skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A) It's not the margins, it's the lock-in.

What lock in? Nobody is forcing Epic to develop for iOS and Fortnight is available on pretty much every other platform. It's literally the antithesis of lock in, no matter how much you dislike Apple or its perceived unjust influence.
Either you are a monopoly for that market or lowering prices will let you gain more market share. More market share is an incentive so there is a reason to reduce prices. You could probably find some reasonable exceptions, but nevertheless I think if a company has no incentive to reduce prices then it probably should be regulated.
You use them when you don't assume to have a central server to do all your reconciliation. When your system is peer-to-peer, needs to be fault tolerant of any node failing, or can have long periods of disconnection. Does that help?
People Are Speedrunning 'Super Mario 64' on the Playstation 2
When you have a model that says something should happen under certain conditions, and every practical instantiation of those conditions have failed to cause the predicted effects, perhaps your model is wrong.

I'm reminded of the Phillips curve which relates inflation and unemployment. If you graph these data points for the 1950s and the 1960s, you do get a great correlation. But extend the graph to the 1970s and the 1980s and the data instead looks a lot more like a random scatterplot. Yet the concept is important enough to be covered in Economics 101 textbooks. To me, it seems a case of economists clinging to models that predict the opposite of reality, and it contributes to my general impression that economists prefer mathematical models even if their correlation to reality is poor.
>Also surpression in Kashmir seems to have escalated over the past year with removal of local governance

Seriously. . .Are you joking?

The likes of Mufti and Abdullahs have not let the local body election happen for over decades. It took BJP govt in the center to do that.

Mufti and Abdullah contested state election and general assembly showing the local people that democracy is working. And at the same time, they mis-used Art.370 to not let local body election happen in kashmir. They used Art.370 to deny fundamental rights of minorities and used it to communalize the local bureaucracy and even started issuing land and permits to rohingyas who are not even indian citizens.
sorry to say, but in this day and age with "cancel culture", "over sensitive millennials" and "non-binary morons" you have to restrict yourself or you get attacked and down voted or booted off (as my account now will). there is no such thing as free speech or expressing yourself, if you view doesn't fit the politically correct climate of the day. Just yesterday i had to tell someone not to gaslight another commenter because they felt the other commenter was offending OP. You can't even say "he/she" or "black/white" anymore without being sculled by someone since it might be insensitive. Honestly, this is the wonderful word we live in now and the author wants just to not be afraid to speak our minds and take risks???
What is the high switching cost?

Hardly anyone buys apps. They either pay for services that work cross platform and the majority of sales are coming from in app consumables for games.

Media? iTunes music you buy has been DRM free for a decade and Apple Music is available on Android.

Movies? Blame that on the studios that don’t participate in Movies Anywhere. Apple is a member along with Amazon, Vudu, and Google. If you buy a movie from a participating studio, it syncs between all of the platforms.

Books? No one buys books from Apple.
A small UPS will often have the equipment running directly on AC input power and only switch to the battery if the input power fails.
What’s also interesting is how the “minimum representation needed to roundtrip a number” is actually done. There is recent (2010) research into doing this efficiently using an algorithm called Grisu: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1809028.1806623. Many programming language implementations use it now for this purpose.
We keep on hearing that having the antibodies = no resistance to subsequent infection and then articles like this. I also don't buy it fully.

Antibodies are tied into what helped you get over your initial infection, if they don't do anything how did you clear initial infection? Sure - we don't have the studies yet - but this claim that there is no immunity is totally bogus - the reality - we don't yet have a study for THIS virus to show the full cycle of immunity - that doesn't mean Covid is a magic virus.

Secondly, this title "short lived immunity" is ridiculous. The issue is immune response, ie, when re-infected can your body clear disease efficiently. Isn't that how most immune responses work, you don't even really trigger them pre-infection. But then you get an exposure, body response kicks in (often better on repeat) etc.

I'm tired of these "masks don't help", "antibodies mean nothing", "reinfections are common" type articles.
best design would be the 1 drop vs 3 drops
Winston Churchill?
Naively, it's going to slow because they're already saturated the market; they have a userbase of about 223 million US, which is 67% of all Americans (88% of adult Americans over 19, if we naively assume their TOS is followed and no kids have FB accounts).

I don't get the notion that social cooling was scoping itself to only the US, but even if it was, I don't think people are "learning better yet." Quite the contrary.
Yea the US is far behind other countries with regard to passenger rail service. A friend who thought Amtrak was fast got blown away when she rode the Shinkansen for the first time.
> YAML has 22 ways to write booleans - no less!

> I would argue that XML, in practice, has many more. Everything in XML is a string by default, and only an XSD can provide actual type information. Lots of things don't, and those that do often define their own boolean types.

