skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a related note, there is an episode of Connections that ties the width of the early railcar's wheelbase to pretty much all subsequent forms of transportation, ending with modern space exploration capability. Pretty awesome to observe the actual reach of decisions made long ago.
Exactly. Same with housing. They are not more valuable, the dollar is less valuable relative to them and likely will only get worse as equities and real estate are the good hedges against inflation, causing a positive feedback loop.

Higher interest rates would create an incentive for traditional savings, but would destroy companies (and gov) holding big debts.
That fact is key to the advantage that the iPhone ecosystem offers. I, and millions of users like me, like the closed garden.

I’m effectively outsourcing the duties implied by caveat emptor to Apple. I don’t have the time/inclination to check the safety & honesty of each app developer.
Isn’t leveraging the market share with the iPhone/iPad for a lot of other things (Arcade, AirTag, ApplePencil, …) in the same category?
The malware on Android is mostly FUD. But if the OS would be competent enough then this would not be a problem.

OSX is not locked and there are not millions of daily victims, so maybe it is not impossible to have low malware problems and freedom.
> How is any business entitled to free or low-fee access to a platform that Apple built and maintain?

Since smartphones became essential to a functioning modern economy.

And it's not about prices, Apple is free to setup any price they want but they should have a choice to publish their app on their website without Apple if they want to.
its not really meant for that, but there wouldn't be anything to stop someone from creating the hardware emulation, as far as I know. Still, purpose-built console emulator software is sure to be far better for the task.
Look at LXC/LXD you get both VMs and containers with the same CLI.
EU charges Apple with antitrust abuse
Probably AV1 codec support https://9to5google.com/2021/01/27/youtube-av1-netflix-requir...
The introduction is a much better description:

> In a nutshell, what you are reading is intended to be a shop class for computer science. Young computer science students are taught to "drive" the computer; but where do you go to learn what is under the hood?

And “Shop Class For Computer Scientists” or “Systems Engineering From The Bottom Up” would have been better titles. It’s simply misleading to suggest a course comprehensively covers “computer science” without covering algorithms or complexity, among many other things.
List of things Xerox majorly screwed up; not selling the PC, the mouse, the PDF. What else did those Woody headed executives let slip through their fingers?
Doesn't AdBlock Plus sell whitelisting for ads?
property inheritance seems like it is also a natural phenomenon. For example animals can "inherit" territory.

https://ideas.ted.com/humans-arent-the-only-ones-that-help-o...
Yeah people in python are used to doing `python script.py` all the time, and that's not very convenient in julia.

sysimages are great, as is daemonmode. But really just do Revise at the REPL.
Penicillin says hello
Check out cloud nine. Full sized, split mechanical, and looks near identical to the Microsoft Ergo 4000. I typed full speed immediately. Still pricey, but feels like a tool to me.
'Skypecasts' take blogging to a conversational level (2006)
Sort of, not suremif it's changed but you used to be able to do this with the developer options and load a single channel with it. You'd have to unload the old one to load a new onw though.
Concurrency in modern programming languages: Java
Please don’t ask me questions that make me think!
Apple has blacklisted apps for allowing that. They're a bit selective in enforcing that rule, but that doesn't make the situation better.
Why build a platform then?
Apple didn't invent music players, nor appstores, nor smartphones, nor digital music or music streaming. The entire argument is a red herring.

But even if we take this absurd argument at face value, it's still wrong: third party applications add value to iPhone and make them worth bying. If you could not install games, bank app, etc. On an iphone, iPhones would be useless and noone would buy them in the face of competition. The whole reason Windoes Phone died is that there were no apps. iPhone would simply follow
Wait, it isn't already? That's absolutely wild to me. It's probably just my biases talking, but I've never had a single employer or client who used anything by IBM, but nearly everyone uses AWS for something.

It's those megacorp whales, isn't it?
> In effect the EU penalizes the creation of market places

Nope. EU only forces you to compete in the marketplace on the same terms regardless of who owns the marketplace or the product.
Nice of those companies that offered you the option, though I expect that they track you if you are from US with all those 100+ partners and not even inform you.
Have the “industry” given up on the idea that a proof of space cc could use its disk space for something useful? Like what Filecoin promised.
Either that, or these are (bitcoin?) millionaires to whom this is pocket change and might as be a good investment as any crypto nowadays.
Stocks market returns only represent the return of the companies that are listed on stock exchange. If the economy stagnates overall but the small (unlisted) companies suffer while the big (listed) ones boom, then the stock market returns increase in a stagnating economy but it makes sense.

