skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did put the engine business into a separate entity, a Swiss company called Epic Games International S.à r.l. Apple is threatening to cut off access for both entities.

https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/epic-pi-tro-08-23-2020-8198711...
Most applications run on Windows are not distributed through the Microsoft Store.
This is a lesson I learned while writing call-to-action emails.

I'd start with a draft that was like,

"Due to xxx situation, we have political momentum this week and want to take advantage of it by canvassing even harder than usual. Can I ask you to take another shift this week?"

That became,

"Will you take a second canvassing shift this week? Due to xxx situation, we have political momentum this week and want to capitalize on it by doubling our canvassing shifts. Will you commit?"

The second gets better results and is way less irritating to read as a recipient, even though it feels aggressive to write it.
There is a well-known correlation between the greenness of an urban (or suburban) space and income level of the residents.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/06/low-income-neighb...

https://caseytrees.org/2017/11/d-c-s-poorer-neighborhoods-fe...

https://www.audubon.org/news/in-los-angeles-rich-neighborhoo...
There's a spectrum of course, but at high levels of consciousness selfish gains are not priority goals. The goals tend to be selfless, loving and holistic.

If the level of consciousness in the general population is high enough, trolling will be a behavior of the past, like human sacrifice.

Your interpretation is a spiral dynamics stage orange criticism of green and turquoise. The spiral dynamics model of psycho/social development is really good for analyzing and explaining these types of problems, like being able to predict human behavior and understand why certain humans behave the ways that they do.
Being able to dynamically supply theming is a big one. For example:

const Header = styled('header')`
font-family: ${({ theme }) => theme.fonts.header};
color: ${({ theme }) => theme.colors.primary};
backgroundColor: ${({ theme }) => theme.colors.primaryBackground};
`

...where the theme object can be swapped out on the fly for different sections of a web app.
this is very standard language. the goal with this section is just to cover your tracks so no investor can sue you for omitting something, regardless of the likelihood any of these risks ever come true.
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-apparently-cancelin...

Note that Microsoft is not backing Epic in their court case against Apple, because that would be quite the glass house given the xbox (which is a 70/30 split, with virtually identical restrictions as the App Store). Instead they are merely backing them for the injunction to prevent Epic from losing immediate access to development tools.
It’s good for iPhone users though. Hopefully we’ll finally be allowed to compile apps ourselves and install them without approval (and without having to reinstall them every few days.)
- Apple forbids people from buying content on their website.

- Apple forbids developers from mentioning that the content might be cheaper elsewhere.

So that won't work.
I believe he was referring to the Store on Windows platforms, not Xbox platforms. The Windows Store has games but Microsoft never made a fight against Steam the way Epic has.
Cython is a great tool for this. It’s a superset of Python with full static compilation support for native CPython or for pure C or C++ extension modules.

https://cython.org/
I still don't understand what "Denying access to the SDK" is supposed to mean. Aren't the iOS and Mac development tools free to download without a developer account? Isn't publishing on the app stores the only thing that not having an active corporate account prevents? Apple haven't said that they'll block anyone using Unreal Engine, right? I thought this was just about signing keys, in which case other people using the engine should be fine...

In fact, does anyone else who deliberately tries to sneak things past the review process get to keep their developer account _and_ the offending version of the app available? Couldn't this just be Apple going "see, we treat them the same as everyone else"?
> Starting later this year, consumer applications (not including games)
The text and background makes it hard to read.
Not that I have formation or experience in the field but my understanding was that only antibodies were passed from the mother to the children, not lymphocytes or immunity memory.

But now that I google it, there is a rather new body of research about the genetic and epigenetic component of immunity. Like https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27102489/ for example. What an exciting time to be alive.
Best resource I've found on asking technical questions (also linked at the bottom of the post):

"How to Ask Questions The Smart Way"

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

'Smart Questions' should be required reading when onboarding college hires to technical jobs. I still think about it when writing emails, and it helped me greatly when I was a tester to write better bugs.
> I was, however, responding to claims upthread that were, in fact, claiming inherent attributes were responsible for accurate stereotypes.

No, you responded to the article. If you wanted to respond to some specific comment you should have replied to it directly.

> Why are you more concerned with my statement that you believe misconstrues the original research rather than the obvious racists above who did make a claim not supported in the paper. Why?

Spare me. Even the obvious racist (whose comment is dead and already has many replies rebutting it) didn't make the claim you attribute to them. So you rebutted a claim they didn't make, in a separate comment thread, with no hint in your own comment that you were responding to anything other than the article. Then you should not be surprised you were misunderstood.
Well that's one of the ideas of AGI -- it will give you no choice! :D

People can keep doing petty political fights but they'll quiet down when the food and basic goods land in their house without them lifting a finger, I think. And it's going to be made better if it's done by robots and not other people.
I wonder what car manufacturing companies think about all of this?

