skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love this idea. Maybe you could add random value generation?

E.g. EXPERTS CLAIM <var> TO BE <type>. IT WILL SURPRISE YOU!
Maybe I'm just not conversant enough in the field (I do ML "ops", not ML) but I'm surprised there aren't clever iterative ways of "reducing" the size of a model, for example, rank order the average activation of each parameter in a reducible group across the dataset, find the weakest, set it to zero, identify new misses, retrain with enrichment in the dead samples, reduce the hyperparameter by one.
AI Can Replicate Any Human Voice: What Does That Mean for Podcasts?
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Really pretty leather, heavy duty hardware, accurate stitching, and a nice smell. The hand signed letter best bag from Kamal is nice.

It was born out of a young girl’s passion for creating exquisite handmade leather articles. It all started in a small town called Lynchburg Tennessee, Where Komal, A Handmade Leather Artist, Started giving shapes to her creativity and started offering her creations to clients through shelves on Coffee shops, Gas stations and super markets.
Can we just link directly to the advocacy group's page (https://appfairness.org/)? I'm not certain the article is adding anything.

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I'm generally supportive of at least some of Epic's arguments towards Apple, and I do believe that Apple (and multiple other FAANG companies) are engaged in anti-competitive behavior that's currently hurting the market. But a lot of the arguments I'm reading on the App Fairness site in particular seem really poorly phrased, almost to the point of being incoherent.

From their objection on "user freedom":

> Think about this a little differently: A box of Cheerios costs about $3.00 at Kroger, but sometimes Cheerios offers a coupon which lowers the price to $2.50 at any store that offers Cheerios. What Apple is doing is basically like Kroger telling Cheerios that they’re not allowed to offer coupons, and if they do, Cheerios is at risk of being kicked out of the cereal aisle. Consumers wouldn’t stand for this type of monopolistic behavior over their cereal, so why should they allow it for the apps used on their mobile devices?

I had to think really hard what they mean by this and how it actually relates to user freedom. Most resellers are allowed to choose their own prices for goods. I don't think this analogy corresponds at all to what Apple is doing. Apple is banning apps from telling consumers in app about other purchasing options. That's a totally different objection.

I'm pleased to see developers banding together, but if this is the result then I wish they'd spend more time making more reasonable, understandable arguments. If this site was my first introduction to the debate over app store policies, I think I'd probably be on Apple's side.
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I work for a fintech company and I'm not much of a SQL guy but I often hear how we've reached some limit of what PostgreSQL can do, and every update is a huge deal, even the patch versions.

So I guess it's tech like any other. The more you know and use, the more you're aware of the recent developments. Like pretend you know enough javascript to build small promotional websites with some animations as you scroll down the page. You probably don't care, and are not aware, of the recent developments around optional chaining operators.
can't wait for the NLP that can compile transcripts of the national inquirer into working code
What’s New in the Windows Subsystem for Linux – September 2020
The idea that long range communications enables echo chambers etc is compelling. However, I'm intrigued by the point that similar cycles have occurred elsewhere before the internet, e.g., in eastern europe in its transition to communism which was preceded by a coalescence into different camps on far right and left, and an absence of a political center. [caveat, I don't know much about this history. it's just my understanding from some recent readings].
Well, there is Nebula which is subscription-only video hosting which some youtube creators are pushing, buy it isn't general purpose hosting.
Winner's Curse
I can't sell my music streaming service on Spotify.

I can't provide my own dating service on Tinder.

I can't operate my own app store on EGS.

Edit: what, I can't expect them to abide by their own demands of Apple?
They may, If they are, if so... but extremely doubtful given the history of prosecuting white collar crime in this and other countries.

