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So Apple's ecosystem does two things:

1. it gatekeeps what's in the App Store. This is of course controversial but is a net positive for consumers (IMHO); and

2. It provides a convenient payments infrastructure.

I certainly hope no government forces Apple to allow third-party App stores. Just look at what a mess this is on the PC where there are a million launchers (eg Steam, Epic, Ubisoft, Rockstar) and nearly all of them are terrible.

(2) also has value, even for big companies. There are definitely people who buy things (including subscriptions) on Apple devices because of the ease of doing so. Remember that cut also does include credit card processing fees so that sets the floor at 1-2% not 0%. That's still a lot less than 30% of course. And I think this is particularly egregious for recurring charges like Spotify in this case.

This is why I was utterly confused by Apple's move last year to lower the cut for small developers only. This is the complete reverse of what they should do. It's clear that the winds are blowing towards government intervention here so Apple should be looking to control the narrative and deciding what compromise looks like.

If Apple had come out and said that if you process more than $10m/year then their cut was 10% of initial purchases and 5% of recurring charges do you honestly think that Spotify or Epic or anyone else would be suing them or seeking government intervention to anywhere the same degree?

Apple (and Google) are just holding on too tight to the 30% cut and they're not reading the (antitrust) room.
> Well, R isn’t the best language when it comes to building systems. Most R code is essentially one file written to produce an output once (for a paper, project, etc.). This means that people want a better language to build systems which Python fit. That explains why people moved to Jupiter.

I definitely agree that Python is a better general purpose computing language than R, but R's deployment story (i.e. packages) is much, much better than that of Python (pip/poetry/pipenv/conda/whatever came out this week). I honestly don't think that's the reason though, it's more that Python has much, much, much better developer mindshare.

Jupyter is a whole other world though, like iPython was the best thing ever as a proper REPL for python, and Jupyter was good for being able to do graphics with your code. That was all standard in the R world, with Sweave (which I wrote my thesis in), so it didn't appear to add a lot of value (to me, at least).

> I don’t like RStudio for the same reason I don’t like Matlab. I already have my editor and terminal workflow. I don’t want to use/learn a new tool for the privilege to use the language.

I am 100% with you on this, but Rstudio is just a nicer interface over the tools for literate programming in R, and the wonderfulness of Rmd vs ipynb is a thing of joy (to me, at least).

> Mainly, running cells out of order is just an incredibly dumb thing to be possible. This same problem is present in RStudio which you seem to enjoy (highlight and REPL) and you want it in other languages. If the code isn’t written to run in an order, a tool shouldn’t allow it.

So, this is a tricky one. I agree in principle, and I have a habit of continually re-running my documents to ensure that this doesn't cause problems, but there is definitely valid use-cases for out of order execution. Consider that you may often fit a model (which can take ages) and iterate on the visualisation/analysis code, but you don't want to re-run the modelling code every time you change a plot, which your solution would require.

Most of the tools claim to allow you to cache particular blocks, but I've never been able to get it to work reliably.
You know what? The funny thing is that all of FAANG has their international HQs in the EU (Dublin, Ireland) for tax evasion purposes. I’d argue they are more reliant on the EU then.
Isn’t discriminating by age okay in insurance policies?

Life insurance is higher for older people. Drivers insurance is higher for younger people as well as for men, no?

So it seems there are exceptions.
> largely invented by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman

That doesn't seem correct. I'm led to believe that trickle down economics (the concept, if not the name) existed before Milton Friedman was born after looking through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics.
Possible [Topic] Dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26987097
This, make sure you take the time to review what's in the agreement. I've been in this situation very recently and got an agreement on the spot that looked good and was tempted to sign right away, partly due to all the emotions that were there for me, it is an emotional event. But I took it home and allowed time for my rationale brain to think it through and realised I wasn't getting some things I was entitled to, due to an admin error (I genuinely believe it was a plain error).

