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Why is more choice necessarily good, besides simplified theory about capitalism? Brands have built their entire success off of providing less choice to consumers and they, in general seem to be successful. See Apple and Trader Joe's.

Choice is good when there's direct competition. Companies will compete to have better app stores if I can choose which app store I want to use. I as a consumer will get to choose what games I want to play. It's bad for me as a consumer that I also have to choose which app store I'm using to download that game.

Also both things can be bad, but I personally feel that the model where people like Apple due to the "ecosystem" seems to have worked pretty well for a lot of consumers. I don't think "more choice" is a good metric here at all because it's false. I don't care about having more choice in app stores(and I'm not getting to chose which app store I use under either model anyway), I care about my choice of apps. Which isn't really changing, companies will get their product to consumers.
I know of several apps in my local app store that have their own payment system instead of the in-app purchases. I don't see why Apple doesn't enforce this policy for all apps.
For answers to this and other questions of life, the universe, and everything, stop whatever you are doing and download a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

For best results, get the first 5 books of the trilogy and do nothing until you have read them all. It will change your life. :)
The comparison to Lisp always seems to pop up for some reason, but at the end of the day Forth draws very little, if any, inspiration from Lisp, and has very different functionality and evolutionary history. They are both "small" languages in some sense, but it is rare to see anyone claim that Brainfuck is a Lisp, or that they are somehow twins separated at birth if you turn your head to the right angle and squint.

It is better to simply learn about Forth instead of attempting to hammer it into the mold of another language one has heard of before.
I recently discovered Playnite, an open source PC game library manager. It connects to all the stores and aggregates them in one place. You can also configure your own emulators for older games, etc. I can now view my DOSBox games and Steam/Origin/Epic games in one place.

https://playnite.link/
See also SUNW. McNealy imported the 6Sigma thing from GE, at one time it infected even teams not involved in manufacturing. MSFT had the best outcome for giants of the aughts. It is too bad OpenSolaris was left for dead, otherwise we'd have some choices and competition in *nix OS. AIX, dead. HP-UX, dead. Can't recall the DEC, Ultrix? Who runs that anymore. The last time I saw BSD commercially used was at a telco.
Not really. That's like saying everything is about food because even when it's not about food, it's still about food in relation to something else. You still have to prove everything is about sex, or we can do this with any object and assert it as true.
If that choice of app store actually matters to you, then you have the option to choose an Android phone instead of an iPhone. You're not being relegated to some obscure platform with no app support like people who didn't want to use Wintel in the '00s.
We have more choice today, because currently Android and iOS have different models. Break up the App Store and your left with a single model.

What nobody is talking about is Epic could completely avoid the premium their complaining about by using a website for all transactions. Just like the Kindle App or Netflix etc. The only thing they get from this lawsuit is in app micro transactions. As such it’s really a question of business models not consumer choice.
In the context of shutting down significant percentages of economies for months, in the context of the government (in the UK) providing furlough schemes where they pay peoples salaries, in the context of essentially banning most social interaction and the population slowly going a bit mad, what the hell does it matter if we fund some dud vaccines? What does it even matter if some are outright corrupt and do nothing?

It's the worst kind of bike shedding, it's "well we can't do much about the most life changing event since WW2 but we sure can argue about the transparency of contracts!"
I would like to see that experiment play out.

Somehow the locked down 'S' version of windows is not very popular.
Microsoft Edge is crowdsourcing data to show or hide notification requests
Why doesn’t Epic have an Android App Store?

If they want an independent store, there is no reason for them not to create one for Android.

If Android was a model for what Epic wants, they would have built a store there.

It’s pretty obvious that this is just about them going where the money is.
Then that's quite some impressive, uh, decompression.
I doubt any significant volume of people who sell their iPhones and go android if Apple allowed other app stores.
Subscribe. Which tropical city and where are you finding these gigs? This sounds like a nice life.
This worked for me

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Maybe We Can Have Nice Things
Jose is so prolific on such varied kinds of projects. I expect he'll team up with John Carmack next to solve General AI...

I know the newest BEAM release has a new JIT compiler for faster calculations. Is that work related to this at all? I'm guessing not, since it seems like the speed up here is from moving the calculation out of the BEAM.
You nailed it.

I've found the "drug" for foreign languages , by letting them watch certain cartoons when home goals are met (good behavior etc), with the caveat they can only watch with audio that is a specific foreign language.

The next step is the hardest one. Once they read, I can probably migrate to a 4th language, and leverage RPGs for that purpose. Or I can branch out to programming like you say, but that may be much more difficult.

You need to have a partner that is supportive of this. If you don't present a united front, any (learning) policy will soon be forgotten.
Tips for time management in software development
Ok, then treat it as "always having a plan B".
That article also has an XHTML 1.0 Transitional DOCTYPE, and wastes a request trying to load JavasScript for Google Plus.... this is not up-to-date information.

