skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think you’re crazy. I think WebOS really could’ve done it if they’d had a better launch partner than Sprint, and had done better marketing.

Their application Model was web technologies based, which is quite popular now, between React-Native and PWAs.

I’m doubtful though that someone could pull out off now. Mostly because you need access to the services that people already use and Google/Amazon/Apple already wall their gardens to their own liking.
I think it has to do with swift runtime deprecations.

I have an objective-c app that is as old as the AppStore and I haven't updated it for 8 years [1], Apple even updated it once themselves somehow to support iOS 11.

Another of my apps was removed with a similar vague explanation as the OP got and it was written using Swift [2].

While I understand that they might want to drop support for old runtimes the 30-day deadline is ridiculous. And if you miss it you need to re-submit the app and lose your ratings etc.

I made nowhere near enough in the ~2 year period my app was available to justify spending the effort to modernize the project so I just let them remove it...

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/seismometer/id288966259
[2]: https://github.com/jnordberg/triggy
While Apple could do a Microsoft and try to keep third-party software working for decades, they've realised they can offload that work to the third parties for free.
That's the one. Yes, post buy-out it went poorly but that fallout was a given considering the company that purchased it.
Outside of SimCity games, I never heard of microwave power transmission in the real world...
> I doubt a game that hasn’t been updated in 2 years is any good or doesn’t have a million competitor clones by now.

That statement doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Games can be "finished products". Do you also think that movies and songs that haven't been updated aren't good?

There are plenty of games from the 80s, 90s, 2000s that are still selling today, in unmodified form, running via emulators.

And clones are 99.9% pure garbage that don't replace the real thing.
Did you flip EU and US in your comment? My understanding is the exact opposite of what you wrote:

- US, common law, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law

- EU, civil law, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)

Citing: Civil law is a legal system originating in mainland Europe and adopted in much of the world. The civil law system is intellectualized within the framework of Roman law, and with core principles codified into a referable system, which serves as the primary source of law. The civil law system is often contrasted with the common law system, which originated in medieval England, whose intellectual framework historically came from uncodified judge-made case law, and gives precedential authority to prior court decisions.
He didn't say that, he just said it's antagonistic by nature, nothing like what "you" accuse him of saying. That's fine, you know chess is like that, in fact any game where the goals are diametrically opposite. And they aren't completely diametrical, they ways in which they are not diametrical are just boring, nobody cares, yeah work hard yadda yadda, yeah be polite and show up on time, nobody cares. But like don't stop there! Work like fuck! Be gentlemanly or an assertive woman, or some analog that suits you! And show up on time like the bill from the cemetery! I did these things and didn't get promoted, but well no one time I was promoted actually, looking back...well but you gotta do it without counting the cost, real enthusiasm, a real work ethic! And knowing full well your employer might equally be, as an employee is out to leech, out to leech his employees.
I'm okay with this. Firefox makes enough money without my marginal contribution further enriching Mozilla execs, your FOMO/FUD notwithstanding.

I used Firefox until they lost site of their core target, and killed their mobile app's quality and extensions.
Libraries can and do choose what books to keep in their collection. If a library chooses not to acquire a book, that isn't necessarily `banning'. If I write a book on dog poop art, a library may well decide that nobody is going to want to read it, and that acquiring the book would be a waste of budget and of shelf space.

Banning can best be thought of as external. If a library has a book, and a politician (e.g., library board or school board member) demands the book be removed, that is a call for the book to be banned.

Not all banning is external, to be sure. A library that refused to acquire books of interest to people of color, or to LGBTs, can definitely be said to be banning books. Librarians I have known have pretty much all had the opinion that, as much as possible, acquisitions should be responsive to the needs of the community, and would not be supportive of policies like that.

As for the Turner Diaries, I'd echo the OP that, even if a library chose to include it in its collection (and thus spend money on it that would not be available to spend on other books), it should be held in a Special Collections division, available only on request. But my guess is that my dog poop art book would get more circulation than the Turner Diaries.
Some vaccines do. It's not clear the Covid vaccine does in all age groups.
At this point, I see no other option other than lobbying your congressmembers to regulate SV companies finally. Now companies are enforcing the uptake of new APIs for no real purpose? Half of the churn is just to pad googler pedigree and advance within the company, it is a shame they are enforcing that culture on their users.
Thanks for the reply! And the generator option, tho I keep getting timed out of the code, the descriptions sound promisingly good at times.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply these were not produced as described, I was just curious. Tho think of it it was a silly question as it would have otherwise implied they're generated in a blink.
Doesn't that mean it's an expected error?
I think what can be seen is people feeling like someone forcing a change on them. Language, culture, habits are really personal. I think the less someone thinks about theirs consciously, the more personal they are.

