skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are missing the point of differential privacy. This is an oversimplified explanation but I see it like this (This is also how my professor and his phd assistant at my university explained it to us).

Differential privacy provides some simple mathematical foundations to share any database data what so every without revealing the data about anyone specific. An example could be when you store someones name, birthday and illness. Differential privacy in a simplified way says,a name is a direct link to a person so remove it. A birthday could potentially be used to link to a user but not directly so replace it with a range so age between 20-30 for example, instead of the specific birthday. The illness is the data someone else wants so that stays. Now someone else can get information from your database without getting to any specific user or person. (there are a lot of other things that can be done such as adding random numbers to the result when you for example ask for am average age)

Where this whole thing starts to break down is when this is applied to real situations. Sure everything mathematically shows that you can not get to a specific user. But when you do already have a large amount of data or there are multiple of these databases you can quite easily combine them to find specific users or people back in the data. And these type of attacks are already happening, with people adding large data breaches together to find username, email and password combinations for example. This way they can for example find out if you have a pattern in you passwords such as a base password + a specific thing extra at the end.
For locations in Canada with a local cell provider or internet provider, the pricing is much better. Either lower prices, more services for price point, or a combination of both.

I suspect this is/was part of the push to get non-incumbents into the cell market.
Adding to this, Epic/Fortnite are planning a short which goes live in 10mins called Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite. Most likely to be a parody of the 1984 Apple ad. Yup, it's a marketing stunt.

https://twitter.com/FortniteGame/status/1293984290326433792
> There should be a thriving market of competing stores, payment systems, operating systems and so on

That sounds terrible. Myriad incompatible ways to find apps, having to give your financial information to lots of different systems you have to investigate individually, or not be able to do business with someone using a different system, apps only being available on the small number of devices running the OS they were developed for.

All the things you mention benefit massively from network effects, which can greatly benefit consumers.
Epic games store for iOS. Automatically accessible from all games packaged for mobile built on the unreal engine. I imagine that is their goal as well.
> Apple is about to get bitten hard for being a monopoly.

A monopoly in what? In making their own products?
In what universe do customers suffer from having the freedom to choose?
Right, but timing is especially important with this kind of stunt and there's a lot of variables outside of Epic's control that could have weakened it.
> I don’t know why people feel it’s their undeniable right to be able to provide an app to iOS users.

If Apple is using its market power to increase profit at the expense of reducing selection and/or increasing prices for consumers, then that's a very serious problem. It's exactly the reason antitrust laws exist.
Does that mean hackernews could be sued by Jira for allowing this thread to stay up (assuming they use Jira internally and signed the ToS)?
If Unreal were the problem, Fortnite could have chosen a different game engine at the start (this is not about terms changing after all) and it would not affect their options to sell to customers. And while porting would be expensive, it would be possible without loosing access to customers. Nobody doesn't buy a game because they bought an unreal-only PC somewhere.
In Canada, Fido has $10/m + tax "Tablet Plan" which can be used on phones and gives you 4GB/m data. You may need to find someone who already has a Fido plan.

I use the 2ndLine app for (very rare) calls and SMS. It gives you a local number. Data-only is the most cost effective imo
Not even third-party App Stores, just third-party payments processors will be a good start.
RetroArch 1.9.0 won’t be releasing on Google Play Store for now
What if Apple already has paperwork prepared too lol
I look forward to being able to sue Epic for not allowing me to sell my own custom skins in fortnite.
Epic bypassed Apple payments on iOS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24143346

In response Apple removed them from the app store - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24146902
I think they overstate the case for clean energy being cheap.

I think you misunderstood what cheap means, in the context of public health and a nation scale economy. Cheap is code for "do we want to" and if you implement storage as a public utility there may be no price problem. It makes jobs, it fuels industry. Do you think building out coal and oil and nuclear power was "cheap"?
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This advice is a bit stale in 2020 but I have learned it the hard way so I will write it nevertheless.

- Do not depend on google for most of your traffic. If you have alternate organic sources of traffic Google will automatically give you more importance.
- You need to have a social media presence. Facebook, YouTube and Instagram are important. It is okay even if it is just some automated posting.
- Your content must be shared by people. If you are not writing share-worthy content please reconsider. (Of course a click bait article will be shared more and a well thought research article will be shared less, compare yourself with your competitors on this metric.)
I think apple has the right to make TOS as they want.

The only way for Epic to "win" is to make others join their side and leave App Store. Then, Apple will have to decrease their cut under the pressure.
> Allowing this is guaranteeing the end of the App Store

Is it though? Has the play store ended because Google allows side loading?

The issue here is Apple simply doesn't really take risks and innovate to be the first in an industry. They take existing tech, polish them VERY well, and then try to make a lot of money off of it.

