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The handful of competitors would be multi-billion dollar corporations, e.g. Epic, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft.

The incentive for developers is as always, customers. The stores would be incentivized to acquire customers. Developers would be forced to support any store that had more than a few percent of customers.

Acquiring customers can be done without giving good terms to most developers. All you need is a small number of exclusives. Epic has their own content, and the others would be able for trivially bid foe the top apps. Facebook and Amazon would simply extend their existing iOS apps into becoming stores, and presumably Google could do this with Chrome for iOS, which they’d trivially market via search results.

There is no reason these stores would need the long tail of apps as long as they had a few very popular ones, and that would reduce exposure for the long tail that did remain in the Apple store.

Your point about standardization of store rules isn’t obvious - what industry do you think this compares with?

There is no reason to think that this would do anything to democratize the industry, indeed it would be likely to have the opposite effect, of increasing barriers to entry for smaller developers.

My position isn’t extreme in the least. It is the obvious extrapolation of the behaviors of current players.

An extreme position would be the emergency of a utopia of developer centric stores all bending over themselves to make things better for the little guy.
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Comments in these forums are directed at two populations, the direct participants and everyone else viewing from the bleachers. I don't think the parent is implying that you don't know these things, but added them for context.
> aka jails. Places for those who committed crimes and who are awaiting procedures for removal. What would you suggest instead? It's worth noting they allow many out into the country with electronic monitoring. The US also allows refugees to stay and has (imperfect, but mostly fair) legal procedures for removal.

We're not talking about criminals who are being removed, or the morality of immigration being a criminal act at all. People trying to enter the country under asylum claims have not committed any crimes. Furthermore, indefinite detention without a trial is clearly unconstitutional, even for non-residents. Companies weren't quitting government contracts during the Bush or Obama administrations, so we're clearly not talking about the normal actions taken by immigration authorities.

> A now ended policy that is the same as for people in jail for any other non-immigration crime. Of course immigration crimes are both non-violent and where economic harm is diffused (if it even exists), which is why people feel sympathy for these families.

Again, asylum seekers haven't committed any crime, appeared before a magistrate, been indicted, or been tried and convicted by a jury of their peers, yet their rights have been roundly violated by the Trump administration. They ended it only after being caught, investigated, and even then, only begrudgingly.

> Which would be improper. The recent case of the OBGYN doctor is both unproven and if proven would lead to imprisonment and universal condemnation. The truth is that thousands of immigrants come here illegally with nothing and get world class medical treatment for no charge. Any cases where that doesn't happen are news because they are exceptions, not the rule.

This is patently untrue. Beyond the recent case, there is also the ICE official who decided he was the emperor of who in ICE custody could receive an abortion. There are wide-spread reports of neglect, and a lack of medical care and unsanitary living conditions, in stark contrast to your claim of world class care being rendered. Even if you believe these people deserve this treatment (they don't.) — our jails and prisons experience all of these same issues, so to your earlier point - we should also be making our jails more humane places too.
It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of which politics you're for or against.

It's one thing to join in occasional political discussion as part of a variety of intellectually interesting topics, but quite another to only (or mostly) be using the site for that. Once that line is crossed, HN is clearly not being used as intended, and there's a huge difference in how those two different kinds of account impact the site. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and adjust accordingly?

If you or anyone want more explanation about how and why we draw the line this way, there's plenty here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
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Can be anything, but would like to especially request books on programming and programming languages.
That's not what QAnon is saying though. We've seen instances of government officials involved with pedophilia before, but QAnon and the pizzagate stuff is more precisely positing that not only is there pedophilia, but it's a highly coordinated effort within the government - and yes, that is controversial.
What are you saying, exactly? People can't complain if others have it worse? It's hard for me to think of a more charitable interpretation of your comment, which seems to plainly chastise Facebook employees for voicing complaints during the existence of other big problems in the world.
You start out "what is with people these days" and then you end up "oh hey people have been doing this forever, with heresy and religion and so on" so... no, I don't see where you're going with this.

Are you surprised that arguments about which messages get amplified and which do not happen? That they happened historically and that they happen now? That Facebook (and other pieces of modern technology) have reinvigorated this discussion because they change the economics and effort and reach of people's actions?

One difference today is that we're having much more of this with just words in the private space and fewer legal or governmental ramifications... you could've gotten in a lot of official, thrown-in-jail-or-killed trouble for having the wrong ideas in the past!

