skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I also believe its a lousy case, but that what courts are for, to decide things. But Apple can easily point to all the times Epic agreed to the Agreement (my employer's large legal dept always reads any changes before agreeing), to the agreements Epic is fine with from the console companies paying the same percentage but did not sue, the long history of each and every clause in the agreement in the world of contract law (Apple has a billion lawyers I doubt they miss much).

Winning such a case based on complaining its an antitrust violation is rather quixotic and normally only a government would do this.

Maybe in the end both relent and the rate goes down, but I don't think Epic wants to pay anything and still be available.
You need 113 sq feet per employee to maintain 6 foot distancing guidelines. Y'all in your offices have at least that much. Folks in cubicles and open offices do not. The restaurants and grocery stores are supposed to make sure that they have 6 feet in between customers, and of course, customers are allowed to leave if the guidelines don't look like they can be followed.
Which makes me think, what prevents me from putting a lens in front to the projector and directly imaging the projection into a camera sensor? Modern cameras can record lossless 48bpp equiv. video in 4K, it would pretty much be a 1:1 copy given sufficiently sophisticated optics.

Which leads me to the conclusion that the only reason why no one is ripping movies using Prima Cinema projectors and commodity grade hardware is the price. If they removed DRM it wouldn't make much of a difference, the limiting factor is already the price of the projector.
The letter is from 2015, the fact that the US house of representatives is looking at the letter appears to be current and the main point of the submission.
>the most ridiculous 1984 reference

To be fair, it's a reference to Apple's own ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
Soviet anti-tank dogs [0] in WW2. Although in truth the expenditure wasn't massive.

> the Soviets used their own diesel engine tanks to train the dogs rather than German tanks which had gasoline engines.[5] As the dogs relied on their acute sense of smell, the dogs sought out familiar Soviet tanks instead of strange-smelling German tanks

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog
For small range (few km) you can just utilise LoraWAN for free communication.
> We're going out to eat in restaurants again

Where I am (Bay Area), restaurants are outdoor only.
Popular Notepad++ text editor banned in China
Aug 28 Apple will terminate all our dev accounts and cut Epic off from dev tools
I downvoted because complaining about Tesla is irrelevant to the topic, not to express pro-Tesla sentiment.
To take it further: how do you know that the people checking the results are not just evolving unitarily until you hear about the result?
Usually when you fire a customer they can go to one of your competitors. This just proves Epic's argument. There is no competing App Store on iOS because it's not allowed. If Apple "fires" you then your users can no longer install the app onto their own phones.

Imagine if Microsoft "fired" Adobe and as a result nobody could install Photoshop on Windows anymore.
Actually you're right. I was mixing up covariant and contravariant vectors with tensors. Although tensors do decompose into covariant and contravariant components, as your definition states.
Yup. Exactly. Think of it this way. You manufacture product foo and it's sold to customers via some national store chain. If you anger the owners of the store chain, they can simply refuse to carry your product anymore. This happens all the time. The app store is no different. It's a national chain that Epic sells through and they've poked the bear one too many times. Lucky for Epic that it's privately held. Otherwise they'd have a shareholder revolt.
It is so frustrating that Apple has gotten away with such developer and user hostility for so long. Maybe this will be the breaking point?
This is an easy and popular bug to write. The ZIP file format (which is used for JAR files as well), which puts the header at the end, is truly the sin that keeps on giving.

A consequence of this choice is that ANY file concatenated with a ZIP file is a ZIP file (and the same therefore goes for JAR files as well.) So if you concatenate an MSI file with a ZIP/JAR file, your MSI file detector will look at the file and go "yeah, looks good!", and your ZIP/JAR file detector will also say yes. (This also shows off the hazards of automatic filetype sniffing.)

This is related to one of the very oldest Android rooting vulnerabilities. The update.zip files use the signed JAR file format, where the file contains a signature on its own contents. Naturally the signature can't cover the entire file; it only covers the contents referenced by the header.

But the sin-that-keeps-on-giving strikes even harder here: The end-of-file ZIP header also has an end-of-header comment field, of arbitrary size! This means that a single file can actually have MULTIPLE valid ZIP headers. Which means two different tools can interpret the file as two different ZIP files (much as the bug here can interpret the same file as either a ZIP or an MSI.)

Don't do drugs, kids. And don't do automatic filetype detection. And don't do ZIP/JAR files if you can avoid it. And for the love of god, don't put your header at the end.
Why would you buy a device where much of the value it provides is derived from its walled garden, then complain about the walls around the garden?
This is a valid question - if the answer is a fraction of what Apple charges then it strengthens the case against Apple.
If Epic devs are running macs, do you need a developer license to run XCode?

