skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to remember that the reality we live in is the one where CDP, Eagle and Compaq cloned the IBM PC BIOS and could offer compatible IBM PC clones with DOS from Microsoft. That happened during the summer / fall of 1982. The assertions made in the original 1984 ad were in many ways a straw man argument since the PC compatible clones really took of during 1983 due to low supply from IBM and freed the PC from the control that IBM had.
80%? How do you define this statistic? From what I understand from Wikipedia this seems to be around 20%
I never corrected anyone, nor called anyone stupid— like you have.

Both comments were tongue in cheek.

Apparently since more explanation is clearly warranted, I’ll provide it.

In the comment about fiscally, I thought it odd that the person appeared to be concerned with whether indie developers, of which I am one, were going to be contributing to government revenues, since I’ve only ever heard fiscally used in a tax context by professionals. And certainly when I approach my financial strategy, taxes are always a consequence of the goal, and not the goal itself.

In the other comment, I was making a joke, which seems to have gone a bit over your head.

By the way, a “web site” is simply the location where an arachnid...
Ask HN: Newly remote workers... Are you so dumb as to make two major life changes at once?
WeWork gets new $1.1B commitment from SoftBank
Apple is obligated to maximize shareholders value. Google is a competitor as well. If apple did anything otherwise, it would cause shareholders losses. Its a publicly traded company. This is capitalism, not Apple.
This is rather uncharitable.

Category theory is an essential part of the vocabulary of 20th-century mathematics. Large swaths of algebra, topology, geometry, and logic are fairly inextricably formulated in this language.
Similarly, it seems irreplaceable for certain parts of programming language theory (arguably due to its connection to mathematical logic).

There's certainly a community trying to bring a category-theoretic approach into other fields such as statistics, economics, or other areas of computer science, but it's too early to say it's been "quite a few years".
Which sitting republican house members are part of the Lincoln project?
Yes, and that's great. Ideally you would want to be able to enroll your own security keys like Secure Boot, but I take all I can get. Android is not equivalent to Pixel though. Not even all Pixels do it by the way (notable exception was the ones sold by Verizon). So do macOS T2, and chromeOS developer mode (potentially with physical hardware screws to deter unintended misleading of a layperson).

However, all of that is pretty much orthogonal to what Epic wants, which is my point. Epic does not care about user freedom in that sense, just haggling to get a cut from 30/15% to ~5-10% and they'll be on their way. It's just spun as a user freedom thing (which is actually a valid request, but accomplished with very different means).
To spell this out further: There is competition in the smartphone market... but the app store has an artificial monopoly on iOS software distribution which is a separate market serving more than 100 million people.
You have been adroitly played by TeaDrunk using your own logic against you. To use words of your own choosing: are you starting to see the influence of your own perverted ideology?
And if the post office is overwhelmed with work due to decommissioned sorting machines?
This is the number one reason I don't use iPhones. Their privacy policy is very good (compared to Android) but it is a very airtight walled garden. Android has many problems, like no updates after two years and Google's draconian user support. But at least you can use alternative app stores (like F-Droid, Fortnite). At least you can compile and run your own code on your device without asking Google for permission.
> You could argue about Apple's rights [...] But really why not talk about how we think things should work on platforms like iOS?

Because this is a time and place to call out Apple and Google, the colluding monopolists, for their de facto, if not (yet) proven de jure, criminal behavior, which costs developers, like us, enormous amounts of money.

A call to arms is what we need. It's not a difficult philosophical question. (1) Cut the ridiculous 30% fee, (2) allow other payment processors, (3) allow alternative app installation processes.
I give you a variety of points and all I get back is a single flip quip. This is a disappointing rejoinder.

You CAN have a high end desktop. You can even have 3-6 monitors if it makes you happy. The only thing you cannot do is plug your monitors into the outputs of both GPUs. You must purchase GPUs wherein a single GPU has sufficient outputs and let the secondary GPU serve to aid in your favorite GPU compute or game playing adventure.

For example

https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-radeon-rx-vega-64-gv-rxvega6...

This supports 6 displays and crossfire so it plays well with lots of displays and multiple GPU.

Stepping up further in price

https://www.newegg.com/evga-geforce-rtx-2080-super-08g-p4-32...

Supports 4 displays and SLI
> each repository has a detailed commit history, allowing you to understand the thinking behind each line of code.

Ch ch ch changes
It would be cool for someone to build an interactive app with a slider - slide left and you see the same location as it stands now on Google Maps and slide right and it would show what it used to be
The state takes a cut of growth already either as income tax or capital gains tax.

They take another cut when you spend it, in the form of sales tax.

Now they want another cut even if you’ve already been taxed on making money and prior to you then spending it.

