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Assuming you're a man, my experience is that most women I have met lack either rationality or reasonableness, at least in one area of life or another. This may also be true for men, but I don't see it as commonly.

For example, my wife had never bought alcohol until last month. It has always been provided free via guys (me for the last few years) or her mom buying it for her. It's rational for her to expect that she would never have to buy alcohol since it has always been provided to her, but it's not reasonable to assume that will always be the case. So she had no idea how to buy alcohol. In my state liquor is only available at separate stores. She went to the wrong store. Then when she finally got to the right store, she bought really expensive stuff (could have bought 4x more of decent stuff for the price). She buys brand named food too on the one or two times she's gone shopping even when there's no taste difference or ingredient difference. She just doesn't have common sense.

I'm not sure how a lack of rationality in your partner would ground you, but I completely sympathize with the feeling of being alone on your adventure in life. I might even expand it to not just being alone, but having to carry someone with you.
FYI going from the three number 27.0.91 to the two number 27.1 signifies switching from a development version to a release.

Not really sure what the value of posting this commit to HN is? Firstly many people won't understand the relevance and secondly it doesn't convey much information to those who do, unlike say the typical mailing list announcement or the etc/NEWS file in the repo.
A simple regulation that would fix this without overbearing price controls is to require manufacturers to allow users to sideload their own app stores.
Well, I have to agree with that. What I meant is that it's not even clear whether this is a joke or not. Or maybe I just don't know/care enough about software versioning to get it.
Every article I read about ARM64 doesn’t really have any technical, concrete reason to love it. I think we’re simply experiencing a sort of euphoria that comes with knowing there’s competition in the space and big players are mixing things up. There’s joy in anticipation.
I would not blame anyone for their natural instinct.
Firstly, congrats on the launch! Active learning is a super interesting space.

You say it's possible to download the data and use Humanloop for annotation only while still benefitting from active learning. I'm curious about your experience with how much active learning depends on the model. Are the examples that the online model selects for labelling generally also the most useful ones for a different model trained offline?
I'm actually going through this at my current job. We have a team of 8 where some report to essentially the head of the team and some report to me, a "lead", who reports to the head. This makes absolutely no sense to me. I'm hearing that things are setup this way because having 7 direct reports is too many. Even if we ignore the weird org chart, having say two teams of four doesn't make sense to me if everybody is working on the same things.

Can someone please explain if I'm thinking of this the right way or not?
Way undervalued. One chart to explain why the US is doing this:

https://imgur.com/a/PnmijVz
Windows phone was great, but simply far too late to market. By that point it didn't matter whether it was better or not, the silos were built.

Deming is amazing as well. A real case of a prophet not honored in his own country, he's a big part of the success of post-war Japanese manufacturing.
Amazon appstore, F-droid, Huawei app store, Samsung Galaxy Apps and so on.
From Dr. Zubrin's Reddit AMA:

> for Mars Ascent and Earth return, SpaceX should develop a mini Starship, sized to be an upper stage of an F9. This would create a fully reusable medium lift booster, and reduce Mars propellant making requirements by a factor of 5. A Starsip could lift one of these to LEO fully fueled, after which it could fly to Mars, and return. any full sized Starships that land on Mars should stay on Mars. SpaceX will make plenty of Starships, it won't need any back that go to Mars. A Starship on Mars is much more valuable than one on Earth.

https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/hgy64k/ask_me_anyth...
Reading the thread here is an interesting datapoint:

https://twitter.com/twolivesleft/status/1288491970248077314

- Since 2011 Codea has had 1,768 refunds

- Estimate it cost us ~$8,000 USD to pay Apple’s 30%

- A single day in 2017 saw 193 returns and I have no idea why or how that’s possible

later:

> Yes, we’ve had a few days of negative revenue in the last few years due to people refunding Codea. Apple keeps their 30% no matter what
good thread. i like the guy explaining to me that i am
wrong about what happened.
The only way to learn is to practice. Use practice problem sets in textbooks.
Not being a bottom 85% male in 2020.
We might as well stop using the term liberal, it means so many things to different people now.
I opened this and said wow out loud. Really cool!
What's new in Windows 10, version 2004 (July 2020)
I think we work at the same company.
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The point is, originally, Apple were co-owners of Arm (together with Acorn and VLSI).
The Web isn't. Sir TBL doesnt get a cut from your sales.

