skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any fat trimmed in the margins (which is less than you think) would not accrue to developers because they’d have to deal with multiple stores and multiple rules sets.

They also wouldn’t have to offer the same terms to every developer. All they would need to do would be to lock in some exclusive popular apps. ‘Competing for developers’ doesn’t mean making things better for all developers. It just means securing enough exclusives that people can’t ignore your store.
Appreciate the sentiment. We try pretty hard to be careful to not describe the Timescale Licensed code as Open Source, and typically refer to it as "source available".

Of course, a big portion of our code is licensed under Apache 2, which clearly does qualify.

From the Timescale License, for example:

https://www.timescale.com/legal/licenses#section-0-backgroun...

Thanks!
> And even in the US, "yelling fire in a crowded movie theater" isn't protected either.

Well, if you believe tangential dicta that was grounded in no preexisting law offered in a since-overturned case allowing the repression of core political speech, sure...

But best not use that example.
Coronovirus surges again in some European countries but not in Sweden [video]
It would be opt-in only, to respect your wishes.
I offer that anyone who did the work that these researchers did would have also been “rightful owners” of that money.

This is the consequence of programmable money; there’s no getting around it, and, in my opinion, people shouldn’t want to. Rescuing people and brands who don’t put the effort into security from the consequences of their own mistakes isn’t a net benefit.

I'm all for anonymous teams, but look at the hoops this person had to jump through just to get in touch with them to report the bug.

When you're anonymous, all you have is your brand, and theirs should have burned to the ground for this entirely preventable error.
What are the implications of owning shares in a company that is no longer publicly traded?

Apologies if this is discussed in the article, it's partially behind a paywall.
So if I hand out free drugs I won't be sent to jail?
Wow, I wrote Apple and suggested they do exactly that. That this feature isn't part of the "introduction to your airpods" stuff is wrong. It should be!
I'm not sure about beginners, but as a coder wanting to pick up other languages/frameworks quickly, I prefer text based courses with in-browser interactive code editors. This allows me to move at my pace with minimum distraction and fumbling around, and also when I want to refer back to something later, I can find it in text much more quickly than trying to find the right clip and time.
I wish more vendors would move this way. The rise of cloud computing has made it clear that people want to buy services, not software licenses.

Too many (DB) vendors keep trying to sell licenses with a heavy sales process, and barely have a working cloud offering while complaining about AWS.
The key to making a bot indistinguishable is to mix patterns in it along with machine generation.

For example, simply providing an alternative to pay walled article is a recurring task people do here. It's easy to automate and doesn't raise eye brows. It raises someone's perception of the profile if they were to do a quick check. Another one include providing alternative to products. It's easy. Search through product hunt or other sites for results or wishing someone on their product launch/show HN which again doesn't require contextual understanding to the same degree.

Big tech, philosophical, news media, etc threads are predictable. T5 and electra models from Google are good at filling the blanks (in contrast to gpt which generates texts in forward fashion) so they can be used to make unique sentences following a pattern. They are more meaningful at the cost of less randomness.

Many posts on HN appear first on lobster, small subreddits, GitHub trending, and popular twitter accounts. You could simply fetch the links at a random interval within a timezone and post unique links here.

You can target a demography who is least likely to suspect it's a bot. HN is siloed in many small parts despite having the same front page. You can predict which users are likely to post in certain threads and what their age demography is i.e Emacs anything. Database of HN is available on big query.

You can train a response to suspicious comment calling them a bot: That hurts. I am not a native English speaker. Sorry, if I offended you. or Please check the guidelines...

There are many techniques to make a sophisticated bot. ;)

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/02/exploring-transfer-learnin...

https://github.com/fuzhenxin/Style-Transfer-in-Text

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/03/more-efficient-nlp-model-p...

https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combi...

It wouldn't surprise me if a non significant number of users here were bots.

I am more interested in the question: Does the difference matter especially in text as long as a bot user is a more useful user?
IBM Cloud lets you upgrade major versions through Read Replicas and also do dry runs, https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-postgresql?topic=da...
Do you really believe that the entire Republican party leadership publicly stated that black people are not worthy of life?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24582791
I noticed that there are web apps for iOS to get around Apple’s rules. Why couldn’t MS and Google do this.
Perhaps the way to split the difference, in your example/metaphor, is to ban the restaurant from giving the delicious sugary food to the obese rather than banning the food altogether.
Only available in the US and i can't find a link to the launch library. Judging by the background images not a single game i want is included.

Not a great start....
Well, what are the fixes? Writing "smart contracts" is not meant to be for anybody but very seasoned developers. Also if you write a contract and do not get it audited by 3rd parties than nobody will (or should) take for anything other than a toy application. That's just the nature of writing immutable code that potentially transfers a value.

