skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite the premium Peloton owners are paying in aggregate to subsidize that zero interest rate through merchant fees to Affirm. Peloton gets to immediately recognize the revenue of the sale (versus them carrying the debt themselves), and Affirm gets to show quality vintage from price insensitive prime borrowers.
I believe a better solution is to cap the loan repayments to at most 10% of the borrower's Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) each year for a duration of at most 10 years after graduation. You will automatically see lenders recalibrating loans to what a degree is actually worth in the job market. That would induce universities to change fees as well.
I wish I had the problem right now of making sure that my revenue for 2020 doesn't exceed USD1.4m gross/USD1m nett.

Oh to have the terrible concern that my monthly revenue next year doesn't exceed USD98K, or that if it does, it's no less than USD120K.

My heart bleeds.
> I really don’t understand the criticism.

Then you are being deliberately obtuse as many here have already explained that this case was never about the throttling. Quoting another user (Karunamon):

> Again, it's not that Apple didn't violate the laws of physics on their "magical" device, it's that they:

> 1. Applied the throttling fix silently 2. Denied warranty replacements 3. Wouldn't even replace the battery with cash in hand until after the suit was filed 4. ..leaving people with no good way to have a working device.

Basically they were slowing down people's device, without informing them, and forcing them to buy new devices as they refused to replace the battery even when customers were willing to pay for a new battery!
Classic case of user error if I ever saw one!
This one is also interesting. I might not be old enough to remember something like this, even old times circa 1990s installments would let you have the item immediately, but be paid over time.

The PoS thing i am talking about was even before ecommerce was common was mostly decentralized through the seller. Overtime, banks started getting into this niche, and when you were paying with credit card, they offered you installments usually at 0% apr for few months. Eventually this moved to e-commerce with websites offering similar payments.

I also sort of remember in the US some credit cards (probably chase?) offered installments after you pay for the item - you'd login into your account, and pick a purchase to pay over time.
Almost every time (in the last couple years) I've seen pay-over-time it is no extra cost to the customer. It's either $100 or 5 installments of $20.
You can run custom / 3rd party software without being rooted. Not that rooting should be impossible.
I'm sure if they played the same shenanigan's with government's money (i.e. their taxes) instead of authors' money, the outcome would have been different.
I'm with you.

Exact same feelings.

What makes it worse I'm currently in a country where the things that interest me have completely dried up work wise. My partner is a resident since birth and want's to stay, I've been here a few years, don't mind it but see it as a tech backwater.

Searching LinkedIn I get no jobs, searching overseas I'm getting hundreds. Local being Sydney Australia and overseas being London. Things that interest me being Scala, functional programing, work that isn't big data with large corporations trying to fuck over their customers and doing bad things collecting/using data and not crypto currency.

The only options I have is go in to management. Not my skill set at all and I'd be / am a terrible manager as dislike the politics being a blunt straight talking person. My partner also jokes saying I show autistic tendencies with my bluntness not being able to read the situation.

I can change careers then I'd be taking a 4x paycut at the least and that's after 3-4 years of re-training. I'd be struggling to live even though I have a modest life style driving a 10year old toyota corolla in a cheap rented house. I love manual labor I find it more re-warding than sat in endless meetings with people talking gibberish avoiding giving a straight answer or avoiding just getting the work done but i'd be silly to make the switch.

So right now I am stuck in a job I'm bored with, dealing with stuff I don't want to deal with for a company who staff are great and some of the best people i've worked with but owner is a text book psychopath, and the contracts dull all for the pay check.
It’s worth noting that the article only references a leaked memo for a potential plan for the future, rather than concretely describing current activities. Not to say you’re necessarily wrong, but that article isn’t the strongest evidence IMO.
I am not sure how you converted mileage to time here. Dividing a distance by speed would only works in assumption that the battery does not degrade over time by itself. Is there any working 25 years old Li-ion battery somewhere?
Google also refuses to Add my G Suite Basic account into YouTube Premium family sharing. Annoying.
I have that issue as well with the recommendation algorithm on YouTube. It's similar to the challenge of balancing exploration vs exploitation in reinforcement learning. I think that most people want more exploration/discovery so they don't get bored. More exploration also leads to more learning. It's a win-win for everyone.
Emnlp 2020 Best Paper Award Goes to UC Berkeley Team
That article proves the opposite point, despite the intense message-warping attempted.

The report in question is a hypothetical "what if" scenario analysis (one of many) that outlines one possible strategy to address a future where US corporate innovation is not in the top tier. It's not real and it's speculative about the medium-to-long term future.

