skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of those affected, as well as many officials and experts, believed they were attacked by a foreign power with some form of microwave energy device. But they fought an uphill struggle, before the National Academy of Sciences study in December, convincing their employers that their brain injuries were the result of an attack while they were on assignment.

Has this study been publicly released? What were the injuries precisely?
As a EU citizen I think UK lost on all fronts - food industry, financial sector, manufacturing, trade, foreign policy, and others. The losses in some of those fields are already visible, in others not yet.
The TF2 source code is just a tin can wrapped in duct tape
Regardless of whether the flag was applied deliberately by an employee, or by an automated process, it's still showing up as 'Apple recommended' on their official support forum: any way you slice it, Apple is recommending exactly that.
Because they're all trying to build platforms, probably
If I was Tim Apple, probably allow third party payment providers (from a list of Apple-approved providers that have to handle disputes, unsubs etc in an approved way). And then charge a per-download fee to apps which offer in-app subscriptions without using Apple's payment option.
But a normal lock you can open any time you want when you realize that you have made a mistake. This is a notable difference in a lot of circumstances because humans often make poor decisions, so the ability to correct them is important.
From what I've read, the UK fishing industry was outside UK waters, to export fish to the EU. Talk about own-goal.
Not only that, but them having the bulk of their staff in China.
Next level trolling?
>What's the alternative? How is any business entitled to free or low-fee access to a platform that Apple built and maintain?

Maybe look at OSX ? Why can Apple be happy with OK with one but not the other? If you want to imply that phones are not computers then tablets are not phones and more like computers, so we all know that if it OSX was created today would be locked.
Let’s not act like this is some “principles” based discussion. The only reason for the EU getting into this is that spotify is european and Apple isn’t
How do convolutional neural network works?
HN when government does something they like about tech: This was a no-brainer.

HN when government does something they dislike about tech: Tech is too complex for government to understand.
What NI concessions are those? AFAICT Britain conceded nothing that it wasn't already required to do by the Good Friday agreement.

BTW, I don't agree about those checks. Skipping those would not be doable for the EU. Dozens of countries have MFN treaties with the EU. If the EU were to offer Britain anything that those countries aren't offered (such as not checking imports/exports) then all of those trade treaties would need to be renegotiated, because those countries would no longer be most favoured.

IIRC some sixty countries' parliaments would have to vote on the resulting treaty changes. That's too much to be doable.
C++ templates cannot be implemented purely by text replacement as most of it is type driven.

It is true that you can do anything that templates do by hand, but that's true for any language construct (at the limit you could write asm).
Neither part has anywhere near monopoly power in respective markets: AWS ~32% of cloud, Amazon has ~37% of ecommerce. There's an incredible amount of other options for everything Amazon does.
For a maritime island nation the British are surprisingly unadventurous about seafood. Most British fish and seafood is exported to the EU, specially France, and most British seafood consumption is a limited variety of fish species, mostly cod, pollock, salmon, and mostly imported.
Heh. Have we all been trained to expect increasingly medium-style lifestyle content on HN ? This title was a nice Rorschach test.
There are laws that were created before the iPhone existed, like laws that were applied in US too in Microsoft case.
Covid-19 tissue atlases reveal SARS-CoV-2 pathology and cellular targets
For me they show up like that as well. But I still find that the format gives a weird stuttering to the conversation and adds so much "chrome" noise around the actual content.

In general I don't click twitter links on HN because I find the format painful for anything but short content. However I do make an exception for Foone as they have a lot of interesting stuff.
> before that we had a cycle of using programming languages

When was that?
Slightly more hidden anti competitive behavior is still that.
It's 30% for the first year of subscriptions and 15% thereafter.

According to Apple in 2019 Spotify didn't actually pay 30% on any of it's subscriptions at that time, and only paid the 15% on 0.5% of the App's users. The rest are ad supported and Apple gets 0% of the ad revenue.

So for every Spotify app user Apple get's a 15% fee for, there are 199 Spotify app users Apple is distributing the App to for which they get nothing.

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-fires-back-spotify-pays-fees...

OK, that's the fact side of things. As for opinion, I think it's ridiculous that App vendors can't point out alternative payment options in their apps. That's a step too far. I'm also a bit concerned about digital sales, I can see why Epic doesn't want to pay 30% on every skin or loot box sold in Fortnite, but it's a free app otherwise distributed on the App Store for nothing so I think some sort of deal needs to be struck there.

