skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Google's intent is to ban donations to an app creator, then why does it explicitly say "if they require or accept payment for access to features or services, including any app functionality, digital content or goods"?

Frankly it seems to me that the intent of the rules is to specifically allow asking for payment/"donation" outside of Play so long as nothing in your app is affected by it.
This is illegal and unethical. But if it were Apple you would get "I am glad Apple forces developers blablabla" responses.
Now downvote and enjoy your iSpied device
It's certainly valid for him to value strength above everthing else. But most of us don't, most are more interested in longevity and quality of life during those years. And so it raises the question if his lifestyle is good in those aspects or not.
Please don't fulminate or call names on HN, regardless of how you feel about app store policies. Instead, please make your substantive points thoughtfully. All this is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

> But as I've said on HN before this thread will eventually disappear in a few hours until next time.

HN has had tons of threads on these general topics. They are heavily discussed in this forum and spend plenty of time on the front page.

Maybe some such threads have been flagged—most likely that would be because users get tired of repetition. If you've developed the impression that the topic is somehow being suppressed, that's probably because you've overgeneralized from a few data points (or one) that you saw on some occasion(s).

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I'm a digital nomad. I've been interested in a trip planner that takes into account both mine and a significant other's visa. (very high chance we dont' share citizenship to the same country)

Something that lets me plan for a multi month to a year long campaign while minimizing flight costs/living expenses or takes my budget into account would be amazing.
To add to your point, it was a chain of improbable coincidences:

Pandemic starting at the doorstep of a lab (that is not located in remotely close proximity to the Yunnan caves where the previous SARS viruses were originating from)

Previous SARS virus outbreaks (SARS1 and MERS) had zoonotic reservoirs identified in months with dramatically fewer resources, but coincidentally, with vast resources and global efforts, no zoonotic reservoir identified for this virus.

Previous SARS virus outbreaks showed a gradual evolution of a virus to progressively becoming more infectious to humans, and equivalent genetic changes in the virus that can be traced. This one started out as highly infectious, and until several months in, mutations weren't very significant.

The Chinese Communist Party (not China, not the Chinese people, but the CCP) has expended far more energy suppressing research and scientific access than any form of investigation into the origins of the virus.

The CCP deliberately suppressed and arrested doctors publicly talking about the virus early on.

Edit:

Forgot to add that there is a direct paper trail (publicly available on data.gov) of grant documents which specify that the funding will be used in WIV for research of bat coronaviruses with (and I quote from the paper) "humanized mice". Humanized mice, in this context, are mice genetically engineered to have human ACE2 receptors lining their respiratory tissue. In what was the most infuriating moment of public testimony I have ever seen, Dr. Fauci argues that infecting humanized mice with animal viruses (resulting in animal viruses that can more easily infect humans) is NOT gain of function research. He was playing an obvious semantic game, where his definition of GOF is the far narrower concept of making an existing human infecting virus more infectious..... Seriously, I was a big fan of the guy until that single bit of testimony. Now i know he's a lying bureaucrat more than he is a scientist.

https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/proje...
all philosophies are authoritarian and power-hungry. It's not like the libertarians and anarchists just sit by passively and wait.
> Future is already there on PC

Ok, and when the bill passes it will be their for smartphones as well, and people will be able to install whatever app store on their android or iPhone.

> it sucks

Then don't install the app stores that you don't like, lol. Problem solved. Only use Apple's, if that is what you prefer.
The word bug has nothing to do with someone's stance on "defects". This term has been in use (with the same meaning) for longer than computers exist. It also has no connection to bugs as in animals. But what do I know, I'm just a shoddy coder.
I live in Seattle, but we definitely have crazy politics and the nature is seriously overcrowded.
I started writing my own WinCompose-like utility in AutoHotkey, before I learned about WinCompose. Gave up on that immediately, obviously.

AutoHotkey is really an amazing tool. The actual programming language is awkward, but it has capabilities no other tool offers without writing a bunch of tricky low-level C code yourself.
Religions are narrative patchworks which are used to justify things. Not to explain them.

What you've found with your question is one of the many places the narratives don't join up, and the fraying sticky tape shows through.

There's no point trying to make sense of this, because there is no sense to be made. Ultimately it's about people using story telling to make themselves feel better and more reassured that their tribe is safe and stable.

Not coincidentally, this also allows some opportunists to make themselves richer, more powerful, and more important. Surprisingly frequently this also provides opportunities for extra sexual activity.

The stories don't need to make sense beyond that. They just need to look like an acceptable narrative salad made of tasty story bits. In fact it's better that they don't make sense, because then they can reduce believers to a pre-rational state where "You just have to believe!" makes them more credulous.

You can see the effects clearly with climate change and Covid. Some people try to understand the facts to make reliable predictions and offer realistic solutions.

