skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Arguing these fine points is a waste of time because I feel like people defending this are missing the complete insanity of this situation

All I’m suggesting is we just discuss what Apple actually does rather than exaggerating it to poorly make a point.

> That's a deflection tactic, and doesn't justify anything. 15% is still too much as long as there are no alternatives.

I wouldn’t have even mentioned this if you hadn’t blown the first more important point out of proportion.

There is an absolutely massive difference between “All their revenue” and “All revenue from in app purchases”.
You have to go through the clipboard?
Pretty sure you can already download an ovpn config for Librem Tunnel [1], the only reason for Librem to develop its own iOS app would be to make it easier than a generic client by connecting directly to the paid service.

[1] https://docs.puri.sm/Librem_One/Generic.html
At first I assumed this would lock all touched state across all touched actors such that you get the same kind of cross table-row locking guarantees a SQL call would give you

...but it seems like its still an open question in the RFC?
Linux containers make use of a kernel API which freebsd doesn't implement. However, you could run linux apps under a regular linux userspace inside of a freebsd jail.
This? https://dependabot.com/docker/
Venkman was hard to use, and mostly focused on the internals of Mozilla. Firebug wasn't just prettier; it was much more usable, and it focused on actual website code. Hence the difference in popularity.
He was Mr. Big in "Live and Let Die," too.
The one issue I see with this is it is always Opt Out. I feel that google really should be lining up partners to opt-in. While I am sure there is reasons why Google believe they have the right (and a good case can be made), it always feels slightly entitled to just assume that people are OK with this being done to their content.

That being said, of all the sources, Wikipedia actively license their content in such a way that google are well within their rights to slurp it all down and serve it however they want.

Google is already effectively paying for links to news sites as part of the negotiations in Australia. And I agree that this will be a dampener on any competition, I think the era of "ask for forgiveness, rather then permission" needs to stop.
I really don't want to sound elitist, but there is the issue that probably 90% of people who have ever written code for money know enough Java to get by and credibly claim they can do it on a resume. Just the ubiquity in university intro courses and enterprise use means everyone gets exposed to it.

On the other hand, if you see someone took the time to learn OCaml, I think you can be reasonably well assured they legitimately love programming. Signal value jumps from "this person has ever programmed" to "maybe this person has a real passion for it."
The free version of Opera also had ads at the time: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c6/Opera_6...
Todo list or apps won't solve your problem per say. It's about designing a system that would allow you to work more effectively.

Some suggestions

Review your list and remove the fluff.

Keep your list short if possible. Focus on 2 to 5 things you won't to accomplish each. If that isn't possible you can prioritize using eisenhower matrix.

Time box the items in your list
Absolutely...that is a big part of things as well. Every less tinkerer is one less inventor/innovator.
He’s an NYT tech reporter, so that lines up with your observations.

He’s inherently a part of the ongoing NYT vs Silicon Valley spat, so probably being circulated more in tech circles as that plays out.
Discussion from 8 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26386419
Scalar: A set of tools and extensions for Git to allow large monorepos
I think the argument is valid. Much of the value of attending a live sporting event or concert is that nobody involved knows how it's going to turn out. You get to experience an unfolding spectacle in real time.

That's not what a world's fair is. A modern world's fair would be essentially a bunch of companies showing off their latest inventions, in a highly coordinated and controlled way, for marketing purposes.

A better analogy would be something like E3, a video game convention which is struggling to find its purpose in a world where it's easier and more effective from a marketing standpoint to just release a video of your new game. I think it's no coincidence that world's fairs stopped being as important right around the time mass communication became ubiquitous.
> It was written for the type of white person who considers themselves to be not-racist and thinks that they deserve recognition and praise for treating POC like they are actually human.

I know nothing of the book but what we're seeing here is the next phase in the evolution of the social justice warrior. Slowly they have come full circle to realize their own hypocrisy. Better late than never.
In various subtle ways. Or not. It's up for a court to decide, if it ever gets there.

IcoMoon also licenses its fonts: https://icomoon.io/#icons-lindua/license
It's because he's pumping his book, as seen at the end of the article as well as his other articles, his Twitter, etc.
I use OpenRefine for that (I don't use R though). How comparable is it according to you, apart from the fact one is a lib for a language and the other is a GUI?
I was a teen so I'm not sure what it was. It just had the magic of tabs. Haha
I am stunned that people don't know that Americans are far and away outliers on the programming pay scale. Please tell me you're aware that not all programmers are in America making those crazy amounts.
> The Finnish situation, for comparison, is that the standard language is spoken by about no one informally, and is a practically constructed languages that was created by the government by combining the most conservative elements of all dialects.

