skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a very American perspective to see this as black or white. You should be able to tell something is wrong by looking at what Apple is doing. Looking at how Fortnite operates does not give me the same feeling. Obviously Fortnite as a platform is not the same as iOS as a platform, and holding monopoly positions for each yield completely different outcomes. They are not equivalent.
Interesting. But today they are both collaborative projects?
I'm not a lawyer, but presumably because there's US antitrust law, under which the courts may find Apple's contractual impositions to be illegal. They may also find they are legal, but if the court has any doubt they should grant Epic's request to stop retaliation.
Unity acquires company behind Plastic SCM
As a user I'd much rather pay for a service used on my phone through Apple Pay and not have to worry about how the service is handling my card details/personal information. If I want to cancel any subscriptions I can easily do it from the one place inside my iPhone as well. I agree it's probably not worth paying 30% extra for though.
Apple has 200 million paying developers?
Alternate day fasting (Fasting for 36 hours, Eat 12 hours, Fast 36, Eat 12, etc..) has worked well for me and isn't quite as scary.
There is concurrency in contact tracing. In developing nations it’s like a map reduce problem. You send out the contact tracers in the morning, they gather results and sync up at the end of the day.

Being able to sync better through the day means reducing multiple checks on families, adds in new contacts that could be checked by others nearby. Stuff like that.

Thanks for sharing this app. I haven’t seen any data showing these user run apps are useful. Even if they got enough users to run them, the noise is so high to actually do anything with the results.

Although I’m optimistic that someone will figure it out and publish some papers on it.
The author seems to have his own special definition for the words passion and interest yet he never explains what the difference is nor gives examples what constitutes each. When the author talks about "destructive passions" I assume he's talking about things like drinking, fighting, gambling, and cheating on your spouse, but I don't know how he thinks capitalism curbs any of those vices nor how he thinks those vices lead to fascism. The idea that capitalism was "devised" to rob us of our free time so that we can't partake in destructive actions is one that needs a lot more evidence to back it up.

Overall, it's puzzling that this was posted here. It's a terrible essay.
Tracking down three billion litres of lost water in England and Wales
Can we really call Epic Games and Fortnite a small business?
https://archive.vn/ycC6W
I honestly don’t know the homebrew team but I use it and it’s the first thing to come to mind when I saw this xkcd.

Edit: partly because I also know the original author was denied a job at Google. Imagine the productivity gain this team has given to a company the size of google.
This is the funniest (to me) alt text I've ever read. Had me chuckling for a solid minute!
is it just my browser, or is the image for pdf-redact-tools really a bunch of wasted space in the top half with the bottom row of dependencies barely legible?
Anything to get the clicks
This has been a painfully lonely time for many children. There's no good solution for this. But here are some ways, I've found families have navigated the social isolation piece

-small online clubs
-daily scheduled facetime with friends
-focusing on developing/nurturing healthy relationships with siblings and parents (this goes along way in building healthy attachments later in life)
-socially distanced hikes with friends wearing masks
-make friends with one other family who is also socially distancing.
Simple Game – Amazon Appstore
Project Ara was so overdesigned that I'm almost convinced that it was a false flag.
The statement that "animal agriculture = bad" is a half-truth.

It's true that if you feed corn to pigs most of the energy gets thermalized.

It's also true that animals can eat grass in places where the soil would dry up and blow away if you tried to grow corn.
> because their platform doesn't suck that much

Apple is the reason why web experiences on iOS suck. They deliberately lag on web standards so that their browser experience is inferior to native apps. None of this accidental.

And no, it's not just inconvenience. There are things on iOS that are literally impossible to do in WebGL. Reliable, persistent offline storage on iOS is impossible to do from a web app. Reliable persistent login on iOS is impossible to do from a web app. Notifications are impossible to do on iOS from a web app. The APIs have not been added to the platform.

