skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am going to sound like a looney, but bear with me.

The mortality rate of Covid isn't that much higher than the seasonal flu for those aged under 50. (most children or their parents). It is far lower for those under the age of 30. Assuming 200k Americans have died from Covid, current stats put the number of deaths under the age of 18 at 70/200k and 18-44 at 6k/200k.

In other words, you child is more likely to die of the seasonal flu and about 50-100x more likely to commit suicide than dying of COVID 19. The parents themselves are at about an equal risk of dying of Covid as they are of dying by the flu.

Covid is killing plenty of folks over 50. We know this. We've known this from the start. It is incredibly odd to me, that no country has taken precautions that particularly target the safety of these older people. In places where Covid is on its last legs like MA/NY, a large number of deaths are coming out of old age homes. Surely there must be way to address those directly.

The concerns around COVID are misplaced. It is a drop-let borne disease that primarily kills old people and uses delayed symptoms to facilitate spread. Sanitizing surfaces is not going to help. Acting paranoid about your kids is not going to help.
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P.S: I have looked up legitimate stats for my claims, but am not linking them atm, due to lack of time. Also, I am purely looking at death and not side effects. I also don't claim to make the comparisons in controlled-trial manner. Lastly, masks and distancing are essential, irrespective of the points I make above. It also assumes that the current strategy is to distance until a vaccine arrives. Because, I don't think herd immunity or complete eradication are realistic possibilities.
Then don't use the alternative app stores.
Friendly ALSA user here :)!

I think the Pulse situation is very similar to the one with systemd (they’re even by the same author IIRC). There are some haters, but if you’re a hater-hater than you can just ignore them (eg. GNOME IUUC depends on both Pulse and systemd, and haters of the dependencies who want the DE just have to find their own shims, like Gentoo’s, deal with some error messages (random games and things often give me a lot of audio-related ones, but generally work ok anyway) or just leave for another DE or WM).
This is a terrible article. It’s subtle clickbait, seemingly designed too discourage constructive discussion while encouraging argumentation.

The choices are ambiguously worded to the point that one could project a spectrum of meanings to them. We know nothing about the sample other than that there are 1000 of them and they are parents. We don’t know where they live. We don’t know whether they’re employed and what their level of employment and financial circumstance is. We don’t know how old they are or how old their children are.

Finally they are asked what their greatest worry is and then they have to choose between three choices or assert that they have no worries at all.

At the same time the completely ambiguous results and ambiguous wording allow anyone who feels like arguing to project their own hopes and fears to the results.

Just stay away from bullsh*t like this. It’s poison.
A newsletter format perhaps, meant to eventually make the website merely a side bonus. Depending on how they're done, newsletters can be wildly lucrative, far more so than a site like PainScience.

I scanned his site, I see no newsletter. I think that's an extraordinary mistake, to not have been leveraging all that free Google traffic all those years to build up something like that. You use the free Google traffic to make Google unnecessary to your business, that should always be your focus (of what to utilize the Google traffic for) while the freebie traffic is still flowing.

100% this guy would have been better off building a wholly independent newsletter type service that had zero dependence on Google and could be built out via other means (once it's cash flowing you can legitimately advertise it to build subscribers up, it becomes free-standing and self-building as a real business, Google is almost entirely cut out of the situation then, and anything you get from Google traffic is a bonus). The beauty of a newsletter, again if it's applicable to what you're doing, is it's a free agent, you're not going to be dependent on a singular traffic source, you can take advantage of all of them without much fear of losing your business because one traffic source vanishes.

He still has some search traffic, I'd put all of my effort into building a newsletter on the back of what's left, there might still be time to unlock from Google this way while using Google's remaining search traffic to kick free.

As a bonus he can also still sell/promo his books via a newsletter.
> But make sure you also get your story points done for this sprint and meet your OKRs for this quarter.

The problem here is the points aren't measuring quality, they are measuring a type of velocity that doesn't take into account quality if you aren't getting points for that work.

Read: PMs often drive a timeline that accepts engineering risk, but not responsibility for that decision when it doesn't work.
Oh right, my modern brain went to the wrong name.
pgrote posted this tweet elsewhere in the thread [0]. They literally gave users the option for apple app store pay for $9.99 and Epic direct payment as $7.99.

[0]: https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1293893660493455360
If I was apple I'd quickly exempt Epic and allow them to charge however they want, but not change the rules for anyone else. The number of other players that are large enough to have this kind of sway (so could try the same thing) must be pretty small, and going through the courts might hurt more.
It's going to be interesting. Epic might be able to reposition the image of Apple phones. Black and white design, dull colors, fragile... Old people phones.
Tim Cook typing "gg"?

