skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was part of this history, when I graduated in 2003 (marginal timing) I took a gig at Northrop in Sunnyvale. I grew up in Silicon Valley as the grandkid of folks who lived in orchards (long gone by the time I showed up) and between this not-that-secret history of SV and idolizing the Skunk Works as a kid, I was pretty sure that I needed to be in the military industrial complex when I grew up.

I consider it the nadir of my engineering career. I got to stare at an aging brown cubicle wall for 8 hours a day twiddling my thumbs, literally. I had joined a group of old timers (only) who had designed the Trident D5 submarine missile launcher 25 years earlier and had basically just been generating paperwork since. Along the way they had "cleverly" learned how to earn quarterly bonuses by just barely overspending their budgets, ~5% over, which then got renewed at whatever got spent. Over a few decades that's a lot of compound interest you gotta spend to get those bonuses, especially if you're doing absolutely nothing all day. You couldn't even read a book or check the net because it was a classified area and everything was locked down. Just you watching your life ebb away. The machine they created to burn cash was a paragon of government waste, it represented everything that's wrong with that industry and I hated it.

After George W. Bush realized that what he wanted was more tomahawks and fewer nukes, the military budget for strategic weapons was decimated. (If you're gonna blow up Afghans in caves you should mete our force more judiciously, don't just turn the Himalayas into irradiated slag.) I got called into the bosses office and told "davee5, our budget got cut and you're the newest guy here, so unfortunately this is your 30 days notice." I was mad I got laid-off, but later profoundly grateful to be shoved out the door. I ended up pivoting into consumer electronics, which was an excellent move (and has since provided another ~18 years of career).

I still have a pretty cool diagram of the [redacted] that I'm 90% sure was never classified and a Zip drive disk that I definitely should destroy, because it means nothing to me and I'm not sure if it would be a problem.
Total (federal) receipts are also relatively unchanged as a percentage of GDP since 1955. On top of that there is A LOT more GDP to go around. The real differences are source of revenue (Payroll taxes massively up, corporate income tax down) and the spending of the income (basically, anything that isn't Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid).

We could potentially spend like the 1950s, but it'll be a tough sell to cut Social Security and Medicare in half or more. You might get some right wingers behind doubling the military budget though.
Works fine on Android
"I'd pay good money..."

Sorry, Google pays more. :)

As much as you would like to be, you are not Mozilla's customer. You are, as they say, a "product". The subject of an ongoing marketing study. There are people willing to pay for the results of that study, and they are willing and able to pay much more than you will ever pay for Mozilla's open source software or use of its servers to store your personal data (email, calendar, files, etc.).

We are told that Mozilla has to keep pace with Chrome (because ..., and that's because ....), and the only way they believe they can do that is to take money from Google. Mozilla's CEO and employees are far too expensive for their salaries to ever be paid by end users.
The platform cut on app store is outrageous and has been for years.

This is nothing else than a tax.

And because both Apple and Google are adjusted on the same tax rate, this is exactly like a monopoly.

I am sure their infrastructure costs are largely covered at this point.

Developers should unite and strongly ask for a progressive reduction, a few percents each year.
That default service worker setup was frustrating. Even for local development, it would mess things up sometimes.

Luckily they turned it off for new Create React App projects a while back - so at least it shouldn't haunt any new apps.
I installed Hey to check it out and it’s useless from the app itself, it’s not too surprising they don’t want bad UX.
Full agreement there. (Plus a side of vicious anti-science sentiment, with a good helping of a complete misunderstanding what "freedom" is)

I do believe that we as a society are currently trying to decide if we want to build something communal, or if we want to commit to extreme selfishness. It'd be more fun to read about it in a history book, but it sure is interesting.
Sure, but I don't see any major downsides in having to add IAP and getting the same subscription fees from people who use it as everyone else. I'd say giving users more options is always good.
I have read that in a lot of municipalities in a few decades police and firefighters will use up 100% (and more) of the budget once they have to pay out pensions. A lot of them go into retirement at around 50 and will probably live for another 30-40 years more.
Live Sport – Virtual Crowd Sounds
I think it's quite the opposite. There is heavy incentive to pick the lowest bidder without any consideration paid to how absurd the bid is, which is where you get these crazy cost overruns. The bid was never doable to begin with.
several related previous threads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553794

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523246

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523379
I wonder if we'll ever see letters of marque for cyber offense. It feels a bit like it's already the de facto situation in some countries because they just don't investigate.
Qubes, running rootless helps but doesnt stop it, xephyr with selinux sandboxes, nothing that completely fixes the issue.
how do you figure? its not that much better with a huge markup
Why is Google asking you if TP is in stock at the store? Or I guess through what app is Google sending you these questions?

