skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this showdown between Epic and Apple is really interesting. My thoughts:

1. Epic had to know Apple would go nuclear. If they didn't, they're completely incompetent. Let's assume that's not the case. So Epic was itching for a fight. Maybe they were delusional about Fortnite's power here?

2. Apple is going nuclear here. The message is that Apple wants to crush this. This is Apple making an example of Epic. It looks like Apple is prepared for this fight and doesn't want it to gain traction;

3. Personally I think for the vast majority of developers the Apple payment ecosystem makes sense. It's just for the likes of Epic, Amazon or Netflix it doesn't as they're large enough to have their own so 30% is a huge fee for those companies and ultimately untenable;

4. Apple's monopoly will end at some point. I have to believe that even Apple knows that. So it's just a question of time and Apple doesn't want it to be now;

5. I don't think the solution is for anyone to be able to have payment infrastructure. That kind of Wild West is no good for anyone. It's just a question of what the compromise looks like;

I really do see this as the dying days of the Apple and Google app ecosystems.
if anyone thinks this is being unfair, they literally titled the book "A Replacement For Religion" https://www.booktopia.com.au/a-replacement-for-religion-the-...
Had alot of issues with power when i last tried Linux on a mac air.. Something with alot of interrupts firing and the linux kernel was using more power as a result. Thinking of wiping macos and putting windows pro only and using wsl or something.

If anyone runs linux/win on mac hardware smoothly I want to know more details.
There are a number of such tools out there. Here's a short list. I'd be interested in any experiences people have had with them in largish production environments.

https://www.kubeval.com/

https://github.com/zegl/kube-score

https://stelligent.github.io/config-lint/#/

https://github.com/cloud66-oss/copper

https://www.conftest.dev/

https://github.com/FairwindsOps/polaris#cli
Agreed. our standards require this
read an article about waybackmachine , archive.org on hn few days back, will there be a copy on it ?
Replace Apple’s iOS ecosystem with Microsoft’s Xbox, Sony’s PlayStation or Nintendo’s Switch. Either you destroy the console ecosystem by forcing them all to open up, or classify iOS as somehow different... or you leave them all to enforce their business agreements through mutually accepted legal term. If Epic doesn’t want a different agreement than Apple, they can negotiate alternative legal terms.
Tesla and Apple stock split discussion on Twitter
I struggle to see where Slack is spending all of that money. It's a chat application with a few million active users at any given time. Even with absurd AWS bills, they should still be raking in profits.
This is pretty cool, but I feel like the COVID counts may be off. Clicking New York lists ~25k COVID deaths but I thought the total was above 30k?
> Epic isn't fighting for the little guy

Nobody is fighting for the little guy, but this is still advantageous for the consumer. Apple is even fighting with Facebook, since you are forbidden to disclose the 30% cut with consumers.
Or K9 if you want an open source client to inspect the source code if you feel like it's necessary to ensure that the app works as intended.
You may be able to talk to the founders of Printless Plans, a Baltimore based startup that has been working with large e-ink displays.
Hey, cool, you built the same thing as me but with less code: http://serendipityrecs.com/

One thing that's cool about GPT-3 is how versatile it can be, so I'm exploring a natural language search interface, which is something that traditional recommendation algorithms can't do.

Are you planning to incorporate GPT-3 into your startup? I'd love to hear about what use cases you envision it solving. If you're interested in connecting, my email is in my profile and my website.
The idea that Tesla should have a “tech” multiple, which generally means 80% margins and high growth rates, is kinda scary, since they don’t have either. 80-95% drop would be reasonable if and when it loses its “story”.

But it can use its valuation to bring in capital to try and make the business into something else.
No data for this exists.

This is all my opinion and most importantly feelings about spending money though the AppStore and through any other channel.

I will say, for me no other company has built the good will that Apple has. I really doubt that Epic understands the “trust” I speak about. Both because of the general sentiment I see online and as a Fortnite player.
I was there group of people 200 strong none of them got sick all still in contact after we got back how is it that their statistics like that when I know of 200 people that never got sick? No one no one wore masks fuck masks. It's a fake virus you retards it kills 003% that's so low I'm not even worried about vaccines let the people who are going to die from it die
> It’s governed by laws beyond our control as surely as the behavior of materials are governed by thermodynamics.

It's funny you make this comparison. Because so many of these supposed laws about "the market" violate an effective equivalent to the second law of thermodynamics for information systems: P=/=NP. The claims often made about the transcendent nature of the laws governing "the market" violate the computational properties of reality as we understand it [1]. If "the market" behaved as so many claim then we would have proof of P=NP.

Evolution is also an emergent behavior, of biochemical systems. But we also understand how it functions as an algorithm. So much so we now use it to aid in the design the wing shapes of our planes, the design of new high efficiency radios, and to find new algorithms.

