skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably in games that use Ray tracing or similar esoteric features, in which case your FPS will go from 10 to 20 and Nvidia's claim will still be technically true
It might be worth collectively paying someone else to do it.
In the 80's I made a database routine to do just this - take a zip and turn it into a city - and as well, to go the other direction. I sold it to another software company for a rather fat amount of cash, and they used it to make their production-line data entry 80% faster. In the cases where it failed and produced wrong results, it was cheaper for them to ship me the dud records for correction in the database than it was to go back to the old way.

Yet still, today, its a very rarely encountered technique. I wonder if so much has changed in the Zip+4 world to make it an efficiency sink...
Microsoft stops a new Russian ‘hacking’ operation
Most Muslim states are oppressive dictatorships, or have fractious ethic minorities of their own, or both. Criticising China for its treatment of the Uighurs would just draw attention to their own record and current activities. Also, most of them have trade and investment links to China.
Chickfila is very much a top-to-bottom ownership company. They own every step of the process in the cooking, from the machines, to servicing, to the logistics behind maintenance.

It's really exciting to see a company like this just want to own everything they do, and not reach out for 3rd party tools and SaaS and such.
Thank you! It's an oligarchy! Not a dictatorship!

But they're not near-equivalent. Group vs individual. Politics are entirely different. Both deemphasize citizen rights but that doesn't make them the same!

Why are people so offended that this distinction exists?
It's a matter of definitions. For many, capitalism means "free market economy". Under that case, authoritarianism is indeed fundamentally opposed to capitalism. If you define capitalism as just "private ownership of the means of production", then sure, you can be authoritarian and capitalist.
Pan-Islamism aside, there were mass protests over those Danish cartoons a few years back. I don't claim to understand other cultures and religions, but I'll be surprised if mass internment is less outrageous. So where are those people?
> equivalently tasty to easily available options

Honestly curious, what are these options of equivalent tastiness? Do they pass in blind taste tests with any "mainstream" meats? Are they at the same (or lower) pricepoint? Do they have the same (or better) nutritional value?

A lot of people probably agree with your general premise that meat consumption is cruel, but will probably continue eating meat because of one or more of the above.
Yep, just like LaTeX :)
I think the focus on "30%" is a little mis-statement. You can pretty easily argue that 30% is too high, but clearly they aren't going to pass along the 12-15% or whatever it actually costs them (assuming 5-7% for payment, a few more % for server costs and bandwidth, a few more % for customer support and developer support) -- clearly they're going to value their monopoly audience attention at some non-zero number. So what does that bring us to? 20%? 25%?

The real issue isn't the few percentage points the devs would like to claw back, it's with applications that have recurring billing and would prefer not to give a percentage at all. Netflix doesn't want to cut Apple in on subscribers. Neither does Amazon with Kindle. Any percentage based system is going to be unfair to someone: if they take a percentage on upfront purchase cost, Apple/Google will get nothing. If they take a percentage on subsequent revenue or subscription revenue, it'll seem disproportionate on an ongoing basis to the value the companies supply.

Making matters worse, it is not especially feasible to come up with a different rate on a case-per-case basis without grossly distorting the market and magnifying existing first-to-market advantages in an undesireable way.
If there was universal integrity across the board re: food and nutrition companies like Coca-Cola would simply cease to exist.
This makes sense in retail. The operating costs associated with retail are more than twice that of a pure digital store. Digital stores don't need to worry about theft, inventory, logistics, opportunity costs of floor space, bad returns, etc. I bet Apple's entire online operation cost less to run than all of the Walmarts in New Jersey.

Plus, you can do cool things like individualize what's offered to customers in a digital store. While the best Walmart can manage are stores customized a store for the region.
I think they were asking $2 Trillion, and deals with developing countries always involve a "no-layoffs clause", which is mostly nepotism. See Air India's "proposed sale" for an example.

Additionally, the recent royal family instability and waiting until solar and wind took off (ie. competition) didn't help.

It would be cheaper to just hire Xe and take over the country, which you would need to do anyway to enforce your ownership stake.
If you're going to eat vegetarian, there are some cuisines, like Indian, that give you more good options.
I found an interesting paragraph in the article [1] from Buzzfeed:

"But critics say [positive gestures from China towards Uighur] are overshadowed by the government’s more repressive measures, which have fueled the propaganda of a small number of extremists, including the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), a radical Uighur militant group, some of whose adherents are believed to have been active in Syria and Afghanistan. According to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute, TIP released an issue of its online magazine on Aug. 29, calling for its fighters in Syria to prepare for future battle against the Chinese state in East Turkestan, a name many Uighurs use to refer to Xinjiang.".

