skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple still buys companies all the time. Perhaps not always well-known app developers, but certainly a lot of them. (Shazam is one from recent memory, as was Siri.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

Note that nearly all of these occurred after Steve Jobs’ return and continued apace after his death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

This makes me believe that if Apple is building their own rather than buying, perhaps there’s not a whole lot of innovation that the app developer created that wasn’t trivially replaceable.
I don't mind installing uBlock Origin manually from GitHub or whatever yet I'm certainly not going to use a browser without uBlock Origin.
They could have bought the company if necessary.
Frankly it just wasn't worth buying. That is the market speaking. The market said it was better to develop the thing in house.
This style of image gallery was common for the era (1995) since each image could take a minute or more to download over dialup internet connection. At those speeds even a contact sheet of thumbnails was somewhat of a luxury. I don't think the images are behind text links out of consideration for the blood of it all, but more for bandwidth conservation.
Lets talk about the money behind climate change too, I bet theres a lot of "clean" energy patents lying around that with some new regulations and taxes, would worth billons.
Seinfeld also blames his audience when they don’t like his jokes. He’s a really, really bad example of that (common) practice.
I don’t know why they’re so reluctant to admit it was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Say it loud and proud, Turtle Power!
I was thinking about that too, but they were architected, and construction started, more than 50 years ago. So they just barely missed this list.
The only thing that I really miss from the firefox is possibility to pinch to zoom. Has anyone heard about any plans for it to be implemented?
Does anyone have an app that lets me draw on the ipad and show it live on my laptop? Is that what astropad and now Sidecar does?

I resorted to joining Zoom meetings twice and sharing the screen with my ipad session as host and drawing in the Notes App
Shame that this is yet another website that requires Javascript to simply to display some static images.
If someone picks up Bel and is changed by it, then something has been changed.

YOUR problem is that you have an all-or-nothing perspective that change only matters if it is massive, global, change-at-scale.

Change matters in the small. If building Bel changed nobody except PG for the better, then it is still change and it still matters. Just not to you.

As a bonus—and this is a happy accident, not core to my point—sometimes change in the small unexpectedly leads to change in the large. See microcomputers, web browsers, and so many other things scoffed at as things that simply could never displace the incumbent technologies.
Judges are required to make decisions in many fields they have not been specifically trained in. If they were experts on every subject matter, there would be no need for lawyers, except maybe to present evidence.

Regardless, the ruling has nothing to do with “statistical fact”. It has to do with whether the policy was intentionally discriminatory.
I talk about this in the first section of the The Bel Language: http://paulgraham.com/lib/paulgraham/bellanguage.txt
If they keep pushing a EU defense union, and northern Ireland backstop without an exit clause, the best deal is still 'no deal' on WTO terms.
For me it's not so much about how he uses his money, but how he gets it.

Raking in obscene amounts of money by working people to the bone and forcing them to pee in bottles and not be able to take proper breaks is unconscionable in my book, and can't bring myself to support such a morally repugnant business model.
It's confined to the USA and Australia, where the combination of powerful Murdoch media and rural fossil fuel billionaires reign over the conservative parties. (Canada and UK get some spillover.) See above links to "Dark Money" and "Merchants of Doubt" for US. For Australia:

https://reneweconomy.com.au/australia-get-stupid-clean-energ...
Unfortunately, making policy isn't a matter of epistemology. If we prevented ourselves from making any kind of decisions due to uncertainty about our empirical claims, we would be stuck in a kind of ethical paralysis that would prevent any kind of coordinated policy.

To argue that inherent complexity means we should remain in a state of inaction is in itself a form of denialism. The fact that it is difficult to make predictions about chaotic systems does not mean that the null hypothesis is automatically true.
Is that because of the opt-in BAT crypto bullshit, or because Eich is the boogieman?
Hong Kong: arrest of 750 children during protests sparks outcry
Google uses no versioned libraries?
China won't allow even foreign companies to criticize it == US army won't help others criticize it. That's exactly the same. Not.

P.S. Just wait until you get the Chinese value system, which surprisingly censors everything US does and much much more.
it's disheartening to know american justice has become so influenced by ideology. for all the talented asians affected by this, america is not the only country which can offer the level of education exceptional talent needs. look across the atlantic and you will find exceptional institutions which welcome exceptional talent regardless of race.
Machiavelli isn't mentioned in the article, so I assume you are including the comments, and this is what I was referring to as well. The thesis is "history is written by the losers". In the comments other examples are brought forward, including Machiavelli and Churchill. The Dunning School narrative is a prominent example of this, and is arguably more apt than these other examples because that is precisely its main thrust: to glorify the losers and denigrate the winners.

