skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you donate blood to, say, the Red Cross, then you'll be told your blood type.
Apple makes eg: Google music use Apple pay in Apple ios store, taking 30% cut. Apple will kick out Google music from app store for not using Apple pay, giving Apple 30% cut.

Apple circumvents Google pay, and Google 30% cut in Android app store.

Apple thus admits by own action that Apple's enforcement of apple pay and 30% cut is fine for anyone to circumvent, because they do the equivalent thing themselves.

And they should not be allowed to kick anyone out of the ios app store for circumventing Apple pay?

Apologies if I misunderstood your question, but that was my takeaway from this thread?
Yes, of course, the same day :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16119712
ROC president Ma Ying-jeou asserted claims on mainland China in 2008. PRC claims Taiwan all the time. So is that really equivalent?
This has never been a secret.

Google literally spent most of a decade preaching that the "freedom" their platform afforded to sideload software was a major competitive advantage, and then attacked a developer who was making use of that freedom to make a large profit without giving Google a cut.
also conveniently it's in f-droid
It's almost as if our beloved corporations dismantled our labor movements and sold us all out for short sighted profits.

I hope you enjoy your billions when the bottom drops out of the United States economy, Bezos. Keep up those stock buybacks, Intel! You are REALLY contributing the the American project with all of that wealth you are hoarding!
I'm the opposite of the person you're asking for, but I'll take a stab. I have the academic pedigree to have worked in a lucrative scientific / banking / management field, but instead chose to take an entrepreneurial path. I could likely have made more money (risk adjusted) on the other path, but am thankful on a DAILY BASIS that I'm a pirate, and didn't join the navy.

Had I not chosen the entrepreneurial path, I'm confident I'd be the person you're asking for: late in my career and regretting not starting a business.
Please, don't disparage a book because you personally did not find it useful. I, personally, found it very useful and it was my most important learning resources at the beginning.

Exactly as you said, because I have already had some exposure to physics and to kind of modular systems (I am mathematician working as a developer) this was perfect resource for me.

Different people with different backgrounds learn in different ways and from different types of resources. It is wise to understand there is no single resource that is going to be best for everybody.
> plenty of options

There are two options, and one of them is provided free of charge by the world's largest advertising company.

The state of the smartphone OS market is so wildly different from the general-merchandise retail market as to render any comparisons meaningless.
mega interesting approach. will try it out later.
this is the first time i heard that someone is using a p2p protocol for stuff like service discovery. How did you get this insight? during morning breakfast ? :p
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First of all, my stance here is that Google is pretty reasonable with their guidelines compared to Apple.

My biggest issue in the iOS vs Android debate is that apple is behaving monopolistically and Google isn't. Using the respective app stores give publishers an inherent audience to distribute/sell content through. I don't think it's unreasonable for Apple/Google to try to profit off of the audience they've built. Where I have an issue is that if you don't want to sell on the Play Store, you don't have to. You can install APKs from anywhere and there are even alternative app stores that are completely within Google's ToS. With Apple, you have to sell on the app store or not at all (I know Enterprise apps exist, but it's not the same).

I think Apple gets away with this because they're not selling digital content, they're selling a service/subscription.

One thing that drives me up a wall about Apple is that you cannot purchase a Kindle book in-app on an iOS device. So if you're in the kindle app and want to buy a book you need to actually go and check out on a web browser (true for both the Amazon app and the Kindle app). On Android, you can do whatever you want.

I'm pretty sure that Apple is going to lose this one. We need an open, fair ecosystem for publishing apps.
> Apple is violating antitrust laws by forcing companies to use Apple Pay as a condition of using the App Store (i.e., leveraging dominant/monopolistic market position in one market in a non-competitive manner over another market).

Can you point me to the specific law they are violating? From my understanding antitrust laws really aren't that clear and it depends on the situation and their control of a market. For example, you need to prove that they have a monopoly that hurts consumers. They may have a monopoly on iPhones but not mobile phones in general. My point is you are saying they have specifically broken the law, but I think that has yet to proven and is certainly not cut and dry until it's in court.
You’re probably right. But I suppose people like me don’t draw too much attention on themselves.

And the human brain tends to store and give more weight to negative experiences.

But I digress.
Because people don't like the idea of "waiving their rights"
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Not defending, but look at it from the attacker's point of view: The more information the target divulges about their process, the more accurate a playbook you are able to develop about what kinds of attacks the target will and won't allow.