The last sentence there struck me as unusual given what that implies: [2]

"The medieval Persian toponym "Turkestan" and its derivatives were not used by the local population of the greater region, and China had its own name for an overlapping area since the Han Dynasty as Xiyu, with the parts controlled by China termed Xinjiang from the 18th century onward. The historical Uyghur name for the Tarim Basin is Altishahr, which means "six cities" in Uyghur.

Starting in the 20th century, Uyghur separatists and their supporters used East Turkestan (or "Uyghurstan") as an appellation for the whole of Xinjiang, or for a future independent state in present-day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (presumably with Ürümqi as its capital). They reject the name of Xinjiang because of an allegedly Chinese perspective reflected in the name and prefer East Turkestan to emphasize connection to other westerly Turkic groups. However, even in nationalist writing, East Turkestan retained its older, more narrow geographical meaning. In China, the term has negative connotations because of its origins in European colonialism and present use by militant groups."

[1] - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/the-police-stat...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Turkestan
> Were you aware that vector rendering is not usually done on GPUs, mainly because of the high overhead of state changes when using a graphics API, especially one like WebGL?

But it's actually worse than that, isn't it? It's not only that I can't render a complex SVG path on the GPU, but I can't even apply a GPU accelerated transform on existing child nodes of an SVG.

Why is it that <div> can get a GPU-accelerated transform but <g> can't?
Chick-Fil-A is just the service provider, if not for Chick-Fil-A people would get their chicken elsewhere. If they were raised in a place that felt less like captivity, that would probably be worse for the environment, in terms of using more natural resources per pound of chicken produced. There are trade-offs to everything.

Chick-Fil-A isn't really in the meat business, they're in the restaurant business, and given that they aren't in a very tiny niche, their menus feature meat. They sell plenty of soft drinks and fried potatoes which reduce the amount of meat as a percent of the total calories.

Finally if you're going to get people excited about animal rights, it's probably better to mention cows than chickens. To me, Chick-Fil-A's ads suggest eating chicken as a lesser of two evils, without ever saying that eating chicken is evil. We also don't have a separate word for chicken meat like we do for cow or pig meat, which I think serve as euphemisms.
> Alternatively they don't protest China because they know it does no good.

One Muslim country at least, Egypt, is doing China's bidding on Uighurs https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/07/fear-panic-egypt-arre... :

> Egyptian police have detained scores of Chinese students from the Uighur ethnic minority on Beijing's request, forcing dozens into hiding or to flee to Turkey, activists have said.

> These millions of Muslims are not just going to give up their beliefs willingly, so what is China's next step? Vast genocide has to be the concern going forward.

Certainly all the ones they've put in concentration camps are never going to love China after what's happened. If they let them out, their stories will only spread discontent among the rest of the population. So genocide will have been an option under consideration. On the other hand, they must know that descending to Nazi levels of evil is unlikely to improve China's image.
edit:

Took me a moment to think about what you were saying. I agree with you. Maybe that's what I was roughly getting at to begin with. I agree you should think about why, I suppose I already had and take it for granted that others may not have even approached the need to question.

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I have asked myself why.

I have a problem eating any animal that is endangered or at risk of extinction.

I might not be against eating a whale. I've never had the opportunity. But I have a problem with hunting them in their current state of risk.

I've had what I would call relationships with various animals as pets—as such I wouldn't want to eat them. Similarly, if I'd had such a relationship with any other kind of animal I might feel the same, but I can't speak to that.
I've heard that much of the recent rise in some whale populations can be attributed to the climate change [1]. Apparently, whales are finding it easier to find food with the polar ice retreating. But, since Krill are vulnerable to acidification and dependent on sea ice, we don't know if the trend will continue.

[1] https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/some-whales-are-...
vanitas vanitatum,
omnia vanitas
I had to start eating vegan for health reasons. I thought it would be fairly difficult to stick to but I've found it easy finding foods as tasty as meat or dairy dishes without resorting to soy products that mimic meat. There's good stuff out there and garlic, salt, and olive oil do wonders!
No, not really, since his personal beliefs involve advocating for others to suffer.

He suffers nothing by permitting LGBT people to live as they wish.
There are over 5,000 KFC locations in China
You’re quite right, as far as I understand. Another example of how little political glue there is between Muslim countries is that Saudi Arabia is quietly cooperating with Israel — supposedly the enemy — while almost at war with Qatar — supposedly Arab brethren.
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> that the page did not refer to Redis, but it also seemed deliberately designed to suggest that it did

The thing that's going on here isn't that the page wants you to believe that the thing that changed license is Redis; the page (and Redis Labs' site in general) wants you to believe that they own Redis in some sense.