The "advantages" are minor at best, and exclusively relevant to a developer, with very little impact on the end-user
Not if they're okay with it. Humans harm themselves (or risk harm) in pursuit of some perceived higher good all the time, anything from smoking a cigarette to fighting in a battle to participating in a risky medical experiment. This is just a natural and normal part of the human experience. Relax.
Me at the Virtual Water Cooler
That third link points to a survey by a bank that had 69% of respondents saying they had less than $1000 "in a savings account" in 2019. That's not the same thing as "in savings". "In savings" would include things like bonds, CDs, high-yield checking accounts, 401(k)s, IRAS, etc, etc, etc. Even if we exclude random equities in a brokerage account.

The proliferation of high-yield checking accounts in particular has significantly reduced the use of savings accounts for a lot of people who have quite a lot of "savings".

I keep seeing people cite scary-looking numbers like this (the other good example being the "half of Americans don't have $400 in cash on hand", which is ... not quite true; see https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/apr/19/kamala-har... ), but each time I dig into the actual data it turns out the actual question asked was not what people seem to think it was and the answers don't mean what they seem to mean, in the context of the actual question.
Arm'd and Dangerous: malicious code, now native on Apple Silicon
There are plenty of cross-store games on PC. And even if some games end up being exclusive you might still benefit as a player thanks to the competition. If Epic started offering a very bad user experience game devs would hesitate to publish exclusively through them because they'd fear reduced revenue.

It's also a very good thing for game devs who aren't at the mercy of the whims of a single company. Steam no longer wants to work with you? Go to GOG, Epic or even self-publish.
App stores do hinder this when they are resonably well moderated. Google makes almost no effort to do this. The extension markets for Firefox and Safari are comparatively malware-free next to the Chrome extension store.
Most of the article demonstrates its author's point by coming to a tentative conclusion through a critical analysis of the doctor's statements. The NYT article is presented as additional support, from other sources, for the same conclusion.

Progress in science and history is often like that: a hypothesis is strengthened through having multiple lines of support, such as when the cosmic microwave background and the cosmic abundance of helium were added to the red shift of galaxies as evidence for the big bang.

Being eternally skeptical to the extent of dismissing anything not proven is not effective critical thinking, either.
If EA win their fight, I can't really see them offering their app on the Apple App Store.

So, really what this is about is choice for the big app-manufacturers, including games. It has nothing to do with user choice at all, and the cost is borne by the user (who has a far shittier user-experience than they do now).
The pat and flippant part is: well the USSC ruled thus, so thus, and thus shut up you, it's decided.
No, your freedom of choice is only one level deep. You can either choose iOS, which includes 'runs only apple-approved software', or choose any other OS which runs other software.

This is basically the right to repair / right to do whatever you want with your device debate. You can't force Apple to program the functionality for running other people's code into iOS, but it's legal if you figure out how. This is exactly what went down in 2010 with Cydia [0] - it's fair use to modify your own device, but that doesn't compel apple to make it easy to do so[1].

0: https://www.wired.com/2010/07/feds-ok-iphone-jailbreaking/

1: https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/07/dmcae...
Yeah, it shows a lack of self-awareness to complain about employees' entitlement and then wish they'd work more, without any talk of extra compensation. Seems a bit entitled to expect other human beings to sacrifice their weekends and happiness to bump the value of your shares.
Full refresh defeats the purpose of a spa unfortunately. I just tested that event and it actually doesn't appear to fire when navigating backwards, only when the page is initially shown...which contradicts the comments in that code.
Don't get me wrong I'm sure native C# is plenty fast and within acceptable speed range. It it were me, native code would be used at a last resort strategy.

But perusing https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/ is still seems C# takes much more memory? It's strange as such benchmark don't expose much change between .net and .net aot
> He's saying that most people optimize for promotion rather than building a better product.

If you want them to optimize for building a better product, give them more equity. Most people don't want to work during the best 40 years of their lives. Give them a way out or they will try to find one themselves.
Straight from the horse's mouth:

>All of our growth at Waze post acquisition was from work we did, not support from the mothership. Looking back, we could have probably grown faster and much more efficiently had we stayed independent.

He also details the constraints and additional burdens imposed by corporate as well the overall lack of support.
In the USA the USPS usually does not fail to deliver a text document, no superior nor inferior technology required.

And they still reach places having no other form of comunication.

If it was not a post card, you would need to open the envelope please.

If you would like to read that kind of text off your screen, you might just need to scan it yourself or find someone who can.
TL;DR Give Blitz a try.

I've been developing my app with Blitz. It has been an extremely productive framework to work with.

