skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apples Cut/Profit: $30/$29.99

> Dev Cut/Profit: $70/$42

Apple's cut is $30 but their profit certainly isn't $30 minus one cent.

Obviously there's the hard cost of transactions, which includes but certainly isn't limited to merchant fees. If it's an international app, there's the currency exchange involved in selling that app in local currency, under local merchant rules. Apple also absorbs various costs caused by avoiding and dealing with fraud. The transaction could be performed with gift card, which means maintaining that network, physical manufacturing costs, retailer profit margin... I seriously doubt that Apple even breaks even on the 70% when the payment uses a gift card.

There's the work Apple does in policing their store. While it does irritate developers, the end result is that the App Store is significantly less overrun with scams and junk than it would otherwise be—which means that customers are going to be more trusting of your app than would be the case if the store was a total free-for-all.

Then of course there's a subset of consumers who discovered your app because it's in Apple's app store. Providing you these eyeballs is valuable and worth something.

And of course there are a lot of soft costs—Apple did put a lot of work into all the resources for developers. How you personally believe these should be accounted for is obviously a matter of personal opinion, but that work does cost money and has benefited developers. There's an argument to be made that some amount of it could be assigned to Apple's app store revenues.
Doubling 120 to 240 is still mains voltage in my book, if a supply these days even does double.

Sure it's peak rather than RMS, but a warning that something "exceeds mains voltage" to me sounds like a description of a significantly bigger danger than that.
Engrave your secret key on a sheet of metal, then store that in a bank deposit box. Add a note for your heirs. Include the contents of the box in the will.
> they just don't have an application that just works. If Element had better branding, then people would jump on board immediately.

Granted it's been a year since I last tried Matrix/Element, but back then it didn't "just work" despite many on HN claiming it did. My experience was far worse than Signal, which honestly I haven't had many problems with and many here claim it doesn't "just work."[0] I hit plenty of bugs in WA too. I think the difference is that I notice the centralized apps fix their bugs faster and that speed is proportional to the size of the parent company. Thing is if it is resolved quickly people just forget the bugs exist (and we also remember bugs more for apps which we haven't been using for long). There's a strong cult like mentality for Matrix, on HN, and I just don't get it (I don't get the cult mentality of Signal either, but HN is fairly anti-Signal so I'm not sure that needs to be addressed but we can). I love the idea of decentralization, but I just haven't seen it pan out and it still looks like it has a long way to go. I hope you all are right, but I'm not going to hold my breath and I don't think "just better marketing" is what's needed. There's a lot more.

[0] Disclaimer, I am still a Signal user because I want to support encryption and privacy and I don't see Matrix there yet and moving ecosystems is difficult. I'll take whatever encrypted and private service I can get friends to use that also doesn't require any tech literacy (this is an extreme must because most of my friends and family don't know a monitor from a desktop).
I just don’t understand those arguments. It’s like agreeing to carpool with a group of friends, then suddenly you decide to move to another town. They’re not bad friends for not wanting to pick you up, it’s just not convenient anymore.
Apple is not obligated to make tools for every platform...
There are many tools for command-line spell checking, for example codespell:

https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell

More listed in the check-all-the-things English section:

https://github.com/collab-qa/check-all-the-things/blob/maste...
I feel changes a lot between locations (“scenes”). Back when I lived in Berlin, we had entire meetups dedicated to talk about _useless but cool projects_. Moved to the Bay Area, and I could never find anything remotely similar. Maybe they exist, I just couldn’t find one.

I also experienced the same interviewing experience you had, many times: my “talk about something interesting you made” answer used to be “I made a twitter bot that makes poetry with ML and I spent months training it” - it always got radically different reactions, from blank stares to “why didn’t you use those to mine bitcoin?”
It would be expensive to divert for Japan and Korea, not so much SE Asia. I can't see Russia fucking with China though.

Flights already do a big detour around Ukraine because of their conflict with Russia. In fact, middle eastern hubs would love Belarus airspace to be restricted, it makes their routes much more competitive. Flights to SE Asia often fly further south, over the caucuses, Afg/Iran to SNG, or Iraq/Iran to Qatar since the GCC blockade. (Iran charges considerable fees for this btw, a good source of hard currency.)

I'm afraid Russia has everything to do with this incident. There is no way they would do this without Putin's okay. That he is willing to risk Russian airspace rights shows how desperately worried he is about popular uprisings.

The ops.group newsletter [0] is a great resource for understanding flight restrictions.

[0] https://ops.group/blog/assessing-the-risk-operations-over-co...
> Even so, IRC has no business in this list per the authors definition.

The "network" part is arguable, but IRC does not require any pre-ordained nodes, which matches the author's definition.

