skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment does not correct that statement, and uses erroneous data to claim otherwise.

Apple does not have more than 50% marketshare of smartphones in the US. In most analyses it is between 41-43%, with an absolute high of 46%. Android accounts for the rest. And of course worldwide iOS is dwarfed by Android.

https://www.kantarworldpanel.com/global/smartphone-os-market...

EDIT: Of course this was down-arrowed. The citation of StatCounter is akin to claiming that the rodeo's parking lot has 80% pick-up trucks, therefore pick-up trucks have 80% of the market. It's absolute nonsense but it somehow appears on HN repeatedly. Never change, HN. Never change.
I think you are addressing something that also immensely bothers me because not only is our "science" in the west often not scientific process at all, but that the "science" of documenting and researching culture and traditions is not considered "science" by many.

It is related to my vehement repulsion to "globalism" and "immigration" too that is probably the single most destructive force in human history that has ever happened as it is erasing actual cultural diversity and uniqueness at a mind boggling rate that makes the mass extinction events others are concerned about all but look trivial. All over the world, from India, to Thailand, to Belize, to France, to Germany, to Italy to Poland… local traditions and cultures are being snuffed out as the globalist corporate monster of world domination turns everyone into monoculture consumers of the same corporate drivel. It's sad, really, I encourage everyone to learn as much as you can from your elders and link into your particular cultures, because the very deranged people leading our world dominating corporations want to erase all of that and make us all consume the monoculture they will serve you up … from India, to Thailand, to Belize, to France, to Germany …

It's really rather sad. Do yourself a favor and try to preserve what will never be recoverable again if it is not captured and archived, and dies with the past generations instead.
Harrison Bergeron is the logical conclusion to fundamentally equal outcome. Is that a society anyone really wants to live in?
So you think Israel should get the land. And with or without its current inhabitants?
Your comment would be more persuasive if you said why you think it's nonsense. As is, your comment is pretty worthless.
Past the edit window, so I'll just add this: https://twitter.com/rustlang/status/1294024734804508679
I love that it needed a gaming company to stir up a discussion about all this and even put your comment on top on HN where it's usually the praise for this closed environment which ends up being upvoted!

2020 is really an interesting year.
GPT-3 Heralds a Democratic Revolution in Tech
Apple wouldn’t be in this mess if only they had the foresight to charge less than 30% as fees. 10% would have been much more reasonable.
You prefer, but is it useful?
Reddit has a mobile view that is almost the exact same UI as the AMP page. WHY do they allow Google to run the AMP page instead? I too have switched to DDG solely to avoid Reddit AMP pages.
Most importantly it can utilize 82 terawatt-hours of pumped hydroelectric energy storage in Norway. So energy storage is much cheaper than for most areas in the world.
And anyone who argues from that position should understand exactly what they are asking the entirety of the human race until the far future to accept.

You REALLY don't get how shortsighted that is?

If the Constitution were written today it would very likely use less strict language. Free Speech cannot be protected by law if the people themselves don't value it.
It's only a matter of time before "asian privilege" becomes a common phrase and / or people start campaigning to no longer classify asian / pacific-islanders as a "minority".
Law is meant to be kept , even if it isn't in you benefit.

That's the DEFINITION of "constitutional state"/"state of law".

It means the government can't just arbitrary bend the law if it fit's them on a case-by-case basis. If they want change they need to make a new law.

Even if Epic did act out on apple because of Chinese support the US has to handle the case fairly on basis of the facts of Apple abusing there marked power (which they obvious do, through not necessary illegally). Then, after or parallel to this they can decide how to handle the Chinese involvement, but this MUST NOT affect the given suite. That kinda what being a "constitutional state"/"state of law" is about. It's about being able to rely on the law being uphold independent on weather you family (or investors) might be crime lords or foreign powers or whatever.
Interesting there aren’t any solar panels. I guess the weight would undo the charging benefit for most customers? I wonder if folks will add them after market or if it’s just not useful for a watercraft like this.
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I went to that link, and still don't have a great idea of what the tool actually is
Yeah, sure, because if Apple was no longer able to enforce a 30% cut on all in-app purchases, that would totally destabilize the price of Apple (stock, I assume). Because they make the hugely overwhelming share of their money from...in-app purchases?
Someone did a satire of the Apple 1984 ad with Fortnite characters. Is surprisingly well made, and hilarious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqTNO8LTggI
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Please consider Scalyr: disclosure I work there, but objectively I will be surprised if someone beats us on price, focused log analytics - try and judge for yourself.

https://www.scalyr.com
This dish was in the movie Goldeneye and apparently a lot of other films as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory
Except for the untold millions who are barely scraping by after the pandemic who have no leeway in their budget for an auto tax increase.
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To be fair, reddit also has a horrible desktop experience. Thank goodness for RES and old version.
I think this is one of those cases where you are taking a bunch of anecdotal evidence and drawing the wrong conclusions from it or at least biasing them towards your own dislikes... 'privileged SV and internet yuppies'. Your response feels a bit like Dunning-Kruger [0] effect going on here.

