skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what DHH fought over apple to get their app approved in the play store. If you still think that having to pay 25% of your profit just to list your product that you didn't even use their tools to make, then you're insane.
Assuming the transparency (article says 70-80%) can be improved for clarity and the pixels small enough then it could be great.

However you'd have to keep in mind that others looking at your face could see the same image. So don't go running that "X-RAY:make them appear naked!" app...
This isn't really an option if you actually want iOS apps. It's an all-or-nothing play by Apple: accept all our rules, including the ones that greatly limit you, or get none of the benefits of iOS, including the large collection of high-quality apps. And the option of jailbreaking really isn't an option either. Apple does its best to prevent jailbreaking: they'd stop it outright if they could. This is their way of keeping that market unpleasant, small, and marginal.

The argument is that that approach is anti-competitive and unfair, especially since Apple itself gets a large cut of app sales.

I'm not coming down hard on either side, just yet. But I don't like the feel of this sort of lock-in, and almost no one would question the use of a term like "lock-in." Some lock-in is surely legal, even if almost always unpleasant. But it's only a hop, skip and a jump to full-fledged antitrust.
While I fully expect automakers to play that game however they can, there's not a huge benefit to moving the display up into your field of view from just below it (like a Prius), and there are a number of downsides.

And a real HUD, beyond deciding what information to present and how to present it (as you rightly pointed out), is also technically far more complex than slapping a display on glass:

"I commented on the original post, but this is a great example of reason #1 why HUDs are still green after 50+ years.
Colors are additive with the outside world. There are conditions (sunset/sunrise) where you could get misleading information. Ambers and reds mean specific things. (https://images.app.goo.gl/G5Udbponiu1M1Fnc6)

"The optics in projecting an image reliably at optical infinity (makes it look like a billboard 500 yards in front of you rather than a TV screen 6 feet from you) are actually quite complicated and tuned to the specific wavelength. Having multiple colors drastically increases the complexity, or reduces the clarity because you have to compromise on the optimal wavelength.

"Generally the goal is to be as consistent with the head-down display as possible to limit the head cycles spent context switching, but in the case of colors we have other means of calling attention to important info: boxing and flashing both do a pretty effective job."

https://www.reddit.com/r/hudporn/comments/i8fp9m/the_hudset_...

Anything less than that just risks becoming obscured, with less contrast and similar focal-distance issues than a good instrument cluster.

That said, I wouldn't mind something I could stick on the glass of a vintage vehicle up in the corner so I can add instrumentation without modifying the dash.

But you're still going to get a much better approach with a windshield-mounted glass combiner, Picture Generating Unit and a projector.
Here is an iovec version, doing it all in a single writev.

#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <alloca.h>
#include <sys/uio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
if (argc > 1) {
int nstr = argc - 1;
char **svec = argv + 1;
int i, j;
struct iovec *iov = alloca(sizeof *iov * nstr * 2);
for (i = 0, j = 0; i < nstr; i++, j += 2)
{
iov[j].iov_base = svec[i];
iov[j].iov_len = strlen(svec[i]);
iov[j + 1].iov_base = " ";
iov[j + 1].iov_len = 1;
}
iov[j - 1].iov_base = "\n";
writev(STDOUT_FILENO, iov, j);
}

return 0;
}

#include <numerous_caveats.h>. We are not checking that everything got written, let alone handling a partial write. Systems have some limit on how many elements you can have in the iov array passed to writev.
Good point - my mistake there for sure! I was also responding to a comment saying Apple should be broken apart at same time.

I'm mostly responding to the strong comments - in this case "digging their own antitrust grave."

While falling into an anti-trust grave would be very serious - we are a fairs ways away from that here I think.
An unusual meteorite may hold the building blocks of life
A bunch of pissed off gamers harassing judges is more liable to backfire than anything else, if the goal is to rally the base.

