skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Youthful people are poor and typically interested in quick ways of making money
No team page yet! Friends with near, but haven't had a chance to meet gwern yet (maybe one day??)

Arrowmancer is really our first attempt at scaling it up; hoping to do even cooler generative AI-related in that production.
People will overgeneralize this. The biggest similarity is that they are both personal finance / money related subreddits. The other connections are mostly the human mind making a story. Not everyone on r/poor is poor, not everyone on r/btc owns a lot of bitcoin.
I haven't gotten a library card in a long time, but I think you need proof of a permanent address in the same jurisdiction that funds the library, so if you're homeless, you can't use it (though homeless often use libraries to sleep and wash in, even if they can't use the actual library services).
A person without consciousness would be more strange than a person with consciousness, despite consciousness being something we don't understand.
If Apple allowed installing other apps or appstores from outside sources it'd be one thing. That they've managed to go on this long without an antitrust is incredible. Microsoft got an antitrust case against them for simply installing a default browser. What Apple does is magnitudes worse.
He is not a genocide but is also a corrupt guy in a corrupt party (although it's clear he will be better for the working class than Bolsonaro, but I bet even your mother as President would be better for the working class than Bolsonaro). Option #3 (Sérgio Moro) has also been shown to work outside the law, so the "corrupt" label aplies to him as well. No other candidate has any chances of winning.

Regardless of the president, the people are going to elect the very same senators and Congressman, so there is just no hope.
HN isn’t one entity with a set of consistent beliefs.
I suggest those execs ask governments for a special Apple tax to make sure there is guaranteed cash flow.
"If you had asked me to dictate a response on this topic, it would have been entirely different."

There is a risk very few of the supporters of "writing as a way of thinking" talk about, and that is you write what during writing feels the right thing to write, but not what you wanted to write.
If I'm not mistaken you can mix'n'match shared libraries built by either compiler on Linux. I think that's also true for individual object files within the executable. Same is true for Windows. I can't recall the state on Darwin & I don't know the state of other platforms.

I don't think templated C++ code needs to be a full superset of C++. For example, cxx provides bridged implementations for CxxVector. If cxx provided an easy-to-use mechanism to define your own bridging type without a lot of boilerplate, that could open up far more interop than is possible today.
Yep, regulation is way behind. None of this lockdown is for the public good and thus it should not exist. The demand side of the market doesn't seem to be able to balance this out (i.e. vote with your wallet, stop buying the products, they hurt all of us long term). You would need another global level actor building the replacement, in the fair, for public good manner. However due to these global corporations essentially being close to global states in power, there is very little any one nation state can do comparatively. The level of investment would be worth it, for the world, but not for any single state.
If we knew nothing about dark matter, we wouldn't postulate dark matter.

Astronomers define/describe dark matter as matter that seems to interact with normal matter gravitationally but in no other way. But we can "see" this gravitational interaction in a number of ways and so we know a reasonable amount about dark matter, especially, through the motion of normal matter we know approximately where it is and isn't.
+1 for Factorio -- this is a great game -- highly addictive, although I found the battle part really annoyed me, and much preferred to play it in creative mode only.
MOND

Modified newtonian dynamics

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics
I think you should have put (2015) in the title to give this even more context, because there's probably a lot of people thinking, oh this article is probably from after SARS-CoV-2 got out.
It is not one THIRD, you have it wrong. [1]

It is Apple sharing more than TWO THIRD of those revenue back to you.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29914525
That’s because they are both in the money cluster. People that want to post/comment in one subreddit about money are more likely than the average population to want to post in another subreddit about money.
We learned this a few years ago when clients starting using emojis when saving their content and it got truncated. Very quickly converted everything to utf8mb4!
You may stick with Apple because you like all of these policy decisions. Many stick with Apple because changing is so difficult. You lose iMessage, have to move your pictures out of iCloud, and repurchase your accumulated app library. The mere existence of another phone option doesn't necessarily make it viable. This level of lock-in is by design.
If you want to talk about what's important, talk about what you're trying to sell. Trying to overthrow a democratic election doesn't sound like a good way to win the Eldorado.
I have a Windows phone that sits next to my bed and functions largely as an alarm clock. But every once in awhile I take a picture with it (it has a very good camera) or look at the weather forecast (more useful than my iPhone's weather app) or browse the web with it. I could be wrong, but I doubt whether any viruses going around now can live on it, since its cpu code is entirely different from that of a PC.
This doesn't mean anything when so many things are coupled in to one product. I buy iphones because they have the best hardware and get updated for a long time. I don't buy iphones because they force one payment processor.
> I have diabetes, which makes it extremely dangerous to contract covid.

The paper I linked above covers diabetes. Please read it. In a population of 1.3M elderly (> age 65; aka "high risk") people post-vaccination, a total of 98 diabetics had a "severe" case of Covid (i.e. not just death). The adjusted risk factor was found to be 1.47, on a baseline of 0.015%.