In my state and I think in much of the US, we're not allowed to buy directly from the car manufacturer. I never liked that law because I don't like car dealerships, but now I'm beginning to see why those laws that keep car dealerships in business might have passed.
> YES! WE HAVE NO WEBSITE! IT'S ON PURPOSE. YOU WILL HAVE TO DROP IN OR CALL US, LIKE IT'S 1975 OR SOMETHING.

So, it's not something good to link to.
How would they track all the white supremacists?
Einstein and Feynman: combining rationality and creativity
Again, I am not saying it isn't doable to order the old fashioned way, but the newer system is CLEARLY easier and faster. There is simply no way you could order and be done with a call in order in 15 seconds.

Your argument (that it is not much of a barrier to use the old way) can be made for so many of the quality of life improvements we have made over the course of human history. Not every advancement is an entire new category of things we can accomplish; so much is just slight improvements that save time and make things a bit easier.

I feel like there has been a backlash against time saving tech, where people wax nostalgic about how much better the older/slower systems were. I don't understand it. I am so happy for all the timesaving advancements we have made over the years. Now, if we don't use that saved time wisely, that is a whole other issue. However, I don't think going back to slower systems is the solution to not using our free time well.
This is spot on.

For a while, in my career, it felt like I was pursuing multiple career paths and in fact, there were many times I wondered if those were wasted years.

Turns out, that being a fairly good jack of a few trades does pay off. A mix of knowledge of analytics, statistics that was honed through a few years in economic research and most importantly, business understanding. I see that all of these skills, together, help me understand and grasp problems much better.

I am not the best cloud ops guy or the one with the best code or in-pace with the latest arxiv paper on machine learning but when faced with the latest business question on how to use data to help drive sales or reduce costs, I know enough to piece the different bits together and build a prototype at the least.

This is hugely empowering. I owe it to luck and fortune of course, but when the opportunity presents I felt these cross-domain skills made me more confident and helped visualise the solution better.

PS: I have not mentioned the most important skill though - how you work with people but I believe that is only gained through experience
This is only for the Microsoft Store, and it was 30% as well before it was dropped last year. I doubt their app store for Windows 10 devices pulls in very much since "side loading" has been the default distribution model for decades.
The best outcome for MS would be if the Apple App Store itself were to become one of several app stores on iOS devices. Then MS could build out the pipeline (largely already possess it) to have their own MS App Store on iOS and Android, paired with their development tools which, really, are topnotch. They wouldn't necessarily need to undercut Apple's percentage, but just reduce friction for development and deployment across OSes.
Correct. Sorry that wasn’t clear!
Is it related to that Iranian kidnapping plot that led to Denmark being shut down for a while the other year? (Only because it's the most dramatic thing to happen there in a bunch of years, that would be related to the intelligence service.)
100% agree. Game consoles are entertainment, but our lives are run through our smartphone. It tracks our location, is required by many employers so you can run job-related apps, supports multiple financial activities like banking, investing, and payments, and acts as the primary 2FA device for many folks. Comparing the capabilities of the hardware is beside the point: it's about the scope of the intended/expected usage.
There is the notion of skill shapes. Typically, I, T, M (sometimes Π, N, or E), and X (describing leadership), sometimes dash ("—", pure generalist), also tree.

The idea being to have some mix of depth and breadth. Multiple depths is often quite useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills

Horrible quickly DDG'd blogs (the concept tends to attract — shallow exposition):

https://peoplecentre.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/the-m-shaped-e...

https://www.leadingagile.com/2017/02/e-shaped-staff/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/which-letter-shaped-future-em...

https://tcagley.wordpress.com/2016/06/14/productive-agile-te...

https://aboutleaders.com/skill-shape-leader/
All reasonable orgs should have had their private docker repo a long time ago.

Everybody else is living the pipe dream where they have externalised their risk and probably deserve the Docker treatment.
I see what you did there, Karen.
AFAIK they did something like that before (ie. they offered x% off coupon, paid out of their own pocket), and several publishers adjusted their pricing up/down so their games wouldn't be eligible for the discount. I believe the reason was that they didn't want to "devalue" their games. random source: https://www.vg247.com/2020/05/18/the-witcher-3-epic-store-10...
> The definition of anti trust is to use your position in one market to gain an unfair advantage in an other market

What is the "other market" in this scenario?
Agreed. This is definitely a growing market today, I don't see why it wouldn't continue to grow. There are many areas that haven't been improved upon in decades as well. Things like..

+ Negative Scanning Technology (the most revered scanners are from 10+ years ago)

+ New Film Emulsions

+ Moving from gelatin to a plant-based substitute for gel emulsions

+ Opportunities for automation in film processing
> Type inference is generally a big win.

I see this claimed a lot, but haven’t seen any evidence.
I'm not saying this was intentional, but there is a very high incentive for them to deliver this type of outcome.

