skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're kinda missing my point. First, the difference is not between the 60k car and nothing. It's between a 60k car and a 45k car. Yes, personal preferences differ, but it's pretty easy to spend an extra 15k on a car like that for things that have really marginal utility.

But more importantly, I'd much rather spend small amounts on simple daily pleasures that I enjoy. The lattes definitely bring me joy, and it's not like they are somehow taking the place of quality time with my loved ones or bringing joy to other people.
I genuinely thought for a second you were describing something new that I'd missed the boat on. Hahaha!
The research showed that small networks did work, but they took manual intervention during training.

I think the whole point was that a small network is capable of solving this problem, but training from scratch without intervention only rarely produced a viable solution.

From the article

- But in most cases the trained neural network did not find the optimal solution, and the performance of the network decreased even further as the number of steps increased. The result of training the neural network was largely affected by the chosen set training examples as well as the initial parameters.

So a solution was clearly possible even in the smaller networks when trained from scratch, it just wasn't likely.

So I agree with your first point - The bigger networks did indeed "figure it out". But I don't agree at all with your second - The smaller networks weren't lacking the power to solve the problem, they were just unlikely to reach the right solution with the available training data.
Device freedom is a must. Any device should be completely controllable by the end user. There's two parts to this to me: app stores and the data collected by the devices. Users should have the freedom to install any software on their devices, period. Users should also have the freedom to stop all data collection by these devices. This applies to all electronics--video game consoles, TVs, printers, who knows what else in the future.

If we keep letting manufacturers create these "walled gardens", we're not only creating a ton of trash because they will stop supporting them eventually, we're also stopping innovation and integration across platforms. Give me government mandated open protocols, open firmware, and let me install linux on my printer if I want. As devices get smarter, we should all reap the benefits of it through our own ingenuity and hacking.
70% of an apple purchase goes to the app developer. That's not ripping off developers.
Are you arguing that Facebook should be a website where people don't try to change each other's minds about things? It is absurd that on a website devoted exclusively to commenting on links there are people seriously arguing that people changing each other's minds via debate and links is dangerous.
Don't think epic really is in this for a better world.
But heavily regulated app stores by public orgs. I am all for.
iOS has around 70% share of mobile app revenue and most of the premium customers. If you're building a business, media or communication tool you can't compete without an iOS app.
Do you mean a switch statement in pure-python that avoids certain opcodes, or a way to avoid executing opcodes in the main interpreter switch statement?
A perfectly migrated database?

Is everyone really missing the point?
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Which, other than not electing a GOP president and Congress, can't be predicted beyond rough cycles. It's scary, it's hypothetical, and combined with basic social safety nets in place today are unlikely to sink a FIRE plan that is robust.

That isn't a political statement about the GOP, it's close to fact. When did we last not enter a recession, or the possibilities of one, after the GOP held Congress and the White House? Trump, Bush, Bush Sr/Reagan. Its like part of the plan is to drive the nation broke after concentrating wealth with donors and friends/family.
Imploded or transformed?

Music consumption hasn't gone down. Consumption of physical media that I can't slip in my pocket has.
A free market is mutually exclusive with a ban on closed ecosystems. You are arguing against a free market.
> I don't think many Germans would argue that Turkish immigrants and their descendants have not been subject to significant degrees of racism and discrimination.

I'd like to see that argument, if you put it next to racism in the US. Racism towards Turks in Germany might be a slur on the school yard (which, I can assure you, was much more commonly used by Turkish kids), not slavery, Jim Crow and segregation.

> It's particularly hard to claim with a straight face that the cultural similarities between between Turkish Germans and African Americans are much more obvious...

That's not what I wrote. If racism isn't the great explanation, other explanations need to be looked at. You chose to neglect the fact that African Americans are not at all similar in the outcomes, even though they're all experiencing racism in the US, and were, by and large, always treated as a singular group.
There are other people in the _mobile software_ market; if the argument for monopoly requires being as specific as _mobile software that operates on a specific manufacturer of a minority of all phones_ then perhaps it's not a monopoly at all.
> Brazil is a net exporter of food, so there goes that narrative

Yes, but it doesn't export that food to western countries. In the US for example, less than 10% of beef is imported, and most of that is from Mexico and Canada.

Believe it or not, western countries grow their own meat, and in the west the CO2 and methane emissions for growing meat has been pretty steady, and is a moderate slice of the carbon emissions' pie.

> No longer true, renewables are pretty cost competitive

Renewables are only cost effective because that cost is subsidized. It's a sham IMO.
I have a much longer list as well, but it's not well organized.

