skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and often add little value

If you are writing glue code and your methods are trivial, yes. The moment there's interesting logic, unit tests become more useful.
"Well, sassafras and sarsaparilla both contain safrole, a compound recently banned by the FDA due to its carcinogenic effects."[1]

Argh.

[1] https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/root-root-bee...
This!

Which is why I absolutely reject Epic et al’s position.

They want to be part of a small exclusive group of store owners who get to share in the benefits of Apple’s investments.

Very different from the device freedom you are calling for.

It must also be said that device freedom cannot come at the cost of security and trust.

I and presumably you, have the capability to make good decisions about what software to trust.

Most people must delegate this to a trusted third party.

I would support a legal requirement for iOS devices to have a bootcamp equivalent.

That way Epic and whoever else wants to build their own platform would be free to do so.
I'ts been a while, but last time I tried IFPS (the official Go node) it was really CPU/memory heavy and also flooded my network, severely impacting other traffic.

Has the implementation improved?
Bloaty McBloatface: a size profiler for binaries (2016)
What burning? I asked my friend in Portland about how the anarchy in Portland is, and he responded, "Eh, a bunch of people are pissed in about one city block."

Here in Chicago, things are completely fine and have been except for the day or two after George Floyd was murdered.
Got(Game of Trees): A custom VCS by OpenBSD devs that prioritizes simplicity
Poisonous like water, table salt and other substances that are lethal in excess and benign or even essential in moderation.
Once root mode is an option it will be exploited. The weakest link in software systems is often a human.
Hey! Maybe mfreed could answer this but how does this affect users of Timescale as part of Azure's Managed Posgres service, is this something that will still continue to be available?
Valid point, without money to burn it's not possible in any market.
Duckduckgo has a shopping tab too (although, it's not as functional and comprehensive as googles, in my experience). If there's adoption of the schemas, I'd guess all the shopling crawler sites will use the data.

If you expect to show up generally favorably in a shopping comparison, having shipping data available would seem to be useful, since people may not want to purchase without an idea of when they'd get the items.

Of course, if you don't get purchases through those channels now, adding shipping data probably won't help.
Microsoft releasing non-subscription Office suite in 2021
Perhaps they would if they didn’t think they could prevail through antitrust legislation.
The developers are the ones being abused by Apple, so yeah, it should matter.

Companies shouldn't be allowed to abuse their market dominance, regardless of whether the abused are other companies or consumers.
1. Game cameras. They are purpose built for this kind of need. Your strategy should be to identify/establish clear routes in and out of your local area, and then set up an intel network in cooperation with neighbors. If you can network basic cameras, you can feed the input to a face/person recognition software. Say once every 30 seconds its sends the frame to an AWS instance or similar, and if it sees a person it rings the alarm/email alert.

Siesmographs and other such sensors can detect and track vehicles causing vibrations, some can be laid in roadway.

There are also some sensors that will detect only humans, via the ammonia our sweat contains, but I dont know if those ever made it to the public market, they were tippy top secret for the longest time.

2. Dogs. There is a landowner near me who is responsible for $5M+ of equipment and facilities. In addition to cameras and such, he has trained dogs that roam around at night. If you are already a livestock handler, adding "kennelmaster" to your job is a great way to solve your problem.

PS. There was a wave of this in my home state in the 80s. It was a combination of cults practicing, and uncommon diseases killing off livestock, which wild animals then tore apart to eat only what wasnt rotten.
Even though I have never use Arch, the most helpful texts are always comes from and intended to Arch. That tells something.
> Epic introduced the concept of exclusivity on the PC gaming scene

Which event are you referring to exactly? I think the first time I encountered something related to exclusivity on PC gaming was the first time I bought CS:Source and had to download and sign up with Steam to be able to run it, even though I got it on a CD/DVD. This must have been around 2005 or so I think.
> They block all VPN's, 'progressive' sites like Wikipedia, Reddit randomly, and blatantly copy other competing

Source?
“Microsoft Office will also see a new perpetual release for both Windows and Mac, in the second half of 2021.”
Trying to list rooms still gives me a 403 error.

I hate to say it, but why use a decentralized chat app if you're building a silo?
And that gulf is different for everyone. You can’t dictate it to others.
I appreciate that Apple's high bar makes it harder for all iOS developers to make a living. However, with all respect, there might just be too many iOS developers.

Apple setting an increasingly high quality bar that weeds out the bottom 90% of all iOS developers might seem draconian for anyone weeded out but this is competition at its finest. It is how markets in general ensure the best quality product.

