skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took a watch. Honestly, it's lazy and dumb. The siloing of modern social-media justifies the behavior of Cernovic and his ilk? There is genuine propaganda being actively promoted by malign actors in our media ecosystem, but Cernovic tries to use this as an excuse for his malign promotion of propaganda and misinformation.

That movie is by and for Mike Cernovic's existing audience. It was crowd funded by his audience, produced by his production company, and promoted on far-right websites where he contributes. The producers and directors appear to be mostly info-wars style far-right propagandists. Event the glowing IMDB reviews describe it as "preaching to the choir".

The project of Hoaxed is to create false equivalency between the misdeeds of the larger media industry, and the specific business model of promoting far-right misinformation that people like Cernovic engage in.

edit: I broadly agree with this guys take on the movie [1], which he expresses at greater length and clarity than I am presently able.

[1] https://lawrenceserewicz.wordpress.com/2020/04/16/initial-re...
No, not multiple dots in a row. They still have to be between two non-dot characters.

Two dots in the email instead of one:

j.o.hndoe@gmail.com
j.oh.ndoe@gmail.com
j.ohn.doe@gmail.com
j.ohnd.oe@gmail.com
j.ohndo.e@gmail.com
jo.h.ndoe@gmail.com
...
johnd.o.e@gmail.com
Precisely, so why does this matter to the point at hand?
I was searching for their revenue model. Here is what page 21 of S1 says:

"To date, the vast majority of our revenue has been .. derived from our prescription offering. When a consumer uses a GoodRx code to fill a prescription and saves money compared to the list price at that pharmacy, we receive fees from our partners, primarily PBMs. Revenue from our prescription offering represented 97% and 94% of our revenue for 2018 and 2019, respectively, and 95% and 91% for the first half of 2019 and 2020, respectively."
Tribalism, sunk-cost etc.

If this discussion was on Reddit or similar is would probably more one-sided both due to the number of people who play games and the proportionally lower amount of people who have spent a lot of money on Apple products than on HN (accidental humblebraggging regarding your credit card bill seems relatively prevalent here)
All 4 of the Bitrate vs Video Quality graphs have two 1920x1080 data points on each line. All four graphs show the data points lower on the Video Quality axis under the optimized ladder.

Sure, the first graph shows 1080p at higher quality for lower bitrate to the 720p on the optimized ladder, but if I'm resolution-limited (on a phone) and Netflix isn't streaming higher quality and downsampling on the device, the changes here show that my perception of quality will suffer. (I feel for folks stuck with a 720p screen, if they're just streaming native resolution it looks like they'll be getting worse than previous 480p quality levels.)
In Ontario Canada, you can be disconnected from electricity and Water, and they will disconnect it without mercy, on time, but only not during the winter months for obvious reasons that you could kill people.
Signal doesn't auto-sign up kids for premium content. Firefox doesn't run local apps.

If these were actually security restrictions then they would be privileging their own applications by waiving them for themselves, which is just as bad. Meanwhile in practice the effects of these "security restrictions" rather than rules against apps taking the bad behavior you're actually objecting to are suspiciously convenient for them -- their users can't switch to Chrome and it gives iMessage a larger network effect, and keeps people on iPhones when their friends have iPhones because they're all using iMessage rather than Signal or Whatsapp etc.
Interesting. When I've checked GoodRX, Walgreens and CVS have had much worse GoodRx prices than grocery stores or Walmart. I can't see it driving foot traffic to them - it led me away from them!
The cruelty is the point.

The US is a country where farmers destroy food while people go hungry. It’s a country where houses sit empty for months while people go homeless. It’s a country where one person amassed $200 billion while millions of others have to ration their life sustaining medications because they can’t afford to pay for them.

The economic system is totally unfit for purpose and the values system is completely inverted, valuing channeling wealth to the already wealthy while punishing those who aren’t every step they take.
Or, you know, you could get multiple companies working together. Why does it have to be a single company?
OTOH, my wife's MBP was on the backseat of her car when another driver hit the back of her car at high speed, totalling both cars. Her car's trunk and backseat were compressed into about 70 cm.

