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Apple gave Amazon special treatment to get Prime Video into App Store (newsbreak.com)

2 points by dschuetz 1 hour ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24238110

Not my submission so I can’t vouch for the site. Googling shows sites more well-known are reporting on this as well.
Several other companies have been granted special treatment.

Like Amazon for example. They pay 15% not 30% as everyone else. Way to reinforce their market dominance.
What Makes Ruby Beautiful: Metaprogramming
Let me provide a counterpoint: true operating people rarely make good investors as they think “well I could probably work my way out of this problem” so don’t cut their losses. These folks can be good to have on your board, but can also be bad.

OTOH in my experience people with no operating experience rarely have good advice (but there are significant exceptions to this too, e.g. Michael Moritz).

Most likely to succeed: enough operational experience that you can pattern match accurately and insightfully. A good example of this would be John Johnson at august (maybe he’s retired by now?) who once ran a factory in Hong Kong (making clothing? I can’t remember). Nothing tech, yet an excellent tech investor (Palm, Be, Cygnus, many others) and board member.
This misses the seminal result of Roughgarden & Tardos – the price of anarchy in the example is 4/3, but that is also the maximum price in any network where travel time scales linearly with traffic.[1]

[1] https://theory.stanford.edu/~tim/papers/routing.pdf
Fond memories of the old Commodore 64 group that I attended back in the '80s
Going to be crazy when nations steal eachothers piloting AIs
RaaS.
I agree that it's great for the French worker (way better than how US workers are treated), but you have to also see how it's a disincentive for a French entrepreneur to create a new company, no?
Yeah, the argument you are making about all keys being compromised doesn't make sense. You are leaving out a key assumption in your setup, and without it is not possible (for us) to accept the chained compromise you are describing.
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An interesting solution could be to make MDN a paid site, as many suggest, but also offer it to libraries and universities for a token fee. The process is already in place and successful for scientific journals and encyclopedias, so the friction should be low.

Then, the paid version would be the most convenient and attractive to anyone with $5 a month to spare, but everyone else could get access through the nearest library or university, a one-time hassle with equivalent access after.

As a bonus it raises awareness and usage of libraries, which is good for everyone.
praiseworthy and apt use of "kafkaesque"
I'm 29 and can't figure out life/career
No career. No motivation. My biggest weakness is I fear judgment from others. Social anxiety. Depressive, but I've been dealing with it for a decade I know how to handle it well. I've been living with different roommates around the USA since 18. All my problems could be solved if I had money. If I had a place I could call my own and enough money to cover living that's all I could ever want. I'm extremely frugal. I've been into self improvement since I graduated high school. If you recommend a popular non fiction book I've read it. And I don't want to paint the picture i'm some loser. It's possible I am, but it doesn't feel that way. I've done some cool things in life. Traveled to Australia, then Asia. Then Mexico many times, all solo backpacking. Met some good people along the way. Banged some sluts. I've worked 40 different jobs. I've never liked any of them. I feel cursed. Like there is this missing component out there if I could realize I could make a true life change. I've come to terms with the fact this may be who I am. Now that you've read my sad blog (sorry) if you can relate or give any advice to a person in my situation what would it be?
There was a question earlier from someone who wanted to know how Alan compares to NESL and Fortress. We took too long to draft up our response and were surprised to find it deleted when we got back.

In case you're still lurking, we wanted to give you our answer. :)

Our array-level parallelism is very similar to NESL's, but we also include IO concurrency based on dependency graph analysis and a coarser Event-level parallelism. Fortress does share many similarities with Alan, including being able to declare your own operators, but is a runtime typed language while Alan is compile-time typed so we should have a higher performance "ceiling" in comparison. We're also owning the runtime entirely so we can make optimizations that a JVM-targeted language would not be able to.
F (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20200821171042/https://www.nsa.g...
So if four tiles = 42 teraflop, then does that mean 25 of these will produce 1 petaflop?

Wow.

I’d imagine these things are super expensive.
If I did a search for some product I wanted, ended up on your landing page, and discovered that you currently had nothing to solve my problem, I'd consider it to be a waste of my time. I wouldn't call it "scummy" though, as long as the landing page was honest about the product not actually existing yet.

I wouldn't sign up for a wait list unless there was a clear time frame for when to expect a working product. If I have a problem I need to solve today, being able to have your MVP product six months from now doesn't really help me.
Why not just have two certificates rolling with overlap for some redundancy ...
Be kind.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines at a high rate with your recent comments. Could please review them and take the spirit of this site more to heart? We're trying to have a community here that doesn't degenerate to internet default (or worse), and that takes a collective effort.
> Are developers supposed to pay to develop? ridiculous

No. Developers are supposed to pay to access the hard work of the technical writers and developers who maintain MDN. I don't understand why you think it's self-evident that this work should be free.

