skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We are allowed to view and consume it, to be influenced by it, and under many circumstances even outright copy it.

In theory: sure

In practice: not really, especially when you're small and the other side is big and has lots of lawyers and/or lawmakers in their pockets.

Disney ("In 1989, for instance, the company even threatened to sue three Florida daycare centers unless they removed murals featuring some of its characters") and Deutsche Telekom[1][2] ("the company's actions just smack of corporate bully tactics, where legions of lawyers attempt to hog natural resources — in this case a primary color — that rightfully belong to everyone") are just two examples that spring to mind.

[0] https://hls.harvard.edu/today/harvard-law-i-p-expert-explain...
[1] https://www.dw.com/en/court-confirms-deutsche-telekoms-right...
[2] https://futurism.com/the-byte/tmobile-legal-rights-obnoxious...
To be fair, roughly half of Apple's money is made from hardware. The app store is extremely lucrative and apparently 70%+ of their revenue from the App store is just leeching off of mobile games, but Apple can definitely survive without the app store if push came to shove.

BUT, I will also mention that part of its market capture comes from all the charges on devs even before the rev share. You need apple equipment to develop, and they (apparently) don't sell server racks anymore for businesses to scale off of, nor any legitimate form of emulation. You have a small cost per year to have a developer account, and a cost to submit your app for review. Then if you care about visibilty they have their own ad discovery program you can pay into.

So I did disagree with a brief judge statement about how "It's possible to skirt around Apple's innnovation for free...". Apple controls and charges for the entire pipeline, even before you launch the app.
I’m extremely familiar with the iOS native components (I even made some of them originally). I’d like to see your PWA to see if your claim is true.
I'm only just catching up on how serious this whole scandal was. I watched some of the hearing where the Fujitsu boss was apologising and talking about compensation. He wasn't willing to put a number on it just yet, but agreed they should be liable.
If you go to the source link - https://bbcmic.ro/?t=9ctpk - then you can see the numbers with the lines. They increment in steps of 10 (which IIRC you could override manually with numbers in-between).
Thank you for some much needed solid information.

And then you need to use that neutron to breed new tritium from lithium-6, which is only about 2% of lithium. And since our only feasible source of tritium is a single tritium atom from that single neutron from a D-T fusion reaction that consumes a tritium, we had better be damn efficient at making sure the neutrons go only to breeding new tritium. Which is good, because then they cause less neutron radioactivity of all the rest of the reactor parts. But bad, because it's pretty unrealistic to capture all the neutrons via lithium blanket.

Which means we need ultimately need an outside tritium source, external from the fusion reactions, which means another neutron source, which means, fission reactors!

The whole idea of controlled terrestrial fusion being an inexpensive source of electricity is just absolutely baffling to me. As is the idea that it will somehow be a good extraterrestrial energy source, or power some sort of spaceship. Fission is far more realistic, likely to be compact, etc. Direct conversion of aneutronic fusion is complete sci-fi at the moment, we may as well be talking warp drives.
Can find the full article here: https://beecurios.substack.com/p/minamata-from-polluted-to-a...
This doesn't directly answer your question, but on the topic of feeling about the steps taken in the past, I have found this visual by Tim Urban helpful every time I find myself going down that rabbit hole: https://twitter.com/waitbutwhy/status/1406980353986809861
> If you've ever wondered why every poster and every trailer and every TV spot looks exactly the same, it's because of testing. It's because anything interesting scores poorly and gets kicked out.

This is talking about TV but is applicable to everything; in the modern digital/computerized age, "data" is everything. Everything is measured and tracked, whether it's sales or Instagram likes. The result is always choosing what sells the best, trending towards the same, boring average.
>All they do is steal 30% from society that could be used for more productive purposes

This is how all businesses work. If there was no way to make profit then businesses would not exist. Apple spent billions of dollars creating an app platform with a clear monetization model that did not get in the way of them accumulating a lot of valuable apps and users. Developers are not forced to make apps for the platform nor are users forced to use the app platform. Other app platforms can impose lower fees and developers are free to release exclusively on those platforms if they wish. Apple hopes that the developers willing to tolerate the 15/30% fee for what the developer gets in return will be good enough to make their app platform competitive to users compared to others.

It's not just defending a trillion dollar company, it is defending the right to set your own prices.
I’m a paid user of Kagi, and having experienced downtime made me realize how much I took Google’s reliability for granted. Google has never gone down on me, maybe once in the last two decades. Losing access to your search engine is quite crippling. I LOVE Kagi, that’s why I pay for it, but experiencing downtime in my second month was quite off-putting. I love post-mortems, but I hope to never read them. :)

That said, I hope this experience makes Kagi even more resilient and reliable.
This one was from 2021.

