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Ask HN: How to measure new app downloads on Google Play and Apple Store?
How do you measure new app downloads on Google Play and Apple Store? What metrics do you usually track? What tools do you usually use to measure the above metrics?
on a related question: Do you know a CLI tool that would allow me to explore a Rest API interactively?
The difference being that state monopolies pay 100% of their profits to the treasury and have a much, much better track record.
> Combining "detestation" ("I don't like you") with vilification ("You're evil") is a concern. The first is legitimate opinion. The second is defamation. For which truth is a defense under US law.

You think that is a significant concern? I wonder whether "you're a nazi", "you're a white supremacist", "you're nazi-adjacent", "you're racist", "you're islamophobic", etc. would apply here? I'm sure it wouldn't, which is why the regressive left will most likely continue to cheer the destruction of western liberal democracies.
For BIOSes that allow such a thing, maybe... IIRC, at least for windows 8 on ARM, this possibility wasn't required or even desired: https://www.theverge.com/microsoft/2012/1/16/2710502/microso...
Thunderbolt is really poorly documented in general and the only documentation for Thunderbolt networking and the underlying XDomain stuff appears to the Linux patches: https://lwn.net/Articles/734019/ USB4 appears to have only minor changes compared to Thunderbolt.
They really need to stop. They did it for 8chan, why not this? How many more people need to die before anything changes?
>Also, have you read the report?

Yes, it's publicly available and even linked to in this thread.
How to Build a Blotto Box
Apple might be the Mayor of Dongletown, but the dongles they do make are usually very good.
With something like a FormLabs Form 2, 3D printing can go really far. And, with a Form 2, you will be printing parts from the get go and not dorking around with the printer all the time.

My biggest problem is still when I want to do something in Stainless Steel. I really wish I had some way to deal with Stainless without needing a gigantic machine.
>Byuu as far as I know, identified as non-binary, which is why they started harassing him.

Previously this comment contained an ill-mannered correction of the mistaken pronoun usage. However, this is completely unnecessary so I will replace it with this message, and a reminder that Near used they/them pronouns. Apologies.
I was just thinking about this! For me it's "All build tools". I rely on them so heavily, and they have started putting nag/beg messages in them and everything. I know they'd really appreciate the funds but still I've never even thought about doing it.

I kind of don't understand why anyone would ever work on a build tool/package manager for a language: I expect them to be bug-free, stay out of my way, be fast - and even if it is all those things - I'll jump ship to the next big thing as soon as it's available without any appreciation for all the work that went into it!
"Men are scum" is now hate speech.
I call that a "gnu readline" interface. I suppose you could also call it a "zork" interface, especially if there is a lot of state that can be navigated. Compare with "curses" for an ascii-art gui like alsamixer.
> I really wanted to like Onivim 2, but went back to Visual Studio code after supporting the creator on Patreon for a while.

Same, though I went back to MacVim. I thought they might bring something new to the table, bit it felt so much like VSCode + a vim plug-in, except with a subscription.

I was really just hoping for MacVim bit with a nicer UI.
There were microcosms of community in that kind of collection. For example if a movie made it to the video store, instead of everyone just watching it at their house you had more incentive to get a bunch of mates to watch it at someones house together.

You also knew what everyone had access to so you mostly watched the same stuff. These days I can watch whatever niche thing I want, but none of my friends will have seen it.
In this case it is both capitalist and communist at the same time. I wouldn't be so sure that something that involves no capitalists and no private ownership of capital is capitalist though (communal ownership being different from private ownership).
I installed a virtual camera driver (eg, Canon's EOS camera driver) and set that camera as the default. If any program starts up the camera unexpectedly, they get a giant "NO EOS DEVICE CONNECTED" instead of me partially clothed with my no-coffee-yet face on.
it isn't the number of points that determines position on the homepage, it is the number of upvotes per unit of time.

once the upvote rate decreases, so does the story's position.

very explicable.
It's funny all the detestable worms I've seen suddenly crawling out of the woodwork trying to defend critical race theory by lying and mischaracterizing it as "acknowledging racism exists", and not by the racist divisive hateful unscientific and unproven disaster that is the type of garbage you're talking about.

I wonder what set them off suddenly. Hopefully people are waking up to their lies and hate.

EDIT: Seems we've got a lot of racist hatemongers and their supporters on this site. Gross.
Being the "confused grandparent" might be a fantastic way to teach via the Socratic method. Moreso if one is savvy enough to know what's likely being done (such as remote-admin by the school board), what is rather dystopian and ought to be avoided (see above), and how to work around the blocks put in place by others.
That’s why I asked. I just read it myself and it doesn’t say that a catastrophe is imminent. It looks relatively mundane.
I thought it's one dev who died? Is the whole team gone as well?
I reprogrammed myself to no longer be annoyed. Here is how:

I started by learning how to do breath meditation. It is a basic attention exercise when I put all my attention into my breathing, in the belly or at the nostrils, the same way I pay attention to where paintbrush touches the paper.

