skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This is the root of the issue. Jira was made with project managers and product managers in mind. Not dev teams. Project and product managers (collectively referred to as PMs going forward) are the primary buyers and owners of Jira. Not engineers.

Engineers love simplicity and efficiency. Jira is the polar opposite of that."

Why shouldn't project managers and product managers love efficiency, too? If the tools allows the engineers to do their work more efficiently, the development speeed of the team increases - this is what makes project managers and product managers look good.
I am just so confused why some people are acting like kids are a different species when it comes to covid.

Those people think "opening the economy" is worth more than human (kid or otherwise) lives. They're either politicians trying to convince an electorate that they didn't fail miserably at their job, or are regular Joes falling victim to disingenuous cable news networks.
You're right. And unfortunately, as you said, things are not as clear cut even for me. For example, it took me long (and the good will of my beloved) to accept that I should work less and have more time for me, that it'd be much better for my health. Sometimes too I feel guilty of not contributing to society by "traditional" means, etc. So you're right, the inescapable necessity of work is still in our culture :-/
I take it you are familiar in detail with how Uberphallus' previous employer operates and can give us the correct details instead?
This is why in most cities, pick up is only handled by one or two private firms contracted with the municipality.

Corruption is the only reason this has ever happened anywhere. In the countryside, which due to lower density is more difficult to serve, multiple trash trucks serve multiple customers and there is no problem.
IPhone is a general computing platform so that argument doesn't hold water.
You mean what happended to the days of getjar.com where you can develop and upload whatever J2ME smartphone app without an overlord dictating the rules and enforcing a large cut of your revenues? I miss those days.

Unfortunately, Apple is going to continue this nonsense unless people stop buying into their reality distortion spells.
Epic charges 12%.
I mainly develop serves in C++ but I've used Python. It is my private opinion but when we are talking reasonable size project I do not feel I am loosing any productivity by using C++. Rather the other way around.
> For instance, kustomize as snap doesn't let you read anything outside that is not in the snap fs. Not even in --classic mode.

Classic snaps have complete access to the host filesystem. It is up to the publisher, however, to request classic confinement. If the publisher creates a `strict` snap, users cannot override this (because strict snaps would break when their container and dependencies suddenly disappear)

> for services that require mutable configuration there needs to be a way to preserve that data (I tested that nextcloud behavior more than half a year ago).

Snaps have access to multiple locations to store mutable data like `SNAP_COMMON`, `SNAP_USER_COMMON`, `SNAP_DATA` etc. Snaps can optionally also access regular directories.

Afaik, Nextcloud stores its configuration in one of those directories. I think what you experienced might be an issue with the NextCloud snap because snapd itself already supports this.
Wait JuJu is dead?
I think they legally have that right, too, but the issue at hand isn’t legal. It’s whether “the public” still finds that fair. Laws exist to serve people, not the other way around. Maybe laws have to change.

That’s the nut that regulators will have to crack. Do “we” think this isn’t acceptable and if so, why? Controlling what software runs on the devices you sell can’t be the only criterion, or many other platforms would have to be opened up (smart TVs, game consoles, etc)
> People pay huge overhead to apple exactly because apple makes choices for them...

That’s exactly why I use Apple products. I don’t have time to mess around with third party stores and risk security issues when I need an app that doesn’t want to be on the App Store. I’m ok with paying 30% more as a consumer for the simplicity and peace of mind.

This isn’t the consumers getting angry - it’s developers. That’s why this comment and other dissenting opinions always get downvoted on HN. Not saying devs don’t matter, but there is another side to this that people here don’t want to consider.
How is this a failing? The system is performing well for its stakeholders - maximizing wealth extraction for the upper class, with a simulation of free market choice to keep the middle and lower classes occupied and pacified. From this perspective, a 1% fatality rate should merely translate into the stock market declining by 1%, and then we move on.
Static type checking for Go's empty interface{}
"Obviously nobody likes air pollution."

Really? I think that claim is false. The Trump administration is actively working to make it easier to pollute the air as the article highlights. And many other political forces favor air pollution too e.g. oil and gas unions and utilities.

The fundamental point the article makes, is there is no difference between objecting to climate change and objecting to air pollution.

So based on their lobbying 'against climate change' there are lots of people (and lobbyists) who favor air pollution!

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/03/25/oil-an...
In search of the perfect pocket device
The problem isn't that Apple has more of a monopoly than Epic has with Unreal Engine, it's that Apple has a monopoly on a distribution channel to end users.
Wow - HN reliably comes out with just incredible legal analysis, and not in a good way.

Apple delivers products that are supported FAR far longer than android.

Yes, they charge everyone a premium for this.

One reason people don't mind their kids / grandparents etc using apple is precisely because apple takes care of things.

