skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> most of it is coming from the tokens and loot boxes bought by whales.

Apple's money is coming from where exactly ? At $1000+ price, in gaming terminology that is either "whales" or users who cannot afford it but are exploited/addicted to the "product". There are perfectly equivalent android phones for less than half that price. Ultimately apple and epic are lifestyle companies, you don't "need" either of them sure, that doesn't mean they are not providing value to the economy.

> Would Apple be in their right to charge $25K fee

I am sure Epic will gladly pay 25k or $250k fee which is exactly the point. $99 is great for indie developer not for large businesses. You may not want large businesses in the store, Many do, I want my apps not to stop working because the developer lost interest, I want the companies behind the apps not to go bankrupt .

> We would they be within their right to charge a bandwidth fee like Amazon does with the Kindle

Sure, the can charge reasonable or even cloud rates, or even better they don't need to provide the bandwidth at all or make it optional. Many developers I am sure are happy to host files with a CDN of their choosing, a provider they can negotiate their rate at scale .I am sure apple will object on user experience grounds. Google allows you to run your own store you can use your own CDN. Sure without playservices they make it hard, both Amazon and Samsung do deliver through it though.

> The cost of credit card transaction is around 3% + $0.25/transaction

That is the retail rate for a high end service provider like stripe. Apple (or any company doing $1M+/month) is not paying anywhere remotely close to that.

In any other industry price scales with usage. Enterprise/ high volume customers do not pay retail, retail rates have a big per unit CAC associated with it b2b sales have CAC but it is not any linearly correlated to units. Customers normally at decent volumes can negotiate, Apple will not give any volume discounts. They can get away with it because of their control over the market.

Epic does not care you and I are paying 30%. They care that they are paying the same 30%.

Apple also does not care small developers are paying 30% or not, they want 30% from epic size customers.
Unfortunately not. I was hoping for it.
As I expected, the tigers adapted and there were other mixed results too

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9179/does-weari...
I used Vercel for the first time last week and the time between creating a repo to have a Next site publicly deployed was minutes. A custom domain was a couple minutes more. I was gobsmacked, this is something that took me weeks four years ago.
Death of a Forgotten Anomaly
Is J fast enough for image processing? I have to do all of my experiments in C because every other language is just too slow.
It’s funny both you and the GP comment followed the same exact steps as I did. I guess I technically learned Pascal with with Turbo Pascal and also with Delphi. But yeah it’s funny because Python is where I ended up. What I like about it is that it seems very pragmatic. There is no sloppiness in it but also no high dogma of how things ought to be if you want to be sure your program is correct. It lets you get stuff done and gets out of your way.
You can see its properties here https://github.com/rurban/smhasher

Passes all smhasher tests for a tiny size (157 byte on x64), but slow as every more secure hash. I would put it as alternative to people using siphash. Personally I see no use case for siphash at all. Slow, big, insecure, easily brute forcable.
We Have Never Been Medieval
I feel like the death penalty does need to be on the table in very egregious cases. If you are responsible for thousands of deaths, then it is extremely improbable that the evidence against you would be anything less than overwhelming. In such cases, yes, capital punishment should be on the table.

Frankly, I am okay with having harsher penalties automatically applied to the extremely rich, including having the death penalty. Extremely rich should be defined fairly generously here, but it should be defined and treated as a separate class. Yes it creates a separate class of people, but lets be realistic -- the extremely rich already are in a separate class.
Netlify is one of the best services my team uses. It does exactly what you expect it to do and then gets the fuck out of your way. I love it!

They also have smart features baked right in like pre-rendering. Literally hit a checkbox and you're prerendering.
Woolly flying squirrel spotted in Uttrakhand's Gangotri National Park
And lispy langs mostly use "define…" keywords.
Much closer to what I need than previous contenders! Now, if only it were open source (compile on your own) and was embeddable (as a web component?) for easy integration into other platforms...
So the point is: C is crap because the tooling for windows is crap?

I think it’s worth distinguishing between language traits and its ecosystem in a very particular platform. The latter being crap just means not enough people care for it (at leat openly). It has nothing to do with the language itself.
I mean, I hear all sorts of really heinous crimes…people who serially kidnap, rape, torture, kill victims in the most horrible ways possible. I am extremely doubtful that there is anything that is much worse than that, and yet I'm still against the death penalty. Perhaps he should explain what it is he sees instead of trying claim we're too ignorant to understand why the death penalty should be instituted?
Great list. My personal choice is Netlify.

