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Disagree, this lawsuit strongly supports Epic the component suppliers business as well, because one of those components they can supply and make significant money off of is payment processing.

There is a bit of a conflict between Epic the component supplier and Joe the game developer's goals here, because Joe the game developer doesn't really care whether it's Apple or Epic taking the payment processing cut. Joe doesn't necessarily lose either because Joe seems some benefit (just less) too due to competition lowering the cost of payment processing. It's just not clear cut.

In reality it probably the case that some game developers will win thanks to lower cost of payment processing dominating their cost benefit analysis, and others will lose thanks to worse unreal engine platform support dominating their cost benefit analysis.
Solar farms are in centralized locations. It is entirely possible that no farm has been constructed in that specific area.
The Canadian approach to police violence is the starlight tour -- rather than bringing someone to jail, drop them off in the middle of nowhere to freeze overnight.

Some parts of the US could take this approach, but there's a lot of places in the US that are either too nice out or there's too many fast food restaurants/Starbucks to take shelter in
I keep seeing two conflicting points of view in this comment thread: 1) iOS isn’t a big games platform and 2) iOS is an important platform to Epic.

Maybe iOS isn’t that important to Epic or their clients which is why they can do this.
Wasn’t me. Gifts bearing obligations come in a lot of shapes and sizes, I just always found the puppy metaphor very compelling and so I like to use it.

(As a mental exercise sometime, go to a pet store and figure out how much a “$12 hamster” costs once you get everything you need to set up and maintain a habitat.)
That was also part of their problem.

A lot of them would, or couldn't even imagine, settling with anyone under some arbitrary "score".

I do recall that many posters would post about "hunting" girls that they deemed ugly, on dating sites, just to get laid. Then they'd come back lamenting over the fact that even these "ugly" chicks seemed to have standards, and continued to bemoan that regular guys were inflating these girls egos, due to matching with them on Tinder, etc.

I'd say that some of these guys, absolutely showed signs of narcissism, along with extreme victim mentality.
An example where such a clone is useful : I run Ubuntu 18.04 and wild like to switch to 20.04.

Since the 18.04 has a history of experiments more or less successful, I want to start from scratch.

I want to be able to rollback in case something goes wrong, but I have only one M2 drive for my system.

So cloning to an external drive, making sure I can boot from it and then delete the existing system gives me peace of mind.
I won't run the numbers again, because I think the meat of my comment is in paragraph 2 and 3.
While I understand this is an ugly turf war between Epic and Apple, I'm a little confused about certain other app. How is it that Audible (owned by Amazon) let's you "spend credits" that you purchase at Audible.com directly in the iOS App? Are they getting special treatment?
they will not (have panels, faced multiple hail storms)
That proves that you are not GPT-3, but you could still be a Chinese room.

You may be even a biological human and I still won't know if you are a Chinese room.

Maybe since birth you are just sort of sleepwalking? I wouldn't be surprised if there were fully functional people without qualia.
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EPIC and it's CEO are a bunch of hypocrites trying to get a special deal just for them from Apple and now playing victim when got rejected.
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ICYMI: This bug from 2017 was triaged, fixed and in the insider build in less than 2 weeks (!!)

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
It balances out to the positive.

See https://heliogen.com/
Thanks for HN not providing us a way to share an email address privately, I know I know we? keep things simple just down vote.
A quick Meta aside: Even if you absolutely utterly and completely loathe Apple for their App store policies, Epic is not the company you want to be backing.

1) They engage in anti-customer behavior by buying exclusives. They don't fund exclusives, they buy exclusives after they've been completed.

2) If they can't get an Indie as an exclusive, they don't want it. They don't want to compete with Day and Date releases.

3) Their war chest is funded by gambling mechanics, mostly gambling mechanics which are actively aimed at minors. While I can understand arguments for "parents should parent" and "adults should be allowed to adult", Epic is based out of the US, and gambling is largely controlled within the US.

4) EDIT: Oh, and their weaponizing their minor-heavy userbase as well against Apple - their trailer and anti-apple skins are being promoted in Fortnight (Rated T by the ESRB).

So yeah. Hate Apple all you want - there's plenty there to hate. But don't let your hatred of Apple push you into backing Epic.
Ask HN: OSS copyrights: Publishing source code in book?
Are there any legal concerns of publishing Open Source code in a physical or digital book sold for commercial purposes?

It could be snippets or files from a project, up to a book that is only a single project entirely, with no other purpose.

