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Wow that site was disappointing.

It focused mostly on the 30% apple charges, which is both common and reasonable. It mentions the anti competitive behavior but mostly how it inflates prices, which is exactly how apple is trying to frame the debate.

Also they have cookies on an entirely static site and disable scrolling until you press accept in the cookie dick bar (something you should probably never do, certainly not on a static site.) The thing is only readable in w3m/elinks.

In my (unpopular) opinion almost all of these "apps" should really be sites anyway. App store curation doesn't provide any reall security (especially since the apps are never instrumented) so someone so incapable of measuring the safety of software that they need that level of infantilesation should really only trust software to the same degree a browser does (that is, not at all.)
Or just stop allowing JavaScript.
I've been happily using Buffer at work for years.
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I think spending 15 minutes is great.

But in 15 years, any time a standup was below that target, people commented on how unusual it was to be done already.

The standup is either early enough in the morning that it becomes a passive aggressive way to get people to show up 15 minutes early to work (because if you try to show up on time, you'll be late for a short meeting, essentially missing it), or it is late enough that early risers have to avoid flow state tasks early in the morning or also miss the meeting.

If you are in the middle of something, a 15 minute meeting clears working memory every bit as much as a 3 hour meeting. So if you're going to lose your spot, you might as well get something else out of it. Which contributes to the "but it's never 15 minutes" phenomenon.
This suggests a fun exercise:

Once a week, maybe right after each person says what they did, everyone gets randomly assigned a person and they have to explain what that person did last week.

The goal of this exercise: Make people actually pay attention to what others are doing and ensure they really understand it (and feel empowered to ask questions if they don't)
I think Facebook has created this problem for itself in a lot of ways. They're dependent on a two generations of people who are trending populist (in either a liberal or conservative direction), and thus they're going to feel more empowered to organize in the workplace to effect political change.

Facebook has also lobbied super hard to maintain their status as the private regulators of two extremely large social media platforms and a social messaging platform, representing a substantial percentage of the US and global population.

Facebook has also insisted that it is a public square and platform for free speech, but Groups, algorithmic content, and an extremely successful paid advertising model have made that claim specious at best. In the public square, everyone gets to shout equally - sure some will have a slightly larger crowd, but it will be difficult to monopolize the attention of the entire square. Facebook's model necessarily advantages some speech over others, and can be influenced by money both directly and indirectly.

I agree everyone should have the right to their opinion, and no one should be able to enforce their opinion on another at the barrel end of a gun. Facebook has created a position where they (1) have the right, as a private company to censor their users; (2) as a "public square" (if you subscribe to that) they have a moral obligation not to censor their users; (3) a business model that benefits from promoting some speech over another; and (4) employees who can see the effect of this model, and disagree with it morally, socially, etc., and have no other means of redress.
No, you paid for an iPhone and the iPhone ecosystem. You might choose to pay for additional apps, at which point Apple takes 30% for acting as a payment processor and for quality assurance. No double dipping. The iPhone is perfectly usable without any third-party applications. It's your choice to spend more money.

The iPhone did not originally have an app store and was still highly sought-after. Apple chose to add an app store, and has every right to choose to do so under their own conditions.
"Forever" - so until Google kills it in a year or two.
Imagine that everyone agreed that just one slow computer would handle banking, contracts, and the stock markets for the entire world. This gets rid of any pesky concurrency issues. To move money from person to person, or to execute contracts or programs, you write up a sticky note with what you want to have done, sign it, and attach some money to it. Once every couple minutes, the computer administrators come out, collect a couple notes with the most money on them, and feed those into the computer.

The Dark Forest attack is possible because everyone can see all the notes on the board waiting to be processed, and everyone can simulate exactly, precisely what the really slow computer will do with a given note.

Suppose you found someone wanting to sell TSLA stock for $5 and someone wanting to buy it for $400. You would write up a note to buy it for $5 and sell it for $400, and stick it on the board. However, the moment you put the note on the board, the attackers and their automated telescopes have simulated that this note results in the holder having $395 more than they started with, and gave nothing away in return. The attacker then simulates an alternate future in which they post the note instead, and verify that they get the money. It works! So the attacker copies your note, signs it themselves, puts a much bigger wad of cash on it than you did, and slaps it up on the board.

