skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rush sold material that populists wanted to consume, and now social media is selling the impression that certain material is popular.
Yes. Everyone leaves today’s problems until tomorrow.

I did exactly that for years. Until I didn’t. Which happened because I saw what might happen to me if I didn’t stop it.
> But for dynamic pages or SPAs it more often than not leads to going back to a page in a broken state.

Definitely a page concern, not the browsers. This problem is also easy to fix and a solution has been known for many years by now: handle navigation via the URL always! (or, modern take: via the history API). A modal opens? The URL should change and because the URL changed to that specific path, show the modal. Now users can bookmark or go back/forward without any issues of pages being broken.
These app store requirements are ridiculous. An app store is something that should be 'up and running' when a user wants to buy an app, not to serve as the continuous anchor point on a users device to fleece them further. This has really gotten out of hand.
On one hand, it’s pure propaganda from the side that didn’t already have the first satellite or human in space to their name.

On the other, landing on an extraterrestrial body is a significantly more difficult challenge, particularly the precision computing to steer the lunar lander.

Computers at the time were hand-welded and unsuitable for the rigors of space (turbulence, radiation). The brand new invention of the integrated circuit sought to solve these problems, but they were wildly expensive, so the US dumped boatloads of money into making them cheaper and easier to manufacture. Neil Armstrong stood on the moon, and the foundations for the personal computing era were in place.

So in a way, Silicon Valley owes an eternal debt of gratitude to Cold War propaganda insistent that the finish line of the space race was to be the lunar surface.
A lot of my early jobs were porting various Unix things to Linux. I spent time writing cross platform C++, perl, and bash on Solaris, IRIX, HP-UNIX, and DEC Tru46, but mostly Solaris and IRIX.

I gotta say, all those Unices fucking sucked. The userland tools were abysmal, with missing flags or bugs in their getopts, the compilers and their sockets libraries were extremely finicky, and their man pages were anemic.

GNU/Linux won because if something sucked, somebody somewhere would fix it. By the early 2000s, and especially after Linux 2.6, it was obvious closed-source UNIX was both worse and overpriced.

Even now it seems like the best part of the closed source MacOS Unix stack is the open source homebrew/macports stuff.
I don't think most people would. I think most sideloading would be by users making things that fall outside of what Apple allows on their store, like on Android. I see no coherent reason at all why things would be any different on iOS, and nobody has presented one here beyond just asserting the premise that it would be different, and I don't think "Epic believes it is" is a convincing argument.
Apple tried to wear Samsung down by suing them in different jurisdictions at the same time. Might work for Epic.
If Planet Nine exists, why has no one seen it?
And likely Netflix et al were grandfathered in because Apple _couldn't_ strongarm them. If Netflix was invented post AppStore, I'd wager that Apple would have them paying Apple taxes regardless.
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And then you are sowing hate. And now I am?
>The energy perhaps. The "computers" aren't. They're just ASICs that can calculate hashes at a phenomenal rate, they're not general purpose.

The chips are made with recent-ish nodes, so the silicon/fab capacity could theoretically be used to make CPUs.

edit: looks like at least one bitcoin ASIC maker is using TSMC 7nm, the same process used to make AMD CPUs.

[1] https://blog.bitmain.com/en/bitmain-announces-next-generatio...
I wish I could give you more than one upvote for this.

I work for a huge company. For every person I've worked with who I thought needed to go, there at at least 10 (probably more) who have become ineffective because of management,politics, and bureaucracy.

I had a very different view of "who should be fired" when I joined this company, but I think I've grown up a bit.
May he rest as peacefully as he lived.
>My Little Crony [1] was featured in some UK media in November.

