skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, the App Store is worth half a trillion a year just in raw billings and sales alone. That’s double Apples own revenue. The value of free services on top of that, where the value is captured in other ways which is most of the companies you listed, is likely of the same order or even significantly more. If so that all adds up to a decent multiple of Apple’s own revenue. Maybe 3x to 5x depending on what assumptions you make.

This is why competing phone platforms can’t get any traction against iOS and Android. You’re not just competing with Apple and Google, you’re competing with the entire ecosystems of companies and services on those platforms which combined are worth far more, and have aggregate resources far exceeding those of even Apple and Google.
That's not the point. My only point is their r0 has been above 1 since early November. They went from 100 news cases per day to 1000 in a month and a half. That isn't "succeed[ing] at containing this virus."
If the set of rules are defined by humans and then those rules are coded into a SQL statement is it really an algorithm? If the humans define the rules and later they realize the rules are bad it's not the sorting algorithm that caused the problem.
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I don't get why people have to personalise this. Johnson's decision is easy, go with the expertise or ignore it and make something up. Things for some reason seem now always to have to be presented as the policy of one political "team" as if a country can be run by relying entirely on a small group of politicians to come up with all the ideas.

We should be using statisticians, virologists, public health advisors, doctors, etc., to come up with suggestions. Maybe a few separate groups. Johnson's decision then is "shall I try and circumvent this expert advice or not".

Seems like politicians have no idea how to delegate, and press are so poor at reporting they can't somehow cope with presenting things that aren't personality competitions.

The best thing Johnson could do is sanction his advisors and make sure of the rule of law in their regard - he's used his father as a personal representative in governmental actions, but his father has been publicly and openly breaching the rules. Who could possibly honour "Johnson's" advice when he won't even hold his own personnel to that standard. It's beyond ridiculous and shows utter contempt for the British public IMO.
Absolutely the airline has to look at that, given that as you’ve said the big draw for airlines is redeploying their 747 crew, but that’s their problem (or not. If I’m the only person that cares enough to not fly because of it then it hardly matters).
if you could point me to one of these, I would really appreciate it.
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Things like this justify me moving increasingly to cash.
Be kind, do no harm, and take no shit. Even if you have to tell someone to go fuck themselves, you can find a kind way to do it, which might actually more effective.
Wow! Another very impressive release so soon!

I know that Bevy has no builtin physics solution at the moment and read the issue [1]. My understanding is that the plugins for Rapier are the main way to go for now. How "useful" is that situation currently and what are the general long term plans in that area beyond the current experimentation?

[1] https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/83
My understanding of the situation in new zealand is that at the beginning of the pandemic (back in march) they knew their health systems weren't up to the job - NZ's health system is kind of bad - so they took decisive action to ensure they could keep the pandemic under control. I think they're a bit better now but they still lack confidence in their health system.

Here, nearby in NSW our public health system is really good. We're currently dealing with out third significant outbreak - seems to be an escape from an overseas arrival - but we can justifiably be confident that we are able to stamp these things out without too much disruption (relatively speaking).
I think the site agrees with me but you are misreading it, maybe? Could you be more specific?

For example, the main table has a column "Tax as % of Wealth"
Standing on the shoulders of Giants, I would like to suggest the term 'Distributed Bureaucracy' to reflect when an algorithm you didn't even know existed determines your allocation of resources.
Population densities are not wildly different between the two countries if you realise that most of Australia is effectively unpopulated and the vast majority live in a handful of metropolitan areas.
> It's interesting because it seems like the UX equivalent of "burning down furniture to heat the house" -- how does this kind of thing become so institutionalized at companies?

You're in charge of revenue for a division. You give an estimate of $X for the current quarter and $Y for the next quarter; your boss changes your estimate to $1.5X and pushes it up the chain. Now there's two weeks left in the quarter and projections are that you'll only reach $1.1X, so your boss pushes you to stick more ads and make them bigger 'just for two weeks', but also reminds you that your revenue target for next quarter is $1.5Y, so maybe you should keep the big ads.
https://joplinapp.org/ is a favourite of mine as a simple syncing notes app. I self host this with nextcloud and the integration could not be easier. Now with this feature, my horrible spellz can get some help!
It's very poor, the lack of double checking prior to publication of the podcast. I listened to it all and he was easily the weakest cast member.

NYT have admitted their mistake, returned their award. However, it's not on todays front page, but "Here are 10 great The Daily's" is, which is insidious and in poor taste.

The dumbest mistake is that something as hideous as a caliphate does not need some wannabe braggadocio to explain this.
Australia has added AUD$500 billion in extra debt from this pandemic:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-06/budget-2020-tax-cuts-...

