skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this 100MM reducing the amount of dollars available for Apple to invest in Caucasians in any meaningful way?
The password guess worth $240m in Bitcoin
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24192021

1. App links to developer's blog. At one point the top post is about their patreon. Apple removes app until post is amended.

2. Also apparently the bandcamp app has no links to their website, for the same reason.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19378914

Amazon Kindle app could not link to amazon.com as users could purchase books there without giving apple their cut
Question to ponder: Was the storming of the capital a 21st century Reichstag fire? I hate the people who did it as much as anyone else, but it also seems to have propelled us into a new era when it comes to online censorship.

When they came for the nutty conspiracy theorists, I said nothing. When they came for me...etcetera

All these companies will have a very hard time portraying themselves as "platforms" instead of publishers after this episode. On the other hand, maybe that will turn out to be a good thing?
I don't think I've ever run into a "broken" API on MacOS.

But I haven't seen a "well documented" one either. There's a lot of arcane knowledge in targeting MacOS.
Personally, I've enjoyed TikTok. I find the different cultures around the world making videos about their cultures to be very informative. And I'm amazed at some of the level of comedy available on the platform.
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I also recommend EpocCam (https://www.elgato.com/en/epoccam) as it has almost no latency and high quality, compared to Droidcam. You can see it on EposVox's review on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJOTvGmmDUE&list=WL&index=2)
>It does not mean “does not crash”; it means “is inert, unchanging” which is important for enterprises that absolutely cannot risk that something stop working on an upgrade.

But would enterprises accept being forever stuck with any bugs that aren't security related? Even RHEL backports patches from newer kernels while maintaining kABI.
> “ If you think the maintainer isn't doing a good job working on the right issues or maintaining the project, that's not the maintainer's problem. That's your problem.”

This is backwards. The maintainer is expecting attention and users. By alerting the maintainer to issues, I would be helping them (using my own extra effort, eg bug reports, feature requests).

The nuclear option for a user is to just throw their hands up, not even try to lobby the maintainer to make better choices, and quit using the project. The nuclear option for a maintainer is to completely ignore the user base whose attention they need and whose efforts on bug reports or whose frustrations give them free labor to understand their projects fault points and fix them, and instead say, “you’re not paying me with money, only with attention, time and effort, so I owe you nothing” (as if owing was any part of any of it) and ignore their feedback.

Either side can go for the nuclear option. But wouldn’t we hope the social contract in FOSS has a higher standard and people try to both give and receive reasonable feedback, and people try, at least, to consider users’ needs after users have invested attention, word of mouth review, effort on bug reports, etc. before “going nuclear” and gainsaying everything with “you don’t pay me in the form of currency so I owe you nothing.”
"Cross-platform" is not a promise that it will work on every platform, and saying that to be cross-platform without that including MacOS is "hostile towards MacOS users" is unreasonable. The most you can reasonably hope for, in something you can get for free, is that if it says it works on a given platform, then it is reasonably functional there.
I would not call them "competent and effective", but they're a bull in a china shop to be sure.
> The uncertainty is due to the inability to scan the entire sub-tree for each move.

That uncertainty is specifically why chess is unsolved.
poor guy. stepped in way too late to catch up to AMD, now falling on his sword. Intel needs a Wartime CEO now.

(that said i'm sure he's crying all the way to the bank with his millions so i'm not feeling too sorry for him)
Its a salary that you would normally earn working for the large tech companies in Silicon Valley. FAANG stands for:
Facebook
Apple
Amazon
Netflix
Google
I can understand the sentiment, but this is HN and not Parler or Twitter. If you have nothing intelligent to add to the discussion better stay silent. This language is not welcome here.
> Maybe you should reconsider who you follow if the people you follow wallow in hate and bigotry? Why doesn't the party of individual responsibility doesn't seem to understand you can just stop following the hate? Seek out and follow reasonable voices.

There are a LOT of facets to an answer to that, but one that is entirely enabled by the technology industry is the concept of an algorithmic news feed promoting unsolicited content from not-yet-followed sources, especially when that algorithm is based on a function of "all of your activity over an extended period of time" and "the activity of people you interact with but whose views you never explicitly endorsed."

You cannot simply "just stop following the hate" when the hate is repeatedly shoved down your throat daily in conspicuous "join this group" ads in Facebook. And this is far, far more prominent than we had believed, per https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-platforms-must-pay-for-t... :

> Facebook’s own research revealed that 64 percent of the time a person joins an extremist Facebook Group, they do so because the platform recommended it. Facebook has also acknowledged that pages and groups associated with QAnon extremism had at least 3 million members, meaning Facebook helped radicalize 2 million people.