Others can't fit these challenges into a religious world view. So they fall back into outright denial and/or use them as yet another excuse to welcome the apocalypse and their own imaginary personal salvation.

None of this is a function of raw IQ. You can be smart and still be infected by these distorting ideological viruses.
Another example of arbitrary playstore rules killing a FOSS app - playstore version of termux is stuck on a 2-year-old release (0.101) and can't run on Android 10 at all. If you install from F-Droid - latest version is available (0.117) and works on Android 10, too.

https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/1072

https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux_Google_Play
His point is that saying "zealots are zealots" doesn't say anything. Or the people who are zealots are those acting like zealots.

Once again, that's tautology. He's asking you what actions are those of a zealot. If I recycle, am I zealot? If I say global warming is real, am I zealot? If I sabotage a petroleum refinery, am I zealot? There are degrees to actions.

He knows what he'd define a zealot as, but he wants you to define what it means to you. But you want to dodge the question by saying "it's obvious".

You've also defined anyone downvoting him or you as zealots. But. You could be wrong. I mean, your logic is bad, which is a good reason to downvote you in general. They're not disagreeing with your self-professed non-position on climate change. They're disagreeing with your refusal to engage with others in good faith.
I had a similar problem recently, but it was self-inflicted.

Try changing the status of the "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support" checkbox.

You can see this option by going to Settings and then: All Settings -> Time & Language -> Language -> "Administrative Language Settings"
the asteroid doesn't necessarily destroy the whole population of the earth.. just like climate change probably won't kill everyone.
Nobody wants to solve the technological problem of pulling carbon from the air.

Carbon sequestration consumes more power than bitcoin mining ?
Why do you think that .NET is a poor choice?
Some of us remember Lycos and AltaVista, you know.

The alternative isn't necessarily "there's five competing high quality google search competitors".
It's less that the argument is heretical, and more that it's based on some false premises.

First, it's possible to accept that climate change is a huge (and largely man-made) problem, and also believe technology will fix it.

Second, you're talking about a centuries-scale trend about the relationship between technology and energy, and we're talking about the technological breakthroughs that are possible in the next couple decades if we all work together on this important problem. While it may be true that energy begets technology, technology also begets technology.

Thirdly, you seem to be under-estimating how much energy we can actually get from the Sun with today's technology. We have the tech and economic output right now to completely supply our energy demand with the sun within 10-20 years via worldwide solar farms and a trans-continental grid (so the daytime side can provide for the nighttime side). Again, if the entire planet comes together to make that happen. The only thing we don't have is the will. Telling people "we're doomed, it's too late, we'll never have the technology because of this flimsy historical correlation, just lay down and die" harms the global will to fight the problem, rather than helps.
So we'll charge the Masai the same for their cows that we'll charge a Texan?
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Lessons to Learn from Creating Multiple Sources of Income
"The system could only match "exact fingerprints" of specific known child sexual abuse images, he said."

This disinfo really angers me. That is the exact opposite of what I've read up till now. People talking about "NeuralHash" and being able to detect if the image is cropped/edited/"similar". SO what is the truth?
While Symbian C++ might have been a pain to use, the phones could run J2ME, Apache (yep that web server), Python, Flash and Web Widgets (PWAs before it was even an idea!).
Isn't the annoyance of having to type your password enough to prod you to use SSH?
> I actually had the latter one in mind: The one given by {Ax | x^T x = 1}.

I am near certain that you did not mean this.

> When the semi-axes are parallel to the coordinate axes, the matrix is diagonal.

Let D =

the matrix

| 2 0 |
| 0 1 |

And let R be any 2-by-2 rotation matrix.

A = D * R would give you a locus of points (under {Ax | x^T x = 1}) that has the semi-axes parallel to the coordinate axes. In general, A is not diagonal.

For the condition you mention (axis-aligned semi-axes of ellipsoid iff matrix is diagonal) is true for {x | x^T * A * x = 1} .
Just wait 5-10 years and it will probably be the same way on Windows and MacOS. They will argue that installing arbitrary, unvetted software through the web is dangerous, so it's only reasonable for Microsoft and Apple to make this very difficult and instead promote installing all software through their app stores (which they already start doing). Once software is primarily distributed via these stores they will also start asking for a cut of any revenue that is made through that software. The reason it's not like that already isn't that they're very nice, it's just that historically computers were open platforms and it will take longer to convert them to the walled gardens that smartphones have been from the very beginning of their existence.
This analogy is deeply flawed.

Your kids brain is still developing and they are still actively learning. Taking different approaches helps.

