skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The level to which mainstream political parties obsess over marketing demonstrates just how desperately they want to "push" policies upon the populace that they've already decided upon rather than listen and adapt.

This is probably because $$ and internal power struggle mostly decides policy, which is A) not democratic, and B) opens the door for political movements which represent policies outside of the elite overton window.
> The way math is "built", with too generalizing theorems, non-constructive statements, etc makes it fall into traps like the Russel's Paradox

I don't think Russel's paradox is a problem with ZFC set theory. Building sets out of "the set of everything" is not used, and even people are careful to specify when the axiom of choice is being used.

> Building math on saying "this exists" without actually building towards what it is, is a bit of a "sin".

It's actually not. The idea is that you prove only what you actually need for the next step. A nice example is again in the field of differential equations. Ultimately people are interested in a solution, but to get that solution you need an approximation method, and to get an approximation method you need to know when does it work and how fast does it work, and to know that you need to know when a solution can be found and what properties does it have.

Constructivism is something that in theory might sound interesting, but forcing all mathematics to fit that model only servers to make certain proofs of true and useful statements far more complicated or even impossible.
No Monthly fees if you don't want them with Lightbug. We introduced pay per location last week. Swings and roundabouts.. we know it's still money .. but think we've found a way to keep the business running, offer a globally easy to use product AND not rip people off with monthly fees..
As a white-skinned male, but non-native English speaker from a small university that doesn't appear in the ARWU ranking and their ilk, in a small city, in a country that is mediocre in research and far from the US, this really makes me cringe.

I needed to master a foreign language for reviewers to not reject my papers because "bad English". I have had applicants to PhD positions reject my offer and go to objectively worse US groups with less productivity by any metric because "my parents want me to study at a US university" or "your group is good but I think that I need to go to a high-ranked university to improve my prospects" (not to speak about how many applicants I get vs. how many an US professor with equivalent track record would get). I spend a lot of hours on things like grading that US professors have TAs do for them. I have several times seen people cite "Person from Stanford/Google/etc. (2013) proved..." when I actually proved that in 2011 and that person was just citing my result.

And still, I have to listen to female, white, native-English-speaking professors from elite US universities, lecturing me about how they are discriminated because some study said that women get cited less often, etc. and keep a straight face.
Probably apps with low numbers of sales will be punished in rankings, with low numbers of sales it means your users don't really like you.
They are doing everything they think they can get away with. I agree that ethics and morale should factor into corporate decision making, but at this level I'd argue that corporate decision making is purely an optimization game between profits over various horizons.

If they think this maximizes their payoff, they'll do it. I'm 100% certain that they realize that this may/will invite further lawsuits and have factored this into their calculations.
I spent decades in Melbourne and ordered flat whites from hundreds of cafes and not on ever had this response.

Surely this is a singular experience you had and not the commonality you're implying it to be?
Yes, by progressives - and don't start the "no true scotsman" fallacy please.

Also, your second statement maybe applies to the US, but there are many countries where white people are not the majority, or where there were virtually no other races than white. Saying that e.g. Norwegians or Italians are privileged by institutional racism is absurd. I am from a post-communist country that was always 99.9% white, saying that “White identity is grounded in racism” is absurd and of course totally racist.
Since around 2008 most of the stuff I use have been better supported on mainstream Linux than on Windows.

Literal plug and play.
Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B
The problem, as it were, alluded to by the piece, is that many traits are normal. They give the example of height, but this applies to many other things as well. So understanding how you get from one distribution to the other is the real issue.

Survivorship bias also can be modeled using a pareto distribution (search for "pareto survival", or just notice the mention of insurance modeling), but of course the piece doesn't spin the pareto that way.

Costs can also be modeled as a pareto as well (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161212115702.h...). So if you have a right skewed pareto on one end, and a left skewed pareto on the other...

It's disturbing to me how statistical distributions get used in this way as political bludgeons.

Statistically there are other reasons to use the normal even when it's known to be false, having to do with how to handle various forms of uncertainty. Is it overused? Probably. But if you had to pick something by default you'd get much further with the normal. Pretty far actually.
IDK seems like the advertiser is responsible, not FB. What’s the newspaper precedent?
Redstone seems like a great way to start learning programming Not that far of a leap to doing small hardware stuff.
Maybe said manager used to be a banker? Would certainly explain the casual attitude towards dropping docs at 1130PM, and demanding feedback 6 hours later.
Brexit did not result in populists. It is the result of populists latching on to the greatest intraparty political divide in generations.

