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This DeFi stuff is playing with fire because the products being released have significantly outpaced the state of the art in building safe smart contracts.

To make an analogy, imagine that instead of DeFi, we were talking about skyscrapers. Imagine that thousands of engineers funded by millions of people who believed in them were building 25 kilometer tall towers using technology that they discovered in Isaac Arthur videos. And they were doing it today, before any of the technologies like active support structures had been properly matured. That's what's happening here. It's not that building towers is bad or unsafe, and it's not that the technology behind 25 km towers is fundamentally unworkable, but it IS the case that you shouldn't be doing it just yet given our current engineering knowledge.

Defi is insanely cool, insanely powerful, and it will dramatically change the landscape of society. But given the state of today's technology, if your product is anything fancier than Uniswap (sorry Maker, sorry Curve, sorry YAMs, sorry Augur, etc), it's not safe and it's ahead of its time. A lot of these projects are repeats of things like pets.com. Great idea, but it was too early (Amazon eventually fulfilled the vision though).
Which doesn't make the PC a closed platform.
> PAYING game developers for exclusivity is much different than CHARGING game developers 30% of their revenue.

It definitely is - one store, Epic, offers deals publishers can't refuse to make a game exclusive to their storefront which limits a consumer's ability to use a platform of their choice to purchase a game. The other, steam, puts no limits on where you can distribute your game (unless you use assets from Valve's own games, but I digress) and has done no exclusivity deals that would force a game to only use their store. Publishers are free to use steam if they want to have 30% taken, but otherwise they can completely forego steam in their distribution.
That would have led to bad publicity. Worse, people could have figured out by themselves the batteries were the problem. The trick is to annoy users, not make their workflow entirely impossible, and than to give them misleading advice so they'd buy a new phone.
A political “manifesto” is meaningless.
That's very unlikely, because the court can't force Apple to provide a special deal to Epic. Whatever decision they arrive at, it must be generally applicable.
> people familiar with Tim Sweeny’s life and ideology know that it is an actual important issues to him that platforms be open.

I get that, but I admit to finding it hard to square with his statements[1] that he is fine with game consoles not being open. Seems a strange dichotomy.

[1]: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oglnAi...
Epic Games and Facebook will start a cabal of companies who hate Apple soon.
Apple is a monopoly that controls what applications can run on iPhones. Being a monopoly is not illegal in the US. What is illegal is for a monopoly to engage in predatory practices, which Apple clearly does.
Next.js and React Bootstrap = micro app magic
For those wondering:

>The extreme detour of the recurrent laryngeal nerves, about 4.6 metres (15 ft) in the case of giraffes,[26]:74–75 is cited as evidence of evolution, as opposed to Intelligent Design. The nerve's route would have been direct in the fish-like ancestors of modern tetrapods, traveling from the brain, past the heart, to the gills (as it does in modern fish). Over the course of evolution, as the neck extended and the heart became lower in the body, the laryngeal nerve was caught on the wrong side of the heart. Natural selection gradually lengthened the nerve by tiny increments to accommodate, resulting in the circuitous route now observed
They control the distribution channels of a general computing platform at their whim.

They push their own services like Apple Music by having pre installed apps, free app store placement, not having to pay the 30% cut over other competitors like Spotify. In a low margin business that is live or die.

They force a browser like Firefox to not have its own engine as well.

Looks quite anti competitive to me.
No, apple but the platform in the literal sense.

The platform was built by every consumer, app devs, hardware vendors, and many others.

These players of the platform voluntarily cooperate with apple, and allow apple the oversized power, because the economic values of doing that is higher than other behaviors.

There isn't a moral high ground for apple, nor a particularly outsized contribution by apple considering their profit from the platform.

What you said is so superficial that it does not even refer to the right topic.
Thanks! I hope to work on a successor to Tiled Text some day. I have a better sense of how much work is involved now, though. My current approach is to do a smaller project[0] with the potential to help fund work on more ambitious projects like Tiled Text and Lucidity.

[0] https://diskatlas.com/
Where I live almost nobody have a robotic lawn mower, though I've seen a few on a "smart home" trade show the other day. Dishwashers however are truly magic and the second best time saver after washing machines.

But cutting out laundry, dishwashing and lawn mowing still leaves some time sinks. Like cooking, where machines currently solve the ingredient prep and the actual cooking parts, but do not help much with cleaning up the mess afterwards (beyond the baseline of using a dishwasher). Or dusting, laundry folding, general cleaning. These tasks I'd wish they could disappear.

And then there's the general category of maintenance - most of the products around us require regular care. Which gets annoying rather quickly.

