skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok. Actually I never (and don’t know who) call AGPL software a free software. Let’s just call it AGPL software! Problem solved.

Just curious, if AGPL is so evil, who made it for what kind of purpose from the beginning? You give me an impression that AGPL is totally wrong and shouldn’t be born.

I am not saying that AGPL is born to prevent people to use AGPL software. Instead, AGPL definitely encourages people to use for free under the license, or use it after purchase commercial license. Why you have impression that AGPL was born to let people not use the software?

Like MongoDB, it selected AGPL from the beginning, and many people were using it (so you can’t say AGPL stop people to use MongoDB), until some big commercial companies began to deploy it in cloud and violate AGPL (refuse to open source). This hurt the protocol and MongoDB, so MongoDB decided to change the license to a more explicit and strict license written by themselves to rule explicitly that if you deploy the MongoDB in cloud you should be open source. Otherwise you need to purchase a commercial license. From this point of view AGPL or the more strict MongoDB protocol find a good balance between open source and commercial usage. Please tell me if MongoDB uses more free software style license, like GPL, Apache, MIT, I guess many companies will use it in non open source style without violating the protocol, then how MongoDB can survive? If MongoDB can not live a good life, who will contribute to it, maintain it, help user continuously? MongoDB dies and the world gets nothing. Happy ending?

I am glad that google doesn’t like AGPL. To me this implies that the thing, that is not liked by big company, could be interesting. Google has become a gigantic monster. AGPL just prevents the big companies , like google, amazon, to use open source software for free.
This looks great. Kudos to the authors! The available options are pretty lacking.

I would have loved to have this the past few years.

I recently shifted all my IRC usage to Matrix with Element.

There is a official IRC bridge. It will let you authenticate with IRC servers and join rooms, which will appear as regular Matrix rooms for you. On the IRC side you seem like a normal user as well.

You get multi-device support, history, one less client to keep open, ...

Steps:

* Start a conversation with "@appservice-irc:matrix.org"

* Send commands:

!nick irc.freenode.net mynickname

!storepass irc.freenode.net MYPW

!join chat.freenode.net #someroom
Interesting question. I checked out Klarna and Adyen which seems to be the most popular in Europe right now.

Adyen lists "Adult entertainment, websites & content (such as)" as not allowed. https://www.adyen.com/dam/jcr:47f292a9-c9e2-4a69-8592-2e15ff...

Klarna lists "Adult, sexual or pornographic products and services, including live web cam" as not allowed. https://cdn.klarna.com/1.0/shared/content/policy/ethic/en_gb...

Both of them expand it more to cover everything possible around adult content and the like.
If privacy is the focus, could Apple acquire Duck Duck Go and get a head start? Or is there no reason to get a head start when you have virtually unlimited resources?
Ultimately the software matters little to the average consumer so long as it does what they want and looks nice.

Us 'hackers' have the dual detriment of being cheap people and demanding on company resources. It's just more profitable to focus on the larger client base.

That said, it may work well if they launch their own software sharing platform.
Australia 'hurt the feelings' of China, senior diplomat says
Presumably the same way they monetize Siri.
Maybe Apple could use it to search for wherever their developer documentation went.
Farewell to the Boeing 747 – How the First Jumbo Jet Revolutionized Air Travel
Makes sense. If they're really serious about Siri they need a high-quality search engine.
> Things as simple as font resizing are 30x slower than on a Kindle

Wow, thanks, I was very interested in this for marking up documents + notes. I guess I could still use my kindle for most of my reading anyway, but the video gave me the impression the RM2 was very fluid and fast.

If I'm understanding correctly, the screen's responsiveness to input is great, but the UI's responsiveness is not?
Over the last three years, I have sent 12 emails to him, at the two addresses mentioned on the page (all were bug reports, as he says that's the only kind of email he accepts). Of these, 11 were processed in the way indicated on the page: several weeks later, I got a reply in my (postal) mailbox, with Knuth's replies in pencil over a printout of my email. For the other one, I got a two-line reply by email, saying thanks and that an updated version had been uploaded. (This was a correction to a section he was writing, that I sent immediately after a talk he gave about it. Interestingly, the "from" address on the email was that of his secretary—who comes in once a week AFAIK—but signed "-- Don".)

So I think the content on this page is still substantially true, with rare exceptions.
I wonder how they would interpret something like Geforce Now on an ios then?
> folks are ok with me jotting down notes with pen and paper. Don't know why.

Maybe because everybody had the experience of taking notes at school, university, work meetings. And everybody spent time googling and chatting on their digital devices when they should not.
then get one of these for £50
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Waveshare-HAT-Resolution-Electronic...
In the US at least that makes them a liability ticking time bomb to an employer, especially if they go beyond mere "asshole jokes" like the bloat removal which deletes everything. Since if the employer got involved in a discrimination or sexual harassment lawsuit later knowing about it makes them look very willfully negligent and complicit in a lawsuit. The ironic thing about it being for a "wrong reason" is that the incentive doesn't depend upon character of the employer.
Thanks for your comment! I'm one of the editors of Distill.

