skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is argued that this is an example of illegal tying arrangement to between the markets of "mobile phones", "app distribution" and "payment systems" given the market power Apple has. This space notably is the one where Apple had its loss in the District Court ruling.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/tying_arrangement#:~:text=An....
Most naive expectation is if myopia changes the shape of your eyes, just squish them a bit!
He spent 5+ years in the Lodz ghetto so he never went beyond third grade. He was transported to Auschwitz in '45, spent some weeks there and was sent to Ahlem. He was rescued at Ahlem and interesting fact -- Henry Kissinger was on hand that day with the US Army battalion.
> Isn't it about time that we have some common language that every other language builds on?

That language is C. It is debatable whether it was a good choice, but at least this is how it turned.
And all the ones you didn't license too, because you don't want any patent trolls to find out you're using a technique vaguely similar to some patent you've never heard of. Aren't patents great?
Can’t imagine it’s worse than Rocket
Even now Microsoft seems to periodically switch people's default browsers to Edge on Windows. No clue how they get away with it.
I've never had a problem with the functionality of Prime Video across any apple/webOS devices.

The UI, however, is easily the worst of any streaming platform. Why is a search result returned for each individual season of a TV series? Why doesn't it follow ANY of the Apple TV UI conventions?

But somehow it's more reliable than Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Max (hbo isn't that high of a bar though).
YouTube banned archive video of ransomware broker citing “cyberbullying”
Strange Milky Way object sends radio bursts a minute at a time
You don’t know much about how local government operates.
I see Brave, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera on their App Store. Are they just shells for Safari or something? Does Firefox on iOS use webkit instead of gecko?
Most of the tech community that I remember hated what MS was doing. Somehow Apple has created fanboys in a way MS never managed to (thankfully).
And yet they can't even implement Picture-in-Picture mode on their Android app. A basic feature has been stable for years among any app that plays videos.

Not to mention that their show recommendations are the worst ever, I would be ashamed to be part of their ML team honestly. (For reference I'm an American/North African woman staying in France and all of my recommendations are for Indian action movies, literally all of them. I've never seen a single Bollywood film ever.)

Anyway this is to say, technical innovation won't undo the damage done by shitty product managers.
I would like to know whether the people took ivermectin or not maybe via survey. The drug was very popular in Brazil, I don't imagine people would be absolutely required to go to the certain place to pick it up.
If there's a loot box with a 50% chance of a cat in it, no game developer in their right mind would bother determining if there actually is a cat or not until someone checks.
F-35C crash leaves US fighter jet sunken in hostile South China Sea
Imagine if Firefox had been allowed 16 years to become the premier iOS browser.
Elected positions might be wackadoo but they’re not random. Their refusal to seat a duly elected candidate for office is not valid legally and it’s not valid as a principled rejection of governing structure they object to. They could (however undemocratically) try to eliminate the role. But they can’t just ignore the election because it doesn’t suit them, without scrutiny.
> can’t effectively tax, and are unable to cut spending

By cutting out the leechers, enforcing taxation properly, and some austerity measures short term, this can be rescued. there would be pain of course - esp. if leechers are large in number and powerful.

The political leadership who does this will not be thanked, and is basically political suicide as the people would not enjoy these measures. This is why nobody does it - thankless job at best, and derided or punished at worst!
I'm assuming you're not on macOS, right? Even though Firefox supports H.264, it's not really consistent outside of macOS because Firefox doesn't want to deal with patent hassles. This is true of Slack as well, some developers would actually support if Firefox has actually have decent support, but it's inconsistent outside macOS, where it can rely on Apple's good integration.

P.S. OpeH264 doesn't help mainly because it's decoding bugs, not encoding bugs.
Could be that Amazon sold you a counterfeit copy — it happens a lot with popular titles because of their inventory commingling.
Covid killed 3895 people yesterday, with a 7 day average of almost a 9/11 of people every single day this past week.
An sufficiently large org will have a non-trivial amount of users on "outdated" (aka older than 2 years old) versions of software.

Any public service (aka government site) will have a huge amount of people on "outdated" software and hardware.

Also: how the f... did 2 years become "omg it's so old we're no longer supporting it"?
Machine learning and product analytics: Navigating the hype
Florian Mueller was the only figure in tech journalism who correctly interpreted the major ruling in the case to be pro-Apple.

And we didn't even know the identity of the person(s) behind Groklaw, much less if they were funded by a company, but that's totally fine because of the bias right?
> Does Firefox on iOS use webkit instead of gecko?

