skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>While I would even argue for openness there but you are comparing a specific use platform to a general computing platform.

I don't understand the distinction you are trying to make. How is iOS fundamentally different from the Xbox OS? Microsoft owns the OS and the hardware. Microsoft have several variants of the Xbox hardware for sale, and have a complete monopoly on digital game distribution through their OS.

>Apple is not a minority by any stretch. They own half of the smartphones sold in US and a significant share in the world. If I am a platform like Spotify I have to be on it, otherwise I lose a significant userbase. Adding to this, a service like Hey saw 90% of the revenue come from iPhones. They were signing up users on the web, just turns out that 90% of their paying users had iPhones.

According to IDC[0], Apple commands 14.4% of the worldwide market share. In the US, Apple commands a little under half [1]. Apple is unequivocally a minority player in the smartphone market.

>Adding to that, Spotify has to compete with Apple Music which doesn't pay the 30% tax, gets free placement on the phone and store and deep integrations with their product.

Spotify chooses to not deeply integrate with Apple. WatchOS allowed third party streaming several years ago and Spotify is one of the few music services out there that still refuse to support it. That's on Spotify and Spotify alone. The lack of a fee on the store could be considered unfair, but is no more fair or unfair than Google offering a music service, which they do.

>As a developer does this seem fair to you?

Not really, but that is beside the point to me. We have a free market and there are alternatives to Apple. If Apple has a monopoly then I think we need to fundamentally blow up this entire market, because by that definition nearly every tech company out there has a monopoly. I believe this line of reasoning would forbid Epic from exclusively selling cars in Rocket League, and I find that absurd. If I don't like the Apple platform I can go to a competitor and support them instead.

[0]: https://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/os
[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
To add, this didn't really start with the Tea Party. You can trace this violent and racist "New Right" [0] back to at least Reagan and the Kanawha County textbook controversy bombing in the mid 70s [1].

0 - https://www.ushistory.org/us/58e.asp

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanawha_County_textbook_contro...
I completely agree. Not everyone knows, or even wants to cook 3 meals a day (me included). For people who have gotten free food through their work, it is a big deal.

Now they either have to make stuff themselves (which costs time) or source it from outside (which costs money).
On one hand, you can compress that to once per minute and get a reasonable amount of sleep. A quick and guilt-inducing search informs me that one Matthew Tybor smoked a cigarette in a mere 36.44 seconds, so I guess that's plausible if we ignore the carbon monoxide?

On the other hand, nicotine is a stimulant, so maybe you wouldn't need to?
You don't need to use IOS to play games, listen to music or date.

You could go down to a record store, hosting a trivia night, that's a game. Then buy some records, and talk to a nice potential partner.

Done, you've accomplished all of these things without the use of IOS!

Less cheeky , you can do all of those things on a PC, on an Android device, etc.
> cookies consent prompt for a static website

> fairness

boo hoo keep crying, you are all accomplices
“I absolutely hate the taste of black licorice.“

Liquorice is an acquired taste (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquired_taste). You have to learn to like it.
Only 10 years ago, none of what you said was true. Who knows what the world will look like 10 years from now. Basing policy on the current ephemeral norms rather than consistently applied principles seems ill-advised.

Also, even in a world where the mobile phone is that ubiquitous and important, there's no inherent societal obligation that one absolutely NEEDS to use a particular company's phone, especially in a market that has plenty of alternatives.
That's...in literally every browser's setting since the beginning of browsers.
> C is similar to A in all ways that matter

I have never seen this be determine-able in real life scenarios

>analogies are not very good in arguments where the other person is resisting the conclusion you want to draw. they can be great when you are trying to teach/explain something to someone who trusts you though.

This is a great statement to show why analogies are bad and how they are abused.
How is "a few people controlling top domains" the same as "many people controlling top domains"?
Ok you’re right. But you haven’t covered the case when the speedometer is lying :)
There's a reason the phrase "The center cannot hold" exists.

It's for times like this.
Let me put it this way - based on the article I cited, removing licorice from cigarettes would probably result in a measurable drop in addiction and cancer rates (perhaps single digit %, but still measureable).
And this is the kind of attitude that allows really stupid stuff all the way to atrocities to happen - "Think of the children!".

Blindly doing "something" for the sake of doing something is not always a positive. Sometimes doing nothing is far more productive and less destructive.

CA has an abysmal record at trying to solve things through regulation. Indeed, most governments do. Top down planning is hard - it's almost impossible to account for every variable. Rather than radical change or pie in the sky goals, and demonizing large parts of private industry what ever happened to partnership, cooperation, mutual goals?

Nope. That's too complicated. It's a binary choice - either you believe as I do or you are sub-human and thus should be dismissed.