I then committed myself to immediately start breath meditation whenever I found myself annoyed. I practiced primarily in three areas: loud and high-pitched noises, waiting for something, and work meetings. Anytime it happened, I would, internally, go into putting my attention to my breath.

After a while, I noticed that my "catch" would happen sooner. When I was first starting out, it would happen when I was already full-on feeling annoyed. But then I started catching myself when I was "beginning to get annoyed", and then when "about to begin getting annoyed".

Eventually, my emotional response to these annoying events, which I now believe to be largely learned, has become unwired, and I no longer experience that feeling, emotional state, and all the debilitating consequences.

Sure, it still happens now and then. And I'm still bothered by noises which are too loud-- I wear ear plugs often. But overall, this has been a huge deal in terms of changing my "quality of experience" day-to-day.
Do you expect Cuba to produce literally every single drug in the world? No? Then you cannot ad-hominem the blocus away.
What is the average age of a Kiwi Farms user? Is it possible that these are all just kids with a lot of time trolling people?

Of course what happened to Byuu/Near is repugnant and horrible and shouldn't happen to anyone.

I just don't understand the mentality of people to do this and not feel remorse.
Sometimes there’s not _enough_ turnover. The teams get stuck in one way of doing things and don’t encounter innovative ideas or grow new skills that come from a new hires different experiences.

I’d also venture to say turnover was very low at the beginning of the pandemic, and a backlog of turnover is catching up to us.

Also in my experience the range of reasons why people leave jobs is extremely varied. It can be hard to pinpoint a pattern. Many people were burned out from Covid and want time not working. Some might have preferred working at the office. Others might preferred staying remote instead of coming back to an office. Money matters to some people. Other people care about their title, or what they get to work on. Some are taking advantage of a red hot job market. Some don’t want to work at a company that’s grown beyond their preferred size. Others just got a pay out and want something low key. Literally heard _all of these_ in the last few months.
With JavaScript-based websites, everyone can witness what does “Remote Programming” looks like: rarely, there are pages which really benefit from “remote programming” (JavaScript interactivity)... but in most cases, there is no benefit for user, just a lot of slowdown. A few-years-old tablet is basically unusable for web browsing - even pages with rarely changing contents, such as news articles and weather forecasts, require hundreds of megabytes of RAM and minutes of CPU time.

Turns out there is a trade off between speed of development of new software, and a resource usage of the resulting programs. And allowing one to write code to be run on someone else’s computer means there is no longer a need to optimize very hard, as it is not your CPU time that is being wasted.
For the same reason you shouldn't use peak valuation when estimating losses, you shouldn't use buy in value either.

Your loss is 2.5M × market rate at the time of loss.
So this almost word for word reminds me of the moral panic of the 1990s about political correctness. “There is a professor, he is doing professor thing and he know a bunch about this subject but the students went after him and he wasn’t allowed to continue to teach and now we have less education.”

In reality in those cases there was almost no backlash and in fact everyone treated the professor with kid gloves while what he purported to have done was way worse and what the students had done was way overblown (see the Political Correctness of the excellent podcast called You Are Wrong About). So pardon me if I don’t buy this particular article/story line.
These are blasphemy laws by another name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law). Coming soon to a "liberal" democracy near you.
Here in the United States, criticism of Israeli state policy as it affects Palenstians is often labeled antisemitic. Laws have been passed on that basis to proscribe the pro-Palestinean Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions movement [0]:

>In the US, a large number of anti-BDS laws have been passed. As of 2020, 32 states have laws that prevent boycotts against Israel and a number of non-binding resolutions have been passed denouncing BDS. A majority of these have passed with strong bipartisan support. Two federal acts have been introduced, the 2017 Israel Anti-Boycott Act and the 2019 Combating BDS Act, both intended to deprive entities participating in boycotts of Israel of government contract work. In several states, these laws have been challenged on First Amendment grounds for violating citizens' freedom of speech.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sancti...
That could be a bad assumption. In some circumstances, inspectors with ties to construction companies may have incentives to add to the sales funnel, but I believe, anecdotally, that inspection companies tend to have no ties with construction companies to avoid the optics of exactly what you are describing.

Anyone that's ever gone to a mechanic knows getting inspection come from the place that's supposed to do the work is a crap shoot.
I have an iphone 7+ in mint condition. The only issue is the IC Audio chip and a dwindling battery. I can probably fix the battery myself. The IC Audio chip is another issue and the two places I've called have given me two estimates - one for $235 and the other for $325.

