skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you mean how WeChat and Alibaba do it, and are allowed to do so by the App Store. Then why hasn't Meta done that? Perhaps they don't care to? Not that the Facebook app isn't already hugely overstuffed.
I don't get it. This "experiment" could have been replicated by a simple computer simulation, given that worker output is entirely random. The supposed moral of the story is that system design defines outcome, not individual performance but how does that even count as "science" when you don't have control and experimental group. He designed a system with inherent flaws and, surprise, it has flaws. We can see there is variance in "productivity" but we have no idea how this same variance would have affected output if workers actually had agency.
Google Stadia has reportedly been demoted, but it might show up in your Peloton
I've run into plenty of apps that don't really look that great yet are SPAs. Like basic form post kind of sites. As I mentioned elsewhere, I got blocked paying a student loan due to one, and had to jump into Devtools to get a broken CVS app to submit a prescription request.
It affects bird migration, results in algae blooms when near lakes, harms navigational instincts for species including sea turtles, and negatively impacts nocturnal species. There’s a good summary here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_light_pollution
Software engineer is put on a team that has more legacy code. If management judges by # of incidents, they are under performing.

Heck I can tell you from experience that if you want to get promoted fast, new product teams are the way to go. You get to file lots of patents, architect huge new systems, and look like a rock star.

Another example: Partner teams upstream keep pushing breaking API changes, downstream teams look bad because their services are the ones having the outage. You do your due diligence, your code is defect free, well tested. Doesn't matter, you are spending half your day putting out fires caused by someone else. Meanwhile another co-worker starts on a team where their upstream services are written to be robust against bad incoming data and have APIs that maintain back compat. Your co-worker puts out buggy poorly tested code, but the upstream services are robust enough that everything keeps chugging along.

Management doesn't see any of this. They just see your team has poor performance, and this other team has great performance. Heck maybe that other team has a higher "velocity" because they can turn out features faster.
Vegan food is vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts -- all the things great for better health.

I hope schools avoid the highly processed version of vegan foods that currently exist.
> The day that Services division no longer reports 20%+ YoY growth could well be one when Apple stock faces the reckoning like FB/Meta.

Is that what happens to a piece of software after it has eaten the world?
Comparing size of executables is basically useless. You have to compare memory footprint and execution speed to be honest in a comparison between applications, and the applications shoudl serve roughly the same complexity of the problem being solved.
Great point. Also true: I already have some level of trust with Apple(I bought their device), not you. So Apple should return more relevant results for me on AppStore or even allow me to filter out those apps, that doesn’t support preferred option of payment. Will you agree with such setting?
Maybe they had a drop-down saying "How did you hear about us?" with just "Facebook Ads" and "Not Facebook Ads", that's my theory.
Amen!

I have seen an alarming number of talks where someone proposes to algorithmically add Gado contrast or turn a T1 into a T2 image. In a few very specific contexts, this makes sense (e.g., aligning a T1 taken in one session with a T2 taken in another). Otherwise though, it seems dangerous to mistake a "real" image with the expected image given another one.
perhaps, the real details would get hammered out in a proposal.
I suppose I'm happy for those who wanted this, but I am sort of done with mobile gaming.
I'm not even mad about it anymore.
Personally I can no longer imagine a situation where I would play games on my phone.
artificial lights do mess with wildlife a lot. https://www.darksky.org/light-pollution/wildlife/

Many animals use light or the absence of it as a guide to do various things, so when we artificially extend the day cycle with night pollution it disrupts them in a myriad of ways.
Thanks for the perspective. I just wanted to drop in to touch on one point...

> And if you like tacos, stay on that side of the pond.

Why are there no tacos in EU? I have noticed this in multiple places in Europe. The best I can figure, there is not a good supply of cheap chicken.

I honestly think there is an opportunity there. If someone can get a taco franchise in EU going I will pitch in for one location.
Yes, it shows that payment processing is 3%, and the remaining 27% has nothing do to with payment processing

Why do people insist on acting like the platform commission is a payment processing fee? No one says that about the platform commissions by Xbox, Playstation, Twitch, Patreon, ...
I also worked at Amazon, my team was great, and I had a great time. But, I also acknowledge the immense amount of toxicity that comes with "getting promoted" at Amazon. Many manager are on a visa, and get pressured to "deliver results" or they lose their visa. So these managers push insane deadlines, people burn out, the ones not in a visa leave, the others need to deal with the huge ops load, the frequent on-call rotation, and with an angry manager.
That's not a bad precedent for saying it shouldn't break much of anything if it's done. I also love the name of the label for handling the error condition there.
I think Apple is more than their store too. I also think they if Apple is forced to allow alternate stores, users and developers will suffer, the industry will be set back, and a few scummy operators will take some rent.
FWIW, Windows (MSVC) also guarantees "argc > 0" and non-empty argv with non-empty argv[0]. It also returns EINVAL if execve validation fails.
One of those things is not like the others.

