skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if there were only two livable houses in the entire world, then that would be a completely reasonable position for someone to take.

Apple is one half of a duopoly. People keep on bringing up these 'gotcha' arguments about, "how would you feel if Walmart was forced to stock everybody's stuff?" And that ignores the fact that it would be a serious problem if there were only two supermarkets that I could buy from. I would feel exactly the same way if one to two companies had the kind of stranglehold over physical supermarket goods as Apple has over the mobile app ecosystem.

A physical duopoly of that scale would very clearly call for either breaking up the owners or regulating them to ensure that everyone had equal access to the market. Scenarios like that are why we have antitrust in the first place, particularly around the kind of vertical integration that Apple advocates hold in such high regard.

I don't think the people who put forward these arguments have really thought them through. A duopoly is different from a house.

If we could travel back 35-40 years through history, I have no doubt there'd be no shortage of people arguing that Bell's vertical integration of the Internet was the very reason why their service was so good, and that allowing people to hook their own 'unapproved' answering machines to their phone lines would just ruin the entire network, and that allowing one company to own all of the railroads would just mean that shipping became that much simpler and reliable for consumers.

So be careful about making analogies to the physical world when you're supporting Apple, because people might just take them at face value.
No. The teachers should be better funded in the first place by the tax base so that they can teach in the public school for a decent wage.
My instinct is that this is partly due to how hard it was to get upgrades as a user. Devs would have taken the release cycle very seriously when people couldn't just get the next microversion pushed to them. I remember bringing home updates on 3.5in floppies, or having to download them on slow dialup connections, all very much about pull not push.
Not really sure why people are voting this down. It's self evident that Fortnite's "platform" is far more ephemeral than iOS. Team Fortress 2 is probably an example of a skins market that has been around the longest (since 2007), but very few games last this long and run a market that is still selling a lot.
Using electricity is not inherently damaging to the environment. Very low cost and high power zero-carbon generation sources exist (hydro and nuclear). For scale also keep in mind that all the datacenters in the world still use much less power than is used for smelting aluminium.
Certainly does create the potential for repair brokers. A person who is the owner for the duration of the repair and as such the details of that person would be provided to Apple to comply with this data grab.

Always a way to game/fight the system.
Anything that cites the Ramazzini studies is suspect. They repeatedly make major methodological errors and nobody replicates their results.
Thanks. Yes, in some cases where you're working with regulated data you'd need a self-hosted version. We're working on an enterprise version that allows this.

Would you be able to describe your use case and the kind of data you're using?
I think Apple knows that their inconsistency helps suppress criticism of their developer program. Look at any HN thread about apps being removed from the store over the years and its usually filled with users saying how the developer should have followed the rules and they have only themselves to blame for being removed. Apple can promote rules that "protect" users and then apply them in any way they want.
Coincidentally, OpenBSD is in fact a fork of NetBSD.
I also used ClarisWorks in school, and made a bit of money in ~2005 by helping a science teacher convert her old AppleWorks documents to Word. I wrote an AppleScript to open each document and Save As, and within a few hours it was done.

My experience of Logo programming was even earlier though, around 1997, on a Mac Plus. It was great! I even played songs by generating tones at the right frequencies. More recently I rewrote Logo in JavaScript so I could draw a time-proportional train map. http://peterburk.github.io/tra/
I am now in my mid-late 40s and I grew up in the East Bay, in the foothills of Mt. Diablo. We relocated to my childhood home, where my parents had remained until recently. As a 1970s tract home, it still lacks air-conditioning and has relatively poor thermal efficiency, just as it did back then. This past week, we have tried to manage the house thermals as best as we can, venting at night and closing it up through the heat of the day. It has been tough with the humid and warm nights and consecutive hot days.

The temperature profile reminds me more of times in the tropics, though it is still comparatively dry here. We've managed roughly a 10F delta between the indoors and outdoors through the peak afternoon hours. The past few days when it got to 105-107 locally, it was around 95F indoors when the temperatures equalized and it was beneficial to open windows again in the evening. This morning, it only cooled to about 82F inside and has climbed back to 90F in 6 hours.

When I lived far away, I liked to reflect on the dark blue sky and desert-like temperature swings we sometimes had out here, with 100F+ days and nights below 60F. But, I cannot say that we never had hot weeks nor summer thunderstorms. I remember those too, along with other somewhat rare events like hard frosts, accumulating hail, or the occasional dusting of snow on local ridges and peaks.

So, with a longer view, I don't think this single event can be called a clear sign of climate change. Someone with a lot more statistical skills than me would need to model the frequency of events and trends and uncertainties...
Education is a fundamental right. There is nothing in that statement that contradicts your point that "there's nothing wrong with people getting education without the help of the government."
> because whatever get burned had once collected the carbon from the air.

