skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft went from open options to package deals with no options. iOS (and vendored Android) started out with nothing, then added a store. There is no precedent on the platforms to point to an "it got worse" scenario.

The best (far-fetched) comparisons would be the inability to pick and choose TV packages from your local TV broadcast supplier. Or not having a choice on what firmware your car's infotainment system runs. Or what store you use on your Xbox/PlayStation/Nintendo. And for all of them: you can't run your own software of choice either.

While we might see a mobile phone as a collection of Application SoC, Baseband SoC, firmwares, boot loaders, OS, apps etc. the perspective of the actual markets where they sell like the hotcakes they are see it as a 'thing', a 'device'. There is no separation, no bundling and no concept of swappable components. It's the same people that see computers that way. There is no hardware + firmware + boot loader + OS + applications, it's "the computer".
I don't know if you remember the 90s, but at the time MS was the ONLY monopoly in personal computing. Intel was the other big force, but even they had competition on AMD. All other companies had not even a slim of hope of controlling the ecosystem like MS had. Now we have Apple, but you still can buy Google devices and do whatever you want outside their walled garden.
tim sweeny is 51%
My father went into his chosen profession because he expected the US to get on the universal health care bandwagon imminently. That was in 1970.
Yeah, I love the fact that Karen can decide to kill my friends and family with negligence.

Yay freedom.
Branding every possible decision as "technical debt" is intellectually dishonest. Each decision you make has consequences. Technical debt is the result of choosing an expedient path over one that supports your wider goals. It's true that there's no perfect state, but only because this is engineering, where we don't care about "perfection", only tolerances.
The accusations are not "facilitation" so much as "promotion". Allowing Militia and QAnon groups/accounts/pages to exist might be one kind of bad, actively promoting them to improve engagement and ad sales is a different level.
Based on that thread, the last time they did it was in May, and the latest was yesterday. Furthermore, they’re promoting a sneak peek so they could have easily waited to promote something that isn’t even here yet. The timing makes it pretty clear that they’re just trying to beat up Epic, and it’s an immature thing for a company to do.
Epic asserts that they maintain an illegal monopoly of iOS app distribution.
See also https://beaconscan.com/

It's another useful explorer.

There's also https://eth2stats.io/medalla-testnet

It's not an explorer, but a way to keep tabs on your (and others') nodes when it's not handy to e.g. connect with ssh. Only a small number of node operators are currently reporting to eth2stats, but hopefully that number will grow over time.
Alright, I can't edit my post anymore but I just want to add - I see now that perhaps vigilante wasn't the right word. I was trying to fit it into a Wild West metaphor and hadn't had my coffee yet, the phrasing clearly struck a cord.

I was more just trying to phrase that the blockchain world can feel lawless at times, and Chainalysis is trying to bring some order and justice to it. Maybe that's the antithesis of why Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies took off, but I personally think it's pretty sweet as someone with previous AML experience.
> I don't know what "science" you are referencing but according to the NY times [0] 0.003% of marriage in the US are homosexual.

That is an absolutely terrible argument, and your numbers are also incorrect. The NYT article said, "In 2014 there were 183,280 same-sex marriages in America, roughly a third of 1 percent of all marriages," which is 0.33%, not 0.003%.

More importantly, same-sex marriage was not recognized nationwide in 2014, and the Supreme Court only later declared same-sex marriage a fundamental right in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015). Finally, the number of gay marriages is not an accurate indicator of the number of gay people. Prior to Obergefell v. Hodges, only 7.9% of LGBT Americans were married to their same-sex partner.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/212702/lgbt-adults-married-sex-...

About 4.5% of Americans identify as LGBT in a 2017 Gallup poll, and the current percentage is likely to be higher due to social stigma, which is stronger for older generations who lived during periods of lower LGBT acceptance. Only 1.4% of traditionalists (born 1913-1945) identify as LGBT, while 8.2% of millennials (born 1980-1999) do the same.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/234863/estimate-lgbt-population...

