skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds great. I'm 47, but have physical limitations due to truamas earlier in life. I love the idea of a service tailored to older folk, and may participate.

The one thing from your description that threw me off was " it’s a more familiar medium, like texting with your family."

I don't text with my family. Or with anyone, really. It is a running joke that the last way you'd want to get in touch with me is by text. My kids text me just to take bets on how many days will go by before I see it. Maybe I'm the exception... but I'd encourage you to re-visit whether that really is how people who are 50+ would prefer to communicate.
In addition to some great responses already on here, I would suggest picking up a functional programming language as a way to bridge the gap between math and the C-style syntax that most of us learned to program in. Haskell and PureScript are good for this; many programs actually use even more mathy aliases for common tokens (e.g. `∀` for `forall`).
CNN offers several RSS feeds: https://www.cnn.com/services/rss/
Nothing of that is directly impactful like the features I listed about Steam. I'm not arguing for Epic Games being an "evil corporation", they just don't do anything to the end-user except for a couple free games.

I'm speaking explicitly as an end user here, and from my point of view the Epic Store is a straight downgrade from Steam in almost every aspect.
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In 2008 my masters thesis (that I didn't finish) was based on a project I'd called "fog", to bring the cloud back down to us. The term was definitely widespread by then.
That would work if apple force eCommerce companies that has an app in app store to sell through apple payment system and give a cut of 2-3% to apple
It's fine, you did understand it was Hey didn't you?
To be fair, the author does touch on this, giving the fact that this very article has a Bluekai tracker as an example of its prevalence.
"Censorship" in this context is shorthand for censorship by public institutions. That is, institutions which are funded by the public and serve that public best by having the fewest restrictions. This is your public street corner, your public park, and most importantly, the Web.

Social consequences inflicted by other free people are those things which free people (i.e., those who are not incarcerated) enact upon you within their rights. These most exist in the negative: This is the right to not shop at your establishment; the right to not hire you to work for them; the right for them to not be near you, engage with you, or otherwise pay attention to you.

A simple way to think about it is that people whose opinions are far from the mainstream have to put in the intellectual work to convince people to associate with them if they value that opinions expression more than their own cohesion inside society. This is fair, as it's been demonstrated effective for various groups.

By misconstruing free speech to mean that the government ought to force private institutions to give everyone a microphone skews this work. It amounts to the government forcing private individuals to sponsor things they disagree with, and removes the ability of free people to disassociate themselves from that speech.
> The campaign to normalize this is so good I often here consumers repeating it.

The campaign to normalize thinking of onesself as a consumer is so good, I often hear my fellow citizens replace the noun "people" with the noun "consumers".
That is how Microsoft Store works, yes.

In my app most downloads are from direct links, so I am happy about that policy.
If you'll look at the DOJ proposal, it's not requiring you to turn your message board into 4chan. You can moderate whatever you like, you just have to be clear in the TOS what content you are moderating.
Yeah drive-throughs are required to have dog treats now because one drive-through had dog treats. Or at least that's what my dogs think.

Also they have a mental map of every single squirrel they've seen in town.
That's useless. If you have javascript, just make the request directly, why pixel? The facebook pixel is slightly above that and is done right.
PWAs can be bundled up for the Play store: https://medium.com/@firt/google-play-store-now-open-for-prog...
Pretty neat how those orders of magnitude estimates form a straight... 9, 10, 11
This is true, in the same way that not hiring a candidate who is unqualified is a form of discrimination.
Unpopular opinion: the 30% that Apple charges includes customer acquisition cost.

As a thought experiment, if Hey adds In-App Purchase for subscriptions, but everyone who downloads the app has first signed up for their service due to their marketing methods (an increasing likelihood considering this controversy), then nobody will use the In App Purchase, and Hey will send $0.00 to Apple.

If someone discovers the App in the App Store due to an organic search for Email clients, then they are likely to sign up via In App Purchase, and Hey pays Apple an affiliate fee of 30% of first year revenue, and 15% of lifetime revenue after that. This is a customer that Hey would not have had if not for the App Store, so getting 75-80% of lifetime value seems better than not acquiring the customer in the first place.

I realize it's not entirely as clean as that, but cast in that way, the amounts seem merely expensive, and not egregious.

(not to defend any of Apple's behavior - particularly the most recent letter sent).
You are moving the goal post but if you are really so ill-informed about this issue, I will go ahead and give you an example:

If a well funded group of people are publishing information about a minority group in order to incite and justify genocide, like what we have seen happen on Facebook in Myanmar, I think the rights of the people being massacred should trump the rights of the genocidal's free speech.

Is that argument dumb or evil?
This is absurdly untrue.
Maybe, but you're still indirectly supporting them.
> Users happily consume the content the platform feeds to them, without much say in it.

