skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe to some extent, but I’m not certain. If you are passionate about what you do, then you are probably not enjoying the job which shifted into not being a fit for your skill set, so the need to find someone else can be a mutual/positive conversation. It’s also really fraught with ego and self-worth landmines so it doesn’t always go that way.
A lot of people here seems to think that what Apple is doing is fine and that people knew how iOS works when they bought the device.

Neither of those are true for most people. Just reading the comments on HN the last half year clearly shows that people are confused about what Apple demands. If the HN audience is confused then I feel I can safely state that very few people knows what they're getting themselves into when choosing iOS.

Just the fact that you're not allowed by Apple to inform users about the cut Apple takes should be proof enough that Apple don't want users to know how much money Apple is costing them.

And the fact that iOS doesn't have a decent browser also sucks. Also, users don't understand that Chrome isn't Chrome on iOS.

Users have no idea what they're paying for, or that what they're using is being controlled by Apple.

I hope Apple have to open iOS up so this can end.
Unintended recipients don't know it will only be a single, one-time email. To them, it looks exactly like spam. Don't look at it from your perspective, look at it from a random stranger's perspective.
I used it a couple weeks back. A Hackernews tried to tell us Emacs was dying, so I asked him if Netcraft confirmed it.
Maybe we just haven’t hit the “finish line” yet with the arms race...
With Bitcoin Breaking $50k, Even Wall Street Skeptics Must Pay Attention
Ahh, IKEA, where people buy their furniture for the Arch Linux effect.
Not a Portrait
it seems even more odd if you view the space race as mostly being a fig leaf for ICBM development. I find this argument mostly convincing, but if the main goal is to build effective warhead delivery systems, why spend so much on manned flight specifically? there's not much of a practical case for building stuff that can take humans all the way to the moon and back. ICBMs don't need nearly as much delta-v nor do they need to keep humans onboard alive, and by far the most useful things to put in space are LEO or GEO satellites.
I agree with the importance of safety testing, but I suspect we could have had vaccines 3 months earlier with challenge trials. March was obviously not realistic, and we "had" the vaccine in the same way you have a winning bet in roulette before the wheel stops spinning. Or that Schrodinger still had a living cat.
"it’s about reasoning from first principles and going where ever that leads you, regardless of how much you dislike the outcome"

This sounds an awfull lot like the though process of religious zealots and extremists. Ignore the real world, consequences be damned, ideology comes first. There is no way we could make an error of judgement. Thats how you get a famine and 50 million dead in China.

"Apple has the right to create the software ecosystem they want to create."

There is absolutely no such right, neither morally nor legally
flipside - I'm very excited for apple to be removed as the gatekeeper to running any software at all on the devices. I'd rather have too many stores than one gatekeeper who controls all ios devices and takes a huge financial cut for the privilege.
ah, nice! I haven't tried to figure this out since Yosemite was new and it looks like there's now instructions for how to do it. Thanks for this! If I ever have to go back to OSX, now I know!
The energy perhaps. The "computers" aren't. They're just ASICs that can calculate hashes at a phenomenal rate, they're not general purpose.

And the argument about energy isn't straightforward either. Most bitcoin mining sites are set up where there is an excess of energy - when I had miners a while ago, I used a place in Newfoundland, Canada to host them, because of the local hydro dam. The water falls through the sluices or goes via the generators, it's just based on demand.
Then why not stop producing it, instead of using it on Bitcoin? Even 'clean' energy production has environmental costs, from environment destruction for hydro to maintenance/production costs for solar and wind.
> The question is really about objectives. The BLM movement isn't fundamentally anti-democratic or revolutionary, it's reformist.

I think you are judging Trump supporters by the worst of them, and BLM by the best of them.

When I look at BLM, I see black ethnonationalists, people who are eager to use violence, and just generally a lot of dangerous people.
Are my eyes lying to me? How can you just dismiss that?

It's so easy to point to a peaceful nice subset of BLM, and say that that is all BLM is.

Indeed, people even go as far as to say "BLM just means that you think that 'black lives matter'", which is nonsense. I've seen Scientologists say "Scientology is just about helping people, if you agree with that then you agree with us", or "Feminism is just about believing that men and women are equal, if you agree with that sentence, you are a feminist". Of course most people already agree that 'black lives matter', but that is certainly not the same thing as agreeing with 'Black Lives Matter'.

I think it is quite a leap to simply call them "reformist". If you can focus only on the reformist elements of BLM, then others are completely justified in doing the same Trump supporters.
This option is too extreme to be enabled by default. Even --strict shortcut that turns on a bunch of useful checks does not include it.
Facebook sends me emails every year suggesting that I post birthday wishes to deceased relatives.
The Soviets also transferred the entire rocket manufacturing line from Germany to USSR

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/rockets_ussr_germany.html
Ironically I convert atom feeds into email newsletters using rss2email. One less app to keep open.
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How can it be unethical if everyone is a volunteer?