The computer survived with one scratch to one of its corners.
The part where he took a gun he doesn’t legally own, drove to another state, and inserted himself into a tense situation because he was itching to shoot someone.
Copying a previous comment of mine, because this is an important issue and also not a surprise to anyone who's been paying a modicum of attention (the comment was originally in response to someone who characterized those who have their water turned off in the US as "choosing to live a lifestyle" beyond their means):

They really don't choose to "live a different lifestyle". It is simply the case that water, one of the basic necessities for life, is not readily available to many low-income Americans. Water access is routinely turned off or simply not available [0, 1, 2, 3] for those who can't pay or who are unlucky enough to live in certain areas. It is another example of the rampant wealth inequality [4] and degradation of social support [5] that been worsening in the US for decades [6, 7, 8]

[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/....

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52384622

[2] https://time.com/longform/clean-water-access-united-states/

[3] https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/4/17/21223565/coronaviru....

[4] https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-soc-0....

[5] https://people.umass.edu/crotty/Austerity_War.pdf

[6] https://www.nber.org/chapters/c7443.pdf

[7] http://www.macrohistory.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HSCF_....

[8] https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/708815
That's the entire state of computer science. Over time, strong systems become black box tools for more complex systems.
I love posts like this!

The life dashboard is a good idea. I dont think notion will do it for me but maybe something will. That tool is still out there.

The Evernote email thing is a good feature. Maybe OneNote has the same thing?

Im an Android user and will try to use Google Assistant in the same manner as you do.
I guess I just don't see why they should be required to support those other things. I agree that they could do that, but I don't see the reason to force them to. They created what they wanted because they didn't like the current offerings at the time–Epic or anyone else is free to do the same.
You mean like nbdev?
How?

We are talking about a scenario where cryptocurrency become prominent enough that people would be trading with it. Governments and financial institutions can only control the on- and off-ramps from fiat to crypto. So now the US can claim to a quarter billion USD from North Korea [0], but what about a scenario where your assets are just numbers in a ledger that no one can control and these fiat ramps simply are irrelevant?

You want to talk about Governments trying to make it illegal? That is debatable, but a better argument. You want to make the argument that States and Institutions will create their own blockchains with backdoors so that they can override it? That is possible (or actually implemented if you look at Ripple), but that will be no real disruption of the existing global financial system.

I fail to see how "Governments will allow it as it is, but control it" is a possibility, though.

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielcassady/2020/08/27/feds-m...
Ask HN: How to transfer ownership of a software product?
After maintaining an app[0] for 7 years, I wanted to take it offline. I don't want to maintain now pay for it anymore. I announced that it would go offline in August 2021. A user got in touch with me and offered to take it over.

This wouldn't be a problem if it was just code and a domain, but this app hosts 22000 text notes from 6700 users. Some might contain sensitive information. I do not want to give that data to a stranger.

What would be the best course of action?

[0] http://markdownnotes.com
That's an interesting take. Do you have personal experience that you could share more detail on? Or even more public projects
That also isn’t true. Compaq had to do a clean room implementation so it wouldn’t get sued. The anti-trust suit was dropped in 1983 - around the same time that Compaq reverse engineered the BIOS.

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/how-compaqs-clone-comp...

