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This logic would make sense in a competitive market. However, Google Play leans on monopolistic control of the platform. Not only that, but Google does use its monopoly to strong-arm manufacturers not to bundle competing services to the Play store.

Its essentially a tax on anyone doing commerce on the most installed computing platform on the planet, used by two billion people (not including China).
I agree that monopolies have to be broken up. I'd start with the government.
The google play subscription API is unbelievably buggy and generally terrible.

Apple's and Amazon's APIs have major flaws as well, but Google is on a whole different level.
You need root to get the same background update functionality in FDroid though. Otherwise you have to click install for each update.
Except we do need it. And without regulation we have network effects and bundling feeding into ever more centralization. Until these companies have resources equivalent to mid sized countries.

Regulations can also have thresholds so they don't crush small upstarts, yet do provide necessary controls for larger companies.
I feel like if people agreed with you, this wouldn't be news.

The link was added on the support webpage, which is viewed in the browser in the app.

Google's rules are shitty.
Probably. But just because you think they are expensive it's not okay to exploit their infrastructure "back", especially when you are, in fact, not paying anything.

I'm fully on your side with them being near monopolies and them being overly expensive. But there's no arguing that they have expenses and they need to make money.
I've seen some studies saying that hats with gyroscopes are effective, but they focused almost entirely on an exotic output device that worked via sensory substitution. What am I missing about "hat with gyroscopes and tiny servos that tap you on the side of the head in the direction that's down"? I assume that's the first thing that everyone would try but I haven't heard about it being a common medical device, so there must be something wrong with it.

Or is it the "deploy some additional stabilization" step that's missing? Can't think of a realistic way to do that, true. Anything solid enough and deployed quickly enough to be useful would be dangerous. Can't just beef up the cane, you'd have already tried that if it was useful.
Well I wanted to have the exchange info on my watch, which is the simplest answer. :P

https://www.banggood.com/LILYGO-TTGO-T-Watch-2020-ESP32-Main...

(I get no money if you click that btw -- it's just for reference)

The watch has some "trading features" even. If I see an interesting trade I can let it take the trade and finish it to "take profit", while I go and do something else. It has a touch UI and a 240x240 16bit colour screen -- so lots of possibilities there.
I was expecting the "Influence the sun so cosmic radiation flips the right bits on disk" -- "Emacs has a mode for that" one.
Implementing text and a form to POST is really simple - especially when you don’t have to style it, etc. Blind people don’t need flashy UI’s. They need text and HTML serves this well.
> interestingly they start slow (around 60 Mbps)

For many of us that's reasonably fast ;). In the UK, FTTC provided over POTS (often BT or some form of unbundle), the top end is 80Mbs/20Mbs.

I don't know what you'd expect with cable provisioned areas supplied by the likes of Virgin (DOCSIS).
I really wish next would just support multiple domains out of the box. I have two sites that share 99% of the same code but just need slightly different styles and endpoints.
I think it's my ethernet cables... just ordered cat6 we'll see!
That's only because there are no incentives to make libraries work (and keep working) wrt to accessibility.

So the courts provide the incentives.
Predictability in the short term has a definite business value in and of itself, regardless if it makes development slower - or perhaps, a value to management. Certainly the degree matters.
Oscilloscope Quake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMli33ornEU
I have high quality cookware, mostly stainless steel and cast iron. They're not the same brand or anything. I'm not prepared to spend hundreds of pounds experimenting with different types of pans. I highly doubt it would make a difference anyway. Can't wait to be back on gas.
That would actually be a really good solution
I like your idea because it's utopian, and I like the idea of striving for utopia, but in the real world therapists aren't gods and aren't mind readers and can't actually stop someone from killing other people, so it isn't really clear what the "success rate" of your solution might be.
In general patreon would effectively be providing and services outside the app (even if that service is ‘a warm and fuzzy feeling’). More so if you actually provide some reward via your patreon.

> Apps in this section cannot, either within the app or through communications sent to points of contact obtained from account registration within the app (like email or text), encourage users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
> The whole notion that patents are only legitimate if you build something is completely bogus. Either the patent system is about encouraging and rewarding innovation and then it should apply to anyone equally, or it is not and we should abolish it.

That's a sophism, it's not either theses possibilities.

For me patents protect someone building something innovative, to later on profit from what he builds. It's not to reward innovation, it's to protect your capacity to build that innovation and sell it. It's not how patent troll use it, thus I disagree with their use.

> but it is not ok for smaller inventors to sell their patents to some of these "trolls" who then sue the big companies for violating the patents?

Why would it be? How is that beneficial to innovation?

