skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This misrepresents and skips over Apple’s great offence, which is why a bunch of others who don’t know the half of it are piping up with their comparisons to the PlayStation store etc.

The most egregious part of Apple’s rules, and the reason that online service providers have a special loathing, is that apps are disallowed from linking to, advertising, or even mentioning that it is possible to sign up/subscribe/buy/rent outside of the app.

This is why you won’t see MMOs like FFXIV through the App Store, and is why you can’t sign up for Netflix, or even follow a link to their sign-up, from within the app.
> We don't always vote with our wallets.

We do, it's just not 100% of the weight of the decision, but it's rarely 0%.
This is big corporations fighting over their respective slices of the pie, and this is beneficial to consumers. That is how capitalism works. Some (somewhat small to some) amount will go directly to consumers (vbucks discounts), some (most likely most) will go toward creating a better product (hiring more developers, artists, designers etc.) and a bit might go to each of those developers, artists, and designers (and/or improve their working conditions, hopefully reducing the number worked to their limits like eg. the Rockstar employees who created Red Dead Redemption 2, and other game devs who sleep at work). Unfortunately some will be wasted on lawyers, etc., but IMO that’s not much worse than it staying in the hoard of the world’s most valuable company, and worth the benefits to everyone else.
No, nothing like they are today. Fortnite made them literally billions -- more than all of their previous titles combined.
Good Tales of Bad Data
There is a fourth carrier with Freedom Mobile but the population density makes it so hard for them to truly compete.
Admittedly, my understanding of thermodynamics has not progressed much beyond the 2nd grade level (aside from a class on PDEs giving me at least some enhanced intuition). My takeaway from the PDE class was that anything beyond a simple textbook problem needs to be simulated and/or observed experimentally, rather than solved for analytically.

But other things being equal, wouldn’t cold air permeate a less dense barrier (say a layer of insulation in a home) more easily than a dense barrier? Just as water (or cold air) would permeate soil more readily than rock.
I worry about this a lot - my kids are Hispanic (inherited from their Mexican mother), and I honestly don’t know what to tell them when it comes time to check the “race” box for college admissions in a few years. Do they check the “hispanic” box and always wonder if they were just admitted to meet some quota? And no matter what they do, as soon as somebody realizes they have a Hispanic parent, they’ll (reasonably) assume that they did check the Hispanic box.
>There are not enough candidates of race X and Y to meet diversity quotas

Do you think that any Black student who could be successful at Yale and applies to the school will get in? Maybe in super niche graduate programs the school has a problem finding qualified diverse candidates, but at an undergraduate level they turn so many people away that I seriously doubt they have a problem finding good applicants.
This is one my favorite science stories. A tale of how truth eventually surfaces and holds in front of ridicule.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect
See the section called "Mpemba's Observation"
It actually costs way less energy to cool a house than it does to heat one so the net migration to the south from the US northeast has and will continue to actually lower US per capita use and as the US uses circa 24% of the worlds energy this will have an effect.

Counterintuitive though.
No, it isn’t the same. Far from it. Microsoft and Sony don’t prohibit linking to external signup & account management, which is why I can resubscribe my FFXIV account from a console.

Apple’s rules prevent vendors from linking to external service account setup/management. You cannot even mention the existence thereof, let alone link to it or advertise the options provided therein. Consumers are explicitly kept in the dark about any method other than payment through the App Store.

That’s the stunning uppercut. The size of Apple’s fee is merely a follow-up kick to the nads.

This is why service providers, from Hey.com to Netflix, have a special irritation for the App Store rules, and since this rule directly distorts markets by affecting consumer choice is why so many competition regulators have a file open about it.
Because that's not a "digital good" and you're not buying something from your bank. It's the same reason you don't pay Apple 30% to buy something with Best Buy's app or Target's app. The rules are not arbitrary. They're set up so that if an app is using Apple's store and infrastructure, it has to pay Apple for it and it can't circumvent that infrastructure. The alternative is a clusterfuck of payment systems and transactions with Apple as the middleman with no way to ensure any kind of experience for the customer.
Maybe AWS is going to do something useful with it instead of just rewriting all established tools.
Android phones don't suffer from this as much, though weird rejections from the Play Store do happen not infrequently, if HN front page can be trusted, and getting non-technical people to be comfortable with sideloading must be a huge security liability. Getting updates for the lifetime of my device and especially security patches, finding a phone with a decent user experience not marred by badly implemented manufacturer shells, that's still really hard though. Those have been significant problems for me with my Android phones, much more significant than not being able to sideload. I'd say it's not so black and white, both platforms have grave problems, with no immediate fix in sight.
No, but I would start with a `docker ps` and see what ports it's forwarding.
Most of the black students are probably African immigrants. I see it all the time. If you just browse through LinkedIn and look at black Harvard/Ivy League alumni you'll immediately notice all the African immigrants
I predicted it one hour ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24149151
Rough week for tech organising in Berlin
Sometimes when we are so familiar with something, we forget how special it is.

