skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does the fact that you view this group as oppressed make a difference on whether such a ban is more or less valid?

Well yes, because you won't ever see a ISD try to ban a book because it contains a heterosexual couple.

We can play dumb all day long, and sometimes that can be fun. But after a certain point we have to wade through the bullshit.

It's not about sexuality, it's not about protecting children, it's not about inappropriate content. When 100% of proposed book bans "conveniently" target books which, either tangentially or directly, address LGBT topics then clearly THAT is the reason they are being banned.

Of course, nobody is going to tell you that. Because saying "we want this book gone because gays" isn't very nice and doesn't sound very good. However, as human beings, we have been given the power of logic and deductive reasoning. We can look at patterns, locations, history of regions etc. and come to the conclusion that is what they're doing.
The music industry isn’t a “goose that lays golden eggs” for the greater economy. It’s not as democratic or accessible as the tech industry either.

You’d have a stronger argument if it was at least fair to the artists that it purportedly represents. It’s not.
Ownership and security are at odds. The only remedy would be forcing Apple to allow the owner of the device to run whatever they would like on it, unfortunately this does include malware.
Break them all up simultaneously or find a better approach.

My perception is that there are too many politicians trying to pick winners for their own benefit.
Heh... I hereby submit:

¥phone , ¥pad
Press Release version in case anyone gets paywalled: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/iverfiy-discovers-s...
General computing devices like smartphones should allow users to install whatever they want without any cost or restrictions.
Israel is doing anything it can to provoke a response from Iran- then it'll turn back to the West and demand more money, weapons and diplomatic support to "defend itself".
My, how the times have changed. When the App Store launched, people praised Apple for its low commission rate.
THIS! THIS! THIS! THIS! THIS! THIS! THIS!

If I need an app to charge an EV, then I'm not buying an EV - period end.

I hear people say Tesla is great because they have the largest charging network. What a load of BS! THAT'S A GIANT STEP BACKWARDS! Right now, I can take my dino car and fill up anywhere. I don't need a station branded for my make of car. I also don't need an app to buy gas.

As long as this situation persists, you can count me out of EVs. When I can go to a BP station (just a well-known vendor for discussion) and charge my car using a credit card - I'm in.
Pagers created a new business model for drug dealers. It didn't change the criminality of drug dealing.
Again, which items?

Google Sets? Ain't nobody gonna pay for that! Chromecast? Google Domains? I am scrolling through the list and not seeing much that would stand on its own two feet. Stadia? Google+?

I'm just not seeing much that can stand on its own, that people will pay for without it resorting to an ad model to support it.
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Nice, good speed and nice domain

I don't use twitch but I watch yt everyday
You have any supporting argument for that? Like why is the one reasonable and the other not?
> Apple users are not purchasable in the same way that Google or Meta users are by advertisers.

You might have missed the memo but Apple is one of the largest advertising companies in the world.

Also, when Google pays Apple $20 billion a year to be the default search engine, what do you think they are paying for?
Wildly speculating - could this be a response to Iran trying to hack both presidential campaigns?

https://www.wired.com/story/iran-apt42-trump-biden-harris-ph...

"Google says Iran-backed hacking group APT42 has targeted the Trump and Biden campaigns, as well as Israeli military, government, and diplomatic organizations"
I would hate to see a world where this sentiment is widespread when others are trying to fight for the right to repair and other causes and Apple is doing nothing but lobbying against them.
I think youtube cooperated with taking pirated content down while Kim was a bit like screw you, I'm offshore, you can't get me.
They didn’t have to go into new business sectors under the same parent company. They chose to because it allowed them to control multiple sectors without competition.

Regardless, there is not competition in their business in areas where there should be according to monopoly rules.

I believe this falls under the rules against exclusionary conduct.
https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
Couldn't agree more.

I find that I'll choose Markdown (assuming it's a choice) when I expect multi-modal consumption... where a given text will in some contexts simply be presented as-is using plain text and the text can also take advantage of rendering into a more styled presentation.

I write in-database comments (e.g. PostgreSQL's `COMMENT ON [...]`) using Markdown for this reason. My go-to database documentation tool of choice (https://schemaspy.org) will very nicely render the Markdown into styled documentation integrated into the rest of the documentation it generates, but the plain text rendering when I'm looking at those same comments via `psql`, where no Markdown rendering is applied, still look decent due to how Markdown works.
Liability is their primary concern
Wow - nice job!
No, it’s simply to encourage basic fairness and it’s a basic component of international relations. We do this regularly in many different industries across many different countries, and so do most other countries.

It’s also a simple component of how our visa system works. The reason Americans and Europeans can travel to so many countries visa free is that if you want to travel here then you have to let us travel there.

