skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are vector spaces really the right category? In particular the product and coproduct of vector spaces are isomorphic (both isomorphic to the direct sum).
Any company that wants to stay competitive. The entire point of this post is that iOS app makers are deliberately hurting their customer experience because their monopolist platform is charging unreasonable fees.
But not per user.
I was actually talking about the class of apps (Google Authenticator, Authy, Okta Verify, Yubico Authenticator), but good to know!
The timestamps, interesting...
GP asked "why software makers should share their revenue with Apple" and said "nothing else" is like that. I was just pointing examples of things that were exactly like that.

As for the why: I'm thinking from the point of view of a developer. For me it's all the same. Paying 30% to Apple is the same as paying 30% to Steam or x% to console makers. In practice it doesn't matter if the appliance the user runs my software is essential or not, or if the store is exclusive, or comes preinstalled or not. I'm still paying a percentage to someone.

Sucks in all cases.
The aerial photos aren't for identifying looters and arsonists. These aren't police aircraft, they aren't providing data to prosecutors. In fact the Air Force that purchased them isn't quite sure exactly what they were doing, which is what the linked article is about.

I mean... I think there's a reasonable argument to be made about what surveillance tools are appropriate and how they should be used during civil unrest.

But don't fool yourself. This isn't about catching petty criminals.
One security concern is that the filenames for recursive transfers are determined by the untrusted machine. Thus if you fail to validate those, they could send things like ../.bashrc and a naive tool would write that to your home directory, leading to remote code execution.

Presumably by now scp is sufficiently tested not to have this bug. But this is precisely a defense against an evil server sending bad bytes.
Only if you want them to carry it in their store. But you don’t want to do that, or at least not pay for it, so don’t. Make a web app or something.
AirBNB will by it, you can rent it for $500 a night.
They have made it unusually difficult to get it bundled up for the Play store. I mean, it should be as simple as proving ownership and supplying the manifest URL. I think solving the distribution problem would definitely be key to having developers think about it as an alternative to native apps.
Kind of a nostalgia thing to see this, as one of my earliest answers on gamedev stack was about creating a hex map (See https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/6382/how-to-crea...)

I cheated and used hex-shaped png files but looking back using CSS to just auto-shape the PNG would be good.

That said, if you ARE using textures in the hexes and you'd like to actually tile them, you'll have to explicitly design an image that will tile. So you might as well just create hex shaped images like this and forget getting too fancy.
It is for marketing reasons.
Whoa. TIL https://github.com/google/google-authenticator/wiki/Key-Uri-...
Short sellers seem to be a much more reliable indicator of something corrupt going on in a company than the big auditors. You could be forgiven for thinking they are in on the scam and working to keep the director's bonuses rolling in right until the final months before a company collapses.

I suppose governments couldn't ignore the obvious forever and they are being forced to actually doing their job now.

In the UK Carrillion comes to mind as a big one, and more recently Thomas Cook. There have been many others.

https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z...
What Happened with Vista
The U.K. has one of the most socialized healthcare systems in the world if not the most and it has a huge obesity problem.
Honestly, this is more about philosophy than anything else, and a part of philosophy much more rooted in personal beliefs and preferences than actual facts.

It is deeply subjective, and as such any notion of correctness is moot.
Your fridge is compatible with any food.

Your iPhone is not compatible with any software.

Some things are compatible and some things are not.

Edit: “Compatible” is not about the tech in this case (the binary would theoretically run) but about the terms of your agreement with the manufacturer.

If you buy a Costco fridge and with it a contract to only store Costco-sold food in it, then you have a better analogy. 80% of the world seems to prefer the AnyFood Fridge, and for some reason 20% buy the Costco with the agreement.
Today’s developers don’t need what the App Store offers
Unfortunately, we are not all Oliver Wendell Holmes who thinks kids walking into unfenced acidic quarries and dying is the kids' fault.
Because it's not a monopoly. Apple is roughly half of the marketshare in the US, and dramatically lower than that worldwide.

They're also not saying that Hey can't be in their store, or even needs to pay them anything. Hey could offer a free tier and wouldn't owe Apple a dime. Basecamp already does this so they know it very well.
There's a good reason why the kernel is a single "binary". It's far less clear why the init system needs to be, especially since it wasn't for decades.

Yeah, I'm not crazy about the various init scripts that have been produced over the years. But at least when they're broken, I can usually just glance at them and see that. With systemd, mostly one just gives up.
It seems good as long as your local economy is actually given a chance to retool and not become a ghost town.

You have people on the coasts buying up cheap housing from rural people. You have megacorps essentially squatting on what could be productive land for the communities. And then you have poor people who can't afford to take a couple of years to go get educated in another discipline. Not to mention lack of access to credit to retool their economy by forming new businesses.
> one other thing I haven't seen whether Basecamp could just charge $141.43 per year if someone pays through Apple, so Basecamp would get $99 per year after Apple takes their 30% cut.

