skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Michigan Plans Detroit-to-Ann Arbor Mobility Corridor with Google's Sidewalk
This. Antitrust lawsuits almost always focus on what exactly the market is that the players play in. "Monopoly" is a highly technical economic and legal term that is scrutinized on a case-by-case basis. It is not the broad stroke that the public likes to use.
i mean... am i wrong? lol

thanks
It's not about using a different OS. The monopoly is that if you want to distribute through Apple, you have to go through their app store. There's not another app store that you can go through.

At least with Android you can go through f-droid if you don't like the Play Store.
I think he means a spreadsheet for the purposes of tracking software project progress. Although honestly, if you have a spreadsheet that's longer-lived than a few hours, you should probably evaluate whether you're adopting the best approach.
Don't you think that focusing solely on breast cancer is a bit too narrow? I am wondering how hospitals would be willing to invest so much into just a single subsection of their oncology department.
Except there was literally a hearing last week, and multiple plans in EU to stop this sort of behavior, exactly because of the evidence that companies like Epic Games bring to light.
These people who think Google owes them something for free...
This seems like a close and shut case of consumer harm right here.
The second issue, is they purposefully do not allow you to change the default domain to point to. The only thing you can do it use a pull through a proxy.
To Cain, obviously. He is a Purdue MS Comp Sci graduate and worked in the Navy in a civilian capacity. He has no criminal record, and was a successful entrepreneur, something that is highly under-represented in media and popular culture portrayals of African Americans.

Depiction of criminality however is far from under-represented, and linking his name to forced labour in prison camps is just beyond tasteless.
When will people learn? From the article:

"partly my fault for building my business around organic search and failing to diversify over the years"

Build real businesses, solve real business problems and stop depending on search engine SEO niche sites. One way or another either the competition eats you and write all your content with more links or search engine drops you or blacklist you then you are dead.

This is NOT a good business model and should never be the main source of income.
And they operate within the legal framework of various jurisdictions, which can and will force Apple to change their behavior.
> release games to a community that is rather famous fo being cheapskates

Wrong, if you look at game sales that are donation-based, like the humble bundle (they used to publish average price per platform but I haven't found recent data), you'll see that Linux users actually pay significantly more (voluntarily).
Until regulations steps in, and mandates to be more fair and open, or to break up the company, or to allow multiple app stores (by competitors).

At the end of the day, and iPad is a general computing device, and it will probably be treated as such in courts, where there are precedents on this.
Doesn’t Epic take a cut out of every single purchase made of a game built with Unreal Engine?

Seems kinda hypocritical that they’re taking this stance when their licensing model is arguably just as burdensome on developers.

In my opinion, Epic should not put their app on the App Store if they don’t like the terms, just as they would tell a developer to not use their engine if they don’t like the terms.
I’m a huge fan of Apple Pay and do not begrudge the 0.15% cut they take on those transactions. The cut they take for App Store purchases is over 100x that amount, which is obscene.
Word's Track Changes and git are entirely different tools for entirely different purposes.

Track Changes is equivalent to the github pull request workflow. It's not meant to be a permanent record. If you want a permanent record, store a copy of the file somewhere. The lazy versioning method is to use your email. If you need an old version, search for it. :D
It's a monopoly because, for iPhone users, it's the only store in town.
I know about that, and we used to use that but had to move away from it because it created a lot of scalability problems (mind you, most of them due to disk usage).

With harbor we can save docker images layers to switft, the openstack flavor of object storage (S3). That solves a lot of scalability problems.

AFAIK gitlab ships the docker Registry underneath so the problems stay, mostly. I think that harbor does the same. I skimmed the harbor source and it seems that it forwards http requests to the docker registry if you hit the registry API endpoints.

Haven't looked at Quay but as far as I know wherever there's the docker registry you'll have garbage collection problems.

One note on the side: I think that quay missed their chance to become the goto docker registry. Red Hat basically open sourced it after harbor had been incubated in the cncf (unsurprisingly, harbor development has skyrocketed after that event).
Embedded Rust on the STM32F4 discovery board
> People almost never commit suicide for "leaving more resources to the tribe". They do because they are complex persons living in a complex environment that is radically different from the savannahs for which our genes evolved.

We are not talking about why people might be committing suicide now, we are talking about how the genetic disposition for suicadility might have passed along. To give context, 50% of the people will seriously have suicidal thoughts in their lifetime for about a week or two (so few actually do).

> Likewise, your evolutionary arguments for motivation are equally useless.

