skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my children is entering high school this year, 100% online, through the district's virtual learning program. The other is finishing the last year of middle school, 100% online, &c. My job was never in danger because of where I work, and my wife was already at home, so she's committed to working with the kids on their work and I'm working with them when I'm at home.

We never would have made it through this year if my paycheck disappeared. I can't imagine how everyone else is doing this.
Your argument does not take into account the systematic closing of voting locations. Not everyone can vote in person if there's only a single voting location.
UNIX-y stuff. Nothing I couldn't do with my daily driver, honestly, but the keyboard is better, I like the screen better (1400 x 1050) and I get a dorky smile when I compile things and its sparc64. I just like using it, moreso than the Thinkpad and Acer laptops it has outlasted.

I did have a Tadpole Sparcle (which I liked so much I jumped at the Viper). It came in very handy once when I was learning C and was getting different answers depending on the machine. A deep dive into old newsgroup postings informed me that I had an endian problem. I was excited that I had one of those.

I do have a fondness for computing oddities which is why I bought the Sparcle in the first place and also why I have a "small" 1999 IBM mainframe.
A simple 4 note repeating melody of the word, in pieces, 'Hal.le.lu.jah'. Forget where I learned it from.
Not only that, but apple depends on the 3rd party apps and makes tools just for them. Don't depends solely on apple is actionable.
I think that 'to pay less for what I deem worthless, while showing it off to the seller' is a pretty clear motivation
Kidnapping: A Efficient Business (2019)
One thing I am missing from both this and hndex.org is to have the date of the post under the results.
The 'Lion Fortress' of Sri Lanka was swallowed by the jungle (2019)
Replace "normal water cooler interruptions" with "posting to hn" and here we are.
Epic had to agree to Sony's, Microsoft's, and Google's terms, however, which seems more relevant.
The most interesting example I've seen of this lately is a large publicly traded company most people on HN would know. They have dozens of job listing on their career page with no actual open role. If you apply, they route you into other roles. It's a complete bait-and-switch.
In Schrodinger's Cat Paradox isn't the cat itself an observer? It has eyes, therefore it would observe the poison and be dead.
I think people ascribe motive to a lot of Chinese behavior, where it's probably more an issue of perspective.

In China, as near as I can tell, 2-3 generations have been raised with the understanding that truth is always subordinate to the goals of the CCP. In fact, if not in abstract.

That's one thing, internal to a country. That's very different when you're talking international diplomacy.

And yet it seems like China follows this exact playbook in that arena too.

It has to make for some awkward conversations when a diplomat is swearing (and believing, inasmuch as doublethink is possible) that the fleet numbers X, when another country is providing literal evidence that it's 5X.
Im a third generation Texan and welcome all the Californians and their politics.

Even in Austin, Texas is a backwards, overtly racist, pro-big business anti-small business state that hates “freedom” unless it has to do with guns or corporate protections.

By the way, we have so many homeless because other republican heavy cities ship them here. Google ‘Haruka Weiser’ for a pretty normal example of a cop from a small town picking up a mentally unstable transient and dropping them off in downtown Austin a couple of blocks near the university.
I actually think it’s about keeping iDevices safe.

However I’m also someone who thinks app recommendation apps are a good thing and should be allowed on the store.

I think the author of the PDF is not only trying to provide a valuable service, but is also right in pointing out that there are problems.

These things are not mutually exclusive.
Apple should allow alternative app stores. And they aren't going to do that for as long as they can. So, it's good that some customers are publicly complaining.

I don't think they can force Apple to allow alternative payment methods. But, alternative app-store is reasonable.
Cutting off access to Mac tools prevents them from developing for MacOS too, not just App Store. If you're a developer and you don't find this chilling I don't know what to say.
How to Be Great at Anything
We actually did something like this at uni. Meshnet using low-power radio receivers with arduino uno and whatever else you want (gps?), a few power-stations that had solar powerbanks and 3G connection. Power stations were collecting data from the mestnet and sending it to a server. Weak nodes only required battery to be changed less often than every 3.5 month. I thought it was pretty cool.
Believe it or not, there are people whose opinions on market regulation differ from yours.
Right, NamedDims.jl is the one closest what the article describes. Very simple and light-weight, plays well with others.

