skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let Apple sell Apple-locked and unlocked iPhones. It can work just like carrier locking. Buy one unlocked, maybe pay a little extra

But that won't work for Epic, or for any competitor. Epic wants access to every iPhone customer, not just the ones who paid extra to add third party app stores. Heck, you don't even have to pay extra to sideload apps on Android, but they still lost a ton of people when Google kicked them out of the Play Store.
For me it's not that I don't care, but I reason the data stealing as their form of payment for providing a free useful service to me. I try to limit the data I give them, but I still see the data gathering as their win in our nonzero (win win) game.
Can you define a "general computing device" in a way that includes PCs and phones, but not game consoles?
I haven't read that one, but I've seen Taleb talking about it on Youtube, it makes plenty of sense.
Any sufficiently advanced form of advertising is indistinguishable from malware.
Yeah, durable but certainly pollutant and unhealthy.
What about ‘For how long exactly have you lived in Britain?’
By this logic a leather wallet with cash will soon be outlawed as well.

Central bank digital commie coin or bitcoin.

Not choosing is choosing.

Choose wisely.
I wasn't trying to draw an ethical distinction, but if I were this wouldn't be the defining attribute of an action that constitutes "better". They're both reprehensible.
YouTube Can Now Monetize Smaller Creators' Videos All Around the World
If it was sending Migs into neighboring airspace that’d be even more of an international incident.

To be precise that’s if you’re rejected for a visa - just to transit you don’t need one so it’s best not to apply.
Accurate. Country of Origin is basis in this case which is Greece. Adequate response would be to indefinitely bar all Belarusian originating flights from traveling through any signatory's airspace.

However, this most likely only furthers the goals of the current Belarusian administration for the population there. Enforced strictly, to include diplomatic flights, it may cause measurable change.
>Guns aren't necessarily political.

Guns are absolutely 100% political. Their existence is political, and one political party doesn't want them to exist.

>Should I refrain from asking work colleagues who they think is likely to medal in the 2021 Olympics women's skeet shooting event?

Yes, because it's a privilege to be able to shoot guns. Also, guns trigger me, so please do not talk about subjects which disproportionately affect minorities, like guns.

Does this sound familiar?
There is a certain level of confidence to be gained from handling a product that lose with online products.
Humor aside, it does raise a legitimate question regarding stereotypes -- there may be very good (biological, psychological) reasons that correlate athleticism with not-so-impressive cognitive skills.
Opt-out rates clearly say otherwise.
unsustainable ? It sustained alright for many years and has brought lots of profit for apple

immoral? Its subjective. I disagree and apple likely don't think its immoral

illegal? isn't that what the trial is for ? to decide whether this is illegal.
C'mon, I literally said the same conclusion that keeper's reactions aren't good enough.

> I assume that keepers don't have faith in their nerves/reactions and thus have to force their bodies to dive before the shot is taken.
Yes. They're playing the identity politics game, and that's a gross game. Shame on them.
The argument goes that then the consumer pays with their privacy. Ie Google foots the R&D bill to get the end user data and to keep users in the Google ecosystem.
I'm going to reply to all of you here:

You cannot use different ports from the client, it has to be 80 for HTTP, I meant; do you own loadbalancing from the client!

So f.ex. the browser would load parts of the site from another server via javascript or redirect to another dns with another IPv6 address.

To have a bottleneck between all your clients and all your servers is not good architecture.
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>There could be an argument that allowing alternative stores would just mean every app would switch to those

Which is a ridiculous argument as the network effects and default preference status of the App Store mean it'll still be pretty much a requirement to publish there if you want any users.
I think someone caught the app dumping private keys to crashlogs.whatsapp.net

But a MITM should still be visible

More details?
> If all async functions are immediately awaited, there is only one thread of execution - no concurrency.

In a Node web server process, though, this isn't really true. If you perform a CPU intensive task on the main event loop, all other incoming requests will pause. Using worker threads instead turns that CPU task into, for all intents and purposes, an async io call, freeing the main event loop to handle concurrent incoming requests.

Since handling CPU intensive tasks is the main downside of a Node web app, I think this library is a great solution for that (I think this library's API is a much easier to use wrapper around native Worker threads).
You can very easily link your iCal with Google Calendar, and likewise sync your contacts with your Google account. I know because I've done both.
Looks fun but not sure if this belongs on this site? Also article is from 2019.
NalNezumi 6 days ago [–]

While establishing a "cause & effect" here seems very hard, from my personal experience working in software field in Japan, I think the winning concept here is actually the combination of removing middleman and paying good salaries.
Japan is very very behind in IT/digitalization compared to most western countries. This doesn't just mean it's behind in product portfolio and quality, but that perception of software engineer & managers and still quite behind. The respect that a lot of software engineers enjoys in US/EU is not quite there yet in Japan(and salary often reflect this).

