skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and it’s a small but growing segment

They could have grandfathered the existing accounts into the 2000 minutes. Then the segment would no longer be growing and stay small, no?
not intending to dismiss real challenges! merely pointing out that often news media talk about these things like society is crumbling, when they really aren't indicative of that.
Apple is going to have a hard time enforcing this when 90% of their own updates are described as ‘bug fixes and performance improvements’
> Or they anticipated that number going up if they didn't make the change?

Do CI/CD minutes ever go down once you start? I suspect not.

They probably plotted the trend line and realized that they had to do something.

Or, it could be bifurcated. Most people use like 2 minutes but 1 in 100 use 2000 minutes.

They may also be tracking and saw that people were using the free 2,000 minutes as "overflow" with multiple accounts.
Can’t wait for Epic Games to sue Elon for rights to have their own telepathy-game App Store.
The weight (590 tonnes according to wiki) is likely to be an issue. You need specialist vehicles that connect to a waterway or railroad.
Yep and you would end up with what was occuring before there a standard was created (POSIX, etc) which is generally a giant dumpster fire of implementation defined hell.
And the whole equator of Callisto has a circumference of 15,100 km. Proportionately, that would be a basin the size of the Indian ocean!
Actually, I suppose DNS with DNSSEC or DNS over HTTPS would be better than any HTTP method.
Checking the function's caller breaks the composability of hooks: it stops hooks from being called by other hooks. (Also, it doesn't work in strict mode, which is enforced when you use ES modules.) React is the only thing that calls component functions, so React can just remember what component is being called before it calls it. I've posted a reply on your gist with an example that addresses this.
>If you conduct a survey of a group of anti-vaccination activists, I'm sure that a high percentage will tell you that vaccines gave their child autism.

If people have vague symptoms that are uncertain and ambiguous, then their opinions on the nature of their illness are probably not terribly useful or accurate.

But if there exists a severe illness, it seems almost certain that there are some people out there who have a mild form of it that is ambiguous and uncertain because there is a spectrum.

More generally, I believe that evolution implies that diseases evolve in a manner such that people find them hard to identify. Because humans are pretty ruthless at eliminating diseases that catch their attention. HIV is an example of a virus that had gotten very close to coexisting, but then people noticed it and have been trying to wipe it out. Vague chronic problems that are blamed on the victim are inherently what everything logically has to become in the long run.

To take the argument to the extreme, even hypochondria must be a physical disorder, even though of course like cancer etc. there might be many causes that are arguably not the same.
You are correct. It's Roger Stone who was a Nixon advisor. Stone is the federal felon which AG Barr recently freed from prison by overriding his sentencing guideline, for purely political reasons. I had my criminals mixed up.
How have you quantified the impact Facebook has had on humanity?

Have you considered all evidence and not just the evidence which confirms your existing worldview?
It isn't. Because we're talking about vastly different types of waste with vastly different toxicity and radioactivity. Power plants also don't produce liquid contaminants. This difference means not only quantity differences, but also vastly different methods for storage are required. Ability to contaminate the local environment is also vastly different. Please stop just guessing at what waste actually involves and read up on it before making such claims.
That's great! Thanks for mentioning this.
Starting over is in your mind. Every moment is a chance to start over. The first thing to do is start.
Yes, but it's still cheaper than the much higher price a major lab might try to charge your insurance, plus the price of a doctor visit.
Except in this case individual users will also grow. You'd have to do something like grant them their current usage plus some buffer (without letting them know ahead of time maybe, since otherwise this is gameable).
> That's a pretty common solution when infrastructure is concerned, which platforms basically are.

It's pretty common for physical infrastructure because it has high fixed costs. Building a water distribution network is billion dollar enterprise. App stores are the complete opposite of that -- if it weren't for the platforms purposely interfering with competing stores, an individual would be able to set one up in a weekend.

> Having 20 stores on your phone to me makes about as much sense as having 50 postal services driving on the streets.

But we do have 50 postal services driving on the streets. Or at least more than one anyway -- USPS, FedEx, UPS, Amazon, plus private couriers, trucking companies and so on.

You might as well ask why we have multiple retailers. "Wouldn't it be more efficient if everybody had to buy everything at Walmart and we just regulated them as a monopoly?" Some minor theoretical increase in efficiency is not worth the crushing oppression that would inevitably bring.

> Not really sure what's wrong with basically making two regulations. Apple/Google get to charge ~1% or whatever for running the store, and they don't get to ban stuff other than content that's unlawful. To me it seems like that solves 99% of the issues we've been hearing about.