Gg is good game, when someone admits defeat to the opponent.
How much of a security risk is side loading apps? It seems pretty large to me, even on a fortified system like iOS.
Who else is apple competing with to put apps on iphones? Compared to android where you have indy devs, samsung store, play store, or any other store; it's a clear monopoly.
Redditor claims that CREST gives the NCC Group test data and an unfair advantage
I was browsing r/netsec and came across this post[0] on how the NCC Group had training data leaked online and posted to Github[1].

The comment (as linked in this post) is a throwaway and makes some claims about this relationship. I figured it was interesting and worth a share (and perhaps discussion) here.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/i87d03/ncc_group_ad...

[1]: https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/11/ncc_group_crest_cheat...
Almost all the drivers on Linux are FOSS. I’ve never owned a device that needs closed drivers (other than phones and dear god do those drivers suck balls) but I’ve heard some pretty bad things from friends and people on the internet who have had to tolerate closed GPU drivers.
Thank you, very useful information. Makes complete sense for a media type initially designed to power cameras and audio and video recorders.
Jira lost its usefulness around 2014. It became much too cumbersome to use, and Atlassian‘s help documentation was/is? out of date. We asked for training, something more than poorly written documentation, and we were quoted an exorbitant price for that training. That was the straw that broke the back and we left Atlassian for good in late 2015 and never looked back.
Same here, and I prefer Linux systems that give me more control, so I take the time to install Void and Gentoo on all my machines (and even my primary dedicated server runs Void).

But whenever I try to install Ubuntu or Fedora on a laptop, it just installs and boots fine.
True, but there are other places to buy things than Walmart.

The internet is reasonably open and accessible on iOS, but utilizing the full capability of an iOS device requires the App Store.

Stallman spent a ton of time crusading about how some things are appliances, and other things are computers; those things that are computers should offer flexibility (and ideally openness) in terms of what software you can run on them. In this case, the largest manufacturer of computing devices and software wants 30% of every transaction from native software run on their devices.

Epic was basically looking for preferential treatment, but now they're stepping up to the plate and saying the App Store is not market-friendly. It seems like they could be right, seeing as large as Apple is, and what role they actually have in computing.
That's an easy allegation to throw out. Someone can advocate for a social safety net and still have bills due next month.
As someone that lived through the 1980s and the PC/Mac wars, this is way more than mocking.

It's literally saying to Apple's face that they've become IBM in this situation.
Pretty much the definition. They could either play Epic's game by booting them off or face potentially other apps breaking TOS in response. Epic was aiming for a certain reaction and they achieved it.
Life has risks - you could fall off a ladder and injure yourself, but we dont outlaw them because as a society we recognize that they are also useful tools.
where on PC?
itch.io allows developers to set the take, down to 0% if they want. Patreon allows users to adjust the take in exchange for less / more features. There's lots of alternative models that aren't a flat 30% fee.
Right - epic isn’t going to give you the source.

But you can run anything you can build.

Building a good Xcode project is as simple as pushing the “open in Xcode” button on github and pushing build. Obviously not all projects are that nice.
The Cloud of Darkness versus Joie De Vivre
iOS push notifications from developers all go to Apple first, as the phones only maintain a connection to Apple.

Every push notification goes through Apple servers only.

They’d have to build a feature into iOS to allow it to maintain persistent connections to other notification services.
Yes it only runs games (and maybe multimedia).

Phone run everything from games over office apps to unlocking you apartment doors or handling the check-in at a hotel (yes some hotels have app based check-in).

(And in the end Apps is just a handy short form of Application, so you could say even the name kinda implicates this ;=) )
How the Wikimedia Foundation is continuing efforts to reduce its carbon impact
Well hugeish ... originally it only played nationwide once (but in the superbowl)

However Epic's rework is very on point - Apple has become what it originally claimed it was rising up against
You are thinking unilaterally on a multilateral issue...
It's funny cause that is literally how steam started too.
I partly agree, but I think it's awesome that a huge company is taking on the fight instead of "negotiating" special fee adjustments like Amazon is doing in the backroom.

If the fight is successful, that will benefit everyone.
systemd's widespread adoption was somewhat controversial and took years. I realize Upstart didn't receive widespread adoption, and Canonical has historically liked to start its own products (Mir and Unity as you noted). But the discussion around systemd was not "everyone except Canonical thinks it's good", and Upstart had been in development for several years.
Didn't these guys build their own distribution channel and withhold their best game from a competitor so they could 1) build their own walled garden and 2) avoid Steam's 20-30% fee?
I've had good luck with language / tech specific IRC and Slack channels. Your mileage may vary.
I don't think it's a stretch to say that these platforms are being monopolistic either. Why should you not be able to write your own game and sell DVDs of it for people to play?