I'm not sure the repercussions of losing their Apple developer accounts, but I imagine it's not pleasant.

https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1295434558112960519

> Epic says that included in the tools that Apple will revoke is the Unreal Engine that hundreds of third party developers use. "Apple’s actions will irreparably damage Epic’s reputation among Fortnite users and be catastrophic for the future of the separate Unreal Engine business"
All I can do is throw up my hands and say "Stallman was right."
Yes. We're allowed to work from home until the office is free of all temporary safeguards. So until they're fine having people elbow-to-elbow with no masks and no shields and no protection, I'm allowed to keep working-from-home, and I probably will. Restrictions won't be lifted until November anywhere in the world, probably won't be until January in Montreal.
For limited and questionable definitions of “works,” yeah. There is a reason C++ is much more popular, and it’s not the exception handling.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24190556
- Main discussion here
Someone looked at how much money they are making on iOS and multiplied it by 0.3

Imagine getting X% of everything you sell going forward without adding any extra features - just by complaining
Play is also an anti-competitive monopoly as well. Google was a bit smarter about avoiding potential anti-trust though, because they at least give the illusion of choice with 3rd party app stores.

There basically is not a competitive market for either app marketplace right now, so an accurate price can't be determined. Allow 3rd party marketplaces to be installed as easily as any other app and I'm certain prices will come down from where they are today.
TikTok: The Last Sunny Corner of the Internet
Some might see a difference between "a developer who went public about their frustrations with the App Store" and a developer who deliberately violated the policies and then filed a lawsuit and started an extensive PR campaign.
I don’t think GNU patch shares history with Larry Wall’s original. https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Patch seems to say so: ”GNU version of Larry Wall's program that takes "diff's" output and applies it to an original file to generate a modified version of that file”

I tried to verify by looking at their git repo, but that stops at “Import of patch-2.1.tar.gz” (https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/log/?ofs=450)
Apple takes 30%, in this case, like, $500M+.
Consumers bought the phone which can be be considered a general computing device.. so we should be free to run whatever software we want on it. That's the real argument.
Do you need CUDA? If so, forget it. Because it is not there on any BSD. OTOH creaky i3 suggests you don't.

edit: I think one of the most important and convenient things is to get a NAS or build a small fileserver. That way you can decouple most of your personal stuff from the systems you are using via NFS/SMB/CIFS and give a damn about interoperability of filesystems, thereby gaining the ability to try out what works best for you without much hassle.
And that's assuming people cannot find satisfaction in maintaining things. Personally I do find it satisfying to be "polishing" the same software for a long time. Iron out bugs, make performance improvements here and there, update to newer frameworks/APIs. Code is like a living thing and keeping it alive can be very rewarding work.
Epic Games: Apple Will Terminate Our Developer Account Aug 28
How does a person become rich? You mentioned shareholders, so that's one example we can explore. They get richer off the work I do by selling what I make/provide for more than they pay me to make it.

If they paid me more and kept the exchange value of the produce/service the same, then the shareholders wouldn't profit as much while conversely giving me more money. By the shareholders exploiting my labor less, I can be richer.

If I have enough wealth, I could start a company as you suggest. I could be like the shareholders where I pay my employees as little as I can get away with and selling for as much as I can. This would help me and my shareholders turn money into more money.

But again, it is only through the exploitation of others that this is possible.

Another example of getting rich is owning property. If I have enough wealth, I could own not one, but two homes and charge rent to people who need a place to live. As they toil away at whatever job they're doing, I get this "passive income" that greatly increases my wealth while stunting wealth growth of my tenants.

We all want to be rich, but not all of us can be rich at the same time, otherwise, none of us would be rich. It's in the definition of being rich: to have more than others. But to have more than others, you have to exploit them.

And, tying this all back to your first comment describing one of the basic features of our society: using capital to generate wealth. You can imaging that this basic feature of our society makes it such that wealth clumps together. The more wealth you have, the easier it is to grow that wealth; it's like a positive feedback loop if you're into systems engineering or a massive object if you're into space. And having no money or no wealth is actively bad, and you can probably model a negative feedback loop of that, with the ultimate outcome of death (there's probably some good charts showing life expectancy vs wealth/class out there that illustrates this).

This is just an observation of the society we live in. It might be obvious to you, but it's cruel to me and many others who toil paycheck to paycheck living in fear of running out of the little money we have.

> If you make safe diversified investments in Robinhood, your money isn’t being taken away.

Sure, Say I invest $1200 over a year. How much would it "grow"?

Also, that's $120/month.. what if I need the $120 immediately and can't invest that much.

