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Online game stores are convenient, but I don’t understand why I need to open them and have ads shovelled at me just to use the software I already bought. The app stores integrated into most OSes do not do this. I’d prefer having everything on Steam to running five different bloated game stores, but it seems like a false choice. Why didn’t the old gatekeeper-free business model survive the transition to online distribution?
While we're at it, just noticed that weather.com had 114 Mb stored, wtf?
This apply to a lot of jobs too? You get fired when you are too sick to work and consequently lose your insurance?
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I'm currently taking a graduate class in Applied Cryptography and will definitely use this as another resource for reference. Love that they've opened it up and made it free.
No, but HN produces self-reinforcing discourse.
> That doesn't mean it should be illegal to offer such a bundle. You can simply choose not to buy it.

Be careful with that. Consider how prevalent HOAs are (In most areas, you can not buy a house that's not covered by one), despite how much people hate them.

Consider the market pressures that resulted in that state of affairs. Everyone who wants to own a home has to make a bargain with the devil, despite few homeowners actually wanting to do that. It's quite possible that those market pressures will lead to a situation where the choice will be made for you.
Wasn't it supposed to decrease electricity usage? If I remember correctly it was one of the arguments for DST.

I really dislike it. We do time based reporting and it messes up all the calculations at DST change. All kinds if weird bugs that trigger once per year, especially when time skips backwards. It's also dumb how trains have to stop and wait for an hour at the winter DST change in order to maintain the schedule. It would be a breath of fresh air when it's finally dropped in the EU.
Qore is an interpreted programming language with no GIL
Not for the one in pain.

Be it from illness, inequality or just mere existence and yet one endures the pain due to primordial urge to live.
Oh, I should have specified this. I didn't change the price for any existing customers. I just changed the price for new customers.
It probably was insurance companies that got up in arms about it rather than voters since insurance companies are incentivized to silo their clients as much as they can. Also insurance companies are the ones who have actual say in the matter of writing the law compared to the voters.
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The precedent that would set if the Apple/Google is forced to distribute alternative app stores via App Store/Play store. No downloading the apk and turning on installation from Unknown Sources to install it. This would also enable alternative stores on Xbox/PlayStation/Nintento etc. Steam inside Epic Games store and vice versa
Have you considered filing a GDPR complaint? I would really encourage you to do so.

I found this: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

You should use the Euro judicial framework to get resolution for this 100%.

Americans like to complain about European legislation but this is a perfect example of government powers done right! (I'm a dual American/French citizen living in the US).
The majority of the population of those countries is distributed on a north-south axis.

China's population is primarily on its eastern plains, not the western mountainous regions.

India has one time zone, but it's still covers more degrees of latitude than longitude, so the difference in sunrise time between Kolkata in the east and Bombay in the west is about an hour. This is about the same as the difference in sunrise time between Boston and Kalamazoo, also both in the same timezone.
Don’t buy it.
This is awesome, but I think these will need an EOL/self-destruct mechanism. What happens if these things just linger in the body after performing a function like destroying cancer cells?
Then problem is when people take headlines like these and use it as an argument against vaccination.
One of the reasons why I left the UK to move to Australia: an escape from months of cloudy gloom.

It really makes the winter a lot less tiresome when you can walk to and from work under bright blue skies and feel the warmth of the Sun.
It's a hyperbole.
Firefall is just an omnibus edition of the two. Great hardcover though :)
Can't wait to have neural data associated to text and images for multi-modal training of neural nets. Up to present we have had the basic modalities: video, image, audio and text, now we can have a new modality which is more direct than even speech, remains to see how much of the embedding space it can cover.
I'm simultaneously in a married relationship where children are off the table (by our choosing), and am hopelessly bored most of the time. It's interesting to contrast these two facts.

I think life is too long, because I don't believe in any afterlife and if I die today or 40 years from now, what's the difference? Just a bunch of pain and boredom all the way down from now until then.
Do you mean to say Apple is not taking 30% and Apple is not admitting this is an unacceptably high fee by trying to prevent FB from informing its users about it?
You seem to be ignoring the monopoly aspect.

The argument is that when a vendor controls a large enough portion of the market, consumers might not be left with sufficient choice for market forces to prevent abusive behaviors. This idea has significant legal precedent and legislation behind it throughout the entire western world.