You misunderstand. We are not talking about an environment - gene mismatch, therefore the timescales are not relevant at all. I am positing a near impossibility of complete lack of intrinsic motivation to have passed genetically, regardless of timescale or even species.
Systems at Work (Postal Sorting Machines)
Github Packages Registry does not support pulling by digest, making it unusable for k8s/OpenShift.

https://github.community/t/cannot-pull-docker-image-from-git...
Even if this is true, the doublespeak of this being about protecting the user (as opposed to the shareholder) is tiring.
Conversely, one of the things I miss about Android apps is the competition. I recall there being several (free) apps that fulfill some function on Android, and then when switching to iPhone, the apps that provide that function costing $10+ dollars.

There's an obvious trade off for security/reliability, but I've still come across my fair share of terrible iPhone apps. Android definitely has a more freeware/open source vibe.
Yes, the monopoly comments are so crazy. Because it turns out modern antitrust law isn't about monopolies at all.
Doesn't Ada have the same explicit deallocation and use-after-free problems C does?
If any company then I think Tencent has the money and will to bring Apple to the court (they have 40% share in Epic). And won't be surprised if this will be a new chapter in the US v China trade fight.
Monopoly or not, Apple users (apple love lock in, moving to android is not trivial) are not treated particularly well.
US Telecoms were broken up also because they offered little choice to the customer. Ma bell owned the vast majority of them and owned the lines making it hard to impossible to offer other services. Apple isn't even the most popular smart phone. Nothing forces you to use Apple.
> think it'd actually be very hard to replicate the experience of Homebrew on macOS, on Linux, specifically for GUI programs, because not only is the the Linux GUI (and related multimedia capabilities, for that matter) so much more fragmented than macOS (where all that ships as one big, stable package

Curious about this, since as far as audio goes, as long as there's PulseAudio on the system, all others tend to have compatibility with it in mind.

> Its package selection is also a whole lot bigger than most Linux package managers, in my experience

That could be, but I personally haven't had an issue with the Arch repo + AUR selections, that's tens of thousands of packages.

> Good error messages

Hmm, these are mostly there, I just made a mistake on purpose and got this, (pacman):

error: invalid option: '--search' and '--sysupgrade' may not be used together

> and "did you mean...

Did you mean would be nice. Git has that and it's certainly helpful
>on HN the monopoly comments are so crazy sometimes

what's crazy is harping on a technicality about the word "monopoly" and then to ignore the actual issue that is implied by the criticism, market power.

Even two companies aren't a market, if you get hung up about monopoly call it a duopoly. The state of affairs is ridiculous. There should be a thriving market of competing stores, payment systems, operating systems and so on, yet we're stuck with at best two alternatives, both of which are extremely locked down.
From my understanding Mozilla VPN is just rebranded mullvad VPN.

So what benefit do you get by purchasing VPN access from Mozilla vs. directly from mullvad? I don´t see any from a security/trust perspective.

Also everyone is writing Mozilla wrong around here.
It´s not Mozilla. They changed it to Moz://a. How much did that rebranding cost? Was that money well spent?
So many bad decisions.
The iOS app store has a fairly large majority of mobile app revenue.
Then you're welcome to not use anything other than Apple's services.

You're just annoyed because you want third party apps, but you don't want to follow their ToS :)
Well, the question is not 'when did Britain let go of its territories'.

The question is 'when did Britain lose the kind of involvement you need to get into low-level building regulation?'

Near as I can find, they never had that kind of interest or involvement. Which is why I wanted a source for your claim that they banned traditional building materials.

So my thinking is simple: prior to 1930 is a bit early for concrete blocks to be the logical building material outside of places like New York, and even there, it would be a bit newfangled.

After 1930 is a bit late for the british to be really calling the shots about what gets built and how it gets built, since the period between 1945 and 1960 was characterized by increasing independence and english divestment. Maybe some university buildings?

Anyway, this whole conversation is a bit of a strange digression from your original rather belicose response to my observation that concrete was not by any means the 'European way'. It's my feeling that, aside from some monumental architecture (which it seems nigeria also had) most europeans were also building with brick, wood, plaster and thatch, up until the 19th century.

If you look at a modern timber frame house in the UK, the basic structure would be familiar to a roman architect. The timber structure is laid on brick piles, which are in turn laid on concrete foundations (the only modern addition - victorian houses often wouldn't have these), then a tile roof is fitted on top. It's a ridiculously ancient design.
Of course they did.

It's to coincide with EU/US investigations into the Apple and Google App Stores.
I don't have a problem with Jira directly. It's not great, but I've yet to find a project manager that's amazing so I can't say it's substantially better or worse than the alternatives.

That said, I really don't want to work with a PM who loves Jira. It's so flexible and configurable that it seems to really call out to a certain type of PM who adores adding lots of process for the sake of itself. Can we make a 43 step workflow starting with "preliminarily claimed the task", "read the requirements sheet", "read the associated documentation", "opened an editor", "ran 'git pull'", "created a new branch", etc. etc. etc.? You bet we can! I've worked with PMs who really wanted that level of granular visibility into project status, even though it greatly slowed down the work of actually getting stuff done.

