skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does this have to do with DAPRA? I tried searching the document but couldn't find any references
Compare a book (a few megs) with a picture of the same size. What do you think can communicate more info? Do you have a single counter-example?
Nothing is either purely good or purely evil, can we go beyond school yard arguments?

The fact is as a consumer my interests (essentially privacy and safety) are better aligned with Apple’s than with Google, Facebook, or Epic. Their transactions with me is how they get their money, and they have strong incentives to keep that relationship. This is not the case with Google or Facebook, because their bottom line does not depend on me being happy with them in any way. Similarly, Epic has no incentive to be nice to me because I’m not the one funding them.
Thank you for posting this.

FWIW, https://thoughtmaybe.com/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head/ has all 6 parts.
(Note: My son has diagnosed ADHD, non-hyperactive) There isn't a blood test, but you can do a neuropsychological evaluation which assesses cognitive functions. We had one done for my son, and it was a 2-day affair. As a non-ADHD parent, it was eye-opening to get a glimpse into how his brain worked and to start to really understand the challenges ADHD poses in a school environment.
The trolley problem solution that gets chosen in real life situations really seems to be a consistent "last person who touched it broke it" policy.
I would hope a chief technical officer with their salt would realize how powerful this setup is. Unfortunately, the lack of a cute name, branding, and marketing engine behind it may cause some to dismiss it as 'it's too simple, it must be missing something.'
How is Epic fighting to reduce Apple's cut of app store proceeds (30%!) bad for customers? At worst it's customer-neutral, at best it could reduce prices.
I worked at the Google campus in MV as a TVC for a while, and one of my first thoughts was "Yeah, this is a baseline for quality of life. If we can get to the point where people live this well, that's a win." I mean, we will still have to contend with the human condition, but at least the reasonable problems are all solved.

To me complaining about "entitlement" just sounds like a kind of mild "Stockholm Syndrome" for primitive conditions.

Googlers may have some issues but I don't feel that their expectations around baseline quality of life are among them. We should all be so fortunate. No really, we should. Let's work on that together.
klisp is quite efficient (though still slow compared to other Lisps).

Bronze-age-lisp optimizes some of the most critical parts in assembly language. This is probably the fastest Kernel you will find. Some details on the design were published in 4 posts to this group: https://groups.google.com/g/klisp
IKEA furniture falls apart if it is disassembled for transport.
The grandparent made a snarky comment about defense spending in general. Which is what that document is about.

>it's a good thing the US in general, it's government more specifically, and it's defense establishment particularly

That's what they said.
> assuming we treat speech/signing as natural phenomenon -- there are no human societies without it -- whereas textual capability has to be transmitted, taught, acquired

I’ve been watching videos of pets (dogs, cats) being “button trained”—being taught to use (primitive, non-syntactic) language by making associations between things/acts/emotional states and the pressing of one or another audio-playing buttons that has been placed on the floor.

It has very much driven home the point for me, that “spoken language” is actually not something inherent and instinctual to humans (or to any species); but rather is a technology. It’s just a technology that’s rather simple to learn, if you have the right underlying hardware acceleration (e.g. a cerebral cortex)—and, crucially, a teacher. For other intelligent mammals, apparently the teacher is the only component they’re missing!

Language is a technology that humans in particular find very intuitive—at least at a young age when our brains are malleable—but not one we inherently start with. We absorb it easily if we’re immersed in a society where everybody uses language from birth. But in situations where that’s not true (feral children, some very broken homes) we don’t.

In a world where every human being instantly had all entrained structure in their neocortex erased, such that we were “reduced” to being upright hairless apes with the capacity for language but no knowledge of it, I don’t think we’d just instantaneously come up with the idea of language and begin attempting to develop languages to communicate, the way modern people instantly try to develop a creole of the languages they do know, when stuck in a situation with people who share no common language with them.

The idea to associate concepts with specific mouth-noises—and to condition others to use those same mouth-noises for the same concepts, to facilitate transmission of thought—might randomly arise in a few people, but it’d need to catch on and spread from there, just like any other technology. It would either need to be observed and copied, or actively taught.

And I hypothesize that that is what happened (pre)historically: at some point, there were several memetic “waves” spreading increasingly-technologically-advanced (e.g. syntactic, expressive) forms of language across human populations with brains already structurally amenable to them. Of course, each wave would only be a struggle to the generation that pioneered it; the next generation, being immersed in that new, more-complex language form from birth, would find it similarly intuitive.