Nobody here said either that it was right to use the patent system to keep out any competitors or newcomers either... it's right to keep competitors out while you build it/sell it at first, but it's not right to use it purely to keep competitors out.
I read your entire comment. Be civil.
My take is this. Dogs are pack animals who defend threats to the group. Cats are colony animals who respond to threats to the zone.

I'm fairly sure both consider their owners to be one of their own species.
I got a 500 after the user creation page.
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Except that you are forced to use Google's services if you want to reach any audience on android (and Apple for iOS).

I would be sympathetic to Google if the Play Store was just one realistic choice of many, or if like FDroid it allowed you to create and use other sources of packages, but at the moment it's like saying "You can't use Chrome to visit a donation page without also giving Google a cut, you're using THEIR service after all to do so."
Yes, many of mine too.

Sometimes mixed in with their usual exercise I'll throw the toy (a piece of a padded envelope wrapped around a plastic straw) into some unexpected places and they seem to like the challenge of finding it. My one current cat that fetches will search for something for a few minutes even and carries it back every time.
The link you posted mentions anti maskers once, and only calls some of them antigovernment.

But yeah, your broader point is worth exploring. People coopting movements is definitely a thing. Should the original groups do more to exclude the (your words) crazies?
If you have a Mac, you should be able to use Voiceover: https://support.apple.com/guide/voiceover/welcome/mac
Products are chosen by 'the people' (consumers) too.
In the defense contracting (and much of government contracting) world the way things are paid out is on hitting milestones. Milestones are not, necessarily (in the best case they are), incremental releases that could possibly stand alone without much further development.

https://acqnotes.com/acqnote/acquisitions/milestone-overview

This is literally the way the US DoD has done acquisition for decades. In the early phases there are often (but not always) multiple R&D efforts which are evaluated later (in the aircraft world think about the various X aircraft that compete to become the next fighter). But once it's selected, it's very waterfall-esque from within the context of the program office which encourages (but does not mandate) a waterfall approach from whoever is doing the work as well. They do periodic check-ins, but they're basically waiting for the entire thing to be produced before it can be evaluated properly. The checkins are just smaller milestones, again not necessarily increments which could standalone if the project were to stop there.

And yes, US DoD does big bang testing at the end. They have test organizations which receive software/hardware systems (cyber-physical systems is a common phrasing for them) and evaluate them at the end of the development process. Ideally, of course, the development team is also doing testing. But even then, in software, they tend to do scattershot testing during development with one big bang test run at the end.
I think you might enjoy checking out BlockStudio (disclaimer, I created it):

https://www.blockstud.io
Guessing it's a metaphor indicating that a human hand can accomplish the offensive goals of a dog's mouth, and so can the human's mouth.
Going real wideband would run into antenna efficiency issues. Designing an antenna that can handle a massively large bandwidth has a hell of a lot of engineering trade offs involved.
I’m getting really tired of this simplistic “analysis”. At what point does a monopoly on the distribution infrastructure start harming consumers? Would you accept that your ISP tell you that you need to use their DNS instead of any other? Or their search engine instead of any other?

Why do we give Google/Apple the right to decide on donations? They developed the infrastructure? They have benefited from this. Why isn’t this being looked at similar to the patent system where innovators receive the benefits for early days work instead of a long-forever-their-right to dictate how the rest of us work?

You can’t even deploy native apps in any official capacity on iOS without Apple taking their cut. Did you know that the IAP for a youtube premium subscription is more expensive than if purchased directly from Google? So, not only is everyone forced to pay more because Apple wants their cut, but they aren’t even allowed to give information as to why this is the case.

_Really_ competitive and we’re all benefiting from this type of behaviour, I’m sure. /s

I just don’t see “they built the infrastructure so they should benefit” as being the end-all justification for why we should accept this.

I guess in support of it:

1. Why build it if they don’t stand to benefit.
2. Building it and having it be the only source of applications (case of Apple) centralizes application source. Better than needing to jump through 3 stores for your apps.

But.. against it..

1. I just want someone to be able to buy me a coffee. Why does Apple need any part of this and why do I need to jump through discretion hoops in the black of night to make it happen?

My 2c.
If you're able to sideload Fdroid, I think clicking to update ranks among the least difficult things you can do.
Mobile has a flat menu, but thanks for assuming?
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I just checked, if you already have .NET installed, the powershell package is about 20 MBs, which is… tolerable. However, I see that the latest version still starts very slowly compared to *nix shells (and also Python).

The shell was running from tmpfs (so basically a RAM disk). I have a decent processor and an NVMe SSD, and this is what I see (it was tested 10 times in a row to pull everything into the page cache properly, and the numbers are pretty stable):

$ time ./pwsh <<<"" >/dev/null

real 0m1.050s
user 0m1.464s
sys 0m0.067s

More than a second to execute an empty 'script', and even longer to get to the interactive prompt (which is harder to time properly so I'm not publishing any numbers).

