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With Apple's ecosystem, it is an either/or proposition. Thy don't allow third-party stores, period, so I don't see how my comparison is inadequate.
No one wants multiple launchers, people want multiple stores. They're very different.

Once the app is installed, it should be easy to start the app.
Can it be considered as until it causally affects something else (the observer), its state is not defined? Isn't it a causal relation that collapses the superposition?
A story of "It's a python package, a DSL for numpy" could reduce several barriers to exploration and incremental adoption. DSL's let one use the familiar host language, but for that one little bit where you'd be willing to learn a new and better way of doing things.

A further step in that direction, might be to have a second, more familiarly pythonic interface. Sort of a Q for K. But with minimized cognitive distance from a pythonic ideal, numpy api, and BQN. Attempting to create a low-barrier space encompassing them, for learning and trade offs. Though I'd have to think about what that might look like. Semantics and vocabulary might be learned separately from syntax. Perhaps someone might use BQN-native syntax for prototyping, and then dump it for release as company-acceptable "just using a normal python library" verbose pythonic code. A counter argument is the APL and pythonic ideals for code are rather different, so it might be worth using python and numpy simply as infrastructure, without worrying about chasing hearts and minds.
Agree 100%.

I also think Apple should stop collecting commission fees from all App Store sales starting today. They have billions in the bank. What are those billions for if not to invest back into the company and its developers. Foregoing all commission fees is an easy way to do that and would make Apple a hero and help developers. I’m also willing to be there would be a resurgence in the App Store and bring in more sales and more developers.
> If anything, the lesson to be learned here is that if your business depends exclusively on another company for its survival then it’s not your business.

> To the authors point - yes, Apple can change it’s policies whenever it likes, and can use those policies to kill other companies it views as competing with it’s own interests.

And in a world without antitrust regulation, a monopoly or cartel can use its market power to make massive profits and squash any and all competitors. Your "lesson" is one that takes the status quo as a given (in this case, the anti-competitive power of platforms), even when that status quo should be changed.

It's also far too extreme to be reasonable, since practically every small to medium business that depends on non-commodity inputs fails the test (for instance, pretty much every consumer software company, ever). I think the real lesson is that no business is every truly independent of others, and the platforms have discovered new classes of anti-competitive control that need to be legislated against.
Then don't install unsigned apps.

The notion that the platform owner is somehow doing you a favor by denying you that choice is nothing but a manifestation of Stockholm Syndrome in action.
Well, I still see Orca eyespots as eyes and I've known they're not for at least two decades now.
>Stock returns should arguably be available to all, but activities like day-trading almost exclusively produce losers. Pretty much the only reliable way for the average Joe to make money on stocks is to passively invest, which again means this does nothing to justify the existence of Robinhood's model.

I mean, the "optimal" way to invest is to buy a passively managed index fund and don't touch it until you retire, but how much of that should be baked into the regulation? Should we make the stock market off limits to the average joe except the most optimal choice?

>If you want equitable distribution of stock returns you put everyone's money into a sovereign wealth fund that invests into some index fund and send everybody a check at the end of the year

So... the SSA? The other problem I can see is that in a country that's distrustful of the government, citizens might be reluctant to hand their retirement plans to the government. After all, the fund can be raided by politicians for short term spending or otherwise mismanaged, causing adjustments to be made to the payout structure (eg. cutting benefits, or forcing people to retire later).
In most cases I've personally witnessed (I have an RTL-SDR decoding ADS-B transmissions in the vicinity of my home) the interesting aircraft (e.g. fighters) are not operating an ADS-B transmitter at all, so there's nothing to hide. Some sites (adsbexchange.com comes to mind) do not filter anything.
My prediction is that this will backfire so badly for Apple.

Apple clearly underestimated how popular Unreal Engine is to game developers. Apple probably expect developers to just switch to other engines when they took UE away from them, but in reality most
of the developers currently using UE will just stop publishing on Apple's platforms because that's no longer a profitable platform (consider the investment for developing for Apple's platforms with new engine against the profit they can get there).
I'm sorry, i don't follow your argument.

E: and Google is no better.
Ok, leave it up to him to make that call.
Apple could easily offer good enough terms on their app store that app developers would use them by free choice.

Then you could personally keep using a single app store and enjoy the non-monopolistic prices.
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Yeah, I'm glad they worked too...

> If they knew how to test for who would be helped and who wouldn't be...

I am pretty sure there is work in this area. More precisely targeted treatments can only be a win.

