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Honestly I don’t think the 30% is that bad compared to setting up and managing payment processing yourself. What is difficult for small creators, though, is that Apple owns the customer relationship, not them. Because of the payment processing restrictions creators are unable to do things like offer discount codes or tiered subscription plans for specific kinds of users. It all has to go through what Apple is willing to enable.

This is most stark with their recent announcement of supporting paid podcasts. Particularly because of the anonymization around sign-in with Apple, the podcaster doesn’t actually get to know who their subscribers are. Want to have special rewards or a subscriber only discord channel or forum? Too bad! If any of your biggest fans first started donating through Apple Podcasts you’ve got a big hassle in the way of verifying who they are. Got a weird customer service problem that you’d like to address with a personal touch or maybe offer some store credit or a special reward to make up for it? Once again, too bad. There is no capability to do that.
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Today, the CCP thinks of us as decadent and divided, thanks to BLM and antifa.)

They're symptoms so obvious that even we can see them. I suspect that the CCP was well aware of the divisions without needing to have it pointed out to them by BLM and Antifa.
Some folks were keen to hear about the 1.11 release of CodeStasis when I mentioned it on HN a few weeks ago[0].

It's finally ready to see the light of day. I hope many of you find it useful.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26710280
Nano, it's been so long since the last time I have used it. I have so many fond memories of opening it to edit configuration fileson bare TTYs while installing Gentoo or Archlinux in the mid '00s. A few years later I switched to (N)Vi(m) (with quite a long Emacs parenthesis), but `nano` still has a special place in my heart as my first real experience with a CLI editor (if you exclude MSDOS' EDIT, of course).
It's not. I ended up putting thousands of hours into Fortnite on iOS too (so glad it got pulled - that stopped me playing!)

Playing on the table is one way - but it hurt my neck too much. I preferred the "claw grip" on my phone while laying on the couch - though I could only comfortably do 3 fingers. Some of the best mobile players do 6!
Epic can just offer their app in both Apple's store and its own store. It's just that Apple store prices will be higher according to Apple's commissions. If you like convenience of only using Apple's payment services, who's stopping you from buying it in App Store with higher prices?

If Apple rejects the app from being available in its store, then again that doesn't affect you because you want to use only Apple approved apps anyway.
Don't mean to hate on Nano, but after all these years gaining inordinate vim muscle memory, an unexpected `VISUAL=/usr/bin/nano` default feels to me like a vim prompt must feel to a newbie.
Why not give consumers the choice to shop at whatever store they want?
Ted Bundy claimed in his final interview extremely violent pornography desensitized him and made him start looking for stronger stimulation. I’m not sure how much you can trust his claims though.
Here's open access to the full study: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2498174
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> But saying that Newton's second law is a Neural Network, while correct, seems a bit deceptive in that it's not a deep idea at all.

I guess the point is that neither is the idea of a Neural Network.
Fairy tales in good faith and with positive intent are always welcome.
Yep. Show me an org with a software group that is a part of IT, subject to IT bureaucracy, and I'll show you a software group that delivers software no one wants once a quarter (or something equally as ludicrous).

Maybe a 'one true Scotsman' argument, but every 'software group' that was a part of IT that I've seen might as well be called the 'personal project group', because they spent more time working on those than they did making progress in that environment.
I don't want to go back. Commuting is a massive waste of time. Assuming 261 workdays in a year, I will save 783 hours a year. I get over a month of my life back. I can run errands whenever I choose and work whenever is convenient. I can help care for my children. It's a no-brainer for me.
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The FCC's listing of multiple broadband providers requires you to read between the lines. For my address they list 5 providers. AT&T is on there twice, there's a cable company, and then Viasat and Hughesnet. Given that Viasat and Hughesnet exist for pretty much the entire contiguous US it makes it super easy to say there's at least two providers serving your area, so the whole 99% of people are served by at least two providers is kind of a worthless statement. Given the high latency involved in their flavor of satellite operations, low data caps (or throttling, technically Viasat says its not a cap) they're not really competitive in just about any market with modern wireline services.

So in reality I have a choice of two wired providers. Imagine how great our food would be if the only restaurants available were either Burger King or McDonalds. What a competitive marketplace!
WFH in a small flat and a child is much harder than the office. The commute provides time for podcasts, music and gradual transfer from work to family.
Rule of thumb when reading Google papers: if you start now and copy it perfectly, you'll still be at least ten years behind. With few exceptions they don't publish "industry-enabling" papers.
I don't want to go back. I feel more productive being a digital nomad, staying in a different city every month, meeting different people, eating different food, in different climates.