Getting rid of latin as the lingua franca was a huge mistake.
> but how does that not encroach on every business owner’s right to decide who they want to do business with

There is no such right. There is a right to free association, but incorporation is a privilege granted by the state. It comes with many benefits, such as being able to walk away from the business if it goes bankrupt. It also comes with some responsibilities, such as not violating civil rights and antitrust laws.

In practice, some businesses start exerting too much power and start harming other entities, so they have it reduced.

There's been plenty written about antitrust. Check out some of the works of Lina Khan, who's slated to join the FTC soon: https://www.wired.com/story/lina-khan-ftc-antitrust-biden-ad...
Interface Builder in particular, and the NextStep/Cocoa (Mac OS X) system generally.
While Google can use Wikimedia for free, they do make financial contributors to the Wikimedia ecosystem. https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/01/22/google-and-w...
I get the feeling that the denigration of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine is proganda from competitor vaccine manufacturers.

When we see what the actual figures for the 'Blood Clot Disaster' are, we see that that the incidence of blood clots is extremely low in actuality. The figures I have seen are 37 cases out of 17 million vaccinations. In other words, just one case per half-million vaccinations.

So, do we put at risk the 20,000 unvaccinated people who would die from covid for the sake of one person dying of a blood-clot?.

(1 in 500,000 versus 4 per 100 (4%) )

Yes, vaccines can be harmful, but diseases are worse.
What happened to Mars's water? It is still trapped there
Graft! Corruption! Why can't these papers even breathe these words?
There is a difference between nationalism and patriotism. Patriotism is the love of/honoring your heritage, gratefulness for the work that your elders did for you to be here. Nationalism is the promotion of a specific group at the expense of others, relies on victimism to justify supremacism and deludes itself with an ideal that never comes.

The difference between these 2 is mostly known in continental Europe where it became very pronounced in the 20th century, but the psyche of the rest of the world (US included) still has to go through a learning excercise. And this knowledge is also quickly fading in Europe itself. There is no healthy middle ground when it comes to nationalism (not patriotism)
> What are the trends that will lead to mass unemployment, even decades hence?

Visit a slum in Mumbai or a village in the Congo. Better yet, visit a trailer park in the Rust Belt. I really don't get why people don't understand how the future for most people - who don't manage to accrue capital prior to the substantial advent of AI and automation - is already out there for us to observe.
You could build large towers out of this material that sway in the wind like trees and generate electricity.
To head off on an even further tangent for a second: Piers Anthony is pretty deeply problematic himself, and I don't mean that in an "insufficiently 'woke'" sense, either. Many of his works have an unhealthy fascination with sexualized adolescent characters; one of them (his 1990 adult novel Firefly) graphically and sympathetically depicts the rape of a child.

https://www.filfre.net/2019/12/companions-of-xanth-preceded-...

https://litreactor.com/columns/themes-of-pedophilia-in-the-w...

There are plenty of other far more deserving authors that could take his place in such a comparison. Terry Pratchett is a pretty obvious choice, for instance. Or Tolkien, as someone else mentioned.
It has been a long time since I have used that one, but I once did. This was when I was young and needed stuff to fill my resume.
Raising above the minimum increment does have value.

If Baidu is currently winning at say $21M, Google might bid $22M if they know Microsoft will not bid in that round, but might bid $22.1M if they know Microsoft will bid $22M in that round. (Or $23.6M if they know Microsoft will bid $23.5M.)

Or suppose Microsoft is willing to go to exactly $22.5M, Baidu to exactly $23.0M, and Google to $40M. If Google can get that information, Google can bid $22.6M and beat both Baidu and Microsoft (if Baidu doesn’t bid this round, because they’re anticipating a $22M bid this round that they’ll cover at $23M next round).
This seems to refer to https://dicekeys.com, basically a number of dice mean to be used as seeds for cryptographic seeds I guess.

From the little I understand you might need a custom firmware for your solo key https://github.com/conorpp/solo-dicekeys and then you can set the seed from the dicekeys app?

Their release page seems to have more info https://github.com/conorpp/solo-dicekeys/releases/tag/5.0.0

As always, do some more research as that’s just from a cursory google into dicekeys and solo.
People are far, far, far, far, far too entitled.
I don't have experience with managing large amounts of data with actors. But I can say from the actor experience I do have that you can't think about it in the mindset of "how can I replace my relational database with actors".

Actors can be a near-sliver bullet for some things, but you have to think about solutions differently. I always though a bank was a good example. One actor per-account, how do you think about money in flight and such? Probably in a fundamentally different way than you would in postgres.

> hard to query

That one is easy though, CQRS
I feel like unless the words "as checks" are doing a lot of work, the implication of your last sentence is not true. A sibling comment posted a link to a wikipedia article which says:

> The bill's economic-relief provisions are overwhelmingly geared toward low-income and middle-class Americans, who will benefit from (among other provisions) the direct payments, the bill's expansion of low-income tax credits, child-care subsidies, expanded health-insurance access, extension of expanded unemployment benefits, food stamps, and rental assistance programs.

