skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I understand, the only thing that matters for reducing unrealistic "tracking blur" is indeed how short a frame is displayed on screen. Which could be achieved by strobing / black frame insertion or by increasing frame rate. Or even both, as in some VR applications. So the effect should be the same, except for the brightness thing, which may not be a problem if there is a lot of screen brightness headroom anyway. For HDR LCD TVs the LED backlights get quite bright actually. OLED not so much.

One advantage of higher frame rates (as opposed to strobing) would be quicker input responses to, e.g., moving the camera. That's not overly important on a normal screen but quite significant on a VR headset where we expect head movements to be represented very quickly.
Of course the corporate lawyers and enterprise settings are going to take this position, but I find your flippant dismissal of GPLs core uses and purposes seem to belie you are just in a group that prefers the non-user friendly licensing.

That’s ok, but you can’t hand wave away that GPL, especially v3+, is about protecting and defending the user (like tron), while MIT/BSD is not, by calling it “vague notions of fairness” as if GPL hasn’t already seen wins in the courts… on this point I think some research might be due for me though.

I’m just so very tired of the “hey me and my banker/lawyer/insurance friends all hate this - that means it’s useless and dangerous for everybody”

I say the GPL and copyleft and the four freedoms for the user are the tools we use to fight these types of corporations in the first place, and I truly believe not only is GPL not dead but that it will play a vital role in our near and long term future.

Choose your weapons wisely.
These sort of give up your rights ultimatums should be illegal
Good question.

It really is a tough choice.
Microsoft does have the best products for their and mobile platforms (including iOS,iPadOS) with really good Offline Features and so on.
But it still is Microsoft and Exchange behind...

A better product is Fastmail. But also US Servers and AUS company and a lot of downsides concerning offline usage and other privacy points.

What else? I try to avoid Google as much as I can....
Well there is Proton with it's Proton Suite getting better and better. There is german mailbox.org (worse 2FA) but overall a good privacy mail provider with own domains. There is migadu.com from Switzerland with EU Servers (rented at OVH Data Centers) and some other players like Tuta and others...
But the relevant part here is the App Store. Giving users more freedom to get their apps without requiring Apple's authorisation is a good thing.

It helps startups and stops Apple from abusing the App Store monopoly to funnel users to Apple Music over competitors, etc.

The Big 3 labels don't enforce exclusivity at all (although UMG has threatened it a few times) - so you can get the same library on Apple Music, Deezer, Youtube Music, Spotify, Tidal, Amazon Music, etc. so even though it sucks they have a monopoly on almost all popular music, at least there isn't a monopoly in distribution like the App Store.
As much as I agree with the conclusion (my AGPL code was stolen by OpenAI, as was a lot of other code), your logic is extreme. This is not good. A more reasoned argument is more convincing.

1. "Fair use"

It is fair use to use snippets of my code in other projects. AGPL doesn't change that. If I have a 3-line sort routine, and Copilot copies that verbatim, it's okay.

The place and reason Copilot is not okay is because I can ask it to spit out code which, in some versions, was almost verbatim code I wrote, and in others, a paraphrase. The same abstractions and high-level design I invented is copied by GPT.

It's like writing a book set in the Star Trek universe and (not as a parody), changing "Spock" to "Spork" and "Kirk" to "Dirk."

It's a problem for me because I compete with commercial systems, and chose the AGPL for very specific reasons: People have a right to know how their data is analyzed, and AGPL preserves that. Copilot allows companies to quickly replicate and whitewash my code.

If Microsoft uses a snippet in Windows -- e.g. a small use in an unrelated context, fair use clearly allows that. As much as I don't want my code stolen, degrading fair use would be the far greater evil.

2. "The reason why OpenAI has a non-profit part is to allow them to claim that they do non-profit research, which fair-use doctrine requires to work."

No, OpenAI was set up as a genuine, if ill-formed, non-profit. When it clearly became big $$$, bad people (likely breaking the law) formed a for-profit arm to personally profit from it. The non-profit arm is there for historical reasons.

Your statement is false, and there is ample historical record that what you're stating is not how it happened.

That's dangerous, since the wrong lessons would be drawn. The lesson this reiterates, which I learned many times the hard way, is that for non-profits, checks-and-balances matter. If you don't want your non-profit going south, this means everything -- licenses, corporate charter, bylaws, contracts, etc. -- need to be properly structured to act as a permanent network of checks-and-balances so the organization cannot go south even if bad people are involved, and that incentives are structured to support good behavior.

We do need a for-profit like the original OpenAI, but properly structured and resourced.
The EU is fighting big tech on multiple fronts. My point was that this fine (and other fines) might show these companies what happens if they keep ignoring lawmakers.
That's fair criticism. I was writing this under the pretense that you get the basics right and don't have needless garbage between you and CPU execution.

