skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mentioned it to some piano playing friends a while ago, I wondered the same, and they said that if the "frame is cracked" then its just garbage - you can never tune it properly, and repair is not viable unless it's a very expensive piano. Here's a blurb on it http://www.cambridgepianotuner.co.uk/newsite/cracked-frame/
The consumer has the same alternative as well as the app maker. The app maker can charge 43% more for an in app subscription as well as offer a cheaper subscription on their site.

Consumers can price compare just like in retail.

Why would Apple allow an app maker advertise a cheaper price in its store? Would Walmart let a manufacture advertise that they can get a cheaper price at Amazon?

Even for free apps, Apple still has to maintain the store, pay for storage, compute and bandwidth for assets, CloudKit storage, developers, reviewers, writers for their daily stories, etc.
Easily done by using Firefox. ;)
http://isThisYourPaperOnSingleServingSites.com
> But Apple customers can be sure of that anyway--just don't sideload apps.

Well, no. At some point they'd need to know what it is to decide if they wanted it or not. At some point they'd encounter an App that isn't in the App store and have to figure out sideloading. We've got a whole heap of people commenting here today who give off a distinct "I want to bypass the App Store" vibe. User hat on, I'd rather they were forced to use it.

I don't think there is enough reflecting here on just how critical a phone is. At the extremes, the US government sometimes targets predator drones based on phone GPS. I suspect an enormous number of phones contain compromising pictures. Phones contain detailed logs of where I am, who I'm talking to, and potentially access to actual records of what was said.

I really don't want to be in a situation where 'Wowfunhappy' is executing arbitrary unknown code on a phone owned by me or my family. I don't want Google and Facebook browsing through and indexing this stuff either. Apple isn't even a good gatekeeper, but they are much better than nothing.
All of the $25K went back to them as their part of the ticket sales. So they only paid the screening fee.
It might have been an oversight in the approval process. But it looks like they have been asked to comply with the rules by adding IAP to their iOS app as well:

https://twitter.com/Fastmail/status/1273800222989324288
Black Lives Matter.

Black live matter more than the next stupid tech trend to ride the Gartner hype cycle. Tech that doesn't include everyone shouldn't be built. Stop reading HN and get out into the streets and support your fellow human beings.
Is there a way in which you can connect to an evil machine and protect yourself from the possibility of it sending you evil bytes? What protocol is able to detect bytes as being evil without knowing at the outset what the file should look like?

This doesn't even seem like a valid security concern. But I'm open to hearing about some ways that SCP would be vulnerable in ways that SFTP would not. I am by no means an expert in this subject.
And neither does Apple. You are free to offer both in app and out of app subscriptions and charge different prices. You don’t have to sell your app in the App Store, you have to distribute it.
No, the other option is to not fork over 30%. If your app is so good that Apple needs you more than you need Apple, they’ll come to the table.
The most damning part of this is that you can’t sign up for Apple services in their own apps for those services.
Big Tech is taking our freedom – How Apple is making developers pay ransom money
Covid-19 risk and severity related to blood type
At least in the US, they're "government sanctioned" in the sense that the local city government may have signed a contract that gives them exclusivity in certain neighborhoods. I've been told "that's Comcast's neighborhood" by a competing ISP in the past.

If you mean that it's not state or federal, that's right (as far as I know).
Which itself is defeated by:

place rogue SCP in /some/rogue/scp

export PATH=/some/rogue:$PATH
> if you scp with an evil machine, bad things can happen. That's all.

The problem is that remote hosts, even ones you think you control, should be assumed potentially evil (compromised).
Just building LLVM and Chrome together probably take longer than emerge --emptytree @world on my Gentoo box.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-blood-type-patients...

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200618/Blood-types-and-C...
Honestly, that's the dream. If you have product market fit, Google paid for the search, and now you can go make it later because it doesn't fit into their vision? Amazing. Ready-made startup.
Do you have any statistics breaking down how frequently mobile users access email via a PWA versus a dedicated app? Also surveys on the difference in user experience?