Problem is they're trying to leverage their position to run other companies out of business (Spotify and Apple music for example, or Netflix and Apple TV+)
I'm just doing regular benchmarking here:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aqr3qxYHlh9rgfVUKdE7Y9oYo5pOVQ?e=2GWdJU

But as you can see, it's not much CPU at 450'000 reqs/sec, and the response time is just fine, at 1ms average. The benchmark is at first hitting one of my emulated VMs, but it gets cached, which is a fast-path.

I think benchmarking anything other than a cache hit, is not doing a cache justice. Generally, the cache hit ratio is very high when properly configured. I did not look into what the Litespeed benchmark was doing though, so I can't comment on that.

What exactly is your VCL here?
I like to run `wpd` for clients[0]

It gets rid of the programs that obtrusively weigh down the system, as-well as removing a lot of cruft the typical user doesn't need. Disclaimer: it can break some things, but it's a small price to pay for a hardened system.

[0] https://wpd.app/
It's an interesting thing to balance. The health risk of the disease vs the 'developmental' risk of a lack of 'normal' social interaction with other kids and teachers in a 'so-called' formal school setting.
I am all for my kids returning to school, but that is easy for me to say and so I think everyone needs to have the space to make the decisions that they feel comfortable with. And that extends to the teachers as well, and this is where it gets really interesting. What happens if the teachers aren't comfortable with going back to a class full of little germ spreaders?
If my workflow didn’t depend on proprietary tools from stubborn companies I would be looking to buy high end ARM like ampere for my workstation. But I’m stuck on x86 for now :/
I'll do it for free
wow, that sent me down a multi hour rabbit hole of reading a bunch of programming drama.
Usually they just throw them out of a copter. Like in the good old fascist Latin American times.
For some market it is. Our users were 80%+ on ios
That sounds like the kind of thing that doesn't begin to change until and unless someone either starts putting up their own towers or VoIP becomes ubiquitous enough to be a real threat to the cell business model.
> Another way to think about it is, what do we do if we learn that the pandemic will not end for the next 10 years? What activities do we allow and under what new mode of operation / conditions?

Then we'd actually put real effort into controlling it so we could go back to life as normal even with the virus not fully eradicated.

The problem with all of these simple "risk profile" analyses is that we as a country are being forced to accept risk we don't have to. With cars, we understand there is some amount of risk but also we as a society also care about those deaths and make tons of regulations and improvements to make driving safer. As such, death rates have fallen over the decades even as miles driven have accelerated.

Whereas with the pandemic we seemingly are just accepting high death rates and hoping for the best instead of putting in the level of effort to fix it. That makes it not just about risk tolerance, but frustration with the level of concern the country is putting into fixing the problem.
How much worse are the bad ones than the others?
> You tend to see it with gasoline pricing as well - all the major companies have nearly identical prices.

Yeah because otherwise you make no money on gas. If I undercut the store across the street by a penny, they will then immediately match me or undercut by a penny. Pretty soon, we are at the break-even point and can't go lower without losing money. That's not tacit collusion, that's just a race to the bottom.

There's a big difference between all major app stores taking 30% every time money changes hands, and a race-to-the-bottom industry like milk or gasoline. Try starting a dairy farm - I think you'll find you won't be able to price your milk lower than your competition, and as a result your milk will be the same price everyone else's has been for the past 50 years - ~$2-3/gallon.
Monopoly is the wrong word but Apple's practices are at least bordering on anti-consumer.

The only monopoly apple have is over their own customers i.e. switching away from apple isn't cheap
Exactly. The web of yesteryear where you could make a living one-manning a website is practically gone. If you told me 20 years ago that I'd pine for the days of blogs, I'd have laughed. Now who's laughing...
Not me. I'm more concerned about my kids going back to school so that I don't need to be here all day and try and monitor their education on my own AND trying to focus on my job. The risk of me or my children DYING from COVID is practically zero.

The average age of a COVID death is 70+ years old. The average life expectancy in USA is < 80 years old. People won't live forever, no matter how many masks we wear or how hard we lock down.
The Russians have a couple of them in production (BN-600 & Bn-800) and another being planned (BN-1200). They work fine, but with current uranium prices there's not much reason to do breeding and reprocessing.

It's good that we research these, but there is no pressing need to take them into use soon.
Not to contradict your point, because I agree fully, but given how concisely you put it, I'd be interested in what your thoughts are on Freedom Mobile? I know they're kind of independent, but also their coverage sucks.
If that were the legitimate reason, then they could accomplish the same goal by requiring all in-app purchases to have the option of going through them, rather than exclusively going through them. Then people who cared enough to pay the 30% Apple tax could have that protection, and the rest of us could save a lot of money.
Find the archived version here: http://web.archive.org/web/20200813190612/https://www.painsc...

