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Sony's "infinite contrast" is on their OLED screens and is a marketing gimmick for consumers that graphic professionals can see straight through. Plus OLED has problems with accurate color representation over time along with screen burn-in. The infinite contrast talks about OLED's ability to turn off pixels if they're black, but if they're very very dark grey the argument falls to pieces.

OLED is great for consumers. This isn't a consumer device. Dell's screen is great for the existing graphic design world. Apple's new screen is better.

I'm honestly baffled by your statement that this is a consumer display. I have absolutely no idea what gave you that opinion, especially considering the price. It absolutely is not. You can make the argument that the stand and VESA mount are overpriced (they are) but the monitor itself exists in a world that desperately needs it.
Why doesn't a protocol conform to itself?
I wonder at what age one would voluntarily to subscribe to these contracts (at birth?), and who would observe, notarize and attest to the subscription and track compliance with all the permutations of its finalized terms?

Obligatory Blockchain woo preemption:

"The agent's model of what you are interested in would always be a cartoon, and in return you will see a cartoon version of the world through the agents eyes" - Jaron Lanier
This is another language whose syntax is similar to Rust's. I wonder why the author chose it, in spite of its Go heritage.
> I think QML is used for Qt Quick and not compatible with desktop-style Qt Widgets.

yes, but it does not prevent you to make desktop apps with it. See e.g. Kirigami UI which is based on QtQuick : https://kde.org/products/kirigami/

(and for "large" desktop apps made with QtQuick, look at the Blizzard launcher, or Substance Designer which is as much a desktop app as one can aspire to be : https://cdn.studiodaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/subst... )

QML has a fundamental difference with the links you showed : it is able to create bindings according to variables used in expressions / functions / etc.

e.g. if you do

MyWidget {
width: { if(y > 50)
return f(height) + x;
else
return otherItem.height / height;
}
}

then whenever any of the properties used in the expression changes, the width is recomputed.
No, they are good because they are not forced ones. Like google, anyone could use any other search engine, like I do using duckduckgo. If people use google, it's because they think it's very good and they don't find something that is so much better that they'd leave.
How to regulate the Internet without killing it
Not standard.
There's a version of that I posted just above in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20086483
Huh? red & blue definitely don't agree on NN. I know some might point to poll numbers that suggest a majority of republicans support NN, but its important to remember that republicans are ideologically opposed to politicians that support NN. This is similar to how a majority of republicans support universal background checks for firearms but nobody suggests that "red/blue agree" on this issue because, despite supporting universal background checks, republicans are ideologically opposed to the type of politician that supports background checks.
> Yeah, I mean net neutrality lasted all of one year

The FCC policy orientation lasted much longer than that, though the last of the various regimes by which the FCC pursued it only lasted about that long.

Of course, the policy orientation was about maintaining a status quo on the internet which was only starting to crack when the first approaches were taken as commercial ISPs started breaking the way the internet has previously worked either to constrain costs or pursue various synergies with their other businesses; the basic state of neutrality on the internet was older than the FCC policy orientation toward actively maintaining it.
In the Enterprise you can have two Apple IDs, one for work and one for private stuff.

Let’s see how that works out?
Whenever new frameworks or pieces of android come out, they are often accompanied by a compatibility library that you can ship in your app to use the new API and target older platform versions.
I agree that Netflix dominating does not make them a monopoly. No more than Google or Facebook.
It’s a step in the right direction. One step at a time.
Get Out and US are financed independently?
I realize this is probably not a popular opinion but Amazon, Google and Facebook are natural monopolies in the businesses they operate in. That is to say the optimal market structure in almost all internet businesses is high concentration with a single organization controlling +80% of market share. So breaking up these organizations doesn’t necessarily solve the problems we are facing today. This is not an antitrust issue. Economically speaking, it will likely be impossible to prove that someone like Amazon behaved in a anti-competitive manner. Same goes for Google. Facebook is the only one I can see broken up largely due to all the negative publicity.
Easy. Augmented reality sandbox.
My one Autobahn experience was a blast. I drove from Frankfurt-am-Main into Switzerland in a rented Ford Focus wagon (5-speed diesel, thank you). There was a period of about an hour when I didn't go below 120mph, and there wasn't a single moment when I felt unsafe. Just stay to the right and keep it between the lines.

It's striking what a well-built road the Autobahn is. You could put a full martini glass on the dashboard, and even above 100mph you wouldn't see it spill. Back in my younger days I went similar speeds on American roads, and the construction quality just isn't the same.
Ask HN: How do you learn via audio?
I find myself avoiding audiobooks of nonfiction content for fear of not being able to engage deeply (reread, flip back and forth, check footnotes, highlight, annotate, etc).

Are there any methods or tools to help effectively engage with audio content?