The entire universe is governed by laws beyond our control. That doesn't prevent us from understanding them and bending them to our will. As we have done with ropes and levers, atoms and proteins, so too can we understand and engineer markets.

As it happens markets are likely in a similar class of algorithm as evolution: efficient approximations of NP problems. This is why people use markets as the basis of things like prediction markets, scheduling algorithms, and bin packing.

"The market" is a claim to the "god is in the gaps" no different than intelligent design is. It even does the whole song and dance of elevating an approximation algorithm to some unknowable divine will. An approximation algorithm we already understand and use in engineering everyday.

[1] Make no mistake, bits of information are physically connected to reality, a non-trivial NP algorithm running on human timescales would boil the oceans. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
> People want belonging and a sense of being part of something greater than themselves. Belief in the supernatural is not required to engender that feeling.

I agree, but feel like this is a not a bad thing most of the time (even though it can be), and I say this as an atheist in the traditional sense, with iconoclastic tendencies when provoked...
It was something about LEWP's goofy virtual filesystem, absolutely. Contemporary tech was really stable when crappy developers didn't get overcute.

I made literally thousands of dollars solving issues with LEWP among a cohort of grad students between 1990 and 1992.

I was never called upon to do similar magic for anyone who used a more serious and less idiosyncratic tool (at my university, Word was the mainstream option).
As a package deal it does CRUD / CMS better than any other languages and always has. This is why prominent giant CRUD / CMS services used it, including Wordpress, Wikipedia, Tumblr and Facebook. And it's an even better language now than it was when those services started using it.
Can you make this a competitor to Thunderbird rather than being locked into GMail?
I would love to have an app like this that used IMAP and was multiplatform!
Not really, because good FP programming style makes heavy use of higher order functions.
Have you considered that this might be an issue on your end, and not the V3 Composition API's end?

4 year Vue dev here (right after 2.0 release). In Vue 2, you have a bunch of "magic" properties. Your state goes under the "data" key, computed properties go under "computed", methods go under... etc. Then you have the lifecycle hook magic methods: "created()", "destroyed()", etc.

In Vue 3, you have one function -- "setup()". This function returns the stuff you want to use inside of your component. This could be state/reactive data using "reactive()" or "ref()", derived data using "computed()", watchers, plain functions, whatever.

If you need to use lifecycle hooks, then you put an "onMounted(() => {})" or whatever in your "setup()".

The API was stripped down to essentially one initialization method where you set up everything you need.

Though to be fair, these days I write Vue like a weirdo and I use JSX with it.

const App = defineComponent({
setup() {
const state = reactive({ count: 0, msg: "Hello" })
const doubledCount = computed(() => state.count * 2)
const inc = () => count.value++

return () => (
<div onClick={inc}>
<p>{state.count}: {state.doubleCount}</p>
<p>{state.msg}
</div>
)
}
})
Yeah.. that's really uncool.

So I'm all pro-Apple for the whole Epic thing, but by this one action, I will refuse to use sign in with Apple for good.

They're basically hijacking users
> Epic isn't fighting for the little guy, they wanted their own store where they would take their own percentage of sales.

Competing stores on a platform means that store vendors have to compete on price and/or service since they can't rely on exclusive access to the platform to force anyone who wants to reach the platform into their store. So, fighting for their own store on the platform (especially since succeeding forces the platform open to other stores, as well) is fighting for the little guy. It may not be the goal, but it's the ultimate effect.
Yeah, because good ol' rural boys never litter the wilderness with bullet casings and beer bottles / cans or roll coal.
My 3 year old daughter really enjoyed this! Very nicely done.
No, Apple, among other things, has violated the laws against anticompetitive behavior by attempting to exert its market dominance in one market (iPhones) over a separate market (app stores) by engaging in punitive and market-distortive actions against potential competitors.

Similar antitrust violations of the same nature: iMusic vs Spotify, iChat vs Hey/other chat programs, Apple Webkit vs all other browsers.

I would have included Apple Pay but in that instance Apple lost, largely because their actions in other markets made it extremely undesirable for merchants and payment processors to get behind Apple's vision of Apple Pay in which Apple skimmed X% for providing absolutely no value to the transaction. In fact, so many retailers found Apple to be an undesirable partner that a number of major retailers disabled Apple Pay integration on their NFC-capable payment terminals. For example, most Kroger locations (like Ralphs) take Google Pay, Samsung Pay, Garmin Pay, and most other app-based NFC payment methods...but not Apple Pay. (Apple's situation is similar to American Express, which also charges significantly higher rates to retailers than its competitors, but unlike Apple, Amex actually processes transactions and theoretically provides valule to retailers, just not enough to justify its Appleesque rates.)
TIOBE often look very sketchy to me. I refuse to believe Visual Basic is still more common than Javascript. That is, the old non-.NET edition. Or R more common than freaking SQL - the lingua franca of data.
I have a question: Just over 20 years ago when the accepted view was that the expansion of the universe was slowing down, would you have backed that position with as much certainty as you are backing this one? That the universe is a mere 13.7 billion years old?

