skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If different varieties of potatoes grow differently at different latitudes (I don't know, I'm not an expert), then it doesn't really matter how productive a crop the potato is.

The introduction of the potato reshaped Europe and boosted European population by 25%. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xROmDsULcLE

> The Inca didn't have horses, only llamas. Horses were militarily very important.

The horse is a valuable animal given a favorable terrain. But with elevations such as the Andes, a horse is not as useful. And wheels are a similar story.

Horses were useless in the Battle of Ollantaytambo, where the Inca used terraces to their advantage, but proved very useful in the defense of Lima (a coastal city) against the forces of general Quizquiz.

> After initially being defeated, acquiring guns, steel, and horses from the Spanish and then rebelling against them.[1]

The Mapuche did not "acquire" guns or steel. They could not manufacture them, but they became aware of them and developed techniques against them.

They knew harquebuses were not waterproof, and if they would prefer to engage during rainy weather. They knew that trying to pierce through steel was ineffective, so they prefered to stun.

They also became aware of the usage of cattle and they frequently raided cattle and set structures on fire.
Well I just want to stop you right there and say that I have sinned and written diffs by hand, and what’s more they were for a sendmail.cf, and if this conjures visions of a cantankerous sandal-wearing Unix admin then so be it
yeah my 12 yr old son just got this pop up on his phone.
His response was "not cool Gov.." I had to explain that the situation is actually more complicated than that and he shouldn't trust one source for the truth.

I think he's starting to understand that there is no good guy here.
Never heard of it either, but the homepage provides some info:

> GraphicsMagick is originally derived from ImageMagick 5.5.2 as of November 2002 but has been completely independent of the ImageMagick project since then.
20 Billion in 2018, but I read that in a similar thread here and sadly can't remember the source anymore
Insync is outstanding (https://www.insynchq.com/). It's better than the native Google Backup and Sync and works in Linux with multiple desktop variants. It also syncs MS OneDrive. One time purchase. It works great.
A lot of products use the Swiss flag because of this.
So what do the employees do when the startups go out of business in a year or two?
Edit: note that this point is unfair to the original comment it’s responding to, which was repeating the argument of the article—the point should stand against the article, not the parent.

Eh be careful of talking about capitalism in terms of it being “created” it perpetuates one of the old lies of capitalism: that it is an inherently rational system (in your formulation, a designed one).

Capitalism grew organically out of evolving practices around markets and trade and redoubled and reinvigorated itself through works of economic theorists like Smith, who argued it was “rational” because of certain of its properties. However it is important we get away from this notion of capitalism being somehow a “rational” thing since it has bred profound economic irrationality through the inequitable distribution of resources, leading to irrationality in other spheres as everything is reduced to abstract exchanges (see climate change)

Edit: This criticism also applies to the OP article, which also falls under the spell of representing capitalism as some sort of intentioned system.
While the above case is (arguably) crime. In general crime is unrelated to this issue.

As for licensing: totally agreed. I would like to see more projects with protective licensing.

Too many projects are basically donations to Amazon.
It's the fact when you get large enough and force things that are considered unrealistic or anti competitive platform it becomes an issue. This isn't new to American business. It evolves. It use to be oil, steel, ATT, Microsoft.. Now it's Apple. Tech is long over due for a overhaul only a matter of time until some politician uses it to add a feather to their cap. 30% cut of a sale of a mature economy is just crazy.
> liable to get personally targeted for nation state level attacks

Groups also potentially at risk:

* Targets for industrial espionage (you might not be interesting but your employer is)

* Those believed to hold larger amounts of cryptocurrency
It has much to do with the outcome. A surgeon can use a knife to save someone's life, a thug could use a knife to rob someone of their possessions.
I didn't realize LA reached quite that far away, but you're right. amazing.
He wrote emacs
I used to use Pro so I could use NFS with Windows.
Everyone deals with these type of customers. Product sellers, repair shops and yes that already includes Apple. And even if Apple was currently magically immune why do people want to protect the most profitable company in the world from something everyone else deals with?
The line between company and customers is now blurred due to a lot of people being shareholders.

As such, the feedback from customers to companies that is part of the “invisible handle of the market” is now distorted.
Once when I wanted to take a ferry, the only way to buy a ticket was through android / iOS app. Many times you need 2fa app including for work, or to access government services or online banking. Some stores only accept mobile payment.
Those all do well-defined, well-understood things; they could be replaced relatively easily, and subjectively they "feel" pretty solid. ImageMagick is a complex thing full of subjectively flaky perl and it's not at all clear which things are and aren't supported by it. I'm a lot more worried about ImageMagick breaking than any of the things you list.
Just to add my 2c, having written sharejs and sharedb and working on and off on OT systems for the past 10 years or so:

After playing with a simple implementation of Martin Kleppmann’s newest automerge work, I was wrong to doubt CRDTs. I’m seeing about 6M ops / second in a prototype text engine in rust. I have much more to say on this - probably a blog post more to say. But I think CRDTs are the future for many workloads, and I have a strong sense of despair seeing how much time I’ve wasted investing in approaches which won’t feature strongly in the future.

