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It depends on your accounting, so I like to leave the door open for debate. The Linux kernel does have a good case if your metric is total installs. If you go by market share, Windows might have had the highest proportion ever in the 1990s (not sure, but it was dominant).
Yes, this is a key issue, that TFA points to:

> Regulators, lawmakers and legal experts, however, worry that significant slices of the high-tech marketplace have become uncompetitive. Those include advertising, search, social media, app sales and certain retail sectors, among others.

If Google and Apple were operating in a truly competitive market, they couldn't get away with treating app developers so poorly. Because said app developers would just use a competitor. It's basically a duopoly.
> They have some brilliant marketing people working for them.

FWIW I hate people like that. If that's the best you can do with your creativity then you're no better than a scientist that works on chemical weapons.
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Because they're clearly not monopolies in the usual sense, just maybe oligopolies (note the "mono" in monopoly: it means "one"). If I want search I can use Bing and get results that are usually good enough, sometimes even better than Google's. If I want a phone, I can choose between Apple and Android, and maybe even niche brands like Jolla. If I want to message somebody, I can use Slack, WhatsApp, Skype, WeChat, Line, Telegram, Signal... If I want to post pictures or videos of myself, there's YouTube, TikTok, Facebook/Instagram. If I want to buy ads, I can buy from Google, Bing, Facebook and Twitter. They're only monopolies if we define the class of businesses so narrowly that each business model is a new class, such that each firm is a monopoly.

Contrast that with e.g. home internet, where in many parts of the US there's literally just a single company providing internet connectivity, a single ISP, and it's illegal to start a competing ISP.
Odd sci-fi for the evening; our body is host to many bacteria, including some which sense the choices of which parallel universes to stay attached to. These sometimes influence our behavior to stay alive; after all, they want the host to live, also. Consistency is good for their river of life and death.
It's be interesting to see the "War on Drugs" shift to focus on (or at least include) tobacco and related products. ;)
China's version of GPS now has more satellites than US original
If you follow the link in GP, you'll find a reddit post explaining it was removed in an update.
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Marketing is pretty much dishonest by definition.
Thats not what your quote says.
Ever notice they do something very shortly after there is a stir about their internal anti privacy memos from the leaker?
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> I think it would be better if a certain amount of the launch cost would go towards a fund meant to de-orbit space junk.

It seems to me that we're in agreement.
Just two kinds of smartphones have substantial market share, Android and iOS. Even Microsoft didn't manage to break the duopoly.

Edit: incoherence
I encourage you to learn more about IO:

https://typelevel.org/cats-effect/datatypes/io.html

Also see my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20744549
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> Gold Fig Labs: The startup is building a tool for version control on settings pages. The founders come from Firebase, where they were both early employees. The company has signed up 60 companies in the last five weeks, including “multi-billion-dollar tech companies.

I've been setting up some pipelines at work. I was thinking recently, "huh, these pipelines aren't easily version controlled at all". Unless you use something that is completely configurable by text, which is pretty hard to accomplish, then it's basically impossible to get a snapshot of your services. It's even harder to roll stuff back. Or branch it off and test out a new configuration. I'd wager that a lot of issues in production are configuration related, simply because it's harder to introspect and code review versus code changes. Hopefully that can be fixed.
What amazes me it’s that a relatively new language easy to use (no voice, no accent distortion) it’s not a global standard and we need tools like this to translate the different language signs.

This situation feels very stupid IMO.
Sorry, I was a little ambiguous. We're not considering paying less per unit time. This is fully illegal in the UK even if we did consider it.

What we are considering is whether a part-time employee is significantly more productive per unit time to such an extent that pro-rated pay would be considered unfair.
It's really a good point. The graphic now can't really reflects how well do the colors go together.

Apart from graphics, I am thinking maybe adding some sample UI/charts too...

Thanks for your feedback!
You can always add additional Static IPs to Cloud NAT. The mail they sent doesn't mention any IP cost for Cloud NAT so I assume that it's free.
Yeah I really do not see the benefit of a fixed fee as a starting point competing against a %. Doesn't make sense at all.

Why switch to a new service and be 100% likely to pay something, yet not 100% likely to get paid yourself at all?

Would rather start out with a 0e/month and get it up to, say, 50$ (or more) based on a rolling basis based on your revenue per month.

The app looks like a thousand other ride-hailing attempts as well. What the hell is the secret sauce here?
> It's propaganda.

What?

The reply I'm replying to is the propaganda. He has no idea where I live, he sees the word "Israel" and assumes that means that I stole land.