I understand the task to be different from regular pixel segmentation in that it's set up in the cellular automata context and message passing is only allowed between neighbors. I think this is what the authors intend by "each pixel in the digit needs to coordinate locally".

With that said, you bring up a good point that it could be misread. I bet the authors would be happy to update the paper and clarify if you wanted to engage!
I also prefer mouses to touch screens. My laptop has both, but I use a mouse about 100x as often as the touch screen.
who's paying out?
It also sometimes takes 10+ seconds to respond when I'm at home with a great internet connection. You'd think Apple would have that down by now...
This sounded interesting so I looked it up; it seems it might be a popular misconception?

> The term asbestos is traceable to Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder's manuscript Natural History and his use of the term asbestinon, meaning "unquenchable". While Pliny or his nephew Pliny the Younger is popularly credited with recognising the detrimental effects of asbestos on human beings, examination of the primary sources reveals no support for either claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos#Early_uses

I've found many references to Pliny and Strabo around the web, but as the Wikipedia fragment implies yet no actual quotation about its dangers. It seems like a very specific myth to just come up though; my interest remains. Do let me know if you know more about this.
It's a blurry line since the content isn't consumed in the app, but you can buy digital codes for games (such as Nintendo Switch games) in the Amazon app.
Can you sideload onto an Apple device? Or do you mean that the device you buy isn't actually "your" device?
Hi there! Diego from DFINITY here...

1. Compared to other forms of DECENTRALIZED compute, IC + Motoko shines in making web apps with User experience comparable to centralized providers (AWS, GCP, Azure). Example: You can build simple react web social network and expect quick reads (in milliseconds) and writes (1-3 seconds). Note I did not say "blocks" or "finalization." I deliberately trying not to have a leaky abstraction from the POV of the app developer.

Compared to CENTRALIZED compute, you can create "open internet services" like an open version of TikTok where the control of the app and its features can be be done by (in simple terms) voting. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MkRszZw7hU

More broadly, one of the things that is surprising (it was to me when I joined, and it still is), how much of the cloud stack that developers or compute providers create is not necessary when you have protocol-based compute. As a developer, some things like firewalls, databases, seem less important in enforcing the security and scalability of my apps. I realize as I type this can sound a bit naive AND esoteric... and I think the only way to really show this is by action and folks just playing with it. Few words will really convey this as much as people playing with it directly, I get that.

2. Our compute model are "canisters" which (if you are familiar with actor model) are actors that contain both their code and their state. Actors communicate by sending messages to each other (as actor model implies). Example: I could create a twitter canister. Orthogonal persistance means its state can grow without me spinning up DBs or worrying about replication and consistency.

https://sdk.dfinity.org/docs/language-guide/motoko.html#_ort...

3. Oh boy thats a big question... I don't think I can do better than our founder Dom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dALucsAgAwE

Was that a helpful set of answers?
I would imagine EV charging could be a big consumer of this spare energy in the near future, especially with predictable commuting and same day weather forecasting.
This should be the top comment. It’s an especially prevalent view in the USA that bad politics is a law of physics and the only solutions are madly technological. It’s not true as many other parts of the world prove. You can just have a not-insane ISP/telco regulatory system if you so choose. (see also healthcare, food/agricultural standards, water quality, online privacy... all choices).
This is a great question, and it made me think a lot! So Apple differentiates a few types of purchases:
- Goods consumed within the app that enhance the app experience (Game upgrades, new functionality within your camera app)
- "Reader" apps (NYT, or Wall St Journal)
- Physical Goods and Services (Amazon, Airbnb)
- so on and so forth

A full list can be found here (on their helpful, seemingly recent, marketing site): https://www.apple.com/ios/app-store/principles-practices/#:~....

And the legalese is here in section 3.1: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#in-...

For a few categories, this is very well-defined. For example, a ride in Uber/Lyft is clearly a good/service consumed outside of the app, a subscription to Netflix is a subscription, and a +1 life in a game is a consumable digital good. However, for other categories it is not as clear; for example, what category does a "Ride Pass" fall under (which lowers the cost of Uber and Lyft rides, but is a monthly, purely-digital subscription)?

