skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Far from it, I'm thinking more in terms of Liz Warren's Accountable Capitalism Act: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accountable_Capitalism_Act
It was just an exact copy of the famous Apple 1984 ad, except the guy on the screen had an apple for a head and the person who attacked the screen was a rainbow Fortnite character throwing a Fortnite donkey head staff
iOS market share in the US — which certainly is something US courts would care about — is nearly 60%. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...
I suppose this goes without saying, usually:

A sketch is not an invention.

Correspondingly, Star Trek didn’t invent the iPad.

You have to actually build a functioning prototype to claim to have invented something.
New tools catch and release molecules at the flip of a light switch
> 0 sketchy apps

Have you ever peeked inside one of those apps?
Snaps can contain _any_ piece of Linux software, from kernels to the printing stack, to PulseAudio and finally desktop applications.

Flatpak only focuses on Desktop Apps. For more information, see :https://merlijn.sebrechts.be/blog/2020-07-03-snap-vs-flatpak...

Another big difference is that the sandbox of Snap is much more granular. Snap uses AppArmor to mediate the _existing_ Linux api's. This allows you to give an app access to usb-serial devices but deny it access to a USB webcam, for example. Or to give an application access to joysticks and controllers, but deny it access to a webcam.

Both Snap and Flatpak support XDG Desktop Portals to give desktop applications secure access to features such as a webcam, but this is a new API, application need to be ported to the new API before they can use these features.

As a result, most snaps have much less permissions than their Flatpak counterpart because the Flatpak sandbox needs to be largely disabled for the applications to work.
Thats two different things. They are backed by loans to bitfinex, like your money in the bank is backed by mortgages etc. I am not defending this, I think it is a major fuck up (one of many by bitfinex), but again, I do not think they are insolvent and that they will not be able to cover tether liabilities.
It's only ridiculous if it's not good for their business. Maybe Microsoft is the one being ridiculous by leaving money on the table and not having a closed ecosystem.

If your complaint is that it's bad for the app developers or users, then that's different, and maybe deserves criticism but not ridicule.
I disagree it makes sense on a console.

Phones can be used to:

-communicate

-consume media

-browse the web

-play games

Consoles can be used to:

-play games

-consume media

-browse the web

-communicate

I fail to see the difference to be honest.
Yeah, so let's impose our will upon them. For their own good!
While you do have some valid points, especially when it comes to friction between PM/Devs, the way you seem to be using Jira seems to be the polar opposite of what I have experienced.

Granted, I don't have an overwhelming amount of experience working at different companies, but I feel like the Devs in my company were actually the ones that wanted to use Jira for customization options.

Intriguing!
Apple pay uses the Visa and Mastercard network though. It's on top of the V/MC cut. Apple only adds that you can use your card on the phone. You end up using your credit card anyways.
You can see the death rate dropping while cases are dramatically going up which one could argue is that exact mitigation happening.

Masks, sanitation, and distance have likely lowered the overall viral load even if one does contract it. Obviously higher testing rates contribute to the decreasing death rate but given the blind studies from asia I don't think it would be that drastic of a reduction.

It gives me some hope we can lower the risk enough to have children interact with the caveat being adults actually enforce masks/sanitation/distance.
Is that the global figure? It's much more than that for US, almost 60% actually: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta... , for example.

Don't know about tablets, but I feel it's not different.
The executive branch is obviously trying to get in our heads and create as much chaos and turmoil as humanly possible. Possibly with funding from other nations. We're being CIA'd right now.
See, for me that supports OP's point. The reason I developed a distaste for this kind of analysis is precisely because it became clear to me that the connection with the author was tenuous.

I don't feel this kind of stuff is useless, it's just that I don't find 'death of the author' stuff remotely as interesting as actually figuring out /why/ the author wrote what they did, and /what/ they intended to convey, and /how/ they decided to do it the way they did.

I suspect GPT-3 type stuff will never be able to convincingly replace an 'author'. Games might show up that finally have interesting, generated side-missions, but people like myself will likely still prefer human-created versions of them. Not because the generated versions are in themselves inferior, but because the ones that involve a human will necessarily involve said human's choices on a level above the missions themselves.

(Of course, in reality things are much less black and white. In more than one game I've felt like the designer(s) used tools to generate stuff and then curated the results.)
Indeed. We have fallen to a fascist coup. The question is whether or not they can hold on to it.
If they win they could potentially claim it all back from Apple as damages.
The idea that a centralized authority collecting taxes is necessary for a "secure device" is a flaming crock of shit. This nonsense is a convenient excuse Apple uses to abuse its position.

