skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, when a lawyer takes a case on contingency, they're essentially gambling their time on hopes of an outcome where their share (30-50% isn't uncommon, if I remember correctly) would make the time and effort spent on the case worth it. Against a company the size of Disney, with incentive to make the case as long and painful as possible to try and discourage other creators from trying to get what they're owed, it would likely take thousands of man hours, and tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket. Between discovery, filing fees, appeals, all for a victory that would result in (and I'm just completely guessing based on essentially no data) only hundreds of thousands of dollars. Lawsuits can very much end up being pyrrhic victories based on the costs incurred alone, not to mention the emotional toll that fighting a protracted legal battle can inflict upon a person.
> Earlyname helps you claim rare usernames (like @ben or @alice) on new, emerging social platforms. Currently it is generating $200/month.

Very unethical. This should have never been automated.
Wow. Compared to what Apple and Google today that's so tame, but it was handled seriously by the government.
Currently the iPhone is a great device for almost everyone on the planet and the trust their users have in the 3rd party apps is a big part of that.

If Apple made it easy to put custom apps on the device it would mean you could more easily be tricked into installing malware and so reduce the trust in the security.

The iPhone is as popular as it is today due in no small part to how they have policed the App Store.
I was talking about at scale, not a rack. If you can get by with a rack, you will pay more for the people to support it than the incremental cost of the cloud.
My gut instincts (based off of nothing but pure speculation and being a ML developer for several years) says no.

For one, the M1 engine has 16 cores, vs over 1,500 for a 1660 series NVIDA card. I know it may not be apples to apples, but I have a very hard time believing it would be able to keep up with even the most marginal card for training.
oh very nice. My machine doesn't have a `tail -r`, but it has `tac`, which I guess does the same thing.

I tweaked your output to put author first, to make sorting work better:

curl -s https://standardebooks.org/opds/all | awk '/<title>/ {split($0,a,">");split(a[2],b,"<")} /<name>/{split($0,c,">");split(c[2],d,"<");print d[1]" - "b[1]}' | sort

gives something like:

A. A. Milne - The Red House Mystery
A. Merritt - The Moon Pool
Aesop - Fables
Agatha Christie - Poirot Investigates
Agatha Christie - The Man in the Brown Suit
Agatha Christie - The Murder on the Links
Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie - The Secret Adversary
Aldous Huxley - Antic Hay
...
TIL: Joe Biden represents liberalism.
You can distribute an iOS app yourself. Give the user the source code. Then then give them instructions on how to build the app with xCode and deploy it to their iOS device.
Logically the beneficiary of the sale can't just void their debts/liabilities and pocket the sale money right? So whomever sold the assets should have been required to pay off their own liabilities/debts from the sale first much like a liquidation sale.
The only way to do this is to embrace decentralized and unmoderated platforms. We've lost the freedom of the distributed internet by exchanging it for the convenience of centralized platforms like google and facebook. Even hacker news, and reddit are centralized dictatorships with a bit of democratic groupthink tossed in (effectively minimizing provocative content).

I think we'll start to see stuff built on IPFS and libp2p that will break that trend at least for some of us. Maybe it'll be like the internet used to be, for the technically inclined who aren't afraid of being offended or offensive.
git branch -m main master
> Ads/marketing budgets create employment that would otherwise not be there.

Whether something creates jobs or not doesn't make it a net good. Would you suggest Ransomware is good? Because it also creates jobs. As do Nigerian email scams and Ponzi schemes. "Creating Jobs" doesn't mean something is good for society.

> You are also sort of missing the point. We are trying to make ads relavant for everyone, but even if it's relavant, you don't click on everything you see.

Apparently you are missing the point here. Whether you see it or not, Facebook and google's marketplaces by nature serve advertisers, not me. Advertisers don't give a damn what advertising is "most relevant" to me. What they care about is which demographics are most profitable to their brands.

> We are trying to make ads relavant for everyone

So long as Google and Facebook put the advertisers in control of who sees their advertising, any assertion that the system is designed to serve us is bullshit. People don't see advertising that is relevant, they see advertisements from the people who pay google/ Facebook to see their message. Those two things are not equivalent and never will be.
“What if some day your account was banned because you said something against the "community guidelines" of Apple?“

That is a fictional what if.

More importantly, it would be a field day for lawyers.
If you're using a reputable payment processor (like Stripe), they should be handling fraud detection and remediation for you. The real thing to watch out for is using your marketplace to sell illegal things. It was even mentioned that there were people for sale... I'm guessing that was done as a joke but it also happens for real.

I've considered many ideas like that One Item Shop and turned away from them because I wasn't sure how to keep people from listing and selling things that will get me sued out of business or thrown in jail. And at £1.63 in revenue, I'm not hiring a lawyer.
For the most part, yes, then.