When you type your password into your computer, if you do it incorrectly, you get a generic error like "That didn't work, try again". If instead the OS gave out more specific hints, like "Your username is good but your password isn't" and "You tried 9 characters, but your password is not 9 characters", it would only make things easier for the attacker.
Yeah, but I can use SET-MACRO-CHARACTER to define a version that ignores that variable: basically, you should never use CL:READ on untrusted input, unless you control the readtable.
In the case of Hey they don't want to have ONLY App Store subscriptions, they want to support people who don't use iPhones. That means they'll have to set up a whole extra infrastructure for dealing with app store subscriptions on top of the infrastructure for dealing with their own subscriptions. That's a non-trivial amount of work and ongoing support they didn't want to do.
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Nope. I refuse to regret my past choices, so that I can be happy with my situation. If you gambled and won, it might have been a bad bet. If you gambled and lost, it still might have been a good bet. No sense in regrets. Best of all possible worlds, and all that.
You've misunderstood the debate. The concern isn't about Go turning into Boost; it's about Go becoming multiparadigm--about losing the property that "all Go code tends to be written in the same general way" and that people will invariably write code that optimizes for abstraction instead of readability and utility as invariably happens in other languages. If you're not used to Go, you'll probably write this off very quickly because you underestimate (as we all did before we tried Go) how nice it is to have standard, appropriately-abstract code. This is why the debate inside the Go community is more nuanced and amicable--people understand the tradeoff better; they're not shouting uninformed opinions nor pretending there is no tradeoff or that the tradeoff is "just FUD" based on their utter inexperience.
Good for you! This is the right method. Analytics -- in the sense of watching mouse clicks and reference urls -- are only trying to close the feedback loop FAR sooner than when it actually matters.
Pirate Electronics[1] was a nice resource I backed on Kickstarter years ago.

[1] https://pirateselectronics.teachable.com/
Would you rather have the cops with jurisdiction over where you live read your mail or have the cops who have jurisdiction over somewhere that has no affect on you read your mail?

He probably lives in the USA where the FSB is less likely to oppress him than US government agencies are.
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Hypothetically speaking, would you be willing to attempt to set it up?
Eh, maybe in the long-run. We need decriminalization for personal use in the short term (the next 20 years).
I am pretty sure they would have circled back with your supervisor(s) before handing it out to you.
At the moment, WASM is far from ideal to run anything that requires a GC as there's no GC in WASM yet and it seems it will take a long time for it to finally get one. So even running Java or Go in WASM is not easy at all (though there are compilers already - but they won't just run any program, they are extremely limited)... now, to run dynamic languages on top of a typed bytecode without GC... that has to be a huge challenge! Why do you think Python/Lua can run perfomantly on WASM?
I've been building a simple, multiplayer whiteboard at https://hello.whiteboard.systems.

Curious if that would work for your usecase / always appreciate any feedback.
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I don't know about KSP simple, but Elmer is an GNU-licensed (iirc) open source multiphysical simulator, including magnetics.

https://www.csc.fi/web/elmer
Indeed. Can someone explain why it's not available outside of the US, though? I don't see the logic behind that.
Some senator should propose a bill renaming the Caribbean to the South American Sea.

That’ll show everyone that America means business when it comes to territorial possessions!

He might even win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing so. LOL.
Neural Magic: startup making deep learning possible without specialized hardware
Well since we're being pedantic, I didn't say anything about groundbursts. "Ground zero" in the context of Hiroshima refers to the hypocenter.

> In the case of an explosion above the ground, ground zero is the point on the ground directly below the nuclear detonation and is sometimes called the hypocenter (from Greek ὑπο- "under-" and center).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_zero
TSMC having all its fabs in one place is a big risk if there is an earthquake. It makes sense to diversify
Some apps were temporarily delisted from the Google Play store because they dared adding a donation button that doesn't go through IAPs.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-pulls-open-source-android-...
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Facebook removed Trump campaign ads w inverted red triangle infamous Nazi symbol
Prettier is a formatter, not a linter.
> We are fully GDPR compliant and use zero cookies.

From the GitHub repo [1]:

> At present, Fathom Analytics Lite is not PECR compliant due to the fact that it uses an anonymous cookie. Our PRO version is PECR compliant, and we'll be making changes to this codebase some time in the future to make it compliant.

The open source version seems to be lacking behind and might generally be treated without much love, given that their website doesn't even link to it (which is understandable from a business point of view, but doesn't inspire much confidence in its future maintenance).

[1]: https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/blob/69baac5c4a4d96880a2...
It isn't a binary question of "startup or not" - but always comes down to the specifics of what problem you wanted to solve, how you wanted to solve it, and all of the logistics (especially timing and team composition).
This is so much nonsense. Apple circumvents Google pay pursuant to Google's policies. Apple has different policies in its own app store. So what? Those are not related facts.
Yeah this comment makes no sense. That would be terrible publicity for Mozilla.