If not, please refrain from disingenuously advancing obviously problematic ideas. It adds nothing to the conversation.
Phoenix LiveView?
Great stuff, keep up the good work!
I only repeat the argument so I get to hear a bunch of people’s takes on it. Once you’re deep in a thread it’s pretty much only you and the person you’re replying to.

I don’t think the App Store is the source of customer acquisition. I think being able to sell on iOS devices is the source of customer acquisition. Being able to upsell a user to your premium service right there on the device is the valuable thing that costs a premium.
I dislike the 30% IAP cut as much as the next developer, but what is it about perceived tech monopolies that bring out the hyperbolic comparisons?

> Apple should and must be subject to the level of government regulation and oversight that governs other public market places like the NYSE and the CME.

First it's Facebook should be treated as a Public-as-in-Government Square, and now the App Store should be governed like the stock market?

I think Apple's morally in the wrong here. But the solution isn't just going to be just pulling some lofty regulation out of thin air and trying to re-apply it.
Do you have a source that backs this claim up, or is it just anecdotal?
Legitimate question: assume I sell a service that costs $7. If I understand Apple's current restrictions I sell it for $10 on the app and for $7 on my website, correct?

If so, can I put a banner on my app that says "hey, you can buy this on my website for $7?" (without any links to the website). Just inform the user of that fact.
You still have to pay $100-$300 to publish a completely free app.
Decentralized finance:

https://thedefiant.substack.com/
https://bankless.substack.com/

https://www.argent.xyz/
https://www.dharma.io/
Those are good ideas, yeah, but nothing is perfect.

The promotions one is interesting; I think it has the same pitfall as AdWords: if my app / web page is the best result for the user for a given search, why should I have to pay money to promote it? If Apple or Google is doing their job right, taking money for promotions is actively detrimental to users. Not that that stops AdWords, of course.

Charging the users would make sense. It’s a shame that we’ve all been trained to expect this stuff to be free.

I guess subscription-based stores are a decent approach? Like Apple Arcade. But that has downsides for users too -- you potentially end up paying multiple subscriptions (like most people do now for streaming TV) so it adds barriers to entry for new (possibly better) stores. Who wants to pay for yet another subscription service?
Our app is a website. Click to download and watch
Hey HN! We’re Callum and Ben, founders of Infstream

Infstream is a video sharing platform that allows creators to earn from their exclusive videos by charging fans $1 per month for access.

Problem: Earnings from ad monetized videos is inconsistent, requires a large audience and minimum watch times before you can even apply for access. Income is highly variable, and dependent on the location of your fans, and topic & length of your uploads.

- Digital creators are facing decreasing revenues from d based services that prefer algorithmic feeds focusing on the largest creators.
- Users have to watch adverts, or begin paying for a relatively expensive monthly subscription service to watch content they may not want to.

The general consensus from creators is that they are tired of existing platforms taking a large proportion of their earnings, whilst making sure content is advertiser friendly, otherwise they risk their videos being removed and subsequently, their livelihood affected.

The idea: after listening to a large number of creators that had complaints towards existing video monetization platforms, we thought of a platform and model that solves all of these issues, with the top priority ensuring that creators are earning their fair share.

What’s different?
+ Creators earn directly from their fans, with a $1 per month subscription (per channel). The price makes content accessible for all and is an easy sell to an engaged audience.
+ It doesn't matter how often you upload, how long your videos are, what they contain or where your subscribers are from.
+ Creators start earning from their first subscriber
+ Human support and manual video review systems make sure creators aren’t at the mercy of bots and automated systems removing their content first, and asking questions later.
+ Users can build their own library of influencers and YouTubers that they want to watch, adding and removing subscriptions on a pay as you go basis.
I'm guessing that Rust will be quite ubiquitous in 3-5, especially as front-end stuff matures (Yew + co).
It shouldn't be that surprising as wind and solar recieve 10x and 40x more subsidies per unit energy generated vs nuclear. Hydro is even lower.

https://files.texaspolicy.com/uploads/2020/04/23135621/Benne...
It definitely will not have the relative resolution of a physical monitor.
> ...or anything else.

