skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And in so doing they significantly increased the barrier to entry in the space, effectively cementing VISA and Mastercard into market dominance

This isn't true, there are tons of alternatives to Visa and Mastercard in Europe today. Rather significantly reducing the profits and thus the warchest of these companies made it easier for small companies to compete, not harder. The same applies to appstores.

> Let me ask, what is the cost of doing nothing here exactly?

The cost is reduced innovation. Same with card fees. The future is electronic payments, they are much more efficient, anything that hampers that is hampering innovation. That includes card fees, or this tax on Appstore purchases. Many apps simply aren't feasible to make with such high fees, marketplace apps etc where you trade things with people for example.

Not to mention that the Appstore tax encourages advertisements over purchasing apps, since you lose 30% of any purchases but you don't pay anything on ads, making the advertisements effectively 40% more profitable in comparison. You'd have a more sane monetization ecosystem for apps if the appstore tax got reduced.
So? Not the entire world is US-based. Tech salaries in USD are way out of whack compared to elsewhere.

I also bet that for the type of challenges facing Firefox and with my proposed reforms, a motivated senior engineer who knows what they are doing would be just as good or better compared to a standard CEO.
After using a macbook with bootcamp for years, I finally bought a Surface Book 2 a couple of years back, thinking the same thing. Was close to the top of a line, nearly $6k AUD. Nice 'not butterfly' keyboard, unified hw/sw manufacturer. From the first few days it was problematic - had to reinstall from rescue media, and it intermittently failed to see the GPU. In between times, normal windows updates would create annoying issues - no more screen brightness adjustment for example. My least favourite one set the volume on any reconnected bluetooth device to 100%, thanks guys.

I'll give it to them though, they didn't quibble about replacing them. On the third one, the keyboard went dark and the top half failed to identify the bottom half (they snap apart so the top half is like a giant ipad, for those unfamiliar). So dozens of device issues popped up constantly. At that point they were ready to give me a fourth and I opted for a refund.

So support is good, the idea is fantastic (loved that crazy giant ipad!) but the dream of the 'hardware creators making sure the OS works perfectly' makes complete sense and has been proven by Apple. But MS failed to do it. I still live in hope for a future iteration that realises the promise.

PS. I know a few people who have others in the surface line which seem reliable, so those are likely to be much better.
I'm giving a definition that applies to my own words. That's the way I meant distrubance. Also, it's not because something isn't violent that it isn't harmful.
to anyone else wondering, "ratio" is a derogatory term that in this instance means "a post got more replies than likes"; it can also mean that a reply to a post got more likes/comments than the original post.
There's a lot to unpack here, but Ottawa residents are largely against the truckers occupying the roads of their city.
> The US media isn't going to push the US into a preemptive strike.

Then you know nothing about the history of the US media.
The police protected buildings from being set on fire and their officers being attacked with lasers and fireworks. Dispersal orders were only given AFTER the protests turned violent.

Comparing 100+ nights of protests and riots with Jan 6th is ridiculous...one was night after night of the same thing and having a plan in place to defend and the other is a single day where the police lost control and they actually shot someone with real bullets.
Odd that Apple let them slide through with that description. For example, Universal Studios Florida has a more descriptive

> Will be used to orient the park map to your location, enable in-park features during your visit, and tailor informational, marketing, and promotional messages in or out of the park.

The Disney World app has

> 'While Using' means we may use your location when the app is open to... provide you with valuable updates and offers... 'Always Allow' will allow your location to be used for some of the above purposes even when you do not have the app open

So if these big players must precisely say "offers" or "promotional messages", I don't see why airbnb wouldn't have to.
What was excruciating about working in e-commerce?
Quite on the contrary, even a team of 1000 won't be sufficient to maintain compatibility if your marketshare is so low that website and webapp builders ignore your concerns.

A non-Chromium browser needs to maintain a critical mass of users to be sufficiently large to ensure that the world wants to stay compatible with it, and having 1% of marketshare is not sufficient for that, no matter how committed these users are - if firefox drops to 1%, then it becomes irrelevant and the project has failed at its goals as the "web standards" become equivalent to whatever chromium does.

Browsers get influence to keep the web as we want it to be mostly based on the quantity of browser users which websites want to attract and keep; without that all the best code in the world is useless and doesn't even give you a seat at the table, much less a strong say for how the de-facto standard web practices will change.
I look forward to the day where we can accept that working from home or working from the office is purely a personal decision based on different needs, motivations, likes, the type of work and your environment.

