skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is FUD. Where is the evidence that letting developers choose how to process payments leads to rampant fraud? The online payment landscape outside the App Store is actually very safe for users.

Try to cancel an in-app subscription without Googling how to do it. Good luck.

Also, if you try using the store, you’ll see it’s not curated in any meaningful way. It’s full of garbage and fake reviews. Someone properly incentivized to improve it could do a much better job.
The same developer, Anders Hejlsberg, is also behind typescript.
I think that’s a little unfair - this example implies there are good _and_ bad actors in an unregulated app distribution system, which we already have some evidence for.

Given we have seen real malware like Xcodeghost that has successfully breached apples own App Store review process, he clearly has a point. Removing all binaries compiled with Xcodeghost to protect consumers would have been harder with multiple stores hosting binaries for sale vs one, and is indeed an example of one benefit of the single storefront. Incidentally, the internal emails from Apple regarding handling the Xcodeghost problem have arguably been some of the most interesting documents we’ve seen in this trial.

There are trade offs here, and while one option may appear to be fairer it is not going to be a free lunch. There’s always issues with software analogies if you dig too deeply too!
They became shy exactly when they lost a massive antitrust suit in the late 90’s.
Am I the only one who thinks that deadlines are counterproductive?
and is there any advices in this book to avoid focusing on the technique in important moment? I used to play foosball competitively and this used to eat me when I started to doubt about my technique.
> This is a bare engine that by itself has no ability to recognize and encode instructions of any processor, however it has the ability to become an assembler for any CPU architecture.

This reminds me of the annoyances I encountered when writing an assembler for the TMS320C25 DSP using Microsoft's MASM a 100 years ago...

One of the beautiful features of machine-specific assemblers seemed that they could deal with stuff like short / long jumps or calling conventions for C. Wondering if this one can be tweaked to that level?
Deciding "which" legal organization is actually using it is too much of a legal headache.

We need something like this in spirit but which uses a legal mechanism thats more reliable.
4 users or 4 million the review process needs to be done and done well otherwise it’s just as risky as installing random crap people download from the internet. So the issue is Apples ‘cut’ needs to cover all those apps with few buyers.

It’s a complex problem because applications like BonziBuddy mean you can’t actually trust users to detect issues. That’s not to say Apple ensures quality, just that minimum standards have actual value.

On the other hand it’s reasonable for large companies to disagree with subsidizing lone developers. As such a substantial fee to submit apps would likely be required.
> Smashing a ball into the top corner [without needing to think about it] is also unsaveable and popular with elite penalty takers, but the margin for error in how you actually kick the ball is smaller: a slight miscue and your penalty is off target (or a "nice height" for a keeper that reads where you're shooting).

I like the fact, that penalties on the sides of the goal above a height of about 1,5m are unsaveable (you do not even have to hit the corner), but still world-class players miss, because they get nervous, so they often do not dare to just do that. It should be a game like tic tac toe: Totally solved, the keeper should lose every round, but yet he does not. Makes the game human.
Collateral damage covers people getting blown up, it does not suggest mild outcomes.
Nevada DMV: Fee for troubled computer upgrade to be refunded
The function you’re talking about would be a react functional component. I don’t think passing window.setInterval in as a prop to a react component is a particularly common approach to achieving component testability - though by all means give it a try.

I don’t think it’s ‘nonsensical’ though to suggest that it’s a fairly common practice in testing to not want your unit tests to actually set up recurring callbacks.

Isolating an external side effect to make it testable, as well as to align its abstraction with the one that your framework uses is a common pattern anyway.

I’m not sure why this angers you so much?
Ivan Illich talks about this in his book "Tools of Conviviality". That book inspired Lee Felsenstein to make the first PC mod-able.
> Apple can do a lot to make their hardware more repairable. But also I've seen Rossman outright demand their hardware changes just so it's easier to repair, without regard to things like weight, water resistance, and overall UX.

Source? He released a video recently where he basically said that it doesn’t matter if they’re easy to repair. As technology gets more advanced, so do repair shops.

It’ll be harder for the average Joe at home, but that’s precisely why independent repair shops that can offer competitive prices are so important.

Plus, I just want to point out (in case it isn’t clear to anyone reading your comment) that right to repair has absolutely nothing to do with making changes to the hardware, or about making repairs “easier”.

It’s about supply chains; about making it possible to buy replacement parts. Currently, Apple tells their suppliers that they’re not allowed to sell parts to anyone else. A common example he cites in his videos is where Apple takes a commodity chip they didn’t invent, makes a tiny change to it, and then place a custom order where the contract states that the manufacturer can’t sell it to anyone else.

So if that chip breaks, customers can’t replace it with the common version, and they can’t buy it from the only manufacturer that makes the “custom” version.

