadwick Boseman was going to play every lead in every black male biopic ever. He was a hero to so many black kids. Tragic loss.

While battling stage 3 colon cancer he gave us Civil War, Marshall, Black Panther, Infinity War, Endgame, 21 Bridges and Da 5 Bloods.
Sure, because big tech pretends to care about privacy and freedom of speech but only insofar as it results in them cutting out every layer of control between their servers and the end users they would like to own. So everything will be tunneled over opaque HTTPS proxies and there will be no facility for people to filter anything - even end users. Apple, for instance, pretends to care about user privacy and control but refuses to offer a configurable IP firewall in iOS or end-user control over name resolution for filtering.
I pulled this off too, but the main criteria (and this is NOT a given) was finally landing a job with a consistent schedule. It was not even remotely possible working retail before that, with shifts that varied by day, by week, by whomever called in sick and required last minute shuffling... that was a mess. This is the unfortunate practical reality for large segments of the population.

Once you have a consistent schedule, barring medical issues, sleeping is easy. Simply pick a time 8+ hours before your routine for the day needs to begin, and get into bed at that time every day. Actually in bed! Not on your phone, not watching TV, lights off and eyes closed. Helps if your evening routine winds down in intensity, but won't matter much if you're already exhausted. You can't do anything about your mind racing some nights, but for the most part after a week of this schedule your body takes the hint and adjusts your rhythm accordingly. I've worked tons of odd night shifts this way; the consistency of routine seems to be far more important than the specific time.

Which block of time works for you is a matter of job, lifestyle, and a bunch of other factors that a lot of folks may not be in full control of. I think the real dumb luck here is having enough controllable factors that carving out the same 8+ hour block each night is possible. In my mind though, it is worth the effort. Good, consistent sleep quality has an absolutely massive impact on your willpower and general ability to focus.
> Expecting every institution to change will never happen.

People keep asserting this. It's not changing my mind.

> Else the US would be using the metric system by now.

The metric system has a barrier that shifting work schedules does not. If an institution does business with another institution, or multiple other institutions, it's probably very inconvenient if one is using a different measurement system than another: contracts, designs, etc. would have been drawn up with one set of units; translating things like error margins (expressed as significant figures) may not be trivial.

But if an institution decides to shift its work hours, it can do that unilaterally, unless it was doing critical business with another one during the first (or last) hour of the day—but even if that's so, that probably only means a small fraction of the employees need to have slightly different hours.

Shifting the schedules can be done piecemeal, as gradually as is convenient for everyone.
I don't care what the icon is -- just ensure it has a label that says "Save" or something similar ...
Epic CEO Explanation for How Consoles Deserve 30% Cut but Apple and Google Don't
Life insurance companies (speculation - but they won't have the visibility into Barry Boomer's cholesterol meds that his health insurer will)
Google war story: we used to get digital badges on our employee profiles to indicate useful things like ability to write c++ or python, or having worked on a specific project, etc. I got "porn cookie" for working on the safe search stuff.

Anyway, I designed a badge called "I broke Gmail" that would get applied to anybody that did exactly that. I intended a hint of shame but I got a wall of emails asking to get it with explanations of how each had broken the service at some point.
>you can run your own DNS-over-HTTPS server.

Yes, but is there a facility to force the browser to use your server or will Google re-write Chomium to "bypass" "rogue" DoH servers which filter content Google doesn't wish them to filter?
This was 20 years ago. While not brand new at the time, it wasn't very common.

A lot of work on FMT has only taken place in the last decade. I don't think there was even a randomized trial for it as a treatment method until the last 10 years.
Human society is part AI already. Humans to human society is as cells to a human being.
Hey, have you ever heard of cookies?
The streaming boxes probably don't have enough storage to hold much. There's Kaleidescape but it's very expensive.
https://github.com/rustswift/swift-bindgen

tries to offer
#[repr(Swift_5)]
No.. but iirc I made that one at one point before abandoning it.
> But insurance companies are more profitable when they don’t cover the medications of their customers

This isn’t accurate. Insurance companies have legal fixed profit margins as a percent of spending, so they want this to be as high as possible. This creates a vested interest in both maintaining high prices and spending.
The ‘200 million SaaS businesses in the world’ is a typo right? Where did that stat come from?
And ^H is ASCII control character BACKSPACE. Back in the day, the ^H actually happened, accidentally. From jwz:

>Most people who understand what ^H means must have some sense that it is somehow the same as "backspace", right? Well, what would happen is, someone is typing on a dumb terminal that wasn't configured right, and as they typed backspace, that character would go up to the server, not be interpreted as "delete the previous character", and would be dutifully echoed back to the tty. The tty would then itself interpret that as "delete the previous character on the screen." So the person typing thought the characters were gone, but oh no no.

https://anon.to/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/2004/03/the-unfroz...
Hah...Terraform is called "Infrastructure as code", so it's HCL language is "code", not configuration, at least by my definition.

