skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Physics is based on what can be measured objectively. In other words the probability could be an approximate description of a real (and perhaps knowable) yet un-objectively-measurable process.

The idea "everything that is natural can only be everything we can objectively measure" should be problematic right? Of course whatever out there that is unmeasurable is rife with confusion, messiness, lies etc but that shouldn't mean it doesn't exist at all.

The old confounding variables problem. It's silly to believe there must be none, yet that's what the physics = everything worldview amounts to.

EDIT: I love Scott Aaronson. Of course he predicted this type of answer explicitly and is looking for a more nuanced one :)
Do you have an idea of how "large" it is? I used it for a previous server of mine (about 250GB/300GB), I did daily backups and multiple restores over the years, they would always succeed, even though, admittedly, I didn't care about speed.
Can you share what exercises your mother did? Sounds like some very nice progression for her.

Glad Lasik worked out for you. What side effects did your friends experience? I've thought briefly about Lasik, but I have this (potentially irrational) fear of persistent headaches as a side effect, which would be a nightmare for me. So I stick with spectacles - it has no detrimental effect on my life, but I do wonder if it would be possible to get back good eyesight again.
My interest in them started a while back when i stumbled on this video. Quite inspired but a little on the nose as such music has to be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhmBpAlKQxo
Wait, does that mean that if someone wrote the drivers you could make an ARM hackintosh or VM without needing any special measures? Still an EULA violation, but zero friction and zero technical impediments?
I mean, good luck. The internal CPU core you have to initialize will only execute signed code for the most part, so any open source high performance driver for the card would have to get a hold their root keys. And doing that is covered by quite a few international laws, so whoever did it would be pretty screwed.
TIL. Thnx for sharing.
Does that make h20 worse or better than co2 as an aviation byproduct in respect to global warming.
As a human high in curiosity and processing speed but low in RAM and focus, my personal experience is that diet+prescription drugs can unlock the rest.

At least for me, this also comes with costs. Some of these costs are immediately observable to me (much lower levels of broad-insight / Gordian-Knot-slicing, and I am less patient with others). Other costs are only presumed…I have guesses about associated long-term health risks both direct and indirect.

Anyway, all this to say, I think it can be done artificially. Since these things take time to play out towards mastery, you better hope you can get it right. Just like in software, some things can be a Pareto improvement, but some things can be prematurely optimized, and some things really never needed to be built in the first place.
Uhm, I don't understand how this would work. We need the backups to run unattended. The IAM user I configure has got no console access at all. Do you have any pointer or example?
The number of people killed by police annually in the USA is quite low, fewer than 1,000 per year. For a nation with over 300m people and as many guns, don’t you find it surprising that this number isn’t higher? Of course, 50% of this thousand killings per year are of white people, sometimes at the hands of black cops - but this doesn’t cause race riots, and people don’t automatically assume racism - yet if the ethnicities are reversed, it becomes a national issue, rioting etcetera.
But you can be anything you want, what's set by nature is how hard you have to work for each milestone of it.
Sounds like a power cycle would fix it, so not so bad. Mild annoyance :)
Why wouldn't it? Bright light and dark light causes your pupils to dilate differently, right? That's muscles actuated by input from the retina. Focusing is also about shaping the eye using muscles. It would actually be kind of weird if retina input wasn't used to shape the eyes.
Ah ! I’m proud of our kids.

I will be sad when this will not be possible anymore because the devices became too closed.
Playing favorites will look odd in a supposedly free market.
This line from the quote is doing some heavy lifting:

> It will probably be easy to see for the Ninth Circuit that those who support Epic do so because it's the right and necessary thing to do, while those who will support Apple are just going to have reasons to do Apple a favor.

It's the kind of thing I would definitely write if I were being paid to paint Epic as a humble yet valiant defender of the consumer.
I won't disagree with the things that you see, but would encourage you to resist assuming that is representative of the world at large.
I also feel like I'm in a similar boat on finding a partner for motivation. Always found it easier to work on projects with friends back in HS/College and now it's a lot harder to stay on track/motivated. I think part of it is bouncing ideas back and forth and kind of hyping each other up.

I've used https://www.focusmate.com/ before, might help you. Not exactly the same but sometimes I find just having someone else on a video call with you is a motivational push.
> I don't think you'll get any more functional immunity from an extra shot of vaccine compared to two and an infection.

The evidence disagrees with your opinion.
Perhaps you've got a point where HN was originally started by PG for VC related news, if I'm not mistaken.

