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Ask HN: Working at Rivian
Hi - question from a burner account for (semi) obvious reasons. How is it to work at Rivian? Even if you were to be a software engineer there, your fate would ultimately be linked to the physical product... and all the (Tesla-like?) hard-manufacturing production challenges that come with launching a brand new car. Does anyone have thoughts on the design of the truck/suv itself or of the team/production line they are building? Are they focused on the right things / any critical flaws that is not apparent from the outside / do they have the right priorities to succeed... is the CEO/leadership crazy enough to pull this off? Ultimately leading to the main question, would it be a good team to join? Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this. I hadn't heard about this latest apparent over-reach from facebook. I didn't see that the article clarified whether facebook wanted domain registration for all users, for a particular domain that fb claimed was somehow fraudulent against facebook? Is it a fishing expedition that could be used to later request info on random people so they can expand their surveillance capitalism or is this really just a one off request?

I am very glad that namecheap is pushing back on requests like this.
Why should that apply only to people vs corporations? How about people vs government? Should I be expected to read all the laws, and if not a reasonable expectations, laws are invalid?
Maybe it’s time for Hey to go full PWA. Sunk costs with the native app though
You can’t do anything with Netflix without paying.
The fact this is down-voted shows how far HN has lost its way.
> but the fact that Telegram is not perfect in every way does not make it insecure by default.

It literally does though.
Off topic, but unicode actually has a "therefore" symbol ( ∴ ). Not sure how universal it is, but it exists
PPC on an FPGA happened in the early 2000s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC#32-bit_PowerPC

...
Xilinx, FPGA maker, embedded PowerPC in the Virtex-II Pro, Virtex-4, and Virtex-5 FPGAs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtex_(FPGA)#Virtex-II

...
Xilinx introduced Virtex-II family in January 2001 on 150 nm process technology,[14] and Virtex-II Pro family in March 2002 on 130 nm process technology.
It continues to amaze me that Apple is picking this fight the week before WWDC.

We know that the EU is already looking at Apple, and now the US seems to be making noise about it.

And they decide to have this fight.

I usually understand Apple but this one… eludes me.
that's what the email that Apple sent them said.

> If you would prefer not to offer users the option of in-app purchases, you could consider having the app function as marketed — an email client that works with standard IMAP and POP email accounts, where customers can optionally configure the Hey Email service as their preferred email service provider.
Norton CrashGuard was an implementation of that idea for Windows. Unsurprisingly, doing anything other than saving your work and restarting after it did its thing was a very bad idea.
What products and services do you want from Mozilla?
Thanks for releasing a fix. Not trying to butter your butt but I really enjoy VLC.
Yes I’ve worked in MS shops, even written Win32 code. I learned a monolithic dev ecosystem was what I personally did not want. So that pendulum swung more towards OSS...
Maybe I'm missing something but doesn't Fastmail use open standards? For example I access my Fastmail calendar on my phone and desktop using caldav.

Isn't it down to the app to support those standards?
This is an idea about society I've been musing a while. As a society hits prosperity it invests in infrastructure with a limited lifespan (even if decades) and therefore there is a certain depreciation rate of infra happening each year. Eventually the infrastructure will rise such that the depreciation rate will have equilibrium with income. At that point the society cannot take on any new projects without deciding it will abandon something else.

A similar thing often happens in software -- Product Managers are given scope to build projects of a certain size, but rarely does the business commit to keeping a certain percentage of engineers on to maintain the project forever. So the project decays and the customers eventually walk away. But the Product person has already moved on to other things so they're no longer accountable for the long term picture....

Just some musings, not really sure how widespread/factual it is or solutions...
Let’s hope this latest bout of Very Smart Internet Sleuth activity doesn’t result in innocent people getting doxed/harassed.
The word "finally" makes it seem that Aristides Sousa Mendes work was not recognized by Portugal. Maybe it hadn't been officially recognized until now, but we are very proud of his actions.
> The company notes that the store has been operating for more than a decade and has never raised fees

"We've never asked for more than a third of your income, what's the problem?"
It's HTML, it's designed to link between URLs. Whether the URL is a file on your filesystem or on the web is irrelevant. If you keep all your resources in the same set of subfolders you can use the same html/ images/ CSS as the web and use relative links.
There's nothing to implement differently, this is how all brokers show it because one leg might be exercised anytime, and if it happens before the broker executes the other side you will see a big discrepancy in your account. It's up to you to understand your trades.
Consistent style is more important than each block of code being perfectly pretty. You can still argue aesthetics, but they need to be applied across the entire codebase. Never having to bother someone because their PR doesn't meet the formatting guidelines is well worth it.
I think in this case, the hypothetical lawsuits would be between companies that make iOS apps and Apple. The companies that make iOS apps want to have their own payment system where Apple doesn't take a cut.
You call it opening up to Windows, I call it the final word on the question of a proper Windows port. Once WSL is established as the one way to use a piece of software on Windows it stay in the half-world of WSL forever.