(Note: I think all bets are off for books with charts and equations - you have to go digital/paper book in that case. I am asking more about general nonfiction.)
But sadly only mouse and not trackpad support. (Can be activated under accessibility)
I wouldn't call anything close to cross-platform if it only works on Apple's products and devices.
That's not true. If you let Windows manage your drivers, you won't have any popups. Drivers will be updated as part of standard Windows update. Now if you want latest drivers and you're intalling GeForce Experience application, then yeah, it'll notify you of new drivers once in a month. It's just a standard Windows notification and if you installed that application, probably you want to stay on latest drivers, so why would you complain about that?
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Ooh, that mention of PowerPlant that takes me back, I remember CodeWarrior too back in the day.

Yes you're right there are various levels here - sometimes it's hard to distinguish them. There have definitely been at least 5 UI toolkits though, and probably more, though of course over the life of Mac OS that is not terribly unexpected. For those who lived through the transition to OS X, this sort of churn is not unusual, and I do think it does benefit platform vendors - they have zero incentive to keep supporting their technologies over decades and every incentive to increase churn.

Quickdraw GX I remember particularly because there was such fan-fair about it as a replacement for all your graphical needs (such as drawing text), and yet it was dropped before it could even really be used (same with Quickdraw 3D). I can't remember what apple called their UI toolkit at the time, which was based on Quickdraw, then GX, but I don't think it was Carbon, that came later didn't it? I think I've found it now, was it MacApp?
There was an anecdote on a semi-recent (sometime this year) episode of ATP where an inside source related to them that nVidia were a terrible organization to try and work with. They apparently screwed Apple over, and Apple has a long memory for that sort of thing.
The population density is pretty much the same if you ignore the plains states and other extreme rural areas, who get their water from wells anyway. A city of a million people is a city of a million people, regardless of whether your country contains the Rocky mountains or not.
Will there be a similar API for Objective-C?
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It's interesting how the media is owned by the ISPs.

They couldn't possibly be trying to redirect our attention after the Net Neutrality uproar and insane disapproval ratings for Ajit Pai -- could they?
That's interesting, but half-done (as opposed to the zero-rupee note). The "zero" notes still have the numbers in writing for many countries, with only the largest-font number replaced with 0: close enough to the originals, even one-sided, to be considered a forgery. People have been indicted for worse imitations...
Or you have the traffic density required to move that many cars. The George Washington Bridge, which essentially carries all traffic that travels through New York City that isn't going to/from Manhattan and some parts of Long Island, carries 9 lanes in each direction on two levels, and absolutely needs that many lanes.
E) All of the above.
Highly unlikely. Rage clicks drive their ad revenue.
> That is, truly onerous monopolies don't just own a vast majority of some market share. They hamper the ability to switch to another product.

The article explains how Google through Chrome's dominance is doing and did exactly this via webstandards for DRM despite most of chrome being completely open-source via chromium.

Because Chrome has such a large footprint, it become much easier for google to make a non-standard feature become part of the standard. As long as there is a thoroughly unencumbered but still practically reasonable way to implement that standard everything is great.

But that falls apart for the DRM that enables browsers to play video files. Sure, google is willing to license that code to you, but that means you have to pay or play by their rules in order to keep being able to make a competing browser. And no, you can't just make your own version of the DRM: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/29/hoarding-software-freedom....

That's bad enough for hampering the ability for people to switch products, because it means that people can't make a practical chrome competitor without becoming a google vassal, which defeats many of their reasons to making a competing browser. But it gets worse.

If google makes a change to chrome that people dislike, say hampering ad-blocking via some as-yet-unstandardized change or pushing through a standard that most people dislike, they can then tie the licensing of the unrelated feature to implementing this other thing that people dislike.

For example, Google could refuse to license the DRM code to any browser that interferes with or modifies the playback of the DRMed video stream. Then, they could define modification and interference to include removing ads from the stream.

Or google could just decline to license at all for no reason: https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked...
The Origins of the U.S.-China Cold War
Release on tvOS, test, perfect, release to iPadOS
Yeah, it's similar to I/O where there's a separate developer keynote, and specific "State of the Union" talks for each platform/framework.
I agree with his overall sentiment too, there are lots of cases of monopolistic practices harming consumers, but I just don't see the same thing with housing prices. Low interest rate loans and restrictive zoning seems to be more of a problem than a few companies colluding together to drive up housing prices.
Developing and running a multiplayer game for 11 years, and games definetly is one of the industries that has most DoS attacks. It's rare that attacks are 50-70 Gbps, and that large SYN attacks are definetly not common.

Reflection attacks of 50-70 Gbps are easily blocked by the firewall as the port is likely blocked.
It isn't as simple as that. There are numerous equivalent representations of the same underlying content (same data, same styling, same charts, etc) that have wildly different XML representations. You need a content-aware diffing tool.

FWIW we've explored that idea in the past, using git textconv to diff spreadsheets https://www.npmjs.com/package/j#using-j-for-diffing-spreadsh... -- it seems nice on paper, but quickly becomes hairy
Yeah, and those don't apply for a discussion about "protected bike lanes". A line on the ground is not a protected bike lane.
I'm not sure where you're getting your definitions, but they're not the ones used by the justice department.