It's not inconvenient -- you literally can't do them. It is not a comparable platform, because Apple makes sure that it will never be a comparable platform. It's not that Apple made an amazing native experience and the web couldn't keep up. The reason the web can't keep up on iOS is because Apple deliberately hobbles its mobile browser.

> Apple with all its money is in no position to dictate the way you or anyone else establish a new ecosystem based on open standards and free licenses.

https://venturebeat.com/2019/08/16/apples-corellium-lawsuit-...

Imagine a world where I could build a phone that was compatible with every iOS app and Android app, where users didn't have to choose in advance which ecosystem they wanted to be a part of.

Imagine a world where I could build a competitor to iOS that allowed users to port the apps that they had already bought to their new phones outside of Apple's ecosystem, rather than spending hundreds of dollars buying all of them a second time.

Imagine a world where I could build and sell my own hardware that dual-booted iOS and Android.

Imagine a world where I could sell a TV/Phone that would play DRM-encumbered content from Apple devices and iTunes.

That would be a real free market. In the current market, any of those competitors would be sued into oblivion.

> If you make this claim, then it's on you to prove that in the absence of regulations you won't be able to enter the market with your new competing platform.

Give people a real free market, and then we'll find out whether or not in the absence of regulations they can compete.

You keep on repeating the exact same argument, that regulation is the problem. I'm not sure that you're following what I'm saying. All I'm advocating for is that we get rid of all of the regulation. If you have a problem with regulation, then fine, let's get rid of it, including the DMCA.

It doesn't sound like you have a problem with market regulation and interference though. It sounds like you have a problem with a very small subset of regulations.
Couldn't agree more. To expand on the point a bit I feel that Node (and JS in general, and other wildin' langs like C++ too) mostly have disadvantages that can be circumvented with discipline while keeping their advantages intact. Go and related crew on the other hand impose discipline as a language feature, and if you circumvent it (if you even can) you're missing much of the point of the language.
Yes exactly, I don’t know how much effort they put in to just discussing it with Apple, but it is clear they planned this out and that’s why I don’t like about it.
And their plan seems a bit melodramatic to me.
Token slot machines used to be common prior to the early 2000s, but they were phased out mostly for cost reasons (minting tokens, refilling tokens, handling tokens, theft, etc). Cash ticket/cards quickly replaced them.

Some casinos still have an aisle or two of coin machines for nostalgia though. People collect these tokens, but I'm sure that hobby is on the way out since new mint is pretty rare.
Re-signing iOS binaries is tedious, but ultimately scriptable (including creating certificates, provisioning profiles, etc.). Android’s sideloading is significantly easier, and it still hasn’t led to anyone competing with their App Store.
> Finally, the beauty of open source software is that you can fix things yourself!

Don't you need proper domain knowledge to hack into the some obscure error for svg conversion inside of cairo? All you were trying to do is to display the company logo.svg from your graphics department who exported it on Illustrator version 5.0 because our company is too poor to go to subscription model for Adobe. May be something goofy in the svg data.

You spend next days fixing this open source package, ranting on stackoverflow and finally have to concede and file an bug report on Github.

It gets rejected because you have not gathered all the necessary details to file a bug report including proper stack traces and operating system information.
If only Android was owned by a company with a popular website where they could inform consumers about the benefits of alternatives and if it has capital to produce a premium phone.

Do you really think consumers don’t know they are paying Apple a premium?
Even higher temperatures in a lightbulb. Or if that's not natural enough, in a lightning bolt.
Negros Occidental, Philippines: I'm a US citizen, married, ops engineer with two kids (ages 9 and 2). I've been WFH for 5 years before the pandemic, so I'm an old hand at remote work.

I'm going to homeschool the eldest myself for the first time. I actually know a lot about homeschooling because of circumstances I won't explain here, but I've never done it before and my wife and I were both educated at public and private schools from K through university.

