skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The stunt by Epic, aside, has that ever happened to you?

Think about the opposite situation.

Imagine that Apple charged 90% of the costs of having a game on the app store. How many game companies do you think would make games for that? My guess: probably not many.

> If a developer switches to a different payment services or store, they'll have to make a decision - pocket all the cost savings

Also, even in this situation, with the game developer pocketing all the savings, I would much rather prefer them doing this, than Apple taking the money.

To re-iterate, even if we agree that the money would not go to the consumer, and not trickle down at all, I still want this to happen.

This is because now there is more money in the gaming industry, which means that there is now more reason for game developers to make games. So I still want that to happen. Because it means that there is more reasons for developers to make games.

That is still much better than if Apple gets the money.

> They'll have to support refunds, false charges, etc, right?

Yes, and those costs are much much cheaper than 30%. It is not even close. Paypal charges 3% costs. So that is where the prices would probably go to.

> What if the support costs are greater than the savings?

They won't be. 30% is a very large number. But even if we agree that they are, in some small percentage of cases, then those companies can feel free to continue to put their service on the Apple app store. So you can't use that argument.

If other app stores are bad, then people will just list it on the app store instead, and you can't use this argument.

I don't want to force companies to put their app on other app stores. I just want it to be an option. That way the best app store wins. Problem solved.

So, to say again, even if the game developers pocket all of the money, I still rather that happen than Apple getting a dime, by forcing people to use their app store.

I will go even further, actually, and say that even if there is zero proven benefit to consumers, by either trickle down prices, or because of more games being produced (due to game devs having more resources, by pocketing everything, and using those resources to make better/more games), I would still rather my money go to game devs, because philosophically I consider it to be their game, and they deserve the money more than Apple.
I bought Affinity Photo and I am not enjoying the migration. Having used Photoshop for 20 years, there is so much muscle memory for a lot of tasks that were quick and are much slower now. It's really hard to learn and easy to feel disgruntled when you know you could have been done in a few seconds in Photoshop. I'm considering running CS6 in a VM or paying for the damn subscription.
It takes 6 months to get those things out the door because teams are so busy dealing with fires and other technical debt that has built up from all the previous “do it dirty now and we’ll fix it later” features. Eventually you’re buried in keeping things afloat all the previous mistakes and just can’t move forward on anything.
I understand this but I was trying to get OP to decribe the middle east as was her/his example.
The roads are absolute shit and the electrical grid is falling apart. It was tempting to settle down and buy a house amidst the years crises, but I'm not signing up to be responsible for the problems in this state.
License servers and downloadable content. Roughly 2005 is about the time when these started to become commonplace because developers began to assume always on Internet for applications that didn't have obvious network dependencies. So even if you have installation media, that media may not have everything needed and will likely not have patches for significant bugs that were discovered after it was pressed or the installer was downloaded. I think that's why the author picked 2005 as the cutoff point: prior to then, if you had the installation media / package, you could usually install and run it offline. Likewise, any subsequent updates could usually be downloaded 'outside' of the application and applied manually.
Perhaps they can publish Dijkstra's little gem[1] on the Pythagorean theorem? He explicitly asks what journal would publish such a triviality. However it's a really neat little bit of reasoning and I quite enjoyed it.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/E...
A secondary language is a must-have if possible when you are young. It doesn't only allow you to speak with people, it introduces you to other cultures, opens your mind on how things could be so differently. I'm from a Spanish speaker country and learned English alone. Music also. What I consider the most important thing is that learning shouldn't feel like an obligation.
There's also no way to download Lightroom 6 from Adobe anymore, so unless you saved the installer, you'd be out of luck on a new Mac even if Adobe had updated the licensing system for 64bit.