Also, has there ever been a case of a vaccine that only works on one age group?
>The premise of the whole "text is the best technology" argument is based on cherry picking

I agree with that so naturally cherry-pick the thing expected to be the most universal and the last one standing.

Aren't everyone else's network stack usually sending packets of text when it's a plain text file? Even if it is hypertext.
Dapr v1.0
If Apple allows you to install alternative app stores, I assume that means they allow you to "side load" apps. If that's the case, Apple can't really ban you from installing anything.
> the Indian government wants to protect traditional retail networks against competition from online stores.

Nope, the government wants to protect Jio from global competition.
It's a real good thing that all of the money was imaginary in the first place. It can come from wherever. It's just a means to allocate the resources that actually hold the value, but is not valuable itself.
Sir this is a Wendy's...
Exactly! Give people equity if you really want them to care about the product over what's best for their career.
Logins data on LastPass can be exported to 1Password, just not straightforward. I did that, not going back to LastPass anymore.
Also drugs are used as a control mechanism, as we say with the child stars who were being sexual abused. Get them addicted to drugs while the abuser gets what they want.
This sounds very cool but the code sample on the front page didn't have instant appeal for me.

Once I Googled a little and found out what it was doing it looked awesome, but it was very noisy if you don't know the components of Blitz.

Compare it to this code from early in the ActiveRecord guide:

"class Product <

ApplicationRecord

end"
At the risk of being not politically correct myself, I think there are significant cultural gaps between the west coast American standard and people from Israel (Bardin is Isralei).

With the caveat that this is my experience only, Israelis are more blunt, direct and often openly critical vs Americans, especially Californians. They're often right and all the ones I've worked with have been very smart, but the way a message is communicated is sometimes more important than the message itself.

I think that in this global age people think that the notion of intercultural communication issues has gone away, but IMO it still exists.
Evaluating Boolean Expressions to a Variable in Python
Blink the cursor at the end or highlight the text area sound reasonable to me
Sure, corruption and insiderism is an important topic in its own right.

Up and down this thread though, it seems that British HNers are insisting that it's the only topic. IE, they're against this agency (and presumably everything else that spends money in any way) because corruption.

Is this true for roads? No new schools, parks or research agencies until corruption is gone? It seems over the top to me. The "Boris' girlfriend gets a £100k grant" storyline is salacious, but I don't think it's unusual. Insiderism exists. It existed yesterday, last year. I'm sure Winston Churchill's girlfriend also did well out of the deal. c'est la vie

I'm definitely interested in ideas about insiderism, any solutions to it... but are you really at a point where you're against everything that the government does on the assumption that it's all going to Boris' girlfriends?
It is parasitic, but I think in the bigger scheme of things, Valve is a lesser evil than Epic, which is in itself a lesser evil than Apple. Valve is investing in its own capital as well as the infrastructure for the PC gaming industry at large (Vulkan and driver improvements), whereas Epic has no endgame but to gain market share using bottomless VC pockets. Apple, while a company with some merits, utilizes vertical integration that is overall harmful for user freedom, especially when it comes to the right-to-repair, and is only using its revenue to further remove themselves from the large tech ecosystem and build up the walls of its gated community with their own unique hardware/software.
>If you're running a mail newsletter, this tracking is pretty important.

Then it's exactly your job to figure out how to accomplish this in a less user hostile way.
Whatcha gonna do if the money supply continues to increase?
I agree that there's a place (probably not Google) for this attitude, and my impression is that this is the realization that the author eventually arrived at: he wouldn't change Google, or change his nature, so he had to leave. Even though his frustration was clear, the message that came through for me was not simply "Google is bad" but more "Google and I are too different to work together". A lot of what he dislikes about Google is true of any large company.

Although, he was very critical of Googlers' entitlement in particular. This is a real issue, especially among those who have never worked elsewhere, but IME people are more self-aware about it than he implies.
By learning Lisp, and staying involved in it, I got a better handle on almost every topic in computing, with a better framework for thinking about it, and coding about it.
50% in the US market (27% globally) is very far from the 98% global marketshare that Windows had in 2000. MacOS had the other 2% (thanks to being propped up by MS 2 years earlier). That was the entire competitive landscape. Linux existed, but if you used it back then (I did), it was difficult to get a desktop going, and virtually no one used it on the desktop.

And while the DOJ might only care about the US market... the fact that Microsoft's domination extended worldwide means not only were there no US competitors, but there weren't foreign competitors to challenge them either.