This is far from ideal for two reasons:

1) Some users will be paying 30% more just because they signed up in the app. How is this a good experience that protects the user?

2) most importantly, Basecamp loses the ability to manage the financial aspects of the customer relationship. They’re unable to give discounts, credit, refunds, add time to the subscription etc. It’s a hassle for all the back office management as now some customers come through a completely different billing + subscription platform.
> I think the inverse to "Apple employed humans make a judgement call" is "Apple is no longer allowed to control their App Store".

I think the right alternative is "Users should have a choice of app stores"
The “Apple Store Index” says it’s not yet time to reopen the economy
If you're interested in your own, personal, risk, then you can keep applying factors relevant to your situation and get a more refined estimate.

I don't see that as an issue with the measure.

Moreover, average micromort increase in a population is a useful metric, in the same way GDP is a useful metric, even if your individual productivity is very different.
> 3. At Google I/O 2018, Google introduced an alternative app distribution format called the Android App Bundle with the file extension .aab. This format requires giving a copy of your app’s signing key to Google. AABs are harder for users to manually sideload as they aren’t natively supported by Android’s package installer and must be unpacked and devs have to do more work to distribute on other platforms.

App bundle is a way to reduce hassle of uploading multiple apks for cutting down apk size on different targets. Developers can and always have to build regular apks for other distribution platforms or for users to sideload. I don't see how AAB makes devs do more work.
> it’s a lot easier to have people in a room and hash it out

IME it isn't because they aren't an environment conducive to informed debate. It's easy to get everyone in the room to agree, but as soon as you get out and check specifics, think the problem through properly, research what's already in pace, etc, you realize the whole meeting was a waste or worse, you've just committed to something sub-optimal/impossible.

An async "meeting" allow you to look for information so it's based in reality not best guesses, it gives you time to read necessary background info and do more research. These ultimately make for better decisions. They also don't waste the time of people that don't care.
I co-setup the SAIC VR Lab about 25 years ago, and I literally spent months buying gear, setting it up, and integrating the good stuff into our lab. We engineered full on motion platforms, haptics feedback, and used SGI Reality Engines.

But yes, I do like the easy experience of using the Quest. I expect Apple’s gear to be similarly easy to enjoy.
How so? Facebook clearly benefits from the outrage clickbait model.
It is very troubling that to use public services, one must agree to an arbitrary and abusive private company contractual agreement (TOS).
"Bank of America", anyone? (Just talking how that name could also be misunderstood, I have no idea if they're scumbags or not).
FWIW, from having built types like this in C++ before, the thought process at the end of how to handle assignment feels better to me to implement where instead of assigning Some(step1()) directly to token, you construct a new value and then "swap" (which is a C++ concept that is supposed to be guaranteed noexcept) the token variable and the value variable; you then would have until the end of the scope to call some function that asserts the value is None. Regardless, I agree with footnote 3: if you want to claim that linearity is somehow a bad default, then you should take a long hard look at move-only... but I like move-only, and I like linearity! ;P FWIW, I don't think this is that hard: require all values to be forgotten, allow types to provide deconstructors called on unwind / scope exit, require that deconstructor to eat the value, and if a type doesn't have a deconstructor then the user has to eat the value (and you get all the cool behavior of not being able to hold it across a panic without having some way to guarantee it will get eaten, such as by holding it in a container that has a deconstructor that will eat it). This would be epic and would be a pretty awesome sell to get me on Rust ASAP despite the devastating decision to not have implicit error propagation ;P. Like, seriously: I have way more concerns about linearity issues in my codebase--ensuring proper deconstruction of non-memory resources in an asynchronous context (which is where this gets hard)--than I do with my memory correctness... I can't begin to explain how much time I have spent over the past two months chasing deadlocks or premature synchronous deconstruction of an object that absolutely must deconstruct synchronously... I have these "deconstructor bombs" (as mentioned in this article as supposedly an ok solution: no, they really really suck...) throughout my codebase, but I have found it infuriating to come up with rigorous local heuristics to ensure that everything always gets closed in the right asynchronous context :( and so I would be willing to jump through almost any hurdle to use a language that could simultaneously promise me tight memory usage (which sadly Haskell isn't great at, due to its garbage collector, but I am going to seriously look at it again I guess?) and linear types (preferably universally, similar to focusing on movable types).
>It's not fair to the developers that don't make shovelware otherwise

>In any case, crap apps would flood the market - consumers would get worse experiences, and be less likely to buy apps. Free apps will decimate quality applications. And you'll get the playstore or android, a malware infested UI nightmare.