Best practices on attribution/copyrights?
Oh? And suppose he'd assumed when I got out of the car that I was going for a gun? They tell you these days that you do not ever get out of the car during a traffic stop unless instructed, and while this wasn't precisely a traffic stop, it wasn't all that far off - and I was far too frightened to be thinking about being careful with my hands. Or even to be thinking, really; I knew I was about to go to jail, and all I could fit in my mind beyond that was, I had better not try to make things even worse.

That officer made the judgment he did in a matter of seconds; as I noted in another comment here, I didn't have time to speak, or to take so much as a step toward the officer, before he waved me off - which was just as well in retrospect; God alone knows what I'd have said. But if any one aspect of the gestalt I presented had in any way varied from "harmless", he might well have drawn on me, and if he hadn't done that then he'd for damn sure have come over to see whether I was drunk or high or whatever the hell. And then he would have found my dope, and I would have gone to jail that night.

None of that would have happened because I was actually dangerous! He wasn't wrong to read me the way he did. But I was still extremely lucky that he did read me right. I could very easily have been less fortunate. And given everything I've seen in twenty years living in this town, I am very sure that the vast bulk of my good fortune that night lay in the accident of my having light skin.

Freddie Gray could talk about that, I think, if he were still alive to talk about anything. The federal consent decree that followed his death did not come about in a vacuum. And it is not in a vacuum that BPD officers interact with other citizens - both like and unlike myself - of this city.
Comparing the problem at hand to other problems isn't going to make it tiny little bit less.

Even coal doesn't necessarily produce waste. It is our choice not to capture waste/harmful byproducts makes it so dangerous and "bad".
> Basically, I think people should try to have some empathy for people who are having a bad time.

I completely agree, and I have a lot of empathy for people who are unable to find a partner. I was a very geeky "late bloomer" myself, and went through a luckily small period where everyone around me was able to find relationships, and I wasn't.

So when I say I think incels are wrong in their view of the world, it's not out of a lack of empathy - it's because I think the most important thing to tell incels is that they are wrong. I have no idea how to make this a message that will actually resonate with them, but I wish I could. The cure to believing you will never be able to get something that you desperately want, and that you actually can get with >99% certainty, is to learn that your belief is wrong.
> To me, “fight” implies that the knives and guns are out.

Then you have yourself to blame for being confused, because most people would understand given the context that Apple and Prepear aren't engaged in a knife fight. I have a hard time believing that you are making this argument in good faith.
I'm trying to build something which tackles this problem. The idea would be delegating the decision of what you consume to an algorithm (that you can control), and you'll be delivered a subset of news/content daily.

Basically a giant filter through which you consume the firehouse of FB/reddit.

Although it works for me, I've no idea how practical this is on a wider scale. Would you use something like that?
By the way, Rufus uses UEFI:NTFS [1]

> UEFI:NTFS is a generic bootloader, that is designed to allow boot from NTFS or exFAT partitions, in pure UEFI mode, even if your system does not natively support it. This is primarily intended for use with Rufus, but can also be used independently.

[1]: https://github.com/pbatard/uefi-ntfs
No they are not, Epic decided to go all out, thereby risking the all ios business including the Unreal Engine.
Nice resource, thanks. If I were MGA, I would not risk the company’s reputation on copying from a freelancer. If I were the freelancer, I will create buzz on social media to gain popularity as a victim. So not sure were the truth lies, but incentives can reveal insights sometimes.
Of those produced, statistically, nuclear is both cleanest and safest [1]

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
The argument they are making is one that you will see a lot in these types of discussions. As renewable energy becomes cheaper and easier to add to individual houses, the supply of cheap energy combined with the decrease in energy demand from wealthy households will drive down energy prices and cut into the operating margins of power companies.

If too many people start producing power and not buying it themselves, power companies would not be able to afford maintaining the power grid as effectively or would have to increase prices for people who can't supply their own power.

Basically the argument is that a movement for those who can afford to be self-sufficient to do so ends up being a tax on those who can't afford to.

There is some level of merit to this argument and if we transition to a heavily renewables based energy system, we will likely see this occur to some extent during the transitional period.

There are a handful of solutions to this problem but the easiest is to move maintenance of power infrastructure from the public utility to the government and implement a local tax to pay for the power grid. Power Utilities would still exist however instead of also maintaining the grid, they would just be responsible for producing power and supplying sufficient redundancy to minimise/eliminate brown- and black-outs.

