skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
F-Droid is even more locked down than the App Store, and even if they turned it into the default app store then Android would still be riddled with malware.

As to how the Android users keep acquiring malware, I have no idea whether it’s from the Play Store, or if they download free apk files of paid apps, or if they download it through ads or from emails or whatever. I just know I have to help fix them regularly, and if iOS is forced to open up then iPhones will suffer from the same malware issues that you see with OSX/Windows/Android.
Well, humans just started to build jumbo jets in very very recent history. That’s not a very fair benchmark.
Some drugs are dangerous because of the drug war. Crack cocaine for example has little reason to exist except that it is easier to smuggle than powder cocaine. It's also harder to hold dealers to account for poor quality control when they are unable to be regulated or monitored.
Employees were mad specifically because he wouldn't take down the president's post threatening a violent crackdown on rioting & looting. Is it your perception that the main objection of employees was to explicitly counterfactual claims? That's not what I got from TFA

Also TFA makes clear that facebook takes down tons of posts, that's the biggest complaint they get from users, so it's not true that they are leaving everything up. Respectfully: did you read TFA?
Femtolisp has a nice, comprehensible Lisp reader written in C, with syntax very similar to Common Lisp:

https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp/blob/master/read.c

CMUCL has a fairly complex, but still comprehensible implementation of a Common Lisp reader:

https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/cmucl/cmucl/-/blob/master/src...

It uses a FSM to recognize numbers and symbols when tokenizing, and it demonstrates an implementation of Common Lisp readtables.

Here's how the Common Lisp Hyperspec specifies the Common Lisp reader (as an algorithm):

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_b.h...
>> PS. Cushing (the terminal for west texas intermediate) is in Oklahoma.

Oops of course you're right, thanks. Changing in the comment. Like you I also wonder if these contracts will take off.
> Music is an exception, fortunately. For now.

Even then only if you're lucky

https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,89818.0.html

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110809/04114515451/umg-w...
Language matters and distinctions matter and branding matters. If you believe that OSS > Source Available > Closed Source that doesn't mean you want the concept of OSS to be diluted by Source Available. If you want to release a Source Available piece of code then all the power to you. But don't call it Open Source Software (or whatever vague variant of that implication you use) unless it actually is. Source Available should stand or fall on it's own merits and not by trying to co-opt the goodwill that OSS has built up over the last many decades.

edit: This is a license that doesn't allow source code modifications to be released and only after feedback does it even allow you to run source code modifications privately. That very much is not in the "spirit of open source."
You have more faith in your own virtue and right to rule over others than I do. I prefer to live as much as possible letting others live as they choose and being responsible for myself. QAnon isn't really much of a problem in the real world -- nobody is burning down cities and rioting because of it.
Empire takedown is too recent to say they’ll end up getting away with it. Arrests often come well after the crime as mentioned by the GP.
Sure- a device that relies on iOS and iPhones (for now) to operate.
> very few consumers benefit from cloud-based gaming

> It's not a good way to do things, it's not good for any consumer or user of those things

> no matter how impractical or stupid it is

Hard disagree on this take.

I would personally love a stable, smooth gaming-as-a-service experience - where I can pay based on my usage level, access any games I want to, pick up my saved game from any device, and never have to worry about sitting around for hours waiting for updates or downloads.

I expect there's a _massive_ market for that. You may not be in it, and that's fine, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it.
Now they seem to want to topple democracy and spread dictators.
Windows XP source has been leaked
Found the bug in your process in line 1.
Managers shouldn't be attending your daily stand-up.
Imagine if bird clearer's only love are crows. That would be ironic and sad...
I forget who, but I read some prominent CS guy from the 1970s who said that when he talked to Lisp enthusiasts, he would ask if they would still like the language if it were batch processed and their enthusiasm would dry up.
I think you're right. Although I'm with Apple on this one, in other contexts I've made the argument that I want my markets free as in GPL, not free as in BSD. That is, I want the market itself to be free, even if that means its participants have some restrictions.

Actually, in this case I guess that means I like the restrictions that Apple's app store places on developers. Sure, lose the ability to publish malware and other profitable things, but that protects my ability to use it peacefully.
> Usually this is invoked to mean "it's fine for me burn down your business or destroy your life because I don't like you because consequences <grin>"

What a ridiculous hyperbole of what it "usually" means.
Infection Fatality Ratios for COVID-19 Among Persons 12 and Older
Discovery is probably the only reason why I still use YouTube. If somebody could make something that provides a non-Google recommendation system with tools to categorize/organize the videos I've watched/want to watch, that'd be great. Assuming the UI is at least on par with Google's, I'd switch in a heartbeat. Not that their UI is particularly good, but the alternatives I've seen (like PeerTube) are frustrating to use on a basic moment-to-moment level.
I was missing this wikipedia link from your list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition
>So crows could build a jumbo jet, they're just lazy?

