skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fastest the trash is collected, the better for the society.

If society in the aggregate is spending twice as much (or whatever) fuel to get the recyclables to the recyclers, a few hours less time spent waiting in the bin is not some kind of win.

> The only angry people are the "legitimate" waste collectors who pay kickbacks to politicians to keep this monopoly alive.

Some percentage of the people who don't want randos going through their bins are certainly angry.
The bigger worry here is that the kids pass it to a parent since most cases in children are mild. A bad case of covid (not even talking about a fatal case) could have you out of commission unable to work for months. And then medical bills on top of that.
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I'm a coder. I say why not both?
A much smaller cut in a much more open market.
I'm a coder. Go for whisky while you code. Ballmer peak is real.
I wish there was more conversation happening about other countries who have already successfully put kids back at school.

That might give confidence to people in North America who feel uncertain about it.
> I am just so confused why some people are acting like kids are a different species when it comes to covid.

Well, it's not that surprising when you have a disease whose harm factor is a function of your age. The vast majority of covid deaths are the elderly. The tiniest minority of covid deaths are young children. Their ability to spread to adults is their biggest risk factor, not the disease itself.
I think I'd like Cloak for a secure messenger. Or Cape. I don't know, I find Element very generic.
Seems like they were prepared to do this all along
I Invented the iPhone in 1977
A 65 page lawsuit? How long was Epic planning this, and how did they manage to time it right after Apple's antitrust hearing?
I think the word you are looking for is oligopoly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly
Well you could view it as a net win for the consumer in that developers are getting more of a cut from sales, thus funding future development and patches for their games.
Almost like it was the plan all along. You don't write a 65 page legal filing in an hour.
That assumes there is no progress, convergent thought, or evolution in your field and its entirely static. As an expert you should want to figure out and identify new ways to explain or communicate your field - again - sitting static is never a good idea, in any industry, ever.

With that being said, google can recognize brands, influencers and leaders in a given industry - but if they dont actually explain their content or choose to do it in textbooks rather than online, why do you feel that their overly complicated expert opinion deserves to rank over some new site who tries to approach and explain the topic in a more simple way? Furthermore how can this unquestionable expert prove to a new user on their site they actually are an expert? Who cares if the other academics in a field look to this person as a leader, the general user needs to be convinced in a way that leverages experience, authority and trust.

You have to DESERVE to rank. It has always been that way. Yes there will be people who try and game the system, and that game will work for a set period of time, but not forever. They want to display the best content to the user. Just because someone is an expert does NOT mean they automatically have the best content or explain it in the most user friendly way. This has always been Google's M.O. and will be and is also how it should be.

EDIT: Content farm gibberish can outrank unoptimized better content - because its created specifically to game the system, and often those content farms spend more time building links or promoting the content. The bigger worry here is GPT3 and how that begins to erode the trust of content as a medium over time.
Seeing a translation of "(security) driver slayer".

https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1293948157618003969
Local law may vary but in most places in the US, once you put your trash on the curb, it effectively becomes public property. Anyone is allowed to take it and do what they want. This is one of the main sources of information for private investigators, for instance.

This is why I run _all_ of my paper documents through a shredder before throwing them away. I don't have any immoral behavior to hide but I also have zero control over where my bank statements and such end up once they leave the end of my driveway.
It has been like that for 10 years since the start of the Appstore.
The difference now is that these platforms are getting big enough that public opinion are starting to look at them as classical infrastructure / utilities. That’s why it needs to be regulated and I agree with that 100%.
But Apple is obviously just one example among thousands. Even Epic runs their own marketplace.
I imagine they had this drafted prior to Epic uploading the update that included direct payments.
Sure, but you’ve got to pass a law first.

Unless if you’re alleging that Apple is in breach of an existing law. If so, you should probably provide evidence for such an assertion.
Damn work has always been the easiest part in life, I mean as long as I can find one. And once I get a job I won't worry too much about bills.

But infection and school...I have no control over them. They control me, and definitely I'm going to be more worried about them. Same for kids and family.
But for non-tech users you have to mention an app they can install to message you. Then we're back to Element.
Apple is always doomed. So doomed they just released a $399 phone that’s faster than any android device ever made.

It’s not just the device, it’s the system and that includes software.
How so? If, over the long term, Epic wins this fight (e.g via an antitrust case) Apple would either allow sideloading, or reduce their cut. How is that not a benefit for small developers?
But nobody wants to deny you the choice of paying an extra 30% to get all that. What they want is the choice.
I think there is/was a penalty for that. You could report drivers for abandoning you through the app.
Building/buying a new tool for a job that a spreadsheet can do just as easily because of your hard rule on long-lived spreadsheets feels like a huge waste of company resources.