Ads as a whole probably gets bucketed into goods and services outside the app (because it doesn't improve your app experience). Beyond that, from a strategic perspective, I suspect Apple isn't trying to get into the b2b game, their ability to control supply there is probably much lower, esp when the developer and the user have a direct connection (through a sales person / customer success rep). However, this raises a really interesting question towards the category of lighter-weight personal ads (i.e. "Promote this post"). I suspect that these are not well regulated and probably not equally enforced. I'd be interested in the comps here: Do Twitter / FB / LinkedIn all use the same purchase method when you promote a post? How about the dating apps when you promote your profile? Are those materially different?
$50 to get a vet to put a cat down. And roughly the same amount to get a desexed, flea-treated moggy from a shelter.
I wonder if the apple tax would apply to buying a physical code that is mailed to you.
“When I was in jail at Beaumont, Texas I talked to one of the correctional officers there who shared with me a story about her friend who lost her identity and then lost everything after that,” Ngo recalled. “Her whole life fell apart. I don’t know if that lady was one of my victims, but that story made me feel sick. I know now that was I was doing was just evil.”

Earnest question. Other than a sociopath or psychopath, how could an adult human not know from the beginning that their actions are immoral and unethical?
Learn to Use Email with Git
This is a product, not a sum. It's just a pair of Reader and Writer. Sum types would also give you the ability to say "reader or writer" and use pattern matching to find out which one you were given.

C-like languages traditionally give only the 'product' half of types (C also gives union but they're super low level, and Go just eschewed them). A _modern_ language would give both products and sums.
If only you can download the image, it would be perfect for my use. Does anyone have a suggestion for such a device? All I want is an inexpensive device that can digitize what I write to replace my pile of notebooks. Doesn't need to erase, or display PDFs, or browse the web, or perform OCR.
Why? This is about buying ads, not ad revenue. For example, you can pay Facebook so that a picture you took shows up in other people's feeds on Instagram as 'Sponsored'. Question is, is Apple getting their 30% cut from the money you pay Facebook for that?
In that case, hypothetically what about a separate app that only sells game currency, like vbucks?
For example, in iOS 14 they added a Tracking permission and a slider in Settings > Privacy > Tracking. Except to have them not track you requires a separate setting in Settings > Privacy > Apple Advertising > Personalization.
Just because they're about the cause doesn't mean the people writing or reading them care about the cause
You’re not buying an ad for yourself to view. You’re making a purchase to a service that just happens to show ads to others.

In contrast from what you’re describing floatplane purchases are for subscriptions that will show up directly in the app.
> Your stated position is not based on reality -- most rich people do very little to help their communities.

I'm pretty sure that is their stated position, actually.
But isn't the "gotcha" part the fact that the ads are displayed in the Facebook/Instragram apps? There isn't a real world transaction taking place like your other examples. It's more akin to being able to buy an ebook in the Kindle app.
And there's a reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/hnblogs/
Wanted to chime in and "+1" the Tinderbox recommendation, and add that it's a bit less suited for heavy images being pasted in and edited, and more towards textual content -- but it more than makes up by offering combinations of layout, nesting, composition and "programmable" operations on these textual nodes.
DuckDuckGo my good human
Let me just say that I've been at Google for almost 9 years, and have recently started looking for work elsewhere and it seems that Go is far more popular outside of Google than inside it. Which disappoints me because my experiences with the language internally have biased me such that I have no desire to go use it elsewhere.

I've said this before, but I think it's a bit dishonest to sell this as a "Google language." It is an accepted language here, along with Python, Java, JS/TS, Dart, and C++. But it is by no means dominant.

To put it another way, it seems if the goal is to avoid working in Go I am better off staying @ Google than leaving. And that's weird, and maybe revealing.
There was discussion about this 6 months ago, such as this comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22412475
No, thanks.

Apple is notoriously horrible when it comes to localization: Apple Maps (localization, regional maps, regional traffic data, turn by turn), iOS supported languages, Siri supported languages, their new Apple Translate that only has 7-8 languages, Spotlight suggestions, etc.

They're also very slow to expand their services, I think Apple News still only supports 4 countries.

Just buy DuckDuckGo
That's only part of the solution. Energy generation makes up ~25% of emissions, agriculture, manufacturing, transport, etc. make up the other 75%. All of these will increase as the 3rd world industrialises.
Maybe within the store you’re right. This is more about a city allowing only one store to operate. People are complaining (well, companies, not people as much) about not being able to put a giant sticker in the city to go to the other store - because city allows only one store to operate!
asking for a friend i think?
I've been running a website and API with .NET Core for over a year...deploying to Digital Ocean droplets that run Ubuntu. Using MySQL instead of PostGres, sorry HN. It all runs like a champ, and costs me $17.05 USD per month. I only have about 100 users, so I'll scale if/when needed. I built it all on a refurb $700 macbook air I bought in 2016.
The scale was definitely a problem. The article talked about how they had millions of blanked out areas, anything of even the most minor strategic importance was blanked out. It might even be an attempt to stymie this kind of investigation by making the data too noisy.

