skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience is a bit unusual; for many years I was switching from working in the office to WFH and back every few months (basically I was going back and forth between the country where my family was and a country where my company was located).

Most of the rest of the team worked at the office, but there were a couple of other remote workers would come to the office once a week or so.

The company also had a tradition of "company retreats" where we would meet for the whole day in some nice surroundings, and do a mix of strategical planning, brainstorming, social interaction, walking in the woods, and even some silly "team-building" activities which occasionally turned up to be a lot of fun. We would be mostly off-line, won't even look at the automatic test reports.

Having this experience, I believe that such retreats are much better than usual meetings or water-cooler conversations at building team cohesion, disperse knowledge, etc. (Thet don't replace impromptu white-board sessions, though, but I think in reality these are not happening as often as people claim they are).

I only felt we did not have them often enough; Covid killed them, of course, which for me was the biggest directly work-related impact.
Mobile was built as a spyware platform down to the roots. You can make a lot of money with spyware. It's that simple.
Also, these facilities optimize down their number of employees to practically guarantee that they're all overworked. It's impossible to care in an environment like that - if someone has spare time to do anything beyond the rubric, then that is an avenue for optimization. The only thing holding them back is state regulations, and that doesn't make for a good outcome.

This article strikes a chord with me. After a long hospital stay, I sent my father to inpatient rehab (aka "nursing home") for two weeks. Before he went, they told me I could do daily visits outside his window. After he was there, they made me schedule visits ahead of time with their "activities coordinator" who told me I was lucky to get twice a week. They didn't bother to make him do any of his therapy, rather they just let him lay in bed the whole time. They put him on a bunch of new meds to make their job easier, double dosed his biannual medication, etc. It was of course impossible to get anybody on the phone to talk about any of the details of his care (and not for a lack of trying). I only discovered the meds after the fact when I requested the records (which was also its own ordeal, and they're not even complete).

Administratively though, they were on the ball. The intake paperwork pushed me to sign him up for a long term stay (complete with "sign here" highlights on patently unnecessary forms; I rejected them), and they wasted no time switching his insurance billing address to their own address. His stay ended abruptly one (early) morning, when they punted him back to the hospital with a dubious story. I believe it was because they knew his Covid test was coming back positive but didn't officially "know" yet, and this way they could keep their numbers down.

After the second hospital stint, I just took him home despite the extreme burden. I hired some private helpers and between them and myself being extremely involved with the visiting nurses/rehab, he did much better. I would have paid for more bona fide sessions of rehab if I could have, but that's our inflexible system.

If you have a good relationship with your family and one of them is in the position of "needing" a nursing home, it behooves you to save them from these horrible institutions that are mainly geared to milk their insurance. Even at decent hospitals and not during Covid, if someone else is not there and continually advocating, their care will be overlooked.
The movie "The Falcon and the Snowman" was a dramatization of a real event where a Snowden-like figure sold secrets to the Russians after reading the secret telexes when the CIA was trying to roll the Aussie government

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falcon_and_the_Snowman
Academics heavily leverage in person meetings and conferences to exchange idea. Much of my conference time was spent chatting with colleagues rather than attending paper sessions. We don’t get that in a virtual conference setting.
It's funny because when I watch that footage back now, it feels almost scripted, like the day progressed so quickly, it went from the attacks themselves, to clearly identifying the enemy and discussions about retaliatory action within hours.

I am not saying that its the truth, but I cannot help feeling like it was all a little bit scripted.
You might want to read the article more carefully taking into account context:

>The word “Hoax” in the title of this article refers to the attempts to make it seem that EFAIL represented some deficiency in PGP.

Which was found after an example of a "hyperbolic headline". Later in the article it explicitly addresses the media distortion. I don't know how anyone could get from that that the article was claiming that the article was some sort of hoax, particularly when the article actually praises the work represented by the paper.
> People whinge about being censored but don't care enough to run a website?

People talking about "whinging" usually do so because they can't come up with a logical counter-argument. That pattern holds true here.

> Nobody is owed being on a private platform, and it's total bullshit to say that we should force companies to.

If a private platform holds a near-monopoly on speech online, and actively uses anti-competitive behavior to hold people on their platform (as Facebook does, at least) - yes, individuals are owed the right to be present on that platform, because (as stated repeatedly before) it's a monopoly. Facebook is one of the largest sites in the world and enjoys the network effects of being the largest social media site in the world, as well as the lens through which millions of people perceive the world around them, and does its best to keep people there through a variety of anti-competitive strategies - if, at that scale, they decide that they want to ban people for non-illegal content, then the only sane thing to do is to break them up so that they no longer have a monopoly position, which is clearly not happening.

