skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As a businessperson, I have the legal right to be a complete jerk to my customers

You're still not getting the point - which is you're not the customer Apple is trying to sell to - just as Mercedes isn't trying to cater to people who want ice cream.

>Apple has choices, legally. My problem is that they keep making the wrong choices.

This is your opinion. The world does not revolve around you. Do you honestly expect in a relationship that your spouse always revolves around your terms - and only your terms - and will not have terms of their own? Is it not fair Apple has their own terms? They don't want to be abused by their customers anymore than you do from them.

Apple has always made it obvious who they're customer is. That is someone that doesn't know anything about computers and wants email and stuff to work without problems as time goes on - so Apple to makes sure they hold the rights to update and secure things to ensure that product works for these customers.

Again, you are not the customer apple is trying to cater to. Steve Jobs himself never wanted to sell "computers which only nerds could use". He wanted to sell "an appliance which anyone's grandmother could use". Super customizability that you want was never their product! Don't buy it and then complain they're being a jerk when they stated what their terms were...
Nice!

I’m teaching my children to write their school papers in markdown for similar reasons.

I use a github PR to provide feedback.
Another thing that’s vital is what a user is going to do when the app alerts them.

In the Netherlands you can’t get tested if the app alerts you but you show no signs of the disease. So the app is pretty much useless.
It nothing else, it pushed the governments to bury their secret programs even deeper. Nothing changed. The NSA is still spying on Americans, American technology companies are still working with governments to thwart human rights and spy on citizens, and Russia has just rewarded its best spy with residency. Net result zero.
What I'm usually offered promotion for is having leadership skills. I don't know why or how, but it's something I naturally seem to be complimented and respected for, even though it's only that in the last year I started looking more into what it takes to be a good leader and truly try be better at it.

With fully remote work it seems the concept of leadership is changing and maybe being replaced with...scrum boards? I don't now how it works fully remote yet :) All I know is there are some successful full remote companies, but they don't really have good reviews on their leadership skills either when reading Glass Door.
I was going to vote for Trump until he decided Snowden might get a Pardon. That is enough to flip my vote. Say no to treason.
Right, but 10,000 requests in a quarter is 833 per week. 2/833 is 0.24%, or 99.76% uptime that week.
Consider fake ransomware that doesn't decrypt even after payment is made.

Would it be moral/societally good to write and distribute this software? If it became prevalent enough, it would damage the ransomware model as people would be much less likely to pay if they thought there was a significant chance of payment not fixing their issue.
Odd, I thought Twitch seemed like a great idea at the time.

Starcraft already had multiple successful TV shows in South Korea. Which made it clear there was a market for people watching others play video games. As a teen I had multiple times had a room full of other kids watching me play video games so it wasn’t just a question of competitive sports. Finally, the focus was different many people had been making money for years entertaining over webcams, it’s ripe for stalker behavior.

I will agree with you on Uber though for economic and regulatory reasons. Taxi medallions where created because of the external costs of operating a Taxi so just ignoring that system seems unlikely to work. Similarly without subsides drivers and passengers are going to be willing to jump ship. That said, carpool lanes and Taxi where a thing which covers the stranger angle.

Economically CitySprinter (much earlier startup) and Uber had the same basic issue in my mind, the overhead of operating internationally needs some significant economies of scale to work out.
Honestly, this confused me. The number immediately made me think he was submitting fake orders for that amount. I don't know to read it any other way.
Remember when Eric Schmidt thought COVID-19 was going to increase demand for commercial real estate?
I said: "the police seem to be doing most of it"

You heard: "you think ONLY the police has been violent"

I said: "I do not condone violence"

You seem to heave heard: "I do not condone violence [and don't think anyone except for police has used it]."

Try harder.

I am aware that others are violent, but they're also not pepper spraying people milling around with their kids or black bagging people on the street.

Someone who claims to have the most dangerous job in America getting nervous about being identified while pepper spraying protestors has got an uphill battle convincing me that they're the victim. Armed agents of the state also clearly have to have a role in a country with as many guns as ours.

They should conduct themselves professionally enough that they aren't pepper spraying people sitting in the street and aiming rubber bullets at their heads. Start there. If you are captured on film pepper spraying some 20 year old kid sitting on the street in the face for a solid twenty seconds? No, you are absolutely not qualified to carry a firearm, much less "protect the peace".
Under UK law it wouldn't be, once the walls exceed 50% of the perimeter it's no longer classed as outdoor
Roads are not exactly public goods, and can be 'club goods' or something between the two; the Wikipedia definition matrix has some nice examples, and the page is quite good overall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics)#Defini...
If that were the case, that "you're at grave risk of committing legal error and having your decision reversed by a higher court" how would any decision be revisited or changed? It would follow that just becasue it's in a dissenting opinion does not mean it's the wrong decision. Stare decisis seems to only exist in textbooks.
That might be the case in your country... but in Latin America, for example, WhatsApp is HUGE. People don't text each other, they use WhatsApp. Mobile carriers provide plans with discounted traffic for WhatsApp, or sometimes even free. Entire family and friend groups constantly keep in touch using WhatsApp.

