skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK, because ISPs "abused" the fact that were was no formal definition of "unlimited" (NTHell kneecapping your speed if you downloaded too much in a given period for example), ISPs now have to disclose up front in plain language things like traffic shaping and speed limiting (and adding them after the fact is grounds to exit your contract early - heck my last ISP increased their standard pricing (which would effect any discounted pricing they offered) by a couple of quid a month and had to offer anyone who wanted to the ability to exit their contract early at no charge).

Once a few ISPs started offering "truly unlimited broadband" where they couldn't hide anything, (the big) ISPs that did shape traffic speed limit where now fighting on their back foot, so most of them stepped up and started offering "truly unlimited broadband" too.

Some networks/ISPs may lower speeds in an area due to capacity on a backhaul, but if your speed drops below the minimum outlined at the beginning of your contract for longer than 30 days you can exit your contract early.

So most of the ISPs (in the UK) who offer unlimited contracts these days will have a FUP but they mainly focus on a) no reselling their services b) not running open proxies c) not sending solicited bulk emails, spam emails, calls, sms, etc (because the FUP also covers the landline bundled in with the internet connection it covers things like 118,0871/2/3 service limits and mass calling). They tend not to fret about download caps in their FUPs. Heck I was on a unlimited 4G connection for a while and easily used over 1TB per month and didn't even get a text message asking me to "tone it down".

EDIT: Just checked and my providers FUP is 3 (well 2 and a third) pages long, written in easy to understand language (no legalese), and hasn't even been updated in the past 5 years.
> This is why I prefer the OpenStreetMap scheme even though it has its share of controversies. At least they have rules to color important roads so they stand out more on the map.

As it’s often said, OpenStreetMap is just the data :)
One can style/render it differently.

- https://www.openstreetmap.org/ has seven layers available in the sidebar.

- https://zelonewolf.github.io/openstreetmap-americana/ is a (vector) style that „applies cartographic practices that are characteristic of maps published in the United States.“

- https://openwhatevermap.xyz/ shows a fun mix of some of the available renderings.

All based on the same underlying data.
My life.

I have a job I enjoy doing, a home I love coming home to, a partner whom I want to share the rest of my life with, and an extended family whom I all love.

Besides this, I also study my greatest passion and have time for hobbies, along with great friends to share my hobbies and studies with.
Does anyone know of any material linking Godel, Turing, and John McCarthy's work, beyond their individual publications?

It's also my understanding that Godel did not like publishing. Has his unpublished work ever been combed through and published in some form? Did he primarily write in English or German? Who has his personal papers?
It can't,as it relies on external plugins to make it work.
Posting this because people might find it interesting, given the Q* project at OpenAI :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38386487

This is a relatively old paper, but I always found it fascinating. In summary, they trained (small :)) language models to negotiate (through chat interface) with each other using reinforcement learning.
C2PA's Butterfly Effect
Person working in his basement thinks he figured out how to spoof C2PA.
Billion dollar companies (software and hardware) have been working on this C2PA specification to provide provenance for images. Did this image really come from this camera? From this news organization? After years and effort and endless meetings and this thing written in the most secure language ever, rust, doesn’t work? Come on!

I mean, if banks and insurance are willing to rely on this technology, and it is spoofable… then it’s just going to be the Wild West for fraud.
> Could you enlighten us? How does one launder money through some iOS apps?

You use stolen credit cards to purchase the app. It's a very common method of fraud and does not require a criminal mastermind or a group of people to perform.

I have no opinion on what happened in this particular case, but it's crazy to imply that nobody is doing this stuff.
That link is very very far from the end of the Dash story, which includes the developer recording a phone call with Apple. See extensive coverage by Michael Tsai:

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/10/10/apple-and-kapeli-respond/

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/05/30/dash-for-ios-returns-to-t...

Dash for macOS continues to this day, though not in the App Store.
>those apps don't seem like 33K/MRR worthy

It's 6 of them, so more like ~5K USD/month revenue.

I'm sorry that you've never built something meaningful, but that revenue bracket is actually low for a decent app with some marketing going on.
I mean, the nazi’s, Chinese communist party, and ISIS all have a moral code they adhere to.

I think, WHICH moral code you choose has some relevance here.
Not GP, but for me it was having to think hard about what it means to actually ’own’ data, and learning to structure programs appropriately.
We must collectively understand the reason why some countries stay "developing". The reason is very simple - the rate of population growth exceeds the rate of infrastructure development by large margin. You can make large investments and build everything for 1 million people, but after two decades there are now 2 million people and then 4 and then 8. Africa started out with 200 million people After the WW2 period. In the beginning of this century there were around 800 people. Now there are 1.5 billion people. The rate of population growth is just unbearable. And Africa is here just an example. The same problem affects also India and other places.
There's some confusion in this thread between "service" as out-of-process functionality called via IPC or over the network, and "service" as something done by a service-provider for money, such as emptying your bins.
404 Such World Not Found
The war only made this much worse, but essentially "wrong nationality" has always been a factor for banks' KYC, for example
*Technically inclined users don't need Chrome

The average user is going to open Safari or Edge and go to Google or YouTube. They'll see the "this page runs better in Chrome" popup and install Chrome. The installer asks to make it your default browser, so they do.

