skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3) The cloud provider forks at the version under the previous license, continues to iterate on it by adding valuable features that are exposed to users, which the OSS version won't have, and now the OSS vendor is playing both marketplace & technical catch-up at the same time and with each reinforcing the downside of the other. Effectively forcing original innovator into the position of being a fast-follower.
Banks are a special case. Much of the modern banking system would be considered fraud 100 years ago, but banks were among the first to figure out that they can put pretty much anything into a financial contract and it will be binding.

The US literally created the FDIC because banks are allowed to gamble with depositor's money.
MakerDAO (not strictly an ICO, but they did sell MKR tokens).
Right, I meant cost in terms of cost per unit dry mass, not just miniaturizing existing satellites. Starlink satellites are really cheap per unit dry mass, not just per satellite. Starship will be super cheap per unit dry mass, enabling ever-larger space telescopes. NASA even tweeted out one concept out for an aperture much larger than JWST using SpaceX's Starship: https://twitter.com/nasagoddard/status/1116310431969239040?l...
Or even more accurately, swap "price point" for "profit margin".

Unless these cases are manufactured in remote monasteries, the costs don't add up and price point wasn't a concern.
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> Presumably it's like any other store, products with slight defects

What you are describing sounds like "clearance" which is a pretty upfront designation (this didn't sell very well, it's here at a discount before we chuck it).

But I think the message that "Amazon's Choice" is intended to convey is "this product meets certain quality and value standards and is unlikely to disappoint you."

Of course, in practice, they could apply it in order to clear inventory. But with FBA, the inventory carrying cost isn't primarily theirs.
As opposed to success not being predicated on hard work and perseverance? I think if that were true there would be many more successful startups.
This sort of articles always show up after Apple announcement.

I see the same cycle over and over again: laughter, rage, acceptance, repeat.
Well seeing that tech workers are benefiting from capitalism why wouldn't they trust it?

What's the alternative? If you have a household income over $60K (the national average), are you willing to give everything over $60K up to make things more "fair"?

Yes I'm all for the social safety net.
Valve has mutated from a game developer into a financial middleman
A thousand times this. I genuinely don't think Apple expects to sell a huge number of these, but it's about establishing themselves as that company that sells that awesome high end Mac that creative professionals use.
"So essentially, you are suggesting that people should die earlier, because you don't like old people :)"

No, not at all.

I am saying that one should be wary of living much longer than a typical lifespan because when people see vampires, they hunt them down and kill them.
Try the Versatackle! It's like a trucker's hitch but self-locking and IMO easier to tie.
In Ye Olde Dayes, these sorts of promotional considerations were paid for by the manufacturer. When Amazon was still mainly selling books, 'coop' funds paid for favorable placement on the intro pages for genre sections (the same way bookstores arrange endcaps and window displays).

But it sounds like this has been replaced with a system that doesn't require any sort of human input.
> I probably wrote my original comment a little too quickly.

Nah. Anyone who actually understands this subject recognizes that a truly lock-free concurrent queue is probably one of the most difficult problems in all of Comp. Sci.

Even if you're using absolutes, its basically warranted because of the difficulty of the problem. No one will blame you for talking about how hard this problem is, even with a bit of hyperbole being used
Sad. Can the HN community sponsor a car. Crazy idea maybe but we are not known for messing around.
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follow the link, go to Dropbox web and select direct download from the top right dots menu. That gives you a version that is fully zoomable.
So AMD handed over their most valuable IP for basically nothing. Just another example that doing business in China is a pyrrhic victory.
Specialists flourish in such “kind” learning environments, where patterns recur and feedback is quick and accurate. By contrast, generalists flourish in “wicked” learning environments, where patterns are harder to discern and feedback is delayed and/or inaccurate.

This is sort of like the switch in thinking in AI in the '70s (?) where it became clear that teaching computers to get better and better and playing chess or deducing propositions was never going to produce intelligence, and that we were going to have to teach them to see and move around on their own instead.
Well in that case, we've had limited constellations that cause issues for Earth based observations for decades. (Note: this is one hint that the risk here is exaggerated... dealing with satellites has been a thing for a very, very long time. Filtering out satellite tracks is easy and common, and modern digital imaging and data storage techniques have made satellite track removal ever easier. And many satellites--particularly space stations--are orders of magnitude brighter than Starlink satellites will be.)
Hi,

Are you aware of https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01527110 ?
This looks quite similar.
I don’t know where the concept of meaningless physical and mentally hard work — regardless of its effect or purpose — is somehow guaranteed to produce wealth comes from. I don’t know anyone who believes that.
Thanks for commenting and sharing! While I was writing this up I saw this Google Groups discussion about difference between Python's coroutines and goroutines: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/Onswx7Fp...