Here's [0] a more direct breakdown of there the 1.9T went. A large chunk of the money was spent on the $1400 checks, extending unemployment insurance (which come as checks/direct deposit), and the child tax credit (which really will just be realized as another check). The majority of the rest goes to state governments (who will probably redistribute some of it), K-12 schools, and "energy and commerce" which supposedly includes contact tracing efforts and vaccines. Doesn't seem like a big misallocation of resources to me.

[0]: https://files.taxfoundation.org/20210312120937/American-Resc...
Every resistive heating device, be it hot water system; space heater; kettle; oven; stove; heat lamp; etc, could just be a proof-of-work IoT device that generates (very little) income.
I think the foundation of the argument about the application and utility of AI needs to go deeper. A good starting point might be to address the arguments that Arvind Narayanan brings up in "How to recognize AI snake oil"[1]. ie:

- "Much of what’s being sold as 'AI' today is snake oil — it does not and cannot work."
- "AI excels at some tasks, but can’t predict social outcomes."

The way that AI "joins the workplace" matters a lot to discuss the reciprocal policy. AI progress in certain domains has been amazing, while other domains may require a philosophically different approach to leverage computation and intelligence for true productivity gains.

[1] https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks/MIT-STS-AI-snake...
Well they ripped off the (copyrighted) Mr. Yuck logo owned by the UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Stealing from children to complain about theft.
Vincent Marti's legendary and funny "My Mom Told Me That git Doesn't Scale" presentation explains why GitHub chose filesystems instead of something fancier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri8hSZNKzu4
Well nothing because as they said, they can’t monetize the site due to google snatching all the content :)
That implies that all innovation is created equal and has equal payoffs.

The ICE brought about big gains for its use case even as a prototype; ICE cars don't produce poop and they wear out a lot less quickly than a horse. In comparison, flying cars or amphibious cars never really made it off the ground in a big way, because the "innovation" there resulted in a hybrid machine that did two jobs poorly and impractically, rather than having two specialized machines.

If it is really easy to point out inherent problems, like, say, the fact that most of the surface area on a car is not generally oriented at an angle to the sun conducive for generating electricity, and those aren't problems that would be solved by "innovation", why try to squeeze water from a stone?
I don't think YC / Startup School is bad/wrong/evil, but I believe it comes up extremely short in preparing aspiring founders to meet the complex challenges of our time in a life-honoring way.

What does life on Earth want the next generation of founders to learn, cultivate, value, experience? I don't have the answers. But I think we need to move beyond the existing monocultural startup education to help founders understand the inner dimensions of life, the sociopolitical context of their innovations, and so on.

I wrote some thoughts on the topic here:

https://aandrewdunn.medium.com/the-path-of-the-humane-techno...
I enjoy playing around it with it for the programming challenge of targeting such a constrained platform (a 4MHz Z80 with 64KB of RAM for my system). It's simple enough that you can hold the whole system in your head when you're working on it. Basically the same things I do with embedded platforms like Arduinos, except my old Z80 system can host its own Turbo Pascal compiler.
> Email is hardly beter than sms, and we do password resets over email.

Email is certainly far more secure. Consider the steps an attacker would need to do to be able to intercept an email being sent from the service being accessed (say, your bank) to your email server provider.
I'd presume by Potemkin regulation, he means that regulations in terms of worker health & safety and consideration of the local environment are for show.

There is the other aspect of copyright violation and clones of products built when something is observed selling in the market. Still unresolved.

That said, when a few Chinese companies shipped consumer facing products that contained chemicals or other material that effectively poisoned people, my remembrance was that the management was executed.
The only way you could be beguiled by this framing is if you don't understand just how inept most doctors and lawyers really are.

A future configuration will probably look something like: far fewer highly talented doctors and lawyers remain employable while the rest are replaced by AI that's shown to be vastly more capable, and that is continually enhanced by the encoded expertise of said highly talented remaining specialists.
Heh... your examples are very extreme...

In my last two startups I had people over 40 working those long hours. A lot of contractors I know are lazy young guys that want the buck with minimum fuss.

Most contractors are experience ex-startupers - this sounds statistically incorrect ;)
> So the victims of a cyberattack have to prove their data has not been manipulated?

No, but if they do claim it has been manipulated, then it would be nice to show proof.

> 5G vaccines

No idea what you are talking about, sorry.
> It's also important to note that Trump supporters and 'Republican Republicans' don't really intersect as much as a lot of people assume.

Every single poll contradicts you - shows that Trump is wildly popular with ~80% of Republican voters.