When the operators come out, they collect the attackers note first (more cash) and by the time your note is run, the opportunity is no longer there.
The pay sounds really good. Not gonna lie, if I was offered a job there with 400k comp it would be hard to turn down, depending on what I would be working on
This is a unique commodity in that it literally falls from the sky. I don’t believe we have any tradable commodities that can be obtained, rather easily, for free. Yes, I know we’re talking about massive amounts of water and aquifers, but I can picture Wall Street banks setting up huge rain catchers and desalination plants to try and profit from this market.
Regarding point 1, it is wrong. Every new game has the $60 version, but also has the ultimate/deluxe/premium/season-pass/whatever version that costs up to $90 or $120 that you can buy on day one and often will even give you extra content on day one. The $60 purchase is not the full product anymore.
If some of my systems fail, people might die. Should I still be worried for a liability?
The weird thing here is the purchase of the "idea of the rules" instead of a copy of the rules.

Most games and sports had traditional rules that were passed on in a folk tradition, and only around the 1800s were rules gathered and written down.
Well it depends on what your bar is for a monopoly. E.g. I can only use Comcast where I live. Comcast is not technically a monopoly - I could move somewhere else where other providers are available. But the friction to change is high enough that they effectively are a monopoly to me.

No company is a monopoly if you are flexible enough. Where antitrust starts to become relevant is a bit of an arbitrary line. If you think "mobile phones" is the industry then Apple does not have a monopoly. But there are many people who would put up with a lot before switching from iOS to Android, because of apps, iCloud, iMessaging, or whatever.
Here are some examples: https://appfairness.org/issues/anti-competition/

> Apple has manipulated its rules and policies to disadvantage Tile, a popular Bluetooth finding hardware and app developer, in favor of its competing Find My App.

> if a Kindle customer wants to purchase an ebook from the Kindle iPhone app, they’re met with a confusing situation: consumers can search for books, even read samples, but there’s no option to purchase. I

Both are worse for consumers.
On the total age of civilization it's pretty close to 100 percent. Shrug. Just be ready for the regression to the mean.
> It’s not wasted time, and even if you don’t care what I’m working on I still care that you know so that we don’t spend two weeks building something only for you to go “Oh, that won’t work after the changes I made to the core.... why didn’t you come by my desk and ask me “are you intending to change the core code in a way that invalidates all assumptions we had two weeks ago when we started working on this?” And do so like clockwork every day, even though I’d answer no 6 times before suddenly answering yes?

I thought the whole point of orthodox standups (and one of the brain-dead things about them), was that you weren't supposed to have discussions at that level of detail.
At this point, why would anyone use a consumer facing product from Google? I would go as far as to say that using any Google product outside of core web tracking and ad services seems super risky.
I'd love to have this for goats or sheep. We have a bunch of trees and other vegetation on our property so fences would be a pain. If I could set up virtual fences and shift them around the yard it would be fantastic.

There are a lot of places where I see complicated fencing put up to manage cattle in parks where this would be extremely nice as well. Instead of breaking up a nice park with barbed wire to protect areas you could geo-fence them off.
So you've turned the situation into an anti-consumer one.

As a consumer I would then lose access to a significant proportion of apps.
What is Moab and why is it relevant?

(Memory brings me the Mother of All Bombs, DDG brings me Moab, Utah, USA, and Moab, Jordan)
This is incorrect and a misunderstanding of qualified immunity.

Qualified immunity refers to not being allowed to sue for those officer's personal property.

It has nothing to do with the criminal consequences (ie going to jail). Those officers absolutely can be sent to prison.
>that we could just RC animals directly

...including humans?
The BBC reported on the trial 3 days ago, no-one seems to have reported on the last 2 days, so its possible that there weren't proceedings.
> Your style of thinking cannot be popular on HN, but we all know why this is good for the consumer - in this day and age, businesses will completely rip apart the consumer in every which way. They'll not miss a chance to fuck the consumer's privacy, financial state, psychology, innocence and addiction.

Apple is among the worst offenders here, too. They expressly permit all sorts of embedded spyware in almost every single app in their App Store, and their view is that you agreed and consented to it when you accepted the iOS/App Store Terms of Service.

They could build platform security features like Little Snitch into the OS to allow users to prevent it, but they don't.

They could make App Store rules to keep apps from spying on you when you use them, but they don't.

They could end to end encrypt device backups, so the US military and FBI couldn't read all of your iMessage history whenever they want without a warrant or probable cause, but they don't. (In fact, they were going to, but then specifically stopped.[1])

The "Apple respects user privacy" story is just brand marketing, not reality.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
With the release cadence of the current major distros vs the pace at which software is released, it doesn't seem to be worth it to get your stuff in the official repos, to quickly be several major versions behind.

You can package debs or rpms for easy install, host them on a server (or set up an apt/rpm repo) just fine even if they're not FOSS.
You're not worried that Microsoft has the only competitive offering?

