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There are screenshots about how this feature works in the linked article. I would super OK with this. It gives an option to use Apple Pay or their internal pay system, and it shows how much each costs so you can make an informed decision. If you value Apple Pay's security and privacy features enough, you can pay the higher price and use that option. If you don't, you can choose to use the publisher's payment option and pay a lower price.

The problem with Apple Pay is a) it is forced as the only option, and b) it is hidden from the user; you may never realize that all these years you have been paying for a service on your iPhone, you could have instead gone to the publisher's website and saved a lot of money.
Exactly. This is the brand of neutered, ludic probability on which The Black Swan is a holistic dump. Very ironic indeed that it leads with Taleb as the inspiration.
"Pulling docker images every 5 months as a service"
I would love to have that much salmon! With the high price per can, it sounds like she spent a fortune.

I've looked it up and it seems like canned salmon has the same amount of vitamin D.
No, when the process is waiting on read/write to a file, it cannot be interrupted. The signal literally will not reach it until the syscall finishes. This is a deficiency of Linux design inherited from Unix and something that is being addressed over time. However it stems from the real requirement that a device can't just have its operation cancelled, once you've asked the HDD to read a sector, it won't respond until it has finished reading. So the process is stuck in the kernel HDD driver which literally cannot be interrupted. When it's a network or other removable storage obviously interrupts should happen at the media level, but the design did not permit it originally. Currently you can kill an fuse process and NFS has bits to allow signals in the middle of a read, but cifs for example doesn't.
Not sure about buying established companies, but they bribed quite a few succesful kickstarter projects to go Epic exclusive for at least a year, including one I backed and had high hopes for.
Still, it does create a bit of a contradiction. We don't know what Sony and Microsoft charge, but we can reasonably assume it isn't zero, and it's also probably more than whatever Epic pays for their internal payment processing.

Epic could still turn around and say "well, the price would be even lower if not for Sony and Microsoft," but I'm not sure how much they want to piss off the console manufacturers, who—all things considered—probably have more power as far as Epic is concerned.

The other elephant in the room, IMO, is that V-Bucks don't actually cost Epic anything. They're just bits, and Epic could set the price to whatever they want without much consequence.

More than anything else, I see Epic's stunt as a wake-up call. It doesn't quite stand up under scrutiny—but, once you've scrutinized the situation, you can also find better demonstrations of the problem, such as Spotify.
This is really a worry.

* Many experiments and a lot of science cannot be done from space, even if delivery costs were much cheaper. E.g. LSST (0.5 billion in US funding alone, + lots of other funding sources), or wide-field astronomy important for near earth object detection and monitoring (e.g. ASASSN). These things are too complex and too large to realistically do in space.

* Ground-based astronomy is inherently cheaper (no space costs, no extra engineering effort, and importantly, the ability to fix things and upgrade equipment), and therefore has a much lower barrier to entry. You can do truly meaningful research from the ground for ~$1 mill + a team of 4 or 5 core people, whereas space requires 10-100x this + an entire fleet of people with all of the associated bureaucratic nightmares + extra time required and engineering challenges. Space offers some benefits, but often times the tradeoff is either not worth the cost, or the experiment is not feasible to do in space.

* Regardless of whether or not you care about the impact on astronomy research (hey, astronomers care about humanitarian stuff too), the way SpaceX bowled through and just started launching their Starlink constellation was irresponsible, reckless, and actually quite ignorant (e.g. they were surprised by how bright their satellites were...this is basic stuff people). On the other hand, I'm not sure how much blame you can really place on a company being reckless when the law allows for such recklessness. There should absolutely be more regulation and oversight. It's in the governments' best interest because it's going to just destroy (needlessly) a lot of R&D already paid for.

Ninja edit: mentioned Space-X in here but this article is technically about Amazon's Kuiper constellation; however statement is the same (this isn't really a single company problem, this is a new-technology-without-appropriate-regulations-problem). Starlink is the largest constellation and the biggest problem (planned to have ~10x the satellites as the Kuiper constellation, they are lower orbit than anything else, and not sure how the albedo compares to Kuiper, but the brightness is > 99% of other satellites).

So: these constellations will multiply number of orbiting satellites by 10-100x, they are extremely bright (> 99% of all satellites), and they are very low orbit. So its a perfect storm of problems for astronomy.

final ninja edit: check out https://www.astro.princeton.edu/~gbakos/satellites/ to see one astronomer's page about this stuff, some actual images that illustrate how big the problem is with the extremely limited amount of starlink satellites currently in orbit, and some other links. OK that's all
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> How is improvement measured?

