skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't change my argument. Legacy can be interpreted as something that will be phased out in the future, but if you want, you can also think of it as the established status quo, which is hard to change. Whether the compressing scheme should be removed is of no interests - if it's not broken, don't fix it, just keep it as is. If a new ARM32 system is to be designed, it's likely that the earlier limitations such as Flash space is still a factor, so the compression is here to stay.
All apps should just get together and remove themselves from AppStore unless Apple bends it's draconian rules. iOS is nothing without apps.
Hey HN mods!
"spanhandler" is making a lot of cogent arguments in favor of Apple in this thread, like the voice of somebody with 20+ years in the industry.
He also has a karma of 700+ after only opening the account 16 days ago. His entire comment history is to bash people arguing for open standards - see this thread, firefox threads, etc.

I cannot think of any motivation for any techie to create an account to spread propaganda (masquerading as informed opinion) unless that individual is getting something in return from Apple et al.

HN, "spanhandler" user is a symphtom of why HN has become a servant of power.
Not disagreeing, I'm still using 8-bit microcontrollers in my projects and I'm quite satisfied on their ability of doing their intended jobs.
Which proves the point that $100 is quite affordable.
Serious question: would you pay for an equivalent service that doesn't mine your data?
Is the issue the cut or the percentage?

I'd imagine that a sliding scale would be far more palatable for big companies, say every order of magnitude increase above say 1000 in installs, the cut drops by 5%, so if you have 1 million installs, any extra would be 15%.

I suppose there is the possibility of fake accounts but at this scale, likely hundreds of millions, is it going to be a big difference?
Private schools dont have long term interest in giving worst grades. Both their long term and short term interests are in good grades for graduates. Giving easy reward or "unfair" good grade is less of risk then giving unfair bad grade.
So strange to be downvoted for asking a question, where a generous reading would be that I was genuinely asking it.

I think the aggressive stance of China coincides with the election of Xi Jinping in 2013, seven years ago. Trump has been in power for 3.5 years, so that's half of this time period. So it certainly _could_ be something to do with Trump.

My question was whether if would have been _such_ a failure.

It seems to me that both Trump and Xi Jinping have benefitted from the trade wars and diplomatic arguments between the countries. There seems little doubt that the Trump administration has given Xi Jinping a window of opportunity where he has been able to consolidate power and conduct aggressive foreign policy... so I genuinely wonder: how important has Trump's disastrous leadership been in the failure of this policy?
Jira subtasks are weird, we stopped using them and started linking issues instead. The main problem: we still don't know what exactly subtasks are. They look like half-baked feature.

P.S.
Look at this discussion for example https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-4446 , subtasks concept is hard.
Tachyum’s Prodigy runs Arm, x86, RISC-V binaries
Should be two Ls ("Russell").
I'm not so sure, I feel the civil law system followed in continental Europe works much better as it's based on the spirit of the law instead of the exact letter and comma.

Hard to say if this would be a better fit for the US though -- I've no idea if that's causing issues elsewhere in more corrupt societies or not.
>By Vopson's calculations, the total mass of all the information we produce in a year is far less than a single grain of rice, or about equal to one E. Coli bacterium. But it's the potential for growth that concerns Vopson. In an extreme scenario where the amount of digital information grows by 50% annually, half of our planet's mass could be literally converted to bits within 225 years.

This reminds me of some future civlizations described in the X-Men series House of X / Powers of X, where entire planets become single entities of machine intelligence, and the information density gets so high that it collapses into a black hole.
That robot is so cute! Thanks for sharing. If I was the author I would not purposely evoke Boston Dynamics comparisons in the title, I get chills thinking about their headless monsters.
Netflix Application Monitoring
So you're saying that Trump takes no share of the blame for the failure of this policy?
> The existence of a third-party marketplace doesn't change anything about that situation

People will install insecure app stores to get a hot app. Facebook would likely launch a store with none of Apple’s spyware restrictions. Cisco and IBM and Microsoft would too, and with that come e.g. employer mandates for certain apps and thus certain stores.

Apple regulates its App Store. Remove its distribution control and that regulatory power diminish. That diminish meant is fine when Apple extends its App Store dominance to win at music streaming and payments. But it’s a poor argument against the App Store per se.
This is a placeholder for an opinion I would express if I would not get flamed and downvoted all the time I do this on a controversial topic like AMZN.
I didn't say I'm "into the humanities" and it was only meant to be a brief summary. I don't really see how any of this refutes what I said. I've never watched a Ben Shapiro video in my life.
What monopoly? Nobody is forcing you to buy Apple and enter into their rotten walled garden. If you "pay damn much and buy the phone", you are doing it of your own volition.

"Take the power back" by not continuing to give them your money.
Maybe not enough or frequent on a higher level such as in regular/mainstream news then.

