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This is from Gus Mueller, who writes my favorite image editor for macOS, Acorn (https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/). I've reported a bug to Gus and received a new build with a fix within minutes. I highly recommend his software, even his pizza-themed blog http://maybepizza.com/ which includes a nerdy pizza dough recipe generator.

I wonder if Retrobatch could have been made as a series of Automator plugins, allowing integration with more complicated workflows (e.g., upload the processed images or put them in a specific Photos app album or something).
I use the native apps in my Samsung Q70 TV. They are really good, and I rarely find a need to use my 4K Apple TV anymore. Even the Samsung Apple TV apps, and the AirPlay 2 support is excellent.

As it is, Apple has screwed up HDR on the 4K so badly that it's very difficult to make it work smoothly without also screwing up HDR on other devices.
>Section 230 was about child pornography

What? It most certainly was not!

The CDA as a whole was an attempt to regulate indecency and obscenity on the internet. Think "pornography that might be seen by minors"[0]. (Remember, this was the 90s.) Most of it (with the exception of section 230) was struck down in court for obvious first-amendment reasons. Section 230 was added later during the process by the House, after the bill had passed through the Senate, and was more about defamation than anything else[1].

[0] https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/senate-bill/652... - search for "This title may be cited as the ``Communications Decency Act of
1996''."

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/21/18700605/section-230-inte...
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>What MSFT did would be equivalent to Apple forcing everyone to use its apps and not allow any competing apps.

There was never any limit on installing software. Any Windows user could have easily installed Netscape.

Now, if we want to compare actual complaints, I recall that the idea that MS used private APIs to get Word a leg up was considered outrageous. These days, Apple uses private APIs to help Apple Music, and not a peep (well, until the EU will smack them down).
To be clear, you'd be perfectly happy if Epic bought the developers outright and made the games exclusive to the Epic store? To me, that seems like the same end result for consumers.
It's funny because I went back to school but worked as the printer guy within an IT dept for about 5 years before deciding to go back to school. Our dept kept going back and forth on what video conferencing we should use for our meetings for about 2 years, they just couldn't make up their minds. Not once was zoom ever mentioned. I was kinda shocked once schools (everyone almost actually) started universally using zoom because that's the first I've heard of it and I was aware of at least half dozen other options.
I was referring to the specific point that is mentioned in the article, that Apple demanded 30% from Fortnite sales that had nothing to do with being listed in the store. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17733515
The article you link did not mention the employees saying running the editorial made them "feel unsafe". Neither the word safe nor unsafe appears in the article. It says the article "reportedly elicited strong objections" from the staff.
Purchases made via GoodRx almost always apply towards your deductible.

https://www.goodrx.com/blog/how-to-use-goodrx-with-high-dedu...
It's amazing how many cryptocurrency users are citizens of Panama...
>there aren't going to be that many people producing it for money/fame/kicks

I agree.
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https://www.twitch.tv/irdc_usa

This is quite old and focused on rogue-likes, but it might meet your request. Somehow.
Coarsely detecting cuts is relatively simple - look for large frame-to-frame differences (e.g. encode however -> find large frames surrounded by smaller ones -> done, it's as accurate as your perceptual compression is). There are a number of ffmpeg-using tools out there doing this and other "cut to / from black" detection and it's pretty good. Not good enough for a human to say "yeah, these are all scenes", but probably good enough for picking things to re-encode like this.

The harder part is the significantly increased compute use due to re-encoding things multiple times, to detect these cuts and to try to find the best encoding. Heuristics there can be arbitrarily complex and re-calculate any number of times. I imagine it hasn't been done earlier just due to cost, though maybe they've recently achieved a better heuristic.

edit: ah, great, they link to a "dynamic optimizer" post that goes into this in some detail: https://netflixtechblog.com/dynamic-optimizer-a-perceptual-v...
Yes it's a coincidence since PUBG is about to release a major new update:

https://www.pubgmobile.com/en/event/erangel
Do we still need an Intel Kaby Lake or later CPU for 4K DRM decoding? (And Windows... forgot about that.)

If so, Netflix is on the wrong side of the CPU war with AMD ascending.
Yes, you can't charge more for an app on the App Store than you charge on Android.