Automerge is really good.
Is it simple to find out what category Apple is importing iPhones under in various places? I had a quick search but not hitting anything relevant.
I like the book as well as the 3 part documentary with the same name. I think it presents a fair perspective of world history.

I agree with the author, 99%.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Engineering%20Failover%20Handl...
See Washington Post coverage: "Apple cuts off Epic from its tools, endangering future Unreal Engine projects on iOS and Mac".[1]
There's a certain amount of posturing here, but if neither side backs down and the court doesn't issue an injunction, further development with Unreal Engine on Apple platforms stops.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/08/17/apple-...
in catalina it's a total pain now, I stopped using a lot of software because of it
How would Apple's policies be illegal? Epic entered a contractual agreement with Apple and then knowingly and intentionally broke it in order to benefit themselves.
> cow farts

It's ironic because the way to build topsoil and reverse desertification (which captures carbon) is just well managed grazing.
Price Fixing Caused America's Canned Tuna Industry to Go Belly Up
Ask HN: Where are you moving to? (US only)
Assuming you want to take advantage of the generous remote-work policies and escape the high costs of Silicon Valley / Seattle / NYC, where are you moving (or planning to move to? And what factors make that destination attractive to you?

Asking for a friend ;)
It's not possible in the settings app anymore.
Nope, but I'm happy to tell you that C/C++ projects in general have more security flaws than high level languages.
Well, from me it wasn't a strong compulsion. However, for many reasons (especially about privacy) we ought not to implement 5G. And this wasn't an article about some conspiracy--it was from an expert who is advising we tread cautiously about what we do not know, and that is very good advice.

I don't think anyone can confirm or deny that 5G carries health risks. But, we do have evidence there are health risks with other cellular communication technologies, and we ought to use that as a basis for decision making.
That's very impressive. Someone should take that rig out into the desert and see what turns up.
> There's a lot of space in Montana, Wyoming, the Dakaotas, and we'll need more space for population there as we have to migrate north.

The problem with the states you mention is that they're also very dry. Water will be the resource issue of the 21st century (it already is becoming so); the place you want to be looking is the Great Lakes area (and, probably, specifically within the drainage basin of the Great Lakes so you don't run afoul of the interstate water compact).
>Bitcoin miners are so stupidly single purpose that development there doesn't help much.

I would say there's a second piece here, too, which is that to the extent that it's driving any sort of research into more efficient practices, it's only in response to constraints of bitcoins own making, and there's every intention to immediately use up new capacity with additional bitcoin mining. What could have been an external net benefit to humanity will just be absorbed into the same things that absorbed prior capacity.

I don't want to run all the way with that thought, though, because it can be the case that there's a net benefit to humanity nevertheless. But it makes me think of how Keynes promised that future efficiencies would bring a utopia in the form of dramatically scaling back the need to toil to fulfill basic needs and comforts, how that wasn't necessarily wrong, and how we ended up not taking that path just the same.
Using macros for generic structures in C
Scientists see signs of lasting immunity to Covid-19, even after mild infections
Not the only comic that puts a bonus in the img tag alt text—I think Wondermark does, and I wanna say that at one time SMBC did that and had the red-button extra panel, both, and it may still. I always check for it when I find a new webcomic, now.
Yes, and when Microsoft was found to be abusing their monopoly position, they faced antitrust suit and lost. Epic thinks the same is now true of Apple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
Ask HN: Is there an Android/Browser build that can pollute data per app basis
I am interested in this concept of privacy by data pollution.

Is there an Android build that can easily switch between fake and real data from its API's for the App to consume.

Use-cases :
Winix Air filter app : Has no reason to need location info, yet app won't even open w/o giving it this info.

Same logic for browser if such a thing exists.

Some examples :
https://github.com/essandess/isp-data-pollution

https://noiszy.com/#how-it-works
I use imagemagick to split spritesheets into single images for games that I make[0]. More than 1 gamedev has saved countless of hours thanks to it, so I 100% hope it never breaks.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/ldd/9b576bb6f0ac99a0a7895eaf1aae7802
never use absolutes on the internet.

(it's kind of funny how you can make a seemingly airtight argument about something common-sense and non-controversial and have some weird imposs.. improbable corner case unravel everything)
If I'm not mistaken I think MLB Advanced Media used it for a time, as well.
Loved it! Brings back fond memories of playing Zelda as a child.
Unironically there should be alternatives for those platforms, and the Switch
CTemplar – Encrypted, Anonymous and Secure Email
> For phone injuries it is usually a faulty part at fault.

