skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ The App Store's standard commission rate of 30 percent remains in place for apps selling digital goods and services and making more than $1 million in proceeds, defined as a developer's post-commission earnings” [1]

What is convoluted and worse? I am not a mobile Dev at this time, just going by what I see online.

Edit: [1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-announces-app-s...
This is not the only proposal, it's covered elsewhere.

In the original manifesto: https://gist.github.com/lattner/31ed37682ef1576b16bca1432ea9...
Swarms of soldier crabs can implement logical gates (2012)
> clickbait

Do your priors really not make you think dead rather than alive in this case? If they found living plants I think they'd be shouting about it a bit louder.
You have Grails p. P p a Rails alternative, I don't recommend it though Grails has come a long way but still has a lot of inconeniences and is becoming obsolete by the day, it became a monster with tangled and twisted code, everything (views, models, queries) has 2 or 3 reimplementations that don't quite work and are not finished. I used to develop more than 5 services in it and frankly I don't know how I managed to stay sane or sleep at night
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Audi 1.8T EA888 Gen 3 - RIP - what a lovely engine it was once all the niggly problems had been sorted.
I haven’t looked at the exact percentage but I know it’s huge, especially outside the US. I really think they should have a cap on how long you can be banned for. This was also way before Google reviewed apps so if you missed or interpreted something in their developer terms differently from them you risked this happening. I’m assuming that now that they review a reviewer would notify you and decline the app if it was in violation of any terms and you could make the necessary changes first.

I feel pretty helpless as ultimately Google has the power to decide who gets to play in their sandbox.
Yes, it seems he's betting against the Western financial growth and stability. I wonder if he thinks the days of the dollar's reserve currency status are numbered.
As an exertion of raw power, yes, it would be inverted. But we live in a world where maximal exertion of raw power is looked down upon.
I feel like they are fearing antitrust actions in Europe and the US - and getting broken apart so pieces of themselves will be competing with other pieces.
That link is talking specifically about the bare send (!) when in a distributed setting. Erlang guarantees locally (in the same VM) and guarantees ordering as well locally (ordering when done in a synchronous block, if you have a single process do send msg1 followed by send ms2, locally it's guaranteed that msg1 will be "received" first, if the receiver is alive). Outside the same VM even if in the same host it can fail (someone closed the socket the other VM is on for e.g).

Erlang also bakes OTP, that is a library for messaging semantics and process behaviours (that processes have to implement to be OTP) and introduces the concept of a "call", where a unique reference is created for the message being sent and only when the receiver processes the message and "replies" (with the answer and the reference) is the "call" considered complete and allows to be sure the message was processed to the point of sending that reply. This is the solution the "ack" mentioned in the linked doc refers to. It's not inherent in send because send is async and the only way to have it know that, is to wait for an ack.

(you can implement the call semantics with plain processes, but it's such a normal thing that in OTP it's baked at a lower level for the process behaviours included in OTP, mostly all the gen_* behaviours)

All of this breaks down in distributed settings because it's physically impossible to guarantee. Your message may be received but the answer back may not because the network glitched or the hardware blew before the response was sent. These are problems of distributed systems though. You can be sure that if you get a reply from a call that the message was received. You still need to take (or not) care of some of the failure modes accordingly to your requirements (be it having idempotency, retry logic, nodes behaving as queue processors, etc). Some failure modes encode the reason as well, for instance a failed call to a non-existent pid in a functioning node that is reachable is different than a failed call to a non-reachable node, but a failure in a node that went down or a node that is alive but not reachable is impossible to discern without additional things.
“World population then was ~800 million. Today it is ~7700 million. Most have jobs.”

I doubt this.

In the USA, we have an unemployment number, “able bodied, but not working, or looking for work.” If the 50’s, it was basically housewives. Today it’s a lot of people. (This might not be the exact wording the government uses.)

My point is this number is huge, and never talked about much in the United States. I don’t think the government even has a way of tracking the number?

I don’t know how the rest of the world treats this number.

My guess would be most don’t have jobs, or if that number crossed 50% in any country, the jobs would not be of a livable wage living alone.
Looks like a bootstrap template to me.
Half knowledge article most likely sponsored by religious group
But was it a 10x improvement on Grooveshark at the time? I went from Grooveshark, to Google Music, and finally to Spotify in around 2018
Google isn't going to pay your card processing fees for you, and there is a nonzero cost to hosting and moderating the absolutely enormous number of apps that get nearly 0 revenue.
Let me be the FIRST to say that the landing page is a bit overenthusiastic.
It is my understanding that refineries cannot change the percentage of gasoline that comes from a barrel of oil. If electric cars become as popular as ICE, either gasoline will be used in other things, or other oil distillates will become very expensive. Likely no more cheap air travel, propane, etc.