So take it home let the emotions fade and think it through.
That sounds like something maybe 0.1% of credit card issuers actually do.
Is not about the percentage, are you aware that you can't even mention you can buy a subscription from the website in the iOS application? Apple does not allow alternative app stores and is actively blocking you to inform of alternative methods of payment.
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You can do that in LiveView just as easily. Remove the item client side, then pushEvent to the server to handle the deletion. In case of any errors, notify the user, refresh the state .etc

pushEvent, pushEventTo (from client to server) [0]

push_event (from server to client) [1]

[0] https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/js-interop.html#client-...

[1] https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/Phoenix.LiveView.html#p...
Sure. Users don't even know it would be possible, and don't care about the tech anyway. What they care about however is how much they pay for apps, how much they pay for in-app purchases, and being able to switch freely from one platform to another.

Well, Apple's behaviour is impacting all this by forcing companies to develop native apps instead of web apps. Web apps (could) work anywhere, and cost a fraction of the cost of native apps.
Companies are legal fiction created to enable eco omic growth. Why should we inagine they deserve liberties like people do? Why should companies that enable economic decline be allowed to operate?
Car: fully paid, but still 1500 €/year for insurance, 500 €/year in taxes and ~2500 €/year for gas. But I love it, it's a necessity to go to work, but also a pleasure to drive.

Electricity: 85 €/month

Internet access: 27.5 €/month
Apple doesnt need to charge any fee (like how macs and pcs never charged a fee to install apps), they get enough benefits from the millions of apps that enrich their platforms, that they otherwise wouldn't ever build themselves.

This whole perverse 'ecosystem' exists because of the skewed oligopoly dynamics of mobile phones.
Porn tends to involve, at the business end, people who are comfortable exploiting others. They tend to be assholes who don't pay their bills and chisel at everything around them. Not all, certainly, but enough that the whole category of business should be asked to pay up front.
I hope that all market makers that compete in their own market get more scrutiny after that.
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I created this pomodoro timer because I needed a Pomodoro timer that increments (keeps track) on any time I've spent on a pomodoro. A lot of tools out there just track the time ONLY if you finished the Pomodoro round. So yea, it's free, comes with charts and customizable settings for your enjoyment. Enjoy.
A moral person (like most of us) was forced to make decision early - the unambiguously woeful options in front of him left no room for doubting that he was part of the problem.

"But there is a large difference between telling yourself a story and believing it. Ultimately, the core reason I stayed silent wasn’t altruistic, but selfish."

This is 99.999% of us. And its also the reason that we (as a social group) are going to hell in a handbasket. While we have some innate moral inclinations, the system is such that we have to turn ourselves inside out and find justifications for the unjustifiable so we take our salary and enjoy our lifestyles. We fully capitulate to what we know is wrong. Cos what its all about right is that you've got to get yours!

"The conscience is a pesky thing. It was no consolation that I had gotten the moral calculus to work out in my favor."

"I wasn’t sure at the time, but having had enough free time of late to ponder such questions, I think I’ve come to the conclusion that having a father who can pay for a top-notch education outweighs the disadvantage of being raised by a hypocrite. Sticking with the job for the sake of a paycheck passes the children test."

At least this chap is honest enough to admit it. Better to sell out your principles for a paycheck. A hypocritical sellout that can pay for his kids private education and pass on this shitty stick to the next generation - that's fine! But a moral parent who (understandably) isn't rewarded by the system - that's a problem!

Seriously - if this life is an opportunity to pass a test (and its not a monetary test, IMO!), I wouldn't want to be in his shoes. He will be re-sitting this experience. I'm no Christian, but this is apropos:

"What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?" Mark 8:36

The jobs, the money, the education - these are all traps. They will kill your connection to your spirit in your own lifetime, as you already know. You will not develop into what you are meant to be, but you will be harnessed to serve those you think are the most immoral. You will not find the 'moral' answers outside in a society that has been bent to pervert our innate joy in simple existence.