With this solution, everybody shares the burden of maintaining the grid rather than just those who can't afford to be self-sufficient. Those who are able to be self-sufficient can feed back into the grid to help recuperate their expenses on their energy equipment as well as some of the tax they paid in.
Well, if you know hash tables you will still need some education on the special quirks of python hash tables. They are in no way related to CS hash tables. And you should not base your own hash table on the python architecture.

They are sorted. Normal hash tables are unsorted, sorting needs lot of time and space. Nobody but python would do that. (ignoring PHP here). But once you went down this path, users start relying on this quirks and you cannot get away from that.

They feature special values for ints. 1 hashes to 1, 4 to 4 and so on. This looks like Lua arrays, which are either arrays or hashtables under the hood, and allows efficient switches from dense to sparse arrays. But mostly it costs time in the most critical fast path. And it doesn't help in security at all.

They are insecure by default. Only with some special cmdline flag they feature a randomized seed. Which is still insecure because the seed can be easily exposed by reading the memory of the seed.

They are extremely slow.

They are using siphash. Everybody using siphash is immediately exposed as having no idea about hash table security.
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That's how 99% of PV installations in Germany work. There's two meters and surplus energy during the day is sold to the power company.

Self sufficiency isn't the goal and makes no sense even with batteries getting cheaper.
>They don't fund exclusives, they buy exclusives after they've been completed.

Timed exclusives, mind you. Also, it literally doesn't matter and just changes where you download the game from, woohoo.

Absolutely support Epic on this endeavor. Anything that can make Apple eat shit is a valuable investment of your time.
I have used firefox for a long time. Their continued insistence on forced automatic updates is quickly becoming a deal a breaker. Even putting aside my philosophical objections to this practice (let me update my software when I want on my own damn machine), it is exceptionally frustrating when those updates with forced restarts perpetually occur in the middle of the workday.
> Empowerment isn’t really a fantasy if there are rolling blackouts but your own power is still on. Sadly, not a hypothetical in California.

Seems easier to get a generator or a Power Wall, but either ends up being pretty expensive for handling the 2 hours of rolling blackouts for the first time in 20 years. There are also longer-term outages, maybe several hours every few years? And this is for people in population centers. Living in the mountains is a different story.

> Im thinking just from a national security/redundancy/risk reduction standpoint it makes sense to move more generation closer to demand

I'd rather put the money towards removing those single points of failure.
Sure, but let's be honest, their lawsuit probably doesn't have any chance of success. Apple's terms are the same as Playstation/Xbox/Nintendo and they're not crying about those platforms not allowing them to open up their own app store there. The courts are going to tell them the obvious, that you can't call a monopoly on your own products a true Monopoly for antitrust purposes.

I have a feeling their money on iOS is a rounding error compared to the serious gaming platforms, and this whole thing is basically a marketing activity that they calculated would pay off better than the revenues they'd lose from losing access to iOS/Mac.
> If as an engineer, I cannot afford the time to do it, how our are politicians supposed to?

I'm not fond of this line of reasoning. Politicians are by definition not scientists and engineers. Their job is to listen to different experts, not to understand nuances of a technology.
> That's not what I mean to imply, nor the basis of the recent push for more workplace diversity as I understand it. The goal is not using people's diverse status to determine whether they'd be good at their jobs. Rather, it's to find people who are diverse as well as meeting job criteria, and hiring them preferentially if there aren't enough people representing their viewpoints.

But what does it mean to have an LGBT viewpoint? Why should it be assumed that because someone is LGBT they think about issues that would be pertinent to most jobs or product offerings in a manner that is different than a straight person? Explicitly classifying LGBT as a separate group with different thought processes that could impact how a job is performed is inherently discriminatory, even if it is done for positive reasons.
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Even though they show the starred email address and one of the suggestions is not to show the email, I really hope people don't do that.

There is nothing more frustrating when you're recovering your password and the site says we have sent you an email with no hint where and even worse sometimes they say "if that email was in our records then you should get the link" and you're wondering did that work and #1 worst is after making me solve 10 traffic lights and zebra crossings.

Because at that moment I feel it's just easier to start over and create a new account.
There's not enough nuclear fuel in the world to power the world for more than a little bit (iirc 30 years). It can at best be used as a transition source or a supplemental source.
Admittedly I didn't actually read the mailing list discussion. It's entirely possible that The Register made up a big drama where there was none.
I would say it has its advantages and issues but in any case, it's not being imposed on any country. Many have chosen not to use it.
They were given the same chance as you and I are with Epic's TOS for their games/game store.

