skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Apple's well-known 30% revenue sharing cut has been around for a long, long time.

It's not a "tax."

Calling it one is a shibboleth which declares your allegiance to Musk's marketing.
Nothing screams more of deep middle class insecurity than a credit card that's supposed to be impressive.

What's the environmental impact of plastic vs metal in those things? At least in Europe, our phones are starting to contain these things.
Two things I find hard to believe:

1. That guy isn't in prison?

2. That guy convinced someone to invest in his venture?
Google already knows everything of consequence on your phone.
> There are a lot of operating systems that have a much narrower focus than full-blown multi-tenant GPOS.

I hear some of them are used to manage embedded components in GPOS systems. Oh, wait…!
Afaik ford stopped selling all cars in US except Mustang, its all trucks now. Highly doubt Mustang sales beat all of Honda.
Best hn comment I've read in a while!
Amazing comment. Are you still involved with music?
Is it politically possible? The first HSR contractor quit in total disgust - I think they went to africa and build high speed there instead?

I think they already torqued the routing based on some kind of backroom deals.

Some NY Times excerpts below. I don't think the hyperloop folks were trying to any of these gimmicks, none of them served on boards that could do the horse trading.

“There were so many things that went wrong,” Mr. McNamara said. “SNCF was very angry. They told the state they were leaving for North Africa, which was less politically dysfunctional. They went to Morocco and helped them build a rail system." Morocco’s bullet train started service in 2018.

...

The horse-trading in this case involved an influential land developer and major campaign contributor from Los Angeles, Jerry Epstein.

Mr. Epstein, who died in 2019, was a developer in the seaside community of Marina del Rey who, along with other investors, was courting the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for a 40-year lease extension on a huge residential, commercial and boat dock development.

Mr. Epstein was also a member of the rail authority board, and he became a strong backer of Mr. Antonovich’s proposal for a Mojave Desert diversion on the bullet train.

“The Palmdale route was borne of a deal between Epstein and Antonovich, absolutely,” said Art Bauer, the chief staff member on the State Senate Transportation Committee, speaking publicly on the matter for the first time.

“If I get my lease, you get my vote was the deal,” Mr. Bauer said. Though Mr. Epstein was only one member of the board, his lobbying of other board members proved critical, he said. “Epstein got the votes. The staff didn’t get the votes. The staff didn’t want to go that way.”
> I'll see your citations, and raise you:

> https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33351135/ Sodium intake, life expectancy, and all-cause mortality

Good overview of the poor design of that study and many others that make statements that very much go against the plurality of high quality evidence:

"While calling for a controlled trial to provide “robust evidence” to support the current global policies, Mente et al. lend their support to an “ecological analysis” of global statistics by Messerli et al. [78]. There are many inherent limitations of such analyses. Messerli et al. [78] correlate sodium and outcomes by country, not by individual. The study design is unable to remove unmeasured confounding (ecological fallacy), a well-known methodological concern that the authors acknowledge and then promptly dismiss. Many countries do not have data on sodium intake and, when available, it is often of poor quality. When comparing “high income” countries (in World Bank Income Class 1), the authors aggregate data from the USA, UK and Canada, Trinidad & Tobago, and Equatorial Guinea. The distribution of wealth in these countries and the ensuing disparities in individual health will have huge effects on life expectancy due to factors other than sodium intake, none of which are accounted for. In addition, Messerli et al. ignore the hard evidence from previous human trials. Yet, Messerli et al. claim their results “argue against dietary sodium intake being a culprit of curtailing life span or being a risk factor for premature death”.

from: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13668-021-00383-z
If vacant parking spots mean we have enough parking spots, does vacant housing mean we have enough housing?
> I don't think they make much sense without the language being statically typed.

They absolutely do, in part because you son’t even have a type system you’d need to undermine in order to achieve mutation.

There are “immutability first” dynamically typed langages, and they work rather well (erlang, clojure).
I do not think it would matter. Party bowed to Trump, who ended his first term with a comic but insanely alarming coup attempt. Their voters dgaf.
Those are 903 years old already.
No. It's works with most cloud storage, either with their own client or cyber duck/mountain duck.
The phrase 'who watches..' predates that paper by quite a bit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custode...
>who is responsible when a patient is misdiagnosed by an AI and treated for the wrong condition?

Good question, and it has been discussed plenty on the internet:

https://aublr.org/2019/10/what-happens-when-ai-unintentional...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/who-is-liable-whe...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02673...

https://www.griffithinjurylaw.com/blog/automated-cars-may-af...

There isn't any other way except governments implementing a legal framework of liabilities around AI tech.

>In order to pick a diagnosis in all but trivial cases the MD will have to invest real time into it and at that point making trivial diagnosis is also simpler to do manually.