I think the problem happens when there are 22 ways to write them in the standard and you only know 16 of them (or 27 of them). You're going to be surprised (by the standard) at some point.

If the standard doesn't define anything, then you at least know the responsibility for the definition is between you and your integrations, so at least you won't be surprised by the standard itself.

As far as standard representations go I think the ideal numbers are 0 and 1: either it should define nothing or pick one unambigous standard representation.
>The combination of talks and the book have allowed me to establish a significant public presence and reputation in this field. I now get far more invitations to speak at conferences than I can realistically accept. Conference talks don’t generate income per se (good industry conferences generally pay for speakers’ travel and accommodation, but they rarely pay speaking fees), but this kind of reputation is helpful for getting consulting gigs.

This has been the real value of writing books--especially through a known publisher--for me. (I'm updating one at the moment.) Even if you're not a consultant, publishing a book on some topic still can give you cachet--and, in fact, because of the research you did, you probably are pretty expert on the topic even if you weren't before.

I agree that the expected future value of royalties isn't much--but there are other ways to earn money related to a book.
Intel used to have good SSDs, but they seem to have given up on the consumer market. Samsung and Crucial are the only ones I'd trust today, based on my experience.

Although looking at Samsung's smartphones and laptops, they might be skimping on quality, as well :/
They are hoping the immunity lasts 12 months. Then you would take a booster in your annual flu shot. I could live with that.
I've heard it as, "I hate writing but love having written." The source is apparently unclear:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/10/18/on-writing/
> The personal growth that comes from taking on such a challenge is also considerable. And there is no better way to learn something in depth than by explaining it to others.

I second. If you can't explain it, you don't understand it well enough. I'm the author of a YouTube course "Dynamic Programming for Beginners" [0]. Helping people to better understand the topic is a pure joy by itself, but it's also extremely rewardable for an author in terms personal growth. If you want to understand something, start teaching, you won't regret.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVrpF4r7WIhTT1hJqZmjP...
Pharmacist is not 3 years of apprenticeship.
In JavaScript I assume it’s worse because most people would assume the existence of some sort of integer type but the number silently “becomes a floating point” instead, which can be confusing.
Honestly I had an RTX Titan for home use for a while. Eventually I moved to just using a 2080 Super and it performed at nearly the same power for my models. If you don't need ALL the extra memory and have the space for a triple slot then the better value proposition by far for last gen seemed to be a good super.
That's just digital certificate-based government ID. You could maybe provide some layer of abstraction above it to improve the developer experience, but at the end of the day you're reliant on it existing. Everything else will be too easily forged (unless you're planning on doing in-person validation).
Oooo.

How does that compare with something like RIPE ATLAS? Is there a list of such monitoring projects somewhere?
> Add on all the ways that employees can screw your business over without the ability to get rid of them and you get the piecemeal training systems we have today.

This is an interesting angle. Do you think it is a mutually escalating war of trying to screw each other or maximize one's own gains that has resulted in a hostile relationship between employees and employers? What would mutual de-escalation look like?
I much prefer physical books to e-books, especially for technical ones. I learn much better from a physical copy - flipping back and forth, checking where the current section fits into the bigger structure etc I find to be easier. I also like to underline and write notes in the margins - again, I prefer this in a physical book.
> being so fixated on pursuing quality that you neglect skills like marketing and networking

This is a really good point. I think people can be so target fixated on one area that they neglect other areas that could actually have a systemic effect of improving their main domain of expertise. You’ve given me some important things to think about
I have the same feeling- sometimes I joke with friends that it feels we've taken the wrong turn of history somewhere, and we're now in some alternate-history fiction.

But a few considerations. One, I think it's an age thing. As kids we take the world as it is for granted; as we become older we understand that things can actually go worse and that history changes as a result of choices. We have comparison points with better or different times, and we're used to a world that is not there any more.

Then there are media effects. Traditional media always sold bad news and outrage; social media has only accelerated and removed all the brakes to it. And yes I think we're also dealing with the new enormous possibilities of the internet and we haven't evolved suitable cultural tools yet.

And finally yes, in part it's going badly, compared to other more or less recent times. Maybe there's moments in which bad things happen followed by moments of respite, and this is not one of the latter. But if you compare the current times with say 50 years ago, with the USSR, the cold war and Europe split in two and torn by political terrorism, and the Vietnam war, middle east wars, Pinochet's golpe... well. Maybe we don't have it that bad after all.
Some Samsung TVs already try and connect to open WiFi networks if you don't connect them yourself.

see https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/bpr6xs/if_you_choo...