The fact that Android--with 50% US and 72% global marketshare--is so competitive with Apple makes it clear these two situations are not equivalent. Apple is more abusive/controlling in some ways, but they dont have the market power that Microsoft had.
In the early 2000s, Linux binaries did run faster on FreeBSD than on Linux on the exact same hardware, when using a stock FreeBSD install and a stock (but light) Linux install.

I recall reading at the time that it was because FreeBSD's kernel simply had less overhead overall and consumed fewer resources in its work, making that bit of CPU available to running processes instead of consuming it itself.

After using FreeBSD, the Linux kernel appeared very bloated and slow, at the time. And it was, as distributed by distro makers. So the comparison was fair, stock FreeBSD vs. stock Linux. If you want to argue that you could do better than stock FreeBSD with a custom Linux kernel, you'd be right, and if you allowed a fair comparison with a custom FreeBSD kernel, I think Linux would have again struggled to remain in the lead.

All of that being said, this landscape may have changed entirely. The Linux kernel has come a long way. The FreeBSD kernel has come a long way. So where things are now is unknown to me.

I will say that superior performance is not always the reason to choose an OS for high performance computing tasks. It is a sane decision to use an OS that has lower performance if it provides other benefits that are important to you.
I'm not litigating to redline pockets of public space. The first principle I'm arguing from is that our pasts should be palimpsests which should be allowed to recede with time further into the past. Imagine a terrible argument you had with someone. Time passes, the wrong and hurt has attenuated, you have changed or he has changed and you've both forgotten a bit. You could be friends again if you wanted.

Now imagine that fight preserved in text. You both can read it again and remember exactly what terrible things have been said. Now imagine you have a visual and audio recording of the fight, and you can feel the wounds anew. There exists this constant inescapable reminder.

You make the comparison to the busybody, I think that comparison is wrong because of the scale. At one time lending books, musics, was not anything publishers would concern themselves about, because one could only loan a copy to one person at a time. Digital copies changed the act of distribution. The recording camera preserves the image more permanently than the busybody ever could, and the vector of distribution is incomparable.

I think the limits of our memories makes us human. Of all the criticisms launched at Zuckerberg, I think the most unfair one is that in his twenties, he said something like, "They trust me, the idiots!" He's a significant figure unlike you or me, but imagine saying or doing something monumentally stupid in your twenties and having it follow you the rest of your life and that's the first thing someone knows about you.
You are right. I expected the other order and I didn't read the text. (There are only like only 10 words in the page, and I didn't read them :)!)

I just looked at GMail, and it uses From/To/Subject . You don't have subject!

---

Also the page does not understand:

"Joe Doe"<jdoe@example.com>

but I don't think it's 100% necessary, don't rush to implement it.
I signed up for human challenge trials last spring so had lots of debates on this - it usually ended with the person saying directly or indirectly "Bioethicists have discussed this for decades and understand it more than you".

I found this extremely unconvincing. A group of unelected people, mostly from the same social class, being able to determine the rules of something so important seemed inherently flawed to me.

In this particular situation, I saw it as signing up to be a soldier for my country (which always covers some personal risk) - with the number of lives that could have been saved by April 2020 human challenge trial being in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Can someone offer some insight as to what gravitational wave physicists hope to find that would be in the realm of "new physics"?

So far the most radical thing about this catalogue of BHMs seems to be another orthogonal measurement axis for the universe -- but otherwise seems to be aimed at confirming existing models, right?
What's really amazing to me is Nx is just installed as normal hex package. `defn` is a standard Elixir macro:
https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/blob/main/nx/lib/nx/defn.ex#...
Freedom of choice is an illusion, with the advance of megacorporations, even so. They will choose for you.
Robinhood’s in better shape than it looks
We can reduce this to halting problem. We will never know finish line exists until we reach one?
My point is that they should have allowed a human challenge study for faster results, like they are now. Not that they should have released an untested vaccine.
I was privileged to trek a portion of the Annapurna circuit in 2003, it's spectacular in person. The view of Machupuchare from Tatopani (or maybe it was Ghandruk?) was incredible.

Nepal is a wonderful country to visit, the people were very kind and welcoming. They are facing complex political and economic challenges these days.
The growth I referred to was explicitly Argos, which has seen consistent growth through all of 2020, with Nov/Dec being 8% up year over year.

8% isn't huge, but it contributed to the majority of Sainsbury's overall growth in the period, and it's a massive turnaround for Argos given it's revenues have basically stayed about the same level for a decade.
I'm very much in your camp, so to speak, but I downvoted some of the upthread comments because I think they are responding to something that wasn't really said.

There's a massive difference between an observation and a judgment. Especially if that 'observation' is a commonly quoted statement (aphorism, as has been pointed out).

Personally, I'm pretty close to asexual if we'd consider sexuality a spectrum. As such, if anything, I find the observation valuable because it underlines how much sex plays a role in areas of life where really perhaps it shouldn't.

