skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying that would be tantamount to openly admitting they have a monopoly, which, morals aside, any CEO at that level would never even hint at. At most they would change the rules and say something like "we can serve our users better by increasing the openness of our ecosystem".
>It's not illegal however if you signed a contract to that effect, which is what you did when you started using the platform.

Contracts are not above the law. Or: you can't contradict laws with your contract.
What does a very low temperature accomplish in that context?
NILFS2 or F2FS, the latter is much more heavily tested as it is now the default on a number of extremely popular Android phones.

SD cards don’t perform wear leveling so you really need a file system that minimizes/distributes block rewrites, and a log-structured filesystem will do that by never rewriting old data (until there is no space left).
No, Can you Imagine a consumer PC manufacturer demanding such fee for Softwares using their hardware 10 years back and getting away with it? But in the age of Appstore(s), it would not be that alarming anymore if the computer manufacturer suddenly decides to lock the computer for non-store softwares instead of what's happening now(Warning, having to right-click to open etc.).

But the thing is, Apple has been stomping little guys forever and these Billion dollar gaming companies got benefited from it and only when the 30% cut has become too big of a chunk of their revenue; they are now making it as a David vs Goliath story. I had a retro arachnoid type game in Appstore for years which was under 'Arcade' category, when apple branded its gaming subscription service as 'Arcade', it forced me to change it to an irrelevant category.
>I am in no way delusional enough to think we are partners or that Apple needs us in any respect. Of course we are insignificant to the success of Apple. Our departure from the App Store won't make even the tiniest blip. Of course I know that and this is no way meant to try to insinuate otherwise.

"Oh Lord, oooh you are so big. So absolutely huge. Gosh, we're all really impressed down here I can tell you. Forgive us, O Lord, for this dreadful toadying and barefaced flattery. But you are so strong and, well, just so super. Fantastic. Amen"

Edit: I guess it's sort of about establishing your bona fides before making a complaint, letting them know you don't expect them to immediately do everything you say, but it's so... fawningly written.
> I find the concept of consciousness applied here a bit disturbing

It's not just disturbing, it's going way, way beyond what the actual experiment tested. Articles like this (and even the underlying papers describing experiments like this) talk as if we are doing Wigner's friend type experiments involving actual humans. In fact the systems being experimented on are qubits, and the detectors are very simple detectors. The technical achievements involved in these experiments are certainly impressive, and experimenters should certainly continue pursuing these things, but the philosophical implications being claimed are IMO vastly overstated.
A shop in England, 'poundland', which is quite a target for low value casual thieves, has a lifesize mural of a policeman in uniform at each store.

Don't know if it works, but they must at least think it does.
It works most of the time, actually. I'm not against regulation (I argue that companies like Facebook and other social media companies shouldn't be able to merge or acquire each other, for example), but it needs to be sensible regulation.

I also don't think a duopoly is necessarily bad, and in this case I think it's not even a duopoly long-term. It is right now because Google and Apple are the leaders, but it's only a matter of time until other large companies (Samsung, Huawei, etc.) gain a foothold and market share. Being a local duopoly (in the US) is one thing versus being a global duopoly.

Further, I'm not really convinced that this duopoly we have is even bad. Why is it bad that we have a duopoly? Is it only acceptable if we have 3 large players? Why aren't we complaining about the Microsoft and Apple duopoly with computers? I think this is just arbitrary really and it won't be long-lived anyway.
> Also in USA, for instance, copyright is granted for collections, organizations, arrangements or compositions of pre-existing things.

Yes, but you're not copyrighting those pre-existing things in that case, you're copyrighting the collection, organization etc. And if somebody else had done those before, you'll again have a hard time copyrighting it (given that you've copied it).

> Such a photographer can claim copyright on photo of a bridge.

But not of the bridge, which is the pre-existing thing. His photo didn't exist before.

Though photos are, in my opinion (and I'm not a lawyer), one of the really interesting things that I believe make a lot of the issues of our current system of copyright very visible: 100 photographers can stand in the same spot, aim their identical cameras at the same point and make virtually identical photos, and can all, individually, claim copyright on their photo that, if you printed them out and mixed them, they couldn't pick from a line-up.
Do you have 150 friends to play battle royale?
Road to Genius: Smart No.16
It's evidence submitted as part of the House hearings from July 29th where the CEOs of Apple/Amazon/Google/Facebook testified.
It has to behave in a certain way to be a tensor.
I find the comparison that many people make to game consoles very short minded.

It should be clear to everyone that the smartphone will become more and more integrated into our lives to a point where at some point you cannot participate in society without a phone.
Sure, many things have alternative options or are limited to tech enthusiasts but other options become less favorable more and more.

