skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As soon you need to talk about these things over and over you want to write these down.

This is the relevant part, to me. Can we do this documentation process JIT when someone asks about it? Maybe even convert the dialogue (in chat) or transcript of the conversation into the documentation.
Perhaps people want the ability to choose between fully featured app stores, because of things like these

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/resea...

https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/...

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/new-android-bug-targets...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/popular-apps-on-google-play-li...
Apple should permanently ban Epic and then drop their cut to 20%. lol
Henry Danger, a show on nickelodeon has featured transparent phones and tablets for years. Seems like they were right that this was the future:

https://opera.news/ng/en/technology/6a64c11b10e73b1e7f76cd12...

https://nickalive.blogspot.com/2015/11/sneak-peek-of-new-hen...

http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2015/11/sneak-peek-of-new-henr...
How are developers supposed to not use apple's payment platform when they are explicitly prevented from circumventing it? Your last two sentences dont make sense when put together.
Read their financials, the gross margins for services are listed in every one of their reports.

And the $99 and ad revenues are service revenues. So their audited financials say, taking all of those revenues, that services expenses are roughly 32% of their revenues. Obviously this doesn’t include administration costs, interest costs or taxes.

32% of 30% is 9.6%, so it’s possible that’s their break even level, or even a little lower if App Store margins are higher than other services. But it’s unlikely because it’s likely the billions in the Google Safari placement check is close to 100% margin, meaning the rest of services has to have margins well under 68%.
I have the same problem. I can sleep easily during the day. But at night it can be super hard to fall asleep. Even the slightest unexpected sound will get me.

You could try a masking sound, white noise or ocean sounds should mask traffic quite well. Not very loud, just loud enough to even out the variation. Good luck! Loss of sleep is terrible. I wrote about it recently: https://jacquesmattheij.com/dealing-with-insomnia/
Starting price US$210,000.
Yet Wechat faces a ban too, right?
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Yeah that’s kind of the definition of a monopoly.....
Yep, I'd take daily blackouts over climate catastrophe any day. We don't need perfect, we need to not ruin the planet for future generations.
You exaggerated cancer deaths by 400x to minimize what's happening with COVID (and BTW, were at 1k deaths a day, which is creeping up to be similar to the cancer number). You could start with walking back that claim, which was blatantly inaccurate and misleading.
The smartphone industry is a duopoly between iOS and Android, however iOS accounts for a majority of app spending. Their actions are overwhelmingly impactful to developers. If you want to maximize your profits as a developer you design for iOS first.
If TikTok isn't allowed in the US, couldn't someone make an exact clone? Or would copyright law prevent it?
Then you haven't really looked.

Most credible machine learning systems work well on unseen data, which by definition isn't memorizing.
Just in time for the thing for which Oumuamua was a spent deceleration stage... :)
The trouble with allowing a procedural language for styling is that all you can do with it is run it. PostScript and PDF work that way, which is why doing anything other than printing those formats,is very tough. Copying text from PDF barely works. It's an output-only format.

I wanted a constraint-type system. A is above B, B is to the left of C, D is below A and B. Something like that. All declarative, handled by a constraint solver. Any serious parametric CAD system has that. Usually with more features than you need for web layout, like the ability to handle curves.
> As a general rule, the Regulation will cap interchange fees at 0.2% of the transaction value for consumer debit cards and at 0.3% for consumer credit cards.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/lt/IP_15_...
MIS-C only affects children so the denominator is less than 5,000,000. But your point still stands, it seems to be relatively rare.
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> What do I get from using a client?

Recently I've started using OS search to launch apps on my Ubuntu workstation. One day I've tried the same with game launched. When you have extensive libraries on multiple platforms it definitely helps.

Also some clients support achievements. It adds incentives (or meaning, if you will) to play some good game even after completion of campaign or something like that. Yep, not for everyone.

BTW, you can download and install games from Steam using official console client [0]. Not sure if will allow to play [all] games, though. I had limited experience with that. I managed to download windows versions of doom and quake 2 for Oculus Quest from Ubuntu.

[0] https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD
Tens of billions a year more.
> If you need to do some cleanup before you die, then that's exactly what a signal handler is there for you to do.

I challenge you to clean up a temporary directory, like doing "rm -fr $TMPDIR/tmp$SECRET/" except not by running another program, in an async-signal-safe manner inside a SIGPIPE handler which then exits.

