skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the regulatory move here is to ensure on each iPhone box and prominently at each Apple Store there's clear warning to consumers that paying 1,500 USD for a phone also means you'll only be allowed to use apps available from the AppStore.
It almost makes one question whether the right people seem to have all the money
Yeah, I was making the assumption they created new rules and were playing by them, but yes, like the article says, you can share the images as much as you want. It's only the token that's the non-reproducible bit.
> So here we are, on the brink of war with a President who can't climb a flight of stairs on his own

"Brink of war"? Doubt.

Also, bringing BLM and Antifa into a discussion about the F35 shows your intentions with this post.
If showing your costs puts your product in a good light, then do it, if it doesn't, don't. The article just shows that cost breakdown is one thing you can use in your marketing.

It is the same as showing where your ingredients come from. No product will show "made with GMO corn from the most productive industrial farms". If it is shown, it means there is something desirable about it.

Transparency isn't always a good thing. I think JCPenney’s tried it, and it was a huge marketing failure.
it would be helpful if you provided your sources
The government has an incentive to report deaths as covid deaths. I'm simply stating it is not 100% clear what causes the deaths. The reason I suspect a higher suicide rate than otherwise estimated is that the number of people with suicidal ideation has doubled.

NOTE, I was also considering unintentional suicide (overdoses), which were dramatically up (38%).

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p1218-overdose-death...

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6932a1.htm

https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/16/suicides-fell-in-2020-w...
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The F-35 reminds me far too much of the misguided concept that was floated in the Windows 8 era of a unified experience across everything from phones to tablets to laptops to desktops to game consoles to AR whatever-Hololens-was-supposed-to-be.

That concept also produced a rather terrible jack-of-all-trades experience that we've slowly been working our way back from, after an enormous amount of collateral damage and opportunity costs.
don't want to sound harsh, but articles like this are the reason I don't read much. Maybe it's because English is my second language, so it's on me, but why such epic journey to seemingly say so little. I only read half of it, couldn't go through more. Interesting topic but to me personally, delivery is quite difficult.
I love that this is blurring the lines about what the idea of a game is. I bet a lot of people will hate this game and a lot of people will love it (and a lot will just be like huh?).

One thing for sure is that it looks interesting.
This also explains some of the racial disparities in COVID deaths since the obesity rate for blacks is 49.6% vs 44.8% for Hispanics, 42.2% for whites, and 17.4% for Asians
Remember kids - having fun is bad! Your bad and you should feel bad!

Ugh - I had modern culture.
This sounds like fear mongering. How often do union votes result in closures?
The problem with blaming the response, is that a strong response with very strict lockdowns is sometimes a result of a weak early response. That is, if you hesitate with doing lockdowns, you'll eventually be forced to do a much more severe and longer lasting lockdown anyway. A weak response will also overrun the hospitals, which makes it difficult for them to diagnose and treat other diseases.

Norway has had no significant excess mortality through the entire pandemic. In recent months it has been well below 0%. It has been consistently been better than Sweden, which has had less restrictions and a similar culture.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores...

The restrictions in Norway has been less severe than many places with higher excess mortality. Why is that? My theory is that Norwegians have been very compliant with advice and restrictions set by the government, and the government has been pro-active with enacting restrictions. This has helped contain and suppress the spread of the virus to smaller geographical regions, so that other areas can avoid lockdowns. And it reduces the duration of outbreaks, meaning you can lift restrictions again more quickly.

So my theory is that fighting against restrictions is extremely counter-productive. It only serves to create a culture of ignoring government advice, and makes politicians hesitate to enact necessary restrictions early, with the end result being more restrictions in total, not less.
Unfortunately, structured competitive debate these days has gone off the rails. At least, college debate in the US has become ridiculous.

Moot court and mock trial retain some semblance of argumentation. But you would have to reinvent the kind of formal debate you’re imagining.
You can replace R&D with trust, material quality, worksmanship or some other ethereal hard to pin down quality.
Michael Collins on Space Exploration (2019)
Interesting choice of name.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325605315_The_1964_...

>On the fiftieth anniversary of the atrocious killing and raping of the Arabs of Zanzibar in the wake of the 1964 revolution in the Island, this paper sought to establish that this mayhem was genocide. In light of the almost complete failure to notice this tragedy, the paper pursued critical genocide studies and hidden genocide investigations to argue that this Arab tragedy in Zanzibar has been a denied genocide. Worse still, the paper showed that this genocide is commonly ignored even in studies devoted to bring to memory of hidden genocides life.
Whats the difference between low confidence intel and a rumor?
>I suspect many consumers wouldn't like to know that the $1500 iPhone they just bought only has $400 worth of actual parts in.