Despite falling over itself to try to imply the US might actually be guilty of trade secret theft for corporations... it fails to provide a single example.
Now this is handwaving the benefits of satellite internet for remote location a lot. It's not because you are living in a wealthy country that you have access to a decent Internet speed. On the contrary in Canada a lot of places that I wouldn't even dare to call remote have 1-5Mbps download at best, carried through antennas on silos that drop signal on very rainy days.

So to whoever wrote this: I understand why you consider LEO pollution to be a very real issue (it is), but handwaving the positive to try and make your position sound stronger is a poor argumentation technique.
First of all, that $100 a year should cover all of what you just listed.

It costs Apple approximately $100 million to run the store. If the ~20 million developers are chipping in $100/yr, Apple is looking at $2 billion in fees just from developers. You can further take the costs of developing a secure platform just from the sales of iOS devices. (Its not like the iPhone is useful without the AppStore).

Apple is one of the most successful companies in the world worth over $2 trillion. They would be just fine dropping the fees from 30% (now 15%) to a more standard 2% for a basic transaction fee.
> what superpowers does mastering those languages unlock?

Maybe think of it this way: it isn't unlocking the superpowers, it's an ultrafilter. If you aren't capable of performing precise and contextualized recall of trivia, then your engagement with the subject is going to be limited to diletanttery. When I was a biochemist, there were several critical instances when recall of some minor thing that I had learned years or even a decade ago, sometimes even an offhanded comment in a journal club, enabled debugging a situation where there wouldn't have been time to "go to the library" much less even know where to start looking.

I know it's fiction, but think about the show House. Would House have been as effective if he didn't have an encyclopedia of knowledge at his fingertips? You have to be able to not just think about things from first principles BUT ALSO literally have indexable fast-access knowledge.

Since you bring up music theory, in jazz, it's one thing to know the theory of what a 2-5-1 pattern is, but if you don't have it in your fingers, you are not going to be able to make good music, imagine a jazz pianist constantly searching the keyboard for the correct notes.
I might come off as awfully naive here, but is there an equivalent of "the Geneva Convention" for cyber space?

If not, do you think having one would safeguard the sovereignty and security of the average Internet user?
What materials did you find were most difficult to perform this attack on? I am guessing material like wood or rubber does not vibrate enough to observe a pattern? Also wouldn’t you be able to prevent this attack by having audio generators that generate near random audio signals that mask the data the attacker is seeking?
After 15 years in tech and a life-changing psychedelic trip, I decided to self-learn genetic engineering and share it with the world[1][2] while I look for a meaningful biotech venture to found.

What you can do today from your kitchen or home lab is remarkable. For instance, I taught myself PCR (polymerase chain reaction) and recently published my first genetic sequence at GenBank from fungi that I cultured, extracted, sequenced and aligned. I'm planning to have developed my first GMO yeast in the next 90 days.

If you're interested, I also host the EverymanBio Podcast (YouTube & iTunes) where I talk to folks doing incredible work in the biotech / startup / diybio community.

[1] http://everymanbio.com/

[2] https://www.instagram.com/everymanbio/

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuamcginnis/
Interesting that the US doesn't actively spy on its partners, at least in their home countries, yet they allow it to be done to them. I don't follow this stuff closely so I can't really contribute. I'm sure others here would like to hear more.

I do remember when Israel's cell tower interceptors were found in D.C.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/israel-white-house...
Ghost in the Shell (1995 Film)
25 year anniversary today (11/18).
But those, by definition, are not theories they are hypothesis.
So happy that Python is taking more steps to improve its dependency resolution. The previous behavior has bitten me countless times. Also happy that they decided to allow a workaround, since countless projects depend upon the 'broken' behavior:

> Temporarily use the old resolver when necessary. If you run into resolution errors and need a workaround while you’re fixing their root causes, you can choose the old resolver behavior using the flag --use-deprecated=legacy-resolver
The Parade https://archive.org/details/OTRR_X_Minus_One_Singles/XMinusO...
"The market" is the name of a place where, once upon a time, you would go to buy things, and perhaps sell some things you made; stable and consistent prices would emerge without any particular rules about how prices for things should be set, or any particular enforcers of the price, but by the dynamics of the supply of the good and the demand for the good.
In what way is apple any more 'abusive' than microsoft, sony, or nintendo are? What difference does it make, legally, whether the iDevices are 'portable computers' or not? Why shouldn't a private business be allowed to control what third party software it allows on its platform? There's no misrepresentation to the customer, and the customer has other options if they aren't happy with it. Naturally the developers want to keep more money (motivated by the same fundamental drive - greed), but again, if they consider it uncommercial they don't have to release anything on ios and develop for android only.