There is no right or wrong.
> The single best resource we used in reverse engineering was an unfinished IEEE submission draft courtesy of the WayBack Machine. In fact, MikroTik's implementation is nearly identical to the draft's proposed protocol. See if you can spot the minor nuances and marvel (as we did) that the shared secret remains the same.

That's a surprising twist. They duplicated the protocol from this unfinished draft almost exactly, but the draft doesn't appear to have gone anywhere (hence the archive link)

I wonder if the same person who wrote the paper consulted on this implementation, or if the MikroTik team just saw the paper at some point and decided to use it.
Setting aside other ways crypto can and is being used, the most interesting thing about DeFi IMO is its compositional (and decompositional) nature. This mostly results in reinventing things that already existed in Wall St and other areas of the finance world, but are now available for anyone to use.
No, I'm used to correcting for that. I was judging it by whether someone like my brother or the guys on my team would know it. I assumed they all would. Oops.
I wanted to let you know I'm upvoting you, not for the useful links you have provided, but because I also love DIN, to an unreasonable degree, like the kind of feeling that makes someone otherwise totally rational marry a pokemon.

When I was about 20, after the Berlin wall came down, I rode my bike round berlin, then all round east then west Germany for three months, sleeping rough in the forest most of the time, and I think the font, on road signs everywhere, soaked into me as linked to that summer.

But you know what really creeps me about this font. It has a history dating back to the start of the 20th century as letterforms for hand painted signs, but Deutsche Industrienorm 1451 was created in 1936, the year of the of the Berlin Olympics, concentration camps had been open for three years, Triumph of the Will was released the year before. If you've never seen 'Triumph of the Will' it's an experience, I'd never understood how the fascists had managed to appeal to enough people to actually win an election, but in that film you see how they presented themselves to the people of Germany at the time and it was sophisticated. There's a moment in the film in which hilter interacts with an unemployed labourer, and in that interaction he imbues this guy with a sense of purpose, hitler has told him he is a soldier - a soldier with a shovel, it's nonsense, but it is carefully crafted nonsense. It seems to me that DIN is part of this carefully crafted propaganda, a tool to help project an vision of Nazi Germany as rational, orderly, scientific, rigorous and correct. And it does the job, like the unemployed labourer, I respond to it exactly the way goebbels would want me to.

I know I can use a Roman road without endorsing the invasion of Gaul, but there's still a horror there millennia later.
Elon has said that Tesla's advantage will be manufacturing. If he is right and the global demand for EVs continues to accelerate, TSLA's PE will be below 6 at current prices before it is no longer growing 20%+ a year.
I don't know if I have missed the big thing here (was supposed to do exactly the same flowery thing described there for crystals around 2019-2020), but the graphic with the Autoencoder is roughly what people did in 2018 (Gomez-Bombarelli, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.7b00572), I think the review cited reproduced this. Also notice: it has the MLP in the middle, the performance of which was/is not really helping either - especially if your model should actually produce novel stuff, e.g. extrapolate.

Finally: every kid can draw up novel structures. Then: how do you actually fabricate these (in the case of real novel chemistry and not some building-block stuff). Noone has a clue!

I for myself have decided that for now (with the data at hand and non-Alphafold-budgets) the 2 keys areas, where you can actually help computational chemistry are:

- creating really robust and generally applicable ML-MD-potentials, potentially using graphs https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08903 (or a traditional approach: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20427-2). Facebook is also working in this area: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.0c04525

- and approximating exchange correlation functionals (... Google and some guys at Oxford, which got stomped over by the deepmind-PR machine https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.04229.pdf): https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj6511

If anyone can tell me how those generative models spit out graphs which look like reality (actually this is imho part of AlphaFold), wake me up.
Unfortunately that is up to the people writing the checks. Their goals and the goals of Firefox enthusiasts are not particularly aligned.
Can you install it on android chrome? I may be behind the times, last I checked you can't.
> Coil whine has been a problem.

Iam pretty sure its only with linux on my xps 13. Any fix? I hate it.
Google "how to uninstall crapware for <manufacturer". You could figure it out on your own, of course, but you might miss something. I'll also mess with settings to tone down unnecessary aesthetic stuff, e.g. Windows Aero animations.

I also like to install a temperature monitor (I've used Core Temp and Speedfan, both are fine) then run benchmarking software. Besides reassuring me that I've actually gotten what was advertised, this shows me the maximum heat the laptop is likely to reach and, with some guesswork, whether anything needs to be repasted.
So fork it if they do anything bad.

