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Apple's actions are not good and will eventually discourage companies from developing anything more than marketing apps for the App Store. You don't want a big piece of your revenue stream dependent on Apple app sales and Tim Cook's whim. Maybe this is why there are so many Cr-Apps and fewer and fewer "killer apps" anymore.
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Funny you mention AppleScript, because before there was Apple Music API, we were using it and pure applescript was exactly how we have started.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/stamp-2

Bit of a history now, but it was just an applescript that used CSV to click through iTunes.
Minister is saying that he faced no pressure from US or Boeing.
In that case you could make it more transparent and outright make it a bidding war over who gets in, rather than the whole charade of test scores and what-not.
So you're just looking after your own interests while calling Spotify hypocritical for doing the same?

We're all hypocrites, and we're all looking after our own interests...
Today I learned something new. It is actually pretty cool.
Wikipedia provides

Weinberg explained the beginnings of the name with respect to the children's game duck, duck, goose. He said of the origin of the name: "Really it just popped in my head one day and I just liked it. It is certainly influenced/derived from duck duck goose, but other than that there is no relation, e.g., a metaphor."
The solution here is for the US to start enforcing anti-trust laws again.

I can't imagine a clearer example of uncompetitive business practices and platform monopolization than the App Store.
Yeah, "clear physical mechanism" is a hole I could drive a truck through. Clear to whom? And what does "clear" have to do with "verified through rigorous scientific exploration of this and competing hypotheses"? As Mencken said, "Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong."

My experience with most serious medical things is that doctors have a clear general-audience explanation, because part of their job is making patients feel like they understand what's going on. But if you get into the details, the good doctors will say, "Well, actually, the picture is much murkier, but here's what we know based on studies X, Y, and Z, but there's a lot yet to learn."

Back pain in particular is an area of open dispute. Many people have many theories, all of them very hard to test. When I was dealing with back pain, a spine-center doctor recommended a book called "Treat Your Own Back" [1]. It was hugely helpful to me. And in it, the doctor explains that he hit upon his method because a patient came in, used a piece of equipment that was set up totally the wrong way, and said, "Gosh, doc, that was great!" It led him to reexamine what he had been taught about backs, coming up with a different "clear physical mechanism" to explain a common class of pain.

That we are still figuring something out does not mean it's psychosomatic. It doesn't mean it's not, but a doctor suggesting otherwise is doing the medical equivalent of "god of the gaps" theology, where anything mysterious is attributed to your preferred cause.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Treat-Your-Back-Robin-McKenzie/dp/095...
Again, that's certainly the narrative the article presents. But Gouthro did not (as far as is included in the article) corroborate that the accusations in the lawsuit are false or that the shooting threat was fake. He does corroborate the story that Tesla sent PIs to tail Tripp - because Gouthro himself sent those PIs, in response to the shooting threat that Gouthro himself saw.
Useful, yes, but not really important. I drive a FWD (fake)SUV crossover 4 months of the year in snow in the more rural suburbs of Oslo and find myself thinking I want AWD only once or twice a winter. As somebody else said, the roughest drive we do is gravel roads.

The bigger difference might be FWD vs RWD. I do seem to see RWD cars getting stuck more (as evidenced by which wheels are spinning uselessly). For the model Y Tesla might well mimic the model 3 options of RWD or AWD, in which case AWD would definitely be the wiser choice.
They also posted a Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=&v=l8SShgWqJvg
Sure. The issue is the difference that remains even after you [at least attempt to] control for socioeconomic and other factors.
The river is / was the main highway, not sure about now with more year round roads etc, but when I was last in the area, long time ago now mind,you would just turn up and get on the boat.
It wasn't comfortable, wasn't all that enjoyable after (x) hours and (y) days.

Lots of being bored, interspersed with the odd enjoyable / memorable moments. Which looking back on, is all you remember :)
Maybe it's their ranking algorithm.
> similar to how entangled pairs seem to transmit information faster than light

If your lover sends you a left-half heart locket through the postal service, when you get it you can assume he has the right-half of the locket "faster than the speed of light". However this is cheating because to know that he has the other half requires prior knowledge of the exchange--either he sent a previous letter where he stated his intent, or you just made an assumption about the state of the environment (namely, that your partner is the only one who would send you presents in the mail). In either case, no laws of physics need be broken.
Rich people are evil, Musk is rich, therefore Musk is evil. That's all the evidence we need. Lock him up ;p

On a serious note though, it does annoy me that rich people these days always seem to have an excuse for everything and they have access to the best lawyers to come up with the all the right bullshit and PR needed to protect themselves.

