skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that choosing to not speak out about an issue helps support the status quo

I mean that's just fine, and a perfectly fine point to make - and one with which in fact I agree; I have railed against police and prosecutors' offices for years, having been on the ass-end of their horror myself.

But if that's what one means to say, then say that; because the word 'violence' has a specific meaning not captured by "don't support the status quo".

This is a long way of saying I generally don't like slogans :/
That did not set 95% as some kind of magic threshold. The test is written as "a dominant position within the common market or in a substantial part of it". The jurisprudence on this actually starts at 40%. Of the $100bn global app store sector pie, Apple have ~2/3 of it.
There are teams of people whose entire job is to make the IAP as addictive as possible. It's not fair to say that someone should just "be less addicted" to buying them.
> His feats are impressive in the same way building a skyscraper is impressive

Um, but isn't he chief rocket engineer at SpaceX for example? And are there not numerous stories and anecdotes of people working at SpaceX who say they are amazed at how good his brain is, how fast he calculates ridiculously complex equations in real time. And, didn't SpaceX send people to ISS and create reusable rockets and design new machines to weld steel in a way that had never been done before and, well, so much more.

Isn't that a little bit more impressive than building a Skyscraper? But anyway, building a skyscraper is pretty cool why is that the bad thing to do here?
It seems to me that rewriting stuff is what you do when you can't stand to maintain it, i.e. pay the interest, hence it's like declaring bankruptcy.
in seattle that means sunrise at 9 and sunset at 515 in a place that's already hella dark. No thank you.
> 63 percent support the elimination of seasonal time changes in favor of a national, fixed, year-round time, and only 11 percent oppose it

This is some early-bird conspiracy BS. Those stats obviously don't mean people want to eliminate daylight savings time, it means they want to eliminate the change itself. I think a much higher % would prefer making daylight savings time permanent (staying light out later).

Also, their justification for earlier darkness is sleep related health issues. But what about the health issues related to hearth disease: the #1 cause of death in the USA?[1]....think about the amount of exercise done between the hours of 5pm-9pm (after work jogs/walks/gym, youth sports, etc). There's no doubt in my mind there would be less overall exercise if it were constantly dark out earlier.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
Not related to the content but why on earth an anchor link is styled as a strike through text?
Actually, I can't think of any news media (save Fox) that would report compromises in such a way. Instead, that negative reporting is more likely to come via outrage-generating feedback mechanisms like the commentary that accompanies sharing of news articles instead of the actual news pieces themselves.
It would be much easier to adopt daylight/standard time permanently than to battle all the inertial forces which maintain our cultural structures around times of the day (5pm is when work ends, 12 is when you eat lunch, ...)
Our product has a real-world component yes but the payment part had more to do with the online subscription (which gave you access to the real world component).

Covid killed our product though so for us I'm relieved I don't have to deal with Apple's shit anymore to get the app deployed.

Still have to deal with it for other clients though :/
the person who invented this must not like gradual changes like the sun provides naturally
Can't the federal govt leave the the time the way it is and just change the work time alone?

Example: 8am-3pm during winters. 9am to 4pm during summers etc?
You missed the point. He said games do not generate anything materially useful. His intend here was to trivialize the true value of games and still giving them the honor of being worthwhile. Read between the lines or just don't at all.
Safari on Mac OS Catalina is always h264
I vaguely recall from the first Neuralink presentation that the cameras used on the robots are fast enough to take the pulsing of the blood into consideration and compensate for it.

Personally I think even though it's an amazing technical accomplishment, the robotic electrode installation might be the simplest part of this whole thing. Once you have the electrodes installed, you might be able to pick out certain patterns, and maybe even restore motor function to people who have lost it.

But the part about being able to replay memories seems incredibly far-fetched. We have no idea how to really interface with the brain. We can only really talk to a small fraction of the neurons, because you can only fit so many electrodes and threads compared to the billions of neurons. It might end up being incredibly challenging to connect a new interface, like if you suddenly grew a tail and had to learn how to control it.
> 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.)

Games can help you practice interpersonal communication skills, teamwork and coordination, problem solving, and fine motor skills. These may very well help you with your work or leaky sink in the future. Games can also help inure you to failure, and provide some perhaps necessary escapeism to improve your mental health (perhaps more important to work on than your halitosis!). Or help provide that social connection that turns into a job offer.

Playing cow clicker all day - sure, that's probably not all that extrinsicly useful. But you're painting with an overly large brush IMO. And there's perhaps a reason you'll have a damn difficult time finding anyone playing cow clicker all day ;).

> 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.

Or I might pay by mail or phone instead. Or use my bank's auto-pay setup. It's less a matter of utility, and more a matter of competition.

