skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As opposed to Developers not having the choice to distribute their own app stores?

There is no solution to this problem that benefits everyone perfectly. There are only solutions which are better than the solution we have today.

Actually, there is one near-perfect solution; Apple reduces their cut to ~5% and stops enforcing their insane rules. But that's not happening.

You, and many others in this thread, are blaming Epic, Steam, Blizzard, etc. That's fundamentally flawed thinking. All of this is Apple's fault. 100%. If the government forces Apple to destroy the UX of iOS, its because of actions Apple took which forced their hand. There are actions Apple could take which would abate this. They aren't taking them. You should not be mad at developers; you should be mad at Apple.
Since we're commenting on a pg essay, IIRC startups are said to be the place where you CAN play it straight and get rewarded justly. The core idea being you can't fake or politic your way into making something users want.

I wish I could find the link to the essay that directly states this but I'm having trouble finding it now (and my Google-fu doesn't seem to be strong enough to locate it).
At this point I barely play anymore. Because with all the intermediate updates and transient failures, it takes longer to start the game than the time you would spend casually playing during a week evening.
Such statements are true of low-orbit but once you get out to places like geostationary orbits things do slow down. Sats out there can do things with much lower deltaV, things like direct dashes at targets, that are not practical in lower orbits.
You can have both industrial secrets and FOI. Documents got through FOI requests are routinely redacted, and requests denied, when there is a real justification. A blanket policy is counter-productive and a strong indication that there's something very dodgy.

I mean, if you FOI the MoD, they say no, but they don't have a blank cheque to avoid any scrutiny either.
Infact: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/14/rail-bosses-...
There is a certain level of straightforwardness that I gravitate towards when it comes to engineering graphics. Purple/Megenta gradients are the 2020 era Stripe/Apple-inspired aesthetic. Obviously, I am an outlier here and I do not want to diminish your efforts the slightest!

Beauty is subjective and I do not resonate with the cliche aesthetic (gradients, flat UI, soft pastel colors, rounded corners). It's a trend and it will come and go. I am inclined towards the timelessness of the International Style, Swiss Graphics, Brutalism, ultra modernist and offensively low-aesthetic-value aesthetics such as: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/core-go/tree/master/item/server/...
Yeah, if you ignore the various single points of failure in our circulatory, digestive and nervous systems there are plenty of redundancies.

There is no intelligence behind our design. Your body takes its current form because no mutation which would change it has yet led to a statistically greater chance of you passing on your genes. That nature designed you to have pain receptors is no more an argument for their utility than it is for the peacock's feathers.
Love the CI integration. A simple API should allow to build plugins for blogging platforms.
> Sometimes you can use another publisher app store. Which will in fact start another app store upon starting the game.

Not saying this doesn't ever happen, but I've used Steam for more than a decade now and not once have I seen that happen, ever.

Yes, some games have separate launchers, and yes, sometimes these have support for their own separate accounts and mod loaders and such, but not once have they actually been full-blown alternative app stores.

I don't buy very many modern AAA titles, though, so that might be part of it. Still, of the ones I do buy, none of them have installed some alternative store.
But the reverse is true. If there were only Android like phones, with shitty malware, and battery issues, and fifty different app stores for any given genre, and Apple launched the iPhone, millions would jump ship to Apple.
Git doesn’t have pull requests.
I'm not saying they have no influence, I just have a problem with you _insinuating_ falsehoods with a statement like "Look into who owns Epic" as if you've just dropped the truth bomb exposing evil China as the mastermind behind two corporations fighting for who gets to make more money.
> offensive to a small vocal minority

I really don't see how this is an excuse. it's like saying "black people are a minority in the US so who cares if they say they are oppressed"
How to Make Deep Learning Models That Don’t Suck (2019)
Switzerland isn’t in the EU
There are plenty of high-revenue companies looking for people with prestigious backgrounds in a non-explicitly-called-that-way advisory role. It is not difficult to find jobs like those in general, but IMO most FAANG people lack the finesse needed to understand how to position themselves and understand what other people want, which, most of the time, are not the coding skills.

Panic attacks are brutal and getting employees to the point of having panic attacks is part of what is wrong in the tech world. And it happens, in big corps, because some people want to advance at the expense of others.
“Why Not Ensnare the Hunter in His Own Trap?”
Facebook will block Australian news publishers and Australian users from sharing
Insects also practice animal husbandry.
Allowing competition doesn't mean you need to use that competition. Don't install any other stores and don't toggle the flag to allow alternate stores, and you would have and iPhone exactly as it is now.

