skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a Rav-4 in 2018. When I was price-shopping, I included Costco Auto in my search. They weren't the cheapest (although they were very low-hassle), but they were close to the best price I could get from a nearby dealer.

In the end, I went round-robin with a few dealerships (taking one dealership's offer to another dealership and asking them to beat it), and wound up with a price around $1000 less than the Costco Auto price. I had to drive an hour to get the car, but that's no big deal in the long run.

So my two cents is that Costco Auto maybe hits a sweet spot between "don't want to negotiate" and "good price". But if you enjoy the thrill of the hunt, you can probably do better than the Costco Auto prices.
I just spent my first winter in Boulder (moved from NYC) and thought the winter was incredibly mild. All my friends and family back home kept asking how I was handling the cold, but I thought it was worlds better than slushy, frigid NYC.
From the "Kyrgyz Revolution" wikipedia page.
"the Eurasian Daily Monitor reported on 1 April that, for two weeks, the Kremlin had used the Russian mass media to run a negative campaign against Bakiyev.[20] Russia controls much of the media in Kyrgyzstan.[20] The campaign sought to associate Bakiyev and his son, Maxim Bakiyev, with an allegedly corrupt businessman whose company had worked in a government project. "
While Google publishes every app they make on iOS, because that's the best way they can gain access to user data there.
Many, many engineers driven more by money than they want to admit: “well if I don’t do it someone else will.”
No HN thread on car sales would be complete without a mention of this classic: http://www.dougsrepublic.com/PDF/carsalesman.pdf

(I'd link to the original on Edmunds.com, but it seems to be hopelessly borked with 404s all over the place.)
A full fledged accurate adversity score (as much as such a thing can be objectively quantified) brings to mind some very weird perverse incentives resulting from it from the sheer desperation for an edge. From deliberately sandbagging income around admission (transferring to a lower paid start up).

Not to mention potential absurd implication and emergent from a model like "due to statistical outliers the best thing for getting an average middle class child into the Ivy League is to both survive cancer and to survive a school shooting". It could rapidly turn into an absurdist comedy sketch about misery poker.
Simple question to whoever is honestly defending Apple: What if Windows prevented people from installing anything on their computer except from the Microsoft Store. Then Microsoft forced every app to use their payment system and then charged an excessive 30% fee for each transaction. Would you think that's an abusive and illegal practice?
Via the FTC[0]:

> Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power.

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Amazing project. I especially liked all the useful info provided
I think their using the term FANG and not FAANG is a tell
Welcome to Westminster?
Would you care to clarify?

Do you mean that universities can distribute iOS apps to iOS devices without using the App Store?
What if the company goes under?
You are missing the point. App Store is a distribution channel.

And so the 30% isn't just for the upkeep of the store but also all of the work involved in maintaining/growing the tens of millions of iOS users at the other side of the channel. For example, Apple spends well over $2 billion a year on marketing which would need to be factored into your costs.

Also I don't understand how anyone could support Apple taking less money from big developers.
The most obvious course of action would be to deny the school any knowledge of an applicants race. Assign them a random number instead of a name and only conduct text-based interviews.

When I was in university I remember being somewhat intimidated by the asian students because I knew that while other white students had an even chance of being smarter or dumber than me, the asian ones were all probably smarter than me just to get in.
At the moment, I completely ignore the SO mirrors as my instinct is to go to the original source. I'll start paying attention, they might actually be the better website.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23896996
>If what you wrote in the comment would become a law, this would remove motivation to do investments like that.

IPhone sales are profitable as they are, and always were.

Of course not having iOS walled would lower their profits, but that's the whole point, as this profit comes from a detriment for everyone else. Android allows sideloading, yet making those phones is still reasonably profitable.

PCs were expensive tools way before Linux, and it would stay that way if not for IBM were able to protect their walled garden.
Now let's discuss which jail is the best to spend our holidays in.
Thai youth challenging the monarchy is an incredibly dangerous moment
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A little more explanation is required, since the boiling pot still needs to pass through room temperature on its way to freezing, and it’s not clear how at that point it has a head start on the other room temperature pot.
> You can still download Fortnite

I invite you to read even the headline of the article this thread is about.
We're not talking about what the postmaster said. We're not talking about parcel volume. We're not talking about package volume. We're not talking about resource reallocation.

We're talking about what trump said.

Trump said the post office needs two bills that fund it to be passed for it to be able to adequately handle universal vote by mails, and if he doesn't make a deal with the people trying to pass those bills, then the post office doesn't get the money it needs to be able to do that:

>>> “If we don’t make a deal that means they don’t get the money. That means they can’t have universal mail-in voting. They just can’t have it. Sort of a crazy thing,” Trump said on Thursday.
> free

> something like $99

Pick one.
Well, Pharaoh is Pharaoh because they born to be
Apple is Apple because Apple earned it.

