skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump Administration to Ban TikTok and WeeChat
I ask myself if this is more an US vs. China issue (Epic is owned by a significant Chinese minority).
I mean, it could also be argued that the moon is made of green cheese, with roughly equal fidelity to real life.
Get rid of all the ads and libraries
> by forcing consumers to move

> Fortune 500

Those aren't the same groups, even if that's true and those companies only use software that's available on the Microsoft store.
You're not operating on the same definition of paper launch as everyone else. It's generally used also for limited-quantity releases. Lots of chips can be produced in small batches that can't be mass-produced yet.
> Recently they shipped Firefox for android that feels like alpha version. It is even unclear why did they ship it, they could have waited.

Apart from extensions requiring whitelisting, how is it worse than the old mobile FF?

I didn't notice any new bugs and it fixed the issues I had with the address bar hiding being fickle.
Lawsuits have a way of ending up funny. AT&T sued UCB over BSD Unix, ended up having to admit they stole tons of shit from UCB.

That said, my prediction is that most of this lawsuit will be over contract law, and Apple has Epic over a barrel on that. Whether or not Epic should have to pay 30%, cloaking violating code changes in an update to slip it past the app store reviewers is a mortal sin under Apple's terms and they are perfectly within their rights to treat everything Epic does from now on as an unrepentant violator.
or do apple's TOS break the laws? thats why there is a lawsuit about this
On macOS there are 3 tiers: AppStore, Developer Id, and "This is malware, move it to Trash". Apple has blocked the first two.

The third one has a workaround, but it's intentionally designed to be semi-hidden and confusing to an average person. I expect HN crowd to think it's not a problem, but to me as a developer it's a support headache, and embarrassment to tell every user "yeah, no, we're not malware, please do these steps to bypass all these scary security warnings".

All Macs have shitty GPUs, so Epic may even be happy they have a good excuse to drop Mac.
Ask HN: People who watched the General Magic movie, what did you think of it?
Simulating the ProCo Rat Distortion Pedal in LTSpice
Domestic computer use simply isn't a big fraction of a person's total energy consumption:

e.g. this study[1] in the UK puts "IT" as <6% of household electricity use, which is itself a fraction of a person's total energy use.

edit: and this[2] indicates that datacenter usage is also not very significant.

Therefore, no amount of optimising web pages will make a meaningful difference to carbon output.

As web professionals, it's better if we direct our focus towards more productive areas around this goal -- by e.g. donating to relevant campaign groups, or using our tech skills to produce media on the topic.

[1]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[2]: https://www.iea.org/reports/data-centres-and-data-transmissi...
way more than Apple?, yes
>1. Any provision of service to distribute or maintain the WeChat or TikTok mobile applications, constituent code, or application updates through an online mobile application store in the U.S.;

Does that mean the two apps are essentially banned from iOS?
It's worth noting that Apple in their latest legal filing (https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.364265...) has made a fairly aggressive argument asking the judge to allow them to terminate Epic's international developer account which is used to develop Unreal Engine. The argument is based primarily on two factors:

1. Epic snuck hidden code into Fortnite. Apple no longer trusts that Epic won't also sneak hidden code into Unreal Engine.

2. Epic International is apparently collecting the payments from international iOS users that are using the hidden payment system in Fortnite, so it is directly linked to the breaching conduct.

So there's still a very real risk that Epic will lose access to the developer tools and signing capabilities for its Unreal Engine business as well.
CadQuery is another good options to do parametric CAD from Python without using a DSL:

https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery
My main point is that you need to present this information on a way that even those people can interpret it who can't/don't want to know about process lists because they are the majority.

It's the same as you have an engine temperature gauge in most cars. I'm not really interested on what's going on inside the engine, I just want to know if the engine overheats so I can check basic things (cooling system leaks, etc) and if I cannot see what's wrong I wait and try to get to the nearest garage or call roadside assistance.

