skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a business problem disguised as a justice issue.

And we're discussing it because the monopoly known as Apple is continuing to gaslight and extort our industry.

Apple cannot be the single point of entry into a device that is responsible for 50% of American computing-related commerce. That might have worked if Apple was a small device used by 5% of consumers, but let's be real. Apple is the face of modern computing.

What the question really should be is, "why should Apple get to enjoy all commerce and freedoms linked to computing?" Through marketing and developing a good product, they've brought themselves into a market leader position. The choice to lock down their device may have made sense at 5%, but now it suffocates our entire industry under their gargantuan weight.

Apple isn't a device maker anymore. They're the fabric of computing itself. They have all the customers, they control all the software, and they make all the choices. You don't get ingress without going through them. They've been transformed into an analog of a common carrier, and the law now needs to treat them as such.

The only path forward is to force Apple to allow web-based downloads of apps, no longer allow them to force Apple payment rails, and to enable non-Safari based browsers to be installed.

Simple fix that will restore balance and health to the industry.

After this change happens, Apple will remain a 2 Trillion dollar company. This has negligible impact on their revenue - all it does is force them to work harder and gives the rest of us much-needed breathing room.

(Nevermind the right to repair and compute arguments.)
Seems to be great! +1
Another option is to simply configure your workstation to use DoH. Then your ISP can't fuck with your address resolution.

I recommend using NextDNS, and then setting up a provisioning profile at https://apple.nextdns.io to set it as your revolver on your macs and ios devices. The ad-blocking features are a nice bonus, too.

NextDNS also has a cool free software CLI local DoH proxy resolver which works a charm.
Why is WordPress considered one of the top CMS’s?
The way SciHub is being treated by governments is pretty infuriating. There's a tiny minority of people who have an interest in keeping SciHub off the internet, and they're generally neither the researchers who write the papers, nor those who want to read them. Despite this, the power of the state has been used repeatedly to keep SciHub inaccessible and limit their ability to get funding.
Ah I see, I have tried that, but the official roku remote app does not seem to show up for some reason and the RSA app I need can only be run in one place since it uses a unique key. I am thinking more about accessing the apps already on my phone like screen sharing or something.
My biggest issue is, running it with a 4k resolution on Windows seems to be considerably slower than Chrome (Intel graphics). With a full-hd resolution I didn't notice the difference and on a different PC running Linux I don't have any performance issues either.
I read about this on HN and then lost it for months when I wanted to apply it to a crappy game on a random discord server.

The game lets you bet on chicken fights and tells you the probability your chicken will win (starts at like 62% chance to win), so this kelly criterion is perfect. It's a bit incredible how reliable it is.
Unless, of course, said destruction of property is in said contract.

Otherwise, "smash therapy" places couldn't exist.

If I were writing contracts for rock stars, I'd probably look to account for tantrums and raging parties in the wording.
Are there "tons of people" seriously taking 120mg of adderall?
The Work-from-Home Future Is Destroying Bosses' Brains
It's interesting to think that if Apple had been more popular in the 90s then the DOJ wouldn't have been able to stop Microsoft and between them they could have strangled the nascent open web.

In this way a monopoly is actually better for consumers then a duopoly because it allows the government to step in.
It's time to stop asking "Why does Apple think they deserve 30% of App Store revenue" and start asking "Why has Apple not demanded 30% of web app revenue yet?".

The justification of "We put all the hard work into building the hardware, the OS and the stack so deserve a cut" still stands if a website is opened using the Safari engine. If it doesn't stand then neither does the App Store cut.
This is a case of administrative law.

Though the news item and DHS press release don't clarify this, I'd expect there to be a dispute process, presumably falling under an administrative law judge, with appeal to civil courts.

Note that the actual action is taken by private companies, on the recommendation of the DHS. That is, the DHS is not itself enacting the consequence. Which gets to the whole nature of what business associations are and are not voluntary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_law_judge
Tiny animal survives after 24,000 years frozen: “A big step forward”
If you have to use it, do so on a non-portable phone number.
Here’s a link with more info in english on the topic:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-23/hydrogen-...
It shouldn't be hard for a grownup to read his texts even if that were true.
Note for the confused: They haven't finished releasing 4.2.2 yet, so the release notes aren't yet live: http://rephial.org/release/
If manpower is a visible cost (vs power, transports, raw materials) you probably aren’t doing battery manufacturing right. Automated high power manufacturing should be very competitive close to cheap hydro power and cheap ports near auto factories.
So the real question is, should we design a different system?
The Vivaldi mail thing must have been in the works for a while. Since very early on, they offered an email address at their .net domain. It wasn't integrated or an email client, but they had that aspect setup early on.
The issue isn't really if 30% is "fair", its that the market has no way to find out if it is because apple have forced devs into their app ecosystem by deliberately keeping iOS browsers slightly worse than native apps (no push messaging or background processing). So there is no viable way for an alternate store, with an alternate fee structure, to run on iOS devices.
> The earliest version of HN I can find; 166 LOC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723767 - July 2009 (19 comments)