There are some tech companies I don't have a particularly positive view of and try to avoid, such as Facebook. Only Adobe, however, do I consider such an execrable blight on the industry that I have a firm, no-exceptions, "never again" policy.
This is just a regular hydronic radiant system which is very efficient because it doesn’t need to heat the air. The thing is, hydronic systems have been around for 70 years or more but they typically are not used for cooling because of the humidity issues that arise which are damaging to the building. So this can only be implemented in buildings with materials resistant to water damage. Hydronic radiant systems are the best around it terms of heating efficiency but very expensive to install. This article seems like hype and bs.
You think that at no time in the last 1000+ years there was a time when brush built up to the levels seen today?
Exactly, there's no such thing as passively 'watching' a system at the quantum level.

In order to obtain the information you wish to 'observe', you need to interact with it.

That interaction 'collapses the wave function', or rather, you become part the wave function, but seeing it 'from the inside' looks different compared to from the outside.
By the way, remarking about whether a comment should or should not be downvoted is also against HN guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
Hi everyone, recently GDC released 50+ GB[1] of free sound effects. As I'm doing some game development and need to find some sounds, I made this simple tool that let's you search for sound and preview them in a single page.

click load, select all your audio files, then just search.

when you click on a result it will create a preview of that sound, click again and it will go away.

hope you like it.

[1] - https://sonniss.com/gameaudiogdc2020/
How would you decide who would have to "change"?

Presumably, both parties made an effort to better understand each other. There's no evidence to doubt that the PM was more forgiving/understanding of terse emails going forwards.

Plus, OP was new to the UK team. It seems natural that the onus would be more on him to adapt than trying to play with the culture of the existing team.

Am I misreading your comment or something? It comes across as very...standoffish...to me as it seems like the way this was resolved is the most sane, rational, mutually-respectuful course one could hope for.
What law obligates a company to report a breach? Is this only applicable for publicly traded companies?
More specifically we need to totally decouple health insurance from employment. This is not post-ww2 anymore. No more Cadillac plans from FAANG companies either unless your paying for it out of your own pocket.

This would immediately solve half of the problems with healthcare in this country if everyone had to use the health insurance exchanges to buy insurance.
you still are paying ungodly income and sale taxes.

If you own property and don’t pay (or pay very few) income taxes that means you probably wouldn’t be able to keep your house if your property tax base is reset.
"Gone" is a clear and strong word, and it is misapplied here, unless the author is omniscient. Fires hot enough to burn these buildings down may still be a cool enough fire to be natural and healthy in this case. Or maybe not. As the article states, no one has even checked the trees yet, and they are what matter here. If it is an average wildfire, of average hotness, then the trees (and forest generally) are fine.
Can AI help improve education system?
It doesn't solve anything, but having an income stream that's not connected with your job should help make crappy jobs livable, and also increase bargaining power for workers, due to having better alternatives.

Also, increased spending does tend to result in more jobs, at least in normal times.
But really, that is a good question.
Education, prisons, health and human services [0]. They actually cut schools by about 7 billion in the last budget. I’m also pretty impressed how we spend over 130B a year (And that’s just the state budget).

[0] http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2020-21EN/#/BudgetSummary
This is a problem with Taxi drivers as well. Have had friends too close to the airport miss flights because drivers keep rejecting the fare because it goes to drivers near the airport who want a long trip.
Business software projects can have very clear requirements known months in advance. Eg a project to ensure we comply with newly legislated tax regime. Yes, details will be discovered as the regulations are released, but to embark on that project with a 2-4 week planning horizon would be malpractice.

"plans are useless, but planning is indispensible".
From the NYT article referenced:

"Still, Ms. Barth said there was reason to be optimistic about the fate of the trees.

'They’re meant to resist and even thrive in response to wildfires,' she said. 'If any place is going to be able to withstand this conflagration it’s Big Basin.'"
You misread that. My guarantee is if a YouTuber is making any money, they are making more than I do. That implies that I am not making any money on my video that I am storing, yet I still back it up properly.
The universe is believed to be infinite, so: infinity down, infinity to go!
It is a list node. It's just that you can implement binary trees trivially out of lists.
Piracy exists to keep corporations honest.
Why the Facebookening of Oculus VR is bad for users, devs, competition
So slack is amplifying a problem... one that happens to be quite common in more paralyzed mediums such as the water cooler ... And before CEOs would ignore it or sweep it under the rug but now it is getting in their way.

