skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perversely this is where the equity madness leads.. in education, since they can't make everyone achieve like asian kids, they are going to eliminate programs for advanced students. Rich people will go to private schools.

In policing, since they can't figure out how to keep certain groups from committing crimes at higher rates than other groups, they're going to just stop policing. Rich people will get their own police forces.
I really don't get it.

What is the joy of watching a girl in a bathing costume sitting on a inflatable horse in a kiddy pool showing off her behind every now and again ???.

Most of the chat are about as dumb as bricks so you can't be there for the conversation.
Taking time off is a skill! I think the 3mo threshold is common. It takes a long time to start to "let go" as you say. Pre-tech career I worked seasonally and for years had 4-5 months off a year. It let me build up a different, more positive understanding of myself, decoupled from the anxieties and pressures of work.
> These are, quite frankly, steps towards an authoritarian dystopia.

Says it all.
...but the other thing being optimized for is "thinness"? As a society, you are saying sometimes we should just accept that things will be bad for the environment, maybe even horribly so and at a massive scale... because, otherwise, they can't be thin enough?
If a gang in my street, they better be on my payroll. And I expect them to provide stability better than the Mafia ever can. But if you say my payment of a private security force directly leads to the formation of criminal gangs, and I am still in an underserved population, maybe I can better pay the Mafia, to avoid the creation of new gangs? That sounds naive.
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Twitch is certainly aware of your argument because it’s true. Twitch doesn’t think there are actually hot tubs in peoples living rooms.

They know it’s basically soft core porn. They’re definitely not going to call it that. But they’ll separate it out from the rest of their content and let users and advertisers opt out of it.
Many people might think something as massive as the ocean is basically unlimited and that there's no way us humans could screw it up.

Not true. Take a sample of seawater from almost anywhere right now and you'll find microplastics. Something like 80% of the world's fish stocks are also gone from overfishing.
It basically did for simple web programming what visual basic did for Windows desktop toys: allowed you to throw some UI together (drag & drop components in the VB case, any old HTML with links or forms for PHP) then start stringing bit of code in haphazardly to link it together. No need to learn a more complex compiler or other build tools, worry about configuring CGI or other web server tech (unless running PHP yourself), ...

Great for prototyping, or just to encourage new programmers (as they can see results almost immediately).

Though PHP was essentially thrown together initially so had a massively inconsistent standard library, had some insanely unsafe defaults for a few major versions, and other issues that it is very valid to complain about. It was also closely associated with mysql which at the time played very fast and loose with data integrity (2008-02-31? - perfectly valid date to store! Foreign keys? Let the business layer worry about rules like that! Transactional integrity? Again, sort that elsewhere!) in the name of ease & claims of performance - the two shared bits of each others reputation.
People with generators and suicide cables know to shut off the main breaker. Per my buddy who is a lineman in a rural area, DIY solar systems in cabins and such are much more of an issue.
That penn and teller episode with the petition for removing dihydrogen monoxide from schools was fantastic.

https://youtu.be/zVxypRWZODQ
According to Wikipedia, the app was called "Vigilante" in 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_(app)
> All that is going to happen if Epic gets their own store is Epic will be collecting the 30% rather than Apple

"All" that is going to happen if Epic gets their own store is there's going to be competition in what is now a monopoly. To say that the only difference will be lower quality is, at best, naive.
As long as they shove all those pool streamers into that specific category and don't show it at all on their main recommendation screen than I will be happy.
You can also open an iPhone, load any website in Safari, and order whatever you want from the website. Apple can't stop you from doing that either.
This is the same story for me. Moving from PHP to Python was really difficult conceptually for me. For years fiddling with Apache configs and uploading files via FTP was web development.

I sometimes find myself thinking about teenagers getting started nowadays and the accessibility of development, but I suppose there are a lot more resources now than the early 2000s for some enterprising kids to get started.
I remember my employer was paying Indian consultants a fortune to build a web app in ASP that didn't work. I told them I could do it in PHP in a week, but they didn't trust some "free program."
Try nextjs.
It always comes down to money or power.
you underestimate the power of marketing and societal mass self-delusion :) Just look around - there is no children and Ring cameras everywhere. 30 years ago the children were playing outside unsupervised.
Why the anonymous account?
Cybertruck is unpainted (or varnished) stainless, isn't it?

Means that you can't fix small dents with filler, have to swap panels instead.
What part is the grumpy part?
Is there a market for a stand-alone rolling-coal device? Can be used either in the normal way or ironically.
News articles[0] vs. anecdote

[0]https://www.wthr.com/article/news/investigations/13-investig...
A friend startup-pitched exactly this idea (remote monitoring by request, e.g. late-night walks home) to me 6 years ago and found me less enthusiastic than he had perhaps hoped, it's strange to think about how many people might converge on similar ideas at the roughly same time

Not particularly surprised to see it realized in this way
Totally agree with your viewpoint. These sort of laws should focus on the realistic ability to repair an item, not the practical costs of doing it.

