skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you willing to spend 27% more for everything to use Apple payment gateway?

This is the argument Epic's tried to make, and it isn't particularly convincing. The iOS App Store is filled with cheap apps, to the point where many people react to a one-time price of $9.99 as disturbingly expensive. Apps and games that are literally identical on iOS to other platforms are frequently cheaper in their iOS releases because that's what the market expects. So in practice, the 30% cost is usually being eaten by developers, not passed on to consumers. There's a lot of good arguments to be made for cutting that 30% share down to 15% for everyone across the board, but "now you'll only be charged $4.99 instead of $5.99 for this game you would have paid $14.99 for on the Switch version" just isn't one of them.
> 99%

Your describing a monopoly. IMO the real question is what actually harms consumers.

Requiring companies to open their platforms is one option for regulation, but perhaps not ideal. Great for tech companies sure, but possibly a huge opportunity for scammers. Consumers and companies are often at odds, banning app coins for example is great for gamers and the opposite of an open platform.

A flat regulation that all software platforms are limited to X% fees might be a better option.
There seems to be consensus that the delta wave won't end until the US reaches at least 85% herd immunity (either through vaccination or infection). It's clear from polling that there is a large enough minority of American adults who won't take the vaccine voluntarily (under any circumstances) to achieve this level of immunity, so that leaves infection. Letting covid 'rip' through the remaining unvaccinated population will bring tens or hundreds of thousands of additional, unnecessary deaths, even with wide availability of current therapeutics.

If you want the pandemic, masking, lockdowns etc to end for good, it seems a vaccine mandate is the only way forward (absent some as-yet-to-be-invented technology). What am I missing here? Is there some other way to 'convince' anti-vaxxers to take it? Is 100k+ Americans dead an 'acceptable loss' to maintain some perception of 'medical freedom?'
OT, but I just wanted to say that your RedHat interview was interesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28484534
Because apparently SEC had years ago issued an order that breaches must be disclosed if they may have a material impact on shareholders (e.g. a potential large lawsuit from customers some years afterwards when the full extent becomes known), and it's the job of SEC to ensure that company executives don't hide company problems from the shareholders.

In essence, if you want to keep your dirty laundry private, then you're not allowed to take money from the public stock market, as investors (i.e. everyone if you want to be publicly traded) deserve to know about any major issues with your private servers. SEC doesn't care about how poor your security is as long as the company is open about it, but it absolutely cares if company lies about their (lack of) exposure to its owners.
No, it isn't. Ungoogled Chromium is.
I didn’t say young adults, though there is mounting evidence that even children can and do suffer from long term effects.

For anyone who doubts the prevalence of long COVID, it isn’t hard to find the growing pile of credible research -

The University to Arizona study is recent, and while it wasn’t an age specific study they cite 67% of people having symptoms after 30 days - https://news.arizona.edu/story/many-mild-covid-19-infections...

Chest CTs are abnormal in 75% of asymptomatic(!) COVID diagnosed individuals - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7846889/

This is a year old, but for 18-34 year olds it cites 1 in 5 hadn’t returned to their usual state of health 2-3 weeks out…
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6930e1.htm?s_cid=mm...
The private employer story is much more impactful/news-worthy IMO than a federal employee mandate. Also the whitehouse.gov link seems more authoritative than NPRs coverage of it.

I understand the need to keep flamewars down, but hiding this thread doesn't feel right to me. Just my 2 cents.
I think your comment presumes a well-defined difference between "public" and "private" that doesn't really exist.

It's not like web pages spontaneously run into your home and throw themselves in your face. Simply publishing a blog to the web for those who happen to seek it out lets the audience themselves decide what is public what is private.

The audience still has complete control over the use of their own time.
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I never said I was following the story. I just traveled there and have Chinese friends/family in the US and in China. That's why I commented.
You would really pay a 30% premium on all your digital purchases just to be warned about a subscription expiring next year? You might be an edge case.
True. And here is where what people think is a virtue of a standard Unix shell (zsh or bash, say) is actually not as good as it seems ("it's already everywhere"); because shells like this don't have dependency management, you have to do it all yourself. Either out of band (make sure curl and jq is installed, which awk is this? oh and all the other little things that are buried in my scripts and functions but are not declared in a standard way). Now I have a full-on configuration management problem that I will need to integrate--just to make your shell scripts, snippets and functions work) or by bizarre horkiness in your scripts (pure-bash json libs, anyone?).