Do enjoy the insane things ppl managed to cram into tweets to the bbcmicrobot over the years. Anyone who's followed any part of the demoscene especially the classic smaller payload demos.. 4k etc.....this kinda thing is mindblowing and totally in the same spirit.
Your example is really a classical real world PID where a motion system tracks a motion profile. The short answer is yes, PIDs work just as well when the target changes. The stability of a PID depends on the open loop response which command or error are not part of.

The theory isn't that simple (you can take a course in Control Theory which would cover that) but I think many/most people that use/tune PIDs in the real world just use rules of thumb and standard approaches to tune the different components of the loop. Somewhat more advanced, but still non-theoretical tools, are actually measuring the open loop response which lets you pretty much see the margins you have. Optimizing PIDs is really trying to get the loop to respond quickly without becoming unstable.

Another interesting thing that's used in the real world is feed-forward. That is if you have some estimate of how to perform the function of the PID directly you can just feed that to the output and add the PID in parallel. The motion control analogy of this is called acceleration feed forward. If you know the target acceleration you can basically multiply that by some constant and feed it directly to the output (which is generally current to the motor which is more or less linear to acceleration given a constant load). This dramatically improves the performance of your control system because the PID now just corrects the much smaller residual error.
Well it's not an ordinary boot of course, it's a clone and the state on both side of the fence should be faithfully cloned including virtual devices. The guest kernel will have no way of knowing whether it was resumed once or twice.

Applicability is limited, but works well to spin up serverless compute on-demand.
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TFA is about Apple's policy on purchases that happen outside the app. It used to ban even linking to them; now it allows that but it wants a cut. Steam doesn't do anything similar - it has no rules about purchases outside the app.
The ability to create folders has been added to Outlook in a new edition, and it is quite useful. Some people make folders for dispersing their clients while others do it for archiving their correspondence. We advise you to create folders based on the task's requirements and urgency. Establish a "TO-DO" folder. There should be a place for any emails that are pending or for which you must take action in order to close them.

You can create a subfolder called "follow-up needed" or "Someday" in this...

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> They did labor for other reasons, and were happy with it.

They were happy until their copyright got stolen, I guess. Then got unhappy.
Push on - it’s a great service.
Google should update the Chrome TOS so that they get 30% of all sales placed through Chrome, regardless of payment processor used. They're missing out on trillions of dollars and all they have to do is update their TOS!
Web3 can have a 2024 comeback
Wishing you continued excellent health and peace—I hope you're able to live it to the fullest for those who didn't come back from Vietnam.
As I couldn't find the nice page about the IAP policy that I read and found quite clear ~4 years ago (you should verify, don't trust people on the Internet): the old rules prior to the Epic and other court cases would say "Only for those users that set up payment while using the app." From what I gather, the current rules would be more lax, but the old can then serve as an upper bound.

The main rules were:

1) A user making a payment that has any effect on app functionality (this is very broad) from inside your app must go through Apple IAP (paying 30% commission). There were some exceptions, but mainly think buying physical goods - Apple isn't forcing the use of IAP for EBay or Amazon retail.

2) You may not link to, or even mention other payment methods.

Really it comes down to: if there is any difference in what the app will do for a user before and after they pay money then that money paying must go through Apple and then Apple will give it to you (minus 30%). So what a lot of apps did is just open to a login screen. No sign up button, no link to your homepage, heck, no links anywhere. The downside is that users have to know about your app from at least one more channel than searching on the App Store, but that's not a very high bar. Probably less common if you're B2B, but for B2C a lot of them would pay their subscription through Apple if possible, the experience is great: one central place in system settings showing all your subscriptions with easy cancellation buttons and enforced standard refund/proration semantics.
In theory, if there is a market and you can vote for better features/ideas with money. In practice they try to subvert and hack the players with loot boxes, dark patterns and pay to win or overpriced cosmetics.
In your view, when and why did Disney become a "soulless corporate machine"? Many, many parents here subscribe to Disney+ to stream stuff for their kids. I've never once heard anyone use that term to describe Disney here. Honestly, it's a weird term. Are any big corps not?

> will falter and die in the next 30 years

Would you be willing to buy deep out of the money puts on it? I am happy to sell to you all day long. Else, this is just a rant.

> Nintendo will stay profitable and will continue to produce high quality products forever.

What a reach. Video game companies are much less stable than TV and film studios. No one knows what will happen to Nintendo when the old guard finally retires.
>They’re also operating all the servers. Your $100 does not cover it.

You can get about 1.1 terabytes of data transfer out from Amazon S3 to Internet for $100.
That makes absolutely no sense.
The advertisers can't advertise to Albanian so they can't pay for neither impressions nor clicks.

If you mean that the goal of this is to attract advertisers by seeing a larger view count, then that doesn't make any sense either as I don't think there's any doubt among advertisers that YouTube is the leading video platform online.
All this to allow you to process the payment yourself. This is just the industry standard 3% payment processing fee.
> Are there any humans that can produce artwork without ingesting inspiration from other
art?

