skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, we'll see who was right in a couple months then!

I'll save this comment for later. You think that nothing at all was illegal, and I think that at least some of Apple's actions will be declared illegal and anti-competitive. (Although probably not on every count. But still on some)

We'll see who was right. You who thinks that nothing at all will be declared illegal, and me who thinks that at least some will be. And I'll be glad to show it to you, later, when it happens.
Don't forget to account for floating point rounding errors.
Came here to make this same comment. My father in-law has been in construction for 60 years, this is one of his favourite words. Neat to see it here on HN.
Why is everyone consenting with this favoritism?
Billions of passwords leaked online from past data breaches
> They refuse to get vaccinated because they refuse to consider how their actions might actually impact someone else.

They've considered it, they just don't care. What they actually care more about is the insinuation that they should care at all.
“Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work”

https://www.theonion.com/sony-releases-new-stupid-piece-of-s...
The Impacts of the Social Determinants of Health in a Pandemic World
Seeing upscaling and interpolating with ML referred to as "remastering" is deeply frustrating to me. Especially when people talk about it as if it's aiding archival when it's such a lossy process.
FWIW I was shocked how brutal the NYC summer was, and I’ve spent most of my life in Arizona and Texas. I’d guess it’s mostly the humidity and the stagnant airflow.
> how does this relate to the point

My point is that the only counterexamples you could find to "industry labs > research labs" were in completely non-industrial scenarios like Mathematics and Neuroscience, two famously theoretical disciplines

Mathematics might be plenty large in theory-space, but real-world applicability is much more the domain of physics and thus I would expect many real-world applications to arise from it. So, to me, it's clear one cannot say Physics doesn't deliver on the physical from time to time
Absolutely a typo :) thanks for bringing it to my attention (obviously not fixing it)
There's a lot to unpack here! In the USA, the ABR regulates human radiologists via board certification. Medical technology is traditionally regulated by the 510K, PMA, and de novo pathways at the FDA. Of course, these products still have to demonstrate value in order for major stakeholders (hospitals, radiology practices) to purchase them. And using these products does not absolve the ordering doctor, the radiologist, or the hospital of legal liability for misdiagnosis. In fact, IANAL and this is a somewhat novel area of the law, but any AI product that functions as a drop-in replacement for a radiologist might be held liable for misdiagnosis that leads to harm. These liabilities could become quite large for a product deployed at scale (a single misdiagnosis causing death can lead to a settlement in excess of 10 million dollars). In summary, there's quite a bit more to the issue than simple "gatekeeping." It might be appealing to blame radiologists for these issues, but there's a much larger system at work that's designed to ensure quality and safety for patients. This is not AdTech - lives are at stake and people can get hurt. Now, this definitely comes with a cost to innovation, but it's going to take more than just a few MD's to reinvent the economics and law of computers practicing medicine on people.
Architecture definitely matters. Ever been to the Honolulu airport? Lots of open air. The Lihue Airport on Kauaʻi is open air. Check-in is in the open.
They never said anything about working for free.
Huawei Launches New Entity for the New Energy Vehicle Sector
The problem is that developers hypocritically want to have it both ways: they want all of the upsides of a permissive license (wide adoptions), but none of the downsides (wide adoption by big tech companies without being paid).
Reminds me of how Lisp’s syntax was meant to be an intermediate format, but everyone found it intuitive enough that they didn’t bother writing the planned non-sexpr language.
That does not conflict with being unbiased towards evidence that our immune systems are effective against covid.
Nor was the last Tory mayor. What ever happened to him?
You wrote: "A NYC subway car without AC"

Does that really exist in 2021? (Or even 2001?) I doubt the driver's union would allow it. It would be unsafe.
Odd? democrats are hypocrites.

No wall for Americans yet they pay for walls in other countries. Trump is a racist for saying don't immigrate here illegally? Harris is ignored for worse. Democrats demand infrastructure and oppose obstruction... yet did nothing when Trump wanted it and obstructed him at every step.

The list goes on and on... Biden isn't odd... he's a hypocrite. He's a democrat. But I repeat myself.
My guess is that a large part of the difference in indoor environments would be humidity + CO2 levels. Florida buildings are designed for a lot more airflow and have more attention paid to up-front HVAC design, so there's less "sick building syndrome" type stuff going on.

In a Florida summer, the outdoors is a swamp, but you don't have to spend much time there. The whole place is built for cars; you can (if you wish) go straight from building A, to your car, to building B. Presuming underground parking, you might never even touch non-air-conditioned air.

In an NYC summer, meanwhile, in many buildings, the indoors is the swamp. (And often their attached yards / alleyways as well, if they're enclosed around by tall buildings.)
I'm in a similar situation, so I guess I can answer. I start in a new role soon and particularly requested a team with no more than 1 day wfh/week.

