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> Google captures most of the software ecosystem revenue via the Play Store

My impression is that the opposite is actually the case. Google has about 4x the users but the App Store takes in almost twice as much revenue.

I don't have any good sources to cite, that's just my impression. The first few google results for "ios vs android software revenue" seem to support it.

edit: maybe you meant Google captures the majority of Android software revenue. I forgot there were alternative Android app stores.
oh yes, that's what I meant! your example and mine print the same output.
Graph Algorithms: Practical Examples in Apache Spark and Neo4j [Open Book]
Not a website, but I miss a weekly email newsletter called NTK (Need to Know). I'm not sure how many HN readers were NTK readers, but I bet all NTK readers are now HN readers.
1000s of people will likely die due to the primary and secondary effects of the lockdown (suicides, delayed health care, etc.). There's also no guarantee that "locking down" will actually prevent any deaths - it may just be delaying them until the point where things start to open back up (because I think we can all agree that does have to happen at some point someday). Everyone is hoping for treatment or a vaccine or really good testing/tracing to make a difference, but I'm not sure any of those things are guaranteed. We may just be delaying the inevitable.

All decisions at this point have significant downsides. There is no clearly correct answer. Politicians are trying to balance those concerns, and they're trying to do so with extremely limited data and awful models (due to the bad data - GIGO). I don't honestly think anyone knows what will really happen with either the virus OR the economy. It's clear they're just guessing and that's really terrifying.
Slashdot. The technical discussions, the flamewars, dumping on Jon Katz, William Gibson vs. Neal Stephenson, using the web as a primary source of news on 09-11-2001. Posting as user #41803.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/31348
Some time technical debt needs to be eliminated. Keep backward compatability would have meant keeping technical debt. Breaking changes are fine.
Except they did exactly the same thing with the first SE. It was, like this one, the latest top of the line internals in the previous generation form factor at an affordable price point. Thats the SE formula. It was even the exact same price point as the new SE.
It would be great to have these numbers indeed !
I'm not sure why people are blaming the lockdown...

This isn't strictly a logical question. We're told that we shouldn't let a crisis go to waste. Our opponents certainly don't.
it could be your desk
Uhh.. economics == people. If the economy is fucked, then nobody will work to produce food. The fact is that the purchase and sale of luxury goods is essential to the economy, and the economy is essential to our survival.
Then why did they release the original iPhone SE four years ago, when Apple was still on a steady upward trajectory? It also had great parts for the money.

My pet theory is that business customers loved the original SE even more than consumers did. I hope I'm right, because then we might see an SE 3 as soon as the SE 2 nears its end-of-life.
I disagree. They've released an iPhone SE before, at the same price point. And the development of this surely has been in the works for some time, likely before the coronavirus took a hit to the economy.

The iPhone SE seems to be a way for Apple to make the most out of the existing supply chains from older devices (same body as the iPhone 6S, 7, and 8 for the most part). They did it for the previous SE (iPhone 4, 4s, 5, 5s models were very similar). They just slap some updated components from the newer models into it and it's a perfectly capable smartphone. It is also probably relatively cheap for them to create an iPhone using older parts compared to the R&D involved for entirely new devices and components.

It just so happened that the release of a budget iPhone coincided with a global crisis impacting the economy.
So is OSX going to have python by default now?
These days it's in the class interests of Whites and Asians to be against racial discrimination in all forms which in effect means not being able to be racist officially but not being an effective barrier to unofficial racism. Which is very much in Whites and Asians interests.

Still affirmative action just looks more arbitrary and nonsensical every year. I don't see how anybody can see what's happening to Asians as anything but racially discriminatory and arbitrarily penalizing.
16 years after the start of Python 3 and we're still discussing this. I hope other languages and platforms have paid attention to this transition.

Sometimes one's only purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others...
I miss the word game Acrophobia (I think it was an IRC game originally, but there was a good webapp version where I wasted more time than I'd like to admit)
> Talk to someone with private insurance, they essentially have fight off all sort of unnecessary tests even if they go in to get a flu vaccine.