I don't dispute whitaker's findings (well especially since I haven't read his book! Nor will have time too sadly) but what trifle I've picked up indicates he's making sense.

> In fact, the drugs induce upregulation of neurotransmitter receptors within weeks, which is responsible for chronic dependency, confusion, and tragically in some people, psychosis upon withdrawl.

It's difficult to address this. All I can say is that I did not find most of these problems, and of psychosis I think I got that while taking the drug, not upon withdrawal. And note this: that psychosis was not a bad thing at all. One side effect I'd happily live with again, even at the cost of memory loss and whatnot. Just a data point.
I've ditched everything except for Real Talk. I'm not throwing my resume into a form hole, I'm not responding to recruiters. I email someone I would be working with directly until they start the hiring process. This precludes me from working at any large company, in my experience they just beat me around the algorithm and HR bushes for 1 to 6 hours then send me a canned rejection from their no-reply address. It's a complete waste of my time.
This whole thing is about Fortnite which is already on both of those platforms.
> I doubt it would run smooth on a 128MB device in 2020

It would not run at all. No mobile OS has a swap partition as far as I know, and it would not make sense to add one due to performance and power constraints.
From what I've seen after talking to hundreds of secular homeschoolers and the minimal research done on this topic, kids with 1-2 hours a day of study facilitated by a parent do far better academically than the typical kid in school. They also do a great job transitioning back to school (if you decide to go that route) because they are so independent and autonomous.

Have you considered any of the learning tools like Khan Academy that don't need a parent to necessarily sit down with the child and can study independently?

Also, if you need a friendly ear, I'd be happy to help you and your partner think this through. I've been a teacher for 15 years in 3 countries, founded 3 startups to support homeschoolers, and most recently led schoolclosures.org and Modulo which are working directly to provide support to families. Happy to help in any way we can.
"meditation is a religious practice" this statement of your is enough to prove that you are motivated by theory that your book is the only one and everything else is false or satonic. Meditation will really help you, you should try.
for me it's been the opposite, it has been unnervingly moderate as far as North Texas summers go the past 5 summers at least. I really feel for the coastal refugees that have moved to the area once a hot summer shows up. ...3 or 4 consecutive > 100F weeks when the roads start to melt and random fires breaking out in grass everywhere, the wind blows and it just gets hotter etc...
The first 300-MW phase is planned for completion by the end of 2020, with the second, a 100-MW expansion expected to come a year later in 2021.
Anybody halfway intelligent blocks the details that would otherwise be available with ADS-B, so the best you can do is see they exist, not identify the aircraft. This is often the case with corporate jets.
Here here! And the best think about the homeschooling community is people like you who cheer others on and support them! :)
Without benchmarking it, my first instinct would still be to design the schema in a way to avoid recursive queries, if possible. I'm thinking of stuff like a simple tree, e.g. categories with subcategories arbitrarily nested. In that case I'd probably just store all the parents as well, not just the immediate category. That is more work in the insert/update case, but makes queries that include all children trivial.
I'm not sure if the grandparent was getting to this, but sharing your client information with a 3rd party in the EU and/or for EU citizens is problematic w.r.t GDPR. You'd have to disclose to your client that you are sharing their data, why you are sharing, and get their informed consent.
The NES could not run unlicensed software. In fact, the NES arguably invented the App Store licensing model. Every console (save for the toploaders) has a lockout chip that resets the CPU every second or so unless it's able to exchange encrypted data with a companion lockout chip in the cartridge. Nintendo used this to "protect" the US gaming market from games they didn't approve of.

Technically, the Family Computer (Famicom) could run unlicensed software. It even had a BASIC interpreter and a keyboard controller. Nintendo realized their mistake very quickly, however, which is why the NES has a lockout chip and the disk add-on for the Famicom also locked out third-party disks. (Note that part of the system was the ability to buy blank disks and pay to download games onto them via a Disk Writer kiosk, hence why the disks were proprietary, not just the games.) A number of game developers in Japan found that to be a bit of a shock, from what I've heard.
I've been delaying introducing myself to this field seriously, but this feels attractive to me. I have a 32GB Dual Xeon through RDP, would you recommend running this in local?
my god you people are thick
Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel
he didn't rewrite everything in rust.
Following your logic, Fortnite's add-ons should clearly be free since the cost to make and sell them is minuscule in comparison to 400M Epic made in April alone [0].

[0] https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/15/epic-games-shareholders-s...
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I forgot the best part - just like Apple Authorized, "independent repair program" prohibits you from performing ANY other repairs on Apple products, you can only do battery / screen replacement and thats it.