As a power user, I see value in a process list but I see why it does not take priority over other features.

Edit: spelling
Sorry, I misspoke, Clock B was a land clock designed after the marine chronometer H4. Pendulum clocks don’t work at sea.
Russia's Urban Warfare Tech
Snatching people from the streets, turtur and arrests without trial or seeing a court. Sending the opposition to forced exile.

That's just objectively worse than the shit going on in the US.
But I do feel the US is getting there. This new war on crime the is planning, his sending federal agents to democratic states and basically calling parts of the population enemies is very worrying.
I'm not sure it's in relation to iOS. If it was just that they wouldn't have invested in building a whole new cheese grater, nor would they bother to move the whole ecosystem to ARM when they could keep coasting on x86.

There is in my opinion a level of care about macOS on its own, it's more about misguided goals and detrimental choices (Touch Bar, butterfly keyboard, etc.)
Strong words for an ecosystem that didn't exist 13 years ago.
That's an argument about code not operating software.
Montessori Routine Planner and Tracker App
They are in the International water
U.S. to Ban TikTok and WeChat from U.S. App Stores
13 year old updates iPad and she reads entire EULA
"My 13 year-old just updated her iPad’s system software and told me she had to read some really long thing before she could continue. She. Read. The. EULA" quote from Twitter
FreeCAD is a traditional CAD tool based on sketches, pads, and pockets. CAD designers I’ve spoken with who use that style tool think out their designs outside the CAD tool. They know how to translate concepts into the parametric CAD language.

MagicaVoxel — https://ephtracy.github.io/ — will work with your 3D printer & is closer to building sandcastles. It’s a simpler way to get started.

Once you go back to FreeCAD, open the Python console. You’ll see the code that goes with each step in the GUI!
It may or may not have a noticeable impact on emissions overall, I won't try to argue that.

However, at least hitting the low hanging fruit seems like a good idea.
Thanks for the comment.

If you want to experiment with NUM then this page is the best starting point (and doesn't require login):
https://app.numserver.com/tools/editor/add

We're due to publish a page to numserver.com that explains more about the service and allows you to experiment before requiring sign up.
I've been on the hiring side of the process at multiple companies, big and small, ranging from being interviewer to hiring manager.

At smaller companies on tighter teams you may occasionally google candidates but you typically don't have time to dig into the details of anything they've written.

For all of the larger "day of white boarding interviews" type places they absolutely don't bother to read up on you. The people interviewing you are annoyed enough that they have to take a break from work to interview, and depending on the location the hiring manager might not even get to meet you before the offer is made.

And if someone does read deep enough in your work to come across this then they're just as likely to have this tip the scales in your favor as not. I've certainty had candidates that I've wanted to hire more after seeing controversial posts, and have been hired by many people who feel the same.
The problem is I can see exactly that happening.
I wonder if people make distinct enough facial expressions while reading online content for this to work. For myself, I pretty much stare blankly at the screen the whole time without much change in my expression. The ML would have to be very good at detecting slight nuance.
Does not appear to be so.

This appears to be an Israeli pharmaceutical company.

The Netflix show was following an American company called 'Distributed Bio' who is working on something called Centivax

The Centivax people currently need to raise about 10 million dollars and currently are unsure if they are going to get any government funding or not.
Snowden revealed a lot of stuff that was the just domain of crazy fringe theories before. Anyone morally okay with facebook's known problems would also most likely be morally okay with spying on users like this. Hence, I agree that giving them the benefit of the doubt is irrational.
People expect more from Apple because Appled used to do more than small incremental changes.

For a while Apple was coming out with products on a regular basis that redefined the industry, changing or increasing both consumers and the entire industry's focus. I don't consider things like the "camera notch" to be in that class of product development.

Sure, everyone stands on the shoulders of giants, but not everyone is a giant. For a little while though, Apple was.

Now I look at things like the Oculus Quest, which has gone a long way towards democratizing VR, and wonder "Where is Apple? Why aren't they here?"