I have private insurance, and I've never had to fight off anything. The main difference is that I'll usually get an appointment on short notice and my provider pays for my glasses and good dental work.

And you're absolutely right, they aren't necessary for any system to exist, but they are necessary for this system to exist at this price. If doctors didn't pay the rent with private patients, they'd go bankrupt.
If enough people say it’s dead and believe it in their heart, it makes it true.

Personally it’s long been dead to me.
I just symlink the two, the distinction is mostly useless and annoying, because random things will invoke login shells (or not) and even if behavior was consistent, its really not that useful to begin with.
They’ve been planning it for a while, before the economy went down the drain. Clearly part of the plan was to appeal to holdouts (like me) with old phones that were no longer supported. And it worked, I just got one. So far, I have to say, it’s pretty nice. It’s bigger than my old phone, but not obnoxiously so. And it is fast.
Very interesting point. If this is how symptomatic was defined, yours should be the top comment of the thread.
“a decade old”

:)
What that article casually ignores is the fact that there could have been a Python 2 fix (as Python 3) that took the approach of fixing encoding to utf8 only. If that was the only thing Python 3 vs 2 was breaking, life could have been so much better.
What is the original source of the 90%? Is it from this article: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765184

From the article:

> The study included all sequentially hospitalized patients between March 1, 2020, and April 4, 2020, inclusive of these dates.

> As of April 4, 2020, for patients requiring mechanical ventilation (n = 1151, 20.2%), 38 (3.3%) were discharged alive, 282 (24.5%) died, and 831 (72.2%) remained in hospital.

If you ignore the 831 patients that were still in the hospital, and consider only the 38 that survived and the 282 that died, you get 282/(282+38)=88%. It is a very short time. What are the odds for people that survive more than 4 days in the hospital?

Did the team this post get the better results using the same accounting method? Did they apply this method only to the people that would need a ventilator or to more people because it is cheaper and easier to setup and maintain? (IIUC they used ventilator for the worse cases anyway.)

> And with numbers like that, I think it's perfectly ethical to try anything reasonable.

Do you want the best possible treatment to each patient, or you prefer that each doctor tries his/her pet theory in production?
Yes, exactly. Every last one of the fire breathing soi disant small government conservatives and anti-big business progressives proved their mettle that day.
Almost anything sounds better.
LOL Try telling that to Mozilla
We’ve used this API in our https://mintdata.com/docs examples, but the limits run out fairly quickly.

Would be curious to ask here — are there any alternative APIs you’d recommend for showing financial application examples? (Ideally something that fetches the delayed price of a stock (CUSIP) and related news for it)
Or, better yet, Expiranto.
I don't want to say too much, but after you've watched "The Shining" you might also appreciate one part of "Ready, Player One"
> causing it to completely spiral out of control.

I live in the Netherlands and I think you could say that we actually have it quite under control (relatively speaking of course). We never reached peak ICU capacity and the ICU occupancy has been steadily declining for more than two weeks now[1]. Our schools for children between the ages of 4 and 12 are scheduled to partially open again on the 11th of may[2].

[1] https://nos.nl/artikel/2331720-coronacijfers-van-25-april-ri...

[2] https://nos.nl/artikel/2331460-kabinet-wil-basisscholen-voor...
This comparison is a bit unreasonable because the Benchmarks Game has a heavy selection effect going on; if the compiler generates bad code for a program, people won't submit it.