(Not an expert, just guessing here)

That is a long-term part of it. Specifically, biomass is a lot better than fossil fuels because you are not introducing any more carbon into the long-term cycle. But it is not all about the amount of 'above ground' carbon. In the short term, what matters more is 'carbon in the atmosphere'. Here, biomass is net-zero only if either the plants being burned are re-planted (i.e. wood pellets) or the biomass would have rotted away anyway (food remains).

On the other hand, cows take up a lot of acreage that could be used to capture a lot more carbon if the fields weren't filled with just grass. Besides, the actual practice of keeping cows is quite resource intensive. And, as others have said, cows produce methane.
My intuition for array-based languages is that you can use the "obscure" code, which heavily uses the standard vocabulary, for the low-level details of the business logic, but that you would still maintain a set of high-level verbs (DSL?) to describe in more clear terms what the hell the code is doing.

However, the few real world projects that I've seen in these languages won't use any kind of DSLs and the argument usually is "for array-based language programmers, this is actually very clear and concise". I need to improve my J to verify that :)
That is likely natural fluctuations in demand. The grid operator has not announced any load shedding (they have not even announced any imminent need to shed load) and there's still another 5GW of available capacity according to the dashboard.
Sure, I'll bite. My mental model of notarization is strictly a means to fight malware (which, yes, is a nebulous word, but I think we can all agree that Unreal Engine games don't blanket qualify).

Since most people are essentially prevented from running non–notarized macOS software, Apple should treat notarization as a rubber stamp. As long as your app is not literally malware, Apple should notarize it.

Apple's use of notarization as a stick for Epic here certainly goes against if not the letter, then the spirit of their developer documentation: [1]

> Notarization gives users more confidence that the Developer ID-signed software you distribute has been checked by Apple for malicious components. Notarization is not App Review. The Apple notary service is an automated system that scans your software for malicious content, checks for code-signing issues, and returns the results to you quickly. If there are no issues, the notary service generates a ticket for you to staple to your software; the notary service also publishes that ticket online where Gatekeeper can find it.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_m...
That's really interesting. I'm also jealous because I've had terrible sleep problems to the point that your choice of craziness would look less crazy! :) I've found that if I go to sleep within the same 15 minute window every night then I will wake up some time within the 3 minutes up to my alarm going off, often just a few seconds before.

If I don't then my internal clock will immediately shift later and it's incredibly hard to follow the "old" pattern. I think I can get away with one late night every so often but never two. Right now I'm stable but it's very hard to convince the people around me that it's what I need, even though they've seen the effects of not doing it. I believe it's in the same realm as smoking or alcoholism, where if you have a problem then most people will say "why not stop drinking then?" as if that's some great insight. "Just go to sleep" isn't particularly helpful.

And then, of course, they'll fall asleep with no problem and complain if they feel crap after one bad night :/

Really glad to hear you're feeling good on it! I hope it stays that way.
I'm new to postgres and having trouble visualizing the recursive query you're describing. Would you be willing to share an example query (or something that illustrates the point on fake data)?
I see. You don't care to reside in a society with an educated citizenry. Good luck with that.
The detritus between your toes is not, in fact, a tasty treat.
Is it possible to build an useful transformer without investing millions of dollars?
Ok, but is the general point accurate?
If it is such a valuable service maybe Apple could let you pay $50 to lock your mom's phone after purchase, or whatever dollar value people value the lockdown at.
Good luck with web apps on iOS. Safari is a shitshow with more serious bugs than anything else I know of. You can report bugs, and maybe someone working on WebKit will look at it in 5 years, and maybe it will be fixed in 10 years. And then probably appear again in the next iOS version.

Either Apple is incompetent, or they're making/keeping it bad on purpose.
Congrats! Looks like it could be very useful!

Just a tiny thing I noticed. The free plan is usually mentioned on the left of the page. ( https://www.dropbase.io/pricing )

Or was the page layout put intentionally that way?
The big question here is one simple thing: property.

Imagine someone selling you a house and despite that you think you own the house the seller defines what things you can or cannot have in your own house, and even the ones he let you have, you must buy through them (so they can get a tax and force control) and if suddenly they are not ok with that anymore, it can simply vanish from your home.

"Hey look, you cant have that knife that its not from Apple Houses, it will hurt your kids.. we are always thinking on your safety"

Then you buy a car that you think its the one you like, but its not on you Apple Home store, so you are not allowed to drive that car.

But hey Apple homes have said its for your own safety,
because that car was evaluated and could kill your wife.

In this case its clear "Apple Homes" succeeded in through marketing in psycological tatics to influence the house owner to do be ok with those things and still think he actually owns the house while the property is in reality leased where they define what you can access to or what can simply vanish even if you bought them.

