skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But conversely the value of points have to be discounted by the risk of loss of utility or future devaluation.

When the credit card says $200 in cash-back rewards, there's a lot less room to play games. 20,000 miles might buy a ticket today, but only an upgrade tomorrow. And that even assumes the ticket you wanted was available through the program you decided to back.
Yes, I was rather fatigued for several weeks as well, but mostly worked (remotely) through it.
> smaller antennas.

For 26Ghz, yes. But unless your device will be outdoor-mount-only, you'll need bigger antennas for the frequencies that can punch through a wall.
As I understand the market

- Mobile is a tiny portion of fortnite

- Unreal engine is the long term money maker not fortnite

- The 40% owner (tencent) has lots of financial motivation to support this outside of Epic's potential profit, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were willing to pay the company off to make this lawsuit happen
Judge+Emily+Miskel+–+470th+District+Court
"Yes sir, we have extracted infinite resources from this planet to create a 144p LCD screen."
No, the point I'm making is that most of what sewage treatment plants do is deal with organics— soapy water, human waste, probably a bunch of clothing fibers, whatever.

Without knowing much about waste treatment processes, I could imagine that it would be relatively easier to extract and isolate heavy metals in a state where they're otherwise just in water, vs once they're extremely diffuse and mixed in with all the rest of it.
While I broadly agree with your sentiments, Epic's issue here isn't the percentage commission per se.

It's the fact that both Stores do not allow apps that circumvent Apple/Google's payment systems for in-app purchases (and in Apple's case, the fact that side-loading is prohibited, forcing you to use the App Store for any software you want to run on portable Apple devices).

If you took a favourable interpretation, a 30% commission only becomes anti-competitive once Apple/Google take away any alternative.

That being said, I don't agree with that and I'm still not clear what the legal basis for that argument is. I'm leaning towards Epic losing this one mightily.
Not sure what your requirements are. But, you are very well off by developing country standards. Since you are single and if you believe your income earning potential continues to stand good, here are two awesome, low budget places that come to my mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darjeeling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala

You won't even be compromising on city fancies or fantasies either. You could pick up a bike, car or flight anytime and to experience anything with the realm of availability.

From a factual perspective, you would have way more time for experiences and exploration than most city inhabitants waiting for that occasional (often stressful) PTO.

Happy weekend!
I don't think anyone is arguing that there are some subsidies like that or that some are wasteful--you can see as much in the first few posts.

They're arguing that the idea isn't categorically absurd.
A couple years ago, I discovered the joy of microwaving at low to mid power. The results are far better for foods that have already been cooked, at the cost of mildly longer cook time. The only thing I nuke at full power is liquid.
"With an investment of just one-half of 1% of the federal budget"

US federal budget 2019 was $4.4T[1]. 0.5% = $220B. So with an influx of $220B NASA generates $64B worth of output. Seems like a sinkhole to me in terms of economic value.

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56324
I dunno.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Tax_Freedom_Act

Reads like a joke now?
No, it’s clearly not. You can also understand how the fundamentals have changed and reason about what is going to happen.
The real trial hasn't started yet (scheduled for July next year, last time I looked), so there's no winning or losing.

Epic vs Google was covered in The Economist this week. It's a very big deal.
> Easy, don’t connect it to the internet.

Maybe not so easy in the future. TVs might eventually have 5G internet connections built-in and paid for by the manufacturer. It could be worth it to them if they get enough revenue from their software platform through user tracking and advertising.
Simply start your own major smartphone platform to compete with the duopoly, duh. Easy as that.
"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use is the rule?"

Do we really want to live in a world in which a few tech companies get to shave 30% off of all the value produced by a significant portion of the entire economy? Why should we put up with that? Because we made a rule a long ago that in general companies can decide their own pricing structure and device policy? Is a slavish adherence to this rule worth making us all 30% poorer? Why?

We can and should make an exceptionion to the general principle of corporate independence whenever we find ourselves in a situation in which a key piece of public infrastructure happens to be privately owned --- and app stores have definitely become public infrastructure). We shouldn't let a blind adherence to an abstraction prevent us from ensuring that this public infrastructure is run in the public interest.
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Unless the typical uber ride is an hour long, the price would not be doubled. And I see no reason that demand would go down in a way that is worth the trade-off of exploitation and forcing people to go on without living wages.
Me neither. But tortious. :).
It may sound cliche but education is so easily accessible nowadays
Thanks for the reply! That makes sense. And sorry for the late response.
Pay the cost upfront. Don't distribute it to others
Apple Touch Id on Macbooks is pretty much YubiKey replacement, right?
Eh, I've had the "one button" UI on a "smart" watch where you're doing a series of single taps, multi-taps, short presses, long presses, etc. It's really not fun for several reasons:

1. It takes forever to do anything even remotely complex.

2. The most common features aren't really the easiest to access (in terms of input effort).

3. If you make even a single mistake in a long series of taps, you have to loop all the way back through the interface. If you let it timeout, this is apparently the equivalent of a "select".

