skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you can now tell users that you can pay/subscribe on your website but you can’t offer alternative payment in-app (or can you if it’s a webview?)

But can you do that instead of offering in app payment? Or will you be required to have both.

Personably I really don’t want to see alternative payment methods in app unless they follow the same policies and APIs as the existing ones. I hate that Adobe will stop giving my access as soon as I cancel my subscription. I love that I can cancel my Lightroom subscription from Apple’s subscription list with no fuss and have it expire when it’s due.
Show HN: Cofounder Quest — an MS-DOS style game to find my next cofounder
Parent's house.
I watch a video for whatever topic the video title and description leads me to expect I'm going to hear about. A sponsorship segment, no matter how "clever", is still an ad.

> But sponsor segments... sometimes make me actually want to buy the product

That's exactly what I don't want: more sophisticated psychological manipulation that gets me to buy more stuff.
Yep. I've been listening to podcasts since Twitter was the podcast directory Odeo. Also, have been djing for much longer so mixing these worlds in Spotify's ever-changing UI is just a mess. I pay for Spotify premium, but now get ads what seems like every ten minutes in the "premium ad free experience" during his podcast. Often, skipping back 15 seconds to hear something again will trigger ads.
The particular issue is, why specifically mention "sometimes higher" if there are no studies to back up that assertion or if you're going to rationalize your assertion on inferences about statistical noise? "Sometimes", "could", and "can" are doing the work of Atlas here.
It's a genuinely pointless thing to say and somewhat bewildering to see someone continue to defend.

It's important to note the population of those 3 studies.
For generally symptomatic individuals that sought testing, were hospital system patients, or were contact traced individuals, respectively, viral loads(Ct values) are similar between vaccinated and unvaccinated.

Even your first cited paper mentions deficiencies for asymptomatic individuals:
>It is also difficult to determine the rate of asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic breakthrough infections and to ascertain whether viral loads in such cases are as high as those in symptomatic breakthrough infections. The “true” proportion of breakthrough infections with high viral loads would require comprehensive, frequent surveillance testing of vaccinated populations to identify these individuals.

The REACT-1 study data is from a large, random sampling of the population.
Not exactly. It says lack of social housing. In other words, housing for the poor. In the meantime, there is an estimated 10,000 housing units sitting empty in Barcelona.

The problem is that the working class has grown increasingly poorer because of the terrible economy. Fix the economy to fix housing. Something needs to pay for the housing. Trying to fix housing without fixing the economy is a fool's errand.

"Lucía Martín cut her political teeth in the PAH, the housing pressure group. She believes Catalonia - and Spain more widely - is dealing with the fall-out from decades of failing to invest in social housing."

"In Barcelona alone there are an estimated 10,000 empty flats or homes. After the crash of 2008, property prices plummeted and speculation soared. With homelessness still a big problem, unoccupied real estate is a source of grievance, especially as most of it is owned by large firms."

"That is what happened to Mariana Stirbu who moved into a flat in the La Sagrera district of Barcelona with her partner and two children three years ago.
"The two men who rented us the flat seemed like the owners - they were wearing suits and we went to sign the contract. We were paying 750 euros a month, so everything seemed fine," she says."

750 euros is not that much for a family of 4. More detail on flat size would have been helpful. It is roughly 25% less than I paid (together with a roommate) for a 2 bedroom apartment over 25 years ago. That was the US, but this means that Spain is probably at least 25% poorer than the US was 25 years ago.
Who pays for electricity, water, phone and internet? The squatters or the flat owner? How do they a contract in without proof of rental? Property taxes?

Does the policy goes to the house if there is "anonymous" tips of drugs, child abuse?

Will they be able to sleep with heavy/trash metal music directed to their windows 24/7 at
realistic concert levels :-)

So many ideas, so many questions....:-)
Strangely not mentioned in that press release, there's also a new $100 million small developer fund.

https://www.axios.com/apple-settles-developer-class-action-c...

