skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consumers have the choice, but developers don't. Its been proven countless times over the years that Android users are much less likely to pay for applications than iOS users.

As a developer, if you want to survive and make money from your application, you need to be on iOS, as Android is worthless in this regard.

And so, Apple gets 30% of your in app purchase revenue, while providing little value other than being a payment processor, for which the normal charge is less than 2.5%.
The fault isn't SquashFS itself but the compression they use. They use an old compression algorithm by default to support older kernels. They are working on optionally enabling quicker compression on distros that support it though.

See this for more info: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/squashfs-performance-effect-on-...
Your statement seems inaccurate.

Doesn't the Sony Playstation, or Microsoft's Xbox get to control how they operate?

Don't movie theaters get to decide which movies are shown/not?

Don't service providers like a nail salon or grocery store get to deny service? Other than for "protected categories" like sex, race, religion. e.g. "No shirt, no shoes, no service".
> If Epic wants more money, maybe they should negotiate a smaller cut.

You are currently watching them attempt to do that, after previous, less extreme, attempts have failed.
Same laptop, different CPUs, Ryzen is faster, has better battery and cheaper
So the next IT revolution is turning kids against one of the biggest corporation in the world? Sounds good to me.
I was born in Iran and live in the Netherlands.

Although I want good content, wherever the authors and their ancestors might be from, I can't help but feel a bit refreshed to see people from all over the world and all walks of life end up in the top of HN.
Some of us have been buying apps in the app store long before Android existed. It's not easy to throw those apps I've used for over a decade away, just for "choice."

Obviously, if I could take my app licenses with me, there would be an argument that I had a choice. Being that I can't, there's just an illusion of choice.
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The mainstream view in America has been that political liberalization necessarily means "one person one vote democracy". Most can see China's economic progress, but early on there was hope that economic progress would lead to social reforms too.

Speaking of people not being able to see it...

Lee Kwan Yew gave a pretty fantastic speech to journalists where he basically covered, from first principles, why his country had different laws around freedom of press and how other channels of accountability exist in Singapore to compensate. Then the journalists proceed to ask pretty dumb questions framed as "singapore is a dictatorship because it has no free press".

https://www.c-span.org/video/?2217-1/world-perspective-press
Because that's how competitive markets work? Lower costs for suppliers (developers) means lower equilibrium market prices.

If some developer can "get away" with not lowering their prices in response to reduced costs, it means they could have "gotten away" with charging a higher price in the first place. So why aren't they charging a higher price now? Probably because they can't actually "get away" with it, i.e. they would lose more volume to make the increase in price unprofitable.

Most consumer software has tons of competition, almost nothing is so unique that consumers wouldn't respond to relative price changes.
Gave up completely? Well, that sucks if true. Plenty of awesome Linux games on Steam. Got any links?
Data on euromomo for 0 - 14 shows that excess mortality this year is indistinguishable from other years.

At this link, check out the euromomo section:

https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid

The charts above clearly show the effect on 14+ due to covid this year.

If you scroll down further, you can select 0-14 in the country-by-country data.

What you'll see there is that Sweden looks the same as all of the other countries for 0-14, and they did not close their schools for those ages.

EDIT: what's with the downvotes for showing data?
The Apple fees must be in the order of a million dollar every couple days for Epic Games.

Expect a full-on battle of the same magnitude. It is well worth it.
There is far too much “survey says!” in the place of news.

I can’t quantify my emotions and share their weight distribution. Anybody writing an article like this has already written the entire thing before doing any of the questioning, and it’s stupidly easy to get a survey result by asking the right question.
Remarkable that TikTok is still available on the App Store, despite the risk it poses to national security. I guess Apple and China sleeping together is truly a case of friends with benefits. Maybe Epic Games should please Apple more often?
Unreal Engine costs less and it's not mandatory to use it in order to make games.
If fortnite had an alternative payment method that wasn't exposed in the iOS app (e.g. only on the web, but you would buy credits that you could use in the app) then I don't see how Apple would have a leg to stand on.
Give me a better choice and I’ll go buy it right now if it actually works.

Anything requiring a single android component goes in the “doesn’t actually work” category.
The US is the only major market really lacking in this space. Asia and Europe already have a bunch of competitors in the "city car" space with a lot more on the drawing board. Almost none of those companies believe the US is interested in "city cars", if they have a US presence at all.

The American (genital) size contest for SUVs and Trucks has sucked a lot of oxygen out of what is a much more interesting variety in EV production for Asia and the EU.
More than that. They had all this (the vid, the lawsuit, the social media campaign to mobilise their fans) ready to go, and baited Apple into kicking them off the App Store.
>blogspammer loses free clicks

Oh wow, what a shame! This just isn't fair. Who will produce content if people can't get impressions?
Lesser of two evils. If anything this lawsuit should be both at both, Apple and Google. Both cripple your devices and both dump you in their walled garden.