It's a small part of full decentralization, but an important one. Being able to point your Facebook Messenger client at a different server would be a big step.
Con of the Week: Greensill Capital
Stunny fuff.
Apple Rapid Hire-Fire: Antonio García Martínez
Well this was an IT position. If a car dealership had those requirements for an IT position then yes, I would find that odd.

I knew what the product was, but I didn't know about the course requirement. At the time I needed to balance my personal ethics and comfort level with the need to improve my financial situation and mental health. Interviewing was a good way to evaluate if the job would do so, and getting the interview was not as much effort as I think you're implying.

Edit: I should say that I did not find the course requirement _super_ odd. Maybe it's standard for companies with this type of product. But it was too odd for me personally. None of my previous employers have required me to use their products, and I've objected any time they got close. Perhaps that is a privilege.
Nit, The article mentions things like GL_LINES, GL_LINE_STRIP. Those are OpenGL not WebGL. It might seem unimportant to someone that knows both APIs but to someone that only knows or is learning WebGL it can be extremely confusing
All I'm seeing is an Epplication irror.
I will have the minority opinion here: I love having at least two Linux laptops (not to mention servers) to play with and configure just how I want them.

I also want my Apple devices to be locked down (security wise) - secure and sort-of privacy enhanced digital appliances for research programming, writing my books, and as part of my personal digital life.

I know that it can be rough on iOS and macOS devs, but I buy apps, and hopefully the extra hassles are compensated by making sufficient money.
Towndime :(
I had no idea Amazons first name was Cadabra.
You may also find people murdered by words, yet no charges for murder.
It's a risk, that doesn't mean taking it is foolish.

And I don't think many people would advocate _always_ being maximally vulnerable in all contexts come on.

Use your judgement but mine is that most people around me are too risk-averse in this.
https://eloquentjavascript.net/ teaches the basic principles of programming using JavaScript. Very well written.
The World of Edward Said
They need to check their leroku hogs.
Oh no Nacker Hews is down!
Didn't work for me in Safari because Apple stopped updating my iPad. I wish Epic would bring that up at the trial.
Tapping worked for me.
That was historically the case, but allowing merchants to offer cash discounts is protected under U.S. federal law since 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durbin_amendment. Around me, only gas stations and liquor stores seem to commonly offer such discounts though.

What's less settled is whether businesses can charge credit-card customers a CC surcharge to pass on the fees. Economic theory would consider this functionally the same as offering a cash discount, but it differs in calling out the CC fee as a line item charge. Some state laws prohibit that, and they've been tied up in litigation, e.g. this mostly inconclusive 2017 Supreme Court ruling that kicked the question back down to lower courts: https://www.scotusblog.com/2017/03/opinion-analysis-justices...
this is how salesmen get you on loans / leases. any monthly payment can be made with the right down payment. so when they just try to get the buyer to focus on "how much are you looking to pay a month". I had to make it clear, I wasn't trying to optimize the monthly payment (on a lease), but the total payments. Thankfully, GM (or really GMF) has a concept of a "one pay lease" where you literally pay once, all fees and everything and you have no other fees (till return disposition fees or what not). Makes it simple to compare between dealers without any surprise fees being sprung on you.
Apple also doesn’t envision that you can run arbitrary root code on an iPhone either
You might want to put CloudFlare in front of that
Good call. Right now I have a loading spinner while talking to the backend but I didn't consider the time to fetch the image from the recipe site.
What is Simius and Why it is the Future
Relative of retired jewelry store owner here: The idea of Jewelry having any type of considerable value has got to be the biggest snow job scam ever played on the middle class throughout all history. Jewelry has absolutely no utility value at all except to impress people who are easily fooled. All gemstones of any known utility can be created cheaply and flawlessly in a laboratory. If you are considering 1-5k on a wedding ring and you have less than $5 million in the bank, you might as well start opening those Nigerian prince emails and pass some donations that way too because the result is the same and the Nigerian scammers probably need it more than the jewelry store owners. If your potential significant other is angry at you for not buying an expensive wedding ring, run away. They have some core judgement issues or they place 0 value on the effort it takes you to make the money needed to buy that ring.
Yeah maybe in the land of make believe where developers kill their apps, their user base and their profit on principle.
Nice. Keeps throwing error frequently though. This is one of my favourite pastimes along with smooshing syllables of any sentence to multiples of five. I do a couple of other variations like “Kaher Sewn”, “Kahen Sewr” etc as well :)
Father of hybrid rice. Saved millions of people from chronic hunger and famine.

I was just talking about him yesterday.
I wrote an implementation based on this a few weeks back. It works really nicely and I can render some 2M line segments at 60fps.

One thing you should do is try to limit very short and small segments, as GPUs don’t like rendering 1px triangles.

Still, I’ve been lead to understand that the instanced rendering done in this article is suboptimal on most GPUs. A better way to do it is apparently to put the points into a (non-vertex) buffer and do (batched) drawcalls for large numbers of vertices with a kind of manual instancing. Basically looking up what amounts to instance data using gl_VertexInput/6 and vertex data using gl_VertexIndex%6 (or 4 instead of 6 for indexes rendering).

