skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, un-dismissible pop up screens that can even wake you from sleep might help... until it’s used for more than battery charge notifications
Tim Epic (not to be confused with Tim Apple) retweeted that with an amusing response:

"While waiting for Apple to #FreeFortnite on iOS and Mac, here’s another awesome battle royale game powered by Unreal Engine!"

https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/129941176668281651...
The App Store Review Guidelines explicitly forbid this:

> 2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
Simple build dockerfiles in Kubernetes using Kaniko
Meet my new plugin for kubectl :)

https://github.com/kvaps/kubectl-kaniko
Review of the Remarkable 2 e-reader
Mmm yeah, I suppose you'd have to figure out a way to connect up to bones for structural support and to connect actuators to. But hey as long as we're dreaming big, why not?
Unless you look at CO2 emissions :)
This is reminding me that I'd love to see experiments with macro's for implementing Swift's ABI, not for Swift interop but to explore the space of a more native, unsafe-free SO/DLL ABI for Rust than what C offers.
I'd be happy to be corrected by an actual neuroscientist, but I don't think some folks realize just how far away the Neuralink team is from being able to do any of the things they are claiming. Inserting electrodes in the brain is the easy part. The reason no one else has yet bothered with this level of miniaturization is because it won't be of much benefit until you can figure out a way to decode the signals reliably. This is extremely daunting, and it's something that has occupied lots of brilliant people full time for decades.
Contracts are not laws, if you breech a contract then one of the possible outcomes is that you will end up in court arguing whether the contract is valid. That is what happened in this case. The law would be especially toothless if you had to obey a contract in order to dispute its validity.
Although presumably, given the device is plugged directly into your brain, they can make it remind you of this in friendly way.
Might be an unpopular opinion but I don’t think they are acting to the level of MSFT in the 90s.

It's far worse. Microsoft may have played dirty tricks with bundling, but they never prevented developers from distributing competing software. If Microsoft had the control over Windows that Apple does over iOS, they never would have allowed web browsers (for "security", no doubt) and we might be in a Windows monoculture today.
Fair enough. Some companies do have a stronger case. MS and Amazon would however get pilloried here due to... other issues. Not many candidates around (unless some rich entity were to support a company's legal case from the shadows? These things do happen).
I think the problem is people think of hardware (and software) as a system, rather than a system-of-systems. It works now, because the exact combination of hardware, software, and peripherals available today works. Things you need to interface with use standards that your hardware is equipped with. As soon as that changes, your system needs to upgrade or change to continue functioning. Backwards compatibility only lasts so long, and is different for each interface (hardware and software).
This concern really only applies to synthetic benchmarks (stuff like SPEC CPU). If you're testing a commercially available application or game as delivered to consumers, this issue does not invalidate the benchmark, it just makes the software vendor a bit of an Intel stooge.
> so we're supposed to be happy about a variable bitrate and quality because it saves them some bandwidth?

yes, because it saves you money - netflix could be increasing its subscription cost, or it could keep it down as the subscriber base grows, by using technique like this.

As long as you don't notice the difference, what's wrong with them saving some bandwidth?
> Actually I do think it matters if Apple is technically a monopoly, as laws are technical documents.

Whether or not Apple has a monopoly is irrelevant for the antitrust laws.
Buying a new console costs hundreds of dollars, while creating an Epic Store account costs nothing. It's really not the same situation.
It's a tradeoff - in a number of cases, I would be willing to accept that risk. I already do with cash.
It isn't the same as the Internet in general.

In the short term, it is critical infrastructure. Take Zoom offline permanently, tomorrow, and let us see how the world will handle it. It would find alternatives, and competitors would fill the void, but it would undeniably cause massive disruptions to industries and education. There isn't much of a failover right now for video calling - people have put their eggs in one proprietary basket with no backup plan.
>Their issue right now is they're tracking towards 0.44%, not 2% as they intend.
This is demonstrably false, the real inflation is much higher than 2%: https://chapwoodindex.com/
Ask HN: How many channels do you need in order to learn like in the Matrix?
I just watched Neuralink Progress Update (S2020) and I wondered about the 1024 channels future potential. How many ones do you think you will need (theoretically) in order to learn like in the Matrix?
Theoretical objections of the sort "this could have been done some other way" are always rather strange, because they tend to ignore the actual fact that it has not been done some other way.
Even "just buy a new one" is laying out hundreds of dollars, if not over a thousand, to buy a $1 app. But then you also have to re-buy all of your existing apps and learn a new operating system. There may be apps that only exist on one platform, or services like iCloud that you would have a cost to transition away from. You may have friends who use iMessage and can't convince them to switch to anything else. It may force you into relationships you don't want -- maybe you don't want to give Google all your data and regard that as a significant cost.