I bet there are a lot of wealthy criminals getting away with things simply because of the way the legal system works.

If Musk did this, then he should get some jail time because it's not acceptable. Given the power imbalance, the viciousness of this act is on par with assault.
Instagram and Tinder both have excellent PWAs.
Good point, I hadn't thought of the auto complete. I figured you were more referring to the actual query itself which Chrome already sends home to Google via it's cloud synced web history. In which case it does not matter whether you use the omnibar or visit the website directly as long as you have history sync enabled.
people form conglomerates too which typically underperform.

I guess it’s some combo of effort/risk? Collect a monopoly rent rather than take greater risk?

Your question is not unknown to economists and there is no clear answer.
Yeah the analogy isn't perfect, but despite that I think it basically works as a macro representation. Obviously the ball isn't a fundamental particle and we wouldn't have all information about how it ages.

But tracking just the ball's position is meant to analogize the fact that we have all information about e.g. a fundamental particle's position.
He gets away because people's attention span is short and they trust good PR and things that reinforce their opinions. So they will take the undeniably good stuff (SpaceX + Tesla successes), then assume everything else that's tacked onto them is also real, any other claim Musk makes on Twitter are real, and the bad press is just enemies and haters.

Also his position and money make him more or less legally untouchable even if his image would be permanently tarnished. This goes for anyone in his position whether they have his good PR or not. Money is indeed a superpower. Just ask Batman.

Edit. Funny how all my comments received the same number of downvotes at almost the same time.
If you can't hold your heroes to a reasonable standard of behavior and ethics then you yourself have no standard of behavior or ethics worth a damn.
Many won't and visitors will leave. New visitors will bounce more often. Users with trust for every site is low until earned.
I have personally downgraded them to about TechCrunch level, but I haven't noticed a lot of questioning on HN.
Is $80 that much for something that you use oh so often?

It's roughly one week of food where I live; so not free, but something I would afford if it brought a net improvement to my work.
As a person who really wanted Musk to be an exception to the rule of shitty billionaires, this story really is the last nail in the coffin. Way too much moral casuistry you'd have to go through to justify or cast doubt on all of these insane stories.
Not very surprising.
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At work, I have seen many project management methodologies like Scrum, Lean, and Kanban. All of them have some good ideas that I believe can be incorporated into daily life as well for productivity in personal life, hobbies, and chores.

Do you use any particular personal productivity method to actively work on short term goals without losing sight of your long term goals?

What tools do you rely on to assist you in using your productivity method of choice?
Humans are not "basically the same" but humans are also not easily divided into a couple of genetically separate races. Many black Americans, for example, have white ancestors. And black Africans are genetically far more diverse than the entire rest of mankind put together. There are people with every possible skin colour between black and white. Our insistence on drawing a handful of arbitrary lines between them is cultural, and not based on a clear genetic separation.

That said, skin colour does have some physiological impact: darker skin blocks the impact of the sun on our skin, which is great for preventing sunburn (and skin cancer, I think?), but reduces the amount of vitamin D our skin creates, and vitamin D deficiency can have an impact on all sorts of things (no idea if glaucoma is one of them). That makes it a trait, though, not a race.
I am talking about the actual definition of a monopoly, not that defined by antitrust laws, hence my second sentence about how the law (consumer law, anti-trust, or both) needs to change to prevent these walled gardens.

I agree Facebook and google are also problems. Amazon too, likely others. They all have their walled gardens - and whats worse is when they "go to war" with each other, affecting the users tied to their services (financially or otherwise).
It is easy to convince a significant portion of average Americans that taxes are too high. So they vote for politicians that promise to lower taxes. Except they don’t lower taxes for average people.

Let’s be honest, tax cuts may be bad policy, but it is not true that they haven’t been lowered for the average person. Rates are down, standard deduction is up.
For those who have significant sums invested in the App Store, they are effectively dominant as there is no way to switch app licenses to a different app store.
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Not really, I think the literal Inquisition still has us beat.
https://www.quora.com/Does-Elon-Musk-do-some-very-technical-...

I'm too lazy to track down more right now. I don't know of anyone claiming (with evidence) that he doesn't.