There is only one way to enliven one's life. Look inside, act in truth and follow one's heart. Its a narrow path! But the first step can be taken right away.
I think the problem is with 'internally'. As I understand it, the antitrust regulations could force Apple to spin Apple Music out.
So if I choose not to advertise a credit product during NBA games which have a high black audience, but advertise during soccer games high white viewership, is that discrimination?

I think you certainly correct if someone applies directly excluding them on race is not only violation of law, but a jerk move. This seems more like it has to do with intention than actual execution.
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Try putting this in a file with a `.css` extension:

* {
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased !important;
}

and setting it as a custom "Style sheet" in Safari's Preferences (in the "Advanced" tab).

But see also: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/
Because Apple silicon is not for sale? (unless you think buying 3k laptops so you can harvest their CPU is some kind of sane business model)

There are plenty of things you could use such processor in.

Unless Apple decides and starts selling it's own silicon, their performance doesn't matter at all to people who need to source CPU to build whatever they are building.

You can't ship "but in benchmarks it beats competition"
But is tied to R, which maybe isn't the right approach.

Personally I love org mode, but we'd need a jupyter plugin to convert ipynb to org and back to make it work.
Even when not perfectly matched, the flu vaccine does offer some protection.
> Says who exactly? Where do you see that competition is beneficial?

Consider just one example: competition in the labor market.

Businesses need to hire competent people that have the skills required for the job, otherwise they won't be able to function.

That means pitting candidates against each other in a form of competition and sorting them during the interview process, in order to find who are the best at what you're hiring for.

Without this one example of competition and sorting, hiring good people would be a roll of the dice and I'd even say that our whole economy wouldn't be able to function.

There's countless other similar examples throughout the economy where competition and sorting are necessary, but I think that one example should suffice.

> What kind of prosperity, and for who?

Everyone is better off with it, because without it we'd all be in desperate poverty, since the economy wouldn't function.
it might just end in them not being allowed to reject apps for advertising alternate payment methods
Yeah I’m aware of those things. The EU should ban those things as well. Like I mentioned I’d like to see no percentage fees and all platforms open.
Keyboard Quantizer makes any USB keyboard to support QMK by proxying USB. It won't support all QMK feature/key combination due to the architecture. Probably you can import it from Japan.

https://shop.yushakobo.jp/products/keyboard-quantizer
Link appears to 404, https://www.keycaps.info/ works though.

MT3 can only be had from Drop.

https://matt3o.com/about-mt3-profile-and-devtty-set

Edit: might as well also mention https://keycaplendar.firebaseapp.com for tracking most regular Group Buy dates
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Any loses will be reported, it's just that when a ship gets into bad enough weather to lose one or two containers, it's very unlikely that's all they'll lose, and the higher they stack the crates, the less swaying that has to happen to have containers start falling off.
That would be great if stores weren't pushing so much for 'exclusives'.

I fear that the endgame of multiple App stores is that the guarantee Apple gives (for instance with the privacy labels) will be sidestepped by businesses like Facebook who will force people through their own store without them.

Seeing how many people don't read the small print and just install everything available to them that's the most probable outcome.
I use my own not-yet-ready-for-release app called Noteworthy [1], but here is a list of some of the roamlikes I find most inspiring:

> Athens Research -- free and open source roam competitor made by someone who failed an interview for a job at roam :) -- https://github.com/athensresearch/athens

> Obsidian -- free but non-open wikilink system based on Markdown files -- https://obsidian.md/

> Foam -- Markdown-based knowledge management system based entirely around VS Code extensions -- https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

> Neuron/Cerveau -- Markdown-based Zettelkasten and static site generator written in Haskell -- https://neuron.zettel.page/

Some other honorable mentions that I can't be bothered to dig up links for: Madoko, RemNote, Notion, TiddlyWiki, Cerveau, Zettlr, Notable

[1] https://github.com/benrbray/noteworthy
10G Ethernet is cheap enough that I made a "mini backbone" using a CRS305-1G-4S+IN and threw my NAS and main desktop on it. It's nice.
How do you propose they do that?