You get posts from people/pages you subscribe to in your feeds. I don't see how this is true unless you're just talking about Facebook's non-chronological order. Twitter's nothing like that anyway.
Fundamentally it's hard to see how the current situation is any different from the situation in which anti-trust regulators moved against Nintendo and Sega in the mid-90s.

In both cases you have a duopoly which essentially controlled the market and used access to the platform to force fees and conditions onto developers using their gatekeeping abilities.
It's weird to see stuff like this published as a "paper", as if it were a scientific endeavour, when there doesn't seem to be any experiment, mathematics, or even data involved. Just a lot of conjecture sprinkled with citations. It seems like the epitome of Feynman's cargo cult science. I'm actually very sympathetic with the idea being advanced, I'm just not sure what really separates this and a blog post.
The integration with Linux goes even beyond system calls as others have noted. The entire app sandbox is based on Linux UIDs:

"The Android platform takes advantage of the Linux user-based protection to identify and isolate app resources. This isolates apps from each other and protects apps and the system from malicious apps. To do this, Android assigns a unique user ID (UID) to each Android application and runs it in its own process."

So each app sandbox on Android maps to the traditional "user" accounts on Linux/Unix systems.

https://source.android.com/security/app-sandbox
I completely agree with what you're saying. I find that one of my greatest frustrations with attacks on utilitarianism is how, well dumb they make the attacks. "Would you kill one person in a scientific experiment to save a dozen?"

No, because any world in which such a trade was acceptable is not a just or fair world that I would want to live in. You have to reason at multiple levels.

I usually make online comments for two reasons. One, to see if there's some neutral way of explaining things that might slightly advance understanding of my views without being offensive, perhaps start a friendly conversation. Two, to try to put these higher-level ideas into simpler and simpler terms in an effort to find out if there's some common-language leverage point to be found.

The first goal has to avoid any kind of trigger phrase people are programming themselves to emotionally respond to. That's getting more and more difficult. More and more people just don't want to hear anything that's from a suspect source. People are treating online discourse as a game: identify friend-or-foe, engage (or support). The second goal is more fun, but I run the risk of oversimplifying. Apologies.
I just noticed today that City Lab as part of their move to Bloomberg also doesn't appear to have a working Atom or RSS feed anymore :( I contacted customer support and told them it worked on the old site but now appears to be gone. I've had a surprising amount of success with this on news sites and magazines in the past, so hopefully they respond positively.
I think that's exactly the point and it even applies to Macbooks: Apple just makes some pretty average laptops with poor price-performance ratio (even in the allegedly-high-end segment) and they clearly don't have a monopoly or even significant market share [1] in that category. Apple is just somewhat unique in that there is a very vocal minority of people who have decided that they only ever want to use Apple laptops (some Thinkpad users are similar), and of course Apple has a 100 % monopoly on Apple laptops, obviously. Viewed through this lens a lot of the coverage of Mac hardware makes a lot more sense; it never was about rational decision making.

[1] Apple owns less than 10 % of the laptop market.
So true -- deductibles are getting higher every year, and my parents are always facing hard decisions on whether or not they should go in for elective visits. Excited to hear your mom's feedback!
To expand on barbegal's comment, in my opinion the genius of the "micromort" unit is the observation is that you can add them.

In fact, 10 micromorts + 10 micromorts is 19.9999 micromorts (you have too many nines). But within the relevant standard of accuracy, 19.9999 = 20.

The same is true for more complicated estimates. For example, 10 micromorts every day for a year is 3643.3 micromorts, which is practically 10 times 365.

It's not completely accurate, but it's certainly good enough for the intended flavor of computation.

Also, as you observed, the system breaks down with large probabilities. I think a good analogy here is Newtonian mechanics. If you drop a ball of a building, and want to know how long it will take to fall, then for all practical purposes you can ignore the effects of relativity. But if you were to throw the ball at half the speed of light, then you would need to be more careful. (In more ways than one...)
Surely there is a better approach than a passive aggressive support request?
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FWIW, I am only interested in economics as a hobby, and I knew immediately what Veblenian meant. It's a pretty common reference in the field.

I think you raise a valid point about the impact of overly academic work, but I also think it's not unreasonable for academics to expect that their primary audience will have a passing familiarity with the major figures in the field.
I agree. People seem to regard FB and Twitter as bedrock but I wouldn't be sorry to see them forced to spend what it takes to actually moderate themselves or shutdown.

I recently rejoined twitter (I watched a bunch of sci-fi shorts on the youtub and wanted to tell people about them) and it is messed up. It's a hate machine. People are so shitty to one another. And the doxxing mobs are fucking terrifying, flash-mobs of hate, ravening and lawless.