It isn't a negligible transition.
Yeah, definitely just straight memorization on a lot of the questions. I did a couple practice exams on my subway ride to work each day and after a month it was no problem.

Hope it goes well for your son!
> They have been fought at every turn by people who don't understand epidemiology.

Didn't Fauci discourage mask usage at the worst time to discourage mask usage?

Weren't the experts continuously downplaying the danger while Trump was shutting down flights?

Wasn't Pelosi, de Blasio and crew telling us to "hug asians" and jump on the subway?

I'm not claiming there's anyone who was right in this mess, but there's very little ground to say anyone managed this correctly or would have been better equipped.

The supposed Democratic utopias in this country (NJ and NYC) killed off the elderly. And people want Cuomo to run for president...
> Contracts are not laws

But laws govern them nonetheless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_contract_law for starters.

The court told Epic how to get in compliance with Apple, they refused, Apple in their terms clearly states they have the right to terminate their account. That's the facts of the case, it doesn't matter what anyone feels.
Some quick Google searches:

- World GDP: 142 trillion USD.

- Global cost of corruption: At least 5% of World's GDP according to WEF. [0]

- Cost of violence: estimated to be 11% of GDP in 2012 [1]

We are already at 16% and we are not even counting resources and parts of the world economy under the control of authoritarian regimes.

[0]: https://www.un.org/press/en/2018/sc13493.doc.htm

[1]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261037678_Estimatin...
I actually really hope that is the case. I have a feeling of existential dread every time I imagine all the effort I am putting into learning and acquiring new skills all going to waste when those tasks become absolutely second nature to everyone, irrespective of effort or time investment.

Although, I am all for fixing the existing problems that it obviously could solve; I fear my mother will succumb to Alzheimer's, and something like this is dearly needed. It just seems like we won't know when to pull the brakes.
Yes they do, quite explicitly in fact:

> 2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
That's not the question. The question is whether there should be any laws against murder, given that people disagree on precisely what constitutes murder.
Now consider that Valve games like Half Life: Alyx are platform exclusive to Steam -- presumably because Valve gets ~100% of the money spent on Valve games on Steam. Is that "less open for the consumer" as well?
Can't wait for my 1000hz eyeballs!
Not random apps, only the ones you've given permission to do so.
Their older articles talk more about shot-based encoding specifically (and before that, per-title encoding) as they applied it to their non-4K content:

https://netflixtechblog.com/dynamic-optimizer-a-perceptual-v...

https://netflixtechblog.com/per-title-encode-optimization-7e...

A few relevant points:

- Their previous systems used fixed keyframes, so wouldn't be using scene-change detection at all (I presume this was to allow predictable chunking across different codecs)

- Since reliable streaming performance is a pretty big deal for Netflix, they probably have quite tight restrictions on VBR modes, which make them not work as effectively since they have less "room" to work with
> I take serious issue with the description of games as useless.

I figured some might. Try to charitably understand why I chose to emphasize with that word. Yes, obviously, playing games provides all sorts of meaningful things to the player. As I said, playing games is intrinsically rewarding.

But what most games don't do is provide extrinsic utility. Playing a videogame does not pay your mortgage, fix your leaky sink, cure your halitosis, or get you an A in class. (Ignoring professional game playing for money, of course.)

Your electricity company's website can be a slow, bug-ridden heap of PHP 1.0 garbage and you will still use it because it lets you pay their bill and keep your lights on. A videogame has no such luxury. If using the game itself is not enjoyable, you have no users. That means good game designers are very well trained in making things people want to use. That's a great skill for anyone who wants to design beloved things.

> 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.

There is definitely an important aspect of games that cannot be harnessed by useful software. A key, perhaps the fundamental thing that makes play play is safety. There is a lower bound to how much harm playing a game poorly can do. That keeps the stakes low, which allows you to get into a freer, more exploratory mindset.

Obviously, the app you use to pay your mortgage cannot offer that freeing sense of delight. While that safety is what makes games games, that is not all that makes games enjoyable.

> Gamification is swimming in the shallow end of game design.

Oh dear, I certainly didn't have "gamification" and all the sleazy things that has been used for in mind, though I can see how what I said was ambiguous regarding that.

Maybe a more direct way of stating what I was getting at is that game designers have a greater appreciation of usability than many others. Every tool has some mixture of utility (what it can do) and usability (what it makes easy/enjoyable to do). If a tool has important utility, users will suffer using regardless of its usability. If a university's slow automated phone system is the only way to register classes, well, I guess you're gonna sit on hold for three hours. But you won't like it.