I expect we will hit a wall that will inhibit adoption.
I went here when I was in London, great place especially if you’re medically inclined.
looks like the images are faked
If you make $999k in revenue, you will receive almost $850k in profit. If you make $1000k in revenue, you will instead receive $700k in profit. You're strangely incentivized to completely shut down your app as you approach the 1000k mark, unless you're confident you'll make it past the 1200k mark, where it's worth it again. Silly system.
Opera Presto was the fastest browser (and js engine) in the world at its prime.
They're only thing they're feeling is the pressure of multiple regulators analysing the fine print
Cadence – Smart contract programming language on Flow
> Publishing will only cause fear and doubt.

Less fear and doubt than if it gets leaked.
Professor Pedro Domingos, comes to mind. He's been fighting them lately through twitter (@pmddomingos). They've tried to ruin his career by reporting him to his employer, IIRC. But yes, unfortunately, academics rarely get involved for obvious reasons. This reminds me of the Intelligent Design, Creationism, "Teach the controversy" etc debate from the late 2000s, during Richard Dawkins' God Delusion era. It's amazing how everything changed.
- collaborative docs like google docs, google sheets, quip.
- cloud sync like dropbox (also evernote, icloud, google drive)
- group voice chat
- open source package management (all of rpm, yum, dpkg, ports, npm , cpan , etc, etc ) – at a high level, run 1 command , get all the deps you need (and a license to use them) to build your software.
Don't most products and services offer a volume discount? Or something equivalent? I don't understand why the equation is reversed in this case. Does google not offer volume discounts to their big GCP customers? Is that also "looked down upon"?
Email? That's cute.

https://bankstatements.com.au/

These brain geniuses ask for your fucking bank account password.
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The idea that Dalio published this in order to move markets in his favor is patently absurd if you know anything at all about the markets in question. The markets that would have to move here are the world's most liquid by a mile. Retail investors reading this blog post are not going to move them at all. And institutional managers are not getting their market takes from blogs like this.

The only purpose of this essay is PR, for hiring and attracting capital. If you want to do the cynical self-interest take, that's the one you should be going with.
> while technically being more archiveable (e.g. slack, typical meeting recordings), are in practice so disorganized

Think of all the papers this will produce for future historians!
Worth noting that fdroid is an app and a couple of (default) repos, but you can add additional repos to the same app (like Debian; it ships with all-FOSS repos, but you can add more and apt will happily pull nonfree software from them).
If 8kB error output limit and incredibly long keepalive means it's easy to misconfigure gRPC then so is everything else.
There are sooo many nice language features that have proven themselves over the last 3-4 decades and have become popular but are missing from Go that I think archaic is appropriate.
That does seem terrible. It should be bracketed how our taxes are, honestly.
When VW switched over to 4 cylinder turbo charged engines for emission and fuel standards they turned to Audi to do the development since they had a long history with turbo charging (Quattro).
One thing is, you have to subtract bolt guns, and bolt gun calibers from circulating firearm and ammunition totals. That should cut the number down quite significantly.

The guns wouldn't instantaneously disappear overnight in this scenario. It would take 10-20 years to see a sizeable impact.

I have an interesting quote related to the UK and gun laws:

Gun deaths remain extremely rare in Britain, and very few people, even police officers, carry firearms. But the growing presence of American weapons on the streets, which has not previously been widely reported, comes as serious violent crime, like murders and stabbings, has risen sharply.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/world/europe/handguns-smu...

So, hey, U.S. firearms restrictions might have some very positive outcomes for the U.K. (and Mexico as well).

I'd love if you could share an article about that firearms rental operation, how prevalent those weapons actually are, and if they're coming in from the United States.
1. Hot reloading in Java. I wasn't aware of Erlang at that time.

2. Erlang. It was a 10x boost after doing a whole lot of CORBA/J2EE crap. I was quite late to the party even in the mid-90's.

3. Google search, maps compared to offerings from Altavista, Excite.

4. Turbo Pascal compared to anything else before it. I don't think I have experienced that level of programming pleasure since then.

5. HotJava on the browser. It was sad how Microsoft neutered the whole Java on the browser initiative.

6. Git. So much faster and pain-free compared to SCCS, RCS ..
Valve [Steam] does this "inverted" model, as of ~ December 2018... It wasn't overly well-received on the PR front -- though I do suspect that it earned them a decent bit of AAA title/publisher credit, heh.

Realistically, that's probably where much of the money is at; if anything, props to them for getting away with it.
I haven't read all the comments on these articles, but I haven't seen anyone claim that the bug shouldn't have happened, that anyone should lose their job, that no one "good" makes those sort of mistakes, etc. But this was a bug that lasted long enough and irritated enough customers that one of them finally diagnosed and seemingly fixed it without ever looking at their source code. That's one hell of a process failure. And splitting hairs over whether we would feel professionaly "embarrassed" or "ashamed" in a similar situation is pretty silly.
People are usually attracted to various meditative practices because they want to change the way their brain works. There is a large degree of overlap between traditional meditation and psychotherapies based on mindfulness and CBT.