As far as politics goes, you can forget about it in America at least. The senate can’t figure out how to deal with the economic fallout from this pandemic; the idea that they’d be able to pass a law on this is genuinely laughable.
You'll fine with keep disabled the 3rd party store option.
> 1. It's clearly not a monopoly by any accepted definition.

The European definition doesn't require you to even have the majority of a market - just the ability to materially affect consumer pricing. Proving that in court will be fairly trivial I think.

(Note this documentation from thd EU, which states a company "probably" needs 40% share - https://ec.europa.eu/competition/antitrust/procedures_102_en...)
$250K? $30K-$60K is typical for an open speedboat in that form factor.
Discovering Hidden Properties to Attack the Node.js Ecosystem
In my opinion, Startup School is kind of a waste of time.

If you have the capacity and the will to build for yourself, you should already have the drive to push your idea forward. You don't need validation from them to make it work.

I hate getting judged by a "panel of experts" and their "opinions" destroying the wills to continue. Self-confidence and constant iterative validation are a big part of the founder's success. YC's model of "only the top 1% gets funding and support" has stopped producing unicorns. It exerts bias and provides false validation to the founders leading them into a false sense of security.

Resources are great, but I wouldn't waste time on a program like this. Especially they pick only 20.
You're probably right about some universities, because they're attended by the children of the almost-rich. It could happen in Ivy League, however, because those who really run things there are really rich, and their children get accepted through legacy and donation quid pro quo.
Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel, dies in his Portland home at age 91
Indeed it is difficult and requires massive investment.

Storage options include pumped hydro, a proven technology for long durations, and some analysis like that done by Australia's national science agency is already finding that: "wind, solar and storage technologies are by far the cheapest form of low carbon options for Australia, and are likely to dominate the global energy mix in coming decades." https://reneweconomy.com.au/new-csiro-aemo-study-confirms-wi...

100% renewable is not really required and I think it's not so bad to use some fossil gas on occasion. In the future it may actually be renewable-generated hydrogen.

For countries with more population and less land it'll be more difficult to find room for massive wind/solar so I certainly hope the challenges with next-generation nuclear get solved soon as well..
> Once you start them it's nearly impossible to go back

This is ok. Having a dependence on a drug is not a bad thing and should not be considered as such.
>That 32k BootROM isn't free in your example.

It's a ROM. Read only.

https://www.fsf.org/news/freebios.html

"The BIOS was impossible to replace because it was stored in ROM: the only way to to put in a different BIOS was by replacing part of the hardware. In effect, the BIOS was itself hardware--and therefore didn't really count as software. It was like the program that (we can suppose) exists in the computer that (we can suppose) runs your watch or your microwave oven: since you can't install software on it, it may as well be circuits, not a computer at all."

Edit: >ROMs can still be backdoored, which is the point of this discussion.

You said it wasn't free, and when proven wrong, you moved the goalpost. Since I'm a wrongthinker who can only post once every hour or two on this site, I'm done discussing this with you. If you want to try to convince people that a 32K ROM is the same as IntelME, then you're not worth my time anyway.
One reason for the duopoly is that it cost more to have your app on more platforms. Its a disaster that for example government apps like id only works on the latest ios or android. There are also Sailfish, FirefoxOS, bunch of feature phone OS, and likely a lot I dont know of. The duopoly is self inflicted by the software industry.
I've done almost the same thing. DDG, reddit in old mode. Google is now just for maps and stackoverflow related searches. Been at it for 4 months.
Any official statements released?
FYI: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...

SPEC2006 is industrial standard, and other 3rd party benchmark tested.
Journalism shouldn't be a political thing, period. It should be about reporting facts, not opinions, and about being as objective as possible. If that gets you classified as "left or right wing" - then I think that's a different discussion.
Microsoft also has a "scary checkbox", in the form of "are you sure you want to run this exe that came from the Internet?" popup.
I’m guessing any mucous membrane (eyes, mouth, nasal passages and I swear some other posts here said anus) is a risk but apparently lung cells are the most vulnerable
> Actually, no.

