skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a “modern” JS project, the vast majority of dependencies are normally development dependencies. When you see so many generally 90% of it comes from dev/build time dependencies like webpack, typescript, linters, etc.

If you write hello world in rust, you wouldn’t act as if the generated binary has all of the runtime dependencies of of the compiler, unit test framework, formatted, etc. So why does JavaScript get the same treatment?
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I think the inevitable move here is for the EU to enact a maximum % commission for platforms above $1b revenue, at something like 20%. Maybe for sales from that region or for developers in that region.

Unfortunately the EU is going the opposite way - increasing VAT and digital taxes, which are passed straight onto developers.
I'm very bummed about this. I'm on Linux and didn't go for a refund when they dropped native support because I was playing the game through Proton anyways but this one really hurts. Epic employs scummy practices all around and I dislike them with a passion. With over 1.2k hours clocked in this game it might have very well come to an end for me.
Or iOS shows an icon similar to location services. Full camera icon means it’s in use, hollow icon means it’s been used recently. Ideally it would have a list of apps just like the location services.
The rules are for the iOS app store (or the mac app store, but on mac os you can thankfully get your software elsewhere and the mac app store is mostly a failure). Apple has revoked Epic's license over iOS brouhaha, which means they can't sign their macOS software either. Blocking them from making mac software over an iOS dispute is very questionable, no?
Gotta run up that damages bill
The European Union introduced a graded energy label for household appliances. How about promoting something similar for websites?
How would you propose that Apple “instrument” apps to prevent Epic from pushing a server side change?
I don't know much about Signal, but who manages your private key? Who does the encrypting?

With PGP there is zero chance of anyone decrypting my data unless they have my key and password, which isn't uploaded anywhere and no apps have access to it.
The article takes big leap of faiths and makes unsupported assumptions, the little we do know suggests that things are not so bright, for example this guy [1].

Tesla collects a lot of data but nobody outside of Tesla knows if they are doing anything meaningful with it.

[1] https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=38...
Given the current publish or perish culture, I doubt any student serious about publication can afford to waste time.
> I learnt to prefer discovering the limits early, then proceeding to be creative within those. I don’t get thrilled about what we could potentially do with unlimited time and twice the number of people. I genuinely get most excited by what we can do here and now with the resources we have.

I'm curious what other people feel about this. It is also my tendency to be creative "within the box", but I always feel a vague pressure to be more enterprising and expand scope so that we can get more headcount.
Is it Facebook's fault that the OS had a bug that triggers the camera notification when the camera is in standby mode?

There's no reputational damage because the world is already split between people who think FB is the devil and people who don't care.
On the opposite end it's possible to kill things too soon by being overly pessimistic. Ask the hard questions but weigh the likely benefits against them.
How? F-Droid has been a perfect store for me.
It's a controversial viewpoint but I don't have an issue with these scalpers. This is just supply and demand. Nvidia should release more cards instead of artificially limiting the supply on release day. Don't buy into the hype.

Don't buy the card on eBay for more than Nvidia's MSRP at launch and these scalpers will be stuck with their cards. It will not hurt you in any way to buy the card a few weeks later, on the contrary... Some of the initial bugs will be ironed out and you as a consumer will be able to make a better choice since there will be a lot more reviews to look at as well.
The problem are all those GNU/Linux users that bought into Apple's ecosystem because UNIX without being really part of the Apple eco-system culture.

Now they complain, well should have spent money supporting GNU/Linux OEMs instead.

Same applies to Epic, fine with console restrictions, thinking that they can play their weight everywhere Tim feels like it.
Nokia produces some good quality phones recently. They just quit the software business. They all run Android.
Anyone here ever try ironCAD? I've thought about buying a personal license of a professional CAD package. Solidworks (my most familiar) is too expensive for personal use. OnShape I'd consider if I could sign up month-by-month and go dormant. But I'd like an old-school software package that I could keep indefinitely but knew it could do all my entry-level work.
Press F12.

No, seriously, do it now. Open your site with the "Network" tab open.

Make half of the lines go away.

I guarantee you that you can, often with trivial changes to your code.

Now do that again. That's going to be harder, but you're on a roll now, you can do it.

There you go. Done. You did it.

Not really that hard, was it?
7 Years freelance, and 4 years at an agency. If you're here, I'm curious at what point did you decide your career as a devloper started and why was it not 7 years ago?
> I wonder when is the time

Wartime would be such time - scarcity of resources in combination with lack of alternative measures.

As long as simple measures like wearing masks, keeping your distance and minimising risky activities are sufficient, there is no rush.