Humans have the skill of extrapolation and invention that other animals completely lack, or only barely approach to our level.

Our ability to communicate instantly to other humans on the other side of the world (or even not on this world) is testament to the ways we have overcome certain barriers in natural selection. We literally chirp louder than any bird ever could. Lots of diseases simply wouldn't exist today if we didn't learn how to medicate and operate, because those diseases would have killed off those humans prone to them, and only "immune" humans would survive. Etc.

So in the early days when Homo Sapiens were not the only beings headed towards our modern (evolved) form, there probably were vastly different mortality rates depending almost solely on that scaling equation. There probably still is today, but more or less nature forcibly trying to maintain that 3/4 ratio.

I'm only speaking in re evolution since you mentioned that, because otherwise you're spot on.
What integration does iMessage have that the others do not?
A lot of people (e.g. libertarians) would agree with that statement.
> Do you have a source for that? This would change my opinion on this story.

I can vouch for this. My iPhone 6 was under 2 years old and had 82% battery health according to the Apple diagnostics when I experienced the unexpected shutdowns.

The shutdowns were frequent (at least once per day) and, because the phone had to be plugged in before it could be restarted, were incredibly frustrating.

I took it to an Apple Store. The Genius refused to acknowledge any fault. They ran the diagnostics which showed 82% and refused to replace the battery, even if I paid, as it was above their 80% threshold for replacement.

I spoke to the manager, and they stood firm. No replacement, even if I paid. I was extremely persistent and they simply would not budge.

The throttling resolved my shutdown problem.
In my experience global replace is much easier across multiple component files rather than multiple CSS files. If I need to do change a font color I do a search and know to change it based on the file/component it's used in. If I had to change the color in css files I'd have to review the class and also track down where that class is in use.
I don't think they were trying to make the case that the government wasn't a bad actor. I read it more to mean that they liked it better when they were the only bad actor.
Lots of good responses already on other ways to abstract, but I'll even go one further and say "sure, why not?"

When are you changing every single instance of "lg:text-7xl"? More often you're probably making a change in one single place in the app, in which case this is incredibly easy, you just make your change where you want. You're not slowed down by digging through layers of abstraction cruft and indirection until you find the right place to make the change.

If you're doing an entire site design refresh, then doing some find and replace isn't really that crazy. For something you do relatively infrequently like this (maybe every couple of months or even every couple of years?) it's not a big deal if it takes a little bit longer. And likely you'll need to look through and test your changes on every page one by one anyway, to make sure you're not breaking anything you didn't mean to. You'll need to do that whether you changed the definition of a css class, or you made a bunch of inline changes, at which point making the actual code edits inline probably isn't even the bottleneck.

But again, that's perhaps a bit extreme of a way to look at it. You will inevitably have some layer of abstraction anyway, something like components or templates or partials, in which to wrap your styles.
React Native and Flutter are lowest common denominator frameworks that make for lousy apps. My experience was so bad that I no longer even respond to recruiters for companies using React Native.

Apple should charge non-native apps a large premium to be on the store. They degrade every users experience.
> The anti-competitive and illegal behavior that Apple is doing is preventing alternative app stores from being on the IPhone.

And that has nothing to do with the revenue share.

> This actions prevents other app stores from undercutting apple's prices.

Sure. But it doesn't mean the revenue share they currently have is unfair.

Other companies have a similar revenue share on their platforms on open platforms. So that suggests to me that it is fair.

> Epic's app store, for example, would take 12%, instead of 30%. This would help consumers if they were allowed to use it.

Would it? It will help developers but it wouldn't necessarily reduce the prices for the games because the market price for a AAA game is still what £50? The devs would make more money per unit sold I would suspect.
Feel free to pay money, I applaud that. For the content you benefit from, if you are willing to pay, that's amazing. I do pay for content too (i have yt premium, netflix, blutv etc). But not everyone wants to pay for the content. You certainly wouldn't pay for a game you play for two weeks and get bored. How do you think a mobile game on a device would get the word of mouth they do without initial monetization etc?

How do you think you'd get to know your neighborhood burger joint without some form of advertising (either word of mouth, or through real paid advertising). how would you know the burger joint somewhere else?

Short of a micropayment solution that pays out proportional to the value you get (flattr? maybe), ads is the only viable option. But that only solves the content creator pov. It doesn't help the advertiser - the business that need your money to survive.
>> Earlyname helps you claim rare usernames (like @ben or @alice) on new, emerging social platforms. Currently it is generating $200/month.

> Very unethical. This should have never been automated.

Unethical or not, I am 100% sure that this operation has been automated hundreds of times by different programmers throughout the years.
Correct - I’d guess this is Not using the neural engine.