This is neglecting software development, maintenance, new features rolled out, etc. Yes, you're overpaying beyond cost, Apple would go out of business if you weren't. The question is are you overpaying for the functionality or value you get out of the product/service and are the margins too fluffy.

In the case of a designer wallet or velben goods in general, you're really paying for the status and symbolism in the inflated margins. This may be true of some iPhone owners who don't use their phone or buy one every quarter but not most, they're getting utility and value out of the devices that's likely worth the cost.

Velben goods get a bit complex as well because of intangible value in social situations. Sure, that designer wallet is a waste of money. My $10 leather wallet does the same thing and is probably more durable (even blocks RFID, yay). There is much theater to life, however, and velben goods can land you in situations surrounded by those will wealth that leads to opportunities you might not otherwise have.

Impression and perception is difficult to assess value (advertising and marketing in business sure think its valuable), but you'll find you may get bumped in lines, have better service, land a job, or something else all because of such social impressions. This is the entire reason people don't wear flip-flops, athletic shorts, and t-shirts into the office or interviews and why some people carry thousands of dollar hand bags around. The question is: what's your ROI on these impressions? It's difficult to measure and frankly to me seems typically like a net loss. I personally think it's crazy and could care less if you waste money to flaunt wealth or play status games, but I've witnessed the effects first hand of success in this realm to not completely discard the intangible value that may exist.
"Comprehension-first" debugging, love it.

I use a phrase when this whole "jumping past messages" is happening, so often in fact that it's become a meme at our company, "You are clicking like a mad woman/man!"
Unless I'm missing something they only use a single 5 year window to look at the 2020 peak. I meant if you slide the window back over the past 50 years, what other peaks show up and how much larger are they then the other years in their window?
Unfortunately Epic's store on PC is being run at a loss in order to win market share and not expected to be profitable for another 2-5 years. So that wouldn't be a great comparison. The cut they take for their store is 12% but compared to other launchers on PC they provide appreciably worse features.
> OP has tried to make one point about the poor logic of the headline & you shut them down & refused to deal with the argument because you inferred the posit that racism is bad as them calling people who disagree with them racist. That's not you engaging with diverse viewpoints.

First of all, you are confusing me with Neil44. I did not say "You’ve gone straight to the implication that everyone who doesn’t want to hear politics from the noisy few is racist". Neil44 said that. Not me. At no point did I infer that OP would be calling people who disagree with them as racist.

Secondly, how am I "not engaging with diverse viewpoints"? I'm literally on the internet right now engaging with people who express viewpoints that I disagree with. Like, what is your expectation of what "engaging with diverse viewpoints" is supposed to look like? If I'm fawning over an internet comment like "yes, well said, comrade, I agree 100%", then I'm not engaging with diverse viewpoints, am I? If everybody in the conversation agrees with each other, where is the diversity in their views? It's only when people _disagree_ with each other, and still engage one another, that you might say people are "engaging with diverse viewpoints".

Thirdly, I didn't even "shut down" their arguments. I simply acknowledged that this person thinks negatively of viewpoint diversity, and that they provided an example of a viewpoint where diversity is indeed bad (racism). That's me acknowledging their argument (in a snarky way, but still).
The Blackberry managed to be a unified inbox because it also unified UX.

Today everyone has to have their own UX, so the notion of, say, message _transports_ (which is what you had in, for instance, cross-protocol IM clients like Adium) is dead.

iMessage, Facebook, Whatsapp, Signal, etc. all have their own UX, and that is impossible to unify today.

Android _almost_ got that right as you could (theoretically) build unified front-ends to front for separate activities back in the early revisions (and I believe PalmOS nearly got there as well) but today every service wants to own the UX to shove their "experience" in your phone...
On the other hand Covid-19 would have killed many more people directly if action hadn't been taken to mitigate it's spread. Probably exponentially more people, based on how viruses typically spread.

In other words, the comparison isn't between how many people Covid-19 did kill and how many preventative measures did. It's between how many it would have killed and how many preventative measures did. While there's a lot of uncertainty in how many people Covid-19 would have killed, it's still certainly higher than the preventative measures.
Why do people insist on comparing only things that are same? The same things are same, no point whatsoever comparing them: they're same! No, you should only compare things that are different, that way you learn more about their differences.

