skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which implies retail investors are valuing the shares higher than institutions. What could go wrong? I'll answer that, poverty for millions of people who don't know how to diversify their investments.

My opinion is the FEDs actions, while apparently well-intentioned, will backfire spectacularly at some impossible-to-determine point in the future because MMT only works right up until a feedback loop forms between between people and the central bank which destroys the intended effects of the policies. You can see it now if you look. People are shoving everything into risky assets because they are betting on the FED not allowing their investments to tank.. because The FED has stated they think boom and bust cycles can be prevented and are a thing of the past
Most people at the time had never heard of Modula-2, and in any case had no ready access to a compiler for Modula-2. You have already had pointed out that the dialects you promote were all mutually incompatible, with no preprocessor to help paper over differences. Anybody wanting to write portable code was stuck.

And, the article was about Pascal, not about Modula-2. Are you wishing he had also written an article about Modula-2 that you could also critize, maybe for not being about Modula-3 or Oberon instead?
Hat Little Car Did All That?
Wow, that sounds like a good way to make someone suicidal even if they weren't to begin with.
The same reasoning could be used to avoid interacting with everyone. It's not too hard to find stories of pizza delivery rapists. Always use caution, particularly with someone with typical markers for erratic behaviour, which homelessness in fairness counts as. Anecdotally, I've sat down and had conversations with innumerable people like that, and invited a few into my home. Few made me worried (other than for them). No one has ever attacked me. One young man tried to steal my wallet. Your mileage may of course vary.
That is true and I stand corrected. I had discounted that as a potential option due to Tim Sweeney's prior and current statements on the matter.
Perfect illustration of the kinds of negative nancy comments that the article explains are a big part of negative reviews
The electron version is horrible too and even more wasteful on resources :)

Also this way you can use add-ons with it.
Just a nit: the lighting outside is not a single directional source, unless you're in the Moon.

There is sun, which is slightly yellowish (or orange to red at sunset), and there is sky light which is obviously bluish. Sun is directional, sky light is not. Sun is a light source far away, but sky is a light source all around the scene.

The rest, well, can be done with a lot of bouncing, refraction, diffusion subsurface scattering, etc.
> is the same one already conceded to settle the Japanese antitrust investigation.

Again, not making a hard claim here, because I'm not sure what the full range of the ruling is, but if what you're saying is true then it seems to me that this is a huge deal and I have no idea why people are minimizing its potential impact.

The only reason why the Japanese antitrust concession wasn't a bigger deal was because it was narrowly applied to a small subset of apps and because Apple retained the exclusive ability to decide what those apps were.

Just taking that earlier concession with no other changes and widening it to apply to the entire app store seems like a pretty impactful ruling to me.
Nobody will agree with me on this, but I do not expect anything resembling AI to exist in the next few hundred years. All I have seen is adaptive ML mimicry, pseudo AI just a step short of a mechanical turk. I would however expect to see weaponized autonomous drones that can decide what is a target, but I would not call that AI either. That is whatever one would call an inter-connected Quake III gaming engine. Everything else has just been marketing fluff. I define AI as a sentient self aware system that can learn, adapt, decide entirely on it's own and decide it's own boundaries and ethics. Maybe the closest I would accept would be "Sonny" from iRobot or Lt. Commander Data from Star Trek. Such entities are a long ways out.
“Build your own” is not a solution. Not everyone is an engineer. Most are not.
"I don't agree with you, therefore you're a greedy jerk" why didn't you just come out and say what you meant.
Invite-only and self-hosted are different things.

Discord is invite-only but not self-hosted. Maybe that would work for you?
The ad on CNN that started with "would you like to lower your mortgage payments" before it got cut to the first live footage of the towers has to be the worst television timing in history
The bit that really fucked me over was the fact storybook runs rolls it's own webpack instead of integrating into whatever your project has. Cause of this, my components were rendering differently in prod to storybook.

For frameworks with complex webpacks (e.g. gatsby) it's actually really hard to integrate well, particularly when you don't really want to get that deep into webpack itself.
> Paid by apple? I can't find other/primary sources to back up this claim though it does seem likely.

He states that he's been rooting for Epic to win in the third paragraph.

>I've been rooting for Epic, and I wish everyone were as honest as Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney after losing a court battle.
I mean, it's not considering anything. It's a GPT-2 bot; it's very good at producing blocks of text that read like something that a real person would type, but there's no semantic understanding of anything it's saying or hearing. It doesn't have ideas, or know things, or want things. It just generates plausible-sounding paragraphs.
The Japanese settlement was limited to so-called "reader" apps, but the court ruling will apply to all apps.
It’s true across most industries in Australia. The old social contract of employment, “work for us your whole career and we’ll look after you your whole career”, disintegrated in the 90s when companies started treating all employees as disposable. Now it’s everyone for themselves and loyalty between employees and employers is a shadow of what it was.
I don't play go but the AlphaZero chess games are quite beautiful. Agadmator has a description of the weird unhuman like machine continuations, disgusting engine lines. They're correct but incomputable by a human and just look weird. AlphaZero had some beautiful lines that looked human but slightly counterintuitive. They were the sort of moves that humans could learn from.

