skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're an animal. You've no idea what you do, and you're using machines as a model. Likewise, in the 16th C. it was brass cogs; and in anchient greece, air/fire/etc.

You're no more made of clay & god's breath, as you are sand and electricy.

You're an oozing, growing, malluable organic organism being physiologically dynamically shaped by your sensory-motor oozing. You're a mystery to yourself, and these self-reports, heavily coloured by the in-vogue tech are not science, they're pseudoscience.

If you want to study how animals work, you'd need to study that. Not these impoverished metaphors that mystify both machines and men. No machine has ever acquired a concept through sensory-motor action, nor used one to imagine, nor thereby planned its actions. No machine is ever at play, nor has grown its muscles to be better at-play. No machine has, therefore, learned to play the piano. No machine has thought about food, because no machine has been hungry; no machine has cared, nor been motivated to care by a harsh environment.

An inorganic mechanism is nothing at all like an animal, and an algorithm over a discrete sequence of numbers with electronic semantics, is nothing like tissue development.

What you are doing is not something you can introspect. And you arent really doing that. Rather, you've learned a "way of speaking" about machine action and are back-projecting that onto yourself. In this way, you're obliterating 95% of the things you are.
It’s my understanding that a large percentage of hosting costs are donated by large companies like Google…
My first smartphone, as a highschooler, was $40 (circle 2014). My first "luxury" phone was a $150 Android.

A $430 price tag IS a lot.
Yes. I am fully aware only an authoritarian government would be willing and able to forcibly lock down entire cities.

BUT

It stopped the spread in its tracks unlike the US and Europe who kept spreading for a year and a half. After a few months, most of China went back to normal. Wuhan itself is maskless with hospitals working under a normal load. The lockdowns worked.

Lockdowns and cat act tracing works, but only if everyone participates. Unfortunately it got political instead of following the science. Many preferred to let their fellow citizens die rather than wear a mask and stay at home when possible.

Authoritarianism is a horrible thing, but it has it uses during a viral pandemic.
I think most kids understand that. It's just that adults reality is way easier - if you don't like some people you just don't spend time with them.

For kids, if you are not friends with people you spend 80% of your time with, you can't get the same kind of friendship elsewhere. The social games they play are way more complex than anything they teach them in school.
This is the concept that's about to be tested in court. The majority of the revenue generating segment of the smartphone market is iOS while the majority of the overall smartphone market is Android. I get the sense that Apple did this on purpose but the Unity lawsuit may write a new chapter on what it means to be a monopoly. This Planet Money episode talks about this dilemma: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/914563075/apple-v-everybody
If you don't trust the other end then disappearing messages should be used, simple.

This is one of the problems with Signal having a bit of confusion about what exactly it's use-case is. There are plenty of cases where locking down the ability to save/view/export messages are valuable, and Signal provides tools to be able to do that. Making that the mandatory case though means that it's harder to adopt as a general-purpose communication platform.

The need to decide if the goal is still to get as many people off of SMS/facebook-messenger as possible, or if the goal is to provide extreme security to dissidents and protestors, or if they're going to spend the effort to be able to do both effectively and let you choose which conversations or messages get which level of protection.
Jesus. I know it's off-topic and things differ across cultures or whatever, but I remember moving out of home to go to university at 16. The idea that there are parents out there doing stuff like monitoring their kids' internet connections at that age is almost inconceivable to me.
It is much simpler: one is expected to just copy the original unless there are very valid reasons to edit it...

Edit: the submitter explained - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33183697 - that the original title at the time of submission is the given one; the target news agency then edited the page. Oh well - some possibility for which we must take a mental note.
Harm is required in all defamation. Public figures additionally must prove “actual malice” on the part of the defendant, which is a term of art distinct from the common usage of “malice”
Made me think of another one-dimensional crawl game, Line Wobbler:

https://wobblylabs.com/projects/wobbler

I'm not sure how well the site and videos explain it, but you control a green dot trying to travel along a line. You have to beat or evade enemies, lava, etc along the way. You control it with a spring door stop, but that's not what it's about.
> Is VR really getting that popular?

I hear VRChat got really popular during the pandemic among teens, but I also find these numbers very surprising.
> Given the iPhone's marketshare, is it RCS really the industry standard?

It's funny to me seeing this statement, as half of the people out there push it the other way when discussing App Stores. "Well iPhone isn't a monopoly world wide."
What are you implying then? That if someone gets popular enough we should all just roll over and let them do as they please? I’m failing to see a different interpretation when you end with

> Just some things to think about. Unintended consequences.
I don't think you actually understand the problem
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33179047

(5 hours ago, 470 comments)
Shoot me an email. Should be in my profile.
See if we can figure something out.
If every other post was like this I would concede the point. But that is not the case on this site
Technically, but by that standard everyone who's ever purchased marijuana at a state-legal dispensary is risking prison time as well.