I love that phone, but the cost of that repair is more than the phone is worth, and I doubt Apple would fix it for any less.
It briefly got to #2 but was deduped with other posts from earlier that hadn't gotten many comments. I guess that makes the algorithm count comments relative to the original timestamp and it fell to page two.
A lot of buildings have similar warnings but since they don’t collapse typically they will be ignored.

The millennium tower in SF for instance, has been sinking and tilting for years, could probably just suddenly collapse one day not unlike this building in Surfside. The carnage would be immense though, as it is a massive building.

At the end of the day, if you want full peace of mind you need to live in your own detached home and be aware of your own buildings issues and correct them.
And Near was very much a person that lived a large part of their life online. Those who bullied him took away a home and a place where he found connections to people. I hope those involved somehow reflect on what they are doing and realize that there are humans on the other end and change their ways, though a quick check of the forum in question shows members are celebrating this news or putting out conspiracy theories that it is some kind of publicity stunt to promote higan.

Truly disheartened and saddened. Be good to people everyone. Even people, dare I say especially the people, you disagree with or dislike. Everyone is going through something you know nothing about.
This (https://miki.mimix.io/en/old-home-2) page documents that this is based of Wikijs (https://docs.requarks.io/) but did not document (or maybe I couldn't find) the comparison with it and / or is it just a managed-wikijs as a service or has MiMix added some more features to it to sort of build on top of WikiJs.
As long as the economy stays okish, crypto might fall 50% but it will get up a bit again as well. Wait for an economic crisis to see it tank to for real. When msft drops 80%, btc will be under 5k again. It will happen. People seem to have some weird faith this time is different because covid postponed things. For now you can make a lot of money with btc weekly: it drops hard 1 or 2 times a week and then goes back up 3-4k. But when 'the normal' economy bottoms out, it will drop and the 'hodlers' will be out of trillions. If you keep that in mind: happy trading but hodlers are crazy imho.
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Having read the report, I am stopping my monthly contributions to NPR.

This is straight up quote mining as far as I'm concerned. Nothing in the report would lead me to believe the structure was in imminent danger if I were a resident / board member / inspector etc.

This is trash journalism.

Edit: I would like to note the following for people following this story:

The report author has stated:

“among other things, our report detailed significant cracks and breaks in the concrete, which required repairs to ensure the safety of the residents and the public.” [1]

However, such language about 'safety of the residents' is not present in his report. It has further been reported that the report author did not make such disclosures to residents at a condo board meeting.

"Not once did Morabito share with us any sense of urgency, at least not the residents," Alvarez said, who lived on the 10th floor. "He never said the building was falling apart. He said the repairs were to bring the building up to today's standards of beauty." [2]

1. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/surfside-condos-neighbors-...

2. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/surfside-official-was-sent...
When the people who are championing this theory while presenting no evidence happen to also be very pro-white power, yeah it sure sounds like hate speech. Just because a broken clock is right twice a day doesn’t mean you should go by it.
The report is signed and stamped by the principal PE (professional engineer) not a construction company. These PEs are licensed by the state.

It’s linked in the thread and is very readable.

The report is rather matter of fact and lays out on page 7 what the problem was and what needs to happen to fix. This was 2018. Because a lot is unknowable these reports don’t tend to give a timeline for structural failure, but it does give some serious warnings.
In this case your belief is fully unfalsifiable.

Governments with the same governance structure as Cuba (Vietnam, China) have been achieving even better numbers, despite lifting all measures and being full of foreigners. Because of this I expect actual evidence the data is false.
My bet is because more than one thing happens (some insult to the mitochondria in parallel, say) and/or because the gene is actually expressing something metabolic we don't understand. Seyfried (I think) actually points out the parallel metabolic influence of some therapies that we think are working genetically.
I think the patches are Apple’s security updates, not a community OS hackintosh thing
> LunarVim and Kakoune (kak) have TreeSitter, for really, really good syntax highlighting.

While Vim's regexp-based syntax highlights certainly has limitations even in fairly simple cases, and I would love to see something better, the downside of these things is that people get carried away and add colours to everything.

A little bit of colour is very helpful. Ten different colours seemingly chosen at random is not.

I tried that LunarVim thing, which was a somewhat frustrating experience as it doesn't work on light terminals at all (setting background=light and :colorscheme default seems completely broken), somewhat ironic that a project which bills "better colours" as one of its main points doesn't actually work with a common background colour, but okay.

The colours for Go are ... not great. Is there any point in highlighting string literals in a different colour than numbers, and bools yet another colour? What extra information does that convey? Or what's the point of highlighting operators in blue? Giving _ its own special colour? That doesn't make it easier to read – quite the opposite as there's an overload of information.