Perhaps WSL is a perfect tie in terms of user migration: for every person who decides that WSL is their most convenient way of using Linux there might be another who decides that if they are spending so much time in WSL anyways should better try shipping the surrounding Windows. And everybody wins, even pure Linux users who will over time use more software that isn't developed with the overhead of Windows port ifdefs.
If similar environmental impact studies cost half as much...

Who defines "similar"?

Is a study performed in Texas similar to one performed in California? Is a study performed on land that drains into the municipal water supply similar to one performed on land that doesn't? Are two studies performed near each other location 10 years apart "similar" if new laws have come into existence, or a local species has been declared endangered in the meantime?

No matter how obvious the matter might seem, people will still disagree. And the people spending money can always come up with justifications.

...or if the study was not read by those who ordered it that is a pretty clear case.

How do you prove that those who ordered it did not read the study? And what if they did not read the study, but instead read a summary of it prepared by someone qualified who did read the study?
There is also always https://www.passwordstore.org/ it is a bit more work to get everything set up, but I now have an encrypted git repo of my passwords with clients on my laptop and android phone. I cant speak to ios or macos, but there is a distinct lack of good windows gui client, which is the biggest con.

The major pro for me is that I know exactly how it is encrypted end to end, and have control over how and where it is stored, and can move the storage as I please, all entirely for free.
The Great Ventilator Rush
Commentary: It’s time to end the state of emergency over Covid-19 – CalMatters
> if a company wants to pay ASML in Euros, I'm pretty sure they can accept euros.

The implication is not about accepting payment. The western banking system can and has blackballed firms that took money from people the US didn't like.
This isn’t true for most of the OTT streaming cable TV apps. They all require subscriptions.
It really speaks to modern web dev culture when you can't imagine a way of viewing a document offline without running JavaScript.
The industry has gone back and forth here forever between thick and thin clients, and I view this as an extension. Largely we all use thick clients now (PCs, phones, and things with way too much compute power), and the move to chrome or chromium based browsers made the behavior predictable. The pendulum swinging back is really an acknowledgement that the advantages provided client side rendering, don't always outweigh the networking costs. Data visualization is one of these areas I wonder if the
javascript methods provide a real advantage vs server side rendering.
If I recall the terms specifically prohibit different pricing. (You deserved a reply not a downvote!)
What about the cost of not being ADA compliant, though?

If there is no wheelchair access, how do you get those things to people in wheelchairs?
Social networks are failing us and we want independence and community. The web used to be that, then it turned into a gated gossip community.
A lot of countries block access to websites. US and EU are not the whole world! VPN helps people to circumvent censorship.

I use a VPN daily because without it, there is no Twitter/HackerNews/Reddit/Youtube/... .
>Reminds they've had to distribute their apps for free

Apple has never had to distribute any application for free since you need to pay $99 per year to have anything listed on the App Store.
`who tend to be younger and healthier` - your hindsight reasoning, not theirs, and not at the time.
Google and Microsoft control(ed) more of the markets that they operated in: in the 1990s to 2000s what percentage of PCs ran Windows? What percentage of search does Google have?

Apple/iOS currently has less that 20%:

* https://www.strategyanalytics.com/strategy-analytics/blogs/d...

* https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-smartphone-share...

* https://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/vendor

Android, split across multiple manufacturers, has >80%.
agreed. If there isnt a wheel chair bound person for 3 miles, maybe it's not worth having _that_ specific sidewalk upgraded first. Of course, there will come a day, but does it have to be this project specifically?

The takeaway is that ADA compliance only has value when it's consumed and despite a specific rule accessibility is actually a spectrum that can be balanced in a case by case basis.
> Implausible undeniability, a brilliant way to plant the seeds of uncertainty

All that while having open-source and much safer alternatives. I don't see a problem here.
Sure, but you also have to manually redownload the entire site whenever there is a change.
You're right that the spaced repetition questions are different from the really interesting questions, but that's the point. They're supposed to be aids in internalising the "lower-level"/"boring" terms, definitions, properties, etc., which is necessary to be able to follow along.
Yet this is a very important problem, apple blocking people from having other app stores, and taking a large 30% cut of the revenue. Showing real harm convinces some people who only see theoretical problems.
> That's bullshit

Can you buy an alternative product and have nothing to do with Apple's store? Yes. They aren't a monopoly.

Are they a big player? Yes. But they aren't a monopoly. If you don't like it go somewhere else. Vote with your dollars and impressions.
As a consequence, my website is now available in Russia. https://isitblockedinrussia.com/?host=idiallo.com

The issue was that to block Telegram they had banned a few IP blocks, around 10 million ips[1]. These blocks were used in both Digital Ocean and AWS. So if your website or service used any of these blocks, it wouldn't be available in russia.