Could you stop speaking in "what even is a dangerous idea" questions and put forth your own arguments? What do you picture your ideal world looking like, in terms of person A thinking one thing, person B thinking another, and person A's actions after person B starts trying to convince persons C, D, E... to take up certain positions... Let's use one of the "obvious" historical examples of a dangerous idea: "people like this are evil and we must kill them."
Your point of view is intrinsically liberal, and the latter point of view plays the victim and assumes people can't evolve to gain the intelligence needed to not fall for misinformation. You intrinsically think there are people who can't make decisions for themselves. Sounds like control
Definitely agree on snacking being very seductive - it makes you feel useful and doing stuff, but when you zoom out, it's usually very inconsequential

The mental game is very important. Definitely hard to work on the things that actually matter - they are usually difficult, new, more intricate to setup, etc. What I've found to work is to "just start on it" - starting is the hardest part. Telling yourself you'll do 15 minutes of it or something, so you will actually start. Usually, when the 15 minutes are up, I won't be stopping. The inertia goes from "not going it" to "doing it" and it's hard to change ha
I'm quite sure it is genetic. I've hated it since childhood, whereas my mutant childhood friends liked it.

I've acquired several tastes since then, I've tried licorice multiple times, to no avail.
I was wondering why salt was chosen over something like e.g. Petrobond sand that is commonly used to cast metals etc...

Perhaps density is the ticket then.
Wrong. Completely.

The vast majority of people you're talking about don't realise they're having their prices jacked up with taxes or their options curtailed by Apple. They just assume the App Store is where you get the apps because it's been programmed into them over the last 12 years.

Allowing third party app stores doesn't change the API or permissions system already baked into the OS. If Epic wants to start an App Store with lax policies then if you and Apple are right about the value of their policies then that'll become apparent quickly enough and will still be a selling point of the App Store.

This is nothing like what happened with desktop computers, where the security model had to be welded on after the horse had already bolted. Windows (just as an example) wouldn't allow blanket admin permissions to software if there was a way to stuff the legacy software genie back in it's bottle. Unfortunately fixing permissions retrospectively would break a multitude of legacy software that hasn't been updated in years, in some cases decades.

Apple is not being punished for success, and you don't understand the problem or the legal case, which is entirely not at all related to Apple protecting or not protecting their users from pop-up ads.

Consumer choice didn't chose anything. Most phone users don't even understand that they are in a walled garden.

tldr; This isn't The Beach, it's The Truman Show.
Textures.js – Add textures to your D3 projects
Computers and face-to-face communication aren't quite there. I'm hypothesizing a machine that hits the emotional center with no intermediary. We don't have any technology in the real world that can do that yet (good art can approximate it, and good advertising can be very manipulative, but neither squirt neurotransmitters directly into your cerebral cortex of fire electrical impulses straight into your amygdala). This would be a technology that allowed you to set people's emotional states explicitly and willfully, without any intermediary of, for example, the personal experiences they're bringing to the table.
> is it still controversial to say that there might be pedophilia within the ranks of government?

No, actual specific public officers have been arrested and convicted of child sex crimes.

There's a difference between belief that the Pizzagate conspiracy theory is true, and belief that there might (or even the stronger belief that there absolutely is) "pedophilia within the ranks of the government".

One is a very specific conspiracy theory, and one is a belief that a phenomenon which is present throughout humanity and which, like most things, is enabled by positions of power is not somehow magically completely excluded from government. (So, in a sense, an anti-conspiracy theory.)
The SSPL has at least some hope of potentially being a viable FOSS license; the disagreements around that license were around details and implementation, not necessarily critical unfixable issues. Something like the Timescale license fundamentally can never be a FOSS license.
Yeah, this is a cool idea. Came across a version of this the other day, though would love to see something open source [0].

The less "smart" way of solving this is to look at the contents of the element like Cypress' `contains` [1].

[0]: https://walrus.ai/

[1]: https://docs.cypress.io/api/commands/contains.html#Syntax
I almost have a heart attack thinking delphi was going open source (so bold!)
> It's still an open question whether it's a net positive for society

Was TV a net positive for society? It's anybody's guess.
Thanks for taking a look! We currently do not have support for free-form drawing. We understood that this could be a valuable feature, but decided on not including it for now to give better access to other symbols that may be more commonly used. (eg. rectangle, circle, database etc.) We found in our experience, most software developers either don’t have a tablet, or don’t use it regularly for work.