How can they physically even come close to building a jet?

It seems humans physicality has a LOT to do with our intelligence. Perhaps someone with actual knowledge on this can chime in.. but it seems to me if you have a build similar to ours, you have the opportunity to actually progress and manipulate things to a level where it might a situation where as a species you continue to evolve with more intelligence over time because you are able to actually use it.

I don't know how to say that better.. but on the other hand, if we had our same brains but had the bodies where we can hardly manipulate any tools.. don't you think that makes all the difference in the world?
I’d be very curious to know what rules they actually broke.
you cannot apply the same logic to something entirely different
"We are told that this patient has a poor diet and eats a lot of candy. Could his illness be related to candy consumption?" Dr Elazer R Edelman said.

He had suffered no symptoms before suddenly going into cardiac arrest in a fast food restaurant.

i think more than liquorice is blame for this dudes death
OK, so how about the fact that they haven't figured out how to heal broken bones? Is that my arrogance again, or is it that they would just prefer to flop on the ground until nightfall and then be eaten alive by coyotes?
Yeah, I'm not that far from 40 myself and having grown up in a charismatic church in the 90ies, I sure remember the scare around heavy metal (or any rock for that matter) and that most things in fact was satanic. Fun times.

This docudrama explains hard-to-understand concepts by telling emotional stories that most people can relate to, which frankly should be done more often for technical stuff affecting society in not so obvious ways. Again, this film is not for developers and engineers who mostly prefer dry facts. It's for everyone else.
Two major sources of Tim in ancient times were Britain (often called Tin island by the romans before they went on to conquer it) and Afghanistan.
You are incorrect. Contracts are immutable but you can upgrade your application. There are different patterns, one where you make a shell contract that has pointers to contracts with actual business logic.

Also, there are patterns where the user needs to confirm that yes they want to use the new version.

There are also systems of insurance on contracts.
It's not that dead, google announced today extended support for it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24557027
I'm a total layman in this field, so these are just unsupported thoughts.

It seems to me that a brain going meta - thinking about thinking - could be what leads to a sense of self and thus consciousness.

So, do these results imply those things about corvids? This has implications for AI, I believe.
Ask HN: What kind of specialist do I need for help pricing a SaaS product?
I'm building a SaaS product (who isn't anymore amirite?) and need some help figuring out the math on pricing an element of that product: data retention. Now, I could napkin math this thing and ensure it's profitable, but I'd probably over-shoot the cost and price myself out of the market. It seems other industries have underwriters (I think they're called? Or is that just insurance?) that help figure these things out but I'm not sure of the term. It seems this would go beyond just simple accounting and into data storage and market research, which I'm fine to do, I just want it done right which is why I'm interested in maybe hiring a specialist.

What kind of title/person should I be looking for that does this sort of thing professionally?
I haven't a clue whether it's true or not - Trump himself could even admit it and it doesn't make much difference.

I'm saying that the article and general character of these types of allegations fall in line with the previous four years of frantic searching for the magic phrase or story that'll finally banish Trump. It's more desperation than reporting.
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If we ever need someone to dance about architecture, I think Awti def makes the short list!
It applies to humans too. We are terrible at generating truly random numbers, which are required for mixed game strategies.

BTW, NFL theorem proves that it itself is never terribly important. Learning algorithm, which uses NFL theorem for making decisions, are in the same position as any other learning algorithm.
I decided to dig into the raw data. What I could find was the country by country narrative for 2018 which has each country ranked on a bunch of metrics out of a total score and then those scores are combined via some weighting into an aggregate scores. These component scores are entirely subjective and have no ground truth - worse than college or hospital rankings. College rankings have some quantitative basis - average starting offer for college graduates and hospitals have risk of death or readmittance for hospitals. Freedom house metrics have no quantitative basis (see below).

The country narratives are not available for 2019 or 2020. I can assure you that if you dig into the raw data you will most certainly find it rife with ad-hoc assumptions to justify their conclusions.

The fact that they have a magical threshold of 1 million for a country and that country get a weight of 1 and India with a population of 1.4 billion gets a a weight of 1 which leads to this gem:

"From 2006 to 2020, the number of democracies contracted to 108 and the percentage of democracies to 55%. Among states over one million population, the decline in the number of democracies was more dramatic, from 86 to 75, a drop from 57% to 48% (Table 4)."

I can tell from a fairly informed perspective that the quality of the process of voting in elections in India over the past decade has gone up significantly due to tamper-proof EVMs and the fact that India's voting commission is an independent constitutional body. Just that gain alone should make India's ranking move up in the Democracy index. India has added ~100 million people over that time. So the sheer number of people being able to exercise that vote freely and have it be counted dwarfs the population of countries who have become undemocratic.