Offering people a vaccine is an obvious win. The only way in which it could not be is if the virus were so mild that the R&D and distribution cost weren't worth it. That's obviously not the case for coronavirus.

The other things are just authoritarian desires that you're not able to even quantify.

The fact that you'd delete my career and social bonds for the sake of a theoretical virus that might just put people in bed for a while means this discussion is over, I don't engage with terrorists, good luck.
One can easily arrive at the same insight (i.e. being in the body is just an illusion) without actually experiencing it. Of course, if you have such an experience and you get knowledge or inspiration from it, so much the better. But to say that theorizing about consciousness is a waste of time if you haven't experienced altered states is myopic.

(sleep paralysis is a good example though)
Rowing. I used to think that I had really bad back issues from poor ergonomics, but in reality my back muscles were just almost nonexistent. I've been rowing almost daily for years now and never have back issues, and I use a cheap Amazon chair.
Yeah, if you don't like the fee, just make your own phone hardware, your own processor, your own screens, your own OS..

The same way when automakers tried a similar game and then.. the government stepped in, slapped the tar out of them with regulation, and told them to play nicely with third parties or lose the ability to do business.

Or when utilities had natural monopolies were preventing competition and.. then the government put strict regulations on them, set pricing rules and allowed significant control of them.

The answer is that if the two dominant parties have managed to keep out competitors and basically engage in collusion, the government should correct the situation.
Academics shouldn’t add insult to industry
Calculators are preferred for important calculations, though upon further thought, I remember reading that mental math is prized in the finance sector.

Out of curiosity, a search on r/FinancialCareers provided anecdotes as some evidence that it mostly helps you seem smart to higher-ups, and also does have a niche role in prop trading [0]:

1. "Prop trading firms highly value quick mental math. I work at a prop in Chicago, specifically market making in the broker market on CME products, and very fast mental math is required as part of my daily job.
I calculate my hedges using mental math, and it’s absolutely crucial I’m quick (futures can move fast). The mental math I do daily is mostly multiplication and division of two-digit numbers, as well as some fraction multiplication.
Although prop trading firms are few and far between now, so it’s a niche field and a skill with little required use outside of trading."

2. "Youll find that aa lot of politcal wins are made in meetings with higher-ups. These people often have little time and want things boiled down to a mental math state (they dont have time for you to fix your model in real time). This is where quick mental math can get you a good impression.
If an exec has a question surrounding the effect of something that isnt in your model, you will need to do quick mental math to figure it out. This exec doesnt have time for you to do more than 5 key strokes. It is important as it makes you seem like a thought leader."

3. "Extremely relevant. Will help you impress in internal and external meetongs"

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/FinancialCareers/comments/c7c38l/is...
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/125/
Ctl: STL in C
I don't see apple doing that either. This article says very clearly that the payment processing fee is 3%.
That's true. Inside my home I prefer yellow light, but on the streets white light does work a lot better.

I know it's psychological, but white light also gives me a better sense of security walking at night on the street.
Ask HN: How do you make decisions?
Wondering if fellows here know of any ways to make decisions in life ? Like this job or that? Keep job or change? PhD or no PhD? Startup or no Startup?

A lot of people say about doing what you feel. Unfortunately, when I ask myself that question, nothing comes up. So, I crowdsource opinions and then ends up confusing me.

Wonder if people here have some tips and tricks to share to help me.
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So antitrust regulators should break up Google?
It's not about him. Society at large has a problem if any people at all are able to be manipulated like this. And clearly, some are.
That equivalence is awful. What is the profit margin of airlines vs the app store? There is a real cost to an airline seat, and there is a real cost to publishing an app on an app store (and all that it entails). The difference here is that airlines have tons of competition driving down margins, while no one is allowed to compete with Apple for iOS customers.
> I wish we could harness the brightest minds and give them everything they need to solve humanities hardest hitting problems,

I think more anti-corruption laws in government could help. I also think what you described was supposed to be the roles of Academia, but we turned them into job training facilities.
The ldd program that lists the shared libraries used by an executable at least used to exec with an empty argv, which the dynamic linker detected and listed libraries instead of linking and running. I learned that when I screwed up an inetd configuration and saw a list of libraries instead of the desired results.

Edit: just tried on windows 10 WSL, and it had a sad (blue screen).
The fact that they provide development tools and almost anyone can write an app for it?