The problem here would be the belief that stock market is a mirror of the main economy. Personally, I believe the stock market represents very well the interest of the richest capitalists.
How to Prevent Talent Shortage in European Tech Startups?
I'll do that when US people stop using America and Americans to describe themselves.
The GoF should have added a part 2, "Prefer thinking over mindlessly repeating slogans without context or nuance"
Wow, totally forgot HOWTOs existed. I'm betting a lot of us here learned Linux via HOWTOs more than any other resource.
Just that there seems to be an expectation of using Rstudio when using things in R that seem generic.

One pain point is that Rmarkdown uses a different pandoc installation when executed by Rstudio than from the terminal.
The author falls for the "past equals future" fallacy.

The only way to truly take the randomness
out of the stock market is to have a
multi-decade time horizon.

He says so after looking at the data of a few decades. That makes no sense. It is like looking at 3 people and saying "People come in groups no larger than 3".

The whole article is based on that premise. He has something like 90 data points and assumes the next 90 data points will be alike.

Is it possible the next 10 years will have a negative return? This is a very interesting question. But I doubt we can answer it by looking at historical returns. We need to look at the actual situation. What would have to happen in the world so we see negative returns? War? A natural desaster? Who says war and natural desasters cannot throw us back 100 years? 1000? 10000?
The "free market" once again producing a terrible outcome for everyone except shareholders.
we're all contextually geniuses or dysfunctional - I think the thing the writer is advocating for is trying to find the right context based on an attempt at an accurate assessment of the person, and how you might go about assessing people.
Stack Abuse: Guide to Using the Django MongoDB Engine with Python
I'm not sure that's relevant is it?
Lambda School lays off 65 employees amid restructuring
Not sure I'd like to be on board the ship that finds itself sailing through the area where 1800 box shaped fish are heading towards land.
If only Samsung and Sony were making these TVs, and they both had these platforms, I'm screwed anyway, am I not?
> it wouldn't make a difference in the end

Yes it would.
Insights from a Serial Maker and Nomad
Most Android devices--and certainly all the good ones--are almost as locked down as iOS: Android has a bit more extensibility points, and sideloading has fewer restrictions, but it isn't like an Android device is some open "run anything you want" playing field (hell: the original Android G1 needed a jailbreak!!); and, really, if you analyze that market carefully, Samsung pretty much owns it with like 95% of the profit made across all vendors (and they have extra locked down devices).
So Apple is providing these businesses with a platform that has captured hundreds of millions of high-income users. That’s incredibly valuable
Because copyrights are boring and don't bring free publicity.
I frequently hear people malign inheritance, and while it can obfuscate code in some circumstances, it can also produce code that is easily and clearly extendable. For example, a class with a static method that uses class properties to control behavior is cleaner than a function factory that takes a config object. Interface inheritance is also quite useful.
Only 39% of the functions in node_modules are unique in the Angular project
Digital data (IE an image) is fungible; it can be copied at near zero cost.

NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) use the blockchain to “claim” ownership by being a single non-replicatable representation of that digital data.

In reality, it’s value is entirely dependent on people believing NFTs have value & that there’s only one blockchain in which they should exist.
Southpaw/"left-handed"
Hmmm... ok. The antidote I shared is when I was hanging out with the mortgage folks. I assumed it was applied to the credit card division. It is surely possible, and an acceptable solution.
Surely you realise your language implies intent.

Not wanting to spill their blood, not wanting to enter a conflict which (at the time) seemed only to aid old, dying empires (eg France, UK), means the goal in not entering the conflict, was all about profit?

What a twisted viewpoint.

Meanwhile, if the US does enter a conflict, the goal is always claimed by some, to be exploitation.

Thus, whatever the US does, the goal is selfish, evil, cruel? Sure, that sound reasonable, fair.

I cannot find an easy source for the history lesson I learned in school. Take it or leave it as it stands.
Except measuring the value of money as something other than the ability to provide consumption (the ability to buy things you consume, rather than investments) doesn't make sense, regardless of how fashionable it is on this site to throw around the term "asset inflation".
You're in effect saying "no, EU didn't sue iPhone because it added an App Store to iPhone, it sued iPhone because it was successful".

Is that better? Become successful, get sued? Android has 87% market share, iOS has 13%. That's not even a monopoly.

Of course we can define arbitrary categories like "Apple has monopoly on the iOS market". Which makes the concept of monopoly absolutely nonsensical, because then everyone has a monopoly. I have a monopoly on the slver username on HN, so I guess EU might sue me any moment now.

Also, let's recall EU suing Microsoft and forcing them to offer Windows without a media player. So what did this result in? It resulted in lots of nephews children and grandchildren having to visit their relatives and help them install Windows Media Player. I'm from EU and I want to like all their decisions, I'm team EU. But they're complete idiots sometimes when dealing with tech.
This would be correct only in a actual free market, now you have 2 players that split the market equally and are smart enough to know how to win in the prisoner dilemma game.
Given that the product is vegan, either plants or fungi. Beyond that, I have no idea how you'd know. In the US, the Food and Drug Administration defines it thusly:

The term natural flavor or natural flavoring means the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional.

