skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Madeofpalk’s comment explains the (possible) issue very well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38608075

Apple has always been “here’s the rules, follow or go away”. Google was “we’re open!” except they kept undermining that.
The point is that what Apple did is as bad or worse from the perspective of promoting competition in healthy markets, but it's more difficult to prove and quantify the harm, so it doesn't get punished.
Japan is probably one of the most blind/disabled friendly cities I’ve seen. Sometimes there are people sleeping on the floor of the trains too but if you trip over them they’d likely continue sleeping or apologize to you.
>It’s interesting how the judges in Apple vs Epic stayed with Big Tech

My thought is that the judges are likely staying with the "letter of the law" which is what Big Tech (Big anything really) hires all of their lawyers to make sure that they technically stay within, while flagrantly violating the spirit of the law in a way that helps the business model.

The Jury is more prone to look at the spirit of the law.
This just went out to tech@:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=170234892604404&w=2
It really trickles down so much. You can't use a public restroom anymore with the ease you once could. Items in stores are locked or just not available, employees feel unsafe, including my family members who are just trying to work college jobs. It's possible to help people without fully enabling them but too many who have been voted into office don't see or care to see the consequences of their policy. And the sad thing is they keep getting the green light from voters. I quit trying to understand a while ago.
I'm surprised these senior executives were unable to bob and weave on camera under questioning from these knuckleheads.

Q: Does calling for the extermination of Jewish people constitute a violation of $university Code of Conduct?

A: Thank you for the question. I and the entire University community categorically condemn Anti-semitism in all forms.

Q: You didn't answer the question. What about the speech code?

A: I don't think I can be any clearer, congresswoman. We categorically condemn all forms of Anti-semitism, and Islamophobia too, for that matter. Hate has no place at $university.

GOTO 10

This is in media training 101 for executives, at least in the tech industry.
I was curious and their mission:

"is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission

So it could be antitrust or consumer protection.
>I like and prefer that I can only buy stuff and most importantly have a single place to cancel all my subscriptions without dark patterns like having to talk to a person to cancel.

You could STILL do that if that does happen on Apple. No one forces you. It just gives people more choices. Choices are good.
I assume you mean drug-related victim?

Because we can say the exact same thing in the other direction. Go to a group that's grieving over car deaths, and tell them you're glad that resources that could have helped are instead going to fight the war on drugs.

Since this method gets such contradictory results, maybe it's a bad method for evaluating things!
I mean a lot of it just doesn’t apply. Google was caught paying off Samsung to encourage them not to put alternate app stores on their devices. Squashing competition where it should exist.

Apple makes the devices, so they aren’t making others squash competition. They’re exactly what they say.
This page has detailed maps and aerial views with annotations showing directions of groundwater flow and some good discussions.

https://www.geostrategis.com/p_beavers-longestdam.htm
In the US, where the case was decided, it's about 50%.
6502 Divide by a constant.
https://forums.atariage.com/blogs/entry/10805-unsigned-integ...

And double coverage - NesDev forum post (same info)
https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=11336
Are dump trucks and hockey rinks used in Canada as standard size measures, like the Library of Congress is in the US?
IANAL, but it's my understanding that courts like to stick to what they know. Apple's arguments about iOS security are rooted in abstruse technical concepts that a judge probably prefers to avoid ruling on directly, while Google's backroom wheeling and dealing is the kind of conventional skulduggery that is immediately recognized as an offense.
Found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4fHfDrfoJw

Doesn't show movement but shows how they look in the wild, even has a cracked one that is about to form two new balls. You clearly see they aren't just mossy stones, since there are stones lying around with no moss, it is more like a colony of moss balls.

I can easily imagine early life looking like that.
Well that's their own fault for requiring a phone number. They could just support creating accounts with username and password and they would never have to send texts. It would be way better for user privacy too.
This particular bump in sales might be attributable to the boom in computer sales resulting from COVID and the surge in WFH.
> It is a new book, so my question is, is this title worth 90 bucks?

IMO, yes. I'll be ordering a copy. But "different strokes for different folks" and all that.
> Microsoft's investment does not amount to control of the company.

We can't know this without seeing the agreement.

> ""While details of our agreement remain confidential..."
Haha yes...All pretending Apple to be some different entity in a holy universe.
Which explains why it's a playful name - the old Internet culture still shows up.

And let's be honest, it's a great name when the lowest free options are 419 or 420.

Some may roll their eyes at it, but it would certainly be a memorable status code.
There have been cases where OpenBSD's hypothetical mitigations have worked out well for the project. I recall a relatively recent DNS cache poisoning attack that OpenBSD was novel in pre-emptively mitigating because something (I think it was the port?) was "needlessly" random.

