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We clearly disagree that there is no consumer facing reason to distinguish streaming game stores from movie stores.

The clothing store analogy is not relevant in this argument, because it assumes there are no technical differences, but that isn’t actually something we agree on. I.e. it’s a case of affirming the consequent.

It doesn’t explain anything - it just hides the point of disagreement by talking about clothes instead of software, which in fact work very differently.

Streaming games can clearly do things that other interactive malware can do, and that includes fraud, phishing, collecting credit card information, promoting hate, funding terrorism, and any number of other things.

Movies can’t do things like phishing or collecting credit card numbers etc.

They can of course promote hate, and Apple has removed streaming video services when they have done so.

So there is a difference.

As for claiming Apple is lying - well you clearly want to make that case, but it’s not at all obvious to me that they are lying about anything.

Nobody is pretending Apple doesn’t want to block competitors from establishing their own storefronts.

Apple is quite clear that they are banning streaming video because they want to retain control of what goes in the store.

I also think they are quite clear that they don’t want anything that does an end run around their control, and their collection of in app payments.

Nobody is lying about that.

As for you ‘flipping’ incredulity round on me - is there something I’ve said that you don’t think I believe?

Everything Apple does with the store rules involves enabling classes of apps they think will be essential to their users while preserving their control of the storefront.

Streaming game stores would be competition with the App Store itself, and allow it to be bypassed.

Streaming video services obviously don’t allow the App Store to be bypassed.

There’s nothing secret or hidden about this.

As for ‘duopoly’ - as I say, if you want to make the case that they shouldn’t be allowed to block competing storefronts based on a legal theory that they are too powerful to be permitted to do that, fine.

But that’s not what this discussion has been about. You are claiming streaming games and streaming videos are the same for the purposes of this argument.

They are obviously not and I’ve articulated the reasons.

If you want to continue to disagree on that point, be my guest.
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I'm torn on this one. At the latitude where I live (northern Illinois), I both appreciate it staying light past 5pm in the winter, and would appreciate it staying dark past 5am in the summer.

But I also spend some time further north, in northern Michigan, and there I'd sure be annoyed if the sun were still up at 10pm in the summer. And might be willing to accept a 4pm winter sunset in order to have the sun up before 8am - that far north, you won't be out much in the evening in the middle of winter, anyway, and shoveling the sidewalk before sunrise is just depressing.

Then I realize that this is all kind of beating around the bush, and what I'd really like is an end to the USA's ridiculous culture of 9 hour work days and eating at one's desk, so that I could take a long lunch and use that to get my sunlight in winter.

So, meh, I think that I really don't care between permanent standard and permanent daylight time, I just want to get rid of the changing.
For certain values of "success", neither...it is an internal psychological/spiritual state. For other values of "success", it is by definition arrived at only by hard work. For still others, a little of both. "Success" is a quintessentially ill-defined specification and since we don’t need to design to that specification, it should be ignored as a general rule. Most wise people deprecated the term a long time ago.
A game console is not a general-purpose computer.
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing. They really do look like alien creatures.
I worked on gwbasic in early 90s and I turned lack of Docs/resources to my advantage. I used to spend time thinking about different ways to solve a problem. Basic does teach some bad habits, but it also teaches basic control structures, debugging skills and problem solving.
Later, when I switched to C/Java/C++, the old programming habits changed quickly.
In modern times, I would recommend Python as a beginner’s language.
Maybe it shouldn't be true for every video game console.

But even then --- a mobile phone has analogues with other computing devices that are more open.
with respect to C, probably, because many people don't choose the clock time at which they have to be at work, at school, etc.
Profitability aside, SpaceX has indeed produced reusable orbital rockets, and Tesla has indeed produced salable, useful electric passenger vehicles. My comment (and this thread) is about the feasibility of the core technology itself, which is in question.

The idea is that if all of the things you have tried have worked out and done what it says on the tin, perhaps you aren’t trying to do a sufficient quantity of impossible things. :)
Like many others, I agree with summer time year-round; but oppose staying on wintertime year-round. This is a trade-off between time at work/school versus free time, socialization time, outdoor leisure activities, etc., and how the two categories split the limited resource of daylight.
I like this idea, too. Maintaining a reading list of personal sites you find valuable or interesting (and especially discovering new and interesting/relevant content from sites you currently follow, rather than from a search engine or social media site) has a very 90s feel to me.
In court, Apple claimed that iOS payments are 12% of total Fortnite revenue, just for reference. It's not a death blow, but it's definitely impactful.
McWhorter's argument, distilled, is that we should not teach Shakespeare. :)
Lots of geographical locations in my time zone (AST), including Puerto Rico and USVI, don't observe DST [1]. It's nice to not have to care about it for a change, as opposed to when I was living stateside.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Time_Zone#Areas_cover...
I think the problem denoted in the article is far larger than losing a trust in news media because of what people are seeing on a video. Thinking that CNN is full of crap doesn't make young and healthy people want to kill themselves, and that's where we are. Like the article said, we have a generation of people who are so lonely and depressed that 25% of them have thought seriously about suicide in the past 30 days. We're living in a death cult.