(This makes me wonder whether we’ve yet hit the “limits of linguistic expressiveness” for our current brain size, such that we’d need to unlimit e.g. average skull diameter at birth to let us get any fancier with language; or whether we’ve still got some, ah, “headroom” left.)
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That would be the meaning of "alternatives," yes.
Then you're just asking to be taken advantage of. You are more important than your employer. Therefore you should be looking to extract as much value from your employer as possible.

If you don't think your employer is doing the same then you're just naive. Google isn't catering food out of the goodness of their heart. It's a calculated cost-benefit analysis to attract and retain top talent.

Edit: It's also a tactic to get people to work longer hours.
This skill, or at least the ability to consider pulsing, is so valuable. A lot of things in life are not good. Even more are just okay. Very few are good and almost none are perfect or great.

Having the ability to be in a situation or see something that is just okay and go, "Okay well it's not perfect but that is okay. Can I make it a little better?" is really helpful. It also makes life a lot less frustrating.
All of computing is an exercise in moving compute closer to the data.
Nobody is telling you what device you can use.

Why would you buy a device that doesn’t do what you want?
Exactly, there are "Reader" apps that Apple has at 15%, these are video platforms, books and more which Amazon falls under. Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Dropbox, Audible, Spotify and others also fall under this category.

All of this is described clearly in their information. [1]

"3.1.3(a) “Reader” Apps: Apps may allow a user to access previously purchased content or content subscriptions (specifically: magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, and video). Reader apps may offer account creation for free tiers, and account management functionality for existing customers." [2]

Additionally, Apple also allow small business at 15%.

"Keep 70% of your sales proceeds (85% if you’re enrolled in the App Store Small Business Program) and 85% for qualifying subscriptions." [3]

[1] https://www.apple.com/app-store/

[2] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

[3] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/features/
I agree about Aguirre and I’m glad you mention that because you very quickly got to the core issue I have with Pixar. They have “mastered” crowd pleasers which are marketable to any age group. That’s fine- but artistic vision is also so crucial. It’s the reason they look up to Miyazaki in the first place.
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Sorry, I don't buy this at all.

iTunes library (at least for Books and Music) is DRM-free and has been from an early stage (though _did_ launch with DRM).

I've had great success in migrating my purchased items back and forth from linux with absolutely no issue. However now they're using streaming and I'm unable to easily "own" any music anymore... or at the very least it takes you off of the easy path.
I recently received an email that telling me they were unsubscribing me from their list because they had seen I had not opened the last X number of emails.

On the one hand, that's pretty courteous, on the other hand kinda unnerving.
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How do you weigh this against audio books, podcasts and music? I've struggled with just those three. Adding a 4th option is just too much.

I do suspect for people that enjoy talk-radio style podcasts might enjoy CH more since it's live. If CH can land a big name podcaster, maybe not a Rogan level, but someone big enough, they could start to chip away at podcasts.
> It is practically impossible to fire someone for the basic reason that you don't need this role any more or there is a better person out there or just plain old - you are not doing a great job. This neuters managers and does not lead to great teams, driven by mission, pushing each other to do better.

> I was the weirdo who wanted to push things fast and expected that some level of personal sacrifice when needed. I don't believe long hours are a badge of honor but I also believe that we have to do whatever it takes to win, even if its on a weekend.

> So, why did I leave?

> I did not leave in a confrontational disagreement (which is what anyone who knows me thought would happen, as I have a short fuse...)

From Twitter:

> Noam Bardin, former Waze CEO (2009-21)

He’s clearly a smart guy and I don’t disagree with all his points, but in general it’s sad that there are CEOs/managers out there with short fuses that want to fire old people. Also he wants personal sacrifice & things delivered no matter what. I understand the viewpoint but would likely despise it as an employee.
you can commit a bunch of project specific stuff to a repo? Which alleviates a good amount of pain when picking up a new machine but also helps for collaborating with colleagues who also use a JetBrains IDE
Interesting hypothesis. Thanks.
Thank you for sharing, and please accept my condolences.

About memorialising IRC nicks, I understand why this is done but maybe it doesn't need to be a perpetual reservation?

When an amateur radio operator passes, their callsign becomes a SK (silent-key):

http://www.silentkeyhq.com/main.php

After a period of time, the callsign can be allocated to somebody else. Often this is a descendant of the operator, but not always. Usually the community is in fact happy to see a callsign remain active.

In some cases there are multi-generational callsigns that have hundred year histories behind them, which I think is a wonderful connection to maintain throughout our shared history, and future.
Not an economist. I liken it to the cost of tuition having gone up, perhaps because of the availability of student loans and the willingness (need?) of students to borrow to get a higher education.

