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Just decided to see how many scripts a popular website (CNN) loads.

I count 36. And I'm running an ad blocker.

Which seems a bit much.
There is one hold out on affirmative action for admissions, CalTech.
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This is the same Yale that had a policy of restricting the student body to at most 10% of Jewish descent. Funny how things stay the same even though we are apparently more enlightened.
It would be cool if we could do something like this - I think it would get a lot of political and financial pushback.
This is going to be such a nightmare.
Yes, this article, unlike many of the news sources you probably use, links to it's original sources. Your ideological point re: Falun Gong is irrelevant.

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/cbp-louisvi...

https://twitter.com/CBPChicago/status/1291057732825513984
If you don't want to wait for eye-contact and have two monitors, you can place the webcam between the monitors and center your conversation-partner's image/window on the camera. Works great.
That argument doesn't work for other monopolies and won't hold a lot of water here either.
do you have any pointers of such implementation ?
in seeking moderate profits, apple has put themselves into a corner. they literally sold the cow, to pay for the donkey's medicine. apple can't argue that users having alternative means to install apps is insecure, as they allow to that on the mac. they also can't argue about anti-competitive practices and monopoly tendencies e.g 30% cut. only way out was if the 30% was a cut directly to the gvt. whoever is running apple services is one of the most sighted exec's in history.
Good luck playing it on an iPhone :)
Linux desktop experience with tweaking is in my humble opinion best in class. The linux desktop experience out of the box is acceptable on systems where it works.

Fantastic is a matter of opinion and I have a feeling that the majority wouldn't share that opinion.

People with your opinion are most likely used to buying hardware that is supported or at least not buying stuff that almost certainly wont work and installing and moving on. You think the parent poster is full of it.

People with the parents opinion are used to buying something that works well with windows trying to install Linux finding 3 things that don't work well fixing 2 out of 3 and quitting in frustration. He thinks you are full of it or willing to devote far more time to fixing broken shit.
It can, I've tried gaze correction software, but it has the unfortunate side effect of making the speaker look possessed. Total uncanny valley.

We humans are sensitive to every tiny detail of the eye, because we express so much emotion through it. It's no joke that the "eye is the window to the soul". Gaze correction software literally winds up looking like it messes with your soul.

Maybe someday we'll invent gaze correction that actually looks realistic -- but because it involves not just moving the eyeball, but opening/closing the eyelid (the eyelid moves as our eyes move vertically, like for a webcam), therefore moving the eyelashes, involving compensation with the lower eyelid, and more... it's going to be really hard.
As I see it this improves their chances of winning the suit. By having Google act in the same manner they have a stronger case that the market is a duopoly that restricts customer's freedom.

Remember that courts tend to be very lenient towards business practices, so it takes egregious behavior to convince them to step in. This bolster's Epic's position.
Black LEDs :)
I think this is an age old question that's been discussed thoroughly.

If somebody offers you a lot of money to do something immoral, and you chose to accept it that makes YOU immoral. It also should cast a shadow on the person offering you the deal because they too know what they are asking of you is immoral.

I don't think anyone in this deal is acting in the best interest of users. Some of these options may be better than others for indie devs.
That seems like a moving goalpost to me.

First, it wasn't usable. Then, it didn't have drivers. Then, it crashed a lot. Now it doesn't have Autodesk stuff? For the record, my mom doesn't know what Autodesk is. A "desktop" for me is where you can play movies, edit documents, browse the net and check email.
Epic Games is suing Apple!
ok... and I'd rather be allowed to install on my phone what I want. so you can have your main store, let us have your side stores. gentoo has a main overlay of software, but I'm free to checkout anyone else's overlay and install software, this should be no different.
Because using your market dominance in one area of business in order to establish and maintain a foothold in a related business is long established as the type of anticompetitive behaviour that antitrust laws were built to regulate.
Yes because 36 years ago, Apple wasn’t a vertically integrated company that made its own hardware and operating system that it sold at a premium....
Tangentially related, the "futuristic" displays in video games and movies and TV often look worse than what we'd see in real life.

Sometimes it's a hologram, which would be cool even if the fidelity were a bit shit, but it's interesting that art directors make them pretty bad looking even in fiction, presumably as a cue to the viewer that it's a hologram. Any fiction that portrays holograms as opaque and convincing usually plays it for surprise, because standard-issue holograms in fiction aren't convincing.
Via an in-game purchase perhaps?
The real reason Epic Games did this... Money - they were forced to hand over more than $500 Million dollars to Apple and Google in the past 12 months alone. That's $1.3 Million dollars per day.