Are the AlphaGo games similar?
> This is one of the big ones I didn't realize in my initial reading of the situation. How far does this go? Is the judge saying that Apple could try to collect 30% of Netflix subscriptions or Fortnite purchases made via the website?

If they decided to write it into the contract, I see no reason why not. Generally you're free to make up whatever contracts you want.

If there is a reason why not, I'm certain that it's complex enough that you would need to make a new lawsuit over it and get a new injunction, since it wasn't argued in either direction in this case at all.

Whether or not app developers would agree to "30% of profit from everywhere" is an entirely different conversations. I imagine a variety of important app developers like banks would be rethinking their decision to publish apple apps if that was the TOS.
Yes but we don’t always have the option to see hacker news discussion. I personally invite to see HN’s viewpoints on non-“hacker” topics.
A couple of weeks ago I finished my phone de-googling project (for now).

things I've learned:

- It is a project (not something I could recommend to family)

- It's a PITA

- There are painful tradeoffs to make to gain some privacy.

edit below: hit reply before I was really done..

I personally couldn't stomach getting a pixel 4a (or wait for 5a) because it's a side-grade at best to a phone I bought brand new in January of 2020 for less. I ended up with Lineage OS for microg because it supports way more devices. I ended up picking oneplus 8t and going that route.

Most painful tradeoffs is the camera app. The camera app that came installed on Oxygen OS was great. I had to spend a couple of hours trying different modded gcam apps for Lineage OS to find something good enough. And good enough is not being able to take pictures at the highest mega pixel setting and my macro lens not supported (bummer).

Google maps works fine for me (thanks to microg), but because I'm not logged in there's no history of where I've been for fast selection. I haven't tried any alternatives to google maps yet.

I replaced YouTube with NewPipe. And it's surprisingly good. But to be honest I do miss YouTube recommendations a little for content outside of my subscriptions.

I favor open source apps now when possible on F-droid and Aurora droid when possible and install other apps via Aurora store. Everything works so far. Only issue I've had is sometimes I can't find apps on Aurora store and have to find it on a search engine first and open the google play link with Aurora to find it.

Other annoying thing is my boot loader is unlocked and I get an ugly warning screen letting me know that when I restart my phone. I'm not sure all the security implications of that. I know this is one advantage of GrapheneOS and their choice to mostly support Pixel phones (so they can support locking the bootloader).

Keyboard that comes with Lineage OS without google apps doesn't auto complete for me. I guess that makes sense. I ended up switching to openboard and it seems to work well.

I also miss the ability to just dictate to google maps where I want to drive without typing it in. I guess there's no replacement for that?

Other than a few annoyances, everything's great. I'm sure there's a lot of more hardcore privacy features that GrapheneOS comes with by default (and CalyxOS). I might try those ROMs eventually.
To be fair, they are probably written in bad C++.
I don’t think it’s disrespectful to say that, but the reason America is important is because the US, uniquely, has the ability to unilaterally retaliate, and drive the world into 20 years of continuous war. Which is what happened.

The many people killed in the WTC was surely a tragedy, but the number of people subsequently killed as a consequence of this day was far higher, and this is no less a tragedy.

I think this is why it made headlines around the world. The bear had been kicked and we were all afraid of what it might do.
Um, no. The article's argument, to the extent that there is one, is based on the claim that syntax highlighting natural language doesn't help. But code is not natural language. It is dominated by a small number of common keywords (function/class definitions, for loops, etc) and for these it -- shock! -- is helpful to have them standout visually from the less predictable content.
It even has hardware accelerated video on FreeBSD with X11. My old NUC wouldn't be able to play video without it.
With so much froth to ride and so much inflation biting at your heels, you chase returns. No surprise here.
I think it is less about the concern that others will be infected with severe disease and more about the potential cost and stress that the unvaccinated place on the healthcare system.

The vaccine costs $20 per dose while COVID treatment in the hospital is $23K (in Canada - likely similar in the US).

Perhaps a less draconian approach would be to allow the unvaccinated to purchase additional insurance to cover these costs in the scenario where hospitalization is required.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/cihi-covid19-canada-hospital-...
I don't get it.