Here is a longer explanation by the person who created the precursor to MDN: https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2020/08/i_love_mdn_...

Here is the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24159244
It's disgusting how many cars we have in cities, isn't it. Why do all these people need cars? They're even literally parking under a railway line.
The largest pop/fire I saw in some past power electronics work was a poor implementation in trying to combine the output of multiple DC-DC converters. The original caught fire in front of a potential customer, in a demo. What I saw was a repeat of the experiment, in the lab. A manager that would always say "just add more capacitance" was involved. I guess firing and fires go with managers like that.
I know I'm feeding a troll here, so last response.

I've looked at hundreds of other codebases, ranging from beginner apps to complex enterprise-level apps. I've talked to thousands of people who are using Redux in many, _many_ different ways, and catalogued hundreds of libraries people have made to add on to Redux. I _know_ how people are using Redux in practice, and what kinds of problems they're running into.

I'm quite serious when I say I'd like you to write up an issue with some specific concrete feedback listing your concerns with how we currently teach Redux and recommend people use it, especially since I'm working on an ongoing revamp of our core docs. I obviously can't guarantee any _changes_, but I'm very interested in having substantive discussions in a more suitable venue than HN comments.

Whether or not you choose to take me up on that is up to you.
WordPress claims Apple cut off updates to its free app because it wants 30%
This is a sad post. The MDN web docs are the internet handbook for javascript, html, and css, besides other browser technologies. this needs to be enshrined and freed of financial constraint. we are kind of failing.
Pledged

Skip to the point and set up a patron , as a node dev I would not able to do my job without MDN.
A primordial black hole of 1000 Earth masses is only 17 meters wide. It's effectively impossible to see, with a event horizon temperature of 0.02 millikelvin. If it was extragalactic, it'd pass through our solar system at a pretty good clip. It could certainly do unfortunate things to Earth's orbit. A normal stellar mass black hole would be even worse.

Very unlikely, of course. But not fictional.
Both JSON and XML are self-documenting, and most modern databases support directly importing and exporting them. Though the tools to accomplish this could be better, these formats are far better suited as a "medium for data distribution" than CSV files are.

That said, a simple compressed .sql file of INSERT statements can often go a long way.

The only reason CSV is widely used is because normal people think of data as spreadsheets, and asking them to fire up a database and shred JSON data into it is ridiculous when they just want to whip up a line graph or answer a simple question (e.g. "What was value X on a this particular date?").
Apparently he doesn't have any issues with the walled gardens from game consoles.
Let's face it, the FT is published in English, and I would not be irritated at all if BaFin was still looking to issue a call for proposals to find a translator to translate the FT articles into German, on the day the whole scam was finally exposed by EY deciding it was not worth the risk anymore.
I saw this external battery on Amazon a while back. Apparently it's powered by graphene.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y9S4WCY
> since the half the employer pays is not included in your net income

There is a total cost for employer for a particular employee and the take-home pay for that employee. Where between those two we put a number that's called "your net income" is just arbitrary convention.

Employer knows how much the total cost will be when they negotiate the salary. It's all the same to them if the entire amount goes to you personally and then you use it to pay health insurance, or they first pay some of that amount to health insurance and then give the rest to you.
I've always been fascinated by this event. I would love to see a realistic CGI recreation given the absence of actual footage. However, this write up is the next best thing.
Well beyond my level and like the hacking of network protocol of video cam here, learn a lot. One minor thing to note is how c code is still ruled here as expected in embedded space.

And one annoying thing is how some of the constant like 4 and size of (which some is 4) is used Interchangably. Also some init of the Array has data but actually is a read into Array. Just to confuse reader ?
Exactly - Telegram can be used for public gatherings precisely because one can stay anonymous. It's more like Discord in that respect.

Wire is a bit of a mess. Client is buggy, cross-platform usage is difficult. At least that's my memory of it.
For those who dont want to solder, theres a module for this:
https://auvidea.eu/product/70501/

Mouser:
https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Auvidea/70501?qs=EU6FO9...

Datasheet:
https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/864/B10x_technical_refere...

Edit: Theres also this one on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0899L6ZXZ/
Any useful government must be powerful enough to take everything away from you. How else could it, for example, punish murderers?

Like it or not, this is true for literally every government in the world. So that's not a sensible counterargument to giving it the ability to help as well.
> authorities shut off the internet, leaving Belarusians with almost no access to independent online news outlets or social media and protesters seemingly without a leader

How are they using Telegram without internet?
Yes, as far as I know, astronomers think so. Those are exoplanets. Planets without any nearby stars.