The frustrating thing about conversations about censorship on platforms is that you're not starting from a baseline of neutrality, because the algorithm itself is picking winners even if it wasn't coded that way. Any algorithm that takes engagement-after-clicking-a-promotion as an input will start to take advantage of people who are more susceptible to extremist content. Knowing what we know now, does the continued deployment of those algorithms constitute intentional corporate speech that emphasizes extremism? And in that case, would the removal or manual tuning of said corporate speech really be the censorship we're worried about?
Yup. The average salary for a junior (e.g. with 1 to 3 years experienced) developer is around 45-50k Euro gross. You can get very exceptional and very experienced engineers for 90-100k Euro gross annually.
The salary made at companies like Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Alphabet (formerly known as Google), together known as FAANG.
The point of Gresham's Law is that good coins are retired from circulation because they are worth more than bad coins even though their face value as money is the same. That's why you don't see many silver dollars being used to pay for groceries at the supermarket. If you have a silver dollar you don't mix it with the rest of your dollars.

How does the analogy with online information work?
Frankly, I wasn't aware of the 75-move rule! This indeed caps the length of possible games.

The threefold repetition rule doesn't have an equivalent (there's no, say, "fivefold repetition" draw that could be enforced despite the players' will), but it's really irrelevant from the perspective of solving chess, because there's no point in analyzing what happens if game goes through the same loop 1, 10 or 100 times.

And the 75-move rule sets a hard limit anyway, so you couldn't loop infinitely, even if it mattered.
Not a problem at all, you probably want "brownie points".

Brownie points: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/brownie_point#English

Good boy points: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tendies-stories
Then it's a problem (for the sake of the argument I consider "the content" to be either illegal or borderline psycho).

And for the record I consider a lot of tiktok pranks to be borderline psycho (eg gaslighting your SO for giggles about divorce, abortion, etc.).
-As you state, making new land is hard, so the simplest option remaining probably is to make more land desirable to live on - say, by improving local transit so that you can live farther away from downtown and still have a decent commute.

Obviously, though, this approach requires an awful lot of people willing to fill the newly developed land to make the infrastructure investment worthwhile.

Free lunches are few and far between. Sigh.
Oh that's even better. I thought their API was only about replying to users. Didn't know you could delete chats etc. Thanks for the suggestion!
As an outsider I think it's really interesting that how a class issue (rich vs poor) became purely a race issue. Of course they come together to some extent but I think the root cause is the economic inequality no matter what. Yet like now Apple most companies will only focus explicitly on two groups (blacks and browns). Honestly nothing will change on the long term while the 1% keeps its position and they can divide the regular public.
The wording is vague enough that having a link in your app for donations could easily be (and apparently is) considered a violation.
I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 1 month after I turned fifty. My grandma is ninety-six and had it since she was in her 20s. I have been on WORLDHERBSCLINIC MS HERBAL FORMULA, the first TWO MONTHS was daily and now I am on 3 times a week. It has made a tremendous difference for me. The fatigue never gets to me again. When I do too much, I don’t feel weak anymore..
Almost every case I've seen has used the word in a dismissive, ageist fashion. I think it's similar to mild ethnic slurs like "yank", "limey", "frog", where the target has similar or higher status.

At best it is lazy writing, and most commenters on HN write better than this.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_boomer
All of these things are so obviously related to a notion of social justice that your comment almost reads like satire.

Or is social justice just a dogwhistle for "things that help black people/women that I don't like" at this point?
Apple is state funded, they pay close to no tax and they get ton of contracts from governments, just like Tesla, it is alive thanks to funding from the US government

Similar stuff with China
This kind of initiatives had little success in the past (affirmative action is about 50 years old). I don't expect this time will be different.
Not everybody writing software for a platform is doing business on it. Many apps are free.

Then again I've never really understood the point of free (as in beer) software that's not also open source (or at least source available), so personally I think dropping platform support for a [free, cross-platform] application rather than simply distributing a tarball for users to do as they wish with is a bit dramatic.

Personally though I think it's weird that so many people are okay with distributing on platforms they don't even own. It's particularly rampant in cross-platform dev - I don't understand how anyone can feel comfortable just publishing an app on Android and/or iOS when they've never tested it on a real device, to talk of actually collecting money for it.
What you actually want is function overloading, which C can't support since C functions map directly to elf symbols, and all assembly functions are vararg with all arguments being WORDs. (That's how it is in elf, *nix and x64, don't know much about other platforms)
"...global innovation and learning hub for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); an Apple Developer Academy to support coding and tech education for students in Detroit; and venture capital funding for Black and Brown entrepreneurs..."

The notion of technology initiatives in underserved communities is excellent and badly needed. The way to achieve "racial equity" is to provide better education and job opportunities to help bring under-performing populations up to par, and then their children will grow up in better school districts and have higher standards and expectations as well.

