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> you can’t buy a productivity app for your XBOX.

I have no idea why you'd want to, but you can... UWP apps run just fine on Xbox and can be sold via the store - they just don't get access to the "exclusive" partition of the system (which you need to access certain system resources, such as > 2GB RAM). Sideloading prebuilt UWP apps is also possible. The exclusive partition is a different situation entirely - you need to be an approved developer to even access the SDKs.

I'd say there's a difference between what Xbox (and Playstation, and Nintendo) does compared to Apple by virtue of the consoles not being "open" development platforms (Xbox UWP aside). Anyone can grab the iOS SDK and start making apps, but only registered developers can do so on game consoles. Whether that's justified I don't know, I honestly haven't put enough thought into it. And whether courts would see that as a reason I definitely don't know.

Full disclosure, I work for Microsoft.
I didn't see it the first two times, so I'm happy it was posted again.
Again. You can treat the flu. 40k of those deaths are in the elderly. Probably more are people who are already sick. Not only is COVID not the flu, there’s basically no comparison.
While it's a terrible situation, it is endearing to see people think on their feet during the pandemic. It would be nice to see some of these methods spread and stick around.

It's nothing personal but I loathe negotiating and dealing with car salesmen in the traditional process. I want people to get paid fairly without feeling like I'm being taken advantage of.
You are confused. Apple never removes apps from users' devices simply because the new version did not pass review.

Removing an app from the App Store, and removing it from user's devices are two very different things.
When any app is removed in this fashion, all users who already have the app still have access to everything they had access to before. The app just isn't listed on the App Store for new downloads.
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Web assembly is going to change everything.
Rust compiles to web assembly, maybe start there with single page apps as a start.

Smart contracts. Writing a smart contract is pretty easy. They use web front ends to work. Bringing quality UX/UI to crypto may be a skill that’ll open doors for you.
Iron Man 2 had a transparent AR phone

Mockups for transparent iPhones were floating around pre-iOS 7
they don't have a price tier that goes negative
I agree with your assessment.

But I don't like the word Chuds. It's a degorarory term for organisations like the Proud Boys isn't it?

I might agree it's overall meaning could be applied to astronomers who participate in this.

But I chose to believe most are not evil and most if not almost all don't support these articles.

These are left wing attacks by the media for the clicks.
Separate the hardware from the software. The devices:phones or consoles, as hardware ARE general purpose computing capable.

The software limitations is where the arbitrary restrictions come in. But as you say there is no legal requirement for "user-installable apps".

But there ARE laws about anti-competitive behaviour. Whether they apply? The courts will decide soon I guess.

I can see it from the point where Apple makes Apps and yet also profits from their competitors Apps.

Mind you, I can also see a reasoning that by keeping an App in the market Apple can set a base minimum for quality, hence setting a floor for the experience for end users. But they could do that via their gatekeeping anyway too...
"Erwin has a dark chapter in its history. A group of its white citizens committed an extra-legal “banishment," a violent incident that took place in 1918 and involved the murder of a black man and the violent, forcible eviction of all other black citizens from the town by a white mob."

Why does the fact that a traveling circus visiting Erwin once executed an Elephant, get more page space than this throw away sentence at the bottom of the introduction?
YouTube announces it'll no longer allow videos containing "hacked information"
Sadly Mozilla seems to do something similar with Firefox, likely as another round of copying the most stupid Chrome decisions.

The recently released new "stable" version of Firefox for Android that supports just 9 specific extensions at the moment might be actually even worse than Chrome.
"How can politicians look into TV cameras and say we have a free market system when patents guarantee monopoly incomes for twenty years, preventing anyone from competing? How can they claim there are free markets when copyright rules give a guaranteed income for seventy years after a person’s death? How can they claim free markets exist when one person or company is given a subsidy and not others, or when they sell off the commons that belong to all of us, at a discount, to a favoured individual or company, or when Uber, TaskRabbit and their ilk act as unregulated labour brokers, profiting from the labour of others?"

- Professor Guy Standing

also:

1. The current political economy is based on a false idea of material abundance.

We call it pseudo-abundance. It is based on a commitment to permanent growth, the infinite accumulation of capital and debt-driven dynamics through compound interest. This is unsustainable, of course, because infinite growth is logically and physically impossible in any physically constrained, finite system.

2. The current political economy is based on a false idea of “immaterial scarcity.”

It believes that an exaggerated set of intellectual property monopolies—for copyrights, trademarks and patents—should restrain the sharing of scientific, social and economic innovations. Hence the system discourages human cooperation, excludes many people from benefiting from innovation and slows the collective learning of humanity. In an age of grave global challenges, the political economy keeps many practical alternatives sequestered behind private firewalls or unfunded if they cannot generate adequate profits."

