skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair, I was unaware of the Nexo entirely and that the Clarity offered a Hydrogen version (in part because I'm among the vast majority of the US with no Hydrogen infrastructure and no attempts to bother selling it). That said, both Hyundai and Honda are clearly invested enough in full/proper EVs that these models especially feel like hedges/"compliance cars", versus Toyota that still hasn't seemed to commit to full EVs and still talks about the Mirai as if it were more than a hedge and was still the prime bet the company was making, which yes I think it an increasingly weird position in 2020. (Hyundai seems in a catbird position in some markets with the Kona EV right now, and Honda is still trying to figure out what company's electric future looks like, but clearly knows it is the future and the Honda e is incredibly cute and very "present", if unlikely to make it to the US.)

(Though a quick search just turns up that Toyota has definitely made an about face on that position in its Chinese operations last year and is finally planning an EV suite of cars with the Chinese market in mind. It's an interesting reminder that right now China is the EV market to beat in terms of how fast EVs have heated up in China. Interesting to watch if it will be the Chinese market that saves Toyota from US/EU mistakes like the Mirai.)
> attempts to counteract this problem were ignored or shut down.

I think you misinterpreted this?
> How do people keep track on all the features that are added in RDMS?

By reading the release notes
Maybe it should be something like, "if your platform doesn't allow side loading of other apps, or other app stores, then the store on that platform can take no more than X% commission on sales"
The veeery wip docs can be found at https://v2.imba.io :)
> Apple users don't have a choice. It's "popular" because they're forced to use it.

Do you have a minute to talk about our Lord and Savior, Android?

People do choose iPhones or Androids based on what apps they know they can run.
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Craig Murray doesn't seem particularly right-wing to me. Meanwhile, here someone describes not seeing several dozen left-wing sources on Twitter for weeks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24578659
Yep, if you spent any time with non-technical users you'd know a good amount of them pick Apple because they want their messages to show up as blue in their friends' iMessage and not green. They have no idea how Match.com subscriptions work and don't care about Spotify ripping off musicians.
From your article:

> with managed "strategic" herds of grazing vegetarians

This is “introduce a few grazing animals”, not “this will support the world’s cattle”.
I don't see any posters pointing to how broken DMCA is too.

This could be fixed tomorrow if the law had significant penalties for copy fraud in cases of fair use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud

Give the reporters 5 strikes too... If you cry wolf 5 times on things that are proven fair use or spurious or without proof you are banned for X days from submitting claims (at a minimum).
The financial gains just shift to the landlord class and people get worse accommodations for their cost. Still a win-lose scenario.
> To me the iPhone is a console, end of story.

This would be true if iPhone would be only a toy. But it's also the only source of person-to-person communication, source of news and primary computing device for large part of USA population.

And that makes it very different from a PS5. By market share. By use. By impact. And IMPACT is what we're measuring here.
Basecamp and Tile want walled gardens?
I don't think this is true. I don't own that many games on steam that offer in-app purchases, but monster hunter's redirect you to the steam storefront, and steam definitely takes their cut of those.
Is it the job of the DOJ to help scammers make money? Or can anti-trust be about some type of consumer protection?

Apple has carved out a small but lucrative area which is basically pretty consumer attentive. I think google assistant is way better, but I just like having a hassle free experience with apple too much to switch for what might be a better spec'ed product. I get my phone for 3 years, get applecare+ on it, and away I go. I've actually used AppleCare once, I was in and out in something like 15 minutes with a new phone. I've had apple remind me to cancel app subscriptions when I delete an app if I won't be re-installing! You get a notice before renewals on subscriptions, the terms are always clear and in dollars, consistent interface to cancel and get terms (ie, no FREE 1 month (and then fine print - $50/month after)).

The irony is that these are the sleezeballs - the EXACT folks that make doing subscriptions online so annoying and illustrate what apple is trying to create with their platform - TRUST.

They make games for Xbox - I'm sure microsoft wants a cut. Playstation I'm sure does the same.

This has everything to do with the apple eco-system from the consumer standpoint. I realize the issue here is that folks like tinder can't run whatever scam they want on the apple platform. Why is this a crime again?

Don't like it? There are tons of other phones out there, apple doesn't have close to a monopoly in smartphone sales.
You might be forgiven to say 3) is the most obvious conclusion, but 4 years ago, we all thought that Clinton would win didn't we? and look what happened.

I suggest you should recalibrate your crystal ball once again.
Very few people do this. most popular apps have a version on both stores.
However the flaw in your analogy is that there is very little lock-in to particular retailers where is there is a huge lock-in to a phone you just bought.
Scrimba is amazing! Learned a lot from it!