Obviously, there is also the matter of "How much should Apple get paid to enforce these policies? Is 30% too high for in-app-purchases?" those are good numbers to negotiate. But frankly all non-FOSS software products I've encountered before and after iOS continually proved they need developer policies to ensure they are built to be long-term customer centric.
It's great but I think being charged 30% on every single app purchase (and yes, you pay that -- not the developers) after paying thousands of dollars for a device is crazy. I know Apple fans aren't particularly price sensitive -- it's a trillion dollar company for a reason.
Is it too difficult to ask for one that distributes the processes between phone/external device, rims of glasses and in the ear speaker. It will go a long way in addressing the issue of stigma and enabling more people to use it early.
the difference between a space colony and earth is that on earth we have a global economic system that demands infinite growth, and high disparity between producer countries vs consumer countires, which is the opposite sustainability

just look at how many articles about how we generate more food than we know what to do with, yet people still starve or go hungry all around the world, or the vast differences between what is called the "global south" vs "north"

i highly doubt we need a colony on another planet to teach earth how to be sustainable; the problem is the existing system refuses to change fast enough to make a difference
>Microsoft has the Xbox Game Pass app on Android, Apple is doing the opposite.

I don't see the relevance? Microsoft does not allow any other company to distribute digital games for Microsoft consoles. You, nor anyone else, may create an Xbox store and sell digital games that will run on Xbox consoles.

>I think the analogy doesn't fit. Like a laptop/desktop, smartphones are general computing platforms. Specific purpose devices like iPods, Nintendo Switch really doesn't fit into this category much less a game.

If smartphones are computing platforms, then Apple doesn't have a monopoly, because then you can choose another computing platform. Apple products as computing platforms are an extreme minority. In order for Apple to have a monopoly you have to redefine the platform to be the App Store specifically. If you redefine the terms to just be the App Store, then that same definition would, and should, apply to any digital store.

Should Microsoft and Sony be forced to allow the Steam Store within their respective consoles? Maybe? But perhaps that is the fate Microsoft is trying to avoid and why Microsoft aren't going nuclear on Apple.

>The last thing I would want is for few companies to own everything, everyone should get a chance to compete on equal terms.

Is that not what we have? If you don't like Apple then you can go buy an Android phone. If you don't like macOS you can go run Windows or Linux. Who has the monopoly here?
>acknowledging that it isn't their role to bring politics into the workplace.

This is very hard for me to square with Facebook. It's like working at the NY Times and saying "no politics in the work place." Almost any decision FB makes is by definition political. The top 10 most interacted pages on Facebook are political. COVID-19, in the US, is political.

It doesn't strike me as mature, it's deceitful. It's very easy to claim things are non-political when the outcomes do not affect you at all.
I personally like chewing on sticks. The sweets? Not so much.

"The dose makes the poison" -- Paracelsus; pretty much on point in this case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquorice#Food_and_confectione...
Yes: https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10

US conservative content consistently dominates these rankings. Facebook is now primarily a US right-wing/conservative propaganda platform.
Licorice is toxic in relatively low quantities though.

> If you’re 40 or older, eating 2 ounces of black licorice a day for at least two weeks could land you in the hospital with an irregular heart rhythm or arrhythmia.

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/black-licoric...
So I got curious about IPFS recently and spend a couple of hours reading through the docs and tutorials. Good news: it’s a very well documented and very ambitious project. The docs in fact struck me as “too good”. As in, this isn’t some amateur writing them there is clearly a ton of work that went into it all. Which made me curious: how does a relatively unknown open source project do this? Where is the money?

Well, the answer was about half way through the tutorial. Basically say you want to publish a web page on IPFS. You put it together on your laptop and start up the IPFS daemon. Cool, you are now online and everyone can see your stuff. But what happens when you disconnect from your Wi-Fi? Well you can have your content pinned by another party and have them serve it. After all, IPFS is all about content addressing so it doesn’t matter who hosts it. But how does that work? Well, a paid service called Pinata is part of the official tutorial. No other service is mentioned. I am sure others exist but how is this going to be different than what we have with the web currently where a huge portion of content is served by a single company (CloudFlare)?
Do you think it would be "illiberal" to hound someone for believing that white people are inherently superior to black people?

To keep things in context, JK Rowling has stated that she believes that biologically male people are inherently a danger to biologically female people.

This is fundamentally the paradox of tolerance: is it intolerant to be hostile to intolerant beliefs?

JK Rowling's essay explaining her stances on trans people:

> ... I spent much of Saturday in a very dark place inside my head, as memories of a serious sexual assault I suffered in my twenties recurred on a loop. That assault happened at a time and in a space where I was vulnerable, and a man capitalised on an opportunity. I couldn’t shut out those memories and I was finding it hard to contain my anger and disappointment about the way I believe my government is playing fast and loose with womens and girls’ safety.

