skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that most customers are not asking for another App Store, but they are being negatively impacted.

1. Apple has blocked apps as objectionable because they were political even though simply factual. [1]

2. Apple's lock on the App Store facilitates government blocks on apps that Apple itself would otherwise deem fine. [2]

3. Apple blocks "adult" oriented apps. How many times do people have to rehash the lines between art and porn with authority gatekeepers instead of making their own choices?

4. Apple blocks game streaming apps, and other apps that act as front ends to other app-like worlds on the web, a whole new category of innovation cancelled. [3[

5. Apple inserts itself into otherwise peer-to-peer transactions, i.e. in-app non-code content purchases. This economic tax is both unfair, but also a dampener on innovation.

6. Apple on iOS restricts the downloading of code within apps to educational situations. (Currently rule 2.5.2 [4]) This is a huge dampener on innovation. Coding, including no-code coding, should be available to anyone wanting to be code literate or want to make their own tools. I get that their are safety issues, but those can be addressed with sandboxes, etc. Again, another layer of innovation killed off.

In summary, instead of being a bicycle shop for the mind, Apple's app stores block many kinds of innovation, tax providers in ways unrelated to Apple's role as phone provider, and routinely censor useful apps that are politically unappealing to Apple or governments, threaten Apple's lock on development tools, or based on Apple's sensitivity to safe (from a tech point of view) material where legitimate opinions vary as to what is desirable or not.

This is all user hostile.

Noting that there are alternative phones isn't a good response, as Apple's phones are at the center of tightly knit ecosystems. Customers do not have the ability to mix and match products between a few ecosystems and get the same value.

I view the App Store as Apple's new Achilles heal.

Apple's gatekeeper role has created perverse incentives for Apple to block significant innovation, economic viability, and freedom of expression on devices at the center of many of our lives.

Perverse incentives don't go away. They tend to metastasize (pun very much intended) [5].

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/28/apple-drone-striking-app-remo...

[2] https://www.vox.com/recode/22680010/russia-apple-app-store-s...

[3] https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/07/apples-block-of-x...

[4] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

[5] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/29/facebo...
The author is using SQL as an explanatory tool so well I (and at least a few other folks in this thread) have zero idea what they are talking about.
Would you fully trust a study done by scientists hired by Fox News or the CNN?
I wouldn't categorize it as 'very slow', at worse 50% slower than 128bit XXH3 hash (and faster than the 32bit XXH hash).

Modern intel processors have the CRC32C instructions and ARM have both CRC32 and CRC32C. There is a reluctance in some of the hash comparisons to use the hardware CRC implementations for compatibility reasons, but most modern CPUs have them.

The main argument for using a hardware CRC32 (and to some extent a software one too) is simplicity. If your use-case needs decent (but not blinding) performance, then there is something to be said for a hash implementation that can be written in ~10 lines of code.
You still have to handle the possibility of collisions but any 32bit hash has that restriction, which is fine for many uses.
What would they use instead? Coal power is an input into solar panels.

Solar Power May Be the Next Victim of China’s Coal Shortage

>Prices of silicon metal, used to make the material that comprises solar panels, have surged about 300% since the start of August after a top-producing province ordered production be slashed amid a power crunch.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/china-slashes-silico...
Thanks for the link! Your edit reflects my thoughts exactly. I posted an old Law Review comment[1] describing (at a very high level) the market conditions in the early 1900s that gave rise to federal securities regulation. It’s a bit surprising how many of those mistakes we’re “relearning” with crypto. I wonder whether perhaps the crypto craze might have come about, in part, because of the regulatory inaction following the Great Recession.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29041167
Why would they have to comply anyway if they have no presence in the EU?
You're being disingenuous. Newton's model still "works" (at low speeds and when we don't need high precision), so he didn't lie. He also believed what he was saying.

Fauci, on the other hand, does not believe himself. He says things as we are "ready to hear" them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covi...

That's lying. If he got updated information and told us so, that's not lying. But he didn't; he just decided to say something different because it was now politically expedient.

Fauci is a political operative, not a scientist.
I think Snap or TikTok should rebrand to Antimeta, or at least build a subsidiary with that name to show how ridiculous this is. Facebook, or however the want to call themselves, is still the same company with its unethical leadership.

Unless leadership changes, nothing good will be in store for society at large.
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I wonder if any of the CPU mitigations are behind this. They have a pretty significant cost in virtualized settings.
This should link to the creator, not to MacRumors' low-effort linkpost.
looks good. thanks for sharing. will give it a try.
So best case scenario, vaccines only win short term?
Spot on. The barracks this happened in was built in 1945, and was single Marine occupancy. Now up to three Marines share the same room, depending on rank.
> Unfortunately it was probably a contributing factor in putting Motorola under.