In fact, Bolsonaro used WhatsApp spam as part of his election campaign strategy[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/30/whatsapp-fake-...
From 2D to 3D Illustration one of the most popular website design trends
One obvious expense for me is cleaning.

I used to just be able to go get lunch, and relax / do activities on the weekend and come into a clean office and desk, fresh and ready to work.

Now my house, with my partner and I being in it almost permanently, we make a lot of mess that constantly needs cleaning. I find that gets annoying combined with longer hours.

Because we weren't home much beforehand, the apartment didn't get so dirty and just needed a light clean once a fortnight.
I too am wondering about this. There's a lot to learn, and it doesn't help that a lot of the info focuses on older C++ more than the modern variety.
And that exact poster changed his mind when presented with more information it’s directly below it. You are correct that this presents a very good, easy-to-install piece of functionality for Windows users. The Windows shortcomings that you point out are certainly problems, and I think that your software does a good job of overcoming that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9479

As Windows was by far the largest OS at the time the user was acknowledging a very clear market. Personally I described the niche as a source code repository for regular people several years before, but I thought the UI was going to be the issue. Their first demo more or less nailed it.
Running the math for reference:

$225,000,000 ÷ $11,000,000,000 ≈ 2.0%
Morgan Stanley did a driver poll that pretty much supported Uber's numbers.
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True, but the question about whether they "may reduce office space" is binary.
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It's not a big story because it's technically a leniency. There are other props on the same ballot which cannot be overturned by the legislature at all. Constitutionally (the CA constitution) the default is that a ballot measure cannot be overturned without another ballot measure.

I agree that the 7/8th's thing is ridiculous, and it is most of the reason why I have decided to vote against 22, but it's not particularly notable, this is just how ballot props work and it is why your presumptive answer to most CA ballot props should be no.
A lot of things "literally kill" people, by the definition you're using.

It's a weak argument if you move from "people will die, to say nothing of the impact to the economy" — presumably, of using a different taxi app?

The strict adhesion to economics you're proposing would say a new marketing clearing price would be reached, not start making alarmist overstatements about what higher prices could imply
I really wish a significant fraction of consumer electronics ran on removable rechargeable cells of standardized form factors. There are only bad reasons most Bluetooth speakers (to give an arbitrary example) don't run on a removable 18650 cell.
Some are. There's been quite a few stories of doctors who got shut down for running what the news likes to call "pill mills". Most doctors just didn't overprescribe all that much, though.
Organizations own work-for-hire, and to establish ownership, you would need to prove the non-existence of the organization (reverting the copyright to the author/heirs) or determine the beneficiaries of a possibly ephemeral organization.
Poll: Have you installed the Corona-alert app?
I was wondering if HN readers installed the Covid app.

If you have another reason not to install it. Is it possible to state why?
No, no compatible phone
No, not available in my country
Seems like it's only available in select states though, I dont see an app for WA for example where I'm located.
A pardon is off the table. He committed treason, regardless of Monday morning quarterbacking and saying the ends justify the means. He broke the law. Either it's the law or it's not, and the fact he and Manning broke the law, regardless of what "good" people might see in it, they still broke the law.
I'm sure they'll have another go.
Individualistic thinking is a hallmark of american culture, so I don’t blame you!

You’re right that society is made up of individuals, but it’s also made up of rules, incentives, and resource distribution that influence the behavior of those individuals. That’s what I (and most SJWs or whatever you want to call them) want to change.

We want to change the systems over the individual for two reasons:
1. generally, changing the systems is more impactful
2. changing individuals’ behavior en masse without touching the systems that influence their behavior is next to impossible.

For an example of trying and failing to do #2, look at how unsuccessful we’ve been at trying to save the planet by altering consumer choices. It’s been 20+ years and what do we have to show for it? Compostable straws and reusable bags? Compare that to something like a carbon tax which attacks the problem at the systemic level and would start making change immediately.

As for your point about the systemic and individual levels colliding and causing unfair effects at the individual level, I’d guess that we have different perspectives on what is fair at the individual level.
I can't tell the future, can you?
The majority of opioid deaths are due to fentanyl or cut opioids, something that would not exist if there were a regulated legal market.
I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to convey.

If we have two continuous random variables in a probability space, we have a mapping P(X, Y): R^2 --> R, such that the integral sums to 1.

