skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't matter if it's annually or monthly or weekly, once you pass the 1-year-mark it's 15%:

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/subscriptions/#revenue...
That's a pretty good question, so I looked things up a little. Casting, especially on pieces this big, is difficult. It has problems with chemical segregation due to temperature gradients in the material, as well as porosity from the differential shrinkage due to the same temperature gradients [1,2]. From [2] "Consolidation of porosity formed in the ingot during solidification and homogenization is the major aim of the initial stage of forging. After that, the material is forged to form the shape of the desired products." The porosity and chemical segregation if I remember correctly, is very bad in nuclear applications, where bubbling and embrittlement would only be accelerated in non-homogenous materials. They are usually 1 piece to minimize welds, and this is just a feeling, but I think replacing the pressure vessel is pretty much currently the same as buying a new reactor [4]. These are very radioactive 1000 ton pieces of solid metal that you need to move and dispose of. Interesting question though, and I'd want to look into it more later.

[1] https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/... (pdf, p. 11)

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978184569... (can send a pdf if interested)

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3mzltj/a_nuclear_reac...

[4] https://www.neimagazine.com/opinion/opinionreplace-the-rpv/
You can import books via iTunes.
The prime minister of NZ clearly called it a terrorist attack. And NZ media are carrying that line throughout.
All of this bs is happening due to one thing: apple does not allow iphone to function as a general purpose computer. Fix that, and everything will sort itself out.
Indeed, however there is no technical reason why devices couldn’t be built so apps could be lift and shifted verbatim. We already have examples of cross platform frameworks that can target desktops as well as mobile devices. We have an understanding of how to reflow our content for different screen sizes, orientations, aspect ratios, and even (albeit less successfully) DPI. We also have platforms were code has to support different horsepower (eg games written for the Nintendo Switch between docked and undocked mode). So we understand the theory and I’m sure most developers would welcome such a change too. But there is absolutely no incentive for hardware manufacturers to do this (and I can’t blame them either).

To be honest though, I’m less concerned about app portability as I am about retaining ownership of apps after their or the app stores support has ended. While this doesn’t really matter for mobile apps nor music streaming services, it’s something that really concern me with regards to collecting retro games. There is a lot to be said for owning physical media. But I’ve digressed.
WhatsApp does exactly that at scale; though it is owned by Facebook today, it didn't need Facebook to do that job extremely well, as it did, before Facebook bought it.
Premium cars tend to be less reliable, but it really depends on the car. Certain models are reliable, certain brands are more reliable, and if we're speaking in broad strokes certain countries make more dependable vehicles. If you want something that will just work, buy Japanese.

I had an old Toyota that I just drove and drove and would not die. Multiple cross country trips and I never ever serviced it, except changing the oil every ~50k miles. The thing just kept on going.

I just bought a brand new BMW and I had to take it back to the dealer to fix something that broke after 5k miles.
Any explanation on why the links for the source code on Github are dead, and the repositories are gone?
To be fair, kids like to be scared - and the technique seems to have produced its desired result: adults who are incredibly level headed. I wouldn't try this on my kid, just because I feel that occasionally, anger is appropriate. On the other hand, I don't expect my kid to live in the arctic, where small mistakes or momentary irrationalities can cost lives.
There are some benefits in knowing that the people that make your food, drive you, clean your streets, etc. don't live out of their car.
Reads to me like you have to get in a different car to shop at those other stores because one of your cars only drives to one store.
The headline says “more government entities”, implying diversity of regulations-they-care-about.
I did NaNoWriMo a couple of times. I should probably get around to editing and releasing the second one, it's been uh... an amount of time since.
The Apple Store has 100% market share on all iPhones, iPads and iWatches.

I really don't see this being that much different from the famous United States v. Microsoft Corp. case[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

EDIT: comments have made clear that Windows had a monopoly on the personal computer space, whereas Apple doesn't have a monopoly on the smartphone or tablet space.
Yes, depending on what you mean by custom allocator... but this is the same in C++ too, right?

To store custom vertex / face attributes, you can use a variety of sparse techniques to save memory from sitting unused in attribute arrays. Basically you want an interface of get_attribute(type, vertex_id). This sparse matrix, trie, or whatever can be backed by int or float array storage instead of many many tiny malloc'd/gc'd objets.
To be fair, it does look like Spotify has clearly been selective with the facts in it's original post. Ok.

None of this response addresses the main question raised by the Spotify letter which is: "Is Apple abusing it's position as platform holder to grow it's own products over it's competitors?". Their silence on this, the core issue, speaks volumes.

No doubt a lot of people reading Apple's letter (and many in the media) will be taken in by the empty rhetoric around helping musicians and forget that the main story is about Apple's ability to monopolize media through the iPhone, and whether it has attempted to do so.

