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Not sensible at all. Being on the same processor architecture doesn’t mean the position within the product lineup will magically transform.

Macs and iOS devices do different things for different use cases; their strengths and weaknesses are as much tied into their hardware design as software. People love Macs because of what they can do; Apple, too.

Apple couldn’t force people to use the Mac App Store even if it wanted, knowing how few of the biggest Mac apps outside of the larger software companies (Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, etc) actually distribute with it.

The only convergence we will see is the ability to run iOS apps on macOS, and even then that is merely a stopgap effort; any iOS apps that want to truly make the transition to the Mac will be updated as Catalyst apps. Catalyst apps are Mac apps through and through, despite their use of iOS’ UIKit.

See also: speculation in The mid-00s that Apple would drop Mac OS X for Windows during the Intel transition. It was just as devoid of factual basis then as fear-mongered “sensible speculation” is today.
I acknowledge that we are choosing between two bad alternatives here. I personally believe that we should trade all N hundred thousand lives for a normal school year for 56 million kids.
> Hydro's mortality is largey attributable to a single, though immensely bad incident,

This is very similar to nuclear.

> Per IPCC, wind and solar are very nearly on par with (possibly better) than nuclear.

Mind sourcing this? every place I've looked shows nuclear beating solar by 5x and wind by 2x.
> This is the crux of the AI business dilemma. If the economics are a function of the problem – not the technology per se – how can we improve them?

The article focusses on the costs of resources to build a model (annotated data + compute) but the economics are also affected by the ongoing cost of making a prediction error. False positives and false negatives usually have a different cost and each user might have their own preferences:

e.g. "show me all the content that's a bit relevant" vs "show me just the content that's really relevant".

If you can write out the loss function in $$$ terms not just accuracy, then you're closer to either abandoning the problem or finding a profitable AI model.
Before we get our pitchforks out here, let's remember that Yale's percentage of Black students is 7.4%[1]. That's not exactly a gigantic portion. In fact Yale is on the lower end compared to Harvard's 14.3%[2] and MIT's 12% [3]. If Yale is truly discriminating in favor of Black and Hispanic students, well, they're not doing an excellent job of it.

[1]: https://oir.yale.edu/sites/default/files/factsheet_2018-19_0...

[2]: https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics

[3]: https://web.mit.edu/facts/enrollment.html
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Fortnite grosses hundreds of millions of dollars on the App Store [1]; every dollar spent is a cut Apple counts toward its $10B+ annual gaming revenue numbers [2]. It is not an understatement to say that Fortnite, as a single application, is responsible for single-digit percentages of Apple's gaming revenue (which, while small as a whole, is a TON of money).

This move hurt Apple, full stop. It will likely cost them somewhere in the range of $50-$200M per year. You can quote me Apple's annual revenue, but I know what it is. Fortnite's contribution to it is small, but its probably far, far larger than most people here realize.

Of course, it hurts Epic more on the short term. But, long term, maybe Fortnite gets to come back at a lower rate; maybe they'll get to use their own payment processor; maybe the courts will actually work, and they'll force Apple to allow competing storefronts, which would enable the Epic Games Store to release on iOS, earning huge revenue for Epic.

And what's more: Epic's bread and butter has always been Unreal Engine, which is charged at a rate of 5% of a game's revenue (above $1M I believe, below that its free). Unreal is absolutely used for iOS game development. If Epic can win even a lower rate for all game devs, it amplifies their iOS earnings on Unreal; more money in the devs pockets means more money in Epic's pocket.

Epic's warchest is massive; its not just Fortnite, but also money from Tencent. They have the support of their massive community, including impressionable adolescents. They picked a time just weeks after Tim Cook was torn apart by Congress for allegations of antitrust. They're joining the ranks of Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and every other company that Apple has screwed over with their policies. They can fight this out, and its hard to say what the exact outcome will be, but whatever it is, Apple will not like it. Apple is on the wrong side of history.

[1] https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/fortnite-hits-1bn-in-...

[2] https://www.cultofmac.com/632642/apple-worlds-fourth-largest...
Is it fictional or based on the larger, similar looking Five-hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope located in Guizhou?
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_...
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People don't benefit from Yale from the lectures. They benefit from the brand name and alumni you get to be associated with. Which is because Yale restricts admission to people who have high probability of being influential.
In context, it was written at a time when the ideological and intellectual opposition to communism hadn't been very well-articulated yet, and hadn't become "obvious" to onlookers.

It might be a little on-the-nose, but I think it is a sincere takedown of the authleft (and moreso: crab mentality). These views can and do come from within the left - like Orwell, most notably.
Transparent OLED on subway video

https://en.oledspace.com/a-closer-look-into-beijings-futuris...
> The majority of the cost of road construction and maintenance comes from general taxes. Fuel taxes haven't paid the majority since the 80's.

