skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It bugs me how this is an argument in "app store is not a monopoly". App stores (both Google and Apple) have a huge profit margin which is based on abusing it's position and they are milking the fact that creating competition would cost billions of dollars - this is exactly the situation where a pure market situation ends up being sub-optimal and hurting the consumers.

Consider what would happen if Mastercard and Visa proclaimed that you can no longer accept cash if you want to accept their services ! And then someone would say "but Mastercard is not a monopoly neither is Visa". At one point they even managed to make it illegal to transfer the transaction fees to user visibly as surcharge - but you are still allowed to have a "cash only discount" - Apple and Google are effectively killing this option by preventing third party payment systems and people are saying "they aren't a monopoly".

Fixing this should be pretty straightforward and should apply to all digital app stores :

a) force equal access to these stores (anyone who can legally apply must be able to, irregardless of their relation with store owner, eg. Epic vs Apple, there should be some provisions about what kind of content is not acceptable - but this should be defined on platform basis and enforced consistently, otherwise it should grant you basis for damages suit)

b) force app stores to accept all payment forms in-app (that comply to payment processing standards) - people here claim that app store payment provides them with security, convenience, etc. and I agree - but if I was given the option at a 25% markup (other payment providers aren't free either) I go for other option every time. At 10% over standard payment provider it's a different story - and that's still an insanely profitable spot for them. Point is - consumers decide what benefits them.

c) force app store reviews to follow specific guidelines: time limit on feedback, require explicit feedback of rule violations when you get denied access - to allow appeals through courts if the review process gets abused
I think that the idea is that developed countries have no "need" for it, while developing countries could and will benefit from maximally exploiting their natural resources to develop as quickly as possible. There's a good point in your comment (that the process exploiting natural resources is more harmful in developing countries, and so might not be worth the tradeoff for faster development), but it's buried under sarcasm and lack of charity. We could have a more productive discussion without it.
... wasting their lives.
Good very well known information and command, don't see much innovation just reinventing the wheel
Definitely not.

Student fees have never left a surplus to invest. It's from investing donations.
Makes sense. Lots depend on Github for CI/CD.

Having your country shut off from Github could break a lot of stuff.
Epic is trying to get this done. But the companies are afraid that could trigger anti-trust cases against them. It’s complicated - but they’re watching and I believe big tech has grown tired of Apple’s power.
I really like the idea behind this project. I'm quite curious how it works to unsubscribe you from mail.
One-drop test for water contamination
The traditional unix command for this is 'comm' and it is usually installed by default.
Contributor license agreements needed for removal of share-alike clause
Same here. For a second I thought they literally meant objects close to and orbiting our Sun.

And Fahrenheit on a science website? Use kelvin or at least Celsius not Fahrenheit.

What an annoying article.
See, the lack of bidirectional deletion is one of the reasons I prefer Signal. Nobody other than me should have the ability to delete data on my device.
And in those very early days, Chrome would put itself on your computer uninvited: Installers included it as extra recommended software, at which point it would set itself as default.
At work my workstation has a Radeon pro, with Kubuntu 18LTS. The most noticable thing is that the KDE taskbar freezes (interestingly enough, the taskbar is my biggest driver issue, as on Nvidia it will render as garbage, and the garbage changes when I scroll in Firefox. With nouveau, Xorg just crashed about 4x per week).

Switching to a text console and back clears up the issues for a few hours to a few days.
I worked for Red Hat in 1999 and am pretty aware of the landscape of the early Internet and software, but always up for some corrections - my billionaires comment was a bit tongue in cheek, I'm not sure the early Mozillans are actually billionaires.
I'm not sure what you mean. Many unions are explicitly partisan organizations, and indeed many see political activism as one of their core activities.
> Also I don't follow on how democracy implies socialism.

Political and economic power are different names for the same thing; pretending they are different and one can be distributed equally when the other is intensely concentrated is self-delusion.
Scientists claim they achieved the world’s fastest internet speed
London scientists build 'ultra broadband nearly three million times faster' than UK home fibre optic internet connections. The team used amplifiers to enhance the way light carries digital data through fibre-optic broadband to achieve a record 178 terabits per second
Wildfire caused widespread drinking water distribution network contamination
I'm a bit skeptical. For one, how much of a modern aircraft is actually really dedicated to cockpit space, maybe 5% on a small fighter? How much extra fuel and thrust is really required to lug along a ~80 kg human (okay maybe double to account for supporting systems)? Keeping in mind a single Sidewinder missile weighs 85 kg.

For a drone (even a swarm of them) to compete with a modern jet fighter, it'll need a reasonably powerful engine and sufficient fuel to keep it up in the air long enough to: seek out and engage the enemy, carry a decent payload, and reach a suitable altitude. That all sounds like a lot of fuel and engine power to me, especially if you're expecting this drone (swarm) to operate outside of the immediate vicinity of the launching area.