In other words, if diabetes is your sole concern, it certainly qualifies as elevated risk, but in no reasonable world is a risk measured in hundredths of a percent "extremely dangerous". And remember: these are elderly people. Your risk is almost certainly dramatically lower -- if you're in the demographic of the typical HN user, divide this by ten.

I can't emphasize this enough: this virus is not going away. It will be with us for the rest of our lives. If you can't go outside now, you will never again be able to go outside.
Only an anecdote, but I recently visited a restaurant that prominently advertised they had installed a high end air filtration system, and it did smell kind of “filtered” inside (don’t know how to describe the smell but hopefully you know what I mean).

Perhaps the market will eventually move this way, and it just takes time? Certainly it is expensive so I don’t think the market will move this way unless consumers demonstrate they care and preferentially visit places with fancy HVAC.
I haven't seen any, myself. And my anecdote is as good as theirs. It'd be nice if they actually pointed to, you know, data, for these kinds of stories.

My pizza place was closed though. Everyone out with covid. And it wasn't the usual cashiers over at the grocery; I think they may have been temps, because they didn't know how to do anything.
now _this_ is something I can agree with. which is why I try to support Small Corp D and E outside of any store, by directly buying from them (if at all possible)
The mobile site hijacks the back button for some reason. At least for me, ios/safari
Google assistant doesn't even respond to my "Hey Google" requests anymore. Compared to its sensitivity a few years ago this is a huge regression. As such I barely use the voice assistant anymore.

So many Google products have been regressing lately. I've seen complaints about search, and GMail spam filters.
Games with an established online group are an awesome way to interact with the world at large.

Chess is near universal and can almost carry a chessboard wherever you go whether online or in person almost like card games or the New York parks with Chessboards everywhere.

Starcraft 2 has an establish online presence damn near over the entire world. Great casters and fun events, that are fun to watch.
Progression path in Starcraft 2 is a clear path and the most transparent as far as effort to progress. This game gives you graphs and good replays of each game by default, so its geared towards progress. Has 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, and 4v4 modes plus a huuuge variety of other arcade and developed games.

Typical game of Starcraft 2 can be between 10 - 30 minutes and has a high ratio to fun and competitiveness, you feel your mind expand in each rank.

Check out the bronze to gm guides, here, well thought out with clear strategy, easy to follow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuS_PgtyAP8
The 'open borders' position you describe would definitely be a consistent one, but it's not compatible with most of the HN arguments against tech immigrants. Most HN anti-H1B posts talk about how they depress wages, and it seems likely that a significant increase in software developer immigrants would depress wages even more than the H1B status quo.
I'm not sure what you're smoking if you can read this or any political thread on HN and hold it up as an exemplar of nuanced thinking.
Payment processing trivially invalidates your premise: I can walk into a Ford dealership and buy any vehicle using any source of cash-like funds I'd like -- I don't have to use Ford's preferred lender.
> What could we make with dark matter?

It hasn’t been detected, so not much until we know what it is or if it even exists.
I look back to where this started, and this started with Fritz Zwicky noticing that galaxies and galaxy clusters are moving faster than expected. This is the root observation.

From there, a good question is "How do we model it?". And sqrt(GM/R^2 * cH/(2pi)) works really well.

By the way, cH/(2pi) = c^2 / (2pi * 13.8 bly), which looks like centripetal acceleration.
> The former two led to a democracy

The Continental Congress did not lead a democracy, any more than the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States does.
How about devs who say "oh, its IE, its only 1% so we don't care"? What is the point of testing something that you know is not supported anyways?
Your first sentence is a tautology. We are by definition closer to the end than ever before, and always will be.
Yes, all the players you mentioned suck, and they suck more than Apple probably. But that doesn’t mean we should not call out Apple’s bad behavior.

Also - Apple has infinite resources. They can be nice to everyone if they want. They choose to be arrogant, just because they can.

None of the companies you listed have a cult following, Apple does. Nobody gives Facebook or Zynga a tenth of the respect they give Apple (I think it is justified, those companies suck real bad).

Is it unfair to expect Apple to behave better than others? In my opinion, no. Others might disagree.
This shouldn't be on-the-right-side-of-the-law. You should be able to have your credit card send a "cancel" signal and that should be it. Further charges are theft.
Speaking of, whatever happened to that federated(?) ID thing where you are given the choice of several companies like Experian to validate your identity? I signed up years ago to do one thing and never used it since.

Always seemed a bit odd to me, because I would have thought that even if the government didn't trust its own departments to validate government-issued documents securely (fair enough, actually, they'd probably leave it on a train), all they had to do is provide their own separate, secure, service. They say the government won't know who you're validating with, but why is that an issue anyway. At some point you have to trust the government if you're verifying your identity with their own documents in order to access government services.

