skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems consistent to what I experimented on Arch LTS/Wayland since FF 79. I have very frequent video player crashes when enabled (like on YT).
Not really. Plenty of businesses don't have unioned employees, and get along just fine. I'd wager there's more non-union employers than union employers in this country.

Unfortunately, unioned jobs where it's known to be difficult or impossible to fire poor performing employees, seems to attract exactly that type of employee, in my experience.
Apple is truly doing themselves a disservice here, if Epic wins this battle Apple will undoubtedly be painted as the bad guy, and other major companies will smell blood in the water when it comes taking down a competitor.

Case in point; Tinder, Microsoft, Facebook, Spotify have all openly backed Epic and started to call attention to features that are impacted by this 30% fee. Status quo isn't going to cut it, and it would be in Apple's best interest to make a small concession to look like they're not so evil.
Sure they have more links. But why does that give them ownership of Imhotep's toothbrush? If possession equals ownership for land (i.e. nobody is really claiming that the land that Egyptians live on should be given to someone other than Egyptians), why not for artifacts?
The HPC codes I worked on we would compile with gcc, clang, icc and whatever vendor compiler was installed (Cray, PGI, something even worse). Then we'd benchmark the resulting binaries and make a recommendation based on speed. (Assuming the compiled binaries gave the correct results, which would sometimes fail and trigger further debugging to find out if we had undefined behaviors (or implementation defined) or had managed to find a compiler bug. For codes that are memory-bandwidth dominated the results are pretty much a toss-up. For compute bound codes intel would often win.

You can do the same when your machine has non-intel CPUs that are supported by a lot of compilers. If you are on power9 or arm the compiler list gets shorter. And a lot of supercomputers start to contain accelerators (often, but not always Nvidia GPUs) in which case there is often only one supported compiler and you have to rewrite code until that compiler is happy and produces fast code.
"Don't make the mistake of thinking" is where we are heading.
> I wish every damn micro transaction app gets removed one day.

What’s the alternative? I’m in love with the micro transactions model because the alternative is experience destroyed by ads or high upfront fees.

On the games I play I rarely buy anything, don’t see ads but their business is healthy and the games are fantastic and regularly updated with new content.

I casually play Asphalt 9, SimCity BuildIt and PUBG, probably have hundreds if not thousands of hours on each and spent probably less than $20 till now. If that’s not a great deal, I don’t know what is.

I also bought games like Monument Valley or Limbo and similar. While the experience is also top notch, the upfront payment feels steep and the developers don’t update the games so the play time is considerably less.
Supporting Epic in this fight is just setting a dangerous precedent that big players should be able to just intimidate platform owners into giving them whatever terms they want. Don’t do it.
> It's a wild west. Trading unregulated money tends to disproportionately attract the worst kind of people.

It means that you have to take precautions instead of the government telling you what you can or can't do (using money they took from you anyway).

The energy concerns are valid. I hope that the cryptocurrency that ends up winning is energy efficient.
Yeah, and those tests were to comprehend the image to the point of identifying an air craft. If you're just trying to identify motion, you could probably perceive much higher frame rates.
Have you tried XeTeX with the TeX Gyre fonts? It made a big difference for me. (I previously used pslatex and then pdflatex with Palatino/mathpazo as well.)
Mark Zuckerberg says Kenosha Guard rulings were ‘an operational mistake’
PRF = Physical Register File. In modern CPUs, there are no separate architectural registers, all register state is held in a single very large register file (for example, 180 entries in Intel Skylake) that contains all register data, and the architectural register names are pointers into this file.

This is different from previous approaches where in-flight register data was held in the ROB and later written back into architectural registers.
Apple is a monopoly. When Microsoft was investigated and fined for anti-trust behaviors, it hasn't engaged in this level of abuse.
> The environment described in this article is horrifying and definitely sounds worse than our current financial system.

It's a different system with a different set of tradeoffs. I don't think it's accurate to just call it "worse".
And the value of those ads is totally speculative. We live in a 0-utility economy.
No wonder Warren Buffet's 'intrinsic value' investment strategy doesn't work anymore.
Since the 1970s, the true driver of the economy was the Fed and its reckless borrowers; not workers, not consumers.

It took 50 years for rich investors and their descendants to lose touch with reality to the point that they can't tell the difference between something important and something which is completely useless.
That's coming soon enough.
Surely the developers charge more and in the end it’s the users that pay more?

I mean that’s literally what Epic was doing.
> Does the endless stream of point-of-sale and credit card hacks make you question the security of dollars, euros and yen?

No, because my credit card company gives me my money back when there is fraud.