If quality is random and decision to rebroadcast is also random - and independent of quality - then why is the result more low-quality messages?
Because I am cheap, I tried to invent a method to use fraction of a packet. Warm water and plenty sugar in a small cup and let it grow on its own. When there is foamy layer on top it is ready. But the method was not foolproof. Often happened that I had to warm up the dough and add rest of the packet anyways. Somebody more educated should study what needs to be done, like adding milk or salt perhaps. Or maybe just controlling the temperature: https://github.com/timonoko/Wifi-temp-sensor#readme
Northern UK they still do. Had my first Guinness at a funeral.
I'm quite (pleasantly) surprised that this is on HN's front page. I am not Christian (I am Hindu) however I do appreciate the Bible and others who are religious (and who are tolerant of my religion, too)
I had a client who had a usage frequency similar to AirBnB (one or two transactions a year) but then tried to cross-sell meal tickets (one or two transactions a week) because VCs were telling them users were not "using the app enough".

The meal ticket experiment turn out to be an expensive mistake - users never used the feature again after the promo period. From a retention perspective they didn't lose anyone, but the blended CAC for that quarter was horrible.

In hindsight, I think the practice of comparing retention between companies is doing more harm than good.

If your retention rate tells you you are providing a "one-off" service - that's OK. You just have to focus on being a cost-efficient service provider instead of splurging on CAC like everyone else.
Note that

1. It's entirely possible he is lying, it wouldn't be the first time.

2. The date of that accusation is back in 2012, it's entirely possible that his loyalties have shifted in the meantime.

3. The accusation could be false...
I'm wondering the implications of this.

Is Microsoft entitled to a percentage of everything that is run on windows?

Is Google entitled to a cut of anything that runs on chrome (do products running on aws and azure count?)

Is Intel entitled to anything running on their silicon?
DO NO EVIL
That is mostly just a C vs. C++ thing. But a few C++ programmers use west *, mostly just to be a PITA.
>Phony Diagnoses not just at nursing homes, also in mental facilities.

Schools too. My mum spent two decades as a primary schol teacher, and it's an open secret in that industry that Ritalin and other behavioural drugs are, at least in some cases, administered for the benefit of the teacher and other students in the class - not necessarily for the child receiving it.
Agreed, I think ChessNetwork analyzed several of the published games as well - and some of the Leela games - they're so much more interesting than most of what I see out of Stockfish...
People writing about Free, Open source content on a platform which hides it behind a pay wall.
Not if he's determined to be an aggressor in the eyes of law enforcement in the (at least, US) jurisdiction.
Do you have an asbestos litmus-test for the guy who tightens your shower taps or trims your hedges? I think you'll find yourself rapidly very short of professionals if you actually put this into practice.
A lot of the behavior is driven by liability avoidance by doctors and mental health professionals. They do not want to be put in a long drawn out lawsuit, convicted or not by someone's family members because they didn't report and deal with someone who wanted to commit suicide. Remove that possibility and I think many doctors will stop doing that too.

I know a few and they really, really, really hate how the system & law forces them into this corner, to the point where they actively try to avoid suicidal patients, because they don't want to report them. There is a similar dynamic with being a mandated reporter for children when giving them therapy.
The wealthiest have minimal need to sell and asset when it's down. So the magnitude of the hit is the biggest, but if you don't use some of your wealth for diversification and the decent financial advice to get you there, you're just squandering wealth.
I agree that the title of this paper is misleading. I'm seeing more and more studies lately that try to extrapolate results conducted in noisy environments (microsft) to even noisier environments (all companies). Dunno wtf people are thinking.
But the employer/employee relationship is heavily built around certainty. That’s the trade off.

Employers must then offer more for uncertainty.
> I think my truck was being used as a drug drop,

That could actually end up getting you in legal trouble, and at the least get your car seized.
Everyone gained the right to communicate with users, but the contract that developers signed says that you are required to use IAP for buying apps and buying digital goods inside of apps, and the judge left that section of the contract intact.

So the extent of the (effective) change for those not selling reader apps seems limited.

At least that's my interpretation. I'm willing to assert that I got closer to the truth than the vast majority of the tech media outlets did yesterday.
Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, the system knows just one way for the people who deviate from the normal - INCAPACITATE THEM.

I have an autistic child and I get so much pain thinking along the lines of what your grandmother went through.
"Epic got nothing of use to them."

Allies got nothing of use to them from D-day! It's just a beach full of sand! What are they gonna do with it, eat it?
And further up the supply chain:

Is TSMC entitled to some part of Apple's and Intel's profits?

Is ASML entitled to some part of TSMC's profits?

I'd be ok with this if sweatshop worker is entitled to a significant part of Nike's profits. Perhaps we can make the economy fair after all.
That I considered it a strawman seems to be because we're making different points, and talking past each other, and you might be forgiven in thinking I was doing what I accused you of.

