skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's no way Epic has gotten $175 million dollars of value

This feels pretty subjective. My point was that you were suggesting the App Store is just a card processing gateway. It's significantly more than that.

> Installer infrastructure used to be nearly free.

And viruses and malware were everywhere, and many folks hated using their computers. People forget how far we've come since the days of malfunctioning and virus-riddled PCs being the butt of jokes.

> I absolutely disagree that Apple or Google are providing significant value here

Eh? App review? Literally a general purpose computing platform with close to zero malware / spyware? User satisfaction for iPhone amongst the highest for any consumer product in history.

> The review processes might benefit users

Ah. Yes. That's the core of this I think: Apple cares about Apple, then Apple customers, then developers. Developers seem to care most about developers. Customers seem to care most about customers.

> developers who aren't guaranteed the ability to distribute apps they've invested in

What? If your app conforms to the rules of Apple's app store, you are absolutely able to distribute the app.

> Steve Ballmer wasn't stupid for laughing at the App Store. He just wildly underestimated the stupidity of the average developer.

Tough gig to argue that every single app developer on the app store is stupid and you and Steve Ballmer are the smart ones.

> No one would have taken the App Store deal in the 90s

I want to write this in capital letters: every. Single. Consumer. Would. The app store is better for consumers. It's better to have one trustworthy company (Apple) with my credit card information. It's better to have a simple hardware-based authentication for payments like TouchID or FaceID. It's better to have no malware and spyware. It's better to have apps which don't crash or have showstopping bugs. It's better to have refunds controlled by one predictable entity. All of those things are made possible or significantly easier by the App Store.

> It's absolutely crazy

Crazy might look like dismissing all the huge benefits consumers love because one developer was unwilling to either accept the commission one of their marketplaces charges, or increase their prices to offset it.
On the other hand, those with conditions like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome were relegated to groups like that and it's only been as of late that they've been taken more seriously. We're unfortunately seeing the same thing happen to a lot of legitimate pain patients, as they're easier to dismiss than those with obvious presentations of symptoms.
They might not be familiar with the term walled garden but I've definitely heard the non-tech savvy talk about iPhone being more restrictive.

Even if they don't though, that's a marketing offence not a product one. If there's any government interference needed it's in the form of a mandatory "walled garden" label on the box.
Very very neat. Seriously, spend some time randomly clicking on these dots and checking out these pics.

Some themes that stand out (probably influenced by how much time I spend in New York City for work, at least pre-Covid):

- extremely consistent architectural themes. Almost everything is some variation of the same general pattern.

- there's no trash ... anywhere

- very fun going to corners I spent a lot of time at when I was younger, and recognizing these buildings

Could go on, but there's so much to go through. Kudos to those who put this together.
Yup. You would get a higher percentage of high achieving poor Asian kids. These were the kids held up as model minorities 20 to 30 years ago.
That sounds like such a project should definitely see improvements when using GitOxide. Even in projects of the size of the Linux Kernel checkouts can take time as those only reach about 3000 files per second. You will see only 70% of a single core being busy and a lot of kernel overhead. On my machine, using all the 4 cores, this number can be 7500 when checking out in parallel, something that `gitoxide` is definitely going to do from day one. After all, there is no value in just being as fast as git.

The same applies when checking for changes on disk - right now git does not do that in parallel. These are low hanging fruit that I plan to pick for my own sake.

There is another contributor who is very interested in increasing pack performance, which will directly impact fetch and pull speeds. Judging from my experience with packs thus far, I believe a lot of options are still to be tapped in that field as well. Rust will open it up for contributions and experiments to a greater audience, so I would hope that this will go way beyond of what I can do.

Even though this project is not very contributor friendly right now, I will be working on improving this so more people can join in (see https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide/issues/8).
> Same with containers and Vm's all duplicating a bunch of the same system files. You get isolation and reuse because its done at a lower abstraction.