The APA makes it very clear that homosexuality is normal.

> The longstanding consensus of the behavioral and social sciences and the health and mental health professions is that homosexuality per se is a normal and positive variation of human sexual orientation (Bell, Weinberg, & Hammersmith, 1981; Bullough, 1976; Ford & Beach 1951; Kinsey, Pomeroy, & Martin, 1948; Kinsey, Pomeroy, Martin, & Gebhard, 1953). Homosexuality per se is not a mental disorder (APA, 1975).

> APA is concerned about ongoing efforts to mischaracterize homosexuality and promote the notion that sexual orientation can be changed and about the resurgence of sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE).

https://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/therapeutic-response.p...
In having App Store as the only way to install common apps for their devices.
You bet they are blinking right about now, looking at each other. But I bet they’ve also planned for this scenario, and is getting close to the worse case.
> The whole goal of two post-capitalism enterprises having a fit is for one or more of them to make more money. The whole "it is good for consumers" or "good for developers" is just sprinkles and marketing to appeal to the public. Separate the issues and angles and see it for what it is: just a bunch of legal departments having a fight.

I don't think this means I shouldn't vehemently support companies when their policy advances my interests.
Microsoft at its peak would have crushed Apple
Microsoft takes 30% on Xbox plus its much more expensive to develop and publish on that platform overall.

Neither Tinder nor Spotify will transfer any savings to the end users.

Spotify has been ramping their sub costs considerably my sub went up by like 150% in the UK over the past 3-4 years.

Tinder employs discriminatory pricing by charging certain genders, age groups and sexual orientations more for their premium services.

How Tinder hasn’t been sued to oblivion I’m still not sure it seems to violate even US anti discrimination laws, I guess were lucky that they don’t employ differential pricing based on race yet.
Here's Dex: https://landscape.cncf.io/selected=dex
+1 to this. It might seem filled with endless BS but the fact that they put their money where their mouth is means that the advice given is based on actual experience and not some overpaid advisor who've never tried or willing to try the advice they are giving.
Unchaining Data
By definition, if it can be regulated, it's no longer decentralized. And if it's not longer decentralized, blockchains have no benefits over regular databases.

Blockchains solve a very specific problem - decentralized transactions. Unfortunately solving that problem for the world's organized criminals brought a massive amount of heretofore hidden financial activity to light. Consequently, people, most of which don't actually understand blockchains, are trying to replicate this 'bonanza', like moths chasing a light bulb.

There many other use cases for decentralized transactions. But, with so much perceived opportunity at stake, industrial -strength pretzel logic is being applied to the problem, along with eye-popping amounts of venture and FOMO money.
> Suffice it to say I do not watch the news, I very rarely visit Twitter and do not follow anyone, and that is the only way I have ever seen that expression used - in the news, on Medium, on FB, on anywhere, when I've come across it. "Agree with us or you are violent."

Have you Googled the term? Apart from the first page or so being dominated by that very recent event of the crowd intimidating people and many other people conflating that event with that slogan, you'll find plenty of articles about what it means: that choosing to not speak out about an issue helps support the status quo. In fact, I've generally seen it used to try to persuade people who don't want to support the status quo that staying quiet or trying to "not be political" is in fact supporting the status quo.
Well, there is the Hennessy&Patterson book, "Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach". The newer editions include modern features and follow industry's developments.

This will of course not be able to tell you all the black magic that is happening inside AMD's and Intel's newest designs. The software optimization manuals for these processors do include some more interesting insights, but especially the Intel ones are not the most entertaining read...
Should have been, after all Flash was doing it 10 years ago.

Since Flash plugins were killed, Linux has been a mess for hardware accelerated video on the Web.
Is it just me or is there fantastically more fraud these days than a decade or two ago? Any transaction feels like walking around in northern Canada during black fly season.

I receive several cold scam calls per day and I’ve known people who have done things like purchase a home and been inundated by fake calls from “the underwriter” and other scams.