It's unambiguously, purely a populist position, wilfully divorced from data and focussing on sovereignty and self-determination and Britishness. It never made a technocratic case for itself at all, and in general the core Brexiteers excelled in avoiding making a technocratic case -- it was always going to be hard Brexit because every technocratic argument was successfully shot down as appeasement.

Every single major sales pitch for Brexit was populist in nature; no convincing sales pitch for good governance, economic success or long term growth was ever made. It's always about being free of Them, which is an essentially populist position.
Also windows was a toy back then. All big programs (CAD, CAE, DTP) ran on UNIX. It was later that those programs were ported to Windows, also due to the fact that Intel convinced everyone that Itanium will ship. The rest is history.
it’s also worrying this person was checking his email at 1130pm.
So sad this has all come to prevail as it seems like all businesses are cast in the mold developed my Walmart and Milton Friedman, obsessed with maximizing stock price, minimizing costs, and forever squeezing their own workers when they cannot be jettisoned. The ironic reason it is sad is that just as most workers and potential workers are now way below average in income and upward mobility, inequality between businesses is similarly casting a dismal shadow on the prospect of prosperity for most enterprises. The single-winner phenomenon and the emergence of dominant firms in so many sectors has led to a situation where the typical start-up or median mature firm now looks forward to going out of business (being acquired) on terms of its own choosing; the mortality rate among venerable but average firms is high, and these regrettable conditions convince firms to follow the very strategies that cause the conditions.
Apple is basically a local tax authority now. For the... Apple tax, y'know?
I think you are joking, but we had four generations in a room over the holidays. When the grandparents started talking about their favorite TikToks the teens looked around in horror. We all started joking how TikTok is "over."

I remember this conversation 6-8 years ago about FB. Is older people liking your platform really a death-knell? If so, I am curious what the timeline for TikTok would be.
Covid-19: Deficiency of Vitamin D associated with disease severity and mortality
It will be smacked down hard is my prediction, because clearly Apple is trying to argue that they have an innate right to other parties' business income. It's the Mafia model: you have a partner in the business who wants a sizeable chunk of your gross without doing anything for it.
Contest-style rapid numeric calculation is a special case of "math". Many kids in math clubs focus on both — a significant part of contest math is word problems that have to be interpreted correctly and then calculated correctly, under time pressure — but calculation has little to do with higher math other than being able to validate symbolic results.

Fast calculation is about drilling and learning tricks. People can get pretty accurate and fast at simple arithmetic as long as numbers fit (or they've learned tricks to chunk them) into their working memories. If there's no inherent motivation or necessity to maintain those skills after school, they'll decay.

As the article points out, accountants and engineers are likely to be better at being human calculators. I'd guess accountants first, because engineers do more complex calculations and it'd be much more efficient to rely on computers for most of that. Accounting is focused almost entirely on arithmetic that's possible to be really good at without computers, and less on developing complex formulas where it's simpler to write them out on a computer and then let the computer plug in values and solve. For simpler math, inputting and transcribing numbers from a calculator or computer could end up being the limiting factor.

The other aspect to being good at arithmetic is not being particularly good or fast at doing the exact calculation, but rather at estimating what the results should be, so that if the computer gives them the wrong answer, they know almost immediately that they typed something wrong.
> The general public won't "trust the science" ever again.

What does "trust the science" even mean? For many people it seems to mean, trusting what one selected scientist says. For others what the news have to say about science and for others it means analyzing the data themselves.

I think that science generally benefits from critical thinking. Suppressing critical thinking seemed to be a recurring scheme of this pandemic.
Does that mean I can buy my app into the rankings by paying more in commission?
I deleted my FB account and the only thing that I went back for was my residents association. I still have no FB friends - which is fun because I can see the algorithm trying to work out who I know. Eerily, it correctly identified my partner and suggests I friend her (and her mother!) every time I login.
Technocratic domination: when government funds science, it controls science
App and lab kit can turn your phone into a Covid-19 and flu virus detection test
The best article I have read about the issues with science. And it doesn't even mention the replication crisis!
Yep, and the corollary effect of living in a non-democratic country is that the political discourse is far more intelligent, because they're NOT trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Over the past few years I learned Russian and started watching Russian/Ukrainian popular TV and following political writers on all ends of the spectrum. Yes the media environment in Russia is far more authoritarian. But like a tightly-knit academic community, it is also far more intelligent. The nuance and the depth of discourse found on the average popular Russian political talk show (even state channels like Russia 1) is far beyond anything I have ever seen in America, with the exception of some independent podcasters and niche communities like Hacker News and academic think tanks. And the Russian elite lament this[1] because they cannot engage their American counterparts as peers, everything has to be rewritten in the language of CNN/Fox even during high-level state negotiations.