That is almost always not the case with a fundamentalist.
> We already "confiscate others' wealth." It's called taxation. There's nothing new or wrong with it.

what a "wonderful" principle, in the spirit of "people are already being raped, carry on, there's nothing wrong to see here"
"where would our technology be if we had continued improving on simple things like the plow, without using combustion engines"

As tractors started to become common, the Horse and Mule Association, in conjunction with, I think, Iowa State University, did considerable work on optimizing plowing with horses. The optimal angle between horse and plow (17° below horizontal) was worked out experimentally. A clever set of standard harness parts was worked out, with equalizers so none of the horses in the hitch could slack off.

Didn't help much. Improved things maybe 20%, after which they'd hit an optimum. Those who farm with horses today do use those optimized techniques; they're in draft horse books. But tractors are just better.
It it possible that your cherry picked examples of failed regulations are genuinely bad laws for reasons besides the intention? Even the US got NOX and SOX emissions under control, and pretty rapidly too, so it's hard to imagine that environmental regulation is politically impossible writ large....

Note that the NOX and SOX auction system is very simple and there isn't a carbon reduction scene proposed today that is free of all sorts of insane riders and generally bad exemptions, credits, and subsidies, the concept of government setting the price of carbon (which is unpalatable to Americans) aside.
scraper gets data, send it to a TTS server or it could be just using browser's TTS feature

edit: tried it out it makes an MP3 file so yeah, one way to do it is with a service like AWS Polly that is not free.
The US is only responsible for for so much of worldwide murders. Why trying to limit the number of murders in the US, then? It won’t change the total number of murders on the planet in a significant way.
I don't think Jonas was dishonest in any way. I think Mozilla talked to front-end Javascript devs who came from a "NoSQL" background (after all, Javascript devs are what begat "web scale" MongoDB) and who had disdain for SQL. I think that disdain sealed the fate of any SQL-based API in HTML5, irrespective of the involvement of SQLlite.

The "no independent implementations" was certainly a convenient way to dismiss away the already-implemented SQLlite-based solution. It's a valid argument for rejecting SQLlite as the spec, for sure. Implementations notwithstanding it seems like Mozilla was unwilling to even consider anything SQL-based.

The same tone comes out in the "Beyond HTML5: Database APIs and the Road to IndexedDB" Mozilla blog post[0]:

> In order to really get Web SQL Database right, we’d have to first start with defining a meaningful subset of SQL for web applications. Why define a whole other language, when more elegant solutions exist within JavaScript itself?

...

> We were resolved that using strings representing SQL commands lacked the elegance of a "web native" JavaScript API ...

That sounds like the same rhetoric used in the early MongoDB / NoSQL craze days to dismiss RDMS, ACID, JOINs, etc. Never mind that SQL is a battle-hardened DSL that has proven itself to be suitable to the task-- it wasn't "elegant" enough for the front-end devs Mozilla surveyed.

As an aside, I also find the quote from that post very amusing:

> In another article, we compare IndexedDB with Web SQL Database, and note that the former provides much syntactic simplicity over the latter.

The example for a JOIN using IndexedDB in the referenced article[1] looks strained. It really doesn't look like it has "syntactic simplicity" compared to the WebSQL version above it.

[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/comparing-indexeddb-and-we...
God I hope so
Hah I tried making an estimator like this using a multiple linear regression model in a weekend. I RE'd the android app of a local car listing portal and wrote a scraper.

The problem was that there were way too many variables not annotated in the json but instead just thrown into the description tag. I manually extracted the key ones like AC, seat material etc but it was never accurate enough mainly because of this.

Maybe one day I will try again with another site or even scrape several sites for more data.
Yeah, but it's a dry heat /s
>Can we make choices that effect the outcome of things or is it all part of Gods plan? It can't be both right?

Given the appropriate doctrine, sure it can.

First, in some religions (and some denominations of Christianity) God exists outside of the framework of logical necessity. God being tied to logical necessity himself is a later western theological concern (say, starting with Augustine and co). Not really a tenet of earlier Christian doctrine, or accepted by e.g. the orthodox church.

That is, what looks "impossible" or a "a logical contradiction" to us, isn't necessarily so to God (which is also part of the case with miracles - they're not just cool feats like a Marvel character with superpower would do, they are the bending of physical rules and reality itself).

In that context:

> Did God create everything including free will or does it exist outside of his control?

Both. He created everything AND he gave it free will to chose for itself.

"I don't blame my program when it does something wrong, I mean I wrote the code that tells it how to behave".

That's because you're not God to your program, but merely a human that developed it. So you can't both make it and give it free will (among lots of other limitations, like not being able to make water wine at will).
It seems that Chinese regulators feared that Ant's IPO would turn it into something too big to control and tried to set new rules that would put some breaks on it. Ma got pinned down for comments against regulators calling them risk averse. Munger criticized Jack Ma's boisterous attitude when it came to Ant. Now people are thinking that Munger wants the same censorship that China has in the USA, for some reason. Is this correct? Because that's what I'm getting from it.
Glad I am not the only one, for some reason I assumed it was Japanese. I think it's because the name really doesn't sound American at all.
Well if you want to get technical on terms, it’s probably not implemented as either a whitelist or a blacklist and is probably just a database field which was defaulted to false during the migration.

