skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Fortnite did same things like Netflix, they'll be banned. Why Netflix or Kindle isn't banned is because Apple arbitrary allowed such app for some category, but not for games. See Hey case.
State of the Art Image Super-Resolution Models
Even more succinctly: establishing consensus should be fun in and of itself. People dont know what they dont know. They dont want to plan. They do want to daydream.

Make voting addictive and make the tally results easy to interpret, and aggregated. Not only what restaurants got picked, but a sum of them by type. Popeyes may have gotten 3 votes, but "Mexican Cantinas" may have gotten 4, albeit 4 different restaurants.

Things like "what cities I want to visit with my friends" may or may not change between years.
I am not sure what the point is. If some people's premiums go up, then others' premiums would go down. Those people would choose to stick with the Snapshot device (assuming they felt the discount in premium was sufficient).
It's kind of last.fm for links, right? I've heard that last.fm does this for music: it finds your «neighbors» — people that have same taste as yours and recommends you what they like. But last.fm doesn't have downvotes or dislikes, so your system is more complicated, and I hope it's also more effective.

I signed up and will try to find some links I like, thanks!
After 20 years of war with colonial powers, I'm glad we can agree that it was really the Vietnamese who were the bad guys.
MIT announces “watershed moment” in making fusion technology viable
I just checked my NYT account I can cancel from the website? I only have a digital subscription however.
I had to look up what kiwi farms is -- a site used to harass people. Saying she belongs there seriously undermines your credibility. And what's a "classic cow"? Is that just a pejorative for some type of woman?
Clear guidelines are worthless if your accounts are automatically banned without explanation or a meaningful appeal process with human interaction.
(Almost) nobody is using Arch Linux on servers, but I find its package system to be very good (not surprising since it was mostly copied from BSD ports).

A few random examples (not the best you could find, just something I've used recently):

- re-packaging pre-built binaries:

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=visua...

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=nomad...

- building C from source

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=tinc-...

- building Go from source

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=yay

- patching and building a kernel

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=linux...
Who cares about covid spread? We have vaccines that protect you and anybody who takes them. Covid spread doesn't matter. It's here forever. Not going away.

If you get your shot, you are done. Stop worrying about the vaccination status or mask-wearing status of others. You are gonna get covid either way. But at least you won't have a chance of being hospitalized or dying.

Covid is here forever. We need to switch our messaging to learning to live with that and moving on with our lives. All this crap does is keep everybody living in fear and dividing us even more. End it!
Wonder if Epic is also going to do the same on their store too?
Replacing "Joe Manchin" with "small coalition partner" still sounds like an improvement :).
There are a lot of heuristics Twitter could use to estimate likelihood of bot accounts:

1) Source IP range + number of accounts linked

2) interaction speed (some actions are too fast to be human, or show coordination like tweeting exact same tweet as a different account withing .2 seconds)

3) interaction times in a rolling window (individual humans need sleep, and usually around the same time)

4) IP packet fingerprinting: can flag discrepancies like a client seemingly tweeting from "Twitter for iPhone" but originating from a Linux/*BSD/windows host
Honestly I wouldn't mind the MSDN documentation so much or the Microsoft forums if it didn't feel like it was constantly doing this super tedious redirection hot potato because of their SSO Microsoft live account bull crap.
A Deep Dive into PostgreSQL Indexes
> MSSQL

T-SQL is just so a weirdly ugly language and the feature set of SQL Server is super weird.

If we can, we go with Postgres or MySQL.
> >The really sad thing is that before the giants sprang into existence, you could distribute your software and services without the need for a supermarket

> I remember, and what I remember is, I think, one of the reasons American law tends to take a relatively hands-off approach in this space.

It is a false dilemma that you either have vetted apps with Apple, or unvetted apps.

You could still have other app stores reviewing apps. That would increase competition but still let users choose safety over a Wild West.

And brands who have gone to great efforts to obtain user trust can sell directly.
> if they're a monopoly, then they simply shouldn't be allowed to exist.

Market driven de-facto monopoly are allowed. If you own >90% search engine marketshare it is fine as you have earned it. If you abuse the marketshare to enter shopping, travel market it is monopoly-*abuse* and it should be blocked/fined.
I find your take comically misguided and naive.

There are, first of all, some basic things that need to be established: what is merit? how do you rank people based on their merit? can this ranking be objective and absolute? are the people with most "merit" also the most moral or capable to lead? are differences in merit meaningful in any way? why would the most "meritorious" end up on top after the apocalypse?