Games have a huge entertainment industry they're competing with - lots of choice. It wasn't always this competitive - people enjoyed playing Pong on the Atari back in the day. There's plenty of "extrinsicly useful" software I avoid - yes, even when I'm earning $$$ to pay that mortgage - in favor of better alternatives. Your electricity company's website probably has few alternatives, but even then there might be some.
It does support TLS, just doesn't redirect.

https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~rosulekm/crypto/
Plenty of people here on HN will jump at the opportunity to have Apple control what they are allowed to think/view/experience. They already do this and passionately argue they love it.
Unless you believe a market that includes nearly the entire population of the United States to be "typical", are we not then in agreement that Apple can still be found to be a monopoly, according to the excerpt you just posted?
Musk the media legend is a much different person than Musk the man. He is not a rocket scientist, he didn’t drop out of a phd at Stanford, he didn’t found Tesla, and he almost killed PayPal. Link me to one piece of technical work he has ever done, not something his employees have done that he slapped his name on.
Nearly all SRE's have caused an outage of some kind... The trick is to design your systems well enough that even when there is an outage few/no people notice...
Then just don't use anything else than the Apple Store? Why should everyone else have to suffer the fact that you can't prevent yourself from using third-party stores?
Elon was pretty clear since beginning that it is nowhere near complete and the demo is to attract talent
“I ended up trying out a PR service called Publicize for $500, which essentially has some lower level PR people come up with a pitch and then mass emails a list they have.”

I’ve always gotten these emails and thought of them as spam. Great to hear your experience using one for real
Nothing apparently.
Mass? Real estate? Ergonomics? Power consumption?
tim sweeney sent an email to tim cook and other apple execs telling them in advance that he was going to violate the contract and that he would fight them for years if necessary. so, no, it's not biased to call it blatant, they were extremely blatant about it.
>I was going to write that there's no reason you'd want financial debt qua financial debt

Under what circumstances?

What about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_preference ?
Such a tragic loss of an talented icon.
Epic specifically brought several Sherman Act section 2 claims against Apple. The first step of proving a section 2 claim is establishing monopoly power.

So even though there are some antitrust violations (e.g. price fixing or bid rigging) where monopoly power is indeed irrelevant, it is very specifically relevant in the context of Epic's lawsuit against Apple.
If that house or car provides sufficiently compelling features or other benefits then, yeah, I would totally buy one.

Should it be legal? I mean, why not? If you don’t want one, just don’t buy one. There are plenty of other houses and cars out there!
> As for the 30% cut etc, I can't get emotional about that. There are so much bigger issues in the world. You have democracy, global warming, nculear weapons, war and famine.

I can’t get emotional about the 30% cut either, but I can and do get emotional about locked-down computing devices. For a kid that grows up only or primarily using a smartphone rather than a laptop, what chance do you think they have to learn how this stuff works? If you use an iPhone, you can’t even begin to write software for it without also having a Mac, and it certainly doesn’t make its inner workings apparent.

Kids only having access to phones and not laptops is a thing that really happens, especially among lower-income families: https://www.vox.com/2020/4/9/21200159/coronavirus-school-dig...

And speaking of democracy, when companies lock down devices such that the manufacturer must approve any software that runs on them, what do you think the impact is on users of those devices when the government of a less-democratic country pressures the manufacturer to remove apps they find inconvenient? See China’s take on VPN apps on iOS.

The more we teach people that computers are magic and design systems such that huge distant companies dictate how it works, the more the balance of power shifts away from individuals. These things have real-world impact. I’m not just picking on Apple here, they’ve just gone further than most so far; this kind of attitude is endemic in our industry, though.
Something else to be aware of is, with Powell's you're also supporting a union shop that pays its staff pretty well.

No one's pissing in bottles in the back room at Powell's, unless it's for fun.
Very cool, thanks for sharing! I have some pretty old hardware so lower resource use is always good, will be trying your player out!
Fighter pilots can recognize an object flashed at them for ... 1/240th a second? Something like that?

I would consider that approximately the upper bound.
Russia is winning.
Usually these sorts of posts are some sort of interesting content that wraps around an ad - like maybe steps you can take to engineer luck leading to more serendipity and bg the way check out this service - but this just literally seems to be an ad for some 2000 dollar rent seeking program? Am I missing something?
Is Samsung Planning to Release the Galaxy Fold Lite in India?
>Many people fortunate enough to have survived this pandemic with their physical health intact

It's just the flu for 90% of people.

So this constant you are a 'survivor' for everything that happens to you can't be helping.