I just cant understand how people can try to defend this sort of behaviour even when its clear it goes against their self interests and can damage them in several ways.. as the parent have said, just some sort of "stockholm syndrome" can explain this.
> [1] clement mihailescu says it on his YT channel somewhere in a vid.

The "co-founder and CEO of AlgoExpert, a website that helps Software Engineers prepare for technical interviews." argues that algorithmic / technical interviews are the best predictors for future job performance?

Well color me shocked.
The vast majority of cities are where they are for a reason. Usually that reason means proximity to some form of transportation infrastructure, whether that be a river, highway, railroad, or ocean. This is true even for Las Vegas, which which some consider to be "built in the middle of nowhere". Any city without a solid economic reason for its existence quickly withers and dies. Sadly, Flint Michigan is an example of this, as are many now-ghost towns in the far west that died after the interstate system was built in the 50s and 60s.

You can't just plop down a fully-furnished city on some unpopulated plot of land and expect anyone to move there. China as you say is trying this, but some of these are basically ghost towns on arrival, despite the massive top-down planning and investment. [1]

Any realistic plan for urban development reform is going to have to work with what exists currently. If you want to create a "demonstration" city from scratch, much faster and cheaper to do it virtually and simulate it.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiTDU8MZRYw

Edit: wording
Google is abusing their market position as well, because they purposely hinder third party app stores by putting restrictions in Android that prevent them from implementing features that the Play Store has had for years.
When methane is oxidized it produces carbon dioxide
,,This article reports on the computational demands of Deep Learning applications in five prominent application areas and shows that progress in all five is strongly reliant on increases in computing power.''

I don't agree with the conclusion of the paper. The computing architectures have been improving dramatically over the last few years, and almost any task that was achievable 5 years ago with deep learning is orders of magnitudes cheaper to train.

The energy resources taken by deep learning is increasing because of the huge ROI for companies, but it will probably slow down as the compute cost gets close to the cost of software engineers (or the profit of a company), because at that point researching improvements to the models gets relatively cheaper again.
>This seems like pretty straightforward break of the terms of use to me.

And closing the account is retaliation.

I think people are giving different meanings to words, with moral judgment tied to some of these meanings, and these meanings are causing confusion.

Let's take the word discriminate. Is it wrong if I discriminate when hiring someone? Many will say yes, but because they are thinking of specific forms of discrimination such as based on race or gender. But if I choose to not hire someone because of a lack of programming skill, that is still discrimination, but isn't wrong.

So back on topic. The action of closing the account is retaliation. So the question becomes is it wrong, but to answer that clearly depends upon if Apple's terms are right to begin with and if it is possible to offer someone terms that are wrong to uphold.
Nobody forces anyone into interaction with Apple ecosystem. People want to get onto App Store because they know they can benefit from it, financially big. And they subscribe voluntarily by the most fair means of it, by trading their money in exchange for the service under the rules that are mentioned prior the transaction takes place.
> While AMP itself isn't a ranking factor, speed is a ranking factor for Google Search.

That seems to say that is isn't blatantly the case that AMP provides an SEO boost. But that speed does. And there are many CDNs that are on the same edge. AMP isn't about to beat Akamai, for example.
It is sad to see how party politics get in the way of solving problems in the USA. Your whole reply is worded from the standpoint of someone who is clearly against the GOP and - given the practical reality of the de-facto two-party system in the USA - most likely planning to vote for the DNC candidate. From that standpoint you come to the conclusion that the GOP is planning to use the reliability problems with mail-in voting to contend the election results in case their candidate were to loose the election.

Then there are those who do not support the DNC - which is not the same as stating they support the GOP - who claim that it is actually the DNC which intends to contend the results in case their candidate looses on base of mail-in voting being thwarted. Add to that the fact that the USPS workers union has voiced its explicit support for the DNC candidate [1] and the story gets even more muddled.

Meanwhile Fauci has stated he sees no problems in people going to polling stations [2] which should give rise to doubts about the reasoning behind the urgency of mail-in voting.

I am not an American and as such consider myself to be an interested bystander in this drama. What I can state with certainty is that this type of manoeuvring is extremely unlikely to happen in my country of birth (the Netherlands) but is in some ways comparable to the situation in the country where I currently live (Sweden). The Swedish voting system has come under criticism from the OSCE [3] partly due to irregularities in the way ballot forms are being distributed - forms for specific parties have a tendency to 'get lost' in the mail or otherwise end up missing at the ballot stations, often to be found in garbage containers or dumped in some ditch somewhere. There are other criticisms but this one comes the closes to the current conundrum with mail-in voting in the USA. Sweden accepted OSCE inspectors to watch the election procedures, it remains to be seen what the country will do with their recommendations. It would be enlightening to have an external, non-partisan organisation do the same with the coming elections in the USA. Which organisation that would be I do not know, it will be hard if not impossible to find an American organisation which is truly neutral towards all parties and probably even harder to find a foreign one which is neutral towards the USA as a whole.