Aside from this, I'm pretty sure that life after a nuclear holocaust will be much worse for the average survivor than their life before the event. At best people would revert to some pre-modern self-governing communes (which are not necessarily a bad thing, it's just that they would lack a lot of things in terms of healthcare, nutrition etc.). At worst we would get Mad Max or Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" or smth along those lines.
I'm just speaking from the user experience: I know that there are issues with the App Store's model for upgrades, trials, etc. so those are valid considerations but if you're just using an app it is really convenient to that you can buy something securely with a tap and a double-click and have zero problems getting a refund or canceling a subscription.

Basically I'd expect successful competitors with Apple to be companies which do the same. Abusive companies aren't going to be popular but I suspect Stripe, Shopify, Amazon, etc. could convince a fair number of people that they're no worse on that regard and better in some other way.
Coalton: How to Have Our (Typed) Cake and (Safely) Eat It Too, in Common Lisp
I'm curious - of the folks that have not gotten vaccinated, do we have an idea of how many haven't gotten it because they strongly do not want to get it, and how many haven't gotten it for other less strong reasons (inability to get time off work, mixed signals from social media, etc)?
The actual MSDN docs sections are uniformly reasonable in my experience, but some galaxy brains decided to nest at least 2 (if not 3?) user support forums (think "my printer is broken") under the microsoft.com domain. Searching their docs usually requires a bunch of excludes
Epic will need to appeal, they are still not allowed in the App store for breaching contract, this ruling did not change that.

They need get favorable ruling on appeal taking the view the contract was not valid and had illegal terms therefore Epic was not in breach.

Without that Fortnite is still not returning to the App Store.
It’s always possible to mention things that have little to do with the actual conversation and yet still have an amount of semantic context with things that are statistically insignificant.
Palo Alto Networks launches Okyo for home internet security
I don't remember the original source, but in Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems book, he quoted someone saying "Writing is nature's way of telling you how sloppy your thinking is."

Generally, if you're writing long, rambling posts, there's a good chance that your understanding of the subject that you're writing about is sloppy (not to say you don't understand it, just that your thoughts are all over the place). If you can express what you're writing in a fairly short amount of time, you probably have a relatively good mental model of what it is you're tying to say, and this is a learnable (and useful) skill.

I've found that getting into the practice of writing "notes that I will actually read in the future" has helped a lot with this.
Thanks for the words of encouragement.

After I lose my job I plan to be a company of 1 working on my SaaS or doing contract work... but I'm not confident that restrictions won't get harsher the more that people get vaxxed. The vaccines will work less and less, and the unvaxxed will be blamed more and more, leading to them being treated as criminals.

At what point does the US government freeze my bank account? At 95%? 98% vaccinated? I'm planning to leave the country before then.
This would be the same action as installing Linux on a PS3 or editing the firmware on a John Deere tractor.

It's both practically unfeasable for the average consumer, and a legal risk for whoever manages to do it.
27% more? Are you kidding - it will be 12% more, if Apple doesn't reduce their rates at all for most developers (most don't make $1m revenue).
You definitely can if you are driving on the clock.
The concept of the "SelfChain" confuses me. It sounds like it would fall apart completely for anything except direct messages. If one person goes offline and all other people continue to talk, does that mean the next day my station considers all other speakers "forked"? And I have to unfork all of them? It's not like I can catch up since all messages are stale and discarded after 15 minutes.

Do I allow a hearsay message to fork one of my peers? Can a rouge peer just come in, fork everyone, and leave?
>I hope this puts a permanent stop to all the thread on HN arguing one way or another whether Apple is a monopoly.

Are those threads arguing about a legal definition, because if not then this would have little impact on them. Even if they are arguing form a legal perspective, it would have to be within the same legal system as this court and thus could be argued for other legal systems. And even then one can argue the judge is wrong, look at how many judges end up being wrong based on appeal results. Technically you can't be sure which judge is actually wrong, you know which one is in the court that overrules the other, but you can still point out that the disagreement means one of them is wrong even if you can't say definitely which one is.
If you are discriminating that early in the process and with such high numbers, and with no improvement, you can't be said to care deeply. That's called lip service.

You said that they care deeply. You are doing a lot of psychological projection on a large group of diverse people. I proved the results are concerning. Prove they simultaneously care but have somehow managed to make no improvements in decades in the results. Lacking proof on your side, we'll have to judge based on results.
Yeah, I think with the "share everything" mentality and everyone building everything in reusable jS snippets (thus, the huge repositories of code and duplicated projects); the general share of people forget that some people still code...for themself. And that those projects don't necessarily have a simple "settings.toml" to edit for paths or settings; nor the tons of effort that goes into making such a project configurable in the first place.