Since games have no utility, they must have usability. Usability ("fun") is foundational in a way that it isn't in other fields. And I think there's a lot to be learned from game designers about how they approach that.
The Sherman Act is not the only relevant law here; the Clayton Act is relevant as law. (And was passed because the Sherman Act was too narrow). You do not need to be a monopoly to violate the Clayton Act, and most antitrust legislation nowadays is I believe brought under that and not the Sherman Act.
I would recommend deleting the screenshots, though. I looked at them and thought "so what? that's been done many times before" until I read the text more carefully.
At least a Roblox dress likely doesn't use something near slave labor for what is ultimately disposable fashion like traditional throw away clothing production.
Perhaps having more bandwidth would improve signal recognition and decoding?
After reading your previous comment, I read a bit more about comptime. It does seem to be able to handle most of the cases I could think of wanting macros for, and it is a nice UX in that it's really like "bounded macros" and prevents building arbitrary new semantics. Though thinking on two levels in a given function does seem tricky to me, but perhaps that's just familiarity. Personally, I kind of like having separate macro vs code. Comptime seems like it'd almost be a better fit for Go than their generics proposal.
Why does it matter where Apple is suppressing free speech? It's not okay just because the degenerate political descendants of Mao say it's okay.

Edited to clarify: this was a description of the oppressive political rulers of China, not Apple or Chinese citizens in general.

You can't reasonably defend Apple's actions on the grounds that they were just following orders from the Communist Party of China.
A good mix of types of places. Some suburbs, though they sometimes have awkward internal stairs. Plenty of American style 3-story apartments, their stairs mostly aren't too bad. I dunno man, it mostly isn't that tough once you get used to it.
One thing I've seen Apple do more and more in recent times is the concept of introducing something for the good of the user with sometimes little regard to the impact shouldered by developers or businesses.

Sometimes they're smaller impacts - like the ability to only enable GPS when an App is actively being used. Other times they are larger - like the the changes to the Advertising and Device IDs.

I've read here that the loss of the singular, centralized and controlled store could potentially be an issue for things like malware, privacy, and some of the other causes Apple has come out to fight for on behalf of the user. Perhaps Apple forgot to consider its own behavior as a threat to those ideals? Could Apple have avoided all of this if they applied the principles they used in other cases to themselves?

If the store had a 12% rate would Epic have bothered to do this? Other decisions can come into play too, like no ability for upgrade pricing and how subscrption costs are handled. If we really look, the list could get long.

I guess what I'm trying to say is if Apple truly cares about the things that could be lost if the App ecosystem is altered, then perhaps it needs to take the same hit it has doled out to others in the name of that cause?
> The idea of code you cannot observe or control, in your head, seems like an attack on humanity

That sounds like a description of regular brain to me.
Yes, and that's why there are such high standards for medical devices.

In the presentation Elon specifically mentions their involvement with the FDA and highlighted their focus on safety (drawing a parallel with Tesla five star ratings)
They are not. You cannot assume App Store service if all the income I meant all go to the developer only. If they fight for a lower cut may be. But 0! No.
Epic exclusivity deals are typically for one year.

Steam exclusivity for games like Portal 2 is forever. Of course, Portal 2 was a sequel to a game created by a studio that Valve simply bought outright.
> but you're gonna have to remember to charge your brain now too

Well, try not sleeping for a few days :)
> What MSFT did would be equivalent to Apple forcing everyone to use its apps and not allow any competing apps.

Does Apple prohibiting apps from using any other payment processors than Apple's come close enough to equivalency to you? That's one of the key elements of the dispute here.
The criticism focuses on his actions as a whole, the crowd's, his motivations, and the people praising the killing. Which legal charges stick and which do not are interesting, but using them as a stand-in for morality is a common fallacy employed in irrational political side-taking.
What I find interesting is not so much this case but the globalization of the markets. With globalized markets you have near-monopolies which are so much more powerful than monopolies used to be.

So you want to sell an app? Well first you practically cannot install it "for security reasons" without being on either the Apple AppStore or the Android Play Store, which represent 99.9% of devices or so. (yes you can disable GPP, and side-load on android, or sign as a dev and side-load on Apple, neither of which make any practical sense if you're not a developer)

If you do not like their rules, you now need to make your own OS, Phone, distribute it and have your game on it. That's quite the step and why there are laws against monopolies.

The globalized monopolies use their leverage to exert pressure on governments, and it is very difficult to apply these laws without the company using a "globalized capitalism" as their own advantage, i.e. it will move everything it can to another country that will let it exploits it's customers and it's workforce (which is why all our stuff is made in China, India, etc. obviously, and tax HQ is generally in Ireland rather than USA and on so)
People do foot races even though gazelle is invented.
Apple terminating Epic's dev account and Apple promoting PUBG Mobile for iOS users...doesn't that clearly show retaliatory intent?
What if your employer asks for it?
Or update/modify the networking, WiFi, routing, gateway, firewall, or other configurations on the device itself such that it connects to and communicates over only specified networks and/or hosts.