I am not a doctor so I won't give you advice, but Dr. Gupta is. I felt like his reasoning for not sending his kids back to school in this article [1] was spot on.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW9R6jgE7SQ

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/health/covid-kids-school-gupt...
You always have a plan B.
I am not sure; to be honest, I am a bit skeptical of individuals being able to get enough money together. It's just math.

We will always do our best to make sure that no one single company controls Rust, but we do also want Rust to be useful to industry, and so we do want to listen to our users, no matter where they come from.
We don't have the vaccine and don't know if will ever have.
When these behaviors are being used to stifle competition they should be stopped too.
Valve is also funding the Vulkan shim on OS X so they can sidestep Metal.
Good analogy about discovery of Pharma molecules.

It’s really fun to think about the fact that Tesla has more than enough data to unlock autonomous vehicles, but all that is missing is the correct AI architecture to get it working...

Who will figure out how to code that? Will it be a breakthrough, or can sub-optimal architectures eventually reach equilibrium with 10x or 100x the amount of time/data processing.
> Epic might only win a rollback to the last uncontroverted state, though. That is, apparently, before Epic's payment system went live on Apple platforms.

IIUIC the app itself wasn't updated, only the webview for payments was updated on the server side.
To me it seems like he was doing that just because he didn't have the garbage truck that would lift the entire dumpster and tip it over into the truck. It doesn't seem like he's "breaking in", in the sense that that opening (unintentionally) wasn't built big enough for a person to fit through as opposed to being an intentional security feature.
Black Friday is not a federal holiday, its the day after a federal holiday, which many office workers customarily get off (but not retail workers as you mentioned).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_holidays_in_the_United...
They are not supposed to be updated. It captures a decision at one point in time with lots of context.

If an update is necessary, you create a new ADR.
Show me any evidence that this isn't literally what the far left wants? CA is moving to remove hiring anti-discrimination protections, as if nothing could go wrong with that line of reasoning...
The fact is, you do need to get rid of more heat when using hot water.

Ergo, some sort of self-reinforcing feedback loop must appear when you use hot water, that sucks heat out of it faster. If you use cold water, the "turbocharged" mechanism does not operate for some reason, and heat is lost at a lower rate.

I've no idea what that mechanism is. It's nonlinear behavior for sure.
Is there a good tutorial you can recommend on how to audit this?
Not for me. But I don't thinks its' A or B, but some blend and it's always been some blend. House of Commons and House of Lords. Representatives and Senators, Electoral College, etc.

I believe the right discussion to have is where do we as society want to be between the two outcomes. Not do we want A, or do we want B.
But it does, conveniently, keep my parents from screwing up their Mac too badly before I make my (much less frequent now) trips home to assist them.
Tesla, having the first real breakthrough game-changer product in a new category. Various clones then start to appear at lower price points, then start to compete on quality. iPhone/Tesla continues to sell well, but is no longer dominant.
Once upon a time, there was a certain large and innovative American technology company. It invented incredible hardware devices, which it sold to end users. Each device was programmed to connect to this company's network, and to access services provided by this company.

A large and growing ecosystem of applications and services grew around the network which this American company controlled, and the network became central to the American economy [1].
Other businesses had to connect to this company's network, so that they could reach the company's many end users. But the company jealously guarded its end users, inflicting onerous burdens on competitors, or disconnecting them entirely [2].

That company, the American Telephone and Telegraph company, was eventually dissolved by the US Department of Justice due to charges filed under the Sherman Antitrust Act [3].

Anyway, what were we talking about? Oh, right, there aren't any historical analogs to the App Store. Apple is a bastion of innovation and an important defender of privacy rights, and I can't imagine that its management would ever recklessly endanger that by running afoul of antitrust law.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone

[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=107525656002865...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._AT%26T
NAND is the new industry standard, but most embedded systems, several billion units, produced in the early 2010s were powered by NOR flash, and many use Linux. One example was the vast majority of home routers. I once replaced the 4 MiB NOR flash in my home router to 16 MiB for OpenWrt (yes, you can run Linux with 4 MiB of NOR flash, this configuration was officially supported by OpenWrt until it's retired in 2019).
It would be cool if they could be used to implement a wearable HUD-style/face mask interface, like Google Glass but where the entire lens is the screen.
They wouldn’t brick anything actively. You bought a product that bricks under certain conditions. You know that when you buy it.
Has anyone tried having work meetings on Fortnite custom rooms? Seems like a fun concept, not sure how it works in practice (are there other games that would be better for avatar-based private meetings?)
This is spot on in my experience. My company is 2+ years into JIRA adoption and it's been messy because everyone tried to bend it to be like the best previous tool, interested of starting with, and honestly evaluating, the default configurations. Now, most teams are slowly circling back to defaults. I find the PM stuff, like Plans, to be fairly well implemented, as are the notifications.