"Apple will also set up a $100 million fund for small developers in the U.S., ranging from a minimum of $250 to $30,000 based on the size of the developer. Eligible developers are those who made less than $1 million during each of five years, a group Apple says represents more than 99 percent of developers."
I don't understand... did anything even really change? Like, "more price points"... but that seems like a non-sequitur :/. A big change would be letting developers make it clear to users how to use alternative payment options, but Apple's press release only says via e-mail... which I guess they insist wasn't allowed before?
Accused Ponzi Schemer Kept Busy
They are allowed to mention them now; is how I interpreted it.
>Why is it better? Because the govt will do anything to avoid such payments. I don’t know, things like building more housing?

The other and easier option is "we won't do it anymore lol" (assuming the government wants to get it implemented in the first place).
I tried Cosmos via the Mongo compatibility layer and performance was abysmal, even when cranking the provisioned performance way up. I ended up getting significantly better performance from a reasonably sized MongoDB container running on AKS.
I've been on Linux for the last four years now and there are only two particular things that are painfully missing:

Stronger hardware driver support from vendors and

Photoshop. (Krita/GIMP/etc just aren't quite there yet, not to mention that most content/tutorials/etc are Photoshop oriented).
If you’re into satellites and space, it’s fascinating to leverage two line element data sets (TLEs) so that you can determine the approximate position of an orbital vehicle at a given point in time. The public data is slightly fudged to reduce precision and accuracy. I’d recommend checking out http://celestrak.com/ and https://www.space-track.org. There’s a company called AGI that has nice SDKs for visualizations. NASA WorldWind is also great for visualizing orbital positions. In a past life, I used these tools quite a bit.
A grocery store every 5 mile costs a ton of fuel to maintain as clients need to drive in. It requires much more roads to be built and bigger ones too. It's not clear at all that it's more efficient when considering the whole picture
I am conflating things in my mind a bit because most of the comments on my own videos that complain about sponsors or other revenue options use the "not as passionate" argument alongside the idea of "Youtube should just be a hobby". My apologies if that came off wrong. But it is inevitable that anyone making videos that is successful will have to treat it as a business because it is work.

Applied Science is a good example of someone who has not gone the sponsor route. He is crowd funded and has a Patreon page that is setup to charge when he releases a video(I'm a patron of his actually). It is still work to make the videos and describe what he's doing and how it works. He could be sponsored, even relevantly, if for example he used a Rigol scope to show something and then talked about it for a bit. But that wouldn't mean he is any less passionate about what he is doing.

The musicians and artists example is different though. Their hobbies produce media as an end result. Publishing it is part of the process. I make videos about vintage computers. My hobby without youtube would just be me sitting alone in a room tinkering. Creating a video out of whatever I'm doing requires deliberate additional effort.
That's an opinion piece by a journalist with a BA in Natural Sciences from 1964, not a virologist or otherwise an expert on any of the topics. His claims have not held up well and the biggest scientist he interviewed (David Baltimore) has backed away from that[1]. As they say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof and he had very little other than speculation.

I mention all of that because even that wobbly claim was still couched in terms like “did” or “could” while the comment I replied to described it as “likely prevailing truth”. We have no evidence and limited data supporting that hypothesis and a number of people pushing it for political reasons, which is rarely helpful to the scientific process.

1. https://nautil.us/issue/102/hidden-truths/when-a-good-scient...
Fastformer: Additive Attention Can Be All You Need [video]
Many would say that comparing San Mateo, arguably part of silicon valley (the center of the technology business world-wide), to Vancouver (we have no real industry unless you count tourism or money laundering[0]) is at best disingenuous.

[0] https://complyadvantage.com/knowledgebase/vancouver-money-la...
Ryerson University to change its name amid reckoning with it's history
Sad thing is: for subscriptions I actually prefer having Apple as a middleman.

