skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're theory that they're just listing problems is actually a more gracious take than mine, which is that most people here are so desperate to prove how clever they are they don't bother thinking through their own comments. While this is still better overall than reddit karma-whoring the same behavior can be seen here.

So many people don't even bother reading the article before commenting that this site even has a rule that you aren't suppose to ask someone if they've read the article first when you're commenting on their dumbass posts.
"the end" as in "the world's end"?
No, everyone thought they make so much. It took someone big enough and immune enough to challenge it.

You won't expect the single-parent-of-two type of developer to even hope of touching Apple. That sort of developer has no alternative but to keep paying the Apple 'tax'. It's no different than general purpose extortion.
Much of the west coast on fire or covered in smoke.
As a big fan of his books, they read a lot differently than most novels. They usually feel pretty un-structured, much of the story doesn't connect logically to me, often times they come to an abrupt end with no resolution. I basically read it by paying attention to the feelings or moods it's trying to invoke.

But if that isn't for you, I wouldn't beat yourself up for it. Just not your thing, and there isn't anything incorrect with that.
Is it? Really? It’s only when you get to data centre scale that this kind of policy becomes harder to implement... sure even when I create storage instances “in the cloud” I can say where I want the data located.
> On the other hand, if argument is that it's easy enough to switch from Playstation to Xbox, then how is that different from buying a new phone?

Would you be willing to agree that the relative importance of a smartphone in 2020 is far greater than the relative importance of a video game console in virtually everyone’s lives?
Nobody in Europe is bunkered in their homes since March-April. The numbers have increased exactly because people are free to go anywhere on their summer vacation and party as they wish, causing new fires to erupt.
Not at all, proprietary graphics APIs provide modern bindings in C++, Objective-C, Swift.
well the problem is that if you use it once it's probably easier to use it everywhere.
most people understand it if I show them a task explorer or ps and call Thread.Sleep and Task.Delay.
I've never had an Issue with C# async and before I was a big scala user and did not have probems at all.
Facebook told it may have to suspend EU data transfers after Schrems II ruling
I think THIS may be the true secret to Swedish strategy, much like NYC -- it got so bad it really changed the conversation and people are still shell shocked and caution remains high to maintain social distancing, defer gathering in groups etc.

If they aren't really getting together much indoors, masks won't be necessary for now (may need to be outside once winter comes and UV drops precipitously).
> Rather easily: players can own two consoles with nothing more than the hardware investment, and there's a long social experience of dedicated gamers doing just this. Owning two phones, however, requires two separate cell/data plans and duplication of every other regular-use app (productivity, e-mail, etc.)

multiple console platforms require multiple accounts with separate friends lists, paid online access, save games, etc.
with WiFi calling, separate cell/data plans are not necessary. [1]

> The core distinction is that a console is a device, whereas iOS/Android is a platform.

a console gaming platform certainly seems like a platform. games, friends list with chat, applications such as video streaming, etc.

[1] https://thedroidguy.com/trick-drop-cell-phone-plan-completel...
The incumbents own the poles, which means they set the price and determine who gets access.

That prevents new entrants.
Poor little startup Epic games. We are really worried for them on this one. Not sure what they will do about this. Victims as they are. Powerless.
Tor is great, but they also publish a list of IP addresses for their exit nodes, so website owners can block that easily.

Random open web proxies are harder to defend against.

You can also spin-up your own server from a cloud provider and proxy your web traffic through that.
Elixir does that too (more a BEAM thing to be more precise), the BEAM can spawn millions of processes without killing your server performance.

But I agree with your main point, concurrency is hard if the language isn't built from the ground to be concurrent.
There are 195 countries in the world. 11th worst is bad.
> The reality is Apple is just doing what every manufacturer has done for millennia!

Certain actions are illegal if a company has too much market power.

Anti trust law does not require a literal, singular monopoly, in order for some anti-competitive behaviors to be illegal.

Instead, Apple has ~50% of the market share in the US, and that is within the realm where certain actions become illegal, according to anti-trust law.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_antenna

5 seconds of searching would have saved you from looking like a dick.
> Even better that Apple has decided to act like a big ugly baby about it

You mean, Apple, like any grown-up company would do in their place, has rightfully shown Epic the door? Google kicked Fortnite from Play Store for the same reason. And had they tried this against consoles (where devs also pay 30%), they'd be kicked out of the respective console forever.

What's a "non-cry-baby" reaction in your opinion?
The problem with antibodies is they don't seem to last that long. I remember reading about nurses who caught it multiple times.