Is there no mail and telemarketing fraud enforcement any more?
Linux gaming is actually really solid now thanks to Lutris, DXVK, WINE, Steam, etc. Lutris especially makes it all work smoothly, and apparently it's Linux-only. Could Mac have similar gaming support if it were less hostile to OSS?
For national financial comparisons - sure.

The real difference, of course, is that taxes will ensure you're covered even if you're low income.
Non-quantitative security arguments are nonsense and really need to stop.

"Consider the iPhone. The hardware, operating system, and applications were designed with everything a security professional loves in mind. Even so, modern systems are too large and too complex to be bullet-proof."

That statement, and many others like it in the article, leads you to believe that the systems are good, but provides no actionable information other than a hedge saying that the system is imperfect. How imperfect is it? What is a viable threat? What quantitative effect do the mitigations have? Without this type of information it is just parroting content-free marketing speak.

Here is actionable information. Bug bounties correlate strongly to the cost of discovery for a class of attack. Therefore, Apple thinks it takes less than $1M to create a remote no-install zero-click kernel arbitrary code execution [1]. If you need one click, then $250K. If you need an install, then $150K. Given the nature of software, after such an attack is discovered it can be deployed in bulk with minimal extra effort, so you really need to divide the cost over the number of targets that can feasibly be attacked to evaluate the "marginal cost per attack". How widely you think a remote no-install zero-click attack can be distributed will tell you what that number is.

To provide an example of such an attack here is a post-mortem done by Google Project Zero of 5 exploit chains being exploited for 2.5 years before discovery [2]. They mention that the sites received thousands of visitors per week, so a conservative estimate would be 130k visitors/5 exploits for an average of 26k targets per exploit. Assuming this falls under the first category of attack, that means the marginal cost to fully compromise an iPhone is ~$40.

So, the total effect of every mitigation they do is raising the cost of exploiting to $40/iPhone which is not secure by any objective metric.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/security-bounty/

[2] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-d...
Perhaps, but that is nothing new, now is it? I'm not sure why this case would be special... it's definitely not the scale, numbers or competition, because those are practically the same on plenty of other (non-IT) inter-corporate schemes. Just because you don't hear about them as much doesn't mean they aren't bigger or less relevant.
You object to one of the specific exceptions in ECHR Article 10, not to the idea of making the exceptions explicit. The point I was defending was that the exceptions should be explicit, not that the particular list of exceptions in the ECHR is the right list
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iPhone is the only computer many Americans own.

Software development and access to American consumers is no longer free and open.
This is an overstatement. ICC consistently compiles the slowest and produces the largest binaries. It also defaults to something close to -ffast-math, which may or may not be appropriate. If your app benefits from aggressive inlining and vectorization at the expense of potentially huge increases in code size, ICC is likely to do well for you. However, I've seen lots of cases where well-vectorized code is faster with GCC or Clang, including some very important cases using Intel intrinsics. (Several such cases reported to/acknowledged by Intel; some have been fixed over the years, but these observations are not uncommon.)

BLIS is used by AMD and is a good open alternative to MKL (for BLAS) across many platforms.
https://github.com/flame/blis/blob/master/docs/Performance.m...
In additional to the "Dark Forest" analogy here, there's another hilarious analogy of Ethereum I've heard of - it's a game of Core War, but with money in it.
Here’s a whole article about that! “Kludgeocracy in America” (2013)

https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/kludgeoc...
> After one hour, wire transfers sent in error are no more recoverable than crypto.

The receiver account can still be seized by government institutions though, something much harder with cryptocurrencies.
A company should have the right to enforce the terms for its own platform.
With no skin in the game, I could just as easily counter with:

Supporting Apple in this fight is just setting a dangerous precedent that big players should be able to just intimidate platform developers into giving them whatever terms they want. Don't do it.

