skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what you mention are real pain points, though from my experience they actually were a lot simpler than locking info away in some external tool. there is very little additional cognitive cost with adr's and from what I've experienced they add other value too such as a record of why things were done which saves a lot of time when you're ramping up and onboarding new team members who have a tendency to discuss why things are done in a specific way and not another. when used correctly they're not just another thing to take care of but an actual time saver (have personally avoided many meetings by simply pointing new people to them - and they have the benefit of structuring and capturing the architecture discussions in a central place right next to your code ... (if the git log history isn't enough for us we use gitlab comments on changes the same way we would use it on code). it's brilliant because it's so simple imo.
I would be satisfied if they would allow you to charge a premium to use IAP instead of forcing all pricing to be the same (even though they take a big cut of the IAP).
Kind of a complicated assertion here:

The investigation also found that Yale uses race as a factor in multiple steps of the admissions process and that Yale “racially balances its classes.”

The Supreme Court has ruled colleges and universities may consider race in admissions decisions but has said that must be done in a narrowly tailored way to promote diversity

If they're "racially balancing" their classes, that does sound like it is a narrowly tailored way to promote diversity in their classes. Whether or not that's actually a noble or appropriate goal is a different question, but it sounds like it's allowed...

Of course the definition of "balance" here is tricky. Corresponding ratios to the overall racial balance of the country? The state? Overall racial balance of all applicants? Of all alumni?
Suggested name: Crap Store.
I really have to marvel at how well planned this whole series of events is. This wasn't some knee jerk move by Epic, it is calculated and very well executed.
Guess my response to all that is to roll my eyes and walk away. Cynicism is boring.
That's non-responsive to my question.
So in a way you could say that the friction resulting from engaging the generator has byproducts of both electricity and dust, rather than just dust produced by disc brakes? And that since the energy required to stop in both cases should be equivalent, it must mean less dust when using the generator, because the electricity subtracts from it?
There is - buy the more popular, larger market share Android phone and your problem is solved.
The whole point of antitrust law is that the normal mechanisms of the free market cannot correct the situation in whole or in part as a result of the anti-competitive activities.
I’m a developer and I don’t want alternate apps stores making the developer and customer experience more complicated, less secure and more confusing, all in hopes someone might charge me significantly lower fees.

Google Play is proof that lower fees isn’t going to benefit devs. No third party store has been able to use lower fees to take any significant market share.
I wouldn't use Congress as an example, as both houses have been elected by popular vote since the seventeenth amendment. Slippery slope in action...
Fortnite's maker is suing Apple after the game was removed from its App Store
Yet, it was claimed in the grandparent, that "Once you start depending on platform features, in my experience, the portability of Rust is superior" (because of no #ifdef crud and library versions and whatnot).

Maybe what it really means is that "once you start depending on platform features, the portability of Rust to a handful of mainstream platforms which have all those features in slightly varying flavors is cleaner due to some layering".

You don't have annoyances like, oh, foo_t requires <sys/types.h> on this platform, but on that other one it was already exposed in <stdlib.h>.
It could, but how do we as consumers benefit from allowing dominant vendors to tie completely unrelated aspects of functionality together? Security and utility are not terms in a zero-sum equation.
Interesting. Does your ability to download past updates mean you'll be able to download future ones though?

There's no doubt in my mind epic are using the they are stopping you playing argument - they literally say in the advert it's been blocked from a billion devices.

I mean if that statement is technically not true then don't you think it's propoganda?

Edit: I shouldn't have said technically not true but that they are being very economical with the truth.
Timing, I'm guessing.

>The Justice Department had previously filed court papers siding with Asian American groups who had levied similar allegations against Harvard University.
Apple only has 24% share of devices

Microsoft ruled desktops

If this were Target or Walmart, people wouldn’t be beefing at how they choose to stick their shelves

“Let’s equivocate over how this should feel different!”

Let’s stop ogling corporations altogether maybe.

It’s all the paying attention to how they might be screwing you specifically in the context of money markets distracting from how the current admin is giving trillions away to buddies to manipulate markets in the old way you quit paying attention to with plain old corruption.

Too boring! Let’s wax poetic about Apples slight to social correctness!
Y-yes, basically. I think it's worth mentioning CFPB regularly fines businesses and debt collectors for illegal 'TOS', as certain aspects of TOS are regulated for consumer protection. Similarly goes for HIPAA protections on healthcare provider data.
MacKenzie Bezos Writes Amazon Review for Jeff Bezos Biography
If trans-genderism is accepted, is there room for trans-racialism? ie a person born Asian but identifies as black and puts so on their college application?
As I’m sure you know if you’ve worked in this area, there’s a vast grey area between “legitimate transfer” and “money laundering”. At least in the US.

