skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't apps like Spotify and Netflix the ones where you don't pay through the app but bypass the store?
That is, the ones that cost the most don't pay much to Google and Apple but the small developers who can't fight back and rely on the money have no choice.
Google/Apple should be regulated and forced to drop their anticompetitive clauses concerning third-party payment systems.

They should also forced to fully allow third-party apps installation, including independent push notification services.

Currently, both Android and iOS severely restrict background app running, and developers are forced to depend on push notifications services provided by google and apple. This effectively locks in users, who can't empoy full capabilities of the device if they do not use Google/Apple services.
I did the same thing and got the same redirect. I haven't experimented with anything except GET / but it would be interesting to try throwing some params in there and trying other paths.
UnReal World – Survival based roguelike game
Agreed on Js_of_ocaml as a stable choice.

However, even Js_of_ocaml is suffering a slight complication :P There is the recent release of Brr https://erratique.ch/software/brr/doc/, a Js_of_ocaml library replacement (i.e. you keep the compiler but use this instead of the library that comes with Js_of_ocaml).

I heard good reviews of Brr, but haven't tried it myself yet. We will probably have a Brr full-stack example in Dream, eventually.

Personally, I currently use

- Dream on the server (an ancient version, didn't have time to keep up with Dream development in my own app!).

- Just plain JS and the JS ecosystem on the client.

- ReScript/Melange for compiling a couple files to JS from OCaml so that they can trivially interop with my mostly-JS client.
"Play-distributed apps must use Google Play's billing system as the method of payment if they require or accept payment for access to features or services, including any app functionality, digital content or goods"

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

I think this is an algorithm mistake on Google's part. Their policy is clear that this scenario is okay. I wonder how they will respond?

On a tangent, if I were to release a paid app to third-party stores. I would have a base price then add the third-party fees on top.

A gripe would be that I don't see these stores allowing for a clear break down of fees. So I can't educate my users. And if a user is unaware of the added fees they can't take it into account on their next phone purchase.

Beyond that, given that there are only two choices seems to imply high barriers of entry into the phone OS game. And that does imply free market issues. But nothing a bit of waiting might not fix?

Well given the state of desktop market which has been around for decades there may be room for intervention, haha. Like grants/tax incentives for consumer apps selling on open source operating systems... idk
I absolutely detest bright LEDs, but in this case, it's a dim LED set back in a recessed hole in the router that is hard to make out at all unless viewing it straight on.

Better this than a blaring blue LED I guess, but it would be nice to just have it easier to see in general. Having a shiny brushed reflective surface to the router (instead of, say, black or pure white) exacerbates the problem.

The router looks 'cool' like the Cybertruck, but could use some refinement physically. The shape also makes it hard to mount on a wall, or even to place it horizontally if the need arises.
haha mine too.
I do not believe so. I hate it as well but decided to tolerate it because at least once it is setup, I don't have to continue using it.
Real pro tip: don't listen to newbies that don't know yet the power and efficiency of print based debugging!
> Wayland compositors) still miss many important features that are

> * expected by users of X11, Windows, or Mac

Windows & Mac have been in a compositor-only world for over a decade now. They are firmly in a wayland-style world, not an X11-style one. Android, too, has only ever had a wayland-style world.

The only thing that exists like X11 is X11. So nobody on Windows or Mac will be expecting anything like it.
I actually thought he was playing the meta game with palantir. His rhetoric of democracy is incompatible with freedom became famous around the time of the founding of Palantir. I viewed it as him attempting to reign as a philosopher-king-ceo steering the surveillance apparatus the US gov is contracting out as safely as he thought is possible.
At first I thought “30s” meant “30 seconds” rather than “thirties (ms).”

My opinion of Starlink and what it means for the world was being completely reshapen until I read your comment again!
She wasn't playing fetch - you were playing throw!
Succession Crises in Real Life
Free open source software funded by donations is evil because it undermines Google’s ads business. Free must be free with ads, not free with donations. Richard Stallman was right. :^)
Yeah, exactly. It's so apparent to me that I figure something like this has to exist, if I dug into it.

I don't know if you'd even 10 relays. Most appliances have been cost-reduced into like two motors, a heater, and one or two actuators. Perhaps newer models with steam cleaning etc have reversed that trend.

Control side, I'm thinking of an AVR + ESP32. The AVR for reliably controlling the motors with the sensors, eg if the water is full, turn the water off. True safety stuff like overheat switches obviously stays inline though.

One of the more complex details is newer appliances have moved to brushless motors for efficiency. A three phase motor driver is straightforward, but figuring out what design parameters will be reasonably generic to serve the most appliances is some research.

