skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with everything you're saying, Google's android literally allows you to install third party app stores and even sideload apps. Google does not behave at all like Apple in that regard.
It's a common theme. X used to be expensive to do. People used to pay Y to get X. Through technological advancements, X has become much cheaper or even practically free now. The entity closest to the source of X still charges Y for it and does not pass any of the savings to the entities and consumers below.

Your example is one. Printing, distributing, storing, displaying, and shipping physical books was expensive. Booksellers got ~50–60% of the book price for their trouble. Given the cost of doing business, it was a fair and reasonable price. All those costs are near zero now. Booksellers still want their 60%, because they can. They prefer to keep all the savings and pass none downstream.

The same is true for digital distribution, banking monthly and transaction fees, TI calculators, "convenience fee" for printing your own ticket with your own printer at home, ...

Until recently, brokerages charged exorbitant fees per trade. This is even though trades were effectively free for them and they were earning money in other ways. The status quo of charging for something that would naturally be free was preserved for decades, before a new kid came to the block and ruined the party for everyone. Now the consumers are much better off.

We as the consumers should demand and try to make more of this happen.
There is also a saying usually when discussing stock trading: "Gier frisst Hirn". Greed eats brains.
I made this!

Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.jmoses.manu...

Apple
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/team-lead/id1466421445?mt=8

Here is blog article describing it:
https://www.jmoses.co/2019/07/08/software-engineering-manage...
Your comment is the only Google result for that quote as is, so I'm not sure you have it right. If it were true about mathematics, then it would be almost impossible to work on unsolved problems. Working on the problems is how you become ready to solve them, and for many real world problems it is far from obvious that you have found a correct solution until much later.
It doesn't sound shady? Shouldn't they be very interested in the information?
Uncritically accepting propaganda of an authoritarian regime about the superiority of it's system seems to be a good way to get oneself crushed under the boot heel of authoritarians, either of the same regime or another taking advantage of the attraction driven to that system.
I’ve got a CS degree from MSU and haven’t heard anything about this at all. Anyone have more background information?
Anyone looking for context.

https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2020/06/twitter-attacks-and-de...

Does anyone have more information for the opposing side?

Seems pretty terrible that people can take things you said over the years out of context and destroy your reputation.
It could be a half lie too. 400k people built rocket, they saw the launch but the rocket didn’t actually make it to moon. The actual moon shots were in a studio.

Half lies are the best lies because you can argue half a truth is good enough for the whole truth.
Actually, the Hephthalite invasion weakened (and directly led to the fall of) the Gupta Empire which spanned a huge part of the subcontinent.
Both VR and AR require a lot of horsepower. I think VR might need less horsepower than AR.

I wonder if either of them will be as generally useful for a wide group of people day to day. I don't mean useful as in apps, I mean tolerated by eyes and brain.
I agree with you, especially about McCandless. But I ask myself, where is the line? What level of risk stops being rude?
this is a salient point, fixed rate would make much more sense
Decent starting point:

https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2020/06/twitter-attacks-and-de...
Current headsets resolution is already surprisingly good with some dev tricks. We use something called Compositor Layers at https://supermedium.com/ to render comic books in VR that look sharp and vivid. Not “retina” resolution yet but improving very quickly. Give it a couple of headset generations. We already have much much higher resolution and density panels but need to work within other constraints like small form factor, mobile SOCs limited compute power, weight, thermals and battery life.
You're right, I did not compound the green energy (or, as you say, assumed parallel termination of dirty plants). It would work if the world could collectively put aside 5% of the energy budget. Not sure if that's realistic, and also will there be enough commodities (though those are at multi decade lows in prices right now), but if so it should work.

Let's see how the world looks like post covid, as we're very likely to experience a huge "energy recession". Something that would be similar to that 5% energy austerity rule.
I thought this article would be about Demis Hassabis, but I guess he's not a billionaire.
I don't mean that consoles are the best device to do any computing task. Of course they aren't, and of course smartphones also are not. I'm also not making some technical claim, like that they are Turing complete (of course they are, but that's not really relevant). What I mean is that I do not consider modern consoles to be "single-purpose computers." They're more like "the computer for your living room," and they can and often do handle all sorts of media/entertainment and communication/socializing (which, let's be honest, is a huge part of what smartphones do). They can also handle home automation. If you consider "anything you would want to do on your living room TV" to be a single purpose, then sure, but you could construct the same definition for a smartphone.
Late response but, to Tesla's (slight) credit, they now advertise the performance (with 20" wheels) at 299 miles, and that's in comparison to the 2020 improvements that bumped the advertised range for LR AWD to 322 miles (from 310), so at least now expectations should be a bit more clear for new buyers.

