skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is where antitrust attention needs to be laser focused.

Our freedoms are at stake, and this should be our rallying point.

The iPhone is a general purpose computer (email, photos, dating, payments, reminders, docs, web, games, etc.) and computer manufacturers should not be allowed to control the only means to run software on computers they sell.

This is less drastic than breaking the company up into constituent parts. But honestly we ought to also be asking ourselves why a computer manufacturer gets to be a film studio and distribution chain.
There have been a few interviews with Bret Weinstein on this topic as it pertains to lab mice. [1] [2] I am curious if this is in any way related and would there be similar concerns around how humans deal with senescent cells and cancer if Telomere are artificially lengthened. Out of curiosity, does anyone in this field have more information to add to Bret's interview that can explain technically how the mice ended up with longer Telomere's and if it was on purpose?

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKTV2R6TT0Y

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve4q-1D_Ajo
Original result discussed on Sean Carroll's podcast, Mindscape:
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/09/21/115-...

He seems a little non-committal if not skeptical.

One telling exchange near the end regarding the gravitational path integral they used:

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"1:18:41 SC: And there is this trick that you can introduce, ’cause what you’re supposed to do is say, well, integrate up all of the spacetimes that match on to this particular wave function you’re looking at. But the trick is, instead of integrating all the four-dimensional spacetimes that match on to this condition you’re looking at, you can just say, well, I’m going to integrate over all four dimensional spaces, so I’m going to forget about spacetime. I’m just going to do what we call the Euclidean path integral because Euclid just talked about space, not time. And…

1:19:13 NE: Oh, you went there. [laughter]

1:19:15 SC: I did, I did. This is where I’m going. And so it was sort of like you could justify… It’s a trick. It’s a mathematical trick. And it’s very rigorously justifiable in certain simple cases in quantum mechanics, and it certainly has the smell of being correct in certain more subtle cases in quantum field theory. In quantum gravity, what they were doing with it, it just seemed to be a trick so they could get a finite answer at the end of the day, and it was very unclear why it had anything to do with the real world, but they suggested it did. Maybe they were right. And since then, I think we’ve become a little more comfortable with the idea that we can use this trick of calculating quantum gravity wave functions by integrating over the Euclidean path integral, the set of all the spaces that end up looking like what we want, instead of all the spacetimes that look like what we want.

1:20:05 NE: Yes.

1:20:05 SC: And that’s what you’re doing, isn’t it? That’s the kind of wormholes that you’re invoking.

1:20:09 NE: Yes, right. That’s what I was trying to sweep under the rug.

1:20:11 SC: I know. [laughter] And you were right to do so, but I just like to live dangerously here.

[chuckle]

1:20:18 SC: So Lenny and Juan have wormholes that are literally good old in spacetime wormholes, and you have wormholes that are in these fake Euclidean spaces that you used to calculate the entropy.

1:20:29 NE: That’s exactly right. Yeah, that’s exactly right. And these fake Euclidean spacetimes have more boundaries. There are more edges than our original spacetime, which means that these wormholes are connecting these… More edges than we have in our original spacetime, and therefore, it’s difficult to make sense of them in terms of the original spacetime that we’ve started with."

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If the rest of the content in this article is as misleading as the part about Norway it is useless. The allegations about Norwegian ISPs blocking human rights websites and match.com are demonstrably false.

As part of a wider European effort there is an DNS-based block (The Child Sexual Abuse Anti-Distribution Filter (CSAADF) is part of the COSPOL Internet Related Child Abusive Material Project (CIRCAMP))run by the ISPs to censor access to child pornography.
Hail geo
>There's too much of "we know better" attitude.

I think this is the cynical view that paints it in an arrogant light. The alternate is there is an acknowledgement that the system is less than ideal and could be improved.

>People who are awesome get shafted

I mean, isn't this par for the course in any group environment? If you're healthy, you get shafted by paying more into insurance than you use. If you're wealthy and subjected to a progressive tax structure, you get shafted by paying a disproportionate amount of taxes. Sometimes I wonder if getting shafted is part of the cost of living in a stable society. You agree to carry a load so that in the event you need it, somebody can carry the load for you. Game theory shows that this leads to more optimal solutions as long as you can keep free-loading within certain bounds.

I used to be a staunch libertarian but came to realize society doesn't work so well when it's structured to only let the top percentile be successful. At a certain threshold, the top percent will always be successful. The utilitarian in me is concerned with finding a way to may the most people successful, which means gearing some policies to the mean rather than the high performers. To that utilitarian perspective, I think it's a more optimal use of resources if you consider human capital one of the more useful resources.

