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I have seen this time after time, that when the question of Apple store comes up, a top-rated comment always makes a comparison with game consoles to argue it is all fair. I don't personally believe the comparison makes sense, but many on HN do. So I am going to ask, how is this different from PS/Xbox/etc? If the game consoles still 'own' the device after you have bought it, e.g. when PS disabled Linux installation feature via update on consoles they had already sold, why shouldn't Apple be entitled to do the same, to do as it pleases with the devices in perpetuity?
>I hope multiple App Stores don’t become a thing on iOS.

I hope Apple will also force only 1 browser, 1 text editor, 1 video player, 1 search engine, 1 bank/payment system.
I hate PayPal so everyone should use Apple Pay because I want so, please Apple force them all to use what I like! /sarcasm
3 Unusual ways to boost developers performance
A Texas oil man heard that there were cars in East Germany so popular that buyers had to wait years to take delivery of one. He immediately sent a check to the Trabi factory.

The directors, sensing a propaganda coup in the making, arranged to send him the very next car off the line.

Two weeks later the oil man was in a bar, speaking with some friends.

“Ah ordered me one o’ them Trabis them folks over there in East Germany wait 12 years to get,” he drawled.

“And you know what? Them East Germans are so efficient. Wah, just last week they sent me over a little plastic model so I can know what to expect!”

(Taken from http://www.nickselby.com/2013/08/25/and-now-a-little-trabant...)
That's fine, but it tells you very little about Google because N and n are both informative and you cancelled them out.

It's entirely possible that only 1 man and 3 (3.1) women are underpaid. That would make Google about the fairest employer in the history of the world despite being 3.1 times more likely to under pay women.

On the other hand every woman could be underpaid AND a third of all the men. That would be terrible (and profitable).

Which is it? 3.1 doesn't tell you. So it's not useful. At best it's noise, at worst it's deceptive.

I'll leave you with your 3.1 and I don't object to the mathematics above so much as the logic underlying them. I don't think it's fair for someone to be down voted without explanation so at least you know the "other side" :)
I genuinely do not want repairability anywhere near the top of the list of performance and design trade offs.

Ruggedness, longevity, sure. Avoiding need to repair, definitely. Repairability? Other concerns, things that change the day-to-day use of the device, should weigh more.

Spent too many years as a full service PC network support small business to ever again want to deal with parts that aren’t actually attached to each other. Connection issues (especially on heating and cooling, so intermittent) were essentially all the problems except a vanishingly small proportion that were components.

The thing is, the repair shops get what’s left after the design is iterated until other problems are gone. So maybe only these component failures are left. Reverting to the old methods of replaceable components would likely re-introduce a massive class of problems that have by and large been eliminated.

Only the remaining problems have a voice, who is advocating on behalf of all the problems that the last 20 years of more solid design eliminated?

// Apologies for the HN trope, but see also Chesterson’s Fence, a tech version of “get off my lawn”.
At the end of the day it's all about power, price and value. A small transaction fee to handle payment processing is reasonable, since everyone creates value for everyone somewhere.

A tax for existence on a platform is just rent seeking and increases prices for everyone but Apple. That's not desirable and likely illegal.

The worst case scenario is Spotify-cation of services where Apple used the App Store to identify popular services, counters with their own, and then charges extortionate fees such that they cannot compete with Apple's native services. I would be concerned if we start seeing an Apple Brokerage.

Apple Pay doesn't have a direct competitor in Venmo since Venmo is about payment processing between people who don't normally deal with credit card processing, and cross platform functionality is the biggest value prop. Apple Pay isnt a threat unless it works on all platforms equally.
> some of the potential buyers are just students in their dorms with extra time on their hands

Yeah that's my concern haha
Apple already charges developers for the privilege of developing on/for its platform.

And notably, Android seems to do fine both a) letting devs use the Android ecosystem for free, and b) allowing sideloading apps outside the Play Store.
My six months with $30/month email service Superhuman (2019)
There was a paper in Nature where scientists did magnetic imaging of the brain of grandmaster chess players, as well as of advanced amateur players.

They found that when evaluating a move, for grandmasters the
frontal and parietal cortices had gamma bursts, whereas for amateurs the medial temporal lobe had gamma bursts. This tends to indicate that when grandmasters evaluate a move they are accessing their memory, whereas an amateur evaluating a move is reasoning about it.