Why developers even use the app stores baffles me

97% of user's time is spent using the 10 top mobile apps

Average user downloads ~0 apps / month

PC sales are up last year and more this year with COVID

Who makes money?
Amazing. I knew it was a paint program, bit I didn't realize that it was a Rorschach Test too!
This is specifically why I want web browsers to interface with mobile devices better. The walled garden these stores are absolutely infuriates me.
After del.icio.us shutdown my bookmarking simply exploded, splashing in any existent service, Keep, twitter favs, feedly read-laters, g+ +1 posts, myself emails, plaintext, around 8 browsers favs (mobile and desktop) along 10 years.
Great point, I guess the opposite of a prepper video is just an hour long video about someone showing you their regular pantry with average amounts of food and explaining where they want to go on vacation for the next several years.
I played with this for ages in the peak of an LSD trip once... It was quite the experience.

Some other fun "art toys" I like are:

1. https://29a.ch/sandbox/2011/neonflames/

2. https://codepen.io/davidpanik/full/myMrLx/

3. https://codepen.io/jackrugile/full/DGenc
Obviously, assuming wildly false claims can lead to unreasonable conclusions.
It’s amazing that a decade and a half later Apple still hasn’t fulfilled Steve Jobs’ original dream of merging the web and apps.

He wasn’t saying third party apps should be HTML5 just to stall for time. He really believed it. And it was a good idea and still is.

Processors, memory, bandwidth, and browsers have all advanced by leaps and bounds and yet the dream remains unrealized and Apple is the most to blame. They got addicted to the ill gotten gains of their walled garden and can’t bring themselves to kick the addiction. Rent seeking is a powerful force.

It’s pathetic for a company so good at being honest with themselves and moving forward when they know what the best future is.

The App Store shouldn’t exist at this point. It has outlived its usefulness. It’s in their users’ best interests to move beyond it. And yet maybe it’s too traumatic and daring a move for anyone other than Steve Jobs to attempt.

Tim Cook could drop the headphone jack because it didn’t damage the bottom line but dropping the App Store would actually cost something in the short term even if it is the right thing to do for everyone in the long term.
2 weeks ago on twitter: "No, I am not bringing back the insanely popular free competitor to my primary source of income."

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1283932062794186752
checked 91k passwords in 25 minutes.

250 minutes to crack any password?

Meeting will be over before this happens.
Exactly. If anyone wants to run an app store, fine, but I must be allowed to "side load" apps onto my device so that I don't have to participate in the app store economy.
The Latin for eight is octo.
I wanted to post the link exactly to the same essay "In praise of Idleness". Glad to see this essay resonates with other people.
Huh? Which space is competitive? Apple and Google are pretty much the only shows in town and even more restricted is that the App Store is the exclusive store for iOS.

In fact, they don’t even really compete with each other. Play is only on Android and App Store is only on iOS.

You could say Android and iOS compete with each other, but once someone has bought a phone, they do not have a choice of where to buy apps.
That is very French indeed. In France, we often talk of other meals we had or meals we'll have while eating our meal, and comparing this salad with that other salad, this wine with that one the other day, etc :)
A manager that has experience with development? I wish.

Our team of four (frontend development for our two main products) has a "team leader" (not included in the team), two "product managers" (one for each product) and a "director of IT" (our actual manager), none of which have a background in software development. They all have a background in our product's domain.
Apple actively blocks non-app-store apps.
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I have allergies, will you include everyone who does as a Covid possibility?

Think about false positives and what that would mean inside and outside of the application
IBM has maintained backwards compatibility with OS/360 for like 50 years now so I think that is a pretty safe bet.
Meanwhile, Linux phones are starting to become a thing, even if they're just a group of survivors trying to tame and cultivate their own desert island
It seems like one way to mitigate security vulnerabilities is to write software that looks for statistical anomalies. Attempting 1 million passwords in 28 minutes is such an obvious outlier that it's strange we have to guard against it explicitly.

It would also catch cheats in video games, for example, since those are statistical outliers too.

Is there a name for this kind of program?
No. What improves the lives of employees is competition between employers for said employees. For that you need enough employers and thus - startups. Which require economic freedom.
So is Facebook.
A kernel module that works like a "Schmitt trigger"[0].

Suppose that LO_THRESHOLD: 20% and HI_THRESHOLD: 80%. If your battery is lower than HI_THRESHOLD, it will allow your laptop to charge. Once it hits HI_THRESHOLD, it stops charging and your laptop gets energy from the battery, even if your power adapter is plugged in.

Once it hits LO_THRESHOLD, it starts charging again. See bang bang control[1], or a thermostat[2].

If we want to build a SaaS business around this and become billionaires:

Build a service accessible through sockets. I sign up for your service, you give me some sort of API keys. I install your software on my laptop, configure it with the keys.

If I have a screen, then running your software opens a link that does all the above automatically.

The local software monitors the temperature and sends them to your service through sockets. The application logic is in your server, and it sends the command either to CHARGING_ON, or CHARGING_OFF to the local program.

There are many people who like to charge their batteries between 30% and 80%.

Or, you can offer integrations with IFTTT[3] to trigger actions.

