skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And the EU will levy the world's biggest fine at Apple, I predict north of $5 billion if not $10 billion for abusing their status with this being a notable case.

Apple only has ~25% market share in the EU. Their "status" is as the minority player in the market. It's questionable whether this is high enough to violate EU antitrust laws, which have usually required at least 40% to show market dominance.
But no money for health care
Sex Life of Mahatma Gandhi
For example:
https://discuss.tryton.org/t/wsgi-server-choice/2766
https://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zodb-dev/2010-December/01389...
https://docs.rhodecode.com/RhodeCode-Enterprise/admin/tuning...
https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/issues/1045
I’m gonna rant here, but a big problem is that SSNs were never designed to be used as an identifier. It was simply used to allow someone to receive Social Security, hence the name. They literally used to have the text “Not to be used for verification.”

As for its problems, there’s quite a few, but the two big ones IMO are (1) no check digits and (2) (up until relatively recently) they’re sequential. I don’t know when the change was, but if you take a SSN issued before 2000, you could add one to your whole SSN and it would be a valid one. They may even have been born on the same day as you in the same hospital. Also, you could find out a general area where someone was living when it was issued (usually birth) using the first 3 digits.
That's definitely an interesting view. I scrolled over towards the east a bit to watch the activity of Texas. I'm fascinated by the 3-dimensional detail. You can see the lower level systems pulling in the moisture from the Gulf. You can also see the clouds over central Texas getting taller which is pretty indicative of thunderstorm activity. I can verify that by looking out the window as it heavily raining right now.
Ahh, so as long as I only list single ports and not pairs, it is not exposed to the host, because the other number of a pair is the port to be exposed on the host. And therefor it is not exposed to the public network in this case. Makes sense, thanks for the explanation!
Why not just eat the soy beans directly? This stuff is just glorified processed food.
> to USB and WiFi brought to the mainstream

Not sure what you mean here. USB was used everywhere and around the time iPhone launched, microusb was used by a large portion of new phones. Apple is pretty much the only actively USB-avoiding company left. They still use a proprietary connection for their devices.

They certainly sped up the wifi on mobile trend, but I would argue with bringing it to the mainstream.
Now, if you can script this for a Raspberry Pi, then the solution is complete.
Ask HN: Would you outsource the business development portion of your startup?
Hi,

I often read on HN that it can be challenging for technical founders to not only learn how to scale their business operation from >10 clients, but to it do effectively enough to secure a funding round from a VC. Those of you have started your own B2B start-up or are currently running one, what are your thoughts on a consulting business that is strictly focused on business strategy for early stage start-ups? Is it a service you would consider using?

I've been thinking about creating a consulting business addressing this niche and to solve some of the scenarios I've personally witnessed founders run into:

-Spending a few months creating a product that isn't compelling enough to close more than a handful of contracts

-Miscalculating how big the total addressable market is for their product. I've actually worked with larger pre-IPO companies that have run into this issue many times. It leads to a waste of time, resources, and lowers morale.

-Unaware of how to present their product to investors and their first few clients (pitch, purpose, and value proposition)

-After securing a series A round from a VC company, the investors prefer to be passive and do not take an active role in advising the founder on how to properly scale their business. I've also seen many investors who lack sales experience or strategy consulting experience, so they'll recommend the founder to hire a sales representative to handle this portion of the business.

-Hiring the first sales rep who has experience selling either as an SDR or an AE, but lacks business strategy experience and cannot build a CRM, marketing campaigns, etc

Running into any of the scenarios I've listed can have a significant negative impact on the growth of the business and eventually be one of the factors as for why it failed.

I'd appreciate your feedback and thoughts on this (even from those who do not have experience as a founder).

Thank you!
This touches on an interesting topic I've been thinking about for quite some time now.
I have a somewhat reverse feeling about the definition of natural numbers (or for that matter, about the 'foundation of mathematics' as in ZFC set theory or whatever you want to choose) than you've presented above.

Those definitions were developed after we had something useful in order to 'codify' it and make it more precise. They are not, in my opinion, a basic blocks that the rest is built from but an added layer of abstraction on top of whathever it is you're defining.

I don't mean I don't understand set theory and the role it has, or advocating for any other system, I absolutely love it.

What I mean is, in practical things (programming languages etc.), it feels a bit counter-productive to me to reduce them to the simplest possible definitions/terms (that have to fit to the particular use case by definition), declaring that a building block and then explaining every other concept in those terms as if it was a proof that we have trully found a foundation and the rest is just a 'syntactic sugar'

edit: You all probably know this famous gif of a ballerina that can rotate to the left or to the right depending on how you think about it. After writing the above post the notion of S(S(S(S(0)))) keeps flipping in my brain between being an abstraction of and simplification of natural numbers. It's weird.
I just installed it for my daughter. Most educational apps are quite boring but Tappity was immediately engaging, thanks to genuinely funny videos and well designed content. Great job!