My point isn't that fuel taxes pay the full costs of the road, but that electric cars in many countries receive favourable taxation (which significantly reduces the cost of ownership) which is only possible because they are a minority of vehicles.

This actually depends largely on the country you're in. In the UK (where I live) the effective tax rate on gas is around 68%, and there's lots of tax breaks for electric cars. The effective tax rate on electricity is 5%, and the cost per MJ of electricity and gas is about the same. Effectively the government tax revenue per mile of electric cars is drastically lower than that of gasoline cars - not a sustainable situation for widespread adoption.

It looks like the tax on gas in the US is significantly lower than in European countries, so the same situation probably doesn't exist to the same degree.

> electric cars generally charge at night and use about the same amount of power as an electric oven. Distribution network changes are not required.

Yes, average power consumption is quite low. In fact over a year the average car (if it was electric) would probably only consume a few hundred watts.

But that's not the problem. The problem is peak demand. A usable electric car charger draws 7kW for a sustained period of time. That's a very different use case (distributed across every house in the country) than currently.

Taking this study for example: "32% of low voltage (LV) feeders (312,000 circuits) will require intervention when 40% - 70% of customers have EVs, based on 3.5 kW (16 amp) charging."
http://myelectricavenue.info/

Bear in mind that's for 3.5kW charging, whereas anyone installing a charger today is putting in 7kW+ charging.

The only way to mitigate distribution network changes is by smart charging on the car side - basically reducing charging rate or times to spread the load. Fortunately that's fairly doable, but it's not necessarily a panacea - if there's a couple of days where many people do higher than average mileage (eg a national holiday) you could find that there's simply not enough capacity locally to sustain charging all the cars on the street.

The problem is that we need to be adopting electric cars _now_ to make a dent in emissions, but there's all these infrastructure problems (I haven't even mentioned on-street charging or long distance journeys...) that will become evident when we do. We need to be fixing them today. Claiming they don't exist is naive. Remember that there's just over 1 million electric cars on US roads today, out of 273 million vehicles. The infrastructure needs to grow by 2 orders of magnitude to support that.
You sure about that?
That number sounds so extreme that I have to see official source to believe it...
Microsoft already does exactly this on console. When will we see the Google Stadia game streaming app on the XBOX? Does Microsoft really not take a cut of VBucks bought on the Microsoft store?

This is just three big corporations fighting over their respective slices of the pie, if you think any of this is being said or done for your benefit I’m sure Epic has a plentiful supply of really tasty Koolaid for you. But no pie, sorry.
I have a stupid question: If Apple pulls an app from the store, but doesn't forcibly uninstall it from phones, what happens if that app then needs a security update?

Can the developer still update their app, or is it stuck in update limbo?
Didn't epic go through this with google play store? I'm assuming secret negotiations are taking place so epic gets a much better deal than everyone else's 30%.
> if the US was doing 30x better then the economy would be better.

As a counterexample to that claim, the Euro zone GDP fell 12.1% in the second quarter. That's an annualized rate of 40%, even worse than the widely reported annualized drop of 33% in the US.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/euro-zone-gdp-q2-2020-as-cor...
>in order to make merit-based admissions

You made a mistake already. These decisions are not purely merit based. Meritocracy isn't real. It never was.

What you are seeing is looking at race on purpose. Because racism is a real thing. There are studies that even if you remove the names and photos of people from their resumes, white people will prefer to accept other white people. They intuitively know, because their resumes will look "familiar". You have to go out of your way to solve the problem, you can't just be colorblind.
That same type of control bricks it for you at the OS level when they decide your device is too old (aka you haven't paid them often enough).
When you burn a gallon of gas, do you have a solid plan to deal with the outcome?
Haha. Don't blame hackernews! This is social science encounters real research ;)
The question they’re asking is, does it need to be, or is this antiquated?

Is there a good reason to pit people against each other? Is it possible to provide a great education for everyone who wants one and meets some base qualification, etc.

I think the answer is pretty clearly that the best education, in many fields, will always require proximity and therefore scarcity. I just wrapped an OMSCS degree, and as much as I loved the program and the education, missing the on-campus experience definitely makes it a different thing.

Not because I learned any less of the material. More so because I walked away with very few relationships and very little spontaneous creativity amongst peers.

Some of that is on me for doing it while working full time, but it would’ve been hard regardless.