That's not to say that the loss of faith in institutions, especially the news, isn't a big deal, but personally I think this problem is 10 to 100 times bigger than that. It's an economic collapse, a pandemic, growing income inequality, climate change, the effect of technology on our minds, what we put into our bodies, and a thousand other things I can't even begin to name.

The more I read and think about the world today, the more I think that mental health is the problem of the 21st century, and that the previous list of issues is actually all secondary to the problem of mental health. There are enough resources and enough intelligence to solve all of those problems and more if we had the will.
Lol. This a pointless comment to the people interested, but I'm so amused with my stupidity I had to share.

I opened this thread with absolutely no thought about the _game_ Go, and read the top comment about how chess changed in the last 10-20 years thinking it was tangentially related because of Watson and whatnot playing AI chess.

I came here thinking I was going to read comments about how the Go language has been impacted with the introduction of ML and AI packages that attract data science types from Python and R. I thought it would be interesting to see how a newer/smaller language was impacted by a group co-opting the the development and platform.

Whoops.
Well, I think not having a sole official gatekeeper is good for consumers on both platforms -- I'm mostly agnostic about the mechanism for getting there. I'm not convinced requiring Apple and Google to host other people's app stores in their app stores is actually a good idea, if only because I'm skeptical that a government-imposed regulatory mechanism for that wouldn't have unforeseen and unintended consequences.

Even so, I actually think it would be good for Apple if they stopped insisting on being the exclusive funnel for all iOS applications, too. Yes, it would mean a certain amount of lost services revenue, but in addition to avoiding PR fiascos and regulatory interventions, it takes a certain amount of pressure off their reviewers -- and might let some really interesting niche applications bloom.
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Interesting idea! Can I request for more sci-fi titles like The Foundation?
1x1px seems simpler. Or a 4k static background. I’d say they all count, though some are less exciting.
I have a question about an embarrassingly simple problem: "Element Access". Is there a way I could contact you about it?
Federal law says you can jailbreak your phone or tablet and put whatever you want on it, and Apple cannot stop you from doing that.

The question is whether the law requires Apple to code their OS to make that easy for you. It’s up to the courts of course, but I’m skeptical there is a viable, consistent legal theory available to Epic under current law.
Although I'm personally not interested in any of those you listed, people are already playing with running Android applications on such phones via Anbox (and it's even mentioned in the Q&A section of the talk).
I work on these brain machine interfaces - the 5 billion number is made up but his point that we need high bandwidth is reasonable. I think the right answer is much lower, depending on the desired application.
Readme looks nice and polished. Good job on launching.

If you are looking for next steps for learning, consider writing tests. This should help get you started: https://docs.python-guide.org/writing/tests/
I'll rephrase, "Apple‘s rulings work great for consumers".
I bought a $1000 device because Apple gets to decide what can run on it. I like iOS, and I like that Apple provides a great user experience on the device.

I was not in any way coerced into buying said device, and there are a plethora of other options for substitute devices had I wanted more control of what runs on the device, which I do not.
What is the definition of "general purpose computer"?
Transactions on ethereum get processed from the mempool in order of who wants to pay the most gas to have their stuff processed.

And yes, ethereum has more potential for problems, it's a much more complicated system than bitcoin. Their current goals are proof of stake (getting away from energy wasting mining) and scalability. Bitcoin is great for what it's great for, being digital gold, but it's pretty far from replacing Visa, ethereum actually has a shot at that.
On this matter, I do trust the Russians: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-28423647

I used to be pro "permanent summer time". But beyond the practical arguments above, there is a another reason.

First of all, let's be clear that the the number is arbitrary if there are no transitions.

It is stupid (as far as I can tell) that we waste the sunlight in the morning, getting more darkness at night. Switching to permanent summer time without tackling the underlying causes why are schedule shift backwards would seem to beget the same problem over again. Switching to winter time however might force us to confront the issue head on.

e.g. Maybe we need to drastically curtail light pollution and require that consumer devises have opt-out red shift (if there is more evidence for it) and curfew modes.
Don't forget the crazy binning for ram sticks, cpu dies, and graphics cards. There's a reason all the top guys have major sponsorships, it takes a lot of money to find the top 1% of parts.
Can we just all go UTC and be done with this nonsense? Let organizations change their hours throughout the year. People would get used to the cycle fast enough, you know, after they're done killing people like me who think this is a good idea.
There shouldn’t be any regulation of PlayStation, because consumers are actively choosing to buy into the PlayStation ecosystem. By the same vein, consumers are actively choosing to buy into the iOS ecosystem. No consumer has been forced into being part of the iOS or PlayStation ecosystem.
Ehh, if you're going to stress the SV connection to the modern tech industry, I'd say that William Shockley, Robert Noyce, and Gordon Moore had far more influence - even culturally - than Timothy Leary.