> It's not a "de facto public square"

It is. It has the properties of a public square, namely public visibility, generally available access to the population, a design that allows for and encourages conversation between individuals, and a design meant to emulate a public forum for discussion. Even though it's not legally a public square, it's a de-facto one because it has all of the properties of one and is treated as one - that's what "de-facto" means.

> it's an advertising platform, first and foremost.

Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. Ultra-scale social media platforms have the properties of both advertising platforms and public fora. You don't like the classification of the latter? Well, it's going to remain one until it's broken up or changes its behavior or suddenly loses users.

> So @Jack said it was a public square - in the context of the ideal. Did he make that statement to a court? Because I'll bet being deposed, he'd say that was flowery talk.

You're intentionally being obtuse. Of course the CEO of Twitter wouldn't stand behind his claim in court - but only because that'd be disadvantageous to him (in any court case likely to come up in the next several years), not because he didn't mean it. Nothing you said has any bearing on the fact that he said that it was a public square and meant it. You can't explain this away - it literally came from the CEO, the strategic lead for the company. If he says that Twitter is like a public square, that means that he's directing the company to that effect.
This kind of ignores IPO's, SPACs and secondary (or whatever they are called) offerings.

All of those things introduce "new" stock into the market.
Florida. I knew people in high school that were in there for weeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Act
Most Intel and AMD CPUs in the last 8 years have had hardware RNGs that are based on shot noise of a reverse biased Zener diode, which is better than whatever thermal noise/RF this resistive setup is picking up.
american society.
The (original) purpose of mathematical notation is to facilitate (to some degree, automate) reasoning and calculations (mathematicians tend to conflate them) on paper. For the existing frameworks it’s already as good (efficient) as it gets, given the 2-dimensional nature of said paper. Would adding new characters beyond the existing set (which is already quite large), introducing new alphabets in addition to the Latin and Greek (OK, we have the aleph), adding more font styles and sizes - would any of that constitute an improvement worthy of note? We have already exhausted the freedom given to us by the 2-dimensional paper-space as a computational medium - consider, for example, machinery that heavily relies on graphs (diagram chasing; Dynkin diagrams, etc.) or tables (matrices, tensors, character tables of groups, etc.).
> What is crazy to me is that people believe those 15/30% cuts that Apple takes

Why do you think Apple reduced the fee to 15% for small developers?
> Is the judge saying that Apple could try to collect 30% of Netflix subscriptions or Fortnite purchases made via the website?

I've read all 180 pages of the ruling, so will give my opinion.

IMO this claim about still owing commission comes from statements that the judge said, regarding a separate hypothetical of if alternative payment systems were included in the app itself, then those alternative payment systems would still owe a commission.

I have not found a direct statement, from the judge itself, specifically claiming that Apple would still be owed commission if the payment was made outside of the app, on a website.

Yes, some lawyers have suggested maybe that would be the case. But I do not know of any explicit statement where the judge said this clearly.

Happy to be proven wrong, but I didn't see that explicitly from the judge. It is only hypothosized.
There are quite a few different TLDs that the site uses (for resilience I presume). .vn is another, .today may still be in use.
"Epic doesn’t need to handle all game sales in order to collect their commission from developers who use Unreal Engine.'

If I am a developer using Unreal Engine, I pay for actually using the engine. Apple collects money from music, movie and book sales. There is no chance they will be able to demand that money.

If you think Apple will be entitled to get a 30% cut for non-app items you bought, then by extension apple would be entitled to demand a cut from you buying a washing machine or paying your bill. I don't think the intention of this judgement is to enable Apple to become a universal parasite.
Woah, classifying the store as a commons or turning it into a public utility is a pretty big leap over any interpretation of this ruling I had seen from any news outlet.

The question I have is whether or not this ruling opens the door for collecting commissions made on other platforms outside of iOS, or whether we think that's likely to be something Apple can get away with if apps like Netflix or Gacha games start linking to their websites. Currently, Apple does not attempt to do anything like that.