Let's be 100% clear here - once apple allows random apps to bill you in random ways the endless scams will be here in days.

Seriously - even for subscriptions most providers you find out thing renewed after the fact when you get your statement, then have to remember to fight the auto-renew. Apple (at least for me) sends me out an email IN ADVANCE telling me what will renew.

Next, cancelling autorenews often requires phone calls. Ie, you can only cancel 90 days in advance, but have to cancel by renewal date and while you can sign up online you can't cancel online.

Apple, in the same email they send me, tells me how to cancel.

I hope folks pushing scam apps get bitten HARD for their crappy behavior.

And the idea of apple as monopoly (22% market share in phones, even less in computers) seems a total stretch.

However, because of all these policies, they might have a monpoply on very long term supported high quality devices that behave how you expect.

They even cracked down on the scam battery replacements on resale (ie, folks would put cheapo third party batteries in that made it look like battery life was good that would die in months). Again lots of complaints from HN folks, but for average users this helped them avoid the scammers.
Seems like it's broadcast in-game? I don't know much about Fortnite. But it's been 10mins.
Here's the short they just released making fun of Apple's 1984 commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqTNO8LTggI

Edit: The youtube comments are hilarious because no one knows what it's a spoof of. For those who don't know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
> App stores give you incredible access to new users. You literally don’t have a way to get unto iOS devices w/o the App Store.

They give you "incredible access" because they're basically the only access. Their OSes would be complete flops if app stores were the only option and nobody would use them...
> Surely if they're just as good as she is then the opportunities open to her would also be open to the 10,000 people.

No, and to be honest I find it hard to believe anyone believes so; a lot of those positions are picked due being friends with the right people, or coming from the same universities as the people already in executive positions, and other hundreds subjective factors that have little to nothing to do with the actual capabilities needed for the role.
This assumes that side-loaded applications have less restrictions than store apps. The same sandbox restrictions and permission prompts could be applied to a side-loaded app as a store app.
Traditionally you don't want to have xorg installed on a server.

If you do have it installed then yes, you would have dbus.
In case of the PinePhone (which is arm64) the actual loading of the kernel image from eMMC can take a second because the MMC controller isn't initialized for max speed by the bootloader, so having a smaller kernel saves some time between pressing the power button and having the splash screen show up (since the bootloader can't control the display)
In this case they have no choice. If you want to sell applications that run on Apple devices, you must sell them on Apple's store. Doesn't matter where they host their software and servers.

There is no historical mainstream analog since desktop/laptop OS software has never been so locked-down that it was impossible to install software without 1st-party permission. Even early videogame consoles had unlicensed games run on them, and the console vendors could only stop them by releasing new hardware.
This isn't about not being able to sell something, it's about forcing them to use Apple's payment system. It's more like if you had a store in a mall and the mall said people could only pay using "Mall Pay" and would kick you out if you took direct payment. Some farmers markets actually do this though with tokens...
The only cloud accounts users care about are logins for all their web based services which are synced by Firefox or Chrome.

They already have for example an email any web based services that come with Ubuntu are just something the people who actually use Ubuntu have to click through.

Normal people who by and large do not actually use Ubuntu would probably be more likely to sign up for such options if they are the default option but no more likely to actually use them.

The comparison to side loading is particularly badly made. On mobile platforms you need a platform specific account to install even free apps because ultimately also the way you consume paid for content.

Linux desktops all come with a platform specific app store that requires no particular integration because it is used to consume free content.

Paid content is consumed in the web browser.

Games are largely consumed via steam.

Paid apps are a harder sale because of the Linux desktops 3% market share and major apps that do offer support not wanting to give 30% to and platform.

Only people trying to make hundreds of thousands to millions of small sales via access to the massive ios or Android markets are willing to give up 30%.
Yeah, it makes no sense at all. Apple isn't even close to a majority in any markets!

Desktops? Definitely not. Laptops? No. Tablets and Phones? Haha, no (Edit: Actually yes, if one only considers the US).
And what else is it that the average PC user needs? Because I cannot think of a single thing.
Of course, I'm not saying the opposite. But you're sacrifying development options in the process
Pressure nontheless. Seeing that he went to another browser company I don't think he would have gone voluntarily.
Derailed train seems to injure most passangers, but kill only few of them [1] [2]. It would seem that hyperloop would be more similar to a plane - more deaths than injuries. Also damage to infrastructure, would be more than a few rails.
(please educate me if I'm wrong)

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Washington_train_derail...
[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rail_accidents_(2010...
Note that Apple has been slowly moving to restrict that ability in MacOS as well. Each release makes it harder to install applications from developers that haven't kissed Apple's ring.
I've said on here for years that Mozilla will only be remembered for Rust and they should double down on that (to the exclusion of FF if necessary) and people got mad. It's their only product people are enthusiastic about, the only product of theirs that has a positive slope on Google Trends. They could have been what JetBrains is to Kotlin. They could have sold support, training, consultantcy, IDEs, tooling, hosted conferences, etc.
The headline is completely wrong. The study shows that infection is the top concern of five times more parents than work or paying bills. The parents most concerned about infection may only be slightly less concerned about work or money.
I took it as a general statement, not just about his employer. Maybe I misread.
Reading the announcement post on HN: "This will surely piss of Google and Apple"...