And because it’s likely implemented like that, you can either generate a whitelist or blacklist if you want, but in reality it’s highly unlikely it’s implemented as either of these things.

But regardless it seems like this whole thread is just about semantics anyway.
They literally suspended the account of the nation's oldest newspaper for weeks before a Presidential election

"Hype avoidance" is a nice euphemism though. I'll be sure to be wary of anyone using it going forward.
I tried to make it win every time and I'm wondering whether given a Tic-tac-toe opponent that does random moves, it is always possible to play such that your opponent always wins.
You're saying a true thing (there is no genetic basis for human race), but you're using that to say no-one should talk about race (a social classification). As an exercise, should the Civil Rights movement of the 60s have avoided mentioning race? Should Asian Americans not discuss how anti-china sentiment during covid is effectively anti-asian sentiment?

There are good conversations to be had about when race should be discussed, but it sounds like you're advocating for a blanket ban.
Five years ago it was: "you’re holding it wrong"

Five years from now it'll be: "you're wrong"

HN will as usual agree and take pride in being wrong.
It’s not a distinction without a difference. ‘Kind of like’ is going to be read by most people as ‘easily fooled’. That is a reflection of the false positive rate. It all depends on the quality and tuning of the algorithm and how it is deployed. If you are going to imply false positives are common, then you need to back it up.

Nobody is saying false positives are impossible.

Apple is saying false positives are on the order of one in a trillion per user account per year. That doesn’t sound like something that matches images that are only ‘kind of similar’. Yes - cryptographic hashes have much lower false positives rates even than that, but that is a distinction without a difference since both make the risk negligible.

> The way perceptual hashing works is that an image is shrunk down to a 8x8 or 26x26 image and then

Which is it for Apple’s hashes?

There is no point in reading old articles about perceptual hashes if the conclusions don’t apply to Apple’s neuralhash algorithm. If they don’t then reading about other hashes is just a distraction.

What can you tell us about the likelyhood of Apple’s hashes to create false positives?
Orwell never expected that Minitrue would come from private instead of government entities, but at this point I’m not even sure what is public and what is private anymore.
Another commenter put it in better terms, so you may understand it:

Suppose we know there are people who smuggle drugs on airplanes on their person for the purpose of something terrible, like addicting children or poisoning people. If I run an airport I could say: to stop this, I'm going to subject everyone who flies out of my airport to a body-cavity search. Tim, and Craig, are you OK with this? If I can say, "Don't worry! We have created this great robots that ensure the body cavity searches are gentle and the minimum needed to check for illegal drugs," does it really change anything to make it more acceptable to you?
Rachel's appearance in Blade Runner 2049 was shockingly good to me. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDx3WwWR6y4) On the other hand, I though Tarkin looked pretty good in Rogue One, and for some people he's a corpse. I don't think the uncanny valley is as consistent among people as folks here are suggesting.
Yep, see also https://sick.codes/being-root-on-two-agriculture-companies-i... which covers the DEF CON presentation as well as some that didn't make the presentation.
This is incorrect. They scan the photo as part of the iCloud upload process. If that process does not run for a given file or photo, this scanning does not run, according to the interview.
Yes, but this time they don't need time travel.
"Developers charging for apps and downloads from Google Play must use Google Play's billing system as the method of payment. Play-distributed apps must use Google Play's billing system as the method of payment if they require or accept payment for access to features or services, including any app functionality, digital content or goods."

You're right, GP should have been more explicit: these aren't payments subject to Google Play's "us-only" policy.
It is very telling of our age that the first widespread commercial use of homomorphic encryption*, predicted to be letting you run private computations on public cloud and distributed infrastructure to preserve privacy, turned out to be letting your device's true owner run private computations on your (nominally your) device to destroy privacy.

* they use some kind of homomorphic set intersection algorithm as part of it
OK I have to know - what framework did you use to make your front end landing page? It's absolute beautiful.

I'm guessing React?
https://twitter.com/aaomidi/status/1425827687428415489
We need to legislate requiring web installs of software for all computer and smartphone operating systems. Any device owner should be allowed to run their own software on their computer.

This bullshit has to stop.
.NET (framework) should be a very compelling choice for a win-only tray app. The framework is included with the OS, and the standard libraries will most likely already be in memory. The process footprint will be tiny and if the app is written correctly, it should be quite possible to make a very resource friendly app.
Windows 365 exposes Microsoft Azure credentials in plaintext
Most people in fact are this privileged, they just choose not to remain as insulated as they could be.