It's also not as if COVID-19 is a zombie apocalypse or some primarily airborne and highly infectious variant of Ebola that threatens to wipe out huge parts of the population within weeks or months.
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I don't get it, isn't it still possible for everyone to "sideload" Fortnite onto their Mac without it being signed? Why is Epic stopping development instead of just offering the update?
Thanks for the advice! That’s good to know I can edit stl’s right in openscad.
You mean the windows store with no relevancy that Noone distributes on anyway?
I mean, that reduces to basically anything that distracts me from work. Ideally there are no non-work conversations of any kind happening in an open floor plan office. And even work conversations should be kept to a minimum, and taken to a conference room if there's going to be any length and substance.

Why focus on political speech when it's really any non-work speech that's distracting and should be banned?

But we all know that's impossible to enforce, and we've developed unfortunate but necessary coping mechanisms, like noise-canceling headphones.

Or maybe, y'know, just give up on the open-office concept, which has always been a productivity destroyer. I imagine post-COVID office spaces will be much more conducive to quiet and productivity.
Inventing a method isn’t the same a re-implementing an existing method! Again, useful re-implementations are a good thing that people should be rewarded for somehow, but they are not new science.
Wondering whether some Mellanox NICs also have xdp offload... At 2x100Gbps I'd at least like make it help reorder, coalesce packets with application-protocol knowledge.

Anyone seen XDP use cases other than DDOS protection and firewall-like stuff?
If its gross fusion power were converted to electrical power at 40% efficiency, it will have cost $100/W(e) to build, an order of magnitude more expensive than fission power plants.

(Its net power output would be negative, btw, and there won't be enough tritium to run it for more than a few weeks total, as it's not going to breed its own tritium.)
I don't think it is even trolling, DoE has a legal obligation to investigate.
I think for a lot of people, their fear of public speaking comes from not having gone through that first time you sound legitimately dumb. For example, saying something obviously flat-out wrong and tripping over your words doing so.

Up until that point, you are terrified of it happening. Once it does and you get past it, everything else seems much easier.

Watching recordings of yourself sounds like a mild form of exposure therapy.
Facebook's business model is fake news
Presentation matters. Calling somebody a "man in a dress" is wildly transphobic. He didn't dispassionately discuss his opinions about transgender people. He resorted to nasty transphobic depictions.
I don’t understand why Epic isn’t releasing unsigned builds for Mac. Allowing an app through Gatekeeper is not any more difficult than sideloading an APK, and Epic seems perfectly happy to guide users through the latter.
Earth: Human / Apple:Bacterium size comparison
People are kind-of bacteria of this planet, like bacteria on an apple so I was wondering what are the proportions human:planet / bacterium:apple

Apple diameter:
10cm

Bacterium diameter:
1 micron = 0.0001 cm

Apple:bacterium size ratio
10 / 0.0001 = 100,000

Earth diameter:
12,742km

Human diameter:
1.7m

Earth:human size ratio
12,742,000 / 1.7 = 7,495,294

Earth:Human to Apple:Bacterium ratio difference
7,495,294 / 100,000 ~ 75

A bacterium is 75x more significant to an apple than a human to the planet.
10cm is a large apple and 1um is a small bacterium.

If you think about surface difference it's a significantly larger difference
on macOS? Shure they could. And if they really wanted to give a middle finger to Apple, they could consider deploying the game on AltStore, but that would probably close all future doors for them with Apple.
Multiple DNS providers were attacked to take down Tutanota / Attack on privacy
In recent weeks, Tutanota has been under pressure from repeated DDoS attacks.
What is your best growth hack for an early stage startup?
Ironically I can't even tell who you think the bully here is. It sure seems to me that Epic was the bully in this situation.
> The German word Blech roughly translates to bare metal.

And here I thought it was gonna be some kind of comedy programming language; in English “blech” is an interjection expressing disgust.
I don't think it's that clear that paid traffic means illegitimate: you can pay for ads on Search and expect it to be human traffic that is interested for example.
Why post something hidden behind a paywall?
Hollywood needs to do a movie on what happened to silk road back in the day (where Ross Ulbricht was imprisoned for life): https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/

That article alone has more drama than any recent thriller/drug movie... and it's mostly real life. An animated version in style with the article's cartoons would be amazing
You have made a lot of claims about solar power that have been completely unsourced and are easily shown to be false. For all of the scary noises made by anti-nuclear activists it is actually a power source with an extremely good safety record. Solar and wind power kill more people every year, but the deaths are spread out and appear to be routine so no one really notices. This is why ignorant people are afraid to fly but have no problem driving hundreds of miles -- the incredibly rare airplane crashes kill hundreds and make headlines around the world while driving kills thousands every day and no one notices.
Most consumers are on Windows, which is worse in just about every respect.
So... Apple did pick a fight. Consequences might never be the same.
Falling from a height of 10.1m is also worse than falling from 10.0m all other things beeing equal
Epic did not pick a fight. Apple did by introducing the 30% tax in the first place and then keep sticking with the 30% tax on everything when everyone have already realized that that tax is not normal.
With the new Nvidia cards and Cyberpunk release coming up fast in November I predict an enormous surge in new/upgraded PC owners. It's already next to impossible to buy the new hardware due to demand.
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There is a huge difference between mandatory and voluntary.