Also, as many point it out, this change is often spearheaded by entities of questionable reputation. Google, for one, is grilled a lot for their behavior lately, and now they roll this out.

Lastly, I think that this innate and natural feeling, that "they" will come and change our ways, is preyed upon by populist politicians. When people feel like this, it can be, and is being played up by creating the very Boogeypersons you jokingly made up: they point to immigrants, like LGBT people, successful Jewish businessmen, whatever sticks.
Sure, but it could still be used as a wifi-only device. I have an old iPhone 8 that I keep around for music and streaming to a TV.
"It turns out that 64% of the nitrogen within the plant is obtained via insect digestion"

I suspect that this is way more common than we think. This plant has sticky stems and they digest insects that stick.

It must be quite easy for plants to add insectivore to the skillset. They often already have a symbiosis with insects for reproduction. There are plenty of saps and other sticky substances available to deal with shuffling water and nutrients around. The fly trap is a bit fancy and complicated but the simple honeydew type arrangement must surely be way more common than we think it is.
can you imagine the faces of your loved one's? like, if one of them went missing, would you be able to help the investigators draw up a sketch of their face?

as far as i can tell, most people say "yes". for me, when i imagine my dad's face, i get a brief flash of a grin, where the wrinkles are (but certainly not how many, or in any definition), and the rough cut of his hair. there's no eye color in the imagery, for example. stronger than any visual experience when i imagine his face is something of an emotional/empathetic experience -- what it feels like to be in his presence.

from what i gather, for people like me (and maybe you) who experience "some" visual imagery but not "lots", it's just a skill like any other and there are exercises you can do if you care enough about it to strengthen it.
> his taxes directly fund the war.

You could say the same thing about Germans, and all the gas they burn.
Sounds like a civilized country, with maybe a Mosley-shaped exception. And your method does a far better job to show how harebrained all these sounds-like-everything-comments are. (Which I am having considerable trouble believing, but maybe it's a language thing)
The argument is private property is a nearly necessary ingredient to innovation. It may not be exclusively true but boy it sure helps! Even things like city planning greatly benefits form the taxes siphoned off healthy private commercial activity.
live by the store, die by the store
Microsoft’s monopoly was anything but fair. They did all sorts of shady, anti-competitive things WRT browsers, Windows, and Linux.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
Agreed completely.

Ignoring natural immunity in favor of inferior pharmacological solutions in many age groups is really problematic!
To those asking whether people can normally "see" in their "mind's eye" as if one sees in reality, the answer is yes.

We can see the world in our mind and conjure whatever we want, spatially manipulate objects (rotation, translation, scaling) and imagine their interactions with other objects (a ball hitting another in mid air and how it'd bounce off). It's like having a VR environment inside your own mind that you can use at any time and take wherever you want.

I'm not sure about other people, but I can also conjure smells, sounds and tastes as clearly as if I'd experienced them in reality. This might however be more than what most people can do, I suspect I'm on the hyperphantasia part of the spectrum.
America will fall before the banks let the government regulate them in any meaningful way.
Aka pastis.
> Isn't that basically mental illness in general?

I’m puzzled by this question. Are you suggesting that all mental illness allows the one suffering to abdicate “past bad behavior”?
Oh no, it has a whole section on enneagram, which is pseudo-science.
You do realise the tweet you're replying to is from 2017?
Those three you listed have definitely been the most problematic by far when trying to run things on Linux.
Please refrain from putting words in my mouth. I never said that Bitcoin doesn't have fees. Inventing arguments against things I never said is very uncool.

With that said, using Bitcoin to send value across jurisdictions is still seamless and far cheaper than most alternatives, except perhaps for some other cryptos...

As for using Bitcoin to pay for stuff, sure there are fees, but then there are also fees for using banking services, except more of them are conferred to the vendors and to other banking fees, thus making Bitcoin a pretty great alternative anyway. However it's not the fees alone that makes Bitcoin a preferred choice over banks. It's the whole package, of unconfiscatableness, cutting out middlemen, privacy, and so on, and I happen to think the small fee you pay for that package is a lot better than what you get with fiat. Either way, that doesn't take anything away from the fact that you can do a lot more with crypto than you can with transactions stored in a centralized database.
SAP, for one, makes an exception for the word "master" for cases like the Master's degree, or Scrum Master:

https://help.sap.com/doc/b0322267728e48a28b0c8ee7dd1ab4c7/1....
Monkey jpegs
I somehow can't believe Apple cares that much about either group, regardless of who in some manufactured statistical methodology you feel is the "worst offender." This has more to do with control than anything else, because I am unable to imagine a better fitting explanation. May be the "why" isn't really what you were addressing with your comment, but if it was, this can't be a "why."
Probably to advise you and take care of the nitty gritty details of your decisions.
She makes very specific points on what can and can’t be reasonably treated as a scientific problem. Her main concern appears to be that much physics research and funding has deviated towards mathematical philosophy. Work which may be correct, but is untestable and ultimately unscientific.
It is annoying, but there is a "disable" option. They still will take some space on the device though.
Generally not great, but there are advantages to using something different to everyone else. For example, a lot of paywalled sites can be bypassed using Firefox's reader mode, and it's not worth the sites' effort to try and block it.
Come on over to Onlyoffice, they have an online office offering and no inclusive suggestions.
Why are salaries a no-go from being paid for by sponsorships?

The sponsors shouldn’t care how you spend the money internally, they’re buying advertising.

Salaries of staff (payroll) is often the largest expense, it’s totally fine to pay yourselves.
> You probably don’t want Firefox to update automatically, without your knowledge. A Firefox upgrade means you must immediately restart the browser. If this happens in the background while you’re doing something important, it can easily ruin your day.

I run into this issue very often. I use private browsing heavily, so the forced restart is very disruptive to my workload. I lose all my tabs and saved state.
I’m just acknowledging the reality.

There is now a very nice summary comment from worik elsewhere in the thread, but basically end-users are no longer the same from Canonical’s perspective and so it’s probably wise to thank them for good things they did and move on.
I find PBS Space Time to be superior to her videos in pretty much every case.

https://youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime
What is this startegy of monetising upstream contributions that you mention redhat having done?

This isn't something I've heard of before.
Delusions? It’s right in the Pentagon Papers.

France had no ability to reclaim its former colonies after WW2. They want Indochina back as a colony (money and prestige) and the US wanted to stop communist expansion there and create an alliance to stop communism in Western Europe.

France let it be known without support in Indochina it may not be very helpful in Western Europe. The US did not support Europe taking back their pre-WW2 colonies, but like most political decisions, decided that containing communism was of greater importance.

As a result, the US was bankrolling most of France's attempt to get their Indochina colony back in the 1950's. By the time France left in '54, the US was already deeply involved and committed.

Nothing new here.
I think it has. On Windows, famous for its backwards compatibility, you still have software that shows ancient dialogs, have graphics at a resolution for 640×480 monitors, or that work with 8.3 file names, and only with those (so, you can’t save docs with long names, and have to guess at the short names of files and directories with long names)

Yes, banning such apps is a loss for the customer experience of being able to run such applications, but there are disadvantages, too. For many of those applications, users would be happier _if_ those applications were maintained and adjusted to modern hardware and new OS capabilities.

Now, of course, that’s an _if_. Apple makes a different choice than Microsoft there. They think losing applications isn’t a big problem (presumably as long as replacements exist, but even that isn’t strictly necessary for some tools. The public at large can do without a Kermit program or RSS reader, for example, because it has alternative ways to download files or access news)
Fedora build is slightly different that the upstream one; in a way that many FOSS users appreciate: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1518

Additionally, it is being done by the same folks who drive development of linux-specific features (like wayland support or video decoding acceleration) anyway.
That’s awesome! How’d you get such great code usage examples out of J?

It almost seems like the code is properly related to the names. GAN code seems to look like GAN code. But I’m not sure.
My only lisp experience was trying to teach myself AutoLISP in notepad in the mid 90s - I remember the parentheses trauma well. This was before I knew any CS or what a functional language was.

I did come away impressed though with how it could map to CAD concepts. It reminded me of the RPN stack when programming my HP42 calculator. I could sense there was an underlying elegance I wasn't fully grasping.
How would space-based solar increase the risk of warfare in space more than space-based communications and geolocation infrastructure already risks it? Knocking out GPS satellites seems like it’d be nearly as effective as knocking out power-supplying satellites.

I guess maybe the difference is there is redundancy in the GPS network – taking out one satellite wouldn’t do much damage, but with power supplying satellites I presume it would.
Safety mechanisms don’t remove liability. If a car doesn’t stop of it’s own volition to avoid a crash while the driver continues accelerating (and most cars don’t), the responsibility is still with the driver.
Ubuntu also gives you full control over how you want things installed also, right?

You're not forced into one method?
What's weird is that until COVID, scientism was on the way out of favor, with the sidelining of the New Atheists (Tyson, Hitchens, et al). It's funny how the movement managed to get revived just before it stepped through the pearly gates, as it were.
Blockchain technology helps you create applications without the need to have a trusted 3rd party.