Being an early owner of EVs I’ve had to explain my rationale many times to people, where oil spills is one part obviously.
So you don't think China became more open at any point between Nixon and the present day?
To be fair, is maybe these pages servers setting bad date/timestamps.
What is preventing apple from renting the phone instead of selling it? If they do that, can they do whatever they want?
Maybe due to there being a previous discussion?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23564247
well, samsung had no choice really.

on watches and appliances or tvs the android apps don't matter much so android support is less critical there.
If Microsoft cannot stand up to Google, what do you expect from individual developers?

Google has monopolized the power over the web. And soon they are going to use it to their advantage.
Bullshit. Easily 80% of broadcast news today is fake, either overtly, or by omission. It only exists to advance a narrative, not to inform or support debate. As Denzel Washington quipped: "If you don't watch the news, you're uninformed. If you do watch the news, you're misinformed."

The ability to produce fake news artificially as well won't tip the scales even slightly, because nobody with a brain trusts the "news" anyway.
I still think competition with the product they offer would be a better way to make them improve their product, than removing some of the properties that define the product they’re offering.

FWIW I’m all for regulating the hell out of anything with a corporate charter. As far as I’m concerned the deal they made when they asked us to let them have the privileges of incorporation is that we can do whatever we like to them, should we decide it’s in our interest, and if they don’t like it no-one’s forcing them to keep those protections. Half the reason I’m so keen on iOS‘ particular model of software distribution to begin with is because we haven’t regulated massive-scale collection of personal data out of existence. Give me that and I’ll join you to burn the last iPhone on a bonfire, or whatever. That’d be wonderful.
I agree with your timeline.

Do you not think that the second half of that period, when Trump has been president, that he may have contributed to the problem by providing an opportuniy for Xi Jinping?
Ah ok. Well then Android is the only thing that'll satisfy that criteria. It is going to be _impossible_ for anything else to compete with iOS/Android because of the app ecosystem catch-22. Apps area the primary criteria that consumers base their purchase on, anything else (including UX) doesn't matter.
Wait till all the used Tesla’s get resold in poor countries and all those batteries end up in rivers and the ocean.
I will want a clearly marked difference in brands. One brand can be where the restrictions are associated under a common service. Another brand can be all-you-want-install set of stores.
I have had cases maintaining systems where the common denominator was to reinstall a system.

In the hypothetical scenario where iOS permits active side loading of applications, then there should be, in my opinion, two separate brands. Brand 1: iOS (classic), Brand 2: Generic Brand. Let’s call it Epic mobile brand.

While in principle I want to install any software on any hardware. In practice if an issue comes up on non-iOS brand, let’s call it Epic Mobile OS, the fast solution is to reinstall the OS. I want these to be clearly demarcated , so that I avoid the onslaught of crappy apps in the second category requiring re-installation.

And I am old to consistently reinstall OSes.
Playing devil's advocate a little... it seemed like it worked out ok for you? There are different universities with different selection criteria, and any particular university might have multiple selection pools. There's room for rich scions and math geniuses at Harvard. And in your case, Harvard's loss was Oxford's gain.

I feel like you're expecting some sort of clear stack ranking of students. Even if you take tests at face value, do you accept the student who aces math but bombs literature, or the student who is merely above average in both? See also: computer science, chemistry, biology, physics, history, physical fitness, social sciences, languages, music, art...

We have examples of test-regime-driven educational advancement in Asia. From what I've read, it doesn't seem very appealing to me, either as a student or as a parent.
1) Declarative programming was a big thing for me. Imagine code like a real world tree, with roots, trunk, branches, leaves. Your trunk and branches should be declarative, the leaves and roots should be imperative. Most of the code you read and write should tell you what is is doing rather than how it is being done. You don't have to pick up functional programming; you just have to use functions for most of your code.

2) https://xkcd.com/1205/

I have that as my desktop background. Let's say, you do something 30 mins/day, every day. If it takes a week to automate that, do it. Applies to home processes as well.

3) IDE keyboard shortcuts. The big ones are select scope, jump to definition/uses, search all files, rename variable, extract as variable/method, jump to the opening/closing brace, move lines, show docs, reformat code, move to the next tab. This is the main reason I subscribe for Jetbrains.
Well, I'm happy to criticize the right for associating with anti-science too. I'm not trying to denigrate anyone per se, just give my own explanation of the trends and forces in our societal attitudes.

