skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’ve cherry picked a sentence there but the full paragraph actually has a less optimistic tone:

> Epic brings ten claims for violations of Sherman Act, the California Cartwright Act, and California Unfair Competition. Based on a review of the current limited record before the Court, the Court cannot conclude that Epic has met the high burden of demonstrating a likelihood of success on the merits, especially in the antitrust context. However, the Court also concludes that serious questions do exist.

So no, a judge hasn’t suggested there is a winnable antitrust case here but he has acknowledged there are serious questions regarding unfair competition.
9x9 boards are the "learning board". Its much easier to learn the basics of Go on the small board.
Perhaps your friend would benefit from the phone app. I use it on an old iPhone SE and it works for hours without issue.
I wasn’t aware! I have an LG B7 and it’s maximum brightness is like 800nits, and even that seems too bright a lot of the time, so I turn on “power save” mode which dims it by about half. No wonder I never noticed any difference.
So many things in healthcare are screwed up. I was in IT for 20+ years and ready to move into law when a healthcare IT management job fell in my lap. 5 years later I still love healthcare IT because there is SO MUCH OPPORTUNITY to improve things, save money, make things better for users and patients. The entire system needs an overhaul, but the really odd thing is that as a nation (USA) we actually CAN do all the things we need to fix it. It's all payment and administrative stuff we need to fix.
This is incredible!

also, what is the movie or show sampled in that blog?
I am not making, and do not explicitly agree with, the statement that only human brains are imbued with 'creativity'.
However, the core of the alphaGo algorithm is just a monte-carlo tree search of the game initially populated with prior estimates of the value of each game state(with the generation of the prior value estimates being carried out by the DNN). I see no space in this simplistic statistical game analysis for concepts such as creativity. The move in question was chosen because it's prior value estimate by alphaGo was favorable and upon further analysis was concluded to be the most likely to result in a game victory relative to all other available moves. If alphaGo was only trained on human matches and subsequently was able to discover moves that drastically deviate from typical human strategies, I would be more open to labeling it as creative. However, most of alphaGo's training is carried out against itself, it's entirely possible that alphaGo has made this particular(or similar) move many times against itself during training.
> Microsoft takes 30% on Xbox plus its much more expensive to develop and publish on that platform overall.

And yet Epic has beef with Apple. So Microsoft must managed their relationship better than Apple has done to make Epic satisfied enough to not pull a stunt like they have with Apple.
I have a PS4 which won’t do the trick, but was planning on a PS5 when it comes out so maybe that’ll be the answer.
Salesforce’s AI-Powered Economist to Optimize Income Equality and Productivity
That lady is in the wrong line of work.
The chart does not see to show every bitrate for every target resolution, but rather is show where the 4K stream would have to drop to a lower resolution given insufficient bandwidth.
I take serious issue with the description of games as useless. They don’t do anything in the same way as reading a book doesn’t do anything. Or playing chess doesn’t do anything. You absolutely get something tangible in return. Whether it’s a new perspective, new friends or utter humiliation.

The idea we should capture the way games build tangible experiences and apply them to “useful software” is to misunderstand both what makes games useful and software that achieves a task. Gamification is swimming in the shallow end of game design. Swimming in the deeper end is beyond what most productive software should be doing design wise. The goals are different, the results are different and more importantly building software that fuses games and learning is different than either.
Yeah, you could be right. 20x ARR is not unheard of. Cloudflare was trading at 30x recently.
I agree those programs should be much better.

It's also worth considering that the US already spends the least amount on food in the entire world [1] but the most in health care.

[1] https://www.ibtimes.com/us-spends-less-food-any-other-countr...
Do you have a quote as to what section says people under 18 or 21 cannot own/carry rifles? A search for '18' and '21' came up with a few 'illegal to transfer a weapon that can be concealed to someone under 18' and the like, but also a section saying:

> (c) Nothing in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of this Section prohibits a person under 18 years of age from participating in any lawful recreational activity with a firearm such as, but not limited to, practice shooting at targets upon established public or private target ranges or hunting, trapping, or fishing in accordance with the Wildlife Code or the Fish and Aquatic Life Code.

which implies there are at least some situations in which it is legal for a 17 year old to possess and possibly transport a rifle.