My next idea - Faraday cages for smart TVs
It would be nice if there was a right to get back the product you paid for (i.e. revert the adware update), rather than being forced to either accept the ads or return the product.
You vote and convince others that your viewpoint is valid. Writing to your representative is a very real option.
RPi4 is interesting because it's the first Raspberry Pi with a serious amount of RAM (8GB), moderate speed CPUs (4 x Cortex A72), that can boot and run from external USB 3 SSDs, with UAS and UEFI+ACPI. Essentially you can now use them for aarch64 server SBSA/SBBR development.

It's about a third of the speed of my Intel i7 laptop from 18 months ago, which considering the incredibly low price I consider to be fantastic.

I recently got Fedora Server installed on one using Robert Grimm's instructions (linked from my blog along with other useful links here: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2020/09/24/raspberry-pi-4-running...)
college education is free in Germany. They also are known for their engineering prowess...
Very likely not with the same price as 3080. I am guessing it won't be much cheaper than 3090 as vram is expensive.
Breakthrough Listen Makes the Case for a SETI Telescope on the Moon
> Tardigrades can make it, to some extent, for a limited amount of time.

Yeah but likely not for tens of thousands of years in the void between space + cosmic radiation?
Following ransomware attack, Tyler Tech advises clients to change passwords
> And since transmissibility is generally correlated with intensity of symptoms

Is asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission no longer thought of as a significant transmission route anymore?
Yes but that's just the thing: OP wants to create their "real" self, just not the authentic self. It becomes real, by association with the name of the person, yet it stays a simulated expression, a simulacrum[0].

Consider that the loan- or job-"machines" are collecting intelligence from social networks to evaluate the person -- in addition to loan history and previous job performance. Now if you can present "yourself" to this machines in a conformal way, you don't need to fear negative repercussions on shitposts you did. While you can still be authentic in private or under pseudonyms.

Of course, you will still get categorized by the bank transactions you make in your real name. Same goes for your performance reviews on previous jobs. It is just a matter of tricking these other forms of automated social control into a higher rating bound to your name.

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I find it fascinating that philosophers like Baudrillard and Deleuze were able to think and warn about these issues more than 40 years ago when none of this was even remotely on the horizon:

See also Deleuzes "Societies of Control":

https://cidadeinseguranca.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/deleuz...

and:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337844512_Societies...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacrum
I have large and central Netflix and Youtube buttons on a Sony remote.
Calling people you disagree with "white supremacists" has certainly gained ground.

But people self identifying as such are extremely rare.
Even better, guess I need to work on my writing :)

For me, I do like writing, it's just... really really difficult. That's part of what makes it so worthwhile.
All of the console makers still charge a license fee for each game sold - even on disk.

Also, some console games that you buy on disc lock features behind IAP. Even when you sell the physical disk, you can’t sell the associated in app purchases.
Right. Because originally universities were for the ruling and religious class that could justify the expense of education for its own sake.

That doesn't sound right to me. That may have been partly true, but education was also just necessary training because the jobs demanded literacy and other specialized training.
Fourier Filtering
Its slightly more censorship resistant than S3 but yes, that seems to not have been on the list of problems they try to solve. On the other hand a list of all the systems that solve the problems in a half decent performant manner and are also censorship resistant would be 0 to my knowledge.
"What is the high switching cost?"

People buy phones once every year or two, they're about $1K and data is controlled by the providers = High switching cost.

Your favourite Marmalade ... were it to double in price next week at the grocery store, could be substituted without any friction.
Even if you enjoy some of the research and interviews--and even the writing off and on--pushing an entire book out there is inevitably a grind for most people, especially if you're up against deadlines.
You can install messenger separately from the fb app itself on android. Not using your fb profile is basically deactivating it. Remove your pics, set as many things as you want to private, and just don't download or log into the app
There was another VMware demo recently. https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/24/vmworld_preview_esxi_...
Organizations?! individuals can now be ruined with a click! plus if you want to force buying you can always go to negative rates and people have little choice in it.

then we can get into all the privacy issues. the promises of privacy are always undone by some law, both those they let you know about and those you don't know about, and what is legal today may not be legal tomorrow.

I never understood the fascination with individuals wanting to go to a digital currency only world. the people just don't have enough oversight on their own governments to permit it.
> Sure, but they are not incentivized to do that. Forcing out competitors is something they're directly incentivized to do because it makes them more money.

Then why even go through the motions of making life easier for app stores right now? Because of antitrust? I guess I'm just not sure why that would change later. Google will still be an antitrust target 5 years from now.