The idea that you can install an addon to the browser isn't even in their toolbox. They aren't aware of the anti-competitive nature of Google. To them, a browser is just the thing their OS exists to run for them.
unfortunately, some deadly pathogens are not alive and can survive a standard 120c autoclave treatment. Prions being one of them.
Competency, IQ, and morality. FAANG tends to hire people lacking these into management.
OpenSSL is the kitchen sink for relatively well validated, fast crypto primitives, yet every project that uses one of those has to include the other couple megs of libcrypto (most of that is in ASN1 and X509 implementations, which are libcrypto and not libssl). Certainly seems to me like there's room for a librealcrypto (ought to fit in well under a meg) and a libitutils (all that X509 stuff).

OpenSSL is historically also the kitchen sink for TLS features and extensions, with rather mixed results.
Yeah, but the detail is that pragmatically in pur current system the patents, as they are written, do not generally provide enough information or detail to replicate many complex systems. You could have a patent and still be a decade away from making something that works, if you have the design data, the cad files, the assembly instructions, the travelers and manufacturing documentation, that all makes is considerably shorter. That's the gap the original commenter and I are highlighting.
Outlook.com isn't FAANG.
It would appear that the source is “The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House”, which appears to be the type of sensationalist tell-all that would grace the average tabloid next to the latest story about how prince harry has embarrassed himself this time.

I wouldn’t put much stock in it.
I don't see the issue here. If I release my_fancy_lib 2.0.0, and I have users who only ever want to stay on the last 1.x release, that's fine. It's no skin off my nose if users choose to stay on an old version forever.
I’m working in mobile too but have no use for smooth animations (which is of very little value) so QML isn’t really valuable. I also do not like the idea of embedding a browser stack and forced to write JS just for that purpose. The point is to keep my code in C++ and not hop around to x different files to make sense of my application.
The motivations and behaviors of the GDR were not unique to the GDR.

It just had the will to pursue those behaviors in analog.
The money is not outstanding for an app
OK, stipulated: let's replace democratic politics and scientific research. With what?
If you want to use Rust, you can use the Slint toolkit. It is really similar to QML.
I developed several iPhone apps. While I didn't run into something as serious as this, I have a hard time seeing how any company could invest serious money into developing an app that Apple - in its sole judgement - can capriciously reject. I am greatly in favor of competing app stores and the unequivocal ability to "sideload" any apps (at the user's risk of course.)

I suspect Apple themselves don't realize that their own policies have inhibited the development of apps which would blow away what currently exist at the high end, given the unacceptable business risk of depending on such control-freak caprice. The laisse-faire world of PCs is bigger and better simply for that reason - an enormous swath of hardware and software that simply has to adhere to an objective technical standard.
You should watch the video before commenting on it
> If Apple is so genius, they can solve malware with all of those engineering minds and dollars they have. They don't need to hind behind a store to do that. The tools and techniques are readily available and accessible for a company of their size and stature.

An App Store with a human review process is one tool in the toolbox.

> Permission layer, app runtime heuristics, and fingerprints are a start. They can do this.

I think this is Google’s approach. How’s that been going?
Love titanium, something so cool about it. It’s like steel with no downsides. I’ve got 5 ti bikes and a few ti watches, one of my favorite pieces though is my snow peak double wall titanium mug.
You answered to the wrong comment maybe?

Because that is not money laundering.
Scientists Asked People to Watch Someone Shaking a Box – For a Good Reason
Cloud providers are (counter to intuition about their lock-in incentives) improving the space of this. Lots of tools now allow configuring storage by just pointing to various cloud stores, most often a S3 compatible api, not exclusively though.

K8s PersistentVolume is another decent shot at storage abstraction, only a bit raw.

Finally, more and more tools expect you to have a Postgres they can plug into as backend.

All above assumes you want to treat the library data as a big unknown blob. Once data start being corrupted and need bespoke repair, things are less fun. Access and retention is another fun rabbit hole.

Data is complicated.
> Could you enlighten us? How does one launder money through some iOS apps?

It’s super obvious, but here you go:

Step one: Trick old people into sending you iTunes gift cards or buy iTunes gift cards with stolen credit cards

Step two: Get an app in the App Store and use the iTunes gift cards to buy it many many times

Step three: Receive 70% of the money you laundered through the App Store from Apple. Pay taxes on it, and you’ve got clean money.
The Damn Interesting article covering the event appears as a footnote reference: https://www.damninteresting.com/remember-remember-the-22nd-o...

