skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have changed the definition of "black markets" to something else.

A black market requires illegality. You are conflating "rules" of contracts and "rules" of law.

I agree that Apple "even is party to transactions". I think that's the common problem with Google (eg. Froogle / Google Shopping), Amazon (eg. Amazon Basics), and Apple (apps that compete and undercut 3rd party apps or which don't have to adhere to the same App Store contract clauses).

Elizabeth Warren discussed this frequently.

> Google, Apple, and Amazon provide platforms that lots of other companies depend on for survival. But Google, Apple, and Amazon also, in many cases, compete with those same small companies, so that the platform can become a tool to snuff out competition.

[1] https://www.warren.senate.gov/files/documents/2016-6-29_Warr...
Epics making such a hard push onto getting a steam competitor running, and is taking such a big loss losing out on ios money even temporarily, I have to assume they're using fortnite to establish precedent than planning on opening a competing app store or something. They're milking fortnite to play the long game before fortnite stops wing as huge,I think
eBay and PayPal both have third party alternatives: simply going to a different website/app.

On iOS your only option is paying Apple $100/yr to do something similar.

A similar thing would be Google Chrome blocking access to PayPal servers because they didn’t get a 10% cut of all transactions.
I'm not sure why it's not the same. Apple could just sell the hardware. Here Apple is selling the hardware and providing a marketplace for apps. There is virtually no difference between the App Store and using the browser to buy things from Amazon. The argument is that Apple should provide the ability to sell things on the App Store with out a cut. Amazon by the same argument should be forced to do the same.

You can argue that Amazons web Shopping market share is larger than Apple's cellphone market share and should be subject to the same monopoly regulation.
This is unrelated to a presidents attempt to reduce voting, I would think you would be pro voting
We are just talking about handheld personal computers. I don‘t know why people always try to come up with car comparisons when its really about computers, but: You already can modify your car today, including the (engine) software, but have to make sure it is still street legal. I sure can imagine certifications for autonomous cars and their software. So if you can and want to tinker with it, be prepared to pay for the certification to keep it street legal.

I won‘t argue about the rest of your comment about AI, as I think this leads to discussing castles in the air.
My company uses Jira as our primary tool for development and we really like it’s simplicity and effectiveness. With integration with Bitbucket, Trello and Pipeline our developers find it easy to work with. Jira is also easy for non-technical team.
> people start campaigning to no longer classify asian / pacific-islanders as a "minority".

I'm not aware of any organized campaigns to this effect, but the idea that Asians aren't "real" minorities / PoC is one that sometimes gets tossed around in progressive circles.

e.g.

https://www.insider.com/the-internet-is-debating-who-to-call...

Arguments put forth range from the purely visual ("some asians are fairer than white people") to the socioeconomic ("asians don't give back to the black communities in which they own businesses"), or variants thereof.

I guess it's a gentle reminder in these relatively polarized times that relations between minority groups in the US have historically been tense, be it black-latinx, black-asian or black-jewish. It might feel like there's a detente right now due to the focus being on the state and the white power structure et al - but the underlying animosity is real enough. Humans are tribal to a fault, and that will never change.
> If CSS was designed the way it is just to satisfy the constraints of 1996, then maybe that gives us permission 20 years later to do things a little differently.

Yeah, just like we can choose which side of the road to drive on or pick any arbitrary character encoding for an 8-bit byte.
No one forced you to be an Apple consumer.
1passwords makes this very simple.
Many sciences are not reproducible, in that they don't have reproducible experiments. The key is the integrity of the data and clear explanation of the analysis methods.

But archaeology most definitely does have experimentally falsifiable theories, and it is undoubtedly a science.
> “Apple, Google, and Android manufacturers make vast, vast profits from the sale of their devices and do not in any way justify the 30 percent cut.”

> Epic launched a game store on PC in which it takes only 12 percent of revenue as a way to try to encourage a similar change in competitor Valve’s Steam marketplace.

"Do not in any way"?

Well, in at least 12% of a way, right, Epic?

And Apple, after acquiring you a new customer by selling them an ecosystem, drops 30% to 15% in year two. So, Epic, you're quibbling over 3% which -- I've seen theirs, and I've seen yours, and it's more than 3% difference in value.
The browser is the same exact thing. Apple does not prevent you from using the same banking, shopping, email services through the web.
Opponents of AA would argue that there is not one baseline, though. There are not enough candidates of race X and Y to meet diversity quotas, so the baseline criteria is lowered for students of those races. This means that a candidate of race Z has to work harder and achieve higher to be considered above the baseline.