(https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfr...)
I was a math major (in the US) so I don’t recall exactly, but I think my university offered both BA and BS degrees in computer science, where the BA focused more algorithms and complexity (overlap with math majors) while the BS focused on operating systems and hardware (overlap with electrical engineering majors). For postgraduates there is an academic MS in computer science versus a more practical MEng in software/computer engineering.

I think this is a good system - and also indicates that we are speaking somewhat past each other on what a “computer science” education looks like.
I can't help but feel this will hurt Roku a lot more than google. the average consumer just wants youtube. They have zero interest in being caught in the middle of a turf war. If i had a Roku tv, i would just be angry at Roku, Google not so much, since nothing's wrong with Youtube itself. Obviously, google knows that and that's why they can act like bullies.

Also,if had a Roku tv, i would try and jailbreak my roku, or otherwise download an unofficial youtube app.
The tldp was especially useful for me when i was in university.
But this is an excellent accounting methodology then: Each sub-business should run as a separate business.

It picks my interest: Companies internally run as communist economies, all resources are merged and shared, employees are not individually associated with a revenue because the group is worth more than its sum, on the outer, liberal economy. At what size / on which criteria should a group inside a company be considered an independent product-and-loss entity, in order to avoid supercorporations to make use of monopolistic behaviors? Should a 100-billion-dollars marketing operation inside Apple be allowed to function at a loss if it pumps interest in all of Apple’s other products? Can Apple Music be disguised as a marketing operation instead of as an independent entity?
Good for her. This could be a way for "meme stars" - who mostly got nothing out of their popularity besides anxiety, some weird talk show invites or webshop mug sales - to properly cash in on their immense cultural impact. Regardless of the value the buyer gets.
If you have a heavy financial interest in meme NFTs or even just NFTs generally then all this publicity could easily be worth $500k. It’s not quite pump and dump, but it’s at least a cousin.
I'm going to guess that the majority of significant hardware and software products depend on some degree of collaboration/cooperation between companies that are also competitive to at least some degree. (Coopetition is the term.)
"millions of users like me, like the closed garden."

Alcapone was popular, but he was still a criminal and a murderer
> It is discrimination for me to offer different rates to Seniors than non seniors. It is discrimination for me to offer different TYPES (think: low APR with annual fee) of credit cards to poor people.

Accounts are often free to young people(<26)in Belgium, as well as in other European countries. Is that not discrimination?
Also see Pushover
https://pushover.net/
Good faith means that they want to find an answer satisfactory to both parties, rather than pretending to negotiate while looking around for a weapon.
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YouTube TV (streaming cable) is not YouTube
I really hate this, too. iOS Firefox is the only browser that has auto-complete on URLs that I find usable, but it's an unstable piece of shit.
More like the value of the dollar has roughly halved due to record money-printing and this is reflected in capital assets firsts.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?width=880&he...

MMT apologists are the modern day petit bourgeois. Trust the experts!
FOSS Foundations: Commonalities, Deficiencies, and Recommendations [pdf]
> this is landfill in the making

More so than a membrane keyboard after 10 years? I would say the opposite, mechanical keyboards are easier to fix, and have resale value. I just bought a second-hand Ergodox as my first mechanical keyboard, it cost a bit more than my previous membrane one, but looks sturdier, and easier to fix with removable switches and keycaps.

> Absolute load of w**, designed to suck dollars out of nerds.

As a nerd, a scientist and an Engineer, I appreciate having options. Not a single device will fit everyone, and I would likely disagree with you on what is the best keyboard. And I spend a lot of time typing, so I find it important enough.

As someone quite new to all of this, I appreciate comprehensive guides being written on the topic.
I've never used it but here are some docs

https://developer.roku.com/docs/developer-program/getting-st...
I use a PlayStation 4. It has client apps for all the things I want to use. And if you’re a little savvy, it can also be used for watching DRM free content (e.g. streaming from a media server, watching from an inserted USB drive, etc.). It's the laziest option to get most of what I want.
It's not very easy to explain like you're five (it's like he says, to understand this requries more "up-front investment").

Maybe look in Kegan's wikipedia to have a better overview of what they mean by self-authoring mind (stage four in the big table)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kegan#The_Evolving_Self
Thats a violation of freemarket
How big should your connection pool be?
100% percent of the reason I didn't go work 'for' Microsoft was that I'd be a temp-to-possibly-hire contractor. And from the former contractors I'd talked to (one recommended by the recruiter!), it was clear contractors were treated like second-class citizens by Microsoft. From what I was told, contractors couldn't participate in networking events or even get free food employees got because Microsoft was sued for misclassifying workers.