I loved their stories back in the day, tons of intriguing topics.
That kind of sounds bad as well.
Looking for 'LUCA' and the timing of cellular evolution
I wonder how many of the papers it will be trained on have been replicated.
I see an almost empty page. It's better to show something interesting to unregistered users.
That doesn't necessarily follow --

it's tempting because it seems obvious.

If X + Y = Z, X on surface + Y = Z _must_ follow, because "on surface" was just a hidden term in X + Y = Z anyway...right?

But, both biology and fabrics have a lot of hidden surface (pun intended :P)
Funny how a "super obvious" thing is out of your reach, though ...

That is not money laundering.

Come on guys, read a bit, don't just parrot back what you see on Netflix.
Those must have been soft hammers. Titanium isn't magic. It's neither as hard, nor as strong, as steel. It's a lot lighter, which makes it a wonder material in certain applications that can take advantage of it's excellent strength-to-weight ratio. But if max hardness, or strength at a given size, is what you are after, without a weight constraint, steel wins.
Does Google have veto power over what goes into Chromium?

I had always assumed the relationship between Chromium and Google was akin to the relationship between Webkit and Apple, or between any ASF-donated project and its corporate originator: a community-owned (and several-major-corporate-stakeholders sponsored) open-source project upstream, with a corporate closed-source "living patchset" project sitting downstream of it; where the corporate devs try to push as much as possible upstream, to keep the patchset they must maintain downstream as thin as possible; but where it isn't up to the corporate devs whether the upstream "steering committee" accepts the corporate work upstream.

But I guess this isn't true; per Wikipedia:

> However, in terms of governance, the Chromium projects are not independent entities; Google retains firm control of them.

Which is just bizarre to me, given the following sentence on that page:

> The Chromium browser codebase is widely used, so others have made important contributions, most notably Microsoft, Igalia, Yandex, Intel, Samsung, LG, Opera, Vivaldi Technologies, and Brave. Some employees of these companies also have @chromium.org email addresses.

You'd think these other companies wouldn't stand for Google having unilateral control over a project they're so dependent on! But I guess, as large corporations, they can always express their true concerns through more... corporate politick-y means.
Design the UK parking code system
Any TCP congestion control algorithm worth its salt should be able to adapt to varying path capacity these days, especially given how common traffic shaping with bursting is in residential connections.
> Inspired by Silicon Valley guru Paul Graham’s seminal essay to “do things that don’t scale,”

If you do something that doesn’t scale how will a VC make money from it?
How could you possibly make such a thing safe from code injection?
You should check https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox and Firefox Container Manager extension :)
I am not sure what you are arguing there, big tech collusion doesn't influence welding.
This is bad news. But it doesn't tell us that washing with detergent is unable to remove the pathogen from scrubs. Nor does it tell us that that washing at high temperatures no longer kills it.
[citation needed]

I've heard this said a few times but no one has ever supplied any reputable source other than fanciful speculation. It's become such a meme at this point that I'm pretty sure it's just harmful disinformation.
It sounds like you have no idea what money laundering actually is, to be honest. Money laundering is concealing the source of illegally obtained money.

You use stolen credit cards to buy gift cards (or just defraud people to obtain gift cards). This is dirty money.

You pay it to yourself on the App Store by getting an app listed and buying it. Apple then deposits money (minus their 30% cut) in your bank account, which is clean money.

How is that not money laundering?
No stores. Web install. Web first class... Permission layer, app runtime heuristics, and fingerprints are a start.

How does that work? If it's open web download and install with no notarization (because that's also gatekeeping) then we're back to the good ol' days of the 90's and early 00's. In other words, anything goes and it's up to the user to keep themselves secure, which in practice means rampant security failures and users getting scammed and hit with ransomware at every turn.

I don't like Apple having so much control over everything. I really preferred the old days of the web and the anything goes, full control over my computers I had back then. But the web is absolutely way nastier today. It's jam packed with scammers and ransomware gangs and botnets. It's really quite sad and frustrating for anyone who grew up with the full potential of computing.
IE being very advertising friendly and user hostile was the original reason for Firefox to emerge and Chrome to be created. Both blocked popups and provided more user control. Both had extensions. And ad blocking quickly became a popular application of extensions. I've not used a browser without an ad blocker for probably close to seventeen years or so. Why would I opt in to ads?

IE did not survive the competition. And Google did well with chrome. But technically it's weird that they continue to convince people that use operating systems that come with a different browser to install Chrome. Firefox has the same challenge.