That's really bad news regarding herd immunity IMHO.
US have lockdown though
Companies built to last are built that way from the start. The culture and contracts baked into the companies follow them for life. That's why we build software for ourselves and our fellow founders. I wrote more about this here: https://shan.io/writing/ltse-launch-americas-newest-stock-ex...
Awesome! Feel free to email us with any feedback at hey@tappityapp.com

As awful as the situation is, it has certainly helped us connect with parents who really need a lot of help right now. But we built and designed Tappity long before COVID and we think it'll continue to be great for families long afterwards, too! :)
How dense is your country though?

I feel that having fiber in big cities is a given nowadays. I don't think telcos have any plan on supporting those smaller remote towns with fiber. Maybe investment does not pay off in a reasonable amount of time.

Fiber may not be the only option though. Starlink should be becoming available soon in North America. Only time will tell if that will work out though. WiMax, for example, was a failed hard.
Haven't they been asking for that for years?
you do realize Apple Park uses Unreal Engine in its AR map and many Unreal Engine games on iOS are the best in their class.

Metal + the Unreal shaders look wonderful almost 100% of the time
“Apple’s app review is often ambiguous, subjective and irrational,” said Makoto Shoji, founder of PrimeTheory Inc., which provides the rejection service. “Apple’s response to developers is often curt and boilerplate, but even with that, you must be polite on many occasions, like a servant asking the master what he wants next.”

That’s exactly my experience as an ios/macos developer. It brings up so many negative memories for me, memories I tried to erase from my mind.
Your cost-benefit analysis is incomplete: Covid-19 can cause long-term lung damage even in the young.
So, it's pretty inaccurate to describe Germany's response as "masks and hand-washing".

Germany still has spikes they need to deal with, but is also doing really well, when in fact people in Germany are not bunkering down in their homes forever. Germany is currently way more open than the U.S. is and is doing way better at control of the disease.

Precisely becuase their response is not limited to "masks and hand-washing". "Masks and hand-washing" and "bunkering down" in fact describes the USA response better than it describes the German response. And Germany is doing a lot better than the USA.

The USA is being hobbled by a strange belief that the only options are "masks, hand-washing and bunkering down must be done forever and are sufficient", or "ignore it and just let as many people get infected as will under business as usual." With one of those seen as a "left" position and the other as a "right" position. Neither is actually an effective response; neither actually characterizes the response of countries like Germany who have been very effective in controlling the pandemic.

It is insanity, and we've been stuck in it for six months, I keep wondering when Americans will realize those aren't the only choices; apparently never? Maybe because some people still think there is going to be some magic bullet "when the vaccine" and we can just wait it out until then; that's not how it's going to work, we're going to be dealing with this for years, and need to be finding sustainable solutions, not arguing about whether we should do something insufficient and unsustainable OR do nothing at all.

What Germany's response has involved is massive testing, a quality healthcare system with universal access, supporting people in quarantine, supporting people financially so nobody has to go to work sick or in non-safe situations in order to stay secure financially, and it goes on from there. All of this is somehow unimaginable in the USA, where people can only conceive of "masks, hand-washing, and staying home", or "pretty much ignore it".
Thanks for the succinct explanation
> I dislike the idea that we should know the future of weather

Whaaaaaat? Is this some aesthetic preference, or a "humans weren't meant to share this knowledge of the divine", or are you trying to sell more weather resistant clothing? And if you wish to practice weather agnosticism, why is your preference so strong that you view the overall human lack of weather-knowledge positively? What do you think of meteorologists? I have so many questions...
Amazon doesn't pay the 30% fee and violates the same terms by providing alternative payment providers in app. It's just that Apple is too scared to de-platform Amazon.

Remote activation is an irrelevant detail. Apps routinely active features remotely. It's the underlying violation that matters, not how it was enabled. That's just PR.
Let's do the math. edit: math was wrong, I am very sorry
Right, but there's other evidence that even with that, their situation was particularly bad. If you go by the excess-death numbers, Belgium is still the 2nd worst in the world. Why them, and not their neighbors?
> expecting the manufacturer to help

If their actions are anti-competitive, then they absolutely have obligations, under anti-trust law, which does not require a literal monopoly, and only instead requires significant market power for these laws to apply.

Apple is subject to the law. They have to follow it, or they will suffer consequences.
Hacks, Bots, and the Pandemic Have Fueled a Racist Class War on Instacart
US and UK responses to the pandemic were probably the worst mismanaged in the developed world, so that’s not a peer group that Sweden would like to be in.
Sounds like you just blew all the arguments for solar/wind energy out of the water.
$5/10 billion seems too less for Apple, it will feel like a slap on the wrist for them. There has to be something concrete which forces them to open their platform.

No company owning a big general computing ecosystem should have this much disproportionate power.

I am glad that at least on a personal level I decided to diversify on my computing devices and just use their laptops now.
I think any business model that relies on loss-leaders followed by lock-in is a bad business model. I hate it in printers, I hate it in phones, I hate it in computers. I'm not that big into consoles, but I suspect I'd hate it there too.
The US has the 10th worst mortality per capita in the world (excluding microstates), so they're doing better than that at least.
This community is dominated by people who work for unicorns, believe their company is almost a unicorn, or dream they could one day work for one.

