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> To me the iPhone is a console, end of story.

Not to consumers, it's replacing the computer market (especially in the developed world) and even Apple themselves market their products as computer replacements.
Because app stores are acting as platforms as well as used to restrict third parties and improve first party products. Does Fortnite even have a platform for developing cosmetics and selling them? If not, then this argument misses the mark.

Consoles do provide salient examples though.
> the problem is too many people

Fixed it for you.

Even without cattle we arguably rely on an "unreasonable" amount of resources. It's a moot and subjective point, more people means more encroachment and destruction of land, more resource extraction and more emissions. We all have an environmental footprint, one which is larger in the West; now multiply it.
You can browse Handshake sites with Firefox by using the NextDNS [1] resolver (it's an option in Firefox's Settings). You can also use hnsd [2] or hsd [3] as your resolver.

There are a lot of sites and you can see who has claimed their names and/or put up resolvable names on DNS Live [4].

[1] https://nextdns.io/

[2] https://github.com/handshake-org/hnsd

[3] https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd

[4] https://dns.live/ </shameless>
The "bad behavior"? Are you joking. You realize people pay apple EXTRA because they value their product? Their product holds its value far LONGER on the secondary market because it is maintained so well?

You can get unlocked android phones and install whatever you want. But the reality for our parents / grandparents etc is that the folks who want to have root on their device want to scam them, auto bill them with non-cancelable billing etc etc etc, market to them by tracking everything, turn all their data over to the govt.

We have basically one company who is trying to do a consumer / privacy first play. They went toe to toe with the DOJ to avoid unlocking the phone of a known shooter.

As more and more of our life lands on these devices, I think this is the smart play. Go use another phone if you don't like it.
Wonder what it's like to be a Facebook employee on HackerNews and see this
Ask HN: Am I the only who uses Show HN as inspiration?
Just a curiosity.

I use Show HN and the discussions by commenters to get inspiration on products I could possibly build. Sometimes I get google keep out to take some notes.

The gold mine of inspiration is really in the comments. You see what people think and sometimes you're able to identify what went wrong on a product, what need is not being met and how you could potentially build an alternative.

I wonder if I'm the only one doing this.
I don’t need to spend $1,000 to enter a store.

The issue is market power
Its not on the outside of the box, its on the inside. Apple forbids in-app discussion. I wonder what Apple would say if the app had a browser component that directs users to a web-page. These draconian rules are such a clusterF* hope these guys succeed.

BTW, all analogies are flawed in some manner or another. If you take away the abstraction, every single one breaks down. And then you end up talking about the intricacies of the thing you wanted to abstract away making it moot! :)
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In that case, if you want to really freak out, read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. We have been steadily cruising into this future for some time now. "Libra" is just another word for "Kong Bucks."
That's such an arbitrary delineation. What consoles or in-app markets? Should epic also be forced to allow arbitrary third party on fornite store for example and Nintendo the switch? And why limit it to digital markets?

I feel like this is like trying to legislate walmart into leasing floor space to set up their own shops just because they don't want to pay their own stocking fees. It just makes no sense as anything other than a blatant attempt at regulatory capture which I'd argue is far more anti-competitive and extractive in spirit than what Apple/Google are doing.

The pro competitive move for these companies should do is team up with each other and create their own ecosystem like what Google did with Chrome and Android when they were freaked out at the prospects of an Apple and Microsoft controlled mobile space.

If they truly think they can provide so much more value to both devs and users but for the 30% app store fee then please actually do so and we'll all be better off. It's not like they're short on capital collectively.
Please stop sharing business insiders articles. Its paid and I have no intention to pay
> A vertical monopoly is if one car manufacturer owned all the roads in Detroit and only their cars were authorized to drive on those roads.

That's not a good analogy. It's more like if you bought X's car model and X had a policy that you could only buy official, certified parts from certified dealers through which they get a cut. (App Store)

You can go for after market parts but if you break the car it's on you. ("Jailbreaking" AKA flashing your device)
Well, I dont think anyone should be surprised...

Why anyone think capitalists can actually practice morality? That's never been done in the hundreds of years of history of capitalism.

And capitalists can be quite moral personally. Across the history, the rich and powerful have always had a positive image. But their enterprises have always been requiring regulations.
California to Ban Sales of New Gas-Powered Cars Starting in 2035
What do you mean? CockroachDB doesn't use any Postgres tech other than reusing the same wire protocol.
> For reference, all of these practices are abusive and will void the subscription contract in civil law (Europe). Ask for a refund and perform a charge back if they don't refund.