I don’t know enough about that hardware to hazard a guess about how easy it would be to get that part of the chip involved.
I started seeing a therapist mostly about my trust issues with women, and it ended up being 90% work-related topics we discussed. Oftentimes I thought I was up against the world and I sucked, and my therapist would bring me down to earth and almost allow me to think that I'm doing a good job, and that I'm a good engineer no matter how many other, better engineers are out there.
>Is it time to quit tech?

>I have taken some time off work recently to travel and unwind.

No. Go fully remote, travel and see out the rest of your career.

Software dev has about 10 years left as a viable career until it's as common as, and remunerated in line with, store cashier positions. You may as well ride out the crest of the wave.
If corporations are entitled to some of the rights of persons, then I'd like some of the rights of corporations.

I'll take the asset of my house, without the liability of the outstanding mortgage balance.
It’s supposed to be a social network made around money relationships. It’s like google plus all over again. Except this time with the promotion of businesses.

as someone who uses google for personal people to people communication and platform, Seeing my favorite free service provider take this route to what is unarguably a data collection scheme is deeply disheartening.
> I've found that the biggest impact you can have on anyone's behavior (adult or child) is to set the example.

I agree in principle, but I find that that doesn't map very well to the digital world.

This past Saturday, I spent about six hours staring at a screen. My kids did too. I was making music, an act I find creative, meaningful, and intellectually stimulating. They were mostly watching YouTube videos of people playing Minecraft.

At the primitive monkey brain level where "setting an example" kicks in, all my kids saw was that I was staring at a screen so they did too.
lot of telemetry
I'm curious—who prevented you from reading the article, which has nothing to do with your comment?
is there any up-to-date comparison between Librem, Jolla/Sailfish, PinePhone, (...)?
Aneles – We create the image of your company
The problem seems to be with your family’s refusal, no?
Disney was founded on this sort of behaviour - the Disney animators strike of 1941 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_animators%27_strike
I agree. Some people don't want feedback at all. Some people don't want feedback _from you_. The same goes with wanting feedback. Being able to decipher who's giving feedback and why, and what their possible gain could be is important when navigating complex environments.

A manager's feedback may be directly oppositional to a teammate's feedback. Your manager's feedback may be directly oppositional to your Director's feedback. Sometimes someone that doesn't know what they're talking about offers feedback very aggressively for posterity. All feedback is not a gift. Lots of feedback is just noise.

I think it's important to receive feedback from people you respect or want to be more like. Identifying these people is very important, as they'll have tremendous impact on your work. Just because your manager was assigned to you does not mean you respect them or are interested in changing to accommodate their vision.
Or per-device at least. Or barring that, a flat percentage of profits.
> especially when even the authors themselves seem to be okay with blocking child pornography sites.

...are you not? Like, I get your "moral relativism" argument, but I don't think anyone besides "extra-principled" libertarians would think there is some hypocrisy between advocating against the censorship of news/political ideas and literal child abuse.
I did.
"tracking is getting them better/ more relevant advertising" -> it makes it more relavant yes. But your individual experience on 100 impressions don't matter. Us showing you ads for something you already bought is a bug. Not a fundamental to advertising kind of issue.
I’m really not. I said they should have notified people. You’re ignoring that there’s no solution to this problem that doesn’t degrade the user experience in one way or another, which is the point I was making.
Failure to appear in court is sometimes a ruling in favor of the plaintiff. He could go ahead and file the lawsuit.
Yes.

Which has already been attempted, not least in romantic fiction where a certain well known publisher did exactly that - channeled sales through a shell company which allowed it to pay a hugely reduced royalty rate based on the publisher's net income.

That didn't end well, and I doubt this will end well either. It would be very surprising if there aren't multiple writers involved, and this will most likely go through an expensive class action or at the very least an expensive out of court settlement.

Whatever Disney's bean counters and lawyers believe they are saving is going to be wiped out in a few weeks of bad PR when core fans hear about this.
I’ve described my experience of this elsewhere in the comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25144761
I read the Star Wars book before the film was released in the UK. An interesting experience, given that novelisation of film usually goes "the other way" experientally. Film-of-novel is of course far more common.

In some ways, the book was better than the film.

(I read Abyss after the film, which I think was Orson Scott Card. I think the film is better than the book)
Foundations of Game Engine Development, Volume 1: Mathematics by Eric Lengyel

Chapter 1-3 is usual stuff, Chapter 4 is GA
It appears to be partly fixed, partly unfixed.

Specifically, youtube.com seems to have been fixed in Chrome 86.0.4240.111 on October 20, soon after this went "viral", but google.com remains unfixed in the latest Chrome 87.0.4280.66
It means they haven't yet filed a court case. If you ignore the other side once they file, the courts tend to impose very real consequences.
> Businesses are not dumb.