Besides which, "whoever is mentioned needs to be as great as these three" is your own special rule for which only you are the judge, which is not a particularly convincing argument to anyone but yourself.
Maybe it doesn't lead to being happier, but that doesn't mean there aren't other benefits.
It uses the same extension store though.
There are some sites that don't work well in Firefox, like Cisco's WebEx. The web client will disconnect and reconnect causing everyone to constantly hear a disconnect and entry beep when your audio cuts out. On Chromium there is no problem on the same machine. This is on Xubuntu Linux.
They didn't change the rules. That is why it is not a world record. Because they broke specific rules to see if it was possible at all before attempting it in record eligible conditions.

The importance of the attempt is that nobody knew if it was actually possible to run a marathon in under 2 hours without performance enhancing substances, i.e., if the theoretical estimate was unattainable in real world attempts.

The use of the pacing car and bringing the water to him are the only things that would not be replicated in a real world race, since runners already pace and draft off each other in the lead group of a marathon.

Expect to see several attempts to come close to 2 hours on the best several Marathon Majors races with a likely would record in Kipchoge's next competitive marathon.
I personally use Session Buddy on Chromium to keep tabs (no pun intended) on what windows are open and what tabs are inside. I save and restore my sessions using this extension as well. I haven't found any suitable replacement extension for Firefox that works like this.
Being so simple reminds me of RISC
I do get it. I've been using it for several months, and I run into problems fairly often. Nothing wrong with the implementation, AFAICT, but it takes a fair amount of thought to assign sites to different containers, and you can easily end up following links that cross container boundaries and then don't work right because of the context change. I've even run into several corporate sites where federated authentication simply won't work in a container, at all.
Isn’t this quite similar to what happens when a supermarket creates their own brand version of a product, and places it alongside the copies product, albeit with a much cheaper price?

I felt quite bad for Spotify and Flux when Apple Music and Night shift came out, but I guess this is a risk when you use any type of platform to reach customers.

Diversification is a good idea, I’m impressed was impressed with the response in the article.
> I mean you would think their process would be smart enough to say "Hey, we just rejected upload for product X that is THE MOST POPULAR PLUGIN. We haven't rejected any of the prior versions. Maybe let's get a human review.

The extension in question only has 9,000 users.
Maybe this is a case where the old adage applies: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by a byzantine organizational structure in which the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing".

While its certainly plausible that Apple engaged in some kind of two-faced corporate espionage here, another plausible explanation is that Apple is an enormous company, and the part of it that was working on Sidecar had little or no connection at all with the part that was talking to Astropad.
How is this on the front page with basically no README and no screenshots or video?
damn, that's amazing. I don't think my hands or eyes will keep up with me at that age. Hell, they carp is already getting my wrists. At least I'll still have metalworking!
"Let's suppose what didn't happen and assume it did...."

Science, as a process, is a process at arriving at truths. It's fundamentally dialectic, as opposed to rhetorical, the profession practiced by many around the denial movement, several in this thread.

Naomi Oreskes' name has already been mentioned here. In addition to writing on climate (and ozone/CFCs, tobacco, lead, asbestos, etc., etc., etc.) denial, she's written on the history of one of the more amazing feats of collective mind-changing in science: the adoption of the theory of plate tectonics, or continental drift, as it was first called.

When proposed, the theory was ridiculed as completely crackpot. But what happened was that more and more evidence, and mechanisms, turned up. And, yes, over the course of about a half century, many of the original objectors died. But from roughly 1915 to 1965, established views changed from believing that the continents had always occupied their current positions to the understanding that they very much had not.

Geography, geology, fossils, radioactive decay (as both heat source and clock), undersea surveys, earthquake faults, seismic analysis. The preponderance of evidence changed minds.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/plate-tectonics-an-insiders-h...

https://www.worldcat.org/title/rejection-of-continental-drif...
My dad isn't a software engineer, but more of a combination mechanical/aerospace engineer (MA in mechanical, PhD in aerospace), but his official job is a tech-lead right now, which he likes, but he misses "real" engineering".

Pretty much every evening and weekend, he's mucking around with something in FreeCAD and knee-deep in equations that I don't fully understand, because he genuinely loves this stuff, and doesn't want to ever become rusty.

He's 58 now, but I get the impression that he'll be doing this until his deathbed.
It's why I usually use the old i.reddit.com

I mean if their crappy mobile site encourages you to switch to their annoying app, I guess they consider it mission accomplished?
I did not imply at any point that we were the first, or only. Perhaps in our galaxy. I don't know if we could ever find out about civilizations in other galaxies.

There are a 100 billion galaxies. I'm ready to guess each has at least a few planets theoretically capable to sustain life for long enough.
Yes,

uBO is a wide-spectrum blocker, not merely an adblocker. It has powerful context-sensitive blocking that's surpassed only by uMatrix (also from gorhill), as well as cosmetic filters that I find invaluable for cleaning up the dumpster fire being passed off as "the web" these days.