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/512128-union-represent...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2020/08/07/fauci-w...

[3] https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/6/2/403760.pdf
Covid-19 is accelerating the Future of APM says Leading Companies
It is interesting that few people are recognizing that the 30% buys you distribution on a billion devices.

Yes, I know, the web is free...and the App Store search is broken so discovery isn’t what it was... but still. Market access is VERY significant and worth something and the incremental cost to Apple has no bearing on what it is worth.

As discussed, prior mobile cuts were far more one sided. We payed the carrier 50% and then Qualcomm 20% of what was left. Bottom line, we walked away with 40% and we were happy.
This is a series of interviews from 2000:
https://www.amazon.com/First-Person-Astonishingly-Self-Portr...

Look Inside feature is available.
Do you still use Apple products and/or write software for them?
Yes this! Especially the "let's see" part. I am grateful to my fellow Europeans: we did the work, took the hit, reduced the spread, and now our kids get to go back to school. Thank you, neighbors, for your solidarity.
Knitting a Rule 110 Scarf
Yes, I'm sure you would buy an iPhone if Xcode didn't exist.
It doesn't cost $450 to make an iPhone. That's insane. It may cost that in parts, but there are many, many highly paid engineers, designers, product managers, etc. who worked on those products. Those people's salaries must be accounted for somehow.

This is something that a commenter on Hacker News should understand!

All of those dumb cost breakdowns for what it "costs" to make iPhones or whatever always miss the fact that you actually have to design and build the software, hardware, and services that makes it all work. Not to mention shipping and other retail costs.
The problem is that App Store is the only distribution method on iOS, so it's almost inevitable that you butt heads with Apple if you make iOS apps. How many App Store developers haven't had some kind of fight with Apple? So if App Store and Developer ID accounts are tied, you're always risking your Mac distribution if you make iOS apps too.
The thing is, Apple probably isn't the only one to do this. Apple is actually very graceful by the standards of platforms. Note that Epic did not attempt to surreptitiously introduce a "direct payment" feature into Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo platforms. That's because you don't even get developer documentation without signing an NDA. Had Epic even thought about doing this on console, the question wouldn't be "will the console manufacturers retaliate", as much as it would be "how many months until the console manufacturers start banning new game submissions that use Unreal Engine"?

Apple did this before, BTW. Remember "Thoughts on Flash"? That wasn't Jobs railing against an aging browser plugin. Adobe had figured out how to get Flash to export iOS apps, and that really pissed off Jobs. So it was really Jobs attacking a strawman (the buggy Flash Player) in order to justify banning all third-party development tools. The FTC threatened to sue and the rule was removed about 3 months later.
Projection is our most amusing psychological quirk. Americans aren't allowed by our masters to observe conditions in Cuba, but e.g. European papers have reporters based there. [0] There isn't a question. Cuba and other socialist Western hemisphere states like Nicaragua and Venezuela have properly handled the pandemic, even while contending with the penury imposed by draconian USA economic sanctions. Meanwhile USA and other nations in this hemisphere upon which our unsupervised services have imposed our scandalous form of government like Brazil and Bolivia have suffered setback after setback. We can fail to implement even the bare minimum of testing (and we have!), but we can't hide the dead bodies.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/07/cuba-coronavir...
Don’t forget that software publishers were an entire industry previously.
I find it oddly satisfying to be able to use an app on my phone to identify planes above me. Do it all the time. I live across the Puget Sound from Seattle and I occasionally end up spotting a Boeing plane clearly on a test flight based on the route it has flown (geometric shapes, circles, take-off and return same airport).

Also had an interesting occurrence when I awoke to the sound of a plane dive-bombing my house. We happened to be located in an area designated to be sprayed for some sort of moth. The plane was just about scraping the tops of trees. But I was able to track and see the pattern it flew to spray our area and other areas it had visited that morning.
Setting up a Mac mini from MacStadium for headless CI
It will all make sense when we can have F-Droid and GOG instead of $8/week guitar tuners.
I bet Epic would cut off all accounts of a company who actively flaunts the fact they’re avoiding the royalty fees associated with using the Unreal Engine.

Epic is simply hoping their bad faith practices go unnoticed after their Fortnite fanatics start doing their thing.
Same way other brokers have been making money in addition to fees - sell order flow, margin, etc
The outcome of this case may change that possibility.