skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> those without a clear physical mechanism, such as RSI or chronic back pain

But RSI has a clear physical mechanism. I don't know as much about chronic back pain, but considering how much physical stuff there is in our back, I'd assume it's similar.

Or does "physical mechanism" mean something other than it seems to mean?
> Imagine if Spotify offered a lower rate for Android users... Wouldn't that send a very clear message to Apple?

I believe this is also against Apple's Terms of Service. IIRC, they have a "most favored nation" clause which prohibits you from offering a lower price on a competing platform.
CudaText looks very similar, and it is foss.
Pedantic. I conveniently ignored the electricity it uses as well. :/
Here's the thing: consumers paid (voluntarily) for an iPhone that has the restriction that apps must be bought / acquired / loaded through the App Store. So, yes, they own the device that has this restriction. If they didn't want this device, they could have bought one of the many devices that doesn't, as approximately 75% percent of people do globally.
a CRUD app would work fine. Isn’t their web player a CRUD app?
Being annoyed if not being able to build my work as a designer
My gh account is github.com/pard68

Not sure if there is really anything of note there. My automation work is all closed source and owned by my company.
I don't have time to research your contrarion claims right now. My priors suggest it isn't a good use of my time. But I have to ask:

Why haven't the climate change researchers figured out what you have?

Do they have rebuttals to these claims? If so, can you please link those rebuttals in the name of transparency?

P.S. You are being downvoted for being wildly off topic as well as a bit inflammatory.
Re: Southwest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19378827
The HomePod would be a incredible bargain even if it didn't support Siri at all, and were just an AirPlay compatible speaker. Everyone who complains about Apple Music (myself included) and Siri's uselessness are mostly ignoring the fact that it is the single best compact speaker, audio-wise, shipping today. It's an order of magnitude higher audio quality than everything within 10%-1000% of its price range.

It's insanely great. As a speaker. Period.
>people don't always believe evidence even if it's there.

I frankly admit some of the "facts" [0] known to me are wrong [1]. I know that for certain, as some of the "facts" are conflicting with each other, however that alone doesn't help with telling which is the wrong one, and which ones to base decisions & judgements off of. This causes various headaches; I end up resorting to fallible heuristics to try to sort out the good ones in time to make the necessary judgements and decisions. I actively try to gather more facts, hoping to improve decisive power in time.

However there's also a meta aspect: the trustworthiness of any given "fact" we learn. It's common to see people acting vigorously on information that's high impact but low trustworthiness. Another common sight is, as you say, people refusing to learn a new "fact "because it is in conflict with the other "facts" they already know, with little regard whether the new one is more trustworthy.

Somewhere along the road we fail, or maybe even refuse, to associate the "facts" we know with how much trust we can put in them. This is matter of handling and processing meta information, and frankly our current education and upbringing curricula don't seem to help much with it.

I hold it to be generally immoral to perform high impact acts based off of "facts" that are known with only low trustworthiness. And as you say science helps us with obtaining ever better set of facts.

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[0] scare quotes to differentiate between information as it is known vs. idealized truthful facts

[1] either running counter to the idealized truthful facts, or imprecise enough to be misleading
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I used Atom for a while, and I recall regular instances of the entire IDE freezing for 10+ seconds for no good reason when I had a few files open. At the time (and to some extend even today), everyone just chalked this up to "Electron is terrible". But MS came along with VSCode to show how a lot of the "issues" with Electron were actually just issues surrounding bad code / software design that were bogging down apps.

Like you, I felt a bit sad to switch from Atom, but the difference in quality was massive. I guess that's the difference between having a bunch of smart people who have developed enterprise software for a while working on an Electron App, vs. younger, equally smart folks working on an app without that wealth of experience to draw on for developing a complex application.
They won't. Not only will this cut into Apple's take, but it will send a very negative message to all other service publishers.
The same way you discover anything else: advertising, word of mouth, web search. How does the user know about Spotify in tthe first place?
I didn't read it like that at all. The article was very specifically about online toxicity, not activism.

And you responded loudly and angrily online, through the lens of your own biases. See how it works?
Could you at least go into a little detail about what you think is horrible about the ui? That way you're contributing to the discussion.
Oh agreed! Just meant not all German stores are so dour.
Given that electron monstrosity allows them to have a Linux client, Spotify will always have my support over Apple Music
3D printed legos? There are better solutions for rapid hardware prototyping. See the following:

https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Build-your-Everythin...
We have a lot of work to do understanding complex symbiosis. The skew in this qaugmire is simple; everyone is wrong and everyone is right. One on one interaction with an intelligent, compassionate person goes a long way.
That's consistent with my first-hand understanding that Germans are culturally opposed to drinking plain water. You'll never be offered tap water at any restaurant or café, and if you ask for Leitungswasser (tap water, literally "plumbing water"), you'll get an eye-roll or disgusted look, partly because that saves you the cost of a bottle of water.
Yep. My local YMCA requires lifeguards to switch every 15 minutes.
We've ended up with a stochastic system for dealing with these social conflicts. The response seems disproportionate because most of the time there is no response.