Personally I cannot recall a single article that misused and abused the term 'hacker' for 'entrepreneur' in HN postings. But if you can point out even one single title in HN posts that replaced the word 'entrepreneur' with 'hacker' it will be helpful. I probably can show you several misused and abused the term 'hacker' or 'hacking' inside HN post titles for the past week alone. Seriously the misuse and abuse of the term need to stop, period.
Inspirational story, and instructive of crucial it is to have people use your product - in this case for two years, before discovering a major design flaw.
Fun related fact. Cases where a law is violated specifically to seek a precedent on appeal is sometimes called a test case. Tons of famous civil rights litigation were test cases where one or both of the parties purposefully sought an unfavorable verdict in order to appeal. Plessy v. Ferguson, the Scopes Trial, and Brown vs. Board of Education were all test cases.

IIRC the legal community used to kind of dislike these, and I think there might have been a penalty for doing it. But obviously that’s no more
> I find it amazing the lengths python 2 loyalists take to keep using it

You don't need to spin issues that can be purely technical in terms of personal traits like stubbornness.

Just keep in mind that software doesn't change itself, and if you have a python27 script written yesterday then it won't be magically ported to python37 during the night. Unless people do the work, that won't change. Given there are far more people using software than writing it, then I don't understand what leads you to believe that software is perpetually maintained and ported to newer releases.
Apple has to comply with the same laws as everyone else. Microsoft got hit with antitrust multiple times for their OS, and were even forced to advertise browser competitors in some markets.

What you are suggesting is in fact special treatment, for Apple.
I should give the language another chance. Maybe some day I would teach people functional programming through SML. I think the fingers on both hands are enough to count the people in my country who have heard of SML.
It's probably fair to say that XCode was a great app 35 and even 25 years ago, an OK app 15 years ago (at that moment it was far behind Visual Studio).
Now it's completely lagging behind almost everything.
I suppose that working on a same codebase for 35 years is not simple and introduces nearly-unfixable bugs.
The fact that XCode consist of tens of thousands of files (!) and unpacking it on an HDD takes hours, is just a small issue, comparing with others.
The IDE has to be rewritten from scratch. It's unmanageable right now, and has been for years. Apple can't really support it anymore.
> At the lowest level (neuron or whatever) when a decision is "made" it is either deterministic (determinism) or probabilistic (indeterminism) based on physics but either way, where is the "you" in the process?

It's a matter of scale. At the highest level, of the individual, if you present them with two options, they will chose one of the options. At that level, the question is a trivial: yes, obviously they have "the capacity [] to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded."[1] Your description was just an explanation of how they choose. If you then ask if the individuals also have "the capacity to do otherwise"[2] then that depends on whether things are deterministic or probabilistic. If they're probabilistic, then yes, otherwise no.

In all three cases, yours and my two, the question is answered trivially and uninteresting. The real question philosophers are asking, I'm told, is whether people have moral responsibility or not. It's interesting psychologically too, should you really feel guilty if you couldn't have done differently?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will

2. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/#FreeDoOthe
In terms of platform support - if you target a VM you don’t have to worry about moving from Rust because another language might not support that runtime. Now any language that can work on a WASM VM is okay. Also, if the app isn’t monolithic it means supporting services can be in other languages than Rust too.
“Influencing, blogging, email” wtf?

I mostly do React/web dev and some dabbling with SwiftUI. I spent most of 2021 doing that on an M1 Air and it was a joy.

((The only kink I’ve run into was trying to deploy a serverless app; Docker did indeed make that a nonstarter. So I just accomplished it the old fashioned way (a dippy little VM running in a cloud server). Not a deal-breaker.))

Most of my friends are graphic designers who use Adobe apps (nearly all ported to ARM). The only reason most of them haven’t upgraded is because they want 27” iMacs.

What on earth do you think most people do with computers?
I’m being paid to believe otherwise. :)
It may be true about 10 years ago but I imagine the heuristics to have been improved since; I remember being locked out of my Google account while abroad for a month and all it took was to log back in within my "country of origin".

Or a more recent example: my father forgot to bring his Android phone back abroad which subsequently locked him out of his account/services; had to wipe it for him to get his access back.
I don't see why she'd want to do that when she had SCO personally harassing her and reporters doxxing her and her mother[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groklaw#Media_controversy
Can you recommend any good implementations of the ideal state? I worry that SQL is too much to learn, but natural language is way too ambiguous to map to anything resembling logic. (The best we can do, for natural logic -> executable logic is legislative code... And the ambiguity there is famous.)
I believe its a real problem they are solving, I have few credit cards and never used it to its advantage. Will try and see what happens. Hmm they dont even need much information, interesting.
And in the same way 'they can switch to Android', people could switch to any other Office suite on iOS. If you truly believe that people are choosing Apple for the "App Store protections", then why would they move off? Every third party app store would fail instantly.

It's because other app stores are providing better value or better apps? Well that's why Apple preventing other app stores is anti-competitive.

