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Scamming children was fine but scamming children and not giving apple a cut is an unforgivable sin.
> Generally, when hand washing dishes, hot water is used. Typically ~5-10 times more water is required when hand washing

Ah, is that so? I've not had a hand washing experience where hot water was used, I thought everyone used cold water. Also, I'm surprised at the efficiency of the dishwasher. Do people leave the faucet running while they do dishes? What I do and typically see is an initial rinse, then water is off while scrubbing, then a rinse to remove the soap. I personally direct the water stream so that the same water passes over other dishes while I rinse the one in my hand, thus reducing the amount of rinsing needed for subsequent dishes.
Then it becomes what they think is real and fake. There is no "true" standard for what is real and fake.

Yes, I know some things seem "obvious" but it's a sliding scale per person... and, well that's the slippery slope.
I can do nothing but laugh - I have precisely zero sympathy for Epic here.
There it is. The shaming of an opinion. Be quiet, silent majority.

Edit: Attack the messenger and you won't have to address the message.
Satellite Tracking of the Mauritius Oil Spill Ship
Just maybe because of things like this?

https://www.cnet.com/news/just-as-critics-feared-fortnite-fo...
> We used to bitch about Tivoization on HN all the time, it seems post iPhone, everyone seems A-OK.

People were not making money by being shareholders, that's why.
There is such a thing as "light rail" though. Lighter tracks, lighter trains, and cheaper construction.

Also if you want small trains, just look at the UK. Normal trains here are much narrower than normal US trains, they are about as wide as modern trams! And the London underground has trains that are tiny and shaped to make the most out of circular tunnels.

You don't need to rethink the entire system for the points you've raised there...
The problem I have with one-store-to-rule-them-all is that it has to be run by somebody, and I never agree with the decisions of one judge 100% of the time. So I like to have the option to get software somewhere else. I purchased the device, after all.
The Nexus of AI?
More and more it's clear to me that the appropriate historical analog to Covid19 is not the spanish flu. It's polio.
The thing that’s crazy about Arecibo is that it’s not just a telescope — it’s also a very high power transmitter, so they’re doing astronomy with RADAR. I didn’t know such a thing was even possible until this week.
In Unix, a text file is defined as a sequence of zero or more lines, each terminated by a newline.

If the file has any lines at all, then the last line is terminated by a newline, for the same reason as the first and any other line.

If the last line is missing a newline, then it's an improper text file.

An empty file is just no characters at all. If a file contains nothing but a newline character, then it's a one-line file containing an empty line.

If the newline were optional at the end of a file, then those two cases (empty file versus one-line file with optional newline missing) would not be distinguishable.

The text file representation has to have some sort of unambiguous framing which indicates the presence of each line. Unix chose the terminating newline as that framing.

A lot of tools come from the Unix environment. C came from Unix, and the C <stdio.h> text streams follow Unix conventions when operating in text mode, regardless of platform. So that is to say, unless you fopen a file in binary ("b") mode, text mode is in effect, and text mode means newline-terminated lines. The programming model that you see when manipulating text streams in C is that of lines terminated by '\n', and nothing else. This is true even if you are on Windows, where the actual file has "\r\n" termination, and character 26 at the very end.

C ate the world, especially in the area of tooling, and so that representation and its associated concepts have spread. Other languages imitate the model.

A lot of languages have been written in C in the last 30
years, and it's easy for such languages to be influenced by C's conventions. For instance, I think that Python has essentially the same newline-terminated-line view of text files, on any platform.

Language designers want to give programmers a sane model for working with text files that is platform-independent, and the inspiration from that comes from UNIX via C more than anything due to historic circumstances being what they are.

Plus the text file model is very simple. It has no special case for the last line (no file terminator), and uses a single character for the framing, which is a lot simpler to program with than a two character sequence like CR-LF, where either of the two characters can be missing, or they can be in the wrong order: all these cases to handle in every situation where you're scanning across lines.
Why I never boil anything in a microwave.

Because as you say it explodes when you interact with it and are therefore are close to it rather than when it's sitting safely inside the microwave.
i know how lucky i was to only start on 3.5. Avoided a LOT of pain.
now i figured why i creep people out
If BestBuy made a deal to get their customers to sign up for Netflix then yes. You are BestBuy's customer and Netflix is getting access to you.

If you sign up for a Target card, they get an initial cut and then monthly percentage based on your usage. A bank is managing that card not Target.
> From my perspective, it's black and white.

You're probably on the wrong forum, then. Either that or you'll have to understand that not everybody sees this as black and white, and maybe understand exactly why.

> Apple is a trillion dollar vampire. I'm letting my representatives know that.

I wish you and your crusade the best of luck.
Random tangent: TIL that The Straight Dope predates the web and was originally a newspaper column.
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But... it doesn't sound like everyone else has a problem with this either.