Xbox is not open to anyone to develop on. It's very closed to new developers and expensive.

FWIW - I think Xbox should be forced to open up it's platform as well, not be used as a justification for closed computing platforms.
I'm sure anyone writing lies can also charge money though, just because you pay for something does not make it good.
What tripped me up was the seemingly-conflicting notion in the post that, typically, salvage belongs to the salvager, not the owner. It seems like the opposite is true? How it read to me was that there must be some kind of exception for insurers once they take ownership of something, but if the default is actually that the owner still owns it (minus reasonable salvage fees, and if they can prove it) and the point was that it was impressive they could still prove it after all that time, then it all makes sense.
It disrupts insects (and thus, everything downstream of them in the food chain):

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210317141651.h...
You have to do weight lifting to get strong muscles. No way around that. Cardio and yoga doesn't build functional strength. So just get a kettlebell.
I don't remember the first time I used Slackware. I do remember the first time I used a non-slackware distribution. It was Debian. The first thing I tried to do was install a missing piece of software with `make && make install`. I couldn't believe anyone would ship something as useless as an operating system without a compiler. It was a very long time before I gave anything but Slackware another chance.
Right, backwards compatibility with existing bugs.

It really isn't a kernel problem at all, of course.

The POSIX spec says "The first argument, argv[0], is required and must contain the name of the executable file for the new process image."[1] Linux is not fully POSIX-compliant, but it generally follows the POSIX standard for kernel calls defined in POSIX.

FreeBSD's man page says "At least one argument must be present in the array; by custom, the first element should be the name of the executed program (for example, the last component of path)."[2] So, "must", compatible with the POSIX spec.

QNX implements the POSIX API, pretty much per the spec. The QNX spec says: "The value in argv[0] must point to a filename that's associated with the process being started."[4] So, "must", again compatible with the spec.

The Linux man page says, unfortunately, "By convention, the first of these strings (i.e., argv[0]) should contain the filename associated with the file being executed."[3] That's the problem. POSIX says "must" but the Linux page only says "should". That was a mistake.

One somewhat kludgy fix would be to disallow argv[0] == NULL && envp[0] != NULL. That allows launching a program with no args at all, which might be used somewhere in some ancient program, while disallowing launch with no command line args but with environment args, which is probably a bug.

(I liked the QNX approach to program loading. The kernel isn't involved. The "exec" functions link to a shared object, which requests memory and does the loading using regular I/O operations. The kernel contains no loader and is thus immune to problems from malformed executables.)

[1] https://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/sasc/doc750/...

[2] https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/freebsd-manpages/execve...

[3] https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/execve.2.html

[4] https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/6.4.0/neutrino/lib_ref/e...
Finding Deadlocks in a Golang Database
What were the extra capabilities that delicious had over pinboard?
I dislike it because I prefer code over configuration OR convention.

Please give me code I can understand-by-reading and not code I have to understand-by-synthesizing-with-a-non-collocated-knowledge-set.

This is why the “worse” of golang is better than the “better” of rails
I wonder if that would run into net neutrality-type issues, but setting different rates is definitely a novel way of looking at things. Charging higher rates for publishers of larger app binaries would also make sense. Certainly tech giants such as Facebook and Uber who have bloated app sizes could pay the extra expense for the hosting and so forth.
Microsoft, with massive resources, has been trying to break the Google search monopoly for over a decade without making a dent.

Search startup DuckDuckGo uses Bing on the backend rather than building their own.
> 30% is just too much.

i see you never had to deal with retailers.
You can make a web app which can be run on the same phones with no fees. The vast majority of apps can be implemented as web apps.

Comparing utilities, based on physical constraints, with digital goods doesn’t make any sense. It doesn’t require any effort to make a web app relative to the status quo.

Furthermore your example doesn’t make any sense because you make money with Apple and pay a fee - you’re not paying for nothing. Natural gas, for example, has constraints around distribution and collection. These don’t exist for apps.

Ironically, if more developers just made web apps instead of going to app stores it would not only make their apps more accessible as they are inherently cross platform, but would likely lead to the creation of a web App Store to resolve the distribution problem.
I wish the kernel could handle

argc==ARBITRARY_NUMBER

It's crazy that with 64GB of internal memory, I'm still getting "argument list too long".
Analogies are not persuasive. If the audience isn't already on board with the argument at hand, then they're unlikely to be receptive to the analogy.
Learning on the Battlefield (2007)
There are semi-competent oppressive regimes, like china, and incompetent ones, like many in south america. Still useful on a spectrum, and significantly more useful with low-tech or poor oppressive regimes.

