skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way you describe it makes it sound like there’s some theoretical ideal that has never been attained, and there’s a group of people arguing for that...except that’s not true.

It’s important to have that discussion because it has implications on what approach we take. I think there’s generally broad agreement that the status quo is bad...there’s just violent disagreement as to why it’s bad. There are a number of ways to fix it (and not just the one proposal you keep hearing about).

Simply decoupling healthcare from employment while keeping it private is one approach. We know that this is efficient, because it’s what Medicare Advantage is, and that’s actually cheaper and better than Original Medicare.

Providing universal catastrophic care with savings accounts is another approach that has shown empirical success. It’s how Singapore’s health care system works, and it is widely regarded to be the most efficient healthcare system among the advanced economies.

> Why not just adopt one of the competing alternatives wholesale and admit defeat?

I agree! If it were up to me, we would adopt Singapore’s system wholesale. Either that, or, Switzerland’s. Or we would just have everyone in the US be on Medicare Advantage.
Ambitious New Year Resolutions for CISOs in 2021
That 100% inline with the intended purpose of antitrust laws
Out of the box LE make it hard to actually achieve that most basic of calendar fails.
From Apple's site:

1. Existing developers who made up to $1 million in 2020 for all of their apps, as well as developers new to the App Store, can qualify for the program and the reduced commission.

2. If a participating developer surpasses the $1 million threshold, the standard commission rate will apply for the remainder of the year.

3. If a developer’s business falls below the $1 million threshold in a future calendar year, they can requalify for the 15 percent commission the year after.

The $1 million threshold is defined as post-commission
C strings are so ubiquitous that the ABI impedance mismatch is just too annoying.
Sorry, I’m not sure what you mean here with “that’s not how it works”. Could you explain?

-edit-

I guess what I mean to say here is I'm not commenting on how drug prices work. It doesn't matter. I am commenting on the fact that somebody, somewhere has to pay for the drug, regardless of the price. I want to push back on this idea that drugs are "free" in Europe or elsewhere. Sure the healthcare programs appear to be better managed, higher taxes on the wealthy or corporations (although I don't know for sure) appear to be subsidizing costs for lower and middle classes, but the drugs still aren't free in any sense of the word to the society as a whole.
I live in urban Japan and outside my window there are zero cars parked on the street because every car is required to have a registered parking space within 2km of its owners’ residence.
Be sure to catch every episode.

And optionally rethrow.
ALGOL-68 already had a prelude.
The issue people fail to realize is that language is quite lossy in terms of information. The way you make up for that to clarify ambiguity is through verbosity.

If you can't read and write long emails (or voice/video chat), you're going to have miscommunication. Experience and knowledge can only be used so far to interpolate and extrapolate. No matter how skilled you are at this, clarification will be needed in some form or another.

In cases where whoever you're working with doesn't know exactly what they want and give you what is essentially artistic liberty to fill those voids, you can reduce communication some but be warned, you may create the wrong thing and have to double back or worse, you may find out much later when its not viable to fix something was off.

I'm a fan of long emails or conversations to be certain I understand what's needed.
You do realize that email is older than DKIM? And that commerce existed before emails? You don't need DKIM to solve the issues you've pointed out.

Again: How many disputes like that have been resolved with DKIM?
But next year the commission rate will be 30% and if the earnings that year are below $1m the business will be only eligible for the reduced commission year after that.
They called the stuff that Snowden revealed a conspiracy before it broke. Einstein's island as well. It seems a good way to shut people up is to label their talking points conspiracy theories. It makes sense to throw out a few silly ones just to make the borderline ones less believable.
Seen how it's announced as a key feature of this generation as long as many remakes they're making, I wouldn't call it a niche feature...
9px font. So, an article for software developers under 30 ;)? (Firefox says <body> = 2em, <html> = 62.5%)

EDIT: I misread Firefox's calculation. Checking again it doesn't say 9px but 16.25px. I guess I just have tired eyes today!
Here in Germany they just do timid apperances in some consumer stores and then are reduced in endless offerings until someone finally takes them away.

Very few people are willing to pay the same price as a regular laptop for what seems just a big browser OS.
What's with the fugly 90s clipart?
Do you happen to have a source on the TSO switch ? It sounds fascinating.
Hyperbole much?

"Just to process payments" is wrong. It's for access to the marketplace, which Apple created and sustains. Arbitrary? Yes. But it's not some "payment processor" to an existing market that's independent of Apple (like e.g. web payment processors are).

"5x the market rate" is also dishonest. What's the "market rate"? Doesn't Google ask for a 30% cut for the Play store? What about console makers? Doesn't Amazon ask for 70% Cut from publishers?

Does anybody else has a say on what Basecamp charges, what partnerships they go into, how to add plugins to its products, and what to charge for them?
VirtualBox won't be ported to any Arm64 platform, Oracle explicitly said that they wouldn't do it.