We cannot prove the absence of light in a place that is already so far away that it's light will never reach us. Do you agree? We can prove what we can observe, and from that proof we can make inferences about what we cannot observe.

The entire premise of dating our universe is based on its observed rate of expansion. This was accomplished by extrapolating data from observable light and tracing it back to the so called Big Bang.

I see a lot of problems with this one dimensional assumption, which to me seem really obvious.

First of all, let's assume that we actually got it right this time and accurately traced light back to the Big Bang - how can anyone be sure that it was the first and only Big Bang?

Pangea, the super continent, for instance - many may think of as a single place and time in history, but in fact it's more likely that many Pangea's have come and gone in various states as the planet roils on. There will likely be another in the far future.

Perhaps the Big Bang was merely a "localized" event and there are Big Bangs occuring in distant places whose light will never reach us. Perhaps we have gone through many Big Bang / Big Crunch cycles. We simply cannot prove it one way or the other, and so to take a strong position on this would be unscientific.

More food for thought - imagine that the universe has already been through a near infinite number of Big Bang / Big Crunch cycles, it begs the question, do we reset the clock every time or do we let it run?

In my opinion, currently accepted theory is akin to believing that the Earth is the center of the universe and the sun revolves around us. We were wrong about that too.
Why New or Future College Graduates Should Consider Entrepreneurship
If one refuses to adopt modern tooling it’s an indication that something is wrong.
The problem is that ProtonMail could violate your privacy by sending you Javascript that gave them your keys and you'd never know about it.

Relying on hearing about compromises in the news only sort-of works when:

1 - such compromises are revealed

2 - they're big enough to make news in the first place

3 - your own data hasn't yet been stolen, so you have time to change services after you hear about the compromise

None of these is guaranteed to happen ever.

And even if you did hear about some compromise in the news, it could be far too late for you, as your data (the data ProtonMail is supposed to protect) could already be in somebody else's hands.
> Should I master C first (pointers and such?)

That only means that you have to unlearn a lot of bad habits. For example malloc/free should not be used in c++ code unless you call into a c library that uses the counterpart. Even the c++ equivalent new/delete pairs should only be used if it cannot be avoided.

> and then get into C++ with its Turing complete templating language and such in order to be able to be competent enough to grok all kinds of code written in C++?

I am quite sure I used Java collections before I had a grasp on its generics. You don't have to be able to implement std::vector<int> to understand that it is a collection of int. You might have to be told to avoid std::vector<bool>, but that is more because it is an unholy design failure that should have gone the way of the trigraph a long time ago .
Those kinds of rules are for pubic health reasons. If you serve the public then you can't discriminate against protected classes. Though it may be legal to refuse service for other arbitrary reasons.

When I worked in retail and scouted prices at the completion they would ask me to leave the store.
A quick search leads me to believe that the majority of people use their smartphones as phones; they make calls, they send text messages, they may use apps to buy movie tickets, check their mail, play games. Most of these uses don't really demand a lot of bandwidth. Why should I watch a video on my smartphones 5" screen when I could watch on my 55" TV.

I think the cellular carriers should invest more in improving their coverage, especially in rural areas. Of course, that'll never happen because the carriers would rather focus their investments in the big cities, where people are willing to buy a $1000 smartphone every year.
As an iPhone X owner/user I'm less and less inclined to go with Apple for my next phone. Apple & Google have a duopoly on mobile phone OSes. It's been how many years that they've been taking a 30% cut? You mean they haven't optimized/streamlined the App Store processes in what 10 years?

At least Google is not the only Android handset game in town and you can still sideload apps.
I'm betting it's mostly recurring development costs. As far as I can tell Slack is constantly adding features and integrating new Apps.
Great story about Jonathan Rothberg's current project, creating a rapid at-home COVID-19 test: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/jonathan... (or https://beta.trimread.com/articles/37232)
The network is better in the long run if people are more careful about which vendors they choose and vendors are disincentivized to ship broken shit.
But what happens when half or more than your emails go to Gmail accounts? Google still see them.