There's also the fact that Rust tends to draw those who are already proficient with computational knowledge. Whereas the typical Python programmer is just a poor dud that never had any formal education in accessing computer resources.
Open Source Entitlement
Spotify does not allow you to subscribe in their iOS app. You have to do that in a browser and then log in. That way Apple does not get a cut.
Two million old trees hiding in England, says report
Texas will add more grid batteries than any other state in 2024
That's an interesting point I hadn't though of, thanks. However, I don't think it really backs up the previous comment. The link say's it's been even until recently:

>In humans, this balance has been remarkably even, but the past few decades have seen a substantial shift towards men, notably in some Asian countries

Yes there's an imbalance at birth:

>around 103–107 male babies for every 100 female ones.

However, 2 things about that imbalance:

* I don't think 100:103 or 100:107 is big enough for "a much better chance than a man of having some average number of children survive". I would think "slightly better chance" would be more accurate.

* The imbalance only exists as babys/kids. By reproductive age (the previous comment said "a woman had a much better chance than a man" not "a baby girl has a much better chance than a baby boy"), it evens out:

>the initial surplus of boys decreases to roughly equal number of males and females during the all-important reproductive years in most populations.
Ha, I didn't notice what the site was. I thought these folks have got the story wrong. Maybe that's how they think.
It explains it later that spotify does not allow for subscription via App store. so, all they pay is $100 per year as a dev fee which is basically nothing. Apple also claims that they flew an engineer to Sweden to help out Spotify.
The Stack Exchange model is a bit weird, looking at it now... The inherent evolutive nature of the tech business makes things obsolete so quick that it's hard for some of the answers to be correct for an extended period of time. Of course, I'm referring mainly to the StackOverflow, and other SE's like DBA.

Very few good questions have received the love required to keep them relevant, and even then, the accepted answer is generally correct only for a setup that is so far behind in time it has now been superseded by a completely new set of tools and technologies. With the ones that do receive new answers, you still have an issue of visibility, they just hang in a lower position in the thread, and because the vote system mainly works with novel answers, the incentive to actually correct or update the knowledge on an old question is removed.

This mechanic is probably just fine for stuff like the Language SEs or even code golf, but for for technical questions, especially for dev related stuff, the system has proven to have aged like milk.
Is there even a way to correctly deal with signals in the first place? The more posts like this I read, the more I start to feel that there is no 100% correct way of handling signals, you can at best minimize the probability of getting hit by one at a wrong moment. Which is OK in real life, but feels bad for a fundamental part of an OS.
How do you sleep at night, knowing that somebody, somewhere in the world is wrong, and you are powerless to challenge their mistake?

Speaking for myself, quite peacefully, thank you!
Help needs for App (eCommerce) idea validation
Problem: I know couple of Shopify merchants who uses Instapage to build beautiful Landing Page which runs on the subdomains and give that link to their influencers and also use in Meta and TikTok ads, they’re doing this because they want to add more detail for their products.

But problem is they have to build each product pages manually, there’s no way to create landing page where many products are listed (in short no e-commerce like template available).

There are other app like Shogun, PageFly available but it feel like there’s some limitation, it just inject some content in existing Shopify website. If your store is slow this pages will be also slow.

——-

Imagine there’s one app using which you can build a macro store (Landing page, PLP, PDP) with drag-drop and conversion-ready elements. You can list specific products on this sub/macro store.

(Imagine, it’s an Instapage app but for stores)

This store accessible over subdomain “offer.mystore.com”, when user click on checkout customer redirect to main store “mystore.com” and complete the order.

This macro store is extremely faster than normal Shopify which means bounce rates can be decreased and smooth user experience can increase the conversion rates.

There are many targeted use cases, this macro store.

1. Influencer specific store “john.mystore.com”, this link can be used by multiple influencers in promotional activities, and influence can track revenue generated by this link.

2. If You want to run a clearance/flash sale, you can create beautiful landing pages without code

3. You want to sell cross-border and test the market without spending money on building a Full website.

4. There can be many other cases where merchants want to experiment with their ideas faster (no developer’s help needed)

What’s your opinion on this app?
Much can be said about car features, but the reality is the buyers of cars are usually not the last owners; if you buy a new car every five/ten years, you don’t care about issues in the fifteenth year.

Think sunroof leaks, broken power windows, etc. So many luxury features that are more fragile than the simple equivalent, but the buyers don’t care because those problems only affect very used cars.

The connected stuff will be the same.
The money goes to the EU institutions and EU projects like fixing the infrastructure in a region with poor investment etc. The corruption tends to happen on the last minle, where the contractors might misappropriate money together with the local politicians. For example, they might use thinner asphalt than required, cover it up and split the savings with the local politicians.