Interestingly, if all of your machines were to have Powershell core, you can actually do a lot of what you describe over SSH more elegantly with Powershell remoting.
The vaccine does not stop you from catching the virus and spreading it. This has been settled science for months and months. Stop spreading disinformation.
Getting to 8% body fat didnt seem sustainable. Unless I threw everything away and worked in a gym the rest of my life. I havent tried to max squats since, 2y. Now, I just do my 5x5 every 2-4 days using the same weight.
There is also a lot of money to be made scamming poor people via wage theft. When you compare the consequences of an employee stealing something versus a company not paying the correct wages you see that that’s almost the perfect crime.
What do you mean? If purchases are directed to a developers own payment system I don’t have a choice, I cannot force that developer to use Apples payment system can I?
Damn this makes me hella excited for the upcoming Next.js conference!
> (my experience is informed by using i3 to tile and sometimes emacs)

He needs a cross platform solution.

Also, magit is horrible in Windows.
My favourite oracle issue was an older version would not install on Linux if you had number lock key on!
I think how and why the breach occurred matters more than what information was accessed. In asset management, for example, when you’re dealing with an error you don’t just look at the dollar amount. Maybe the error only cost a couple thousand dollars today (or maybe it even made money!) but the exact same error on another trading day could just have easily been ten, or a hundred, or even a thousand times more costly. That the error happened at all is the material event. And that’s why there’s no such thing as a de minimus trading error. Sometimes you just get lucky in the magnitude of the impact. Even if it didn’t cost you anything you still need to address the weak point that allowed the error to happen in the first place.

So even if a system with absolutely no information was breached if your other system(s) use(s) the same or similar security then it doesn’t really matter that nothing was taken. The breach could still material (and require disclosure) because it’s exposed a material security vulnerability.
The aws docs aren’t concise, but they have a lot of good information in them if you want to go in depth. I learned a lot back when I was an intern by reading them

Iirc, the postgres docs were also good reading in a similar way: not concise, but a lot of good information
" In less mathematical terms, the longer the discussion, the more likely a Nazi comparison becomes, and with long enough discussions, it is a certainty."

Seems like a silly "law". In mathematical terms, the longer the discussion, the more likely literally any comparison becomes. With a long enough discussion, every possible comparison being mentioned is a certainty.
The Law embodies the will of the ruling class. This is what we were taught back in school.
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Perhaps not for embedded, but it's being compared to a development board with 16 GB.
> Yes, like the examples I gave.

Small primitive apps with little functionality and barely anything beyond text. Or really limited in their functionality. Or have to hide the absolute vast majority of their interface behind multiple clicks.

Also. Telegram isn't "smartphone-style". It's a native app.

> It sounds like you’re imagining Photoshop in a mobile form factor

Yes, I am. Because here's the list of apps I actually use daily:

- IntelliJ IDEA

- Figma/Sketch

- GitUp

- Terminal/iTerm

Oh, look. All of them cannot be "it's just mobile apps, just blow them up, they will work with little to no midification"
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I struggled in my CS studies, especially the basic training was hard, because it was so abstract and theoretical.

Later in life I learned that I can grasp theory much better when I saw AND worked on a bunch of practical examples myself before diving into theory.
One thing I’ll add, regardless of the medium of information, I absolutely have to have a big picture real-world view of the context or it’s incredibly hard to learn. I may memorize things easily but it’s just data until I understand how all the parts fit together and see it working. No matter how it’s explained, until I see it for myself it won’t click or I’ll imagine something that makes sense but isn’t the same as the actual reality.

It’s a blessing and a curse, I have great big picture creating thinking abilities, seeing things that aren’t there but could be, however I also often have to “learn the hard way” in many areas of life because I don’t internalize things second-hand very well.
To be fair, when Hacker News publishes "____ Has Died" posts and makes the title bar black, 99% of the time I have absolutely zero idea who "____" was. So I don't think it's terribly over-burdensome to expect the curious to highlight a name, right-click, and select "Search".

In this case, the opening of the person's Wikipedia page probably sums it up right away:

> In the article, Khan argued that the current American antitrust law framework, which focuses on keeping consumer prices down, cannot account for the anticompetitive effects of platform-based business models such as that of Amazon. She proposed alternative approaches for doing so, including "restoring traditional antitrust and competition policy principles or applying common carrier obligations and duties."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Khan
> It's a new game, and we need new definitions. [..] Famgopolies (FAAMG companies with supremely anticompetitive behavior) behave different than monopolies.

There are many authors that have been exploring the economic aspect of platforms. As such nowadays that phenomenon is know as "platform capitalism" in literature due to Nick Srnicek's 2016 Polity book of the same name. [1]

[1]: https://theceme.org/richard-godden-platform-capitalism-nick-...
> The fundamental problem.

You lost me. If some context was in there (as in "the current fundamental problem on my known platforms"), then everything else you said would follow. But there must be a way to do better.