edit: this used to be the case, it's possible this has changed and I didn't know it.
I found that getting timing correct was the hardest part (at university, where everything was done by hand — later I worked in a fab where we could make that easier for people using tools).
HDR10 is fine right now. I don’t know of any tv that has a 12 bit capable panel or can create over 1000 nits brightness. HDR10 supports 4,000 and Dolby vision supports 10,000. TVs need to get a lot better before Dolby vision makes a difference.
They might if Apple is forced to ban WeChat and other Chinese apps from the App Store worldwide (which is why Tencent/CCP is having all these proxy wars targeting Apple, with the sole purpose of making it possible to side-load apps so that Trump’s executive orders will hurt Tencent/Bytedance (and future Chinese companies) a lot less). The timing of 40% Tencent-owned Epic Games’ PR lawsuit is no coincidence.
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re: move speed - it's also often that low rated players using engines take too long on trivial moves - many chess engines will take a set amount of time to look for the best move, even if there's something completely obvious on the board like capturing a queen that you've spent the last three moves trapping.
How should Apple get paid for a free app that has it's own payment system? Apple created a phone, IDE, language and entire ecosystem and from day 1 has charged 30%. They have not increased that as their marketshare increased. Should Apple be forced to allow an app to be released free and then accept payments outside of Apple?
The current situation is called a duopoly. There are 2 walled gardens with approximately 50-50% revenue share in the developed world.
One makes it almost impossible to distribute your own app on these, the other makes it just very hard.
Both should be broken up, it's a bleak distopia that 2 companies headquartered a few miles from eachother decide who can publish software on mobile devices.
Apple had the chance to write and file this 34-page response to the application (which partially succeeded). https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/08/21/appleepic.pdf
Ah my mistake, you're right. It was illegal for him to own a long barrelled rifle in his state of residence Illinois [0]. He then drove across state lines into Wisconsin with that illegal firearm.

[0] https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?DocName=0720...
I really not going to be surprised that in case Epic manage to win over Apple they'll put pressure on console manufacturers next.
I heard Michael Munfer on a podcast recently taking about higher education - that it is being dis-intermediated or broken down (cannot remember the right term)

And he suggested a new university that is likely to arise - where there is no campus but you are housed with (your squad) you get weekly tickets to the Proms or a new theatre etc etc. A whole rounded but decentralised education

I think not that squads are our future but the active conscious creation of them are
This is fairly common in retail. I've never heard a complaint about it before in that regard.
I suppose "competent" encompasses a limitless variety of accomplishments, including both reliable upkeep of a massively popular real-time multiplayer game and creating+maintaining a massively popular competitive game's balance and freshness. I reflexively associate it with technical performance, like John Carmack at iD and Naughty Dog now.

(Well, and back in the day – this writeup of Crash Bandicoot by Naughty Dog's first employee is a classic: https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveBaggett/20131031/203788/...)
I feel like his standards for openness are always up to where Epic's business model is a best fit. I've never heard him suggest something like letting me run my own Fortnite server or something of the sort.

That said, you're right that he's consistent with these views, especially how he was against UWP during its heyday. [1]

[1] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2016-03-04-tim-sweene...
It has now started as of 2 minutes ago.
Truth might not be the best word, but the intention is about factual and empirical observations. So news/journalism is X happened at Y, backed up with as much sources as the journalist can muster.

What it means is not news, thats opinion.
>User content on most websites are published by automation, and are not reviewed by humans, like this comment.

So what? They choose to publish it. They can choose not to. Their own internal business practices don't require society to give them loopholes with which they get out of all liability and abuse the rights of others.

It's a good reason to the publisher, its not a good reason for the rest of society.
> I don't think this line of argument would fly, because developers have actually a choice in developing for Android.

This is much like saying that having a monopoly on retail stores in California isn't a problem because producers can just sell their product in New York. Obviously that doesn't allow them to reach the same customers. They aren't alternatives to each other because you need both to reach your entire customer base. Compare to Walmart where if you don't sell through them, the exact same customers can easily walk across the street and buy your product at Target.
You can also make the taxes progressive, so wealthier pay more. I'm also not sure if this looks at total costs or only premiums. People don't go bankrupt or have surprise bills [1] for medical reasons in other countries the way they do here.

[1]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/1-in-5-americans-get-hit-w...
I have a Vizio Quantum X and a PS4 Pro both work great. YouTube videos show the occasional dropped frame on the Vizio app, and generally 0 dropped frames on the PS4.

I don't have the best speakers or room acoustics, but I can't complain about the sound.
Not only that, the Proof-of-work system also is prejudicial to holders.
Miners are constantly dumping their newly mined coins to pay for there astronomical electricity bills. (constant selling pressure isn't good for the price)

Also, most of the mining power is always in china, so that isn't good.
Mining is very centralized, miners can just join forces and 51% attack the network, which seems unlikely but not out of this world. It surely can happen, specialy if they find a way to be very profitable.
51% attack a network, or using exploits isn't illegal.
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I wasn't aware of the BaFin stuff at the time. That certainly makes it more interesting.
>I would be fairly confident in betting on Riot in the long term

Tencent already did that more than 10 years ago. I wonder how they pick who to invest into, because it seems that in the gaming space they have their hand in almost everything successful. And how come others aren't doing the same?
> Sometimes we ingest a title that would need more bits at the highest end of the quality spectrum — even higher than the 16 Mbps limit of the fixed-bitrate ladder.

