skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The judge did seem to be coming back to the anti-steering rule in particular multiple times over the course of testimony. If only one thing changes as a result of her ruling, I feel like it's probably the anti-steering rule going away.

IMO that is probably the worst policy of the bunch. In particular Apple punishing Facebook for trying to disclose the 30% was really vile and unnecessary. For context: Facebook was being required to pay a 30% cut when allowing in-app RSVPs for paid events, even if the events were charity events. In some of these cases, Facebook was not taking anything - so it was 30% Apple, 70% event operator. Facebook tried to add a disclaimer noting that Apple was taking 30%, and Apple blocked the update.

"The feature lets Facebook users buy tickets for online events directly through the app. Apple’s rules say that purchases of digital content have to use the App Store’s payments system, giving Apple 30 percent of the total. Facebook says it asked Apple to waive this fee so that all of the revenue could go to event organizers, but Apple refused. The feature is now available, but without the message about Apple’s 30-percent cut."

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/28/21405140/apple-rejects-fa...
Also, I live in a state (Massachusetts) that has passed two right-to-repair laws via ballot initiative.

Both passed over intense opposition from the auto industry; almost all advertising in the lead up to the vote was in opposition.

But it passed in both cases because... it's common sense. If you buy a product, it's yours and you should be able to do what you want with it, whether that means modifying the hardware or running whatever software you want.
Oh, I see. Perfect!
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That has been the case for most applications since green phosphor displays, just plain CRUD forms.

Works perfectly well for 90% of most businesses.
Real world analogies are crucial to the process of reasoning about economic relationships.

It's also how lawyers argue and judges decide.

Not using them is implausible.
>Apple/Google, who leverage OS API control into a tax on all activity, do nothing and get $1.50.

Except they offer you a channel for distribution, discoverability, promotion, rating and monetization of your app.

On Android you don't have to serve your app over Google Play you can distribute .apk file elsewhere and pay 0% fee but on iOS unfortunately you can not do that.
> Hardware doesn't define C semantics. C defines C semantics.

C does not define C sematics for undefined behaviour; that's what makes it undefined behaviour.

> an uninitialized y is an actual uninitialized register or memory location.

On typical hardware, yes.
I was asking a question. (1) That we define what we mean, so... (2) We can analyze the impact.

Here I'm going to do it again. What does it mean "30% store cut is illegally anti-competetive". What does that even mean? Why isn't Apple allowed to charge a fee for maintaining their own store?

It's just entirely unclear what's the objection here. Is the objection Apple's cut is too big? Is 5% legal? Is 10%? Should it be 0%? How big should it be? What is everyone even saying? Or is everyone just whining about "big bad corporate is bad, punish bad corporate" and not thinking any deeper than this?

Believe it or not, Walmart and all other grocery stores charge 50% for the same service. Even when you order online, actually. Should we sue them for this? If no, why. If yes, why?

And the Walmart example came directly from Epic wanting to open a store inside iOS. You don't agree? Again, where's the definition that contradicts this interpretation.

Define what you say, so it means something. Right now I just see bunch of emotion and absolutely nothing of substance being said.
Especially since the text editor in question is `ed`, which is not exactly a pinnacle of utility. We're really comparing apples to moon rockets here.
In this hypothetical universe, Microsoft runs the only store, decides what you are allowed to sell, and blocks you from selling independently.

In reality you could sell your software by direct mail if you thought it was a better cost structure than a store, or if a store didn’t want to carry your product.
Years ago I heard of experimental elementary/high school classrooms where students were expected to watch lecture videos at home and what would be “homework” would instead be the focus of the whole time in the classroom.

Students were expected to help each other with the material and only go to the teacher if they were collectively stumped.

I can imaging all kinds of bad scenarios were someone tried to switch a disruptive class to this routine overnight. But, with good onboarding and ramp up, that plan sounded like a dream to me!
While I agree that the EGS experience is bad, I don't think this is related to the cut. It's just an immature store backed by questionable software engineering and design. There are other stores with low % cuts that don't have these issues.

Itch is very cheap, for example, and developers love it. Apparently Itch is important enough that Apple and Epic kept bringing it up over and over in court.

I don't know their current %s, but Humble's game sales platform (that is, for non-bundle game sales) definitely charged way less than 30% in the past.
This article talks about a program designed to fix the "root" of crime and homelessness. Instead of arresting people, they'd call social workers. "Success" was measured by how many people were arrested and so the program "succeeded" because they responded to 750 calls but didn't arrest anyone. But is arrest really related to how well a program solves the root of the problem?

It seems like a better measure would be something related to their actual goal. So why didn't they measure rate of property crime? Rate of homelessness? Poverty? Drug addiction? Supposedly these are the real causes of crime and homelessness.