Unfortunately the original file (news.6sep06.arc) seems to be missing, anyone has a copy?
Living in Japan right now...it's sure been a very bizarre time watching cases in Tokyo go from ~ 1000 in Tokyo down to 300 in about a week with no apparent explanation!
I expect Microsoft marketing to continue to do splashy, unexpected things like this as they milk the still-as-yet-trusted GitHub brand for all it's worth to expand Microsoft's control over the open source ecosystem.
(Not) unlocking iPhone with Apple Watch when wearing a mask was driving me crazy in iOS 14.5. It worked two or three times and then stopped working until I disable/enable this feature.

Thanks god they fixed it in 14.6
This isn’t correct. Meth, when smoked, is incredibly toxic. The toxic smoke that causes “meth mouth”
Former meth addict here.

> The average crystal meth addict uses about 500 mg a day. And they snort it, which probably produces about double the peak plasma level as taking it orally. So they're getting the equivalent of 1000 mg oral amphetamine daily...

500mg sounds about right, but from my experience the most common route of administration (in the western United States at least) is smoking, not snorting.

Because so many people smoke meth rather than snort it, a lot of meth is sold as methamphetamine base rather than methamphetamine hydrochloride.

This means that it’s often not particularly water soluble, which makes it a poor choice for snorting since it doesn’t get through your nasal mucosa and actually kicks in after it drips down into your stomach. It’s not actually much different from eating it in many cases.

I like this article overall but I get irritated when I read stuff about drug users that is clearly written by somebody who hasn’t done a lot of drugs.

Edited for spelling. Also if anybody has any questions for me, I’m pretty knowledgeable on this topic (though no expert), so feel free to ask away!
I just checked and I'm surprised Patreon has an iOS app. I wonder how they're dodging this type of shakedown.
High Res Panorama from Mars Rover Perseverance
The first sentence of your post, while technically true, misses the point. This misunderstanding undermines many of your other points.

The kelly criterion happens to be optimal with respect to log wealth but that's not the main reason why it's interesting. Many explanations, including the original post, make this mistake. Maybe because 'maximizing expected utility' is a more common idea.

The first sentence of the wikipedia article:

"In probability theory and intertemporal portfolio choice, the Kelly criterion (or Kelly strategy or Kelly bet), also known as the scientific gambling method, is a formula for bet sizing that leads almost surely (under the assumption of known expected returns) to higher wealth compared to any other strategy in the long run".

In other words, pick a strategy. I'll pick the kelly strategy. There will be some point in time, after which I will have more money than you, and you will never overtake me. No logarithms involved. This is something you can easily check by simulation, but requires some heavier math to formulate precisely and prove.

See also posts by spekcular and rssoconnor elsewhere in this thread.
That is impossible. There is no one someone's heart would be able to take that. I take 60 mg daily of Vyvanse and I'm pretty wired all day. I can't even fathom the effects of that on a human body.

Is he like 300 lbs?
Define "pretty big".
I feel like Onlyfans being a porn platform is the reason behind its success. Porn and sex are very strong motivators if dare not I say innovators for Platforms and technologies. I’m still hanging on the belief that VR will be catapulted by Porn.
some torrent files are archived there, but i don't think scihub is serving the pdfs from IPFS, they likely use private storage network.

I believe libgen.fun which is a new (official) libgen mirror is running fully on ipfs, and it serves some scientific papers, but I wasn't able to search by DOI or title there, looks like it redirects to scihub, also there is no index of the papers on IPFS.

Edit: this doc talks about scihub+ipfs (it was created by the leader of Scihub rescue effort on Reddit, /u/shrine): https://freeread.org/ipfs/
Thanks! Right now we only have a couple tools live, but you can run kraken2 by following the quick start and signing up for an API key. The API key comes with 10GB of free data analysis. Cost is not yet finalized, but will be on the order of ~$1/GB for a tool like kraken2.

Quick start: https://toolchest-python-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Airtable for signing up and receiving an API key: https://airtable.com/shrKzQNuDHrGkEAI2
Tempelhof is cool. I flew into Tempelhof on a USAF jet in 1981. Landing was 'interesting,' due to the short runway and crowded city around it. On final approach the pilots had to thread the needle between apartments on either side of the flight path. You could basically see into the apartments, which were at eye level. Plus there was a cemetery right underneath, perhaps as a convenience in the event of a mishap.
Wait so "because [Apple] have a monopoly" (which isn't correct, but let's put that aside) they can push an app and then act surprised about Apple enforcing the ToS they agreed to?

