skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a good question. It depends on the end goals of your field. In programming the end goal is that your systems work as described. The proof is in the pudding, as they say, and whether or not an engineer did a good job is fairly/objectively evident in whether or not the systems work as spec'd. No one really cares that you spun up your cluster in the nude.

In trial law, the end goal is to win the hearts and minds of a jury to believe you. Your end deliverable is a set of speeches and presentations to a group of strangers making decisions about ethics. In programming, your tools are your IDE, terminal, manuals, libs, etc. In law, your tools are all the different flavors of rhetoric. Some of these are pure logic-based rhetoric, but many appeal to human emotion and establishing trust and proving character. In the end, the jury needs to trust the evidence and arguments presented by the attorney are real and honest. He always explained to me that humans make lots of inferences about people based on their personal presentation--which is true. E.g. "he put a lot of care into polishing those shoes--I can infer that he did the same when collecting and investigating the evidence" Or, "that lawyer dresses really flashy with cheap clothes and fake gold watches to make it appear he's something he's not--maybe he's bullshitting his arguments too."

He explained it even extended to courthouse design. He'd say "There's a reason courthouses are big, imposing, and serious-looking. It's important that people behave themselves seriously and thoughtfully here; decisions are being made every day that can dispense justice to lives of the wronged and potentially ruin people's lives too."

He was right--when it comes to law, for absolute certain. Most of his trials were defending Fortune 500 companies (for good stuff--stuff he believed in--protecting them against other parties defrauding and legitimately wronging them). His record was something like 300-2. He was a legend and I miss him.

But I'm still going to spin up clusters with barbecue sauce on my shorts.
..."it is estimated that they cost the City Council of Madrid a total of €16m in lost recycling revenues"

So in other words The City of Madrid has a recycling business and they are unhappy with the competition.
Sure, but that doesn't mean this is how all software should be…
So is the “platform” the whole device or the store?
I disagree.

The model makes sense for a console, as it's a very specialized device. A smartphone or a tablet are much closer to a general computing device. How many times has Apple said the iPad is a laptop replacement?
The only reason they created this feature is to force apple to take their app down. Now they can point to the millions in damages caused by the apps removal. Their long term goal has to be creating a competing app store since they aren't seeking damages.
No, you can install software outside the store. Either native ARM (though there isn't much available) or emulated x86 code. It does default to "S mode" which prevents installing apps from outside the store but it's just a settings toggle away like Android's "Unknown Sources".
Improving your content to optimise for SEO is not the same as improving it for the user. I hope that fact was made bloody obvious by SEO-hugging websites full of garbage occupying top spot of many google searches.

In fact i might google a spesific product, like a Monitor, and the top result will be "but Monitor XYZ on Amazon". When i click on the link, turns out they don't actually sell or stock that product at all!
Not the person you replied to, but here's my list of gripes/wishlist for airbnb

- I want to see prices listed as total price, not price before fees which add 30%-50% on top of the listed price

- I want to select properties where there is no one else on the property grounds. Airbnb allows people to claim "Separate property" for somebody's basement suite where you're sure to encounter the host/other residents

- I want the pool/hot tub checkboxes to be limited to private pool or hot tub, and to not include results where the property has some membership to a shared pool in a HOA or whatever

- I want the ability to search for keywords, such as "backyard" or "creek"

- I want to be able to exclude certain hosts from results. In some cities the same host runs multiple properties and they all have bad reviews. I want to hide their properties.

- I want to be able to easily flag or report listings that are abusing the search terms - claiming a living room as a bedroom, for example

- I want to be able to search for properties by driving distance from a location
The percentages aren't quite additive like that. Say Epic gets $1 per sale, and the consumer pays $1.3 with the 30% Apple cut. A discount of ~23% (1/1.3) gets the sale price back down to $1. Include chargebacks and such for the missing ~2%.
> telling your superior to do a better job is an outstanding thing to do for your long term work prospects.

I would hope there's a way to approach that conversation which doesn't involve telling your manager to "do a better job", but which still gets the outcome you're looking for :)
Web browsers are apps, e-commerce is in-app purchasing. App stores get 30% of Amazon.

Come to think of it, why are web browsers excluded from the in-app fee?
When I click it there is a place to enter your email at the top.
This virus isn't going away even if there is a vaccine because half the public won't take it because they think Bill Gates is putting tracking chips in them. If we don't want lose most the small businesses in the country, people are going to have to assume some risk and go back to work. People need to work and that imaginary money before so our economy doesn't come crashing down.
How much damage would a bullet hole actually do?

If the hole stays of fixed diameter, its throughput would be small compared to the volume of the tube, so pressure would increase gradually.

