skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're generalizing your own opinion. If I could buy an iPhone and run Android on it, I would do that. Instead I'm stuck choosing between good hardware with crappy OS (Apple) vs. outdated hardware with an OS that fits my needs (all Android devices).
Will your trivial custom payment system come with counter-intuitive modal popups? Unclear subscription/unsubscription terms? Inaccessible or hostile refund or return policies?

I don't want to prematurely insinuate that you or other's solutions would all have such characteristics but as a consumer I don't care how developers get paid and I enjoy the benefits of Apple's integrated UX around iOS payments and subscriptions.

But I am also a developer and enjoy benefits of open-ness and choice in my work as well so I struggle with my opinions on this issue.
for other reasons, i do feel like we need a more digitally literate political leadership base
Yup, I play Overwatch at ~100fps at 1440p on an intel 2500k from 2011. CPU might matter for other games, but not the ones I play.
The question is, would you also adjust the price when the others increased their prices?

If a store knows that the other store will raise their price in response, they can collude without an explicit agreement.
> Epic is not bringing this case to recover these damages; Epic is not seeking any monetary damages.

Well, that's interesting.

> But for Apple’s illegal restraints, Epic would provide a competing app store on iOS devices, which would allow iOS users to download apps in an innovative, curated store and would provide users the choice to use Epic’s or another third-party’s in-app payment processing tool

So, Epic doesn't want money, they want the ability to allow users to install an Epic App Store. They must assume there's a lot more money to be made by operating a competing store.
Neither is the iPhone.
My spidey sense is screaming poes law. It's like every overly simplistic argument in one post, and no replies. Kudos to the author for encapsulating all the arguments that dont need to take place again and grouping them in one tree.
Apple doesn’t have a majority of the marketshare in cell phones or laptops. The only market they’ve won is tablets with the iPad. The idea that Apple has a monopoly in the realm of computing is ridiculous.

I can’t tell if the level of hyperbole in your comment is sarcastic or not, so apologies if whoosh.
The quantity of twitter replies along these lines is sad:

> Why would epic even do this.... they know the rules. Why would they expect to use another companies platform for free. With apple 100% on this.

Use? they add value to the platform, Apple is just double dipping because crazy hardware markup wasn't enough for them. Are people really this blind?
Theoretically some of the cost saving from an alternative payment processor would be passed on to the consumer.
Comfortable C while Editing with Emacs
Research Says Solo Founders Perform Better
Please take the China bashing aka. racism back to Reddit.
To borrow an analogy from another post: If I buy a BMW and later switch to a Honda, do I get to be mad if some of the BMW parts don't fit?
Who in particular expects India to be the moral compass of the world? That sounds like something one might hear from the editorial board of an Indian newspaper. I don't think it's particularly on anyone's mind in the US.
Can you create a platform then have a monopoly over various sub-operations within your own platform (specifically both payment processing and controlling internal app distribution) Or is it just a piece of the wider mobile apps market?

The modern digital economy is so much different than the Oil giants of the late 1800's, for which the Sherman Act was written in 1890. I doubt this will be an easy case for Epic or government lawyers.

This would be a landmark case even it ever goes anywhere (not so much this injunction as a wider anti-trust move).
"Pollutant" depends on context. Plants need nitrogen and phosphorus compounds to grow, but when fertilizers run off farmland into rivers and lakes those same compounds are pollutants. The same goes for carbon dioxide. It is essential to plant life, and it is also a pollutant when dispersed into the environment in large quantities.
That implies that App Store margins are lower than I estimated, and it’s costs higher.
> I trust ICANN more than I trust Apple

Then you haven't been paying attention. Apple at least has competition. ICANN is a government supported monopoly that has been systematically taken over by robber barons.
I don't think he's talking about Amazon's donations, but BLM itself. There is a big DONATE button on blacklivesmatter.com, and they take in millions in donations. No one knows how it is spent.
ok am going to put a highly objectionable comment.

I buy stuff on apple store because its easy and SAFE.

That safety point is more important than ever, if there was no app store or lets say having 10 other app stores , i wont have the same level of confidence and heck i wont even be spending any dollars out there.

Over to Apple's 30 % cut, i dont know whats the call here, to make it 0%? ,10% , 20%? what if the same fortnite (or any other company) increases the bill to $9.99 next week :)

Am saying this purely from a consumer perspective that i dont care how apple and devs split the money as long as it doesnt bite me ...
Could you email startupschool@ycombinator.com? We can help out!
Who was sampled in this study? Renters do not pay a Mortgage. Only the unemployed (not working & looking for work), the employed looking for another job, or the underemployed are worried about finding a job.
Right, I was just pointing out that for the consumer, there's basically no difference in app business models. It just may be a different payment processor and maybe lower prices.
Even worse. Imagine if the World Wide Web was not open and you had to go through a closed WWW like AOL and websites were "under review" by the providers and would take a 30% cut of your revenues or clicks on your web app or subscription service and websites require going only through that provider.

