skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"we will understand that Apple is not willing to make the changes necessary to allow us to provide Android customers with the option of choosing their app store and payment processing system."

Did they intend to write iOS there? That's a pretty big typo in such an important email.
Podcasts would also be quite big, I'd expect.
Absolutely. I wrote such a script as a proof-of-concept and was yelled at because it was considered a 'security risk' for me to use company tools to write code (as a not-hired-for-programming employee) even though I already had access to literally all the company's data and their security practices were such that exfiltrating their data without being caught would have been trivial even if I never placed any code on their systems. The place was extremely dysfunctional and there were significant trust issues that were completely irrational and inconsistent. So a script that did this job was largely out of the question.
FB moved to the place at the top of Cal Ave before moving to Menlo Park
From the S-1: "We use DRAM ICs produced by Samsung, Micron and Hynix in our DRAM modules. We purchase those DRAM ICs, pursuant to purchase orders and not long-term supply contracts, largely from third-party distributors and, to a lesser extent, directly from those manufacturers."

Edit: And "We maintain limited manufacturing facilities that only produce DRAM modules, custom built PCs, custom cooling and performance controllers, and as a result, we depend entirely upon third parties to manufacture and supply the gear we sell and the components used in our gear such as gaming peripherals and gaming components." So they do actually manufacture the modules in-house.
Generally it makes a little sense to me in this case - accept accountability sooner, get a more lenient penalty. Not sure if that is more common or rare in other cultures?
Now I totally understand why Apple have piled up a huge mountain of cash and never spent a dime. They are going to accept anyone's challenge to court if necessary and use their 200M USD financial power to do whatever they can to keep the status quo at any price. I sincerely don't believe we as customers can win this one, fixing Apple (as we talk about here) would be something much bigger than what had been done to Microsoft in the 90s.
I get what you're saying. It would be interesting to see the statistics on how many people play non-casual videogames. And how many people drink craft beer.

Though with videogames, it's still a meaningful statistic to include "casuals" considering it used to be taboo to play videogames at all as an adult.
No. Because even a sec expert can’t guarantee there won’t be some kind of breach. And then what? Pay an expert AND get ransomed?

Better to throw it to a free market and let people find bugs for peanuts.
Sort-of-ish related:

A few years back they started making gaming PCs.

I was looking for something slick, discreet, but still fairly powerful.

I bought a Corsair One, and I've been super happy since then. It's exactly what I wanted and I haven't had any issues with it.

So if you were looking at their gaming PCs, you now know 1 random HN reader is super satisfied and recommends them.
Besides Crucial/Micron, it seems like consumers can't buy DIMMs from Samsung or Hynix; you have to get them from some gamer brand. And clearly a lot of people are buying from brands that they recognize.
My company had our apps flagged because our links to support documentation included our logo, which took you to our homepage, where you could presumably find contact information for our sales department and contact us to purchase. At the time we didn't even have the ability purchase online as our app was only a portal to the enterprise product we were selling which had custom pricing. We ended up removing the support link and just prompted them to email support.
These polls are based on net assets, at least the German ones which show similarly disastrous results.

For what it's worth 40 million people i the US are facing eviction because they can't come up with something as essential as rent. This is how deep the social divide has become in the US.
Credit where it's due, "Backyard Worlds" is one of a large number of "citizen science" projects hosted at Zooniverse[1]. The specific project is at [2], but the Zooniverse platform hosts many others affording pleasant hours of internet contribution.

[1]https://www.zooniverse.org

[2] https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/marckuchner/backyard-wor...
If I understand it right, "CORSAIR COMPONENTS, INC." no longer existed since 2017?

Weird they haven't updated their website then.
40-43s for anyone else curious.

Either two for repair or newly made/repaired I'd guess.
Looks like an addiction getting out of control.
Look up desk pads, I have one that covers the majority of my 5’x30” desk!

My Corsair PSU is an old 750W and they were synonymous with accessible modular power supplies for a while. Made them last longer by design when that wasn’t a given design choice. All in one heatsink units are more popular now, but they used to be the only option in that category too.
I'm sure people have had bad experiences on AirBnB and Amazon. I don't think Apple should try to curate Amazon's reviews or vet AirBnB hosts.

Or a real life analogy: every year someone drinks bleach and dies. I'd rather we didn't make bleach completely illegal.