Didn't we have many financial crime leaks this past decade with essentially no repercussions?
I've experienced this as well, and it's almost always because the tooling for MySQL is "better." I don't necessarily agree, but Sequel Ace (formerly Sequel Pro) is hard to beat.
I think the gp is disqualifying Stamets as an authority because he makes claims that are poorly supported by evidence. I agree with this assessment. He also happens to have no formal qualifications. So from where does he derive his authority? And if he has no authority, why is an article that is based on his authority interesting? I agree with gp that he's interesting, but he's also a salesman for fungi --- literally.

For example, he sells lions mane extracts which promise to improve memory and cognitive function. All of the science in this area is based on mouse studies. Stamets asserts this "translates from mice to humans," and leaves it at that. He makes statements such as "a Japanese researcher postulated" or "there are several clinical trials out there" (without commenting on their design or even conclusions). So while nothing he says is a lie, everything he says is meant to point to a certain conclusion despite a dramatic lack of direct evidence. If lions mane really helped that much, you'd think it would be easy to determine that, because given it's safety profile it should be easy to run a study on humans.
I've never had insurance cover hearing aids. It's criminal that something so essential isn't covered.
the aftermath of 9/11 sparked an aggressive new era of us foreign policy that has been broadly destabilizing both in terms of direct anti-terror and troop actions, 'engineering' color revolutions and indirectly creating the drivers for mass migration from into both the us and europe.
Yes, that's true. But "getting traffic" isn't really a worthwhile goal in itself, and seeing google as stealing your traffic just because they can provide information to users without a navigation hop is wrongheaded.

Making users visit your site to look up shipping status just to juice your traffic stats when you'd could provide it in a more convenient way is what everybody on this site would be calling a "dark pattern" if a big tech company did it. And just because you're small, doesn't make it any less annoying to your users.
BTW, I didn't create that chart, someone inside Mozilla (I'm told) did.
Indeed there is most likely some foreign influence in Western beliefs, but in the process perhaps we shouldn't overlook the broader reality of things which is that domestic organizations of various flavors allegedly have a long track record of actively persuading us to believe certain things. And then on top of that there's the complex nature of the human mind's perception of reality, how it forms beliefs based on a torrent of conflicting information, etc, and then the tricky problem that these phenomena are near-impossible to detect by the person who owns the mind.
The Epstein/Weiner situation proves the pedophile claim. Maybe the Q movement is to make people think its all a conspiracy theory, when the pedo stuff is completly proven. Epstein plead guilty to a previous incident and the girl that accused him said Clinton, P.Andrew, G. Maxwell did it to her also. Q may exist to make it all seem preposterous. Or its all true. But its certainly not all a lie.
Building Distributed Applications
DIY Hearing Aids is on the rise because of this.

It's more accessible now than before.
It's a bit more complicated than that. You will also notice another release note item in PG13 that says "Allow inserts, not only updates and deletes, to trigger vacuuming activity in autovacuum", which is because vacuum is not only about cleaning up deleted or rolled-back rows, but also transaction ID wraparound. Making that go away is also a dream of many, but it's a different (or additional) project than a new storage system.
Do spinors get "easier" in geometric algebra?
In the Docker container on my laptop, the multi.sh 1 2 3 4 5 6 takes 0.031 seconds.

https://github.com/Katzmann1983/performance_test_shell/blob/...
Learning about Stamets and reading his books opened up a whole new appreciation of nature for me. Starting with learning how to identify wild edible mushrooms, you then have to learn about different types of trees, seasonal patterns, weather, etc. It’s a great hobby that helps you learn about the interconnectedness of everything in nature while benefitting from delicious and healthy treats along the way. One of the most fun memories of this last year was stumbling across a patch of morels in the spring (one of the rarest and most delicious mushrooms that can only be found in the wild for a few weeks in early spring). I’ve even started making some of the extracts described in this article at home (tinctures of reishi, chaga, and lion’s mane) and enjoy sharing them with friends and family.
Same here, and it really sharpened my typing skill.
Inside the article:

> Other founding members include ProtonMail email service owner Proton Technologies AG, trade group News Media Europe and project-management software maker Basecamp LLC.