Deduplication of containers is incredibly coarse-grained -- it's done a whole-layer basis which means that an update to any distribution package in a base image (resulting in a new layer hash when you rebuild on top of it) results in zero sharing between containers based on different versions of the base image. I am actually trying to rectify this problem with the whole OCIv2 effort -- but I wouldn't argue that today's containers make this problem non-existent. To be honest I hesitate to call the current model "deduplication" at all (yes, it might technically be deduplicated but it's not doing it to the degree you think it is).

And note that the page cache sharing you get from containers is also on the file level, so it's strictly no better than shared libraries (since the container filesystems contain shared libraries and that's what's being shared through the page cache).
It definitely can all freeze, -40 (conveniently the same in F and C) is about the point where the trick starts working well, but the effect gets more pronounced as the temperature goes lower.
This is absolutely remarkable.
I was not aware pharma was still a significant part of the PR economy after the IRS Code Section 936 phase out. Thanks for the book suggestion, purchased, looking forward to the read.
Try sending joebiden.info to a friend on Facebook messenger, no seriously, do it right now. The message doesn't get sent. Unbelievable that this is happening in America.

Censoring public posts is one thing, but blocking private messages being sent between friends? I'm speechless that there isn't more furore over this!
Unless you keep using the old version of Firefox, which is still available and still works perfectly.
IIRC Samsung is the author and main contributor to the F2FS filesystem used on many Android devices, so the do contribute, even to low level core functionality.
Alan Kay always said the web should be rendered by itself, but it seems like it would have been a terrible idea. The transition to tablets using alternate widgets (for selection boxes, etc.), gpu acceleration, and many other things would have been way harder to shoehorn in in something that was rasterizing itself.
Although a direct comparison is hard, because most polio cases are believed to be asymptomatic but broad screening is less common.
1: Masks! that seems to work.

2: Physiotherapy? Yoga?

3: there are articles about rehabilitation centers for ex-covid patients, in europe + UK at least.
At the very least, you could use !s (for StartPage) to get Google’s results without the tracking.
It _felt_ real. Disturbing.
Not true if there’s enough competition that you need more resources for a bigger model in 2-3 years. Anecdotally, it seems like SOTA model training costs are rising much faster than computer cost is falling.
It would be relatively trivial to automatically keep the face of the person you're talking to centered around the webcam using face detection. As a person moves in frame, your computer will "pan" to keep them centered.

Four cameras is intriguing, but also expensive and complicated, and will probably have a very rough time with things like eyelashes, edges of hair, different patterns of reflections on the eyeballs, different glare from lighting, etc. Realistic photogrammetry is really hard in practice, and runs the risk of being really uncanny valley.
https://youtu.be/7iCXcCFXAhE
Why does 0 == "foo"?
I think it depends on who you approach. The place I went to in Chengdu was actually owned by a foreigner. You would get measured. Then he sourced fabric from Hong Kong, had the pieces made there, then made second and third fittings in person. Shoes were made locally, with leather sourced from Hong Kong as well.

I'm not sure if it would be possible to order a completely bespoke tailored suit online. If you gave them your measurements, you probably could get a suit, that was semi-tailored (similar to off-the-shelf suits). You'd still need to get final adjustments made. But it still wouldn't be completely fitted 100% to you and your body.
> If anyone at Canonical is listening, you should be aware it doesn't matter how slowly and carefully you approach this, or how you justify it, the first time I'm forced to kiss the ring to get my software to work, your software is gone from any system I own or manage, immediately and forever.

They're taking a look at how Microsoft is slowly doing this with Windows, and following suit.
My point was that the shear inefficiency of low-use single passenger vehicles is expensive but it’s baked into the system so we tend not to notice it. Cars are a significant expense, along with the cost of insurance, maintenance, fuel, parking, taxes to pay for roads & subsidized parking, etc. but it’s so normalized that even if they’re just scraping by most people think of it as an unavoidable necessity.

