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There are a lot of different reasons to buy an Apple device, you cannot draw the conclusion that people are fine with the App Store just based one the fact that they own an iPhone.

I own an iPhone because Apple supports them for way longer than any other manufacturer and I care about that specific point. But I’m against some of their current store policies and would prefer more choices (either alternative stores or a way to side load). That doesn’t even mean I would actually use these alternatives, to be fair I don’t know myself, but I think that should be an option. It seems insane that Apple has complete control over the entire system and apps distribution with zero possibilities to compete.
Yeah, you are right. I thought I remember the number but was too lazy to actually find it again. You caught me:) Still, not too far off.

But death is just one aspect. The kids could be better educated and really, this doesn't cost as much as one would portray especially now with remote schooling when a single teacher can "service" a large number of kids with no need for physical presence. The technology is there, we just need a little push to make better use of it. Better educated populations tend to produce less violence and I like to think better future.
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Hello, I am a dev.

I built K-Stash for one reason: my bookmarks are flooded. They've become completely useless.

The more projects I do and the more researches I make on websites like, well, stackoverflow, the more links and folders I add to the bookmarks.

What if I needed a particular link, saved who knows where, after 1 year? At least for me, scraping through the bookmarks would be a nightmare, I'd prefer saerching all over again on google.

Why lose valuable time though? What if existed some smart bookmarks, where resources were searchable with keywords, just like a search engine?

Here is where K-Stash kicks in. I built it for personal use, but then I thought it could improve someone else's productivity too!

It's primarily meant for devs or whoever needs to save stuff for future use and build a.. knowledge stash :)

In closed beta right now, and I'd really love to get some feedbacks from you :)

https://k-stash.com
Protecting the consumer with chargebacks or regulations quickly becomes "Only big corporations can afford the risk of selling to consumers, small businesses can't risk losing 15$ on every transaction (on which they also pay 3%)"

I'd rather have a market protecting me with verified reviews and as close to zero costs for sellers. Not unlimited refunds that put small sellers out of business, leaving only Amazons and eBays.
Another great parody here: https://bye.fyi
Almost $400 for Koln to Warsaw?! A quick search shows that's out by an order of magnitude compared to the cheapest tickets on offer. I did this journey in winter once - something very atmospheric about trundling through central Europe in the snow.
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The raison d'être of the Apple App Store is to make money.

All other considerations are secondary at best.
> Are you familiar with Project Maven?

There seems to me to be a strong neoliberal/libertarian population on Hacker News who believes, as Margaret Thatcher famously said, that 'there is no alternative'. They have completely soaked up Silicon Valley's Imperialist 'Manifest Destiny' mission.

They can't see their own privileged position and power. They attribute their own success to their personal efforts, instead of seeing how various social institutions (including knowledge and access to a rich scientific inheritance) built them up.

So when we pose them a question about Project Maven, they want to identify the one 'bad apple' [1] instead of facing the fact that systemically something is rotten, and that we might have to evolve the underlying architectures. [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMNZXV7jOG0&feature=youtu.be

[2] https://medium.com/holochain/holochain-reinventing-applicati...
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This is tosh. If the idea is to defund the surplus, then the police will effectively maintain the exact same level of presence as already displayed.

Basically, with your suggestion, nothing will change, other than police garages. That's clearly not what the protestors want, and as such, we can immediately discard your assertion.
AFAIK, Sumatra still internally renders the entire page as a bitmap in order to print it. This results in huge jobs being sent to the printer and extremely slow printing.

It also seems to have some odd behaviour in its rendering process, though I've never been able to identify exactly what it is. For example, a plain black-and-white document I printed the other day looked extremely fuzzy, like the early inkjets that only had CMY ink and could only produce "black" as a muddy combination of the other colours. The same document looked normal when reprinted using different software.
If you're talking about survivorship bias, I can well believe it.

Ruby is still popular with startups, and there's no falloff in Rails usage, if the gem download graph is anything to go by.
At a company I used to work for there were tales of an early admin guy handling all of payroll, employee directory, and tonnes of admin task data for multiple hundreds of employees in Excel. Guy was an Excel god.

It worked perfectly fine until it was move into a proper database with in house built portals to handle the tasks.
Seems ridiculous to have to buy a device just to use my card. I would have to carry it around as well otherwise I wouldn't be able to use my card online
He revealed at some point that he was talking about Javascript.

Note the "other two" platforms it would run on would be the secret of it's success, so web and mobile.

JS eventually got all of the things he asked for.
"Retain presence", not "expand presence".
Fantastically well-written article.