Also, Reddit uses HTTPS (like every other mainstream website) so Mozilla/Mullvad can't see what you're posting or even what your username is.
Donate blood, they'll tell you. The test is pretty simple and you can get home testing kits online if you want to do that instead; but giving blood helps other people too.
I feel the same, fmt is a productivity boon for me too.

There was a good quote from Rob Pike in his Go proverbs talk: "Gofmt's style is nobody's favourite, but gofmt is everybody's favourite."
It fucks up the diffs in the codebase.
I see you've both commented here and on GitHub, so I'll make my last comment here and then we can address the specifics on your ticket (I didn't realize I referred you to your own GitHub issue).

As I mentioned, there is a pull request already created for this issue; our head of engineering/founder says its being held up by a lack of tests before merging. This problem isn't a slider issue, but a race condition in our session state manager.

Regardless, one month is a pretty trivial amount of time as far as open-source projects go, as well as in the history of Streamlit (project became public Oct 2019). Like all projects, we try and address things in the order of severity, and as far as this issue goes, it's a pretty isolated one, not an indication that the library is unreliable or somehow reflects that our engineers can't design at an early-90s level of engineering.
It's less flexible than Mullvad. This new service is Wireguard-only, and as far as I can tell, requires you to use their custom app.

Mullvad additionally supports OpenVPN and other protocols, and is client-agnostic.
>This means that even at a 1% raise per year, some people will stick around for decades. One of the best developers at one of the companies I worked for was exactly that kind of person.

As someone in their 30s who has spent in-person time at about a dozen companies (a stint in consulting will do that) ranging from start-ups to large enterprise, this is exceedingly rare from what I've seen. Hardly anyone makes it to a single decade, much less multiple. Maybe at a law firm, but not in a development role.

I don't doubt these people exist but I'm a bit skeptical they are that significant in number to the point of defining the equilibrium as mentioned in the OP post.
The thing is - if the engineers leave, it's because they find a better salary elsewhere.

Since not all engineers get offers from FAANG, there must be something else.
Existence is a mystery indeed, but in this context, it's not an achievement. It's a starting condition for all achievements.
How much do you think stores mark up goods?
Given the high ethical standard of Mozilla I’m not sure how popular this will be.

For example, a while back there were research showing nord was setting up users as proxies, there by making it impossible for Netflix to block these residential ips.

I don’t think Mozilla will do this.
And the fun part of that one is that all the math, data, etc. all lined up to say that. Their analysis of the data was correct, and it turned out to be an equipment issue. A single incorrectly installed fiber optic cable, and an out of spec clock. It wasn't even a bad cable, just not inserted completely correctly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...

EDIT: A much better detailed analysis of the failure including pictures of the cable, https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph...
Sure, but it's not as broad as hypocrisy in general. Hypocrisy is not against the law.

Apple is clearly being hypocritical by trying to do to Google what they try to stop other companies from doing to them. But that is a basic sort of hypocrisy common to markets--e.g. I want to get paid a lot for my work but I don't want to pay someone else a lot to do work for me.

If you look at any contractual relationship--which is what app stores are--you can be sure that each party is trying to get the most and give the least. That's not judicial estoppel.
Slight thread hijack. I believe Apple deserves all the developer backlash it's currently receiving, I hope it helps them turn themselves around. I say that as someone who actually enjoys using and developing for the platform(s). What would it take to get them to take notice of these issues? Mass app store strike? Can a sizable group of developers push app store updates with a blank screen and some demands laid out? It doesn't (and won't) even need to get past app store review for someone to take notice, get some high profile players on board who have a beef with Apple already (Basecamp, Spotify)... Or pull their apps altogether?
What will happen to Taiwan, if China stops trading with Taiwan.

Like, a full on boycott.

Maybe Taiwan can sell their 150B in products to Americans?
> All the skills I have built over the course of almost a decade are obsolete now, because I do not imagine myself working for other people as an iOS dev without having my own hobby iOS apps on the App Store. It feels like all the blogging I have been doing has been a waste because I cannot participate in the knowledge I myself write, and it’s pointless to engage in the knowledge of others if I cannot try what they write.

The fact that a faceless entity can lock you out of developing like this is just wrong. I fear for the future of such closed off ecosystems.
But even when I look at other sources that emphasize how broad it is, they do not seem to think it applies to general hypocritical behavior. First, it seems restricted to statements (arguments, testimony, etc.). Second, those statements seem to need to relate to communication where there is a notion of "taking a public stand", e.g., your account of an event to your insurance company, or your explanation to a government auditor.