Even in our own solar system we don't know whats out in our Kuiper Belt. Probably nothing too big or we'd be able to measure the gravity effect.

But in the Oort cloud, we could have multiple Pluto sized things out there and have no idea.
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Something I never see anyone mention about France taxes is that the biggest your family is the less you'll pay income tax (living with a partner makes the better paid one pay less tax and you'll pay ever less for each kid). Plus you get money for each of your kids that get borned and then money to help you raised them for a few years. Plus you get financial help to get them in a nusery. In short France is a fiscal heaven for families.
What do you do of the effects of lock-down in European countries?
It's apparently not just an Apple thing. ebooks.com has a DRM-free version [1] (PDF or EPUB) that's also about $60.

[1]: https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/210066947/deep-learning-fo...
I'm completely ignorant on this topic, so I apologize for asking what must be an extremely stupid question to you, but: what makes stability a static quality whereas resilience is a dynamic quality? Are these statistical definitions that I can look up somewhere?
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I think this is something every computer/tech/future programmer should have done at least once, even if you give up half way.

I did this when I was in early high school. I just got into Linux, and this was super fun to do, it really showed me how an operating system worked and all the moving pieces and how they all fit. I did it all on a 1ghz machine with 256mb of ram, and some slow DSL. It took me a 4-5 days back then, but it was a blast for me.

I haven't done it since. But today I am a senior devops engineer, and that knowledge was so valuable to me today. It is so much easier for me to reason about systems and linux in general.

Honestly, I am really tempted to go through this again as a weekend project in a VM or something
Care to elaborate on the "political reasons"? I've never heard of someone moving _to_ Ubuntu for political reasons.
Maybe, but I'm not sure how "our sun" is less provincial than "us".
Tweet thread - it looks like Apple is requiring in-app purchases to sign-up for wordpress.com accounts, despite it being an open-source app for any WordPress site:

> Heads up on why @WordPressiOS updates have been absent... we were locked by App Store. To be able to ship updates and bug fixes again we had to commit to support in-app purchases for .com plans. I know why this is problematic, open to suggestions. Allow others IAP? New name?

> New name: The app has always done a ton of work to support WordPresses hosted anywhere, using the XML-RPC API included in core WP since WP 2.6 was released in 2008. That's why we called it "WordPress" and not "http://WordPress.com" or "Jetpack."

> I am a big believer in the sanctity of licenses. (Open source relies on licenses and copyright.) We agreed to this license when we signed up for (and stayed in) the app store, so going to follow and abide by the rules. Not looking to skirt it, hence doing what they asked us to.

Alternate stories (though none are really that great):

MacRumors article that gives a (very) small background on this: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/21/wordpress-ios-app-apple...

The Verge, with slightly more context: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/21/21396316/apple-wordpress-...

EDIT: Apple stated in the past that app updates would _not_ be held up over guideline disputes.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-reveals-new-dev...

"Second, for apps that are already on the App Store, bug fixes will no longer be delayed over guideline violations except for those related to legal issues. Developers will instead be able to address the issue in their next submission. "
> ...and all Telegram is open source.

This is demonstrably false. Telegram's apps are open sourced (except Telegram X for some reason), same as Signal's (no exceptions). None of the two offer you their server's code.

> And who "rolled" the Signal protocol, Moxie Marlinspike? Did he not design that himself?

It passed the scrutiny of the best cryptographers out there.
This comment provides more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24237791

And again, this is completely irrelevant because even if Telegram's end-to-end encryption was absolutely the best there is, a) it doesn't work on group chats, and b) it's not enabled by default, only in Secret Chats. The vast majority of Telegram's usage is not end-to-end encrypted at all.
> wireshark your connection

This isn't good advice for trying to show someone their messages aren't being sent in clear text. It could be encrypted using a weak cipher or have other implementation bugs that make it trivial for a nation state to decrypt it. You need to be able to look at the application's source code to tell what encryption it's using and if it's secure enough.
They could have also gone with near Topeka, Kansas.
I came across this related blog post the other day:

„in the name of taking it slow“
https://www.voyageofthezephyr.com/blog/takingitslow
Please don't do this. We ban such accounts. Maybe you don't feel you owe California politicians better, but you owe this community much better if you're posting to it.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Note that Starlink satellites are visible due to reflected sunlight. You can only see them immediately after sunset.
Agreed. React Context wonderfully handles state that will only ever live locally/"on the client".

I don't mind Redux for local state management, but it's a little overkill if you aren't using it already to handle API state.

Using Apollo on the client side makes me want to pull my hair out though.
Ah, reaction is often telling. Thank you downvoters. ;-)
If they add Django support and do it well, this could siphon a lot of early development work away from Heroku.
> In Microsoft Windows, one must link against Kernel32.dll

Not kernel32, but ntdll.