Quick user feedback: My daughter tried a course about building an animal. She made choices that produced surprising results ("the eyes are too ugly!") and wanted to go back but she couldn't figure out how - there's no clear back / restart button.
What Apple selling as "Sign in with Apple" is one of the "tool" I created to fix email spam. It is very much related.
This is the problem of throwing arguments without understanding the context.
If you had gone through that blog post and read the section "what is the real invention" carefully, then you would understand how "sign in with apple" system is very much related to my antispam methods.

I added some more info in an other comment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24425853
I love Steinbeck, but I had never heard of The Winter of Our Discontent, thanks!
I think you’re vastly underrating the seriousness in which a company like Apple would treat this matter. They aren’t a petty child or a bully. They’re a company, and their market research likely show them that the key advantage they have over Android is their closed, easy to use and secure ecosystem.

If Epic succeeds in breaking that, they’ll lose a lot more than 30% of the 20 ish millions a month that Epic is currently losing on this ordeal.
"Designated lead regulator" - isn't it just that most companies picked Ireland simply because their privacy authority was the one least willing to take any action?

Them finally doing something would be huge.
Way way off. North America is way behind in terms of residential internet speeds even in the most dense areas like NYC and San Francisco etc. Sonic just recently started ramping up around the Bay and if you're lucky enough to have service its great. Still, probably 90% of people in the Bay and 75% of the city are stuck with 30 Mb/s up max from Comcast.

Starlink won't be high a replacement for fiber for a decade if we're being optimistic. These projects have huge ramp ups, tons of expensive launches, especially if they're successful, tons of users means slower speeds for everyone. And that all assumes success.
GDPR allows fines up to 4% of global(?) revenue (not profit). That’s a pretty significant chunk of change for companies the size of Facebook and Alphabet.
There's the reality that there's considerable althetic differences at the highest levels.

By not grouping at the source you'll end up with almost all women being strictly lower in the rankings, which is undesirable for obvious reasons.

Not to mention the deluge of articles decrying sexism when reality is getting in the way.
The modern western world loves Safety(TM). This isn't a bad thing. Obviously we don't want people getting killed in industrial accidents all the time. However, as a side effect any platform (HN, Reddit, Twitter, whatever) which quantifies people's opinions is going to tend toward shallow pearl clutching when it comes to topics like this. People realize that when they make some shallow (shallow has the nice side effect of giving you a wide potential audience) comments about GoodThings(TM) like Safety(TM) their virtue score goes up.

So every time some topic comes up, no matter how mundane or niche it is, there will inevitably be tons of people tripping over each other to score cheap virtue points by going after obvious trad-offs. "What about safety", "what about the poors", people ask questions like that even though they already know and don't care about the answer because their lizard brain knows that when they do that the number in the top right corner gets bigger.

That's just how modern gamified social media is.
I think I'm pretty efficient, but maybe you're right and I'd be even more effective if I just used Microsoft Office and Outlook, but I doubt it. It's not like I don't know how to use an graphical email client, and I believe I can achieve tasks that would take you many minutes in a few keystrokes.

It seems like you have strong opinions on how a word processor should operate, but this seems like calling emacs more modern than vim, because it uses elisp (i.e. just your opinion, and not a universal truth).

I don't really mind what word processor you use, and think Microsoft Word is a perfectly valid choice if it works well for you. I think I'm happy with my workflow at the moment, and don't plan on changing it.
Take his ideas on procreation, and you'd also end up with a Brave New World.
Blocking the new release and blocking the version which allowed out of ecosystem payments. That's it. It's not like Apple gains anything from further actions.
The headline itself is a bit too alarmist to me. But my main beef with this article is the definition of "beat" that they seem to be using.

At no point in my mind, or I hope anyone else's mind, did "beat" mean zero infections, or zero deaths, or even zero outbreaks. It meant that we have the resources to manage infections as they occur. This means within hospitals as well as in the world at large. It means we have PPE etc and surge capacity. And it means that we reduce the infection rate enough to not overwhelm the resources.

Every thing we do slightly chips away at that infection rate. Masks do a bit, distancing does a bit, isolating when sick does a lot etc. Add even a minority of the population being vaccinated, and you _do_ have enough control over things to largely go back to "normal".