There's not great data about college admissions out there that I could find, so I don't know if this is true or not.
The word you are looking for is: oligopoly.
windows, is based because of the underlying os system fundamentals. once you've sandboxing in place. i.e apps are restricted to user level. then malware becomes something of the past.
I don't distinguish between the feedback gathering and the decision record. I collect feedback by integrating it into an ADR draft. Once the decision is made, the ADR is frozen and by construction includes the design documentation.
I did this experiment many times, myself. If you start with boiled water you will get much thinner layer with bubbles.

Air actually takes a bit of time to diffuse into water if it isn't getting mixed with air (that's why your fish tank needs air to be actively mixed with water). Starting with thin layer of water that was recently hot gives not enough time for any significant amount of air to dissolve.

I work with electronics. I use electronic water for parts cleaning. Electronic water is pure water, distilled, deionized, degassed (no oxygen in it) so it does not oxidise copper traces. It does go bad (bad meaning gets oxygen dissolved) when opened, but think more like hours or even days if proper precautions are taken (don't shake or stir once the container is opened).
My understanding is that what you describe is closer to the state of the art before do, my I believe the thing about dp is that it allows you to measure information leakage, even iirc in the face of other data being disclosed.
It is always good to make this clear. It is "how", not "how much".

The American system would benefit a great deal from a systematic reshuffle without a dime extra being spent.

A few realigned incentives here, a little more competition there, and voila... The system pulls itself closer to your goals as it iterates, rather than further down a path that appears to satisfy no one except those whose interests are entrenched.
What?

It’s always the rank-and-file who get fired if (somehow) their viewpoints are made public and it’s embarrassing. whereas anyone in power get a free pass because they built up a network of influence.

When it was taboo to be gay, why did Alan Turing get screwed, while nobles like Vita Sackville West did not?

More recently, Christian Cooper did not and does not want Amy Cooper (the infamous Central Park Karen) fired for what she did, because who wants a racist as their employee? Don’t you wonder why Christian Cooper didn’t want that, even though by all rights he should have felt differently?

As for where I draw the line: If it’s legal and it doesn’t affect business/work, then it’s something to tolerate.

If the person becomes disruptive, or can’t separate their personal views from working well with their colleagues then it’s time to part ways.

But then again, I trust people to fight the good fight so that things work out for the best and conclusively.

Finally, I definitely don’t appreciate you making assumptions about my views just because I find what happened worrisome. Your insinuations are a very short step from an irrational witch hunt and exactly why I find what happened worrisome.
Multi-cluster kubernetes federation could be the answer (where a "cluster" could be as tiny as a k3s instance running on your Raspberry Pi).

However could mean you need one vendor to provide the control-plane software for your vendor-agnostic solution.

Nobody has nailed it yet though, AFAIK, but both Rancher and Gloo Federation look promising.

Related reading:

https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubefed

https://rancher.com/products/rancher/multi-cluster-managemen...

https://www.solo.io/blog/introducing-gloo-federation-for-mul...
I don't think this would necessarily be the case because rural Americans use more gasoline than urban ones.
Fortnite is very popular and this together with other companies jumping in on it has the potential to bring the tech monopoly discussion even further into the mainstream discourse. Epic is big enough for that and I think that's the battle they're trying to fight, not a legal one.
Well, doing some quick googling....

Rule of thumb for a boat motor is 1hp for each 40-50lbs of weight. Say conservatively that you're 160-200lbs like myself, that's 4hp minimum.

Solar panels are ~15w/ft^2.

4hp = 2983w, which is ~200ft^2, or approximately a 14'x14' panel.

There's some fudging around that can be done around letting it charge for part of the day, but even with those extremely generous numbers you end up with an enormous "sail" of solar cells.
> Perhaps if running unsigned apps became more widespread, businesses will spring up in the space to offer secure, curated apps as third-party app stores.

They should go ahead and do that, then make an OS and mobile devices built around their store, so I have an option other than iOS devices when I want someone in my life who's not a tech nerd to have a reasonably safe and usable computing experience that's still very robust and doesn't require any work on my part. That would be competition and improved consumer choice.

I want more options that deliver the experience Apple does (or better! Please!) rather than fewer. That's the choice I want. I've got tons of only-nerds-can-use-them-safely computing options. I don't need more of those.
I think that's a pretty un-based fear. Almost certainly any restaurant, and especially a bar, will use a professional ice making machine. At the volumes if ice they go through, it wouldn't make sense to make it in any other way.
You mean, I can't go to GameStop, Walmart, or KMart, or wherever to buy xbox games? That's crazy. I thought I could.