Obviously they don't, because they won't make any money - but it's disingenuous to pretend that apple's dominance of the mobile application market and its ability to produce the best consumer hardware and software is a fact distinct from the way it has structured its business and revenue. Developers benefit from apple's strengths and relation with its customers. It's a fantasy to pretend that disruption to the model will simply rearrange the bottom line without doing structural damage to the entire endeavor.
It's not strawman, because the discussion is whether or not Apple provide value for money to developers for their 15/30% cut of revenue from Apple's customer base.

The discussion about whether owners of the Apple device are getting value for money and/or freedom to use as desired is a separate discussion.

As for the last example, I purchased cable TV that had a Disney channel on it. Disney stopped providing that and wants me to buy their app instead. The cable TV subscription also used to include Comedy channel but removed it from their lineup.

Who is at fault there?
That’s because Facebook earns its money from selling targeted ads based on all of the data that they collect about their users. Apple doesn’t do that.
That lancet paper always seemed to me a prime example of “statistically significant but not actually significant”. They massaged their data to just barely exclude 1 drink a day from their 95% confidence interval and still end up with an estimate of 1.01 relative all cause mortality at most from 1 drink a day. Realistically if you drink as much as the average American (around 500 drinks a year) the health effects will be extremely minimal unless you have some other health condition.
> It's the truth

I realize that the federal government /can/ do things, it's whether they/it /should/ do them.

"I want them to" and "It's been done before" don't fly. These are contracts between willing participants, none of which have been broken. The federal government would be overstepping proper bounds to interfere.

> Unilateral control is the reality

Yes. Which is why we should minimize the regulation coming out at the federal level.

> There need to be responbilities to society as well.

They owe you nothing. They provide a product, you either buy it or you don't.
Hello Marc!
Note: ADF is not being paid royalties. The books at issue were written under a work for hire agreement, so his original employer owns the copyrights. He was paid for his work.

That employer also agreed to pay him out of the books revenues, and that is the obligation Disney claims it did not acquire when it acquired the assets of the company.

If the royalty-like payments were part of a separate agreement from the work for hire agreement, Disney would be correct about not owing ADF any money. However, if the payments were part of the WFH agreement then Disney could be wrong, but it depends on how the WFH agreement was written.
you can only see any satellite when there is a sun reflection. ( sunset and sunrise )
> Your choices are America, China, or Russia. That's it.

Don't sleep on the EU. They are largest economic/political entity in the world. Not america, not china, not russia. The EU represents the world's largest market, has a larger population than the US, larger defense budget than china, currency that could possibly replace the dollar one day and a legacy/network of former colonial possessions all over the world.
exactly - this, rather than the %-cut that apple takes, is my real concern.

I do not like that apple can dictate what app i get to run on my iphone. It's not that i want to abolish the app store - for non-technical users, the appstore is fine as it is.

But there should be an option to side-load an app. There should be an option to hook into a separate store like how android has f-droid. The store-front can compete on features, rather than by apple's decree.

The 15%-cut in app-royalties apple takes is a red-herring. It gives apple an "out" when discussing this issue. It prevents further conversation of opening up the device for competing app-stores.
> Epic are trying to buy their way into the market.

So then you agree that what they offer is cheaper, and that this cheaper option is being prevent by Apple. Cool. Glad you agree!

> ignoring the fact that EPIC are buying their way into the market. Which is very important thing to consider.

Cheaper is cheaper. Thats all that I care about. I care about the end result of lower fees.

> it is not representative of the whole.

It is representative of Apple actions unfairly causing prices to be higher for this specific competitor is being kept out though!

All I need is a single example, to show that Apple's actions have prevented a lower priced option from competing.

> Once they wedge themselves in it will raise their take I would wager.

Even so, that still means that prices are lower for this previous period of time! Thats still lower pricing, for a period of time.

> The company will pocket the cash. You are living in fantasy land if you think anything else.

Even if we agree that this is the case, I would still prefer this to Apple receiving any of the money.

I would still rather the game companies receive all of the money, even if they pocketed it, because I want more money to go to game devs, and less to go to Apple.

> Apple deserve the money because the devs agreed to put their software on their store

Nope! Because their actions are illegally anti-competitive, and Apple has significant market power.

Regardless if game devs agreed to the contract, the contract can still be illegally anti-competitive. And the law can be used against Apple on that.

And even further more, I still want any and all actions to be taken, through whatever means possible, whether they be through the existing laws/court system, or that is through changing the law to retroactively target Apple and its employees, or if it through game devs working together to oppose apple, so as to make the game companies get more of the money, and for Apple to receive less of it, no matter how it happens.
They will, of course, argue that your LLC never bought any right to make and sell copies, so that right could not be passed on in a resale.
If you shoot me an email (in my profile or just search my handle), I'll send you my collected notes and research at least.
I assume that was to participate in the ONC Health IT certification program.

https://www.healthit.gov/topic/certification-ehrs/certificat...
Very cool!