I've been very clear that I'm talking about a separate store on the platform, while you're talking specifically about payment processing. Both are somewhat related to the discussion (with payment processing be more directly relevant to this ruling). To be clear, I don't mind a store getting between me and who I'm paying, but only if there's a level of choice involved that means people have a way to opt out of a third party being involved if they want. If that's at a store level and Apple requires all payments go through Apple pay and a different store does not, I'm fine with that. I feel confident that very quickly what we'd see is that the premium on payments like that, whether for an app or a recurring service/subscription, would quickly drop to a more representative cost of what it takes to offer that feature, just like the store cut would likely change to something more competitive with other stores, based on what it offers.

That you like this feature now and see it as a benefit is not surprising. Because of Apple's position, they're able to fold it into their store fees, which traditionally developers and publishers have not felt they could charge additional for to make up the cost. But that is not something that can be relied on, especially for services and subscriptions, which are generally more cost aligned than application pricing. Epic, for example, is/was charging App Store users that additional amount over the base cost, and Apple's rules were such that they weren't even necessarily allowed to tell people that Apple was causing them to be overcharged.

Consider a world where the status quo shifts, and for services and subscriptions it's more the norm to see things charged extra when bought through App Stores that charge quite a bit over market rate for payment processing. If you had to for example pay an additional 25% for services and subscriptions, would you think it was quite as good a deal? For small things, probably. For large things, maybe that's less likely? If you pay $100/mo for some service, maybe $30/mo to protect your name is a bit steep?

All I can say is that I think we're far more likely to have one or more good providers that will offer this service one multiple platform years from now if we actually open this up and let people put their money where they care. I don't think Apple can be trusted to be stewards of what's best for us overall. Like any public company they are beholden to their board and the stockholders, and the mandate for increased profits. That right now you benefit from their interests does not mean you are guaranteed to do so in the future. Relying on corporate interests to align with our own instead of promoting a system where what we want could be provided by any competitor that wants to provide is seems a poor way forward, to me.
I don't miss groklaw, it was a heavily biased site whose whole analysis was dependent on only the accusations/defense of one side of the court cases and assuming all of those were true and totally ignoring the other side, even if they had valid arguments. It slowly swallowed itself into its own black hole and went more and extreme, just like BoycottNovell/Techrights.
If this is an exercise in reading comprehension I suppose we should begin by trying to identify the author's purpose — persuade, inform, or entertain — and distinguish between facts and opinions.
Reclaim any of the 51+% of our federal budget on weapons we either don't ever shoot or leave in the desert,

use the reclaimed former tax revenue to maintain separate apartments longer, even if just a bedroom one rents.
Keeping yourself out of an ICU bed by avoiding a heart attack or getting cancer is likely a lot harder than getting a COVID vaccine.

If we assume that the biggest cause of heart disease is obesity and poor general health-keeping, the solution there is to completely change your lifestyle: new diet, new exercise regimen, etc. While I think people who are at risk should probably do that, that's a much heavier lift than getting a COVID vaccine.

But given that we mostly don't know how to avoid all forms of cancer (aside from things like "don't smoke and you probably won't get lung cancer"), I don't see what point you're trying to make there. I mean, ok, yes, we should all get vaccinated against COVID in order to make it vanishingly unlikely we'll have to take an ICU bed away from a cancer patient (who got cancer through no fault of their own) who might need it.
I got an iPhone in which I have not installed Chrome. Want to uninstall Gmail but work email needs gmail. Other than that no other Google Apps.
Answer to the middle one: Absolutely not, Chromium is BSD3
> Every generation thinks that they’re living in the end times

In a sense, every generation is right. We’re all living in our own end times.
Ultimately the Apple App Store isn’t a commons and Apple has no obligation to host your app there. Likewise iOS is their product and they have no obligation to grant any third party access to it.

Whether they should be reclassified as some sort of public utility is another discussion.
So many memories of watching this and Murder She Wrote with my mom.
No. 9/11 has been mourned to death. Its importance has been cynically inflated by political PR mercenaries. It's impossible, after all the bad-faith grandiosity, to observe this day in any way approaching respect for the dead. It's far too late for that. Or else, it's too soon. Maybe some day we can mourn the society we could have been that wouldn't have wrung all humanity from this event by exploiting it to the point of ludicrousness. No, we cannot focus on the victims, and we cannot mourn peacefully. That has been shown. That is not something of which we are capable, sorry.

Meanwhile, there are other, real issues facing real, living human beings that we still have a chance to save, and whose lives have not been propagandized beyond farce. If we came to our senses today, we could focus on COVID victims, and mourn peacefully. They, we, still have a chance at that.

9/11 is best left alone, frankly. It's not the national tragedy it's been made out to be.