skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure it's impossible.

DARPA lists biographies of its newest program managers. All but one has a doctorate in a relevant field; the lone exception has a master's degree and aerospace work. They turn over every few years too, so it's not like their experience is stale.

https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/new-program-managers
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It's hilarious to believe Apple would sacrifice their entire platform to avoid having to compete. This is nonsense. Apple will, like any profitable business, try to glean as much profit as possible and fight against any change that would lower that profit (including doom and gloom scare tactics about what it would mean), until the law goes into effect...

...And then they'll comply with it, because it's still plenty profitable to do so.
I like this. The feature film brings me to tears every single I watch it without fail, and then I am always thoroughly entertained back to a pretty good moood by the following movie.
Interesting. Yes. AI.

I'm reminded of a passage in Neuromancer:

"Screaming Fist."
"Famous. Don't they teach you history these days? Great bloody
postwar political football, that was. Watergated all to hell and back. Your
brass, Case, your Sprawlside brass in, where was it, McLean? In the bunkers,
all of that. . . great scandal. Wasted a fair bit of patriotic young flesh
in order to test some new technology. They knew about the Russians'
defenses, it came out later. Knew about the emps, magnetic pulse weapons.
Sent these fellows in regardless, just to see." Deane shrugged. "Turkey
shoot for Ivan."
>4096 colours seems limited though

That's what the original Amiga chipset had. 4bit/RGBchannel definitely is not as good as 12bit/ch but it isn't bad. DPI can make up for it, that's how print works.

But at 31.2" and those resolutions, the DPI isn't great.
Chrome OS became the second-most popular OS
It’s not illegal or wrong to use your position in one market to enter and compete in other markets. If it was, Disney Plus would be illegal, and so would fresh groceries in Target. That’s not what Microsoft got in trouble for.
EU Project to Create Dynamically Programmable Wireless 6G Environment
"CEA-Leti announced a visionary EU 6G research project for next-generation wireless connectivity. Called RISE-6G, it will design, prototype and test smart and energy-sustainable technological advances based on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) that will enable programmable control and shaping of the wireless propagation environment.

These surfaces may be diode-based antennas or metamaterials for coating objects in the environment, such as walls, ceilings, mirrors and appliances, and they will operate as reconfigurable reflectors or transceivers for massive access when equipped with active radio-frequency (RF) elements."
Their eyebrows.
> But I find it really offensive when people pretend that intelligence and athletic ability amongst a whole host of other things do not exist along a spectrum and are not genetically influenced.

That's not what people who talk about "HBD" being bad are doing. My comment in response to andrewflnr has more, but the criticism is not that intelligence or athletic ability aren't genetically based at all, it's "HBD"/eugenics focus on genetic heritability to the exclusion of everything else, ignores evidence to the contrary, and does so for the explicit purpose of harming people of other races. They also ignore evidence that while it is variable, that variability is not racially determined, e. g. is not correlated to the genetic differences that create phenotypes we categorize as "races".
Principle of Least Action
So amazon didn't change it, the county changed it.

And it was requested months ago because it gets really busy around shift change time, which makes sense.
Angell's argument was more along the lines that war cannot be strictly justified by economic, financial, or security incentives: "(2) War is not impossible, and no responsible Pacifist ever said it was; it is not the likelihood of war which is the illusion, but its benefits." [^1]

His point was that economic interdependence in the current age(1910-1860) meant that changing the international order by force of arms would not lead to a more favorable outcome for the aggressor. In fact, quite the opposite. The aggressor's economy would be wrecked even in victory no matter the length of the war. Economic isolation from world trade and credit would be devastating.

If he was claiming that war was impossible would he bother to write a book arguing that the benefits of war were not commensurate with the cost? The entire reason he wrote the book was to dissuade 'militarists' and stop the buildup of military potential that began with the dreadnought race and germany's more aggressive wilhelm foreign policy. The book was almost directly aimed at a german audience as a result.

[^1]: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38535/38535-h/38535-h.htm#Pag...
Also genital scan.
> ...Meanwhile, the ADAS in many new consumer cars can pretty much drive itself already.

Yeah, not really. "Pretty much" drives itself isn't a thing. It either drives itself or it doesn't. Which ADAS system allows me to sit in the back seat while it drives itself fully?

> Waymo has to convince you their way is the "only" way to do self-driving cars, because nobody in their right mind would chose their solution otherwise.

Considering every self driving car company except Tesla (maybe MobileEye but even they have backup LIDAR systems) uses the exact same approach as Waymo, this is way off the mark.
I don't have the exact size comparison between this approach vs PNG compression, but i guess the difference would be similar to the difference between DEFLATE vs brotli.