For an obvious alternative, compare the history of malware - - or even just programs with spyware sidecars - getting in Linux distributions to the same history of malware in the Apple app store.
There's nothing about D-Bus in general that is problematic, but rather that flatpak relies on the D-Bus session bus and systemd --user instances[0]. It can be made to work just fine on a server, but it may not be the most convenient arrangement due to this dependency on user sessions.

[0] https://flatpak.org/faq/#Can_Flatpak_be_used_on_servers_too_
In regards to your first statement, that's absolutely the point of Score Voting, to have a clear leaderboard with 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so forth. With regards to your second statement, "because we cannot access data means the data never existed?" Bayesian regret exists in all elections with all candidates, just because it's not "reported" doesn't mean it's not statistically there. The point is that Score Voting is a superset of all voting systems, and everything else is a blurrying of the detail that is available only in Score Voting. Bayesian Regret is just used to demonstrate that it will yield the highest rated candidate overall, which is logical given how it works. Nevertheless, examine the science for yourself and I believe you will soon find that all voting systems are some sort of blind or ignorant form of Score Voting. Means or averages are convenient, but you could simply take the greatest total score as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqTNO8LTggI
It’s never been better to be in the content creation business. But it is a business, and one has to find ways of getting your customers to pay you money. There is substack, patreon, and probably lots of other ways to do it. But the perspective has to revolve around getting $X0 from thosands of customers rather than getting $0.50 per thosand impressions.
I try to use first party apps because they’re usually better. When I can, I stick to the browser app - which doesn’t have a 30%/15% commission. If I can’t AND I need to pay, I’ll pay 30%/15% extra if I need to.
> Apples margins are publicly documented, no one could run a profitable app store for less than 20%.

How can you say that if apple didn't allow the competition to exist? We cannot see if someone can innovate enough to cut that margin maybe even far more than what apple made you think is the "minimum to be profitable" because apple does not allow that

Isn't this exactly the startup playing field? When there is a market standard of which some pseudo monopolist says "well no one can do better than this" and then a innovative competitor joins in and distrupts?
> I don't know we want to be able to install our own custom AC. Because maintenance of the stock one is too expensive.

You can do that actually. There are laws in places specifically that allow you to do that, because BMW would otherwise stop you.

The car industry is a perfect example. They had to put laws in place to allow you to change parts of your car, while still maintaining safety and integrity.
Isnt that the same argument from Windows?

Windows is their platform, their choice for what's installed with it and who can sell computers with windows on it
How many amusement parks can load a ride car once every two seconds? Even continuously moving ski lifts aren't anywhere close to that and that's basically ideal conditions where the seat is delivered straight to your butt, and most users can reasonable be expected to be fit and coordinated. In the real world, people dawdle. You'd probably need dozens of loading lanes to reach .5/s, which means the stations are very large and expensive caverns.
In some ways I agree, but I bet I disagree what they referendum is because a Biden/Harris Presidency Terrifies me
> The Apple bootlickers and capitalist drones in this thread need to get with the program.

Drew, you know better than to comment like that.
Good. Force them too open up as well.
Exactly what I came here to say. Epic Games is large enough to fight this. I think they purposefully chose this fight right here and now because of the looming report on anti trust violations that should be out any day.
That's exactly what happened as Epic has filed a lawsuit immediately after Apple banned them today.
Unless your friends are on iMessage, all your documents, contacts and calendar events are on iCloud, your photo library is on Apple Photos, all of which lock you into the Apple ecosystem and aren't available on Android. Sure, you can transition everything off, but I wouldn't call that a pain-free switching cost.
iOS is literally the majority of the market in the USA. It has nearly 60% market share. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...

This is certainly something US courts would care about.
You can certainly have D-Bus without Xorg or wayland present.
Funny because I recently tried to cancel an in-app subscription I signed up for through Apple and it was borderline impossible. I'd much rather prefer to have a cancellation option in the app itself, but Apple doesn't allow that. In fact Apple's in-app payment/subscription UX checks every single box in your list.
It's also another disincentive for him to get the pandemic under control. Because if we got down to tens or hundreds of infections per day per state, there'd be less need for mail-in voting.
Which holds zero legal weight, because Apple can point to them doing exactly that on Android to avoid paying Google Pay fees. They abandoned the plan about a year later because consumers didn't want to use it.
> Will your trivial custom payment system come with counter-intuitive modal popups? Unclear subscription/unsubscription terms? Inaccessible or hostile refund or return policies?

You mean like Apple's solution?
I had never heard of ADRs, but now I see that I've been putting some of the information in comments or module-level docs. I'll definitely look into the linked examples!
You seem to be deliberately missing any point I'm making. I think it's because you've dug yourself in and you're more concerned about winning an argument than in what I'm saying.

But here goes.

