skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need simple 2 line explainers with 10 lines of explainer codes. Show the codes enough fluff and padding.
Give the juice.

A wall of text with options and no actual code example that you can try isn't going to help so much.

Options and parameters everywhere.
> So users can be directed to alternative payment mechanisms, but that doesn't mean they must be allowed in the Apps themselves

How do you foresee Apple disallowing that in the apps without violating the injunction? The injunction gives apps free-reign on UI elements that direct customers to non-Apple payment systems.
Third-party payment providers who I don't select, not being answerable to me as a platform holder, are incentivized to make it hard for me to cancel. Apple doesn't do that. I have better things to worry about than to track this stuff down and I desperately want to think about fewer stupid things in my life. Subscription management is solved and stupid.

Perhaps look at it this way: I'm pretty OK with paying 30% to not pay 200% and, kinda more importantly, not to feel upset and angry later for forgetting a dark-patterned subscription dinging me again. If that's an edge case, y'all are wrong.

Maybe Apple can straitjacket them properly. "You must use XYZ API in iOS/MacOS and you must support one-click cancellation via a standard process." But I think the dark-pattern farmers who are angry about this would be angry about that, too.
Given the option, I think most customers would absolutely rather use the company's system, if the company offered lower prices for buying through them. Of course, that assumes both systems would be on offer - but if there's market pressure for companies to offer Apple as an option, that may be enough.
Yeah, user-mode X11 was being implemented around 2014 or so. I was there at Red Hat when it was happening.

GDM itself doesn't need root anymore -- it can run as its own user. The way it's architected, there's what's known as a "greeter session". This is what provides the user picker, it has to be a full desktop session to provide accessibility / screen reader / OSK / all the bells and whistles, and it runs as the gdm user. Once you pick a user to start the authentication flow, it forks off a special helper that's marked setuid root so it can interact with PAM (unfortunately, arbitrary PAM modules can assume things about root credentials).

It also has the job of monitoring everyone's X servers and kicking you back to the greeter if the X server crashes for any reason.

One tiny thing here -- the article implies that the root X11 server launches GDM, but it's actually the other way. The DM is the one in charge of launching X11 servers, and it always has been. You can see evidence of this in the old XDMCP spec which was the standard for how remote display manager connections should work.
Texas law bans kicking people off social media for ‘viewpoint’
Like it's broken beyond all recognition and hope with all interactions and expectations of a native app just gone. See this review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE8ZikfrpFU
Securing Access to Production MySQL Databases
Saccadic masking isn't about head movement. That would be a problem with your vestibulo-ocular reflex. I'd say a likely cause would be an issue with your inner ear, perhaps temporary benign paroxysmal positional vertigo caused by a bit of debris coming loose inside.
Sure they can and should charge for all the other "services" they provide transparently. Many of those services not dependent on my DAU, or the kind of usage users have via IAP.

This is none of Apple's business they don't need to provide me any services(if i don't use their payment) if my user uses 5 IAP transactions a day or one.

As a developer I get to choose which model makes more sense for me and in turn pass on benefits of that to my user, right now there is no choice and this ruling allows only for that.
Laws against murder and drunk driving are to protect other individuals against having their rights violated by you. Society never comes into the calculation, only the self interest of other individuals.

You can drive without a license.
Our company is being priced out the market. They have roles in London unfilled for 6-7 months because the business don't want to pay a competitive full time/perm rate.

Its amusing to watch because it's not the first time we've cycled this and eventually end up paying contractors 600-800 day rate for a project that is falling behind.

Time to switch to contracting.
Teaching Yourself to Make Music Software: Steve Duda in Conversation
I had longcovid for 14 months and was active in the community. Something I saw regularly was people claiming the vaccines CAUSED their longcovid. They made their own subreddit for it:

https://old.reddit.com/r/vaccinelonghaulers/

So I don't agree the effects of either are well understood.
Trying to hang onto systems where your customers resent paying you is not where you want to be. You bring up an interesting proposal, fundamentally Apple needs to create a system where developers WANT to pay the fees because of the value they get in using the system and services. And all those connected credit cards and customer identities definitely have value.
By your logic then they don’t exist. There is no place in the world that rights have been absolute, and there never has been.
The article cited by this post is at - https://critter.blog/2020/10/02/write-5x-more-but-write-5x-l...
How to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally – Can I reverse diabetes type 2
I agree that saying you're 200%-300% more productive is hyperbole, but there are studies indicating that you're significantly more likely to be sick enough to call into work with an open office [1], and that doesn't even count the people who "power through" their sickness, working somewhat sub-optimally (since that would probably be harder to measure).

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31647108/
Solid and Functional (2014)
Said more succinctly: It's hard to make a successful product that reduces the time people spend doing something they love to do.