Then I read the title to this post... directly under it.

What a day
Bankruptcy is usually preferable to death.
Free did this in France for mobile. It really drastically squashed prices for some time. Then everyone went down to match Free's prices somehow and we're now at a new equilibrium...
That wasn't the question he asked.
More kids go to the ICU and die due to the flu.
Woah - Epic says they would release a competing app store if it weren't for "Apple's illegal restraints".

> But for Apple’s illegal restraints, Epic would provide a competing
app store on iOS devices, which would allow iOS users to download apps in an innovative, curated store and would provide users the choice to use Epic’s or another third-party’s in-app payment processing tool."

Part 16, in the Intro.
> Smart TV manufacturers, companies like Roku, Automobile manufacturers, etc...

It’s more than just the Google Play Store.
"All the other browsers" are basically Chrome, Safari, and IE/Edge. All of which are developed by three of the wealthiest tech corporations on earth, and even one of those gave up on it because they couldn't keep up.

While Mozilla is financially healthy, it is very much not one of the wealthiest tech companies on earth.

They cannot afford to spend the kind of money on maintaining a big pile of unsafe parallelization code that Google and Apple can, and so the remaining option was to make the maintenance cheaper - which is what Rust is for.
I assume that all satellites are tracked, but surely the safety calculations are not trivial. However, if you estimate the orbits at 200 miles and equal distribution across the surface of the sphere, it translates to 20,000 sq miles per satellite.
Seattle has mail-in ballots. So we don't need the day off
Apple can just point to mobile Safari. There is nothing stopping you from building whatever you want on the web these days.
Pay me to do it and I would (don't worry, I charge much less than 500K to find them)
> You have bazillion types of generic computers to choose from. People pay huge overhead to apple exactly because apple makes choices for them - regarding what settings are reasonable to have, what software they want you to use etc.

I like the Android approach. "Unknown sources" are not allowed by default but you can enable them. Doesn't mean you have to enable them and I'd be ok with a bright red bar at the top of the screen all the time that you can't disable if you have unknown sources enabled.
I don't care what Eich thinks about homosexuality.
Don't query builders already let you do that? By making the WHERE clause map to a data structure, you can just duplicate the data structure to duplicate the WHERE clause e.g. https://bokwoon95.github.io/sq/query-building/reusing-where.... (full disclosure: I'm the author).
They can likely write whatever they want but (at least in the EU) by law you cannot sign away your rights, so even agreeing to whatever someone write in TOS or EULA doesn't mean it will hold up in court.
Doesn’t Windows on ARM only allow apps through the Windows Store?
Well the argument is they're pro-consumer in that the things you buy would end up costing less.
Indeed - my dad just happen to retire the same week the eliminated the steno pool since everyone was starting to get computers on their desk (286's with WordPerfect - ah, the days)
> If someone could make a collaborative platform for awesome-lists for everything

We used to call that DMOZ. Maybe it should be brought back.
The play store provides value on Android even though you can install any apps you find on the internet. The platform didn't get in your way in that regard.

Google services have recently made it very hard to distribute APKs through means other than their store though. Gmail blocks APK attachments for example.
> It's THEIR platform, they built it, they own it, and there are more popular alternatives.

A monopoly is a monopoly, friend.

> No one is forced to make games for Apple.

Monopoly laws supersede this argument.

> no one has the right to walk into that store and tell me I can't take a cut of the profits

Actually, if a business has a monopoly on a certain market, then there absolutely are things that a person can demand that they do.
You had the choice to buy into apples walled garden. You could have chosen an Android phone if the app store was problematic for you. Their products are very competitive.
>Whereas with the pandemic we seemingly are just accepting high death rates

Except the death rates are very low. The risk due to lockdown are greater than this virus.
There's a lot of political talking points wrapped up in there.
> You literally don’t have a way to get unto iOS devices w/o the App Store.

