skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It entirely depends on who you think "we" is in "we should make X illegal".
I’d guess the majority of the things you like about the security model are things that would still work with side loading.
Free speech in Europe, yes, but don't offend minorities and don't ask any questions, you can (actually) go to jail for that.

And free to speak about anything allowed, if the website isn't blocked at DNS-level.
Do you have any sources from Apple for this before the EU regulation discussion started? Could you Sounds like a "yeah we always wanted to do this anyway we swear we were gonna stop selling proprietary chargers soon".
> It can be argued that it is not monopolistic

Depends where you draw the line.

The AppStore has 100% market share of the iPhone platform.

Can Microsoft Windows block all web browsers except for Microsoft Edge because it only has a 29% share of device Operating System's?
There should be a couple command line tools to read HN, this way you can even stay in the terminal and don't need to switch to the browser

Switching to my browser, navigating to HN, and checking the first page (and going back if nothing interests me) already does not require me to touch my mouse and can be done with very few keystrokes. Typically, I visit HN when I'm waiting for something to complete or similar, though, in which case I anyways happily move my hand to the mouse, as I'll be _browsing_ for a bit
I think everybody is struggling with this. I found very good example and that is Duolingo, it forces you to take lessons every day. And after month or so it's just in your mind, that feeling you need to finish something, no matter if it's 2 minutes, it's just that you are doing it each day.

I.e. I started learning Data Science lately (frontend developer here), and I just picked one course and learn each day few lessons. More and more, I'm convinced that these small steps are once that moves you forward whether you are learning something new or going to gym, what ever. Just show up, and do that small step each day.

Everything else will come together. You will need to do some research anyway if you want to 'finish' some task, so I don't bother with that. Just go, and learn.
My friend's son went into anaphylaxis while out with his girlfriend, and even though she carried a spare pen, the needle bent when it hit a seam in his pants, rendering it unusable.

She called sobbing that she'd killed him, but someone had an expired pen, and he ended up okay after getting to the hospital. Still, you never know if it could be the one.
> Unless this company is targeting the "homeless people who are denied entry at public spaces" market, how hard is it to get access to a free wifi hotspot?

There are plenty of places where there are no "free wifi hotspots", like many places that fulfill the extreme "not a city" criteria. Maybe it looks differently where you live, but if I go with my car one hour inland I'll end up in places where I'm sure I wouldn't be able to just find free wifi hotspots everywhere.

> Also, if you are such a bad situation that you can not afford to pay for phone service, what is the point of having this offered as a global solution?

I don't know, ask the company if they're planning to offer a global solution and if they say yes, ask them why? Not sure how that's an argument against the service in the first place...
Yeah, I tried it in 2 different browsers where it didn’t work and then decided to check the comments. I’m not putting Chrome on my machine.
He's also fairly inconsistent. He occasionally uses -ize endings, e.g. "realize". He also uses some language that is more prevalent in North American English, e.g. "sucks", "gotten", "chump change" and others.

Someone attempting to use British English to obscure their identity would know to use words like "maths" and "flat", as he did; not as many people however are aware that British English doesn't (typically) feature the word "gotten", which he used on multiple occasions. To me, this lends to the theory the BrE was a misdirection.

(As an aside, he's inconsistent in some other things, like "e-mail" versus "email", "TOR" versus "Tor", and "double click" versus "doubleclick".)
> If you can't build the design, then someone will have to design something else that can be built.

Again. This literally has nothing to do with cookie cutter designs.

If something cannot be built in the area because there's some local wildlife, there are exactly two choices:

- no building is permitted, period, so you build in a different place (or don't build)

- you can build, so you chose the cookie cutter design for the type of construction permitted. E.g. you can't build on the ground, but can build a bridge? You literally take "bridge cookie cutter design N" out of 3 cookie cutter designs for a bridge station (or out of the 15 combinations for a modular station because that's what cookie cutter designs are).

> If people aren't already using cookie cutter designs, there is a reason for that.

It's not. It's the US' insistence on how special and unique they are.

> As mentioned, most of the world doesn't apply US standards and laws.

US is not as special as you make it out to be. The world also has "Red Spotted Scuttlers" and different pollution considerations based on locations, etc.
I mean - nothing is stopping Apple from doing it like Android, where you specifically have to toggle to enable side loading in Apps.
It would probably be a good idea to make it a recommendation to start giving allergy prone foods such as peanuts in small dosis to baby's so there is a higher chance for developing a tolerance.
Do you think debate by those that advocate change should be restricted to those that are willing to fully embrace the limiting case of the proposed change? Don't you think that would limit debate somewhat?
~32 years ago I was in grade school and our class went to the Museum of Natural History in NYC. There was an exhibit there depicting Manhattan under water due to global warming. It gave some year - I don't remember exactly which, but remember calculating that it would be before I would be "old".

