skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a legislator, but I'd like to be able to run an app store of my choosing. I'd like to be able to use my general purpose computing device as a general purpose computer, instead of Apple's business connections deciding who I get to do business with. So far as not implementing features, if the bare tech were exposed, I'm sure people would be very happy to implement it outside of Apple. Just because they perpetuate the platform doesn't mean they should control how I use it. As to implementation (i.e. enforcement), that's just whataboutism because the government is more than capable of regulation.
That's pretty cool, very niche yet still an interesting concept. You should try to get on the indie hackers podcast. How's the income stream on this sort of business? And it sounds like its a 1 man/woman operation where you do handle everything from support to marketing?
This is a distinct usecase from only offering it through, for example, Barnes and Noble. The former (sharing exclusively among friends) is not necessarily harmful, the latter (only selling through one vendor) is.
Ultimately we need a viable alternative to the current system before we trash it. And no one has that.
You’re Creating a New Programming Language – What Will the Syntax Look Like?
I'm surprised it isn't obvious. Let me ask -

Have you ever moved a family across the country? Do you have parents or family that offer a safety net? Do you have children?

A few things - you often need to pay to break a lease. Say your lease ends naturally, most new tenants are required to pay at least one month up front, sometimes the last, and maybe a deposit, too. You have to pay for some kind of moving truck or storage. Utilities require a deposit. You probably don't know what neighborhoods or schools suit your needs. There's an emotional cost to losing your support and friend network, not to mention those of your family members.

Those are a few things off the top of my head. I don't think anyone is claiming it's as complicated as rocket science. But the idea that it is cheap or free to uproot your life and family with little to no savings or support (low level workers don't get relocation packages) is not correct.
They should be nearing herd immunity then
anecdata isn't data
The narrative from Tesla bears continues to shift into the future as it outperforms their predictions. Wasn’t the company supposed to have been sidelined many times by now?
There's no good reason, to my shame. But now that you mention, I think I'll get around to it and do it this week. Might be a good opportunity to round down a few rough edges here and there as well.
The linux kernel for sure. Servers and smart phones. It may not conquer the business desktop soon, but the desktop is a smaller piece of the pie every year.

Relational databases will be around forever. The nature of data does not change. Relational data will always be a good fit for an RDBMS.

I think skill in low level languages like C will have less market share in the job market, but always needed. It could be a lucky financial boon for people who have these skills, as they will be a rare commodity.
That is an extremely poor and dangerous characterization of this pathology.

I'll quote some people smarter than me.

“In the beginning, our model for understanding this infection was to treat it like another respiratory virus like influenza,” said John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases and vaccinology in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program. “I think one of the most unfortunate and interesting things about this virus is that its interaction with us is actually far more complicated than that.”

"This virus is unusual and it's hard not to take a step back and not be impressed by how many manifestations it has on the human body" author of https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0968-3

The "majority" (87%) still experience symptoms months later https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768351 including scar tissue on the heart and lungs, blood clots, up to 37% experience acute kidney injury.
Thanks, but I don't think that applies here. I'm not accusing that poster of "astroturfing, shilling, brigading, [or being a] foreign agent".

I'm saying that they're parroting CCP propaganda in the form of an extremely questionable survey and that generally attracts downvotes here (including mine).
I’m almost entirely sure Litwintschik is misinformed in regards to the GPUs in his laptop.

Yes, he does have the Intel GPU he mentioned, but if he paid $200 to upgrade the GPU as he claims, he would also have a dedicated AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB.
That's not the point. He's saying that there's no possible way to decisively figure out who does and doesn't live in Hong Kong on Quora; there are a lot of nations interested in influencing what's going on there right now (including US, I might add), and Chinese disinformation campaigns (especially ones where they pretend to be from elsewhere) aren't a new phenomenon.

Petitions are bullshit, Quora is bullshit. Look for bodies, anything else is easy to fake.
With a few exceptions, you are around guns all the time in the US. 99.995% of guns exist benignly.
> I think most of the power envelope difference these days is process node, with Intel chips usually lagging behind.

That hasn't been the case until quite recently. Before TSMC 7nm Intel was still at least on-par with everyone else. I think it boils down to arm chips being designed from the ground up with power usage in mind (with a fair number having slower low-power secondary cores and such), whereas Intel mostly expects your CPU to always be doing something even at idle.
>The GPU won't be used by OmniSciDB in this benchmark but for the record it's an Intel UHD Graphics 630 with 1,536 MB of GPU RAM. This GPU was a $200 upgrade over the stock GPU Apple ships with this notebook. Nonetheless, it won't have a material impact on this benchmark.