Want to cancel a subscription? Cool, just do it through iPhone’s Settings. No questions asked. There. Done. No “call our customer line/chat to cancel your subscription”. Want to renew it? Same place. Prices are clear and no “small print” non-sense.
I remember seeing links to reveddit, a site I made, over this. A competing subreddit claimed censorship [1] by posting low-res screenshots of removed posts [2]. It was just a way to drum up support for their own subreddit. The screenshots were misleading because every subreddit with any history has tons of removed posts, and that's the default view on reveddit. I'm 99% sure most users understood this right away though.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Wuhan_Flu/comments/ev6yhy/the_new_s...

[2] https://i.imgur.com/kL8I8qy.png
I don't think the list of price points was the problem as much as it would be nice to have versioned upgrades. (I.e. FileMaker 2, FileMaker 3, FileMaker 4, and so on under the same listing and with access to old versions). Or, you know, a lower developer cut. Or competitive app stores.

I'm just in the same boat... how did you make that your issue worth agreeing over? That's something Apple might have fixed on a Friday afternoon.
As a highly technical person that writes code, does media, and fixes high-level computer networks and essential systems, the last thing I want is to have to dig into mysterious config files and have to debug every little thing that goes wrong with installing a piece of software. I can give up a certain degree of control and customization in exchange for a stable operating system and desktop environment that lets me get my work done. This is why I use macOS for the desktop.
Still around 1% of his annual take home!
In Microsoft Excel: “radar chart”.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. I'm a creator too. I was talking about the marketing side of the business only and not about substitution of the those platforms.
Godot sorely needed a major title so this is a great win for the engine. I hope in the future there will be better communication between godot and more professional teams trying to ship games. I couldn’t help but feel that sometimes they were stuck in an indie-dev echo chamber. Looking forward to watching Godot mature more, a big kudos to their devs and community who have been driving this engine for years!
I am glad to hear that you are all well.
I am not sure that you can necessarily attribute your luck to the effectiveness of the vaccine, especially if none of you had known risk factors.
He said this particular thing on QI, a British panel show: https://youtu.be/E9PSg0sQyfs
I’m not. Why are you giving consumers a pass?
Ballast: Tungsten vs. Lead
https://medium.com/@niaow/a-big-little-problem-a-tale-of-big...
Internet hygiene best practices tell you to ignore advice that starts up saying that some tech/tool/language is “literally” dog shit.

The argument might even be valid sometimes, but the extreme and onesided view damages your learning.
> A big change would be letting developers make it clear to users how to use alternative payment options, but Apple's press release only says via e-mail

It really says something that "allowing" businesses to communicate certain information with their own customers via an independent channel was considered a concession in this settlement. I'm still wrapping my head around it.
Ahh.. but I’m pretty sure a public health emergency would negate the voucher anyways.
The unvaccinated are volunteering themselves as breeders for the next stronger and nastier version of covid, and they pose an active danger to those who cannot be vaccinated.
One of many Govt focused RF companies. Start from Watkins Johnson and look at the spinoffs, although they've mostly absorbed into Bigger defense contractors at this point Boeing bought DRT in '07?

This site has a good history http://blackradios.terryo.org/index.html
Noam Chomsky advocated for conspiracists to be allowed to talk freely.

Who really cares? I bet plenty of people who believe in those conspiracies vaccinated anyway.

Conspiracy is mostly a illness of belief. It doesn't really matter, it's just kids expressing pointless things, but I'm the end those kids will obey and do the good thing.

There is nothing that is fixable about this.
Kudos for getting this MVP out with a family and a full-time job… not an easy feat.
I've installed NixOS over wifi a few times, most recently for a desktop that wasn't next to my router and that I didn't feel like relocating to connect via ethernet. The fully featured install ISO (not the minimal version) comes with a GNOME desktop environment and you can point-and-click to set up your wifi for the install.

