skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! It's also a failure of imagination of the American public. It's like a social safety net DURING A PANDEMIC is just too far outside the Overton window. It's crazy!
Could you explain how it is silly?

I've seen that exact reason (or some variation of it) echoed by many consumers who prefer Apple products. Are you suggesting that these people do not exist, or are lying?
If its unclear yet then don't shut down school ? Its clear that there are risk of closing school.
A laptop can be used to:

-play games

-consume media

-browse the web

-communicate
Yes, we built video chat on top of webrtc, host node.js server on aws, https termination on aws load balancer, then nginx to protect the data transition between load balancer and the server. We encrypt peer to peer text/image messages both during transition and store on the mobile device (using realm encryption storage).

In regarding your second question, I assume you want to ask the membership service. For telemedicine service, provider see patients and answer any question (even is simple), this is reimbursable from the insurance. For membership, our nurse practitioners will be the first layer on the other side to answer any question via the chat, many of them have 20-30 years of experience, and NP are actually eligible to prescribe medicine. Patient can book a full session with oncologist when need.
Hence the word 'Imagine', I guess GP mean't walled garden but that's the point. Also, GP didn't say anything about the internet.
Sorry for off topic question but are there any dirty link sharing platforms ,that you can share those links safely and warn the user and force it to copy paste?
Literally every candidate must be seen as "Tough on Crime" because the public wont vote for anyone who doesn't make this appeal. This became a big Republican stance that Clinton embraced that helped him win the election. So please show me the not "tough on crime" politician that has any shot at winning an election.
These articles about engineering process always put the responsibility solely in the implementing engineer's lap. Always more and more work to achieve JPL-level capability maturity, no matter your budget or headcount. Of course we want unit tests for every case, and verbose explanation in every atomic commit message, and architecture documents that are seldom read before they become stale. But make sure you also get your story points done for this sprint and meet your OKRs for this quarter.
> You have to actually build a functioning prototype to claim to have invented something.

Sadly our patent system do not require a prototype.
I hope it does.

Monopolies lead to stagnation, rising prices, and inferior product quality. Even though Apple is not a monopoly in the strict sense, I think we consumers will benefit from alternative app store - or Apple opening up the platform.

I believe one can still have (moderately) secure ecosystem without it being a walled garden.
The third world nation known as the "United" States of America, not to be mixed up with the United States in North America that is Mexico, nor Canada–which is also a nation of states that stand united, has an identity problem it seems.

Bipartisan politics are ruining the nation, as corrupt politicians whose political careers are funded by companies, with nobody standing in the way.

Will Democrats be able to fix it even if they get elected? I don't think so. Joe Biden is just another yes-man puppet. They are probably more corrupt than we like to admit, too. Doesn't mean the Republicans are better or worse, I'm saying it's the same thing: an illusion of choice. Illusion being the key word.

What the USA needs is a complete overhaul of the political landscape.

And that requires something grand. Something like many generals getting together and deciding to overthrow the government, and to install an intermediary government of scientists and specialists to figure out what kind of government would be best.

The role of the military would be to strike down any civil unrest about this with decisive and lethal strikes. Designate the Republican and Democratic parties as domestic terror groups. Lock up the current politicians; try them in court. Once corruption is proven, make them the ONLY prisoners in for-profit prisons.

But seeing as none of that is going to happen, nothing will change. If things go the way they seem to go, Trump will serve another 4 years at the very least.
What its marketed as and who it is aimed at. Nobody ever bought a nintendo NES to use as a personal computing device, it wasn’t that they looked at the specsheet and it had a 6502. There were in fact PCs with 6502s and powerpcs as well. In any case, I still think video game consoles are stupid but they at least have some incentives to do a walled garden type thing (anti-cheat, anti-piracy) and lacking general code execution they actually stand a reasonable chance of accomplishing that (versus iOS where I am currently typing on a jailbroken device.)
Could be, but if you want to answer the question "what are most people worried about" the correct thing to do is ask a random sample of 1000 people, not just to ask the people who've lost jobs.
A botnet is attacking the site in question (domains include xxxcommitted, pornsextube, qastack, thecouponholiday etc)

Around May 2020 the attacks started on your site, see your data: https://i.imgur.com/mfFRgVj.png

This botnet contains thousands of sites (so far I found this botnet includes 9000+ domains). The same botnet that's attacking my sites and thousands of others companies.

It may well be this is a foreign state cyber attack: so many sites are target and the 9000+ botnet domains to pay aren't free. No doubt this is costing governments lots of money.

When this botnet is attacking your site(s), it's goodbye to your blogging income. Sad but true.

Quality or best results is not the ranking factor anymore, it's large botnets that decide on the Google ranking.

