skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In isolation, maybe. When you consider that they control the whole stack, and you can't run other operating system software on their phones and nor can you run their software on other hardware, and that the operating system is what's ensuring that only their store is allowed, that given them full control of hardware, operating system, store, (and because of store) third party software that runs on it.

There is no competition in hardware for their operating system because of them locking it down.

There is no competition in operating systems for their hardware because of them locking it down.

There is no competition in application delivery for their systems because of locking it down.

There is no competition in some applications and/or functionality (webview/safari) for their systems because of them locking it down.

Each of these rely on and in turn reinforce the others. Taken together they all Apple to control absolutely all competition to do with their devices. Some aspects of this are fairly normalized and we're used to, but others less so (the complete hardware/OS lockdown, which in turn feeds into problems with repair). Whether some aspects seem normal or not, they all deserve a look with fresh eyes, as the world and how we use devices like this is changing, and old models of thinking may or may not work best for us. The bottom line is whether consumers are harmed by their actions or not, and that's what we should use to measure this, not whether it seems okay, or matches our way of thinking about what a company should be able to control.

At the base level, I think a useful question to ask is "why is the store cut for managing and distributing apps 30%, and why hasn't it changed with the emergence of other stores?" One answer might be that it really takes about 30% of revenues to provide store functionality. Common public sources seem to indicate this is not the case. Another answer might be that for some reason, the market is resistant to change. I think this is because one large market member, Apple, is insulated from competition to a large degree, and didn't feel any pressure to change. Other market members match this number because the market is distorted by Apple's resistance to change. I think the fact that as soon as congress started making noises about investigating app market pricing Apple was able to immediately drop their cut for certain store items significantly points towards them knowing this, and wanting to get ahead of the problem so the status quo isn't changed too much to their detriment.
There's this optimistic notion that we'll just bounce back from any setback and continue economic growth.

Japan had the same thing happen that we're seeing now in the 1980's -- and never recovered.
I think this is the offline version: http://rainbowforth.sourceforge.net/
> To me, it sounds like people wanted to "hold him accountable" for upsetting them. You clearly think otherwise

No this is exactly what I think. I think it is valid for people to air the grievances. I think the difference here is that you are skeptical of the validity if their complaints. If I am right, this is a pretty fundamental difference in world view that I doubt can be reconciled on a HN thread at this point unless you disagree
If you control the dependency and if you're the primary user, just move it into your repository by merging with unrelated histories.

If you're not controlling the dependency, you can still merge the dependency with an unrelated history on every version upgrade. This will still likely consume less time than fighting submodules every day.
A vscode extension that highlights your last edits
It doesn't end at all.
Governments won't be able to raise interest rates without putting a significant portion of their populations under water, or flooding the market with people who can suddenly no longer afford their homes. Banks don't _actually_ want a big pile of real estate laying around.

In my city I'm more interested in the effects of the cheap capital + the building boom. There are close to 80 brand new buildings with 100,000's of floorspace across multiple floor plates ALL of it is zoned for offices and ALL of it is totally empty. You'd think normally market dynamics would make some of them affordable, but nope; they'll just sit empty instead.
Should You Use UseMemo in React? Let’s Find Out
This paper talks about a strategy of buying OOTM options and the massive returns it would (occasionally) generate, and how to properly judge such a strategy.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.2524.pdf
Both. Everyone is a product of their times, but Rush was also unequivocally one of the primary influencers of American conservative and Republican politics in his lifetime.
Boycotts still exist, like the BDS (boycott divest sanction) movement
This is beautiful data visualization and would make a great metal poster (e.g. displate). Have you considered selling merch made with this data? I am sure it would sell.
The Agile Maturity Model (AMM)
Don't worry, pretty soon the reliability of standard calls will be roughly the same as most good voice chat apps with the switch for all carriers to implement VoLTE. Maybe still a little more reliable as it won't directly rely on the public internet, but overall still a SIP/IP-based VoIP system as opposed to the dedicated call channels which were the standard previously.
Yea, you need a login page that’s:

Trying to join _? You can't sign up for _ in the app. We know it's a hassle.

Not:

Trying to join _? click here

But, actually following the acceptable approach and you don’t run into issues.
Sure you could! I used XNA Game Studio to produce games and apps that would run on my 360. They couldn't take full advantage of the hardware. But if you paid a fee, you could sell your game on XBL much like the App Store or Steam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_XNA_Game_Studio
It is literally the default in Thunderbird and probably configured in a bunch of outlook settings. It is not the default in gmail, but it is not rare.
Often workers are perfectly capable and eager of Really Caring but then the company incentives and politics force them into Just A Job category. Especially when joining Big Tech not via acquihire.
"Digital Platforms must provide moderation tools to news media companies to enable the removal or filtering of user comments;"

This was another big one. User links a news article, the newspaper would get to moderate comments on Facebook, in the user's page
This sounds great if you are very literate and well-vocabularied.