Thanks for bringing this point up though! Curious as to what your use case is when thinking about using our app? We're still not 100% sure on the most useful symbols/tools to add, so as we get more feedback, we’re happy to look into including free-form drawing.
I think it's very much agreed upon that we shouldn't market cigarettes/liquor/drugs to children since they're vulnerable. Apparently, we have a country full of adults who are unable to tell fact from fiction - shouldn't we protect them as well?
This might make it easier to quantify the effects of groundwater depletion and climate change. If we see that futures priced further out are more expensive, that says something.

In general, by the time something gets to being turned into financial instruments like this, the actual step from whatever state it was in prior to a regulated, standardized, liquid, public contract is generally good. Light is an excellent disinfectant.
It might start out as a function, then become a factory, then an object and if you bind your test to the implementation details of this code, you will have to rewrite your test every time you refactor your code. Not ideal.
You should take a look at VegOilGuy's channel, he does quite a bit of lost PLA castings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxj5eUkAFUI
Interesting. Disregarding my issues with Amazon as a company, on paper this looks like a better system then Google's Stadia, by actually having a netflix style access games for a monthly fee that I think most people expected Stadia to do.
The Alex Jones stuff was a construct the author used to illustrate a point. It was not the way the North Dakota question was phrased.
Poor communication is the primary reason systems and relationships fail
In the comments, it is mentioned that the casting material sticks to the part, so salt is advantageous in that it dissolves in water.
> "fast typing: I could never relate to developers as senior, no matter the years of experience, if I see them shooting the keyboard with two or four fingers"

One of my very good friends and one of the best programmers I know types slowly and using only four fingers and a thumb. He's paralyzed in one arm.

He's still been an absolutely prolific open source contributor and 2x YC startup CTO. Typing speed probably isn't as important as you might think.
> The other worldview is that certain kinds of discourse are inherently against freedom. ... Under this worldview, the question of what the discourse is, is the whole analysis.

You will mostly find this worldview on the political left of the spectrum, and more often than not you will find the discourse they find to be “against freedom” to be the one held by their political opponent.

And when they promote their view in the form of a policy, they are effectively trying to outlaw people having opinions differing from theirs.

Rather current examples: identity politics and diversity policies. If you simply disagree with the basis of their argument, that disagreement is considered “hateful” in itself and your speech must be banned, no matter how civil.

How can one have free discourse, when the one righteous part has decided that only they are allowed to speak? There’s no freedom here. Not even close.
Can you elaborate? Why do you find that "smart contracts" are built on a shaky foundation?
Thanks, I was looking for that and could not find it.

The point remains that there's nothing to protect users from changes in licenses like the TSL. It's possible with FOSS licenses provided you own all copyrights but much less likely.
I still don't understand what's happening at the core of this and the other dark forest post from a few weeks ago. How exactly are these bots front-running/stealing the ethereums?

My understanding:

-these bots scan the smart contracts that are waiting to be executed by the miners
-the bots find vulnerabilities (another grey area in my mind) in the contract
-the bots adjust the destination address of where the contract is supposed to send the the ethereums
-then the bots continually execute the vulnerable smart contract code
so he eats 10 carrots a day? i remain perplexed
I would posit that it does so in a piecemeal and arbitrary way, leaving many destitute. Seems like a simplified basic income would help more people in need, though it wouldn't necessarily adress the mental health side of things
Sure, but I'd then suggest it almost makes things easier - today's internet consumers are generally expectant of a certain range of formats, rather than the early CSS Days' DIV Free For All. A neat contemporary version of Dreamweaver, with a focus on CSS/Grid, Responsive layouts, etc, could be great!
Thank you for sharing the link to that book. I'm very much not a pro coder, just a sysadmin-turned-devops person who writes Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation YAML. (And Emacs-Lisp) This book seems really fascinating to me and the idea that I could put together my own devops-oriented DSL is a very intriguing idea!
I don't like being so hell-bent on ideologies either, but if I understand it correctly, a company has every right to be politically biased and therefore can moderate the hell out of its users' content? To be fair, of course, such moderation is really editorialization, right? If so, the companies should get less protection from Section 230, and people should be able to sue the companies left and right as well.

edit: s/censor/moderate
That second example is called an acrostic (which is also its name in written English poetry).
Zuckerberg is the real kingmaker here or he could be.
"Of all the compounds, glycyrrhizin was the most active in inhibiting replication of the SARS-associated virus."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7112442/
The one I'm trying to do most recently is to compile bitcoin's bx[1] to wasm, so it can be run in the browser. It's not a crypto-related project, I primarily need the mnemonic generation code so I can generate mnemonics from passphrases for more general-purpose reasons.