Down here, I work about 4 solid and productive hours a day with only very occasional Zoom meetings, most of my team interaction is done over email, Discord, or Slack. I have a degree in the humanities so I've been spending the past few weeks designing a curriculum. It will revolve heavily around reading real books (no textbooks) and we'll be using Khan Academy for Math, I will handle the Science and Biology. Most of the books I will be using I've found for free on archive.org and follow the contours (but not the letter) of the Charlotte Mason curriculum book recommendations.

Doing this schedule isn't as hard as it is for some families because of the time differential: we're UTC +8, 12 hours ahead of EST. So I plan to do homeschool in the morning, while it's evening hours in the US, and be finished by lunchtime here, then work most of the afternoon when it's overnight in the States, and send all the status emails at the end of my day when they'll be only a few hours old when EST wakes up. It works great for me so far.
And even Microsoft let people install browsers that didn't use IE as a base.
Right to repair isn't about forcing companies to develop repairable devices. It's about removing the monopoly companies like Apple and John Deere have on their repair business.

Almost any device is repairable, Apple repairs devices themselves. When Apple does component level board repair, they do so with schematics and manuals they don't publish and parts you can't buy.

A free market would allow competing with Apple's repair business.
It's meant to be a drop-in replacement, the cost of replacement should be negligible.
>The idea that "life is meaningless" means that society cannot rely on you, because you'll do whatever strikes your fancy, whatever the consequences.

That's bad for society. Who said it's bad in itself or wrong?
Gotcha, thanks for the feedback. I've never done professional software development, it's just something I picked up to broaden my skillset, so it's good to know that the concerns aren't really an issue in practice. Regarding fixing bugs in the dependencies, I think that's like a chicken/egg problem for me. I use the dependencies because I don't have the time or skill yet to make the functionality on my own, which means I also don't have the time/skills to fix bugs in the dependencies. I think I probably have to buckle down and get over that hump to be confident enough to make bigger projects that need more dependencies.
Wow, excellent pull from the code. I suppose you can say that the letter of the code is only informing news organizations of how they may go about accessing data, which isn't the same as actually providing the data, although even that seems like a bit of a disingenuous distinction to me.

There's no point in helping facilitate sharing of that data by providing information about how to access it unless you are intending for it to be accessed, and so denying that that's being accessed is disingenuous.

It's entirely banking on people getting lost on these distinctions and not putting the effort in to figuring out who is right. That approach is straight up contemptuous of the intended audience.
Ask HN: How to become a partner at a Venture Capital firm?
I have not seen any jobs for Partner at VC firm. How do they recruit General Partners ?
>Can you point me toward some sources that say nihilists actually believe that humans are capable of creating meaning?

That's a big part of existentialism (Sartre, Camus, etc), in which life has no inherent meaning, and it's rather empty existence, and it's up to the person to make any meaning for themselves.
Even if that were true (which is highly debatable given than an Xbox is basically a rebranded PC), there is no provision in US antitrust law that treats "general purpose devices" as different than "specialized hardware".
Training circuits don't look like a circle at all.

This is what the standard training circuit looks like (it's basically a rectangular-ish shape)[1]

This is the type of orbit pattern that is used for search and rescue (SAR) or surveillance (a near-perfect circle, like the ones in the OP) [2]

[1] http://www.ppl-flight-training.com/circuits-briefing.html

[2] page 127 of this pdf ("Creating an Orbit Pattern") https://static.garmin.com/pumac/190-01007-03_r.pdf
An excellent article, I really enjoyed this visual take on the λ-calculus. Knowing this would have made my Programming Language Theory much smoother back when I was a CS undergrad.
You're assuming your hypothetical project is gonna work and be successful, and that dependencies breaking will be the end of it. In reality, most projects never go get that far, they go nowhere. Building successful software is a lot of work. Building the wrong thing, scope creep, not finding an audience are all much bigger problems.

That being said, just start. Build something. Make it work. Learn. You can figure out problems with dependencies going out of support when you get there.
Check out the explanation of church numerals and the successor function on the lambda calculus wikipedia.