However, Parallels and VMWare Fusion will. You'll also have other solutions around.

Also, no App Store requirement on macOS at all.
538 has a rundown on why the Shy Trump Voters theory doesn't seem to exist in practice: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-supporters-arent-...
The irony of strncpy is it's supposed to eliminate memory corruption errors, but instead is a prolific source of them.
Yes of course, the US has had the technical ability to glass North Korea since the 50s or 60s, but that's not the "it" we're talking about here.

The point oblio is maintaining upthread is that because SK and her allies have much more advanced weaponry NK doesn't have a chance of standing against them in a conventional conflict. That's true, but misses the point.

Before NK had nuclear weapons one of their main deterrents was that they'd had years/decades to fortify conventional artillery at the border pointed at Seul. So even if their military couldn't stand a chance in a conventional war they could plausibly threaten MAD by holding Seul hostage.

That's the context in which the border proximity is brought up. Replying to that by saying that Pyongyang is 150 km from the border or whatever is irrelevant.

Yes of course the US could win an all-out conventional war with an enemy 50, 150 or 1500 km from its border. That was never in question.

The question was whether a relatively weaker enemy could present an outsized threat due to some strategic geographic position.

That's been the case with NK precisely because mid-century artillery technology can be dug-in close enough to the border to matter.

Whereas if the border happened to be 150 km away those assets could be taken out by missiles once they tried to move in position to shoot on a major target like Seul.

Whether the NK artillery actually poses a strategic threat is another matter. I wouldn't be surprised if it's all mapped out be the US/SK and would be taken out in the first 5 minutes of a conflict by targeted missile attacks.

But it's not just a strategic question, but whether e.g. NK can make threats that are taken seriously by the SK population for it to pressure its government to make some concessions to NK.
When the Tokyo Olimpics came, Sony demolished their building to make it a park and rebuild the whole thing. I looked for that building for half an hour in 2018 and got sad everytime I see my old photos there
I believe you have missed the point because you think this is literally about running recipes to bake cookies.

The code is the data here. Imagine instead of a program to make cookies it is two different scheduling algorithms for an operating system.
Surely the fundamental difference here is whether "the market" decides, giving you a fighting chance, or whether the Deity decides, with no recourse but supplication?
> You don't need to distribute on Steam. [...] alternatives exist.

Sure, if you want your business to go bankrupt.

Itch? I love the place but good luck supporting your business with the number of sales you’ll make if you’re only available there. Epic? GoG? Humble? Those are curated stores; you have to be invited in; you can’t just choose to sell there. And even if you could, they still don’t have anything even remotely remotely remotely like the number of shoppers on Steam.

As a practical matter, today, Steam is the only realistic option for mainstream non-hobbyist digital PC game publishing. You can do other stores plus Steam, but Steam has to be in the mix if you’re hoping to support yourself by your sales. (and yes, you can point to a small handful of digital games which were highly financially successful without primarily selling through Steam, but those are the hyper-viral one-in-a-million exceptions, not representative business cases that you should be betting your business on replicating)

(Exception: if one of the other stores is going to pay you to be exclusive to their store (preferably only for a certain duration so that you can get onto Steam right after that period), then that can absolutely make up for losing out on the early Steam sales. But again, that sort of deal isn’t available to everybody)
Well, that is the crux of the matter: the rules are not written correctly because they allow iSH to be inconsistently judged if you take "a strict interpretation"; there should not be a strict interpretation; it should just be "this app is reasonable" and "this app is not" and not "hey this looks like it's running code…does that make it a security risk?" which reviewers are not equipped to answer.

When we made the appeal for iSH we correctly surmised that the point of the rule that was cited was to prevent apps from bypassing App Store review, which iSH does not do in the slightest. Taken from the real perspective from which the app should have been judged, iSH is not at the boundary at all; instead it's the apps that do things like undisclosed A/B testing and feature flags to hide things from review. So what happens is developers like us who are actually clearly within the rules as they are meant to be applied get caught in limbo at the whim of reviewers who misunderstand the guidelines because they aren't written as they are supposed to be enforced.
That was obviously the point of their comment. It doesn't matter what percentage apple take when they're still heavy handed about their apps and won't tell you why an app was rejected
I don't want them to focus on RISC-V. Only time will tell how appropriate RISC-V can be technologically in a smartphone application, and why would you want the company that focuses on open source to invest themselves into it? Are you aware that Riscv being an open ISA has absolutely nothing to do with open source (either software or hardware)?
The final details aren't published yet, but by based on what Apple has published you only qualify if you made less then $1m during 2020. If you exceed $1m at any point during the current year all sales for the remainder of that year are charged 30%. The following year all your sales from day 1 will be 30% for that entire year. If you fall below $1m for that year then you can reapply to qualify for the %15 fee for the next year.
I recently was in contact with someone who has written a menu-bar app to monitor Tesla Powerwall status. It's in the Mac App Store already -- but NOT the latest version, because Apple suddenly decided that they wanted written proof that accessing the Powerwall APIs was allowed (from whom?! It's MY hardware!). Apple will not allow the dev to update his Mac App in the MAS; yet they approved & continue to leave the original older version [with known bugs] up, available for purchase.