First, I don't care about churn--doesn't bother me. It does bother a lot of people though.

Imagine there's a console called a ChurnBox. ChurnBox only runs code written in Churn. The Churn ecosystem is known for adopting and then abandoning frameworks at a rapid pace. People who run Churn teams have a reputation for for quickly adopting the newest Churn framework of the moment.

Now you are a developer who wants to work on the ChurnBox, but you absolutely despise learning new frameworks.

You could try to find a company that uses Churn with no frameworks, but you're a bit lazy and it's hard to find that kind of thing out just from reading job advertisements, so you stick with your old trust language--Molasses.

Molasses is known for its very expansive standard library and its very slow release cycle. The community is also very conservative, so most Molasses developers stick with the standard library and new frameworks are rarely released.

One day the company that makes ChurnBox announces that they are going to run code written in a low level language called Chasm that is designed to be easy to compile to.

Then some of the Molasses maintainers announce that they are releasing a Molasses to Chasm compiler.

You're excited because you think that maybe in the future you can completely ignore the Churn ecosystem, but still get to write programs for the Churnbox. You think that maybe in the future you'll be able to easily find Molasses Churnbox shops to work with that will adopt the conventions of the existing Molasses ecosystem, and thus rarely adopt new frameworks.
So is it safe to assume that you have no meaningful response to the parent poster's criticisms of Canonical's strategy?
And what other arbitrary features should Apple be "forced" to build.

Especially ones like push notifications which in many cases are harmful to consumers.
> ... non-detectable dangling access conditions.

My understanding is that the dangling access conditions potentially arise due to the delayed release of deleted handles.

["... Instead the rendering system would only mark the resource object for destruction when the user code requests its destruction, but the actual destruction happens at a later time when the GPU no longer uses the resource."]
Paywall'd right-wing source was the best you could do?
> I can list a ton of APIs that are available to native iPhone apps that aren't available to apps via Safari.

And thank God for that! I don't want websites in Safari to have the APIs available to a native app!
American democracy hangs in the balance. It's time for some very loud civil disobedience, folks.
> Personally I don't understand monopoly arguments.

Firstly, the term 'monopoly' is frequently used in the meaning of 'monopoly power' not as pure monopoly. Competition laws take effect long before full monopoly. Market failures can start appear even with 20% market share in some markets.

Secondly, I suspect that you implicitly have some narrow definition of market in mind. In competition law, defining a relevant market is essential and nontrivial. You seem to think about smartphones as "the market". iOS app distribution can be also considered a market.

Personal opinion: multiplayer game like Fortnight benefits from network effect. People are playing across devices and platforms. You could argue that Android and iPhone platforms are complement products in App Markets instead of substitutes. Restrictions in one may harm sales in the other. All game developers must sell to both platforms to be on the market. iOS App store relies on this effect. There is no choice.
Well ChromeOS was successful so you could see Firefox OS as an alternative in the market. They both came out at the same time. There were of course 6 different table/mobile OSes at the time. Maybe it was a difference in execution. Or maybe resources.
I said it many times and I'll say it again: it's not a choice you get to make as a company or an individual that has a service that needs an app. If you're to have any semblance of success, you can't only have an Android app.

As far as my personal preferences go, I use Android since 2011 and can't fathom switching to iOS.
I think the problem is that Atlassian has designed their tools for information hiding.

I may not agree with Larry Wall on much, but he is credited with one of my favorite aphorisms:

Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

You can't pre-filter complexity for developers. That's our job. We have to know that there features available even if they have been turned off. Otherwise we're going to blame the tool for skimping on functionality. And we are perfectly right too, because how the fuck are we supposed to know that Bamboo has a feature if the button only shows up for full administrators?

Of course we're going to bag on it. And they deserve every bit of it.
10x higher for people in their 80’s. Show me where the death rate is 10x higher than the flu for people under 40.
Yeah it almost reads like a comparison piece. Pretty much all of the points relate back to the fact developers are adding manual updates and how the competitor solves it by integrating Git PRs and commits. However that's easily possible in JIRA now via the integrations (e.g. GitHub) and automations to close tickets depending on the status.

Still, even then with the automations in any of this software to show VCS updates you're going to get managers asking for updates depending on your environment.
> If you don't want to pay their fees, don't use their platform.

Or instead of that, companies can use the law to prosecute apple for anti-competitive behavior. Anti-competitive behavior is illegal and should be prosecuted.
>How is that "deserved"?

It may be deserved because that's what many people want rather than a plain vanilla list of ingredients and instructions.
was that benchmark done on non-apple software?
Yeah.

https://twitter.com/RaveofRavendale/status/12940021057374126...
I don't think "freely" is the adverb I'd use to describe the sideloading process, considering how "freely" and effortlessly I can install apps in Google's preferred way through the Play Store.