And there's nothing wrong with that. Like the dozens of PoC codebases I have lying around my PC that no one will (or needs to) ever see.
Pah! You call those niche! How about flying a booster for the UK's crappy space programme in the Vulcan's bomb-bay from Lincolnshire to the Woomera rocket site, Australia, illegally crossing Indonesian airspace on the way, because they figured out that the Indonesians would probably not detect the Vulcan (early stealth) and if they did they had nothing that could intercept it. And then the whole Vulcan crew fell asleep for about an hour, while the plane carried on on autopilot.

Strange but true - my Dad was the captain.
> As an introvert

I wonder if it is not actually harder for extroverts. I don't really have a problem with open offices, if I want to focus, I just ignore what happens around me, as if other people didn't exist. It is only annoying when they deliberately interrupt me, but it can also happen in closed offices (knocking on doors, phone calls, etc...).

I guess it may be harder for extroverts to focus because they are actually attracted to people around them. In the same way that may be easier to work when the weather is terrible because it doesn't feel like you would be better outside.
You think all this vaccine passport and mask crap is going away anytime soon? This crap is gonna be with us for a long, long time. We will be flying with masks on for years after this, mark my words (and I fully expect people to reply on why this is a good thing).

There is a large group of people who refuse to move on from covid. We have a vaccine that keeps you out of the hospital. Once you take it, you have a moral right to return to full normal.
damn I also have this bad idea before lol
Portable ‘Lab-on-a-Chip’ Diagnostic Platform Tests Dozens of People for Covid-19
re-reading Excession right now! this is some wonderful backstory in this article:

> Banks has noted that he spent much time playing the Civilization computer game (appearing to refer to the first version of the game series) before writing the book and that it was one of the inspirations for the concept of the 'Outside Context Problem' central to the novel. In an interview, Banks specifically compares this to having a Civilization battleship arrive while the player is still using wooden sailing ships.
Protonmail now keeps IP Logs
Just like site:msdn.microsoft.com, just more convenient and with worse results
> getting devs to actually care if their software runs on platforms more than a year old.

This is why we don't play games with siloing responsibilities on the tech stack. Every single developer on the team is responsible for making the entire product work on whatever machine it is intended to work on. No one gets to play "not my job", so they are encouraged to select robust solutions lest they be paged to resolve their own mess in the future.

Maybe those solutions are containers in some cases, but not for our shop right now. Our product ships as a single .NET binary that can run on any x86 machine supported by the runtime.
But GDPR and cookie banners forced me to stop selling my startup services in Europe :(. /s
> All Apple has to do is to make the rates competitive enough

No. All Apple has to do is amplify a few horror stories, for example people using [any competitor]’s renewable subscriptions and not being able to unsubscribe. Or amplify a story of a virus/malware on, hopefully, Epic or Steam.

This is certainly what makes you choose a MORE expensive product, that’s certainly why I buy my fire extinguishers $200 instead of $50 for the same model (but a trusted source). Apple should be able to keep a more expensive margin based on reputation alone.
Tom Kyte books were great and beyond Oracle, I learned a lot about databases generally from them.
> The number of comments here that fall back on some sort of a slippery slope argument, based in a worry about government overreach, is really disheartening. If COVID has proven anything in the US, it's how little control the federal government actually has. They've barely been able to enforce mask mandates.

This is by design. We don't want a strong federal government.

> The slippery slope argument doesn't hold water here. I think we can look at the facts - 700,000 people dead, hospitals overwhelmed, countless people injured or disabled from COVID, and no end in sight - and decide that a strong mandate makes sense here, and that a mandate won't make sense in future cases.

here's some more facts that change the landscape significantly. 5% of COVID deaths were without co-morbidities. On average, a person who died of COVID had 4.0 co-morbidities. (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Co...)
The vast majority of those dying are 65+.
We don't have a COVID problem, we have a health problem. Has the government been encouraging people to take vitamin D, get fresh air, exercise, and get to a healthy weight? The rhetoric has been sit down and get the jab.

> The "government is always bad, personal choice should always win" mindset runs deep in this country unfortunately, and from what I can see, it's often based in nothing other than veiled conservatism and a preference for division and anti-cooperativeness.

The government polices are extreme overreactions by any measure of the data, and government doesn't give power back once it has it.

> Above all else, this sentiment holds very little water when it's coming from people who speak out against a vaccine mandate but choose to stay quiet on things like abortion rights.

I can almost agree here, except the pro-choice people seem to overlap heavily with the pro-mandate people. I don't think you can logically hold both of those positions
Basically that's what you can do with a progressive jxl: the frame header includes a table of contents that can be used to infer the byte ranges needed for a progressive preview corresponding to 1:8, 1:4, 1:2, and 1:1 resolutions.
> why it’s app developers who were unhappy, not users

IIRC, Epic was offering their in game currency more cheaply outside of the App Store, which Apple didn't like.