Rent is the one you are sort of locked into. Food, etc, you have choices ... moving, much harder to shop around.
How you don't see Epic's move as a win for Apple users is ironic given how pro-consumer you seem to perceive Apple to be.
>If you're going to the trouble of being agnostic, then you might as well deploy to a way cheaper bare metal datacenter and enjoy market rate storage, compute and egress.

Interesting. I wonder a which scale this becomes true. It's been a long time, so I'm not current on rates, but I've been involved with a couple migrations from datacenter to AWS and AWS was substantially cheaper for the same level of infra in both cases. These were smaller use cases, though.
Retro always has a hipster niche. But it's not mainstream majority.
Ah, the software Robin Hood, here to help the little guy understand how to best use their own computer... This is such a HN comment it hurts. Many people use iPhone and iPads as their primary devices because everything is easy and it all works. side loading apps is just not a concern that people outside of HN even have.

This lawsuit is about Epic trying to not pay the same fees as everyone else not some giant ethical debate over the rights that people should have on their devices. Epic wants rights for themselves, they don't want them for their customers.
These are not jobs but positions of power; the assumption that success in securing them is indication of merit in the sense of producing best outcomes for society at large, or even this specific firm or department in isolation, amounts to just world fallacy borne out of common market delusions. In truth, communication-first leaders are only as good as the team under their command, that really understands the managed domain, is. And since this team is largely replenished by people of the same stock, vying for the same position of power, they are not very good.

What results from this process of distributed re-interpretation of vaguely-worded, likely not very coherent, buzzwordy policies is a strangely incoherent and characteristically apathetic environment. For an extreme example of this pattern, see a typical UN press release and its vanishingly small influence on the state of things.

If we ask a hypothetical about the possible outcome of, say, very high spatial intelligence nation-state leader, we enter wild speculation territory.

I could try: "An object of harmonious art, but in political, life-shaping domain. Some precisely specified spacetime volume of greatness you'd want to be a part of once you saw a glimpse of it, even if you cannot quite put it into words", i.e. "A place of participation in a great multi-scale-harmonious vision".
I hate the fact I have to use Apple TV to watch Servant, Disney+ to watch The Mandalorian, Netflix to watch Stranger Things, and Amazon Prime Video to watch The Boys, and HBO to watch Game of Thrones, and so on. I'd much rather all of those other companies gave Apple a 30% cut of their revenue.
My mother uses a Cryptophone[1]. The only way I can talk to her is to buy her a replacement.

What's the difference?

[1] https://www.cryptophone.de . And no, of course not.
if you dislike uPlay and Origin, you should probably side with Apple on this.
Why I was wrong to be optimistic about robots
In this is also how gender discrimination perpetuates.
It wasn’t available to everyone.
why would each of these companies bother creating a new store that requires eng resources, server costs, maintenance, etc. if the total cost was less than Apple's unreasonable fee? doesn't it simply mean that these companies perceive the value of Apple's App Store to be less than the cost?
I post this whenever it comes up, but lots of small matricies or any operation gets hit too hard by the ffi overhead into numpy.
I set up a Paper server for my kids. The modding ability is pretty cool, and easy to get into. I made a mod for them which rings a bell and announces the server time on the hour. They're less likely to lose track of time now. WorldGuard is cool because you can define regions and only allow certain players or groups of players permission to use that space. I can also prevent mobs from spawning in "town". Neat stuff.

I know that I said that I set it up for my kids, but I really did it for me as well!
We expect only minimal breaking changes to Blitz from here on. 1.0 is expected in April.

The biggest difference between Blitz and Redwood is that Redwood makes the API layer easier with conventions and APIs, whereas Blitz abstracts away the entire thing into a compile step. So working with Redwood requires working with APIs like normal. But with Blitz you can almost forget an API is even there.
> That's a valid point although I've seen it go badly when a mostly out of touch manager (time is finite, even the most technical manager will be out of touch) thinks they're still at the top of their technical game. They then force out of date engineering decisions on the team.

Yes, or even worse they don't respect it when their team tells them something is hard to build and will take more time. You get a very "back in my day I'd put this together in a weekend what's the big deal" attitude from people like this.
The problem is the choice is taken away from you though. Just like he said with the game market. If you want to play Game A, you go and download/install Game A's publishing app store. If you want to then play Game B, rinse and repeat. You will be forced to use so many different app stores and won't have a choice to NOT use their app store "IF" it progresses like it has on the desktop. No proof it will/won't either.
It depends, memes, short clips are super effective too.
I agree it is complex, I have no answers. Certainly though if the requirement for unemployment is that you have to be actively looking for employment ... sort of nixes it for the want-to-be entrepreneurs.
We're unfortunalely way past the point where this is an option. Neither Android nor Apple leaves you with nothing truely usable at the moment, unless you're ready to live in the year 2000 again.
Most of your points about language deficiencies are valid. But you still have the same problem of longevity and bitrot. Unless you have teams that are willing to pick up Common Lisp and contribute you will end up being the only maintainer of the code. Case in point my advisor from grad school used C and did all his numerical work from scratch. If I'd not found python, numpy and scipy I'd still be in grad school.