Yes.
I had similar experience with my facebook page of 200k+ likes but facebook didn't even care to reply
> Does Firefox on iOS use webkit instead of gecko?

They all do. Also only Safari can have extensions. Every other browser is blocked from doing so. Every time I bring this up, I’m told it’s okay because Apple has only 50% market share. I don’t understand why your market share matters when it comes to anti-competitive practices.
Of course, the old characters must be left alone. But I'm not seeing what stops them from introducing new ones.
what I've always wondered in situations like this is why the locals don't just move over to dollars? I assume every local store would accept the dollar equivalent for a purchase since it is more stable. every exporter can sell their goods in dollars and just use them. when it comes time to paying taxes just exchange the dollars for local currency at the better-due-to-inflation rate. government employees who earn local currency would be at a disadvantage, but so would anyone using the local currency.
Don't you compare the shit Oracle tried to do with Google with the evil of Apple and the relatively social/industry good that the Epic lawsuit will do.
Unintentional collection of user-edited search engine values
That's correct. On iOS, all web views are Webkit (Safari). The browser apps largely exist to provide account sync/value adds/UI design.
No, the BlackBerry wasn’t even close to being the same magnitude hit as the iPhone.

Nokia is a company not a product. They’ve released a tremendous number of products, none of which came close to the iPhone.

We’re talking about a product that captured greater than 100% of the profits for the entire smartphone market one year. That brought in more revenue than most countries. How often does that happen?
The tech community just changed, that is all. A community can't grow this much without changing a lot, the old voices are probably still there but the group is too small and gets drowned out by the rest.
Sure, I’ve been to trade shows. You can usually show off your wares without being a dick to others.
Possibly the concept existed but the “blameless” term is widely credited to the GP, John Allspaw, who became CTO of Etsy. At least I haven’t found anything definitive predating him.

Also impressive he’s had an HN acct for 12 years but only 5 karma!
We may not find the answer, but it seems really different than say predicate logic.

It seems easy to imagine a non-quantum world. I can't imagine a world where predicate logic doesn't work.
Isn't that kind of what Brazil did in 1994 with URV?

From Wikipedia: "URVs were quoted in cruzeiros reais and its intrinsic value was pegged to three price indices and had a fixed parity of 1-to-1 to the daily U.S. dollar exchange rate."
I believe they are all just UIs for WebKit. Google can't bring over Blink to iOS, which they use for Chrome on Android.
> Were the Microsoft defenders in the 90s this loud

No, definitely not. Then again, very few people used computing technology in the 1990s and had no idea what Microsoft was up to, or cared. A computer was used sparingly. Today, you use one every waking minute in your pocket. So things change.
There is an immutable backup solution to S3: https://www.retrospect.com/en/support/kb/immutable_backups_o...
Or Facebook has been recommending them content favouring Epic (because of the higher engagement) and nobody knows any better anymore. Also, let’s not neglect the huge investment in lobbying both parties are making behind the scenes to both government and media orgs. A lot of due diligence for us little people to fact check it all.
And drones don't scale linearly. Small unmanned "toy" drones can get away with RPM control of their props to maintain level flight. RPM control is easy with brushless DC motors and it's mechanically simple. But drones big enough to carry people can't do that (in general) because you cannot change RPM on a big prop nearly as quickly as you can on a small prop, because of inertia. So big props often need collective pitch just like helicopters. Collective pitch is far more mechanically complicated than RPM control and it thus presents more avenues for failure.

The good news is that multirotor drones (even big ones) usually don't need cyclic pitch which is even more complicated than collective pitch, so that makes them less complicated than helicopters, but big drones are still not as mechanically simple as toy drones.
Developers boasting 300—500k total comps who are greedy to spend 100 bucks a year on their tools is freaking insane to me, man.

How much does gas cost for truck drivers?
WebDrop – P2P file transfer in browser
Yes. Everything must be Webkit[0].

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#2.5...
It's open source: https://github.com/subins2000/WebDrop
Epic essentially won the case. A lot of people fail to understand that. They threw a dozen complaints at the court, and only needed one to stick. And that it did, which is why Apple is also appealing the case.

Also, even had they lost the case, Epic still essentially won the case: They made the god bleed. The data revealed in the lawsuit which was previously outside the view of regulators is now public, and lawmakers and regulators will act on them, regardless of the decision of this particular case. A lawsuit is an excellent way to bring garbage to light that you were told you had to keep confidential.

