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> This guy doesn't understand what monopolies are and how they work. The whole point is that there are no other alternatives, so you literally cannot "just stop using them". "Just stop patronizing the monopoly" is not a strategy that has ever been successful. The monopoly needs to be broken up.

I'm all for breaking up Apple for being a bunch of abusive jerks, but they really aren't a "Monopoly" in any useful definition of the term. Android is a drop-in replacement and it has a massive amount of marketshare (sure it sucks too in different ways, and sure more competition would be better, but you certainly don't have to buy any Apple products).

The point of this article, as I read it, is that people have bought into the Apple ecosystem so hard (due to that carefully manicured Apple reputation) they fail to even consider switching to anything else or dropping support for Apple. Even developers! When I see the 1000th blog post about how crappy Macs are and how garbage Apple's walled garden is on the front page of HN, I know that countless people here will toss it an upvote and comment in agreement, but many will still tune in breathlessly for the next WDC and go purchase the next Apple device to hit the shelves.

You don't need Apple. Nobody needs Apple anything. Complaining about their practice while buying their products... well, that's basically the definition of "whining."

Switch to Linux (or Windows, if you really prefer locked down / closed source solutions). Switch to Android. Stop paying if you don't like the terms.
Most Alaskans live in towns with lives similar to that of other Americans. They go to work, buy groceries, do laundry, watch TV. Not a "great" story except in the sense of celebrating the ordinary.
>This app would never be getting this kind of attention otherwise.

Hey was extremely hyped up before the whole drama. That is why they had tens of thousands on waiting list before the whole thing. This isn't Free Web Mail, people are paying to use it. And if there wasn't any demand, invite code wouldn't have cost $500 dollars on eBay before Apple rejected their App.

>The drama with Apple is absolutely,.......

I cant see how they could have orchestra the whole thing when they have went out to make sure everything in their App was complying with the rules. And hence that was how 1.0 got put on App Store in the first place.
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I'm not entirely sure that these fully answer the questions you're asking, but:

- The annotations get "anchored" to the text in place at a given URL. There's a video online of Rap Genius [née Genius] discussing fuzzy annotation anchoring [1]. I would guess Hypothesis does something similar. Also, their client code is on GitHub.

- Annotations can be replied to but as far as I know there is no mechanism for voting or any one particular annotation being more trusted than others. The site owner could make an official group for their site I suppose.

- The underlying page can be modified at any time. If something is annotated and that underlying text is significantly changed or removed, the annotation becomes "orphaned" and shows in a separate area. If you really want to, you could archive the page first with e.g., archive.is and then annotation an archived version.

- I do think that Hypothesis maintains an archived version of an annotated page, or at the very least the portion of its text which you've anchored annotations to so that you can view them outside of the context of the page.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJyqfRcyYIQ
It's not so much about trusting AWS not to pry into your data. More that the attack surface of your data as presented to AWS' other—potentially hostile—customers is (presumably) significantly reduced by not having the bytes flying around AWS' infrastructure in the clear.

To put it mildly, Amazon has a lot more folks a lot smarter than me thinking about these tradeoffs, so I assume they had good reason to think it was fine the first time around. I'm just surprised that the state-of-the-art for cloud-hosted services doesn't presume building on TLS from day 1, so I'd love to know what those reasons are.
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There's an interesting piece called "Chris McCandless from an Alaska Park Ranger’s Perspective"

http://nmge.gmu.edu/textandcommunity/2006/Peter_Christian_Re...