There is a pretty big gulf between a judge saying "anti-steering is anti-competitive" and a judge saying, "you can't decide what apps go in your store." I haven't seen any interpretation of this ruling that says the latter happened.
It still is harder to date online. Developing a relationship in person is still way easier and more fulfilling
Most users aren't running Chromium, though; they're running Chrome, which decidedly is not BSD3.
The way we treat artificially-intelligent agents feels inhumane. I wonder if a century from now, when future generations pause to reflect on our early experiments with conscious machines, they may come to regret the nightmares we once planted in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts.
Eh, if Epic manages to find a way to continue to develop unreal engine for iOS, they won an increased revenue stream from unreal engine royalties.

Epic is also 50% owned by tencent, who in turns owns numerous mobile app companies, who will profit from this. So in the sense that Epic lives to help out there share holders... they didn't do so bad a job.
Fewer than 1 in 5 support defunding the police. It's also quite unpopular with African Americans.

Also including an article from CNBC that asserts late-term abortions are unpopular.

So I'd believe this is popular opinion, not necessarily just with conservatives.

Got any material that says otherwise?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/07/usa-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/06/late-term-abortions-rare-but...
Did you leave out a "than a lot more", or are you saying too many people think it is more work than it is?
We could punnily label this dark pattern as (psychological) credential stuffing.

They are breaching the psychological defenses of your wetware trust-service by re-purposing the same credentials you previously trusted elsewhere ;)

...and the double-entendre is they are fluffing up their own personal credentials by having a seemingly separate entity they control vouch for themselves as worthy of your attention.
Another popular detective series from that time was German detective series Derrick. Growing up in the 70s and 80s in South Africa, watching Derrick was one of my weekly highlights.
>I have not found a direct statement, from the judge itself, specifically claiming that Apple would still be owed commission if the payment was made outside of the app, on a website.

Here you are, taken from the ruling text:

>Under all models, Apple would be entitled to a commission or licensing fee, even if IAP was optional.

>Even in the absence of IAP, Apple could still charge a commission on developers. It would simply be more difficult for Apple to collect that comission.

>Apple is entitled to license it's intellectual property for a fee, and to guard its intellectual property from uncompensated use by others.

>While the court finds no basis for the specific rate chosen by Apple (i.e., the 30% rate) based on the record, the Court still concludes that Apple is entitled to some compensation for the use of it's intellectual property.

>To the extent Epic Games suggests that Apple receive nothing from in-app purchases made on its platform, such a ruling is inconsistent with prevailing intellectual property law
>Imagine the opposite case: Microsoft or Dell decides to lock things down and start demanding 30% of every dollar that flows through their gear. I think few would say they have any sort of moral right to that.

You're underestimating the bias. People would be rioting in the streets if Microsoft or Dell decide to do the same thing. Apple could make the cut 70% and you'd see people defending it saying "security & easy payments", while ignoring the same arguments when it comes to security beefed up a little bit in Windows 11 or with secure boot back in the day. For example, ransomware and cheating in games could be reduced by an order of magnitude overnight if Microsoft locks down Windows like iOS, but the pros are never discussed, only the antis.

Similarly Google's privacy issues weren't discussed back in the day because they were fighting Microsoft. Stories about Google starting tracking which stores people visited wouldn't get upvotes. One small misstep by Microsoft and it'd be all over the front page for days.

Palladium was railed on at during the early 2000s, along with DRM, then Apple implemented Palladium and DRM, there was barely a peep. Same with Chromebooks that were locked down much more than any PC. You had people recommend that others purchase Chromebook and iPads, because computing freedom suddenly didn't matter when it came to these companies.

MS got a lot of shit for just pre-installing IE while allowing Netscape to be installed by the user, imagine if they had banned other browsers like Apple does. The difference in moral arguments from users are substantial.
During covid healthcare is an illusion. You can’t actually get anything other than emergency room care and online appointments
You're describing UX issues with e-mail clients and not PGP. If e-mail clients are your problem complain about their failings rather than attributing them to PGP.
Also mind that any sharing process randomly selects a few winners. There's the famous example of "What happens, if 100 persons in a room are given $100 each and give away a Dollar to one randomly chosen person in this room each tick of the clock?" [1] Distributions become even more articulated, as we introduce any kind of market to this basic model, and wins are soon off the scale. Now start to promote those winners by algorithm…

The only means of counter-acting is human oversight/criticism/regulation, but, as the study shows, this reaches only that far.

[1] A simple simulation may be found here: https://www.masswerk.at/misc/wealth/
Yes, it seems my dough is taking quite a bit longer to rise. I have covered the bowl with shrink wrap an am going to leave it overnight. Apperantly sweeter breads which this bread is have a higher sugar content which can slow down the fermentation. This sounds counter intuitive but the proof is in the pudding so to speak.