In fact the place where I live, like the vast majority of places, has had good relations with the Bedouins and has since the beginning. These are grazing lands, and the Bedouins do graze most of it. We're built up on the rocky hilltops where there is nothing to graze, the only thing that could grow there might be olive trees. The Bedouins likely have had their herds graze here before the houses were build, but that doesn't make it "their land" and more than the store where you buy your bread is "your store". Unless you think that each Bedouin has the equivalent personal land sized several times any large city, and they all overlap!

I'm not disputing the fact that there is an Israeli-Arab conflict. I understand the argument "Israel steals land" even if I dispute it. Separate from that, there is an issue of Bedouin land. But neither argument is the one that is being made here, parent poster is conflating issues to influence your opinion. That's not uncommon when people are motivated by hate.
yeah, McDonalds will pay a 16yo boy more.
And Eurozone countries chose the first two, giving up independent monetary policy :)
Didn't think about that haha. Will add a MIT license later. Thanks!
> Whilst it's not especially useful in today's world, it's a fascinating relic, especially on trades and skills that have declined or died out.

Same for me. My grandfather was a teacher and I saved quite a few of the old school/teaching books after he died.

Did you know that the Empire State Building is the highest building on earth?

Well, it was, when these books were printed. :-)
As counterbalanced to FAR, there is NEAR, which is FAR but the supersonic flight behaves as if it was subsonic, so it makes things a bit easier.
It was common knowledge. But then the constant bombardment with advertising showing the great social advantages of being a smoker. And so many people fell along the wayside, I just buried another one at the ripe old age of 59.

The peer pressure to smoke and drink was absolutely enormous and I really don't hold it against my classmates for folding. In that sense being in the 'out' group of the class made it easier to resist the pressure, though some of those kids would go completely overboard thinking that if only they out-drank and out-smoked the clique they'd be let in.
For me it’s about personal choice. I don’t want to prevent someone from enjoying something as long as they know the consequences and have the mental capacity to make their own choices.

Courts have long held (in multiple countries) that average teenagers are not responsible enough to make certain decisions and need to be protected until they are more mature. That’s the basic reasoning behind my opinion to not outlaw outright, but to at least not target vulnerable populations.
Sounds you might want to use "tagbar"? https://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar
It's not like they are bad people who set out in the morning to make the world a worse place. If you want change, you must question what makes people behave that way. The extreme focus on economic success of individuals combined with a lack of solid social security is what my intuition tells me drives people to do things at work that damage other people. Is there research about this?
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There is the packaging, but probably more important is increasing the tax (and therefore the price) over time. Demonstrable reductions in smokers every time the price goes up.
It uses CMake, Qt, and is written in C++. GitHub is the official source code upstream (https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface). The licence is GPLv2.

This is interesting to me. I don't exactly remember the arguments, for Linux, Linus was always very clearly against C++. He could have also chosen Gtk, and then write the app in C.
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They may do what they did with a certain U2 album and automatically give all their users a free subscription for 3 months and then go - hey look we have all these subscribers. That way they could technically say they have millions of users of which, many will translate into subscribers. More so if they bundle in some other services and piggyback that, ala Amazon's approach with prime subscribers.
It helps to think about exchange rate in reverse direction:
Previously 1 yuan ~= 0.166 USD, now 1 yuan ~= 0.142 USD, so its value clearly fell.
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You've got 35 years or so. Better enjoy them.
There’s a 1/16 on there.

I assume it is a historical oddity. NYSE prices were done in fractions up until a few years ago.
Just like for async, borrow across yield points here are a special feature that you couldn't implement in Rust as an open coded state machine, you'd have to find a workaround.
Linus originally wrote it in C and Gtk+, it has been rewritten.
I like Star wars and I like Star Trek, I would never accuse SW of something so grand as 'predicting' anything though. You have reminded me of my favourite definition for Soft Sci fi though.

Soft Sci Fi:
Han Solo running around around on an asteroid with only a face mask. (can't find the source right now)

Edit

>"Hard science-fiction” is defined as “stories in which Han Solo does not saunter around the surface of an asteroid wearing only an oxygen mask and a leather jacket”

https://themorningnews.org/article/mindfuck-movies
Our benefits are all things that wouldn't make sense to take away from a part-time employee to be honest.

We don't offer private health care currently, and every other benefit is a pretty direct link to how productive that employee is - technical books, better work environment etc.