The question isn't whether you actively chose to buy into the PlayStation ecosystem. It's whether you had a meaningful choice available to you and whether the vendor is abusing it's market power.
It can change rapidly. I’d suggest follow which interests you most.
"Bullshit is the junk food of experience." Well put!
Could this be a half-proxy war between Google and Apple? If Apple has to allow other app stores, who is preventing those other stores from installing web browsers that are not Safari-based?
I agree. Jp does a good job in that book. It’s very accessible yet taught me so much.

Covers modern stuff like ECC too, which this book doesn’t seem to.
I think we're talking about integrating robots into an environment that is designed for humans. As such robots pushing buttons is a good thing to reach for.
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No. I'll take an opposing viewpoint. It's not "really" valuable, it's marginally valuable. If your articles aren't yahoo-style clickbait, anything you'd do with that data would just make your future articles less authentic. Alternatively, is your collection and utilization of that information worth invading the privacy of your readers? The printed version of The Economist continues to deliver a fantastic product yet they have no idea how far into each article (or even the entire magazine) I get each week. They simply publish detailed, excellent articles which draw me back, week after week. Why should online articles be any different? An incisive author who has put in the effort to prepare a good, thoughtful article knows it is so before publishing.

Or one can publish thoughtless, banal articles and collect lots of statistics on how long it takes your readers to figure out that the article is a waste of their time.

Distinguishing between the two is precisely what we were taught throughout grade school.
You are the product. We need to change that business model.
When I quit my job a couple of years ago, I bought my own insurance for about $400 a month. This was not done via COBRA.

I don't fully understand the need for this. Can someone explain?
Yes, I am mixing them up.
Theoretically you still get the capital, assuming you can sell the stock well enough yourself. A DPO just avoids paying the million(s) to an underwriter.
I played the game for a year straight, just once spent something like $5 because I wanted an item that was about to expire an I was out of resources. Never felt like I had to pay to “win”. I never played the rest of the franchise though, enjoyed this one until I felt like I am spending too much time on a game and quit.
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Those are not the same class of products as modern smartphones.
I think the concerns are real. And I addressed some of what you are saying in a reply to the other comment. But I think the concerning difference in how you see the technology and how I see is due to the word "cryptocurrency". In seeing blockchain as only addressing payment or, worse, being an actual currency. Ethereum and other "smart contract" platforms are basically immutable virtual machines and people are coming up with novel ways to use it. Payments and currency narrative just sort of stuck. As I repeat often in these conversations my, by far, favorite project in recent times has been the Baseline Protocol which uses blockchain not for payment but for interbusiness communication. I posted some links of examples of it's use in my other reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24313941
I think it comes down to what "we had made the switch over mid 2019" is supposed to mean. I had interpreted that as being the time the Rust implementation was put into production and the Go implementation retired, with the rewrite starting some time before then, but I don't really have any strong evidence to support that interpretation (and that interpretation doesn't say anything about the actual point at which the rewrite decision was made).

The situation you describe is certainly plausible, though. Shame that the chances of finding out what actually happened are quite low at this point.
It's like saying that as a McDonald's customer, you'd prefer they did not charge you for food and you could just get it for free, without having to follow the rules. In fact, McDonald's has a lot of anti features: having to wait in line, greasy food, having to pay for the food and inability to bring outside food and drinks.

Businesses need to earn money and knowing their customers is part of this.
Independent of the Epic Vs Apple debate, I’m merely stating that it’s somewhat hypocritical to claim someone is ideologically open while at the same time they take actions to lock down purchases to the Epic platform only.
Well the point being that the smartphone market is suffering from poor alternative.

If so many people here seems to believe that neither iOS, nor Android, provide both flexibility and privacy they seek market opportunity might be ripe for new competitors.
Assuming you talk about Acme from Plan9 you could try Wily which is similar (don't know about the actual differences) but more accessible because it can be compiled on Unix/X11.

http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~oz/wily/
Retailers don't get 30%. Not even close. Try 0.5% or something like that. As for MS, their cut on the MS app store is 5%. 30% is just really really steep, and I think consumers would win if that got reduced.
This really isn't a problem that needs solving? Much less paying some random company to have access to all your user data.
One feature that would get me interested would be good ML upscaling. Pixelmator Pro does a good job of it, but has no batch processing until I figure out how to drive it with Automator. And as far as I know ImageMagick still lacks such a feature.
It seems like if the editor produced hints this would work better, but your target audience also shrinks.
Considering its apple, Im sure Apple has some hidden feature that can let them disable or uninstall an app from user's devices.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_without_words

Unfortunately the metamathematics of wordless proofs still needs words, maybe someone can make a proof theory without words?

https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/proofs-wit...
>Once you have a consistent schedule, barring medical issues, sleeping is easy

I respect your personal experience, but you are coming on a little strong in terms of assuming everyone is just like yourself.

