skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That really doesn't go against what I said: At that time anyone could still fork Android, and if they wanted the open source versions of apps replaced by closed source ones they could use the source code for those old apps were perfectly serviceable alternatives to the closed-source ones Google replaced them with. In fact the article mentions two very prominent examples of successful break-aways of Android from Google: Amazon's devices and some made for the Chinese market.

So my point stands: As of Andy Rubin's departure, Android was very much an open OS.
The web doesn't run on its own platform. It does run on browsers, which are controlled by few careful instances. Mobile browsers are subject to the same rules as any other app and most popular browsers are owned by lower level platforms, separated from website/webapp owners. It is not the same as side-loading. Web analogy would work if websites were executable binaries or if browsers were much less restrictive. It is an open ecosystem under a strictest environment ever made. Nobody is going to download your random binary as mindlessly as they tap on a-hrefs.

Following the idea you present, Epic should just start making browser games with in-game purchases just over a credit card. Why doesn't it then? What's wrong with the web that Epic couldn't just publish on playfortnite.com and that'd be it?
LCD usually has polarization filters already glued to the back
You're applying the standards of today to the past i.e. 100+ years ago. That never works. "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." The only standard you can use is how behaviour was judged contemporaneously.
I think he is saying, ideal world changes a little bit all the time, instead of tear down and redo.
There is not a lot of positive incentive for a school to be stringent on its own kids. Unless that school is private (for example), and has people willing to keep standards, think about the long term, and resist the relentless pressure to dumb them down. That's why independent assessment (unpopular as it may be) is the only way to keep it in check.

Another idea I've come across (this was in the UK) is that people sitting for oral exams, especially, are examined by professors from other schools. That way there's no pressure for the professors of that student to give an easy pass.
That's not the only thing they copied unfortunately. Snap force update after a while and there is no proper way to stop it.
Do you have a link to the this study? All I can find is this 2019 quote from the UC commission investigating this that indicates otherwise:

UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol T. Christ, along with the UC system’s chief academic officer, Provost Michael Brown, said Friday that research has convinced them that performance on the tests is so strongly influenced by family income, parents’ education and race...
Washington has a similar law, and a referendum to repeal it was on the ballot last year (I-1000/R-88). It was narrowly defeated (ie, the law was not repealed). Interestingly, according to Ballotpedia, there were many newspaper editorials in favor of repealing the anti-discrimination law, but only one against (in the WSJ [1]), and it also makes mention of the issue of Ivy League admissions.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/legalizing-discrimination-11571...
There are also plain text versions of that paper if you're interested:

- https://pastebin.com/raw/WwXKAGnW

- https://gist.github.com/onlurking/fc5c81d18cfce9ff81bc968a7f...
I see where you are going here, but neither of those items (nor any independent of a comptuer) provides the same utility as an iPhone.
Left my $500k TC job because my remote offer got rescinded mid-move when a new VP abruptly took over our BU. He didn't "believe" in colocated teams. This was right before COVID hit and everyone was forced remote. Wish I could laugh in his face over the fact that the pandemic doesn't give a shit about his opinion on remote workers.
How Important Is an Advanced Education in Today’s Brave New World?
Ubuntu didn't switch to systemd. Debian switched to systemd, and Ubuntu had to follow or pretty much drop Debian as its upstream.
The difficulty with that argument is that Apple has gone out of their way to make webapps second class citizens. PWAs can't do everything installed apps can.

And that's before we get into resource usage.
Ah, that's right, and excellent point!
Important distinction: this is choice and competition for the developers but not for the consumers.

It would be choice and competition for the consumer if users could access any game through either platform and choose their favorite.
Because they might actually be able to win this one.
NSA and FBI warn that new Linux malware threatens national security
If you work for a large company, or one that is a supplier to automakers, I highly recommend researching whether your company is part of the make’s corporate discount program. The prices are often in the neighborhood of employee pricing, and often publicly-advertised incentives will stack with the corporate discount.
When phones were much more limited in their functionality and user expectations were nowhere near as high as they are today.

Complexity of phones since 2007 has skyrocketed. Can a small team create a phone OS and the ecosystem users have grown accustomed to today?
Not Epic, but this has actually happened.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-03-29-fi-1120-s...
Why does epic single out two platforms and not also sue Microsoft (Xbox), Sony and Nintendo. Seems like double standards to me.
The network effects of software compatibility proved sufficient to maintain their dominance.