If they did actually measure those things, I think their evaluation of the program would be different [0] [1].

>> "Denver saw significant increases in most types of property crime in 2020. In comparison to the average of the previous four years, burglaries rose 23% in 2020, larceny rose 9%, auto theft rose 61% and theft from cars rose 39%, Denver police data shows." [0]

[0] https://www.denverpost.com/2021/03/15/denver-property-crime-...

[1] https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/05/20/aurora-homeless-campi...
Perfect for taking the boat to the lake on the weekend.

... well, unless you actually back it into the lake on the boat ramp! Hmm..
VB is 30 years old this year and we still need to re-invent for the Web, sadly.

However there is stuff like OutSystems or Oracle Apex.

By the way Xojo does support WebAssembly.
I think this feature is called 'virtual space'. I like it too and would always look for it and turn it on if available in any text editor I used. But it's not as common as it once was.
It may be a matter of consumer perception. A game console is viewed as an appliance for playing games. A phone is a more personal device, and users expect to be able to run any app they want. Generally apps that most people are interested in running have no issue getting published on the App Store, so consumers don’t care about the technicalities of what Apple does and does not allow. This Epic case is a big deal because it is likely the first time many iPhone users are being faced with Apple preventing them from running software that they care about.
Tim is on record as not being a fan of Linux, so I doubt it.
2020 set the record for the largest increase in overdose deaths in history.

Are you implying that had nothing to do with the socioeconomic situation unique to that year?
Having a child is an informed choice; it's by all objective means a hugely unfair deal yet many people are opting into it for emotional (or hormonal) reasons. Not because they want to materially slave for their kids however, but because they love them and/or want to leave a legacy.

You chose to bring a child into this world. They owe you absolutely nothing for it. They'll help you if they feel love and/or obligation for you, just like I will keep supporting my widowed mother until her death.

But this shouldn't be expected by default -- or legally enforced. It should be a choice. We pay enough taxes as it is, surely the politicians can spare some change to care for our elders.
It's more like, if you buy a Ford car, does Taco Bell owe 30% to Ford when you use their drive through?

Or can Ford forbid Taco Bell from operating drive through stores of their own, and require Ford owners to go through Ford's own all purpose drive through stores?
Large organisations almost universally don't understand how to manage tech people. HR get in the way and force bad decisions onto even the good managers.
Novel arguments aren't needed. If the precedents are on your side then it makes sense to repeat bland arguments instead of confusing the issue. I don't necessarily support Apple's business policy here, but strictly from a legal standpoint Fortnite's case has always been a long shot.
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That’s certainly optimistic.

When I think of nature I think of the horrible dilemmas: wolves starving, circling a new mother and her cub.

I think of pestilence, the urgent near insatiable need to find food, stave off predators and yet somehow extol endless energy to mate.
Inconvenient facts that go against the narrative are going to get down voted, [flagged][dead]. Can't have any wrongthink now can we?

The fact that this post will be [flagged] only proves my point.
If you would say that Palestinians don't deserve to live / create a state in Palestine it sure sounds anti Palestinian and maybe even islamophobic to me. In fact many people who deny the right of Palestinian to have their own state use islamophobic arguments.

Saying the same about Jews should be looked at similarly, and yes there is quite an overlap between anti zionism and anti semitism.

Also - Zionism means different things to different people; Bernie Sanders' Zionism (yes, he is a Zionist) isn't the same as Benjamin's Netanyahu.

But simply outright rejecting Jews right to live in ANY borders in that area seems to me quite hard to justify. It may not be racist in and itself but it has big (probably bad) consequences for the jews living there if it's ever realized, and it is an idea that is loved by many people who are anti semitic (either muslims, extreme right or extreme left supporters).
Most people buy pickups currently probably don't really think CO2 emissions are a big deal, but perhaps there's an undiscovered pickup market that Ford's going to tap into; perhaps an urbanite who normally wouldn't consider a pickup but thought the Cybertruck looked interesting.
>Nostalgia for the simplicity of the past ends up having ugly cultural implications. It's easy to say "let's go back to the time when things were simple"; it's a lot harder to say "folks in (e.g.) Israel shouldn't be able to type in their native language".

This is a ridiculous mischaracterization of what Jonathan Blow was talking about.