Even if Epic ultimately loses the suit, within a couple years the facts revealed in the case will render most of Apple's practices regarding the case illegal. Apple might win the case, but they also might have half a dozen countries pass laws to cap their app store tax rate at 3%.
They should be allowed to charge 99% if they want... But they should not be allowed to have exclusive apps or exclusive App Store.
Pretty sure it is 30% for the majority of professional full time developers, as normally company size scales with revenue. If you meant majority of apps, sure.
Sorry but I don’t buy into the Apple hatebonering. If someone wants to make their own competing OS and platform as good as Apple’s, they are 100% free to do so.
It's probably one of the most parasitic online businesses, are you sure this is what you want to do with your time?

Also I don't see any sane person naming a company that, or any useful use of those domains
Could be, how was that implemented? I thought maybe the hang was more severe than that.
Show HN: App to hide sensitive information while screen share
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Blurweb app worked well but because it is a browser extension it was limited to hiding stuff on the web, after multiple requests I finally decided to launch a desktop app with the same purpose.

The result is blurscreen.app which helps you hide sensitive info on the screen with a single click.

The plan is to improve the app making it better to solve the issue of hiding sensitive info while screen sharing.

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Randomly found a link to this video on super determinism from his blog and found it super interesting. 100% agree, what is 'free will' anyways? A concept with no scientific definition. Why is it even used to explain anything in quantum mechanics?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytyjgIyegDI
I'd hardly call it "a defense of the open web", Apple has hamstrung Safari for years to keep the App Store on iOS competitive with the exploding capabilities of every other modern browser. Chromium is popular because people like it.
United Officially Opens Flight Academy and Welcomes Inaugural Pilot Class
Yeah, sure. The range of apps / tasks people do on macOS/iOS doesn't even compare. Console do... games?

But, don't let a bad precedent define you. Given that consoles are also basically general purpose computers I don't see why users shouldn't be allowed to sideload games / apps on the consoles they own.

If the manufacturer can digitally sign an app to make it run on the console, users should also get a signing key upon purchase.
Or Apple makes piles of cash from the app store. So having a native like app experience on web tech hurts their bottom line.
More importantly, thay had no major back compatibility requirements, a small amount of hardware to write drivers for, and fairly simple algorithmic choices would work.

("When in doubt, use brute force" -- Ken Thompson).
Yes, particularly aggressive companies have had their EULAs upheld in court (in the US).

Circumventing the EULA prompt is considered agreement to the EULA terms in the US. If you fight that too much in court, it would then be considered software piracy.

The way things tend to be enforced is that while you own the physical piece of hardware, you do not own or necessarily have any rights to the software on it, or for it.
Hint: Methane clathrates on the deep sea floor will not be releasing their methane. That is possible only where temperature is changing and pressure is low, neither of which will happen without surface changes catastrophic enough to make methane irrelevent. In any case, accumulation happens over eons. There is exactly zero risk of carbon stirred into the deep ocean becoming methane released into the atmosphere in this eon.

Carbon in surface water can be metabolized, and may then be released as methane. Carbon moved to deep water is removed from that process.

You are reaching. It is not a good look.
A 19-year-old built a flight-tracking Twitter bot. Musk tried to pay him to stop
AMD-Xilinx Merger Gets the Green Light from China
They're really not stable in two dimensions? Hmm [1], and another answer [2] (mentioned by Hawking apparently) but that's less convincing since there could be a 2D universe with intelligent organisms that just have their digestive systems on the outside...

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/q8fmo/what_woul...

2. http://ion.uwinnipeg.ca/~vincent/4500.6-001/Cosmology/2-D_Di...
Are you sure it’s only children? Another user posted this link, their clinical trial was in adults.

https://www.kubotaholdings.co.jp/en/kubota-glass-technology-...
the US was built on the back of slaves and continues to be run on stolen land. How is doing business with any American business any different?
Im really (negatively) surprised by an artist who is straight up against freedom of speech even if he disagrees with the content.

We're in this weird place where we label anything we disagree with as disinformation. I'm a big fan of Joe Rogan's podcast, but not Joe himself. He brings in interesting and different people and allows them to share their thoughts and experiences without interruption you see on TV or much setup, or most importantly, censorship.

You can disagree with what his guests are saying, or his views, but it's really dangerous to push for deplatforming him or his guests simply because you disagree with their views.
Steam has competition though. Can you imagine if MS owned Steam and disallowed the Epic Launcher/Store on Windows? The Justice Department would be all over it.
It used to be faster. I still can't believe they got away with the huge performance degradation in Safari 15. Hardly anyone reported it.
Austin, TX by chance? We have some pretty infamous examples of that here. One of the sillier ones was the ban on plastic grocery bags that was overturned by the state legislature.
> Why is it that closed source drivers are the norm rather than the exception for hardware companies?