It wasn't widely reported in the mainstream media, but it drew attention via Byline Times. Similarly, the Tufton Street gang, with the same cast of characters, whose tentacles also reach across the Atlantic, will never be featured as comprehensively by the MSM; far too many incestuous relationships.

https://www.desmog.co.uk/2020/02/13/mapped-boris-johnson-s-g...
I know Apple is very dear for many people but let's think different , say 49% of the radios in people homes and cars are made by Huawei and if I want my radio station to work on this radios I need to pay Huawei 30% of my profits and I can only have content approved by Huawei just in case is not respecting the correct values. It is ridiculous right to have a radio or TV device put artificial limits,

Your second point is again invalid, say Apple is blocking my website because I said that they are greedy, this is fine in your opinion because I can still show my site to PC and Android users and you can't even see yet the abuse that is happening, Apple should not decide that they don't like the politics on an app or book and not allow the user the freedom to install it, they can block it from the store sure but the user should have the freedom to use his brain and install what he wants, The same for say a group of developers or musicians that want to compete with Apple products , like the Apple Store, or Apple Music or whatever games they have, it is actually ilegal for Apple to abuse their market share in smartphones to give it's own products an advantage. (yeah actually the law does not say you must have 50% +1 market share)
One online service (I think it was Ubisoft) wanted me to login
at my unused account to unsubscribe from their newsletter. After
a few cases like that you bet I'll take a shortcut if available.
It is helpful to distinguish between hate and "hate speech", as the latter does not necessarily suggest hatred.

> “When people say they want to ban hate speech, what they mean is they want to ban speech that they hate,” Glasser said. “But if you allowed something called ‘hate speech’ to be banned, then the only important question would be ‘who decides?'”

> “If the government is going to be the one to decide what hate speech to ban, it’s not going to be the same speech as the speech you hate, it’s going to be the speech they hate,” Glasser warned.

https://reclaimthenet.org/former-aclu-head-ira-glasser-expla...
Is it a regression, though? In the days of Windows, malware was rampant. There was no sense of sandboxing so installs could get deeply embedded and hard to purge. There was certainly the uncertainty of the validity of software when downloaded.

This is not to suggest we should remove this capability from macOS/Windows but I wouldn’t call it a regression.
Right but I do think the principle is the same. We're commenting on an asset. If the market moves due to that conversation then so be it. The GameStop fiasco proves that it's really not hard to manipulate public trading as one might initially think.
> I do unsubscribe users if messages start bouncing but I have no way of knowing if they get silently dropped or spamfoldered.

IF you get spamfoldered by enough people the provider will just start sending to the spam folder for everyone. Your newsletter is now useless
You never had a choice with Apple. That is their business model. You choose or don't choose to work in that model. Epic Games is pathetic.
Based on your comment, I assume you mean a GUI program for interactive exploration and manipulation, rather than a library?

This was posted on HN a few months ago and came to mind: https://github.com/facontidavide/PlotJuggler

In a past job, we used the commercial app nCode Glyphworks for graphical / interactive signal processing from field tests with hundreds of sensors.
Citi Can’t Have Its $900M Back
The answer can sometimes be -good- regulation. But another solution would be to employ a skin in the game approach. If a company behaves in this way, they will be sued to the heavens, therefore discouraging this kind of behavior.

Besides, the way the regulatory system works now, new regulations only seem to benefit large corporations who can afford to lobby and get around the regulations. They actively hurt small businesses.
Off-by-one errors occur frequently in programming, and static typing does nothing to prevent them, since n and n+1 are always of the same type.
Doh! I don't think I ever noticed that we'd overloaded that word that way. Damn it.

Of course you're right. I just never use that link because of the keyboard shortcuts I mentioned upthread.
Actually the expanse, for all mankind, and the martian are my erm ... I guess holy trinity of modern hard(ish) sci fi about space exploration. There is a lot of overlap in the fandoms of each and each series references each other to give a very unofficial shared universe feel. For example:

The expanse has had references to the USN Jamestown which is from For All Mankind (it was a model in the expanse in an office of a thing -trying to avoid spoilers - that appears in FAM)

The expanse had a ship named the MCRN Watney (Mark Watney is the name of the character in the Martian)

The Authors of each series have praised the other series and jokingly said that it's the same timeline/universe. I know it's not really but in my head cannon it is and I really LOVE that timeline.