> When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a woman – and, as I’ve said, gender confirmation certificates may now be granted without any need for surgery or hormones – then you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside.

https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-...
20 years, or even 50 years, in the context of critical infrastructure and state level debt obligations is not that long. Nor is it sensible to consider “competing technical innovations” as if, say, solar and nuclear were mutually exclusive technologies. California can and should build both, now, and not wait for some other technology or price point to come and save us.

You can’t breath money.
With the Fedora versions announced earlier there was a price break for not getting Windows. Not positive with this but it's not an unreasonable expectation.
Consider that in the US you could immigrate west and the government would give you land if you set up a homestead, at least in the mid 1800's.

There's also a literature reference to I think Little House on the Prairie where the father sees another family coming into the valley and decides they need to pack up and leave.

There is a long history of US travel out west to get land and space regardless, or maybe because, of how far away from others you can get.
I actually do not go on show section. If something hits the front page, I will usually look at it.

I mainly look at the ask section. I find quite a bit of useful information or book recommendations in the comments.
> Well, it looks like the short/good tlds were either reserved or already bought

That's up to debate I guess :) I'm sure people say the same about the web/internet today, but still good domains are being created every minute, because someone is more creative than the ones before.
Write JSX components that are installable with a single click
Children Who Play Video Games Are Better at Working Memory Tasks
Have been thinking of the same thing. Our PM talks about how he had decentralised pakora making. Hope he does the same thing for ISPs.
This is exactly my point though, you wouldn't catch this in an e2e test either unless you try with an "11". If you're explicitly trying the "11" in an e2e test, why not just do it in a unit test instead? Once you hit this bug once, you can add an "assert(A(11) == 12);" and move on with confidence. If you want to test this specific scenario in an extra e2e test, you could potentially be adding another 2+ mins to every other CI/CD run that ever happens on the project.

Any good unit tests should at a minimum test the min/max/expected cases, as well as any known special cases. If there are unknown special cases, you're probably not any more likely to find them in e2e tests than you are in unit tests.
IT admins want one, and only one, Windows 10 upgrade annually
If you want to try out an application which is already using Handshake, check out my decentralized Android App Store based on Domain Names: https://skydroid.app
Wow.. unusual case but perhaps black licorice needs to come with warning labels!
Amazon and Ring create surveillance drone that flies around inside your house
Could you properly list down what has India lost with references?
And this is the type of attitude that will ensure nothing at all is ever done about the climate and we will all be living underground in a couple centuries.
That's absolutely not true. Developers can and often do have a hostile relationship with consumers who use their software. The most obvious example of this is malware developers. Operating systems and software distribution platforms often have rules to prevent malware. That's clearly a restriction on developers but (if done well) it means better apps for consumers. I think the same can be said for less obvious cases, like adware, tracking, shady free trial or subscription plans, bait and switch pricing in e-commerce, and many other antipatterns or dark patterns.
Apple seems to be portraying them as (potentially) life-saving technologies, for one thing

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/12/06/apple-watch-real-storie...
> Project and Visio

As a former IT Exec these were the two products that caused me the most significant end-user software budget headaches (in a 1K+ seat banking org)!! Clients who needed the odd flowchart or gantt chart HAD TO HAVE project or visio or else IT was denying them the ability to do their job!! It took quite some effort to get the culture shifted towards open-source alternatives that were good-enough and didn't line Microsoft's already golden pockets.
> Twice as much code in unit tests than prod code

Easily. Sometimes more, depending on the complexity. I had a configuration file generator with 5x as many lines of code being testing code. The consequences of getting even one field wrong would be severe, if they made to production undetected. There was some hairy legacy logic that I had to emulate.

The thing is, you need to test all your corner cases. These are more important in unit tests.

If the code is simple then you will be able to get away with much less. Every branch you add increases the complexity a lot.
> what made black licorice taste so good

It's amazing that people can have such different tastes. I absolutely hate the taste of black licorice.

Though the act of poisoning yourself and others for fun is an extremely normalized behavior, and has been for thousands of years. We just call it drinking (alcohol).
> Poisonous like water

http://dhmo.org/
Thank you! Are you aware of any surfaces of attack against Go that do no exist in C?
Big Tech Lobbying: Google, Amazon and friends and their hidden influence
Serious question: what counts as "inside" the app, when the app itself is free?

The free-to-play model that Epic is relying on (and, with some variability, the other players are relying on, where the apps themselves are "free" with a paid service) somewhat breaks the conventions we're used to discussing, and there aren't really analogies.

