skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The justification is that there's a particularly high density and quantity of wiring around that fire station (one of two for LAH, IIRC) and that Moody is a major access route for emergency services and evacuation. A giant bundle of wires coming down across the road would strangle a response.

A simplistic napkin math computation says that the cost delta in electricity between what Santa Clara pays and what PG&E customers pay, times the amount of electricity that LAH residents consume would pay for the entire undergrounding in 5-6 years.

So to my mind, it seems like a simple argument in favor of a municipal power utility that charges PG&E rates until it pays off its infrastructure, and then charges a more reasonable rate thereafter. Of course this assumes that LAH could achieve Santa Clara levels of cost efficiency, but it doesn't seem crazy either.
I think apple's 30% cut of app purchases is too much and I think they know this. With that being said I think this is part of apple for a long-term plan.

iPhones are getting more expensive to build considering all the tech their cramming into each iPhone and other products. eventually they might get so expensive that Apple would be forced to sell them at a price that will not work well wih consumers. If you think about how much apple has invested in services that only function on their devices, I think apple will start selling products at a loss, with the plan to make that money back and more through services they offer on devices. In the same way that Sony and Microsoft lose money with every console sold, but recoup those loses many times over with games purchase fees.
Yes, we have more database types in our roadmap. At the moment we are starting out with Postgres. Are you trying to get data to a new sqlite or an existing one?
BootHole woke a lot of people up to the fact that we don't have a a well-tested approach to updating the UEFI revocation list on Linux systems that doesn't involve crossing your fingers and hoping for the best.

My experience with fwupd and LVFS for handling Lenovo firmware on Thinkpads without a Windows partition has been fairly positive, so I'm hopeful that this experiment will have good results.
There's absolutely no reason companies can't issue options that automatically convert from ISOs to NSOs after the 90-day period, and leave the NSOs on the table for ten years. There is no downside to the employee or, really, to the company – other than that the options, which were pitched to employees as part of comp, aren't clawed back to the company's pool as quickly.

I've observed many startup founders who are disdainful of employees who leave, ever, for any reason, and definitely don't want them to receive proceeds from any of the company's future successes.
I don't understand these arguments either. It's not illegal to have high product margins, right? Why can't they charge whatever they want? It comes across as pure moral "I don't like it" objection, which is fine, but don't use it as a legal argument.
Control Flow Guard for Clang/LLVM and Rust
Besides the Unreal the game engine, Epic has been making huge inroads leveraging Unreal as a virtual movie set, as seen on Mandalorian.

I would assume most of the hardware used in movie production is Mac hardware, so that entire initiative just went up in smoke.
You can bypass it: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491
It's a lot easier to switch which store you shop than what phone you use. Switching iOS to Android costs a non-trivial amount of money. There's also a lot of lock-in, migrating from apps in Apple land to Android land. Some people may have multiple Apple devices even. These people face a very high barrier to switching.

To me this is like asking someone dissatisfied with the grocery store that has a monopoly over their town to just move to another city.
> there's no way to opt-out of having your content excepted

You mean the news carousel, or whatever it's called in the search results? Doesn't appearing in thst require you to add a lot of metadata to your page?
How can they shut down distribution? If a personal team can install any sourcecode, how could apple block the distribution? Even if they scan for a binary hash, all it takes are some minor modifications to have a different program to install.
If Apple has a monopoly on the iOS App Store market, then it follows that Epic has a monopoly on the Fortnite add-on market, right?
I'm not sure I can say I'm disgusted by assuming hourly workers are intelligent.

Why is it that investing is gambling only for the poor? Is the implication the poor people are less informed and less intelligent?

> do you really expect to compete with the investors paying 20k for a Bloomberg terminal, who get all the news 15 minutes before you can even hear about it?

Not if you're day trading, of course not. But letting someone who stocks sodas all day buy a couple Pepsi shares seems highly legitimate. The stock market will be more intelligent with more opinions in the pool, not less.
According to Apple:

"Upon further review of the activity associated with your Apple Developer Program membership, we have identified several violations of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement"

So it doesn't sound like it was just for this Fortnite issue.
The pop-up box you get when you try to run unsigned applications gives the user absolutely no hint as to how they can jump through those hoops to run the thing. You need to know what to google for to find the right magic incantation to enter into the macOS terminal.

On Windows, at least, the “Run anyway” button is merely behind the “More information...” link.
What antitrust laws are they breaking?
You just described why i switched to Mac OS from Linux :)
what's the background rate on madness in the non-mystical-experimentation population?
that's not what apple is doing

they're only revoking epic's devtools, and ability to make NEW unreal engine versions, old UE versions are unaffected
Given that game porters currently chose Metal over alternatives specifically to support the lucrative Apple market better, I'm pretty sure they'd jump ship instantly to Unity or something else that isn't an engina non grata.