The primary way that I find companies is by watching conference/meetup talks from highly technical conferences that overlap with my interests. If the talk is on something that I find particularly interesting then I add the speakers company to my list. And then use tools like LinkedIn to find similar companies and assess them if I want to grow my list.

For the type of hard works that you're describing, the most common funding model I've seen is through sbir and sttr government grants. There are a lot of small companies that are funded this way, by necessity of those grants only being available to small companies. Eastern Foundry is an incubator for these sorts of companies

They're also groups like Microsoft Research and Pixar, that are internally funded, and some startups like Amira Learning, drone seed, and saildrone that look more funded by backers. Finally Lincoln Labs, UW APL, and JPL act as industry-focused research labs associated with a university.

Galois is an Oregon Graduate Institute spin out, and Grammatech is a Cornell University spin-out
Isn’t this “finding” (the fact that simple rulesets yield complex behavior that is hard to predict and/or derive using all kinds of models) the point that dr. Stephen Wolfram has been making for years?

(Beautiful illustration of the “simple rules” that yield complex behaviors: https://www.wolframphysics.org/visual-summary/dark/)
I don’t know x86, but, after googling, I would guess that trapping instruction was INTO.

Reading https://xem.github.io/minix86/manual/intel-x86-and-64-manual..., that would give the handler enough information to figure out where the overflow happened. Of course, that would be at the cost of some performance (setting those registers takes time)
Any justification for forcing a hardware maker to allow arbitrary apps on their hardware, aside from your personal experience with being rejected?
If I understand correctly: We may get a revolutionary dental treatment that will become available years after I die, for about the cost of a new car.
Excel is extremely useful for the times where I don't want to think about all of the complex rules that are in my head, and I just want to transform the data and export it for people to use.

If I need to do things on an automated basis at 3am over 1 million records with tedious logic, ok time to code it
National politics has been global for as long as we've had international trade. The way in which we experience that has changed though, and perhaps more of us now are able to see the extra-national players in any particular field.
That’s also true. I’m inclined to believe a seperate anesthesiologist is a lot better for a host of reasons not necessarily related to experience.
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I'm the only person in my circle of friends that does any kind of coding for fun. I would absolutely love if there was some way I could have people look over a couple of my projects and suggest any room for improvement.

Problem is, this is purely "for fun" stuff, i.e. non-commercial side projects that will never be monetized, so shelling out money for a professional to spend their limited (and expensive) time on something like this doesn't make much sense. This requirement eliminates all services I'm aware of.

I can't be the only one in this boat. What do you folks do when you want a second opinion on your code?
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Ah, it's SASS style – I was hoping for an open source project. This product seems like a nice feature, but not a standalone product I would pay for (mainly because $5/month is difficult to get approved in a larger organization, it's not about the cost itself). I could see myself using this in conjunction with a cloud SQL provider or with a local DB tool like DataGrip.
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It is a legitimate issue.

But it also doesn't cause the developer enough pain to register as a priority. The market is telling you something: it either isn't painful enough to spend money on, or you're not reaching the right people. IMO, you can sell to developers, but you have better luck selling them something that feels like it gives them a superpower, e.g. React is an easy sell because:

1. Reactive binding burns away a lot of imperative state-changing code

2. Facebook branding implies it is industrial-strength

And even then, React costs them their time to learn, build on, and ship. If it's their company's time, then they're not going to value it the same way.
Exactly. Which for me is a reason - no matter how much I hate Apple's tactics- to dismiss also this counter action. All of these entities just don't care for the users one way or the other
> Happy to rip off their customers via in-game transactions.

If people are happy and willingly buying skins, dances, and battle passes, that's not a rip-off.
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So it seems Google might have created the problem that they're solving: sites have to be full of reams of mainly useless content to rank, then Google pulls out the useful stuff and displays it in search.
> Basically, this is a popular but demonstrably wrong theory.

Knowing whether income inequality has some effect on the popularity of populism in a particular country cannot be "(dis)proven" one way or the other based on low-dimensional observations of (alleged) behavior and motivations of people in another country. Each individual person holds an incredibly complex set of beliefs in their heads that drive their actions. Some people go to school to learn some things about human behavior and cognition, and then get jobs hypothesizing about the causal underpinnings of human behavior, and then broadcast these hypotheses to the world from where they are picked up and stored in other minds, which then also proceed to hypothesize about other things based on the aggregate of information (of which this is only a small part) they have consumed in the past.

These hypotheses, the ideas the mind conjures from thin air, seem largely indistinguishable from reality, but this is a clever illusion that (allegedly) arose out of millions of years of evolution. Seeing speculative beliefs in other people is easy, seeing them in oneself is not so easy - or so psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy would have us believe.
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Of course Big Meat and Big Dairy love pushing this narrative. These kind of "solution" let's them continue do what they are doing without fundamentally solving the problem.

