skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely not. Any government interference in the market will lead to distortions and malinvestments, not "increased competition" -- unless you believe that giving unfair advantages to Apple competitors is acceptable by any standards, and that this would lead to a more efficient market.

Apple made its brand and has a loyal customer base due to the quality of the products it delivers, therefore it's providing what the market wants.
It’s not sitting under a mattress. It’s surely invested in something productive.
I don't quite understand how this happens. I'm under the impression that when you are offered your job back, you have to either take it or go off of unemployment.
Having just tried to hire some trade persons. The going rate seems to be 1K-3K/per day in Canada.

1) 200 sqft laminate flooring in a square room. Quoted $1500 for installation. One day job.

2) 2 day job to install a minisplit system I bought separately. $6000+

My sister was quoted over 1k for replacing a valve by a plumber, for less than an hours work.

These were not even labour intensive or high skill dependent things. Just basic trade person type of things.

Your $10/hour job can buy you plastic things made in China at the dollar store.

So I think these are the real wages in this economy.
AMD has the best iGPUs available, which (unlike Intel's) are actually fast enough to play a lot of games. They're also significantly more power efficient as a result of 7nm. For any use where this is fast enough -- and this is a huge percentage of the PC market -- nVidia has no answer to this.

AMD is the only option for a performant GPU with reasonable open source drivers. Intel has the drivers but they don't currently offer discrete GPUs at all. nVidia doesn't have the drivers.

AMD makes it a lot easier to do GPU virtualization.

AMD GPUs are used in basically all modern game consoles, so games that run on both are often better optimized for them.

They also have the best price/performance in the ~$300 range, which is the sweet spot for discrete GPUs.
Does the average tradesman have their own business though? I think we like to compare mediocre corporate drones to the most successful tradesman.
We can either spend all week coming up with fake suspects, or we could call a spade a spade based on all the piling evidence.

https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2019/04/26/russian...
You press the key on or close to the the near edge using your thumb either way, so it really doesn't matter.

(This comment typed on an Ergodash: https://github.com/omkbd/ErgoDash It would be possible to press the key labelled with the noodle bowl using my thumb, although I'm not in the habit of doing so. I might try and make it a habit, now I think about it. The top half of the "Enter" on the right side is pointless; my keyboard has 2 small keys instead of the large one.)
If you buy a home in a neighborhood with a restrictive homeowners' association covenant, you still own your home even though you're not allowed to paint it blue and put plastic flamingos in the yard. You may not like those restrictions, but they're the restrictions you literally bought into.

I really think this is a more accurate take than "Apple restricts what you can do to your device therefore you don't really own it." Yes, they restrict what I can do with the device, but yes, I really own it. And bonus: f I decide those restrictions are too much to bear, well, buying a new phone is way easier than buying a new house.
Not sure how any of this explains why a text editor can't fit in some countably finite number of kilobytes.
Exactly. At least one of these kids used their personal gmail account on the hacking forum. These are not advanced hackers.
Brazilian market.
I must admit that does sound like a really nice code base to work inside of.
> Some estimates put this particular breach at having netted upwards of $120k.

> I don't think I've ever seen a bug bounty that high. The highest I've ever heard of or see documentation describing is in the range of $40k.

You're not paying attention.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/bounty-hyper-v?rtc=1
That is just sick. They should pay a tax rate at least as high as what the average worker pays if not higher
While I totally agree with you in a desktop-like scenario, please note that X is totally inadequate and bloated for other domains (e.g. automotive).
You can use positioners to request a location for your popup window relative to your toplevel window:

https://wayland-book.com/xdg-shell-in-depth/popups.html

You just don't get to set the absolute position of your window. The precise position and making sure it isn't going off of the edge of the screen is the responsibility of the compositor.

This is good because it ensures proper security sandboxing and makes sure clients still work even when the windowing paradigm changes, e.g. with multiple desktops or window tiling. Developers hardcoding such assumptions is what caused much of the pain of Xorg so it's understandable that they want to make sure it does not happen again.
I'm not unsympathetic, although I admit I've sounded that way just now. Terror will have that effect on a person, I suppose. Glibness aside, I spent enough years working in a company with three total employees counting myself and the owner to have a sense of what things must be like for someone trying to operate on a shoestring in this kind of environment. In a word: desperate. I'd imagine it's a familiar feeling to people who have been paid so poorly in the recent past that they find $15 an hour a step up.

Ideally, you'd see living-wage unemployment in a situation like this one matched by the kind of substantial, ongoing supplemental loans to small business owners that'd enable them to pay a living wage directly, and thus successfully compete in the labor market. But our shitshow excuse for a government - and that's not partisan; I'm indicting all sides equally here - has been no more successful at that than it has at supporting workers. And now it looks very much as if we're going to have an economic disaster no matter what anyone does.