Here is the full presentation. Very much worth watching in its entirety and thinking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
I was not expecting that "gaming industry subsidizing other industries" argument. Are there any legal precedents around this idea?
How is it different from things like GPT3 which (unless I’m mistaken) is trained on a giant web scrape? I thought they didn’t release the model out of concerns for what people would do with a general prose generator rather than any copyright concerns?
Perhaps something similar to the Xbox’s UWP mode might be nice. The owner can run their own computer program on it, but opts out of Xbox games and services.
With the disclaimer that I'm not an expert: Also, ebola didn't just fizzle out of its own accord, its spread was halted by a concerted, and brave, effort. Medics died fighting that epidemic. I suspect it could have been orders of magnitude more lethal had it been handled less effectively.
That is completely false. Look up "restrict" and there are many other contexts. BTW, "prove" and "assume" are different things. This is an old argument, which in a just world would have been settled by Dennis Ritchie's comments.
Cars&trucks cause a large majority of the pedestrians killed in walking-around-the-city accidents, though. Lumping those deaths in with highway deaths makes the statistic meaningless.
Having access to a language with a turtle is nice, but Python really is not the same thing as Logo.

Logo is a small, simple, and powerful language. It has simple syntax and a small number of concepts, making it easy to learn.

Python is a large, hairy scripting language that is currently an in-vogue way to glue together performant C libraries and get work done. Python can be useful, but I do not think it is nearly as well suited to education as Logo is.
Basically yes - but even now I'd have to admit I have no intuition for why the different "frequency" functions are orthogonal to each other.
Are iOS devices Apple's private property?
Thankfully my village, family, spouse, etc. have nothing to do with my side projects. :)
I do this successfully for work using https://talonvoice.com/ - initial learning curve is steep, but once you learn how to configure and hack on the commands, you can be very effective. I use it maybe half the day to combat lingering RSI symptoms, and with some work I could probably use it for 98% of input for the computer. Some people do use it for 100% afaik
They might work even better for interpreting the intent of spoken text. Not great for dictation though.
> a year where we couldn't even really speed up something as simple as toilet paper production.

The toilet paper was obviously going to be very temporary, the total demand for the year would be unchanged. It also didn't cause significant problems. Very few people will die from lack of toilet paper, so governments aren't going to give out emergency subsidies. That makes it very uneconomical to scale production up.

The power grid being down is an absolute disaster in most highly developed nations that depend on power, so warlike resources would be dedicated to addressing the problem. However, what I often don't see considered: Lead times are months in a country where everything works. If the transformer factory is without power, without a phone to reach the suppliers, and the suppliers are also without power, it could be significantly longer, and that ignores the general collapse of society that would happen without a power grid.
My hope is that people will use Journey for:

* HVAC quotes

* Concierge shopping

* How-to guides

etc etc! Stories can be all sorts of things!
The best result for customers is that there are alternate ways of putting apps on their own phones that do not require apple's permission.

Then the customers that trust apple to protect them will just stay with the app store.

The customers that try the alternate ways may find problems, but they will also find enormous positive changes in their ability to do new things on their phone.

Personally, I would like the ability to see what apps - including apple apps - are doing, and firewall my phone.
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10k to replace a wiring harness on a 350 seems... unreasonable. Even for dealership prices.

That's rip-out-every-wire-in-the-truck labor totals.

What were the symptoms?
On the other hand, all these arguments completely go away for electric cars, so there would be space for smaller e-trucks.
Art becomes life.. in "The Circle" a randomer gets chased down and accidentally killed as a "product demo", and in Westworld series 3, Caleb gets assigned vigilante tasks via the RICO app.
And these days we describe people as being "based" i.e. "freebased" i.e. "engaging in action or thought without regard to the opinion of others (because you're high on rock cocaine)"
I only said it could work, not that it will. I am aware of the many failures in this category. I also wanted to point out that the original premise (nobody would buy an Epic phone because it must be their second phone) is flawed. Not only could it replace their primary phone, but gamers do indeed buy, charge, and carry secondary hand-held devices if the device suits their needs.
The plows are all aftermarket but the trucks are sold as plow-ready or with prep packages.

https://www.balisefordcapecod.com/Snow-Plow-Prep-Package.htm...
Parent does have a point here. His point is not that you can or should compare the two. We know they are different. But the LAW doesn't. How do you define in LEGAL terms how apple and WalMart are different? You can't use the word "ecosystem" like we throw around for apple because it is meaningless in legal terms. So first you need to either find an existing legal term and apply it or you need to make a new one. If you make a new one (because obviously Apples thing doesn't have a normal analogy) then you have to be VERRRRRY CAREFUL how you define it and what exact terms you use because whatever that is will be used and abused by precedence for decades to come.
> It's far less effort and cost for developers to accomodate the world's existing scripts, than it is for the vast majority of the world's population to re-learn how to read and write a new script.

That's the short-term analysis. But this is not a short-term impact change. And in the long-term, things turn around.

If as a species, we can't think long-term, we're basically doomed.
Yes, how dare we be not immortal and not want to work forever. We should be punished.
You should have look at the Toyota Hilux, not Tacoma.
Security forces are professionals, and professionals at dealing with such situations. They'd be very bad at their job if they armed intervened in non-violent or non-pressing crimes. It is like expecting your Uber driver to take a short-cut over a pedestrian lane: maybe they arrive a tiny bit earlier to the one that paid them, but now they lose their license.

