skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wouldn't an antitrust claim against Apple likely fail if the plaintiff cannot establish they actually have market power in the smartphone market?

Well, assuming it is one based on abuse of market power and not the other kinds of antitrust violations (e.g., combination in restraint of trade, etc.), it would fail if the plaintiff couldn't establish that Apple had market power in the market for the product for which they allegedly abused market power. If that was iPhones, for instance, that would be the market for iPhones plus whatever products empirically people substitute for iPhones in response to pricing changes. (Of course, if Apple has market power, there is some range in which the “plus...” part is “none”, since market or pricing power is the ability to raise prices without driving sales to a competing good.)
Wall Street Is Looting the American Retirement System
Title edited for character count. Apparently times are tough for VCs and they had to cut back on memory allocations.

A while back I suggested (under my main account, not about to restart a flame war) that stocks and 401ks would be raided like pensions were a generation ago.

They’re phony property that workers can’t defend. They’ll be looted and profited off of and discarded in a re-invention of a new ephemeral value store.

HN community laughed it off. “Lol 401ks are real!”

You all have no intuition for the difference between your imagination and reality.
Almost every police encounter event ends without incident. There really seems to be an issue right now with selection bias of these events.

I agree there is always room to consider other ways of handling outlying incidents. Injecting drugs into people violates so many principles of freedom it seems hard to justify it.

The pizza idea could work in some cases but I think we also have to realize that some people being taken into custody are irrational either from mental illness, and/or drug use, could be armed and/or violent, and cordoning them off may work or it may not. And then a potentially armed, violent, and irrational person is a threat to innocent people. The police have many objectives and one of those is to take suspects into custody safely so they can have just administrated. However, the safety of the public might be of higher priority and if asked to make a choice between hurting a suspect that appears irrational and violent so as to not risk the liberties of the public or respecting their liberties but putting the liberties of the public at risk, they’ll choose to optimize for the former.

Policing will never be perfect and there is a reasonable amount of error we should tolerate. And there should be accountability. I do agree that it would appear, at least from the stories that tend to make the news, that diffusion could be employed more.
> powerful animal tranquilizer on a human being just to make some cops' job "easier"

You’re waxing hyperbolic. It’s a sedative drug used in normal human clinical practice, and in many settings is preferable because it has -fewer- risks of complications than other sedatives. And while I’m highly critical of it’s being used without strict medical protocol, I’ve worked psych ED enough to understand that there are occasionally absolutely, 100% ridiculously “agitated” patients that are going to have to be brought in, and will not do so without large amounts of physical force - something that is also prone to unfortunate complications.
I'm counting 1991-1992 as the end of the short twentieth century and the start of (a hopefully also short?) twenty-first century characterised by countries imploding into violence under the impact of sectarian fake news. (broadcast in the case of yugoslavia. probably more internet-mediated these days.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23612974
> would you call it an AnimalCheetah or a Cheetah?

Depends on whether you're Hungarian :P

In all seriousness, I'd go with the prefix if these are part of a large flat namespace, but if there were a lot, then they should move to their own package and become `animal.Cheetah`.
If you require a UI that is pretty heavy, here is my pro* tip to save time when developing for both Windows and macOS.

1) Buy a basic HTML template online for your app's dashboard.

2) Don't use Electon. Your users WILL notice and complain about performance. Instead, use the native WebBrowser control in .NET for Windows and WebView using macOS to display your UI. Disable right clicking and highlighting using HTML/JS. To the user, it'll feel like any other native app. Add this meta tag to the HTML file to ensure the WebBrowser control knows to use new versions of IE to render the UI: <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge"> (and/or look up how to add the FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION registry key)

3) Use the built in script calling functions to transfer settings back and forth between the UI and main app in JSON. Do the back end stuff in native code.

4) You can then re-use most of the UI code you wrote to easily port over to macOS. Use the same functions and logic you wrote on Windows to make your Swift functions.

* I've been making a living from building/maintaining my desktop application for about 5 years and had no regrets setting it up this way. I've also seen a number of other expensive, high-end, "professional" software using the FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION registry key trick.

Good luck!
In BC there are Fire Centres which have their own level of management:

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/wildfire-status/ab...

The province is broken down by geography, terrain, and biome, so that specific resources and skillsets can be developed for each potential fire condition.
As I recall there was also an incident when Microsoft sponsored NFL broadcasts and gave the casters Surfaces and they still occasionally called them iPads.
> “execution vans” with no other purpose even suggested

> article shows purpose suggested with convicted prisoners

You presented them as if they just scoop people up off the street and execute them on the spot.

No, that's just America.

