skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. Nintendo eShop and Google Play Service will dark pattern you towards having an account in cases where they don't outright require it like DLC expansions to the "physical" cartridge you "bought".
And all the certifications for both hardware and software. And what OS are they going to run? MacOS would be a big hurdle on servers--to say nothing of the fact they already tried that. Their own chips may go into servers but probably just for in-house use/services delivered to customers.
"From the WSJ" means something quite different when it's reporting (like the article here), and the opinion page, like what you're linking to. That opinion piece reminds me of nothing more than this comic[0]

[0] https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
Whales could capture 1.7B tonnes of CO2 a year
The parent seeks to discredit the legitimacy of all mental disease, based on a study of a handful of Mensa members from 2016. Does that "discredit the truth?"

Their original comment was flagged and removed. Sorry, who's the "asshole" again?
The author is Rodney Brooks [1] so I assume he's aware that it can be considered a form of computation, and probably would agree that it can be simulated using a computer (just as Newtonian mechanics can). But my guess is that he's asking whether that level of abstraction will turn out to be the most scientifically useful way of understanding how cognition actually works. After all, cognition could also be described as interactions of atoms - but trying to understand it in those terms is unlikely to yield much insight.

But it is certainly true that the article is pretty uninformative and superficial!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Brooks
By asking that question I think you've identified part of the problem, because around the time Covid started we lost a very competent senior dev and nobody has been hired to replace him.

Still, I used to have some pretty cool impromptu conversations in the hallway with people from other teams about projects they're working on at home, and they were great to learn from. With WFH I'd have never met some of those people. No idea how to recreate that environment.
I love this website because I went to the link, didn't know what a PWA was, went to the root website and STILL don't know what a PWA is.

I'm going to try the old trick of saying the wrong thing so someone corrects me.

Clearly a PWA is a Pug With Attitude. Is this a Jonathon and Noodle sponsored app?
It's clear the donor purposefully designed the rooms to be unpleasant to get people up into common rooms. It's just... weird. It doesn't matter if it looks good or bad but uncomfortable design like this is bizarrely aggressive to students, who are already living away from home and at-risk for depression and suicide.

Not to mention that housing like this makes breeding grounds for the flu and other contagious illnesses. It's poorly timed given we're still battling Covid-19 worldwide.
I dislike the term "gender" in linguistics. Many languages have grammatical gender that has nothing to do with masculine/feminine. "Noun class" gives the idea better. Noun classes in Indo-European and a couple other major language families happen to somewhat align with grammatical markers indicating animal/human sex. But it doesn't have to. Many languages make an animate/inanimate distinction.

It is one of those mysteries that several major language families all do it in a similar way. From Ancient Egyptian to Latin to small languages spoken in New Guinea, there is a common pattern of grammatical markings associated with indicating a person or animal's sex, ending up used to indicate noun classes and govern alignment/agreement patterns.

But why? Well, in languages like Latin with fairly free word order, noun classes and the associated agreement help indicate what goes with what. My take is that it's almost like a form of forwards error correction or type annotation. The way it arises like that doesn't seem too far-fetched.

The persistence is tricky though. Normally a feature in a language that isn't productive is going to get worn down by sound changes, etc. and eventually lost. But grammatical gender rarely gets lost. (English is a major exception as an Indo-European language here.) Even as Latin transformed over thousands of years into French, with grammar and phonology that are basically unrecognizable, a basic gender system persists in the language. I can only assume its error correcting/type annotating properties are still useful even in modern French?
This smells vaguely like a check-kiting scheme, only via collateralized debts instead of taking advantage of latency in check account reconciliation between institutions.

Famously, a guy managed to build a whole legitimate company atop one of those schemes, which went fine until he missed a step and the whole system crashed.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/09/mypayrollhr-ceo-arrested...
Ah yes, they acknowledge it in a sentence down on page 37 in a document only people paid by apple read top to bottom.