Yeah, I'd imagine running all seasons on 19s or 18s ought to be fine, especially with the killer traction control... This would be my plan in the event I were getting a P3D (trying to hold out for Cybertruck...)

P.s., the way you describe the summer tires ripping up the pavement gave me a chuckle - I'll have to remember that next time I'm talking to someone about the difference with the summer tires!
Android if Google as far as I am concerned, for now. Lets hope Huawei gets it's store off the ground fast. But for now: no Google Play Service, and Android is a brick.
And users are entitled to better app stores. In other words, users are entitled to chose between businesses according to their abilities in utilizing their profits to deliver more value.

If there were competing app stores available on iOS, then we could say they are really entitled to that profit. But we don't know how much of this profit reflects the value they brought versus the rent they were able to get due to gatekeeping the only bridge into iOS-land. So no, we can't for sure say they are entitled to the entirety of that profit.
I think I may have color–grapheme synesthesia. For the most part, I don't pay attention to the colors that I perceive in letters and numbers. But then I read an article like this, which quotes someone during the colors they see, and a voice in my mind shouts, "That's not the color of L!"

As a tangent, I wonder if there is any association between color–grapheme synesthesia and spelling or reading ability. I work as a kindergarten and first grade teacher, so I have the pleasure of guiding many young minds of all kinds as they begin to read.
TrimRead seems like an awesome idea! There are so many times I couldn't read an article sent to me/participate in a discussion because of a paywall.
Classic sensationalized title about apple. Yes this is a problem, but ransom isn’t the right analogy here. Apple’s payment solution is both an outdated and very apple way of doing things.
Surely the just-world fallacy is at play at here. We tend to attribute fault to those unfortunate in order to preserve a belief that the world is just; we get what we deserve. Of course that’s ridiculous, but we think it anyway.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
not in that order.
As per our current science, we're forever limited to our galactic local group. Exponential growth tends to consume even very big things surprisingly quickly.

I also question whether a mass die off event on this planet won't lock us out from ever rebuilding a spacefaring civilization. We've already used up all the readily accessible fossil fuel that was necessary for us to get this far.
2FA is a maintenance nightmare.

I have 2FA turned on for Github. Since they refuse to recover accounts that have 2FA enabled if you lose your second factor, I have many alternative ways configured: TOTP, U2F, recovery codes, recovery phone number.

I have the recovery codes stored in a secure location, and several U2F tokens enrolled (one of them is also off-site at a different location).

But I didn't back up my TOTP seed. I still have the old phone with Google Authenticator, but it's too old to accept the version that lets me export my keys.

Getting a new TOTP seed requires me to re-setup 2FA, which will invalidate the recovery codes and possibly unenroll my security keys (it says "This will invalidate your current two-factor devices and recovery codes.")

It's also apparently impossible to set up Github 2FA with "only" a set of security keys + recovery methods - you have to first set up an authenticator app or SMS 2FA as a primary method.

So now my options are:

- Leave the dead TOTP on the account, and don't have a working TOTP setup

- Re-setup from scratch, invalidating the recovery codes and possibly U2F tokens, requiring me to visit two distinct off-site locations to re-setup everything, one of which is currently locked down and inaccessible due to Coronavirus.

And Github is one of the better sites when it comes to 2FA!
I think that is a sequel to the one from 2014.
I think Apple solved this issue years ago because they got flack about "Free" apps that would have in-app purchases. Apps are not marked "Free" in the App Store. Instead it simply says "Get" to download the app.

They could add a "requires account" tag like they have "in-app purchases" but I don't think that would satisfy what Apple is looking for here (money).
There are some links to the attacks here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/16/open-thread-156-25/
Have the same problem.

Fingers crossed it's a temporary regression. Exactly like you, it's been a boon working from home because I will get up for 10 minutes after a long stint of video call and do some SynthRiders etc., which has been amazing for fitness, concentration, etc. Adding 3 minutes to reboot the thing definitely tips it past a critical threshold for that kind of use.
True, and that still undersells what the app ecosystem does.

Even if Apple made $0 off of all apps, apps are a complementary product to their devices. Apple knows this, it's part of why they always tout all the apps they didn't make. Every app you find useful on your iphone makes it more valuable to you, and keeps you in their ecosystem.
Author here, and agreed—I mentioned the payment processing fees, and that SaaS might also pay Stripe an additional 1% (or something like Recurly even more) to manage subscriptions, but that’s only part of the costs.

And that’s the problem I think. SaaS already has all these other costs, from hosting to account management to cross-device development, none of which the App Store help with. The App Store does offer native app developers value, in licensing, distribution, updates, and more—none of which apply to the SaaS model. Which is where I think part of the conflict comes from: SaaS developers incur the costs of building SaaS, get little-to-no value from the App Store, and so find the 30% fee more frustrating.
Sure, but does that make arguing that at least one country should not automatically illegitimate?