For instance, we do a "wonder week" once a quarter to work on side projects/learning etc. To me, not letting a part-time employee do this would be to treat it as a kind of bonus, when instead we view it as an opportunity to explore ideas and skill up.
I've read, on HN, that Juul also has patents on nictoine salts that hit faster and don't last as long. e.g. the crack of nicotine.
I looked at the synonyms and I have to disagree with your opinion. Can you elaborate on which synonyms gave you this impression?
On a side-note, how does one go about adding data to a read-only file system Suh as EROFS?
US-based social media companies publish more methodology about how they remove Chinese accounts as opposed to how they remove American accounts. It becomes even more absurd considering that Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council contains no civil libertarians or anything resembling balanced interests.
True, but average people with nefarious morals might look comparatively brilliant because the scope of total things they can and are willing to do is greater, whereas decent people would just self-select out of those activities.

Additionally, and tragically, because they work in a field with a psychological cost, their market wages are higher to compensate, meeting a second metric simple folk use to judge merit/competency.

And so outsiders look in and say "brilliant", when really it's just a bunch of otherwise average performers, paid well, willing to do what others won't and open to a greater palette of possible actions because of it.

To quote BR from thank you for smoking: "We don't sell Tic Tacs for Christ's sake. We sell cigarettes! And they're cool and available and addictive. The job is almost done for us!"
You should have a look at StarMade: https://www.star-made.org/
For a somewhat sensationalistic take on this, see:
How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang[1]

[1]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2407748
If you count by "dollars went to OS vendor for the OS explicitly" then yes. Otherwise Android phones alone is like Apple+Ms combined in terms of installs.
I like this project. Working in HR for a while, I saw some people hating their jobs. Some of them were hanging in there because they did not know how it's like to make a lateral move to other job or to a similar job in other company. I feel that linking the job description to companies would be something really interesting. I do not feel that this will turn into Glassdoor, even if I assume that will attract some hate from ex-employees and some subjective job descriptions.
A function returning IO preserves referential transparency.

fn() + fn()

// ----

val a = fn()
a + a

Are the two programs above equivalent? For a function returning IO, they are. For a function that's side effectful, they are not.

(As an exercise for the reader, think of our function here returning Future/Promise instead of an IO, how would that change the program?)

This is a definition of purity that you can work with. The trap that people fall in is to talk about fiction essentially. What is "meaningful" anyway? If you don't give it a definition, is it meaningful to talk about what's meaningful?

I agree that a function returning IO is opaque. You can't reinterpret it, it's no longer a plan that you can change the interpreter for, but something concrete. There are of course better abstractions for dealing with effects in a way as to make them less opaque ... like the Free Monad, or Eff.

Many of them have been expressed in Scala as well.
There used to be campaigns to ban flavored (fruity) alcoholic drinks in the UK, but first, we have a different idea of maturity (an 18 year old can purchase alcohol), and second, by now people in their 40s grew up with them. There was a significant increase in the tax on them in 1997, which led to products like flavored cider.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23502892
SQL queries for non production uses feel more like “quick documents” and having to interact with git every time you want to share would be a pain. (Imagine telling people to share google docs via a git repo). And I say this as a coder who loves git. So many companies will have sql in their wiki docs eg in one note or even in slack for ease of sharing.
Feels like I am 5 years old again!
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I feel like I have a bit of an idea considering this is what Linus decided to work on as soon as he got a break from kernel development. But there are lots of industries/hobbies with crap software, and Linus chose scuba.

If he had been in college at the time he would have definitely decided to write an alternative to BlackBoard or Canvas.
I posted some examples above. (Or maybe it's below. The long message with lots of links.)
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There is a very strange attraction between Japanese and French. A lot of people in both countries magnify each other culture. I think it is partly due to projection but also to a long history of collaboration and exchanges.

It is ridiculously easy to be a French in Japan. A lot of people immediately become very friendly to me when they learn where I am from.

Also, there's one thing I'll concede to Japanese culture: they do take food seriously here! That's also a strong shared point.
This is common in the embedded world with squashfs - unpack it somewhere, add/modify the filesystem there, re-pack it.
I think cranky old people are cranky due to their poor health and old brains as much as their experience. The healthy ones are often quite youthful in outlook. It's going to be the actual 25 year olds yelling at the apparently 25 year old octogenarians — or more probably, the middle-aged parents yelling at the kids, the octogenarian grandparents, and the supercentenarian great-grandparents.
Currently - Spotify 'Discover weekly' mostly (there are some weeks that they match my taste poorly, but sometimes I find something that really suits me)

Also - youtube. I'm a big fan of XMA Tricking and I love watching Tricking Samplers of people - they have very often cool soundtracks.

Before spotify I was sing Hype Machine - I think it's still worth trying it out. I've found many artists before they become mainstream ones there - totally recommend it.
Looks on github like he's still committing regularly.
I remember Encarta for its pioneering use of fractal image compression (whatever happened on that front), I recall reading a rather in depth article in BYTE magazine prior to the Encarta usage and thought, wow, and yet, it's one tech that seems to stagnated.
You know it "will not" when the title says "could".
You're making a category error. Sprint is a Common Carrier and protected by law as long as they don't meddle with what traverses their equipment nor deny David Duke his phone number.