Link to the advocacy group page: https://appfairness.org/
Any in particular that you would recommend as a place to start?
Calling a company that has ~13% of the market share in mobile devices is quite the take. It will never hold up in court.
Thanks. That's the answer I was looking for.
Building Businesses Opportunities with Distributed Applications
It's a monopoly in the same way Spotify not hosting some episodes of Joe Rogan is a monopoly.
Build a Pokemon Go-like AR Game under an hour
Banks get punished if there was fradulent activity and they didn't publish a SAR. This means banks will file SARs even when there isn't any real fraud going on, just behaviour that their models flag as "suspicious".
Don't forget about inflation. That nominal 7% is I believe 4-5% in real returns.
Tinder sells rejections and disappointments too.
Paul Stamets – How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World (2018)
Excess mortality has nothing to do with testing, you are entirely correct there.

However, most Covid deaths are counted as deaths post a positive test. Therefore, the tests provide the denominator for potential deaths.

The US has lots of testing (though probably not enough) and an overall poor response to the pandemic, causing the 25%/5% statistic, and hence my point.
Everyone serious about recipes has it you wont rank without it
They have one competitor on which users are allowed to install their own market (see F-Droid.) [1]

[1] https://www.f-droid.org/
Show HN: Updating the TimescaleDB license thanks to HN
4 months ago, our announcement for our free, multi-node, petabyte-scale time-series database generated 200+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23272992

Many commented on the Timescale License, our source-available license governing advanced features (eg multi-node). Most were positive, but some pointed out drawbacks (who says HN can't be productive!). That spurred an internal debate.

Today we're happy to share an updated Timescale License with new rights, including the "right-to-repair" and "right-to-improve." And we’re doubling-down on our community, making all enterprise features free:

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-open-source-business-in-cloud-era-v2

The open-source business model used to be simple. Companies run your software, some pay you for support. But today companies would rather pay someone to operate software, eliminating the need to buy support. The Cloud has cut off the primary business model for open-source software.

Enter new licenses like the Timescale, Elastic, and Confluent Community Licenses. These "Cloud Protection Licenses" licenses maintain an open-source spirit, but protect the right of delivering software in the cloud for the project’s main creator.

Why not just “compete with the best cloud product”? Public clouds (Amazon, Microsoft, Google) are trillion dollar corporations, with market position, pricing power, deep pockets, and (possibly) unfair business practices. Enterprises get locked into discounted multi-year agreements; startups get $100,000s of free credits.

Yet even with 100,000s employees and billions of dollars, they did not develop TimescaleDB, Elastic, Confluent, and others.

Open-source companies represent a large amount of innovation in our industry. We are scrappy, entrepreneurial teams taking on not 1, but 3 software empires. Cloud Protection Licenses enable the open-source Davids to compete against the public cloud Goliaths.

So thank you again to the HN community!
Material UI Dashboard with React
The medium is stone, the mistake was not a mistake, the difference was not noticable.
Ah, I guess I misread that. Some article talked about how we were able to coordinate on the reduction even though congress had some moratorium on negotiating with OPEC, and I thought it was through that technicality and that OPEC+ was created specifically to work around it.
The disparity between the burden of proof for Section 230 and an SAR says it all: the foxes are guarding the hen house.
Considering Tinder's parent ( The Match Group ) got sued by the FTC for fraud, not very smart to include them. Intentionally making subscriptions hard to cancel is one of the behaviors Apple's payment system seeks to prevent.

As much as I like Tim Sweeney's arguments for lower royalties, he doesn't have half a toe to stand on.

Don't want to pay the Apple tax, make your own phone. This fairness coalition is free to manufacture Android phones with a no royalties store . Hogan's Law on YouTube has done a very good take on this. The government can not compel two companies to engage in a contract. If I set up a newspaper stand and decide anyone who wants to sell news papers needs to cut me in for 30%, you can't demand special treatment.