"Some like McCandless, show up in Alaska, unprepared, unskilled and unwilling to take
the time to learn the skills they need to be successful. These quickly get in trouble and
either die by bears, by drowning, by freezing or they are rescued by park rangers or other
rescue personnel–but often, not before risking their lives and/or spending a lot of
government money on helicopters and overtime.
When you consider McCandless from my perspective, you quickly see that what he did
wasn’t even particularly daring, just stupid, tragic and inconsiderate. First off, he spent
very little time learning how to actually live in the wild. He arrived at the Stampede Trail
without even a map of the area. If he had a good map he could have walked out of his
predicament using one of several routes that could have been successful."
I wasn't aware of Krita before, checked it out after I read comments here. I now have a much deeper appreciation of animation artists. One scene is so much work! [1] And kudos to you for making your tool available for free.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9diKUhxImqo
In fairness to Hey, they didn't plan to be in this situation. They thought they did everything apple wanted them to, and they spent years building this service, only to then find out apple won't allow it.

If you're going to exclude all potential products where you have to go through apple to be a major player (given the competition), you're excluding most of the software market. Maybe developers don't really have a choice?

And yeah, apple is not a monopoly, but apple/google for sure is a duopoly, and google is only incrementally better than apple.
> Prohibited: Single point, 3-point, tactical, and quick detach slings

Funny, I just received a VTAC sling from Amazon. I wonder if I was able to buy it due to the "enforcement failures" mentioned in the article or if it's because it is a 2-point sling (obviously much safer than a single point or 3-point sling which are basically weapons of mass destruction).
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A VPN based in Europe seems a good option is this is the way.
Also, to your point, I believe it is possible to strengthen Snapshot Isolation to the point where it is strictly stronger than Repeatable Read. There was a paper at VLDB circa 2007, I belie it was done by a researcher from Oracle. Can't recall any details, other than the guy was pretty young and well-spoken.
Entirely depends on what you post in the feed. Only a link to an ad driven website? Text directly from the advertisement company?
Civil rights groups call for 'pause' on Facebook ads
One thing you'll notice if you look at a lot of suburban sprawl in the US is that most of the roads are wide and have sidewalks, but the houses are ugly and samey for miles. Interspersed among those neighborhoods will be roads with smaller--or at least older--houses, and smaller streets. The reason being that those smaller streets are from the neighborhoods that existed before the area was built up and the locals resisted development in their neighborhoods.

McKinney is a town that has apparently undergone rapid expansion in the past 20-30 years and I'm willing to bet that Pine St was initially build well before McKinney reached its current population. If you believe that every single residential road needs to have a certain width and have sidewalks as a matter of course, I don't know that I can dissuade you, but I'm willing to bet that the residents on that road are not eager to give up a portion of their yards for a wider road and sidewalk and they almost certainly would rather that road not receive more traffic as a result of 'improvement'.

That said, there are definitely roads in Townsville Qld (your example of an Australian town that should have good infrastructure,) that look as 'bad' if not worse than Pine St: https://www.google.com/maps/@-19.3152528,146.8315158,3a,75y,...
The monopoly in this case is the distribution of iOS applications and payment within them. Breaking that up means allowing other payment options within apps and potentially allowing side loaded applications.
TL;DR Two filmakers paid $25,488 to buy all seats for 5 screenings of their $0 production budget movie at a local movie theater on June 10th.

Which turned out to be more money 'earned' than any other movie in the US that day, allowing them to top the charts as the highest grossing movie.

Edit: whoops, looks like I may have misunderstood and they probably didn't pay that much, as replies to this comment are pointing out
One good thing with app store tax is that more apps will consider being web apps instead.
very unfortunate indeed as there's another project with this name: https://github.com/TRON-US/go-btfs

I dont know whether the maintainer is a supporter of crypto (as in tokens) but having a common name with a Tron product (or cryptocoins in general) can backfire.
> 2. "It's freedom of speech, not freedom of consequences of speech!"

It is funny how this argument is similar to the old communist-era joke: "In USSR, we have freedom of speech. But freedom after speech is a different matter."
Yes, this starts to move toward what I would consider better justifications for free speech.

Free speech is fundamentally about the machinations of power. Truth and sound reasoning are not unimportant per se, but they're certainly more instrumental than fundamental when it comes to the purpose of free speech.
If you are building a site aimed at global residents (I assume you aren't aiming it as San Marino residents), then that should be the first page.