I'm curious about what you just asked of me though, i will make the actual measurements, and will update this page with the results when i got time.
A circle has a fixed level of abstraction, and representing a complex thought requires many circles. Importantly, in a complex image each individual circle doesn't convey much information, it's the composition that encodes any information.

Words have a near arbitrary level of abstraction, so that single words can convey immense collections of ideas, so much so that new words can be defined that represent the ideas that would otherwise take many words to express.
Congrats on your priviledged life. Maybe donate a couple bucks to your local homeless shelter to make up for that awful reply. Three things:

1. Well done you for having "a climate controlled, comfortably furnished apartment, a big screen tv, high speed internet access, video games, and food delivery". If it wasn't obvious, not everybody does.

2. Since, as you're implying, you're not losing your sanity, I'm not sure you have anything to say about the matter. Or to put it another way: You don't get to shit on other people's hardships just because you have it easy in life.

3. "Losing your sanity" can happen outside of lockdown-related ills. You are aware of that, right?
Wonder in what way that influences the learning process, when all the algorithms are learning from each other.
The Bureau of Meteorology, a government department that provides forecasts has just tweeted that their Facebook page has been impacted by this change which is odd as this is not a media company and provides arguably vitally important information to mariners and other transport modes.

It looks like the blast radius from this decision is impacting organizations that is out of scope of this legislation.

https://twitter.com/BOM_au/status/1362175695389155330
I think you should visit small town/rural New England. A good part of the population around here heats exclusively with wood but usually with a free standing stove or insert.
No, it targets any digital platform at the discretion of a single elected Member of Parliament.

If /r/australia got too influential or troublesome to this politician, in the lead up to an election perhaps, then there is no need to get anything through parliament - this individual can essentially add reddit.com to a list and then send Condé Nast the bill.
> I was in the Army for 8 years fighting wars.

Was that worth it? Do you consider that superior to working on trifling conveniences?
I don't believe we do, but I think the government may be thinking that now would be an excellent opportunity for someone to give it a go (our prime minister has a funny saying "if you have a go, you will get a go")
I really don't understand why is it fashionable to claim this these days in these forums. I have no numbers for "eInk's bullshit monopoly practices". I see a lot of chinese manufacturers building eInk devices. No hint whatsoever of either abusive practices or abusive royalties. Does someone have any evidence?

Most other competitors to eInk (e.g. Qualcomm/Mirasol, Gyricon, etc.) had viable products and have completely failed in the market.

Is this really "einks abusive practices" or is it just complete consumer disinterest in the technology outside of these extremely niche markets?
>Are these less informed people numerous enough to cause a problem to others, perhaps by voting badly?

Yes.

>How would you know?

By the simple fact the Federal government is ignoring their constitutional responsibility to enact a quarantine for international travelers and letting the states deal with it (poorly). So far the virus has escaped a dozen times through badly run quarantines and none of the lessons are shared between states, because each state has to build the experience for itself.

>I ask these questions because I keep seeing the news exaggerating some bogeyman and people believing that it's more significant than it really is.

You ask these questions because its a weaselly way to get around the HN rules of not insulting people while implying exactly the same thing. In short are you looking for a job with News Corp? Because this is exactly the type of content they want google and FB to support.
They seem very convinced, or at least are pretending to be convinced, that they can build FSD without human-level AI. I'm not convinced of that at all, though.
If a locked down app store is necessary for say safety, perhaps a good analogue is a water utility company. A water company has a monopoly in an area, due to the impractical nature of duplicate infrastructure. However, in return it may be heavily regulated in terms of its safety and pricing.

If you have to have a single app store then their prices should be regulated, and crucially there should be proper recourse for developers denied access to the platform
Nothing you have described would be disallowed.

Often the ideas about restrictions are simply false beliefs.
They repeatedly discuss railways and WW1. Repeatedly.

And they clearly are using that as an illustration of ONE of the technologies that mirrors today's revolution. I just feel we read different articles if you don't think they covered this.
You do realize that that makes Trump and his supporters look worse not better? Considering there's currently a pandemic going on.
Indeed, the silent majority of this country voted for Biden.
Just tried it my my team, it looks promising. You can literally make the full stack app in 5 minutes using Blitz. It supports SQLite, PostgreSQL an MySQL out of the box.
I've seen a handful of people make the point on permanency, but it doesn't sit right with me.

Since theres no central authority enforcing a cancel, how can it be permanent?