There's no reason to expect it will be exactly like a PC, which is coming from a completely open past to a future which allows more locking down. The iPhone is locked down now, it's a bit ridiculous to assume they would immediately go straight to allowing anything and everything to be installed without any hoops jumped through.

Even Android requires you to allow unsafe sources to isntall third party packages. Why would anyone expect the iPhone to go farther than this when they're fighting tooth and nail to not even do this much?
It aligns nearly perfectly with most other reports out of google.
Playnite: Open-source video game library manager
I’ll miss the digital version of the catalog. It sounds like that’s discontinued too.

I kind of wonder if Ikea is going to survive covid. Their web page says everything I want is chronically out of stock. I don’t see why they can’t pivot to touchless pickup or delivery.

Instead, I’ve been buying furniture online from more than one of their competitors. The experience and quality control are worse than an in-store Ikea run, but the selection is better. It’s a step sideways, I suppose.
"Choice" is very much alive in your examples.

We seem to be in an open fight against negative reinforcement. To say "policing is the consequence of bad behavior," or "You should go to jail for dealing weed" or even "We shouldn't cancel services or people too hastily" is to pick a fight.
Cory Doctorow picked up on the article in his daily Pluralistic blog/commentary, Reverse centaurs and the failure of AI. [1]

(He says that the "centaur" terminology is used in automation circles; a centaur system is one in which the machine helps the human, and a reverse centaur system is one in which the human serves the machine.)

[1] https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/17/reverse-centaur/#reverse-...
Human interaction is fundamentally persuasive, even when completely unintentional. I don't think you can get around that.
I agree with the comments positing that persuasion is clearly alive and well, given the enthusiasm of today's e.g. demonstrations. I believe the author's point, however, is that persuasion can (should?) engage the conscious, rational mind, rather than just fear-based, tribal instincts leveraged today.
http://archive.is/7kx9n
> It is practically impossible to fire someone for the basic reason that you don't need this role any more or there is a better person out there or just plain old - you are not doing a great job.

Wow I didn’t think I would ever see anyone openly state in writing that it is too hard to fire people for being old. (Age discrimination against those 40 and older is against federal law. It’s also morally wrong. I would also personally argue that the age cutoff should be a lot lower, but that is directly relevant to this article).

Edit: ahh that makes sense. He likely meant it as “or just plain ol’ ‘you’re not doing a great job.’ “
Amazon's initial business advantage was avoiding state/local sales taxes.

Most of tech valuation advances are about avoiding/bypassing regulations and taxation. They simply call it innovation and efficiency.
Casual flippancy and anecdotal experience does not outweigh the countless research that has unveiled the myriad of reasons why people gain unhealthy levels of weight.
https://bylinetimes.com/2021/02/01/an-important-victory-in-t...
To be clear, my statement was descriptive of present circumstances, not normative. As you point out this is in flux and may be changing in the future. If food does become a taxable benefit and part of overall compensation, then I might expect to start seeing some people opting out of it entirely.
> Incompetent and bungling as we were, sandbagging goes shockingly fast. It must be astonishing to watch a crew with a few days’ practice; like fast motion film, but not.

I volunteered with a local volunteer emergency response team to respond to a flood in southern Indiana 3-4 years ago.

We were tasked with sandbagging for a while, even though it was fairly obvious that the river was going to flood the area too widely for sandbags to be useful. I helped with that effort for a while, risking my bad back in the process, and I agree: it does go very quickly.

It also made me think that a fair bit of any emergency response is for show: it probably won't help, but it can't hurt, so you throw people at everything until you run out of people or new data helps you refine what will actually work.

If nothing else it probably made the locals feel better than watching a bunch of people stand around doing nothing at all.

Fortunately I was able to later help in a more meaningful way, assisting with evacuations and providing security all night in hopes that the abandoned homes wouldn't be targeted by opportunistic thieves.

Unfortunately, despite our efforts, it turned out that someone (or multiple someones) from nearby communities used boats to hit some of the flooded homes, bypassing our security perimeter.

Frustrating to see.
Oh come on, who hates their mother enough to make her use Webex?

/shudder
As I see it the art of persuasion has been weaponized over the last century through media and advertising. Ever more effective ways of manipulating people were devised and deployed at scale. The current most effective approach being social media. So why would someone bother with an older less efficient weapon when they can use the latest and greatest weapon for the same price?
I would recommend Bogleheads [0] and r/investing [1]. But, these sites don't have the same format like HN. You can see if the design is different.