Then Apple should have no issues selling good parts for repair but they are not doing that as well.
What gives you that idea?

When my Macbook battery ballooned up on me I just replaced it myself. It's not hard at all and can be done in 15 minutes, I have no idea why people in tech take their machines to repair places to do it.
Wouldn't it be REALLY interesting if Unity stood by Epic?

i.e. if Epic is forced to stop making games, Unity will no longer support our engine on Mac either.

This I think would put a huge dent in games on the Mac platform. I wonder if Apple would change their mind?
I have an old Sun netra. I occasionally compile software on it just for testing. It's the only real big-endian system I have anymore. It sounds like a jet getting ready to take off, so I don't run it much.
I am glad I can express my opinions on HN and I am ok with downvotes as far as people don't flag me for disagreeing (but ok to flag if I violate HN rules).

I stand by what I think makes sense, what my conscience tells me and based on the evidence of data, experience and perspective.

Without people challenging the status quo, generating healthy discussion, we would have a massive echo chamber. I don't feel offended by downvotes.
> My uninformed, personal guess is that Epic isn't conceptualizing this as a legal fight; I bet they think of this as a PR fight where the lawsuit is part of their PR narrative trying to get Apple to back down on their take. As a pure legal fight this doesn't strike me as a strong hand, but as a part of a larger PR fight... who knows. They may be trying to create a position to negotiate a settlement from.

IDK. The jaded part of me asks whether Tencent pulled some strings here; a US company with Mindshare (Epic) is a better looking actor than the swaths of shovelware publishers that would stand to benefit from the long-term effects of a victory here.
> The "instructors" there are given explicit instruction not to advise anyone and just get them to listen to the tapes (which are very much steeped in religious Buddhism). So anyone who's struggling, in a weird mindstate, and unsure what's happening to them, and goes to a course leader for advice, won't get any advice other than to buckle down and listen to the tapes, and that often results in misapplying the technique, buckling down too hard, and not relaxing enough, which can cause the mind to... snap, I guess.

That depends on the 'Assistant Teacher' that is running the course. Maybe some are more willing than others to riff on Goenka's teachings, but from what I've seen most ATs have been willing to give their time to the students. I believe, there are actually other ordained 'Teachers' that tour at the Goenka schools, presumably with their own take on things.

> that isn't usually disclosed to people, there isn't much informed consent. The people who are seeking that usually know what they're getting into.

It's right their in the discourses. And though discouraged, students can leave at any time. Also, to be fair, they do ask each student probing questions about mental state, medications etc. before giving permission to enter the course. I stated that I took alcohol at most once a week, and this was enough concern for them to ask me to clarify. The last thing they need during a silent course is someone losing the plot, or going into withdrawls.
> Consciousness comes indirectly into quantum mechanics through the measurement postulate. You have to assume something special about measurement which breaks unitarity. Not all physicist are convinced, but it is the traditional way quantum mechanics is taught (all of the "transition probabilities" are really measurement probabilities). The problem is that you can't tell if your apparatus caused the collapse or if it was you that measured the apparatus that then caused the collapse. And because you can only know that something was "observed" when a conscious physicist makes that final readout you end up with a solipsistic situation where the only thing you can be certain of is that it was that last conscious observer that could have for sure collapsed the wave function.

There are experiments that show decoherence in absence of conscious measurement. For example, https://www.physics.upenn.edu/~pcn/Course/250/Week.of.02.21/...

> Here we report matter wave interferometer experiments in which C70 molecules lose their quantum behaviour by thermal emission of radiation. We find good quantitative agreement between our experimental observations and microscopic decoherence theory. Decoherence by emission of thermal radiation is a general mechanism that should be relevant to all macroscopic bodies.

> We observe that at temperatures below 2,000 K the emission rate is negligible, whereas at higher temperatures the molecules may emit photons whose wavelengths are comparable to (or even smaller than) the maximum path separation of ,1 mm. They transmit (partial) which-path information to the environment, leading to a reduced observability of the fullerene wave nature. Around 3,000 K the molecules have a high probability to emit several visible photons
yielding sufficient which-path information to effect a complete loss of fringe visibility in our interferometer.
See the updated comment addressing this bad-faith accusation.
You could have also done it yourself in about 15 minutes. I've done my 2015 MBP twice now, it's not hard at all.

I'm not sure why people in tech bother paying inflated prices for easy repairs. Just because you work with software doesn't mean you have to be afraid to turn a screwdriver ;)
> capitalism was created so that passions wouldn’t result in autocratic regimes

“Capitalism was created” by whom? What about exceptions, such as Chile under Allende?
We're actually a thriving team now, although donations (and more eyeballs!) always help :-)
Ah, ah, but this is rational irrationality we're talking about.