You can do it without the "SaaS" thingy and just offer it as it is.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmitt_trigger

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang%E2%80%93bang_control

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermostat

[3]: https://ifttt.com/
Which competitors to $car_manufacturer engines are there for $car_manufacturer cars?

This is a stupid question. Whether or not there is competition on iOS doesn’t matter as long as there exists viable competition on any viable platform.
Rate limiting login attempts is a basic security principle that's both easy to implement and not overly intrusive. This once again confirms that Zoom just doesn't care about having a secure platform at all.
It's unfairly targeted and irrational. Pistols kill more in Chicago on any given weekend then die from a mass shooting annually. You can get a pistol with 17 rounds and fit that in your pocket. It's targeted because it looks scary. Gun enthusiasts have been purchasing and owning 'assault rifles' since they were invented. The ban was temporary and sunset from the beginning because of the outrage of the alternative indicating a market need and desire. They are extremely versatile stable shooting platform. And there are millions of law abiding gun owners around the country and tens of thousands of them stop crimes with their guns every yearp
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That's on just one computer. Depending on how many servers (read: how much in AWS credits) you have access to, you could parallelise it nearly infinitely.
This attack horizontally scales really well, and you don't have to try all 1 million passwords in the average case
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del.icio.us along with Flickr were the darlings of the old "Web 2.0" ethos.

In particular, I think it was del.icio.us that introduced or at least popularized "tag clouds".

I now am using google keep, but if Ceglowski can bring back and freshen up the old del.icio.us, I will switch over.

Now... somebody resurrect google reader :-)
It’s not like that at all... Disneyland sells Disney IP. These stores are marketplaces.
That's pretty standard on most liquid propellant rocket engines.
Can you prove price fixing? Or collusion? If you want to make the claim, then let’s see the proof.
Both Democrats and Republicans alike are unhappy with tech companies' behavior. While many conservatives do believe tech companies censor right-leaning voices, many liberals blame tech companies' inaction on curtailing foreign interference and unsubstantiated conspiracy theories for the election of Donald Trump.

Which is to say, you may think big tech is hurting conservatives, but liberals think they're helping conservatives.
Don't forget that many recurring meetings reuse the same password.
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Will they? In some jurisdictions they are required by law to grant refunds. In others, they still have very little incentive to control refund fraud, what with the fact that they're still making money rather than losing it.

It would be one thing if they said "We're keeping the credit card processing fees so that we don't lose money," but to keep the whole 30% cut is just petty.
>Apple is of course the biggest offender as they heavily guard their monopoly with code signing enforcement.

What monopoly? Apple controls maybe 8% of the desktop/notebook market and ~13% of the smartphone market. They don't even come close to qualifying as a monopoly.
Have you ever noticed that ARMv8-A architecture extensions are published faster than Arm-designed cores make use of them? I'm pretty sure thats because architecture licensees are a major driver of those extensions. If Apple needs a CPU that adds X and Y to the architecture and removes Z, I have no doubt that Arm will work with them to allow it, and that it will probably come in the form of an architecture extension that permits it. Arm gets as much from Apple out of the relationship as Apple gets from Arm, and Arm surely knows it. They don't benefit from bossing Apple around.

Arm very recently started allowing Core licensees to add custom instructions (on M33 and M55). But they've allowed architecture licensees to do that for a long time (see XScale).
I think a company cannot run only on teams delivering features. There will always be some functions like HR, legal or sales. I think security fits in there nicely, it is quite similiar to compliance. A security team is not delivering security by itself, it is more like an HR department trying to prevent workplace harassment or a legal team trying to prevent GDPR violations.

You might also think of it not as a team at all, when you are consulting for other teams, you are delivering features as part of that team.
I don't understand something here.. let's say I sold an app to someone for $100.

1. Someone pays me $100.

2. Apple takes 30%, so I only get $70.

3. Customer asks for refund and gets back $100.

4. Apple takes back the $70 from me.

If Apple was skimming 30% off from the start, how does that affect me during a refund?
Just because you don't see the problem, it doesn't mean it's not there. However you want to put it, you can't add (or remove) instructions at your leisure if you want to keep your license. It does not happen. I can get into details if you want, but I think it's besides the point.
One half of a happily childless mid-30s DINK married couple here. We plan to stay that way.

If the government wants me to have kids, they had better incentivize it. And when I say incentivize, I don't mean exclusively financial incentives. Ideological ones as well.

Right now, the primary reasons for having children are:

1. Personal desire to have children/biological drive to reproduce - so much so that you're willing to shoulder an enormous burden just to have children.

2. Social pressure from family, friends, and society at large - so much so that you're willing to shoulder an enormous burden just to feel like you're making them happy.

Sidenote: Folks from camp #2 often seem deeply unhappy.

Free universal pre-K childcare would help a lot toward sweetening the pot, as would substantial investment in public school systems.