The following are a few of the productivity boosts that I like:

1. It includes authentication plus there's a good library for authorization (blitz-guard) so auth is a breeze.

2. The generator is helpful when I started with Blitz, but use it less now.

3. The community is friendly and helpful. ex. Check out this post on skeleton loaders https://andreas.fyi/engineering/nextjs-auth-skeleton-loaders

4. The integration with Prisma is buttery smooth. In your UI code you call a function that has the database access. Blitz converts the function calls into API calls and runs your database code on the server. When Prisma is not enough you can drop to `db.$queryRaw` to write SQL directly.

5. Personally, I dislike fiddling with 800 libraries to get a project up and running. Blitz includes Jest, Prettier, and everything else you need so on so that you're productive from day 1.
Let me preface this by saying I agree bitcoin is like a decentralised Ponzi scheme...but you are wrong in your assumption that maximum price = number dollars in * number of bitcoins.

The trick of bitcoin is that creates the illusion of value in its price in dollar (or other fiat) terms. There is no true underlying value. Note: bitcoin depends on the dollar because there is no independent bitcoin economy. So the price is simply what fools are willing to pay for it recently, what the last bid was. How much money has gone into the bitcoin black hole over time has almost no bearing on its price at any given instance besides hysteresis (i.e. the current instant price is near the last price).

Price is thus simply the dollar amount that people are willing to pay in the present moment for a bitcoin; there is no reason it could not go to $1,000,000 a coin if people are dumb enough to pay that amount.

This is why bitcoin is like a black hole. It is not an equity, since there is no underlying, fungible asset, i.e. ASIC miners can't be used for general purpose computation, bitcoin is not a share of ownership in anything, etc. The market cap of bitcoin is zero at all times regardless the price. The price provides an illusion of market cap or value but is not actually value in of itself. It exerts a pull on real money that can be used to fund productive or legal investment, like a black hole, but pouring money into Bitcoin does not give it value. Money can be destroyed, just like matter into a black hole and this is something cryptoholders will find out when (1) there is no greater fool left or (2) bitcoin soaks up so much real money that it has real economic effects, e.g. deflation, which results in a regulatory social clampdown or (3) there is a regulatory clamp down before that point due to recognition of bitcoins only real use case, illegal activities.
>Personally I have been giving a lot of though about balancing how I consume content.

Depending on the content I think text can still be a pretty good bet. Using a screen reader or assistive features on devices can allow you to have an article written in text read aloud to you. I've seen lots of setups too where people will save articles and have them processed to create audio files that they listen to on their runs or whatever.
I understand the FOI misgivings, playing devil's advocate:

(1) DARPA (and NASA) appear to be models. Secrecy and unaccountability are a big part of what makes them them. (2) The state of university grant making is currently terrible. A lot of what makes it terrible is accountability.

A agree with the premise that you need independence to pursue high risk stuff. The whole premise is investing in things that most people think it are stupid and will never work. That's just not compatible with standard accountability norms.

Meanwhile, as you say, contracts go to insiders regardless. It's not like FOI is preventing this corruption. I also feel that (at least on this thread) the British take on corruption is overblown. Was there ever a time or place where sleeping with the mayor of London was not good business? £100k seems cheap. Not saying this is good, just that I don't see the escalation that some here see.
> The biggest negative of using Lisp is that a lot of work you’d take for granted in Python or Julia is not done.

Any hard-earned advice on how best to work around this in a scientific context without wasting too much time? That is, which areas of numerics / plotting / stats have a useful Lisp library vs. when it's better to write your own? There are a lot of apparently-abandoned numeric libraries on github. Do you have to learn LAPACK & SIMD/AVX directly to be productive?

For context, I escaped to Python from Matlab 7 years ago, but have grown to share many of your opinions on Python. Looking for where to jump next. The short feedback loop of Lisp (condition system / restarts) is appealing.
Absolutely. There should be an EU regulation forcing companies to 1) allow sideloading apps, without any certificate restrictions for things like feature approval (such as having to ask Apple nicely to be able to create a VPN) and 2) allow the user to run any code they want to on their device, including any browser engine. With the EU becoming basically an American software colony since COVID (Zoom, O365) it is about time for a "GDPR of software freedom".
skycrane :D
Making a moving hoop that won't let you miss
> becoming a functional currency

None. At least until a sovereign nation decides to ditch fiat for crypto. The first to do that, I bet, will still treat it like fiat and use all the classical monetary policies. So, it'll be crypto in name only.

Eventually, IMHO, Bitcoin will eat all the money in the world, stabilize at something like 10-15 million per. Then it'll just kinda take over as being more trustworthy than any fiat. Of course countries will try to regulate the heck out of it. But, since it has no president of Bitcoin, it'll survive.