People have been bending over to Apple in their choice of technologies for at least as long as OSX is a thing. A gaming engine (not even the most popular one on mobile) isn't gonna change that at all.
It could be your going about it a bit wrong. IBM does have trial POWER cloud instances. Or at least they did a couple years ago, as I managed to get my hands on one through the IBM developer program.

OTOH, getting into the developer program requires talking to their sales/marketing droids too. But, if your a software OEM or have a SAS product, they were (are?) hungry and actively doing their best to recruit companies to their platforms. So, you spend a couple hours answering their questions, and in return you get some pretty steep hardware/software discounts and they will loan you machines.
Due to Epic's pressure Steam already offering lower fees for more than two years now. Both Sony and Microsoft are also likely to make custom deals for popular titles the same way as they allowed them to have cross-play.

Tactics Epic using might look dishonest from outside, but it's will really help industry long-term.
> While I don't like Apple's 30% cut on multiplatform/subscription products, I think Epic's real motivation here is to run their own App Store, build a bigger moat and get the profits themselves (they take 12% cut, 5% if you use Unreal Engine, from developers in their store). They also make exclusive deals, bribing developers with funding/marketing support, so that the games can only bought in their store for 6-12mo.

Sounds great to me. Truly. Who loses here, other than Apple, one of the biggest, wealthiest companies on the planet?

> Buying games on PC now means that you have to install 5 different app stores which are usually slow, buggy and not that well written cross-platform code (pretty much like Fortnite itself).

It sucks that there's so much slow buggy software (with Steam being, by far, the biggest offender), isn't it great that we have such a thriving competitive market on PC? I think it's awesome. I think the PC gaming market has never been better.
They didn't take Unreal Engine away from anyone and every other platform also charges 30%.
Right. I'm just saying, user-freedom is technically preserved. This is a huge inconvenience, and bad for Epic's business, but it's not a ban. As an owner of Mac hardware, I still have control over what I can do with my machine.
Not really. You ask for level 1-4 options trading and they have you select from a dropdown how many years experience you have. It gets approved quickly. I've done this on TDA, IBKR, Merrill Edge.
This looks to be a mapping tool rather than a full virtual tabletop. You could use this to export a map and use it with roll20 or foundry or a big printout or whatever you like.
All you have to do is compare the Apple AppStore with the Android AppStore. How many apps on Android have been found to contain malware? also when it comes to quality and design, Android AppStore is terrible compared to apple.
They in-fact do not. But apparently the problem they do have is employees and beggars who feel that they are entitled to dictate how Chan/Zuckerberg's spend their money.

I dislike Mark Zuckerberg and frankly hate Facebook, but even more than that I dislike people who can't resist looking a gift horse in the mouth and then bitching about not being given their rightful due.

I am not sure where people got the notion that they were entitled to place some sort of demands on how Chan/Zuckerberg gave away their money. This is basically the same thing as inappropriately scrutinizing and then critiquing the purchases of poor people and going on to complain they are doing it wrong when they buy a flat screen TV.
If I see an app in the App Store that I might be interested in trying then I can download it and be pretty sure it's not malware, it does roughly what it's advertised as doing, and I can see from its price and the IAPs listed in the store whether it's reasonable value.

By contrast every time my mum clicks a Facebook advert and downloads an app on her Android phone it makes her phone noticeably worse to use. Apple is seemingly the only company able to maintain a reasonable certainty that an app they're hosting/advertising isn't deliberately malicious.

If Apple allow sideloading then I genuinely expect millions of people will have malware on their phones within days of Facebook being able to replicate their malicious Android app advertising business on iOS.
> [I]t would be wrong to assume that the FAO figure is totally scientific. Not only does it rely on evidence which is acknowledged to be uncertain. It is also based on a unit, known as the "CO2 equivalent", which assumes that the emission of one tonne of methane is equivalent to the emission from 25 tonnes of CO2
> [S]ince methane degrades quickly, stable emissions of methane lead to a stable level of methane in the atmosphere and no increase in global temperature.
> There is something deeply untrustworthy about a metric which views methane as being many times more harmful than CO2, when only a small reduction in methane emissions is required to stabilise its presence in the atmosphere, whereas a massive reduction in CO2 emissions is required to achieve the same.

Source : https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/sites/default/files/Is%20...
Yes, and they do that with the interest of making money, not with the interest of ensuring national energy/resource security.

They're not building hydrogen vehicles out of some long-term concern about resource availability. Note how those same automakers don't sell those vehicles in the rest of the world, even though they're on the same planet with the same amount of cobalt.