Of course, in this case piracy would be the primary reason for the restriction, but I think it's valid to look at places where the platform is controlled by a single vendor.
It was 20M in 2018, so it's probably more now:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/04/app-store-hits-20m-registe...
Such a staged drama by Epic Games. They even had a video ready to go!
What's been really fun to watch is the collateral damage of AB5 - set out with malicious intent to "punish" Uber and Lyft and it also managed to take out all the independent journalists and writers too.

Many who are unabashedly liberal and were in support of AB5 until it took the legs out from under them too.

Serves them right.
That's correct, Epic's not altruistic here. But who else would be able to fight Apple's lawyers if not another multi-million dollar company?
Epic isn't trying to win at judicial court with this ad; it's trying to win at the court of popular opinion here.
I should have said that you can’t logically make a decision based on unknowns.

Certainly many people make all kinds of decision based on irrational fear.

“We know there’s potential long term health effects” — without a percentage qualifier of how many people are affected, and a qualifier on the magnitude of the effect, this statement is utterly meaningless. There’s “potential long term health effects” (of some unspoken magnitude, to some unspoken percentage of the population) to everything.

“We don’t know how severe or how likely children”.... hundreds of thousands of children have tested positive for COVID. What we know for sure is that most will never know they ever even had it, and of those that do, less than 1% require hospitalization. 10-24 year olds are about 25x more likely to die of suicide than of COVID. (6,500 vs 175)

One thing we absolutely do know for sure is that social isolation will increase the suicide and overdose number in older kids. We also know that detected cases of children abuse and neglect are way down since lockdowns started, and it’s not because kids are being abused or neglected less. We know many kids primary source of good nutrition comes from school lunches. The evidence all points to closing schools being more dangerous for children than opening them. Particularly for children in low income households.

There may be an argument for closing schools, but it’s one that sacrifices children‘s social, mental, and economic wellbeing for the sake of potentially lower transmission among other truly at-risk populations.
Where did you get this silly idea?

Valve's decision to no longer support Ubuntu as a first-class distribution, a year ago, probably. Though that's just one distribution, not Linux as a whole.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/steam-announces-that-its...
wait, first it was a "prestigious certificate", now it's mandatory. ok.

And yes, maybe handling certain people on both sides of the aisle as what they are (e.g. war criminals) is indeed what foreign people should do. In theory, the domestic issue in the US could be solved by voting for a non-drone-killing executive – in China: good luck voting!

> would you join?
like I said, we had this with the nazi-party. People joined, afterwards they knew nothing, which might be true in their view because of domestic propaganda. Maybe we should wake up and tell the people clearly that they are supporting a 21-st century government actually building concentration camps. And yes, if you tell them that you have a problem with that side of things (e.g. you are only targeting politicians vanity not "the economy"), in a country as big and dense as China (they've always had their purges, yet always some opposition rose) opposition would eventually form.
60% != 100%. There is consumer choice.
Can't the same argument just be applied to the phone itself, though? Don't like phones that don't allow third-party app stores? Don't use them. Buy android instead.
> but is this similar to Apple though, where they allow you to sign in to subscription services (e.g. Netflix) with your existing account to the service, but don't allow sign ups (which would trigger payment processing)? Or is payment processing baked in there as well?

Actually, looking now, I think you're right. It looks like Spotify disabled setting up subscriptions on PS4. I guess PS4 subscriptions are a small enough chunk of revenue for Spotify it didn't really matter to them.

I guess the real point is that PS4 just isn't a large enough chunk of these kinds of services' market share by revenue to matter; they don't need signups, since not many people primarily use Spotify via PlayStation.
Tim Cook just testified to Congress two weeks ago that they treat all developers equally. That's not a good option for them right now.
Big enough deal for them to remove it...
2 things here:

1) Amazon has been running there own app store successfully and that has worked out well enough for them that they continue to do so and a lot of Kindle Fire owners seem to enjoy that experience.

2) Few companies are Amazon though and the ability to operate 3rd party software outside of the purview of Google's own store is severely hamstrung for most others. This has also been called out by Epic Games previously.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/21/21229943/epic-games-fortn...

Google puts software downloadable outside of Google Play at a disadvantage, through technical and business measures such as scary, repetitive security pop-ups for downloaded and updated software, restrictive manufacturer and carrier agreements and dealings, Google public relations characterizing third party software sources as malware, and new efforts such as Google Play Protect to outright block software obtained outside the Google Play store.