There are 10 unique colours with the default Go colorscheme (vs. 4). This alone is noisy and distracting, but they're not even especially well chosen as there's significant overlap with completely unrelated things highlighted in a different colour (escape sequences the same as functions, or nil the same as func; no idea what the point of that is as it's not even a keyword).

In short, these tools are nice, but I fear it will lead to an explosion of extremely badly designed colour schemes where people add stuff "because they can" and "ohhh, colours!" without actually thinking if it's a good idea or not. I saw this with vim-go where people constantly sent in patches for dubious colour scheme changes, and you spend forever argueing why it's not a good idea, and at least "it's very slow and will complicate things a lot" was a meaningful barrier.

Darn I sound like a grumpy old man... But really, these are design issues I don't see enough consideration of. No colours is bad; some colours is super helpful, but loads of random colours is even worse than no colours. There's some research on it too; NASA did research for colour usage in flight control systems for example and came to the same conclusion (which I can't seem to find right now). Another fun example is the "count the triangles" vs "count the red shapes" in [1]; counting the red shapes is easier, but counting the triangles is easier in the monochrome version vs. the coloured one.

[1]: https://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2019/11-21-dijkstra/
The person you're replying to is right, actually (aside from the merging a sibling comment mentions). Twitter links are default downweight by HN.
>what people call "being psychic" where you can access information that should be impossible for you to know by conventional means

This subjective experience is the principal aspect of schizophrenia, or clinical paranoia, that I am aware of.

The issue with paranoia or magical thinking is that it's not really a matter of what facts are real, but what they mean - is something "just" a coincidence or not?

Being correct with hindsight does not mean you necessarily knew in advance.

One tends to assume that mental illness involves a failure to reason logically. But I believe it's more about seeing too many correlations, which are in fact frequently there, but a normal mind automatically filters out as meaningless.

A sane mind is no better at rejecting them through logic, which is why insanity can be very frightening in an existential way.
There's a good overview of it here [1]. The author of the article has a lot of weird twitter opinions these days, but the incidents he's citing here are all real.

[1]: https://theintercept.com/2017/08/29/in-europe-hate-speech-la...
Is it still running through javascript? I get confused by all the different interpretations of native.
Remember that it’s about them, not you. Just because you find a feature useful doesn’t mean they will care. I can’t tell you how many software sales folks have come by hammering me about some feature of their software that they found really great that my team couldn’t have cared less about.

And make your customers personal when you can. Nothing makes a vendor less interesting then when I see an email begin “Hello, “ and then go into some spiel where they say they could save me millions without realizing I already have most of their genius already implemented through another tool.
I didn’t downvote, but … this is just some claims and assertions with no reason to believe them. It’s fine that you think these things I guess, but it’s not a useful comment cause it’s just speculation and frankly it sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder about previous experiences with inspectors. Are there really “thousand of daily reports” like this, or is that just a feeling you have? Is the threshold of “urgently fix this for safety reasons” too low due to bad incentives? I don’t know, and though you think that, you haven’t backed it up so the comment is low quality and the downvotes are helpful imo.
I’m sure if China wants in my garage they can figure out a way with or without this device

It’s quite nice though. You can even have Amazon drop their packages inside the garage through some single use token or something. I for one have way too much value of tools and whatnot in my garage to grant that trust but I wish I could.
Yet here they are, with a standard of life incomparably higher than their neighbors, and an effective vaccine despite tiny resources. How do you explain that?

Perhaps human nature is that people actually do useful work in some conditions when allowed to?
I can see why the condo didn't jump on this. There's not a lot of urgency on the repairs in the letter, and certainly no warning of "do this or the structure will collapse".
It's interesting that the report begins by mentioning water infiltration issues in some units and that the part about structural damage only starts on page seven. I wonder if that's usual for this kind of report to put the major expensive structural repairs at the end.
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I think part of this is agency. Saying "well if its Boeing I won't go" is a mechanism to maintain control and agency over your own life. The irrationality is there, but the desire for agency is very rational. As we get older, we seek more of it, against a world which is giving us less of it. There's a peak, and past 40, you seem to get more "I will tell you what to do" from the world at large. Hit 60, and its a bit overwhelming.

Agency and also.. a wierd age-related dichotomy of both more confidence (to choose to act or speak) and less confidence (about your place in the world) -Speaking up, holding irrational views gives you back a sense of control and confidence.

"I know I'm right" (even while a tiny nodule inside is saying "you sure?")

(59. Get off my lawn)
The point is not scaling in the way I think you mean. The point is that lossy, messy, less targeted search was a different mode of finding. It required something more than just consumption on the part of the human. And it rewarded us with unexpected bounties.

Browsing was more like fishing than being served fish fingers.

Stewart Brand's information wanted to be free. Today's information wants to be whatever the algorithm will allow us to have. That's what the article is trying to get us to think about. Without telling us what to think.