Google made it so third party app stores like F-Droid can't even implement auto-upgrading, or background installations of apps. App stores outside of the Play Store and 3rd party apps are 2nd class citizens on Android.

It is similar to how Gatekeeper works in macOS. Developers that didn't pay Apple $100 a year to develop and notarize software have their apps get treated like they're radioactive by Gatekeeper.
> due to lower density is more difficult to serve, multiple trash trucks serve multiple customers and there is no problem.

You can't compare the two like that because they are fundamentally different environments.

In the countryside it makes more sense to contract separately because trash pickup is less frequent and there are so few people in general - definitely not enough to achieve the economies of scale. The trash pickup trucks there are likely involved in lots of other businesses, too. And even with that, a lot of people in the "countryside" just illegally dump trash. They can get away with that because of the low density and lack of enforcement.

In the city, if trash pickup were something that households and business contracted out optionally, a substantial minority of people will not pay for the service at all and instead litter the the high density common environment with their trash. This already happens to a degree, especially with large items and construction debris, and without municipally organized trash removal, it would be even worse.
Nobody knows anything for sure, but "the virus might be causing huge hidden damage to kids" is in the same kind of unlikely tail risk as "social distancing might be building up so much social pressure it'll cause a violent revolution". Sure, it might be, but speculation like that can't be a primary factor in decisionmaking.
On the Internet, I believe so. You see the crazies and the anti-maskers but anyone worried about e.g. the mental health of their children or the viability of their family business is filtered out.

We are seeing waves of permanent restaurant closings where I am from, and people seem reluctant to put 2 and 2 together.
There were so many things which aren't horrible for our democracy which could have been done to change how 2016 turned out. Not taking a shit on the progressive wing of the party at every step may have helped some, actually campaigning in some of the states she assumed to have in the bag and then lost may have helped too.

Obama doing something anti-democratic, illegal, etc to ensure Trump wasn't elected is not a step I would ever support.
Customers don’t “have to be treated like children”. An Apple device is an option you can choose if you want that extra layer of blanket protection. That’s the whole point of having choices in a competitive market.

You get to choose in a competitive market which device you want to buy.

This attempt to try to force Apple to change how they do business is eliminating a key differentiator and therefore removing the ability for a consumer to choose this approach.
Where does Apple cross the line from being able to sell a completely closed garden product to having to allow fair competition?

If iPhone had no App store and only had official Apple apps we wouldn't be having this conversation, regardless of how popular iPhones are.

I think Apple is in the wrong, but a critical issue what threshold or criteria must be met for them to be required to offer an open(ish) platform?

*open(ish) meaning allowing alternative app stores or charging industry standard payment processing fees.
They've now posted an FAQ site to ask their fans to complain to Apple with the #FreeFortnite hash tag.

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/freefortnite

(this beef is fascinating to watch)
Arguably, Microsoft also does it on Xbox.
The thing is, a lock down isn't required to stop the virus.
Apple does an extremely poor job of software inspection - they have API limiters that are quite effective at shutting down a lot of the malicious-to-device software people might write but privacy concerns are impossible for them to cover. Depending on how you define unsigned code your statement is either quite correct or extremely inaccurate and I think issues like privacy and data tracking are, honestly, more noticeable and impactful to the average non-techy user than your phone being part of a botnet.
That actually isn't true. Tim Sweeny has majority control and does care. For him this is ideological.
That's great, and I'm glad that works for you. Allowing 3rd-party app stores would not require you to install and use them. But it would offer more choice -- and likely lower prices -- for people who do want that choice.

The only issue becomes if companies stop listing their apps on Apple's main app store, and if you want it, you have to install their 3rd-party store. If that starts happening, I bet Apple will react appropriately, and make it more attractive to developers to list on their app store. Y'know, how healthy competition is supposed to work.
> I don't want a situation where 10 apps means 10 different privacy agreements

No one forces you to side-load. I don't see how you not wanting something turns into "no one else should have it"
There is absolutely no proof that children will not have long term health impacts that could reverberate for the rest of their lives. There are signs of chronic health repercussions for adults who have been infected. There is no telling yet what we can expect for children as they grow.
But could it be that the extra 30% Apple charges goes partly towards curating apps and ensuring they work well and are reasonably secure?

And that the high-spending consumer segment appreciates this?
I sketched the XBOX in 1998. I even named it the “X-BOX” on the paper.
> Democrats denounced Mr Trump's comment, saying his position is an attempt to prevent Americans from voting him out.

I mean, his comment was openly admitting that...
.. umm android users have been talking shit about iPhone specs for years