skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They don't gather in smoke-filled rooms and decide how to screw over their customers.

While that makes for nice rhetoric in your great comment, you don't actually know that this doesn't happen.
FandangoNow was once part of the Fandango app before they broke it out (at least on Android).
I have zero issue with finding a basic recipe if that's what I want. I prefer background and context.
I can't imagine that any of the ebs recovery isn't fully automated now, if it wasn't then.
> The pro is that the security model of an iphone is better than probably anything else one could buy.

Exploits for iOS are cheaper than exploits for Android because exploits for iOS are so plentiful.
>Lockdown cause massive unemployment, bankruptcy, mental health issue, kids not getting proper education, delayed treatment/care for non-covid cause, etc.

a lockdown doesn't inherently cause this. These things are caused by a badly implemented lockdown, a lockdown that doesn't have measures in place to make sure people don't go bankrupt, measures to make sure people's mental health doesn't deteriorate etc.
I think the big concern for young people is the lingering effects. Once people get a flu and recover, they’re back to normal. People with COVID are struggling to breathe months later and heart damage is being reported.
It really seems that the court of public opinion has risen out of a dissatisfaction with courts of law. Of course, maligning the public opinion of your opponent is not a fair way to deliver justice, and it's a kangaroo court, but I wonder - if our legal system were better, would this phenomenon still arise?
Sounds like good old fashioned drum brakes would be better!
In that situation, I think the best layout is:

- your centralised wiki lists all the repositories and explains what they’re for;

- each repository has a detailed commit history, allowing you to understand the thinking behind each line of code.

Edit to add: you can search across multiple repos with Github’s “search in organization” feature, and it actually works very well. I usually find that much more useful than searching through a wiki that’s separate from the code (although maybe I just haven’t ever seen a wiki that was sufficiently well organized?)
I pay them so I don't need to make the choice!

If I wanted a different choice I'd buy a different brand of phone.
Once upon a generation ago, I worked at an ice rink. "Cleaning the ice" using an ice resurfacer involves cutting the top 1/16" of ice off and laying down new water. Hot water is preferred because it freezes faster and produces a denser sheet of ice; a denser sheet of ice is going to be better for skating.

It's nice to see more papers on it.
At a guess, you don't have kids.
They’re only preventing new installs. Most Fortnite fans with iPhones will already have the game installed. It still works fine. I just tried it myself
Well if Apple is the best choice then there's no need to complain to them.
Matrix – An open network for secure, decentralized communication
Is it normal to drill a 1km hole under the Beach and out to sea to land a trans-ocean cable? I was under the impression you merely digg it into the Beach for 1-2m?
Because for many applications it's not viable to not provide service for iOs users, which is sad but true.

Consider you not being able to:

- buy train tickets under iOs

- check-in into a hotel under iOs

- do video conferences

- chat with your friend

- cross play with your friends

- open your apartment doors

- check your health data

- do online banking

- securely check your email

- do Ueber, Rbnb, etc.

- buy at Amazone

- etc.

Sure many (but not all) things might be doable over web interface but this crates often much more frictions and due to constraints put onto web interfaces and PWS also has often much worse UX, not providing service for millions of iOs users is often deadly and providing competitively shitty service isn't anygood either, even worse if you have to compete with Apple itself which gives there apps unfair advantages beyond not needing to pay the 30% cut.

Let's be honest any marked which covers millions of people should be handled as a standalone marked even if you could argue it's just part of a bigger marked by any government or you fail your people (and the free marked idea IMHO, but reasoning about this is tricky as it involves considering how the marked dynamics have fundamentally changed and how thinks which would have worked in benefit for the population don't work anymore in the current times and therefore how the marked (laws) has to adapt to it).
The rest of society is certainly not happy to make that sacrifice for your extreme selfishness and callousness and frankly, we shouldn't have to die because your kids might grow up fearful. What a selfish, disgusting attitude.
That basically just means that non Apple users are subsidizing the cost of Apple users, just like cash users are subsidizing credit card users [0].

[0] http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/08/28/how-credit-...
And some here argues that Apple gets paid fairly for what they provide.. I'm sure many could build payment + distribution cheaper than 100 million dollars..
I don't think Epic has that much influence. If I were Apple's PR team, I think I'd just completely ignore them. Treat them as utterly and completely irrelevant.

Personally I think Apple's 30% cut is ridiculous and the fact that there is zero market pressure on that them to price it appropriately should mean something. But at the same time I'm not sure Epic has any legal leg to stand on.
Good for you. You don't get to make that decision for everyone else.
I read the whole article and couldn’t understand how or why this happens. Is the reason behind this unknown?
There is a party whose goal is increased democracy, and another party whose goal is more power to the already powerful.