The "problem" with forming an opinion about Apple Store rules is that the users are willingly and knowingly putting themselves in the golden cage of apple by buying an iPhone.

Under this view the problem is not with Apple, that created a framework that users want, and communicate accurately to its customers what they get - but rather with the app developers, who wants to reach Apple clients, without accepting the rules of the framework that those clients chose willingly.
Why doesn't Windows take 30% whenever you try to play a game there?

I don't know about legality, but philosophically it's offensive to me that Apple and Google get to be landlords leeching off app developers. I paid for my phone. It should run the software I want it to, and if I want to buy an app for it I shouldn't need to pay Apple for the privilege.
They haven’t. This is all deferred anger coming from non-ui developers. It kills them inside that ui development is a field within software development that has it’s own nuances. They blamed the closest thing they could and that was, literally, the simplest shittiest language on planet earth (it doesn’t deserve all the hate).

You will still have take time and think through your app flows, your async user interactivity, your transitions, state, templates, etc, no matter what language you pick.

Type checking, compiling, the greatest language, will not solve the hard problems for you.

Your all pissed UI development isn’t a ‘if I know backend, then I must surely know frontend, and if I don’t, then surely somethings wrong with frontend’.

Nope. Trust me, I know a thing or two about deferred anger, I’m a serial offender when it comes to that so I can spot it easy.
This just sounds mad coming from a British person. Almost all of our police are unarmed and do a decent job, the only place police routinely carry guns are airports for obvious reasons and Northern Ireland which literally had a decades-long sectarian insurgency happen there. At least nominally, the British police operate under Peel's idea of "policing by consent" where police officers are merely citizens in uniform charged with keeping order rather than the more Continental (at the time) model of armed enforcers of royal/state power.

It's hard to genuinely respect someone when there's a gun-related power dynamic forcing you to. That's not respect, that's just the threat of force. It's probably too late for America to adopt Peel's principles of policing but it's not done us much harm.
ACAB stands for All Cops Are Bastards. Urban Dictionary is always a good source for this kind of thing: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ACAB
I thought that was going to be:
https://heeeeeeeey.com/, and wondered what it's doing at HN's top...

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If you are a consumer using Android it is reasonably straightforward (at least for someone a little bit technically inclined... maybe not for the general population) to install a new app store.

If you are a vendor of apps, it is hopeless. Approximately zero consumers will be using any other app store.
Ok, but California is the home of one of the biggest slugs in the planet, of the second tallest tree, and of newts that climb trees. We should think about it.

Definitely the place has potential to be much more humid.

We can apply measures to make buildings less fire prone

We can apply measures to make structures less fire prone also

And we definitely can release tons of water from planes after a fire. So let me propose something, why If we would do the same before a fire?.

What if instead to suck and sell all water from the environment we would fix and respect a minimum ecological level of water instead and give its part to the forest?.

If the water level descends over a minimum, just provide some water in patches or rings. We would need to pay the same bill from bomber services but we would save the money lost by fire damages. Looks like a win-win situation to me.
After a thorough dive into the source code, it seems to be an issue with click events with the attribute 'rick', rolling off the JS call-stack incorrectly.
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I don't see anything counterintuitive - I don't call the cops for respectful conversation, and if my actions have got them called in, I don't expect respectful treatment.

Harsh maybe, but also true. Ideally they would be polite, but my interactions with police (here in Aus) are exclusively when something has gone wrong.
> if you're aware of how your compiler handles these things, you can construct it to be correct in this way.

I presume we agree but I'll do my usual rant against UB: Deliberately introducing undefined behaviour into your code is playing with fire, and trying to outsmart the compiler is generally a bad idea. Unless the compiler documentation officially commits to a certain behaviour (rollover arithmetic for signed types, say), then you should take steps to avoid undefined behaviour. Otherwise, you're just going with guesswork, and if the compiler generates insane code, the standards documents define it to be your fault.

It might be reasonable to make carefully disciplined and justified exceptions, but that should be done very cautiously. JIT relies on undefined behaviour, for instance, as ultimately you're treating an array as a function pointer.

> It won't be portable at all (even to the next patch version of the compiler)

Right, doing this kind of thing is extremely fragile. Does it ever crop up in real-life? I've never had cause to rely on this kind of thing.

It would be possible to use a static assertion to ensure my code only compiles on the desired compiler, preventing unpleasant surprises elsewhere, but I've never seen a situation where it's helpful.

This isn't the same thing as relying on 'ordinary' compiler-specific functionality, such as GCC's fixed-point functionality. Such code will simply refuse to compile on other compilers.

> I would never let it pass a code review, but that doesn't sound like an issue that's relevant here.