You have a "U.S. / National" link. It has no stories from my country, it's "Just U.S".

"Sports" is mainly American sports, which have niche following globally.

I'm afraid if I encountered this site I'd just put it down as just another America-centric aggregator making money off the backs of actual journalists

If you want to target american audiences that's fine, just don't claim you're global.
Yeah it's a weird contortion of the mind that a vast majority of people are willing to make. Like the issue is poverty and opportunity, for every race, but no, suddenly there is this disproportionate rush to be "anti-racist" by being racist, it's so obviously orwellian 2+2 = 5 i'm surprised it hasn't been made the headline of every major media
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They aren't populating new entries, the feeds were actually taken down about 21 hours ago.
Sure it is. It is a question of degree, but "people are being hurt" is 100% why we have all sorts of laws ranging from preventing dumping waste in rivers to false advertising. In this case, a lot of people believe that people are being hurt extremely badly for centuries by racist systems and that some kinds of speech contribute directly to supporting those racist systems.

"We can't protect people without turning fascist" is a really rough take.
I definitely don't want to dismiss your experience but I have a hard time understanding:

"after listening to one of their anchors going after the 538 guy as if he and his industry were fully responsible for Trump's election, and demanding some sort of apology".

I'm sure Nate Silver wasn't actually blamed for election results and I'm sure no one actually demanded an apology. Can you smooth the hyporbole a bit and explain what they actually said that made you feel that way?
I think the trouble with this analysis is, 'mainstream' doesn't mean what we think it means. Most people do not care about, for example, what jokes Kevin Hart told ten years ago. Mores change, tastes differ, and mainstream society gets that. It's actually a tiny minority that want nothing to do with others on the basis of incautious speech, especially after that much time. But when nine people don't really care about something and the tenth feels strongly about it, that person will get their way. That is a great natural defence against mob rule and stagnation.

But it does not mean that most people share the sentiment of the intolerant minority. To address your example of you and your boss, in most cases it's more as though your boss doesn't care what you said, but someone shows up to your place of work and makes them care by being more unpleasant than the consequences of firing you.

It's the old paradox of the tolerant society writ large. I think the 'cancel culture' narrative is the early stages of mainstream culture working out where to draw a border around what accommodations an intolerant minority can and cannot expect of the majority.
> If Apple decides to raise the price of all the apps on its store tomorrow, what can you do?

Funny enough, I was going to argue that you don't _have_ to use Apple, but you're absolutely right on the switching costs, and is a compelling argument. (If this was r/ChangeMyView, I'd give you a delta.)

Yet, from a customer experience standpoint I'm a tad worried about the implications: one solution would be to allow multiple app stores on a given platform. I know this group would support that, but it's already hard enough to teach my family how to use one app store, and to be careful about downloading shady apps - never mind MULTIPLE.

Ex: if my 60 year old uncle wants to play a game, I can imagine him asking "why do I have to download a separate app just to download the app I want?"
What? After getting a proper audio setup for videoconferencing (studio quality) my jaw dropped on the floor when I realized how BAD Zoom's audio quality is. It's comparable to a 128 Kbps mp3 file. The only thing they do well is noise cancellation. That whole Zoom thing is built for people using their MacBooks with built-in microphones and speakers, and these are THE LOWEST quality possible. A set of those internal peripheral costs maybe $4. I was expecting something close to a RedBook (uncompressed 16 bit 44.1 kHz) quality investing money in a good microphone and an audio interface. Money wasted.

A lot of WebRTC software made by hobbyists has usually much better quality than Zoom has.

PS: Zoom also sucks in their over-compressed 720p. I use a Canon camera with a separate HDMI->USB encoder and what I get straight from that setup vs what Zoom can handle are two different worlds. Shame, again.