If JIRA has any core issues, it's that it may be _too_ flexible; you can definitely overcomplicate things and get yourself into trouble.
I love that Epic is doing this as it could finally drive the regulatory question of whether Apple's app store is a monopoly requiring intervention.

I'm not even sure I know exactly where I come down on the issue as I can see reasonable arguments on both sides. But I do think it deserves being tested.

(Note: obviously it IS a monopoly and does have huge negative effects. The question is whether the courts will find that it technically violates specific anti-trust definitions sufficiently to be successfully prosecuted.
Why would that matter to anyone but Microsoft?

AFAIK Firefox still exists as does KHTML.
Long link below. That seems to be the current one. It shows how to enable non-App Store applications by identified developers, and also how to open applications it can't verify (I rarely run into this, but occasionally with open source software or niche tabletop gaming software).

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491#:~:text=View%20the%...
"There's an App for that" sounds like general computation to me.
Remember that time you were looking for an answer to some obscure question, you find the perfect google result - description, page title and URL all indicate it’s going to answer your question so you click it, and... nothing.. the page cannot be found.

You now have that, with docker.
Any background why the fed is going after yale, but not Harvard Princeton MIT, Penn or Stanford?
Not a monopoly on the mobile market, or even the general app market. They do have a monopoly on the "Apple App Market", which they also abuse to be quite frank.
Consoles have chips and Blinky lights. Phones have chips and Blinky lights. Consoles are phones. Case closed
Or 0% on sales through EGS.
The Clayton Act is just part of US antitrust legislation. It originally targeted monopolies. It has has been amended many times since then to extend beyond monopolistic business activities to encompass all manner of anticompetitive business activities.

Due to historical naming conventions, the modified legislation is still referred to by its original name.
Actually, I bought iPhones for my parents precisely because of the walled garden and consistent experience. Back when I made this change (3 years ago), the Android App Store was just a cess pool of privacy violating trash apps. Between that and the inconsistent ways to do everything across manufacturers, I just determined android flexibility is not worth hours of support for non-techies.

So yes, lots of people buy iPhones exactly because if Apples iron grip.
I meant "every transaction", as in in-app purchases beyond the initial 30% cut on the purchase price.

So distribution deals for physical goods are not analogous, right ? Like Best Buy doesn't get a cut if I pay netflix to watch it on the TV I bought from them.
> We may think of how Europe deals with big business as extreme and radical

What has Europe done in the last decade in anti-trust? Vestager brought a series of suits that got overturned by the courts, or charged monopolists peanuts for brazenly violating the law.
people who need or are use to being in control are having a very tough time.

My mother-in-law is high strung, controlling, and anxious pretty much 24x7 (I still love her (family is family)). There are times when talking to her is like talking to a stranger because she gets so wound up and out there.

We have family friends that are losing their minds. Some, seemingly normal, friends are falling deep into the conspiracy mess others are divorcing or making odd decisions. One refinanced their house to buy a Lotus, 3 small kids + infant and he just shows up one day with a Lotus...

the mental effects and relationship stress because of Covid19 are pretty crazy too.
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Fair, I was responding only to the "If that is true..." part
That's still Steam bringing games to Linux though, right?

Whether or not it's native or wine doesn't change the fact that Steam is pushing into Linux. They've shifted the responsibility from pushing linux support on the developer to providing linux support themselves.
I was unaware they ever did? Source?
Relation between console makers and game studio is too different to directly trigger the same issues (Atlus wouldn’t sue Sony For instance).

But the situation being almost the same, a ruling in one would trigger a tidal wave in the other.

There was a fun moment in last year’s vergecast interview with a lawyer on the App store issue, also related to Epic I think. The case of console stores was brought to the conversation, and the lawyer bailed out of it pretty fast with a “there might be similarities but we need to look deeper before saying anything, let’s put that aside for now” kind of answer.
> while providing little value other than being a payment processor, for which the normal charge is less than 2.5%.

Would you consider providing a large number of paying customers "of little value?"
I play Fortnite and my kids play Fortnite and I still don't think it's that dominating. Kids have plenty of outlets and Fortnite is one of many. But even if I agree what, exactly, is Apple going to be able to say or do? What response could they possibly have that would placate children?