[1] https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/01/20/anthony-blinken-and-t...
Seems fair to me, 27% commission implies 3% for card handling fees, to level out to the same 30% developers would have to pay doing things the intended way.

All this talk of using "alternative payment systems" just seems like a way to skirt around paying Apple commission.
"I suppose the answer is to let the users write their own clients"

Have you tested that supposition against the percentage of users that can write software and compared it to the percentage of users that don't code for a living?
I love it when there's a Slackware post on HN... it brings out cool stories about people's first discovery into Linux.

<3 Slackware!
This is basically an attention killing machine and I'm not talking about the method, the method is OK and not novel. I have found that these time cuts completely ruin my ability to concentrate and after it happens 2-3 times in a short period, I lose interest in the video because it is so annoying.
As a person that has never used an android or ios device I must ask, are you unable to disable push notification per app?
A while ago I bought a used Nikon Coolscan negative scanner. The last edition of those came out in around 2004 and the last driver only supports Vista.

It came with a PCI Firewire card. My installation process on Arch was installing the card, rebooting plugging everything in and installing SANE. That's it, I could now scan my negatives.
Looks like something that Batman would fly.
They're signalling that other methods or payment are fine, but they're entitled to that commission of 30% (- processing fees i guess)

If people thought the lawsuits were about the commission they're wrong, they were about forcing Apple's method of payment, but even after you get through that they still feel they are entitled to the commission.

You might have your opinions about whether thats right or wrong, but Apple's approach was to look as both as 2 different things whereas everyone seemed to see them as the same. And thats what they took advantage of.
Ongoing controversies around disproportionate indigenous kids thrown in foster care and the mistreatment that occurs at scale for comparable child separation and cultural erasure. It's not formal policy like residential schools, but it's essentially continuation of said practice.

> It's hard to find a country a century ago that didn't behave like an absolute savage.

Behaving like a "savage" has very little to do with time but where countries are in their development. Reality is countries who has capability to address restive minorities until they're merely marginalized or managable, will. That's prerequisite to internal security and domestic serenity. And there's no non-savage way of doing it, pretending we live in an enlightened age doesn't make the underlying tensions and security dilemmas go away. Just about the "best" we can expect is less bloody systems of integration (cultural genocide), that's what's happening in XJ, plenty of carrots along with the sticks. It's how most of PRC was harmonized, now it's simply XJ's turn (and other previously unreachable restive populations) because PRC has the resources to reach that far. The upside is CCP doesn't half ass these things, chances are Uyghurs will be sinicized and more integrated in PRC society before Canada solves it's Indigenous issues or US/EU their minority issues. It's the alternative to platitudes like "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice". And that scares people.
"modern home in the woods" because it's definitely not a humble bungalow

Why would a "modern home" in the woods need to be a humble bungalow?

He hasn't termed it affordable or DIY. It could be a $100k tiny house and someone living in their car would gripe. This sort of thing seems to happen every time someone writes for their audience and an adjacent audience finds it; just doesn't seem like a very charitable reading of their intentions.

It's more expensive than I could afford, but I liked reading about the process and seeing what they built. I also enjoy reading about tiny houses, people living in their vans, $100m mansions, chateau conversions, anything.

I liked Architectural Digest's tour of JJ Redick's apartment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZDNGVmHxn4 He has all that money yet the kids still fight about Lego, and neither kid can be convinced to sleep on the top bunk. And then their patio is near-unusable due to construction noise.
I thought that the justification for the 30% commission was the tightly integrated payment system, and not just the fact that you can install the app in the first place.
https://archive.is/LIU3k

Video product meaning a tiktok clone, perhaps?
You can think of them like 1.2.0 and 1.18.0 if that makes your life easier.

That way your brain can't think of them as numbers any more =)
Back in the HTTP/0.9 era TIME_WAIT was a big problem when running a busy [reverse] proxy. I remember using ndd to "tune" tcp_time_wait_interval on Solaris for this, as well as the anon (ephemeral) port range.

This is my go to that topic now:
https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2014-tcp-time-wait-state-l...

"The solution is more quadruplets" is for me one those things that's blindingly obvious once pointed out.

See also the other link Cloudflare "Why we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack" link in a sibling - about half-way through they reveal they use both kernel bypass (DOS can max out iptables at ~1Mpps) and Solarflare NICs (offload options not stated), as well as Intel NICs with netmap bypass.
We had NT4 and then W2K and Linux at school but these were definitely not what mass market "home" users were using.
Problem for Apple is that if it charges less then it shows that it can run the store for less than 30% in total - and what is true in NL is true everywhere else - which is not helpful for them in antitrust actions.