It's as if rather than fining people for littering, there's no fine and no enforcement, but every now and again someone gets attacked by anti-littering terrorists.
I think the FAA needs to do a better job explaining why every other aviation authority in the world seems to be grounding the plane, but they’re not.
I was just looking for this in the App Store review guidelines and I couldn't find it. https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
Then more users switch to Android. iPhone marketshare is flat.

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2019-02-2...
Pilot of Crashed Ethiopian Airlines Jet Reported Flight-Control Problems
If you won't start posting substantively we'll ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
From the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association statement released yesterday:

I have been in numerous conversations today with Southwest Vice President of Flight Operations Captain Alan Kasher, who informed me that the MAX aircraft has 17,000 recordable parameters and Southwest has compiled and analyzed a tremendous amount of data from more than 41,000 flights operated by the 34 MAX aircraft on property, and the data supports Southwest's continued confidence in the airworthiness and safety of the MAX.

I have also had conversations with TWU 556 President Lyn Montgomery, who represents Southwest Flight Attendants, AMFA National President Bret Oestreich, SWAPA Safety Committee and SWAPA Government Affairs Committee members, as well as leaders from other Pilot labor unions. I relayed to them that SWAPA is extremely confident that our entire fleet, including the MAX, is safe based on the facts, intelligence, data, and information we presently have. We fully support Southwest Airlines' decision to continue flying the MAX and the FAA's findings to date.

I will continue to put my family, friends, and loved ones on any Southwest flight and the main reason is you, the Pilots of SWAPA. We have lobbied hard for our training to continue to evolve and improve, and due to having the finest union Training and Standards Committee in the industry, that is
occurring.

We now have Extended Envelope Training (EET) in addition to our regular annual training and since SWAPA and others have brought awareness to the MCAS issue, we have additional resources to successfully deal with either a legitimate MCAS triggered event or a faulty triggered MCAS event.
SWAPA also has pushed hard for Angle of Attack (AOA) sensor displays to be put on all our aircraft and those are now being implemented into the fleet. All of these tools, in addition to SWAPA Pilots having the most experience on 737s in the industry, give me no pause that not only are our aircraft safe, but you are the safest 737 operators in the sky.

https://swaparesources.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/pdf...

via https://www.swapa.org/
For the purposes of reasoning about this, Apple iOS and Apple's iOS App Store and the iOS Apple Music app are all the same entity, equivalent. It doesn't matter that it's not in the App Store, it ships on the phone alongside the App Store. That's the same as being in the App Store and getting autoinstalled on every device.
This article was interesting to me because a lot of my personal infrastructure runs on FreeBSD. While I don't host anything publicly accessible, I do have some similar needs.

The author mentions the Docker port for FreeBSD. According to the FreeBSD Wiki, it's meant to run Linux Docker images and relies on FreeBSD's Linux ABI layer to do so. To me, this is the wrong approach.

FreeBSD already has good container technology, what it really needs are good tools around that. Since the author ended up building his own Docker images, I suspect that he'd be happy with a FreeBSD-equivalent way to declarative build and manage jails.
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I refer to Patrick Smith as my source[1]

The captain of the doomed flight ET302, Yared Getachew, was a graduate of the highly competitive Ethiopian Airlines Aviation Academy, and had more than 8,000 flight hours — a respectable total. “Yared was a great person and a great pilot. Well prepared,” a former Ethiopian Airlines training captain told me.

Doesn't sound as if he acquired his 8000 + hours on a crop duster.

In addition: Your statement that he was 28 doesn't quite jibe with what the NYT has to say about him[2]

By the time he was 29, Yared Getachew was the youngest captain at Ethiopian Airlines. Despite his relative youth, he had spent a decade with the carrier, eventually piloting wide-body jets that crossed continents and oceans.

[1] http://www.askthepilot.com/ethiopian-737max-crash/

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/business/ethiopian-airlin...
Agreed, I keep reptiles and there are few active reptile communities outside of Facebook.
Well, that's not entirely true, Apple can't exactly do what it wants. As other comments point out regarding Microsoft, Microsoft were forced to allow IE to be debundled and other competing browsers installed, because having a monopoly on a platform and using that platform to enforce anti-competitive practices is illegal under anti-trust law.