Shouldn't that kind of terrify you? Microsoft is not known to be a good corporate citizen when they have a monopoly.
You're right, but it seems a little hypocritical since they have no problem giving money to large corporations and "small businesses".

Helicopter money also stimulates the economy.
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The reason to mock out IO is not that much about the performance, but isolation. It's annoying to have to deal with setting up database instances, users, permissions and what not, just to run an otherwise standalone test. Also annoying when two test suites running in parallel conflict (though it can be avoided). If you use sqlite, it's much easier since it's all just working on standalone file.

> I disagree - I always test a real database, never mock it.

I always put an interface between the IO part and rest of the code, so I can either mock it or not. Ideally I would have a separate tests making sure that the real-IO implementation of the interface works, and not use in my normal test that are exercising logic. But it is indeed a lot of additional work, so I'm cutting the corners and let the test run against a real db implementation, only wrapping it in things like injecting faults etc.
I think you might be assuming "sprint" to be some always-the-same-thing that it doesn't have to be.

On one recent team, we did 2 week sprints with a couple releases per week (basically, one per feature that finishes and makes it through QA).

The 2 week cycle was our planning/work prep cadence. If a feature isn't fleshed out by its owners and stakeholders prior to the start of the sprint, we're not going to ask any devs to pick it up during that sprint. If it is ready, we'll start to plan it, and estimate how long it will take, talk about debt-vs-speed tradeoffs, etc.

I think I might dislike the model you describe because it seems potentially isolated around "my feature" vs "the rest of the team's feature," and because I think making the planning cycle 4 weeks instead of two might cause more planning pain for each release.
Fair, but Russia is the most direct example of the specific fears mentioned in spreading disinformation with the goal of polarization as opposed to a different specific goal. When the US spreads propaganda in a foreign country, it is usually to get the people to align with US values as opposed to a goal of destabilization.
You've just succumbed to the X/Y problem. If you "intend to make money", then that is your goal—not the measure of your traffic, and not your ability to stick it the man or whomever you consider to be your competitor. The parent commenter is right; there is no intrinsic value in the measures that you keep invoking. The unrelenting focus on those auxiliary details—to the exclusion of the real goal—is the basis of Goodhart's law.
I'm author of project which addresses concerns from report for Linux systems: https://github.com/Snawoot/linux-secureboot-kit

It performs bootchain hardening, eliminating any vendor secureboot certificate and replacing with own. Entire bootchain gets signed, including ramdrive and grub configs.
A book is just a book. It doesn't go away, you don't need a complicated setup to read it. If you like it, you can still buy it. Games could be rented too before blockbuster folded.

And while I'm pretty sure I can still stream a random French band with moderate success from today in thirty years, I'm not so sure if I can stream games released today then. As an enthusiast I can turn to emulation, retro systems, reverse engineering to get old games going if I own a copy. Music streaming is delivering a byte stream from storage. Game streaming is a whole different beast.
an interesting economic parallel is that the intellectualization of vast swaths of the economy led to the creation and exploitation of immaterial wealth (to the benefit of urbanites), things like culture and derivatives, rather than material wealth, like food and housing. we even went as far as to vilify the material over the immaterial.

in this way, the rural/urban shift can be understood as an extraction of esteem as much as wealth.
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The site says it is down for scheduled maintenance. But it was down for a day before even that message appeared.
I have a major hearing impairment in one ear. Using one AirPod with Live Listen was completely unusable to me because of this latency.
I think this a great idea! YouTube recommendations are extremely lacking and is leaving a ton on the table in terms of a great user experience. I don’t trust that I’m being recommended content that they think is best for me. Rather is it based on if the creator paid Youtube to promote their video?
Notion is almost there, but I find I can't "double down" on it for spreadsheet use cases as the cell input and navigation is doesn't work the way you'd expect. Hard to copy / paste and edit existing cells. For me it is a toy and I mostly enjoy the wiki features.
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> if it was just a timeline feed, they would bear no responsibility.

Did that work for Twitter? They've hardly been immune from criticism either, despite being ~1/10 the size of Facebook and being favored by the ruling party in the US. Chronological timelines aren't silver bullets. They're only chronological among that which is shared and there are still huge differences in how much content gets shared/like/retweeted/whatever. Those are the differences that people will exploit, leaving things only "neutral" in a narrow technical sense that has nothing to do with effect. It's naive in the extreme to think they actually solve the problem.
They were hated everywhere, In Italy the damn frog ringtone became associated with shitty annoying people
>What is incredible is that developers on HN seem to have no clue why people actually like what apple does.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair.
iOS is a product in a larger market. It is not the market itself. There are other products in the market in which iOS is a product, and there's nothing stopping more entrants (besides the enormous engineering/business effort, the likes of which have already been undertaken by current players like Apple/Google).