Though I guess it's probably just because when they eventually do get hacked they can just blame the provider and ditch them publicly rather than have another IT disaster in the papers with their name on it.
> I've been in direct communication with cold dark matter (CDM) and modified gravity (MOND) cosmologists for the last 20 weeks.

It's not really any of my business, but in your shoes I would be making sure to disclaim these statements regarding MOND as secondhand opinion rather than presenting them as established scientific fact.
> It's more than that: it's the fact that all of the payment info is there.

Haven't Lyft and Uber already collected that payment information to charge per ride today? Is there even any friction savings here? What justifies the 30% cut when these companies seem to have done just fine not using the Apple Payment infrastructure?
> Apple execs might have convinced themselves that they are entitled to ... pretty much everything

Here I fixed your quote.

Including in everything is the $750M bonus Tim Cook received[1]. We've seen that exec comp is inversely correlated with performance[2] and buy backs only cause greater equity packages to be issued (doesn't reduce the dilution)

[1]: https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_apple-ceo-brings-home-750-mill...

[2]: https://archive.fo/uSTWs - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/business/stock-buybacks-t...

[3]: https://cooleypubco.com/2016/07/25/new-study-shows-inverse-c...
It's worth it to all the Legend of Heros games that are visible on the app store, certainly. For everyone else who doesn't get visibility, it means nothing.
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App Store developer admits to having thousands of fake reviews for years
If it were, many companies would come in at 0.01% and bank on all the customers that immediately switch payment systems. Or maybe there is a bunch of overhead and investment involved in doing such (personnel, equipment, fraud systems, etc), so no competitor charges a price that would mean break-even or losing money. If a company really doesn't want to use a payment processor, they're free to go back to tab-based/credit-based accounting and hope that everyone pays in cash or everyone pays with ACH.

On that note, I hope FedNOW works well enough to become an alternate PoS payment method[0].

0: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/othe...
Yes, they do, but the problems they're getting publicity for are the same problems many small businesses owners have who won't get any publicity.
Percentage based in general is a hard to justify model, given that size of purchase presumably has no impact on cost to handle the transaction
> What justifies the 30% cut

Power.

Prices in capitalism don't reflect moral justifications, they reflect power.
assuming you have at least a small amount of money saved, say $7k-$10k.
Fly in on tourist visa. That gives you 90 days, and it seems you can just leave the country and come back for 2 years every 90 days (though this will be annoying).
https://www.onlinevisa.com/visa-south-korea/british/

When you get there assess the situation, and can go talk to companies that you apply to. Then if you get a job, can leave to get the new visa and come back.

Of course these was easier pre-covid as can take cheap flight to Japan or other country after 90 days, but probably still doable.
any good info on manipulating the "control vectors" in the latent space?
The web site in their profile says Germany.
Of course there were but that's still a weak argument for a 15 hour work week.

For the vast majority of people most of what they needed was around them and it required a lot of work.

There were local supply chains too. For example you could have a guy who just collects wattle all day, or someone who just spins wool all day.

But that doesn't take away that it's still a lot of work. Just to get water is work.
Can you please shed some light on rust's adoption at scylla given the cumulative team expertise in Cpp and unsafe programming like thread-per-core architectures.

In my experience so far, highly proficient Cpp programmers tend to find rust constraints overly restrictive, because they kind of internalise the borrow checker and are comfortable enough to bend the rules sometimes.

how receptive are fellow scyllians (is that the term?) to rust? how much scope is there for future projects to be in Rust over Cpp?

Thanks for the honest and detailed write-up!
Did anyone read the emails? That's not what they said at all. The reference to 30% was to an existing membership cut that predated these emails on their subscription platform. The language, "...would be a concern for them" indicates they're pointing out that they will have to adjust the 30% value.
Not the article author, but until such time as the larger study is done, the attacks could be construed as senseless. There were lots of "attacks" on hcq in the beginning when at best the response should have been, "we're skeptical but looking into it".
With software can't you just hack this by selling a free "Epic Store app" and allowing all games and software to be purchased there.

If the "store" is now the app then how does Steam get their cut? Do they just disallow any product that has a "store" inside of it? What constitutes a "store"?

This is the hard question. Apple has already reduced subscription cut to 15% after 1 year, but do they deserve even that?
Optimizing for people who want to side load ~and~ cannot click the build button in Xcode seems wild to me. (No disrespect!)

It’s identical though in that <when one side loads> one is <completely disconnect from the ecosystem of the device manufacturer>.