The tech we have is cool, but there's so much more to be done! I'm hoping the future will eventually bring self-cleaning and self-repairing materials.
Additionally, the blog post links to the RFC, but not vice versa.
They release like 5 champions a year, most of them in late summer and late fall. Most months there are no new champions.
I know it's very fashionable on Twitter to say the word "post-capitalism," but how is Epic in any way operating in a post-capitalist environment? They face heavy, almost capitalist-ideal levels of competition in every market where they compete.
Exactly: a market duopoly doesn't mean they don't have disproportionate control over consumer choices especially when there are feature and ecosystem differences between the platforms.
Everything the GP has described is essentially only the mechanics part of a Dota 2 game. The strategic part of the game has way more depth than "use your abilities at the right time in the right order".
No. Antitrust law doesn't apply to monopolies alone, and the requirement to use Apple's payment system is a key part of Epic's complaint.
Can't refuse? Is this the Godfather now?
About 10% of the Hacker News community is in Silicon Valley
They seem pretty vulnerable to being obsolete if there is any sort of substantial change in the prescription drug market. And there seems to be quite a push to change the prescription drug market. Just look at how convoluted their revenue generation is, there are like 5 middle men.
The Multi-Billion Dollar Industry That Makes Its Living from Your Data
Because blockchain keeps promising things and never delivering anything of actual value.

The community appears full of -as another commenter put it: “Blockchain culture is full of Ferengi-style near-religious greed”. Crypto-anarchists with an axe to grind about inflation and monetary policy/government spending.

I find the technology fascinating, if woefully inefficient. It’s a novel idea whose use case doesn’t seem to markedly improve things for the average user, but introduces a number of downsides.

> the biggest and most powerful distributed computing environment

That does what exactly? Wasting energy to determine if I can transfer $0.3 to my friend to demo it? Suppose you wired them and ran scientific studies/simulations. You’d probably get more useful results out of the energy you just spent.
Can someone who's on Apple's side here elaborate on why they think the outcome for consumers would be worse if they're forced to loosen some of their restrictions?

It's very unlikely that app developers choose to forgo the AppStore since it will be driving the majority of app installs even in a completely open world for years to come. And if they do choose to forgo that distribution channel that should be seen as a very strong signal of how unhappy developers are with the current policies. So if you want to just keep doing what you've been doing and just use the AppStore not much should change, but at least now there's the possibility of competition.
This is like saying if you don't like how your government is run, just move somewhere else. So basically never push for improvements.
Cool! Does it support laying out ivars too?
> maybe 8-10% of the country is out of a job

what do all these people do in the UK, Scandinavia and other countries with single-payer health care?
The main design goal is to use normal cables. It's half an amp per wire max, which works out fine.

The higher power levels require that you take into account how each cable is going to safely dissipate a couple watts, which is easy if you're not running big bundles.
Why would that even matter? People's opinions can change over time.
Thanks! I get the timezone from your browser, so it should work as expected for you (if not, it's a bug, please let me know by replying the email). But enough people asked me about the timezone that it is worth adding it explicitly in the UI.

The ink drops are just a quirky effect that I found cool to add. Hopefully it didn't disrupt your experience (it works better on desktop btw).
Yes. You can import assets independently of that marketplace.
True. But I didn’t want to violate their license, nor publish my code under GPL.

There were other considerations as well. For example, if I would have forked or re-built ffmpeg, I would then have to support my version. That’s something I try to avoid when I can. I think OS maintainers are doing much better job updating these third-party packages than I can possibly do myself, at least for an unpaid hobby project.
Regarding #3 Android gives you that choice. The open source community didn’t just complain about proprietary software they created something. Linux wasn’t easy to install along side Windows on PCs. But they made a product that some people wanted and advocated for their position until Linux is now the most widely used OS on phones and on servers - including Azure.
"In the battle over the security and privacy of my phone, I am happy to pay a premium knowing that my information is safe and sound, and that it is not going to be sold to the highest bidder."

Meanwhile, "Secret Service Bought Phone Location Data from Apps, Contract Confirms". https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxk3g/secret-service-pho...
They shouldn't, but it's not about that. Apple can sell whatever they like or don't on the Apple Store, that's fine. The problem is that they sell consumers a "general computing" device, and then enforcing that every single transaction on said device goes through them. They are not only processing those transactions, not only taking a cut, but also deciding which ones are ok and which ones aren't. Meaning, that if you and me wanted to do business together selling iOS apps, we would need to get blessing from apple. The argument here is that maybe it shouldn't be like this. After all, we don't need to ask Microsoft for permission for the same thing, and on Android if I don't like the rules established by Google, I can put my app on the Amazon store, one of the many 3rd party ones, or just send my customers the .apk directly - Google cannot stop two parties from conducting business, they can merely offer a convenient alternative that involves google getting a cut. Of course apple will respond with argument that this tight control is beneficial to customers - and they are welcome to make such argument.
Actually I do think it matters if Apple is technically a monopoly, as laws are technical documents. If you agree Apple is not a monopoly then the worst thing you can say is, "I don't think Apple is being very nice."

