skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android app launched
tinyurl.com/cureassist
This is what it is referencing:

>One of the most striking revelations pertains to Harvard’s consideration of applicants’ soft skills—things like “likability,” “helpfulness,” “integrity,” and “courage”—in determining their acceptance. Despite boasting higher test scores, better grades, and stronger extracurricular resumes than applicants of any other racial group, Asian American applicants consistently received lower rankings on those personality traits, according to a statistical analysis conducted on behalf of SFFA of more than 160,000 student records. This emphasis on personality, the analysis concludes, significantly undermined otherwise-qualified Asian Americans’ chances of getting in.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/06/harvar...
Apple says they do it because of security reasons. Windows' open and liberal way of doing things made it a fertile ground for millions of viruses. But I still think every OS should be open for developing and distribution of software no matter how serious malware threat is.
Well, this would be another method for achieving heads up displays. Here's an application that I think would be really cool: HUD retrofits for cars. Take a transparent plastic film, stick it to the inside of your windshield in a similar manner like you would apply a tint film to the side and rear windows. Then, take the connector dangling from the corner of the film and connect it to the supplied box which connects to the ODB port, or some other standardized connector which connects it to the necessary vehicle systems.

I could also totally see Tesla or one of the older luxury car brands doing something similar, where the HUD in the front windows is integrated into the car systems.

IMO, the harder part will be not integrating the technology in this article (or something similar), but designing the HUD to be something actually useful and informative to the vehicle operator, affording them better, more informed control of their vehicle, instead of being some distracting thing that you can't disable.
We'd just talk about the weightings of the various "adversity factors" instead, it's the same problem.
The mere mention of Google, a perfectly suitable competitor, leads me to believe you don’t understand what a monopoly is...
Story has been posted already 2 other times in the last 2 days?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24129199
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24128877
The same reason you have to have a car pass emissions in some states.

We can't deny the security that apple provides over other providers. Part of that is the closed garden - it SHOULD BE a product. The market should provide alternatives.

The only people that benefit from this are big companies - small software devs will have their apps devalued by this move, and the people will just get ripped off more when Epic wins and raises their dumb scam Vbucks to 10$.
a16z has a podcast where they explored gross margins a month back. The panel called out AI as an example of a software business that has a high likelihood of not having standard SaaS margins (Most of the panel thought this could be a limitation).

The podcast is nice because I think it holistically explores gross margins in a way that you start to understand how it might impact AI as a viable primary business model and valuations related to companies who that is the case for. Quite complementary to the article.

Might be interesting to people who are interested in this article:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/79lJCrHB3nBn1qXCxKA5s7?si=R...
>The Supreme Court has ruled colleges and universities may consider race in admissions decisions but has said that must be done in a narrowly tailored way to promote diversity

Sounds like SCOTUS will agree with Yale on this one.
iPhone is one of the highest margin products in apples ecosystem
I just ordered my first Android phone in years just to play XCloud. Apple needs to rethink its gaming and app policies.
Hi there. this is interesting. I had this setup a few years ago for my web-rtc project in the university. Setting up Turn and Stun servers was fun /s. I really hope the quality has increased in the last 6 years.

Co-incidentally I'm building a telemedicine platform for ophthalmologists in Canada. Wondering if we can connect?
According to this paper [1] each of those panels is ~3x6 feet (presumably 1x2m) and RMS surface error across the primary surface of the antenna is ~5mm

http://gancell.com/papers/CMSC%202001_Final.pdf
This dish is also the final level of the Nintendo 64 "Goldeneye" game - "Cradle"
My conversation with you was entirely about "the iPhone being a general purpose computer".

It seems we have both settled that either an iPhone is not general purpose, or all consoles, TVs or IOT devices with downloadable content are general purpose devices.

If you'd like we can now start discussing if the price Apple charges is fair.

I've already stated, the market decides to buy iPhones understanding (even appreciating) that the user cannot side-load non-Apple approved apps (other than through a less trusted channel i.e. the browser). As such the market through demand, has decided there is a niche ecosystem where 30% fees for in app purchases are appropriate and fair.

What are your thoughts?
Weird that they don’t mention that the vast majority of legacy entries are white, followed by Asian.

Any school that had racist policies that banned black and other PoC that still has legacy admissions is fundamentally biased in favor of white applicants, and will always be.

The bar for legacy entry is incredibly low, far below GPA requirements for any affirmative action has ever been.
Normally comments can only be edited for an hour or so, to preserve the discussion. But the mods can help in cases like this. In general, mail hn@ycombinator.com for such requests. I X-ed out your email just now.
I have a feeling the lawyers and pr people are staying later and assembling the team right now?
> The goal should be equal access.