Try Google disavow tool, it barely works, but at least it's something. I hope someday Google will fix this (ignore negative SEO), but for now this is the way things are.
Apple pays developers more.
One could argue that you bought your PC and the Windows license that comes with it because it's general purpose. And you would have paid less money if you knew it was going to lock you in.

Don't get me wrong, I hate the idea of "digital anti-globalism", but if this thing went to court, both sides would have their reasonable arguments. And let's hope that if there's a ruling, it rules in favor of open platforms. At the very least, I think it would be great if the courts rule that a platform that's built open and sold as open cannot be consequently closed. But I doubt that Apple will be forced to open its hardware to non-App Store programs.
I wish the text in a collapsed <details> would show up in the browser's ctrl+F search. Why didnt Firefox and Chrome implement this yet?
Go Epicgames! The #freefortnite campaign is bold; it’ll require users being proactive for it to maintain its momentum.

I love the the things that both companies make, but I’m not in favor of the App Store’s monopoly. I’m excited to see the outcome of this lawsuit but not very excited to wait for a long, drawn out process that the US legal system lends itself to.
A community that I've seen doing this pretty well is the Home Assistant community. You might wanna check their examples out.

https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture
The IAPs are vetted by Apple, and a developer who gets authorized to use one can't turn around and reuse that IAP access to charge other things.

Yes, some IAP scams get by review and end up making the news. But the difference between that happening and a free-for-all of credit card numbers for scam games is massive.
A cartel, by my understanding, would require the act of collusion to take place.

The issue in the telecoms market, at least IMO, is the high entry price (spectrum access sometimes meaning there is no option aside from buying an existing operator), combined with scale of the operators (usually large and national-level) meaning there is little entrepreneurial spirit to drive costs down.

It can cost a large company 100x what it would cost a small company to do the same work, and that becomes a price everyone ends up paying for. But absent knocking down barriers to entry, it's a very hard market for a new entrant to get into, unless you are happy to just sell to the existing incumbents as clients.
I sense you didn't read the 1500 words? Most of it is about the very item you raise, i.e correlation not causation.
In the 1960s, I read a book written for kids. I don't recall the title of it. In it, the boy receives a toy with a keyboard and a screen. He types in questions, and gets answers. One question he asked the toy was "what is the main export of Bolivia?" The toy writes to the screen "tin".

I type it into Google 45 years later, and it replies "natural gas, silver, zinc, lead, tin, gold, quinoa, soybeans and soy products".

I wish I remembered the title of that book!
I don't know if dang has published generalized region stats for HN. You could email the moderators to see if that is something they do / have done / would do.

hn [ at ] ycombinator dot com

My guess is that a majority are in the U.S. and some in E.U. based on posting and reply times.
FWIW, actually Sony doesn't demand a 30% cut of all revenue from any company that makes an app for their store. You can have subscriptions to non-Sony services, and Sony doesn't see a dime. Sony doesn't demand a cut of Netflix subscriptions, for example, despite having a Netflix app available for download. Similarly, it doesn't get a cut of Spotify revenue either.

For PlayStation you pay the Sony tax for the convenience of integrating with their payment services, not because they'll ban you for using anything else.

It's also a super different situation in general; for example, Sony actually often pays developers to develop for their store (e.g. PubFund [1]), and does free marketing campaigns for them. Console makers live and die by their access to a pipeline of new exclusive games, so they treat game developers well; Apple doesn't, so it squeezes app developers for what it can. Hence why game developers are suing Apple but not Sony.

1: https://www.giantbomb.com/pub-fund/3015-7606/
As someone who neither uses the App Store nor plays Fortnite, this is fascinating to watch unfold.
outline link: https://outline.com/DWN7nS
I'm curious how this will shake out.

On one hand Epic (and any developer) is building their business on Apple's property/ecosystem. On the other hand, Apple has demonstrated anti-competitive behavior in numerous instances.

Due to all the political turmoil in the USA with the technology industry, I don't think Apple has enough political capital to prevent a massive/historic prohibitive ruling against Apple.
There's millions of apps on the App Store and of those, only a few hundred are visible at one point in time.

Are you telling me that millions of apps are just not using the store "correctly", that Apple would feature them if only they had "looked it up?"
Oregon has distributed 100 million ballots over the past 20 years in its vote by mail system. In that time there have been just 12 cases of voter fraud.
Can you know too much about your organisation?
> Well, it's not that surprising when you have a disease whose harm factor is a function of your age. The vast majority of covid deaths are the elderly. The tiniest minority of covid deaths are young children. Their ability to spread to adults is their biggest risk factor, not the disease itself.

