skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not taxes being "actually higher", that's taxes being paid in a way that increases the total cost of hiring someone without showing up anywhere on the pay stub of full-time W2 employees. Like, it changes the numbers to something like "$9k with $1k withheld and $1k of employer taxes" vs "$11k with $1k of income taxes and $1k of 'employer' taxes that you now have to pay"
You're headed in the right direction, the only thing you are missing is hybrids & EV's can generate 100% of their braking force with the generator during gentle driving. So no dust at all.

They still have brake discs & pads, but mostly just for panic stops & holding in place when stopped.
It's not. The entire purpose of regulation is to fix bad market practices.
I've been skeptical that we can make nuclear power safe, too, given the human elements, but global warming has me asking myself which is worse: a Chernobyl every ten years, or a 2ºC rise in global temperatures?

Chernobyl was billed as proof of just how bad nuclear disasters can be, but looking back, we didn't know how good we had it when that was all we had to be afraid of.
The rate of change would slow down as it approached the colder temperature though, would it not?
I find it obscene that Apple feels it deserves a third of each and every microtransaction.

I also find out obscene that Epic tried to used its size to circumvent that when its smaller competitors wouldn't dream of doing so.

But I'm more annoyed by the first bit. It's such an obscene cut to take when it's clear you are only facilitating the transaction by choice instead of by necessity.
Clearly she did, but my point is that society may evolve it's viewpoints on the matter, in the same way that has happened with transgenderism, at least in non-conservative circles.

Caitlyn Jenner would have been called a "fraud" 30 years ago if she identified as she does now. Why would it be different for race?

10 years from now, will everyone who vilified Dolezal have to issue mea culpas on their twitter equivalent about how they should not have hated on her and how un-woke they were?
Or what we realized was the right idea a long time ago... mixing everybody up by force. (Busing)

I believe it has been proven that as communities become more integrated, outcomes improve for all parties — and not just academically.

One Source, since people seem to disagree: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/10/23/...

Something more academic: https://gsppi.berkeley.edu/~ruckerj/johnson_schooldesegregat...
> The only people who buy the idea of planned obsolescence are the ones who haven’t worked on products like that.

So, how many Apple products Apple said could not be repaired have you repaired?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVAmnV65_zw

There is nothing to "buy into", it's all in the open. There is something to be in denial about however, and you just offer an ad-hominem right out of the gate, plus the statement that phones failing when they cease to be "supported" is fine and normal; but somehow not planned, even predictable obsolescence.

It's a shift from owning things that either break or last, to a constant churn, enforced by software where the hardware can't be made bad enough. Apple is hardly alone in this, but Apple is in it, for sure.
Free advice: there is no reason this suit could not have been brought in the prior 3 years. It is shameless election year politics via the courts. Whatever you think of the merits of the case, realize what this is from the timing and the unprofessional release accompanying the filing.

"Yale College could fill its entire entering class several times over with applicants who reach the 99th percentile in standardized testing and who have perfect high school grade point averages, but we do not base admission on such numbers alone," President Peter Salovey wrote. "Rather, we look at the whole person when selecting whom to admit among the many thousands of highly qualified applicants." (https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/08/13/us/politics/ap-u..., the other post on this on the front page)

This argument will be shown to have merit. Simply put, the question of whether to have a class that represents the population vs the applicant pool is at the discretion of the college. A lower ratio of acceptance by race is not de facto indicative of individual discrimination. They can pick and choose a class from the top tenth of a percent of the graduating seniors in the US. Every student there is elite.
Epic attempts to argue that the "iOS App Distribution Market" is a separate market from the overall app market, but if you look at their arguments, they apply equally to the video game market.

- Games are platform specific, games developed for Xbox cannot substitute for games designed for Nintendo.

- Users face substantial switching costs when switching platforms. They have to buy a new console and then replace all their games.

- Each company controls the distribution of games on their respective platform.

When you look at video games are they three separate markets of "games for Xbox", "games for Playstation", and "games for Nintendo"? Or are they three separate competitors competing in the global market of "video games" despite the above constraints?

I think Epic is going to have a difficult time convincing a court with this argument.
But you are claiming that what "doing science" is has been changing without evidence of such. You are giving to me an oral history of a phenomenon without scientific evidence, about how oral histories are being held as equally valid to scientific evidence.
Sure make them general computers too. I would rather have all of these devices give more choices to users.

However the current focus is on Apple due to their size.
Why not both?

Give more money to public schools, and support affirmative action until those network effects start occurring naturally.
Hot water and is preferred because it has less gasses dissolved and this way it produces clear ice. Also cold water could freeze too quickly, if the rink is very cold, before it has time to spread evenly.