It was very impressive, and left an impression on me which I still carry. And yet, it doesn't match reality or anything close to it.

And yes, you can argure that it was not setup by scientists - after all it was in the "Natural History" museum, which is probably not the ideal venue. But you get quickly into "No true Scotsman" territory when you discount every source that is found afterwards to be false.
The article mentions there was a time when LA build a ton of the same schools and it worked.
NO! It must always be up to a user to decide to update software. Not all updates work. Not all updates are improvements.
Yeah, now you can see when a site wants to sell your data to Google.
Except that's not why Amish don't drive cars.

(not that I'm an expert, but I don't believe there'd be anything in Amish theology specifically against AGI —pace current power requirements?— especially if it were intelligent enough to understand Gelassenheit)

see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39373558
I've had my parents using Android and Windows for years and never once did they install malware. A couple of viruses on Windows accumulated after many years sure but none on Android. I'm not sure where people are getting this logic about this.
Hey it's like that comic!

> We should improve society somewhat.

Yet you pariticpate in society. Curious!

I am very intelligent.
Because pretending Google's answer are brainwashing people is actually an argumentin favor of speech policing

You wouldn't want Google or others to brainwash people into thinking badly of people of colour, would you?

Or is that some kind of _selective_ worry?
>reserve the term “greed” for software businesses with infinite scalability that not only deliver 20%+ profit margins year after year, but growth on top of that.

Hey wait a minute, that's the kind of returns I like to do with a regular business, and I'm as non-greedy a non-consumer non-capitalist as you probably will find.

I'm just a plain entrepreneur by nature, and a respectable return is always a worthwhile target.

Software businesses can do way better than that, absolutely no greed should be necessary. And when greed does pop up (prevail?) it's so disgraceful.

When you do the math over the long run, the amount of upside is drastically limited by the presence of greed.
Holy crap "20$ not unreasonable for data in India"

That's a hard no. That's highway robbery. 2gb/day for a month with international calling was $8 with jio
So the yellow vest were terrorists, as were the red caps. Which is funny, because that last movement was supported by 3 of the richest French industrialist. Can we nationalize them for supporting terrorists?

OH! And French farmers are terrorists too according to your definition of terrorism and violence.

Maybe violence against people and violence against stuff shouldn't be treated the same.
It's a very direct way of saying "your commission is too expensive." Which it is.
This has been my argument. If users want more open and developers want more freedom, Android is there. It wouldn't take many developers to pull out before Apple made changes. And if they didn't change, users would begin to leave.
It was a rhetorical question?
Live migration is a pretty hair-raising feature if you know how it is implemented internally, but nevertheless qemu/libvirt put in a vast effort to make it work and many Red Hat customers are using it routinely.
> As to the core technology fee, this is a new “junk” fee, which will disproportionately affect those app developers that have limited revenues, but whose apps are widely downloaded.

What kinds of free app developer is he talking about here? Surely if you are free you will stay on the old terms and never had much incentive to move anyway. Unless you’re another gatekeeper like the Microsoft, Googles and Metas then there might be other incentives. Or does he mean free but can’t be on the App Store? I’m not sure the EU is going to side with pirates and porn.
shrug You can just create a 'god mode' folder and access it from there.

https://www.howtogeek.com/402458/enable-god-mode-in-windows-...
And they tend to be ones that Google isn't happy with, like ad-free YouTube clients.
That phenomenona accurately describes the hackernews experience.
Most plastics
i think they just need a more aggressive timeout value to fallback to offline mode. i wonder where their engineering made it too complicated to weigh out these scenarios.
Or the other way around, if apps developers don't like the position of Apple, then don't develop for Apple, and then users will progressively leave the platform at their next phone renewal (~ 2 years).
> tricking or getting tricked in the process

I live in a world where I do not have to trick or be tricked by other people. I surround myself with people whom I can actually trust to have my interests at heart, and I try to look out for their interests as well. This is not just the case for my friends, but has been in my communities, across multiple countries. I can happily go to the market and buy whatever at a listed price, confident that the market stall owner is pricing it at enough to make a comfortable living and no more. I can be confident that if my purchase is flawed, I can say, and be trusted with a refund easily.

This, to me, is a deeply human system. The idea that deceit and cheating are features of life just doesn't bear out for me. There are people that do that, and when I encounter them, I do whatever I can to make sure I never encounter them again. Unfortunately, the consolidation of large businesses makes it more and more common. I avoid those where I can also.
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In my own limited experience in Europe, yes, it indeed can happen occasionally, especially during the holiday rush if you are travelling a popular route. I haven't found it to be much an issue in practice. You can avoid the worse of it by planning ahead, shifting your departure time a bit and carefully choosing your route as the situation evolve in regard to charger capacity.