If X and Y are independent, then P(X, Y) == P(X)P(Y). The examples in the linked article are a bit confusing because some of them have P(X) and P(Y) as different distributions. But the plot only shows the plot of the 2D domain along the 1D line of X==Y, which isn't a terribly common occurrence in actual practice.
I think you raise a valid objection to the interpretation, but I counter that in context, privacy and property rights were one and the same in many ways.
I had never heard of Mitogen and installed it a few minutes ago based on your recommendation. The performance improvement is massive. Much obliged.
Seems pretty crazy! I’m from the northeast and I can’t imagine people doing outdoor dining through the winter! Half the point of restaurant dining is the comfortable no-stress environment. Why would people go when they will be shivering outside under a little heater?
I think it's worth noting that the news being biased is a fairly new phenomenon. They didnt just expose some long standing problem with prtisan media. The partisan media barely existed 20 years ago.
I like eleventy. However, consider the following.

Your static site gen is slow. Well, it does a lot of stuff you don‘t need, so you switch to a lighter one. You choose eleventy. You build assets yourself. This is tedious and boring. You include asset building into eleventy. You then (after some time) decouple asset building from your SSG entirely, because it‘s a bit complicated. To do this, you install node packages which do these jobs outside of your SSG to replace bash scripts.
Now you need a live server to work with your output in production. No problem, you can do this via node. 11ty includes a dev server.
You want hot reloading, because manually restarting the server sucks. You also need cash busting because your stupid browser gets in the way with its nice ideas about caching.
Man your output is large. You want to minify it. No problem, there‘s a node package for this after all!
You begin to work with images and svgs a lot. Damn, importing via strings sucks. Isn‘t there a better solution for this? Sure enough, get another package or switch templating systems.
You need JavaScript for interactivity. No problem, you can just write vanilla JS. Damn, this only works in Chrome? Better get Babel or something. Uh oh, my JS is getting large and unwieldy. TypeScript it is!
Now embedding your JS file for file kind of sucks... Can‘t we just combine these into one?

Man, all these steps to take for your application to build. Configuration files are everywhere. Assets are large and begin to be unmanageable. You begin to pull your system together. It can do all these things at once.

This feels nice! Maybe you should open source it!

Need a name... Let‘s see... Your application-slash-buildsystem prepares assets, scripts and bundles them and packs them for the web.

„Packweb“ it is.

—-

Remember, new and shiny buildsystems/SSG‘s/software in general can be fast because they can afford to be. They do one thing, or a very limited range of things. Then users come along, and with them feature requests and the like. Suddenly, <new thing> can do a whole lot, but it‘s not fast anymore! Well gee, of course not, blog posts and influencers say alike. Have you heard about <newest thing> however? It may only have a small numbers of features, but it‘s fast.
Was JuliaCon 2020 remote? That probably has more to do with it. I can’t possibly imagine there are 40X more active users in one year. The niche it serves isn’t particularly large, either.
> However, sometimes the matrix being operated on is not a linear operation, but a set of vectors or data points.

In Jeremy Kun's book [1] he argues that in fact data matrices _can_ be viewed as linear transformations. See e.g. section 10.9 on the SVD

> That is, we’re saying the input is R3 and the basis vectors are people:...

> By representing the ratings this way, we’re imposing the hypothesis that the _process_ of rating movies is linear in nature. ...

[1] https://pimbook.org/
That makes sense to me, overall it sounds like an 80/20 situation: 80% of drivers are side hustlers and will be harmed when they lose their side hustle, 20% will get a slight pay bump and benefits. The overall economic benefit for California will be a wash (and the overall result for the average driver, reduced income).

The real underlying problem is that we've been papering over our underemployment crisis with these low-skill, low wage jobs. You can't turn them into viable careers by legislative fiat.
how did the guy submit of they're blocked? it does look shady when someone does that though.

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> I think the whole web is garbage and I'm prepared to throw it out.

What does this mean in practice? Will Sourcehut move to Gemini-only? Will you stop using the web for anything except advertising Gemini? Are you suggesting a more gradual multilateral migration?
Managers taking steps to prevent their employees from contracting a disease that will prevent them from working for weeks or months is 'trendy?'

A workplace that's shut down for weeks because of a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak is a workplace that's not making any money. Taking all reasonable steps to minimize employee exposure to infectious diseases just makes good business sense.
A lot of commercial properties are not owned by the companies residing in them, but property holdings firms that have owned them for decades. And/or business people who bought in the right place at the right time lol.

The property tax laws in California that benefit long time homeowners also benefit long time commercial property owners. In California, if proposition 15 passes AND a ton of companies stop leasing space, a lot of those firms will probably have their arm twisted enough to sell the properties. That will lead to a lot more property tax revenue.

That, or the commercial properties get torn down and replaced with residential properties.