Again my point is that relying on off-device, local-netork hardware and configs is brittle.
the alternative is experience destroyed by ads or high upfront fees

My experience is exactly the opposite. IAPs encourage developers to make the default experience sufficiently broken (e.g. requiring absurd amounts of grinding) so that you'll pay to fix it.
Look at their dollar share on app spending, which is what matters to app developers.
> I don't think Epic ever intended to release the new Fortnite season on Apple platforms.

Epic probably doesn't care much about Apple platforms.

80% of Fortnite players are on console. I doubt macOS accounts for more than 1-2%.

https://newzoo.com/insights/articles/newzoos-battle-royale-s...
Let's assume that final digits are uniformly distributed in such measurements (Benford's law says this isn't the case for first digits, but that's beside the point). Then P(last_digit in size 5 set) =1/2 for a single measure. So the probability they all are is 1/(2^30), which is on the order of one in a billion as the other reply says (good heuristics: 2^10 ≈ 1000, 2^20 ≈ 1,000,000, 2^30 ≈ 1,000,000,000)
This is why I started building my latest project.[1] I want better privacy from all digital services (that use my personal email for logging in), and better security for my inbox (eliminating spam, phishing attempts, malware).

A world where digital advertising fades away, and security and privacy are always prioritized, can't come fast enough.

[1] https://owlmail.io
> There are no good guys in this story, only bad guys whose evilness outstages the other's evilness.

I'm not a stakeholder in Apple or Epic. I don't possess products from either. That said, I'm inclined to view epic's actions here as closer to civil disobedience, specifically in that epic is playing the long game to prove their opinion that Apple's contractual terms are anti-competitive.

Because it maps so effectively to civil rights struggles for me and likely for others as well (sidebar — I'm not white), I can see why this topic gets pretty heated. It's not so much about evil v. evil as it is about one group feeling oppressed v. another feeling offended at (their team) being accused of oppression.
I haven't watched the whole thing, did they address the problem of writing? All I saw was detecting firing neurons from a small region of the brain (which is cool and useful in itself) but saw nothing about actually transmitting to the brain signals that the brain can interpret correctly. Which seems by far the hardest part, when the device stops being a pure observer of a tiny region of the brain.
Didn't a judge say they couldn't do that? What's transpired since?
On windows the DRM needed for 4k Netflix is PlayReady 3.0, which is supported on some cards after driver release 19.8.1: https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-1...
This how debt law works pretty much everywhere. Creditors have the right to seize virtually any assets to cover their outstanding loans.
thanks, I must have missed that
Well, in the update they showed themselves predicting the position of a pig's limbs as it walked on a treadmill.

If your bar is reading thoughts & dreams, you'll probably be right. But that's probably not what is needed to be useful in helping people with variety of ailments.
Indeed fanboyism is a thing, but personally I don't see it in this case. I see arguments accusing a monopolistic app store manager who is enforcing draconian guidelines to abuse it's monopoly, and I see arguments accusing a software vendor with a long history of abuse getting locked out of a plstform it by violating its terms and conditions when attempting to avoid paying for it's use. None of these actions are cheerable.
> We can test for these systemic biases (we have)

How do you propose testing this? Typically, a difference in outcomes is taken as evidence of systemic bias, but it isn't the same thing. For example, if one cohort commits more crimes, they are going to have more police interactions, more arrests, and so forth. But that's not a systemic bias. Unfortunately the recent "anti-racist" authors like Ibram Kendi have been pushing a false and expansive definition, where they term any difference in outcomes (or as they put it, any racial inequity), as "racist". That's not what most people would call "racist".

> prove the existence/non-existence of said biases (we have)

As for the existence of biases, I assume you are referring to the 'implicit association test', which is commonly used as a tool to identify unconscious biases. The IAP methodology has been challenged and debunked many times. Studies have also found that measures of implicit bias do not predict how people act in real life. See https://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/flaws-white-fragility-theo... for more.
I would say the most prolific one is Kubernetes. Sure it has some parts broken out (controller manager, scheduler), but the main API server is a pretty big Go monolith.

At a far smaller scale, the SaaS product my company built, Domestica (https://about.domestica.app), is a Go monolith. It has an integrated job/cron queue using PostgreSQL included as well, all within the same binary.
This makes it easy for us to distribute it as a Docker image to our users who want a private instance (https://hub.docker.com/r/candiddev/domestica).
Why is raising their subscription price the alternative? Wouldn't Netflix's capability to negotiate peering/transit deals grow along with their subscriber base?