I guess my question is, How much money do you need for RH to be worthwhile?
Very cool! Any chance of Save-As-SVG?

Even if not, there could be some cool potential for integration with my project, Togetherness Table:
https://www.1kfa.com/table
https://github.com/sjbrown/togetherness
This is their standard TOS.
Ah, I found one thing that's kind of bugging me - the text tool.

It seems the text is not layer-specific. It would be nice if it was so I could have a "notes" layer that I can turn on and off for exporting two different images - one for players and one for the DM.

The text tool also seems to create text well above where I actually clicked. Ideally I would imagine the point that I click to be the top-left-most corner of the text box.
Apple doesn't own those phones anymore though, the users do. Whereas, I don't get to own my own best buy.
I seriously hope you meant fortunately?
This just seems like a dumb move on Apple's part. It's self-sabotaging. It hurts their legal case, it hurts their public image, and it hurts their platform, as Unreal Engine is used in both iOS and macOS games. Not that many people were getting Apple platforms for games before, but they've just shoved one of the most popular engines off the platform.

If the judge grants Epic a TRO, Apple is going to be in deep crud. Should be a good early sign of how the judicial system sees the case.
How doesn't it make sense? Seems pretty on-point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(advertisement)

In his 1983 Apple keynote address, Steve Jobs read the following story before showcasing a preview of the commercial:[21]

"[...] It is now 1984. It appears IBM wants it all. Apple is perceived to be the only hope to offer IBM a run for its money. Dealers initially welcoming IBM with open arms now fear an IBM dominated and controlled future. They are increasingly turning back to Apple as the only force that can ensure their future freedom. IBM wants it all and is aiming its guns on its last obstacle to industry control: Apple. Will Big Blue dominate the entire computer industry? The entire information age? Was George Orwell right about 1984?"
Back when everyone went stay at home, my daughters Montessori school started zoom lessons. It was quite hectic to be doing work from home and keeping the kids in the right zoom room.

I spent time teaching my daughter different topics and used workbooks over the summer. She is in good shape for the start of school.

Right now the school is bringing kids back in, but giving them the option to do remote learning. I am going for the in person learning. Each kid is getting their own workspace, and they have to wear masks when they are not at their workspace.

If they were not considering in-person learning, I would probably opt to get some families together to create one of those learning pods.
Epic is not saying that Apple is removing gams that rely on UE. (https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/epic-v-apple-8-17-20-768927327...)

What Epic is saying that they will no longer be able to make any updates to UE, which will effectively kill it as a viable business.
We benefitted greatly from SCE raising the TOU-D-A peak rates because we generate net power during those times. It sounds like I'm fortunate to not know anything about CPA though...
Will that break their existing installs?
An interesting conversation I saw elsewhere was about whether you could request accommodation under the ADA if you are at-risk or someone you are in close contact with is at-risk. It seems the answer is yes, but in your communication with your employer you will need to specifically mention accommodations and the ADA to be safe.
> I just follow the rules in my TOS and block them like I do others who don't follow the TOS

I'm fairly sure Apple doesn't terminate the developer account simply for failing an app review. I think this is a specific executive decision based on the fact that Epic is unlikely to rectify the issue, which could be seen as retaliation.
EPIC does exist outside of the mobile space.

They produce one of the top Cross Platform Game Engines, and produce many high quality games, including Fortnite which was massive well before any mobile version was produced.
Nitpicking, and I'm not even sure that's correct. Regardless, it's not relevant. What Epic is griping about here is the 30% fee, but they're not acting or speaking in good faith about that. They're pretending that fee is somehow onerous, but they pay that exact same fee to every other platform, too.
To show that you deserve whatever pay you need to show impact and complexity. I don't think you would have a problem showing either when talking about maintaining Google scale products...
Apple just showed that it is game developer hostile. Gamers will just migrate to whatever platform their games are available. Devs will lose tons of money, users will lose their investment in the ios ecosystem and apple will lose its cut. It’s a lose lose lose situation and Apple is the one to blame.
In this context, you mean masking to hide parts of the map from player? The crosshatching effect on my maps (which can be changed to all sorts of different styles) is created using a mask, so I just wanted to clarify.

If that's what you're going for, there isn't a super obvious way to do it in my software yet, but after making your map, you could add a new layer, switch to the Hatching Tool, choose solid black hatching, or any other solid image and draw over any parts you want to hide. Then to uncover it, just use the erase tool with all but the hatching checkbox selected, and it'll unveil the parts of your map underneath.

If you were thinking of something else, let me know and I'll answer as best I can!
There is no such requirement. But that is the capability they want that they do not currently have. They already have the capability to delete comments, just like you can delete comments on your own posts.
Per the guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I am not indicating fault. I drove a $1500 car for 4-5 years.