Blaming a foreign country for something Apple might do voluntarily (but most probably would not because they have to reason to harms their own interest) is absurd.
What if you made the same argument for photography and freedom of speech?

> Yes, all photography is speech and any form of photography should be allowed.

> If not, who decides which photography is allowed or not? Will I need to get a license from the government before I publish a photograph online?

You see the problem here, don't you? There are many cases where a photograph can be illegal.
It's the same virus no matter where you are in the world. Weekly new cases (per capita) is the best metric for how likely you are to get it when you step outside.
Agreed, Apple wouldn't really have any recourse here except to (long-shot) add Fortnite to the XProtect, which would be beyond extreme.
Or French : concurrence :D
TLDR: If you have a function from b to c and a function from a to b then if you run the second function before the first one you can see the whole thing as a function from a to c. It even works with multiple arguments of type b by converting them all before hand, no kidding.
That is what many in HN like circles keep thinking, meanwhile I know of several Fortune 500 where that is the only distribution channel enabled by IT.

Windows 10X might not have been released as planned, but it will come.
COVID has leapt from the realm of science and reason into fear and hysteria.

If we 'saved' 1 million elderly people from dying of COVID, and they instead died over a period of time from vaccine side effects, those effects would be impossible to quantify via a binary PCR test and so would be ignored.

Additionally if people were vaccinated, but still died, we could at least say 'oh well, we tried'.

Rushing out a vaccine and giving it to people near the end of their natural lives is a completely legitimate decision to end this hysteria and get back to normal life.
"How I made the camera 200ms faster (as a millionaire)"
Give it time. Up until recently Google was trusted as BDFL.

Android users are now looking to disconnect from Google.

The play store isn't bad, and I can always download an apk.
It is kinda funny to me that FB internally has realized that their feed algorithm is awful, but has enough cognitive dissonance built up to not associate that with the public non-work FB as well.
Epic admitted that their side-loading on Android didn't work for their customers when Epic put Fortnite on the Google Play Store. They tried to make it as easy as possible and still couldn't get enough users to do it.
> that isn't accessed with a secret url, doesn't require multiple instances of Firefox in my dock, can be toggled between profiles easily

I think Firefox can do at least these three. You can permanently enable the profile manager on application startup (it's not in an about: page). You can also make shortcuts on your desktop / taskbar / etc directly to a profile with "firefox -p ProfileName". All Firefox instances are grouped into the same icon on the taskbar for me (Linux / KDE).

Granted, it could certainly be more user friendly, but it's proved rock solid for me for years now.
You are making an awful lot of assumptions without having enough info about this particular application.
HN: Move fast, break things! Disrupt markets by ignoring rules the stodgy old-economy bound itself by!

Epic: We should be allowed to offer purchase methods on iOS that don't go through Apple.

HN: No, not like that.
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I mean, hey, its a great tool to install WSL asap!
Energy harvesting goes organic, gets more flexible
It could be argued Apple created an illegal rules which require a violation to raise them in the justice system
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that software is speech in Bernstein v United States. The precedent already exists.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
I have no business affiliation with GoDaddy, and absolutely never have. I am active in the domain industry, so I happened to know how domains work.

I’ve written a ton about domains over the years, and the articles you’re referring to that appeared on the GoDaddy blog were syndicated. They actually picked them up through another source.

No disclosure needed, I’m not affiliated with GoDaddy in any way.
There's a weird pleasure in having infinite option.. that quickly deviates into toxicity. On the other hand, solving small problems with constraints feels like a solid piece of acquired knowledge that makes you want to do more.
https://yaustal.com/uploads/posts/2018-10/1539601747_smeshny...
No, the Xbox Games Store, designed as vertically integrated sole app source for the Xbox console, making its way to Windows 10:

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/pc-gaming
I have lots of software on my Windows machine and none of it is from the Windows Store, it thankfully hasn't done much harm.
wait arb still works?!
We were told the MacOS signature system was only about security. Now it is about iOS business disputes.
2D Link is best Link.
Why are you expecting something other than incremental from Apple (or others)?

We are all standing on the shoulders of giants.

Everything is synthesis. Nothing is original.

Everything is incremental.

Iteration is everything.
I assume this is more of a political miscalculation.

Advocates of freedom of speech & from government oversight could argue that this sort of service is a good thing regardless. As in, yes people will share illegal content but enforcement of that should happen outside of the encrypted transfer, and the right to encrypted transfer for everyone should be protected. I assume this is broadly what Mozilla believe.

