skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because a country has an interest in protecting the safety and security of its citizens, not choose winners and losers of a global market. And considering Apple’s valuable brand is essentially built on safety and security it would be a bit strange to kick them or build rules that only they seem to breaking.

If you want to look at “transaction” as the activity that a government should look closely at then I think there is a bigger thing to look at right now; people tossing their money into shitcoins. If governments aren’t spending cycles looking carefully into the blockchain transactions of their citizens they shouldnt be spending too much time worrying about whether an iPhone user can choose to use their credit card with a different processor inside of apps
That's because:

- speeds matters of that level matters only for a limited number of use cases. Most programming use cases are fine with python speed. They were fine, in fact, with it 20 years ago, before we got that hardware speed.

- people are starting to complain about speed in python only because of all the data science going up. Suddenly here speed matters. Before, you had to get to google level of infra to find use cases where python was too slow.

- dev are expensive. Hardware is cheap. If you have a slow website, paying $200 dollar more on your server is not a big deal. But taking 3 more month dev that features with your $300k pro is another thing entirely.
The article tries to downplay what I think is the core issue: He added some functionality to the plug-in that sent statistics back to a server he controlled. He claims the data collection was minimal for most users but those who opted in had a lot more information collected. It appears everyone who used the plug-in had some amount of data collected by the author.

He’s trying to spin this as Facebook trying to bury an anti-addiction tool, but I think it’s a simple case of someone getting caught writing a plugging that automates API requests and collects data from Facebook users to a 3rd-party server.

I don’t think he’d be in trouble if he simply wrote an adblocker-style plugin that simply hid the feed. It was the automated spamming of the API and the 3rd-party data collection that likely got him in trouble.
Where are all those monitoring startups now?
> Sellers get to choose the payment methods they accept. Some sellers don't take cash, some don't take PayPal, and some don't take Apple Pay. If a seller doesn't offer the buyer's preferred payment option, the buyer can either either choose from the payment options the seller does accept, or shop elsewhere.

This is precisely my point. Walmart's way or the highway. After all, the free market is a land of the negotiation of weight, and you don't weigh very much.

> Buyers are not entitled to use Apple Pay everywhere, just as they are not entitled to use cash, PayPal, or a particular credit card everywhere.

In the free market, you aren't entitled to anything you can't negotiate. Apple can do this for you. Apple has enough weight with the collection of customers behind them.

> I'm not talking about Target, I'm talking about an e-book purchase on Amazon that gets added to the purchaser's Kindle collection. Amazon must know that the user purchased the e-book, since that is the only way the e-book gets added to their collection.

A company doesn't have to know your financial data to know that you paid for a digital good. I am talking about Target, except Target is just an example of a company that already had a financial leak scandal. I also talked about Amazon, since there's enough room to talk about more than one company. My response was that you forked over your credit card information because Amazon had that power.

As you say, you're not entitled to choose the terms of your relationship with Amazon. Your choices were only Amazon or... not Amazon. I mean, not unless you can negotiate with Amazon. And then you have to do this for PopEyes and Target too, all while contemplating your entitlements as a customer.

So I ask again, where is the consumer choice to have Apple intermediate relationships on your behalf?
> In 2004, an unidentified Taiwanese woman died of alcohol intoxication after immersion for twelve hours in a bathtub filled with 40% ethanol. Her blood alcohol content was 1.35%. It was believed that she had immersed herself as a response to the SARS epidemic.

Bizarre
> Likewise, automating API requests is a problem for any platform.

I agree, and it shouldn't be necessary. There should simply be a single 'unfollowAll' endpoint you can hit once for this operation.
Hey,

I am the founder of FifthTry.com and creator of the FTD document format.

Backstory: I came across Matthew Griffith’s Style Elements library[1] years back, it made me rethink how to build and style user interface: thinking in terms of rows and columns was very intuitive to me compared to the CSS box/flex models. Style-Elements and then `elm-ui` offer a really small set of properties, and they are good enough for us to replace CSS for most part, this makes me think CSS is a bit over designed, or may be not designed at all, a hack gone too long.

But CSS is not the only thing I struggle with, there is also the complexity of three completely different language you have to learn to build any simple user interface today, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You can do a lot with just HTML / CSS, especially if you are not building web-apps but web pages, but with just HTML / CSS its not possible to create re-usable components.

And Javascript is just too much (so much so that a lot of backend developers declare themselves incapable of building basic web interfaces).

Another problem that bugs me is the data representation / exchange languages: JSON/YML/CSV are too popular, and yet they leave a lot to desire, there is no way to define schema in any of them, writing them by hand is too cumbersome without programming editors, and then its just one more thing to learn on top of the three named above.

It always bugged me that this can not be the best we can do.