For the supporters of more democracy it makes sense that they could occasionally compromise on some adherence to democratic principles IF that can be seen as advancing democracy in the long term.

Whereas for a party that supports status quo and more privilege to the already privileged (say bigger tax-cuts for the rich) it is not a big deal to compromise on democratic principles because, they are opposed to increasing democracy in the first place.

So it's not like "It's just party politics, both sides are the same". Instead the party whose goal is to support the under-privileged will naturally advocate for more democracy. Whereas it is in the interests of the party who supports the powerful to try suppress the vote of the less privileged. No?
No, but it requires a detailed enough explanation that someone could build a prototype. And if your explanation wouldn’t actually teach someone how to build a prototype, then there’s a patentable difference between your patent and a working version, and the person who actually figures it out can patent that.
“What about” is not a valid argument though. If what apple is doing is wrong, no amount of hypocrisy by others will make it less wrong.

Anyway, I think platforms need to be regulated to be more open. We need a right to modify along with a right to repair. When I pay for a product that happens to support downloadable software, I should be free to put whatever software on it that I want. If apple allowed sideloading on iOS like they do on macOS this would not have blown up to the degree that it did.
Ok, 10% is your number. So after your app has been on the store for more than a year, Apple's fee falls to 15%. So you're arguing that the 5% difference is unreasonable.

Let's put that % difference into perspective. Say you have an annual fee of $10. The first year, your users pay Apple $3 (you make $7), but after that for every user that subscribes you only pay $1.50 (you make $8.50). You're saying that Apples should only charge $1. You're arguing that fifty cents is the difference between life and death of your business? Really?
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By voting for Trump.
The funny part here is that Epic is partly owned by a Chinese company, just makes the whole 1984 just that more ironic, but hey, we live in a clown world now so get used to it.
It’s the same bs that tv networks pull on subscribers when they have disagreements with cable providers over the rates they get paid. They air commercials saying “Verizon is trying to keep you from seeing your favorite shows!!” when they are the ones demanding increases from Verizon et al. Newsflash: neither of the parties are the good guys. It’s all manipulative and a pathetic attempt at portraying themselves as the victim. Meanwhile consumers, the real victims, are constantly getting random price increases forced upon them with no option to go elsewhere. It’s transparent and it’s moronic, and I wish it were different.
Haha true, and I'd definitely agree that Chromium's borders are one of the least important parts of the software.

However, just because something is less important than something else doesn't mean it's not worth changing.

I doubt most businesses would leave lots of ugly graffiti on the side of their bike shed, even though actual business operations were much more important.

Bike shedding refers to being so distracted by unimportant details that important business isn't taken care of. It's possible to give the shed a good coat of paint once in a while while still taking care of more important matters.
People use consoles to do all those things. As just one example, Netflix makes and maintains an app for the Playstation platform and it's not because they have nothing else to do.
yes. and the community hates them for that.
There was a great deal of "burn it all down" sentiment around Trump's election. From my perspective, it wasn't and isn't productive. I'd rather see energy behind a sentiment like "real reform now" instead.
No - hey.com tried to have an outside subscription model and they were rejected from the app store.

Netflix and Amazon have special deals in place - the Amazon deal was made public in the recent investigations. Apple claims that the special deal is only available to select video streaming services.
This is my VCL: https://gist.github.com/pbowyer/8822ab1d61fc209056f0f6bc6943...

And how Varnish is initialised
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/varnishd -a :80 -a 127.0.0.1:6081,PROXY -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -s malloc,64m -p feature=+http2

I've verified everything is a cache hit, and the ratio is 1.000 by the end of testing.

Screenshots and more in this thread: https://twitter.com/peterbowyer/status/1292765478100795393
Ok, lets just set aside our strawmen for a second and ask: why did Apple do this and what's the big deal anyway?

* Why did Apple trounce these folks? My first thought is, ridiculously intrusive anti-cheat?
* Then, assuming that's the case and you're ok with letting someone else remote-admin your machine, can't you just install Fortnite directly anyway?

So what's the big deal exactly?
The 30% includes payment processing, I think. So $7.50 would be a roughly equivalent price. At $7.99, 80% of the savings are going to the customer.
Great ideology. Shame we’ll all starve or kill each other on the way and it’ll turn to shit the moment someone is more equal than someone else...
But how many people? Should 10,000 kids lose school and all the problems that can avalanche into for the future to save 1 year of 1 life of one person who already has degrading health?
I think that modern designs are at least an order of magnitude safer than reactors from early generations. Chernobyl's RBMK and Fukusima's BWR/1 were both designed in 60s. Note that containment of modern reactors is designed to withstand direct airplane hit, so without a bunker-buster grade munition such attack would not result in radiation release.
It feels like that this is an issue where the problem is looking at the averages, which are meaningless here.