Your penny analogy is contrived because a penny isn't remotely close to working like a fuse and a mistake can be deadly. No one is going to die if you use a spreadsheet instead of Jira for project tracking.
It depends on each countries, even inside the Eurozone it can get complex, for one of the European countries it is:

(1) Money laundering means:

1) the concealment or disguise of the true nature, source, location, disposition, movement, right of ownership or other rights related to property derived from criminal activity or property obtained instead of such property;

or

2) the conversion, transfer, acquisition, possession or use of property derived from criminal activity or property obtained instead of such property for the purpose of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the property or of assisting a person who is involved in criminal activity to evade the legal consequences of his or her action

--

"the conversion, transfer, acquisition, possession or use of property derived from criminal activity" can be applied to a lot of situations.

Even a shop thief could be accused of money laundering.

Obviously it would be interesting to see how the judgment goes.

If there is any follow-up I'm very interested.
Automation man, it's going to take everyone's job
I remember when that first came out. I have not checked in on it in a while. Do you have any links to communities/reddits/etc working with that? (/r/haskell was very excited for a while, but then the energy went somewhere else, and I don't know where.)

One of the things I only alluded to in my third paragraph, but very much had this sort of thing in mind, is that it's going to take a lot of type work and a lot of thinking in properties (like Traversable, Functor, etc. in Haskell) to make this work out well, because a lot of these rewrites to underlying representation will have manifestations at the property level (this array is now Traversable but no longer RandomAccessible, etc.).
Sure, but they can pass it as easily as an adult can (saw a recent paper that said that children under 5 have higher viral loads than adults so they might actually be more infectious). There's a myth that kids can't pass it, but it's only a myth.
I'll defer to Epic's official court filings to make the argument for a monopoly for me. I'm not an expert on such topics, and it would be out of turn for me to speak more on it.

"Apple monopolizes the iOS App Distribution Market".

https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/apple-complaint-734589783.pdf
I like the spacecraft analogy! It’s hard to overstate how much more difficult it would be compared to “just building a tube”
For me, Telegram is almost perfect when it comes to usability. Gifs, stickers, being able to send videos (as opposed to WhatsApp), setting a background for chats, etc.
I don't see the problem here -- Epic adds their own payment option in addition to Apple's. I believe Apple could mandate that they always be allowed as an option like they do with sign-ons. If you only trust Apple and you want to pay 20-30% more for your purchases that can still be an option.
Has Google done anything yet? This is in violation of their guidelines as well from what I can tell. On the Google Play store only games must use the Play Store In App purchase system. Other types of apps can link to their own.
I feel like its only a matter of time until the EU pins something to Apple, if the US won't address this issue, the EU will.
their management and lawyers would have been pretty bad at their jobs if they didn't see the possibility of this happening and prepped for it.
> for some reason, when I go to sleep, I feel like I can hear everything 3x better than when I'm awake.

That's because you stopped making noise yourself. That masks a lot of environmental noise. Ditto of course for a chunk of your neighbors. So then your hearing adapts: it becomes more sensitive so you're more alert in case predators come and visit your cave.

That kept you safe in the stone age, today it will keep you awake at night from traffic.
Wow, 65 pages in less than an hour. I knew epic was productive, but this must be a new record.
It's strange that there are different hardware vendors, it's just that making your own software experience seems suicidal. Perhaps in an alternative reality, the US government would've invested in Firefox OS among other competing projects.
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What does consulting have to do with games?
Apple is about to get bitten hard for being a monopoly.

I hope the government considers the harshest punishment of all: splitting up Apple into hardware and software+services entities.

This is absurd that Apple has built a fiefdom on America's most popular generic computer device. It's a threat to freedom! We can only compute what the overlords allow and can tax? What a crock!

The fact that Apple thinks they can extort more protection money from developers than the government does in taxes is an affront. But the freedom aspect should have everyone out with their pitchforks.

This after Apple created an environment where its users, many of whom have lots of disposable income for buying goods and services, expect apps to be $0.99 and come with free updates for life. Meanwhile Apple's own products are luxury priced. And they still take 30%.

US Government, please force Apple to open up iPhone to any software we want to install. It's a generic computer. It's how we communicate, do banking, do basic shopping, dating, business ... everything. Apple can't be the gatekeepers of 21st century life. It's incredibly damaging to our ability to innovate and succeed as small business owners and entrepreneurs.

Apple, you are the tyrant king. Long have we suffered under your rule. We won't stand for it any longer and we demand our freedom.
"When you strike at a king, you must kill him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Then can't they handle Epic's payments that way instead of - presumably - taking a 30% cut?
This is tencent's move to counter the tiktok drama
>Even better than diesel filters is not using diesel at all

Of course that would be better but that's a hard and expensive problem and the 99% solution is easy and cheap. Seems like a pretty obvious choice to me.