Which means you're putting the role of vetting apps onto some other third parties -- good, now there will be competition and you won't be screwed if the monopoly store rejects something they shouldn't. But then what is the Google or Apple store even supposed to be doing? Hosting the app? Anybody can do that. Payment processing? There are a dozen companies that already do that.

The only reason they have a monopoly is that they use control over the platform to purposely put barriers in front of app store competitors. It's not a natural monopoly whatsoever.

And you're just proving the point about how the regulations only solve the most obvious problems and leave all the other ones. For example, if you let them exclude app store competitors, even if they can't charge high fees or exclude apps they don't like, they could still bury them in an unfindable hole by eliminating direct links and putting it on page 5000 of any search results, or cover anything they don't like in arbitrarily scary warning prompts, or find a hundred other ways to make your life hard unless you bend the knee. Whereas if their being unreasonable could be remedied by just going to another store, it actually puts a check on unreasonable behavior in general by way of competitive pressure, without you having to predict and explicitly prohibit it ahead of time.
Employers, even large ones, regularly conduct large scale wage theft and nobody fights it.
>You said: The Peerage and Nobility is intrinsically woven into the concept and definition of English social and civic life. There is no 1:1 mapping of that same characteristic in the United States. There is no Aristocracy.

>> I said this: I'm not sure how you quantify (facts/evidence) your statement that "That is the exact opposite of Aristocratic". As this would be considered historic revisionism. Aristocratic might not be the most precise word (elitism goes too extreme) but it gets close enough to the vein of truth to understand my point. Selected few men, rule over the masses, by design. [1]

I'm not sure why you went on multiple different tangents but my main point is above and hasn't been refuted. It's almost as if you don't understand the definition of aristocratic (addressed later).

>You said: You can credibly say that it sure smells like an aristocracy nowadays, and I won't argue. Back then though? Absolutely not.

No. It was aristocratic then. It wasn't British aristocratic then but it was aristocratic, nonetheless. Yes, it was by design or else there wouldn't be a Republic. I'm not deeply a scholar of the time period therefore I can't say whether it was malevolent or not.

> Wiki says: Aristocracy (Greek ἀριστοκρατία aristokratía, from ἄριστος aristos 'excellent', and κράτος, kratos 'rule') is a form of government that places strength in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats. The term derives from the Greek aristokratia, meaning 'rule of the best'. [2]

The founders didn't merit their land ownership nor the ability to read/write nor merit being white nor merit being male nor merit many other factors. It was circumstantial, largely through no agency of their own, which is privileged. They did use that privilege to attempt something new which was more Democratic than most forms of govts. Regardless, they were aristocrats. /end for me.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24361561

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristocracy

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I've collected screenshots of app updates with that text as their release notes so I can one day start a "bug fixes and performance improvements" tumblr or blog or the like. It's just such a joke to me. Kinda like software installers that put the GNU Public License as their license agreement you have to agree to before installing, haha
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That is a super cool story!
Congrats on the launch, this looks really cool and I'll give it a try.

Just a quick note: the GitHub connect page asks whether it should index the private repos or not, but when I try to connect my account even after I disable it the oAuth page says that you'll be able to read and write to the private repositories, which seems to contradict with what I assumed I'd achieve by turning that flag off.
It is your perspective, similar to “The World as Will and Representation” by Schopenhauer:

> Schopenhauer argues that the world we experience around us—the world of objects in space and time and related in causal ways—exists solely as ‘representation’ (Vorstellung) dependent on a cognizing subject, not as a world that can be considered to exist in itself (i.e. independently of how it appears to the subject’s mind). Our knowledge of objects is thus knowledge of mere phenomena rather than things-in-themselves.

I like to think that the recent physics discoveries are crossing the same line.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_as_Will_and_Repres...
I don't think her point was that people shouldn't take Vitamin D to combat Covid. Her point is that people shouldn't be taking high dosages of Vitamin D as a preventative against Covid as the risks can outweigh the rewards. But for those who already have Covid, the risk and rewards may be significantly skewed in favor of Vitamin D, as per this study.
Great point.

And I guarantee you that they did the math to optimize for conversion and churn. Behind all product decisions are an army of analysts.
> The people have spoken! The back button is back. Plus view tab history with a long-press of it.

