skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely a super interesting piece, thanks for linking, I've emailed it to myself to give a deeper read.

This one resonates with me in our current moment:

> From the very beginning the British had the lead. They nailed German propaganda as propaganda, while circulating their own as news, cultural relations, or literature.
good episode!
I'd be curious as to why change from an easily remembered and branded name to a generic one?

Edit: not bashing, genuinely curious
>Thank god that Apple is taking a stand.

What exactly is Apple doing to combat the scourge of “free to play”/“pay to win” and in-app purchases? From where I'm sitting, they seem perfectly fine with it (as long as they get their cut).
This is a flawed analogy. The correct one would be Cheerios printing "If you buy me at Costco, I cost $1 less" on the outside of the box. No rational retailer that isn't Costco would carry that product.
quality? doesn't this question apply to every cheap Chinese product? My mom has had poor hearing for decades and always spent thousands on her hearing aids for marginal improvements in quality (e.g. noise cancelling, size, noticeability). The only thing that really made a big improvement was when she finally got a cochlear implant.
A design system is a systematic approach to achieving consistent look-and-feel across the product(s) of a company.

This is in contrast to the "non-systematic" approach, which is to have designers use apps like Photoshop to copy-paste design elements and then have developers eye-ball and eye-drop that into code. You may up with lots of redundant definitions for essentially the same visual intent, especially with larger teams.

Most products start out with the non-systematic approach and then may later attempt a switch to a design system. Presumably, this is where this product could help you validate your progress. Whether integration of such a product is a valuable addition to your workflow or a distraction is up for debate.
So I’m not sure what point you are arguing but it’s either that consumers are stupid and don’t really want a secure phone and walled garden and would want to take that choice away from customers by law.

Or that Apple needs to charge less for access to the App Store while also spending more money (to stop the inhuman auto replies and actions)

Both are terrible arguments
Its a lot simpler than users wanting a device that 'cant run any app they click on'.

The vast vast majority of users don't consider anything except the marketing. And apple is good at marketing. So people want iOS devices.
Aren’t the trusted boot signing keys from MSFT burned in and therefore not revocable? Maybe they have multiple keys with some offline backup keys or something.
It's highly unlikely that a regulator would cap Apple's cut at e.g. 10% like that. Apple is using a monopoly on distribution to enforce a monopoly on payments (and can thus monopolistically set prices arbitrarily) so it is most likely a regulator would force them to allow competition on distribution and payments, and thus allow the market to change the 30% organically, rather than just enforce a different arbitrary cut.
> Or does energy through E=MC^2 mean that enough pure energy density can cause a black hole?

Yes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)
If users want to jailbreak their devices, that's up to them.

Apple doesn't stop you from doing anything with your device, Apple thugs won't break your kneecaps if you subvert their restrictions.
I think the danger is that it's "control creep", Google collect so much information that no one needs your website.

Then Google offer a way for people to buy your products simply.
Then they prioritise your competitors that use Google's offering because it's simpler for the user.
Then you have to use Google to sell your products too.
Then the price goes up or you get removed from the listings for some arbritary reason with no support.
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You can go down that road forever though. There are plenty of intellectual contortions on the left. It's a question of choosing which ones are worse. I'm not a US citizen but if I were I'd be voting Republican because there's cynical opportunism, which is bad, and then there's open and hateful daily rhetoric against white men, which to me is worse. Pick your poison.
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I guess we just have different definitions of what "broken" means, since disconnecting Gecko sounds fairly broken to me. :)
Yes, this is partly about Apple being "punished" for its success. That is a good thing. Entities that are too successful become too powerful and should be "punished" for it.
How is Fortnite "pay to win"?
> This seaweed won't even start solving this problem.

To the extent that the problem extends much further than level of consumption of cattle, that is true. But if widespread adoption of feed can effectively reduce methane emissions from cattle, as you said it targets one of the primary drivers - that's more than a start. This helps you visualize the impacts of various solutions, notice what happens when all other things held equal you drop methane - https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?p1=45&...

> if we would let nature reclaim the land that's currently used for livestock agriculture, it has the potential to capture >100% of the CO2 emissions until 2050.

This is a moot point considering that trees and plant numbers could be increased in many other areas, particularly where they are felled in high numbers, and not all pasture land is appropriate for plant agriculture or otherwise.

There is a short-term battle and a long-term one. We do need to curb emissions in the short-term substantially, which will require innovation and policy changes. Long-term, the fact is land encroachment and destruction scales with the population; we all have an environmental footprint, and slightly increasing its efficiency will never outpace and counteract the impact of perpetual population increase. It's projected to curb more in the future as more of the global population gets lifted out of poverty, and access to contraceptives is more universal - however, this could be accelerated. There's no reason we can't quash global poverty further right now.
>What would they have been made up? Do quarks have mass, and there was enough of them? Or does energy through E=MC^2 mean that enough pure energy density can cause a black hole?