Maybe I shouldn't have used the poster as an example, it is a bit too deeply mired in the 'culture war', but I wanted to choose a relevant example that I imagine most readers here would have encountered.
The post you responded to said they'd consider moving to "WA. No state tax. Nice nature.". You then pointed out problems in downtown Seattle. I'm not here from the Committee to Get Everyone To Open A Business In Seattle, Minneapolis Or Chicago. I'm a part-time member of the Committee To Not Generalize About A Whole State Based On Stuff That Happens In A Few Square Blocks In One City.
Google triple-decimated Epic's earning potential.
This was probably a bad move given this whole monopoly inquiry. I'm going to guess Tim Cook may fire someone over this if he wasn't directly involved.
The android ecosystem and OEM's lack of support for older phones (for one) is something that is 'forcing' me to enter their walled garden. I can't, also as a customer, ignore that Apple has done a lot of things very well, but that doesn't at all stop me from also complaining about their bad practices.
I meant pervasion. It was a typo.

I think it could be demonstrated empirically that certain anti-rationalist attitudes have increased in recent years, especially on the left. Since we're not doing science here I don't see why I need to provide ultra-rigorous evidence. Is that itself anti-rationalist? I don't think so - I'm not trying to influence government policy or get a PhD - some discussion contexts call for a larger burden of evidence than others.
https://god.api/v1/complaints
The problem is we're just too energy intensive. There's an interesting exchange about average daily calorie needs (2k Cal) and how much sunlight collection you'd need to satisfy that energy need. Cool stuff. Bottom line, our bodies don't present enough surface area to get the job done.
http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2018/02/ask-physicist-...
Safari on Mobile still has a considerable market share that is not going away. But on desktop Chrome dominates. Even on mobile, Android market share (hence Chrome) is a lot larger than Apple.
Sure Silicon Valley bad, but it's pointless to shame them if they don't care, especially if their employer is bankrolling them.

I mean, Google bankrolled Mozilla for years, nobody questioned or even opposed it, yet Mozilla criticises them on privacy, and now look what happened.

But what do we do? I would like to take action against this, but this post doesn't really do anything about this. I fear that we will see more posts like this screaming into the blog post void and nothing comes of it, since you said they don't even read HN or Drew's blog.
Thought this was going to be about American Depositary Receipts. Was disappointed... :(
And this is prove to how toxic this community is - I am leaving now. Have fun with your platform you hateful people.
Take the money back and go where? Live in a hut? It's such enabling behaviors that embolden these elitists to lord over our lives. You can't let anyone be a gatekeeper to technology and progress. This applies to every major tech player. And this is the time that we need to make our voices heard.
I'm convinced that every single business out there eventually gets run from an Excel spreadsheet.
At the end of the day, they're just rolling up rollups all the way to the top, where some guy is looking at Scenario A vs Scenario B in Excel
I think we have different priors because I definitely didn't have the best grades compared to my peers as a student. And as a teacher at a University my students have a huge range in their scores.
Almost any language can call C functions and we don't call all languages backwards compatible with C when they can merely interoperate with it.

Objective-C and C++ are the only two languages which offer backwards compatibility. AFAIK it's complete in the case of the former and there are some limitations for the latter.

None fix the problem like Rust does, but it's worthwhile to examine why: typical companies and developers have an aversion to paying for tools and for anything which slows down development. That's why usually those tools and languages which are reasonably user-friendly are more successful. Ironically that's both an advantage and a problem for rust: it's nicer to use than some C tools, but still not user-friendly compared to alternatives like Go or Java and in some cases even C++.
Inlets PRO Launch Day
It's still a shame that rust doesn't support variadic functions and hence the hacky need of implementing printf through a macro.
Hey, just woke up. I don't see anything wrong here, so I think I will second the other commenter. I wonder if the VMs are over-subscribed? Is there any way to tell or would that be a business secret?

I also think we should consider how CPU usage is calculated as well. I don't know how it's done inside VMs, but I can easily imagine that there are several cases where it would include time where the CPU is just waiting for things like access to memory or even waiting on I/O as long as that happens through a shared memory ring buffer, via spinning or something to that effect. So, if that is how it works, then over-subscription of VMs could cause them to show higher CPU usage. But, I don't know, and I hope someone more familiar with the subject will join the discussion.
> follows all of Google’s rules around payment processing

That's the thing. They are not implementing these rules on iOS while following them on other platforms.

>Apple does the same thing with Amazon.

I was talking about Prime Video. Amazon got a discount
Huh. I believe you about the app thing—I assume there’s been a study or something—but I’m surprised. All the non-tech people in my life seem to choose their devices on two criteria: 1) price, 2) UX/familiarity. Mostly the former. If there’s a 3rd one it’s fashion.
There is the danger that users aren't educated and would accept everything the app does. I'd say casual users want and expect some kind of protection.

Is that fine? If yes, I guess we'd need to make the "install anything" option sufficiently inaccessible to the regular user. Is that ok? In this case is Apple's Dev Program an acceptable solution?