Yeah that's not good enough.
And that's "Mr. Alexander" to you, GP.
If "most recent update" is any version of Big Sur, at the least, you should be able to remap caps lock (or control, option, command, or on an M1 Mac even the Fn key) to escape in the "Modifier Keys..." section of Keyboard System Preferences.

(I was going to say that I still have the Escape key on the Touch Bar for my work laptop, which is true, but then I remembered it's running Catalina...)
But are those bad actors really that common? Typically, what I see is that developers really know what to expect from an open source project. If you can't offer them support they could walk away looking for alternative options instead of funding your project. That's because devs usually don't have a budget to spend. They even could fork and solve their own problems without caring to support the problems of others. But I guess all of this is okay and perfectly acceptable use of open source software.
I just like Apple’s App Store the way that it is. I’ve been through so many technology stacks and it I find their platform a joy to work with. The SDKs are coherent, very well-architected, extremely easy to use, and I have access to a user base that has very high adoption rates of the latest software versions so that I don’t have to worry so much about fragmentation. It’s the happiest I’ve been as a coder, so I feel that the 30% cut is a fair price to pay.

edit: So I answered the question and I’m getting downvoted to oblivion. Why do people even bother asking for other people’s perspectives.
Parking minimums should not exist, for about 1000 reasons. For further reading on the topic, check out 'the high cost of free parking'. They are a failed experiment from the mid-20th century.

Many places are switching to parking maximums instead of minimums.
> And before someone says "well, this is a gaming console, not a phone/computing device", I will say that it has apps (youtube/streaming services/etc.), it has a web browser, and plenty other functionality not related to games.

How much is the cut for those functionalities for MS?
Netflix was able to do this because Apple carved out an exception for them by gerrymandering the rules so Netflix could do this. They did that because Netflix was powerful enough. Hey tried to do a similar thing, but Apple was having none of it. They were going to force them to pay them 30%, because they were not powerful enough. When the social media storm made them more powerful, Apple acquiesced.
This article isn't bad, but it's a very shallow, narrow view of things.

In general it seems to make no distinction with addicts using high doses to overcome tolerance levels with recreational drug users in general.

Methamphetamines and amphetamines are not the same chemical, despite being similar.

https://methoide.fcm.arizona.edu/infocenter/index.cfm?stid=1...

The small differences between the molecules allow it to penetrate the blood brain barrier more efficiently, has longer lasting toxic effects and acts more as a central nervous system stimulant and

>less peripheral nervous system and cardiovascular stimulation activity. Another difference between amphetamine and MA is that amphetamine stimulates the CNS indirectly by activating the release of catecholamines and inhibiting their breakdown and storage. In contrast, MA stimulates the postsynaptic catecholamine receptors directly.[2]

Increased dosage is only one part of the difference between Methamphetamine and Amphetamines. Street meth is also far more likely to have fillers, leftover solvents and a bunch of other things that are not good for you.

>In general, recreational drug users take their drugs at doses so much higher than psychiatric patients that they're basically two different chemicals

Recreational drug users come in a wide range. The first two sections of the article speak about addicts doing extremely large doses, then seems to lump 'recreational drug users' altogether with that.
The contents of github repository have evolved quite a bit, mostly in response to comments (making some of them a bit out-of-sync).
> A port followed by account recovery within a short period of time should be enough of a red flag to immediately lock the account

What happens if a legitimate customer's phone gets lost and they quickly transfer the number and reset their accounts?

I think they should do a video call verification.
The email privacy detector is seeing Google fetch the image. In the HTML of the email the sent me the image URL points to a Google proxy link.

On subsequent opens of the email, the detector is not seeing the image being requested again.

Unless you were proposing the email server should download and proxy ALL images, even before the email is delivered. Some anti-spam clients already do a version of this, although it should be noted that giving an email sender the signal that you are eagerly reading all of their emails may produce unintended consequences.
No, that is far beyond the daily dosage threshold.

Even 90 is extremely high for XR, and would probably be broken into 2 45 doses throughout the day.
Hi Bogota,

Yes i created my account 6 mins ago but i am not exactly sure why this is so concerning. I have been part of the beta testers for garnet and am currently an experienced infrastructure engineer with experience in both azure and aws. I created my account to provide insights on this post as i have already used the product.
Fair point, that’s probably a decent part of it, but the deletion process has to be defined somewhat formally for a support person or some one else to do it, no?

And they could still offer an account deletion button which automatically filed a support request. Most sites which don’t offer account deletion have made me dig or google for a solution instead of putting any info in a contextually relevant spot such as in account settings or in a support article about disabling an account.

