skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even if you take tests at face value, do you accept the student who aces math but bombs literature, or the student who is merely above average in both?

This is the kind of tradeoff I'd be happy to see colleges worried about. Complicating the fact is that US universities generally don't expect students to be set on a specific major while European ones do, making the US problem a bit harder. But I don't think this is what US unis are trading off on. I think they're trading off merit for parental wealth + future wealth (which is greatly effected by parental wealth).

Re: your comment about different unis with different criteria, I'd be a lot less worried if the diversity was evenly distributed geographically. I had the privilege of being able to choose from multiple countries. For the vast majority of high school students, studying abroad is not an option.
PHP half-copied Perl a lot. Another example is implementing arrays and hashes, but not as separate types. So you have odd behavior like the array sort functions sorting values but not renumbering keys because there's no distinction between an array and a map. Or copying Perl's string interpolation and concatenation operator but not its regular expression literals, so writing regexes in PHP requires an extra layer of escape sequences.
> and it would not affect their options to sell to customers [...] it would be possible without loosing access to customers. Nobody doesn't buy a game because they bought an unreal-only PC somewhere.

Which is why the game engine comparison is a bad one.
How to Save Mozilla
> They abandoned the plan about a year later because consumers didn't want to use it.

Due to high friction caused by android treating third party stores (and the apps instalkled through them) differently to the google play store - which will most definitely be an upcoming complaint...
Tell no-one: A century of secret deals between the NSA and the telecom industry
Every manufacturer has a “monopoly” in their own product. This does not constitute a monopoly no matter how badly you want it to.
One thing i really miss from C's printf or Java's MessageFormat is the ability to change argument positions: Different languages can display the argument in different orders, and can have the format string in a resource bundle.

It is of course very hard to have type safety when the format string is in a resource bundle
I think he was referring to his society not himself personally.
This seems like a low quality culture warring comment. :/

Is it just me or has the quality of commentry on political topics gone substantially downhill on HN in the last five years?
What do you mean soon? They have been doing so for years now.
Norway is a hydro country.

More generally the global shift to renewables (solar, wind) is proceeding rapidly, but is hampered by politics: undertaxed or subsidized supply of very cheap natural gas and coal.

But we need both measures, shift to renewable electricity and scaling down car use, as EVs still have unsustainable co2 footprints.
Yes, and they can pay 30% for the anti-virus and anti-malware service, if they want too.

But why should I pay for a service that I dont want or need?
But that's wrong, too, because the concept is clearly as old as cross-stitch and related forms of embroidery, which go back to the Middle Ages at least.
With Google now also kicking them out of the store, I don’t think that’s a battle they will win.

However, I really hope they do. Against both. That would be a great victory for the consumers.
> If one company (let's say, Tesla) owned half the electric car charging stations in town, and another company (let's say, Nissan) owned the other half, and Tesla's charging stations could only be used on Tesla vehicles and Nissan's charging stations could only be used on Nissan vehicles, would you conclude that both companies have monopolies?

Yes, of course. The fact that you can't use the other company's chargers means that there are then two markets there, one for Tesla-vehicle charging stations and one for Nissan-vehicle charging stations. You can't substitute one for the other in that case, you need one compatible with your car. It's the same reason that gas pumps aren't the same market as electric car chargers, or that gas pumps aren't the same market as diesel pumps. If there is only one diesel pump in the state then it has a monopoly no matter how many gas pumps there are because you can't use gasoline in a diesel vehicle.

If you could use either type of charger with either type of car then they would be in the same market, because a customer who wants to charge their car could substitute either one for the other, so they would each actually be in competition with the other and neither would have a monopoly.

I think the fact that the "chargers" and the "cars" are hypothesized to be operated by the same company is what's messing people up.

Suppose you have two companies that each operate half the charging stations in the same region. One is Tesla, and you can only use them to charge a Tesla vehicle. The other is Exxon, which has started installing electric car chargers at their gas stations, and where you can charge any car including a Tesla. Well then Tesla hasn't got a monopoly on anything, because any Tesla owner can go charge their car at Exxon, and Exxon doesn't have a monopoly for Tesla vehicles, because they can also go charge their car at Tesla. But Exxon does have a monopoly for charging non-Tesla vehicles, because if you have a Nissan or a Chevy, you can't use the Tesla chargers, leaving Exxon as your only option.
I love the "Wat" talk. I wrote a blog a few years ago where I attempted to dig into the JavaScript cases Gary's cites and figure out what is actually happening.

https://medium.com/@mikehall314/wat-s-happening-a-closer-loo...
That's because it used to be that <30% of high-school students would step foot inside a university, _i.e._ just getting a degree meant you were ahead of the pack and well-employable.