Most people in the world are not. Or don't speak English at all, another problem with text that you don't find with images.
By asking them. You can't just ask an algorithm, it must be designed to show its own work. Credibility is another problem...
Your last sentence is why I refuse to pay more than the minimum on my house payment. It's very likely we're going to experience inflation, might as well pay it back with cheaper dollars.
Great site, nice to see where the local towers are. I wanted to know what tower my phone was connected and this app gave me the Cell ID (CID) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wilysis.ce... which matched the map. Super cool!
I would recommend reading The Limits To Growth:

https://www.clubofrome.org/publication/the-limits-to-growth
The potential user base is massive once you move away from the urban centers in the developed world.

Take a look at Lagos, Nigeria. Population is ~15m for ~80k towers. Only 1.4k (1.7%) of them are 4G LTE with the remaining either 3G or CDMA.

Or the State of Sao Paulo, in Brazil (home of 22% of Brazil's population and 33% of the country's GDP). Approximately 573k towers, 76k of which are 4G

For comparison, the greater Boston area has ~107k towers and 58k are 4G.
I wonder if this has been tested in court before. If I'm a licensed medical doctor and then I post under a pseudonym online on things medical-related (while not claiming to be a doctor or claiming to know anything about what I'm talking about), would it be possible to be sued for medical malpractice for that advice? That seems questionable.
> Look at all these vile people applauding this villain

Acknowledging the artistic talent of a villain does not make you vile. Not at all.

Imagine a clearer example. Imagine that somebody is on a life sentence convicted of a murder that they have commited. Do you think that this person has the right to write a book? Can this book be sent for participation at a literary contest? Can it win? Does the jury that gives the prize condone the killing perpetrated by the winner? Are they vile?
But at some point, economies will recover, central banks will tighten the money supply, and interest rates will rise.

Japan was the first country to introduced near zero interest rates and they still haven't found a way out, yet. This indicates that it may take quite a few years until interest rates will rise again.
Sure it matters, where are the iOS, PS5, XBox, Switch applications and games written in high performance D?

Unity alone accounts for more than 50% of Switch games being sold, a console that already outperformed DS sales.

I bet Unity IL2CPP not being as good as D isn't that much of a concern to their management, given the ongoing porting efforts from C++ into HPC# and Burst compiler.
This applies to everything though. If I drill of oil and am 'too successful' and abuse my position the Gov cracks down on me. Same if a telco is 'too successful'

And you are forgetting that 'too successful' in these cases is:
literally has billions in profit
uses market position in an anti competitive way
Online sales as a percentage of all retail sales in the UK have been steadily increasing by about 2pp per year for the last decade until 2019 [0]

In 2020 this increased from 19% to 28%, from £76b to £99b [1]

For Argos sales to only be up 8% in 2020, or £320m, isn't good, it took just 1.3% of the extra online sales. Remember also that Argos (on the whole) remained open for collection during the lockdowns inside of Sainsburys.

[0] https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/retailindust...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/315506/online-retail-sal...
> A boycott is me saying "buzz feed sux, i won't goto one of t heir urls". Cancelling would be me saying Gina Carano sux, i'm gonna call disney over and over until she gets fired.

I guess I'm not sure I see the difference here. complaining about what gina carano says on her twitter is, in a roundabout way, complaining about a disney product. disney didn't fire an actress from one of their popular shows because they got tired of listening to a small group of people complain; they did it because enough people complained that they saw a potential loss in future revenue. this looks a lot like a boycott to me.
> who craved to enjoy a burger or sip on a cola

On the other hand, presenting a burger and cola as some kind of innate need for a child also seems off - enjoying a birthday cake, a lemonade or a lasagna are already damning enough...
Without getting too much into the politics of it, I think a key factor is how polarized people are.

Another one is how litigious Americans are, or at least are perceived to be.

(Quebec person here, we're not exactly known for our table manners, but you'll always get a direct answer) ;-)
Well if you knew stocks were way overvalued you would of course sell stocks. If you knew the bubble was going to burst you’d go short, buy puts, etc.

Of course we don’t know anything. We could be at the beginning of a record breaking bull market brought on my technological advances. Or we could be in a bubble that doesn’t burst but just goes sideways for a decade.

But if you thought there was a good chance of a pop, but not 100%, you could diversify some of your holdings. Put some % into puts, some into cash, etc.
I worked in tech companies, this is why I was mentioning how this is different between companies and organizations.
Unless it's Elixir.