He lost me here...I get that it doesn't matter, but come on, if you don't know that your computer has a GPU other than the integrated graphics (that you admit you paid more to upgrade) then what are you really doing...
Two options:

1) Free apps with advertisements. Paid apps are by far the minority.

2) I guess this statement is related to subscription models like spotify. If you acquire the user outside of the apple ecosystem and they subscribe on your own website and then download your free app from the app store, you get to keep 100% on the revenue that the user generates as well.
We are at war and data collection and social media influence serves as the ammunition and propaganda. If Bytedance is a truly innocent third party, then they completely misread the situation when they spent billions of dollars to expand outside of China and this amounts to a business failing.

The more likely situation is that the CCP is intimately involved in Bytedance's data collection, what becomes trending, what videos get promoted, etc. They crossed the proverbial line and now they are punished for it a la ZTE, Huawei, etc.

You can say goodbye to any Chinese, Russian, etc. app ever taking off in the "West" in the future. Scrutiny will be ever more stringent as the war continues.
This website is likely targeted at the French administrations like the ANSSI (National Cybersecurity Agency of France) which is often mocked because of a somewhat strict `French Only Policy` in internal documents.

Here they are using `Biscuit de pile` for `Stack Cookies`:
https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/actualite/CERTFR-2015-ACT-047/

It may be the other way around, eg: someone inside ANSSI choosed to use `Biscuit de pile` to make people react:

- https://twitter.com/newsoft/status/671213007301648384

- https://twitter.com/x0rz/status/738272442771202048
If this was true, lower and middle class people wouldn't be having as many kids as they do. It's obviously possible to have kids without an upper-middle class income. People choose not to have kids because they prioritize other things like education, career, buying a home, living in a HCOL area.
The CPU architecture was developed long before the joint venture.

IIRC, it began as an expansion board for the BBC Micro.

This article implies that initial ARM development was undertaken between 1983 - 1985:

https://www.theregister.com/2012/05/03/unsung_heroes_of_tech...
Ah, I didn't realize the children per teacher. It makes sense now. Thank you.
Retail is crazy miserable for the person actually MAKING the product.

Getting INTO stores is hard. The store can dump product back onto you - so they have no risk. The price on shelf has NOTHING to do with what you get, if you are small you are already going through some intermediaries. Ie, person making product, packing, shipping to distributor (some make you pay cost to get it to them), then distribution costs then retailer markups then return handling yadda yadda. THEN retailers will ask you to run promos and give them discounts or they will drop you.

3%? EVERYONE would pay that. In retail I'd say person making product gets maybe 20%? 80% is taken by others?
I responded to the original flamebait, but couldn't post once it got flagged. But I'm willing to discuss the following originally directed to that now-flagged post.

The currently-implemented economic model must compete in the marketplace of practices like any other model. Whether you call it capitalist or any other moniker is orthogonal to whether the model works for its participants with respect to raising children at replacement rate. If the majority of participants find it uneconomic to have children, that's not an indictment of the participants if they want to freely consent to experiment with different economic arrangements, some of whom might want to experiment to see if it yields more children, some who are in it for other reasons. It just simply means the current model has simply priced itself out of its market for "economic models that encourage having children".

Majority of participants have no leverage on changing the model out of proportion to their voting power. So no "blame" or "responsibility" to assign to them.

Supply and demand. There is no demand for children based upon the costs imposed upon participants. Ergo, no supply. If other economic actors want an increased supply of children, then it is on those actors to do what is in their power to raise the price offered until the market clears. If the price clearing involves a different economic arrangement, then the market has spoken.
Look up:

The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

It’s a classic text on computer science that starts from basics and goes into functional programming
Tree style tabs lets me manage hundreds of open tabs. Auto Tab Discard stops them from crashing my system.
What would planned economy do with hands not needed anymore? :) Even with totally unproductive economy, USSR had lots and lots of bullshit jobs just to keep people employed. What would USSR do with tons of unemployed people? Create fake jobs? Or what... let people find out what they'd like to do and let them start private initiatives?!?
Perhaps he means that they keep 100% of their 70% ;)
Well it has sound it seems, which might actually be more important depending on what you're looking for.
Thanks for that really interesting summary!

Regarding backwards compatibility, is this basically that certain companies developed new products so quickly that there was no point (or value) to supporting old hardware (for the company, or desired by users)?

And therefore delay + overheads of waiting for compatible new CPUs was worse than the value of what they did release each time? Plus the generally worse heat/power utilizing designs?
Apple doesn't take a cut of your advertising revenue, and most apps are ad-supported rather than paid.

That's why it's true.
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Yeah there are plausible arguments for Microsoft, but the constant self-serving political decisions and punishment of enemies makes it hard to know.