You mean equal opportunity then.
A retard is not someone with developmental disabilities. It's an insult to denote an unintelligent person.
>Harvard

The OP said Yale. I know they are both Ivy league schools but you can't just lump them together when you are accusing one of wrongdoing.
> My main gripe is that they're behaving as if they're bringing value that the developers are riding on, when in reality nobody would buy iPhones if it weren't for the value that many developers are bringing to the platform, often at no cost to Apple.

Counterpoint: the consistency, convenience, and safety of the App Store and broader iOS platform is part of why so much money is spent there.

[EDIT] but yes I think their cut should be lower. They are definitely delivering a ton of value to developers, though, and part of that is created precisely by some of the restrictions that developers love to complain about.
Regulation and "disruption" are not mutually exclusive in theory.

Smartphones and "apps services" come as a whole and are commodity (drug?) enough to be somehow regulated. Then, again, I'm french :)

Choice for non hackers feels pretty much limited to choosing apple|google|huawei|... poison pill or rejecting the whole smartphone+cloud+5g+... stuff.
That's what I thought of Fortnite over a year ago, it's proven to have surprising longevity and seems to be rivaled only by Minecraft for capturing the attention of young people.
Honestly, where is the actual harm done here?

Again, this is just out of touch. Call it what it is - software companies want more money and want to use the market apple created for every last one of them for free.
This land was Jordenian and Jordan doesn't want it. Jordan had it for 29 years and did not establish a Palestinian state. So the legal status lie needs to end. Because I like liberal democracies better than Arab trible dictatorships, I hope Israel would take as many Palestinians as possible. Without turning itself into one.
A free video streaming service that runs on a ESP32
Elizabeth Warren identified as Cherokee Indian to get her professorship, so, why not?
Sure, I've actually used that analogy before myself, so I can't judge your use of it :)

My point was that in this case, people are expecting lockdown to stop the reaction entirely, when in fact the control rods are only intended to slow it down. The post I replied to seemed to believe that lockdown was intended to shorten the duration of the pandemic, when in fact it has the opposite effect (for the purpose of getting good side effects like keeping ICU beds available).
I did a high-level study a while ago. It makes no sense for cars, or boats, to consider solar panels. They just don't produce enough energy to justify their presence there.

It might make sense if you incorporate solar panels into large sails, but the engineering required to make it work (main problem: too much weight; not enough elasticity) is essentially unsolved for now.
If I give you a contract stating that you allow me to shoot you in the head, you sign it, and I pull the trigger, I still go to prison for murder. Whether or not you "agreed" to something is irrelevant if the contract cannot be legally enforced, which is what Epic is hoping to prove with this lawsuit.
I wonder if this would all go away if Apple had a blessed 3rd party payment processing sdk and the ability to sell in app upgrades (which a lot of developers have wanted for nearly the entire existence of the App Store)

this would allow them to not have to remove the restriction about mentioning outside of the app payment options, which I actually think prevents a lot of abuse and businesses really care about having control over their payments processor like using Stripe, say, to avoid the 30% cut)

Really this comes down to those two issues, I see it over and over again.

I know as an aside a lot of people want to be able to also ship binaries outside the App Store. The reality I have found talking to quite a few app developers that sell on the App Store, very few (I can recount one out of 13) actually want to be able to sell their app outside the App Store and ship a binary outside the App Store. I know some on HN want this and I get it, but I think reality is different from ideals on that particular issue. Though I think it has merit I also think it’s not a requirement to make nearly all parties involved happy with an outcome that would dramatically improve things for developers in respect to issues with the App store
> We would actually have something quantitative

They're called standardized tests
It's already common (in the US) to hear diversity initiatives as being about inclusion of non-SE Asian minorities (as these groups are 'overrepresented').

It used to be enough, from a rhetorical perspective, to talk about representation of "minorities" (or, "minorities and woman" because women are a very slight population majority in the US).. but then once a minority became "overrepresented", they had to find a better way to describe the groups whose inclusion they're looking to increase.
Honestly Fortnite has been consistently popular for a few years now. I'm betting on it becoming another Minecraft type of game where it could be still popular in 5-10 years from now.
Canonical is betting on there being people who want to run some Linux exclusive software but don't care about idealism.

Edit: In hindsight I think this comment was too cynical. I like canonical mostly.
TOS is not the law, it is a set of arbitrary rules set by Apple, and Epic wants to challenge those rules.
Which I am completely fine with Epic doing this.
A 30% 'Finders Fee' is one thing.

A 30% Tax Forever is a whole different problem.
I don't mean to be edgy here, but this is necessarily true in service of affirmative action. It's obviously impossible to enact affirmative action without the corresponding penalty on outgroup members.

Although it's perplexing just how...nasty?...the discrimination against Asians is. I can't imagine ever trying to justify that "all Asians" have personality defects that make them disproportionately bad candidates for college, as is proven to be what the colleges are doing here.