Russ Cox also makes Guido's point of how channels are baked into golang's runtime, whereas a Python channel would be implemented as an object on top of the runtime. Very interesting to see how things similar at face value differ underneath the hood.
Yeah, looks like the old engeneering strategy "solve problem A by creating problem B, solve problem B by creating problem C, solve problem C ... etc etc."

Not that I have a better idea how to get out of this mess...
I don't know but I gravitate toward them and haven't regretted it yet.
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Good for CockroachDB, they need to make money. I understand I'm not their target user though, I stopped using them when they released Follower-Reads as an enterprise feature.

I'm back to Postgres for now but I can't stop thinking about the opportunity CRDB is missing by not releasing the enterprise features as part of the BSL-licensed core, that way I can use them from the very beginning(when I have no money) and when I grow and have traction, money and what not, then I can pay to scale beyond X amount of nodes/capacity a la MemSQL[0].

[0] https://www.memsql.com/blog/announcing-memsql-free-tier/
The major breakthrough would be rescheduling marijuana from a schedule I drug to schedule II or higher (out of 5). The main difference between schedule I and the others is that schedule I drugs are believed to not only have a high potentinal for abuse (debatable, but under some circumstances correct regarding THC) but that they also have ZERO medical benefits (the recent advent of CBD based treatments, and pain relieving benefits as a contrast to opiods well to dispel this notion).
If only Reimar and Walter Horten could see that!
Really great to see these advances in aviation.
this seems like an excellent licence, clearly spelling out the intent of the copyright, rather than trying to fashion a one-size-fits-all set of rules. it reminds me of cory doctorow's point that, intuitively, if some community theatre wanted to dramatise one of his works, they should be able to just do so, but if a major hollywood studio wanted to film it they should require a licence, and it is hard to draft a copyright law that does this properly.
Biggest spike:

"Diffie and Hellman win Turing award"

Second biggest right before:

"Stripe Atlas"

"Microsoft acquires Xamarin"

"Apple / FBI dispute"
BlackSquid malware has eight exploits in its arsenal (including EternalBlue)
I was thinking to myself as I began reading "I bet Jupiter has something to do with this, I just know it"

present new findings, indicating that the tidal forces of Venus, Earth and Jupiter influence the solar magnetic field

Gravitational and tidal forces are such fascinating things to read about as we find new ways of measuring the phenomena
Unless the AGPL becomes the new GNU default, "free" software is largely moot as well in the age of SaaS.
One of the worst things that could happen to the Apple ecosystem would be for them to gain real dominance, either in phones or in the desktop / laptop space. Then all these "integrations" which are harmless / annoying nudges would suddenly become clear abuses of a monopoly position.
>Gating the app store is not anti-competitive, because it doesn't harm any other app store.

You make a shopping app. Apple makes a rule that says "your app type isnt allowed anymore" but then builds that banned app type itself. Its anti competitive towards shopping apps, not app stores.

Not allowing the user to set a default map app is anti competitive. No matter what map app I prefer, when I click an address it opens in Apple Maps (unless the app i clicked it in supports passing the address to a different map, which is circumventing the os protocol handlers.) The OS and App Store working in tangent to force users to use certain apps, or make the experience with competing apps infinitely more cumbersome, is absolutely anti-competitive.

Saying "you must integrate Sign in with Apple" or your app will be removed from the app store is Apple using its power to force adoption, at the expense of competing sign in solutions. Whether or not that is abuse, would be for a judge to decide.
Uber and Tesla sold traditional securities to accredited investors, the same way that everyone else normally does.
Parts of the puzzle are not the whole thing.

We have science that aluminium in the brain correlated to alzheimers, and aluminium cookware causes high level of aluminium in the brain - but further science can't find a connection with alzheimers and cookware. (Note, the above is the state of science as of 20 years ago, things may have changed)
The sentiment of the article leaned more toward praise than any of those you enumerated.
In general, their produce is much better, especially with things like berries.
Google Fiber charged $70/mo for internet, and $130/mo for cable TV [1]. Standalone TV streaming services are also around $50/mo (e.g. hulu [2], youtube live TV packages [3]).

Something doesn't add up. If it costs $50/mo to get cable TV content, why does it cost me $-10/mo with comcast?

1. https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/tech/2016/04/11/googl...

2. https://www.hulu.com/live-tv

3. https://tv.youtube.com
Except that they confirmed to laws and SEC regs and Kik didn't? That makes all the difference...
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If you put a big scary decision as the first thing users see, many will just close the browser because they don't know what they should pick. When they open a different browser that doesn't present them with that choice, they may conclude that it's not a problem on that other browser.
love this free font, also an honorable mention to Optician Sans: https://optician-sans.com/ which is a free font based on the classic eye test letter cards from opticians offices.
Such as in price-fixing, collusion, and more.
We should probably revive the "instant desktop" package.
Edit: My above comment was originally mistakenly copied from the Federal Circuit, not the Supreme Court decision.