We now take pride in anti-stoicism.
Could this FINALLY replace Graphic Converter? Probably not on the number of image formats covered, but it does look very promising otherwise.

https://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/
Maybe the route toward what I'm envisioning (and hoping for) is genetically engineered or enhanced cells. Modify and existing system that already does a lot instead of trying to recreate a cell from the ground up.
This is exciting, love that they're svg icons. I'd love to try out in my next project.
Hogwash. It would cost only $12B a year to pay for electricity for the poorest 10 million households. The defense budget was increased by 43B/year in 2018.
I am pretty sure things back then were both similarly complex even though they appeared simple. Today, your FB feed is simple since it is auto-tuned to your beliefs.
Imagine if the compression for the movie “Hero” couldn’t exploit the color themes in each act of the movie. That would be a might bigger.
So when someone breaks TOS of Sony store there are no consequences?
waking up two hours befor sunrise is miserable no matter how dark it stays. In anycase, for anyone in the northern US the sun would still set before or at 5:30.
Netflix has a debug screen that will show you the codec info. It varies depending on platform but you can Google it to find the one for your platform. For the Windows app, it's Ctrl-Alt-Shift-D. That shows H264 on my device since I don't have hardware that can decode H265. On Android, I've seen VP9 streams.
According to the website - $2000. That seems absurd. If you're paying $2000 in the early stages of starting a business to join a community (because I guess networking and literally just googling startup resources that are available for free is too hard) - well - I don't know how I feel about your capital allocation skills then
At some point, it’s not worth upgrading resolution. I don’t know what that point is for you; but, eyes only have a certain arc-length resolution, beyond which everything additional as far as resolution is meaningless.

For me, that’s a bit more than 1440p at 3 feet at 27”.
Are you serious about Singapore being hygienic? Ever been to hawker stands in Singapore? Ever visit Little India on a Sunday? Ever walk though the food section of Mustafas? Especially the eggs isle? And yes I know they are inspected.
I don't check my console 75 times a day.

There are no studies that demonstrate the absolute ubiquity and irreplaceable nature of a gaming console; there are for phones.

I don't order a pizza with it. Or check my email. Or call Uber. Or read HN. Or take pictures of my kids. Or make phone calls. Or check social media (well... I don't... but over 3 billion do). Or...

There's a way that a "smart phone" (more accurately, a palm-sized computer that happens to make phone calls) is a general computing device - and a critical component of modern life in Western civilization -- that a gaming console is not.
So if the adult daughter and you want have a relationship outside the farmer's house, they should not be able to do that?
Three hour changes at the state line sounds like fun. I approve this plan.
The news media are owned by the same people who own healthcare, and they target anyone who threatens the value of healthcare companies, not the "mature and reasonable."

Compromise between the two specific parties that run the US government is not obviously reasonable. Completely ineffective compromises between a party who explicitly wants to preserve industry profits and another party who wants to appear like they do not while still maintaining their healthcare industry donor base - that they do often manage to come to an agreement is why our healthcare is not only the most expensive in the world, but also the most complicated.

Our large press is captive, not this force for extremism and disruption that you see it as.
Here is an example where different sides end up with a completely different conclusions based on the same information:
https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/129892365389613056...

It’s probably not worthwhile discussing this particular case in HN, but it’s not rare for me to scroll my Facebook feed and see completely different interpretations of the same event.
Fidelity Investments brokerage and cash management accounts have a limit of $1000 a day, and I have four of them, so I can get $4000.

I recently learned that some Chase Bank ATMs inside branches used with Chase ATM cards can get $3000 in one transaction. I did it the first time a few days ago.
Every economic system ends up with both a carrot and a stick.

In some systems, there is the idea that people will take only what they need, and they will of course work hard for the common good. Once the reality of human nature makes it clear that this is a fantasy, out come the rifles and prison camps.

In other systems, the carrot and stick are just natural consequences of nobody intervening. If you don't work, that's fine... but you won't earn anything, and you thus won't be able to convince other people to provide you with things like electricity.

We can adjust the economic system to be more one way or the other. Pretending that the carrot and stick need not exist is a path to hyperinflation, which is a stick applied recklessly to everybody.
It's the opposite - you have version 0.6.0, but the hello world there is for the latest master version of zig which can be downloaded at https://ziglang.org/download
Solar noon in Boston is somewhere between 11:27 and 11:58 EST (so an hour later EDT), but solar noon in San Francisco is somewhere between 11:53 and 12:23 PST. The earliest twilight in Boston is 4:11 PM; the earliest twilight in San Francisco is 4:50 PM (both in early December).

