skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think that depends on how acceptable you think it is to censor based on the Islamic religion

Let me give you an example: It is acceptable to enforce the rule that laws cannot favor Islam. It is not acceptable to enforce that Muslim individuals cannot hold positions in government.

The first is discrimination based on content, the second is discrimination based on, let's call it character.
The probability isn't zero though. It's very small, but it's not infinitely unlikely. I mean, what if he accidentally made 10 times the amount by luck and then had a stroke that changed his personality so he decided to pay out?
So I don't understand, any space farer who takes this route will be sued for patent infringement?

Lol. I'm going to patent a driving route to Walmart. I'll be rich.
i think the reason would be that with browsers they don't control the ecosystem enough to get away with it. I actually agree with the ban if your framing is correct (not having looked into it any further), but if they did this in chrome, people would just use another browser to access these sites. you can sideload apps as well of course, but it's much more of a hassle than doing it on PC, where people are used to software distribution not being as centralized
It was the down payment on the house in this case. And was actually a lot more than $12k. It has to be a wire transfer since checks take so long to clear and the title can't transfer with that uncertainty.

My advice to anyone buying or selling is to get the attorney's phone number from a known good source in advance, and call them to verify the wiring instructions before submitting. Also compare the bank account name down to the character with the real one (although I don't know how hard it is fake this). Your bank should read off the bank account info you're sending to before you give the confirmation to proceed.
Currently, Epic’s existing users on iOS are able to make in-app purchases without paying Apple’s 30% fee, which is literally saving them an expense. They are better off than before. Epic being blocked from issuing updates may eventually make them worse off (and it makes prospective new users worse off).
And biological life has been doing... what exactly?
Hopefully something more useful but the point is that nobody wants to be the administration that created 10%+ unemployment overnight and the ensuing ripples.
Sure Origin was a failure, but that much of one?
Anyone remembers "only on Origin".
For anyone else landing on this: it’s currently 22 minutes past the published event start time and it still hasn’t started. It’s not just you.
Apple had less than 5% of the desktop market. At some point in the 90s Apple was going bankrupt quickly! MS had to step in and invest in Apple so that it wouldn't close down leaving MS as the only company in the personal computer OS market.
Elementary OS on Pinebook Pro
Game design (whether computer or even board games) is a valuable topic to learn even if you never make a real game. If you make any kind of thing that people use, learning a little about how to think like a game designer can help you make things that are more rewarding and pleasant to use.

One way to think of videogames is that they are useless software. Imagine a word processor that couldn't save or print files. Or a compiler that didn't generate executables that ran on any machine but your own. Why would anyone ever use such a pointless thing?

Well, games are in many ways exactly that. They don't really touch any part of the outside world or produce anything materially useful. They're self contained. So why do people sink time into them even though they can't get anything tangible in return? It's because the process of using the software itself—playing the game—is so intrinsically enjoyable.

If you can learn a little bit of that and apply it to software that does do something useful, you can end up with the kind of programs that build devoted fanbases.
Wow! Those optimized encodings look really good.
Yeah which is why I buy coffee in the morning with Ethereum right?
A Mastodon toot has reached the front page of Hacker News for the first time
Is he in Auckland? If it's my GP I'll take it up with him for ya :P
I don't think that is the full truth. Everyone in the industry seems to see goodrx as dishonest and they all state the same story similar to this recent one from reddit[0].

In my personal experience, the goodrx "coupon" for my drug was $30. Sure enough, at the pharmacy, I was charged $30. But if I use the same coupon the next month, the price is magically $57. I could print out a new coupon every time, but the process with the pharm tech to change to a different "drug card" (which is what they see it as) is nearly a 5 minute process. By contrast, my state offers their own group drug card, and the charge is usually around $45. It might go up or down by a few dollars every 6 months, but that is it.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/ih4ziy/e...
> why on earth would I store my data on there, encrypted or otherwise? Why would I want random people carrying out business critical computation for me?

Well, I am working in big old industry outside the USA and we just bought a data ingestion solution from... Palantir! The NSA company which is basically a spy arm of the US government.

If it saves a buck, companies will do way dumber things than move to blockchain in an instant.

Also, storing data on the BTC or ETH chains isn't economically feasible - there are chains especially for that and usually, you just store the SHA-256 hash of your data on chain to prove authenticity while storing the data off-chain.
Of all the non-FAANG gaming companies Riot is the one that most closely operates like a tech giant to me (with the exception of maybe Epic Games)

They have an incredibly robust M&A division, have mastered land + expand with their esports, are putting down roots in pretty much every major gaming category, and have modern monetization practices down to a tee.

