skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it looks like they can do exactly that. Here's the relevant part, from my agreement:

> 6.3 In the event that Apple receives any notice or claim from any End-User that: (i) the End-User wishes to cancel its license to any of the Licensed Applications within ninety (90) days of the date of download of that Licensed Application by that End-User or the end of the auto-renewing subscription period offered pursuant to section 3.8, if such period is less than ninety (90) days; or (ii) a Licensed Application fails to conform to Your specifications or Your product warranty or the requirements of any applicable law, Apple may refund to the End-User the full amount of the price paid by the End-User for that Licensed Application.

...and here's the (literal) money shot:

> In the event that Apple refunds any such price to an End-User, You shall reimburse, or grant Apple a credit for, an amount equal to the price for that Licensed Application. In the event that Apple receives any notice or claim from a payment provider that an End-User has obtained a refund for a Licensed Application, You shall reimburse, or
grant Apple a credit for, an amount equal to the price for that Licensed Application. In such cases, Apple will have the right to retain its commission on the sale of that Licensed Application, notwithstanding the refund of the price to the End-User.

So that answers the question as to whether or not it does happen; but not whether or not it should happen. I guess developers could ask their congresscritters to grill Tim about it...
That was OP being sarcastic and stating no further point other than they don't have one.
Absolutely this. Many engineers simply lack security mindedness or secure development training. Similarly, many managers/PMs/etc have gaps here as well. Its important for them to understand how to ask effective questions and prioritize security work accordingly.

I've run into many stupid security mistakes, and continue to do so :(. Even though security can be very hard, as an industry we'd be way better off if more understood at least the basics. Those with interest/expertise can then dive in and find the more tricky things. Those without, can at least understand WHY these things are important.
It's great because Ruby is an Object-Oriented Programming language. Just saying that is an understatement; Ruby lives and breathes Object Oriented philosophies. It was made for them.

The conflict here is that object oriented philosophies aren't actually about objects. They're about communication between objects. The messaging between objects. As per Alan Kay himself:

> I'm sorry that I long ago coined the term "objects" for this topic because it gets many people to focus on the lesser idea. The big idea is "messaging".

The goal of object oriented design is to focus on the communication between objects, not the objects themselves. Part of that is that the type of object receiving the message doesn't matter so long as it understands the message and knows how to respond. If the object looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, that's good enough--even if the duck turns out to be a chicken with an identity crises. It understood the message and responded, and that's all we want in object oriented programming, objects that can communicate with each other.

Adding type checking flies in the face of this philosophy. Instead of type being irrelevant as long as the receiver of a message can understand that message, suddenly it's front and center. The code will accept or reject objects based on their type even if they're fully capable of upholding their end of the conversation.

Type-less-ness is core to Ruby. But some people may still prefer to include typing. We all want to use the tools and practices that best enable us to deliver, so that's a fair want. But since Ruby as a philosophy doesn't care about type, it's important to maintain type checking as an accessory to the language, not a feature of it. Something that can be layered on top of the Ruby language for those that want it, but that can be ignored by those don't.
> It's rather stunning how you took that rhetorical question literally, and in the process missed the point spectacularly.

In the past 2 weeks you've said quite a lot of mean things to people on HN. Please stop doing that.
It's up to interpretation.

Tim Cook is saying developers keep 100% of their cut of the sale.

And it sounds like you interpret Cook's statement to mean developers keep 100% of the entire sale.
First of all, people like to complain about Amazon owned brands. But this is just retailing 101, nothing new here. Walk around a Costco and try and find a non Costco branded product in a variety of categories. People seem to love Costco's Kirkland brand and (personally) I also enjoy the AmazonBasics brand. Why have I never heard a peep about Costco?

You can make an argument that Amazon's market power has enabled it to gain success in some aspects of online retail.

But to the proponents of the "market power has helped Amazon strangle so many industries", you have to answer - how did market power help:

-Amazon grow Whole Foods?

-AWS become the most popular cloud service?

-Kindle become the most popular ereader?

It seems to me a much better explanation than "market power abuse" is that Amazon's culture and people have enabled it to dominate a variety of unconnected industries.
Are the STEM fields the only ones with asinine interview processes?

What does an interview as an accountant, sales or manager look like?
No I was agreeing with you. Was pointing out that 'evidence' that the person you were replying to presented, said the certainty was 'low'.
Me consulting at a major media company, paraphrasing:"It's, um, interesting that most of the development staff has ssh to essentially every production system as well as sudo privileges. And logging isn't super great."

PHB: "They need access to all the systems."

Me: "Well, um, what if one of them got disgruntled and just tossed some malicious JS in one of your many, many front end servers? Given the procedures here, it would be unlikely anyone would stumble across it, but they'd get a good amount of hits before the browsers block the entire site and traffic precipitously drops."

