skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most of the US, car manufacturers cannot sell directly to consumers, and by law must sell through dealers.

Some companies, most notably Tesla, have come under fire in various states for selling directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_US_dealership_disputes
So what exactly is the new tactic? I scoured the article but they never seemed to explain what the new tactic is, other than the phrase "working deals over Zoom and text messages."
Can you link an example you find to generalize particularly well?
Florida or TX, no state tax and relatively warm weather than NY where I stay now.
You may very well be right.
Oh, you mean a transparent LCD display, I see now.
How is this site not a scam? Like experts aren't paid and everyone pays for access. How did it even get traction?
A speedboat is pretty simple to operate. A steering wheel and throttle lever really are enough. Since the screen is mostly for entertainment, the driver shouldn't be especially accommodated. The design might be improved by better shading from the sun, but it shouldn't be made less egalitarian.
It isn’t quite race blind. It is race blind if you pass the initial bar. After that they take subjective things into account like your essay.
For the record Maemo spawned among other things Sailfish OS (running on my dakly smartphone) and many current mobile Linux distro projects can trace their lineage to Maemo on the Nokia N-series.
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AI projects are akin to research. High uncertainty in estimating progress and timelines. Nightmare for project managers accustomed to traditional software development workflows.
While most of my systems are on Debian, the installation experience could really use some work, especially the partitioning part. I've had several occasions when I had to resort to fully manually partitioning my drives because of some hickup.

Even in Debian 10, swap is enabled by default in the installer (maybe depending on system RAM) and the encryption guide will refuse to proceed in that case. Only way out of that is switching to another TTY and disabling it manually. The situation and docs around networking and DNS are a bit of a mess with regards to the not-yet-complete migration to systemd services from ifupdown and resolveconf. At least it's not defaulting to networkmanager.

At the same time, selecting UTC as timezone from the installer is weirdly hard to find, a lot is predetermined from "select your location".

It's like it's still designed with the use case of non-technical desktop users from 15 years ago in mind

I'm suspecting very few Debian lovers actually use the installer and instead prepare their own installation with self-built images ready for flashing or upload. It says something that Arch Linux, which doesn't have a guided or graphical installation, is a smoother installation experience for a user new to the distro. The wikis for each are night and day.

Don't get me wrong, I love Debian too but there's some areas where it's unnecessarily confusing for those who haven't grown accustomed to its quirks over the years.
The buzzword now is “equity.” The left now seeks equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity. All such initiatives are oppressive should be rejected outright.
She is well-protected and has been for some time. You could have predicted her being chosen by the fact that all sorts of info about her previous career was getting scrubbed from the Internet. (she would pile on criminal charges for black pot users, giving them huge prison sentences, which is now a really awkward fact)

As https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24139360 shows, you can't send the URL https://kamalaharris.info/ in a private message on Facebook or Instagram.

Over at Twitter, @NickPacilio described as "Communications at @twitter. Former @KamalaHarris press sec." is interfering with the election by blocking TeamTrump. So a person who literally worked for her campaign in a key role is now over at Twitter stopping her opponent's free speech.
https://nomadlist.com/ is a good resource.
Say you have a big pile of data that you want to keep private even from your analysts. Technology in this vein is for you!
That is not my experience at all.

I have apps not listed in PlayStore but works just fine.

How would Google actually block it?
> It is anecdotal, but the stories are very real and quite intense.

They are all real, in the sense that they are stories being told, but I think deriving any kind of conclusion from that kind of forum is not a great idea.

Self-diagnosis (of the particular “long term effect”), general misinformation and paranoia, and self-selection into an online forum of like-minded folks seems to produce consistently misleading results.

If you pointed to an anti-vaccination forum, you’d also see a lot of certain people with real stories.
The irony of calling an app developer "big and greedy" in face of Apple is not lost on me here.

30% in pure profit would means a lot to regular companies/folks as well, not just the "big and greedy" ones. Just because you don't feel the pain doesn't mean other ones do.

And ultimately, some of this cost is burdened by the end user purchasing the app which is obviously harmful to everyday users such as myself.
Funnily enough Apple's UI toolkits (both macOS's AppKit and iOS's UIKit) use Cassowary constraint solvers under the hood. There was also a startup a while back (The Grid, I think?) that was trying to use it as the basis of a web design platform. No clue if they ever shipped anything but I remember seeing their source release for the constraint solver and thinking, "Man, if calculating layout in JavaScript wasn't a total jankfest for end-users I'd totally use this".
>I want one store and run by someone I trust.