Thank goodness that wasn't the case.
>'Superfin seems to be marketing hype'
Superfin is the main reason why Tiger Lake is getting a 10-20% frequency boost over Ice Lake. That SuperMIM cap isn't just for show.
This looks pretty similar to a lawsuit that was filed against them last year by individual developers, so they probably already do have paperwork to respond to accusations re: Sherman Antitrust Act and CA competition laws
Even there, they limit PWAs and do not allow competitors to use their own engines.
This isn't practical without an electronic sign.
Our response to the virus as adults is so beyond the pale that it's crazy we're even talking about sending kids to school. Many places in the country have higher infection rates than when they were locked down and the current "plan" is to just live with it. Schools that have already opened have resulted in hundreds of kids quarantined as early as the first day.

Over 1,000 people have been dying a day has become the norm. New Zealand just partially shut down again because 4 people became infected.

Talking about successful school openings in other countries is as relevant as talking about magical unicorns at this point.
replied to another thread....

ok am going to put a highly objectionable comment.
I buy stuff on apple store because its easy and SAFE.

That safety point is more important than ever, if there was no app store or lets say having 10 other app stores , i wont have the same level of confidence and heck i wont even be spending any dollars out there.

Over to Apple's 30 % cut, i dont know whats the call here, to make it 0%? ,10% , 20%? what if the same fortnite (or any other company) increases the bill to $9.99 next week :)

Am saying this purely from a consumer perspective that i dont care how apple and devs split the money as long as it doesn't bite me ...
>US Government, please force Apple to open up iPhone to any software we want to install. It's a generic computer. It's how we communicate, do banking, do basic shopping, dating, business ... everything. Apple can't be the gatekeepers of 21st century life. It's incredibly damaging to our ability to innovate and succeed as small business owners and entrepreneurs.

You're going to be disappointed, if the android ecosystem is anything to go by. Of the OEMs that bother to unlock their bootloaders, only a fraction release kernel sources. Nearly all SoCs require custom kernels (which contain the requisite drivers) to run. Not having them means you're dead in the water as far as a usable system (working wifi, graphics, sound, modem, sensors, camera) is concerned. The only reason why OEMs even bother releasing kernel sources is because they're legally obligated to by GPL. Good luck getting that to happen with apple. You're almost always better off getting something like the pinephone or librem, rather than buying an iphone and hoping that the community can salvage something out of it.

edit:

Due to bootloader exploits, people were able to get alternate OSes running on iphones. As expected, the hardware support is flakey at best. https://web.archive.org/web/20110714042818/http://www.idroid...
I said similar functionality.
Horror with comic relief.
Epic failure?
Seems unlikely. Microsoft lost with a far more open situation than what Apple's got.
This is a word predictor fed on billions of tokens of text. Because it has been trained on human writing, it makes characteristically human mistakes (including spelling, grammar, and even some phonetic errors).
In-person voting is being stifled as well. Look at the Georgia primary.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/09/873054620/long-lines-voting-m...

Mail-in ballots are so good that once you do them, you'll be dumbfounded at why this isn't the absolute standard country-wide. Like I can't describe how simple it is and nice to be able to research candidates on your own with the full ballot in front of you. Using phones and such is prohibited at in-person voting.

The other advantage is you aren't fully limited by the mail. There are drop-off bins at locations like public libraries.

We trust our mail to do nearly everything official with the government: your ID, vehicle registration, selective service number, passport, IRS PIN, jury summons, US census etc ALL come through the mail and ONLY through the mail, but for voting we don't??? why?!?
Why Internationalization and Localization Matters
Another post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24147486
Imagine if Microsoft only had 14% global market share.*

[*] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share
>> I can't sell stuff on ANY platform/device without the permission of the platform/device maker.

This is kind of pedantic. There’s a massive difference between the kinds of restrictions Apple is placing on you, vs. your ability to grab a copy of Visual Studio Community for free, write an app for Windows, and sell it on your web site.

If I make a game in Unity, besides incredibly minor changes, I write my code and game once, hit a button, and get the same result for many platforms.

However, virtually the same product on Apple’s iOS platform vs. others, nets me 30% less profit per sale, simply because we aren’t allowed to side load apps without paying Apple $99/year and those apps needing to be open source.