I stay in the best neighbourhoods around the world, walk to coworking spaces, eat out almost every meal and still spend considerably less than what I did in Sydney.
Goodness gracious. Your rhetoric is reminiscent of 2003 when the US portrayed Saddam and Iraq as being beyond reason, and that the West HAD to attack lest Western civilization be toppled.

>..nukes against the US if the Three Gorges Dam is attacked.

I'm not sure this statement paints the CCP as the villain you imagine it does. No country with options is going to stand by while the largest hydropower dam in the world is attacked, and possibly millions of their citizens are killed due to flooding and famine.
I remember when leaving politics and religion at home was just considered basic good manners.

It's disappointing it needs to be specifically spelled out, but I'm glad some companies are taking that step.
My company is rumored to bring us back soon. I've got my 2 weeks notice written and am actively interviewing for 100% remote positions. This pandemic has made me realize how much of my life I have thrown away to commuting over the past 10 years. I have no plans to return to an office.
I wanted to go back to the office up until a few months ago, but then I escaped from lockdown countries and have now actually re-established a proper social life.

The interesting effect of this has been that said social life, which in pre-lockdown days involved many people from work, is now 100% happening with friends from other contexts.

This has made my work relatively less relevant in my life than it used to be: It's no longer a part of my identity, it's no longer a driver for socialisation, it's just a thing I do for some hours during the day. A change in environment has also meant that instead of spending my evenings at tech meetups or pubs I'm instead out scuba diving, working out and so on.

Overall I don't feel like returning to what used to be normal and have pointed this out at work. One response I got was "maybe that feeling is why they want you to come back", but the threshold for where that would've worked on me was crossed months ago.
I try and stick to 25 min focused work, 5 min of whatever, repeat.
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Or ideally keep 21.4% and include the 95% CI. There’s nothing misleading about the extra precision when the CI is included.
I have more focussed time; more control of my own life; more time with my kids; less time wasted in meetings and drive-by chats from project managers; no-one glances at the clock if I need to leave early - nor do I feel the need for theater when I have to work until late; I enjoy cooking much more (and can put a stew or the oven on, then get back to work); I've saved incredible amounts of money that were otherwise apparently spent on my day-to-day life in the city-center; I no longer waste an hour each day getting to and from the office; and I've lost lots of weight getting up early in the morning and taking a brisk walk outwards in the forest, listening to birdsong and being aware of the changing seasons, instead of inwards with car exhausts and scooters riding the pavements.

REALLY hoping we're not forced back to the office at my company - along with 75% of the other developers at my place (we did a Slack poll).
Stated otherwise,

If there was an overtake -during- the moment of the photo finish then one bicycle would eclipse the other. The overtaken cycle would be entirely longer than the overtaking bicycle.

Line judges go for wheel contact, so for an overtaking to count, the -front wheel- of the overtaking rider would have to be fully within the front wheel of the other.
It's actually a bit of both - You can browse pretty well all the same content on the Microsoft Store, however there is an Xbox app for Windows that operates similarly to the store, and only offers games (as well as access to GamePass, which is also available for Windows as well as Xbox).

IMO though it's a shame we still need the separate "Xbox Accessories" app to update controllers and change their functionality when there's a dedicated Xbox app, that and the strange interoperability between it and the EA Desktop program for EA Play titles. Otherwise, I have to say the it's really well-built and serves its purpose pretty well to the point I find myself going to it more often than Steam for games I own (or subscribe to).
I'm in upstate NY. I've lost track of the number of times I've heard folks complain that there is Verizon fiber a few hundred feet away but when you inquire about getting it to your home, Verizon is just like, "mmm, nah." This is where municipal intervention is most necessary - last mile, nay, last quarter mile.
I'm 100% remote these days and would 200% prefer to stay that way. Maybe commute once a week to an office, but generally I do not want to do so every day, ever again.