And I wasn't comparing us to luminaries like Feynman, but rather to the working men and women of the Apollo program.
Apologies, I had to cut my comment short. You are right that the folks getting rid of it would be fine for winter. But summer would have issues.

I was anticipating the folks that want it permanent. Who would then complain on winter.

You could probably go for more divisions in the year nowadays. Almost like it would be if you were doing true sun clocks. But there really are no panaceas here.
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What if we did winter time but switched to 8-4 workday? :O :O :O

Once we stop switching, the numbers are arbitrary.
That's like saying I don't care about farmers I get my food from the supermarket.
What do you think who developed the programs to store your personal data?
Apple took over functions from third party apps because clever developers programmed them.
Video game consoles shouldn't be locked down either.
I think you need to consider your age and zip code as well. I have a family member who is an insurance broker and she had to factor in age and zip code to give me quotes on insurance.
Game consoles are for entertainment. Phones run our lives. There is a difference in practice, though perhaps not in theory.
The Android suit has different claims in it than the iOS suit. One of the issues with Android is the allegation that Google killed deals Epic was trying to make with Android hardware manufacturers (by voicing objections to the manufacturers, who rely on Google) to get the Epic Store app preinstalled on some Android devices.
Your game console isn't a pocket-sized multi-purpose computing device with a camera, GPS and more...
Those concepts don't give me the couch surfer "all you have to do is bottom-up the economy" but "you'll mostly be paid in memes" vibe.
The % is not enough in itself, otherwise the case would be very short, open and shut. The question is, does Sony abuse its market power?

If console developers are satisfied with the deal, then it's hard to say that it's abusive.

Also, there's no specific % cut that can be said to be excessive, outside of context. In some cases, a 50% cut may be a good deal. It sounds to me like console vendors may be returning better value for their cut than Apple does.

In my opinion as an Apple developer, Apple returns very little value for its 30% cut. I'd be happy to pay 30% if it was worth it, but it's not.
Other than the app, how is GoodRX’s business model different from the multiple other discount cards out there? What did they figure out that non of the others did?
Calling those robots is a bit misleading, because they lack self-control. Control logic we know is large for very small robots. If you want a micron-scale robot you only get about 100 transistors for its "intelligence"[1]. There are certainly things it could do, but probably not autonomously navigate, map and recognize tumors.

We just don't have the expertise for those kinds of thing, at least not yet. A plethora of sensors (that can detect cancerous cells) and this sort of technology would be needed. We'd essentially be trying to create artificial cells, a monumental task nature took billions of years in refinement (even if we can find shortcuts sometimes) -- too many very complex systems (energy, better sensors, better movement inside the body, "cognition", etc.).

Maybe in 50 years of continued research? 100 years? I don't know.

[1] The state of the art is about 100 transistors per square micron. This assumes you could drive and interface with them adequately. Cells accomplish all they do without any transistors at all, it's all protein-based sensors and DNA-encoded behavior, I believe.
How many times do we have to repeat ourselves regarding Apple and monopoly here on HN.

For the love of god, don't go spouting stuff and saying there is no way Epic can win when your whole premises is simply wrong.

First, learn what a monopoly is. It is when a company has over 50% marketshare in a certain market/industry (although sometimed an even lesser market share is required to call for anti-trust).

Second, learn what is Apple's marketshare in the U.S.
Hint: it is around 51%.
And no, it doesn't matter if Apple is under 20% worldwide, the U.S. courts don't care for the world's marketshare, but the U.S. market and consumer, just like the EU looks after EU citizens.

Q.E.D. Apple has monopolistic power in the U.S. and needs to be dealt with.

Let's not even get started trying to compare Nintendo and Apple on the same playing field. Try going a week without your Switch, or a week without your smartphone.

Like it or not, having a smartphone in the 21st century has become a necessity and I would dare say a basic modern human right, since are lives are intertwined with it. Our phones have become our wallets, keys, health regulators, entertainment, cameras, connectors to other people and so much more.
It has become a tool far too important to leave unchecked.

Sorry If I came as rude, but I am exhausted by people repeating the same (wrong) points in defending Apple and spreading missinformation.

The day Apple feels the hammer of justice, is the day I get drunk and celebrate like New Year's Eve
Winter time, 8-4 work week. Do what we can so that sleep schedule is closer to centered around the darkest point.
To be a bit more cynical it seems to be saying something closer to "we want to look upstanding, so please go do the work for us because we couldn't diversify our own firm"
s’all business
I don't think anyone disputes that? Most optimizing compiler literature doesn't even mention language semantics, the gains there are very much last-ditch rather than necessary.

