skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't Apple's objection to what Epic did here the fact that these purchases didn't use Apple's infrastructure and platform? Unless by "using Apple's platform," you mean "done by an iPhone user," in which case that's what I said in the first place.
But the protest works is they're doing something which ought to be allowed. If Epic got pulled from the App Store for suddenly showing pornography, I don't think they'd get much sympathy.
Practically, going a long way to school on a bus every morning blows
Applications have to be paused to save battery, or killed to save memory. You can lookup the Android doc since the first version 10+ years ago, it explains very well the lifecycle of apps. Mobile devices would be unusable if it were not for that.
Ah, I see. I agree with your point actually, I just didn't quite catch it from your initial comment.

I personally don't like the limitations (I disagree vehemently with a 30% cut), but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the government's job to step in. I think a lot of people are conflating "I disagree with this" and "it should literally be illegal".
This is about a particular statute that prohibits discrimination based on certain factors.

You could make an indirect argument that legacy admissions are a form of racial preference.

As for having a lot of money... well, that's what private colleges are about.
What's questionable, AznHisoka, is what value the gatekeepers add for consumers by charging such a high tax.

Most of the value is being provided by the app developers.

30 - 50% is an acceptable markup in the retail world, like a bricks and mortar store selling furniture, but the purchase of virtual currency is not the same as a retail transaction. It's closer to the sort of service a money changer provides, or even a credit card merchant. The fee for such as service should be in the range of 3 - 18%, not 30%.
The only thing I can think of is "Fortnite bad" and most of Epic's money comes from loot boxes iirc, which seems sketchy to me.
Let us know how it goes! Other aspiring self-published authors are dying to know.
> If there were actual competitors, their rates would be much lower... around 2-5% probably.

probably not. Visa takes a bigger cut than 2% when you buy a hamburger.
I think that’s a poor approach. While you end up with gaze more in the center of the display, you don’t always have a face directly centered. This alleviates some of the problem, but doesn’t remove it.
A better approach that I’ve always wanted is to have four cameras on the corners of the display that generate a real time photogrametric projection of your face. This would mean not only would your camera view be dead center, it’d be center no matter where you were looking on the screen. Much better especially in situations where there are multiple people in a meeting. You could even have different streams for each meaning to the other attendees it appeared as if you were looking directly at them only when you actually were.
>passive exfil only works if you have sensors mirroring backbone traffic at all the biggest upstream meetme rooms. but NSA supposedly wasnt legally allowed to install Boeing Narus mirror routers at ISPs until 2001.

you're assuming this is intended for american infrastructure. they were probably violating the civil rights of americans before 9/11, but this is an inconclusive piece of evidence.
It seems tautological but if you think about it, it's what it actually means. A general purpose computing device is a device that can be used for any computing. If you restrict it, it ceases to be general purpose. If you turn it into a locked-up appliance, like a Playstation, it's not general-purpose anymore.

General-purpose is when you can install whatever software will run in that architecture, unimpeded.
Here's a counter example. Buy a thinkpad and try to put whatever distro you want on it.
This is a good framework. One way to merge these views is with a graduated take rate. So Apple might take 30% of the first $10mm, 20% of the next $10mm and $10% thereafter.
> apple can't argue that users having alternative means to install apps is insecure, as they allow to that on the mac

I don't agree with this evaluation. They can argue it, as all macs are shipped with only access to the app store. You need to specifically opt out.

macOS does have security issues, perhaps moreso than iOS, and that's an argument they could make: Allowing Epic to run a store would compromise the phones of kids and open them up to tracking, aggressive adware, etc. I think it's a fair argument, even if I think 30% is a steep price to pay for what they provide.
Nobody's forcing you to make eye contact. :) You can still be totally free to not look directly at the person while talking to them.

I mean, in normal conversation it's not like you're making constant eye contact anyways. If you did, you'd come across as a total psychopath.

It's just so that when you want to make eye contact, you have that choice!
Apple could try any amount of tech to lock their devices, but it shouldn't be illegal to break those locks.
I have answered your question.
And then be ostracized from your social groups because no one wants to see green bubbles in their group chats.

Not a problem I personally experience but one many people have reported. This may also be less of a problem with COVID, I'm not sure.
In a language like Haskell, you'd parameterize every function by both the "data type" and the "data structure": monomorphization will happily emit ABI-compatible functions. I think a more interesting case is how you'd do this without a monomorphization explosion. It seems like being able to describe both subtyping and substructuring relationship (a la C's structure prefix ABI convention) would keep things mostly in check.

I dunno... seems like you'd be combining all the hard bits of a nominative type system with all the hard bits of a polymorphic structural type subsystem.
LADs, rather.
Because no one bothered to write viruses for it. There were more viruses for Windows than Classic MacOS and it was a complete shit show compared to Windows between 1995 - 2000. It didn’t even have memory protection.
> Would you also argue that you have the right to run any software on it?