FTD is an attempt to take Griffith’s ideas, create a (hopefully) simple syntax, and create a unified language that replaces HTML/CSS/Javascript for user interface creation (think web pages, not web apps). A language that has first class data modelling capabilities[2].

I would love to hear your thoughts about it.

PS: apologies for the back button bug, I have created a full stack web framework: Realm[3], and it’s under a lot of flux right now.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYb2GDWMIm0

[2]: https://www.fifthtry.com/ftd/data-modelling/

[3]: https://www.amitu.com/realm/
On and off I've trained logistic regression models to sort texts in order of "relevance". That could be submissions to HN, job listings, etc.

I like logit because it can be easily calibrated so I can tune up for 90% precision and furthermore understand the trade-off I make between precision and recall. I often have done "shoot-outs" with other algorithms in scikit-learn.

Random Forests would have worked for my application, but they don't calibrate very well:

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/calibration/pl...

Personally I think calibration is the difference between "finished near the top of the pack on Kaggle" and "coupled it to a Kelly Better and made big $$$".
If someone calls EV or Wind or Solar policies subsidies, people say "yes, its the right thing to do and makes economic sense". No one says "the money goes to the person buying the EV so its not an EV industry subsidy!"

But for some reason, people want to tie their logic up into pretzels to deny that oil companies are getting subsidies. Why?
Interesting story :-)

I wonder if they sorted out the differences between the maths approaches, so the professor could agree also math theory wise
The output of nuclear plants is also affected by the weather, few years ago the Finnish nuclear plants had to reduce output in the summer due to the Baltic Sea warming up too much. Heating it even more from cooling water would damage the ecosystem.
Ya big org-mode fan here.

I try to get everything I do as a TODO item. Add the link to the Jira item in the title. When it is marked as DONE, it adds a journal entry into Org-Roam/Daily file automatically.

Still haven't figured out how to use org-roam idiomatically.
> prior to the pandemic, shipping from China to LA

Perhaps it’s time for the US to finally stop doing that.
Don't wine testers spit it out, so that their judgment remains unimpaired?
it's more like try different off-the-shelf models on some sample of data until the performance is somewhat acceptable

Unless you're Google, who even trains models from scratch these days, at most you do some fine-tuning
Let's take NYC for example. According to census data [1], Manhattan (a place many people definitely want to live) had a 10.5% vacancy rate last year. At almost 914,000 total housing units, that's almost 96,000 vacant homes.

According to the Bowery Mission [2], in the same time period there were 80,000 homeless people in NYC. So just in Manhattan, there were enough vacant homes for every homeless person in all five boroughs to get their own — with over 15,000 to spare!

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/20... (change state to New York, click "Housing Unit Vacancy Rate" and then click Manhattan on the map)

[2] https://www.bowery.org/homelessness/
All of them increase the score by 1 except:

Free Storage!!!!

That increases by 10.
I took out the "You Gave Away Too Much Free Storage" which was a -20 :P
I prefer to argue the same thing by saying that we recognize this is a rational expected behavior of any entity developed enough that it looks after itself.

Similarly to other lines of reasoning critizizing specifically facebook for "knowing they can be harmful but choosing to believe they can also be positive-good (useful)". This behavior is not exclusive to Facebook; all corporations are the same, and some have done humanity far worse, yet they're still around (why?). It's unreasonable to single-out facebook in this regard.
but it's not. the vast vast majority of people spend a few minutes scrolling through fb, the same way people here scroll through HN, it's a totally meaningless time waster.
The company itself is performing things that are valuable, but he's not doing those actions personally. Of the three types of wealth acquisition, making money from an ownership position is extraction.

If the workers don't show up to create value for him and for the company, they don't get paid. They're creating some value by packing boxes, that contribution might be worth $25/hr, but they've only been able to negotiate $18/hr of that value creation. They're probably handling goods worth tens of thousands of dollars per hour where that wealth is exchanged between end consumers and manufacturers, but they're not charging a commission to the buyers based on a percentage of that transaction.

For Jeff, though, he's not personally adding value to the company in proportion to his personal contributions of labor or ideas or memos. Instead, because of his ownership of approximately 10% of the company, he's a dead weight on transactions regarding the other 90%. He extracts some of the money moving between those other people on the market.