I can't even find benchmarks of ICC vs a current GCC but they were pretty even the best part of a decade ago. GCC is a mess compared to LLVM but it's quick.
I was more asking you to quote the relevant parts with an your interpretation of why they're breaking them.
I just finished reading for my second time last week, but listened to the audiobook in between book readings and found it very enjoyable. Hearing the pronunciations and energy is sort of like a movie interpretation.
Curious what do you use the EVM for?
But surely they have the agency to choose the clock time at which they go to bed, no?
I feel that the current system makes it more difficult to have a fixed morning routine since it totally throws off my sleep rhythms. Plus, DST introduces a pretty abrupt change in when the sun rises and sets. If there were no DST, then it would be a very gradual shift in those times, which I think would be easier to handle.
Ha, you are obviously correct! I stand by my Mall analogy ; )
So, with front-running on Ethereum, am I understanding correctly that what is happening here is that bots are being used to look at buy and sell orders on decentralized exchanges and then sending their own tokens with a slightly higher gas price to get in 'front' of the detected order?

What is the point of "back-running?"
And I hope you eventually learn that racism in response to racism is still racism, even if it is in support of a good cause.
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Apple could sell a brick for $1000.

If one doesn't like it's abilities - don't buy!
Manufacturers love it. Inkjet printers, coffee makers, cars, vacuum cleaners, laptops. If a manufacturer thinks it can get away with monopolising parts, accessories, and services it will try it.

If Epic does win it could set a very wide-reaching precedent.
Software lifetime is an interesting topic. See for example [1], a 1992 paper that surveyed business applications and found an average lifetime of about 9 years, with a maximum of 20 years and a minimum of 2 years. 2 years versus 20 years!

Things don't seem much different today.

On the one hand, HTTP, HTML, and producing HTML server-side in a language like Java or Python and with a SQL database isn't all that different now than it was 20 years ago. There are Java web apps developed in 1999 that are kept up-to-date and work just fine in 2020. On the other hand, there are applications developed with popular technologies a just a few years ago that are hopelessly out-of-date and in need of a rewrite today.

I see it as an end user too. I've been an ING Direct (now Capital One 360) customer for 18 years. The web app that I use in 2020 seems to do the same things as the one in 2002 (though it's slower today), but it seems like it's been completely rewritten at least three times.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=23826996884004375...

EDIT: And HN! 13 years old and counting...
Worth noting there are a few Powell's, including a lovely pair of them on the east side, one a smaller but well-curated satellite of the main store, the other specialized in gardening, cooking, and craft books. A coffee shop is sandwiched in the middle. (Assuming anything gets back to near-normal ever again.) https://goo.gl/maps/LhYrHLLJ2UcGFmpA9
Except you don't need a cryptocurrency to have decentralized applications or neutral platforms.
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I'm not from the US and I know people love to criticise the US healthcare system.

What's crazy to me about this is that the insurance doesn't work like a normal home or car insurance: your car gets destroyed, you buy another car of the same replacement value, you send the insurance company the receipt. Maybe you fight with them over the exact replacement cost, but you get pretty close.

Instead, it sounds like the insurance company provides you with an opportunity to buy medicine from them at a hopefully discounted price. Or if not technically from them - from their business partner.

Private health insurance in other parts of the world looks a bit like this with regard to hospital treatment. There's a private hospital who's partnered with the insurance company, and you can only get treated there if you have private insurance. Which makes a certain amount of sense as hospital treatment is not a commodity. But to apply the same logic to the part of the treatment that is commoditized - the drugs - is a real triumph of capitalism.
I did something today that I never imagined I’d do in 10 years as an exclusive Apple user: I installed Windows 10 on my iMac so I could continue playing fortnite. I’m sure Mac had one of the smallest shares of users, but I was surprised by how much more performant the game was running on Windows compared to MacOS. The difference was incredibly noticeable. It’s weird to me that Apple is risking losing users to other platforms, but I guess the 30% is worth it to them.

Between this and the fact that Apple tried to kill Unreal Engine from its platform, I’d be really nervous to be a game dev trying to rely on Apple at this moment. Regardless of the outcome of the Epic suit, Apple hasn’t really acted like they take gaming seriously on Mac or iOS, as several big iOS games would’ve suffered a similar fate to fortnite if a judge hadn’t stepped in.
Concur, because we spend most of the year in DST anyways. It's March through October. That's 8/12ths the year.
Youtube mostly uses vp9 these days (I think it might fallback to h264 depending on the device?)

You can confirm this by loading a video, right clicking somewhere in the player and opening 'stats for nerds'