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The most alarming part of this is actually the clear evidence that they use arbitrary and inconsistent enforcement of vague rules to actually enforce OTHER secret rules. In this case "no app recommendation engines", or more broadly "nothing that drives downloads".

They didn't just say that. They pretended it was some other rule. Which means what people suspected is true -- they lie to you about the reason for your app being removed. You may have zero chance of complying with the rule they said you violated, because it wasn't really about that rule at all, it was about another secret rule or policy decision.

To me that's far more alarming than the fact that they decided to forbid a class of app that had previously been allowed.

They could arguably defend the ability to forbid any category or type of app they want with no notice; it's their store, they make the rules, they decided that kind of app was unwelcome. Although that they don't simply admit this must mean they think it would make them look bad, and/or discourage developers from developing for their platform, and/or be evidence of antitrust illegality, and/or something.

But when they instead lie about it... it makes the whole sytem into a kafkaesque maze, you never know when they are lying to you about their rules and when they are telling the truth, when there's something you could do to "fix" your app so it would be allowed, and when they have just already decided the whole category your app is in is banned; it's not because you actually accidentally violated any rules, and there's nothing you can do to fix it, but they will instead try to, well, "gaslight" you (I normally am not fond of that phrase, but it seems apt) into thinking you were in violation of a rule.

> He said he thought it was unfair, but this was something Apple set out to do, and even as Senior Director of App Store (person directly in charge of App Review), he could not stop it.

I would like to believe if I were him, I would have had the courage to quit. NOT because it is unfair to the apps banned. But because LYING about it makes the entire App Review process illegitimate and unethical and "gaslighting" developers, and I wouldn't be willing to be the person directly in charge of all App Review if it's gonna be BS like that.
But there are several stores in mobile country, and more again in platform country. Drawing the boundary of the market around iOS seems circular. "They're a monopoly because they have 100% of the market share on the market that's specific to them."
Maintaining XCode, running iCloud app-facing services, building/maintaining SDKs, etc...

Apple has to pay for these somehow. They can either get the money by charging more for each iPhone or they can get the money from the real end-users of these products: Developers.
Did you eliminate all animal products or just some?

I have some rooms I’d like to clear out.
Apple have hundreds of millions of loyal users buying new iPhones every few years as a result of that market. I think from that alone they are plenty compensated, and it's a perfectly good reason for Apple to provide a decent SDK. Or should successful developers send them a cake, too?

Apple should ask for compensation proportionate to the value they are providing Epic. Which they do, in the form of paid Apple developer accounts, and a 30% cut on services Epic is using.

For instance, if you choose to make your app free, Apple won't get that 30% cut on sales. This doesn't mean they are magically entitled to money as compensation - the transaction simply didn't happen. If they don't like that arrangement, maybe they should charge more for developer accounts?
I saw somewhere that Epic earned $500MM from the iOS version of Fortnite alone in 2019 -- so Epic was looking at potentially $150MM USD/year.
This makes as much sense as saying "just work extra hours to earn back taxes".
Memory failing me; it used to be part of the IDE, with a copy of it and the dictionary stored on local storage, but I guess J has changed enough recently it needed to go up on the wiki where it can be changed. You can always find it from nuvoc.

Usr Pri JfC LJ Phr Dic Voc !:

All these are interesting; some primers, some the old version of the dictionary (I think it's depreciated for now). I end up !: a lot for the foreigns.
I'm not sure how that's relevant to what I said? Just because Google lobbies doesn't mean this person doesn't have ulterior motives for making a whole page attacking Google.
The web map is entertaining to watch

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If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16393873

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4543038
A few more transformer implementations that I’ve found:

https://github.com/pbloem/former/blob/master/former/transfor...

https://github.com/openai/blocksparse/blob/master/examples/t...

https://github.com/google/trax/blob/master/trax/models/trans...
After 30 years why is web development such a heterogenous mess?
It seems like greater standardisation like the HTML standard but for web 2.0 apps is desirable. Instead of converging on a standard it seems as time goes by the forest of webdev frameworks and backends grows ever thicker and web pages load ever slower and contain less useful information.
Catalog of shortwave transmission stations of intelligence agencies
> 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.

Cool, but some of the world's largest companies evidently care enough about the platform to develop for it anyways–or feel the need to do so. When you have a party that controls access to such a large market, then telling people who develop for that platform that it's their fault that they decided to do that is basically victim-blaming.
> It's more like, why did Epic decide to file a spurious legal action when their situation with Apple is exactly the same as their situation with Microsoft (for XBox) and with Sony (for PlayStation) and with Google (for Android).

It's not spurious and their situation on Android, at least, is not exactly the same, because they can (and have previously) distribute to Android via their own website or third-party stores (and have announced intent to bring their own store to Android.)