The efficacy of these therapies is grounded in a strong and growing body of research (this includes research into their risks). Why not dispense with the woo and approach healing the mind like we do the rest of the body?

Here's an overview of the state of mindfulness therapies, I think it's a much more valuable read than Harper's quasi-clickbaity scare piece: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5353527/
Any idea about how so-called self-hypnosis compares to meditation? In terms of side effects of overdoing it.
I think pension funds are the bag holders here. They require 6% yield or so to function, and real yields are still negative or near zero. Yet their investment mandates often dictate they need to have bonds or a mix of equities and bonds.
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> I'm not sure how you think my list would bifurcate into multiple lists.

Because the two things I pulled from your list aren't systematic. One was local to a specific health system and about a specific condition, and the other about kids from a certain area. Neither was just about black people in general. Your list is predominantly racial and I thought that was the point. This medical thing is really about any group not being recognized as different enough from the whole, women get this a lot, but even men do in areas where women are the primary sufferers of something. (Breast-cancer for instance.)

Also, to distinguish things that are intentional (redlining) vs absolutely unforeseen but still problematic. A few absolutely undeniable things, and they exist, would make the list more meaningful and perhaps give more weight to the rest which are a bit ambiguous.

> There's a difference between systemic bias and intentional bias. These are examples of systemic bias.

No, they're an example of non-systemic bias. The aren't broadly across any system, or symptomatic of a general attitude. Systematic bias doesn't mean that the majority gets more attention, it means that the entire system is biased against something, and you aren't showing that.

> Your logic seems to acknowledge that one of the large drivers of crime is being "put away" in prison.

It is a separate topic, but yes. Being put away unjustly, and in the wrong place or severity for your crime hurts. But not serving a sentence for crime is just as bad, if not worse. I'm not against jailing criminals, just doing it where it doesn't serve us or them.

> In this case, the algorithm predicted a higher likelihood of committing future crimes for a kid than for someone who had already served 5 years in prison for armed robbery.

Could be. Without knowing the severity of the crime predicted though it's kind of meaningless.

> Even worse is that the algorithm was being used to determine the severity of their respective punishments.

Well, without knowing the prediction you can't know if a stiffer sentence would have encouraged or deterred future crime. If they were predicted to be killers, a hard but fair sentence at the first crimes could turn them around. If they're predicted to steal a few cars then even a year in prison is probably going to make them worse.

> So, the act of predicting a higher likelihood of future crime for the kid becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, giving her a harsher sentence, which in turn is more likely to drive her toward future crime. This is systemic bias in action.

It would be, if it were system wide. It was a specific population though, and there's still no indicator that it said black kids specifically other than because in those neighborhoods they were the ones at risk. fwiw, stealing scooters from children doesn't seem like the path to good behavior.

Systematic risk is AIs for this purpose in regard to anyone, not that they targeted black people more in some cases. That's essentially random.
Not sure I interpret it the same way. Wouldn't this advice heavily/completely discount/ignore the written words associated with the portfolio?
A merkle tree for cookie validation would be cool.
I guess sell first, develop second, right? - good luck from my side. If you manage to come even close to the claimed features I will buy one.
> Aren't workers also tools used to produce things? What's special about workers that makes them irreplaceable?

Absolutely correct. And the entities employing those tools are called "Capital".
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I have a few. One, a Color Computer 3. Has a 6809 CPU. I know a friend who has kids. Perfect, it will find a new home for my lack of time. Maybe his kids get the spark same as we did.

My daily retro driver is an Apple //e Platinum with some good cards in it. Serial, CFFA 3000 disk emulator so I can use USB drives, and a FastChip 16Mz 65816 CPU.

I use it to write. Nice keyboard, and this may seem odd, but when I write on it, different words come out. It takes me to a place I find hard to be in otherwise. I can move my work back onto a modern machine with a USB stick.

I also game on it, currently enjoying Nox Archaist a couple hours here and there. That is a new release, 5 years in the making, and it is exemplary. Old school, runs on an Apple, but done with more modern ideas.

And it sometimes ends up being a terminal for various projects.

By "daily driver", I mean setup, ready to use. I do use it a few times per month.

My Model 100 is a portable curio. Sometimes when I am way out in the sticks, it is fun to play with. I may find it a home too. I have not used it in a long while. Took notes on it last time I did.

And my Atari 800XL and 400 see some gaming along with an original 6 switch VCS. (2600) These come out for old school game time once or twice per year.