If a mitigation has negligible performance impact, and doesn't introduce a new attack vector, I can't imagine why it would be seen as a bad thing.
> Very true, alcohol is much worse by most metrics, both in terms of number of addicts, number of deaths/year [1][2] and general damage done to the body. [3][4]. (I'm not trying to be cynical, just stating facts.)

Is this true per capita?
Epic vs. Google Trial Verdict, a Win for All Developers
I use something similar to React class components. Under the hood my set function calls Object.assign and I debounce the render function callback. You could implement it yourself in <80 lines of JavaScript[0]. I'm not sure what other people use but I've been using this style of state management for ~4 years and it's been fine so far.

[0]: https://github.com/codewithkyle/supercomponent/blob/master/s...

Edit: if signals are your jam you could us https://github.com/maverick-js/signals
> The second best option is to allow them access to a clean, low-cost, prescription of it for the rest of their life

Meaning after a few times of someone finding black market heroin, they can prove addiction - and then get it for low cost on the taxpayers dime, indefinitely and forever. Even better, the heroin addicts with less restraint about only using their supply will know who to beat and steal from to get more.

I'm not saying addicts are inherently bad people. I am saying heroin users are unlikely to have the self-control to stick to their prescribed amount, every day for the rest of their lives. We all have bad days and need something to make them suck less.
Are you suggesting that Google lost this lawsuit because the government decided they don’t matter anymore because they don’t have good enough AI on the market?
One thing I’m not seeing discussed in the battle of client apps, is that Apple is still paying to run the backend servers. Considering the ubiquity of iMessage, this ain’t cheap.

When Beeper charges customers subscriptions for the client app, do they kick back any money to Apple who provides server side support for iMessage?
The thing about OOP is that you can always trace down the methods as they’re called, or look at the parent class. JS can come from any place, reminding me of PLEASE COME FROM in INTERCAL. It’s not that, the fundamental issue is that the DOM is a big global that everything has access to.

But you can’t look at a piece of HTML and know for sure it doesn’t have an event bound to it without reading every scrap of JS (or just running the code). In OOP at least you (should) have some guarantees of encapsulation. But since I don’t see an obvious way to make HTML more OO, I can see the appeal of a declarative style.
I have teenaged kids at home, so typically running many online gaming + FaceTime sessions simultaneously, along with other streaming services.

I don’t know if it’ll saturate it, even then, but our bandwidth use is definitely on the higher side.
>The next time someone sues Apple for this, there will be precedent.

Trial courts don't set precedent, only an appellate court or higher can set a precedent, and that precedent is only binding on lower courts.

Since trial courts are the lowest courts, their decisions are not binding on any future trial and as a general matter do not set any kind of precedent.
The jury was only finding guilt, penalty has not happened yet so we don’t know what kind of fines or whatever Google will have to deal with.
Thats a great question; I'd have to dig into their statements to see more. It's hard to get reliable data from that long ago for free. From what I remember as a consumer, MSFT + INTC (Wintel) absolutely cleaned up in the 90s until AMD started the CPU price & MHz wars, and Apple started making MacBooks.

For Intel, it looks like they kept one dollar out of every four until the recent crash. I don't know the reason for the decline, but I know I wouldn't want to compete against Apple.
> This phenomenon is directly responsible for the rise of Incels in America.

I’d argue that it’s due to social media, not the iPhone. I can believe that a reasonable number of guys being “bubble shamed” into inceldom, but as a driver for a quantifiable and significant number? No way.

MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc? For sure.
Yes. More money but with much more inequality which is manufactured by money printing. People who aren't socially connected to money printers are starved of funding in spite of the abundance of money in the pockets of a shrinking number of elite.

And as much as you'd like the second sentence to be true. I'm happily married to an attractive Russian woman. The western brainwashing didn't reach Russia thankfully.

I'm speaking for other guys in the west as I could very well have been one of them if luck hadn't been on my side.
Usually what happens is a point of law gets appealed and one of the chances of action gets thrown out and the penalty that was tied to it.
> Maybe, if we assume that C14 is not distributed homogeneously in the log; that is the logical assumption by default

Perhaps read about the actual technique more? A tree will be at equilibrium with atmospheric c14 throughout its lifetime.

> As we know that C14 had spikes in production in some particular years, Is trivial to assume that rings formed in those years stored more C14.

We have very solid time series data on the background C14 levels from multiple independent techniques. Spectroscopy based methods count the total number of C14 atoms in the sample throughout its entire volume as well.

