skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You were so close. On page 6 as you mention he defined his FR term, but he also defined 'net worth' explicitly including real estate and housing. In fact it's the first thing on the page so I don't know how you missed it. And the original quote used net worth, not FR. He also gives a figure for FR, which is even higher at 46% vs 40% for net worth (owned by top 1%). So it seems you are not well versed in this man's research at all.
Why hasn't a business approached F-Droid or other App stores to bridge a gap between Play and Android?
It doesn't have geography to be minimally informative.
You're not quite seeing the point: This is not a developer trying to use their ecosystem for free, not in the OnePlus example: This is a developer saying "Thanks but no thanks, we'll choose a different ecosystem"

And Google inserts itself into the relationship between the business partner for that other ecosystem and bullies them into cancelling the deal.

Off course it's important to keep in mind that as of right now, we have only Epic's highly self-interested interpretation of events, and the truth may be far different. It seems LG for example had a pre-existing contract with Google to not do the sort of thing it was about to do with Epic.
He said "concerned" as in "it is none of your concern" because it shouldn't effect you. You are still free to fear gay marriage or spiders or clowns but your fear shouldn't dictate public policy or impinge on anyone else's freedom.

I like your idea that freedom and emotion are orthogonal. A lot of the problem we're having with "culture wars" right now is the blurring of the line between the two. I think separating the two ideas might help solve a lot of issues from "cancel culture" to "war on Christmas" and "safe spaces" and maybe even gun control. You can hate/fear/boycott a comedian who offends you but you aren't owed their head on a platter. It's OK to think that your being a Christian/Vegan/Cosplayer is sacred but you shouldn't expect everyone to cater to your belief.
It's not uncommon for popular models to sell at MSRP or above. That's just supply & demand.

The dance is extremely annoying, though. I've leased 4 cars since 2011: 3 Mercedes and 1 Honda CR-V. I wanted to lease another CR-V, but the dealership reneged on the price so we just went back to our trusty sales rep at the Mercedes dealership who always comes back with something reasonable in a matter of hours--not especially low, but no B.S. and no pressure tactics. The Mercedes is of course more expensive, but after splurging the first time it's hard to stop the cycle given the customer experience.

I want to buy something to replace our 20-year-old Civic. Probably not a Mercedes, because of long-term costs, unless we buy over our current lease. But it's really no fun dealing with typical dealerships, and the good family cars (e.g. Telluride, CR-V, etc) are really popular and the dealerships know this.

I recently learned that there's a boutique car shopping consulting industry where you pay a few hundred dollars for someone to provide advice on models (including family haulers, not just high-end sports cars), and then to solicit and secure offers on your preferred models. I might try that next time around.
Researchers Say PDFs Are 'Unfit for Human Consumption'
No they didn't.

You're not visualizing how much 3,000 tonnes is.

The classic drum of oil is 42 gallons and weighs 300lbs - just the oil - the actual drum itself is another 40 or so.

3,000T = 20,000 barrels.

Of course, the oil in the ship isn't barreled, it's in giant compartments.

This ship wasn't even a oil tanker...this is the actual fuel tanks of the ship itself leaking.
Thanks, I learned something today!
You're saying it's better to get something wrong and fix it than to just do it right the first time?
Sure, we’re extremely privileged.
Correct about drawing conclusions, which is why I mentioned that it is anecdotal.

That said, before I mentioned it, had you heard about the burping issue? I sure hadn't.

This is all grain of salt, but given how novel this thing is... pretty much the only information we have to go on at this point is from forums like this. Therefore, I think it is a valuable resource that should not just be discarded or ignored.

Over time, this will of course get distilled down into real medical research and studies, but it is still interesting to listen to today.
Sadly there are some glaring omissions.

How about Enyo the predecessor of React? If there was no Enyo there would be no React since a team member on Facebook was originally inspired by it ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enyo_(software)

How about PhoneGap? A Javascript library that allowed you to write native mobile apps for the first time.
Disposable infrastructure is a fundamental piece of distributed systems. Stateful infrastructure is rarely disposable.
my solution to this problem is the same as my solution to the tech megacorp oligopily problem.

there are too many students chasing to few colleges. there should be 20 Yales, 30 Harvards and 50 MITs. just like there should be 10 Microsofts, 20 Googles and 50 Apples. if competition for credentials wasnt so pirate cut throat due to induced artifical scarcity, then society wouldnt be nitpicking over admissions quota minutia.

imagine a world where we cut the Pentagon's budget by 15%, and poured that $150 billion into turning every Community College into a University on par with Yale and the Ivys. imagine a world where unemployable grad students were not ground up and churned out through a system that only has teaching jobs for a fraction of them.

the solution to all higher education problems is to radically increase the supply to meet the demand.

dont you want humanity to have an orbital base around Alpha Centauri someday? how else are we going to achieve that?
And then you notice that your browser demands almost the same amount of resources as a 60+fps 3d game for presenting you a just a bunch of static images and some text. It is apples to oranges comparison, because a performance requires an unsandboxed, non-emulated native env, which is hard to protect from exploits. Replace a browser with any OS in existence and see how secure it is to execute an arbitrary binary on it.
2. To soundly defeat or best one; to succeed over one by a wide margin.