Floating header bar that follows you down the page of an article you're trying to read, wasting your vertical screen space? Remove it permanently with uBO's cosmetic filters and never see it again. Tired of the sidebar with links to clickbait articles on the site? Cosmetic filter. Wikipedia nagging for donations despite a history of irresponsible spending and ample cash reserves? Cosmetic filter.
Well, OS/2 was the best operating system I ever used. But "life" is a matter of useage.
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The linked article states that Apple actively researched their products.

Is this what happened with your MIDI driver?
The problem with all of this is that it starts by assuming that your conversation partner is talking to you in good faith. This isn't always true. Sometimes the other party simply wishes to argue with you to show others on which side of some line they are on. In those cases, arguing with them is usually a waste of time and can instead get you in trouble with the masses on the "other side".
Do you feel any resentment against Apple from this chapter of your life?
Absolutely not. Here in the Netherlands it's rampant.
I imagine photoshop has had it for a long time. I do raw photography very sparingly and barely know photoshop. Literally one of the first thing I wanted to do was batch operations on a set of photos in which the lighting and camera setting were exactly the same. A quick Google revealed it is frequently used.
Apple has migrated to clang/llvm a long time ago.
270 Park Avenue (215 m), the headquarters of JPMorgan Chase, is currently being demolished to build a new headquarters building about twice as tall.
Did I lose my karma?
Hi, can you lose karma after a while?
> It's confined to the USA and Australia

No it's not. It's very much a thing in Europe too.
Dark patterns are often justified as trying to gain more of a user’s/customer’s attention, as seen to be the case here. IMHO, this is Amazon shrewdly introducing limits to their charity.

Whether it be a functional constraint or a dark pattern, user’s attention is being exchanged for agency of charity on behalf of the consumer.

A quick search on Twitter leads me to believe there is a feedback cycle Amazon leveraged with notifications about the Smile program. Consumers buy, notifications of their charity are pushed, Amazon profits. Repeat cycle. Amazon profits.
It says adorable and doesn't show the goods. Nerdrage... rising!
> Taking facial recognition tools away from law enforcement prevents crime victims from bringing their victimizers to justice.

That's demonstrably false. Additionally, law enforcement in the US has far too much power and has shown a proclivity to abuse every kind of power they have the opportunity to.
Can I just take a moment here to plug how vital Internet Archive (mentioned by the story, sounding like it's just a thing that the internet does) is to, well, most things, and getting more important by the day?

I haven't donated to them yet but I'm going to now.
The first rule of ninja school...
Just looked at Alibris... $28.92 estimated for shipping 8 books? No thanks.
I'd argue those "humanistic values" are only advertised to improve public opinion about Apple's brand... and ultimately make more money. If customers feel good about supporting Apple, then they'll be more likely to purchase their products.

Apple wouldn't be doing it if it cost them significantly, as we see with them compromising their supposed values under Chinese pressure.
Monorepo shortcomings 1 and 2 seem like bullshit to me. Perforce, the popular monorepo at most companies I've worked at, supports access control. Monorepos do not prevent you from segmenting your code into modules and pushing binary/source packages into source control so that builds can avoid compiling everything(TiVo used to do this, and it worked well when you got the hang of it).

I feel like these debates are often fueled by false arguments. Either way you go, you're going to want to build support tools and processes to tailor your VCS to your local needs.
I think they do, but there is only ever one single version in use - the version in the repo.
Agency eyes big revamp of Wall Street whistleblower program
One of the things I've done at a couple companies now is flatten multi into mono - it just simplifies everything, it's all deployed as one unit, so easier to track and do changes across different parts of the code base in unison.

I have typically left mobile iOS/Android in separate repos however - they have a different deployment cadence, so you need to manage breaking changes differently anyway.
Sorry. This text is absolutely useless to me. What is it trying to say? Don't get it, although I agree that propositions are not necessarily types.
I think this is very likely- when I was there ~3 years ago, my org was pretty silo’d and it seemed like this was common for most teams, by design.
The GOP is interested in nuclear power because they know that since the 60s the Left has been against nuclear power. They bring it up as a way to gore the Left's ox, not as something they're actively pursuing to fight climate change. The policy they pursue is trolling and antagonizing their domestic enemies. Any effect of this on climate policy is incidental.
I don't quite understand how you are supposed to follow that advice... no one has time to personally investigate everything. We have to outsource SOME of our thinking.
Hey, I think this site's audience is technical enough that it's okay to just give them the name of the option: about:config -> gfx.webrender.all -> true

Go to about:support and search for WebRender to check if it worked.

Works great for me with Kubuntu 19.10 / Mesa / AMD. It didn't work when I tried it a couple of months ago.
Four dishes with roots in other lands tell story of immigration, transformation
Richard Stallman defies push by 27 GNU Project developers to end his leadership
I really want to use FF over Chrome and I generally do, but I find it more of a memory hog than Chrome, which is saying a lot.
> We are lucky to live in a time when we are all so empowered.