I am pretty sure any tiny time difference, if it exists, would not be worth the hassle of supplying hot water.
> Apple owns the majority of the US mobile market

Apple's US market share is ~46%, so technically not a majority.

EDIT: no longer true as of July 2020
This is an old review from 2013. Please add "(2013)" to the title.

Original HN discussion from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6674366
Yeah I tend to stay away from them myself but in this case the comparison was too apt. You'll be glad to know I nixed "cyberboat" though.
Just wondering if it is a crime to lie about your race n college applications. What if a bunch of Asians just decided to write black on their college admissions applications -
- Will the colleges rescind the applications.

Also do mixed race individuals get to pick either white or black on college applications?
I don't think this does anything to fix the tensions causing racism in the first place.

The purpose of affirmative action isn't to cure racism, broadly defined as racial animosity or something similar. The purpose of affirmative action is to correct the harm caused by previous institutional bias (edit: a given institution previously systematically excluded a group and now is making up for that exclusion). Racial animosity and so-forth should be dealt with in other fashions.
Look into Pigouvian tax, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax.

Basically the idea is we then take the tax income raised by a societally harmful activity (like driving) and redistribute it to individuals like the ones who are scraping by so that tax is revenue neutral.
AIUI, it’s even worse, as the primary beneficiaries of affirmative action are well off members of the minority group (e.g. the kids of doctors and dentists) rather than students whose SES would be significantly improved by a degree from a prestigious institution. This is because admission is the first hurdle, not the last, and being well off removes potential sources of stress.
>mostly because covid requires certain measures in order to be eradicated

I thought we were flattening the curve...

What makes you think this can be eradicated? Source?
The rules around AA and the courts has been in a constant state of change since 1964. AA was justified as a temporary solution, thus there is no stare decisis which people can agree. I think it is unpredictable what the courts will do. The issue is setup to be never settled.
On a very related note, California Prop 16 will be on the ballot in November, seeking to remove the following text from the CA constitution:

>The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_16,_Repeal_Pr...
> Does anyone have any argument for why this right would be a bad thing?

Yes, I have. You put unnecessary limits on our freedom to agree on certain contracts.

Hence your measures are authoritarian, you try to restrict my freedom. In my opinion it's unethical to restrict people's freedom to make contracts willingly, if it hurts not any third party.

As a consumer, I think apple is doing the right thing, and I totally agree on their terms. We both, Apple and I, agree on what an ipnone is and how it works.

If you don't like it, there is a plethora of other OS: sailfish, mer, postmarket, android, use them.

As for apple, yes it asks for 30% fee, and it builds a walled garden. But they also offer what others don't: 8 years of support. I'm totally agree to have a walled garden (convenient enough for me), if I could use my phone for 8 years instead of 2-3 as in the Android case.

One of the reasons they support their devices for so long is that the earn on the ecosystem. With the laws you propose they would be incentivized to sell more phones supporting them less, turning iphone into another short term phone, like any android one.

Hence you would significantly diminish the choice, hurting me, the consumer.
It's not a "blanket" (ie, time-tested) dose. On the other hand, Multiple Sclerosis patients take much much higher amounts without many issues. I've been taking at least 60,000 IU/day (no health issues) since the beginning of 2018, with some bouts of ~100,000 IU.

The only issues from higher amounts of D3 stem from perturbation of calcium (increasing) and magnesium (decreasing) levels. Mainly addressed by swapping their RDAs.
i don't think it's that simple. I honestly think race and ethnicity make a difference. Disclaimer: I'm asian and I would certainly have been affected by discrimination against my race in college admissions. Certainly I've felt bitter about certain school rejections.

On the other hand, there are multiple instances I can remember interacting with people of other ethnicities in uni and thinking "wow, I can't _ever_ see myself thinking that way" - and I think I'm better off for it. IMO, diversity of culture and thought is real.

If you extrapolate a pure meritocratic approach - the demographics of admissions will likely continue to skew white/asian into perpetuity. Fair? I suppose so. But is it good for society? That is harder to answer.
The issue is not really that they discriminate (which is bad). But the fact that they have arbitrarily made this into a Zero Sum Game.

Why an organization with 30 BILLION in endowment cannot admit more than 2000 eighteen year olds baffles me. If you want to admit more POKs then increase the class size and hire more professors with that vast amount of money.

I realize places like Yale try to be like old, exclusive country clubs. But if that’s the case then they should be taxed on that money.
That's still more effort than pushing a tar file to a free public gh repo.
To some degree, shouldn't that be the goal?