I'm asking lots of questions, because I genuinely wouldn't know how to approach this. What this difficult is that I'm fine with the current state. I don't use my phone for hacking and I'm happy that someone else monitors apps, even if it means that I have to pay more or go through additional steps to run my own code.
You want to shut down someone making, in your words, “cogent arguments”, because you disagree with their point of view and because other people seem to agree with them?
Oh wow. Didn't really notice it.
This is precisely what I’ve always wondered. Can it have momentum?
Are there algorithms on HN, that sort through previous discussions and determine freshness, etc?

Or is it a moderator/human review
Exactly this. If a reboot fixed it, it's probably not ddos
> Facebook would likely launch a store with none of Apple’s spyware restrictions.

Why haven't they done this on Android already? Why aren't my employers currently mandating that I install 3rd-party stores on Android phones?

Most Android users I know have never installed an Android app outside of the official Play store. Why haven't companies taken advantage of them yet?
What are the downsides of current printf macro implementation vs a variadic fn one?
This is what is physically happening so it is a much better mental model.
Hey does TenCent not own a big chunk of Epic ???.

It would be great for Huawei if this whole closed appstore ecosystem would be broken up and give customers the freedom of choice.
> instead of making his point with his own whistleblower findings, he went to journalists and handed them over all the documents

This is literally part of what whistleblowers do.

> instead of facing justice (and there are whistleblower protections for doing the right thing)

Whistleblower protections that didn’t really exist?

> causing a permanent PR disaster for US intelligence

One which they got for callously breaking the law?

> The reason Snowden's leaks got a lot of attention is that they "proved" (we never got confirmation that they were real)

What kind of confirmation do you want? You can’t just put things in quotes and hope to weaken them.
"Regular engineer"

If you distribute your $2.2M over 8 years and gross it up with 35% withhold and minimal living expense like $30k/year you'd have to average over $400k/year.

This post is simply a lie?

Fwiw I think top value from an accelerator whether YC, 500, First Round or EF is about a customer network that makes it easy to bootstrap b2b, not about the cash at all really.
To be honest, I'd like to move back to Europe from SF. The time difference probably makes it a bit tricky to get the Silicon Valley money from there though. If I had to move somewhere else in the States, I might go to San Diego or Denver. Living in the middle of nowhere just for the money doesn't sound too enticing.
I'd suggest using a hosting that include DDOS protection, like OVH or Hetzner. You should then combine that with a proper email gateway, proxmox mail gateway is free and it's very easy to install.
It is very important to understand this from the legal stand point. If you overload a legitimate or illegitimate service you might commit a crime (depending on the country). I can give you a simple example of this in a different context. In our country you cannot go after the criminal who committed the crime and cannot cause them harm. Few years back a lady got robbed by two guys on a motorbike and she went after them and hit the motorbike with her car. She was prosecuted for assault. This is a very similar situation here. Again, depending on your country, state etc. this _might_ be a bad idea.
The New ‘Gold Rush in Space’
Marketing: Make the news eh? Well any publicity's good publicity and we can outsource these kinds of things can't we? Maybe we could save a bit of money that way. Excellent idea. Get right on it.
There’s little you can do if you never had such problems in the past. DDOS is hard to battle with; you could get away by moving your box to another provider, but the IP reputation and other misconfigurations & stuff might bite you back causing a huge pita.

We rely on Mailinabox, which has fail2ban but the server being on a DigitalOcean network, they claim to offer some kind of DDOS protection.
By that time these countries all have a stable power supply for EV, and we together enforce an improved recycling technology & policy.

If they reach a point where it makes sense to buy teslas, we’re all good!

We who buy teslas (I’m not though. Out of my league) today have a responsibility in this world, IMO.

NOT because we can and buy teslas, but because we are super rich.
We have to use this wealth better, set examples and improve technology and our ways of living.
Sounds on par for people who believe they're due reparations from China for being #first in Covid-19.

This coming from a Trump voter in the 206.

We don't condone anarchists who are the .001% of the 99.998 of the normal people in the PNW. Just like we don't condone 1% of the population holding control to 99% of the world's wealth as it doesn't benefit the economy and society.

You will have people with ulterior motives in any population no matter how you slice it. But one should be honest about how they group populations together.

Not all rednecks are dumb. Some build rockets and space vehicles. Get my point?
Becuase Apple took their 3000% cut
Some quick examples:

- Blizzard games are exclusive to their store since forever

- EA's Origin has exclusives since they exist (or at least since 2011, not sure if that's from the beginning)

- Valve's games are Steam exclusives

Epic has time-exclusives, offering a very good deal to game makers, and is a quite good way to compete with Steam. If you're not happy with their store, just wait a year and you may buy the games you want on other platforms if the developers decide to do so.
I'm a human, xref. And I am new to Hacker News. If you feel that I am not fitting in with your expectations for the culture here, please feel free to suggest ways to improve our interaction. I will listen to you with open ears.

When you say "devoid of content" is that a criticism because you don't agree with my proposal that Apple introduce tiered pricing? Or something else? Would you care to elaborate?