I respect the author in making this bold move of removing this. I would be interested in knowing what the updated views are.
I don't think open sourcing the store would significantly cut their sales. Running a world-wide package distribution network in itself is an incredible cost which many companies are willing to pay for. CentOS did not cut into the sales of RHEL either, for example. It's useful to have someone to yell at when things break.

Also note that there are already alternatives. I personally know a few companies who built their own stores internally and it's actually very easy to do so if you install the apps using side-loading.
i'm sure they wrote this months ago
I've never agree to Atlassians terms of service, so I feel free to comment all I want. (Edit: I guess I don't use their cloud product, my employers stuff is all self-hosted, so maybe those terms don't even apply?)
Yes, almost definitely that is what happened here. IANAL but typically you can't sue someone saying, if I did X then they would do Y and Y would hurt me. You have to actually say that they hurt you. Epic wanted to challenge Apple's App Store rules in court, and this is how they decided to do it. Push an update to the app, making it very clear that this update would help consumers with lower prices because American antitrust law focuses on keeping prices low, wait for Apple to take them down, then sue.
Even then, it's just a matter of time before they get assimilated into the Borg. Manitoba used to have MTS, until it was bought by Bell. I would not be surprised if in 20 years Vidéotron and SaksTel would be long gone too.
Django Developers Survey 2020
They are not. In fact I believe Tim Sweeny personally has the controlling stake.
I dig this.

The hard problem to solve is how do you get the absolute experts on the platform... and how do you get them to altruistically collaborate in the spirit of Wikipedia and the early web?

The opportunity is massive if you can solve this.

Take any sub niche of the internet / real world.

If you can find a way to get the 5 most intellectually influential people the subject to have their own profiles and work together to collaboratively manage a collection of important information for their community you've got a great asset platform.

If your platform does this repeatably and expands to a lot of other niches... you've got a unicorn startup on your hands because you now have a foundation for a search engine based on expert curation.
I generally tend to agree. The browser is becoming a terribly fat client, and the complexity and version/brand variations create a testing nightmare and moving targets that make the DLL Hell of the 90's almost look good in comparison.

To better manage the mess, perhaps break up the standards into 3 groups: 1) Art/games/entertainment, 2) Documents, and 3) CRUD/GUI for "productivity" work. We don't have a decent GUI-over-HTTP standard yet.

There also needs to be more coordinate-based options in the standard(s) so that the server can optionally control the layout flow instead of the client. Letting the client do it leads to the browser/brand combinatorial mess mentioned. If you can let the server do it, then you are dealing with only ONE layout engine instead of the many micro-variations we face with fat browsers. (Current HTML has some coordinate based ability, but it's too inconsistent, especially for text.)
Just FYI, Tencent owns a 40% stake in Epic Games.
Parent comment mentioned App Store rather than in app purchases.

Epic themselves charge 12% IIRC for their store.
Isn't the situation similar with Amazon? And how much higher are the prices for the consumers, in return for the Amazon experience? What is the Amazon tax to the consumer?
How exactly Apple is a monopoly? Just because they have a “monopoly” on stores on their own platform?
Epic Games is suing Apple
This is happening in Spain, not the UK. The truly hilarious thing about this is while they're apparently on the ball about gypsies stealing cardboard, the Spanish police mostly don't care about squatters moving into your house and trashing it.

https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/03/20/inenglish/15215...

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2020/04/27/spanish-police-evi...
This.

Jira is a framework for building something which approximates your actual processes.

> Justin said “I wish Atlassian would sit down with real-world developers and design this product the way we need it to work.”

The way 'you' need it to work. The process 'you' use. I suppose it's possible to build a business on creating a completely bespoke ticketing system for each company which uses one. Over time, that business might gravitate towards building a general toolkit which can be configured for each use case...

Oh look! Jira!

I'd bet that everyone's got their own distinct idea of where subtasks, ticket relations, etc actually fit in their workflow.

The article clearly exists to sell LinearB's product, which will of course work great for people who have the specific problems LinearB are solving with their product.

The rest of us will configure Jira within epsilon of 'works', then spend an afternoon reading about APIs and bash out our own automation service to update X different management tools appropriately for our workflows, and then go down the pub to bitch about management.
>If you can be considered a monopolist because you control your platform then there will be a LOT of monopolies out there.

I think there's a fairly trivial distinction to be drawn between a general purpose computing device and a utility like a fridge or a car. (something like, is the system aided by software to operate, vs is the system a platform for executing user-software)

For something like a game console it might actually be an interesting edge case but it doesn't seem difficult to draw an approximate line.
Depends on the "dish soap". I've seen everything from sodium fatty acetates (old fashioned lye-and-grease soap, Castille soap) to PEGylated alkanes and sodium lauryl sulfate.