And what's better, an umbrella or a toaster, depends on the one's goals: if one'd like to fry some bread, toaster is more useful; if one'd like to cover from rain, umbrella is far superior, although toaster could used be too; if one'd like to drive a nail into the wall, toaster again is better; etc.
Global electric vehicles sales grew 41% in 2020
I never understood the hate Nano gets from vi users. Nano does many things quicker and easier than vi. For example, search & replace. Would I code in Nano? No. Do I use Nano to edit configuration files and make other small edits? Absolutely.
That's what I'm saying. In the US, conservatives actively worked, and still work, against personal liberties in terms of LGBT marriage rights. That was my point.
I really like PlantUML for drawing state machines and sequence diagrams, but I never use it to actually draw UML.
you mean, reddit

By reading the other threads about work-from-home, i realize that for a lot of people work is one of the few places where they can talk politics with a group of real people, which is the reason why it happens so often
...maybe? ;)
Given the fact that fourier basis, can be seen as polynomials on unit circle, this may be intresting for some of you.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07669
I LOVE Nano. I just can’t figure out vi/vim.
The LRB is greatly bankrolled by the family fund of one of the founding editors, so I doubt they would ever care to take money for an article.
We're not talking about the same adversaries here. If the police unlock people's phone by pointing it at their face it'll be done with impunity and in a widespread manner. Less so if they start cutting off fingers.
This is relevant only if you have zillions of objects of hundreds of types and more such types of objects are likely to emerge in future (as you launch more products/use-case).

And you have billions of users and their sharing permission models are complex and likely to keep evolving in the future with more devices, concepts of groups/family etc.

In such a scenario, doing access control in a safe and secure way that scales and evolves well to such a large base is itself a major undertaking. You want to decouple the access control metadata from the data blob storage itself so that they each can be optimally solved for their own unique challenges and they can evolve independently too.
Regardless, my opinion is not based on case law but rather my personal intuition of how such things should work. I make no claim otherwise.
Since when are the Courts in the business of determining which business models are valid and how much profit is justifiable? How about whether it’s justifiable because one of the party’s is taking a loss somewhere? I would say those sound like political questions, but in this case, it’s not really the government’s business either.
Ah, I misunderstood your point. You're missing nothing.
In mock fanboy voice, "It broke new ground!" Mike Stoklasa Red Letter Media.
17 billion Euros and 6 months construction sounds very cheap and simple.
Others got it right too! But they were not looking for what's right for the end user, but what's right for the business ($$$).
Somewhat off-topic I know, but I'd love to see this extended to some of the features that Sign in with Apple has in terms of private relay.

Signing in with Google yields (at a minimum) the e-mail address to the client which means that the list of third parties that have your e-mail (and can therefore spam you at will) is increasing exponentially. It would be great if Zanzibar extended the ACLs to include privacy controls with external services.

(Or I'm misunderstanding and this is only the component for internal Google authentication and not external federation for clients).
How Rich countries are making the pandemic last longer
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And get more karma. I don't want to go back.
I want to go back to the office for one maybe two days per week
A JavaScript Optimizing Compiler
Thanks for sharing, I did not know either. It is hidden and forbidden if you have under 200 karma which might explain why it is not that well known.
That's great to hear. Thanks for reading and for the kind words!
Is he charging through the border, or gently rebuking the concept of a border?
Two interesting perspectives baked into this (correct me if I'm wrong here):

1. I'm okay with others taking credit for my work because that effectively means they own it and therefore have to support it

2. Make sure you get some of the credit as to not affect performance reviews, accomplishments, etc.

There's a lot of truth in both, but are obviously at odds with each other. Do you have recommendations on how to reconcile them?
It depends what you mean by "at the same time". Perhaps 5-6 different side projects or so are ongoing concurrently, but not all of them are getting worked on at a given point in time. I'd say if I'm making reasonable progress in a week I'm only interacting heavily with 1-2 projects while leaving the others on the backburner. If I didn't have a fulltime job I imagine that number would change to 2-4 projects within a week (rotating projects in chunks of 2 days or so).

I certainly can end up spreading myself too thin on various projects which is why I've found cycling between projects to help. The major risk is that projects languish for months before they get the time needed to get them completed or generally up-to-date. Typically my side-project workload is about half large projects (multi-month 50+hr, typically requiring new tools or learning new skills) and half small (doable within 2 weeks under 10hr). Motivation varies month to month, so the rate of completions has a pretty high variance attached to it.

Overall I tend to yearn for more productive time to apply to projects as there's plenty of possible future projects to work on, but adding them to the queue would be irresponsible unless other projects were completed first.
>you still won’t get anywhere close to 50% of female engineers, or 50% of male pediatricians, as long as people are free to choose a profession.

And that's fair. My argument isn't that it needs to be split and completely equal. It's that the freedom to choose needs to be equal, and the playing field needs to be level, so that who is and who isn't in 'field a' is, in fact based on merit and not arbitrary classification at birth such as gender and ethnicity.
Litestream author here. Great explanation of how everything works! That's awesome that's only running at $0.03/month. :)
>I never understood the hate Nano gets from vi users.