It's like making more efficient internal combution engines. Sure, it's marginally better, but what it really does is distract from the real problem, which is: Burning fossil fuels. And the same is true for this seaweed cattle.

And this is assuming that it does really reduce methane emissions by 80%, which I wouldn't believe until it has been empirically demonstrated on a large scale.
There are all sorts of regulations in other fields, some of them serve public interest (as all of them should). Forcing a very powerful company into making their platform more open might be OK.
Yes - and they control their own platform. Therefore they are a monopolist.

/s

I clearly don’t actually believe this, but the point is that if Apple is a Monopolist, then so is Epic.
sorry for the description, it means $5 per team, not $5 per person.
Biting the bullet and hiring a lawyer always feels expensive, but look at it this way: would you save the amount of money it would cost ($1,000? maybe, tops?) by not having to recreate this project from scratch? Especially since you are considering using it commercially. Consider the costs involved if your commercial venture were sued or, less tangibly, called out as a illegally basing its product on someone else’s IP?

The times I‘ve had to pay substantially for legal services have usually involved investments or tax issues related to stock options. It always feels substantial, but pales in comparison to the amounts of money involved and having a reasonably certain confidence that I’m not going to “lose” any more of it.

I would suggest that you weigh the amount of time you think it would take you to recreate this project as part of your startup costs. That is money that you will “gain” by using this project.
>The Democratic Party and the left continue to think Trump's victory was about race

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/kansas-should-go-f-itself

taibbi and thomas frank's writings on this subject have been very good. racism is an easy scapegoat because it is more or less a purely effervescent moral failing that can be broadly applied without asking uncomfortable questions about the institutional failings of establishment neoliberalism, clintonism, "nudge theory" and the rest.
I think in general terms as a political philosophy I would agree with you.

I think in terms of how restrictions on speech are implemented by Facebook/Twitter/YouTube it absolutely seems to be more used against right wing sources.
Are there any PG providers that allow you to do a seamless upgrade, from, say, 12 -> 13? I know logical replication allows you to do this, but with some caveats. Curious what other people's experience is.
TL;DR: someone could make bank selling < 150USD a pop receiver-in-canal wireless bluetooth headphones.

This is semi OT. I use a hearing aid every day. the hearing aid features are turned off, i just use it for bluetooth streaming and phone conversations. it is a receiver in canal hearing aid, and I've put a non-occluding ear dome on it so I can hear normally with it in, but when I play music, the music just arrives in my ear. its also very discrete, people dont notice it unless i tell them its there.

Why someone doesn't take a cheap android/iphone bluetooth-compatible receiver in canal hearing aid and sell it not as a certified hearing device (heck, disable the hearing aid part in sw) but as a discrete wireless headphone set is a mystery to me.

Wireless headphones give me earaches with pressure on my ear canal, over the ear headphones give me headaches with pressure on my ears, then glasses, then skull. Custom in-ear monitors conform to my ears just fine but block out most other sound and have wires to deal with.

These? I put them in, forget about them for a long time, and have sound just floating into my ears when I turn on music.

It's my go-to startup idea.
We are all burdened with the "Original Sin" of privilege from our race - whether White Privilege, Caste Privilege, etc - rising above his race is something that he could do, and we should _all do_
Hang on, that's mixing two things.

Transactions over $10k aren't automatically a SAR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_transaction_report

> CTRs since 1996 include an optional checkbox at the top if the bank employee believes the transaction to be suspicious or fraudulent, commonly called a SAR, or Suspicious Activity Referral.
And the relevant part from the article discussing it:

> The original idea dates back to the 1970s with the work of Stephen Hawking and Bernard Carr. Hawking and Carr reasoned that in the universe’s first fractions of a second, small fluctuations in its density could have endowed lucky — or unlucky — regions with too much mass. Each of these regions would collapse into a black hole. The size of the black hole would be dictated by the region’s horizon — the parcel of space around any point reachable at the speed of light. Any matter within the horizon would feel the black hole’s gravity and fall in. Hawking’s rough calculations showed that if the black holes were bigger than small asteroids, they could plausibly still be lurking in the universe today.

This theory proposes the black holes would be big enough to still be around.
I'm surprised at all of the negativity here. The changes proposed would be great for developers, even if (most) of the companies involved are shady, their reasons are selfish, and the obvious "astroturfiness" of the website is laughably dissonant and reeks like a dirty think tank that hasn't been cleaned in months. Apple has no qualms about absolutely screwing developers historically. I'm happy to see some pushback.
If users didn’t want these things, users wouldn’t buy them.