The least generic parts seem to be fitting in with the existing user-input buttons, and managing the complexity of programming many different models for non-engineer users. The kind of people that are comfortable taking apart appliances generally have less patience for programming computers.
Host the apk on your website and you can do whatever you like and not pay Google anything.
https://www.davidc.net/sites/default/subnets/subnets.html

This is the best subnet calculator, since you can split and join subnets visually.
That's not the problem with Google, as there are other methods of distributing apps for Android. But with Apple it's a different story.

Also AFAIK Android's browser is more advanced than Apple's one, so you can create web applications with more capabilities for Android compared to iOS. But web applications do not seem very popular for some reason I don't understand.
I haven't tested this yet, but apparently if you use your own router you may be able to get an IPv6 address assigned.
They're called neo-nazis because they're neo-nazis: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/proud-boy-6mwe/
Can someone do something against theverge‘s stupid (and non GDPR-conformant) „I accept“ cookie and tracking banner that takes up one third of the space on mobile? This grinds my gears so much.
"What nefarious activity does the game engage in?"

"Yes. I confess it."

"depriving Google of some precious money"

No, unreasonable it is not. These are very entitled quotes.
Excellent point. Ball bearings, cups, cones, and races must be hard, precise, and durable. Water resistance also helps.

Link chains and cogs (chainring, rear wheel) also. Even without gearing.

Brakes long relied on steel cable. Another underappreciated material fabrication.
I wouldn't use it as an interactive prompt personally - it's a bit too verbose - though I did know someone in college who did that :)

Calling shell commands is reasonably straightforward:

const { exec} = require('child_process')
const child = exec('ls', ['-lh', '/usr'])
console.log('error', child.error)
console.log('stdout ', child.stdout)
console.log('stderr ', child.stderr)

However, you can also get cool packages like this to use instead: https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs

I will admit though that in most of the cases where I've used it I didn't really do any shelling-out, so I can't speak much to how that experience scales in practice. Mostly I was either 1) doing self-contained logic with files, web requests, etc, or 2) delegating out to JS build tools (which even when they have a CLI, almost always expose a nice JS API too). Ymmv, etc.
Maybe it leaked from a US lab? Blood samples from the Red Cross blood donor program show that it was already in 9 states in the US by mid December 2019.

"It is not possible to determine whether the potential SARS-CoV-2 infections suggested by this study may have been community- or travel-associated. A previous survey of blood donors, conducted to help understand travel practices, determined that less than 3% of respondents reported travel outside of the U.S. within the 28 days prior to donation, and of those reporting travel, only 5% traveled to Asia."

https://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/press-rele...
The emissions have been near the best-case projections, and far below the average and worst-case projections

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-unstoppable-momentu...
Proxmox PCI Switcher – Switch among Guest VMs organized by Resource Pool
> In a world context, beginning the year in spring is normal; beginning it in the middle of winter is very weird indeed.

The character of the seasons is rather local. For example take the Greek legend of Persephone and Demeter and the Sumerian legend of Dumuzid and Inanna. Both explain the seasons by a god being trapped in the underworld for half the year, but the Greeks considered winter the dead time while for the Sumerians it was summer.
Switch among Guest VMs organized by Resource Pool
Without apps android wouldn't have become a standard.
Look what happened to Windows Mobile.
So Google owes the developers the current status of Androids.
> Count on driver updates breaking this workaround

If the workaround results in enough money being left on the table, this might prompt 3rd party investment in open source drivers in order to keep the workaround available by eliminating the dependence on Nvidia's proprietary drivers.
I appreciate that perspective. As a user of a phone with various apps, I also appreciate those restrictions, which make my experience less of a jungle of different payment plans and questionable battery-sucking activities.
Yes, I understand that companies no longer have much choice but to amass an arsenal of patents like this to deter suits being brought against them.

The issue I took up in my comment was that you seemed to be defending this process to some extent, so I appreciate you clarifying your point of view to mean you were only defending the necessity of companies to engage in this sort of stockpiling of patents. It's not, from a less subjective viewpoint, rational: It is a net drain on the economy and innovation. However, when you find yourself in a crazy situation that you can't significantly alter, the rational response is often something that is itself irrational.

I often think of war as the prime example of this... It's insane that the US dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan. Heck, it's insane that such weapons were developed to begin with. And year the entire broader context was insane. Fighting a more conventional war against Japan would have been even more crazy, costing more lives and prolonging the war even longer. It's an appropriate metaphor to call the crazy patent situation "patent wars". (It's also part of why I like things like the study of optimal strategies in iterated prisoner dilemmas... it gives a framework for how to think about rational decision making under irrational conditions.)
>I don't understand

put that on a tshirt
Wow this is awesome.