I'd HIGHLY recommend all three as they are my favorite media properties.
> I think what I was saying is pretty straightforward...

I was asking you to give specific examples.

> Perhaps there are some exceptions for very simple architectures, as you hint.

Simplicity should be the goal and the starting point.
> which is specifically excluded from having a cut taken out.

Netflix is constantly at odds with Apple. You can't subscribe via the iOS app store and they don't even link to the Netflix website due to Apple's rules and how they want their 30% cut for app store-driven traffic.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/31/netflix-stops-paying-the-a...
U.S. Charges North Korean Hackers
Rush Limbaugh Is Dead
There is a beta feature for using the reMarkable as a 'whiteboard' but it's very very buggy right now.
What Stands in the Way of Electric Vehicles Becoming Mainstream?
You also get an email address to subscribe to the email list with.
That's completely fine. The current situation already has precedent in courts considering that Sony, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, and many others have exclusive control of their App Stores. Claiming Apple is anti-competitive because of its platform would upend all of these platforms.
this is a really cool idea, and well-executed! only thing Id say is the glyphs end up very bulky, it would be cumbersome to write and readd
Nitpick: that exemption is from 2010. The DMCA mandates an exemption be granted every three years for something. Meaning: in 2013, that exemption was gone unless it was exempted again. And again in 2016. And again in 2019. And so on. The DMCA does not include an “exempt once, exempt forever” clause, sadly.

Thankfully, we’ve had the EFF to campaign for exemptions, but it’s frustrating having to go through the whole ordeal every three years because Congress can’t be arsed to fix it.

17 U.S. Code §1201(a)(1)(C)[0]:

> (C) During the 2-year period described in subparagraph (A), and during each succeeding 3-year period, the Librarian of Congress, upon the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, who shall consult with the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information of the Department of Commerce and report and comment on his or her views in making such recommendation, shall make the determination in a rulemaking proceeding for purposes of subparagraph (B) of whether persons who are users of a copyrighted work are, or are likely to be in the succeeding 3-year period, adversely affected by the prohibition under subparagraph (A) in their ability to make noninfringing uses under this title of a particular class of copyrighted works. In conducting such rulemaking, the Librarian shall examine—

(followed by a list of things the Librarian will consider)

[0]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
> I don't think most people would.

Why wouldn’t Facebook just integrate a store into their App?

Why wouldn’t Google advertise their store in the search engine just as they did with Chrome? Why wouldn’t their store ship with an Android runtime?

Epic doesn’t just believe it would be different. They are prepared to invest millions of dollars.

All there of these are obvious and coherent reasons why it would be different.
Looked here for list of where. Was disappointed.
> If the European automakers had something to really compete with TSLA / China they would

They do and they are. They're building the EVs that people in Europe are buying. Volkswagen and Renault-Nissan were the top two EV sellers in Europe in 2020:

https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2021/01/europe-december-2020.h...
Do you label deployments/releases in your repositories?
> Eg TypeScript has convincingly shown to a large crowd that soundness isn't an important property for many key goals of static typing, such as programmer productivity, refactoring support, preventing stupid mistakes and navigating large codebases.

Typescripts goal was to interoperate with existing javascript in an easy manner, and doing so forced them to relax the type system in specific ways.

It turns out more typing is better than less typing so typescript > javascript. That doesn't mean something with stronger typing than typescript isn't strictly better in all of the facets you mentioned, just that typescript made that particular tradeoff and had MS behind it.
> From where I'm sitting, the best parts of the cloud were created 10-15 years ago

I just moved from a startup that was running things on services that were either created or only really matured within the past three years, to a different startup running on tech from 10-15 years ago.