Japanese automakers are building hydrogen vehicles because 1) they are being subsidized, and 2) they get a seat at the table to influence regulators.
That's why The Rurists (Terrorists) try to hit a plane when it takes off or lands. Easier to hit. Even with a stinger. Just hang out by the airport with your favourite Stinger Launcher and you're good to go. No need to hit it at 30,000 feets. I'd hit it at landing takeoof the ground taxiing etc. Works for me.
Can I just say that while the tech is no doubt a privacy concern, it was insanely incredible. They literally could track down where a person from any crime scene went to.
You're not taking into account the differences in how App Store and Steam behaved

App Store has a natural monopoly on the iDevices. (And I would love to see this broken, a jailbroken iPhone in the old days was a wondrous thing) This is because Apple owns the platform and are heavily incentivized to use that integration to maximize their own profit and growth.

There are no such incentives on an open platform like Windows. Steam had to be better than the status quo and it seems they took that to heart, so much that entire ecosystems have built up around Valve's generosity -- ecosystems that compete with Steam itself -- and that Valve could pull the plug on tomorrow. But I bet they won't, because they seem to be interested in a vibrant and healthy ecosystem, and because their attitude of good stewardship is apparently quite rare these days, giving them a significant competitive advantage with mindshare.

It's a totally different ballgame. Google uses anticompetitive dealmaking and sheer force of will to try and achieve a semblance of what App Store does, and up until recently their success in that area was mixed at best. Google Play is closer to Steam in that regard, but their execution sucks.

But even if Steam was as vertically integrated as Apple something tells me they would be a lot more permissive and generous in how others sell on their platform. Steam offers a ton of value-add and, while I don't hang out in gamedev circles, the only bitching about price and Steam's 30% cut I've seen comes from Tim Sweeney and noone else
Agree to disagree. My company has no control over the work I do in my personal time, and neither does some random person on the other side of the world. This applies to me, you, and everyone else. Nobody is special because "they do important work".

By your logic, you should have no indulgences, so you should probably stop posting.
>I trust Apple more than any party in the world.

That opinion is likely to be a bit of an outlier, heh.
> withdrawing permission to notarise their apps for Mac

Where do you see this specifically, or are we just inferring it from that fact that Epic will lose access to the developer portal?
I'm sorry, it sounds like we're saying the same thing.

Notarization is not a stick-less carrot. Anyone can sign up and agree to the rules and pay the fee begin notarizing apps. If you break the rules you agree to when you sign up, you lose access to notarization.

It seems like we disagree about this basic understanding, so I'll take a couple guesses at it.

Are you, perhaps, arguing that Apple should not be allowed to terminate developer access to notarization under any circumstance — regardless of their behavior? Or are you arguing that Epic's behavior is "acceptable" rule breaking, but other kinds of behavior are "unacceptable" rule breaking?

I'm happy to consider that I could be wrong here, but I'll need a few more sentences from you to do so.
I was thinking of the human “we.” I think that’s my point: It’s hard work whether you work on models or focus on the bigger picture of what outcomes would be best for humanity. I think it makes more sense to work hard on the latter, or at least to work hard on it first and then build the models.
Because if there's one thing Apple customers choose Macs for, it's to play games...
The proper way to learn as a beginner programmer
Apple has a monopoly on making apple products to sell in apple stores? Quick call the feds!

Seriously, the game Apple/Google/etc have been playing has been pretty anti-consumer at times, and downright unjust at other times. That said, Epic's (cough cough tencent's) only move here is to turn this dumpster into a dumpster fire and I don't see that as a particularly helpful direction to go in.
It's also available to buy DRM free: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/183222

I found it rather disappointing though. It didn't really go into any detail about what it was supposed to be, just "dude had this idea, got other people to sponsor some research, locals didn't like the idea, also there were funding problems so it never happened".
There's an argument here that the customer could end up the victim if they pay for a genuine part and end up with a knockoff. However, that should be something resolvable after-the-fact— if a device shows up at a Genius Bar with a counterfeit battery, ask the user where it came from, engage lawyers.
>We allow everyone to drive, use knives and handle all kinds of potentially dangerous stuff every day, but for some reason can't trust them with their own phones.

Can you get social engineered into crashing a car or stabbing yourself? The difference here is that people most likely know the consequences of their actions, unlike with phones/computers where the consequences are nebulous.
The Disney Copyright term actually ended
> Epic doesn't have a monopoly on any market.

Epic has a monopoly on selling items inside Fortnite.

The problem is that as soon as you allow narrowing your definition of words to whatever supports your argument, then they become meaningless.
The biggest problem is how Robinhood promotes trading individual stocks and cryptos, often with leverage. I'd laud them as a democratizing force if they guided people into safe long-term investments. But that's not what gets the buzz, and it's not what gets them more users.
What capabilities would the streamed app have for deception that a website lacks?
Probably longer. Each time Mickey gets close to the end of the countdown, it gets extended by the US government and their crack squad of Disney negotiators.
The interesting part is him pulling off this stalemate and not having a clear winner doesnt result in the president gaining legal power past the end of his term, it just puts the power back to the house (if the states have their elections, with pelosi likely being acting president) or the senate if no house memebers are elected, Republicans losing 23 to 12 democratic senators this term. If there is no election dems regain the executive and the senate.
> they knew the upper limits or max value of this renewable wind power.