The C-suite usually doesn't have a firm understanding of software/IT world, and instead ends-up hiring a lot of "Scrum-experts/Agile coaches" and hires software engineers from consultancy or recruitment companies for cheap. There's ofc companies that doesn't fall in this category, but for middle-sized companies in Japan (which is the bulk of the economy), this is the true state of things. Middle-men in Japan have therefore been way more encroaching on this, and they have the incentive to not improve the respect/social standing the software engineers have.

"Removing managers" in this article does not mean the same thing as it would in US/EU, conditions are different.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27178486
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It doesn't have to be so comprehensive. You can incentivize green coin without making it the baseline standard.

Ex: You sold some coin on an exchange for USD? If you can show the coin's origin, you get capital gain credit or something. And vice versa.
If you want to not hate your life building a real-time multiplayer game, fully embrace data oriented design.

I took the gamble and picked Unity DOTS and NetCode for our current MOBA-esque game (not other packages, we bolt regular Unity visuals on much like the V in MVVM). Outside the headaches of using preview tech, it has been amazing what we have been able to do compared to regular OOP hell.

By not having hidden game state lurking in classes, lambdas or coroutines, we have been able to hide much of the networking layer as an encapsulated set of glue systems that shuttle just enough data across the wire that the view-layer can present the game to the user. Movement and other prediction has been much easier too, because the game state is just data and not intertwined with behavior, I just run most of the same algorithms locally as I do on the server — AI, steering, etc.

This technique still requires a lot of foresight and challenging architecture decisions of course. I forced our core gameplay logic to not know anything about the visuals, which has made some things harder. However when it came time to make a headless build with no graphics, it was as simple as flipping a switch. No changes in our gameplay code.

I have a principal engineer from Sea of Thieves on my team, and he has also breathed huge sighs of relief working on this project. Unreal is the complete antithesis to this design pattern, and is full of hidden state, magic behavior, and heisenbugs.
the plane technically had to land in austria after all other countries refused entry for 'technical' reasons.

This one involved KGB agents who coerced the flight to divert by claiming there was a bomb
While I have not tested this specific use case, I would start by exploring map files [1] and/or stick tables [2]. Map files can be updated on-the-fly through the HAProxy Runtime API. With stick tables you can persist a session/client based on anything found within the request headers, which would include a users session id.

[1] https://www.haproxy.com/blog/introduction-to-haproxy-maps/

[2] https://www.haproxy.com/blog/introduction-to-haproxy-stick-t...
I assume a Ryanair flight would also have had a lot of citizens of NATO countries on-board. I wonder what would have happened if it were a US flagged carrier.
This is not about aesthetic tastes. It's about identifying as part of a group based on skin pigment color. I thought we've moved past that shit.
That's just a joke that arises from self-certifying 'CE', like 'QC passed' it's just a label that doesn't mean anything but makes some consumers feel good, just because you get used to seeing it and it looks like it must be good even if (or only if) you dont actually know what it means.
Sure, here's a bitcoin address that's prefixed with your name.

$ ./vanitygen -i 1rsync
Pattern: 1rsync
Address: 1rSYNCeAXmXY64GabjpGN3rcihFwZmcP3
Privkey: 5JPbRtnXStQgeGAFb49JQ7f4bx1f9fJRHnV9pawxevFG58zDjGY
Let the market decide? If it's so obviously terrible it will fail.
They save most of the marketing for the release.
>With Apple in control, the developer faces the choice to play by Apple's rules, or lose out on the money to be made in their walled garden.

>With Apple no longer in control, the user now faces the choice to play by the developer's rules, or lose out on the app.

Android has proven this is not true. Google has the same policies as Apple and does allow alternative app stores. Turns out the world works in a common sense way and everything turned out fine.
Pointing fingers at Aukey seems to be a drop in the bucket. If Amazon is sharing this information with sellers, assume that everyone has it.
> "No one is gonna mistake the alternative app Store for the apple one"

You've never heard any stories like "I put FireFox/Chrome on my parent's desktop and next time I went back they were using IE and said they didn't notice"? Or same with apps installed from an App store between real and imitation?