Excluding the clearly egregious cultural issues, I would be fairly confident in betting on Riot in the long term
Do you have to pay to join?
> Epic is not allowed to recoup its own costs for the higher App Store cost by increasing their product cost by 30%

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?
This is utter nonsense.

Trump and his followers are rampant on Facebook. It's an absolute cesspool.

The mainstream media, is Fox. They are mainstream, they are boastfully 'the most watched' Rush Limbaugh has an enormous listening base. Alex Jones up until recently commanded a huge user base. People are getting 'cancelled' for making terrible comments. Sexist, racist, largely inappropriate comments. People, especially minorities (women, gay, race) are sick of it. They're sick of laughing nervously and pretending it didn't happen. I'm a 30-something white dude, I'm sick of it.

CNN has people like Rick Santorum on to spew his filth. I was just watching Meet The Press on MSNBC and they let Jason Miller sit and lie for a few minutes.

Twitter/modern meidums where youth is the primary audience, where they are not getting traction isn't due to censorship. Few among younger generations subscribe to Trump's brand of insults and division. The religion pandering, the science denying. They're not buying it,

The victim mentality here is infuriating. It's no more censorship than OAN not giving air time to climate scientists.
Just like Apple holds a gun to developer’s heads to develop for the iOS.

Epic is at least bringing the joy of console exclusives to the desktop. Innovative!
The men work non stop. Woman are all stay at home.
This criticism reminds me a bit of one of my least favorite interview questions I've had: what was your most creative solution to a problem? I found it awkward because creativity tends to be what we recognize in others rather than ourselves. If I came up with a solution I probably wouldn't consider it that creative.

Of course I still made something up.
>I would add "fake news" to hate speech.

What are you doing? Are you trying to ban speech you don't like? What body determines what is "fake news" and "hate speech"? It can't be done, which is why the only sane policy is free speech.

We have laws against violence, and it's a very clear line.
ChromeOS is Linux.
I didn't delete it. We don't delete anything on HN unless the user who posted it asks us to.

I did mark it [dupe], which is short for 'duplicate', because it's the same story as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24309632. We don't want two different threads about the same story, because it leads to split discussions and because there are so few slots on the front page.

In such cases, we pick one of the threads to be the main discussion and merge comments from the other one into it. I picked https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24309632 because it was posted earlier than yours, and also because it seems to link to a more substantive article.
Trump just negotiated a peace deal between Israel and UAE and the tired old Nazi trope is still being paraded out.

Trump's son in law is Jewish.

Your ignorance is astounding, but not surprising given the level of propaganda that's out there today.

Conservatives are regularly attacked, marginalized, deplatformed, intimidated, shot at, and baselessly called all sorts of things when they pretty much just stand for family, God, and loyalty to the country and ideals of individual freedom. There are over 100 million Americans that identify as conservative and you are spewing hate speech about them right now. You've flattened an extremely large diverse group of individuals into your caricature viewpoint. I recommend you apply some empathy and go and try to learn from them. Ask them why they think the way they do. It might surprise you.
It's a little on the nose, but I would absolutely watch a TV series based on this concept.
That is a provably false claim.

Podcasts - Overcast, PocketCasts, etccc

Music - Spotify, Rhapsody, Amazon Music

Books - Kindle.

Maps - Google Maps

Mail - Gmail, Yahoo Mail

...
What you are looking for is called visual testing or visual regression testing, and would immediately flag such a difference between platforms. It's widely available and there are even services dedicated entirely to it.

https://saucelabs.com/platform/visual-testing

https://chromatic.com

https://diffy.website

And a ton more: https://lmgtfy.com/?q=visual+diff+testing
> They _cant'_ be corrupted, because a combination of incentives and cryptography keep everyone safe.

I would like this to be right but then I ran into

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3197300

which discusses economic limitations to the incentives for blockchain mining. (One part is that if a cryptocurrency gets too valuable, the value of a double-spend attack could exceed some models of the reward for honest mining. Another part is that if you have unregulated derivatives, you can own a negative amount of cryptocurrency, which means that your financial incentive can be to actively damage the cryptocurrency rather than helping it. Satoshi's paper seems to assume that you can only own a positive or zero amount of bitcoin rather than a negative amount, when arguing why miners are incentivized to be honest.)

(This is also true for the ability to short, or insure, any asset -- you can be financially incentivized to damage it -- but elsewhere this incentive is partly countered by law enforcement investigations of some trades and insurance claims where people profited significantly from accidents, disasters, or scandals. Smart contracts on blockchains let us build insurance and derivatives markets where you can bet against things without identifying yourself. In fact the whole underlying discussion here is about how the person who claimed this particular asset in Ethereum is anonymous and probably can't be punished for doing so, even if we believed that the claimant wasn't entitled to make this claim. That could be equally true if the person were collecting an insurance contract payout. That's potentially fine if contracts can't create new incentives to cause harm, but maybe not so awesome if they can.)
> This is just an attempt to shut down the operations that catch pedos as a step towards normalizing it.