About Solidity in particular - I think most people would say it's not the best. There are endeavors to develop better languages but Solidity has become quiet deeply entrenched in the Ethereum world. Everybody is busy with much more pressing issues - like scalability.
The only one of Stephenson's books I've ever given up on.
Good question, the option to video chat is only shown to your users when you (the owner of the website) indicate that you want to video chat. As soon as you've already found someone to chat with (or you cancel the chat) no other users will see the option to join your video chat.
> official theory

What a sad time we live in that this is actually a reasonable thing to ask.
This feels like an appropriate place to rant on something that’s been bothering me for a while.

It’s really disappointing to me to see every single form of entertainment becoming a subscription service. It’s also the same problem you see with various apps/software trying the SaaS model, even when it doesn’t make sense.

Are we going to have exclusive games requiring multiple subscriptions to enjoy the content you want? Will we move away from being able to purchase games to run them locally?

Moreover, if Games as a Service (GaaS) becomes the de facto way to release games, is it going to encourage longer titles with lots of grinding/farming to ensure people stay engaged for months at a time? Will it slowly kill off sub-20h, more story-focused experiences that can be completed in a fraction of one month’s subscription price?

Also, it really bothers me to see that almost every single one of the FAANGs feels the need hop on the bandwagon. First it was music streaming, then movies/TVs, and now it looks like gaming is next. You can argue that competition is good but really we just have exclusive content siloed across various services and priced in such a way that likely only the large tech companies can subside it with their other offerings (e.g., ad revenue or premium phone sales).
Looks like they are going to have channels? Something like you pay $3 for Ubisoft games, or $5 for Blizzard games a month.
What happens after an aircraft rollout?
The difference is that players don't need to invest anything to play your game, just like I don't need to buy or rent a specific DVD to watch a movie anymore.

They don't need to pay additional money, they don't need to install it. One advantage is that there's no barrier to trying out your game. The other is that your game now runs on anything.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24581099.
I agree that analogies are useful to illustrate (in some scenarios), but I would not use them to support my argument (outside of a discrete math course).

If I were to argue that Apple's app store policies were harmful, then I would do just that. I would define terms, define the parties involved, show the harm and to which parties, maybe provide some examples, show which laws it violates, and maybe suggest solutions.

But I don't see why involving Cheerios at a brick and mortar retail store would help clear anything up.
Also it's used as a part of a strategy to hide money from taxes in a term policy, where you can later "borrow" against your premiums to pull your money out later in a lower tax situation. That seems to be the main purpose of large life insurance policies I have seen among wealthy people.
That's a reasonable, if somewhat puritan position, I just think it's not one you should build a company around. If you're considering an OSI open source license for your main product today, don't make that mistake, it may kill your company. I want to point out that having a healthy company behind a product makes it more valuable to its users, regardless of how it's licensed.

If you have no interest in building a business around your product, because it's a labor of love or not central to your company, then by all means use a FOSS license. Apache 2 is a great choice.
> How is iOS fundamentally different from the Xbox OS?

If I have to explain in brief, because the intended use for it is to be a multipurpose OS just how Windows/OS X were. Xbox OS is about games and media streaming, while iOS/Android in addition to what Xbox OS does are about image editing, word processing, managing email, browsing web and much more. They are the spiritual successors to the laptop/desktop OSs.

Platforms like these have an immense amount of power as they interface with plethora of devices and services. From a waiter taking order on his phone to a project manager leaving notes on docs on the go. The sheer amount of use cases for these platforms are huge. They inherit and expand the ecosystems that PCs had, there is trillions of dollars of value there for software and hardware makers. The ecosystem should not get consolidated in the hands of few companies.

> According to IDC[0], Apple commands 14.4% of the worldwide market share. In the US, Apple commands a little under half [1]. Apple is unequivocally a minority player in the smartphone market.

I think we are going around in circles on this. Even 14% worldwide is significant enough for me to ask for regulation but the right number to look at is, app revenue generated. I gave the example of Hey already, it is not that lopsided for everyone but it is significant. As a company, you can't afford to leave that aside.

> WatchOS allowed third party streaming several years ago

That is just one integration. It gets to be the first and even sole one on many other occasions.

> but is no more fair or unfair than Google offering a music service, which they do.

Google allows you to bypass this. Apple acting like a hypocrite even makes use of this. [1]

> I believe this line of reasoning would forbid Epic from exclusively selling cars in Rocket League,

You are again going for weird analogies. I have explained the rationale in this comment and the comments before.