That is, solar noon in San Francisco is pretty well lined up with civil noon or a bit later, and so DST makes it noticeably late, and our circadian rhythms prefer ending DST there. But solar noon in Boston is usually about half an hour earlier than civil time, which means that DST puts it just half an hour later instead. You have to pick one - either you're waking up half an hour earlier than your body wants, or you're staying at work half an hour later. Neither is really great.

(The best solution might be to convince businesses in Boston to shift their schedules half an hour earlier - not a full hour earlier, as permanent DST does.)
> was going to write that there's no reason you'd want financial debt qua financial debt.

Yes you actually do want debt because it is tax shield.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_shield
Did they mention the consequence if you don't enable it?
Every one who agrees
> Federal law says you can jailbreak your phone or tablet and put whatever you want on it, and Apple cannot stop you from doing that.

That's a strange one. In patching security holes, Apple are actively preventing people from jailbreaking their phones. And they should be. So that argument seems ... problematic. This kind of thing was never about making it easy to jailbreak your devices. Actually, it's kind of about the opposite: you should be able to own a device that runs code of your choosing and also have that device not be riddled with security vulnerabilities. (And, despite Apple's bizarre insistence to the contrary, this is very possible).
> but it really seems that for the population as a whole

Our society is calibrated with the assumption that you will wake up early. Early bird gets the worm and all that, but everything is essentially rigged toward it. From the time/daylight, to school start time, going by quiet hours (hope you enjoy jack hammers starting at 7am stats, because by most city's ordinance, that's not only allowed, it's NORMAL. And to start at 7, the trucks and crew have to start getting ready long before that).

I assume a large part of it is the emphasis on family and kids, and generally for people with young children, early morning isn't really early.

But for a lot of people...ouch.

Considering all the literature around the issues related to sleep deprivation, and how so many people are sleep deprived (likely related to a lot of mental issues, stress, and various other health problems), we really need to work and optimize around making it possible for people to sleep enough. As things are, if you can, it's just dumb luck.
Well that’s not strictly true because of the effects of fragmentation. A few years ago I could get practically anything I wanted to watch from Netflix; today I’d have to manage subscriptions and search and watch queues and UX across seven or eight different accounts just to get the same size catalog. I really hope that doesn’t happen with App stores too - but it seems to me that Epic is trying to do to gaming what Disney+ did to video content.
Because most people roll out of bed and go to work for 8-9 hours and would like to see some sunlight before they roll back into bed.
It is not an abuse of power when you created a phone many years ago, and when it was way less popular you told everyone beforehand that it will be impossible on install random software, only though store.

It is called a built-in feature and iPhones were designed with it from the very start.
You've described a monopoly. Please google duopoly now.

Also feel free to familiarize yourself with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

By your logic, companies should be able to price fix and collude in any way they see fit because it's more than one company. Facepalm.
Elon's work with tesla + spacex has greater value than any other entrepreneur this decade. He is honest, just pushes timelines back
> Not surprised at all that most projects to modernize end up as smoldering craters rather than functioning systems.

This is because people think rewriting is a solution. It very never is. It can help, rarely, but it's never the solution, it just does a good job of hiding what the solution was.

If you can't map out what is really broken in your legacy system and map out a way to refactor it to what you want then a rewrite will always fail.
yea I mostly only get that in places like Thailand where older houses do not have a grounded plug
Yeah, I'd rather not take a 0.1% chance of losing my rights for life over some spam email.
I remember the first time something like this happened: Drum machines. All my drummer friends were seriously in their cups. OTOH, they complained that the machines were too perfect, without the human touch. OTOH, they complained that it was impossible to play that perfectly, so they were out of a job.

In the end, there were still drummers, and it is generally recognized that live drumming is, aesthetically speaking, a different thing than sequenced, sampled drum tracks.

I've never heard a drum machine that can truly capture the sound and feel of John Bonham, Keith Moon, Stuart Copeland, or Ringo Starr. It's just a different thing.
I doubt things are that simple.

See my before-last paragraph above: no, regarding hardware video acceleration, even Chrome doesn't do what you describe. What you describe stands for non-video content crashes, which isn't what's being discussed here. Could the technique you mention be applied to video gpu crashes? I personally don't know and I'd lean towards "nope" (else Mozilla & Google engineers wouldn't be so exceedingly cautious about it). If anyone is knowledgeable enough to precise / contradict this, please chime in.

At any rate, even Chrome is built with zero hardware video acceleration support on Linux (hardware acceleration yes, hardware video acceleration no). Chromium does offer the option, just as hidden behind flags as Firefox, and until last month you had to build it yourself with a VAAPI patch left unmerged for years by Chromium devs.
Take a wild guess.

(it's digital rights management and "Woo, PCs are scary!")