skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, they're only equal when your f(t) = 0 for all t < 0. Otherwise they can be quite different, because the integral limits differ. In an undergrad engineering context you're often evaluating the response of a system to some input and it's common to have "at t=0 the switch is closed/mass is released/etc." where the function is assumed to have been 0 previously.
That's awesome. I love Haskell. Will definitely try Turtle next time!
That's common though, the SEC did a lot of short selling bans in the 2008 financial crisis.
Ask HN: Any company/startup still hiring interns (esp remote)?
As with many, I lost my internship because of COVID and since then have no success with finding another one, partly because vast majority of companies have no open positions for interns. If you know any company, please share. I'm sure many people would benefit from this.
Ray-tracing in a Weekend with SYCL Part 2: Pixel sampling and Material tracing
I’m still seeing in-app purchases as an option via App Store for Netflix. I can’t comment on the other apps you mentioned except for Gmail. And here’s where I disagree with you.

Gmail is still functional without paying anything. You don’t hit a paywall immediately after downloading. The app provides immediate functionality to users. If Google decided to force subscription-only, that’s when Apple would be saying you need to either open it up, or use our in-app subscription service. Google’s upsell is not a requirement to use Gmail’s basic functionality.

The app must provide immediately functionality after downloading. Guess how much functionality the Hey app I downloaded is providing to me right now? Zero. Because I need an “invite-only” code.
Exactly this. I've also highlighted this eloquently in a previous post. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23564759
That'd be down to the IMAP server to support, I suspect, but you could certainly have one that understood the logic - "if there's a message in Snoozed and it's older than X, move it to Inbox". If you have access to your mail, you could do it yourself with a shell script and cron.
They could have captured both ends of the scale with two different devices: a powerful VR (for Mac/iPad) as well as a slimmer always-worn AR (maybe an iPhone companion like the Apple Watch).

They need VR credibility, especially after Valve dropping Mac support for SteamVR: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/01/valve-drops-steamvr-mac...
> They need an iOS plan B.

I hope they don't. Apple needs to feel the pain their evil and immoral behaviour is inflicting on the world.

In a perfect world, the government would force them to behave ethically. Absent that, Hey's stance here is the next best thing.

If folks like Basecamp don't start standing up to Apple, then nothing stops Apple from just outright killing the majority of mobile software development. And while it's not directly their fault, at some point iPhone users need to recognize that their purchase of an iPhone is directly funding the destruction of the innovative / creative software they claim to want to have.

If you like Hey, maybe stop buying a phone that's trying to murder Hey. If you run a company like Hey, maybe stop giving in to the mafia's extortion demands.
Make Open Source More Secure – Linux Foundation Survey
> In the 21st century, the main question in American social life is not "how do we make that happen?" but "how do we get management to take our side?" This is a learned response, and a culture which has internalized it will not be a culture that "builds."

this is a very powerful statement. as someone who just did this this week I feel very called out.
Uhm, works for me, maybe search «DMDSP – Sparsity-Promoting Dynamic Mode Decomposition»?
The nuclear bomb brought nuclear reactors, providing affordable electricity in many places. Drone swarms also have the potential to turn into useful applications.
* Just to add, I’m on the Canadian App Store, so perhaps differences with Netflix in-app purchases. Dunno.
A better way to analyze Web sites
The lesson to learn here is that these organisational values are mostly the result of market positions, not morals.
Developers should come together and build an open-source curated platform where you can find 'only good - interesting, well-written'articles on all topics can be found.

Actually on the Hacker News guidelines it kind of describes this. And although it seems like the articles posted here are higher quality, they eventually get lost after 2-3 days.
If you weren't aware of one of the basic tenets of Islam, then you might want to consider, say, reading the Wikipedia page on Islam before adding noise to discussions like these.
I just spoke to my former coworker for the first time since around 2008. When he left the company we both worked for, he went to an insurance company. He’s been there for a decade. They actually have a pension.