> "Apple can even put up loads of warnings and dark UI stuff when installing an alternate app Store to dissuade the "noob" users."

Why would they need to do that if "no one" is gonna mistake them?
I doubt the underlying technology has changed much in the last 2 years
You and the parent you are replying to are right - pro clubs know the ins and outs of penalties and select and train players (keepers and takers) accordingly.

You are being distracted from the meat and bones of the argument though - the whole premise that most penalties are poorly taken is blatantly wrong. Most penalties end up in goals - which is how it's intended to be.
Two strokes are still in use. Small scooters use them and some competition enduro motorcycles up to 250cc as well.

Nothing that needs to meet emission standards, though.
I think we're largely in agreement. I just got the impression that you treated X developers as a homogenous group who all think that what happened was the best thing. That's not the case.
I suspect the U.S. is already responsible for making this behaviour more common. Can certainly try to make up for it, but I think great damage has been done.
Society reifies and adjudicates the specific rules surrounding "property rights", but they also derive from our cultural norms and biological instincts: everything from "Finders Keepers" to "Your Home Is Your Castle". And predictably, these root nodes of moral claims to property frequently conflict.

I strongly recommend Heller & Salzman's "Mine!" [0] as a non-ideological and layperson-accessible exploration of the history and nature of property.

[0] https://www.minethebook.com/
Regardless, why would it even matter? "Louis makes 500k per year from Youtube ads" is not a valid response to "Apple is harming consumers and destroying the environment"
It looks like a low-effort copy of a Karmann Ghia to me. It's even got the tilted logo on the bottom right of the trunk lid:

Karmann Ghia: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e8/6d/68/e86d681f64a00ae25e4b...

Wartburg: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Wartburg...
Interestingly, the upvotes are quite inconsistent across multiple resubmissions of the same URL. Instead of adjusting against inflation, I think the HN formula itself should be adjusted: HNFormula(age,upvotes)/views. I'm working on a blog post about that, here is my current draft: https://felix.unote.io/hacker-news-scores
You think the government won't set energy efficiency requirements for electric vehicles similar to mpg?

They put energy requirements on dishwashers, they're not going to give EVs a pass.
They/we could start by removing the fisa courts.
Android's third-party app stores have been majorly gimped for a long time unless they were installed by the manufacturer. Further, they don't even have great reach even if they're installed as such, as evidenced by Epic wanting Fortnite back on the Play Store despite it being available on the Galaxy store.
> By the way, I sent my Macbook to Louis for repair last year. His team did a great job! Easy to communicate with too. I got it back in the mail really fast once the repair was complete.

Doesn’t this defeat the purpose of what you’re claiming to want?

Or is the guy you’re talking about more interested in this for his own reasons: wanting the repair money, not wanting to have to actually get certified to do authorised repairs.
> So I am going to ask, how is this different from PS/Xbox/etc?

Game consoles are specific-purpose computing devices: they play video games with a secondary use of running other entertainment apps (netflix).

Phones are general purpose computing devices: they are use to do practically anything that a computer can do; check email, look up navigation, buy things online, check bank balance, create and edit photos/videos.

There is an entire universe of apps that don't make sense on an Xbox. Why would your bank create an Xbox app, or why would Adobe port over a version of Photoshop for the Xbox? They wouldn't. And that's the difference between the two.
You’re also not really lying commission on the shipping when you factor in the discounts they provide and what they charge the customer. There’s some cases where you get screwed a little but it’s not as bad as a lot of people think. I still make money on shipping if it’s beaver and goes out priority.
In any case, I think this is a good thing. If crypto-currencies are regulated against, the remaining crypto-currencies must succeed on their technical merits as a currency (privacy, security, byzantine fault tolerance, speed, etc.) in order to evade regulation. So this would shift the focus towards systems like Monero, Zcash, and maybe even systems like GNU Taler that work alongside existing taxation/banking institutions.
People argue that Flash has been completely replaced with HTML5, but, there is no GUI / interface for designing games / animations for the web that even comes close to what Flash had. I miss me some movieclips =(
> Finally, I have been thinking about how to encourage spell checking within code. I think a better solution would be a terminal command (like Standard) where a user just can run:

Interesting timing since I've been polishing up my source code spell checker in prep for announcing it. I even used the name "typos" because I couldn't find it in use as a CLI.

https://github.com/crate-ci/typos

There are also some other code spell checkers out there: https://github.com/crate-ci/typos/blob/master/docs/compariso...
I think the point is that it didn’t used to be like this, but at some point it changed. Probably due to the addition of the “Marketplace”.
I wish this was actually sarcasm for most people. I legitimately don't understand why this group of people believe this is a good thing.
They could fix the problem regardless of whether the app was downloaded from the app store, a third party store, or just sideloaded, so I don't see what you're getting at.
> Why do you think I’m implying something nefarious?