Epic gave Apple over $360 Million dollars in the last twelve months just to list the game in it's app store, and over $150 Million to Google to do the same. By any measure, having to hand over half a billion dollars is just an insane cut of revenue to have to give two companies that had absolutely nothing to do with conceiving, designing or developing such a successful game.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/technology/apple-fortnite...
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1) The incentives are different for different universities. Less elite universities don't (generally) do all this because, you're right, there's no point. More elite universities do, because they're incentivized to.

Elite universities play a zero-sum game with one another for the far right tail of prestige/power/access. Part of that game does depend on producing the right sort of graduates -- but no exam will find them, and the sorts of things that identify them aren't generally the sorts of things you can grade/fail them on either. The other part of the game is played not with the graduate but with _everyone else_. Harvard is Harvard (to most people) not because of the mean Harvard grad's success, but because everyone else couldn't get in. Those two incentive structures point more or less at what we've got: painstaking care taken to identify a very small group of candidates, who are then _highly_ credentialed (ex: grade inflation). (All while retaining the aura of meritocracy.)
if the app wants more downloads, they will try to get into the main store. if the main store won't accept them for whatever reason, then it's either no store or a side store. I'll take the side store.
All of these things exist and have healthy competition on the web, where competition is allowed to exist and there's no gatekeepers demanding a 30% cut of revenues.
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It completely gives them the right to do it on their own. They are free to take their business elsewhere, or start their own mobile platform.
Sure... ignorance never harmed anyone... right?
I would love if I could find where my OS could collect informations on how long my CPUs stall for lack of proper execution ports, lacking parallelism in the code, L1-3 cache misses and so on.
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Also consider the massive “brand awareness” campaign that this represents.
> How can you like him?

war1025 is a religious white guy in Iowa who has argued that Proposition 8 in California wasn't a ban on same sex marriage. I'd actually be surprised if someone like this wasn't a Trump supporter.
This is a protest and a law suit against those terms of service. They have to break them to even have a case.
One of the biggest hurdles in trying to take antitrust action against Apple, I suspect, will be in proving that App Store policies cause harm to consumers rather than developers. There seem to be HN-favored narratives of "iOS users would rise up against the walled garden if they only understood" and "iOS users are too stupid and sheeplike to understand and rise up," but there is a more prosaic narrative of "iOS users like having one place to go that offers hundreds of thousands applications that are, by the standards of just fifteen years ago, dirt cheap."

Epic is implicitly making the case that consumers are harmed by having to pay $9.99 instead of $7.99 for in-game tchotchkes, but even as someone who's grown pretty skeptical of Apple's approach to the App Store in recent years, that strikes me as a reach. They were manifestly not losing money under the existing pricing agreement, and their fight here sure seems to be "we don't want to share that much revenue with Apple" rather than something akin to Hey's "Apple's revenue share materially harms our business". In-app purchase policies are arguably where Apple's policies are at their worst, but I have serious doubts whether Epic Games is a great standard-bearer to line up behind in a fight for fair business practices.
I really like this framing.

If Apple's payment processing fee was more in line with the industry e-commerce standard, this would look a lot more like #1 than #2.
"Only" 30% of revenue from all transactions done on their platform is a cut that any non-monopolistic platform would dream of.
I think you're looking at the problem from your perspective and not theirs.
Was fortnite on the play store? A few months ago I decided to try it for android, I had to download the epic games store app from their site and install it from there. This was in like February or something.
Tim Sweeney was outspoken about Microsoft’s attempt to force their “App Store” down windows users throats. Microsoft backed down, has certainly moved in a more developer friendly direction, and arguably may have saved their own asses in the process.

For everyone defending Apple, consider your main desktop/laptop computer and how you would feel if all of the apps you installed not only had to be downloaded from Apple/Dell/Lenovo/Microsoft but also 30% of any software or subscriptions you bought on that device went to one of those companies. Apple sells devices with high margins on top of all of this. Which is probably why they are the most valuable public company in the world besides maybe Saudi Aramco.
But the opposing crowd exists and maybe you personally don't have to deal with it but these companies do. Apple and Google deal with billions of ordinary people, not just tech nerds.
It's very hard to prove with evidence the perversion of an ideology. I can only cite disparate evidence. I think once you become aware of these ideas you start seeing their influence though.
Both Mac and Windows already do memory compression.

I don't know how ZFS works but the dedup I have seen runs in the background consuming minimal resources.

