skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or, more interestingly, game consoles...
The only difficult problem I see with "optional" remote work is that remote workers will almost inevitably lose in office politics.
> Notably, the judge rejected both parties’ definition of the marketplace at issue in the case. “The relevant market here is digital mobile gaming transactions, not gaming generally and not Apple’s own internal operating systems related to the App Store,” Gonzalez-Rogers wrote.

I guess the question is does Mobile gaming cover handheld game device like Switch? If so, it may impact Steam Deck as well.
Thanks, I read the proof [1] again a lot more carefully last night, and really failed to formalize my point.

I tried to reason about it in different ways. Such as, for case 1, considering Z(Z) halts. I don't think it's unreasonable to say that H(Z,Z) could in fact return true. It could read the code for Z, determine that Z(Z) will loop since H(Z,Z) would return false, return true, and then Z(Z) would halt since H(Z,Z) returned true. No immediate contradiction.

Problem is that doesn't completely eliminate the contradiction, it just introduces another one. Even if Z(Z) halts and H(Z,Z) returns false, you could argue backwards and say that the only way for Z(Z) to halt is if H(Z,Z) returns true, but H(Z,Z) can't return two different results.

Part of me still doesn't like the negator program. Too many contradictions. Apparently there are constructive proofs for the halting problem too, which I don't understand yet, so the rabbit hole continues.

Thanks again for engaging.

[1]: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cs5234/FAQ/halt.html
> I am referring to the Chromium open source project. Not the derivatives. You can argue that everyone removes it, but that further shows how unwanted it is.

Nobody is disagreeing that FLoC is unwanted though. It's a completely irrelevant point. There is no browser monoculture and there is no browser-engine monoculture. We've mentioned 3 engines and at least 5 browsers here. You're arguing that Google is in complete control of Chromium as if that means anything, when every Chromium based browser is not simply dancing to Google's tune.

> Still very small. Less than 20%?

More than Firefox and it absolutely defies your point that there is a monoculture. There is not.

> The difference is the lack of corporate malice...

Yeah it's so malicious that you can turn it right off if you wish to or just use a different browser seeing as how there is no monoculture.

> Not particularly sure what you mean here - this is just showing that edge is also contributing to the browser monoculture...

You keep using that word but I don't think you know what it actually means. There simply is no monoculture, not in browsers and not in browser engines. Sorry to break it to ya, but you're completely wrong on that point and no amount of illogical rationalization will make it true.
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However the voltage on alkaline batteries drops pretty linearly from 1.5v to 1.0v, while rechargeables maintain close to 1.2V for most of their discharge, then drops off quickly:

https://www.boat-project.com/tutorials/aa_batteries.htm

That's why rechargeables work in most devices, since alkalines are 1.2v or below for a good chunk of their useful life anyway, most devices are designed to work fine with 1.2v.

If a device actually needs 1.3+V to function properly, alkalines won't last long, you'll want to use 1.5V lithium batteries.
Right, but the only reason for that is it prevents circumvention. I would assume after this injunction they will allow using apple pay in order to re-capture some of that revenue.
Hi! I head the data team at Vouch. The TC piece highlights some of what we are building.

Got any questions about what our day to day is like, what we are working on, or our team's technical vision? We're growing our data and engineering teams - if you've got questions, I'm happy to answer.
Can't help but ask, but as a security pro, what would the consequences be if we just let it burn?
Even valuing lives at $0 the economic benefits of vaccination are much higher than the costs.
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> What are the chances this actually happens? And when?

If new laws/regulations are made which are clear about this, then potentially very soon.

For such thinks sadly "making more clear laws" is sometimes faster then "enforcing not fully clear laws".
Likewise with video streaming services: Netflix, Disney+, etc. It would be nice if content could be unbundled from distributor in this case - like what you see with music.
Sick people are far far more profitable than those few bucks for vaccines. If you add long covid then pharma is missing out on a goldmine.
I actually do try to stay away from cars. I think we are absolutely horrible at addressing risk accurately, and someday when we have some sort of carless society (or maybe self-driving cars?) we will not understand how we could possibly have accepted the mortality rates associated with cars. Not to mention the less immediate effects on long term health from exhaust, etc.