For the vast majority of people, and iPhone is way, way better than a computer that can run any app, precisely because it can’t run any app they click on.

I’m a hacker, so I would love to be able to install any software I want on my iPhone, and introspect it in other ways.

Most users, however, would have a way worse experience using their phone if they were given this option, because a non-trivial percentage of them would follow the tutorials online provided to them by malware authors to install their malware.

This is precisely what happened to desktop computers. Has everyone forgotten about Bonsai Buddy?

People who want a general purpose, configurable device that can run any code they want on it have options. They’re big, clunky, out of date phones.

Apple is being punished for their success here. They happen to make the best phone hardware at the moment, and they bundle the best phone hardware with cryptographically-enforced editorial decisions about the best software that runs on it.

I think the real danger here is that of censorship: if the state commands Apple to delete (or actively remote-disable) certain apps, a huge problem exists. Today it’s WeChat or TikTok. What if tomorrow it’s Signal? iMessage’s encryption has already been backdoored for the feds in the default configuration via iCloud Backup (which is not end to end encrypted and backs up the entirety of chat history from the device to Apple each night). The state could literally command Apple to prohibit any type of secure communication from the device via this method and they’d have to comply, and iPhone-owners would have no recourse due to the DRM. That’s the real danger.

There’s a real argument to not allowing Apple to do this, but I don’t think “consumer choice” is it. Consumer choice chose the walled garden over the anarchy of Desktop Computer Malware.
SARs are required any time someone is asked to fill out a CTR (which they can be, by the bank, optionally, for any amount) and declines to do so.

Imagine going to your bank and trying to withdraw $3000 or $5000 in cash, and them asking you to fill out a CTR out of an abundance of caution (like the fact that you’ve never made a cash withdrawal of that size before).

Don’t feel like filling out extra forms to get access to your own money? In a hurry and don’t have time? Decline the CTR and say you’ll deal with it another time?

It’s now a criminal offense for the bank to not file a SAR based on your refusal to complete the requested CTR.
There is more than enough liquid manure, forcing farmers to pay for its removal (at least in Europe, that is). Also, it can be used only at certain points in time to avoid food poisoning.
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I don't have an answer for you, except to say that getting <video> and <canvas> elements to play nicely with each other across all browsers and devices is pretty much guaranteed to damage your day, week, or even your month.

My Google searching bought me to this posting about Samsung Internet's Video Assistant feature (Nov 2019). My gut feeling is that the Video Assistant is possibly getting in the way of your code executing as expected? https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-internet-10-2-stable-...
Correct. The relevant terms are "horizontal monopoly" and "vertical monopoly."

A horizontal monopoly is if one company made all the cars.

A vertical monopoly is if one car manufacturer owned all the roads in Detroit and only their cars were authorized to drive on those roads.

Apple is a vertical monopoly across its hardware, the software that runs on that hardware (they don't own the software, but they own the distribution channel), and some of the suppliers that manufacture components for the hardware.
Yes Google should be generous to people breaking the law. There are many laws and they are complicated and often inscrutable and sometimes unfair. Breaking a law is something everyone does frequently, often without realizing it, so being generous and lenient with law breakers, especially those who have been valuable contributors, seems reasonable.

The allegation is that five of his videos had infringing content. Five out of six hundred. Being generous and letting him fix, remove, or contest the allegation prior to deleting the channel strikes me as a much better course than to just tell him "Your channel is being deleted for copyright infringement but we won't tell you where it happened."
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I don't think you should be legally mandated to make it easy, but if you sell a product to someone you shouldn't be allowed to stop them using it in the way they want to. If you do choose to retain control over how they can use the device then you should accept there might need to be regulation over what limits you can put in place in order to stop you doing things that are anti-competitive.
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Epic went about this all wrong. They should have started by making a public campaign touting their support of developers using Unreal Engine in the App Store.

Epic should have started by offering to cover half of Apple's App Store fee for Unreal Engine devs, and made the story about supporting their own developers AND about how Apple was charging too much.

Any coalition should have been with other companies doing the same thing with people building on their platforms. This would have gotten much more positive and sustainable publicity and would have allowed them to make the case that all developers should be paying less fees.

Instead they made it about Fortnite and themselves. Epic blew this.
But, can we just say: fck Fortnite.
This is the wolf calling for homes to be built of straw. We hate “free to play”/“pay to win” and in-app purchases. We HATE* them. Thank god that Apple is taking a stand.
I haven’t been so happy with a company since they refused to unlock that dude’s phone in California a few years back. (Which, I know, the lawsuit ended the same day an iOS “security” patch came out.)
Seriously. If you can’t make money by playing by the rules, GTFO.
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