All applications should be universal as the same for game services like xbox live, psn and so.
Not at all!

I thought I'd just give some interesting background info and not so subtly ask people to contribute to the project :D
Derek Lowe has now covered it: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/08/13/na...

Single-domain antibodies have been around for a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-domain_antibody
I think all it really does is that it highlights the difference between those who have children and those who do not. As a parent, I couldn't care less about the monetary impact of COVID-19 beyond the basics to survive and the years have taught us to be very frugal when we need to be.

Meanwhile, the thought of sending my kids back to school in two weeks has me sleepless (again). We have already seen different evidence surface in the last month or so but zero adjustment to the school plans. As much as I would like to approach this all in a dispassionate and rational way the parent 'module' in me tells me in no uncertain terms that I'm doing something irresponsible by not standing up for them more forcefully and trusting the experts on this.
People put a lot of weight into early proprietary models that turned out to be absolute garbage.

> But given that asymptomatic adults might have long term negative effects

Unfortunately, there's no control for these assumptions. People are exposed to all sorts of things over their lifetime. Not everyone produces antibodies, so there will be no definitive way to link any person having an infection and any long term effects. Need to establish the risk compared to existing baseline.

So far, deaths are down for the year, so everyone's switched to 'unknown long term effects.'
I don't think you analogy is well thought out.

It's more like giving them the confidence to jump by telling them that other people have successfully jumped.

Perhaps the jumper does not have the ideal mindset, but it's better to inform them that it is possible rather than keeping them in the dark, acting as if no one has ever successfully jumped before.
1. Covid

2. That's also being fucked with.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/12/report...

https://www.governing.com/topics/politics/sl-polling-place-c...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-locations/so...
TOS can't violate laws though. A contract that is in violation of the law isn't enforceable. Epic is looking for a judgement to make it illegal.
Probably about as long as they were working on their legal documents. This is literally something that I would expect to see on an episode of Suits not in real life.
The basic idea is good, but isn’t a commit message the best place for this? That will ensure that people will find it when looking through source control history to understand some code, but equally importantly, they won’t find it on its own and be unsure whether it’s still relevant.

When it’s part of the git history, the history itself tells you whether those changes stuck around or were superseded.

Checking the original post to make sure I’m not just repeating it, I don’t think I am -- it links to https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/architecture_decision... which proposes a whole bunch of acronyms (ADL, ADR, AKS, ASR) but doesn’t offer an opinion on where they should be stored! This is bureaucracy for bureaucracy’s sake, missing the wood for the trees.

Edit to add: I’m not quite right, it does offer an opinion; it suggests text files in an “adr” directory. For the reasons outlined above I think this is both more and less than you need. (Maybe there should be an ADR for the location of the ADR directory...?)

TL;DR: we don’t need a whole new set of complex workflows for this, we just need good commit messages.
Evidently customers DO care. Or are you suggesting that the bulk of those customers paid $9.99 for the same items that they could have paid $7.99 for - inside the same app - just to thank Apple for their 'peace of mind'??

Epic gave the customer a choice. If the evidence doesn't show that the majority of customers still chose the $9.99 option, that's certainly bolstering their claim that Apple's decision to remove the ability to do so is harmful to consumers, not (just) developers.
Exactly my first thought.

Happy user of PugSQL here. I just wish there was a VSCode extension for autocompletion.
To clarify, I wrote "factor OR three", by which I meant to emphasize my complete lack of certainty regarding the "best possible" performance you asked about. I'll only commit to my earlier statement about the definite irrelevance below 100 people.
Plagues of field mice decimating crops, say German farmers
What do you think those filters and extras that a few car companies were caught software cheating around are meant to do?
But then at some point you reach loss of efficiency which means burning more fuel and producing more other pollution.

The big problem is prevalence of old cars or ones in disrepair.

Then of course coal and oil plants, secondary gas plants; and of course industrial pollution from manufacturing.
> The area to cover with renewables to power just a single smelter is huge.

That would be an issue only if that prevented the land from being used for other things. Wind power generation doesn't prevent farming on the land or prevent fishing on the ocean. Solar can be deployed on rooftops or parking lots. Solar developments often support grazing animals underneath the solar panels.
Yeah but this is as if you bought an AOL computer that did nothing but AOL. And AOL had absolute authority on what you could do on your computer.

I know, I know, people who bought iPhones knew what they were buying into.
Please consider the long-term implications here. We don't get to choose whether economic damage happens - it's already happened and will continue. People who are scared are not going to go out unnecessarily, and even if that's only 30-40% of consumers it'll have a massively negative effect on the economy.