[0]: https://www.bogleheads.org

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/investing
Depending on which side of the bed I wake up on, I can lambast the US status quo as crony monopolists who own the government as well; yet I'm still nervous about the move "fast and break things" philosophy when it comes to real world markets, societies, and governments.
Why? It's right at the top of the article. Almost entirely other Bay Area counties, rest of top 15 are also in California.

Shouldn't be a big surprise.
Anti-competitive behavior does not require a Monopoly. A monopoly is just a specific type of situation which makes anti-competitive behavior easy and incentivized.

Anti-competitive behavior that harms consumers is the problem (and question). Whether Apple is a monopoly or not is really besides the point.
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Wind turbines have not been the issue here in Texas. They've been delivering more power than expected, despite some of them freezing. The problem is with natural gas/coal plants.

That said, yes, we don't use lubricant for super-cold weather, because we don't normally have super-cold weather. So we use cheaper stuff that is suited for our normal climate, where heat is usually a bigger problem than cold. It's been ten years since the last time it would have been important, and 12 years before that.
That's a bit unfair. He's clearly passionate about the product and its customers. The ask to sacrifice for your customers is a reasonable position to take, especially in weird one of situations. It also ties into his risk/reward compensation section.

I didn't get any indications that he expected 80 hour work weeks 52 weeks a year from everyone. To paraphrase, I think he was frustrated with his employees going to the townhall or yoga class in the quad instead of working on the customer outage.
How about... we do both? Because it's not exactly too much effort to set up an atom and rss feed to go along with your email newsletter.

Can we stop (subtly in this case, not so subtly in others) crusading against tech that we don't personally like, when thousands upon thousands rely on it because that's the format they're comfortable with and want to receive periodicals in?

Set up a system that meets people where they are instead of forcing them into only your preferred delivery flavour.
Very pretty, though syntax highlighting for HTML seems to be conspicuously absent.
Maybe they're being sarcastic? I can't tell.
Etymology isn't definition.

"Politically correct" has enjoyed non-pejorative use for decades.
6) The password hashing scheme was trivially broken, that is, given the hash I could construct a password which generated the same hash. Take a look - it still uses the same hash algorithm! https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse/blob/master/src/fitness...

What fresh hell is this?

private byte[] encrypt(byte[] lock, byte[] key) {
int keyIndex = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < lock.length; i++) {
byte lockByte = lock[i];
byte keyByte = key[keyIndex++];
lock[i] = (byte) (lockByte + keyByte);
if (keyIndex == key.length)
keyIndex = 0;
}

return lock;
}
Just to be totally clear too, a certain section of the British public is neuralgic about the Tories (inner city Remainers usually).

They believe there is massive levels of corruption because, unfortunately, the media is largely composed of neuralgics too and they are quite happy to feed the beast. The past twelve months or so has gone from: Brexit is stupid to there are huge levels of corruption, all these people are evil, and should be in jail. It is alarming, although not surprising, that untruths have been swallowed so eagerly (to be clear, this is 100% about Brexit, not corruption).

So: under Labour the same stuff happened, when anyone asked for polling or consulting (the latest issue de jure) it inevitably came from people connected to Labour (McKinsey's London office in the 2000s was largely composed of people with political connections, they worked closely with Blair), this is normal because (shock) if you are in politics, you have certain ideas and aren't going to hire people who will try to actively sabotage you.

In terms of public contracts, what isn't made clear to the public is that the UK has several bodies who examined all of these contracts. The public believes that because they were fast-tracked, there was no scrutiny. No, the NAO looked at all the contracts, and found no evidence of corruption (there is a substantiali report on this topic). There is a certain publicity hungry lobbying group which has repeatedly claimed there was no corruption...the actual evidence of this has, still, not been found (and they have moved on from their earlier claims to yet more "shocking" new claims of corruption that they will still likely be unable to prove...unsurprisingly, they are raising significant funds to reverse Brexit...which is presumably their angle with all this).

So I would say: this isn't "corruption" in any global sense of the word. Most of the things that people attribute to "corruption" are bad govt. For example, PFI means some companies do very well but the issue was that civil servants and govts signed these deals, and paid no attention to the terms. There is massive scrutiny of govt purchasing in the UK. If you are corrupt, the risks are infinite and the return is zero. What does happen is: people choose to buy things from people they know and who agree with them (the latter being very important in politics), it is someone knowing someone else, this happens in business. Talking about "corruption" in British politics is, however, ludicrous.
Electric power is fungible. Any renewable power used for Bitcoin is power that cannot be used to offset carbon emissions.
> What nobody is talking about is Epic could completely avoid the premium their complaining about by using a website for all transactions.