People aren’t arguing Apple has a monopoly over mobile software, they’re pointing out the fact that due to a lack of side loading Apple has a monopoly on iOS software, which is obviously true. It is the principle of not really owning your device and freedom of use issues that have made even the EU start an investigation.
Thanks for sharing that group! It really helps putting things into perspective.
If I don't make my app available on Apple's store then I lose out on a huge % of people who use iOS devices as their only general computing device. They can't simply switch to Android as they are locked-in into the iOS ecosystem (For example, they can't use iMessage on Android). Apple is effectively controlling the market access and harming competitors.
I can list a ton of APIs that are available to native iPhone apps that aren't available to apps via Safari. Push notifications being the most notable, in part because they are purposely not supporting an open standard.
Exactly. There are pros and cons to this sort of model. The pro is that the security model of an iphone is better than probably anything else one could buy. The con is that apple makes the rules about what goes and stays. Given the popularity of this app, I could see a kid wanting an android instead for this reason. On the other hand, Apple could easily make the case that this is to prevent scams, maintain parental controls, etc.
> Long have we suffered under your rule.

Who is this "we"? It definitely doesn't include me, as I do not own an iPhone and never will. If _you_ own one on the other hand...I presume you knew about Apple's practices and Apple's lock on their devices before you bought one. Why did you buy one?

Your reminder that iOS has 24.82% market share on mobile. That is not anything like a "monopoly" in any meaningful sense of the word. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide
The vast majority of Apps receive effectively no marketing from the App Store, they are invisible except for a brief moment when they're listed under "latest".
The same thing happened in Bellevue, WA, on the second night of the protests.

The protesters were in open communication with police and city officials. The protest was peaceful, the police did not start a fight, and neither did the protesters. The protest peacefully dispersed later in the evening.

Meanwhile, a few blocks away, what some might describe as a gang did a smash-and-grab at the (closed) Bellevue Square mall, grabbing merchandise off the store shelves, loading it into cars, and fleeing.

If the police wanted to pick a fight, they would have declared the situation a riot, and opened fire on protesters. They didn't, though.
yeah, I get that, and the only reason I picked an iphone for my grandpa is because it's a curated closed platform. i'm glad it exists as an option, and it's not the most popular one, but it seems insane to make it illegal to create a closed software platform
I used them for years and quite liked them. Inside a city, you can usually get good coverage. Outside of the cities, you paid a little extra.

But this was back when the best they offered was 3G, and their signal quality wasn't great. After a few incidents where I was downtown in Toronto, full bars of signal, yet couldn't open a single webpage or use my data, I decided it was time to ditch them. I loath the big-3, but I needed reliable service.

I've heard that after they installed their LTE/4G towers, most of those problems went away. Maybe I'll go back, eventually, but for now I'll be gouged like most Canadians.
The problem with that logic is that it's not sustainable. Yes, terrible things happen in Gaza (not so much the west bank) absent a working government and/or occupying force.

At the same time, we're now going on the fourth generation of residents of these territories who are born, live and die in a no-man's land. They aren't citizens of any nation, they can vote for no government, they can't travel, they can't start a business or hold anything but the most basic property. And neither could their parents or grandparents. And neither will their kids.

The thread of rocket production is plausibly enough to justify a temporary occupation while a better government can be constructed, etc... But the six day war was more than a half century ago. At some point the excuses have to end.
This is so insidious and depressing. Nothing the Republican party does surprises me anymore. He outright said today that he's doing this to stymie mail-in voting, and the Republican party supports him on it. The president is outright saying "I want to hinder the vote for everyone, across the board" and the Republican party supports it. It's so sad.

This is a taste for Americans of what it must feel like for many people across the world in less fortunate countries every day, for as long as anyone can remember. I can't imagine living with this indefinitely with no hope of change.
Apple has a history of very late adoption up to complete dismissal of web standards such as Web Bluetooth to prevent just that.
The "default search engine" position is actually worth money.

But the amount it's worth is probably roughly proportional to the number of Firefox users. With Firefox having less and less market share, the attraction to search engines of supporting it -- particularly those whose operators also make their own browser -- must be diminishing rapidly as well.
They can be pro-consumer in the sense that pretty much all of them charge an order of magnitude lower fees, savings that can be passed on to the consumer.

But agreed that it also could represent an increased privacy risk. I guess that could be the trade off though: if you want stronger privacy guarantees, you pay through Apple's system (and pay more); otherwise you use the cheaper, third-party option. But also agreed that issues around the third-party options would tarnish Apple's reputation, regardless of the fact that people would have a choice.
This is actually good news. The only chance are widespread strikes, and strikes can only be fueled by something dramatic kind this.

Rigged elections were expected, the question is if strikes are following. The weather is perfect for strikes.
Except that Apple themselves choose to not support the necessary APIs in Safari that would make PWAs feasible.
> Get notified when we publish!

How ?
Is your video chat platform Hipaa compliant? How do you handle calendar and other timing or non-technical issues which would waste the providers time?
I'm in agreement with the co-option risk.

Keep in mind that coption (or corruption) holds true for all tools of power.