Redis Labs is essentially doing the same type of thing for Redis that e.g. RedHat or IBM does for OpenStack. They take this FOSS project, add their own secret sauce to it, brand the combined thing as "[our company] [FOSS project name]", and then try as hard as possible to conflate the "[our company] [FOSS project name]" distribution with the FOSS project itself. Because they want you to associate the brand-cachet of the FOSS project with their distribution.

That backfired in this specific instance, because people misinterpreted what Redis Labs was saying regarding "Redis Labs Redis" as applying to "Redis." But it's their whole business strategy, so they can't exactly stop.
A business making an app has one choice for delivering that app to iPhone users. The iPhone owners could choose to switch to Android, but that's not a choice the business can make for the consumer.

The business could choose to launch on Android only, and hope that convinces consumers to switch, but that's about it for options.
Capitalism is not compatible with forced labor. It may be compatible with slavery if you define slavery in a way that includes consensual labor. Systems that are partly capitalist may be compatible with forced labor, but in this case the part that allows the forced labor is not the capitalist part of the system and the blame should rest on the system not being capitalist enough.

For example, Resolution No. 9855 in Venezuela allows the government to force workers to move from their current jobs to work in farm fields or elsewhere in the agricultural sector for periods of 60 days. That is forced labor. But it is not to be blamed on capitalism; in fact, it would have been prevented by capitalism.
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> Qwerty has high percentage of combinations that require jumping rows or contorting your hand.

And my point is it doesn’t matter when your wrist is not glued to your desk. You don’t need to contort anything if your hand is free and relaxed over the keys. If something is far away, I just move my entire hand over there.

Look, here’s me typing “nice” using two different methods:

https://streamable.com/mlys1

(I’m just typing “hello world” at the end)

> I still get some [pain] from being a heavy typer, but I no longer experience the worst of the pain.

In the second example you can see my hands are completely relaxed, I’m not “contorting” anything, I could type like that for hours. Zero pain. None. Nada. Nil.

Colemak, Dvorak, etc, they’re all optimizing how to do least damage with the horrible typing method that no one ought to use in the first place.
hence "subspecies": http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/2480/0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_minke_whale#Conserva...

> From 1987 to the present, Japan has been sending a fleet consisting of a single factory ship and several catcher/spotting vessels to the Southern Ocean to catch Antarctic minkes under Article VIII of the IWC, which allows the culling of whales for scientific research. The first research program, Japanese Research Program in the Antarctic (JARPA), began in 1987-88, when 273 Antarctic minkes were caught. The quota and catch soon increased to 330 and 440. In 2005-06, the second research program, JARPA II, began. In its first two years, in what Japan called its "feasibility study", 850 Antarctic minkes, as well as 10 fin whales, were to be taken each season (2005–06 and 2006–07). The quota was reached in the first season, but due to a fire, only 508 Antarctic minkes were caught in the second. In 2007-08, because of constant harassment from environmental groups, they failed to reach the quota again, with a catch of only 551 whales.

[...]

> In 1966, minke whales became the target of whaling operations off northeastern Brazil (6° – 8°S) due, once again, to the decline of sei whales.
Rubiks cube is always worth a scramble :) On a more extreme end I'd say balisongs, although I've had a long break from those.
Unless the extra trees are a symptom of a warming climate and increased CO2 levels.

I'd also hazard that having more trees in the north/south, where light levels are less is not a good trade deforestation near the equator. If a tree's job is to turn CO2 into O2, we want more of them where there is the most sunshine.
What they do is as a plane arrives, they direct people to the appropriate side. The citizens line process a lot quicker, so as they get empty, some non-citizen queuers are told to move over to the now mostly empty citizen lines. Then the next plane's passengers arrive and the whole process is repeated. ie the primary goal is that citizens go quick, and the others are second priority. But as you noticed, it starts getting messy as multiple plane arrivals overlap with each other, queues progress at random rates, and it isn't a particular effective system anyway. The booths work the same way as you described China's, but have additional complications (eg people using the app, and the receipt.)

I had the misfortune of arriving on an international flight to SFO when they first got those booths. Some official decided to constantly shout and berate everyone trying to figure them out (he would keep contradicting the screens, or interrupt people trying to read them etc). Thankfully I haven't experienced that since.

And it used to be a lot worse. Instead of a single long queue, there would be long separate queues for each desk. It became quite an art trying to deduce which lines would process quickly.
Maybe this will make Apple reconsider their entire "software development tax" revenue stream. It is abhorrent that I have to pay them $99 a year to run my own apps on my own device.

(Yes, I know you can install your own app through XCode. That runs for 7 days. Then must be re-signed. It also can't use tons of features including things like App Groups. Not acceptable.)