With Netlify Functions and FaunaDB (also with a generous free tier), I have a full stack web app, complete with a database, hosted for free (https://www.quidsentio.com)
An addiction is only a problem if you stop having access to the drug. It used to be the case (I don't know about now amid the anti-opioid mania) that doctors didn't bother trying to avoid opiate addiction in patients who were in their last few months of years of life. The supply is assured, the benefits are obvious, the drugs are cheap (though some opiates are expensive because of massive research spending on making them less addictive!), and the patient is never going to experience withdrawal in the context of hospice care. Alcohol withdrawal is just as unpleasant and more likely to kill you than opiate withdrawal, but for no particularly good reason you can't buy oxycodone at the corner store.

The failure is on all of us for creating a society in which being addicted to opiates will ruin your life. There's no reason this has to be the case.
People progress from routine prescription opiates to hard-core stuff like oxycodone and fentanyl (which is also a prescription opiate) to heroin and street fentanyl. It's not saying much to point out that the terminus of the addiction process is a product that Purdue doesn't itself sell.
There probably still exist some weird edge cases introduced by imagemagick that the developer(s) behind graphicsmagick haven't accounted for.

That is, should graphicsmagick account for quirks introduced by imagemagick? If it's meant to truly be a drop-in replacement versus one with some strings attached, I would say the answer is yes. Otherwise, you can't easily just drop it into a system and let it run.

Systems built with libraries around long enough as imagemagick likely have all sorts of workarounds built in over the years for that kind of behavior and any deviation from imagemagick might break things more than one expects. We've all been bitten by libraries that claim backwards compatibility with previous versions, only to find out there's breaking changes in some non-trivial use cases the library devs didn't consider. Add those complications on top of switching to a library that is supposed to be a drop in replacement and it can get pretty messy for what seemed like a trivial task.
Aren't they using (and overdosing on) harder and harder opioids precisely because we gave them weaker ones earlier?
Yes I’ve heard this argument before as well and understand that’s why tipping is still pervasive however most restaurants aren’t $$$+ meaning most service workers don’t earn this amount and it still requires customers to pay more at their own “choosing” for the staff to have a liveable income.

I was once chased out of a restaurant in New York and forced to tip 10% after they got both our orders wrong, what they did eventually serve us was cold, the staff were very rude (apparently he couldn’t understand our accent - I’m from the UK south and basically have zero accent) and the toilets hadn’t been cleaned in what looked like forever. Yet apparently I still had to tip or he would called the police. This place was rated as $$$.
In general there needs to be more personal liability for white-collar crime. Now in corporations it often goes something like this (implicitly or not): "So you say we'll probably earn [this amount] and, when discovered, we are likely to have to pay between [this and that amount] in fines? Well then, that's a great ROI you got there, Roy. I'd say we go for it". And they lived happily after.
The proximate issue is Windows; MS has some level of culpability. How do you get angry at an object when there are people responsible for your ills?
You may think they are completely wrong, but it is your duty to explain why you think so rather than writing a comment that provides no additional information.
What do you call the Play Store? What do you call Android? Talk about false equivalence, you’ve just demonstrated that.
> It’s right there in the receipt

That's the main issue with it. It should be on the menu, on every page that contains prices. Once it's (only) on the receipt it's too late to pick another restaurant. In Europe they're required by law to list it.
Apple Gives Users More Time to Buy AppleCare After Sales Slow
Not everywhere
https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2009.105#:~:text=Resear....
If you really think about it, Satisfactory is a game about destroying a beautiful planet with huge concrete platforms and heavy machinery in pursuit of strip mining all of the world's resources and delivering them to the capitalist overlords via a space elevator.

At least, that's where I think the story mode's gonna go.

Don't give up on Satisfactory though! Managing collisions gets easier as you play more, mostly just leaving a lot of room and using vertical space. The jetpack really opens up the game.
FDIC to Repeal 36% Rate Cap and Bank Payday Loan Guidance
You’re totally right! My mistake
A Virginia couple that gave birth to the billable hour
Some NIMBYs I've met just don't want any change at all if there's any amount of immediate inconvenience they would face as a direct result regardless of how small. In these worst NIMBY cases there's often no particularly compelling arguments for why because it's all just flimsy justifications to avoiding dealing with any change. Logical argument about costs and benefits tend to go nowhere with these people. Sometimes framing things in terms of reducing future hassles and change can get things moving.
Depends. New poles proposed often carry not just electricity, but also a cellular station, 2 or 3 cameras, 'smart' blazing bright led street lights going on and off at irregular times and 1 or 2 sizable led advertizing displays constatly adapting their messages to perceived passers by.

I can definetly see how replacing a lowly old pole with one of these annoyance towers can lead to strong opposition even for those not having 5G scares.
Not only that.

I had a friend who studied geo economics (or something like that)

Basically: why do cities build around mountains, rivers etc and why do citizens s build "clusters" of expertise. Like a city full of indie developers.