"An unlawful monopoly exists when one firm controls the market for a product or service, and it has obtained that market power, not because its product or service is superior to others, but by suppressing competition with anticompetitive conduct." [1]

That's somewhat different from your definition in that it is deliberately open to interpretation (the Sherman Act, for instance, doesn't actually define monopoly) and revolves around anti-competitive conduct rather than exclusive control of supply (which isn't required - ex. Microsoft never had 100% of the OS market, nor did Standard Oil have 100% of the oil market).

[1] https://www.justice.gov/atr/antitrust-laws-and-you
> I am a bit shocked that it works though

It's a shaming mechanism.

If an official is committed to collecting a bribe, it will be useless. But some corrupt officials might be responsive to a verbal dressing down. Handing over a zero-rupee note is less intimidating than delivering a lecture.
What is your evidence? I cited mine above.

People who understand NN support it because it only enables entrenched interests to get more subscription fees from customers.

The strong arm is regional ISP broadband monopolies. Through them, a slew of services can be forced to pass costs on to consumers.

And, by the way, this map [1] is about to feature one fewer "competitor",

[1] https://www.webfx.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Top-In...
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Because not all of your "fellow developers" have the same priorities as you.

For a lot of developers, targeting just the Apple platforms is still a worthwhile investment in itself: Apple's customers tend to pay higher prices for quality Mac software — yes, outside the Mac App Store, too — and they will very often be happy to pay for the accompanying iOS app if it's worth doing so.

There have been Apple-only development houses since the year dot and this won't change just because Apple decided to release a platform to make it a little easier for its developers; they're not beholden to the rest of the world and it's ridiculous to believe so.
Can we include Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion to the list of monopolistic anti-competitive financial companies?
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Exactly. At work I generate different API keys for different purposes, so when/if one gets compromised I can shut it off and generate a new one without all the integrations breaking. Right now SSN is the government's admin/root API key. One compromise and it's game over.

But if my medical ID got stolen I could turn it off and get a new one without invalidating my passport and disqualifying me from a car loan and locking me out of my college transcripts etc.
For the same price you can buy a much better "Pro" PC though.
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> Only one side of the note is printed to resemble currency so as not to run afoul of counterfeiting laws.

Doesn't it? To know for sure we need to take it to the court.
I'll defer to Wikipedia for further elaboration:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assem...
The iPod touch and iPad were not released when iOS was called iPhone OS.
I don't think that's really an anti-trust problem, and I don't think you can call a majority of voters in an area a "cartel". It's a matter of giving the majority of residents/voters what they want, even if it's bad for them in the long run.
That's certainly not why the programmers involved do it, they do it to improve things, but the effect is platform lockin, which is not at all unwelcome for platform vendors and I suspect is why the companies are quite happy with constant churn in languages and tools. I'm not suggesting that is 'why they do it' just that it is a strong incentive to keep doing it.

If they don't control the language and tools for the platform, they don't control the platform.
Chargebacks are overwhelmingly positive. It allows you to use your credit card fearlessly knowing the card companies have your back. Truthfully, if they decreased payment volume or "dragged the economy" card companies wouldn't offer them.
“Apple sign-in support is mandatory?”
> You could definitely tell the crowd was bummed on that tidbit in particular.

It was the closest to a "boo!" I've ever heard at an Apple keynote.
Oh I see now. Thanks for pointing that out.

I agree it's not a top 5 issue now, but I believe this is our generation's first amendment torch. We can carry it, or let it go out. To that end, I tend to ignore anyone who suggests "this isn't important" or has the defeatist view that "nobody else understands this" because it is our job to share it with them.
> general public

> front page of r/technology

If you think the average person follows r/technology, you may live in a bubble.
I thought it was matte? Damn.
The government is far from perfect but private corporations have not exactly proven to be great stewards of data privacy or fiscal responsibility.
This kind of things happens all the time in academia. The authors are either constrained by space due to paper limitations or they are too lazy to explain all the little details that go into the algorithm.

I used to do research in computer vision a few years ago and it used to be that people won't publish their code and they purposely won't put in all of the details of the algorithm in the paper. Many of those algorithms were patent pending and I assume the authors were hoping to make some money from the patents. Compared to that, it's a lot better nowadays where most of the popular papers come with published code.
Consider that the chance of having heart disease or a heart attack is much higher in the USA (and consequently lower in the Netherlands), and I wonder if that number really is so high? The Dutch have made a tradeoff for sure, but it seems overall to be a healthy one (more active life styles have health benefits).

So the only thing left is would they be even healthier if they were made to wear helmets? I don't think as many people would ride a bike to work/school if they had to wear a helmet, these are people who bike in semi-formal work clothes and even business suits, after all.
> Of course that requires keeping an eye on not only the traffic in front, but also the traffic behind, and getting out of the way when required, so you have to change lanes quite frequently.

This hits the nail on the head. I know people who complain intensely about Autobahn driving and when I ride with them all of them have very poor viewing technique ("Blicktechnik") and are the kind of driver that's rather oblivious to anything that happens on the road that isn't squarely in front of them. Of course, with these predispositions, just things like merging or changing lanes become stressful each time. You have to be able to do both on the Autobahn, so Autobahn = very stressful for them.
And then make all developers use XCode on iPad? Never