skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s not a mystery. iPhone market share is highest in the US.

You can’t use iMessage if most other people you are interacting with are using WhatsApp.

There is a real need for better messaging than SMS and MMS. In particular easy sharing of photos and videos is the crucial and central feature. Easy group messaging is probably another important aspect.

So both WhatsApp and iMessage provide these valuable features, however the best messaging service is of no use if you can’t communicate with the people you want to communicate with.

Because of the Android and iOS duopoly I would typically expect the cross platform solution to win out for such a use case, even if it is a bit more inconvenient.

What iMessage has going for it is that it has a relatively transparent fallback mode – I think that made it even possible for it to compete.

However, the US is still the clear aberration here, not the rest of the world. It seems to just have worked out there in a way where the critical mass of iOS was there to make this happen and last (at least for a bit).

Still, I can’t see the big crime Apple supposedly committed here. Their approach of building on top of SMS is completely valid and makes tons of sense.
Consider there is how you want people to act and how you don't want people to act, to say that you are also reasonable implies that society collectively agrees with you, which would mean you are making a rule that everyone follows anyway. IF this isn't the case and you want people to act differently than they currently act then this is a social problem that can only be solved by engineering society to adopt your values. It just can't be done by dictating legally what people should do, some examples..

Prohibition; it works fine in countries that largely adopt religious values forbidding drinking.. but is impossible to be successful in countries who's society has not been engineered to accept it.

Woman's suffrage; laws banning women voting work fine in countries where the society already feel this way, in most western countries there would be outright revolt.

Even slavery can be legally enforced only to the degree society accepts it, from indentured servitude in societies that embraced laissez faire, to chain-gangs in societies that embraced philosophies of penance and damnation.

Rules and laws are only afterthoughts, put in place after society decides collectively how people should function. Because of this laws are largely superfluous to how individuals act.
> There is a strong anti-psychiatry movement online following in the footsteps of the anti-vax movement.

Yeah, I don't think it's fair to compare the two. I won't pretend to be an expert, but vaccines have a much better history when compared to antidepressants.

I agree that people suffering should seek help, and antidepressants may be key to that. But I also think we should be honest, for some they cause more problems than they solve.

It annoys me that any criticism of medicine puts you into the anti-vax camp. It's dismissive. Have we forgotten what happened with opioids?
I have worked in software engineering for over 15 years, and I have never contributed to open source as my employment contracts never allowed this. According to my contract, and this is typical for many commercial companies, any code I write is owned by my company, even if I would write it in my own time. If I would contribute to an open source project, there would be legal implications for both me and the open source project maintainer.
I have a feeling you know what I mean. Easy to google as well.

Sweden has beaten Coronavirus with no mask law, with no quarantine, and their deaths per capita are on par with the average of Europe.

If you try to debate using an arbitrary categorization like 'nordic countries' please provide citations for why that arbitrary categorization is more useful than then comparisons with the category of Europe in aggregate.
Or you end up with things like 'clopen' sets, which are both closed and open!
I mean... what you are describing as a worst case is actually the current system.
Latest Manjaro has the latest VirtualBox in the package repository.
It is easier imho switch from Arch to Manjaro than going to Win10
So the patent troll stops trolling.
You can thank VirnetX and its patent-troll CEO Kendall Larsen for this. Apple's still fighting them in court over Facetime and iMessage is covered by patents VirnetX claims to own. Apple could not open up iMessage even if it wanted to.
Exactly. Sorry, here are the references:

The Oasis & black-tie affair:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0_der_5hRM

Gimme ("give me") cap:
https://merriam-webster.com/assets/mw/images/gallery/gal-wap...
they're given away free (like facebook) because they advertise

black tie (here, a "smoking"):
https://i1.wp.com/www.menstylefashion.com/wp-content/uploads...

what, never?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBK39BKWuQg
It’s a fair question. I wish people weren’t so downvote heavy for asking legitimate questions like this.

No, the boots aren’t life saving. I bought them the first year that I became vegan, when I was focused on adjusting to a vegan diet. I got a new job and looked around but couldn’t find any suitable work boots that were vegan. I actually still have not been able to find them. I will say that I was experiencing some ankle problems including an incident where my ankle gave out on stairs, so it was important for me to get good supportive boots.

Two years in and the boots are still working well, but it is super frustrating that I can’t find work boots made from canvas or whatever. I am very happy with my vegan diet but I know I have more work to do rooting animal products out of my life.