To quote Charlie Munger, incentives matter and to quote Taleb - always always ask what they are selling. Freedom house is selling their rankings to Donors. Press like this gives them the ability to show donors the PR and raise more dollars. Freedom House rankings are optimized to raise the $30,000,000 they need every year from Donors. They are incentivized to say - Democracy is in Danger - for it raises more dollars. Dem are there incentives. Even better when you can demonize the countries whose governments are of the opposite ideological strain than that of the donors. India's rating has cratered since 2014 since Modi got elected.

Incentives matter and always always ask what they are selling and why.
Scrimba is basically magic. It's a video of code but when you click on it ... suddenly you're in an editor. It's such a fantastic format. Imagine if every coding tutorial video on YouTube could let you do that!

Oh and the team is full of kind and intelligent people, so that's nice too. Congrats on the launch!
I've been enjoying Stadia on a 2013 Linux PC with a ~30/8 (down/up) Mbps wi-fi. Both Destiny 2 and AC: Odyssey work great. Occasional hiccups, yes. No more than a few per hour. It doesn't bother me. The fact that I'm playing recent games on an old Linux PC still blows my mind occasionally.
Standups (weekly, not daily) worked pretty well for us at 5-20 people: maybe 5-12 devs and 2-8 other stakeholders. Smaller than that, and communication was so easy and natural we didn't need standups. Bigger, and it became tedious and low signal (everyone didn't need to know everything).

We now have more than 50 devs, and we've remained quite flat and autonomous. It would be literally impossible for me to track what all the other devs are working on, never mind going over it every day in 15 minutes. It probably works better for siloed dev/product teams that stay under 30 people, but that's not how we work.

I share all this to give perspective on a pretty bold statement: "If you [don't like standups], then I don't want to work with you." Ten people is a good size for standups, and I think you may be overgeneralizing your experience when judging people who don't like standups.

Even still, I'm curious how much is changing daily to warrant daily standups? We have a rotating "release team" who runs QA and ultimately performs releases, and they check in daily. But daily checkins for feature development seem very frequent to me.
NO FUN ALLOWED
What about edison, didn't he claim the same thing about nikola tesla?
Microsoft – Responsibly collect higher quality data for AI/ML
> Does Apple allow developers to just charge 30% more when users sign up through iOS, and just note in the app that access to the service though iOS costs more?

You are allowed to do the former but not the latter.
Tell that to Orcas. They rule the seas.
Liquorice is one of those things like cilantro that's highly polarizing. You either love it or you deeply, passionately despise it. I too would tend to assume there's a genetic component, though I don't know.

It does make for a convenient economy of people who will eat the black jellybeans from others' bags :)
tl;dr - randomized study, .26% fatality rate overall, .01% fatality rate for age 40 and under, 1.71% for persons age 60 and over

Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine Sept 2020
See also:

https://www.reddit.com/r/reinforcementlearning/comments/iyk2...

An adaptive deep reinforcement learning framework enables curling robots with human-like performance in real-world conditions
There are browser extentions.

Google Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipfs-companion/nib...

Mozilla Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipfs-companio...

There's also IPFS gateways that bypass the need for anything but a browser.

Official list of public gateways: https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/
This is good advice, I'll add one more thing: make sure your manager values what you are doing. If they do not then you are headed for trouble regardless. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that your manager relationship is probably the single most important factor to optimize for in any job. If you don't have mutual trust and respect it will lead to distortions, and in the worst cases can create long-term psychological corruption leaving one cynical and unable to trust their own better instincts.
You're begging the question. You've defined what humans do as success. It's not even clear that what we do isn't complete failure (see climate change, nuclear war, etc.) Let's see if our actions keep us alive for some 160 million years.
Moving Away from Visual Studio to JetBrains Rider
When I got divorced a few years ago I decided to reduce the "stuff" I owned. A friend and I went one weekend to extract my belongings from the marital abode. We drove straight to the dump and got rid of everything except my 2 guitars and my golf clubs. (We donated all the books to goodwill) All my pictures of my kids are stored digitally and I had one box of clothes. Everything else: gone.

It is shocking how much stuff is acquired over time and bow liberating it is to rid yourself of that stuff.
Practically speaking the biggest difference is that it is a lot harder to sell the shares to someone else.
Also that ad devolves into mostly non-sense, the whole middle section. You can't play at half those places on those screens.
Probably a healthy dose of 'parallel construction' going on based on secret evidence.

I don't quite understand the dark market, but I assume they basically rely on postal services to transfer most of the drugs. I'm pretty sure, probably starting with the anthrax mailings 20 years ago, that the USPS records images and itineraries for all packages and mail flowing through the system. Combine that with cell phone data and surveillance footage and you have a method of detecting who sent the drugs that the government ordered from the dark web vendors.