Is this new video format that you developed opensource? Is there a link somewhere where we can learn more about it?
Did some research and couldn't find anything.

Thanks!
Allowing other stores doesn't mean you have to use them. You could still have your curated experience on the Apple store. Why do you want to impose your views on others?
How did they define "extremist" in that analysis? And how many total people are we talking about?

Seems like the relevance of that line really depends on answers to both. I.e., if extremist is super narrow we may be talking about 64 people out of 100. If extremist is overly broad, then maybe all the recommendations were for groups that a majority of the population would not find offensive.

Just saying the line by itself without context doesn't convey as much information as it first appears.
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> You don’t really have a choice

Why do you not have a choice? If your product is not stocked in Walmart or Amazon, who make up the bulk of U.S. retail, can you not make money? Having your app exclusively on Android can make plenty of money. Epic makes plenty of money on other platforms. Many game publishers are successful publishing exclusively for one console. Pandora was fine before mobile apps. Many dating websites exist. 40% of a particular segment of the computing sector in a market as huge as the US does not monopoly make.
> having a hard time thinking of situations where a seller like Cheerios would be able to say, "no, everyone is going to offer our products at $2.50 for the next week."

Because MRP (minimum resale price) is often illegal (bit it's complicated https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...)

MAP (minimum advertised price) is more permitted, which is why Amazon often makes you put items in your cart to see the discounted price.
It would seem these folks listened to the criticism of their Timescale License here on HN and took it to heart. Right to repair, right to improve, and the gating of enterprise features were the only serious criticisms, and they've been addressed. I tip my metaphorical hat to them.

I'm curious to see if some vocal people here will still not be satisfied with anything short of a OSI-approved FOSS license. Really the only practical limitation that I can see now is if you're AWS you can't launch a competing service with Timescale by leeching off their software without paying for it. That's a glaring short-coming of FOSS licenses that really should be addressed. Until then I expect this kind of almost-FOSS license to become more popular in the future. We're seeing it from many of the recently founded open-source companies in the cloud era.
> This is a straight-up lie and Epic, being in the gaming industry, knows it. Steam takes the same 30% (unless you're huge) and is Epic's direct competitor on PC. Not to mention every other gaming platform[1].

And Epic managed to fight this by offering a store that takes a lesser maragin. Something Epic or anyone else is ever allowed to do on Apple due to how they deliberately built the product.

If anything, the Steam situation is the perfect example of how broken the mobile world is when it comes to enabling competition.
That would be the day I might own my first Apple device or even release my apps on it.
Eh. A better analogy would be Cheerios sticking an insert inside their box of cereal that said, "save $1 at Costco". That kind of behavior is pretty common with physical retailers; most boxed products I buy will contain inserts that advertise replacement parts and other products from other sources.

Apple isn't just banning apps from mentioning competing stores in app descriptions, it's banning them from mentioning competing stores inside the app.
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Nothing says the bank can't go "hey this guy deposited $90k in cash this year". They may ask you where you're getting it; if you own a bunch of vending machines, you're probably fine. If your answers are evasive or don't make sense, you might be getting a SAR.

$10k is just the automatic threshold for a CTR. A $1 transaction could cause a SAR to be filed, if there was a reason for the bank to be suspicious of it.
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I don't like Facebook but why would they configure a recommendation engine to stop suggesting extremist groups to people with extremist affinities ? There are no humans behind those wheels.

What else beside outright banning should have they done ? (I think banning extremists wouldn't have impacted their revenues much so they should have but that's another debate)
Except Apple is obsessed with taking responsibility for the entire user experience. Also, as people experience the subpar user experience w other app stores, they will still bring it to Apple for support. And probably blame apple - “it’s their logo on the cover”.

Consumer behavior is not intelligent.
Everyone can access all the above the services via the original personal computing device, a PC.

Other roads exists. If I have a private road, but 3 or 4 other roads still go to the same place you can't drive over my gate since you feel like it
The logical conclusion then is that the only device that should be allowed to be manufactured is a personal computer.

Companies producing specialized hardware/software couplings does not preclude another company developing open options.

I usually choose an open option for most of what I do but when it comes to some mindless gaming or my phone that I use for some sensitive matters I want them limited in their scope in a big way.

I don't understand this all-or-nothing argument that seems to be made when it doesn't reflect the reality of the situation.
My understanding is that it mainly tells us whether or not we are administering enough tests, it's not a direct measure of spread due to the factors you mentioned.

