skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many years ago I was using an MCA (multi channel analyzer) ISA card connected to a surface barrier detector to measure beta decay spectra. This stuff basically counts the number of pulses from the detector binning them according to the height of the signal. It had its own acquisition software meant for DOS (the manufacturer provided the sources as well).

The thing is you could operate it under Windows (98) in protected mode, but then you lost statistics. How come? Well, Windows scheduling meant that the MCA only took data while it was allotted time slices, as a result the dead time of the whole setup increased, and you couldn't tell by how much.

Under real mode DOS it took advantage of DOS being almost an RTOS and the program running as a single task and you could be pretty confident about your data.

I don't think using adapters with this sort of cards is a good idea. It's not a matter of drivers, sometimes the old stuff simply doesn't work well when plugged in newer systems because everything has changed and you need to redesign everything. If the old stuff does the job, the OS being unsupported only becomes an insurmountable problem for the folks that consider using an unsupported OS some sort of crime in itself. Well, there's usually more than just an abstract computer being used in such circumstances.
Fascinating to see other possibilities that were out there. Were the capabilities in Hydra the inspiration for what Fuchsia OS has, or are they a long standing concept?
Your point -as I understood it- was that they do work the same amount, just not on work-stuff, ergo they should be treated as if they worked the same amount on work stuff. And you can absolutely work on hobbies just the same.

Kids are a choice, first and foremost. And we are, as societies, helping quite a bit with the consequences of those choices, and yes, that's mostly funded by the single people.
Mr Fitter
Parents in tech firms in developed countries are reproducing below the replacement rate already.

Regardless, you need a next generation for society to continue to function.
You'd probably have an OS with GUI for non-essential services like lights, intercoms, A/C etc. And present some additional info in nice graphics: the state of carriages, situation ahead on the line (as a complement to just flashing a green/red light on the board). The rest would run RTOSes or similar.
Well, if they were charging 30% maybe you could expect those services.
How to choose an FPGA dev board: a comprehensive guide for 2020
I guess I'm not sure how to respond. It's not about bars specifically; it's about returning to an environment where people are free to crowd about if they'd like. As long as there are top-down rules to micromanage where I can go and how many others I can go with, the problem isn't solved. "Maybe we should just get used to those rules" isn't a solution - in all but the hardest-hit areas, the rules are most of the problem!
Menus ≠ filesystems.

POSIX will last forever because it’s simple, standard, solid, portable and fairly flexible (see FUSE). DOS will last forever because inertia is the only reason Windows still exists, and MS knows this and prioritizes backwards compatibility, eg. it’s still basically impossible to name a file CON on Windows 10 because of backwards compatibility.
It's a much better value than ProtonMail
> it is a multi-billion dollar enterprise that simply wants to pay nothing for the tremendous value it derives from the App Store.

Half true. EPIC doesn't really get any value from the App Store except data delivery, which they're more than willing to do themselves. Fortnite is popular enough that the app discovery part of the store is meaningless.
As someone who loves to cook, I don't fully agree.

60% of cooking is logistics: knowing what to eat, setting time aside for grocery shopping and meal preparation, and keeping food waste to a minimum. In my opinion, this is a lot harder than the actual cooking.

If you've never done it before, it's surprisingly hard. Cooking in a well-organised, well-stocked kitchen is very different from starting with an empty pantry, blunt knives and no idea of what to do.
Privacy. /s
with super low fertility rates (b) is especially important... and something a bit frightening for anyone who is looking at retirement in 20-30 years
You pay Apple a developer fee. It's not free.
Was surprised not to see the VAX/VMS filesystem on the list. It had both stream and record based files, versioning, and a fairly rich ACL setup.
“My financial portfolio is as valuable and takes more time than your human babies”
— You must have a Master’s degree in Empathy from Trump University.
The thing that really annoys me about this entire argument is that the principal of the thing isn't really controversial. Apple provides a tonne of services (SDKs, marketplace, payment processing) that other people also provide and also charge for. It's not that controversial - in fact, Epic's Unreal Engine has the exact same revenue share terms as Apple. The only thing that's really controversial here is that 30% is quite a high share, and Apple has to pull out all the stops to protect that 30% becuase of how high a share that is.

I think it's a very hard push to claim Apple is a monopoly. It's just a damn good platform that's able to claim a disporportionate share of the revenue because it's so damn good. The whole moralistic histrionics from Hey, Epic, and Apple are total rubbish though.
Look at the US conquest and occupation of Germany vs. the Russian. There was a massive difference.
Masa Madness
I look forward to hearing an argument about how game consoles are nearly as important to society or as ubiquitous, as smart phones.
What stops you from using other OSes with much better quality control?
I think from Apple's perspective here Epic's move did two things.