No one could argue that IBM is any more than a bit player in PCs in 1983.

iMessage is not an “Apple Store app” any more than the phone app. Text messages and phone calls are kind of vital to be called a phone.
I don't know if "selfish" is the word. It's not good business to let your customers starve, or even force them to pay for extra food instead of paying their electric bills.
When the effect of the "security restrictions" is in practice to ban the competing apps while Apple exempts its own apps from the security restrictions, it's the same thing.
Depends. It’s probably easier to get away with it longer at lower levels and some people want to experience that sweet sweet win at whatever level they are in.
I don't know if the remarkable does this, but the onyx boox max 2 has an hdmi input (on some tiny connector.) I've used it from my laptop as a second screen, and displayed emacs and xterm on it. Really need to craft up some kind of bracket to use it as an outdoor primary laptop screen...
I’m sure I remember people saying the same thing about proof of stake 2 – 3 years ago. What’s the hold up?
Has anyone read this text and can comment on how good it is? I've been wanting to learn more about cryptography as a SWE who's mostly only done traditional web apps/microservices.
How is this relevant? Did Microsoft prohibit releasing same hardware with a different OS (like Google does nowadays)?
By disallowing dynamic code execution, Apple does disallow other browsing engines. It does not matter what language Apple uses to disallow other browsing engines, since the effect is the same.
Write explicit type guards
They specifically lowered the price when buying without Apple payment processing.
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Yes, these ones look nice:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/419327415295108149/
I do almost all my heavy lifting on a Lenovo tower under my desk. What it can't do, I use a cloud instance for.
As a dev I feel very passionate about open hardware platforms. I don't really care about epic, but the fact they are taking on this fight regardless of motives makes me very happy.
I haven't done the exact math (I'm sure somebody did, though), but I based on some rough estimates I do believe that for widespread use as currency, trust-based systems beat trustless systems significantly in terms of energy efficiency. Partly because scaling factors - trust scales sublinearly with the number of participants (like average path between two arbitrary vertices in an acyclic graph). PoW energy use scales superlinearly. On top of that, energy use in trust-based systems is upkeep - it's a waste that participants have to pay out of their pocket, so everyone has strong incentives to minimize it. Whereas in PoW systems, energy waste is network security, so the incentive is to maximize it.

"Massive court system with a massive law enforcement arm" doesn't exist just for the large financial institution. It's the baseline, arguably the core piece of social infrastructure. Beyond finances, it serves to protect just about any kind of dealing that involves more than two people. It allows society to coordinate. So if you want to count that in, be sure to limit the scope to just the impact on securing financial deals - otherwise, you'll have to include on the crypto side of the ledger the costs these institutions incur so that crypto developers can spend their days developing financial systems, instead of hunting animals for food with rocks while hiding from the local warlord.
You don’t think it’s a security issue for apps to be able to intercept your text messages?

Of course the OS vendor is going to have privileged access. Do you also want third parties to be able to reprogram the Secure Enclave?
For matrix manipulation based Fortran scientific codes, ifort/MKL can give +30% compared to gfortran. It's difficult to disentangle where the speedup comes from, but certainly as jedbrown aludes to, the Intel compilers seem to make a better go of poorly optimised / badly written code.

For C based software, its a much closer run thing, and often sticking with GCC avoids weird segfaults when mixing Intel and GCC-compiled Linux libraries.
Regulating the kids by banning them completely is like a nuclear bomb in a mineshaft.

It should he easier to stop children spending money on them but equally I don't mind adults spending their money on new things. A new Fortnite skin or dance etc. does have a cost to produce (I am not in favour of PTW-style microtransactions though)
> Then that would be part of essential learning experience (not being locked in to arbitrary applications) —- as important as reading and math.

I'm already sad about the time my son is spending learning about video chat etiquette instead of in-person etiquette or reading and math. Even as an ex-SRE who likes to be n+1 on many things, I can't get excited about kindergarteners spending extra time learning _another_ app. Packaging it as an essential learning experience about vendor lock-in isn't going to change that.
Any better than a CRT?
What requires it to be a larger effect? Your claim was that "browser choice" was ineffective because non-Microsoft browsers lost share, but that's nonsense. Microsoft browsers lost share. That there were multiple reasons for this is no evidence that browser choice didn't work. The thing it was supposed to do happened.
This. It is an intended feature, not a bug, and it's either willfully ignorant, stunningly uninformed, or intentionally malicious to obfuscate this. To whoever reflexively downvoted the parent comment just because it tells an uncomfortable truth about America: your actions are part of the problem.
The Syncopated Geography of Hip-Hop
How do you check for front running? What if your checker tells you that you can't fix it just by changing your own code?
Money quote: "... on an AMD computer then you may set the environment variable MKL_DEBUG_CPU_TYPE=5."