I work in a applied ML and really, the technical aspects of the jobs are the 'easiest', ie. most well defined. In most cases focus + time will be sufficient for me to produce technical work. However, the real challenges lie at the intersections of models, infra, code, product and users. The goal is rarely is to build the best solution, it's to build the right solution.

Solutions to these can only be found by collaborating with people who own each specific part. Intense whiteboarding, pair programming, brainstorming, etc were the most interesting parts of my job. All of them have been reduced to a shadow of what they were during remote work.

Also, if I'm going to spend 50% of all my waking hours with a group of people, then I better like spending time with them. Being cooped up in a room my myself all day isn't fun at all. (and I have a huge community outside work, but it I don't like waiting for the other 50% to enjoy it)

My coworkers are my good friends and if they weren't then I'd go somewhere else. (not drinking the Koolaid. I have no allegiance to corporate, just my nuclear peer group)

A 'flexible or remote-optional team' is a lie. Remote and in-person are diametrically opposed office cultures. Both require very different cultural traits to flourish. Ones that try to stay on the fence will inevitably converge into one of the two or end up as a complete disaster. ( coordinated 3 days at work, 2 days at home etc can work...but that's just at-office culture with benefits)
The implication is that if you don't have an audience, it should be you. Instead of Faceless Other, create for yourself.
Case in point:
The ARC, the biggest Australian Research funding body, recently explicitly banned the mention of preprints in grants. You can't include your own arxiv/biorxiv/etc. preprints in your grants to show your work!
To the ARC, that's unpublished work. I know a few mathematicians who exclusively publish on arxiv who were bitten by this change, the whole grant got rejected.
Absolutely no one cares.
My namesake nick was used to trade bitcoin on #bitcoin-otc
No one gives a fuck
We knew what IRC (advantage of being almost completely incomparable with the iPhone) was.
I've long since lost the relevant GPG keys but I'm sitting here in a luxury apartment listening excellent Irish folk music. One day I'll rejoin the nuts on IRC. Once I get the power management on my pinephone worked out, maybe after I buy a power mac and put Plan9 on it as well.

I miss you guys.
https://theboatgalley.com/establishing-residency-at-st-brend...

This makes Florida your domicile, so no state income taxes (but, of course, you're paying Federal taxes regardless of where you reside in the world). The mail processor in question caters specifically to cruisers/yachties and RVers. Give the address to work and family, no one knows you're living the digital nomad life unless you share. Get a Schwab or Fidelity checking account for fee free ATM withdrawals globally, and a credit card with no foreign transaction fee.
Investment banks have also been hurt by this, although many would argue this has been a good thing.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-13/fraud-...

But you can begin to see some limits of remote work. Obviously military units shouldn't be training remotely. The bonding is too important.
If you lowered the estate tax exemption to $50,000—-just enough to avoid having to value personal property—-then the step up basis rule would be fine. But at $11MM it’s a major loophole.
I would say that the protocol code is conducting money transmission and leave the argument that some humans wrote it aside.

In the docs, Uniswap says they don't currently take a protocol fee, but might add it in the future. This fee would not go to liquidity providers, but to the smart contract itself. Who would receive the protocol fee I wonder, or would the smart contract itself keep the fees, never distributing it to any human.

I haven't even brought up the can of worms of governance tokens. The protocol seems to not need a protocol fee since they can make a fee by issuing themselves governance tokens that have some privileges with the protocol and have a price. It is interesting that you say the code is immutable, but the governance tokens claim to give its holder voting rights to make changes to the protocol code like changing fees. It is a major problem that investors of Uniswap the company received the uni governance token in proportion to the funding of the company which they tell us has nothing to do with the decentralized uniswap protocol. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
My biggest takeaway from the pandemic: social science is way harder than biological science.
There are a core group of extremely passionate anti-Apple folks who seem to go through every Apple thread and downvote anything that doesn't have torch in hand. It's pretty silly, but whatever.

I just saw one of these guys sincerely claim that Safari was "notoriously outdated and incompatible with the modern web". It is beyond parody.

There was a thread the other day that seriously argued that Apple promised the App Store was "completely secure" (which apparently extends out to guaranteeing the honesty, security and operational practices of every business if they happen to have an app on the App Store). I took multiple -4 downvote sprees for pointing out actual fact and reality, and felt good that I at least wasted a bit of their time.

It's boring and below HN, but it's the reality we live with.
You sound like a middle manager trying defend themselves.
> That sounds more like they're giving more free labor, because they can afford to.

But the thing is, they often don't. That tends to rub people the wrong way.
Not a Python user myself, but Mypy certainly looks interesting. We're currently using Sorbet with Ruby, and it's a great tool, but Mypy seems to be evolving much more rapidly. See, for example, TypeGuard in the submitted link - something TypeScript also has, but we'll probably be waiting a long time for in Ruby land, if we ever see it.