I remember when I was a teenager, before the internet era. Our science teacher thought us about critical thinking and not blindly trusting the media. Everything he said made sense, but still, I felt that I was lacking the proper tools and expertise to challenge what was said in reputable medias.

It's much easier nowadays, Thanks to the ability to search the web, better knowledge/expertise in some fields, better understanding of how medias work... yet it's not easy. It is a skill that needs constant practice, and one shouldn't fall in the other extreme not to trust anything.

I really think this should be taught in school. Examples of bad journalism, recent government lies, marketing and PR...
Ah I understand now, that I can't argue against. Companies make such public statements all the time so it's not surprising if that's the case. This also gives future investors insights into the company they are considering investing in and how they operate.
The kill ratio is roughly 5 Kurds for each Turkish death. The cost to turkey has been hundreds of billions of dollars too. The reports from international human rights organisations like Amnesty International are grim. Turkey is using murder and torture systematically. While what I can see likely has bias, if you are in Turkey it is far harder and possibly dangerous to get good information due to state censorship and oppression.
Almost any other way of handling this situation would be better, but I haven’t the faintest idea what the average Turkish citizen could do to help this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish–Turkish_conflict_(19...
https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/europe-and-central-asia...
It was one of the options under chrome://flags and I don't recall which - this was more than 6 months ago now.
The vigil happened in the United States.

I can't believe you (a) don't get this and (b) are arguing it so vociferously.
At least in part because that’s not what the IPCC is projecting. It’s telling that nobody ever references the work of the IPCC on expected economic impacts of climate change.

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WGIIAR5-Chap...

> For most economic sectors, the impact of climate change will be small relative to the impacts of other drivers (medium evidence, high agreement). Changes in population, age, income, technology, relative prices, lifestyle, regulation, governance, and many other aspects of socioeconomic development will have an impact on the supply and demand of economic goods and services that is large relative to the impact of climate change.
No, because I want to see the end of tyranny, not its privatization. I lean more toward individualist anarchism.
This doesn't make it any less artificial or arbitrary. The marathon is a different beast from the mile and it doesn't make much sense to compare two different eras.
Answer 1: I did not have any kind of relationship with Apple, except for the standard Developer agreement. I don't think they copied anything from me, so it was not, truth be told, exactly the same.

Answer 2: Not especially, but those of us that have been programming Apple since the 1980s (I've been at it for a loooong time) have learned a rather cynical outlook.

Apple has a long, long history of stepping on its developers; often accidentally (but we still got stepped on).

I've taken OpenDoc and QuickDraw GX courses, because they were the future.

Anyone remember Copeland, and the enormous push behind it?

I still love programming Apple devices. I'm writing an open-source Bluetooth driver, right now.
It happened in the United States. And who says it was exclusively attended by Chinese Nationals?
It's protected in the US. You can advocate for all the crime and violence you want: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action
Good luck backdooring encryption without banning GitHub
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This sounds amazing for me. I'd like to invite you to an email conversation about your learnings with this experience. I have my email in my bio.
Not all push back is equal... does it really helpful to "keep the debate alive" by pushing back on the idea that the earth is not flat?
1. They charge you fees for things

Well, they provide a service and charge for that. Seems legit to me. Specifically in the context of European banks (including Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) that charge virtually nothing for basically instantaneous transfers within those countries. If US banks suck, maybe have a word with your congressperson.

2. They try to upsell me stupid financial products

If so, change your bank.

3. They are not easy to use in other countries

Uhh, just about any bank I know of issues an ATM card, which is either attached to the Plus, or Cirrus networks. My Swiss Postfinance ATM card work mighty fine at ATMs in Bangkok, Burundi, or Bangalore. Or just about in any damn place in the world. In other words: This reasoning is total bullshit.

4. Typing in my credit card number sucks

Yeah, well. You may prefer to trust a company, which lies a lot and shuts down your account for any and all resaon, without any recourse. Let alone get hold of a real life person to rectify the issue. Frankly, I prefer the "hardship" to type my credit card number (which I know by heart anyway) than to trust Mr. Zuckerberg or Mr. Marcus. Which, in my opinion, always seem pretty much full of shit whenever they open their mouth. To each his own, I guess.

5. Typing in my credit card number isn't secure

Er, not my problem. I let my bank sort that out. They're obliged to do that and whenever I had that (rare) problem it was sorted out in a jiffy. Best of luck sorting this out with just about any major tech company.
As I understand it, it's somewhere between a martial arts discipline and historical reenacting[or larping?] It seems pretty fun tbh. I suspect graduates might find work as instructors.
Apple told Apple TV+ creators to avoid portraying China ‘in a poor light’