Of course, they are suing Google on similar grounds.

As why only Apple, it's not only Apple, and this kind of litigation is expensive and it doesn't really scale in cost with the potential reward, so if you are going to devote resources to one first swing at it, it make sense to do it where the immediate rewards of winning are the greatest, which is iOS, first and foremost, and I expect for Epic right now, mobile more generally.

> The only difference is that Sony just invested $250M in Epic. I'm sure that minor fact has no relevance here, though.

Well, yeah, that's a pretty important difference, and quite possibly legally relevant, too. Aside from the political reasons not to sue a major investor, investment agreements might well have terms that change why relevant legal rights and duties of the parties.
I believe in general purpose computers, I see them every day and I know they exist.

I also believe in choice and experimentation when it comes to business models. If I want to buy some systems with trade offs and benefits that don’t always include being able to root and run Linux on them, who are you to prevent me?

Believing that all systems must be maximally flexible is a scarcity mindset that felt more reasonable when families had to save to be able to afford a desktop computer that would be in use for several years.
I don't get the whole objection to mutiple app stores.

Instead of clicking icon A, I click icon B and if I get a cheaper game, all power to Epic.

I don't spend time in an app store. I spend time playing the game.
Lebanon's Slaves, Lebanon's Shame
At least a few, presumably?
Related wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
Beyond jsonb: a generalized, unstructured data type for Postgres
Epic literally does sell gift cards: https://smile.amazon.com/Fortnite-V-Bucks-Gift-Card-40/dp/B0...

Fortnite is big enough that Epic fills as many sales channels as they can with ways to buy their in-game currency.
most iPhone users love the idea of a single app store with apps vetted by apple
Before March I never truly questioned if commuting by bus 2-3 hours a day was really worth it. (By car it's only a 30 minute drive to work but I don't drive and I have no desire to, and the bus lines here are really dumb. I just used the time to sleep.) Now that I have that time to spend with my family they'll have to open up an office near me or arrange for a taxi to pick me up and drop me off every day if they ever want me coming regularly into the office again.

Last I was there I picked up all my things so I don't even have any designated physical space there anymore, and I love it.
It's not literally "infinite", you are right. And compression is probably the wrong term. Parts of my early memories are gone: literally gone, no where to be found. It feels like exponential decay the further you go back. Certainly it doesn't decay to nothing, but maybe it's close enough on a very long time scale. I don't know... how do others perceive their distant memories?
Where else would you discuss the language itself?
Apple Arcade for $5 / month is a good deal. Fun games and no more money to pay ever. If you like the old Zelda games check out Oceanhorn as well.
That has nothing to do whatsoever with Tesla's "4 years and running of consumer fraud". Whatever your thoughts on Tesla's public image or business behaviors, it's not especially relevant to the discussion on machine learning.
I was pondering last week as to what it would take to build this. Very useful. Kudos :)

What is the monetary model behind this. My reason for asking is what would it take to keep this up long term.
Yes.

In particular, I don't ever want to be in the position that PC users are stuck in, where they can be forced to install certain stores just to get access to the games they want to play.

And I certainly don't want to be stuck in the position that Android users are in, where they have to worry about what store they're using, where the software comes from, and whether the app they're about to install is legitimate and free of malware.

There are freedoms to and freedoms from, and they're both important. As an iPhone user, I knowingly and willingly chose freedom from.
> Apple suffocated web apps by blocking a lot of functionality (APIs, PWA support)

Rightfully so: I, as a user, do not want the web to have anywhere near the functionality that Google grants it; and absolutely not without clear and explicit permission.

The unfortunate flip side is that native apps sidestep that whole paradigm anyway.
Actually developers built the market. Without that Apps on the App store, the iPhone is worth almost nothing.
Is it going to be called "Nintendo Switch"? Because Fortnite is on there, plays really well, and I'm not sure what Epic is going to bring to the table to outclass it.
the em waves produced by substations induce fear of decreasing home values via an unknown mechanism.
minGPT is actually quite performant too, the min refers to breadth of supported functionality (eg the absence of support for various additional conditioning, exotic masking, masked LMs, finetuning, pruning, etc).
I don't know enough about Japanese law to know either way, but measuring needs, capabilities, and/or national strategy by observing the things that companies are doing is often a bad yardstick.

At best, this is twice removed from the facts at hand. [future capabilities and limitations exist] > [they're interpreted by legislators who design regulations and subsidies] > [automakers build whatever makes them money]

If look at the US automotive market, you might conclude that automakers have found the best way to decrease emissions is by making cars larger. This clearly isn't the case, this is simply what the regulations have encouraged companies to do.
I never said that I misunderstood. I said that your comment was implying other things. You are hiding behind technicalities, knowing full well what you had implied.