> Courts have held, for example, that the timing of the inconsistent statements is not necessarily determinative. Therefore, both statements need not have been made during the course of the same pending lawsuit. Nor is it absolutely necessary for both statements to have been made in court proceedings. For example, prior statements made to local, state, and federal agencies, or to insurance companies, if sufficiently inconsistent with a later position being taken before a court, can give rise to a judicial estoppel.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a2c93368-28d7...

From everything I've read, just behaving hypocritically is not enough.
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US stockpile stuck with 63M doses of hydroxychloroquine
Based on my experience, the confounding factor here is driver preferences.

Drivers still have preferences about staying in certain areas of town. In the old taxi-based model, you'd have a fixed price, but unreliable service -- the driver might never show up, or the driver at a taxi stand at an airport might reject your destination. Under the apps, if that happens, at least you get a notification and assigned a new driver.
I think there should be an absolute limit on the length. 1kb seems about right. Any more than that and the whole document is too long to possibly read.

Severability clauses (like "If a provision of this Agreement is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, other provisions should still hold") should be explicitly banned. If something isn't legal, companies shouldn't be asking for it.
But in the Standard Model each “generation” of particles is so much heavier than the previous one, and in practice there is a limit on the power of the accelerator we can build.

Even then there is no reason to believe that there is infinite number of subatomic particles.
Not to mention, the next war will be the last one ever. It would be an extinction level event. That choice wouldn't be rational.
> promote legal views that Mozilla disagrees with

How would they know?
Every Apple ID requires a form of payment associated unless you specifically set it up without one.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204034

An Apple ID has nothing to do with Apple Pay. Apple Pay is a separate service you can turn on if you want to, or, not.

The crazy ideas people have about Apple & anti-trust mostly have to do with pretty much everyone not really understanding Apple service offerings.
If Apple allows third-party platforms, they should still have some level of control I think. So for example, to maintain iOS' advantage of practically zero piracy, they should be able to lock out an "app store" that distributes cracked apps. Similarly, an app store that does shady things like install coin miners and spyware in the background should be able to be barred from operation.
I agree with your conclusion. I am simply not sure what an average person can realistically do against a state actor. Right now, I read parent's comment as 'play them against one another in hopes they won't share data'.
As long as there's no leaks over http traffic of course. Advertisers are great at data exfiltration.
~3% a year is a cost of living increase. If anyone gets 3% for a promotion they could ask where that number came from. If they recently got a 3% bump that means the promotion put them ahead by ~12 months of work at the company in the prior position. Does that make sense? If they haven't gotten a raise for close to a year, it means the promotion didn't really come with a pay bump at all if that's what they normally get.

Questioning these things when offered is probably the best way to get the employer to change them, or at a minimum it may make it clear what your future prospects at the company are.
PIA was also acquired by a malware company: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21679682
"Monopoly power" and "dominance" mean the same thing. One is used in the US, the other in the EU. You're going to have a tough time getting a court to agree that Apple is dominant in smartphones in the EU.
Not only are there only two options, there is a high entry fee to each option, and you can only choose one at a time even if you wanted to pay this entry fee twice. What percent of consumers are willing to carry two phones in their pockets?

So you can compare this to if you could only buy things at two different stores, each store has a hefty membership fee, and you were effectively locked into your decision for at least a year at a time.
Indeed they are compelled to maximise profit (the business leadership), else the shareholders will replace them. In fact I believe there’s even a US law to this effect.
There are also a very wide set of laws about things you can't put into food even if you label it, and classes of ingredients that must be called out specifically, like certain food colorings, allergens, and compounds that various high profile genetic abnormalities are affected by (phenolketoneuria for one).

I wonder if there's a Q&A format one could do for legal agreements that still meets muster, or could be legislated as such?
Did we have any reason to believe Telegram wouldn't do it prior to unblocking?
I like that his book is hands-on right from the start, and immediately defuses one's fear of electricity with exercises such as touching a battery to your tongue, blowing a fuse, and burning out an LED.
You might be interested in research by Robert Epstein which calculates how Google search rankings impact votes. He measured how many votes this changed and put some economic value on it.

Here's a quick interview between him and Larry King. His Congressional testimony is also really great, but it's over an hour long. You can find it on Youtube if you're interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS3uETvzZZ0

To put it simply, Google decides who wins every close election. If that's the future you want, where tech oligarchs and/or a rogue lower level employee controls entire elections across the globe, then that's the world you have today.

Trump's tweets are a red herring. I'm not a Trump supporter.