Awesome! STOP ignoring your employees! Stop dismissing their complaints. And start LEADING! Yes, when employees complain, leaders are put in the hot seat. Yes, when employees organize, they are being ridiculous. Yes, when babies cry, they need to be consoled. Yet, the solution is not to keep the baby sleeping or be threatening or just dump the baby. These CEOs need to lead. And the employees need to speak louder.

This article is is all about Slack. And designed to make slack look bad. Other communication platforms have the same problem. But the author only focuses on slack. This looks like the opposite of a PR article.
I don't know the specifics of this fire, but I think the sequoias themselves are pretty resistant to fire, and even require fire to germinate their seeds.
It's my impression the Gallic Wars were more about building Julius Caesar's personality cult than anything else. Enriching his soldiers so they'd be loyal to him and winning the respect of Roman pyblic (hence the self-aggrandizing book written in Latin, not Greek.)
Agreed that you shouldn't be using Popper as a cornerstone, but I really think it's a great tool for getting folks to step outside a limited perspective. A foot in the door when trying to introduce the difference between hate speech and retaliatory frustration.

I think it's also worth mentioning that you are very correct in a need for subtlety -- "kill all women" isn't something you're going to see very often any more. Rather, we get some nonsense about the moral arc of the universe and another endless discussion while people continue to be harmed. I knew (happily past tense) a couple guys who just couldn't kick their absolute vitriol for seeing women thrive while they were struggling. It's super nasty and, in my experience, a way more dangerous thing than someone going off about killing women verbatim.

Thanks for pointing out the blind spot though! I've found that way of thinking about morality to be really positive and forgiving -- to view something as a correctable omission rather than a character flaw.
Looks sweet, thanks for sharing.

Have you considered setting up a torrent?
I think it's not just a matter of man-made structures being gone. Look at 0:31 of this video[1], the giant bright ember on the left is the iconic tree[2] by the visitor center. Having seen what burning firewood looks like, I would be extremely surprised if that tree managed to survive that. And judging from the extent of the damage, most of the most memorable trails in that park are probably also completely destroyed.

I'm glad I had the chance to visit this park last year, but also sad to see its apocalyptic state on top of everything else that already happened this year.

[1] https://www.ktvu.com/news/californias-oldest-state-park-big-...

[2] https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/_aLLH1G53QxyzKCleBGw...
We’ve found the same behavior in normal person to person speech, so we’ve implemented a gag policy that nobody talks to one another during business hours. Ultimately, it’s person to person communication that we’ve found is the broken tool for, granted, a minority of users so we’ve implemented this policy company wide.
I'm curious to hear other points of view regarding eggs. We had long wanted chickens of our own, and this spring finally built a coop and got some birds. They should start laying later this year, with our intent being they will eventually supply all our family egg needs (which are considerable - on the order of 3+ dozen a week). These birds are seriously pampered and will presumably live long, natural lives beyond their "productive" years.

While I can understand concerns about factory conditions for egg layers, is there anyone who believes there are ethical issues around eggs produced in the decidedly non-factory conditions of my backyard? I've been somewhat amazed by just how easy it has been to raise them so far and would advocate anyone who wants to enjoy eggs should give it a go.

Regarding milk: Yes, I'm in agreement, for most adult humans the soy / almond / oat / etc options are perfectly good, apart perhaps from baking.