For this we invented the transistor?
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If holding a giant private corporation accountable is the battle you want to take before the government, aside from all the other problems society faces, go for it.

I’d never be caught dead complaining about how I “got screwed over” by entering an arrangement I knew about up front.

I would complain about government deciding the way the world worked decades before I was born as if that’s how it must work forever.

You emit whatever syntax your limbic system pushes your cortex to supply motor agency to, what’s useful inside your little bubble.

I’ll argue in mine. Aside from time/place of our body, it’s all we can do anyway.
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I'm somehow sad reading about it. It was one of my destinations ony my list. This guy inspired my to travel the world.

Thanks Alexander Supertramp :)
Ouch. But it also seems that the quality of research is falling? I guess it's cause I come from a technical field but a paper with a bunch of text, citations, and a general concept can be called research in the business field? Is it any wonder there is so much bs out there?
Users can stop using Apple with minimal consequences.

Many businesses can't. Apple puts tolls around users, and people think the pricing model is unfair.

That's what this uproar is about. It has nothing to do with consumers beyond the fact that consumers see how unfair the pricing model is.
> On the other hand, for us "tech people" it is actually easier to stop using Google and Apple and serve as example for others. Pushing for anti-monopoly legislation needs not be the only thing that we do to solve that problem.

Are you suggesting people stop using smartphones altogether?
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What's different? What's the same?
Transfer of wealth from a social group that is perceived as unfairly advantaged, to another group, that is perceived otherwise. Since pensions are gone for most of the people nowadays, targeting pension funds will result in relatively low public pushback, compared to other targets.

And as long as the public approves it, millions could be spent on committees figuring out "the best way to do it", bureaucrats making policies, etc. Political game as it is, nothing new.
I'm not saying the answer is to break them up, but clearly as was shown with Microsoft in the 90s, they could be forced to allow competition on their devices, like Microsoft had to allow for different search engines on their browsers and different default browsers. Apple could be forced to allow alternative app stores or to stop dragging their feet on PWA features or any other number of reasonable regulations like that.
Ha ha! I disabled ublock origin, reloaded and it told me I have nothing.
OpenAI releases powerful text generator
It refers to the common construction design of new, low-rise apartment buildings: four stories of light wood framing over a “podium” built on the ground of a much stronger (i.e. more expensive) material, usually concrete. It’s considered the most cost efficient building style as compared to true high rises which require steel construction per code.

Once you are aware of it, my guess is you’ll see it everywhere.
Haha we haven't seen that! Maybe drop a collaboration in the future...
I've heard that some modern PC PSUs use these devices inside.
Yes, but those two examples don't have a particularly great track record. Regulation tends to be a very blunt hammer that might only partially address the problem while introducing a bunch of others (e.g. cookie banners).
Vietnamese, although Spanish might be helpful if you had to prioritize. Lots of kids of immigrants in the US where our parents don’t read English well enough to participate in things like this.
What kind of information do others see? I am currently getting: "No data available for this browser."
It's trying to solve the wrong problem. If there's a monopoly, it should be busted. Not declared a new government agency.
What's the monopolistic case against Apple? Is Apple anticompetitive?

Here's my grievances, but I don't know if any aspects are actually monopolistic.

Are they competing against their own partners? Their stock apps have remained vanilla enough that there seems to be enough oxygen for alternatives for premium and power users.

They've definitely done monopsony. Business strategy wise, they've been wicked clever. It's always made me uncomfortable. And I'm pretty grumpy their control of the supply chain doesn't permit third party repairs. I get that they're pulling out all the stops combatting counterfeiters and fraud, which is easily pro-consumer, but there's got to be a balance.

I've always felt their 30% cut from App Store is excessive, unfair. But I don't know what a reasonable cut would be. Cost of doing business plus reasonable margin?

Pay to play schemes, like search ads and paid placement, are complete bullshit. Aka payola. But is that monopolistic?

All the "marketplaces" need the rule of law. Transparency, accountability, fair and impartial courts, appeals processes. This applies to apps, content, personas. No one entity can be allowed be legislator, police, judge, jury, and executioner. This is the biggest apparent conflict of interest, anti-competitive, anti-consumer, anti-democratic behavior of all these "marketplace" hosts, Apple included.

I'm still pissed off about the wage fixing. Sharing the bounty more fairly, broadly would diffuse a lot of the festering resentment.
How to Be Competitive in a Post-Covid World
The businesses that think everything will go back to “the way things were” are operating on a going-out-of-business strategy. The businesses that will thrive in this new environment are those that will continue to leverage the tools and processes they adopted during the crisis. They’ll be the ones to capture new opportunities and drive their recovery faster than the competition.
> The idea that they have a “monopoly” seems patently ridiculous to me. A monopoly over what? Their own brand of computing devices that they are the sole manufacturers of? Operating systems for which they are the sole developers and maintainers?