There is a small zoo of packages attaching also labels along the indices, alla python's xarray. Perhaps it's a little too easy to write such things... but once we understand the design space the hope is to quietly take most of them to the woodshed.
With the obscene amount of speculation going on their platform and the losses that are likely to follow - the irony of the name Robinhood will not be lost on the historians of financial markets. Devil take the hindmost.
Maybe link some of your content instead of a nearly blank page
Then you should know that the option "just play with friends" is not entirely realistic.
I fully agree that opening up the offices before there's a vaccine is very unsafe and shame on any company that brings people back early but it's not just extroverts that want to go back to the office. Speaking as an introvert with social anxiety basically 100% of my physical interaction with other humans happens in the office and WFH in my tiny nyc apartment has been miserable (better than being sick for sure, but not something I'd do for one day longer than required). Especially in tech, isolation is real and we can push for caution while also recognizing the human cost of cost of having people at home (for my company they're increasing tele-therapy resources; maybe as this stretches on more and better solutions will be discovered)
It's pretty sad that I started reading this article an hour ago, had dinner and came back to it being flagged.

It kinda proves the author's point a little.
Chrome 85 Beta for Android to display 'fast page' labels for high-quality pages
Yes, but those millions come from whales which will most likely follow Fortnite to other platforms.

You think Epic would start a lawsuit without having done their math and willingly decide to lose millions daily plus the legal fees?
Can you be more specific about what you mean by the local community? Are you striking up conversations with random people on the street, or are you volunteering, or some other such thing?
PIV certificates are kinda meant for this
Brian Fox. Programmer. Creator the the GNU Bash shell. Worked with Stallman at FSF.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox_(computer_programmer...
I've got a WoW character named after him.
My fuzzy memory is of a solitary bug. But my memory hook is "bug in amber", which could have pulled askew cardinality and subphylum.

A program like crabs could be seriously disturbing in VR and AR. A transparently declarative framework like A-Frame might permit 3rd-party object eating. Or more difficult, there's various "visible body" code... imagine watching your arms eaten down to muscle and bone. Or to gears, depending on avatar. Or the people you're chatting with. Eeep.
> The app store is not different.

Really, where can iPhone users go obtain Fortnite from now? What? No place? Not the same.
Google Introduces NLP Model Understanding Tool
The big squids are probably much more intelligent than octopus.

Octopuses are solitary. Squids are social and top predators able to travel very long distances and live in a wider range of habitats. They can make light and use light and color patterns to display complex behaviour or lure preys

Is also well known that squids are able to communicate two opposite messages to different colleagues at the same time.
The user community is really outstanding. Just have a look on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/j

Questions are answered in no time, the folks are very friendly and treat everyone on eye level. A great role model for any programming language / software communities!
Can you tell me which SNPs were relevant for you? Or are generally relevant for depression?

I checked https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Depression but maybe you know better which SNPs are most important?

I got my genome and checked it using promethease, but 'sadly' I didnt get any major 'depression' hit; only minor SNPs which were correlated with 1.5x more probability to get depression

And I got no advice on which diet could help me :)
> I think though that their attempt to take Apple in the court of Public opinion is going to fall flat, because there are a lot more iOS users than Fortnite on iOS players.

Good thing it's only the court of public law that counts. And I don't see how the Supreme Court could rule in favor of Apple, Inc when the District Court ruled Microsoft's bundling of IE as breaking US antitrust laws.
Relevent xkcd what-if:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/152/

Time for another a World Meteorological Organization expert panel!

"I'm gonna go jump into one of those toxic pools."
It’s the same. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all charge 30%.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/07/report-steams-30-cut...
ADA does not require accommodations or ADA be mentioned, only that a request must be made. Once made, ADA applies.

As far as remote work, if the company has any remote employees in any position similar to yours, they will have an extremely difficult time justifying in person being a job requirement.

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/enforcement-guidance-reas...
Epic is a $17-billion-dollar company fighting Apple, a $1,300 billion dollar company. They're two orders of magnitude larger. If Apple thought that this conflict really risked losing their app store cut they could just buy Epic without worrying much and take 100% of the transactions...
> The author is grovelling to the point of it being honestly pitiful. The amount of derogatory references to the web and Android also make it really hard for me not to question the motivation behind this letter.

This is standard behavior when talking to Apple. Since they're so incredibly editorial about what they permit on their platform, it behooves you to suck up as much as possible.

Source: have personally represented my previous tiny startup and Dropbox at Apple HQ. Have been pissing off Apple executives with my creations for more than a decade.
> I think though that their attempt to take Apple in the court of Public opinion is going to fall flat, because there are a lot more iOS users than Fortnite on iOS players.

This naively assumes an iOS user is on Apple's side, and assumes that the court of public opinion excludes those users with neither iOS nor Fortnite yet have general opinions and business-stake on iOS options.

I should also note that, for some of us, the court of public opinion and the court of legal opinion are different. I can disagree w/ Apple and disagree w/ their practices being deemed illegal.
NetBSD still runs on the Amiga and the Atari.
Microsoft takes 5% since last year.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2019/03/06/update...
>I actually think it’s about keeping iDevices safe.