No... what? Not sure what you're disagreeing with.
Not really. Mozilla desperately needs a market to make money, and consumers desperately need privacy preserving ad technology so creators don't sink under a lack of funding. The advertisers won't really care since fraud/bad clicks/bad data will just get priced into the bid anyway. Ad fraud is only bad for ad dashboards.
Scott Manley posted an excellent video with some discussion of this incident, as well as going over some of the major contributions Arecibo has made to science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V3VCt24tkE
“Master-Slave” Being Excluded by (Most) Tech Firms
Cool to see which companies acted first on this including Python developer Victor@Red Hat.
I think you are confusing the value you are getting from Apple with the means you are paying for it. Just because the fee is collected through a couple of payment API calls doesn’t mean thats what you are paying for.
Agree that US farming financially is kind of messed up. Most subsidies go to big farms. Small farmers constantly go out of business. The price of land keeps going up at the same time. There's little profit, it's received up in the chain going to consumer stores.

Americans can buy food from anywhere. There's an oversupply that is difficult to deal with because the farming industrial complex constantly improves yields. We already get food from Mexico, south america, Canada, fish from the ocean all over. We stupidly subsidize ethanol, we should get rid of that. We need to keep some food production going, both for national security but also because the rural areas are already decimated with job loss and lack of opportunities for people. Every town is full of closed shops and the nearby Walmart supplanted all local things, except maybe a bar.

My family has farms in the south and midwest, I want to support farming and those farmers. The US govt pays us not to plant part of our crop. And they also have price supports on crops which basically sets the price. Of course we all benefit from cheap food. Much of the profit is gone from farming. Most young people take outside jobs because you can't make a living unless you have very large mass scale (this is not exactly a new discovery).

My dad lives in a big city in Texas and inherited his mom's farm. Someone else farms it, he doesn't have anything to do with it. 30 years ago there were some salt of the earth farmers but they all sadly died, at least in my family.
Well, one particular grievance among them, that a person passing off a counterfeit 20-dollar bill doesn't deserve death at the hands of police, probably is legitimate. Choosing to remediate that injustice is not capitulation to the mob, but fulfillment of the promise of equal protection under the law that the democratic process was supposed to protect.
> Has apple ever blocked or threatened anyone for developing a rival OS?

The iPhone boot ROM will only launch operating systems cryptographically signed by Apple:

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/hardware-security-o...
Everything sucks about Fortnite being removed from the App Store
HTML and CSS have been evolving for over two decades (now maybe faster than ever) and have been battle tested by nearly 2 billion websites.

It seems crazy to me to think that we should throw it all out and do something new. I suspect contributing to the improvement of the existing spec is a much more pragmatic endeavor.
Insinuating anyone talking about you is riding your coattails doesn't show "much respect".

It would be more helpful to share your thoughts here.
I've done stuff like this but behind Tor. I tried to make the data random enough it would be tough to see which records were real. I remember once my IP was getting blocked after a certain amount of requests (not sure if via some automated fail2ban or a human) but Tor has an API to swap to a new outbound IP, so I just had it do that in the case of a timeout.
Exactly, this entire thing is about big intermediaries getting a piece of the pie through the legal system.

Smaller developers will be the casualties of a multi-store situation because they will be forced to support the them all.

There will therefore be no competitive pressure on benefits for developers.

This is all about more middlemen making money.
I interpret it as a suggestion that you allow developers access to the running container in production to debug the issue

There are more sane ways to do this than through raw kubectl access, of course: see e.g. telepresence (https://www.telepresence.io/)
not sure why you started from 2006 maybe because of query. but I would go a bit back.

Gmail - 2004
Google maps - 2005

These were the things that really woke us up that js is a game changer.
Does this paper describes an early form of Coecke's ZX calculus? What is the relationship between the two systems?

https://zxcalculus.com/
Yes, check AliExpress for ESP32 dev module for a board with pins.