I think that's assuming that death is the only thing you have to worry about with this disease, and that if you don't die you'll recover and be no worse for wear. That may be a false assumption, and it could be that many children suffer from some kind of long term damage from the disease.
Ask people who do education research https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/

There's also private companies like brilliant who would pay you to do curriculum research if you got a PhD in the field, or who knows make your own.
I would install desktop Linux on my iPhone if I could but there are no drivers in mainline and they work hard to lock the bootloader down (and before someone suggests android, the intention there is just as bad but tends to be less well executed and there still aren’t suitable drivers available.)
I haven't met a single person that prefers the current state of things. Every time my friends and I search for a recipe we are constantly annoyed by having to scroll through a story that appears to be there simply for ad placement or SEO.
As long as you're already provisioning a pro dyno which starts at $250.
"Prescribing weight loss to black women ignores barriers to their health"

If a doctor thinks a black woman should lose weight to improve her health, that is the advice he or she should give. Not giving patients the best medical advice because of race is racist.
I own and use multiple consoles. I only carry one phone.
> Apple has asserted that blocking third-party app distribution platforms
is necessary to enforce privacy and security safeguards. [...] A simple comparison to how Apple handles third-party software on its Mac personal computers illustrates how baseless its justifications are.

Clever. Now Apple will either need to (1) state that Macs are insecure and bad for privacy, or (2) admit that there is no privacy/security benefit from the App Store rules.
I can’t believe how dismissive people are about people who are worried about their finances during this. So many false equivalencies being made about bankruptcy being preferable to death. I am not one of these people that is cavalier about COVID, it’s a real danger and the long term damage to the body is just being discovered. But we all know for sure what the long term health effects of poverty are. Whether you like to admit it or not, the economy is vitally important to our health, life expectancy, and quality of living. You can be worried about both COVID and the economy.
That’s exactly why I use Apple products. I don’t have time to mess around with third party stores and risk security issues when I need an app that doesn’t want to be on the App Store. I’m ok with paying 30% more as a consumer for the simplicity and peace of mind.

That's great. You should have that choice. But it should be a choice. The issue is that Apple block apps that tell users that there's a non-Apple tax alternative. They should not be able to do that. Removing apps that inform the customer about alternatives to in-app purchases is clearly anti-competitive. The screen that offers the alternative would have absolutely no impact on you or your choice. It would have a huge impact on people who are less able to afford the higher Apple in-app-tax-burdened price.
I have zero interest in replacing one tyrant with another. Epic games doesn't care about what Apple is doing, they just want to do it themselves.

They keep trying to buy the PC gamer market, and it doesn't take much of an imagination to guess what they'd do if they got control of it.
It's good to remember that Apple isn't just a potential monopoly, but a monopsony-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22051915
If local law enforcement agencies in the US can be considered companies- there are a large number ghat still have no computers, use no database, and still do everything on paper.
As a side note- that is the reason we can't have a national database for unsolved murders, etc.
Canonical has defended their product in many places. This article contains a lot of the same info, for example: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-canonical-views-the...
It's a billion dollar industry and growing. It seems okay to focus on breast cancer alone and later expand if they ever plan to.
In 2019 Kaspersky Labs identified over 3 million unique Android malware samples. iOS malware is so rare AV companies usually issue press releases about finding them (like LightSpy).

The reason you might not know about Xerxes, SMSreg, Cerberus, LokiBot, BlackRock, FunkyBot, UpDroid, etc. is because another Android malware family isn't newsworthy.
It is Zoomers vs Boomers.
Seeing their friends. In a mask. Without being allowed to talk or interact with them before, during, or after class.

Sounds fun. The reality of what in-person school looks like isn't anywhere close to what your children are looking forward to.

Our oldest is going into Kindergarten this year. We chose distance learning before that became the only option because we didn't want her first experience with "big girl school" to be something out of Handmaid's Tale.
Then your parents can still use Apple's app store in such a world and pay a premium. In fact, in such a world your parent's would probably benefit too, because Apple would actually face competition and would reduce their 30% to a more reasonable level.
> And, in return for putting your SQL in .sql files, you get all sorts of nice things. Syntax highlighting for your SQL, for starters.

Until recently I was looking for a good scheme to keep my sql in .sql files primarily for this reason. But some time in the past few releases, pycharm has started detecting SQL in strings, and if I add an instance of my DB as a data source to the project, it autocompletes table/column names, etc.

I still see some appeal to putting my SQL in .sql files, but good IDE support has given me most of the benefit while keeping it in local strings, plus some help with prepared statements that would have required some added effort if I'd moved it to SQL files.
Don't like third-party app stores? Don't use them.

It would be nice if you had that option, wouldn't it?
Watching The Next Generation now one thing I note is that nobody ever does more than check a box for input (maybe) on the PADDs. The big question of data input was glossed over for the show. We also never see someone on their PADD digging at the screen to scroll it where it needs to be. Or since this was Star Trek, saying out loud "PADD, next page" every 30 seconds.