[1]: https://idiallo.com/blog/website-dont-work-in-russia
And the many stores we can trust are more important than hypothetical abusers. Hypothetical abusers can be addressed in other ways, for instance Microsoft shuts down malicious servers and entities using lawyers and law enforcement.
Historical consensus favors the plague as quite significant, even if the city of constantinople managed to survive independently for several more centuries. The weakened mediterranian presented opportunities for the gothic tribes to take territory in gaul and italy in the decades following, and the economy nor the manpower of the empire never recovered. By the fall, Constantinople was a hollow shell of what it was, controlling hardly any territory and partially in ruins, ultimately abandoned by its few remaining allies in the face of the Turks.
> email, calendar, file sync, chat(?) - give me Firefox Premium
Hundreds of thousands of dollars to create in app subscriptions? There are many indy developers that have done that as a one man operation.
I think what the parent is saying is that unencrypted DNS queries you can intercept, with DoH you couldn't do that anymore.
I too feel a little weird about "iOS app ecosystem" as the definition of a market that matters for anti-trust regulation, but at the same time consider that smartphones are not fungible goods. People generally choose iPhone vs. Android for particular reasons, and then often stay on those platforms because of features that aren't available on the competing platform, or just because they've succumbed to ecosystem lock-in. Switching to the other platform isn't just a matter of swapping out a piece of hardware: it involves installing or finding workalike applications, often manually re-entering data, and sometimes losing access to DRMed purchases.

Given that, "iOS App Store" does start feeling like a market that should be regulated as its own entity.
> The same is done by restaurants for things like Uber Eat/Postmate: they have their prices on their menu, and a marked-up price on these platforms

I do not believe Apple's tax for IAP applies for physical goods or services. Only digital products or goods. If those companies are charging more, it might be for another reason.

> 3.1.5 Physical Goods and Services Outside of the App: If your app enables people to purchase goods or services that will be consumed outside of the app, you must use purchase methods other than in-app purchase to collect those payments, such as Apple Pay or traditional credit card entry. Apps may facilitate transmission of approved virtual currencies (e.g. Bitcoin, DogeCoin) provided that they do so in compliance with all state and federal laws for the territories in which the app functions.

> but couldn't they markup the In-App-Subscription by whatever % of cut Apple is taking?

They can do this but they are not allowed to inform their customers on the iOS app that the prices are lower elsewhere

> Section 3.1.3(b) Multiplatform Services:
Apps that operate across multiple platforms may allow users to access content, subscriptions, or features they have acquired elsewhere, including consumable items in multi-platform games, provided those items are also available as in-app purchases within the app. You must not directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase, and your general communications about other purchasing methods must not discourage use of in-app purchase.
I use it to stream stuff on Netflix that isn't available in my country of residence.
There is a bit more information on Aristides De Sousa Mendes on Yad Vashem's site:

https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories/mendes.html

His Wikipedia page is fascinating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristides_de_Sousa_Mendes

There is even a small park dedicated to him in my hometown of Montreal (not far from where I used to live):

https://goo.gl/maps/Xa1q7imrjT73Sf5M7
For context: This seems directly related to the discussion that went on with the Hey iOS app yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23552760
We launched https://everytwoyears.org today. It was my first project where I felt analytics was necessary, but also a moral quandary. For personal reasons, I'm very against PII big data. For project reasons, the project is literally about stopping mass surveillance so shipping a tool like Google Analytics was firmly off the table.

I went with https://app.usefathom.com which tracks _aggregate anonymized_ data.

They have the option to self host, but I'm sending them money to support the project. With today's launch, I'm really happy with the product. Will continue using it.
I mean, perhaps I misinterpreted the original article, but it sure sounded like the author was hypothesizing that T-cells confer immunity to a large percentage of the population which is why we were only seeing infection rates of up to 10-20% in the wild. I'm not sure his theory would make much sense if he actually meant "the rate of spread stops increasing so fast after 10-20% but continues up to 60% anyway".
They could, but that'd require them to markup their service from $99 per year to $142 per year without being able to explain to consumers that $142 is not the regular price. So anyone that downloads Hey from the App Store is greeted with $142 and might be put off by it compared to $99.
Why is it a dark pattern? Brokers get the best price for their clients this way.
Other than a short free trial. Like hey has.
Why does Basecamp refuse (?) to add the in-app subscription? Is it only to avoid sharing their revenues with Apple or are there other reasons?

(sorry I'm not that familiar with this topic and didn't follow the whole story)
Probably?

The jurisdiction of the court extends to nearly all European states, with the exception of Belarus, the Vatican City, and the predominantly Central Asian Kazakhstan.