It's even slower on an older Windows laptop which I have lying around (starts in about 3-4 seconds). Absolutely terrible for an interactive shell/script execution engine.

Just for comparison's sake, the same laptop can run an empty bash script in 2-3 milliseconds. This is very important when running build jobs, for example.
How is that the same logic? Are you on bath salts or something?
That’s exactly why I like using pure css when I can. Using JavaScript just to support aria tags is really backwards
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… or you used minutes with a decimal minute, or minutes and seconds, or maybe decimal degrees.

There comes a time when a format has so many confusable variants, it’s best to make a new unambiguous format.

I prefer “three words”. You get three words and they identify a location suitably accurate for navigation. https://what3words.com/
Ask HN: Good Stack for a Single File, Compiled to Binary, Web App?
I am looking for a good stack for a simple web app that I am planning to build as a side project. I would like to find an option that would allow me to build the app as a single binary that can run as a server, serve my app, and also run the API for it.

Basically think Transmission or Resilio Sync, both of which are written in C. I am pretty good with C, but would rather try something new while working on this side project.

My priorities are:

1. Small Compiled binary size. 5-20mb is reasonable, larger is NOT.

2. Dependency free binary, statically linked and self contained.

3. Low memory footprint.

4. Scalable to large number of clients.

I would love to work either in Swift or TypeScript, but those don't appear to be viable options. Please correct me if I am wrong, especially when it comes to Swift.

Go and Rust are my top contenders at the moment. Any other languages I should consider? Any specific stacks that you liked in the past?

PS: I am well aware of many ways to package JS code, Python code, etc, but those options are neither dependency free in practice or particularly size and memory efficient.
> So I've decided to move on to spamming the link across Twitter and Reddit instead.

How's that going? Isn't Twitter mostly bots retweeting other bots?
I am familiar with inform and zork (which auto-corrects to dork ;-) but not with how that is different than branching narrative software. How are they different or similar?
Is it actually less appealing? My understanding is that DBAs consider Oracle very good, just very (very) expensive. This also lines up with my experience tuning queries against Oracle vs Postgres backends. The folk wisdom seems, to me, to be Postgres is 99% as good in the common cases and 90-95% as good in the difficult cases.
One thing spacex seems to do better is “eye candy”. They’d make sure that copter would transmit high quality video of its flight... constraints be damned.

Eye candy is very important for getting the public excited about these missions. More public excitement == more money and easier recruiting.
> I’m sorry, I don’t see the difference here between them and say, Walmart?

The number of customers who patronize only Walmart for any given class of goods, and never use Amazon, Target, Costco, Dollar Tree, etc. is negligible. If Walmart won't carry your stuff, you can sell to the same customers through many other stores.

The number of customers who patronize only Google Play for mobile apps is a pretty good approximation for the number of Android users. There is no plausible alternative to sell to those customers. Amazon is a serious alternative to Walmart; Aptoide is not a serious alternative to Google Play.
Virgin provide up to 300 or 500 Mbps depending on area
> Angelou's poems come off as kitsch

For context, here's some sample "kitsch":

Some Kind of love, Some Say

is it true the ribs can tell
The kick of a beast from a
Lover’s fist? The bruised
Bones recorded well
The sudden shock, the
Hard impact. Then swollen lids,
Sorry eyes, spoke not
Of lost romance, but hurt.
Hate often is confused. Its
Limits are in zones beyond itself. And
Sadists will not learn that
Love, by nature, exacts a pain
Unequalled on the rack.

> But that's not the definition of literature.

Sounds like "literature" is ripe for disruption, if the gatekeepers of "literature" are determined to keep people like Maya Angelou out of it.
I hate Google, but.. you bought the phone, did you not?

Like, i get that the market sucks for people who care about this stuff, but i avoid Google because their practices bother me. Are their store practices any different then? Should i not simply avoid purchasing their phones (and phones based on their OS) if i dislike it?

I think there's a huge difference between, say, residential ISPs where you can not realistically find a better ISP - vs phones. There are _lots_ of phones, many of them without any storefronts at all, problem solved. You're not forced to buy Google phones, so what is the regulation needed here?

I'm generally very pro-regulation/government, but this feels so optional that i don't get what the expected outcome is. No more closed ecosystems? Playstation has to allow arbitrary storefronts in their system?

edit: Another way to look at this is that the storefront isn't the problem. You're using their infra, they have a right to make you pay. However when they don't allow you to install your own apps outside of their storefront, that is the real problem. Of course you need to pay for hosting, why do you expect it free? But your phone is your own, so you should be able to avoid their hosting entirely, should you choose.
The real issue is how has this level of employee abuse take place since slavery was abolished.