It seems that Google has gotten a bit too used to that being a thing that users are eager to do. The more ads that slip through the defenses, the more market share they'll loose to other browsers. This is a classic throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Their ad revenue (i.e. most of their revenue) is largely dependent on Chrome being something users want to use. More ads means less users. And as MS has demonstrated with IE, having a leading position is no guarantee whatsoever of keeping that. Even their position as the dominant fork of Chromium is not guaranteed. If people get annoyed enough, they might just fork and cut loose. Happened before when Google forked Apple's webkit. Which in turn was a fork of khtml. Not saying that's likely to happen soon but it's always an option.

Anyway, I'm happy using Firefox. No ads for me. Also not on Youtube.
Steam isn't a monopoly, it provides ease of catalog and access. smaller companies can still sell on their own website or any other number of storefronts. The gatekeeper here now is generating MS signed apps.
https://thebulletin.org/2020/02/a-biotech-firm-made-a-smallp...
I suspect science has had more to do with the reduction than superstitions like jinxes.
Note what has not really got attention yet, except in a Jason Calacanis podcast. Several VC firms in one specific US state were passing around instructions on how to do pump and dump schemes on these exchanges...the exchange mention was FTX.

This is the tip of what is coming as far as US govt investigations and court cases.
Investor wise what are the compliant safe exchanges? Anyone? Exactly, no one has any idea as of yet and that should scare all of us who want to use crypto.
>I have a hard time seeing how any company could invest serious money into developing an app that Apple - in its sole judgement - can capriciously reject.

I would bet that bigger companies with an influential base of customers are not capriciously rejected. A major airline or bank or some other business where Apple would catch PR flak is probably going to get personalized treatment.
Why, exactly, will people in the future want to take the preserved brains of dead people and bring them back to life in some digital heaven?

I can think of a few incentives for them to do so and it doesn’t seem appealing to me from that point of view alone.
Rent the Runway seems to have some staying power.
What is a good purpose of a list like this? Used for email validation its extremely annoying for us folks running our own mail domain...
If no one was going to listen them anyway, how were they loss to anyone?

With the fragmentation of media in society today, artists aren’t bringing any “community” together.

So now you’re saying the government should come in and save certain types of music? What pray tell do you want the government to do against Spotify?

And how would the government feel today if Spotify top song were NWA’s “Fuck the Police” or Ice T’s “Cop Killer”? would they support those artists?
I believe you need to own the app to review it, so there is a cost to consider. Maybe it’s freemium or just a dollar but regardless you need to create an account, buy it, review it,…
What makes the mug particularly good? Always interested in something to improve coffee and recently broke my favourite one.
In practice, there are only like, three-ish build systems in C++, and they all work better than cargo. There are a handful of issues cargo could get around to fixing that would help dramatically, but they always seem like they would rather spend hours arguing in the comments to bikeshed a patch rather than deign to type even a single line of code themselves, so they burn out all of their contributors and end up with critical fixes stalled for literal years while projects pile on ridiculous workarounds that no one ever documents anywhere :/.
I actually feel quite relaxed after watching this. Mostly because of the song choice, but visuals were also interesting.
That's much easier to fix (by using DoH or DoT) than getting ECH widely deployed, though. Importantly, it can be done unilaterally by each user and doesn't need cooperation on both sides of the connection.

Many browsers these days support using DoH without changing any OS settings.
As a Cynic that also works at a FAANG, I sometimes see instances of the "outside" reading too much into an action that the company takes.

However. From the inside you have to keep an eye on how your actions might look to the outside with little to no context.

The research my team does could be pulled in one of two ways: "wow thats really useful" and "wow that's fucking intrusive." Its down to us to demonstrate to the normal person in the street that we have done effective work to mitigate the downsides so that its a net benefit to society.

This means we have to actually think about how adversaries might use our stuff and put in meaningful blocks, rather than handwavey "oh but no one would be that evil/stupid/malevolent/power hungry"

large tech companies should get lots of continuous scrutiny, the current tech press are extremely shit at doing that. For example facebook kinda gets enough, but its just default hate, rather than "why are they doing that seemingly stupid thing?" Google is still gets a mostly free pass, and Apple are apparently the saints of privacy. They are all as bad as each other, tiktok, Google and Facebook for mostly the same reasons(pumping industrial amount of shite into young people's eyes), Apple for enabling child porn at industrial levels and undermining encryption in the process.
'Huge egos are in play': behind the firing and rehiring of OpenAI's Sam Altman
Sweden's Stealth Visby Corvettes to Get New Air Defense Missiles
One of the main draws of iOS is its resistance to malware, adware, and outright scam apps.

Have we visited the same appstore? Just few days ago I tried to find a puzzle game for my kid and myself to play together. A whole bunch of them, from top results, resulted in games which had shady dark UI initial screens trying to get to $14.99 or similar monthly subscriptions. Eventually I caved in to arcade sub because I couldn't trust any of the results or find a normal paid one (once). Scammy at best.