I have made do without these features, but, boy, am I happy to see them return!
There was a mistake. Here is the clarification: https://twitter.com/BonaguraESPN/status/1301644428025540608?...
Wow. I interviewed there in 2015 and got turned down. Wasn't a great interview experience either. Bullet dodged, I supposed.
Over the years I A/B tested each of my interview questions in order to better measure what I was looking for. It sounds like you might have been asked an early version of one of the questions I used to ask so sorry you didn't get the "optimized" version. (there was a big difference in responses between only 3 years and 10 years to live)

Also, to clarify, I used to end my interviews with TWO questions:
(1) if you had 10 years to live, what would you do? [wait for answer]
(2) if you had 10 years to live, would you take this job?

The things I was assessing in these questions were candor, intellectual honesty, and passion. Sure, it would be great if people authentically were passionate about taking the job if they had ten years to live. That was a tiny minority of responses.

The only "wrong" answer to these question was when someone would answer YES to the second question after clearly answering something completely different to the first one. For example, if someone would say travel the world to #1 and yes to #2.

The reason why this measured candor was because if someone could tell me to my face during an interview they wouldn't take this job, then I knew they would tell me to my face when something was broken in the company after I hired them. I was looking for the exact opposite of what this thread implies I was looking for. I didn't want ass kissers. I wanted truth tellers.
Good thing it's something totally within our power to change. - Probably Also Frank Sinatra
Sure, not because of capitalism but it spite of it. It's just that, in places that didn't have capitalist economies, it didn't happen. Not to the same degree (with the possible exception of China, and even they are looking capitalist in practice).
Post a source and we can debate it. Until then these are the facts.
Going great!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/us/politics/border-wall-c...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/nyregion/steve-bannon-arr...
What's the worst that could happen, one way or the other?
Sure, I just responded because you asked so nicely. :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24369766
That's a very cavalier attitude given how much of the consumer app ecosystem depends on ad revenue to survive. Having it drop precipitously over a very short span of time could trigger a chain reaction that might ultimately reduce the availability or utility of apps for consumers. It will also disproportionately harm the long tail of app developers.

I detest tracking just as much as anyone else here but I'm skeptical this is the right way to go about dealing with it. A more sensible system would give users the choice between accepting targeted ads or paying a fee for the service.
GP probably got information about the share price offered from current employees and did the math. Once the acquisition is finalized, they'll receive more details since they are a shareholder.
When it is executed haphazardly and before it’s ready such that career prosecutors threaten to quit in protest? Yes.
I'm not claiming that it's impossible that there are long-term Covid symptoms. It's clearly possible: we know that it happens to a non-trivial percentage of people who are infected with influenza, and other common viruses.

What we don't know -- and what articles like this ignore -- is how common and serious the symptoms are. And asking a group of people, one-quarter of whom haven't even tested positive for the virus, to self-report everything that has them feeling crummy, is not science.

The Atlantic is not a scientific journal, but their "science writer" should at least be aware of this basic standard of evidence, and at best, avoid the temptation to spread panic based on speculation.
Hyperinflation which makes money not only worthless but useless.
This doesn't really counter my argument. The key part is that it has different kinds of waste. There are more factors than the radioactivity. For example sites like Hanford have melted fuel, which might have inspired that green goo that people associate with nuclear waste, but a power plant only produces solid waste. Aerosols and liquids have vastly different storage requirements and added complexity requirements than storing the typical fuel pellets and solid matter from power generating reactors.
I don’t understand what makes small reactors desirable. Don’t you loose economies of scales, not only production, but also demand (ie if you have small local sources of electricity you miss the diversification of the demand you have in the central grid and you need to overprovision a lot more)?
Corbyn actually got an easy ride in many ways, notably in the 2017 election where he inexplicably was able to stand as effectively the main Remain candidate without challenge, despite his record of Eurosceptism.

All of the accusations of antisemitism were dismissed by his supporters out of hand, but some were legitimate, likely not in any personal antisemitism but in a willingness to turn a blind eye to antisemitism in ideological allies.

David Graeber seems an impressive guy, but that doesn’t mean he’s right in everything.
So the best thing to do is buy now.

My parents retirement is screwed..these small interest bonds will mean nothing with 10x inflation..
Almost all of the bad stuff in cigarette smoke aren't specific to tobacco, for example tar and carbon-monoxide. Nicotine is bad because it creates a strong addiction, but "apart from that" afaik there's not much to it (still weakens the heart, probably on levels similar to coffee or tea). Most of the physical damage is done by repeatedly inhaling smoke (aggravated by highly incomplete combustion).
"The truth is paywalled, but the lies are free..."

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalle...
It wouldn't surprise me if 90% (or more) of their free users use exactly 0 minutes of CI/CD per month.