It denied both Apple and Epic revenue by decreasing sales.

It moved revenue from Apple to Epic by moving the commission on the sales that did happen from Apple to Epic. I believe this is what they're complaining about with the "lined Epic’s pockets at Apple’s expense", i.e. they are arguing that they are entitled to that commission on the transactions that went through the 3rd party payment provider.
Elementary OS for me.
Apart from Catalina, I’ve been satisfied with macOS release quality.
They seem not quite the same to me. A game built with Unreal Engine is essentially powered by it and would not exist otherwise. A game deployed to an iPhone could theoretically be acquired through an alternative app store or just direct download. Apple's app store provides no utility to developers other than being the forced walled monopoly that all developers must list through.

The proper analogy to Epic charging for its game engine is Apple charging for its developer licenses - which it already does separately from the app store.
Hey, that's pretty good!
Looming in the background are torts. If vaccine makers are forced to race ahead of safety in order to get to market and one turns out to be insufficiently safe, the manufacturer may get sued into the ground.

By agreeing not to jump the safety protocol, they are continuing to both limit their liability directly (by ensuring a safer product) and adhere to best-practices (which might help in a future court case).
What physical property of Apple's is involved here? There's intellectual property, but at the end of the day the purpose of their Intellectual Property Rights in this scenario is to ensure that after paying them $1000 for a phone they still get to collect 30% of all the purchases you make using that phone in perpetuity (as long as they can get away with it), while also limiting what you can do with your Physical Property that you paid for.

I suppose if you don't like it you can go buy an Android phone and just give away all your data in addition to the 30%.

Also worth considering: How much of Apple's intellectual property here could exist without them harvesting decades of free/open software development history unpaid? And now they're complaining that someone used their SDK after paying the license fees?
Another way of thinking about it is that we are all likely to have children at some point, so is a phase that a lot of people go through in their careers, you may not feel like they are working as hard as you (and maybe they aren’t) but if you do end up having kids then they will likely be picking up your slack while you are raising your little ones.
Heya - just a note that I build these kinds of PaaS platforms for a living - if you need a hand building a super-massive cluster for lots of users, let me know!
The "working class" in that context doesn't mean the whole working class including those discriminated against. They tend to get ignored when talking about the good old days of the "in group" as usual. They had an artifically deflated labor pool that kept out competitors driving up their wages, effectively a cartel. This bigotry in labor was also the seed of their downfall as those excluded started their own and undid the monopoly on labor bargining. Cartels either hold the world back or are passed by it. The gatekeeping approach has failed recursively with non-union shop prevalence, increased automation paired with professionalization as opposed to trade shifts, and outsourcing.

From what little I can tell about many European labor union styles they avoided this shortsighted xenophobic fracturing of their bargining power.
The thinking is that the country probably wouldn't be so wonderful if the people were not in the habit of complaining about some of the things that aren't that wonderful.
Lack of empathy has been a common trait among problem employees that were too good at their job to simply suggest removal.

My buttons are more around things like constantly making work harder for everybody else and then dismissing complaints or slowness because it works for them, but I have no illusions that this sort of selfishness comes in only one flavor.

My favorite games are teams. My favorite workplaces are teams. And while I've worked at lots of places, in big groups, I've only worked on a few Teams that weren't in name only.
> I don't see how.

I suggest you read up on this dispute then, because the whole cause of this dispute is that Epic believes the contract violates anti-trust law.
We should have had a serious national discussion about letting low risk volunteers be exposed to the virus to rapidly progress through Phase 3, right?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01179-x
Samsung just doesn't care. OnePlus does a lot (they have their own fork, OxygenOS) and their own apps, etc. Samsung has the resources to keep up with Android. The Android Betas were available for months, AOSP commits are open, etc. They simply don't prioritize this for some reason.
Article describes Multics’ ability to have a file's directory entry on disk but its contents on tape, so trying to access its contents will cause it to be retrieved from tape, and then asks "Is something like this offered on any POSIX-compatible file system?"

What the article is describing is basically just HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management), which is a commercially available technology – e.g. Sun/Oracle SAM-QFS on Solaris, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager on AIX, DFSMShsm on z/OS.

Windows NTFS also supports HSM, although the core NTFS itself only provides features necessary to implement HSM (such as FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE and reparse points), and you need an add-on to Windows to actually use those features to produce a full HSM solution. (Actually Windows itself used to include such a solution, Remote Storage Service, but Microsoft removed it in Windows Server 2008 onwards; but the underlying functionality is still there in NTFS, and available for third party HSM implementations to exploit.)
Sorry to flatly contradict you, but the size of Apple’s cut is not at all controversial. It has never been a crime to be expensive.

