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I found university fairly difficult. I studied a Bachelors of Applied Science in a mix of mechanical, electrical, and software engineering, and I had lots of sleepless nights, feeling as if though I was running some sort of daily mathematical gauntlet. I had my parents to help with the cooking and the (rent-free) living, but the daily commute, the 8 hour days of class, the 2AM study sessions, projects, and homework assignments, really threw me into what I perceived to be adult hood. To each their own, though. If one doesn't feel challenged in higher education, then I can see how one could perceive University to just be an extension of high school. The real kicker is, much doesn't change after University. A day job can be easier, and less stress, and learning how to toss a couple chicken breasts on the pan after work is pretty simple
I'm not entirely sure how that site works, but that is gold. You should absolutely submit that (again).
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5.5 years ago I bought a 40" Hisense LTDN 40D36 dumb TV. Back then there was a review somewhere that said it’s better than others in its price class (310 € ≈ $ 364) and most importantly it had no smart features. I am still happy with it and I dread the day I’ll need a new one. The much mentioned (including in this article) Sceptre TVs don’t seem to be available in Germany and HiSense seems to have switched to smart-TVs only.

Before I bought it, I saw smart TVs at other’s places and never understood why anyone would actually want those.
A really interesting read, and I agree with a lot of the points made - except this one:

> Apple created an entirely new industry – something that isn’t found much in the traditional Apple playbook.

I would have thought this is exactly what Apple's blockbuster successes are known for. The original Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch - all industry-defining products.
As of 2016, the number was ~$9B given that they had $31B in revenue and $22B in profit.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10810834/android-generate...

100s of billions in 2020 seems off by at least an order of magnitude.
It's very easy in japan to find a "baito" job, that is low skill, part time and paid at the hour and with no benefits. People like the "freeters" cumulate several of these jobs to earn a decent monthly wage. The problem is of course that there is no security of employment, very little rights and as I said no benefits like pension. Housing is still doable as the market is not too high tension, but it's pretty much impossible for them to get a loan for anything. Raising children and sending them to higher education is pretty much not feasible.
I guess for US people it's pretty similar to the fast-food workers earning less than livable wage.
Very interesting! Thank you for putting on your pedant hat!
Well, besides what the other commenter says, Fortnite was dropping in popularity according to Apple. And I'm sure that both Apple and Epic can spare a billion for lawyers.
Yes, I am aware, but there's no reason why Boeing would be interested in the airline business today.
This one? https://jvctv.com.au/product/58-4k-uhd-led-tv/

No mention of "Android" or "Smart", but it does do DVR of some sort, so it's not 100% clear.
Sales tax is taken care of by Apple from their 30% cut - ie. the 70% they give to the company is only taxable income and the company doesn't need to do anything or pay any extra to comply with national or local sales taxes [anywhere in the world].
To add on, only two remaining.

Multiple massive corporations with essentially unlimited funding and desire failed in this space repeatedly, some with enormous head starts. The thought that someone can simply start another mobile platform is naive bordering on absurd.

This is an established market that clearly can support only one or two participants. We have seen this movie.
If you block facebook domains: https://archive.is/6zw6N
Easy, don’t connect it to the internet.

No good. The TVs are starting to nag the user if left unconnected.
Aside: One of the worst trends we have going is emojis in articles, commit messages, readmes and PRs. Emojis are great for chat when you want to express emotions. When it comes to reading text anywhere else:

- It distracts from years of training we have in recognizing characters of a particular language and word shapes

- It takes an extra second to process the symbol since we're not used to it. For example, "Notice a _bug_emoji_ ? Send us an email." [1]

- It draws eyes to the Emoji's first because they're foreign symbols and they're painted in color.

- Notion is one of those products that encourages this. I really don't see the benefit. Perhaps in labels it is ok - since its a symbol that's used to categorize things, and it is not prose.

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/...
I would even take it a step further and allow maintainers the ability to cherry pick certain issues they'd like to put up for hacktober.

I'd still keep the repo wide tag for opt-in, but also optionally provide issue level opt-in.

Alternatively, you can provide a platform where participants can self regulate...e.g. like spammers called out on r/programming or maybe a spam detection algo.

Edit: maybe the incentives can also be altered. E.g. sticker for non opt-in repos, t-shirt for opt-in ones. Hmm solving bad actor behaviour is an interesting problem
That sounds like a quote from a Douglas Adam book.
I feel you're being too negative towards DO.

Yes, there is a lot more than writing a random PR to FLOSS, but getting people involved in that is still a positive thing overall.

To me it _is_ surprising that people would create spam PRs to get a t-shirt.