The whole point of configuration is that it's not code.

I use a simple litmus test: can your system work at least to some extent with empty configuration file? If not, you went too far and need to simplify.
Also no x-rays
It would be cool if someone ported Lineage to this board.

The hardware killswitches for the baseband, mic, and camera are amazing. But the linux desktop security model is super scary, especially on a phone.
That's really well done; I wish I had that in the program I'm working on. I ended up traversing my data structure and making a graphviz file, then doing it again after the manipulation I was testing in order to verify that it worked correctly. That works, but it really doesn't scale very well. Plus, the being able to see the individual steps of the algorithm would make it much more clear and obvious.

As an example, http://db48x.net/reposurgeon/pathmap-diagrams/generated-path... is one of the graphs I generated.

Have you published the server and the protocol anywhere? I'd use it even though I would have to write the client side myself. For my project it would even be desirable to write the client side twice; I'm porting a program from one language to another, and it would be amazing to be able to compare the implementations visually.
Waking up is always painful
You didn't answer my question about which claims you find meaningless and why. But now you've changed to calling the claims "extraordinary," which is quite different from "meaningless"--one might argue a claim couldn't be both at the same time. Which is it? Or which claims are which and why?

Btw, neo-Darwinism generally has been criticized for being tautological (the "better replicators spread better" stuff). The article even addresses that. Do you find neo-Darwinism generally to be a logical mistake because it contains this well-known tautology? Or do you only find the tautology problematic in this particular instance because it's a new application of neo-Darwinism?

If you found logical mistakes in the rest of the article, I'd be interested in hearing them.
How would a TV know it's being sent something pirated? I can't find a source on this.
Or, get to work an hour earlier and leave an hour earlier. I doubt most of the people who read on HN are hourly employees on a fixed hourly schedule.
I think the media are trolling Facebook now by reprinting the same story every day.

The Streisand effect of sorts.
I happened to see a chart showing that among wealthy countries, the US is at the top for obesity and Japan is at the bottom. Just a correlated random fact that nobody knows the cause of either. Maybe something about fish consumption?
You don't think usage would go up dramatically if electricity was free?
I doubt Apple could or would really want to ban the Unreal engine, right? I guess at some point Epic could create a new Apple account again (perhaps after some court order by a judge) and just continue testing their engine on devices. They don't need to release games themselves on the AppStore, as long as 3rd party devs can release software based on the Unreal engine on the AppStore.

I think what Epic wants to see gone is Apple's condition that IAP sold on the AppStore should be priced the same on any other outlets (e.g. websites, Play store, etc...). And I can see a judge agreeing this is unfair of Apple to ask.

As for me, I mostly like the idea of the AppStore. As a consumer I feel more confident downloading software from the AppStore as compared to e.g. the Play store. What I don't like about the AppStore is that discovery of new products is very hard. And there also doesn't seem to be an easy way to look for apps that are ad-free or that becomes ad-free by paying a 1 time IAP fee.
Not sure where you live but a quick call to the police or code enforcement would solve the problem. Most construction is permitted.
I've put the comma back in and sacrificed SF.
Doesn't that come under the browser sandbox? Cross domain access shouldn't be possible.
That's an internal matter for Apple. They're not selling user's data on an auction on a global stage.
Medium is much better without JavaScript. No article view limits, no creepy showing you your Google account and asking you to log in, nothing. And of course, no messing with your LocalStorage.

It does remove some images, but ok mobile, that is almost a feature in itself.
This was not clear to me for years either until I looked it up.
Chadwick Boseman Dead at 43
In the early 2000s Samuel Pepys’ diary entires from the 17th century were republished online each day online. These were absolutely gripping. Very clever use of internet publishing.
Novel Alkaline Hydrogel Advances Skin Wound Care
Tasmanian tiger pelt found in New Zealand reveals rich colours of the thylacine
Is Risk of Alzheimer’s Linked to Specific Sleep Patterns?
I believe koolba was perhaps referencing Payola, the now-illegal practice of paying a radio station to play a song repeatedly, thus manufacturing a "hit".

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

There are many payola-adjacent business practices in the pharmaceutical industry, not all of which are currently illegal.
If curious see also previous Ekranoplan threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24152959

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6230218

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5503760

Others?
That's normal in the world of software. There are thousands of titles that are Windows only. To use them you need to buy a PC with a windows OS, even if the software you want to run is $1 or free. The same applies to macOS or even Linux.
I don't think iPhone/iOS market shares in the EU are high enough. I couldn't find a definitive source, but it seems to be somewhere between 14% [1] and 25% [2], the latter in the wealthier European markets.