Did I miss some big change recently?
I'm totally not surprised that large repos exist, without having fallen prey to any antipatterns. Just saying that I know "have you committed any binaries, dependencies, generated code, etc" are the first questions I tend to ask when somebody tells me their repo is massive. In part selection bias, though, because usually the people working on super old projects know exactly why.
> Every developer from around 2006-2008 knows what I'm talking about.

Have been a professional developer since 1999 - no idead what you're talking about.
Ask HN: When should the dev team get involved in the hiring process?
* The recruiter writes the job ad, screens the candidates and passes the shortlist to the dev team leader for interviews

vs.

* The dev team leader works with the recruiter from the start

How does your team do it?
You'll need to explain how the static isolation checking could be feasibly implemented in a library.
Well, they are already a big donor:

https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2019-annu...

> Google Matching Gifts Program
It is a bit surprising that they didn’t use neutral 3rd party as arbiter, and that they didn’t go ahead with Dutch auction. They would be done in few hours with very close result.

Another surprising thing is that there were no good will clause, ie that they could terminate auction and refuse to work for the winner (which they effectively did).
I've never used Netgate's products but reading that certainly doesn't enamour me to use them in the future.
As designed, there is no direct way to influence the TRU Score in any meaningful way. A person could theoretically make 100's of trades every day and post dozens of messages, reviews, etc. This would have some impact on the TRU Score, but nothing significant over a time period of less than 6 - 12 months.

As is true in the real world, when making decisions about the people to work with, we all use a variety of inputs.

We would consider SELLFF to be successful if it helps you to discover and connect with trustworthy people who meet your criteria for the person/people you want to meet. From there, the decision is yours. Use the TRU Score as an additional data point in your decision making, not as the final determination.

I would consider this to be accurate whether you are promoting/selling your services or if you are a buyer and looking to hire a service provider.
It's not clear what your objection is here.
That sounds like a horribly perverse incentive for the world's main free and open source of information.
> Why would Google pay for this when they already crawled and are crawling whole Wikipedia and have complete index of it?

Google's not the only enterprise out there :) I believe Wikipedia's taxonomy is used by lots of people for ML purposes, for example.
Because they screwed up the earlier launches unrelated to mining, because they practice annoying market segmentation anyways, because it's seen as a cash grab, because it isn't helping one bit despite the hassle, because stopping mining also degrades the value of the card for resale even if the original buyer is a gamer, and because restricted drivers are DRM and people hate that.

They just have no credibility now so nobody believes it was to help anyone but themselves.
Things unions offer with those dues:

Legal support - your boss has done something you disagree with

Strike fund - in the worse case the union uses its savings to support the members for a strike

Full time reps - this is perhaps the one most open to abuse, but in my experience union reps fight for the workers - otherwise they get sacked, they are elected positions.

Pay for legal advice - essential when fighting the big boys

And what you would hope is by paying union dues that your pay rise more than covers the union due.

The fact that amazon is fighting against it so hard, you can only assume its good for workers pay.
But it doesn’t really matter - they can just bid more in the next round. It’s not eBay - there is no time limit.
Then they're successful enough to not be the ones I'm talking about. If you sell art profitably you're a business, in the art space.
Maybe Google really doesn't like Microsoft or vice versa and they would try to out bid each other to prevent the other from winning, but they would both let another 3rd party win.
Why do fungi generate electricity after deformation?

Or asked differently, what information is encoded in that electrical pulse? Presumably, evolutionarily, fungi developed transmitting information via mycelium to other connected fungi. But why are fungi letting connected fungi know, “hey, I got stepped on!” ?
This graph shows how much of an impact cars had over time between 1850-2007 on the U.S. horse population. - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/United-States-Farm-based...
Affiliate links seems like a type of advert or they at least share some of the arguments against implementing them on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Funding_Wikipedia_th...
Thanks for such a balanced answer.

For MVP I believe no-code is perfect if possible.
It's roughly the right word for it - mathematicians would say that operations f and g commute if f(g(x)) = g(f(x)) for all x. In this specific case it is not quite true that (^4) and (%15) commute, but if we treat (%15) as returning an element of the-integers-modulo-15 then it is true that the two operations precisely commute. (I think people would say "they commute" anyway, because colloquially it's close enough).
Is he still doing sex harassing?
There’s value in paying $22.6M rather than $24.0M to win the auction. Around $1.4M in value.
Free healthcare and post-secondary education, maybe?

A world without war, where laws were enforced equally on the mighty and the weak alike?
I thought the “invite only” approach was clever. It throttled growth so they could maintain a good user experience and limited automated use by spammers.
It's not a "filtered" version of reality, the actual reality is getting worse for many people and the work you're talking about is orthogonal to the reality of declining wages, worsening health outcomes, infrastructure decline, etc. A fair isn't going to inspire hope to fix these things because these things require collective action, a concept that the USA thoroughly denigrates in favor of elevating the individual.
> works of art that are created due to copyright.

aren't*