No, this article exposes Net Nanny as an entrapment scheme that imprisoned a 20-year-old man for meeting a 24-year-old police officer. The ethics of Net Nanny are as questionable as the ethics of privately owned prisons, since Net Nanny focuses on maximizing convictions from situations it haphazardly creates, rather than solving real child sexual abuse cases.
The value proposition in my head is you can pseudo-anonymously transfer any amount of value for almost no fee across any border to anyone else in the network within minutes. The implementation details aren’t great (energy wastage) but it is a working MVP of that imo.
Yeah, it supports ivars just fine. Computing byte offsets for each ivar was a pain the butt. By default it will use the field's name as the ivar name. You can rename the ivar by using #[objrs(ivar, name = "whatever")] on the ivar. You can also pass an expression to be used to construct the ivar and give it a default value.

Documentation for the various macros is at [1], which includes a number of small examples. There's a larger demo[2] that uses Metal to render an interactive image. There are also framework bindings for some common frameworks (I want to add bindings for all of Apple's frameworks, but I need finish the rewrite first). Those bindings include some uses of ivars on extern classes too[3].

[1]: https://gitlab.com/objrs/objrs/blob/master/DOCUMENTATION.md

[2]: https://gitlab.com/objrs/objrs/-/tree/master/demo

[3]: https://gitlab.com/objrs/objrs/-/blob/master/frameworks/foun...
The thing that I take away from this is that this could be indicative of a shift away from the modern concept of university and towards a strengthening of the old master-apprentice models of learning.
His point is that it’s like saying “Coke has a monopoly on the sale and distribution of Coke.”
This is true, and perhaps consumers in those areas should have more control over the choices that business provides. National corporations with local monopolies are often the least critiqued anti-consumer actor.
Is there any other example in the industry where you can not install and use an application without approval of the operating system creator and maintainer?
I think that the word "clearly" isn't so obvious as you seem to think.
I'm not personally familiar with those, but seems like BLAS, SCALAPACK, & others are also available:

https://developer.amd.com/amd-aocl/
To the big tech cartel, period. Don't think for one second that Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Adobe, and their friends aren't having one big handshake party over this kind of crap.
Toot: https://qoto.org/@freemo/104765288863293481
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24304275
Well, the history is a bit different. LoL was created as a clone from Dota (Defense of the Ancients) mod for Warcraft 3. So, DOTA 2 is a continuation of that story and Blizzard basically recreated the mod into a standalone game and called it DOTA 2.

I do agree with the sentiment though. The community is definitively not n00b friendly and I gave up soon as well :S
>Last week, I said there's a 100% chance there's a US (or western) company behind the recent internet outage in Belarus

What does that have to do with this thread/headline? "Technology made by X" doesn't seem to equate to "X is behind..."
That’s a false equivalency. A more apt comparison would be if you could only buy a game at GameStop for one year, while all the Best But shoppers weren’t able to buy the game from their preferred retail store.
ELI5?

Edit: Why the downvotes?
I like the idea of this list. I will copy the idea for my own site.

I may tweak the idea by adding "tags" to each name, though.
Do you get the same level of cover when you’re low income?
Robert Putnum has studied this extensively and was considered the domain expert until his results didn't match the ever changing requirements of adherence to political correctness. His work is still out there but even the linked article didn't bother to reference it. His data concluded the wrong thing so now it is to be shoved to the side so everyone can shrug their shoulders and pretend not to see what's at the heart of society's unravelling.
Epic might be painted in a bad light because they’re 40% Tencent owned, and they happen to purposely get banned and sue Apple (in a PR campaign style) shortly after Trump sign an executive order targeting Tencent’s WeChat.

Or people might enjoy being able to use a device without having to worry about viruses and whatnot.. a problem plaguing Windows and slowly starting to affect many Android users as well. And while they might feel comfortable being able to avoid such viruses themselves, then they likely have friends and family that will suffer from it (you might think it’s easy not to install a different App Store, just like you might think it’s easy not to click on phishing links in your mailbox.. but it unfortunately isn’t easy for the average user).

Or people might worry about losing all sorts of privacy as a result of the Apple being forced to open up various parts of their system.
those were all EA titles, so EA had their own publisher exclusive marketplace. Tim Sweeney introduced buying out third-party publishers with exclusivity clauses.

edit: there's a good analogy in another thread -- only being able to buy a Nintendo game at GameStop and not Best Buy.
They also screwed a cool little tower on top of the CPU and are wearing a Doom helmet. Don't under represent their mastery.
It certainly has the makings of a good idea.