Look at LCSC for one with castellated edges. esp32.net has info about more form factors.

At my work we have a design that uses the ESP32-WROOM-32 for the Bluetooth and CPU. It is a pretty great alternative to using Arduinos.
Sometimes unscrupulous plumbers fixing a clog would cut out 6' or 8' chunks of 4" solid copper drain pipe in old houses and splice in PVC for some extra $$$.
Exactly this - I'm a "high spending" customer. Because they take pretty good care of their store, because there are no surprise auto-renewals and on and on I spend money freely - it's pretty safe to.

I always seem to regret signing up for subscriptions elswhere. Did anyone have the myheritage fight - I did that 5 years ago - total nightmare. I mean - how is stuff like THAT legal (hadn't used service in a year, no notice prior to the renewal being billed), no way to get out of paying.
Steve Blank Teaching Lean Innovation in the Pandemic
A 2019 paper says there's 47TB of Docker images on the Hub. Get scraping.
Epic Games Store charges 12%, not 30%. This would probably not be nearly as big a concern if Apple charged 12%.

There are many people in this world who think they would pay a steep social penalty if they switched away from iPhones. Now part of me just wants to blame them for having shallow friends or whatever, but I try and keep that part of me in check.
Now that makes sense.

The surfboard sized version is very cool.

https://youtu.be/ieigm2t9apk
My understanding of a common rural view is that 'city people' restrict them unnecessarily with a lot of environmental restrictions (which may be partly true). But they don't believe they are subsidized.

In Washington state they have a report from the legislature that has spending in each county compared to tax revenues. This is very sensitive because of course Seattle money goes out to the whole state. There's a second version of that report that tries to compute the economic benefit of the rural areas, separately from the actual tax revenues, I'm sure this was created to lessen the sting.

I want to keep our economy and the people in it living. But we need to have a shared reality.
Nope, recycled many times. And with everyone buying crap online, there's actually demand for re-using cardboard.
Apple doesn’t provide the only walled garden in the world. It targets a very specific high end segment, it faces very robust competition, there is no plausible way it could end up gaining a monopoly position in the market, and there is no evidence that they’re trying to do that. So yes, if the reality of the situation was completely different, I might have a different opinion. But it is not, so I don’t.

> In general, I think free-form app distribution should be the way to go for any device under the general-purpose computer category.

Then launch a company, provide that to the market, and see if that’s something consumers want. There are already plenty of companies that provide that though, so you might struggle to compete.

General purpose computing is also not a legal category of product, nor is it really what you’re making it out to be. Playstations, Xboxes and my car stereo are all general purpose computers. The issue isn’t whether the device in question is a general purpose computer, or an embedded system. It’s whether a company is allowed to create an operating system where they can control what software is distributed to it. As iOS does not have a monopoly, I don’t see any reason why it shouldn’t be up to consumers as to whether it exists or not. Personally, as a consumer, Apple make a phone that I want to use, and part of the value I see in it is their control over app distribution.
But again, Mac malware exists, Windows malware exists. Yet "sideloading" is still much easier on those platforms than on Android. So obviously this kind of "liability", i.e., bad PR, doesn't and hasn't required the same implementation, and certainly doesn't force them to make the platforms App Store only.
If you're looking for assistance developing the tool and/or selling to enterprise, reach out (username minus the 2 at gmail), I've got a virtual Rolodex full of F500 clients looking for better answers in this space.
This is about nothing, folks.

Literally.

Epic sells usage ("v-bucks") which would cost them nothing to supply 'unlimited'.

Apple, having a standard of "in-app sales, we get 30%", wants their cut of making a bundle via the Apple ecosystem.
Who sets the rules for the federated storefront?

The store design has a lot to do with which apps get attention.
Glad I'm not the only one who initially read "cable" as more likely to be electrical than structural.
Except it isn't. There is no fundamental technical limitation that prohibits Apple from allowing third party app store. It's only because of their arbitrary policy.
> Puerto Rico in general has been damaged and neglected to a criminal extent - this particular situation will get media attention for a bit, maybe be fixed but that's likely about it.