The legal controversy is that Apple prohibit apps from advertising, linking to, or even mentioning that external account management/payment/service sign-up options are available.

This forces vendors to become complicit in misleading the consumer about their options, an anti-competitive position that distorts a market.

Some journalists may choose to focus on the 30% out of sheer crassness. Don’t be misled by sub-par reporting.
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/brick is popular in the Haskell world.
Then why does human nature seem to produce such behaviors so often?
If apple is countersuing for lost revenue due to fortnites in app payment system, does this mean apple will need justify the value of their 30% cut, and in turn potentially have a judge declare its too much?
It would be interesting if a "file type" existed to provide these more complex operations, and if those could also be bound to a daemon running with provided parameters.

This would allow for a filesystem name linked to a database API / any other daemon or program.

I also love the TRAP (related to above) and both directory operations. Quotas can sort of fulfill the space limits thing (but I've never bothered using such a system and haven't been on a system that did). Append Only directories are a far harder beast to slay, but would very nicely fulfill many queue submission systems.
Lobbying plus this bit from the article:

> Under a longstanding agreement with the IRS called Free File, Intuit and other tax prep companies promised to offer free products to most Americans; in exchange, the IRS agreed not to create a free government tax filing option that would compete with the industry.
It is legal and normal to discriminate on the basis on how much work you do. I think you can even legally discriminate on whether someone is a parent - protected classes are Age, Race, National Origin, Religious Beliefs, Gender, Disability, Pregnancy and Veteran Status.
Are you seriously suggesting that you should only have kids if you have the resources to fully support them in a once-in-a-century pandemic wherein half of civil society collapses around them?

You're right that it's an unpopular opinion, because it's an extraordinarily dumb one.
I don't have kids and I don't think this is a good take on the issue considering that part of the reason that parents are having a difficult time is because of how their government managed the pandemic.
Yes, but I find the ones that aren't clearly condescending/antagonistic tend to be a lot more accurate. Ones like "women can't drive" aren't coming purely from a place of earnest observation, but from a desire to other and mock another demographic. That makes them suspect, because you know the originators of the stereotype were going out of their way to find something bad.
The problem is that nobody can even define output accurately. I know people who output more in 25% of the time than some of their peers manage at 100%. But that's not how compensation in this industry is structured, so it is moot.
Apple’s contract is completely normal though. Resale distribution channels for locked in platforms aren’t new: Ticketmaster, PlayStation, Nintendo, Xbox, etc

The only difference is people want to change the rules because they feel Apple (and Google) have won the game forever and App Stores should now be regulated like utilities.
Hmm, "at their expense" sounds incredibly accurate to me, but outside of the literal interpretation, this is usually used in a more dramatic way.
I think this is the right IFR for the US, maybe a confidence interval is necessary however. In early April, data scientists paid by ARSGE calculated the IFR in france based on the diamond princess and found .7%, +- .2%, and estimated the high early IFR in spain and Italy was due to missing asymptomatic people and mismanagement. This pdf should still be available.

US having a relatively younger population, .65% seems correct.
Engineers with Retinitis Pigmentosa
I am an engineering teacher in Central Texas with a new student who has retinitis pigmentosa. Is there anyone who would be interested in contacting me to discuss how I can help this 9th grader in his efforts?
Disabling data will make a big difference on smartphones. I usually use airplane mode for hiking (disabling it only when I need to check the weather or make a call) and have no trouble lasting a week, except in subzero temperatures.
Certainly matches my experience. Panopticon at work.
Sure, that makes sense.

My comment was based on Fauci's recent comments saying approval could happen as soon as next month if there are enough infections in the control group.

It seems to me that what he is implying is that the risk of long-term side effects would not be worth blocking approval of a vaccine if the vaccine proved to be effective in preventing the virus.
It's still live. Just can't be downloaded or updated. But you can still make purchases with it if you've already got it on your phone.
The way these things are worded only protect from unintentional damage.
I too would love to read more about this. It sounds like a great general purpose solution.

Are there any mandatory parts? Assuming not, how does sorting work? Was it a matter of sort orders being pre-programmed for more common fields (e.g. sort by last name first, then by first name) and an assumption that any name that didn't include any of the pre-programmed parts was just stuck at the end? Was it even an issue? (i.e. how many people even had a name consisting entirely of "uncommon" fields?)

Edit: Another question. You said just two fields in the secondary table (perhaps you where simplifying though...). How does display work? Presumably the user expects their grandfather's middle initial to be printed in a particular location relative to all of the other parts of their name.
I'm pretty sure this is a made up story. I also rarely see parents work less - usually they're happy to work late to avoid having to go home and look after the kids. :)
> It does? What about genetic drift, random mutations, and artificial selection, where humans select based on qualities not necessarily conducive to survival?