>The Court held that in all cases involving a tying arrangement, the plaintiff must prove that the defendant has market power in the tying product. While some such arrangements were still unlawful, such as those that were the product of a true monopoly or a market-wide conspiracy, that conclusion had to have been supported by proof of power in the relevant market rather than by a mere presumption thereof. The court recognized that many tying arrangements, even those involving patents and requirements ties were fully consistent with a free, competitive market.

https://www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/resources/p/casebrief-i...
Or you could argue that out of all of the thousands of global KGB officers in the 80s, his career (oligarchical emperor and possibly richest man on Earth) ended up the best. :-)
Eh, that's not even double the price in my EU country. And people still drive way too much.
Just because it's not Byzantine doesn't mean it might not be relevant to proof of work algorithms where one of the challenges is understanding when work was completed relative to other components.
I thought Made By Sofa went away because they got bought by Facebook, not because they weren't making enough money because of the app store, unless I'm mistaken?
You figure in the thirty minutes that Bill and Warren spent 'working' at that Dairy Queen their wealth probably increased by more than every employee in the entire chain combined will earn this year!
Found this a couple weeks ago in a comment on HN: https://pocketweb.io/

Serves a website from the app on your phone, and their service acts as a proxy to send traffic there.
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This is what I’d like to see; Require all Apps distributed via their AppStore to conform to their requirements regarding privacy and whatever else they want like they are doing right now.
Apps can and should get kicked out of their store if they repeatedly sell user data or otherwise don’t follow Apple’s rules.

Then let App devs, if they want to do that, apply for additional manual checks. They could probably get away with charging for that check.
If Apple is satisfied that the App only does what it’s supposed to and doesn’t abuse its privileges or send data to third parties, approve it and mark it as such.

Some kind of badge prominently displayed on the App Store marking that App as “checked by Apple” or something.

Give App Store users an option to hide Apps not checked by Apple.

Sure it gives Apple even greater power as a gatekeeper but I think the benefit to consumers caring about privacy outweighs that.
I don't doubt they could be reasonable products, but stuff like a rice cooker or say crock pot isn't usually a product that has a lot of breakage... well shouldn't.
Maybe, but they can change that at any time. If they wanted to have visibility into iCloud data going forward they easily could.

With Apple products, you're putting your privacy entirely in Apple's hands and assuming that their executives will continue to follow the same branding and product strategy that they've been pursuing for the past few years.

That said, Apple is probably the least bad option for phone + cloud for most people. But it's sad that that's the case.
A lot of new Microsoft products need 3rd party cookies (eg teams needs sso and Skype sites).

So not only old software.
I have an iPhone. Where can I purchase iOS apps outside of the App Store?

>Is this actually a thought process that makes sense to anyone?

Totally. Apple encourages free apps just as much as paid apps. They even have a category on the App Store for free apps. They will promote free apps over paid apps if the free app is better. Many apps in their top10 lists are free. Does it sound to you like Apple is against free apps or is otherwise discouraging them? Also you have to pay Apple when you list your app on the App Store. I believe the developer license or whatever you need costs $100. So its not technically free, although I agree that the price is nominal.

To go back to your grocery store example, I'm selling someone a wifi router, and telling them to sign up for internet on my website. Apple wants to tax the internet too. Or I'm selling someone a Sirius XM Satellite radio for their car, and telling them to signup for service on my website.

I will concede that there is nothing either 'evil' or 'good' about what Apple is doing. But to me, taking 30% of a companies sales is super greedy at the very least. Apple does have a history of overcharging for their products. Nobody is opposed to paying premium for premium parts/labor/service, etc. But with Apple, they have an insane margin and so the extra money simply goes into a pile of cash or into some executives pocket. Its not going towards a better product.
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You can literally extrapolate this out to any large corporation. I guarantee I could find something shady your employer has/is doing. Does this mean you support evil and the paycheck is more important to you than the welfare of mankind?
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Thanks, I'll hit you up.
Agreed. The question isn't whether something is a financial scam; at this point, depending on your feelings about certain structures, a large part of the US economy is made up of financial scams. The question is whether it's a viable financial scam, and this one was so viable that the government had to step in.

Probably if they had invested in the right lobbyists and the right lawyers, they would have been able to engineer a level of indirection that this wouldn't have attracted attention.