-- https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/take+to+the+cleaners
I'm not newly remote but have been remote since pre-COVID in San Antonio, Texas.

Relative to the Bay Area and other major Texas cities, it has a really low cost of living. We also have great parks, great food, less traffic than Austin, and it's only about 2 and a half hours from the beach. In non-COVID times the social life is pretty great too.

There aren't a lot of tech companies, but there are enough jobs for me not to worry if for some reason I couldn't do fully remote in the future.

It's generally just a laid back place to be, and I enjoy living in a place where the cost of living is low enough that people in a variety of non-corporate careers can do pretty well.

The only downside for me is the brutal heat, but you kind of get used to it.
Quantify the ventilation rate of an indoor space using an affordable CO2 monitor
Yes I can see the discussion at hardware manufacturers now.

Marketing: 'So, we can monitor users and collect sellable data through a camera hidden behind their monitor?'

Engineer: 'Why yes, but maybe we should allow users to disable this through some kind of hardware switch. It could lead to potential privacy violations etc.'

Marketing: 'If they turned it off could we still collect marketable data?'

Engineer: 'Well no...that's sort of the point...'

Marketing: 'I see...so invisible hidden cameras that can't be disabled you say?'

'
> then those advantages go out the window.

Not entirely. You just don't sideload to keep those advantages. Only powerusers sideload apps on android currently.

But this also doesn't help epics usecase where they would want every user to sideload to access a popular app.
Nintendo is a publisher.

Also publishers FUND your game as well which is why they take a larger cut, like how a vc would.
Outlook and Teams working fine for me in Los Angeles.
This is specifically why I mentioned that it is anecdotal.
Customer Speaks- Why Bowmo Chose RChilli?
This is how the system has worked, oftentimes for decades past.

No, they would not be considered acceptable in a computing application. But in computing, it’s considered acceptable to discriminate against users for the sake of security.

I’m unaware of any major democracy that uses computerized voting with a username, password, and 2FA to replace the traditional ballot box, for obvious UX reasons. (Never mind that computerized results might actually be easier to forge than paper ballots).

Regardless of what is “acceptable” it is a fact that widespread voter fraud using the mechanisms proposed would be detectable.
Privacy-focused mods for Android had demonstrated how to solve this years ago -- give the option to feed the app fake data.
TikTok? Never
How to: HA Prometheus Metrics with Thanos on GKE
The thing is - will that work longer term ? Mozilla will not maintain the old codebase anymore and unless someone else takes it over (unlikely) tje old version can become insecure & missing new APIs. All that while Mozilla still not providing the missing features for the new version.
It would be interesting to see if they could stitch any of these images together to make an interactive look around street view.
I totally agree. If Ivy League colleges wanted to be truly diverse, and fair, there is a very simple solution: set a minimum bar in terms of things like grades, class rank, AP scores, and perhaps some objective measure of extracurricular activities. In very competitive schools, you'd still have many times the number of qualified than you do spots. So than you have 2 options: increase or class size, or take people at random. Of course, either of these options take away from the exclusivity of the institution in the first place, which really is the raison d'etre of the Ivy League.
Android solves this. Out of the box its locked and can not have software sideloaded. You can disable this feature and do whatever you want but to disable it you have to have the phone open. Stolen phones are still bricked because they can't be unlocked and legitimate owners can do whatever they want.
Thanks, I appreciate that. And while I do see their offerings as vastly different in many ways, I do see the parallels you mention.

Speaking personally, and as as a lifelong gamer, I place great value in being able to play my games decades from now. I own collections of discs and cartridges, new and old, which I still enjoy from time to time and look forward to being able to share with my kids one day. I do worry that when the various digital storefronts phase out (as many have done), the hard disks which the DRM'd digital copies live on will eventually die, and the games will disappear forever.

It is somewhat comforting to me that the major consoles still have alternative avenues of publishing and distribution - that of the veritable disc and cartridge, which at least in my mind, helps alleviate many of the anti-competitive concerns. That developers can choose between consoles, publishers, retailers, etc, and that consumers can choose to resell, trade, or give away their games, like good old fashioned property - something which is becoming rarer and rarer these days.

This ecosystem (particularly the physical one) provides a level of competition that doesn't exist on phones, and so, at least in my mind, (and along with the differences I mention in my other post), presents a major difference between the business models.
We're now selling almost everything we own on the East coast. We're planning a six month stop in Austin, TX, on our way to our final destination: Yucatán, Mexico.