In what scenario is maintaining a fork not way easier than a whole separate engine?

So far I think I like how they handle Chromium more than I like what Mozilla is trying to do.
My most recent PC build was created entirely from parts bought on Newegg.com. Newegg accepts bitcoin as payment. We're not in 2009 anymore where people only buy drugs with Bitcoin.
(FWIW, I don't give a crap about up/downvotes, I want to engage in a deep discussion.)

Back in the day when it was FF vs. Microsoft Internet Explorer the need for a competing FOSS browser seemed very compelling, but I don't think FF won marketshare on that, rather it won on merits: FF was better than IE.

Today the situation seems different. To me it seems to make sense to let the engine become a standardized component (developed FOSS-style) incorporating work by Google for speed, security, and reliability, and let the diversity and competition happen on a higher, more user-facing level, in terms of policy and politics and UI/UX and so on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting#Injuries_or_deaths_du...
The "easy-to-read [...] plain text format" indicates to me that the idea was that markdown should be readable in plaintext form too. The ability to convert it to HTML is a different goal?
Yes. The PC parts on bought on Newegg.com with Bitcoin sure are contributing to a crypto scam. How could I have not seen this?
Ruler 16b
Don't forget wifi, bluetooth, vehicle radios, toys, wireless doors, alarms, lights and sprinklers, agricultural and fleet telemetry, AIS...
From an AI alignment perspective one might add that it's a very dangerous stereotype to assume that perceived moral stance and the efficiency with which a rational agent pursues its goals are in any way intrinsically connected.
We need to go back to something like Word documents. We’ve come full circle
Why not? I could find countless SEC violations that are far worse than this from banking institutions that I guarantee you use on a weekly or monthly basis. Are those scams?
"How dare you use my words and actions against me!"
vast.ai, nothing else is remotely as cheap
Did they accidently query their own payroll?

Trudeau's father had the Mounties plant bombs at civilians (Canadian citizens on Canadian soil) back in the 70's and tried to blame it on some political group to justify armed intervention [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involvin...
Well mostly because I heard news reports where they told me they’d measured and found that to be the case. I live in SoCal now and despite all the bitching people do I’d much rather drive in LA.
> That said, I am thoroughly disappointed the Federal gov't and much of the media coverage. They have done nothing but make the situation worse. I think it is intentional (I assume some political end game), but their actions are fueling even more outlandish conspiracy theories.

Didn't the father do the exact same thing back in the 70's?

Of course there's political gains, as they say, never get a crisis go to waste.
Given the enormous delays to the 30xx series cards for what has been around 1.5 years now. It's surprised me that Nvidia have released so many different variants of a particular series of card, especially if the performance differences have been marginal.

Given the delays due to COVID it feels like we have been frozen in time with the 30 series cards. People still trying to get their hands on them and paying way too much.

I wonder if the next series of cards will struggle to sell given the hell that some people have been through with this series and how out of pocket some have been.
This sounds so sensible, yet the only company that ever did this did it with no other option but when they needed to re-hire me away from a sabbatical.
The Proud Boys applied for a small fraction of permits.

And if you are ordering a protest to disperse, you don't tell one side to go home. If you have a curfew (leaving aside opinions there), it's not a curfew for one side.

If you're telling people who have warrants for their arrest that you will actively not only NOT arrest them but protect them, that's not working with them, that's working for them. Which is unsurprising in PDX, given how many LEOs are members of those same organizations.

Nothing in what you said was a good justification. You're right though, it's not a huge surprise that police would choose to work with militant right wing organizations.
Rust is the most interesting thing to come from Mozilla in years.

It was from an earlier era where they innovated instead of just campaigned against powerful web features and tried to be a FOSS version of Apple.
Compared to the violence, burning and looting in front of the American election this is absolutely nothing and have only lasted a few days

Those demonstrations were mostly peaceful according to those we are supposed to listen to, so obviously the current demonstrations are even more peaceful.

Edit: I'm triple vaccinated myself and recommend it for everyone else, but if we have freedom to choose that also must include freedom to do what I think is less smart.

In fact I think at this point the attempt to force people to vaccinate is scaring people away from it.
Even with GPS there are a number of confusing intersections and if you make the wrong choice you can easily add a ton of time to your journey with no easy way to go back.
If you’re using bitcoin you aren’t purchasing anything instantly. Transaction confirmation is currently taking ~7 minutes.
I don't think Apple needs to be socialized to solve this problem, in fact saying that obfuscates a simple and practical solution. It should be illegal for a company to actively prevent you from running code on a device that you own.