Church numerals are quite beautiful. We use the symbols 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., but there's nothing intrinsic to those symbols that denotes what number they refer to.

Church numerals, on the other hand, do encode the actual numbers. A church numeral is simply a function that takes in two other functions as arguments, call them a and b, and applies a to b N number of times, where N is the numeral you're encoding.

So (using JS lambdas to demonstrate):

0 = (a, b) => b // applies a to b 0 times

1 = (a, b) => a(b) // applies a to b 1 time

2 = (a, b) => a(a(b)) // and so on...
ffmpeg comes to mind
So none of the numerous blackholes in our galaxy have astrophysical jets? Seems unlikely, maybe small, thin, and/or far enough not to be observed, but that doesn't mean they aren't there.
The ACCC is there to enforce competition laws and if those laws are designed to benefit the government's mates then I expect that is what they will do without fear or favour.
You don't need to create a concrete meaning, something that is "objectively" meaning, etc.

Just a good-enough-for-you meaning.

>almost seems to imply some sort of religious idea that humans are not a part of the ubiverse

Well, they're not like other parts, in that they have meta-cognition, and a lot of it.

Planets and black holes and ants don't wonder about meaning.
Subsidized climate and air quality control could make many city centers more appealing. Bio-defense even seems relevant these days.
If one were to study that, I don't know if homeschoolers are the best group to look at. Also, it's tricky because there is a big difference between healthy socialization and unhealthy socialization. Are we talking about being completely alone or being in a huge group with no friends?

I don't know that this would work so well because lack of socialization is one of the biggest myths about homeschooling. The homeschoolers I know hang out in the park for hours 2-3 times a week, do skill shares together, take classes and electives, travel the world. This pandemic has been harder , if not more so than other groups, because they can't use the world as their classroom in the way they've done before. Also, many children struggle mighily in school. Just because there are lots of people there doesn't mean kids don't feel incredibly isolated. A bad social experience (Eg being bullied and isolated in school. Bullying and systemic racism run rampant in our schools. Teachers are exhausted spending most of their time managing behavior rather than getting time to teach and facilitate healthy social-emotional learning in the classroom.

I started a digital pod this fall and some of our kids didn't say a single word in class last fall. Now, in a group of 5-6 kids they are actively participating, sharing their hopes and dreams. Some communicate verbally, others prefer to observe.
> It's significantly more difficult to parse unbalanced tags.

No, it is not.
I saw the WPF-esque XAML demos for CE7 - I was really impressed and also hopeful that it would lead to smooth fluid UIs in embedded devices like car infotainment systems and home thermostats.

Oh how naive I was!

(I assume the push for WPF-like XAML in CE7 was because at the time (2011-2012?) there was still hope of a CE7-based Windows Mobile competing with iOS and Android, and Microsoft realized the mistake of not modernizing CE's UI system at-all between 2002 and 2012? Windows Mobile 6.5 was a hideous eyesore (and all the pretty home-screen functionality was literally just skin-deep).
Yeah, the frequency with which they have to make security patches is telling a lot about the overall code quality.

One might argue that it's because it's more popular than other similar projects, but it doesn't happen as often with, say, Pillow. And I don't quite remember PIL/Pillow having holes as big as ImageMagick.

Also, try actually programming against it. Whatever language you choose, it's going to feel clunky and alien. It feels alien in C. It feels alien in Perl. Even in PHP, the match made in hell, it feels thoroughly un-idiomatic. I'm not even surprised they have to patch it up now and then.
Going off the double slit experiment, it seems the definition of an observer is something that can take in light, interpret and measure it. The examples given are eyes and cameras. (I'm not claiming I understand this, just trying to)
I just got flashbacks. My night is now ruined.
This is kind of true.