I see more potential for drones to act as 'screen' for jet fighters once stealth technology is made irrelevant by advances in radar. I foresee the use of, low cost vehicles that resemble fighters (in the ways that count), but carry minimal ordinance (if any) to keep the costs down. They could also provide auxiliary functionality like electronic warfare and scouting.

I mean you could in theory develop a drone that exploded on impact and operated within a limited area, but you've just re-invented the guided missile, with a little extra smarts.
> You literally have to select "annual subscription billed monthly" to sign up

No, that's automatically selected for you. :) Try using the website yourself.

The billing page clearly says "Subtotal $XX/mo"; the only place it says 'annual plan' is in the top box, which says 'Annual plan, paid monthly'; and when you select, eg. the standard photoshop plan, and click 'Buy now'; it takes you to a page where there isn't even a monthly option, despite the main page saying "US$9.99/mo".

As no time do you 'opt in' to an annual plan, except by clicking on the button that says 'US$9.99/mo'.

It would be 'obvious' if it said: You minimum commitment over 24-months is $$$.

It does not.

I don't know what you get from stubbornly refusing to acknowledge this is a dark pattern; clearly other people find this surprising too, and... well, I don't know what to say. Sometimes you have to acknowledge that you're wrong.

This is bad behaviour on the part of adobe; it's not really a he said/she said/my opinion is kind of thing; in many places, having the minimum total commitment displayed on the billing page is a legal requirement. In others, a no-penalty cancel-subscription is a legal requirement.

Adobe just flat out does neither unless you fight with them and threaten legal action.

I honestly don't know how they get away with it.
What do you mean by 'value' and how is it measured? Like the raw response rate? An ELO rating as I hear some apps do? Or a google-style pagerank thing?
> I simply do not understand this 'forgetting' bit

Statute. Of. Limitations.

Also, detective/prosecutor raise+promotion incentive structure. Cold cases don't get headlines unless it's some mass-murderer-rapist-satanist.
Hi

At the time I write this the parent comment is fairly grey.

I've been pondering what to do or write for a couple of minutes already now but I think I should write something.

I just wanted you to know that (and this is hopefully a good thing) I was about to downvote you, not becaise of who you are or what you do but because the comment was so out of place in context. I even considered (in fact still consider) the option that you are trolling.

I guess this is the case for many here: we might or might not be the biggest supporters, but ai guess the majority of us are "nice" people abd the downvotes have been piling up because 1.) the comment feels extremely out of place 2.) being posted from a throwaway (like mine) makes us suspect trolling 3. I've also considered that maybe GP has done something for your community but it was not obvious neither from your post, GPs profile or anything I could see.

Hopefully the fact that your comment possibly got crushed for stylistic and/or context reasons makes you and people like you feel a bit safer. :-)

PS: I'd feel the same urge to downvote if someone used half their post to describe how they were a

- Buddhist with small children

- Atheist with small children

- Christian with small children

and yes, you'd find me in one if the above bullet points.

PPS: I'm an oldtimer around here.

PPPS: I also miss a general "flag for moderator attention" that might get mods attention but won't have negative consequences for the flagged.
> the Chinese constitution mandates primacy of the National People's Congress, therefore any power to strike laws would ironically enough be unconstitutional

This is the core difference. No single body can exercise the U.S. state’s power with such primacy.

There are a lot of other errors in this comment, but your sources should are good and are worth reading together with their references.
Complete with Surgeon Simulator-style disarming of the mines!
I've commented this elsewhere, but Apple encouraging users to only upgrade and purchase subscriptions through Apple's payment systems and hiding in-app alternatives and links to other options isn't just about the 30% fee. It also increases consumer lock-in to the Apple ecosystem.

If the only thing you're using your phone for is calling, browsing, and buying apps, it's not that hard to switch to Android. You lose all of your apps, and that stinks a lot, but if most of your apps are free you might tolerate that. And outside of the apps, you can keep your phone number, export your contacts, etc...

But if suddenly all of your phone subscriptions including newspapers, music services like Spotify, hosts like Wordpress, email services like Hey, and so on -- if all of those are only managed through your phone and can't be canceled or upgraded by the companies themselves then that's another big annoyance to deal with that might keep you from switching just because you want an Android app that isn't available for your phone.

Apple tries very hard to lock users into its ecosystem. That's why there's a credit card now that only works with Apple phones; it's to make sure that if you ever change phones, you now have to deal with canceling a credit card. That's why companies aren't allowed to build their own interoppable solutions around iMessage. It's to make sure that if you change phones, you get social stigma from your friends and have a worse SMS experience with them.