We need something like Right to Repair but for software, if I own a phone, I should be able to run whatever I want on it. You shouldn't be able to charge money for the privilege of installing my own software, just like an auto maker can't charge me for the privilege of repairing my own car. Companies will use all sorts of weasel words and scare tactics but at the end of the day it's simply anti-competitive.
I am growing a batch of Dunstan chestnuts from seeds that I overwintered from https://chestnutridgeofpikecounty.com/. It's fun to see how much interest the American Chestnut has garnered in the last 20 years. I may have 20-30 seedlings this year and plan to plant them around Evanston, IL. Rogue forestry in the dark of night.
Not much of a use case unless you want to move large amounts.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f... - and current $1.76 is considered low compared to $50 per transaction craziness. So you have to go offchain

Again, I paid BTC for a laptop 9 years ago and it made sense for me then since it was mined BTC from 11 years ago.

In order to use BTC you need to obtain BTC and transaction fees kill any normal day to day use case.

This leaves BTC for less than legal uses where you do not care about fees.

So BTC itself might not qualify as a scam but as a mega enabler of scams and illegal activity.

EDIT: that $1.76 is just a on-chain fee for the network, most stores will charge you extra to use BTC since they do not care about BTC they want to cash out immediately so they use a 3rd party.

So unless you get paid in BTC you have very little reason to use BTC for payments.
There doesn't seem to be any security issue here, other than an undocumented protocol.
> Windows, on the other hand, has to run on every PC, so they can't specify some crazy advanced system controller, nor does Microsoft have any control over the firmware it runs... Instead they had to ask Intel to add a new sleep state

Or stuff another embedded core onto those enormous CPU dies.
There is / was a secret group of journalists called JournoList. The original was shut down and there is now a new one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList
11 people were arrested on weapons charges at the Alberta blockade (handguns and body armor) and one person was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder for trying to run over police with his tractor
Maybe? My point, though, is that from day 1 it was meant to be rendered as HTML. So what Github does with it (rendering README.md files) is perfectly compatible with that original intent. Just like everyone who used md->html renderers for their blogs or whatever other content.

If you just want plaintext, then you don't need markdown or any other markup. Just a plaintext file, like, I don't know, a README file. Don't throw .md (or .org in my case) on it, and it won't get rendered.
Agreed. To go a little further: the main point of the paper is that there is a subtlety with how black hole outflow can effect the neighborhood:

1. the outflow is so energetic that it blows the gas clouds away and shuts down star formation

2. the outflow is energetic enough to compress/raise the temperature of the gas clouds, leading to star formation

This second is the newly observed mode, but there is also yet more subtlety there since this burst of star formation may result a reduction in future star formations, but that is quickly approaching the limit of my layman/enthusiast understanding.
I was, in fact, a TA at a university in Europe, and, rest assured, not all students earnestly tried to do the exercises. Moreover, very few students are interested in in-person discussion: we had office hours twice a week, but few people ever came, except during the week before midterms and finals. I had many discussions about it with professors. One of them is pretty active in Facebook group for students, reminding them of the office hours, where they can get free one-on-one tutoring. Still, most of the time nobody comes to his office hours anyway.

I think the conclusion here is very simple: students are not there to learn, they are there to pass exams and earn the diploma.
Umm objectively there was slavery and segregation from before the us existed until <70 years ago, which is hundreds of years

I couldn’t follow the logic on the second point, but current generation African Americans were negatively impacted by their great grandparents being slaves - it’s like generational wealth but the opposite.
I wonder why you've not teamed up with some uni-lab, they usually have some hardware and also some free labor if you share credits. A single GPU also means, whatever your idea, it probably would have finished already on a CPU ;).
I feels like I never stopped playing with LEGO. And I will continue to do so.
IMHO Airbus' effort is better.
https://github.com/polarsys/b612

Serifs are known to be less readable on screens. Each to their own but to me that MonoLisa thing is sort of half-serif... it's ... inconsistent and terrible. Possibly a joke.
Are you arriving at this conclusion from a place of jaded bias or from actual data? Some managers feel that way sure, but your statement implies that its essentially the norm to be expected which is not the case.
Yes, yes they often are. But I think you'll be hard-pressed to find many examples of legitimate banks having their primary customer offering being declared illegal and forced to stop operation immediately.
Textmate 2 had some support for proportional width and different heights and styles in its early days. Don’t know how it panned out since I’ve since stopped using it.
How about citizens of Seattle when the CHAZ was operating? Were they majority for that?