Its an issue fraught with peril. Puerto Rico has no statehood, so they're a lesser property within the US as a whole. They have very little economy besides tourism to speak of, enormous amounts of corruption through the various governmental levels, and a populace that is rapidly aging. They plugged budget wholes with debt until it reached levels requiring an independent oversight board stepping in to take over. If you're able to find work on the mainland, you bounce, and only stick around on the island if you can't.

I'm not sure what the solution is. You can't write blank checks to a broken government forever.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/puerto-rico-us-territory-cr...
New Guinea has 13,634 species of plants, and these are some of our favourites
my 7yr old son just came up to me super excited to see some mysterious trailer when he ran the app today. He thought he was about to see some cool new upcoming mod and instead he had to watch their propaganda campaign to Free Fortnight.

As a parent, having to be forced to explain to your 7yr old son the dark-side of gaming/technology is not something I was prepared to do as a bonding event this fine evening.
Ask HN: Platform owners should charge a fee to use it?
Just curious on general thoughts here since Apple has this thing with Epic going on and, generally in the history of software, other platform owners have charge a fee for releasing software on top of a platform.
...the white and Asian students who were discriminated against.

I know you're repeating a framing from TFA and from numerous other sources, but the discrimination against Asians primarily benefits whites, because there are so many more of them. There simply aren't enough BIPoC students to make room for the Asians who would be accepted if the discrimination against them stopped, as implied by your "majority Asian student body" comment. (Also, lots of BIPoC students are not "just over the line" and perform as well as or better than Asian and white students.) The eventual result of this lawsuit will be a much lower percentage of white students, while BIPoC percentages might drop slightly.
Oh nice, thanks, I didn't know about esp32.net!
That wasn't my point--I know she has a long history with Mozilla. Rather, there is no evidence that should would otherwise be commanding "competitive" CEO pay commensurate with Mozilla's size otherwise. Her work history pre-Mozilla would not make her a strong recruiting choice for a $2.5 million dollar position, at least IMHO.

Just because she contributed significantly in some ways years ago does not make her a particularly plausible choice as CEO, much less such a highly paid one. I can say Blake Ross was just as important in making Firefox a success...doesn't mean he would be a good CEO candidate, nor that he should be paid a "market competitive" salary.

It's anecdotal I know--but she is not particularly popular within the ranks of Mozilla, nor has she shown any particular business acumen outside of striking search deals with Yahoo/Google which arguably are only a function of Firefox's market share...which has continued to decline. And speaking for myself, I'm not impressed with her work at the Foundation either....it comes off a very superficial, and "we don't know what we should spend the money we get on, so let's hand it out to "Fellows", put together conferences, and write reports" nobody reads.

> A plausible alternate reality without her could have involved AOL cutting all support for Mozilla, the Mozilla projects going into a state of limbo (with no more corporate support and uncertainty of even legal usage of their existing names/logos), the dev community around those projects either fracturing or fizzling out as a result of the uncertainty, and Internet Explorer retaining 95+% of the browser market.

Ummm...webkit? Also,it's somewhat ironic you point to the non-profit foundation as her success story, while she makes "market rate" pay by virtue of her being CEO of the "for-profit" side of things.
ROMs can still be backdoored, which is the point of this discussion.

Since we're editing: Free has many definitions. The FSF's on that one page doesn't take into account backdoored software; they would absolutely agree that backdoored ROMs aren't free. It removes user ownership over their computation. It's not "moving the goalposts" to point this out, especially when the entire point of the discussion is around backdoored software.
Even if they did pass the savings to the consumer completely, they would still likely make more money as more people buy it. This effect is much larger than the $1 they gain
Wait, can you clarify what is actually going on? Is there any rhyme or reason or is are these shortenings just random?

I'm having trouble parsing the grandparent comment...
What a strange world we live in. Thanks so much