What it solves?:

- Sending money from Alice to Bob without the need of a trusted party like Venmo/Paypal/Bank.

- Vehicle registration / House title deeds are maintained by the local government. A decentralized application can potentially mint an NFT (ERC-721) and maintain such a DB. (Although, the physical society would need to come with laws to tie up physical good's with NFT's)

- In today's Gaming Economy all the digital goods bought/earned are controlled by the company (Zynga/Roblox). A blockchain powered game will allow the owners to have actual control of the digital goods ( money - tokens, wearables - NFT's) bought/purchased that they can sell/exchange in the open market. Imagine buying a souvenir from Disney Land and then not being able to sell/exchange it.
For foss: Matrix.org, reddit, irc

For biz sponsored projects: zulip, gitter, slack, yammer

For crypto: discord, telegram
The same guy in France already at war to reclaim their lost colonies? Huh?
This is always interesting. I don't even buy phones anymore if they don't support Lineageos. It fixes all those issues. It still surprises me when I see stock Samsung devices and how utterly rubbish they are. And they are sold as premium flagship devices. The amount of bloat and garbage is incredible.

waves fist at sky
It was probably considered a re-post if there was no significant new information.

Other HN users flag. If you think it was flagged in error you can email HN.
1. direct harm - a girl might get into a fight with a man and get hurt because she believed a falsehood

2. indirect harm - the girls told falsehoods begin to distrust institutions who hold themselves out to be unconditional truthsayers, thereby dissolving social bonds and encouraging unneeded division and rancor
> Four whole years?
It should be outrageous that we might consider such a short period acceptable for devices as expensive and otherwise long-lasting as a high-end Samsung phone.

I mean, yes, but it wasn’t that long ago that Google had to get everyone to agree to at least 18 months. And the market would correct for that, but everyone was doing the same thing - abandoning a device mere months after its release.

And from the manufacturers side it’s not hard to understand why the finance dept doesn’t want you to spend more money on a product that’s already been purchased.
This is so depressing to read. I can’t imagine an ISP like this existing in Canada.
You'd be better off buying I-bonds if you want to prevent the money from shrinking. They are liquid after one year.

Your treasury bonds can lose value if newer bonds pay a higher interest rate. Your free 3% is only guaranteed if you hold the bonds to maturity. If you have to sell them before maturity for some reason, you could lose money overall.
Apple Pay is legitimately useful though. You can use it to pay at physical businesses if you forget your wallet (double click and face ID to turn your phone into a "tap to pay" card basically). There are also lots of apps/sites that support it so you don't have to type in your card number or even your shipping info sometimes.
Per the Making of... link in dang's comment above, Tufte and Norvig talked about it a fair bit.
Someone very close to me had a serious mental illness. Nobody has any idea what the illness is. Different doctors give it different names. The same doctors give it different names.

I eat the impression doctors are less worried about the “anatomy” of the illness, and more worried about finding a cure.

If “take these anti-psychotics daily, get 8 hours of sleep a night, and meet weekly with a therapist” prevents symptoms … they really don’t care if it’s a psychotic disorder (as opposed to, say, a mood disorder).

Psychology seems to going from a “deep mind” approach to a “shallow mind” approach.
That is an even lamer excuse.

"We attacked them because they are the filthy communists!"

So what?! They are the communists, not you. If it works for them, does it need to work for you? If capitalism works for the US, does it have to work for Vietnam or any other country?

I believe that the true reason for war was refusal of the US to hand over the gold to France and other countries which foolishly kept some of their gold in the US. Of course, the gold was either spent or confiscated by US.

So, the US needed to fabricate a huge spending operation to justify the fiat expansion of the USD, leading ultimately to the creation of the petrodollar system which replaced the old gold system. And what better spending operation than a war? Even better, a war thousands of miles away from home, against far weaker enemy forces.

Nevertheless, those forces prevailed in the end. But the true winner still, was the US. It had unshackled itself from the world's gold-backed financial system and ushered in a new era of dominance.
Requiring an alternative to algorithmic sorting (chronological) is good even though most sites do it already. "Explaining the algorithms" sounds like an impossible-to-implement, feel-good clause.

Requiring transparency for bans and censorship though will probably have a major effect if people start asking nosy questions and exposing corporate and government abuses of power. Many EU governments will regret that users can expose them , that will be fun to watch. It will also make it very hard for companies like reddit to function: could reddit be legally liable for actions of its moderators?

the other clauses are the typical wishful thinking by EU legislators who think that you can legislate the solution to unsolved or unsolvable tech problems
If we know that a behavior is harmful, all the more reason to stop keeping it up. I'm sure we can manage technology without edgy analogies to people fucking or suffering.