They need to justify all the time they spent learning and configuring vi/vim to themselves and to others.
Because the legal system is not some mechanistic program that computes decisions over cases. The legal system is (for better or worse) based on human judges that look at the entire context and make judgments of what is reasonable or not. Given that this is an antitrust case, the business model is absolutely part of the context.
Zanzibar is an authorization system, not an authentication system.
And the Twitterverse is a kind of weird opposite: say whatever you want into the void, and not face any in-person repercussions. You can stop whenever you feel like you're losing, you can double down when you think you're winning. It's all a slight fluctuation in your dopamine levels, and you get addicted to it. You lose grip of what actual IRL discussions are like because they're tainted with your experiences of vituperatively arguing people halfway across the globe that you'll never meet.
TBH they are not very big, in fact rather tiny for luxury homes, so let them have it at the highest price possible. If your idea of high life is a 3 meters greenhouse without even a garden, fine.
Linus Torvalds recently did an interview and I was suprised to read that he was considering switching from his micro-emacs setup to Nano. If it's Linus approved, how can I say something is bad? ;)
I see the 2020 mortality no different from other years: https://github.com/klahnakoski/mo-statcan#example---covid-19
Always interests me how legends and stories like this are passed around, and how much changed since the original, but also what /really/ happened for the story to take form.
Actually I thought it was an idea that all Italians look the same
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I love working from home and would never work in an office again. I prefer the freedom of schedule, quietness and lack of constant surveillance from my bosses.

It feels like the office was geared 100% for extroverts and finally introverts have an option that works for them. My productivity has never been higher and my stress has never been lower.
More $1,400 stimulus checks are sent as the IRS processes tax returns
Recently had a Zoom call with a prospective enterprise software vendor, a small but very successful business. They trotted out quite a few senior people to make their pitch. In our internal chat room one of my colleagues noted the lack of diversity in their line-up as a red flag (those on the call were all white male boomers). Ironically, the company has a female founder/CEO. I’m not saying this comment led to anything one way or the other, but what you present to the outside industry will definitely be scrutinised along these lines by some.
I've found a new level of self worth not being told when I have to be in a seat and when I'm allowed to leave it.
"We need to get our brand identity in your face. The ability to message people using our brand is just a necessary evil. Also, the data is lucrative so why not." - If companies were honest
> Do you know for example weather you have licensed software to Judge so-and-so here?

I'm not a lawyer but I don't think software licensing is legally required to work in this way. These days, OEM Windows licences bind to the hardware, not to an individual.
Every time I ctrl-v and then gq in intellij i die a little inside. Why won't it just work!
Probably the elitist guys, the ones that have their identity defined by the editor they use, the language and framework and the Linux distro/DE/OS they use.

Many people just need a tool that does a simple job but does it well, like editing a ini file and adding a line or a word, nano is great for that. (we all know that type of guy that has to tell everyone all the time that he uses Arch and Rust would have fixed everything)
I wish I had the flexibility to choose. I definitely find driving to work rather relaxing (only because I can take the back road).
Maybe the crime of fiction about children can be solved with a disclaimer in the footer “one year in the story generated by the AI is 10,000 Earth years” where a 3-year-old is actually a 30,000-year-old in our calendar. That’s how silly these attempts are at arbitrary obscenity thought crime laws about fiction.

Writing or reading or generating distasteful fiction shouldn’t be a crime just like a comedian should be able to joke about child abuse, like Louie CK’s joke about how maybe it’s the child’s fault for being too attractive or whatever it was. “But what if pedos agree with him?” feels like the argument people are making in these comments for illegalizing fiction.
Zanzibar has been in use for way more than 3 years. I used to work in the SRE team supporting it 7 years ago, and it already had significant users back then.
I don't know about that, as we don't require similar labels for game consoles and the like. I think it is pretty well established in the public consciousness that only the Apple AppStore can provide apps for Apple devices.

I would go so far as to say that the public consciousness probably thinks the same about the Google Play Store and Android devices despite it not actually being true in that case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala_hijack
I love it when people who ignore all the data and intelligent discussion around a subject argue that people aren't listening to them.
I don't want to, even though I know I'm more productive and design communication is better, because I'm fucking lazy as fuck. :/
> Wouldn't a wood-powered industrialization period have incentivized the growing of trees?

A wood-powered industrialization would have led to mass deforestation and then fallen over hard. (Or, more likely, switched fuels.)
It is though. The number of non-chart-toppers with lyrics is beyond counting. You don't make yourself a chart-topper simply by writing music with lyrics
Minimum viable product :P
Boids flocking algorithm implementation in ClojureScript
In general, the pandemic has not been great for services businesses.