How are Hey or xCloud about keeping iDevices safe?
That's what's in the Developer Program License Agreement though:

Section 11.2 Termination, subsection (f):

> (f) if You engage, or encourage others to engage, in any misleading, fraudulent, improper, unlawful or dishonest act relating to this Agreement, including, but not limited to, misrepresenting the nature of Your submitted Application (e.g., hiding or trying to hide functionality from Apple’s review, falsifying consumer reviews for Your Application, engaging in payment fraud, etc.).

In this case Epic hid functionality from Apple's review, with the intent to bypass further rules in the Developer Program License Agreement.

Apple is allowed to terminate the agreement at that time.
I guess the point was made to the guy selling, to say "I own you and can do whatever I want, including modify the terms of a deal we just made".
I assume this recent thread is related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24179635
That is correct. The smells come from hydrogen sulfide and other molecules.
It’s surprising to see that Robinhood doesn’t have an Roth IRA account offering. It seems like it would be a good thing to nudge the new generation of investors towards.
Command economies are nation-scale examples of Goodhart's law.
One problem is that Apple does not charge a 30% fee for its own services.

Thus, Apple music can be offered cheaper than Spotify.
I'm not sure how exactly this applies to Fortnite, though.
Yeah, the text tool is a bit lacking at the moment, and I think the public release still has a small bug with where the text gets placed down when clicking.

That's a really good use case for the layer specific text which I hadn't considered, thanks for bringing that up! I think the text tool is the next thing I'm going to be giving a bit of love to, it's definitely a bit quirky in how it works right now
I didn't post it as an alternative but as a "see also."
This is the same file as the original submission. But can you explain how this email got its way to the House Judiciary Committee?
As noted in their initial legal filings ("if we could we would", basically), what they really want is their own app store on iOS. They want to cut out the middleman and process their own payments.

And I'm sure Tencent (40%) would be very happy for there to be an alternate App Store with the familiar Epic branding as well. Epic on its own only has one title on iOS: Fornite.

The timing of all of this is definitely strange.
>every so often Chrome exhibits graphical tearing, slows down

Force HW acceleration in Chromium (about:flags) and tweak a bit the /etc/login.conf (cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf as root after editing).
Schwab has almost identical order routing policies as Robinhood https://www.schwab.com/legal/order-routing-1

They sell your order flow as well.
"Don’t be afraid of nonsense or longer names"

Well, I can definelty relate to that. I rarely come back to change a name, if it's anything other than foo or alike.
So, if I choose foo it hurts my eyes every time I see it and I feel obligated to give a proper name. And that is often easier once I progressed with the rest of that piece of code.
You can only push a population so far before they rationally decide that it’s now “do or die” and mean that literally.
This recent article discusses this topic - https://onezero.medium.com/cow-farts-are-not-the-problem-f57...

My takeaway from their argument is that eliminating cows may not be as valuable as changing how they're raised & fed.
>reaches down deep, maybe past the reptilian

it goes straight to the amygdala - the "lizard" or the "fight or flight" brain - see the brain scans in the link below for example. It is very short connection path from retina, something like right past the primary visual cortex, right beyond the last layers of simple/automatic pattern matching.

http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-wor...

> Getting looked at can cause anxiety.

not surprisingly as it is usually the last thing one see before being attacked, so no wonder that amygdala starts to fire well before your conscious comes up with upper level decision whether there is any danger.
>I guess my question is, why do native apps suddenly matter so much?

They've always mattered -- native vs web vs hybrid is a war going on much longer than iOS or Android OS.

Native apps matter because they have much better access to Apple hardware functionality on the phones like Apple Pay, GPS, Push Notifications, Persitent Storage, Accelerometer, Camera et cetera.

A good example is video games -- while WebGL is a thing the simple reality is AAA games need to run natively.
Generally, the solution presented is to get a contract ensuring your access. That's usually because people are building on some open API for free which then changes or stops working altogether.

The App Store isn't a contract, but it is (or should be) quite a bit better than building your app on top of some open API that you have no assurances on, as the rules are published.

The problem is that there's no real introspection as to how the rules are applied, and not way to really appeal a decision and expect to influence the result, so the closest thing to a contract in this case is completely one sided.

Part of me wonders if the fact they charge for developer accounts means they might be liable in some way (although I'm sure this approach has been explored in the past), but Apple has deep enough pockets they could probably just refund every Developer the $99 and not bat an eye. If it affected the revenues they collected as their cut though... going after that money could really make a big dent if it was a class action (again, not sure this is even feasible under the law).
I started with Lush a long time ago before being obliged to switch to MATLAB and then C.

Recently I have been trying to learn Futhark which is a ML like language generating parallel code (E.g. OpenCL or CUDA) from pure functional code with nested array structures. I find this exciting because when using the GPU with a thin layer like OpenCL directly, you have to write kernels from scratch without much abstraction possible. Higher level APIs like PyTorch or Jax give you easy ways to flexibly structure the computation but you just have to hope for kernel fusion. In Futhark this is in principle explicit and well handled.