Google is not trustworthy. Look how every time someone criticizes Google on here, a horde of pro-Google paid commenters appear, like magic.
The fact that Apple does not have this attitude is why their products are better for customers than alternatives that do have this attitude.

Macs allow you to install software from anywhere. Which is bad and Apple should disallow it, right?
It's not silly at all. Until 1995 home internet access was too expensive and AOL didn't offer support for http or any kind of internet access - only services provided by them. If they had the foresight they could of crushed the early internet and prevented it from ever happening. A 100% firewalled and paid service that wouldn't look much different than the cable companies at the time. People don't realize how lucky we are that the potential the internet provided flew under the radar for so long.
Ukraine or Colombia until Summer 2021, if I can't find a good deal in So Cal.
Not just the user, but the developers want a single store. As a developer you are focused on writing apps; you don't want to spend energy to figure out how to upload apps to 5 different stores, understand their individual requirements like app descriptions and screenshots, manage 5 sets of credentials and certificates, deal with 5 different review processes, etc.

Just ask any android developer who develop for the Chinese market where Google is absent. It's a nightmare.
I'd agree that there are no direct analogies, for sure. Especially physical goods.

Like Best Buy doesn't get a cut if I pay netflix to
watch it on the TV I bought from them.

Okay, but if you were launching a rival to Netflix and had many millions of dollars to play with, wouldn't you gladly consider a deal like that with Best Buy?

Imagine Best Buy's extremely large presence in the world of television-selling. You could get your streaming service into a lot of homes if they promoted the heck out of TVs featuring your service in exchange for a cut, right?

Depending on the % cut they wanted, that could be a great deal for you. Suppose the % cut was 0.0000001%. Certainly you would take that offer. And probably 0.0001%. Maybe even up to 10%. Maybe even 50%, depending on your business model?

Anyway, I have lots of problems with the App Store, but man... that 30% sounds pretty fine. Access to that many users, many of whom have payment information stored a mere tap away?
It obviously has enough value for Fortnite that made almost a billion dollars after the 30% cut selling virtual costumes and skins - that really have no value.
Yeah I realize my question might not be SO material, but it's also hard to put on another stack exchange site. Because the question has multiple parts, some about linux internals, some about programming, some about security…

That's what is hard, with experience I've come to have to resolve harder problems, but they are not harder because they require more skills, they are harder because they are 50 ways to approach them.

Finding WHAT I need to code has become my problem was more than HOW.

I'd like a community that can share those concerns.
"This RFC fixes the very strange case in PHP where 0 == "foo" results in true. There are some other edge cases like that one, and this RFC fixes them."

It's good they fixed it I suppose, but yikes. As much as people say PHP has advanced from its fractal of awfulness days, a lot of those fixes are shocking if you come from other languages.
Groups like that are always populated by people with the worst of the worst outcomes. There's no indication of how likely these problems actually are.
Actually, Google already has closed source features in Chrome that are totally not related to Google accounts and/or sync.
Take for example Android app support in ChromeOS. It is closed source even though both Chromium and Android are open-source.
And if both parties are doing it you might as well just cut the video.
Technically LCDs are all transparent, if we're not counting the backlight.

https://youtu.be/cEhZ7fUSxDw?t=33
I'm not aware of another industry that puts up with 30% fees on all the products that they sell. GrubHub et al are notorious in the restaurant industry for their 30% cuts on orders, and owners are doing everything they can to eliminate those companies from the picture.

Artists, on the other hand, only have to deal with a 10% to 15% cut when they sell their music digitally or physically through Bandcamp.

I'm a small and modest developer, and I feel like 30% and $99/year is too much. Mind you, Apple is a trillion dollar company that will take a 30% cut whether you're a worker in the 3rd world or a kid in college. I'm not sure I follow your "big and greedy" rhetoric at all here.
Another thing many dont know is that distros rebuild all software from source code, so any mallware is hard to hide.
I’ve done it before in -40C weather and the liquid water doesn’t freeze, just the vapor coming off.

Same effect as seeing your breath in cold weather.
Well I’m officially old because I:

1) didn’t know Cecil Adams still existed.

2) still remember looking forward to the Straight Dope in my weekly alt-paper.
Gotta keep the population scared. Same thing happened during AIDS epidemic.
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> there’s basically no comparison.

Dismissing the annual death toll of the flu as not a real problem is what my point was. We're used to flu deaths, they aren't news. But several tens of thousands in the US still die of the flu every year. It is not a solved problem, the vaccine is only partially effective, and most people don't even get one.
It’s the same minerals that you ingest when you drink cold water, just more concentrated.