Fish is the one area I don't personally see a good substitute, until the market tells me it is too expensive to continue eating.
> To me, this says a lot more about the expansion of the universe, in that we have an ever smaller window into the observable universe

I don't think that's what the actual paper is saying. The "stellar mass density" it talks about is by definition homogeneous across the entire universe; it's not something that is affected by how much of the entire universe we can actually see.
it says it's lossy. does it mean few people on the cabal like let's say 3 or 4 wouldn't work?
nice iidea
I wanted to disagree with you, but honestly my gut also says the MAGA hat person is at risk.

Here's the thing though -- where's the data? Has that actually happened in any significance? Especially compared to right wing violence.
Covid-19 Phantom Risk Will Be Overrating How Dangerous It Is
It does say that there is a Novel membrane to prevent humidity build up, but there isn’t a lot of information about the membrane and what conditions it will work in. For instance, Will it work in a wooden structure with drywall?
If this case comes down to who the consumers hate more it has to be Epic games and Fortnite.

Sure Apple has a bad timeline but they did what they were allowed to do and Epic Games only attack is the environment it happened in.
If the point is to lengthen, they could just encode the URL instead of saving it and returning a key. That way it'd be stateless. Something like:

$ ruby -pe '$_.gsub!(/./) {|c| ("%08b" % c.ord).tr("01", "Aa") }' <<< http://google.com
AaaAaAAAAaaaAaAAAaaaAaAAAaaaAAAAAAaaaAaAAAaAaaaaAAaAaaaaAaaAAaaaAaaAaaaaAaaAaaaaAaaAAaaaAaaAaaAAAaaAAaAaAAaAaaaAAaaAAAaaAaaAaaaaAaaAaaAa

Then to decode:

$ ruby -pe '$_.gsub!(/.{8}/) {|s| s.tr("Aa", "01").to_i(2).chr }' <<< AaaAaAAAAaaaAaAAAaaaAaAAAaaaAAAAAAaaaAaAAAaAaaaaAAaAaaaaAaaAAaaaAaaAaaaaAaaAaaaaAaaAAaaaAaaAaaAAAaaAAaAaAAaAaaaAAaaAAAaaAaaAaaaaAaaAaaAa
http://google.com

EDIT: Wow. I hadn't noticed that HN got rid of the horizontal scrolling behaviour for indented text. It's funny that I kind of miss it in this case.
Walks could become the law for German dog owners
Pension funds have traditionally invested very small parts of their portfolios in riskier investments. It's usually done to slightly enhance yield.

But in the past decade pension funds have increased their "alternative" investments since their traditional bread and butter,bonds and fixed income, have had abysmal yields due to low interest rates. Yet with pension payout obligations having only gotten bigger (especially in europe, with the aging population, the pressure to generate returns is pushing the fund managers to seek out riskier and riskier investments.
z15 (latest-gen) hardware technical intro here:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/sg248850.pdf
I hope my kid learns how to be handy and take care of stuff like cars and houses.

I hope she learns good money management skills

How to handle emotions and mange relationships and use others to get what she wants in life be that fiscal emotional or otherwise.

I hope she learns how to handle abusive and toxic people and cut them off.

Also how to manage risk and take advantage of situations where risk reward are in her favor.
If you're talking about hydrofoils in general, they're commercial technology - I rode a hydrofoil ferry last month.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13729
Tesla's Business Plan to Break $2k Stock Price (Meme)
A Thread on SalivaDirect
One way or another we all will.
So the rate of star creation over time is b ^ x , where 0 < b <= 0.5 (i.e. exponential decrease) ? Or perhaps e ^ (-bx) , where x >= 1 (i.e. exponential decay) ? Sounds logical enough, considering that there was a lot more raw material for star creation immediately after the big bang, than there has been ever since then.
Tesla stock reaches $2k amid soaring interest in EV companies
I think the article headline is somewhat misstating the conclusion of the actual paper (linked to by alex_young). The actual paper says the stellar mass density will reach a maximum only 5% higher than its current value. But the stellar mass density is affected by two processes: star formation and star destruction. As the paper notes, the process of star destruction "recycles" some fraction of the mass of the destroyed star, making it available for new star formation. So the stellar mass density reaching a maximum does not mean that all star formation stops, which is what the article headline implies.
I think it's rather naïeve to think that nation states are going to be the main actors of this battle.