What do you mean by this? Motorola is alive and doing reasonably well.
Customers don't lose money from theft directly (assuming it's theft of bank cash, not theft of deposit boxes), because the theft is replaced from bank capital or insurance or whatever. But it increases the cost of operating the bank, either directly or through higher insurance premiums, which eventually gets passed to customers in lower interest on deposits and higher interest on loans, or higher fees.
Fermentation has been the not-so secret weapon of many top restaurants these days. Kimchi, garum, miso, all of these add a huge depth of flavor to dishes. And while you can buy most of these from a store, it's often infinitely better when you make them yourself. My homemade kimchi[1] is so much better than store bought. If only I could get myself to make it more often.

[1]: Recipe from Maangchi: https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/tongbaechu-kimchi
I read this every time I see a link to it. Slotin's exposure incident really resonates with me for some reason, it plays in my head like a movie and I'm Slotin. I can just imagine ears ringing and a metallic taste in my mouth as my brain slowly comes to grips with the fact that I'm a dead man walking. (For some reason i have a stuffy nose too)

The other thing I come away from this thinking is that our bodies are way better at dealing with damage from radiation than we give them credit for.
Buy a nft. See if that changes your perspective.
We are reaching a state where nothing is more important than some pregurgitated ideological beliefs. Not family, not faith, not duty, not integrity and absolutely not independently critical thinking
> ACH payments historically operated on a daily or twice daily batch processing, and they’re (importantly) “negative confirmed.” This means that you do not get immediate reliable feedback that an ACH transfer or withdrawal has succeeded. The association’s rules require financial institutions to report errors (via even more batch processing) within 5 business days, and given that errors are expected in the ordinary course (most commonly, insufficient funds, since funds availability is not and cannot be guaranteed at transaction time), businesses and banks have to make decisions on what degree of risk they’re willing to tolerate.

A colleague of mine years ago told me a story about check clearing in the "old days". Northern Trust in Chicago handled a large percentage of check clearing for the entire US. Their back office building had a heliport because they had a twice-daily cargo flight from O'Hare filled with all the checks that needed to get cleared. I almost feel like the batch processing was because of the scheduled delivery of the physical checks to these processing centers around the country.
Fauci did not give us his best information.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covi...

So he lied. Plain and simple.

I used that word because it's the truth, even though it's strong because sugarcoating the truth is lying. Using the term "sugarcoating" is, in fact, trying to sugarcoat the fact that sugarcoating is lying!
This is entirely true, however this can probably be configured in settings. For example you could configure that faceid is only activated on any key stroke such that the screen does not unlock unintentionally.
I recently moved a smallish business application from two bare-metal servers onto Azure VMs. It's a standard PHP 7.4 application, MySQL, Redis, nginx. Despite the VMs costing more and having twice the spec of the bare-metal servers, it has consistently performed slower and less reliably throughout the stack. The client's budget is too small to spend much time looking into it. Instead, they upped the spec even further, and what used to cost £600 per month now costs £2000.
I hope it gets a real name before it hits the states.
The official VRChat Discord bot reports the true player numbers and while it isn't very high now "27997", on weekends I have seen it reach near 50k.

There are as many people playing it on Quest as there are on Steam, which is wild considering just how many more Quest owners without a gaming PC there must be.
Code, code, code, and code some more. Learn the technologies and do tutorials, yes. But make your own stuff, and also learn the fundamentals. My company is having a hell of a time finding junior level people who actually know how to solve even the simplest of coding challenges. Try something like Codewars in your preferred language and get to figuring out how to actually think in code.
this happened recently at my place of work
Don't disrespect my boi Runescape like that.
Uploading a diff, compiling, and downloading the resulting artifact is usually extremely fast on modern internet connections.
The success and impact of this will come down to pricing, the state of charging networks, and production quantity.

It looks like it has roughly "table stakes" as far as capabilities go, at best, beating neither the Model Y or Mach-E on range, but likely costing less to compensate.

In my humble opinion, the name is horrendous. May they have the wisdom to change it when they start selling it in the U.S.
They quit making bigger booms because there was no need for them. Two factors are at work:

1) Square-cube law. You do more damage with a collection of smaller warheads than with one big one with the same total yield.

