skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple has something like ~40% of US market share of smart phones. Therefore it is not a monopoly even if within that market share they have complete control with app store.
> I completely agree with it. Epic publicly and blatantly bypassed multiple App Store restrictions with their move today.

App Store policy is not law - its terms are unilaterally set by Apple. Citing it as justification makes no sense.
Main discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24146902
Certainly our environment changes very fast but assuming all adaptation has to happen in the genetic space is fallacious. Humans are already the most generalist species ever existed; even at the most basic level we can live in environments ranging from deserts to arctic, just using our bodies we can locomote through walking, climbing, swimming, and on top of that our offsprings take the most time to raise because so much of our adaptive machinery is installed memetically on that generalist hardware (genes). Besides, even the society we change is part of our niche construction, so we do have influence over it. Maybe not huge as single individuals, but that industry making money off distracting people is still our own making, not a "force of nature", and most of what is done by us can be undone by us.
The article didn’t share the survey method and the sample size is 1000. I couldn’t take it seriously
What a horrible article.

How was your review of Wine?

What about triller, musical.ly or reels?

Or giphy. Nothing but short clips on repeat.
Distributed SQL Change Management with Liquibase on GKE
Each app already has its own terms of service
Bow Tie Analysis
We run on openstack, managed by a local yet fairly large openstack provider (Irideos, their devops/consulting team is top notch and has helped us adopt many cloud-native technologies while still staying fairly vendor-agnostic).

I can't see the bills, but we never worry about bandwidth usage and I am fairly sure that bandwidth is free, basically.

Keep in mind that since we run our own harbor instance, most of the image pulls happen within our openstack network, so that does/would not count against bandwidth usage (but image storage does). In terms of bandwidth thus, we can happily set "always" as imagePullPolicy in our kubernetes clusters.

Edit: openstack works remarkably well. The horizon web interface is slow as molasses but thanks to terraform we rarely have to use it.
No One Knows How Many Restaurants Have Closed in New York City
The attitude embodied in this is unfortunately common. Delivering a successful product is a lot more than just writing code and shipping features. Planning so that you can launch your marketing efforts, ensuring you have a team ready to support whatever you just shipped, or making sure you don't sign new deals that result in 6 months of work needing to get delivered in the next 2 months are all just as important to the business as the day to day work the developers do. Sometimes being a team player means you are a less effective so that other people are more effective. Jira isn't a perfect tool, but the case would be better made by someone who isn't myopically focused on optimizing a subset of the whole product delivery process.
I drive a Tesla. I'm speaking first hand that this would be a useful feature. Most of my driving is not on a gravel road that's bumping so much I can't feel anything; it's on smooth surface streets and highways where a little vibration from the screen would be beneficial.
TikTok is a cultural cancer (along with OnlyFans and a few other apps) which will end up destroying society. The spyware component of it is just gravy.
You know what, you're right. Today I turned off the backlights on my keyboard so it's nearly blank, and I noticed that I was in fact looking down. I do touch type though. So the big benefit of Typing of the Dead was that it forced you to look at the screen for zombies coming at you.
Good lord - on HN the monopoly comments are so crazy sometimes. What is the monopoly issue Apple has? Use android if you don't like Apple's product line. Apple is at 22% share.
Fortnite Removed from App Store
"And you do want highly qualified people there."

Why, do you know any?
I wonder why there's no clause forbidding to discuss the shortcomings of the ToS itself
I'm a fan of using raw sql like this but curious if anyone has solved deduplicating common statements and dynamic queries in a good way.

For example:

1) Imagine lots of queries having to show the results in the context of a user and therefore use the same JOIN and WHERE clause all over. Not being DRY, this breaks down when having to change the clause at all.

2) Imagine a reporting page that allows for filtering and ordering by different columns and therefore need some way to compose the final sql.
Generally subtasks are good when it's a single well defined feature or problem and then they are few.
To be used sparingly. They're best used like keynotes.

Epics are for broad developments, looser defined. Best used as "bags" of tasks.

Sometimes epics might be disabled altogether and then you have only subtasks, and labels get to be misused as the bags of tasks. I personally consider that a pathological setup. It is much harder to work with and JIRA query tools don't work as well with it.
libed there a bit and have this to say: to cover thise extra costs, they would have to charge a ridiculous amount per ticket. like double the cost if a flight to those destinations. and they do. $300 for a 5 hour train ride. so i can totally see this being profitable all costs uncluded.

here's why i think they get customers. people don't like airports and plane travel, so they'll pay more for rail. car travel is unpleasant. cars are tiny and uncomfortable. their tolls are insane. like $50 in tolls for that same drive. less people have cars, and getting an license is a big expensive thing. they don't do roadtrips.
Postal officials in Brooklyn testified that ballots had only a 40% chance of getting the postmark from the day they were mailed. That's a big deal to me. The whole thing was made much worse by the fact that election officials only ordered the ballots from the printer two days before the election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/six-weeks-later-ele...
A sample size of 1000 is huge.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/howcan-a-poll-of-...
Might be as simple as "let our players do the talking" since Fortnite has a huge audience and many of the players are really passionate.
So you want something like a PPA? Is flatpack promoting each app will have it's own repo(Skype.Dropbox,Slack,Discord?)