There are plenty of instances where compilers go haywire and generate code far worse than even a half-competent novice would, because compilers don't know the same things about your code that you do.
Alone, this doesn't show anything. But following this population for 3 weeks should tell us a alot.
When I'm not using a MacBook 15", I'm on a Surface Go for it's ultraportability. If Apple made effectively an iPad Go that ran an ARM macOS, I'd use it. I don't care for apps, I make them usually for web.
Jitsi Room Names in Fullscreen
The author mentions about 5% of the generated music is any good to take a listen. Even the best sounding ones shared don't sound that good to me.
kuro5hin
Do you mean is MacOS going to have Python3x installed by default now?
> Kaj

A Greek would like to have a word with you.
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The Art of 'Something from Nothing' (2014)
4. is interesting fact I didn't know. I learned in modern hardware, the simple data structure actually runs faster(linked node vs contiguous storage), but in assembly level, it's still quite opposite I guess.
json with no login or other constraints:

http://cryptomarketplot.com/api.json
I am confused as can be about all of it now. First it was stay locked in, then heard immunity, now they say heard immunity may not happen.
loopXX instructions do not use CPU LSD (Loop Stream Detector) while cmp/jnz construct takes advantage of it. This speeds up some small loops. Also, there are some rules in intel manuals for instructions within cmp/jnz loop like no mismatched push/pop, etc.

now, does anyone know why?
python2: just works. If you install python2 you get the same stable version everywhere.

python3: Oh, sorry, you used a feature that was added in 3.x and this system has 3.(x-1) so now you get SyntaxErrors, or worse, random runtime exceptions.

If you can target a container, buildpack or a specific platform python3 is fine, but it's been terrible for developers and users since day one. At least, it's been terrible for me, which is why I still have a pile of stuff to port to python3.

It's fine for something like go or rust to add new features in a dot release, where you just need to upgrade your development hosts. Besides, if it compiles it will work, no surprises later.

But python3 adds new features in 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 and then immediately breaks all new code on older systems.

Used f-strings? Now your code is broken on 3.5.

A new feature used the walrus operator? Now your code is broken on any system that doesn't have 3.8 yet.

And 'dead' python2 keeps working.
I've used a bit of LabVIEW; my hunch is that LabVIEW's standard library has high level components, which it can provide because its niche is so narrow. You could make a similar framework or library in a general purpose language. The other thing LabVIEW provides is a comprehensive solution for project management--many general purpose programming languages give you half-assed package and dependency management (less than half-assed if you're dealing with C or C++) and some make you learn an entirely different programming or configuration language or just to list your dependencies or make your tests runnable. Those are the big rocks that make LabVIEW easier than most general purpose programming languages; however, if you're comparing LabVIEW to C, there are many other advantages, notably garbage collection and abstraction--things that are common in high level programming languages (anyone who says C is a HLL can see themselves out).

The visual language is gravy compared to the standard library and the integrated programming environment.
Formal Verification Creates Hacker-Proof Code (2016)
AstroPy: Core Astronomy Package for Python
Yes, English literacy is low in China (about 6% according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s... ) But that doesn't mean finding someone who can understand you is hard. If you just pick any random person, they likely won't speak English, but if you ask 20 or so, you have good chances of being understood by one of them. That's pretty good and qualifies English for "international language" status in my opinion.
You could always configure that software to run with a local Python2 by changing the way it is called. Then you can move on to Python3 for other stuff. No need to get left behind.
Where could I read about advanced assembly optimization techniques like this?
> Make sure the truly essential workers (the ones needed to keep us fed, clothed, healthy, and with the lights on)

Can you enumerate these people/jobs, and the stuff they need?

I feel I'm slowly coming around to be against lockdowns. I used to think things similar to what you wrote, but I've also been following supply chain news over the past two months. And I keep seeing things like:

- There's a shortage of yeast and flour in stores not because there's a shortage of actual yeasts and flour, but because there's a shortage of store-sized packaging for them. If you want to buy 50 kilos of flour in one bag, there's plenty of that on the market.

- At one point the UK was worried that delivering food into stores will slow down because the UK was running out of cardboard, as people order more while garbage collection for recycling halted. I haven't seen anything on that topic for a while, so maybe it was resolved.