Not disagreeing your point though
lol, Googles platform is "wild and open"? Oh boy, you have never experienced the Windows phone/mobile app store...
Epic being big is possibly the only reason why they had the balls to pull the trigger on this whole thing. Can't imagine indies doing it, not enough money and power. Gotta take fights you can handle.
What was it 5 years that Google denied any perceptible lag on their platform before coming out with Project Butter. Windows Phone was the only other mobile OS as responsive and snappy as iOS.
It is so sad to see gzip still used these days. If boot time matters, how much faster would it be with lz4 or even zstd? Or are those actually used now, on ARM bootloaders?
Only after you have 20-100 people who told you "yes, that is my problem which must be resolved" start working on your solution to this particular problem.

This is good advice if you want to 'do a startup', and maybe that's the sort of person startup school attracts, but it seems incongruous with the majority of founders I know who started by solving a problem they had themselves. They built something because they needed it to exist, and a business grew out from that.

Building to distract yourself from more important work on your startup (eg testing your assumptions) is a bad idea but building because you actually need the thing to exist isn't.
I wrote a manager's README and give it to new hires and even in some cases candidates I'm trying to convince come work with me. It is realistic (I hope :D) and in no way is it meant to compensate on things I do or are annoying .. "you should have known, it is written in the README" is never an acceptable response.
So in one way I appreciate her "user guide" as I know how difficult it is to write such a document and she does it with high detail.

I wonder if it raised the grade on the next survey though :D
> I truly believe apple pays people to comb through HN and down vote any comment critical of apple.

Incidentally, Samsung has actually been caught and taken to court for manipulating social media:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Samsung+paid+students+for+re...

People can defend a company on their own, because they love their products and agree with their policies.

> in the way we fought microsoft years ago

Because Apple helped us fight Microsoft.

People loved Apple almost unanimously on the internet. They were the underdog, the messiah to save us from the bullshit of Big Corp. You won't find much Apple-negging from the era before Samsung started their smear campaign to make themselves relevant by going up against the tall poppy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

Which of course is a chain. It used to be IBM, then Microsoft, now it's Apple (after a long campaign [0] starting with 1984 and continuing with the famous "I'm a Mac"), and so other companies are trying to poise themselves as the underdog to win fans.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/9RmlhJK.jpg
Seems like a very expensive stunt if they don't get concessions from apple. That app is literally making millions a week on iOS alone.
I'm jealous. My in-laws live in Woodstock and I love visiting that part of NY, especially when it's not Winter.
Wasn't it 20k in 2017?
Both slavery and genocide happened over 2 generations ago. How much more time do you need to get over it mentally? Also "Maybe you could have one "non-white" checkbox that would award you a few points to partially offset any historical exclusion of nonwhite people in the university" is racist against white people.
> Sigh. I guess we're going to remove a product category (the relatively safe, very consistent, managed platform you can use when you just want to use a computer and not also manage a computer) and call that consumer choice, then?

Here's a better suggestion:

Stop Apple abusing their platform to force their customers to use their own book store by making others impractical.

Stop Apple abusing their monopoly to force their customers to use one browser.

Stop Apple abusing their monopoly to gouge everyone that wants to be on their platform with a 30% fee on every transaction (10% would be more reasonable, 3% a bare minimum to cover costs).
The main reasons investors like multiple founders (a team) are:

1) social proof that they're not investing in an unlikable solo founder (co-founders is a shit test that there's more than one true believer, and that they can sell each either on the idea.)

2) free labor for the first couple of years from multiple co-founders

You mentioned games that investors play, but there's always games regardless of one founder or more.
I find it fascinating that the white people in united states find that poster insulting. It does not say bad things overall and actually these are the values that particular groups considers important.
> It was part of the government.

It was not. It did not answer to Parliament, only to its shareholders. It has the best of both worlds though, because many powerful MPs were shareholders. So they got govt protection without govt oversight.
" is somehow equivalent to the luxury item that is an iPhone"

A mobile phone is not a 'luxury' - it's almost an essential good these days.

Even without that, an iPhone doesn't meet the criteria of 'luxury good'. It's just a little more expensive.

Android and iOS have an important market locked down, it's time for some basic regulation.
> Google is User-centric

You give far too much credit to the world's largest advertising company and probably the world's biggest corporate/private holder of personal and tracking data on the human population.