Thank you. That really changes things.
Meh. I've ignored them for the last 20 years. I expect to ignore whatever their services metastasize into for the next 20, too.
I don't think it is fair to think up hypothetical situations like these and use that as a basis for an ideology about sexism
I don’t understand. Are you saying there’s some negative impact to allowing people to have children who otherwise couldn’t? What problems do you foresee?
We've seen many articles over the last few years about the YouTube recommendation rabbit hole radicalizing young people online. Facebook is not blameless, but they've become a scapegoat for issues plaguing an entire industry.
I think as technology goes more... meta, the more valuable reality will become. I can't help but thing of Duncan Trussell's quote: "Some poor, phoneless fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere totally unaware of how angry and scared he’s supposed to be."

The way I see this playing out is that the metaverse is going to be for poor people while reality is enjoyed by those with resources for "all five senses".
and now it's mine
My guess would be animism giving genders to objects along with spirits, and from there on the newer, more abstract nouns either developed from older gendered nouns or got a default gender.

And it gets continued usefulness as an error detection and correction mechanism.
YouTube’s algorithms also amplify misinformation, and demonetization isn’t exactly a fix for that
I'm not aware of any bench experiment that eliminates all noise (I think that would be physically impossible) but we can certainly isolate things from the external environment very well, and the physical results you get from those tend to be very "clean" (IE, if you're measuring a physical parameter which is required to be an integer, and computing a mean on your observed values, the mean will be near the integer and the variance will be tiny compared to the magnitude of the integer.

On the computer, many "experiments" (really simulations) are 100% deterministic and therefore have perfectly predictable noise characteristics. Most simulations are not deterministic for a wide range of engineering reasons (order of summation in a distributed environment, inability to specify random seed) but are nondeterministic in a statistically useful way (IE, you can run a few times and get a good idea of the real result).
Aren't there many (>60) published studies showing varying positive effects of early treatment with Ivermectin though? (Despite a couple having been retracted for obvious fraud).

YouTube's policy specifically bans mention of Ivermectin as a possible treatment.

Combined with the safety profile and cost of Ivermectin, I'd have thought that it'd at least be worth a try in an emergency - the worst possible case being that it doesn't work (unless you have idiots taking horse-size doses).

Compared with the quality of data surrounding remdesivir, molnupiravir etc, there seems to be a significant bias towards novelty (and therefore $$$).

Similarly, it's been known for decades that vitamin D deficiency increases susceptibility to respiratory diseases, and most people in Europe/North America are deficient in winter. Why not hand it out? Worst case, it doesn't work.
That is a terrible take and wholly opinion based - NOT ACTUAL REPORTING, no one including Patagonia is saying don't mine or don't use oil based products. It's utter bullshit. We can use those products but be responsible in how we gather them.
Not sure what you mean. It's certainly grammar that is causing the problem. And yes, it's a problem because some people think it's a problem—that's true of all problems by definition.
That's a good point! And dogs don't have great vision-- the the quality of their visual input might be a bound on their ability to recognize the small unsmelly objects that are important to humans. I wonder if they do the head tilt when doing the same test with odors instead of objects (not that it'd prove anything).
This again? It was a flop the last 3 times, it will be a flop this time.

It's companies cutting ad budgets who were going to do it anyway.
If they lofted the bed, the desk could be moved under the bed. And if they had everyone just wear house uniforms, they could reduce the need for storage space and reduce the size of the rooms by 1/3
Interesting, thank you! Yes, I see how it depends on the field one is working in.
How to help kids with ‘long Covid’ thrive in school
Apple joins new sustainable chip manufacturing effort
There was an AR company called Meta few years back with a cool AR desktop demo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_(company)
I'm not super familiar with how to interpret the statistics in the paper, am I correct in understanding that it showed a 5% reduction in hospitalizations?

And it seems there was no significant effect on death?

