skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that anti-vaxers make this point against vaccines that have been used for a long time about which we do understand the long term health consequences.

This is contrasted to the long term health consequences of COVID-19, which appears could be significant, but we just aren't certain yet only because there just aren't any long term survivors yet and thus studies [0] related to it haven't been completed. I don't think this is past the limit.

0 - https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/news/2020/looking-forward-understa...
iPhone has just under 50% in the United States. The 22% share is globally. So in a US court, their would be an argument for monopoly (or duopoly).

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held....
agree, i wish government around the world would think the same.
My experience aligns far more with parent's than yours. The Linux Desktop experience is still pretty garbage.
HTTPS in the Real World
Climate change is coming faster than expected. It will be ignored by the Trump regime, just like the pandemic is.
Don't forget jailbreakers have been prosecuted in the past.
I think that Apple will prevail in this legal fight . Apple is in good terms with this administration. Even when the social media has taken the blame by Congress, it has been google, Facebook and Twitter that have come under fire - but Apple not so much. And currently the US is in a position where how heavy handed the treatment is dependent on your relationship with the administration.
You need people to drive their cars safely into the intake with an average delay of two seconds, to match a very middling subway system running at a delay of 7 minutes instead of 2, assuming that every single car is filled to the brim. This is completely ridiculous. You won't be able to make people do anything with an average delay of 2 seconds, without any mistakes. The question isn't on-ramps, it's getting people to merge or arrive at the dispatch on average every two seconds without making any mistakes.
AFAIK in-app purchases are no problem on XBox.
You can buy your Fortnite V-Bucks anywhere and can use them on XBox just fine, no?
I spent the afternoon in a bookstore. There were no books in it. None had been printed for nearly half a century. And how I have looked forward to them, after the micro films that made up the library of the Prometheus! No such luck. No longer was it possible to browse among shelves, to weigh volumes in hand, to feel their heft, the promise of ponderous reading. The bookstore resembled, instead, an electronic laboratory. The books were crystals with recorded contents. They could be read with the aid of an opton, which was similar to a book but had only one page between the covers. At a touch, successive pages of the text appeared on it.

[...]

But optons were little used, the sales-robot told me. The public preferred lectons – like lectons read out loud, they could be set to any voice, tempo and modulation.

Stanisław Lem, "A Return from the Stars", 1961

More: https://culture.pl/en/article/13-things-lem-predicted-about-...

:)
U.S. Immigration Shutdown Imminent as Congress Talks Collapse
Half-true. (Source: worked at a big 4 consulting firm >a decade ago for a few projects involving significant antitrust problems in the tech industry.)

You need to have some significant market power (yes, vague) such that your elasticity of demand is steep and elasticity of supply of competitors is steep.

The law is (purposefully?) vague, as the key arguments come down to:

1) Market definition

2) Definition and analysis of price impacts on demand

3) Ease of entry into the market by competitors

Textbook example: Bing promoting Microsoft products when it was created (2009?) is not as problematic (read: won't get scrutinized by the US government) as Google promoting G Suite products.
umm Tim Sweeny? you mean the first person to do store exclusives in PC gaming?
Sure, but that does not mean you cannot run LXD on Ubuntu without Snap.

I compile new versions, test it out in staging, and then ship the update to production servers, which is currently a mix of Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE.

Do not get me wrong, I do not like snap (or flatpak for that matter), and would much prefer if LXD was available through a PPA, or the default Ubuntu repositories, but LXD itself does not require snap, it is just the default distribution method.
Just when the "Apple Fellow" Phil Schiller wanted to take some break, These recent App Store incidents starting from HEY will make it very very hard for him!
yep, everyone needs to wear PPE and go to the polls
It's kinda hypocritical since Epic has a very similar business model for anything that's built using the Unreal Engine.
I just hand drew a rocket to Uranus. I hereby decree I am now the inventor.
What is this, Windows 10?
Painting your strawmen with very broad brushes.

What about the long term health consequences of poverty? At least those are known.
Bug causes YAM cryptocurrency to implode two days after launch
Can't wait to troubleshoot my parents iphones after courts force them to allow arbitrary code installs from any source without apple's curation.

The whole value proposition of iOS is they BLOCK CRAP.
"Hide my Email for Sign in", killing advertising identifiers, preventing cross app tracking, etc. are all things that can only exist on a platform where code is signed and sandboxed.