Unfortunately I do not have evidence to justify this position but for most companies from an incentives standpoint as I understand them: 1) a user who cannot delete an account will have a far easier time using the service again compared to a user who has deleted an account so they are more likely to reengage, 2) user numbers and active user numbers may be important metrics for funding or company evaluation, 3) assuming data is deleted on account deletion then that can no longer be used for marketing or model training, 4) services which rely on the network effects from the user base need to have a relevant and usually large user base to provide consistent value, 5) if done manually there support and or dev cost on each account delete request.
That's something of a moot argument, though, since BSM computes prices in terms of the future volatility. Since we have the actual price, the volatility is actually what we solve for with BSM.

Even if we had neither price nor volatility, we can still talk about the surface of possible (price, volatility) pairs which are compatible with the model.
what if the service is a way to manage your data? In my case its a photo library alternative for fitness photos/videos. Take a picture of your handstand every month and store it locally in the app documents folder or on PhotoKit so that you can see improvements over time (nothing is stored in the cloud). I don't know of a way to do that on a mobile website.
Chicken Hypnosis at Home
My dad told me some time ago that for certain "low risk" documents, the EU distributed them in Norwegian to the Danish and Swedish camps, despite Norway not being in EU. The point being that both can read Norwegian sufficiently, and it saved one translation.

Not sure if it's still done this way.
There's recreational drug users, and then there's recreational drug users. Turns out some people I know who microdosed amphetamine took doses exactly in the ballpark of what doctor would prescribe them.
LayerCI (YC S20) Is hiring interns to build devtools for webapps in Canada
Voronoi diagrams and natural neighbor interpolation [video] (with transcript)
Apple fans are doing evil. They just don't realize it. They're too awestruck by the brand to understand the harm it does.

Talk to your legislators. That is the way to fix this tribulation.
I've read a lot of his stuff and have never heard about that. Would you want to provide a link that supports your claim, so I can make an informed decision about continuing to read his generally good, substantive, and interesting content?
It's really the PBMs who have obfuscated the true prices. Check out the formulary incentive structure.
Yes, due to allocation of property rights.

Cease to supply this system with the fruits of your research labors.
I've had the feeling that back in the 80s through the 90s there was a lot of formal design study of UI and UX. Actual scientific studies were taken of what makes for the most efficient and economical graphical UI.

And then the designers came and threw away so much of that knowledge because they wanted to make something that looks good in screenshots. Visible controls are ugly they said, so all buttons and controls get hidden away under some nondescript icon that doesn't even look like an interactive element (maybe 3 lines in the corner or something). Scrollbars are uncool so now they disappear immediately and you just have to know where to look for them. White space is visually pleasing so just fill the screen with it. Old rules about making buttons look like buttons are completely ignored so the screenshot is pretty. Sure you have to hunt around like a blind person in an alley trying to make things actually work, but it sure looks nice doesn't it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeds_There_a_Man...%3F
I guess your best chance in mobile is blocking automatic image loading, at least to avoid tracking pixels.
> why would a sender choose to serve 100,000 copies of the same image from slightly different URLs, when they can just serve it up once?

To provide open tracking, which is a core metric that all of their customers demand and rely on.

There is nothing special about a tracking pixel, it’s just a tiny image file with a personalized URL. Email marketing platforms could easily personalize the URLs of other image files or even all image files.

The costs are asymmetric. The sender only needs one copy of the image file, and a tiny bit of code to map the personalized URLs to that file. But the receiving platform would have to cache every copy of the image separately since they would all have different URLs. Or run some sort deduping scheme across all inboxes and emails, which would also be expensive.
Barrier[0] is a free Synergy fork from before they went commercial. Though I'm tempted to try the commercial version just for something easier to use.

[0] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
> and that Microsoft had taken actions to crush threats to that monopoly, including Apple, Java, Netscape, Lotus Software, RealNetworks, Linux, and others

More than "simply bundling a web browser".
What Are Transformer Neural Networks?
It definitely wouldn't have been too graphic for liveleak a few years ago. There was plenty of cartel videos for example.
Don’t think that’s possible without jailbreaking, sorry!
In Keyboard pref pane, Modifier Keys, you can map other keys to Escape. I mapped Caps Lock.
Because Apple is intentionally limiting the mobile web to force your hand to create an app.

I've been working on hardware that we've been trying to ship using open technology for the protocols so it doesn't need apps. So focusing on things like WebBT and WebUSB which is almost magic, a user can unbox your device go to a website and then do anything you'd possibly want with. But yeah all falls apart the second it needs to work on an iPhone and you're back in the world of having to build an app.

Whole thing works flawlessly with just a webdev team on computers and android devices but because of Apple to ship this vision we need to build a solitary iOS app too.

I say this as an iPhone user too, unfortunately I feel too locked into their platform to leave now.
Which is why I always say "show me the code" or "we accept patches".