New taxes are a scourge on democracy. They implement yet another confusopoly designed to hide details and trick voters. Just add a new, higher income tax and CGT bracket already.
These are easy questions.

1. If you convert a string which has non-numbers to an integer, an error is raised

2. Truthiness should not exist as a concept. Just booleans and expressions that evaluate to booleans.

PHP's backwards compatibilty promise makes these more difficult questions, of course.
HN is quite invested in Apple that's why you would see a lot of people defending them here.

Same for webdev
How did you come to the conclusion that wiping and reinstalling is a regular part of android users lives? Or that it requires you be a system admin to use it? Or that you have to worry about many types of malware?

I'm an android user, and I think you have the wrong impression of what android is actually like. Have you ever used one as your primary device for a non-insignificant amount of time?
Research has shown that heavy AA can lead to a mismatch between the putative beneficiaries and their peers. As a result, these students are more likely to end up in the bottom of their class (IIRC, 50% of black students at top law schools ended up in the bottom 10% of their class, and AA beneficiaries who planned to major in STEM were more likely to change to a non-STEM major).

So it is also possible that a preference that helps your kids get into a school could actually end up hurting them if they end up outmatched by their classmates.
Ask HN: Newly remote workers... Do you work an 8 hour day and give the same effort 5 days a week, or do you lack discipline and are going on a spending spree... Hopefully you don't have a family
Should it be shocking? It's another language that has it's own history and culture. It evolved it's own way.
How exactly does a currency go from a value of zero to trillions (were it to become a major global settlement currency) in a decentralised way while maintaining stable purchasing power?

That would imply that since it was worth nothing in 2009/2010 it should remain worthless forever to maintain its purchasing power.
Correct, they are proposing that you would be able to defer those taxes up to 10 years until your exit but I don't think it has been very well thought out.
We are not in 2001 anymore. App Stores are a growing part of the real economy and Apple 30% makes no sense. Big tech has been under the radar of many because it started small and had little impact on the economy. To let tech companies grow revolutionized the world. That revolution is over, tech companies are the new car companies. Apple is not a new innovative company, it is a monopoly that churns the same product year after year and profits from its dominance and the natural tendency of technology to create monopolies.

Many businesses cannot survive if you cut 10% of their income. 30% is mind-blowing and unsustainable.

I hope that the popularity of Epic brand helps on this fight. This level of legal battle is not only won in the court, but also in the public discussion domain.
All the talk in the comments about dissolved oxygen brings back a few memories of student lab work that went wrong. I was given a freeze-pump-thaw protocol to follow in order to remove oxygen from a copolymer solution. Basically we used liquid nitrogen to freeze the mixture, then used a vacuum pump to remove the gases above the mixture. When we thawed the mixture, the dissolved oxygen would escape, in order to equilibrate with the amount above the surface. I repeated this for a few cycles. It was all done with sealed glassware.

Unfortunately, the glassware kept cracking during the thaw stage. This went on for a couple of months, till finally my supervisor reviewed the procedure, and realised that, whether cracking occurred, depended upon the relative concentrations of the two polymers. If I recall correctly, the problem occurred when the polymer with the lower freezing point (which, thereby, thawed first) was present at a lower concentration. It was basically trapped inside the other still-frozen polymer, and expanding, as it thawed ... till crack!

The solution was surprisingly simple. Change the method. Bubble nitrogen through the mixture to drive out (sparge) the oxygen. Replacing the oxygen with nitrogen was beneficial, as nitrogen didn't interfere with the copolymerisation reaction.

The main problem was that I had lost two months of experimental time, and this was just the start of a series of experiments and instrumental analyses. It was now Easter and the deadline to hand in my student thesis was early December.

Please don't believe anyone who says students have an easy life.
1. Pharaoh says everybody who speaks against the royal family has their tongue cut out.

2. Seth says there should be less taxes as the pharaoh is too rich.

3. He gets his tongue cut out. What did he expect?

Unfair rules should not always be followed.
Why can’t we vote in person and for the infirm, they can use the existing absentee process? If a person can take to the streets in protest or shop at a grocery store, certainly a polling place could be de-risked?
macOS is vulnerable to SpectreRSB/ret2spec
No I read the postmasters comments. Parcel volume is way down for the post office while packages are up. They are reallocating resources for handling more packages. The USPS parcel business has largely been reduced to junk mail that no one wants.
You should really like Common Lisp, then :) The language hasn't changed since mid 90s or so and many of the widely used libraries have gone for years without needing any changes.
The whole reason I bought a Pixel is Google Assistant, so calling it bloatwear seems a stretch.