They wanted access to the iOS market, and the terms were there.
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So... That's 'Hyperloop 1978'? I wonder if Musk happened to read this, or if he rediscovered the idea.
Cananyone explain the mechanism through which a solar panel dies or even loses efficiency ? I understand physical damage to the panel but how does a solar panel degrade ? Are stored solar panels losing efficiency or is it a result of an interaction with the solar/ultraviolet or some other radiation ? Is anyone working on solar panels that degrade less and last longer. One issue with solar panels right now I'd imagine is that even 25 years and the ROI are quite long periods of time for many Americans who don't plan on staying in their houses for that long and solar isn't mainstream enough that people appreciate the value it adds.
correct, any amount on on site generation reduces stress on the grid. my power company actually pays me for what I produce over the first 10 years of my panels life... this is in addition to my savings
>This is the behavior I’d expect from a serial killer.

Yes, they're police in the United States...
Personal attacks will get you banned here, so please don't. Also, could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments generally? We're trying for at least a little higher than internet default on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Apple never cared about games

They're currently trying to sell people a gaming subscription service.
I’ve jokingly / seriously been waiting for things like this. I’m the type to go overboard with filtering and mute lists on twitter, but images are harder to deal with. I did have a 60,000 line pastebin that was used in conjunction with a Chrome extension to block Wojack and Pepe memes on 4chan using md5 hashes, but something not rely on specific hashes is obviously superior.

One day someone will release the ‘detect and block anything resembling kpop’ extension for Twitter and I’ll be happy.
> Nothing anachronistic about it; this is likely an optimal design when considering how to maximise the effective coverage of guns.

I guess what makes it slightly anachronistic is that these "pointy" designs look like they are somehow designed with fluid or aero-dynamics in mind, and back in the days I guess they were when an amassing army would literally try and storm the walls. In that situation, you want the opposing army to be forced against a point rather than a flat wall so that every flat wall they attack, they are flanked by another one right next to it, creating a "kill zone".

While I'm sure the design is by no means "useless" by today's standards, I have to wonder if the original intent of the design makes sense in an era of air strikes and tanks. But then again, if you're up against a less advanced adversary, maybe "storming the gates" is literally what they'll be forced to attempt.
> Why does discord even let users access dev tools? This is trivially easy to disable in prod builds.

Even if you disable the usual way to pop the dev tools open in desktop electron mode, this is a dangerous attitude. A malicious client can always edit the DOM, send arbitrary data to your server, read whatever you send back, etc. "Disabling the dev tools" is never the correct solution to any security problem.
The cells themselves are very delicate, much of the job of the panel is to protect the cells. Construction can vary, but generally they are designed to withstand normal weather events, just like a roof is. That said, weather can occasionally exceed those design limitations.

Large hail can break through a polycarbonate skylight or the tempered glass of a car, it’ll do the same to a solar panel covered in the same.
> it's very clearly a move to gain public sentiment to their side

While they have certainly engaged in PR, I really don't see this motion as being motivated by PR in any way...

> the multi-billion dollar contract-breaking underdog.

This is assuming Apple wins. If Epic is right they didn't break any contract because the terms Apple is claiming they broke were in fact not legally binding in the first place, by virtue of being illegal.
I'm curious what percentage are sales from merch for "destination" bookstores like Powell's and Strand these days.
This is more like my way of thinking. People seem highly focused on how much space they might have for storage. But security isn't really about disk space, which is quite cheap these days. It's about how much time/money/resources it takes to complete the tasks needed to circumvent whatever security controls are in use.

If I had to do this, I would indeed make a faked Nimbus 100TB SSD drive, but it would also be super slow and glitchy. Spit out the proper meta data, then slow random noise presented as glitchy virtual sectors. Done deal. They've surely imaged glitchy drives before. They aren't rare.

How many drives can they image at a time, and how long does it take? How many drives can they not image because yours is taking so long? That's what I would attack.
It's another thing where people have such a different world view about this that I can't understand why they don't have concerns. I can only guess people comfortable with this don't live in a place where the border patrol doesn't bug them, or they don't cross the border much. Your whole life is basically accessible on your phone, giving a copy of it to the us govt isn't going to make america a better country. I haven't ever understood what happens if you don't unlock your devices and just give them to them. Will they return them? I'm certain they'll harass you next time you come to the border.

Like a lot of things that come down to "this doesn't affect them", this is yet another issue where I'm surprised that there are people who support this. The border patrol is under the control of the president, who can make changes. They could change this policy. Obama didn't change it, and Trump doesn't seem likely to care, because 'it won't apply to him'. But why not? The 100 mile border plus other exemptions is incre