I'm asking you to compare the same things and all you did was present a different thing, masqueraded it as a worse thing, failed to find any comparison. If you want to elevate Chinese processes as a charade, thats pretty much what I would expect you to do, but people get railroaded in the US all the time too. So let's just talk about the things completely devoid of due process, or instead of deflecting we can just talk about how the US does not have a better process at all and we should put it under so much more scrutiny.

"We can talk about it" and thats how we got to this outcome, because everyone talked about giving the government all the power, stripping their need for due process, and siding with them by default way too often.
Cops are some of the stupidest, most violent people in our society. In many jurisdictions you can be disqualified from law enforcement if you are too intelligent, because they just need their thugs to follow orders and not to ever think. Cops have absolutely no business ordering a paramedic to do anything.
I’ve been looking for the best solution to this since the 1990s. The best solutions I’ve seen are commercial solutions ($$$) or Java (i.e. Eclipse)

In the 1990s there used to be something called Visix Galaxy. The GUI builder was the best I’ve ever seen. It was amazing but cost $$$.
T-shirts and first names are symbolic of a culture that recognizes the need for a hierarchy but does not worship at its altar. The point is that if my manager says something which is utterly wrong, I can correct him in the moment and he’ll thank me for it. If I can’t do that, then yes it does prevent me from doing my job.

For what it’s worth, I don’t mean to suggest the Pentagon should operate more like SV companies (I don’t really know). I’m just giving it as a reason I personally would not want to work there.
see my comment below. it's a vertical lock-in. and just because the market tolerates it, that doesn't mean it is healthy and good.

for each case we need to look at how that store is managed and who gets access to it under what conditions.

it is my impression though that microsoft acts like a publisher for the games on the xbox, iaw they take responsibility for the games being published, picking carefully who they work with, whereas apple simply sells access to the market for a 30% cut. so xbox is a private club that you need to get invited to, whereas apple store is claiming to be an open market, except that it isn't.
Proto Homes – Modern Prefab Homes in Los Angeles, California
They are called PWAs
The original would still be the real one even if it has been shut down.
>It doesn't refute "At some point your hand is so bad you're basically [not] fucked from the start". Which I think might be a fairer statement of incel beliefs.

Serial killers get marriage proposals from behind bars. Ugly men, including men with physical deformities, find partners. Men without working penises still have sexual relationships. Even if there were such a thing as "basically [not] fucked from the start," the vast majority of incels would be nowhere near that extreme.

I mean, look at the patron saint of incels (canonized as such by the incel community itself) Elliot Rodger. Did life deal him such a terrible hand that dating was impossible, or was the only thing standing in his way himself and his own twisted, hateful and false view of women and the world around him?
Similar. Moved to a place where spectrum said I could get 500mbps but turned out they did not service my side of the highway. Had to use centurylink 25mbps for a year until Spectrum could bore under the road. The 25mbps was actually closer to 10 and up speeds were closer to 1-2mbsp. Uploading binaries and docker images was terrible. Like go away and do something else for a while terrible. Downloading them took considerable time. I had to turn off internet for the rest of the house to prevent kids or tv/netflix from degrading my experience. Lots of voice only zoom calls to preserve audio.

In your purchases contract for your home, add the requirement that high speed internet will service your work needs for video conferencing and such. We did so. Worked with the existing owner to ensure things were installed and tested while we were six states away.
This is yet another scenario where the US can't seem to avoid violent actions when arresting people and other countries don't seem to have this problem. So what's going on here? I can only see it as another case where violent actions are significantly increased by police behavior.
> An inhalation valve does less to protect other people, because the expelled air still has to go somewhere, and will just blow out of the sides of the mask. It could theoretically go through the mask material if it was thin enough, but there’s probably too much pressure inside and it’ll burst out the sides

No, an inhalation valve makes 0.0% difference here. Here's a simple mental exercise to understand better. Imagine two people side by side. They are wearing identical masks, except one has an inhalation valve. They breathe in, pause, breathe out. In your mind, freeze the frame at the pause between breathing in and breathing out. At that moment, what's the difference between the two? Nothing. Now watch them breathe out. What's the difference? Still nothing.
I honestly expect the congress to remove Apple powers as gatekeeper

So you expect the same government that passed DMCA, COPPA, that is trying to get rid of end to end encryption, did the things that came out via Snowden, warranties wiretaps, buying location data from carriers, dismantled net neutrality, etc. to actually not do something malicious with more power and control?

If the Apple Store is the only store for iOS devices, they have to allow any app in and let the authorities handle misbehaviour

So Apple should have allowed the Facebook VPN so that spied on users? You really want the government controlling which apps can go on your phone? Have you been paying attention to the government over the past two decades? You really want to give it more power?