Seems to me that you want a way to have applications and updates installed by people and bypass the review process? If you are a distro maintainer you can change the hardcoded values before you build(distros always change this stuff) but if you are not a distro then you should either submit the app for review or do what other apps do and prompt a notification that a new update is available with a link to a download page.
Agreed. We are thinking about it. I really don’t want us to get involved in a partisan debate, but presenting the facts might inform the discussion overall.
I've always thought that if HMD was successful enough, eventually Nokia would just buy them and get their brand back.
Apple platform is closed like gaming consoles. Epic almost certainly knew this was going to happen. I think they are trying to build a case for regulatory intervention.

US Antitrust is still in the 80's Chicago School era where antitrust is solely based on consumer benefit and and efficiency. EU has more broad approach where economic power in the public interest is important. It may be up to the EU to change how Apple does business.
I have conflicted feelings about "Facebook Research", but where I always end up is this: if citizens of a free society want to give away their data in exchange for a couple extra dollars a month, they should have that ability in a free society. People can and should be educated of the risks so they can make informed decisions, but trying to stop it is ultimately a fruitless errand (Even as Facebook is a pile a scum, don't misunderstand me.)

And it's all somewhat beside the point, isn't it? Facebook Research was usable on iOS. By the time Apple put an end to it, the backlash had become so significant that Facebook pulled the program from Android anyway.
Look up how you type: those • characters I used in my post, an m-dash (—), a c-cedilla (ç), a german double-S (ß), basic accented characters for various Western European languages (we have many, many loan words and phrases from those in English—façade, résumé, áñ∂ §ò öñ), punctuation for French and Spanish (no, you don't strictly need these for English—but in practice, depending on the register you're writing in, actually you do), major world currency symbols ($, £, €, ¥, ¢), basic mathematical symbols and mathy Greek letters (≤, ∑) and so on.

Look up how you do that on US English keyboard layouts in macOS, Linux, or Windows. Then check AltGr and US International alternative layouts for the latter two. Marvel at how macOS manages to crush all those options in usability with their default, without affecting the experience for someone who doesn't need those at all. Join me in wondering how no-one else has at least matched them on this, which is not some recently-added feature in macOS, but is practically ancient in computing terms.
Where do we put the nature?
Anecdotal, but I run a small business of fairly niche B2B software. Around the end of April/beginning of May our traffic took a nosedive and has been slowly declining ever since (about 33% down now). I kinda got paranoid, so I used the Google Trends and Webmaster tools to decompose and quantify what is going on.

Well, it turns out, the ranking of our site in most major queries hasn't changed. People are genuinely searching less for serious topics. There is definitely an economic slowdown, it just takes a long time to start affecting regular software jobs.

P.S. Ironically, a rather silly side project of mine, that is related to old computer games, had a surge of traffic at the same time. It's like the "work from home" people decided they are better off replaying that classic game or two since the boss isn't watching.
Restated: propaganda, advertising, and modern persuasion techniques are effective.
I be'd willing to pay for Pocket again if the project didn't seem on life support.

One of my favorite features of Readablilty was the browser search integration -- when I searched from the browser bar it would include results I'd saved in Readability.
The law allows for Apple to do this. You don’t have to use Apple products. You don’t have to use the Apple transaction system. It is not a commons, it is not a monopoly. There are other platforms and e-commerce solutions.

If you want to regulate Apple’s behavior, introduce a law (I would support a law to regulate Apple’s cut of App Store transactions). Fortnite getting booted isn’t going to get a bill sponsored or have antitrust regulators take notice. It’s a breach of contract currently, no more no less.
> and I'd actually be happier if Apple took over more of my relationships.

I’m really curious what you mean by this. Which additional transactions do you wish Apple would take a 30% cut on? You DoorDash orders, your rent, your salary?
Jira is very customizable in how it's used.
It's sort of like saying that a wall with sticky notes is a bad development tool because of some anecdotal experience. It all depends on what you do with it.
Maybe it's more like saying that a spreadsheet is a bad tool.

The only thing I resent jira/confluence etc for is dropping its markdown because it was too hard for the company to maintain :) But they're working on it again.
Confluence is probably one of my favorite tools but I haven't used jira in ages as it's possible to get by with github these days.
Additionally, 10 different payment systems. I trust Apple. I'd like to buy whatever subscription, but now "Joe's email app" wants my credit card number. Now I have to figure out if I trust them as well.
"Apple made a platform, they have every right to set the rules. Don't like it go somewhere else there are plenty of other choices." is not necessarily sound reasoning here. US telecoms were broken up as a monopoly even though they made the platform and had every right to set the rules. "go somewhere else" implies buying a new phone, potentially under contract, and smartphones aren't cheap.
When you compare Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Wind, Solar, and Hydro, Nuclear comes out by far as the safest technology [1].

