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Games have a limited shelf life. I don’t really care about Epic. Fortnite won’t be around much longer when the next big game du jour comes out.

Whether or not Epic charges for their store is immaterial to whether one of the largest and most important general purpose computing platforms in the world is performing highway robbery.
Every time I think we’re there, it turns out we’re not yet there. I don’t know.
If you just want to understand the Transformer, here is a clean implementation:

https://github.com/blue-season/pywarm/blob/master/examples/t...
What was that issue? Link?
I wonder if googly eyes on the back of a bike helmet would reduce the chance that you get rear-ended by a car as well.
(Incidentally, got this from my RSS reader, which is Nextcloud News).

That might be a way out. I am afraid moving the browser to being contained inside a WASM runtime would mean losing a lot of optimizations, things like zero-copy video playback, HW-accelerated SVG rendering, etc. One would still need to provide a rather large API to interact with the system. And it would definitely make it a lot harder to get started with web development if you can't just show the source of the page and change it. Not sure what Richard Stallman would say either (though I have a good idea given librejs).

Accessibility would also likely take a step back (though sign me up if you end up providing CLI interfaces to your WASM webapps). In many ways, this would be very similar to the Flash era of the web.

A lot of tradeoffs to navigate, but this isn't a bad idea.
I agree.
Kotlin is insanely comfy to program in.
Lots of convenient features, good design, doesn't force annoying OOP boilerplate or FP constructs on me.
ugh... unity is a pain
That would never happen because there will always be a market for other gatekeepers who want to try and build their own lock-in even if Apple charged nothing.
I honestly do. Who would you trust more?
This isn't being fought over a data breach or privacy concerns and that's why Epic is smart to fight at this angle.

Apple says "you can't do this", but Epic does the thing and says "I should be allowed to do this. As you can all see, this is what happens when I try to put my foot down on it and here's this target audience of people who are benefited by the thing I'm trying to do". This works for them because they are advocating for a freedom of software choice and to rebel against the massive profit line that has made Apple the target of Spotify's legal hate as well.

The rules they broke prevent Epic from doing a thing that consumers would prefer (lower prices) and has been argued against by other parties (30% cut). It doesn't really matter that they broke the rule if the court of public and legal opinion is that the rule was not good to begin with.
It's always a joy to see posts that derive stuff from first principles in order to call out journalists for lacking scientific rigor.
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Methane produces CO₂ when it "decays" (not really decay, but still), so I think "shorter lived" is misleading.
> To them, it's a device that is only capable of running games.

And Spotify, YouTube, Netflix, live TV, Plex, home automation, web browsing, Skype, etc. In other words, nearly everything an iPhone can do and probably very near 100% overlap with how iPhones are actually used.
> revoked their developer certificate in response, which would have essentially killed all installations of Fortnite iOS/Mac worldwide within 24 hours

Yeah isn't that what people see as a problem?

> Notarization is about protecting users who are not capable of making an informed decision about code safety from developers who refuse to comply with Apple's terms of service.

My family owns a Mac on which we have played Fortnite in the past. We have no desire to be "protected" from Epic Games. I thought to point of notarization was to prevent malware, not to punish companies which Apple doesn't like.
My problem with this is it's a very ad hoc argument without a brightline standard to anchor your judgments. It's not really clear why anyone who can get a slice of your work deserves any slice, and society has conventionally allowed the market to determine this.

You appeared to have carved out a convenient exception for the Playstations and Switches of the world because your intuition tells you that the industry isn't healthy, and that wobbling it a little could kill company interest. But we still have nothing to anchor the belief that 30% is right for gaming consoles but not elsewhere.
With an open system, that flaw would have been detected way earlier. Now the original post was about closed hardware, so I'm not sure if this was the case here. I have never tried flashing some motor control of a car, but it's possibly not even restricted, so "open system" would more likely refer to "open source".

While there might be an incentive to restrict modifications (at least on a car, which is potentially dangerous), I don't see counterpoints to open-sourceing the software that runs on (the car in this example).
Until he talks to them, how can Wigner tell? ;-)
...and exactly how many facebook scale projects do you run?

probably cheaper for them to use the cable company they bought likely to support crazy projects like this.
Honestly, that sounds like hell. I'm so sorry that you're going through this.