So now the developer is stuck -- he can't update his app on the Mac App Store, and what recourse does he have as a 1-man-shop vs Apple?! =|

As a developer I find it absurd, as a consumer [who bought the app on MAS and wondered why I had the non-latest version], I find it absolutely baffling & anti-consumer.
Nothing you say makes any sense. Even you seem to agree that Iran suspended their nuclear weapons program for a decade and sanctions didn't improve, so why do one and three mean anything? Two ignores Iran's status in OPEC, and four shows nothing. Yet you act like they've completely unprovoked start massing nuclear weapons without a shred of evidence.

>Just examine their attitude to Israel which gets the same statement

Disliking the imperialist policies of a state that regularly bombs you makes sense.
Does anyone feel that this is to get small developers to switch side in the Epic/Apple conflict and other threats to their 30% commission?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24146987
>Nitro requires a paid subscription license for commercial use

Yeah, hard pass on this one. I probably won't be using this in a commercial capacity. But if for some reason I want to or someone forks my code I would want them to monitize without having to pay someone to license there own code.
I always thought this is a good article about color palettes [0]. I haven't read the book (on which the article is based on) yet though, but it might be worth a look (maybe someone has?).

[0]: https://refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palet...
It's also very useful to have that control when you live in another country. I'm in Spain now, but most of the time I want to search in English or even French. Google only gives you local results.
I suspect it may be to do with the Epic legal issues, and they're trying to appear less money grabbing
GraphBolt: Dependency-Driven Synchronous Processing of Streaming Graphs
"Let's improve schools so that this material is taught in the way it should be" is a great answer, but unfortunately, demonstrably unacheivable.
Most "enemies of the US" don't get given that choice.
Apple Silicon Mac Is About to Kill Web Apps
You are almost correct - it goes by the prior years income, but based on the 30% cut. Meaning if you sold 1m in products you would still be in the 15% bracket next year. You would need ~1.43m in sales to be "Moved up" the next year (It gets more complicated with subscription revenue already having a 30/15 cut depending on the user's subscription length.) It works out to this (Using 1m in sales as the cutoff to simplify the numbers):

Year 1:
999k --[-15%]--> 849k (This year doesn't trip the "limit"

Year 2:
1000k --[-15%]-->850k (Limit is tripped, next year is 30%)

Year 3:
999k --[-30%]-->699k (Fell below the limit, next year is 15% again)

Basically if you are close to the limit at the end of the year, you should immediately stop all advertising/marketing spend to ensure you don't go over the peak :)

I'm not really sure why they did it this way as it really screws over people that are just at the 1m/yr mark, vs a progressive system that would "just work."
It's definitely better, but still super long! And again it dives into complex numbers before motivating anything.

I really just wanted something that just explained what I and Q were and why they existed, without going into what Nyquist and Fourier transforms.
Right, but will they be eligible the year after? If not, then this still means that not surpassing the threshold could increase their revenue in the long run.
You don't need to catch everyone with your defaults. You just need to make it possible to not use the default.

Sure, give me local results if I don't specify anything. But let me tell you if I want results in English now.
Check out hugging faces Bert summary examples
Tailwind versus BEM
> I've honestly tried to give Vim a go, there just seemed like to much setup and configuration so I went back to an IDE.

I'd like to point out something to avoid scaring away potential Vim newcomers here.

While it's true that Vim can get as complex as you want via plugins and configuration, I think that one of beauties of developing with Vim is not doing this, spending a lot of effort configuring it to behave like a complex IDE, but rather changing a bit your working paradigm to rely only on just the basics and, at most, a few tweaks on a custom .vimrc which you can quickly scp over (or wget) to the host where you are working on.

Here I will totally agree that at the beginning it may require some time to get used to it. But once you get there, the level of freedom that it gives you is totally worth it. And not only because then any shell feels like home, but also because not having all the IDE helpers available also ends up forcing you to have some additional awareness about what you are doing on the code. You need to remember what the function signatures are, where the different pieces of code are, take care of the coding style while typing, etc. And, while it's truly a much more spartan experience, at the end your efficiency stops depending on your working environment to become just a part of you.
PS3 was a completely different CPU architecture than PS4. That's why sony implemented a streaming library for older games instead.

