skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not besides the point, it's important whether there's no competition because Apple crushed them unfairly in an anti-trust kind of way, or because all other competitors are completely and utterly incompetent.

There's network effects on mobile platforms, you could not make a new one even if you had 500 billion you could spend on it. The existing actors just prevent you to create a new one.

> But I do like iOS. And I don't want you smashing iOS because you don't like it

I don't like monopolies, I couldn't care less about the iOS interface. There's blatant market issues in the tech industry that need to be solved.

> What's wrong with the Pinephone or Librem5 or all the other non-Apple non-Google phones? Why are you "screwed"? They can't compete because making a cutting edge device is hard and expensive.

They have negligible market size and thus do not have an influence on the the mobile app market, that's not even an argument.

> Yes, this sounds exactly what I expect, not techno-freedom-utopia but unregulated scamland

You're missing the point completely, in a market with competition, you are supposed to act and react according to the competition, the only change Apple ever did was because of a real threat of antitrust lawsuit... That's basically admission.

> That sounds awesome, imagine the freedom to install apps from sources of your choosing, like sideloading ... hang on "and by April 2020, Epic discontinued the sideloaded version and placed the game on the Google Play store". Oh I guess he didn't really believe his own story at all, and wanted to benefit from Google's better reptuation and filtering on the Play store, while arguing that it shouldn't exist?

No, that just tells you that even the most popular game in the world could not make it outside the play store. That tells you that Google's claim that "you can sideload anyways" are just complete BS and that's hard proof that the restrictions they've put in place to make that option not suitable are working.

Additionally Google has prevented manufacturers to pre-install the Epic Store by using threats.
If a regular consumer searches for a VPN product
they [...] have to figure out how to find the best
one and will still be around in a year.

Yep! It's a Mozilla product, so there's no guesswork and no worry. You know it won't be around in a year!
Being able to dance, sing, and play an instrument at the level expected by 10s of thousands of people, each paying hundreds of dollars per ticket is pretty damn talented. To be able to keep up that level of performance, basically every day, for almost a year, while sleeping in a bus and eating on road is crazy levels of talent.
It's funny that everyone is saying physical media is dying - that might be true for the majority of the population, but for niche music collectors vinyl is making a big comeback. I personally have a growing collection of a few dozen vinyl albums, and I'm 26, so I didn't exactly grow up with that format.

I know of at least one artist who did a simplified album cover for their streaming content, but for the physical version of the album you open up the cover and see the full work of art that was left out of the digital version (hard to explain, but you get the idea). I think that's a really cool way to bridge the physical-digital gap and reward people who like collecting albums as a form of physical art.
India freezes ByteDance bank accounts
I'd argue that people have been taught to expect it to be free. When fundamental services like search, email, chat, etc. are provided to consumers for free, why shouldn't other services be free too?

Of course we know these services aren't really free; Google and Facebook still run their services on physical servers that have hosting costs. But by making their apps free and finding alternative revenue streams (i.e. selling data), they can set norms that harm competitors with less capital while making it easier to adopt new users (and collect more data).
One of the camera lenses is literally a drop of oil instead of a glass lens, and by applying a voltage to it, you can change the shape and focal length of the lens.
Two more gripes:

- Why does the album art on the lock screen have to be so small I can barely make out what is playing?

- Why can't we have what was on the back of the album too? (And the gatefold for those slightly over indulgent double albums).

I would switch in a heartbeat to a service that gave us the latter!
>Target inflation is specifically intended to promote consumption.

No, it's intended to erode debt. Inflation is effectively a transfer of wealth from creditor to debtor.
Sure but that doesn’t take away from the other guy, not everything is for everyone, that’s ok.
again, once you pay for it, even with cash, they can track you down(though it may take a while). It's trivially easy to see where a given # is, so once they know the phone #, they can pretty easily find out who has it in their possession, by just showing up and seeing who has it in their hand.

Not to say there isn't SOME anonymity by paying cash for a burner phone, but it's not even remotely fool-proof for anyone really wanting to figure out who you are.
> They're pointing out how connected many people in computer science.

Your last sentence is mostly relevant to my point.

The parent shouldn't be easily blinded and in awe of listing just only 'one example' and then proclaiming they're 'recognising greats'.

Let's have more examples of other 'greats' connected to or even advised by Jeffrey Ullman rather than mentioning only one 'great'. Even if it is the co-founder of Google.
Norway does something similar afaik and are sitting on a pretty wicked pile of cash.
How is my question a strawman? They wrote this:

> What you see as surges in value of Bitcoin are more impacted by decreases in value of $s than anything else.

How can that sentence be read as anything other than saying the majority, or at least the largest and primary cause, of the increase in BTC value is the decrease in value of USD (and presumably other fiat currencies based on the rest of their comment)?