Although I feel you were trying to make the opposite case, I think events like COVID should illuminate the dangers and inadequacies of other elements of our lives. If you've read "The Maniac of New York" comic, it makes a similar point: a murderer that can't be stopped eventually just becomes accepted by society. Perhaps we have recency bias with COVID, but we have a more worrying complacency bias with other elements of our lives, like cars. Dramatic life extensions and quality of life improvements come when people stop accepting that "meh, people get sick and die," and instead get curious and start pushing for "burdensome" things like public sanitation.

Perhaps more importantly though, the ICU is getting filled up and causing other unrelated ailments to become worse. This isn't the case with most the other things you listed.

> babies have 0.6% chance of dying around birth

This one is hard to avoid unfortunately, unless you believe in Pixar's "pre life" world from "Soul". Also, arguably avoiding it leads to 100% mortality depending on how you count "not living". Neither here nor there, but I wasn't really a fan of that movie.
They should introduce scales in addition to big events, since we know the obese are the main ones that overflow the hospitals. Pandemic over 1.5yrs now.. Plenty of time to do your job and lose weight.
Generally, I smoke a joint, and then I start with a few wiki's or news stories on the subject matter to try and find the hook that'll hold my sustained interest. At some point, I'll find that hook and then I'll go down the rabbit hole. Learning is then automatic and incidental.
tl;dr: Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchases, rules judge in Epic v. Apple.

The Verge has updated coverage here: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22662320/epic-apple-rulin...
Why would the app store model stop working? Paying through the app store has a direct benefit to usability. Before in app purchases the app store model worked fine.

Even if the Epic lawsuit goes completely off the rails and Apple is forced to allow external app stores on iOS, they can still maintain a profitable app store if they provide the best experience to end users. Building an app store is very hard, and convincing people to install an alternative store is even harder, so I doubt they'll lose much there.

The app store is so ludicrously profitable that the exclusivity they enjoy can't possibly be the only reason it's making them money. This cut into Apple's (and Google's) profits, but it certainly won't mean the end of app stores as we know them.
Yeah, I suppose deaths are always possible from anything. You could give out a million lollipops and someone would choke. Someone has probably had an infection just from the needle itself.
Microsoft Flight Simulator (before version 3) was another. The DOS view of the disk contained a single file, FS.COM, 60 bytes long.
Note Epic also has to pay 30% damages.

> On the counterclaim, in favor of Apple on the counterclaim for breach of contract. Epic Games shall pay (1) damages in an amount equal to (i) 30% of the $12,167,719 in revenue Epic Games collected from users in the Fortnite app on iOS through Epic Direct Payment between August and October 2020, plus (ii) 30% of any such revenue Epic Games collected from November 1, 2020 through the date of judgment, and interest according to law.
Google Devices are anything but owned by customers. You don’t have anything yours there, not even your data, location.. anything. Wake up.
Quantity of users is irrelevant. Obviously Android has more users.

We are specifically talking about launching an early stage consumer startup pre product-market-fit in the US.
I have the original handbook somewhere in my basement. Good read.
Steam doesn't prevent games from linking to alternative payment processors in-app.
Does this also apply (as precedent) to Epic vs Google?
> Lisp won't work in software like HaProxy

Not with that attitude.
> need to see that you use it

You mean "want". I'm sure if we let them, they'd try to convince us they also "need" to monitor our diet and exercise (and whatever else would incidentally be recorded) to make sure we're following doctor's recommendations on that.
Dodging the question would be a non-ruling. The judge issued an injunction. It's in the title of the post.
Hey HN,

If you haven't read it already, David Burn's Feeling Good, is a fantastic book to help you diagnose and improve your mood.