The alarm clock in the morning, communicating with friends and family, paying for things, doing your taxes, unlocking your door.
Also unlocking your car is coming and there is even early talk of putting your driver’s license in your phone.
Getting driving directions, some people use their phone as an artificial pancreas system. (https://androidaps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

The smartphone has become the personal computing device.

A gaming console is something completely different, there I'm perfectly fine if a company wants to control the environment.
I would prefer an open system but Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft controlling the games I can play is not even close to the limitations apple creates with their ecosystems on society.
Google allows for third-party stores on their Android system, I would be doable for Apple to allow the same.
Epic = China
Let the flame wars begin.
Also, please post first if you're a CCP member first, so we all know.
Wow this is awesome! Keep up the good work!
This is really cool, but I still feel betrayed cause when I read "touchless" and "contactless" I thought this was gonna use NFC
My wife is a stay at home parent and taught my daughter for the last 3 months of the school year last year. My daughter (then in the 4th grade) was attending a private school in the Chicago suburbs. The transition was decent, with her school already having a 1:1 laptop program and Google Classroom integration into her curriculum. The only change was that 4th graders didn't take their chromebooks home, but when school was abruptly closed, the laptops came with. All of her subjects had asynchronous work pages or chapter questions, asynchronous reading, asynchronous projects, and then synchronous instruction, synchronous classmate discussion/talk/project time, and synchronous project presentations. My daughter's grades improved slightly, likely from the additional focus given the lack of classroom distractions at home. My wife was available to answer immediate questions while I was working from home in most subjects, although I helped out when additional perspectives were needed to learn the material (my wife and I had very different education experiences, so our methods tend to be divergent).

This year we had the option of a similar remote program for the first semester or in-person, with the commitment lasting until the grading period is over. We're very fortunate to have one parent who can easily dedicate time during the day and a program conducive to remote learning. I can only imagine the sleepless schedules that would be involved in a less structured online program or with both parents working.

The major reason for not moving to home schooling this year is to guarantee our place at the private school for 6th/7th/8th grade without a significant donation to get back in. It is sorta unfortunate to pay extra to home school our kid, but we enjoy the community in-person when that was available. We're lucky we're in a position to be able to choose this.
I agree, however you have to keep in mind that the Copenhagen interpretation [1] was invented before Vitalism [2] was debunked. So it is not too surprising that it also has this idea of a fundamental difference between the rules guiding living (including conscious) and dead matter at its core.

My usual argument against it is the mediocrity principle [3], we humans often fail to accept the insignificance of our existence. Thus, we tend to prefer theories which tell us that we are special. Just like the idea that we are able to trigger the collapse of the wave-function and the superposition, but a cat is not.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediocrity_principle
>In the spirit of this particular story, I'd like to ask HN the following question: Should closed hardware (that owns its entire stack) even be legal to sell?

You can have both ways. You can sell, but after 1 year (or 2) it becomes open.
But Android in general doesn’t have these restrictions. Plenty of phones (including Google’s flagships!) support rooting, and you can install a third-party App Store like F-droid even when they only support sideloading. So that’s not really a good example of market forces failing to solve the unlocked hardware availability problem.
I wonder how it affects their fellow cattle, though. It must be weird to see your colleagues staring at you with their butts.
> There are no solutions, just tradeoffs. Don't think there's a perfect tech stack

I completely agree with your point, but the absence of a "perfect" solution doesn't mean there isn't a global maximum. I think people already understand that too -- how many "what's the best X?" searches do you think people perform compared to "what's the perfect X?"?
I'm super amused by people bemoaning Apple's cut of sales on the App Store. I remember mobile software before the App Store. Buying software for a Palm or PocketPC device was a fucking shit show.

There were multiple competing stores and sometimes even the developer's own site. The prices were ridiculous, partly because everyone had to implement their own payment and distribution systems. If the software didn't work or there was a problem it was rare to get a refund. Most of the time your contact info was readily sold to "partners".

Apple's cut of sales for the service they provide is pretty small compared to the costs of doing it yourself. There's many of thousands of developers that are enabled by the fact they don't need to host their apps, handle billing, or handle user accounts and PII.

If you seriously think prices to end users would decrease if Apple took a smaller cut you're deluding yourself. If developers are making sales at current prices there's zero reason for them to drop prices even if their overhead drops. Prices are set by what the market will bear and only have their lower bound set by the developer's overhead.
Hey HN,

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Currently, we support .csv, .json, .xls, .xlsx files. For data processing, we use Pandas, so if you are comfortable using Python, you can write your own custom functions to process the data. We also give you a free shared Postgres database to test the tool with (your data is isolated and hidden from others). Each one of these databases come with an instance of PostgREST preinstalled, so you can query your database using REST API ([http://postgrest.org/en/v7.0.0/](http://postgrest.org/en/v7....). You can also generate an access token with an expiry date to share your data with others.