I'm not sure exactly when primordial blackholes would have formed but I think it would have been sometime after inflation, though perhaps before baryogenesis. Here's the reasoning: I think it would be after the GUT epoch so gravity would have splintered off from the other forces and I think it would have been after inflation started so that inflation had a chance to exaggerate the scale of quantum fluctuations to create the necessary size & scale of density fluctuations for blackholes to form.

Energy alone is enough to form a blackhole. However, it's not the energy density per se. That's sort of a necessary but not sufficient condition since you also need the surrounding spacetime to be at a low enough density relative to the region where you are expecting a blackhole to form.

This, incidentally is a common source of confusion about the big bang. "Why didn't it just form a blackhole?" The answer is because ALL of the spacetime was at the same density.
> What you are nowhere close to doing is manufacturing the 5.5 million M1 Garands that were ultimately produced.

Correct - reasonably, I could produce one in about six months of work with subsequent ones coming faster after having built up the tooling and knowledge. My point is that there are millions of people like me and that the tools required to do that are common.

More to the point I could produce a working, reasonably polished firearm in a couple of weeks or less if I were doing so full time and were not restricted by US federal law. If I were basing my design off of something like a Sten submachinegun, now we're talking days at most and rapidly ramping up production speed after that.

There are no alternate designs for N95 masks that will meet the needs of healthcare workers. There are no alternate materials that are "good enough" for expedient use. This is not a product that can be reasonably manufactured in a distributed fashion.
There are: https://medium.com/syncedreview/mit-google-propose-automl-fo...

I went to a more recent talk by Google and results they handpicked to show were impressive.
It's long been the case that large countries meddled. The change is that it isn't as asymmetric as it used to be. If your citizens are on Facebook, it doesn't take a lot of resources to mess with them.
> Epic is in my eyes evil company and they done a lot of bad things in area I care about.

Can you elaborate on that? It's hard to follow for me.

Also: You don't give money to epic, you also think the goal of spotify in that case makes sense. But you are willing to hurt a goal that you think makes sense because someone you don't like also thinks that goal is worth fighting for?
This seems unnecessary and a bad strategy.
For many of us in the Western World and specifically Canada, water use is a major area of concern as well. Seaweed obviously doesn't use a lot of fresh water to grow, but I'm not sure about the processing. Cattle production still does use a lot of water and we don't raise a lot of cows by the oceans, but this has some interesting applications.
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> We hate “free to play”/“pay to win” and in-app purchases.

While I'm not a Fortnite player, I thought Fortnite was known for not being pay-to-win, with IAP being for cosmetic options, not in-game advantages; basically selling digital collectibles you can show off while playing.

I think there is a pretty big ethical differentiation between that and F2P games that have you pay for in-game advantages (with the Wargaming.net model where you pay for in-game options that are mostly not competitive advantages but broaden the scope of play choices [because most of the competitive advantage is compensated in matchmaking] somewhere in between.)

Not all F2P + IAP models are the same.
Yes, culture war issues are used by both the right and the pseudo-left to avoid talking about economic issues. As soon as you bring up race, abortion, or homosexuality, it sucks all the air out of the room and everyone stops talking about unfair trade policy, unfair and in some cases outright regressive taxation, crumbling infrastructure, growing monopolies, wage stagnation, or the exploding costs of health care, real estate, and tuition.

The things people talk about and get emotional about are the things that sway elections, and therefore these are the topics politicians focus on. I don't think you have to imagine some sophisticated conspiracy to sideline economic issues... politicians just don't pay much attention to them because their constituents aren't bringing them up. Meanwhile their donors have a clear position in favor of the status quo, so that ends up being their economic agenda by default.

Look at how charged the Supreme Court battle is, which is mostly about abortion, and compare that to the complete lack of interest shown by politicians on either side regarding our record unemployment numbers or the COVID driven collapse of small businesses across the USA. We are in the midst of a small local business holocaust in the USA and a profound consolidation of corporate "big chain" control over local economies, and not a word... we are too busy screaming about Ginsburg's replacement.

I am not saying those "culture war" issues don't matter. Clearly they matter a lot to some people in very real ways. I'm just pointing out how they dominate the political discourse and prevent other issues from being debated. The economic and operational issues I listed above arguably affect more people than most of the culture war issues, and the Venn diagrams overlap quite a bit too. Gay rights mostly affects gay people, but wage stagnation affects everyone including gay people.
>Not just metadata, but the videos.

