skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does Fanhouse work?

> We pay creators 90% of earnings. Now, Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse from the app store unless we give them 30% of creator earnings.

Apple doesn't know anything about how much Fanhouse gives to creators. They just want their 30% (15% up to a million) for digital content transactions made within the app.

If someone pays $10 in the Fanhouse app then Apple is going to ask for $3 (or $1.50 if they haven't made $1 million so far this year or last year).

I understand that Fanhouse wants to give $9 of those dollars to the creator. They can, but they still owe their fee to Apple. Unfortunately that ends up being more money than the whole transaction so the economics just don't work.

What amount is fair for Apple to charge for payment processing and the infrastructure to actually make the purchases?
Politics After the Fall?
Great idea! My girlfriend wished quite a time ago to get a "personalized website" for her birthday. Now I know what to sent her ;)
Is this affected by external magnetic fields, or other interference that a hard-wired connection is immune to?

I'm not in the habit of waving magnets around near CPUs, but I worry about susceptibility to EMI and transients.
> For facebook, it was decimating any local ISP growth by snatching their market

When the hated big guys move, there is always the suspect that somehow, somewhere, somebody else could have done it better, or with less externalities or with less publicity or with less branding or in a way that it's local.

It's not the act itself which troubles people. People will always find a way to hate on Zuckerberg, Bezos, Brin or Gates.

Now that Netscape went belly up everybody suddenly imagines a world where if only Microsoft was broken up then we'd all live in a Jetsons type future with flying cars and tubes carrying us around, all thanks to Netscape
The GitHub.com namespace is quite limited, though. I wonder if they had to delete or rename anyone's GitHub account or org for creating this page or if it was preserved for a long time.
I've been playing since the same time.

My favorite version on the PC was called I think something like "ultimate" angband... it had code to procedurally generate vaults - larger open rooms that were oval, round, or other non rectangular shapes (within character set limits) with various geometric side chambers - on random levels that were stuffed with both out of depth monsters and out of depth treasure.

Deciding how and when to approach those was an exercise in itself, and the rewards were worth it.

It also had monsters that would breed explosively, as in between your moves. In the time it took you to take three steps toward a pile of louses (lice), they would multiply from 5 to 12 total. Fun stuff.
Exactly, what's the catch?

How does Microsoft come to own all of open-source? That's the plan, right?
Hi HN! I previously released a Rubygem for generating animated Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulations, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871080

That gem was created for this video, which tries to explain the algorithms and applications behind the animations.

I submitted my blog post with a transcript for the video, but you can get to the video directly here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxOAU7YfypA
The fact that Black-Scholes has only one unknowable parameter makes it quite usable, more so than more complicated option pricing models. You can work backwards from the market price to solve for the implied volatility, treating it as a generalized 'price' for the option after factoring out things that are easily adjusted for. You can also abuse the implied volatility (adjusting it up or down) to account for factors outside of the idealized model.
This seems to be just another small step towards a future where only pre-approved websites are accessible via the method most people will use. It will not be called banning, this is just a measure to "ensure that the content we are serving to our users is held against our high quality standards" or the classic "it's to protect the children" or to "condemn terrorism".

Porn is not really Illegal, just unwanted, which is apparently reason enough to block it. Does this mean any content which is "unwanted" can be blocked just like that?
It’s more like having a shop in a mall.

Apple doesn’t take 30% of anything using their phones. They take 30% of anything installed and bought using their walled garden/app store/api/etc. Similar to Windows store, Xbox, ps, steam, etc etc.

I used to be annoyed at Nintendo and Sega requiring their cut, but got used to it.

What makes it different is that Apple isn’t a monopoly. You can use Android or PCs or whatever.

If we want this to change, we probably need some version of right to repair that forces “right to sideload.”
>It looks like a very high-stakes play by Blackrock

In what sense? That housing could collapse in price after they made a large investment in it (and since housing is a huge market, Blackrock could have leveraged up to a higher amount than typical)?

Market cap of Apple is over $2 Trillion, they could have leveraged pretty far into this too.
> Doesn't matter how good the tests are, by the time you've "reconstructed the code" from tests you're out of business. Running code with no tests makes money. Tests with no running code don't.

^^ comment from someone named hobbs

Exactly. Users can tolerate an app that's kinda broken in some ways, but tests don't make money. In fact tests can often cost money anyway if they're not testing what's really important. No matter what, there are going to be parts of your code that simply cannot be described by the tests that were written.
Yep, Big Sur update. Unfortunately I can't map to Caps Lock because I have a habit of hitting that key a lot and in most apps I use Escape does a lot of unpleasant things when you hit it accidentally. Another commenter mentioned using Control+[ which seems to work for me.
If you have a Mac that has a physical escape key, great. :)

(My impression is that escape-key-free Macs are an anomaly that Apple is now quietly trying to sweep under the rug; AFAIK, all current Macs have physical escape keys, and there are persistent rumors the whole Touch Bar idea is being replaced by a new revolutionary Apple invention called "function keys".)
You are welcome to look at the leaked documents[0], and they have a nice table showing cuts for all kinds of transactions on Microsoft Store.

