skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are adults truly capable of independent thought either? For a lot of people, Facebook is extremely difficult to avoid, even if they disagree with its privacy practices. Apple is in a unique position to use its regulatory power to force companies like Facebook and mobile game developers to follow reasonable privacy and advertising practices. Maybe this is the job of the government, but it seems like an acceptable practice from Apple so long as it's not used in an anticompetitive manner (which the 30% cut arguably is).
Even this is vastly over-engineered.

Just have a target schema definition somewhere, and use a schema diff tool to generate the changes you nee on demand.

No need for version numbers at all. No need to run through change scripts to set up a database from scratch. Almost no need to manually write scripts.
This is a joke, but a real service like this could be neat. For example, it listens on all ports and returns a "null" response based on the typical service of that port.

Not-very-well-thought-out-examples:

http - Always returns 404.

https - Always returns 404.

ipp - Returns whatever IPP says for "printer not found" or equivalent.

lpd - Takes data, does nothing with it.

dns - Always returns NXDOMAIN.

ident - Always returns nobody:nogroup

telnet - Accepts any username/password/credentials, returns "This account is not available" and immediately exits.

ssh - Accepts any username/password/credentials, returns "This account is not available" and immediately exits.

smtp - Accepts message, doesn't do anything with it.

pop3/imap - Accepts any login, always has 0 messages.

irc - Accepts any nick, PRIVMSG or other commands, commands don't actually do anything. Returns null list of channels and users when queried.

vnc - ?

rdp - ?

Etc.
Have you tried it more than 50 times?
But Puppeteer works on headless chrome. So I'm not sure the benefit of recording in Firefox. Unless this other platform they now support works with headless Firefox?
Open Source - Choosy Beggars.
Reports of frivolous cases in the US are usually PR hit jobs from the company that lost their case.
Yes!

I just got charged 0.30£ by Niantic, the publisher of Pokemon Go, to verify my age during the user registration process. The payment was initiated from the iOS app and done through a web form. No IAP.

Now I can only hope Niantic doesn't charge me for something my kids do in the game.

This is exactly the kind of thing I fully expect Apple to protect me from.
Again, I am not saying "go ahead and don't care about UB". I know what it is; I know what it can do. Just don't make it a big deal. You (plural) make it sound like it's impossible to build a system with C or any other laguange that allows UB, because it probably runs by coincidence. Yet the world keeps spinning and super safe flashy languages are still running on top of UB-illed OS wrote in C.

> I should hope your safety-critical code is not permitted to contain known instances of unintended undefined behaviour.

It's not.

> Also, it's UB, not UD.

Now that you mention it I checked my other comments I wrote from my phone and noticed it changed UB with UD.
I know it would matter to me. That would at least help make the case that the person being condemned is a human being, not a few pixels on a screen, nor a number in a system.
> It's the same optimisation: elimination of unreachable code.

No it isn't, because in the one case, if you don't eliminate the code, it turns out to be reachable. The reason is that the logical predicate by which it was deduced to be unreachable ("the program is perfectly written and doesn't invoke undefined behavior") is not actually true.

So that is to say, this code will actually terminate due to wraparound past INT_MAX "for (i = 0; i >= 0; i++);" and statements which follow it are reached. That same compiler has wraparound behavior for int.

It's not the same as "if (1) return;" where the basis for removing the subsequent code is simply true.
MacOS isn't locked down, though. He even explains how to work with it.

Is it as convenient? Nope.

Is it good? Yup!

Security or convenience. You get one, but not both. The statement they are terrible and ought to be abolished is stupid and self serving. Yes, as a programmer it ads more steps - but the benefits they bring for everyone else who isn't a programmer (and of who there are a LOT more users) are significant and incredibly beneficial.

I used to chafe at the idea that software developers should have to be formally accredited like structural engineers and that software development should have more formality and rigor. But the more whining like I see in posts like this is starting to make me think some rigor and formality is is exactly what we need.
I‘m sure the children using this app know all about Google‘s internal divisions.
The author literally starts by citing Menzies' Chinese discovery thesis, albeit weakly dismissing it by the end of the paragraph. (Interestingly, Menzies' theory is listed, but not the generally-accepted theory of Polynesian transoceanic contact).

That said, the article tends to actually instead spend more of its time talking about the well-accepted vast American trading networks. Sprinkling in the speculation of Viking voyages that aren't supported by anything more than a rosy interpretation of some data that requires some contexts that are slightly sketchy really does a disservice to the rest of the article. (If you're going to claim that a painting postdates the structure by a hundred years, I'm really doubtful of that unless you show that it's painting over something else, or otherwise demonstrate some reason why the wall covering would have needed to be changed).
No hiding required. Inserts are allowed according to eBay policy:

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/payment-policies/offers-b...
Dolphins have a rough start, it's so hard to build anything in the ocean other than just have it biologically.