But calculating the fingerprints of the videos rather than store on disk and serve all the exabytes video means you're still at a fundamental _information_ disadvantage.

You already know the following but I'll spell it out for readers who may not see the distinction: web surfers don't watch fingerprints... they watch the actual video bytes.

Youtube employees and researchers found out that user behavior such as actual watch time of the videos was a _stronger_ voting signal of quality than the user hitting the subscribe button. To replicate that measurement, how would Pex get similar usage data without actually storing the exabytes of videos or convincing millions of web surfers to install a browser plugin to spy on their youtube usage?

>The true challenge is in customer acquisition. Google has such a strong hold on the browser market [1], that there is just no way to convince people to "go to pex" and search for videos.

I'm not convinced of your claim that the Chrome browser is the competitive moat that prevents Pex from rising up. E.g. Tik Tok got very popular without Chrome browser help. As another example, I found out that a gardening expert[1] gets most of her views from Facebook-hosted videos instead of Youtube. She gets more than 3x the views on Facebook. I don't have a Facebook account so I watch her on Youtube but it turns out I'm actually in the minority of her audience.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/gardenanswer/videos
Needs async/await:

async: DEVELOPING STORY [DISCOVER HOW TO...]

await: STAY TUNED FOR [expr]
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The article says they secured $13 million in funding. This is chump change compared to the size of the Australian beef industry.

Hard to imagine that they are actually planning to roll this out on a large scale with that level of investment.
Basecamp, Tile, Protonmail are also some big names listed in the site. Even Prepear, the fairly obscure company that ran afoul of Apple’s aggressive trademark protection actions, is a founding member.

I wonder if Telegram will join next. It’s as if they rallied together every company that’s had a news controversy with Apple this past year, at least the ones smaller than FANG.
1. UA config doesn't even enter into this. No one the new design is supposed to help doesn't know how to configure their UA or even what it is.

2. Consider these 3 images: https://postimg.cc/gallery/X78M9ms

2 of them have normal sized text and 1 has a text that looks good on the designer's macbook. As it happens, the latter is borderline unusable -- an article not longer than a handful of tweets doesn't even fit on one page.

P.S. Until today, I genuinely thought that wikiwand was some kind of ad farm, from seeing it pop up in google search.
Completely disagree. Although I don't play Fortnite, their monetization model is fine. There is no pay to win (don't conflate that with free to play), the only things you can pay for are the battle pass and cosmetic skins. Apex and many other games use this model and it's ultimately good for the consumer in my experience.
> Yes, but it doesn't export that food to western countries.

I don't understand why that matters? Brazil doesn't export to the US because of its FMD problem among its cattle.

> CO2 and methane emissions for growing meat has been pretty steady, and is a moderate slice of the carbon emissions' pie.

Beef production accounts for 1/3 of all agricultural emissions in the US. Obviously it's not the primary or even a huge share of overall emissions, because there are so many other human activities like driving and using electricity that we are doing all the time.

> Renewables are only cost effective because that cost is subsidized. It's a sham IMO.

Yeah, it is ridiculous that we subsidize industries to such an extent! Good thing beef and milk production are not subsidized at all...
Sure but in 17 years writing C for a living, with lines of code by the millions, and (embedded) devices running my code all over the world I still have to know about an integer overflow bug.

Sure, I don't always write bug-free code (as anyone), but when I say it's not so terrible I mean that UD should be considered a rare case, and it's not worth even a single night of quiet sleep, let alone switching languages or overreacting. Hey, I am more afraid of a flipping bit due to power supply noises.

And I don't want to say either that my code is perfect, or since it never happened to me it will never happen to you and that you can go around triggering UD everywhere since it's not a big deal. But I also like to warn young players that "boooo UD!" is just part of a FUD tactic for them to adopt some shiny new language.
Yes, it means Sony has to add Steam to PS5 or else it is narrow and arbitrary.

To me the iPhone is a console, end of story. If you like the console experience, it’s a great device. If you don’t, there are a million android and even alternative OS based phones out there which are more like a PC. If you want your phone to be a PC, you should do what most people around the world do and buy one of those.

Instead we have these companies who are trying to force Apple to sell PCs instead of consoles. It’s in their business interests, so I get it. But I hope it doesn’t work, because there are a lot of us (myself included) who really LIKE the console experience, both on iPhone and on PS4, and don’t want a PC experience on those devices.
I agree, but the fundamental question is do you want the government to regulate what kind of OS interface should be legal?
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Is there a point to any of these ridiculous questions? Do you remember what the argument was about?