Looks like currently it is 30% for games, 15% for apps and app subscriptions, and they were exploring reducing the game-related cuts down to 12%. Microsoft spokesperson's reply to those leaked documents was "we have no plans to change the revenue share for console games at this time".

Though I am not sure how much the 15% (microsoft cut for app-related purchases) vs. 30% (apple's cut, or 15% if the devs haven't made over $1 million in revenue this year or the year before) difference matters here, because I am struggling to figure out how the 15% vs. 30% difference makes one a monopoly. If that's the argument, then what's the magic number threshold that makes you a monopoly after you cross it? And how does Apple's reduced cut of 15% for devs with under $1mil in revenue play into that?

0. https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/2/22415712/microsoft-xbox-st...
Synced Unwinding
Meth does not make you crave any type of food. If that were the case Desoxyn would not be FDA approved for weight loss.

“Meth mouth” is caused by the fact that it dries your mouth out, you grind your teeth a LOT, and is often observed in people that have used drugs long/hard enough to find themselves no longer taking care of their health in general, let alone oral hygiene. This often is coupled with financial ruin and utter alienation from society. Somehow, mysteriously, all of the rich house wives and Silicon Valley coders that use it develop meth mouth at a lower rate.
and bikes
France is sitting on an economy that hasn't net expanded in inflation-adjusted terms since approximately 1980. Forty years of stagnation, you'd think a nation would consider what it's doing wrong. Their position and importance in the world has collapsed over the past half century - and that's only going to get worse yet.

It's pretty clear how that middle finger exercise is going to turn out for France. The British at least, for their part, are riding the global language (which gives them all manner of advantages, not least of which is cultural export which helps to maintain relevance).

(and no, Mandarin does not have a future in that language role, China's population will rapidly decline and Mandarin is extremely difficult to learn, while simultaneously the global population that speaks English will continue to expand; in 50 years more people will be speaking English and fewer people will be speaking Mandarin)
Not meant to be sarcastic. A single, web-based company could offer wonderful coveniences for web users if 1. they know what "all" people are searching for on the web 2. they are enabled (by finance) and allowed (by law) to acquire any other company that aims to serve the needs of "all" people searching for stuff on the web. #1 is a capability held by no other company on the planet, except Google. The point is that a single, all-knowing company offering such wonderful conveniences is not necessary responsible for creating them. First, they had to 1. spy on peoples' searches to determine what stuff people were looking for on the web and 2. acquire other companies that had already worked out how to best provide that stuff. If the all-knowing company did not exist, the other companies providing the stuff that people were searching for would still exist. The all-knowing company is initially just a middleman. In some cases this middleman has not been content to simply connect people with the companies providing the stuff and take a cut (through selling advertising services). Rather, the middleman seeks to acquire the companies and provide the stuff itself (enhancing its spying capabilities).
It's back now. Isupme and the like were reporting it down for everyone, when I posted the above
Ignorance is bliss. Most projects and even many formal standards don't even think to consider such questions, let alone try to answer them.

X.509 builds on ASN.1, which incorporates ISO 8601, which in turn incorporates IEC 60050-111. Unfortunately, as elucidated in this thread, the relevant portion of X.509 is still underspecified--it uses the term "inclusive" without resolving ambiguity related to intervals and granularity, which it could have done by using formulas provided by ASN.1, ISO 8601, or IEC 60060-111.
I wonder when we'll see the last GUIs, and everything will be speech-based.
A fake UI screen? Wow, that's useful. Good thing there isn't an easily verifiable public ledger with the true value of the account that the criminals can check while holding you at gunpoint.

Meanwhile, you expect people to have cold storage where? IIRC, they cannot just memorize a private key, but they need an actual file on a device.
According to my understanding, Jovo seems to be a rather light-weigh framework based on Javascript/Typescript to build voice experiences e.g. for Alexa, Google Assistant, etc. I have not tried it out yet, but it seems to be a cool project to build these kinds of experiences primarily around voice.

In comparison, Airy is a much more resource-intense backend service running conversational infrastructure that you couldn't run on comparable hardware. Airy is designed to run in the cloud giving you a Kubernetes cluster with all the components to stream conversational data at enterprise-scale. For now, we primarily focus on text-based communication, but could theoretically also support transcription and processing of voice based messages or live videos.
> that ersatz of the English language, which narrows the scope of one’s thoughts, and restricts one’s ability to express him or herself

This sounds awfully close to Sapir–Whorf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
It's a major issue in South Africa too with bank accounts being raided.