Denying one country the ability to operate here, because they deny us the ability to operate there will still allow basic freedom, because most other countries don’t operate draconian bans like this. The reality is that by applying these rules we are more likely to spread capitalism, democracy and freedom, by demanding China open up their markets.
But then, if you're a professional contest-enterer, that's got do a lot to boost your chances - especially over time, right? At the 1 year mark, I would expect you could raise your chances to 10% of a win of some type per contest (being conservative here). You've specialized in this. You'll always be a contender.

If you're a professional contest-enterer then it seems like a pretty bad idea to produce a detailed write-up which prospective rival contest-enterers may use as training material. If 1k people from HN visit your blog then even 0.5% of readers getting in on the game can cause your expected value to plummet.

It should be noted that the article addressed the question of how to discover contests with a refusal to divulge. This is security by obscurity. If a bunch of people get excited enough about entering contests using these deliberate winning methods then it wouldn't take much for them to set up a Discord channel to coordinate the discovery process. If even 10 people get together to "entry bomb" these contests then the original author's advantage will evaporate.
I've been out of work for close to 6 months now, actively searching, interviewing every week, and finding that what the job market seems to value is that you have done the exact same thing as what they are hiring for.

I've discovered breakthrough algos and delivered solutions which personalize medical care, sometimes with life and death outcomes.

Yet somehow that doesn't count when the company wants someone who has done personalization for consumer products.

I have other examples from other common DS roles/tasks, where I have done the equivalent thing to that role in a different context. And somehow that never seems to count.

So no, I don't have strong evidence that the job market values generic skills. Perhaps your experience has been different?

I can also hear someone saying "with the attitude that the poster is taking, I'm not surprised"-- so let me point out how difficult it is to extract attitude from text, and that the context here (presenting evidence to refute a claim) is very different from an interview context.
The article title has since been changed to

"Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay"
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lol. please stop. we know what being on a russian payroll means. just like we knew irak didnt have weapons of mass destruction. you tell yourself the lies because you know once the truth will come out there will be other matters to tend
The article certainly paints it in that light.

I also agree that it isn't clear to me how stealing information from private citizens would be a justified response for ongoing tensions in the region.

Not sure why you're downvoted.
> And then used it for racketeering, allegedly, which is where the government interest starts.

MPAA/RIAA needing to be saved from racketeering is epic levels of irony
Fuck the MPAA/RIAA
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You're arguing legality trumps morality. We're in the opposite camp.

Fuck MPAA/RIAA. They're not good faith actors and they play dirty all the time. We need to fight dirty too. It's so rich of those guys to complain of racketeering of all things!
No, it was not "pretty much the same" as Dropbox.

Megaupload took steps to specifically support piracy. When a movie studio would report a pirated copy of one of their movies, Megaupload would tell the studio they removed it but in reality they would only make it so the specific link the studio new about would stop working. They would not delete the underlying file and any other links would continue to work.

This failure to remove the underlying file was not a technical limitation. When child porn was reported they were able to kill the reported link and the underlying file, thus breaking all links to it.
Twitter seems to think that the only source for this is Iran International, and there's been no corroboration, so take with a grain of salt.
Thats just how much time money buys you in appeals, challenges and what not.
If Patreon doesn’t like Apple’s rules, they should just take their app off the App Store.

All these companies moaning about Apple yet aren’t doing the one thing they have the power to do which is just leave.

If they refuse to leave, then they’re admitting that Apple’s platform is providing value to them and they should pay what Apple wants. I support creators on Patreon, what exactly is wrong with just doing everything via their website? The mobile web is a thing, what more do they need for their glorified payments processing platform?
Well, technically EVs have much larger "filling up" network than your dino car, since you can charge it from literally any socket anywhere in the world. It's not like Teslas can only be charged at superchargers. If you can charge at home every night it's likely you will never use a public charger in the lifetime of the car(unless you absolutely have to).

But yes, we need government regulation that says any EV charger should just have a card reader and start charging without requiring any kind of app/authentication.
how is it different than what youtube, chatgpt, fb or even google drive did? the only difference is his political stance
They are not purchasable; but they are revenue generating for Apple, specifically. So, it isn't that off?
Achieving Frugal Architecture Using the AWS Well-Architected Framework Guidance
I'm starting to look at the latency tolerance components of the protocol, once it supports sneakernet as a transport, it will be perfect.

edit: nvmd, looks like it is set at a global level not a link level
It's not a crazy idea. For example, Amazon's BluAge offering does automatic translation. However, frequently, forward engineering teams do not want a 1:1 translation of the code, because that might end up reproducing the same system organisation of the original Cobol base (in a modern language), and engineers/architects usually want to work on a new design (while maintaining the original domain logic).
So far, this library does not step into the forward engineering territory, and tries to merely provide useful information/artifacts, which could help the reverse engineering teams move (hopefully) faster, but obviously there is a lot of experimentation / inference that can be done on top of the extracted data.
CockroachDB license change
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> What’s really funny is that these books are usually so obscene

This is not the case because literally hundreds of books have been, or are, on the chopping blocks.