I think it would be really cool to write some documentation or more interactive education using this tool.
A more accurate title:

Experiment shows that cats are less aware of helpful behaviour between humans than dogs.
I don’t know how the “goodness of their heart” is relevant, but I think you’ve just arrived at the concept of a business: revenue, expenses and profit.
Huh? Amazon put prime under amazon.com. The domain doesn't mean you have to use the same servers, google already just proxy and load balances behind their existing domains. They could easily redirect youtube.com to yt.google.com, or serve assets on youtube.com from yt.google.com if they want to have cross domain tracking.
The starlink app works with your own router, you just need to set up a static route.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/jqhoqz/starlink_a...
You have a spelling mistake in “consultation”.
This strategy is common in any skilled labor trade. For example, joining a carpentry team the first thing you have to do is tote lumber to earn respect.
What you needed was somebody empowered to judge the cost-benefit of those requirements and disallow low gain ones. (And if they were all high benefit, then things were just working as they should.)

If you tried to collect the requirements up-front, the only thing you would get would be to either stall the project before it starts (what could be a good thing), or to do the exact same process, but only after a months-log delay that created a bunch of stuff you would simply throw away.
DNS also leaks your domain lookups to anyone and everyone. If you make it opt in, then opting in becomes incriminating in some contexts. IDK, this sounds very much like a problem specific to people who don’t need to worry about the state controlling their internet access.
It's definitely doing... something. I had my Kill-A-Watt in it for a few hours with some usage and lots of idle periods, and between the dish and router, power consumption was never below 94W. Average around 104W, peaks at 124W.

Motors weren't being used during my measurement period either.

The dish gets pretty warm in operation (it was already a warm spring day, so it wasn't trying to de-ice or anything).
Why would an unprivileged user be permitted to provide BPF programs?
My problem here is is when the donations aren't for the game hosted by google, but for the author in general. Imagine the game being only one small portion of their business that might include videos and merchandise. Should google be allowed a cut of all that revenue as well.
A tad ...
Lol ur such a dick
Watch Online the Walking Dead (2010) HD Free on Putlocker TV
Reminds me of an HN comment I once read claiming something along the lines of how software engineers were in general smarter than other engineering disciplines.
Row 6 column 2?
> Currently, both Android and iOS severely restrict background app running,

I love that as a user. Android used to not do that, and apps in background would just kill the battery in a few hours.
Great ruling. These professionals plaintiffs can pound sand as far as I’m concerned. It’s like this Yaniv character who goes around dressed like a woman to find someone unwilling to wax his balls.
The CEO just mentioned first version of the dish cost $3000 to manufacture, and it's currently down to $1500. Major goal is to reduce manufacturing cost, since they're selling the thing for $500 and taking a loss right now.
They're not dictating your business model. They're dictating the rules of distributing on their platform, which they built.
Python is not a scripting language?
In normal political times, I think your example with disprove my premise, but here you have the SPLC lumping in the anti-maskers with nazis, murders and racists in their Year of Hate and Extremism.

https://www.splcenter.org/news/2021/02/01/year-hate-2020

Upon reflection, I think there’s two problems here: The left labeling everything they don’t like as being Nazi, and the right who is unable to police their own members from real jerks.

Here’s an example - when the Tea Party first started I sws a mildly-right group of people that had all sorts of people: Asians tired of taxes, pro-2nd amendment Blacks and quite a free people who were liberal but were tired of government waste. Even granola types who thought that the government was too big and too federal and thought that policy decisions should be more local.

Then the crazies showed up and within a month it became a group that I didn’t want to be associated with - we didn’t have the guts to tell them to leave and that was our fault.

I don’t like telling that story, because based on the evidence, their was barely any time at all when the Tea Party wasn’t nuts.
Let's build a stable stable coin
What if the payment is for something other than just the game or app? What if the app is part of a broader ecosystem that includes videos and merchandise (for example)?
Alexander Hamilton lays out some discussion of this in Federalist 83 [1]

> The friends and adversaries of the plan of the convention, if they agree in nothing else, concur at least in the value they set upon the trial by jury; or if there is any difference between them it consists in this: the former regard it as a valuable safeguard to liberty; the latter represent it as the very palladium of free government. For my own part, the more the operation of the institution has fallen under my observation, the more reason I have discovered for holding it in high estimation; and it would be altogether superfluous to examine to what extent it deserves to be esteemed useful or essential in a representative republic, or how much more merit it may be entitled to, as a defense against the oppressions of an hereditary monarch, than as a barrier to the tyranny of popular magistrates in a popular government. Discussions of this kind would be more curious than beneficial, as all are satisfied of the utility of the institution, and of its friendly aspect to liberty. But I must acknowledge that I cannot readily discern the inseparable connection between the existence of liberty, and the trial by jury in civil cases. Arbitrary impeachments, arbitrary methods of prosecuting pretended offenses, and arbitrary punishments upon arbitrary convictions, have ever appeared to me to be the great engines of judicial despotism; and these have all relation to criminal proceedings. The trial by jury in criminal cases, aided by the habeas-corpus act, seems therefore to be alone concerned in the question. And both of these are provided for, in the most ample manner, in the plan of the convention.