- Recently, it was said that US food production may face problems because of shortage of carbon dioxide. The path here is that shenanigans with oil prices and closing down of various industries caused the plants producing, among other things, carbon dioxide, to shut down.

I'm just waiting for the first stories along the line of "critical sector X is rapidly losing manufacturing capacity as they run out of spare parts for some doodad Y, which are unavailable because they're manufactured by Z, which was deemed non-critical business".

For better or worse, we ended up with complex and deeply interconnected supply chains that nobody seems to have traced properly, so critical industries keep experiencing unexpected and non-obvious issues. This situation doesn't lend itself to shutting down arbitrary pieces of economy.
Finding the right people is a very important part of luck. At different stages of my life, I often had a person who made more difference than all other people combined.

(And, as far as I know, I was this person for someone else once. So, globally, I am still in debt. Should do something about it.)
It's truly disorienting.

We need good data, badly, and we have an entire world as our Petree dish and yet can't seem to get it.

You'd think the CDC would be sending out questionnaires, forms, coordinating such tests, giving guidelines, collating results etc..

Literally the worst economic shock maybe ever and we can't count marbles to save ourselves.
Even if infection doesn't confer permanent total immunity, subsequent reinfections are likely to be less severe as the immune system is primed to respond. So herd immunity is still a viable strategy.
They need more clients to sell their subscriptions services like apple music.
Maybe because its new and hit late winter?
Perhaps vulnerabilities are not a concern here.
I enjoy Joe Rogan.

I liked the episode with Annie Jacobsen, which made me initially think of Art Bell stuff, but it got better.

One interesting bit is the DARPA moth project, where they implanted wiring in a moth and were able to "steer" it like an electronic bridle.

Literal direct mind control.
Both SARS and MERS were not particularly contagious during the incubation phase.
I've checked my city here is the link, https://www.iswatersafetodrink.in/Russia/Nizhny-Novgorod
I don't know where 350$ is coming from. Most of the people here order drinking water in 20L bottles. Bottles are not thrown away, but collected and reused by water company. We spend about 150$/year*person on this, including delivery costs.
Yeah, the same thing was said about the original SE. If Apple were serious about the mid-market they would have given the previous SE a spec bump in 2018, at least.
The core problem is they didn't break ENOUGH.

Thus Python3 failed (and frequently, continues to fail) to be a compelling upgrade to anyone but unicode purity fetishists.
I posted the following comment on a very similar Reuters article about asymptomatic rates on an aircraft carrier 8 days ago (on a Friday):

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IMHO, this article is intentionally misleading. The incubation period is currently estimated to be 2-14 days (mean is 5.6 days per CDC, similar per WHO). The article doesn’t mention any dates or time frames, but does mention:
”Roughly 60 percent of the over 600 sailors who tested positive so far have not shown symptoms of COVID-19” — note how “so far” is ambiguous in that sentence. It also states, “The Navy’s testing of the entire 4,800-member crew of the aircraft carrier - which is about 94% complete...”, which seems to indicate nowhere near enough time has elapsed to draw any sort of conclusion.
This paper [1] found that testing of all pregnancy patients in a hospital yielded 34% asymptomatic cases. That number drops to 8% “shortly after discharge”, and could be lower than 8% (Again, no timeframe is stated).
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258993332...
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If you just s/navy/prisons/ and s/[navy figures]/[prison figures] (and forgive my oversimplification of RegEx captures), I think that comment works just as well here.

At the risk of sounding paranoid, does this seem like a campaign of misinformation by omission? Or perhaps I’m being overly critical?

The key issue I take with both articles is that they speculate a lot, but gloss over the fact that no timeframes are provided to determine what percentage could actually be asymptomatic and never develop symptoms vs. simply being pre-symptomatic at the time of testing.

If the article were focused on how quickly this virus can spread in closed quarters, that would be one thing. But this rather lengthy article only has one sentence in the middle that even mentions asymptomatic cases eventually developing symptoms:

“Some people diagnosed as asymptomatic when tested for the coronavirus, however, may go on to develop symptoms later, according to researchers.”