The financial leverage of USD is great there, and the last few years have led me to believe I'm not a good culture-fit in the US.
The full amount wouldn't be savings. There would also be return on investment. And the stock market has had a crazy decade after the great recession. From June 2008 to June 2016, stock market had an 84% return on investment with dividend reinvested. Someone starting saving this decade may not get the same chance.

https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/
> What are you going to do if your company makes an adjusted cost of living to your compensation?

Move to Hawaii? :)
It seems likely the purpose was to cause more people to think about the game Fortnite by virtue of the publicity from this.

It seem like something their lawyers pitched to them as “hey if it works, great, you save millions a year on the App Store percentage, and if it doesn’t, hey, at least you’ll get a whole lot of publicity, which should drive your sales up enough to more than compensate for the losses of being off the stores for a bit.”
And google https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368079/fortnite-epic-an...
The argument that browsers should stop trying to become an OS on top of the OS (e.g. webUSB) deserves better than this overly emotional rant.

The browser that has been holding the line in this respect, Safari, is dismissed without explanation.
Judging by downdetector MS had some issues from ~10pm - 11:30 Eastern. Seems to be better now.
One argument I don’t see being made is that mobile phones are actually in fact a duopoly and because the duopoly acts exactly the same, they should probably be treated as a monopoly inasmuch as they do act the same.

Listen, I get there’s a whole legal world you can argue around this, but really if I consider Apple + Google together, the lump sum of all their anti-competitive practices are enormous. In fact, they sort of thrive off each other.

For example: you can’t change the default search engine on iOS to anything but the four that come built in. How this isn’t anti-competitive is beyond me. But it’s because “the other half” of the oligarchy avoids monopoly. But is duopoly really tangibly different when they both have a sort of “agree not to infringe on each other” deal. Google basically stays out of the premium device market, and Apple stays out of search and advertising.

They literally got caught for agreeing not to poach each other’s employees. They both basically are acting together to preserve the golden cows, respectively, while both implementing a wide variety of truly despicable policies designed to further entrench their moats, suffocating whole swaths of startups along the way. Look no further than AMP and the ever-expanding google inline search answers and widgets, or on Apples side the complete lockdown of third party apps and unchangeable search engine. Then add the huge cut of app payments for both which mysteriously neither seems to think they need to compete on the cut they take? Somethings not right there. Especially given they both make more profit than just about any other company on earth.

It’s tiring to see all the legal-first thinkers who love to jump in and show how they aren’t monopolies... well, sure. But they are coordinating their efforts. The day Apple launches a search engine or Google actually attempts to build out a premium line of laptops (no the Pixel notebooks don’t count, they dropped those immediately), I’d have a little more faith.

People need to make the argument that they are coordinating and in effect acting as a monopoly because of it.

Google and Apple should not be allowed to act in as coordinated a manner as they do.

Two changes that would immediately make the world a better place. First, mandating that search engines cannot be locked down, and must be presented as a choice at setup without pre-determined order. Second, mandating that alternative app stores be allowed with no extra overhead. The second I don’t see how it happens legally, but outside that, it would absolutely be good for the world, no doubt at all it would increase competition dramatically.
Samsung can generally fight for special concessions because they're A. One of the largest OEMs and B. Actually have the technical capability, monetary resource, and customer loyalty necessary to fork or replace Android.

Everyone else has really no choice, and Google gives them the my way or the highway approach.
That's very interesting. What made you choose Yucatán specifically in comparison to other parts of Mexico or Central/South America?
Many OEMs ship their own stores (Samsung, Huawei, etc.) which gives them a piece of the pie. Is that what you mean by business?

Approaching F-Droid probably isn't very desirable when the point of the store is to not profit from software.
> I don’t want 5 blasted stores on my iPhone

I don't want 5 blasted distribution methods on my (Android) phone. I'm perfectly happy with 5 different sources, though. Put plainly: I want repositories, not stores. I get to use the same tool (app) to manage all of them, and I can add different sources if I'd like.
I've heard, and the art director on the game followed the same philosophy, that art directors tend to make future tech look worse\glitchy on purpose so it's very clear to the audience that it's "tech". Technology that for all intents and purposes works mostly flawlessly looks a little too much like magic to audiences I guess? Like really you'd just want to have a person show up and look like they were there, but that might not read clearly as a hologram to a 20th or early 21st century movie goer so they're monochrome blue, flickering and noisy with clear projector rays. I'd like to see a sci-fi game or movie where all of the tech mostly worked flawlessly except maybe in some exceptional situations.
Yeah but come on (I fear I may be verging on no true scotsman territory here, but...) you're not culturally a brown guy, I doubt you even have a non-American accent (do you?).