EDIT: For grins, a quick calculation on what 10% (3-10x higher than the official annual inflation numbers over that period) of inflation per year over 10 years does to the USD: $1 (2011) -> $2.60 (2021). That is, a 2.6x change in value over a decade.

BTC has increased in value by 60,000x. Even going with this very high estimate for inflation, we still have about 23,000x change in value to find an explanation for. I'd suggest looking at its deflationary nature.
This is ultimately political and comes down to perspective and opinion. As a citizen, you benefit from many things of your home country regardless of whether or not you reside there. Such as, for example, your home country's ability to exert pressure on the government of where you reside when you're unjustly arrested/detained. There's also access to the consulate of your home country and all services you have access to from the resident country. All of that stuff is funded somehow and it can seem unfair that only those who live within the home country's borders fund those things while those who reside elsewhere get to take advantage of it all without paying anything into it.

For Americans, for better or worse, its very large stick (the military) affords its citizens all sorts of benefits while traveling/living abroad.
Executive summary: it is safe to eat pizza left unrefrigerated for 12 hours.
What is absurd about this statement from logical point of view?

A != B
A != C
B == C

...looks like valid logical statement, ie. A = 1, B = 2, C = 2:

1 != 2
1 != 2
2 == 2
Things brings up a side point I can't quite understand.

How does the price of BTC, which is almost infinitely divisible, affect usage?

I see comments like "We're early, price can still rise, etc". Outside of a store of value any usage / institutional use for transactions wouldn't matter right? The BTC is a proxy for the money / collateral on the sides.

If I buy a hamburger with BTC:

If it is settled in BTC then the burger price would adjust often.

If it is settled in anything else, I just adjust the sat / slice of BTC I use.

Am I missing something? Outside of a store of value.
Been looking for this for a while. Thank you.
I must be shallow but these massive feature-rich updates they produce continue to make me want to use VSC less. I just don't want to have all these features I know I'll never use baked into my code editor
If you can figure out how to go bottom up, it will result in new innovations in microscopic manufacturing methods.
Show HN: Reimagining user feedback for the modern audience with micro-surveys
Hey HN,

For a few years I've been experimenting with a new way of gather user feedback that doesn't hinge on invasive privacy practices.

While technology has moved forward at unimaginable speed, current approaches to user feedback surveys are simply digital clipboard and pen and I'd like to change that.

I launched https://www.onva.io/ recently and would appreciate any questions or feedback that people have!

I wanted to build a platform which:

- DOESN'T invade user's privacy
- DOESN'T insist users go to another platform to provide feedback
- DOESN'T ask something from the user without providing anything back
- DOESN'T ask people pointless questions
- DOESN'T waste people's time with long surveys

So I created a platform which:

- delivers micro surveys, so not to waste a user's time with many questions at once
- integrates seamlessly with existing products without pushing users elsewhere
- offers an incentive structure to value user's time driving soaring engagement
- targets appropriate questions to users using dynamic targetting rules
- helps to understand the group over time, rather than an individual once

Beta is now open and free, and I'd love to answer any questions you might have!

Thanks
> it's nothing more than a ultra-scaled neural network as we currently use them

You state this as if it is an undisputed/obvious fact, but it isn't.
AOC: Calling the border crisis a ‘surge’ pushes ‘white supremacist philosophy’
Shouldn't the blog be giving the favorable rating to the pillow they think is the best, not the one that's most likely to sell through?
I find that the Deliveroo prices are heavily inflated for some of my favorite places. And that the info number listed in a restaurant's info page allows one to call the restaurant directly and order the same food for significantly less.
I buy Vinyl, but most new Vinyl releases suck. They just stuff a bunch of songs on 3 or 4 sides that end up half empty, so you need to flip the record all the time.
Definitely a case of Betteridge's Law.
Slack/Microsoft teams bot – data ownership
Hi All - looking for some clarity on "data ownership" as a "Slack bot" or "Microsoft teams bot" developer - any one who has launched a bot and being used by companies would love to learn.
Yes, but so was Napoleon's campaign to Russia
Maybe singing, dancing, playing instruments, overall performing, or even producing?
You've seriously broken the HN guidelines. Please read the rules and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If you'd like more explanation, there is plenty at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652363 and the links back from there.
Machine Learning Up-to-Date #42
I don't know the answer to that question. But considering the fact that even using chip design software from a US company is enough to get US export controls applied to the chip, I'd guess that there's no way around it.
GP's comment (emphasis added):

> What you see as surges in value of Bitcoin are more impacted by decreases in value of $s than anything else. Yes there are changes in demand to hold BTC vs. $, but that is dwarfed by expectations of future changes in the global supply of credit derived $$$s.

That particular word choice strongly suggests to me that GP sincerely believes that the 10× jump in BTC price is because the USD has (or will shortly) collapsed to well less than a quarter its prior value.
> Seth Godin - a marketer!