As the British found out, the EU funds are quite useful for regions where the free market doesn't do good. That's how even the poorest places tend to be quite nice in EU.
On joining Microsoft Edge and moving to Seattle (2016)
Yes, it has the same issue as e.g. automatically rendering Mermaid diagrams on GitHub: now you can't just show a block of Mermaid code, without dropping the language annotation.
Pan-Amdahl’s law?
> they just couldn’t quite imagine the computer

Or they imagined that such devices would be much more powerful but much less general than what we actually have. The card showing books being shredded and fed into students by headphone looks like a computer to me even though it is cranked manually. Quite a lot of my software development career was dedicated to programs that transformed knowledge in one form (specifications and domain expertise) into knowledge in a different form (detailed drawings, bills of materials, and descriptions of the final product.
> pays Apple nothing

Nothing? Not even the developers fees?

C'mon Apple
> change in the performance management system (moving away from perf)

This sounds... confusing. They moved away from performance?
Syncthing on android works for Joplin only to version 2.5.
The most common example for this is the fast inverse square root function from Quake engines. Start the function signature and the "auto-complete" will fill in the body implementing it.
This is great to hear, though your decision does make sense! I'm really keen to play with Framework.
Apparently not. Spotify sells their subscriptions on their website.
> GIT is already best model for keeping history of textual changes

No it’s not. Git isn’t a model of textual changes. It’s just a model of textual snapshots connected over time.

If I were building a replacement for git, it would store character by character changes instead - though for that to work properly you’d want editor integration. Then the same tool could act as both a version control system and as a platform for realtime collaborative editing (via CRDTs). You can still have commits - they’re essentially just tags. And I’d keep the concept of branches.

Most of the algorithmic work has already been done - at least from the CS research side. Combine my work in diamond types with some of Martin Kleppmann’s work on BFT CRDTs & automerge. There’s a few more tricks needed. For example, you don’t want a hash on disk per keystroke. I’ve figured out a nice answer for that but haven’t written it up yet.

Deleting data is an unsolved problem. For example, if someone accidentally pastes in a password you need a way to prune it from the history. And async merges probably want to emit conflicts - which nobody has done on top of CRDTs yet as far as I know.

If I were building it, I’d also throw in a simple crdt based data store, synced over the same protocol. Then we could also store GitHub issues and other stuff inside the repository itself (a la fossil). CRDTs resolve conflicts better than git ever will, because they have access to more information than git does about what happened.

It’d be a pretty cool model. Definitely worthy as a successor to git in my opinion.
I will miss the handy subscription overview and a minimal amount of clicks to cancel or request a refund. I wish we could have both.
$6 million isn’t remotely fuck you money where “fuck you money” is defined (as originally) as the ability to say “fuck you” to anyone anywhere at any time.

Try mouthing off to a city inspector or a customs cop because you have $6M. They’ll fuck you right back like any other five or six figure pleb. Fuck you money starts somewhere in the hundreds of millions or perhaps low single digit billions.
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Spotify does seem to be in an interesting position where it gets to piggyback on Apple's whole infrastructure and ecosystem without paying Apple anything. That should count for something...
Somehow I wonder if this is indeed protectionism. Slack filed a complaint against Microsoft too, but no action has been taken on that. Having said that, it took five years and three pivots for EU to arrive at this decision. So, wonder how long it will take for Slack to come through.
Or, like many IP lawyers, they don't believe it's a copyright violation. It will come down to the courts and legislatures.

Being non-profit, or non-commerciality in general, has relatively little to do with fair use.
From the article:

> Spotify Pays Apple Nothing

This sound like a child not getting their ice-cream. Why does Apple feel entitled to get anything from Spotify? There has never been any precedence that application developers owe the platform they publish their applications on anything.

Also, Spotify never asked for an app store. They have been imposed an app store. And now Apple feel entitled to payment for that service? You have to be a government to set taxes.
Yes, I like this explanation, when that phenomenon happened in our house I thought one of our neighbours was dumb because he just put a blanket over the collector on the roof, as he said, "to keep it warm". But now I think he was right. Now, I don't know if this exists but it would be nice if there was a kind of glass that let radiation pass only to one side and not the other way, a kind of "valve", this could solve the problem of water frozing from radiation in our solar heating.
Their response is the kind of arrogant that makes me want to see them get fined for the entirety of their cash reserve.
> I think that's the end of "free software" in the GPL sense. There is zero point to writing AGPL on a program if copying it into a language model and then back out into a text file without the license is a legitimate thing to do.