Well. Judging by yesterday's GDP figures, I suppose I should say more of an economic disaster.
Windows phone was actually legit, I was one of the few who loved it I guess. Those big tiles etc...
I can attest to the page disappearing and appearing “empty”. The page is now back, although flagged and dead.
The text you quoted contains the carve-out: the comments must be “made on a part of the digital platform service that is set up and able to be edited by the registered news business.” If the text of a law is ambiguous or obscure, courts can consider extrinsic material, including the explanatory memorandum, in interpreting it: https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/aia190123...
I am a big Apple fan, but seriously, you guys are bending yourselves into pretzels to make up excuses for Apple.

we already know what a market without a mandatory App Store looks like because it is like that for the Mac. I still prefer buying apps through Apple’s store. Due to safety, ease of use etc. But I am happy alternatives exist when I need them.

They could follow a similar model for iPhone where non-Apple stores have to be enabled specifically with a security warning.
I agree with you if looking at this from a historical perspective. However, l can see this working out for MS if TikTok remains a wholly owned, but independently operated subsidiary. If they buy it and largely 'leave it alone' to continue with its own leadership team and operational independence (as it seems github has been allowed to), I can see it being a net gain for MS and TikTok. The integration plan would make or break this (rumored) acquisition.
But of course macOS also has APIs on NSWindow to move it around, as well as accessibility and AppleScript APIs to do it as a user in a scriptable way. Why the limitation?
Many laws in Mexico are not enforced. I'd be very surprised if these copyright laws were.

It's extremely common to find street vendors selling pirated movies, software, etc, with absolute impunity. I'm not referring to guys with a backpack selling DVDs or USBs in the Mexico City metro, but entire street blocks full of permanent markets.

If you're ever in Mexico City go to the MEAVE market a couple of minutes from the Latino Tower (also called "la plaza de la tecnología"). It's a huge labyrinthian cyberpunk market of pirated, software, hardware, second hand devices, phone repairs, etc.
In my experience what the switch to SSDs resulted into was Windows 10 becoming practically unusable on a mechanical HDD. Comparing how long the OS needs to start up, launch applications, etc on my laptop with Win10 vs a much older laptop with Win8 (the first and last time Microsoft bothered to optimize Windows the last decade) is night and day and that older laptop originally came with Vista!

When i first installed Win8 on that laptop i was so impressed i even took a video[0] of it (and yes, it seems like they kept that performance in 8, though sadly by 8.1 it became slower).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti3LQHXZ0Qg
Why? X originally ran on machines far less powerful than even the shittiest automotive head units around today.
I hate that half the request for push notifications are used for websites to spam me.
No, I'm an idiot, please explain it to me.

Of course I know what it means — the argument is way more nuanced than "hurr durr there are 2 and 2 > 1".
> This honestly would take the cake for for stupidest purchase ever. I couldn't think of a way to lose money faster.

No comment on the potential TikTok acquisition by MSFT from me, but your quote reminds me of a lot of HN comments and opinions I heard elsewhere, but regarding Zuck and his WhatsApp and Instagram acquisition.

Everyone was pretty much clowning him as figuratively the dumbest man on earth who was simply lucky to make a ton of money off Facebook, who now was just throwing that money around at random acquisitions without having any idea what he was doing. A lot of people were also saying that it was all just out of desperation on his end, given that Facebook was going to die any moment soon. Six years later, most people agree that it was one of the smartest decisions he could've made.

In a similar vein, think back to when MSFT acquired Minecraft.
I am not sure of what can be done though in hardware at least. Software, certainly there can be regulation to keep the playing field open so companies like Spotify can survive on their own merit.

Hardware, maybe by enforcing APIs to be accessible to all hardware manufacturers. But at the end of the day, if they build a new successful product either inhouse/acquisition, should it be stopped just because they have money/brand loyalty. I don't agree with that.
Generally, the financially successful artist will be touring and playing live shows and between that spend a lot of time in a studio recording many songs at once, not recording a song every month for Spotify pittance.
I thought that buybacks reduced the amount of shares in total, increasing the value of the remaining shares?
I think in this particular case, it’s cash, or at least the promise from a bank or fund or whatever the hell it is, that they can count on that money in cash whenever they one.
What makes you think I'm suggesting that? I was simply ridiculing the idea of forcing users to acquire developers license.

The right way, of course, is to allow third party appstores and app sideloading. Just like we have it on macOS - and it doesn't look like someone was made unhappy because he can run Steam and buy Sketch directly from the developer.

Someone besides Apple, of course.
On Rapamycin: "The known adverse effects caused by sirolimus and marketed analogs at the doses used in transplant regimens, especially the increased risk of infection due to immunosuppression, as well as dose-dependent metabolic impairment, make it unlikely that chronic, long-term treatment with sirolimus could become a widely used anti-aging agent."