Is something automatically good because a lot of countries do it?
On social media mob rule prevails... especially Twitter.
Become transexual.
Merkels party CDU is very much the political arm of the corrupt old boys network. E.g. her former minister of finance, now head of the Bundestag, Schäuble, was deeply involved in a corruption scandal. Currently that same network seems to rear its head in the Amthor scandal.

Therefore I doubt very much that a lot of firing and locking up will happen, just some token amount with a sprinkling of shuffling positions and failing upwards...
> […] repository for survival and rebuilding society if a major SHTF scenario occurred.

There's a book (ISBN 978-0143127048):

> Maybe it was a viral pandemic, or an asteroid strike, or perhaps nuclear war. Whatever the cause, the world as we know it has ended and you and the other survivors must start again. What key knowledge would you need to start rebuilding civilisation from scratch?

> Once you’ve scavenged what you can, how do you begin producing the essentials? How do you grow food, generate power, prepare medicines, or get metal out of rocks? Could you avert another Dark Ages or take shortcuts to accelerate redevelopment?

* http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/the-book/

Of course it's at layman's level of understanding, so further resources would be needed to get all the details.
The vast majority of the interaction with the new windbg is using the same commands in the same tiling inner windows as before. The ribbon is usually hidden if you know the key commands to move around. It's only to help new and infrequent users find their way around.
Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in wake of killings
> Or they can not play your game and keep doing what they are doing as it is working.

I was assuming a hypothetical where you can convince them you actually don't know who is doing it. Obviously if they think you do know, the whole thing changes.
My point is that, regardless of their cut, the "exposure" the App Store supposedly brings is likely practically nil, unless you're lucky enough to get 'featured' by them. So it's not like you end up being able to save costs by getting rid of your marketing department because "hey, you're on the App Store!".

Additionally, you're not allowed to sell the same software at a different, higher, cost to make up for Apple's cut, so you effectively and up losing even more revenue, since you need to keep your own existing marketings costs, maybe even have to pay into Apple's ads on top of your 30% to market there as well for actual exposure, since you essentially end up as a needle in a haystack, because the App Store is full of cheap crappy apps that Apple is pushing developers to create to fill up their store, because "courage". (edit: I read from other comments that differing costs seem to be allowed now - "Hallelujah, it's a fucking miracle!")

Additionally you don't have any option of providing the download yourself-they force you to use their "service", and hence "pay" for said service, instead of being able to control that cost yourself. Because "courage".

And besides, I don't see how comparing fee structures between completely different industries as justification for Apple's cut is a valid argument in this case ("they do it too" or "they're even more" means the other guys are just as bad or worse - it's shouldn't be a pissing match of "who's worse?").
KeepassXC supports TOTP and with a nice compatible app for mobile, that is one way to do MFA in a way that is more resilient to data loss as opposed to Google Authenticator which might get shutdown without too much notice. Plus, Keepass let’s you choose how to distribute your vault whether you want to do it manually via email or something or via cloud storage. Even if you do cloud storage, it is very easy to backup in case something happens with the cloud storage.
That was my initial thought but my point is that it actually shouldn’t be necessary. 16 miles of non-conductive water should be fine for a single point-to-point em transmission at low bitrates.
the other side:

https://twitter.com/gradempunion/status/1270829003130261504

laughable stuff. not just sad but seriously and broadly concerning that this kind of uninformed knee-jerk response gets taken seriously
I interpreted the "reader app" definition in their policy as:

either
- app value is content driven (netflix)
OR
- data-driven (bloomberg)
OR
- or physical (airbnb, amazon)

in cases where you could say, the client is the "main driver of value" they are pretty consistent.

take a game, for example -- or hey's proprietary filtering system.

that said, I don't agree with 30%, jsut my understanding
The limit certainly isn't here.

There's zero reason for a file transfer utility to support running arbitrary commands on the local machine at the remote host's command. That capability shouldn't exist in the protocol, full stop.

But since it does, if you're going to use scp regardless of what we know about it, there's clearly a broad spectrum of risk separating a random VPS in who knows what cloud running who knows what bits vs. the NAS machine in your closet that's only on a wired LAN behind a firewall running nothing that talks to the outside. Probably not the best choice to use scp to copy files to/from the former.
Careful with those backups though. You should probably treat your TOTP secrets as password-equivalents.

I grab all my QR codes or secrets, but I store them in 1Password so they're strongly encrypted in my backups.
John Jackson has a (currently) 6 part series: https://altrightorigins.com/2020/06/19/hsu-irresponsible/
The Last of Us 2 has extensive accessibility options for disabled
They show the payoff period Germany and in Southern Europe. I wonder what the payoff period is in Texas.
Is there any particular reason it has to be PPC? Does QEMU emulate PPC more effectively than x86?
Author here. It would be interesting to imagine what Apple could offer SaaS developers that would make them want to pay the App Store a percentage.