Are you implying that black people choose to be black like someone saying racist, firable things at work chooses to say those things?
So if I want to get around it all I need to do is

* make sure the deposits are under $9000, but also not some amount that's "suspicious" like $8,999

* make sure the deposits happen on a regular interval

* make sure the deposits are at the same branch

I also suspect banks don't share information to generate SAR (eg. a deposit of $15,000 at one bank would generate a SAR, but a deposit of $7,500 at two banks on the same day won't generate a SAR), so if you need to deposit more cash then all you need to do is open more accounts at more banks.
Your opinion is biased. Jio is a fine company and it will do great in India.
> can you differentiate a black hole made of matter from one made of antimatter?

Not as far as I'm aware. A black hole is defined solely by its mass, charge and spin. What goes into it becomes irrelevant once it crosses the event horizon, except for those three factors.

(Though one does wonder, what happens if an object with negative mass enters a blackhole? But negative mass may not even exist.)

> Secondly, if there is any difference, what would happen to Earth in case of a collision?

None in practical terms.
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A new nuclear reactor design that is faster to build, smaller, and much safer has just been approved in the US (after 500 million dollars spent just on the paperwork for approval). Check out NuScale Power[1]. The reactors are small at 60MW electrical output so that many of the large capital cost and scaling issues of nuclear power are much less of an issue. The reactors are built at a factory and shipped to the power plant.

[1]https://www.nuscalepower.com/
I’m aware of all these facts but Lisp wasn’t practical except on Lisp machines for quite a long time, and most of these languages only started running on microcomputers in the mid to late 80s. Caml Light, (Xavier Leroy) the standardization of ML, object oriented scripting languages, etc.

My initial statement was too strong, what I meant to say was that the higher level languages were not practical for commodity application development and distribution until more recently. They’ve been along for a very long time but Smalltalk is an infamously isolated system and it was very slow even when running on an Alto (I’ve used it!). I admittedly know much less about the practical history of Scheme and Prolog.
>Indian telecom giant Jio has started working with at least two domestic manufacturers to secure capacity for 150–200 million smartphones, according to Bloomberg.

this will help India to build up its manufacturing abilities.

Apple/Foxconn setting up shop in India and Taiwanese OEM like Wistron moving to India as well. Chinese aging population and rising wages is giving India a chance to replace China as world's manufacturer.

the only thing that is holding back India is India's govrt.
That's what gives cows the taste most consumers recognize as "prime beef". Eating solely grass-feed is definitely a different taste;I'm not sure most consumers would like it, at least initially (outside of a hamburger).
It seems to be widely believed that nothing came from the Panama Papers, but I think that's only because people hoped to see some CEOs perp-walked to a waiting cop car. There certainly have been repercussions.

>Twenty-three countries have already recovered at least US$1.2 billion in taxes, heads of government implicated in corruption or tax avoidance have resigned or faced prosecution and there have been investigations in at least 82 countries. Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the centre of the story, has shut down and the Panama Papers have prompted high-level political debates and expedited policy reforms around the world

https://www.transparency.org/en/news/three-years-after-the-p...
Interesting how there's so many posts here attacking the companies behind the action (ad hominem style) by specifying actions that have nothing to do with the abuses Apple and AppStore do.

Is this targeted?
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You might notice I'm not bashing and haven't made a moral "should or shouldnt" argument. I'm simply saying that complex system is what it does, regardless of the intent of the people building it. You can't disentangle Facebook the platform from what its users use it for. It's all one system that does X. If Facebook the company is trying to change that X to something better, they should be supported.
You are talking past each other. Markets can be free in principle but not in practice for various reasons (oligopolies, monopsonies, etc).
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Your cereal aisle analogy is a bad one, for two reasons.

For one, everything about the merchandising of a particular product in a big box store is agreed upon in advance between the retailer and the manufacturer before the product is placed in the store: the product placement on the shelves; what kind of manufacturer incentives (e.g. coupons) the retailer will honor for the product and how renumerations will be made from the manufacturer to the retailer for them; what kind of sales volume is required to trigger volume discounts, etc. These agreements are highly bespoke in a way that couldn't be scaled with the sort of volume that's on app stores.

Second - physical retailers are compensated by the manufacturer when they accept a manufacturer's coupon. The transactions are logged, summarized, and traditionally the physical coupons were collected and sent to the manufacturer. Barring a pre-negotiated agreement to accept less than face value in exchange for a coupon, the retailer isn't losing revenue on the deal. However, when an app publisher offers a means to circumvent the app store payment system, Apple/Google DO in fact face a loss of revenue.
When we first announced the Timescale License (TSL) two years ago, many people thought we were crazy.

But our community supported us, and two years later that experiment has been more successful than we expected.

That said, we did get some great feedback on how we could improve the TSL, especially from here on HN. We're happy to incorporate that feedback in this update. Thank you again HN!
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