But, if the goalposts have moved so far that even 1 infection or 1 death is too many, then we are pretty well fucked. This is a coronavirus, it will be with us forever.
I've never really seen a good explanation of why REST is a meaningful concept. Why REST? Why these requirements? What do you mean stateless? What is bad about deviating?
> bullshit exclusives

Who cares if you have to open a different megacorp's launcher?
IIRC there were 4k upscaling demos but I'm past the point of pixel resolution, my interests are not in pristine visuals but a blend of surprises in content and composition.
If the point of their herd strategy involves front-loading deaths then the higher relative death count at this point is a necessary baked-in expectation, not a failure.
It also says "erodes enjoyment of the hobby they like best" though. That's more than just interruption. The difference here is probably one of degree more than anything, you can take anything too far.
The first novel is the build up to a massive war.
Ublock is the one that was swiped from the original creator's hands under the guise of maintenance support while the original creator's time was scarce.

Ublock origin is the one to use, and is maintained by the original creator.

I'd link to sources, but it's too easy for me to cherry pick... I'd recommend looking around to see if what you find corroborates with what I've stated.
Well the modern countries use documents such as ID card or passport, you can't just walk to a bank and start opening accounts from that little data. It's actually insane Americans have that archaic system.
It appeals to me as an EE (by training) too. I've occasionally slipped a '£2k3' or similar and had to explain...
I'm far from an expert in the field but what annoyed me deeply with OpenGL was the implicit global state and, in particular, the fact that it's very difficult and error-prone to make applications that interact with OpenGL from multiple threads.

In a way I find OpenGL too complicated sometimes, some of its abstractions don't really make a whole lot of sense on modern hardware. Having a lower level API can make some code simpler to write, at least in theory. When I use OpenGL I often find myself thinking "I sure hope the driver will manage to understand what I'm trying to do and not end up doing something silly".

Note that my exposure to OpenGL comes mainly from console emulators though, and that's obviously very biased since emulators need to mimic very quirky behaviors of the original hardware, and that often results and very un-idiomatic GL code.
On the bright side, 50% of the vanished content was not reproducible.
I have a 30m tower, and at the town I have a friend with a good connection. I rent roof space and pay half the bill. ISP is ok since it's a business plan, and both of us are using it for mainly business — it's similar to a shared office that provides internet from their perspective.
Sure, but at the same time one could sell their product in different stores, or even D2C online.

The store analogy also has very limited switching costs, for example if Walmart stops selling brand X of potato chips, it's inconvenient but not impractical to go out of one's way to buy them at Target. It would be different if buying potato chips at Target would involve throwing out everything one has bought at Walmart and buying the same Target-equivalent merchandise (ie. switching from iPhone to Android, one would need to buy equivalent apps).
> Brazil would require a "CPF", which is a unique number assigned to individuals. If you are doing something simple such as an online purchase or monetary transfers(to someone else's account), the number alone could be sufficient, coupled with other information like full name and address.

> The main issue in the US is the use of a 'unique ID' which was never meant as ID, can't be changed and has no built-in security measures.

As someone with no knowledge of how Brazil does things, how is the CPF any different than an SSN? Is it the requirement to present a notarized copy of the document the difference? Or something else?
>there are a few nerds here and there that actually prefer the weird Unix/BSD that Mac OS X is based on

macOS as well as Apple hardware is not just used by "a few nerds here and there". It's used by a very good chunk of devs in any conference (be it Apple, Rails, JS, Python, Data science, whatever), and by a majority of speakers in said conferences (so tons of top tier "nerds" - your words).

>there are a few nerds here and there that actually prefer the weird Unix/BSD that Mac OS X is based on but theres no way Linus Torvalds is using the normie focused MacOS Big Sur and the current environment

He is not, he used Linux on his G5 and Macbook Air, and used macOS (of yore) on his iBook (on which he wrote his autobiography, in MS Word nonetheless).

But the comment I replied to was that "Apple hardware has always been more about being a status symbol then utility". This spins it to the software.

Did Linus need Apple hardware as a status symbol?

Because in his own words, he had e.g. praised the Macbook Air as a great example of a sturdy, small, and silent laptop, that no PC maker compete with (at least at the time he used it).

Also the term "normies" is beyond immature. What is this, 4chan?
What is the appeal of Oracle cloud?
No, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Didn’t Spawn 250k Coronavirus Cases
Policed by skeptics? That's the POINT of Wikipedia! Are you saying that a communal resource based on accurately documenting actual reality should be run by credulous people who will accept any statement without applying one second's worth of critical thinking?

As I said, Doofusino doesn't NEED to be a rebuttal. THERE IS NOTHING HERE TO REBUT. The proof is in the pudding and Mills has no pudding whatsoever. All he has are his claims about all the magical fairytale things his wonderful technology can do.

I don't care if he says it can braid my hair and create free cheerios on demand because he finally found the right alloy to use in his psychogravitic negamatrix. It's not real until there's proof and he hasn't offered any in thirty years. See you in another thirty, I guess.
After the Coronavirus, Prepare for the Roaring Twenties
supposedly code the draw doom 4 is less with vulkan than opengl though
Thanks for putting in the effort to check my comment.