In all seriousness though, I can go to other stores to buy things. In this case, you must go to the Apple Store, you can't buy iOS apps anywhere else. (at least officially)
This scarcity problem was the issue I had with the free college proposals last year. It basically proposed that we should make everyone professionals. But, this isn't possible! For every manager, there are 10 workers. "Working class" jobs are necessary. The solution should not be give everyone an escape from hell, it should be make the jobs less hellish. Better wages, better healthcare, more respect and dignity overall.

Saying that everybody should not go to college might at first seem elitist, but I think its elitist to presume that college is the only path, where people demonstrate their "merit".
If the justification of affirmative action is to "correct the harm caused by previous institutional bias," how is it justified that it discriminates against Asian-Americans when we've never held institutional power in America?

(I'm not sure if you're defending affirmative action or if you're just outlining its supposed purpose.)
Yeah, I've heard custom metrics as the breaking point for a lot of DataDog users, TBH, so this doesn't surprise me.
https://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/07/living/feat-mindy-kaling-...
Its not only streaming. Its decompressing video and generating the ntsc signal with little help from the hardware. The video interface is a resistor.
I'm in the same boat, except using i.reddit. how come you use the desktop version?
They're not. That's the whole point. These are Apple's customers since they're finding the app in the App Store. Epic has other customers that play Fortnite that are not Apple customers.
On paper snap is great, but at this point we've got better alternatives. If you want to use something snap-like either flatpak or appimage will likely work and be way less user-hostile.
> For a country and a president that are supposedly incompetent to the point of collapse, things are going pretty damn great.

Even _assuming_ everything is great, would it _really_ be his merit? I mean, everything that man did has been counter-productive for your country. He is a bumbling idiot. He really is. What merit does he have? I just can not see it. The fact that "well, we're not all dead yet" is hardly a criteria for success.

And no, my bad opinion of him is not because "the media" - my bad opinion stems from reading his book "The art of the deal" about a decade ago (that was highly recommended by friends - they said it's great!) - and in there he came off, to me, as a corrupt scumbag. All his behavior since only reinforced this.

It looks to me like the slow motion fall of an empire. And empires fall all the time, think about Great Britain, a bit over a hundred years ago they were the "the empire on which the sun never sets" - wonder if in another century people will look the same at the US.
I would agree with you except this is not what the lawsuit is about. It's very clearly about Epic Games ability to sell things without going through Apple in the App Store.

If the lawsuit is about installing any software you want on iOS, then you are right and my analogy is faulty.
Which is just a genius PR move
I've done a fair bit of screenwriting, including taking classes in it, and that's really not the case at all. You're confusing plot with other things.

Plot literally does boil down telling a story in beats where each beat is essentially a character wants something, tries to get it, and either succeeds or fails. String together 80 of these and you've got a film.

Now obviously there is much more to writing, like character (which is what you're describing), tests of character, etc. Which is why I talked about plot and character and dialog.

But plot really is just "a series of events" that needs to be sequenced very carefully. Which is an important lesson for writers to learn, because beginning writers often focus entirely on character and motivation, and neglect plot mechanics, which makes for a boring, meandering, not-compelling-at-all screenplay.
Man, I remember appplying to colleges and being rather selective about how I self identified. I'm half Asian, and half "white" (which is weird in itself because it's technically a bunch of different races bundled into one light skinned bucket).

On almost all my applications I identified as Asian (better chance of acceptance and scholarships!).

The only exceptions were Ivy and California schools which even in the late 90's were obviously discriminating against Asians. You know it's bad when you identify as white to get a diversity edge.

Even today at work,I regularly get ignored for diversity metrics. Being an Asian American is so weird.
My dude, my entire point is that most consumers don't care so it reinforces the monopoly.
But the problem we realized, after trying out forced busing, was that in the long term all parents with resources would simply opt out of the public school system to avoid it.
fortnite is a drug anyway. my kid is a freaking zombie from that stupid game.
This is ironic because in the U.S. most people believe the S.A.T. is the most biased portion of the college entrance criteria.
1. You are assuming that they are not already taking non-racial attributes into account. Intersectionality is a well-understood concept and sits at the heart of most diversity initiatives

2. We can argue all day over which categorization should have the most weight. There will always be people on the fringes of the applications that feel like they were shafted

At the end of the day, these universities are trying to give disadvantaged individuals. They may not be perfect, but it is hard to come up with a perfect system to do this.
Not sure if it's related to the article but this is called superfreezing or supercooling. You can do it with distilled water at home too I believe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercooling
One of the biggest reasons that the economy has transitioned to such enormous corporations is that regulatory compliance burdens are a ratchet. Every year new laws are passed but the old laws are not repealed, so every year the minimum size of an entity that can comply with all of the rules increases. We've also seen, on the other side, lax antitrust enforcement as large corporations regularly buy out their competitors and use vertical integration and vendor lock-in to constrain upstarts.