Re: side loading binaries/APKs on my actual phone that’s logged into my actual bank account? Hard pass. There’s a time and place for lax security. This is what air gapping is for.
Feel this, the scarce resource conundrum changes everyone in ways you'll never know. Pick your friends wisely when you play this game, you'll want to try to stay friends... :D
Where's Uber without a trustworthy, city-corner-accurate GPS location for every driver and rider? Where's Instacart without a high-quality barcode scanner^W^Wcamera in the pocket of every shopper? The platform and software Apple delivered enabled those physical businesses.
I think the point is if one time purchase is 30% but subscription is 10%

Then a one time purchase app just makes a lifetime subscription for the same price and cuts the fee from 30% to 10%.
> the cost of adding them (INCLUDING the transaction costs, the cost of dev hours spend on convincing the procurement dept, etc etc etc) is cheaper than the cost in dev hours

I think this gets to the heart of the matter. The goal with OpenFare (for non-FOSS) is to minimize this overhead cost. I believe that it can be minimized to a point where it is negligible. For FOSS it is already negligible. The method for minimizing that cost is to make a predictable pattern familiar and ubiquitous.

> had better respond quickly to security vulnerabilities and feature requests

That depends on the deal. If you buy software for $.01 what do you expect beyond your expectations had you paid nothing? Software support can't be assumed just because money is trading hands.
The problem is complexity. The IoT devices are just good enough to work but not be reliable. Because Google, Amazon and Apple own little corners of the world in the space, there’s no incentive to improve.

I would say the HomeKit is a quiet product that has a lot more use than you might think.
Ma.gnolia Suffers Major Data Loss, Site Taken Offline (2009)
Or, maybe dark matter and black holes are the same thing?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211220120813.h...

Maybe these disperse galaxies have little to no black holes?
Associated Press announces new marketplace for NFT photography
Competing platforms (to Apple, Android Store, etc) don't exactly grow on trees.

Especially when both have done everything in their power to make the lives of "competing platforms" as difficult as possible. It's hardly a winning VC pitch.
The DMV is also “reviewing” Tesla’s use of the term “Full Self-Driving” in its branding, which has been criticized by experts and government officials as misleading to customers.

As outright fraud, in other words. Which should be sufficient grounds for taking Tesla out of the market entirely, for a decent interval at least (12 months, say).
"There are some issues with out-of-stocks, but it tends to be a situation where if you go to a store on a Tuesday night, maybe something's out of stock, but by Wednesday sometime it's back in store," Rose told NPR.

This describes about the “worst” i’ve seen, in new england. I had no trouble getting some fairly fussy ingredients for holiday cooking or my annual winter anti-depression baking spasms.

Still, march 2020 did make the point that maybe having a pantry of staples in rotation at home is a real smart idea.
Forgive my confusion, but wasn't Amazon Prime started a good 10 years before that? It seems like that'd the precedent. I'm guessing I'm missing some major detail.
"Unfortunately, IAP being 'optional' means that no one will ever use it"

I think one of the biggest issue is that Apple is trying to capture all of the revenue from the App eco system from a single function, the in app billing. Which is an extremely bad value prop for any large corporation, and also means a lot of big apps get to use the AppStore completely free.

I think Apple needs to do some shuffling in how they charge for the AppStore.
Vaccination rates aren't the issue, it's how many immunonaive hosts you have. You can get it again, but I'm not aware of any evidence that reinfections are any more severe than breakthroughs.

Let's do some napkin math for the US and see how this works out.

Assumptions (all from worldometer and ourworldindata):

"Most estimates have put the number of undetected cases at several multiples of detected cases".

Roughly 43 million confirmed cases recovered so 120m if we use the smallest multiple for "several".

330m total population.

74.5% with at least one dose (245m)

The set of people who are likely to have an immune system primed enough to stave off severe illness (all else equal, many will have preexisting conditions that make them at risk anyway) should be (#dosed + #recovered) - #(dosed AND recovered).

(#dosed + #recovered) is 365m (using 3x cases underestimate factor).

#(dosed AND recovered) has an upper bound of 120m if all recovered got dosed, and a lower bound of 35m (not 0 because the whole equation has to add up to total population).

So (if my math is right, no promises) the US has between 245m and 330m immune primed people today. If its anywhere near the 330m end of the spectrum today, it will be there in the next 2 weeks/30 days as the confirmed case counts go over a million per day (thats only counting confirmed cases).

The best case for mandates out of this: if we had the max of 85m seronaive and you could jab them all at gunpoint tomorrow, a huge chunk of those people will have gotten omicron before the shots take effect. You might prevent some hospitalizations before omicron burns itself out. Good luck ever getting these people to vote for you again.

In the minimum seronaive case, you prevent very few hospital visits, you create a bunch of adverse effects, you waste doses that could have gone to undeveloped countries, and you still really hamstring yourself in future elections.

Everyone's immune system is going to be primed anyway. The mandates are only an expensive footgun at this point.
For something like iced tea or absolutely doubles the price or worse.
I meant the commenters in this thread immediately starting their Tesla/Elon hate without knowing any of the details.
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