You also have other possibilities to consider, such as DNA evidence in the packages.

I would be very worried if I was committing any sort of major crime these days, unless I had the protection of a government. The tools are all there to catch nearly everyone committing a crime if they are motivated enough.
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The specifics of jumbo jet manufacture really has nothing to do with my point. The point of my comment is that there is a very evident and very clear discrepancy between human intelligence and animal intelligence.

It's always fun to watch a clever squirrel find its way into a bird feeder, a cunning fox outsmart a rabbit, or a curious monkey recognize himself in the mirror. These are signs of sentience, sure, but all of those are far cries from what even an immature human is capable of, and this obvious evidence is what leads us to believe we are smarter than them. It's not arrogance in any sense.
I play regularly, usually the experience is pretty flawless, there is the occasional stutter once in while and\or degradation of graphics.

When it works well (and it usually does for me) I think most non-pro players won't notice any gameplay impacting latency.

The biggest issue right now with the service is lack of games.
> I agree, Apple should make it easier to boot non-iOS iPhones. Even provide some tools to write custom OSes for the iPhone hardware. However, Apple should only provide that service to the registered adult owner of the device, in person at an Apple store after delivering the caveats that the device will no longer be supported by Apple (regardless of resale) and any warranty is void.

this kinda misses the point. I don't want to write my own OS for the phone or run ubuntu or someone else's jailbroken iOS image. I just want to run normal iOS, get updates, and also have the ability to escalate privileges from time to time. why is there not an amount of money I can pay for this?

also, does apple distribute any third party drivers in iOS? if so, they might not be able to make non-iOS iphones possible, even if they wanted to. not as familiar with the apple world but IIRC, this has been a longstanding issue for true alternative OSes on android phones.
But they no longer have to commute to work (which costs time, or which costs money). They could use that time or money to learn the joys of cooking tasty food, tasty food being one of the few things people of all walks and persuasions can agree is a joyful thing. But they perhaps instead choose to use their free time to play grindy addictive video games, or binge watch Netflix, or consume cannabis, or rage-read political newsfeeds, or get mired in political threads on HN. Why take up music or cooking or reading good books with good friends and why find joy and peace and purpose in life when you can instead wallow in a web-cesspool?
IMHO, GoL is too simple (as Einstein might have said). The machinery GoL can produce is "curious", but overly complicated. IOW, GoL is not complex enough to produce results that can be reasoned about usefully/meaningfully.

They used CNNs in this experiment to learn how far a NN could predict GoL into the future. It can't be done, for GoL is not finite.
It took an internet provider 18 months to diagnose and fix electrical interference at 7am every morning?
Used to. Then humans invented boats and spears.
I will. But let me say this, for 30 years Godwin’s law was sort of a joke on the internet and circa 10 yrs ago, I would have expected a genocide comment to be ridiculous. But considering this context, it is relevant not merely a “political” battle.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/06/21/facebook-keeps-failing-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
So I grew up on a dairy farm and we had electronic id badges since the mid-90's (actually there was a Surge system before that, but the main one was a DeLavel in 1997). We had a variety of issues that these were good for, but the gist is that the cow's identity is scanned and matched with statistics regarding her milking. Everytime she entered the parlor she was id-ed and then the system could be configured to separate her from the herd based on rules or by a preconfigured request. It is still how my parents do herd management; except ow they have a button in their ear a little bigger than a quarter.

I see some major drawbacks for things like this:

1. Because of the way cows behavior naturally they will get their neck band caught on something. Extrication can become dire and stressful. A few deaths and a system like this is simply not worth it.

2. These will be roughed up -- like a lot. Cows like to play in water and rub on things. If this company doesn't last you'll be SOL quick enough that your initial investment won't pay off (saying nothing of software dependencies...)

3. The point of interacting with cows manually is to see her. Even in herds in the 1000s someone familiar with the herd will recognize cows (especially past problem ones) and can also see issues before they become a risk for her.

Cows are very well adjusted to being taken care of by humans. Everytime you back off the human component from herd management the domesticated cow will be less cared for.
I wonder if it is like cilantro. It tastes like soap to me, but my wife loves it. Apparently there is a physiological reason for that. Maybe it is similar with black licorice.
Perhaps intelligent animals are just too well adapted to their world and don't feel the needs we do.

Or perhaps crows only have two claws that also serve as feet and a beak, making it harder to fashion tools?

Perhaps living underwater, like octopuses do, makes it quite hard to master fire?

Or perhaps measuring intelligence is hard, and focusing only on engineering outcomes is a fallacy.

It's also not like most humans would be able to build even a steam engine, let alone a jumbo jet.
And the lack of other players in multiplayer games...