It seems unlikely to be due to these factors since there's a gradient from black to white as you move away from the equator.
All About the Pixels
It meant something more violent then today.
Canada has online filing too. And there is a fully free software (StudioTax), that you can use for up to 20 filings. Its not the prettiest, but I have never paid to file my taxes (except to the gov't of course ;-) ).
As the OP, it's like the others say, Apple is bigger in the US. But also, you can still message Android users because it seamlessly switches over to SMS.

This of course makes it usually more expensive for the Android user to respond. But due to the level of iMessage use they don't have an alternatives. And most plans are now quite generous with SMS bundles anyway.
Interesting, good point. I read your comment as suggesting a company with strict published policies around kids, benefits, work requirements, etc.

Didn't consider the case where individual conversations might run afoul of the law.
I've said it several times. Grab an episode of No Agenda and give it a listen. Alternatively, check out any of the times he has filled in for Alex Jones on Infowars; a quick Google turns up the August 9, 2017 episode.
Shh, if you say that too loud, the presidential administration will just indemnify them.
Good news is that COVID (and coronaviruses in general) don't seem to have the same kind of mutation potential to bypass immune system responses like influenza does. So our best guess is that a COVID vaccine will be like Tdap or MMR, i.e. after the initial course you maybe only need occasional booster shots (if even that), vs influenza where it mutates enough that a new vaccine must be developed and administered every year.
What if "woodworking" was replaced with "volunteer firefighting"?
Great graphs on that site, 57% of ICU in beds in use by COVID patients on 7/13 to 13% on 9/7. Seems like the peak has passed, but like you said it could be due to an increase in beds provided.
> I’d give them some slack, but as always, abuse of good intentions is why we end up not having good things

Taking marital status into account of how much "slack" you grant an employee is forbidden by law.
The problem is probably due to some state saved on the phone that the test environment doesn't have.
The word median literally means that half make more and half make less, in that context.
Loaded from the boot sector of any floppy that happens to be present when the system is restarted, unless the boot order has been changed from factory defaults and the (possibly very old) coin cell powering NVRAM holds sufficient charge to retain these changes when (if) the system is ever powered off.
This isn’t mind boggling, this is how legal arguments are made.

The punitive damages are about the what was caused by the ad campaign. Judges have a lot of leeway here if they don’t like how companies act.
Self-selecting, if you will. Not to mention, if your society doesn't propagate, others will. Which means whatever your values are, good or bad, they will still be lost and replaced with the values of the society which propagates.
Apple on the other hand gets plenty of value from Epic.

For example, 10 years ago, when Epic made the Citadel demo for Apple to show their smartphones could run games. Ground breaking R&D work, gratis for Apple, & legitimizing their devices.

https://www.theverge.com/21405805/epic-citadel-2010-annivers...

We'll see how much more bad blood Apple can make with developers before people start noticing & caring about the software they can't get on their i-devices.
In 100 years, passport discrimination as wrong as skin-colour discrimination
> 'Effort' 10 (which I used for images in this article) can take over 10 minutes to encode a single image.

Well, there's always a trade-off.
> And Epic doesn't even provide quality control, a discovery mechanism, or payment processing.

You're comparing Epic's dev tools to XCode.. but then you're also comparing them to the App Store later in your comment?

Epic has an equivalent of the App Store that does the things you listed: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/about

(saying either does QC is a little disingenuous imo. Apple does "QC" insofar to make sure you're not trying to submit a flaming hunk of garbage, they're not there to be your QC. Epic does the same.)
aerc[1]'s design is the main reason why I use it over mutt, even though mutt has more features. No idea what they use behind the scenes for their TUI, but you could take a look at their source code[2].

[1] https://aerc-mail.org/

[2] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc
That's a shortsighted and very programmer-centric view of what a filesystem is.

Increasingly we are seeing a bifurcation between the kind of filesystems developers use for programming (POSIX style) and the kind of "filesystems" being exposed to end users. I put the word in quotes because they are not thought of as filesystems by its traditional definition. But it's a reality that many users now think of these siloed-by-app systems as the real filesystem.

The iOS menu mentioned by GP is a great example because that's what's user facing, not the developer-facing one like /private/var/mobile/Containers/blah-blah-blah. Today even many developers won't have to deal with POSIX-style filesystems that often, since they generally write code to store structured data in a database (sqlite on mobile, more sophisticated ones on the server side) while large blobs are stored in services like S3, making the idea of a POSIX filesystem quaint.

My own prediction is that POSIX filesystems in another decade or so will be like assembly language today: it's still there, still being taught and learned, but users and a majority of developers won't need to know about it.
Also known as a "just so story." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story

I agree -- they might be onto something here, but you have to be careful or your reasoning can be misled.