Their prior track record had them revolutionizing such things with an uncanny ability to understand UX at the same time that they dumped a ton of upgrades on their products compared to competitors. Sure, I guess if you break down each individual thing they did, then each one is incremental. But what we came to expect from Apple was that they'd release products with so many of those things that they changed the entire industry. Now we get a bezel that's 0.3mm smaller, the addition of an "ultra wide" camera lens, and a sprinkling of OS changes.
Regardless of how you feel about Apple versus Epic, we should all be clear about one thing here: there is no "perceived" infringement of the iOS rules. Epic broke the rules. They do not even try to deny that they breached their contract with Apple in their lawsuit, but rather attack the contract directly as being illegal. Their approach is analogous to you being caught going 120 miles per hour in a 45 mile per hour zone and you challenging whether the speed limit is legal.
It is possible, I am equally confused! I’d posit that allowing an app through gatekeeper is easier than sideloading on Android!
How I quit (was fired from) Facebook after making camera 150% faster which made me a millionaire (in 200ms).
I on the other hand have a feeling of plenty of sore Apple haters taking care of battle wounds.
>If everyone did that? Probably very positive in terms of energy and resource use, positive in terms of less things to worry about for the businesses - and very negative for all the bullshit adtech jobs that wouldn't be needed anymore.

It's not just the annoyance factor, it's the bloat from ads. In fact, something like 48% of retrieved data[0], on average is ad related.

Getting rid of those ads could cut client (and server and network) energy draws significantly. And we could further reduce energy usage by not needing add-ons like ad/tracking blockers and stuff like NoScript[1].

I browse with js disabled and, unless I need to visit a particular site, I'll just close the tab if js is required -- as the bloat, the security risks and the hubris of js overuse is just too much.

[0] https://www.nextpit.com/ads-consume-half-of-your-mobile-data

[1] https://noscript.net/

Edit: fixed spacing of referenced links.
It’s a fascinating failure as an industry - there is a ton of infrastructure around media optimization but our attitude about adding JS dependencies has been “there’s always room for one more”. I’ve seen more than a few cases where someone loaded an image optimization library where the JavaScript used more transfer, CPU, and memory than the original images, as if this wasn’t one of the easiest things to measure.
> As an analogy, imagine a music professor claiming that classical music is the only form of music, and then proceeding to use Western classical music notation and scales to transcribe Indian ragas.

It's probably not a coincidence that this video has been viewed 600,000 times in the last 10 days and uses Indian raga as a specific example.

Music Theory and White Supremacy
Adam Neely
https://youtu.be/Kr3quGh7pJA
Apple is already allowing Epic's parent company to skirt the rules. Tencent runs the biggest app store in China.
Dune Legacy
There's for sure ways for an app to update itself outside of the Mac appstore, Firefox and Chrome do so weekly. I'm not sure what kind of complications are added to that by using unsigned binaries but the malware developers over at Zoom certainly manage.
I believe he was talking about Pallene, which is being currently developed in LabLua

Paper: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/pallene-sblp.pdf

Git Repo: https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene
Also blocked in China
The smaller one with less power is usually not able to be the bully, pretty much by definition.
One lesson I've learned about myself, and it may apply to others as well:

The key is having a particular driving reason / motivator. I.e., learning the skill is a necessary hurdle towards some larger goal that you actually care about.

But maybe that's just me. I have a tendency towards procrastination and laziness, so I need a toolbox of tricks to not just sit around all day playing video games.
If apple is smart, they will continue to aggressively support companies that make highly demanded software for their ecosystem. Software is ultimately what motivates people to use a computer.
Interesting to note that NIR light can penetrate deep into the body. There is research into using this as a medical imaging technique [0] and also research on improving age related vision loss [1]

[0] https://youtu.be/awADEuv5vWY
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4768515/
> if you already know Vue, you basically know Alpine, making it perfect for Vue developers to turn to for projects where Vue is simply overkill

So funny to read this, as this value prop was the reason our team to chose Vue a few years back instead React/Angular.
"An idea implemented in a computer program is."