As much as we deny it, companies only tend to get that big through anti-consumer behaviour, walled gardens, vendor lock-in, etc.

When your life's purpose revolves around the absolute power your dream requires, of course you will defend it. The fact that allowing other companies to behave this way makes it harder for you to do well is irrelevant, because you need that power for when you're in their place.
>Acting ethically and treating people right is its own reward _and also_ has been repeatedly shown to lead to outperformance.

If that's the case, then what does your exchange add? I think we are in agreement about these principles, but I don't understand how your exchange is encouraging them.

Better than just encouraging people to agree to these practices is if you could set up a competitive landscape where they are more directly rewarded than in the current paradigm. That is primarily how I see an alternative exchange contributing to this cause.

>Our exchange works differently than the legacy players, so I don't really understand your last point.

This is the central contention. I don't understand how you are different from legacy players. What is the actual concrete difference in how you operate as an exchange that differs from your competitors? Furthermore, how do you expect that to lead to less short-term rent seeking?
> Unless the carriers have a sudden outbreak of generosity, data caps won't rise under 5G,

Verizon's $80/month plan (for individuals) right now has unlimited 5G, plus 50GB of 4G LTE before you hit the soft cap. When 4G LTE was first introduced, the price was $80 for 10GB of 4G LTE. That's a factor of 5 improvement in less than a decade. Likewise, I can get 150 mbps+ on XLTE out here in the 'burbs (where Verizon's network really shines). Back in 2011, 5-10 mbps would have been great speeds.

What else in the computer industry has improved by that much over the last decade? Maybe multi-core performance of Apple's phone CPUs? (7x jump from 2013 to today.) Certainly nothing in the desktop or laptop realm. A 2019 iMac with 9th generation core CPU is only about twice as fast (multicore) than a 2011 iMac with 3rd generation core CPU.

EDIT: The $45/month is lines on a family plan. Corrected to compare $80/month for an individual plan.
That's a simple way to work with those few special out-of-vocabulary negative words that are part of a lot of negative content.

It doesn't mean that everything with those words is automatically negative though, they're just replaced by known words.

A nice feature would be to be able to add / edit them of course (but I haven't got around to that).
Especially if the alternatives to doing that means that the really large companies get exceptions that others do not. It's actually anti-competitive to have the App Store treating Epic favorably but not some new small company trying to compete.
I think it's not necessarily POSIX threads related. In theory there is nothing
wrong with spawning tens/hundreds of thousands OS threads, and Linux does a
decent job at this. But in practise you'll run into issues such as:

* Different OS' handle things differently. macOS limits the number of threads
per process (somewhere around 1500 I believe). Other OS' may be slower, or
impose other limits

* Because of this, sometimes spawning threads is pretty fast (e.g. 10 µsec).
Other times it's super slow (I've seen threads take over 500 ms to spawn)

* Context switches are still pretty slow across OS'. There's finally some work
being done towards lightweight thread support in Linux, but I suspect it
will take a few years to become useful

I _really_ hope that one day we _can_ "just" spawn 100 000 OS threads without
issues, as it would make many concurrency problems easier to solve. Sadly, I
think it will take another 10-15 years.
For us, Williams Lake is the closest town with supplies. We travel in a generally northerly direction via various 'tracks' to we turn onto Chilko Lake Road, which ends up on Tatlayoko Lake road, which will in turn lead to Hwy 20. From there, it is all paved to Williams Lake.

Distance wise is not obscene but the 'tracks' i refer to can be a pain to maintain due to wash out and tree blow down etc. If that is the case it can significantly add to travel times. Winter can be good and bad depending on amount of snow or icy conditions etc. Typically, up until about January, winter driving is actually easier IMHO, as all the potholes/ditches are filled out. We use heavy duty chains on the tires if it gets too slippery and/or too much snow, this can make for a really long drive due to having to travel much slower with chains on.
Your link suggests the satellites word need to be around 2000 AU to avoid the corona, though I suppose the delta v requirements would be pretty small for such a large change so far from the sun (but my only source for the intuition is kerbal so take it with a grain of salt).
Well, they are better off so far than France, Italy, the U.K., Spain, and Belgium, which is most of western Europe. So in other words, as good or better than most of western Europe.