Nowadays, literally anyone can obtain a degree. You've got to have something more to show if you want to stand out. The "more" part is poorly defined by design, of course.

To add even more to this already dismal situation, education fees have gone through the roof to ensure that smart people of low extraction don't get too much leverage against people who are powerful by right of birth.

Education has become an industry just like any other. This decadence makes me extremely sad.
Many industries converge on similar pricing, and that doesn’t make it anti competitive. It may be anti competitive here, but that also may just be the natural price the market is willing to bear.
> The new GoG galaxy is wonderful

GoG Galaxy was a bad idea that undermined GoG almost immediately.

They still market themselves as "GOG.COM, the DRM-free home for a curated selection of games". But there are two forms of DRM they allow.

#1, you can't use multiplayer without providing a registration code.

#2, you can't play the game unless you're running Galaxy in the background.

I have a hard time believing they honestly think "well, DRM is a bad thing in general, but not when we're doing it".
> It will be interesting to see one of these "in the flesh" as it were

Transparent OLEDs are not that new, they have been around for a while. See this Thermostat by Johnson COntrols.

https://www.amazon.ca/Thermostat-Johnson-Controls-Translucen...
I'm based in the UK and we had UK newspaper website stories (Daily Mail, The Sun, The Independent and others which are on both the left and the right sides of politics) about Cannon Hinnant here before there were results on those US websites. In fact the only reason why I'm aware of this zero results issue is because people started posting "Why are UK newspapers reporting this but not our own US media?".

So I checked for myself and sure enough zero results.

I'd suggest that if something has been reported internationally and locally but not nationally that something strange is happening.
A tiny vocal minority.
It took me up to Wholefoods to realize you're talking about the US state & not the country of Georgia :)
Its not just slavery, its jim crow, segregation, black people being systematically disadvantaged through racist policies like getting higher rates on loans despite having the same risk. Also:

- the New Deal excluded black people

- The GI Bill excluded black people

etc...

Slaves built a huge part of the economy for free and americans benefit from that work for which they were not compensated, so yes there absolutely should be reparations. I think this should be done in several ways:

- monetarily: by funding scholarships and other projects to remedy the injustices perpetrated and help black americans accumulate some of the generational wealth they have been denied. Although at the end of the day, no amount of money will ever compensate for the hurt, death and atrocities, its a start.

- education: teaching kids at school what slavery was really like, instead of what some of the schoolbooks teach (that slavery wasn't that bad for example). Teaching kids about systemic racism that persists to this day.

- policing, housing, prisons: watch 13th documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8) its free on netflix

(edit: spelling and formatting)
One click to close, one click for reader mode. And amount of effort so I'll read the article. Well worth it, too.
It makes sense to join a startup if you consider the salary alone sufficient compensation.
We've tried two external parties for this task. First got bought by a competitor to most of our customers so became a big no-go. Second got bought and went off in another direction.

That's why we're looking at doing this in-house (via Azure or something ala this) even though we really don't want to.
> It is also a place where 97 percent of the land is held in traditional tribal or communal commons arrangements. This creates challenges for modernizing and developing because you can't sell the land, which means you can't mortgage it.

Why is this a challenge if it is the constitutional choice of a sovereign nation. My impression is that this arrangement is knowingly and purposefully meant to avoid Western modernization and development, in order to perpetually safeguard the traditional way of life. Western property regime equals appropriation, displacement, and dislocation, then the concentration of wealth in owners. Mortgaging your land also has a negative connotation, especially when the lien-holder has unbalanced power to cause default and then take the land. Seems like PNG was trying to avoid this and keep traditional life alive in a natural state, not modernize and develop. There are plenty of places where Western ways have encroached and irreversibly changed indigenous outcomes. Let them have this one place where they have a chance to live their way.
While we're on the subject: can anyone recommend a good place to start with containerized infrastructure "the right way" to someone who has only ever administered actual hardware the old-school way? It's not my day job, so it's not something I've been keeping too close an eye on.

Maybe some books? Much appreciated!
I don't get the problem.

The App Store (Apple or Google) is a software distribution platform run by the owner of the platform. The platform has rules to cover costs and generate profit. Participation is entirely voluntary.

Epic Games has violated the TOS of the platform, and for this both Google and Apple has removed their app(s) from their platforms. Again, participation is entirely voluntary, but if you participate you're expected to follow the rules of the platform.