I admit that there's definitely an element of risk that's not well covered by this simple three-category model, but I question whether taking a risk from a position as a VP of a hedge fund (another primarily extraction-based operation) morally ought to have an upside worth $200B.
Yet, nothing beats Safari on MacBooks!
ESP Stack Trace Decoder terminal and web tools
My bad, didn't do that on Safari. Maybe some sort of tracking protection.
Heart disease.
While what you say is true, I think this is something like 7 parts benefit to tens of millions of W-2 employees and 1 part benefit to a much smaller number of financial industry workers. I wouldn’t want to give up the 7 to prevent the 1.
I can see why. Too many containment procedures calling for absurd amounts of it. They rewrote it so it has some more disadvantages and to cull it's usage some. I actually did a reread of Series 1 and 2 recently. Was interesting to go that far back as I haven't read any since the lolFoundation. Amazing how many bad ones are back there, or just ones missing that interesting kick that characterizes even the simpler Series 4 or 5 ones.
Related, a great thread from simonw: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1440725351949213700

"This is fascinating: as-of 2017 university instructors have been increasingly encountering students who have absolutely no idea how files and folders on a computer work"
The income from the wealth fund doesn't need to replace oil income forever, it should be used to invest in growing other parts of their economy. For example, Equinor is getting into offshore wind and carbon sequestration both of which use similar competencies to oil production.

Anyway, they are still extracting oil and probably will continue to do so for a couple decades. That gives them time to grow their wealth fund and gradually transition their economy. They are at a huge advantage compared to other oil exporters.
>It's truly incredible. 0.15% is quite drunk for a typical person and most can't stand at 0.2%. At > 0.3% people often require hospitalization

Unless you're using insanely puritanical definitions for "quite drunk" and "can't stand" this doesn't check out. One drink is ~0.02 and there's no shortage of college kids will kill 10+ in an hour with no effect other than becoming drunk and a headache the next day.
>So why are the news people lying?

Because they can lie and people will believe them. Infact you have the indirect answer to why you were down voted. The HN crowd believes the media not you.
And for the records I, up voted you.
> If their product (the app store) is genuinely better for users....

Apple doesn’t make and sell App Store. It makes and sells iPhones. And it’s not “genuinely better” and they do not dominate the market however it’s good enough that a lot of people are willing to pay a premium for that product.
yes, but 2 at $26 before price went crazy means each at $13. new shipment comes in, they are now $22 each. For 6 pipes at old price, that's potentially $78 vs $132 at new price.

So the numbers actually do matter. As I stated in another reply, I'm just not a fan of fractions especially in written sentences.

Edit: Or if it was actually $26 per 2.375" pipe and the new prices after craziness was only $22 causing the reaction to go in the other direction.
This isn't about individuals but about society. The past decades the number of computer literate adults has massively increased, which is a good thing. But the trend is reversing since the basics you learn when you use a phone isn't nearly as powerful as the basics you learn when using a regular computer.

There isn't much we can do about this trend, it will continue no matter if we want to change it or not. But talking about a trend and what consequences it will have is still interesting.
hypocrisy (along with taboos I guess) seem to be a necessary part of a functioning society.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel Prize in literature
The tool doesn't stop people from using facebook, it just makes their usage more productive. Like RES for reddit or other third party tooling that makes life easier for users, especially power users. Personally I probably wouldn't have stopped using facebook if I knew about this approach to cleaning out the junk. Plus the tool isn't even going as far as something like RES. the tool doesnt' add or remove any utility that isn't already there, it just automates an otherwise manual and painstaking process.
Except that FB is a monopoly platform that has become too important to ignore.

I have foregone quite a lot of social things because I refuse to use it. That much is fine by me but it is not fine for most people. “Most people,” by FB’s own numbers, are a captive audience. They do not get to decide if they go shopping in the mall.

This is why Cory Doctorow’s point on forcing FB to open up is the most useful one. It is the most straightforward way to turn FB into a utility.
There's a few cycles difference based on how the on chip network works, but variability in the number of off chip links between you and memory is what dominates the design. And in the context of what the parent said (but has since edited out), was what was being discussed.
The site is unusable/unreadable on mobile. So many ads.
You were lucky to have forums. An older generation had to resort to books and magazines :-)
> It was my understanding that any transactions handled in this way eventually have to be settled back into the main chain.

I'm unaware of the exact details, but the govt approved wallet uses a proprietary payment processing system in addition to the LN. Yes eventually in theory those transactions should make it back to the main chain when tokens exit the system (requiring El Salvador's permission).

At any rate, we've gone in a big circle and reinvented settlement banking on top of bitcoin.
They do need non-Google sources of revenue.
Credit cards don't work like that in Europe. It's more like a debit card. You don't get the purchase warranty perks and chargebacks are highly restricted. They will sometimes charge back but you have to have real proof. It's not like the US.

This is why credit cards are really uncommon in Europe. Most people just use their debit cards that are free and can also use the regular credit card systems (with the exception of the Netherlands which has a different system). A credit card really only makes sense here if you want to use its credit. And if you do there's cheaper options.
If Microsoft owns Github, then doesn't that Microsoft now controls all of npm audit?
Those concerns don't really apply to me because

1. My manager in particular would never do that, but even if they did:

2. I know how much I contribute relative to my team. If my manager told me I was underperforming - for any stated reason, but especially if I suspected it was for taking "too much" PTO - I'd almost certainly find a new team, because that just ain't so.