If FB did retreat to common carrier, they would not be allowed to run ads nor ban accounts. If they became content providers they would incur civil and criminal liability for content posted on their sites, but also have complete control over who is allowed to have an account and who isn't.

It used to be one or the other, but FB et al wanted to have their cake and have it too, and Section 230 of the CDA was created to allow them to straddle this fence. Well, here we are and it turns out that content is a bigger problem than Section 230 was built to deal with.
If you are European, this seems fundamentally incompatible with the requirements of the GDPR, unless they have a better basis for processing than consent (which I doubt for a site like Hacker News).
"Don't blame the nanny state for the actions it's taking"
Ironic to see you claiming someone isn't making a cogent argument
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It's not. There is a commercial for a hospital next to my house. On it is a photo of one of their best doctors (very well known and respected), saying "I work for this hospital because they enable my success". 100% honest. I wouldn't know he works at that hospital without that commercial and would never visit him without it. I am thankful.
Well delivering multiple satellites could be a thing, it's still basically the same cost by mass, you're just splitting the monetary cost up among different customers. If you are delivering multiple GEO satellites, you also have to have them be the right place in their orbit, over their target, since they are stationary with respect to the earth (which is why you don't have to move your satellite TV dish). This means all your satellites for that bunch have to basically be near each other.

That also doesn't feel like it is reusable given this definition. I'd assume reusable means you can use it now, and then use it next month on a completely different mission. So let's explore that.

GEO satellites are also generally a lot bigger than your typical cubesat / nanosats that are all the rage in the bulk launcher configurations, because you need a big dish, and a lot of power to transmit and receive signals.

> It is wasteful to have every satellite carry the weight of its own propellant and engines.

Even if a satellite was delivered to GEO without using an engine, satellites need engines to do stationkeeping and keep their orbit, which is the critical factor for the operational lifetime of a satellite.

It's more wasteful to have to have your orbiting tug do an orbital rendezvous with a satellite in LEO (takes fuel to rendezvous), go to GEO (the normal cost, but more expensive since you have to carry the fuel for the return trip), then come back from GEO to LEO (takes fuel).

Following this delta-v map, it looks like it takes about 4000m/s of delta-v to go from LEO to GEO, then the same the other way back down.

https://external-preview.redd.it/U5iH7huE5qKth7ZFvipXt8vzaFO...

I don't know of any clever planning or efficient fuel use that can get over the raw amount of delta-v you'd need. Fuel use isn't really efficient, it's the engine that has to efficiently use the fuel, which is why I think there must be some breakthrough here.

Fuel also has to eventually be delivered up to the tug for refuel, so really it seems like all the mass savings is the dry mass of the 3rd stage.
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There was a post about it; the lead dev was paid a thousand dollars a month or so during development, his regular salary, but no other compensation.

He made an absolute shit deal, the kind that should probably be illegal or at the very least strongly discouraged through proper education. His employer’s actions were unethical.
Great little library, can the title be renamed to include "Show HN: "?

Not sure if you have to be the author of the thing, to use the "Show HN: " title tag... but it would be helpful to people browsing...
I always liked the story of the Lunokhod 1 - the first of the two Soviet Lunar Rovers. Both had reflectors for laser ranging, but Lunokhod 1 was carelessly misplaced in the early 1970s. So no more ranging until 2010 when the NASA reconnaissance orbiter found it again. They didn't lose the other one. :)

I think one of the Lunokhods still holds the record for the furthest ever travelled by an extra terrestrial vehicle.
Its funny to see how liberal Americans (I'm might be wrong but I assume you would call yourself that?) seem to have adopted a kind of reverse-patriotism where everything non-american is always better and foreign countries are looked upon with rose-tinted views.

I am from central Europe, but have travelled in America and have family over there too, I can tell you that women being attracted to loud, boorish, extroverts its not at all specific to white Americans. This is pretty much a universal human trait.

Its also interesting that you say that immigrants in America are not like that at all? Because in my experience, at least in the black and hispanic communities - they have far more of a macho culture than most white Americans do.
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Please don't, some of us have families to feed!

On a more serious note, I wonder how hard it would be to introduce even semi-realistic Newtonian physics to a voxel-based game world.
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Previously, Windows instances required a public IP address in order to connect to and retrieve a license from Googles KMS server. Looks like that has changed recently, and this news had me worried we'd have to pay extra for our Windows instances. So at least now I can save a few pennies and IP addresses.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/windows/crea...