Why would you think this is 'legitimate'? Firstly, LLMs are not legal agents, only humans are, so any human caught doing this is violating the GPL, whether or not the creation of the LLM is legal or not. Bits have color
There's a big geo-political component now at play, at least when it comes to Europe (I live in Europe). Meaning that the Europeans can try and upset the big American corporations up to a point (almost 2 billion euros as in this case), but not any further, because at the end of it all the security of the continent depends on American hegemony, on American guns and ultimately on American money.

From that point of view the situation back in the '90s was a lot more fluid, as at some point there were even talks of an Europe that would have extended "from Lisbon to Vladivostok" (so leaving the Americans out of it altogether).
OneDrive sometimes mark encrypted files as suspicious and makes sync problematic.
And how have your investment returns over the past 15 years stacked up against someone with all their savings invested in Tesla?
So you’re gonna be a great artist or the next Tesla? And everyone should assume they will be?
Fuck you money, colloquially, is the ability to say “take this job and shove it” - not the ability to raise a personal army and conquer a small city state.
1.8B is about one percent of the budget. So not that big of a rebate, especially when split among all member countries pro rata.
Normally on HN we discuss the article in question. Some people agree, while others disagree.

freddie_mercury has posted the opposing view. I don’t think that’s thread hijacking. It’s a frank and open discussion of the topic raised by the original post. It’s a good comment. The community agrees. You can tell by how many points it has.

You can disagree if you want.

Interestingly your response is emotional first, facts second - exactly like the parents described in freddie_mercurys link - I think that you have a lot to gain by really reading and absorbing what that link says. I mean that with the best intentions to you.

freddie_mercurys link can help you get your kids back into your life.
There are no damages really, without Apple Spotify would be a dead product by now. Their entire existence is more or less due to the advent of iPhones and the App Store where customers subscriptions were significantly higher than any other platform (this was common knowledge within the organization too, we loved Apple, I say we as I worked there for many years)
Consider this: quite powerful solar thermal generators [1] and furnaces [2] have been built, which use mirrors to concentrate sunlight. Do they create intense cold at night? No, because you can't focus coldness. The device in the article, and the one described above, depend on shielding a volume from terrestrial heat sources, and are effective only because the heat being transferred is minimized.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemasolar_Thermosolar_Plant

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odeillo_solar_furnace
Is there any non-religion based effort to combat modern society's (seeming) shift toward excess like drugs and gambling?
A good reason to try to rely only on the things that are "Git" as opposed to "GitHub"!

(And it's totally possible GitHub will still be there in 20 years - we're still all using Windows and macOS and Unix, aren't we?)
It was not just not economically practical: it wasn't practical.

Yes, the flights were shorter, but between 9 hours cramped in a tight fuselage with little entertainment and 12 hours in a comfortable chair with headroom and entertainment, I would have taken the latter. There's a sweet spot abive the even more comfortable but vastly slower passenger liners, but Concorde was too extreme - and I guess the suborbital flights imagined by Musk are too far too.
Initially StackOverflow gamified Q+A but then they accidentally gamified Moderation and thats when it went downhill
The press release somehow forgot to touch the core of the fine: apple customers paid higher subscription fee for apple music than they would for Spotify because it's against app store policy to inform that Spotify has a cheaper subscription if they don't want to pay apple 30% cut...
Interesting question and I suspect so but since I am no lawyer plus have never heard of such a case in the media I do not know.
Fun :) The point of esoteric languages isn't to be practical, another example of a "strange" language is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language#... / https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet
Now we await for the app store because of DMA. Let’s see how obtuse Apple can be.
Perhaps it is impossible but I'd love to see a Quine in this language
This same story has been posted probably 50 times over the weekend..
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I search Apple's response for the word cheaper and the phrase 'less expensive' which is the issue at hand, Apple insistence and not letting developer offer less expensive options in their own store. I found nothing of the sort. Apple is not a store, its a Mall. Imagine a Mall where security people enters your store to verify that you are not advertising stores at different Mall or else you get booted?
Apparently it wasn’t as settled as it is now, similar stories are found at folklore about Apple and devs developing at home.
> Can I copy a function from a GPL’ed project? What if I rename the variables? What if I re-order some of the lines in an inconsequential way?

All of these are GPL violations if it can be shown you looked at a GPL function while copying this.

On the other hand, if you came up with it on your own and it happened to look similar, then it's fine.
I think the DMA (and this case) is the most important one. Right now Apple directly controls how most people interact with all their software and the Internet.

Although I wish the EU would take the money from these fines and put it straight into developing European competition like the FairPhone, or new projects building on the PinePhone Pro or Purism work, etc. - competition is the only real threat.

I dislike some of the EU policies like the Cybersecurity Act and AI act (and parts of the DSA), but the DMA has been great.
I agree, I meant the experience of buying books.