People around the world still die from trivial, preventable illnesses simply for lack of access to a doctor/diagnosis. Its wrong to look at AI as magically solving everything. I see a use for it where it can improve the existing situation.

>Watson did not work out really well https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/technology/what-happened-...

Our entire scientific journey is filled with failed experiments. Its not possible to stop AI from progressing, but we can and must use an ethical approach.
I am currently working on a project actually where the client came to us with a similar NYT article and said „I want something like this“. The umbrella term for these is „scrollytelling“, I think, and the NYT does it very tastefully. Another fine effect they have is highlighting details in an image when you scroll, e.g. in this:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/11/nyregion/nyc-...
Half of Twitter's top advertisers left the platform since Elon Musk's takeover
I am, but unfortunately modifiers are not supported unless you use layers, which don’t work in svelte components. So you can only use tailwind classes with no modifiers, which is mostly what I love about tailwind.
We can't know that.
China’s security chief vows crackdown on ‘hostile forces’ after protests
People have called it a tax long before Musk bought Twitter. And once you buy an iPhone, it's yours, so you shouldn't have to pay Apple 30% of all financial transactions you ever conduct with it.
From the article:

> While large for rats, they are weightless for the land mines and can walk safely across a live minefield.
He is CTO of a VPN: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/why-i-hired-mt-go...
Terrible internet providers are absolutely the norm across all of America. Except for a handful of small regional ISPs and municipal ISPs, where they haven't been outlawed.
Statistically, companies surviving that long are related to the food and/or accommodation industry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
What thoughtless slander. There are two strong female characters I recall: Bayta and Arkady Darell. They do plenty by their own volition and are central movers of the plot. You also imply that the empire's decline must be taken for granted, but that is explored at least in the Bel Riose story, and probably other places too. You might be due for a reread (assuming you even read them in the first place).
> good TC

Not to get too mopey but I went through the phase of "sell out and do things that make me unhappy and stressed for more money" a few years ago and while it put me in the position I am today financially, it came at great personal expense. I lost friends and partners by moving, lost years of close contact with family late in their lives, and the stress put a physical toll on my body and mental toll on my psyche.

I think we're quite naive at a young age - our eyes glaze over at the massive amount of money we can make but don't value the non-monetary cost. Your youth is finite and you don't know what you've missed until it's gone.
Ruby on rails is a bad choice,if you want to scale.
Like dang[1], I too cringe to see myself as a "lifer" but here I'm: I joined Red Hat when I was 23. Now I'm 37. So I've been at it for 14 years (and still ticking).

In those 14 years, I've moved continents, changed citizenship, changed dramatically as a person (I hope for the good). So far I've managed to keep the freshness at work (modulo the difficult times). Red Hat's engineering culture fits me like a glove.

The ability to give direction to my own work and the culture are the big factors that keep me in. I'm sure I'm losing out on some better compensation elsewhere, but there are other variables that matter to me.
Also, I've been a remotee for the last 8 years.

So far I've been responding to recruiters with "Thank you for reaching out. I'm gainfully employed, I wish you best of luck in your search." As a wonderful colleague of mine once said, "but my umbilical cord isn't tied to Red Hat, though". :-)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33797196
I hope browsers will implement protections against this sort of thing the same way they currently do against crypto-jacking.
Ah so like the play store for the past 10 years
Japan land isn't great for balanced natural energy buildings, so they want to continue import energy after carbon neutral, and hoard solar generated electricity. Nuclear is (was?) unpopular for obvious reason for a decade.
This is so cool. I'm a sucker for card games and e-ink, so to get both in one serving is VERY exciting. Thanks for being an innovator :)
I work for a small business (5 employees, including the boss/owner). They’ve been publishing their news website since 1996, I joined as a sidejob in 2006, and have been working full time since 2012. Fully remote since 2008. Solo dev since 2014.

Compensation is kinda crappy (Would be a bad joke in the US, not great in Germany but also not a disaster), but I just enjoy the freedom I have. It probably helps that I’m very unambitious.
After raucous meeting, San Francisco approves plan for lethal police robots
You can also have bugs in statically typed languages. Perhaps not the trivial bug of passing a string instead of a number, but you still can have the (more likely) issue of passing the wrong number, i.e. a logical error.

Lets say `add(a, b)` contains a bug. Perhaps it doesn't handle negative values or overflow correctly or something else. But it still returns a number, just the wrong number. This kind of bug is much more likely. If this wrong number is stored somewhere you also might get obscure errors down the line and a static type system will not discover it. And this bug will be much more insidious and harder to track down.