Then, we'll have to deal with the knock on effects of a deflationary currency and all that entails.
As iOS user I completely disagree. I love the Apple platform for the simplicity. Every time there is a payment I choose Apple Pay as it's more secure than giving my card away. It uses biometrics, not some static digits stuck with card if you lose it. It's also more or less valid for Google Pay as well.

Having the option to use PayPal, Stripe, some other payment processor increases the stress on the UX and also the attack surface for fraud.
>I read that he wants people to:

Yes! Most insightful post in this entire thread.

Talk about shallow interpretations of what someone wrote from most of the other commenters.
News Corp agrees deal with Google over payments for journalism
Kroger to launch pilot for self-checkout store
Sure, I'm disagreeing with the principle that government investment has no place in a world where VCs exist rather than praising the design of this particular scheme (no prizes for guessing which former SPAD known for being almost as enthusiastic about zero accountability as science might have designed it...).

As I'm sure you know there are less um... creative uses of R&D tax credits and SEIS too, and I've heard some very strange entirely private sector funding arrangements ("but we don't need to worry about whether the losses on taking on this project with that obligation will burn our remaining capital, because someone who used to work at that company will be impressed enough to angel invest") proposed too. And some rank bad recipients of everyday properly tendered government procurement, for that matter.

And I presume oligarchs and money laundering operations actually want the paper trail to provide vaguely plausible explanations for being in London with the ability to write large cheques.
Ask HN: [Urgent] Schizophrenic brother in US jail
My brother is schizophrenic and he has allegedly broken a few laws. He's in the US. But he's not a US citizen. He might or might not have all legal papers.

He's being held in a county jail in the US.
I live in Canada; the rest of the family lives in Europe.

What can I do?
Why not answer here? It’s an opportunity to generate more hacker interest. I’m probably not going to sign up for discord to ask one question.
100% mobile. I have no issues with F2P games that aren't predatory (like LoL or Rocket League). I've spent hundreds on these games for silly cosmetics that don't affect gameplay.
Why is that in consumer's interest? This isn't Windows and IE, there are choices available to every consumer. If you compare Android's eco-system vs Apple's, it's clear that Apple is better for consumer's to me. Better quality apps, far less piracy, far less viruses, and safer better payment options. If iOS was the only game in town, I'd 100 percent agree but it's not. There is very little proof that proof that it's going to make the situation better for consumers and quite a bit of evidence that it will make it worse for users that prefer iOS.
CAN-SPAM should be extended to make it required for commercial mail to add this header.
I’m sure there's a way to do it but Twitter dropped RSS/Atom support from their API in 2012 [1], so it would require scraping or using some sort of other endpoint-managed control of the feed. There have historically been usage limits on how many tweets you could retrieve without paying, but I’m not sure how much that has changed since Twitter overhauled its API last year.

It’s a shame that many of the tools and features we had a decade ago no longer exist, not because of technology, but because of decisions social networks made for business reasons to eschew open standards and create their own walled gardens.

[1]: https://mashable.com/2012/09/05/twitter-api-rss/
I find the hassle of having multiple game launchers installed to be pretty insignificant. In exchange, developers have more freedom regarding where they're willing to publish, and have the opportunity of exclusive deals that bring in more money and could reasonably be put back into the content of a game.

Also, as players we occasionally get games at much lower costs than normal (sometimes even free), which seems to be a benefit we wouldn't get to the same extent if multiple storefronts weren't competing.
that has nothing to do with their abusive store policies, and abusive store policies aren't required for the above.
The article we are commenting on is written from the context of a high COL based tech worker.
Of the author's many entitlements, the funniest one to me is that he feels entitled his employee's drive and passion for his product, the second most important mapping app at his own company.

He couldn't perceive that Google was buying him out to neutralize a competitor? He was surprised that the distribution priority of Waze was lower than Google Maps?
FreeBSD jails were long before Linux namespaces and cgroups and offered (I think) all the convenience of containers very early on.

Namespaces and cgroups are an evolution and improvement over jails, probably, because of other Linux things that existed in Linux. I don't know the whole history on this so I could be very wrong.
The most obvious counterexample to this would be an arms race.
I've only run into that once personally. It was a major US business that I signed up with. It violated the CAN-SPAM law, so I marked it as spam.

I'm not sorry if I threw anyone's metrics off, they broke the law, they spammed me, it's on them.
> Also why doesn't balance mean "now you've earned an extra hour or two mid-day for yoga, 0 judgement"? I call it the "retail-worker mentality" when I point it out in friends.

A 28 hour workweek is fine if consistently applied. The daily 11am absence however, is likely treated with disdain because:

- doing mid-day yoga while I'm attending daily release engineering meetings to accommodate someone else's schedule slip is grating

- for some reason mid-day workouts are okay but leaving the office at 4pm isn't

Both of which is why it strikes many as slacking off.