I'm not sure where I fall on this, but I feel this is less direct than some people make it sound. I can also see the argument that the iOS phone has become it's own market segment. It might be a bit of stretch to make this comparison, but we don't just a have a market segment for electronic communication devices, we break that down further. Why can't the smart phone market be broken down further as well?
What mobile phone and which operating system for it do you use, if I may ask?
Article title and content seems to be at odds.

>The average developer says that fewer than half of the testers they work with have no programming skills.

However, I do want to point out QA is not just "developers who work on test frameworks" as some may think of them. There's a lot more to it than that.

As a QA, I typically find myself:

-Investigating the history of a feature or requirement
-Investigating/Documenting how the "System" actually works and highlighting the differences between that and how people acting on it think it works.
-Investigating/Documenting the surface area of an implementation of a System Under Test/Test Framework in order to determine what direction of growth/refactor/new implementation that will generate the most value (wasted time reduction)
-Formulating Test Plans fit to exercise the relevant surface area of a unit of work
-Analyzing historicals to distill out trends with regards to the stability of the overall System and the network of interrelationships of it's parts as well as evaluating the SUT/Test Framework in terms of change in fitness for current business needs.
-Troubleshooting communication problems, and making sure everyone is saying the same thing about the same thing.
-nigh-futilely maintaining a cached index of the overall state of the system with a useful refresh period mentally, plus a network of people on whom to lean or contact in order to get problems enumerated, explained, escalated, or otherwise handled. Cross-departmental or otherwise.
-Implementing/Architecting Test Automation and identifying/Documenting useful
Troubleshooting and system introspection procedures. I.e. learning to speak the system's language.

On the other hand, I've been told I am not necessarily a representative sample of a QA person though. I may actually be performing several other roles at the same time such as Systems Analyst, Architect, etc...so there is that, but to me it's all in the pursuit of assuring Quality...soooo... Yeah. The Quality rabbit hole is deep and gets you just about anywhere if you take it seriously enough.

(If you're wondering how I fit it all into a day, shhh! The only way I manage it Thus far is not telling myself it's unreasonable.) That and lots and lots of communication. If you're wondering how many people avail themselves of half of what I do, the answer is mostly me, and generally any other QA's I'm regularly working on a project with.
You're being downvoted, and I probably disagree with you (maybe not; hard to say without hearing more of your position), but I think it's important to be clear about what does and doesn't fall under the rubric of "criticism" because this is so often confused in the debates that I witness or participate in (including here on HN). When an angry mob physically beats someone, burns their business to the ground, or petitions their employer to terminate their employment (or incites others to do the same), these are acts of violence or intimidation and not merely "criticism". One can't say "the mob is merely exercising their own free speech rights to criticize the original speaker" as a rational defense. This is intimidation. Criticism is refuting their ideas.
Serious question: Is there a non Google app store/Apple app store based smart phone that gives user control, like on a Linux box?

Duopoly , walled gardens, spying is getting annoying. I would like to stop using them.
I get by fine without an iwatch etc.

I live as a second class citizen but the tradeoff is fine in my book.
> especially ChromeOS, good lord is that a usability nightmare

My dad recently got one of these to have something simpler since all he really needs is a web browser, and damn, you aren't kidding. Like, the OS isn't even that "big" here, guys, how is it so thoroughly mediocre? The accessibility settings in particular are like something from the 90s, after being used to what modern iOS and macOS offer. Felt like a half-assed afterthought. Didn't work very well. Considering much of the target market for it is old people and kids, that's incredibly inconsiderate.

Oh and then of course the settings screen itself was hard to navigate and poorly organized, but that much I expected (google is weirdly bad at settings screens across basically all their products, IME)
One difference that comes to mind relatively quickly is that you didn't need a gaming console to live in practice.

Try being part of today's society without a smartphone running either Apple or Google software.

Apple's goal to shove off 30% of subscription fees, if successful, most likely would lead to more expensive subscription fees for end users. I wonder whether that's finally a case that has a chance to stand in court w.r.t. anti-trust laws. (Driving up end user prices through anti-competitive behavior.)
Their privacy stance is pure marketing bluff. Any alternative phone you can buy in the US is going to be better for your privacy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23329646
That would make the claim true but no longer an answer to the question.
People online constantly go "cancel culture ruins lives" as if being "cancelled" isn't the easiest grift ever as you get an endless legion of conservative nutters to worship you for being against the ebil cancelling SJWs forevermore.
That's sorta the idea behind server-rendered Blazor. Components are rendered on the server and passed over to the client via websockets.

Unsurprisingly, input lag and scalability can be major obstacles, but I expect it to make large headwinds in enterprise apps.