If someone knows how to read this, can you chime in?
Obviously, but this is not so different from "regular" IVF for example. I'd have liked a little bit more explanation from GP about why these particular means go too far for them whereas current fertility treatments don't, instead of just throwing a blanket suggestion of unethicalness out there.
It's Time to Cut Out the Middle Man
Obligation vs. Choice
It acted exactly as designed, not as intended (or they would not have patched the bug).
Why Stateless Components?
Have you read somewhere that it is good to write more stateless UI components but you don’t know really why, here is a story for you.
There's an entire suite of cheap drugs with proven positive effects when administered early:

https://c19early.com/

Alphabet profits are up 68% because people are forced online. If there is cheap and effective COVID treatment, the world goes back to normal. Its a huge conflict of interest. Same goes for Facebook and the other tech companies.

By contrast, look at Apple's muted COVID efforts. They want people out in the real world, mobile, taking photos, comparing expensive hardware and living life.
Do you have a better answer than "you just don't understand"?

I am also under the impression that much of "high finance" is problematic, the industry seems to be often parasitical and rife with problems such as insider trading and market manipulation.
I think you may have commented on the wrong article.

(Did you mean to comment on "Publish Your PWAs to the iOS App Store" [0])?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29040793
It's just a simple test - if all permutations of some situation lead to the same outcome, then the outcome cannot be said to be caused by the situation.
Ah yes, it's cloudflare of course. On of the other contesters.
Millions of people ( billions?) live in windowless boxes (not rooms) and there is no evidence they're damaged psychologically. I'm not saying I don't prefer windows but this kind of statement strikes me as privileged bubble thinking.
Are demonentized videos allowed in Recommendations/Watch Next?
I'm not taking a stance, I just try to represent the argument fairly - whether one actually agrees is another thing. Misrepresenting arguments as the PGLAF does is lazy.

According to German legal rules you always have to take an overall view into account, not only to each argument on its own. In this case, whether they intended to also(!) reach German users.

Anyway, 2016 the highest German civil court ruled in accordance to precedence from the European Court of Justice that copyright infringement on websites fall under German jurisdiction as long as 1) the website is accessible from Germany without circumventing any blocks 2) it's infringing according to German law. Showing that the website operator actually intends to reach German users is no longer necessary.
There are plenty of audit companies that do a in-depth review of the code, a review of the protocol itself, etc., and come up with questions trying to understand the various execution flows. This goes beyond what current tools can do, it acts as a second pair of eyes to read through and understand all of the smart contracts.
I like Rodney Brooks, but this just seems like a nothing idea/article.
In a capitalist society money (investments, etc) produces money. "Returns on investment" are like rents. And like rents, the government can choose to tax the asset itself rather than or in addition to the rents.
So does this mean that any planet with a reduced atmosphere, electrical storms, silicate-rich rocky surfaces, and liquid water would have a good chance of developing life, at some point?
There is no bounded 'reasonable' estimation or expectations of how much money you can gain/lose by trading options. They are a force multiplier that can explode very spectacularly, in many different ways, and everyone involved in finance understands that.

If you want your gains/losses to be reasonably bound, you have to limit yourself to buying and selling stocks directly. Unfortunately, there's not enough money in that to make a living day-trading.
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Card slot is immensely useful for flashing bootable drives for Raspberry Pis or the like.

Magsafe has always been great IMO, but I believe you can also charge the laptop via USB C. May just need the right specs on whatever brick you're using.
Maybe you have some sort of weird proprietary lab software or such. There's a piece of portable sensor hardware I'm currently looking at, which needs to be attached to a computer and AFAIK only talks to Windows software. There's thousands of use cases like this.

It's not that your life stops if you're suddenly unable to run Windows on your daily driver, and "most" people only use the web browser anyway (why do they need a >$1000 machine for that, by the way?), but these things do cause problems or become a dealbreaker for some people.