However, a fun trick I learned recently is to tether your phone to your computer while installing any Linux distro. My phone's tether connection over USB just looks like ethernet (as far as I can tell), so there is less fiddling around. My Android phone can tether to my wifi as well, so no need to use your cellular data.
My bicycle commute (and walking and running commute, depending on weather and mood) is one of the highlights of my day due in part to minimal waiting for other vehicles.
SARS-CoV-2 RBD antibodies that maximize breadth and resistance to escape
I think it's important to wait for the final language from the settlement. After all, the original PR Post from Apple doesn't actually mention the $100 million fund that Axios does.
While it may be a solution to your immediate problem, there can be consequences to developing a "relationship" with those who operate outside the law. (Because now 1) know your identity; 2) know you are to some extent nonchalant about operating within the bounds of the law; 3) know you have money; and 4) now have evidence of your extralegal actions.)

Working to reform suboptimal laws may be difficult, but it is a better investment than handing your money to organized crime.
Many of the comments here casting doubt on the complexity of IDE have me wondering how many of you mainly worked with drives you bought new. The author touches on it briefly, but jumper settings were not obviously nor consistently labelled. (Same goes for geometry which was also needed.) If you didn't have the documentation that came with the drive then you had to go hunting on BBSes or FTP sites (if you had access to the Internet) for the information. Resorting to trial-and-error when you couldn't find that particular drive model in any of the text files. The author also doesn't go into how some jumper blocks were not merely bridging pairs of pins, but had configurations with jumpers at right angles to each other. Which I assume may have been a resister array, but it could also have been dummy positions used to prevent you from losing the jumper you might need later.

ATAPI solved a lot of problems of course, but came with some of its own. Notably that if the drive, BIOS, and OS couldn't all agree the wouldn't do DMA. I recall Windows 95 bug that erroneously dropped the hard drive into PIO mode and made everything slow to a crawl.
Is that idiotic? Kicking a Family out of a home when they have a small child should be difficult by default. I understand this can be abused, but wouldn’t you rather the law protect the vulnerable rather than the multiple property owner? (I mean no disrespect by that, I think it’s fine to own multiple properties, but to play victim here seems a little bit much)
If there’s a contradiction it’s that it wasn’t bread versus cake. It was bread or nothing.

IDE cards were under $10 at times. SCSI devices were made from unobtainium.
This is the same country that says it's legal to murder people if you smoke marijuana: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/world/europe/sarah-halimi...

France is a disgusting country, and I will never set foot in it again.
It's true for many projects, and I usually stop using them after it happens for the first time. Eventually, some software remains, against odds, stable. If not in the defaults, then after I apply my text-based, human-readable, source-matchable configuration files.

Also, I recently found Chicago 95 and am very pleased with the results of that five-minute shellscript :D
Not releasing a statement sounds like a good option to me. Even better would be simply not "spinning" it. I don't see what's obvious about it. Companies don't have to behave dishonestly.
100 Salesforce employees work in its 61-story HQ
https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/issues/552

Downloads and execs unexamined code released by the devs, potentially backdooring your whole machine solarwinds-style.

It also divulges to MSFT (GitHub admins) all the IPs of Bitwarden users (even ones using a selfhosted API).
I'd have called it "OPTIONSCOMMANDER.COM".
Apple get's to keep it's same commission ?

Smells like a "sell out" by plantiffs attorney so he doesn't have to go to trial . . . attorney's get millions - - devs get little, as usual.
Doesn't need to be cool. The prevailing attitude has always been basically that JIRA sucks, but 3/4 of devs are using it and the alternatives are worse.
Let's be clear about this: this settlement means that Apple is offering developers less than what they believe they would be forced to provide by law. There is never any other business logic behind these settlements.