If someone picks Apple over Android is being of value and therefore should be allowed, how is someone picking Google Docs over every other Apple App Store office suite not also because of value?
Presumably stimulating the retina with a defocused image activates the brain to use the ciliary muscle to adjust how the lens is focused, which could help reduce the effective myopia?
Consider what he would have to accept if he faced the truth: That his incorrect beliefs directly caused his wife's death.

Not surprising he'd perform basically any level of mental gymnastics to avoid that.

Ego-protective delusions are extremely common and most are motivated by far less than this.
This article is from a year ago.
Preface: I don’t know how sandboxing works on iOS beyond broad concepts, and there’s going to be implementation details I’m unaware of. As a result, please read this as curious speculation, rather than anything approximating an authoritative statement.

My understanding is that WebKit is the only rendering engine permitted on iOS as a security precaution, ostensibly taking Apple at face value and in good faith.

Numerous zero-days on iOS have targeted WebKit in the past, and to a large extent this makes sense to me. Browsers have become one of the most common malware vectors in the modern era, which isn’t surprising given their entire purpose is to access and execute/render external code.

Given that fact, and the significant attack surface area that opens up, Apple’s stance, in my nebulous interpretation, is that having any other rendering engine permitted to run in iOS presents an unmanageable number of potential vectors for more widespread malware on the platform. (Arguments about their resources aside, we know adding engineers to a problem space doesn’t scale in linear fashion towards solving those problems.)

Apple’s vocal focus on privacy and safety constitutes a significant aspect of their product marketing, and it makes sense they’d want to walk-the-walk, so to speak, to ensure their product lives up to the claims they make.

Now, given that Apple already have trouble keeping up with WebKit vulnerabilities, it’s believable that they’re being entirely genuine* in arguing against the addition of additional browser engines that they’d need to keep up with, on the grounds that doing so presents a real risk to their product’s core value proposition, and by extension, their users.

*However, it’s also important not to over-ascribe anthropomorphic traits to a corporation, and it’s completely valid to argue that Apple benefit heavily from this narrative. Indeed, both can be true.
In the days when it was OS 10.8, 10.9, etc. those were major versions, updated over a year and a half apart.

Apple may call it “12.3” now but it is still released every few weeks or months, with just as much randomness as 10.8.3 would have been.
..for Windows ?
- Flock (version 3.0 and above) uses WebKit.. but the final release 3.5.3 was in Feb 2011 after:

Zynga Buys Social Web Browser Flock, Jan 2011,
https://mashable.com/archive/zynga-buys-flock

Facebook and Zynga Enter Into Long-Term Relationship, May 2010, - (nothing left)
Wow. I knew they had issues with counterfeit stuff on Amazon, but I didn’t know it also applied to the books they’re selling. Fascinating and horrifying :)
Thanks. I thought so, too ;)

The printouts were old 9-pin dot matrix, and somewhat faded in parts. The OCR I had access to does very poorly with that sort of type. There is an effort underway to transcribe all of the posts into an interactive web format. Someday!
Indeed, there has to be per the "case or controversy" clause of the constitution. For a plaintiff to meet standing, there must be an "injury in fact".

Epic must violate Apple's terms of use in order to be injured by the application of them, in order for Epic to have standing to allege those terms are an abuse of monopoly power.
All true. It still doesn’t make it any less infuriating with someone marginally familiar with Python on MacOS being utterly flummoxed when they just type python myscript.py and expect it to either work or give them a comprehensible error message to install the right version. Sure, virtual environments, you say, but I guarantee you that people who aren’t using python as their daily professional driver probably aren’t using venv. So for these users getting rid of the system default old version is a good thing. Personally I wouldn’t remind relying on system installed python in MacOS if it was 3+ for many cases. I’m not using bleeding edge features in 90% of use cases so if I’m just trying to dash off a quick script that I expect to just work outside of a container (lots of personal automation ends up feeling like using containers is total overkill) I’ll use the system interpreter. If I’m doing a big boy work project I’ll use venv.
What do you think this will accomplish?

If you want to let YC know, do it in private.

If you want to help other people avoid this startup, weigh the satisfaction of doing that vs the fact that people are generally wary of hiring whistleblowers.

If you want to air the laundry and remain anonymous, use something like Glassdoor. But your opinion won't have much weight unless it's backed by others.
I am increasingly astounded at the creativity with which people find reasons to NOT hold power to account. This is a good one: because to hold a US business to account is to weaken the US. And the situation is so "tense" right now, how can we afford it? Is there anyone who actually believes this argument, and if they do, do they understand it implies that one should never hold a US firm to account, since there is always geopolitical tension? (The other one is the so-called "prosperity gospel" - basically, the rich and powerful could only possibly get that way if they were good and Godly people. Wealth and power become evidence for goodness! Incredible!)
I'm -6 and the risk of complications is what makes me think I'll probably never want to do any corrective procedure. I had been considering it for a while, but one time when I went in for a checkup, I happened to chat with another guy there who was seeing the doctor because his surgery was making him see halos. Apparently they usually go away eventually, but I decided I'd rather not find that out personally.