That said, I do have the huge advantage of having an entire room for my home office.
You are ignoring the world of products that Apple prevents using their control over the App Store, which they absolutely do use to exclude or hobble competitors and stifle controversy (such as how they have pulled multiple apps that were commentary about smartphones being made in sweatshops). Apple is already past the "live long enough to become the villain" half of "you either die a hero or". The anticompetitive effects of having a duopoly--both of whom being interested in complete vertical integration--in control over all software distribution is devastating, and it isn't just some improbable/vague second order effect (which is also a ridiculous assertion even for price improvements: there are tons of products that are having to charge more only because of Apple... mine is one of them! it really depends on the app's sales mechanism whether 30% is fair or not, and this is coming from someone who has run a successful competitor to Apple on their own platform, despite the users having to be rabid for it due to how many hurdles they had to jump... before Apple finally "won" :/).
>reselling the same cheap goods as everyone else and charging more simply for having their name on it

I've always seen this as slightly shady even if it is considered a valid business model.

It's often unclear if consumers are fooled about the true quality of goods, whether they are Veblen goods.

If it's a Veblen good or if they genuinely do value the brand name alone then I guess it's fine but it's not too exactly ethical to fool consumers about the quality of your products or what the brand actually represents (which is what consumers always say they value about brands - not the name itself).

I'm likewise not very sympathetic to the idea that these brands deserve government protection from knock offs. If consumers genuinely aren't bothered about whether their Nike shirt is "real" why does the government need to be?
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Given the OP is asking for opinions on said issue, this seems incredibly normal?

What would be the point of a thread where only people with an opinion/preference on one side post they all feel the same way? The point is to get a discussion and understand where everyone stands and why, at least it seems to me.
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> Neural networks are universal function approximators,

Do we have tight error bounds proofs for neural networks as approximators ?
For starters, go search Twitter for 'George Floyd' - it's hard to find threads that /don't/ make it about racism to some degree or another. But even a cursory search on other sides yields oodles of results; here's some from just the first page or two of hits:

"Racism killed George Floyd" - https://www.americantheatre.org/2021/04/15/day-after-day-rac...
"George Floyd murder exposes rotten racism in the US" - https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1190140.shtml
https://coloradohealth.org/insights/good-health/racism-publi...
https://www.amestrib.com/story/opinion/2021/04/01/opinion-ge...

There's pages and pages of this stuff. And beyond that there's layers of not-explicit-but-not-subtle positioning of incidents - if a cop (of any color) shoots a white person, it's a police shooting and usually doesn't go much further than the local news. If a cop (of any color) shoots a black person, it's national news and the victim's race is mentioned constantly. If racism is not being implied, what is the relevance of his race?
It’s human nature to exert the least effort possible to obtain resources. Over time, employees will find more ways to slack from home while looking productive.

Corporations will make decisions based on what maximizes productivity.

I don’t think remote work will persist to the extent people believe.

There are exceptions to the first rule - when an employee is especially motivated. Even then, they’re one bad managerial decision away from checking out.

I’m aware of studies that support boost in productivity over covid, but I believe this is bc there are fewer distracting things to do during covid than normal.
>Poisoning a few watersheds in Asia for lithium and cobalt is far preferable to continued oil and coal extraction.

Seems very cynical and reductive..."a few watersheds"...
if one was to replace the ravenous need of workers for privacy in new electric cars...seems like a lot of lithium...
here's hoping for fast development of solid state batteries...

but also, isn't it often a case of cost as in how cheap corporations can bilk poorer countries and their political class of important resources...?
higher prices/legislation could be a way to force innovation to develop alternative extraction methods...geothermal extraction https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/geothermal-lithium-its-extrac...
Cercle channel on YouTube puts out some great techno shows. They go to historical places and record a set with some of the best djs
Here is the link for Pan-Pot set
https://youtu.be/hENgrbIMiy4
I also miss my Pebble classic in many ways, including the vibration alarm!

As of right now I usually don't use an alarm to wake up. I just wake up. Or I use a standard audio alarm on the phone. But I guess that's kind of a cop-out answer?

The vibration alarm was nice, not a must-have considering I had to wear something around my wrist when I slept: not as comfortable as not doing that.

I disagree with you about the concept of smartwatches that should be "thin terminals." The things I don't miss about my Pebble classic involve how basic it was.

I can totally understand someone wanting much more of a basic device with time, fitness tracking, basic notifications, long battery life, and that's about it. However, I think that in the scope of what is marketable to the general public, it's a more of a niche.

I think that most people:

1. Don't actually want to sleep with any jewelry (watches) on.

2. Aren't deep into fitness tracking beyond the basics, i.e. they wouldn't sleep with jewelry on just to get sleep tracking. For most people fitness tracking means a few graphs and figures that make them feel good about themselves for getting on a treadmill for 20 minutes.

3. Choose their watch based on the fact that it's a piece of jewelry. In my mind, Apple gained a lot of early traction (and high-margin revenue) by focusing on the fashion part of it with the way the bands are easily changeable.