Do you think art was there before humans? Or humans made art?

If you believe the 1st proposition… please tell me about your very unique religion!

If not… you've answered your own question.
Somehow it's not unreasonable for third parties to "use" another company's IP when designing aftermarket accessories for physical products, even when those base products themselves are patented.

What makes the iOS situation different? Aren't apps essentially "digital accessories"?
So raise this to 5c for first 100 and 2c thereafter and we have a happy customer?
My parents recently suffered the loss of their neighborhood coffee shop, and they're absolutely crushed by this. They don't discuss emotions, but I can discern by their reaction that there is now a huge hole in their social life. And it's true. This place was the community hub for everyone who matters to them. They all converged there and met, every morning or every week. Mom and Dad both had their favorite dishes and drinks, and Dad would go nuts if they ran out of his bagel type. He would call ahead just to reserve it!

They absolutely thrived on walking up (about 8 blocks away) and hanging out there, just to read the paper and chat with other locals. They knew everyone. They were immersed in all the gossip, about how the place was run (by a pair of husbands) and the guy down the street and all their friends. They had a special meeting on Sundays with some church friends.

When I used to visit them, they'd still go every morning and invite me along. Once I came back with bizarre blood-sugar readings because I had been drinking an XL Vanilla Milkshake and cream-cheese jalapeño-cheddar bagel every single day. My parents introduced me around to everyone, and they were usually really nice. I spotted an ex-girlfriend there once, but she didn't notice me.

The owners had another location a few miles away, but I think that's been closed down, too. My Dad is now going by every day to glean some sort of news about what's become of the building, whether it's got new owners or tenants, and whether it's going to continue as a coffeehouse. Meanwhile, they've set up shop at a different place, two blocks away.
You have skin in the game as a consumer
Also, don't miss the gallery site! https://www.bbcmicrobot.com
I remember replacing the Linux scheduler in an undergraduate class. It's probably changed since those days but I don't think it's that hard. Doing a good job is probably very hard though.
a hot take, fwiw:

pedantic: not a fan. why "some", why not all of them?
> "Converted some Flash games to a custom..."

eh? you wrote the article there? odd phrasing
> "I wrote an article about this project here"

left-right independent chronological ordering is weird and makes it hard to digest. suggest top to bottom single column would be easier to understand. you could make the OSS stuff a separate section or interleave.

Since 2010, you've worked at 3-4 different places for only a couple years each and worked on "frontend and backend systems", oh and did a bunch of OSS/volunteer work stuff. If I had to summarize the CV into one sentence that's what I get. I don't really see what skills you have, but you "used" Python, Django, Postgres, Typescript, Node.js, HTML
Canvas, Websockets, etc. Well, every internet user "uses" those.

It just sounds ... weird ... and fishy. What actual skills are you purporting to have? Why so much time not getting paid? Were you unemployable? Or much worse - very successful independently? (sarcasm, but sadly too true)

Personally, I'll always give the benefit of the doubt and talk to a person to see what's up. But this CV/Resume in it's current form isn't helping you.

I'm not going to lie, we may not be typical, but where I'm at, when you are young and bounce around every couple years for a couple jobs, I don't see so much of an issue. But when you are mid-senior career, you don't look right. Way too many short shallow gigs.
This trend has been developing since the 90s, when hipsterism wasn't even a thing.

As I mentioned elsewhere, it's a result of a data first digital culture, not bearded white guys in tshirts.

Hipsterism is almost dead, the trend towards average is still accelerating.
I entirely expect your motives to be non-commercial but I reckon there will be bus or train ticket sites who would pay for this. Which would also allow more people to benefit from it. Well done on a great job
I cracked up when I saw this.

My search went bad and I assumed I’d broken something, tried a few things, took a break, tried a few more and it was working. I moved on.

It wasn’t ever at my end.
Nintendo was already pretty huge before the economic bubble burst in 1990. Japan had plenty of inflation in the 1980s. Also, currently, Nintendo is wildly profitable. They could easily pay their star designers millions of USD per year, but they do not. Yet, these designers stay and continue their work.
> Chinese startup claims 50 year battery life with nuclear technology

I'm still waiting for the HALT test results from M-DISC. /s
Tryptophan/indole/serotonin... really you want to look at their effect on the digestive tract of fungivores. These compounds can act as inhibitors of digestive acid secretion in some species.

I think the idea that they get snails tripping is attractive for obvious reasons. Highjacking conciousness is sexier than not getting spores digested... but is it more likely?
I find it difficult to sympathize with stick figure artists. At least penny arcade has a distinct style. But with the stick figure artists I just feel a sense of disgust and don't really care if their "art" gets consumed by diffusion models.