Like most clever things marketers do, that quote is borrowed nearly verbatim from a much older quote without reference.

"AI is whatever hasn't been done yet."

From Douglas Hofstadter quoting Larry Tesler in 1980

Anyone who has studied AI and its history at all knows that similar quotes to Godin have been going on since the 70s an even that quote from Tesler.

There's an entire wikipedia article on the AI effect[0] if you want to dive deeper.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
Great article - funny & interesting :)

Question about "Ads/advertisements" (I'm totally clueless about how they work):

Does anybody have a link pointing to some kind of overview from the point of view of a website owner? (e.g. list of different providers, amounts paid by views/clicks, which informations are/can be exchanged with them to provide for example an ad in the same context of what the website is showing, etc...?)

Personally as a user, I would not be against ads if they would be normal ones like in a newspaper/magazine, but many show full-fledged small&big animations => I get angry when I see my CPU usage at 100%/my fan spinning up/my battery depleting while reading on such a page, which is the main if not the only reason why I block them (I might even be interested in them, but they screw up my PC/notebook) => as a website owner do you have control on what kind of ads you want to show (technically speaking - like "animated" vs. "static", with how many fps, etc...)?
My impression as an Android developer (not backed by any systemic research, just personal experience) is that Samsung feels less bound by the platform standards because - due to their large market share - they can simply get away with it.
Your comment seems to be exactly the same as this one [1] from the original HN story in 2018, except with less detail. Are you ridiculous_fish, or is this just a huge coincidence or something that happens all the time at Google?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18037184
They standardized international shipping to everyone's benefit. I wonder what is keeping them from standardizing international transaction of government issued money?

That's one way you can think of the next generation of blockchain. Think of it as a "container" for transactions. Lots of transactions in 2021 are still frightfully primitive. The whole recent GME/Robinhood debacle is actually an example. The only reason why online trading companies need such large amounts of liquidity, is that it takes days for the transactions to fully settle!

Blockchain will transition from a weird, new, shiny doohickey, to a way to facilitate transactions. Just like the Internet did.
In many countries of Africa (e.g.; Algeria, but north Africa in general), Huawei has a huge market share and they commercialize models that are well aligned with the consumer's budget in that region, given that they can't easily afford devices from Apple and Samsung which generally come at a higher price and higher maintenance costs. The last one is very important for those people as buying new devices is not that easy. For the average person, a new Iphone is equivalent to a work of 3/4 months.
I don't know where you live but is it possible to write at least the electricity off as a work expense? Sure it won't offset it but at least dull the cost a little.
You may be at step 4 of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365.
i agree with everything you said for our current situation. I can still use homebrew and 3rd party dmg’s to install should I choose to. my concern is for the future, based on how ios/macos convergence seems to be progressing.
It seems like that fully in-person, fully remote, and hybrid teams will all exist, and most people will be able to get their preferences satisfied. You also can’t show up to a startup and sling COBOL or to a bank and cowboy Elixir. People will sort themselves into jobs that match their styles. Perhaps it is “unfair” that remote work partisans will have to go through a job search and I won’t, but you win some and lose some. My job does not optimize my personal happiness either, that’s why they pay me.
It doesn't, obviously. But that's not what you were asking.
Starting from the bottom means, you really did understand it all, once completed ..
The workaround with nvram doesn't work if you already made the mistake of plugging in the CSR dongle. I don't know about the fix with CSR 2.0 dongle, it seems that nobody's selling them any more. Could work, could be an urban legend like all the reported fixes with nvram and pram resets and restoring various files.
I vouched for this after I noticed it had already been posted (but was flagged/dead) after I posted it as well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652224). Not sure why this was flagged (maybe because the poster is a new user?)

The video provides a good overview about the issues surrounding bias in ML, and I think it motivates a discussion that would be useful to have on HN, given the number of people who work on such systems that regularly visit this site.
I'm from the US so that's what I'm qualified to speak about. It rates highly on this supposedly authoritative index so that's why I used it as an example.

What I mentioned about the US is not conjecture. The funding of US political parties is public record. The Commission on Presidential Debates was created by the Democratic and Republican parties. The ownership of the major US media platforms is also public record, and they just unilaterally deplatflormed Donald Trump and QAnon groups.

What's utter nonsense is saying the NPC "plays a minimal role in policymaking and the development of new laws" or that the CPC has a "multifaceted apparatus to control all aspects of religious activity."

I guarantee I've looked into the claims of systemic extermination and genocide against China more seriously than you. I wouldn't be speaking positively about the Chinese government if I thought those claims held water.
I went into the article expecting someone else to eloquently echo my own thoughts and issues with Apple fucking with my album art, but this is so tame compared to what I’m experiencing.

Basically, anyone who’s ever had a greatest hits compilation seems to get their “actual” studio album art replaced with the art of that compilation album at random.