Not according to EPC art52.2 (in Europe).

And not according to Alice jurisprudence (in the US).

But the patent lobby, including the patent offices, are at work trying to destroy those.
Originally posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24515906 - but it was flagged.
Study shows proof that a safer UV light effectively kills virus causing Covid-19
14 layers is a suspiciously small number for 5nm.

It will be a big surprise if multiple patterning elimination can reduce the layer count so dramatically.
> how many working on Firefox? 50? and 950 doing various (useless) side projects?

You have a source for those numbers? It looks to me like you're just making them up because you want to sling mud.
I wonder what this actually represents in Tokyo, where I live. Trains, restaurants and more are packed as usual, though Citymapper claims it’s one of the least mobile cities now - guess that might be more a representation of the fact that barely anyone here uses Citymapper at all since the data is much worse than local apps, and whoever is might be risk averse? Not to mention, when I used Citymapper I pretty much never hit the Go button, which would mess with their definitions as well.
Yes!

I've added a little disclaimer because my experience was last year. The ecosystem is moving fast so some details may have changed (which is a cons for me, too unstable).
It's normal for huge innovations like that to only come around once in a blue moon even in companies that foster it. That's nothing new.
> Microsoft has an open platform?

Compared to Apple?

Absolutely yes.

I can even run Linux transparently on Windows.
Van Morrison to release lockdown protest songs
Trump administration bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores beginning on Sunday
Funny thing is, also as a programmer, I find openSCAD annoying. I really want object-oriented objects. I want to be able to declare a cube and then refer to its corners. I want to be able to make a cylinder from point A to point B. Instead, everything is contextual and implicit, and there's no other way of doing anything.

I'm sure you can get used to it eventually. But I think we could do better in terms of 'cad designed by programmers'
Epic's stance is that the rule was never enforceable to begin with, which would make breaking that rule not an infringement of the contract.

But in any case, no court has ruled in Apple's favor yet, and Epic denies their claim, so at the moment the infringement is perceived to exist by Apple, but not proven as fact yet.
Thanks. To add, All the big companies behave horribly at every opportunity they have to make money. Epics trying to use the courts to increase their profit from Apple's walled garden. Apple's trying to protect their moat. Google Facebook and Amazon are trying to mine every single detail about everyone's life, for money. Instead of these ridiculous court battles we should have gambling laws that restrict underage gambling in video games, and antitrust suits to break open all the walled gardens.
My oh my do you have a very narrow interpretation of corruption.

Hiring less than capable individuals while excluding more capable individuals, for the sake of obtaining contracts, in a region where ministers are changed on a regular basis (hence no guarantees of the connections staying forever) is exactly what I'd call a kickback.
Study confirms Vi-DT vaccine safe and immunogenic in children 6-23 month
Yep. Microsoft had great timing with Chromium Edge. I haven't looked back since.
Requires your email
Apple did “strong arm” carriers to release their grip over customers and prevent them from installing their own bloatware, and allowing their customers to install updates directly.
Yes, but they’re still doing it now that Google kicked them off the play store. Why not follow the same strategy on Mac?
I guess "Any utilization of the mobile application’s constituent code, functions, or services in the functioning of software or services developed and/or accessible within the U.S." is to prevent simply browsing https://www.tiktok.com/ ?
There have been class issues since the dawn of mankind and almost a of our evolutionary ancestors have class ranking.

Hierarchy is hardwired into our DNA.

How do you overcome human nature?

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/primate-so...
>> give each objects with UUIDs and refer to them by-UUID.

That's a core feature in SolveSpace. Not full UUIDs but something similar.
This is entirely a collection of terrible takes and misrepresentations.
You’ve positioned this argument to make everyone who could counter you sound like an Apple fanboy.