Many people consider those community aspects to be the some of the most valuable qualities of the college experience.
On the other hand, I like several Apple products and I'm confident their products would get much much worse if the company was effectively split up, and I suspect the vast majority of Apple customers would feel the same way. I'm not sure if people who feel very strongly as you do would consider that possibility, or if there are other principles at play that don't involve customer satisfaction.
How can you know how hard a person had to work without knowing how they grew up? Part of merit is understanding that not every student starts with the same footing. Those that start off worse might not seem as good on paper, but worked harder to end up where they did.

Part of understanding this is race, location of growing up, schools, and parent's wealth.
The think tanks' efforts to brand "socialism" as authoritarianism have paid off. M4A being painted as an authoritarian nightmare is a slick trick on their part.
Important correction:
affirmative action at these schools mostly doesn’t take spots away from white people. It mainly takes them from Asians, because Asians outperform whites on quantitative metrics like grades and GPA. IMO this is a critical piece of information, considering the place affirmative action holds in the politics of white resentment. White people who didn’t get into top schools: turns out you can’t blame affirmative action!

Affirmative action as practiced by top schools is completely consistent with the white power structure, which shouldn’t be too surprising, considering these institutions are part of that power structure.
>I don't mean to be edgy here, but this is necessarily true in service of affirmative action.

I think it depends on the goal. Is the goal to rank all students and then send the top X number of students acceptance letters? Or is the goal to set a baseline of what it takes to be an successful student at Yale and then select a diverse group of students that all meet that baseline criteria? The former makes it a direct competition between students. You have to choose if applicant A is better than applicant B. The latter instead looks at each applicant individually and whether they would be a successful student. They are now competing against the overall population of applicants instead of any other individual applicants. Considering the number of students who could be successful at a school like Yale is always going to greatly exceed the number of applicants who are admitted, the Asian student who could do the work at Yale but is rejected is not discriminated against just like the Black student who could do the work at Yale but is rejected is not discriminated against.
Low magnesium impairs vitamin D activity and levels. Same occurs as a result of declining hGH/IGF-1 with age. Further, cholesterol within skin diminishes with age (and cortisol rises) lessening response to sunlight.

The further north, the less days of direct sunlight. Exposure would have to also be all over, but most are covered by clothing.
>This to me says that assimilation doesn't work

Even the whole argument about success rates of assimilation aside, this doesn't seem to check out.

How does this whole "assimilation doesn't work" argument even flow from the statement? Asian Americans referenced were all born in the US, grew up here, went through the education system here, etc. There is nowhere they need to assimilate to, they were born Americans and grew up here. This is their primary culture, not that of a country where their ancestors were born.

I am leaving a big possibility that I completely misunderstood your comment, so please correct me if my interpretation of it was incorrect.
No salt. It is/was from coke plant and steel mill.
Try to play on ARM. Or use the non-Java version on something that isn't Windows. There are always arguments to be found, but most of them are tangential to the matter at hand.
True, but these qualifications hold power only as long as people care about them. I believe the main benefit of attending these prestigious institutions is largely in networking -- getting the chance to know powerful people (some say this fact alone means our education system is failing greatly). But what happens when you have harvard on your resume but took all the lectures remotely? What happens when people realize you can do great and amazing things by taking courses on X online learning service and start building things? What happens when these people create a support network for other like-minded people?

I personally want to see it happen. There are ways we can win in life without bringing others down. Sometimes that means creating a new path.
Pumps? In Cambodia and parts of India I saw plenty of gas "stations" that consisted of rows of repurposed plastic water bottles.
Which makes me think ... always ask for "no ice" when you are at a bar or restaurant. Unless you know how they make it.
When wasn't it, at just at the high-profile margins?

Its daily work currently consists of fighting sex-trafficking and other inarguably good pursuits... The claim that the DOJ is any more political today than a decade or three ago doesn't seem borne out by the facts, IMO.
yet another name for documentation nobody will write, but the manager will be able to say "solved the lack of documentation this quarter by implementing XYZ".
I guess I don't quite get this argument. Allowing users to install a third-party app store on a device they purchased doesn't impact another user's ability to use Apple's walled garden exclusively. As a customer, it's frustrating because I have to choose between Google's crazy surveillance and Apple's authoritarian regime. I'd really like to just buy a device and then do what I want with it, because I bought it. For example, if Apple were to allow me to install the equivalent of F-Droid on iOS, I would feel pretty differently about them as a company.
So you're proposing diverting the conversation to a theoretical that has little chance of happening but not discussing the actual example that's happening right now?

App Stores suck. App Stores with no side-loading are even worse. Platforms that are locked down so much that you can't even install your own OS are worse.

We used to bitch about Tivoization on HN all the time, it seems post iPhone, everyone seems A-OK.
That pretty closely matches my experiences as well. The only exception is that my first experience with Linux on something other than a raspberry pi was an optimus laptop.