So given Apple's marketshare (not a monopoly per se though pretty substantial), and given they both control the platform that people pay money to access, and promote preferential treatment of a first party service at the expense of any third party services, it sounds pretty ripe for an anti-trust lawsuit.

The same I believe has recently been applied to Google in the EU for using its monopoly to promote its own product search results above other online stores.

The only difference now is, the teeth of anti-trust regulators are a lot more dull than they were in the 90s, for various reasons.
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except its not electron and it doesnt hog half as much as itunes
Yeah, that's crazy.
> Antitrust would not apply here as Apple's share of the smartphone market is less than monopolistic.

Having had to take antitrust training at my company in the past few weeks, I can say that you are very mistaken if you think antitrust only kicks in when the company is a monopoly.
> Feature request

I once had an chrome extension that replaced all occurrences of "The Cloud" with "My Butt," until Google decided that was unsafe and disabled it.
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It's more useful with third-party apps but those are still a part of the Alexa system. That's like saying a computer is useless without software installed. I wouldnt use my computer very often if I wasnt able to install software but that doesnt mean it isnt functional without it.

Plus you would still have the entire Amazon app ecosystem. While their apps may not seem perfect they do have a free music section that could at least partially replace spotify.
Other first-party apps on Alexa allow you to access lot's of other Amazon services like purchasing items from their website. That's a lot of functionality even if we are excluding third-party applications.
I don't think our society is ready for it, much like we aren't ready for human gene editing. It's gonna result in some unfortunate outcomes.
Windows 10 to Remove Bad Updates
It's time to trot out Cory Doctorow's talk on DRM to Microsoft (2004):

https://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt

> "Sony didn't get permission. Neither should you. Go build the record player that can play everyone's records."

I remember when Apple's M.O. was to build insanely great hardware, and make money selling that hardware. It was the Other Guys who would do shady things like bundle browsers with OSes and do things explicitly against users' preferences to promote their own platform and ecosystem. Apple never really started with that until the iPhone.

Now they do all of this ecosystem-lock-in stuff because they're not solely interested in revenue from hardware sales now. It's lame and scummy and un-Apple.

I'd love to be able to use the Google Assistant and Signal Messenger on my Apple Watch, and use Spotify on my HomePod, and use iMessage on my Pixelbook. Real shame that I pay top dollar for hardware and that I can't.
It's hard to have much sympathy when you know that this was written by the marketing department of a company with a $30bn market cap.

This looks to me like a blatant attempt to latch on to a perceived popular sentiment that Spotify thinks they can use to to have the government give them a big advantage that they didn't have before.

Call me cynical but it's hard to see this as anything but self serving.
I'd heard a few years ago that it was pretty problematic software, and when I went around looking at alternatives it was one of the least recently updated (latest stable release 17 months ago, according to Wikipedia). So maybe "abandoned" isn't the right word, but that was the impression I left with.

The problem I had when searching was that there was a ton of choice under Linux (my short list was 10), but researching them from that point is not easy. They pretty much all show the same screenshot (media, clip monitor, timeline, timeline monitor). But how do you tell: Is it reliable? Does it have the effects I'll need? Is it serious or a toy?

Normally, I'd have heard of some things and at least know a reputation for something in the field. But video editing is so foreign to my domain, that I've maybe heard one thing about the Linux options over the last decade. Mostly you hear about Final Cut vs. Adobe Premier.
I'm slightly surprised that non-sequential series (eg Pratchett's discworld) are not more common. The 3rd book in a sequential series can't become the most read one, but it can in a nonsequential one. It also lessens pressure to make all the books thematically build up to a single literary work with a climactic payoff to all earlier plots. When things do add up, and chekhov's proverbial gun finally goes off in a nonsequential sequal, it's an easter egg.

If the second book in your trilogy sucked, it sinks the 3rd.

That doesn't mean I don't like reading series, but they do seem stressful for the author.
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> A 30% cut is something that Spotify needs to pay to Apple for every user that subscribes to Spotify through Apple devices.

Can you even subscribe through the app? Spotify could simply yell you so go to your web browser to subscribe. That’s what Amazon does for its video etc and it doesn’t seem to cause them any problems.

I subscribed to Spotify via their web site and it works fine on my phone. I’m sure they pay nothing to Apple in order for me to listen. That makes me feel that this is a publicity play by Spotify no matter what the more general (non-Spotify) merits of the issue might be.
> I really don't see what's so hard

This is hilarious. Do you have parents and/or grandparents?