Before that point it was common for software to be ported to all the major platforms, so I don't think that caused their dominance, it just helped reinforce it.
Fortnite Creator Sues Apple and Google After Ban from App Stores
That will go away the moment a server-side update requires a client update, and the update won't be accessible.
American Airlines old slogan was “Something Special in the Air.”
These people must also have no idea what Tim Sweeney (Epic founder) is like as a person. This guy is a genius programmer that never sought great wealth for its own sake but happened upon it through creating huge amounts of value and happiness in the world. He's someone who has been preserving wilderness by buying up large swaths of land to keep it safe. He's a good and principled person.

He's NOT a money-grubbing two-faced CEO. He's the real deal and he clearly believes that what Apple and Google are doing is wrong. He's also willing to put his money where his mouth is, unlike anyone else.

He deserves to be lauded and respected for what he's doing here. Someone has to stand up to Apple and Google and he's the only one putting in the time, effort, and money to do it.

Tim Sweeney is the hero of this story and everyone should be backing him up.

And in the grand scheme of things, users would be much better off without being restricted to app stores. The era of closed devices ought to be ended by laws. Running arbitrary software on personal computing devices should be protected by Right to Repair or Fair Use laws.
We need public transport and bicycles. Japan has it figured out.
You might be interested in the PinePhone https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

Here it is running phosh: https://youtu.be/mjaJJ6o-mbM

It's pretty close to being a usable GNOME Linux phone
Alternative headline: Businesses plead with US taxpayer to continue subsidizing their operating costs and invoke sentimentality and patriotism to do so
I like to think that this would be resolved by the market, but if that were the case, why hasn’t It happened. Apple has been acting this way for 12 years. They haven’t changed their tune. The singular real market alternative is android, which still suffers from fragmentation issues. Microsoft, one of the most powerful companies in the world, couldn’t make their option work. Amazon, one of the most powerful companies in the world couldn’t get people onboard with their non-google version of Android. BlackBerry, the most powerful company in the space before Apple couldn’t keep their devices competitive. Palm, the leader before BlackBerry couldn’t make their OS stick.
Microsoft Open Source
up until 1900, 98% of people worked on farms in rural areas. IMHO it's a bit pretencious to force rural folk to move to the big cities and become Urbanite Consumers. and it is reckless to think changing the way most people have lived for 100,000 years wont trigger an even worse catastrophe.

rural folk think the same way of Urbanites as you think of them. they think everyone should get out of the cities and stop being a polluting leech who is detached from the natural state of humans living in equillibrium with nature.
The author does not remotely address why, if USPS is so 'important' - that they cannot turn a profit, or break even.

How about we establish regulations, and then privatise USPS and encourage other vendors?

If states made minimal requirements for coverage (i.e. if you deliver in Chicago, you have to deliver everywhere in Illinois) and other types of regs, there no real reason that Verizon can be private but USPS cannot be.
Gonna sue Nintendo if they don't let your game in the eshop?
Much harder to win against them. Depending on how this goes, they're probably next.
Because they were bypassing the approval process, which exists for a good reason, otherwise they wouldn't expend so many resources on it, sorry for being reasonable and obvious, we can all go back to scouring the shadows now.
He was still at Google, but sidelined from Android into the robotics division, shortly after which he quit. Sure, it's speculation, but perhaps it was precisely because he disliked and objected to the direction Android was taking. Of course the timing isn't proof, but this article was written at nearly the exact time that he was shifted off of Android.
After a decade of hardware buttons that aren't, e.g. TV power buttons, I think for most people trust has sailed. It works if the company builds it's brand on it (Purism) but I would not trust a hardware switch from Lenovo or Dell.
Do you why?
Having heard this conversation enough times, here is some data:

> The median home value in Los Gatos is $1,984,735.

https://www.zillow.com/los-gatos-ca/home-values/

L6/E6/etc... should do it

https://www.levels.fyi/
Can we please have a precedent set, once that starts I am confident other walled gardens will come down too. Also gaming consoles are not an essential part of life, at least not in my country where people usually can't afford to indulge in those luxuries.
> Jan & Feb were added later.

At which point it was no longer the tenth month.
These are loathsome comparisons. The experience of Jews in the Soviet Union in 1991 and before are not comparable to the experience of east Asians in America in 2020.

For every similarity you might imagine there are 1,000 more important dissimilarities. Surely if you are sincere about reducing discrimination "around the globe" you wouldn't be doing this kind of stylized generalization.
It's not. Spanish and Portuguese people are European, but in the US they're "Hispanic", and so not really "white". Conversely, people from Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa frequently get lumped in as "white".
“Equality” at all costs.
I moved out of Austin, Texas because it's pretty awful on rent these days... $2100 for a 1 BR in the Domain... oof.