PS2: I've been using videoconferencing tools since 1995 (I was also selling high end ones like Cisco) for a long time. The quality delivered by them has been very good for a really long time. Zoom isn't even comparable to something like mid-range Polycom ;/

I use Zoom a lot, but let's be honest - the only good things about it is price and reliability (and good noise canceling tailored up to shitty laptop microphones). I tell you, guys, the Zoom people don't want to pay for bandwidth...

I can understand, though, that someone who uses only a laptop for calls might be in love with Zoom. Myself I'll rather zoom out of that product toward something better focused on quality, especially audio. Immersive experience is important to me. I don't expect that much. Just a stable 1080p (sharp!) and a RedBook audio.

(before anyone is going to ask: I sit on a 1 Gbps fiber... And my PC is an i7 with 16GB RAM)
I would have thought this was obvious- the archetype in Silicon Valley would be Fred Terman, but there are a lot of others. In particular, Arnold Beckman, who was an intern at Bell Labs where he learned to make vacuum tube amplifiers, moved to Caltech to be a professor and founded the amazingly successful Beckman Instruments company, invented the pH meter (which used a vacuum tube amplifier to turn the tiny signal into a useful one) and the DU spectrometer. He used his proceeds to fund the first transistor company in Silicon Valley, and made huge contributions to the US war effort.

I've worked with researcher/founders a lot; many of the people from my PhD program (Biophysics, UCSF) went on to start companies (Amyris, Zymergen) and we had strong educational pathways to learn how to start biotech companies. The two groups of people are definitely drawn from a highly overlapping distribution, although many scientists would make poor founders, and vice versa.
I like my boss, team and company culture. I also care about their end product (am a consumer myself) and have a lot of say in the technical direction of the company at large.

I am likely making 1/2 of what I could be making if I moved to a FAANG and I am pretty OK with it. Is still plenty to live and save well.
He survived for 113 days in the wilderness, not too bad. He was unprepared, yes, but it also seems he knew that what he was doing was risky, and he seems to have been ok taking that risk. I'm not quite sure - why judge him negatively?
I actually looked into some of these frameworks (in particular mustache but also a few others) before deciding to use m4. They were all either too complex or too limited (sometimes both!) for my use case.

M4 is old and clunky but it gets the job done without having to install half a trillion Node.js dependencies. I also know that my script will still work just fine 5 years from now (or even 50 years in all likelihood).

That being said, don't trash your favourite JS framework right away, while m4 is perfectly fine for simple tasks I don't even want to imagine the layers of opaque and recursive macros you'd end up having to maintain for any moderately complex project. It's like shell scripts, it's very convenient but it doesn't really scale.
Machines like this really show off the best we humans can do. I'm happy my tax money goes to the LHC and hopefully to this project too.
Free speech will and always will be about not taxing speech. The government has no right to tax speech.
> And yet there's nothing stopping that fact from happening again and it hasn't.

This doesn't quite ring true, since the environment which a new Eukaryotalike would have to compete in is a lot different now, since there are lots of Eukaryotes around to eat its lunch.
How is OBS doing in terms of donors/engineers? I suspect the number of people discovering and using OBS went up exponentially in the past few months... I'm sure I'm not the only one who went from never having worked with live video before to running live-streaming for work/church/family meetings/etc and OBS has been a vital part in that.

I've certainly told many people about OBS and will continue to spread the word but short of donating I'm not sure how else I can help out (and I'm short on cash thanks to the lockdown).
Correct, I meant to say PWA hasn't taken off as much as Google wanted.
I have a day where everyone else in on flex (basically their day off every two weeks).

I have already cleared two large tickets because I can address the comments they left when I am done another task (because they wrote out their entire thought instead of waiting for a conversation).

I would bet I am 2-3x as productive as I now have hours of uninterrupted time.
There are at least 6 classes of approaches [1] for controller tuning. But they all involve the following: (1) starting with some initial guesses for tuning parameters (2) fine-tuning them in real-life.

If you have a (rough) model of the system e.g. a transfer function, you can invert the model to get some initial parameters, and then fine-tune by hand.