EDIT: Here's a summary I just found:

> Minimum Age to Purchase & Possess in Illinois

> Illinois prohibits any person under age 18 from possessing a handgun. State law also prohibits any person from knowingly transferring a handgun to any person under age 18. However, Illinois also prohibits any person from knowingly transferring a firearm to any person who does not hold a FOID card. To obtain a FOID card, an individual must be over 21 years of age or have the written consent of his or her parent or legal guardian to possess and acquire any firearms and ammunition. Further, the parent or legal guardian must not be prohibited from obtaining a FOID card. Persons under age 21 also do not qualify for a FOID card if they have been convicted of a misdemeanor (other than a traffic offense) or adjudged delinquent.

from https://www.ichv.org/legislation/illinois-state-gun-laws/

Which says Illinois prohibits minors from owning pistols, but also says if they have the appropriate FOID card then they can own things-other-than-pistols.
fwiw I was paying twice as much for my rx's until I brought how expensive they were with my doctor and he said to check GoodRx. I may be naive, but I had no idea the different prices pharmacies charge. I ended up getting a 450 mg Rx split into two 300 mg and 150 mg rx's as it was cheaper (the 300 was actually cheaper than the 150). I agree that this is a terrible system and needs to be fixed, but GoodRx did save me money.
He likes his platforms to be so open he openly said he doesn't care about porting his game store to Linux.
> Does Spotify control one of the two major music platforms and use that control to require artists to use only their music service (via exclusives)?

Exclusives aren't mandatory. The artists get paid extra for that and can decline it if they want to.

> And can you explain how I am using Spotify on my iPhone if Apple is "forcing" users to only use Apple Music ?

The analogy to "their music service" is Apple requiring iPhone users to use exclusively their iOS app store.
> Switzerland operates on an entirely private insurance model.

Switzerland probably isn't a good example, they're the second most expensive healthcare system in the world, right after America.
That would introduce a level of red-tape that would make any bureaucrat faint. Can you imagine billing any company for the cost of government services directly? Billing for the “rule-of-law”? That would be a completely unworkable system.

Plus, if you did this, what would stop the company from increasing their percentage in order to pay for your new taxes?

But what you’re describing is the logic behind a progressive income tax. The more money you make — the more important the system (rule of law, security, etc) becomes to you, so the more you should pay. At least, that’s the theory...
The drug price changed, independent of your usage of the coupon. In my experience, I have used GoodRx for years and paid the same price always.
The legal proceeding terrified IBM to the point the PC became an open system, so they definitely had a market effect.

The MS case was different, but some elements are similar (use of private APIs; ability to choose default apps which is still not complete in iOS), and some are things MS never dreamt they could do.
I am not sure why this fallacy continues to be repeated in every Apple thread. Apple currently has 46% US market share [1] and 14% global market share [2]. This is far from monopoly power.

By contrast, Microsoft had 95% market share during their antitrust suit. [3]

[1] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...

[2] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-smartphone-share...

[3] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=179876183890909...
There's openstreetmap and Here maps (used to be Navteq).

Push messaging would be the trickiest thing to replace, because every app backend that pushes needs to be able to push to all the push services (or do their own long connect/periodic polling), which could be a lot of services to integrate if there's not a manufacturer consensus.

If the SDK forks, that's even more diversity in the system, but Android is already super diverse so...
The iPhone had PWAs (under a different name) before it had the App Store though.

I'd wager most App Store apps on the iPhone could be ported-over to PWA and retain 90% of their functionality - and people would still buy the iPhone.