Also large orgs run on percentages, economics and so on. Anything that makes it more expensive to be oppressive or change the balance of things is useful. It doesn't have to be a %100 solution to be helpful.
Fair enough, it sounds like you care about this girl and that is good. IMHO the best thing you can do is give her space but make it clear you are there for her if and when she needs a friend.

>>>I read a news in german language once. It was clear. Shortsentenced.

I also agree, the German language is a beautiful thing, they have such interesting words that speaking a single one can convey an entire thought.
eg: Schadenfreude or Backpfeifengesicht
> If not, can the rest of HN create fun speculations?

Human armpit-scented cat toys.
What is a real supermarket?
Biologist decided to disavow his own study
Sounds like I'm not the only one who found the reformatted version worse, not better.
I honestly prefer to use Apple payments and Apple "Hide My Email" as I'm sure a non-trivial number of users do. If they could just refocus on making developers prioritize that flow for users over outside payment systems (e.g. create a flow requiring users to agree to disclose their private information to the app maker and third parties in order to use an outside payment system) then they'd keep most of their customers in the Apple ecosystem and keep the payment processing.

The fact they are trying to keep a stranglehold on this revenue seems penny wise and dollar foolish. Clearly regulators are gunning for them and it's not long before they lose this and don't get to set the standard.
I built one! Arduino Leonardo and a light dependent transistor:

https://github.com/willmuldrew/lagmeter

(It attempts to do a few other things but it’s best for measuring keyboard event to screen update latency)
I believe it gets used for the unattended-upgrades system to manage security updates. Not sure if that's the best way to do it but I believe it's using packagekit to do the actual work.
it's a balance. Sometimes you need a pickup truck other times you need an 18 wheeler. Sometimes, you even need container ship. People like to pick what they know so you end up with some strange setups out there.
Isn't this question answered by a PET scan and not MRI ?
Regulations require banks to keep a certain amount of capital and reserves, and these reserves are typically kept in a deposit with the central bank, so that the regulator, i.e. the central bank, is able to monitor the reserves to ensure the minimum reserve requirements are met at all time. It's got nothing to do with centralisation. Businesses are subject to all sorts of regulations. Some are required to have fire extinguishers in their premises. That doesn't mean they are centralised.
My phone does not have the Google Play Store
F-droid is free.

Is f-droid magic?

The Kindle store doesn't take 30%.
http://centuryoftheself.com/
That's only because you're defining the market as "has an entire fleet of container ships," which is just assuming the existence of a consolidated industry.

Each container ship could be its own entity and then you just need marketplaces for people to hire them to ship things.

You don't have to build a national cellular network, you can put up one tower and then sell service to a market of MVNOs which buy service from different tower providers in different regions.

Every piece of an operating system doesn't have to be built by the same entity. See Linux. For that matter, see macOS, which is full of BSD code written by many separate entities.
> Or, the worse possible: becoming unfashionable.

Nothing popular becomes unfashionable that quickly.
Why does Best Buy require vendors to reimburse them for markdowns and unsold inventory? Why doesn't Apple do the same?
Tesla FSD Beta 10.10 is here with the rolling-stop function disabled
If anyone wants to help shepherd Wormhole William through the f-droid submission process, that would be appreciated!
HDR isn't just about the range of the camera.
It's about the range compression used to go from the original light intensity to the 8-bit JPEG rendered in your browser. The image in the article has very aggressive, nonphysical tone mapping. If they didn't, the bottom of the scene would be black.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_mapping
European oil port terminals hit by cyberattack
https://techstory.in/facebook-says-apple-ios-privacy-change-...
We run 3 nodes 24/7 (writer + 2 readers) and have RIs for them. But during daytime hours we autoscale and run an addition 8 or 9 readers. Some of these run for just a few hours and could easily run on spot (especially with minimum duration).

Serverless couldn't provide enough capacity for us (at peak we use up to 300 vCPUs in this cluster). That was on v1. v2 might change that when it supports postgres support.
I don't think it's a waste of time (I'm not OP by the way) but you would surely be missing data.
Is this an opportunity for Apple (or similar) buy this technology/company and apply it to their phones? Could this be a leap in bio-tracking for individuals/athletes?
Cool, let me install linux or android on my iphone then.
It's not 30%, but a very large portion of VISA's profits comes from the fees they charge; VISA's fees are not capped to their "costs" of operating. VISA exists as a literal precedent that you can profit off a commission for a financial transaction.

The issue in question isn't whether Apple should be allowed to profit, it's whether they should be allowed to abuse their effective monopoly position to set their commission a literal order of magnitude higher than any other processor.
Rdio. Still miss it every day.