In his biography there's interviews with people inside and out of spacex/tesla talking about it that are pretty convincing.
Do you have a source? It seems very hard to believe as thee first and second book are very, very different (I find the first book excellent, but the second only sufficient).
Because its quite possible that grounding the planes would result in more fatalities. People may drive or get shuffled onto older, less safe aircraft.
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Definitely. The now [flagged] comment I was responding to was completely over-the-top and utterly lacking in nuance hence my dismissive response of a similar nature.
You mean if you opt-in (or haven't opted out), right? I was under the impression this was optional.
> You think people can’t tell the difference between Melanesians, Caucasians and Sub Saharan Africans?

Get someone to show you pictures and have you identify them. I bet you'll make a lot of mistakes.

Historically, not only can people not tell the difference objectively, they decide what the difference is subjectively. In the United States, the child of a white slave owner and a black slave, if their parentage was known, was ... black. People of "mixed race" might be deemed a different race than their own full siblings, based on which visible characteristics they got from which ancestor.

Even today, people migrating from one country to another are often surprised that their racial classification is different in the new country than at home.
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BIMI is... sort of what you're looking for. https://authindicators.github.io/rfc-brand-indicators-for-me...
Elon Musk is a pathological liar who goes full evil against people who dare to question him.

Remember the British diver Unsworth. Or how tried to trigger a short squeeze by lying on Twitter multiple times. He called a respected non-profit media organization an extremist organization" after they did a piece critical of Tesla.
Hyperbole and not true. There are very few S&P 500 that force their competitors to sell through their own marketplaces.

Exxon doesn't force Shell sell their gas in Exxon stations.
Is he? Musk has no engineering degree, he's never been the CTO of his companies, and most of his time seems to be spent on Twitter, dealing with media, and other PR things. I haven't seen any evidence that the engineering departments at either firm would be worse off without him.
The studied that found diverse teams are more effective often some fishy methodology. In particular, one of the more widely circulated studies reaches their conclusion by making diverse and non-diverse teams plan a wedding using dances, rituals, and food from two or more culturs. A lot of these studies start with a conclusion determined a priori and the design an experiment to support it.
But is the increasing complexity (an interpreter added to the codebase) not introducing also another - new - attack vector?
One could use Subresource Integrity (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/subresource-integrity-in-f...) to mitigate the most obvious threats from CDNs. Granted, that does have some maintenance work, but if you're already managing dependency versions (and you really should) then it's minimal extra work.
They claim this is based on new "validated" satellite tracking data they received this morning showing similar altitude fluctuations to the Lion Air crash. Somehow every internet forum had this figured out within hours of the crash using public flight tracker data. I find it worrying that it took them so long to come to the obvious conclusion for lack of "validation" of widely known information, and that it took so long to validate this information given the potential risk to every passenger every time one of those planes takes off in the meantime.

It seems clear that safety is being weighed against level of disruption, which may be justified, but they haven't been transparent about this calculation.
They bundled _while_ having a monopoly. They could have bundled or they could have had a monopoly, but doing both is where it crosses the anti-trust line since your customers are effectively captive.

What does Apple have a monopoly on? What does Amazon have a monopoly on? Google arguably has a monopoly on search which could put them in an unfavorable position should an antitrust case be brought against them (maybe why they added DDG to a default search engine choice in chrome, see judge, there are other search options!).
Google forgot to charge their energy crystals?
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As noted in the article, apparently Google is presenting the top four search engines used in a given country

Good. 4 is a good number. It's on the low end of the number range people think of as "enough choice."
Of course I am looking after my own interests. I am human, that's how we evolved, that's how we made it to the moon.

How am I hypocritical? I am just in favour of not locking in users, and we do not lock in users.

Spotify wants Apple to not change TOS to their favour while doing exactly the same.
Actually, that might be the reason why it's named this way.
Yeah, though I don't think you're supposed to litigate an analogy that far. The analogy fits because it grounds what's happening as something mundane rather than mysterious. This isn't really "time reversal" in the meaningful sense of the word, because a linear system can always be reversed if you have sufficient information.
Just go to Blind. He is doing micromanaging. Also he is ,,managing by Twitter''. Whether that is good or bad is not clear, but so far he has a great track record.

Just look at the $35k Tesla that he pulled off by kicking out sales. A regular CEO wouldn't have done that. With all the chaos it has caused, Elon understands that at this point price is the most important part in the decision for buying a Tesla for lots of people, and paying sales just hinders selling.
I agree, very credible.
What I said was pretty well-worded, I think it's much larger than the example you're thinking of.