Your argument would be equally invalid if you were to say Uber is a monopoly because Lyft can't get a slice of the profits from Uber drivers, or that Pepsi is a monopoly because Coca-Cola receives no royalties from sales of Pepsi products.

Dominoes is not a monopoly. They make pizzas in a market that is larger than just Dominoes' pizzas. Nobody could reasonably argue that Dominoes is a monopoly just because you can't purchase Pizza Hut pizza at a Dominoes location.
you will pay a higher fee to a trusted miner to process your transaction without sending to mempool.
Fortran was used for numeric domains. Algol was dead. Pascal was used in education and on early personal computers (for example at Apple). Prolog was very niche.

Lisp was used in education, as an early Functional Programming language and in symbolic AI. The latter had a considerable hype then.

Note also that Peter Seibel wrote an influential Common Lisp book, so the choice of people might have been influenced by the author...
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s/purchase/perpetually license/
There were actual "medical cigarettes" sold in the past.

https://www.pharmacytimes.com/contributor/timothy-aungst-pha...
Google has no brand sense left. This is an app used by so many kids, who love it, and they are shutting it down. Instead they shouldn't have launched it.
I understand user studies, but this makes no sense. And no matter how they brand it ( they literally opened a new division Area 120) which speacializes in killing products. lol), this is BS.

Where's the product strategy? vision? If they wanted to study the demand and then move it Assistant eventually, then they should've launched it on the Assistant in the first place.

The mass userbase of the native app doesn't validate whether people will find the assistant experience frictionless.

Anyways, i am just spitballing (maybe this time they have a strategy!), but one thing is quite clear that they're actively destroying brand value across demographics.

I love google products so this is kind of frustrating. I've been wondering for past 2-3 years whether they even realise how brand image damage stuff like this causes?

Also, I am just a college student and I'd love to know from SV folks if you think that apart from the old Google products, their is lack of vision in new products? lack of vision in new PMs?
Is Google not able to attract good talent anymore in terms of Product Strategy, Mgmt, Branding? Is it deteriorating?
I've always felt that Google is terrible at perception management.

Happy to be corrected in case something above didn't make sense :)
I wonder how many advertisements are on Facebook that are false, regardless of if they're of a political nature.

These massive silicon valley companies have proven time and time again that they are incapable (or _unwilling_ - which I'm leaning towards personally) of monitoring all their potential customers advertisements for factual authenticity. All because their main method of profit is selling advertisements. Of course they're willing to turn a blind eye to things that might be "factually inaccurate" because they're paying thousands of dollars to push the message.

It's the same thing with Youtube - they say they monitor for content that is factually inaccurate but there's numerous cases where they've either been overzealous in what they remove, or they keep videos around because they're making lots of money on it through ad revenue.

If these companies can't uphold the responsibility of monitoring content on their platform, why should they have this platform in the first place? They might be "too big to fail" but it's getting to the point where people have had enough and they're becoming "too big _not_ to fail"
I would love to see this kind of technology take off. In the western US there is barbed wire everywhere, even on public land.
Well, that's how console gaming and most e-shops work. You get to play until the hardware generation phases out.
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Has anyone tried a Stadia before? I've remained doubtful about game streaming because it seems like the latency is such a hard problem to overcome. In any game that requires even a bit of precision and fast reaction, 30-100ms of latency can feel pretty bad.

Seems to me like the only way this could possibly work is if the games are designed with streaming in mind, but even then it seems hard... Remote Desktop in Windows, for example, feels laggy even on LAN (connecting to another computer in the same house).
In the "Media Viewer" there is a gear on the right hand side. You can click it and choose "Disable Media Viewer"
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I toyed with "not classical or talk", but that dragged on to long. Popular music would probably be the best descriptor. It's really not all that diverse if you think of the breadth of western music: classical, jazz, metal, musicals, and so on. There's probably a low power FM or college station in most larger towns in the US that's covering all of these in their weekly schedule.

This isn't to take anything away from The Current, which is a great station and in my regular rotation, but at the end of the day they are playing popular music and MPR has other stations to cover other genres.
That applies to so few people though. Most people who buy it are just wasting money. In my experience, immigrants with few assets who don't know better are targeted by immigrants of their own race (since they're presumed to be more trustworthy).

https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/appropriate-uses-of-perman...
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"does the fact that mr. crocodile eats small, flightless birds invalidate his argument that he can get me (a small, flightless bird) across the river faster than i could do so alone?"