The differences in Ops overhead and scalability is huuuuuuuge to say the least.

Modern infrastructure on AWS for me would be:

- Lambda

- DynamoDB

- S3

- Fargate

- EKS to a certain extent

- And extremely excited about Serverless Aurora V2

Older infrastructure with massive ops overhead:

- EC2

- ElasticBeanstalk

- RDS MySQL/PostgreSQL

Every year at AWS re:Invent I see the needle moving into more serverless stuff, and for a very very good reason.

To maybe take up some of your points:

> On-demand compute

EC2 and RDS are the absolute bare minimum you can do for on-demand compute and was the initial introduction to the elasticity of the cloud. It's slow and cumbersome to scale up and down, and also very costly to do so (RDS is basically a x2 of you instance size every time).

That's skipping automatic scale - for RDS? Forget about it.

> The newer features tend to lack the things you really need in a production ready service: monitoring, debugging, configuration, etc

State of anything running on EC2: You are 100% responsible for getting your metrics and logs out of the instances, you get close to worthless OS metrics by default, that might tell you info about some scaling events, but no insights into you actual applciation.

State of serverless: Built-in integrations with CloudWatch for monitoring and XRay for profiling. Out of the box you have error reporting on Lambdas along with DLQ and much more.

> without dealing with the joys of subnetting, DHCP, and configuring Linux interfaces

I honestly hold the opinion that if you deal with things at this level of the infrastructure stack, then the "modern cloud" is not relevant to you (AWS, Azure, and GCloud), but you would fit better or something like Hetzner or with dedicated servers.
> It existed yesterday, last year. I'm sure Winston Churchill's girlfriend also did well out of the deal. c'est la vie.

It's exactly this type of dismissal that allows this level of corruption to fester. It was unacceptable yesterday and it still is today. The point is to try and do something about it rather than sit back while they make it harder to punish because "it's already a problem".

A research fund where the public will be forbidden from scrutinising the spending of people who are known to be corrupt is not comparable to a public park.
It is quite common to measure all of those.
I love that the author is doing code reviews on youtube and shows his own opensource code for the service.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMTb3Z-QiPY
>I do not want to have a mini IT project in my pocket that I have to fiddle with.

Having the ability to install apps not available on the app store does not make your entire phone something you 'have to fiddle with'. If you want to live in the walled garden, you of course can do so, just as many people do on Android.

>But I don't feel the need to get on every Mac discussion complaining it should be more like Linux.

This is an interesting take, seeing how a big reason Macs are so popular amongst developers is the similarity to Linux (which the vast majority of us are going to be deploying to).
Yeah, when I was looking into this stuff it was sad to see the blog post about why Trino had to switch names. Unsurprisingly given the history, the Trino blog was the only place I could find written-up details about things like how to name files so they work with the new version of bucketing. The new features look really neat and hope the project has (continues to have) success!
> Google had promised us autonomy

Of the many lies in business, the most blatant is when a company tells you they'll give you autonomy that they aren't required to give you.
If Roaring Kitty was wrong, why is GameStop still trading at ten times the price from when he was promoting it?
What does that have to do with anything? That's still not malware.
The balanced information diet is interesting.

It's frustrating that although so much more content is publicly accessible for free today, I find on the whole that information density has decreased, probably due to advertising as monetization.

I prefer text because I can skim to the important parts and jump through links. Audio and Video need better methods for this.

If we could summarize information better, in text, audio, video, etc. I think the internet would be more useful and people would be able to communicate more effectively. We need publicly accessible channels of higher information density.
Roaring Kitty sued for securities fraud over GME rise
Yes but the manned space program was very different than the spysat spacelaunch program. If the goal was only unmanned satellites, the space program would have cost a tenth of what it did. just look to the ICBM/SLBM programs, which diverged from the manned rocket programs after only a couple years. The tech looks similar but is actually very different in practice.
As if I needed another reason to just stay in elixir fulltime. Machine learning/deeplearning was one of the few niches I was looking outside elixir for.
There are alternative stores for the same game on the desktop. A trivial example is that some games can be installed directly by downloading a file from the developer, or via Humble Bundle, GOG or Steam.