I’ll be on my sixth job since then starting in July.

I have another friend who graduated in 1995. A year ahead of me. He was hired as Cobol programmer. 25 years later, he’s still writing COBOL.
Mapping the Istanbul Tech Ecosystem
They removed the price restriction in 2011. https://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/09/apple-reverses-course-o...
According to some Wikipedia research “De-orbiting a geostationary satellite requires a delta-v of about 1,500 metres per second (4,900 ft/s), whereas re-orbiting it to a graveyard orbit only requires about 11 metres per second (36 ft/s).”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard_orbit
I believe you're downvoted for saying "Apple's behavior here is actually pretty horrible and definitely illegal" without any substance.

Apple is not doing anything illegal (future regulations might change that), nor anything horrible.

There might be conflicts of interest between App Store and likes of Apple Music and Spotify having to pay IAP fees, but there's nothing wrong with 15-30% distributor fee to access a unified market of 155 countries where all the headache of payments, local sales taxes, APIs, etc are taken care of.

People forget the 2000s with Windows Mobile, CAB files and xda-developers, and the 50% shops take to get your software/game distributed and on a shelf in front of customers.
Gitea has worked great for me.
Black Hats Manual Software Security Auditing, Cracking, Debugging (2013)
The Dutch have a concept called "woonerf". Basically, the car is a guest on that street and pedestrians have priority. You're only allowed to drive 10mph, and street furniture enforces this quite strictly.

So, a wheelchair riding in the middle of the street? A car is just going to either drive slowly behind him, or pull over to let him pass. Pedestrians have absolute priority, provided they aren't intentionally hindering cars.
This is really interesting, I never thought of it this way. Thanks for sharing.
Links for the curious:

https://getsession.org

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.04609.pdf

https://github.com/Loki-project

Seems to somehow be associated with the working group for Loki cryptocurrency, but not using blockchain to store messages or message contents, per FAQ.

https://docs.loki.network/LokiServices/Messenger/Session/

https://docs.loki.network/Mining/MiningOverview/

https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak
You need to install the obs-websocket plugin first. You can set up a password there, and to expose the instance remotely you need a tunnel service like ngrok or pagekite.
A suicide drone can be used to take out any individual anywhere on the planet, fully remotely and untraceably with minimal collateral damage, while radar, missles and explosives can't. The scenario depicted in the film below is getting closer to reality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fa9lVwHHqg

Although the above is overdramatised, it's not unrealistinc.
I believe that there is such a thing as good, responsible engineering practices, such as supporting open standards, that companies ought to to irrespective of "target audience". I'm not saying using IMAP is a better user experience and that everyone should use it, but I believe that any email provider has a responsibility to support IMAP.
Hey, massive does not mean the biggest out there :). I can't wait to see how the Tether story ends.
What makes you think some people’s dream might not be to work from 9-5 go home to their spouse, 2.5 kids, their house in the burbs and get money to put into their account every two weeks?

Save consistently and retire?
Yes to this. Here’s where I agree Apple aren’t angels.
If you and I make a deal, and I profit handsomely from that deal, but you break the deal, does my profit invalidate the injury I suffer from you breaking the deal?
I think the level of irony here is so off the scale that it threatens to tear a rip in the fabric of space itself.
Of course, that part of Texas wouldn't have any freezing either, especially in the ground.
Pwned Passwords, Version 6
“ Ive balked at the prospect of selling a headset that would require a separate, stationary device for full functionality. He encouraged Rockwell and his team to redevelop N301 around the less powerful technology that could be embedded entirely in the device.”
That obs-websocket plugin seems to have some auth support. From their Readme:

> It is highly recommended to protect obs-websocket with a password against unauthorized control. To do this, open the "Websocket server settings" dialog under OBS' "Tools" menu. In the settings dialogs, you can enable or disable authentication and set a password for it.
Can someone please explain to me how 1.9B can go missing?
I'm probably too naive, but I really don't how that much money can get "lost".
It’s a shame that this company is part of the DAX, Germany’s large cap index of its 30 largest companies. I hope they get expelled soon
Your calls are in vain. That would only make sense in more liberal countries like western ones. When it comes to tech and innovation Turkey has become quite forward-looking but they still retain their nationalist culture.
Insanely great idea. Congrats to the cockroachdb team for coming up with this idea !
At least with a console you have the option of buying a physical copy of the game and loading it onto the device, compared to mobile where you need to enable developer mode in order to load apps from alternate sources (and even then, it's not an officially supported method as the steps can change significantly between versions).

But I do agree that there will be a console war if this is continued. I would hope that it leads down the "I own this device" route and level the playing field in general - I've paid Microsoft, Nintendo or Sony the money for the device, therefore I should have the right to run whatever I want on it. Gatekeeping what can be run on a device is a significant problem that needs to be resolved, along with the right to repair (Apple's a good example of the problems) and the second hand market (Tesla is a good example of the problems).
Do we consider a softbank investment to be a red flag at this point?
Do you mean

https://hyperdimensionneptunia.fandom.com/wiki/Dogoo
I agree with you in terms of iOS but macOS is super easy to run custom software on. I might have to click a security box for non-notarized apps (but not CLI tools) but I don’t see that as a bad thing.

When it comes to permission dialogs Windows has always been worse IMO
Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen, by Roahl Dahl

The Earth Abides, by George Stewart. Story is set in Berkeley, CA after a disease kills most life on earth, maybe a little too on the nose these days...

Paolo Bacigalupi's short stories (e.g. Pump Six), some of which he later turned into longer books.

Courtship Rite, by Don Kingsbury. Plot is kind of bland but the worldbuilding is fantastic, essentially an attempt to create a world where cannibalism isn't immediately though of as an ultimate evil, which leads to odd implications for society.
If you read the report itself, they elaborate in section A.3 that the app does run but crashes due to something related to notifications.

I'm speculating but I suspect the agreement they're referring to is the agreement for Google's proprietary Play Services API. I believe it's possible to compile Android itself and regular non-Google-Play Android apps without agreeing to anything but the terms of the open-source licenses.
Interesting news as it pertains to the ARM Macs. Implies the graphics capabilities may be substantially better than most of us were anticipating- much better than the already very good iPad graphics.
It was never there.
corrected link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-23/softbank-...
Agreed. Ignorance would be more ideal than corruption.
In that case you might be interested in Hardspace: Shipbreaker[1] game which is currently in early access. There are some gameplay videos already, for example Scott Manley's[2].

[1]: https://hardspace-shipbreaker.com/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj0FKs7l8sA
That seems like a rule that would have a terrifying chilling effect on a lot of legitimate lawsuits.
It's definitely better for SoftBank.
Windows has issues with HiDPI once you have multiple screens with different densities, and it's not just with legacy apps.

In any case, Windows is just using a scaling feature. But when you scale, you are losing workspace in exchange for sharpness.

When 4 physical pixels translates to 1 logical pixel, you've actually lost 3 pixels of potential real estate on a screen size where your eyes can actually discern those pixels.

On a 15" 4K monitor, losing that real estate is not a big deal, because >90% of people can't easily read or see anything scaled at 1:1 on a screen that size. When you scale that screen at 200%, you're basically using a 1080p screen with sharper text. You don't gain any real estate at all from the higher resolution.

On a 40" 4K screen, it's a whole other story. The text may not be sharp, but you can have way more windows open on that screen, which makes it easier to multitask. It's like having a grid of 2x2 20" 1080p screens.

-addendum - my visual limit is 1080p @ 1:1 on a ~14" screen, which is why I am fine with no scaling on my 4K 27" screens.
I wonder what alternative they would propose? If you want people to be able to use your app, you have to support the most popular app platforms, and if that means signing and agreement with Apple and/or Google, you have to do that. Anything else is "ivory tower" thinking.
> If you've read enough statistics/ML papers, this becomes second nature.