They can't exactly send a boat round to salvage several hundre feu's at 5 miles depth. I imagine it would need coordination from a large number of highly specialized submersibles, mother boats and logistic support to even attempt salvaging one container.

(edit: i just saw another comment which said containers float. but still, imagine a huge ship with a gigantic claw crane, powering along, chasing dozens of container bobbing along, adrift in the ocean. Not happening.)
That's just a restatement of the original problem. Inheritance just is "is a" and composition just is "has a", so if a person doesn't understand why someone would find inheritance more intuititve than composition, they wouldn't understand why a person finds "is a" more intuitive than "has a".
They bought out the name rights 8 years after iTunes launched.

That payment was $500 million, but they were printing money from iPod+iTunes at that point (revenues of $9.5 billion in 2006, $10.5 billion in 2007). I'd call it an ongoing headache more than a minefield.
Apple could just stop offering own apps. Utility companies are often regulated similarly - in many countries you can be either an energy producer or grid, not both.
I've experienced the same thing. All my fancy regular mechboards are sitting on the shelf while I daily drive electro-capacitive switches.

Epomaker makes a more affordable but equally as great Topre clone, compatible with MX keycaps: https://epomaker.com/collections/niz - I have one and got nothing but good things to say.
> Don't sign anything; say you'll take home whatever documents they give you to review

And get an employment lawyer to review the documents. This happened to me a few years ago and had it not been for the lawyer spotting a mistake I'd have missed out on thousands of pounds in my payoff. It was well worth the 60 minutes of their time.
It's all fine until you start needing multiple language package managers, each with their own C/C++ dependencies, and then it gets a lot trickier.

I mean, I know how to handle it, but it's pretty depressing that I need to do it, when in the past one could rely on relatively recent versions of everything existing with a system package manager.

I always need C/C++/Java dependencies in DS, so maybe I just feel the pain points more.
In my experience supporting anti-procrastination software, the number 1 risk is the user will mess up configuring the time.

You know, aiming to lock for a day but accidentally locking for a year and a day.
Vendoring all your third party dependencies is fine, but you still have to build them.

Personally I use the native build system that upstream uses for most of them, and just hack in my compiler flags/options where necessary. Then I use CI triggers to rebuild my projects when the dependencies are rebuilt.
If this is the result of some kind of weapon, I just can't believe it's a foreign government. You couldn't find a more stupid, risky place to test such a machine than yards away from the actual White House - surely not even North Korea is that foolhardy
I knew that Java added "default methods" to its interfaces a few years ago, but wasn't sure whether Java uses "fat pointers" like Rust and Go.
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> “Once again, they want all the benefits of the App Store but don’t think they should have to pay anything for that.”

lol , it's not like there is an alternative...
You can, although you need to replace all the drives in the pool. You can swap one, wait for resilver (or for a month, if you're in a budget), do the next one... And once you replaced every drive, you do like this:

https://www.ateamsystems.com/tech-blog/expand-zfs-to-use-lar...
x86 tends to have more I/O than ARM Phone SoCs where a reasonably powerful CPU is simply trapped in the SoC with no meaningful way to take advantage of it either in laptops or for desktops. The Raspberry Pi has 1 PCIe 2.0 lane. A lot of x86 chips have 4 lanes and usually at least PCIe 3.0 if not PCIe 4.0.

