skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This sounds like a win!

Not if I wasn't interested in having the choice to begin with. Now some apps will not be purchasable by me unless I go through their account flow, which I don't want to. It's strictly worse (for me).
I have worked with the Oracle database for six years and haven't had any major issues with error messages, in fact I'd say Oracle did a really great job building an amazing database.
Because that’s not how the law works. Sure, they can technically ignore the ruling, but they’re opening themselves up to a whole host of lawsuits, and any judge in those lawsuits would not look favorably on Apple.
This is why real engineers complain about developers calling themselves engineers.
> Just to be extra clear — the constitution does not grant rights

Just to be clear, it absolutely does establish such rights in law and thereby grant them as legal rights. It may be that some of authors and ratifiers (and some current constituents) of the Constitution have a (quasi- or literally) religious belief about the metaphysical preexistence of and/or independent ethical universal necessity of exactly such rights (or a super- or subset of them) against any legitimate government, but that's...largely immaterial except in terms of arguments between people sharing such views as to what rights should be established in law, or social science analysis of why the particular rights chosen were established in the Constitution.
Or for companies that don't pay via their payment system, couldn't they increase the annual dev fees to compensate, or tell those people they cant use their APIs if they are not going to pay from them or other tactics. If the rate is too high that's one thing, but assume companies don't expect to continue to get any marketing or resources from apple if they aren't paying for them in one way or another.
Thai device tests for coronavirus in armpit sweat
All the issues ARM has but now with added ISA differences which may or may not be actually compliant with any standard let alone the one on the RISC-V website.
Already a busy thread about this re: TheVerge.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28482895

And a bunch of other submissions...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483564 (NYTimes.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483558 (CNN.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483248 (MSN.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483372 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483162 (Bloomberg.com)
Ah yeah, that was one of the nice things about XML documents that had a well managed XSD backing it up. Visual Studio code completion worked on your XML files!

XAML, for example, would suck if it didn't have a bunch of XSD mumbo jumbo backing it up.
Scamming people directly is for low-end criminals, while scamming wealthy people indirectly through investment firms requires more skill, but scamming everyone through government contracts is where the real money is.
Let's generalize this statement - we desperately need leaders. Our current crew of so-called "leaders" are only interested in lining their pockets.
I would. I'm very careful about what I pay for anyway. If you want me to pay for your product it needs to be something that brings me real value. Even then I limit myself, as I only have a certain amount to spend anyway, so you're competing with other products for my limited amount of budget.

Apple's IAP makes it incredibly simple to cancel service. It's consistent as well, which means I don't have to keep hunting through your site to find it because you hid the location of canceling behind "Please contact us to cancel" type crap.

Do I think Apple is charging too much for their cut? Yea, I do. But as a consumer, the benefits outweigh it. As a potential business owner, yea... I would be upset too.
It feels ironic to ask customers to bear the burden to make big companies behave, in a thread about a court ruling regulating anti-competitive behavior.
If what's being disclosed is of the nature of the Pearson hack (theft of student records) then great. But there are probably thousands of hacks that don't result in the disclosure of PII or other confidential information.

I can understand companies being worried that a compromise of a test system with no access to sensitive data -- which they normally wouldn't be required to disclose -- could make them look bad. But at the same time they're all being required to disclose this info so at least there's safety in numbers.
Is that actually an issue though, given that Apple has never advertised their hardware as being "free-use"?
> 1.2.1. One Station -- One Operator.

> An IRC server is typically inhabited by a multitude of casual users and policed by a small group of privileged curators. A Pest station, on the other hand, is under the exclusive control of one person: its operator.

> 1.2.2. Nets Instead of Channels.

> Pest stations organize into nets. A net is formed by a group of station operators with a common interest. An operator who wishes to join a net must peer with at least one of the stations in that net. A broadcast message is sent to every member of a station's net. Nets may easily and organically undergo schismatic splits, or, on the contrary, combine into larger nets, whenever the individual station operators so desire.

This is interesting stuff. The basic model seems kind of elegant and should be relatively straightforward to implement. It also seems like it should be relatively easy to set up a station that "bridges" to other chat platforms like Matrix, IRC, etc.

However I suspect that moderation being nonexistent could pose a problem. Un-peering with somebody is equivalent to blocking them, which is certainly a valid tool for dealing with troublemakers, but it doesn't carry the same weight as being able to centrally found somebody. But I suppose that's part of the deliberate design here.
Right, F2000 CEO and Startup CEO (like me) have nothing actually in common. After my current startup, I have no illusion I can walk into Pepsi and apply for the CEO role. (I mean, I could, but I would not get an interview).