I know I'm being unfair but I think it's important to say the quiet part out loud so we can all be aware of which way the wind blows, because I can't be alone in this feeling. If the class action lawsuit presents the justices with a bunch of soyboys clamoring about AI stealing their "hard work" I have a hard time imagining them ruling against AI.
You might have meant something else, but what you wrote is:

> they require apps on the platform to use their payment processing so that they can take that cut.

Which is not true. Both steam apps and in-game content for steam apps can be sold in other stores with steam's blessing, and steam expressly supports developers to bypass their payment processing (by offering steam keys and account integration).
The biggest chain of supermarkets where I am just let you use an app on your smartphone to do the scanning. It doesn't require a login or anything, as all it does is collect the barcodes as you go along and then dump them to a payment terminal at the exit. (they also have a rack of some kind of generic android devices to loan for people who don't want to install stuff)
> Ok? What's so bad about speaking Russian? English isn't my first language, I have no attachment to it. If Russian had become the lingua franca of the world I'd have learned that instead.

whoosh
Renewable ? Maybe in the next glacial period. /s
Do you know that for a fact? For all calls of clamp? I have definitely used min and max when they are true 50/50s and I assume clamp also gets some similar use.
> 6 figures stashed in savings

I wish people would not use that term "x figures". It is too vague. Are we talking about 100K USD or 900K USD? There is a huge difference, yet both are "6 figures".
Great conversation. The best part IMO was Patrick's statement about the importance of the Internet. Agree 100% and never heard anyone express that view so clearly.

"I have an ebullience and love for it in a way that people in our social class in the United States are aggressively socialized out of having ebullience and true love for anything. I think that the internet is the capital G, capital W, Great Work of the human race in a lot of respects, that it is magical. It is an encapsulation of the best things about our society that is also tremendously, instrumentally useful in making all the good things better and ameliorating all the problems over sufficiently long time scales.

It seems naturally to me that this is extremely important. This is extremely valuable, and it seems extremely underrated by almost everyone, including people who would consider themselves great fans of the internet but say, “Oh, I’m a great fan of the internet, but I’m a great fan of penicillin, too.

I think, in aggregate, the internet is obviously more important than penicillin by many orders of magnitude. Is it more important than medicine? I will bite that bullet. The internet is more important than medicine, the entire institution of medicine, from time immemorial to reasonable extrapolations of what we can do right now.
Is it more important than writing? You couldn’t have the internet without writing, so writing was very important to get to the development of the internet. That might be one of the most important things about writing, that writing got us to the internet. That sounds like a little bit of . . . I know people will take that full quote and say, “Oh, this crazy, nonintellectual person,” but I think that there is a reasonable case for it."
W=1/SQR(U*U+V*V+1)

This makes a sphere. It gets multiplied by two coordinates to make spheres at different places, U and V.
I have been way in to Nikon and Canon lenses as well as DSP for like 20 years now, and have a degree in EE and did a ton of quantum, and I never had the insight that a lens is a physical EM Fourier transformer.

Cheers for that.
> But aren't those glaciers contain bacteria and viruses?

Yes. But frozen for a thousand years, so harmless. /s
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And if no one wrote apps for iOS how many people would buy iPhones and iPads? Yes, it is a symbiotic relationship. But Apple has better position to negotiate, because it is as single entity, and have a lot more resources than the the other side. If all the app developers were able to organize and boycott apple, they might be able to force Apple to negotiate better terms. But that would probably result in many of the smaller companies going out of business, unless the boycott was very short lived.

> Your $100 does not cover it.

There are almost 2 million apps on the app store. Assuming there is roughly 1 developer license per app, (some developers will create multiple apps with a single license, but others will have multiple licenses to develop a single app), that is at least in the ballpark of "hundreds of millions on SWE". And that doesn't include revenue from selling the devices themselves.
> This is not a view shared by any experts on the ground. Russia still maintains enough potential to cause immense damage to Poland, Finland, and all other of its neighbours, even if they ultimately lose. Rebuilding Ukraine will take many decades and countless billions, and the vast areas Russians have mined will take many centuries to clear. The mines will maim and kill tens of thousands of people - some of who haven't even been born yet - long after the war has ended.

Russia could certainly cause severe economic damage and kill many people, sure. But find me one credible expert who, given what we know now, supports your "hundreds of millions" claim.

> Human rights are protected in Europe better than anywhere else in the world, and particularly well in places like Finland and Sweden

Which is why the EU has been making increasingly strident criticisms of the way the Baltic states treat their Russian minorities (at least prior to the current war), and why Ukrainian efforts at EU membership stalled.

> Please do tell where Russia stands in global rankings of human freedom, and where do Finland or Sweden stand.

Depends whose "global" rankings they are. The likes of Freedom House show a clear bias once you dig into the details - apparently China not permitting schools to teach in Tibetan is a travesty, but Estonia limiting how much schools can teach in Russian is not worth knocking a point off for.