I have young ones coming up and I plan on showing them the ropes old school. Probably the Apple to start. Lots of education and Oregon Trail.

My favorite thing to do is small, fun programming and or electronics. The Apple is great for both. It is awful nice to be able to write a little code with almost no worries. And if one wants, putting a circuit on a card is not hard.

Oh, and from time to time, I do use the Apple as a spiffy calculator. It can kind of just sit there holding values, bits of code, whatever. I have always used one this way since I was a kid. Sort of how people will use their powerful hand calculators.

My workbench has a pro grade CRT I got for a song, and the Apple all setup and ready to go. Both are off to the side, right there. Flip a switch and it is there, ready same as it always has been.

The CRT is special. Looks great and takes me back to fun places.

It all reminds me how far we have come, if nothing else. It is nice to have it handy. And sometimes, when I am blocked somehow, a romp on that machine seems to always shake me loose. Worth it just for that.
It’s not the right tool for every situation, but I think for some situations it’s a useful escalation:

You’re tense, it’s been hours, you’re in a standoff with people who have snipers trained on you and you’re threatening to kill people — but that would be a major escalation, and those snipers might decide they no longer have a reason to hold back.

You’re thinking about how to get out of the standoff when a robot crashes through the windows, whirls down the hallway, and starts talking to you through the door. The same negotiator, but now you can’t just hang up on him. He’s here with you, talking.

The drone isn’t armed, but you’re being aggressively pushed to negotiate or carry out your threat, here and now.

I think a lot of people, emotionally exhausted after hours of standoff, would just fold at that point rather than shoot someone and get the armed raid started.

Again, it’s not a tool for every moment — but I think it’s a good step between just waiting for a phone call during a standoff or shouting at the windows, and sending in armed humans.
My experience with Swift was that there was a section of the language API that I used heavily, then I had features I would use every now and then, and others I would use almost never (like keypaths). I think one of the advantages of a multi-paradigm language is that you have the freedom to carve out a sub-language which is appropriate for a given problem or for your personal taste.

That said, I think Swift does sometimes feel like it's missing a metaprogramming system. Like property wrappers and function builders could probably be generated by a sufficiently powerful macro system, but instead they exist as one-off features with significant complexity.
And faked pretty badly too. Unless they really do have a top bar that doesn't fit on the screen.
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Is there a linux OS which would be best suited to run on a decade old laptop in portrait mode, mostly for reading PDFs?
Looks great, but I'd be afraid it does things like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26306661
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Thank you, great information. Those incentives then have to change. I wrote a few apps back in the day, and 30% seemed high, but I never hit over $100k in rev. I was hoping the little guy who scaled would have won here.
Someone should brand junk bonds like they did with peer-to-peer lending. The latter was a bust (time and time again, I've read about the ills of P2P lending returns), but there could be a great dual-sided market opportunity for the former.
Also curious. For example, if I run a shop and I normally have N cars parked out front, but anyone can see with 5 minute accuracy that I always have at least N-2 cars, they could easily figure out when nobody's watching the shop (or house).

Edit: also, nobody can ever sunbathe in peace again.
That's exactly why we built WorkOS. It's like "Stripe for SSO/SAML."

Shameless plug for my startup. Hope that's still ok on HN :)

https://workos.com/
How to Make Everything did something similar with a chicken sandwich.

https://youtu.be/URvWSsAgtJE

Though he didnt use quite as extreme a definition of "from scratch." Everything in the sandwich did appear to be made or acquired by hand, but it doesn't look like he raised the chicken or cow himself for example.
I use a trackball to the right of the righthand side

A trackpad should fit, because you really want the halves parallel to your shoulders or just a bit tighter. Though as I think about the movements and gestures, you might find one of the halves interfering by being where your wrist naturally wants to be.
Also Porsche. Taycan is widely successful.
It's not a property tax (which taxes the building and the land), it's only a land value tax. So if you have a $300,000 house, it's not going to tax 2.5% of the $300,000 house, just the $50,000 worth of land it sits on.
I'm talking about my own experience of what I've seen on different platforms, not social science results.
> Per Hindu practices, Meditation is the first, foremost step towards self realization.

Isn't it 7th stage or something? In yogic philosophies. Admittedly don't know lot about these stuff.
I am unconvinced.

First of all, Android is Linux based, and not an unpleasant userland if you install Termux and use LineageOS or some other custom fork.

Second, even if you don't count Android, there's still Ubuntu Mobile, and PostmarketOS, and Sailfish, and Mobian, and others, all of which existed before this as far as I can tell.

Third, this website is drowning in rough marketing speak, with little substance.

I came in with high hopes, but am unimpressed. Maybe this is overly harsh, it's definitely a hard market.

Edit: The closer I look, the more unconvinced I get. I wish you luck, but maybe get something to show first next time.