Looking at my Settings > Screen Time history for the past week, these are the apps I use the most (in no particular order) and how I feel they would work as a PWA:

1. Microsoft iOS Remote Desktop Client: this could be a PWA with a WebSocket+<canvas>-based interaction surface.

2. Twitter: there's nothing I use in the iOS native app that can't be done in their web-app.

3. Google Maps: I think I'd be okay if I had to use the built-in Apple Maps instead.

4. Telegram / WhatsApp / Slack etc: Apps like these can't be used offline anyway, so being PWAs web-apps is also fine. As Slack is an Electron App (on Windows at least) then porting it over to a PWA is straightforward.

5. Authy / Google Authenticator / Azure Authenticator: I'll admit this is one that can't be done properly as a PWA right now because there's no way to reliably and securely persist client-side secrets.

6. Star Walk: this is one that can't be PWA: while the 3D world can be rendered in a WebGL <canvas>, it needs a large offline data cache and PWAs can only store 50MB presently (and that's 50MB as text, not binary data).

Most of the other apps I use are Apple's own or built-in to the device (iWork, Notes, Camera, iMessage, Mail, etc).

As for games: I stopped buying and installing iOS games on my phone and iPad a few years ago because there's no way to reliably download and "keep" games and apps you've bought indefinitely (e.g. as IPA files). Once a publisher removes an app or game from the App Store and you've removed it from your phone then you're SOL - you will get a refund if you contact iTunes Customer Support, but I view games as art - and the idea for a games publisher to unilaterally prevent me from accessing content I've paid for is horrible and reeks of Orwell's Memory Hole.

(Besides games-as-art that I've bought... and lost, the only other types of games I see in the stores are crass freemium bollocks - and I won't let myself get hooked on that business model).

(I think the last game I ever got from the App Store was "Rainbrow" ( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rainbrow/id1312458558 ) - which was an experimental game using the then-new iPhone X's face detection camera where you move a character on-screen using your eyebrows - that was almost 3 years ago).
> What are you talking about? Epic can price their product however they want. Why do you think Youtube Premium costs more on iOS than on any other platform?

As far as I understand this is something Google was specifically allowed to do because their nature as streaming service. E.g most of companies are not allowed to sell subscription or app options for 30% extra on iOS and make it possible to pay for them on their own website for normal price.
I'm using a 2018 model-year Samsung 4k smart TV. I'm pretty sure it's running Tizen OS and it's surprisingly good. I'm doing sound out via ARC to a Sonos Beam in a 5.0 with the IKEA/Sonos speakers as rears. So far my only complaint is that the Tizen Plex app doesn't play nice with DTS audio even though the TV has a native DTS decoder.
Here is a list of lightweight alternatives for Electron: electrino, neutralino, Quark, Ultralight, Miniblink, Deskgap, WebWindow, litehtml, cztomsik/graffiti, yue, nodegui.
Those are security restrictions.

Allowing apps to send SMS exposes users (think: kids) to all sorts of headaches such as auto-signing them up for premium content. And Apple has no mechanism to prevent this other than blocking the APIs entirely.

And you can use a third party browser engine. You just can't be dynamically compiling code at runtime which is needed for JIT Javascript. Being able to do this defeats the purpose of having an app curation process.
The difficulty for me is that my TV doesn’t have enough HDMI inputs (LG B7). I use 7 through my yahamah receiver, but have struggled to get ARC (audio from the TV through the sound system) to do-exist with also also having everything else go through the receiver.
There should actually be a big market for formal verification tools: malicious users can use them to find and exploit buggy contracts.

I imagine this will happen after the low-hanging fruit (the front-runners described in this article) is gone.

Providing formal security proofs may be forever out of reach, but if the tools get expressive eventually it'll be a battle of who can throw the most CPU at the solver, to the point where no cost incentive remains.