Many of us here would have been called in to upgrade a family members SATA hard drive, which was black magic to them, but trivial for us. Same applies to soldered on RAM. DRM issues aside, its a trivial job to upgrade for someone who knows what they are doing. As long as the software doesnt refuse to recognize it.

And it makes much more sense for governments to legislate around theoretical concepts like DRM, rather than trying to be a technical standards body detailing how you should structure electronics. They are bound to always be behind on technical matters.
Men that are lonely and crave some sort of connection to the opposite sex.
Personal attacks / name-calling are not welcome on HN, as per the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There might be some interesting applications, but wouldn't all those applications be fully out in the open, both code and data?

Zero-knowledge proofs and whitebox cryptography can probably help, but both are a far cry from general purpose computing / programming models.
Any insight on how this might impact the 3D printer space?
Let’s face it. Your link defeats your own point.
The Federal Reserve holds 18.5% of America's $27.7T of outstanding debt
>What is the joy of watching a girl in a bathing costume sitting on a inflatable horse in a kiddy pool showing off her behind every now and again ???.

sex sells.

people like looking at other people half-nude and becoming aroused; it's about as simple a marketing tactic that exists.
Yes, but they're usually terminated in an accessible panel located somewhere inside the house (I've mostly seem them in closets, look for a metal plate on the wall)

Once inside, it's a relatively simple process to cut the CAT5 wires at the punchdown block, and re-terminate them with male/female ethernet connectors, and connect them up to a network switch. If you're lucky, the panel will have a power outlet inside.

Lastly, connect one of the LAN ports from your ISP modem/router into the nearest ethernet jack and you should be able to use any other jack in the house for internet, assuming you terminated all the plugs in the panel into a proper switch.
This is accurate in the same way as saying "a rock chiseled into a wheel with a stick as an axle is still useful today". Or maybe "a mechanical calculator and a book of logarithms is still useful today".

Sure, it still exists and still does what it used to do, and its derivatives surround us. But nobody does that any more because nearly everything else is so superior, it'd be ridiculous to do so, except as an art piece or when you literally have no alternative.
Doesn't that require giving the instance elevated privileges around setting tags? Some people might not want that.
I wonder why they made no mention of Liberica, which is currently grown in very hot climates? I'd be interested in how they compare.
Not an expert in the oil sands but personally I think there are benefits from getting oil from a virtually uninhabited area in northern canada vs relying on other suppliers.

I completely agree on the vaccine issue, Canada had failed miserably vs. comparator nations in this regard.
Over 40% of Canadians are partially vaccinated
Is Ethereum not this?
Thanks for the comments. We’re still figuring out the ideal target market from a b2b sales perspective (as you probably can see :)). However, on one side, we have enterprise sellers with ACVs above $1mm willing to put time into the journey creation as well as SMB sellers creating journeys “at scale” with light personalization via templates. We think its been powerful that a Journey typically gets shared with 3+ people inside an org so it helps with async stakeholder management instead of getting a 10 person buying committee on a zoom call (but the next zoom call will be more impactful due to the context shared in the Journey!). Lastly, we have detailed viewer insights/analytics on Journeys as well as the ability to email gate or password protect!
But the area which does have coverage is still significant, right?
The Morphie blob looks like a special case of a 4x4LUT. I'd be interested to know how the chips work out.
> gaming, and in particular in-app purchases for mobile games on the iPhone, generate the majority of the App Store's revenue

Precisely. Based on revenue, the iPhone is primarily a handheld gaming device, and Apple strictly controls the platform – much as Nintendo does with the Switch. Arguments for Apple opening up the iOS app store apply equally to the eShop.

Tim should note (and probably has noted) that Apple exerts strict control over its iOS platform so that 1) it can make more money 2) it can provide what it considers a better user experience - including better security, privacy, and battery life, and 3) it can have a lower iPhone support burden at genius bars.

Another thing that Judge Rogers (and indeed Tim Cook) should note is that games are "sold" as "free to play with IAP" to make the game "free" to download and play (at least until you hit the first paywall.) Moreover (to make more money and drive users toward IAP) Apple does not offer timed trials of paid games and therefore free trials must use IAP. Users and developers would probably benefit from timed trials of paid games.