If you get some banks and companies trying to enforce compliance to a regulatory system, maybe. Anything outside of that does not cause a war in my mind.
Healthy is a BMI in the normal range and following something close to the Harvard nutrition plate (USDA one is bought by big agriculture).

Being able to afford a meal service or go to Whole Foods is also much harder when you live in a food desert. Yes we do give people EBT or something but then it is spent on junk food/soda.

So how do you fix that? Maybe if you’re overweight medically speaking pay more in insurance/taxes? That would never fly tho so we are in the current national predicament.
Is it actually simultaneous? Of course drivers use multiple services, but I’ve never taken a ride with uber where the driver had passengers from lyft in the car, eg.
You're thinking about this from a pirate's point of view: "they can't sue all of us", and that's entirely correct. But it's also not what I'm worried about. People who know they're breaking the law and don't give a shit will take steps to protect themselves from legal prosecution. People who just see "oh hey free movies" will wind up using insecure services that get them lawsuits. This is what happened with people who used Gnutella and KaZaA back in the 2000s, or people who pirated fake porn from Strike 3 Holdings, or people who use Popcorn Time now. The more accessible an infringing service is, the more likely people will get legal nastygrams in the mail.

Imagine you're an average Internet user, you follow, say, a YouTuber that reviews movies. They say that their latest review isn't on YouTube, but on their website. You go there, watch the review, laugh, and move on with your life. But then you get a nastygram in the mail a week later. Turns out that particular YouTuber didn't have great copyright hygiene, and used an unlicensed music clip. Them moving it to PeerTube means that instead of their video getting taken down, the copyright holder has to sue the swarm - and they do. You get caught in that dragnet, and now you have a nice fat $10,000+ settlement you have to pay for watching a video, because PeerTube puts you in the chain of copyright liability.
Good try, three problems.
1) non-aggressive uses of potentially hurtful words will be modified and annoy people.
i.e. 'bitchin' as in "cool", "dope", or "rad".
i.e "hoe" as in "garden hoe" (not the sexually attractive gardener)

2)You're missing some nasty words.
i.e. "chug" : An extremely offensive term for First Nations people in Western Canada. Every local area has its own variations on things. Even if you were to figure them all out, languages evolve constantly.

3) phonetic varients aren't yet replaced.
i.e. feggit,f0k,
If you're developing in the right sector, MacOS has a market that's selected to be lucrative.

I don't think that's a particularly good thing, but it does explain how <10% market share can make such a big splash. Especially for more casual projects, IMO.
And the Mutual Assured Destruction doctrine in nuclear warfare can be seen as nothing but a sequential development of this naval strategy. I was surprised when I first learned it.
Would more fire breaks even help with fires like this one? Here in Southern California, fires fairly regularly jump freeways, which are quite a bit wider than typical firebreaks, and our fires are usually just relatively low brush, not entire forests.
This seems like more similar to AppEngine Flexible than AppEngine Standard.

From what I gather, it looks like they deploy your code onto managed VMs instead of running your code on fully managed multi-tenant servers.

Disc: I work for Google opinions are my own
>I’m amused when I hear people object to pork on nonreligious grounds. “Swine are filthy animals,” they say.

Is this actually a thing? That is, an agnostic/atheist refusing to eat pork because it's dirty? Also AFAIK "swine are filthy animals" is the justification for not eating pork in abrahamic religions.
Interesting. I also wonder how would the exact video can be detected, if the viewer serves it to other viewers over encrypted channel.

Edit: besides traffic being (hopefully) encrypted; let’s say someone files a takedown for video page X—if I am viewing a video from page X, and stream comes from peer A, how does a third party arrives at a conclusion that the stream coming from peer A corresponds to page X (presumably required in order to sue the physical person behind A)?