2) The Earth isn't flat. Once a boom gets big enough the area of damage doesn't go up much as the shockwave ends up separating from the ground and the atmosphere above the bomb just ends up blasted off. Note that this does *not* limit the usefulness of big bombs detonated high up for thermal and EMP effects. Very big booms in low orbit could be very nasty with total surprise.
https://www.subaru.com/solterra-ev

is its sibling, evidently
I have both. Whether it be dev work or music production, my old 16" from 2018 immediately gets hot and loud. On the flip side, I haven't heard the fans turn on on the new 16", and it barely gets warm. And its battery life lasts sooo much longer for similar workloads (despite me just having gotten a fresh battery replacement for the old laptop).
i thought it was the trash file
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar. We're trying for the opposite of that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to ask you multiple times not to do this. That's not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28952157

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27851470

Edit 2: actually, you've been posting a huge number of comments to HN and it's clear that you're using the site primarily for ideological battle. In fact it looks like you've been using it exclusively for ideological battle. That's way over the line past which we ban accounts [1], regardless of which ideology they're battling for or against. Therefore I've banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
This article presents an emerging architectural hypothesis of the brain as a biological implementation of a Universal Learning Machine.

Looked in the section titled "Universal Learning Machine", I looked at the footnotes (easy, there are none), I googled and used Google Scholar. I found no coherent definition of Universal Learning Machine.

I mean, the section I mentioned says: "An initial untrained seed ULM can be defined by 1.) a prior over the space of models (or equivalently, programs), 2.) an initial utility function, and 3.) the universal learning machinery/algorithm. The machine is a real-time system that processes an input sensory/observation stream and produces an output motor/action stream to control the external world using a learned internal program that is the result of continuous self-optimization." But it's using other vaguely defined concepts in a fairly vague fashion.

What the author is defining is kind of like a Godel Machine [1] or Symbolic Regression[2], to give two more concrete references than I've found in the text (well, I'm only skimming).

The key defining characteristic of a ULM is that it uses its universal learning algorithm for continuous recursive self-improvement with regards to the utility function (reward system).

And there the author gets much more specific and the claim is much more debatable. Of course, if you leave "continuous" vague, then you have something vague again. If you're loose enough, the brain, by your loose definition, has utility function. But that easily be true but not useful. Every at least macro physical system can be predicted by solving it's Lagrangian but the existence of many, many intractable macro physical system just implies many, many unsolvable or unknown or unknowable Lagrangians.

I think the problem with outlines like this, that I think are somewhat typical for broad-thinker/amateurs, is not that it's a priori bad place start looking at intelligence. It might be useful. But without a lot of concrete research, you wind-up seemingly simple steps like "We just maximize function R" when any know method for such maximization would take longer than the age of the universe (problem of a Godel Machine). Which again, isn't necessarily terrible - maybe you have an idea how to much more simply approximately maximize the function in much less time. But you know what you're up against.

I present a rough but complete architectural view of how the brain works under the universal learning hypothesis.

Keep in mind that to claim a rough outline of how the brain operates is claim more than the illustrious neuroscientist of today would claim.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_machine
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_regression
Both the configuration files only have 1KB data files so might be an error in the article.
Am I reading correctly that there is a huge difference in http versus SSL requests per second? e.g. in the Bare Metal 1 CPU case it's 48k http to 800 SSL? I had no idea the performance impact of SSL was that huge, if this is correct.
If that was the problem then the UCs could just cut down their international student admissions to compensate. No, the problem is that the UC system as an organization is fundamentally broken, corrupt to the bone, and has all but lost sight of their intended purpose of creating and proliferating knowledge.
This happened to me once nearly a decade ago when I copped a Powerbook Duo 270c from a flea market in San Francisco and ended up with all the defense attorney's files for this dude: http://www.murderpedia.org/male.R/r1/rich-darrell-keith.htm :S
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Hey Patrick, I always enjoy reading your stuff. For this particular piece, it's a pity that you don't have a specific view on Europe. I'm sure it's difficult to know every detail. Perhaps it's a good opportunity to involve someone at Stripe who knows e.g. the European side of things? Or even how things are in Africa? (Matteo Rizzi of Fintechstage comes to mind, amazing experience in anything fintech-related in Africa).
the RAV4 EV doesn't count?
I made a feature recently that had an interface where one could change some configurations. And other stuff would link to a specific configuration. Mostly a configuration is only used one or two places, but nothing stops someone from reusing it for lots of items, so of course someone do.

When I thought I was done with the page for editing configurations, the UX person said it missed a popup confirming the config changes if it affected more than X items.

I'd prefer skipping it. It's more state to hold, data to be fetched up front etc. But it has probably saved us multiple times already from someone trying to change something used lots of places by accident (instead of making a new separate config for whatever they want to change).
You didn't contradict a single thing I said.

Drill requirements in particular are utter jokes. Nobody pays any attention to them.
OK. How do you know this?
I think what you mean to say is that interpretation is law. Without interpretation by some (vested) third party with power, a law can never truly be enforced.
Try Red Goose? https://goose.red

We provide push notifications along with a few more important things that you'd need to wrap your web-app with.