FreeBSD is another OS that provides a stable kernel ABI.
I do not know anything about bug bounties but I do know that selling backup solutions is super super hard.
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Are they abusing market power though? 30% seems to be the standard rate for online stores. Google and Apple do it. Steam is 30%. And it’s been report that Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo also take a 30% cut. Physical store such as GameStop, Best Buy, and Walmart take 30% too.

Epic only takes 12% which is great, but they’re also locking up games in exclusive deals which I think is way worse.

Edit:
I pulled these numbers from IGN’s article. Although I’ve seen another report that matches the 30% in most places. https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/07/report-steams-30-cut...
Satellites are only lit by the sun for a while around sunset/sunrise.

Once they're in Earth shade, they have no astronomy impact.
https://github.com/shelches/scepter
One of the claims is that whilst iphone and most Android were hacked if one paid, pixel is safe. True ?
Not float, but you can keep aloft while spending minimal energy using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_soaring

Jupiter seems to have sufficiently dynamic atmosphere. Not sure about cold brown dwarfs...
Yes. I say when people e.g. compare paragliding to traffic dangers, "imagine taking those precautions you do before paragliding when walking over the road". It is just different things and the statistics doesn't tell you much about the danger from doing it.
> Framework developers and working engineers have diverging interests

how is that?
For what it is worth, I know that as much as I find MDN useful today I recognise that I would personally find it extremely hard to justify to myself for paying for it. And I do front end dev professionally and also for fun so I guess I might be the "target market"?

It will just end up like the news sites with a paywall - "oh the want me to pay <clicks back and goes to next search result while moaning about why Google even includes these paywall sites in results>

I bet I am not alone - it is just a reference and any other site can cobble together some examples that 99% of visitors just want to copy-paste anyway so they can get back to their work or fix that weird error (e.g. w3schools)

There are also questions in my mind about who would pay: the industry veteran who remembers the days before we had developer tools, or the person just starting out who doesn't really know anything yet? Or someone else? Neither the veteran or the newbie would get much value out of that $5 in my mind, leaving only a hollow rump of the middle-ground of people who care enough to pay for access, but also don't care enough to learn so that they won't actually need the subscription?

It doesn't make sense. MDN will drop down the search rankings and some other site will provide reference material for DOM + JavaScript.
From what I understand Firefox is only a source of income, not a prioritized product.

And yes: IMO this is kibd of backwards. Firefox has been their biggest contribution to the open web and it seems they are treating it as just an income source.
Discussed a bit in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10776314
Did this jump to the top because the click target for the link is so small that people are accidentally upvoting it?
I'm doing a big Apollo/GraphQL piece for the BBC for a lot of the same reasons OP lists, and have run into pretty much all the same issues with Apollo that OP has.

Its rough because Apollo does so much for you, its wonderful, but there are so many sharp edges and pitfalls - from the buggy devtools to the lack of/incorrect docs, major unanswered github issues & constant API breaking changes even on patch/minor version bumps, its been an uphill struggle all the way. All that said, it still seems like the best tool for the job, Relay still has a huge learning curve & has already had two major branches with no refactor path between (Classic/Modern) & the numerous other implementations all lack things Apollo gives you for free.

If your usecase is simple, using Apollo to query a GQL server with a well defined schema doing little to no client state handling it can be pretty straightforward, but the complexity ramps up crazy quick as soon as you start messing around with caches or persistence or local state.

The Apollo folks seem to have a handle on things but hopefully I/we can start contributing back, if not with feature work than with documentation
> This seems like the market for risk at work. Just as in drug trafficking, more money tends to go to parties that take on more risk. In this case, that's the criminals doing the extorting. So unless the security researcher wants to engage in illegal activity themselves, they probably aren't going to get anywhere close to the extortion dollar amount by just selling their exploit to criminals. At best they'll probably get something close to a large bug bounty, or maybe a few times that.

This doesn't strike me as a very accurate assessment of the situation. There are already markets where people can buy and sell exploits: researchers don't have to get their hands dirty to get paid for their exploits.
I think it's a natural human tendency. It makes it easier on our heuristics to sort other humans and ourselves into identities.

The issue now is that we have the delusion that we can choose to be anything which makes us unhappy. Previously you were just told and had to get on with it or you had a handful of options and the best one for you was relatively easy to figure out.
Thanks for your constructive feedback on the video. We realised yesterday the video says literally nothing interesting until 30 seconds in! Had quite a lot of flak about this lol.

Still, there’s a first time for everything and I hope the video can be succeeded by a V2 in fairly short order.

Thanks for your congratulations.