Now, why western Europe, as a whole, has the worst mortality rates in the world, is a valid question, but it has nothing specifically to do with Sweden.
China may have launched and landed a space plane
I have a (probably) related issue on my dual display system where it works on one but not the other, making it just as useless in practice. I still use f.lux as a result.
As someone who writes + maintains systems with both: They both have their place. Reactive streams (FRP, Rx, ...) are good when you want to do operations over streams like 'fold', 'sample', 'tween', etc., but most code isn't like that. Instead, most code is 'at-most-once' (=> value or exn), where async/await is enough. That matters because adding streams means all of a sudden your code looks like 'one-or-more', which adds an entirely new world of behavior to define & test against. ("Is this a value or a stream? If I feed in a stream... What if I just want one...")

'Behaviors' in FRP help a bit here... but if you can avoid the complexity, why not?

For when we do FRP, I like how we got it in our React code: Mostly synchronous functional code (React::render(), ...), and then we do animations and other stream-like concepts via Rx. Our nodejs code works similarly: mostly async/await route handlers, and now and then we do fancier http streams and whatnot via Rx. (Though even there async/await has been increasingly nice, as we generally aren't doing many fancy temporal operators nor contention handling.) We haven't figured out an equivalent solution for our Python async code, however as async/await is still new & changing, and afaict FRP/Rx never really made it there.
This project was recently submitted to r/python: https://github.com/alirezamika/autoscraper/
>Billionaires don't drive billions of cars or eat billions of beef steaks

No, they just continue to produce them, all while influencing policy that could curtail that consumption. I'm not saying that the individual is blameless, I'm saying that the average Joe's sphere of influence is orders of magnitude smaller than that of any billionaire.

Edit: Thank you for the link, it does give a bit of a palette cleanser.
The more reasonable thing for Apple to do is to separate the code-signing services (platform security and privacy) with the App Store services (advertising and distribution). From my vantage point that would solve all these problems.
1) Is a US resident permitted to declare on their Facebook page that they are friends with [ARBITRARY STRING OF CHARACTERS HERE]?

2) Is US Facebook allowed to record a user-provided and recipient-approved statement of metadata association that references a “Person/Entity” that could potentially be in the EU?

3) Is US Facebook allowed to benefit from processing of metadata without receiving GDPR-compliant permission from the “person/entity” referenced?

I believe the answer will end up being Yes, Yes, No; Facebook EU/US can permit two world citizens to intentionally declare their friendship each other, and the cross-site link is user-specified and passes a “judgment call” opt-in test — but Facebook US cannot make use of that data record in any way that benefits Facebook (such as training models, tracking via social network data, or targeting advertising) other than to exclusively deliver minimum functionality. For example, not okay: “automatic face recognition tagging”; okay: “instant messaging”, “wall posting”.

Disclaimer: I am not your lawyer, I have not prepared citations for your review, please seek legal counsel if you’re considering actions based on my opinion, etc etc.
Right, then, what are some of the factors that would make it preferable to list on the LTSE?
The problem with dates like that is they are pure best wishes. They might have funding for a demo in 2024 – although it isn't even clear they've got that yet, it sounds like they may just have funding to develop their proposal further. Even assuming the tech demo is successful, it sounds like they don't even yet have a detailed costed proposal for a 2034 launch, and no idea how likely that it will actually get funded.

Politicians and bureaucrats want immediate results, so a "launch now and see results in 30 years" mission – by which time many of the senior decision-makers will likely be dead – is going to be less attractive than competing missions offering results much sooner.

If you go back through the history of space exploration, it is full of proposals that "by year X we will be doing Y!" which never came to pass, because the money never turned up.
On second thought you are right, there is a lot of faith base nonsense going on, especially post-facebook.
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> But browser makers can pick and choose what they want to implement. And we end users can pick the browers we like.

Unfortunately that doesn't actually work like that in practice. We don't get to pick all of the websites we use and we certainly don't get to pick which APIs their developers use to make them. This in turn limits both your freedom to choose the browser you want and the browser vendor's freedom to choose what to implement.

As fun as it is to blame Google for the fall of the open Web, a big part of the blame lies with the developers that use those APIs without regard for their status.
>Your desire to not live near denser housing does not trump other's dire need for affordable housing.

The reverse is also true. Their desire for affordable housing doesn't trump people's desire to not live near denser housing.

>If you're so concerned about carbon footprint reduction...

I don't have children or pets. I have worked from home for the last 20 years.
https://multicians.org/mgs.html#segment

segment
User-visible subdivision of a process's address space, mapped onto a storage system file. Each segment is 1MB long, and has a zero address. The term "segment" is used interchangeably with "file" -- except not really: the things that are files in other systems are implemented as segments; also, the term "file" includes multi-segment files, and when talking in terms of COBOL, PL/I, or FORTRAN language runtime objects, one speaks of files. Programs are spoken of as stored in (procedure) segments. Correct use of the terms "file" and "segment" is a sure sign of a Multician.
Our feelings are unpredictable because they DO NOT Exist until they are the subject of inquiry.
in this we see that the in-dividual really is like the a-tom.