Over all businesses over long periods of time, maybe. But a business can definitely be dumb. And a smart business can definitely do a dumb thing.
> I can distribute terabytes of my free apps every month without paying a penny to Apple.

Very few apps do that.

> it’s misguided to assert its just the cost of bandwidth and servers.

Good thing they didn't make that argument.
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It's a cat and mouse game. At the same time, though, it means that botnet operators (provided that they don't roll their own crypto) have to engage in that much more effort to keep their C2 infrastructure secret. That's a win for security teams, and it's definitely more effort on the attacker's part than it is on the defender's.
> You certainly wouldn't pay for a game you play for two weeks and get bored. How do you think a mobile game on a device would get the word of mouth they do without initial monetization etc?

[Replying to parent because I can't reply directly to poster]

It looks like you have no idea that there are games worth paying for. Not on mobile phones though. And definitely not free to play games. They are designed to take your money, not entertain you.
> Joe Biden wrote the original Patriot act.

No, he didn't.

USA PATRIOT Act was from Rep. Sensenbrenner (R-WI). It incorporated material from 3 earlier bills, one of which was also by Rep. Sensenbrenner (R-WI), the others by Sen. Daschle (D-SD) and Rep. Oxley (R-OH).

https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/3162...
I just was talking to someone about this.

I'm the worst on HN at commenting on a topic before/instead of reading the article.

But I see HN not as a place to share random articles around the web, but as a place to discuss interesting topics with a (relative to other alternatives) civil and educated userbase.

I'm usually not super interested in what a single person has to say on a given subject (i.e. the linked article) as much as I am in the collective thoughts/responses from the HN community.

Again, admitting that I'm likely part of the problem, but just being honest, and -- in my own mind, at least -- feels like a mostly justified reason for making the most of the time that I have/feel like spending on these topics.

If a similar community existed that was (again, relative to other alternatives) civil & educated, but just allowed discussion on topics vs. links to articles, I'd be hanging out/engaging there instead.
Gawd, why do you want to inflict crappy web UI framework on an innocent iphone ?
More realistically, the AI promotes content that improves itself and buries content that makes itself weaker.
I read that article earlier today, and gotta say I was pretty disappointed that Vox chose the title "Obama: The internet is “the single biggest threat to our democracy”" based on this exchange:

> Obama: Now you have a situation in which large swaths of the country genuinely believe that the Democratic Party is a front for a pedophile ring...I was talking to a volunteer who was going door-to-door in Philadelphia in low-income African American communities, and was getting questions about QAnon conspiracy theories.

> Goldberg: Is this new malevolent information architecture bending the moral arc away from justice?

> Obama: I think it is the single biggest threat to our democracy.

The second paragraph in the article is more in line with what he actually said:

> Now he worries that the internet and social media have helped create “the single biggest threat to our democracy.”

There's a big difference between saying that the internet is the single biggest threat to society, and saying that it (and more specifically, social media) has helped some people communicate disinformation and "fake news" - which is what Obama see as the threat to society in this context.
Unpopular opinion? Facebook moderators are not the "heart of the business". Now, they should get better treatment but let's be realistic here.
Two completely unrelated sentiments but... ok
Thanks for the link. It seems that the gradual leakage solution was thought to require an additional assumption that violated semiclassical gravity, but this new result is consistent with semiclassical gravity. However, platz's reply to my original comment makes a good point about the new work using a gravitational path integral, so I think I'll take that as my answer for now.
Delta avoids US tariffs by sending new Airbus jets on a world tour
> But no matter how much time I spend in the app, I won’t learn how it works or get the ability to change, modify or develop it.

Who cares? Just because you and many others on HN learned some stuff from fiddling with some computers doesn't mean that learning a language is lesser.

"Ah, you aren't doing things that I did as a kid that lead to my high income! You're trash, kid! Git gud!"
You don't generally update the shipping address for pending orders when a user changes their address. Of course, when an order is delayed by years the rules might change a little and asking the users whether the orders should be updated too will be useful.
This is misleading, !important is not required to use inline styles.

They still cascade normally like CSS classes... see this example:

<div style="color: red">
<p>red text</p>
<p>red text</p>
<p style="color: blue">blue text</p>
</div>

Ironically, it's actually complex CSS classes and long selectors that produce high specificity, which then requires even more specificity to override and eventually the dreaded !important
Disney should be disallowed from pursuing any copyright infringement cases until it pays up.

It’s only logical (their own logic).
Again, it's not that Apple didn't violate the laws of physics on their "magical" device, it's that they:

1. Applied the throttling fix silently
2. Denied warranty replacements
3. Wouldn't even replace the battery with cash in hand until after the suit was filed
4. ..leaving people with no good way to have a working device.
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