Sure. Most won't notice or care. But that's sort of true by definition; Apple wouldn't make a product decision where most would notice and care. Most HN users are nerds, we see these things much more often than the majority.
Others have answered, but there is a tool that helps with trusting oracle data, called Chainlink ($LINK)

Chainlink uses a proof a stake (POS) concept where it calls out to a number of LINK nodes that have staked assets for liability in order to win rewards. With all of the Oracles data it goes through an algorithm, for simplicity, let's say the average of all the prices it received, gives the nodes a reputation score, on top of that it uses the reputation of the nodes to choose who ultimately fulfills the request, the number of tokens staked will also take into account. If reputation starts going negative, they could lose the tokens they have staked.
I imagine there's a feedback loop. Inevitably there's going to be at least a few quick-fingered human investors who make the error, which will drive the share price up a bit. This predictable mini bump is an attractive target for bots, and before you know it you've bootstrapped another hype-driven stock.
One is not better than the other. It's not a contest. Kudos to employers who can acknowledge that different people have different needs and cater to both!
> Go defecate on a Black Lives Matter street sign and you can be sure to be hauled away and arrested. Chesa Boudin will even prosecute you.

This sounds like you're referencing something very specific, but I haven't been able to find anything credible about such an event. Got a link?
Because people tend to have more money than intelligence. I also made a similar mistake years ago. I purchased 20 shares of MRVL, thinking it was Marvel, luckily I’m not the only one and I managed to turn a profit before selling once I figured it out.
FTA: > “Meta”, on the other hand, is explicit: CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook is now a metaverse company

I'm not sure anyone (other than some geeks) really understands what the "metaverse" is... or cares.

The name/symbolism/demo were uninspiring and vague at best.

Not to mention Mark isn't the best salesman for this. It seems so egotistical of him to assume HE needed to be the front-man for this effort other than to say "all of this... it's about me".
Yeah. The USB C ports on my 15" MacBook Pro feel loose and are starting to become flaky. I hope the new ones fare better and also take less abuse with charging going through MagSafe on the new machine.
not so perfect. But this happens, a lot. sometimes they don't even hide it. The defi degenerates call it 'rugging', eg: rug pull. Often its not even a hack, the contract has an administrative function that allows draining the contract.
I am hitting the paywall. Is there really anything more to this argument than some Patagonia products rely on oil and mining? We are all hypocrites by that standard. There is no way to completely divorce yourself or your business from some of the ills of society. Therefore failing to do so shouldn't mean you lose the ability to criticize those ills.
Am I understanding correctly that all of this happens in one single transaction? The flash loan is borrowed, deployed, and repaid in one fell swoop?

I’m trying to think of the most complicated single transaction item I’ve ever seen booked. I wish I wasn’t so rusty because trying to figure out the journal entries for this would be a fun little nerd puzzle.
> what in the world is the point of crypto platforms

Excellent question, one that crypto dudes could ask themselves a little more often.
I was expecting to read language evangelism from someone who hadn't heard of Remacs. This turned out to be a really interesting read and I'm looking forward to seeing what comes of it. I'd love to see a future where there is a choice between different cores for Emacs like Guile or a jitter or one of these rustbuckets.
Also because they adopted PWAs as replacement for WinJS.
US Economy slows to 2% growth in Q3
The real thing isn't free. It costs an externally facing wall.
Are you saying that you need to hide a USB thumb-drive in a wall charger instead?
the video on the landing page makes this claim:

> steno is not typing. typing is when you get one character of output per one press of the keyboard; whereas in steno you press multiple keys at once to make a steno outline which must then go through a translation process to produce readable text. this is why court reporters call the process writing and not typing.
I don't sign up, usually. My email gets onto lists without my explicit permission when I sign up for services/buy products and then I start getting emails.

It takes a lot of effort to maintain an email these days. Unsubscribing often doesn't work or is temporary.