(Further yes, I know that if you have ever had a paid account, apparently some of the restrictions are relaxed - for example, you apparently get 90 days on your provisioning profiles. This appears to be Noblesse Oblige on the part of Apple and is not a documented policy, so I'm not willing to rely on it.)
Where in Mexico? And why tell anyone? Just say you live in the US and travel a lot.
> Apple adds no value there

Other than inventing the modern phone, writing the operating system and developer tools, running the store, manufacturing the phones people are consuming Amazon's product on and convincing people to buy them...you can argue about what's "fair," but Apple's certainly adding value.
Legally?
I was under the impression that most of the push back on whaling is because whales are intelligent/sentient.

It's like asking someone what they think a reasonable, science based quota for murdering people is. You're not gonna find a lot of room to negotiate when that's the belief
There's no logic breakdown at all: publishers can get better terms by going with an competitor to Steam, such as GMG, GoG, Origin, Microsoft Store, or just release the app on their own website/platform.

It's functionally impossible to release an app on iOS without paying Apple.

Compared to the 0% of self-publishing, Apple's fees are excessive.
I 100% agree, and it's disheartening to see so many voices here ignore this reality. It's like there's more passion for the ideal of open-source than for the reality of how open-source practitioners actually struggle to make the model work in practice.

Whether Commons Clause is the right solution or not (and I have my opinion on that), at least the Redis people are trying something to fix the problem of unstustainable one-way resource extraction by mega-corporations. Of the hundreds of people criticizing them here, often in ways that question their motivation and integrity, how many are offering alternative solutions? As far as I can tell, it's a depressingly small number.

After everything Antirez has contributed to us, he deserves better than this avalanche of unconstructive negativity. If you think Commons Clause is not the correct solution to the problem of unsustainable exploitation of open-source projects, what do you propose?
> We encourage applications from people who aren’t cis white men, who are currently over-represented on the engineering team at Thread.

...
Check out OpenPhone https://www.openphone.co/
Anything is fair, but I don't like things that only allow app stores as a first class way to get software on my machine.

I have voted with my wallet. But it is getting harder to do so, soon only linux will be left.
If China is selling to them, and in some cases buying their oil, my guess is not so much.

As always, follow the money -- and power (authoritarian governments).
so depressing.. I am inspired to create my own forum site like hackernews where I am not banned like I am here. My site would champion the individual and self-expression, and individual contribution over collective contribution.
And in China, which is supposedly different, the situation is 100x worse ...

But thanks for the comment ... It clearly illustrates that plenty of pro-global-warming people don't care about global warming except as a way to get their will done on other issues, in this case campaign financing.
Your viewpoint gives me pause because you aren’t acknowledging the fundamental tradeoffs. Microservices give you flexibility and resiliency but are inherently more complex than the equivalent monolith. Debugging systemic issues across distributed systems is automatically one or more orders of magnitude more difficult.

The elephant in the room is the problem domain. If your domain doesn’t decompose cleanly into services then your base maintenance costs skyrocket. I hate these discussions on HN because there’s so much generalization and opinionated arrogance, when in reality the particulars of a given situation matter far more than high level principles or dev ideology.
False: Pedantic vegans will support OPs position, and feign ignorance at your point because it's convenient for them to pretend killing a severely endangered whale is the same thing as killing one of the 1.5 billion cows on the planet.

Don't expect any better either. Outright lies and false equivalences like this are all they seem capable of. They have been singing the same song for a decade and can't pack in the smug enough to realize it's not working.

It's like sitting through D.A.R.E. in grade school: We know what you are doing and we see through it. All it leads to is me considering everything that leaves your mouth a lie.

But, the vegan movement does deserve some credit:

I will say I have been LOVING the `It's an animal right's issue` position vegan groups have been adopting lately. It's a powerful coherent message, is not smug, and speaks to people at face value instead of condescending to them. It's more "MLK Jr." and less "Women and Women First".
This may work for Amazon only because their own brand is also directly known to the user, and a lot of users would also be visitors of their website. But for a newcomer trying to sell digital goods via an app, good luck
I neither need nor want every service I use to have my credit card details. They can use the apple store or they can just do without my money. I'm fine either way.
> but ones at least intelligent enough to maintain the planet in good order

Bang up job we're doing, too!
Not political. Religious. For those of us who are Christians, our politics are driven by our religion, not the other way around.

The Heidelberg Catechism sums it up well:

> Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death?

> A. That I am not my own, but belong — body and soul, in life and in death — to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.
This is neither helpful nor clever.
As I understand it, if you already have a subscription for Amazon Video through the web, then download the Amazon Video app and login to your existing account, Apple doesn't get anything.

Which is why the article emphasized Netflix trying to get customers to sign up through their web site, and not the app.