Maybe Apple can do what the Mac does and have some prompts like "hey danger ahead".
> We also know, due to disclosures made at Intel’s Architecture Day, that it is set to be built on Intel’s 10nm Enhanced SuperFin (10ESF, formerly 10++, formerly 10+++) manufacturing process, which we believe to be a late 2021 process.
The a only significant when you factor in time played and frequency.
https://patchfriday.com/92/
I wonder if it would be less work to write an OS with the sole purpose of pushing out packets for the hardcoded webpage…
> What’s more important to normal users is speed

If normal users cared about speed they can go and use Chrome. The framing in many of the comments here seems to be that there is 1 ideal that all web browsers should be working towards; and it is represented by Google Chrome. That isn't really the case, there are multiple interpretations. It is very annoying that Firefox chose the path of being Chrome-but-worse. All the people who want Chrome are using it - or chromium - and they don't need Firefox trying to implement the same thing but in red.

Firefox has lost substantial features over the years - Chatzilla for example was a great little add-on. It is quite a bold strategy to write a blog post saying "we stripped out a bunch of features, but trust me you didn't want them". Even if it is true there doesn't seem to be the level of regret here that is appropriate for trashing an ecosystem that has never recovered.
1Password also deals with it well. For example on Google, Microsoft, and Atlassian.
It's like two kids fighting over Fortnite
this is a tough one, to make an exploitable attack you would need at a minimum to have a copy of the flight AI and be able to simulate possible encounters. Given the relatively finite number of side-channels available, it's probably far cheaper for the AI builder to run such simulations and adversarially test against the main exploitable variations such as blasting the aircraft's sensors with bad/confusing data.

There just aren't that many methods of interacting with a plane >1km away, and even fewer at the 50-100KM ranges that modern fighters are built to fight at.
Oh so some people still believe you don't have to save for retirement in France. The legend lives on.
I had no idea that this existed, and I use MDN almost every day.
Is it fair to compare France to USA though ? In term of scale maybe comparing to Europe would be better.

Are you both saying that you are "living on the startup scene" but don't see any startup ? Or any successful ones. On the top of my head I can already cite you Blablacar, CapitaineTrain, Dailymotion, Deezer as relatively successful for the French market ... Of course if you're looking for planetary mastodon as sign of success ...
Your confusion is understandable. This misunderstanding surfaces every now and then on HN.

“Hypothesis. Theory. Law. These scientific words get bandied about regularly, yet the general public usually gets their meaning wrong.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/just-a-theory-7-m...
Huh? No, the Mac App Store also takes 30% of each sale.
False. You are just not allowed to say it is cheaper on the website.
NYC is arguably the highest taxes locale in the US.

Try the same comparison with say, Seattle.
> At least in this context play store terms is not more developer friendly than app store in ios.

I'm not aware of any instances where google forced a developer to monetize an app.

Indeed, unlike apple, google is fine with you using a 3rd party payment provider (i.e. not paying the 30% cut) if the product purchased can be used outside the app (which is clearly the case for a domain name.)

>> Payment is for digital content that may be consumed outside of the app itself (e.g. songs that can be played on other music players). [0]

[0] https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
>If developers can avoid the digital checkout, it is the same as if a customer leaves an Apple retail store without paying for shoplifted product: Apple does not get paid.

Fair enough. Give us other ways to acquire software then.
Stress, burnout and redundancy: Tough times in IT
Mobile legends does pretty well for Moonton and is extremely popular in southeast Asia
Right. I have some activities that are way more dubious than Candy Crush as to whether they are "video games".

For example I played Love Letter on Board Game Arena on Tuesday. Clearly if I played the "real" Love Letter that isn't a video game, it's a card game. So maybe playing it on BGA is still a card game, except the cards don't exist and I'm on a web site?

Sometimes on Tuesday I play Through The Ages. TTA was created as a board game, but obviously in the pandemic you can't safely go to somebody's house and sit around playing board games for hours. So there's a version that's a Steam game. Is that a video game? Or is that still just a board game I'm playing via Steam?

Sometimes we play D&D online instead. Is that a video game? Is it a video game if we're doing a 4th edition combat encounter, so that exact positions and movement matter? How about if it's a roleplayed skill check scenario instead?

Is an Infocom text adventure game a video game? How about a point-and-click like Monkey Island?

Is designing courses in Mario Maker 2 a video game?

Is writing Python code for my Compact Claustrophobia (Minecraft modpack) robot to more efficiently construct things for my play a video game?

These are things that require some clear fundamental idea of what video games are to guide principled decisions. Whereas Candy Crush is just obviously a video game.

If Candy Crush isn't a video game then I'm pretty sure arcade Space Invaders wasn't a video game either.
I really appreciate all the work you have done to make this so accessible to folks.
Every app can do this. They just can't say that it is cheaper on the website.
I would totally pay monthly/yearly for MDN
Please don't do this if you have kids.

No amount of money is worth giving up these irreplaceable years with your children. You cannot get these moments back. You can't "make it up to them later" when you are filthy rich. If you miss teaching your kid how to ride a bike, it's gone forever. No amount of money can fill that hole.