We have a bunch of people who are rightfully very worried about their finances, but we also have very many people who are quite certain that their finances are going to be okay while other people will get kicked in the nuts by the downturn resulting in poverty and bankruptcies, so they have other priorities that they are worrying about - such as infection and schooling.

If 1 in 5 people can't pay their mortgage, that's an economic catastrophe - but even if such a catastrophe is upcoming it makes all sense if the other 4 in 5 people wouldn't be worried about paying their mortgage.
I will disagree with dathinab and say of course gaming consoles are general purpose computing devices.

But they are general purpose computing devices with built-in malware that makes the device only useful for the types of computing the seller wants you to do with the device. And that's gaming, of course
or downshift ice mafs
Let’s hear some specific examples.
“Schaulust” literally translates to “joy of watching.” Schaulustige are bystanders who watch a brawl, accident or some other incident for their personal entertainment.
Apple is a government supported legal monopoly due to patents, licences and copyrights, so are many others, but they are too.

If Apple wasn't both the largest US phone maker and a legal monopoly, their behavior would not be as problematic, as you could (at least in theory, probably in practice too) sell other hardware to run ios/macos, or resell legally obtained, and modified software without Apple restrictions.

Whether their behavior is acceptable or not must be framed in a much larger picture. Companies are given legal rights by virtue of expectations of that being the best for society, and that's the metric that companies should be measured against.

Would it be good, and acceptable for society if all technology vendors/brands acted exactly as Apple regarding the App Store?

It's quite easy to answer that with a no, since clearly tying many frequnt small purchases indefinitely to a bigger purchase is not something that can ever increase competition. As it will form a less effective market, it can't be said to be desirable.
U-Boot can absolutely use the max speed. Just apply some mmc patches from here: https://megous.com/git/u-boot/log/?h=opi-v2020.04
I go out of my way to show that's not the mentality I have, nor one I want to promote.
Apple curates and still bad actor apps make it onto the app store. It's not like Apple has a 100% pure record here. There is also no reason to think that Apple is the only company in the world capable of carrying out curation. If Epic Games, had their own app store I doubt they would want to allow apps on their app store that violated their users' privacy and other malicious activities just as much as Apple. Maybe you personally would never feel comfortable trusting Epic Games, but why should others even be denied the option?
This is a garbage point of view, and I would suggest that you are blinded by party propaganda.

The majority of Democrats are good people. The majority of Republicans are good people.

As fun as it is to claim the other side is the devil, most people want basically the same things.
It doesn’t allow for manipulation, ballot harvesting, or fraud. All Democrat policies for increasing vote turnout - lowering the voting age, no ID, mail in - increase the chances of fraud.
Epic isn't forcing developers to put their game on the Epic store.
Great! Linux, I assume? goes looking OK yep, I'll enable it and start re-training myself on that, for when I'm not on mac. It's not quite as quick for most of the things I need frequently, but seems tolerable.

Remaining questions: 1) why would the default be bad? Like, why ever would one make a default bad if there are non-bad options? Especially for something everyone should want to be good on a computer, like composing text in the user's language, and 2) ugh of course even once enabled the default compose key is bad (there's a theme here) and both enabling it and configuring it depends on which WM/DE you're in, Wayland vs. Xorg, and so on, and from some googling it's even possible to run into inconsistent behavior between different friggin' GUI toolkits under the same DE.

OK that second one is a comment, not a question. Still.

I'd recently googled the problem of (specifically) typing an em-dash on Linux, and just tried it again, and sure enough this solution doesn't come up until the sixth hit, in an unassuming Google documentation style guide. "Just memorize a 4-digit number" is the overwhelming answer to that question, on search engines, for some reason, despite plainly being awful. Maybe the configuration hurdle and bad default behavior is why that's the go-to solution, I dunno.

[EDIT] none of the above irritation aimed at you, I hope is clear, and sincerely, thanks for the pointer.
I think you're the one missing the point, which is that you're misusing the term 'conspiracy theory'.

The NSA engaged in a conspiracy, which was to "hoover up everything in sight". There was a theory (which was largely dismissed) that the NSA was in fact doing this.

It was therefore a conspiracy theory that the NSA was doing what it was doing. That is the point: please use the phrase correctly.
maybe the solution is that parents shouldn't have to work during a pandemic if they can't.
True, and whether MMR 2 will kill you or your mind in 60 years isn't something that comes out in 42 years. We don't know that yet.

But if I had to guess, you're probably pro-MMR-2 (as am I), so the question is what epistemology permits that view?
How? The publishers publish AMP pages, and multiple link aggregators (including Bing) consume them. I could see an Apple News style system being controlled like that because it forces the publishers to directly integrate with a single link aggregator.
Not staged drama, more
like 4D chess
I don't think so, because

- That case was heard by the federal circuit, and if I recall the rules regarding that curious circuit correctly (no guarantees) anything unrelated to patents is not binding precedent on any court.