They definitely screwed up when they made the censoring so easy to spot.
Thanks, that was a fun read. I think I have a better grasp of why you can't impute this now.
Effect of treating Covid-19 with hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin
Google Maps is slightly superior to Apple Maps but the gap continues to narrow and it's possible that Apple will pull ahead. The competition between the two means that it's important for new features to be added and incorrect data to be fixed.

On the other hand, Apple's search in the App Store app is so bad that I use DDG or Google to search for apps.
For what it is worth, I watched the video.

I'm sorry, I just disagree. I think there are plenty of devs that agree with you, but I don't.

Some points:

- Working with the UI of GitHub is pretty painless to me.

- On the other hand, I hate dealing with email and prefer tools like slack or even teams to checking and responding to emails. The thought of emailing patch diffs sounds crummy to me after being spoiled on the interactive UI flows of GH pull requests.

- I think the big bifurcation is on the concept of staying in the terminal at all times. I don't develop that way. I also don't send emails from the terminal at all. I primarily work in C# and F# on Windows with VSCode and VS as my daily drivers for editing code. I use the IDE UI to switch branches, merge, rebase and commit most of the time. Perhaps I'm not your target audience.

- I find Git's commands to be rather fiddly most of the time. And why bother remembering complex syntax when I can click familiar buttons. I prefer the ergonomics of the UI even if incurs a mental context switch. But really, that context switch doesn't hurt much compared to the cognitive load of my normal work.

- The last point I'll make is discoverability. Just last week a friend of mine made her first contribution on GitHub in less than 10 minutes. Without needing to look up docs or google workflows. The GitHub UI made a complex concept such as Git branching and merging very simple for her. That alone is worth alot.
You’re not wrong - but there’s some ugly edge-cases when a user’s purchase pays for digital goods where Apple’s share may be considered unwarranted or just greedy:

Supposing I have a B2B (not B2C) web-application + SaaS for a hypothetical professional studio photographers’s portfolio app. The app is entirely free (gratis) with self-service signup in the app for a free SaaS service tier - the app itself is only used for uploading photos to the SaaS service (I.e. it’s a utility/companion app).

Now, supposing that users on the free tier can pay a one-off fee (in the iOS app or on the web) to enable the ability to set a custom colour scheme for their portfolio page (which doesn’t affect the appearance of the iOS app at all) - that doesn’t count as a purchase which enhances the app experience - it doesn’t enable/disable or change anything in the app - should that be an IAP with the 30% tax - or an Apple Pay purchase with only ~3% processing fees?

Now, what if instead of selling that digital-only, app-irrelevant good in the app instead users could buy a physical “welcome pack” in the app which consists of a cheap Zazzle tote-bag with the company logo on - and as a bonus to the user enables the same custom-colour-scheme feature as a “thank you” to the user (like how Reddit and GitHub add flair to your account if you’re a paying user). Does (or should) Apple get 30% or 3% of that? If the cost of selling the tote bag is less than Apple’s 30% fee then I’ve found a loophole in IAP vs. AP.
If that is medium-largish, then I'd probably be more than fine within the use-case of my current customers.
Sorry Google. Not using yet another of your messaging apps. You'll just kill the product in 18 months or so.
Relevant xkcd: Team Chat

https://xkcd.com/1782/
From the abstract:

> Results

> The initial search yielded 839 articles, of which 29 articles met our inclusion criteria. All studies except one were conducted on hospitalized patients and evaluated the effects of hydroxychloroquine with or without azithromycin. Among the 29 articles, 3 were randomized controlled trials (RCT), one was a non-randomized trial and 25 were observational studies, including 10 with a critical risk of bias and 15 with a serious or moderate risk of bias. After excluding studies with critical risk of bias, the meta-analysis included 11,932 participants for the hydroxychloroquine group, 8,081 for the hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin group and 12,930 for the control group. Hydroxychloroquine was not significantly associated with mortality: pooled Relative Risk RR=0.83 (95% CI: 0.65-1.06, n=17 studies) for all studies and RR=1.09 (95% CI: 0.97-1.24, n=3 studies) for RCTs. Hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin was associated with an increased mortality: RR=1.27 (95% CI: 1.04-1.54, n=7 studies). We found similar results with a Bayesian meta-analysis.

>

> Conclusion

> Hydroxychloroquine alone was not associated with reduced mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients but the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin significantly increased mortality
> For example, you could make the app "free" but then unlock with in-app purchase, which would skirt the 30% fee.

Lots of apps do this, and they are not exempt from the 30% fee. Basically paywalling an existing part of your app is exactly what the 30% from IAP is for.
There is. They’ve started crawling much more aggressively, similar to how Googlebot and Bingbot crawl. Coincidentally, I mentioned to a friend that I thought Apple was preparing to launch a search engine just yesterday.