As someone who breathes that style of notation, there is excellent support in vim and emacs for custom display for readability. Conceal syntax in vim¹(builtin for rust/help/$few_others and external such as vim-cute-python²), and pretty-mode³ in emacs. I'm sure similar things exist in other editors too, but I don't use those ;)

You don't get the exact representation in your example with the things I've mentioned, but if you're used to a more "mathy"-style they really are quite nice. YM[and taste]MV.

1. http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/syntax.html#conceal

2. https://github.com/ehamberg/vim-cute-python (moresymbols branch for er… more symbols)

3. https://github.com/akatov/pretty-mode
Don't disagree with the facts but the suffering of humans depends as much on the content of their thoughts as it does on material conditions. A civilisation at the apparent height of its power and security can eat itself from the inside and decline rapidly. A wealthy individual living a privileged life can be beset by anxiety, and so on. Both of these things are strongly affected by the ideas that predominate in a given era. These include subtle ideas which can't readily be identified and which nevertheless spread and cause harm. So those ideas are a relevant part of the environment when considering which was the worst year so far.
Does iOS support PWAs yet? I'd have thought that PWAs would have all the features required for an email application at this point.

Apparently 20% of Apple's revenue comes from their marketplaces (music, apps, etc), but in terms of profit it's probably significantly higher since the costs ought to be much lower than their hardware.

So it seems like there's a decent chance that at least third of their profit could get wiped out by PWAs in the long run. You'd think they'd be treating developers a little better.
The pizza van guy was active here on hacker news right? I remember seeing posts from a robot pizza guy. Shame they got caught up with softbank.
It will take some sort of international agreement to regulate these bad boys.
They already are, their participation drives down with the market cap :D

On a more serious note - Merkel will have to do some serious firing and locking up in prison. At least I hope she does that, if not frauds will only multiply.
This is also the first thought I had. I checked, the obs-websocket plugin allows to set a password:

> It is highly recommended to protect obs-websocket with a password against unauthorized control. To do this, open the "Websocket server settings" dialog under OBS' "Tools" menu. In the settings dialogs, you can enable or disable authentication and set a password for it.

(from https://github.com/Palakis/obs-websocket).
Nice idea! Some cheapshots:

1. The comments aspect of this doesn't really jump out at me from the landing page.

2. The words "knowledge base" scare most people.

3. "You will be our customer and we promise to treat you the way we’d like to be treated too… with respect" is much more ominous with ellipsis than it would be with an em dash or a colon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlowTex Saw a documentary with the founder the other day, served 7 of a 12 year prison sentence.
Appears as an exercise on page 505 of this (excellent and freely downloadable, at least for now) book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-01195-0.
As long as there's at least 1 actor (state or not) doing this, it's very useful to develop such technologies. Powerful military is damn nice deterrence.
This has a bit of a "I can build Dropbox with a bunch of shell scripts over the weekend" vibe. I'm sure there's a bit more to it than that. How would you whitelist things in your regular IMAP client? Manually moving things to the IMAP Inbox and which then marks them as whitelisted somehow?

You could probably build that with a bunch of hacks but you'll not get a polished consumer friendly feature out of that. They are not in competition with people running mutt and a bunch of custom scripts, it's more of an alternative for people using Gmail with Gmail apps currently and don't even know what's IMAP.
you're only liable for the advice if you meet the criteria for an investment advisor under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, which involves actually getting paid somehow for the service. [0] I'm not an expert on the topic, but I can't see how you could possibly construe this as being intended to regulate informal discussions among laypeople. if so, why would they write the whole law around the responsibilities of investment advisors and specific criteria for being one?

similar liability exists for other people who give advice in a professional capacity (eg, lawyers, doctors, engineers), but I can't think of any situation where a layperson would be held responsible for bad advice.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/investadvact.asp
Is It Finally Hammer Time for Apple and Its App Store?
requires a huge amount of fuel for a geo-stat-sat to get back down.
Hmm, depends on what you mean by "easy/fast to query". Is something with a GraphQL API easy/fast to query? Or should it have some UI to do it?