Utterly unacceptable, IMHO.
Looks similar to the Bytecode Alliance wasmtime thing: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/11/announcing-the-bytecode-al...
As an aside, I find it interesting how Harrison Bergeron is so commonly misinterpreted as a satire of the left. When one considers Vonnegut's personal beliefs and the strawman portrayal of communism in the story, it really should become clear that it is actually a critique of Cold War/anticommunist hysteria. A satire of anticommunist satire, if you will.
Yikes. I can imagine a bunch of people are pissed off that the can’t access Fortnite.
Why not combine the two? Have your traditional opaque displays, then overlay the transparent system. I imagine this could be useful in court, allowing both the prosecution and defense to scribble on video evidence presented to the jury to point things out and highlight important bits, without ever modifying the underlying evidence video. Kinda similar to how sports commentators will use video overlay to scribble on replay segments to point out the movements of the various players to highlight why those movements were important and contributed to the outcome.
I think thats disengenuous by Apple. Security gets you 5%, maybe 10. Not 30%. Let's face it their service to developers isn't exactly first rate.
It doesn’t work at all until a lot of people do it. Below a certain, fairly high threshold all the contributions achieve essentially nothing.
I hope apple lose the lawsuit. It's about time their monopoly was broken.No different from what Microsoft did in the passed and Google are doing now.
I like the parody, but it's not really equivalent.

The original Apple parody was to convince consumers to switch from one platform (PC) to a different platform (Mac).

Now, maybe you believe Apple, in the form of iOS, has become Big Brother. Fine, in that case, Epic should provide its own gaming platform.

But Epic isn't trying to destroy Big Brother here. It still wants to run on Big Brother's platform. It just doesn't want to give up any revenue to do so.

Shrug.
Firefox is down for the count with the recent layoffs. It’s Google’s web to lose in the near future.

Some days it really feels like there is nothing new under the sun.
It's post-modern in the sense of being chronologically after (and a reaction to) the philosophical school of modernism. That's not to imply some great cosmic arc (in fact, post-modernism explicitly refutes such grand narratives - specifically those of Marx that turned out to be dismally incorrect when the subjugated working classes turned to fascism not communism in the 1930s).

E: I accidentally a word
> adversity score

Hm - so people who faced more "adversity" would be propelled to the top of the list? I can see that going horribly wrong: if it worked perfectly, you'd end up with yo-yo generations where one generation went to a good college and had a successful career (and if you don't believe one thing follows from the other, why bother with the adversity score at all?) while the next would be relegated to struggling, giving their children the needed "adversity". Realistically, though, you'd have smart parents finding the right mix of adversity to give their kids a leg up just just the way they find the right mix of extracurricular and volunteer activity today.
I mean the systemic racism against black people in America is far worse than Asian people for a long time - Ivy leagues didn’t have blanket bans on Asian students, so they started getting the legacy admission benefits a long time ago.

This isn’t to say that Asian Americans don’t experience a ton of discrimination, but rather that the penalties for being black are systemic and reach out a long way.
Yup, I think they definitely found the sweet spot for making revenue from games — offering players sweet returns if they keep playing (you buy the battle pass for 1000 vbucks, but you can earn back 1500 just from playing casually) while still keeping it relatively competitive and not "pay to win". They did host a $30 million world cup event after all :)
I've seen that claim given as "15 minutes of full body exposure to noonday sun", which is obviously quite different from what most of us might get. Also I expect it depends on your skin tone. If anyone could dig up the original source for the 15 minutes claim I would be curious (tried a bit but have to get back to work).
multiple aspects:

a) somewhat incorrectly using "monopoly" when they mean "market dominating", which can also apply in non-monopoly situations (and also be regulated)

b) geographical market definitions: countries don't care about global market shares (i.e. your stats), but local ones. Which in the US is 50-60% for Apple. And e.g. in the EU a lot lower, which is why the EU tends to care more about Google+Android

c) market definitions: the app store has a higher percentage of the "mobile apps" market than Apple devices have in the "smartphone hardware" market
As much as I know people who use windows would hate it, there’s really nothing preventing them from doing so morally. It’s their software, they steer it as they see fit. It would end up pushing a lot of people into Linux probably, or inspire the rise of something new.
But you don't understand, I want my uSeR eXpErIeNcE at the cost of choice and freedom.
And your point is completely true, if Microsoft did this, all hell would break loose.
There has been some controversy about this for years, see for example:

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/mpemba-effect-in-hot-wat...

https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/263847

This new paper may prove to be conclusive in supporting its existence, but as I'm not an expert I'll give it some time in peer review before coming to any conclusion.
I wonder what the overlap between that and "model minority" is.
Right, at the beginning sure, and ideally it would quickly improve. But why have all of these institutions do it individually, and out of the public eye? I doubt some random Yale admissions specialist has unique societal insights that the other institutions don't.
unfortunately i find it hard to take the justice dept. seriously these days. it's become a political tool.

i say this as someone who would have been directly affected if this claim were true
It is already a fact since race is not a well-defined category. People with mixed backgrounds choose the category with the most affirmative action benefits.
Apple breaks out a services line in their financial reports. You should read them. Services has a gross margin of around 67-68%, but that includes a $9B check from Google every year with near 100% margins. So the App Store is very likely to be less than 67%, maybe as low as 15%.