If you don't have a model but are able to run tests [0] to collect data, you can apply any number of heuristic methods to systematically perturb the system to collect data to aid in tuning. Then fine-tune by hand.

Difficult loops e.g. MIMO (multiple input multiple output) loops that are larger than 2x2 where there's interaction between the variables (i.e. you move one variable, others move as well) require more analysis with loop-pairing techniques like RGA (relative gain analysis).[3]

For really difficult loops (or loops that have degraded over time), you can use software like Loop Pro [2]. This only makes sense if you're controlling something valuable and where loop degradation could lead to safety or performance issues. You probably don't need software to tune the PID in your espresso maker.

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[0] Some systems are "open-loop unstable", which means they can go haywire if you perturb too much in the wrong direction. Simply blindly perturbing these types of systems is inadvisable. Process understanding/analysis is needed to avoid unstable situations.

[1] https://sites.chemengr.ucsb.edu/~ceweb/faculty/seborg/teachi...

[2] https://controlstation.com/pid-tuning/

[3] For really large MIMO systems, PID is no longer the right control mechanism. Advanced control techniques like MPC are used, where a computer repeatedly solves an numerical optimization problem at some frequency to calculate the next control moves. MPC is usually used to control chemical plants with hundreds/thousands of control variables. PID is used in local loops, whereas MPC sits on top as an optimizing layer.
Show HN: An Emoji Hunter Game Using SwiftUI and CoreML in iOS
https://blog.sfgate.com/pender/2015/03/25/see-which-fidelity...
I am assuming that having workforce hired purely based on their ability to perform the job, would be a competitive advantage if the company was aiming at efficiency rather than playing games with investors (which is another long story). I am not saying anything about their race and I personally know many competent people from many races and ethnicities.

Ironically, by interpreting my statement as an claim that such a policy would lead to an all-white workforce, you yourself just made an assumption that many people would call very racist.
> Some estimates put the number of lives saved at over 100 million

I want a source on that, because even Gates in this absolutely self-serving report(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/14/bill-gates-phi...) did explicitly not claim he or his foundation is responsible for the 123 million estimated reduction in infant mortality since the year 2000 . As important as vaccination is, child mortality has decreased by many many reasons, including rising standard of economic conditions,decreased world fertility, an accelerated movement to urban life and widely distributed medical care. To attribute this complex and global set of conditions to just one individual is beyond sycophantic.

> One has to be exceptionally callous to consider businesses going out of business greater than human lives.

Spare me this sanctimonious take. So Gates used some part of the money he extracted in monopolistic and quasi-criminal practices to buy children vaccines and now he cannot be criticized because "can somebody please think of children?

By the way many of those countries who receive vaccines from the Gates foundations had to pay exorbitant license fees to use monopolistic MS products.
I first hardcoded kleinbottle.com with handwritten html; over 20+years, I've gone through several tools. One by one they've evaporated - Home Page, Front Page, GoLive, Dreamweaver 5. I'm now hobbling along with BlueGriffon.
I think putting H. G. Wells in the byline, while setting the date to 2016, is confusing/incorrect.
Yes, and nobody has proven really -anything- about most things, by this metric. All we have is evidence of varying quality.

But, again: it's pretty much settled science that Rt = 1 when 1-(1/R0) is infected is a worst case not very often attained, and the evidence so far with COVID-19 (looking at time series data, evidence of non-uniform susceptibility, clear evidence of non-uniform contact networks, significant evidence of overdispersion, etc) leans strongly that way.

Bigger issue is: if 25% infected yields expected Rt of under 1 (the threshold for herd immunity, and I think this is likely)... you'll still have a fair number of cases, because people will come from other jurisdictions with the disease and it'll trigger chains of spread that only slowly decay / peter out each time. If you're one of the other 75%, you're hardly safe, because you can be exposed to one of these chains. Only vaccination can address this, and it's not even a complete fix.