Elixir's notably missing ;)
> ...but not for Austin or Miami

> The only two out-of-state destinations among the top 20 were Travis County in Texas, home of Austin...
You weren't a part of this interaction. You're going with the "How can you tell if someone is vegan? ..they'll tell you" joke
Interesting, certainly, but tricky: who gets to write the history books?
"But the line in which he “aligns himself” with Murray is on whether there is a genetic component to poverty (which surely there must be), ..."

What? Genetic component of poverty?!

"Another example. “Free speech” has become a left-right battleground issue, and the instances we read about are always of right-wing speech being limited by left-wing activists. So, inevitably, left-wing people think it’s a partisan attack on them, or a smokescreen for people who just want to say unpleasant things (which, let’s be clear, it often is). But Alexander takes a different tack. In one post, for example, he calls attention to a woman fired for “having a Kerry-Edwards bumper sticker on her car” by her George W Bush-supporting boss. The point is, or at least the effect on me was, to drag the issue away from partisan sniping. It wasn’t firing shots in the culture war, it was talking to liberals and left-wingers, trying to persuade."

Alexander's post is from 2013, which was before much of the current free speech hoopla. Somehow, I'm not finding this persuasive.

Ultimately, in fact, I think this article is exactly what it seems to be complaining about, just in regard to an issue that is orthogonal to the big political discussions it uses as examples: Chivers is writing to a rationalist audience about how rationalists are wonderful.
> I love the Swiss, I really do, but their reputation has been in tatters since the Crypto AG fiasco.

I can think of a few mid-20th century events that caused some more significant reputational hits.
Registered account to reply here, because your complaints feel one sided to me.

Most of what you described i felt as well _sometimes_ for security related stuff, like dedicated machines in that one cluster or an ISE review on short notice--but security related is also somewhat out of the norm and considering that is, Google does a great job.

For "normal" services what you described does not match my experience at all. Even for medium sized infrastructure services mostly everything just works (IME).

Never had a GUTS ticket that was not answered within a business day, but obviously just n=1 sample--imo support staff is mostly amazing.
> If a bunch of people get injected with a placebo, it's at worse neutral.

If they think they got a functional vaccine and change their behavior as a result, a placebo has the potential to do untold harm all by itself. Further, it erodes loss of confidence so that when a working vaccine is discovered, it's even harder to get people to take it.

The FDA has faults, but when you look at people's objections it boils down to erring on the side of being too safe. How much trust would a regulator have if it erred on the side of being too unsafe?
> Not everyone ignore Bitcoin because they love fiat or can't handle the disruption. Some do it because enabling a stronger uncontrolled brand of capitalism sounds like replacing a weaker poison with a stronger one.

The fiat World is not Capitalism, it's so far detached from it that even comparing it to that shows just financially illiterate most are; but it's true Bitcoin doesn't solve many things, least of which is financial equality, but that is why founders and early adopters should be awarded: we took all the risk and built the infrastructure.

What differs is we have a vested interest in the new adopters succeeding and applying their Human capital and resources to this to create a more sustainable that does ensure it is FAIR. The Fiat World is incredibly unfair, and that is what i think keeps so many from even seeing the many benefits of Capitalism, which I subscribe to (Anarcho-Capitalism) but I understand is inherently flawed.

Still, its far more sustainable and beneficial and has already proven to be able to accelerating the advent of renewable energy and more distributed approaches to problem solving without the need for a centralized entity. And for most of my Lifetime that was never thought to be possible, outside of open source tech online, let alone something that could shift the very paradigm for a non-destructive system that treats Capital like an endless dole from the State and Central Banks based relationships.

I've been focused on being a multi-planetary Species but the truth is if we haven't solved this glaring issue caused by fiat we have no way of colonizing a planet if we have a business cycle bust/collapse and hyperinflation every 8-15 years, and the aver age of fiat currency is 40 years, which is nothing since Mars will take centuries to millennia but most of the proponents of this fiat system cannot even fathom this, let alone the need for the developing World to enter industrialization and higher standards of manufacturing for us to even have SLIGHT chance and making this happen.

Again, I don't think most people are financial literate, let alone deep thinkers on more than just the basic question like: why does my iphone cost so much.
BOTH SIDES have a responsibility to reduce the problem. Women shouldn't be given a Get-Out-Of-Taunt-For-Free card.

Re: There's millions of horny people out there every day not sexually assaulting people.

Just because SOME can muster up the discipline doesn't mean everybody can.