That's what I expect from the country that sell itself as the land of the free (and champion of free market)

So more government control is your definition of a free market?
You do what Singapore does and pass out bulletproof hardware tokens (no charging needed/possible) that do the same job.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/10000-seniors-get-fir...
Show HN: An Android launcher based purely on touch gestures
Not the person you responded to, but can you explain why if they're using native widgets, every single example application here [1] looks horribly integrated into the desktop? Is wx just really hard to use and every developer screws it up? Does wx use the native widgets correctly but screw up things like padding and highlights? Is the subset of widgets that are supported on every platform too limited, so everyone is forced to use non-native widgets (which apparently always look bad in wx)?

PoEdit comes the closest to looking genuinely native, but the MacOS implementation is clearly flawed.

[1] https://www.wxwidgets.org/about/screenshots/
I like seeing what habits I might have that others could find annoying.
Nice.

Does Django provide an ACL/RBAC - how does that fit in with JWT based auth.

For a Django equivalent in node.js : Check out Xgene Cloud[1].

It automatically generates node.js API source code over new/existing SQL database with auth, acl & GUI schema design tool.

Here is simple demo of it : https://youtu.be/8LGJKUW9hhU

[1] : https://github.com/xgenecloud/xgenecloud
The GlideGear iPad teleprompter is under $200 and saves a lot of time if you’re pressed for time:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B019AJOLEM/

The setup is to use an iPad hosting Sidecar wireless display from your Mac. Use Moom or similar screen management app that detects kicking on the new display, and pops your meeting video windows onto it at full dimensions (but not ‘full screen’ mode).

If the other person is both on video and sometimes sharing content, you need to flip the video horizontally, which isn’t obvious. There are three options:

1. Check if your display can flip the video.

2. Use SwitchResX if your graphics card can do it for that particular monitor:

https://www.madrau.com/

If it can, great. If it cannot, then ...

3. Use the Flip Mac Window utility from here, so you’ll see it the right way around in the mirror:

https://www.freetelepromptersoftware.com/mac/

How this works is it screen captures the original window, and plays it back flipped over top of the window. That means actual buttons / icons are not moved, only the rendering of the window is flipped. If you need to navigate the window, unflip it first.

Note that 12.9” iPads only fit in this GlideGear if you re-shape the mirror brace, but the mirror is large enough for a 12.9” iPad and it looks fantastic.

I like coupling this with Logitech Brio (best) or Logitech Streamcam (good).

I‘ve used it extensively with WebEx, Zoom, and Teams.
Barring a few weeks that were spent dealing with family situations, the last 7 months was spent full time building orma.in and then ente.io.

If your question is from an engineering perspective, I'd say ~65% of my working hours were spent in writing and rewriting code.
Something to visualise the models, the one in this link

https://github.com/nsfw-filter/nsfw-filter/tree/master/dist/...
> In many jurisdictions you can be disqualified from law enforcement if you are too intelligent

There's obviously at least one department that did this at one point in time because of the notable lawsuit allowing it, but what is the source for it being a practice in “many jurisdictions”?
Do lawyers at Apple have a quota to fill?
Elijah McClain did not resist arrest.

> I can’t breathe. I have my ID right here. My name is Elijah McClain. That’s my house. I was just going home. I’m an introvert. I’m just different. That’s all. I’m so sorry. I have no gun. I don’t do that stuff. I don’t do any fighting. Why are you attacking me? I don’t even kill flies! I don’t eat meat! But I don’t judge people, I don’t judge people who do eat meat. Forgive me. All I was trying to do was become better. I will do it. I will do anything. Sacrifice my identity, I’ll do it. You all are phenomenal. You are beautiful and I love you. Try to forgive me. I’m a mood Gemini. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. Ow, that really hurt. You are all very strong. Teamwork makes the dream work. Oh, I’m sorry I wasn’t trying to do that. I just can’t breathe correctly.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elijah-mcclains-last-words...
Total war still exists as a concept and is not out of the question in the future. Another world war is still possible, we’re still human beings, after all.

Personally, I think there hasn’t been another worldwide conflict because of nuclear weapons. I pray we never see another world war, because those will be used. Let’s hope the MacArthurs and Lemays of the 50s and 60s are all gone..
Ask HN: How about a “Validate this idea” thread every month?
There are plenty of ideas we work on. It could be useful to have a thread once every month for 'pre-Show HN" stage projects. Just a line or two which describes the project, and maybe a link to screenshots or mockups. You could seek answers on viability, pricing etc.
I am very much against the idea of police using ketamine, but I believe all street officers should be fully trained EMT's as well.
I can relate ente in Malayalam ️️
If you are an individualist maybe you are right. I think the Germans are more aware of the Tragedy of the Commons.

Personally I do not like the hyper-individualist, credit-laden neoliberal economic system which is slowly creeping into the EU. Targetting the individual with ever more convenience and more-for-less.

Finally, cash is untraceable and therefore of vital importance to me and free societies.
Yup, point remains. Cash back cards maintain the same characteristics.