In California's case we've had high sustained levels of testing so we can also infer that were reducing spread as the positive test rates drop but that doesn't seem as strong of a signal as other metrics.
> Lol, obviously this 24% is meant to be energy preserved

What 24%?
Untangling themselves from China is a good step, but turning their cheek to Facebook to create their "super app"... well, seems like they're going to imitate the US and China when it comes to privacy and ads.
Research in Industry or Academia?
Can someone please explain to me, why in the name of all things holy, Tor browser on Android has telemetry tracking enabled???

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/org.torproj...

"The Telemetry feature provides this capability by sending performance and usage info to Mozilla. As you use Firefox, Telemetry measures and collects non-personal information, such as performance, hardware, usage and customizations. It then sends this information to Mozilla on a daily basis and we use it to improve Firefox. "

Why is this not disabled in a supposed privacy browser?
No the parent is right, I manage as many subscriptions as possible through Apple and have no desire to move to another platform until they provide the same policy guarantees.
> I believe the encoding was inspired by this paper

Just to add some tangential color here: even if you don't intend to use this encoding in production, it can be a fruitful intermediate step in refactoring! I just recently ran into a situation in Java where I had some tightly-coupled concerns for which HKTs were the obvious way out. Since Java doesn't have HKTs, I applied the HKT encoding to get the hard part out of the way, and then discovered a simplification that brought me back into the realm of idiomatic Java. I would not have found the final solution had I not pathed through HKTs -- I actually thought it would be impossible to do this decoupling properly at first!

More color: the paper itself describes this approach as an application of defunctionalization. I use defunctionalization a lot, too, to write an obvious recursive solution and then mechanically transform it into an iterative one. So it's nice to know how to apply it at the type level, too ;)
Absolutely you can see the dev containers for many popular languages here:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers

To get started all you need is docker, vscode + remote containers extension

I have been using it to play around with multiple languages locally and also adding devcontainers for new projects to easily hop into isolated project development envs.
> - climate change

This is the only relevant element, and it's largely contingent on Methane emissions. Therefore, drastically reducing emissions is not just "slightly better", particularly considering their impact on climate change.
How is this different than "if developers are happy and willingly develop for iOS then [the fees] are not a rip-off"?
Epic and Spotify.
Because these users, regardless of what they previously clicked, will expect Apple to support it. And end to end support is kind of one of the big deals about the iPhone.
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I am German too and we have a clear national trauma regarding these issues that should be plain to see and it should not serve as a template for policing speech on an international network.

I don't know if you remember, but we managed to actually create a second dictatorship after WW2 and also gave far left agitators a partial fault for collapsing Weimar. Not that the assassinations that came for their leadership wasn't cowardly and their opposition completely reactionary.

The US also stands out as being actually pretty solid on democracy and a main factor we can enjoy it today too.

And yes, the right got much stronger as criticism on immigration for example was declared to be nationalistic, while left leaning groups were actively mixing up refugees and immigrants to serve business interests. Of course the result is predictable.

You aren't allowed to call anyone a Nazi in Germany, that can have legal repercussions. It often has not because there is a cultural understanding. I think that fact would be a big surprise to many people advocating speech policies like they are implemented in Germany. And don't tell me there aren't staunch crackdowns on demonstrations if they stand in the way of interests. There is enough stuff to do and with more freedom of speech, we would prosper even more.

> Our right wing party is diminished

That should actually have been the argument 10 years ago.
*real hand sanitizer that doesn't stink and dry your hands?
And not to mention profiting off of the patches and fixes the maintainers provide and almost never contributing back. I am definitely happy to see attempts to help the creators.
..What? If X isn't a dealbreaker, then obviously customers are fine with X.

If they weren't, it would be a dealbreaker.
If you did it with a suitcase full of cash, probably.
World's largest democracy,unlike China. Among the largest economies in the world, nowhere as large as China but it will get there. Overall Free press and judiciary, unlike China. A consititution that guarantees rights for all people, unlike China. Minorities are free to worship , unlike China which is mass raping Uighurs. India is a very imperfect work in progress.
All the arguments about what company is most evil entirely miss the point.

You don't make a decision on a specific issue based on what company you like more, you base it on who is right on the specific issue.

From an ethical perspective that's what having a codified rule of laws is all about. Everyone get's the same rules no matter how much you like them. You don't arbitrarily punish people for doing things you don't like by denying them unrelated things that they are entitled to unless you go in front of a judge and get a judge to order that as a punishment for doing the thing you don't like.

From a entirely practical and short term perspective these decisions do not just impact the companies you don't like, they also impact everyone else because our legal system puts a very heavy weight on precedent.