Some ways I could imagine addressing this and the problem the article talks about:

* Aim to make travel planning not easier (i.e. less time-consuming) but more fun. Treat the app more like a game or media app where users spend more time planning their trip by using the app in enjoyable ways. Put a ton of discovery and browsing ideas for things to do in it. Pinterest for vacations and activities. Basically Instagram, but with a "book this" button next to that pretty sunset photo.

* Focus only on the parts of travel that aren't fun. Haggling over fares, logistics, reaching consensus with travel partners, etc.

* Support use cases beyond just travel planning. If it's also a commute planner, or "what do this weekend in town" planner, it may get used frequently enough to stay in a user's mind.
Facebook has vanity IPv6 ':face:b00c'
I’m kind of curious how these modems work. Looking at the filesystem dump, these modems run a full OS. But why? It’s purely a device that routes IP traffic, right? Couldn’t an FPGA or ASIC handle that better?

I assume, from skimming your link, that DOCSIS describes the first two/three network layers. What was your specialization? More the signal stuff, or more the digital part? What did you find hardest about the standard?

And what OS did ARRIS use for these modems? Looks like something Unix-y, but what exactly? You say the magic is in the hardware, so what function did the OS have?

Also I assume that price was extremely important for ISPs? Or did their wish for certain features dictate more powerful hardware somehow? Were their wishes already clear by the time the third version was written? Or were they still fully part of the team?

Feel free to skip any or all questions :) I am curious but do not wish to impose on you.
> but my point is that it can render smooth 144Hz animations.

It can't, generally. There's a specific subset of animations that browsers can offload to the GPU: anything that doesn't touch the layout. So, transform/translate. That's it.
It's literally FDA approved at this point. My brain melts every time I read a COVID discussion on HN -- it's actually worst than Reddit at this point because people here believe they're _just so much smarter than everyone else_. Even more so than Reddit, which I previously believed was impossible.
It's an issue given that I'd be more interested in using a Mac if I could choose which graphics card I get to use instead of perusing a pre-approved list of B-rate processing units.
The linkedin and github links in the footer aren't set.
Best of luck.
Convenience, existing game libraries, the pain of setting up another payment system using 12 buttons, price..
My current learning process:

1. Consume input
2. Extract key points
3. Map key points into a model of what I am learning
-> repeat

I read books & articles on ReMarkable and I make hand written notices OR I watch videos/learn online and put my notes into Scapple. I keep my data in OneDrive to access it from all devices. I brainstorm and rearange in Scapple.

Then I put it into Notion to build a knowledge database there. If I want to publish or share, I pipe it into .doc or .pdfs

Edit: The points are:
a) I have a flow that turns input (learning material) into unstructured data (notes, scribbles), which is then turned into more structured data.
b) this keeps me constantly engaged with what I'm learning as I keep rearanging and expanding my map/model
There are some a similar techniques where you use evaluation metrics to decide which data to train on each epoch.

I wonder if you could make that parameter trainable instead of using a hyperparameter search for it.

For phonetic similarity I've been playing with a dual objective system that could be promising.
Hurray for obsession, because without it humanity would be forever skirting around the dark corners of our understanding.
Is this funded by companies / corporates those are stand to gain from expedited return to office ?
You are, I hope, aware that 'BLM bots' can BE Russian bots, intentionally seeding misinformation explicitly for other networks to react to? I daresay that's true for any of it.

This is why I often use the term 'organic' to describe social media content that's not spurious. There's organic content, and that alone can be a handful.

Then there's stuff specifically cooked up to drive people into a frenzy and feed social hysteria, driving wedges and disrupting a targeted population. There is NO reason, on a publically available platform like Twitter, that the hostile content has to self-identify as the target group for manipulation. Provocation of outrage is often more effective by pretending to be a demographic marked for destruction, and then carrying on in an outrageous fashion for the benefit of angering onlookers.

And none of that is good, from any angle: not for general societal well-being. Unless you really like genocides and civil wars… which is where your Global Superpower Adversary bots come in, with an obvious and easy to understand agenda.

And that's where we're at, in this discussion.
Let’s not forget that cubicles we’re invented in the 60s as a human (and humane) relief from open plan offices. General assignment of programmers to offices wash a short blip in the timeline of work.

What’s weird to me is the advances of private offices seem so clear (sure, not for everyone, but overwhelmingly so) and employees are so expensive, that open plan seems like a genuine and significant false economy. So why do people do it?
> I personally like the isolation they provide and generally prefer running services in containers, even if they are using the same dependencies as my OS.

I would also not downplay the importance of Docker's support for software-defined networks and it's ability to arbitrarily configure networking at the container level.