Lastly, Judge Rogers should note (and Apple and Epic should admit) that much of mobile gaming operates on a "whale" model where certain high-spending players (including those who are susceptible to slot-machine like monetization schemes) are exploited in order to subsidize non-paying players. This approach has of course been used by Epic with great success in games like Fortnite and Rocket League.
Nah - it cannot be Apple, all Apple, or go home. Gez, if that's the way Apple wants it, it better make me a shareholder so I can get my proper cut.
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In the same way Fox News and the Murdoch owned press has an agenda, so does Mother Jones.

However, their reporting is mostly factual. I'd say more so than Fox News https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies
I've understood it similarly, as a statement made after introducing a piece of evidence or an arguable assertion. The meaning of the phrase itself being a demand that the listener reconsider their position in light of the newly introduced facts.
Your description of how a market solution to policing might fail is how government policing already does fail.
Hopefully reduction of plastic production does not lead to reduction in plastic recycling.
You would have to establish that no one else knew who to lobby, which is far from clear. Also I know exactly who to lobby for certain things I need from the city, but that clearly isn’t enough, because my lobbying efforts have failed miserably.
This will never not remind me of Spaceghost Coast to Coast when he interviews Sportscaster Bob Costas. "Put that in your pipe and smoke it! With your burned lips!"
I'm personally hoping they revisit all the endocrine-disrupting crap added to fire-retarding fabrics and food container lining.
In the title image, the Arabic word "ahlan" (welcome) is spelled correctly but left to right instead of right to left (should look like this: أهلا)
There are rumours of Valve looking into Steam on Android and iOS.
The cybertruck is unibody, there may not be a panel to swap. Body on frame is easier to fix major accidents as well. But getting a car that retains value andnis cheap to repair means after even major wrecks they won't total it and you get a car back that was bent back to mostly true.
> Every app with any popularity will then be considering their own app store. The WeChat Store. The Facebook Store. The Snap Store.

Why would you assume this would happen on iOS when it hasn't happened on Android, when the suggestion is to do what Android already allows, and yet we don't see this on Android?
What if they start bashing straight white people? Our current government does do that as well.
Great! More taxes out of thin air. We don’t have enough of those.
> That puts you in the minority of tech users, at least, if not computer users in general.

Is that an anecdote or is that assertion derived from some study?

I, too, close all windows/processes when I'm through with use. The overwhelming majority of people I've worked with have all done the same; of course that is anecdotal.
It probably won’t much, as the most common plastic is actually corn based (PLA) and IIRC, can be composted.
Only commercially though https://www.3dnatives.com/en/pla-filament-230720194/
I can't understand this perspective at all, but it seems to have been a key philosophy guiding human development for a very long time. Was it just a belief based on convenience?
Not sure why it would?
Will Facebook license this tech out? I can't be the only one who's noticed Google's speech recognition has gotten significantly less accurate the last couple of years, probably the result of some cost-cutting strategy.
I think there's a lot to be gained by really digging into this. There's no revenue tax for corporations in the US, the tax on profits is 21% - so Apple is taking more in revenue than those ARPANET guys are taking on profits. There are a lot more comparisons to be made than are warranted by a HN comment, but it's pretty bad.

And actually, while I'm here - why don't the ARPANET guys take more? Because it makes everyone better off if they don't.
> We recently suspended advertising on some channels that were flagged by the majority of our advertiser base and failed to notify them. Our creators rely on us, and we should have alerted affected streamers to this change before it happened–it was a mistake not to do so. We’re working with individual creators to address their specific situations and restore ads where appropriate.

What do others here think about Twitch’s behavior here? Should there be SLAs for actions taken on an account and notification of the account holder of said action?
In my humble opinion, people should play to their strengths. Does the person in question want to learn how to think quickly in interviews or meetings? Or is it a manager-type setting these situations up?
It also makes it harder to subscribe. You can accidentally tap the fingerprint scanner on the home button, and there were apps that made use of that, but you can't accidentally enter your credit card and then accidentally confirm the transaction with a 2fa code. The payment form alone is a huge deterrent IMO, even if it says "you won't be charged, free trial, cancel anytime".
Adjustable recipe
From TFA:

> Under the proposed rules, Canada will ban six single-use plastic items, like straws and six-pack rings, create incentives for companies to use recycled plastic, and force plastic producers to pay for recycling

I suspect it won't restrict 3d printing, but could conceivably increase prices for some materials.
As one of that number I was glad to see this: a single shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine is 80% effective in preventing infection (vs the ~90% of two shots):

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/29/cdc-study-shows-single-dose-...
All Apple has to do is change the APIs from version to version and poorly document the changes. Would Apple do such a thing? Of course not. Apple is too noble and good for that -- exactly like how they work with WebRTC right now.
This is a ridiculous caricature of reality.

If anything, empirically we've seen that Apple runs a much tighter ship wrt scams and malware than Android and 3rd party friendly platforms. Especially from the perspective of non-tech mass consumer, who are incredibly well served by Apple's model.