For example, off the top of my head, when I’m in the album section for Low, “Heroes”, or Lodger (three David Bowie albums with iconic cover art and even better music), the only image on the page is for a different, shitty compilation album that I’ve never owned, listened to, or have any interest in whatsoever.

But things somehow get worse as you’re listening to the album. Each song gets a different cover, seemingly at random. In fact, on “Heroes” alone, an album originally with ten songs (my reissued version has two extra), I have FIVE (5!) different album covers, (one of which is the original, attached to only the fifth, tenth, and bonus songs).

I’m so baffled by this decision and literally cannot conceive of anyone, sane or otherwise, asking for this or even thinking that it’s anything other than the worst possible way to handle album art.
> Starting from the complete bottom just seams over the top.
Is it really?

"What I cannot create, I do not understand." - Richard Feynman

And to clarify, currently the ribosomes are provided as part of the cell-free transcription/translation system. Additionally, amino acids, tRNA (plus tRNA synthetase), RNA polymerase, and a primitive energy source (ATP with some extra energy in creatine phosphate) are all provided.

Here are the components of the most common cell-free transcription/translation systems (PURE):
https://www.nature.com/articles/nprot.2015.082/tables/1
That's not an example of nontransitivity. You’ve only shown that some nontruthy values are unequal by == and some are equal by ==. Nontransitivity would be a == b, b == c, c != a. But you have the much more expected b != a, b != c, c == a.

JS loose equality is intransitive, though; the standard example being:

'0' == 0; // true
0 == ''; // true
'0' == ''; // false
around paywall : https://archive.vn/ynOm2
The Enigmatic Tablets from Late Bronze Age Deir ‘Alla
Weird, I remember the book as being too dense and cryptic without sufficient explanatory text for a compilers course when I originally read it...maybe I am mis-remembering. I will have to find a copy and take another look.
That's your opinion - I don't see any source. My opinion is that it doesn't cause less jobs - I think it would eventually cause more sustainable jobs as malinvestment is removed from the economy.
Vinyl has always had this shorter time length.

> A standard 12-inch 33 RPM vinyl record can have a playtime of roughly 22 minutes per side for a total of 44 minutes. A 7-inch 45 RPM record can fit approximately 5 minutes per side for a total of 10 minutes. Generally, any longer, the sound quality would start to deteriorate.

https://peakvinyl.com/record-playtimes/
Another person still stuck playing Wolfenstein in VR.
I desperately hope this is the case, but a quick google couldn't find a link. Do you happen to have a citation that you'd recommend? I say this as someone who is a bit paranoid about hand cleanliness _and_ is very tired of cracked skin.
I pay 66% taxes on fuel. My car has a $15k tax when sold and $1.5k/yearly tax. In Denmark it would have been much much worse than this (probably north of $30k fees when new).

You don’t ban things you can tax with good results. Banning is for things you can’t tax. It’s a clumsy instrument.
I've been looking for land for a while, and often thought of making a tool will let you input the normal filters for property search, but include things like distance/time to specific locations (Library, Grocery, Home Depot, Costco, etc.), as well as to major freeways. Other ideas including giving ratings based on terrain, flood plains, etc.
Why California’s population boom has stalled: Insufficient housing
> He's not leading a culinary institute

No, but he is nevertheless an expert for certain culinary specialities (see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ#t=1m46s). Essentially, of course, this is also about good manners. Anyway, it seems to be a law of nature that a guru will always find suitable devotees.
Oh man, why oh why...
Intraverts can get just as fatigued by that physical interaction too though.
When it's set up nicely it works great, but any modifications are a pain. Also i can't put in words how much i hate using the mouse, after having tmux+vim+tiling wm set up
Yes, I did start the download.

While testing, I sometimes forgot to connect the laptop to a different network, so my server seeded via the internal network and I could see my laptop's internal IP address in the peer list.

How do web seeds actually work? I actually expect, that the Torrent client will automatically download files from the web server, if there are no "suitable" seeders.
about the release cycle:

from the release of version 3 to the upcoming version 4, they actually release a lot of beta enhancement, new features, bug fixes. the beta link is in their Discord forum, and can only be accessed if you have the license.

even though they dub the frequent releases as "beta", I never feel them as beta software because they are stable, very low occurrence of bug, and many major improvements.
The paper dollar still trades on par with electronic dollar, which is the evidence that the breach has not occured.
There were non-ISS Shuttle flights after Columbia (most notably Hubble telescope refurb flights); also, the Chinese have had manned missions (including one to a small station of their own, since the US Congress chose to bar them from the ISS).
They also celebrate the New Year on September 11, which they were quick to point out when I was there had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks and they were not celebrating those in any way. I was much more interested in how the calendar works than in their attempts to keep me unoffended. lol

Neat tool!