> "And theft is hardly ever reported by companies, because why would they? If magic pixies have nicked their waste cardboard then it means they don't have to pay a firm like mine to come and pick it up. So they are going to keep schtum [quiet]."

> This is very much the opinion of the shopkeeper we spoke to in Madrid.

One could flip this around. Good for you if you want to waste police resources guarding your trash bins, but why should you get to make that decision for the other shop keepers in Madrid?

It's one thing for a city to go after criminals. It's another thing for the city to complain that its citizens aren't doing a good enough job helping enforce the laws that they don't care about.

For sure, if someone wants to set up security cameras by their trash bin and report thefts, go wild. But I'm just having a hard time getting worked up about something where the citizens themselves don't seem to be upset.
Of course they would but that’s parasitical. That’s how iOS turns into the Android dumpster fire.
Voting in person means you can't prove how you voted. That makes it harder for someone to bribe or bully their way into office.
I think it is impossible to have a "truly great alternative" app store that doesn't include basic functionality that all the competing App Stores have, and Linux has had for decades.

Surely other app stores should be able to compete on an even playing field with Google, and be allowed to implement background installation, auto-upgrading and batch installation of apps.
Except Apple and Google make money from different things. Google makes money from selling your data. So they are fine with giving away software and turn a blind eye to side-loading of apps. Apple makes money from selling hardware and making a cut on software.
The UC system is also race-blind.

Correspondingly, you see 33% asian in UCs, and 43% asian at Caltech.
I'll echo the other poster that this is a nice thing to say, but it really glosses over many realities regarding the various ways wealth influences education. It is not just about the physical building, or even the lectures themselves. It's the entire picture of what it means to have more wealth than others.

First, there's k-12, and not just higher education, which the quality and access thereof is impacted greatly by wealth — Nicer, more expensive homes tend to also have nicer school districts.

It is not a leap to say that a student from a disadvantaged background had to struggle a lot more to learn than one that didn't. Either because of costs (Supplies, tutors, extracurricular activities etc.), or environment (Parent's help and education, support). This is why higher education attempts to compensate for opportunity: They understand the cards are stacked against some groups more than others.

Yes anybody from any race/ethnicity can face these struggles, but remember that a lot of these disadvantages are still _structurally engrained_ to target a particular group. These aren't slight advantages, and housing isn't the only issue, but taken together it has resulted in white families having 6.7x more wealth than a typical black family.
> In short, doubling the weight on a ship does not double the energy needs required for moving it. The same can't be said for wheeled transportation...

I wonder how the physics of freight on a ship vs a train works.

Yes, the static coefficient of friction of train wheels would make it harder to run a longer train, but I see some awfully long freight trains with only one or two diesels at the front!
I've been trying to use DDG for over a year now and it's not all roses either. Very frequent !g's.

Overall it feels a little bit like self-flagellation which I'm hoping is for the greater good, that DDG's algo will improve with use and eventually I won't need !g anymore.

Maybe DDG needs a browser extension that let's you seamlessly provide feedback with every !g to teach them what you were actually looking for.
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It's hard to be absolutist on the response to that: anything is possible, and humans can drive without LIDAR.

But at the moment it seems a strange position to take: we know LIDAR data is useful in many circumstances, and we know it can solve a number of the hard parts of computer vision.
Sony, MS (XBox), Nintendo, Steam and Google charge 30%.
87% of patients experienced at least ONE symptom TWO MONTHS after onset...

COUGH... there’s one symptom
IIRC ~20% of covid hospital patients were on ventilators at the beginning of the pandemic, and that has gone down as we've learned more about treatment. You can't assume that people were on ventilators just because they were hospitalized.
You're trying to make something of a supposed difference between the proposition "members of set A have quality P" and the proposition "on average, set A has quality P". When P is something as subjective, ill-defined, and capricious as "personality defects", especially when said of a group of students who on all other measures qualify for admission to "elite universities", there is no difference between the two propositions. How do we even calculate an average personality? I doubt that even Yale people would stoop to such sophistry.
"selling at a loss" generally means that the margin is negative, that is the unit price to manufacture (and ship, etc) is higher than the price the consumer pays.

Your alternative definition applies to pretty much everything with R&D costs. The first unit sold is pretty much guaranteed to not make up for R&D costs, but for some n the margin made on the nth unit covers it, and the seller finally starts turning a profit.

I think what your citations are actually saying is that even the last unit sold does not cover R&D costs, and it has to be made up in other divisions (such as games) in order for the whole venture to turn a profit. But each individual unit is still marginally profitable - if they could sell enough of them (perhaps far more than the size of their market) they would eventually turn a profit on the console itself.
I think that article expresses a generally good opinion in the worst way possible.