Water is really amazing. It expands when it freezes. Hot water freezes faster than cold water. It dissolves almost anything, but not too fast.
If the system could store a whole film in 8000 bytes, that means a whole film is reduced to a mere 64000 bits of information.

I'm extremely skeptical that it is possible.
How dire: This is very subjective. I have moments of deep dispair, and then I see glimmers of hope. I don't know what to tell you other than it seems like the ratchet is turning against freedom more than for it.

Where to look: I suggest starting with one term, though often overly applied to just terrorsts, and that is "threat finance".

Timeline: Minimum is ~120 years or so.
And this interpretation is consistent with the following statistic:

As of August 6, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has received reports of 570 confirmed cases of MIS-C and 10 deaths.

https://www.salon.com/2020/08/13/we-asked-scientists-about-t....
What IS your vote actually worth!?
I’d been wondering what the ratios of voting weights were per state and if I could make something to answer them in a day. I did some styling since to make it not look like bootstrap but yeah... Also I have to note that this is population and not registered voters because I figured the difference between population and register voter ratios was so small it wouldn’t matter.
Epic will lose this fight, because they initiated it the wrong way.

You just don't start a law suite by violating the terms, then go ahead and cry about it.
So Apple isn't pitching the iPad Pro as a laptop replacement, and is instead pitching it as a games console?

Funny, I seem to member the announcements, and Apple showing iPhone Pro's shooting movies, doing professional photography, video editing, etc.

This this a game console? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7krzWNOXrFY

Gimme a break. Rent-seeking behavior dressed up in a security credit.
Why must the outcome "be representative of the total population"? If group X is Y% of the national population, must group X also be exactly Y% of the student body at universities? It is inevitable that, in anything, some groups will be overrepresented and other groups underrepresented, partly just by random chance, partly due to all kinds of complex cultural and historical reasons. To the extent under-representation is due to bad historical reasons (past oppression/persecution/discrimination/etc), then yes I think something should be done about it. But why not do that at the individual level, of the individual who is socially disadvantaged due to that history of oppression?

I have no problem with the idea that people from disadvantaged backgrounds get some special consideration. But compare two individuals: (a) a person from an under-represented racial/ethnic minority who comes from a privileged background (e.g. parents who are university professors, politicians, corporate executives, doctors, lawyers, etc) (b) a person from the ethnic/racial majority (or a minority which is not considered to be "under-represented") who grew up in extreme poverty, suffering from child abuse and neglect, parental drug addiction and criminality, homelessness, etc. How is a system fair if (a) gets given a preference but there isn't one for (b)? That's why I think affirmative action should be based on individualised assessment of social disadvantage, not group membership.
The Scientific Method Is a Myth (2015)
This is a PR move. They would have known they’d get kicked off for adding their own payment system.

They didn't make this in the time it took Apple to reject it. It's all pre-planned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6B4glqJFz0&feature=emb_rel_...
Fair.

There's probably some edgy contrarian aspect going on, but do note that this was spurred by a lawsuit brought in 2014 by those alleging that they were discriminated against.

The DOJ took it up, but at one level it would be obscene if they didn't - imagine the inverse (some evidence of anti-black admissions procedures is found), and the DOJ - who is tasked with prosecuting hate crimes and other civil rights-style issues - did not take it up.

In this case I almost feel like the Republican DOJ is being looked at sideways because one of the alleged victim parties is white... Had it been blacks and Asians, I doubt anyone would've cast aspersions on the Obama DOJ for taking up the charge.

TL;dr this sort of topic is the DOJ's bread and butter, and since it began via lawsuits from the affected parties I don't think there's much cynical "discretion" going on in this particular case.
> but nuclear power has tens of deaths total attributed to it.

I'm skeptical of this figure - Chernobyl alone is expected to cause ~4k+ deaths due to radiation exposure.

I'm sure nuclear is still significantly lower than combustion fuels, but I'd expect solar is somewhat safer.
While I agree with the rest of your comment...

The app store launched in July 2008, and the G1 came out in September that same year. Two months doesn't seem like a big opportunity to buy apps 'long before Android existed'.
No... that's not the same thing at all..?