It's also one of those situations where the practical reality of being caught for something like this is basically nil. Especially when the intent is neither to sell, distribute, nor use them yourself.
I'd wager that at 16 years old having no privacy and such a nasty relationship with your parent would have much worse effects
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This issue for myself and many others is it makes something that used to be transparent, entirely unsupported. The UX is unambiguously worse. I could trust signal to upgrade my texts for me when possible, or not when my contacts were SMS. I don't care about always being encrypted 100% of the time. Signal was that perfect tradeoff between privacy, and ease of use, which is exceptionally rare. Providing this tradeoff is what made them popular, them going against it is counterproductive and will hurt them badly. I know this because now I'm considering leaving myself.
I guarantee that kids who grow up to be financiers won't be a significant fraction of the 87%. Just like kids wearing Air Jordans when I was in school didn't all grow up to be pro ball players.
Isn't TikTok a middleman? The main whinge of the article was that whatever you do it's got to go viral on TikTok or it sinks without trace.

Personally I think the music industry is missing the point. Music has become universal - we carry it everywhere and the scarcity that used to drive music sales from the physical production of product is gone and the old mechanisms of driving "hits" went with it. They can't just churn out 100 clones of whatever is hot anymore and hope that the video, featuring some greased up pop starlet in a bikini, is going to save them.

I think that is wonderful myself. There has never been a better time to enjoy music and killing the old publishing system is helping that, not hurting it.
My experience among tech parents jives with that, FWIW. But even so: if techie kids are less likely to own phones, you need to be pushing 90%+ iPhone usage in working class schools, which is, again, nuts.

These numbers are wrong when interpreted as a global sample, they just are.
Fitting that in an article like this author Alice has a wiki page but author Antonio does not.
earn money for just doing anything fun? amazing design team, but do they stand a change in being successful in business? what do you think?
"Lies are covered by the First Amendment" is not good legal analysis. Material misstatements of fact that cause damages are all actionable, regardless of how egregious they are. Statements of opinion, or unintentional misstatements of fact regarding public figures, or misstatements of fact that cause no provable damages are "protected", in the same sense all speech is protected.
The average worldwide cost of a smartphone is ~$300.

Android phones can be bought new in box for $50-$170. The iphone SE which is basically last years model starts at $429 and comes without the power bring which allows you to plug into an outlet which costs an additional $18. That is iphones start at a cost more than the majority spend on a phone admittedly worldwide but that isn't what I call all cost points.
that is true but they also aren't allowed to advertise, have massive additional taxes placed on them, and huge public information campaigns against their use
Average yearly income in India 1875$
iPhoneSE for kids - 430$
I think it’s unobtainable for most of the people

https://www.statista.com/statistics/802122/india-net-nationa...
I see this a lot around here. HN user hates company with a passion but buys their products rather than deal with some minor annoyance.

I guess you don't hate Apple with a passion then.
Don’t attribute to bad faith what is easily explained by stupidity! Commenter almost certainly wasn’t writing in malice.
Good insight!

Your ideas? Or inspired from somewhere/somebody which you can share?
FYI, there is already an existing fman: https://fman.io/
Not a very high bar there
There's a learning curve with any new platform.

Apple recently added "modes", which I like about 80% of the time, and 20% of the time I'm in the wrong mode for whatever reason and the wrong set of notifications get sent.

You can turn it off if you'd like.
Itanium was a gigabuck and drove everybody out of the high-end processor market except IBM leaving Xeon for Intel to monopolize for a decade+. I'd qualify that as a business success even if Itanium was a technical failure.

And, it may be paying off after all. Graphics cards are effectively giant VLIW machines. And while Intel's new cards get slaughtered on DirectX 11 or older games, they are quite competitive when used on the DirectX 12+ stuff which basically wants a giant multi-core parallel processor.
To me, the interesting part is that it contains some relatively high-resolution timers, that you can get with just a memory read.
iMessage is a very US thing
I like float16
As noted in one of the article comments: One of the first settings I change on my iPhone is "Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Increase Contrast" for this very reason. It darkens both the blue iMessage and green SMS colors, but I mostly do it because I do find that green color "gross" and annoying/distracting.
Well I find it unfair and condescending of you to suggest I, as a busy parent, should not watch TV :) I did not ask anyone not to pay subscription fees.

It is just a matter of priority. Even before becoming a parent, I would find it hard to justify spending time on optimizing my subscription expenses, especially being forced by large media corps, and completely unnecessarily.
Was this marketing to Linux perverts worth all this money that Intel poured? For the vast majority of normies, Intel Inside was useless noise.
Defamation is inherently inciteful. If I publicly accuse you of a horrible crime, and I have a sufficiently broad audience, you are going to have to deal with assholes coming up to you and saying 'you're the evil person who committed a horrible crime!'. At best you get harrassed, at worse your safety is at risk from would-be vigilantes, revenge-seekers, and people who need a punching bag for sadistic or strategic reasons of their own.