NVIDIA issues aside, I've never had any issues with using a desktop oriented distro as a desktop. Way fewer issues than I've had with Windows.
"Rural folk" are going to need to come to grips with their exorbitantly subsidized lifestyle choices sooner or later. Probably sooner, since their guy is sabotaging one of their most important subsidies (near-free rural mail service) as we speak.
That a supposed lack of personality was used as cover for discrimination against Jewish applicants to universities is well-known. I’m not sure why you’d express concern over that reference being inflammatory ex nihilo.

There are citations for that point specifically in this article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions...

> Harvard itself found a bias against Asian-American applicants in an internal investigation in 2013, but had never made the findings public or acted on them.[1] Plaintiffs and commentators have compared thetreatment of Asians with the Jewish quota in place in the early 20th century, which used deficient personalities as the reason for excluding Jews in elite universities.[4][1]

- https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvards-asian-quotas-repeat-an...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-asian-enrollme...
Your red herring is stale and unappetizing.

The statement you took issue with was I think Mill either ignored or did not anticipate just how dangerous a viral bad idea can be on a global scale.

Nobody argued that Mill held ideas to be dangerous; if anything, that is being suggested as a shortcoming of Mill's philosophy. There is no good reason to solicit evidence for a proposition which nobody was making to begin with.
> I think this gets to the crux of the issue that's almost impossible to solve for in a "blind" way: if you don't look at race you're going to have a very wealthy, white, suburban, homogenous class of admitted students

Why not provide racially neutral class-based / disadvantage-based affirmative action instead? You get points if your parent(s) are poor. You get points if you have a single parent. You get points if you or your parent(s) have been on welfare. You get points if your parent(s) are in or have been to prison. You get points if you went to a high school with a low average academic achievement. You get points if your parent(s) have a history of homelessness or drug addiction or serious mental illness. You get points if you reside in a low income area.

That would produce a diverse student body without any direct consideration of race.
I don't get that argument. You're saying developers don't have a choice because smartphone customers do have a choice. If you only care about customers who choose iPhone then shouldn't you respect the clear wishes of those customers and make software that is compatible with the rules of the platform they've chosen?
What if you take the App Store to an extreme? Say, the App Store is so successful that iPhones and Macs are almost free -- paid for by the lifetime expected amount Apple will make from any and all apps sold on those devices. Would this be bad for the consumer? I feel like this is Apple's perspective: the app store subsidizes devices and helps consumers.

OTOH, the thing about Epic is I think they're incredibly generous with their developers and with their customers. You can play Fortnite for free, and are only charged if you want to buy a vanity item. And if you develop using Unreal Engine, you're only charged if you literally make millions of dollars. I can see being pissed off at Apple for being incredibly rapacious, wrecking their standing with developers, and undermining their own platform. I, for one, will never develop for Apple again after awful experiences with two apps I developed for their store.

Ultimately, IMO Apple is hurting themselves very badly, but I think it might be their right to do so.
Where is the spider from a few days back that I tried to kill but got away?
For now that's the case, but since the introduction of GateKeeper Apple is slowly but surely trending the default configurations to make it more and more difficult to run software source outside of their own app store.

I believe the defaults now extend to software sourced outside of the app store must still be notarized by Apple. This impacts developers more than consumers I would guess, but certainly requires more effort from developers to create and distribute software.
"iPhone/iPad is a console"

A $1000+ device with a moniker "Pro" is not a console. If you're trying to sell me the concept that something is "Pro" to be used for work, and can even replace a laptop, don't try to tell me its equivalent to a games console.
I’ve heard the same thing regarding the SU. If you were the wrong ethnicity even if you got the right answer and showed all your work the professor could say, “yes, but you used the wrong solution” and other such nonsense.
You apply a load across the motor, the same way any electricity is generated.
> The usual answer is that people who buy the phones must think it’s ok, otherwise they’d buy a competitor’s phone.

I think plenty of people might think on reflection "That's not cool but I still want that phone".

That pretty much sums up my continuing commercial relationship with Google as well.

And my feelings about most modern meat production practices.

We don't always vote with our wallets.
But a pay reduction to all C level execs would free up a few million that would allow you to maybe keep some of (what the community consider) Mozilla's most important projects.

I used to donate to Mozilla until these news. In fact, I started specifically donating because of the Servo and Rust projects. I was impressed with the way Mozilla was pushing the envelope and once again returning to the forefront of tech, in an open source manner.

Instead, C execs keep getting raises and the guys doing the real work keep getting axed.
There Is Only IBM And AT&T And Exxon?