Even with every best intention in the world, it was enough to keep me multiple years ago from starting a business that might have been both beneficial to society and profitable to me. Money laundering laws favor huge corporations and serve as barriers to entry for small, disruptive, often consumer-friendly businesses. As your description implicitly concedes, you need lengthy access to very expensive lawyers to operate in this area, not to mention the cost of other compliance measures.

Like the rest of the drug war, such laws have been a huge net negative for society.
DOJ: Yale 'illegally discriminates' against White and Asian students
Perhaps. It seems it’s still an open question whether AI is just about memorizing your data, or can it actually make reliable decisions during previously unseen scenarios.

Have we already observed, or collected, all that is possible in the “driving” world?
There has never been equal opportunity. This is clear. The reasons why opportunity has not been equal is becoming more clear, regardless which side of the nature versus nurture debate you fall on. Equal outcome should not be the goal (test scores and grades are not the best nor only indicator the likelihood of success). The goal should be equal access.
Compiling stack based language into x86 assembly using OCaml
It's pre-modern thought, not "post-modern" really. It's not even anti-West or anything, just anti-modernity and against progress. After all, "the West" used to be just as free of rationality and scientific ways of knowing as any other ("indigenous" or otherwise) culture. Paganism, witchcraft and witch-hunts, "the occult" and the like are in fact part of this pre-modern legacy.
Republicans hate the poor and yet are so willing to create more of them.
That's a pretty big straw man argument. If Apple said all apps have to pay a 95% cut and all customers have to pay $20/mo to use Internet on their phones then they'd nearly instantly lose massive market share and the backlash would be so severe that they'd never regain that market share. In other words; they'd never do that.
The usual answer is that people who buy the phones must think it’s ok, otherwise they’d buy a competitor’s phone.

And of course opinions differ on the good and bad aspects of their policies.

It’s not like all the competitors who are complaining are ‘fair’ in any particular way.

Also, your description fits a department store, or Amazon, or pretty much any other store for that matter.

All store owners get to stock what they want, charge what they want, and give their own products advantages.

If your argument is that no store should be able to do these things, then that seems like a reasonable position to hold.

Perhaps we do need to overhaul the notion of marketplaces and intermediaries in general. That seems like a relevant idea to explore.

The people arguing about monopolies are saying that everyone else should be allowed to do these things, but not Apple because they have too much power.
Anyone in that boat will see much greater benefit from alternatives which don't cost a significant fraction of their annual income. Investing in transit and bike infrastructure saves many thousands of dollars a year and improves health outcomes for everyone.
Not to mention that the transition to Apple Silicon will lead to the total integration of the Mac App Store into the iOS store, so these policies are going to merge at some point and literally apply to general computers too
I'm not surprised! It seems like a reasonable option for those who have no initial capital to pay for their lease.

But for those who come with capital ready, it can be a horrible deal. Being made to accept that option when you don't need it means you end up wasting much more money than you otherwise would.

Same happens in the app store, in its absence of an option between these methods.
Why the hell does the URL have "love--sex" in it?
It's crazy how he won't respond to you know, since people purposely keep saying that Apple is not a monopoly, and when someone shares a stat where Apple has around 50% marketshare, then they just disappear in the ground.
"Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California"

In case anyone was as confused as I was about what a16z means - it's just the company not a new abbreviated term related to AI.
I imagine it defaults to off and the top results recommend the Control-Shift-U<Unicode codepoint> because otherwise people switching from Windows would complain. It’s my understanding that on Windows typing these characters involves holding down Alt while typing arbitrary Windows-specific numbers on your number pad (What happens if you don’t have one? I’ve no idea!) — or more intuitively, opening a new browser tab, Googling the name of the character, copying it with a keyboard shortcut or context menu (I hate leaving X11 and not being able to simply highlight text and middle click to paste!), and pasting.