Two reasons I'm thinking of getting it done in WASM: First is of course, not to roll my own crypto. Second is that if you're asking someone to generate a private key to use themselves, sending ANY information to a server is a big no.

Honestly I'd appreciate any thoughts or advice anyone has, I'm open!

[1] - https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-explorer
If you look closely at the Chapman survey, though, it didn't mention Alex Jones; the reported statistics were based on a survey without that particular priming. The only mention of Alex Jones is a hypothetical example from Scott, which was not part of the survey, and the 33% is just

> Respondents to the Chapman University Survey of American Fears were asked if “The government is concealing what they know about…the North Dakota crash.” A third of Americans (33%) think the government is concealing information about this invented event.

Edit: I guess this phrasing (for each conspiracy) actually would be satisfied by the existence of any classified information about each topic, even classified information that wouldn't materially change the public's impression of the event. It's almost certainly true that "the government is concealing what they know about" the 9/11 attacks and the JFK assassination, for example, because there are some files and documents related to those matters that the government won't release publicly, which isn't the same as saying that those files and documents would change anyone's assessment of who is responsible for those events.
We're actually implementing a standard Pinning API right now! You can check out the spec here (https://github.com/ipfs/pinning-services-api-spec) - currently being integrated by Pinata and soon others.

By the way, here's a PR to add other pinning options to the docs: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-docs/pull/471
I know that this is not related but I cannot unsee the comments about a similar sweet (Haribo sugar free bear) [1]

We do not have these in France (despite having the Haribo museum in the south) so I cannot tell whether this is true or just a sophisticated ad campaign.

I am generally very skeptical about food that is completely made up from non-food (that is above "processed") but in the case of licorice this is a sweet we had in France since always (from what I saw, you usually have the ones who love out and the onces who hate it, with a rather empty "meh" section)

[1] https://slightlyviral.com/beware-sugarless-gummy-bears-on-am...
Not sure about “0” but https://theartofpostgresql.com is a good book.
True, that's really cool!
Serum levels of vitamin C and Vitamin D in critically ill Covid-19 patients
User voting makes sure one side wins and the other loses. Moderation decides which one.

Facebook's like system instead creates cliques of like-minded (heh) people.
> In 1923, Midgley took a long vacation in Miami, Florida, to cure himself of lead poisoning. He "[found] that my lungs have been affected and that it is necessary to drop all work and get a large supply of fresh air".[9]

Null terminated strings.

In, "Trusting Trust" Ken tacitly admitted that C itself was the inside job. Once you align yourself with Cs core tenets, performance above all else, the game itself is up and your mind has been infected against looking at things holistically.
Water has been financialized for years in the western US. Developers buy and sell water rights from farmers, farmers own farms where they don't grow crops because the water is going to condos. Water rights are bought and sold and traded all the time.
https://archive.is/UFwAr
It is really not that surprising. People talk. When you work for a company like this you end up with a large portion of your circle of friends being current or former co-workers. I knew things there were not NDA-cleared for years after I left various startups because people chat and if you know the right questions to ask or are reasonably good at appearing to know just a bit more than you happen to know then people will often fill in the blanks for you. The well really only runs dry when most of that cohort have also left the company.
> And so YouTube losing safe harbor would be huge.

No, it wouldn't, because YouTube is actually removing the content. So they're not going to get sued for infringement, and other parts of the DMCA still protect them even when they operate outside the bounds of the takedown notice procedure.
In Dan Simmon's Hyperion, the Earth got gobbled up by a black hole in this way.

It's a good schema to get all the baggage of Earth out of the novel.

He just says, whoops, earth got eaten, don't worry about Yosemite anymore, now here are some space monks that live in huge bubbled space trees.

Much more fun than having to explain things minutely.
Similar question: based on Zooko's triangle, decentralization will reduce the security of DNS. How secure are blockchain based naming systems like Handshake, ENS, Unstoppable, Blockstack, etc?
That's kind of where my headspace is as well. I tend to view subscription services as a way to look for stuff I like and when I've found stuff I like, I want to add it to my own library. Luna may be technically superior, but I will avoid it as long as I possibly can.
Nothing I said is false. Third party stores will not exist equitably on iOS and Android because there don’t exist equitably anywhere else.

I said a small group, not just Epic. That group would be made up of the usual suspects - Epic, Amazon, Google, Facebook, various other TenCent properties etc.

Nothing about it would make it either developer friendly, nor consumer friendly.