Do you think that really matters to or is realistic for the average non-technical user? Heck even as technical user I don't want to deal with that crap, I want 1 click unsubscribe which I get through App Store subscriptions.
> blatantly copy other competing apps (whatsapp and zoom were the biggest thing they copied).

Both of those services are in categories where there are lots of similar services. Copying either one is just entering a crowded field of very similar services, just like the two examples did.
No board member resigned over any contribution I made. Stop making stuff up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10654651 has more on the story you are misrepresenting even on its own terms.
OpenMined Privacy Conference 2020
Not exactly sure if it's astroturfing, but there's definitely been a lot of non-devs commenting on this issue.

You can see this when they go off on some security tangent while the App Store is in fact host to thousands of malware in disguise. They trust that Apple is manually reviewing each and every App for security holes, that's why the App Store exists in the first place and totally why there's a 30% toll. I'm starting to imagine it's not really about security but about the illusion of security for a lot of people.
This bit of dialog should be the smoking gun in my opinion. Big Tobacco got taken to the woodshed over this very thing: making the product as addictive as possible. This should be the club that is used to beat Social Media platforms over their heads. As with Big Tobacco I'm sure it rings true with Social platforms as well in that not just one of them is doing it they all are.
Its a vision document that outlines their vision. Nobody gets 100% of what they want anyway.
Proposed extensions:

Assert(x==0): YOU WON'T BELIEVE x IS ACTUALLY 0

x<y: x GETS OWNED BY y

Define a struct/record:

2 THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT A rectangle
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Why would they have to open up secure payments? Is that an API that first party apps on the App Store access? Or are the apps that access it part of the operating system?

This is mostly targeted at apps like Apple Music where Apple allows deep Siri integration without allowing the same to competing apps.
The GOP cannot win free and fair elections unless its willing to moderate its views and accept non-white and conservatives into the party. The GOP knows this. Barry Goldwater foresaw what welcoming the religious right into the party would do, and the GOP commissioned its own study (which it promptly ignored) about how to attract Black voters.

This has been terrible for both parties, the GOP obviously because through its own gerrymandering it’s beholden to extremists. And for the Democrats who assume Black votes and haven’t been forced to implement meaningful change since the Civil Rights Movement.

So we’re stuck with a party that has only a minority of votes retaining power through anti-democratic means.

The answer to me is more democracy, not less. I hope for a Democratic blow out in November, want to see the Supreme Court expanded, and hope to see legislative change to expand voting rights, overturn Citizens United and pass campaign finance legislation, and start using non-partisan commissions to establish voting districts. I also want to see a national popular vote for presidents. And we have to reform the Supreme Court... term limits, a rotating bench, something.

The Democrats do not have all the answers, but the opposition party has to be interested in democracy and the good of America.
> Like, physically holding back tears. Serious.

Time to step away from the computer, miss.

Regarding the rest of your comment: sorry to say this but the internet is freer now than 10 years ago. More people are online talking and collaborating with each other in new and more interesting ways. There’s more and better access to culture more than there’s ever been.
The web and web downloads were 100% of the distribution channel.

Now you can't distribute binaries without oversight and taxation.

Also, web browsers on mobile are much less capable than on desktop.
I spent months dealing with myheritages uncancelable auto-renewal. Others make you cancel 30 days in advance, but not more than 90 days in advance, with a phone call that runs you through dumb menus

At some point you have a life, kids, wife, etc and playing these games is not worth it. Apple markets to those of us who even though tech savvey don't want to play the game some of these big scammer / microtransaction folks want to play.
Vercel and WebSockets
https://www.pullrequest.com/
And furthermore, the Apple ecosystem is so popular because Apple curates the app store. I recommend their stuff to my non-techie relatives because I trust that they're not going to stumble their way into installing malware from some weird knockoff from Elbonia.

With an iPhone, for better or for worse, I can point them at the App Store... app... ("say 'app' again! I dare you!") and be reasonably confident they're getting the official Instagram app. There are multiple apps with "Instagram" in the name, but the official one is the top search result.

Contrast with the Chrome Web Store. The search results for "Instagram"[0] have a bunch of results from who-knows-where, and many of them contain the official logo somewhere inside their preview image. They all look they could be the real thing, but as far as I can tell, none of them are.

Going to the family's house for holidays use to mean spending some time cleaning the weird programs off of the in-laws' computer. Now it means uninstalling the odd Chrome extensions they've manage to find, and making them change their website passwords.

If it ever becomes super easy for Apple users to install random software they find on the Internet, I am throwing my older family members' iPhones into a lake and giving them a flip phone.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/instagram?hl=en-US...
So news organizations have an interest in having their stories heard? Film at 11.