Anyway, it seems like adding their own layer of pre-filtering would have been the best solution.
One of their points in court was attacking the 30% since they do, indeed, love the traffic the App Store brings them (since not all players found Fortnite via EpicGames.com).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24669192
None of that functionality is specific to an "Apple Watch" though.

It's fascinating, and somewhat exasperating, to see how well their brand marketing works. They've managed to take over the word Watch-with-a-capital.
I'm also an Indian from one of the "top" engineering colleges and what you say is very much true for what I have seen first hand during the 4 year degree course.

Unfortunately the reason here is definitely cultural. I was lucky that my parents didn't force me to become an engineer or doctor (though it was by choice) but for majority of my friends since 9th std, it was about getting into IIT and their whole life and their whole parent's world revolve around getting a good job in a top MNC and that's the Indian version of American dream.

Unfortunately the competition is fierce and there are 10 candidates for every spot, so you buff, cheat, cut corners and do everything in your power to get ahead. Because if you don't the other person still will and he will take your spot (it's like SEO).

There is an amazing web series called Kota factory. If you want to understand the culture it offers some great insights into it in a very entertaining way!
I have a Garmin 245 that reports respiration without a chest strap. It tracks throughout the day. You can view on a line chart, or view awake/asleep averages. No idea how it measures, or if it’s accurate.
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We are currently hiring for:

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I think this is ultimately about what the consumers want. Google and Apple can easily drown epic games in lawyer fees and expenses etc. ... But do they have a case in front of the public, do consumers care enough to give a shit, maybe ... I don't see it.
Steam set a 30% rate years before the App Store or Play Store even existed, and the same rate is used across the industry in both console stores and physical stores. Accusing Apple and Google of colluding on pricing requires an enormous misunderstanding of what collusion actually means.
Certainly there's money for one copy, that's what runs production.
> In retaliation against Epic for introducing competition to Google Play Billing

I think this supports the OP's phrasing.
if you read through the thread, you'll find there are already plenty of repos like that.
It sounds like how we used to program in BASIC. Line numbering initially by 10, leaving room for inserting lines without having to renumber. So you'd start out 10,20,30,40... and if you had to add a line between 20 and 30 you'd make it 25.
Thinking like an engine “taking relativity apart” and going over its pieces for flaws, finding a piece that’s broken, but needing such a highly customized piece to maintain consistency of the engine and maybe link it to quantum mechanics hasn’t really done away with the possibility we’ll chase thousands of dead ends first.

It got easier but “easy” relative ;)
One way the author is concise in this piece is just leaving out words that are actually needed for the sentence to make sense and get the reader to just imagine they are there:

"The goal of most conversations (or a piece of writing) should be easy to understand for the readers."

That says that the goal should be something the readers understand. I think he means is "the goal of most conversations (or pieces of writing) should be for them to be easy to understand for the readers."

(ie the reader should understand the conversation, not the reader should understand the goal).

There are lots of examples in here.
Related (also JVM and memory errors, seen from a security perspective): https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/memerr.pdf

I've wondered if any attackers are serving either Java or Javascript that tries to get remote code execution from pointer corruption due to hardware errors (the idea being, as in the paper, that the sandbox itself may be correct, but sometimes the hardware isn't).
" They could charge anything they like -- 100%. It's a voluntary contract, and Epic doesn't have to engage in it. We don't have to engage in it. There's no fundamental right to offer an app on an app store, and if the scope of the market is defined as the market for video games/content, then none of these places are monopolies and companies/people are free to set their desired prices."

They are monopolies, or more precisely, an oligarchy.

Mobile devices have become 'essential utility' not quite but almost like roads, internet access etc. and Google/Apple have absolute control.

Imagine if Verizon and AT&T said: "We're going to charge 30% of all revenue derived form Internet Usage".

What would be the difference?

Could we just 'refuse to engage' and 'not use the internet'?

We scream 'net neutrality' when it comes to network access, we need to recognize some of the same logic applies here as well.

Sometimes it's hard to demonstrate 'consumer harm' when we don't know what the market would look like otherwise: in Canada, literally up until the 1980's, the telephone system was a de-facto government monopoly called 'Bell Telephone'. You had to buy everything from them, they set prices etc. etc..

Imagine what would happen if iOS and Android 'banned' anything other than Safari and Chrome.

Imagine if theY forced Bing and Google only respectively as search engines and banned all others?

How would we react?

In much the same way Europe has required users have the ability to have the choice of Search, even default search, I think the minimum requirement would be to allow 3rd party apps and 3rd party app stores.
Are you saying Epic should not be allowed to have what is effectively a digital goods store while manufacturing apps? Or that Apple and Google should not be allowed to manufacture apps while owning digital goods stores?