I mean, asians are likely to always be a minority in the US, as in, there are fewer of them then there are caucasians. But if they reach the point where they are no longer disadvantaged or discriminated against... isn't that what we want? Not just for asians, but for everybody?
My experiences with Debian have been pretty clean outside of needing to pre-prepare the binary blob package for the ethernet and wifi drivers on the slightly older laptop that I wanted to install it on. This was expected due to Debian's stance on non-free packages on the install media.

Pretty much any other modern distro install has gone 100% cleanly with no prep-work needed.
I have a feeling Apple is going to argue a ToS violation other than related to Payments. Something like concealing functionality from reviewers or something.
I would say it's actually quite hard to argue that. Consumers upgrade their phone primarily based on hardware specifications.
> What has Europe done in the last decade in anti-trust?

They have been squeezing billions of dollars out of Facebook and Google, for one thing.
Do you have any numbers to share? Is it 10x too slow, or 100x, 1kx etc? I don't know have any sense.
Ha, you should see US prices. I had to buy a T-Mobile hotspot for work-from-home continuity when my home Internet suffered a major outage. The prepaid plans for $40 a month for 10 GB, with no rollover. It's impossible to just buy 50 GB and have it work until it runs out, which is obviously what I want for a failover data plan. When you have your monthly plan, you can purchase an "on-demand pass" to add extra data above your monthly allotment. The largest on-demand pass is 7 GB and costs $50. And each on-demand pass only lasts 30 days.
A big part of the value of iPhones and iPads is that you don't have to worry about installing an app that screws up your system and requires a wipe & reinstall. You don't have to worry about viruses. You don't have to worry about spending a lot of time being a system administrator, and just use it. You don't even have to worry about many types of malware, because the system protects you from poorly-behaved applications, through a combination of technical means and human review.

If it was possible to side-load apps, then those advantages go out the window. To see what I'm talking about, look at apps that are skirting the apple app store.

Onavo is a good example. They:

- paid teens

- to install the Facebook Enterprise Certificate

- to side-load the Onavo VPN

- to spy on their internet traffic

- to find out about new apps or websites that might be a threat to facebook (among other things)
> Personally, I would argue that consumers should have a legal right to install whatever software they wish on a product they have purchased, including onto the bundled operating system.

The thing is, people do have this right on Apple phones; the Library of Congress can designate exemptions from the DMCA and they have done so for jailbreaking smart phones. You have the legal right to jailbreak your phone and install whatever you want; neither Apple nor the Feds can stop you.

Now, whether Apple must make it easy for you to do that is a different question. They actually do, in a way--if you have an Apple developer account you can "side load" whatever you want onto your personal phone. You have to register and pay $99 for that privilege, though. Again--the question is how easy Apple should make it for you to do that.

Anyway, this particular lawsuit is not about Apple devices at all; it's about the contract between Apple and the App Developers in their store. If Epic wins this lawsuit, it might encourage some more developers to list their apps in the App Store, but it will have zero impact on how hard it is for you to freely install whatever software on an Apple phone.
Nah, you'd just have wealthy people deciding how they calculate the score and making sure they can tweak the numbers to show their kids are disadvantaged.
That really reads as "We can use these non-measurable factors to mark down Asian applications as needed", which seems... bad.
I mean, yes, obviously it's not literally the Arecibo telescope in the same location, but it's a heavy inspiration and quite similar in design and structure. (For example, an obvious difference in BF4 is the surrounding forest, which not as dense as in Puerto Rico's location.)
You're misunderstanding. Property taxes mean that in practice even in the USA you don't own the land, you have what is essentially a renewable lease - you have to pay the equivalent of the land value every 50-70 years. If you're in China, you are in exactly the same situation - you have to pay the value of the lease every 70 years (or less). At the end of the 70 year lease, you are automatically eligible for renewal, as long as the land is being used and is not being speculated upon.

The Chinese land system is literally functionally identical to a 1.3% property tax.

The goal of the system is to reduce land speculation, which worked because in China 90% of households outright own their houses. Essentially, the land is free, you only pay the property tax.

China's 70 year urban land leases are essentially the Chinese version of property taxes. As long as you pay for the lease renewal, you are allowed to automatically renew it. In exchange, you don't pay western-style property taxes. The building itself is excluded from the 70 year lease, you own it in full and in perpetuity, so it isn't subject to the tax.

In fact, many 70 or 20 year leases have been renewed.

In conclusion, it isn't a question of control, it's simply a way to pay into the budget of the local government - if they wanted you expropriated they have eminent domain. Additionally, it limits speculation on the price of land, because when the lease expires there is very strong incentive for the owner of the lease or someone in their family to be using it as a housing. This is part of why in China 90% of people own the house in which they leave. All in all, as a homeowner, a 70 year infinitely renewable lease from the CCP is not different from having to pay for the value of your land every 70 years because of property taxes. In practice, people have passed down land for multiple generations in China, and upon lease expiry have had it automatically renewed so that they may pass it on to their children too.