PHB: "Nobody would ever actually do that. Besides: we have to give them access. (looks at me as if he's explaining something to a five year old) We're a devops shop..."
That article is also talking about what apple COULD do - it doesn't say apple is actually doing it.
Volume was up something like 30x the day before the announcement. Clear insider trading on a massive scale occurred.
That's not a tax to the mainland, but new operation cost per national security commitments. Though technicalities aside, it could totally be exploited as a new tax that could be as onerous as politburo decides. HK autonomy is definitely over, though I surmise it's future is still indeterminate. There's good case to cultivate the city for another 1C2S model closer to Singapore, but it will take time, and indoctrination via patriotic education of new youth cohorts to produce a society that's more compatible with CCP 20 years from now. It's the last peaceful 1C2S gambit within reunification time frame.

I don't know how the article about PAP relates, though I was going to mention in the original comment that HK wouldn't take more few PAP detachments to tame even without "military" intervention. The key point, being that it's not a "frontier" territory and surrounded by so much CCP para/military/security that secession is not possible.
The Night a Drone Swarm Descended on Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant
I'm not a corporate accountant or anything, but I've been on both sides of this and it's very simple to pay people for outside work in the US.

And for that matter, giving real-but-unpaid work to do as part of an interview may be illegal. So paying for your time may be something companies are doing to protect themselves taxwise, not just for good will.
It's not even true for many of the "classic" Zelda games like Link to the Past or Ocarina of Time. Sure, there's a series of mandatory quests with associated items -- but there's also a bunch of side quests to pick up optional items, like extra heart containers, additional bottles, and various tools (like the Cape of Byrna in LttP or the masks in OoT).
And I grew up poor and can tell you it's not. In the First World, you have other opportunities to earn wealth than having more than enough livestock. Go to school, study something worthwhile, start a company and prosper.
> If my best friend has a lapse in judgment and makes the mistake of buying a Pixelbook, I will wait for him to leave it on the couch, unintentionally sit on it, and buy him a 16" Macbook Pro as a replacement -- apologizing profusely all the while

We should definitely hang out, asap.
These positions couldn't be further from each other -- see above comment. Moreover, communists historically (and today) have been on the whole been strong opponents to fascism (as you would expect of an ideology based on striving for equality and universal freedom), even in times when liberals were happy to collaborate.
>>On a tangent, I personally feel that bottom-up design has been an almost complete failure

I don't see the evidence supporting that assertion. The US has by and large moved to a top-down design since the 1950s:

Creation of Medicare

Creation of OSHA

Creation of EPA

Occupational licensing rising from 5% of jobs, in 1950, to 29% today.

The Code of Federal Regulations massively expanding since the 1950s: https://www.mercatus.org/video/visualizing-growth-federal-re...

Govermment spending as a percentage of GDP increasing substantially since the 1950s.

The financial surveillance state growing rapidly in scope, with OFAC, FinCEN - only created in 1990 - and other financial crime/surveillance agencies becoming far more substantial in their impact on banking and finance.

Healthcare regulations have become significantly more burdensome since the 1950s:

https://www.athenahealth.com/knowledge-hub/practice-manageme...

Public sector unions have also become much more powerful since the 1950s, with deleterious effects.

In teaching: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/111/3/671/1839935

In policing: https://ideas.repec.org/p/ces/ceswps/_7718.html

The bright spots in the economy, in terms of providing more value for less cost to the consumer, are all bottom up, whether it's the internet and digital industries, consumer electronics, or the food industry. These are heavily dominated by the private sector and relatively unhampered by government regulation, and consequently, very competitive.
It shouldn't, normally unless you designed the map wrong. That would be a real fault. In some systems it was possible to use dynamic map changes to position ROM over RAM and then to do weird things like getting the CPU to write to ROM but I've never heard of that actually damaging anything though speculation that in a tight loop that should be possible was rampant. We sure tried ;)

But when decoding banks of addresses you'd typically decode just one chip at the time, but possibly in multiple locations, otherwise vacant.
Tihle: A new emulator targeting TI graphing calculators
Just my opinion but I would say that’s fair. That’s such a bad idea if you care about profits and wide exposure that there’s almost no economic incentive to sell a book but exclude selling it on Amazon or B&N, you’re just throwing away money. Which, in a free market, you should be able to do at your own discretion.

The problem only comes if the biggest players in the space use their power and influence (read: money) to keep smaller competitors from having a chance.
Admittedly I’m biased against that source already, but even then I don’t see how their evidence supports their conclusion.

There’s three main points I can see

1. The proportion of the traffic to their site from google dropped.

This isn’t convincing to me because there’s no evidence it’s because of their conservative viewpoint. Maybe their SEO was just outdated after the update.