Curious to hear about people's experiences with Mypy!
Sigh, sadly, as much as I would like to think otherwise, you do have a point. The universal part that is. WFH is definitely not for everyone. In our little group we do have one member, who has has started to abuse the situation. My immediate manager is not one to micromanage, but as our team has gotten bigger, we had to stop relying on trust. So we started to rely more on raw numbers. And it sucks, because this particular unit had a rather high level autonomy.

But... maybe that is the point.. there should be a way to get those who can do WFH to keep doing it.
Being Chief Technology Officer: Lessons learned in my first year
this can't be true, how would you pass background checks?
"Dependency" https://xkcd.com/2347/
Facebook proposes NetHack as a grand challenge in AI research
I think a simple simulator would go a long way, using random numbers in a language like Python. It doesn't have to be fast or efficient, just be able to proceed through some basic operations while we watch it evolve.
>> NYC summers are a special kind of hell beyond the heat and humidity

> That is absolutely wild to me. I also lived in NYC for 10 years, the summers there are magical.

This, to me, is a perfect illustration of why the future of work is neither everyone staying remote nor everyone returning to the office. Some individuals thrive in close, convivial environments, others thrive when given the space that only comes with remote working; still others are at their best with a balance of the two.

Acknowledging and embracing this social diversity will be key to employers attracting and retaining the best talent in the post-pandemic world.
For clarity, injecting a script that is not included with the extension is expressly disallowed by the Chrome Web Store Developer Program Policies.

> Some common violations include:
>
> * Including a <script> tag that points to a resource that is not within the extension's package

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/program_policies/...
I think the article basically makes this point implicitly: Thus far, quantum computing has been mis-explained, so to truly explain it properly requires disabusing the reader of certain notions first.

That being said, QM and QC is not particularly hard to explain, but the explanation sounds as believable as something else that could be completely made up, without some underlying knowledge, that intrinsically is seen as harder to understand than something that just leads logically from familiar experiences.
Some context in your submission would be nice such as how this related to cryptocurrency (I believe that was your intention?)
I agree with you somewhat: especially when starting a project, it just makes no sense to write tests up-front (again, unless the product is the tests).

That said, when making incremental changes to an existing project, tests (and in some cases TDD) have a lot of value. There comes a point where the project changes from a creative endeavor to a product. Then you need tests.

The problem is how you create a test suite at that point in time without being negatively influenced by having written the code. Most unit tests I've seen in the wild are BS for this reason: the person writing them just repeats the code they wrote to implement the feature, or at least makes the same bad assumptions. In most cases they mock out so much that the test bears no relation to the real world, and breaks with the slightest change to the code.

For this reason I prefer to write tests from the top-down instead of bottom-up. Start with a few end-to-end tests, making sure to cover the happy paths and a few of the more probable error cases. These few initial tests are more valuable than any that will come later, because they best correspond to how the product will be used, and they are least likely to break during later refactorings since they don't depend on any internals, making them very cheap to maintain. For smaller projects, these tests may be all you need.

Every level you go below that incurs an increasingly large maintenance cost, so you have to weigh it against how often the design of that component will change.

When I do write unit tests it will be for essentially pure functions where the domain of inputs is sufficiently small that you can do fairly exhaustive testing. For example, a function that determines whether a floating point value can be losslessly converted to a 32-bit integer is perfect for unit testing. Nothing needs to be mocked - whatever the code does under test is what it will do in production.

All of this is my preference, but the only thing that really matters is that you actually use your brain when deciding what tests you write: weigh up the costs of the test against the set of potential bugs that it can prevent. The real sin of TDD is that it teaches you to write thoughtless tests.
Grateful to Bill and Melinda Gates for funding this.
It’s arguably one of the least. Oil is not one thing, it’s a blend of hundreds or thousands of different compounds. There is a world of difference between light sweet crude and oil sands, and those are different from sour oil.

Some types of oil must be diluted with other types of oil can consume it, such as tar sands oil.
The simple answer is that enterprise companies often want open source for security and flexibility reasons, but they also want hosting, support, and custom services. The world's largest open source software company, Red Hat (which IBM acquired in the largest buyout in software history), makes their money exactly this way.

Many smaller commercial open source companies like my own follow this same model. Google is another famous open source company (Android, Chrome, ML tools) with another way of monetizing that code.
Just as stupid as the plan to travel between Brussels and Strassbourg
The world roles on and the people of CA can decide to accept or not.
> [M]ost women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit.

-- Garcia Martinez

"Antonio participated in YC a decade ago, and I remember him as a decent person…I think if anything the YC community should be the ones defending Antonio, because many of us have first-hand knowledge of him, instead of just cherry picked quotes from a book."

-- Jessica Livingston

What makes this quote "cherry picked"? What context would make this sentence not misogynistic? Remember this isn't a quote someone overhead while he was drunk. He wrote and published this.