We also know the upper limits for solar. And for the current battery tech. And solid state battery tech. And the theoretical max for any battery that still follows the laws of physics as we know them. Your point being?

Hydrogen makes very little sense. Or rather, it only makes sense to keep the demand for fossil fuels high - because this is the cheapest way to get hydrogen (see natural gas reforming). Electrolysis is inefficient and expensive.

Not to mention the infrastructure required to compress/liquefy, ship, and building refueling stations.

All that for what? To feed it to a fuel cell and get electricity back. Just use the electricity to charge a battery and skip all the middle men.

If you have electricity, you are better off using batteries. The energy grid will likely be available close to you, transportation is taken care of. At the end of their useful lives, batteries can be recycled and we get most of the material back.

Due to hydrogen embrittlement, hydrogen tanks also have a shelf life.

This has little to do with physics and more to do with incentives from the fossil fuel industry.
Yeah, and summer is extremely hot, so...
This looks useful, I'd prefer self-hosted for some use cases though.
I'm sure that Tim Sweeney has talked with Tencent (owns 40% of Epic) about his plans beforehand. Tencent owns Riot Games (League Of Legends) and parts of several other gaming companies. They also own WeChat,WeGame, QQ, etc.

Epic may be just a test case. Everyone else is watching and if Apple blinks, they will side with Epic and Apple must give up huge revenue stream.
Civlisation will survive, in one shape or the other, but some countries could be totally screwed, others badly damaged. Its possible to imagine that political system crumbles, liberal democracy is gone, and the label is somewhat justified.

We are talking about most of bangladesh underwater and about 1 billion refugees globally in a poor scenario. Todays migration problems will pale in comparison. Many if them will die violently.

Nothing we've done so far indicates to me that we can quickly organise global rollout of hundred million automated greenhouses to people that cannot posssibly pay for them. Or to build largest damns in human history.

Even when we can afford to pay for infrastructure, in UK its taking us 40 years to build 1 line of rail, connecting two biggest cities, and its going to cost roughly as mich as the moon programm did.
I think the standard advice is that whatever part of your savings you expect to spend in the next 5-10 years shouldn't go in the stock market, for exactly this reason.
Don't all users understand this before giving Apple money?

No sympathy here. Make people use web apps instead of feeding the beast.
At least clap for "command line arg parser" has been used in this C++ library from 2006: http://tclap.sourceforge.net/manual.html

Though I'm not sure if the Rust clap has any origins in any specific library for another language.
> Fortnite is not malware.

Well, it kinda is, isn't it?

> Programs are also considered malware if they secretly act against the interests of the computer user.

Is convincing children that they need to spend money to not be a "default" really in the interest of a computer user? Is taking advantage of gambling addictions with lootboxes really in the interest of a computer user (or society at large)?

I get what you really mean, and I'm probably stretching the definition a bit much; Yet it's worth considering if Fortnight is really a good thing in the first place.
No idea. Have never felt that hmmm wanted kids. I dont have many friends. All of them have kids now. They seem happy.
I agree with your view. Because the study result appears to rely on self-reports, it hinges on definitions of key terms by participants, especially what they consider a "lie". If the definition is like yours ("intent to deceive") that can be different than other definitions. Even then it's a spectrum because an innocuous 'white lie' is sometimes a social expectation, like: "I hope us being ten minutes late to the party wasn't a problem..." Not only is that sort of question often answered with a lie, it's expected to be. Depending on the context, the real-question-under-the-question is likely akin to "I hope our being late didn't bother you so much that it's going to create a problem significant enough to require addressing." A more expansive version of your definition might include "an untruth communicated with knowing intent to deceive another in a way likely to cause meaningful harm given the context." That definition would eliminate the example I gave above, however, it could also eliminate many of the 'inconsequential' lies the study reports pathological liars frequently make.

Reading the description of the study in OP article (but not the source paper), I felt there was no way to tell how reliable the result might be without knowing a great deal about how the study framed their questions.
Epic's goal of creating a competing app store would be a huge boon for consumers. Obviously they picked this fight, and I'm happy they did, because if they're successful app prices will come down due to the reduced fees markets provide.
> We allow everyone to drive, use knives

Ah, these are pretty simple things. We don't allow to sell any drugs, or some drugs without prescription, because drugs are hard and require education. So do computers.
You can also disable AMFI, the component that enforces signatures and entitlements, altogether, but you have first to disable SIP completely by either booting into Linux of by patching the kernel and then setting the requisite NVRAM variable directly.

(`spctl` does not, in fact, disable it completely.)