I can go on and on. Legitimate newsletters that I may sign up for get lost in all of that, and stay around long after I care to read them anymore.
> Aren't there many (>60) published studies showing varying positive effects of early treatment with Ivermectin though? (Despite a couple having been retracted for obvious fraud).

No, this is false. Use of animal ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19 in humans is dangerous [1].

[1] https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul...
Truthful and Honest AI
I have a CX and a G9 (essentially a bezel-less C9) in the US, I have not seen the ads
The GNOME compositor does actually use D-Bus and it is actually much easier to use D-Bus in it than to add new wayland extensions.
The number of local businesses, from tattoo artists to breweries to coffeeshops to schools, that use Facebook as their only presence on the web is astounding.

I don't like Facebook, and I refuse to use it on moral grounds. But I do want to patronize some of those businesses. Without at least basic knowledge of how to register a domain, build a website, etc... what options really exist for these places, especially at the "totally free" starting point of Facebook? I've often considered building a web app that serves as a non-programmer friendly frontend for a Jekyll blog/website hosted on GitHub Pages, since most of these places don't have super high requirements.
Naval Ravikant and Chris Dixon Didn't Explain Any Web3 Use Cases
I wonder if there are any examples of this in languages from the many cultures past and present that always recognized more than two sex-derived genders.
It always strikes me as odd that many houses and apartment buildings in the US west coast will have entire walls with zero or nearly zero windows in them. Apartments and houses here are so much darker than in Europe.
This is why the library exists.
If it works, this is awesome. I've used it before to add my PWA (liftosaur.com) to the Android store, and it's way easier to get users from there, than to explain them how to install PWA. Will try it out for iOS definitely.
I think the more apt analogy to NFTs was if George Lucas shot Star Wars, and then sold a single copy of it to a wealthy patron for a large sum of money (see: Martin Shkreli buying the only copy of the Wu-Tang album), and from there on out the film passes through a successive chain of wealthy collectors, only occasionally shown at exclusive parties for the aggrandizement of their owners. The only chance for the general public to see the film would be occasional exhibitions held in conjunction with museums.

I don't think it'd be controversial to say that the world would've been poorer for it - and George Lucas too. If the goal is financial success for artists, mass distribution always beats selective exclusion, and if the goal is broad cultural impact the case for mass distribution is even clearer.
Bitcoin isn't relevant here - it isn't DeFi nor is it unique in being the only unhacked cryptocurrency.
It's not hurting the news industry... maybe. It's polluting the HN newsfeed... maybe.

I for one won't subscribe to paywalled sites i only occasionally get links to on HN or other news aggregators just because they're linked here.

Funny enough, I am subscribed to a site that gets linked on here semi regularly. Not paywalled, ads or pay for no ads/tracking. But I've been reading it longer than I've read HN.
Yeah, a multi threaded implementation of the Emacs VM would be amazing, I definitely wish the author well.
The number of Vulkan or GL programs running in a desktop Linux is close to zero (or at most 1: the compositor). Browsers vary but on most setups they use practically nothing with GL/Vulkan (blame drivers). Gtk+ (even 3) still sends X drawing commands. Qt5 does not by default (it renders by itself, without any GL/Vulkan) but can still be configured to use X.
Indeed. "Many widely-accepted theories ultimately get rejected. Perhaps this one will be, too." What use is an article like this to anyone?
You are thinking about revenue. Indeed Apple revenue is much higher, But it also costs them much more to produce those goods. So at the end of the day, Microsoft is actually taking home slightly more money with a net income of 60B$ for 2020 vs 57B$ for Apple.
By break away hit, I meant more in line with Nintendo Switch sales. I doubt it's even close due to the login requirement. They lost a lot of word of mouth marketing from would-be evangelists. It's near impossible to defend Facebook / Meta.

The Facebook login was unnecessary friction since they didn't even take advantage of it from the start. It wasn't until a few months ago when I could even find my friends from Facebook.

I do love my Quest 2 though.