Burning goodwill and brand value while they do it though.
On an untrusted site, where the content is readily available in the source view? No thanks, malware and other cryptominers are still a thing.
> but they're going to be meeting people who memorise pi to 50 decimal places or happen to calculate the sum of small cubic numbers for fun to pass the time and are really good at arithmetic.

Not really. The "above average ability" depends on the population: if you compare mathematicians with other college educated people, I'd guess they'd be at the bottom among the STEM fields. It wasn't weird to see people (or myself) having the occasional "wait, what's 5 times 7". And it shouldn't be surprising if people knew that 99% of the arithmetic operations done in math degrees are things like "2+1" or "2·3".
I have an app in the App Store and pay 15% commissions, since we are below 1 mn USD in sales. In exchange, I can roll-out my app in 175 countries and have not deal with local authorities re taxes etc.

For me, that's a pretty good deal. I could never do this on my own. Any other provider would probably take the same cut for that kind of service.
Different locations have different costs of delivery, and business services also generally have different SLA and contention rules.
On the contrary, Boris got considerable leeway from the public over the difficult decisions he had to make around COVID, both the stuff that was understandable but flawed like delaying certain decisions and the arbitrariness of some of the implementation to the decisions that were staggeringly inept (reopening schools for one day in January 2021, thereby maximising educational disruption and the opportunity for COVID spread) because his government got one big thing right (accelerated vaccination programme) and was more generous than people expected in providing benefits. Even now his government polls well in COVID handling. His Brexit deal which delivers few of the promises he made and even he insists needs renegotiating is popular with people that voted for Brexit too. The public would probably have shrugged off him seeing the cost of living crisis as a good time to push a flat tax (NI) increase were it not for the issue of lockdown parties he attended and continues to insist didn't break any rules because of the special nature of his home/workplace and staff: which ultimately is the exact same populist dynamic "the politicians think they're better than you" he rode to power.

I agree it'll be hard for an immediate successor to recover in the polls, but it was populist anger at his personal behaviour (and related self-inflicted wounds like responding to his MP being censured by the committee that investigates Parliamentary standards by throwing out the committee) that saw him and his government nosedive in the polls in the days that immediately followed the revelations and his reaction, not the difficulty of navigating COVID for the last couple of years.
There should be no Apple commission in the first place.
Or it was $100 worth of pizza spread over a longer period.
But when you use the store, you need to pay for using and maintaining the store, which is the other 27%. Why would you expect to upload apps in the store and let them be downloaded for free?
They are as much entitled to that commission as the Mafia is entitled to theirs.

It's a ridiculous demand. It is a pretty American way of thinking that the courts order is about the payment system rather than because of the commission when clearly, if the commission weren't there companies would not be looking for alternative payment systems to begin with. It's ignoring the spirit of the ruling. Prediction: this won't end well for Apple and it will cost them plenty of goodwill in NL.
As a consumer I do not want to enter an ecosystem where 30% of any software entering my device is leeched away into by an ever-increasing monopoly.

As such, I use second-hand Android devices with Lineage OS, and get my software from F-Droid.
Oh well, they will claim you can use pwa's as recently announced in 2007.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_application

No surprise here. They will literally block/slowdown progress every way they can.
Why is the size a concern, start-up or limited disk space? If the latter, this seems quite resource constrained and Go might not be a good fit.

If you know C, you could try a minimal C++: C + vector,string,unique_ptr. And depending on your tastes, classes and shared_ptr.
That's a crazy comparison...it's like comparing Kubernetes to a Operating-system on a node.
Except you can always opt to not use, develop for or deploy onto Apple devices. Just use Android if you’re uncomfortable.
Well, that's the other thing: there was a time when the UK did have top-tier per-capita death rates, so that's where the idea came from that the UK was 'number one'.

In regards to CR, you would expect the Czech republic to do worse than the UK. They have an older population, somewhat poor state, and a horrible vaccination rate (63%).

The continuing perception also probably comes down to the personality of Boris Johnson. You can't go around shaking hands, calling it 'kung flu', party through the lockdowns, then expect people to see you as an ideal leader in an emergency situation.
You're assuming that Omicron is going to be the last variant.

No guarantees that we can't get another wave of Delta 2.0 in five months.
Not really true. When there was Quake and Visual Basic, we still played around with qbasic in msdos because it was fun and gave immediate feedback.

I think the combined editor and runtime environment of qbasic shortened the feedback loop and made it more fun.
maybe consciousness is a side effect, an emergent phenomena. once the brain gets complicated enough it will just arise (on a scale)... also are our decisions ours? or some inner layer in us creates the decision and then we just consciously observe it / let it play out...