I'm speaking from experience. I did it. I worked the 80-90 hours a week getting my startup off the ground. Raised millions in VC. And I regret it terribly.
Have you found a way to donate? All the links on that page are dead for me.
> Some of these weird worlds are even relatively close to Earth's temperature and could be cool enough to have water clouds in their atmospheres, according to the statement.
> All of which are going to be competing on price which means they will look to sell my user data to make money.

Didn’t even occur to me. It’s the obvious way app stores can earn money if there was some legislated effort to cut the commission fee and force multiple stores.
That was a limited time experiment, which got shut down after it didn't prove very successful. But from that, it's probably a fair guess that it would not perform well if rolled out again today. There are a few very vocal people who want to support MDN, and that's great, but that's probably not true for the bigger audience. :(
> 30% is only the standard because Apple set it so high.

Both Steam and the Xbox Games Store predate the App Store by several years so your suggestion is literally impossible.
Journalism's Gates keepers: Gates Foundation has funneled $250m to journalism
I can support that. Along with listing a line item for every tax charged and what those taxes are used for. Perhaps a line item of credit card fees (for non App Store purchases.” Also a line item for salaries of your developers, a line item for the rent charged wherever you are working from. And perhaps a line item for exactly how much the servers and customer support costs.

What’s the markup of a product sold in a brick and mortar shop? It’s a whole lot more than 30%.
But that's a different argument. You haven't shown any fault in my reasoning other than calling it meaningless. There may be arguments for why government shouldn't be able to give you everything (for example, the ones in your post), but "because then they can take everything away" isn't it, since every government in the world can already do that, both in theory and in practice.
They're pushing "One API" for programming. They rather have to deliver this time on the Aurora supercomputer.
God. I just stopped opening the play store. Everything is ads and autoplaying videos.

I added the update shortcut to homescreen to go straight to updates
The quest for immortality isn't a 0 or 1 objective. Using technology to reduce or reverse aging is one aspect. Using technology to reduce the accident fatality rate is another aspect. E.g, what was the car fatality rate 100 years ago and what is it now when you account for safer cars and better medical tech.

Unless you bypass the Second Law of Thermodynamics (Greg Egan's Permutation City provides a possible example), technology will get us asymptotically closer to true immortality. But even if we don't reach true immortality, reducing suffering caused by our current level of mortality is a noble goal.
It appears to be a chapter from a book titled, " Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination". I haven't read the whole chapter, but it looks like this is what is being discussed:

"It took social psychology nearly a century to recognize that not only had it
been declaring stereotypes to be inaccurate on the basis of little data, but once the data
started to come in, to accept that this data often (though not always) demonstrated
moderate to high stereotype accuracy. This resistance to the data has constituted a
significant impediment to understanding the existence, causes, and consequences of both
stereotype accuracy and inaccuracy."
Sounds like a great INFOOP opportunity by a foreign power to further sow discontent.
This Youtube video covers the current situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhQrGtragXc
That's right, Proton is amazing. I've been playing classics like Rome Total War on my Linux setup
Are any of them situated in a place that would be useful to us for getting to other places?
They still offer it, and since they're also banned from the Play Store, probably dependent on it again for Android users.

They probably listed in the Play Store in order to get standing to sue Google.
> It's one thing to negotiate for preferred treatment, but unilaterally breaking the agreement as an opening move? This aggression will not stand, man.

If I understand correctly, I think you are getting the timeline wrong. Unless you don't count prior contact attempts as an "opening move".
Jeremy should update his JavaScript course as well. He might be one if the few people to make it look less messy than it is everywhere else. The fast.ai course is wonderful. Definitely recharged my own interest in deep learning.
The one that got me was an employee needs to give 3 months notice that they are quitting.

It’s typically 2 weeks in the US and that’s more a nice to have than a requirement.
Tech Tent: Can we trust algorithms?
I think this article is missing something. What it talks about is efficiency of systems, which I think is different than efficiency in process.

Most of what the article talks about is making large systems more efficient for the benefit of the system at large. I agree, this makes individual components of the system more stressed and prone to catastrophic failure at any one point in the system. People within that kind of efficient system are pushed to their limits and breaking points.

However, making individual processes efficient i've found reduces stress on the individuals involved in that process and allows for that slowing down time.

The examples I can think of to back my points up

Previously I worked at a job where the actual process was incredibly inefficient. I ended up working long hours and twice as hard as I needed to. By the time I left that job, I'd increased the efficiency of the process to the point where I was working reasonable hours, had some good downtime to relax or take care of other things I'd had to neglect before.

The overall system at the place though was fairly inefficient, which was a good thing. It meant we were usually a little ahead and could account for things that went wrong.