So in my experience, you have PMs who love Jira because it gives them a level of control that I absolutely don't want to be involved with, and PMs who think Jira is "eh - it's alright". Atlassian's problem with the latter is that they're just as likely to say "eh, Pivotal is alright too".

There needs to be a Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle for software development: measuring a process is guaranteed to slow it down, so there's a spectrum between "fast chaos" and "corporate paralysis" that you have to consciously select for, and you don't get to pretend that "fast and tracked to the tiniest detail" is something that's possible.

(Side note: Confluence died for me the day a new version removed the option of editing page markup directly. Up until then, I had a workflow that converted Python module documentation to Confluence wiki markup and uploaded it. When that went away, I vowed never to use it again until it came back. Has it come back?)
And vice versa: saying it isn't doesn't mean it actually isn't. Opinions are unproductive to discuss without reasoning attached.
I agreed with everything you sid.
In a way this is the equivalent of an old-school carriage dispute but for apps. I wouldn't be surprised if we see more of this in the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriage_dispute
After working on more than 20 green field projects over the 25+ years I've been a software engineer I can tell you that yes... all SDLC management tools suck at times, but also can be a great part of something very productive. It's how much they are tailored to the needs of the team and how practical their consumption is. I've been a part of projects where JIRA is a nightmare and part of projects where it is a blessing. Same goes for Trello, Asana, Confluence, "just github", etc.

I've also used JIRA where it is ONLY managed by the engineers and also when it is owned and managed by large teams of non-engineering stakeholders.

My 2-cents: When a project isn't going well it's the team that is deficient, not the software, in 99% of cases. Most of these tools can be customized (and combined with other tools if needed) to create something that works... and this varies on a project by project basis. It's not about the tool... it's about how pragmatic and adaptive a team can be as they apply them. Panaceas do not exist in this problem space.
If what I hear from people who work for Apple is true, I wouldn’t be so optimistic.
Yes. I remember the first time I encountered Jira, I assumed we would just login and start created cards and tasks etc.

Except the first meeting we were introduced to a "consultant" who needed to "design" our process flow before we could do anything.

I went back to Trac needless to say.
> "You should rebuild images every 6 mo anyway!" - have you ever worked with an enterprise company? They do not upgrade like we do.

A bunch of enterprises are going to get burned when say ubuntu:trusty-20150630 disappears.

It's not that they even have to rebuild their images... they might be pulling from one that will go stale.
That's only the difference between a monopoly vs duopoly though, and as far as the app developer is concerned I'm not sure it makes much of a difference.

Reality is anyone releasing a for-profit app aiming for mass appeal can't afford to ignore either the Android or iOS ecosystem. They have to release for both, so there's no real competition involved.
What’s UDID registration website?
Concluding points from the statement:

>Epic agreed to the App Store terms and guidelines freely and we’re glad they’ve built such a successful business on the App Store.

>The fact that their business interests now lead them to push for a special arrangement does not change the fact that these guidelines create a level playing field for all developers and make the store safe for all users.
This is a fantastic article and reading list. I'm disappointed at how so much of the discussion around the most recent rioting has devolved to being pro-protest vs anti-rioting. The riots, like the spread of the pandemic are symptoms of wide-spread, systemic failures in our social, political and economic institutions.

The psychologist Stephen Pinker, has pointed out that violence itself is a tool of last resort in the human toolkit. The violence of rioters is mostly spontaneous and fueled by anger, flamethrowers and sledge hammers directed at objects belonging to a system they feel has not responded to their needs or concerns. The fact that violence is not the best tool for the job is irrelevant by this point.

Cooler, smarter and more sympathetic heads should actually focus more on what triggered the riots and determine the changes that are necessary to remediate legitimate grievances and hopefully prevent the recurrence of such failures. The reading list offers an excellent beginning for that. Discussing the efficacy and justification for rioting probably doesn't.
And Apple markets the iPad and other various apple devices as general computing too.
Yeah, there's no reason you have to use Snap. You can even use flatpak on Ubuntu (I've just started trying that out myself).
If you are accusing Apple of doing something contrary to US law, you have to be specific about what that is. What do you mean by "abuse of market power"? What is the law or regulation that you are accusing Apple of being in breach of?
Open source contribution is not a requirement for providing feedback but people who actually understand the industry are more legitimate in most people's eyes.
"I don't like it" and "It's illegal" are not the same thing.
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People are, statistically speaking, really bad at figuring out what to worry about. See: terrorist attacks, plane crashes, shark attacks, abduction by strangers. So maybe this is good news about the pandemic.
> I feel normal and function fine. I have an engineering degree and IMO perform better than most.