I firmly believe that networking doesn't pop up so often while discussing Docker because Docker solves that problem so fantastically well that a complex problem simply ceases to exist and completely abandons everyone's mental model.
> Containers halfway solved some big existing problems that most people don't seem to see very well

A big reason for that in the past much fewer developers were confronted with this problem domain.

In larger companies packaging and deployment was often the responsibility of ops, with some input from and interaction with development. That of course also meant much longer lead times, arguments about upgrading versions of libraries or other executable dependencies, divergence of production and development/test environments, and the associated unfamiliarity with the production environment for developers and hence often more difficult debugging.

Ever since Docker (+ Kubernetes and various cloud specific container solutions) became so popular, a lot of devs now at least partially deal with this on a regular basis.

Which is mostly a good thing, due to the negatives above.
Coming Home: A Treatise to the Commute
> But Valve could definitely be the next target.

Valve would simply refer the judge to their rather-successful competitors, including:

- Epic Game Store

- Origin

- Blizzard Store

- Microsoft Store

- GoG

- Itch.io

- Ubisoft Store

- Bethesda Store

And to further their point, Valve would show how many games on Steam are found on other stores, and Valve doesn't prevent other companies from listing games on other stores.

Valve does not have a monopoly; not by a long shot.
You are absolutely correct – Splitwise is great. I was thinking about the failed startups that did the splitting before the trip and then pay the vendors directly. Splitwise makes the process of getting reimbursed much better.

Also benevolent is the right prefix for dictator in this case. This person's reputation is on the line and they are working hard to make sure their friends/family have a great vacation.
> so the choice was Oracle or DB2

Sybase, Ingres
I am also more than ok to pay that premium for the benefit of centralized subscription management. an additional instance of the “edge case”.
I agree about bugs, but doubt any intelligence can use fully open source tools to integrate backdoor or at least "ears".

Of course, I'm not employee of any intelligence and can't prove that, but that's just my opinion
> yet there’s no constant uproar and heightened emotion around car deaths.

I think you may have a recency bias towards the mitigation techniques. The reason it seems like there's no hysteria around cars is because we've already gone through that phase and implemented the best safeguards we could come up with: the right analogy here is to see what a stickler our society is for having car insurance, which is the closest thing to a "car accident vaccine" we could come up with. Given the reality of the frequency of car accidents, and how they can potentially affect others just as much as yourself, we've implemented a system where it is a requirement to have a way to compensate the other person if an accident happens (not to mention the various laws we have around driving, the big deal that was Mothers Against Drunk Driving, breathalyzer checkpoints which could be seen quite analogously to covid testing, the fact that we need a license to drive and are tested for driving proficiency, the penalties for driving unsafely, laws requiring you to buckle your safety belt, laws around safety belts and airbags needing to be included in cars, etc. etc.). If we had an actual hypothetical "car accident vaccine," we'd probably just require you to have that instead of this tremendously complicated and expensive infrastructure around driving.

So I'd argue that what we actually don't see is heightened emotion around this onerous car infrastructure, to the point where you are essentially presenting cars as some sort of model for c'est-la-vie attitudes both from the general population and the government, which couldn't be farther from the truth. The reality is you've just gotten used to the burdens we've taken on to make our activities livable with respect to cars. Go watch the "Not Just Bikes" YouTube channel and you'll see just how much of your life is actually completely governed around accommodating cars (and a big part of that is in making their presence safer).

> the “hospitals filling up” narrative is mediopolitically-motivated justification, not grounded in deductive reasoning nor meant to drive effective mitigative policy.

Source?
A relative is a librarian. She was recently asked for help using a dating site to find the patron a date to bowling league night. Some team of founders might be up for it...
My goto was Tom Kyte (https://asktom.oracle.com) for learning the 'why'. Burleson is an interesting character, but not always correct either.
Exactly, Oracle should be chosen when business logic is written in sql/plsql
> Apple could decide they don't give a shit about native Mac games

I think it's possible to make persuasive argument that this already took place around the time that they killed OpenGL support and/or refused to allow Vulkan support. Requiring a proprietary API that only works on a tiny subset of gaming devices* seems like they've already made their position on this topic very clear.

* I'm excluding mobile devices here since mobile games were called out as a different market in the parent comment.
If they appeal, they'll be on the line to lose even more (and Epic is itching for this fight to continue, so Epic might appeal). Apple can cut its losses and be happy with the current, quantified ruling, or roll the dice and possibly run into a terrible precedent for other jurisdictions that have been rattling their sabers at Apple.
> “The Court does not find that Apple is an antitrust monopolist in the submarket for mobile gaming transactions,” the judge wrote. “However, it does find that Apple’s conduct in enforcing anti-steering restrictions is anticompetitive.”

followed by:

> “Today the Court has affirmed what we’ve known all along: the App Store is not in violation of antitrust law,” Apple said.

