skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can make a protocol then and Facebook won't allow you to use it. They're definitely artificially locking you in. It's no different.

If the technical requirements are met and Facebook won't allow then it indeed is not an artificial lock in. But I doubt that Facebook messenger can talk to IMessage right now. It's not the responsibility of either Facebook or Apple to make those two apps work together. The only thing they should not do is go out of their way to not allow them to interface. I.e. It should be possible for a user to write a bridge between those two apps.

> Really? That's the only reason? Does it not seem odd to you that iPhones are considered safe devices, and that Apple goes to great lengths to protect them and user data and now companies are complaining about the App Store? Once they can circumvent the App Store, then can put all sorts of garbage tracking and malware into applications. iPhone and the App Store have been around for more than 10 years, and then over the last two years Apple requires no tracking, prompting of data usage, soon a data use "nutrition scorecard" and now just this year all of these companies are complaining about pricing? Give me a break. If you want to call Apple greedy, then it's just a case of pots calling kettles black. Notice how there aren't any customers complaining about this oh so bad and greedy practice? I don't care what developers want here. I want my iPhone the way it is, and changing the App Store is bad in my view. I'll vote with my wallet in this case. If that means fewer applications because they want to circumvent these things that I want Apple to do, then that's fine, good riddance.

I don't consider Apple safe devices because of the App store. Every single protection that is afforded by the app store is actually provided by the OS. With the exception of manual review and that is a subjective process full of holes.

Can you explain to me, since you believe Apple is actually not user hostile, why does it allow obvious malware in the app store such as apps that appear to be free but once you install them you end up in micro-transaction hell? Why do they allow micro-transactions at all? Micro-transactions are very rarely if ever beneficial to the user. What's up with the apps that promise a feature and don't deliver? I'm not joking when I say that the quality of apps I can download for free on my desktop is way higher then most stuff that is in the app store. App stores have brought down the quality of software significantly. It's so bad that my default stance on anything on the app store is that it must be trash because that's what it is usually.
Personally, I only know Dell Precision 7740 to have built-in NFC. I guess tablet-like / 2-in-1 laptops might also have it.

Edit: Lenovo Yoga, Lenovo X1 Carbon have NFC too.

Edit 2: Dell Precision 7750 also offers it.

Edit 3: Models with pre-installed NFC module are very scarce, this site [0] lists only 204 occurrences among 7136.

[0]: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=nb&xf=3710_NFC
Installing FreeNAS after re-purposing one of my old cases to fit 20 HDDs
This is how I am working also. I have requested that all meetings in the future happen after 3, so the kids will be done with their schooling.

Today was the first day of school and my kids are in 3rd grade.

Just like you said, there was at least four times that I needed to come over and fix tech support issues. And help them figure out how to do something.

I am trying to figure out which is better right now, with using ipad, laptop, or chromebooks.
Of course. My point is that this doesn't seem to be related to any anticompetitive behavior on Apple's part. If Apple was using market power to force smartphone competitors out of the market to increase Apple's own market share, that would be one thing. But to accuse Apple of anticompetitive behavior because their small smartphone market share spends more money on apps than other smartphone owners does not seem reasonable.
>(If this is correct, and I were Epic, I'd be looking to partner with other very large and peeved developers, and create a de facto app producer strike... but maybe they think they have enough market clout to go it alone.)

This would actually be a violation of the antitrust laws. And it'd be a straightforward Section 1 Sherman Act cartel case.
I remember last year when Best Buy stores all became AASP’s...except they don’t really do any work on Macs at all. They send them out to their service centers and don’t even use OEM batteries in their replacements, for example.

With the nearest Apple store two hours away (and not even open this year), it would be nice if Best Buy could do the work...sigh
>Epic, btw, has the exact same kind of agreement with Sony, Microsoft, and Google, for access to their gaming platforms. All three of those companies are extracting the same 30% fee that Apple is.

Tim Sweeney has stated in the past that he feels like there's a better argument for game console makers taking a 30% fee.

>"There's a rationale for this on console where there's enormous investment in hardware, often sold below cost, and marketing campaigns in broad partnership with publishers. But on open platforms, 30 per cent is disproportionate to the cost of the services these stores perform, such as payment processing, download bandwidth, and customer service.

Basically, he feels that these platforms might actually be doing enough work to earn a 30%. It's not that crazy to criticise one company taking a big slice and approve another company taking a same slice if they are bringing different value.
We're not making any progress on co2e because we've choosen not to.

Even if we were, net zero by 2070 (the optimistic outcome here!?) would be pointless, civilisation would be over long before then anyway.