And Apple is not forcing anyone to write ios apps. They are curating a store. Should lawmakers dictate to Walmart which products to stock or how much to buy and sell them for?
Didn’t you know that Epic holds developers hostage until they agree to their terms? I thought this was common knowledge!
You would think, but in all scammer cases that I heard, they are able to get their money out.

I really don't get it, because I have to provide my ID every year or so for verification. I really don't get how these scammer can get away with that, but obviously every time.
My understanding is that Walmart is effectively the only retailer in many rural areas of the US (Though I don't know about specific statistics).
I think that's kind of a strange take. Like, if you are entitled to put an article in my newspaper no matter what the article says, doesn't that unduly restrict my speech by forcing me to endorse your ideas by using my platform to distribute them?

If Google doesn't want to distribute your ideas, I think it's odd to say that that's wrong of them. I do think that it's a problem that they get to act as a gatekeeper like that in the first place. I think the solution is to break up larger platforms and create a diverse ecosystem of smaller options, not to forbid platforms from ever moderating their content.
No you're right, I'm getting like 350fps on Doom Eternal. Impressive optimization l.
OK, so why this and not Pytorch?
From the Executive summary:

>Duration of the MCAS command is a function of AOA and airspeed. At higher airspeeds,
flight control surfaces are more effective than at lower airspeeds. Therefore, a smaller
MCAS command at higher airspeed has the same effect as a larger MCAS command at low
speeds. Without MCAS, the 737 MAX would not meet FAA’s regulatory requirements.

>Without MCAS, the 737 MAX would not meet FAA’s regulatory requirements.

First, called it.

Secondly, how in the hell did a system on which certification of compliance with all regulations governing it's primary intended use case not get vetted more thoroughly?

This determination casts a rather large pall of doubt over why the FAA accepted pilot'
s as a satisfactory failsafe for an MCAS failure if the failure of MCAS should have constituted an emergency requiring immediate landing and removal from passenger service of the aircraft.

Even though the report says the development process was essentially followed to the letter, we ended up with an aircraft which is leagues away from what I would call a reasonably sound civilian transport aircraft.

So it sounds to me like someone is either pulling punches, or specifically avoiding asking the hard Or uncomfortable questions.

Namely:

How is the process not to blame when following it led to a sub-par implementation?

Or if you really insist the process as it stands is sufficient, why was Boeing capable of following the process yet still delivering a dangerous product"
Swift and Objective-C share a memory model, though, which Rust does not. I suspect that any Rust code that interoperates with Objective-C will never be "cleaner" than the corresponding Swift code.
That’s basically illegal.
Raspbian should work, just disable everything thats not needed
When you build a platform and it becomes so successful that it forms part of the foundation for an entire society's technological existence, you lose the privilege of arbitrarily controlling that platform. Electricity companies don't get to skim 30% off of the revenue of any factory that makes widgets using the electricity company's electricity. Cell phone carriers don't get to skim 30% off of any orders placed over their networks. Apple shouldn't be able to skim 30% off of every transaction that happens to be made on an iOS device. I don't give a damn about esoteric arguments about Apple being a "private company" or whatever: it's unacceptable for society to pay a 30% tax to Apple on a big chunk of the economic activity of an entire society. No taxation without representation, right?
This is super cool! Love it.

Love that the layout is responsive and has mobile, tablet and desktop versions in good web UI style. (FYI, if you close the sidebar and resize to desktop, it's missing.)
https://screenrant.com/borderlands-3-sales-5-million-unites-...

> a recent financial report suggested that Epic paid over $10 million to get Control as an Epic Game Store exclusive on PC, and it's possible the company has done the same to snag some of the more important releases of the year.

A little hard to turn down 10 million.
> would guess they're more likely to get rid of "apps" entirely than open up their ecosystem.

You believe they'd rather give up the iPhone than compromise on a more consumer-friendly ecosystem policy?
IANAL and I cannot judge the legal merits of this case.

I did read Apple's response though and I found the argument not a compelling justification for their practices.

A big part of their response is to justify the need for the 30% as a mechanism to recoup costs. That sounds perfectly reasonable until you realize that Epic is not allowed to recoup its own costs for the higher App Store cost by increasing their product cost by 30%.

Instead it must take a loss on the product and charge the customer the same price as app stores that do not take as large a %. That makes little sense.
I found interesting your comment and subsequent replies to your comment.
For your analogy to make sense we would have to have alternative stores to buy iOS apps from.

If target was the only store in the world it should not be able to set itself whatever profit margin it wants..
> (but it apparently has no obligation to support unique AMD optimizations either)

It's a bit worse than that. Intel has no obligation to support optimizations that aren't unique to AMD; they're allowed to disable SIMD extensions that AMD processors declare support for, while at the same time using all of those SIMD extensions on Intel CPUs. They just have to include the disclaimer that their compiler and libraries may be doing this.
Good for them. There are controls for kids and if some people subsidize the rest, I don’t have a problem with that.