There are many more features that we baked into the product. Come check it out, it's open for HN community.
What does the "entire stack" mean? Does it apply to e.g. cars?
Interesting. I wonder who coined that phrase? It's a curiously positive sounding phrase for something that's actually quite nefarious.
> Google don't pay tax for profit made selling in Australia.

And why should they if they don’t operate in Australia?

If I, as a European, sell something to an Australian from which I profit, should I be paying an Australian tax on this sale?
Games and Lessons from A MAZE
Why Front End Developers Going Full Stack Should Choose Go
I read and skimmed and read and I gave up finding the substance. Can someone summarize?
Can anyone give a description of what these chips are used for and by whom? And who writes software for these architectures? Seems like a totally different side of the industry that I know nothing about.
> If you wanted to head to actual "unpopulated area", I think you'd need to book a 3 hour lesson in order to get any actual training. Completely unfeasible.

Why is this unfeasible?
I bet if you painted a picture of Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder) on the cow, not only would the carnivores not eat the cows, they would probably bring the cows food.
Usually it's 50% hard work, and 50% being at the right place at the right time. Nothing is guaranteed.
We're mostly talking about the App Store, but even so I don't think there's much of a meaningful distinction. I can't choose to get a 12 pack of cola that's half Pepsi, 1/4th Mountain Dew, and 1/4 Cherry Coke either.

I can't choose to use iMessage with my non-existent Facebook account either. Why? Why are they allowed to lock in their software?

Same argument.
It might be one of those things that fools predators for a few generations, and then starts having the opposite effect. Lions learn to look for the massive eyes, cos they're the tastiest bit of a cow...
WinUI&Uno in a Container on Embedded Linux+dotnet/IoT+LDR Sensor on Toradex
Have you played games before? Even in a 5vs5 game, it's hard to gather 9 friends at the same time, with a similar skill.
iHuman (Film)
Documentary about artificial intelligence, social control and power with such experts as Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI) etc
A Drive-By Eulogy for New York City’s Record Stores
Apple's share of the hardware market is practically fully saturated. They're not going to sell 30% more phones or computers. They need some place to expand and grow, and services/payment processing is where they're doing it.
> Hope no one thinks I'm the FBI in a ratty old C172

C172 and C182 both make fine planes for running surveillance. They're inexpensive (to buy and operate), reliable, inconspicuous, and have enough space and useful load to tack on specialized equipment. I used to own a 182 that was originally owned by the Washington State Police. While in WSP service, it was modified to have an automotive-style muffler for "stealth" surveillance.
"But if the police are going to do anything about the violent ones among the protestors, it almost certainly is going to have to involve an element of violence" - I do not believe this to be true. Most of the 'violence' of the protestors is directed at property, not people. I think most people would agree that it's not worth violently injuring an individual to prevent a broken window or a stolen pair of shoes. For violence of the protestors directed at the police. They're showing up and tear-gassing people. Directly attacking their own citizens with chemical weapons, baton rounds fired from shotguns, sting grenades, etc...

I think it's pretty easy for law enforcement to do the right thing: Don't show up.

When cops don't show up there is little to no violence against people or property.
When cops show up to protests more often than not they initiate violence against people and retaliate for violence against property (or their reputation) with violence against people. This is some fuuuuuuked up behavior and why the protests continue.

Responding to protests against police brutality by violently brutalizing protestors is like a really sad joke.
A lot of the commercial flight tracking services allow opt-outs. But some stay true to their mission.
"Mindfulness and other types of meditation are usually seen as simple stress-relievers"

That's the first problem. They are powerful "technologies" (okay, that's just a fancy way of saying "tools") of mind and self, not "simple stress-relievers".

Possible "negative" outcomes are not unknown in the cultures that originated these tools. Any powerful tool will have some potential metaphorical sharp edges.

Over 20 years ago, I took a yoga and meditation class (before or near the beginning of the U.S. cultural rise of non-spiritual "mindfulness"), and the instructor told us on the first class, something like:

"Sometimes people doing these techniques can experience odd things. You might have a negative reaction. Or see or experience something odd or scary. Or even think you are interacting with scary beings who aren't there or another plane of existence or something. I don't say this to scare you, it doesn't happen to many people. But so you can recognize it if it does, and just come talk to me. It happens sometime, it's not a big deal, but it's important you come talk to me if it does, left unattended/unguided it can become a big deal."