It's really not down to Apple keeping a walled garden, or Apple vs. Users, or Google spying on you.. again, Participation is entirely voluntary, that also goes for users.
I am really surprised that this story got the weekend interview slot of the WSJ, no less.
> talking consumer electronics here - something that is still considered luxury

I disagree. A smartphone is a necessity in this current era. If for example your government requires you to install a Covid tracing app, what choice do you have besides Apple and Android (both of which removed Fortnite)?
You think 1% is going to pay for the entire development of iOS?

It would be a monopoly if Apple was 80%+ of the phone market; but they're not. If you don't like Apple's business model, there are plenty of other fine phones out there to buy. It's not like Microsoft in the 90's, where they controlled 95% of the desktop market.

> The onerous terms forbid (among other things) pricing differently on the app store.

Didn't know about this; this is onerous, I agree. And I would say forcing price changes for things outside of your dominion should be illegal. (i.e., forcing Fortnite to charge people more who are not buying through the Apple platform is prima facie evidence of an abuse of power.)
If you can pull in that much money it probably makes more sense to get a loan with favorable conditions and then pay it off in your 30s if your business fails.
> "white" (which is weird in itself because it's technically a bunch of different races bundled into one light skinned bucket).

Nowhere near as weird as "black". Not only is there more genetic diversity within Africa than anywhere else, anyone who has a single drop of black in their lineage is considered black, unless they have completely white skin. It's a ridiculously broad bucket.
This is being worked on: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/67984
AFAIK the rare earth metals aren't actually particularly rare, just uneconomical to mine. It will probably eventually be cheaper to mine heavy metals like gold in space to feed manufacturing in space than to send them up from the surface of the Earth.
You’re doing just that: you’re making everything look like a monopoly by focusing on a single product. Yes, Apple has a “monopoly” on iPhones the same way that Nike has a monopoly on Air Jordans. It’s not a monopoly.
> I hope Israel would take as many Palestinians as possible. Without turning itself into one.

> We can go on creating a great country for the Israeli Arabs, Jews, Druze and Christians

So you're arguing for the one-state solution. You do realize that that means the end of the nature of Israel as a "Jewish state" (definition that was just sanctioned in the law), and that a democracy in which half of the citizens are Palestinians is going to fundamentally change the nature of the country?
That information suddenly appeared(?) on their pricing page in the comparison table, near the bottom: https://www.docker.com/pricing
High end phones from most manufacturers cost the same.
So in a sense it’s a steam engine powering a space ship.
Always want to create a game engine myself, do you know where to start?
What do you mean by the "bowled through"? Didn't they go through the FCC (US) who took it to the ITU (UN) and get it all cleared? Looks like the international body in charge permitted it?

What does good behaviour look like?
To reach a good balance you don't use rebellion, you don't need to take action. If you want to fight greed, start with yourself and then maybe your peers.

Accept what is and don't buy stuff you don't need. Hopefully we learn this before something worse than covid destroys all.

Also it's very hard task to keep a good eco system running, both Google and Apple do their best here. Most organisations crumble from the inside at their size.

Hey, actually several companies reached a size where they have the stability to offer the same service to most part of the world and it allows us to communicate basically free. We also have gadgets that is super duper advanced in our pockets. Embrace that give them some slack. Lead them by example and create a counter culture that takes all the good parts and makes them better. You got a silver plate of goodies, anyone in the past would trade that spot with you in an instance.
the upcoming S3 will have Bluetooth while being otherwise similar
Established? Hmm....
Well, the government used to enforce antitrust laws.
Microsoft got into a huge anti-trust battle over simply bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. Compare this to the state of iOS, which is in far worse shape - internal APIs that only Apple apps can use, Safari can never be completely removed or replaced, the App store shenanigans, etc. It's a testament to the complete capture of Washington by corporate lobbyists that Apple gets away with it.
Laravel is a great framework to work with, I would seriously recommend giving it a try.

As for NPM and the JavaScript packages, this is a flipping nightmare and I hate working with it!
How is having to navigate N stores, because all companies want to make more money off you, better for the consumer?
Where exactly are these 6500 gallons of drilling fluid and how would they have been retrieved if the project was succesfull?

They are not boring a tunnel... So is there just a quite thin pipe in the ground? is it filled with the fluid? Or is there some storage for the fluid?
Not the same language but this is still an important read http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/ although its not quite a lost art as it is made out to be. A developer is expected to know this.
I thought the Hologram technology in Blade Runner 2049 was pretty "flawless". The most interesting thing for that movie was that you see different levels of hologram technology.