Some people taking the tab for the rest isn’t new. Some people have more money than sense, that’s alright.

These games are high quality entertainment, if some people want to spend money on them, that’s not a bad thing.
Tell HN: Check medium's localstorage if you use adblock
If you have uBlock or similar, it appears medium logs all analytics pings into HTML5 LocalStorage and will keep retrying to send them (and apparently periodically change domains and subdomains to try and send them).

I had tens of thousands of entries in localStorage, wasting quite a bit of space, all of them at least 400-600 characters or more. Each time I scrolled it'd add a few dozen more in, to the point where devtools was freezing. Ridiculous.

Example: https://i.imgur.com/M4E3kqg.png
I guess that's what remains to be seen. But Epic seems to be throwing their most valuable property at it right now, so they must have some degree of confidence that a larger player will back them on this.
Android is another phone platform with a larger market share. This is hardly a monopoly.

Don’t buy an ios device if you want apps from vendors who don’t play by apples rules.

I hate the 30% fee as a developer and a user.

I was an ios jail breaker before the App Store launched. I used jailbreaking after the App Store launched to have a control panel and fast app switching. All that got baked into ios but I wish new innovations could make their way to the platform with an unofficial store.

I think that would ultimately be better for consumers.

That’s long term better for Apple.
I've not played duskers (2). But from watching the video, sounds like he was super lucky. A happy accident, rather than an utter disaster.

One of those definite cases of survivorship bias.
Aren't food companies and grocery stores in the business of profiting off human well-being?
Neuralink project update summer 2020
I don't know that that's gonna be enough for Sweeney at this point.
> I'd take "mathematically impossible to cheat" over "men with guns might be angry if someone cheats" any day.

This may be the point we disagree on fundamentally :). To me, "mathematically impossible to cheat" usually comes with "mathematically unforgiving of mistakes". I estimate chances that the government will cheat me out of my money to be much lower than me getting crushed under a smart contract that, in the fiat land, a human judge would invalidate based on circumstances.

Writing this, I realized I'm thinking from the POV of someone living in a democratic and relatively sane country. I guess the risk calculus is different when you truly, deeply mistrust your nation's government.
You can’t both say that you want the main App Store, to be trustworthy and say that they shouldn’t have standards.
> I think this gets very tricky legally, but on the broader point, it isn't hypocritical to say censorship based on concept is okay, but based on speaker is not.

I don't know. I think that depends on how acceptable you think it is to censor based on the Islamic religion, or the idea of homosexuality, even if you think censoring Muslims and homosexuality is not. At what point does censoring discussing about homosexuality become censoring homosexuals? I'm sure some people would say immediately, and to them, there's no difference between censorship based on show they are and what they feel or believe?

That's why I say it requires a very well thought out argument. I can be convinced that it isn't hypocritical to distinguish these (I'm exploring my thoughts on this subject, I don't have extremely held opinions on it, other than that it's complicated), but nobody has to be satisfaction yet.
I don't think that's the case on most CPUs; VPGATHERDD on Skylake, Icelake, etc, all issue the same 4/8/16 port2,3 uops regardless of what the addresses are.
Huge apologies, I normally just use "they" when I don't know the gender, honestly no idea why I didn't do that here. Sorry about that.
Does Microsoft dictate what a publisher can charge for games on other platforms? Because Apple does.
And? Those third party developers have already been compensated fully based on the terms they agreed to when they contributed to the platform. Apple owes them nothing at this point. Obviously it is probably in Apple's best interest to treat them fairly, but that is up to Apple to decide.

And to respond to GP. This has nothing to do with "bootlicking". The same thing should apply regardless of the company.
> This is unfair to all other developers in the App Store and makes users suffer from conflict.

Is this not a confession that paying Apple’s cut makes competitor’s less competitive? Possibly hints that this is a market, but not a free one? Seems like language you’d want to avoid when facing anti trust cases.
The weakest link is always the human followed by entropy.
Data Extractors would also allow to offer alternative extraction options (like how visualization data should be constructed from the given value).
The user can then select an alternative data extractor.

The `expressionTemplate` does not allow to do that yet.

If somebody is interested in implementing data extractors for Ruby, I can offer help!
Indeed. Have you adjusted for police interactions though? How about poverty level and criminal history?

We can play statistics all day, which is kinda my point. It's pretty obvious there is a bias, but not so obvious (to me) what the root causes are. Racism and second degree soci-economic factors are definitely on the table. Labeling every single police event as racially motivated makes no sense though.
It sure is if you are talking about workers rights to unionize, specifically, and how you plan to undercut the existing union.