- By Michel Bauwens, Franco Iacomella
That's actually the case? Did anyone else here read the article? "Facebook has no plans to retrieve the equipment."
If you have ever contracted at any length you would know that $120/hr is hard earned and usually has not insignificant time on the back end in so far as negotiating the deal, keeping it going, etc.
This is presumably only one aspect of “long Covid”, but a study [0] that was making the rounds a couple weeks ago found this (quoted from the accompanying editorial)[1]:

> ”In 100 recovering patients included in the study, 67% of whom recovered at home, evaluated a mean of 71 days after confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis, 78% had demonstrable cardiac involvement via cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, 76% had detectable high-sensitivity troponin, and 60% had evidence of active myocardial inflammation by abnormal native T1 and T2.”

> ”...if this high rate of risk is confirmed, the pathologic basis for progressive left ventricular dysfunction is validated, and especially if longitudinal assessment reveals new-onset heart failure in the recovery phase of COVID-19, then the crisis of COVID-19 will not abate but will instead shift to a new de novo incidence of heart failure and other chronic cardiovascular complications.”

In other words, even mild cases of Covid-19 are very frequently resulting in heart inflammation and other forms of cardiac injury.

[0]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...

[1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...

[2]: (another editorial, easier read) https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/27/covid19-concerns-about-l...
This is equally true if you replace “ML engineer” with simply “engineer”.
Yeah, but in the 90s it was physical distribution. Shelf space has value. Virtual shelf space is unlimited and has almost no value. A 60% cut would be a good deal if it guaranteed you visibility equal to being on the shelf in BestBuy. Plus, there were many retailers where you could sell your products and no one could literally prevent you from building your own store if you wanted to.

Imagine if Walmart was the ONLY retail store on the planet and took 30% of all revenue while selling their Great Value products in industries that have 30% margin (ex: music streaming).

It’s time for regulators IMO.
Or maybe this is our generation's Project Blue Book. Exciting, regardless.
Because kickstarter is very different from traditional bussinesses, making it difficult to know if the conclusions of the study translate to traditional founders.
Ofc they do. They have full control over the browser and severely limits functionality compared to every other browser.

But users can just install another browser, right? No, wrong again, cause Apple doesn't allow that. Every browser on iOS is basically safari with a different UI.
This is a great feature of the AI space for startups - in the short term it reduces competition, in the long term it's not really a problem. If your business is break-even currently, it will be profitable in 2-3 years due to declining cost of compute. In 10 years the compute costs will fall by an order of magnitude and more efficient models will become available, making the economics closer to traditional SaaS.

This does disadvantage smaller bootstrapped businesses though.
$1k is what I'm willing to pay for that hardware knowing it is "locked down". I prefer the convenience of the "walled garden".

If you or any customer feels like the hardware's capabilities (i.e. no side-loading) was miss-advertised, I would highly urge them to return the hardware to Apple, sell it, or at the least not re-buy an iPhone next time.
The reports of pulmonary, neurological, and cardiac damage are pretty troubling.

Ed Yong's Atlantic article about long-haulers is excellent: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/covid-19-...

Eric Topol's twitter is an excellent source for Covid science coverage: https://twitter.com/EricTopol
My guess is the contrast in experience can come from difference in hardware. Drivers can be a big hassle for desktop if you're unlucky. Occasionally when I get new hardware that's not a laptop it can be frustrating with GPU or (curses) Bluetooth drivers. It's been improving a lot, though. Lenovo and Dell have really gotten better over the years.

Funnily enough, Windows is going to phase out drivers from Windows Update, so I can see the scales shift.
And all these improvements trickle down to the respective upstream prkjects and default version. For example Fedora 33 should use dxvk for directx games by default, all at least partially thanks to the relenteless work of Valve. :-)
Not to minimize it, but you seem to be only thinking about this one instance of a sunk tanker, and not the thousands and thousands of ships that do this on a regular basis with no problem. These low probability risks, and countless others like them, are part of a tapestry of a probabilistic horror show that supports our everyday way of life.
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I think you got just about everything correct except for just one nitpick —- the alumni actually interviewed the candidates in person, and the university staff did not and assigned personality score purely based on the application.
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With so many seafarers not being let on shore(and not having wifi on board), not being relieved, and working months past the end of their contracts, it's only a matter of time before there are more accidents.
To be fair, Pebble (a YC company) started on Kickstarter...so its probably a mixed bag.
Apple's expensive hardware pays for itself, and for the operating system. That's the way it's always been, since 1976. Third party software helps sell Apple's hardware, so in that sense it's always been mutually beneficial, while each side remained independent financially. The App Store in 2008 was an unfortunate change in this relationship, making it too one-sided.