So, how feasible is it that hole would not increase? What hyperloop designs are there? 10 inch thick steel throughout whole length?
I wonder if people were still with Apple if Apple charged them 30% for using Apple Pay.
I think what you are calling exploration through multiple sex partners is more of an urge to procreate, which would be different from what the study found in children, a systematic learning attempt to see if they missed anything. The sex example isn’t cognitive. But I take no issue with your choice of sex as an example or debating this and considering this argument for a potential flaw in the study.

My reason for calling it cringeworthy was your choice of words of adult males undressing females. It seems cringeworthy to talk about females as an object in this way and ignore sexual orientation when you could have phrased it (if it had to be about sex) as exploring sex partners or any other hundreds of ways.
This is blatantly wrong. Apple's CPU and GPU designs have been years ahead of Qualcomm/Samsung/... for years now, especially regarding single core performance. Check any mobile device benchmark.
While that would certainly be true for indie developers, I think it's laughable to suggest a company like Epic would lower their prices in response. They want that 30% for themselves. So I would take any claims from Epic that they are doing this purely for the benefit of the consumer as just pure marketing.

Though assuming that is true, there's an argument to be made that some consumers are willing to pay a premium for privacy. Though 30% is probably too high of a premium for most.
That's actually interesting too, the prices went up I think after they sold. Good evidence for people opposed to further actions like that
Your name is echeleon and you plead to the sanity and morals of the US gov for the sake of its people?

It's like asking Mao why he isn't giving the Taiwanese land for free inside the PRC
As a PWA developer I can only laugh at this comment.
>>The platform didn't get in your way in that regard.

Modern version of Andriod are less and less Free.

With every new version they move features and service out of AOSP and into Google "Play" Services.

Most of what people think about when they think of an "Android" phone is not the base OS anymore, it is Play Services

I think they are doing this for 2 reasons, one I believe they are wanting to drop both their Java Dependency and their Linux Dependency at some point
Thats not how secure devices work! if that what you want there are hundreds of android phone companies.
Of course, but setting up your cut is totally legal everywhere.

So, 30% or 99%. Whatever it is. Apple put it there. It is legal. If you don’t like just don’t accept. Go distribute your app somewhere else (also, App Store does not qualify for monopoly)
I never said that. My point is that moving devices isn't as simple as just buying a new one - i.e. it's not good enough to say just move to android (up to a point). There's nothing you can really do about it's just how software works.
Epic side-loaded Fortnite for a while, then gave up on it in frustration. Android's side-loading was never meant for anyone but technical users like developers.

Google Play Services are also not necessarily available without going through the play store, so you lose access to a lot of functionality that people often consider part of the system (like Chromecast).
The arguments aren't good ones, and I won't be surprised if Apple knocks this down easily.

Epic is arguing here that Apple is charging them 30% for payment processing. They're not, they're charging them for a return on the billions of dollars they spend developing the OS, developer APIs and tools that Epic builds on.

Most egregious is the fact that is is Epic's very business model! They provide a game engine, SDKs and tools to third parties and draw a % of the sales of those games. How would Epic like it if some of their customers stopped paying them? Their customers can make the same bad arguments: It's too expensive, and it's a monopoly because the switching costs are too high!

Sure, the difference it's the users that are captive on the Apple ecosystem rather than the developer, but it's pretty easy to argue that the users choose the platform because of it's quality, and a large part of that quality is driven by the massive investment Apple makes into the ecosystem, for which it deserves a fair share.

All that said, I really wish Apple would drop their cut to 15% or 20% which would do a lot relieve the bad taste in everyones mouth.
the only reason I recommend iphones to family members is because they are closed platforms, why are we trying to take away that option, a valid option to want to exist in an open marketplace, to make sure developers get more cash?

there's no inherent reason all platforms must allow arbitrary code to be executed, that's a very draconian rule to impose on the software world (ironically)
Pink Floyd's burning man: Aubrey Powell's best photograph
Google gatekeeps by default but you can trivially bypass and install custom app stores or sideload apps. Apple gatekeeps, and does everything in its power to prevent you from bypassing that. Seems like a rather striking difference...
> I wish I could run any code on it

But by extension that means any bad guy can run any unsigned code on it as well.

Look at the prevalence of Android malware to iOS. The latter basically doesn't exist outside of well funded nation states.
Given that you have a complete misunderstanding of why Microsoft lost their case I don't think your opinion holds much weight.

There is no law that says a platform must be open.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...
I feel like the classic UI was a massive pain for configuring workflows, fields and other tasks which also fuelled a lot of the hate. But in the new version at least it's much better IMO.
I mean, couldn't we just replace Microsoft->Sony and PC->Playstation and the argument falls apart a bit?

> Imagine if Sony did this on Playstation. a) prohibiting the installation of non-PlayStation games and b) insisting that all purchases done via their store give them a 30% cut.