I mostly lived around the city center in a house until the high rise condo developers came.
I figured that stuff was on the little orange "Torqeedo" display to the right of the steering wheel.
Also, HUDs for motorbike helmets, general eyewear, and lots more. :)
A century can only refer to 100 miles ridden by bicycle
Yup. I mentioned the same in another reply.
There's no win for us here. Just corporate bullshit.
The port explosion in Beirut would make a perfect new chapter in Normal Accidents. I’m guessing the cause of the MV Wakashio accident will turn out to be a simple failure rather than a complex and unexpected failure mode (Perrow’s “normal”).
Please excuse my potential ignorance here, as I fear that I may not have a complete picture of the issue at hand.

Was it not confirmed yesterday that the USPS is being purposefully sabotaged by the current administration? Or was it facing problems previously, and the current administration decided to use the existing problems to its benefit? Is it not well within the federal government's power to simply increase funding, or does the USPS function like any other business?

I am not trying to spark a political debate here, I am genuinely curious.
Does that really matter though if they have 100,000,000+ downloads on iOS? It would make sense to just do whatever you can to work around performance issues when it brings in the amount of money it does.
Unless they offer a better service than private industry, they will be a money sink. Throwing more money at them doesn't fix that (surprising, I know). Waxing poetic about "The ground we stand on" and bringing up race for some confusing reason (???) will do nothing to change that.
> I recently learned that there's a boutique car shopping consulting industry where you pay a few hundred dollars for someone to provide advice on models (including family haulers, not just high-end sports cars), and then to solicit and secure offers on your preferred models. I might try that next time around.

I can't recommend these services enough. I've never actually paid them anything upfront to search for cars, but many of them are semi-retired car enthusiasts from finance or tech who can afford to get used dealership licenses and start their own business. They'll help anyone but their inventory is well curated and often priced for velocity rather than profit maximization. They'll hang onto $100k classic to get the right price but will happily take a client's low mileage 201x Toyota as a low risk trade-in to get them into a the right Mercedes they want and then flip the Toyota a week later for a few thousand under blue book just because they've got limited parking space.
My stepdad works at one of the largest USPS sorting facilities.

When he came in to work today 2 multi million dollar sorting machines were padlocked.

He was told by the facility manager that they are selling them for scrap.

1 of the machines is very new and in the past when they replaced machines they sold them to postal services in other countries. They’ve never scrapped them.

He is certain removing these machines (they are enormous machines) will drastically reduce their capacity.
Or buying things in the Amazon app. Are they charged 30%?

Perhaps Epic could argue that their app is actually a shopping platform with game like features.

I'm sure there are many other apps that are free to sell products without paying a cut to Apple.

That would make it seem like this is targeting games and subscriptions.
Do roads turn a profit? They're pretty important.

What about the military?
The barrier to entry is very high because for your OS to be able to compete, it has to support a similar app ecosystem. Getting most major app developers on board with supporting a new OS is pretty much impossible, especially given how many of them rely on Android or iOS specific software.

I don't think this is unique to mobile either - pretty much everyone uses Windows or Mac because those OS's support the software that they want to use (although with everything moving to the web this is going away to some degree). The main difference with mobile is that the expectation (or requirement, with Apple) is that you will install software through the app store rather than just downloading it from the internet like on desktop.
If you get a cost of living adjustment, you still live in a place with much lower cost of living which gives you way more flexibility.

If 50% of income goes to rent, you burn right through your savings if you want some time off.
The reasons why will not be discussed here.
Microsoft Surface Duo is now taking pre-orders and it runs Android
Barely. The demand also went down, and thousands cars are stuck in ports [1] and even on ships [2],

[1] https://driving.ca/nissan/auto-news/news/suvs-on-cargo-ships...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=cars+st...
Must depend on technique. I could never get it to completely freeze, but the coldest was -40C.

I could see if you can disperse it into small enough droplets it would work.
> I assume this will cause backward incompatibility?

Yes but I assume codes that will be broken by this are already broken.
> This reads as pre-planned ...

Aka planned.

> My guess is Apple will soon introduce some reduction of platform fees ...

My guess is that Apple will fight this vehemently, to the highest courts they can, and try to minimise the financial damage by constraining whatever compromises they are forced to make on a per-country basis, and will continue to actively discourage this behaviour.
It’s kind of funny how negative/angry people are in the comments section right now, when the similarly ongoing discussion currently happening with Apple[0] has such a large set of apologists and adamant defenders. Cognitive dissonance much?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24146987
Would canonical be interested in accepting such a patch?
Intel Ex-Employee Reveals Insider Details of 7nm Failures Behind TSMC
As the article states:

> Packages are just 5% of its shipping volume but eCommerce accounts for nearly 30% of the agency’s revenue.