Or both?
I had that on an airplane last year, it was hilarious and inconvenient and all I could think was ‘they gotta stagger this notification a little.’
Absolutely. Talent, luck, and hard work. All 3 are required to strike it big. I've known extremely talented and hard working people who did well, but never got to the super star level.
Hacktoberfest is an event intended to help people contribute to Open Source. Based on this, the statement is false. If your only objective is to get a t-shirt, sure then it limits you. But if your objective is contributing to OSS, nothing is stopping you of making meaningful contributions! The only change is getting the t-shirt, but sylveon's comment sounds a very generic statement so wanted to clarify that open source actively welcomes contributions.
What about ThanosSort: just delete half the array elements until the remaining elements are sorted.
"United States of America shouldn't have to justify its laws"

Oh, absolutely 100% positively 'not true' - the US 100% has to 'justify it's laws'.

While 'something should be done here' I don't think prices need to be regulated, rather, just opening up fair market conditions in different layers of the value chain.

Just making 3rd party apps and app-stores available on each platform would suffice.
Appreciate the effort for writing it. The last section has got an important message.
Because there’s more than 2 airlines competing so the margins are low.
What would the side project consist of? A huge range of public domain books have been accessible on gutenberg.org and archive.org for many years now, in standard formats that you can use on any device without installing a proprietary “library app.”
" maybe you should think about why then"

It's 'not easy' because the current monopolists will crush any attempt to take their turf - which is the whole point.
Ask HN: Essay on adults being bad at asking questions?
Looking for a great essay posted on here ~1 year ago.

It’s about how children ask questions vs adults. Children get to the heart of the question whereas adults often couch their questions with long preambles / caveats / assumptions to avoid looking stupid.

Would appreciate your help finding it!
Linux Desktop Market Share Nearly Halved During September 2020
Apple can have it's own app store, but it should allow downloads, including app stores, outside of it's own app store.
Fortnite is still doing good[0], but it'll probably settle at 10-20 million monthly active players, if it hasn't done so already. Reminder that it got popular at the end of 2017.

0: They don't release numbers, but it's always consistently on the first page of Twitch game viewership
https://www.twitch.tv/directory?sort=VIEWER_COUNT
The Epic Games launcher wouldn't just be preinstalled bloatware, it would be bloatware that historically had security vulnerabilities. I don't blame Google for stopping the deal.

https://www.cnet.com/news/just-as-critics-feared-fortnite-fo...
Of course you are being downvoted, criticizing Apple is the number one downvote reason on HN. I agree with you and will take my share of downvotes for expressing my opinion and respecting all the other HN rules.
Hey Sean, I'm the author of the post. After you pointing it out, I realized it can be confusing.

Thanks for the feedback and I'll fix it
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Earthquake damage isn’t covered.

And California has relatively dry mild weather.

And we are talking about a 1.5 million dollar house in Bay Area being 1000 sqr ft with insurance rebuild cost of 300k+.

Chance of needing a rebuild are very, very, low.
> It will be real hard for a judge to have to agree with them. They could have corrected it, got back into compliance and continued their legal case, but this was not the route they picked.

To provide a source for this: (ctrl-f escrow) https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1310618271675105282.html
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"This is also a side-effect of the the relative valuation of engineering time vs. the time of another function"

Not sure if author posted it but found a lil typo
The one thing I don't understand with Yubikeys: doesn't leaving them plugged in at all times in your computer (which the form factor highly encourages you to do) completely defeat the purpose?
The amount of hate in this thread is so typical HN, somebody should be concerned (oh but we must keep the forum civil). There isn't a single thread of consideration on the topic, only a dogpile of naysaying by anonymous commentariat of dubious credibility. Presented with a difficult read, the comments clearly show nobody here actually tried.

Can a forum of programmers and techies really not fathom a computational approach to physics? Graphs are only a social database to you?

You worship a framework of physics fraught with limitations, missing pieces, and paradoxes, which few of you understand beyond a simplification, and act like the Pope of Quantum Physics.

Disruption huurrrrrr. What a cesspool. You people are techno-sheep.
Since you bring it up, I think studying questions that a company has been known to ask in the past is somewhat in poor taste, especially if the candidate gives the impression that this is the first time they've seen the question. Usually, when I've done interviews, I'll try to throw a wrench into the question and see how the candidate reacts if I suspect they've seen the question before.

Though in both cases, I think it's on the question asker (either teacher or interviewer) to make sure that questions change up frequently enough and aren't easy to study without having genuine understanding.
Is this also an RDF store? And, well, is it open source?
Mainstream news coverage of US politics.
Less weird now with most of my social interactions being via screens.
>> I walked around each day, how well I slept, what my heart rate was, etc. makes it a lot easier to understand what’s going on with my body and be more proactive about it.

