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Is the app ecosystem very healthy or could it be healthier? Why does the rate from 10 years ago make sense today?

In a free market, the rates would be set by market forces and we generally think those are right. But Apple set 30% and has never even reviewed it as far as we know.

I won't pretend there is a sure fire way of defining exactly the correct rate. There isn't. But that doesn't mean letting Apple set it is correct either. This is why we have utility boards: someone who isn't bias should set rates to make them fair and efficient and make sure the system is working as well as possible.

Your electricity price needs to be low enough you're not being fleeced, but high enough to allow investment in improved infrastructure. If you set the price it might be too low, if the local monopoly set the price it would be too high.

The app store is no different. Someone disinterested should be setting a price that maximises benefit for consumers.

That price might actually be higher? I don't know. I'm just saying that Apple shouldn't be permitted to set it alone and that "30%" was never carved I to stone by god as the right number. If anything, the fact it has stayed at 30% proves its wrong. What other price has remained exactly the same for over a decade?
The idea that Volkswagen will ever get autonomous driving out of the door is laughable at best.

We shouldn't even listen to them. Autonomous driving will happen in U.S. companies, and they will dictate what it will look like for the consumer.
Have you considered he may be right?
Actually this is very interesting question about which I'm thinking for some time lately. Why does overwhelming majority of crypto tokens cost approximately in the range between single dollars and thousands of dollars per token, regardless of total number tokens printed or reserved?
My first thought would be - because those are "humane" prices, i.e. prices most humans interact daily and have reference points for. Parkinson also wrote about similar effect - when the most discussed price by a group would be the one closest to the daily amount of money, e.g. committee would discuss budget for a nuclear reactor for a few minutes, then argue for an hour about price of coffee supplier for the office coffee maker.
But while this hypothesis looks interesting I can't imagine how it may happen in real life, how do the prices converge to the 1-1000$ range and why?

PS: good example was recent HDD token Chia. Before the token become listed on exchanges people hypothesized that it's price would be hundreds or thousands of dollars, and they were right eventually. But why really? Why not 0.0001$ per token or 1 million per token? How did this price fixation happened?
Honest question: do you think that the point of view "your relationship with your employer is based on leverage" creates a plethora of twisted incentives that make life for everyone more miserable (while protecting employment, to an extent)
C allows much more flexibility wrt lifetimes than does rust.

For example: a common pattern in video games is the frame-local allocation. You (cheaply) allocate some object at the beginning of a frame. Share references to it all over the place. At the end of the frame, you (cheaply) free all the objects that were allocated in this manner. This cannot really be expressed in terms of rust's ownership system.

More generally, rust enforces local correctness, while c allows for global correctness (a weaker condition). Consider, as a simpler example, this c function which I write frequently:

char *tmpstr(void) {
static char buf[16][1024];
static int i = 0;
char *ret = buf[i];
i = (i+1) % 16;
return ret;
}

This function is not locally correct; in a vacuum, it is impossible to say whether this function violates invariants. (Ignoring the problem of overflowing the 1024-byte buffer.) There are many programs using this function which are correct; then, there are some programs which call this function more than 16 times in a row and end up with undesirable behaviour as a result.

Rust requires that every function be locally correct. Papering over some details: for any sound function f and hole-containing program P[_], if P[f] is well-typed then P[f] is sound; that means that it's always meaningful to consider f without considering the context in which it will be called. There is no such guarantee in c.

As a sound language, this is a very useful attribute for rust to have, because it means that libraries can be meaningfully type-checked (not to mention it significantly simplifies the type system), but it would be naive to say that rust simply formalizes the ownership model you would have used anyway in c.
It's a fair point, and actually the protocol is open (AFAIK) and there are alternative apps. But it's an interesting thing to consider IMO - removing features from a cheap/free app is one thing, but when users have invested hundreds or thousands in the ecosystem, is taking away functionality a reasonable thing to do?
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What we do is shared ops duty between the DEVs, including the lead. E.g. in a team of 5, each takes a working day a week. On-call for off hours issues is organized separately.

I think this system works reasonably well to keep everyone aware of production issues.
We moved our bootstrapped SaaS away from Stripe. You maybe should too
Yeah, I don’t own a car, but I easily could. 7 euros per hour is cheaper than any car I could rent for a few hours, and cheaper than almost any ride share option. The only place I’ve been where calling a ride share would maybe be cheaper is Pakistan.
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> They needed to develop surgical techniques for implanting electrodes into a mouse’s brain and, crucially, keeping them in place for many weeks.