We have only one thing we can do to get the economy back on the rails: bring the case count down. The longer we let this go without properly managing it, the harder it is to bring the case count down. The longer the case count is too high for reasonable, cautious people who care about their parents and grandparents' survival and their long term lung health to participate significantly in the economy, the more damage the economy will sustain.

If you want businesses to be opening up now, you should've demanded for them to close 6 months ago. If you want schools to open, you should've been demanding that everyone wear a mask 6 months ago.

At this stage of the pandemic, people who selfishly refused to do their part for their fellow citizens are entirely to blame for the continued necessity of mask requirements and schools closing.
Just to give you one possible side effect: sterility. There are plenty of viruses that when caught as a child do not give much in terms of symptoms but will make you sterile for life. That's not something that will come out in the next two months.
I also use to watch that! was my favorite part of the week when I was like 10... wonder where one could find the episodes, would be cool to watch them now and reflect on how things turned out.
I guess this is the first time a legal matter goes as quick as on the show Suits.
Unfortunately I don’t use GNU/Linux on the go enough to give you a good answer. Surf specifically is probably not good for battery life and now I realize I probably shouldn't have brought it up in this context, because it spawns a separate process per window/tab — it’s noticeably slower than any other browser I’ve used. But GNOME Web/Epiphany though does seem lighter than FF from my limited use of it, worth testing. Personally I use Palemoon as a FF alternative without the shakeups and because the Pentadactyl (fork of Vimperator) extension is beautiful, but I can’t vouch for it’s efficiency.
A decade ago, yet another company (the upstart doubleTwist) dared to challenge Apple's control of their platform by advocating for a secondary content store:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdVzboF2E2Q

Story:

https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/29/doubletwist-remakes-apples...

HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=851088

History repeats, and rhymes.
Who specifically is being disincentivized?
> You can have subscriptions to non-Sony services, and Sony doesn't see a dime

Hmmm -- not to stretch the analogy too thin, but is this similar to Apple though, where they allow you to sign in to subscription services (e.g. Netflix) with your existing account to the service, but don't allow sign ups (which would trigger payment processing)? Or is payment processing baked in there as well?

> For PlayStation you pay the Sony tax for the convenience of integrating with their payment services, not because they'll ban you for using anything else.

To clarify, has any developer integrated external payment services within a Playstation game / app / etc? From all the games and apps I've played with, I never remember any other payment system built in other than Sony's.

> It's also a super different situation in general; for example, Sony actually often pays developers to develop for their store ...

Blackberry did the same thing near the end of it's life -- I was at a hackathon where they were giving away Blackberries and cash to anyone who developed a Blackberry app -- but does not giving back really reflect as monopolistic?
About 1% of detected cases in children require hospitalization. That number of course does not account for undiagnosed, subclinical, and fully asymptomatic cases in children.

Compared to the flu, just looking at the proportion of children who are diagnosed positive cases, children would be about equally as likely to require hospitalization, but this likely overstates the hospitalization risk of COVID.

In terms of death rates, flu is significantly more deadly (at least 10x more deadly) in children 0-14, and about equally as deadly for ages 15-24. [1]

[1] - https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/07/14/coronavirus-covid-death...
The complaint was that Canonical was trying to make itself a gatekeeper, not some vague "innovate in their own way".
You don't know that unless you know what the legal costs are, their odds of winning the suit, the lost $$ and opportunity cost due to no sales on iOS, the revenue loss from their 20% discount on V-Bucks, etc.
It has been well established for almost a hundred years now, that anti-competitive behavior is illegal, and will be prosecuted against.
Kinda lame they used the punchline in the original tweet, even before the reveal.

Two billion dollar companies fighting over percentages = big brother in 2020.
Ridley Scott directed too!
Ah, stop with the buzz words
are you talking about the demographic of "people who play video games"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euiSHuaw6Q4

Direct link

Ah, there's an HN discussion already; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24148204
I don't know if the term 'baiting' can be applied to flagrantly violating TOS.
I've heard this exact response in interviews--we want to know if we're 'in the ballpark' so we don't 'waste time', which is another way of saying either 'this is our budget' or ' we don't want to pay more than this'. Everything I said still applies to how I'd respond.
The US implemented essentially an entire year of forbearance on federally backed mortgages (6 months automatically, and another 6 months for filing a form with no documentation). Remaining local eviction moratoriums will expire in the next few months, although court backlogs will probably provide an additional time buffer. There are still more initial unemployment claims than there were at the peak of the 2008 financial crisis. The $2400 per month unemployment subsidy has just expired and won't be fully replaced. In other words, the economic and social fallout has barely begun. Overdose deaths are already up 50% from last year in many places.
Zoomers are no the ones selling essential oil. You're a few generations off there.
> Whether you like to admit it or not, the economy is vitally important to our health, life expectancy, and quality of living. You can be worried about both COVID and the economy.