This is a good question that like to get answered too.

It is reasonable to assume[0] that the language can keep its promises. However I look forward to seeing data on this in the future.

[0] https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/22/why-rust-for-safe...
Pull it is exactly what I would do. Apple gets a cut of the paid apps, but $0 from free apps who show ads. Take away getting a cut from the paid apps then free apps suddenly cost the developers money—no more free apps.

Imagine going to Walmart and telling them what you want them to give you all the revenue. Walmart will tell you exactly what they want to pay you, or you can leave.

Maybe 30% is too much, but 0% is a terrible idea.

In the old days before the web I had to pay up to 70% for distribution for my apps. If I was lucky I might get my cut 3-6 months later, plus I had to pay for the packaging and shipping to the warehouse and take it back if they didn't sell enough. 30% seems like a bargain.
In a way I'm happy rust does not have a stable abi. Swift does, but the stability is 'whatever apple swift emit'. Very little documentation, that what's there is out of date, so the only practical language that can interact with swift is swift. To be able to interact from another language, one would have to parse swift, make the semantics of all types and generics match exactly to be able to do the simplest things. (For example array and string, two core types are stock full of generics and protocols)

I'd hate to have the same happening for rust.
I’ve always believed that Firefox dev tools probably had most of the things I need but the interface is always...uglier and less familiar, so I don’t bother. It’s a low threshold to just use Chrome for development and FF for everything else.

Also I believe the OP was talking about more development tooling than just the front-end browser dev tools. Chromium always seems to have the most advanced debugging tools for browser development at the systems level. At least from what I’ve read...
In case you need more context on the whole issue (as I did), here is a good explanation that I found:

https://www.vox.com/2020/7/13/21317900/israel-west-bank-anne...
FYI, and for anyone else still learning how to version and cite code: Zenodo + GitHub is the most feature rich and user-friendly combination I've found.

https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/
Isn't the first thing to do looking at what the compiler can tell you (-fopt-info for GCC)? That can be helpful without deep knowledge of the target, or knowing its assembler. There are also dumps from stages before generating assembly which may be helpful. Is it deep knowledge of the whole system that makes going straight to assembly best?
> @blub: "There's no way that a closed source browser owned by a Chinese company is least bad"

You're speed-reading my comment, and getting it wrong. Vivaldi is NOT Chinese-owned. It is a group of European former-Opera developers, who were unhappy about the Chinese acquisition of Opera.

> @outsomnia: "Ffox is super up to date with latest and next-gen web technologies... what do you even mean by "get with the times"?"

A similar argument pops up on Java developer forums, in discussions about the old "Java EE" specifications versus Spring Boot. The devs who have hitched their career wagons to Java EE just cannot process the reality that it died 5-10 years ago.

"But it's a specification! A standard!"

"But Spring implements a lot of those standards! And the other bits are all proprietary API's, that don't have any alternative non-Spring implementations!"

It doesn't matter. The spec is not the standard anymore. For the vast majority of Java shops, Spring has become the standard. Like it or not, that's the reality.

This analogy is even more extreme when it comes to browser engines. More and more of the web targets Chromium, and is glitchy or non-functional with Gecko. 99% of people could care less which specs Gecko has implemented, or how well they implemented the spec. CHROMIUM IS THE SPEC.
I'm scared of that though. Although on one end I would like to buy my kindle books straight from the app and play xcloud games, I'm thinking of the dodgier companies.

Right now I have little to worry about when I leave my kid playing a game, all the payment need to go through Apple or at least the offending app will not stay up for too long.

I want Apple to be forced to come up with a fairer solution (eg: same api, but different payment provider) rather than being strong-armed into getting rid of the current protection from dodgy apps abusing dark ux pattern.
I've always wanted to build a larger app based on this approach. I quite like Massive, and 5 years (!) ago I wrote https://gist.github.com/grncdr/4555208#file-sss-py as a one-off response to a tweet from Ted Dziuba (is he still around?)
I do the same only I exercise the body at work.
Hey HN! Really excited to launch the YC Build Sprint. We've been working on this for the last month. The main goal here is to help founders get as much done as possible in a 4-week period. We've found that time pressure can be really helpful for productivity, even if it's external (and even somewhat contrived).
If recent history is any indicator, it means they will be even faster to rip out the parts of ff that made it unique, and copy changes that happen in the Chrome UI.
Interesting! For some reason I’ve never thought of posting work I’ve done for hire under Show HN label…
Not at the same rate. That would defeat the purpose from the consumer's point of view. They should be able to set a higher price for Apple Pay to cover the extra 30%.
These reproducible instructions you speak of are already present in Dockerfiles.