I've noticed libertarians tend to be those high performers who would tend to benefit (or perceive themselves to benefit) from not being held back. I personally moved away from it because most of the discussions seemed to lack nuance. Even Ayn Rand collected social security when her health started failing...
For a react app all what that javascript from bootstrap does is get in the way
People still paid $1400 for PCs in 1999, nothing stopped US govt from suing Microsoft for bundling IE - let alone not allowing users to run "unapproved" software.
They would have so much goodwill across the board if they dropped it to something like 10%.

Apple has made these mistakes before (eg. the iBooks price collusion lawsuit).
(Googler, opinions are my own. I work in Cloud)

I've been using the new pay app, linked with my personal account on Simple, and have been stunned with how well it determines what businesses I'm paying.

Splitting bills is nice too :P
My original sentence was "Operating systems are currently written in C, and therefore have a C interface."

I stand by that claim: the only reason operating systems have a C interface is because they are (at least originally) written in C. The fact that the kernel has some parts in assembly is immaterial, even if those parts happen to comprise the userland interface.

And it's not just the kernel: when UNIX was re-written in C, everything was written in C. The compiler, the core utilities, the editor, the shell… the whole OS, not just the kernel. Of course it was easier to interface to that in the same language everything else was written in.

Likewise, the Oberon operating system, which was written almost entirely in the Oberon language (which should have been named Pascal-3) has an… Oberon interface. Want to use C to interface with it? My, you'd have to write a whole compiler, perhaps a non-trivial runtime, debugging tools, and of course an FFI to interface to Oberon, the de-facto linga franca.

C looks much worse when it's not already the king of the hill. Its strength lies in its ubiquity more than in any quality of the language itself.
One benefit I've had from an ultrawide monitor is that notifications will generally go unnoticed. I just bought a 49" ultrawide (essentially two 27" monitors side by side) and the notification area is so far into my peripheral vision I regularly miss messages.
Politics is generally off-topic here other than in a few specific posts that are explicitly allowed because they're so newsworthy, like the death of RBG and the media calling the election.
"Brutalist" - love it. Was "Jack McDade is the absolute worst" too long?
They said the same thing about DoubleClick and YouTube. The amount of trust you should give to Google's words is zero.
From the article: > "Poland blocked human rights sites; India same-sex dating sites"

What you are complaining about is that right-wingers are sometimes banned by private sites in the US because they advocate genocide and other contemptible actions.
> How is it so obviously not heroin

Its quite obviously literally not-heroin.

If you want to make an argument that it should be treated like heroin because it is in some relevant sense more like heroin or other things that it is broadly accepted should be treated like heroin than it is like other things that it is broadly accepted should not be treated like heroin then...some evidence besides simply stating your belief for the relevant similarity would be a good thing to present.
Having seen London lampposts being mentioned in this discussion repeatedly, I must wonder - to what overprovisioning levels was the London streetlamp network built?

A typical oldschool sodium lamp pulls approx. 400-500 W. If you replace it with an appropriate LED - and that's critical, there are so many "superb" LED installations recently: yes, it pulls less, yes, it's more whiteish, no, you can't see s... Take two steps away from the very narrow cone and you are standing in total darkness, somebody can mug you and the person looking from the window in the building right next to you would see nothing.
So, if you replace it with a proper LED, you save let's say 400 W per lamppost plus any extra the original design left for voltage losses, impedance loop, etc.

Now, this is all fancy schmancy when you install one charger per street and one car uses it occasionally, but when making bold claims like "all electric within few years", you take 4 lampposts x 400 W for 20 cars and you can charge each car with 0.08 kW. That may not be even enough for standby consumption (battery lifesupport - cooling/heating).

So, back to the original question - does London have some kind of special supernetwork running through streets with megawatts to spare, or is it just capitalising of having just few percent of cars charging from it. What's the plan to get to 100 % load within 10 years?
It is too tempting for Google to pass up.

It is only change in "terms of service" away after enough people are using it.

The Google Rewards app is always wanting a photo of receipts when I pay with a credit card. Why would this be any different, especially when they would have access to the data so easily?
not at the beginning, but they reserve the right to change their TOS anytime.
Fascism has a specific definition that is not just "whatever Mussolini did".
Yeah what's the distinction between a loitering missile and suicide drones anyway? I don't see any difference.
Sweet justice. We get scammed, corporate pays a fine, lawyers get rich.
I'm well aware of the differences between IntelliJ and LSP, I've been an IntelliJ power user for years and have written plugins as well. Currently I've transitioned back to Emacs for most of my day-to-day coding, since LSP provides good enough completion, navigation, and static analysis, and DAP provides good enough debugging and test running. The rest of your list are non-issues for me, e.g. every editor I know of has good source control tools, and most profiling I do is not in an IDE, it's using special-purpose profiling tools.

LSP and DAP are open protocols supported by most editors and IDEs. I have a hard time believing that language implementers won't prioritize their implementation over IntelliJ. Which is a good thing, our development stacks should be open and free.
No it is not an engineering trade off. If you had one of these phones you would know.