And we wonder why things are so polarized?
Oh look the conservative has a victim complex, what a surprise
No, its because Reddit is leftist too and Reddit mods are censuring content there. You may find the info online on what they did to conservative subreddits.
Names with stories: The story behind Soar.com
Aaah, but it's like having drain cleaner poured on your tongue and rubbed in with sandpaper, but in a way that for whatever weird reason makes you want to try it again. And again. It's oddly tasty, and you keep thinking "it can't possibly be as bad as the last time" and then it is. But still hauntingly tasty.

Weird experience. I want to spit it out, but I also want another piece.

On a side note, the salt used (ammonium chloride) is also a primary component of soldering iron tip cleaner. You can buy blocks of the stuff for that purpose, it's highly effective (though extremely aggressive, so to be used only after the wet sponge and brass wool have failed to remove the oxide). Works about like you'd expect it to, given the taste.
British copyright law states that books enter the public domain 70 years after the author's death, in this case, 1954. So hopefully in a few years it'll be accessible.
This isn't really relevant to OP. There are lots of sites that host video already.. YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, etc.

A successful discovery platform would allow content creators to publish to any platform they want (or their own site), and still maintain their viewership.

> As someone with a slow internet connection, I generally despise self hosted videos.

To this I would say that at this point, storage and CDNs are becoming a commodity, and "self hosted" does not have to mean slow. I can build and host my own site on a home server while still serving videos from GCP CDN. Now I have similar to performance to YouTube without the YouTube.
Wait until you try the Finnish salty liquorice alcohol called Salmiakkikossu. I love the salty candy but this is foul :) I read once that it was best described as old tractor tires marinated in moose piss :)
Adding antimatter to a matter black hole (don't think it matters actually, but this seems to be the case in question) should increase the mass and size, not decrease.

Correct, the photons produced from annihilation should match the inputs.

To decrease you'd need to add negative mass or negative energy, which aren't things we've found to exist yet.

We don't actually know _what_ will happen in the singularity of a black hole, to answer the question of if annihilation will happen there. As far as I know we don't have any model of what happens in a singularity.
Thank you very much. I look forward to them, and I'm sure others do as well.
Biofuel is just very, very expensive. The only reason it is used at all is heavy, heavy subsidies, often connected with corruption. (Cf. Archer-Daniels-Midland.)
It seems to me like you basically need a programmer who has experience doing the actual job to specify what's needed.

I've seen things get morphed from what the users need to what management wants and end up badly misaligned.

You're also right that there's a gulf between what users ask for and what can be sensibly implemented due to security, etc. considerations. E.G. wanting SSL to just work and ignore all cert changes magically just isn't ever going to be secure.
While you can find some/many luxury features on non-luxury cars, it's rare to get everything you want on a car without those luxury prices (if you are buying new / lightly used, and you get outdated if you go too far out).

Let's list some of the features that modern cars have which significantly improve the utility of them to most drivers, and which are considered (by the market) to be worth 45k+

Blind spot monitors, rear/side cross traffic alert, auto-dimming mirrors, digital mirrors (for when you have tons of cargo blocking mirrors), Backup/360 Panoramic Cameras, Parking Sensors, heads up display (massive safety benefit), Satellite Radio, lane keep assist, radar cruise control, pre-collision and collision mitigation systems (active breaking), improved design / additional weight for safety in collisions, more and better airbags. Better seats, better audio system, Nicer infotainment systems with Carplay/Andriod Auto, Hybrid/PHEV/EV powertrain, better reliability (if you pay Toyota/Lexus/Honda/Acura tax), semi-autonomous driving (Tesla)

I'm forgetting a bunch of stuff, but having recently purchased a 42K car with nearly all of these features and upgrading from a life of being driven in shitty base model kias, I find the utility gained from purchasing an expensive car to be MASSIVE. Driving went from being a frustrating chore to a pleasurable experience.

The risk of death dropping by an order of magnitude is alone worth the money, let alone the massive comfort improvements.
What I find most surprising is that all that political spam on Facebook drives engagement so much. At this point I barely get on it and never interact with my timeline, because half of it is shitty ads and the rest repetitive politics, and my mental model of people has most of us being turned off by it. Apparently not, though I do wonder if Facebook is somehow oversampling on a particular kind of engagement.
This is what Epic should have done first, before going all guns on Apple.

Perhaps Epic realised that passive approach to bring attention towards Apple's tax like Spotify isn't working and so decided to approach it legally. Then again, it's hard to believe that they thought they had a chance to get a verdict in their favour.

But I don't think the attention they are trying to invoke is that of consumer, if anything it's impossible to invoke a consumer sentiment against Apple which is a aspirational buy for many and even religious investment to some. Epic seems to be targeting other app developers and so far doing a very bad job at it.