And I feel there's a kind of meditative calmness to the blurriness that I think I might miss. It's quite nice when I'm going to bed or waking up and everything is just a blur, no distractions to catch my eye because I can't see them! I'm probably doomed if I'm ever in an apocalypse and lose my glasses, though (see Twilight Zone "Time Enough at Last").
If I recall, in Marbury v. Madison, the plaintiff had been appointed to some office by the outgoing president, but he hadn't received his official commission by the time that president left office. The plaintiff asked the Court to order the new presidential administration to deliver the commission he was entitled to. The Court refused. The Court decided that it did not have the power to order the executive to do anything. The Court instead described its powers as limited to reviewing whether laws passed or actions taken by the other branches of government were unconstitutional (i.e., a much more influential power).

Marbury v. Madison isn't relevant here because the office was an elected, not appointed, position. There was another case, however, in which the U.S. House of Representatives refused to swear in a new member who had been elected and subsequently convicted of some serious crimes. I don't think the case was litigated though. (If I recall, the elected person resigned.)
But Amazon is one of the largest companies in the world - Crunchyroll has an excuse. Amazon doesn’t.

My girlfriend’s smart TV runs WebOS and if we have to use Prime for some reason it’s easier to plug the laptop in via HDMI and do it via a browser. Amazon’s app seems to just be broken on WebOS there.

Not only that, but what the heck is up with the completely uninspired UI and user-hostile UX? The importance of seasons being lumped together is something a focus group should have noticed.

Amazon was a web-first company - you really have to wonder how they screwed up their user experience so, so badly.
Chromium IS the standard. Firefox knows this and implements what Chromium supports. Safari doesn't, so Safari is the new IE. If you don't believe me, search for the phrase "is Safari the new IE" and see what web devs have to say about it.
And there look for non-US universities or the older courses by US universities (when MOOCs were still a thing idealists did). For US universities providing such online courses are now either part of marketing or an attempt to sell overpriced masters. For the European state-run universities they instead mostly deliver good content but without the rip off. They lack slick design and editing but they usually make up for it with substance. For example look at TU Delft for the absolutely best aeronautics and engineering courses.
Atropine drops for myopia management are already commonly prescribed in Singapore (which pioneered the treatment), and seem to work quite well.
Best I could find is that they’ll wave fees on the first $15,000 in sales, which is pretty damned low. Then it’s 30% until you get in the millions of dollars, and then they’ll cut it to 25%.

I’m not sure about “vast majority”, but I’m sure that lots of devs are making no money purely because they sell basically no copies. But if a game has even a moderate success, it looks like Steam’s cut will be 30%
> I would tend to say that unless it is logically necessary for the universe to be what it is

Well that's what he's asking and what I was asking with the 3D question: is it logically necessary? Maybe it is. It seems like it could be in the case of 3D.
That only makes the process of choosing tooling more complicated, not using it once you've made that decision.

The post you're replying to assumes you have chosen Vite, and it's arguing that Vite is as simple as Hibiki. Vite does a lot of config very well, and it really does "just work" for 95% of apps. You need to be doing something quite unusual to move past the automatically configured defaults.

The same is true of Parcel, Webpack 5, esbuild, etc really. Automatic zero-config bundlers are very good these days.
I found Duplicity to be untenable for a volume of about 2TB on a machine with relatively low resources (4GB of RAM). It would consistently fail due to OOM before completing the job. This is an unfortunately common issue with backup tools, which it seems get surprisingly little testing on multi-TB tasks. I'd guesstimate maybe half of open source backup tools I've tried either seriously struggle or reliably fail to complete an 8TB job I have on another machine, with similar memory constraints.

So far Rustic has been my best bet. It seems to complete very large jobs with static and relatively low memory consumption. Enumeration takes about 30 minutes and a full backup nearly a month on the 8TB job (limited bandwidth available) but it reliably completes. Rustic also resumes interrupted jobs (e.g. due to reboot) in around 10-15 minutes on the 8TB volume and with it seems minimal rework. I'm sure there are other tools that handle this as well, but I've definitely gotten frustrated with finding them. I wish more backup tools gave you some kind of assurance in the marketing materials that they've been validated on, say, 10TB.
> You, as a smaller publisher paying 30%, are paying for that.

It's been 15% for over a year now[1]. Plus it's 15% for all subscription fees after one year for all developers. I think they actually forced Google to reduce developer fees to remain competitive.

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-announces-app-s...
Saying things like this doesn’t exactly help to conceal your identity.