The throttling here was so bad, the phones were completely unusable during the throttling. Sure, the operating system was running but doing basic tasks like using Apple maps or even sending a message would be effectively impossible. Imagine trying to play a video game at 2 frame per second. Unusable.

The real decision was that Apple didn't want to pay for millions of battery replacements, so Apple came up with a "software" fix for a hardware problem... Except that the software fix made the phone unusable.
I was doing some back of the napkin math earlier today to figure out just how much bandwidth Fortnite on the App Store has done over it's lifetime.

Assuming 116 million ios users with a 2.5 to 5gb depending on the device. That's 580 petabytes just for the initial download, not to mention updates probably push it into the low single digit exabytes range.
There are such things as good and bad in the world.

Cultural relativism is brain poison. It is very important to define and fight for universal human rights, such as the right to date and marry someone regardless of gender.
FY Ended June 30, in millions

| 2019 | 2020
------------|--------|--------
net revenue | $264 | $509
op ex | $391 | $617
net loss | $(120) | $(113)
loss ex SBC | $(79) | $(83)

volume | $2,620 | $4,637
customers | 2.05 | 3.62
I'm not sure what particular hype you are referring to. I think of "wokeness" as ultra-generic.
So it'd have been better to just let people's phones crash on startup and become 100% unusable?
The right is full of people who are free to use media to talk about how they can't use media.

because the right is full of complete and total liars who lack even the tiniest shred of integrity.
And what do you think these nation states are going to do once your corporate browser won't let you visit HTTP sites? They're going to use the centralization of HTTPS cert authorities to completely control of public speech. Sure, you can self sign, or leave HTTP on, but no one will be able to access it.
The big winners are the attorneys who's fees are now covered.
Well if what the prosecutors say is true I would say it was low. They alleged that Apple deliberately deceived consumers.

We will never know if that is true because Apple apparently don't think it is worth clearing their name
> Open debate and discussion are really the only cure for propaganda.

I think "cure" is too strong a word; certainly it is necessary, but perhaps not sufficient. (See: the state of most debate and discussion.) I don't know what would be a cure, or even if that's even possible. Censorship definitely seems to be the wrong approach. Since it's hard to improve what you can't measure, perhaps this attempt to measure censorship will be helpful.
I paid 350 zł (about $90) when I was receiving my Librem 5 Birch in Poland. Most of that was VAT and I even got that written off.
Installing rack servers and setting up services to run a site used to be a sort of rite-of-passage 15-20 years ago, but that time period of the web was different. Still, I would consider basic familiarity with the infrastructure necessary also today.

Increasing hardware performance relative to task load created the rational for virtualization. Virtualization also turned out to be rational with respect to consistency, convenience, maintenance, and so on. At that point, outsourcing to a cloud can be rational.

But fewer people get hands-on experience with the infrastructure, and it sounds like many consider it almost mythical. For example, realizing the amount of work that can be done in 4U today. What does amazon charge for 96 cores and 256GB?
Among us
Anbox already works on PureOS I believe, but you're probably more likely to get PWAs of your social networks.
When you are at the top of so many wealth lists you are subject to intense criticism that may not be directly attributed to you, but you are still taking advantage of. This is a good feature of the system.
Those screenshots already showcase inline harassments like "Target 5% cashback deal expiring soon!" Hurry up and shop!

What a spoiled opportunity. Google could have done something really innovative and useful here, but it smells like just another advertising channel to me.

No thank you.
Chrome ‘Bug’ Exempts Google Cookies from Data Privacy Settings
Think about it for a second.

Where else can an employee browse filth all day in a secured environment? Free from the eyes of children who may be doing pandemic schooling from home? And indemnified against criminal liability for opening up certain troubling related content by an authoritative, audit ready, third party recorded video feed?

There are just legal requirements around certain types of porn for example. Or videos of illegal activities up to and sometimes even including murder.

Law enforcement authorities only tolerate a certain number of mistakes in this regard. With certain content, they may not tolerate any mistakes. I'm not saying FB is right. In fact, FB probably didn't even make the decision. They outsource. What I am saying is that FB, with the content they want their contractors to moderate, are putting those third parties in highly precarious legal positions. I don't blame those companies for acting to protect themselves if FB is not willing to take on all legal responsibility for things that may go wrong.
Except that both MS (Bing) and Apple use OSM. Not all over the place and not for all purposes, but they do and it isn't a secret.
At least now the costs are properly placed on the party responsible for paying them.

Too often users have expected library authors to support obsolete, insecure browsers along with the other maintenance and innovation work they are doing.