I could see Apple making an example out of Epic and banning them for life. You don't sneak in hidden functionality, and then flick it on via a server side command
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I'm thinking of first targeting a very specific niche of content and making a recommendation client out of that. If the recommendations are really top notch than maybe people interested in that niche would be wiling to pay to get them (This is what another commenter suggested).
I can access wikipedia, reddit. When was it blocked?
As an adult, I want a brightly colored hearing aid. I don't care about hiding my disability—in fact I'd rather it be difficult for others to ignore—and I want it to be easy to find if my kids knock one out of my ears which happens less now that they're six but still happens.
If I build an operating system + hardware, should I be legally mandated to provide tooling to make it easy for users to find and install arbitrary software?
Spoken by someone who has never used any db specific functionality to facilitate simplifying logic and constraints.
A Migraine Pill for Tenet 2020
They have a monopoly over the apps on the iOS.
No hominem was attached
IMO, that's a very interesting and smart approach :)
here's a more detailed write-up including pictures of the device:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

It's a crude, bulky, ugly, and fragile thing and the $1 price is not realistic - but it would be less than $10. It seems like a decent product for the poorest places - which is their goal.

The hearing aid biz in the US is glaringly inefficient and obviously ripe for disruption - but this product will not do it here. There's definitely a demand for hearing aids in the couple-of-hundred dollar range that doesn't require audiologist visits and insurance hassle - but the entrenched interests will not help bring it about.
(I work on GeckoView at Mozilla.)

about:config prefs are not "broken," but many of them work much differently in GeckoView than they work in desktop.

Setting some prefs to the wrong value could completely disconnect Gecko from the embedding app.
I see a lot of these that basically say the same thing.

I think someone should write a blog post about the non-programming skills you need to be a staff/principal engineer.
With all the advances in tech, why does it seem that hearing aids are still from the 80s?

I guess ultimately you're limited by your interface to the brain (something maybe neuralink could address?), but even still shouldn't there be some "magic" machine learning stuff going on in this space? Not at all an expert in audio processing, but I would imagine that we could do a decent job distinguishing voices from background noise, automatically thresholding sound in different environments, and possibly modulating sounds into different frequency bands when there are e.g. multiple speakers.

For all I know, stuff like this is already going on.
It's a duopoly between Android and iOS. Better?

And the current lawsuits are arguing that Apple has a monopoly on payments on their own devices, not that they have a monopoly on the smartphone market. Big difference.
The Apple store has a monopoly on installing software on Apple devices.
They control 100% of the apps on an iPhone
Website's broken on my Firefox, won't scroll.
As a society it is not better. If they refuse to staff at $10.00 they do not hire or gain additional marketshare. Another company will take that business at that level. Or no company will step up and that will raise prices.

Minimum wage simply creates a market floor.
Attacking a companny/person behind an argument for unrelated issues is a definition of "ad hominem".
> "Unit" is not a particularly well defined thing.

Fair point. I think in this case I would stop focusing on definitions and focus on goals. Saying that one goal with our unit tests is for them to be lightening fast, so disk access including hitting the database is not allowed. Feel free to write a "unit test" that hits the database. But we are going to run that "unit test" along with our slower running tests that we call "functional tests".
Yeah. Though that's generally done by someone who knows what they're doing, in a group of several vehicles (so if one gets in trouble they can help each other out).
Were the Ferengi involved?
I have a general interest in people understanding what this is.

A suspicious activity report is not about a crime, it isn't about anything being suspected of a crime or even actually suspicious.

SARs are an ill thought compliance nuance created by Congress 50 years ago with a ridiculous name.

The headline even has a vested interested in covering its own ass with the wording "possibly corrupt" because their own legal department was like "really?" and the editor in chief was like "but think of the clicks!"
This is arguably a huge gamble on ARPUs of this market segment. Telecom ARPUs are already extremely low because of Jio's predatory pricing (which was incidentally called "penetrative" pricing by India's antitrust regulator [1]), which negatively impacts service quality and bandwidth. It's a great growth hack for startups who are looking for DAU/MAU farming but it is unlikely to translate into reach cash flows unless you also have paying customers with deeper pockets. Interesting to watch this unfold.