The other problem is that "Apple Silicon" is just one slice of the market. When you think about how you didn't even mention ARM it kind of shows that you have very little confidence in ARM yet you still bash x86.
As the topic has been beat to death a million times, the danger is that adding additional app stores will result in decreases in the exact thing the OP likes the App Store for. All of the hard work fighting for privacy, security, etc., goes out the window. Facebook will put their app on a 3rd party store and now we’re back to them and others abusing privacy and tracking users and not sharing what and how they’re tracking. Apple’s benevolent dictator approach has revealed some nasty stuff these companies and others were doing. With a third party app, companies don’t have to tell me how they are using my data or give me an anonymous sign in option. Naturally they’re fighting back.

The App Store gives Apple a way to collectively bargain against app makers on behalf of users. Take that away and we lose what little power we have.
Yes, virsh is really a nice tool to work with. It has multiple times saved my ass when the graphical virt-manager refused to work (for whatever X11-reason).
Maybe have a look at the no-code tools. Appsmith looks good. https://www.appsmith.com/
Think about the regular people or the artists, not the giant.

Say we are a group of musicians and we hate the fact that a big chunk of our money is going to giants including ones from authoritarian countries... so we the musicians think . "let's make our own steaming platform, all the profit goes to the musicians"... what is the problem then?

Did you found it ?

If mobile devices, consoles and computers are locked then I will not be able to realize my dream of removing the parasites from the industry, I would be happy to pay for the SDK, to pay for a genous to review the app, to pay for the bandwith of the updates, but I will not be happy to let a parasite to suck 30% of my sales(NOT even profit)
> What's next: YouTube says it remains committed to reaching a good-faith agreement with Google.

Seems like those parties should be able to come to an agreement!
This KYC/AML process never seems to stop criminals who routinely defraud senior citizens as well as those who are not very technically-minded. But they create an enormous strain on the very same people.[1] This process needs rethinking.

1. https://www.moneylife.in/article/indiscriminate-freeze-on-ba...
Bringing it back to software, I find it interesting that the word "deployment" is used in both contexts. And indeed, there is something to be said about the "logistics of data" - as in, how it flows through your system(s) to combine, in the end, into a rapid fire, accurate, useful, valuable response to specific request.
Ask HN: Global Hardware Component Shortage
It appears that there is a global shortage in electronic components. We have issues sourcing sensors, RF modules etc., with supplier lead times in the range of months to years. I've heard of similar issues from other companies. Why is there a global shortage in electronic components? Is it related to China shutting down some of its economy during COVID?
Ask HN: I did load test on AWS S3. Results are confusing
I did a load testing on a static file hosted in S3. Performed 50K GET requests per second, over a minute.

When I used the http URL, it worked fine. 100% requests got HTTP OK status, and the avg response time was 15ms.

When I tried https URL, it couldn't go beyond 20K req/second, after which the requests are getting timed out.

What could be the reason? Does anyone know how many req/second can a static file hosted on S3 handle?
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Wait until the level below the ultra-elites find out EU countries aren't "quite lovely" anymore for their usual shenanigans.

Some even will very shaken when they learn this isn't India and the 19th century was more than a century ago. :)

On a more serious note, except for some specific ones, UK's problems are problems shared by most western societies, but handled in a comically tragic way. Also the government approved money laundering at cosmic proportions that has been going on for decades now is another big factor for the "inexplicably" low standard of life many people have compared to what they think they would have. Not only those deals with the many devils have a cost but also an opportunity cost in time wasted not doing any meaningful reforms deluding the population into keep doing the rat race and when they get nothing, blame the EU.
The bigger difference is that the play store does not mandate using Google as the payment processor for transactions and subscriptions. Spotify would have no reason to look for an alternative app distribution mechanism on Android.
The main linked article is about Safari 14.1 on MacOS. If it is "exactly the same issue" as OP says, then how come it doesn't appear on Safari 14.1 on MacOS?

It's probably not a Safari bug.
No idea on exactly that one, but basically all you need is a magnetron from any discarded microwave oven, a horn made from some beer can(s), some LV power for the magnetron heater and an electroshocker as HV pulse power supply.

And some presense of mind to not point the horn at any EM-reflective surfaces.