Poor poor mice. Vivisection is done for the 'greater good', but not for the greater good of the millions (billions?) of critters who have suffered it. Yes I know that modern physiology is premised on it as method, the knowledge of organisms as they live not as they are dead, but what a toll.
the basic concepts underlying DNNs have been known for decades, it has been exponential increases in compute power that have made them practical
If you're speaking of writing a novel, that alone is a complete dealbreaker all by itself.

By ~40 pages in, it already takes multiple seconds for letters to appear when you type them. I don't even want to imagine writing a 300+ page book in there.
As someone currently leading a small team that is responsible for absolutely everything technical at our company (from development to ops to IT and even UX), I do agree that it's a good learning experience. On the other hand it sure does take a lot of time out of the day. And I think all the context switching definitely leads me to be less productive than I would otherwise be. Of note for me: while development work often requires uninterrupted time and deep concentration, ops and customer support requests are often urgent and have to be dealt with right away.

I think the ideal might be to get broad experience and then specialise a little later.
Because making and selling cocaine globally (not to mention other drugs) must bring in tens of billions every year, and they have been doing it since the 60’s.

The ”human banking” method is very popular in transnational organised crime. Just look at how Putin has hidden his assets.
Esperanto is still one of the easiest languages for Chinese to learn and the grammar is not very European; it also has elements mostly found in Asian languages:

https://www.translationdirectory.com/article715.htm

The Chinese are actually one of the biggest supporters of Esperanto too, offering degrees in it from major universities, regular broadcasts on official radio and some years ago teaching it in primary school.
> Do you know of anything that is able to perform a computation that a Turing machine cannot?

That's a circular argument, because "computation" is literally defined as "something that can be computed by a Turing machine".

That said, the first month of the first year of a CS education is "here's these problems that can't be solved by a Turing machine, mind=blown". (At least where I studied CS, that is.)
Check if your IDE marketplace have plugins for that. For example PyCharm has CodeWithMe which is pretty neat.

https://www.jetbrains.com/code-with-me/
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25580701
Kids might not even know they have an interest in engineering (which is not the same as "interest in computers"). Back in 90s, a lot of kids, myself included, found out that we like that stuff because we were inadvertently exposed to it while playing our video games, and, later on, surfing the early Web. My first programming language was MS-DOS batch files, simply because it was readily available.
In a city having excellent public transport makes even more sense than cars :) And outside the city space isn't an issue.
I'm not thinking about donations, though. I'm thinking about structural funding, like how science is funded.
I don't want my kids rooting their phones. Also I use facebook, but I dislike it and don't trust them, but I use it and Messenger occasionally to keep in touch with some friends. I also use WhatsApp fair bit.

I like the fact that Facebook can't pull their apps from the store, put them on a rival store with lax standards, or otherwise circumvent the app store controls. These controls clear benefits for me, but side loading and alternate stores would cripple their effectiveness. In fact crippling the effectiveness of these controls is the purpose of side loading and alternate stores.

If you want a phone you can root, buy one. There are options out there. Why do you want to take my choice away from me?
You can learn about design, arts, literature, drawing et al without having to sacrifice the freedom to own your device. Apple devices deliver great UX despite their walled garden. They can have their ecosystem without locking people out of running their own software or making it difficult to repair it. Don't create a false dichotomy.
I don't really see it this way. For many people, the only company of consequence that is tracking them is ultimately Google (and/or Facebook). Trackers that other companies install in their emails or websites are just sending the data back to Google in the end anyway. It's a redundant way for Google to capture information to build a profile of you with, but if you're using Gmail anyway, they don't need the extra tracking, they still get the same information.
The beauty of being a Grinch is you don't need to hide it.

I have no birthday, and I don't celebrate gift giving holidays. I don't want any presents, and I won't reciprocate.

I do apprechiate postcards and holiday cards though, but I don't generally send them and I'll feel a little bad about that. Maybe one day, my heart will grow three sizes and I'll start sending a handful of cards.
If you open Chrome devtools on Facebook there’s a huge red warning saying “if someone told you to do this they are trying to scam you and steal your account!”

So there may be a good reason why Apple don’t want this to happen, given that essentially everything is on your phone these days.

There’s still Android
I personally love this in a post-Brexit context.
It's well past midnight, I've been interacting with apps designed to maximize 'user engagement' since 8 PM. I don't have coherent thoughts, I'm opening irrelevant tabs habitually. This is not healthy. I have a problem. That problem is mindless browsing, and it feels engineered.

Not saying you're wrong, just that your ideas don't work for me.
Reminds me of the joke I heard the other day:

Q: Which is heavier, 100kg of lead or 100kg of feathers?