The problem is that we spent most of the 20th century designing the country around cars, and especially discouraging transit as something generally for poor/brown people. Even in cities which have things like subways, urban design almost always massively prioritized suburban commuters over transit users. People make horrible financial decisions because having a big, late model vehicle is such a social status signal.

The problem is changing that puts us in a prisoner’s dilemma: on an individual level in much of the country it’s best to keep piling your money into a depreciating mostly-idle asset because you need a critical mass of riders for transit to be cost effective. Using things like higher gas taxes to pay for things like road maintenance and pollution remediation can work well but people who are used to being subsidized will complain bitterly as soon as you ask them to pay the true cost for what they use.
Choose Texas, couldn't pay me to choose the pneumonia capital of the world, lol
Oh man, I’ve spent too much time in telemedicine. There’s definitely real value there, but 99% of the challenge is figuring out who’s going to pay for it.

Per-member-per-month with ACOs? Physicians increasing codes and decreasing overhead? Patients paying a premium for better access?

I like that you all are starting specific, and I wish you the best in figuring out your revenue model.
JavaScript style sheets were proposed by Netscape but didn't get any further adoption and were then dropped.

These days it seems that CSS has evolved to support a lot of the features that JSS supported.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets
Vetting is separate from selling. There can be a vetting service that just links to direct downloads. I use stuff like that on my PC all the time. The only reason to lock the obtaining of a product behind the vetting service is to grab money.
This would be a great tool to use in-house for speeding up certain processes.
conflating standardized testing with the rest of that list seems very counterproductive.
> Apart from Quest being a standalone device, it was just an iteration on the original Rift

In that it's a VR device, yes. But it's a standalone headset with Inside Out tracking. Many people didn't think this was possible.

> And it was another company they bought, and I'd be more inclined to give credits to the Occulus team than to Facebook.

A significant amount of FB employees developed this headset. It is Oculus is Facebook now.
Why not Nevada then? The humidity in either is brutal.
It stopped being Big Brother's platform when they sold their first phone to a consumer.
There might not be any state tax, but the property taxes are nuts.
The Thai and Philippines kids aren’t tossed in the same Asian bucket. The Asian bucket is actually the Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Indian kids.

The Asian bucket was better performing even before the latest wave of immigration. However, supposedly that declines with each generation such that by the 3rd generation, there isn’t much of a difference. Perhaps regression to mean?
For a huge amount of people, their phone is their only general computing device.
Oculus Quest was developed by Facebook, not Oculus.
They’re almost all applications now. We lost the fight. There’s zero incentive for a develop to spend more than zero time making a website degrade gracefully today.

I use Gemini (https://gemini.circumlunar.space/) today when I want to enjoy an unscripted Internet. You should check it out - it’s fun! But the web is no longer static HTML, however much I often wish it was.
It was not mentioned in the article, but it seems like there’s also lower inventory on car lots due to the slowdowns and closures of auto plants in the spring.
There's more to rendering than looking at the DOM at static points in time. There's certainly more to accessibility that conveying changes to the dom which may or may not be "visible", or certainly relevant, to the end user.
> Apple controls everything

Epic can walk away and deprive Apple of hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. Epic can increase their prices. Epic can accept the margins.

> I disagree that a person/company that runs a platform is entitled to being able to run the only native app store simply because

It's not "simply because". It's demonstrably a superior experience for consumers.

> Want to know why Apple has set up the App Store in the way that they have? Because it's most beneficial to them that way.

I'm a former Apple employee and I can tell you that this is true insofar as it's beneficial to Apple to not have shitty apps, viruses, and malware on iPhone.
I'm responding to the argument that the service fees pay for the hardware. No, my $1k paid for the hardware.
1. Are you suggesting masks as a cultural norm for all eternity? I hope not.

I'm talking about sustainable permanent changes. I like contactless takeout, like Little Caesar's pizza portal as one example.