4. There is zero intuition for any this functionality.

I know some people here will not like to here this, but it's how I feel when somebody with an iPad is showing me the difference between a one finger, two finger, three finger and four finger swipe/grip. It's not that they exist and nobody but a power user would access them, for me it's more that I might accidentally trigger one of these functions and have zero idea of cause and effect.

The worst offenders are when the UI changes depending on the context. Like that touch bar Apple had where the buttons and layout would change depending on which application you are in. I understand how it could be cool for a power user, but as a normal user I want some standardization for the location of things between apps.
Me too, but the reason I have it on my mind is because I was reading the technical manual [1] for the fancy new NG boiler I'm having installed next week, and they specifically list the max concentrations of lead, chromium, cadmium, and other scary things in the condensate water after the neutralizing unit, with a recommendation to check with your my regulations to ensure that it's legal to dispose of this water down the drain.

Possibly it's just an abundance-of-caution thing, but I assume the reason for the warning is that in some places it isn't, perhaps because of stricter environmental standards, or maybe a sewage treatment system which isn't set up for this.

1: https://www.viessmann.ca/content/dam/vi-brands/CA/pdfs/wall-...
If thats what they choose to work on, they probably weren't the best minds ;)
ISP should also take a cut, I mean why not..they can... then the electric company can charge all of us a % ... why don’t camera companies get a cut of movie revenues... why don’t tv companies charge cable companies to work with one another, I mean... let’s just go for it
non sequitur.
You make it sound like a conspiracy.
I have an Xbox with Xecuter 3 and the four-line front-panel display. At some point the modchip and front display stopped working and now the Xbox boots like a retail unit. One of my projects on the shelf is to go in there and fix it

After all theres a copy of topless-modded DOA Beach Volleyball on the hard drive to greet me once I get around to it
I'd consider the gas station situation price fixing, but not illegal price fixing per se - gas station price fixing in general is a much bigger problem in some remote parts of the US or around airports where two or three gas stations set their price to be $3 or more over the rates at the nearest city 10-20 miles away.
Sideloading is definitely a pain in that the Google Play Store is given privileges so long as you don't have root (the vast majority of people don't). For example, while the Google Play Store can automatically update 10 apps at a time, other stores (such as F-Droid) require you to manually approve and update every single one, waiting for the installation to complete.
Apple’s return policies are pretty generous, there’s no harm in getting one and trying it out for a couple weeks.
I'm a little surprised that there isn't a "buy to own" option in my library's ereader. While I would certainly worry about the perverse incentives that such a feature would create (such as reducing checkout times to maximize the chance someone starts but doesn't finish a book), it seems like a win-win-win: publishers can get sales via libraries, libraries can get a cut of any revenue or lower costs, and users can keep reading the book with page location and metadata intact.
You may remember Burkman and Wohl from such hits as:

> In a late April 2020 press release, a woman claimed to have been sexually assaulted in 2014 by Dr. Anthony Fauci, a prominent member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Only The Daily Dot reported on the allegation, debunking it as a likely smear attempt.[33] On May 2, 2020, the woman contacted Reason Magazine to confess that she and another woman had been paid by Burkman and Wohl to fabricate the allegations against Fauci. According to Reason, the woman contacted Burkman and Wohl and recorded their phone conversation. In that call, Wohl told her, "You did a good job, you got paid. What's the problem?" Burkman suggested that Fauci deserved the smear: "This guy shut the country down. He put 40 million people out of work. In a situation like that, you have to make up whatever you have to make up to stop that train and that's the way life works, OK?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Burkman

> On October 3, 2019, Wohl and Burkman held another press conference, in which they claimed Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren had had a sexual relationship with a 24-year-old former U.S. Marine. At the event, the accuser presented by Wohl and Burkman kept laughing as he described the allegations. The accuser also showed a supposed "sex scar", which was debunked due to the accuser having previously posted on his social media account a picture of the same scar stating that he had "hit [his] back with a chain trying to take down a swing". The conference was met with mockery and disbelief in the media, and the claim was widely assumed to be another of Wohl and Burkman's false allegations.[21][22][96][97][98]

> In August 2019, felony arrest warrants were issued in California for Wohl and his former business partner, Matthew Johnson, for illicit sale of securities that took place in July and August 2016.[1] Wohl pleaded not guilty to two felony charges of selling unregistered securities in February 2020. The settlement hearing that was originally scheduled for April 2020 was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[32]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Wohl
TCP is a bit easier on the throat than UDP
The problem is when 99% of our revenue comes from that 1%
This is an interesting point that people miss sometimes - so thank you for bringing it up.

