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> If Russia (or China) becomes militarily superior to America I would consider that the end of the free world as we know it.

Of course you do! You don't believe that MAD works!

But you are avoiding answering my question. What would you do in the scenario I drafted? Would you attack first?

> Again you believe that America's and other countries' nuclear capability is essentially the same and nuclear war means total destruction for everybody. I don't believe that.

Among the permanent security council members, it is essentially the same. The UK's tiny arsenal could trivially kill ~200 million Americans, give or take some. Russia's is fifty times its size.

What evidence, besides your belief do you have, for the United States not losing more than three quarters of its civilian population, if attacked by six thousand nuclear weapons?

> I think Russia wouldn't dare because they would simply lose.

No, everybody would lose. The reason they haven't done anything is because it is not an inflection point. Localized missile defenses that will stop a small fraction of a small fraction of potential attacks are not an inflection point that breaks MAD. They are something to complain about, not something to go to war over.

But just because cutting off 5% of your air supply doesn't result in serious problems for you, cutting it off again, and again, and again, and again will eventually reach a critical inflection point.

> If you look at the history of Soviet propaganda with regards to nuclear, they often promoted these ideas of total destruction. Say back in the day they promoted the (now mostly discredited) concept of "nuclear winter". Russia actively wants Western fear and disarmament because that's the only way they can be "strong".

Just because the reds said it, doesn't mean they were wrong.
The "jewish lobby" aren't the only people who detest the KKK terrorist hate group.
> if Apple's control of the App Store platform constitutes a monopoly,

But it's not a monopoly. The vast majority of the "app store" ecosystem is the Play Store. Apple's "App Store" is a minority player.

Otherwise you could arbitrarily divide any platform recursively until something is a monopoly in need of getting regulated.
> Rather, it should be work that serves others and gives you a sense of personal meaning.

Way to finish the article with a tautology. "To find meaning, do something meaningful." Sage advice.

Looks like I'm very bitter that the author suggests happiness as the alternative. Brainwashing ourselves into permanent happiness is clearly not something we'd want.

> As I once found myself confessing to a close friend, “I would prefer to be special than happy.” He asked why. “Anyone can do the things it takes to be happy—going on vacation with family, relaxing with friends … but not everyone can accomplish great things.” My friend scoffed at this...

I had a similar exchange with a friend. I wish the author said more.
That's fine, but why it has to be only app store? why not let other App Stores compete on the same platform, and let the user choose, as we do with browsers ?
As it should be. In aggregate it makes total sense. The distillation to a single user's streams is a distraction from the critique having no merit.
If the apps become more expensive then people will stop buying them from the App Store and seeing people are not willing to pay for more expensive apps developers would probably stop developing for iOS which in the end would cause users to abandon the platform seeing as they cannot get the apps they need.

If apps being more expensive is really the only problem then it seems like the problem fixes itself.
Well, you should hope that your country doesn't turn into a authoritarian regime. Cause then you'll be unable to use VPN or any kind of encrypted chats - only those that give access to comrade Major from the secret police.

If you think I'm overblowing things, try finding Signal in China's AppStore.
This is backwards. The “proper way” is to start with the right intuition, and then work out the bookkeeping and the generalizations and interconnections afterward. My version can be explained to 12-year-olds, and your version doesn’t really make sense until grad school. (Anything starting from “real numbers” and “algebraic closure” and “field extensions” is pedagogically horrendous, and calling that version “simple” has to be some kind of sick joke.)

All of the “abstract generality” is contained within the original idea of ratios of planar vectors, and this idea can be explored to whatever depth someone likes.

> (Same with groups vs. linear maps vs. matrices.)

I don’t know where you are going with this, but groups and linear maps are different concepts.

Linear transformations (and other kinds of transformations) should be studied geometrically long before anyone learns about matrices (and anyway, the matrix version involves the arbitrary choice of coordinate system). The basic ideas are plenty accessible to children.

In a similar way, symmetries of 2- and 3-dimensional shapes, patterns, tilings, arithmetic, etc. should be explored in detail before someone ever sees the definition of a group.
Err, is “industry” of all things what society is supposed to optimize for? That just seems like a shitty conception of both the point of industry and governance itself.

In any case if you think commodities industries are working healthily I really have to disagree. Most products are unnecessarily expensive crap. We have little consumer choice in most markets critical to people’s health and livelihood and no way to incentivize improvements.
Sorry I was incorporating information from another HN linked article: https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-county/tampa-teen-acc...

It’s much clearer as to what’s happening at the state level.

It’s also clearer that, for now anyway, he’s being held near his family.
I can fully agree with that.

But that does not make abusive situation matter of victims mindset, it is still matter of acts of the one who is doing it.