Duh, yes. It's like asking if i can drive my (human-driven) car anywhere. Just because it's "technology" doesnt mean all human agency goes out the window.
Wow! Facebook Backlink Count [117,959,084,099], How?
TIL! Thanks for sharing this.
Some have been advocating "American Descendants of Slavery" (ADOS) as an identity specifically for those whose ancestors were victims of slavery in the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Descendants_of_Slaver...
Top of the funnel discovery and verifying the app won't do malicious things is value. It's debatable if that's worth 30% of all in-app purchases (but then those also get the value of a trusted payment processor too). But it's silly to imagine that app developers aren't getting value from being in app stores.
Related: I often find item bundles cheaper if I buy them via the Samsung Galaxy Store (10% cheaper). Is it because Samsung doesn't have keep 30% of the money, but a lower amount?
The Caribbean has a history of African slavery not unlike the U.S.
The Hispanic box was worth literal tens of thousands of dollars to me over my lifetime.

If they're going to fall on that sword make sure it's their own choice and not yours.
It's funny you'd take coke as an example when there are hundreds of coke equivalents, each store selling its own off brands.
It will not update all of them, just some. Clicking through the device manager on my work computer, it seems the driver for "Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller" was not up to date, and had not been updated by Windows Update. I never installed this driver manually.

If you're on a Windows machine right now, try it. Right click on a bunch of stuff in device manager and hit update driver. Clicking through on my machine and maybe 1/5 have an update.

The crazy thing is that it's a really painful process. It takes 15-30 seconds per device just to come back with "no updates" and you can't just select a whole bunch of them and do them all at once: you have to do it one at a time and go through the wizard for everything. And there are simply too many devices to do them all, so all of us are using plenty of outdated drivers. This is an absurd situation, it's 2020.

There are third party apps that do this automatically, but I don't know that I trust them.
You might find "tensor displays" interesting.

https://web.media.mit.edu/~gordonw/TensorDisplays/
If there was another app store, no one is forcing you to use it.
In a court of law, no, but it's a pretty safe assumption that their admissions procedures are very similar.
I'm not sure that's true? Gatekeeping is definitely about keeping out/removing, but that doesn't mean that it has zero or negative value?

For example, there's absolutely positive value for users in filtering spam. This tends to be negative value for spam senders, but that doesn't detract from the user value.
Do they emit light in all directions?
This is an anticompetitive argument. You're asking to be taken advantage of.
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Held liable just like this:

"In 2014 the US Federal Trade Commission ordered Apple to pay out $32.3m (£24.6m) to reimburse American parents for unauthorised app purchases made by their children."[0]

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/mar/11/my-kids-spent-...
It sounds like the real complaint is “the store needs to be running to use software I purchased from it.”

Which is much worse than the mobile environment. But you could still have more choice and not require the store to be running to use.

Imagine being able to go to epic games website and click “download game” and get a phone pop up “do you want to install X?”

There’s positively no need for a “store” at all.
Apple Pay is just secure credit card payments. No 30% involved.
Android doesn't.

Google Android does.
> Why? So you won't get spam that you never see?

They worked at Apple and probably have a different perception than someone who works uphill against Apple.
You do realize that credit card processors take 2-3% alone? Honestly I agree with Apple and google one this one.
He has a fairly small number of supporters, very few of which hold any power, and are some of the most aware of government interference. Russia will be fine with what they (presumably) already coerce him to do, pay taxes.

And as for why your post was down voted, you stated that a whistleblower should lose their career for their uncovering the truth.
I’m talking about the macOS I run on my MacBook today. It is not virus ridden nor covered with unwanted toolbars.
Affirmative action was almost certainly the least bad solution--it broke the back of the rampant discrimination in this country, something that would have been very hard to do anywhere near as fast by other means.

The problem is that it's already produced all the benefits it's going to, now it's pure burden with no benefit.
Isn’t our disgust feeling linked with food safety though?
From the referenced study:

> A stratified sample of 65,326 Kickstarter project creators was surveyed via email.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3107898
The thought of a webcam constantly pointing at users has already creeped them out enough to make camera covers a popular item. Imagine how well that segment of the population would react to a hidden camera...
jesus christ they're clearing 1.25 billion+ a year on v-bucks????
Banqiao, China (~170k mort, almost all to disease and starvation, planning/response was abysmal); Machchu2, India (5k, 1979), Johnstown, US (2.2k, 1889, birthed Red Cross and reformed liability law), Vaijont, Italy (2.5k, 1963 landslide-triggered tsunami overtopped dam). Seven topped 1,000 fatalities, of which one was an act of war. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure)

There are literally tens of thousand of dams, if not > 100k, worldwide (over 22k in China alone), with well over a century of major utilisation. Granted 100 or fewer major (2+GWe) installations.