I will give an update with the results tommorow afternoon between football games ;)
"7% Documentary: Behind the scenes of Fine Art AI - 纪录片《7%》：揭秘人工智能“绝艺”夺冠幕后 腾讯网 - English subtitles" (https://v.qq.com/x/page/r0025m06t5o.html) is a neat 2018 documentary about Fine Art, a world-class Go AI created by Chinese developers at Tencent. The documentary features extensive commentary by the main programmers, Ma Bo and Tang Shanmin, as well as the project lead Liu Yongsheng.

This bit from 4:02 stuck out to me:

INTERVIEWER: What level do you think Fine Art has reached?

MA BO: About the same level AlphaGo had when playing against Li Shiqi last year.

INTERVIEWER: Then wouldn't you regard what you do as a redundant work?

MA BO: How should I say this? Its like, when China made the atom bomb after America. Was that redundant work?
Replace 'homeless' with 'people' and I totally agree.
I really like Mark and think he does a service to the community with these posts.

I recently did a Due Diligence call on a company that was trying to raise a $1M pre-seed round, and had previously taken 250k with basically nothing to show for it. I thought this was silly, for both the amount and the name (esp for first time founders).

Apparently though according to this, a "pre-seed" at $1-3M is actually a thing. This seems insane to me because at least from when I started being involved in startups around 2011, traction was king before you found a cent outside of friends and family or Angels if you were well connected, or had a previous exit.

This whole post though does reflect what we are seeing as a venture fund (I'm an LP in a tiny fund) with people asking for a LOT of money for basically no market proof and there being no real way to win if you're investing at the $3-10M level. I think that is kind of crazy to be honest but I assume if I were raising money again I might be tempted to do that.

I think what is different in my mind from 2011 is that there used to be hope that someone could unseat Google, MSFT, Amazon, WalMart etc... the same way Apple, Amazon and Google did to IBM, DEC and Sun. I don't think anyone truly believes there's a startup that is hatching today that will unseat Amazon in the next 30 years.

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Side note. Mark has apparently lost a ton of weight and become very fit since when I was following him more closely back in 2015. Congrats to him!

[0]https://bothsidesofthetable.com/how-i-lost-65-pounds-in-18-m...
they're just delivering a baby, not banning them from ever getting vaccinated

bad analogy
Pascal was crowded out of its niche by Delphi. It could have been supplanted by Modula-2, instead, or Oberon, UCSD Pascal, Object Pascal, Apollo Pascal, or any number of other languages with syntactic similarities to Pascal. But it wasn't.

Pascal was displaced by K&R C for mainstream work, which was soon supplanted by C90. C90 has been displaced from serious development work by various C++ versions, although it hangs on in restricted niches, for historical reasons, usually as C99 and sometimes C11. C++98 has been largely supplanted by C++11, which is beginning to be supplanted by C++17 and C++20.

It doesn't make sense to say that Pascal is alive when there is no one, anywhere writing code that could be compiled by any actual Pascal compiler, and no actual Pascal compilers for any current machine.
I'd like to add that web performance in Android was terrible, last time I had a Nexus 2. Collapsing threads on Hackner News was terribly slow. Any Discourse forum site was almost unusable. Then I switched to an iPhone and it was much better.

Anyway, I just mean that "modern" mobile sites couldn't have taken over native apps on Android. Its web engine is just not performing well enough.
The cynicism in the other answers is appalling. Treating people like investments...
It's scary to think that the entire software industry is controlled by a few gate keepers, and if you piss them off, the chances of you ever selling a piece of software ever again are basically zero.

It's like if you get banned from every restaurant/grocery store in the world, your only chance to not starve is to purchase land and grow your own food. Except, there are only 2 grocery stores in the world.

Without Apple and Google's permission, it's impossible to make money selling mobile apps. So if that's your livelihood, you're better off letting them exploit you than risk pissing them off for any reason (and pray you don't get erroneously banned by an AI).

Sounds like a healthy environment for innovation /s
What realistic alternatives are there to an algorithmic feed that don't immediately devolve into high-volume posters drowning out the one status a month club?
What do we do about this new dynamic of social corporatism? Do we not follow laws anymore and allow corporations to dictate social justice?

(Nothing to do about this specific law but corporations are increasingly taking issues, which should be left to the public voters, in their own hands… do we get to vote for CEOs?)