Edit:

That said my problem may have been looking for “vegan boots” or “canvas boots” rather than “vegan work boots”, which seems to return some helpful results, including this nice page from PETA:
https://www.peta.org/living/personal-care-fashion/vegan-work...
There's zerotier which is available for both Android and MacOS. Essentially a global LAN. It should be painless to make it work that way.
Why wouldnt you get an opinon from your doc first before getting a specialist you might not even need?
> They just want to voluntarily pay for private policing

The idea of private policing being effective and reasonable is subject to the same ridiculous reasoning that anarchists use. At best you'd end up with some completely fucked up cyberpunk dystopian bullshit where corporations are governments in all but name.
I am not sure which way you are trying to portray it? Sweden as a good example or a bad one?
I work for a bank and I have contributions to the python project and a multitude of projects on Github.

Yes those things I did took a lot of time but I typically do it out of boredom . To be honest my GitHub projects are demos and I just like giving presentations .

If you compare yourself or anyone on any given metric you will feel bad. What is even worse is when people tell you all the time about a metric that you should do but once you do it you find that it wasn’t necessary at all and it’s some kind of mental gatekeeping.
I've taken to maintaining a singular "portfolio" repo that contains bits of a code with pointless code (like standard framework boilerplate files) omitted, with a README in each folder for context and explanation.
It's not like there are two discrete camps who are either for or against everything modern psychiatry has to offer. Equating it to the anti-vax movememt is disingenuous.

Yes, if you need help, seek it. Also don't be afraid to see several psychiatrists just like you might see several doctors. Feel free to question their decisions like you might question a normal doctor. There are rarely perfect cures for mental illnesses. Be wary of anecdotal evidence online. Be wary of the side effects of both prescription medicines and herbal/nutritional supplements. Suicide is never the best option. Be honest with your medical providers about how the medications are working for you and don't be content with poor outcomes. It may take a while but you will probably find some combination that works for you. Like any medical treatment, the best cure may not be perfect and you may have to accept some undesirable side effects though. Just keep trying and have as much patience as you can muster.
I hope they conduct automated testing with screengrabs for high profile apps such as Chromium (that have something to gain from the snap isolation) and that the test cases have this added.
Tons of crimes meaningfully cross geographic boundaries.

> in the same way that we don't see Uber and Lyft shooting each other up.

Do I need to point out the obvious here? Uber and Lyft are subject to whatever states they operate in, including those police forces.

The ancap police forces you're talking about would be subject to...what, exactly?
US institutions have a huge issue with regulatory capture
Still substantially fewer as compared to the US.

I think you have to switch your assumptions around. The cross platform solution of a communicator should be considered more likely to win out in a competitive duopoly.
I've been using Github long enough that I have my first name (not a terribly uncommon name) as a username.

I have no idea what it even means to follow somebody on github.

Why? I use github to host my code, to collaborate with others. I use issues, sometimes wiki, pull requests (obviously) and so on. But it's not a social platform for me. I don't want it to be a social platform.

I guess following means I get some kind of notification when they do something? I'm drowning in gh notifications already, and switched off most.

So I'd discard followers on github as any kind of metric right from the start.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Non working results are fixed. (I think there might be other bugs too)

The blogs are indexing everyday and I hope to improve search results overtime.

I’ll definitely add these sites.
That looks like a pretty nifty idea for a 3D printable community design. I'm picturing either copper or aluminum wire for the adjustable-shape part, a spring for the active holding force, and a vertical scope probe for the lead length issues discussed in the article.
I am not sure that I understand your argument here: are you saying a person who is against animal testing shouldn't consume products that were tested on animals during their development? If that's the case I think that would be an unattainable standard of morality. Everything we are as a society and as individuals are in part thanks to our use of animals, and I don't think any PETA member denies this fact.

Even if this person abandoned all her belongings and moved to the middle of nowhere, all her knowledge is still the direct product of societies that have been using animals for (at least) the past 10,000 years.
I half agree with this. IMO we should absolutely throw out content that doesn’t fit within modern morals, given our modern morals are objectively more correct and humanist than anything prior (if that is not the case we should challenge our morals not the prior text). However we can still learn from and stand to lose a great deal by destroying content with morally questionable angles.

So what we really want is an interpretation / disclaimer in front of this work that makes it clear how we should interpret it through a framework that applies today without bringing off-topic morality questions into play.
I genuinely don’t see a contradiction? Let’s work hard to eliminate animal testing, even if that means developing new technology to solve the problems we’re currently trying to solve with animal testing. In the meantime this position would advocate to rapidly end all non-survival related animal products like cheeseburgers, while allowing some nuance for life saving medicine. Seems perfectly reasonable?
It’s redis[0] with redisearch[1] module underneath.

[0] https://redis.io/
[1] https://oss.redislabs.com/redisearch/
Dijkstra wrote extensively on how mathematically illiteracy among working programmers is why software is generally of such poor quality.