2. The fact that a search for “Joe Biden” no longer goes to their site.

If you look at the numbers they’re quite low already, again they fail to demonstrate that it’s because they’re a conservative website that they’re not getting traffic

3. They have a bar graph that shows that “conservative” websites get a less percentage of their traffic from google.

Two main complaints with this, one the coloring of the bars in the graph is totally arbitrary. Two they again fail to demonstrate that the only thing that’s different is the political leaning of the site

I don’t really feel like they’re presenting the data in a misleading way or they’re lying, but they fail to connect the data to the conclusion. Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence and they just don’t have it
My understanding was the 68010 had "support" for virtual memory when used with an MMU due to improved exception recovery handling. For example, when accessing an invalid / unmapped memory address. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68010 68000's didn't have that capability. An MMU of some sort would still be needed to implement the virtual-to-physical mapping of memory addresses.
And sorry, what's Uber on the hook for here? Don't tell me they didn't know.
CLI Design (2013)
Ah there it is. That makes a lot more sense... honestly at their scale I don't think they should be able to do this, aggregate or not.

They're about 50% of all online sales in the US, where compared to brick-and-mortar, Walmart gets a lot of flak as a small-business killer despite only accounting for 15% of all physical retail sales.
Learning Without a Brain
We would love Oceania or Scandinavia/Iceland. How do you get started doing something like this?
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior [pdf]
I think it ultimately boils down to who has the best CPU architecture if you are talking exclusively about performance-per-watt. Right now, it feels like AMD/ARM are going to be very competitive with each other in the mobile segment, but only on paper. They mostly stay in their own separate market arenas. Apple may disrupt this soon.

The bigger picture is that x86 is a platform that most of the business world runs on top of right now. ARM is certainly pushing into that arena, but AMD is keeping the x86 offering very attractive.

I am of the camp that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with x86, and especially not its recent implementations. It is an old & dirty ISA, but it gets the job done. Every scenario on earth has been thrown at it and it has adapted to suit. Decades of iteration and testing with billions of participants.

All AMD needs to do is continue cranking out 100W+ TDP parts that tear through workloads. The current style of ARM devices cannot keep up with power budgets like that. I believe they would have to completely redesign their architecture if they wanted to move from 5-15W up to something like the toasty 225W TDP of the 7742.
The last time this came up, in 2009, I looked at my reports and concluded the same thing- when Apple reported a refund, they were deducting 70% of a sale from my future earnings, not 100%
Anyone here remembers "The Maze of Galious" from the MSX era?

It was released in 1987 by Konami and it was a masterpiece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xczSIuB2J68
PALs are expensive and required programming '138s and '154s were cheap and work out of the box.
Kodak also had a biomedical diagnostics business unit. They sold it to Johnson and Johnson about 25 years ago.
SoC 2 Certification – Table Stakes for B2B SaaS
I now wonder where does the Prime Minister get his lab work done?
Looks nice. I wish I could use it, but IT has the calendar locked down, and most of the solutions have too much friction to make them viable
Thanks for the links I will read/take a listen as I have time. Ooh this will be good/will listen to it for my cooking/cleaning podcasts heh.
Leonardo da Vinci had ADHD
and how sketchy exactly is it?
Once an android phone stops receiving updates, its only a matter of time until google play services stops working on that version of android, and then it becomes a big PITA to do anything google related with it, as it keeps redirecting away from web pages you to apps that tell you that you can't use them.
I wouldn't rely on Android to not go anywhere.
"The flesh surrenders itself," he thought. "Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet I occurred."

-- From DUNE MESSIAH, by Frank Herbert
Why is my post penalized, and without any note to the effect? When I logout my submission disappears.
PHP has a strict typing mode: https://www.brainbell.com/php/strict-type.html
> I was thinking a while ago of the old "web ring" idea where likeminded sites were all listed together in a ring and you could explore them.

I think you're right. The best we have now are the "awesome-*" lists. Here is an "aggregation" of the options on offer: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
"Globalist" in the context of this thread about cancel culture was conflated with "leftist." No one is discussing international trade here.

And yes, the term "globalism" as an anti-leftist pejorative originates (as most anti-left rhetoric does) in anti-semitic prejudice and along with terms like "cultural Marxism" (a literal anti-semitic conspiracy theory) and "New York liberal" is often employed as a dog-whistle by the racist right. That's simply fact.

You could take most anti-leftist/anti-cancel culture screeds on HN and replace the politically correct words with "Jew" and it would fit right in in 1940s Germany, up to and including the insidious conspiracy that controls politics and the media and is even willing to kill to further its dark, society destroying agenda.