Also it doesn't seem bound like that on my phone.
You have not provided any data on how many qualified applications they get from each ethnicity. You've basically said nothing.
That it referred to XLM — that it is both older than VBA and still supported is quite surprising to me. (Given that VBA is no spring chicken.)
Oops, minor correction - UWP apps can only use 1GB of RAM on Xbox, not 2 (among other limitations).
I think you've got it backwards. The point is the letter sorting machines aren't running because there aren't enough letters.
Mimicking Boston Dynamics with Raspberry Pi
I guess we're going to remove a product category (the relatively safe, very consistent, managed platform you can use when you just want to use a computer and not also manage a computer) and call that consumer choice, then?

Isn't the point here that Apple could still provide good security features in iOS and still provide their app store with whatever security or other vetting measures they consider appropriate and allow users to install software from other sources if they so wish?

Users who want Apple's version of safety and security can stick with the default configuration on their devices and install apps only from Apple's store, just like today. However, both they and Apple would pay a price if the Apple app store was then too restrictive in its policies and/or tried to charge excessively: developers who weren't prepared to provide their apps on those terms could sell them through other stores.

Then for those apps, Apple wouldn't get their cut, while users who insisted on sticking with only Apple's store wouldn't have the same range of apps available to them. However, no other users or developers would have their hands tied by Apple's policies. I fail to see how this would restrict consumer choice more than the status quo.
Fortnite's primary demo is people in their teens and early 20s. They are all too young to get the cultural reference of this ad. This isn't directed at them - hell, how many of them have actually read 1984? (Honest question, is that book still taught in high school?)

This ad is targeted at us. I'm inclined to agree with others in this thread who think this entire episode was some kind of product operation, designed to exit the (probably failing) mobile market and gin up some controversy as a convenient excuse.
It annoys me too! Removed.
The quiet part has been said out loud by the president. The motivations have been made clear here and the speculation about why this is happening should in theory end there.

> “They need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots,” Trump said in an interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo. “If they don’t get those two items, that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting because they’re not equipped to have it.” [1]

Discussions around USPS funding or better alternatives are well and good, but from these words of the very top of the executive branch that’s not why USPS is being sabotaged here, today.

I see an awful lot of motivated reasoning in this discussion. I hope those people can look at this more critically and save their desire to abolish the USPS for a more appropriate time, done in a more appropriate manner.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/13/donald-trump...
Those links are useful, but a bit one sided. IPS and the Guardian? Is there not another side to the story? Shouldn’t one desiring to be educated about the issue be informed on all sides of the issues? Seems biased to use only left wing sources.
Absolute Home and Office (a.k.a. CompuTrace, LoJack for Laptops)
All of those except C++ are younger than XLM. (And C++ has seen — comparatively — regular updates. XLM has faded into obscurity.)
The post is a call to action to "save the USPS." I'm saying it's not at all worth it to throw good money after bad money while the entire rest of the world is imploding.
Is Apple really directly competing with Nvidia’s GeForce Now, Microsoft's xCloud, or Google's Stadia?

All of Apple Arcade's games are just mobile games already available in the App store and reviewed individually. The above options are quite a different proposition and Apple's only grievance is they can't review the PC-style game content they are distributing.

It's probably more like Netflix than Apple Arcade, since they are streaming arbitrary content with subscriptions. But games have always been treated different, so again they are not being uniquely targeted.

(Not that I agree with blocking them)
Note: these do not add up to 100%, because they are ignoring international students. So whatever comparison you're trying to do with US demographics needs to be normalized.
GPT-3 generates Humans Of New York captions from photos
It's like finding a rare Pokemon, except human.
Nobody benefits from the pointless arms race that this policy generates.
>I just want to do my job, not relearn a language I’ve used for 20 years.

Good thing is you usually don't have to, languages like php really try and makntain backwards compatability, so you _can_ keep doing what you're doing.

Even with some changes, companies rarely ride the wave and come onboard much later when major issues have been ironed out. Hell, there are PHP4 apps still out there
> You can install software on your own iOS with a free developer certificate as well.

And it expires after 7 days. You can't even scale using your own software without having to swap it out once a week.
The existing absentee process literally depends on the USPS.
Fascinating analogy.

Given the fundamental differences between corporations and governments (and the span of control they have over people’s lives) I do not believe this analogy can be used for any useful inference.

It’s almost as if this example with app stores is an incredibly specific, narrow example, and government control in this way is incredibly broad in impact (I.e. life or death, end of the actual world etc).

Did any of that make any sense?
Alot of vendors (Lenovo[0], ASUS, Dell, ) are using Windows Platform Binary Table, WPBT (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18095848) to get the OS to execute binary. Dell seem to use it to load the Absolute's Lojack anti theft rootkit[1]. Also on Absolute's website there's a list[2] of manufacturers that are using Absolute Persistance[3].