Also, this article mentions testing asymptomatic prisoners (universal testing), but it doesn’t say why these specific prisons where chosen first. Perhaps some had at least one positive test result? If so, wouldn’t the close quarters explain most of the relatively high rates of asymptomatic positives reported, given the (initially) exponential curve of spread over time?
Refusing to regulate a trade in live, rare, and endangered wildlife which has devastated ecosystems worldwide and resulted in multiple global epidemics over the past 30 years?
I have always found it best to obtain FEEDBACK regularly from the intended client(s). Particularly recommend observing (and recording) your client(s) attempting to `interface' directly with your work as it progresses to eventual reality.
I sympathize with your views in that a formalisation of meaning in life would seem to take away from it somewhat. However, your response also comes across as putting a stake in the ground and thereby closing your mind as to what the utility framework has to offer.

These are some of the problems with utility I took away from your comment:

1. Short term utility maximisation does not necessarily align with long term utility maximisation.
2. The utility is difficult to define because we don't know what can contribute to it and how much those components would contribute.
3. The utility, even if defined, can only be partially observed.

While these are certainly valid and interesting observations, that doesn't mean there isn't a latent utility that describes your lifetime's value. If you live a thousand lives and had access to a device to measure the (latent) utility, surely you could it to rank lives as more meaningful or valuable than others.

Looking at it this way, the problems you raise could be seen as opportunities: how should we align short term utility with long term utility? How can we find out which utility components there are and how much they would contribute? And how can we make the utility observable, so that it can be maximised?

Interestingly, attempting to maximise the utility may itself lower the utility as a result of spending time on the maximisation task and the dehumanisation of life as a result of its formalisation.
Would you enter a building held up by tensegrity? I feel that to build the next generation of super massive structures in the 21st century we will have to use tensegrity concepts.
I was surprised at the number of libraries that exist to port 3.7/3.8 stuff back to 3.5
> python2: just works. If you install python2 you get the same stable version everywhere.

> python3: Oh, sorry, you used a feature that was added in 3.x and this system has 3.(x-1) so now you get SyntaxErrors, or worse, random runtime exceptions.

Maybe you were used to Python 2.7 only as "Python 2", but when it was in active development, major 2.x releases had the exact same thing. I had some serious troubles when the latest version of RHEL was on 2.4 while the rest of the world had 2.6 with very large changes. There were all kinds gross hacks just to make things work on an older, common version.
The SE is Apple’s way of cutting off the oxygen supply to competing me-too mid and high end Android smartphones, for the many people that really don’t care about the brand. It’s a no-compromises smartphone with the fastest internals you can get, plenty of longevity and competitive screen and camera at a midrange price. If we hadn’t already got XRs for my teenage kids, this SE would have been the obvious choice.
I could only believe this if Apple had recently patented a crystal ball. The SE was in the works long before anyone was talking about economic downturn.
For me, it depends on the problem being solved.

If the problem is in a space that we know what the solution 'should' look like, getting as much of that down in the most abstract sense is something I like to do. However that design is only a -proposed- solution, and of course subject to all sorts of changes.

But where things are murky in a design, yeah, sometimes the easiest thing to do is code it out.

In either case, (up to date) diagrams of data flows are one's friend in any distributed system.
Geocities, and all of my friends at school having their own website they’d update at lunchtime in the school library!
Yep, I've been burned by this a few times. Now, I ask them what their internet speeds are and if there are any dead zones in the apartment.
Yeah, as I understand it, typically the "dose" of the initial infection is important for how bad the symptoms will be.

The virus will grow exponentially, but so will the immune response, so starting conditions are important.

This is a basis for the old pre vaccine "variolation" strategy of getting immunity. Some radical thinkers argue for it as a Covid remedy.
Interesting results. Any ideas why the L1 got slower?
I said "dead is dead" in relation to all cause (not "only covid") mortality figures.