The hologram that follows the main characters seems to be pretty high tech, and looks flawless. And they show the hologram stuff by having her move through objects.

But when the main characters walks around the city, you see hologram commercials that are the size of buildings. Those don't look lifelike. They're transparent and have limited colors.
try Quora?
I’ve worked in a number of areas with basically no fail/delay SLAs. I think it’s naive to think “if you need a hot fix right now, you’re doing it wrong”...the number of times we needed to hot fix because of ourselves was very low. But when you’re in an integration heavy environment and one of the many moving parts (outside of your control) breaks, well thought out “put the fire out” stopgaps on the server consistently save the day (and the company money by not breaching the SLA)
I don't think Apple want to be seen as a producer of cheap products.

But I agree, there is a risk that Apple locks down its platform even more.
For first world professionals, it’s nothing.

For others it’s steep. And maybe that was the point.
If nomenclature is the reason for withholding features and development, you've got other problems.
Yes, mining materials in space to avoid the fuel cost of bringing them up to orbit is a perfectly feasible use of space industry. But it's not going to make any industrial resources cheaper for us down there.
But "void" is not an empty set, it is no set at all...
That was meant to be a reply to 463yeuddjje!
I did my best and I've put images & info @ https://twitter.com/peterbowyer/status/1294181276061241344.
> This is not scientific progress, this is just two billionaires trying to one up each other and muscling their way around the world to rub their egos.

Starlink claims to have other objectives. Why do you think their stated objectives are dishonest?
I would love to see PHP get some more/new love, it has a great community, fantastic tutorials and the package manager (composer) well just WOW!
It doesn't have the same ambiguity because people generally don't think of buying speech.
Both of those choices have huge costs. SPARK may cost you actual money to use. It also takes longer to develop because of the large amount of safety checks. It is suitable for writing code that runs on nuclear missiles. But you may not actually need that level of correctness and can just use Java instead. Rust's safety features focus on memory errors, which with Java is already solved for you. Another aspect of Rust's safety is preventing data races, which Java doesn't guarantee prevention of but SPARK does[1]. Rust covers a small subset of potential errors your program could have whereas SPARK could find errors throughout your code including in logic. Honestly though most "high-integrity fault tolerant distributed systems" out are written in C++, so just using something like Java is already a massive improvement in safety. But if you must choose one of these two, then it must be for a good reason, so choose SPARK. Rust occupies this middle zone which is neither specialized for extreme correctness nor convenience like Python.

[1] https://docs.adacore.com/spark2014-docs/html/ug/en/source/co...
If we disregard the app purchase (which few complain about) and focus on in-app purchases now. E.g. for buying fortnite hats or netflix subscriptions, where the in-app purchase is NOT processed by apple, surely that can't give rise to any kind of added costs for apple (customer support, transaction costs)?
Good Bye Skype
I have been using Skype for many years.
It was once a good piece of software before you-know-who obtained it.

They made a new UI, linked together accounts from different projects.

Things started to fell apart very fast.

You can find tons of complains from users having problems.
- The new UI is widely recognized as a huge failure
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-current-Skype-UI-so-badly-designed

- Options to revert to the older versions are obfuscated and not supported

- Problem with skype auto-updating on start
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/all/how-to-stop-skype-from-updating/d2c7edcb-bbc8-4155-9f35-89a180825c0c
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/all/this-version-of-skype-is-no-longer-supported-get/c6ea5228-995c-4bad-8357-cef4c921f5dd

- Problem with account linkage
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/all/skype-account-and-microsoft-account-madness/50696c26-5e10-4131-b6a3-17e4fc083d79

Today a friend of mine accidentally logged into another person's account.
We were looking at another persons contacts, profile details, we were able to send messages out.
We have repeated this process on PC and Android devices.

I don't want to share the technical details here because it may damage a lot of people in so many ways.
Unfortunately the problem is so easy to reproduce that I wonder how many users have already experienced this breach.

Good bye Skype, forever now.
Mpemba effect: what conditions make hot water freeze faster than cold water?
Same, we fixed our own problem. Still, talked to others to understand if there is a demand. Because there is always a chance that it is only you who have such issues.
Asking about non-container systems on HN is mostly going to get you "you're doing it wrong" responses -- HN people are very driven by blog-sexy tooling and architectures.

If you want to deploy fast you need to skip steps and reduce I/O - stateful things are _good_ -- deploying with rsync/ssh and HUPing services is very fast, but people seem to have lost this as an option in a world with Docker.

I consult in this space - first 30m on the phone is free - hmu if interested.
Yeah, but relying on a good decade of outside returns is not a good strategy for the future.