There is not enough data to back-test their model on a single election which happens every 4 years, so the claim that a 60% prediction is fundamentally very different from a 95% prediction is statistically dubious.
> The rational for purchasing Arm seems ridiculous to many, but Jensen’s vision is for the datacenter being a computer and Nvidia being the one to build it.

The thing is, there are 3 companies that control the future of datacenter growth. Amazon, Microsoft and Google. They can move the industry to RISC-V if NVidia doesn't play ball, or convince Intel to manufacture on TSMC's process.

Nvidia won't be in a particularly strong negotiating position. My understanding is that lots of ARM licenses are perpetual, or very broad. The existing players can just keep making ARM chips, what can NVidia do to extract more money from them, new instructions?
What do you not like about Eventbrite? My company is considering using them.
I'm honestly quite skeptical. Unless I hear personal recommendations, I'd be very wary of spending 1k+ on a training in "pentesting"...
> or the way a building can be used.

"can be" means "isn't"
Ah yeah, I see your point. Fair enough.

However, if you're already using wrapper divs, it seems to me like you do some math on your boxes after the initial render to balance them. Either that or you literally just group them into 3 groups and accept whatever artifacts (read: column height mismatches).

Either way, there is a CSS-only solution of sorts. Render the parent with 0 height, iterate over the children groups to find your max column height (remember - you already do this grouping with your wrapper divs), set your component height to your max of the 3 groups with 200ms transition, and you have a sweet CSS-only animated solution

Might not be worth it - in my approximation it's not - but I guess that could depend on your domain.
That sounds fucking awesome!! I could actually have options other than Starbucks and the random overpriced coffee art place. Holy shit, I would pick that town 100x over
Extreme Programming Creator Kent Beck: Tech Has a Compassion Deficit
1. AWS has invested untold man-hours addressing feedback to arrive at their
current solution. The number of people you "hear from" whose sentiment is
unanimously negative is far smaller than AWS's fleet of focus groups.

2. Any UX that point-and-clickifies configuration-as-code is
going to suck on some level, and garner hate from technical people.
Ask HN: Is there any audio/video forum? I hate not being answered in forums
Many times when uploading questions or posts on forums end up lost in the web. Any solution on how to avoid this problem?
I understand, but disagree. They didn’t need to violate the contract for creation of a lawsuit. Hell, they could have terminated their agreement and try to contract with apple without accepting the default agreement.

They had standing the whole time, albeit with a limitation to arbitration at first instance for certain claims, which may have been bypassed on certain grounds anyway.

The temporary restraining order (injunction) application claims they want to be able to post Fortnite on the App Store without scrutiny from Apple and lastly that they regain access to a working developer account for unreal engine.

I recommend watching the virtual legality series on this topic which might interest you on the ins and outs of the legal dispute. The latest episode covering Microsoft is here: https://youtu.be/-jXJjllz00I

Edit: spelling.
On the one hand, MZD-AIO is very cool, and getting Android Auto on my 2015 Mazda 3 is so welcome.

On the other hand, with or without Android Auto, my infotainment is wildly unstable, very slow to start (and inconsistently so), and generally sluggish. Starting this spring, Android Auto often crashes out a few seconds in, or if I try to interact with anything (though that could be in part or in whole on the phone side - stock Google Pixel 3...)
The 5% split doesn’t cover Xbox. I’m pretty sure Microsoft’s share of PC game sales is really small, not PC gaming itself but the Microsoft share. As an example this article talks about Steam vs Epic with Steam described as the clear market leader: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/16/18334865/epic-games-store...
Part of me wonders if this is Microsoft just trying to align with Epic, in the cast that the courts do side with Epic, who in turn use that ruling against Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo.
I'm bemused by the concept of this "single page with dedicated domain name explaining a concept in three short paragraphs".

Especially because this one claims at the bottom that it was mostly taken from here:
http://sol.gfxile.net/dontask.html

So... why not just link to that page? Why register a domain and pretty much copy-paste that content?

I'm not trying to be inflammatory, just trying to understand this concept. Do people share these links with others or is it just for Hacker News credo?
I'm not sure it's regulatory capture. I'd say most of the times it's death by a thousand cuts.

You have a place that has obvious hygiene issues, e.g. only one sink and everything is done there. Then some people got sick because that place was just careless.

Now you have people clamouring "how could this happen?" "something must be done!" and a new regulation is put in place, and in isolation, it's not necessarily stupid.