Felt a bit odd that "running" a line didn't drop the cursor down past the output, ready for the next line; but the current seems useful for editing and re-trying a line, also interesting!
Disabling allows you to run dtrace...
> NTP or kernel timekeeping code expects that it will be an appalling shitshow.

I’m curious what systems would catastrophically fall apart if time went back one second?
The majority of money that is made on games in the industry is with "simplistic games"
Do people have nothing better to do with their time than research and implement these policies?
> lots of extra features

https://github.com/jarun/nnn#features
Starboard looks very cool as well. Is there anyway to push all the outputs into a separate 'document'? That'd be super cool for e.g. Latex too.

My issue with these notebooks is they always get very cluttered with inline outputs after a couple 100 lines.
You still have way more flexibility and choice. You can decide to work more, work less, find a new job etc. What you get out of it is different and perhaps you don't want to give up your lifestyle, but you can decide to do that. You have no such choices as a kid.
This is exactly what I came here to say.
A gallery offers prime-time, often times exclusive, exposure. It puts your work in front of a small, but exclusive, group of high-quality prospects and commands their undivided attention.

Apple does no such thing. It offers no exposure in return for their fee. Once published, your app is but an anonymous drop in the sea.
> Edit: I must admit I commented after reading only half the article (shame on me). It does in fact seem like her daughter has a phone-use problem. What I say above remains true, however.

Yes, one of the defining symptoms of addiction (to anything) is that it interferes with your normal relationships with others. Addicts see these relationships as hurdles to getting their fix and tend to withdraw from them as they get more and more addicted.
> It's even less clear if this would affect any potential regulation.

Regulation only happens when there's public pressure for such regulation.

the argument by epic was that apple's 30% cut of revenue is too high. I don't agree because i don't see the %-take as the issue at all.

Apple is framing the issue as far away from the real issue as possible - that of the device being locked down and you can only install via the app-store.

By conceding to a 15% cut, they've steered the overton window of discussion to just the %-cut rate, rather than the actual issue of having a competing app-store (or at least side-loadable apps).
> I've been paid 80% of SF rate to live in the middle of nowhere and anyone else who has done this will realize it's an amazing deal. When a 3000 sq ft house costs considerably less than your 1 bedroom apartment, you realize that your cost of living didn't just drop by more than 20%, but that standard of living went way up.

As a counter-anecdote: I moved from the Florida panhandle to the SF Bay area, and while certain things like housing and taxes were quite a bit more expensive, most things really weren't. The California salary/equity increase meant my relative standard of living and (most importantly) ability to save went way up. Without going into specific numbers, in 2019 the amount I was able to put away into 401k, IRAs, and other tax advantaged savings accounts exceeded my entire Florida gross salary in 2009. And I'm not even getting one of those wild outlier high-level FAANG engineer compensations. It's a world of difference.
I assume this is meant to be a twitter hashtag. #DisneyMustPay
Completely agree with your sentiment. I think the only recourse is to aggressively use the legal system for any case of arbitrary censorship. If you are blocked, you must sue your ISP and/or the government. Articles like this make me happy that we at least have a few organizations to help with this (EFF). Hopefully, with a new administration net neutrality can be restored as well.
What's the difference between an Interface and an API?
Concierge medicine won't solve anything at scale. We have a shortage of physicians, especially in primary care, and it's only getting worse as the population ages.

What we really need is just more doctors. The federal government should remove the bottleneck by boosting funding for residency program slots.
A single snapshot of an ever-changing database is the culmination of potentially years of research and payroll and system development that API consumers precisely didn't and don't want to do, that's what gives the dataset and thus API value.

The price that captures that value would have to be much higher in the model where you only need to access the database at some interval (let's say weekly), and that's not necessarily any more palatable.
The opposite seems true on M1 support. C is always #1 followed by LLVM ecosystem languages, then the VMs.
True, but the thing they offer doesn't require thousands of humans to administer either. Renting a building downtown and staffing it with a couple sales people is very different than the army of humans curating apps and developing the software requisite to produce the polished, trusted experience people get from Apple's ecosystem.
One book I'd recommend for changing your perspective, especially to anyone in the Bay Area, is _Imperial San Francisco_. It ties together early San Francisco's extractive economy with late 19th century American imperialism and industrialization. The author argues that by the 1860s, Northern California and Nevada were already in San Francisco's hinterland, but city leaders sought to bring the entire Pacific basin under the city's dominion. The book covers mining, energy, armaments, and media as well as water. And it asks the same question as this essay: what were the costs, and was it worth it?
It's good that people with 0 years of running a profitable business in the iOS store are more far sighted than people with 5-10+ years doing it.

I guess? I mean... shrug