It would be great if it was accurate. How accurate is this data?
https://theromexchange.com/blog/15th-september-2020
The butcher insisting they are 100% vegan.

I haven’t watched “Social Dillema”, I think it is odd to mix fiction and documentary, but just looking at the dementi, I don’t buy it.
I am surprised too. Reputation is important in OSS and when applying to jobs (which I assume some would want to do, or already have). I would raise an eyebrow a bit if I were reviewing a candidate and found all of their PRs on GitHub were spam.
Fascinating, I simply switched a few times for fun. I'm currently better with an iPhone, but I can find my way around in both.
That's strawman, Epic's fortnite is not one of the only 2 surviving videogames in the world, while Android and Apple are the only 2 mobile platforms; if Fornite was somehow one of the only 10 mobile games people had available at all I would agree but not in the current state of affairs.
`We provide advertisers with reports about the kinds of people who are seeing
their ads and how their ads are performing, but we don’t share information
that personally identifies you unless you give us permission.`

`unless you give us permission`

lol
Given how popular I've seen "metrics-driven management" become in the past little while, not specifically in DO but many other places, I'd guess not.
i'm genuinely not sure how this works - doesnt it just redirect you to the original submission if you submit the same article within the first X weeks? i've often submitted something only to find that someone else already did a few days ago and therefore it has no chance of getting featured.
Because they were broken up to create a competitive marketplace which would not otherwise have existed.

Also if Boeing were allowed to create an airline they could, say, not sell airliners to any other airline, or charge them much more. Or just pass on the airliner sales margins to consumers as lower fares... until the other airlines went out of business.

But I guess the airlines could just make their own airplanes right?
> This change probably kills Hacktoberfest imo.

I'd say the spam tactics executed on such a large scale killed Hacktoberfest. This is just damage control.
indeed.

however the single biggest area is when lower it companies choose to skimp and get pwned.. paying 50k is better than filing chapter 13 even if the govt charges you another 25k pound of flesh.
How are you feeling now? I hope you are doing better. It's hard to read your experience. These are very unfortunate times.
Doesn't need to be accurate, just consistent in its inaccuracies over time. It's about changing behavior, not diagnosis.
It's not about cheating. It's about people other than your spouse learning you have sex with men.

This remains something quite a lot of people want to remain secret.
"Who is the court, or any of us, to say what should* be the charge for selling a game on a marketplace?"*

That falls under competition law. It's in a government's interests to encourage companies to compete with each other, and to prevent a single or a handful of companies explicitly or implicitly agreeing to control market pricing to the detriment of consumers.

In this case, both Google and Apple set the same 30% pricing, and clearly neither have any incentive to rock the boat and compete with each other, and every incentive to dissuade or prevent other companies from creating competing app stores. When competition in a market fails, it's up to the courts or government to step in.

"I find irony in many people who get probably so knee-jerk opposed to Google/Apple and "on Epic's side" will find themselves justifying why they should be free to set their own prices when they launch their next product."

Its not hypocritical (or even ironic) to say that there should be different rules for companies operating as part of an oligopoly, compared to small business competing in a crowded marketplace.
The G is pronounced just like it is in gif.
Contrary to (apparently) popular belief, simply matching the standard industry rate is not legally considered price fixing, which requires active agreement between competitors.
In order to do it that way though, we would have to rewrite the laws of retail commerce as they stand today. Unless you are saying that, say, Apple and Google can't, but Walmart, Amazon, and Target can. Because right now, that's exactly what's happening.

In fact, even in the grocery retailing industry, there are integrations that would run afoul of the rule you are proposing. Kroger, for instance, sells brands it owns, while selling competing brands for what is, effectively, a commission. I'm not just picking on Kroger, all major chains engage in this practice. I was only using Kroger by way of illustration.

So what you're proposing has far reaching implications. I don't even think it's necessarily "bad", per se. But it does change the entire "order of battle", as it were, in the American retail space. Lots of people would go out of business, and lots more would be in serious financial trouble.
This is going to seriously burn someone at one point. But right now, I think our package repositories are simply too convenient.

Maybe someone will aggressively squat a load of names and upload a package that scrolls a million lines of "YOUR REPOSITORY IS INSECURE!!1". Maybe that will make devs more security conscious.

First one to shake up the world by massively exploiting this gets to decide how bad it's going to be. "rm -rf /" would be fun too, or exfiltrating everyones .ssh folder.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if this was an intentional back door (...) that Grindr was required to create and let foreign authorities know about in exchange for being allowed to market the app in their country.
halved? damn. i thought it was going up in 2020.