So even Google may eventually face legal issues regarding their anti-competitive app store practices. If big tech is forced to legitimately compete with other app stores, then continuing to charge a 30% fee will become untenable.
Estimates place it higher than that [0]: "Broken down further, "Fortnite" is said to have made $1.6 million each day on Apple's devices; if Apple is pulling in its standard cut of 30%, Apple made somewhere in the realm of $136.5 million on "Fortnite" in 2018.".

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-does-fortnite-make-...
The killing example still bites you because the intent to kill, knowing & abetting, etc still matters, regardless of method to do so. It's not just the murder, but also everything around the murder that gets swept into it.

It seems to me data collection is illegal, so TSA doesnt do it directly -- the problem is that TSA intends to collect, and knowingly (and provably?) works around it, but is not being punished for it.
> they're not a monopoly

As is well known with anti-trust lawsuits that depends on how one defines market.

As is less known, anti-trust lawsuits don't actually require monopolies.
Regulation isn't done by the administration. There is a specific bipartisan antitrust committee that handles these issues.
Valve is actively contributing to Proton and the number of supported games increases continuously.
https://www.protondb.com/ tracks the playability of each game in Linux.
It's permanent.

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/the-fortnite-m...
This keeps being trotted out but is actually a solved problems. For those situations where both parents have to work and both have to work out of home the schools can stay open and give a limited number of pupils regular lessons.

That way you cut down tremendously on a potential vector of transmission with as limited an impact as possible. We've done this here in NL successfully and in other countries besides.
I really like this approach because as you said, it gets really messy to do string replacements inline in a python file.

I'm curious if any people here are comfortable using stored procedures as an alternative to this.

Stored procs give you the benefit of your sql being easy to change in a sql editor, but you also get query planner caching of the results which means it will likely execute faster than string replacement inline sql.
Actually, I don't think most people who buy iPhones have any idea what they're buying into. They're buying a phone. In some cases, they're buying an iPhone to access things like FaceTime. if they want to communicate with their friends then they must buy an iPhone.
Just like Zuckerburgs trouncing on the rights of native Hawaiians, Facebook has shown a deep, callous disregard to the rights, needs, and concerns of everyone else.
Found: A Miniature Incan Llama at the Bottom of Lake Titicaca
Epic is still majority owned by Tim Sweeney. I think this is a power move out of principal more than anything
Well, I've been forced to use Jira for a decade or two now. Not a huge fan, but it is ok. Ties directly into gitlab, has a kanban-like board. Every used bugzilla?

But, I've never had any of these other complaints. When will this ticket get fixed? By the end of the sprint. I do tickets in order of priority. Rarely been a problem, so surprised to hear it brought up.

At my current gig, the PM has been there a decade and I only a year, so a great majority of the time I am asking/he is telling me how things should work at a high level. I value the advice.

I did work for one disaster project about ten years ago. Constantly interrupted for fires, tens of hours of meetings per week, and rarely finished sprints. We were overloaded on tickets because sprint planning never took interruptions/meetings/bugfixes into account. We used bugzilla there, but it wasn't the culprit.

Annoyances: just thought of one. The issue page has a ton of stuff I don't care about and de-emphasizes the comments which I'm most focused on. I also don't like how when you click on things it switches to edit mode.
You literally just right click and open. Hardly a hoop.
There isn't an iPhone industry, there's a smartphone industry, and Apple (despite all their profits) only controls a small portion of that business.

Their strategy also adds a lot of consumer value. I use an iPhone specifically because I understand the tradeoffs between freedom and reliability/security, and I go for the reliability/security. Not everyone wants a second job playing sysadmin on their smartphone.
Whatever disturbance that presumably causes is its own violation.
> The drive to make sense of the world appears to be innately human

I think it is something kids learn though. They seem content early on (2-3 years) with a collection of observations (I ate water melon, my hands are sticky, I’m now touching the dog), yet they constantly see us engaging in “sense making” as part of teaching them to talk and described their surroundings.
Burn it all down. Create a new society formed from mutual aid and non-heirchial power structures. Capitalism is the disease.
You only have to travel to third world countries like USA.
Via the FTC[1]:

> Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power. Courts look at the firm's market share, but typically do not find monopoly power if the firm (or a group of firms acting in concert) has less than 50 percent of the sales of a particular product or service within a certain geographic area.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Looking from outside the country: how? How can you like him? I know I will probably not start a good discussion by my question. But I hope to do so.

What could someone like in this man? I struggle to find any redeeming qualities.

Not from the US, but looking from the outside, it seems your country is collapsing on itself and people are cheering on this word little individual that shows little abilities. Just puzzling to me.
I didn't consider that angle. Although to me that is almost a separate issue. Even If Apple allowed separate App Stores I suspect they would still find a way to prevent access to private APIs.