There are fewer than 400 nuclear power stations worldwide (3911 by my count from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_stations...), the bulk in operation for less than 50 years. We've had three major disasters and numerous close calls, all with massive long-term consequences. Building out infrastructure to the scale of present or future (industrialised-world electric provisioning to 8-12 billion inhabitants) would see even at much better safety records* a major accident every few years. And that's only one disadvantage.

Notably, once floodwaters recede, even a catastrophic dam failure returns to livable condition rapidly: weeks to years, rather than centuries.

And, as noted, it's human, social, business, and organisational factor common to any major high-value asset technical project generally to blame.
I tried not to interpret the article in the worst possible way, but I failed, it feels disingenuous to me.

I don't think comparing ppa's to snaps is a good comparison.

ppa's have the disadvantage of potential dependency problems which might break things like upgrades, and that has nothing to do with having a distributed store.

snaps solve this and that has nothing to do with a proprietary single company controlled store.
this has a pretty trivial workaround, get in-store credits with a one-time payment and then keep paying the 1$ apps with that like any other store that has a wallet system/micro transactions.
US seizes virtual currency alleged to fund militant groups
Lockdown maybe necessary if covid has severity of ebola, but with such low death rate ? Its overkill, the damage due to the lockdown is greater than the covid.
> A company that makes so much money should be able to compromise.

It's hilarious to see people rooting for Apple as if they're the little guys.

The company that makes so much money here is Apple, not Epic. They should be willing to compromise. They gouge app developers and in turn its end users by charging a 30% ransom.
I strongly believe in rights for People. I have less belief in rights for Corporations. And even less for mega-corporations worth two trillion dollars.

CORPORATIONS. ARE. NOT. PEOPLE.

If tomorrow the government fined Apple a hundred billion dollars, for literally no reason except for the fun of it, I could focus my entire being, every ounce of willpower I have, into attempting to expel one milliliter-sized tear, and would still have dry eyes.

When an indie developer spends her days and nights producing a work of passion, only to pay the US Government 25% and Apple 30% of the few thousand dollars she makes, and the next day Apple announces that they made a hundred billion dollars last quarter: I stand with the indie developer, not with the faceless mega-corporation.

I couldn't lose ten seconds of sleep over some perceived injustice that this developer used the piece of literal garbage Apple excretes every year and slaps an "xcode" label on to develop her passion project, and that somehow entitles them to the billions of dollars they make in taxes.

I won't curl up in the fetal position and cry when thinking about how much Apple DESERVES the billions of iPhone users out there, stuck in a duopoly between two mega-corporations who treat ethics the same way I treat toilet paper, people who spend thousands of dollars on that hardware, and thus Apple DESERVES to control what they can and cannot use their phones for, thus Apple DESERVES to control which developers they interact with and how they compensate them.

The gall I must have, to not log on to the internet and defend a trillion dollar corporation against this horrible, mean indie developer for coming after their 30%! Hank Rearden earned that 30%! By god, through the sheer force of paying other people to build a fence, and a little luck convincing customers to live inside of it, they earned it!
Precisely my point.

Though to clarify: as non-engineering failures, there is no technical engineering fix to this problem.
Does that setting also stop you from using some apps? such as banking apps etc. I recall something like that.

(sorry, Apple user here)
The amount paid to Apple is not a factor - it's what the agreement was. If that 360 MM is 30%, then we can also say I doubt Epic has over a billion in overhead. I do not believe the point is valid.

Epic does have a way onto the phones: provide an easy way for User's to jailbreak them as part of the ingress to the Epic distribution channel.

"In 2010 and 2012, the U.S. Copyright Office approved exemptions that allowed smartphone users to jailbreak their devices legally,[62] and in 2015 the Copyright Office approved an expanded exemption that also covers other all-purpose mobile computing devices, such as tablets"

So all Epic needs to do is assume the cost and investment of managing the inter-dependencies of the hardware with various other pieces of software, including their distribution channel.
They're tacking on a recurring revenue stream (App Store) onto their one-time sale (iPhone). Margins on both fund the innovation machine.

Also, with the outrage over companies needing to layoff/cut hours during(now) Covid-19 because they didn't have a warchest saved up... Having a cashpile seems like a fiscally responsible thing to do for a company.
Because schools are a reflection of the students they get. Private schools do better not because they teach any better, but because they keep out the ones that aren't there to learn and thus the teacher can actually spend their time teaching a group of kids at the same level.
I might have missed your attention to this thread, but I'll ask and hopefully you'll be able to check later. I have to deal with a monolithic codebase that is of excessive size (10's of millions of lines of code) and has a very large number of developers committing against it.