We have the technology to revive an economy - remember, we're on an all time stock rally & going higher.

At least from the NZ example (or Canada), it is clear that a war footing on the pandemic does bring back demand - the supply is easier to revive.

The economy is made of people, even if the entire supply side is automated.

Though if you automate both sides, you can end up with a two-body simulation of a high GDP economy[1].

[1] - https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-01-14
Justice Department Finds Yale Discriminated Based on Race in UndergradAdmissions
It may go down that way or not. It is unwise to predict the outcomes of lawsuits of this magnitude. Epic is no small insignificant company with a public defender. Also this suit is probably more of a signal that they mean to have a fight. Epic is not without significant extrajudicial leverage in this situation.
>Nobody seems to care much about the ordinary flu, though lots still die from it

Not anywhere near as many as are dying from Covid.
I cancelled something the other day - got an email saying it was up for renewal in 90 days or thereabouts with a link to the subscription page and a set of options where "cancel" was afforded the same screen real estate as the continue options. Not entirely onerous, I think, two clicks?

But ok, you might want to cancel before you get the reminder email. Settings -> Your Name/Avatar -> Subscriptions -> Pick the app -> Big red "Cancel Subscription" button.

But ok, ok, you might not know that they're under your avatar which is fair, it's not entirely intuitive. Settings -> Search -> "sub" -> Subscriptions is the first result -> Pick the app -> Big red "Cancel Subscription" button.

But ok, ok, ok, you don't have your iOS device to hand. macOS Settings -> Apple ID -> Subscriptions: Manage... -> Edit the subscription (this is broken on the Big Sur beta, mind.)

If you don't have your iOS device(s) to hand, nor do you have a Mac handy, then I concede it's going to be a bit faff - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211011
It was never mentioned in the complaint, but I thought Apple also had a policy that required in-app purchases to be priced the same or lower than prices offered outside the store...

I found an article from 2011 saying they tried to do this but backed away. Are apps allowed to price, say subscriptions, higher on iOS than on the web? And if they aren't allowed to advertise the lower price on the web, isn't that anti-competitive, forcing iOS uses to pay more?
I'm guessing the crux of the argument will be that the ToS are illegal in this respect?
My kids are going back to college in a couple days. They're adults! They're sharing an apartment this semester! And I'm a wreck. It's hard for me to fathom how this story is even news. What would be shocking is if the numbers had come in any closer between infection and work.
Oh of course performance matters. But privacy? Atlassian's privacy policy is even worse.
> If this is the way to treat with life, how would you be still alive?

I'm confused as to why you're taking my observation about a novel deadly disease as advice to live the rest of your life by.
They cannot on iOS and they stopped doing that on Android.
I can't put my finger on its validity, but it all resonates the same to me:

- Listening to billionaires arguing with each other about what society should be for the benefit of all since this recession started

&

- Trillions and billions of dollar companies battling it out as if they were the underdog in the public arena for the sympathy of us mere wage earners.

The pervading sense I think from Left to Right is the system is rotten and we're mere spectators being told to root for one unfathomably rich entity vs another unfathomably rich entity. You can almost understand the anarchist, burn it all down meme.
Epic games kind of Tencent (a Chinese company) subsidiary, it has 40% share.
Do the ends justify the means? The way I see it Apple will be rightfully scrutinised but only because a giant corporation used propoganda on its users. The lowest common denominator: "they're stopping you playing the game!!!"
Does this mean we'll get buying options on the Switch, Xbox, and Playstations?
Whoa, I meant something completely different! My point was that when you're in your 40s your emotional intelligence is probably well developed.

Context: As I was replying to this post I saw another one where a bunch of senior 10x developers were bashing a 15yo who came up with a personal project, because the poor guy/gal used React(!).

I mean, surely we can do better than that. I'm really tired of seeing senior engineers, often fairly intelligent people acting as if being kind to others wasn't their responsibility because how smart they perceive themselves. HN is a prime example of that (despite some amazing content that can be found here too).

I'm sorry if my comment hurt you in any way. I hope it's a bit more clear now. (I won't edit the parent comment—to keep the context of your reply and remind myself to be more specific).

> Side note, people in their 40s aren’t old. Damn.

Personal note: I hope so!
Use your own judgement.

You know most about the companies and projects you're working on.

When in doubt, you could ask your employer to see what they think.
I'm curious as to why as a user you want alternative app stores? I understand as a developer why you would but it is less obvious to me how it would improve the experience for users.
This doomsday scenario is completely refuted by the longtime existence of the Apple Mac and third-party Mac software.