skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, you could stop using their products, but you could also argue that when you buy a product (and not a software license), you should be able to do what you like with that product. It should certainly be within the customers rights to use a physical product the best way they see fit and not the best way the manufacturer sees fit. I mean: I paid for it outright, I received what essentially is a computer by all means and now the manufacturer would like to continue having a say in how I can use it.

I‘ll admit that having the Apple iOS ecosystem is of certain value, but Apple doesn‘t even allow you to install your own OS. My point is that if I buy a hammer, should I be forced to use it only for hammering nails or could I use it for other things as well?
> Key characters must be from under-represented groups

They use the movie Parasite as an example, but wouldn't it be disqualified under this standard? It was made in South Korea, and has zero non-ethnically-Korean characters, key or not. Surely Koreans don't qualify as an under-represented group in their own 96% ethnically-Korean country?
There aren't many platforms there are exactly two. And the costs of switching between them are significant enough that this argument holds less water by the day.
Ok, good luck with that sentiment, kids. If you want the ”crazy benefits” of parenthood, becoming one is not that difficult. Be prepared for a severe loss of quality of life and wealth in the short (0-21 years) run though.
This is bullshit. Unless it clearly says at boot 'continuing will permanently prevent your CPU from being used in a non Dell computer y/n?' they are asking for a lawsuit for damaging hardware
The most horrendous spaces of the US, showing the car lobby successes on PR, ond how they influenced the average mindset
>A game deployed to an iPhone could theoretically be acquired through an alternative app store or just direct download

This is false; unless theoretically means there's no concept of "money" involved in our world.

A game deployed to an iPhone must be compatible with the hardware chip supplied on the iPhone, must be built using APIs designed, built and committed to be supported by the iPhone.

Apps can't be built out of thin air. Programming languages, debuggers, IDEs, distributions channels, commitment to support cost money, time and people's energy. Apple, as a private business, can choose to monetize however they wish to. It would be really dumb for the govt or other parties to dictate what pricing policies Apple has to set for a product they're building. Heck, they're free to ask for a million dollars for each copy of Xcode people use.

Apple is trying to balance the costs of building an iPhone ecosystem with the benefits of ease of accessibility to that ecosystem.

Customers pay Apple to handle _everything_ from rearranging sand to naming functions accessible to developer to make the iPhone.
play.fortnite.com cannot come soon enough. React and Flutter are doing 120fps right? At least 60fps I know.
The article is a nice attempt at deconvoluting the various factors that may have changed.
From my personal experience the subjective sluggishness cones from the unbelievable number of third party connections on every webpage visit. Setting up a Pi-hole has done wonders for the responsiveness of most websites.
Not _at all_ true where I work.

I work with folks who have kids and folks that don't. There is absolutely no sign of this. I interact with a fairly large group of people; everybody is understanding and supportive.

Now. Perhaps I'm in a lucky bubble here, and it's different in other places. Perhaps the article is click-bait. Hard to know.

In the end it seems rather pointless to build up resentment this way anyway. There is so much evidence that a good work-live balance has a greater impact on productivity than skill - engineers who work less often get done more.

Managers who do not understand that should, frankly, do something else.
I agree with what you're saying here, and Paradox is a good example. Hearts of Iron IV has a solid modding community, and while it can have a steep(ish) learning curve, that's sort of the point. That variety of what can happen in-game helps keep gamers coming back for more.
Oh man, the US release, at least of the original Final Fantasy had so many bugs in the combat system, you could just about throw the manual in the trash.

- All weapons special effects would never trigger
- They failed to dereference the index for critical hits, so the higher index the weapon had, the better its critical rate
- A bunch of spells either don't work or have the opposite effect they are supposed to
- The code for calculating run chance is so terribly messed up, it reads the wrong field from 2 characters down (so the last two characters read from some coincidental memory location causing them to be unlikely to run)

[edit]

Found a fairly comprehensive list of bugs; totaling nearly 50:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/522595-final-fantasy/45...
I am baking this feature right into my community-building software. Anyone can at any time export all the content and rebuild it into a new site with identical threads, thread IDs, parent-child structure, user IDs, and even allow the same user accounts to pick up where they left off. :)
Trump has created over 500 business with about 4 of them going bankrupt. Last I checked 2/3 businesses fail. Atlantic City has a lot more problems than bankrupt casinos. The entire state is democrat run (Corey Booker Anyone?) and it's not like Trump's casino is the only one to fail in AC. Conversely the Trump hotel in Vegas is doing just fine even without a casino. That kind of ruins your whole Trump is inept argument on the casino front or else that one would be bankrupt too regardless of location.
I used WordPerfect in my first job as a tech writer. It was beneficial to have a separation between writing and the layout done by desktop publishing systems.