So this business model is possible. And it's the friendliest to end users, too.
I dunno - he has multiple successes already under his belt.

Far more than most people will ever accomplish in their lifetime, so in that way he is an authoritative source. Panning him as offering no value seems to be a bit elitist on your part.
Git is an insane tool. I've never seen a single command line tool blogged about so much. You don't see anything like this with regards to Mercurial or other distributed version control systems(and most of them are just as powerful as git, if not moreso), the documentation is usually enough for these tools.

For some reason git is special - it has this ability to be completely opaque to so many people and yet still be deployed almost literally everywhere. I am completely baffled by its ubiquity.

Thanks Github, I guess..?
The right to one's own work, to one's own mind outcome is arguably the only real right we can even pretend to have.

What there is none is the "right" for governments to claim ownership to other's work and dictate you must do what your own free will tells you is not on your best interest, that is why they use force.
How to Create Autofill Forms (With Autocomplete)
I do this too. As well as ebooks, I have all my household manuals on it (washing machine, gas boiler, etc.) plus manuals for various devices - so much better than either keeping the paper ones, or keeping PDFs on the computer, as you can annotate them too!
> I expect all apps to work with services connected to my Apple account. No user should be required to provide payment information to a shady 3rd party like Epic, Microsoft or whatever.

Apple could make everyone happy tomorrow vis-a-vis IAPs by charging standard credit card processing fees (~2-3%)instead of 30% while still protecting your payment info from app developers.
I had a similar experience when I worked as a contractor in a big corporations coming from a start-up background. You could tell that the corporation had a different risk appetite than a start-up. At a start-up, your highest risk is running out of runway. At a corporation, your income is rather safe, so your biggest risk is getting sued. No point launching a product one year early, if it costs 4% of your total annual income.
Genuine question: why did DARPA work?
They could, of course, ban third-party stores from their own app distribution platforms. Otherwise, I imagine not, in the same way that most other general purpose operating systems cannot "ban" things like that. I suppose they could require all apps to be signed and subject to remote signature verification before the OS lets you install them.
Very unfortunate because a lot of practical engineering and battle tested systems design practices came from the apollo program and it would not have happened without teams of people working together.
Yes - a moderator put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380), so it got a random placement on HN's front page.
How about:

AWS -> cloud platform shovel

Google -> web advertising shovel

Maybe these are bad examples? To a certain degree these created/heavily-defined the market they serve, whereas the "shovel" concept might require selling a solution to an existing market.
> The would-be plaintiff representing investors in the case, Christian Iovin of Washington state, sold $200,000 worth of call options on GameStop shares when the stock was below $100. The stock quickly eclipsed $400 a share, forcing him to buy the calls back at elevated prices.

When you're a gambler what right do you have to sue other gamblers?

Also, why does this article have a bunch of typos?
> It's not like there were Wallmart exclusive games, right?

It doesn't matter too much, but there actually have been... Nintendo's Chibi-Robo Park Patrol was a WalMart exclusive game in the US. (in 2007)
I first came across retroforth back in 2001 when it was originally being developed by tcn. Later crc picked up the maintenance and development of it and did a stellar job with it.

Retroforth was my favorite forth in linux because it was the most accessible & usable & cross-platform forth that adhered closely to the spirit of Chuck Moore's original (pre-color) forth, rather than the ANSI standard.
Aside: a question for proponents of syndication (e.g. Atom, RSS) – as a publisher, are there other formats that should be investigated?
If there is, it's well hidden. This page and https://www.geogebra.org/m/xkMPKQnK are all I can find online.

Would be nice to know who originated the idea.
Rush who? already forgot that idiot long ago, good riddence.