To make it short: ylu just can't build planned cities.
I’d be keen to see some supporting links for this?
A Guide to the IBM 3033 Processor Complex (1979) [pdf]
Decentralization and self-sovereign identity are the only way to solve this, IMO. I'll sing the praises of Estonia on this one: their X-Road system for storing sensitive data is brilliant.

I'm working on a team writing an in-depth whitepaper on this topic right now, I'd love to link it. Perhaps when it's published.
What does this actually accomplish?
Asking questions would increase the mortality?
The DEA is supposed to do it in the US as well. Each doctor has a DEA number and the DEA has access to what they prescribe. I think one issue is if you're a doctor at a pain clinic or at a hospice, you'd prescribe very large amounts of opioids. If you're a family doctor, you shouldn't be. I don't know why the DEA wasn't cracking down more quickly.

There were examples of "pill mills" where doctors were writing scripts for hundreds of thousands of pills per month, which clearly shouldn't happen.
from __future__ import braces
SyntaxError: not a chance
What's the point of using those services over uploading the app files into a directory that is served by any webserver?

>Render is a unified platform to build and run all your apps and websites with free SSL, a global CDN, private networks and auto deploys from Git.

Apart from the CDN, that's all available for e.g. Digital Ocean Droplets. But why would a CDN be needed for static websites?
Day 4: Introduction to IT security and resources I use to practice them
Just stupid serial protocols to talk between devices. Often you have problems with picking commands and responses out of noise and or garbage. Think half duplex RS485. Protocols that use one token for delineating messages have poor error recovery/synchronization. I think pythons grammar is rather poor as a result. Other languages are far better. It's important because it effects tooling because tooling often has to deal with broken input.
Every meteorite fall on earth mapped
If you ever wanted to read reviews of people thinking they're affected by money lending apps, go onto google play and see how people rate something like "Dave."

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dave&hl=en...

It's an interesting window.
Transformative justice seems like a potentially more useful useful form of justice than retributive justice.

https://savethekidsgroup.org/defining-transformative-justice...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_justice
Not nearly as big a deal but I haven't bonded with my dog. I got her, trained her, she's great, she loves me to pieces, but I don't actually find joy from her or care about her beyond moral obligation. There's not really any other option than just living with her until she does of old age, since she loves me a lot and adopting her out would be cruel.
I was riding my bicycle and stopped for Stallman at a pedestrian crossing; he grunted positively in my general direction.
A CDN is most useful for static sites, no? Since the page content rarely changes it's easy to cache.
People doing horrifying things justify horrifying things be done to them?
Why? Why is it fair to execute someone who murders 20 hitchhikers, or 3,000 Americans on 9/11, but not someone who knowingly takes actions that lead to the death of (i.e., murders) 500,000 people?

It's not "better" to advocate for leniency (and anything less than capital punishment is leniency for these animals) -- for crimes of this magnitude it dishonors the victims. This is why societies always execute war criminals, and the Sacklers are definitely in the same category as a Saddam Hussein in the number of people killed. Hiding behind a corporation doesn't lessen the crime any more than hiding behind a government office or a military uniform.

If a political party ran on the platform of rounding up the top 1000 corporate criminals and sticking a needle in their arms they'd have my vote from President down to sheriff.
The iFixit guide for battery replacement on the mid-2015 MBP [1] is a 74 step process involving the use of a nasty chemical solvent to remove the glue that holds the battery. You must have found some enormous shortcuts to have replaced your battery in 15 minutes!

I'm quite comfortable opening most electronics, but my MBP is one of the few I would hire a professional to handle.

[1]: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Retina+Disp...
I don't recommend Github Pages as they have issues with routing.

Read this [1] for workarounds but it's more than annoying to work around instead of just using a better hosting solution.

Personally I have only ever tried GH Pages and Netlify had no issues at all with Netlify.

[1] https://github.com/rafgraph/spa-github-pages
> I guess because I was not living hand-to-mouth, I didn't "need" the money?

More that you made the conscious choice to work without pay for 2 years, and you and any dependents didn't starve or end up homeless in the process. That's something few people can do.
We've been using AWS Amplify and it's been pretty nice. It allows pairing with Github and deployments by branches. CI Integrations are not that great, like Slack bots and stuff, but it gets the job done as a good place to deploy code. The free-tier is fairly generous, and it's nice that everything lives in AWS (if you're already using them for other things)

https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/console/
Allow side loading of apps. But broadcast that this device has sideloaded apps via an API. So banking apps can be disabled themselves if there are sideloaded apps. Block iOS updates. Also voids warranty.