For example, any of these studies would drive the internet angry (if they found a strong result):

- Midgets vs IQ

- Attractiveness vs IQ

- Attractiveness vs Likelihood of birth defect

- Wealth vs Emotional Stability

- HN vs Autism Spectrum

- Eye Color vs Empathy

The formula is (visible trait) x (valued trait) x (has this trait already been historically used to justify atrocities).
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They tend to explode, crash and burn, so I'd say... yes? :)
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Absolutely beautiful writing.
If you want a good alternative to GitHub (though not decentralized other than the distributed properties inherent to git), use Amazon CodeCommit. No github politics/nonsense to deal with, just reliable hosting for git repositories accessible anywhere with a user control system via IAM that is very controllable.
The interpreter has always been part of the codebase since it is used during startup and while the code is still being JITed
I wonder if the issue is that most people are just shitty but society acts as a check. When you're above societies rules you can act and do anything you want.
> They aren't, as far as I know, drastically undercutting the prices of their services to levels that aren't sustainable for other companies to compete.

The linked Spotify page says exactly the opposite.

> Because Apple Music doesn’t have to pay the 30% IAP charge, they are able to hugely undercut us and charge €9.99. To our fans, this just looked like we were ripping you off
So you want both freedom over software you install and strong privacy and security.

This will be fine for HN folks but will result in the erasure of security and privacy for normal users.
So if you're web based (like me) then activities such as sending an email, checking out YT, reading HN, watching Twitch, and jerking off, all end up as entries in that log file.

Do you really think Google would have trained an AI to determine that last activity? How would they have trained the AI?
> learned the hard way that at least in the German publishing market there are virtually no program places for science fiction, very few agencies accept manuscripts in that genre at all, and publishers rarely accept novels larger than 400 norm pages from a first-time writer

Hah, this brings memories. Coming from an even smaller language market (Croatian), I've decided to learn HTML as a way to publish my writings to a wider audience. Skip 25 years and now I'm working as a senior/lead developer, without publishing anything significant in my life... :D
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What's your threat model?

Also, what's that thing about the tracking IDs? do you see that on your browsing traffic? (are you sure you're not confusing Microsoft with Google and Facebook, who track you all across the Internet?)
But they don’t have a monopoly in any of the spaces you’ve mentioned (or any space at all).
If you think it's bad now, wait until "activists" have easy access to AI that most people can't distinguish from real humans.

It's simple: Just pick a target of your ire, be it someone with ideological, political, lifestyle differences, or just someone you don't like, point your AI bot to it, and watch it harass your victim and anyone associated with them, until they lose their job, reputation, friends, family, etc. Bots never get bored, never forget to keep the pressure going. They continue, relentless, until their target is destroyed, even if you've forgotten and moved on.

It'll start out as character-assassination-for-hire, but eventually the source will leak, and then all hell will break loose.

It's a bully's paradise.
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It's really frustrating how many people don't see through this narcissistic double-faced CEO.
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Dithering a photo (which probably was a JPEG) so it looks like a GIF and then saving it as PNG may be a good way to make it look "low-tech", but I somehow doubt that it's really the most efficient way to serve images to your users?
AI classifies sleep disorders like sleep apnea, hypopnea, and arousal
This looks cool, and the free tier of 500/month is generous.

I'm curious whether this is a straight alternative for pushover/pushbullet, or whether its intended for another use case?
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DDG is an anonymized wrapper for Bing.
> Not all airports have sinks?

I haven't seen any, unless you're talking about using the bathroom sinks?

In which case, no thanks. Even with a touch less sensor people can still (and do) touch the area where the water comes out. Flying is stressful enough as it is. I don't want to have to think about potentially drinking tainted water (pun intended).
>NPM insecurity

NPM packages can contain malicious code. There's no NPM review process, and you can't point to specific versions to lock in your own reviews (package administrators can change whatever files they'd like). There's no such thing as a verified-safe dependencies list because the file you reviewed last month might not be downloaded today.
I have been tempted many times to buy a licence, but every-time I go to pay the price puts me off.
Google can't seem to do anything right anymore.

They're last place in cloud. They don't have a good search API product to compete with Algolia/Elasticsearch. They can't release new products. Can't build new hardware.

The only things they have going for them are Youtube, Google (the search engine), Android, Chrome,...

Basically everything they did 10 years ago. Even Android + Youtube were acquisitions.

Another good example of too big to fail.