But,

In 2015, Russia adopted a law allowing it to overrule judgements from the ECtHR, codifying an earlier Russian Constitutional Court decision which ruled that Russia could refuse to recognize an ECtHR decision if it conflicted with the Russian Constitution.

Compare,

Other countries have also moved to restrict the binding nature of the ECtHR judgments, subject to the countries' own constitutional principles. In 2004, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled that judgments handed down by the ECtHR are not always binding on German courts.

(All https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights
I said dollars, not hours. I stand by that estimate.

Right now there's no mobile-first onboarding flow. That's a completely new thing they'll have to build. They'll also need to update all of their code that checks subscriptions, handles dunning, etc., to now work with multiple billing providers. So yeah, it's going to take a lot of time, which is a lot of dollars.
I've heard nice things about Roassal, this video may interest you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pk4q5oMdLo

The downside is, you'd need to learn a new language, Pharo (a contemporary Smalltalk dialect). There's a MOOC also:

http://mooc.pharo.org

I'm new to programming, still trying to master Python. My next learning project is Pharo, so I get a better grasp on OO programming.
But Netflix offers in app purchases.
More self-serving excuses on behalf of a Namecheap, a company that provides bullet-proof domain registration and hosting for every manner of criminal gang imaginable, from illegal drug sales to phishing to malware hosting, and who hide behind the American constitution when confronted with their criminality. The sooner Namecheap are sued into a smoking crater and every one of their executives is behind bars the better.
Because in the US at least, part of ISPs business model comes from deep packet inspection of customers websites, dns queries, habits and subsequent selling (or using) that data. If you have a trusted VPN you can prevent that data and privacy siphoning. "trusted" VPN company is a discussion for another time...
3D printing of a GelMA-based biomaterial for intracorporeal tissue engineering
>I do not believe Apple's tax for IAP applies for physical goods or services. Only digital products or goods. If those companies are charging more, it might be for another reason.

Food delivery apps have their own commissions.
Well yeah, people & companies with a lot of money get a different set of rules. That's the same in the app store as it is in real life.

I'd be much more interested in seeing in change in real life before some silly app store.
If you look at the picture of the 3 ads, each has a number in the top left corner showing how many times it ran, apparently generated by the Dewey Square Adwatch tool set cited in the article. The numbers are 30, 28 and 30, which sum to 88. This could have been better explained in the MM article. It could also be a coincidence, but repeated coincidences eventually qualify as a pattern.
Replace Hey with Salesforce or any number of SaaS services for other examples of apps that don't work as a standalone free app.
If apple would just insist on taking it's cut from ads and indirect revenue from surveillance and spyware, so many of these problems would go away. Apple currently effectively subsidizes the surveillance of its users with adware and spyware apps getting free ride.

The only problem with this approach is that it's basically completely unworkable. But other than that minor issue, it's a great idea. Maybe the ad revenue side of things could be done, but the spyware side is hard to even come up with a theoretical valuation.

While it's theory only, one could even theorize gmail having to put a valuation on the user profile data gathered and give Apple a cut. Either that or stop surveilling its users.
Presumably the problem is that honest construction companies don't win bids.
Gloss was a trend in the mid 2000s, if I remember correctly—around the same time that AJAX started becoming really popular
Totally agree. I feel like I trust Safari in terms of privacy as well, and it works so well in the walled garden of iOS/macos. I really hope they get it up to date with the latest web standards, it's a joy to use otherwise.
>Bad starting can also be a result of physical resistance in the engine, especially as temperatures fall below the normal operating range.

Is that true? Low temperatures directly affect the maximum output current of the battery, but I don't think engine tolerances are such that the engine starts to effectively seize up below freezing.
Circulation of Elites
Large websites, large skyscrapers. Still private property.
>But the problem is how wildly unevenly it is applied. If you're "big enough" you get a pass.

>If you're going to have rules, they MUST be applied evenly.

It's also possible that it is being applied evenly, it's just that the big guys negotiated private exemptions.
They have a specific section in the rules for "Reader" apps like Netflix and Spotify. It's not unclear, it's been there since 2018.
Spotify just pays the tax, but my understanding was they filed an antitrust complaint in the EU, because Apple is charging them while offering a competing music service.
You're probably being downvoted because Firefox has already had subgrid for 6 months (since version 71).
I found it amusing when he explained how the Editor of the day was pronounced “E D” rather than “Ed” which would in my mind make more sense as short for Editor.

I’m sure history is littered with this little micro sticking points.
> >Apple allows these kinds of client apps — where you can't sign up, only sign in — for business services but not consumer products.

Does that mean Netflix is a "business service" and not a consumer product?
I remember visiting big corporate websites and there was always a little corner for the 'webmaster' often with a photo of the server the site was running on... or a cat... or something like that.

Geocities was a beautiful mess as ... it was just folks trying to figure out HTML and post silly stuff, but it was genuine.
it sucks pretty bad though