These numbers also include UK (I think), a traditionally strong market for Apple, but which should be out of EU Single Market by the end of the year.

IANAL, but I don't think that's enough for Epic to have a case in the EU. On the other hand I could see the EU being more likely than the US to regulate these kind of stores, to try to protect European editors against Apple/Google. But the lobbying would have to come from European editors, not from Epic.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2019/08/12/iphone-market-share-in-europe...

[2] https://macdailynews.com/2020/01/29/iphone-takes-24-3-smartp...
Apple intentionally limits the capability of web applications on iOS. They only added WebP support in June with Safari 14, and still don't support progressive web apps.
He is a consumer. It doesn't "work great" for him.
Maybe they think they are doing basic research and not applied research?
mobile game discovery is big pain point for devs as well, and that none of Apple/Google seem to do anything about is frustrating. This is in sharp contrast to, say, steam, where discovery is something they are constantly trying to improve.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24251122
Swift does not do cycle-collecting GC, either. Not really any "higher-level" than Rust, when you look at a comprehensive view of the problem space. And obligate ARC ala Swift has all kinds of performance pitfalls, to the point where it can be even worse than obligate tracing GC.
I've seen wage garnishment work terribly. A guy works at my company for a week or two and then ghosts once we get the state letter mandating wage garnishment for child support. One woman (of many this particular charmer owed) was owed over $25k, and she will almost certainly never see a dime.
You can also before leave Target you can pickup a vbucks card that cost Epic 30% as well.
This problem can be avoided if the parties use digital signatures and require a phone call for final confirmation of the instructions.
fwiw opening the article in an incognito tab usually does the trick to get past the article limits. That said, you're right on the money about how badly it sometimes seems that medium doesn't want me to ever use their service
Not a legal classification.
They wouldn't be doing this unless they had serious reason to do so. They aren't dumb, they know everyone is looking.

The far more likely reason is that they know we have an issue. They've been monitoring and they don't like what they've been hearing.
Elon Musk shows Neuralink brain link implant working in a pig
Obnoxious fact: the past tense for "cost", when referring to price, is... "cost": https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/88872/which-one-is-c...

"Costed" is something of a hypercorrection, only used in some rare business contexts.
If you're going to try to be contrarian, at least do the research to do it well. You think you're being clever but you're showing no understanding of the positions you're trying to make fun of. As a result, you come across like a moron.

You should have used a throwaway, not because you have non-politically-correct views, but rather because you hold extremely strong opinions about something you can't even articulate credibly.

I looked up your twitter and saw this from March:

> Despite everything happening I’m still not worried. Corona is a bad flu and the markets will recover. I’m choosing to relax #CoronaOutbreak #relax

Similar confidence, similar ignorance.
It can be predicted with the same precision/throughput, better than left/right:1/0 once per second?

Can you share some link?
How is Tesla not profitable?

Are you Tim Cook or something where anything under $10B is pretty much the same as 0?
What microblog site is out there use only text
i won't to use a twitter alternative site use only text if you guys know what's best for me let me know about it
> They remove apps that compete with their own apps even if those apps existed before hand. They disallow cloud gaming because it they can't collect fees from it or control it. They've already done a long list of "abuses" that have nothing to do with your device security (or battery life, etc).

I can concede if there is a clearcut evidence and a source you can provide that proves it with absolute certainty. I don't think its that clear.

Also, the motivation doesn't make any sense. Why would Apple want to trade PR/brand damage for what constitutes pennies so to say for a small app? Do you think that internally Apple's executives were like "Let's copy this app, ban the developer, sustain the PR damage because it is worth making that juicy $80K from sales. Surely, our shareholders would like that!"

Lot of anger with Apple is unsubstantiated and completely emotional. There are a whole clan of people that love/hate Apple since the dawn of the company.

I just don't see why Apple would this. Usually, they buy the whole company (e.g. Shazam).
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Makes me think of the bash' from Too Like the Lightning
It’s interesting you post this as I’m currently in the process of closing my Irish Ltd. and creating a UK one as I move over here (UK) as a tax resident.

The reason for doing this is that it’s not clear to me how you can draw a salary and pay tax as a UK resident unless through a UK Ltd.? How are you planning on doing this as a matter of interest if you are not an Irish tax resident? I assume that for large corporations they can afford to create local companies in various EU countries that bill their Irish entity for “services”. These local companies in turn pay salaries to PAYE employees.

Regarding company formation, I can’t speak as a non resident, but setting up a company shouldn’t be too difficult, it’s just not as easy as the U.K. You can do it by yourself but there are many accountants that will do it for you for a fixed fee. They usually file all relevant documentation and transfer the company into your name.