To describe this as “taxpayers subsidising business costs” is ridiculous.
It's like with politics - you vote for the polarizing person that would eat the other ones so that there can't be a lasting consensus disadvantaging some group permanently. Politicians need to be at each other's throats and never sure about anything to minimize the damage they would do otherwise.
With the consoles it was about mod chips and people did complain and it did go to court in various countries around the world.
Are we still worried about hackable voting machines?
Why are we saving the one of the largest distributors of physical waste?
I like the constructor property promotion, union types, improvements to exceptions and try/catch. Lots to like here.

Attributes worry me. Annotations are generally an eye sore to me, but in some places could be justified. For the most part, outside of Symfony, they were not used much. I'm worried that some developer will go bonkers with them, create a nightmare, and that will be the next legacy code base I inherit 5 years down the line.

Named arguments is okay I suppose, but IDEs solve knowing the order of arguments. I guess the IDEs will implement an auto complete for named arguments? I guess thats okay, but it will require more vertical code if you care about your lawn and keep your code in the PSR margins.

All in all I think this is a solid major, not the quantum leap we got from 5 to 7, but these are good additions. I'm sure we'll see plenty of decent additions in the minors.
I think we are missing the point here.

I might be wrong, but this is my take on this. Google has an agreement with OEM not to install any app store. What google objected was not default app of Fortnite. However, it was a Fornite's game store kind of.

Still Google does not object the user to install anything on their phone, though that is getting a bit difficult with Android 11.

TLDR; this article SEEMS to talk about Epic Games App Store, rather than Fortnite.
Fortnite for Android just got axed from the Google Play Store too
https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/13/fortnite-android-google-ki...

Oops! Apple Bad, Google Good? ;)
I guess we're saying the same thing then, because my point wasn't that you'd never build anything new, but that your old stuff would remain just as useful and you wouldn't need to destroy any part of it.
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Not really "indigenous" but one of my favorite stories of history within history is the unearthing of the classical Greek/Roman statue of Laocön in Rome in 1506. It was witnessed by Michelangelo and immediately recognized as a lost masterpiece from Latin texts that were known and still studied. So in a sense, the scholars at the time (can't really call them scientists, but essentially the experts of the time) knew they were looking at a significant masterpiece that they knew of only through the historical record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoco%C3%B6n_and_His_Sons
> Their customers are not your right

> For example,you are not forbidden from developing for some random Linux distro

> They did not build their trust and ecosystem for free,so you should'nt have access to them for free

> 30% is not unreasonable,costs can be managed,since you are selling a digital product

If only Microsoft had been smart enough to demand a 30% cut of Netscape sales instead of going through all that trouble to create IE.
Direct link to video:

https://youtu.be/WYFX3kI411w
At this point, Trump has openly stated his intention to impair the mail-in voting process by limiting funding and support for the USPS.

It's not "political" any more, and it's not a matter of opinion. America's electoral system is officially under attack.
Yes. Republicans have long ago turned the USPS into a political football in the culture wars. And they want to sabotage mail-in votes this time, that's a new twist.
I'm reading this as hot water having more effective heat transfer deep into the container, potentially via some type of self-mixing due to turbulence from the sharp temperature gradient?

This would seem very easy to measure, with and without internal barriers to prevent large scale convection.
Android sort of proves that walled gardens won't come down.

And Epic's lawsuit(s!) aren't about brining those gardens down.

They're about Epic, and other developers, getting absolute control over their place in that garden.

They don't care that the walled garden exists.

They're just angry about the cost of the manure.
The postal service is a basic service provided to citizens by the government. It does not need to make a profit, and thinking about it in that sense is absurd. Does it make sense to talk about Medicare turning a profit? Does NASA, the military (heh), welfare, garbage disposal... etc... need to turn a profit too in your mind?

"Everything needs to make a profit" is straight out of right wing talking points. The purpose, of course, is to psyop all of us into privatizing everything, so a few cronies can extract wealth from everyday things Americans need.
I respect your adherence to your beliefs and that you are ready to stand up for your side. However, I think the thing that you’ve missed here is that not all users are the same.

Many many other highly technical folks on this website agree with your points and would side with you if it came down to it. However, that group of people (and surely the other groups who feel the same way) only represent a microcosm of the total user base for a device like a smartphone.

Millions and millions of people didn’t buy their phone because they wanted a handheld general purpose computer to tinker with and install any software on. They purchased their devices simply for the utility, the access to content, and user experience they provide.

The systems and businesses that create each of those sides are very different, and misaligned in terms of the freedom you wish to have. Apple has chosen to fight for what they view is an optimal user experience for their target market.

I pose a question: can the two expressions of technology not exist together? Not on the same device, but in the same world as separate entities?
They turned a profit just fine until 2006 when a bill passed saying they had to fund 50 years of pensions and healthcare up front. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Accountability_and_En...