Still, even if that happen and each of your 3 stop adds extra half-hour wait, sure you waited an extra 1 and half hours but it's not like the ICE cars are as fast on those days either. There are traffic jams, 10 min queue at petrol station, 10 minutes queue for the restrooms, 20 minutes queue for your sandwich etc. Your stop in an ICE car will be longer too.

In the end, even on those high traffic days I found the experience of travelling with an EV more enjoyable than with an ICE car.
The issue is things that would make sense in a workplace setting (which should be on work devices, but that ship has sailed), have real social and privacy issues (see MDMs being used as stalkerware). I worked on an app which really did need as much sensor data as possible (field notebooks for academics), but you really wouldn't want to give that level of access without oversight. The more information you can collect without needing some kind of review (which I totally agree is rarely sufficient), the more this is an issue. Ideally there are different levels (e.g. business, personal, and locked down), and you need to do the setup in person so as to reduce harm.
> You can perfectly live without Apple products

I'm in the US so maybe different, but it's increasingly hard to "live without Apple products." I refuse to buy Apple products, and it has had an affect. My kids keep running into challenges where an app they need for school or something is Apple only. Other times the app will be available on Android, but the teacher only covers the iOS version. Most recently my son has been getting excluded because he is a "green bubble." So I'm not disagreeing with your whole post, but I do disagree with that part.
“Control rods go brrrrrr”
Elaborate, please!
> People send to EU are not some slaves, but highly loyal party members.

Mr Troll, be careful with your karma: you can always wake up in some workers paradise, but be careful not to wake up on the wrong side of the barbed wire fence...
"There are big players that deliberately created many of those problems"

Could you specify which ones? I'm curious who's profiting from hunger, poverty, economic instability, and unemployment -- and thereby perpetuating it (sounds like major speculation).

Maybe war gets propagated by nations military industries (though that's probably only sometimes true). The remaining problems listed (environmental damage, drug addiction, chronic disease) seems like second order consequences of other pursuits, not problems perpetuated for their own sake.

Whether they're first or second order consequences might seem like a semantics debate, but it's what distinguishes your model (problems are deliberate) from Donella Meadows model (externalities, collective action, structural issues, etc). And both models suggest very different solutions (police bad actors versus change structures/incentives)
I recommend learning complex numbers and the problems they can solve before touching on the main topic, Fourier series.
No, you were repeatedly insulting me and when I rejected that, you told me I was getting worked up and continued insulting me. You were saying that it literally wasn’t possible to honestly disagree with you:

> this also isn’t a legitimate difference of opinion scenario.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39026820

You were being unreasonable and insulting. If you are going to continue to act like that, how about we stay out of each other’s way? Don’t drag this thread down into a flamewar as well.
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In substance both say "it's not the flashy things everyone writes fiction about that get you, it's the boring same old same old that'll do you in"

that said, I agree wholeheartedly that Lewis is a much better writer!
> Unfortunately, we cannot pick and choose civilisational paths like a buffet meal.

This is well-said. The path to human civilisation has been stochastic and literally disastrous.

> We can only start from where are.

And herein lies the latest danger: many people, and their pandering representatives (in the case of democracy), refuse to see where we are.
Likewise, I guess if you only look at the downsides it's not such a great place.
Macs have a better design here - they use the more convenient thumb for Ctrl functions, so fn on the far left is not relevant

But on a PC far left key is easier to press with a palm than the much less useful fn, so it's a welcome improvement in the default layout
Is there something specific you wanna know? My arrangements look pretty similar: I bill per hour, clients pay me to create web applications (usually SaaS), and I work either alone (preferred) or on small teams.
How many $8m customers did VMware have? I reckon it’s not far from 690.
new raspberry pi compete with smartphones of the past, which then have comparable compute than servers of the yester years. moore's law has allowed developers to push more and act fast at the cost of being optimal. many such cases.
Is that legal in germany? I don't know but I guess it isn't.
PID control becomes kinda useless as soon as you have a coupled high dimensional system, think something like a drone with aerodynamics or a robot a high number of DOF. There are of course patches so that you can still apply multiple PIDs but the intuition on why it won't work is that each PID doesn't know what the other PIDs are doing, and this often leads to unstable control actions. Another place where PID cannot be applied is in discrete-event systems (eg network of devices that needs to sync up using messages and do something).
Yeah I doubt there's much point without insane amounts of data, and if you do have the extra onboard compute a particle filter can probably leverage it more effectively.
You’re assuming that those programs are well funded enough to have space available, it’s safe, and doesn’t come with the expectation of working. I don’t know where you live but that’s a long way from being universally true in the United States.
Some people learn new concepts and are eager to try them even in scenarios where they are not the best tool for the job.
I'll be the odd man out. No and on.