Other than that, I think the iPhone is Apple's product. They get to decide how it works, and users get to decide whether that's acceptable or not. Apple (and NeXT) spent billions of dollars over many decades, taking huge commercial risks to build that platform. A decade ago we were constantly being told they were inevitably doomed and open always wins. Well no, some of us like the way Apple does things and don't want it to massively change. Some things sure, they're not perfect, but I do not support changes that would severely undermine the integrity of their product. You can always buy an Android phone.
The problem is not the rules themselves.

The rules applies to Spotify, but not to Apple music.
Apple should make Apple music a separate entity, and make it pay 30%.
I am wondering, why it's talking about the absolute number of 3000 containers, but not mentioning if or how the shipping logistics evolved in that time.
It could as well be, that shipping simply increased over years, could it not?

edit: According to https://stats.unctad.org/handbook/MaritimeTransport/Indicato... container shipments increased steadily over years.
Nonsense is disagreeing, not calling names.
It’s hardly abuse if Apple was the first to invent an iPod and iTunes and the online music business and then evolved their own products around their own offerings. They decided to let others into their own platform to enrich it, not to crush them. Spotify entered knowing that Apple already had a competing product. Why did they enter and start competing if they thought it was an unfair competition from the start? I find it hard to believe given the history of events. If it was in any way different then perhaps I could understand but to me it feels that Spotify just decided that now is the time to look for avenues to increase their profits and see the AppStore as the first opportunity to attack after never having had a problem before. Only a fool would start a business in a platform which tries to crush them so clearly that was never the case.

EDIT (cannot reply):

So if Apple would basically not have an AppStore for third parties and only distribute their own apps then it would be fair.

If Apple was to not allow other Music apps on their AppStore then it would be fair.

But when Apple allows others to distribute a competing product to Apple on Apple’s own platform for a fee then it is considered unfair?

I honestly don’t understand this logic.
Source for those like me who had not heard this explanation [0]. To my uneducated ears it sounds very plausible.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/19/havana-syndrom...
Letter from the Gulf: A growing appetite for tech investments (The AI Journal)
Do you mind asking me what kind of cloud you are storing?

I've tried deploying a Nextcloud instance via Docker-Compose to a Free Tier EC2 on AWS and found the CPU to spike randomly to 100% and require a machine restart to free up.

I'm a noob at docker, so it might be a configuration issue on my part, but it's pretty bare and I can't figure out if it's a docker thing or a machine performance thing.

If it's a machine performance thing, I'd be willing to pay to scale up, but I was wondering if I could have your thoughts on this. Thank you.
The other half was that if anything proved controversial at home, blame the EU for it. This method of getting controversial regulations through was known as "policy laundering".
tech, maybe.

monopolies, though... governments understand that part very, very well.
The Norwegian fishing industry has commented a bit on the failed talks.
It seems the UK negotiators wanted to modify the long running agreement on joint zone access.

Some quotes:
"Unfriendly action from the British"

"Norway's entry into the negotiations has been the maintenance of the traditional and historical fishing patterns Norwegian fishermen have had in British waters.

- The British have responded with a number of demands and conditions that are not in line with this, and which it was impossible for Norway to accept. "

"- The lack of concessions on zone access came as a bit of a surprise to us"

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
More precisely the British were allowed to take point on a number of laissez-faire positions when it was politically or diplomatically awkward for others like the Dutch or Germans to do so. Playing bad cop, essentially.
Is not all of HN, and people from outside US are not that anti-regulation, anti-socialism like US citizens.

But this is EU rule, so if you are from US it won't apply to you anyway.
> same old keycaps vendors that have months if not years of intentionally delayed orders

Got any source on this? I don't disagree with the rest of your claims, but this sounds completely wrong; for example GMK is actively expanding their production capacity and already offers a selection of keycap sets without shipping delays.

Orders are delayed because the "same old" manufacturers are flooded with an ever-increasing demand for customized low-quantity productions, each of which introduce an overhead. And the appearance of new, cheaper manufacturers only seemed to make the demand explode even more.
It's not just remote deployments where it matters.

There is no deployment scenario that is not heavily dependant on logistics. This is more true in protracted land deployments of troops across large distances, not less so. No matter the strategy, logistics must match it or success is significantly more difficult.

Take Napoleon w/ Russia, where Napoleon's ambition out ran his logistics. His strategy and tactics had yielded results until then, and despite a large effort to supply his troops, he was woefully under prepared and in the end it was his logistics that failed him: Russia's retreating scorched-earth strategy meant Russia was retreating into friendly territory with resupply, the French were extending into a no man's land. The Napoleonic forces originally outnumbered Russian forces about 2.5 to 1, but forced marches through barren terrain and cities left stripped of resources, ahead of their supply lines and the limited supply buffer they'd planned, resulted in failure. 200,000 troops, about 1/3 of his total, died from starvation or froze to death, far more than actually died in battle. Napoleon won
or fought the Russians to a standstill in pretty much all battles, yet lost the war for lack of supply and other planning for the rigors of campaigning in that area of the world.