Legislating / ruling Apple's closed model to be illegal is the true harm to consumer choice and freedom.
I get asked this a lot as a DBA.

Most strings that are not end-user input related are still ASCII, and you can save a lot of resources by designing schemas with that in mind.
Silly question, but is it not possible at all to build this as a PWA to get around the app store fees? I believe Twitter already have a basic PWA Twitter client that seemed ok the last time I tried it.

The modern web has pretty good audio support these days.
Could you elaborate on the current situation? Did Logo do some things better than Scratch?
Is there a good list of what things we can reasonably replace? As I'm typing this I wonder what we would use for shock absorbant things like phone cases or water proof seals like cv boots on car suspensions.

Edit:. Looking around, electrical insulation, seals, and shock absorbers are the three things that I cant think of a good replacement for. Some seals like for weather proofing you could use spring bronze.
This is a consistent problem among all social media platforms, imo.

My theory is there a couple of key problems that lead to this crummy moderation, but it essentially all stems from the fact these platforms are too huge to moderate effectively.

First, because they are so huge, they have limited customer support. It's very hard to get ahold of a human being at any of these companies, because users are not the customers.

Second, to offset the challenge of moderating at scale, they have a lot of automation. This leads to people getting moderated without nuance. We don't notice the false negatives or when it's working right, but there are many false positives (because the platform is huge) and news about them spreads rapidly. Then because there is no real avenue for customer support, people can't get it fixed.

Third, because there are no real repercussions, moderators play favourites. There is no real customer service channel so complaints against bad moderating go largely unheard. When you heard about a channel being unbanned almost immediately when larger channels stay banned and it never seems to be fixed, that's likely a human who has a bias towards one over another. People who have an in with the moderation team can get preferential treatment for sure.

This is all just a theory. These companies don't really have any incentive to investigate their moderation teams for this sort of behavior so they probably don't. And if they did investigate it, they certainly wouldn't tell anyone if they found evidence of it.
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It's a story as old as humanity. There's many examples of humans exhausting their nearby resources because they thought they were effectively infinite. Whether that's a forest, a food stock, a water source, or something else.
Indeed. The customer is, of course, the people buying the phones and buying the software, and not the developers. The judge seems a little vague on this fact. One has to either accept that the customers buy Apple because they prefer it this way, or else assert that the customers are too dumb to know what’s good for them. That may be literally true but isn’t really a classically good argument you would use to pin somebody down on anticompetitive behavior.

Also, as a parent, I consider it a useful feature that Apple makes it very hard for kids to buy things on the phone through any method other than the one that I am aware of.
I almost agree with you, except in the instance where a modification might result in dangerous erroneous behaviour of the product - like self-driving cars for instance.
>Foreign keys? Let the business layer worry about rules like that!

Rails made this approach viable at the time.
If there is less demand for plastic in general, then that means there could be less demand for recycling (properly sorted) old plastic to produce new plastic goods.
You're mixing the ideas of communication and language.

Communication is not language. Language is a type of communication. Language involves the use of symbols in a grammar that is sufficiently complex enough to facilitate recursive structures of arbitrary length.

I think it is likely that many animals like birds, cetaceans and elephants can use language and that it is possible that some dogs and cats can too but your example of a dog understanding that the word walk correlates to going for a walk is not an example of a dog being able to grasp human language.

My mom has Shelties which are a disconcertingly smart herding dog. I've witnessed one of her dogs overhearing relatively complex sentences, pausing to parse them, and then acting on the in away that indicates that they understand not just the correlation between subjects and objects but also the conditional logic in the sentence.
What I don't understand is why people care so much...
Advice? Try to find the reason behind this feeling, this "exhaustion", or why working is "consuming" you, because this doesn't lead to a sustainable way of living. Chances are when you get back (if you don't happen to fall into a downward spiral. It's easy to fall into one if you cut your social contact, your income, safety net etc. All these could make getting back into the workfield quite hard), things won't be massively better, unless you address the root cause.
Have you got a source for this concern? Tires are rubber, not plastic as far as I know, and though many textiles are polyester, and fleece is mostly recycled plastics (if I recall) where is the mass use of plastic in the textile industry?
I read it as handling the case where current flows from one side of the square to the opposing side. Scale up the square by a factor of F in width and length, but not in height, and resistance goes up by a factor of F because of the path between opposing sides gets larger by that factor and down by a factor of F because that path gets wider by that factor.
100% true. Legislating away the option to run a closed, manicured, walled-garden model is the true harm to consumer choice and freedom.

I want my parents and non-techie friends and family to have the easy, stress-free, locked-down model that they enjoy and that works for them.