In the book, he has a test that he asks you to take, which gives you a score for the severity of your depression. Whenever I fall into a gloomy mood, I often start logging my score, to see both the severity, and how it's changing.

To make it easier, turned it into an app on hacking weekend.

It's very simple, and only does one thing. However, may add more features down the road (already have a desire to log "negative thoughts", and rebuttals to them)
I hope that's not his reasoning, because it is rather lazy. In order to know whether or not a phenomenon is a problem that matters you need to get an understanding of what is "normal" or not. Fraud is common in all fields in life. Someone who obsesses over the fraud present in one ideological wing of their field and nothing else would not be someone that I take seriously, personally.
Ada 83 had one, however production deployment scenarios never required one so Ada 2005 dropped it, and nowadays thanks to SPARK and controlled types is not required anyway.

Additionally Ada controls many types directly like strings and vectors, and storage pools.

I recommend the FOSDEM talk about Ada memory management.
> It then leaves a bigger argument for reversal on appeal.

The argument is not "bigger". It is exactly the same. If we're not a monopoly (Apple), how can we be anti-competitive?
It will be interesting to see how many small companies figure out that tax and general compliance is worth every penny that Apple charges them. Smart ones will opt for a seller of record approach, but many will get burnt.
In App Payments does not equal Apple Pay

tl;dr IAP DNE Pay
> I don't care and it doesn't matter

you can not care, but it does matter
I would guess so but I clearly give the average American more credit than others in this thread.
Not only that, but any debt in the US can be paid in dollars. Like, I can bring a stack of $20s to my landlord and they just have to accept them. They don't have to accept BTC or ETH or even Mastercard.
Just referring to DevEdition here.

The mainline Firefox is the default on a few RPM distros, so definitely is included in repos (That said a few of my bullet-points still apply to mainline, particularly around updaters & XDG).

One could definitely argue that this is an edge-case, but... then one wonders who the typical DevEdition user being targetted is.
The hypocrisy is quite obvious, you are choosing not to see it. If you argue that abortion is a right by virtue of people's bodies not being subject to government control, then you can't simultaneously argue in favor of government control of peoples bodies for some other reason. Be consistent. Either the government has the right to regulate your body or they don't, you can't have your cake and eat it too. If you're going to argue in favor of abortion then you need to start using a different slogan than "my body my choice", because clearly you don't sincerely believe in bodily autonomy.
It's kind of like a redesign of an old tool like a pipe wrench: the castings make that tool look like something from the 1800s that could be improved with CNC machining and rubber overmoulding, but when you actually try to ask why it is the way it is every feature has a good reason.

Someone looked at the drag on an airliner and thought "sailplanes have thin wings for low drag, airliners have thick wings for fuel storage and have high drag, we'll just put a few thinner wings and revolutionize the industry! Oh, and I hate stale, recycled cabin air, and the pandemic showed how bad that can be, so let's not do that. We'll build it in one piece, like a plastic injection molded part, instead of a bunch of riveting, and save more money that way too."

They took Chesterton's fence and threw it in the woodchipper...
Yep. This. Couldn't agree more. I went to a BSides talk years ago titled "Does DoD Level Security Apply to the Real World?" ~ In summary, Yes.

The premise of the talk, as I understood it, was that too many small operations or "mom and pop" shops think that they do not need "Department of Defense" level security, because they're a small general store, not Fort Knox. That's a misconception. "DoD Level Security" doesn't mean that you protect your place like the NOC list in Mission Impossible; it means that you are proactive in thinking about your thread model and assessing the value of your assets. If, after proactively thinking it through, you're still comfortable with just a cheap pad lock and no alarm system, then you've applied "DoD Level Security" (or something like it).
Reading this, I cannot help but imagine someone at Apple thinking to themselves "I wish we had granted Epic an exemption like we did with Netflix".