All distros I've seen allow you to choose a keyboard layout (and I think at least usually AltGr) at first boot, and I imagine this is how most people using primarily non-English type quickly, on any OS. I personally just use a little WM/DE agnostic script to make capslock useful and add a Compose key:

#!/bin/sh
setxkbmap -option caps:super
xcape -e 'Super_L=Escape'
setxkbmap -option compose:sclk

... and ‘xcape -e 'Shift_L=Multi_key'’ to make tapping Shift work as Compose (xcape is installed by a little bootstrapping script I run when I clone my dotfile repo). But this is better for me because I mostly use Compose for little things like curling my apostraphes (Compose + < or > + ' or " → ‘,’,“, or ”), not so many characters that it needs to be perfectly fast. I don’t have a monitor set-up that’s nonstandard in anything but aspect ratio, or use native apps I don’t trust (like Snaps), so I’ve never had a use for Wayland.

[EDIT] No problem, you’re welcome!
I've had the best experience ever since I ditched Google for DDG on my phone, and stuck Reddit on (old) desktop mode with a text wrapping browser. Don't miss Google at all, I only now use it to search for programming stuff.
I'm not convinced it was ever something they wholeheartedly supported -- I suspect it was more of a hedge than anything. The Steam Machine hardware project, which was their big Linux push, wound down around 2016.
Antitrust law is not just about monopolies, it is about anticompetitive business practices. Monopolistic behavior is just one type of antitrust concern.
Other discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24146987

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24148204

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24148548

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24147486

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24146987
It's become increasingly common for desktop applications to aggressively and/or automatically update themselves the same way the OS does, often without even having to go through a "wizard" prompt of any kind. Off the top of my head Chrome, Firefox, VSCode, and Slack (probably my four most-used non-system applications) automatically update themselves whenever I restart them (and prompt me to do so when applicable).

Not to mention the fact that an increasing fraction of consumer-facing software now lives in the browser, where updating implicitly happens every time you go to use it.

Regardless of how you feel about these trends, they make out-of-date applications much less of a concern than they used to be.
Personally I avoid any corporation claiming to be the <famous company> of the <different field>, since that implies they are unable to succeed on their own merits.
> One could argue that you bought your PC and the Windows license that comes with it because it's general purpose. And you would have paid less money if you knew it was going to lock you in.

And in fact Microsoft tried this (both with Windows RT and Windows 10 S) and in both cases few people bought in (or, in some cases, wound up 'confused' that other software wouldn't run, leading to the eventual sunsetting of Windows 10 S).

I do think both sides have reasonable arguments, but at the same time 'computing' has become ubiquitous, and Smartphones arguably even more so. Personally, I think we are in a weird state when we consider historical context; once upon a time, remember that GM would in fact make moves to ensure they did not get too much market share. I can't remember the number but I think they didn't want to go over 59%.

Of course you COULD have more market share even back then, but it also typically resulted in a lot more government oversight and willingness for the government to intervene in situations like this (thinking about Modems and Ma Bell here...)

IMO Google sidesteps the problem by not having a lot of 'handset' market share. (Also, perhaps more controversial to state, but their compliance with LE/Intelligence agencies probably allows more things to be ignored.)

I just don't know what to say anymore. Apple (and, dare I say, to a greater extent, Google) are doing the sorts of things that absolutely landed Microsoft in court and caused microsoft to make a number of decisions that kneecapped them in the first decade of the 2000s. It's been happening for years, and yet we are only now seeing enough people agreeing that we can talk about it without getting shouted down.
What about when your computer is on Apple Silicon, and the stores (and their policies) have been merged?
A lot of people want a product like this, or at least think they do, and many have also attempted to build parts of this. The issue, of course, with this product is that there is no evidence of a product nor an ability to assess it in abstract of a sales person presumably emailing you.

Questions I think would be important to answer:

- What types of queries are supported?

- Does data size or update frequency have performance implications?

- Is discovery embedded in this product?

- Is it available on-prem or only as an API?

- What are the data security guarantees?

- What workflows are easy to do in the UI?

- Does this support alerting on queries?

I could go on, but I think the point is made. There’s a reason a lot of data tooling companies use a freemium model — users want to feel the system before investing in it, maybe only reaching out when they’re ready to load test.
I've already seen people jokingly use the term "schrodinger's minority" to refer to Asian's and Indians. They're excluded from minority statistics when trying to push for more diversity hires, but included in minority statistics when trying to show how many succesful businesses are run by minorities.
Remember when The College Board was developing an "adversity score" but then dropped it in the face of criticism?