A: The feathers, as you have to carry around what you did to those poor birds...
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My main problem with Bitcoin is that the number of times it has been used for advertising prices is still negligible. By contrast, fiat currencies are ubiquitously used to advertise prices. So Bitcoin got its intangible differently from a normal fiat currency and Bitcoin can loose it again. https://bitcoin.isnot.money
What worked best for me was putting in sentences rather than single words.

So I might put in: ハンバーガーを食べる

Then there's two good ways to practice this. One is just reading/recognition. Can you understand the sentence?

The other way is to make it into a card to practise output:
ハンバーガーを_____ (eat)

The part in brackets is a hint to help you get the correct word. Your hints at the start will often be direct translations of words, but you can also use images, emoji, dictionary definitions in the L2. Anything is ok, or combinations.

I often make my output cards very easy:

ハンバーガーをた____ (eat)

While it may look too easy, I still have to remember the word I'm studying.

In general words taken from real books, TV shows, youtube videos tend to stick in my mind a lot better than words from textbooks, wordlists and grammar books. Those tools have their place but they're not the be all and end all.

Good luck! And remember it's a long road. I've made 6000 flashcards over 10 years to learn a second language and I'm still far from "done".
Librem 5 and Pinephone both allow deep tinkering without privacy problems.
This isn't about changing the native language to English, France gets to keep its French language. This is about using the language that most people understand in the entire EU. French is not that language, English is. The vote went probably like this... We can choose between French and German, cause Britain left the EU. German is disliked by more countries than French hence French won. The end result is we need more interpreters and it costs the tax payers more money.
A quote from datscilly, the top forecaster on metaculus:

>AGI may never happen, but the chance of that is small enough that adjusting for that here will not make a big difference (I put ~10% that AGI will not happen for 500 years or more, but it already matches that distribution quite well).[1]

[1]:https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hQysqfSEzciRazx8k/forecastin...
The same will happen to other markets if we don't vote with our wallets.

Philips is already planning to offer "Light as a service" to consumers. Citing circularity concerns, after all the incentive is now on them to make lightbulbs last as long as possible rather than as short as possible.

But really it means they've been cheating us with planned obsolescence for years.

I really don't want to be dependent on monthly contracts for every little thing. Never. I spend 20 euros per year on lightbulbs and I have a lot of smart ones. I'm sure any subscription plan won't be that cheap. Because the whole point of subscription models is for the company to make lots of money while doing nothing.
It's not untrackable unless you opt out of "FindMy" services and disable bluetooth (disable, rather than disconnect).

Why can't I run Xcode on iOS or iPadOS devices? What's the technical limitation? These devices have the capability to render stuff on larger screens wirelessly, and one can connect keyboards to them. The limitation is purely artificial.
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It boggles my mind how many people I've heard coughing followed by "don't worry, it's not covid". How on earth would they know?
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I've heard that ibogaine can reset opiate addiction. I bet it's used to some positive effect with methamphetamine too.
> the vaccine version of spike has been stabilized so as to remain in the default state resulting in a bias toward neutralizing antibodies.

I'm not strong in molecular immunology. Does that also hold for the mRNA vaccines? Or only those that ship the spike protein itself?
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Try disabling Windows update...

Also, almost every patch has issues these days: that hardly ever used to happen. Their quality has taken a dive.

I am not saying that is isn't the perfect tool for many people: it has been for many years. The issue is that when I wanted to change things and leave them changed, I used to be able to do that. Now, they are doing their best to remove that ability! That makes no sense! Let me break it if I want! I have no warranty anyway!

Disable Windows update and it comes back on due to the Windows Update Medic Service. Ok, disable that then! Oops, you're not allowed. Ok, I can circumvent this by changing permissions on the dll and then deleting it. I'll then run updates later at a time of my choosing. Now I run updates. Oops, it's back again! Microsoft knows best.

By all means make it easy for the "typical" user. But I wish they'd stop taking away the underlying power-user stuff because they think they know best!
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> So there may be a good reason why Apple don’t want this to happen

Yes, this is why the phones are locked by default. This is not at all why the phones aren't unlockable, though. They can be unlockable and still be secure. Apple just doesn't want to give you the choice.
> it could in theory given enough time and resources.

In theory given enough time and resources, anyone can defeat any grandmaster in Chess: just compute the extended tree form of the game and run the minimax algorithm.

The "given enough time and resources" clause makes everything that follows meaningless, unless a reasonable algorithm is presented.

> It is like quantum computing.

It is absolutely not like quantum computing. Shor's algorithm is something you can look up right now. It is precise and well-defined. The problems we are facing with quantum computation are related to the fact that we can't really build reliable hardware. But we know that given such machines the algorithm would work. We have precise bounds and requirements on those machines.