Imagine if Amazon was the dominant platform, and they were the ones charging an App Store fee, but somehow that included AWS fees as well...
People can die trying to rescue others who are doing stupid stuff. That matters too.

They can, and they do. One recent example from near where I live:

https://www.firehouse.com/lodds/news/21137013/nc-rescue-squa...
You can make while society falls around you. You want to make the most efficient use of time, energy, land, and materials. Why? So you can do more with it, give more people more time to think about things unrelated to survival, so you can support more people, whatever. Efficiency is key to civilization and progress. Solar takes 10X the land and 15x the material with no plan to deal with it after it has reached the end of life. Wind is worse.
Alexander is probably next up for cancellation. The scuttlebutt is that [the empty shell of] the NY Times has a hit piece on him in the works.
I agree, but I dont think AWS even allows more than one key, you’d need to create another user account.

Just to point out how a billion dollar company also has issues here.
Google is pretty awful at maintaining anything that isn’t a billion dollar profit maker. They also suck at doing anything social network related. Pinterest shouldn’t have much to worry about. They could copy the good ideas like Facebook copied circles when Google Plus came out.

Google’s brand is tainted. They are real good at search, tracking and shoving ads. Not so great at fostering things from 0 and maintaining them.
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too true for most nuclear projects out there.
>Ghostery is a popular example

I'm a little confused. I used to use ghostery (don't anymore), but there was always an option to have them not collect data. This is even a recommended app! I went to their privacy policy to check

> II. Basis to Collect and Use Personal Data
There is no obligation on your part to provide your Personal Data. However, if you do, we have a legitimate interest to collect and use it, namely so we can provide products or services, or complete a transaction with you.

> III. Notion of Personal Data
Personal Data means any information concerning the personal or material circumstances of an identified or identifiable individual such as name and age. Non-personal data are all data that cannot be used to identify an individual, such as statistics about usage of a website.
Great strides for those of us with disabilities

Labeled by Saylor and other players as the "the most accessible game ever," the game features more than 60 accessibility settings, with expanded options focused on fine motor hearing and new options for low-vision and blind players.
Also, to download Xcode, iirc
I think customers and developers deserve more from apple.

what happened to the firewall apps? One by one they were banned. (As a customer, I would LOVE to install a firewall like Little Snitch or better)

even better would be to run my own icloud. That would be better from a privacy standpoint (its a right!) Keep your kids safe, keep their data at home!
I predict that what will happen as a result of this type of activity is:

At some point an organised advanced threat, or a disorganised mob, will attempt to take down a truly bad individual or group, who will retaliate in a truly disastrous way.

Of course, this is inevitable given enough time.

My concern now is that we are on a collision course with history, we can see that, and we appear to have no idea how to course-correct.
Yep - it's really useful to know that structure for services who don't bother properly identifying themselves with the issuer parameter in their QR codes so they end up in apps like Authenticator without enough descriptive context to be easily found (I'm looking at you Dropbox and Github!)
Relevant post by Scott Alexander earlier this week is support of Steve Hsu: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/16/open-thread-156-25/
So if that’s the route they go then by 2033 an impacted owner can register in a 85 step process to obtain a $5 check to use toward a new blu ray player that expires 90 days after it’s issued. Meanwhile the lawyers get to keep all the additional proceeds.
Compared to other file transfer protocols (I’m looking at you SMB), SCP is pretty fast in my experience.
I feel like you are attacking me with a straw man, a very unfair one at that. Not everyone who sees things a bit differently from you is a baby-murdering psychopath who watches (gasp!) the most popular news broadcaster in America.

I never thought theft, assault, arson, or lynching was okay, and I hope most people don't need to watch TV to learn that.
When is it finally going to trickle into common sense that needlessly hooking an embedded device up to the Internet is a bad idea? An ethernet jack is an attractive nuisance, not a feature.
>maybe 20% of phones

Sure, if you're just counting units sold. But by total app store revenue, the metric that actually matters, they account for well over two thirds of the market.
Yes, I see that, but I'd say that Apple isn't really interested in making SaaS players lives easier - its not their business.

Edit: and upon thought, SaaS actually competes with their business model.
This would be a great starting point for the repo. The goal would be to have this layman-level knowledge like this and then flesh out the extreme technical details by crowdsourcing verified experts. I'm especially interested in how to organize traumatized people in a productive way, since that will likely be one of the biggest hurdles to overcome.
Sources of Complexity
this blew my mind.
A perfect time to bring out new energy source.