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/lenov...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19800807

[2]: https://www.absolute.com/partners/device-compatibility/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_Home_%26_Office#Absol...
https://jakubmarian.com/advice-or-advices-singular-or-plural
Is this a GPT-3 auto-response bot? It’s a new account, the replies are all very similarly structured, fairly long, and still mostly devoid of content
Seems like you could turn this HR issue into a company. I am sure there are even ones that exist for the bigger countries outside the US.
Well, let me be the first to say I won't be shedding anguished tears for a multi-billion dollar Chinese tech giant known for it's close ties to the CCP.
The Chancellor and chief academic officer are politicians not academics. The academics voted to keep the SAT and ACT.

> UC should keep SAT and ACT as admission requirements, faculty report says

> University of California faculty leaders are recommending the continued use of the controversial SAT and ACT as an admission requirement for now, citing UC data showing the standardized tests may actually help boost enrollment of disadvantaged students, according to a highly anticipated report released Monday

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-03/uc-shoul...
You're missing the 4d chess involved.

> If apple did anything otherwise, it would cause shareholders losses.

Actually, by doing this, they could be gaining some revenue, while at the same time destroying their case for solidifying their own 30% cut. By losing that 30% cut, lose 100x the revenue and causing shareholders losses. So while "capitalism" may be eventually maximizing shareholder value, it doesn't happen by chasing local optima.
It’s not unconscious.
Dreamt up by the same people that retroactively increased income tax in 2012?

Every time CA’s pension funds look shaky, why not just go back to 2012 and bump the rate again for that year, but only if your income is over $99M and your surname is Zuckerberg.

I don’t condone the practice at all. I think it’s shameful behavior from the state — I remember at the time it felt pretty scurrilous that CA were targeting Zuckerberg et al, albeit quite passively.
It's regrettable and bitterly discouraging that the more Amazon works toward improving mine and millions of others daily lives, the closer they get to being broken up.

At least, that's the way I see it. They've added new competition in so many areas. They've saved the consumer so much money that the federal reserve literally blamed them for lowering inflation, but instead, the federal government as painfully ironic as it is, views Amazon as the bloated overreaching organization.
For a light-hearted take, Google Ali Wong's bit about Jungle Asians. The gist is that different waves of immigrants from different countries ended up with wildly different average socioeconomic outcomes in the US. Even different waves from the same country. Sadly, cohort matters.

Note that Vietnamese here is good, because in other situations, it ain't good. The college admissions context is a confounder that flips the desirability of being a particular ethnicity.
Just listened to a great Revisionist History episode that floats the idea of a college admissions lottery: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/44-the-powerball-revo...

There seems to be some emerging evidence that election processes, even those which supposedly require significant expertise (e.g. selecting NIH grant recipients), don't perform meaningfully better than random selection. Which, to be honest, shouldn't come as much of a surprise to anyone steeped in Kahneman and Tversky's behavioral psychology.

This isn't a new idea of course; after the admissions bribery scandal last year Barry Schwartz revisited the idea which he had originally proposed fifteen years prior: https://behavioralscientist.org/do-college-admissions-by-lot...
Ehh I don't know. It makes sense to me. A banana peel and an orange are biodegradable and back them, at least according to my late grandmother, they actually did use as much as they could of the extra biomass from foods (probably because of the Great Depression). A banana peel on the ground is also a lot less unsightly than a bunch of plastic wrappers or cups from McDonalds, at least in my opinion.
They're not. In-app purchases have to go through Apple. You're allowed to sell things outside of the App Store so long as you don't try to use that to circumvent purchases available within it. For example, you can watch videos in several streaming services that you purchased or entered digital codes for. You can't however make a new purchase within the app without hitting an Apple server. Apple logs those purchases and backs them up to your account and hosts the servers that the actual app sits on along with the content for those in-app purchases. That infrastructure allows customers to use one account to download it and nearly guarantee no malware while also giving a platform for people to give feedback on that app.
It might be an interesting experiment for the ex-Mozilla rust team to launch a kickstarter (or similar) project to get them funded for one year.

So it would not be individuals but a team with some high-level goals they plan to work on for the next year.

I have no idea how many people would fund a project like this but it would be a fast and low cost experiment to find that out.

I would not position this as "the people vs. the industry", it would be just an additional option to move Rust forward.
Any word on when we can host our own Windows Package Manager repositories?
Does nobody else see the sheer irony of a company like Epic releasing anything touching on the topics of 1984?
Keep writing php5, It’ll probably be the high paying FORTRAN gig of the 2040s
they are restricted from lowing their rates per the same 2006 bill cited above. in addition, they have to pre-fund their pension benefits well into the future in ways that other privatized companies would never do. the obligation is overwhelmingly crippling. i don't remember the exact figures, but in 2006 USPS profited somewhere around ~$10M, and in 2009—three years after the law was enacted—they lost close to ~4B. i believe it was estimated that ~3/4 of those losses were directly associated with that law.