IMO, It should have worked with Facebook silently even though it has more to loose with iOS 14's privacy settings than 30% cut[1] to get Facebook, instagram, WhatsApp banned on Appstore if necessary instead of depending upon a game played by children and adults who make money from children watching them play. Just ban WhatsApp in India and see what happens.

But if Apple decides to charge tax for advertisements as well, then it could blow back for everyone who has advertising as business model. I wonder what consumers who buy for Apple's Privacy think about Apple essentially subsidising large advertising business, where as a one man developer has to pay 30% cut.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24297854
"I was only following orders..."
The issue is 'anti competitiveness' not 'evil' and most arguments are pointed at that.
> The logical conclusion then is that the only device that should be allowed to be manufactured is a personal computer.

Nah, the capabilities can be limited, just not artificially so. I understand there is a bunch of nuance in that statement that we can get lost in discussing, but the brief salient point is "if the manufacturer can do something to my device, then they should not add restrictions for me to try to do it also". We don't need to get lost in the what-ifs that such freedom discussions often devolve into.
Program Synthesis Papers by Area
Only stuff that might exploit bugs in the standard library, or runtime implementation.

As everything, even formal specification based languages might have logical bugs in them.

What C gets on top of that are memory corruption bugs and optimization bugs caused by optimizers taking advantage of UB.

Naturally that can also happen in unsafe code blocks in other languages, the big difference in C is due to its strings and arrays, almost every line of code manipulates pointers without bounds checking, and exploits ensue.
Because its still centralising control. If I want to use myrealname.tld, I need to pay someone sitting on that TLD while they 'sit back and collect the profits`. Its like a tech pyramid scheme.
Even more context: in 1970 Gil Scott-Heron released Whitey's on the Moon which is a description of the struggles of black Americans interleaved with the chorus "but whitey's on the moon" (another classic The Revolution Will Not be Televised was on the other side of the record). He was hugely influential in the early years of rap and hip-hop, so I've little doubt that Prince was at least partially inspired by him.

It became a rather common expression of the contrasts in Amerca.
Strong black licorice, "lakrids," abounds in Denmark. My brother visited me when I was living there and ate a pound or so of little, tobacco-pipe shaped licorice in an afternoon. He got profoundly ill with a racing heartbeat, lightheaded, dizzy and nauseous. I almost took him to the hospital but he refused. It took a couple of days before he felt good enough to get out of the apartment.

Sometime after, I mentioned this to a Danish friend and he said, "Oh, yeah, you never want to eat much of that. People have damaged their eyesight from eating too much."
Where is involuntary sterilization written into the law?
iOS 14.0.1 also is out (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222)
> in any case if the US wants suspects extradited from western countries they should abolish the death sentence and stop torturing prisoners.

Personally I agree with that, but that doesn't impinge on the "politically motivate" crime issue, does it?
Seems like they wanted to capture the market as quickly as possible. Considering that they have a million-plus downloads on the Play store, it seems that the gamble somewhat did work.
> I think the differentiator is that while Python isn’t great when you care about every scrap of performance

This is an understatement. Python is the slowest mainstream language. JS is about an order of magnitude faster. Go, C#, Java, etc are about 2-3 orders of magnitude faster. C, C++, and Rust are nearly 4 orders of magnitude faster. If you might ever care about performance at all, Python is limiting.

No doubt that if all you're ever doing is a little glue code that dispatches to a database (or to ML models or whatever), then Python is fine. The problems come about when you try to do more interesting things, especially involving a complex Python object model that doesn't map neatly to Postgres or Pandas. I've never worked on a Python project where this wasn't the case, and where the organization wasn't doing some desperate optimization (e.g., standing up a Spark cluster) to stave off a ridiculously gracious timeout limit (e.g., 60s for browser timeouts). Meanwhile, had the same server been written in Go, the naive implementation would have subsecond response times and a little bit of trivial optimization (the kinds of optimizations that aren't available in Python for a myriad of reasons) could get it down to double digit milliseconds.

Since we rarely know all of the types of bottlenecks a project will encounter in its years of service, Python has become something of a last resort for me (especially given all of the great options that exist nowadays). And none of this is to say anything about the tooling, distribution, or package management problems that plague Python either.
I don't think it's "people these days;" I think it was the norm that has been disrupted by modern technology.

Network broadcast television operates under standards and practices, where certain things are not allowed for broadcast. That includes the news---even news stories are subject to S&P constraint.

Does network broadcast television "police political opinion" if it doesn't give a pedophile a half-hour of air time to plead their case?

The world of decentralized bidirectional near-lightspeed mass-communication, where there is often not a gatekeeper, is relatively new.

It's still an open question whether it's a net positive for society. I would say there have been a lot of positive consequences. Negative consequences are also stacking up quickly.
> Does anyone think they should forbid Fox News articles from being shared?