The court proceedings and the documents that they were required to disclose were surely bad for PR and now it looks like they won't even keep the monetary benefits.
To be honest with you, you're right in that you usually get that one without trying. Most of the things we think of as mappable obey the identity rules.
This is a great strategy. Can you post a sample mindmap?
Active discussion already on front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28482895
"purchasing mechanisms" is what's interesting... it's not just information.
It's a case of choosing how you lose. Android certainly is more open and free in terms of what you can do with it, but you become Google's product and they will mine all meaningful data from your interactions.

What would be swell is an open device you fully control which doesn't spy on you. Turns out that cuts off most of the ways to make big bucks.
As a former editor, I wish I had her gumption.
There is at least one that was here about 2 years ago but was not good.
You are not alone my friend.

Resisting this surge of authoritarianism is going to take more than just the unvaccinated standing up for each other. We need the vaccinated to say no and to refuse to comply with any orders for certificates or to pay fines.

You know, “resist” – wasn’t that the recent call-to-arms that got the orange fascist out of office?
I'm torn by both how awesome this is and how creepy it's potential is.
It's not going to end this quickly. Whichever side loses will keep going at it until they exhaust all legal paths.
>The decision concludes the first part of the battle between the two companies over Apple’s App Store policies and whether they stifle competition. Apple won on 9 of 10 counts but will be forced to change its App Store policies and loosen its grip over in-app purchases.

>Rogers said that Apple was not a monopolist and “success is not illegal.”

>“Given the trial record, the Court cannot ultimately conclude that Apple is a monopolist under either federal or state antitrust laws,” Rogers wrote.

Glad to see nobody knows what a monopoly is anymore. It's like the Grant administration all over again...
It's possible. We can compare year over year deaths to investigate excess deaths (which is really the best approach to fully appreciate the mortality impact). Such an analysis misses long term side effects like Long COVID, but does capture things like changes to traffic deaths and suicides. The CDC publishes this info.
Another possibility is Apple drops its take to reflect the value its payment service provides (including the benefit to users you mention).
Is this also true for Epic Games?

Why would anyone not circumvent all fees for any platform?
This is the same feature that increases lightning damage on composite body aircraft. Additional metal (weight) has to be added to shield and conduct lightning away from sensitive electronics.
> I think this would kill the App Store model.

It doesn't kill it much more then it killed the android store in the past when it wasn't (roughly, in practice) enforcing the same thing.

It's a revenue cut, but at least for the beginning it won't be a problem at all for apple, this might change at some point, but stocks have no reason to majorly drop now they still can do so in the future if it makes sense.
I'd have thought manufacturers would put the smarts in the driver...
In what upside-down world is that justified? It seems like the judge is talking out of both sides of her mouth.
> What am I missing?

Google drive and Dropbox didn’t kill iCloud.
I think they’ll be happy to pay $4,000,000 for this though.
It most certainly does! All payments must be within the Steam ecosystem when you are distributing a Steam app.

Valve even prevents developers from linking to their own website, if said website includes ways to buy content independent of Steam payment.
My personal view of ODD is that it is a positive trait. I prefer to be around people with ODD.
Afaik they cannot ignore a ruling. And they don't need 30% fees for maintaining IOS ecosystem - when you buy an apple phone for $1000, you pay Apple enough for it to maintain its AppStore.

Also they earn money from AppStore advertising (which apps out of the millions should the small screen show); so maintaining AppStore should not be a problem.

I don't know about the bad-actors part though.
It's not about the language/religion, it's about the audio editing. I could see reverb/delay being a part of Muslim culture, but it can definitely be jarring if it's not part of the listener's culture
Wouldn't work in the Americas, which have a far lower average level of human capital. You can't redistribute what has not been produced. There are lots of examples of this in history.

By the way, the US health system crisis is caused by regulatory capture. There is no way to regulate the regulators to prevent this. At least, not in a failed democracy such as the US.