Maybe they actually have, and will lose this case as millionaires.
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Macs are so, so, so good for audio, nothing else comes close. Super low-latency out of the box, no drivers to install for either interfaces or MIDI controllers, and compatibility with Firewire and Thunderbolt interfaces on every machine built in the last 10 years. CoreAudio is incredibly stable and performant thanks to a double-buffer queue [1]. Logic Pro is an incredible feature-complete DAW for $200 that competes with Digital Performer ($500), Ableton ($750) and Pro Tools ($600).

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/cmsip/slides/09-audio.pdf
I wonder if the userspace stack netgate is using in their tnsr product could help?
In 1913, HG Well's wrote about a major war ending in the use of atomic weapons. It would seem that some individuals truly are prophetic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Set_Free
I was wondering about having a special message to indicate the end of the buffer while reading the article, so thanks for pre-emptively answering my question!

Another thing I was wondering about is using a simple buddy allocator with the ring buffer being just a list of pointers. There would be a second ring buffer to send memory back to the producer to be freed, and you would statically allocate enough memory so fragmentation doesn't affect the particular application---you know each message has a limited lifetime, for instance. (The allocator would not be shared between different ring buffers.)

Then again, I don't see any benefits to doing this.
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More about the Tayler Instability:

https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pOid=55138&pNid=226&pLang=en

The Tayler instability is known to limit the scalability of liquid metal batteries. Whenever an electric current flows through a liquid conductor, the Tayler instability may appear. If the electric current exceeds a value in the order of kiloampère (depending on the material), it will drive a fluid flow.

The plasma of the sun behaves like a magnetized highly conducting fluid. (Magneto-Hydrodynamics)
Would ZFS snapshots work? It is what I use to backup PostgreSQL, much easier and faster than ordinary backup
I would be happy if the browser vendors could come up with a standard of running only first-party javascript, or third party javascript that has been signed with a code-signing certificate or otherwise whitelisted. This could help curb drive-by infections delivered by malicious ads.
Loved the concept but like most all of these new apps from Google, got no love, and lacked many basic features. Google continues to released half baked products don't give them love they fail because of it and then they kill them. Rather then devoting to continuous updates to make it something everyone uses. And these days I personally avoid most of the new apps, because there is such a high chance they will be killed off once you start using it.
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Verizon may have price matched Google, but Verizon fiber service is only available to a small fraction of the country. The cable companies, which have a much larger footprint than Verizon's fiber, have mostly limited price cuts to markets where they face competition from fiber. Comcast for example still charges $150 for gigabit (1000/35 Mbps) in most markets. By contrast markets were a competitor has built out fiber get the price cut in half. If this isn't a tacit admission that they are abusing their lack of competition by price gouging, I don't know what is.
Plus users do not have an alternative, at least on iOS. They all pass through webkit.

On a desktop, if Firefox breaks, people will just switch to Chrome or something else. Plenty of people want things to "just work" out of the box.

Maybe the better solution is to have a guided install process. When installing firefox, ask the user if they want it to "just work" or be "privacy conscious"? Warn them of the tradeoffs of both and let them decide once.
>Simply because if I'm using CockroachDB and don't want to manage it myself, my only option is Cockroach Labs.

I don't think this is the case, a third party can provide hosted CockroachDB provided they license it from Cockroach Labs.

>"The one and only thing that you cannot do is offer a commercial version of CockroachDB as a service without buying a license."

Again, IANAL.
I have seen some really questionable products recommended by "Amazon's Choice." I have assumed that in addition to customer input, the choice is probably working against me (recommending things with higher margins, items that Amazon needs to get rid of, or kickbacks themselves).
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Much as I'd like to believe that a Turing Award could triple HN's traffic, it was bots.

That's noted in the graphic, but closer to the X-axis rather than at the top of the spikes.
When we talked a decade ago about "when open source wins", we were really excited for it. Now that it's happened, some people are freaking out. This is what winning looks like, though. This was the plan all along.
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Donald Trump says any US-UK trade deal has to include NHS
The audacity of the monitor stand?
I can't find half of this tweet stream because twitter starts interspersing it with replies in places. I'm missing out on content :(
> but I don’t think you can argue that the system isn’t “functioning” as intended right now.

The only reason this can work is Apple having a dominant position and being benevolent--that's not competition generating better, fairer options.
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Shhhh, you're pulling back the curtain and forcing the keyboard social justice warriors to think for themselves. Not very nice.
*If you use google search with Firefox.
SMS is just as bad on Android phones as it is on iPhones. The problem is it's an ancient crappy standard and carriers are uninterested in fixing it. That is why Apple created iMessage.

Apple does nothing to cripple SMS on iPhones. The only thing Apple is guilty of is not opening up iMessage to non-Apple devices. With Apple Music and TV+ making their way to other ecosystems, I'm hopeful this might change.
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Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete”
The app doesn't work very well on iPhone X devices (due to the notch)... Once that's fixed I'll give it a try properly!