The only alternative is trying to find a clone from China, or taking it from a “donor board” (which is not a sustainable or cost-effective practice)
Apple tracking what apps you launch, when you launch them and using a plain text protocol is fucking disgusting, anyone has the right to feel this disgust and share it , many non technical people will nit have the chance to hear the truth about Apple (how many iOS users know about the malware issue , about the CPU down-clocking behind your back or other true facts about Apple)...
Accessibility is, search engine friendliness isn't. But being able to search the available documentation instead of clicking through videos can still be a nice touch.

Also, since making a video requires a bit more effort than changing a few lines of text, video documentation often gets outdated fairly quickly.

But nevertheless, in some instances, videos are definitely the way to go.
A credit card with standard transaction fees and interest is very different than taking 30% of every transaction on the platform while also having the power to forbid venders on the platform from increasing their prices to make up the difference.
To supplement this: Eisenach was the location of one of the early car manufacturers of Germany.[1] It was BMW that bought the factory in 1928. After WW2 it was nationalized. The factory was closed in 1991. The Opel factory was not a direct successor of it. However, the availbility of skilled workers from the old factory influenced the dicision to establish a new factory there.

[1] Here the picture of a "Wartburg" from 1898: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartburg-Motorwagen#/media/Dat...
Release on Android only.
Google files patent for under-display camera designed for an upcoming Pixel
MS and Windows is simply not related to the Apple situation, unless MS decided to only allow Windows on its own hardware thus creating a closed ecosystem.

The closest analogy to Apple is the game console industry. Even then it's a different scale.

IMO, the App Store situation is an entirely new class of problem unlikely to be solved in this case. It doesn't easily fall under existing monopoly regulation, and does have some advantages for consumers along with disadvantages. Unfortunately, I think Apple is being short sighted here. By not addressing the most egregious issues (30% for example), they are setting themselves up to be regulated which will probably end up being worse for everyone. A sledgehammer will end being used where a scalpel was needed.
It seems like it could:

use_backend fix_servers_a if { var(txn.sendercompid) -m str firmA }
default_backend fix_servers_b

Then "fix_servers_a" could be defined as a round-robin backend.
IP address might be part of a proof based on balance of probabilities (used in Civil law cases, torts like copyright/trespass) but is unlikely to be useful in proving 'behind reasonable doubt' (ie in a criminal case), IMO, it might lead to something that provides such proof though.
When I was researching the SRE and Production Engineer role (Google/FB) I found techies fall into 2 camps (on teamblind.com).

1. Do SWE. SRE is a step down. They didn’t give justification.

2. SRE is useful for any programmer because: you need hardcore OS and networking skills on Linux. You need programming skills. You need sys admin skills. You need system design skills (e.g. live migration of 10K DB servers, while usual automated maintenance should not be interrupted). In some cases, you need hacking skills (for defense). So according to this group, the role is wide and concerns more layers of the stack.

Though not sure if a company calls it devops looks at it in the same way. Google doesn’t call it devops. They claim that SRE implements devops and see devops as an abstract interface.
Those IDW characters have shown themselves to be pretty fraudulent. The Weinsteins especially.
30% of a revenue is extortion. Why should an app developer pay that fee? It's like owning almost half of a business.

Apple is the most developer hostile company.It charges $100 every year to devs for developing apps to it's platform. And additionally charge another 30% of their business. The worst thing is apps cannot use third party payments, why? Some people argue it's for security. I disagree. It's greed.

Tim Cook said it does not charge companies for services apps serves to end users e.g Uber, e-commerce, etc. Are your serious? It's like postal service saying hey we need 30% of every IPhone we deliver. Or the workers at china demanding cuts on every financial transactions that happens through the iPhone.

Some even argue devs need apple more than Apple needs devs. Do you guys know why Windows phone failed? Cos they didn't have enough devs developing enough apps. Take aways all the apps from IPhone, and what is it? A Brick.
I've used their live chat a bunch of times in 2020... They just hide it behind a bunch of hurdles in their support centre since they want to promote self-help.
Yes, but only if everyone else was convinced it was malware, too.

"Facebook invades privacy" is still a minority opinion among their user base (whether we like it or not).
They were way too lax with lending to marginal applicants and that caused the 2008 collapse. I’m sure the real estate industry would love to go back to dodgy loans to those who cannot pay them back because they make more profit that way. I believe there should be stricter credit requirements, coupled with higher taxes on secondary residences and investment real estate. It’s predatory lending otherwise.
Have you considered that the few people who have managed to rise to the top of one of the most competitive fields in the world, as well as the clubs who have have many millions of pounds depending on the result of a penalty kick ... may possibly be better at taking penalty kicks, and are more aware of the best strategy than yourself?
Their “justification” was that they wanted to be able to sort by any column.
Absolutely agree, but it's not that much different than expecting a tax on every Venmo/PayPal/Robinhood transaction on the store (if I'm reading this correctly, this is a thing Cook just implied they might do in sworn testimony today)
Steve Litchfield, writer/editor for «All About Symbian», announced this article yesterday[0] and published today on all «All About *» sites.[1]

[0] https://twitter.com/stevelitchfield/status/13958109317924003...