And when non narcissist acts abusive or have such habits, the very same person acting differently with different people makes no difference. You still have to solve the abusive situation you are in, nit the mutual misunderstanding nor things "spiralling out of control of no one's fault".
Ask HN: Why are phone trees and call waiting still horrible in 2020?
Yes. This feels quite slow for me too. The option to customize the speed would great!
I resisted getting an iPhone for a long time. But I bought my first one last month. I have to say I like it a lot. Very polished.
No shovels. Mattock. You don’t want to cut the roots, you want to get them all. For bad infestations: broadfork.
I don't have examples, but it seems to me you really hear a lot of teens pulling off successful social engineering attacks, even back to the days of phone-hacking. I guess that is evidence that some teens develop a fairly comprehensive understanding of social interaction.
What I said was "not reversible by legal authority". That's true for both gold coins and bitcoin if the legal authority don't have them to give.

I'm not saying bitcoin is less accountable and giving 6000$ in gold coins to a stranger promising to double them would only be slightly more responsible since then you'd at least know a physical jurisdiction.

What I'm saying is that when bitcoin X leaves wallet Y to wallet Z the only way to get back X into Y is for the holder of Z to willingly give it, while "normal" digital transactions can be reversed by the transactor or by law. So if you want a transaction to be reversible by law you probably don't want it in bitcoin. Please let me know if I'm wrong.
The local cinema has an exclusive right on selling popcorn within its own walls. Far from being the only game in town, this cinema represents only 25% of the market and thus does not qualify for the Sherman Act definition of "monopoly". Punters, however, believe that once they enter the establishment they are now in the clutches of the monopoly, and so demand competing popcorn stands and reject the suggestion of walking over to the competing theater.

Sorry folks, that's not how Sherman Act works. So long as there are enough movie theaters in town it's not a "monopoly", and a non-existent monopoly cannot be abused.

The US congress could, of course, rewrite the law (as they did to pass the Sherman Act in the first place), but until such day Apple is not a monopoly in the US.
As an app developer, what bothers me is not so much the fact that you have to pay the 30% when going through the app store it's the fact that you cannot even mention the Android Play store AT ALL. Also I don't like that they completely force app developers to use IAP instead of supporting other purchasing flows (without Apple's cut)
> This is virtually indistinguishable from a protection racket: It is a fee that developers must pay if they want to stay in business. And it is a fee which ultimately harms consumers because these fees are indirectly passed on to users, either through higher prices, or through fewer competing products in the marketplace.

I guess this would be great, if it were true. There are over two million competing apps in the market [1], and the vast majority are priced ridiculously competitively at less than a dollar each [2]. That's the average cost, not the median, which would be significantly lower.

I'm sure proton isn't happy about this, but considering the ridiculously high salaries app developers are able to command [3] but the market doesn't seem to agree with their assessment.

Now, this may be more true about app companies, but the numbers there tell a different story. Based on this analysis [4], the thing killing them isn't the developer fees, its that its ridiculously hard to make any sort of living if your only product is a phone app. The majority of apps simply make no money at all. Adding 30% to 0 doesn't do much for anyone.

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263795/number-of-availab...

[2]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/267346/average-apple-app...

[3]: https://www.businessofapps.com/app-developers/research/ios-a...

[4]: https://medium.com/@sm_app_intel/a-bunch-of-average-app-reve...
I’m skeptical that will work, but Son was dumb enough to pay $31B with no strategic value.

At the time I thought Son had clever telco synergies in mind, but I gave him far too much credit
Maybe, though to be fair Microsoft is far from being a newcomer to the gaming scene. Even before the Xbox, they were putting their name on games.
Your account was created hours ago and solely replies to this article ... I just felt it important for this to be pointed out. You don't seem to be involved in reasonable discussion on this forum, just defending the monopolists in this one article.
the comet in edinburgh was argos-like warehouse, you saw one of each thing on shelves and asked grey men behind a dull counter to fetch the box.
Suppose you make the argument that developers, not consumers, pay for the dev kits, language, development, improvement, apis of the os. 30% might appropriately reflect the amount of work in an app that is apples work.

30% of subscriptions on the other hand might not.
Thanks. I read Via a C-like language to mean their language compiles to a non-standard language resembling C, but as you say, they mean they defined a novel language that resembles C, and it compiles down to standard C (specifically, the C subset named ClightTSO suitable for use with the CompCertTSO compiler).

Nowhere in Armada's overview [0] is it stated that the ultimate goal is to produce verified C code.