Look at the recent security issue with lodash. lodash is a dependency of a huge number of javascript and node projects. For people who would say "don't use tons of random libraries", lodash was a great choice; it was almost the equivalent of a standard library for JS before ES6. Problem was, for all intents and purposes it was abandoned about a year ago. Couple months ago a security issue was reported, it wasn't fixed, and then 'npm audit' started failing builds with lodash as a dependency. It's like all of the sudden half the node ecosystem started failing.

The problem was not that the bug wasn't fixed, it's that the original author wasn't really involved any more, and it took a long while for other people with commit rights to figure out just how to get the build working. But the problem with any reasonably complex JS project is that there could easily be thousands of references to lodash. NPM doesn't make it easy to essentially say "I'm changing the namespace of lodash to mean this instead of that."

Dependencies are pretty unavoidable, and I think the software engineering community will actually start to get better at handling what happens when a widespread dependency needs to go on life support.
We just spent a decade worth of cash in three months, so there will definitely still be a decade of disruption.
>“The passions were wild and dangerous, whereas looking after one’s material interests was innocent or, as one would say today, innocuous.”

Oh, the irony...
Installing a firefox fork is also within the bounds of the law.
"Sending an abandoned cart email within 24 hours can help you recover 20.3% of sales."

Just a personal data point but I am among the 79.7% remainder that just refuse to go back to a site that nags me about an abandoned shopping cart. I don't like tracking nor metrics and the reasons why I just clicked close instead of going through with the order vary. Reporting a 'didn't buy because of bug when doing x' has never resulted in a 'thanks, we looked in to it and have now fixed it' message. So yeah FU to the 'Hey we see you still have items in your basket, be sure to carry on buying stuff' emails that are just teeth-grindingly annoying.
This seems almost certainly correct. The 30% cut for the App Store had a precedent of a 30% cut for media in the iTunes Store. In the past I've jokes that the fees in the App Store were chosen so they could just use the existing infrastructure with as little change as possible -- and while it's a joke, it's not entirely a joke. It's pretty easy to see the execs at Apple looking at that and saying, "Hey, 30% is way cheaper than what physical software stores charge for shelf space, and it's in line with other digital media stores that handle not just payment processing but hosting, downloading, review aggregation, and marketing, so it's a great deal, right?"

And, IIRC at the time it was seen as a great deal. It may not be such a good deal now, though, and in-app purchases are really a whole other kettle of fish.
This kind of talk activates my scam detectors.

It first got popular when the makers of herbicides like roundup began to advocate "no-till agriculture" which is claimed to build up carbon reserves in the soil.

We will always have claims going around that some change in soil management will sequester carbon at widely distributed sites where we can't measure it at much lower costs than not producing it to begin with (nuclear power) or sequestering it in some place where we can actually measure (inject it into a hole and measure the volume the same way you measure fuel coming out.)

That idea of spreading olvine sand on the beach is the same thing: it is so spread out you'll never prove that it worked or didn't work, but it is certain that some Enron-style trader makes money several times on it.

These sorts of scams are highly dangerous in a world where people will be attracted to "market" solutions: if there was some rule that you had to save 10 tons of carbon by replacing coal with uranium for the right to claim you saved 1 ton some other way it might be helpful.
They could sell them for $399 and nobody would care because open phones are a special thing.

Unless that's not what motivates them. Maybe they want to get them into as many hands as possible to bootstrap a working phone.

They can always raise the price when the software becomes more usable.
Yep, it happened quite a lot. The most famous example probably is Stylish.
Sorry, I had A/C when I lived in Santa Clara, that was poorly worded. I remember well the heat wave of 2006 where it peaked at 107 for 3 days in a row (and of course was over 100 for longer than that).
Corn (not to be confused with sweet corn, which is a different crop) has pretty limited use for human consumption, though. The foods that humans enjoy eating on a regular basis, including sweet corn, are far less efficient to grow and are not necessarily always more efficient than eating animals.

There is indeed a good reason why animal food costs considerably less than human food, and why humans don't resort to eating that cheaper animal food to save money.
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