Emulation alone wouldn't have worked because some folks more knowledgeable than I am have said that the PS3 chip was more powerful than even some modern CPUs. Streaming is really the only relatively universal and financially viable solution for that older library of games.

> VAN DER LEEUW: Even desktop chips nowadays, the fastest Intel stuff you can buy is not by far as powerful as the Cell CPU, but it’s very difficult to get power out of the Cell. I think it was ahead of its age, because it was a little bit more like how GPUs work nowadays, but it was maybe not balanced nicely and it was too hard to use. It overshot a little bit in power and undershot in usability, but it was definitely visionary.

https://www.gameinformer.com/feature/2019/12/03/the-first-25...
Revenue across the App Store has a power law distribution. This discount has minimal financial impact on services revenue and results in a massive boost of goodwill for the platform.
I think the fact that the guidelines are written as such to make people think it wasn't a cut and dry example is really what makes it better example than you might have even though it was at the beginning. The rule Apple would like to enforce is very clear, and we know what it was and the review team didn't, because the guidelines didn't reflect the rule that Apple wanted to enforce (and thus ended up enforcing it inconsistently). A situation where developers have to tell the review team how the guidelines work because they're not written down explicitly is a very untenable position and one that needs to change.
That is correct, but then the next year you start at 30%. So if you make slightly less next year you will end up earning less money that year since it is all at the 30% cut (And then the following year will fall back down to 15%)
That's only if you're in the program.

If you get kicked out, you're stuck paying 30% for at least a year.
People on HN will likely be quick to point out the bit about Reference Counting and GC. Generally speaking I think these are nitpicking, but given the reach and audience of DaringFireball I do wish he made it a little clearer. You will definitely see some Apple Fans running around on the Internet suggesting Apple doesn't do GC, they do Reference Counting.

The same thing happened with AirPod when he claims AirPod were likely sold at cost [1]

>At $159, I think the margins on AirPods are very low. Maybe even break-even territory.

This had a lot of people believing AirPod are really low margin, but they are not. They are extremely high margin, as with any Audio Product. And It is extremely profitable for Apple for the volume they are selling, where demand has been outpacing Supply for nearly 6 months after the initial AirPod launch.

>The Fan, I presume it has engaged at times when I’ve taxed the system. Again, the Cinebench multi-core CPU benchmark taxes every available CPU core for 10 minutes.

I have yet to see any one actually running Mac Fan Control to test it. But the numbers are in System Report. Generally speaking Macbook, or even iMac dont turn the Fan up until it is 80C+. Steve Jobs hate Fan noise. And this tradition has been kept. So even when they have it installed they dont kick in until very late. In normal circumstance the Fan runs at ~1200 RPM, and is literally unheard-able. Then there were unconfirmed report where 11.01 allows the MacBook Pro and Mac Mini to run closet to 3.2Ghz peak where previously it was closer to 3Ghz, as it was on MacBook Air.

>So what gives? Well, these M1 systems are replacing Intel-based Macs that never had more than 16 GB of RAM.

The memory Apple is using and support; LPDDR4X only allows up to 16GB in Dual Channel config. As it was the case in previous Intel gen laptop, Apple later had to switch to DDR4 memory for 32GB / 64GB MacBook Pro. Apple could upgrade to LPDDR5, which gives them 32GB in Dual Channel Config and 64GB in Quad Channel Config. Or Apple could go with High Bandwidth Memory. The first will be cheaper and lower power, but doesn't quite fit the usage of iMac, the second is expensive and could be expanded towards Desktop usage. It will be interesting to see how this play out next year. ( Rumours, or more like Industry sources from Supply Chain are currently pointing to 14" / 16" Redesigned MacBook Pro mid next year / WWDC )

[1] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/09/29/airpod-survey
> much smaller attack surface for malware.

And much smaller blast radius too. I don't do home banking on my xbox.
It's weird that my university textbooks treat core memory as the de facto way computers stored data for immediate use (after it was read from the the drum or {magnetic|paper} tape). Now it's up there with Nixie tubes and penny-farthing racing as some sort of retro hobby thing (although Nixie tubes are way more aesthetically pleasing). I feel old now. Get off my lawn.
Pfizer/BioNTech say final analysis shows coronavirus vaccine is 95% effective
Apple Developer accounts have to be linked to a legal entity (a limited company for example). Registering a different account for each customer would require changing company structures accordingly.
Factory Design Pattern in Go
A conventional strike would thus have to be two-pronged: (1) overrunning the DMZ to neutralize the artillery and prevent a counterstrike, and (2) attack Pyongyang. Of course, this is probably the scenario war planners on both sides have analysed ad nauseam. Success is thus highly questionable. And if it takes long enough for China to intervene again, WW3 will come and scores will be settled.
Also one can buy Fairphone with /e/OS preinstalled: https://esolutions.shop/shop/e-os-fairphone-3/.