I'll bring it up again: game consoles. Steam. And no, they don't deserve a pass.
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Are you aware that the Golden Age fallacy is thousands of years old?
biomass is a lot more than just trees. and even then its byproducts of forestry product production like saw dust.
Civil Rights movements
Yes? What does this have to do with my post? Do you enjoy going through people's posts and making random quotes that do not fit the current topic?
Then don't be surprised that Apple works to maximize their profits too. Which neatly answers the question why Apple does pricing like that.
I have no horse in this race, but it has been interesting to watch the conversations grow over the past few days on this topic. Some people are so pro-Apple on this, clearly ignoring some of the primary complaints (like no option to not use the App Store for distribution).

As I get older, I can't help but wonder if these people are simply shareholders of Apple (or any company in a discussion like this). Is this good for society overall, to have such a strong financial incentive for so many people to willfully ignore the other side of important arguments?
Replication crisis could be called “eliminating false ideas.”

It’s only been the last 100ish years of the masses shifting from sky wizards to science.

There’s gonna be a learning curve and lots of “nope, not that.”

The paranoia over science and the replication issue is overblown.

What you should probably be skeptical of is not “science” as a concept but what other humans tell you it means. Which is just good life advice.
Finding new particles isn't even the primary reason to build a new collider. Don't be fooled into thinking it's a new particle or bust.
It’s the size of the fee that is unethical.
Indeed, like Next.js, a React based server side rendering framework which can also produce static html for the pages that can be precompiled.

https://nextjs.org/
I just don’t think the distinction is actually as clear as you describe it. Most of these apps are clients for a server-based product that you’re paying for. One could argue that the Netflix app isn’t the product, it’s just a video player that you use to connect to the server that you’re paying to have access to. If Netflix just exposed .mp4 links in a web browser, then it would work fine in Safari on an iPhone.

Or imagine a cloud-based e-book service that you can just SSH into. Should Apple allow apps marketed simply as SSH clients, but not allow an SSH client branded with that e-book service?
No, you are required to use the same pricing on both platforms.
The podcast Pivot has a host who has referred to Coronavirus as "the great accelerator", meaning trends that were grabbing hold have only sped up under the pandemic. Remote work is definitely one of those.

I'm curious if your last paragraph holds true or not. The same thing was said about "digital nomads" in the freelance space. While it certainly got a lot of headlines and made a lot of people have some wonderful fantasies (myself included), the realities of being a digital nomad really kept the trend from taking off. Family, friends, a social group, the desire to put down roots... these are things pretty ingrained in society and are hard to overcome for all but a very small number of people. I wonder if COVID forcing remote work to the mainstream will actually increase the number of digital nomads (as per your last paragraph) or merely lead to a revival of small-sized (but more lifestyle-oriented) cities like your second paragraph speaks to.

If I had to put down a bet, I'd bet on your second paragraph (people moving to smaller cities) and bet against your last paragraph (people moving readily and consistently). I'd bet that it's not the job tying people to a city, but rather their social group.
Apple's cost to maintain this ecosystem can't be anything close to the insane $50B in App Store revenue they hauled in last year.
U2F and other hardware devices!
Wearing Masks right now and cleaning hands even after we find vaccination for covid19
Big companies like Netflix, Google, Tesla, etc don't have to play by the same rules that smaller developers do, and that shouldn't surprise anyone. What's interesting to me is that Basecamp seems to want to join that club, or thinks it already is.
Doing some more detective work, the history for the actual article is here [1].

Looks like someone named Wugapodes decided it wasn't an article worth having back in August 2019.