I'm an American brown guy but I've often felt like an outsider. Having traveled quite a bit, some experiences that stick out in Germany and Iceland is random folks casually starting conversations with me, I struggle to recall this happening to me in America.
When are they going to start disallowing imposter Bitcoin scams?

Or is that their bread and butter now?
We tried to move to Santa Cruz. My significant other grew up near there and desperately wants to be near her friends again. Turns out, all the Bay Area peeps wanted to do the same. Rents haven’t gone down there and the competition is really fierce. (“Honey, what if you got a job at Looker/Google?! We could be in Santa Cruz forever!!!”)

Started thinking about moving to Denver...

But, I don’t really want to move yet. See - the thing is - I’m in the Bay Area because I want to make it. I came here because I needed /a/ job. Then I got sucked in and decided I wanted /the/ job. I want to get the big $$$ and be able to afford that nice house in Los Gatos with a 911 in my driveway. Doesn’t mean I would pull the trigger if I had the money - I won’t know until I’m there. But moving away - well, it means that’s definitely never going to happen. I’m not ready to accept that level of failure yet. After all, I’m not even 30 yet. I got a few days left. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.
Its not just bad UX. Its horrific for privacy. Epic games on windows load a rootkit in to the kernel that starts a boot even while the game is not running.
Saving 100k more! Wow, that's an impressive difference.
Does 9:30am qualify as early morning?
Kindergarten? They just took bra/kets, Feynman diagrams and substituted block-looking shapes. The underlying logic is hardly changed to kindergarten level. The kid better have a masters in physics to follow this.

"...i.e. we need to conjugate the first Hilbert space (although this gives an isomorphic copy). In the above argument
establishing the bijection we used the matrix representation of Hilbert spaces and hence essentially the whole vector
space structure, but in fact we need none of this, and we will show that in any picture calculus we always have..."
It was a 100% planned response, but there is no way in hell they willingly want to kill apps that make them millions of dollars a day in sales.
Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19386141

https://youtu.be/MYP56QJpDr4
yes writing a mini-rust compiler in C is possible and you can write in the mini language. But the problem is: at what cost?
Jira has many project types and products, and the one most commonly used is actually called Jira SOFTWARE. It literally has software in the name.
If you're building a product for software companies, you can think about how to do it better specifically for engineers
I like how this was challenged and not "decimate".
> If they find out you work remote and don't need anyone they will start screwing around with your life.

I've lived in po-dunk farmlands in flyover states and actual swamp towns of 900 residents during my time as a remote software developer, and have never experienced any of this. I don't understand why it would ever come up. Can you elaborate?
You mean Google enabled E2E encrypted calls to every Android device?

That sounds like a good thing. Duo is still pretty much the only E2E encrypted video call app that also works on the web.
Sounds like a crazy amount to save unless you managed to keep living at home and not paying rent, along with saving every dime and investing (investing being the easiest part around 2010, everything went up).

I’m assuming it’s a non FAANG salary (sub 200k), but even then the best numbers I could come up with is about 600-800k over 8 years (the top end only being achievable by aggressively investing every dime).

Regardless, it’s got me thinking if I should pump most of my paycheck into Delta and all the distressed market sectors for the bounce when this all ends.
I think it's a fair take given how locked down these devices are. Until I can install any software I want on my phone, it's not really my phone.
The alternative isn't that rosy - if you judge everyone by (objective) standard tests, Goodhart's Law takes effect, and we breed a generation of highly optimized test takers. Maybe I'm just exposing my Western bias, but I have a child and I don't want his adolescence to be continuous preparation for one academic test after another. Mine wasn't.

Combining standardized tests along with bias-ridden subjective measurements may just be the best solution among lots of imperfect solutions. We try to address egregious abuses when we find them, but "fair" will always be a goal, not a destination.
Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid Google's 30% cut
No I understood, and it is still easy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19386141

https://youtu.be/MYP56QJpDr4
Monopsony is also deemed to be anti-competitive and illegal. Technically as an app developer or service provider, when you're selling an app or service on iOS, you're not selling it directly to the user. You're actually selling it to Apple who then on-sells it to the user. Because of the way the walled-garden has been set-up, there's no alternative way of reaching customers unlike in Android where a customer can have the option of multiple app stores or the ability to just sideload the app.
wow, how is that not unfair competition?
People have been clamoring for this for ages. I remember some years ago when people were cheering about discord deleting racist content despite the whole platform being made of micro-communities that no one is forced to join.

This is where that sort of militant progressivism leads, when there's no bad methods anyone can be a target at the whim of whoever is in control of the system.
Nintendo Switch is a gaming device featuring a 720p display. An iPad is a general purpose feature with 4x the pixel resolution.
If Apple charged 5% (which is still more than a credit card processor), I doubt so many companies would be complaining.