I find all this really frustrating. It's like someone moaning they're fat and telling me about their new diet, the 1000th one this week, where they eat 20 cheese burgers a day and hope for the best. Let's get real and either do something or enjoy the ride to hell.
Did you get a response? It looks like it was forwarded to some very senior people asking for input.
xCloud deliberately avoids the app review process AIUI by allowing it to be an umbrella for any game.
What's going to happen when they close Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant? [1] It currently provides 9% of the state's power (2256MW).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant
> And I certainly don't want to be stuck in the position that Android users are in, where they have to worry about what store they're using, where the software comes from, and whether the app they're about to install is legitimate and free of malware.

what? i'm an Android user and i've never had to worry about multiple stores. well, not until Google kicked [a YouTube client i like] out of the official store; but luckily, i could just install F-Droid and get it from there :)
It's not dissimilar to how civil disobedience in the 60s thoroughly planned and tuned for maximum PR impact. Rosa Parks went on that bus knowing she'd make a scene. Does that change the reality being uncovered?
In US, maybe. Forced arbitration is just not a thing elsewhere - you can take Apple to a small claims court in UK and they can't really do much about it other than actually respond.
It has a real “serf begging his lord” feel to it.
Photosynthesis Hacks Boost Yield and Conserve Water
SD cards are implemented with a bus interface that's quite general. The only thing they provide to the host is block-addressed memory. The file system is an OS abstraction on top of that.

So, the host computer would simply address the WiFi chip on the bus, and issue commands and transfers, similar in overall design to how it would talk to a PCIe device or USB device.
It appears you forgot some references to your home directory in the code: https://github.com/timestored/jq/blob/1f4de6def8b7c12c6d6254...

Also, Java's "File" object is -- for the most part -- by its nature cross-platform, which is why the forward-slash version right below your change already worked as expected: https://github.com/timestored/jq/commit/4b94ce214452cf2b2fb8...
Whoa. Personal attacks are not cool, and neither is taking HN threads further into flamewar. I realize the GP was provocative and also on the flamebait side, but the site guidelines ask you not to take the bait: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html — and certainly not to post like this.
Isn’t PRISM basically using FB to do NSA work for them anyhow?
Can someone please explain this to me?

> Obviously it has gone catastrophically wrong

I have no idea what this is referring to. The author is obviously (!) assuming some knowledge on the part of the reader that I do not possess. Can someone please fill me in?
That's all well and good for his job, and even that assertion is debatable. He's a human after all.

But this is a personal project. Something that is unrelated to his job. So it doesn't really matter what "bar" it is because he's doing it for his own benefit, not Tesla's or "humanity's".

Unless you're implying he can't have personal hobbies anymore. Which was the exact point of my previous comment.
Indeed. That was before the Internet. Many things were before something yet would look bizarre (which doesn't necessarily imply completely impossible) today.
I wonder if putting a semi transparent white dome or covering over a city could effectively cool it by reducing net sunlight. Kinda like permanent artificial clouds
>Stimulating photosynthetic processes increases productivity and water-use efficiency in the field

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-020-0740-1
This is very cool. I think there's a lot of room to grow this space: local "folders" that do some "magic" in the cloud.

Obviously, sync (Dropbox) is just the beginning, and Dropbase takes it a step further. There's been times where I had a (big-ish) CSV and wanted to run a few tests/queries on it. Auto-importing it into some database and being able to run SQL/Python on the dataset (without bootstrapping that locally) would've been a godsend.

Good luck with this!
This is remarkably similar to Walt Disney's EPCOT plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCOT_(concept) . I wonder what was in the water in the 60s since the Astrodome actually got built in 1965:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrodome
And how does having multiple app store would stop anything that you want? It wouldn't stop the Apple app store from existing with theses restrictions, they would still be there. You would still have access to the apps that Apple consider fine for their stores, without installing another app store. Win-win for everyone.

> You want to embed permanent location tracking in your apps, abuse user data, and not have to have your crappy practices out in the open when Apple shows the "nutrition scorecard" for your app.

How about stopping theses practice on the OS side of the device? Apple already do that there... I agree completely that it's crazy when an OS allow stuff that we don't want to allow, it's not curation that solve this, it's actually a secure system that does.
Very true. I was worried about what we'd be giving up. We waited a long time because of fertility issues, but I started to get tired of the doctors visits, and everything and was ready to quit, at 38, after 13 years it gets tiring.

Then we got two sons round 8 and 10 of IVF. When your kid walks up to you and says "I love you daddy" and gives you a big hug, when you're having a rough day, best feeling in the entire world. Nothing tops it. Not romantic love or sexual pleasure or delicious food. The love of a child, who accepts you and thinks you're the best thing in the world and trusts you with their life even though you know how flawed that is...lol It's hard to explain the feeling.

I feel like I'm having hormonal issues cause I get teary eyed whenever there's a sad or happy moment between father/child on tv, and I go into an absolute rage when I see a child in danger, hurt, molested either in fiction or news media. I think of all the things I'd do to the perp if that were my kid, and it isn't pleasant.
Because it leads to fragmentation.