Pointing out something that is true or at worst perceived to be true is in no way equal to agreeing with it, or morally defending it.
Oh Yes, As it was in Firefox when they have IE Quirks. And I am now leaning towards may be it is the standard's fault, not the implementation.
I wonder why anyone would still use RSS over Atom. Atom was already supported by virtually all feed readers when Google Reader was shut down. And that was nearly 8 years ago.

The only reason I can think of is that people often use RSS synonymously to feeds.
Maybe it will be used to fund new tunnelling and/or bridge technologies - the current government seems surprisingly keen on connecting NI to Scotland....
But customers who like to have more freedom can still buy Android phones instead. Nobody is forcing them to buy Apple devices. I think it's a positive thing that we have diverse options for different needs.
There are industries in much better positions to revolutionize energy production than bitcoin miners. In fact, there basically a single industry that doesn't have this incentive.
> You’re wrong about that, newcomer.

please don't do that, it's ad hominem and definitely not the way to talk to new posters here.
>If you're running a mail newsletter, this tracking is pretty important. You're supposed to stop sending emails to someone who's not interacting with them

In my experience, that's not what happens. My most recent experience with this was when I had gotten about half way through filling out my info for a service, I was sent an email with a price list, I opened it, looked at the email and decided to wait and compare prices with another provider.

Then the emails started.

'Oh hey we noticed you never finished your registration. I assure you our prices are the lowest anywhere'

Had opened the email but never answered it.

Get another email.

'Hey this is so and so, company president or whatever...if you need any more information, about blah blah blah, don't hesitate to send an email'

So I did...I told them I don't appreciate being spammed because I hadn't finished filling out a web form and i'd like them to stop.

Surprisingly, I got an email back from president dude or whatever apologizing and promising to remove me from the email list.

Yeah...right..

A day later...another email. So I blocked them as spam. I still get spam from them.
Fair enough. I read a couple of similar articles before this, but maybe I'm ignorant on the current science. I'll check the links out in more detail. But honestly a quick look at the WebMD link was not very convincing.

They cite two studies from China in April of last year. One study had 16 participants, the other had 4. 20 people total studies between the two. Not really enough for any of us to make any claims with confidence. WebMD article says, "Nobody knows exactly what those changes mean yet or whether they will persist and form scar tissue or simply heal and go away after the infection is gone."

I'm not saying we shouldn't be cautious. But in my opinion, if a person was truly asymptomatic then they weren't really sick. If it affected them so little that they weren't ever aware they had the virus, it seems like a stretch to believe that they would have permanent, debilitating damage. It's in the realm of possibility, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it.

It's unfortunate asymptomatic people still carry the virus & spread it around. But is that quality really unique to Covid-19? I doubt it. I suspect it's probably a quality of many diseases and sicknesses that we just didn't fully appreciate before. How many people every year carry around the common cold or the flu with no symptoms, and end up spreading it around. Probably a lot.

I'll concede that it's possible to still be harmed by Covid, even if you have very few or no symtpoms. Maybe my gripe is that I'm just exhausted from hearing talk of Covid as if it has 'magical' properties that we all need to be afraid of.
Neanderthals had larger brains than us, so nature definitely didn't hit a hard limit on how large ours could physically be. Yes there are costs to a larger, more powerful brain, but up until us those costs were justified by the benefits of increased intelligence. More intelligent apes could better raise children, relied less on running quickly, and could acquire more food.

Somewhere close to our current level of intelligence, the benefits of increased intelligence stopped justifying further improvement. The question is why here?

Birthing issues seems like a particularly weak explanation, given than that the negatives of bigger hips scale with the radius of the head while the benefits of intelligence scale with the volume - the more intelligent we get, the more it makes sense to keep making the skull larger. With increasing skull size, there is no need for babies to become any less functional. Calorie demands should scale linearly with intelligence, so it's possible increased intelligence doesn't help a hunter gatherer acquire more food beyond a certain point, though given how much food production has been increased through ingenuity this seems unlikely to be the case.
Similar website: https://carbon.now.sh/ . They probably have more themes but I like this conciseness.
Just upthread you complained about someone's links to journal papers because

> The studies you cite do not list who funded them, but one of the links is ... a website which sells sneakers! One of the worst VOC offenders!

I'd ask you to consider that perhaps your sources of information, all apparently non-scientific (and many also having financial interests in "all natural" products) may not be the best counter-point to mainstream scientific research.
Millions of jobs probably aren’t coming back, even after the pandemic ends
Faster, more efficient systems for finding and fixing regressions
As if their work culture has anything to do with it! Thanks for the laugh.
Why? There is already Carbon (https://carbon.now.sh) for that.