Btw Apple also doesnt give you any warranty on supplied parts.

Jessa Jones analyzing leaked IRP paperwork https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OawkqCPi1LQ
Wouldn't it be valid to consider the LHC and its unobserved data as a superposition of all their possible states?

Note that the recording of information has effects outside the system, even if no human looks at the data - recording a zero or a one will require different levels of power that, while they average to a mostly constant power consumption, are there nevertheless.
I just have to wonder —- how do you create such a city in a way that insures it’s actually populated and doesn’t become a ghost town.
That is a good point. As someone who naturally sleeps longer then 8 hours, my exercise is not as intense as it probably should be.
Well said.

It’s important to acknowledge that these highly compensated positions do exist in unique scenarios for extraordinary people. They are attainable for someone with sufficient drive, dedication, and luck.

However, it’s equally important to acknowledge just how rare and unique those positions really are across the industry. $750K compensation isn’t a routine occurrence for engineers just going about their lives.

I’m part of a group mentoring program for CS college students. Some of their compensation expectations are completely out of touch with reality due to comments like this. We encourage everyone to do their research and negotiate, of course, but it’s getting frustrating to watch people distraught because they think their $180K TC offer in SV is a “lowball offer” or who think they’re going to get Netflix level compensation from some random company in their small Midwest home town.
If Apple doesn't want competition, maybe they should address the reasons why people want that competition. If the App Store's terms and review policies were attractive to these kinds of developers, they wouldn't push so hard to have their own store.

And if the only policies that these developers had to legitimately complain about were the ones that protect users, they'd be laughed out of town. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Correct if wrong but this study sample included people who meditated at least once a week for at least two months? There's the problem. Meditation is a daily exercise conducted for at least 20 minutes. You won't be able to apply meditation-acquired skills, such as anxiety reduction, until a foundation is established-- at least 2 months, but probably more. Just as the benefits of a diet and exercise take time to work, so too does a disciplined meditation regiment.
I remember seeing academics analysis of various storage methods that showed how none of them could be scaled up to store 7 days worth of energy. And thus solar and wind were infeasible.

There were two problems.

One he was using 7 days worth of storage. It's true that in the fossil fuel industry 7 days of storage is standard. But that's because coal/oil/gas have supply chain issues to deal with. So he was intentionally increasing the required storage 10 fold.

The second. He studiously avoided any mention of thermal storage methods. Or using natural gas as a back up. Both of which can be scaled up to meet his 7 day storage requirement.
I'm still figuring it out, to be honest. Currently exploring launching (or controlling everything from) ChucK scripts:

https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu
https://hn.algolia.com already does this and more.
I think RF is a bit more subtle than that, and I'm not convinced that Scott Aaronson has really "debunked" it.

"But clearly, even if no one literally measures Charlie in the {|0〉,|1〉} basis, he’s still there, thinking either the thought corresponding to |0〉 or the thought corresponding to |1. And likewise Diane. Just as much as Alice and Bob, Charlie and Diane both exist even if no one measures them, and they can reason about what they know and what they know that others know. So then we’re free to chain together the “certainties” of Alice, Bob, Charlie, and Diane in order to produce our contradiction."

You can't use this argument without also explaining what "thinking" means - because in fact it makes no sense unless you assume consciousness exists as a quantum state which allows a phenomenon called "thinking."

And philosophically and practically, that's a very, very large can of wormns.

So this ends up in the usual place: it's not obvious how using an idea no one understands - like consciousness - to explain another idea no one understands - like QM - is supposed to solve any of these problems.
Its stated purpose. Sony once tried to get some tax advantages by classifying the PS3 as a general purpose computer, which they achieved through the "OtherOS" feature, which allowed you to run Linux.

They later removed that feature, causing a class action lawsuit, which they settled.
But then isn't Wigner's friend also in a superposition until Wigner talks to them?
I guess so, but so what? Deliberately provoking a potentially illegal act to litigate it is fair game. It doesn't legitimize the move by Apple, nor does it invalidate Epic's claim. If they want to play high-stakes poker, they better have good attorneys, but that's life in the American judicial system.
i know that LDLC is selling one of these [1] ... and that's it, i don't even think it's coming to laptop anytime soon.

[1] https://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00279741.html
By existing in a database, not only can your data and actions be taken out of context to make a damning case against you, you run the risk of being a false positive in an investigation[1].