2. Neither of those are for infections per se.

3. Thanks. I will look for such, but it probably sucks if the past 55 years of my life is anything to judge by.
My experience is DDG results are ok, I only use g! on porn searches sometimes. I dont miss google search at all.
It would be good to correlate that question with "what percentage of solo founders successfully raise". Because that would affect how many cross the $50M revenue mark as well.

As a solo founder I've been told many times by VCs that they will invest in solo founders but then when you look at their portfolio it tells a misleading story. Most of their solo founders are previous founders or rockstars e.g. someone like Justin Kan.
"Google prohibitions on bloatware hurt bloatware deal, claims bloatware vendor"
I know that decimate is a colloquialism nowadays but I feel like a publication should know better. Unless Google asked for ten percent of the proceeds or something, as a headline it makes absolutely no sense.
What are your requirements? Any chance of staying in the US?
RIP the OG dead pixel
I'm eagerly looking forward for union-types since I heard first of them.

PHP APIs (both core and frameworks) suffer greatly from inconsistency. Union types in function/method signatures can greatly help static analysis. It is great that PHP gets this built in.
In my time in the embedded world we would reorder fields to deal with issues like alignment in MIPS. If you wanted to avoid this you would have to use a directive like __attribute__((packed)). Does go allow you do do the same?

So I used to do things like this (hopefully the formatting is correct):

~/Desktop$ cat test1.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

// Original Ordering
struct stats {
uint8_t NumPosts;
uint16_t Reach;
uint8_t NumLikes;
};

// Packed struct
struct stats_packed {
uint8_t NumPosts;
uint16_t Reach;
uint8_t NumLikes;
} __attribute__((packed));

// Reordered
struct stats_reordered {
uint8_t NumPosts;
uint8_t NumLikes;
uint16_t Reach;
};

int main(){
printf("sizeof(struct stats) = %ld\n", sizeof(struct stats));
printf("sizeof(struct stats_packed) = %ld\n", sizeof(struct stats_packed));
printf("sizeof(struct stats_reordered) = %ld\n", sizeof(struct stats_reordered));
return 0;
}
~/Desktop$ gcc test1.c && ./a.out
sizeof(struct stats) = 6
sizeof(struct stats_packed) = 4
sizeof(struct stats_reordered) = 4
If you think we could get this right in C (48 years old) and C++ (35 years old), don't you think we would have done it by now? :-)
> does it produce a meaningfully better class than if they used a simple score cutoff?

It depends on the goal. Is it to produce the best possible set of mathematicians, etc, at graduation? Or is it to pick the candidates that are the most likely to benefit the current network of alum and their sphere of influence? If its the latter, a simple cutoff is a terrible idea.
> Right now PHP 8 is in feature freeze, meaning no new features can be added anymore.

> Starting with new features, remember that PHP 8 is still in active development, so this list will grow over time.

Something doesn't seem right here :)
yeah, I might have misread that . There was the interview with Mr Topol in the Nautilus link earlier on here that mentioned 10% to 80% suffer from Long COVID, so I searched and found this article.

However, there is anecdata that non-hospitalized patients also suffer from Long COVID as seen in this thread.

I would be interested in more broad exploration of the real scale of this aspect of the illness.
Yeah.

I'm hoping at some point (even if 30 years from now) there is testing for pretty much every flu/cold/etc. I wouldn't be surprised if having an ordinary flu causes future medical problems (or an increase chance of future medical problems) in a way that may be small enough now it is not detectable.
That article mentions publishers but not Nintendo specifically at all AFAICT. Is Nintendo considered a publisher?
What made it 'real' was the actual speech itself. It would have been hard to 'fake' that.