I wish I'd made that up.
Away from cities and governors who don't know basic science and stats. Know any states with competent leadership?

I do not recommend Colorado, some of the worst air pollution in the country, much to my surprise. Rent is getting out of hand too

Thinking about New England, or at least north enough for Starlink!
It also leads to competition. Without alternative streaming services, we'd have a Netflix monopoly, and there's nothing stopping them from increasing prices like what happened with cable monopolies.

Look at how Netflix is still raising prices even with less content.
It basically is that - most owners replace their iPhones regularly, and if you replace your iPhone with purchase price $P every M months, that's just as good for Apple as you paying P/M per month, with some additional benefits:

The user is locked in to a large minimum spend; the user is responsible for EOL disposal of the device; the users perform self price discrimination, where more wealthy users replace their phone more often so effectively pay a higher monthly rate.
Hello, you're all fucking stupid. I win. Pay me
I think your point that most pro "capitalism" folks will take issue with is that while there has never been a system in which all resources are perfectly allocated, it is believed that the information in prices set by a free market can do a much better job of allocating resources in the long run than any other known system, (including communism, socialism, or an autocracy).

So sure, free markets are emergent properties of human activity, and therefore are influenced by human traits such as greed and fear, resulting in bubbles and crashes in the stock market. But I suppose that's better than 3+ years of famine during the Great Leap Forward.
I think daenz was asking about how to sell an open-source project in general, not in a criminal way.
I want to enjoy Satisfactory. It has it's own charm to it, and I love their interactions with the community.

But doing everything from a first-person view is often frustrating. Being able to have multiple layers of belts is nice, but sometimes its annoying dealing with collisions. And while the terrain is beautiful, I often find it just gets in the way of your factory more, and the option of just laying out tons of platforms is unnatural and just hides the beautiful scenery.
There is still a retail market on consoles. So not entirely monopolistic. Also iirc you can use your own payment method on those consoles.
Before the 90s and Kevin Mitnick, there weren't nearly as many computer crime laws.
Is Facebook running cables at unusually large scale?
Interview with the Founder of Bubble.io
Modeling the Spread of a Pandemic
Steam Link on iOS actually has to run a version of Steam Big Picture without a Store or Community option because of Apple's rules: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/05/apple-reversal-allows...

The Store application lets you buy games because you cannot consume them on the device, like how Amazon allows you to buy physical items but not Kindle books.
Some smart writers have spilled a lot of ink over the years about the use of force in capitalist productive relations.

Pre-modern high art is "vanity projects." Is that your real take?
In practice, that doesn't happen often enough to be something I actively worry about. I scan my dependency's source code each time I upgrade, and that's enough for me.

The number of dependencies I've had fail in that manner is currently 0. Also, all my open source dependencies have their source-code reviewed regularly by distro maintiners (like debian's), and the last version's source code is available in source control, or at worst in a distro's src tarball mirrors.

However, on the flip side, the number of dependencies I've had break because they're maintained by a large company, and that company pivoted in some way, or reworked everything, or in some cases had the code calling into their proprietary backend via some api and broke their api... that number is in the dozens to hundreds.

Using a dependency maintained by an entire company vs by a single contributor doing it in their spare time... Well, the company-maintained ones have a much worse track record for me so far.
> On another note, regarding your first comments, in the late 90's Microsoft went through DOJ depositions and demands for breaking up simply because they bundled Internet Explorer with their operating system.

The crucial point of the Microsoft case was that their operating system had 90% market share, which Apple does not.
This precedent suggests they will:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed#Root_causes,_possib...

The industry's collective response to the crisis was the Core Infrastructure Initiative, a multimillion-dollar project announced by the Linux Foundation on April 24, 2014 to provide funds to critical elements of the global information infrastructure.[192] The initiative intends to allow lead developers to work full-time on their projects and to pay for security audits, hardware and software infrastructure, travel, and other expenses.[193] OpenSSL is a candidate to become the first recipient of the initiative's funding.[192]

After the discovery Google established Project Zero which is tasked with finding zero-day vulnerabilities to help secure the Web and society.[194]
Libretro: Hacker vandalised our buildbot and GitHub organization
what about those pinatas? are those still in the game? that's very much a loot box if so.
I guess you could have a heuristic that takes into consideration the number of lines of code from the projects source repository, the last date of commit (i.e. exclude projects that are unsupported for >3mo), the number of contributors, whether the author has opted-in up to receive donations and some heuristic on the number and size of commits to try and estimate the number of hours spent authoring.

And then of course, manually approving each hours/month estimate above a certain amount i.e. 10 hours per month.
And according to Linus's law if enough people depend on it, it won't matter how complex the breaking bug is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_law
Students are returning to US universities in a unplanned pandemic experiment