The payments rules are another part of that. Yes, of course Apple wants the 30%, but they also want literally everything you do on your phone to be tied to them. If Apple could create a world where you lost your phone number when you switched phones, they'd do it in a heartbeat.

They want their walled garden to have a one-way door.
> A lot of things are neither stable nor efficient.

Yes, and those are the shitty things.

But when you want to improve them, make them non-shitty, you're facing a choice: stability, or high performance - pick one.
It's still a stretch to say that the virus is "harmless" to children.

But that's beside the point. The real point about children is that they can spread the virus just as well, even when they don't get sick - especially since it's also really hard for at least smaller children to keep distance or wear masks.
How does this compare to Outpost? teamoutpost.com
It is so very depressing. Nearly every game released by those companies is an ad riddled garbage fire.

It's an affront to what makes gaming fun. They are "games" in the same sense that slot machines are "games". They aren't games in the sense that non-mobile gamers talk about.
Hire the right people with better on-the-job performance prediction
Do you happen to know, if the RB2011 will be stuck on the (dead-end) ar71xx release, or whether somebody is working on porting it to the newer ath79 platform with LTS?
Hey HN happy to answer any and all questions best I can, I'll keep a lookout in this thread :)
Say you use the tips here( https://efficiencyiseverything.com/time/) to save time, particularly the first example about shoes.

You are going to have more time to do anything, relax, think, clean, whatever.

Why would spending more time putting on shoes be better?
It's mind blowing the number of people who are defending apple everywhere by making any excuse they can. Some of them have comments implying otherwise if you check their history but apple gets a leeway. Is there some kind of cognitive dissonance?

Why are people so attached to a greedy corp worth 2 trillion whose entire business rely on child and exploitative labour, has avoided billions in taxes, has been bullying others legally, don't want you to own anything or repair (climate?), etc?

People who have overused whataboutism as a logical fallacy to stop an argument are doing the same today themselves.
> ...they tell the public what it wants to hear

That's because it's a sure fire way to get elected in a democracy.
A better link to the UK story: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43507728

but note in the UK this was a major scandal, £250m of compensation paid, etc, rather than business as normal
I'm fascinated by this opinion. Is Hearthstone a video game? Desert Golfing? Good Sudoku? Words with Friends? Clash Royale? Angry Birds? The Arcana? Wii Sports? Pokémon Go?
You're asking the wrong question. Not how much space the human takes, but how much performance the plane loses because it contains meat jelly.
There is value in reimplementing things to learn how they work
Ah yes, it’s the response of _capital_, which explains the lack of surveillance in Communist states
While you're correct in a simple short-term scenario, there is one very big hole in that argument: if the composition of the incoming trash changes over time. Which it does. Plenty of things were not recognized as valuable at the time they were thrown away.

There's the classic example of low-background steel, but there are more arcane things as well: an old high school teacher of mine bragged that he salvaged a large amount of discarded old wood planks, worth as much as a nice new car! Even common items may help factor in to making recycling old dumps economical (until recent years, an enormous amount of consumer electronics, containing precious metals, were simply tossed in the trash.)

One way I could easily see this becoming big fast is from some sort of law enforcing a heavy carbon tax or pollutant tax. Steel production is highly polluting and currently nobody pays the true price of things (including their carbon footprint.) If a government takes one of these steps - which I could totally see happening - then people will definitely consider mining landfills.
most society sectors that happens to be outside America
I'm honestly surprised that OKCupid is still relevant. After Tinder and Bumble arrived it seemed they were all but knocked out. I've heard from my single friends that Hinge made a resurgence, so maybe these platforms never die as long as there are people willing to give them their personal info/data.
I always find it saddening to see people misuse the word myth to mean a simple falsehood or lie. That is not what this word means at all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth

If they cannot get a basic use of the language correct, and in their three word title no less, I have little interest in examining the article.
> My expectation is that the camera market will continue to shrink as companies like Sony have completely missed the concepts of ecosystems, open standards, compatibility, and people wanting to do anything Sony didn't predict. … Newer users expect apps and interoperability.

I think Sigma is getting it right. FP can natively act as a regular webcam. From get go, they are publishing an SDK for developers and 3D models of the body and all accessories as STEP files for accessory makers. Frankly, their approach is a breath of fresh air.
> What does the money go towards?

> The money collected through MDN (minus processing fees, taxes, etc.) will be reinvested back into MDN. We will publish a monthly report on MDN Web Docs showing what work was completed.

> What will MDN user funding pay for?