The closest comparison I can make to these services are how PC MMORPGs (think World of Warcraft) used to be sold -- at retail, a user would make a single purchase that included a version of the game's client and a code that granted them some time in the game, so they'd be getting a "complete" product with the purchase. If Fortnite cost $5, but included whatever that'd convert to in VBucks, this discussion would be very, very different; same with if Spotify charged $10 for their app but included the first month free. In this case, Apple & Google, as retailers, would get their percentage (as non-recurring revenue), but Epic and Spotify would be free to continue booking 100% of revenue on an ongoing basis, but would need to invest a lot more in marketing, since free on-boarding is a massive driver for user adoption.
To me this seems pretty straightforward. App Stores are directly tied and bundled with the operating system. Within the device universe there are basically 2 choices of operating systems. This is an extremely concentrated industry with an extremely high HHI. Apple and Google favor their own products and discriminate against competitors and have done for years. They also extract rent from other companies forced to use their App Stores far in excess of the services they provide.

MS vs European Commission found that the company illegally bundled Internet Explorer with their Operating System to the detriment of customer and at the expense of other businesses. Almost everything about current OS and App Store bundle seems essentially identical. To me this could not be more clear.
Er, no one is forcing any developer to make an app for iOS.
Sounds like halfway to a genetic algorithm to train the networks.
As much as I love Arch, I expect that would be a support nightmare for Lenovo :-D
Can anyone who knows about Bluetooth comment on why I can ping google in 50ms (wirelessly, even), but a Bluetooth round trip over a few centimetres takes 2 - 3X that?
Since Gareth didn't say he has licenses for the covers he creates and posts, then it seems clear he is breaking the law. Reporting a specific cover song video as a DMCA violation probably includes enough specificity to be a legal reporting without having to add, "the song from the whole video is under copyright".

> Thousands of times a month, someone posts a cover song on YouTube. And whether the video is a live band performance or a toddler singing from her high chair, most of those cover songs are posted without permission from the song’s copyright holder—meaning they’re infringing someone’s copyright.

> To avoid problems, you can obtain licenses that allow you to post the music and an accompanying video. [1]

[1] https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/posting-cover-songs-on-yo...
Ask HN: Is there a level I can settle down in safely?
I'm currently a senior SDE-equivalent and my manager has been mentioning things about how I should consider working toward the next level. I have severe anxiety and I'm clinically diagnosed as Aspergers (management does not know this).

I don't want to be a Principal/Staff or a manager. This is at a FAANG; I'm comfortable with my salary and work; it's reasonably challenging and not overly easy, and while this sounds utterly ridiculous to some people, I don't need or want to care about another 100k in stock/40k in salary.

I'm scared that "stagnating" in a job tier will result in eventually being cut for not improving or being promoted. I see this happen in the new grad areas frequently, where they kind of just get kicked out if they aren't good enough to title up within a year or two.
For a very simple, very readable Lisp reader, see Lumen's reader.l file: https://github.com/sctb/lumen/blob/master/reader.l

It compiles to Javacript and Lua, so if you prefer reading those, you can:

https://github.com/sctb/lumen/blob/master/bin/reader.js

https://github.com/sctb/lumen/blob/master/bin/reader.lua

It turns out that you can greatly simplify the code by e.g. "does an atom start with 0x, 0-9, or dash? if so, try converting it to a number."

That turns out to handle cases like 1e9 too. Whereas "1e" becomes a valid lisp symbol. So you can set it to your own value.

The emacs source code is also worth reading. It's not simple, but it's simple enough to be understandable: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/7b3e94b6648ed00c6...

I like emacs source code because it handles "every possible real-world case that you can think of."
The discussion here is about App Stores.

Apple has one, which is the dominant one in the US. Most of the rest of the mobile app market is controlled by Google.
https://appfairness.org/our-vision/

On this page I can't even scroll, both with iPad and Mac.
It does: it has a horrible, awful taste!
"The left" doesn't like Clinton either. There's a big difference American liberals and leftists, and it doesn't make much sense to group them together. I'd say the vast majority of those on the left have a favorable view of Assange.
I love that they're continuing the Dark Forest analogy! Makes me also realize I never want to dip my toe in crypto like that. It's like an amateur going up to an entirely unregulated wall street and expecting to earn some quick cash.
Im pretty unhappy with epic store exlusives since they have no linux client.
Many people's livelihood is malware development, probably including many people who think it's unethical and would prefer to have another livelihood if there was an option. I genuinely feel bad for those people, but I still think blocking malware is the right decision for an OS or software distribution platform.