In an ideal world, what would you like Google to do here?
Int'l Podcast Day – Webinars – Outlier Perks
That is not necessarily true. It's possible for a vaccine to elicit a stronger or longer lasting immune response than the pathogen itself. For example by adding adjuvants

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunologic_adjuvant
In my experience Wordnet as an English dictionary is much worse than the dictionary (the New Oxford American Dictionary) included with Macos and iOS.
What happens if you're a victim of Vomit Fraud?

https://thepointsguy.com/news/uber-vomit-fraud-scam/

And what if Uber is your government-provided method of transportation for health care?

https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/uber-healths-non-...
How fictional is the Black Mirror dystopia?
"Embrace" by the definition "continuing to parrot white nationalist points of view uncritically, and having a white nationalist as senior adviser for policy."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/trump-w...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Miller_(political_advi...
I've found few issues on which people are as diametrically opposed as the ebook/physical book debate.

I did a reading group at work a couple of years ago (for Designing Data Intensive Applications as it turns out!), and half the group looked at me like I had 3 heads when I offered to buy them hard copies and the other half was insulted if I didn't offer them hard copies
Sorry? You can't unplug the TV when you aren't using it? Why? That's something new to me.
My parents have a little box that automatically 'unplugs' their TV after extended periods of inactivity to prevent unnecessary power draw (the Australian government provided them for free at one point). That would somehow damage the TV?
NVIM 0.5.0 (LuaJIT)
Not quite true. They do use an integer data representation if the number is an integer, it just silently changes to a float if its necessary. So `let x = 2;` the type would be 'number' but the data would just be an integer.
App Monetisation Models That Will Get You Filthy Rich (2015)
Hahahaha, I almost spit out my coffee reading this. I never thought about it that way but it's so true! The only thing worse than credit card debit is the compound interest of social debt. And social debt spills over to other circles!

There's been times where someone's applied to a job I've worked at and I've noticed they worked at a previous company with a mutual past colleague. I've texted the colleague and asked "Hey, so and so's applied here. What was your experience with them?". Oftentimes it's "Oh so and so's great! We made some miracles happen at HerpDerp Co." but every once in a while I'll get back "So and so is fine." or in a few situations "Honestly So and so was a good engineer but was absolutely terrible to work with on a team. Very negative to other people".

It's a small world!
I agree. This is a great design. Seems pretty universal to me; doesn't rely on choosing a language.
I refuse to own toilets with this misfeature for a number of reasons:

- Complexity is bad, especially in plumbing. I also refuse electronics between me and waste removal.

- It's confusing.

- I don't think the difference in water usage matters _at all_. Talk to me about irrigation (both urban and agricultural) instead.

When going out and using such horrible devices I'm quite certain I pick wrong more than half the time.
> Rogers has adjudicated various cases against Apple. In 2012, Rogers dismissed a class action lawsuit with prejudice, upholding Apple's defense that the "Illinois Brick doctrine" from the Supreme Court case Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois, 431 U.S. 720 (1977) applied, as only the developers of apps could be damaged by Apple's policies, and consumers did not have statutory standing to bring suit on the developers' behalf. The Court specifically noted that the 30% fee Apple collects is "a cost passed-on to consumers by independent software developers".[8] The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed her decision, and the Court of Appeals was upheld by the Supreme Court in Apple Inc. v. Pepper.[9]

> In December 2014, Rogers presided over a jury trial against Apple, in which plaintiffs claimed DRM on Apple iTunes violated antitrust laws. On December 16, 2014, the jury reached a verdict in favor of Apple.[10]

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Gonzalez_Rogers
I think it's more like taking the whack-a-mole bat and going and beating up people all around the arcade.
That sentiment (though I didn't think of it in quite this fashion) is why I set up a bi-weekly project management meeting at my last office, and tried to set up something similar for technical people.

The PM meeting was not a status reporting meeting. It had no management beyond the PMs (that is, no supervisors proper). The entire purpose was to facilitate sharing information across project boundaries (technical, procedural, or even just a chance to vent). I considered it to have "paid for itself" after two PMs discovered that another PM had already solved a procedural problem (how to get something done, not a technical problem) that they'd been stumbling over for months. That was also the day the PMs stopped complaining about the (non-mandatory) meeting that I'd set up for them. Another time, a PM discovered that another project had exactly the test capabilities they needed (but because of physical separation was totally unaware of this test lab tucked into a corner). Saved a lot of time and money that day, and the project ended up ahead of schedule in that aspect (not sure if they kept that lead, I left shortly after).

I wish I'd been able to get the technical meeting going, but management wasn't willing to give people the hour I asked for and "lunch & learn" only works for the motivated when you aren't getting paid and you aren't getting training credits towards some certification.
What is that supposed to show? I see a tightly controlled consumer appliance running polished end user software.

My children will have iPads, for sure, but I’m not going to fool myself about what they are.

They will also have raspberry PI’s and learn about general purpose computers that way.