It seems like you're arguing against using docker images, when docker builds solve the very issue you speak of.

Correct me if I'm wrong...?
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It is? For digital purchases?
>Most enterprises want to focus on developer productivity

While I absolutely agree, it all depends on a scale. If you're using for example 10 cloud instances, x2 performance improvement will not justify extra person-months spent on developing more performant solution. On the other hand if you run 1000000 servers even 1% performance boost might be worth that effort.
Even if there were, that hypothetical income wouldn't even cover the salary of two developers. Who pays for programming languages or runtimes nowadays? Only very specialized users which don't have a choice.
Good question.

I have discussed at length regarding this with endocrinologists.

There is no shortage for the source of Vitamin D - As you mentioned - UV from Sun, certain food and of course supplements. But the destination should be able to activate it. So, in my case my body is not able to activate the Vitamin D in the system properly and so is the case with most Vitamin-D deficient people.

>Vitamin D obtained from sun exposure, food, and supplements is biologically inert and must undergo two hydroxylations in the body for activation. The first occurs in the liver and converts vitamin D to 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D], also known as calcidiol. The second occurs primarily in the kidney and forms the physiologically active 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D [1,25(OH)2D], also known as calcitriol[1].

Further, Vitamin D is necessary for calcium absorption in the gut. Hence, the lack of Vitamin D causes bone problems among other issues.

[1]https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessiona...
Are those not the images that are basically guaranteed to stay in Dockerhub?
Can you elaborate? The parent didn't say it was disrespectful toward individuals, though they may have meant Cain, since he was black. But regardless of whether that intention is true, the parent's point (that making a pun explicitly about chain gangs to label your social/political group is disrespectful) seems like a reasonable opinion, that you may challenge specifically.
> PERMANENT DISCOUNTS

That's a bold promise if Apple shuts the practice down. Will need to go back on the promised permanency or take the loss.
I think in Docker's case, in their original plan this free unlimited hosting was probably sustainable in a freemium model where businesses paid for Docker Enterprise and Docker.com was about marketing and user acquisition, similar to open source on GitHub.com being marketing and user acquisition for paid accounts/Github Enterprise.

Its not an unreasonable strategy to provide generous free hosting if you derive some other business benefit from it (YouTube being another example).

But Docker Inc. found their moat was not that deep and other projects from the big cloud providers killed the market they saw for Docker Enterprise and they sold it off.

So now they just have docker.com and Docker CE - which even that has alternatives now with other runtimes existing. So they need to make docker.com a profitable business on its own or find something else to do which changes the equation significantly.
> The question is, with all of these companies performing IR, why didn't they see mass exfiltration and C2?

1. Good tradecraft means that, except for skilled IR folk, they wouldn't see mass exfil/C2.

2. American IR companies know what side of their bread is buttered on. From both employees' personal allegiances to their former employers and the company's active government contracts, there's not a lot of incentive to report on their own government's actions.
eh? the interaction itself was pleasant. the bikeshedding OTOH ...
Which is why is screened for at the jury selection stage.
I didn't say it like it's a bad thing. The whole point I was making is as a first approximation, one should assume it's a wash.
I'm using the phrase "it's a feature, not a bug" to mean "it's intentional".
Also helps with arrays that you might wish to realloc. I've sometimes hit the (obvious, in hindsight) bug that you realloc an array and all pointers to members that are held elsewhere suddenly become invalid.
I think you might want to read this[1] excellent series on Epic and their ecosystem. It covers most of your questions.

[1] https://www.matthewball.vc/all/epicgamesprimermaster
Physical goods need to be shipped somewhere that a thief can receive them. Digital goods don’t. That makes it much easier and safer to make fraudulent purchases for digital goods.
My tour guide in Germany ranted for 20 minutes about how sure the Holocaust was bad but Germany said sorry a long time ago so why should they keep paying reparations?

Is it that surprising that a tour guide is just an ordinary person who may have some bad opinions?
Well, we’re still neither arrested nor physically harmed, aren’t we? So our speech is still free. Ycombinator is not obliged to give our discussion a visible platform.