[1] https://twitter.com/stevelitchfield/status/13963516986591600...
As the judge mentions during the trial, many large corporations such as banks have apps with millions of users, yet they don’t pay Apple a cent. Meanwhile Epic has to give Apple 30% of everything they make. Video games are subsidizing banks, it’s absurd.
This is academically interesting and it's cool to see that there seems to be a business model for it as well https://www.anapaya.net/
> So economic processes and analysis create the illusion of a wealthy elite who run everything, but there's not really a ruling class...

Right. Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, they are not rich and powerful because they were anointed by an elite who runs everything.

Nepotism is irrelevant and nothing to do with wealth. It is ubiquitous.

You can apply a label to them post hoc as a ‘ruling class’, but that is like I suggest, like thinking of cloud formations as animals. You are bringing a pre-conceived image and seeing it where you look.

> I disagree, and the fact that "wealth tends to remain with the wealthy" combined with some nepotism doesn't just create the illusion, it creates a system functionally the same.

This is just affirming the consequent. There is no class system established. The fact that wealth pools in a few places is a problem in itself. You can easily see the economic mechanisms which cause it.

There is literally no need to appeal to a labeling of different kinds of people. The groups don’t exist. The processes do.

> Your implication of some nefarious plot

You are imagining that. Why do you think I’m implying something nefarious?

> to convince the ignorant

By definition, if someone is convinced of the existence of something that doesn’t exist, they must be ignorant.

> that there is a ruling class

Weasel words. There are rulers, and there are wealthy people, but they are not there because of a ‘class system’. Thinking about it this way perpetuates ignorance. They are there for reasons. Not necessarily good ones.

Those are what matters, not a conspiracy theory about elites and ruling classes.

Conspiracy theories are what we turn to when we want to stop thinking and just have a bad guy to blame, or when we want to manipulate others into doing so.

To suggest that class analysis is not used as a political tool, is clearly absurd.
> One way to avoid a cosmic catastrophe of this type is to establish an interstellar treaty, similar to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, signed first in 1963 by the governments of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.

This is outrageously speculative to be the point of an article in a science magazine article. It would be perfectly appropriate to a story in a science fiction magazine.

It reminds me of the conceit in No Man's Sky where you can explore a vast galaxy, but everywhere you go the same rules are enforced by police drones. It's a vision of a cosmos in which law trumps natural law.
The user. If I like netflix and want to pay outside of iOS I should be able to manage that without apple taking a cut.

Managing payment outside of a closed system makes so much more sense.

Apple losing all funding to operate the app store is the least of all issues. They can shutdown the store and thirdparty stores would take over. If they can't afford the app they probably won't sell many phones. Perhaps taking some of the phone profits to fund the app store would make business sense.
Never underestimate a malware makers ability to instruct a user to do something. Out for that matter a users ability to get themselves into trouble.
Per hour would seem "do we need to pay this? We don't really need support do we? We could just buy it if and when we need it"

You're talking fair while I'm talking about the only legitimate way I can pay you for your time as an open source dev.

It would be nice if I could have my client retroactively pay you for your dev time in full but I like working with the client and don't fancy being laughed out of the room

In case you missed the subtext I rarely if ever actually use the support, I can just justify it to bigcorp's beancounters. Chances are you already provide the support for free in Issues anyway but I have a way to pay. I just want people paid at all mate. We can work on fair later
If a developer's net profit margin, after dev and marketing costs, is less than 60%, then Apple makes more money on the app than the developer. 30% is outrageous.
There's a thing called "choice paralysis" that Apple minimizes as a value-add.

My technically-savvy associates, I suggest an Android to (especially if they want to dabble in mobile development themselves). For my family that just wants a phone that works, I suggest iPhone. The ecosystem tends to have a single right way to do any given task, which is a boon when they just want it to work without having to think about details.
https://www.apple.com/environment

We’re all fucked.
Yes.

Google's strategy is simple:

1. The web should be able to control everything (i.e. PWA features not normally found in a browser).

2. Google should control the web (they can index it, track, monetize it, but it has to be on the web).

3. Profit.

Do you think Apple users are super excited at the prospect of most apps turning into battery-draining non-native shitty experiences, instead of using the iOS frameworks? No, they're not.

And push notifications on iOS work as a service, to avoid battery drain, they all go through Apple on a single connection. This is free for all native apps. It can't be implemented for web apps both for technical reasons and because web apps can't be curated, so it'll just be abused like there's no tomorrow.