Being big company CEO is a very very high wall to get over, but once you do it, I think you have a pretty good shot at keeping the CEO job for the rest of your career.

Startup CEO... might help get some funding in your next startup, or find co-founders easier. Not a lot though I expect..
There is a footnote about the drug charges section that anyone commenting here may want to read first.
I'll take a stab at that survival number, which is inaccurate information. Your risk is way less than 1 in 100.

First off, the baseline survival rate is much better than 99%, between 99.8% and 99.9%. That's already an order of magnitude lower, closer to 1/1000 than 1/100. 1% lethality was a bad estimate from early on, before we realized we were undercounting mild cases by a huge multiple.

Second, lethality is highly correlated to comorbidities, including obesity and vitamin D deficiency. 94% of Covid deaths had another condition. If you don't, then your own risk reduces by another factor of 15.

Third, lethality is highly stratified by age. Under age 50 incurs at least 10x fewer deaths than higher age brackets.

Fourth, the vaccines. That also reduces risk by a factor somewhere in the ballpark of 10x again.

Fifth, Delta variant is also less lethal, as seen by the low death rates in India and the UK, although we don't seem to have reliable numbers on that yet.

So if you are young, healthy, not overweight, and vaccinated, multiply all that out and your risk factor really comes to less than one in a million. You take bigger risks every time you drive in your car. You're losing more life-value worrying about Covid than you actually stand to lose from it.

That all said, there is the point to be worried about Covid not for yourself, but for the possibility of spreading it. That's a valid point, but that is a question of politics, of individualism versus collectivism, not of science and statistics.
This is also part of the "artificial" value of the dollar in the sense that it requires enforcement by the US gov and banking systems to remain useful. In-game currency is also useful, but that does not give it inherent value, in any meaningful sense of the word.
Do you really need Python for this? I would implement what you describe in SwiftUI (which is native to my OS) code.

I don’t understand what you care for other people’s personal projects. Not everyone knows your favorite language.
Dispora is my all time favorite. Highly recommended. I've read it cover to cover twice, and plan to do again soon. Reading diaspora, especially towards the end, feels like expanding my mind to think at a scale that I have really never tried to understand before.
Saying “I’m not anti-vax” before parroting every anti-vax talking point and admitting you’re not vaccinated doesn’t make you any less of an anti-vaxxer.
Of course, but I'd contend that regulation without oversight/checks and balances is tautological. Regulation in and of itself is the oversight, or the check and balance, and that responsibility is delegated to a specialised agency or department (that has a longer term scope than a single election cycle) rather than being directly managed by the administration in office at the time.

An authoritarian regime isn't going to spin up a bureaucracy like that to do regulation-without-oversight, it's just going to lower its boot onto the population's collective face. You can hardly call that regulation.

Perhaps we're just debating semantics here, but I think there's a distinction between regulating corporate behaviour (you must do X Y Z if you want to run a business in this country, for reasons A B C) and introducing a totalitarian regime (you must do X Y Z because I said so).
Well, no, China's unification was a cultural and ethnicity blanding. It was never a genocide.

First I already debunked the notion that China conquered small nations to form its heritage. No China got it's heritage long ago through tribal merger.

And the US history of founding is patently different, and vastly more brutal and immoral...
good bots = biden bots, blm bots, chinese bots, and global warming bots.

bad bots = republican bots and russian bots.
oboy you've prompted a brain dump. sorry.

"J. E." was named "James," but by the time I met him he'd given that name to his son and insisted on being JE only. He was "a mule following farmboy too unschooled to serve in the infantry" in WW2, so they had him make runways on various Pacific Islands with a bulldozer. He got really good at it, and bought himself one as soon as he got home.

When I knew him in the 80s he was the proprietor of a successful farming business, as well as a fairly large construction company focusing on earthwork. 50 employees and who knows what revenue; they didn't pinch pennies. He "ran" the company by choosing good managers, and spent his actual time working with whichever crew he felt like that day. He was often to be found in the shop with the mechanics, fixing the equipment, creating new hydraulic valves on the lathe for fun / to save buying a rare part for a 30 year old machine, etc.

He was truly unschooled, any math more complicated than money confused him and I think he had trouble reading. He was fiercely smart, and just believed "book learning" wasn't for him. But he was always eager to help teach the things he knew to his crews, and even more eager to learn new things, as well as eager to help others learn. He taught me more about road building, dam and waterway engineering, and the surface geology of our area than I can describe. Having him explain (a) what this chunk of metal was going to become (b) why it needed to be that shape to fit into an engine, and (c) watching him make it ... was true magic.