Probably the only way to regulate the regulators in a society as complex as the US and most other countries (contra Scandinavia) is with strict constitutional principles. That's the only way I know. Once you put "people" in charge, corruption and other dysfunctions eventually reign.
I see that you skipped the topic of Nuclear Warfare and went straight to Class Warfare.

I surmise that you have a political point of view you wish to propagate.
From my perspective folks are arguing two things:

The current definition of a monopoly.

Whether the current definition of a monopoly needs to change.

If you are mixing the two arguments discourse can go nowhere because you're substantively discussing cause and effect. The current definition of a monopoly needs to change, imo, then we can talk about whether Apple is a monopoly.

I'm also interested in discussing conglomerates and whether they are good or bad, and how to control them similar to monopolies, but that discourse can't be had until we can agree on something like the definition of a monopoly.
Just finished reading One {second,year} after. It was entertaining but a lot of the story revolves around military inspired heroics and battles. You can tell the author is into military fiction.
In China they seem to have the willingness to go after CEOs that threaten the harmony of the State- or the hegemony of the CCP.
Did anything bad happen after the guys who ran Lehman brothers into the ground?
As a user, I have zero desire to use some random payment gateway, using Apple makes my life easier, I can reasonably trust Apple not to let someone steal my money, how am I supposed to trust 50 different gateways?

Also if people move away from giving Apple any money for the App Store, I expect the annual fee to increase to make up for it, and might Apple make you pay more if you don't use Apple's gateway? I don't see the ruling as forcing Apple to lose money.

If I were Apple, I would have gone nuclear early on, and eliminated all % fees but made the annual fee per app of $X to each developer (whatever $ makes sense) and then you can collect money however you want. This would likely kill a lot of small app developers, but the big ones would not care. The ruling makes Epic a big winner, but everyone else loses in the long run, because Apple (and Google) will find a way to recover lost revenue.

Some people also want to have 1000 app stores allowed. Good luck with that one... imagine having to build an app store just for your app, or supporting 25 different app stores.
> Pretty sure significant targets - larger cities and significant facilities - would get a barrage instead of a single weapon.

Yup, this was already discussed (I forgot where, sorry) before, I think the US back in the 70s or 80s had plans for example to send at least 5 or 6 nukes on each target, just to be sure they would be completely destroyed. And if I remember correctly they had several dozens of thousands of targets, meaning that everything apart from small villages would be nuked to the ground. Even smaller cities, relatively speaking.
All apps; the language in the ruling against Apple is:

>>

permanently restrained and enjoined from prohibiting developers from including in their apps and their metadata buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms, in addition to In-App Purchasing and communicating with customers through points of contact obtained voluntarily from customers through account registration within the app.

>>
There are laws against anticompetitive behaviour in California. Those apply to all companies, irrespective of monopoly status.
A drone could not penetrate a defensive line of destroyers, cruisers, and E2 Hawkeyes.

However, a destroyer costs $870 million. I can build a drone for around $870 which has decent range, and sufficient firepower to do real damage if attacking with sufficient precision (e.g. placing a small explosive charge directly within a barrel).

That means I can launch a million drones for the cost of one destroyer. I'm pretty sure that a line of destroyers, cruisers, and E2 Hawkeyes wouldn't be able to destroy a fleet of a million drones. If they could, the cost of destroying each drone would likely be greater than the cost of the drone.
>pin them there for half a decade

Try 3 weeks (details in the submitted book).
I highly doubt there will be any win for consumers. App developers probably aren't going to reduce their prices by 20%
Vaccinated individuals are less likely to spread delta than unvaccinated people who have never been infected, but what about those who have recovered? The fact that they are 13 times less likely to be infected with delta makes me think natural immunity is better for variants. There have already been several covid variants this year. I would rather be contagious for a few days once than every time a new variant comes around.

I'm definitely not declining the vaccine because it is inconvenient, I have really thought this through, and my doctor agrees with me. It isn't because I'm just being "selfish and unwilling to cooperate".