Disagree. It should be possible to independently reproduce the experiment. Robust code helps with this. Code shouldn't depend on an exact compiler version, there's no good reason code should.
It's crazy to me that there's no actual police education in the US, but on the other hand, the police where I'm from, where a 3 year degree from a police school is required, the police are constantly understaffed, and especially the districts suffer. Especially in the US where education isn't free, I can't see that approach be anything other than a disaster.
I am a TypeScript developer for the past 6 years. I am not at all angry and definitely not expecting issues I have with SPA development to be magically solved, I am simply excited about being able to use languages with type systems similar to TS but without the JS under it - not that I care much about it, but it would be nice to go a step further with the type system-language integration, which TypeScript is unwilling to do.

WebAssembly is a done deal, all browsers support it, now we're waiting for reference types and GC, once that lands (ref types are already available in some browsers), the web will not be tied to JS in any way. I think it's fair to say that the world has moved beyond JS.

Btw I think people doing UI apps in C# (Blazor is probably second largest Wasm community after Rust) are fully aware of the hurdles of UI development.
Perhaps if you like TypeScript and still want compile to WebAssembly you might be interested in AssemblyScript which stricter subset of TypeScript which compile to wasm
> Can we stick to nations that are at least likely to report real numbers?

France, Germany, Belgium, Canada, Japan, New Zealand

[0]https://www.statista.com/statistics/1124039/police-killings-...

[1]https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-ki...
Well, the leaked George Floyd bodycam video shed a whole different light on the incident. The guy was complaining he couldn't breathe while sitting in the back seat of the police car and insisted on getting out and lying on the ground.

I'm not calling the original video shot by a bystander a 'lie', but it wasn't the whole story by any means.

There's no way those police officers will be found guilty of murder, and there'll be absolute carnage when that happens.
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Apple's 30% fee?
I believe A(G)I will be like a really dumb human with about 10 thousand years of experience in a certain specialty. It's hard to predict how things would change, but imagine security guards who have memorized every face in the country.

However, don't overlook that the iPhone did change things forever. The difference in lifestyle between 2020 and 2000 is more than 1950 to 1990. Your life might not be different, but it makes a difference to the factory worker who had no savings, but is now an Uber driver who can freely work 16 hours one day and sleep the next day.

We'll likely move a "class" upwards, in that humans will no longer be doing brute labors and driving trucks, but still be scheduling truck routes and telling the AI what to do. Humans will probably be more involved in educating and training, maybe even disciplining stray AI.

I also don't believe we can achieve proper AGI without inventing some kind of emotional state. Maybe AI will develop crushes on their trainer, not so much for sex, but out of gratitude and for survival. Or there could be anger, ambition, envy, which might simply stem from the desire to learn and experiment. Maybe AI may become sweet and manipulative as it predicts patterns in how humans respond. There will also likely be some equivalent of dopamine, and AI could be addicted to staying above 80% charge and so on.
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This is a very emotive issue here and we're never all going to agree on these issues. I hope though that it is possible to reach a consensus on a few areas I think were well explained in the article.

One is in-app signup. I have no problem with Apple charging a fee for services accessed via the phone when you sign up through the phone. I do think it's user hostile and opaque to not allow apps to refer the customer to a web site to buy a subscription though. Apple should compete on convenience, not awkward asymmetric information restrictions.

The other is the organising principle issue. I agree it makes sense to base the decision to charge on whether the service incurs marginal cost. That seems a fair way to do it, I just don't understand how that could be made into a clearly and unambiguously applicable rule. You may well end up with even more of a fractious grey zone.
>In the rarest cases do people come out of it as a positive passionate person. Even the successful ones become a hedging, scheming, lukewarm, slimy academic personality. Everything encourages this. The way you get professor positions, the way you get grant money etc. It optimizes and chisels people into becoming the antithesis of curious, open scientific inquiry.

Got a point there, all kinds of academic pressure other than the push for scientific progress.

There should be more than one way to outperform what you could do in such an environment, or in the industrial counterparts following that pattern.

>Several have given up and went to industry.

I think worked for these bozos before, not fun but milestones are milestones.

>Ideally in an alternate universe of different incentive structures that support real science, a person would work in research, use existing approaches in different scenarios, push and prod them in different use cases then perhaps once every year you'd stumble upon some interesting effect you don't understand. Then you'd dive in and prod this specific effect with well designed experiments. Once it's clearer what is going on, you come up with the best way to convey this newly earned knowledge. It is at this point (once you actually know what you want to alert the research community to) that you decide how to best present the knowledge, what tables, sections and paragraphs will succinctly and ergonomically convey the information.

That's what I did on my home planet.