[1] http://competitionlawblog.kluwercompetitionlaw.com/2019/06/1...
> I think clear incitement to violence is a line that free speech shouldn't cross

but either way, according to most folks on this forum, Facebook doesn't have to allow free speech
Wait, there's still work to do: a Firefox version.
I agree Epic's arguing in bad faith, but I also don't see why Apple (and other App Store companies, like Google) need to have change legislated upon them (or why this is something that needs to be protested). Apple got to where they are by being a successful platform that attracted users and developers with their walled garden ethos. If in fact that walled garden is bad for users/developers, then there are competitors. If Apple users felt they were getting ripped off (or Apple developers felt it wasn't worth it to develop for Apple platforms) they could go to Windows or Linux/Android.

The only way I can interpret this is that Epic & Friends see Apple has a nice cake which they now want to both have and eat. Given that Apple made the cake and there are other cakes, I think they're being entirely unfair to Apple. If Epic & Friends don't like Apple's rules, they're welcome to get off Apple's platform and focus on other platforms.

I personally don't think it's worth developing for Apple platforms myself, but the argument that developers somehow -have- to develop for Apple platforms is nonsense (the AAA market for games on PC vs Mac makes this obvious). That's only true if you decide you have to reach those users, which is only true if you as the developer decide it's economically worthwhile, in which case you have implicitly agreed that Apple's terms are economically justifiable.
In that case every single retail store has a monopoly on the products they sell.

This is a meaningless definition of monopoly.
Ask HN: What do you use Excel (or SpreadSheet) for?
It is a bit more complicated than that, hence why conservative GC are pretty bad reclaiming memory, because they need to play safe.

One of the reasons why they are changing the pointer rules in Go, was exactly because there are data races across domains if you happen to nest conversions between GC and non-GC pointers, and the GC happens to run just in the moment that it thinks the reference is no longer in use, while actually it was stored temporarily in an uintptr.
Within the US (which is where it matters for this case), Apple has ~40% of the market and a bigger share of the market than any other phone maker.
Sounds like a great time to make sure we ban all the closed ecosystems and reestablish free market at its best.
I just canceled Spotify membership I had for years for now.

I don't have anything for Spotify or their fight with Apple. It makes sense.

But on the other hand I refuse to help Epic in any initiative they take or to endorse companies that sides with them. Epic is in my eyes evil company and they done a lot of bad things in area I care about. I know that few of my friends do the same right now.

It probably doesn't matter, but the only thing one can do is to vote with their wallet.
Nobody said the monopoly is in mobile devices. The reference was to the controlled ecosystem. That is what Epic's case is about. Their developer account was revoked when they wanted to use a different merchant processor. Apple is practically engaging in RICO activities.
Ugh. Those adults watch a few conspiracy YouTube videos and Fox News and consider themselves educated and informed.
They control almost 70% of mobile app revenue: https://swagsoft.com.sg/blog/android-vs-ios-which-platform-t....

A service like netflix, spotify or basecamp can't compete without an iOS app.
F-Droid itself relies upon Android's openness to allow it to be installed.

If you don't like Apple's walled garden then use Android.
Are any of these supposed to work on congenital hearing loss, or only when hearing loss is caused by damage/age?
That's the problem. I think people keep using the term "monopoly" maybe because that's what they are familiar with, but you are correct in pointing out that courts of law have a very specific legal interpretation of that word.

Probably one solution is to place the bet on anti-trust instead. It's still not quite right, but if you bend the current legal understanding of "trust" a little bit, you can get there. Whereas, there's no amount of bending the interpretation of "monopoly" that will make Apple fit.
Technically they can subsidize the device by hoping to make money from the user data in future.