Hint: You're not allowed to call system(), readdir(), malloc() or any of exec*().
So either use Google’s insecure App Store, use someone else’s insecure app that’s sideloaded or by an iPhone. I think you just made a good pro-Apple argument.
You are trying to divert the topic to something that's likely never going to happen from something that gets HNers triggered all the time, even if it's just remotely related to Microsoft.
Apple certainly has the majority of the market when it comes to app store purchases.

And the government doesn't classify trusts[1] by the dictionary definition of monopoly:

> Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power. Courts look at the firm's market share, but typically do not find monopoly power if the firm (or a group of firms acting in concert) has less than 50 percent of the sales of a particular product or service within a certain geographic area.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Oh god, Kickstarter is....not a good sample to answer a question like this.
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What is opportunity cost in personal finance?
They charge in a very clear and honest way. So no issue there.
> Counterpoint: the consistency, convenience, and safety of the App Store and broader iOS platform is part of why so much money is spent there.

This is a really interesting point. Whether this is the reason or not for me, but I make and sell apps on both platforms and the identical app, identical price sells 4 or 5 to 1 on iOS vs. Android.
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As the deposits indicate, the concentration of "stuff" decreases as the water flows through the tank.
Watching some of his other videos, it seems like the boat sat on the rocks for a while before leaking oil. There was a chance to have stopped this.
Whoops! Failed to read past the first paragraph. Also should have added a "similar" in there. Thanks for pointing this out.
for some reason (probably a bad one) i love switch statements and i look forward to the match expression
I just started to write anything down basically...

When a collaborator or client talks to me or when I think about something, then I open a markdown file (first often just a notes.md) and just write in bullet points, and gradually organize it into categories.

I put these in version control as well since a while.

Thought experiment: if something is not worth writing down, is it worth discussing?
Maybe the real reason of disconnects in my case is that I log in once a week or even less often.
Then modern game consoles and s smartphones qualify as well, they definitely have the resources to compile everything & only artificial limitations introduced by the manufacturers prevent that - which is sad & limits their potential.
"And finally everyone gets to make direct eye contact again!"

And enjoy crappy contrast. For special purposes those transparent displays can be amazingly useful but as a generic monitor, thanks but no thanks.
Apples documented service margins put App Store costs at a minimum 10% of app revenues.
Any given layout is pretty easy to work. The problem is the sheer number of form factors, flexible resizing, and rendering methods (as you mentioned, print vs AMOLED vs monitors) that make designers and engineers cry.

When I talk to designers, they love love love paper for many reasons, but one of them is the total control they have over the medium and the fact that they only have to deal with one fixed form factor at a time.
To be fair, these are mostly integrations with other Google services. I wouldn't expect this to be an OS-level package.
Via a fancy “adversarial” patch

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/23/18512472/fool-ai-surveill...
Then why aren’t Android app stores charging significantly less, when they don’t even provide the same level of services?
They're just hiding the text with CSS. Disable CSS, or enable Firefox's Reader View, which replaces their broken CSS with something readable.
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iOS exploits are cheaper than Android exploits because iOS exploits are so plentiful.
The big question marks are "Long COVID", which I haven't seen mentioned about kids (so, good news?), and ADE reaction (Antibody Dependent Enhancement , of the virus) which we'll see in the second wave, when people get re-infected.
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Kids take their phones with them everywhere. Location tracking is a huge differentiator between mobile/pc. Front & rear facing cameras are another.

I am an app developer for iOS. It does directly affect me.
It always blows my mind when people complain about free services, and products are no longer going to be free. I learned that the free tier based customers, are the worst to support when I built Amezmo. Just like with the MailGun pricing changes, we'll have the people complaining about how it's no longer free.
That photo showing the LCD screens in the center console that are not angled to face the seat position... I really doubt those will be viewable at all in direct sunlight. In the photo they're already barely legible. This is what happens when you directly implement a concept rendering into real life without taking into account other environmental factors, and real-world human UI requirements.

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ZinBoats_I...

How is that in any way a good design? It's like they wanted to slavishly copy a Tesla, but without actually making it usable for the person piloting the boat.
At Khan Academy, we've been using ADRs for three years now, using Michael Nygard's format as a starting point. We adopted ADRs at the same time we adopted DACI (Driver, Approver, Contributors, Informed) as a decision making framework across the organization, so our ADRs server both of these purposes as well.
That's fine, but I'm not running JS unless there's a reason for the app to use JS.