How would apple lowering their feeds, allowing a competing app store, allowing sideloaded apps, or allowing apps to have subscriptions outside of apple pay make it easier for crappy apps to make it to the app store?

If there's a competing app store and it's so permissive that it turns into low quality nightmare, then customers will keep using the apple app store. I don't understand how you're getting from A to B.
RIF is Fun app (Android) works much, much better than the new mobile, and is somewhat less creepy than the official Reddit app.
> extreme criminal acts that have destroyed whole neighborhoods recently

Where do "facts" like this come from? I mean, a police station was burned. A bunch of windows have been broken in a bunch of places. But there's literally nothing to support anything like a statement like that.

Seriously: who told you "neighborhoods" had been "destroyed". Which neighborhoods? How many residents were displaced or whatever? Did you think to maybe question your sources when they arrived with no data at all? Didn't the fact that Fox (who normally are pretty good about journalistic micro-rigor, believe it or not) got caught faking image evidence about the unrest maybe cue you that you might be being misled?

But you're still going with that rhetoric? Why? Where are you getting your facts?
I don't think he is defending it, I think he is correctly rationalising that this is the effect of devs and users buying into Apple's walled Garden. This is what devs and users caused by supporting the Google Apple duopoly. You bought in you play by their rules.

Personally I think devs should just pass the 30% to consumers or withdraw their apps. That is how you get leverage.
I think gaming consoles are general purpose computers. You listed a few things that probably aren't done very often on consoles (although you likely can do them, since consoles have web browsers). But it's also easy to list things that are much better-suited to be done on a gaming console than a smartphone.
Prime95 should be in there somewhere.
I mean, 1) why is anyone surprised by this? 2) If you make an app that sells cat videos you would also qualify for the digital content exemption, "key business" or not.
My reaction upon seeing that can be summed up in two words: WTF!?, yuck!

Even the latest version of Visual Studio, their flagship IDE, doesn't have that stupid ribbon UI, because they know their developers absolutely abhor it. To see it in WinDbg, whose userbase is even more traditional and "hardcore", is extremely shocking. With that ridiculous full-screen File menu (or page?), it looks like a part of Microsoft Office!
Wireless spectrum is not an infinite resource.
The SDK “Power Mac G5” for the Xbox 360 (2019)
I agree that's a crappy explanation by the VP but that's not the actual reason for the rejection.
An app to manage your Tesla makes no sense unless you own a Tesla

I just had a vision of Apple demanding 30% of the cost of each Tesla sold.
a Cydia App Store
I don’t see any such option on the iPhone. Also it’s a problem if you lose your phone before you make any transfer.

The previous answer made me think a bit more seriously about those reset codes that are lying around (maybe?) my computer.

I’m a digital native and digital lives are still so hard even for me; no wonder regular people just nope out of it.
I have a personality trait of always playing devil's advocate, regardless of my final opinion on the matter, so don't be surprised, but I'll switch sides here a bit.

Don't we all have some implicit biases? I know I do. I have had (and probably, unfortunately still have) biases about women and non-binary people, biases about people from other ethnicities and countries, and although I try to work them out, it's not something that can be done completely.

However, I can't find a rational reason to name these biases "racism" or "white supremacy", words that for any sane person mean not some subconcious thought process, but a fully concious evil. Using these terms in such a way is a very dishonest moat and castle tactic.
Krakauer's other book on mountaineering would seem to lend credence to your view
Well, an Internet connection is required for the Quest since you do everything in the environment like buying content (but there is a ton of good free content in many genres). Once content is on the device, you don’t need an Internet connection (I sent an Oculus Go to my grandson, he can load it up and then use it at sea on the Coast Guard cutter he is assigned to).

Apple’s device(s) should be the same.
French constitutional council rejects law forcing platforms to delete content
Somebody somewhere at Samsung is gonna have a long weekend
Another MIT article which shows either stupidity or dishonesty when complaining about not doing things completely outside of its domain. I have to ask if they live in reality given how they bring up COVID and slow tasks like vaccine and cure development. At best they essentially would make essentially advanced research equipment for the actual biological specialists.

The complaint about unemployment is especially funny both because of the luddite fallacy and ignoring outsourcings, impact but because they get even more complaints about the accessible jobs that they do create with things like ridesharing and delivery services. And those low rates are subsidizing the wages no less!

The title is essentially clickbait - the question doesn't get answered in favor of slipping in as many irrelevant cheap shots and snide insinuations as possible.

If we are going to have an honest discussion about limitations of venture capital funding it would help to focus on problems that investment can actually help with on a time scale in the first place. As opposed to shaming Silicon Valley for not being literal magical wizards.
> For myself I have used one of the popular quickly and cheaply grown accounts to slide into the DMs of local women.

:|
Last year in front of Congress (while actively developing this new product). They never mentioned it despite Basecamp being in the app store for years and paying Apple $0.