Coal is incredibly dangerous directly - mining and operation are generally unsafe. Hydro has had some terrible accidents like the Chinese Banqiao dam rupture in 1975 which killed tens or hundreds of thousands. Solar and wind I'm not too sure about, but nuclear power has tens of deaths total attributed to it.

The nuclear-relate deaths that occurred have been from using light-water reactors, which are essentially very-high pressure high-temperature radioactive containers. Modern designs like molten salt reactors (like LFTR) have the potential to be safer, but don't have regulatory support and are mired in the process [2].

I made a whole infographic about the safety of nuclear power, but I'm not an engineer or journalist [3]

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

[2]: https://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/201101/hargraves.c...

[3]: https://create.piktochart.com/output/37686680-safe-nuclear-p...
You're making plenty of unfounded assumptions about the parent poster's personal character.

One is not obligated to contribute to open source packages or pay for high-price contracts to provide feedback on a company's software on a public forum. (And the server portion of Snap is closed source.)

Just because Microsoft and Google do worse does not mean that Canonical cannot do better.
Now you're not acknowledging the consequences, too.
The survey does say just enough about their methods to make it sound like it's not at all something that can be taken all that seriously.

"In a recent survey, we asked about 1,000 parents what their biggest worry amidst the pandemic was, and what we found was a surprise. It turns out that the majority of parents are worried about their families being infected by the virus rather than finding work or paying the mortgage."

I'm not sure why that's surprising. If you ask 1,000 people who have jobs that aren't gone or at immediate risk of going away, then yep, that's exactly what we're going to worry about. There's probably some serious statistical problems there.
Processor Intel 6502
Ask HN: Can the Linux kernel development model apply to a browser like Firefox?
Wide contribution, not driven by decisions seeking profit, etc.
'Monopoly' is just a poorly phrased way of saying abuse of market power.

Edit as reply: I'm not accusing them of breaking a law, but of abusing their position. That there might not yet be a law against this specific kind of abuse doesn't make the practice any less abusive.
Doesn't Excel have a similar table system?
Monopoly status is not as simple as 'do you have 51%'
You seem young and naive....

For many, their iOS device (iPad or iPhone) is their primary computing device.... it is not like a PS4, which is mainly for games.

Back in the 90's If Microsoft didn't get 'checked' with a threat to be broken up, we would have ended up with Pay MSFT 30% tax on every software you installed and purchased.

It it time to 'check' both Apple and Google on their practices... In this case, Google at least allows some sideloading, while apple doesn't at all...

So, I expect Apple is going to be the losing end of the history... but as long as they can keep doing it, and make profits out of it, they will be doing.
See also (comment on same parent): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24146991

Will the ELIZAs learn to know each other somehow and throttle input, or will we someday approach the critical mass necessary for endless GPT-3 comment chains? Is there a similar term for Kessler Syndrome, but applied to comments?
Without meaningful information about the geographies of the participants, how this data would be valuable is not quite clear to me.
> the implicit actual name is `index.docker.io/foo/bar`

`index.docker.io/foo/bar:latest` to be more exact, which is a URL, but not really a URI if we're being pedantic.

Docker doesn't really provide an interface to address images by URI (which would be more like the SHA), though in practice, tags other than latest should function closer to a URI
Apple kicks Fortnite out of App Store for challenging payment rules
The own the platform, they designed it, built it, and maintain it. They have every right to set the rules for it.
Instagram asking users to verify their ID if suspected of inauthentic behavior
It could be huge or tiny depending on the size of the mean and standard deviation of the effect you're looking for in comparison to the mean and sdev of unrelated variations.
CO₂ levels over AUS rose even after Covid-19 forced global emissions down
The CO₂ increase is due to the burning of fossil fuels for energy, and land use change such as deforestation which leaves fewer trees to absorb CO₂ from the air, and changes the uptake and release of carbon in the soils.
One reasons some people use Rust is to target WebAssembly and WebGL.

Will this change at Mozilla mean that evolving features in WASM, WebGL and other "advanced but it works on all evergreen browsers" features becomes a less interesting target as Firefox starts to fall behind the leading edge due to lack of developers, but still has enough users to make the "lowest common denominator" fall behind as well?

Or will Firefox keep up somehow?

Or will it stop keeping up, and site/webapp developers working with leading-edge web platform features like evolving WASM just drop FF from concern at the cost of a few percent more users?