Bank says not my problem if your password got compromised. Cellphone provider says not my problem - SMS was never advertised/intended as secure.

So the user just has to deal with bank account being drained
This is absolutely ridiculous. The code is the product, without it, the company is out revenue the entire time that the application is being re-written to match the tests.
I think embracing english as the main language of the EU is the worst idea since Brexit. It’s anything but neutral. It’s a concession made to the brits and a trojan for the Americans. They left, they can f right off and take their piss poor excuse of a language with them. It works for programming, insults and not much else. If they hadn’t joined the EU to sabotage it, maybe english wouldn’t be as popular in the EU.

Let’s force the 3 letter agencies to improve their deep learning NLP models for other languages.

Nobody speaks it in the EU, but if we’re going with popular languages i also don’t think mandarin would be an appropriate language.

I’m french and I think there should be a common EU language, and for political purpose it should a truly neutral language, like Esperanto or another novlang.

(Or maybe french should become the lingua franca of the EU if French official communications to the EU could only be in German)

Latin is rooted in catholicism, which is anything but neutral in terms of history and human rights.

Let’s level the playing field a bit, there is enough english in the world.

[this post made in english, and I write most often in english because nobody reads french compared to english]
Esperanto is the Linux of languages.
I was on Adderall 10mg a day. Worked as advertised. ADHD under control. Chronic fatigue fixed.

Every portion of my body felt like it was being burned from the inside. I had to start tramadol to counter act the pain.

It also upped cranial pressure. Causing a lot of secondary problems.

This was made much worse as dosage went up.

I had to stop it before downward spiral completely destroyed me.

Vyvanse was a mild version of all this.

Can’t imagine anything more intense.
I'm not sure it's quite that simple - they've held the Presidency multiple times in this period but as far as I know they've not performed an action like this. There's certainly something going on, but it's not just a hissy fit. As others have mentioned it's only for the duration of the French presidency, it'll probably get switched to English when the Czech presidency begins.
If you watch Apple they're doing everything within their power to make sure this doesn't happen.

Current day because they've neglected Macs so much over the past few years your Mac is now mostly just a shell to run a jumble of electron apps (I used to love Mac Cocoa apps but can't even name one that has launched in the past 2 years) but if you follow what they're doing they'd prefer it if it was a selection of iPadOS apps instead.
Gambling your entire net worth on a single hyper-local investment is not a good idea.
I was watching an interview with Tom Christiansen (he owns Neurochrome, a company that makes very high-end DIY amplifier designs/kits, with THDs of 0.0001%).

He mentioned something about how resistor noise can actually track with the low frequency portions of the audio signal due to the resistor literally heating up and cooling down as the current through it varies. I thought that was interesting. I knew that noise was proportional to heat, but I didn't realize the temperature could vary that quickly, but I guess it makes sense when you're dealing with tiny parts. There are probably also localized hot spots that have less thermal mass than the entire resistor as a whole.

The interview is posted in this thread:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/t...
Thank you! I'm always saying "English is the Lingua Franca of the tech world"...and no one ever gets the joke.
This behavior isn't limited to France. French Canada sure would like it if more people spoke French.
Backing up just a bit, what right does a state have to declare a web application a public utility? The jibber jabber about how Google might affect Ohio businesses seems just a distraction from the basic issue. A public utility is generally a business within the state that delivers essential services, like water and power, to areas in which there is no reasonable alternative, i.e., as local monopolies. If the internet itself is not considered a public utility - and indeed companies like Comcast and AT&T that deliver the internet as mostly local monopolies are not regulated as public utilities - how can a mere application on the web be considered a public utility? Even if it were, this would seem to be a matter for federal, not state, jurisdiction. The lawsuit seems more a publicity stunt than a serious action.
Angband was the first software I ever released! I loved the game so much, but it was not OS X native. I set out to "carbonize" Angband to run natively, and later I even rewrote it in Cocoa, with better text rendering and other goodies. The Cocoa rewrite got merged as the Mac front end.

http://ridiculousfish.com/angband/

https://github.com/angband/angband/pull/64
> well would be good to clarify, because there's no project that followed that is better on fundamental level.

This is also a statement that need clarifying. What do you even mean when you say "on fundamental level"?

> lots of solutions that trade decentralization and independence for performance, lots of hype and marketing, lots of bells and whistles of questionable value, lots of money being made in scams and rug-pulls.

All of this can be said about btc too. Except the part about trading decentralization and independence for performance. Btc has really bad performance and decentralization and independence (from what?) can be questioned.
I, for one, welcome our new thirsty AI overlords.

But more seriously this is great stuff for preservation, and other, purposes.
TC Energy scraps Keystone XL pipeline project after Biden revokes key permit
90 days is our choice, 90 days and one second validity isn’t necessarily an issue.