Of course, you can argue that there's no direct causal relationship because Jones or whoever can say 'I'm not saying to do something, but....'. But so what? If an outcome is statistically predictable there doesn't have to be a direct nexxus, a proximate one is sufficient.
Jones did an impressive job of maximizing his liability directly via his words on the stand.

Pharmaceutical companies, in general, know how to listen to their lawyers and shut the hell up.
Lifetime here means "until age of 65" (or whichever age after 58 is the last in the dataset for an individual), and the measure is earnings so before people get to spend it. Thus it's hard to see how any of it could be the pension.
Ohhh, it’s 100 kmh
Agreed on charge vs discharge comments.

We seem to disagree on the storage numbers. Genuinely curious if my math is wrong on this. I did research a bit more about recent advancements in pumped storage since my first comment and found that my original numbers were almost an order of magnitude smaller than what would likely be built today since I had referenced older tech. So admittedly, pumped storage is much more feasible than my original attitude suggested - which is great because id love for it to be all we need. However, I'm still not sold on it's ability to act as sufficient storage, and I do not see in any way how it could possibly keep things running for multiple days, let alone years of energy as you suggest.

There is a reason we only talk about pumped storage in terms of its discharge rate rather than its storage. We dont really use it for storage. We use it to store the difference between peak and average energy demand, not the total actual demand. You keep the generators running near average all the time, fill the reservoir during the demand valleys and drain the reservoir during demand peaks. Discharge effects ability to actually reach the peak demand, while storage effects how long you can sustain the demand. My point is even if we could discharge as fast as we need to, the reservoirs would empty in less than a day if we needed to rely upon them while energy production was down.

There is a new project (snowy 2.0) in Australia that will have a notable storage capacity of 350,000 MWh .

Current energy usage in the US is over 10 TWh per day. 350,000 MWh = 350 GWh = .35 TWh. So we would need 28 of this brand new top-end pumped hydro stations to hold 1 days worth of US energy demand in reserve. It's ballpark feasible, but lets keep in mind that this plant is costing Australia ~$5-10 billion and is working with two dams that already exist. Very much still in short-term load balancing territory.

This would also lock up 500,000 liters of water per 10kWh. 1 days worth of storage for US: 10TWh / 10kWh = 1 x 10^9; then x 500,000 liters = 5 x 10^14 liters of water = 100 cubic kilometers* (26 trillion gallons). Storing 1 years worth of energy would be 100 km^3 * 365 = 36,500 km^3; which is 3 times the size of Lake Superior (12,000 km^3). I still dont see this as an energy storage solution. MAYBE if use seawater and find a cost-effective way to build facilities into the coastline?

*(1 x 10^12 liter = 1 km^3)

Also to keep in mind that all of this is assuming CURRENT demand, which excludes the incoming energy demand increase for electric vehicle adoption. that's about 2-4 kWh per gallon of gasoline. US uses about 369 million gallons of gasoline on vehicles per day. We can add almost another 1 TWh for that, and then still whatever is necessary for increased usage in general.
aren’t games made “for entertainment purposes” by definition? :P
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What if you create several parallax projections and play how many would be enough to get something more playable - 1.5D :)
> Nobody has the right to obtain copyrighted entertainment products.

Depends on the country, actually. In Poland, as in some other European countries, it's legal to download copyrighted content without paying for it. It's only illegal to distribute it without the copyright owner's permission.
60 or 90 days is pretty standard for non-bounty disclosure, and has been used by high profile projects like project zero.
There is no sane technologically educated person who will buy Apple or Google phone. It is obvious that the smartphones are data gathering and control tools for the surveillance economy. Degoogled smartphone with limited usage is the safest bet for now. Apple computers are still valuable, when configured properly, but I don't have a high hopes for the future. Apple will lock whatever they can to "protect" the bottomline and expand the Imperium.
Did it? Or was there no other option for a long time?
A recent NYT article mentions that Horizons is awash in teens and pre-teens.
Yes. My kids aren't old enough for that (they are all asleep at 9pm still) but if I had one that did I'd definitely find a way to ensure they avoided pitfalls I suffered through in school (game addition is a really debilitating habit and can remain with some for years afterwards).
Absolutely absurd statement.

Is this similar to the "trauma" suffered by teens that wore Levi's Jeans that didn't have the Red Tab, back in the 80s and 90s? To compare a green text bubble to mental health issues is offensive.
Fed was surprised at the pace of inflation, expect higher rates to stay in place
bad thing unpunished, therefore other bad thing not worth punishing?
Why would someone care about the look of a GUI dashboard for a PAAS and somehow base his choice on that ? Bootstrap, MUI, made by a designer, why should I care when there are dozens of more important points ?