I would think if your mem-mapping a file that has been depdupped then its could just memap the already deduped block and cache in memory and not consume more memory if another file uses the same block and is memmapped but not sure if any OS does that.
What are youths going to do? Stop buying Apple and start buying Android, which has also banned Fortnite?
Plenty of handset makers to this day preinstall their own app stores, including the biggest and most successful, Samsung.
> run some Linux exclusive software

Like what? I run Linux because I want control of my computer. The minute a distro starts gatekeeping, the moment I switch to a different distro.

Increasingly, you can run Linux software on non-Linux OSes, if a piece of software is all you care about.
The scary check box exists for a reason. The reason malware isn't everywhere on android and iOS is because randomly installing apps isn't unsafe. I mean sans play store's automatic tools occasionally letting nonsense through.

A large part of the security model on both systems is the ability to constrain what apps can do, and by ensuring those have happened.

The various privileged (in the security sense) sandbox entitlements on iOS can't be used by a malicious app because the malicious app can't get through the App Store. That significantly increases the bar for any malware. I assume the Google Play store similarly limits access to privileged system features, and I would fully expect the 3rd party stores do not.

Also personally: The Epic store is a terrible app, and signing up for it requires providing vastly more information to them than I ever wanted to, especially for only a single company's games, from a company that has no stated intent of reducing data collection and improving privacy. A company that also engages in scummy tactics like loot boxes, virtual currency, etc
> Yeah? you think users love hunting down a particular app store becauase that is the one that has the app you are after???

I switch between streaming services based on the content they have. I have Steam, Epic Store and Origin on my PC because of the games and deals each have. Why would I not load a new app store (if I used my phone for anything other than a phone, camera and note-taking device)?
I had been trying to remember the name of this game for over a year now, my few Google searches for "long term space strategy mmo" never yielded anything. I love that hackernews seems to dredge up the interesting parts of the net.

Anyways, Neptune's Pride is very very fun and I can't wait to play it again!
The funding bill could be crafted so that disproportionately high, or nationally-leveling, funding could be sent to schools in ZIP codes with the lowest average incomes, and the law could exist in perpetuity such that it would always assist the most disadvantaged ZIPs without regard for the ebb and flow of various identity groups over time.
I understand, but competition law in the US is based on companies who have a monopoly or companies who are likely to achieve a monopoly through their behavior.
>You don't have to use the brake pedal at all if you drive carefully.

Until you drive down a hill, another driver does something unexpected, you have to take a poorly marked turn, there's a stop sign around the bend etc...
yes but filtering malicious code and filtering by arbitrary criteria are not the same thing.
there is no monopoly - there are two primary choices(coke and pepsi), both with the similar constraints.

You can choose RC cola or Faygo - always an option. Maybe Faygo offers a great new flavor(no payment fees) and tons of Users see that benefit outweighing other features? That's the market. Make the compelling value prop and you win.
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Yeah history is full of race based decisions going well with speeding up the process. Jfc
One definition may be that you can use the device to write and compile all the programs it uses (any part of the OS, including the kernel itself), so that you don't need anything else. Kind of like a self-hosting compiler.

Not that you'd want to, but if you decided to do it, the option would be readily available.
What's image convolution you ask? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(image_processing)#Conv...
The problem is that Apple has consistently demonstrated that "compromise" means "accept Apple's terms without any wiggle room for negotiation".
Would this be useful for augmented-reality headsets?
Mmh, your first point makes sense
> I am still waiting for a real argument on HN as to what Apple is doing that is anti-competitive or illegal.

Apple and Google are engaging in obvious tacit collusion. QED.
It's important to remember that Apple and Google only have a Duopoly, because nobody else seems to be able to develop anything that is remotely appealing to customers. Microsoft tried with their own mobile operating system many years ago and they failed at every attempt.

If Apple was told to open its App Store they could literally just shut down their App Store instead the next day and in a few days or weeks consumers all around the world would put too much pressure on any legislator to revert their changes, because not a single consumer cares about Epic, but everyone cares about their iPhone to remain as awesome as it is today, ad part of it is Apple's walled garden.
In practice it seems that affirmative action primarily takes from Asians and unconnected whites to give to blacks. I have no objection to the latter—indeed, I can see some justification in taking from educated middle class Asians like me—but the obvious people from whom to take places are those who get in on connexions (most of whom are white). If this creates a shortfall, the obvious solution is to dismantle a bureaucracy that was clearly unneeded, say, 40 years ago. Unfortunately there is no political incentive to do this—the Republicans will almost certainly attempt to restore a situation by which blacks end up in the grand scheme of things disadvantaged, with no correction at university admissions, whilst the progressive narrative is controlled by mostly white liberal bourgeois class interests, and therefore will continue to find some other group to make the sacrifices it deems (not incorrectly in this case!) necessary, and happens to create not inconsiderable employment for them, inter alia—indeed, one might go so far as to say is necessary for their broader control of the capitalist system by holding onto cultural power within education.
And Linux is fantastic for that, until you come across a use case that is outside those typical bounds.