I'm strongly reminded of the quote "Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like." (though obviously in this case it is applied to justice in general instead of speech in particular).
And additionally there's dozens of supermarkets, thin margins and high competition. The mobile app market has exactly two companies with the exact same fees...
If "more than 2000" SARs are totaling $2tn, I don't think there's a lot of "Grandma Jones got a new bed and finally decided to trust the bank with her $11k secret savings".

> It's up to the US FINCEN to decide if a crime took place and to handle it accordingly. You decide if you trust them or not, but that is their role in this.

Who watches the watchmen?
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What? They still force you to list DLC in steam store listings and to use the steam system (aka 30%) unless you have a special contract with them like apple does with Amazon.
Tinder doesn't sell sex. It sells access to a Skinner box with intermittent positive reinforcement and frequent negative reinforcement where the reward is human connection.

Way, way more psychologically toxic.
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> 'human existence' is part of the problem.

That's where I'd place it in the long-run. More people means more destruction of land and environment, regardless of increases in efficiency.
This is a difficult issue because it involves restricting the freedom of a service provider to develop their product as they see fit. Ideally, the market itself should force companies to make things that are beneficial to the customers. Unfortunately, real customers can be manipulated, that is why there are regulations. I don't have a good answer to why there needs to be a regulation in this case, but it wouldn't be the first.

As I mentioned in another reply, both Apple and Google, despite not being monopolists, can arbitrarily restrict competition, because they have the power to refuse serving some apps. I would argue that it is dangerous, and corporations should not have that kind of power.
Do we know what percentage of group joins in general are due to recommendations? Would be an interesting data point to have.
This is just BS. Hiding a crime behind an NDA doesn't mean it should be illegal to tell about that crime.
I think the the underlying game here is that epic wants to run its own app stores. It's not allowed to do that because every platform has followed Apple's model and mandated that theirs is the one and only app store on each platform.

Otherwise we end up with many app stores, which requires users to care about where they get candy crush... You can pay more or less at each store, and have different probabilities of picking up some terrible malware based on your decisions. On the flip side, we might see lots of apps using weird disallowed OS functionality in off-brand stores, leading to a second round of innovation in apps.

Realistically, it ends with many stores of varying quality and mark up. People brainwashed enough to pay the apple tax will probably continue paying the apple tax, for the most part. But the overall game changes substantially.
Maybe. How do you interpret it?
Its kind of tricky, in terms of the license how do you end up with that practical limitation? IE how do you distinguish a company thats "too big" (like amazon) to be likely to just be predatorially taking advantage of OSS, vs others.
6.0001 [0]

Seriously. One simple intro to CS class will allow a non-programmer to more easily differentiate between what can be done easily and what can't [1].

[0] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
[1] https://xkcd.com/1425/
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> No it doesn't. The app store is "popular" because Apple users don't have a choice. It's "popular" because they're forced to use it.

I spend WAY more on apps in the App Store as well as subscriptions because I know I'm not going to get screwed and I can easily throw a few dollars to a company without having to check to make sure they aren't scummy. I can cancel my subscriptions extremely easily and I get to keep my access through the current paid period. I have used both Play and the App Store and I greatly prefer the App Store over the Play store, it, along with what I perceive as higher quality apps in the store, is absolutely a deciding factor in both my choice of iOS and my recommendation to friends/family.
Just like the dumb terminal days, where you paid per use. Now with a monthly subscription, but the concept is the same except for the concept that your "terminal" runs the code locally.
Epic introduced the concept of exclusivity on the PC gaming scene. Earlier Steam (which arguably is monopoly) provided option to buy games but those games could be distributed from outside - and many games did so. Right now Epic locks some of the games in their EGS store. Few kickstarted games were "bought" by Epic into (and which I personally backed, but I have no access to unless I accept their conditions).

There is a lot to cover, if you're interested you could probably read a lot about people's game library being locked out due to some arbitrary reasons, cards details leaking out from EGS or people being charged twice and never refunded. Epic is a bully in a sheep's skin and they already proved that multiple times both in general and in direct way.

As for the goal - the goal makes sense for Spotify, not me. I wouldn't condemn them for trying yet I don't have a stake there. They don't do this so that I can pay less, they do this so that they can earn more. I don't see why I should put my mind on helping huge, wealthy company to obtain their goals. Same goes with Apple.
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Genuine question, can you expand on what you mean by this:

> Before they stood up the walls, I could reach all the people I wanted for free.

What are you referring to? Blogging, social networks, forums, etc.?
But doing so would hurt engagement, and hence the bottom line!

Facebook have, perhaps accidentally, created a monster of perverse incentives. Not sure what the solution is, besides regulation (which would be extremely difficult).