In the case dragnet surveillance, you will constantly become a suspect in investigations based on where you were, what you look like, etc.

If your data doesn't exist in some database, at best you won't be caught up in a dragnet investigation. And at worst, your lack of data saves you from expensive court battles and imprisonment over something you didn't do.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-father-took-an-at-home-d...
I dont think a massive company like Epic with all the bad practices they've implemented themselves suing another mega rich company is anything like Rosa Parks getting on that bus, though.

Intentions are important considerations with something like this.
I haven't actually had it checked but I'm pretty sure that the A/C is working just fine. While it is running it produces plenty of cold air. And although it is almost ten years old, it hasn't seen a lot of use during that time. Until now, that is.
> you've found is a flaw with humanity, not with democracy

Well, yeah. BTW, I didn't say I have a better idea, I merely pointed out an issue.
Seriously. These "news" are older than me.
I fully agree with the author, and "App Review is getting too powerful" was an extremely prescient thing to say back then - let alone today.

I've had my own share of similar experiences with Apple in the past, one of which was here on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23585682

Apple currently has an unreasonable amount of control not only on what apps can be available on their devices, but also on how they look, work, and generate revenue. They allow 3rd-party innovation to occur only down specific paths that they deem beneficial.

On top of everything, Apple is also systematically erasing all App Review rejection communications [1] and keeping most of this abuse in the dark, thus buying themselves more time to stay in this dominant position.

Something definitely needs to change here, hopefully sooner than later.

[1] https://www.change.org/p/apple-let-us-browse-all-our-past-re...
> An app developer may decide to only list their app on an alternative store because they pay lower fees and they can handle payments themselves.

This is literally the point of allowing healthy competition. If Apple wants these games on their app store, they should offer terms that are competitive with the hypothetical third-party app stores.
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Their email has this: they got a cut of order volume.
Unfortunate to see you “betting against” the web so vehemently. What a peculiar stance.
I think there are pros and cons to each policy position, but let's not kid ourselves, San Francisco is not the city to model yourself after. A lesson that unfortunately all the people fleeing SFO didn't learn when they landed in Austin.

I am glad to see that Austin has become more progressive in some ways, but being completely ineffectual in how we care for members of our community while enabling the worse consequences of untreated mental illness and homelessness isn't something to be happy about. The key factor here is "untreated". There are some cities in the US that are actually working in a positive direction to help the homeless communities in their area to improve their lives, rather than just giving them a free pass out of doors.

Homelessness is a major problem all across America, and it's also a very complex problem. There are no easy fixes, but there are some obvious things which make the conditions and problem worse. It'd be great if there were easy fixes, but the reality is that it's very difficult to help people unless they want to be helped, and there's very real human rights considerations to forcing people into mental health or addiction treatments. Our country tried that at one point too, and it also didn't end well.
The end goal of mindfulness is to make you realize you have no free will and that you don't exist. I wish more people understood that. Losing the illusion you have free will is the real danger behind mindfulness, because the practice leaves you there with nowhere to go.

Having your mind "run away with bad thoughts," while it sounds bad, isn't directly related to the fundamental issue of mindlessness, and could happen with any type of meditation.
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It'd be interesting to see if there were some economies of scale for heating cooling.

For example, I could imagine that a nuclear power plant in the center of the city could provide the whole city with both heat and power at a fairly low cost for both.

On the flip side, you might be able to do city wide geothermal cooling.

It'd be an interesting experiment to say the least.
They are:

* A protected endangered species

* Hard to track

* Better to not encounter than to fight

It's sort of like grizzlies in Northern America National Parks. Your ideal situation is you aren't encountering a half-ton apex predator so if you dissuade the encounter and you also avoid it, it's much better than attempting to perform Pavlovian training.
We're in the process to leave the App store ecosystem ourselves by migrating our Apps to a WebApp, responsive, PWA, HTML5.

Surprisingly, somehow, it is actually based on Steve's amazing Thoughts on flash Open Letter, that emphasizes HTML5
A permanently attached Yubikey is not worse than a password alone, and is still superior to SMS 2FA. It still requires that an attacker know both your password and have physical possession of your machine. For the vast majority of users, this is sufficient protection from the threats that they face. The chance that someone both knows your password and is close enough to steal your yubikey is incredibly unlikely.

If you’re the kind of person liable to get personally targeted for nation state level attacks, then you definitely are going to want to unplug your yubikey and keep it on your person. For the rest of us, a hardware 2FA token is enough to protect against a sim swap attack, which is probably enough.