> The main question is if we have this years registered on our log or not. If we would have it; and they fall on the outer part of the log (AKA the partially charred part), then is perfectly doable

As I said above, the entire radiocarbon dating discussion is irrelevant to the original article. I just wanted to reply against zero content lowbrow dismissals of the technique in general. It's disappointing to see commentators here posting the exact same FUD as young earth creationists.
It squashes competition with Netflix
Good Docs Take Great Effort
It doesn't matter for US legal system how their marketing call that. It's either legal or not.
I think the pictures in the article are actually pretty good. The beaver dam is so big that it’s impossible to get one that’s simultaneously close enough to see details (like Rob Mark’s selfie) and far enough to get the full view (like the photos by helicopter).

There are more photos in an Atlas Obscura article [1] discussed here a few years back [2].

[1]: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/worlds-largest-beaver-da...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27000775

One comment in that thread [3] also links to the satellite photos on Google Maps [4].

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27004917

[4]: https://goo.gl/maps/MEyZ5tsHVCSaeDHV9
I'm reminded of the story where an outraged passenger confronts an airline worker saying "Do you know who I AM?!?" and the worker gets on the PA system and says "This person seems to have forgotten who he is, does anyone know?"
> My concern here is those building bike lanes are building it for a near future where cars are banned so my initial points are invalid to them.

I'm not sure if you are referring to some sort of conspiracy theory (e.g. the current conspiracy theory about 15 minute cities) or something else, but this doesn't really make sense. If cars were banned there wouldn't be any need for "bike lanes" so why would people bother building bike lanes in anticipation for a future where cars are banned?
Does fednow cover all the day to day uses of checks? Can I hand someone a token of some sort that they later redeem?
I have got an issue discussing this in place and exploring couple of proposals. Turns out folks using SQLite use plethora of techniques to maintain their schemas, so enforcing a framework that works with the rest of their ecosystem is easier said than done.
There are two parallel thoughts going in my mind.

1. smoke and mirrors

2. hatchet job as a favor to Google for old times sake (healthcare.gov resurrection etc. relations).

Either way, this will not go anywhere, because Microsoft is run by competent people and FTC is not.

edit: upon further reading, retribution for losing Microsoft-Activision merger could be a possible thing too. But my final observation still stands.
Finetuned LLMs with 2 lines of code. Helicone + OpenPipe
A lot of people are asking how to automate their data flywheel. With Helicone + OpenPipe it has never been easier. With 2 lines of code, your app gets better over time without you needing to know how to finetune your own model.
That language seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting. A more straightforward phrasing would've been "we will never process or otherwise consume customer content once it has been delivered to you". As written, they could use it to train GPT-5 or what-have-you and refuse to share it with you, making that exempt as it is apart from "services". Or all manner of other shenanigans, if they have competent lawyers.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38607424
Monopolies are not illegal. It’s leveraging the monopoly to exert force on adjacent markets that is. In the case here googles foul play is making side deals for preferential treatment against other app stores given their control over the handset operating system. Apple doesn’t offer an App Store market and never has nor ever represented otherwise, the app store is and always has been part of the operating system. This isn’t true for Google. Maybe for you and I this is splitting hairs, but splitting hairs is 99% of the law.
But it wouldn’t because I don’t think that’s what it means.

They appear to have ruled that Google has a monopoly because they’ve been squashing everyone else who should have been able to make an App Store by Google’s policies.

Apple isn’t squashing anyone, they just don’t allow it in the first place.

So I don’t think this would apply to Apple because of the line of reasoning. I know most people on hacker news think Apple should be forced to allow alternate app stores, but I don’t think this ruling can be used for that. It appears you would need something else.
Cashier at Walmart is not a zero-skilled job. The incumbent needs to:

* show up

* not be high or drunk when showing up

* adhere to a schedule

* read

* follow instructions

* not cuss out his boss or customers

* count money

* not steal money

* operate a computerized cash register

A large number of homeless probably could not do these things.
I don't know how they define `MAX`, but I'm guessing it's a typical "a>b?a:b". In function `elf_read_pintable` the `npins` is defined as signed int and `sysno` as unsigned int.

So this comparison will be unsigned and will allow to set `npins` to any value, even negative:

npins = MAX(npins, syscalls[i].sysno)

Then `SYS_kbind` seems to be a signed int. So this comparison will be signed and "fix" the negative `npins` to `SYS_kbind`:

npins = MAX(npins, SYS_kbind)

And finally the `sysno` index might be out of bounds here:

pins[syscalls[i].sysno] = syscalls[i].offset

But maybe I'm completely wrong, I'm not interested in researching it too much.
Yet most western countries has found ways to improve upon those ancient times.
Yeah...they had to quit fondling their $400 oxygen free silver plated kevlar coated audiophile USB cable[1] long enough to lecture us on the nature of music.