Therefore, your perception is unfounded.
I bought my device. I own it outright. It should be up to me, not Apple, what software I would like to run on my device. It is extremely unethical for a company to dictate what software I am allowed to run on hardware that I own. It is even more unethical for that company to then take a portion of my payment away from the developer without allowing another avenue for the transaction to take place.

This would not be an issue if Apple allowed users to easily side load apps.
That's a great idea that will never happen. Rich people will fight tooth and nail to prevent it.
Google doesn’t make any iOS phones though. You can make it look like there are never monopolies if you choose to only look at certain markets while ignoring others.
What, Brendan Eich, did was comparable to opposing the fair housing act in 1966. At the time, he was a member of the majority vote, fighting to continue oppressing a minority group. While, he no doubt would find support, since he is part of the status quo, it’s still reasonable to protest his actions.

I don’t think his life was destroyed. He remained a multimillionaire, and immediately founded another competing company. The people whose lives were destroyed were the millions who didn’t have basic marriage rights for decades, and who were systematically humiliated merely for openly being in love.
> Is flatpack promoting each app will have it's own repo(Skype.Dropbox,Slack,Discord?)

Flatpak CAN support the scenario, where each app can have it's own repo. It's an option, not forced down your throat. Or you can self-host your private repo (e.g. applications used inside your network) IN ADDITION to public repos.

> Seems to me that you want a way to have applications and updates installed by people and bypass the review process?

Yes, I want to have Canonical out of the way. They can have their own repo if they really want; those who want curation by Canonical are free to use it. But I want to have options of different repos, with different curators. Canonical doesn't deserve to be the single gatekeeper between me and the apps.

> If you are a distro maintainer you can change the hardcoded values before you build(distros always change this stuff) but if you are not a distro then you should either submit the app for review or do what other apps do and prompt a notification that a new update is available with a link to a download page.

And this attitude is going to be a major reason why most distributions and users won't adopt snap. It will die the same way as other Canonical dead-ends did, while damaging the Linux ecosystems for a few years.
happy to connect, my linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherry-chen-6662a031/ , go from there?
Exactly, why not fire all the VP's and up including the CEO?

That will save a LOT more money and have a better impact.
Actually, the handful of half-competent governments who have handled the pandemic the best disagree: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-13/forced-is...
>Why do schools need to know the race and ethnicity of their applicants in order to make merit-based admissions decisions?

School admissions in the US are almost never based on merit alone. If all these elite schools never saw the name or face or skin color of their applicants, their student bodies would look way different than they are now.
A more stable, frequently updated platform with decent hardware offerings and the fastest chips on the market does not amount to inferior phones.
This is sad. Puerto Rico has already been hit hard so many times. Agree or not, the observatory has a prominent place in pop culture, which helps bring the much needed visitors, and with them, awareness of Space Research and Science in general, in a time when sparking interest in STEM in the next generation is so important.
I heard someone once joke that Asians and Indians are granted non-minority status because of their high math scores.
Installing Datasette with Homebrew etc.
Fantastic work! I will be testing it out for sure.

Coincidentally I'm just about to begin a project intending to use the Form Recognizer service in Azure:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...

I will definitely do a side-by-side comparison with InvoiceNet.

Xero also has a related service:
https://www.xero.com/au/features-and-tools/accounting-softwa...
Curious, so piggy backing to ask: does anyone use Spectrum in this way with success? I've looked around some communities out of curiosity but not yet engaged much.

I actually had a brief conversation on an open Telegram group about a software issue recently, and the developer replied within seconds. I suspect that Telegram isn't commonly used in this way, though.
Call me old-fashioned, but I dislike Jupyter notebooks, or really anything that I can’t easily use with my editor of choice, diffing tools, etc.

Jupyter should just be an editor and execution engine that operates on plain text code, using specially formatted comments to delineate cells. If I want to edit it with vim and execute it using plain old Python I should be able to.
It looks like the HN moderators have kicked this out of #1, indeed all the way off the front page, and are starting to do the same with related stories too.

Welp, it was fun while it lasted (a few hours).
This sounds like some gop talking point, embarrassing.
All the Intrusive and Insulting Ways Bosses Are Smothering Their Remote Workers
You seem to be arguing against each other without being in disagreement. They pointed out that there is a growing number of hoops and you replied, essentially, that the first hoop is fine and the second hoop is justified.

Perhaps the hoops are fine and reasonable. That doesn't change the fact that hoops are being added.