The framework for company law was recently revamped in 2014. I’m a lone director and shareholder of a limited liability company with a family member acting as secretary. My accountant makes annual returns to The Revenue (HMRC) and The CRO (Companies House). I handle regular tax payments through ROS which is the online tax system.
You are right. non-native speaker with occasional tense errors here! Thank you.
Formally verify against what? You need some simple model of what's supposed to happen to verify against.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8290681
Not really. After the Atari generation, Nintendo released the NES which was locked down to prevent developers from selling games without paying them first. So regardless of where you were selling your game if it ran on NES then Nintendo got a cut. At first that cut was small but when that market grew they jacked up the percentage enough to cause some arcade manufacturers to leave the home console market for years.
I started playing whence I was about 15 years old, taught by my childhood-neighbor friend. After playing for about 4-5 years, we drifted our ways. Unfortunately, he passed away around turn of this century. I picked up playing again but mostly against computers, and very rarely against physical people in the real world.

Registered on Chess.com in 2007, never did not really pick it up until few years ago.

I still do not play or learn to play the right ways (tactics, opening, checkmating, etc). Mine is most brute-force and pattern recognition. I'd love to learn and be able to keep up.
beginning of the end... next thing you'll be able to own your phone.
This is one of those things that everyone “knows” but no one really gets until they experience it. In my case it’s the realization that the deadline to establish the relationships for this chapter of life passed in March. The social network may open up again in a few years, but my peer group is going to be a bunch of newlyweds and new parents by then.
If you think that this would simplify things by getting rid of time zones, you are mistaken.

The underlying reason we have time zones is that we are (1) in a solar system with only one sun, (2) on a spherical planet, (3) that is not tidal locked to the sun, (4) want to roughly sync our activities to the local day/night cycle, and (5) want to be able to figure out where people east or west or our location are in their local day/night cycle.

If I'm in Seattle and you are in London, and I'm trying to figure out when to call you to catch you when you are likely to be awake and not at work, I need to know that your local day/night cycle is about 8 hours ahead of mine.

With the current time zone system, I know that 19:00 in each time zone is probably a good time for someone in that time zone to receive a call, subtract 8 hours because of the time zone difference, and so 19:00 on your clock should be 11:00 on my clock, so that is when I call.

With universal UTC, it is very similar. I'd know that 3:00 UTC is about an hour after dinner for me. But you are 8 hours ahead, so an hour after dinner for you would be 8 hours earlier, so I'd subtract 8 hours from 3:00, getting 19:00 UTC as when I should call you.
Even though the lower price means you have more room in your deductible, it's it case outlay that matters? You may never hit your deductible for the year.
I have a hunch this will take longer but it will lead to interesting science and applications nonetheless. Also i believe the existence of a publicly discussed company like this increases the speed of research and nowadays people are much more responsive to accepting that not everything will work perfectly right out of the gate, the journey of Tesla is actually a great example.
Facebook's fee is 0%.

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/274870883877590
Discussed at the time (with comments from one of the designers of WASM): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19069587
I came here to ask about that specific quotation:

"Better yet, if you happen to know a miner (we didn’t), you could have them include the transaction directly in a block, skipping the mempool—and the monsters—entirely."

In the bitcoin ecosystem, as far as I know, basically everyone can be a miner, right ? If you are running the bitcoin client you are mining and there is no particular barrier to entry to mining ... just run the client and mine.

How is the ethereum ecosystem different ? If they could avoid all of these complications by mining, why didn't they just fire up their miner ?
"[B]ills introduced to both houses of Congress... increase the NSF’s budget by US$100 billion over five years. The bills... would... allocate the new money to technology development, rather than to basic science."

Quantum computing is described as "applied" rather than "basic" research. A lot of serious "basic-but-applied" chemistry/physics research happened at Bell Labs. If NSF is using a similar heuristic for the next 5 years, that might be a good thing.

I just hope NSF doesn't interpret the change as a mandate to "de-risk" research.
I understand this is HN but we need to have some perspective.

Go talk to the consumer. I'd be willing to bet not a lot care about "ceding control of their software." The amount that do, don't matter that much.

Time and time again people on here bloviate about topics such as these, but no action is ever taken. In fact, many on here are just working on more data collecting, more adtech, working at the FAANGs themselves. They tout Data science and ML but somehow want privacy, despite the fact that they rely on the data generated by all of these apps.

This developer utopia doesn't exist and never will. It's best we all be realistic about this reality and understand that just because you can put up with command line doesn't mean Joe from Turtle Creek PA wants to to look at email. And he's willing to give up something for that.