As far as AGI goes, we have absolutely no idea. There's lively debate on whether anything we have done even counts as significant advancement towards AGI.
I’m stressing the business part. YouTube is a loss-making business year after year. Deep Mind gloss doesn’t seem to change that.

If indeed it even is Deep Mind making those improvements, Google has lots of other ML groups, such as Google Brain, and these are more directly focused on Google products.

There’s no denying their academic success, or game playing etc, but as far as I can see, the data centre cooling bit is the only palpable (public) business success.
Trust notwithstanding, it all depends on what your time is worth. What's an equivalent uber going to cost when autonomous driving is a real thing?
It doesn’t really matter. Apple takes 30% since rules are for all. You can do your business on Android in 3rd party store or without store and don’t pay any fees. But Android users are poor by statistics and no one is using sideloading or 3rd part stores in US. That’s why she hates Apple - they built successful and platform by investing billions and now someone wants to exploit it for free.
I own a Tesla, have the base model 3 and didn't pay for full self driving. On motorways and A roads the self drive experience is reasonably adequate. Naturally, on any reasonably long journey there are dozens of times you'll have to take over from autopilot and steer around some corner or some hazard.

It really doesn't bother me whether it gets better or they add full self driving. Charging your car isn't a big stinking problem, it's an inherent feature.
I think the mixture is more important. I don’t necessarily need my developers to know a whole lot about what our networking personal does. But I do need them to know how to configure a trusted partner in our ADFS, how to create and manage databases and how to operate things in Azure. We used to think differently, we used to do much more specialisation, but because operations needed to also code, they eventually became developers who could also do operations, which meant that some of them simply ended up replacing some of the developers who simply took up too much man hours to get things into production by comparison.

It’s sort of a delicate line of course, because you’re right on some level. People can’t know everything. So now our split is that developers need to be capable of working with things like Azure AD, but they don’t need to know how to manage it. They need to be capable of creating databases and how to handle the security on them, but they don’t need to know how we operate our actual database clusters. And so on.

On the flip side some of our operations staff need to know how to program in python to be able to handle disasters if something happens to our Azure Services or many back-ends. They also need to know how to develop our software robots.

But I think the biggest challenge most people face isn’t really on the operations vs development front. It’s on the new development vs old development improvement front. This is likely not as big an issue at a place like Netflix where they don’t service a gazillion different business needs, but in more broader enterprise businesses it quickly becomes a resource issue, because nobody is really going to have updated knowledge on 400 different systems at all times. And you can’t have people sitting around waiting for update requests on systems that may not produce one in a year.
Great that you didn't give up :)
You mean 250 hours a year, not a week. But 31 minutes commuting per day is super low, that's 15 minutes each way. I doubt that is really the average to be honest.

Of course with the pandemic commuting is not a big time sink anymore but I wonder how permanent this will be.
> Illegal drug manufacturers have a moderate economic pressure to increase purity, but - short of not immediately killing users and losing your customer base - they have little economic incentive to ensure that the impurities that remain in the final product are safe or inert.

From the time of alcohol prohibition, it was the government that was introducing contaminated batches that killed people. It was done for propaganda, to solidify the message "drugs are bad".

When I read articles about another teenager died of bad Ecstasy batch, this always comes to my mind. It always accompanies PSA saying that bad batches are circulating in the area etc. but somehow nobody else dies.
Then when you read article almost always it turns out the drug wasn't actually Ecstasy, but that information is hidden deep in the article.
It's disgusting how such tragedies are used for propaganda purposes and it is never investigated if it was actually government involvement in the killings.
Or growing out of literally nothing but dirt and water.
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> Alternative fuel trucking and shipping is just not there yet in terms of scale.

It would be there if we wanted to make the necessary infrastructure investment. Currently everyone's looking at amazing new battery technology to enable electric transportation, but that isn't the only way to get there. We could be electrifying the interstate highway system so that cars can get power directly from the roads, and only need batteries for short local trips.

If we had wanted to enable electric transportation, say, forty years ago that would have been the only option. It would have been expensive but we could have done it. Now, batteries are good enough that we have a choice, but I still think electrifying the highways ought to be something we're seriously thinking about doing.
Can't someone take one for the team and set up a place to absorb all of this? It's no fun trying to hang out with someone who's grinding the same old axe every day, especially if it's some lame anti-whoever diatribe.

I don't mind people having whatever views or even irrational and harmful biases, as long as they don't shoehorn them into everything they say. I'm happy to have an interesting discussion with someone who stays on topic and says interesting things, it doesn't matter to me (right then) if I wouldn't think much of other aspects of their life. You don't have to "bring your whole self" to hn or new-reddit or wherever else.
how they made money off it?
So far I wouldn't talk about "poor" guys