Is Apple's app store vetting or API restrictions perfect? No, of course not. But it is a million times better than any other platform.
Considering some other stories regarding how Hurd project was managed early on, the lack of appropriately capable debugger might be due to non-technical issues...
Caused by huge safety problems and huge lying about safety problems.
Because the task at hand is "interoperate with dozens of other people whom you don't control and who are all using Microsoft Word Track Changes feature". In that (extremely limited but important) sense, Track Changes is first class citizen and git and all other systems that aren't exactly that are second-class.
It should be up to device owners, not Apple to decide what services can send push notifications to device. On macOS, you can run a background service that listens to whatever the user needs. But on iOS, Apple behaves like it owns the device even after sale. This is not acceptable.
Provide a recent version of Arduino on debian-based systems ;)

They're mainly useful for applications which either release too fast or too slow compared to regular distributions. The apps contain their own dependencies.

Another advantage is for messy applications. I'd much rather run Wine applications inside of a sandboxed snap than pollute my base system with all the multilib stuff that's required for wine.

For more information; I also wrote a blogpost about why things like Snaps and Flatpaks are useful for Open Source apps: https://merlijn.sebrechts.be/blog/2020-07-06-why-snap-flatpa...
The 4th in the 5th: Temporal Aspects of Cyber Operations
These kind of highly communicable respiratory pandemics only get reclassified. What we call "flu season", for example, is just the continuing spread of past flu pandemics. Most health officials expect that this will be the long term trajectory for the coronavirus, even with vaccines and herd immunity.
I have the feeling that any site that reports against your narrative will be deemed "a propaganda site and shouldn't be used as a legitimate source". Good luck speaking to your echo chamber. At least I can see what your what your ideological opponents are focused on. The silence of some news organizations re: the seizure of these fake ids is deafening, btw...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/authorities-seize-thousands-of-fa...
The difference is the spirit of the purpose they're purchased "for." Which is why (while I hate some of the walled garden) I'm skeptical of arguments to break up Apple or force them to generalize their products. Regulating the relationship between an offering and the supposed intention behind a purchase seems speculative at best, and, again, a win mostly reserved for the lawyers.
Any other fast Internet service, or any other Internet service?
If I go to the App Store on my phone, and go to my "Purchased" list, Fortnite is still listed there. I wasn't up to date, and clicking on "update" gives the message:

"Fortnite" No Longer Available. The developer has removed this app from the App Store.

Interesting wording. I wonder if they only have one message for pulled-by-Apple vs pulled-by-dev?
The Future of Automation: The End of Silos and Rise of Workflows
My take on the GP meaning: Failure diminishes trust from investors.

If you got 1 milliion from investors, and you blew it/wasted it/burned it. It will be harder to get the million for the 2nd idea.
I sometimes wonder why app makers don't "unionize", to collectively threaten to boycott the Apple ecosystem, to pressure Apple into reducing its cut. An iPhone without apps is much less valuable than an iPhone with apps.
> determine the changes that are necessary to remediate legitimate grievances

Except that the grievances don't appear to be that legitimate and the changes that would be necessary don't appear to be too popular with the majority of the population. Capitulating to a violent mob out of fear of further violence surrenders control from the democratic process to escalating barbarism.
Epic are not Costco and the amount they charge for items is not simply designed to repay what it costs to create the items and the game - in fact by all accounts they're raking it in. I'd be very surprised if they hadn't carefully tried to optimize their pricing based on what they expected to give the most revenue, which of course would lead to a pricing model very much like the one they actually had prior to this PR stunt where the pricing is independent of whether Google or Apple or Sony are taking a cut, and the amount taken by the platform only affects how much of that price Epic get to keep.
Author here. Read the post.
I'd like to hear the argument for digital things not 'existing'
Alan Kay might disagree:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook
If apple makes the case that the App Store is a feature, which it is, and not a right; They can make a strong case against the monopoly(really duopoly with Google Play). People forget that the iPhone launched with no app store, and its only 3rd party app was google maps. Apple only add the app store because developers want to develop apps, and apple said okay, and provided an interface that allows them to maintain the quality of their product. Apple could kill the app store tomorrow if they wanted to, and replace them with partnerships with various companies; technically app store apps are partnerships with Apple. The iTunes music store works that way: it is a partnership with record companies, who are not required to participate; Ex. Beatles catalog was unavailable for years. Epic games does not have to participate in the iOS market, they have a "CHOICE"; similar to how a lot of game developers don't make a Mac OS version. Granted it would not be in Apple's best interest to remove the app store, but technically it is a product not a feature.
The only anti-trust argument you can really make is bundled apps. Apple will disapprove apps that appear to do functionally the same thing. This is anti-competitive, and if Apple switches there stance on that then they are fine. Also, user's have a choice to remove most default apple apps, so they once again customers have a choice to use them or not.