When run on an AMD, any program built with Intel's compiler should have the environment variable set. I don't think there is any downside to leaving it on all the time, unless you are measuring how badly Intel has tried to cripple your AMD performance.
The Apple AI/ML residency program
I’ve also begun using trezor for the same purpose and from security standpoint it is even better. Onscreen pin code is required and a tap on the screen with the exact info on what service is trying to log in.
Sure, Epic's size is absolutely going to be helpful here. But there are other larger companies that could probably make better cases against Apple if they chose to: Amazon and Microsoft come to mind immediately, with Facebook a possibility given the events of just the last couple of days.

I'm not saying Epic is a bad poster child for this case because Epic is a sleazy company (although from all accounts they kind of are); I'm saying they're a bad poster child because their battle is running up a steeper grade.

Are they arguing that Apple's policies make it impossible for them to split money with authors at the same rate on ebooks? No. How about the policies making it impossible for them to give 100% of event ticket sales to their users and impossible for them to even tell users they'll make less money when people buy tickets on iOS? Nope. Maybe they make it impossible for them to put a client for a streaming game service, period, full-stop, even if Apple got a cut of the money? Negatory.

What does Apple's policies make it impossible for Epic to do, then? Get a higher cut of the revenue from Fortnite's game currency when it's bought on iOS. That's what got their developer account terminated. This is the stand they're taking, the flag they have planted, the hill they are ready to die on: that 70% gross profit on zero marginal cost virtual tchotchkes isn't enough.[1]

Maybe this case will be successful, but my suspicion is that if Apple changes their position, it's going to be either due to regulatory pressure or the ever-increasing weight of the rolling PR disaster they're getting themselves into.

[1] Edited to add: As I wrote, I think it's ultimately about them wanting Apple to be forced to allow the Epic Games Store to be installed on iOS through the Apple App Store, but the case they're bringing is still about Fortnite.
Scratched discs.
Sorry, it was meant as rhetorical stupidity.
I just used Vis.js for graph visualization without much tweaking. There is also a graphviz visualizer that is not optimized for being stable [1] vs [2].
I would gladly accept any improvements here! Please reach out if I can help you.

Implementing custom visualizations is super easy! See [3] for a very simple example. If you implement a visualization there, it will be available for all people that use the visualization framework (e.g. extensions for other IDEs), not only this extension.

[1] https://hediet.github.io/visualization/?darkTheme=1&state=XQ...

[2] https://hediet.github.io/visualization/?darkTheme=1&state=XQ...

[3] https://github.com/hediet/visualization/blob/33de54d69624e1d...
Sure but will that fly on today's app store?

Anecdotally, I think a single purchase can also eliminate a feedback mechanism from the players to the designers, in some scenarios.
I think you’re being downvoted because your comment seems, especially in the first two paragraphs, to imply that:

- competent programmers who do a good job write the best code in the shortest amount of time

- more time always leads to worse code (unnecessary abstractions, handling non-existent requirements)

If you do know of programmers who are competent and generally do a good job, you can disprove this claim easily: Have them write a solution to some problem in a given amount of time, then have them spend more time on it.

Often you can see that they actually achieve a “cleaner” solution, including removing unnecessary abstractions.

I do agree with you though that some tech debt is caused by a lack of skills/experience. I guess we could further divide tech debt between intentional (the one I wrote about) and unintentional (the one you seemed to focus on in your comment).
Seems to be the case on Linux for both Netflix and Amazon Prime video for me, I’d cancel both but my mum uses the hell out of them and I watch an iPad in bed occasionally.