It's not about "making excuses", it's about solving problems in a PRACTICAL way. (I replied here because the Reply button is missing for unknown reasons.)
Good on Facebook for actually calling the Government’s bluff, with a straightforward explanation of the economics, instead of pretending to and posting strange and confusing things like Google. I tend to believe them that the impact will be minimal, but will be huge to publishers (which is why the law was so ridiculous in the first place).
I would say any next step should be focused on moving towards the ideal, not away from it. As we've identifed earlier, deregulating the actual practice of medicine, and adopting a model that more closely resembles veteranry care, would take us quite far in the right direction. Basically instead of socializing the ridiculous costs of the current system, we should focus on creating an wider spectrum of options for people. There should be a budget option.

I strongly disagree that it's pointless to have an underlying philosophy that decisions are based on, quite the opposite in fact. I would say that having a consistent philosophy or set of principles is the most important thing when making any sort of decisions, especially in the administration of complex systems such as society.

To answer your second (very valid) question, the underlying assumption is that we are all more or less equal, and therefore neither of us has a right to impose anything on the other. The question I've asked that you've not answered is what is the source of your authority to decide what virtues I should live by? I'm not saying you have to live by mine, just that you lack the moral authority to make me live by yours.

The fact that I'm asking for a source of authority is just a fancy way of saying "why do you think you can impose on me and not expect me to resist with violence and subversion?"
Tyler Cowen has a book that addresses this, but I believe it is even less complicated than you make it sound: Ultimately, to justify the incredible production value, major outlets need to appeal to a wide audience to make the economics work, whereas random dude on YouTube needs to appeal to a LOYAL audience. In an age when switching costs to consumers is something trivial, big behemoths will only survive if they can continue to modestly appeal to a large enough base, and tiny players can only exist if they can find a niche to firmly segment themselves in. What you end up with is small producers with incredibly fringe productions and big, established, heavy players who take on less and less risk so they can appeal to a very broad base.
That's what Ray Dalio says in "Principles". It's terrifying.
It's even broader than that. The law applies to any "alterations to the ways in which a service distributes content". The law never actually defines what this means, but it gives a bunch of examples that go beyond ranking. For example, anything that affects a particular "class of content", such as deciding whether or not to make all videos auto-play, is an alteration.

Basically, this law would prevent Facebook from deploying just about any non-trivial change to its product without first doing a detailed analysis of how it would affect the Australian news business, in order to determine whether a notification is required.

See sections 52D and 52W of the bill: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bi...
The longer interest rates stay at zero, the longer this assumption gets baked into the structure of the economy and the more chaos that'll be unleashed when and if they finally go up. There were no interest rate hikes between 2006 and 2015, and interest rates have been at zero for 8 out of the last 13 years.

It's easy to blame COVID for the latest rate cut, but interest rates were already dropping in late 2019. The Fed slashed rates 3 times from July-December, and then went straight to zero in March. I've heard (from finance industry professionals) that the reason was that corporate debt loads rapidly become unsustainable when interest rates go up. They need to roll their debt when it comes due, but debt levels are now such that they rapidly become insolvent when borrowing costs rise.

I'm seeing more people reach the obvious conclusion that interest rates are simply not going to rise. The Fed has an incentive to keep them low - they'll get mass bankruptcy and mass unemployment otherwise, contrary to their full-employment mandate. The government has an incentive to keep them low, since it keeps borrowing costs on the rapidly-ballooning federal debt low. Retirees have an incentive to keep them low, feeding 401K bubbles that they need to live on. Young adults have an incentive to keep them low: it keeps student loan and car payments manageable, and inflation reduces the real value of their debt. Homeowners have an incentive to keep them low: the value of their home will drop if mortgage rates go up. The only people with an incentive to see them go up are vulture funds & shorts, who nobody likes anyway, and prospective homeowners, who are largely the same people with loads of student loan debt that they'd like to see inflated away.

If everybody has an incentive for rates to stay low, they will stay low. This ends in hyperinflation.
Make a visual studio plugin with this, that lets you use your current theme, so you can make best use of VS Code's syntax highlighting
Not every chip, copper is used too. The automotive semiconductor manufacturer I used to work for was transitioning to copper.
Yes, thanks for clarifying - I should have highlighted that I worked in tech. This is why I was wondering how life is different between companies (and even organizations within a company).
Yes, I would applaud such a scumbag and would hope my friends did not either.
The amount of money for a given amount of energy spent mining you get is effectively Bitcoin price / difficulty.

If Bitcoin price goes up, then the return on energy gets greater. Therefore, it's worth it to spend more energy mining. Then difficulty rises and takes this incentive away, reaching a new equilibrium with more energy spent.