But let’s be clear here: Apples “innovation” is usually around usability and accessibility.

Even with that said: the Apple Watch does not have an equal. It is the absolute king of smart watches.

Or we could mention that their CPUs (on mobile) are usually 2 generations ahead of other mobile devices.

You can fault them for many things, but they are innovating even if they oversell the little innovation they make.
The last line of the CDC page is a link for people who want to learn more about protecting themselves, which at least provides some of the more precise information you want. Having a concise post of the key parts is more useful to many people.

The only useful information in the Medium article lacking from the CDC is the bit about filtering air meaning it's usually safer to be outside. Beyond that, it's more interesting but suggests the same as the CDC page.
>It also helps that I'm not being sold anything

You know her name, the fact the she's a freelance website designer, and you already like her from this article.

Let's say it : it's a good article, and it's also an excellent ad ^^
That is a very weird way to interpret the phrase "broke the rule." Just because the rule is invalid does not mean that you didn't break it, it just means that you can't be punished for breaking it.
I'm curious how that last part is possibly enforced.
It's interesting and peculiar that stories on this topic are being very quickly flagged by someone.
The Endgame has to be VR at this point - 4k is more than enough for "non-gameplay" games (i.e. I play CSGO at low settings in a stretched resolution but I play Assassin's Creed as hard as she'll go cap'n).

Until the angular resolution of a pixel is good enough an inch from your eye there will be increasingly higher resolutions in the HMDs
They can easily support, promote or even fund competitors to Epic. By the time this winds it’s way through courts, people will have moved on anyway.

Besides, no one buys a Mac for its great game software or hardware.
They weren't more painful in Rust because of them being implemented poorly or anything. Rust's memory model makes referencing data across scopes difficult. In a GC'd language, your closures can just reference everything willy-nilly.

Also, I'm not sure, but I think Scala had Futures before bluebirdjs existed, which was the defacto Promise for JS, AFAIK.
Apple catered to that niche crowd when it was the runner up.

The addressable market of the media arts is a peanut next to the mountain of consumers they are now successfully targeting.

It's like asking why Apple is making the value proposition of the Mac Pro so bad. It's so they can cancel that bring the userbase down enough so they can cancel it all together without it creating too much fuzz.
> its package ecosystem isn't as mature as Python's.

Python packages are either interfacing external libraries (something that is much easier to do in Julia) or if they are pure python, badly designed and buggy.

(and package management in python is broken beyond repair)
> which is a cons for me, too unstable

Totally unlike Node, right. ;)
why was it flagged? seems relevant to HN community.
> But legally, the iOS and the Mac developer agreements are separate contracts.

This might have been true in the past but I don't believe it's true anymore. The two have been combined into a single program governed by the Apple Developer Program License Agreement which can be found here: https://developer.apple.com/terms/
So the problem is that people used a service for doing what it said it should be used for? Private file sharing.
And their (windows) store is so horrible it’s as if it’s actively designed to drive people away.
Not sure, maybe Dang knows?
I couldn't remember how to pronounce the German "Blech", so I just looked it up.

It sounds like the German uses a long "a" sound for the vowel. Liked you'd expect from "é" in a French word.

When I hear people say "blech" (the interjection) in English, the "e" is pronounced the same as first the "e" in "methadone".
To be fair most digital content is still purchased out of app stores so I dont think the developers are the losers there.

Losers are the governments if they cant pay for their healthcare or care for their elderly because all the big internet co's dont pay any taxes for their profits in their countries. A digital tax would at least put pressure on them to take a smaller slice of the pie. Granted, it might be not the optimal solution for the problem.
I wonder how unfettered Mark’s access is to all their data and systems. The answer to this question should be public in order to bolster trust, but as far as I know it is not.

More on topic, I doubt this particular feature is nefarious, but those who would spy often seem to rely on others’ doubt that it is happening.