Unfortunately I haven’t had the time to implement and test this yet.

If like me you’re also rendering lines with perspective, you want to also look at Freya Holmer's work. Particularly line thinness fading is important to reduce shimmer/aliasing. This means basically keep the width at a minimum of 1px and adjusting opacity below that instead.

Edit: For those interested, mine is implemented as a plugin to the Bevy game engine, written in Rust. Bevy can be found here https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy. The plugin is https://github.com/ForesightMiningSoftwareCorporation/bevy_p....
Choose a MySQL Alternative over Vitess and CRDB to Scale Out Our Database on K8s
Depends. My main system never gets powered off unless it's storming.

That's because A: It's my PC sound, so, I uh, need it. and B: It sounds better when it's good and warm, which takes a bit if it's powered off.

Of course it's solid state and not tube
Tithing != prosperity gospel (at least not necessarily; comment you responded to didn’t give enough context)
Ask HN: Should flag be removed from HN?
I ask that "flag" functionality be removed from HN. There is too much abuse and silencing of ideas on HN via the flag button. If a post gets enough votes to float to the top then by the wisdom of the crowd it's relevant and interesting content and should be shown. If not, the wisdom of the crowd will stop upvoting and it will fall back down naturally.

Flag is being abused by a minority to silence serious thought provoking ideas and questions.
But that $20,000 only actually matters if you get well off enough to make any attempt to pay it.
Doom Engine source code review
Simple, interesting Java libraries for a CS0 course?
You may be familiar with "CS1" and "CS2" classes, which are the first two college-level courses that someone would take on their journey of majoring in Computer Science, here in the United States (US). They typically focus on programming skills, and are followed by a 'data structures and algorithms' class.

"CS0" is an introduction to computer science intended to help get students ready for CS1 and CS2. They often (but not always) focus on programming. Since they're trying to cover the foundational programming concepts they sometimes (but not always) use graphical / block-based programming environments to help students learn the concepts (like if statements, loops, arrays, functions, etc) without having to deal with syntax errors. While that may help clarify the level of challenge that CS0 courses commonly target it's important to note that many CS0 classes are taught with textual languages (such as Python or Java).

I'm going to revise the CS0 course at the Community College where I teach and would love advice, hints, or pointers about the following:

What simple Java libraries do recommend, suitable for use in a CS0 level course, that do something the students will find interesting an engaging?

"Simple" applies both to the API (i.e., reasonably easy to code) and to the installation (ideally, works by including a single .JAR or something comparable)

By "Engaging" I mean something more interesting than the traditional System.out.println. Writing simple phone apps quickly and easily and running the app both on their desktop and on their phone would be _awesome_.
Especially if it was easy to install. I.e., if you didn't have to install Android Studio and a simulator to get everything to work.

Some examples:

* "Simple Java Graphics Library" at https://horstmann.com/sjsu/graphics/
* "Java Bridge for App Inventor" at http://www.appinventor.org/jBridgeIntro
>The worst is his investing advice which just boils down to getting an ira and 401k.

Why is that bad? Tax-advantaged accounts are much better than non-tax-advantaged accounts if your goal is saving for retirement.
Dorm at Stony Brook? Or does BNL actually have a dorm?

I bet BNL was just like this video:
https://youtu.be/2310P2g1z2E
Prominent politicians like George Bush, Obama, Hillary and Pelosi made almost all of their fortunes from "speaking fees", book sales, insider trading on stocks, etc.

If they were paid market rates, it would attract less of this corruption.
Hame cere to tay shis.
> I could not find any quote like this..not sure why you think it's so trivial to find.

You won’t find a ‘quote’, but it it’s trivial to educate yourself on this mechanism. E.g. Apple’s documentation. Various articles about ad tracking transparency, etc.

If you haven’t read the technical materials about the subject, why do you claim to understand it?

> You mean like how they ignored Apples location sharing mechanism and maliciously opened your photos to read metadata?

There is no rule against reading the metadata. Yes it’s malicious, but Apple doesn’t currently have grounds for removing the app. The correct solution is to stop leaving the metadata in the file.

> Or the one a few years back about playing silent audio tracks to stay open in the background?

That one was indeed solved by a rule change.

But why do you mention these?

Presumably to support your claim that sideloading would be no different from the App Store when it comes to privacy.