That isn't a cultural problem at all, it's a regulatory problem. We need the rules to be easier on smaller entities and harder on larger ones. So that more of the decisions actually are in the hands of individuals rather than large institutions, and individuals are once again given the authority to choose to do the right thing instead of being constrained by perverse institutional incentives.

More to the point, the parent's complaint was about the culture of individualism in particular, not some generic cultural problems that you can shoehorn any arbitrary failing into just because it's possible to describe anything systemic as cultural.
I think the commenter to your question on SO is suggesting you use one of the other SO "sites" to post under, specifically https://unix.stackexchange.com/ or https://superuser.com/ which are different categories of questions.
Before we even consider race blind admissions, we'd need to remove legacy admissions, athletic admissions, the buddy-buddy relationships that most private school college counselors enjoy with admissions officers, standardized testing (demonstratively biased against underrepresented minorities) and the entire cottage industry of college essay writers.

You may respond that a lot of these benefits are about wealth, not race. However the two are connected. Black Americans on average have a tenth of the wealth of a white family.
I appreciate your take. I know that UC schools and Caltech are commonly held up examples of "meritocratic" approaches to admissions that skew heavily Asian - but your rebuttal would be that I haven't normalized for socioeconomic factors, right? I can definitely buy that possibility. Would be great if we can see some data, but I don't know if that's readily available.

That said, from personal experience, I would still contend that _cultural_ diversity is valuable to uphold. I don't think diversity of thought stems solely from socioeconomic background.
Xiaomi just released their transparent OLED TV. It looks surreal:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363861/xiaomi-oled-tv-t...
What's new in PHP 8?
That's a fair point that I didn't realize. That being said, it looks like the Apple App Store has well over 50% of the market (assuming "the market" means percentage of sales by revenue), so I think it's a moot point anyway; Epic is suing Apple for its monopolistic practices with the App Store, and it looks like app sales on that do clear the 50% threshold even if device sales don't. https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/03/apples-app-store-...
Confirmed by The Verge, who got a statement from Google:

> The open Android ecosystem lets developers distribute apps through multiple app stores. For game developers who choose to use the Play Store, we have consistent policies that are fair to developers and keep the store safe for users. While Fortnite remains available on Android, we can no longer make it available on Play because it violates our policies. However, we welcome the opportunity to continue our discussions with Epic and bring Fortnite back to Google Play.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368079/fortnite-epic-an...
I think it depends on what you consider a meritocratic approach. Most would say that it by definition does not normalize for economic or social factors.
The sad little title really doesn't do this justice. This is a piece (primarily) about Papua New Guinea. In the west, we tend to hear bad things about the place, like about high rates of poverty and violence.

But:

Papua New Guinea is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. As of 2019, it is also the most rural, as only 13.25% of its people live in urban centres. There are 851 known languages in the country... Most of the population of more than 8,000,000 people lives in customary communities, which are as diverse as the languages. The country is one of the world's least explored, culturally and geographically. It is known to have numerous groups of uncontacted peoples, and researchers believe there are many undiscovered species of plants and animals in the interior.

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

It is also a place where 97 percent of the land is held in traditional tribal or communal commons arrangements. This creates challenges for modernizing and developing because you can't sell the land, which means you can't mortgage it.

https://thediplomat.com/2016/03/papua-new-guinea-where-prope...

I'm not done reading the piece under discussion here, but it's a really fascinating piece. Please don't be put off by the lame and vague title. They are probably trying to be respectful. My general understanding is that "Indigenous" is a preferred term, but it's really vague and doesn't seem to mean much to most Westerners (which is another problematic term, but I don't know a better one and I think most people will know what I am trying to say, never mind the inaccuracies).

PNG is just really fascinating stuff and I would love to see more pieces like this one exploring this interesting place and the peoples who live there, their culture and history and so forth. I think we have just so much to learn and haven't yet scratched the surface.

Edit: The latter part of the article also talks about other places. This is not "just" about PNG, but a part of it is about PNG and it's really interesting.
I disagree, there's really nothing unique about TikTok and WeChat. It was basically a Vine clone with a slightly better algorithm for learning user preferences, but nothing fancier than what Google/FB have been using.

In terms of culture, complaining about something is of little value. The internet has resulted in an onslaught of feedback to creators of all kinds. Much of it is not well thought-out and is of minimal value. I find that truly constructive feedback is still generally well-received.
To be more pendantic, handheld and set-top gaming consoles can surely be considered different markets.

Nintendo has had a clear monopoly on handheld consoles for several generations.

Sony had an extremely strong market position in the 5th and 6th generation gaming consoles but I wouldn't really call it a monopoly.
Also, k8s->kubernetes