> If I don't like the Apple platform I can go to a competitor and support them instead.

Except for Macbooks, that's what I did. I am not talking about my choice as an end user here, I am talking about my choice as a developer. If 50% of my revenue is from iOS, I really can't afford to not be there.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23564247
He mentions grinding the salt - hyper fine salt is available as "popcorn salt" at restaurant supply stores. There may be anti-caking ingredients added it it that may not be desirable however.
“a julia -> JS compiler for the frontend”

Really? Where? I’d love to know about that.
My team doesn't do sprints and honestly thank god. HN is pretty "product eng" focused and sprints do work better there... but for infra projects where the units of work often tend to involve more R&D, exploration, etc. I've found that weekly check-ins work best (scheduling ad-hoc sync when needed). You still get the benefit of a heads-up on what people are working on but you're not trying to shove tasks into arbitrary 2-3 week sprints.

At the end of the day, "agile" wasn't originally the monstrosity that scrum-fetishists have turned it into. It was simply these few lines:

"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan"
Evolution of Half-Life Games 1998 – 2020
You're talking about undoing already released CO2.

The people discussing mitigation are talking about decreasing the release rate of new CO2, so the peak value or the value a hundred years from now can be smaller.

Your math is right but you're solving the wrong equation.

If humans all disappeared right now and CO2 stayed at 400ppm approximately forever, you're treating that as the "failure" case. Everyone else is treating 400ppm as a mild success, and their "failure" cases are far far higher levels like 1000ppm.

If your goal is a binary "not get punched in the face" then it's too late after you get hit a couple times. But it still makes a big difference whether they stop after a few punches, or keep going until you're in the hospital!
Yes, I should have been more precise: "modulo some power of two, which is not a prime, unless we're talking about 2^1".

Now I'm not aware of any language where there is an integer type that has only two elements, unless you're talking about booleans - but booleans are so special that, while they're of course isomorphic to GF(2), we don't really use the same words (addition and multiplication) but different ones (exclusive disjunction (xor) and conjunction (and)).

So, in any real-life situation, your fixed-size integers won't form a field, because the ring of integers modulo n is only a field when n is prime, and so in particular, division by nonzero elements will be undefined in general.

And yes, of course, you can't divide by zero, but that's also true of the real numbers themselves, so no surprises there...

(I guess a better point would be that division is mathematically "broken" for integers anyway, since integers technically also don't form a field and, depending on the language, you may either get back a truncated result from division or will get a different type (ratio or floating point).)
You can become an IPFS Cluster Follower (https://collab.ipfscluster.io/#instructions) and help back up various datasets of IPFS content (like Project Gutenberg, Package Managers, Websites, etc)
> You distribute with Amazon Luna, I assume you get some sort of money, something like for every hour played on X game you get $0.0000005 or

Even better than that, you could get $0.0000005 for every hour spent playing or watching on twitch. Or maybe separate numbers for twitch vs plays, but in theory does Amazon care if a million people play alone and don't broadcast, or if one person plays and a million people watch?
Consume less, produce more
Absolutely. I like the status quo and I'm not eager to find out what my new world will be like when the companies signaling that they don't really care about consumers have the power instead of Apple.
Many "investors" are working very far outside the law, are used to very high levels of risk and desperately need different ways to keep their assets out of view from authorities.
Water rights have been finacialized for thousands of years. Qanats, which are underground sort of canals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat) were built in Persia to distribute water to agriculture and incentivized by government

"It was an Achaemenid ruling that in case someone succeeded in constructing a qanat and bringing groundwater to the surface in order to cultivate land, or in renovating an abandoned qanat, the tax he was supposed to pay the government would be waived not only for him but also for his successors for up to 5 generations"
>> Yes. This seems very transparently a way for google to hijack customers trying to get to your site for shipping status.

> If you want to say that eliminating steps and allowing people to get what they want without having to go through your site means that you lose the opportunity to push other sales on them or something, then okay, fine, make that argument. But be honest about it, and don't try to frame things as if your foremost concern is for what the people want, instead of what it really is—which is trying to optimize for conditions that are best for you, the party that the people are otherwise made to deal with.

If we're going to be honest, we have to frame this as Google trying to grab an opportunity to push other sales on users, not as a them trying to get people what they want faster.

And while we're being honest, we also have to acknowledge that Google is already extraordinarily powerful (as shown by the assumption that "eliminating steps" means "eliminating non-Google interactions"), and giving them this kind of data only makes them more so.
It was not my favorite either. But still better than most of what I read.
It's not clear Sweden has done substantially worse than its neighbors [0] and regardless we're not through this and different countries and counting a number of things differently.