As a programmer building websites, I do the same thing, writing in vim. Learning how to make your editor work for you is a great investment.
https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/6291 "I have put together a version of GrandView 2.0 for DOS that is completely portable, fully functional, and ready to run on any modern version of Windows, using vDos-lfn, a variant of the excellent DOS emulator vDos.*"

I have used this off and on for a few years with relative success (and pleasure).
Is there a downside to blowing that anti-blow fuse? Can its state be read?
Like previously stated being able to change the vote is crucial to limit the effectiveness of voter intimidation. You simply vote however your intimidator orders you, and then you change your vote afterwards.

It also has the benefits of allowing voters who in absentee vote early for a candidate that later drops out (i.e. Washington State voters who voted for Elizabeth Warren) to correct their vote based on this new information.

Regarding monitoring. Mail in ballots are sent to the polling place on election night for counting. They are counted just like any other ballots and can be monitored as easily as in-person ballots. I suppose e-votes could as easily be printed out and counted in the same place.
Ask HN: Any open problems in PHP that need solving?
I’ve have a decade of PHP development under my belt and have been reflecting on why PHP, despite recent improvements to language, is still problematic. One side of me says that the community should just let PHP be “PHP”; if a Typescript for PHP were made, would the community embrace it or lament it? The other side of me says that it’s not PHP, the language, that is problematic, it’s simply _how_ it is used; for example, PHP frameworks—although useful and serve a purpose—don’t really result in less debugging time nor do they make code more literate or smaller in scope.

So the question I pose is: A. Should PHP as a language be augmented, like TS does for JS, or B. Should the community focus on the methodology of PHP to make development simpler? What are some concrete propositions you can imagine that argue for either case?

I think any PHP developer can propose more than one new feature they would like to see. As for A, I personally would like to see an actual native module system. As for B, I would like to see less MVC frameworks and more macro systems within the ecosystem.
The question is why did he need that specific php version? Was there something that required it and if so could that be isolated?
I'm very sorry for your bad experiences.

If you are comfortable giving some examples of that bad behavior and what it looked like I'd be happy to watch out for it and call anyone on that bad behavior so others don't have to experience it.
Read the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

You can believe what you want, obviously. But understand without evidence, your claims are baseless.
I know lots of FB employees that have taken mental health leave this year far in excess of any leave parents have taken. It’s simply not true that there’s no option for non-parents.
If someone's spouse is having a mental health crisis, dealing with that during work hours is not generally permitted, because a spouse is not a child.
The US basically owns the printing press that they can run for free that other people need to earn for with hard labor. So comparing any country to US is not right - US can make a lot of mistakes and still feel zero repercussions.
> I tried really hard to move to protonmail and detach from a Google ecosystem, but really struggled to import my existing emails ...
The apps don't seem to behave well on MacOS either,

I moved my emails and docs to iCloud, native apps, no problems.
In fact Australian Consumer Law flat out holds them liable for costs due to problems a seller could have reasonably foreseen
Replying to say you are correct and GUI/Windows WordPerfect was completely 100% broken when dealing with 'closing tags'. Some people knew & liked to use the codes, but the basic GUI editing was just defective and caused your formatting to spill out randomly. (at least in vs 5 & 6)

Obviously I get this with HTML, but the Mac & MS Word approach of 'object oriented formatting' was just a much better execution for mouse operation.
After the lesson of WMD fake news many years ago that lead to disastrous war thousands of life lost, today there are still so many people behave based on the information that they know from indirect sources. I'm a little surprised that this is hacker news which means majority of audience are rational so they can differentiate belief and fact. (In this situation fact is unreachable just like what Iraq did: if you give the investigator access it just give the lair more credit and make lie more deceitful. CPP may or may not know that.)

This strange phenomenon that large population can be cheated again and again puzzled me for long time until recently after HK demonstration and BLM. People (I'm not referring rioters) act based on fake information, create fake/untrue information by distorted narrative. My hypothesis is there's some evolutionary reason behind it: Human intelligence were evolved and perfected from thousands years of fight. It's part of metabolism of society. People need cause as a spiritual stimulus to fight. Evil is a human invention to launch attack to other humans called enemy to justify their aggression.

There are a couple of guys who seem to be against this irrational trend but they are also victim of exact the same human cognition flaw. One guy is Bret Weinstein,an evolutionary biologist. He is a smart smart rational professor who had fought against a movement seems to have high moral ground but distort the truth in reality. But when he mentioned "organ harvest"in China as if it's a fact(Most Chinese people know where the story comes from) , I suddenly found he himself became another version of his former enemy who fight for "Good" cause as if he a decent human being, without question the facts. He is doing exactly what he was against.