It’s true that if Chrome becomes the only browser on the market, it’d lead to a very unhealthy monopoly situation. There’s an analogy to be drawn with Microsoft’s EEE strategy, except that instead of extending open software with proprietary APIs, Google is extending it with so many APIs that no one can ever build anything compatible.

For the web to remain an open and innovative platform, there need to be multiple competing browser engines. The more features Google adds to Chrome, the harder it becomes for Firefox to keep up, and the more impossible it becomes for anyone to build a new browser from scratch.

But this article seems almost allergic to actual solutions. It is intent on blaming all the wrong people without proposing any real answers.

Look at this bit:

> Mozilla just fired everyone relevant to focus on crap no one asked for like Pocket, and fad nonsense like a paid VPN service and virtual reality tech.

Of course they did – they had no choice. It takes money to build software. Pocket, even if it is “crap no one asked for,” is an opportunity to serve ads. “Fad nonsense” like paid VPNs actually make quite a bit of money these days. Mozilla makes Firefox, Servo, MDN, and Rust, and does it all for free. I love Mozilla for it, but this article seems to believe that all that is needed for this state of affairs to continue is… what, exactly?

> No layoffs or pay cuts at the management level, of course! It’s not like they’re responsible for these problems, it’s not like anyone’s fucking responsible for any of this, it’s not like the very idea of personal responsibility has been forgotten by both executives and engineers, no sir!

I totally support pay cuts for executives, but you can’t save 250 jobs like that, and “personal responsibility” alone can’t pay the bills. Not only does appealing to personal responsibility solve nothing, it distracts us from actual solutions by letting us blame individuals for the systemic reasons that our problems exist in the first place.

Continued on my blog because I wound up writing more than I expected: https://www.blackcap.site/posts/google_wont_stop/
That is the same argument that could have been applied to any one of the controversial tech monopoly issue before

Wouldn’t MS want to secure its laptops by bundling a browser?

Wouldn’t I have equally private and financial documents on a PC? location/gps can’t be that much of a differentiator.

It is monopoly bullying whoever they can. They just happen to not directly affect us, unless we happen to be a developer making lot of money or compete with apple in any way.
Hooray! Named arguments finally!
Should individuals from other groups that have suffered recent genocide be treated similarly to those you named? Does it matter if America carried out the genocide inside its own borders? What if the country said little while very bad things happened? What if America fought but could not stop the very bad things? The Armenians and at least three more recent groups come to mind depending on those answers.
hosting & review are just the beginning. They also maintain substantial support around the App Store. So their costs will scale with number of downloads, usage, purchases, etc, which is why their fee scales with it too.
We tried to replicate this for one of the kid's elementary school science fair project. We were unsuccessful, but the judges really liked it anyway.
You realize that in the 90s, retailers and wholesalers got a lot more than 30%?

So you think the “average developer” is “stupidly” doing what they need to make money?

Does Epic deliver any “value” by selling skins? How they any different than Candy Crush?
Epic Games is also suing Google over Fortnites removal from the Play Store
Thinking about the team(s?) at Epic that had to work 120hr weeks in endless crunch just so that their CEO could troll another CEO.
Google Won't Stop
Belated thanks! This was the kick I needed!
As things currently stand this is unarguably true.

The next question is though, given the incentives in place are entirely due to Apple, is that anti-competitive?

I think it is. It is also ruthless smart business to make money. Given societies rules about "make money" for corporations I can't blame them.

But I am allowed to wish it were otherwise.
And not just that, now you have to have a way to put all that energy back into the batteries each day. This is hard to do from solar or wind alone if you need any sort of real-world range (20-30nm/day for instance). It may be Ok for a day sailor that just uses an engine to get in and out of the harbor but if you use your boat to do real travel you can't always rely on wind for sailing or a dock to plug into at night.

For instance, in a typical Pacific Northwest summer even a sailboat ends up motoring a lot in the Inside Passage with few places to recharge from plug-in electricity.

Some hybrid systems that use a diesel generator and lithium batteries almost get there but it's tough to make it all fit in a sailboat in the 35ft range, which is a popular size.

Diesel is a pretty compact energy storage system for boats and it's hard to beat. We recently had to repower our sailboat and we just couldn't make it work without severely limiting our range.
Crazy number of boot lickers in these threads.
Especially when the very thing that Google warns about actually happened...with Fortnite.

https://www.cnet.com/news/just-as-critics-feared-fortnite-fo...
> Where do you get the information that "suffer forever or die" is the fat part of it?