I will say that 30% is a bit excessive, for most apps nowadays. Back in 2008 til about 2012-2014(ish) it made sense. Storage, bandwidth, and credit card processing were extremely expense. A million downloads would bankrupt small companies, especially free apps. Not only that when there were less apps in the app store, it did make marketing cheaper. That advantage is no longer the case with the oversaturation of apps. At the end of the day, Apple can do what they want to do as can developers(not provide their apps); which means that it is not anti-competitive/anti-trust. Also, iOS is such a small percentage of the market, and user's/developers have a choice to go to android.
The dam that Egypt has threatened to go to war over
They literally support none of those things (except maybe identity politics).
You can run pretty much any code on your iPad and iPhone that you want. You do need to pay your 99 bucks or so for a dev account, but you can run anything you can build for your iOS devices that way.

There is no "locked down attitude" with macOS, macOS is as open as ever. You can easily turn off all the malware protection if you want to do that. Many devs do.

The argument here isn't about you running any code you want. The argument is about access to the App Store and forcing Apple to allow anyone to distribute anything. That's something I don't want. I want Apple to distribute high quality apps that I can generally trust not to be riddled with malware, unlike their competitors. Apple has built a high value App Store, and devs want to change that to suit their wishes, and in so doing would turn it into the thing it has managed to keep away from since its beginning.
You don't bite the hand that feeds.
In case you haven't seen it (like I hadn't), this ad is a parody of the 1984 Apple Macintosh ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
In all the parts of the world I’ve been in, I’ve never seen a gas station without an electronic sign?
And to really make Starlink profitable, they need to launch it with Starship. Funny how it all comes around.
Epic has published an in-game Macintosh commercial spoof in response to Apple
ISTM that anything which lets you install multiple versions side by side will require each version to have pinned versions of dependencies, transitively, until it's very close to the dominant node, which ultimately is the OS API, which in turn, done right, is backward compatible.

You can implement that versioned dependency DAG as a database of versioned libraries etc. combined with a version pinning database; or you can simply use disk space, and keep a copy of every dependency and put each in its own subtree, making the version pinning database implicit in the tree construction.

I don't see the latter solution as being intrinsically worse than the former. I don't think there's a real alternative either; the most reliable set of dependencies is the same set as the original binary was built and tested with.

(And of course it's not just libraries, but also configs of various flavours, assets, etc. If you didn't use the subtree approach, you'd need to reimplement it in a shim layer to simulate it, in order to package yesterday's applications today.)
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/sites/default/files/20... page 7.

$63,504 a year for a $400 million organization.
Looks like a cool idea. I wonder if I can make it to work easily with this other lovely python library https://github.com/pudo/dataset
https://github.com/pudo/dataset
A lot of the tough on crime stuff is Dem's trying to counter the "law and order" playbook by the GOP. Criminal "justice" definitely needs to be re-examined and re-worked.
I feel like this is only true if one of the two players is really small. Epic is not small by any measure. they can afford the best legal team they want, and just like programming, at some point throwing lawyers at a problem won't necessarily make it easier to win.
President Trump has explicitly said he's okay with the system in Florida.

Universal mail-in voting is different in that every registered voter gets a mail-in ballot without even requesting one.
Same here. I started going through the excellent guide a few weeks ago.
Author here. I'm happy to address any issues in the article. Let me know if there are any issues.
The bigger the bully, the harder they eventually fall.
The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity
nothing would stop you continueing to use apple's curated store just like many people choose to go to sanitized Blockbuster Video instead of sleazy corner video store. That didn't mean other stores needed to get prevented so that you could go to a store you trusted
That is my biggest concern as well. Plus the reality that if both parents come down with serious symptoms the kids likely have it, so it would not be ideal to send the kids to other family members to watch long term
Absentee ballots != mail in ballots
Looks like we had the same idea at the exact same time! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24148552
Australia doesn't have the TSA...
It's not necessarily about making more money, it's about creating persistent returns. Making games is difficult, expensive, and risky. No company can just decide to create a franchise that will be successful indefinitely.

Fortnite was a stroke of luck, the wise thing to do is not to invest that money back into the franchise, which may soon be tossed aside by the audience, nor would it be wise to undertake a massive new project.

Valve figured out a long time ago that it's much better business to just sit back and let other people make games while you rake in the cash with zero risk. Epic is in a unique position to maybe pull that off as well.
I don't have exact numbers on this any more. It's been couple of years since I last worked in embedded storage and boot optimization.

When optimizing boot time of an embedded system something like 100 ms is a significant saving once you've picked all the low hanging fruit in the user space init side. In the end, every millisecond counts as it all adds up when there are hundred or so places where they may end up being spent needlesly. An embedded product, especially automotive, might have rather strict boot time requirements.

The time it takes for a bootloader to load a kernel image can be a decent part of the boot time. The bootloader most likely won't be running the SDHCI controller in any of the faster modes that require implementing bus training, calibration, and tuning algorithms of varying complexity.
Hm, wouldn't this require an overturning of Atari vs. Nintendo[0] or something like that?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Games_Corp._v._Nintendo_....
The day Apple does this is the day they lose every developer in the MacOS ecosystem to Linux/maybe Windows.
The time has come to finally finish Zork!
> People who have a bulky desktop computer in their home just to browse the internet are vanishingly few.