They may have miscalculated their ability to ideologically separate the service from the content, legally or in popular opinion.
>> So - I wrote my own tool/library in Go and it's essentially replaced my OpenSCAD usage.

That looks really cool. What kind of files can it output?
If you use openSCAD for 3d printing then you'll love hob3l

It takes OpenSCAD files and generates meshes vastly faster for complex models.

https://github.com/moehriegitt/hob3l
The Federal government has more power to regulate US entities foreign behavior than domestic, not less.

The Federal government's primary function is to regulate interstate and international affairs.
Outlook is _old_ and predates threading being a mature OS primitive. I remember reporting bugs of this class against Office 97.

They seem to be extremely hesitant to change it, which I assume is due to the corporate plugin ecosystem.
i think epic is going to demonstrate a "real damage" taken from apple to them, thats why they are dealing with these limits and also do refund their players on iOS/macOS
Thanks, that's good info. :)

It doesn't appear to be a solid modeller, but for 3d printing it should still be workable.
The variety of jobs that the author has had in her career is impressive.

I consider myself lucky in that I'm reasonably marketable on the job market - I'm ok at interviewing and I've worked at a few FAANGs (including Amazon). But I recently got turned down for a job because I "don't have enough AWS experience".

It feels like the only way to change a career is 1) get a job doing exactly what you were doing before (e.g. React dev), 2) at that job, do something tangential for a while (e.g. UX design) and then 3) with that experience, go and find a new job in the new field.

How does someone go from working in elderly care, to a fish factory, to a design agency, etc.?
> who games in 8k?

I think it's more that if you can render 8K at 60fps, you can probably render 4K at 180fps or more which gives you a lot of wiggle room on a 60hz or even 120hz display.
> toolchain (auto-completion) is weak

Based on your link, it looks like you are specifically referring to RLS. With the newer contender rust-analyzer[0] auto-completion is very good. In combination with TabNine[1] (for Rust the Pro version is free), auto-completion is pretty amazing by now.

[0]: https://rust-analyzer.github.io/

[1]: https://www.tabnine.com/
They're slowly crippling it. Make 2017 was (I believe) the last semi full featured gratis desktop version. They've been pushing the web version pretty hard for a while now.

Also (opinion) it kind of sucks. At least the gratis version doesn't support any sort of parametric modeling. I've been using it because it's gratis, but I've been looking to switch for a while. Now that F360 is off the table, I suppose the decision space has gotten smaller.
If Epic does win. Good luck at getting this level of support from Apple.

https://bgr.com/2020/09/17/fortnite-lawsuit-apple-epic-games...

As detailed by Grimm, Apple and Epic engineers over the past two years remained in “near-constant contact” to ensure that Fortnite could run optimally at all times and across a variety of devices. Grim notes that Apple provided Epic with a substantial amount of engineering support to “reduce Fortnite’s memory footprint” which allowed it to run on older iPhone models.

In addition, Apple has also provided hardware to Epic, including 16 Apple Silicon Developer Transitions Kits across Epic’s engineering organization, to ensure high-performance functioning of Unreal Engine 4 and the future Unreal Engine 5 on forthcoming Macintosh computers with new Apple silicon processors. This represents as much support as Apple provides to most any other developer. In addition, in response to repeated demands by Epic, Apple has permitted Epic to distribute builds on some 950 iPads and 1150 iPhones for app development and testing purposes— again, as much as Apple allocates to any other developer. These allowances are valuable to Epic as they magnify the company’s ability to fine tune their apps and refine their products in advance of going live with users.
Again, how much does playstation, xbox, steam and google play charge?
The drop in humidity will increase transmissibility and the drop in temperature will force more people indoors. Winter probably will show an increase in infection.
I’m not saying he is stupid. But he was fundamentally unsuited at being a Prime Minister. He left the government in absolute chaos.
Point the last time MS has blocked an app?
I wish some green party would propose banning of crypto mining, since it wastes lots of electricity and creates no real world value that is useful for anything. Like running a factory making bread is useful, you need to heat the owens. But you really don't need to mine for cryptocurrencies to survive.
It's not that much different than Google nuking an organization account because a member did something stupid with their org account. Or steam/eBay/PayPal/Amazon/etc banning an account for a rightful chargeback.
I have a feeling Apple will come out far worse than epic when this is over.
I believe the parent said they just out-innovated, rather than also strong-arming others.
Half the entries in your matrices need to be 0, then the Hardware will compress them and execute the matrix-matrix multiplication 2x as fast.
On a tensor instruction level.
My parents, who work in both China and the U.S., use telegram
The fact that Windows has an app store does not make it equivalent to MacOS in terms its application environment and how open it is.

Windows likes people to use the store, sure. But they don't exercise the kind of control over Windows that would allow them to something like this move by Apple.