This is a document, not an application, and developers who can't do progressive enhancement on simple HTML documents are the ones stuck in 2009.
ARIA properties are really just the escape hatch. For the most part, people shouldn't be using them except to fill in gaps.

Semantic HTML is the simple alternative. And the reason HTML has worked for accessibility overall is because it forces developers to use the accessible interface.

Compare that with image/video captions/descriptions, where most devs just don't do it. If you have a programming setup where the accessible and visual parts of your interface are two separate things, then by and large you will usually only get software with a visual interface.

The terminal is another good example of this. It turns out that forcing developers to code an interface that can reduce to pure text has some advantages for accessibility, extensibility, and portability.
Well Google specifically doesn't make it easy or safe to install apps from other sources. But there's no reason why it couldn't be just as simple and safe as getting it from the app store.

The problems mentioned below are really only possible because Google kind of leaves everyone to the wolves when it comes to sideloading.
Of course, there is a sixth option, in which they sue Apple for their behavior ;). Regardless, Epic is the underdog here, because they are at the beck and call of Apple no matter how you view the situation: Apple controls everything.

Also, I disagree that a person/company that runs a platform is entitled to being able to run the only native app store simply because. Want to know why Apple has set up the App Store in the way that they have? Because it is most beneficial to them that way. This doesn't mean that we have to tolerate it so.
What do you mean by "fooled"?

I'm very familiar with the BlazeFace and FaceMesh models (which are related to this in Google's MediaPipe framework).

They have weaknesses - they aren't designed for running upside down for example, so if they get data that is that way oriented they will tend to fail.

They aren't designed for "life" detection, so you can show printed pictures of a face and it will detected it.

But they give you confidence scores etc, so if you give it something like a caricature of a face it will return reasonable confidence numbers indicating it isn't as sure of its predictions.
I never got into mobile development because I didn’t think there was any way Apple’s App Store would survive asking for a 30% cut and final say on distribution. And now it’s way worse than it was in the beginning. There’s way less upside for small developers and a lot more risk of being rejected IMO.
I'm no vitamin D expert, but I am a physician, and my wife is a lawyer. I also didn't notice any disclaimer regarding medical advice on the currently linked blog post, so I thought I would at least mention it.

Also, you assumed my gender which is rather interesting in and of itself.
Installing an app from F-Droid is drastically safer than installing an app from the Play Store though.
Alternatively: Close the website and don't waste time on websites that have hostile CSS.
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Notably, there is still no curative treatment for polio. If you do contract it, it's still a roll of the dice whether you recover fully or develop paralysis.
I don't mind background and context, I just mind them being placed in a way that makes it difficult to locate and use the other information.
> If you sell a product through ANY distribution channel ... you need to pay a fee.

This is literally what OP is arguing for...
"Of course we do not expect you to know about category theory, nor do we want to encourage you here to do so." Ugh. Well, I can encourage you to do so, with some Baez [0][1].

[0] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/rosetta.pdf

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0404040
> Then they get experience working with sockets...

Ha. I have seen TCP sockets code which breaks in a "partial write" scenario, and even a "partial read" scenario.

Code worked fine on their own LAN. Broke for someone else, they couldn't see why...

They were very surprised when I explained that you don't always get one message per read(), because they had for years. Or maybe they hadn't, but assumed something else caused their occasional application glitches.
If I were Epic, I wouldn't even pick up the phone tonight. Let Apple sweat, and soon enough it'll be before a Congressional panel.

The app store certainly adds value by screening out abusive behaviors that can't be simply sandboxed; but 30% of revenue? That's just too much. At a minimum, we need to allow for competing app stores that can also earn the right to be trusted by consumers.
Skimming the PDF there are some juicy claims in there, allegedly the Epic store was almost preloaded on OnePlus phones but Google stepped in and forced OnePlus to shitcan the deal. Likewise LG preemptively refused to bundle the Epic store saying their Google contract wouldn't allow it.

Google throws power users a bone by allowing sideloading in Android, but as soon as OEMs make it too easy to bypass the Play Store it seems they change their tune and invoke veto powers to stop it.
You raise an interesting point, ekanjo. What does "virtuous" mean? I think I know what you mean, and I would agree with you if it means something like giving benefits to others ahead of self-enrichment. Wozniak is probably recognised by most people as the virtuous one of the duo, wouldn't you think?

Jobs was the superior business person. At least, it turned out that way after he returned to Apple, rescued it from Scully, and spent decades turning it into a behemoth that changed the world.

Woz might have given the computers away just for the joy of it, but where would that have left us?