[1] https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed83.asp

In case you're not American or familiar with American history/government, the Federalist Papers were written following the Constitutional Convention by Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison to argue for its ratification and address much of the reasoning and arguments for/against the structure of our government (including the judiciary) as laid out in the Constitution.
You're using their service. You are absolutely free to provide your app on F-Droid or your own store and ask for donations all day long. But you're still hosting your app on their service and use their infrastructure for publishing.

I agree that some regulation is necessary, especially since these are near monopolies, but at least on Android you're still using expensive infrastructure Google provides to you and your users for free. I don't think its unfair for them to demand to not make money using what they provide for free.
This is a messy situation. On one hand, I totally get that the internet is a massively important portion of most people's lives, and people that need special accomodations should be able to participate. On the other hand, accessibility still doesn't seem to be easy to implement. I don't work on the frontend, so I could be wrong, but last I looked, it seemed heavily manual and somewhat hard to integrate. It will be expensive to implement, at least until someone makes a better abstraction.

I suspect the Domino's ruling will be the winning one, but I don't know where that line gets drawn. Does my blog have to support accessibility? I don't sell anything, but it is public. Is the neighborhood softball league going to have to implement it? Commercial entities will probably have to comply, but I'm curious what the impact on the rest of the landscape will be.
Isn't "space copter" a bit of a misnomer? Isn't a copter a device with whirring blades tilted just so to cause thrust through a fluid medium (to wit, a propeller)? And isn't space defined often as that place where there is no such fluid like medium? So wouldn't it make more sense for it to be called a "Mars Copter"?
In these cases wouldn't it have been to work on it slowly as a "side project" outside of the team normal priorities? I always tell my team if they can fit it in and not hinder the current sprint by all means go ahead and do it on the side.

I know this goes against the normal and people want to attach "right now " value (hours it took reflected on check) but going beyond the call can also give you leverage when your yearly review comes up for example.
> [edit] In my original post I should probably have written “is to frame a lot of what people call intelligence as” ...

Ok then i understand better what you mean.

Actually there's a word for that type of intelligence:

Crystallized intelligence.

And I had another type of intelligence in mind:

Fluid intelligence.

I think we spoke past each other (or I spoke past you) thinking about different things.

Anyway, one of those, one can improve eg by reading, getting life experience. But the other one, is fixed (from what I've read) once one is grown up.

If you want to, you could websearch for those words. And also, wikipedia has a section about intelligence and inheritance (hint: life is unfair).

> I have seen writings on how a stimulating environment is important, and on how encouraging engagement can be effective (for example asking questions of children and allowing them to answer, vs answering for them).

That sounds great :-)

From what I've read, those things do work (!), when one is a kid / young. And from what I've read, it also prevents the brain from deteriorating, when one is old (using one's brain reduces the risk for dementia).

(Thanks for the reply)
This is a really clean explanation, thank you! Is the O(1/d^2) decrease in bitrate due to the inverse square law for radiation intensity?
Valve accused of ignoring existing RCE vulnerability in Source games for 2 years
Well, nobody uses these sites but they try to get a larger user base, probably in the hope of later monetization. You can't blame them for that, maybe one of them someday becomes popular.
Right, but with that analogy, you have his store predicated on a cheaper lease from the landlord because he said he wouldn't be making any money off his items.

But now he is accepting donations for the items people are taking "for free", and is therefore in breach of the lease agreement he signed with his landlord.
Because the store owner & seller agreed to the former and not the latter. It’s the agreement they already made. If they want to change the agreement, probably both parties have to agree to the changes.
Great, now it's going to be impossible to get a vintage Game Boy on ebay for under $10,000, not to mention making AA batteries impossible to find at retail.
I agree with you, Lisp is "the" language to meet. But I think that one can go a little beyond ... I would say before, towards its foundations. Lisp is a child of the lambda-calculus, Lisp focuses on lists (cons, car, cdr, ...) but IMHO I think that there are other choices, different ways which can be followed with some interesting results.

I would like to know what you can think of this one, the lambdaway project (http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdaspeech/),
easy to install and use in any web browser.

Alain Marty
I’m sorry, I don’t see the difference here between them and say, Walmart? The latter is well known for dictating exactly what products and even at which price point is allowed inside their stores. Companies often have to create entirely new versions of their product in order to be sold there.