Keep in mind the word "obscene" here is doing a lot of work. These types of people consider any display of homosexuality obscene. Their purpose is to mix in REAL obscene books into the pot to confuse you and get you to think "wow they're doing the lord's work!"

It's a common, but effective, strategy. You say a few reasonable things and then you mix in some absolutely crazy bullshit and it goes under the radar. Meaning, you ban actually absurd books and then you sneak in "The Handmaid's Tale" or "To Kill a Mockingbird" and hopefully nobody notices.
this likable/unlikable narrative gives me chills. it’s just like with assange—(il)legal imperialism at play - basically a rogue country playing the world police for the capitalist class, yet we’re fixated on personalities. it's like mistaking the finger for the moon.
Kim just didn’t grease the right palm plus he was a singular face and name. Feds are relentless at getting those who the oligopolists have marked for retribution, just like Assange and Snowden
False. Not any contract can be violated if signed under duress.

This is not gun to your head level duress. You go to your fiance and ask her to sign a prenupt two hours before you guys tie the knot and threaten to end the marriage if she doesn’t sign… that counts as duress.

Heard a story of a lady who delayed the signing of a prenuptial until such a situation occurred. She delayed and delayed until she would sign, while sobbing, an hour before they tie the knot in front of witnesses. The man ended the marriage right there because of this law.
One thing you learn over the years is that people make up everything. I can't recall the exact quote but the character Frank Underwood once said something to the effect of "the law is the law, but the law is people and I know people". Meaning he could control the situation regardless.

The opposite also happens and you can see cases like this or Shkreli, Dotcom and others where they think being edgy on top of minor crimes will not get them in hot water because other people do worse but keep on the low down, but time and again you see these guys being made an example of, probably because a bunch of people dealing with their cases also start disliking them personally.

So I guess like, don't behave like an asshole generally, but specially if you're also committing crimes. Kinda like not breaking traffic laws if you have a dead body in the trunk.
With that precision and size, you can only cover the years from 1678 to 2262, which strongly limits your ability to represent historical dates and times.
Maybe it's time we brought back the "Reveal Codes" command?
I am glad to continue the discussion and narrow it as much as possible:

Please forget the "novel" meaning for a while, and let's continue with the CRM example. I am a Hubspot customer now. As most companies we have used spreadsheets, vTiger [1], SugarCRM [2], among other apps. My main point was that if they are not/were succesful by the HN startup definition is because they had issues in the GTM not in PMF and this is a common confusion. There was always PMF for CRMs the problem is marketing/selling them. That market is so huge and known that thinking in PMF is deviating the attention from just selling! That is what my "middle east business side" says.

[1] https://www.vtiger.com/

[2] https://www.sugarcrm.com/
But syntax is ugly, especially the more complex parts we have now. And I think some of them, like tables, code blocks or modern link-style, weren't even part of the original markdown.

And the reason I prefer Markdown, is because it's not proprietary, and Obsidian, my preferred Markdown-Tool, has a different workflow than the usual WYSIWYG-Tools. If Obsidian would use json or yaml for everything, I would still use it. It's just a tool for me, not the goal.
They are explicitly purchasable. What do you think advertising on the App store is? What do you think Google paying $20 billion to be the default search engine is?
How much has "Hollywood" paid to people that make films and how much has Kim paid? Rough figures will do.
Here’s my view of why countries don’t attack each other: The downside for the attacker has to be larger than the upside, that’s when diplomacy becomes interesting. The downside doesn’t just have to be the defense of the attacked country but also the relation with other countries. The US won’t invade Australia because they wouldn’t gain much, compared to the loss of trust by other countries. Defense from china is more important than from the US for Australia, because the “public stage” deterrent is smaller for china than the US. That’s why you need to increase the deterrent by increasing your defense capabilities. You can correct me if you disagree though.
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Tell me you've never read Marx without telling me you've never read Marx.
At no point was I equating Apple and Amazon. I was asking why Apple doesn't collect 30% from Amazon (which Amazon would naturally pass on to consumers) when people buy goods from Amazon's iOS app.