Google didn't even invent Android, they purchased it. (Of course Apple purchased NeXTSTEP too.) And Google is not even the biggest Android hardware manufacturer.

The bizarre thing is that most apps on both iOS and Android are free, so they pay very little for the so-called "maintenance", even if these apps are hugely popular. This is very different from a game console, where every game earns money directly. Fortnite is hugely popular, but for some reason struggling little indie paid apps are forced to subsidize the platform for immensely popular free apps?
Epic is releasing a new game mode[1] called Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite. This is the most epic (no pun intended) ad campaign in history.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euiSHuaw6Q4&feature=youtu.be
"Love it or leave" ? :-P

You can certainly do that. But we are also allowed to wish/hope/verbalise/act to make the current thing better.

As for what "better" is? Ultimately that's decided by the courts but we can express wishes.
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This all sounds very misguided on Fortnight's end.
I edited my comment as you replied, but basically I think this study is pretty useful and true for kickstarters, but maybe not so much for traditional startups.
When i read it, i thought it meant - original fb plan: fb leave the equipment in place. Gov didn't like that, so gave them 180 days to either remove it or get approval to leave it there. Now ball is in fb's court on how to respond to government order.

To me though this sounds less like - gov wants fb to remove and more like gov wants fb to fill out appropriate paperwork
I am sure I am missing something, but this thread of comments really got me thinking. I started thinking this was a use case for existential types, but I’m not sure it’s immediately applicable. Then went down a research paper rabbit hole and google binge looking at various ideas. Now I’m sitting here thinking (and I doubt this scotch is making it clearer) that this is sort of like Haskell’s type classes being seen as the ‘Data Type’ level and regular type constructors being seen as the ‘Data Structure’ level. Obviously a language would need to incorporate the class syntax as a less separate construct than it is in Haskell, but I can’t shake the feeling this almost captures the thrust of the concept.
A minor plug, if you're doing ESP8266/ESP32 development, you can use the following code snippet and server I wrote to do automatic, secure updates over pinned HTTPS:

https://www.pastery.net/vmympk/

This is the server, a single binary (written in Rust):

https://gitlab.com/stavros/espota-server

The device will connect to the server (whenever you call doHttpUpdate(), I usually do it on startup), ask for a new version, get the latest version, flash itself with it and then boot.

Very handy, as it's faster than USB/UART, and you don't have to disconnect from the serial console to use it.
I just bought a car and at a certain point during the negotiation I was like... this is weird, subaru is gonna sell thousands of 2020 outbacks, why is there not just a set advertised price.
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How do you compose an elevator pitch without this idiom?
That is what you think. It is not what Apple thinks. Which do you suppose wins more often?
You can easily Google this.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/for-t...

https://www.securityweek.com/zerodium-expects-ios-exploit-pr...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeanbaptiste/2019/09/04/why-zer...
My electricity bill was wrong for two years
Apple values my blood sweat and tears at $0.99/user/lifetime

While I oppose Apple's mandatory walled garden, this isn't their fault. The low price point is a signal that the mobile app market is oversaturated and that you should consider looking elsewhere for revenue.
LCDs filter light, so using one, you'd be able to get black?
we have a general inability to deal with long-term, insidious effects of all kinds. This holds for covid, it holds for global warming, it holds for economics (see US shortsightedness w.r.t the semiconductor industry). It's baked into the political system and into our culture. People have far too simplistic a relationship with time.
This sounds like a sort of preoccupation by those in power rather than a real risk at this point.
That particular video was published before the ship started leaking, and has a jarring soundtrack choice (John Williams, the Flying Theme from E.T.). People should check out the other videos in the channel to get a sense of how things have changed.
If you're interested in or even doubting the long term effects, follow one of the larger (91k+ and growing) survivor groups [0]. It is anecdotal, but the stories are very real and quite intense. Even odd things that you don't hear about in the news, like excessive burping [1] and of course, the heart breaking children tag [2].

You don't want this thing if you can help it.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/groups/COVID19survivorcorps/

[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/COVID19survivorcorps/search/...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/groups/669615740453955/post_tags/?p...
Apple actually bragged in their response to Spotify that 84% of the apps on the App Store were free.

Imagine a game console where 84% of the games were free. We can't compare these platforms to consoles.
The SAT correlates more to college performance than high school grades. Also the current SAT has been determined to be not racially biased.
Ironically, this is an example of where it is crucially important Oracle-Google case swings Google's way.

Currently, there are alternative implementations of Play Services that can be installed to replace Google's. However, if it is not fair use to use even the bare bones of an API definition without permission, then we can't even create a compatible implementation of such an API without the copyright holder's permission. In which case, we cannot replace Google Play services with anything else.
I mean the obvious solution is statehood, but that's currently impractical for political reasons. Maybe an accident of fate will allow it within some years.