It’s kinda annoying though I get the business reasons and all that.

It’s just that it did used to be better and it’s gotten worse over time that really annoys me.
How is Apple not going to “exempt” itself from having privileged access to its own operating system? Signal is not “banned” from the App Store neither is Chrome - they both exist on the App Store.
> I fail to see how "Governments will allow it as it is, but control it" is a possibility, though.

I do not claim that. I believe governments will allow it iff it's in a shape and form they can control. If some features prevent effective oversight, these features will have to be removed for the cryptocurrency to be officially sanctioned.
Probably due to their workplaces using different schemes

e.g. My personal is [firstname].[lastname] and work is [firstinitial][lastname]

If I didn’t use macros I’m sure I’d eventually mix them up too.
Linux containers – a technical introduction (2015)
Woa, I never realized that to compete as an app store on Android you could not sell your competing app store on the Android store itself.
Likewise. Ours instructed us to look up the title agency in the phone book, call that number, and verify the wire details before we did it.
At least you're not spending time in meetings!

I used to be a software engineer. Now I run a website. I still work behind a computer, but I work a lot less overall. This leaves a lot of time for other activities. All you have to do is somehow launch a website that makes enough money to support you, which is about as easy as winning the lottery.

You could also teach what you know or sell software.
Yep, it feels totally worth it. The product is something that I wanted to use myself and I use it just about every day, so just that makes it worth it.
there are plenty low power proof of stake blockchains. they are becoming a lot more popular for scalability and efficiency reasons. currently everyone is on the hunt for the next proof of stake 'ethereum killer' with a lot of speculative investment. ethereum itself is planning a migration to proof of stake.

right now, i'm not personally a huge fan of proof of stake because of the 'nothing at stake' problem, but one will eventually take off.
> Most (if not all) EU countries protect the freedom of speech in their constitution.

Not particularly well, as it seems when compared to the US.

You can just look at some of the laws that they have regarding speech, on their books, to see how there are definitely more things that are restricted that you can say, in comparison to what it restricted in the US.
>> Neither company cares for you; their interests may sometimes _align_ with yours,

That's the best we can hope. It's not really like every day developers didn't see Apple's anti-competitive behaviour. It's just that they had zero chances to win it in courts. Not to mention the risk of bankrupcy and mental health issues one can experience fighting with such a big, resourcefull bully.
Very interesting indeed: "In fact, more small-particle pollution comes from the action of car brakes and tyres than from the exhaust fumes of current internal-combustion engines – a testament to the effectiveness of catalytic converters and to modern fuel-injection systems."
Exposing the die directly and removing heat spreaders is increasingly common in "grandmaster" overclocking circles.
Who's closer to hegemony of those you listed? Apple is definitely first in the list IMO
Great, but this really doesn't anything to do with the conflict.

As a parent concerned with his children being coerced into in-app payments likely tied to his credit card, he gets utility out of Apple being the go-between, even though .. he pretty much complains that he wants it to be more stringent, so they aren't really delivering the utility he wants for that 30%.

As an adult, if I want to put my own credit card into a vendor's website, what utility is Apple providing except for slight convenience? I don't even keep my credit card attached to my Apple ID because I don't like how they batch payments and always seem to want to pull one 3 days before payday. I go onto Amazon or other sites and buy digital gift cards which I preload into my Apple ID.

And for this extreme inconvenience, I pay a 30% premium. Funk Dat.

BTW, because someone will come here and say, "Why in the world would you do such a convoluted thing?", an apple payments support tech suggested it to me. In fact they outright recommended against anyone attaching a payment method, ever.
Go to about:support and look in the Graphics section.
> I guess I just don't see why they should be required to support those other things.

Because not supporting them is anti-competitive. Markets require competition to operate. It is obviously not feasible for an individual app developer to build their own phone hardware and operating system and convince everyone to switch to it from iPhones just in order to avoid Apple's app distribution system, so requiring that is unreasonable.