If you understood the mechanisms, you’d know this was false.
It's so incredibly redundant I think people lack a mental model for just how many messages need to be sent for every node participant to ensure all others are reliable (byzantine fault tolerance).
The number of messages is is about n^3, so that's like asking 5 people to go to lunch with 125 emails.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thesaddestmo...
After posting I realized you had effectively said the same thing. To your point about government acting as a referee to ensure the free market is operating effectively, I don't see that happening unless the electorate demands an end to all activities that could lead to regulatory capture. I'm not sure if this is ever possible..
Things to Know About FloraSpring
FloraSpring claims to be made of 5 probiotic super strains, all of which are associated with fat loss. The efficiency of these strains in helping you lose weight are backed by double blind placebo studies and these studies are verified by Dr. Masley himself.

https://wintersupplement.com/floraspring/

https://www.facebook.com/reviewsforsupplement/posts/849207465666338

https://medium.com/@floraspring-reviews/7-facts-about-floraspring-that-will-make-you-think-twice-aadee9a114ca?showDomainSetup=true

https://twitter.com/FloraSpring5
> recommendation

Recommending is not the same thing as ordering or proscribing.

> proposal

I'm sure a lot of proposals were floated and discussed.
Seems more like a use case for FloudClare here
I think deelowe's point is that people should pay off higher-interest loans first, not smaller loans first. But I'm not sure if there are many people where the difference between these 2 strategies will be significant.
It's good that the leadership was more interested in your useful professional projects rather than the less useful things you make for fun. As professionals in a business they should be more focused on trying to make money. People need to have some kind of strategy to make money in order to survive in business for any extended amount of time.
That reference makes no sense.
The way I thought about the strikeout was he's not starting from scratch (as the 4 lines are a sensible progression of thought), but while he's doing it, writing down the letters, he's running ahead in his mind to the next thought. So he thought the lines, but his fingers missed copying down the second line, and ran ahead to the third, and when he realized he struck it out. And copied down the second line which was supposed to be there.

Alternately as he's writing it down, through the act of putting it into an ordered form he realizes the thought needs additional qualification to reflect his idea, so strikes it and inserts the second line.

I get where you're coming from with the deliberateness, maybe like a todo list of set of instructions. But I just think this matches with the relationship part, and his sort of organized, but reaction/emotional personality. Why would a spy/operator write a secret code in some book of poetry, then chuck it in a car? Seems more like an act of passion. :p :) xx
Better still, only detain connected people from Belarus.
> Its weird they didn't test with ZFS

Maybe because of the numerous ways if can be configured that might affect results. ZFS is not as simple as Ext4 or XFS in configuration, and it might have just made it harder to get useful information from the results. At the same time, someone can probably use the results here to make some educated guesses as to how ZFS can/should be configured for SSDs based on this and some knowledge of SSDs.

> UFS/FFS

The purpose isn't to test filesystems, it's to figure out how to best leverage SSDs specific performance and design characteristics for both immediate and long term performance.

> or ReiserFS

Uh, is ReiserFS still actively developed? I used to follow it quite actively, but I admit I sort of lost interest after it seemed to stall after Han Reiser's murder conviction.
It's very likely, given the occasional dropped article, that the poster in question is not a native English speaker, and probably from a language where 'double negative' is agreement, as in "we don't need no education".
Someone clearly didn’t read the article…
52 decks of cards
The idea of halving your potential customer reach sounds so appealing.
I had to go digging to find it, but last time someone created a spoof HN page, a user emailed @dang asking why they were logged in under the wrong account.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10248773
I feel like the idea that "a million transactions per second ought to be enough for anybody" (not a quote, just a paraphrase echoing Gates for those who missed it) could come back as another storied mistaken estimate at some point.

Just taking the human population as a starting point, if we posit that in the future, non-human entities will also be doing transactions, and there may be orders of magnitude more of those entities than there are humans, and the entities will be networked and operating at machine speed… I don't know, but it seems like the thinking on scaling needs to be even more ambitious.
Those are only used to compare with. The main contribution from the article doesn’t use those.
A floudcare?
Ontology research is still relevant in the healthcare field. We need better ways to assign codes to the discrete elements of patient records in order to deliver better care and allow for effective data analysis.
> Note that many VFR flights are NOT under direct ATC control

I was answering in the context of flying from one country to another while crossing over a third. You'll need a flight plan and overflight permits, which generally require ATC contact at least on entry.

Belarus specifically requires a fixed flight path using defined entry and exit points for any aircraft, a Sunday afternoon VFR wander-about is just as likely in Yemen or Iran. :)
Just errors for me, too. An archive (http://archive.is/MBL6W) revealed the repo with code and explanation: https://github.com/clarkduvall/spoonerizer
I usually associate “prosperity gospel” with scammy televangelists like Peter Popoff or Kenneth Copeland; I don’t think Dave Ramsay was suggesting that in my anecdote, just regular tithing.
And it's not stealing in the strictest sense. it was sold.

The manufacturer of the chip made an extra 10k of product to sell on the side, which is a breach of contract.

But no theft occurred because the manufacturer is supposed to have the schematics.

Legally a rather annoying, wordy space to live in for sure.