I haven't heard of push notifications or whatever it is asking for feedback on in-store items.
You're kind of making my point for me here. It sounds like you're saying the value proposition is so good that people are willing to risk $99 per year on the off chance their low-effort app might be a hit? They must know the chances are low but think that $99 isn't a lot to risk or spend.
Question--why does everything else being Linux negate the need for a VPN? AFAIK, aren't the main reasons for a VPN bypassing georestricted content and avoiding ISP snooping? I don't see how running Linux negates any of these, and routing through a VPN certainly doesn't stop win10 from exfiltrating data.
>Government sources say China is behind the attack and Mr Morrison refused to shut down speculation that the nation was the “sophisticated state-based actor” behind the attack. Refusing to name the foreign entity, the Prime Minister stressed investigations were continuing by the Defence Signals Directorate and law enforcement agencies.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/security/cyber-att...

>9News political editor Chris Uhlmann said China was behind the attack.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/cyber-attack-australia-sco...
> which are more readable in all but the simplest cases.

Except in practice, the vast majority of comprehensions are simple.
When Tim Cooke went on about services I didn’t realise he meant stealing 30% of other people’s. Seems insane to me this racketeering is legal, I actually think people should be jailed for behaviour like this...
Berlin Gold Hat
Eastern Washington is now facing this with their ag workers and it's not a good situation right now.
To attract antitrust scrutiny in the US you don't need to be a monopoly. You need something economists call "market power." A firm has market power when they are able to raise their prices with impunity because consumers are unable to switch to alternatives.

If Apple decides to raise the price of all the apps on its store tomorrow, what can you do? Those apps have no other way to get to you, all you can do is take the pain. That smells like market power. I guess you have the option of switching to Android, but that comes with a high cost. So figuring out whether that matters is the type of thing that would be examined in an investigation.
"There are some papers that do demonstrate a "statistically significant" detectable link between something an EM exposure, but - even when the levels are anywhere near safety limits let alone what is actually outside - these papers can never find any measurable risk to the body"
It's often said that most of the (developed world) economy depends on consumers. Rich people tend to have a greater proportion of financial assets compared to consumption. When people criticize the rich, it's pretty standard to say they're stingy, they hoard wealth etc. Conversely when the rich consume, they're at least "creating jobs".

So that seems to imply to me that ordinary people (in the rich countries) shouldn't be underestimated from an environmental perspective, and because our morality is pro-consumer it reinforces waste. I don't think that's brainwashing by the rich, I think that's just how people are, in Western society at least.
I actually don't agree with DHH here, just pointing out the difference. I think Apple has every right to expect a cut of developer revenue given how much they invest in the iOS platform.
I was thinking the same thing. Search engines for the whole web are over. The concept doesn't stand up to spam of various kinds.
Ask HN: How hard is it to change careers? Web dev – App dev
I've been interested in App development since a very young age, around 12. It spurred my interest in coding and I actually released a few (terrible, copyright-infringing) apps during middle school. I then started down the web development path by getting freelance gigs and eventually going full-time at an agency after graduating college with a CS degree. I started as an intern and worked my way up to "mid" web developer.

I love all things web development, but recently I've been wanting to dive back into iOS app development. I just don't know how hard switching career paths would be. Should I aim for junior positions and just go for it? I released a free app during my senior year of college that has like 5k downloads by now, but I don't know if that's enough to have in my portfolio.

Any advice would be appreciated!
I watched the first EPL game that returned to play (Man City vs Arsenal) with the virtual crowd sounds and I’ve got mixed feelings.

On one hand I love that games and live stream broadcasts are working together to try simple innovations like this.

But on the other hand, the way it worked in that particular game I watched was terrible.

Crowds are such an important aspect to live sport and can sway decisions or increase momentum or provide “fear” to the opposition. I wonder if there is a way to project “live streamers audio” into the stadiums in real time too

“Last week, Sky Sports announced that when the Premier League returns on June 17, viewers will be able to watch the remaining games with the addition of team-specific crowd noises and chants made in collaboration with EA Sports’ FIFA video game. “
I tried to use Snowball as part of a customer facing solution, but the lack of predictability around turnaround times made it impossible for me to justify the expense and overhead.

It is an awesome box and an awesome solution to a real life problem. I really wanted to love snowball.

I was not filling them all the way up by any means, so the turnaround had to be fast enough for me to justify it over just uploading to s3 over slowish connections.

The interface in the console was very opaque and gave no information about when the boxes would get shipped out.

I had weeks long delays with zero contact when the box types I wanted were out of stock and only found out that was the cause when I cried to support.

I also had boxes stall at the import stage after they had already been shipped back.

The software to transfer was also just ok.