There are lots of questions around compensation equality (i.e. the big companies get richer, the poor get charged more) but something besides the blanket 30% rule based on some metric sounds feasible to me
Sure, if only Apple would itemize the support costs, developers could see how much support each position on the slider will earn us. Surely this won’t reveal that it’s almost pure profit.
China blamed for Canada’s multimillion-dollar coronavirus vaccine deal collapse
Sometime over a year ago, I finally got tired of medium's shenanigans, so I threw together a Q&D TemperMonkey script to just remove the temptation.

It's nothing complex, just looks for links to medium.com and removes them from the page.

https://gist.github.com/RichardVasquez/5d46ffe01053162562a79...
Updated 3:30 PST start time (https://twitter.com/futurejurvetson/status/12994675672374599...).
What do you think AMP is a prelude to?
Silence is not the opposite of violence. Peace is the opposite of violence.

I interpret the quote "silence is violence" to mean by not speaking out against violence, you implicitly support or contribute to it. People may disagree if this is true, but it certainly doesn't feel Orwellian.
Posted in its own thread:

Kludgeocracy in America (2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24310523
I hate to be that guy but you are vastly underestimating the challenge of formally verifying these software systems. Blockchains are highly adversarial, open source, and doing a lot of innovation. Innovation which means that nobody has ever tried to verify that type of system before.

Model checkers can tell you thinks like 'there are no underflows' and 'these two pieces of code are identical', but if you want to know whether there is no arbitrage or front-running, you're well past the capabilities of the state of the art. It's not merely a matter of spending $500k on CI and auditing.

And then you've got a separate issue, which is that the space is super competitive and moves extremely fast. If you spend 6 weeks getting your new contract audited, you may well miss the window where people will care about the project you launched. I don't think this is a healthy culture, but it is one that many teams are trying to compete in. And therefore they ARE willing to bet millions of dollars without taking any time to audit, because the expected value of deploying faster is higher than the expected value of deploying more safely.

For projects that are comfortable moving more slowly, formal verification IS a big focus, and the cryptocurrency industry has been a material driving force in many security related technologies such as reproducible builds (Gitian), reproducible bootstrapping (Guix), and software verification methodologies.
I know the beginning of the story, I played the ur-original DotA the UMS map for W3 (and even earlier UMS variants of the concept for vanilla StarCraft/SCBW) :). But I somehow missed the existence of DOTA 2.
Laws are technical document, and as I keep saying, legally a company does not need to be a monopoly to get the law to interfere against it. IIRC, the test in the US is "market power" + "harm to customer welfare", and there's a good case to be made that Apple meets it.

Apple is not forcing anyone to write iOS apps, Microsoft and IBM did not force anyone either. Still, the law acted, because anti-competitive market behaviour is illegal.
Does Spotify control one of the two major mobile phone platforms and use that control to require all their users to use only their music service?
I found XUL kind of cryptic and round-about. Maybe its philosophy somehow paid off in the longer run, but it's not newbie-friendly, discouraging fiddlers and experimentation.

And Java damaged its client-side reputation via the Applet fiasco. Namely over-extending itself by trying to be an entire virtual OS, and not paying enough attention to security.

Lessons from these: K.I.S.S., don't drift from mission, and security matters.
I'm sure you can find some exceptional abuse of vernacular out there, but the term was coined for something else and in this thread you are alone in using it this way...
Those numbers are incredible. It’s amazing how much fat there is to skim in the pharmacy benefits scamola^Wbusiness.
I'm not american.
This essay is both extremely poignant and nearly unintelligible, which is a vibe.
> the same people will talk about meticulous cold storage key exchanges with someone always being there to watch, driving into the desert for bootstrapping secrets, and then for their actual operations, deploy unverified contracts

Although they, or their predecessors, didn't necessarily do the former in the first few years of Bitcoin. Lots of exchanges, including the very biggest, were compromised and robbed.

Maybe there's a cycle where particularly terrible outcomes help to create a new consensus on basic safety precautions.
I think the proper statement is that it's possible, but not efficient. Learning go from a go-program seems much like learning assembly from gcc.
> Apple said it was "assessing the new law". It remains silent on its progress. When will it finish?

The answer is never. Apple knows that China accounts towards 1/3 of its revenue [0], thus it will cost them significantly if they acted against China and its government; even when they (CCP) can also be in the wrong. (No comments about the security law in Hong Kong or the unequal treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang).

On other issues closer to home but on the same topic, it costs them virtually nothing. Therefore they will get behind any virtue signalling opportunity at no cost to their enterprise.

If you apply the nonsense of "silence is complicit" logic in Apple's stance against discrimination: It is good in China but bad in US.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/apple-grew-in-china-with-rec...