Good cause as a spiritual demand is a drug that lead sane people into delusion. It's so attractive that people need it so much , they create their own reality, reinforce beliefs within peers, occasionally resulted in war with other group who don't have the same illusion.
Nota Bene although no longer text based still exists and is actively developed. Nota Bene used the XyWrite word processor engine. XyWrite was very popular in news rooms back in the day.
You should read the HN guidelines before making claims about how horrific they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Cool. Get it via F-Droid instead.
When the epidemic started, we were infused by "working from home is good", now that the epidemic seems to wind down, we are seeing headlines like this "working from home is not sustainable or it is bad". This is how the people in general are influenced.

From my personal experience I am a lot less stressed by working from home.
I'm on my second oneplus phone and I am surprised with their update cycle, full OS updates and security patches coming well after other OEMs abandon their devices. Their android flavor doesn't deviate a lot from stock android of course which makes it easier and a lot of their features are done via stand alone apps rather than being baked into the OS.
I'd guess this https://documentation.tardigrade.io/

Which is blockchain related.
This reminds me of the Richard Jewell case I saw on the news as a kid. I remember how the news went on about him having nails in his garage and I was like "WTF? That's the best evidence they have?" even as a kid.

He was, of course, not merely acquitted but proven innocent later. I think they made a movie about that this year, but due to Covid it's been a long while since I've seen anything.
I would find this more compelling if you gave examples or countries that had a stronger response, otherwise I don't see a reason to criticize this move.
Wait till your microwave oven doesn't want to cook the food you want and paid for.
Something recent that's been under-reported. The US, the country pulling an accidental Sweden, has seen a 33% decline in new cases since mid-July. The narrative is still that the US has done worse than any other developed country, but look at Spain and France. Both have surpassed their ~April peaks, have per capita new infection rates above the US.

How's Sweden's new case rates? Stable, and 1/4 of the US's.

The list of countries that have been able to maintain their low case counts is getting shorter, and the US is looking less exceptional in its response.

"Listen to the epidemiologists" only works for a bit. It turns out psychology was just as important.
How to make a living as a UI/UX designer
Ask HN: How much time developer should take to write dockerfile
Assuming you knew little bit about docker, how much time would dev require to write dockerfile (configure dependencies and make production usable).

Also, I'm looking for approximate time and what would you recommend to junior dev or senior dev who are just starting with docker.

Basically i'm looking for some realistic experience with timeline dev would take as my company going start using this technology. I love to hear your thoughts on it.
Why would this not be a warning before a delist wtf
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got
Til its gone
That's the one. It's an impossible looking shot that even if you know how to do VFX is hard to figure out. It's actually done with a combination of some pretty simple techniques, but like any good bit of magic, it only seems obvious after you've been told the trick.
Personally I never had this problem, but some friends complain that, in their workplaces, they are automatically supposed to be on-call or available to travel on short notice because they were single/childless.

Every place has its particular culture, I guess.
Context (?): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
The entire arguments of the left can be summarized as Orange Man Bad despite having no new wars, record 401ks, tax breaks for the middle class (I got one), the first president to openly support gay marriage upon taking office. (none of that obama 6 year in change of mind bullshit because midterms are over), Passed the first step act that freed people incacerated by Joe Biden's crime bill, etc.

The reason why the democrats are going to lose in November is because they cried wolf too many times. Charlottesville is a perfect example. Anyone who listen to the full transcript can tell clear as day what Trump said vs what people tried to allege. The mocking of the crippled guy was another one. You can tell the left is panicking too. They are shutting down comments, censoring ideas, intimidating naysayers, and basically devolving into the fascists they say they hate. Don't believe me? I'll pay you $1000 to wear a BLM hat to a Trump rally, and a MAGA hat to a BLM rally and you tell me which one was more accepting.
Minecraft is the best game I have ever played in 25 years of playing games. Nothing like it. A masterpiece. Once in a generation masterwork. Created an avenue for creativity for a generation. It's for the history books.
Most BBC articles are written with the UK in mind. In this case it gives advice to the UK readers in case they receive unsolicited packages, like the ones they recently reported about in their US section.

I do not see how this is lazy journalism, it's just an article that caters for a UK audience written by a UK media company.
> If hypothetically all nations agreed on world peace

In a perfect world, that would work. We don't live in a perfect world, which is why virtually no society has ever disbanded their armed forces and lived to tell about it.