Have you noticed on the desktop that EVERY SITE asks you for push notifications? This is super annoying and bless your soul if you ever clicked "YES" on any of those. They'll spam you until you die, or eventually ask your nephew to reset your permissions.

EVERY single feature not in Safari, has a reason not to be there. And I'm sick of everyone eating up Google's propaganda and becoming their tools in this. I don't mind Google at all, they should fight for their PoV on all this, and they have a right to expand their business.

But not at the expense of Apple or Apple's users. F that.
It's not the companies that make the biggest mistakes, but the universities: I'm grateful for all the things I learned in school / university, but they should have had at least 1 class about managing career. Now with internet things are much better though, there's lots of information on it online.
If all async functions are immediately awaited, there is only one thread of execution - no concurrency.

If they are not awaited, someone has to manage an array/list of promises.

Is there a worker model where the worker can work on a series of tasks?
>but some consumers (and reviewers) really do like to chase thinness

Honestly Apple started the thinness fetish, so IMO the reality is like this

Apple pushes thinness fetish -> Reviewers and fanboys are now corrupted and will flaunt the size of their camera and thinness of the device.
In Search of Covid’s Origins, Scientists Reignite Polarizing Debate on Lab Leak
Ancedotally, LÖVE software written for Windows can be hard to get running natively on Linux properly.
How do you think malware should be controlled?

An App Store has the ability to load executable code that might do anything onto your device. I don’t think an OS can just opt to do nothing about this.

Some basic guard rails, designed to dissuade the technically unsavvy seems like the least that could be done. Additionally, I think there would need to be a malware management system, similar to ones on other more open platforms like macOS or Windows.
I remember sending Apple Live photos to friends when "live" photos first came out.

It wasn't 6+ months later that I realized audio was also embedded in live photos. I just never noticed because my phone is always on silent mode.

The realization that I was sending audio clips to friends and family along with photos for months and month was... unnerving.

It's a problem when tech becomes so complex that the average (or in my case, even the above average) tech user can't keep up.
I've seen very little of him, and didn't know he was 'The Right To Repair Guy', but I saw him freak out over an Apple laptop because he took the back off and the fan was not directly over the chip like in gamer PCs.

This, in a machine that's been designed for generations to have a fan pull air aggressively THROUGH a channel, the only path the air can go, that goes directly across the CPU heatsink. This is not a 'circulating the air' situation: a laptop can't do that. It's an overall system with many considerations (turbulence, air handling noise) that is no longer a system at all if you take the top of the duct off. You cannot run that sort of machine with the case taken apart, it's part of the ducting.

Either he's dishonest for effect (and clicks), or he's considerably dumber than a drummer and college dropout (yours truly! derp!) about cooling airflow in a constrained duct inside a laptop. At face value, he's dumber. For his sake I hope he's dishonest.
Would make for some amusing troubleshooting videos: "So what do you do when having problems with your BS POS?"
Facebook benefits a lot from a martyr-or-submission choice, but we don't have to play their game.
Exactly. My personal hunch is that the supposed "required ordering" of adjectives isn't real, and the real "rule" is related to the tightness by which the adjectives are bound to the noun -- least separable go last. It's just that, in practice the semantic tightness corresponds to that rule.

In the extreme case (like you gave) where "BigBall(tm)" is an irreducible thing it itself, then of course "big" goes last.
They’ve since said their website was hacked.

> The website was hacked yesterday and the message was shown by the hackers. It has been taken down.

https://twitter.com/defi100/status/1396361647149633537?s=21
Except, they did. Apple started the threats against Epic when Epic started lowering their prices for add-ons on other platforms, which made Apple look greedy. To bolster their anti-competitive case against Apple, Epic turned on the in-app store to which Apple then pulled Fortnite. Epic has to be able to show damages and anti-competitive actions in order to have a case. If they didn't force Apple to pull Fortnite, they wouldn't be able to show damages.
Lex Fridman misrepresents his role at MIT to make himself sound more accomplished than he really is, and the way he went about putting out his self driving car research directly to the press instead of going through peer review is shady. The guy is a cringeworthy grifter. He’s trying to be viewed as some AI expert but he’s totally full of shit.
> Apple doesn't charge any additional fees.

They do charge additional fees, just not to customers. Those fees get tacked onto the bank/merchant in the transaction. Apple charges between 0.15% to 0.30% of total transaction, according to Financial Times.

https://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/12/more-apple-pay-details/
I'm immediately curious what percentage of non-GMO certified produce are cultivars that were produced this way. This approach strikes me as being much more likely to accidentally produce unexpectedly harmful effects than modern gene recombination.
There is a Mercedes research centre in Böblingen.
Customers have that choice today.

On the Android platform.
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