Again I don't really have a concrete view but a lot of these discussions tend to boil down to preference against one party or the other and not objectively looking at the arguments from both sides. Replace Epic with one of your critical apps. Replace Apple with Google and the arguments are the same.
No need to setup another fedcoin. They can just pump and dump bitcoin directly at will like they do with gold. they could short it to oblivion whenever they want, and accumulate as much as they want whenever they want.
Google Reasons Behind Taking Down ‘Remove China Apps’ & ‘Mitron’ from Play Store
interesting, then, that he is solely responsible for introducing marketplace exclusivity deals to PC gaming.
Proof of Work is on its way out already. Ethereum will be running on Proof of Stake soon which uses very little power.

I'm not sure the traditional financial system would ever out-compete the cryptocurrency ecosystem even if you removed the KYC etc as crypto is permissionless which is a breeding ground for innovation and efficiency. It would be impossible for the banks to keep up.
Apple featured PUBG numerous times before this. Conspiracy theories not needed.
>That's what Apple is now desperately trying to avoid happening to iOS as well.

It took a court order to not cut off Epic's developer liscence, which affects many other game vendors too.

That doesn't sound desparate. That sounds balsy and arrogant, and considering the attitude of Epic somewhat called for. It's almost like the gaming market on iOS is a only small percentage of all the money Apple makes. We are talking about a lot of money that Epic looses to them, but the same is not true in reverse.

Apple will stick to its guns even if the whole gaming industry would boycot them. They don't seem to care, and i can understand why they don't. Mobile games is a very profitable market, but one that makes money irregardless of quality. Angry Birds will do for Apple. The assumption that exclusive titles are platform drivers for mobile phones is false.
I'll concede that points 2) and 3) could plausibly be raised in the early days of Linux. Point 1) - I don't think so. Nobody is stealing anything; people are voluntarily giving it up for free, for the benefit of the community. What could be argued is that "open source is literally communism" (therefore bad) - and I believe it was argued at some point.

> one can argue that that is its way of showing that it will be a paradigm shift of something in finance.

Judging by the recent interest of large financial institutions and corporations, I agree - there will be ripple effects of this, one way or another.

> I realise that one can argue that within a decade the market valuation of bitcoin (whatever that means) reached $200B which is a spectacular achievement

I've been on HN long enough to catch the cynicism which tells me that tech market valuations are pure bullcrap, so I'm not reading much from that number :).
I'm not sure your sample is representative here. Facebook and Google are primarily ad companies, and it's unclear whether the current situation would be a net positive or a net negative over the entire set of businesses that might advertise with them.

Meanwhile, markets like e-commerce, telecommunications and online entertainment are booming thanks to the stay-at-home culture, and no doubt there will also be an entire generation of new and/or rapidly growing products and services aimed at supporting home offices, flexible work patterns and more distributed teams.

I'm not sure we'll ever go all the way back to how things were now, even if someone discovers a perfect cure for the coronavirus problem tomorrow. I think when the dust has settled, we will have learned that it's often useful to have specialised workplaces, but also that working from home is fine for some people doing some jobs at least some of the time if they want to. I suspect we'll see some big, permanent changes in industries like retail as a result, and that this in turn will sustain at least some of the boost that a lot of tech stocks have received recently.
Really? That's so strange. I swear I thought I could buy XBox games from other stores like Amazon, Target, and Walmart if Microsoft were to kick them out of their store. I can even buy used games on CraigsList.

How are they acting the same?
With no gloves, to boot!

Of course, the real grandmaster move is to use liquid helium - its boiling point is about 70C colder than nitrogen :)
Is their way to cover them selves in court. Otherwise it makes no difference to them. To ask for themselves or everyone
Ultimately if Apple bends if will be good for the users in the long run. That's what matters.

And if Apple doesn't bend, we need antitrust action against these monopolies anyways.
Sweeney's doing a great job of portraying himself as an insufferable tool on Twitter. Keep it up, Tim!
Epic is still the under dog here. They’re nothing compared to Apple.