Now you're in a situation where you can start applying pressure to force change, since your tooling no longer supports your current environment. That would never have happened if Tailwind just kept paying your costs.
Lol not everyone is built with the mental and emotional capacity to not be scarred in that type of job. Sure, they can switch jobs, but it's pretty much like having an employee do welding work without protective glasses. Guaranteed consequences for them in the long run.
That's often but not always true. With the caveat that is in a non-US country, hospital EHR purchases are usually done the way you describe, while doctors will often personally make EMR purchasing decisions for their own office or private practice. Government procurement and small business sales seem to be two very different beasts in this regard.
car insurance doesn't remove liability, it will pay agreed upon sums of money to cover damages, but certainly anything criminal will still be pursued. And people can sue you for more than your insurance might cover.
> $100 will buy a _ton_ of hosting

It’s not just about hosting, they also provide basically the entire software stack you’re using. Pricing that is difficult but I don’t think it should be disregarded.

> but can you even name one example in the past 5 years (literally about half the life of the ecosystem) where the App Store promoted an indie developer into success?

There are tons of apps that got popular due to App Store editors choosing to promote them. For example, getting App of the Day nets you a 1700% boost in downloads: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/24/apples-app-of-the-day-feat...
who's making $200/h on apps? not indie app devs
we don't. It's the central faith of science that causality is a thing.

You can't argue that causality is real because it's always worked; that is begging the question.
In my idiolect, changing the gender of pronouns inside of idioms is highly marked, even though I use singular "they" as the epicene pronoun.

> The classic phrase was ... strangely gendered

I don't think it was "strangely" gendered; despite recent growth in the corpus frequency of singular "they", many formal manuals of style still prohibit its usage, preferring "one" as the epicene pronoun. Singular "they" has existed for about as long as Modern English, but generic "he" was significantly more common throughout the 20th century. Given how long idioms take to change, generally speaking, I think it should be unsurprising that this usage of generic "he" remains common.

The classic paper on this is "Androcentrism in prescriptive grammar", from 1974, which presents the argument that singular "they" was more common before the prescriptive grammar movement in English, which greater increased how common generic "he" was[0].

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-in-society/...
> It can just mean ensuring that if the code does try to run indefinitely, it doesn't have unfortunate effects such as blocking the UI thread without the possibility of being interrupted.

Well that can be achieved by executing the code in a background worker thread. Which doesn't affect the UI thread in browsers... no sure how it's managed but I think you could terminate it after a certain amount of time too
They can keep that pricing structure (which is already theft) until a competitor forces their hand not to. So hum, it's going to remain this way, or _get worse_, for quite a while.
Yeah, when a normal bank closes your account, you can open one at another bank.

Google closes your bank account, you potentially lose your email, passwords, contacts, documents...
Good point about the Volk. To be noted, contemporary Anglo culture has constructed the photo negative of Volk. Everybody of the Volk is intrinsically broken, worthy of contempt and deameaning. Everybody not of the Volk is intrinsically virtuous, worthy of praise and elevation.

History will tell what the consequences of corporatism + negative Volk will be.
Hackernews is a community in which discussion of politics is frowned upon, unless its about China then anything goes.
I had to replace my 2013 iPad Air because barely anything would work on it anymore. It’d run Netflix and basic websites, but that was about it.
Knowing they scammed millions of people, it is extremely low.
That's true. "Induction works in practice" is merely an empirical fact. But it is a fact. Our bodies embed it already: evolution has worked because the environment has changed slowly enough for advantageous mutations to remain advantageous for long enough to become ubiquitous in the species. But, again, the thesis "empirical evidence doesn't matter" is immune to empirical evidence.

Now, if one were to try to construct a theoretical argument, I suspect it would go as follows: "If we assume the world could change in every aspect from moment to moment (e.g. pieces of matter could teleport anywhere in the universe, physical constants might change by the second, laws of physics might change over time or space, the very concepts of space and time might become invalid, ...), then the space of possible worlds is enormous and incomprehensible. If we don't have any rational way of assigning probabilities to any of the possible worlds, then this method of thinking doesn't have any implications for correct actions, because every action could be the best in some possible world; in that case, as long as you assign nonzero probability to the "laws of physics remain constant" universe most of us believe in, you may as well act as though it's the truth." If someone does claim to have a rational way of assigning probabilities to the possible worlds, then that would have to be addressed on its own terms, and any conclusion may be possible; but most such ways that people have proposed will tend to imply that "simple" possibilities are most likely, and "the laws of physics remain constant" will tend to rank highly among them.
Microsoft had 90% market share. And in the end they settled.
A mistake then as well. Buy a Mac if you don’t like Microsoft’s approach.
There is a whole bunch to the behind the scenes of Medsphere and OpenVista. I am not sure what I can say except that a lot of big personalities were involved. WebVista by ClearHealth is still in use by a few very large hospital chains.
They have to contact you to ask you which modem you want, so that would be a good time to bring up an address change.