As far as this story goes I could not care less about Apple or Spotify (and I'm a customer of both).

I care about whether laws are being broken that exist to protect me from price gouging in the future.
> In the real world we always think about and do such optimizations, be it I/O, disk access or db access

That's they key. You've come across caching as a way to optimize for a given metric. Folks who haven't heard of DP aren't aware of using DP techniques such as memoization, for example, to speed up repetitive tasks [0]. Similarly, you might not be aware of many other techniques you haven't come across [1][2] how could you possibly solve those problems in the exact same way? For instance, QuickSort and its variants were PhD thesis worthy, once upon a time (if not now).

[0] Not everything is intuitive, DP certainly isn't, imo. As a rule of thumb, naive solutions to a problem are often times intuitive.

[1] https://www.xkcd.com/1053/

[2] https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/01/15/the-tail-at-scale/
You'll find no value judgement in my comment.

There are many axes of intelligence, as well as of human value in general. I only said that comfort-with-abstraction is one axis on which people vary -- and I'd say that's exactly what the previous comment relies upon.

All it says is "this is needlessly hard", the only reply can really be: yes, for you.

I was offering an explanation of why that is; or else are we really saying that this "hardness" is universal?

One of the more important characteristics of a developer is pragmatism which has zero covariance with comfort-with-abstraction. And so, why not value those who have that more?

That is, to be better at abstraction isnt to be a better developer. It is only to be better at one sort of development. Equally, to have more pragmatism is to be better at a different sort.

There's no snobbishness in my comment, only in a person who reads into it a value judgement about this specific form of intelligence.

Why read that into it?
Bridgewater Associates' Ray Dalio: Meditation Is Key to My Success
Lobbying in some form is explicitly protected by the 1st amendment. The question is: If you form a contract for someone else to petition for a redress of greivances on you behalf, is that contract void?
Do you know why they didn't run fiber on the poles? Since they got special accommodations to do that it is unclear to me why they didn't use that route.
But that could be because of all the safety features. How do you know it would not be even safer without the touchscreen?
Artists or record labels get about 30 cents of a $0.99 song purchase I believe.
Fairy tales in central Europe are equally violent. My mom refused to read or tell me those fairy tales because of that.
I don't see a problem. A court decision is preceded by a fair argument between two parties. Any other way is gravitating toward the way of bolsheviks snatching the power and shooting who they believed were cause of evil. (Which was fast and very efficient; do you like it?) The point is not to achieve the desired outcome quickly, but to deal with situation in the right way.
Easier to form an LLC and convert to C/S-Corp later than the other way around. Investor interest also has a funny way of vanishing overnight.
I would say that it is a facet of meritocracy. After all, status alone doesn't necessarily represent the reward one might expect for one's achievements.

For certain people, class, or remuneration probably matters much less than recognition, for example. If said recognition goes to whomever shouts the loudest or makes sure to 'appear' best (even though anyone with expert knowledge would immediately know this person isn't the best), then you are no longer living in a meritocracy.

I should note that I find the whole idea of a meritocracy rather flawed, as it would somehow require to perfectly equate all of your actions, every single day, in every walk of life with some kind of reward or easy-to-query metric.

That's just not feasible. And even if it was, who would want another type of China-style sesame credit on steroids?
Same story with phones. You are free to buy from other suppliers. But you can’t walk into a Walmart and buy milk from whole foods on their shelf’s, even if you feel that would be great for you personally because Walmart is closer but you prefer Whole Foods.
Hey Apple, if not for Spotify we would still had to cope with iTunes..
You're still missing the point.

Apple owns a mall (iOS). In that mall, Apple owns a book store (iTunes). Amazon also has a book store in the mall (Kindle).

Apple does not want to sell Amazon's books (Kindle format ebooks) in it's store (iTunes). Ok.

Apple decrees that no store in the mall shall sell any books but iTunes books, which only they may sell. Not Ok.
It's not fair to compare a digital marketplace with retail channels..

I'm quite sure technically (at the size of the Apple Store) a digital marketplace could charge 1% and still make a profit after the operational costs.
Fascinating. There's a sentence I picked up from a friend in childhood, "Although the Moon is only an eighth the size of the Earth, it is much farther away," which seems to be similar, but not quite a CI, if I'm reading the Wikipedia article correctly. Thanks for the link.
Europe is all about quality of life raises rather than cash raises. My passion is acrobatics and I negotiated less working hours rather than a big pay raise. This year I'll do partner acrobatics teacher training for a month in spain and still extra time left over for staffing a meditation retreat over christmas. I'm in Austria and my progression is as follows.
(All of below hours are flex time, all overtime can be redeemed as time off at a later date) (* is negotiated raise)