TFA literally makes no accusations, it is simply stating the facts. Manafort was convicted of money laundering and fraud, and the fact that many of these reports were filed on him makes it seem like the system is working as intended. Similarly, Mogilevich is wanted by the FBI. Maybe that should mean there's a reason for banks to stop doing business with him?

No one here is arguing that banks should be required to stop doing business with anyone who triggers one of these reports. The point is that based on retrospect, they haven't been doing a good job of operating on the information they have, so maybe it's time to actually give such a law teeth.
Just because it's on house.gov doesn't mean it's not fake. The house has a democrat majority, and they're all corrupt lying communists who are out to destroy Trump at all & any costs, so you clearly can't believe this just because it's on house.gov /s

To be clear, that was sarcasm. But sarcasm aside, this is exactly the stance that several members of my family would take if I shared this and asserted that it's not "fake news" because it's on house.gov. The problem is that we're so far through the looking glass that legitimate attempts to pull back the curtain face a huge uphill battle because of the very system that they're trying to expose.
yes, help
ORA is a services/consulting company, now. The DB is important but company will easily survive its death (which will never happen) look at IBM big iron for similar story.
"console" doesn't mean much. Phone is special because for how humans actually live, having one phone is strong preferred over 5. But habit consoles isn't as much of a big deal. And despite what the binary thinkers claim, how humans actually live matters in law, at least as long as companies insist upon the peculiar formation of intellectual property rights.
But apple didn't buy up anything preexisting -- they created the smartphone market from scratch and grew the user and developer base organically. You could argue that they leveraged their Mac developer base for this, but 1. the first iPhone didn't support third party apps and 2. there was nothing to leverage this developer base against because there was no smartphone market when the iPhone was released.

Also, if we accept that smartphones are a necessity on par with roads, iPhones aren't the only smartphones, and Androids aren't really that inferior. As a user, if you don't like iPhones, get an Android. As a developer, if you don't like developing for iPhones, develop for Android. If either group feels like they can't leave for Android because iPhones are that much better, well, that's Apple's reward for creating a good device and growing its user- and developer bases -- should they really be punished for that success?
If indistinguishable, would that be a dystopia or a utopia[1]? At least this is Hacker News, not /r/totallynotrobots. Maybe if we gaze long enough into a procedural abyss, the abyss will gaze back?

https://xkcd.com/810/

Bonus clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH76CZbqoqI

[1] if the line between dys- and u-topia depends upon prevalence of man-portable SIGINT devices: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24069572

Further playing "bot or not?" we have the Stasi (human) vs NSA (automated): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24470017
> I don't like Facebook but why would they configure a recommendation engine to stop suggesting extremist groups to people with extremist affinities

That's almost certainly not what they did. When you see someone ranting about the 5G turning the coronavirus communist or whatever, that person didn't generally come up with that idea themselves; they were exposed to it online, either via friends, or via this.

Their algorithm is likely pushing extremist nonsense on people which it determines are vulnerable to believing it, which isn't the same as having an affinity for it. Obviously this isn't what they set out to do; they presumably set out to increase engagement, and if that happens to increase engagement, well...
Sure, but what about the other names on the list? People are selectively focusing on only the major companies and neglecting that others have legitimate grievances.
A bunch of bullies whining about other bullies. I wish all parties involved a long and perilous battle.
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The iOS part makes it “not arbitrary”
I mean if you are still working there at this point you already knew similar things were going on
Hello steve,
I like how you are integrating pytorch and other ML models in your project. Looking forward to it and I hope you the best. Do you have a twitter profile or a mailing list? I found only your email and linked in profile on the website. I want to be updated on this project.
I'm interpreting that the business development culture at Facebook disincentivized taking action against extremist groups.
Building something like this intentionally not only contributed to societal breakdown, but acutely impacted the mental health of millions of users. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a link to the commiserate increase in suicide we’ve also seen.

We should hold the decision makers accountable.
Have you seen the news from last couple of years? Under the current government, India has lost much of that.

At this rate, India will become worse version of China, without the economic development.
lying doesn’t always work for stuff like this, but it works in aggregate. so just lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie. it’ll help you get where you’re trying to go.
>To me the iPhone is a console, end of story.

I'm so tired of hearing this ridiculous analogy.

From a purely technical stand point it may be true, but for a large chunk of the population, the smartphone is their one and only connection to the digital world. It controls their connection to their bank accounts, governments, news/discourse, family, friends, dating life, education (formal and informal), medical information, insurance policies, wayfinding, weather forecasts and emergency services.

For those with disabilities, it affords them a quality of life they might not otherwise have. For others still, it contains their most personal thoughts, ideas, dreams and memories.

One can certainly argue that because of all that, the app ecosystem should be tightly controlled. That's fair. But the smartphone has grown beyond a simple "nice-to-have" utility. It's a base-level necessity for modern life.