How many times has Kanye West been "cancelled"? It seems to me everyone forgets about having cancelled him whenever he releases a new album ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And it makes sense to me, since cancels are done by disconnected individuals, a cancel ought to only last as long as the cancelling collective's attention span.
Same here, panhandle area. I walk the dog 1-1.5 hrs during the day, half hr at night. For years it was just the Cruise cars, but since last summer the Waymo vans/suvs started showing up and now it feels like they're constantly passing by. Late at night it's especially noticeable because of the lack of traffic.
FWIW I don’t consider those particular requirements to be ridiculous.

I do consider to be ridiculous the requirement for me, a British national living in Germany, to keep the US Federal government informed about my use of encryption in all the apps I distribute on the App Store. That’s clearly nonsensical.
So I was specifically talking about small companies, but ultimately I think so. I’d recommend sending it to an alias address if you can find one, but ultimately LinkedIn and firstname@domain will get you far.
Russia's Secretive Space Cannon, the Only Gun Ever Fired in Space
It's not about percentages, it's about anti-competitive behavior. Microsoft leveraged their monopoly in the PC operating systems market to prevent competition in the web browser market.

Similarly, Apple and Google have leveraged their duopoly in the mobile operating systems market to prevent competition in the mobile application distribution market

Apple (52.4%) and Google (47%) control 99.4% of the mobile operating system market[1]. That's certainly much more than the 85% of the market that Microsoft had.

> They don’t have anything like a monopoly.

Colloquial definitions of monopoly do not matter when it comes to antitrust laws[2]:

> Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
> people making investments with bitcoin backed loans

There already are Bitcoin backed loans offered by both decentralized services (like Aave, Compound, Maker etc) and centralized services (like BlockFi, Celsius etc). They get real usage. Aave, Compound and Maker have $17B worth of crypto deposited in them as collateral. BlockFi has a $2.85B valuation.
It does happen to other products. Notably 3D printing was held up by a 1989 patent for 20 years - when it expired in 2009 it resulted in a massive boom leading to lots of new innovations in the space.
A design pattern you can use to make web forms copy/pasteable and spreadsheets
Facebook Cuts Off News in Australia in Fight over Payments
Thanks we'll definitely take a look. The range of prices on solutions in this space is incredibly wide.

There's simple things for crazy cheap, complicated things with giant price tags, all intertwined in a brand new land-grab to get adoption.

The founder of Superhuman.com recently introduced us to the Van Westendorp Price Sensitivity Meter, and recommended we also check out the book 'Monetizing Innovation' -- more to learn!
Anonybox 21, AES256 Encrypted Mailbox made with Java
> I need to work remotely for family reasons. I have a special-needs sister and I look after my youngest brother. They are what's most important to me, which is why I don't want to relocate.

Have you considered they might benefit from moving to a new location as well? Better schools and services for instance.
Potentially, but under this law these are likely to also encounter the same issues that Facebook and Google are facing right now. Facebook and Google are only the first named companies affected by this, though the rules are far reaching. I highly suspect things like Apple News would be next on the block to be classified as a "designated digital platform".
I don't know the legal status but I've always been uneasy about rich snippets and other things on Google search. It is common that I get my answer and never have to visit the site, meaning Google gets their ad money and the site gets nothing more than a name drop.

But you have to play that silly game, because otherwise your competitor might get featured instead and we learn about them and not you.
I am not sure how do you draw these conclusions from the study.

There's no comparison between transmission by vaccinated and non-vaccinated children, so there's no possible way of concluding that vaccination reduced transmission relative to non-vaccination.
> why would I even begin to work on them knowing that Apple could pull the plug on me at any time?

Perhaps it’s simply not true that Apple pulls the plug on apps at any time.

Billions of dollars paid to developers suggest that you are just wrong about that.
There are definitely stories to tell.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/11/rumour_leading_jap...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/tech/gaming-metoo-twitch/inde...

A good rule of thumb is to look for visible gatekeepers. Where they go the abuses follow, and if caught they only need to burnish their image enough to get their pals to rehire them.
There was another survey in November where Biden was slightly ahead of Trump, however.
This is bullshit. There is a much smaller number of conservative news websites or tv channels compared to democrats, though the population is roughly 50/50, so of course the few conservative outlets individually attracts more traffic hence appearing more often in top links, but not in aggregate.
The email server does not need to load all the images at once. If it receives a billion emails, it can retrieve linked images a few per second per domain. Or on demand if the email is opened. The email server does not even need to completely drain the queue and load all the images, just images from enough emails to bollocks up the results is enough. The end result is the same, in that the sender does not know if the email was read by a human or not.
The easier it is the harder this techique becomes.
Presumably because the cars would be substantially more expensive than an ordinary car due to all the high tech packed into them. Assuming that the components of the car have a finite lifetime, it might be possible that the overall cost is so much significantly more than a normal car that they won't be able to compete with a human driven solution like Uber.