Full disclosure: I'm its founder and you can reach me on marvin@goose.red.
Feel free to measure it yourself instead of just speculating. (And as mentioned elsewhere, it is probably 1/128.) { EDIT: and I never measured meow - it could be faster than 1/16 cycle/byte but poorly assessed; just be sure to use a min loop and small data. }
I do not think it contributes to link a different future product without adding any context.

If I had to guess, this is made in partnership with Toyota, like a handful of other products (the Subaru BR-Z, Scion FR-S, and current Toyota 86 are an example.)

EDIT: Ah you edited to include that it's a sibling vehicle. Thank you!
Facebook is pummeling advertising platforms with ads that link to the demo.
>the RAV4 EV doesn't count?

The RAV4 EV was only ever a compliance vehicle, with very little practical use.
> I don't get what gives the U.S. jurisdiction to try him in the first place.

Complex foreign policy. The U.S. has jurisdiction because the country who has him says that they do. They could just as easily tell the U.S. to jump in a lake.

> publishing leaked military secrets is not even illegal in the U.S.

Then he will win. He is also charged with hacking though.
Tesla said it's releasing a CCS adapter and they may open up their charging network to other brands. If all the charging networks are combined then that might resolve issues for 95 percent of all drives
We've been using Secoda since the Meet the Batch thread. It's come a long way already since then. Great product! Hard part is still getting the team to use it, but we've been making inroads.
It can also be done without those things, using code and financial APIs.
> We want to help parents have kids when it otherwise wouldn’t be possible.

I'm going to preemptively address a point that I often come across when discussing that kind of topic: some are going to say that it's going against "natural selection", and it might undermine our future ability to reproduce naturally.

This is true. However, that also considerably expands the gene pool. Lots of children who would have died in the past are alive and well, have (grand)children of their own. This is great for genetic diversity.

And should our technology level suddenly regress to the stone age, the selection will be swift and hard, especially on the first generations. However, a more diverse gene pool makes for better survival odds.
On what do you base this. I just skimmed the treaty [0], and it seems completly symmetrical. It even has a clause allowing a nation to not extradite when the death penelty is involved, which I believe was included as an anti-us provision.

The only special consideration I found for the us was defining "Competent Authority", which is left undefined for the other signatories.

[0] https://www.congress.gov/treaty-document/108th-congress/23/d...
It seems daunting, but I think you can reduce it to an engineering problem by asking "how can I trick the system into overvaluing my portfolio?"

From there you "just" need to figure out a way to stack a chain of asset transformations to bamboozle the flash loan process into giving you too much money. I say "just" because it's obviously not a simple process, and there's no guarantee that you'd ever find a flaw in the system where it makes some incorrect assumption of value, but this person did, and was able to exploit it to great success.
That is precisely my position. It is a scam; producing very little value that didn't already exist for Americans while enriching the owners of the 401(k) portfolios beyond nearly anyone in history.
You need to breakout full handshakes from reconnects with a ticket.
>I specifically take issue with the number of bad assumptions you are baking into your argument.

I see your confusion. To clarify, nowhere did I say that workers who deliberately take jobs to clean up human waste (e.g. janitors, daycare workers, etc) are degrading. I made no assumptions like that.

Your other sentence about office workers who are not janitors is the group I'm talking about:

>It's degrading for an office worker to clean up someone else's shit,
My personal experience with this: finding an old test NNTP server from Netscape. http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2021/10/shiner-esb-apple-network-...
The concept that some animals are able to be domesticated, generally, while other's are not, lends itself to the idea that drift toward docile qualities is probably working in the domesticator's favor, and is not an inherent quality of domestication as a concept.

The idea that we have an idea of a thing we can readily point at, does not mean that thing is the driving force behind it. It's just a post hoc argument. We can't domesticate zebras, we can domesticate horses. The idea that 'domestication' is a force, rather than a result of evolutionary pressure of a symbiotic relationship shows that the domestication can't be the driving force. It's just evolution.

I'm not arguing the concept that domestication syndrome doesn't exist. I obviously defer to these experts, I'm just arguing that the concept that free, independent humans 'domesticate themselves' is effectively nonsensical on it's face, as domestication, as such, requires symbiosis and controlled breeding, and is simply not possible for many species.
I've also often used transactions to play it safe.

But our team learned the hard way that using transactions on the replica pg database actually locks it from getting updates globally during the duration of the transaction. And the whole idea of connecting to the replica was to not wreak havoc, oh well..
Understanding a Modern Multi-Core Processor – Kayvon Fatahalian, Stanford