Despite what you may think, this isn't about money or about us being greedy with our time.

I don't have a lot of faith in the idea of bringing a human life into the world as it is, but I also want to see evidence from my government that they're building a country worth living in for my future children. Otherwise, why would I bother to subject them to playing a game where the deck is stacked against them?

By all accounts, a child of mine would come into the world with their own enormous privilege and advantage over other children (white, born into a higher income family of college graduates, etc.) - but can I really stomach that while knowing it comes at the expense of some other child's opportunity? I felt this way before the pandemic and social unrest of recent months. Now I feel it even more acutely.

Personally, I'm completely content with not having kids. But if the government wants me and other people like me to have children, they'd better make the lives of parents easier, lower the barrier to entry, and massively increase my confidence level that this shit-hole country will be worth living in 100 years from now :)
> 9th April – Heard from the Zoom team that this was mitigated.

> 16th April – Heard they were working on updated bug bounty program.

> 15th June – Requested update on BB program. No reply.

> 8th July – Asked again if I could submit this for bounty. No reply.

> 29th July – Disclosure.

That's disappointing that Zoom never got back to you regarding the bounty.
The tooling has become insanely good, so long as you trust the shoulders of the giants you’re standing on. For example, a month ago the Electron team introduced a bug that made my Microsoft Store app think it was outside the store. The users of my app were not happy - so I looked into how I could test the app “in the store” as a beta ... it’s basically an exercise in frustration. Package flights are a joke, build numbers don’t make a package unique. Just all sorts of hassle for a store that’s 1% (I’m being generous) the size of Apple’s.

Anywho, I’m a solo developer that created a desktop electron app that lets you design and print labels (either roll or sheets) and can import spreadsheet data for use in text, barcodes and even colors. It’s been a hell of a ride so far because my customers run the gamut of “organizing my yarn” to “storing nuclear isotopes.” I get emails and calls like, “I need to print 15,000 labels by Tuesday or I’m fired!” Those are always fun. My customers are in my small town of Minnesota USA, California, UAE, Russia, China, India, Brazil, Australia, NZ. I have global reach in this funky little niche.

All this made possible by some insane tooling (and toiling). It’s a really fun time to be a developer... even if my app takes up 500MB memory. Ha!

You can download my app from https://label.live
....but Apple processes payments for App Store purchases? And they pay to maintain the store. Storage, bandwidth, updates, those are all “work” as well. I do think 30% is quite high, but this comment seems to consider Apple a charity house that should provide these services for free
Pretty sure that 30% also covers payment processing
Network effects ... same way the old folks ain’t moving away from fb ...
Sounds like a lawsuit in the making if the harm is great enough.
Not as much collusion as simply lack of competition.

You don’t have any other options for most of their respective platform and there isn’t enough incentive to compete on the pricing.

Also even when there is competition there are rules that prevent you from lowering pricing in one store vs the other (there are some exceptions) so if you end up say selling a game on the PC and you set the retail price as $60 and you launch it on 3 different digital content distribution platforms while you might make more money on one platform than the other there is no difference for the end consumer so there isn’t an actual competitive incentive to reduce your cut as a digital distributor unless you think you can get an exclusivity deal.
It is a false comparison to put Disney land (owned by Disney) and iOS devices (owned by Apple customers) side by side.

We already had battles on this front, Microsoft had to offer competing browsers for some time at least in the EU. Manufacturing the platform ceases to afford dictatorship when the device reaches a large enough share of the population imo.
> And perhaps more pertinently, we (outside France) use French ones in other cases: SI, UTC.

UTC isn't French. It's also not English. It's a deliberate compromise between the obvious acronym for the English phrase (CUT) and that for the corresponding French (TUC).

Though to me it reads more as English, and specifically American and military, because “Universal Time, Coordinated” follows a common pattern in US military naming, when what would normally be the first leading adjective instead becomes a trailing modifier.
What is the market share of those?

Ideally measured two ways: in downloads and in dollars.
Yep, what I find surprising that despite plenty of advances in photogrammetry, 3D scanning and WebGL, I still have never have seen a single shopping site that actually shows me the real product (and the box) in high detail, preferably with proper scale and the ability to spin it around.

Apple had something like that a good 20+ years ago back when QuickTimeVR was hip, but I haven't seen something like that since.
I would read that memoir!
Ask HN: List of companies NOT using Agile methodologies?
Lets not get into discussion that "real" Agile (or Communism) hasn't been tried yet and so on... :)

Would be great to have a list of companies NOT using Agile/Scrum or any other forms of micro-management and commoditization of engineering. The list of engineer-friendly companies that is.
It's not. Most people want kids. Put a 500% tax on China imports and the economy will become sane again, allowing people of every "class" to breath.