2011 - Moved from Canada to Austria fresh out of college

2011 - 26k€ 38.5H/W Company 1

2012 - 31k€* 38.5H/W Company 1

2013 - 35k€* 38.5H/W Company 1

2014 - 37k€* 38.5H/W Company 1

2015 - 46k€* 38.5H/W Company 2 - Mandatory overtime 10/month

2016 - 49k€* 38.5H/W Company 2 - Mandatory overtime 10/month

2017 - 50k€ 38.5H/W Company 2 - Mandatory overtime 10/month

2018 - 35k€* 30H/W Company 2

2019 - 42k€ 30H/W Company 3

A few notes -> Taxes are very high, but so is support. I have no worries health care, dental, etc everything is covered. 5 weeks paid vacation a year, unlimited sick days. I end up with about 1000€/month after rent/food/entertainment and I live very comfortably. I'm not rich but it works well for me.
Wow interesting... thank you!
Ed Yong's book, "I Contain Multitudes" is also a good read about the microbiome.

I believe he is in the process of writing another book, this one on the animal senses [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/edyong209/status/1096410078033465351
Nice side stepping there on apple music not paying fees to apple store and advertising from within the app as well as offering in app subscriptions and tighter integration with other apple services that outside developers do not have.
My biggest problem with Theia is that the menu structure and appearance/feel is very different from the actual VSCode editor I am used to on the desktop. This was not the problem with Codercom. It reduces friction to move from the desktop to the cloud. If this could be solved, I would certainly prefer theia more. At the moment, I just can't customize it enough to get to my liking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19396894
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Did you ever read any fairy tales?

Hansel & Gretel is about parents deliberately leaving their kids in the woods, and then a witch imprisons them, which is eventually resolved by throwing her into the fire.

Little Red Riding Hood is about a wolf that eats a little girl's grandmother.

Snow White only gets to meet the seven dwarfs because her mother-in-law has decided to have her killed.

There are many more examples, which is to say - "our" "own" culture's children stories are not necessarily less violent.
Why does North Korea even have an embassy in Spain?
Having worked in 3D, including tools, it's my experience that features and productivity (=program is delivered on time) are the most important features :)

The code needs to be "fast enough"¹. Though this often means more attention to speed than in other kinds of software. To rephrase, speed is often necessary but not sufficient to make good tools.

¹ I try to avoid using "execution speed" and "performance" interchangeably, since a crashing, late or incorrect fast program is not a well performing program!
For me, screwing up, admitting it and saying sorry is one of the best things you can do for your kids. Teaches them they don’t have to be perfect.
you can also think about them another way, namely: How long it took somebody else in your team to solve the same problem

Making allowances for interview conditions, namely high stress levels, etc ...

Not perfect but an idea worth exploring.

I speak as a former smug interviewer that while didn't ask DP questions, did have a set of favourite questions
Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music
Fiber had all kinds of institutional beliefs that were never revisited, and this one was acquired before my time. I have no idea why that decision was made, and honestly I can't say whether it was a good one or a bad one.
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previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19394633
>It is a truth universally acknowledged among virologists that a single virus, carrying a full set of genes, must be in want of a cell.

I see what he did there.
The source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/generative-music/generative.fm
"A naive Python script that loops over all needles and calls str.find in a loop to find all matches. This is not Aho–Corasick [...]".

I'm the author of pyahocrasick, a python C extension that implements the AC. I'd love to see it in the comparison. :)
> It's always been my intention to retire early,
> I'm interested in making huge money and retiring early,
> I don't begrudge people with their crazy salaries but I do get frustrated that I can't find success myself.

I am shocked and surprised at the same time (knowing that I only selected quotes of a few commentators).

Shocked to see the same mindset as many managing consultants and investment bankers I have met and worked with. They work a lot with the idea to stop working eventually. Not a single one of them has retired early. Not a single one of them I would call happy or satisfied (again: my bubble).

“Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.” - Dalai Lama

Surprised maybe because I hoped here on HN people might have a different mindset towards money and success. Or: know that there is not a strict connection between the two. To read all this "Keeping up with the Joneses" makes me sad...

Choose life, not career. Find something you love doing and do it for the 'work' itself, not for some postponed happiness.
The problem is the tendency to fishtail on long, light corners, nothing to do with going up or downhill.
If I operate my own public library and remove a book from there because of its contents it is censorship. It doesn't matter whether I'm totally within my rights to do that (I am) and what exactly the book contents are.
In addition, Windows 10 requires that Microsoft approve and sign each kernel driver that's loaded, actually.