Say your mom decides she likes photography one day and decides to buy a camera and take some lessons. Say her teacher says "we use lightroom and photoshop so you'll need to have these because they're industry standard" and she has no idea what to do and why the Adobe CC launcher won't load on Linux. Then she'll call you up and ask why it won't work, you'll respond with "there's no photoshop, you can use GIMP though" and your mom being a regular computer user won't be familiar with the eccentricities of GIMP as editing software and will be lost and unable to follow through on her new hobby.

This has literally happened to people in my life I've recommended Ubuntu to. Too many times to count.
Sure but does that mean Apple's actions are not anti-competitive?
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If only there was an example of a platform where you downloaded apps from the web and installed them at your own will!

Oh, wait. It’s what we all did and do with computers. This isn’t some mystical unknown.
Although I agree with you that is good that a big company did hit both walls at the same time, and that might benefit developers in the long term, It doesn't seem fair to compare Google's behavior and Apple's.

In the Android world, you still have an option. The option isn't good, you might end up limited, the user have to enable a scary checkbox, but you have an option. If Epic wants, they can create a micro store for android. The same thing they do with PCs today.

But you can't do it with an apple device. You have no option, no workaround. That's the monopoly that needs to be destroyed.

Even if both companies behaviors are detrimental for developers, Apple is way, way worst.

That all said: Sadly, this is not about freedom but about money. My bet is that Apply will lose the restrictions for Epic and they will drop the case.
Total agree and I use query builders all the time. (Yours definitely looks nice.) I was curious though how others might of handled these issues when using libraries like the one posted here which is just raw sql.
Not subtle - a fundamental point. Thank you for putting it so succinctly, rdiddly.
No company can sell or distribute an app without having to use the appstore. Sideloading is restricted by design to not work as a standard installation method
Thank you. Public predictions tied to an identity are useful, good job on getting it right!
You can't seriously be equivocating Uber and Gandhi?
Never said it was ethically right, just that Epic are up to something.
It depends. The older the brake the worse the dust. But even modern brake dust is not something you want to ingest if you don't have to. In general dust is the worst possible form that you can get some contaminant in, it offers the largest reactive surface per unit weight and can get into all kinds of places that it shouldn't.

As for the dirt: plants act as natural filters, they select that which is good for them using their root systems and use that to build the rest of the plant as they go along. Some plants can be used to extract certain materials from the soil, others do the opposite and will react by rejecting the contaminants. What exactly happens depends on the plant, soil conditions, humidity, amount of sunlight and lots of other factors besides. Not all dirt is good, not all plants grown in all dirt are good, not all dirt is the same.
Right because why would Google think it needs to warn people about the dangers imposed by installing an app outside of the Google Play store by a well known developer like Epic?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/fortnites-android-vu...
Doubtful. Android can be customized by the OEMs and many do provide alternate stores preloaded. They'd have to go after Pixel phones (not a massive market share) or after the requirement to use Play services to be in the store.
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The difference, of course, is that Android is an open platform and users still have multiple different options of installing Fortnite if they wanted to.
> Well, you could say one definition is that a general purpose computing device is a tool that lets you run what you want in whichever way you want to install it (sort of, of course one could nitpick exceptions).

It does seem a bit tautological. A vendor can restrict access then simply argue this is not a general purpose computing device because look, you can't run the things we don't let you run.
I think you've misinterpreted the article, and that's not what is being said:

> Although previous oil spills around the world have not been in as environmentally sensitive areas, [my emphasis] they have still significantly affected marine animals and plants.

> In 2010, the Deep Water Horizon incident off the Gulf of Mexico saw nearly 400,000 tonnes of oil spill, resulting in the death of thousands of species ranging from plankton to dolphins.

> There were also other longer-term impacts on marine life including impaired reproduction, reduced growth, lesions and disease.

The article doesn't advocate that oil spills in unprotected areas are less serious, it actually highlights the fact that there are terrible consequences for wildlife regardless of whether the spill site is "protected" or not.