Traditional cash back cards are arguably less regressive since it isn’t just the wealthy that have cash back cards. In theory, a broader set of people are beneficiaries of a system that a broad set of consumers pay into via higher prices.

AmEx cards OTOH are expensive enough to process that there still exists a broad set of merchants who refuse to process them. For those that do process them, it’s harder to say to what degree the costs are passed on to all buyers. And unlike cashback cards, Amex rewards beneficiaries heavily skew rich.
> T-shirts and first names are symbolic of a culture that recognizes the need for a hierarchy but does not worship at its altar

Later part is definitely true. But I wouldn't be so sure about the first part. Plenty of people want to throw away any hierarchy out the window.
I think it depends on the person and their viewpoint. I personally view the iPhone 2G or 3G and iOS 1 or 2 as the start of the smartphone. Obviously technically there were previous ones. I view the significant changes big enough that it marks the beginning of the smartphone for me.

Anecdotally, I had a Windows Mobile Phone and Symbian phone interview the 2006-2007 time period. I never thought of them as smartphones personally.
Amusing, but most people don't have to follow eating cheese with a shot of 80 proof liquor just to keep it down.
Most EU law will continue to apply until/unless it is specifically repealed. National laws that implement the EU law are usually required for each country to implement the law in accordance with its own legal codes and structures.

The UK is still inside most of the treaties until next year, as there is currently a "transition period" in effect, but even when that ends, a lot of EU law will still be part of UK law.
Us armed forces are like 80% white when I skimmed the official data.
Pricing was always a pain for me.

My excuse is that I include all features in all plans.

If you need to monitor 1 site and its SSL certificate it'll be 7$/mo for uptime robot. Or if you need to setup custom headers etc.

I take the pain away, like any feature is included and I'm going to constantly improve it.

But yeah, Uptimerobot is kind of big player on the market
What Is Spacetime? (2018)
In a way every App Store is somewhat a walled garden. I like that there aren’t a 1000 anti-virus scam apps on the App Store.

Just want the process to be sane.

Like being able to install other apps on the Mac. They make it very hard to install non Apple signed apps. But it’s possible.

In iOS, it’s not possible. It’s my device, let me do what I want with it. Let me create things with it, not be just a content consumer.
What's really sobering is that, in my personal experiences as a middle-class American white man in his 40s, police have always been really good at de-escalating things.

I haven't always agreed with them, but they have always cooled things down nicely without resorting to violence or even arrests.

Training varies widely by locale, but I believe de-escalation is indeed a nearly universal part of their training. It must also be noted that de-escalation certainly is much easier for the police officers themselves: less hassle, less danger, less paperwork, less repercussions. These people generally just want to get through their shift and get home.

They are certainly capable of de-escalation and, in most instances, are trained and motivated to de-escalate.

So, it's very telling when (nearly always white) officers leap to unnecessarily violent tactics on (nearly always Black) victims.
Sigh... forks repo
The problem I have is not the tracking, but Google’s dominance of the browser market. They can (and do) push through efforts that mostly benefit Google, and their ability to keep everyone inside the Google ecosystem.

In other words, tracking is not the only evil thing they’re doing.
This is partially what I'm concerned about. From the basic facts that I've seen about this case I believe that Apple is in the wrong. That being said, seeing prepear resort to dehumanizing tactics in trying to rally the public beside them is disconcerting. I think there's an "every foot counts" mentality in activism these days that's not just destructive to the state of discourse, but is actually counterproductive as well.
Maybe this is part of the reason why the Pentagon has a dispensation to continue buying Huawei 5G kit - sounds like they need it!
> due to the transaction fees.

This is actually a misconception.

Amex has been competitive with Visa/Master for the past couple years, but haven't been able to shake off the stigma that the processing fees are more expensive, since it is up to the actual business to accept Amex.

> But in 2018, Mastercard and Visa credit had a swipe fee weighted average of 2.26%, while AmEx had 2.3%, additional data from The Nilson Report found. [0]

[0] https://www.retaildive.com/news/american-express-catches-up-...

In the past Amex has been prohibitively expensive to accept, and relied on their status as a luxury brand to get people to accept them. I think the playing field is starting to reach an equilibrium across payment network providers.
I’m guessing it’s the looming threat of defaults. Most small-medium businesses are restaurants, hair salons, high street shops, and other places heavily impacted by covid.
Yes, tensorflow model can run on JS. I did that when developing a Deep Learning product, PredictSalary (https://predictsalary.com). The problem is not the model, but the TensorflowJS library (using Node) is big (8MB) after webpack-ing it (even after using compressing flag).

So I decided to move the inference to the server.

It's fast but I didn't toy with GPU setting when running Tensorflow model on JS.
Writing a simple Python to C compiler: hello, fibonacci