Many platforms are like this -- and many also have the majority marketshare. Is this a call to redefine what platforms can and cannot control?
Geographic area is an interesting term here. If you take "iPhone owners" as a geographic area, then Apple has a 100% monopoly on that market. Geographic area == captive audience, and since iPhone users are a captive audience of the app store.

I think there's a reasonable argument that users buy iPhones with the expectation of a market in the app store (I can get or buy apps from any company that cares to develop one), so when Apple charges a 30% fee (far above normal payment processing fees) on every transaction made through the app they are abusing a monopoly position.
I guess that's that then.

I'll let Epic Games know, so that they can drop the suit and save themselves some vbucks.
The alternative is to let developers offer other modes of payment, and let people choose whether or not to use them.

Even if Apple required you to offer IAP in addition to any third party service, it’d be an improvement.
There's a huge difference (order of magnitude) between the size of those projects.

And I'm saying that as someone who'll admit to having been critical of Mozilla in the last two days.
Valve is anticipating such move in a near future and investing in gaming on Linux.
Who cares what you prefer? This is the exact value differentiator between Android and iPhone. If Apple doesn’t secure the device and vet the Apps, you’ve destroyed what made it different, and in its customers eyes, great.
>>IMO The key takeaway is that developers are no longer afraid of Apple. Epic Games would be unthinkable a few years ago.

Well yes, Epic Games was a small and relatively unknown studio until they hit jackpot with Fortnite.
If it were made impossible for businesses to be solely profit driven, then there would simply no longer exist any businesses that are solely profit driven.
Florida introduced absentee ballots just after the 2000 election. Since then it's been extensively used by deployed military along with anyone else who wants it. Dozens of general and primary elections later, we can see it didn't put those elections at risk.

As a side note, effectively crippling mail-in voting would prohibit many FL elderly (mostly R) from voting.
This is very common and just because it doesn't match your use case doesn't mean some businesses don't need a hot fix "right now." If you work in 24/7 ecommerce and your site is producing $60k per hour and there is a network failure that breaks something you need a hot fix right now, otherwise your 3 hour code review, build, q/a, deploy pipeline will cost the company $180,000.
Perhaps if running unsigned apps became more widespread, businesses will spring up in the space to offer secure, curated apps as third-party app stores.

Desktop software, for a long time, did not have the notion of specialized app stores or enforcing signed programs. Yes, Windows has loads of security issues. But surely this can be a problem that can be solved over time?
My original point wasn't that there will be a visible difference to the consumers but that all app purchases and in-app-purchases will be structured so that Apple's cut goes to zero.

If Apple allows non-apple payment without major restrictions, it's revenue from app store will trend towards zero (save for inertia).
If Epic somehow takes Apple to court and wins this you can still use the Apple app store. They could just do what android does and have the App store as default and have a toggle for 3rd-party stores if you're interested.
> Epic doesn't need to pursue Apple iPhone customers

Apple does not get to decide how the market operates. Only government gets to do that. Your statement makes it clear that they are committing anti-competitive practices.
> A consumer can jailbreak their iPhone

Apple would prefer that you don't, and tries as hard as it possibly can to make this impossible.
This is bigger than Apple, it would be a massive precedent if they pull it off.
And it gets to my major concern with the possible merging of iOS and MacOS. I don't mind curation on my phone, but it's a deal breaker for my PC
why? so epic can make more money? they don't care about you ... they just want more money
I mean pretty much every company not in the health care industry would love that. You think companies want to manage a health plan, a 401k plan, a X and Y?
(Co-founder of Quay here)

Scalability and garbage collection are actually two of the main areas of focus Quay has had since its inception. As you mentioned, most modern Docker registries such as Quay and Harbor will automatically redirect to blob storage for downloading of layers to help with scale; Quay actually goes one step further and (for blobs recently pulled) will skip the database entirely if the information has been cached. Further, being itself a horizontally scalable containerized app, Quay can easily be scaled out to handle thousands of requests per second (which is a very rough estimate of the scale of Quay.io)

On the garbage collection side, Quay has had fully asynchronous background collection of unreferenced image data since one of its early versions. That, plus the ability to label tags with future expiration, means you can (reasonably) control the growth problem around images. Going forward, there are plans to add additional capabilities around image retention to help mitigate further.

In reference to your note: We are always looking for contributors to Project Quay, and we are starting a bug bash with t-shirts as prizes for those who contribute! [1]

[1] https://github.com/quay/quay#quay-bug-bash

Edit: I saw the edit below and realized the bug bash is listed as ending tomorrow; we're extending it another month as we speak!
I mean, they already have the infrastructure on PC, and third party app stores exist on Android already (most notably Amazon's).
Seems to me the biggest hurdle to moving/finding customers via the Google/Android platform is that they won't spend money over there.

The feature/capability parity between the platforms means they are, in fact, both capable of serving these markets. But people want to vote with their dollars in the iOS ecosystem, and now the players want to change that ecosystem.