Even if this is all in Epic’s selfish best interest, that doesn’t matter if their interest is more aligned with smaller app developers’ interests.

The balance of power is still shifted well towards Apple.
Have you seen Derren Brown's "The Push"? Do you think the people there should be charged with attempted murder because they thought they were murdering someone?

I would argue that people should not be held responsible for their actions in contrived scenarios that are unlikely to actually occur organically. E.g. most of the guys charged here wouldn't actually have sex with a child, because in reality children don't look and talk like adults.
Apple seems to be the big player here, no?

And it seems like Apple has already given the big players whatever terms they want, and epic is too small to get the same treatment
I agree. I do not like Riot's "startup" approach to game design, where gameplay elements are plucked from the most popular titles on the market. The games have never felt innovative to me, they just seem like they took from everyone else and then focused on iteration so much that it gives the features and gameplay a level of polish that a lot of games don't get (especially from a esports vantage point).
The art style also feels so accessible to me that it lacks a certain soul that defines a good game.
I'll play, but the question "what CPU did you use to load that text blog" is... well I dunno what it is but I'm tickled.

Intel® Core™ i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz × 4
To clarify, these companies are certainly not absolved of doing the same exact thing, but the current news isn't about them, it's about Apple, and they're going to make good use of that
Lots of US/UK folks, apparently. Many of these lists seem like echo chambers for the Valley, a few surprises there though.
> Ideas usually come to me spontaneously from some life experience, so it doesn't seem like I can force it.
You already have the answer. Relax. Distract yourself temporarily with some gardening where you're not concentrating on the main problem.
Gardening is good for your health in many ways.
Is there a more technical details of what the lens do? If he has some problem in the cones, no optical of digital processing can magically make it beautiful.

> “It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life. That red, it’s just gorgeous. It’s incredible.”
Thanks, that works. I can put something simple in my settings.json like this

"debugVisualizer.debugAdapterConfigurations": {
"Ruby": {
"expressionTemplate": "DataExtractor.to_table(${expr})",
}
},

..and something simple in the debugee like this..

table_example =
{"id"=> "1", "label"=> "One"},
{"id"=> "2", "label"=> "Two"},
{"id"=> "3", "label"=> "Three"}

# Quick hash to visual table helper
class DataExtractor
def self.to_table(hash)
meta_hash = {
"kind" => {"table"=> true},
"rows"=> hash
}
meta_hash.to_json
end
end

..and we get a decent hash or ActiveRecord visualizer. Thanks for the hint.
That is how it works on most desktop platforms with their video frameworks.

Naturally Linux desktop being as it is, this solution will never work.
My god, have you tried to explain React code so someone outside of coding? Every field with any kind of intellectual depth invariable has to create an own set of terms to describe what they are doing.

Stop talking down on people just because you don't understand their jargon. Either keep quiet and learn or don't judge at all.
But do they? Or is that just a facade to influence public opinion. Don't forget that all large companies like to personify when it suits them, but are just legal entities with the upsides or persons but none of the downsides or actual accountability. That goes for Apple, Google, Epic and all the other big ones all the same. It's also good to remember that it's not "all the people that work at the company", but mostly a bunch of legal people, and a small blip on the calendar of the CEO.
Tim Sweeny is one guy.

China has somewhere in the vicinity of ~250 nuclear warheads.

Your move.
>The crowning touch, however, was wiring the seeker to aim not where the target was, but where it would be.

The missile knows where it is, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LjN3UclYzU , a great song about missile guidance systems and knowing where you are by how much you aren't (there).
It’s a flawed argument, developers don’t come saying “we’ll give you 30% of our revenue if you let us build on your platform”.

If they don’t like the terms they can simply choose to not develop there.
Absolutely disagree, this article made me really see both sides and how apple is in the wrong here:

https://stratechery.com/2020/rethinking-the-app-store/
Market share in the US mobile OS market.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...