It's better to not fuel the flames.
Well, I'm going to die of something, but surely I'm more likely to die of the flu. You can do weird things with statistics.
Where did you get the idea that Apple is selling iPhones at a loss?
I think the main thing which really needs to be done is allow a non-apple App Store which hosts the apps on non-apple servers. Only reason I can see Apple's 30% cut (15% would be better) justified is that they host the download files for apps and also review them. So I can see why they need a cut - 30% is too much imo.

Of course that comes with its on risks as Apple won't be able to control what apps get installed but if Google can do it, then so can Apple. This way Apple can keep their App Store guidelines consistent across all developers and developers who don't want to go through the sometimes tiresome review process plus give apple the 30% share, can use this alternate App Store.
Right. "Expression" isn't restricted to specific wording, it can potentially mean specific choices of what is included and what is included in a compilation; I could hold a copyright to such a compilation even if I don't hold the copyright to any of the items in the copyright.

For example, many artists publish playlists on Spotify to build their brand; it could plausibly be copyright infringement for one of them to verbatim copy a playlist I made and publish it as their own, even if I don't hold the copyright to any of the songs on my playlist, and even if one of the songs on the playlist was actually that artists' own song. The act of assembling a playlist is potentially copyrightable expression.
Isn't USCIS supposed to be self funded through filing fees mostly? Have they been running a pyramid scheme where they are using new filing fees to process older applications?
> As if somehow anyone wins by acting childishly.

Certain people apparently do.
Apple has never sold phones at a loss.
Yet you stay because the App Store brings you a steady stream of customers who are comfortable buying your app because of those App Review policies, the installation security, and its clear purchasing and subscription system and policies.

Perhaps you don’t have free versions of your apps, but Apple also pays to distribute unlimited free apps for no charge. And Apple spends roughly 50% of what you pay it on providing all these services, you can’t do them cheaper and you can’t do the most important on your own.

If I didn’t have to pay rent I could hire more developers, but my landlord isn’t holding me back, they are enabling me to close more business. You want lose sales on a worse App Store, I pray we don’t get waist you want.
Or how about PC with Xbox?
Price-fixing is an falls under the umbrella of anti-competitive behaviour. For example, at least in Canada, Competition Bureau is in charge of avoiding price-fixing. On FTC website, price-fixing page is filed under Competition Guidance.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
how do they do the black?
To be clear, Yale absolutely does discriminate against Asian applicants. As far as I can tell, they justify it using the same language about "personality" that they used to justifying discriminating against Jews in the the first half of the 20th century.
This will cost Epic more money than it will Apple. Either company can end up dragging the legal battle on for years. In the meantime Epic's game won't be available on Apple platforms. By the time that battle is over, the game is probably not popular anymore.
>That itself was a consequence of poor engineering, planning, management, response, and an unanticipated weather event

Absolutely the same can be said about Chernobyl (well, apart from the weather) and Fukusima.
Hire me to make this a mobile job.
Apple owns the majority of the US mobile market, so as a US consumer I could choose to go with Android, but then I won't be a part of the blue bubble crowd with all my friends. Also, Google has much the same policies with the Google Play store, so there really isn't a choice. It's a duopoly of bad implicit choices. Apple is able to charge 30%, because they can exploit their market position.
Do you have access to information the rest of us don't? Apple doesn't release the operational details of its AppStore in its financial disclosures. Shocking you know a 10% fee isn't enough to maintain it.

How about we do what's often suggested: we spin the AppStore off as its own non-profit governing body and they can disclose their operating costs and increase / decrease their fee as needed. The rules then apply equally to Apple vs. non-Apple companies.
How many kids need to die from attending school and catching covid? For me, 1 is enough and we are already there.

How many children will bring it home to adults? For me, 1 is enough and we are already there.

On the other hand, not all 56 million kids will end up ruined if education is delayed a bit or parents need to come up with new and creative ways to educate their children safely.

You're basically arguing to 'stay the course' during a global pandemic and fact is that isn't workable either.
Suggested explanations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect#Suggested_explan...
How about instead, say, a site like Amazon letting 3rd party vendors hook in their own payment systems ?

would you really be in favor of that and see that as a good thing for the general public ?
I think you are reading wayyy too much into this. The most likely explanation is that the document was being worked on for a long time and the figure was added back then.
Regulation often does more harm than good, and I'd agree with you if intellectual property didn't exist. Apple's entire business model rests on copyright and patents which make it impossible for competition to challenge their position. (Think about the products which would emerge if people were free to reverse engineer, modify, and redistribute Apple's technology.) This artificial advantage comes with a price, and that price happens to manifest as regulation by the same entity which enforces its ability to make its insane profits. If the government thinks they've taken their artificial advantage too far, they're ethically free, or even obligated, to artificially limit that advantage.