It's just so unfair. Just imagine if our brain is the same but we are fish and swim. How will civilization ever develop? Everything from bronze age up is pretty much impossible. That and we'd have no hands.
Eero’s Wi-Fi 6 Mesh Routers Are Here
Very cool! I've been working on a little text graphics engine in Common Lisp, using SDF for rendering the text and doing some effects with it. This will be great to add and play with.
20 years ago I were more surprised when I got a PDF with correct xref table than with broken one.
In crime there seems to be the oposite of survivor bias.

We see the successful legal businesses without seeing those that failed.

We see the failed drug dealers without seeing those that succeeded.
Windmill Destructed in Thunderstorm
Inverse it - how many would think two bags a day, every day was good for their health?
Sprints are training wheels for agile. Kanban is simpler and more productive. But only if your team has the maturity and discipline to work efficiently without deadlines.
That’s not really a fair argument. Parents have been over worked for decades. But 30, 20, even 10 years ago (first iPad was released 10 years ago!) you couldn’t accidentally buy digital rubbish.

The kids sat in front of a TV and you had to beg your parents for toys.

Now toddlers can discover things for themselves and frankly a lot of content for kids is trash. We haven’t caught up with how to deal with this.
Spoiler: his favorite mask is the TIA BOTN from https://behealthyusa.net/BOTN-%EB%B3%B4%ED%8A%BC-%ED%99%A9%E... and overall prefers the (Korean) KF94's over the KN95's. His control mask is an N100, which consistently shows in his tests as filtering 99+% of particles.
Haha. Type "Nazis like sauerkraut".

This kind of thing should IMO not built into fonts. Would make a fine addition to a spell and grammar checker however.
I'm not a mech engineer, but it looks like SolveSpace would do this properly?
>Why? Honest question. For instance, you mentioned obesity. Should a restaurant that makes the most delicious and sugar loaded food be forbidden to do so because its customers can't stop eating it and are getting obese?

I tried to cover this in my post, but this is why I believe it's a bit of an impossible situation. I don't believe that in your example the restaurant should be forbidden from selling the addictive and unhealthy food. Because it should not be illegal does not make it good. The law and morality are not one in the same.

The usual way people talk about this sort to thing is to invoke free speech. I should not be legally prevented from insulting you, or saying rude things to you. But, it's still an awful thing for me to do.

Regarding the problem being individual. I agree that's where the blame should rest, but the reality is that moral blame is often not really as useful as people want to believe. For example, with obesity, most people are making the 'wrong' decisions. Again, I'm not suggesting that government regulation should be invoked to try to fix this. But surely, it's not good a thing that so many people are unhealthy. And therein lies the problem. Who cares about blame? I don't care whose fault it is, but I would like to fix it. It's a near guarantee that the general public will not fix it. It's not even an American problem anymore: you're even seeing obesity in some parts of Africa. When most people have access to high calorie food most of the time, they will become overweight and obese. You can (maybe even should) assign blame to people for making the wrong decisions here. But that will do nothing to modify the problem.

And, as I said, I'm not necessarily arguing for regulation. But I would be curious if you think there is any solution here, or if you think there should be any solution here.
Sort of, the universe isn’t completely random so we have metadata we can apply to relevant problems. It’s the same reason that in theory compression algorithms fail, but in practice that’s not an issue.

Though for arbitrary theoretical problems it’s important.
I really don't get the position that a test that is potentially harder to write (because mocks) and catches fewer bugs (because mocks) but takes 0.1 seconds to run instead of 3 seconds is intrinsically "better".

I really think this is a cultural thing.
> The plans are to build nuclear plants that do exactly no environmental or social damage. Solar/wind/etc can't possibly compete to that standard.

I'm not sure if you're serious with post. "No" environmental damage, when we have to mine uranium, iron ore, and massive amounts of concrete? Yet somehow they "waste" of old solar panels is hazardous to the biosphere and impossible to separate? Nuclear waste is far more hazardous and we don't seem to have much problem isolating that in France.

And then you say that solar is getting a free pass, when you invent issues for solar that are far more difficult for nuclear to handle?

How is this rational in any way?
Well, then the good thing for you is that you have to simply not install those other stores, and keep buying from Apple's official app store. Why prevent other users/devs from using them?
Paracetamol is a lot more dangerous than melatonin.

Take a big paracetamol overdose, get acute liver failure, significant chance of either death or urgent need for liver transplant–even if you are getting the best possible medical care.