So instead of reforming their business model they just switched to a model where they made clear contractors were contractors--by treating them like trash. Fuck that.
To be fair, accidents do happen. Nuclear reactors take things pretty seriously but they get breached / melt down occasionally too.
I’ll add that whilst I’ve provided a somewhat technical definition, as to the logical reason someone would pay that amount of money: no idea whatsoever.

I guess they’re hoping that these things retain and even increase in value. At some point in history we decided that ink on canvas could be immensely valuable based on scarcity (arguable also they’re nice to look at, unlike an NFT), and I’m guessing they hope the same for NFTs. I guess memes are highly recognizable works of art to some?
I mean yes, past performance doesn't guarantee future results. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively at it, when you have a phenomenon that's gone unchallenged for probably a hundred years now. It isn't guaranteed. But nobody's lost their shirt betting it'll continue yet.

People always bring up Japan in these discussions, of course. The Nikkei 225 peaked on 29 December 1989, still only at half that value over 30 years later.
Yes, considering apple have been in the music business longer than App Stores have even existed.
I’d hate to be the guy that loses one of these things.
I think you're projecting a lot of loaded meaning onto the claim, in the presence of interpretations that don't require making such broad assumptions.

Parent commenter could easily have meant that corruption when it comes from local entities is something that the public doesn't have good antibodies for, because of the classic "diffuse costs, concentrated benefits" problem. By contrast, putting an issue under the umbrella of "big tech" unites a lot of people under the same vague banner, as people are mad at big <industry> for any number of reasons, especially an industry as far-reaching as tech. This incentivizes politicians to care about an issue that their pocketbooks would otherwise prefer to ignore. (Note that this analysis is neutral wrt the actual goodness of policy, but that's just a basic feature of democracy)

It's pretty simplistic to interpret comments only through the lens of "big tech good? No, big tech bad" when a narrower point is being made.

>There was some negative attention to taxis before Uber even existed, but because the problem was on a much smaller scale not much attention was paid to it.

This lines up pretty cleanly
They wouldn't have any incentive not to
You just casually put me in a box labelled "fake-vegans" and as far as I can tell I never made any sexist comment, yet your comment reads like I have. Quite bold to start your comment by saying you don't make any assumptions about my state of mind.

In any case, I didn't even state that you were worked up, I honestly wanted to know if the semantics was your only beef (lol). However, I can see how that may have come across as provocative and for that I apologize.

Nonetheless, I stand by what I said and I think you are indeed worked up. Hell, I'm worked up after this nonsensical back and forth. That's my assumption based on the amount of various emotions you put into your comments.
> This stack was created out of frustration due to the fact that to this day there's no easy way to have a full email server without the overhead of installing and configuring all servers needed to handle incoming and outgoing messages.

Looking at diagram, I'm not sure Postfix + Cyrus is more complicated than what you've got here.

Congrats though, I'm sure this will help a lot of people wanting to manage mail themselves. Just not sure how you're going to get mail accepted by others from constantly changing (and possibly blacklisted) Amazon IPs without using trusted smart hosts.
Facebook was funded by CIA in-q-tel
Tarot for Hackers (2019)
> That can happen when there’s incorrect weightings on the bills of lading for containers, which many in the industry say happens too often.

32 years since the San Bernardino train disaster[1] and we still can't get an accurate weight or at least assume the containers are carrying their maximum allowable weight.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bernardino_train_disaster
John Doe 29: Image from FBI Child Exploitation Case Geolocated to Turkey
It's just one guy trying to pump prices:

https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1387956657171271681

As always, if it's related to cryptocurrency, the answer to the question "why" is "because it's a scam". Always.
I believe that may be Textual, the source is available on GitHub but it'll cost you on the AppStore.
Plus I doubt anybody will get in trouble for having a lunchtime video chat with a coworker and talking politics.
You can side load apps but I don’t think anyone is going to put in the work to keep a YouTube TV app up-to-date for Roku once breaking API changes happen.
It's basically the bastard child of cryptocurrency and modern art.

Technical hype + cultural hype + FOMO = $$$$$
This has been corrected to say:

> What's next: Roku says it remains committed to reaching a good-faith agreement with Google

which makes a lot more sense in context.
Is it fair to call Apple's platform rent-seeking? I think a 30% cut is certainly far too much but I wouldn't call it rent-seeking. The platform itself provides a lot of value and they are entitled to charge something for it.
My Infrastructure as of 2020
Yes, I agree - you had much fewer pre-existing ideas to guide you, and really good new ideas were coming out all the time and you could pick between them - you could do all kinds of innovative things and they would really be novel.

Although today we have a much better grasp on formal semantics, which makes it easier to make up new ideas. But those new ideas aren't likely to ever displace the old ideas popularly, and it's hard to come up with them in the first place since old ideas live in your head...
No, he got it right the first time, it's a scam.