- That case just decided that it wasn't copyright misuse to do something vaguely like this, not that it didn't violate any of the various anti-trust acts. While the reason for the case is similar the law being argued looks to be entirely different.

- That case wasn't decided based on legal principles, but because Atari lied and cheated "Atari's copyright misuse defense was precluded by the doctrine of unclean hands, as Atari had lied to the Copyright Office to obtain an unauthorized copy of the 10NES."

(I only know what the wikipedia article says about the case)
>Imagine if Microsoft did this on PCs.

Just switch to a competitor! Go-to Linux or Mac. All good, no antitrust here. /s
I'm trying to remember how active Apple's PR was during their lawsuit against Samsung. I doubt that this is the first time that a corporation has tried to polish the optics around a lawsuit.
By their very nature, monopolies emerge in new and unexpected ways. They shouldn't have to fit an outdated definition to be fixed. Digital has changed everything, as the market capitalisation of Big Tech shows.
None of my other computing devices require software merchants to use a particular payment processor or pay certain prices, and it seems fine to me. So, yes, I'm fine with that.
I'm not sure why you feel qualified to comment on the legal aspects on this case based on just a primitive understanding of offer and acceptance (which isn't the point of contention here). You can't have an enforceable contractual term that is illegal, even if both parties have agreed to it. The legal issue is whether Apple's ToS contravenes some aspect of competition law.
In theory, Apple is ensuring apps dont misuse those APIs. In practice, they seem much more concerned with preventing apps from threatening their extremely lucrative software and service revenues.
Most of this just speaks to how problematic it is for a society to rely on (poorly-funded and unevenly-resourced) schools alone for universal childcare, alleviating child hunger, ensuring safety from awful households, and other concerns that could have been addressed elsewhere (this is all orthogonal to the effects of COVID).
The threshold the US government uses is 50% market share, with exclusionary behavior. 100% is not required (and would be a crazy requirement to have; even Microsoft in its heyday couldn't have been prosecuted with that kind of threshold).

The question isn't whether Apple has a large enough market share in the US for the courts to get involved — it very clearly does — the question is does it exhibit exclusionary behavior to the extent courts should get involved.

(I think it does exhibit exclusionary behavior, but I can see that being much more open to interpretation than the simple fact that it clears the 50% threshold.)

Regardless, my comment was just correcting the statement that Apple doesn't have a majority market share in any market, when in fact it has majority market share in the US market.
Motives matter, and taking the motives of foreign-owned businesses into account when dealing with one of the largest businesses in the US is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. What if the motive behind this is to just destabilize the price of Apple? What if it's part of a large campaign to destabilize a lot of US companies, not just this one?
AMP isn't enforced though. You can say 'not yet' or 'it's kind of the same' but that applies for a lot of standards.
A market equilibrium is reached and it’s called anti-competitive behaviour. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

I suppose the state could implement price controls and force Rogers et al to lower their prices. That worked well in the past!
I think teaching kids to be afraid of disease is one of the few things separating humans from animals. It’s one thing that’s let us survive for so long and build societies.
While it's interesting to learn how indigenous cultures interpret archaeological sites, this article blurs the distinction between scientific and pre-scientific understanding of archaeology. It presents "Western science" (which should be referred to as "science," an international pursuit that happens to have begun in the West) as just another means of interpreting archaeological sites, alongside myths, folk beliefs, etc.

Reading this article (and looking at some of the other articles on the site) reminds me of what I've heard elsewhere about the deep rift in anthropology between the physical and the cultural anthropologists. It appears to me to be a conflict between a scientific worldview and an increasingly subjective, politically influenced worldview. One manifestation of this is the decision by the American Anthropological Association to remove the word "science" from its mission statement.[1-2]

1. http://blogs.nature.com/news/2010/11/hold_the_science_says_a...

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/science/10anthropology.ht...
Pakistan updated their map last week newly claiming Junagadh as their land.

When it comes to partition itself, fair,clean and sensible are the last words I would use to describe it. I maintain that the hasty exit set India and Pakistan to be warring nations till the end of days.

That being said, the idea that any ruler of a princely state should have a right to decide a regions fate is honestly quite weak. Almost all of India's princes happily operated as proxies for British exploitation. Plebiscite would have been the right choice for Kashmir as it was Junagadh. The eruption of invading military forces (put lightly) in independent Kashmir never allowed that plebiscite to ever happen, and for all we know, it never will.
What’s Apple’s move when Epic, Spotify, Netflix, etc. all coordinate to “blackout” iOS for a day? Or even for an hour? And why haven’t they yet?