Crypto promoters always paint the irreversibility of blockchains as a feature, but it always seems like a risk to me.
I disagree. Knowledge is the great equalizer. You can't buy knowledge with money.
Napster was just bought for $70M
The not-so-secret reason the business community is fighting single payer in the US is because 18-20% of our economy depends on the healthcare industry. A good portion of that is paper shuffling, marketing, accounting, and related middle/upper management -- they would serve no purpose in a system where you show up with identification, prove you're a citizen, and then get healthcare. So single payer means maybe 8-10% of the country is out of a job.

That's why Medicare/Medicaid is cheaper per person even though they serve the poor and elderly.
The sad part is all the users who think that not providing the folks who own the physical instances of hardware the choice to install software from any location, is great for the end user.

This option is present in Android. And you can use it at any time. Is it often that the option is used? Absolutely not, I've never even used it myself. But I still think it's great that it's available, and, if need be, I can easily install any app I want from any source, even if Google doesn't approve of such app or such source.
I want one that can also find non-perfectly matching moved lines :)

looks cool already though, got to try it some time.
Microsoft is playing politics, they act just like Apple on XBox.
> or make the company fail

Hostess famously failed due to the Bakers Union stalling wage talks, even though the Teamsters (representing the other portion of the employees) agreed. Now... nobody works for Hostess and everyone lost their jobs.

Not all Unions actually align their goals with what's best for the employees. Sometimes, it's all about collecting union dues...
Monitors with high refresh rates (usually 140Hz but up to 240Hz) are quite common among gamers these days.
This comment section is as rich as the article. Thank you hn'ers.
They're not being forced to do anything, it's a temporary injunction, i.e. just a remedy.

What's noteworthy here is that it's not a preliminary injunction, meaning that Apple might not even have had the chance to defend themselves in court yet.
>well regulated

You need to make sure you use the term in the way it was when it was written, and properly translate it to modern parlance.

All well regulated meant back then was "working as intended" or "fit for the task at hand". Not "activity specifically organized and constrained by formal procedures established by a governing body or authority".

Back then, you could use the phrase to apply to a person, their work, a machine, a system, etc...

There is absolutely no stipulation that the bearing of arms guaranteed by the Second Amendment is dependent on the condition of being part of an established militia. The entire militia clause exists as an explanation or justifying reason for the subsequent clause's command.

The concept of someone being "underage" to enjoy a Constitutionally guaranteed right without an explicit carve out in in the Constitution (I.e prescriptive age limits for holding office, delegation to States for implementation details of the choosing of Electors for Presidential voting) is a further farce, made only more extreme by the clear and unambiguous phrasing of the second amendment, namely that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed.

I mean, if you haven't dismissed me as impossible to reconcile with your worldview, it's quite a bit less complicated than it appears. It is only complicated if you're looking for a way to try to twist the clear and unambiguously constructed writing to mean something substantially different than it does.
Maybe Epic will have some breakthroughs in making Fortnite browser based.

Not sure what would be needed to accomplish this.

Maybe better WebGL?

That would be amazing to help kids discover that the internet is much larger than apps.
That's new for me.
It can vary a lot depending on location, but here's a search on zillow to give you a sense of the market in California:

https://bit.ly/3gEqOkw

(bitly link, because the URL specifying the search filters is unreasonably long)
Two things:

One: Epic Games is 40% owned by Tencent.[1] I'll reserve my opinion here an suggest others use this as a point of discussion to explore what we believe this might mean.

Two: Media attention is everything in the court of public opinion.

1. Tencent Holdings Ltd is a Chinese multinational conglomerate holding company, founded in 1998, <snip> the world's largest video game company, one of the world's most financially valuable companies, one of the world's largest social media companies, and one of the world's largest venture capital firms and investment corporations.
For a long time during this pandemic, I felt what I can only describe as Weltschmerz [1], the same sense of melancholy brought about by the idea that the bad has overtaken the good, and we are trapped into the final death throes as a species.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltschmerz
It's been reduced since 2019, now it's 156€.
Aside from arbitrary virtue signaling and moral grand standing, what's the point?

$1 is $1 no matter which pocket it comes from. Also, this would be introducing discrimination based on immutable traits - two steps backwards there guys...
Trading is harder because people start with different amounts of capital and different risk tolerance. The more capital you have the more illiquid the market becomes and less predictable.
The company behind Trump Vancouver just declared bankruptcy
> But that's assuming the judge knows who the thief is. One of the main characteristics of cryptocurrency is that you can hold it without giving anyone your social security number.