Sounds more than a little dangerous, unless you have an illnes like Lupus that activates mTOR, and even then I'd be nervous taking this drug without expert medical supervision!

On the upside, my partner has a Lupus-like autoimmune disease, so this drug will be an interesting one to track.
> You should get $200 if you can get an employee's password.

That's never going to fly; all Twitter bounties are multiples of $140.
Every single sentence in your post is pro-copyright. I get it, you support a more limited form of copyright than we have right now. Just don't go around calling yourself "as anti-copyright … as anyone you would ever meet". Especially not to someone who is actually anti-copyright. I don't have to look around to find an obvious counter-example. It's me.

> Information should be free to share and copy, but not at a profit if it infringes on the owner of the IP.

That sounds like what the Open Source Definition would classify as discrimination based on field of endeavour. Terms like that are way more trouble than they're worth. If anyone can share and copy the content at cost, the only way to earn a profit is to provide some value-added service. Which means you're not profiting from the content, but rather from the service you've added on top. I'm not sure why you would have an issue with that.

> Megaupload employees and owners uploaded pirated content, and profited hugely. Not small margins—they made millions.

That's only because competition for hosting and indexing services was severely limited by copyright. I don't see the relevance to the scenario you're describing where there are no restrictions on (non-profit) sharing or copying. Their margins would be basically zero under those circumstances, or at least no more than any other hosting service. Any profit they did make would be due entirely to their own efforts.
Two words:

Health care.

The folks arguing this in Congress seem never to have faced the practical issues that come with loss of employment.

Plus, I'll gander that among the 32% who qualified for the benefits noted, but whose income was still not replaced during the relevant time period-- the shortfall probably was 50% on average or more. So we cut that benefit because many low-wage-earners are receiving too much? Really? Sometimes it's hard to believe political discussion in the U.S. has devolved to this.
2(a)(ii) is picked up by (b) and (c) because they refer to “such comments,” ie. comments as defined in (a).
in a remote only or remote first working environment, many of these policies are not feasible , ultimately employees have to be able work somewhat productively .

Such clean room requirements could perhaps work when the threat model include nation state actors or your are handling sensitive financial applications.

Most companies are not defence contractors or banks the security levels you propose won’t be worth the cost to a typical internet tech company .
Precisely!

And you would also hope the food doesn't come inside a bullet-proof glass bubble with a robotic arm as the only interface between you and the food to ensure you eat it exactly the way the chef intended.

And furthermore you would hope breaking the bullet-proof glass bubble so you can feed yourself and pick out the mushrooms won't cause the chef to send lawyers after you (especially if you teach others how to).
> If the chocolate was only given out afterwards, 29.8 per cent of participants revealed their passwords.

Nearly 30% of people just gave out their password and didn't even know they were getting chocolate! They gave it away for literally nothing.
Looks like they got the worst of both worlds, with no Cocoa arising from it and a bunch of pissed off developers and users…
you talk exactly like someone that has no idea what it is like to run a small business that serves a community around them.

you are jumping to conclusions that he must have been exploiting his staff etc. and you are disregarding the fact that you are punishing the most entrepreneurial, whose entire livelihood depends on this. He built the business for 20 years, has 8 trucks, garages, equipment, loans etc all goes sideways if he has to double his prices especially in this environment. He now has to compete against an unrealistic, government set salary that ironically, is paid partially from taxes imposed on him.

Maybe he should go on unemployment, and ta-da all is solved, he is now making a good salary
Apple has plenty of competition on the App Store for every category.
> JWT, Swing, Web, Cordova, React/<web front-end> Native, Xamarin, Electron, Flutter and even quirky ones like Toga have all attempted to solve this problem, and

... and for the most part they have. You can write your app right now and the only thing you need to worry about is screen size. If you use bootstrap, even this is mostly solved. Your app is accessible on Windows, Linux and Mac; Chromebooks and Tablets; iPhones, Android and even the one Symbian user. Of course it's not perfect yet, there are edge cases and you cannot do everything, but let's not act like things have gotten worse.

> The only unifying thread has been that managers follow greedy algorithms and choose the lowest common denominator platforms as possible.

Yes, I agree. But for nearly every use case, it's good enough. Take HN as an example: Does it need anything more?

Of course, if you need access to specific hardware, you'll have to go deeper. But if you do not, it would simply be you taking the lowest common denominator. And I'd argue that the framework probably did a more thorough search.
Certainly it’s slightly less than one.
I would probably agree with you if everything was modular and commodity and easily swappable. If I decide I won't buy hardware with nvidia in it, that chops out a chunk of the possibly laptops I can have. It means I can't repurpose older hardware; sure, hindsight may be 20/20, but perhaps I didn't have the foresight 7 years ago to realize I'd want to run Linux on something today (yeah, older hardware is better supported, but it's by no means universal). It means that I can't run some things that require CUDA and don't support something like OpenCL.