Regulation (capture). Legislation, executive, judiciary and bureaucracy (bribery, lobbying, special interests, nepotism, blackmail, ...). The press. Police and military. Taxes. Fines. Investigations (surveillance). Treaties. Emotions (fear, anger, guilt, embarrassment). Attention. Religion. Culture. Language. Narrative. Buildings, roads, ports, railroads, walls, canals, and tunnels. Bulldozers. Guns and stilettos. Bread and circuses. War. Peace.

Literally everything.

This doesn't make all of these bad, or mean they're never useful. But tools of power are useful because they do have effect, and can be used for both good and ill.

The trick is seeing the tools are used for good.
Also I always find it's so easy to make everything data parallel if you program in a functional way.

Sure it might not be the most efficient implementation possible, but due to the ease of parallelizing, you are more likely to just try it out.
That's literally the value add Apple is selling. A completely controlled ecosystem not infiltrated by 20 payment middle men. Youre paying a premium for noise filtering.
> and listening to everybody else's unrelated statuses

This so much. Status meetings tend to follow the org's structure, which is not necessarily logical.

Yes, it is occasionally helpful to listen to something completely unrelated if you have a better perspective. But every day? Waste of time.
>>There is nothing stopping you from building whatever you want on the web these days.

ummm Safari stops you given it is a terrible browser, and is non-compatible with many modern features
Apple's restriction of access to device capabilities/sensors through web "apps" would likely be arguable as a restriction designed to prevent this, and force you into entering their burdensome and anti-competitive marketplace with fixed 30% fee.
By these standards, then no one should be calling for anti-trust cases to going forward against Google, Amazon or Facebook. There are alternatives to all of these, some of them large. Google has Microsoft sized competition; Amazon competes with the likes of Walmart and Target in similar shopping spaces; and Facebook competes with Reddit and has competed with Google (who is now defunct in that area).

To be honest, I'm not 100% where I stand with these considering that ISP's haven't been prosecuted for, what seem, clearly more egregious anti-trust violations. These types of cases should come up first, in my opinion, but we are where we are.
Jupyter Labs is an extension to Jupyter Notebook. Functionally the same, but Labs offers a much better coding interface. In it's simplest form, Jupyter Labs feels like a proper IDE, while just Jupyter feels like a pretty notebook offering an interface worthy of reading, but not worthy enough to used as a full time coding environment.
no you wouldn't apple devices are better BECAUSE of the software. On avg the hardware is under powered compered to android hardware.
Silent?
I hope Apple are forced to allow this
End of the App Store because all high-grossing products would stop bringing in money.

Doesn’t take risks? They spent lots of money on hardware for machining aluminium (a move that turned out good, I think), developed the Touch Bar (got mixed reviews), a new keyboard (not that successfully), decided to move to ARM CPUs in the desktop (potentially, that could bite them in the future. If x86 CPUs ever become faster than Apple ones, the speed difference with Windows may lose them customers for their high-margin devices), etc.
At the company I currently work for, Jira has become yet another opportunity to engage in metrics abuse. Probably because Jira makes it easy to create reports and dashboards that are more useful for managers than for delivering software.

The company, which has "committed" itself to "embracing agile", has implemented some new employee performance policies which clearly demonstrate those decision makers don't know wtf agile is. One such policy is tying performance to "individual velocity" or story points per sprint per individual completed. Some managers, especially my current manager, care more about individual velocity than what velocity is supposed to be used for.

Consequently, developers can be raked over the coals if their individual velocity dips below a pre-determined number. When my manager confronted me with my lackluster individual velocity over the last few sprints (shown by a Jira report), I first tried to convince him that team velocity mattered more and that it was supposed to be a metric used for planning work for a sprint, not as a forecast metric. I tried to get him to see that velocity for everyone would improve when we got better at prioritizing and creating stories that allowed us to deliver value each sprint. It would also help too if we could function better as a team. But he wouldn't have any of that. I just had to improve my personal velocity.

So I learned how to use Jira better. I created pointed stories in the backlog I knew I could finish in a sprint and meet my forecasted velocity. The next time my manager ran his Jira report, he remarked on the improvement. The amount of work I actually did didn't change, but my individual velocity did.

While I agree with the premise of the OP about Jira. I would go even further than just Jira and say that today, proficiency and mastery of any tool used in the software development lifecycle seems to be more important than knowing how to do software development right.
> Babel #13
> First called `5to6`, the compiler Babel helped make the
> ES6 version of JavaScript popular and was a key part of
> React success.

It was called "6to5" for reasons that should be obvious.

But it's also just an irrelevant factoid on a timeline that at first seems to be a history of influential JS projects over the past 15 years, but in reality just takes some projects that are well-known today and kind of arbitrarily arranges them.
Up until a few years ago, such news only came from distant third world countries. How much have we regressed!
It could be the case if AMP grows dominant; given the market share of Google Search, it could be enough to create a controlled (er, "curated") web in a similar spirit.