When we got the Italian "Maxi-Cultivator" machine that was so complicated only 3 people on the planet could keep one running, it was another entire education to watch this Tennessee Good Ole Boy dive into the machine with the Italian mechanic (and hapless translator who was having severe "Deliverance" phobias) and critique the design choices and implications of differing terrain. There was surprisingly little discussion of the parentage and morals of various parties, considering the issue at hand was a half million dollar planting machine that couldn't penetrate clay.

He truly was an artist will a bulldozer. He could use that tool to shape gravel on a hill the way a child smooth sand with a hand. "Feel everything the machine has to say to you" and "take care of your tools and they will take care of you".

They ran old equipment and were constantly rebuilding it; the intimate knowledge of the machinery was worth more than the money saved from economizing on capital. He really just liked having a huge junkyard of old, big scrap iron around. When he got to use some of it he was delighted.
Exactly. Plus a relatively small percentage of HN (or anywhere) knows the current legal tests of a monopoly.

But everyone always becomes substantially less interested in topics once it becomes hashing out legal language. Which is why we pay lawyers well.
It's exciting to see that there's companies other than Facebook out there doing this kind of experimentation and research. "Realistic" VR, if it can be pulled off, will be the next frontier of computing. I'm more sceptical of AR because it is much harder to achieve and not as useful in my opinion.
Thanks, I haven't skimmed that far!
Sounds like if Spotify sued, they'd have a better chance.
It seems to be the general rule of thumb that, when you want to google for an oracle error message, then exclusion of both oracle documentation site, and developer forums is your first criteria on the search bar. Same applies to Microsoft (large parts of MSDN), and now Amazon Web Services documentation (at least some parts of it).

That's the reason StackOverflow works - it really solves programmer's problems, instead of the strange dialects of English and style that flourish on MS and Oracle and Java docs.
How WhatsApp is enabling end-to-end encrypted backups
> It's nice to see that you don't have to be a monopolist to be legally barred from anti-competitive behaviour

Can someone ELI5 why Apple is considered to be anti-competitive for not dedicating resources to assisting another business in creating a competitor to a market for a platform they and they alone created?

If Epic wants to have their game on a phone, it makes sense they abide by the rules enforced by the company that allows the whole ecosystem to exist. If they don’t like it, they can go and create their own phone hardware and app ecosystem.

Maybe I’m just naive.
I think people are truly terrified of the long-term effects due to over-litigation here in America.

You can't turn on the TV, Facebook, YouTube, etc. without a class action lawsuit message in the form of: "Have you used baby powder in the past 2 years? If so, you may be eligible for compensation under the Talcum Powder Class Action Lawsuit, call us at..."

The seemingly "safe" things in America that we take for granted, like baby powder, or Round-Up weed killer, or even tap water in Michigan has turned out to be not so safe.
> he was an RAF V-bomber captain

Massive respect, I love the whole history surrounding the V-bombers.
This looks super nice!

I've been interested in the ecommerce + graphql space for a while, yours seems a really great project, will be following along and looking into migration paths!

I love the stack choices as well, seems much more lightweight and approachable to me than other alternatives like saleor (which I don't really dig these days anymore) or vendure which is an excellent project too but with a stack I am no too familiar with (NestJS, Angular)... So kudos for making this open source!
I wonder if there is a "secret reason" of not ruling in favor of Epic closes the door on a ton of other lawsuits popping up.
It seems to be a Safari + Webflow issue, so using a different browser would be the best solution right now :)
I am not sure where did you get the 100% thing but for the record I am not claiming that. What I am noticing is that it used to be an objective criterion for the inoculation, seemingly based on the concept of immunity.
Some good faith changes to the definition of monopoly could certainly be valuable.

However, I fear most efforts would start with "Companies X, Y, and Z need to be categorized as monopolies. Let's write rules to fit"
let me weigh in as one of the above sample points to say, that sounds like "sometimes that right can be infringed" with more words, which yeah, I am okay with

an alternate interpretation with the exact same implications might be "that right isn't absolute", which, yeah, I am okay with

ultimately it's just semantics that fails to meaningfully address GP's comment
How is it better than Obsidian, that stores files locally?

I didn't find any info about pricing, also I can't find how to delete a «project» (created three of them when I was randomly clicking all the buttons to understand better how your site works and now don't know how to get rid of them).
I'm going to give the one executive credit who I worked for and who also just worked in the open plan office.