Not that it would fix all woes even, but it'd be a good start.
Couldn't you just put a piece of black plastic behind the transparent OLED to do the same?
Microsoft would love that, Nintendo would not.
Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge for App Store ban
The tfa says they used a helicopter to remove the remaining 3000 T or so of pull left on the ship.

So they had the resources, just not the motivation at the time the ship wasn’t spilling.
Yes, but you've now created a non-transparent OLED display, which already exists.
I said you cannot bypass the 30% cut on the Google Play Store. Hosting your app elsewhere is not the same thing as hosting it on the Google Play Store.
>> This really needs a dataset to go with it.

Addressed in the disclaimer section. :)
We really need two things:

1. Better systems for preventing transmission of disease generally as our cultural default.

2. Better models for helping people genuinely recover, something modern medicine doesn't actually address for most diseases.

We have physical therapy for certain injuries. We don't really seem to have something similar for infections. We think just treating the infection per se is all we need to do. We generally do not school people on how to resolve the issues left behind from antibiotic use, chemotherapy, etc.
AI can complement doctors by aiding decision making and doing things that humans are bad at e.g. repetitive tasks such as segmentation or text processing. A specialist is expensive (for both good and bad reasons) and have inter-variability in skill and expertise. A machine is relatively cheap once trained to deploy and run inference in the background on more cases than a human could ever read. Once regulatory standards around AI are formalized, models will only increase with the collection of data distributions that capture more of the long tail and make possible super human capabilities.
This is why I could never get interested in any Apple products. They can keep their walled garden to themselves.
It is perennially being targeted by malware :)
>I think you're just too condescending to fathom someone disagreeing with you.

Kick rocks.

>Totally irrelevant. Pick a framework and use it, there is nothing preventing you from doing this regardless of the language; that's an indisputable fact. If you feel compelled to make engineering decisions based on superficial fashions rather than as an answer to specific needs, that's your mistake, it has nothing to do with the language or the framework.

First engineering decisions are often based on superficial fashions because fashion influence executives, investors, engineering leadership, and available talent.

Second I wasn't talking engineering decisions, but career decisions relating to potential work environment.

Third those aren't the decisions I would make, but I can understand how someone would arrive at them logically.

>Absolutely nothing has changed, that's exactly how all modern JS tooling works today! In fact, almost every language out there has some type of lang-to-js project, the only thing that makes WASM special is the memory and performance capabilities that cannot be achieved with vanilla js, however the "too much churn" crowd are usually quick to point out that low-level performance is almost always complete overkill for a web application.

So wasm is no better than JS, and it isn't a better compilation target. Except where it is better. But that's irrelevant because the straw men you're conjuring don't think that part matters. Gotcha.

It doesn't matter if wasm is actually a better compilation target (I think that it is) because it is perceived to be a better target, and is attracting interest in places that compiling to JS didn't (Blazor for one).

>99% of JS frameworks from the last two decades continue to work today, so the only reason you would ever upgrade to something different is because you have a specific need that justifies the upgrade

If you're talking about personal projects, sure. I don't know anyone who is concerned that they might have to switch frameworks for their personal projects. The concern is rapid adoption and abandonment of frameworks within potential employers.
That's not right...but imagine that...but every app and mobile game in the world. That's Apple. It's different.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24132722
Google forced OnePlus to decimate a Fortnite launcher deal, claims Epic Games
It gives Google more control over basic functionality of the internet. They already have _far_ too much control in the form of the biggest browser and the biggest search engine. Anything they do to expand or capitalize on that deserves a _lot_ of scrutiny.
These are the first pics of the underside I've ever seen. I'd like to see more of the infrastructure.
This already exists on desktop Linux - all the deb/RPM/Flatpak repositories each have a standardized metadata format, so you just add a URL to the given repo and the OS will work with it the same way as with the default repositories.
Opensource projects with a BDFL leadership also have a reputation of doing well.
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Hospitalized pneumonia patients are generally told to expect 3-6 months for a full recovery. I don't mean to imply that's good, of course it's a terrible thing to experience, but it's just not surprising that people hospitalized for a serious infection would show persistent symptoms. What concerns doctors is persistent symptoms among patients that were never hospitalized and symptoms not typical of pneumonia.
2-5%? Where did you pull that number from? Credit card fees alone are 2-3%, and besides payment processing Apple/Google obviously has other costs (at the least distribution).

Let’s not forget, you can frame this as a “cost” to developers, but it can just as easily be framed as a convenience fee to consumers, I as a consumer am happy to pay it.
For certain fields, it isn’t possible to get the education without going through the credentialing system or impossible to get a job for it.
Definitely not talking about sustained 2 min eye contact. That would have been torture.