I am very lucky that I am able to control my environment - I have blackout curtains on my bedroom window, which is where I work.
Here's a discussion from 3 days ago with 40 comments. It's not the same article, though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24161010
Gaming consoles are a different breed since they are usually subsidized by the manufacturer. The PS4 was sold below the bill of materials cost at launch (which is waaaay lower than the manufactured unit cost) and remained relevant for 7 years and will continue working for many more. Meanwhile the iPhones that were sold at a premium in the same year are now landfill. You can't convert game consoles into general computing devices without shaking the business model of that industry.
Are you sure? iOS is something like half the US market and its userbase is likely more wealthy on average, I don't think any normal game developer could sacrifice that to keep using what is essentially an implementation detail at the end of the day, no matter how good it is.
>So it seems you are not well versed in this man's research at all.

Enough to know that most all of his claims are always at the outer bounds of research. He is an outlier, and nearly every time someone cites some inequality quote that is supposed to make it seem outrageous, the source is Wolff. As such, I rarely dig through every sentence of his papers, since when I do, and compare them to the outstanding literature, I find at every turn his calculations are done to maximize inequality. No other researcher I've seen in this field obtain his claims.

Here [1] for example is another source that replaces Wolff's 46% with 39%. Here's the Minneapolis Fed with [2] the same value under 40% (and they make the interesting point that even with the 1% completely removed, that the next 9 % still has a large amount - so do we torch them next after the 1% is handled?)

There are ample others even lower.

To paraphrase you, "it seems you're not well versed in the research in this field." If you were, you'd not cite Wolff as evidence.

I'll leave it to you to discover why Wolff is an outlier.

You may as well quote the rare atmospheric scientist that claims there is no global warming or Dr. Wakefield on vaccines causing autism if you're this willing to believe things that suit your agenda without looking at the broader field.

[1] https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/a-guide...

[2] https://www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/working-papers-inst...
This doesn't surprise me in any bit, but I don't understand why people on HN, a much better informed audience, keep defending Apple's walled garden practice until now, while being very critical against any slightly anti-competitive conduct Google, Facebook, or Amazon did/do.
Safety over Liberty - the motto of the world today. Kneel before the master!
> Yet it's worth considering if Fortnight is really a good thing in the first place.

IMO that's a fine conversation to have, but it is not Apple's place to make that decision for me.
> Ask them difficult questions.

How is a beginner qualified to ask difficult questions, or to assess the answers?
I don't have a good quick cite for you on contract law, but here's an example for criminal law

https://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2015/05/07/judge-...
An application that suddenly changes behavior due to no action taken by the user, triggered remotely by the developer, is getting very close to the "malware" line in my book.
https://youtu.be/cIQ36Kt7UVg?t=421
Its a little surprising how effective that PR campaign has been so far.
More than... yourself?
Recursive SQL is fun: https://excessivelyadequate.com/posts/sierpinksy.html
Yeah that's my point. Never seen it happen. Surely can't be enough to justify the loss of freedom.
I think one major difference this year with the current heatwave is that everyone's working from home. They're not going to an air conditioned office to work during the day, or they don't have the ability to go to the local library or Starbucks to sit and work. It's much worse having to sit through a heat wave at home with no A/C this year than in previous years.
That's what they want you to think. Which is why they say it. Sounds better than "Tim made the order to retaliate, sayonara"
> If you're going to try and argue to me that the games PC market would be better if we had fewer stores.

If you hang around gaming forums you'll see this echoed plenty. If I could buy every single game ever through Steam I would without hesitation. I don't want Origin or the Epic store but I don't get the choice.

I mean this isn't a super uncommon sentiment. Everyone has a preference but not everyone agrees. But regardless fragmentation hurts everyone.

I would be totally fine with multiple stores on iOS devices on the condition that every app is available on every store for the same price-ish (like you can't snub a store by making it 1000x because that effectively takes away choice).
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People can “sideload” on mac os x and nobody is making a scene about their mistakes of mac os x being insecure.
I was a 2015 MBP owner for many years and suffered through being stuck on 8GB of RAM the whole time because Apple refuses to swap logic boards up to different specs than the original SKU.

I only realised later on that the indie shop near me would have been willing to do that upgrade, or perhaps swapped my machine over to a 16GB one they had traded in with a smashed screen.
Netflix offers "interactive movies", and those are apparently ok, for some reason.
Prefunding medical pensions is not the reason for their cash flow problem:

> In addition, with respect to financial reporting, here are the key figures for 2019:

> Healthcare benefits paid out of the Benefit Fund: $3.7 billion.