Or $20,000 per citizen.

If that amount was spent on general healthcare, or tackling sugar and air pollution, how many more lives would have been saved?

Given that Vitamin D is a major factor in mortality, its unlikely that Australia would have been hit hard beyond the mortality experienced from regular flu seasons.
> Why is it so hard for people to look at the system instead of just themselves?

Vaccines were never intended to benefit the system at the expense of individuals. Every vaccine was a net benefit to individuals when it was first made available. That is why there was never any serious objection to widespread adoption of vaccines.

There are cases where people might have to sacrifice their own welfare for the good of society, such as military service in combat. But I don't think vaccination is, or should be, one of those cases. If a person believes their risk of harm from a vaccine outweighs the benefit, they should have the right to choose not to take it.

There are also cases where people might have to forgo short-term benefits for the long-term good of society. I think far too little attention is paid to such cases, to the detriment of all of us. But vaccines are not such a case; no one is forgoing a short term benefit by taking a vaccine. Individuals gain a benefit from a vaccine, the question is whether that benefit for the individual is worth taking the small risk of harm from the vaccine.

What does seem like a case where people should forgo a (perceived) short-term benefit for the long-term good of society, is trying to justify things like forcing people to get vaccinated on the basis of flawed arguments and distortions of the facts. And of course Boeing with the 737 MAX is another such case.
> There was no chance that CDPR could do something comparable on their first attempt.

Yes, they could, by hiring experienced game developers or people who previously worked at Rockstar or whatever. The work conditions at CDPR Poland are apparently so bad the turn over is so high that most people who worked on Wither 3 dev left for better opportunity... in the USA... CDPR was left with hiring rookies, and even some of them quit before the end of the dev cycle.
Okay, I was a bit lazy and picked a name off top of my head. There are definitely worse actors.
Any radio / power transmission experts here to chime in on that 982.002 MHz frequency?

I'm not wearing a tinfoil hat here, but started wondering about the theoretical purpose of a monotonous 982.002 MHz signal. Best my both brain cells could come up with is either a - remote power transmission, or b - optimizing a signal to avoid absorption by water.

The optimal frequency studies for power transmission I saw were all for biological applications, like pacemakers and they do come in at somewhere around 1 GHz. The optimal frequency seems to be dialed in to minimize energy losses absorbed by tissue, meaning in our case, water in cells?

Remote spectroscopy must show Earth reeks of water. And water is the cheapest and most effective radiation shielding there is. Does any of that track for anyone who knows what they're talking about, because I sure don't?
Every store I've gone in has required them, I've heard mass transit is a lot less crowded and also requires them, and I think county rules mandate them in those cases. I've seen people without them going on outdoor walks, but that's an incredibly low-risk activity.
But they won't fire Rukmini Callimachi? Why not?
When tin-hatters complain about "globalists" this is what they are talking about.
Recent and related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24983956

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24530698

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24334307

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24123283
Sure but the fact that you need benchmarks and big performance optimizations in a chat app is a sign that your approach is very inefficient and slow. Especially considering the same feature set was available 30 years ago in computers that were less capable than my wrist watch.
>but this certainly doesn't bode well

How doesn't it bode well? If you get one strain of covid, get over it, then catch another strain and your symptoms are much less than the first time due to your body having the proper defenses against covid, then that's your immune system working as intended.
Kindness can help yourself. You can be kind to yourself by giving yourself space to rest, or not beat yourself up. Or you can help yourself feel that you are having a positive effect on the world by donating. You are actually allowed to feel good for donating, you know :)
The fact that you are being down-voted just by acknowledging something that is not controversial at all, illustrates clearly how the elites are winning heavily the battle on the narrative of current affairs. The media should not be trusted, AT ALL.They have their own interests and agendas , very different, from the ones of a common citizen.Never forget that.
It's almost like people see the value in the jobs it brings vs the specifically technology being created?

Not everything is so one dimensional
https://archive.is/33zf6
But they didn't correct it...
Apologies shouldn't be accepted for actions that clearly show no remorse or concept of having done wrong.
Is there a medical union?
This sounds way too convenient - basically the modern day equivalent of the "dog did it".

So we're to believe that a rogue computer code screwed up?.. i.e.: nobody in charge mess'ed up?

Why again do those with the largest paychecks, given the largest slack?
Maybe... but I'm not sure that's right.

My impression from talking to people who run ads for a living is that FB's ML-driven targeting is just orders of magnitude more effective than traditional "put an ad in a relevant forum" kind of thing. I don't have personal insight into how true that is.

As an individual, I really don't like having monopolies in ads, especially ones that _also_ have monopolies on personal data (FB and Google know everyone I talk to, everywhere I go, etc - yikes). But as a business, I really like the idea of having one platform to buy ads that can put them everywhere, and do a good job deciding where to show them.