He grew up in a world where he could only beg an hour a week of compute time off the Americans so his community put a remarkably high emphasis on software quality and clear semantics.

And that’s really what advanced mathematics is all about: clearly communicating otherwise intractably complex ideas by letting the symbols do the work.
Most software engineers will be on a commercial contract that doesn't allow contributing to open source projects. Even if you issued a PR or raised an issue, it would have to be on a throw away account and you wouldn't include it in a CV.
Google Map's traffic prediction has always led me to a very curious question:

Clearly Google Maps has the ability to turn into a feedback loop. Traffic exists -> people use Google Maps to find better routes -> traffic is modified due to people taking alternate routes -> new traffic emerges.

So my question is: what is Google Maps traffic optimizing for? The best traffic experience for User 3982274, or the best traffic experience for the conglomerate of all cars on the road?

Should Google Maps route several cars through a suboptimal route, if it results in traffic as a whole becoming better?

If Google Maps is "greedy" for every driver, can that make a traffic problem worse?

In reality, I guess this problem is more hypothetical than real, at least today. But imagine this: in 30 years, if all cars are self-driving and self-navigating via systems like Google Maps, what is the system optimizing for?

edit: there's also Braess's paradox. I'm not sure if it applies here, but perhaps it does -- could "sending some users down a new route during heavy traffic" be identical to "adding a road to a network", which can therefore result in the paradox (worse network conditions for everyone)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox
"A stable area without inequalities" is a fantasy, there never was such a place. People is different, have different bodies, different minds, I never knew about any "stable area without inequalities".

I believe that most people are good, but there are also some people who are evil/psychopaths, and I don't see why they wouldn't organize a tyrannical hierarchy, they could use violence and other means to rise, I see it as a risk.
If it's unique name, it's fine. What I don't like it is math notations. Many math notations requires complex typesetting and layout which cannot be expressed in the plain text. It may be not much of a problem when math notations were written by hand, but not anymore in the age of computer.

The mathematicians should have invented and standardise the notation that can be expressed as the plaintext decades ago.
I don't recall saying a single thing about 10nm.
> Singapore feels so artificial, just like another Dubai. … Compare that to SG or DXB, where the homeless are stashed away/deported so that the tourists don't see them.

Singaporean here. The central touristy area is artificial, but the public housing areas surrounding it are slightly more organic — with a fair share of homeless people who sleep on benches at night, too.
Cool story. I have a kid and all our work commits are to a private Atlassian Bitbucket repo, so the only commits from me on GitHub are my dotfiles, once in a blue moon.

I've been coding since 1995 and my open source contributions tailed off around 2002 or so. Wasn't how I wanted to invest my spare time.
“Atrocities”

Apple made a successful product (arguably part of the most successful non-consumable product in human history!) that lots of people use, and prevent the competition from interoperation.

People don’t protest because that once was (still is?) the career goal of most people in business. This website is also an adjunct of a Silicon Valley incubator whose members dream of building something with this level of influence.
why not fertilize the flowers while youre at it
> Infinity != Everything

More precisely, infinite sets come in different sizes. For example, there are provably more real numbers than natural numbers even though both sets are infinitely large. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number)
Correct, but that wasn't what was being responded to, it was this claim:

"you’re in a minority if you’re using linux or some variant of it as your OS"

Ultimately the point you made here is what's important: that there is plenty of closed source that runs the world, even if underlying infrastructure is open.
Hospitals don't even track revision rates (the proportion of the time where a second surgery is required to 'fix' issues from the first), largely because some surgeons cause many problems, and don't want to see the numbers. It's a tragic state of affairs that leads to a great deal of suffering, and I am very pessimistic about the probability of meaningful reform.
Does this make sense as an explanation really? The patent has nothing to do with the protocol being open/closed, just the technology used. If they had to revert to a different protocol, Apple could opensource that one instead.
But how would a depressed individual (I'm talking extreme depression) be able to consult multiple doctors and try different medications which also only become effective after several weeks?

This sounds like a task a healthy individual could carry out, but a depressed person is suffering every minute, they need immediate relief.

I saw that esketamine got approved both in the US and EU, but it's only prescribed after 2 classical medications failed.

How is a person suffering daily expected to wait so long?