> Normal costs scheduled to be paid into the Benefit Fund to cover current year’s current employees’ retiree healthcare cost accruals: $3.775 billion.

> Amortization payments scheduled to be made into the fund: $789 million.

> Overall net loss for the year: $8.8 billion.

> The math just doesn’t work to blame retiree healthcare contributions for the USPS’s losses. The amount they are recording on their P&L for retiree healthcare costs (which, again, they aren’t paying out in cash) — $4.564 billion — is only moderately more ($800 - $900 million, depending on rounding) than the amount that they would be paying out directly for pay-as-you-go benefits had the PAEA never been implemented.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ebauer/2020/04/14/post-office-p...

And I actually do see this as a "because it's not A it shows it is therefore B" type argument. When the USPS runs at a deficit, tax payers ultimately are the ones that have to bail it out. That goes against the principal necessitating stamps in the first place: individuals who don't place extra cost to the USPS end up paying more than their share and subsidize individuals who do cost the USPS extra.
Here are a couple of things that are very rarely explained in QM pedagogy but which are very helpful in understanding Shroedinger's cat:

1. The wave function does not exist in physical space, it exists in configuration space. Configuration space is the same as physical space only in the one very special case of a single non-entangled particle. The intuitions of physical space do not generally carry over into the general case of configuration space.

2. In order to produce interference you have to split up the wave function into two pieces and then bring those pieces back together again with a phase change. But since the wave function exists in configuration space, "bringing it back together again" becomes increasingly difficult as the number of entangled degrees of freedom grows. As a practical matter, it is effectively impossible to do this once the number grows beyond a few hundred (this is why building quantum computers is hard). But an actual macroscopic observer consists of O(10^23) degrees of freedom, and is also entangled with their environment. This is the reason that large systems behave classically and don't exhibit interference.

3. Whether or not a system is in a superposition is not a physical fact about the system, it is a consequence of the measurement you choose to make. A vertically polarized photon (for example) is in a superposition relative to a measurement axis rotated away from the polarization axis. For a more complicated system, the measurement axis, like the wave function itself, is in configuration space. But we can only do measurements in physical space. This is the reason that in order to see interference in an entangled system it is necessary to do multiple physical measurements and look at the correlations between them. Doing those kinds of measurements on actual macroscopic objects is way beyond the current state of the art, and may well be impossible even in principle. But this is the sort of thing that is contemplated in the theory behind these experiments. This is the reason that single particles are used as stand-ins for Wigner's friend.
> Notarization is about protecting users who are not capable of making an informed decision about code safety from developers who refuse to comply with Apple's terms of service. Epic willfully violated their terms with Apple to make a point, and Apple is responding in the same way that they did to Facebook: taking away their access to the users, because they cannot be trusted to comply with the restrictions placed on their behavior.

You're conflating two things here: code safety, and what Epic did. At no point did Epic do anything unsafe, nor did they put their users in any danger. They simple violated a business rule Apple enforces.
You're arguing that Fortnite is harmful to children and society due to its invocation of gambling reward techniques.

That's a fine argument to make, but it's nothing to do with what we're discussing here :)

If you wrote a blog post about how Apple and Google should ban gambling reward techniques from their app stores, I'd read it if you posted it to HN!
The point is though that they have the ability to 'ban' it for 99.99% of users who don't know that.
It's legitimately difficult for me to comprehend anyone being on apple's side here. I'm not talking legally, I'm talking about which companies preferred outcome would be better for consumers. Epic being allowed to open their own app store would mean every app has 18% less fees. That is nothing but good for consumers. It's legitimately an improvement for everyone except apple.
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Part of the reason for that is because our houses are built for only temperate weather, especially the older ones.

My house was built in the 60s. It had single pane windows and no insulation under the floor in the crawlspace. It also had no attic fan.

We upgraded the windows and put in an attic fan, and that mostly works, but we still need the A/C a lot these last few years.

The house just doesn't hold temperature well. If there is more than a few degrees variance in either direction the temp swings wildly if I turn off the a/c.

This house was designed for the air outside to always be right around 72.

Another related story, I was using a datacenter in San Francisco. When the outside temp hit 85, we had to start shutting down servers. They told us the datacenter was designed with the assumption that the outside temp wouldn't ever get past 80.
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If you're a small indie band, or a large act, Bandcamp only charges 10% - 15% for digital assets purchased on their platform.