>California with some of the strictest tailpipe emission standards still has huge smog problems.

A combination of bad geographic luck and diminishing returns (everyone else's emissions regulations have 90+% the same effect)

>I don't see the issue with highlighting the air quality co-benefits of fighting climate change.

If your goal is to stop coughing up a lung today then focusing on better batteries and cheaper green energy is wasted effort when you can directly solve the pollution problem more cheaply right now. Sure air quality is a nice side benefit to reducing C02 emissions but if your true goal is improved air quality then reducing CO2 emissions is a crap way to go about it because the two are only loosely correlated and the bang for your buck is so bad. If your goal is to win eyeballs to your site and get people who's understanding of the problems is on the level checkout-isle magazine to share your article then it is probably a good idea.
Brick-and-mortar stores provide useful services and have high costs. Neither applies to the Apple App Store in this case.
This could fly for iPad, the iPhone they can make a case it jeopardizes the reliability in contacting emergency services.

Overall this will go over most law makers heads because they are technically incompetent.
No, that's stupid. I couldn't build Discord. My point is that as relative problems go, I don't see Discord as a big one. I might be wrong but as far as I can tell it's a solved problem and has been for over a decade. I'd wager you could build it with an incompetent team that had domain expertise.

AWS is orders of magnitude more complicated than Discord. Frankly, so is World of Warcraft.

What does Discord do that wasn't solved in 2005?
As a PM, I have no interest in sub tasks. I’ve got enough to do to track at an Epic and Feature/story level. If a dev team wants to use sub tasks to track their process, go for it. If not, I don’t care.
They didn’t suddenly intentionally break App Store policies without a strategy. They think they sense blood in the water, that somehow Apple will be legally and/or politically vulnerable. They’re probably angling for a deal at the negotiating table, but they’re most likely prepared to go to trial and fight for a W, and even if they earn an L, try to use it to some kind of political advantage after the transition of power next year.

EDIT: I just checked my email, actually forgot that I once played a couple games of Fortnite and signed up, wasn’t my thing, and there’s a pretty big PR component to it as well advertising permanently discounted prices on quoting from the email. “PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, PC and Mac, and on mobile when using select payment methods.“

It also pointed me to this blog post[1] that already has an update at the top about Apple blocking “your” access complete with hashtag campaign and activist-style messaging. They’re going whole hog here, there’s nothing half hearted about this. I don’t have a horse in this race, but I respect the planning and the balls.

[1] https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/the-fortnite-m...
I mean, they had full control over when to release their update…
Going after Apple for antitrust violations has a big hill to climb in the form of the Google Play Store.

More than that, a ruling against Apple here would have huge implications for any company running an app store on their device. Smart TV manufacturers, companies like Roku, Automobile manufacturers, etc... If you can be considered a monopolist because you control your platform then there will be a LOT of monopolies out there.

I'm not expecting Epic to get any real traction on this suit. The best they can hope for is Apple working out some system where they'll reduce their cut in certain circumstances, but given how unlikely this case is to go anywhere I don't think Apple is feeling any pressure.
Yup! I’m equally worried about my kids and bringing home the bacon because my travel industry employer is going out of business and I still haven’t found a new job.
Game console to General computing device isn't exactly apples to apples. But yes, It'd be great if users could install unsigned apps on all the devices they own.
Continuing this thread.

My buddy Greg Isenberg constantly is talking about the unbundling of Reddit and honestly he is on to something. [1]

As Reddit continues to unbundle, how can we shape these into curation engines so at least our algos can get some usable data out of communities instead of them being an endless popularity contest.

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[1] https://latecheckout.substack.com/p/the-guide-to-unbundling-...
I first heard about this as a kid in 1999. I didn't even have internet back then (only got it in year 2000), and my country had just been bombed by NATO (your regular bombing campaign sprinkled with bombing civilians, as is tradition) and was lead by Slobodan fucking Milošević (a colossal piece of shit), so all kinds of conspiracies were flying around, everything was disinformation, and I didn't put much weight on this story even though my parents discussed it with friends several times during the next decade, which is why I remember it.

My parents' friend who had lived in New Zealand for a decade at that point came to the country to bury his father and was over at our house for dinner. He's an electrical engineer and used to work for a telco in New Zealand. He had heard about this ECHELON thing from multiple colleagues and found it plausible enough to talk about. He was told that all internet and phone traffic was being recorded realtime. Mind you, this was pre-9/11, so no 'terrorist threats'. The world ran on shitty computers and expensive storage and voice in any form (even compressed telephony) was considered bulky at the time. And this is 15 years prior to the machine learning boom, voice transcription was really bad, I still doubt it was used at that point, even though he mentioned it.