Secondary payment method can be implemented along with apple's own payment system just like how it is for `Sign in with Apple` . If you have `Login with Facebook`, then there should be `Sign in with Apple`. The alternative payment option can be turned on and off in settings. If it is turned on, then no more Support from Apple
For some, but it's complicated. 45% of opioid addicts started with prescription opioids, but a significant number of those were prescription opioids diverted from legal sources (i.e. they were taking opioids that weren't prescribed for them).[1]

[1]https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/addiction/opioi...
That is not in scope for this case. The facts of what the Sacklers have done are not in question. You can make an argument against their execution but it can't be "they got the wrong guy."
Given the ongoing security updates and years of upgrades provided to older phones, I would argue that the marginal cost of iOS is NOT zero nor anywhere close to it. Relatively low, sure, but one would need to figure the amortized cost of ~5–6 years of OS updates across the devices who are receiving the latest iOS this fall.
Let’s Learn x86-64 Assembly: Part 0 – Setup and First Steps
Ha, great observation!

Yes and no :)

We've been exceptionally lucky to have several of our close friends help us out with building an MVP (also helps that our friends have serious experience!). There's a total of 6 of us - 3 people focusing on infra, frontend and Java connector bits, which allowed myself, Ustin and another dev to put 100% of our attention on backend services + arch.

That enabled us to knock this out in a few months. Without the assist, it would probably be closer to your estimate.

Something that may be of interest to some folks: we saved a significant amount of time by not having to run our own k8s - we use EKS, it's very nice. Also, MSK - not having to run/manage ZK clusters and kafka nodes is a (costly) privilege haha
Generally they're associated with quasars and formedby supermassive black holes at the centers of active galaxies, which our galaxy doesn't really qualify for. However, while relatively quiet, Sagittarius A* does accelerate things to fairly high speeds, and it is thought that it might have some faint jets and an accretion disk.
Opiates are a comfortable place to exist for people with little economic hope for the future. I'd rather focus on that.
> I had a cat die of melamine-tainted Chinese cat food. The CEO of the company was executed.

This statement is downright wrong. The regulator was executed, not the CEO. The regulator also approved untested drugs, which killed people. The sentencing was probably not because of the cats.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=118460...
I completely agree. They should be jailed, this unfortunately goes too deep. They are responsible for the death of millions. I would venture to guess close to the amount of people who die in wars
As a counter point, there are always some business oldsters who remain attached to their old technology stack, don't really contribute anything to moving innovation forward, and arrive 5 years after a tech has matured with wisecracks which are technology's equivalent of "If you wait long enough, everything reverts to the mean". Sure, but I think we already know that.

Besides, I am not sure how anyone can argue that the level of churn is bad, considering that it is usually proportional to the volume of new ideas and an eventual winner emerging (albeit not always in a meritocratic fashion).
Illegal actions - especially by the government - must be punished. Otherwise our laws are just a polite suggestion. I agree that it's problematic to conflate Right-to-repair with technical issues that are supposed to be solved by the legal system.
Software is speech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab....

You can read any book, watch any movie, listen to any music, but not run any code. That limits expression. Plenty of topics are off limits because the only way to run them is as apps and apple doesn't allow them.

Some of you would apparently be okay of Apple restricted movies, music, and books to only movies, music, and books apple sells and made it impossible to view/read/listen otherwise including removing the browser? Because that's effectively what they've done for apps.

There should be no distinction. Either the platform is open to all media or the platform is a form of suppression and control of ideas those in control don't approve of.
The reliance on the point grey libraries is a bit of a bummer since my cameras are mostly based on firewire cameras using the dcam protocol via libdc1394.

Also a bummer that the software apparently can't even run without the camera hardware attached (having just tried it). How are other people supposed to load and view result files?
Someone with a medical license and the legal ability to collect and secure data gave it to these clowns who clearly had no idea what they were doing.
I really appreciate you sharing this. After a few years in the industry but without a CS degree I've been going through the teachyourselfcs curriculum. I hadn't come across coding theory yet. Where should I start if a lot of the math symbols in your link are lost on me? I know I've used them years ago but I've forgotten.
In quantum computing, I can implement important effects using the measurement operation. For example, I can reduce the number of Toffoli gates used during an addition by measuring at particular places in the circuit. From this we can easily see that measurement must matter a lot in quantum mechanics, since its presence allows you to reduce the cost of certain tasks.

No one has postulated a "conscious measurement operation" with additional useful effects beyond the measurement defined in textbooks. (Well, okay, Roger Penrose says things that kinda sound like that, but that's pretty fringe and beyond the scope of quantum mechanics.) In fact, there's literally no known experiment that a person or a machine could perform that would distinguish a "conscious measurement" from the usual mechanical measurements quantum computers use. That is the sense in which consciousness has nothing to do with measurement.

IMO quantum mechanics really doesn't have anything to say about consciousness that wasn't already present in classical mechanics. Instead of saying "but how can an assemblage of gears experience an outcome" we're saying "but how can an assemblage of superposed gears experience an outcome". It's just the same hard-problem-of-consciousness confusion dressed in new clothing.