Hypothetically, if I commented on a fashion blog "people that wear blue shirts are more intelligent" and then pointed to an article stating that doctors often wear scrubs and score higher on intelligence, my original comment - while technically true - is worthless - it adds nothing to the discussion. Worse, my comment implies the wrong thing - color of shirts is independent - the true causal variable is a person's profession

I asked for a source for your statement. Why was it so hard to provide that? Instead we had to go through this huge ordeal to discover that you were making a weak correlational observation. Was it because you knew that your articles didn't support the claim you made?
Because Apple went to trash after Jobs.
How is this legal? Apple is so blinded by their arrogance that they don't see that this will lead to the App Store getting severely regulated.

Look at Uber for a great example. It took years, but Uber and Lyft were finally handed a business-destroying law that will hurt them. It will only take a few months for the rest of the US to adopt similar strategies as well.

After the congressional hearings a few weeks ago, Apple still doesn't understand what is going on around them. If they keep going this route, they will absolutely get themselves regulated and frankly I hope this happens. Their arrogance is disgusting to me and I hope this eventual come-to-Jesus moment will scare the shit out of them.
What he is doing is simply restating the "I have nothing to hide" argument in the context of a different right, in this case the right to free speech. He is doing so to illustrate that the argument is not presenting a justification for the systemic violation of a human right but instead relying on an unstated assertion that the a given persons disinterest in a specific legal protection is an adequate pretext for its removal.
Why would animals recognize sunglasses as eyes?
Or switch to Unity
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Personal attacks are not ok on Hacker News. Also, please don't fulminate in comments generally. We want curious conversation, not flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Click-bait title.

The strong correlation between right-wing extremists and individuals threatening violence and terroristic activity means reports of the latter often mention the former.

This is akin to the observation that reality has a leftward bias, when interpreted by US standards.

Now, if only those responsible to act on the reports did not agree with the extremists...
But doing so wouldn't make that developer's software unusable on Windows.
If you are working with a service that promises you applicants for that hard-to-fill position, well, the end game is money and a promise delivered. They can't really help the quality of applicants, after all, since they don't discriminate and aren't actually doing the hiring.
Yes, AFAIK
I guess I was groveling. This was my livelihood and I was employing 20+ people. I did not want to give up on this and have to tell the team our work and their jobs were over. I tried to be honest and explain the situation, because I believed if Tim Cook understood what happened, he would make it right.
I'm unaware of any current legal action Netflix is taking against Apple.
I'm sorry, what? Are people not allowed to have free time and hobbies anymore?

Just because someone's working on a high-profile high-risk project does not in any way change their personal time: it's theirs to do what they want with.
> Yeah, you're right. That is the outcome that we want. We want multiple stores on iOS. I thought advocates for this position had been really clear, maybe we haven't been clear enough though.

Right, and the rest of us don't want that, and I also don't want games or apps that don't adhere to Apple's rules. You want another option of App Stores because you want don't want to pay for the user base that Apple created and maintains. You want to embed permanent location tracking in your apps, abuse user data, and not have to have your crappy practices out in the open when Apple shows the "nutrition scorecard" for your app.

That's not what I want on my iPhone. If your app doesn't conform to the App Store, then that's your problem, not mine. I'll vote with my dollars here. I want the iPhone just the way it is, even if that means fewer apps from bad actors.

> We live in a world where Apple has complete control over the app ecosystem, and you're frightened that another company might get control and... offer better terms than we have right now?

Yes that's exactly what I want. I want Apple to have complete control over the ecosystem. They've earned my complete trust.
I mean, you never know, maybe someone finally spikes the oceans with enough LSD to have us leave this entire plane of behavior behind us through sushi alone.

Until then, all the new additional seamen will at the very least help the upcoming demographic crises!
Arguments of this form always rely on nebulous definitions of what counts as a "choice." Sure, if you're banned from a specific app store, you cannot use that specific app store, because that's just what is means to be banned. You can, of course, still access any other app store.
Methane is odorless, so you might still be producing methane - the decrease in odor has more to do with sulfur compounds
it's obviously no better than a password if someone else can just press the little yellow button :)

If you're using it as a second factor via U2F, the point isn't to be better than a password or to replace a password. The point is to be different. Specifically, the point is to be proof of physical possession. If they steal it, then you still have a memorized password as an authentication barrier.