Because when you want to depreciate your old hardware and want to push your customers to new one, open source driver that is maintained, or even worse, add features that should be exclusive to your new hardware, you have a problem. Planned obsolescence is the name of the game in modern hardware industry. And even "open source" drivers like mwlwifi show similar pattern, good look fixing their ¢¢^√°^¢^° firmware.
Apple should literally be broken up like Bell System.
After clicking to read the middle authors, I saw some familiar names, Pierre Kory being one of them. A doctor that testified to a congressional committee early last year that "the pandemic will end, the economy can reopen, social interactions and activity can resume, and life can normalize" if we simply give ivermectin to everyone.

He has made countless claims like these long before any good research had been done. So he and his organization have a lot riding on proving that ivermectin works for COVID.
For a time, you could have jailbroken your iphone by visiting a website in safari, no computer or any sort of wired connection needed. You'd go to the apple store and some kid would have gotten cydia installed on all the demo iphones already
They sometimes do, Ecuador is an examples that is fully dollarized, but how are you going to dollars as a local? Your job can’t provide them to you as your salary. The dollar is quasi legal tender in Cambodia, but only locals in tourism can earn them easily.

Argentina will auto convert dollars when they are transferred to banks via official channels, so unless you go for a suitcase, it is really hard to even have dollars given to you.
Extremely inappropriate behavior is a pretty strong accusation. Seems like a harmless nerdy prank that occurred 40 years ago. It's not like he changed the monitor to say "Poop Fare."
This is exactly the narrative that Google's marketing folks have screamed to the heavens and any shill outlet that will publish it, yes. :)

Chrome is not popular because people like it. Chrome is popular because Google forces over 80% of phones on the planet to ship with it as default, and because people trying to install Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash Player would suddenly discover their default browser was now Google Chrome. And then, once they had a decent install base... a lot of other people installed Chrome because some poorly written website that didn't follow web standards told them it'd only work well if they installed Chrome. Like Gmail, the world's most popular email client.
When singing up for something that is after an email address, the prompt for an email address that Apple populates the box with is the list of addresses for the contact and the option to create an email address that is only used for that service and forwards to your own email.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210425

In a world where email address lists get sold, using the random address generated by Apple means that if that provider sells the list, you can disable the random address without exposing your real underlying address.
60% still strikes me as dominating, because the percentage of the US population that is over 60 years of age is way less than 60%.
Why does a^2+b^2=c^2 for a right triangle? It's just axiomatic, right?

Not exactly. It's only true in flat euclidean geometry. If General Relativity holds then we're only in a flat spacetime if the total energy content of the universe is in some range of values, otherwise the universe could be the 3d equivalent of a sphere or it could be a hyperbolic shape. In neither of these configurations do right triangles behave the way you learnt in primary school.

So a^2+b^2=c^2 if and only if the big bang happened to have some particular initial conditions. It's not axiomatic, and studying _if it's even true_ tells you a lot more than you'd expect.
And if the government says that Apple engages in anti-competitive behavior, they are 100% free to take action against Apple. I don't see the point of that kind of argument.
> ”Have we finally found a place for the tons of household garbage we generate?”

Fossil-derived plastics make up a significant portion of household waste. From a climate perspective, it might actually be better to bury plastics in landfills rather than burn them as fuel.
Yeah, if you were there, but if you walked last the rest of the day and wanted to see the instrument working, only to be met with a "some guy broke it", you wouldn't be as happy.
> And we didn't even know the identity of the person(s) behind Groklaw

This is a really strange and trivially disproven claim[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Jones
I almost want to see them try, in some fantasy world, just to see what would happen. Would we get a mass exodus to macOS, or would it finally be the year of Linux?

Of course it’s probably best left to our imagination…
Didn't Apple completely remove Java in 10.8 (Lion) which wasnt a major version number bump either?

I don't use MacOS, but others have mentioned it's been printing deprecation warnings for quite a while now.
Not without a patent + legal funds warchest to take on Apple, Microsoft, and the other tech giants they're not.
> How could a build be verified to be the same code without some kind of signature? You cant just validate a SHA, that could be faked from a client.

This depends on how far down the rabbit hole you want to go, if it was secureboot, only signed processes can run, would that make you feel better ? If it doesn't.. what would ?
Since boundaries can be very helpful: could many lower level theories ‘emerge’ to classical physics?