From just a cursory inspection using my Apple TV 4K, 12 Mbps is their target bitrate but their ceiling was ~16 Mbps.

That's still only a third of what AppleTV+ offers (36/48) and only 2/3 of Disney+ (18/24). Netflix is still higher than Prime Video (10/14). HBO Max was the lowest quality, allowing only 8/10 Mbps for their HD streams (which generously doubled HBO Now's infamously low 4/5 Mbps bitrate).
> This would be a large inconvenience and a disruption, but that doesn't justify one private company being considered critical infrastructure.

Is "critical infrastructure" some sort of official US Government designation? What automatically happens in response to this designation?

Note that:

* I only said teachers sometimes can't teach when it's down—a claim of fact, not any suggestion of how it should be handled.

* The article's only extension of that is "Organizations that rely on video conferencing—and today, that’s most organizations—would be well served to put backup plans in place to minimize the disruption from future Zoom outages."

> This view is generally antithetical to innovation. Even if everyone already knows how to use Microsoft Office, it can and should be replaced if better software comes along.

I think you're suggesting calling Zoom "critical infrastructure" means it can't be replaced if a clearly superior video conferencing product is available? I disagree. In fact, it'd be reasonable to say this means it _should_ be replaced if Zoom can't give rock-solid reliability SLOs.
Traditionally, you just encode the video with a new frame every X frames, regardless of shots.

It might sound trivial, but it is still extra computational work to figure out when the shot changes.
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It gets better, open chrome devtools and look at the Source tab - its empty? Reload with devtools open on source tab gets it populated, weird.

Anyway, for 'copy protection' they are using wpcp_disable_selection https://myprogrammingnotes.com/protect-web-page-copied-using... , it hooks document.onselectstart and document.onmousedown. onselectstart is very abuse-able and has no place in User Agents just like the likes of onbeforeunload navigator.sendBeacon and window.opener, meaning you should probably hardcode disable it (userscript, or directly modding own browser). onmousedown is a bit more problematic and cant be dealt in automatic fashion. You will have to manually go to devtools every time and delete all onmousedown event listeners.
Did they change this? They used to disallow charging more on iOS.
Very broadly speaking it's perfectly legal to have a monopoly on something, and Apple has a monopoly on the thing they created, and that's fine.

It's generally illegal to use a monopoly on one thing to acquire a monopoly on another thing when that harms society, and that is the claim here.

Microsoft alone created windows, that's fine. Microsoft used their monopoly on windows to gain monopolies on other pieces of software, and that was problematic.
My title company gave us all of the relevant information and account numbers in person on paper and made us sign documents agreeing that we were warned not to trust any information sent via email, web, or phone. You should expect the same.
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> Well, thanks to the government, there's socialized food for those in need, in the form of food banks and SNAP.

Yes. Why can't we have the same for prescription drugs?

> Most healthcare systems in the world operate by having the government form a bulk buying organization and negotiating the price of drugs down to a fraction of what Americans are forced to pay even in places without socialized prescription drug coverage.

This isn't true. Switzerland operates on an entirely private insurance model. Ditto the Netherlands. Singapore (which enjoys the lowest per capita health expenditures and some of the best outcomes) is almost entirely driven by transparent pricing and regulations. Germany uses public-private hybrid model. In France, the NHI operates on a reimbursement model, where you still buy drugs at a pharmacy and shop around by price.

The Canadian model is great, but it's not nearly as efficient as Singapore's.

> One way of solving this would be to have Medicare negotiate the price of all drugs in the US.

It's not the only way, you can also just institute price controls. Monopsony negotiation is in-effect the same thing.

(addressing your edit)

> The government already does an awful lot to make food affordable in the US, including subsidizing corn to well below the cost of production via continuous re-authorization of the Farm Bill.

> The government does absolutely nothing to make drugs affordable. At all.

Yes, all of what you said is correct there, and yet you still have a world where you shop for food on the basis of transparent pricing and sometimes even take advantage of coupons. Just like regulations and welfare co-exist with market pricing with food, so too can it exist with prescription drugs. Even in a world where the government offers direct subsidies on drugs, there is a place for GoodRx and its model.

> [edit] There's lots of comprehensive solutions, and none of them involve coupon clipping.

But that's just not true. GoodRx would, for example, do very well in Singapore, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Germany.

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/06/24/us-health-care-drugs...
Tell HN: A Thanks to the Mods
Hi HN.

Earlier today I sent an email to the Mods about a typo in a submission. Within 3 minutes it was amended and an email pinged back an acknowledgement and a thanks for reporting it.

Given that that time of day would have roughly coincided with one of the HN traffic peaks I was incredibly impressed by this, especially since I made sure to email it as something like ‘Typo in article 12345678’ in the email subject line.