Does anyone have any actual statistics/calculations on this sort of thing?
Idoru by William Gibson
Facebook blocks Australian users from viewing or sharing news
lol

Germany beats all countries in terms of density but South Korea, but we have the worst prices for mobile Internet connections.
Hunter S. Thompson's Irreverent Eulogy for Nixon (1964)
> On February 19, Fauci told USA Today, “In the United States, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to wear a mask.” On March 8, as scientists estimated tens of thousands of undetected Covid cases in the US, Fauci told 60 Minutes, “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is.”

You can decide for yourself, but to me he was pretty clearly trying to make people think masks don't work masks don't work while leaving a small sliver of plausible deniability.

This whole article makes a compelling case that he's really just as much of a calculating politician as anyone in Washington https://www.thedriftmag.com/the-case-against-fauci/. And he's done a great job branding himself because most people seem to think the opposite, until you look at him closer.
I really don’t get it. On what basis should a regulator step in? If you don’t like to be part of a closed system, feel free to use Android. Many people actually like the way things are, including me. And, I do even have 2 apps in the App Store and don’t mind paying for what I get a good value for.

In the end, apple is a private company serving its customers. They can’t please everyone. And that’s what I like about them.
I probably am a little sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and racist in ways I don't fully realize due to my privileges.

Unlike Shapiro however you will be unlikely to find any overtly bigoted content scrolling through my public commentary.
Yeah I’ve seen and even been offered £1500+ contracts but those were relatively short term no where close to being enough to fill out 200+ billable days per year.

You could get probably get to £150K or so over a year focusing on those contracts only 100 days billable is doable but usually you won’t find more than 5-6 months of those contracts per year.

Hopefully the IPO will work out well for you :)
QA is a VERY solid career, by any general standard. OP is looking for a job, not a creative outlet. Shouldn't apply an SF lens to this.
Biden is president because of like 62,000 votes across 4 different states.
> Labor, who voted to support the code in House of Representatives on Wednesday, said on Thursday that the government had failed to deliver a “workable code”.

> “This is not a workable code that has been landed by this government,” communications spokeswoman Michelle Rowland said.

So maybe you shouldn't have voted for it then, huh? Like, I might disagree with the politicians who are defending the code, but at least they are being consistent.
The BOM provides vitally important information in disasters too. This will kill people.
Ask HN: Hiring International Developers
Does anyone know the best way to find contract developers in South America, Asia, and Africa.
Of course they would be. OP said they wrote their own browser. The app store specifically disallows this. You must use the Safari render engine.
It may vary from one discipline to the next. My background is in physics. Every physics student learned to program. In grad school, every physics thesis involved programming. Most of the scientists I know who use Python, switched from some other language, and learned it on the fly.

Looking back over the span of 4 decades, one big change is that there is just more stuff, and the specific programming language is just a small part of it. An advantage of learning something like Python is that you can do more with it, quickly, thanks to the libraries.
Yep. Recent debunking (once again) of their canon by Kevin Bird in an article titled "No support for the hereditarian hypothesis of the Black–White achievement gap using polygenic scores and tests for divergent selection"

https://twitter.com/itsbirdemic/status/1356710918026067973
I hire all my employees on upwork.com and Fiverr, but you will be competing against global wages.
That is a great way to improve trust. There are other ways as well, and we should work on them all.
Why do you say that? Texas has had its own grid basically forever. There are, and have been, some small connections to the other grids, but nothing that substantial.

https://www.texastribune.org/2011/02/08/texplainer-why-does-...
how is static typing lacking evidence? don't we use that in rust to prevent the existence of large swaths of errors vs say C? i know for sure when turning on typescript for some javascript projects at work we found many issues, those all seem like wins? Why when I look at some dynamic languages say for example clojure i see stuff like type annotations in their core libraries, and then spec's to help provide a lot of what a type system can do? do you have maybe a counter argument to this fellow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTl7Jn_kmio
It's nice that the example fibonacci code still runs in Python 3.9 -- after adding parentheses around the print statement (typical!).
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> everyone working in the tech space is SUPER LUCKY

Proceeds to continue complaining about working at Google.
I'm curious how they're doing it. Without having used their product, I gather that they're blocking certain known trackers and/or checking for tracking pixels directly. But it's not hard to put a unique tracking link on any arbitrary image which is part of the email's content. The only full defense is turning off all images.

edit: apparently they automatically cache the images on delivery, which should work. This is really a change that needs to come from the mail providers so good on them. As long as they don't try and assume what the user is interested in like Gmail does, they can drop tracking all they want.