Here is a version from August 2018 that looks about like I remember [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gell-Mann_amnesia...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gell-Mann_amnesia...
Thanks, that was interesting. I skipped to the first linked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_orbit

Highlights:

"[Pic of 12h orbit] Usually the period from perigee +2 hours to perigee +10 hours is used to transmit to the northern hemisphere."

"In practice, a satellite in a Molniya orbit serves the same purpose for high latitudes as a geostationary satellite does for equatorial regions, except that multiple satellites are required for continuous coverage."
It’s totally optional; if you don’t want to participate, don’t. Sell your software any way you want outside their store. Take out ads in local papers or something.
I'm well aware it isn't close to what they make, but they are entitled to their profits too.
Perhaps, but summarizing the advantages of 3D over 2D by saying that "you can't copy a table, you have to make EACH ONE BY HAND!" is a gross misrepresentation of the differences and limitations of 2D.

It only takes one or two sentences to explain this more accurately, and I think we should all prefer that over saying something that is about 90% wrong but slightly shorter.

I also cringed when the article said that we couldn't really know why the Columbine kids went on a murder spree when other people who played Doom didn't. That is a totally ridiculous thing to say; We know exactly why, and it's because one of them was a bonafide psychopath and the other was clinically depressed. Again, something explainable in a sentence that was misrepresented in the article.

Historians should be more concerned with accuracy than word count.
Hey is a tiny app used by a few people; it's not essential.

If Hey became a cultural phenomenon, I'd bet that Apple would magically reinterpret their rules. This is exactly the purpose of having competition.
Steam keys are meant to be a convenient tool for game developers to sell their game on other stores and at retail. Steam keys are free and can be activated by customers on Steam to grant a license to a product.

Valve provides the same free bandwidth and services to customers activating a Steam key that it provides to customers buying a license on Steam. We ask you to treat Steam customers no worse than customers buying Steam keys outside of Steam. While there is no fee to generate keys on Steam, we ask that partners use the service judiciously.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

It seems like this is not the case.
> But the solution isn't just going to be just pulling some lofty regulation out of thin air and trying to re-apply it.

That's exactly what the solution will be. Apple will eventually be responsible for ushering in regulation that kills software distribution monopolies like the App Store. It'll be an interesting new landscape to be in for a lot of markets.
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I think the parent is pointing out the trend, as a worrying trend. Trust in science is definitely getting worse, primarily because the truth is becoming more and more inconvenient.
JME, Kano, the god father of grime: Wiley. Chip, Trim, CASISDEAD, cadet, jay jar. Enjoy.
It makes sense.

North Face executives are probably wondering why Facebook allows comments around their beautiful ads in the first place.
Maybe, but probably less relevant for seeds that are not new. Also if people are streaming via torrents it's a net benefit if all peers have early bits not just random data. In short I do not have empirical evicidence but I do believe the decision to do so should not be made by a library and I also believe the intial assumption that random is better holds true today.
I think the overarching point that's emerging here is that those profits are a consequence of monopolistic rent-seeking...
Stop caring about your code
I'm not suggesting that it's replacing every use-case for email. But likely 90+% of internal communication within companies that use it. I've experienced this both in my previous large corp (20K+) job as well as my startup (<10).

The main difference is that Slack lacks a unique global id, so you can't add a user in Figma based on it's Slack ID unless you have a Figma / Slack integration. Email still rules for these use-cases - which is exactly why open-standards (such as email, RSS, etc.) are better than proprietary APIs that repeat the same use-cases over and over.
Jaykae
> and access to Google Authenticator and then I'm really fucked

Unless it was changed, GA is one of the few apps that doesn't sync with Google nor require a Google account to use.
Dynamic Partition Pruning in Presto
A store owner is not obligated to give you free placement on their shelves.
Its not a list of "exceptions".

Part of the whole point is the relation to the quote at the start.