Of course there will be many suicides still.
Why would a troll stop if they got a massive payout? It just creates a hundred more.
TIL: That Chanakya's work was lost to history and was rediscovered in 1909. And the manuscripts that contained the treatise was donated to the scholars by a pandit from my home town (Tanjore or the modern Thanjavur). That drastically alters my sense of my own history. We knew of the big temple[1] circa 1000AD and all the scholarly thinking that went on around that time and the town has several UNESCO World Heritage sites from that period. But to house a script from circa 200 BCE, that is new to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brihadisvara_Temple,_Thanjavur
I’m a decent developer. I’ve shipped code, led projects, and worked at scale. My employer owns everything I code. I’m not supposed to, legally, even write code during an interview if I’m looking for another job as they own it. I can contribute or create open source but everything must be approved by my org first. For many, that hurdle alone is too big to justify working on open source. I got a talking to for contribution to documentation on a Go project out of Facebook without proper paperwork being done and “exposing risk to my employer.”
> But we don't see them shooting each other up because there's the Leviathan with the big guns telling them not to.

Do you think that 7-11 is itching to shoot up AM/PM? Would you still buy your Slurpies there if they stared?

> We do for example, still see plenty of war between drug cartels, even though the wars are extremely unprofitable.

Drug cartels are an artifact of the state. There are no drug cartels without drug prohibition.

> Yet if you win one, you get to control much more space and you're suddenly a lot more profitable than before.

Would you keep paying for cops that did that? Or hire different ones?

> This argument sounds good in theory

It's not my argument, especially. I'm not an anarchist. :)

> it needs some explanation why states and individuals act irrational in that regard all the time

I think that's very fair. But I think you will find that at the bottom of mafia violence is rational decision-making. But private rights-enforcement is a different game with very different rewards for the actors.
I'm sure that what they care about is having viewers without adblock, which is what the app provides
Open source IS prevalent, but most of it leads to closed source. A large majority of those employed as developers are using open source libraries and languages to build closed software.
Most [citation needed]
I use a magic trackpad and a logitech g502 myself. While I do like the idea of moving a mouse around with my fingers, I have small hands and found the magic mouse way too dang heavy for such use lol. Something like those little logitechs tends to work better, but they lack the extra buttons I like.

It's actually kinda comical looking at the wear patterns on my >5 year old G502. My thumb can't even reach the 'trigger button' lmao.

I really don't like the giant battleship mice either. But yea, i find the magic mouse way too heavy, a bit too wide, and way too long. The only way I can maneuver that thing is by hovering my hand above it lol.

I also hate the way you have to put it on its side to charge it. Who thought that up?

The trackpad is fantastic! But it doesn't work at all in Windows, so I don't get to use it as much as I'd like to. I also find that it doesn't seem to use the same palm rejection technique the laptop one does ,so I can't always have it in front of my keyboard.
I agree, having a balance is probably what will happen after Covid goes away - hopefully.
You are definitely not going to be sharing your spectrum with 'everything that is in line of sight' by default, that only goes for substantial power levels of directed antennae. At low power levels your signal will be below the noise floor long before you get to your line-of-sight limitations, and even if it wouldn't be, someone 'sharing' that frequency with you will be locally much louder than you.

IRL the situation is much more complex than that still, but this is a useful approximation to keep in mind when thinking about these matters.
Ok... So they can open that protocol instead.
Do you mean for non-native speakers? It seems like this bizarre “anarchy doesn’t really mean anarchy it actually means the opposite!” Sort of stuff would just further confuse somebody.

Funnily enough: this is why I think AI is so hard. How could you train an AI to be able to decode everything necessary to know if somebody means “anarchy lack of order” or “anarch: lots of order”.

It take SO much context to get that right. Like you have to make lots of assumptions about what the other person is thinking, what their background and political affiliation is. Very complex problem.
It's not that I miss the bait part of bait-and-switch. I miss what the bait outcompeted.
The thing is, there is a trade-off between making math (at any level) accessible to outsiders, and making things easier for the heavy practitioners.

For naming things after their inventors, you are very much losing accessibility to outsides (that includes mathematicians working outside the field). I could see the trade-off for clarity (for most people) not being big enough to off-set the loss in accessibility. The easier a field is to get into, the quicker it will grow. Moreover, it also makes the field a lot more fruitful to work in.
It does seem like there could be a, well, canonical set of common libraries of specified version-ranges for a particular version of a particular distribution which are dynamically linked and with updates pushed by the distro maintainer, and if the application developer needed something else it would be statically linked.
You're missing the point.

The point isn't that the hypothetical banker can't have an active github profile, it's that there are reasons they might not.

Take me for instance, I haven't really done anything significant in the public for over a decade now. The vast majority of my code has been for one private company or another.

And that's the case because either my job has me working the hours or after putting in 8 to 10 hours of code in private, there's exercising, practicing guitar, socializing with friends and family, building Lego sets, reading, playing video games, and other activities that don't involve me writing more code.

That's not to say I don't, it's just I don't have that much time to do it outside of work.
Why. They spend all that time dedicating their life to their research. They deserve to name shit after themselves?