Union organizing can't fix what govt doesn't want to happen. The govt should be enforcing the monopoly laws on the books to beat Amazon down and break it up.

Unionizing is a half to properly breaking Amazon up and forcing it to pay taxes and stop shipping in counterfeit goods.
I'm working on driver assistance stuff. In terms of raw functionality the software is not that complex. The complexity comes from other aspects: Safety-critical, hardware-software-codesign, commercial, resource constrained. Then, of course, organizational disfunction creates accidental complexity as it does everywhere. All of that together, and a software developer barely achieves a thousand lines of code per year.
And that wasnt a good enough argument for microsoft bundling internet explorer and they got the anti-trust hammer on their asses.
What if a business is in a city and the building is old? The number of stores downtown with a single step is surprisingly high.

What are the rules on building the ramp on a public sidewalk?

The roadblock isn't always maintenance, it's doing the work up front to avoid that step being a problem later.
There are some spaces where websites are already mandated to be accessible via other regulations. Like airline websites...they are mandated via the Air Carrier Accessibility Act. You could look into how that progression went to see what a broader regulation would do. Though I suppose it wouldn't give much of a view into smaller businesses.
Soul killing doesn't count.
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It's a meme about the case Dodge vs Ford Motor, but all that case said was you can't actively screw your shareholders. Henry Ford had a cash surplus and was deliberately trying to avoid paying dividends to the Dodge brothers.
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328 million/7.9 billion ~= 4.15%

The poorest Americans are definitely much poorer than the poorest western europeans [1]. Western Europe has 196 million people (about 2.4% of the world population) [2].

I'd estimate that 10% of the world population (790 million people) has a comfortable modern middle class life. It's just an intuition. Northen Europe as 106 million people.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/western-europ....
yes, but there are also things done because "they have always been done this way." That's also a dangerous pattern imo.
Not just electric motors but cheap, high quality flight controllers. That and kickass batteries.
I’ve been amazed by how playful and responsive some cats are on YouTube. I noticed one thing common in all these videos, or streams also on Twitch : you can see that these cats receive attention and are loved very much, they are treated with respect and get lots of interaction.
Primarily, yes, although there are journals that (additionally) ask for other publication fees, like page charges, or for imagery. But yes, primarily "Article Processing Charges".

Although that said, with some more layers of indirection, the same holds true for subscription fees: libraries have to keep paying those, because authors keep letting publishers lock away their research outputs behind paywalls, because they get reputation in return. And those subscription fees are equally outrageous.
Regulatory capture can happen, but it is by no means so inevitable or incorrigible that regulation should not be attempted.
I failed to find a single a single paragraph in this article that does not contain some misconception that renders it misleading to a beginner. It's impressive really.
Even the Canadian government has cancelled the Proud Boys. Imagine being banned from a country, being judged under the suspicion of terrorism.
You missed the critical part of my message: the only way to wake app in the background is via push notifications, currently fully controlled by Apple / Google on their respective platform. The User should be able to use an alternative source of push notifications.

You will think differently when Apple/Google will remove the app you need from AppStore, because your government told them so, and you'll be out in the cold, with no backup and a useless device, which you paid for, but you don't really own, using only those apps which you are allowed to run. But your lack of imagination does not allow you to foresee that before it happens.
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I don't know if they would. I said it would be worth it even if they did.
Replace lazy with the word good and I agree with everything in this post.
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Maybe a paralysed human.. really?

While I'd never want to try it a swift punt would end a cat attack surely
This is the weirdest comment I’ve ever read on HN!
Any examples of that where the product isn't commodity-grade? The AmazonBasics examples I see are things like household appliances, cables, cheap accessories, lightbulbs and batteries. If you're a small-to-medium sized business in the West, you should try to target market segments where the quality, branding and support of the product matters, as obviously you will lose in a race-to-the-bottom of undifferentiated low-quality commodities.

Look at how Raspberry Pi still manages to maintain a huge market presence despite the prevalence of cheap Chinese clones - even if the latter occasionally have superior specs on-paper, in practice I have yet to find one that isn't vastly inferior in terms of ecosystem and software.
Some, if not all, IEEE journals (which are generally very reputable) have a publishing fee, separate from the open access fee. Surcharges apply for exceeding page limits and for color figures in the printed journal.

The basic fee can be waived if the authors are unable to afford it, under some conditions.
If only 3 words wasn't a proprietary black box, which demands that you use their service / api and that you are not allowed to reproduce it without their assent. Plus there's a bunch of other drawbacks to w3w if you just search a bit online.

At least the algorithm for plus codes is known and can be reused even if Google decides to drop it in the future.