It’s not just payment processing. They provide other critically valuable services to developers such as App Review, Hosting, International Distribution, CoMarketing, Store APIs, Security, etc, etc, and they all have thousands of employees and cost billions to provide.
I don't want to change my phone. I want to change my App Store. Why can't I? Because the App Store is a monopoly.
Let's all concentrate and make it end today, then!! I'm relieved the solution is so simple. </sarcasm>
I guess it depends on how you use it. Like on cars, solar panels don't do much of anything to improve range because the power the car consumes while driving dwarfs the power you get from solar panels. On the other hand, if you don't drive very far most of the time, then having solar panels means charging your car less often, which could be a great thing. It's like a gas tank that fills itself automatically at a rate of a gallon a week. You'd still need to buy gas if you drive much, but still who wouldn't want that?

I figure that's especially true for boats, which aren't usually daily drivers. If you use your boat, say, twice a month, it could be a nice feature to have the battery partially or completely refilled when you want to use it without having to bother to plug it in.
Except racking up points for your adversity is the point of such policies.

Avoiding doing so basically means you need to rack up the inverse - privilege points - except you're not allowed to do that, so it turns into obscure "penalty points" hidden in euphemisms.
Epic also has lawyers. This bit is just a quick chess opening, the real battle is a few moves down the line from here.
No. There was a prominent case of Rachel Dolezal who identified as black and used that in college and job applications as well as welfare claims.

She got sacked, sued by the state government, and vilified in the court of popular opinion. You might get away with this kind of fraud, but it's not a good time for it if you do get caught.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dolezal
"What questions I never asked to myself?"
Sounds like it
To be fair, privilege isn't only based on skin color. Only you can decide if your colleague was out of line in that instance, of course.

Consider that most people here on HN have some level of privilege simply by being in the tech field, which is highly paid and respected right now.
Why is that suspect? Isn’t racism judging people by the color of their skin instead of skill? Isn’t this undoing racism?
Harvard has already faced this and had it shut down. Because it’s the fed maybe they’re subject to some kind of double jeopardy type thing? Or just tying different courts?
I don't understand what the actual issue is. The chance of environmental damage seems very low. And probably less than if they put heavy machines onto the beach and coastal zone.
I have had success on reddit and slack and discord.
personally, i feel very different when the dispute is "they're charging us too much" versus "they are not paying us enough", though i guess the underlying cause is the same - companies trying to profit out of the fact that they have access to consumers.
Birds and reptiles cry similar tears to humans
Everybody has a cost above which they are not willing to pay to save someone's life. If you can't admit that, then there is nothing we have to discuss.
This is a slippery slope argument.

I don't get mad at Casio because I can't hack the circuit board and change the time easily to 24hr - I buy a watch that supports it.

This is a free market solvable problem. The issue is people like the app store. The ones mad about this are software companies - because they want more money for themselves.

The use of the consumer is just appeal to emotion - but it's really about Epic ripping off another kid for vbucks and getting more money.
I'd rather colleges were just forced to give up legacy preference.
Ask HN: Is there a vendor-agnostic self-hosted cloud provider?
Is it yet possible to create a single "self-hosted" personal cloud platform?

It should be capable of:

1. migrating between vendors like AWS and GCP, or using multiple vendors at the same time
2. provisioning compute and storage for basic web app needs
3. running its main services on the same infrastructure, not relying on an external SaaS
Building Blocks of Every Machine Learning Solutions
https://www.experts-exchange.com/
Apple has not disallowed goods bought online or via other PC/mobile/consoles to be brought over. Or setting different prices depending on whether you buy through the iOS app or directly through a company. The restriction Epic violated is specifically around taking third party payments in-app.

So this isn’t even necessarily that Apple is rent seeking on their platform - it is that Apple is charging more for the marketing and convenience of having things available directly on their platform than Epic likes.
You're confusing carrier subsidies with Apple selling at a loss... Apple never sold phones at a loss, the carriers did. Apple always gets paid.
To engage in this conversation you sort of need to accept the premise that colleges are being used to correct historical (and even current) injustices, and then go from there.

You may not think it's the "right" thing to do, but it's the premise on which this topic is based and figuring it only muddies the quality of the conversation.