The 3 minutes of 'intro blast off' (that could have been 10 seconds) and the Flash-like landing page are really problematic.
What would people in Jamaica designate a person in mixed Indian and Jamaican descent, take that and add American. That’s the answer. Someone whose parents are from Ghana would be Ghanaian-American, rather than African American. Traditionally African American is for black Americans of African descent that were brought to US via the slave trade. The same way a white Uruguayan isn’t called european American but Uruguayan-American.
Apple boots Fortnite from the App Store after Epic adds direct payments
I don't play Fornite. Can you access your same character/account on other platforms? (can you switch to PC or PS4)?
The typical concerns that come with dynamic DOM manipulation....
yes, and no, I don't see any gauges for battery percentage remaining, throttle level, anything like that. The equivalent to an instrument cluster on a power boat.
Im curious what hosted software does really good invoice recognition? (eg roger.ai)
Presumably with better verification techniques that don't result in voter suppression, like signature "verification".
Have you looked at the super charger network in the US? It’s pretty dang good.
This may have been the straw that broke the camel's back for me. It's looking more and more like trying to restructure and return to their mission the powers that be at mozilla are killing most of the things that make it great in hopes of a few remaining things will keep it afloat a while longer while they stuff their bank accounts as the nonprofit whithers on the vine.
In the current era of resume-driven development, Javascript SPA blobs make me angry but I find it hard to fault the dev team for drinking the kool aid.

I'll read the author's content because they probably had zero input into choosing the backend.
Proposed California wealth tax could become first of its kind in the U.S.
What's wild to me as how little has changed. I lived on Mulberry at Canal for a long time, the builds for all intents and purposes are exactly same buildings. After that I lived on Ainslie at Lorimer in Brooklyn, again, buildings are for the most part, the same. Then I moved to Union and Ainslie, this is the only area that has changed substantially, most of the buildings at this intersection have been totally demolished to make way for new condos, but the buildings between the condos and on the smaller side streets are pretty much the same. I always knew this when I lived in New York, but looking at it this way is quite visceral.
Study category theory if you would like to understand "monads are just monoids in the category of endofunctors."

Study the flatMap function if you would like to apply category theory to life. A monad is just an object with a sensible flatMap method.
The effect of AA on these universities is that they gradually lose their prestige amongst the population they discriminate against. Supposedly amongst the Asian population, UCB is held in as high a regard as Stanford. UCB was mandated by law to not discriminate by race. Stanford could do so.
> 1. Are you suggesting masks as a cultural norm for all eternity? I hope not.

Well in some Asian cultures it was already normalized to wear a mask when you have any kind of symptoms of anything contagious. I was hoping that convention would move west even before this pandemic happened -- so I hope it stays with us.
I am not interested in competing with libgit2, and have no plans in adding and maintaining C-bindings to the project. This doesn't mean, however, that other parties couldn't maintain them out-of repo at first, and once things stabilize, it just makes sense to make them part of an organization that maintains it along with the project. After all, C-bindings open it up to be used in interpreters, which might be especially interesting for users of `GitPython`. It has been around for a decade and is definitely in for an alternative (I am the author and maintainer of that one, too).
I moved back to Austin, Texas when this all started. Family, breakfast tacos and more living space were all factors.
I've taken courses is probability and topology where the power set is used, and am intimately familiar with it, but I have no idea what you're talking about
Should your monitor and hard drive companies take a cut of every software purchase you make? Nvidia?
There's no push notification support, no background sync, offline support isn't good, they're wiping storage after 7 days, etc.

There isn't a defined spec sure, but they idea is to give Web Apps somewhat equal footing with native apps while having potential be more secure being tied to browser sandboxing, extensions, settings, etc. This doesn't appear to be in Apple's goals given those missing features. You can see devs begging for push notifications for years--and it works on desktop Safari.

At work, this is the specific feature we want above everything else in our PWA experience. Apple's been reluctant to say the least to allow repackaged Web Apps in their store, but can you blame developers when features like this are missing but present?
"to kill, destroy, or remove large parts of" is the modern usage.

the usage is hyperbolic; it is not nonsensical.
That is probably not true on average. Wealth correlates with intelligence especially when there is less discrimination.
Coolangatta, Queensland - Australia. World famous surf spots + easy going lifestyle + affordable real estate by the beach.