Or none of the above and California becomes like Detroit, as some people in another thread predicted, lmao.
You're right, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
FYI you can go into the subscription settings on the app store right after starting the trial and cancel it. It will still run for the same duration and it‘s easy to resubscribe again when the trial runs out.
Yep.

And auth0 ("auth Zero, not letter o") is a company / service that offers both authN and authZ.
The problem is you're learning. You should do it initially in a completely vanilla context anyway. Learn why things are the way they are, learn why people made such plugins. Don't just jump into without learning about all of the underbrush
More downsizing. Where will it end? An office for ants? How can we expect workers to labor if they can't even fit in the building?
I couldn't find anything on the differences between the two different L1 caches. What's the purpose for a second L1 cache?
No, it's not vital. At all.

Contact tracing IS great and very effective in early stages of a pandemic, but THIS isn't an effective way to scale it.

You're not going to walk it back at this point with this particular technology.
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Somewhat along the same line, I expect a resurgence of outdoor beer gardens. Every super-spreader event to-date included a crowd, indoors, with poor ventilation and few if any masks in evidence. That is pretty much the definition of any standard bar, pub or tavern. And hey, outdoors in January your beer stays colder longer as a bonus...
I don't think that should be illegal. I don't even know whether or not it is illegal currently. I posted what I wrote just because the extreme example came to mind, and it gave me a laugh.

To seriously answer the question: I don't know where or how you'd draw the line in the sand.
I prefer the 3-5-7 technique.
I think there is a snowball effect; the more bad cops there are, the more good cops quit. A terrible feedback cycle.

Unfortunately I think some police reform/abolition activists have decided to accelerate this feedback loop under the theory that making things much worse is the only way to make things better. 'ACAB' makes bad cops think they're in good company while probably making good cops want to quit (and similarly filters new police recruits.) The premise is presumably that when cops get worse, more of the public will support reform. 'Accelerationist' approaches like thus might be well intentioned, but I think the consequences are more likely to be disastrous.
As I already tweeted the author please consider getting tested for Lynch syndrome if your family tree is full of colon cancer. It will make a major difference knowing the result when talking to the doctors from my experience. Good luck.
Just to add some points to this, Minersville School District v. Gobitis was overturned in favor of the dissenting opinion in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette. Certainly the dissents in Plessy, Dred Scott, and Olmstead to name a few where the dissenting opinion later became the majority. Was it not an attorney that argued those points? They may have risked legal error, but that didn't negate that the argument was correct in the dissent.
This is actually really great for me. I have functioning vim and emacs on my desktop, but I don't know anything about .vimrc and use spacemacs... but now I have a platform I can safely experiment on without blowing anything up! Sweet!
Seriously. This still leaves the door open for the next drug crisis to make a (literal) killing and get a slap on the wrist in ten years.

What's next? I wouldn't be surprised if Pfizer started pushing Xanax and other benzodiazepines as a way to tie patients over while they wait the 2-6 weeks from talking to their PCP for a psychiatry referral and actually seeing a therapist.
Someone should write a script that checks if it's up every minute.
iOS widget shows the amount of toilet paper available in the next dm drugstore
All the laptop salvage cells I have test with high internal resistance and low capacity, though the packs I salvaged them from were not dead, just low in capacity.

They may be worth $5/cell new, but not so much in their current state.
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"I'm convinced one of them (or something similar) will be the future"

I don't think so.

Elm is too much in its own world.

Purescript is too Haskell for mainstream.

I had the impression that Reason/ReScript was on a good way, but the I think the renaming and split of ReScript from Reason confused people, and now nobody knows what's happening anymore. (Im still confused myself, haha)

Maybe Rust has a chance in the frontend world if it gets just a bit more ergonomic?
The question of vaccinations is very interesting. I'm curious which countries the employer can legally require it and which they can't.

*edit - make clear the legality I'm talking about is wrt the employer.
You have an engineered virus that wasn't finished being engineered.. ftfy
Not currently possessing the skill necessary to get that library up and running, is there a way I can just test it and see how it translates?
There is an unspoken third option: roll back the ridiculous law that put us in this position in the first place.

Proposition 22 is also bad because it’s anticompetitive, which is why Uber and Lyft support it. It would prevent smaller scale businesses from competing. The California government needs to stop attacking the foundations of capitalism.

It’s obvious why so many people and companies are leaving and want to leave California
offshore bank accounts and tax avoidance schemes
Usually orthogonal means uncorrelated random variables (not necessarily independent). A good example is sine and cosine - they are uncorrelated in the interval 0 to pi. But clearly they are not independent.
I disagree. Christianity, at least, is healthier when it embraces uncertainty.
Imagine those numbers on a smaller scale. "Son, your greedy schemes that made you $11 hurt a lot of people, so you have to give back 25 cents."