I am posting this on a throw-away account (so no ‘karma’ motivation) but if people want to add their thanks to / for HN – Please do.

My entire motivation for making this post is simply this: When I encounter excellence I will convey that both to the person as well as doing something like this.

I have seen Moderators (not just here on HN) getting roasted for decisions about ‘abc’, or doing ‘def rather than hij’ etc. People are quick to complain, slow to compliment. At times I can almost sense some of the pain and head-desks that might at times occur over at HN HQ.

From personal experience, Sometimes an out of the blue message from a random person saying ‘Thanks for doing a great job’ makes a huge impression and can turn a shit day in to a good day or a great day in to a fantastic one.

In closing - When something impresses me I will say so.

This is the end of my post (and the nick is burned)

Thank you all for reading. Thank you Dan & co.
I think Salvatore Sanfilippo left the whole of Redis, not Redis Labs specifically.

http://antirez.com/news/133 -- The end of the Redis adventure
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Maybe Open Street Map? But if your fear is that Android would die without Google Maps I’m reasonably confident a replacement could be found that isn’t an Apple hardware device.

The same is true for the other services that Google provides.
Why shouldn't they? They got paid when the customer bought the phone. If the "free" app is handling payment processing and distribution itself, what is Apple doing that justifies receiving any money at all?
Oh, I don't know. They could ask the developer for a fee. How about that?

To answer your question, yes, Apple should be forced to allow other payment system. The current anti-competitive arrangement both disadvantages non-Apple payment systems, and prevents users from switching to Android if they wish (since subscriptions are managed by Apple, and it difficult to access that without an Apple device...).
You can be perfectly happy so long as the app you rely on is available. If Apple decides to axe it (cough Hey cough) you and the developer are at their mercy. It doesn't matter that you could've bought an Android to begin with. The rules are changing while you're holding onto a device and that should not be possible.
> there's socialized food for those in need, in the form of food banks and SNAP.

No there isn't.

That is, the places that tend to have usable, subsidized healthcare for the poor are the same places that tend to have subsidized food for the poor.

Likewise for those that don't.

Source: Years with freq periods of little/no food (and 5 kids).
Good question. I was thinking in terms of market share alone.

If phone OSs were a reasonably fragmented market, you as a phone buyer could probably choose a phone that doesn't restrict what software you can run and still meet your other requirements (e.g. tight OS & hardware integration). Also, as a software maker no single phone OS company would have much leverage over you.

But some of these things could also be argued on principle.
How does Redis "not do data consistency"? Same question for HA?
On the HA point, my understanding was that it was one of the reasons to use Redis Labs, because they handle a lot of the setup and management of the infrastructure required to provide a setup that does provide HA.
I really respect Sebastian. He has very deep technical knowledge and hangs out on several Pinephone channels and offers helps on them. This is in spite of the fact that the Pinephone is more or less a competing product and I doubt he gets paid to do so.
Agreed. Coming from Miguel, this has 100x the weight of some random schmoe on the internet. Tons of respect for what he's done over his career, and his position on technology and freedom issues.
Thank you. I will listen to this one. Invest Like the Best is awesome.
>Because blockchain keeps promising things and never delivering anything of actual value.

Which is true for every early field. I was around in the 2001 dot-com bubble, and it wasn't different. AI has a 70-year history of broken promises, but lately seems to come into it's own. Quantum computing is another hyped tech that may or may not change the world. Video-telephony was hashed out in the 1970's and only after roughly 2010 has become reality.

>That does what exactly? Wasting energy to determine if I can transfer $0.3 to my friend to demo it? Suppose you wired them and ran scientific studies/simulations. You’d probably get more useful results out of the energy you just spent.

All snark aside, it's much more than sending money around. You have a fully digital system of distributed apps that can interact and very strong assurances to authenticity of the results. Finance is only one area where that sounds interesting, logistics, provenance, data recording in regulated fields like health-care or polluting industries, notary services, cadastral land registers, IoT are all fields that could profit from machine-to-machine interactions that are free from human interaction.
That is a large benefit of the doubt...
Well not everyone wants to have to have ten game stores with ten custom launchers if they only have ten games installed

Also Epic may control the release in some ways. For example, Civ 6 on Epic is PC only but on Steam it’s PC & Mac. So I bought it on Epic and then realized I can’t play with my friends who are on Macs.

Why would I want an entire new game store, an app that they’ve chosen to make incompatible with one of the two major computing platforms, and yet another thing to keep updated, minimized, and logged into.

I’m all for competition but exclusivity deals are overall negative for the consumer. It’s worth $10 million to get a new game exclusively for Epic to force everyone to use a store they don’t want to install or use because they’ll end up spending $100 million on other games. It’s an effective business tactic but it’s not exactly in my interest.