Pebble wouldn't have folded if they had considered how high-margin the jewelry business usually is. The original Pebble should have been designed with replaceable bands like the Apple Watch. They shouldn't have said "oh hey these are standard sized bands, just buy your own!" They just surrendered revenue right out the gate!

4. Want something that's more of a general purpose extension of their smartphone.

In the long term, I don't see a huge amount of reason why smartwatches can't entirely replace the smartphone, at least for the people who aren't interested in content consumption, or to give people flexibility to leave their phone at home for evenings out or other situations.

Apple Watch does do sleep tracking. I've heard reports from people of success with just charging the Apple Watch while they're in the shower or getting ready every day. If you take something like 30 minutes to get ready you'll never need to charge the watch at night.
In a similar vein there is also Hitman Go and Deus Ex Go.

I'm also a fan of Slay the Spire, mostly playing it on PC and Switch. But I triple dipped for the Android version, which has a little bit of clunkiness with the UI but the underlying game is there.

Great games, all of them.
That's pretty dismissive. I used nano early on and moved to vim and loved it. I think other people might have a similar experience as me so I encourage them to try vim or emacs if they're up for it. I'm not trying to justify my time in vim, I'm trying to encourage people to see if they might appreciate the tool as much as I do.
Since you seem to know about this stuff:

* It seemed to me from that same documentary that pretty much all writing systems appeared independently from spoken language: In a sense, written and spoken appeared independently, and then the Rébus principle, and then this "acrophonic principle" made the writing system, and thus "language", sort of subdued to the spoken language. Is that true? It would intuitively seem to me that a written language is easier to organize into clean rules and principles, contrasted to a spoken language. Did "putting things in writing" help formalize such languages, or did it have no impact?

* Any good reference on these questions?

Thanks!
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Casbin is another that’s pretty interesting I’ve been evaluating alongside Ory’s

https://casbin.org/
Worse than SAP?
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I was in a conversation with some professional runners. A hobbyist in the same club asked, "when does it stop hurting?" They laughed and said, "It never stops. It's about how much you can make the other guy hurt."

Cycling races are much the same with a team dynamic included. It's a matter of choosing between setting a pace that a sprint finisher can't follow over a long period, or sheltering a sprinter from the wind so he can put in maximal effort at the end of the race. There are all sorts of variations based on strength of team, weather, terrain, luck, politics between teams, race goals, etc...
Yeah I mean we have these requirements for banks. They seem to work pretty well for preventing bank system usage in ransomware. So, at least at a glance, I think something in this direction would work.

The war on drugs is bad because it doesn't work, and because drugs cause less harm than fighting them does. It's not an apt comparison to the situation we're talking about.
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I have recently looked at a similar context but using Ory Keto. I've written about it here: https://gruchalski.com/posts/2021-04-11-looking-at-zanzibar-....

Evaluated scenario was: a company employs a director and IT staff, the director contracts a consultant, the IT staff subscribes to external services. Find out what the company pays for directly and indirectly.

The new Keto 0.6 works very nice.
Yeah I'm just saying it was far more mainstream than is intimated. "Charts" have always been a marketing tool, it's questionable to me from the 80s on how much they reflect what people were actually listening to.

The point is that mass consumption of dance music was a huge thing in North America.

I mean it's funny. In the early 90s I went to visit my extended family in Germany. At that point I was already a major techno fan, but the funny thing is that when I went to Europe all my cousins, the music they listened to was mostly American R&B and hip-hop. Watching overdubbed episodes of Family Matters. Huge consumers of a side of North American culture that I did not. So to me the demographic situation is more complicated.

I think many Europeans on this thread might have a biased perception of what music consumption in the 90s in North America looked like based more on North American exports than on what was actually happening here. That and most people here are quite young.
It's also somewhat risky to focus your whole career on learning a product that a single company makes. In 10 or 20 years, it may be depreciated.

There are plenty of Crystal Reports professionals who found that their skills didn't transfer as the software declined.
Hopefully they talk about NGDP targeting
So you are saying that App store provides so little value to developers that nobody will want to use it unless they are forced to do so? Maybe once Apple faces competition, they will have to improve their store and attract developers by offering a better experience?
oh! I just did the onboarding again and I just realized that the yearly maintenances were in %! I had set it to a few thousand percents thinking it was $!

That's why the value of my home was making me broke...
Mostly from old women playing candy crush and casino games.