In every one of those apps signing up "doesn't work" which goes against the stated goal of ensuring that users can download the app and expect it work. How can it work if you can't even sign into it because you can't sign up for it and they can't even tell you how to.
You can choose a higher price in your Apple app, but you can’t mention the price difference in the Apple app.
The claim was not that more than 9 people were assassinated by Russia, but that 10% or more of the entire opposition was assassinated. Which is absolutely not supported and would lead to at the very least hundreds of thousands of assassinations.
In choosing the lockdown we have ruled this out.

Along with support of minorities, disabilities and the environment and all such things.

The next half a decade isn't going to be much fun.
It's not the developers that are being milked up, it's the consumers. The 30% tax is transferred over to you by having a higher price when buying from the IAP.

No one "eats up" that loss.
Because solar and wind actually get built and generate power without a decade of planning, construction, and egregious cost overruns. Subsidize what works and is cost effective (solar and wind need no further subsidies to beat fossil and nuclear generation costs).

Renewables are fusion at a distance. No waste storage (solar panels can be recycled, wind turbine composites are feedstock for cement kilns or insulation pellets), no expensive or dangerous failure modes (caveat being a turbine failure on a wind turbine, which is usually remote and the damage is minimal), just cheap, clean power you can install almost anywhere. No need to throw shade on what’s going to mitigate climate change.

No offense to Texas (regarding your “Texas Public Policy Institute” citation), but they are actively fighting utility scale battery storage by Tesla because it’s going to further damage natural gas generator profits (already ailing from enormous wind output in the state, with ERCOT having no substantial interconnectors to other regional grids). A whole lot if entrenched interests who aren’t going to go quietly into the night.
Everyone is home on their mobile devices waiting for things to happen. I don’t think this outrage is as widespread as it seems, we just live in a tech echo chamber that is resonating pretty loudly right now. And, it’s the weekend before WWDC, so Apple headlines grab extra attention. I think if this happened six months ago, no one would be talking about Hey and they’d have acquiesced by now.
> I don't think there is enough reflecting here on just how critical a phone is.

But see, I'm think that's exactly what I'm doing--the app store gives China an easy way to take safety apps from protestors. A phone is too important for it to be out of the user's control.

I understand the security implications, but when I weigh the societal issues, Apple's model seems much more dangerous.
The new Apple Developer forums
How did you handle XSS?
the problem is it costs a lot of money to rescue some clueless dumbass from themselves.
Amen.

For much of U.S. history, law enforcement meant implementing laws that were explicitly designed to subjugate Black people and enforce white supremacy. That’s why Black people, along with hundreds of thousands of others, are calling for city, state, and federal governments to abolish policing as we currently understand it. We must divest from excessive, brutal, and discriminatory policing and invest in a vision of community safety that works for everyone, not just an elite few.

We know the safest communities in America are places that don’t center the police. What we’re looking for already exists, and we already know it works. We need look no further than neighborhoods where the wealthy, well-connected, and well-off live, or anywhere there is easy access to living wages, healthcare, quality public education and freedom from police terror.

We can’t stand by while our city, state, and federal governments continue to fund an excessive, brutal, and discriminatory system of policing. We will no longer be told that what we deserve is not politically viable or logistically possible. We will no longer be deprived of what others have long enjoyed in this country: basic rights, safety, and freedom.
There's no need to accuse people of being shills. Some people legitimately prefer walled gardens.

(I'm not one of them, by the way: I'm 100% on the side of Hey.)
For a long time I have just piped tar over ssh. For lots of small files, it's faster than an rsync to an empty directory. It can also sync anything that the tar on both sides can handle. I wrote a script for doing this for my coworkers who identify with https://xkcd.com/1168/
They find the volunteers, coordinate them, figure out and handle the paperwork, and politely hassle them until they do their work. Basically, a similar function to university administrators, mid-level government employees, corporate project managers, and non-profit directors.