Just wondering if the issue could have been prevented. Loose balljoints are notoriously hard to diagnose, since they are supposed to have movement and it's hard to distinguish "play" and "movement".

A ball joint popping out of the steering knuckle is probably one of the most critical failures your car can have. Hard to think of anything worse.

Even if your brakes all locked up at the same time, it would probably be safer, since there is less chance to immediately flip the car.
Excellent, but why enshrine the ability to do this in law only for sufficiently wealthy media companies? Seems a bit ridiculous, doesn't it?
> A level that is beyond that. A mind that observes your thinking mind.

In the way I was taught mindfulness meditation, "equanimity" means observing without desire. You do not seek pleasure, you do not flee from pain. It does seem to give that "level above" feeling you mention. I consider this the most valuable skill I have learned during my limited time meditating.

> Mindfulness meditation is about practicing being in the present moment, nothing more than that.

This seems false. Even your own comment follows the "nothing more that that" with a list of additional things. As I mentioned, I've found the skills that help me be aware of the present moment are more valuable than actually being aware of the present moment.

I think of jogging. I hate jogging. Whenever I do it I am fully focused on the moment. Can I endure another 2 steps? And then another 2 steps? That's pretty focused on the moment. My desperate breaths, my aching side, that's living in the moment. Yet, it is not like meditating. I do not develop any of those skills you listed at the end of your comment when jogging. Thus, I think meditation is about the skills required to be in the present moment rather than actually being in the present moment. The detachment, the observing without desire, etc.
Good luck, I hope it works! Consider adding some flash cards with grammatical forms to mix in with your "character" cards. e.g. a monadic hook "(f g) y" is equivalent to "y f g y". And some short idiomatic phrases, e.g. "(#~ f) y" means -- approximately! -- "copy the values y_i of y wherever (f y_i) is true." You can find examples of these little phrases on the J wiki.
https://twitter.com/slasher/status/1295434558112960519?s=21

This may have consequences for Unreal Engine too.

Without a dev account, how can they maintain it?
Karpathy is the head of Tesla autopilot, and the headline is Karpathy's MinGPT.
That’s a good point, but the incentives there make more sense: game piracy has been a huge issue for publishers on every gaming platform (PC included) that didn’t put serious hardware roadblocks to it. They also sell the hardware at a loss, which means locking it down if you don’t want someone to build a supercomputer out of it on your dime.
This reminds me of the Facebook vs Zynga debacle.

It did not go well for Zynga.
Epic is misleading a bit...

Epic is claiming that without access to developer tools, it cannot properly develop the Unreal Engine for other parties to develop against.

Reading the legal document, it does not appear Apps that use Unreal Engine are threatened to be removed. Only that Epic cannot improve the Unreal Engine.
My thought is that after each expansion/contraction cycle, contraction is never exactly back to its previous state.

Like bending a piece of metal back and forth, it weakens each time.
At this point in the fight, Epic has not fired its biggest cannon: announcing that Unreal Engine 5 will not support any Apple hardware.

So at this point, there is uncertainty, but no clear harm done to any developer using Unreal engine and currently targeting Mac hardware.
I believe Epic's entire case revolves around phones being a general computing device, so they'll be using the Microsoft antitrust case law.
We know some of them want it because a lot of them say so elsewhere in this threads.

Nobody is forcing developers to develop for iOS.

If Apple raised
their rate to 70%, I’d build for the web or Android in a heartbeat.

It can be both a service and a requirement for iOS developers without being a shakedown.
I wonder how skewed these discussions are on HackerNews. All the surveys from big companies show that an overwhelming percentage of people would love a mix of WFH and going to office in the future.

I really think HN is just super introverted or many were stuck in some toxic office culture.

I've always liked my coworkers in the various places I worked and being in their physical presence at work is a pro for me, not a liability.
> could be accessed in the area

If you didn't want remote access you would not have to pay rx/tx costs.
There is nothing here that says the companies using Unreal Engine will be affected.
I also want to see Epic crash and burn, this was a PR plan from the very beginning.
This is all PR before Epic stops selling vbucks in-app. They can’t advertise where to buy in the app.

This will get the word out that you can buy vbucks through their website.
Only if it uses Google's built in payment system - which is what started all this (EPIC using their own).
What took me aback was the withdrawing permission to notarise their apps for Mac. That was only meant to be a check for known vulnerabilities/malicious software. Apple was more within their rights to kick Fortnite until the dust has settled from the iOS store, that was the retaliation, but now a mechanism supposedly for security has been repurposed as punishment.

That's a pretty nasty move and I feel the mask has slipped slightly here for Apple.