I don't know what the solution is but I don't think I've seen it proposed anywhere yet. It's hard.
Okay they didn't promise, but did they have a contract?
If they designed it as that from the start while promoting it as an open-world, they made a serious judgement error, as cbozeman explained. If you promote an open world with cars, you need cars that act believable.

If they attempted to have it be a believable feature of the game world, it's apparently entirely lost on consumers (e.g. a world with stupid cars could be explained in an interesting way as one where only few exceptions actually drive themselves, whereas most just rely on stupid automations taking care of it - but you need to present that in a way people understand).

Some of the things people found also indicates that a few systems like this actually exist but are only triggered very rarely, which suggests they were intended to be there but disabled because they don't work well enough/don't scale.
Ah, yes, the classic “no true New Yorker” fallacy.
That's literally the biblical interpretation on this.
My building used to have a dealer (cocaine, marijuana, stims). You'd place and order and the drugs would show up in your mailbox. It was an open secret.
Just assume any product from Google has a death date a year in advance. It'll save you from the headache of worrying about whether something will last.
The argument is not that the experts failed, but that the politicians did. In general the experts have argued for more "oppressive" approaches, because those are the only ones that have worked.
> Yes, people love stories like the space pen vs the pencil. The supposedly educated engineer getting shown up by the clever average joe with common sense. There's always someone smarter than you, but see well actually they're not that smart because they're not street smart.

And yet that classic example is also an example of people really not understanding the nuance of larger systems; in that specific case, there were concerns about graphite creating electrical issues in the ship's electrical systems.
> “There is no current evidence to suggest the new strain causes a higher mortality rate or that it affects vaccines and treatments, although urgent work is underway to confirm this,” [England’s Chief Medical Officer] Whitty said.

That evidence would presumably come in the form of vaccinated patients developing infections from the new strain. Given that both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines appear to have a window of about one month before full effect, it could be some time before the hypothesis can be tested.
>It's frankly worse because he won't even admit he was lying

Ah, the old classic. Should we start by cutting off a pinky? Or maybe bamboo splinters, for an international flavor?

He has been clear that he was speaking before transmissibility was known. First there was "no reason," then there was a reason. It's not hard, if you're not trying to intentionally misrepresent his words for some reason.
If you gave Tesla or SpaceX the task of managing a vaccine rollout, they wouldn't see this as a problem to fix, because they wouldn't construct a public, detailed priority list cross-checked for equity across every subgroup. They'd just reach out to the N people that seem best at a quick glance, say "hey come get your vaccine", and repeat as new shipments come in until everyone's vaccinated. That bias towards doing things, rather than going to laborious efforts checking plans against everyone who might be affected, is exactly why they can do things so fast.
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Encountering people who live on that level can be a trip. I went to lunch with some classmates after lecture. I had been fixated on the content. But the salient facts to one of my classmates were instead: who had spoken, with how much confidence, how often, for how long, how the professor seemed to feel about it.

It was eye opening. There was this whole other dimension to the room, which I could barely see, but to her it was front and center.

I don’t aspire to be like that primarily or exclusively, but sometimes it’s helpful to notice and pay attention to.
On a side note. I Wonder why Snowden chose Russia as his safe haven, thinking about the politics and rulings the country is known for.

Have Snowden ever told why he chose Russia?
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I would say that may be true for the average HN reader, but in my experience definitely not true for the average overall user.

Based on the linked study [0], 57% of people can't tell the difference between a Google ad and an organic search result.

[0] https://varn.co.uk/01/18/varn-original-research-almost-60-pe...
Just want to point out that US states aren't allowed to run a deficit, while countries are, so I mostly agree with this but this hamstrings states like Oregon who aren't allowed to provide relief for strict measures through debt. Also Oregonians would have to still contribute to the Federal government via taxes, essentially stealing more money from this plan.
It’s not even available to the wealthy. You have basically zero privacy using Android, and almost zero privacy using iOS; and indirectly, using stuff like Waze for which there is no “wealthy” alternative puts you on the Google radar - and apparently the FB one as well, because Waze were lazy and used the FB SDK before the google acquisition (and don’t seem to cars enough to remove it).

It’s only available to technical people with good understanding and the will to pay in convenience and time (which the wealthy do not have excess of either)
I agree with Foxconn. I've worked in the public subsidy of private ventures sector (exactly in this sector.) It's entirely unreasonable for any company to expect that there would be any monitoring or enforcement of compliance to employment claims made when the subsidy was awarded. There was certainly none where I worked, and we gave away billions.
Did you even read the lead paragraph? Now you can!