How does someone participating in your program and you remembering them as decent preclude them from being bad today? It's not that he's accused of being a serial killer. Just turns out he's misogynistic. Her response makes no sense to me.

Edit: Found an article where he explains the context (I'm not going to buy the book): https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/05/21/ex-apple-employee...

"Elaborating on the line on Thursday, the ad specialist and author said it was meant to cap off a joke made about his then-girlfriend.

The book was written in an over-the-top style invoking Hunter S. Thompson, Garcia Martinez explained, adding that the section in question was, in fact, a "paean" of praise about the unnamed woman."

Read the book if you want. Make up your own mind. Personally "I only insulted most women in this region because I was bitter at my girlfriend something-something-Hunter-S-Thompson." doesn't change my opinion.
Adding screenshots would probably get the repo DCMA'ed by Apple for infringing their Copyright
But what if the product they’re transporting will kill us all?
Awesome projet !
I read the article in full.

Changing your non-DoH resolver (such as using Google Public DNS) means requests and responses can still be edited by your ISP. This is what the article is talking about.

I suggested DoH (encrypted DNS) because this is not subject to such tampering. DoH (DNS-over-HTTPS) is not the same as traditional unencrypted port 53 DNS.

Really, anyone who gives a shit about privacy should be using DoH exclusively, otherwise you are basically uploading your web history in real-time to your ISP for mining and resale.
Yes and no.

If you’re only going to use oil, it’s worse. But rail is much more flexible than a pipeline, and it can easily move food, people, garbage, and other various products that a society needs.
perhaps you have heard of BANCStar: https://esolangs.org/wiki/BANCStar
iOS was and always will be a social construct. The ideas of NexTStep pre-date the 90s but certainly weren't new in 2010.
Version 3 did, however I was needing to manage the TCP IP stack in application. I tried using and patching smoltcp, then made things more stable by linking to gvisor (a go project) but users were still having performance issues. Ended up launching v4 which uses the http2 protocol under the hood.

The users we have vary quite drastically in terms of their network access and computer hardware.
I'm hoping the pandemic is a trigger for a cultural shift. There still seems to be a bit of "get back to work" attitude though.
The Tic Tac drone/vehicle thing is the subject of a Navy patent.
I have no evidence at all, but I think open source projects create more jobs than it "destroyed" because it reduces the cost of doing businesses of tech startups at critical growth phases and makes them viable by allowing fewer employees to do more. Without open source, companies would employ more people per company, but have much fewer companies overall, IMO. Additionally, salaries would be much lower because skills wouldn't be easily transferable between jobs - hence lower competition for employees.
I don't think a "hello world" type of program/circuitry(?) needs to be unique to a quantum computer. It just needs to be expressible with a quantum circuit.

Similar to how you can have hello world in both ruby and python, but arrive at them with different syntax and compilers.
> to actually do anything with that paper wealth, he needs to sell the stock or engage in a similar realization event, in which case that gain will be taxed

The ProPublica analysis that the BBC refers to [1] explains it: you borrow with the capital as collateral and then when you die the debt is repaid by selling some of the capital. But because of the stepped-up basis on death there is never a "realization" of positive gains.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...
You do not want to know the quality of pilots/masters found on huge ships that are operating at lowest cost.
I'm running it comfortably on my 3090, although it's a really snug fit for the VRAM, and that's with a number of fixes to significantly reduce its memory use from https://github.com/AeroScripts/mesh-transformer-jax .
People moving around inside of a country is also a source of demand.

The price of condos in San Francisco dropped 10% with COVID-19. The prices in the Tahoe area are up about 20 - 30% over the past 12 months.

The demand moved to single family homes, because people wanted a yard, when they were locked down at home, with few things open.

Now that California and San Francisco is opening back up, the real estate demand is coming back, as are the prices. Yes, speculation and investment is part of the story. But also a lot of people made a lot of money in the stock merket over the past 12 months, and are looking to upgrade their housing.
> Around 40% of the population of Nigeria (a country of 200+ million) does not have access to electricity. The per capita electricity consumption of Nigeria is _two orders of magnitude lower_ than the US.

... And how is this relevant?
>rather fast
In countries where they don't regulate noise polution, especially in bars where self-tought "audio engineers" will try hacking it by turning the amp up to 11.
AirDrop uses Wi-Fi.

iCloud is used for two reasons: one, because it is existing infrastructure for sharing secret keys between Apple devices used by a single owner (and is thus "free" from a development standpoint for Apple), as well as the fact that more iCloud-only features tends users into opting in to iCloud, which eventually drives increased Apple services revenue via expanded paid service usage as well as lock-in to keep users using those paid services over time.

The HomePods work this way, too. You can't just connect them to Wi-Fi and use them via AirPlay 2, you must have an iCloud account to attach them to your LAN.