1) One of the key things in control systems is to deal with uncertainty. If you have a hundred trains, none of them should crash. You want a control system which you can understand to work even in corner cases. ML is bad at that.

2) You need to train an ML. Unless you have a very good model of the thing you're controlling (generating which is usually harder than designing an optimal control system), training an RL means crashing airplanes, burning out amplifiers, or destroying self-driving cars as the system "learns." Even so, when moving from model to reality, it's likely you didn't capture some oddball part of the system.

3) In many cases, there is some give-and-take between control system design and system design. In an extreme case, the PID can be purely mechanical or electrical (e.g. an op-amp). In a less extreme case, if you can design the mechanical system to avoid having e.g. a right-half-plane singularity, controls becomes easier. RL isn't at the level where you can do that kind of codesign.

4) It's a lot more complex.

So "in general," no. In some specific cases, yes.

RL is mostly beneficial for rather complex systems, such as walking robots or anytime a word like "nonholonomic" comes up. For relatively linear, relatively low-dimensional systems, classical methods will give better results for less effort.
Why Is Plagiarism Wrong?
I think the data are that we are working a bit less than we used to, it's rather that the norms and mental categories have shifted. For example 40hr work week is now a sort of norm, vs "sunrise to sunset."

The average workday is also much safer and less physically painful than it used to be.

There are two things I have in mind, and if I have time later I'll see if I can find them and update the post -- one chart of total working hours per worker, and one article, about how much added safety has or hasn't slowed down productivity growth (which inevitably has a lot of data in it about workplace injury and death over time).

Children also work much less than they used to.

I think that Keynes wasn't completely wrong in his prediction (...and maybe if AI really kicks off he will be more vindicated, just missed on the timing)
> "naming fatigue"

ChatGPT is quite good at coming up with names.

It can map a description of a thing to a name. And the descriptions can vary between developers and probably still end up with the same name. So if everyone relies on its naming-prowess then everyone ends up naming things consistently.

Aside: I wonder if it can name parameters from tacit-style...

Write this in non-tacit style:

sort input.txt | uniq -c | sort -rn > output.txt

sort input.txt > sorted.txt
uniq -c sorted.txt > counted.txt
sort -rn counted.txt > output.txt

Seems it can. Look how the output of `uniq` was `counted`.

Maybe we should just let ChatGPT name everything.

Interesting to think what programming is you no longer have to name things. A lot of programming is grouping code and coming up with names for the groups.

What if we didn't worry about grouping or naming, and just dealt with the data, and let chatgpt provide names on-the-fly.

Functions could even be replaced by descriptions of the actions.

I wonder if you could let an LLM evolve a graphical operating system from just the hardware definition.

We went through ~70 years of trial and error for programming languages going from low-level to progressively higher-level, and kept all the baggage along the way.

How would an AI go about this...with all the knowledge of today? How would it reason about each step in evolving a language.

I'm guessing it would probably be a LISP :D
Maybe some day we'll have a PIR-based[1] search engine-- but then you couldn't harvest data on your users and sell personalized ads, so maybe not.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_information_retrieval
Autocorrect has been a thing since the early 90s.

In many European countries it is common that the default English wordlist is British spelling.
these are not inherent problems to PWAs tho. The data loss situation is pretty much the same for any native app. They can choose to be local only or sync to a server. Apple can also support iCloud for PWAs in theory.

Also there is nothing stopping extensions to work for PWAs. They do on Chrome desktop and you can disable/enable extensions per app. Not an Android user (yet) so I don't know how is it on mobile.
I think they are referencing the feeling of being forced to follow orders that don't seem to make sense.
I got my Mac Studio with M1 Ultra and 128g of RAM specifically for this reason, in case I needed it. Definitely not using its full capacities for any other purpose, though it's nice to be able to run 10 instances of a big data-grinding program at once, overnight.

Still waiting on 'consumer' AI training facilities I can practically use: it's a bit arcane, not up to speed on that. I can generate text up to Llama 70b if I'm patient, and generate images and sort-of-video quite easily.
5 hours in, place 65. It doesn't even have the typical flamewar indicators such as # of comments > # of upvotes.
1975: The first cancellation of a planned nuclear power plant occurred in Wyhl, Germany due to protests from "environmentalists".
You probably meant Benefit Corporations, a type of US legal entity.

The are not the same as as B Corporation which is a virtue signalling grift.
Not all browsers support `Sec-Fetch-Dest: iframe`, URL param works everywhere.
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