At least, that's the theory. There are no magic wands to cause these kinds of massive socio-economic changes overnight, but this sounds like a good step in the right direction.

If anything, I might question why "only" $100m? A corporation that currently has $191B in cash could presumably afford to part with more than that. But, a small step in the right direction is better than none, and certainly sets a great example of corporate good citizenship.
Did you roll your own language for this, used existing or did you program it in machine code?
FYI - you're one of the toxic users he's talking about
Creating actual institutional racism is the best cure for perceived institutional racism, I guess.
Well, when instead of fixing decades old bugs they decide to instead remove features people used because they don't want to maintain them and add features nobody asked for because they were fun to work on, what do you expect people to say?
Reminds me of the youtuber union that, as far as I know, went nowhere because most content creators apparently prefer to just bitch about how bad it is instead of trying to change anything.

I suspect the same would be the case with a users union: nobody would join because why would they. Complaining and getting outraged about google being evil is fun, but changing it requires effort.
These are the only investments I’m aware of that apple makes that are targeted at particular racial groups. The others are available without racial discrimination. While the racial composition of the recipients may not be in proportion with each race’s representation in the general population, I do not believe that makes them “racist”. In my view, “racism” is when race is made an explicit criterion in decision making, as apple is demonstrating here.
I've used both platform, and I find iOS user friendly and easy to use. I also found iOS easier to develop for than Android, though admittedly it's been a few years since I've developed on either. Opinions are funny like that.
Is there a reason to expect this in 2021 more so than in previous years?
Tell HN: Default emojis with “test” in the name do not currently work in Slack
I just found this out. If I try to write ":test_tube:" no emoji appears on the preview and the same behaviour is exhibited on both mobile and desktop clients. If I edit an old message with the emoji on it, it is replaced with the textual representation of it.

Seems like someone removed a bit too many test cases from the source. :)
Instead Discord goes down globally if Cloudflare has a problem, which already happened multiple times.
I'd say they should probably go the other way, defining even built-in operators like:

operator+(int a, int b) __gcc_internal_int_sum(a, b)

This way, we can change (through overriding) the way these operations work (rounding, overflow, coercing, etc.), without having to define non-idiomatic functions to do so. A lot of undefined behavior can be made user-defined this way.
GE makes 7T MRI too and it's the only one cleared for clinical use in the US as far as I know: https://www.medgadget.com/2020/11/fda-clears-most-powerful-c...
Should have used a password manager.

Downvoters: Ok so how should he correctly remember that huge password that unlocks his $240m (7,500 BTC) wallet with in 2 attempts? Pen and paper? All from memory?

Next time use a password manager. Period.
This is a good point.

What we don’t know, is whether the intention of these ‘good’ initiatives is to detract and distract from other ‘bad’ things (which would cost a ton of money to fix).

E.g. there can be a PR strategy that appears good enough for a political group in power to be the least costly thing to do.
I visited Canada's Finnish Socialist Paradise "Sointula" in 1991. The COOP had really good cigars and straw hats from Cuba and Swedish Mora-Puukkos from 1965. Weirdest thing was I re-remembered the aroma of Cuban "Che"-cigars from 1972 Yugoslavia. https://youtu.be/3TMziykDR0s
I think private companies can decide themselves what companies they want to invest in. Whatever the reason is, even outside of US. So I'm pretty sure this is legal.

As European (we don't have this racial segregation fetish so please excuse my lack of knowledge on the subject) I'm more interested how they define black and brown companies?
What if the company is owned by 3 people, 2 black, 1 white? Will they invest 33% less because the company is partially owned by a person of wrong race? What if it's 50/50? What about muslims? Women? LGBTQ? What if the company is owned by white people, but upper management is fully black? Where do they draw the line?
The point is that if you’re seeing an individual do something novel, it’s not evolution. Evolution would be if it had a mutation that it passed on that made its survival more or less likely or in speciation - the diverging of one species into two or more.

To be pedantic, it is in no way observable evolution. Scientists have observed speciation before when populations of fish got trapped in separate environments and became mutually sexually incompatible - so different species. That’s observable evolution.
Brownie Points.

But for what it's worth, I think it's an absurd idea to try and cleanse oneself of 4chan memes, since they form such a significant strata of internet culture. The attitude that some people have towards 4chan is embarrassing. It's just a website. Yes, it harbours fascists, but so does every other website. Moreover it's one of the few places left on the internet where people say what they think rather than what they want other people to think they think...
The CPU cores are comparable to the ARM A55, rather than the A72.

It's more MHz and a better uarch than the cores in a Pi 3, so should outperform even the newer Pi 3+ on tasks that don't use NEON and don't use more than 2 cores.
> When they change that optional setting they introduced recently

What setting was introduced recently? I remember such settings all the way back to the Nexus One.