I honestly wish we would just do that. We would actually have something quantitative instead of vague generalizations about "personality". The methodology could be scrutinized, and centralized (instead of every college coming up with its own special formula), and we could stop talking about this every X months.
Do you want equal opportunity for everyone? Is "equal access" a synonym for equal opportunity or do you have something else in mind?
Man, I've been frustrated when I see that story recently; it reads like a bad caricature of what a lot of good movements are trying to accomplish. In reality the goal (though not always perfectly executed of course) is always about raising people up, not tearing people down (like the handicaps in the story)
You might be interested in https://www.shadertoy.com/
Seems like this statement might need a little support to make its point without being inflammatory, or worse inaccurate.

edit: typo
There is a term for that.... I think it's either it's "abuse of dominance" or "anti-competitive behavior"
You can't drink from that fountain because you're Black. You can't go to that university because you're Asian.

Both looks like plain old racism to me.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24149352
I really think Brendan Eich would have done an excellent job had he been given a chance.

After all, as much as there are complaints about Brave, he managed to make a legitimately well known contender from scratch in a world that already has seen many other browser attempts go nowhere (and of course, he in some form created and grew Firefox).

Of course, "cancel culture" means you have to throw out someone from being CEO, even if that means the whole internet will suffer greatly, because he had a different opinion than whatever was woke.

Which is a shame, because the net loss to everyone is much much much greater than the $1000 dollars he gave as a donation, even if it is acceptable to destroy someone's life because they have a opinion that disagrees with yours.
Like it or not, U.S. law doesn't seem to hinge on what one user personally depends on or feels is essential.
>Android allows developers to integrate Stripe and take customer's credit cards and bypass the 30% cut.

You are completely wrong.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/9/21003553/google-play-stor...
No, they never have. iPhone hardware has basically been AAPL’s biggest cash cow with margins around 50%
What if you want better privacy than what the App Store can provide, like F-Droid? On iOS, you're currently out of luck.
Right, but there’s no non-security-vulnerability way to jailbreak. If jailbreaking was as easy as `adb oem unlock`, no one would need to use any security issues to jailbreak.
As an asian, I've already been told by a colleague to check my privilege...nevermind my skin color is darker than most blacks in the US.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24149352
I get their desire to have the fight be a fair one instead of Epic rallying its positively massive fanbase to suddenly start viewing Apple as the bad guy... but I also don't think it'll be that relevant to the court case. Both companies have the best lawyers money can buy, I'm sure they'll be able to throw out any "but think of the fans, look how mad they are" accusations.
It's easy to say that now, we being adults long out of high school. Do you really expect a high schooler to understand that? I sure as hell didn't back then (my guidance counselor strongarmed me into a curriculum specifically around meeting UC and CSU requirements, despite me having nowhere near the GPA to get into any such school), and thus admission into a 4-year university was an extrinsic motivator that seemed unrealistic and was therefore ineffective.
Is Yale an outcome or an opportunity?
The “resurgence of cases” in these other countries are less than 1 per 10k. Florida has been having 30-40 per 10k.

It isn’t binary. All economies will take a hit. But if the US was doing 30x better then the economy would be better.

And if there is any seasonality at all the Fall could get quite a lot worse and make the economy worse than it already is.
This is exactly what Microsoft did with the first surface tablet running arm. The original plan was to go all in, but the backlash and support the. Was so bad they dropped the effort going into Windows 10.
In that case, we simply need to publish all lectures online free of charge.
Here's the full quote: "We now see this multi-system, inflammatory condition can be fatal for kids, who average 8 years old. Almost 2 percent of the kids diagnosed with COVID-19 in the United States have died from it, and the majority of them wind up in an ICU in a hospital. We see it in some adults. It’s debilitating, not requiring hospitalization, but they have difficulty breathing and joint aches—which are really telling—chest pain, and other symptoms that affect brain function."

It looks like a typo. It should say "Almost 2 percent of the kids diagnosed with MIS-C in the United States have died from it"

Edit: I just realized the first comment in the article has exactly the same suggestion
Source for the "personality" language? In everything I've seen from US universities, they justify race-based admissions policies primarily with language about "diversity".
Lots of soapboxing in the comments here.

The Justice Dept made the exact same allegations against Harvard, and last year a Federal Judge found that Harvard was constitutionally in the clear.

SCOTUS has said that race can be narrowly used in admissions to promote diversity, which Yale says they are doing. The fact that the Justice Department wants Yale to cease all uses of race in admissions (despite this interpretation) is suspect.
Covid-19 might be a major challenge for the society, but individual risks for younger people wothout health issues are still small, at least based on the knowledge we currently have. I am afraid the attitudes described in the article are more due to uninformedness and normal parental anxiousness than anything rational.
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