Any suggestion of an altruistic motive behind any Google policy/practice/implementation is disingenuous at best.
But how does allowing third party in-app payments remove your ability to use Apple Pay? Apple could even force developers to include Apple Pay but at a 30% markup.
Would you sell your iPhone and get a Best Buy phone every time you saw a dishwasher cheaper at Best Buy?

These are wholly different "stores" and the comparison makes no sense.
I'll believe it when I can finally buy 10nm at retail in volume.
I'm not saying that katsu kare is not existent in Japan, but in the UK it is basically the only kare you can get. On the contrary in Tokyo you have it among ten other options and it is definitely not the most popular one. I can say only about my experiences but I'd say the most popular is one with beef which is put in the stew.

The name of the dish is simply kare rasiu (curry with rise) and that's most common form. It's also super simple to make if you have rice cooker at home. Just pre-fry some onion, carrot and potatoes on the pan, then boil it with considerate amount of water and add curry blocks to it - done. You may add meat but it's just an additional ingredient which can be easily omitted. You can make it once and it lasts for couple of days. You can even freeze it if you want.
Cool, so what do they target? It must be something reasonably close. Though I realize even light year reflections are possible!
Yeah that’s how companies like grocery stores that use iOS based devices for inventory management load their apps.
Parisians hated the Eiffel tower when it went up, claimed it was an eyesore. Give it a few years, and these constellations will be something we look up at with pride and aesthetic appreciation.
Good that you mentioned Tim Sweeney. He is someone I look upto because his work does a lot of talking. Fantastic programmer.

I really wish the old world game engine programmers unite and support him such as Carmack, Romero etc.
I think their cut should follow some logarithmic falloff per app download of a particular app.
With you 100% but unfortunately it works too well. All of the top grossing news outlets abuse the hell out of this technique. I don't believe it'll get any better and more now then ever people will need to learn to think about where their news is coming from.
Wow, this site looks really cool.
Ask HN: Do you use slack bots at work?
I used to work at a place where we had Slack but that was around 4 years ago, bots were getting started. Wondering do you or your team use them? If so, what do you use that mainly for?
You are either a troll or you got it all wrong.
How do I recruit the best talent?
Apple markets its own products, not whatever is in their store (with some early exceptions).

Apple benefits from third party developers, third party developers benefit from Apple. Third party developers don't get a slice of iPhone sales revenue.

You wouldn't support Kitchenaid only allowing curated vegetables and charging their vendors 30% (or even 3%).
Well that is the thing about actually being competitive - it makes you the ultimate tall poppy, especially compared to long time lobbyists and vested interests. They made that abundantly clear back in the 90s when that DC was very upset about a lack of lobbying.
It shouldn't be for minority but majority. Fine with it isn't fine.
I was thinking the same at first, then I realized: if Microsoft had created a secure OS, that worked quite well all the time, that did what people wanted, and that didn't NEED 3rd party anti-virus software just to be secure, then I wouldn't mind buying all my Windows software through the Windows app store for $1-$20 with 30% going to Microsoft. But they didn't, they had a crap platform and we had to rely on sketchy shareware apps from virus-laden uncertified 3rd party websites, and the anti-virus software became indistinguishable from the ransom-ware it was supposed to prevent, and the platform was so hard to develop for that most commercial software cost $50-$500, so it got pirated, and on and on.

Instead, Apple invented a new computing platform and a new model to pay for it, it just worked, people were willing to pay for that, and we liked it.
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Unfortunately, the Play Store has a policy that prevents publishers from distributing competing app stores via the Play Store.
Right. Tech in Star Trek is part of the world, protagonists are living and breathing it, so it's shown as mostly working and not exceptional to people on-screen. Still, usually the viewer is told that something is a piece of tech through sounds and blinking lights.

As for Star Trek holograms, when the episode doesn't want to "play for surprise", it usually briefly shows the hologram appearing - which uses its very specific VFX, so that it's immediately recognized as a hologram (and not confused with teleportation, which uses a different style of VFX).
> Why would a professional device for adults ship with the same locked down protections of a kindergarten computing device?

Windows 10 ships with a firewall, schools enforce firewall rules on their PCs, therefore Surface ships with the same locked-down protections of a kindergarten computing device? If that's not the reasoning here, I guess I'm just not following.

> Your children are not in danger from antitrust enforcement.

No, but the only easy to use, highly safe, but still capable and low-maintenance computing option out there might get somewhat worse. I'd rather have more competition in that category, not in the category of "app stores on iPhones". One of those is all I want. I want someone to make an iOS killer & related ecosystem (yes, including an app store) so damn good that I gleefully and enthusiastically switch—or failing that, good enough that Apple feels the heat of competition and makes some major improvements. I don't love having just the one option in that product category.
It seems like everything is already safely disposed of, deep underground.
Fortnite for Android just got axed from the Google Play Store too
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> Not sure what assumptions are to be made by comparing this with US population by ethnicity except that they should be match up - which I don't agree with.