In October, Wisconsin denied Foxconn subsidies because it had failed to build the LCD factory specified in its contract with the state. As The Verge reported, it had created a building one-twentieth the size of the promised factory, taken out a permit to use it for storage, and failed to employ anywhere near the number of employees the contract called for. Nevertheless, Foxconn publicly objected “on numerous grounds” to Wisconsin’s denial of subsidies.
This explains it clearly: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2020/10/20/is-trum...
I really don't understand the island fixation that so many seem to have. Is it just accepted that non-island nations are incapable of policing their borders?
First: I won't pretend to be a Unity DOTS expert, but I have worked with it briefly. There are many similarities:

1. The general data model: entities, components, systems

2. Running systems in parallel

3. Archetypal ECS: a specific ECS storage strategy that groups entities of the same "data layout" together to increase cache friendliness during iteration.

Bevy has a lot of query/filtering/change detection features that I haven't seen implemented the same way elsewhere. But I can't comment on whether or not Unity DOTS has those features because I don't have enough experience with it.

I think we differ the most in UX. Wild (hard to verify) claim: I think Bevy has the most ergonomic ECS in existence. If you compare a Unity example (https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/EntityComponentSystemS...) to a Bevy example (https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/master/examples/2d/s...), I think its clear which one is easier to read/write (especially when you factor in the fact that the Bevy example is fully self contained). But its also worth pointing out that Unity is still one of the _more_ ergonomic ECS-es out there. Its still pretty good.
With Larry Fink and hedgies involved, Bitcoin only needs, at most, a couple hundred billion to prop up prices well beyond $20k-$25k. Small market, which Fink noted.

$100k would not be an entirely unexpected milestone sooner rather than later.
> I have spent my entire adult life amongst some very aggressive and manipulative people, and keeping a good relationship with them, while gently enforcing personal boundaries, has always been a challenge.

Okay, I’ll bite, why would you keep people like this around you? It sounds unpleasant.
The majority live in urban areas where constant input of human activity is probably making them anxious and insane.

I have tinnitus in the city.

I go to the mountains and it’s gone.

Keeping ratings and quarterly growth up is, to my mind, emergent of people who live densely.

Intuiting incorrectly that lots of people moving around organically means life is to be lived on the go.
Maybe that's because you are giving your kindness to the wrong people?

And for the kindness to be appreciated and not considered as weakness you need to select who to give it to properly. And for that you need to be judgemental.

And bbc and current mainstream median culture will not tell you to be judgemental.

Why? Because they they want to be the teller what is right and what is wrong - not you.
Except for the government's advisers recommending a lockdown in September and being ignored.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54518002
Always generate wallets offline.
I think those elephant lines were supper-imposed on the image to highlight the possible outline of an elephant sculpture. Not the actual picture on the rock.
If curious see also

10 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22248239

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20893196 (1 comment)

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8723728
Sure, but it doesn't stop future outages
I suspect your perceptions are coloured by your environs: what do you know of NZ and Oz? The poor in New Zealand and Oz were not hit any harder than the middle-class and wealthy people that lost their savings due to circumstances e.g. businesses going under.

I personally don’t know of any restaurant that had to close due to Covid (and most restaurants are close to the edge during normal times).

My friends on unemployment benefits and requiring state healthcare would prefer not to be, in other circumstances, but they muddle through e.g. one friend needed emergency care the other day (free), and another friend needs their gall-bladder removed (free). And Covid is low (or no) risk even for the most unlucky jobs.
Most of these terms came from marketing
The C&O Canal Towpath [1] connects Washington, DC and Cumberland, MD.

The Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) [2] connects Cumberland, MD and Pittsburgh, PA:

For maps, I recommend the two available from the Allegheny Trail Alliance (ATA)'s website at:

https://gaptrail.org/explore/printable-maps

Also, there is a mobile app for the C&O Canal Towpath from the C&O Canal Trust (the official nonprofit partner of the C&O Canal National Historical Park)

https://www.canaltrust.org/plan/explorer-mobile-app/

[1]: https://www.canaltrust.org/plan/co-canal-towpath/
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Allegheny_Passage
The Times is still pretty much THE newspaper in the US, if not the English-speaking world.
He has.

- Both of the "full lockdowns" were implemented at least 2 weeks later than experts were calling for. Which is why they had to go on for so long.

- Between the two lockdowns people actively encouraged to go out to restaurants with the "Eat out to help out" scheme even though anyone with half a brain could have told you that this would lead to a sharp increase in cases.

- London was opened as Tier 2 even though it had as many cases as other parts of the country and should have been Tier 3 if the rules were being applied consistently.

etc, etc.
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