The disorder part comes from it interfering with your life. If your life is fine, you don't have it.

This is like everyone claiming "Oh I probably have OCD, I like having my furniture align".
Facebook failing to stop the trading of fake reviews
I am ignorant of the rules applying to apps with payments in the apple app store. Is it true retailers do not have to pay a percentage to Apple when people pay to reload cards through the app?

https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1293893660493455360

"Wow. Epic outright promoting direct in-app payment around iOS store but in iOS apps

And users collect 100% of the savings. No monetary benefit to Epic.

Note: McDonalds, Starbucks, et al are 'allowed' to do this today - but not gaming/media cos"
Please please please let it fix the way searching for recipes turns up the most awful, painful drivel at the top of the rankings.
Apple can argue its 30% surcharge protects consumers from their payment information being tied to each individual product, making canceling easier and buying things safer.
SpaceX: Starlink satellte production now 120 per month
Almost all of our problems are energy-cost constrained. If power were 100x+ less costly per kWh, for example, we'd be able to pull all the uranium, lithium, or any of a dozen other metals we need straight from the ocean, without having to run polluting, damaging mines. There are significant benefits to increases in production, if reasonably possible.
My thought is the fear of additional medical costs due to infection on top of the bills I am expected to pay.
What's the alternative for content like this?
> Why would Apple allow

There's your problem. Apple doesn't own the device.. I do.

Apple can "recommend" I use Safari all they want (not unlike MS does with Edge) but if I own the device I should have the right to run any software I want. Full stop.
That’s not a monopoly though. No one is being forced into using an iOS device.

A monopoly would be if Apple was literally the only smartphone manufacturer in the entire world.
> Doesn’t Epic take a cut out of every single purchase made of a game built with Unreal Engine?

Only those that make >$1mil lifetime gross.
So if in a year a product comes out that I really want to use, the product really wants to support apple, but apple says "no we're not going to allow you". I have to create more ewaste by going and buying an android phone instead?

Is this what we're advocating for? More consumption of rare resources?
The fact that all the other browsers don't have performance problems and are written in C++ completely refutes your statements.
Apple has more cash stockpiled than most companies on Earth, I think they’ll survive the fallout of Fortnite gamers.
Epic only takes a cut when revenue exceeds one million dollars and then only 5% which is considerably less than 30% on every transaction.

I don’t think Epic are against fees so much as against ones as high as in the App Store.
> Epic agreed to the App Store terms and guidelines freely

lol.
Iceweasel was a thing.
https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/wp-content/uploads/2009/0...

It's not a small land area by any means, but it seems a clear case of "lesser evil".

Rooftops, i.e. rooftop solar, are also already "lost" when it comes to nature.
In the medium-term the most promising thing out there is better, faster, easier testing. There are a number of organisations developing saliva-based tests that can return results in around an hour for a few dollars a test. Being able to test everyone on a regular basis may well be enough to keep the disease under control without major impact on our lives.

There are significant resources going into scaling up new testing technologies, but it's definitely not getting the support that vaccine development is, and maybe it should.
Latitude matters. The farther north you are the more time in the sun you’d need. In some far north places, the sun you do get is not strong enough to get any Vit D.

https://jaoa.org/article.aspx?articleid=2635300

https://www.grassrootshealth.net/document/sunshine-calendar/
Apple and Google are able to gatekeep what you can install on entire generations of devices, from smartphones to tablets. Their power to gatekeep billion dollar markets needs to be looked at through the lens of antitrust legislation.
If Epic is planning to rely on US anti-trust intervention, they will be waiting a very long time, even in a best-case scenario situation.

Unless they know something the public doesn't about a prior case file, this stuff takes a long time to be fully investigated and go through the courts.
Never understood the Jira hate. It's very useful and infinitely better than email.
Apple is enforcing its own rules. If they didn't do it, it would open the door for more companies to do bypass them.

It's pretty clear it wasn't a mistake from Epic, so there's no point in dallying.
Who decides what is good and what is inferior?
If you are not a developer, spreadsheets are a tool that lets you get similar capability in many cases. It is basically no-code for accountants, portfolio managers, and non software engineers.
Unreal Engine provides a lot more value to game developers than the App Store does as an app distribution platform.
Yeah! Get that government boot on their necks!! /s
Nothing forces you to use Apple, but you are forced to use Apple's app store.
Facebook abandons broken drilling equipment under Oregon coast seafloor
If a developer doesn't like Unreal's terms, there are other game engines.

If a developer doesn't like Apple's terms, there are no viable alternatives for iOS distribution.