Why don't you think they should match up?
These alternative App Stores are heavily restricted when it comes to updating or even just installing apps, unless they were installed into the system and the system was patched by the OEM.
Can transparent oled be used to shade house windows? Ie you output black color which block sunlight.
New nuclear power in the west is currently very expensive with rising prices and and extremely slow to build (see for example hinkley point c).

I‘m not sure if battery storage, which has predictably falling prices, isn’t already cheaper than that, but you can at least already calculate when it is going to be.

A sensible strategy is to keep old nuclear plants running and invest heavily in renewables and energy storage.
A little more expensive isn't an accurate description.

I have a 200€ xiaomi phone (redmi note 4) that works very well and I have little to no complaints.

An iPhone costed 4-5 times that amount when I bought my phone, and does essentially the same things. But it's shinier.

Yes, the iPhone is a luxury good.

Edit, just to clarify: I have used an iPhone for an extended period of time (company issued): yes, the iPhone pretty much does the same thing as an android phone, maybe a little less.
Its a monopoly for developers. As a company you can not not use the app store because half of your customers are there and very few companies can afford to give up half of their customers.
I operate a SaaS for it :) started as scraping as a service, which evolved to “web API where an API doesn’t exist” as a service, and that includes where you’re connecting from. I consume my own product and offer an online reputation management service. Hoping for GPT3 beta soon to skip my rudimentary ML and comment thievery + manual approach where discussion is a client requirement.
It's definitely fair. Per the article, there's currently ~2600 satellites in orbit; Amazon is looking to more than double that, and SpaceX is asking to add ~16x that number. I think we're well within our rights as society and as humans generally to put the onus on them not to fuck up astronomy for the next century.

And since when has "It's difficult" been a free pass? Both of those companies beat their chests about how neat their tech is, but when it comes to a genuinely hard problem - as in, how to launch this fleet without fucking up humankind's ability to gaze into the cosmos as we have for our entire history - you're going to let them duck it?

And, to head off the obvious objection: I really, genuinely, truly don't care how difficult it is, why the physics make it difficult, what a vacuum does for heat, etc. I know. It's a hard problem. Maybe you don't get to launch fifty thousand satellites into orbit without solving it.
Imagine having a Mac in your pocket
There's a big difference between a landmark and polluting the entire planet's night sky with thousands of reflective satellites.
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I would normally agree with you and in fact I do still agree, but the lines are becoming uncomfortably blurred.

The enormous power that these two global corporations - Apple and Google - have over the livelihoods of so many developers and content producers is unprecedented. Each of them can wipe out the value of your professional skills over night.

For many people these corporations are without alternative. It's no longer a voluntary business relationship.

In Apple's case, the side-loading ban interacts with authoritarian government in a way that clearly threatens human rights. But at least on that particular issue consumers still have a choice.
It looks like Epic expected this to happen. It could even have been waiting for it.

I don't know why the application developers don't develop their own OS/phones. If this is the only way we can have an open Linux phone, I am all for it.
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Here's something many HNers might be unaware of. China has several App Stores for Android, but only Chinese companies are allowed to list apps. Yup, completely closed to outside competition.

The only appropriate response really is to close markets to Chinese companies until they open up theirs (without unreasonable restrictions on free speech).
> or make your own device to sell

Bordering on bad faith.
I am reading 2000 year old Cicero, and it’s actually very insightful in the art of orating. As you say, an issue can be called upon its own merit.

However critical thought is not a skill we have invested in, going by what is happening in the world, and the US in particular.
That's within an organisation though via enterprise distribution, or managed devices

University students normally bring their own devices so don't fit into that model
I have a Tesla, and I can assure you that I use the actual brakes crazy less than a normal car. I do have the AWD version which I do believe has more regenerative braking than the RWD model. Generally if it's a "oops I messed up" and you see a red light or stop sign later than usual you tap the brakes. But even on pretty steep hills I don't hit the brakes and basically never ride the brakes which was pretty common on my subaru.
Agreed. I applaud Epic for taking this stance. Of course, they are likely doing it for their own interests. However, this fight can help all the indie developers who don't have the lawyers or the money to stand up, and hopefully lower the amount that Google Play and Apple take from hard-working devs that upload apps to their platform.
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We've used the curie temperature to show that rocks have been part of prehistoric firepits, as they were heated up past their curie temperature then picked up the in situ magnetisation when they cooled back down.