This is just another brick on the "benevolent monopoly" road.
An interesting observation for me in my local circles is the difference between friends’ grandparents (89-90+) and our parents (60+) when it comes to maintaining their health. Barring genetic diseases, it would appear that our grandparents stayed healthier longer before requiring help while our parents are in poorer health at a younger age.
Less than that even. It's a noble metal and doesn't like to react under normal conditions, though hitting it with a blowtorch might ruin your day.
I don't understand your point at all. What's an absentee landlord in your book? A landlord who doesn't live in the place they are renting out? I would assume that's - all of them?
It's inherently a broadband device, with no output filtering. No surprise that the output is full of harmonics. I built several application specific RF front ends for Ettus SDR's at a previous job, it's mandatory for any kind of professional use.
I don't understand why the App Store, this small "side business" in the grand scheme of things, is something Apple is worth fighting and dying over.

It's literally, a small fraction of their revenue, and yet it grabs 80% of the bad PR and is now under investigation and proposed legislation in the US, UK, EU, Korea, and I think Australia.

If I'm Apple, shouldn't it be obvious at this point that losing the App Store monopoly is inevitable, a when instead of an if? And yet...
> Apple is also clarifying that developers can use communications, such as email, to share information about payment methods outside of their iOS app.

It's pretty clear that they're not allowing advertising alternative options in the app itself. You need to have some kind of a secondary communication channel with the user, which basically no app maker will be able to establish.

To further support this interpretation, note that the text is explicitly claiming that this is just a clarification of the policy, not a change in policy.
Job Number One: Go Out and Get Checks…

Ogilvy wrote about the hunt for clients. Essentially, he started with a very selective direct mail campaign.
"The Simpsons Did It"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTLYris4kJU
Korea has a housing lottery where they give you first dibs on a new apartment at an extremely discounted price with financial assistance. Due to demand, this housing is difficult to get even at full price. However this lottery is only available to first-time homeowners. So my friend chose to do cheonsae instead of outright buying a place to save his housing lottery ticket.

Usually cheonsae deposit is less than 100% of the purchase price, so it costs less. Even if the difference is small (10%), you are guarded from drops in real estate value. If you put down $90,000 deposit you should get back exactly $90,000 even if the property value dropped below that.

And perhaps cheonsae loans are easier to get than house mortgages. I'm not sure about this, but the deposit may be better collateral than the property?
The big win is memory. Half the memory/cache usage and half the bandwidth. For SIMD you'll want 32 bit floats. But in many cases instead of reaching for SIMD you should go to compute shaders, which are definitely going to be 32 bit. And of course any graphics shaders will be using 32 bit floats.
> did anything even really change?

Nope, that's the point of coming out in front like this and donating 100 million dollars towards keeping the status quo in place. To me, it reads as an insult to anyone who thinks their processes are democratic.
You'd be surprised how little of the important research information makes it onto the internet in an easily digestible format. I work with battery researchers and there's a huge amount of collective knowledge about what papers are fake, which researchers are frauds, or can generally be trusted etc. that is not documented anywhere online but easily available through in-person conferences and coffee chats.

The fact that the internet makes information widely available to everyone is exactly why this kind of critical information about who should and shouldn't be trusted never gets shared, it'd lead to immediate heated conflict that would consume the participants' lives. So (generally) no one shares these things.

But without that knowledge you're wading through a sea of plausible looking garbage.
Those trackers see if you can drive calmly most of the time, which I imagine isn't nearly as age-dependent as a sim that tests emergency reaction time.
and if virus keeps mutating... twice-annual booster shots all over the earth?

I really hope we don't end up with a Marek's disease, but in humans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%27s_disease#Prevention
For me the first a is reduced to almost nothing, the second is a long vowel and the last is a schwa.
I just come here for the self help blog posts honestly
I'd stick to public companies and run sentiment analysis on all tickers and company mentions. Then identify the correlation between positive sentiment and historical market return. I'm sure there are at least a few funds incorporating this data into some portion of a portfolio.
Variance overlapping isn't a reason to discount this analysis. Also note that the variance narrows substantially for older age groups. So effectively what the variance says is that some younger people are vastly more responsible drivers than other young people but older people tend to be more responsible in general.
Excel autocorrect errors still plague genetic research