I wonder if it's easy to just send events to something like Firebase and then query that DB.
I believe it might just be that we are used to safe incremental building now.

For example, building a feature on top of a successful product will get 5% gain with 80% certainty.

Building something completely new will give 10x gain with 2% certainty.

Management is more likely to favor the 5% gain because it gives safe returns and they can explain it well to whoever they are reporting to.

Also, I believe the same applies to startups. A founder has to explain crazy bets to investors, employees and everyone in the company. That's notnas easy as it sounds.
My Hey app is also providing me with zero functionality as well. I'm not being dismissive of your issue.

You know, maybe you do have a point (HEY should be using Apple's in-app purchase system). They should set it up as a weekly auto-renewing subscription at the most expensive price point possible ($1,299 USD). Maybe then Apple would leave them alone.

*(@dhh has said that HEY will be removing the invitation-only restriction in July).
how robust are these systems to E/M interference?
The US never convince the rest of the world their evidence was strong even though Powell tried his best.

That is why the United Nations Security Council never past a resolution authorizing the Iraq invasion and instead the US had to settle for the "coalition of the willing" as the their base of support.
Seems obvious in retrospect but wasn't obvious to me. Thanks for the insight!
One would expect that with their resources they could figure out for which topics recency matters and for which it doesn't.
Except it controls your OBS instance itself, so the scene would change for everyone at the same time.
You were free to install whatever you wanted after you paid for a copy Windows (even if you didn’t want Windows).
> > "Only when the tide goes out you find out who has been swimming naked" - Warren Buffet

What does this mean?
The issue is rarely that such a tactic exists, the issue is when a single player (or a few very large players) dominates the market and uses that tactic to stifle other entrants.

In 2001 when MS was sued by the government for this exact issue, it was the combination of market dominance and tactics around vendor lock in that got them in trouble.

I think in this case it's pretty clear that Apple is abusing their market position in a similar way (as simply noted by how many of the comments in this thread are "App store is good because of huge distribution channel")

So yes, in theory you could switch from Apple to Android, but honestly, Android has exactly the same problem.

I'll add, I'm in no way absolving Google of the same practice. I think it's well past time the government took them both to task for the app stores.

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Finally - Your tv comes with several ports on the back explicitly designed to let it play signals from other vendors (like your cable box, fire tv, apple tv, or any other)

So that's a trash comparison.
I'd add that if you think that "looters are going to get shot" is code for "black people are going to get shot", you're implying that only black people can be looters. Who's the racist?
Sure, you just cherry picked parts to support the opposing side or doubt. Clearly it needs more study and better defined, controlled studies at that.

We know there are animals that are capable of feeling, detecting magnetic fields, including the subtlety of the Earth's magnetic field. That all or some humans may have this capability, and at different sensitivity levels/awareness levels, arguably isn't a farfetched idea.
Are there many applications these days which are not available as a "web app" aka website?

If we (developers) go for a "website first" approach, there is not much the device manufacturers can do against people using our products.

From a business perspective, is there a strong incentive to develop apps at all, when you already have a website?

Any stories of startups that had a running website already and then boosted their usage by an order of magnitude by adding apps for the various appstores?
It was a joke :) (I'm in Italy, couldn't come anyway)
There are people with LE background who have ideas for how to improve it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23429390

(my current theory as to why the US military is more enlightened than US police is (a) they normally operate in situations where they have to win hearts and minds, and (b) "up or out" gets rid of bad apples)

For what it's worth, I have colleagues who have gone through police academy. It's 2 years here, which may correlate with the <1 per 10mm rate on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...