I would guess that the same holds true in soccer.

https://www.nature.com/articles/35088119
I stopped using Facebook and just started phoning and texting people a few years ago. Almost all the contact you have with people on Facebook is fake, it’s mostly sharing memes and news. It’s more personal to do that over the phone. I think I’m closer with almost everyone since leaving Facebook. Most of my contacts have installed signal of their own accord at some point too which is weird but pleasant
Looking forward to 2060 when you can't participate in society any more unless you connect your brain to a cloud run by a facebook subsidiary, giving them access to all your thoughts, memories, etc. Everyone is connected to it. What's your problem?
Hi! The Kubernetes cluster is managed by myself so I have a pretty amount of resources for just 70e/month, and I can scale with one click. I plan on writing about the infra. Of course I'd like to think that this project will work, so I was happy to prepare for it. I enjoy devops besides coding so I am happy to do this. I need to consider what would happen if, say, a couple of my users hit the front page of HN at the same time or things like that. Already myself I have seen a peak of 2K concurrent users since I posted this, so I don't want to crash easily. :)
As for the CDN, it's also for performance/reduced latency.
Have you done it? I thought I recalled needing a bank card to activate a free SIM.
> So you'd really recommend that Joe at home should repair their own Windows laptop or Android phone?

>> 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.
Because it's Apple's incentive to offer a good web browser to sell very expensive devices? The same incentive Microsoft has to make Edge and Google has to make Chrome for Android. They do not have a god-given right to make money on every piece of software that happens to run on devices they sell.

Besides, this wouldn't be an issue in the first place if other web rendering engines weren't forbidden on ios. Google / Mozilla could have their own browsers that aren't just safari reskins.
OP here. I am curious. What about tech-excellency?

I am not sure (I have never been to such companies). However, I believe that such problems (tech-debt and mediocre engineering culture) only tend to grow with time.
Totally, that's a very important reason to use a CDN.
Another helix formation from Cambridge? Hrm.
Scrutiny HDD Smart Monitoring,Historical Trends and RealWorld Failure Thresholds
Frontier knowingly sold Internet speeds it can’t deliver
The line between experts and non-experts is how they manage.

I’m a little league coach, currently with 9-10 year olds. Once the kids get comfortable with basic mechanics, the real challenge of the game is not thinking about mechanics, while thinking about the tactical picture.

It’s difficult - in our case right now, working with a talented pitcher who starts to panic and throws wild when she gets rattled in the game (by a walk, hit, etc).

The joyous part as a coach is that with repetition and support, the kids figure it out! That cycle continues.
So it's a non-objective definition that depends on things like when the judge ate lunch. [1]

I'm more a fan of the "better a hundred guilty go free" model - in this case, that means the state gets one and only one bite at the apple, and they'd better do it right the first time. Fewer dragons on this road.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/apr/11/judges-lenient-b...
Blast at Iranian Drone Factory
No 10 ‘tried to block’ data on spread of new Covid variant in English schools
Yes, he is not an expert on most of the things he talks about. Also you can almost predict what he will be going to ask to the guests.

But nonetheless as a podcast, I judge more on the basis of the conversation and the guest he had, and in both the metrics he is really great. He is really good in making the guests speak in easy and intuitive terms and making them speak the idea behind the discovery/invention. He sometimes even irritates the people in asking question behind the intuition when many guests are more accustomed with saying strictly provable statements in other places. And that is a part that is really missing in the world and that gives the sense of what's going on, instead of talking just formally provable sentences and terse description of their work.
Which of these do we think are the most useful manuals today?
The Sacred Cow documentary is worth watching which goes into detail of this cycle - including that a lot (most?) crops use animal manure for fertilizing, so you still need the animals.
Or other things. Brought in my dad's car to a local mechanic because the driver's side door handle was broken. He told me its too damn common on that manufacturers cars from a range of years. Came back later in the day and he showed me the plastic part that had broken. He replaced it with an aluminum part he made.

When you find a good mechanic, listen to them.
This is very common in the US itself though. People move cross country all the time as part of working or education.
> Fortran for linear algebra software.

Not an expert, but it is my understanding that Julia is becoming an ever more serious competitor day by day.

> Excel for business spreadsheets.

Honest question, what does LibreOffice miss compared to Excel? In any case, (again not an expert) spreadsheets seem quite inferior to a combination of Julia, CSV and Vega (Lite); although there are certainly more people that are familiar with operating Excel.
ipset is very efficient.
So, FF doesn't need configuration to provide privacy, Chrome has to be "properly configured".

Chrome is more secure.

So, not so simple as a blanket statement you provided.
IMO it's not that blurry.

The real point is if Apple wants (or should have the right) to collect taxes on their infrastructure and act like a Government - think about VAT - or they are only selling consumer devices instead.

If I buy a tractor from John Deere and make money out of the products I can grow using that tractor I don't have to pay a fee to John Deere, even thought without the JD my fields would probably be much less profitable or plainly unprofitable.