It would be like you using AOL and only being able to view the channels that AOL offered (which is exactly what it was). Apple has no authority to tell you what you can do with your device once you've purchased it but you also don't have the authority or the right to demand that Apple service your device if you jailbreak it or mod it.

This is literally the exact same situation as Xbox and PS4. Xbox doesn't allow people to play PS4 games on an Xbox. Is that anti-competitive? Is that anti-consumer? Is that Xbox having absolute authority over what you can do on your Xbox? Get out of here with that nonsense.
Another battle front opening against Apple. Grabbing the popcorn to see who else joins in.

The fact is: mobile software as a market has plateaued and everyone in the ecosystem is looking around and seeing lots of profits being made by the 2 world largest digital brokers: apple and google, and very little options. It just makes economical sense to become letigious and look for other allies against the State of affairs.

I'm sure Epic also took into consideration that any blocking of their app on the store will have little inmediate impact on their bottom line (since they are already very popular and already installed by most who would want to install).

Those who already have the update can already start sending epic money without paying "apple tax".

Sure, epic won't be able to release updates until this situation is resolved but I don't think this has much short term impact on their business for reason states above.

Apple could resort to erasing apps from people's device but that would only help Epic (and EU, and Spotify and all those who are shouting "Monopoly" at Apple).
> Particularly in the early days of the Internet, it was considered critically important that the page be renderable before the document has been fully loaded. In other words, we want to be able to render the beginning of the HTML to the page before the HTML which will form the bottom of the page has been fully downloaded.

It's ironic that nowadays lots of sites completely ignore this guideline and force you to wait several seconds for webfonts/CSS/JS to load before the page is readable at all. We have much faster download speeds now, but this hasn't always translated into proportionately faster perceptual speeds.

It's a shame if this is the reason DSSSL was rejected, because DSSSL looks more elegant than CSS other than this issue.
> memory issues should be handled by page / block level deduplication

I seem to recall ZFS deduplication needing tons of RAM. Wouldn't the memory deduplication you suggest similarly require even more memory?
If that were the intended goal that would be great, but it isn't.

> The Trump administration had urged the court to rule against gay and transgender workers, and it has barred most transgender people from serving in the military. The Department of Health and Human Services issued a regulation on Friday that undid protections for transgender patients against discrimination by doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies.

Luckily the Supreme Court saw the absurdity of that argument and overwhelmingly ruled against it.

Huh, funny, against discrimination here, where it is politically advantageous, but for discrimination there, when it is politically advantageous.

Just call a spade a spade.
Highly political cases are few and far between.

There's also a perfectly reasonable argument on the facts to drop the case against Flynn - not least of all what appears to be motivated entrapment and no appropriate cause to investigate in the first place - but this becomes a politically charged argument and I feel it's inappropriate on HN.
Perhaps it has to do with the increased turbulence in the hotter fluid? This would be a result of the higher saturated vapor pressure of the liquid leading to greater evaporation/boiling. Even as it cools down the higher temperature difference between the hot fluid and room temperature should produce a more turbulent boundary layer along the surface of the water.

The turbulence will reduce the thermal resistance associated with laminar surface air films on colder surfaces, which would normally be insulating surface, so you'd get a faster heat loss then with a more stagnant layer of cold water.
With Google: probably, as there isn't just one appstore.

I am not sure about Apple.
Well of course - they can delay retirement, cut back, or work longer hours later to make up for financial hardship and address debts eventually. They cannot bring their children back from the dead.
Good. The sooner a big well-funded company hits this duopoly wall, the better. They will have the resources to fight this, and the outcome will hopefully be positive for all other developers.

Apple and Google are gatekeepers to all mobile devices (practically), but the value they add as gatekeepers is questionable. Certainly there is some value in their delivery (and much lesser so, their security) service; but their fees are not market set (since they are effectively monopolies by device type). If there were actual competitors, their rates would be much lower... around 2-5% probably.
An analysis from the UK government [1] summarised:

> Socio-economic effects are estimated to have the greatest impact on quality of life of all categories investigated, over the short and long term combined; from March 2020 to more than five years from now, the impacts of lockdown and a resulting recession are estimated to reduce England’s health by over 970,000 QALYs – the health impacts of contracting COVID-19 are still unclear in the long term, but between March 2020 and March 2021, these represent 570,000 lost QALYs.