The author of the article laments the loss of the stylus, but I think he doesn't realizes just how much removing the stylus changed the interface. You can't do pinch or multi-finger swipe with a stylus. It also killed the scrollbar dead, which is something the stylus based interfaces were still clinging to.
Indeed price signaling [1] is a real thing when it comes to anti-competitive behavior among dominant market players - and government economists love analyzing these types of problems for antitrust cases, as they can be like solving forensic puzzles. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_signal#:~:text=A%20price....

[2] https://www.thesoulofenterprise.com/tsoe/antitrust
Yes, but in this case Epic gave this decision to the customer. They could pay more and use Apple's payment rails. Apple killed it, which is what Epic needed to prove consumer harm.

This is going to be a very interesting case.
> I find it hard to believe a company like Epic would lower prices in response. They want that 30% for themselves.

But they did: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkyvvk/fortnite-developer...
Why would there be a difference in treatment for entertainment vs general purpose? Both are devices that I’ve bought, so I should be able to use them as I see fit.
Apple does see this. That’s why they only get 30% from paid apps and subscriptions, and spends huge amounts distributing free apps at the same time.
You might enjoy a trip to Aru, in eastern DR Congo. The gas pumps were run off of a gas generator!
Why is it more of a "general computing platform" than an Xbox or a Playstation or a Bravia?

All of those platforms have stores, all of them allow digital downloads of software that executes, all of those have browsers.

What makes the iPhone "general purpose" where the others are not?
You're mistaken, VW was caught cheating nitrogen oxide emission standards in America, not CO2. There have been some allegations they may also have been cheating CO2 emissions, but that's not nearly as clear and the nitrogen oxide emissions is really what the big fuss, and arrests, were about.
Ask HN: What Alternative to StackOverflow?
This question has been brought a few times before on HN, but I have found a satisfying answer yet.

What community do you recommend to post "complicated questions"?

For example, I just posted that:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63399940/how-to-tell-ssh-to-setuid-after-pam-and-not-before-to-remap-users

and I am being told this is not "SO material".

All my latest SO questions have been in the same "vein", more architecture and design questions than strictly code question.

I'd like a friendly community that can share experience and have healthy debates over tricky questions.
God of Networks
If you are using Apples platform, why act like you want to live rent free?
That is comparing Apple and Google's App Stores.

Android is a much larger ecosystem than just Google.
My problem with subtasks in Jira, is that they're a constantly leaky abstraction. While an epic and task are different on multiple levels, but what makes something a subtask vs a task? This seems like a trivial question, and it's frustrating because it should be, but because Jira has encoded subtasks as a very-similar-but-also-very-different object than tasks, and some actions can only be done against tasks and others only subtasks.
By definition, anything over 50% should give you de facto control. I'm curious what you mean by 60% not being a monopoly.
That is a fair point, but I believe current law (in the US) still protects iPhone owners who jailbreak their phones.
If you can drive higher volume due to better margins, of course you would! The curve changes.
Funny you mention Sony -- Linux support on the PS3 turned into a big deal. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS )

Historically, other game consoles could be used a "general purpose computing devices," such as the Sega Dreamcast with Windows CE and the Nintendo Famicom (which is short for Family Computer).
Related: the OpenDP project out of Harvard and sponsored by Microsoft:

- https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/opendp

- https://github.com/opendifferentialprivacy/
Surely buying apps on an iPhone is already a totally consolidated market.

It's so tightly controlled that it's literally impossible for there to be any competitor iPhone app stores that consumers could move to.

And not only that, but Apple is also stopping the implementation of browser features (WebPush, Service Workers, etc) that would appear to allow browser apps to compete with those downloaded from the App Store [0].

[0] https://twitter.com/HenrikJoreteg/status/1071611165946470400
Run out of pencils, voter makes mark on both candidates (check on one, x on other), counter decides to drop a bunch of additional ballots in, your vote is visible to the outside so the person who paid you to vote a certain way can verify.

Voting is a hard problem.
> iOS is literally the majority of the market in the USA. It has nearly 60% market share.

Are you confusing the words mono and majority?
And the common denominator? "My parents."

Maybe your parents need to be protected from their own poor decisionmaking, but is that true for everyone?
Firstly, you are not the representative sample, I can testify that in much of russia they are definately a status symbol and most of their customers are not developers. My sample size is still not great, but at least i am not talking about myself.

Secondly, this narrow-minded attitude is reflected in you calling MacBook the best general computing solution. There are a large variety of requirements for general computing solution, the most common ones that macbook can't satisfy are cost and gaming performance. Indeed no one product can satisfy them.
Sorry to break the news. But end users have one requirement...don't fucking annoy me

That it. That's the key to any saas.
I confirm !
I need to rename KafkaHQ to AKHQ : https://twitter.com/akhq_io/status/1240037275565727744
Apache Committee ask to rename the project as CMAK and others ...
https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/21/google-tracks-online-purchase...

As far as I know things like this have been public knowledge for awhile, I didn't just make something up randomly