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-driver-docs/blob/HE...
Well, why don't Apple Music pay its "fair share" of 15%~30% to Google since it's hosted on Google Play? They are also using Google's tools and ecosystem.
Except that games back then were limited in code size by what could be stored in memory on the target systems. All the game code that I have seen from the 80s and early 90s came in well under 100kloc and library dependencies weren't a thing because of the same resource constraints. This changed over time and now almost any contemporary and technically decent game sits on top of several hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of 3rd party code.
But just like my TV and my desktop computer, I've paid for my phone with cash. Its mine. Just like my PC, I don't owe Apple Computers any extra money in exchange for the privilege to install apps like spotify on my device. The benefit of having access to the app store is already factored into the (quite high) price I paid for my phone.
I disagree. If we're considering the debug/issue fix approach (which I quite like, because it displays code literacy and clarity of explanation in a context like that one would find in a typical workday), if I use the same task/tasks for each candidate, I'm implicitly (and tremendously) biasing myself toward a universe shaped by the tasks I chose. What I'm really looking for is a more universally distinguishably trait of lucidity and perspicuity (coupled with sufficient technical skill, which, again, bias and variance from your tests' structure is always an issue in accurately scoring), in any case.
There doesn't seem to be nearly enough fat in this diet. Lean meat and low carbs with no fat is not a great combination.
What are you encouraged to do with the problems of recursion that DP addresses, stack overflow and overlapping instances?
> 'The area directly behind vehicles has been described as a "killing zone" due to the associated carnage'

Got to love Wikipedia and their strict adherence to NPOV. That kind of camera does look to be a US (and Canada?)-only requirement at the moment.

Are there (m)any internationally-recognised compulsory safety feature standards that mean a vehicle manufactured, say, five years ago would no longer to be legal to manufacture today?
Okay.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/death-suicide-...
That's not good enough. Citations must be in the text, so that nobody mistakes their work for yours. This can be informally like 'Jay describes", or 'Sally's article says', and then your words, or a quote 'in quotation marks' with a link to their work.
Are these US or Australian dollars?
Doesn't make sense.

You'd think NK embassy's might encrypt phones and computers.

So you have an agent in a military style op who can get caught if a police car happens to be nearby and anyone inside rings them, possibly for a encrypted computer which might have anything on it.

OR

As we've seen before the Embassy is bringing in illegal goods like heroin or super 100's and local criminals did a raid, and the Embassy is covering up.
>> Internal revenue distribution is standard practice in almost all enterprises.

This is both true and generally irrelevant for business, except for the particular matter of taxation.
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> But users can pay how they wish, if Spotify didn't mind the 30%/15% cut. Spotify simply can't direct users to use their website to use an alternative payment system. I think that is a very reasonable policy for an app store, as it protects its users from poorly implemented financial info handling and scams.

Give me a break. It doesn’t take 15-30% to implement a secure payment system. This is proven by Apple itself: Apple Pay charges very little for secure payments for physical goods.
The action of Amazon is censorship. That the book is available from other venues is irrelevant. E.g. in Soviet Union certain banned books were distributed outside of official channels (shipped from abroad or re-typed on typewriters); they were thus somewhat available, but would you say they were not censored out in general?
What kind of genius does one have to be to earn $800k? Or do you possess rare knowledge and connections in your industry?
Long time reader, first post.

It’s actually more plays than that because Spotify also takes 30% of each stream payout, so it’s odd they would also complain about a 30% mechanical.

The premium accounts payout more per stream than freemium accounts.

This is also assuming the artist owns the master recording outright, wrote the entire song, and administers their own publishing and mechanical royalties. The latter being almost impossible.

More than likely if signed to a label, they will get 10% of sales, the label will get the rest. This is based on traditional album deals where you get 1 point per song. If they are also published, the publisher takes half of their performance royalties, a mere 6-7 percent of stream payout. Also the PRO(ASCAP, BMI, etc) recieves half of the mechanicals, another measly 6-7 percent. To be clear if you don’t speak music payment terms. The people that own the publishing AKA the people that actually write the song, and administer that published writing only get 12-16% per stream payout(not fair). When labels receive around 48%-58% per stream payout, this is for a specialized business loan that pays for the recording + marketing and distribution(way too much). Not to mention this loan has to be totally recouped before the artist sees any of that 10 percent, if they ever do.

To sell anything on Amazon, you are charged $40/month for a professional account, or they have an under 40 item plan with a listing fee of $.99 per item. An additional 15% is taken by them on music sales. So if you have less than 40 songs you pay $.99 a month to list them each.
Sussman's Wikipedia contribution history is available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/BC1278
There seems to be a lot of ... "not invented here" going on? It seems there's a determination to reinvent or discover stuff that could instead be learned. Like not having familiarity with technical drawing conventions.

Doing it all by trig seems like a lot of work too, a good parametric CAD system would have higher level primitives for curves, chamfer, fillet etc.
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