1. a PC isn't necessarily a "bulky desktop computer", it can also be a slimline laptop!

2. "browse the internet" and "office work/run a business/etc" are not mutually exclusive. Google Docs/Office 365 etc. proves that. I'd argue the majority of business operations requires some level of internet interaction these days.

It seems to me like you've come up with a strawman definition to bat away another strawman definition. Almost everyone I know owns both a smartphone and a laptop, and the vast, vast majority of their time on that laptop is spent in a web browser.
> It's not as if cryptocurrency investors couldn't have seen this coming. The project's GitHub repo states explicitly that there's been no audit of the code.
And you can do that just fine.

You just can't tell them how to curate the App Store.
What are you talking about? Windows has an incredible app library, competitive (some say better even) with desktop Linux. Both of which have an even larger and more complete app library than OSX (and arguably the iphone.)
You can also choose to buy a different apartment.
>>These types of cases should come up first, in my opinion, but we are where we are.

Don't worry sir, the legal system is (mostly) asynchronous! You could do both.
47% is a mighty big number (although not a majority)

Samsung, second place, is 23%

[0] https://bgr.com/2020/08/12/iphone-11-sales-coronavirus-pande...
You get to be mad if your third-party child seat doesn't fit.
You would be asked to give permission to these APIs, just like you do in a normal web browser.
They’ve also been wrong for years
At the same time, 99% of game revenue probably comes from games grossing more than $1m.
Are they? Nobody seems to care much about the ordinary flu, though lots still die from it. Hospital acquired infections are a major cause of death, but few worry about that. The most likely causes of death for children are drowning and car accidents, but people worry far more about terrorist incidents. And on it goes.
The point isn't can be used to, but rather are used to.
OVH is an absolutely shitty company. I've seen a tremendous uptick of spam from OVH that they're happy to simply ignore. The same kind of spam using the same content, the same registration patterns and the same template have existed on their networks for many months in spite of constant abuse complaints.

I can't imagine why anyone would want to run anything on the same networks that OVH uses to host spammers and scammers.

And good luck talking to an actual human at OVH if something goes wrong.
It seems to me the obvious solution is to extend the "parental controls" install permission feature, and add an optional restriction API for "sideload apps" (like on Android). This would handle the "I want a locked down device" scenario for MDM and parental controls users.

Those who want an unrestricted device could enable sideloading (which would permit non-apple-notarized apps to be installed), and permit non-expiring developer self-signed apps. Then the free market could go ahead and develop "stores" and alternative ecosystems.
Since the election of the president by law has a fixed date. All votes cast on time, but that arrive late or get lost don't count.

As a citizen, you can do everything right, vote and your vote will still not count.

Whats wrong with pencil and ballot dropped into clear acrylic box, simple and works 100%.
> Debian is the best.

I just really wish they had an answer to Ubuntu's HWE stack[1] for mid-Stable hardware updates :(

(Backports don't count due to their ad-hoc & unsupported nature)

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
The physics of why hot water sometimes freezes faster than cold water
You might not die from Covid, but what if you and your partner are hospitalized for weeks at the same time? Who's going to take care of the kids? Maybe you have family or reliable friends around who can step in, but not everyone does.
Apple derives more value from an app ecosystem than just the 30% cut though. By the logic of looking only at App store margins as the value of the app store, Apple should immediately refuse to support Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and tons of other apps, since they provide zero revenue and probably use pretty significant bandwidth.

Just having a healthy app ecosystem is probably worth more than the actual money you're pulling in from the apps themselves.
Are you purposefully conflating them?

I used a phone to call an ambulance, provide the police with video evidence of a crime, navigate when I am lost, file company accounts, banking, and to aid in mapping for architecture and subsequently applying for planning permission.

What do you do on a console that could cost you life and limb or render you bancrupt?
It only does that for end users who don't want to run the commands necessary to turn all that off. It's mildly annoying, but it doesn't restrict what I as a dev can do with my Macs.
Add to this conspicuous lack of good bottom-up description of how things mesh together, and suddenly instead of having complex system built out of simple parts people face complex system built of magic. It's a credit to k8s that you can trudge forward in the second case, but I'm too divorced from "k8s newbie" to reliably check what's the current "newbie introduction" :/
Agreed. I guess what make tickles my brain about it is that you can have a rather complex set of automation, integration etc. under the hood, while keeping the surface somewhat clean.
The web is the greatest software marketing machine and it‘s open and free.
This is a very strong case for a general public strike. The only way for this administration and the Republicans to back off is for the financial market to crash.
Wonder if that false message could get them in trouble with consumer rights laws?