Repeat this many times, and you have the situation s people are talking about here.
Tribblix is unlike Slackware - it uses AT&T SVR4 packaging with zap which is akin to yum on top, whereas Slackware used tape archives. Yes, tape archives for backing up to tape. That says it all.
5160 == PC-XT. Had to look it up.
Unity is a game engine first, the quality of their product will suffer if they have to teach all their user to program properly.
Three S-1's in one day, and the AirBNB prep last week. Is there just light shining, or are these companies worried about the future prospects of the IPO market?
I was a fan of unity until they retroactively changed their asset store license. They revoked some of your usage rights in a cash grab in February (specifically, the right to let freelancers use your assets, so now you have to buy them their own copies). How can you depend on a company like that for the crux of your business when they use their “we can modify these terms at any time” clauses in a predatory way against you?
Their calibration is good in the context of this article, but there is a reason this article doesn't use their Presidential election model - there isn't enough data to do this calibration here.
Pretty much nobody wants to buy games from the Windows Store instead of Steam. Even Microsoft has moved to selling their first party games on Steam.

Oddly enough, part of the unpopularity of the windows store comes from frequent reports of instability in the performance of the windows store software. You would think the world's biggest software company could figure out how to create a digital store that's as stable as their competition, but apparently they cannot.
The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight (2014)
Axiom is a computer algebra system written in the 1970s-80s. It still runs (and is open source).
Agreed, but keep in mind that the platforms have started making design changes to discourage this. Some of them now surface the tip to the driver which can lead to $0 in-app tips lowering the displayed value of your request so you end up being passed over for other people. If you don't tip in the app you risk waiting a lot longer for service.
So much ignorance here.

1) China is very developed and developing fast. US companies are also extensions of the state, especially when things like National Security Letters come into play. There’s no transparency or oversight (or constitutional rights) when NSLs are involved. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter Note: there are rules, but rule violations (that we know about) numbered in the thousands a decade ago.

2) Apple is going to lose _a lot_ of current and future customers in China if the WeChat/Tencent ban moved forward, to name just one $2 trillion example.

You’re right about one thing: if we want to go after China, we should be using a principled approach on trade.
Yes - thanks for explaining this better.
Phones aren't really a "luxury" anymore, they are a necessity to life. A gaming console is not. Apple also sells their products at a HUGE profit margin of 30%+ where Microsoft/Sony often sell their gaming hardware at a loss and make it up in software fees.
The Dutch intelligence service helped Britain crack Argentinian crypto during the Falklands War.
You don't need to go through Microsoft store you can just run your application.
It works, it doesn't have any groundbreaking features. It's boring in a good way, so rarely posted here.
Every excellent suggestion there seems to make Slack more like good, old-fashioned email. That would have been difficult to market, so one can see why Slack themselves haven't made these suggestions.
> a familiar, declarative approach with heavy use of annotations.

More mysterious decorator garbage. Run away.
Kk, so my other answer. Refuse to develop for Apple.
Yes, I'm equally mis-informed, but allowing companies to make games for your console requires some payment to the creator of the console to allow that.

It's how consoles are sold at a loss, but make it up through game sales.
Discovering the problem and discovering the solution are two different things.

The art is getting people to say “this part of my day sucks” without inviting them to specify the solution. Your job, as founder, is to understand the problem deeply enough, then create a solution, then get feedback and iterate.
I think it comes down to the way they're marketed towards consumers. Video game consoles are marketed as appliances that do only one thing (play video games). Apple markets iDevices as "your next computer".
>It just seems like a dangerous attitude of over-confidence to think you can mix and match supplements based on numbers from blood results.

unfortunately that seems to be the the only option we have - "Let thy be thy doctor" :) From personal experience - thanks to Epic software i was given the total printout of my visit to a doctor few months back - the doctor somehow completely skipped low RBC and other related counts in my blood results which were clearly showing anemia and actually did match my feelings of overall fatigue, especially setting up quickly upon trying to exercise, restless leg syndrome, etc. After looking at those blood numbers myself, i started B12 (B12 deficiency is one of the reasons for iron deficiency, and i have an underlying condition known to cause B12 deficiency which the doctor was actually aware too - though, nevermind, the doctors could do nothing with that condition too) and iron, and the things improved remarkably, in particular RLS is gone and i can exercise without hitting almost immediately that fatigue ceiling.

>Or do we even need supplements at all if we just ate well and had an active lifestyle? Speaking as someone who just had yogurt and a banana: "Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food."

you're enjoying condition which can be summed up as confirmation bias of a healthy person. It is a really great condition - i've enjoyed it myself for about the first 40 years of my life.
I cheated by letting it sit around a long time, and termites ended up doing all the work.
You sound like an idiot. I’m sure you were not intending to Communicate so naively a point, if that, lazily delegated to the tongue not the cortex at hand; an expression without closure. No company is looking to serve you, for one, you hang out at HN. Hackers are terrible customers. You can toil away in darkness for all I care, little paper work, little trail. Some of the best projects were done with secrecy in mind, resulted in seemingly failure, but they ended being successful by not listening to the naysayers: MONODEVELOP, KUBERNETES, ETC