Something I've seen other people mention, and may have myself (although not formally diagnosed):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder

I have worked 8-5, 2-11, and 11-8, and no matter what my schedule was, I had the urge to stay up a little later, but needed at least 8 hours to feel adequately rested. So typically I would get 7 hours or so and feel exhausted every morning. Without work or appointments, I would rotate my schedule around the clock, day by day. It's as if I was tuned to a planet with a slightly longer day.

After many, many years, I found by accident that bupropion (aka Zyban aka Wellbutrin) fixed it, just like that. It was amazing. But I wasn't able to tolerate a full dosage, so that didn't last. It does point to some dysfunction of nicotinic receptors.
What does GIL stand for in this context?
Yes but if you're a progressive that's an anti science statement, an alternative fact...

And making statements will have progressives screaming science denial at you while you're eating at a restaurant.

Scientism is generally the method of repentance for religious atheists or atheism in general.

For them, the science is settled.. Climate change is catastrophic and we only have a few years to live. But that's if you don't die from the Rona long before because the other side is fighting against a vaccine and there's a large majority of them who might not take the vaccine... Which in turn would kill a mass majority of the people left dealing with climate change. But actually, there may not be anyone left to combat climate change or the virus in the U.S. anyhow, because everyone is dying from white supremacists on shooting sprees due to lack of gun control. They. Are. Literally. Dying....

The irony is that you see such contempt for individuals with an alternative non mainstream belief structures such as Judaism or Christianity now while they hang their mask from their Subaru mirror with their "believe in science" or "trust the experts" bumper stickers.
Tell this to the 99% non techie populations
That's needlessly confusing. Half the posts on https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/ are "hated speech" while being miles away from anything that would get called hate speech.
Does your wife approve of you depicting her this way online?
No. Most retailers get a few percent at best.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/071615/what-profit-...
At least that daylight change is gradual, it doesn't skip.
To whoever submitted this, thank you so much for doing so. Seeing how long it has been up, I regret not finding it earlier. My teenage me would have needed this story even more than me now.

I can't stop crying. The stigma, shame; the mask. All those kind people living somewhere in the society around you, but not being able to reach out to them for fear of reprisal. Conversely, the condemnation without ever meeting you or anyone of your 'kind'.

Her struggle in all those little details is so creepily recognizable to me. Some days more than others. Only it's in this day and age, and with a different 'deviancy' most will readily denounce, even only for fear of association, and many times due to a lack of knowledge. The upside these days is the accessibility and reach of anonymous communication. "You are not alone" helped me avoid suicide when I was fourteen, found out and thought I was all alone.

It gives so much comfort and hope to read her story overcoming it. Then, I might even dare to think I will be able to overcome it as well in my lifetime.
Is it compatible with vs code live share? That's been around for ages. I hope users can connect cross-ide?
Yes I should have added the caveat "in an otherwise competitive market". If there was only one seller of houses then the tying would indeed be a problem.
A no-brainer. Permanent DST is pushed by people without a clue.
I know the argument but it’s not my experience with these games. Especially with PUBG, the purchases are only cosmetic if you don’t count the private playing mode that I’m not into anyway.

Because these games are multiplayer, you peer with people that are also not high spenders(mostly).

In Asphalt 9, for example It’s not realistic fir me to unlock some cars by free playing but I would not say that the experience is broken, Years later I still enjoy a few races every day because they introduce new items and gaming modes almost monthly.
Just wanted to say that here in the EU we have voted to abolish time changing, with the countries deciding if they want to stick with the summer time or winter time. https://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/summertime_en
Highly recommend the stuff from Ory. They have Kratos (https://github.com/ory/kratos). Which I haven’t used because it was still alpha but have used Hydra extensively and it is an amazing piece of tech
It’s actually the longest thing you will ever experience.
As a trans woman, I found the first few chapters absolutely heart-wrenching. I look up to Lynn so much.
Unless things have changed in the past couple of years it's not just a single security warning the first time you side load an app. On my device, F-Droid can't seem to update apps itself - rather I get a security warning dialog for _every single app_ whenever I do updates. This is in spite of the fact that I approved the initial security warning when installing the F-Droid apk itself and granted it all of the permissions it requested.
If there only are PWAs, then there's no store and no 30% cut and so Epic wins I guess? They'd "just" need to port UE4 to WASM
Notably, they paid $90M to cancel the lease.
A JavaScript runtime doesn't require a JIT to work, it just makes it a lot faster. That alone wouldn't keep alternative browsers from being in the store, there are plenty of reasons to want a different browser even if JavaScript runs slower on it.