The problem you raise in your blog post is a good one. People do tend to forget their security keys in their computers. However, making the security key the only required factor seems counterproductive. As an alternative, how about a background daemon that enumerates attached U2F/FIDO devices and reminds you to remove anything that's left in for more than a couple minutes?
be careful flying around homesteads. My drone's been shot at before, and honestly given how the country's going, I dont blame them.
Or you know, they could get the money from the yearly fee they charge developers for exactly these reasons
I’ve been using yubikeys for at least the last 2-3 years for all ssh/gpg operations and I have my key on my actual keychain so there’s extra weight on it and sometimes the key sits at a bit of an angle. Still, I have yet to break a single USB port on my ThinkPad. I’m a bit worried about USB-C though.
> they use arbitrary and inconsistent enforcement of vague rules to actually enforce OTHER secret rules.

In the context of criminal law, this is sometimes called "selective enforcement," and refers to the criminalization of normal behavior in order to provide plausible cover for violations of the actual, secret law. It's devastatingly unjust, and unsurprisingly applied in private jurisdictions.
Having worked at a payment processor, if you are a medium to large business, you can cut deals with payment processors for a much lower fee. They are very competitive, and of course, Apple would be a special customer given very generous terms (assuming Apple are not processing the transactions themselves which is possible). This does not even take into account Apple store credit via gift cards and the like or purchasing different apps in one transaction which eliminates or lowers the fees.
Apple Will Soon Terminate Epic's Developer Accounts
Towns in fire areas should have egress plans with a bus fleet available.

The traffic jams at Camp (twice) and Berkeley were silly, yet fatal.
That's just not what traditional QM says. Traditional QM separates quantum systems (microscopic) from measurements devices (macroscopic). A measurement occurs when the measurement device interacts with the quantum system. You do QM by predicting the results of these measurements. Consciousness does not enter into it.
In the scenario where the market is crashing faster than they can keep up with, do you think they'll put their own sell orders ahead of those of other customers? Could they get in trouble for that?
Being banned from the iOS App Store also doesn't make your software unusable on Windows, or Mac, or any other non-iOS platform. The App Store's exclusivity is precisely the same as that of nearly every video game console.
I came to a different conclusion after watching footage of
a family hunting together at night.

There is also a third very similar white dot on the tip of the tail which is very much more dynamic that the two fixed points on the ears.
By moving the tail relative to the ears I would swear the ones in front could at least communicate their own intents to the ones behind them if not issue perfectly silent directives
Why ZFS? I thought copy-on-write filesystems were discouraged for database workloads. I know it is possible but are you getting other benefits from ZFS?
America is great. Online gambling is illegal but you can have an app to punt the market all day. Options might as well be roulette for most people.
I honestly think that DRM is very much like antivirus in the sense that the only reason anybody buys into it is that the companies who develop it pay sales reps to convince corporations that it's something they need when it's really just poisonous snake oil and paying money to someone to shoot you in the foot.
If you murder someone on Google property it is still murder, similarly incitement on Google property it is still incitement. Where you do it does not make it a non crime.
ISOs are not universally better. They have a 24 month time requirement while NSOs only have a 12 month requirement.
Another analogy would be “work extra hours for the government to earn back taxes.”

We pay taxes and government pays employees and contractors.

Epic pays Apple and Apple pays retailers.
>devs could do all of this stuff on Android, they just refuse to.

That's not fair. There are good reasons Android doesn't have art production apps. The biggest is that Android users don't pay for apps like that and devs like eating, but iOS has several other advantages like the Pencil, the better graphics APIs, the better graphics performance, etc.
Free games? That's what they do on PC. Nintendos biggest weakness on it's handhelds since the beginning has been almost no sales (as in Steam sales).
Are you arguing that because of the current possibility to install apps from third-party sources that might turn out to be malware, Windows should only allow installing apps from the Windows Store?

Should we no longer be able to run software that has not received third-party approval?
Okay, then since we've failed to argue that Apple is a monopoly, what's the next antitrust argument, and how does it apple to iPhones but not to game consoles (which have the same if not stricter restrictions to third-party software developers)?
With whom my city subcontracts is irrelevant to me. I pay my city, and get the service I want. The fact that my city opens up the contract every few years to new providers is irrelevant to me. My relationship is with my city, and I wish the same could be true for my internet service.
Causal Graphs: Chains and Forks
Apple to cut off Epic Games from its development tools
On a side note: Why did the US fight an independence war, but then used imperial units?
The military is paid by taxes. In general, no single citizen has much control over how much it costs. The USPS is different because if we eliminated stamps and paid it all out of taxes, individuals would abuse the system.

Because we pay out of pocket for postage, we expect the USPS to place no further burden on taxpayers. However, it keeps going going into debt. This signals that there is something wrong at an operational level, since its competitors don't go bankrupt despite not having the huge subsidies and advantages in the law that the USPS has.