A few thousand years of military history offer plenty of examples of what happens when a force fails to consolidate gains and outruns or otherwise has inadequate supply lines. This is has not changed from ancient times through to modern warfare.
I think a big reason why BCG and McK and others are hired is so management can reduce responsibility by saying "but those experts recommended it". It's a charade, so much in business (and life?) is..
Apple has no incentive to make PWA or web apps work natively since they don't get their 30% cut on that.

Steve jobs made it abundantly clear when he blocked Flash on iOS citing battery and security reasons and every developer including myself hailed it as the best thing that could to the internet then; never figuring out the insidiousness of such changes and how it was a priority for Apple to cripple the web browser and keep it crippled to make their App store flourish and get more % cut on apps. They have made billions of dollars doing that and Steve jobs was truly a visionary in this regard.
Of course Apple's music business was a whole separate legal minefield for decades

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
I personally don’t get it.

iOS is a choice. Android is a choice. Neither is a choice. Back in the day, we had Palm, Blackberry, Windows Mobile among others to choose from.

The decisions made by the respective companies affected adoption and now we’re left with Android and iOS for now.

People compare phone choice to things like electricity and water which makes no sense.

Let’s ignore Apple and Google specifically here. Is the argument that all platforms should accommodate all users and use cases for free? Is the argument that companies should have a gap on profit margins?

Do we really want the government involved in all minutiae? Can’t we just vote with our wallet. The top 1000 app developers could just figure something out and move to a new platform if the money issues are too much no?

I’m happy to have a discussion on this with anyone who replies.
If only the refrain was "EU's territory, EU's rules". No platform can operate in isolation from the laws of the places they wish to trade.
> 1. No, this is limited to the AppStore, those businesses can operate elsewhere.

Defining "elsewhere" is important here.

They cannot operate on the same platform through alternative installation methods or the web (considering how Apple limits PWAs to be dead in the water). They also cannot reach these users through other platforms because of the immense lock in that Apple builds up intentionally. [1]

So they can operate "elsewhere" but they cannot reach those consumers. They are owned by Apple.

Regardless of how you feel about the legalities or how much freedom you think a company should have, that is obviously bad for competition and consumers.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375128/apple-imessage-an...
On latency AWS > GCP, Azure

On throughput GCP > AWS, Azure
I think this would be the best solution.

Apples only (real) reason for forbidding sideloading is because then they could no longer force people to use their payments.

If developers were free to use 3rd party payment solutions, then Apple would probably be a lot more lenient towards side loading apps.

I believe that Apple generally wants to build what's best for their customers, except when money is on the line.
yeah I was able to run Debian's m68k version in QEMU quite successfully with almost no hassle.
Would that copy-paste code ever amount to more than some getter methods, like the get_speed() example you provided? If the speed field had some special behaviour, couldn't you wrap it in its own Speed type, with its own methods, and use that from the enclosing types?
Grafana is pretty good. You can couple it with many things, such as Prometheus (which is not very good but very popular). Munin is old fashioned but nice too.
It would inevitably lead to claims that alternative app stores should be permitted but it solves the present problem and pushes the second issue a good few years into the future (given the speed that these inquiries move at)
Same here in Norway :)
Ah yes why bother. Why didn't AMD just give up when it was down and Intel processors smoked them. Why didn't Intel just give up when AMD processors where better. It's a matter of time until AMD, Intel or a different company smokes Apple silicon. If everyone would just gave up at the drop of a hat it would mean stagnation.
Britain being "historically bad negotiators" is an objectively silly thing to say
I think this is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26956077
At least the cod get a break from the UK. We've been hearing about this lovely idea by the british to go it alone since 2016?

Countries should be thinking less about any potential with the UK and more about how to block any dependencies on new trade with them to be able to step out of this time sink of a drama.
I use ant design. It has some very powerful components which help moving fast.

You can also customize the default colors or border radius if you don't like the default.

I really wish I could use something like tailwind and build out my own components, but for side projects, I don't think the time is worth it.
I use roam myself. Mind sharing the alternative(s) you use and find most useful? Would be interested in learning what roamlikes others prefer and why.
Hourly employees, which get paid by the hour and for overtime, exist. This is the most common employee classification. Hourly full-time employees exist. You can have full-time benefits and be paid by the amount of hours worked -- and this is the second-most-common method of working.
Apple’s App Store Draws E.U. Antitrust Charge
If the outcome of this is that they are rquired to enable app installation from sources that are not just their app store, then Apple will likely have a customer from me.