5 years from now when we look at the death certificates from nations with reliable death certificate records, we might have a better idea.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-09-21/sweden...
Some people in the comments are missing the point, Neural network can be used to model the rules of the game of life (and the researchers proved it by finding a set of weights that does just that).

But, starting from a random position in weight space, gradient descent fails to find this optimum and requires a sensibly larger network to succed.
Suggesting that the value of the initial weights is primordial (which is in line with the lottery ticket hypothesis)
Because there is no real formal verification process for smart contracts, it's extremely easy to slip bugs into the contract code, the contract itself is generally immutable (can't fix bugs), and the effects of a breach are generally catastrophic and irreversible.

Need more reasons?
Ask HN: Anonymous vs. non-anonymous feedback? Which is better?
Contrary to popular belief that anonymous feedback results in negativity, I feel that there are significant advantages to it and that the negatives can be controlled (read more in this article: https://link.medium.com/dL47MSw829). I built a tool (www.360katas.com) to streamlines seeking voluntary anonymous feedback from co-workers at the workplace too to aid in our personal development!

Wanted to hear your opinions on anonymous vs non-anonymous feedback for personal development!
I would love to work at a company these days that cares more about building interesting products instead of being constantly bombarded by social justice and political activism issues.
self tanning lotion or spray. he presumably uses it because he doesnt like having a pale appearance
I'm the opposite I think. With the exception of video and board games, I don't own much of the media I consume. I read probably over a dozen books from the library for every one I buy and I think I've probably bought maybe 5 DVDs in the past decade. I listen to the radio a lot, but rarely buy an album.
Facebook is a global platform. Within the global comparison the us Overton window is positioned very much to the right. Merkels Conservative party is left of many Democrats.

Id say the Overton window has also moved to the right in the us over the last 20 years or so, openly racist and (not so) crypto-fascist attitudes weren’t so mainstream then - Facebook is probably not helping this development.
Not sure if you've seen my edit in the original comment: "fast typing" was a wrong choice of words. I meant "touch typing".
Unfortunately I ended up shelving the project once it became clear that I couldn't go far without rebuilding the browser, and I think things have only gotten worse in terms of what extensions can do.

Here's what I could find from my old folders - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W4nxW9GaQXybdX4zKqVsdaE7unI...

It's not much - and I remember getting a little further, but I must've lost the file - but hopefully it eases the discovery of prior art if you end up going down this path.

If you do, would love to hear from you to help or share thoughts!
I don't see any pricing?
>Trust / security / safety are low low low on the list of almost all startup and other developers "growth hacking" etc.

Yeah I find this general argument that developers should be "trusted" with the "freedom" of an "open" ecosystem, with all those happy buzzwords, so off-putting. I mean, sure, I might perhaps trust the small indie developer working out of his basement to not screw me over, but by and large the software that end users are interacting with are coming out of faceless billion dollar behemoths looking to squeeze every dollar out of their users (and associated data) as possible. I have zero reason to trust them, particularly given the conduct of the Internet giants (ahem... Facebook).

Perhaps if these businesses had a more user-friendly business model, end users would've been comfortable using a less restrictive mobile software platforms, similar to what we used to have on desktop computers. Facebook et all have reaped what they sowed, and they get zero sympathy from me regarding their App Store situation. They're the reason that users (even on HN) generally celebrate when Apple imposes an ever growing list of privacy restrictions on their activities.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24577397.
Globally, GHG emissions from livestock agriculture make up between 1/4 and 1/3 of all GHG emissions (depending on the source, but here's a good one: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food). And this does not take into account CO2 sequestered by land that is already converted to cultivated land (i.e. not natural vegetetation) - so the potential of additionally sequestering carbon is much higher.

That's right that Australia doesn't have a lot of natural forests, but even there natural vegetation is better at sequestering carbon than land that has been converted to be used for agriculture. But if you look at this map here [0], you'll see that Western Europe, South America, Southern Africa and South East Asia all have great potential to capture CO2 if we let the natural vegetation regrow.

> Most of the food livestock consume are leftovers of human-grade crops.

No it's not. Furthermore, from a protein and nutrition stand-point, the plants we grow today are enough to feed the whole world.

0: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00603-4.epdf?shar...
what language is ripcord written in?
It's different for the end-user, yes. But from a developer/game business point of view it's the exact same. Maybe less earnings, but there isn't any details on that to confirm so it's just speculation.
There's an in-between here. Daily standups just aren't a great fit in many cases... weekly standups will tend to work better in these cases. At the end of the day it boils down to the difficulty of the tasks to be executed and how much R&D and design work there is. The more R&D heavy your workload the more impractical daily standups tend to be.