Similarly, in a perfect world, we could treat every individual exactly fairly and never given someone slightly more than they should have. But in this real fallen world we live in, sometimes the best we've got is simplistic decision rules like "support categories of people who do work that is essential for society to survive".
Somewhere between 5 minutes and a month.
FYI: if you hold these opinions, it would be wise of you to not voice them in public at work. Most of your bosses have kids, and as a parent myself I struggle to think of anything that would cause more resentment on my part than idiotic bullshit like this.
I really wish there was a third party - the customer - actually represented in this trial. Apple and Epic arguing over what is best for the customer, while clearly they are having their own interests in mind, screams for the actual customers to be represented.

The whole argument about them promoting an app „for free“ is a bit ridiculous. They clearly knew the amount of commission they were going to earn from pushing that app through their App Store - so please admit that you clearly didn‘t do this out of the good of your hearts.

The same goes for the portrayal of „look how much money they made through us“ - yes - and look at how much money they made you along the way. I mean if Epic made 600 million, than you made about 260 million - from the very same people that paid you for the hardware.

I think if the App Store is such a tremendous value, why don‘t you ask users to pay for access to that App Store directly. Let‘s see how valuable everybody thinks the App Store is when they actually have to pay an access fee directly to Apple.
I'm not advocating for the mindset there, but can't you see a justification of why that might be? I think reasonable people can debate whether or not overpopulation is the main contributor to the environmental disaster upon us that is an existential crises for humans on this planet. Under that perspective, wouldn't those who chose not to have children, while it was an unpopular option, be the heroes?
In exchange for a strict policy that makes sure employee output is equivalent across the board, would you agree to sign away all future societal benefits paid for by the younger generations? (when you are old) If you aren't willing to do that, aren't you being a hypocrite by saying you'd rather cash in on those kids in the future?
I take it as a direct response to Epic argument that them being banned from App Store somehow prevents them from supporting iOS game developers and said developers going out of business.
It was real. They built their own language and compiler to compile to undocumented windows API calls because MS wouldn't share in the early days while they established a WYSIWYG foothold.

In the corel days they finally decided to port to actual win32 code and put aside the custom transpilation
34m ads on each page load? Why not use an ad serving network?
A lot of people will die waiting for the vaccine. I haven't seen the CDC and FDA spokesmen take this publicly into account.
Almost a computer on Arduino with 40 keys keyboard and 2.8” TFT screen
You can't actually sign up and pay for Spotify premium inside the iOS app, and I believe Netflix and Amazon Prime Video fall into a different "streaming video" category where they pay 15% instead of 30%, with some caveats: they must support both Airplay and AppleTV (exposing their entire video catalogues to Apple), and some other smaller things.

It's all silly and arbitrary, and video game creators have been understandably upset for a long time.
But you can ship a packet of flower seeds (cost: 10 cents and a stamp) instead of your expensive product, and your tracking obligation is dealt with.
For comparison, the new system setup in Australia allow you to send payments using lots of unique identifiers using a registry. So most banks let me link my bank account to my mobile phone number with various confirmation steps, and that number is all that is required for someone to send me funds. Email address is similarly possible for people (although I haven't seen a bank that has implemented that yet), and business numbers for businesses.
I mean, sorry, but that does seems kind of scummy on the developer’s part.
I enjoyed reading most of this - only really got dull in the latter analytical solutions bit
That doesn't happen in Android. Probably neither in iOS even if it's allowed.
Faces: The Key to Happy Places
That only region locks the motherboard. The CPU would only be locked after it has been used in the motherboard, not before, which necessarily means you already have the CPU in question. So there wouldn't be any barrier to CPU movement across regions.

As in for your example there isn't anything stopping you from buying a CPU from anyone, including US retailers, and using it in an SGI EU motherboard. The CPU itself isn't locked when new, this signing key locking isn't baked into the CPU at the factory. It happens when you plop it into the socket & fire it up for the first time.
You are asserting that I have some duty to do favors for parents? Should I do their dry cleaning, and get them a coffee if it's 'more convenient' as well?
Running the only app store and banning all others is less than free, it makes them piles of money in many ways.
> In fact, the only successful Asian states i.e. Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, S. Korea, and Hong Kong - were established and reformed by Anglo-American powers.

I think that says enough about your worldview to preclude engaging with you. I suppose I should be wistful that my country didn't have the opportunity to be nuked and/or occupied by Anglo-Americans. (A specious enough category as it is)

It takes a certain level of historical ignorance and narcissism over and above your garden variety American-exceptionalism to say something like:

> The US occupied vast swaths of the world after WW2, and instead of permanent occupation and extraction of wealth and resources, the US set up, where it could some of the most successful civilizations in history.
QuickLens 2.0 is now live on the Mac App Store
Go for this book, it changed my life: "The Elements of Style was listed as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923 by Time in its 2011 list"
What? Why should I even trust them vs Google/other big corp?