Here’s the obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1357/
I consistently have to switch to Chrome devtools as FF (my default browser) devtools crash or hang on large (1.29MB gzipped) bundles like one of the apps I regularly maintain. While we want to do some code splitting, module lazy loading, and refactor to make tree shaking more effective, the fact that Chrome just works when FF does not is very frustrating.
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You can now deploy apps on Cloud Run to different regions and use Google's HTTPS Load Balancer to traffic them with a serverless endpoint group.
If their business model isn't working for them, it's their job to fix it in a way that does. I don't see how you can put the responsibility on users. If you say to your users their data will be deleted if they don't pull it at least once per N months, well that's exactly what they will do, and they are perfectly in their right to automate that process.
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> rotting

I would not say rotting. From my perspective, the academic community has always lagged behind engineering best practices (except in their specific fields).
I don't think the ergonomics of k8s are anywhere near as bad as those of git. I think the perception of k8s as complex and confusing is promulgated by people who already don't understand how their process starts and runs on any given Linux box without container orchestration. Naturally these people are overwhelmed by adding k8s on top.

The article to which I linked describes itself as "a wild ride of discovery" but all that has been discovered is basic aspects of the Linux process scheduler. The author could have skipped the wild ride if they had understood Linux first.
Microsoft (and Amazon) have already started paying some of the infrastructure costs to support Rust. Rust will get by with a little (financial) help from it's friends.
I looked for but couldn’t find recent benchmarks showing performance degradation on windows and macOS related to mitigating Spectre and Zombieload / Z2.

Can you point at recent information on this?
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If you're deploying your own application, you should probably build your image from a known maintained base image, rather than from a community supported one, and then periodically rebuild it - it's like how you'd have to redeploy your app if there was a security issue in one of your dependencies. I wouldn't recommend using any of the public Docker images outside of local dev environments
Not exactly. Although Segment has some backend integrations, most tags still need to be on the client side. Each tag typically tracks its own cookies and uses third-party cookies to learn more about each user. However, as those cookies are starting to go away and privacy is starting to increase, we may see a big shift.

I'm hopeful something like this will take off. I'm tired of adding so many slow third-party tags.
> I'm sure they'll get more than enough

How sure are you? Would you be sure enough to bet your child's health care on it?
It's worse, isn't it?

From what I've heard, Intel likes to run their benchmarks with many (most?) mitigations disabled... but Windows ships with all of them enabled.
You in 2005: "The web targets IE6! Firefox should acknowledge reality!"
No, alternate payment methods are not allowed for selling digital goods.
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These two cultures can't come together while staying the same, and both countries consider their culture worth protecting.

I am not optimistic.
> 23 microservices he had carved up out of a Java Spring app. A small change anywhere in the code meant he had to redeploy all of it,

Those aren't microservices, by definition.
From many of the comments in this thread, one might think that FAANG companies invented the concept of open source software or that software doesn't exist outside the context of a "profit model." Whatever is going on at Mozilla right now, the notion that a piece of open source software even needs to be profitable (let alone supported by a single large company) in order to continue existing is ridiculous.

I'll concede that there are unique challenges associated with developing a web browser (it's certainly a moving target) and that there need to be several people working on it full time, but is that really something that can only happen when one big company/organization is funding the project? As for Rust, maybe someone could point me in the direction of the one benevolent large company that's backing GCC/G++ or CPython or Ruby?

I'm not saying what's going on with Mozilla isn't absolutely terrible, but the notion that Firefox or Rust are going to somehow just go away (and that this is what was destined to happen all along because Mozilla is not profitable) just doesn't really make any sense.
Anyone that mentions vendor lock-in with cloud never worked in IT before cloud.
Then someone can dual license the code. Something like AGPL for general development and commercial licenses via request. This way the source is open at all times and companies that want to use it and modify it for commercial purposes can get a commercial license for that. In this case the biggest issue is copyright assignment. In order to dual license you require everyone who's contributed to agree. In large projects that's difficult. In a company, copyright can be handed over to the company, but anyone outside the company who contributes has to either sign over copyright or agree to letting their contributions be dual licensed.

The best option looks like a tight copyleft license combined with a contract for copyright assignment and revenue sharing for contributors and dual licensed for commercial use. The most difficult part of this would be gauging developer worth based on contributions, but that's something that happens in every company anyways.
I think we're in agreement? I just worded it weirdly.
> and the S and X are around ~ £80K

Plus VAT at 20% - and the non-base S models are around £88K, so you end at £105K plus any other registration fees. The X tends to be about the same for non-base.
Ketamine’s promise as antidepressant is being undermined by its lack of profit
They offer it as a stopgap, which, I agree with you, seems improbable given the latest reports on vaccines:

Used once a day, AeroNabs could provide powerful, reliable protection against SARS-CoV-2 until a vaccine becomes available.

But maybe that's a signal that these researchers believe much of the vaccine news has been overly optimistic hype. I guess the race is on.

One question I don't think the article addressed: if successful, would this have applications beyond Covid-19? Like against the common cold?