So with even all the coronavirus deaths in the UK, which had one of the highest mortality rates in the western world, the lockdown is having a bigger impact on health than the virus. This is justifiable if you believe without the lockdown orders of magnitude more people would have died. But there's reasons to believe that's not the case: some recent research suggests regions are hitting "herd immunity" at only ~20% infected with basic precautions due to cross-immunity. And indeed, Sweden which didn't do a major lockdown isn't looking much worse off than the UK when comparing excess mortality.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
This is very true, and speaking as a non-black/african person, I noticed they're very different culturally. They carry a sense of national pride related to their home country, and draw from it constantly. I'm thinking about Nigerian immigrants specifically.
Actually spent some time looking at this today. It’s a bit more complex than I was hopping. As right now I’m the only user. And the only way to conecto to my registry atm is through wireguard.

It is cool seeing opensuse. Same the rancher
> Unfortunately because web content is automatically positioned/sized in a way that's (mostly) opaque to JavaScript code, this is a pretty hair problem (compared to graphics where you have all the numbers on-hand).

Exactly the same for 3d graphics. The auto-positioning is different but conceptual similar.

Yes B is my recommended approach. Since we are talking about performance, we should really be putting limits on what fast and slow mean. That is because it doesn't really matter if something is fast or slow, what matters is the performance difference between different approaches.

For B on average, performance will in the microsecond range, DOM rendering will be in the millisecond range, and the network is >100ms to seconds range. It is unlikely that B will be equal or slower to brute force rendering everything. Those X microseconds spent figuring out the culling window saves Y milliseconds rendering and saves Z milliseconds to seconds querying the network.
It probably gets worse than that. Eventually, if you pursue the task with gusto, it has to boil down to just letting people in regardless of merit. And then, if those you just let in aren't doing so well, you have to just let them pass. And so, eventually, you have to just give them degrees. And then, if those people who were just handed degrees can't convince anyone to hire them, you have to just give them the job..
I thought they required an install from their Epic Games app store on Android, specifically to get around Google Play fees.
That’s exactly how you do it. You need an “actual controversy” to have standing to sue, not just a theoretical one.
Take it easy Nostradamus.
A lot of people are giving Epic a hard time for this, but I think it takes quite a bit of gusto to disrupt such an insane moneymaker in order to rally its userbase against these anti-competitive practices.
> Sure, but let's start with turning your home into a shelter for homeless people for the sake of the society

And here, a perfect example of slippery slope. You are doing exactly what 013a called as "armchair commentators", and not looking at reality.

The reality is that there are two OSs for phones, and two stores. This arrangement is detrimental to developers and consumers, and, as it stands, there's no getting out of it without resources that no one, apart from Amazon, has.
Fortnite 1984 Apple Parody [video]
Epic stated that they want to create their own separate app store outside of apple, but are unable to because apple does not allow sideloading.

So no, Epic doesn't want to run on Big Brother's platform.
Boot into your linux install, dd /dev/random onto the executables, done.
I'm pretty sure that's the fantasy every UWP and Microsoft Store executive jerks off to.
This is also bad, but Google still allows Android users to install Epic's game store (which does continue to list Fortnite), so I think it's a bit more defensible than Apple's ban in which it's now just impossible to install the game at all. Removing from the Play Store on Android isn't equivalent to removing from the App Store on iOS; you can install apps from outside of the Play Store on Android, but you can't install apps from outside of the App Store on iOS (at least, not without jailbreaking).
Rather than a fraud, I think Caitlyn Jenner would have been seen more as a pervert or a monstrosity or an attention-seeking weirdo, depending on your world view. It's not like she's competing in women's athletics, or hides the fact that she was born a man.

But yeah, fashions change, and at some point it will be completely acceptable to pick your own ethnic identity. The only question is whether that happens in 10 years, or long after Dolezal and all her critics have been forgotten.
It has often occured to me that one of the rationale to start a colony in Mars is that wealth (at least on Earth) is mainly distributed among the wrong people, which is why so many short-sighted decisions have been made collectively by us who dominate the planet. And real innovations and progressive things are super rare. And they are often accompanied by (unnecessary) tragedies or sufferings that don't have to be that way. Theatres and facades are the norms.

But I now have come to the realisation that wrong is perhaps only in the eye of the beholder.

And there will always be censorship in a society as long as you look hard enough for it. Probably a feature not a bug though.

Maybe it just demonstrates this is the best we get collectively with neural circuitries like ours.
True. I was thinking more for archiving science. Most people in that category would probably rather push to gh or upload to Dropbox than set up a docker registry.
So? That something is predictable does not make it ethically right. That Epic could predict Apple enforcing its monopoly does not make it right for Apple to have a monopoly.
That is exactly how you start a lawsuit, because filing a claim in the US system requires “standing”. It’s perfect if the plaintiff can point to clear examples of this kind.