I think with more love this can be a great tool, but there are some things that could make it better.
I buy an iPhone, knowing what App Store I'm getting. I don't see the issue, I chose to buy into this ecosystem.
I agree, but it is unbelievably hard to compete with free.
1. The internet is far too large to use human curation, an algorithm is needed.

2. An algorithm can always be gamed.

You're stuck.
The manual of basic repair techniques used in these shops has been approved for public release; see Standard Maintenance Practices, Miniature/Microminiature (2M) Electronic Assembly Repair, published here as an Air Force technical order:

https://www.robins.af.mil/Portals/59/documents/technicalorde...

Most of the procedures, tools, and materials would be equally applicable to commercial or hobby work.
Neural Logic Machines (2019)
Apple Pay does not take a 30% cut. And this entire out of context screenshot is misleading. If you want to say they’re doing it to avoid Googles 30% cut then you’re free to your opinion but what’s really happening here is you’re adding a payment method to your apple account. It’s the same as google allowing me to modify my payment methods on their services using an iphone app.
Loosely related, but I was thinking about how Facebook has a treasure trove of information with regard to backcountry data such as waterfalls and sensitive rock art sites.

Many people in my area post photos of these sites to Instagram without a location tagged, but they likely upload with the actual location data still in the image metadata. Because of this you could put together some pretty comprehensive glimpses at these hotspots.
This site is heavily moderated (read: manipulated) by its owners/mods, and I expect censorship for anything that might threaten their business relationships or cause controversy they don't want.

It's more restrictive than reddit today, let alone reddit when it blew up. I'm not sure to what extent the narratives here are organic or not.
NYPD International Liaison Program
Flutter Animated Select Slider
I personally don't have a problem with 30% (sure I with it was more like 15% :) - this is their store, they are not forcing you to buy a phone or laptop. If you do then you agree to the rules.

My main problem is that they apply their rules to everyone in a different way, just like Google.

And they don't even hide it and have written in their TOS that if your app is deleted for a violation, and another app is not it is ok and they decide if to enforce tos or not.

If they remove my app for violation - no problem. I can even do their job and send them links to apps that have the same violation, so they can remove them too. Nope, only my app.
> No. When you're using Windows 10 in S mode, Microsoft Edge is always the default web browser, and Bing is the default search engine. But you can access other browsers and search engines while in S mode. You can download any browser available in the Microsoft Store in Windows, and you can navigate to any other search engine website. [0]

Would it matter if it did, considering that it cannot become the default browser? If you cannot modify the default (without permanently switching out of S mode) then in all likelihood, even if you have downloaded a different browser, you'll end up using the default eventually.

[0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4020089/windows-10-...
There is a specific exemption for "Reader" apps like Netflix specified in the App Store Review Guidelines:

3.1.3(a) “Reader” Apps: Apps may allow a user to access previously purchased content or content subscriptions (specifically: magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, video, access to professional databases, VoIP, cloud storage, and approved services such as classroom management apps), provided that you agree not to directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase, and your general communications about other purchasing methods are not designed to discourage use of in-app purchase.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#bus...

While not everyone may agree with these rules, they are clearly explained in the documentation. Releasing an app that does not follow these rules and then publicly complaining when your app is inevitably rejected is starting to seem more like a guerrilla marketing tactic than anything else here.

(Which is honestly pretty clever, I doubt yet-another-email-app would have gotten nearly the same amount of press coverage that this has gotten.)
they can request a takedown, but giving up private details is a bad precedent. what's next, faceblock.com? lacebook.com? fivebook.com?
30% cut for distribution seems ridiculously high—why not 3% or 0.3% or, best of all, a flat fee? Costs aren't even proportionate to the transaction amount. They don't even allow proper microtransactions which might make the fee make sense compared to processing with a credit card. What differentiates this from extortion?
After watching the first 5 minutes I decided to crack a beer and watch the rest (late 30s interests have changed). Definitely interesting - for me the part that were most intriguing was the knowledge around how the air battle in Europe was fought. I didn't realize how much a cat and mouse battle it was around radar technology. The rest of the talk I enjoyed the details of the storyline that I had an awareness of but didn't have the specifics.

Also, not sure the last slide was really worth adding - didn't add anything to the talk. Rest was great - thanks for posting.
I'm surprised I didn't get one comment on this post!
I left Firefox in 2011 because it was unusably slow on my macbook. My recent experience has been that it is much faster and I am considering switching back.
If China attacks Taiwan it would lead to a war. If the USA backs down they are done as a power, the dollar would crash and the US debt would become unsubstantiated. Given that the war would escalate and China has an advantage of being close, the effort the USA would have to put in would cause a great deal of casualties, which would piss off then public in a Japan Pearl Harbor way so we could never back down. The logical course of action given the difference in ICBMs would be for the the USA just to nuke China after they fire the first missile. That’s the real world math. It’s highly likely the USA could destroy China without a great deal of damage. The Russians would sit it out hoping to become stronger after. Not making a moral judgement, just a military & economic one.