I'm not entirely convinced that this is Apple's problem, in as much as it is Google's fault for not fostering a properly competitive revenue delivery platform, even though it has the maturity and standing to do so.
It's only going to get more brutal -- Trump is terrified of losing the legal protection of the presidency and will not hesitate to do literally anything to hold on to it.

This election is a referendum on the survival of humanity.

I recognize that the previous sentence seems hyperbolic but I believe it to be the case. I'm terrified.
>1. It's clearly not a monopoly by any accepted definition.

Depends on how you define the market. The courts will have to decide whether the iOS app distribution market and the iOS in-app payments market is a relevant market. If so then Apple clearly has a monopoly in those markets.

>2. If you don't want to pay their fees, don't use their platform. 3. If enough content providers don't use their platform, consumers we shift to a different one.

The question that will have to be answered is whether that is an economically viable option for a sufficient number of content providers. If not then consumers are being harmed by Apple's anti-competitive behaviour.
I mean the payment system is super superficial here.

wish granted Apple let’s you use your own payment processing! But you still have to sign a contract with them to turn over 30% revenue of all sales made on their devices.
If you tried developing a PWA with mobile Safari support, and then reexamined this comment, I think you would quickly realize how ridiculous this sounds.
> No, really. I did.

> So I lied. I didn’t invent the iPhone; I invented the iPAQ (cca. 2000)

To save you the time.
And have their slice of the cake, which makes a lot of sense.
For anyone wondering about immediate solutions in your own home, I can say: Indoor air filtration really works.

I now use this industrial-level laser particle counter to verify my indoor air quality: https://www.iqair.com/us/commercial/air-quality-monitors/par...

I currently live on an arterial road, about 2 blocks from a major Interstate (I-5).

I'm very concerned about air pollution. Pollution here (Seattle, Downtown / Capitol Hill area) is bad enough I can see it in the form of black dust which comes in even through closed windows. And that's just the particles big enough to see.

I placed 4 HEPA filters throughout the house, and I run them constantly on a low setting. Based on square footage, I would only need 1-2 of these filters. But I wanted extra filter capacity in each main room.

One annoyance is that my particle counter returns a particle count (per cubic meter, I think?) which doesn't have an exact conversion to the standardized AQI (Air Quality Index). I found a plausible conversion guide, surely not exact but close enough.

Here's what I learned:

- Indoor air filters make a dramatic improvement to air quality. When the outdoor particle count is ~1M, my indoor count can be well under 100K. That's 90% reduction.

– When I approximate AQI, it's common for outdoor air (https://cfpub.epa.gov/airnow/index.cfm) to be in the "Moderate" scale, and my indoor air to be at the floor (best) of "Healthy".

– The IQAir HealthPro Plus (https://www.iqair.com/us/room-air-purifiers/healthpro-series) is incredibly effective. It lowers particle count to zero at its outlet.

– My other air filters are still effective, even though they don't get the particle count down to zero. They are the RabbitAir minusa2, and two Blueair Classic 205 units.

I was also very surprised when I carried the particle counter around my neighborhood. The quiet streets often have worse air quality than the arterial! And the particle count on the arterial was just as bad as on the Interstate 5 overpass. I think the better airflow on the arterials may help get the pollution out of the area. I really expected the quite streets to have fewer pollution particles.

I have not ventured into testing for C02, other gasses, or Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). But I'm very curious and may try to measure that myself someday soon.
If you're worried you're going to die from coronavirus given the current statistics you can self isolate.
No need for the entire population to do the same.

I started self isolating me and my family 4 weeks before my country imposed a lockdown, after seeing neighbouring countries being hit by the virus and not knowing what to expect.
I stopped caring completely after seeing the hospitals were empty and after seeing a reported death rate of around 1% in my country.

According to my mother, who is a doctor who fought covid on the first line (despite being at risk of death, given her age and statistics), the guidelines given by the government were nonsensical: ventilators probably did more harm than good in the majority of cases and there was a stance against steroidal treatment (which would have been the first choice she would have picked if it wasn't for the guidelines) which have been subsequently reevaluated.
There was also a problem with dropping requirements for counting covid deaths which created a massive statistical problem.
These factors make me think covid deaths are probably over-counted and it explains why this second peak of infections doesn't have a peak in deaths.

Of course, the issue has been politicised and if you say something like the above you'll be socially ostracised - or just downvoted.
Pretty sure Epic is angling to create their own app store. Consumers can continue to use apple's store and pay 30% fees or they can switch and pay whatever epic charges. The 30% fee is by definition biting you, so not sure what your point is there.
With 60%+ market share in US and majority of market profit... it sure is.

Remember how Apple was happy to say they "earned 120% (sic) profit of all mobile" just a year ago?