Yes, and that's the problem that needs solving. If Apple allowed sideloading apps, every single of their justifications about App Store rules would start making sense. You either pay 30% and get a nice listing and discoverability, or you pay nothing but are completely on your own.
Ask HN: Examples for companies not using Email?
I disagree. I like Apple products, own an iPhone and iPad, but I wish I could run any code on it because they are my devices. Having a streamlined experience overall shouldn’t prevent me from installing an emulator, and shouldn’t trap businesses into paying ridiculous fees. Im hesitating buying a Mac as my next computer because of their locked down attitude, which could spill to MacOS (already has to some degree).
no offense but your child rearing worries shouldn’t force some rule on every consenting adult. maybe watch them or control what they do or apple can build a child mode.

but it’s not an excuse to limit our freedoms
Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqTNO8LTggI
>I think there's a fairly trivial distinction

... What's the difference between my Roku TV & my iPhone? My Roku can clearly do some general purpose computing. So is it trivially a general purpose computing device or trivially not a general purpose computing device? Let's follow your workflow.

>is the system aided by software to operate, vs is the system a platform for executing user-software

Hm, I think my Roku is a TV, and so someone would expect to be able to use it without additional software. Indeed, it has about 8 ports on the side I can plug game consoles & cable boxes into. Therefore the system is aided by software to operate. Therefore it is trivially not a general purpose computing device.

Now, what about my iPhone? My iPhone has phone in the name. One would expect to be able to make a phone call without additional software. That is indeed the case. Looks like my phone is trivially not a general purpose computing device.
Yes and no. I think, some level of hardship is absolutely required in order to develop good personality traits. Sure, if you get too much, and it will break your back. But if you get too little, you grow up as a useless entitled narcissistic asshole, completely toxic to everyone around them.

I bet none of those rioters had to actually work their asses off to put the food on the table. Because once you do, you start respecting other businesses and won't go break their displays for fun.
The store facilitates discovery of your app, secure installation of your app, world wide distribution of your app, and offers customers a safe, trustworthy, consistent and easy to use purchasing system complete with refunds, subscriptions cancellation for all purchases.

One of the biggest developer benefits is Apples app reviews process. While not perfect for devs, it helps ensure customers feel safe buying my apps free of the risk of viruses, malware, and fraud ware. That sells more of my apps.

If you don’t understand these things, you don’t understand your customers.
> And if you don't want to be interrupted, then maybe keep your tickets up-to-date

My tickets are up to date. Doesn't matter, I'll still get asked about them.

> or proactively communicate risks

Then you are not a team player and such negativity is frowned upon.

> or sign out of Slack for a few hours

While working from home? Are you even working if you are offline?

> or get your manager to do their job better and be a buffer to protect you from interruptions.

Oh yeah. Because telling your superior to do a better job is an outstanding thing to do for your long term work prospects.
I don't think this should be regulated at all. Apple should be able to impose their rules in their systems. Let's be clear about this, if people are choosing to buy these black-box closed handheld computing devices, there are consequences that come with that choice.
I think there's a difficult, fine line to walk here. For the average, unsophisticated user, requiring them to jump through hoops and enable scary-sounding options in order to install any random software they find off the internet is probably a good thing. But it does mean that for software that's safe, it's hard(impossible?) for developers to give a potential customer a good install experience outside the Play Store.

I think probably the solution to that would be for Google to allow developers to list alternative app stores on the Play Store. Maybe that should require a strong review process that involves actual humans getting to know each other, and extra fees to cover it, I don't know. But a company large enough to have a need for their own app store should have the resources for that. That might leave out groups like F-Droid, though, so hopefully there'd be a way to get them in there too.
>I can't sell stuff on ANY platform/device without the permission of the platform/device maker.

you sure? i can think of at least three major platforms where you can sell your stuff without permission, namely Android (sideloading), the entire Windows market, and the entire Mac market
Sure - but the point/principle still applies. Every day we confront unknown risks that we don't fully understand. But we just keep on living. I think we have enough data for people to evaluate their own personal risk and generally take appropriate personal measures for safety. We can and should make efforts to accommodate those who assess their personal risk to be significant. But when you/others ask schools to close - are you really considering what the short-medium-long term costs of those choices really are? I have personally taken neighborhood kids to pick up free lunches offered by schools while they were shut down - because those kids' parents didn't care to take them and neither cared to help them feed themselves. I've seen working parents leave their young children at home because child care logistics and cost were not acceptable for their circumstances. I know kids down the street that are basically ignored by their parents that are not likely to have a healthy structured school environment they can count on.

I believe these hard to measure costs are enormous but easy to ignore because the affected demographic can't fight for their rights/desires - they can't even vote. And privileged SV folks and internet yuppies are happy to drive this line forward. I have friends who have lost their jobs. I have a cousin who has lost their small business. Not because of COVID - but because of the "cure" for COVID.
I'm pretty unhappy as a consumer.