I haven't looked at the internals of Git much, but performance becomes an issue with it in this context (we currently use a different vcs), and switching seems impractical at the moment. Issues from local performance (30 seconds or so for git status, git checkout, etc) and clone/fetch speeds.

I'm curious, given your experience on porting, have you noticed areas where we might be able to make improvements that might be easier based on Rust's safety improvements? Such as more threading or other areas that could improve Git for use with very large code bases?

(I plan to review the project as this would be an exciting area to work in to help with productivity in this space)
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If this was true why would Steam even bother? Secondly, Nvidia and AMD both invested tons of money into fixes for games in their drivers for windows and it just shows. Also epic is spending money left and right, why couldn't they invest into the platform just like steam? And even with that little investment steam put into linux(compared to windows) it shows a really good potential.
Any retail xbox one can turn on DEV mode and run self made UWP games and apps, switching back and forth is very easy.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/devki...
> Same for me, I don’t want 5 blasted stores on my iPhone. I want one store and run by someone I trust

To be honest, I wouldn't mind having the option to specify multiple stores that I trust the same way I do the Google Play store. I could imagine having Google Play, the Epic store, the Blizzard store, and Steam on my phone if that were necessary.

I am not worried about being spammed with stuff, as apps don't run until you open them, normally, and I already have granular controls over what notifications spam me on Android as it is.
This is total bullshit. There is no evidence of any strong-arming. It's the usual Internet storm in a teacup from 'gamers'. They offered exclusivity monetary incentives.

$20 to a charity of your choice if you show affirmative proof of (within 7 days¹) a contract showing strong-arming². Email is in profile if I don't notice HN reply. When you make your comment showing strong-arming, I will make two comments one saying "this is strong-arming" and one saying "this is not" and we can see what the community votes up.

If there are at least 5 votes and the former wins, you get to pick the charity. Otherwise, it goes to AMF.

¹ just so that there is a day the money goes out. If you need more time, just say so.

² Email is in profile, you can set up a call with me or send me an email of the contract if you don't want to share the contract publicly.
> Hot Water Sometimes Freezes Faster Than Cold Water

No it doesn't.

Unless you want to word play between English and really specific small technical processes, perhaps.

What's interesting is it's an old urban legend the predates Usenet.

Usenet did kill the glass is a liquid legend though.
If one company (let's say, Tesla) owned half the electric car charging stations in town, and another company (let's say, Nissan) owned the other half, and Tesla's charging stations could only be used on Tesla vehicles and Nissan's charging stations could only be used on Nissan vehicles, would you conclude that both companies have monopolies?
Hot water freezing faster in an ice cube tray is commonly reported, a bunch of reasons could explain it. Evaporation can reduce the volume of water, and the smaller volume freezes faster. A hot tray will settle into any ice build up in the freezer (which is common) increasing the rate of heat exchange. Hot water will create currents in the air and water (driven by the higher water temperature) which help the exchange. On the flip side lower temperature differences will often cause a stagnant layer that will reduce the temp exchange, much like sitting in a cold pool which gets better if you want a few seconds... until you move again.

The reported experiment reduces the variables by using glass instead of water, so there's no internal flow, but that doesn't stop the airflows generated in the air.
The first statement of the problem in the wikipedia page (from "Ask Marilyn") does not state it explicitly (though it does say the host knows what's behind the doors). There is a reason wikipedia refers to them as "assumptions".

Or from [0]: "The standard annunciation of the MH problem, does not make explicit what I am assuming here: namely, that Monty will always open a door which does not contain a prize."

[0]: https://www.montyhallproblem.com/#F2
I recently learned Google Chrome does something similar with browser extensions[1]. You cannot[2] install .crx files that have not been published to the Chrome Web Store.

[1] https://blog.chromium.org/2015/05/continuing-to-protect-chro...

[2] Unless you're using Linux or the enterprise version of the browser.
Yes but for most people an Xbox or a PS4 is not a requirement for their livelihood.

Would you be okay with a Microsoft-owned app store that controls all app purchases and in-app purchases for all PCs?
The opportunities to start businesses like that are shrinking every day, by design, by the way that search engines are supposed to work. There is more content produced every day, some of it very good, and there can only be one (1) first page of search results. Your doom is essentially guaranteed. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying it's just not an innovative or forward-thinking field to get into. The only way this risk would not exist is if search engines were inherently corrupt and you had some reverse engineered way to rank at the top. That ship sailed 5+ years ago[1] when the top search engines switched to machine learning.

[1] Unless you're w3schools, for some reason.
With respect, it's not our call to criticize the amount. If we as a community care that much we can create and adopt alternate means, or choose not to use their technology.