If you're looking for a way out of python because of specific performance issues you face I'm not sure why you did not just go with Julia (unless you really wanted to do Common Lisp).

Try pyinstaller if you need to compile python into a self-contained binary.
I also think people should be allowed to install whatever software they want on a gaming console that they own.

Or a car, or a tractor, or...
Optimistically, someone will make a metastore that provides search across all the different stores. Sure, you'll have to sign up for each separately, but that should be a one-time deal. I mean, we kind of had that already before "software" became "apps" - the WWW where any publisher could sell their software on their very own website, free of interference.
Events like these are exceedingly rare, to the rate of less than one event per year. They have been treated on a case by case basis. When it is personal mismanagement of time, there is no compensation. When people cover for systemic failures, we've historically awarded two vacation days per day used (one is a replacement, the other a compensation), or equivalent monetary compensation.
VC has quite specific expectations for an opportunity: the company that develops the service enjoying massive growth (or a massive strategic acquisition) within a decade or so. VCs weren't competing to fund Apollo missions or poverty reduction and not because nobody wanted them.

Government can invest in projects which have different types of return: projects which are only beneficial or more beneficial if given away for free, projects which will take a lot longer than a decade to come to fruition, projects which are important to government social objectives but just not big enough commercial markets to be interesting to VC and projects which the government will be the only customer for so might as well cut the VC middleman out. Even on a purely financial return basis, the VC captures only captures the part of the return the portfolio company can charge for: the government collects the tax receipts from everyone who benefits in the sector including competitors who copy, and doles out resources to the entire supply chain and consumers too/

Sure, making it secret certainly increases patronage slush fund potential but it's not like that isn't already there, or like VCs are perfectly efficient investment machines who never consider their network or biases before spending LP funds, or had much role in many of last century's significant inventions.
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> I still don't see how any government granting committee can outperform hundreds of private venture funds competing for exposure to new opportunities. Even if you have a government dept. of 10x geniuses, they don't scale to compete with a healthy investment community.

Isn't the difference that VCs are looking for short-to-medium term opportunities as they want a return on capital? Presumably gvt funding means riskier projects can be undertaken.
This could become increasingly important more of the population becomes vaccinated and case rates continue to fall. If a variant that is able to evade vaccinated immunity occurs we have the technology to quickly develop updated mRNA vaccines to combat it, but with reduced infection rates it could take many months and high number of participants before the efficacy of an updated vaccine or booster is apparent.
30% is not just for apps but all digital content like Spotify. Now if we see a future where Apple wins and dominates: everyone creating digital content for a living will pay a 30% tax to Apple. Forever including your grandchildren. Now lets take it a step further and think a world where all services like cleaning are bought with Apple products. Everyone will pay a 30% tax to Apple, forever.
The thing is, that we cant allow an exception, as we would be allowing the rest of it.
Then there's the other side that they make the rules. So for an example if an apple employee makes a mistake and bans your business from the store, you have no way to appeal. Unless you are big enough like Epic.
If Apple wins in court and then in markets, we truly have Orwellian reality.
14% is worldwide, in the US it's roughly 50%
> I don’t think it works like that. Generally speaking most people with good or limited vision share the luminance spectrum and portions of the color spectrum. Increasing contrast doesn’t hurt anyone (though dark mode users generally prefer slightly lower contrast for lower luminance overall). Increasing type size doesn’t hurt anyone but might make HN users complain about information density.

I think there's enough human variation that it can be hard to say anything general like this. Setting aside the semantic debate about what is a disability, or what is accessibility, let me take for granted that "attention disorder" is a thing and anything that anything that distracts a reader could hurt. It is hard to determine flat-out which complaints are valid.

I like to watch captioned content. Others find it distracting, or hate having the punchline to a joke come early (usually due to bad captioning!). I am hearing and AFAIK don't have an audio-processing disorder. I don't "need" captions, otherwise it would probably be a clear case of definitely my needs override someone who just doesn't "want" captions. But that's also another semantic debate.

I don't think that should be used as an argument for not trying to improve accessibility in the first place. But it certainly is something to continually improve.
Seems an attempt to lighten the mood when discussing a serious topic. Surely you've seen this before.
You're right of course, but also way more optimistic than me.