Now, does this mean that literally anyone who uses those terms or that conspiratorial rhetoric about the "leftist/globalist" agenda is automatically an anti-semite? No. It does mean that those who aren't may be unintentionally signal-boosting for those who are.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23992184
Canadian here.

Not sure how there is no government oversight for handling of sensitive data in the first place. I get that we have a "Privacy Commissioner of Canada". But this sort of thing should almost never happen.

Also, how the heck can a privately owned company that deliberately mishandled data (let's be honest here - instead of paying legal fees to fight in court, you could be, I don't know, tightning up your NetSec?) overrule a federally mandated officer?

Holy crap this stinks.
I think you're right that Amazon has come to dominate a lot of markets on merit. But it's still the case that having overly dominant players in a market is bad for... well everyone except the dominant player. It doesn't matter why or how it came to be.
Fair enough.

Thinking further, "using a dating platform meaningfully"(often paying) you would expect some level of service from that platform.

Assumptions often are:
- dating service members represent all of society, IE "Everyone is doing it!"

- someone out there is for me, I just have to find them"

- paying this business will result in them helping me. People get dates on there all the time!

And so paying for a service resulting in zero dates is a pretty poor result.

Hence it is less, "women should want him" IE relationship between him and women.
And more, "I am paying for a service that doesn't work!" which is about the relationship between him and dating platform.

Ultimately I think the original assumptions are wrong, likely skewed because of dating platform marketing. Who would've thought marketing causes problems in society!
It seems the answer is “Not available right now, let’s work on an API”? I think that matches my perspective on this, in that it isn’t worth a “mortal” developer’s time right now. Rarely have I hit a scenario where a lock is the primary source of inefficiency and crossing thread boundaries.

The Go approach of “Do not communicate by sharing memory” holds well, because CPU and memory do not always compose as one would expect (As the author of the post notes). Passing messages simplifies a lot of things because you learn to now rely on a specific thread or order, or program defensively against that possibility.
Back in the day, I used to be all in on the Google bandwagon. I was in on Wave, Buzz, Meebo and bunch of others. After a few years of cycling through the standard phases:

1) Wow this is really cool

2) Wow I'm starting to use this everyday

3) Wow my friends should know about

4) Google is killing this

Once you get over the idea their killing something you started to rely on and then you experience their "customer service" a few times you just wonder if its actually about trying to make the world a better place, or just adding revenue to their bottom line.

My conclusion a long time ago was not to use them for anything personal and FFS nothing I would have my business rely on.
As I said, from my perspective they're useful for different purposes. I've worked on software (internal sales system) that the end-users were interacting directly with. They'd always be running the latest version and thus versioning by dates would have been a lot more tangible to them.

Over the course of 5 years and several thousand bug reports from end-users and 2nd/3rd line support I've never once seen a bug report that mentioned a version number. It was always "the version that was deployed last week" or something to that effect despite the version number being visible in the app at all times.

For APIs and libraries semver makes a lot of sense, I agree, but not all code is APIs or libraries.
Well it won't be Huawei
I have noticed significant change in TikTok ads over the past year. A lot of the newer ones use TikTok-like format, using a popular meme to promote their product, and I find those quite a bit more effective, if only because they're not obvious to tell apart from normal content.
I assume that you can not obtain a permit if the origin of the alive material can't be verified, the sender is not identified, and unless somebody has paid for the permit (they aren't cheap).

Moreover, anybody that would send a package like those shown in the article, to an address in Florida, California, Arizona or Texas would be violating the Citrus quarantine, therefore commiting a crime.

And to finish, flooding frontiers with thousands of small packages of time consuming cheap material is evil. I assume that messing deliberately with the work of civil servants or slow customs is also typified as a crime.
Dark Reader and Vimium-FF.

Surprisingly Dark Reader is a lot more advanced than most other dark mode extensions, but its privacy policy looks much better privacy-wise.
The problem is so much of what we use is not a community effort but the work of a single person in their free time unpaid. So you might do a big review of all the things you find weird and then the maintainer will say "eh, I don't have the time or desire to rewrite all of this" And fair enough, why should they accept all this extra unpaid work.

I'm not sure what the solution is but it probably involves companies getting more active in the development of all the stuff they depend on especially when its not some mega project like linux or postgres.
"This is being conducted at a layer that is not accessible to us." -- Professor Shoshana Zubuff

Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism | VPRO Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw
Apple have 17% of the smartphone market share [0] and 32% of smartphone related revenue [1] worldwide.

I understand the constraints on developers/consumers on iOS in regards to the walled garden, but are those numbers considered monopolistic?

0: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/03/03/apple-iphone-mark...

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/12/22/global-...
citation needed. It's truly amazing how people justify arbitrary claims to fit their ideological perspectives.