It’s mostly just magnesium and calcium salts, likely carbonate but some sulfate as well, depending on the chemistry of the water.

A bigger concern with drinking hot water is bacteria if you don’t keep the tank hot enough, or lead from soldered joints. Hot water will leach stuff from your plumbing faster than cold water.

But overall, in a normal, modern system, drinking hot water from the tap isn’t particularly risky.
Oh my, now Fortnite's lawyers can add conspiracy and racketeering to their lawsuits, how juicy.
Wow the extent of the damage is surprising. Seems like a pretty big design oversight. If one broken cable can cause such damage, there should be redundancy built in. One extra cable. "One is none, two is one". From the luxury of my hindsight chair.
It touches on that with the ATAG instead of DTB.
I'd suggest that you're not the target market then.
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Speak to the merits of the product or find an alternative attention grabber that people don't instinctively tune out. There are some openers that people flag as preceding a BS spiel.
Visionox is already doing this in an upcoming cell phone design:

https://www.gizmochina.com/2020/07/01/visionox-under-screen-...
Yeah, I was thining a full-color, backlit LCD system, basically a computer monitor.
On the one hand I agree with this.

On the other hand I would like the option to add another App Store who's "Brand of quality and trust to vet apps" I can compare to Apple's store... and so the layers go...

On the gripping hand, it is the "benevolent dictator" problem. A benevolent dictator really can be an efficient and great way to run things. For the people that agree with the dictator.

But who determines who the dictator should be and what makes them benevolent?
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Standardized testing is not biased against underrepresented minorities. The study that UC commissioned found that performance in the tests correlated with college performance and was not biased.

Underrepresented minorities are as a whole not as optimized for the system. Some of that is that cottage industry of essay writers etc, SAT prep courses, etc... but some of it is objectively not being as prepared. Now some of this is also due to growing up in worse environments for academic performance but this is a real difference in performance.

I have interviewed Stanford students. There is a step difference between the Asian/white students and the underrepresented minority students in their performance. The underrepresented minorities were still smart but the Asian/white students behaved like they were a year or two ahead in school.
Selection bias is also a huge issue.

I most likely had it in March. It seems to have reduced my symptoms from some other long-standing issue.

I hesitate to mention that at all because I already get so very much unwarranted hatred. My only point is that press coverage is already biased and survivor groups explicitly are aimed at collecting up people having a hard time.

I don't know how we make real progress. I do know most "support groups" are horrible shit shows where you can't do any real good for fear of being accused of "victim blaming."

Social garbage is a huge barrier to doing anything good for any health issue.
Nice post, thanks. Did you happen to raise an issue with the Go team? Maybe it would be low hanging fruit for a compiler optimization.
> Let‘s take the example of an autonomous car. Would you also argue that you have the right to run any software on it?

Absolutely, let's take the dumbest example possible. Good.
Apple didn’t initiate a hidden feature for an in-app store (flagrant violation) + an accompanying ad blitz + lawsuit. That said I kinda like the argument of currency, the problem I guess for Apple is that what’s the difference between fortnite bucks and any other IAP? I mean how would Apple differentiate it. Why not just make every app surrounded by a layer of conversion to your fake currency to get your commission down?

Wondering if instead Apple should look at pricing breaks when a customer spends over a certain amount on IAP or certain repeat transactions. In effect trying to differentiate the take they get for whatever initial bit but incentivize monetizing customers for the long haul. That has precedent with the subscription model they have been pushing to achieve similar pricing breaks as a compromise down to 15%
FDroid and also the Aurora alernative Google Play client.
I just used the metric from the article:

> librsvg-2.so (version 2.40.21, C only) - 1408840 bytes
> librsvg-2.so (version 2.49.3, Rust only) - 9899120 bytes

For your application, I imagine most of your application's code size is in your dependencies -- so if each crate was a separate shared library (for instance) then you'd end up reducing the amount of duplicated code if you had 50 applications that all needed to use RustCrypto.
PIN?
I'm under the impression anything done outside the app doesn't really fall under App Review territory. Embedding a UIWebView is considered in-app, and an embedded SFSafariViewController has slightly different rules.
We are you assuming he/she is thinking in that manner? Some things you cannot put a price tag on. Getting oil cheaply from point a to point b is nice, but if all it takes is one major and uncontained spill to forever kill one of the few remaining large coral reefs...
nowhere, i like it here.

and maybe the market will normalize enough for me to be able to buy in!
It does not cost Apple millions of dollars to distribute our app. The only viable choice to not releasing on iOS is not having a business, one that started on the web and due to customer demand, moved to iOS. I get the value they provide, but it’s clearly not in line with the cost they charge.
Right, but if it’s sitting as a solid in the bottom of your hot water tank, it’s not in the actual water coming out (or at least less of it).
It's not yet banned for use in brake pads everywhere (not in the US as far as I know), and anyway more modern brake pads materials aren't significantly better for eating either.
and a ~10% CFR, whoof.
> >Android allows developers to integrate Stripe and take customer's credit cards and bypass the 30% cut.