Another recent example at my current job, we were working with a person who tried to overhaul our inefficient, yet working system. Our processes were efficient enough that we always got what we needed to do done. The person we were working with tried to over engineer an 'efficient' schedule and system for us that in the end caused far too much friction and they ended up losing money and the business relationship between the company I work for and them ended.
You've got the right of what callable means. After researching more about this, I have learned that some mortgages also have additional callable acceleration provisions to lower the bank's risk - such as when a borrower's credit score falls.
> Can we post anything we want on HN? How about spamming Patreon or GoFundMe links on forums and servers? Why not?

You are free to put a gofundme link on your profile page on HN. People who make interesting, thought provoking, constructive comments and avoid sophistic arguments and strawmen certainly have their profile page checked by other users who want to follow the commenter on other plateforms.
I despise bad marketing. I love and support good marketing. How to tell them apart? Good marketing is about providing value with postive intent. Bad marketing is just plain manipulation.

Hacker news itself (as a product) is an excellent example of marketing a tech product.
How much are credit card fees? Chargebacks? Fraud? Server costs to host your app and updates? The shopping cart/private infrastructure? You actually get some value from those percentages, but few people actually run the numbers.
That's just reducing the effective exhaust velocity of your engine. Rocket equation says you will run out of propellent [your "something"] faster than you would like.
Refrigerator safety study: Case study analysis
Both of those probably retain some value. Property may appreciate.

I really don't think you guys have thought this through. All your suggestions on how to spend underline that it's basically impossible, even when that's your object rather than enjoying it. So now who are you giving money to? It's the only thing you can do with it. Children, good works, politics, immortality via a wing of an art gallery is popular. A building at your University... Gates is trying to rid the world of disease.

When i say you can't in not making euphamisms. You just can't. Lay out a serious plan that you would want to try and spend it and you see it's not practical or even close.

Replace Sting with every artist you like and think on the logistics of it. It doesn't work. Rival Leno's Garage. Only stay in 5 star hotels. Private Jet. 5 mansions on different continents go nuts. Your idea of no expense spared, lap of luxury. Price it up for 70 years worth.
Epic has claimed that Google put so many restrictions that it effectively wasn’t an option for them. Google has measures to persuade people not to turn on sideloading, for security reasons.

So Epic wants both Google and Apple to abandon their security models and allow direct installs of apps.

Phones have been an enormously popular computing platform in significant part because of the security model. Non-technical users can use them easily and reasonably trust the apps they install. Epic is asking for a rather radical shift.
The author lost me at the end with the car analogy. Who drives fast on icy roads? I try to drive the right speed for conditions. I use the right amount of efficiency for the job.
Incremental Type Migration Using Type Algebra
I'm not OP, and the books that jumped to my mind when I read this are not blockchain-related.

They are related by questions of society, trust, and incentive design.

They seem largely aligned with Vitalik's assessment of the `0 of N`/`1 of N` assessment

Before clicking through to Goodreads, though, check out this book review of Seeing like a State by Scott Alexander:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...

Next, check out both of these books:

- James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed [0]

- Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey [1]

Neither book will disappoint!

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20186.Seeing_Like_a_Stat...

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15794037-the-problem-of-...

Edit: for clarity.
Compliance as Easy as an App
We value every CU we work with, and wanted to inform you that Oak Tree has put together a COVID-19 component for the commercial MBL package, free to our customers who use our commercial loan forms package.
AI Fighter Pilot Claims “Flawless Victory” in Dogfight Against Human
Atlantic trade lowered the probability of intra-European conflict by 15%
You can directly support Mozilla Developer Network (MDN)
I use MDN almost every day, but had no idea that it was possible to directly support them. I just found out about two ways:

- Sponsor for $ a month: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/payments/

- Buy Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/mdn-store/
It is not that much debit focused, but you normally get credit card from a bank here.
Same Apple Developer tools issued to Unreal Team?
Bears Are Going Extinct in Stock Market’s $13T Rebound
> while if you're donating to the university, they ARE entitled to give preferential treatment

It’s not a donation if you’re getting something in return, e.g. preferential treatment.
Unixporn is often too flashy for my tastes. Something like DWM with a CPU and RAM meter up top is often enough. Why we gotta mix compositors with 3D file system explorers and animated desktops is beyond my needs, but I'm atleast guilty of the animated wallpaper trend
In the case of ReMarkable 1, there are almost no issues with vectorised PDFs - when changing pages the screen update is usually the limiting factor, and that's relatively quick. For rasters, though, it does take a while to render out (>1 second for particularly complex pages). I think this is mostly a software limitation - some time is given over to drawing and saving the small thumbnail.
Factorio. One of the best
games I've ever played. It's also one of the most addictive experiences in recent memory.