Had to build my own laboratory.

Works better than you would think.
Aw, you missed a great opportunity! I would've loved a "Hey Hey Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com" [1]

[1]https://youtu.be/Zw6T4Db7_7o?t=29
I've also burnt out, a couple times really deeply, in the last decade or so. Everything broke down then, and I ended up taking about a year off, with occasional part-time work to sustain me.

Emotional and psychological trauma have a way of affecting you "forever", skewing who you are inside. I believe it's a life-long practice to learn your own physical and mental limits, to develop a habit of continuous improvement and awareness.

Fortunately, after I came back to the workforce, I eventually found a situation where I can pace myself, take a step or two back as needed, to keep an eye on my mental condition and ensure a smooth, consistent productivity.

Your mention of UBI was surprising in the context of burnout, but it totally makes sense. Not everyone can afford to take time off work, especially for mental health, which is not widely understood, as a "taboo" subject in some cultures.

I barely made it financially through my burn-out recovery, and it would have saved a ton of grief if there was a safety net that ensured at least food and shelter, while I focused on rehabilitation.
> This is a huge problem and roughly 70k Americans die per year from OD, which is much more than the number of police killings. I personally lost a cousin to drug OD a couple years ago.

I am sorry for your loss, but I would not blame a "lax" drug enforcement on the general opioid crisis. Even the death penalty doesn't prevent drug smuggling, all it incentivizes is higher prices and cutting!

The real reason behind large parts of the US opioid epidemic is that the US lacks a modern welfare system:

- physical healthcare and paid sick time for all. People are too often "pushing through" pain by abusing painkillers and then getting dependent on them (as they cannot afford fixing the cause of the pain), people can't afford to miss work too much so they'll ask for (and get) strong stuff after operations so they can work instead of having the proper time for recovery.

- mental healthcare. Many people, especially the homeless, are "self-medicating" with drugs, and there is next to zero support systems for people going through individual crisis (divorces, death of a family member and job loss are the most common start point of drug careers).

- related to the above point: government assistance for the unemployed, especially in areas going through rapid de-industrialization. It is no coincidence that the areas affected by the opioid crisis the most are those where the effects of unchecked rabid capitalism and globalization have wrecked entire communities.

No matter of "law and order" will help there, people will still try to self-medicate the effects from the lack of these three points - with all the side effects that come with it, including kids like your cousin ending up with people shooting H in school.

And regarding age... when I grew up (admittedly in Germany, where beer is legal at the age of 16!) honestly we all knew one or two crackheads too - but in the entire school. The wide, wide majority was happy enough with beer, wine and some schnaps for parties, a decent lot were stoners, and that's it. We never had the need to resort to hardcore illegal drugs, and the pot dealers were all guys who did some side dealing to finance their own stoning.
This is literally the reason people are saying woke liberals are racist.
Most of the Covid infection curves I've seen are linear because the scales are logarithmic.
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This is a survey by a respected polling company with an overwhelming result that goes against what is clearly the preferred narrative of most people on this site. Naturally, the most upvotes comments are people countering it with anecdotes. I thought people here we were meant to be smart enough to avoid confirmation bias?
There also exist 2FA solutions where they want an accept on a mobile app for example.
Good to hear that everything worked out ok!
Masks were discouraged by many governments in March, even if they were encouraged by others.
As far as I understood TikTok and others weren’t stealing content, there are legitimate reasons to access the clipboard to check for links for example or other type of content the app would be interested into. It would be stealing if they actually send the content back to their servers, but I haven’t seen reports saying that’s the case.
>Money is worthless once you've bought everything you want.

Not true, for what some people want is power and they continuously dish out money to get it.

It's often used as a vector to create a lot of the world's problems. I'm pretty happy to see it used the other way. A win is a win.
> with apps like tiktok stealing clipboard content

I do not get the focus on TikTok. Yes, it read your clipboard content… just like Snapchat, Instagram, Reddit, etc. Most security researchers agree that TikTok is among the more restrained social media apps, when it comes to gathering user data.

This is a bad look for the social media landscape in general, not TikTok specifically.
Thanks for the response. I'm always just curious how people react to things like that.
Oh, so it was your name. I was starting to wonder if my browser leaks my logged in username somehow.
> App promotion

In my experience with the App Store this is not true for the vast majority of apps.

Only a very minor subset of apps actually get promotion on the App Store, everything else is so undiscoverable that searching the store with the app name verbatim isn't guaranteed to show it.
"Personal in this sense clearly means 1:1." Why is that clear? The commenter said they meant the other definition. Wouldn't they know what they meant better than you do?
Removing the whitelist would be a trivial amount of work.