Epic would also need all paid transactions to originate entirely from said website - i.e. there would be no ability for their own apps to even send users to that website. There have been multiple horror stories about app developers trying this exact approach and Apple turning around with "nope, pay up your 30% cut".
Minds are changed by all inputs but some are more effective than others.

I don't think it is a stretch to assume "community consensus" is the most effective way to change minds.

That (in both cases, perceived) consensus can be accessed through either "traditional" or "social" media but either way people decide based mostly on "What does everyone else think about this?"
Show HN: Flowall.io – Organise communication with stakeholders in easy workflows
There are lots of unclimbed peaks. Below is link to the most prominent 16 in BC, not an remote local. Getting your name on a first assent isn't especially difficult. The real issue is the logistics of getting to the bottom of the mountain rather than the top.

https://bivouac.com/Unclimbed.asp?rq=ProcessForm&MinHeight=2...
That's an interesting point. I hadn't thought of that. Thanks for explaining that because it's not an obvious connection.

You might be correct.
I think it's reasonable to assume that not everyone is going to like everything that you say. I don't think this is an issue.

If there's a specific demographic that is consistently affected by what you're saying, there might be an issue though.
Care to elaborate? I'm having a hard time figuring out what point you were trying to make.
FreeBSD 12.2 on a raspberry pi
My commute is roughly 2.5 hours each way, so it's saved me 25 hours a week.

In order to make it to my first (8:30AM) meeting of the day, I needed to wake up at 5:30AM, leave my home at 6:00AM, and white knuckle it down three interstate highways dealing with Bay Area Rush Hour traffic every day. Now, I can usually roll out of bed around 7:30AM and putz around the house a bit, eat a real breakfast, make sure my kid's school/day is squared away, maybe do some exercise, then unhurriedly sit down at the videoconference for my first meeting. Night and day lifestyle change.
I do not agree that the revenue is necessarily because of higher-quality apps. Apple iPhones are regarded in many markets as luxury goods bought by people with more disposable income, so the increased revenue could well be attributable to having a wealthier customer base that is willing to spend more on app/in-app purchases. In this case, opening up the market to competition might be beneficial to existing App Store developers.

App Store does help developers make more money than if they were not on it, but being on it is the only practical way for them to gain access to iPhone users (they could ask users to jailbreak their phones instead but that is impractical for most). If the courts order Apple to allow competing app stores, users would still benefit from Apple's curation, and developers would still benefit from the distribution by using Apple App Store, but they would have a viable choice of picking another app store without having to change to another OS (for users) or abandoning the largest market (for developers).
Takes me back to the days of Warcraft 3 and The Sims on Windows XP. Go to the website, or install from a disk. Launch the game with a desktop icon. No app store needed. Updates are installed when the game is launched. No need to announce to all your friends that you bought a game, no need to have an integrated chat client. Just nothing but the actual game.
> I began racking up my HR complaints

Doesn't sound like it was an isolated incident in his case.
The Soviet program was doomed by technology and circumstance. The USSR was far behind on hydrogen, computers, and control systems; then the linchpin of their program, Sergei Korolev died (likely due in part to his term in the Gulags). They didn't give up, they failed (as exemplified by the N1 rocket failures).
This sounds like a manager I would love to work for. I think the entitlement of these employees are eventually going to bring down FANG
This is cool; one note - I think there's a very visible typo in the visualization - the legend refers to '(3G) UTMS' - should be 'UMTS' I think?
The problem in my case was that I wanted to combine a pattern
with my objects that I precomputed using an external program
because it contained a lot of curved surfaces. As I already
knew OpenSCAD basically becomes unusable if you try to use a png
image as heightmap I decided to instead generate a .scad file
containing an array with precomputed coordinates, and then used
that to build and extrude 2d polygons.

This kind of works for the 3d preview, but the stl renderer was
not happy regardless. It was basically the worst case for
OpenSCAD. But still, the fact I could just auto-generate a text
file and use it directly for building models is fantastic. With
tools like FreeCAD I wouldn't even know where to start, here it
was basically a case of "it just works" and with a few more
minutes it can be combined with a bash script for batch
rendering.
References:

Jornalists FOI clearing house: https://bylinetimes.com/2021/02/01/an-important-victory-in-t...

Culture war: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/universities-...

Dominic Cummings claims:

Cummings described Frayne and Wolf as his “friends”, but added: “Obviously I did not request Public First be brought in because they were my friends. I would never do such a thing.” He said he “requested” civil servants hire the firm because, in his experience, it was the only company with the expertise to carry out the required focus groups urgently.

From: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/15/revealed-cummi...

Not sure why I've been down voted?