So then it's more like 1 in 6 of the people that do use CI/CD need more than 400 minutes per month.

Just to be clear, these numbers are completely made up. They seem reasonable though.
And if something goes wrong at launch spread it over a nice big area
Hmm, if smart beta is a trend, and it's losing money, doesn't that mean it's improving everyone else's returns?

Also, when the article says "The median fund has lost about 1.5% on a total return basis, compared with a more than 10% gain for the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF."

It makes me think of stuff I've read about how a low return can be much more valuable than it seems, if it is not correlated with the stock market. There is some financial engineering magic where you can actually transmute the lack of correlation into increased returns.
I would prefer an "app store" that required apps to be open source. This would allow everyone to see exactly what is being done by the developers. Release notes alone are not of much use for the public in the case of closed source apps because the public cannot take a closer look. Is anyone really going to look at a release note that says "Bug fixes" and make a qualitative decision on the app? With lots of such notes we could conclude the developers are busy fixing things (good) however we could also conclude the app when released contained many latent bugs (bad). But we need to see the source changes to truly understand what are the circumstances. Perhaps such vague release notes are not actually published for the benefit of users but for some other reason(s).
Yeah, I had a flu about 8 months ago. It was utter hell.

I was in bed for a good week and a half, the fever and just feeling like I was dying was awful, at some points during it I couldn't walk from bed to the en-suite bathroom without feeling like I was going to pass out.

Even about 4 months or so later the cough persisted to the point where I had to go to hospital to get my throat and lungs x-ray'd as I was coughing up thick bloody mucus.

It was hell, also rashes which I presume were caused by the fever are still annoying me now occasionally with random outbreaks of horrible itching.

Fuck that noise. I think that was the first time I've had the flu. If covid is even worse than the flu then I want no part of it!
I propose a new Turing test:

API Fees for GPT3|N < revenue earned from Amazon Turk Hits.
I imagine for some instances, it's because a security fix might have gone in, but they don't want to clue attackers on other platforms. For example, if the fix is submitted for the Android and iOS apps to their respective marketplaces for review at the same time, and one is authorized and goes live first, then you've released information that's useful to someone looking to exploit the other (they now know there's something to look for in the differences of how they operate).

That is, unless both stores allow you to get the version authorized but hold it for release until you want. I know the Roku store did that years ago, so I imagine it's probably a feature that's present in those stores, but I don't know for sure.
This is absurd. I'm a US citizen, so I'll contact my Congressman to have his staff look into it. I don't have any special power, any US citizen can contact their congressman, but maybe that will kick-start something.
Please reconsider your broader position on changing your mind. This reflexive inflexibility is perhaps the central reason why our civilization is in disarray.
There is only one safe money and that is whatever the fed is willing to prop up. There aren't too many things left though.
The irony is that the economic problems stem not from the pandemic, but from the existing debt fueled economies that can not afford to slow down or pause for any length of time.

As usual governments think borrowing and spending is the answer to all economic woes, even those caused by debt in the first place.
To my surprise, although I don't know why anymore, it's not actually an Onion article.
Papa Was a Rollin' Stone (1972 song)
Capitalists' bulletin says: Governments must beware issuing money rather than borrowing from us. Credible!
Probably because it can barely power itself as it is - it sounds like it needs to stop for a second every 10 seconds so it can harvest power.
Unlikely to happen with an aging and declining population across first worlds, if you fix healthcare and education systems. Housing will need some regulation too to prevent a rush of capital pushing up prices (more). Supply is sufficient in most other goods and service sectors.
Fascinating. I never knew that this existed.

It's also interesting that it's also part of the city's drinking water supply:

> The Energy Transfer Station includes large arrays of heat exchangers that allow the heat from the downtown chilled water loop to be rejected into the city’s drinking water supply before distribution to the public. The heat removed from the downtown chilled water loop is therefore never transferred to Lake Ontario and the slight temperature increase is insignificant for water utility consumers.
If it helps, Apple only starts to mandate support for the latest OS in February to April every year, so all of the apps that are tracking you wouldn’t have updated until then anyway.
Covid19 just accelerated what was bound to happen anyway.
"It was the third of September

That day, I'll always remember..."
correction: "and threw it out" (replacing it with Dot-Net, which wasn't backward compatible.)
I wonder if there’s any metrics on the “quality” of that engagement. I’d expect the people higher up in the company (those that you want to reach) would also have both less time to watch a video and might be less likely to click on links in unsolicited email due to security concerns.