Have you not had to repeatedly explain the simplest things over and over again? User names and passwords are hard enough, and you're expecting most people to understand email signing?

What experience do you base this expectation on?
Yes, every streaming music thing but Apple Music. Available in watchOS 4.1 (vs 5.0 a year later for spotify). And for HomePod since release AFAIK.
>That comparison doesn't really work, because MSFT had an effective desktop monopoly. By contrast, Apple is a minority player in the mobile market.

Market share is not the only criteria for determining whether a company has a dominant market position under EU competition law. Apple have a substantial share of the mobile phone market and they have a total monopoly on iOS app distribution. If you want to sell apps to ~27% of consumers in the EU, you have no choice but to go through Apple. End users might have a meaningful choice, but developers don't, which is highly relevant in this case.
Capitalism has everything to do with it: a commercial entity fires people on a whim, whereas public school teachers basically cannot be fired. The NYC public school system is full of underperforming teachers who shouldn't be employed to begin with. Their pay and conditions of employment are determined via collective bargaining, so they're protected from any conceivable equivalent of a PIP or other "adverse action" by the employer.

Likewise, hiring practices in the private sector change like the weather.
MS wanted the internet captive to protect their cash cows, Google wants the internet captive to protect their cash cows.

The core problem remains the same.
With sincere respect, I think you’re understating the power and prevalence differential across the political spectrum. :) There are a handful of far right “activists” who believe in genetic determinism and they are rightly marginalized and have no platform whatsoever. Left wing proponents of blank slatism are mainstream, particularly in the (often publicly funded) “grievance studies” fields, and they have a significant cheering section comprised of journalists at leading media institutions (Guardian, NYT, etc), corporate diversity consultancies, and elsewhere. Not only are there far more proponents on the left; they enjoy enormous platforms and public coin.

Climate-change denialism is a more bipartisan problem than this. :)
Maybe you could take ROOT back though. I think a lot of grad students would thank you. I know 2007-2011 me would.

(I’m mostly kidding)
There are huge proponents of tabula rasa. Consider, fore example, I do research and realize trait X correlates with IQ.

Also suppose trait X is highly visible so that I can easily identify who has it (just for concreteness, let's say it's black eyebrows, and 20 IQ points). This would drive the internet batty.

The same is true if any such correlations are found for a number of other traits.
Apple/Google is pretty much a duopoly. Which can be as bad.
> They have some valid complaints, but "if we use Apple's payment infrastructure, we have to pay them a cut for doing so" isn't one of them.

But Spotify doesn't want to use Apple's infrastructure and is compelled to do so regardless.

Spotify is saying that if using Apple payment infrastructure was free, then not allowing other options would not be a problem, but since it's not free, not allowing anything else is a problem, not that Apple charging for the use of its payment infrastructure is a problem in itself.
You mean like how IE5 for Mac in 2000 had a variety of features IE for Windows lacked, including much superior CSS support?
It's some years on, and clearly all routes aren't closed - nor were they -- planes still flew into Kiev for example. Overflights too -- TUI are currently overflying western Ukraine on a Phuket-Stockholm routing. Airlines may have routed away from the entire of Ukraine but I don't believe there were any NOTAMs for western ukraine
Did you know that moment(new Date(ISO8601_DATE_HERE) is 7 times faster than just moment(ISO8601_DATE_HERE)?

We wrote an article about Moment.js quirks and compared it to the other available libraries.
Yes. The ones at local pharmacies make probably low six figures, that's the 8 year track. The 12 year guys are probably making high six to low seven. I used to live in Connecticut near Pfizer and that place was densely packed with large salaries. Granted, I think they invented Viagra so lots of money there
If you plan to comment at a conference, and someone tweets the conference organizers, then your panel gets canceled, is that silencing you?

> Fink said he and the organisers of a conference he addressed at Columbia University in New York in October 2018 were hounded by complaints and protests from CFS/ME activists. A petition calling for Fink to be disinvited was signed by 10,000 people. Tuller – who in his blog wrote that the person who invited Per Fink to speak at the conference must be “uninformed or stupid or both” – called Fink a “scary guy” whose methods had “destroyed families.” Tuller urged readers of his blog to go to the Columbia conference and demonstrate.

This kind of stuff happens to IDW members constantly, except their venues have a pattern of giving in to the activists.
Slimy and disingenuous corporate PR speak is everywhere. They probably have something equally repulsive for their employees.
The App Store gives you discoverability and could be argued as being one of the reasons for a 30% cut.

If your app can be distributed as a PWA, then the question becomes: is the App Store (which gives you discoverability) worth the 30% revenue cut? For some PWAs the answer will be no.