Feel free to disagree. I expect a storm of downvotes. Oh well.
Apple users bought into the ecosystem. It's not the only ecosystem in town, it's not even the biggest ecosystem in town. Consumers can choose the platform they want to buy into.
I've been seeing local or regional brands that the grocery store never used to carry, that apparently are being used to fill gaps in the supply chain. Not inferior substitutes, but things that make me ask why the heck didn't they carry these before? It makes me feel like, although yes, regulating markets can harm them, but there were problems, there must have been corruption, the distribution system wasn't handed down from on high by an invisible hand, etc.
if you buy something with apple pay the business does not pay a cut. if you buy something with in app purchases or in app subscriptions then you pay the 30%
Do you know the margins of retail stores?

Last time I checked it was not close to 30%
It’s an app for users of the service. The Netflix app is useless without a subscription, too.
From the Wikipedia page for RISC:

"""

Instruction set philosophy

A common misunderstanding of the phrase "reduced instruction set computer" is the mistaken idea that instructions are simply eliminated, resulting in a smaller set of instructions.[2] In fact, over the years, RISC instruction sets have grown in size, and today many of them have a larger set of instructions than many CISC CPUs.

[Snip]

The term "reduced" in that phrase was intended to describe the fact that the amount of work any single instruction accomplishes is reduced—at most a single data memory cycle—compared to the "complex instructions" of CISC CPUs that may require dozens of data memory cycles in order to execute a single instruction.[23] In particular, RISC processors typically have separate instructions for I/O and data processing.[citation needed]

The term load/store architecture is sometimes preferred.

"""
Wouldn't that crap out /usr/include?
What a cool article.
But do you agree it would be a bad shooting if you subtract the taser?
What PEP 484 was standardize the use of annotations as type annotations and provide ancillary out-of-the-box support for type hinting via annotations, particularly the typing module.

Mypy was actually using python 3.x annotation for type annotations before PEP 484 standardized them brought the stdlib typing module, but with PEP 484 there was a common, language-defined standard baseline for mypy and other efforts.
Are you and your boyfriend opposites?
People don't say "the gays" or "gays" or "a gay" anymore, they use it as an adjective before a noun, and it is the same concept.

I am not sure there is any etymology to follow here, aside from the common theme of being recognized as people.

Regarding consensus, you can try blackpeopletwitter reddit on a throwaway. you can look at comment threads and see the reactions and facepalms when people use the adjective as a plural noun.

People definitely say it, but not people considered aware.
Occam's razor says it's because Texans mostly ignored the epidemic in general.

That's why yesterday there were 3,787 new cases in TX and 803 in NY.

But NY is reopening and cases are going up, so maybe things will change.
Unfortunately, I'd say that there might be economic incentives to kill children. When people are extremely poor, children are expensive. When a single parent is working multiple minimum-wage jobs, the kids are going to be neglected. Neglected kids act out more. Frustration gets pent up, the impossibility of the situation looms; a hefty medical bill or a high-needs disability... I think it's actually pretty normal for parents to fantasize about killing their children... but when times get extra tough... grim.

Healthcare and UBI starting at childbirth would go a long way to reducing that incentive.

Economic incentive for rape... I can't think of an argument. On the other hand, trafficking is extremely lucrative. But, tragically, child molesters are frequently victims themselves. I can't help but think that a robust mental health care system could go a long ways towards breaking that cycle.
Yeah I came here to post the same. I don't actually think the App Store policies are the problem per se, but rather the fact that you can submit your app and really not know what the result is going to be. Maybe there are edge cases where you know going in that it may require subjective approval, but for a run of the mill commercial / personal app you should be able to easily check if you're compliant and get a very fast approval.

Treating each developer and app case by case is just bad faith.
It's not about authoritarianism vs democracy. It's about energized new blood vs an old, arrogant, decaying shamble of a nation that can do nothing but cling desperately to the visage of "greatness" that it presumes to deserve.

I'm terrified of a China-dominated world, but by no means do I think the U.S. has done anything to deserve keeping its position.
Most retailers have margins in the range of 0.5% to 4.5%

30% is clearly not a reasonable margin...
"100% of white people are advantaged by racism." No, this is an extraordinary claim without evidence that you are asserting.

"You may find it hard to notice the advantage it gives you, but it certainly exists," isn't carefully worded, and it's designed to effectively squash any sort of disagreement with the assertion in the first place.
Why is that a problem? That seems like a decent argument this is necessary to resolve passing liability onto the customer.