So you need unit tests anyway to protect against logical errors. If a unit tests verifies the behavior of a function it will also implicitly verify the types without any extra work.
Why on earth would they build it that way? If it’s small enough to download on demand it’s certainly small enough to cache locally.
Not one comment here about the “GPU drivers in Python”. I like the idea of iteration speed, over pure speed.

And the coprocessor called “ASC” also have similarities with Python, where the GPU is doing the heavy lifting, but the ASC (like Python) interact using shared memory.
The same Python is doing with a lot of its libraries (written in C/C++)
Deploying SwiftUI on the Web
Yeah, I do not even get why people hate Ruby so much. They do rarely even attack the actual weaknesses of Ruby but instead goes on about Rails specific stuff, the slow performance (a Ruby < 1.9 issue, these days it is as fast as Python if not faster) or just imagined stuff which has never been true.

Ruby is a flawed language (I especially dislike the lack of real namespaces) but the hate it gets is often not based in reality.
https://github.com/mukul-rathi/bolt/tree/master/examples
> No explicit content (that could be plagiarized or combined) is actually stored by GPT3: only statistical relationships between tokens are retained

When people ask GPT-3 to write a rhyming poem, you see plenty of examples of GPT-3 poems starting with "There once was a cat named Pat..." This is an extremely common first line of a limerick, found anywhere from here[1] to here[2]. I'm sure those "statistical relationships" are very strong; is it plagiarism? I'll leave it up to you to decide that, but I'm willing to bet that with enough finagling you can probably get it to spit out phrases from Moby Dick.

[1] https://www.google.com/books/edition/Selected_Vintage_Poetry...

[2] https://sites.google.com/site/rainydaypoems/poems-submitted-...
You do understand that the 2hr 40 minute number is total and absolute garbage?

It's weird seeing folks peddling fantasy land numbers here. Back in 2013 peer review board already said they were bogus, and it's only gotten a LOT worse.

For example, I think San Jose to SF have ALREADY been switched to shared tracks at ground level - tracks that are going to be mixed in with caltrain trips. Gilroy is going to switch to sharing some freight lines (100mph)? I'm sure down in Burbank / LA area similar give backs will occur.

This is all a major change from 220MPH which required elevated viaducts and 50 MILE (!!) turning circumferences! 220MPH actually WOULD be impressive but no chance of it. They've re-routed away from grapevine, they've added tons of stops. They've removed the dedicated trackways and rights of way (you CANNOT blast through downtown caltrain stops at 220MPH). They are going to in shared track situations (aka - Amtrak delays land for those like me who used to do amtrak).
Designing and writing a programming language and compiler/interpreter/IDE completely from scratch. The motivation is due to my lack of joy/outright hate of using most languages, and a big dose of wanting to do something that most people haven't. The idea of it has taken hold of me and become an obsession, but I've also been afraid to speak about it until recently for fear of losing hold of the only goal I've ever had in life.
They don't exist anymore.

I was thinking of the Order of Malta but they are a bit older.
Not to mention, how you react to crushing boredom.
My guess was London-based bank.
The pendulum always swings...
Yes, sorry, I should have been more specific. I just find the prompt hilarious. Sounds like one of the "explain a movie badly in one sentence" memes.
He went to prison in Japan and served his term.
"with Apple taking a modest 30% of all sales for their efforts maintaining the store."

No, 30% is massively excessive. A very small fraction of this is all that is needed to maintain the store.
The above explanation is not correct.

The article is about Fannae Mae and Freddie Mac which buys loans from lenders and turns them into mortgage backed securities.

The lender is not in the business of issuing a loan and then collecting the cash for 30 years. The lender is in the business of issuing the loan and selling it to Fannae Mae.

I don't know what determines the interest rate in this scenario, but Fannae Mae needs to account for mortgage default risk when they operate the program. It is not run as a charity and the possibility of mortgage default means it is not risk free to Fannae Mae.

There are government guaranteed loans not covered by this article like FHA and VA loans which have mortgage insurance, but I don't think they are cost free to the lender if the loan defaults. I believe the lender needs to comply with regulatory requirements and has costs related to making an insurance claim and proving eligibility for an insurance claim when they get compensated.
I liked it. I thought the different interweaving stories, all revolving about how the characters very different social contexts still directed and constrained their choices, was an interesting illustration of the idea behind psychohistory. That’s something the novels never even attempted.
Thank you!

And yeah that's a great point; definitely something I'll look to add when I've got some time on my hands :)
No one is arguing the policy isn’t insane, I’ll be the first to admit it is. It has a million other problems to it, but it would absolutely cause dramatic price reductions:

if everyone was limited to 1-2 units nationally (let’s say 1 home/unit in high demand cities), then there would absolutely be more supply than demand.