Take a massive melatonin overdose, nothing anywhere near as serious happens. You may become unconscious for 12 hours. There are reports of other negative side effects – tachycardia, hypotension, hypothermia, etc [1][2] – medically risky, but still your odds of survival without serious long-term consequences are pretty high, especially if you get proper medical care. Animal studies have failed to determine an LD50 for melatonin, even giving massive overdoses to animals they survive–it isn't clear if it is even possible for a healthy human to die by massive melatonin overdose, I think if it were to ever happen it would require a complete lack of medical attention combined with a very big dose of bad luck. By contrast, fatal paracetamol overdoses (mostly intentional, sometimes accidental) occur with some regularity.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/102490790100800...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31553200/
Legit. Buy these kids a nintendo console and let them play with something designed for kids. You get what you pay for. I guess I do get where they are coming from where the kids want to play multi player games their friends are playing.
It’s very tasty if you like the taste of licorice and cough syrup. :)
High intelligence isn't just a blessing. There are serious evolutionary costs associated (such as, for one, longer childhood). Evolution patterns follow the adage "use it or lose it", so if a species doesn't show signs of benefiting from higher intelligence, why should we assume that it's there? Why would natural selection maintain this trait if there was no obvious payback?
This isn't the silver diamine fluoride (https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/tooth-decay-fixed-with...) news.
Classic case of "Don't you know who I am ?"
Firefighters must be having a hard time locating people on burning buildings there, lol
It was definitely a problem deep within the company culture and due to the failure of management to really understand and recognise engineering talent. Visibility and impact being different things is a problem everywhere, but most other companies I worked for did a better job at least trying to distinguish between the two.

And I don't mind if a company recognises that administrative and organisational tasks are important; if you can really act as a multiplier by making other people more efficient, that is actually valuable. The problem is when you don't try to find out if these things really make people more efficient or are just petty ways for some people to build their little kingdoms.
is this platform available b2b? as school I would like to use the solution using my courses with my own students.
China thought they could build them in 48 months, and it ended up taking more than twice as long.

Is China planning any more EPRs? I can't find any evidence of them.

I would agree that it's a bureaucratic problem, but it's a bureaucratic problem of the construction industries in all Western nations. And nobody can even figure out what exactly the problem is, or how to change it.
To summarize the conversation so far: burlesona extended an analogy by suggesting that console software lock-in is a feature that gamers seek out, and for those gamers that don't like it, there is a more than acceptable option that other gamers seek out. Their argument is that the principles that would apply with gaming consoles should also in theory also apply with app-based mobile phones.

You countered that it was a "ridiculous analogy" that it's "foolish" and "lazy" (really, try cordially engaging with an argument next time) — suggesting that mobile phones are more critical than game consoles because the former are practically a part of people's everyday life, and more than just a "nice-to-have".

I (and a couple others) responded by pointing out that the practical reality you pointed out is true now, but wasn't true as recently as 10 years ago, and that it's hard to know if it will continue to be true 10 years from now. I explicitly referred to this as an "ephemeral norm", and that basing policy on ephemeral norms rather than abstract principles is ill-advised, to which you agreed. The market conditions will most probably change as different technologies are invented, as has been the case for the last century.

Apple's walled garden is a feature to a lot of its customers (myself included), and people like me seek that out. For those customers that don't like it, there is a more than acceptable OS option (and many acceptable hardware options) that they may seek out. That is the abstract principle.
There's also another selection bias against talking in support of somebody who's being cancelled by an internet outrage mob. Perhaps the only reason anybody would feel safe in doing so is if they were a member of the group the mob was purporting to be outraged on behalf of.
No addict is going to volunteer to go to treatment until they hit rock bottom. Forced treatment never (rarely?) works because it wasn't the addicts decision to do it. There are a lot of functioning addicts that are sustaining, but do not see the havoc that they are causing for those caught in their circles.
Coronavirus sniffing dogs being tested at Helsinki airport
His credentials just make this complaint seem even more weird.
Modern militaries use systems whereby they directly kill people who are represented as pixels on a screen.

So, what is a little digital sentencing.
Justice Dept. expected to file antitrust action vs. Google
> If anyone could just replace an address and execute a profitable transaction by being first on existing contracts, surely miners would be doing it already, no?

To a large degree not yet.
Sometimes it's easier to just say "enough" and toss it all. Picking through it to figure out what's donatable means having to think about each item, and by the time you're done you might decide you still "want" most of it.
Thank you.

I read the article, and I was like, "so they remembered a light flashed and got rewarded?"

A basic lstm will do that - GPT-3 will do far more.

How does that have anything to do with higher intelligence?
Thanks for the clarification, glad to hear it is allowed.
Tagging became popular at around that time. del.icio.us introduced the concept and several other social websites joined the trend: Digg, Blogger, etc.

Twitter was the first to introduce inline tags with the hashtag, and I believe you're correct that it was user-driven behavior.
Instead of "sprints" I say "slogs". That keeps the team motivated.
It's tool use and language that differentiate us. Other species have one but not both. Learning is much more efficient when communicated rather than done in an isolated vacuum and all the knowledge in the world is useless if you lack fine motor control manipulation to take advantage of it.
I don't see how SPAs and mobile apps necessarily conflict with the ideas behind the semantic web.