You can, but AFAIK it's harder to do that when you're trying to cash out your cryptocoins in fiat (though arguably, this becomes less of a problem for criminals with the growing numbers of goods and services you can pay for with crypto). Still, I think if governments ever allow for a mainstream, sanctioned adoption of digital currency, they won't let it keep this level of anonymity.
In what metric is Apple a monopoly?
To be fair, Excel is pretty much critical infrastructure at this point.
Does it have 1+ gigabit service? Plumbing? Roads? How far is it to the nearest major airport?
Admittedly my comment was snarky, but you're speaking of ideals and we're speaking of solutions. Right now GoodRx is a very successful company solving a very real problem. Meanwhile the US government has completely fucking failed to fix it's healthcare issue.

You can keep waiting for a government solution. In the meantime I will continue to be a happy customer of GoodRx.
My general assumption these days is that, if an article portraying something as a uniquely American ill or failing hasn't bothered to put the stats it's using in context by comparing them with other countries, it's because those comparisons would get in the way of the article's thesis. Though maybe I'm getting cynical from having followed your media's coverage of Covid-19 over the past few months.
AI have certainly been changing which joseki are popular and which aren't, but this isn't the same as increasing the amount of memorization in the game since joseki aren't new.

The AI favored lines are likely to get heavily entrenched. I wouldn't expect them to go further because they generally end when becomes better to play elsewhere. There are a few fighting joseki where this isn't the case, but AI doesn't seem to like them much, although there are a few exceptions.
There's a download link above the PDF view that allows you to view/download the PDF directly
This is a well-articulated list, and captures a lot of my negativity towards crypto.

But as I like to keep an open mind about new tech, I always wonder if something like this could have been said about the early days of Linux:

1) Open-source is pure unadulterated theft of other peoples' work. This model cannot ever be allowed to become significant in the software economy.

2) That people who are into open source have naive ideas about how economy and society works.

3) That the main users of Linux are into other shady activities like hacking (the bad kind) and ripping other people's work.

The main reason I think the analogy doesn't hold that well is that we are now a decade into crypto with few signs of adaptability, while within a much shorter duration you could say that Linux was already showing signs that it was going to lead to a paradigm shift in the software industry.

Having just typed this I realise that one can argue that within a decade the market valuation of bitcoin (whatever that means) reached $200B which is a spectacular achievement, and one can argue that that is its way of showing that it will be a paradigm shift of something in finance.
How do you reconcile this opinion with the glaringly obvious counter that Apple swings its weight around in exactly that fashion?
I see this as a huge failure in parenting - how come kids can actually spend those money? Why in the heck would you put in your credit card on a kids phone?

Heck, I never put in mine, I am perfectly fine with free apps that cover vast array of my usage. I don't game on the phone though. If my kids won't either, I can call it a small victory in parenting. If they will, either they earn the money themselves, receive gift (not from me that's for sure), or they will have to suffer subpar free-to-play variant of the game. Still a win.

I know, peer pressure and all that, but what happened to proper parenting and guiding children a bit through life?
It is sad indeed, but I guess no manager wants to change things not be responsible for changes that fail.
Good riddance. Epic is acting like spoiled brats.
they're basically tabular data where columns are homogenous in datatype, and where you can have different datatypes among the different columns. The rows are the data points or samples. They're very often thought of as lists of multidimensional data where the dimensions correspond to the columns, and the rows to the samples of the data.

This guy gives a good overview.
https://github.com/mobileink/data.frame/wiki/What-is-a-Data-...
90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers
The best resource for details of any specific x86 cpu is Agner Fog's 3rd manual at: https://www.agner.org/optimize/#manuals
LIFX Announces World-First Disinfecting Anti-Bacterial Smart Light
Wait, Epic is the big player in this fight?
As a tech-savvy user, I may be asked which device I recommend.

If I write OS-agnostic mobile apps for fun, and my apps can be downloaded for Android easily, but cannot be downloaded for iOS, guess which device I'll be recommending to my "parents", friends and internet strangers?
Which is why macOS, Windows and ChromeOS are the platforms for anyone who care about video hardware acceleration without messing with configurations.
"The kind of common theme is the abuse of their market power to maintain their market dominance, to crush competitors, to exclude folks from their platform and to earn monopoly rents."

- the antitrust committee investigating them

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/26/antitrust-investigation...
If you want to compare the performance of Librem 5 with the cheaper Pinephone, watch these videos: https://social.librem.one/@dos/104767475144787918.

Also, here is a detailed comparison of the phones: https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-p...
The UK is a deeply centralized place. There are only a few layers of devolved government, that you may or may not be subject to. There is an ability to set and enforce standards centrally.

The US is not. A federalized system means that various components work mostly separately from one another. A county court has sharply limited resources, and no ability to ask the federal government to send it a cadre of web developers. The state it's in may not provide a ton of resources for such things at the county level either.