...OK now that's the credit has been given: I have never seen him actually work at that workplace. He spent 10 minutes between meetings there 6 times a day, and that's it.
I have no idea - the fact that I'm here as opposed to being in the class for dumb people is because I read a calculus book by accident when I was 14.
Try gitcoin.co, you may start off working(earning) and learning from there.
Well, the anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs is in August. There's usually some news articles around that. That might spark some interest for people to do more research and then a few weeks later (now-ish) you get some new articles.
Why have there been so few Covid deaths in Japan?
here's the meat:

"Accordingly, a nationwide injunction shall issue enjoining Apple from prohibiting developers to include in their:

Apps and their metadata buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms, in addition to IAP.

Nor may Apple prohibit developers from:

Communicating with customers through points of contact obtained voluntarily from customers through account registration within the app."

And it applies to all apps, not just games
but not driving drunk...you choose to drink, which is entirely optional. Driving drunk is something you choose to do. Getting a vaccine by mandate is something the state decides you have to do, with no way around it, if you want to continue working.
"Average office rent in San Francisco rested at $87.18 per square foot in 2020."

https://www.commercialcafe.com/office-market-trends/us/ca/sa...
The common theme in these stories is that China presents a mostly united front (enforced by the CCP when necessary), while Western companies remain divided, even pitted against each-other [1], and are turned into beachheads for CCP influence.

[1] Chinese government, which oversees the country’s entertainment industry, imposes a quota on international movies—34 a year [..] Foreign studios, Schwartz told me, lobby fiercely for their titles to be allowed entry.
WhatsApp adds end to end encrypted backups
It's been interesting watching the votes go up and down on this one, haha. I figured it wouldn't be popular.

Out of grim interest, I just checked how long it takes for Mealworm to mature. Chickens take less time to grow..
I don't see developers dropping their price now they can use their own payment processor. All I see is me, the user, having to struggle through using their janky home-made payment processors as I pay and/or try to end my subscriptions.
Pointfree Interpreter in Lazarus
I worked in the department of defense 20 years ago and I can tell you for sure that for every news article that describes a government contract where the contractor got paid and delivered nothing, there are ten more that you don't hear about because management or even whole organizations buried them out of embarrassment and/or CYA.
Note that if you scroll to the bottom of the order, the judge was nice enough to include an outline of the order to aid in navigation

Direct link to order: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21060631/apple-epic-j...
You forgot to include your affiliate link.
I wish cubicles weren't derided so much in popular culture

I'd actually consider going to work in an office again if I was guaranteed my own cubicle
Who's phone is it?
I know the HN discussion had some debate over that (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28408399) but I definitely think there's a lot of good discussion about how to make these problems more tractable. Even in the .gov space, which does tend to treat security as something you can't just brush away, there's generally limited money and resources for actually shipping improvements and especially challenging are the issues of legacy apps (which probably require Congress to allocate money for replacements) and adequately staffing for O&M (contractors are usually a bad fit with lower continuity and restrictions on flexibility). Most of the breaches you hear about trace back to something which someone has been complaining about for ages but been unable to get support for actually fixing.
https://www.theonion.com/revolutionary-new-driverless-car-re...

> In what many are calling the future of the automotive industry, a revolutionary driverless car unveiled Tuesday requires zero functional technology to generate profit. “While many companies in the autonomous vehicle sector have unveiled models to generate funding with little feasible technology, what sets X-Course apart is that we make money without any self-driving technology whatsoever and absolutely no plans to ever develop it,” said X-Course CEO Patrick Medill, adding that his company had shattered industry experts’ previous belief that companies could only succeed in the self-driving space by at least pretending to develop new technologies.
> 'leadership will have no limits on their authority... none whatsoever'

For some reason I envy whoever got to hear that sentence in real life. It makes it perfectly clear that you're dealing with assclowns.
The court said Epic failed to prove it in the relevant market to this case (digital mobile gaming).

Leaves the door open for Spotify to sue.
What makes JSON so nice to use is it is basically how you already write complex data structures in most loosely typed languages anyway. JSON documents look a hell of a lot like how you'd write the same structure in PERL, python, javascript, and more.

It provides a very natural mapping into the types of native data structures these languages offer. Dumping native data structures in these languages out to JSON is trivial. Dumping these same data structures into XML was always a pain in the ass because you'd have to manually map every field into elements and attributes.
Actual laws vary by state, but there are generally restrictions on how physicians can "fire" existing patients. They have to provide reasonable notice and give the patient an opportunity to find another doctor. Otherwise the physician can be liable for patient abandonment, a form of medical malpractice.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-patient-abandon...
Alex Jones takes ivermectin on-air [video]
I doubt they’re saying you can link to methods of payment but can’t provide goods or services in return for that payment, even in app.