Anyway this claim seems to reverse cause and effect. SPAs started getting hyped a lot after it became apparent that big tech institutions weren't really going to pursue semantic web.

There's no real meaning in the claim that "Zelenials" did semantic web in. As far as I know, Zelenials never took a vote and decided not to pursue semantic web. The relevant agents here are huge institutions with the power and desire to shape developments in web technology. Google and whoever.
This is frustrating to me because I can't find a path. The minute one includes the pesky little reality of conservation of energy things become real.

I can't think of a single problem -- regardless of the domain -- that can be fixed with less energy than that which created it in the first place.

Accelerated silicate weathering is one approach that takes less energy than turning carbon dioxide back into carbon and oxygen [1]. Natural silicate weathering has a low thermodynamic cost but is kinetically hindered. Accelerated silicate weathering only spends energy to accelerate the kinetics of natural silicate weathering and needs much less energy than combustion-in-reverse.

Iron ocean fertilization is also possibly another case where the required human energy input for drawdown could be much smaller than reversing combustion. I say "possibly" because it has not been tested with enough rigor and scale yet.

You can see from my comment history that I agree with you about how slowly natural processes alone can bring atmospheric CO2 levels back down to pre-industrial levels: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24297363

[1] e.g. Project Vesta https://projectvesta.org/
The only difference is that chlorhexidine sticks around keeping your mucus membranes aseptic for around eight hours (if you don't eat anything), compared to an alcoholic mouthwash's couple-of-minutes. So it actually protects you on a long-enough timescale for your body to get in there and clear out any biofilms causing you gingivitis, canker sores, enamel erosion, etc. — rather than just treading water in the fight against those.

It also kills off the good bacteria in your mouth, and if ingested the bacteria in your digestive system, which is why the formulation designed for ingestion is subject to prescription.

The floor cleaner version is similar to the ingested version but it is not the same thing and the differences matter.
Interesting. I worked in a semantic web context before and if I recall correctly, with a few million triples data stores started to run into trouble, especially with reasoning.

At what scale are you using RDFox with reasoning?
>In my limited understanding, this is not an issue because it is in the miners' best interest to actually do their job correctly. They wouldn't have an incentive to muck around.

Well, they wouldn't have in-game incentive to muck around, but they could have meta-game incentive. Here's a good article explaining that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21058809 (Rationality is Self-Defeating in Permissionless Systems).
Epic for example is only going to allow Fortnite to be on their store. So how you are going to convince kids to use only specific app stores?

And then if Apple is forced to regulate what is and isn't "kid-friendly" then isn't that just opening them up to the same criticism they have right now.
That’s what I’ve heard but I’ve been burned by a lot of tools that have promised reproducible builds for Python. They always fail critically for one reason or another. If piptools is the holy grail, then great, but I’ll wait until it’s ubiquitous in the ecosystem.
I agree with this policy in principle, but a ton of non-technical people in my office know that the recycle bin in Windows is never automatically emptied and rely on that fact (scary!). The 'expectation' can vary based on your experience IMO.
IIRC, the Middle East used to be heavily forested, but then you had thousands of yers of deforestation and now the cradle of civilization has little forest left.

For similar reasons North American timber and fish were very much in high demand during the colonial period.
This looks really cool.

I've been trying to advocate for the existence of a system like this for RSS feeds. IMO, RSS "failed" (it didn't fail, it's still around… but obviously it doesn't have the traction of Instagram or Twitter) because discoverability of RSS feeds is abysmal.

If RSS is ever to go mainstream, or we're ever going to have a federated answer to corporate social media, it's going to require some kind of decentralized phonebook. HNS might solve that problem.
You can find all sorts of interesting stuff in the recycle bin! The garbage bin is much worse, everything is covered in food waste.
> With the goal of allies gaining power. That is fundamentally different than Russian's initial goal of simply knocking the US out of their superpower role

Why do you think Russia is trying to knock the US out of its superpower of its superpower role? They’re not doing it just to be petty.
Ah yes, the hearing aid 'racket', and it is indeed a racket hidden under medical device laws. One hopes this will change once that law passes. The hearing aid racket people are hard at work lobbying to block it.
Verifiably false things should not be allowed. The assumption that everyone has the capacity (time, expertise,.. ) to tell apart truth from lies is a very big assumption. Even if it were true, it would not come for free for the individual.

No one would argue that in a restaurant it is on if half of the foods are spoiled because we could tell them apart from the good ones if we examined then closely. Why the same is not true for our brains?
Yahoo was bought out during the term of the contact. And I don't know the details, but I believe Google pays Apple for the same thing, paying Mozilla isn't surprising.
The only person that should stand up is the idiot who calls a daily meeting for an hour. These things are only to allow managers to micromanage.