> Currently, Mozilla pays for site operations and overhead (including staff writers and web developers). MDN user payments will fund accelerating current projects or launching new ones, including: Adding more content, and updating current content, Improving performance of the site, Modernizing the MDN platform, Adding offline access to MDN, Supporting integrations with popular developer tools, More tutorials and guides, Training and webinars
Take the Sony logo, cover the lower half and invert it.
Don't comment on your findings.
Look up SIBO. Talk to your doctor. Get the breath test.
It is beyond Poe. This is harry potter territory. Even if one had the magic bullets, you need to know where the missile is to within a few inches. Good luck with that. The missile is doing Mach4 and has the radar cross section of a small flightless ant. And your magic gun system has perhaps one or two seconds to track and engage that ant. Add to that the fact that your gun system is presenting a wonderful IR and radar-emitting target for the missile, and his swarm of buddies, to better home upon.

This is the sort of missile a fighter pilot is up against, 20 years ago. Look at what the sidewinder does at about 1:05. Good luck shooting that down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YMSfg26YSQ
I spent a brief time in university admissions. There are lots of “side doors” - and that’s not necessarily bad.

For example, one university had a rule that any prospective student who inquires about a certain program, and shows a detailed understanding of how that program works, be fast tracked in.

Why? We’ve spent a ton of time building that program and want to enroll interested students!

The same was true, to a lesser degree, of any prospect who had clearly done her research and was interested in this college specifically.

Asking things like “I hear you offer one on one tutorials - how do they work?” show that the students are actually interested in the college, and would probably be a good match.

On the other hand, if we get the idea that we’re simply a “safety school” that the student wants to avoid if they can - that student can expect an extremely rigorous and unforgiving assessment of her abilities.
HN is owned by YCombinator, so YC startups get the privileges of putting up ads and creating Launch HNs.
Edit: More information can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Why Antibody Tests Won’t Help You Much
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police#Ancient_policing
Call me old fashioned but I will achieve immortality through my children in just the way you described.
Private git repo's, with Jupyter notebooks documenting the scripts is the primary means of sharing. I have duplicated quite a few things inadvertently though, just due to them being fairly simple and not asking about it. That's more of a communication issue than anything else though.
That's the basis behind F35's design and why it can't outmaneuver a F16 in a visual range dogfight but is never expected to get into one.
CEO Drama at $1.2T Wealth Fund Hits New Hurdle
That's hasn't been the only meaning of the word for a long while: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myth
Show HN: Flow-fill layout for images and video
I needed a layout algorithm for a video app I'm working on, so I wrote this.
Show HN: Conferacity – A place for “kind, clear and constructive” discussion
Excess whitespace is extremely harmful, because it reduces, in exact proportion, the amount that can be seen, at once, of the code that actually does things. Same applies to prolix commenting. The code that does things is what people working on it need to see. A comment that explains why a thing is done might be consulted when purpose is unclear or not obvious. That is why a good coding editor grays out comment text.

Whitespace deployed very judiciously directs attention where it is needed without need for distracting verbiage.

Far more scarce than any other resource is attention. Anything that steals attention away from where it is needed most is actively harmful, creating bugs and misdesign, and knocking people out of productive flow.
JWT == JSON Web Token

I had to look it up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Web_Token
They're awesome, so much better than twist-ons. Fully approved in the US, just more expensive up front.
I get quite motion-sick. Boat rides are - at best - mildly unpleasant.

After trying the oculus dk1 roller coaster demo, I was incapable of doing anything for 4-5 hours and still felt sick days later.

I play beat saber regularly; taking off the vive after an hour I feel mildly disoriented for about half a minute and then I am fine. The tech has progressed tremendously and no longer gives me any trouble (which may not hold true for everyone but it’s definitely been fine for me)!
They're still hosting & running it, and I think Chris Mills is still there?
I don't agree that the judiciary is captured. The Stolen Valor Act, for example, was struck down despite unanimous approval in Congress.
I'd say Witcher 2 is at least close, just smaller and less refined. The potion system is significantly more interesting in my opinion. That said, 3 is a masterpiece.
I do on the whole yes, its not something I rave about unreservedly the same way I do about styled-components for example, but its still a tool I'd opt for on projects that actually have a need to do GQL stuff.

Its like your favorite screwdriver that you somehow always manage to cut yourself on - you're extremely grateful that you have this tool, it lets you tighten screws even in the narrowest spots, you just wish the handle wasn't so damn sharp
Take with a grain of salt, JVM tuning is an entire art and science, probably same with CLR.
A misuse isn’t corrected by commonality, or rather ignorance doesn’t improve with popularity.

The definition you pointed to only vaguely resembles the meaning you hope for in a secondary sub point. No other dictionary provides a definition that even remotely comes close.
Except Super Smash Bros, which has the worst netcode and online play possible. Nintendo is this weird combination of incompetent and brilliant that I don't really understand.
Batman (1989) – Dutch Movie Review
Hm, I'd like to donate, but their subscription page is 404 right now...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/payments/management/
The elephant was named Tuffi and today there's a brand of flavoured milk called after her.