The actual question here that may wind up a big deal is if a Zoom hearing is the equivalent of a physical one. If it is, failing to show up means forfeiting the right to be heard. Whether it's Jitsi instead might not be a substantive difference.
Apple Powerbeats 2 class action settlement
Suppose Google is broken up and Android dies (not a necessary consequence, also because some company could keep it alive.) Apple won't license iOS to other phone manufacturers and many people on the planet won't have the money to buy an iPhone. There could be a scenario starting with two or three mobile OSes, including a 100% open source Android, with an endgame of one of them taking the 80% market share Android enjoys now.
> yes the Dems killed Medicaid for All from their manifesto for this round

“Medicare for All”, and while it's not part of the current platform (which focussed on a public option), removing federal program
barriers to states enacting universal plans while participating in the various federal plans is part of the platform, and state policies providing models for federal progress is a common thing.

But, more immediately, even without Medicare for All, the Democratic 2020 has a plan for universality centered around a public zero-deductible option that all Americans would be able to buy into via existing exchanges and with existing exchange subsidies and some low income Americana would be enrolled in automatically with no premiums.
I’m also unsure how you can possess the skills to build an entire app and not also posses the skills to read the “annual fee” part of the developer program cost.

Not rooting for Apple, but the pretentiousness in the “I’m not a charity” part seemed far removed from the humbleness required to be unintentionally illiterate.
people familiar with Tim Sweeny’s life and ideology know that it is an actual important issues to him that platforms be open.

your cynical take is often very true but there are sometimes real human ideals behind things.
>> The whole goal of two post-capitalism enterprises having a fit is for one or more of them to make more money. The whole "it is good for consumers" or "good for developers" is just sprinkles and marketing to appeal to the public. Separate the issues and angles and see it for what it is: just a bunch of legal departments having a fight.

An upvote didn’t seem like enough, that is a devastatingly accurate appraisal IMO
Author works for Microsoft: company which ships un-removable spyware in their flagship product (Windows).
Remember this whenever you hear someone say their company is too big to fail when dealing with the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Google and others: no company is too big to fail.
Again, adjust for population.

> Results: Victims were majority white (52%) but disproportionately black (32%) with a fatality rate 2.8 times higher among blacks than whites.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/
Yeah, it's a reasonable tradeoff - be compatible with 1st Gen (basically all post-2010 modern x86_64 Intel processors), but try fine-tuning it a little bit for Haswell.
> It means that you have to take precautions instead of the government telling you what you can or can't do (using money they took from you anyway).

That's true! And I do prefer the world in which I pay the government to take care of this, because as an individual I have no chance against organized, professional scammers. Wild West is a fun thing to watch in movies (or at least the fictional recreation of it, with more shooting and less filth); but definitely not a nice time to live in, compared to today.

> I hope that the cryptocurrency that ends up winning is energy efficient.

That needs to be a structural change though; shaving off factors of the exponent in the middle of PoW isn't going to help. But 'spir here says that Ethereum cracked the proof-of-stake, which is the exact development that needed to happen for crypto to be feasible.
Loving it
For all the scams, ponzi schemes and outright theft that has happened in the blockchain space, I can bet a good amount of money that we as a society lose more every year to corrupt officials, subverted institutions and petty theft than we will ever lose on a system that is not run by humans.
Great write up. Would love to hear what it feels like to run your own product. Does it feel like it was worth the risk and effort?
I imagine it could be helpful for people who are self employed or semi-retired and make too much for maximum Obamacare subsidies while not being old enough for Medicare

You can go take a ballroom dancing class with a bunch of 20 year olds while getting slightly cheaper insurance
I assume that the Epic supporters rather are hoping to get Apple to reduce the 30% on all transactions (or on all transactions of some type), not just to get Epic to be a special case. I'm not sure they have a case, but I think you're misrepresenting them.
big players already get special terms from apple
If Epic Games doesn't get it's way will China give Apple the boot?

Are we watching a cold war unfold in front of our eyes?
> just a bunch of legal departments having a fight.

At the expense of the users, in both the figurative and the literal sense of the word.
There are bad developers will not pay your money back and keep their 5 bucks and only refund after a long, long process. They feed on this behavior, for each customer do not challenge those purchases they make free money.

When all the payments are forced to go through a trusted processor with correct parental controls for all apps in the platform, you guarantee that your kid will not make any uninformed purchases.

The thing about fraud is, if you do not stop it completely, it grows exponentially.
Yeah, since the anti-Flash movement has won, Linux is even less interesting for anyone wanting an out of the box experience regarding video hardware acceleration for Web browsers.