To elaborate on 2 a little bit, it's worth pointing out that you're definitely more vulnerable to shitty management tactics like that if you aren't sure of your own market value.

If your main point is that "unlimited PTO" can be a weapon in the hands of a bad manager, I concede that. But my counterpoint to "unlimited PTO is bad" is that, within the bubble world of tech, we as employees have so much power to dictate our working conditions there's very little reason to put up with any such bullshit in the first place. And most employers are aware of this right now.[0]

[0] https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2021-07-...
Many libraries, such as my university, have no regular late fees, but do have a fee if the item is recalled by another user after the loan expires and not immediately returned.
The only people I know who still use Facebook, use it to share political memes, fake news, phishing scams, and rants. If I hid from all that there'd be nothing left.
The first-order effect of this seems to be a continuous shift towards high-level programming languages. I have a sibling around this age, and the technologically savvy kids seem to gravitate towards Python and Javascript libraries. When you can set up a server online for cheap and with simple installation instructions, these kids can avoid needing to learn a lot about how a computer actually works.

I think there's definitely a loss in some areas of tech, but there's corresponding gains in some other areas. We can see this type of growth with the development of many other technologies as well; how many large farmers do you think could fully care for their plants by hand? How many kids know how to write a letter, or use cursive? How much of a toilet could most people conceivably fix? Low-level knowledge is often "lost" because it's not needed to actually use an advanced technology.

I agree that it will be interesting to see what trajectory this takes. COBOL runs a huge amount of our financial infrastructure, and almost nobody knows how to update/fix it. It'll be fascinating to see what the next COBOL will be.
I mean, you're seeing their article on Slate. It's not like they've been banned from the entire internet or all news media.
nearing???

long since past time to shut them down.
> OK, what will this do? Nothing.

It will do several things. First of all, having robust publicly available aggregate data will spur better debate about the equitable distribution of wealth. Second, it will allow the IRS to easily collect wealth taxes should congress authorize those. Third, it will enable Central Banks to make better decisions - right now we're flying mostly blind, so to speak.

> For a few reasons, including the left constantly saying they’ve failed and they don’t have enough money.

I don't think "the left" is saying that income taxes have failed. I think "the left" is saying that income taxes are no longer as progressive as they once were for a number of reasons: (1) top tax rates are much lower than they once were; (2) income and capital gains are taxed differently; the low (and flat) rate of capital gains taxes mean that the wealthy pay effectively lower tax rates; (3) the huge number of loopholes introduced into the tax code predominantly help the wealthy and make the overall income tax regime more regressive than it would otherwise be.

I think the left also argues that income isn't the most accurate measure of an individual's capacity to pay taxes.

> Another reason is income tax was originally meant for the wealthy.

This is simply not true. Income taxes were introduced by most developed countries in the first half of the 20th century as (1) a check on inequality; (2) a reasonable way to expand the tax receipts of the federal government from something like 10% of national income to the 40+% of national income that countries require in order to invest in anything but purely regalian state functions. It has little to do with inflation, and tax brackets are constantly adjusted for inflation in every country that has implemented one. On the other hand, income taxes are progressive so by design they hit the wealthy harder (and always have done).

> Not to mention the massive overhead to process all of this data, we literally picked the most complicated way to do this.

The IRS budget is very small.

That point aside, progressive taxes are meant to tax people according to their ability to pay. A flat tax can never accomplish that. Most progressive taxes fall under three categories: wealth taxes, inheritance taxes, and income taxes. You need to collect a certain amount of data for all of them.
So typing a URL into a browser is today's opening a terminal to type a command, got it.

I was a teen through the 90s, and had a small consulting/computer sales business in my 20s while it was still common for home PCs to be built from components, which exposed me to a decent cross-section of computer-using society (in IL) at the time. This was the early days for the Pentium class machines and Windows 95 was all the rage.

Back then most adults didn't know how to use a computer either. The moment a terminal was required to get something done, eyes glazed over. If they couldn't simply point and click on something, it wasn't happening.
Does Apple have 40% of the app store market? That's what I'd question. How do you define such a market?
In 2nd-6th grade school in late 80s we had to learn to program (logo) which was great fun.
We had to get a perfect on a 100 question computer test to graduate 6th grade. RAM vs ROM vs Disk drive sort of questions. Not fun. At the time I complained endlessly because I kept getting 97 or so.

Wow did that set me up for success in the future.

This was private Christian grade school. Way ahead on the tech curve compared to most schools.