If developers have a choice of app stores, then users have to install ALL app stores if they want access to the entire market. This happened with streaming services as well: when Netflix was the only prominent one, only that subscription was enough. Now you also need Amazon, Hulu, etc.
>Sony just invested $250M in Epic

less than 2 months revenue from mobile, yes, your argument makes sense!
And so that's why I never liked nor trusted this whole idea of code signing with non-self-signed certificates, especially on desktop OSes. This notarization mechanism introduced a single point of failure: Apple. And now there is concrete evidence of how exactly this is bad.

On a device I own, there should be no parties that are trusted more than myself. It's ridiculous I even have to write this.
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Percentage isn't the issue. Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant provides the base power usage, which isn't the issue that's causing the blackouts.

Looking at raw percentage numbers for blackouts is wrong because this is an issue of not having enough capacity during peak, which nuclear doesn't solve.
The difference is that those other devices have a specific use. Smartphones are general purpose devices, so it's not the same at all
The German GiroCard payment system is 0.125%.

The EU just limited credit card inter bank exchange fees to 0.2%.
Brands can use new IG features to boost revenue
At first I thought "Facebook doesn't lay cable do they?" but to my surprise:

>Facebook subsidiary Edge Cable Holdings

How common is it when you want to build out a cable like this, you have a subsidiary of your own do it?

I would think you could just contract that out...
Easy: check if the imei on the back matches the one shown in the software as part of a theft check. Threaten the user with seizing it for suspected theft or whatever if they refuse.
Fitness Tracker Benefits Athletes Wish They Knew Sooner
This is my experience too. An unexpected failure on my 2013 mba and Apple suggested new logic boards with no guarantee of fix the problem & recommended a new mba. I literally went across the road and a flat fee of $500 got me going again. He desoldered a few components and replaced with parts taken from a spare mba mobo. Couldn't be happier.
He didn’t release blueprints of cheap homemade 1MW fusion reactor yet, but otherwise - yep, it seems that he covered everything else.
To expect a majority of journalists to recognize this sort of hype is unreasonable. Most people here on HN (not I, to pat myself on the back) were equally, perhaps more, credulous about self-driving cars. If a tech forum like HN called it wrong, anyone could.
If you want to make a patch, you need a starting file and an end point. So you take a pristine tree and call it "foo.orig" or "foo.old" and then run diff -ur foo.old foo

Maybe younger developers don't know this experience because usually their patches are generated by git diff and the like. But before that stuff was as common as today, you would need to copy the old files off somewhere to generate a patch. At that point you need to name it something.
> Right, and the rest of us don't want that

Please stop speaking for others. I would certainly like to have the ability to install other sources for apps. Since I am part of "the rest of us", for any kind of "us" that came to my mind while reading your posting ("iPhone users" or "Apple customers" or "HN readers"), your statement is patently false.

> That's not what I want on my iPhone.

Then don't install additional stores. I also don't want most of the apps currently available in Apple's app store on my iPhone, but I'm far from demanding that they are to be banned and other people who want to use them should be prevented from doing so.

Also it's too sad you conspicuously skipped over danShumways question regarding the "bigger moat" - because I indeed would be interested in what moat you are imagining there, too.
To be fair, all Windows knows that a program, in this case the JRE, is registered to open the file. Nothing about that necessarily means "this file will be executed", nor that that program will interpret the file differently than Windows has.
I agree -- for everyone complaining about sharecropping there's someone else making money from the platform. One just has to be aware of the risk and more people are getting aware of that risk every day.

Perhaps this risk is not justified but that's a moral and legal issue not a business one.
I feel like this:
1) Epic agreed to Apple's 30% tax / no different price outside of the app store clause.
2) Epic broke their agreement with much fanfare - timed to make news around the anti-trust hearings in congress.
3) Apple followed through with their policies.
4) Epic sued Apple with a ready-to-go lawsuit.

Epic has the most to gain from squeezing out X% more from Apple. This is a calculated risk. My children play games on their iPads far more than their computers. I'm all for them switching to their computers or playing similar games like Arsenal on Roblox instead.

One way or another, Fortnite will end up back on the iPad store. Will it set any legal precedent? We'll find out.
Imagine if Google decided tomorrow to ban App Stores other than Google Play Store on Android.

This would mean that there's only two app stores: Apple's and Google's.

Google doesn't do that because that would be an abuse of their market position and they would get rinsed in the courts. Since the same laws apply to Google as Apple, and Apple clearly has significant market power in smartphone and tablet computers, it stands to reason that Apple should be prohibited from doing the same thing.
I sadly don't have any documentation left from this project.