Last I heard you couldn't ship any interpreted language on iOS, and this was the big reason given why you can't have your own browser (and many other types of apps that could benefit from some scripting interface).

But that's just one example anyway, and somewhat besides the point. I have no problem with Apple running their App Store and restricting what apps are allowed on it. I do have a problem with the App Store being the only trusted source for installing software and managing updates. It's one more link in the chain that makes any real competition on in the iPhone ecosystem beholden entirely to Apple's wishes.
I think the question that OP (and myself) is asking is "given Magic Robots (tm), could we essentially cure cancer?"

Obviously, as you note, there are enormous (or rather, extremely tiny, but very hard!) problems with this. However, it's not all doom and gloom.

I could imagine that going in the 3D dimension for example, could enable another 100X increase in transistor count. In addition, you shouldn't need to actually do the computation onboard for cancer applications, just transmit it via some method, say RF to an outside computer that can do the compute work. Finally, cells are something like 10-30 um in diameter, which gives a lot more room to play with than 1um (the linked paper has scale of about 100um I believe).
I worked at a bank, we had this old loan system in a terminal, all the LOs could use it fast, little hiccups but we could fix it.

New web-based UI came in (~2004) and it was super customizable and was supposed to be super fast. But nobody new the new hot keys, or there were none.

But it was customizable! So I spent the next few months learning this new architecture, APIs, SDKs for the crap-ware and deployed for our LOs. I got so free beers.

Then I helped another bank with the same issue in their migration - that second go was like free money.
I disagree with the premise that the fact that I can see my living room in my peripheral vision reduces the influence of my media consumption.
I wonder if kidneys could filter them out and just urinate them out?
If the companies have become too large then I feel that’s really the responsibility of anti-trust regulators to address rather than the courts making a ruling that you have to let other companies sell their services in your store.
Nietzsche's writing on "eternal return" helped me with similar thoughts. It gives life heaviness, as Kundera says in The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return

Also, learning to "imagine Sisyphus happy." Easier said than done, of course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus
> But the linux desktop security model is super scary, especially on a phone.

Depends on your threat model. If you want to run random untrusted apps, then yeah it's not great. If you run apps you trust out of curated repos, does it matter? If you want, stick stuff in firejail to close the gap.
I had an Oracle RAC cluster and a number of PeopleSoft servers that were incredibly difficult to get successfully patched for that change.

The other super annoying thing about it is it created a window at the beginning and end of DST where the US is out of sync with most of Europe.
1. Let's think about what's in the users best interest wrt app capabilities. Wouldn't it be better for users to not be hit by a 30% surcharge when signing up for Spotify thru the iOS app? Wouldn't it be better for users patronizing small businesses if all of the revenue for events booked through that Facebook app went to the small businesses?

2. Let's figure out if it's possible for Apple to still offer a secure experience for apps installed via sideloading (which is one option; the other option is allowing other payment methods in the App Store for in-app purchases). It should be thanks to their sandbox. They're welcome to tighten the sandbox further too over time, e.g. how they relatively recently restricted background location access, since that was rightly considered more sensitive than foreground access.

Apple can easily offer more user benefits without fundamentally making their business model unsustainable. Note that the situation here is fundamentally different from brick-and-mortar stores, which have very limited shelf space; not to mention no single brick-and-mortar store controls so much of someone's life (we're very reliant on our smartphones).
Can you give a few examples of some products that get this right? Not just in terms of what's commonly referred to as "gamification", and not talking about badges and things that dance around, but a deeper, less obvious, more subtle and refined connection with to that analogy?

I remember I liked a game and I started writing code to play it for me so I could do other things while still having the feeling that an extension of myself was playing.

As a side note, the company had one of the coolest recruiting tactics. I had to examine HTTP responses to be able to send in requests that triggered actions, and they included a call to application in the HTTP response headers "If you're reading this, please apply".
Not at all. Why would that be valuable to me as a reader?
They cannot deny warranty coverage, but are not prevented from arbitrary hurdles that make it hard to create a compatible aftermarket part. They don't have to make that particularly easy.
As far as I'm aware, it isn't, but it could have been part of the filings for the temporary restraining order. The number is from this coverage of the hearing by a tech/legal reporter. https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/1298031302357082112?s=...