I have my own domains, POP mailboxes hosted by my domain providers which also provide SMTP servers (I don't feel like self hosting) but I know Google know most of what I write.
Thank you. Have you discussed possible perverse outcomes to (D) and (E)? If so, what negative outcomes have you been able to foresee?
> Apple is a company that needs to be brought down a peg or two, it's far too 'valuable' in terms of its market worth,

Isn't this why people pay the Apple tax? To have them protect you (their users) from 'bad apples'? Everyone liked their over bearing approach to their eco-system until it directly affected them, and now it's too much? Have your cake and eat it too?
Did the same with my macbook pro 2015. But switched to dell xps for more cpu cores. Never had any issues.
I work specifically on mobile security. I have a PhD in CS, specializing in mobile security.
Sell your old mac and buy five comparable used Thinkpads?
lua, all day every day. It’s well understood, slim and plays very nicely with C which is how most embedded dev is done.
You don’t have any key ideas that you can express without linking to “hundreds of pages of legal filings”? His claims are not odd at all, you really haven’t put any effort into distilling the incentive design.

It’s not impossible to express complex incentive design or push readers in the right direction to understand this. What is the essence of what is quantitatively or contractually different about LTSE?
Leading a dev team with data and not being a tyrant
I have a service with one customer (me) that lets people email me via my phone number. For example: 732-757-2923@telephonemail.com (this isn’t the actual domain I use).
Classes are extensible modules.

Although some people seem to like pre-history languages without modules that require workarounds like using prefixes everywhere.
It used to be that buying a car was an investment. It's one of the reasons the US got so car happy.
They’re probably staffed like a company that’s 10x larger than they seem because they want to be 10x larger ASAP.
For what it is worth, people actually in the real world do just that: buy property adjacent to a municipal airport and then cause problems for airport users... All the time. (Pilot for almost three decades.)
Consider that the issues may be psychological. I'm sure I could learn how to cook, I already know how to make a few things. But finding the strength to plan meals, to choose what to eat and then to prepare it when you're not really interested in the food and nothing really tastes that good is a lot harder.

I don't own a scale but I wouldn't be surprised if I lost weight since I started working from home. And not in a good way...I've always eaten insufficiently but at least in the office there was food readily available so I ate about two meals per day. Now I'm eating about once per day and I'm perpetually hungry.

My point is that everyone has different struggles. What seems trivial to one person can be a lifelong struggle for someone else. For many, the disruption caused by this pandemic upsets a very delicate house of cards that kept them sane and functioning. Some of those people might even be parents. :)
I see no mention of how much hydrogen is produced per unit of solar input?

How do we know if this will do a good job of converting sunlight if we are given not results, just claims of improvement.
Caring for children is more important than a side hustle. If you would take advantage of compant-given childcare time to carry out a side-hustle when you don't have children is something I would judge you for. You can like it or not, but I would.

You would be exploiting a system put in place to help families survive a pandemic for your own personal gain.
Any plans on open sourcing this or making the code available?
PhD in CS from a top five program, specializing in mobile security. My day job is similar.

Why is it so hard to believe that people can be different from you?
About a year ago Technology Connections on youtube tried to use an eink display and thoroughly described his experiences.

* E-Ink on Android, and other new things!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytpRnRke6I0

* E-Ink for Productivity: An Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NfX0vlCa4k
In the SEC filing they say that companies will be required to issue long term policy documents and that their progress should be measured in Years or Decades and with long term compensation plans. The compensation piece seems like the most concrete requirement given that most companies will say they have long term plans. But those companies also reward executives based on stock price and earnings in a quarterly/yearly intervals, not decades.
>I think you're calling it "modern" because by default it has CUA

No. I'm calling it modern because it was stylesheet-based, and followed the eventual dominant paradigm of working with ranges of text and attaching formatting, not inserting codes.

CUA menus and keybindings aren't part of my opinion of Word. (In fact, the eventual grafting of CUA menus to it really ruined it, IMO.)

Your "major drawback of Word for DOS" is really only a drawback for people trying to run it in an xterm in 2020, decades after its last release, so, uh...

I'm baffled at the insistence of a word process in a terminal, honestly.
I don't know why people continuously repeat this narrative. Two of the largest companies in the world, and in the history of humankind, are constantly marched higher by this "shortsighted" investor base: AMZN and TSLA.

People say companies pursue short-term gains but in reality they just mean they pursue things they disagree with. And herein lies the dirty secret: professional investors aren't short-sighted, they just don't value the things you do because (shocker) the average Joe doesn't really understand how to create shareholder value.
I live in a country that won't see 5G soon, if ever (that is, not in the US). My point is that the existing LTE networks are plenty fast for all intents and purposes. I don't always notice the difference even between 3G and 4G.

So, then, it comes naturally to ask what is the exact problem that 4G has but 5G aims to solve, besides all the marketing and change for its own sake. Especially that weird kind of 5G that can't go through your hand and has coverage area of a single tower smaller than that of a WiFi access point.
Epic has a customer base that won't understand the nuances of the case. If they didn't tell their story to their customers in a way they can understand, they would suffer a lot of damage to their reputation, regardless of whether they are right or wrong, because customers are being cut off from a product they enjoyed.

They will suffer reputation damage anyway, but they at least stand a chance of convincing some of their customers that they have a good reason for taking these actions.