If I do imagine this would happen, assume it would be true, then just to be clear: I do not agree with armed interventions to shut down these illegal lemonade stands, and I wished the marketing in the leaked e-mails would have made it clear, that armed interventions of all crime, is what this service is meant for.
Yeah, the Ultimate Minecraft Iceberg was already pretty surprising to me, I hope more subject matter experts will contribute
The language metaphor is interesting, but IMO it proves the point.

Learning a new language takes time, a lot of time.

We speak mostly Spanish, Chinese and Hindi because the majority was born with them and spent years learning them to communicate with other people who already speak them.

English spoken by non English native speakers is what many people learned to communicate with people speaking other languages than their native tongue.

But most of them never reached (or will reach) native speakers' fluency.
So in a way it can be seen as an inferior product with many flaws (like my English for example).

If switching languages was as easy as copying software, we would probably speak infinite languages.

But in reality the amount of languages one can learn during a life time is very much finite (and the incentive and opportunity are very limited in general)

So, yes, bitcoin is the most powerful brand right now but there is nothing inherently peculiar about it, if another digital coin offers the same features people will use it, regardless of the brand.

Learning German if you are Japanese, live in Japan and communicate with Japanese people, on the other hand, it's a big investment with no real obvious gain beyond intellectual fulfilment.

anyway, there are ~7,000 living languages used around the World right now, there's no reason to believe that at least the same number of digital coins won't be in use once digital coins will become an everyday tool.
Graph databases are used by the IRS for (at minimum) detecting "patterns of abusive tax transactions"[0] and tax fraud[1].

The IRS also recently contracted Brillient to "define and prototype a graph database for the individual taxpayer"[2]. This is supposed to "enable IRS researchers to visualize complex relationships to improve compliance and enforcement."

[0] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/09rescongraphquery.pdf

[1] https://www.aaai.org/Papers/Workshops/2005/WS-05-07/WS05-07-...

[2] https://www.brillient.net/news/brillient-awarded-new-task-or...
I was wrong. Apparently it is slang, in some places at least:

> The word penultimate as a slang word seems to have worked its way into common parlance thanks to the slang use of the word ultimate. As a slang term, ultimate means cool rather than last. So the hipster logic may have concluded that if ultimate means cool, then penultimate must mean super cool.

https://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/podcasts/grammar_gra...

I assumed the parent was making a joke that something like this would be the case. Turns out it really is. "Never underestimate the stupidity of..."
In practice, young folks write arabic with roman script when they chat. (with numbers to supplement the missing letters)
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Amen. This could have been avoided had the FBI/ATF involved the Texas Rangers and allow one of them to meet and arrest Koresh.
Don't despair. Even if the teachers thought they were just pictures, the students learned more. Logo was my first programming language.
Stop again. Then read the link I posted.
So you've come up with an example that is clearly on one side of the line. Ok, but not sure what that proves. I don't think anyone has argued that there aren't any clear cut cases.

What you are missing is that whatever rule you make, people are going to try to push the limits, because it gets them viewers. If twitch says that someone bending over in a bikini has no non-sexual purpose and therefore is against the rules, the creators could change the stream very slightly.... just enough so they can claim to be about exercise, yoga, modeling fashion, or dance. They'd still have the same audience, with the exact same reason for watching, but now it sneaks by the rule.

Pole dancing is an art and takes athletic skill, sure, but most people (at least in the US) consider it is purely viewed for sexual gratification. But creators could claim its "main" purpose is to enjoy the dancing for its artistic and athletic merit.

Sports Illustrated has a swim suit issue, and it's not about swimming so how is that sports? It's just an excuse.

The majority of art channels on twitch are people drawing sexy (often anime-style) girls and women. You can learn to draw from them, but the sexier they make them, the more viewers they get.

So... I really don't get what you are trying to say. You seem to not understand that there is gray area.
What if it's not about making the enemy believe in aliens, but making the enemy believe there is technology available that is "other worldly" advanced. Basically a psyop.
>Is there no middle ground

What is that middle ground? Do you codify and say women can't write things on their chest? What about in a video game? Should streaming Cyberpunk 2077 be banned - it clearly has sexual content? I'm not making a straw man - I'm trying to point out your essentially saying "they should ban content I don't like", which means Twitch will apply the rules in anyway you fit - another complaint you have brought up.

Again, are you saying streamers shouldn't be allowed to go to the beach? Or are you saying they shouldn't be allowed to wear bikinis? And if another streamer watches a YouTube video that has a woman at the beach should they be banned?
yo swyx, nice to see you on here as well!

Bookmarked!

Took me a while to scroll up to the top of that list. You should change that tagline. Nobody is getting through that list in a hurry! :)