Maybe because you literally just said:

> a political tool whose value is to divide society and leverage ignorance for political gain

No offense, but I can't take your arguments seriously.

I'm not saying the elite are there because our politics are some kind of official "class system", I'm saying the elite have become entrenched, which functionally creates a separate class.

> Conspiracy theories are what we turn to when we want to stop thinking and just have a bad guy to blame, or when we want to manipulate others into doing so.

Says the person who just accused me of spreading a nefarious conspiracy "to divide society and leverage ignorance for political gain"... This is getting silly!

What I'm saying isn't a conspiracy, it's not even hidden...
Not quite the same, but this is like me walking down the stairs and becoming conscious of my walking. I end up overthinking my steps and have to go more slowly otherwise I risk missing a step and falling.
Sounds like you misunderstood the criticisms of that laptops cooling design (which was abysmal to the point where it pretty much had to be deliberate). I would suggest refraining from calling people dumber than yourself, until you're totally sure how dumb you actually are.
>The USA, in my opinion, should show leadership and step in to make it clear that such affront against democracy

The US is rarely interested in affronts against democracy unless there's a geopolitical advantage to be had by leveraging it.

From a practical standpoint, US interventions almost always make things worse for the people who live there, and in a lot of cases less democratic.
Watching the video, it seems they assumed TB grew in milk, but according to growth requirements[1], it seems unlikely, and an unwarranted conclusion.

Still, it seems boric acid could have caused irritation, directly helping TB infect people. Also it reduced acidification, which would change bacterial population (for better or worse), and increasing bacterial loads of "spoiled" milk could weaken human defences, or not ..

I wouldn't blame Bovine TB on boric acid added to milk without further study.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium_bovis#Growth_req...
That is what the term means in popular culture, but what are the implications?

In practice it means that the side who accuses first (currently mostly SJWs) gets to speak and attack others while using "whataboutism" as a shield to shut up their opponents.
I wish Software Engineers collegiated and adopted similar codes. It looks easy to adapt to our field.
Keyword 'might'.
Right to Repair is not just about repairing things yourself, it’s about the freedom to choose who you would like to repair something for you. I can’t repair my own MacBook but I don’t think I should be forced to pay outlandish prices to Apple for the privilege if I don’t want to.
At peak I can see it being low single digit millions per second. A single client will do more than 1 rps, there’s a lot going on per client.
Doesn't seem to fit the definition of malware:

Malware is any software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server, client, or computer network. A wide variety of malware types exist, including computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, adware, rogue software, wiper and scareware.
This may be where the commercial paper comes in. If they're backing issuance with loans that they create themselves no real money needs to be involved.
I find it telling that you use AWS as an example because they are different than the apple model, while ignoring all the companies using the exact same model as apple, including how Epic charges developers to host content on the Epic store.
This is yet another reason why CGNAT (Carrier grade NAT) is cancer on the internet and needs to die.
Tangentially related, do you have any advice for moving into indie game development from a regular software engineering job at a big tech company?
Bull. Without apple the iOS ecosystem wouldn't exist.
> Take away all the apps from iPhone and what is it? A brick
Saying that Apple needs devs more than devs need Apple is as stupid as saying the opposite. Is the same chicken/egg game. They both coexist and no one can exist without the other. Do you really think that dev can just trash iPhone apps and send a middle finger to Apple? I’ll tell you why it’s BS:
1 - iPhone users are more willing to pay for an app than android users. Given that Google take the same cut, you are just going to shoot yourself in the foot having less users.
2 - The iOS market share even if not as big as the android one, it’s still huge compared to what WS Phone was at its peak. Do you really think your app is that important that the average user is gonna buy and entire new phone (with an OS that he potentially never used) just to use your app?
3 - If you think ALL the devs can leave Apple, to invalidate pt 2, you are delusional. The moment you leave the store, another dev is just gonna eat your user base and profit from it.

The success of the platform always goes around the user base, not the developers. Developers make money from users, so the developers follow the user, not the other way around.