I've heard of CompCert. Pity it hasn't got more traction. Also a pity about its licensing situation. The Free and Open Source community is not interested in semi-Free software. The DMD compiler showed us this.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/Armada
You are also strip mining one biome to try to save another.
Many apps, if not a large majority, would start doing this. That destroys the convenience and user experience. If every app does this there isn't any consumer choice about it.
Some of the arguments here reminds me of "Unauthorized Bread" (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...) where, take a fridge. Why would any fridge be allowed to not accept certain brands of milk? But, it is the manufacturer's product and right to do so right?
>Everything you listen to, unless you are willing to listen to raw demos, is a miracle.

I'm more than willing to listen to raw demos, even a single guy with a guitar or a synth and a drum machine.

Instead we get over-produced turds...
Diners Club, although they're a very small player. Some corporate cards as well, I believe. Possibly some of the niche cards targeted at people with very bad credit act this way as well.

Basically the very large majority of consumers won't see a charge card besides AmEx.
Only with certain kinds of music. Dance and club music has always kind of been like that. The whole culture of that music is around singles and EPs. I think the thing is, that kind of music is the 'popular money making' music these days.

But even amongst that music, you can still find some albums, being produced as such, with the intention of it being an album. It's harder to find and I doubt it makes money through services like Spotify, but on places like bandcamp, or independent label storefronts you can find plenty of albums in a wide variety of genres.

The best thing we can do is support those artists and keep buying that music if that's what we want. As long as there's a market for it, it can keep existing despite Spotify.
I think you are confusing social democracy and communism[1]. I agree with you that people should be free to own property and become wealthy. However, I do not think it should come at the cost of removing social net for the less lucky.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy
These are called Abstract Data Types.
The 2020 iPhone SE is my first iPhone. I bought it when it first came out, and I’m very happy with it so far. Especially since I have a MacBook Pro laptop. Being able to text from my laptop is such a huge improvement.
They could have trimmed the first few seconds of that video.

I would also like to see a loop of the first 4.5 seconds.
Responsibility for yourself should not mean that you will now be like "maybe cheating was my fault or maybe I remember it wrong". It was not.

Responsibility for yourself also means that some things are not your doing. You and I are not Gods moving everyone else by our actions.
I think the right approach here would be to regulate the revenue cut Apple is allowed to take. Right now it's 30%.
The Variability Hypothesis means that the evolutionarily optimal strategy for males is to be very special (top few percent) within their competitor group. Since competitor groups have grown a lot since the evolutionary environment, it's not surprising to see this manifest in arguably pathological ways.
Your source of motivation is arbitrary. The point is that you had the talent and ability to achieve things, and this or that narrative inspired you to use it. fwiw, I'd imagine you also benefitted from the kindness of strangers and blind luck

If you have talent, use it to make the world better for yourself and others. What any given person thought years ago is completely irrelevant to any significant achievement you may have
> Originally, “Kirk” claimed to be a Twitter employee, according to a Discord chat log

So these guys were able to get into Twitter but they chatted freely on Discord without considering everything would be recorded?

And then they make one of the most public hacks in recent history without considering someone would go through all the logs with all the noise they made?
Sorry, but I don't understand the point.

No one is talking about taking away your choice of keep using the Apple appstore. It is ok to keep using Apple, if you prefer so. We wan't choices, we don't want to remove your choice.
I'm sorry that people dismiss the work it takes to make good art, that must be frustrating.

It's silly to compare the ease of making "working software" with a "hit record". Just like probably most of the music you worked on as a sound engineer, most "working software" made little money and got few customers, look at the long tail of apps that aren't hits in the iOS App Store, Google Play Store, etc.

Even comparing "financially successful software" to "financially successful music" makes no sense. Far more musicians have made six figures or more from a song that took tens of hours to make, than indie software developers have made six figures from an app that they only spent tens of hours on. Is that because music is easier? Yet far fewer technically competent musicians are able to make a living using those skills than technically competent software developers. Is that because music is harder?

It's almost like two things can require different talents, have different factors that go into their financial success, and still both be hard.
accomplice means they knowingly aided in the fraud or profited from it. Being caught off guard is not a crime. The culpability is the reputation damage from being hacked.
Migrate it to Azure.
It'll get renamed to TikTok 360 because of the downtime.
OneStore fee is 20%.
I'm curious what ways you think AMD GPUs are better? I can think of dozens of ways NVIDIA GPUs are better, struggling to think of any for AMD.
Past is to be learned from, no to live in and no ammount of revenge will bring you peace.
I am speaking of the usefulness of software in a much more general sense - does it work?