But he had witnessed an expansion of fiber and datacenter capacity sometime in 1997-99 and it seemed plausible to him (a real serious and professional guy).

Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be true. I mean, the story slowly became less and less far fetched over the following decade, but was still a total surprise when Snowden blew the whistle.
It's all about risk. Humans are terrible at understanding probability. There must be a threshold where it becomes ok to take on the risk (e.g. driving a car everyday for most Americans). So where is that threshold?

Another way to think about it is, what do we do if we learn that the pandemic will not end for the next 10 years? What activities do we allow and under what new mode of operation / conditions?

It might be the case that opening schools for younger ages with 2 shifts to reduce density (2 weeks in person, 2 weeks from home) could have an acceptable risk profile.
Shall I send you some to use as seasoning on food that doesn't have it yet? No? Then I think you have your answer.
Looks like this was the plan all long. Now to see whether or not the risk of implementing their own payments system for V-Bucks is worth the potential revenue loss they will incur with the app being removed from the store.
Of course they were. They knew exactly what Apple would do because Apple has never been shy about telling developers what will happen when they do stuff like this.
Expedia is a perfect example because they're doing in essence the same thing that Uber and Lyft are doing: reselling transportation services. When you book an Uber what you're doing is informing Uber that you want to go from point a to point b. The Uber finds a third party willing to fulfill that task, and resells this service to the customer at a markup. It's exactly the same thing Expedia does, only in real time.

> UberLyft don't sell services provided by third parties, they sell a service (transportation or food delivery), and it happens to be performed by third parties on UberLyft's behalf.

Which is exactly why the drivers are contractors. You seem to understand that the drivers are third parties, yet are fixated on irrelevant things like revenue from bookings to try and distract from this fact. That Uber treats all of the money paid by the passengers as revenue does not alter the fact that it's drivers are contractors that set their own hours and can drive for competing services.
This is a highly technical forum so I really think all of the "Apple is within their rights to determine what software users can run" folks should think about how they would feel if Windows could only run software that Microsoft publishes. Are you okay with that? Does the fact that Linux exists make this okay? It sounds like the answer from a lot of people is "Yes, of course" which baffles me.

It doesn't take much imagination to see how different the world would be if a single corporation decided what software was allowed to be used by society. Anything that is the least bit controversial wouldn't exist. Napster, Torrents, Emulators etc are obvious and people would no doubt argue they shouldn't exist anyway, but I imagine even web browsers themselves (Apple already doesn't allow them on iOS), networking tools like IPFS, game streaming services (also banned by Apple), etc just wouldn't exist in that world. I could go on with examples but that's the point, there's a LOT of creativity and complexity out there and it's impossible for a single gatekeeper to do a good job of deciding what has a right to exist.
It's a great move. The industry needs a new platform hero since Valve seem completely distracted by VR.
A little "speculative execution" here by Epic.

They anticipated Apple's action would be to ban them, and they prepared a lawsuit and PR campaign in anticipation.
> On the other hand drones can be used as an effective anti-poaching deterrent.

Done right, drone hunting could be a great sport and could have plenty of attractions over hunting animals.
If all those oranges were worth 30%, why would Epic bother with their own payment system?
There's a scene in Robert Heinlein's Number of the Beast where his self-similar author character, Jubal Harshaw, dictates the first line of a story to a secretary, who happens to be an AI. While he's having a conversation, she finishes the story -- in his voice.

Heinlein can't be the only author to have that dream. Sudowrite seems like a step toward fulfilling it.
I'd imagine Epic sitting down with 65 lawyers all tasked to draft a single page, which is then compiled into a legal doc
> some people are acting like kids are a different species when it comes to covid

I mean, that point of view was literally expressed in a public forum by the president of the United States. It must carry weight in some circles at least.
You're missing the point here. Regardless of the causes of the decline, there are invariably things you can do to improve your content or just generally change your approach.
> get your manager to do their job better

"This arrogant engineer I manage just told me how to do my job better! I've already assigned them 14 story points in JIRA, what more do they want me to do?"
And also, they weigh much less.
Those countries have been more successful overall in limiting the spread of covid. In the US it's pretty much out of control in many areas. You can send kids back to school if community spread is limited and you can do effective contact tracing - but neither of those things is true in the US.
Having been away from development tools for fintechs for a while I went back to my trusted Jira tool to find it incomprehensible. I also tried & quickly hated Teams & even current Slack.
My new go-to tool that anyone in our org or from partners can use immediately is AirSend.io.