Tens of thousands of developers owe their livelyhood to Jobs' vision. They get to make apps and everything else, all because Steve created platforms and ecosystems that would sustain an entire industry.

Still, that doesn't excuse greed. Jobs is gone now, so he can't evolve the app store into what it should be becoming, which is a more mature version of the quality platform he created.

It wouldn't take much to fix this current hoo ha. Apple could just introduce a lower fee tier for trivial sales such as the re-supply of virtual currency in games. If they took 10% instead of 30%, the problem would be over, the platform would continue, the community would still have opportunity, consumers could play their games and buy their apps, and life would go on. Does that sound virtuous to you, eklanjo?
Brake pads haven’t had asbestos for a while.
I think this is probably to cut distances and save on fuel and time. The reefs' safety is completely disregarded it seems. But we should know that already, these companies don't care much about the environment, they only do when they have to make large payouts to fix the damages.
You could trade stocks and bet on horses using the NES/Famicom hardware in Japan. There was a modem acessory and a cartridge with the corresponding software:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computer_Network_Syst...
The backlight of an LCD isn't itself polarized. A TN LCD display is made of two orthogonal polarization filters with the liquid crystals in between. In their relaxed (twisted) state, the crystals rotate the polarization of the light so that it can pass the second filter. When a voltage is applied, the crystals straighten and the second filter blocks the light.
I don't think that's fair.

Other satellites are reflective, too. It's difficult to make a satellite completely dark, in part because dark = absorbs heat and it's hard to dump heat in space.

The problem with these internet constellations is that, to work, they have to have thousands of them in each constellation. SpaceX has permission for 12k and is seeking permission for 30k more (https://spacenews.com/spacex-submits-paperwork-for-30000-mor...).
Why? See I understand kickstarter has a history of unfinished products and founders running away with money, but i feel like you are just having a knee jerk reaction.

Actually I look at this positively. Most kickstarters offer actual tangible products and not software, and I think going solo and actually making profit (though small) is a pretty insightful result.
Solo founders doing better doesn't necessarily mean you are better off going solo.
Oh definitely, the places I’ve worked have used Jira as a crutch for broken processes and workflows.
> We know how to deal with the flu.

Not really. We just are used to it. 12,000 to 61,000 US deaths per year over the last decade. This adds up year after year.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html#:~:text=Whil....

I'm not dismissing covid as "just a flu". I'm pointing out that people dismiss the annual deaths from the flu. For example, few people take any particular steps to minimize transmission of the flu, like wearing a mask or keeping their kids out of school.
They might come to an agreement with regulators to leave the equipment there, however it seems like you're implying that facebook intends to act in blatent contempt of the governments order. That is difficult to imagine. Have they ever done that to the usa gov in the past? (not on a hurr durr media thinks facebook is evil kind of way, but in an actual, here is an order and we intend to ignore it)
Ships are in the vicinity of Mauritius because "Mauritius and the nearby island of Reunion lie on the shortest straight-line route between the Strait of Malacca, which links the ports of Asia to the Indian Ocean, and the southern tip of Africa." Mauritius seems not to have "put in place a safety zone". These seem at least part of the picture.

https://gcaptain.com/heres-why-so-much-world-trade-passes-ma...
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Expanding on Puerto Rico's primary export...

Per the FDA, Puerto Rico produced (pre-Maria) $40B of pharmaceuticals for the US alone.
40 of those products and devices were deemed critical as they're the only producer or there's no viable alternative [1].

The largest (in terms of unit count) production was Normal Saline with Baxter's P.R. factory supplying 50% of U.S. hospitals with small volume saline bags (<=250mL as opposed to the more common 1L) prior to Hurricane Maria which took out their production facility [2]. The hurricane is widely credited as the cause of our national saline shortage (though as [2] details, it exacerbated a shortage that already existed for several other reasons).

[1] (PDF warning): https://www.fda.gov/media/108975/download

[2]: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1800347
I'm a customer. I do not want to vet all brand quality for each brand individually. I want to be able to choose between a few pre-vetted options that I can already trust.

I want stores like Costco and Apple's AppStore because I trust those companies to vet brand quality and provide me a basic level of trust for the products. I'm happy to pay a 30% premium for that piece of mind.
Rough seas, and Mauritius doesn't have the resources. The rest of the world is distracted by Covid19. It also seems like the country only requested help from France a few days ago. Yes, it's sad.

I'm not clear why the ship was anywhere near the reef.
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