Adobe Photoshop and GIMP are two competing softwares for a specific task - editing photos. Not everyone needs to edit photos. Those who do are voting with their money, because Adobe Photoshop worked faster and more easily at the same task than GIMP. (This can change, with the recent subscription-model only Adobe is pushing that is irritating its core users, but that's a different topic)

Let's return to dance music. Let's say we create a category on spotify and call it - "does it make you dance"? Well, for a swath of youth, EDM makes them dance. But for a swath of Latin-speaking users, bachata music makes them dance. Let's say they are of equal number in the population. You can see here that even averaging based on the category of "does it make you dance" will produce some rather unfortunate results (a combination of half-EDM-half-bachata that will fail to tug at the heartstrings of anyone at all, but might be vaguely palatable vaguely dance-y playing in the background of a grocery store). However, this kind of music - the one that can vaguely capture both audiences - is exactly the one that will get the most people to listen to it, and based on Spotify's model of quantity over quality, it is the one that will get most rewarded.
I am using firefox as it happens but there's no reader view on offer for that site unfortunately
This is great! I think this would be quite cool as a chrome plugin (solves cross platform issue). You could also make the circle bigger every 20 mins or so to remind you to breathe and avoid distractions. Kindof like a pomodoro timer but where the break is breathing.
It's not just the top marginal tax rate. The full bracket has fallen across the board, not just on the top marginal income tax payer.

> A major source of short-term noise is the business cycle, where capital gains and corporate profits fluctuate much faster than GDP, and some automatic stabilizers decrease revenue.

Yes, which is why it's tough to suss anything out from the minor variations between consecutive years, and it makes a little more sense to look at a longer time horizon.
Yep ->

"That order marked the sixth time a U.S. president has either blocked a deal or ordered a corporate selloff since Congress authorized the power to intervene in 1988."

WSJ - https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-to-sign-order-demanding-c...

I don't know the details of the others, but one that comes to mind (and maybe is mentioned in the article?) is the blocked acquisition of Qualcomm by Broadcom.

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The circumstances around some of these may not be exactly the same, but the derivation of power comes from the same source.

Also who cares about the WTO? I don't see the WTO being involved when China forces majority-owned joint ventures or outright bans US companies from operating there. Why would a court be involved either? Bytedance is welcome to sue, I suppose, but Trump (in this case) has the power to issue this order. I guess if we don't like that since it's being used now, we should have Congress vote to take that power away from the current and future presidents.

I'm in favor of this move overall. Besides the toxicity of social networking in general, I just don't see a point in letting Chinese technology companies operate in the US unless it's strictly under favorable terms for us. If they don't like it, then I guess maybe they should let US companies operate freely in their country. This will increasingly end up happening and I say good. China will grow tech companies, and the US will force them to divest or not operate in the US once there is significant money at stake until China plays fair. If they don't want to, well, that's just no big deal. We're doing just fine.
Ask the author why... They'll tell you that these "music associations" are government enforced rackets that benefit the big artists alone. (No shocker here!)
"1995 was the year in which programmers stopped thinking about the quality of their programs"

Ok Boomer
Yes and they used the StrongARM by DEC (who later sold it to Intel as part of a lawsuit settlement)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM
It is and it isn't. Hacker News is anonymous until someone ties your username to your identity.
I think the article explained that reasonably well. One example is that they also make their own apps, so you potentially have to pay your competitor 30% of your income which is more than your own margins. And then they surface their own app and hide your's. Cannot compete against that.
It says there are only three requirements, but those three are not enough
> I am 100% in favor of the way run the app store

You want Apple to prohibit the apps you use from being allowed to tell you about alternative payment options?
Real science is based on the results of experiments, the parameters and results of which are publicized and available to be reproduced.

Questions and debate are good. They don't invalidate the findings of previous experiments. No amount of tweets, articles, or outrage are sufficient to invalidate a scientist's work, and being uncomfortable with the truths* presented does NOT make it ok to "cancel" someone.

Disagree with the findings? See if they're reproducible. Do another experiment. Do some real science. Proceed seeking whatever the truth is rather than evidence for a previously held opinion.

* remembering of course these "truths" are to certain confidences, being open to being proven wrong by future science, and that the whole point is seeking truth.
It's a lot easier to notice logical mistakes in already written text, than it is to avoid making them in the first place

For a human who does logical thinking, yes. But for a language model? I'm actually not sure, because it's possible that a sufficiently complex language model like GPT-3 does form some kind of general logical rules encoded in its weights somehow. This would be interesting to explore.

I actually have implemented it and it works quite reasonably.

Oh, so you are trying to design GPT-2 like a GAN, or at least move into that direction. Interesting. Yes, I don't see why not. What do you think about taking a step further, and actually making it a GAN, i.e propagating the error from discriminator into the encoder? I'm sure you're aware of multiple attempts to do this with smaller models, with mediocre results, but maybe GPT-3 scale is what needed to make it work?
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