I guess a comparison would be a utility that both owns the transmission lines and power plants? However, the transmission line rates are set by regulation. We have accepted as a society that the infrastructure needs to have regulated pricing.

So why is it all that different here?

The transmission of the products, just given the way the cellphone market works, is basically limited to either App Store or Android Store. I basically have no alternative.

Isn't that approaching a monopoly / duopoly where regulation starts to make sense?

I say this all as a fairly conservative person, but it just seems too similar to utilities to me...

Why am I wrong? (Serious Question)
“I don't have a TV, only a few monitors.”

I also highly recommend this. It’s been 18 years since I’ve lived in a house with a tv. It’s still weird to me that people design their living rooms around sitting facing a screen rather than other humans.
The natural/artificial barrier is the data silo created by the fitness tracking. Monopoly isn't necessarily the right word, but it is rather frustrating that all these smartwatches by default beam all of your biometrics into a non-hippa-compliant datastore, and that these datastores don't interoperate.

It's really tricky because right now Garmin, Fitbit, Apple, and the others are all basically financing their data portals through device sales. Which makes sense because I wouldn't have paid a subscription for it before I bought the watch, but now that I have the watch (Garmin) it is an invaluable service. But it seems wrong that the watch manufacturer owns the data - I would like a data storage company with strong privacy guarantees and strong analytics. But I'm not sure I trust any of these companies, it seems like they're all trying to figure out how to monetize my data by selling analytics to third-parties. (Even Apple.)
> But no one is "forcing" you not to contribute to OSS.

The GP is talking about Hacktoberfest... Not sure how you got the impression that they are talking about OSS in general.
I'd argue that digital stores are just as expensive, they just have all of their costs associated with building the platforms the store runs on instead of transporting and stocking shelves with product.
You need to carefully watch for yourself falling down the trap of growing the definition of what is an entitlement and what is not.

An app store that sells games and voluntary entertainments is not a public infrastructure, operated in the public interest. That's almost laughable.

And don't be so quick to conclude that now because you reap the benefits of a system that was previously set up, you can simply decide that you think the % is too high and take it back "in the public interest". Go ahead, propose that every company only be allowed a 5% markup on its costs. Let's see where that takes us.
Subsidized implies that the revenue from advertising defers the cost to the end user. This isn't generally true for TVs.

With TVs, the sticker price pays for the hardware. The ads pay for the extra house the manufacturer's CEO feels he's entitled to have.
Try it "Zamia Speech: Open source state of the art speech recognition"
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=216638
Self-medication by orangutans using bioactive properties of a plant
A better name would be partioning or shard key. It's not physically ordering the items based on the key, just hashing them into a partition. The physical time they are received by the service is the order they're stored and returned as.
Improving the performance of the Prometheus JMX exporter
Very cool. I had no idea things had gotten that accurate. My grandpa was a cardio-thoracic surgeon so I always had a bit of hobbyist’s interest. Most of my reading materials were obviously a bit dated.
Apple should just release their own Fortnite clone and be done with it.
> fundamentals have changed and reason about what is going to happen.

and has this been more correct than using historical data?

And the fundamentals and valuations are subjective - people value different aspects of a company differently. Who's to say your valuation is correct? This is the reason behind volatility.

But if you're buying a broad market cap-weighted index, the behaviour of the price is less affected by individual valuations and more affected by macro-economic factors. And historically, a broad market cap-weighted index has had positive returns. This cannot be said about individual companie's performance.
Science shows us that we can model the same "truth" in many ways.
This reminds me of the fungi sub space system that was in Star Trek Discovery (season 2). Interesting.
Actually, mine was a bit cheaper! It's 55" 4k but no HDR. It was ~$850 CAD. At the time, LG's equivalent (spec-wise, as far as I could tell) "consumer" smart-tv was ~$1000.

The model I linked here, is $1000 CAD on amazon.ca (through 3rd-party sellers), but I don't know how it compares.

Again that's a few years ago so the market may have changed. And annoyingly, LG seems to have different products for Canada vs the US.
I stepped up my use of my library's ereader app (the same Libby mentioned in the article) during covid and was shocked that there weren't any public domain books available. That seems like table stakes for a public library's e-book program, but i guess the app and support ecosystem isn't their. Would make a great side-project for anyone interested.
> Aspiring writers aspire to make a living off their work.