ISPC is another example of a C like language where SIMD style parallelism is unambiguous while staying relatively high level.
The original author of the email posted in this thread shortly after this comment that might add some color here.

“I subsequently spoke to Phillip Shoemaker, who confirmed that Apple executives ordered the elimination of apps that drove downloads to the App Store. He said "Your app drove download volume. Apple doesn’t want any outside sources to drive ratings. So yeah, we got rid of all app recommendation apps." He said he thought it was unfair, but this was something Apple set out to do, and even as Senior Director of App Store (person directly in charge of App Review), he could not stop it.”

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24190694
Even if no UE-dependent games are removed now, they’re all at risk because Epic would no longer be able to fix any bugs for them, or maintain the engine. And, Apple has forced maintenance on developers quite often; it’s only a matter of time before some platform-breaking boundary must be crossed again, which none of the UE-dependent games would be able to manage without Epic’s involvement.
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I wonder which of Cue, Schiller, or Federighi replied, and what their thoughts were.
This is great!

I was thinking of doing something similar to this for the big awesome list (https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)

They require people to 'review' two PRs before they can have their own PR merged. It would be cool to automate that check with a bot like this.
No doubt your president wants to limit it, but you have to understand most of the people in the west would see postal voting without proper documentation and system that is verifiable is insanity and borderline corruption.
Epic doesn’t allow kids to use custom community made skins either. Kids are afraid of getting banned.
Did you vouch it? It is not flagged at this time.

It seems Scott has nothing to do with SSCA which is a shame. CC licensing aside, he chose to take the site down and it seems - for want of a better word - a bit icky to just repost a chunk of it.
Reclaiming Becket: London’s great saint needs a reboot
Should we what?
>Changes to rules change how actors behave in a system. The way software developers and publishers behave on iOS could change in ways that I don't like

Probably most apps would still be on store and hopefully you would get a cheaper version from the developer website.

What is clear but you probably don't want to admit is Apple is not fighting here for your safety but for extracting mroe money, if they were not that greedy Epic,Spotify would not have started this wars and you would have been safe in the wallgarden and extremely satisfied that the other people inside can't escape either.
AI Is a Misnomer at Present
Ha! I wouldn't hold my breath - indeed they are ramping up to use their own system on chips (SoC) - not just CPUs - in future Macs.

If they deliver a significant increase in performance - even if it's only for a few specific use cases - the ripples will be interesting to watch play out for decades to come.
It's goodish, the firmware is hard to get right and the chip itself gets waaaarm
Native apps make money. The web itself makes surprisingly little, unless you get revenue from Google.
Bring on those downvotes :) I’m looking forward to an ‘epic’ court ruling siding in Apple’s favour.
Does just training a model get you a good job nowadays? I don't think anyone competent hiring people would be impressed by that, except at garbage places with garbage hiring managers
Why from all people?

What if there is a person in an lab which is isolated from the rest of the people?
If this were just Epic trying to get press as a "stunt", like a giant bluff or expecting to lose, I might agree with you... but Epic has filed the lawsuit and is certainly going to follow through on this: only an idiot does that--at such a heavy cost to their customer base, which otherwise might cause blowback--without having all their ducks in a row on basic PR. Seriously: if you want to be able to take Apple on in a lawsuit like this and win, you need to demonstrate that Apple is serious about the behavior you think is illegal and then sue them for that, not some vague idea that Apple probably wouldn't let you do something: between the two giant companies, both of which are kind of reprehensible, let's focus on this one issue and root for the correct side here.
Honestly the library doesn't seem that hard to understand, although it can be under documented at times - I found looking through the source very helpful.
What's more crazy about this is that the 25 day survival rate for these cattle is only 98%.
pi * 6 * 6 = 113

But shouldn't it be a 3 foot radius? Or about 28 square feet.

Because if everyone had a 6 foot radius people would be separated by 12 feet.
I recommend watching "The man from earth". It's a film literally discussing this same idea.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/
I would imagine that one of the difficulties with use chording for programming is that so many of the terms used are not normal words. I suppose you can just create new chords for language keywords or common APIs but it just seems like there are so many possible unique terms you might need to type at any given moment. How do you handle long function names, snake case, camel case? Has it changed the way you name your own variables and functions?
The points are not supposed to be similar... you're missing the part of the parent's argument where one is used as a tool to enforce the other, when otherwise it would be difficult/impossible to enforce.

There is only one real competitor: Android. Google would very much like to have the same degree of control that Apple does over their ecosystem, but they're holding back for now so that they can point to Apple as being worse when the congressional inquiries heat up.

Feature phones are not real competitors to smartphones.
What makes you think that the news companies will do a better job?