Either way, it will spur developers to use these tools before their attackers do.
>Fair point but that’s largely due to security not Apple’s desire to lockout other browsers

Lol, if I remember correctly Microsoft also used the "security" angle to defend their monopolistic behavior too.
I just compiled tensorflow on amd epyc and had no idea https://github.com/oneapi-src/oneDNN was actually MKL... now Im wondering if I even am getting all that power
What would be a poor man's reliable test to see whether acceleration is actually in use or not? If you could just reliably switch it on and off the difference should be obvious in top, possibly by switching to threads view by pressing H (instead of the processes default). But if you cannot, there is nothing to compare.
"I have an Apple TV 4K, which can do 4K Dolby Vision playback and looks ok, but the Apple TV tends to have some jittering when streaming certain shows (very noticeable in panning shots of animation)."

How don't more people complain about this? I avoid streaming on the Apple TV because it does some sort of bizarre framerate thunking that is just brutal for panning. Do so few people use the product that it just goes unnoticed?

My LG 4K TV has fantastic Netflix, Prime, and Disney+ clients. HDR, 4K, etc.
Sadly, Wikipedia's been controlled by a whole number of wackos with megaphones for years. I wouldn't trust them to fact check my big toe.
Sounds like you could maybe use git-annex on it for that? (I use rsync (via "FolderSync") on the android-based onyx boox max, so as soon as I turn on wifi it pushes to one of my personal boxes (internal format is a hideous sqlite-based thing, but after the third round of updates they generate competent PDFs so I just push those) - sounds like on this I'd also just use rsync from an ifup script or something...)
Switzerland also enjoys some of the best health outcomes, though. Unlike America, Switzerland has the highest average life expectancy, the lowest infant mortality, some of the best cancer outcomes, and respiratory illness outcomes. Switzerland is an often used example because they actually get something for what they pay, unlike America.

https://www.rd.com/article/switzerland-worlds-best-healthcar...

The US pays more for less. Switzerland pays more for more. Canada pays less for adequate. Singapore, however, earns the distinction of paying less for more: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/infographics/most-efficie...
Interesting, I wonder why the insurance companies would let someone else undercut them.

I was partly going by information from this pharmacist:

https://youtu.be/bUVbX3-gOWc
Valve was introducing a new kind of an experience with their store, because there were no digital stores for games before that (that were actually used; because no doubt someone in the comments will point out to some obscure digital game store that existed at that time, but no one has heard of or used).

Valve was not fighting an existing store using "stores are bad" as an argument, only to introduce another store. Which is exactly what Epic is doing here.
I’m saying that selling costumes and Carlton dances at zero marginal cost and loot boxes is not the hill to die on. If every game that had micro transactions for consumables disappeared tomorrow, nothing of value would be lost.
Sidewalk Delivery Robots: An Introduction to Technology and Vendors
They have exceptions for few kind of products and this is exactly where Apple policy become some controversial. Since they also allow video streaming, but banned game streaming apps.
Back in the days of compiling MySQL myself, it was worth doing. But at some point They hardware cluster was not identical, and so I scripted builds and each machine built its own.
I seriously doubt it but I guess we'll never know.
The law (Sherman Act) does actually say that “Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize ... any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony.” The test you mentioned is basically an attempt to explain the meaning of this contentious word “monopolize.”
How’d you get that out of the article? I read it as scores the board, you’re getting better quality at a lower bit-rate. They talked about being able to serve 1080p at the same bitrate they were serving 720p (where they talked about mobile devices).
Personally, I think "X people are Y characteristic" is racist whether X is Black, White, Asian, Jewish, American Indian or anything else, and whether Y is good or bad. The definition should be symmetric.
How Does GPS Work?
Oh great, so we'll solve the problem of insurmountable complexity by putting another layer of complexity on top that is supposed to understand the first layer of complexity for us.
Justify "largely", please.

I don't think Apple has demonstrated more commitment to "building secure devices" than to "building a tightly walled garden to maximize leverage over developers and users".

Edit: grammar
you can easily remap keys with PowerToys...