I mean...yeah
I love the discussion & effort.

On the other hand, relying on proof of work & creating an economy just to have distributed naming, to me, seems unnecessary & limiting. Users ought to be able to generate & use names heavily if they so desire, without having to do meaningless work to do so.

Systems like wireguard and HIP aren't name systems but they are connective systems, built around cryptographic identity. They assume a system of plenty, where folks & systems can be generating & using new identities regularly. To me, i'd much rather create a name system build around identity & assumptions of plenty, than a more name oriented systems built around restricting/controlling/limiting/funnelling distributed naming, through a Proof of Work pipeline.
The difference is that it's unquestionable that cigarettes are enormously harmful. To claim that the case against social media is anywhere near as clear-cut as tobacco is to do a disservice to the heroic public health efforts it took to cut down on smoking.

With social media, anecdotal accusations abound of negative impacts on mental health or political polarization. Yet the most carefully conducted research shows no evidence that either[1][2] of these charges are true to any meaningful degree. Simply put the academic evidence is not contagious with the journalistic outrage.

What's more likely is the panic over social media is mirroring previous generations' moral panic over new forms of media. When the literary novel first gained popularity, social guardians in the older generation worried that it would corrupt the youth.[3]

The same story played out with movies, rock music, video games, and porn among other things. The dynamic is propelled by old media having a vested interest in whipping up a frenzy against its new media competitors. In almost every case the concerns proved unfounded or overblown. I'd be pretty surprised if social media proved the exception, when we've always seen the same story again and again.

[1]https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1217307200517033986
[2]https://twitter.com/degenrolf/status/986146855007539201
[3]https://www.economist.com/1843/2020/01/20/an-18th-century-mo...
Because tango vs phobos was already damage enough, and Python 2/3 is a lesson in terraforming.

Slow and steady does win some races.
Their entire existence is predicated on policing opinions for the highest bidder, or in a way that benefits the highest bidder. Should ethics and morality not be integrated into that model?
Logic and rationality aren't part of public discourse right now. You have to be politically correct in public, including here on HN.
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People probably misunderstood what he was saying. If trump loses the electoral college there’s no way he will be in power next year. But, Trump could plausibly win the electoral college again and is almost guaranteed to lose the popular vote. For reference, 538 has Trump right now at 22% chance to win the electoral college. The day before the 2016 election they had him at 28% to win.
to be clear, you don't have to buy coins. you can still mine them and a boatload were given away to open source devs.
My local record shop has had my SOTT Super Deluxe on order for months and it's been in stock for three days now and I am on video calls ALL day and I cannot get there to pick it up! AUGH! And it's also too heavy and big to get by bicycle! DOUBLE AUGH!

Back on track: I don't know why articles keep focusing on the album as something that captured the zeitgeist when really it was only the title track that was overt about real-life. The rest of the album is timeless, and as we have recently discovered, some of the songs were at least seven years old by the time they were recorded.

An amazing album, I can still picture myself picking it up in the shop again and again until I could afford to buy it.
Oh no, won't someone think of the... talented and skilled white-collar worker in one of the hottest and highest paying industries of all time that can work literally anywhere? Enough with the appeals to emotion.
So I install the handshake daemon on my laptop, and I resolve paypal.com. Where do I go?
Would you be willing to provide me 3 links to right leaning fake news stories published today? The original links please. I no longer have a Facebook account.
Read your podcasts
It's not easy to know if a podcast is right for you without investing 20-30 mins of listening.

When your friends are talking about something that happened in a podcast, it's hard for them to pinpoint the moment or episode.

Fuss lets you clip and share podcasts with friends, and discover new podcasts by listening to the best parts.
No, I don't believe there's anything wrong with killing animals for food, I just like my dog more as a pet. I don't believe there's something morally wrong about killing one's pet for food, either.
This is all very interesting to read about, but in the same way epic battles in Eve Online are interesting to read about but not participate in. I hope the author doesn't think this article is functioning as an enticement to use ETH myself, because it's only confirming for me that I never, ever want any of my money near that shambling wreck.
Strong Borders doesnt mean children in cages.
People should be educated the rhetorical mechanism they are using doesn't do what they think it does, though. It's part of developing critical thinking skills. It would help people not get taken advantage of, too.
The ends don't justify the means.
Tell HN: There are 10x more SQLite databases than galaxies in the universe
1+ trillion SQLite databases
https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

100 billion galaxies in the universe
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-many-galaxies-are-there-astronomers-are-revealing-the-enormity-of-the
> The approach that Prince is tacitly advocating here to safety standards in space exploration is far too conservative.

I think the first and most serious error here is the idea that, in these lines, Prince is advocating anything at all about safety standards in space exploration.