And demand their mom bring them Cheesy Poofs.

[1] No, really...https://www.dedicatedaudio.com/collections/digital/products/...
If two companies end up in that situation without breaking the law, then there’s nothing wrong with it legally by definition.

It becomes an issue for the legislature to fix. Not the courts.
Ha, emacs is an "extensible text editor", while vim is a "powerful text editor"!
It does not replace gift cards or where you want the person to have to redeem the funds transfer at a later time, although one could build such an escrow service I suppose. SLA for delivery is no more than 20 seconds from when a transfer is initiated.

When we give gifts via stationary cards, I print a QR code sticker to place in the card that fires a notification when scanned, which lets us know to Zelle the gift because the card has been read. Could be productized for sure.
It's hilarious they likely spent thousands of hours work-shopping and testing a whole bunch of names and ultimately went with Numbrino.
Apple forbids developers from even telling their customers that it's costing them 30% more.
> significantly less

But even one deal is enough.
VroomAI VST: Generate sounds from words
I currently have three large components that handle state between them, and a bunch of control components that don't care about state (they receive values as attributes, and trigger "change" events if changed by the user).

The larger components contain their own state, and communicate by events (so component Foo emits a change event when its state changes, and component Bar listens for that event and fetches the new state by checking event.target.data).

It's working reasonably well with this relatively small set of interactions. But I can see a point where I'll have to create a Flux/Vuex-style state store and use actions to mutate it.
30 years and counting of nonstop economic woes for China. Hope they can turn it around!
Wonder how many more decades we'll pretend like everyone flying is a potential suicide bombing terrorist and ignore things like # of years or # of flights without trying to hijack a plane. Surely, if I've got 20 years of non-terrorist behavior, I should be allowed to go through a standard metal detector, no?
Lady with an Ermine Meets Nazi Art Thief Hans Frank
Look at all the games that are sold through Steam, just for convenience and stability.

I think the benefit of being in the Nintendo store is far higher than that, and they'd do fine. And they have lots of first party games too.
Who do you think maintains all that OSS in Darwin?
You can blame capitalism for the problems due to Oxy…
They’re weak on antisemitism and there’s now a mark on their head.
Wordstar was the dominant word processor because it was designed from the ground up to be as portable as possible, which made it available on a wide variety of 80s home computers, particularly those running CP/M.

Eventually that portability came to hurt it, because eventually everyone was running DOS, and Wordstar couldn't take advantage of DOS's unique environment, and so WordPerfect came along and ate its lunch.
> more than 1400 compounds from [the fentanyl analogue] family have been described

Astounding.
Are they not making money, or are the trucks not selling?
The Nomad II appears to be a late 1990-vintage Volvo 940 station wagon with a missing door.

That’d be more impressive if the Nomad II came before the 1970’s Volvo 240 wagons, which were basically boxier 940s / Nomad II’s.
They don't have to stop working with other vendors to stop being open.
No. I'm suggesting that Apple won theirs because they are more important in the eyes of the corrupt government and that's what it takes to win. There can only be one winner. Second place is a loser.

Just wait 10 or 20 years. Watch the system concentrate wealth in fewer and fewer hands and people blame everything under the sun except the design of the system. I think the winner will probably be either Microsoft or Oracle because they are the most corrupt.

Seriously, does Microsoft or Oracle do anything useful these days? No, they just extort money from the government via overpriced proprietary software licenses, lock-ins and contracts obtained through corrupt practices. That's what winners do.
But Apple didn’t decide that only Netflix could be on their platform. And they didn’t take money to cause problems for other streaming video services.

That’s what Google did according to the verdict. They paid money to stop competitors.

In fact Apple negotiated that deal to keep Netflix on the platform because Netflix wasn’t happy paying 30% (surprise). It’s not good that they’re playing favorites secretly, but it’s not the same thing
Therefore Apple is also a monopoly. Don't let the comments above and below fool you. tldr it is just a different monopoly.
I am so tired of reading this.

You do not need to be a monopoly to engage in anticompetitive practices that are illegal.

Monopolization begins to matter more with things like mergers. It is not necessary for other illegal anticompetitive practices, such as price fixing, for example.

Collusion is illegal - full stop.
I keep misreading all of these comments.
Whenever DMA kicks in, I'm reasonably sure that there will be a number of state legislatures to follow this case, which will practically enforce Apple to open up the App store in the US.
Yeah, and what in the world is a "temporary email"?