> You are completely wrong.

He isn't wrong. Android allows developers to integrate Stripe and bypass the 30% cut.
It might need some tweaking, but the target area for bringing up the edit UI is pretty small in that case. I think you have to click on a small section below the checkbox :P
I think tying an opinionated linter/code style tool to the rest of the tools is going to limit adoption. While people point to gofmt/prettier as examples of opinionated tools winning, Eslint (fully configurable) is still more popular by downloads than prettier (slightly configurable) and both are way more so than standard (not at all configurable).
Until evidence points otherwise, this is just another spill in a long series of marine ecology disasters and blame should not be allowed to be placed on the coronavirus situation.
Babel for sure.
I didn't mean understanding what you have written, I can do that well enough. I meant understanding the mindset of someone with those thoughts. I cannot put myself in your shoes is all I am saying, I do not understand the worldview that would allow me to get to a point where I could think those thoughts and feel I was an objectively "good" person.
I agree, I drive a RHD VW Polo and have to lean forward and to the left so I can peer over the A pillar to check for oncoming traffic while taking right turns. That's not to mention the glaring reflections on the windscreen while driving under leafy trees on sunny afternoons.
Sure. Apple's Face Unlock.

It generalises to almost every face, and the ones it doesn't its failure mode is safe.

Or something like word embeddings. Works incredibly well, and most "failure" modes are around things like bias, where the behavior reflects the real world.

Or something like AlphaZero. Not only is every new game of Go it plays brand new, it learnt to play Chess without knowing the rules. That just isn't memorization.

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphazero-shedding-new-lig...
ChromeOS still uses upstart.
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Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough
My first thought was that this had more to do with the order against Tencent than violating Apple policy.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/08/13/pom...
This is my argument:

"My experience is that people who tend to disparage web tech don't have much experience building clients in general"

My mom should be able to build great frontends for Web software, but currently the technology requires her to know much more than she knows. As you say, she "don't have much experience building clients in general." Therefore it's important that we get rid of HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

This is an old debate, but to repeat the highlights:

The benefit would be the productivity gained from specialization. The work could be moved away from computer programmers. Beginners would find beginning as easy as building a HyperCard stack, and specialist UI/UX experts (not computer programmers) could be put in charge of advanced frontends.

The same argument that was made for Web Assembly also applies to the frontend: we now know what we need as a general compilation layer for frontend descriptive languages, things we did not know in 1996 when HTML/CSS/Javascript were coming together.

The crucial thing is to have the kind of serialization formats that software can write, thus opening the door to a version of Dreamweaver that actually works. In other words, something like Adobe InDesign would then be the correct way to create all frontends. I wrote about this in detail here:

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/the-problem-with-html

Earlier, in 2016, I wrote about the general problem, which offers some historical context "HTML is the failed GUI for TCP/IP" :

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/html-is-the-failed-gu...
I get that this is a preference, and that this preference makes it a challenge for third parties to maintain profit margins while reaching as many consumers as possible.

So what's the other option? Just don't offer your games at all on a platform like iOS, and people need to own multiple smartphones just to get all the apps and games they want?

It doesn't seem like a solution.
Just because you start solo doesn't mean you're going to be solo forever; you just start hiring marginally sooner. So I guess my question is, all else being the same, is the extra $500k-1M (my guess) that a team would be able to raise at Seed/pre-seed over a solopreneur just an outsized recruiting fee for having found a couple other key hires?
Everyone is an avid supporter of capitalism, until the free market no longer favors them.
Man everyone seems to be talking about category theory lately and I still have no idea what it is except some general sense in which different types of mathematical objects can operate on each other (which is probably wrong). Looks like I should probably actually put the effort in and learn about it.
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This makes me feel a million years old.
> Nobody ever bought a nintendo NES to use as a personal computing device

Although interestingly, the Japanese console makers have continually tried to push the computer/development angle.

When the NES was released in Japan before the US, it was branded the "Family Computer" and you could get a keyboard and a version of BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_BASIC

Sony has had multiple attempts, with a consumer homebrew dev kit for the PS1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze ), and Linux for the PS2 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2 ) and later PS3.