So the question is: has Apple built a digital Nation? And in that case, should they be the only monopolistic option?
I really enjoyed this set of tutorials for Tic-80, which also uses Lua (or Fennel/Moonscript/Wren/JS). The series was a really great intro not just the tic-80 engine, but programming concepts in general. A friend of mine was able to take some of the concepts he learned and was able to improve the bit of spreadsheet/data munching that he has to do for his otherwise non-technical work.

(https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvOT6zBnJyYF3FzmfXz2QXM...)
The event loop will queue these up for you, but it should be possible to build a queuing library over this. What kind of API did you have in mind?
No, it was used for everyone speaking a non-Greek language.

In Homer there is no "barbarian"; only "barbar-speaking". But by the time of Aeschylus, it was a noun denoting people speaking non-Greek. There was also the corresponding verb that meant "speak a foreign language" but also "speak broken Greek / make lots of errors speaking (Greek)".

In Roman times, "barbarian" meant anyone who was not Roman or Greek.
Facebook has publicly stated a lot of privacy related things that turned out to be outright lies in the past, including to congress
Not sure you'd need everyone, it would be a product.

Apple has been aiming to become that product, because I've said before that Apple is primarily a privacy company with a bunch of entertainment features. It also means that competing with Apple isn't about design, it's also mainly about providing privacy. Their whole recipe is the complementary packaging of the two orthogonal concepts of entertainment and privacy.

I should start the next Apple.
There's an effort to start to mass produce a type of algae that by adding a small % of it to their diet reduces methane by 80%+ from what I remember.
Of course, the number one result when you search for wireless headphones is Amazon's product. The reviews seems to indicate they aren't great: https://www.amazon.com/Echo-Buds-Wireless-immersive-reductio...
We just have a live clone in Dev, updated monthly, and a dev instance of the front end to use it. Sometimes monthly is too long, so a DBA will run a manual update in off-peak times. Queries that don't write data back can be moved directly to prod, though we also have an ODS with denormalized data for easier creation of reports & analysis. And changes that significantly write back to the DB are moved to test first, then to prod. Sometimes different people have things going on and that requires different timing or a clean copy of dev or test, and we'll temporarily spin up another instance.

To be fair, the above description paints a better picture than we have in reality. There's nuances and edge cases. But prod is kept pretty clean. Most of the problems we have are related to upgrades-- these are enterprise apps that all use Oracle, and the latest updates for one might require a particulate version of Oracle, but another app will be in conflict with that version. So a lot of the DBA work involves wrangling support from vendors on how to work around these. You'd think an app using Oracle 12c would run fine if you upgrade to 13c, but no it doesn't.
The one aspect of Friedman I really enjoy is the quality of his guests. I don’t know how he does it, but he seems to attract a lot of guests who I’ve never heard of, and yet are super interesting to listen to. For example, I loved his interviews with Joshua Bach and Jim Keller. I’d never heard of either of those guys before they went on Lex Friedman’s podcast and they’re both brilliant.
The NYTimes magazine [1] ran a piece in 1996 says a 35 square mile landfill, 100 yards deep, will store all US trash until the year 3000. To put that in perspective, that's about 1 tenth of 1 percent of the range land currently available for grazing. I'm sure someone could find a corner in a desert somewhere for such a need if required.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/30/magazine/recycling-is-gar...
How would you suggest that police investigate this kind of crime?
It sounds like ot is still in beta (but it's a little confusing that they're 1.0 but it has a message saying they're in beta on their main page).

It looks like it's being adopted by a few larger app monitoring products, wondering if datadog will follow suit or if they will stick with open tracing and their custom implementations for logging and metrics. I assume they will support ingestion from ot at some point though. It sounds neat tho, will definitely read up on it more.
This sounds nice. Is this roughly the same Opera 4.0 as for Windows?

I'll be sure to do some extra testing with it on my site.
I’ll be excited for the day when support for worker threads is more widespread.

Tried to use them with Node Canvas a few months ago but it’s not context aware[1] so had to go back to forking processes.

Intriguing to see someone in this thread say they already work with TFjs.

[1] https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/issues/1394
And it's not in apple appstore neither, so clearly the reason is not the fact that non-playstore apps can be installed.
You can’t promise things like that without having good references or proof. “Promise” might be a stronger word than you meant
By "average Joe" I'm not referring to someone like my grandma or you, I mean someone who isn't a professional repair shop with specialized equipment, but still knows a few things about technology.