Surely if fair competition was allowed between app store platforms, other companies could be more efficient with the 30% cut Apple currently takes, and could even take less.
I can tell you the software provider in the insurance industry requires its claims adjusters to use IE10 and Silverlight to file a claim. Every house damaged by wind, every flood claim, etc. all goes through a Silverlight interface.
This is great. Years ago his RNN example helped me a lot.
That is the only correct state of affairs for corporations (and governments) as big and powerful as Apple. Constant criticism no matter what they do. It's the only way to hold them even remotely accountable.
I don’t think that this is always true. Land reform happens consistently in history when ownership gets out of wack. Also the value you assign to the land is going to change when the use changes, for example houses in currently popular tech hubs aren’t as important when people can work remotely. And the improvements to land like houses aren’t always going to necessarily hold their value. Labor is a huge influence on price, what happens when machines start building houses? Not saying you shouldn’t buy land or houses, I consider them part of my strategy but consider the downsides too.

Oh yeah, take a look at the Georgists and The One Tax where land is the only thing taxed since it’s the only finite resource. It’s not impossible that we end up in a situation where holding land just to hold your wealth isn’t going to exist anymore.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly, people are free to chose other platforms. You can't claim harm on end-users due to higher costs when literally every single costumer of Apple chose their product and ecosystem despite it being more expensive.

> Why not the same feelings for Apple who's made this far more extreme and far more anti-competitive.

Because you can't abuse a monopoly when you don't have a monopoly. Apple isn't being anti-competitive. In fact by the very nature of your argument that they are hurting themselves by having high prices and are welcoming competition as consumers could chose cheaper alternatives, which most actually do as Apple only sits on like 14% of the market. Microsoft on the other hand tried to misuse their near 100% position one market to corner a different one in order to kill of competitors and take it for themselves.
I believe they meant losses to Robinhood users, not Robinhood.
This isn't a social app, it's a professional tool that multimillion-dollar businesses are built on (most of which have in-house engine programmers). They'll figure it out if they have to. Heck, Epic could publish instructions for doing so.
It's worth remembering that this is due to Epic, not Apple. Epic broke the TOS (and then some), with the full knowledge that they would be removed from both major app stores.

Apple and Google are hardly faultless, but Epic is is the one who started this dick-measuring contest.
>it’s just a pain in the butt masquerading as “choice”.

It's not when they actually have to compete on price. Then you pick the one which offers you the lowest price for what you're looking for.
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The Unreal Engine backdrops for The Mandelorian were engineered and driven used multiple sync'd PCs, not Macs.
> everyone's got big burritos

Everyone also has Chicago-style deep dish pizza and Southern barbecue. You asked what food SF is known for, and the Mission burrito is probably its most famous export, with the Bay Area having the most restaurants competing to make the best one.
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1) They are also suing Google

2) Android allows them to distribute Fortnite from other venues if they chose to
Steam charges 20-30% depending on volume. Epic pc store charges 12%.
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Just to add to this perspective. I live in Austin, TX, in April of this year it is hot enough outside that the A/C has to stay on constantly day and night. It's August and the A/C is never off. I don't expect the A/C to turn off until late October. That's 6 months of non-stop A/C in our apartment. That's insane to me.
You also have to ship the part being replaced before you get a new one. And they have to receive it.

Louis Rossmann has a ton of videos of this program originally.

totally bunk stuff they're doing. "Look, we're complying".
Yes, when it comes to keeping things secure, I honestly trust Apple more than myself (I've forgotten to lock my car upteen number of times) and my family.

I am not saying that Apple is not prone to hacks, gov influence, but based on their past record, their stance on privacy - who else could be more trust worthy?

Can you provide examples of whom you would trust more if you owned an iPhone to manage your phone?
Cool article! Wish more people thought this way.
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I use Wealthfront, you can change your risk tolerance the higher levels have very little in bonds.

One of my accounts i think is at like a 9 or a 10 (max 10) it currently says US stocks 36.4%, foreign stocks 31.9%, emerging 16%, dividend 10.3%, and muni bonds 4.7%, .6% cash.
This is a great picking apart of Apples justification but I think the issue that most irks everyone who’s not apologizing for Apple is where did this magic number 30% come from? Which market forces created it?

Here on HN most of us probably feel that product manager at Apple licked their finger, felt the wind and said “Yeah 30% seems about the most we can get away with”

And what irks even more is once Apple set the precedent, as their we’re no outcries Google was like “Let’s copy that!”. Let’s hope there was no collusion ...
Does it stop Tesla's from ramming into red fire trucks?