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
I just stopped caring, bought a Blu-Ray drive, which works fine under Linux nowadays and can enjoy 30Mbps FHD-encodings where I can just hit pause and have a photo-like still (everything sharp, no blocky shadows). Oh and yes, I also can buy 2 discs/per month of actual good movies I really want to watch (who has time for more than that anyway?) for what Netflix would like to charge me...
Take a look at the number of Western European startups and companies being acquired by China already. What the Western governments don't have are bottomless pockets of cash ripe for acquisitions. Instead the only tool they have are hostile regulations against foreign acquisitions. Even then, the allure of money is strong and the Chinese seem to find ways to extract technology, one way or the other.
In defense of the IPO, and how to improve it
Yeah either way. The playing field should be level.
Why is punitive electricity shutoff a thing at all, let alone in a pandemic? Losing A/C or a fridge’s worth of food can be a death sentence for some people who are on the edge, or more commonly push them over into homelessness. Same goes for water. Society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable. Liens can be placed on houses, collections can be done other ways, or we can just forgive and forget. The taxpayer built the grids, and in many places subsidises generation. We don’t have to be cruel.
Boeing’s Starliner Makes Progress Ahead of Flight Test with Astronauts
Its pretty obvious democrats are planning to make a mess with mail in ballots so no one knows the election results. Just watch.
> From just a cursory inspection using my Apple TV 4K

I'm confused, how are you getting this information? Does Apple TV have a way to display the bitrate ceiling?

Also, do you find the bitrate differences noticeable? On my 4k tv, I find Netflix looks pretty good, but Amazon looks pretty bad and HBO Now is awful of course (no Max yet, since I use a Roku.) This might be enough to get me to check out AppleTV+.
Supposedly drug companies according to this pharmacist around 5 min mark:

https://youtu.be/bUVbX3-gOWc

I am not sure either, but I can’t figure out what other play there is than selling data.
It seems clear like this is state sponsored, but why would the government go to such lengths? It's too risky, especially for the agent traveling to the US.

It doesn't make sense to me, unless Russia really doesn't give a shit about its government employees nor its public image
No need to develop and alternative when you can trick MKL into not crippling AMD: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/How-To-Use-MKL-with-AM...

Edit: the link I posted follows Agner's advice from the bottom of OPs link. However I think the extra information that it adds is that Zen2 Threadrippers outpaced then-current Intel's top contender. Once Zen3 and Intel's 11th Gen become available, repeating this benchmarks would be very valuable.
If you don't know who Miguel de Icaza is, read this first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza

It will put his thoughts (and those of uninformed commenters) in a very different perspective.
I also have a 4K LG TV and “frame rate thunking” is the perfect term to describe it.

I wish it would just give the direct output to the TV and receiver (video audio). No idea why they the need to process it all on device.
Terraform Feature Flags and Environment Toggle Design Patterns
I would presume so as well. If Apple loses their case, I imagine we will see big changes in many platforms. I would also posit... much higher prices for hardware[1] to make up for the "income gap" too, presumably.

[1]: hard to image game consoles being sold at a loss if they couldn't make it up in fees on the other side.
It's amazing to think that so much of the future we imagined decades ago (flying cars, robots, jetpacks, maybe even leisure space travel) might be here if energy weren't an issue. If there's ever a 10x breakthrough in battery tech (today's performance with 10x the energy density), I'd bet the world would change pretty quickly. Even a 2x breakthrough.
You can also get Blu-rays from Netflix if you watch more. The real costly thing for this approach is tv though, isn't it?
I agree with this, but it doesn't make sense to eject him at this point in time if that was the case. So the decision to leave must have been from Kevin.
> Can someone who's on Apple's side here elaborate on why they think the outcome for consumers would be worse if they're forced to loosen some of their restrictions?

I don’t see why this is relevant. Apple runs a business. If you force it to walk away from income sources, you could just as well force any other company to do the same. So even if consumers would win, how would it justify the enforcement?

I win if I get your car. Now what?

(I’m on neither side.)