I know plenty of developers already don't test or know much about Firefox, and many sites don't work properly on it. I've had a number of commercial sites where I couldn't even login or couldn't pay except by switching to a different browser. But I have the impression people that folks working on leading-edge tech stuff are a bit more likely to include FF in their matrix, and the assumption is FF is quite up to date (more than Safari) so it's worth bothering with as an alternative target.
Can someone explain this? I have DKMS enabled because I use the proprietary nvidia drivers. Also all my drivers are kernel modules. I feel like I'm missing something here, though.
What seems to be lost on too many people - including people who really ought to know better - is that 90% of the time, software developers don't know exactly how to accomplish a task, but know how to figure out how. There are two classes of "estimates": "that will take a few minutes because I know exactly what's involved" and "I'm not even entirely sure exactly what's being asked for here, but it sort of 'feels like' this other thing that took about three days that one time before".
If it meant my work processes were as streamlined and organized as Apple's operating standard? Political antics gone? Safety and security with no negotiation?

Tempting...

(Just experimenting with the idea, not that I actually agree with this line of thought.)
There's plenty of legitimate SEO that does work. Figure out what your audience is struggling with, and publish articles explaining how your product solves that.
No surprise. Poor man living rich man's live. They bought dead man's body - pocket, spend lots on dumb rebranding not long ago.
if you look at iPhone sales over past 6-8 quarters or so growth is slow to non-existent. they are squeezing services revenue like this to continue growing their top line.

personally i don’t see it as sustainable and surprised the stock keeps hitting all time highs.
Title was way too long for HN, so I had to truncate.
Original: Instagram says it will start asking some users to verify their identities by submitting government IDs, if it suspects “potential inauthentic behavior”
I’ve been an SEO guy since 2006 and I really miss the yesteryears where everyone had a blog and linked out to great content.

This helped the small guys thrive as it wasn’t just the big guys getting/building links... the little guys were attracting them naturally just by creating unique expert level content.

Today there are so few proxies for naturally occurring “curation” online that Google and others are obviously struggling to identify what content is junk and what is worth surfacing.

As long as links are the main proxy for curation and the average Joe just has a social media account I believe algorithms will continue to silence minority opinions.

A great example of curation in the dev space is awesome lists. If someone could make a collaborative platform for awesome-lists for everything I believe that could be the foundation of a new type of curation powered search engine.
Worrying about a potentially deadly illness that you can do little about, vs worrying about losing your source of income and having to.. look for another job.

I'm definitely more worried about infection, too.
Barring clauses that are deemed unenforceable, Terms and Conditions are effectively the same as the law when it comes to interacting with Apple's services. Citing them is actually fair, since the courts will uphold enforceable clauses if someone sues.

If you want to argue that Apple’s TOS are unenforceable, then that’s a different argument.
> Jira was made with project managers and product managers in mind

A step further, SCRUM was made for product managers in mind. Engineer-centric Agile methodologies like Extreme Programming are missing from SCRUM guidelines.

Most product management methodologies have a bring-your-own-engineering-practices philosophy, which means they were created in a vacuum.
Surprise: Parents have children.
Ha, this just reminded me that back in... 2009 or 2010, I tweeted something about being frustrated with JIRA and within an hour I had a message from someone at Atlassian warning me that I was in violation. I think I deleted the tweet, I wish I could go back and revisit it.
Heroku does have autoscale capabilities based on avg response time. You set a min and max dyno count and off you go. It's as simple as it sounds but for run of the mill, follow-the-daytime apps it works.
Consuming less is definitely a big part of climate plans I've seen. Consuming less doesn't have to mean a reduced standard of living. This article mentions heat pumps for example, which consume much less energy. Other plans I've seen also include supporting dense development (=consuming less land/resources for housing), supporting public transit (=consuming less energy for transportation), and upgrading efficiency in homes (=consuming less energy for housing). I think longer term, the cuts will have to be deeper due to population growth, but there is so much low-hanging fruit.

I think in general the environmental movement has been hurt by the association with austerity. Most people don't like being told their lives have to get worse for a benefit that's difficult to see. It needs to paint a positive vision of the future that people can get excited about.
Why is everyone so obsessed with the non-monopoly status? At least in the EU, antitrust cases don't require a monopoly, it is enough if burdens for market entrance are imposed, or cost for market entrace is too high (and especially purposely set too high by companies to prevent competition). Is this something specific to the US?
Right, and Epic doesn't. I think this hurts Apple's case if anything, because it means App Store rules do not apply equally!
Sigh. I'm a developer that is on early-version binaries often, and need to keep them frozen and update them manually. I shouldn't have to default to compiling from source.

Can I bypass snap entirely without major issues? I like Ubuntu, but indeed, I left Windows 10 officially due to auto-updates.
Years ago a Google engineer on HN infamously said something to the effect of "Google considers SEO / free traffic a BUG" - somebody have that link handy?