Only from a lawyer....

This is from the FTC: "The FTC's competition mission is to enforce the rules of the competitive marketplace — the antitrust laws. These laws promote vigorous competition and protect consumers from anticompetitive mergers and business practices" [1]

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Shopify's "Shop Pay" has already introduced a seamless payment interaction across many sites without a need for a separate account or to trust so many people with payment info - the idea that something similar wouldn't be created and get adoption for subscriptions on mobile seems highly unlikely.

I have subscriptions and accounts all over the web, and I have never have had an issue canceling anything via a website - the only exception being the NYTimes and all its dark patterns.

Out of probably 10+ subscriptions we use (Netflix, Spotify, HBO, Hulu, etc), I have only ever had one through the Apple system, and it's not even active anymore.

Just using a password manager and having a separate email for junk/mail from various accounts keeps me in the loop on what accounts I still have laying around. The Apple subscription section is the absolute last place I look when I don't know where a charge came from.
> cited examples of hospitals scanning resumes of registered nurses for 'computer programming,' when what they need is someone who can enter patient data into a computer.

That's horrifying. Administrative bloat is no longer a non-malignant tumor; it is now attacking the host.
Ask HN: How do you create a cross-platform GUI without using Electron?
I have the idea of an app that is mostly about communicating with an API on the WEB. It feels a considerable overkill for an Electron App. The size of a hello world app in Electron is 100x the size of my backend!

On the business side, I understand that many people on HN prefer to ship that spend time on technologies discussions.

But if you have the time, and your goal is to do something maintainable, reasonably close the most to the Desktop, and well-integrated to the OS, what tech/stack will you use?

Windows/Linux GTK/MacOS
Nix strikes me as the Linux community looking at an overly complicated problem of their own making and deciding that the solution is to add even more complexity.

Don't get me wrong, from what I hear Nix actually does deliver on the promise for the most part, it's just that you have to learn a new language to use it effectively and of course it has its own quirks.
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/93990

Wonder no more lad, you can use Stripe as IAP soon
Im sure every random app wont be rolling their own payment system. Paypal’s transaction fees for example are significantly lower than Apple (less than 4% vs Apple’s 30%), and millions of users already have a Paypal account, so they could buy your product without having to create an account or enter payment info.

Idk if Paypal lets you cancel subscriptions directly through them, but they could certainly implement that if there’s demand. The same goes for any other payment company that wants a piece of this new and enormous opportunity.
A fair amount of companies makes their subscription cancellation actively hostile in an effort to not get people to do it. To give an example, though you can subscribe online, the NYT requires you to call during only certain hours to a customer service line where you get badgered and questioned like you’re trying to cancel a cable subscription.

If the US mandated that you need to provide equivalent means of subscription and unsubscription with equal ease of use that would be one thing, but we do not live in that world.
Internal Documents Further Contradict Fauci’s Gain-of-Function Research Denials
You miss my point. It doesn't matter if it has never happened, that just means we have failed ourselves. What matters is defining the concept of rights, exploring what they mean and what they are. I'm not talking about if they exist in practice in any specific country, I'm talking about "what are rights?"

Rights are things reserved for individuals to hold unilaterally, sovereign over them, no democratic process or other consideration can take them away. That's the whole idea. That's at the core of the definition of the concept. Without that, the concept of rights doesn't exist.
1. Read about it.

2. Try it.

3... Repeat.
I think the question is "can I have an in-app flow for purchases outside of IAP, or do i need to redirect people to my safari site to purchase?"
Yes containers don't solve for dealing with the mess of third party saas that every company is built around.

But that's why anytime you integrate with one of these tools you should be aware that there is a cost for maintaining that integration.
Violating an injuction via a technicality will land you in court again.
People said the same thing about Linus for years.
WhatsApp launches end-to-end encrypted backups
> ctrl+c, ctrl+v and friends should work as expected.

Right — I expect Ctrl+C to send SIGINT, and Ctrl+V to take the next character literally. I hate it when programs hijack them for something else.
An issue I have is often shortly after 2 the excitement is over for me and I like going back to 1 in some other subject.
>our invasion of Afghanistan in 2001

So it'll only be around for 20 years?
I love the Apple subscription system for things like streaming services simply because it makes unsubscribing a one-click process.

I’m much more likely to subscribe to something via the Apple store than I am through any in-app service.
You have the same choice developers had: their way or the highway.

Though, developers would be likely to:

- choose established and trusted payment processors (like PayPal or Stripe) rather than rolling their own solution or a small unknown payment processor, and

- offer many processors and let the user choose
WhatsApp – Security of End-to-End Encrypted Backups [pdf]