Our goal was to build lowest possible energy consumption GPS tracker with "live" feedback, 2h delay was acceptable not ideal, 30min was just ideal. It was close to 30min on good weather.

I remember it used Ardunio Uno with xbee or zigbee with mesh module on radio, whichever had lower power consumption. GPS module was checking for fix every 30minutes, transmitting the location to master nodes which were sending it to our server.

Master nodes were located on hills without trees with solar-powerbanks, so even if there was no sun it would keep the nodes running for 2 months, GPS nodes were in areas without even GSM signal, and even on hills 3G was not guaranteed.

GPS nodes had replaceable rechargeable batteries, had to be changed every 3.5months. We didn't care about speed transmission.

We had budget of max. £15000 (including hardware, software and any legal fees and SIM card maintenance) for around 350 devices.
People make throwaway accounts for lots of reasons, and some of those are perfectly legit.
"Opinionated" means decisions that have already been made for you.
AppleWorks started on the Apple II in 1984. Microsoft Works apparently was originally written by the same engineer after he left Apple (!!) but then licensed it to Microsoft, it came out in 1987.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works
> I personally don't enjoy the experience of managing my PC games in 5 different libraries which all log out almost every day, need to be updated every week, push ads, newsletters, free stuff, crashes etc.

But, do you enjoy having 5 times as many games? Do you enjoy having a ton of games from GoG updated and running on modern Windows? Do you enjoy having DRM-free options for many indie titles? Do you enjoy that it's at least possible now to buy some console-exclusive games like Journey for the PC?

People get really bent out of shape about the idea that sticking to one storefront means they might need to skip games. But getting rid of the storefronts doesn't mean you'll get all of the games. It means those games that were made possible because of the other storefronts won't exist.

You are already skipping games on iOS, because those games aren't being made.

> Epic tries to make this some kind of crusade of freedom and developer rights, while their clear intention is actually get in to kingmaker position

Correct, and my point was that these are not exclusive goals. Allowing multiple stores to fight over users is explicitly the outcome that we want.

It's not a surprise to anyone advocating for developer rights that Epic wants to make a store and compete with Apple, because that is what we want them to do. None of us care about whether or not Epic is going to make any money in the process.

> which they're already trying to do on the PC market

I know that gamers hate Epic right now, but understand that when you look at the overall market and you talk to the developers themselves, Epic has been unambiguously good for the PC games market.

You want to talk about kingmakers -- it is good that the entire success or failure of a PC game doesn't need to rely on Steam's decisions. It is good that Steam is being forced to negotiate better terms for developers right now. It is good that Epic is funding indie games that otherwise would not have been made.

I don't like the exclusives either, neither as a developer nor as a gamer. But the exclusives are nothing compared to the amount of good Epic is doing right now for the PC game's market. If you're an indie developer and suddenly you can halve the cut that storefronts are taking from you? That's huge.

But, to circle back around to my main point:

> So I have very little sympathy for Epic

You don't need to have sympathy, you need to have self-preservation instincts. You don't get the luxury of choosing who the champion is to take on Apple, nobody who fits your moral criteria is powerful enough to do the work.
Requiring a line of site makes it much more difficult than giving real-time tracking data away
In reading the actual bill (linked elsewhere), it seems the legislation precludes liability for all suits (brought in state or federal court) for coronavirus unless all of the following hold:

a) the employer was not following any guidelines for coronavirus

b) exposure was caused by gross negligence or willful misconduct

c) the plaintiff suffered actual harm from the exposure to coronavirus.

I added emphasis on any--in the event of conflicting guidelines, the employer needs only follow one of them. So if any jurisdiction in the chain says "it's a-ok to pack your employees without masks!", there's no liability for the employee if they follow that, even if the locality says "wear masks! social distance!"

While I don't know the details of occupational health and safety laws, I have to imagine there's a general-purpose "unsafe working conditions" action that can be brought even in the absence of specific regulations (I don't readily see one in the US code, but I'd expect at least some states would go that far). This would preclude such suits under pretty much any situation; in particular, you have to actually be exposed to coronavirus and can't merely show that the environment is unsafe.
It'd probably heat it up because of the greenhouse effect, just from the hot air coming from all the cars and people not being able to escape, let alone heat from sunlight not being cooled by breezes/convection
>This is wrong. People (Citadel) buy for only one reason. They can make money off of it.

That doesn't mean they're making money at your expense. Random hn comment that explained it better than I could: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23774476
> ban such apps from their stores

You could always use a website instead. Why is an app necessary?
This level of customer-hostility would cause a huge uproar for any other "Pro" or "workstation" vendor.
Platform country? How does another viable store in Canada help me if I live in the US?

Or even, how does another viable store in Nevada help me if I live in Illinois? I know I can "just move" anytime, nothing's stopping me, but it's expensive...
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