And UX wise both have done a pretty good job at being plenty sufficient.
Locally? Or is there a reputable place online?
And to top it off the $430 was for a backup phone.
I agree with you but it's not damaging to Apple (much the opposite) so they'll continue to do it.
Alex Jones ordered to pay nearly $1B in Sandy Hook defamation case
I think the kind of dystopia that Kafka wrote about is part of the zeitgeist.
When using pyenv, I find it useful to install like this to make sure you’re getting a framework build (some libraries are incompatible with non framework builds)

PYTHON_CONFIGURE_OPTS=“--enable-framework” pyenv install 3.7
It isn't illegal to have a monopoly.
odds are Alex Jones will move somewhere with a poor judicial relationship with the US and add this to his narrative
It'd be a more appropriate name for Nifi to be honest.
> everything that happens today was "led to" by history, including a black person getting a high-paying job

Then why focus on the past at all? "everything led to everything" is meaningless statement, it adds no value. But we both know that the reason you made it is because it allows you to use emotions as an argument.

And I still don't understand it, is average income black male more deserving of a good job than poor white male? If you focus on the past, the answer is yes. If you focus on the present, the answer is no. Which is it?

> we can not say "it's not my problem because of who my ancestors are".

On it's own it's a terrible argument. But one can definitely use it in response to "this is your problem because of who your ancestors were".

> That's not even mentioning the fact that Genghis Khan died in 1227 and there are people alive today whose grandparents were born slaves

It's not the gotcha you think it is. You're the one who brought up Genghis Khan in the first place.

FYI slavery in Russian Empire ended in 1866. So yeah, there are people alive today whose grandparents were born slaves. And those people as white as it gets.

Not to mention that slavery still exists in many parts of the world.

So I'm still failing to understand why one group of ancestors of slaves is more deserving of inclusion than another group of ancestors of slaves. In fact, it seem to be more deserving than today's slaves. It is almost like slavery has nothing to do with those policies, and yet all your talking points are about slavery.

> What if your job posting was written poorly

Then it would not lead to the results and would not be considered optimal.

> By learning about it and understanding its effects on their society today?

Bad answer. Learning and understanding are not actionable.

> I'd rather have DIE / affirmative action as we have right now than nothing

That's a false dichotomy. Minorities well being has been improving decade after decade. That's not nothing.
TI-89 was / is amazing for doing calculus for you :)

Incredible how much staying power the TI-8x series has, more than 25 years of market dominance.

Is this because they're really that good or due to schools controlling the situation by banning (or otherwise not supporting) other highly capable calculators?
The biggest numbers I've seen were 8 figures (Rolling Stones published something suggesting 160 million over 3 years, while he was still on YouTube at his peak, which is 53 million a year), and that was for total revenue which to my understanding is debated as being too high. Jones himself is probably worth less than 10 million especially considering his share of InfoWars is now worthless
If not owning an iPhone really makes you the social outcast that some comments here are suggesting maybe people don't even admit to it for a marketing survey.

It's like a survey on how may times you have sex in a month.
For the amount of spaces he put in front of his link slowing me down on my way to YouTube, I could have watched the car accelerate to 100 two or three times.
More and more companies are now worried about open source security
SOP.

IBM crippled the AS/400 when it looked like it could eat into their mainframe business, for example.

It's the innovator's dilemma.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma
I think it's entirely unreasonable. Having a horrible opinion is a million miles away from telling people to do horrible things. Prosecuting people for opinions is the literal opposite of what a liberal democracy should be doing.
> edit: not sure most teens care or are unaware of Android's around 3 years support length for a phone.

I don't think they care either, but in many cases it makes iPhones a wiser purchasing decision, so they should care. If we're decrying the effectiveness of iPhones' marketing and intentionally cultivated and preserved incompatibilities on children, our alternative must be to encourage practical decisions. Sadly, a slightly old iPhone is often the most practical decision, because Android is still a closed platform masquerading as an open one, and they aren't kept updated outside of Google's and the manufacturers' hardware marketing strategy.

Apple is making money from the use of its phones, so (mostly) happily keeps them going far longer.
But Apple isn't doing any of that.

They invented a ton of new messaging features that SMS didn't support, and the phone has to make it clear which conversations support those and which don't. So they had blue bubbles replace existing green ones.

Ostracization and bullying is what teens do for a thousand different reasons over a thousand different things. Yes Apple is responsible for creating a walled garden of messaging, just like WhatsApp has over most of the rest of the world, and basically every other rich messaging app is trying to do. It's not like Google Allo was trying to be any less walled garden.

But to say Apple is responsible for ostracization and bullying is to take the notion of responsibility too far. Is Supreme responsible for kids who bully other kids because they aren't wearing Supreme...?