I bet plenty of people would use an alternate payment method to save money..right now they don't have that choice.
I'd be stunned if everyone starts using niche payment providers. I think it's more likely the larger providers will step up. It'll be more along the lines of:

Pay With --- Apple IAP ($1.43) - Stripe IAP ($1.06) - Paypal IAP ($1.06)

That's also why Epic is disappointed. If Apple were forced to allow competing app stores, Epic is in a perfect position. They have app store tech with payments, commissions, etc. built in. If Apple's only forced to allow competing payment providers to become more prevalent, everyone thinks of Stripe, Paypal, etc. first. Epic probably has their own payment processing fees to cover, so they'll never be able to compete on price and that's where things are heading IMO.
https://nitter.kavin.rocks/briankrebs/status/143630929913178...
Not sure why chuckee's comment here is dead. The point he makes is accurate:

>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.
Just this morning my dyslexic friend said he loves to write in bullet points, because reading is very labor-intensive for him. He wished that articles would just give you the meat in bullet points instead of spreading the actual information out over several pages of fluff.

That made me realize, keeping dyslexic people in mind when writing is one of those things that improves accessibility for everyone.
This is a neat concept but worth noting that any app that uses local VPN to analyze network traffic is technically doing a man-in-the-middle on your SSL / TLS data. It's not necessarily a problem but you have to be damn sure you trust the app, so it's great that this is open source.
Electrifying New York: An Electric Vehicle Vision Plan for New York City [pdf]
> My concern is why OSHA has not issued emergency mandatory ventilation and air circulation orders

Low hanging fruit.

One is easy to order, cheap to implement, and cheap to verify, the other would be expensive to implement and even more expensive to verify.
I am on this journey as well. We are using constraints that check the length of a text field instead of using varchar. I like the idea of setting a few standard lengths though.

A word of caution when using domains: many SaaS offerings that replicate your Postgres database to a data warehouse do not support domains.
What things? What did apple arbitrarily allow? Netflix has never used its own payment system within iOS.
Great article. Lightning concerns are affecting wind turbines design choices in many ways nowadays. I know several OEMs use fiber-optic cables to connect to load sensors within blades to prevent lightning damage.
And before, they might not have bothered developing an app, or one for iOS. Now you have choice. Choice is good.
Another edge case here. For now I trust apple with my credit cards (a lot) more than a bunch of smarmy payment processors (somehow I magically get subscribed to a bunch of things when I use the latter)
I spent 6+ years fighting this exact battle. It's hard. It's resource intensive. And timing is everything. It requires either one company to front all the development cost and bring it to the world after validating it or it needs an ecosystem to emerge through a shared pain and understanding. We're not there yet.

My efforts => https://micro.mu

Oh and prior efforts https://github.com/asim/go-micro
The latest generation of meat substitute products are largely a highly processed form of pea protein.
> Do you really need enemies when you have such a government looking out for your well being?

To play devil's advocate some, it's not possible to know but.. how many millions of Americans would have been killed and/or subjugated if America had a timid and weak military in world war 2?

If we gave up our arms after world war 2, would the Soviet Union have tried to spread communism throughout the world and how many millions of Americans would have died as a result?

I think people are inherently tribal and conflict is inevitable. Having a strong, sometimes inept government that is mostly trying to do the right thing for their people seems to be a lot better to me than having a leader with absolute control like stalin who murdered millions intentionally.
Apple would also likely drop their cut from 30% overnight. Maybe not to 3% like Paypal, but low enough where companies would have to think.
I feel like I learn best from the bottom up. Take a motivating example, work through it, then incorporate theory on why it is. I prefer to watch videos for the example, but reading for the theory. After that I have to do it a couple of times myself to nail it down.

I don't find spaced repetition helpful unless it is rote memorization of small facts.
We're hosting 15mb of video files on that landing page. Netlify says we've had 2.2 TB of transfer out but dividing those numbers gives many more uniques than we've seen in the landing page analytics :/
Step 1. Live in fear of failure
Step 2. Discover failure isn't _that_ bad
Step 3. Fail upwards
I was commenting on the insurance part, not the drunk driving. But we don't even have to go that far, we require licenses to drive, and if you aren't fit to drive, you can be denied that privilege outright.
Starting at $349 a year, it hardly seems a bargain.

Palo Alto Networks management being mostly ex-Google doesn't leave me with a lot of confidence in either end user support or product longevity.
Sure.

They’re either already not on Apple’s IAP (Netflix or Spotify) or they are very sensitive to optimising conversions, and would pay a premium to give users an easier option (which Apple is now incentivised to lower)
Huh, I was just able to cancel my digital introductory subscription ($4/month) w/o talking to anyone. This must be a recent change. I've canceled several times in the past and had to talk with someone, either voice or via online chat.