I've repaired tons of my own devices over the years. The most "hardcore" repair I've done was replacing a blown capacitor in a Samsung monitor. The monitor was like $200, and the new capacitor cost less than a dollar. I'm terrible at soldering, and have zero skill in that category. That soldering job I did came out really bad, but that monitor still works ~8 years later, and it's sitting on my desk right now as I'm typing this.

> Technology, especially mobile, is at a stage where repairing at home is impossible due to integration and miniaturization.

> Maybe you could install your own RAM on a laptop. Well now that RAM is in the CPU, because it has to be there. So what do we do? Complain until technology goes back a decade or a few?

Neither "right to repair" nor my original comment advocate for being able to repair your own devices at home. I said that, because new devices are impossible to repair at home, it's critical that independent repair shops can exist, because they have expertise and equipment most people don't have to home. Without those independent repair shops, customers are forced to pay the manufacturer for repairs. Apple charges $300 to "fix" a broken screen (they actually just send you a new phone), even though the displays are nowhere near that expensive and Apple can get them at cost (or close to it).

And right to repair has NOTHING to do with changing devices, making them go back "a decade or two", or any bullshit FUD like that. Seriously, go to https://www.fighttorepair.org/ and educate yourself on it so that you see it's 100% in your interests as a consumer.
It is hard to keep programmers motivated. I will definitely try out these methods
It'd be a joke if people really think Facebook doesn't tag you at an IP address level either.
Yeah interesting in the same sense as watching a nature documentary and seeing the natural lifestyle of animals including being eaten by other animals

Interesting doesn't imply good
E.g. they all had passports, had studied a foreign language, raised by two parents (time per child ratio, etc..)
The article seems to be based on an 1850 report initiated by Patrick Brontë. It's available online:

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/sanitary-report-on-hawort...
> And I haven’t even gotten to the pandemic, the miracle vaccines, or the UFO reports.

Don’t forget Brood-X Cicada, Tik-tok and the Mendela effect.
No, in this world they will charge on top of Visa and Mastercard.
I m pretty sure their users think so too. It's Apple's store, they are IPhone's apps. Which is fine , effective marketing halo effect and all, but somebody has to think of the developers
Yea, it's pretty flexible and you can attach any additional metadata that you want (e.g. app version info, user name).
Complaining about downvotes is literally against the rules.
You're not wrong about the antenna, but I am confused who would do any of this for 4 images? Either parking outside or sitting 1km away with an antenna, isn't this a megatonne more work (and technical knowledge) than just downloading tor.

Given that I felt it was understandable to just jump that whole question even if it is factually incorrect...
There appear to be a lot of comments effectively saying that Apple's "altruism" is what keeps the app store advocating for user privacy and security.

Let's say that's both true and a good quality of the app store that could be lost on another curator's store.

This is still not a problem, because Apple can instead improve the iOS permission API system to achieve a similar result. The store that delivers you the app is irrelevant - the permission model is what users should be expected to learn, not where they get it from.

This is a computer literacy problem and is the user's responsibility, not the platform. Not to sound too harsh, but how long will users like Grandma - who don't know better - live? Should we cater the entire system to these (comparatively) incapable users when they are a disappearing demographic?

Not to mention, Grandma won't even know how to enable a third party store, so Apple has absolutely no leg to stand on. Apple will continue to make a killing being the default store since they are posturing that their users are too dumb to do anything else.
Yawn. It took 4 paragraphs before it even told me what it was, and even then I didn't understand it.
The salary they mentioned in the article is too low when the downside is millions in payout
OP here. There are a couple of people talking about a totally chill environment and pretty much coasting (e.g., "at least an opportunity to get lost in the bureaucracy")

This would be way too far on the scale.

The thing which I am looking for is precisely that proverbial "balance". Spend regular hours, a normal amount of energy, make a solid contribution in that time, close my notebook and enjoy non-work-related things.
make a list

fill it in with alternate contacts

start using those contacts to reach out

wait until they switch too

???

profit!
Are you also against being able to upgrade a device, like adding memory or a larger hard drive? Why can't repairability be at the top of the list with performance and design?

Apple doesn't want you to fix its devices, it wants to force you to either have them fix it or buy a new one. It's a business decision not a technical one.
Been playing with D for a day or two, it is cool, like it, but missing setters and getters - very much :-)

But anyway, if there were jobs in D, I would take it blind :-) Love the idea of C being intermediate language.
E.g. being raised in a culture of gratitude, where the next generation is trained to find and appreciate the small things of life. It takes time and has to be incorporated into the rhythm of life.
I tried doing this using prolog last summer to extract some features from a codebase. I loved it. Being able to query a codebase like a database is extremely useful.