Because there are teachings/techniques from the traditions these tools orginate in to deal with some the sometimes negative effects too, that were also developed over generations in tandem with the tools. This is the danger of extracting "mindfulness" from it's cultural context, as just a "simple stress-reliever".
By the time we have "immortality", we'll probably be able to have space elevators, and a fleet of space stations orbiting the sun where people can live. Just make a rule that once you are 120 years old, you have to leave Earth and live in space. Such a rule would allow for the continued progress of Earth culture, and instead of dying, people can go off and live in space. Each group of like-minded people could go a live in their own space station, so there would likely be very little conflict based on differing ideas. (And maybe immortals would be better than we think at changing their minds and adopting new ideas.)
If I'm understanding you correctly you are wondering why some filenames are named .old in the header of patch files.

If so, then that is likely an easy answer. No one creates patch files by hand, they are created by diff (or similar tools).

And diff, at least the Unix variant, is used to compare two files and produce an output that will change the first of the two into the second of the two (i.e., it outputs the 'differences' between the two files, hence the utility's name 'diff').

Well, to have two files, one of the files has to be given a different name. So if one is editing a single file, and is not using some kind of source control system that tracks changes, it is common to first do:

cp file_to_be_edited file_to_be_edited.old

Then, edit "file_to_be_edited".

Then produce a patch by doing:

diff -u file_to_be_edited.old file_to_be_edited > file_to_be_edited.diff

And since diff puts the filenames of the two files it compares into the header lines of the output unified diff format, you get a file named .old showing up in the output patch file.
Does this have support for Rabbit pub/sub? There's a bit of confusing wording on the page that makes it unclear.
The most frustrating part is they made really good products(even if slightly expensive) but somehow didn't follow through on any of them.
> 35-year-old bug

Long ago, someone was archiving magnetic tapes at MIT, containing Lisp Machine backups, from longer ago. Or maybe they were TOPS-20 backups... my memory has faded.

Archiving here means using an old 9-track tape machine with a custom driver, to copy data off now read-once 9 and 7 track tapes. Read-once tapes, because after the tape goes by the read head, the tape's plastic backing goes one way, and the tape's rust goes another. The backing is rewound, and the rust makes a scattered little pile. The original driver would backup and retry on error. Scrubbing back and forth, back and forth. Which here, would be bad. But back to our story.

On one such longer-ago backup, was a core dump file. A core dump, with a snapshot of the frame buffer. A frame buffer showing someone's screen, at that moment of the core dump, so long ago. And at that moment, that someone was being pranked. Pranked by a program which would draw, crawling across the screen, a little spider. A little bitmap sprite bug. A bug, trapped by chance in a core dump, and preserved in rust.
> Really? https://twitter.com/methode/status/1166643751659429888

What is this about? I can’t tell from the tweet.
No, not serious. But it's a fun thought experiment. And since it was written by an astronomer, it's no surprise the perspective is more about how we would deal with changes outside ourselves rather than within. Frankly, I wouldn't want to mire the story with too much navel gazing before touching on the elephants in the room: overpopulation, boredom, identity, and the need to develop a near-infinite perspective on being responsible for our actions.
Linux the OS is actually the Linux kernel + userspace software, and those pieces are built independently. With the BSDs, the team is building the userspace and kernel together. You end up with a small, well-designed system that fits together nicely.

That's a blessing and a curse. While the BSD approach leads to more consistency, the Linux approach allows the ecosystem to move faster. In BSD projects, progress is often hampered, because proposals to drastically change subsystems is met with inertia, and then nothing happens. In Linux the inertia is there, but nobody stops people from implementing an alternative implementation, because the pieces are relatively decoupled, and then convince distributions to adopt the replacement.

This is why Linux ecosystem went from System V init -> Upstart -> systemd. Similarly, X11 -> Mir/Wayland -> Wayland (although Wayland could be adopted as a default on BSDs as well). Or chroot -> LXC -> Docker (or more generally cgroups + user namespaces). Although controversial (every change leads to some controversy), technically systemd and Wayland are substantial improvements to their predecessors.

Of course, the downside is that the integration is left to the distributors and the documentation may be inconsistent or uneven.

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Another thing to take into accounts when looking at BSDs is that the BSDs have far fewer contributors than the Linux ecosystem. So, you might find that it lacks basic things such as 802.11ac support (though there has recently been movement in FreeBSD again) or support for the newest GPUs.
Sure you can. Just look at arbitration. It’s not right, but it’s incorrect to say that a contact can’t remove your rights.
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