The issue is that we said in our CPS that the lifetime was exactly 90 days, and then we did something different, even if just by one second. The problem here is behavioral consistency with our own published policies.

We now just say “less than 100 days.” An unfortunate side effect of being more specific and informative in these documents (e.g. saying our certs have 90 days validity) is that it ups our chances of noncompliance if we are off on something by a bit, even if it is a meaningless bit. There is an incentive to not be so specific so as to avoid situations like this.
Zero to Free Launch
They should just flip the ECs English Style Guide to use Americanisms whenever possible (short of flipping the date and numerical formats or using freedum units).

Teach everyone to spell it "color" in Europe if you want to be petty back at the Brits.
Oh, I did not know all of that. I would agree those policies are ridiculous.
I am not forgetting anything. It is indeed true that fastmail is broken for Russians in Russia. And trying to tunnel out to fastmail just to mail back in to Russia makes little sense.

Also broke are all Russian email users who have to send to or receive from the free worlds fastmail accounts. Would seem this is just Russia damaging Russians.
Too many people actually speak Klingon, and it was invented in the US. Non-starter.
I don’t know anyone who is doing half gram dabs lol. That’s like $25 in one hit. A gram of concentrate is supposed to last a while (20+ dabs) not a single hit or two.
I took a guided tour of the main Tempelhof airport building back in 2015. Some highlights:

* The main hall's ceiling was originally significantly higher, making a very imposing space. After the war, the Americans insisted a false ceiling was put in to make the hall less impressive. The room was damaged during the war by fire and all this damage remains above the false ceiling and is accessible. The tour actually took us up there.

* Construction of the airport had to halt during the war and some areas were hastily completed. We were shown areas where the attractive stone facade had fallen away and there was rubble stuck together by mortar behind.

* Hitler had a private terminal with a private elevator leading down to the boarding area

* There are bomb shelters with original uplifting drawings on the wall. https://twitter.com/prchovanec/status/1177225021162479616/ph...

* There's a full size basketball court from the american air base that was once there
These are not fake accounts, but actual developers in our community who have been using Garnet. While a couple of these accounts could be newly created (as not everyone has a HN account, and we announced the launch in our community forum), all comments are actual, and anyone is free to share their opinion on the project (negative or positive). We’d really appreciate if you don’t sabotage the post by responding on every comment, but would love to hear your actual feedback.
More Knowledge Is Bad
The article specifically mentions a previous study that showed that gains from short rests were greater than those from sleep:

> In a previous study, led by former NIH postdoctoral fellow Marlene Bönstrup, M.D., Dr. Cohen’s team showed that most of these gains happened during short rests, and not when the subjects were typing. Moreover, the gains were greater than those made after a night’s sleep and were correlated with a decrease in the size of brain waves, called beta rhythms.
This indeed prevents me from tracking. I should have been more clear that my "real" goal is that privacy-sensitive readers will be able to see images. I think these people won't know that the image isn't unique, and so won't load the images.
Decades-old ASCII adventure NetHack may hint at the future of AI
There's a whole range of things that an app can do/infer on a system that a web page in a browser can't.

Things like processes that are running, RAM, battery life, and more.
Duh! My bad. I don't use Twitter, so I just glanced at the page and saw the tweet at the top was from 2016. I didn't notice it was an old 'pinned tweet'
I recreated my mfib example as a Starboard notebook:

https://starboard.gg/timcwinkler/mfib-nC0Am5G

Very nice looking!

One difference from js+help.html, with it outputs are also saved.
Compiler royalties, anyone?
Just have to say, a half gram dab is a fat dab. I'm sure some people do vaporize all of that at once. However, even with complete inhalation and 'swishing' it in their lungs, they will be wasting a lot of it on the exhale.
Thanks for the info and your service. I hope they take durability in mind when making these. The HoloLens does seems like something more for the second case (higher ups) than ground pounders.

> The rest of your anecdote was really interesting, thanks for sharing!

No problem :) of course what I typed is simplistic but such is the case for mediums like these

I recommend Al Basheer Show if you want to know more, think John Stewart but Iraq, I linked some English episodes

Confessionalism in post 2003 Iraq - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-KVPWXWlNk

Infamous PM Nouri al Maliki - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbPMDBebSRk

Current Protests against the government, assassination's of civil rights activists and intellectual figures by Iranian backed militias - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc0EOr_Rq_w
According to wayback machine Sandy McMurray [0] used to own it [1], but it has been commandeered for quite some time as well [2].

[0] https://readme.tumblr.com/

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090709114358/github.com/readme

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160218095949/github.com/readme
This is so timely. I made this with a buddy of mine to help us figure out optimal allocation for stocks in a portfolio using Kelly.
https://engine.oracled.com/
It's been such a long time since i looked at it that i don't think i have much useful to say, i'm afraid!