And you can argue that that still is all fine, and that if you're making a choice to run Linux, then you have to accept trade offs. And I'm sympathetic to that argument.

But you're also trying to say that we're not allowed to be angry at a company that's been hostile to our interests. And that's not a fair thing to require of us. If nvidia perhaps simply didn't care about supporting Linux at all, and just said, with equanimity, "sorry, we're not interested; please use one of our competitors or rely on a possibly-unreliable community-supported, reverse-engineered solution", then maybe it would be sorta ok. But they don't do that. They foist binary blobs on us, provide poor support, promise big things, never deliver, and actively try to force their programming model on the community as a whole, or require that the community do twice the amount of work to support their hardware. That's an abusive relationship.

Open source graphics stack developers have tried their hardest to fit nvidia into the game not because they care about nvidia, but because they care about their users, who may have nvidia hardware for a vast variety of reasons not entirely under their control, and developers want their stuff to work for their users. Open source developers have been treated so poorly by nvidia that they're finally starting to take the extreme step of deciding not to support people with nvidia hardware. I don't think you appreciate what a big deal that is, to be so fed up that you make a conscious choice to leave a double-digit percentage of your users and potential users out in the cold.

> None of the drivers on my windows and macosx machines are open source. They are all binary blobs.

Not sure how that's relevant. Windows and macOS are proprietary platforms. Linux is not, and should not be required to conform to the practices and norms of other platforms.
If by anybody you include their own customers... Yes.

The case here is driven mostly by Spotify who claim (my paraphrasing) they cannot benefit Apple customers equaly because of Apple restrictive practices and fee model.

You may not have purchased a Apple device with intention to use with Spotify, but others may.

(Now extrapolate the Spotify story to any appmaker who wish to sell to Apple customers)
Yes but look at google now. Full of ads
Thirst for knowledge, status, and hard work, huh? Sure, those count for something. Do you think having had the good luck to win the dotcom boom lottery might count for more?
You mean where they could get the same functionality from a website?
> This "human music" > "ai music" will flip. Suddenly. And it will never flip back.

Already starting to happen with ai lyrics I use for inspiration in creating EDM music ( i.e. https://TheseLyricsDoNotExist.com/ )
Thank you! That's absolutely amazing reading.

Have any of those $250k bounties been paid out? The $40k figure was something I found from a bounty that's actually been paid, rather than a hypothetical one.
> The $600 UI benefits were mostly done as a means of practicality, because our unemployment systems were so out of date to efficiently calculate someone's actual wage.

It wasn't about actual wages, which state unemployment systems already handle just fine. It was that many systems are too difficult to rapidly change to incorporate complex formula adjustments, but a flat +$N is more easily doable.
> No, CDL very clearly outlines 6 different criteria by which it should work.

You've not made any counter claim here. You've left me guessing which criteria you mean to include some type of control, so I'll go through them all.

ensure that original works are acquired lawfully;
This isn't really about controlling anyone but themselves and is also part of what did not appear to happen in the NEL.

lend each digital version only to a single user at a time just as a physical copy would be loaned;
This isn't meaningfully different than maintaining the ratio.

limit the time period for each lend to one that is analogous to physical lending; and
In the absence of maintaining the ratio, the length of duration is meaningless, since the same person can just check out the book again.

use digital rights management to prevent wholesale copying and redistribution.
Again, without maintaining the ratio, what control does this achieve?

>> limit the total number of copies in any format in circulation at any time to the number of physical copies the library lawfully owns (maintain an “owned to loaned” ratio);
> It does not state 1:1, just that some ratio is maintained,

This is a difference without distinction. Sure, they could be loaned at a ratio less than 1, but they cannot, by definition, loan at a ratio greater than one.

> Whether they qualify for the moniker of CDL when not following one of those six criteria is debatable, but notably it's not what we're debating here, which is whether it's accurate to call what they did "uncontrolled" because it was called controlled previously

These are not separate debates. There's context behind the use of the term 'controlled'.
Personally, I much prefer GTK apps over Qt ones. What makes you think that Qt does it better?
X has serious architectural problems. What would it mean to build a completely new windowing API using the extension system, if 'proper use' would mean using exclusively the new extended API? Is that meaningfully different from or better than building a new windowing system (cf wayland) and implementing x11 on top of it (cf xwayland)?

FWIW, I think wayland also has serious architectural problems, and see arcan as much more promising, but rewriting/replacing legacy can definitely be justified. Extension hell is much worse than compatibility hell. If you don't like gtk4's api, then don't use it; gtk3 will continue to work. It's better that an api should be coherent and cohesive than that it should bend over backwards to keep compatibility with ideas that no longer make sense. Obviously, this should be applied within reason—don't do a complete rearchitecture every month—but compatibility breaks are important and necessary.
How many consumers on Android are using the Amazon store?