Vinegar and lemon juice work well on Lewis bases (amines, some proteins) and some inorganic salts, but they aren't detergents.

NaOCl and NaOH are right proper cleaning agents and will saponify fats.
Well, it's the exact opposite.

They allow people qualified to diagnose the condition to identify those of us who have a pervasive developmental disorder with well known brain correlates that give rise to our behavior that appears as lazy, selfish, forgetful and stubborn.

If anyone wants to tell me "nah man, you're just a bad person" I'll tell em right back "Nah man, you're just an ignorant cunt."

Normally when you meet such people they are explicitly trying to reject the label based on a single data point and a piss poor understanding of the condition. It usually goes something like "But you can't have ADHD because you're a successful software engineer, so you must be able to focus right?".

Sorry, but yes, yes I can and if you want to try and comment on whether I do or do not have ADHD then you'll have to go through the full diagnostic assessment and that first entails getting board certified and then gaining significant clinical experience with ADHD or being under the supervision of someone who does.
Omar comin'. One of the best delivered lines in the show.
Huh?
All of Apple is (or soon will be) an entirely closed garden. You can harp on the literal meaning of the word "monopoly" all day, but Apple still makes a profit from a market dominating position.
30%? Just to be distributor? Really?
If their H/W would be free I'd have some sympathy, but as is you pay for their devices and then pay a 30% fee. In my book this is way-laying.

I'm not using any Apple products for exactly that reason (other than what my workplace forces upon me.)

On my Android phone I can install any 3rd party app I please - there even is "F-Droid", a non-Google app store for open apps, which I use a lot.

And for desktops I use Linux. I guess I'm in the minority - even here on HN.
Moore's law I think is widely misunderstood as computer chips doubling in speed every two years (or something to that effect). In fact, what it says is that the number of transistors doubles every two years, which is still roughly true. In 2020, its hard to buy single-threaded CPU speed by just throwing more transistors on a chip, which is why most performance gains have been found in multithreaded workloads (because you can trivially get more CPU cores by putting more transistors on a chip).
In order to test developer beta releases, you need a paid Apple developer account. Obviously it wouldn't be great if you had to pay $99 for every device (or employee at your business) just to test on the latest beta release, so Apple allows you to register up to 100 devices on your paid developer account.

Some people realized that they could sell each of those 100 slots at $5-10 to people who really wanted to use the beta (NB: previously iOS did not have public betas), hence "UDID registration".

Later, some of those people realized they could also sell you the code signing certificate that's generated by the real Apple developer account; valid for up to 1 year. That means you have the option of purchasing a real code signing certificate that allows you to sideload apps on non-jailbroken iPhones.
> Their ability to spread to adults is their biggest risk factor, not the disease itself.

But that's one of the biggest unknowns. While children are at far lower risk of dying, according to data we have, we still don't know about long term health effects and we're finding out new information all the time. And much of that new information doesn't seem great.
It's handled case-by-case, that's the point of the legislative oversight system.
What is with the name of this feature? Is there a physical "Visiting Card" that I'm not familiar with?
> It's not pure markdown.

Be fair, it's not trying to be and not claiming to either.
Anyone who thinks Vietnam is poor, is mistaken. They are the epitome of capitalism gone to the greedy. The richest of the rich and the poorest of the poor. It is the wealthy who are often the worst offenders, not the people struggling to make ends meet.

The culture is literally to not care about these sorts of things because it is someone else's problem. You see it in the day to day living... endless numbers of people routinely just throw their plastic cups carried in plastic bags, into the sewer on the side of the street. Knowing full well, it will either just sit there or one of the govt. sponsored cleanup people will pick it up.

I spent two years actively refusing plastic and it is impossible to convince every single person you deal with that you don't need yet another plastic bag.

Covid will end up being a giant reset for this country and I'm less enthusiastic about the future than you are. It will be interesting to watch for certain.
I've personally heard from several tens of parents that they are primarily worried about the economic and social affects of all these so-called safety measures governments and communities are taking. Just because it's easy to measure cases and deaths and hard to measure lost human connection, depression, children being left in environments of neglect, delayed/paused innovation and economic growth, etc. doesn't mean that those costs are less than the loss of life incurred from not being "safe". I would rather my children (and I have 5) grow up not being told they need to be afraid of everything. I would rather they grow up being able to learn with and interact with their peers face to face. And I am absolutely willing to sacrifice possibly a few years of extra time I could have my grandparents around for that. My grandparents are also happy to make that sacrifice so their grandchildren and great grandchildren can grow up in a better world.

We all will die. Can't let a fear of dying prevent us from living.
Thanks kcorbitt! Apologies if this is not the place to report this but invited co-founders get an 'Invite not found!' error after clicking on the invite link in the email and after filling out the profile.