Since this trend is only accelerating, we need to recognize that and frame our discussions accordingly.
Re: the comments about incendiary content and maximizing attention.

This is what every news outlet tries to do. The only difference is that FB is better at it. It reminds me of the controversy about targeting ads towards protected categories (age, gender). This is something all media buys do as well, based on location, event type, but FB just has a better way.

I'm not saying its right, or necessarily wrong, just that this seems to be more about them being good at something than it is about them operating in moral territory that is different than any other business.
Good lord, when you say someone has to go through a civil law litigation (in the US this is a nightmare) to just do a basic unsubscribe - you AGAIN demonstrate why the app store is popular.

Epic doesn't allow a civil law process, they force arbitration anyways. So the deck is stacked against you
Possibly unpopular opinion, but this generic graphic style seems completely unsuitable for a ERD tool. After clicking the link I was confused for a few seconds how poorly the site with a generic full-screen header of a (very) generic person at a laptop on a desk graphic can possibly be on the front page of HN, put a screenshot of the tool in the hero image.
That's why any real criminal activity will have a front. Chinese takeaway, vending machines, flower or newspaper vendor, second hand shop, ..
Something occurred to me the other day.

There's this notion of "choice-induced preference change", where making a decision to choose X over Y changes your preferences such that you now more strongly prefer X to Y.

I'm not sure to just what degree it's
1) real,
2) of meaningful size, and
3) occurs as a result of casting a vote; but with some possible answers to those questions, it should be the case that given the same outcome to an election the most voters will be the happiest with it if they chose it by approval voting.

I'm not sure what to do with that observation, but I think it's interesting.
I think it's interesting how folks always seem to grow a conscience only AFTER they made their riches.
How does letting me have a PC experience hurt your console experience? What gives you the right to force Epic into a console experience for everyone?
Not sure what the solution is, besides regulation (which would be extremely difficult).

The solution is only difficult if you start from the basis that Facebook must continue to exist. If they cannot run a profitable business that isn’t harmful, that’s noone’s problem but theirs.
The problem is when you let companies run free they do bad things. There are bad actors out there and apples wall garden keeps them at bay and in check. I LIKE not having to worry about what I install from the App Store. Adding random apks or even downloading anything from the play store can legitimately be unsafe.

At that I don’t trust companies with credit cards and subscriptions - I trust apple. I get an email for every renewal, but every charge, and cancelling is easy. Other stores and companies do not do that because letting you know means less money for then.
Category Theory by Steve Awodey is great, but in my opinion only for a graduate mathematician wanting to do more mathematics and understand category theory in an abstract sense. Preferably one will have done some algebraic topology when reading it.

Category Theory for Programmers is just that, for programmers. In fact, if I recall correctly its preface explicitly answers the question 'Why write this when Category Theory by Steve Awodey exists?', with the answer being what I summarise above. If you're a computer scientist, programmer, or otherwise a non-mathematician first, Awodey is not for you and this book I believe should serve you very well instead. I haven't read it, mind.

I haven't come across Seven Sketches in Compositionality, but hopefully that helps compare the other two. It's mostly about your intention (e.g. theoretical mathematics vs practical application) and background.
Bethesda and valve tried this with skyrim paid mods, it didn't go over well and valve canceled it. They tried again with creation club, but it's not too popular. https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Creation_Club#History
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. You prefer narrower lines, I like my lines as wide as my browser window allows. For me, it's more comfortable reading text with long lines and having to scroll less, than having shorter lines and having to scroll often.
Jio is the greatest thing that has happened for rural India in the past two decades.

>The sad thing is they have deep ties with the current Govt, meaning no anti-monopoly action against them will ever be initiated against them.

The only reason there is a Jio "monopoly" is because the alternatives suck outside the urban cores of India's biggest cities.

>and blatantly copy other competing apps (whatsapp and zoom were the biggest thing they copied)

What is wrong with "copying" app ideas and concepts? I am happy that there is an Indian alternative to Zoom for business and government meetings. Just a few months ago Indian military officials were caught using Zoom to videoconference. They didn't know about Zoom's deep ties to the Chinese government.
They are not mutually exclusive. For all of recorded History people have enjoyed food, and there's so much culture surrounding food in all traditional societies on Earth.
Not everyone values having an open device. Being my family and friends’ on-call tech support tells me this would in fact be a negative.
SARS get generated all the time. Any large movement of cash will generate a SARs. That multi million dollar wire from an escrow account after your startup had liquidity event generated a SARs. What do you think the false positive rate of a SARS report it? 99%? 1 out of 100 SARS reports are actual criminal activity.