Amazon also does have local cloud boxes.
And occasionally you get the amusing conflicting scenario of the local government using the foreign interference rhetoric, while the national government rejects that for its own purposes (not wanting to look weak), as in Russia in Khabarovsk at the moment.
Ok sorry, I read into that incorrectly then. I've read too many threads accusing people of being state actors in similar fashions recently
I doubt it is being rendered dumb by, say, putting a different firmware on it. It probably just absolutely needs occasional or constant internet connectivity to their servers to work, and Google is shutting them down.
my 'go to' recently has been - use the basic ORM if I'm dealing with one (or maybe a small handful) of things where I'm doing work local to the request on those specific items.

use just a query builder that returns a raw array for times when it's just being shipped down in JSON to a client. The overhead of full ORM - converting to full objects internally - often for hundreds or thousands of records - is not worth whatever small conveniences might be afforded via a full ORM usage.
The fax machine was still a core part of business life back when embrace-extend-extinguish was a thing.

It's hard to tell whether those who continue to fixate on this 20-year-old trope are cranky senior citizens who'd otherwise be yelling at people to stay off their lawns or young zealots pining for the days of a long-past battle they were born too late to actually participate in.

The rest of us disposed of our fax machines and rotary dial telephones and moved on as the tech landscape, including 100% of the leadership at Microsoft, continued to turn over as happens with time.
I thought it might be because of the higher number of ACE2 protein carrying surfaces inside their longer (taller) bodies.
If you go on journalist twitter, the “mainstream media” is full of very enterprising journalists who have done deep dives into the security law (as much as released by the CCP...) and is uniformly critical.

Also rather than “online polls”, the more damning feature are the local elections, or remnants thereof, where the Beijing faction is routinely getting crushed with pro-democracy candidates getting 70-80% Of the vote
If you listen regularly, the Audible membership is even better... $23/month for two books, and 30% off on everything past that. So that can get the per book cost down to under $12
Wow! This short intro is actually quite good.
Its kinda cute how tech people are just finding out about capitalism now.
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Have people used the Libro.fm Android app? I've used the Audible Android app for years and it's trash, even compared to something like OverDrive. No other audio app on Android gets shut down in the background like Audible does (if it lasts more than 30 minutes without being actively played that's a long time). It takes forever to boot because they want to trick me into purchasing more credits and showing ads. Whenever there's a notification, it pauses for like 8 seconds, twice as long as any other audio app.
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You believe that 3 million 'petition signatures' is even remotely equivalent to 2 million actual protesters marching the street?
Absolutely – I don't want to feel bad for the developers of apps I return either. Sometimes the app just isn't very good, or doesn't do what I thought it would. I shouldn't have to feel guilty about returning it.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about that particular question, and the simple answer is that yes, my partner and I may find ourselves late in life wishing we had done otherwise. We also very easily could find ourselves wishing we hadn't. I look around and see many people who also have very poor relationships with their elderly parents - I don't discount the fact that given the culture of America at this particular moment that I could have children who bring me great joy for the 18 years they are with me, who only then become all but distant strangers once they enter into their adult life. This seems increasingly common nowadays. Or they could love me sincerely!

Either way, if I had children, I wouldn't think it right or just to burden them with an expectation that they owe me endless years of emotional, physical, or social support.

Additionally, I think our brains are very good at rationalizing and justifying the choices we already have made, and so I'd mostly suspect that I'll continue to convince myself that I made the right choice regardless of any loneliness that may crop up later in life.

It also might seem callous, but there are simple psychological needs (such as feeling that you're caring or providing for another being) that are easily fulfilled without having children. Pets help a lot. Volunteering helps as well. And, of course, just like your older relative, spending time around other children and young people when you can.

My hope is that between all of these things, I'll lead a happy and fulfilling life. Or maybe I won't – but I ultimately don't have any control over that. And my personal opinion is that having children doesn't assure you a fulfilling life either!
They don't. Garmin's cloud services supply map/chart data updates and backend services for their mobile app (which is separate from installed avionics) to support flight planning functionality.
If the government wants me to have kids, they had better incentivize it.

Plenty of countries do those things, Quebec is a great example. Universal healthcare, subsidized daycare, baby bonus payments. They still don't have many kids.
> Apple does not appear to have its customers agree to that

Actually, with an EU iTunes account, you have an additional popup dialog you have to agree to with every in-app purchase where you have to agree that it does not qualify for the exemption.
OK, this helped me understand things better. If true, I'm surprised we're just hearing about this now.
Apple doesn’t take a cut from advertising, which funds the vast majority of apps.
>Its the data collection

Exactly, it's not about relevancy of content, is what it's being done with the data.