Think about it, if they are required to support third party app stores, they might as well enable sideloading. Else someone will form an app store where you submit an app just to download it to your phone. Or maybe that testflight feature is made cross platform and more permanent?

They still get their $100 sdk rental fee
I have 2 WASD's (blue and green), a Poker2, an OLD Razer Black Widow, and a few others. I always said that when Unicomp made a tenkeyless version, it would be a day-1 purchase. Two days ago, I just noticed that they started shipping in February. I bought one on the spot.
macOS also has native Docker and native Terminal.app with a Unix tool chain just like Linux. So those two aren't great examples on their own IMO.

I do however agree that it's 100% totally opinion based on ones preferred OS.
Similarly, Collins wrote a memo to the astronaut corps explaining that on the Mercury missions, if someone became incapacitated during EVA, they'd have to cut their life support cable and close the hatch and come home alone.
Do new hires really matter all that much?
> keyboards are a hobby

A hobby as in building and customising keyboards. If I want a mechanical keyboards I'll spend weeks researching various pcbs and kits, looking at keyswitch datasheets and listening to recording of sounds they make, choosing keycaps with perfect font, color and manufacturing process. Don't get me started on keyboard cases...
The cynic in me might almost believe that the current UK government would prefer to fail to get a deal in loud public spectacle with a foreign government that gets them lots of newspaper coverage over quietly coming to a deal that is good for its citizens. But surely no politician would ever be that cynical.
It is actually a pretty smart way to ensure that there is some occupancy in all building blocks (which could reduce crime) and also it brings down the overall rental costs.
A. This market is a duopoly so there is limited opportunity to vote with your wallet.

B. Neither is not really a choice for most people.

C. It is one thing if Apple wants to charge a percentage of revenue to use their app store. But they have made it against the rules to: allow side loading, allow alternative app stores, link to a web payment option in one of their apps, and even to mention that they charge 30% of the revenue for in app purchases. That is clearly anti competitive.
App Store Guidelines [1] wouldn't apply here since this is for web apps opened in Safari. If anything, it'd be language in the Developer License Agreement that might cover this.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
> I'm not sure you should disparage the particular knowledge HN posters might have.

I don't think it is unrealistic of me to assume that only a small portion of HN users have experience as legal professionals.

> Also, the level at what this is discussed requires only rudimentary knowledge of antitrust laws, and the applications. So it's not like "qualified to judge" has a degree in law barrier.

I think it kinda does. I am not an expert on the application of anti-trust law so if I told Epic that they are completely wrong they will rightfully tell me where to shove it because we have people who's entire career path is dealing with the intricacies of law. Some random HNer saying that they are qualified to judge this case strikes me as particularly arrogant.

> The whole problem with antitrust cases however, is that they leverage their position and exclusiveness to do exactly that. So, your point that "it's not a monopoly because you can chose not to pay for it", is what people are pointing out might be missing the point.

Apple doesn't have exclusivity of anything except on the product that they built and wholly own. Said product is not a monopoly either, since even in the market where it enjoys the largest share it is only about 50% [0]. In other words, I cannot fathom how anti-trust law applies since Apple doesn't have much leverage to abuse in the first place. Game consoles have a long history of exclusivity but no one seems to think that is a big deal. I have yet to hear a compelling argument why the iPhone is special.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
Matias makes great replicas.
https://matias.store/products/fk308s
I think the biggest question mark is whether Westminster will allow an independence referendum. I don't think they will no matter what the results in the coming election are. However if they do, recall that questions over whether we'd be admitted to the EU was one of the big issues that tipped the balance in favour of "No" - the fact that this is now a non-issue could be pretty huge coupled with the fact that many feel deceived over the issue.

I honestly think I will see a united Ireland and an independent Scotland within my lifetime.
Opening the hatch was a huge pain. They'd have to disassemble the rather phallic docking mechanism (as Collins described it). Not being able to disassemble it was one of the fears Collins had about Apollo 11.
Is the issue the percentage or skimming off the top? What percentage is acceptable? How did you come up with it?

You might as well say that all percentage based transactions should be illegal.
“Beginners Guide” para 2: 2KRO, 3KRO...

Lemme go Google these terms so I can make it through my beginners guide.
> Should people only vote out of short-term self interest, and to be sneered at if they don't?

All people who voted in their long-term interest voted remain. There is no realistic scenario where a Brexit is better long-term for anyone.

Whether the others deluded themselves into thinking that Brexit is better in the long-term or voted out of their own short-term self interest doesn't matter very much.