I'm not a lawyer. I read through the rest of the California consumer warranty laws and some of the Uniform Commercial Code which California also uses. A warranty goes with a product. It does not matter which company sold the product. A manufacturer cannot refuse to honor a warranty just because it doesn't like the reseller who issued the receipt.

The California law you linked applies to products that were originally sold outside USA. International trade is complicated. That law tries to protect buyers from confusing different products that have the same name. It has an important caveat at the top:

"(1) The item is not covered by a manufacturer’s express written warranty valid in the United States (however, any implied warranty provided by law still exists)."

Implied warranties are made by law. Express warranties are made by manufacturers & resellers and provided in writing to buyers. Even if a foreign-purchased product is sold in the USA with no US express warranty, it still has implied warranties.

New goods have implied warranty periods of at least 60 days. Products without express warranties have implied warranties of 1 year. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

Used goods have implied warranty periods of at least 30 days:
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection...

And the other protections apply. For example, manufacturers/resellers must provide technical documentation for repairing electronic products (>$99) for 7 years from date of manufacture: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection...
If I'm reading that graph correctly, over Oakland there's currently an inversion boundary at ~50m, ~1500m, ~2000m and 14000m. Is a correct interpretation that the smoke is trapped between one or several of these inversion layers, preventing both sinking and upward dispersion?
Sweden is currently averaging around 170 new cases per day. Its populaton is 10.2 million. France is averaging 7,000 new cases per day. Its population is 67 million. But you said neighbors. Denmark's new case rate is around 150 per day, but with a population of only 5.8 million.

Sweden is currently seeing fewer new cases per capita than Denmark, Spain, and France, and Spain and France are surging.

My point is it's not clear that what medium hard lockdowns accomplished is sustainable.
I could swear I read somewhere about an app where you share a severely scaled down (or maybe slightly blurred?) version of your desktop throughout the entire workday.

I would allow your mate to sense the situation when you could be more available for chatting/socializing/etc.

My google-fu is failing me, I think I saw it ~2019 but cannot find anything now.

And of course the focusmate seems to be still a thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21352305
> Well the modern countries use documents such as ID card or passport, you can't just walk to a bank and start opening accounts from that little data. It's actually insane Americans have that archaic system.

It's archaic to allow opening bank accounts completely online with no physical presence/authentication required?
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Probably because a hamburger is tasty?

It's an open secret things like "Impossible Meat" and others are really not healthy for you - certainly not a healthier alternative than just eating beef. They are higher in calories, and contain a lot more oils.

Instead, it's for people who wish not to eat meat for whatever reasons (personal choice, religion, etc)... and now they can have a tasty alternative at the next Backyard BBQ.
Some companies are starting to use "knowledge based authentication" like "which of these streets have you lived on?" but of course they get that information from the data brokers so anyone who can access data brokers can still "steal" identities.
What Does the Second Version of Software Look Like
If you’re in the sunset you’re in luck: pretty much everywhere in there has Sonic coverage (iirc by renting at&t fiber, but could be wrong).
PostGIS and the Geography Type in Postgres
The difference is that nuclear fusion has happened before. In fact, if you go outside and look up on a clear day or night, you can see it happening right now.

Nobody has ever created hydrinos. They are not real. If they were, he would be selling barrels of hydrinos. He will never sell one single hydrino. Because they are not real.
Recommended short story Food of the Gods -Arthur C. Clarke

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hbAqAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT75&o...
The raisin bread is a 3D expansion in 3D space. So from the viewpoint of a specific raisin the others are moving differently depending on what direction you look and you can use that to determine where the center of the bread is.

The balloon is a 2D expansion in 3D space, which is a better analogy for our 3D universe expanding in 4D space. From the viewpoint of a particular dot you see the exact same thing no matter what 2D direction you look. There is no center.

I agree that the balloon is more confusing, but it is more correct in that it doesn't lead to ideas like "the point where the big bang happened".
Interesting. That's the second one I read, but I put it down 5 chapters in and never picked it back up. So it sits in my 'to read' pile. I even confiscated the bookmark the last time I rearranged my books, because I'd have to start over at this point.
Facebook: showing ads on publisher sites without permission was ‘technical issue
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how live wire accidents happen and are prevented.

Live wire accidents happen because people operating equipment capable of hitting the wires are looking elsewhere because looking elsewhere is a fundamental part of doing their job. The crane operator looking at the load or the helicopter pilot watching something on the ground is who hits a live wires. Not hitting live wires is caused by knowing where they are ahead of time and planning your work so you don't hit them. Making the wire invisible doesn't really change that. It's not like this tech would be used for residential lines where every Joe schmoe is operating a man-lift.
Do the childless get to participate in programs meant for parents with children? No, of course not.

I really don't understand how you can have a perspective that leads to this question.