I mean unless they are trying to pull the hook of "no you can see we don't give any benefit to pro-ccp/china/anti-western content, so this can't be a ccp propaganda machine!"

We know there's propaganda there, it's on every social media.

The problem is what's being harvested and shared with the CCP.
Have you heard the story of Cambridge analytica?
Meanwhile, Switzerland got a three-peat of Nobel Prizes in Medicine in 1948, 1949, and 1950.

It makes sense that a guy like Welles would value art and throw scorn on technology. Stability is necessary for investment and the build-up of capital; it isn't necessary to make a painting.
One China Policy is about to fail in the West, the line was drawn. HK's special economic status has now been revoked, which was a wise move, but it's left China with no reason NOT to storm in.

Brace yourselves, Trump is likely to re-recognize Taiwan soon, reversing a terrible decision which was made as a concession.
To be fair, Apple and Google do a fair bit more than a payment processor does (basically nothing). Not 30pp more, but it wouldn't be reasonable to expect 3% fees.

I'd guess 10-15% is what is actually reasonable. Microsoft has settled for 15% in their store (because nobody was using it so charging 30% is ridiculous).
This is just sales commission rules though.

If I get a 30% commission for a sale when the customer is referred by me and at some point in the future the customer asks for a refund I don't give my commission back. Our transaction was done when the original sale was made.
I that this has historically been the case, but I think there has been a lot more delivery in recent years. The estimates from Musk seem to be less off, and I think a massive part of that is that the ramp up to this point was all predicated on original design of parts. They design and build >90% of the parts in the space ships. I think now that they have a catalogue of parts they don't have to build from scratch, their design/development cycles for new products are much faster and predictable.

This same thing goes for Tesla, I don't think Musk & co. get enough credit for building everything from scratch.
I'm fond of the site hosting http://diafilmy.su/7209-sojuz-appolon.html among others (use arrow keys to advance the filmstrip).
If the economy relies on population growth then the economy needs to change.

How?

If you want a better standard of living, including generous social programs, the money has to come from somewhere. If the economy isn't growing, then your "pot of money" isn't growing either.
Ditto. Helping some non-profits, we were really hurt by people typo-ing a $10,000 donation when they meant to only donate $100. We quickly learned from that mistake.

We also learned about how credit card thieves test credit cards. We saw hundreds of donation attempts. Stripe had us refund those that went threw, which costed us money in fees. Fortunately we were able to put some quick measures in place to stop them temporarily & then better measures for long term success.
A petition is a much lower effort action than a protest. People motivated enough to protest in person probably represent a stronger opinion base than people merely motivated enough to sign a petition.
1) Blender is GPLv2'ed Software,so there is no immediate danger of MS creating proprietary fork of Blender and making money by selling the fork. I beleive that they are contributing to Blender which benefits community as a whole.

2) Offtopic but i wish megacorps collaborate to create FLOSS alternative to Adobe Suit like Photoshop/Other Graphic Design programs. This would super benefit everybody on all platforms.
Looks like Libro.fm has a similar subscription service, although it's $15/month for one book. This isn't all that shocking that it's a bit more expensive than Amazon. Hard to beat them on price.
Yes, but you need to serve notice to the offending party, which might be hard if they are not a US person...

likewise collecting damages, etc
The thing is, rent rises faster than income.

That’s why most married people with kids take a mortgage. Mortgage payments stay flat, but the actual expense goes down over time, because you pay less and less of interest and more of principal.
The bureaucracy wanted to maintain the status quo (and his privileged position in it) but in the long run their interest as a caste were directed to restore capitalism, as they sat on a contradictory position (e.g., no inheritance rights). There was a big Trotsky-Burnham debate in late 1930's about this. The common idea of the soviet bureaucracy wanting only to keep the status quo made many in all sides of the ideological spectrum to be surprised by the USSR fast turn to capitalism.
Then it's likely word of the instruments went along with them!

People tend to love to share knowledge and meat.
According to the tweet, if a $1.00 app is refunded the customer gets back $1.00 from the developer and Apple keeps $0.30.

So each refund costs the dev more than they took in for the sale whilst Apple always pockets the 30%.

How can a refund cost the dev $1.00 if they only took $0.70 for the sale?
Cybersyn, then

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cybersyn
Their prices is one problem, being completely unable to post a book at the price is another.

It's also worth noting that making audiobooks is very labor intensive, and Amazon/Audible can offer some of their prices only via the economies of scale. It's also possible that they're offering books at a loss to push out other audiobook sellers - an extension of their efforts with exclusives.