The "oh my this is shocking and unfair" act is all a ruse. They've been well aware of this since the onset, they even copied Netflix's app text so they can feign "see we're just like them!" despite knowing they're not.
Articles: Anything about Telegram
Discussion: crypto baaad/all chats logged/insecure by default etc. etc.

Yes we got it you don't like telegram. Use whatever and move on. There is no need to constantly come up with the same BS. Cloud chats are in the cloud (which you probably hate too ryt?) and no, they are not e2e encrypted. Calling it a server side logging is just straight out FUD.
Also pretty sure 99+% of all telegram user never use the secret chat feature because telegram is mostly so useful because of all the rest. And people use it for all the rest (large community groups/channels/bots/games). I'm sure more than 99% of my telegram messages go to groups that are public or semi public (like you would find the link on another platform if you are part of the community there). Its absolutely unwanted to have any kind of nonsense encryption for such groups. Yet all the feature telegram can provide because it does not have nonsense encryption, like fast server side search or link to messages visible on the web, are the reason I and other use it. Just like y'all use hacker news and don't mind that your comments are "server side logged".

tl;dr
A tool isn't broken or insecure because it does not what you want it to do. It's just the wrong tool for you.
He was indeed a convicted felon that assaulted a pregnant woman (Black, if it matters) and beat his kids. So yeah, compared to everything else going on, hard to care that much.
The overruns happen due to red tape and the overall loss of the heavy industry capability/capacity brought on - and these are the specific problems federal subsidies are supposed to tackle.

Deaths per TWH for solar and wind have proven much higher than nuclear and that's before including their dependence on natural gas which is higher still.

Utility scale batteries are so far still for peak shaving which is wonderful because the simple cycle plants they displace are super efficient, but won't be replacing combined cycle in our lifetimes. IIRC the issue in texas was due the the way they've separated generation vs distribution responsibilities for their market model but it's been a while since I've taken a close look.
I have to admit that I don't like how some people romanticize the poor kid's story. At the same time I don't want to make fun of him - he was just a naive kid who thought he was going on the adventure of his lifetime. It still took a lot of guts to do what he did, even if he didn't understand how dangerous it was actually going to be. If anything he might serve as a cautionary tale and thereby save a few lives over time.
Releasing an app that does not follow the rules and then publicly complaining when it is inevitably rejected is starting to seem more like a guerrilla marketing tactic more than anything else.

And be sure to do it right before WWDC. We've seen this play before.
Sorry, I don't understand where you're going with this. There's an updated Hey app on the developer's computer which is compatible with my iPhone, but Apple isn't letting me install it.

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Edit response: How many people do you think read the agreement they signed with Apple? How many realize Apple is increasing the price of software by ~30%?
I think the negatives are often underappreciated.

I know founders who ruined their credit, destroyed their friendships, ended lifelong relationships, lost their sanity, and in one case, probably committed suicide. Some do move on to other things and have a lingering sense they are failures, because they knew one or two people who exited with millions who seemed no better than they were. And they don't think they can talk to anyone about any of this, because who would have sympathy?

I don't have data, but I think the negative or ambiguous outcomes hit the founders from middle-class or working class backgrounds way harder. This was their one shot. Someone who falls back to their parents' millions will get other chances.
I mean, I agree with you. I'm right there with you. But you and I both know that that model won't work for most people. They'll be in the same place they are today—having to trust when other people tell them their phone is safe.

Incidentally, to the last paragraph, you can help make it work—go work on Linux mobile UX/UI. Things like the PinePhone and the Purism Librem 5 exist, and there's a market for them, they're just missing a polished user experience.
> This is absurdly untrue.

I’m just gonna leave these here:

[1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/

[2] https://security.archlinux.org/

...then everyone can compare upstream/downstream fixing times for themselves.

Remember: “not yet assigned” is equivalent to “not fixed”.
I have to wonder about the health of the industry when rent-seeking becomes the norm. Rent-seeking stifles innovation and true growth, and is a sign of a degenerate system.

>The reforms of Diocletian and Constantine made all productive activity impossible. The reason is not that there were no more large fortunes, but the foundation of their build-up was now no longer creative energy, or the discovery and bring into use new sources of wealth, or the improvement and development of husbandry, industry and commerce. It was, on the contrary, the cunning exploitation of a privileged position used to despoil people.

https://medium.com/@guisebule/rise-of-the-rent-seeker-how-th...
So this is a strategy to meet women who value popularity first and foremost? Sounds like a lot of work to "skip the queue".
Oh I wouldn't ever claim component design is anything but complex. I was just trying to make a distinction between high-level fields and something like embedded hardware integration where you can treat each component as a "black box" of sorts and just care about I/O and operating characteristics. I don't mean to diminish your colleagues' work, it sounds fascinating.