Presumably they're referring to the 87% number that they quoted. But importantly that's 87% of hospitalized patients, and only a small minority of cases are hospitalized, so the number doesn't say much about the typical case.
I did not see this until too late. Thank you very much, it’s right on the nose. Keyboard control is essential for me too in this case.
OP do you work here? or if anyone that works on this project sees this comment, DM me, we could definitely use this at my company
If you think most people with an iPhone knows anything at all about Apple's app store policy and limitations then you're in need of a reality check.
Thieves' Cant
I would be thrilled to learn that Apple plans to prevent anyone from running non-Apple-signed code on the Mac, because it would likely lead to better tools for writing iDevice-targetted software on non-Mac platforms (either officially supported, or jury-rigged by third parties out of necessity). As a Linux desktop user with an iPhone, this would inevitably benefit me (I don't write iPhone software right now, but if there was an iPhone compiler for Linux, I might start).

Why do you think Microsoft bothered with WSL? We know that most Windows users won't do it. It was a developer-attracting move, meant to make it easier to build Windows client applications with Linux server components. Apple benefits from the same thing being offered natively. I can't see them abandoning it, even though it does create a tension between the Mac as a consumer product and the Mac as a developer's tool for iOS.
This seems to me an example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppression_Olympics
Those are just the common stuff that everyone does with a computer, but I think most people ends up adding one special thing to that list. For some that is gaming, others it's doing tax, photo editing, programming, or some specialty software for a niche hobby that few people think about.

Even my mum ended up using specialized software software for her knitting hobby.
>The ship, MV Wakashio, ran aground at Pointe d'Esny in late July, and oil began leaking from it last Thursday.

>Fuel has been transferred to shore by helicopter and to another ship owned by the same Japanese firm, Nagashiki Shipping.

So they had more than a week to prevent this.
Plus if your game is sold in their store you have to play a percentage as well.
You are right, zepto, that developing, maintaining, and delivering the App Store requires work and resources, and Apple should be compensated fairly for it.

App store owners are compensated fairly by the 30% fee they charge as commission on sales. But the Fortnite case is not about sales. It is about the re-supply of virtual currency for use within a game. The customer is already established. There is no new selling or marketing or delivery required of the app store owner.

To recognise the differences between product sales vs ongoing consumable resupply, such as virtual currency, app store vendors should do what physical world vendors do and charge different fees that are commensurate with the value add.

Retailers charge 30-50% markup to cover the overheads of rent and sales staff. What Apple does with the app store is similar, and so their 30% fee is in step.

Forex dealers and banks charge 3% - 18% for financial transactions such as currency exchange and credit card financing. Given that Apple isn't even providing financing for Fortnite's virtual currency, a fee in the order of 5 - 10% would be reasonable in this case.

What's at stake here should not be the all or nothing duel that Apple has initiated by banning Fortnite from the App store. Apple should just evolve, and introduce a second tier charge for consumables.

Would it make sense for Walmart to charge one price (say $100) for every item it sells in every one of its stores? Of course not. Walmart and every other real world retailer charges different prices for different things, depending on how much value they add. Apple should do the same.
It doesn't matter if Apple has a monopoly or not, they can bully other companies all day long anyway since they got the most lucrative users and you can only reach them via Apple phones. If there is no law to handle this case then we need to create one since the current situation is obviously bad. It is kinda like how workers can get bullied by companies since the worker is so much smaller, Apple is way less dependent on app creators than the app creators are on Apple creating an unhealthy power imbalance. Such power imbalances needs to be regulated.
Yeah. Hacker News. Isn't everybody?

I'm probably not much like you imagine me, but I do understand this is affecting everyone differently. That said, social distance is NOT a quarantine. It is maintaining 6 feet where possible and wearing masks. Simple lifestyle change. The fact that you are conflating it with a total lockdown, which IS very problematic (but sometimes still necessary) is part of the problem.

Let's be grownups. Ideally, we quarantine for two weeks, followed by gradual reopening with actual social distancing. As long as people have hope and a plan, they can deal with a surprising amount of discomfort. If you don't get that, I assume you're a twenty something who's never had the patience to sacrifice your comfort for something much more important.
It may be uncharitable to diagnose a stranger. I have family with narcissism issues. It is nakedly obvious to me gates has the same issue. You kinda can’t blame him, given his financial status- but there are honest scientific people who disagree with his approach and he’s framing them all as conspiracy theorists.
No, it can't because you lose unvested shares if you leave before they vest. Have you ever been granted RSUs?
Perhaps Congress should have acted sooner.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel....
Exclusives on consoles suck, but the Epic store has been a huge win for developers and gamers. Bags of money, more choice, and competition and the only downside is needing to install an extra launcher. Yes please!
> It seems it’s still an open question whether AI is just about memorizing your data,

No - it's not at all, and this is a well understood problem in building machine learning systems. There are some cases where this occurs but usually this is just overfitting.

Good AI systems generalize well on unseen data.