Aspiring writers can aspire for fame, an audience, enthusiastic reviews, a platform, or loyal fans. Do those necessarily put food on the table? No, but many people happily write, perform, paint, etc. knowing that it won't pay the bills. The idea that everyone is in it for the money is a blanket statement that I'm not sure is even true for most creatives.

You can make a separate claim about whether artists should be able to financially support so that they can make art full time, but that's quite a different claim.
All of that makes it distinctly inferior to Google maps, which is why I'm not sure if any of these approaches is better in absolute terms.
Maybe it tells you something about the market dynamics and difficulty of technology that there are only 2. And maybe that produces the margins it does.

If it's not easy, maybe you should think about why then. And not be so quick to dictate how things should be otherwise.
What do you mean? I'm familiar with Kaldi - although haven't tried running it on an Rpi (nor with these particular models). That's materially different from w2l though.
>Google has made the process of installing alternative app stores obtuse enough

I do agree an average user would feel the warning intimidating, but I don't think it's obtuse (or do you mean obscure?) at all. If anything, it's pretty explicit.

If you try to install apk from say, your browser (the most likely
scenario for Fortnite), the system would ask you to give it the privilege to install "unknown/unsafe app" or whatever it's called. And you only need to change this setting once. Later you can just directly install any APK from this app (browser).
The Yin-Side of Bandhas
Don't you think it's at least plausible that app stores are natural monopolies like electrical service? And mobile devices really are a key part of almost everyone's life these days: why wouldn't the nearly-exclusive channel for software distribution to these devices be infrastructure important to the public?

When you have a natural monopoly operating key public infrastructure, regulation is a clear and justifiable option.
Most of physics is a mathematical model.

Stephen Wolfram is creating computational models. It’s a natural evolution of reasoning about the universe with the potential to ask if the structure of the universe is computational itself.
I'm gonna make the assumption that we're all techies here. But does anyone else desire for simple things in your personal life? I drive an old truck, have new(er) speed queen washer/dry, a dumb fridge, no cable box, dumb(maybe just old) t.v.s, etc?

A few years ago I bought a toothbrush that had an app. This was a moment in my life ill never forget. I was using my phone to brush my teeth... I have since started removing "smart" and "connected" things from my life.

Partly because I create software that always has problems and partly because I know the complexity adding computers to everything adds...

I love simplicity these days. Im thinking of getting one of those dumb phones too.
One needs to mentally prepare for the coming 5G era; ubiquitous tracking and data harvesting combined with artificial intelligence and social credit. Where is the opt out from this hellish corporate revolution?
Does anyone remember if Be ever got any remedy over MS locking BeOS out of OEMs? Obviously the tactic worked as we're not using BeOS, and Apple based macOS on NeXT.
Actually, it just got easier to beat. What happened was scientists found a new way to measure the effects of gravity that can substantially distinguish between different proposals to unify general relativity with quantum mechanics.

The article says it got "harder" because the theory of general relativity wins every measurement, and that means the search space for potential solutions is much smaller - you have more constraints that you need to fit.

But this is actually a good thing. Finding the right theory is like looking for a needle in a hay stack. These new measurements are the functional equivalent of removing a huge portion of the hay.

Yes, it means there are now fewer places to check, but that's actually what we want. We'll spend less time chasing dead ends because it's easier for us to see they are dead ends sooner.
You realize that microwave is doing ACR on everything you cook, and selling it to your insurance company, right?

(Sorry HN)
What do you think is unconstitutional about the law? It seems pretty solid to me.

To be clear, I don't appreciate the law as written and support its repeal, but I think legislatures need to do that, not courts.
If they do a phone and a gaming OS I would buy it.

also, I similarly wonder what we are missing for google and apple to force websites to use their payment system and tax the 30% hell out of the entire economy.

And remember, no "sideloading" though brick and mortar stores!
You are confusing the concepts of a monopoly and a public utility.
Unironically, I would be happy with a sliding tax scale here - if Apple/Google takes x% of the purchase price, then there's an x% federal tax added on top of the purchase price.
Maybe (don't have a new enough Macbook) but SoftU2F is the Yubikey replacement I've been using: https://github.com/github/SoftU2F
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Got it, so you’re not only incapable of actually engaging with arguments that are clearly cited with verifiable links, you also appear to have an axe to grind attacking other people totally unrelated to the discussion at hand. This is gold standard argumentation, I clearly have so much to learn from you!
My process of engaging at work is strictly professional. I don't even like going to happy hours. I don't want to bond with anyone on a personal level. Ok, we joke and entertain ourselves on a personal level but it is very much small talk / elevator chat.

I honestly do not understand why people socialize at work. Can someone who holds a contrary viewpoint shed some light on why this is so common place in corporate environments? My guess is that it has to do with various kinds of personalities.