In fact, things were more closed back then as Android phones bought from AT&T had it hard coded to disable third party apps. I'm not aware of a US carrier doing that any more.
And if it matters after today, don't send it as an SMS, don't send it as an e-mail, don't talk about it over the phone, and if it matters that someone knows you went out to meet this or that person, don't bring your phone with you.
> Is there anything about RISC-V that is "better" simply because it is a later design than others?

A lot of it is because it is newer, and the designers have learned from previous architectures. It is a relatively clean and straightforward instruction set, designed to be easily and efficiently implemented.

There's not anything that is super crazy revolutionary, in contrast to the (still vaporware) Mill CPU architecture.

> Is it likely to evolve faster because it is open or more modern?

They have a good extension mechanism that allows relatively clean additions to the instruction set. Some of the recent ones like the vector extension aren't finalized yet. Anyone can propose their own extension. Historically, ARM might work with their most important customers to implement an extension, but good luck getting their attention if you're not already paying them millions per year.
Took about 10 seconds. Using a mobile workstation with an SSD and 32GB of RAM. Maybe I should go for 64GB? :D
what on earth were you doing to get suggested that stuff? I don't trust TikTok as much as the next paranoid computer guy, but my wife uses it and it's tailored around her interests - almost uncannily.
There are all sort of ways to do this, but they are difficult in the military context. We gathered in one room because youtube/facebook is blocked on our normal office machines. This was an unrestricted podium computer used for totally unclassified stuff like streaming live news feeds. Like most corporate networks, we aren't allowed to just install software, even simple browser extensions have to go through an approval process.
Sheryl Sandberg, Resign
I don't see much similarity between the story of Intel and the story of Boeing.

Boeing made an entire line of defective airplanes that could autonomously kill everyone aboard under normal usage. Then, a respiratory virus hammered the travel industry.

In contrast, the semiconductor industry is seeing more demand than ever before, and presently undergoing a shortage. Intel has mismanaged 10nm and 7nm, but the company maintains a majority CPU market share overall and an even wider margin for servers.
> I’ve never spotted an instance where something has been rewritten in a different language because c# was lacking in some way.

The truth is, languages rarely have an impact on the success or failure of a project. The reason some companies blame failure on language is because the organization fails to adequately adapt its procedure to the tools it uses.

Starting on a fresh language and not getting involved in the community because a dozen pizza to host a meetup every 3-4 months is too expensive? You're headed for trouble.

Going for a new stack and letting poor management drive away the team? Even with a mainstream language, the hit you're going to take is going to be huge.

Willing to rewrite old code but not interested in giving people time to adapt and learn? Good luck.

The only difference between languages like Java or C# and Clojure or F# is that it's much harder to blame the former for organization/process issues.

I'm not saying that languages don't have an effect on productivity or dev experience, I'm saying that effect is way less important than other factors, and as a consequence, it's rarely the factor that tips the scale.
I had seen this a while ago but should take a fresh look at it - it seems like there should be a community tool that generates data providers from an openapi spec. Thanks!
Art.Lebedev OLED keyboards

Art.Lebedev is a design studio which pioneered OLED keyboards. Their first keyboard was the 2007 Optimus OLED keyboard, which featured a full 113 OLED pad - each key has an embedded PMOLED display (48x48 pixels, 65K Colors). The Optimus was sold for over 1,500$ but is not produced anymore.
Business trip platform TravelPerk buys YC-backed rival NexTravel
Indeed, but I'm talking about the other way: int -> Foo. The article talked about "different rules for implicit conversion" so I assume they must have been referring to that direction.
I have a more cynical reading of the sudden actions: Legal liability. Among a history of ToS violations, we finally had ones that weren't muddy & deniable, but represented a bright line crossing in support of illegal action.

An argument could be made (especially "securities fraud") that these platforms have their own legal liability in supporting these illegal actions because they allowed them despite violating their own ToS.

I'm sure there was some belief along the line of "it's the right thing to do" as well. There was also probably some consideration that with Democrats having both Congress & the White House their actions, among those in power, were less likely to be interpreted as too heavy handed. Ultimately though I think legal liability may have been the largest factor.
- I think that writing brings along a lot of the same mental health benefits. It helps you lay out your thoughts and makes them easier to process.

- I don't think that chatbots teach anyone to socialise, you need real people for this.

- I don't think they alleviate loneliness either, quite the contrary - there is something that seems more sad and lonely about trying to get this interaction out of a bot instead of socialising with other people, or going without the interaction at all. It's sort of like a sex doll for your social life and I find it very offputting.
No it won't. Svelte is untestable.
"giant private companies can do whatever they want" is a much more rightist stance than a leftist one. And pretty anti-liberal too.