A 400 unit apartment building where the landlord legally must sell 399 units (or all 400 assuming they have other properties), repeated en masse throughout the city, would truly see there being more units on the market than buyers, because
a) investors and high net-worth individuals would not be able to buy, as they would be having to sell off to get under the legal cap
b) the only available buyers would thus be those who are under the limit of the housing cap, i.e. renters, which are mostly those who could not afford a home at the previous prices in the area

Considering the legal onus would be on the previous owners to sell per this insane law, sellers would rather make $100k>$10k>$1k than $0 and so there would be a rush to sell, exherting immediate downward prices on homes.

In San Francisco, which is a city where >66% rent where they live (and thus <33% of the city owns the whole housing stock), you would see a giant flood of homes hit the market that the existing landed gentry would be unable to snap up, equalizing around a 100% live-own rate (because, again, once you buy one unit you can’t buy another, no matter how cheap it is)
Paralysis is scary.
It’s almost time for Advent of Code. That’s always fun!!
I got 25 correct, and the majority of that was just looking at hands and text to see if they were messed up.
You're basically screaming "don't use so many pointers!", but this much much easier said than done. You can only really do this if you write the entire stack -all the dependencies- yourself, just so you can optimize like this. This approach doesn't scale or compose well at all.
I presume it's a healthy two way relationship.
If you’re interested in checking this out, a really good place to start with aleatoric music is Charles Ives’ “The Unanswered Question”[1]. If you listen to this you can get the gist of the idea very quickly: The composer writes the trumpet call exactly but the relationship between the trumpet and the strings (representing the “wisdom of the sages” if my memory serves correctly) is somewhat random. Although every performance of the piece has broadly the same effect they are not exactly similar.

There were two main thrusts of aleatoric music - American and European, with the European school having big compositional elements that were pretty much fixed and the random elements being ordering etc (main example, Stockhausen’s late Klavierstuken) and the American school where there was a much more radical aesthetic and more randomness overall (Cage being the principal exponent) both in composition and performance. So Cage embraced randomness in composition using first Tarot and coin flips and later I-Ching divinations to decide almost every element of compositions and then also gave the performer liberty to make various decisions as well.[2]

Like lots of things in music, the classical tradition was not first to aleatoricism, with Jazz and various folk forms of music having elements of this long before straight music.

[1] https://youtu.be/vXD4tIp59L0

[2] The ultimate/most notorious expression of this is of course 4’33”, where the audience and performer jointly experience whatever random sounds occur during a specific period of time but don’t actively do anything at all. Perhaps a more approachable intro to John Cage would be his music for prepared piano, which shows him on the path to giving up more control of the music, because the nature of prepared piano is such that the sounds are going to be very variable from performance to performance but within broad guidelines.
Oops this should have been a tellhn . Sorry about that
I suspect they’re either conflating things with ObjectiveC or FireBloom (https://saaramar.github.io/iBoot_firebloom/)

Both would sort of fit those descriptions I guess if one were to squint.
Things can change very suddenly - new person joins who makes everyone miserable, company goes in a new direction, market changes or sours on company, advertising snafu, etc.

Great that you are happy where you are but my advice is to keep your skills fresh and push yourself to learn and experiment with things in your personal time - if you do not the opportunity to do so at work.

I just finished interviewing people for an SRE position and it was just staggering the number of people who could be described as having been in the room when someone else did something but could not talk about any aspect of what was done in detail. Several people I interviewed had gotten into Java coding in the 90s but had done nothing to grow their skillset since. One person spent three years manually making S3 buckets in the AWS GUI - no effort to learn the cli, cloudformation, or terraform - just came in every day and waited for Jira tickets telling him to make buckets. You don’t want to be any of those people when the time comes.
Thanks, I should've spelled that out.

I think of total compensation (TC) as salary, plus stock, plus bonuses. (The eventual actual value of the stock and bonuses can vary, but there's typical/expected numbers. And then usually the employer also contributes to health insurance and 401k.)

Some examples of TC are on the excellent `levels.fyi` site:

https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Facebook,Amazon,Google&track...
No way I am gonna give it 5. The product is worth 3 stars maybe
Not unless the soloist was using a RNG to inform their choices. Improvisation is different than “chance” in this context I think.
Reminds me of a recent pondering of mine… there used to be all these “powered by Apache”, “powered by PHP” buttons that were very similar to the type of buttons in the site here. But they were vertically shorter, and you often saw them used as a block to let people know some stuff about the website, sort of like “User bars” (think that’s the right search term) for stuff in a forum signature.

But despite having at some point bookmarked a similar site/page that had hundreds of these little images… age and link rot and fragile bookmark services of old have long since lost the link , and now I don’t even remember what to search for to even find such little images, there was at least a few generally accepted nouns for them … perhaps the collective HN wisdom remembers these little images and can help me find them or just want to share more early internet stories about these kinds of images.