My entire point is that this distinction seems increasingly arbitrary on Apple's part and is perhaps driven by the expected outrage if they tried to pull the same stunt with retailers like Amazon or Temu.
Because the fuel standards for those smaller vehicles are not realistic to hit. If you go to page 24 on this pdf [1] you'll see that for a car with ~41 square foot wheelbase they need to get 55 combined miles per gallon. This essentially disqualifies anything that is not a hybrid from even going into production at that size. I'll give you its true that Americans love big cars, but even my Ram TRX driving coworkers are complaining that trucks are too big and that they'd love for a early 00's or late 90's F-150 style truck again.

[1] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-05-02/pdf/2022-0...
I don't see how a Google breakup can be operationalized. There's just no way the company's stack can support it without decades of work. It'd be like dismembering a person and expecting all the pieces to go off and thrive.
It was reported as fake news.
Someone taped a piece of paper to an ATM and suddenly its the largest cyber attack in history.
Don't forget they helicopter-dropped a heavily-armed swat team onto his property to execute the search of his home.

Illegally, extra-judicially. Although it was mainly NZ authorities who overstepped their bounds by allowing it.
> But it's completely farcical to state that he's 10,000 times smarter

That's now how it works though. Someone with an iq of 101 isn't 1% more valuable than someone iq100. A man can easily be worth 10,000 times more with an iq of 150 than some average shlob.

> it's far more reasonable to assume that he assigned the value of the efforts of others to himself, stole, manipulated, scammed, or otherwise acquired that $175M illegitimately.

Easy, sure. Reasonable? No, it isn't. He wasn't phishing Grandma's facebook to get her to send him her life's savings. He had a service that other people wanted to use, they paid him for it. None of them complained that he wasn't providing the service. One user even sued the US government, claiming they seized his own personal documents when they seized the servers (had no backups of it). Quite a few were using it in ways most would consider legitimate.

> I feel the same about Musk's or Bezos' mind-boggling fortunes; Jeff isn't making $2M per hour while his exhausted employees make $16/hr (while peeing in bottles on a breakneck pace through the warehouse) because he's foregoing all human needs and limits,

Jeff Bezos was never making $2mil/hour at all. This is what happens when your economics education consisted of a dozen r/latestagecapitalism meme pictures.

Jeff Bezos famously had an $80,000 salary. I make more than that, and I'm a loser. The rest of you are probably making x2 or x3 as much, maybe more. He had assets of many millions of shares of stock, with an estimated worth of many billions depending on share price on any given day. It'd be like claiming you make $750,000/hr because your home's worth that much (according to Zillow, and only until you try to sell it and find out it's quite a bit less).
Agreed. Thanks for the enhancement.
Note the qualifier: “not an Internet standard” (my emphasis).
Depending upon how you look at it, there is more than one competitor to Apple. It kinda sucks that most of the competition to iOS runs one operating system, yet that one operating system is supported by multiple hardware vendors and multiple online storefronts.

Yet there is also another competitor to Apple on iOS devices. It is called the web. Patreon in no way owes money to Apple if the end user fires up a web browser on their phone and makes their contribution through the website. Argue all that you want about convenience, and you're probably right on that front, but it is a way to circumvent Apple to have more of your contribution delivered to the intended recipient.

In the end, the decision of iOS users to support Apple's practices are at issue here. Sometimes you just have to say no using whatever means are at your disposal.
Why are you convinced of this, and can I help unconvince you? ;) What you describe is what’s called “Box Filtering” in the article. Box filtering is well studied, and it is known to not be the best possible output quality. The reason this is not the best approach is because a pixel is not a little square, a pixel is a sample of a signal, and it has to be approached with signal processing and human perception in mind. (See the famous paper linked in the article: A Pixel is Not a Little Square, A Pixel is Not a Little Square, A Pixel is Not a Little Square http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf)

It can be surprising at first, but when you analytically compute the area of non-overlapping parts of a pixel (i.e., use Box Filtering) you can introduce high frequencies that cause visible aliasing artifacts that will never go away. This is also true if you are using sub-sampling of a pixel, taking point samples and averaging them, no matter how many samples you take.

You can see the aliasing I’m talking about in the example at the top of the article, the 3rd one is the Box Filter - equivalent to computing the area of the polygons within each pixel. Look closely near the center of the circle where all the lines converge, and you can see little artifacts above and below, and to the left and right of the center, artifacts that are not there in the “Bilinear Filter” example on the right.
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No we just realized people who pirate likely aren’t going to buy it anyway, you can’t claim lost profits for ~$0.
didn't itunes let people convert their pirated music collections into legit paid ones?

except they did a bad job by replacing tracks that sounded similar and then deleting the original.
Are any of the people who were arrested for RIAA/MPAA violations still imprisoned? That was such a weird time to be a kid. Scared if I downloaded a Greenday mp3 my parents would get arrested for piracy and I'd never be able to work in computers.