I can personally think of many tactics currently unused by any social platform -- all of which would need testing to verify their efficacy -- but they leave the question open none-the-less.
> It's not like the doctor [...] are trustworthy on the privacy front.

That perception worries me. Medical information is confidential, it's the only reason doctors are trusted with such data. If this fundamental principle is corrupted, then nobody in healthcare can be trusted.
Not only are swipes underused to build consensus, I dont even believe Tinder is the best example. Baby name apps are. A couple download an app, join a meeting room and swipe. Common names appear on a list.

Now imagine that a restaurant picker could determine whether you never want mexican or dont want mexican today.

Swipes are too often thought of as a binary left/right, when really they are more of a radial menu. Swipe left-up could mean not this time. Swipe left-down means never. Swipe straight up to signify something as to come back to. Swiping is easily 4 to 6 to 8 different outputs of vote. The screen should represent a different color for each one until you let go, so you know which option you are releasing on. Things like Maya have had radial menus forever. If you built true swiping radial menus, you can even have a second later of options once the first has been hovered over for a while.
Clearly the good of society is more important than some personal choices.

We don’t allow people to make personal choices to commit murder, or to drive drunk, or even to drive at all without licenses.
There was a German detective series whose translation was called "The Old Fox" - I used to like it in the 80s. I haven't been able to find it online much.
Something is off with that calculation. Carbs and protein = 4kcal per gramm, fat is 9kcal per gramm.

0.2*9 + 7*4 + 3*4 = 41.8kcal

Not going to make you fat but not too shabby either, especially the protein content. Seems you run into protein toxicity issues pretty fast around 1000kcal, but if you enter ketosis it might be a good way to protein so your muscles don't waste.
One useful move would be changing laws around identity theft so companies are liable for any costs incurred from their failure to verify identity, or for reporting credit issues from unvalidated activity. Americans worry about things like SSNs getting breached because they don’t want to get someone else’s bill — if companies were required to check photo ID against a real person (not an uploaded photo) that’d be a much harder crime to make financially viable.
> So how much do you want to bet that all of the other 138 cases are due to police just being clumsy and stubbing their toes?

If there was an escrow/judge that we could both trust I'd bet ~10k USD
I don’t know about every market, but in the places I’m familiar with, generally yes. Commercial rent didn’t change much at first, now it’s dipped a little bit. If it keeps this downward pace long term, then the economics of office floor space could change significantly. But that’s highly speculative territory.
I think what it will eventually turn out to be is - Apple will require IAP/Storekit but will be forced to allow others. And you will see something like this - $10 - Pay by Apple, $8 Pay via Amazon/Google/Whoever big name enters this business, $7 pay by credit card directly. And you can chose if you need Apple's unsubscribe, want to trust Amazon for $2 discount, or want to get a further $1 discount by entering your credit card number and risking doing a chargeback in the future if the developer is really crappy.

Eventually Apple will get down to make the Amazon not turn profit out of iOS IAP and then you will be left with two choices.
Anecdotal, but wanted to mention positive experience with Oracle support.
I have posted questions on SO relating to Oracle SQL and SqlDeveloper, and Oracle staff responded quickly with a solution I accepted.

Shoutout to ThatJeffSmith for contributing to the community!
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See also last month's K8s hardening guidance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28050750

https://media.defense.gov/2021/Aug/03/2002820425/-1/-1/1/CTR...
Yes. And good. The more Apple and Google are forced to line item their charges for users, showing what each charge is for, the closer we get to a free market.

The central evil of all of this has been the bundling of everything together, so that nothing can be independently valued.

"30% is fair, in exchange for all the things we provide you", etc.

Edit: As an example, in the US this is mandated for home mortgages. "These are services you can shop for" + "These are charges for each service". Any platform having to offer the equivalent of a Closing Disclosure / HUD-1 doesn't seem like such a bad world.
> I can also say that the same is true for all progress the world has seen

Science, art, and creation all tend to be rich with ambiguity and uncertainty.

Most of the time, people hope they can do a thing and stick to it through many ups and downs. And the times when it works out, even the people who believed in it all along appear to be surprised.
You still don't have high enough vaccination rates.

All the kids under 16 have a vaccination rate of 0% and they still count and they commingle and provide a reservoir. The vaccination rate in 16-25 year olds is also probably not high enough to achieve herd immunity with delta. It isn't a particular mystery why its still spreading unless you assume kids don't exist.

A single number for vaccination status and herd immunity would only be meaningful if the population was randomly well-mixed. In reality kids are much more likely to see other kids every day than hang out with the elderly.
I don't think there's anything in this injunction that stops Apple from building a mandatory subscription-cancelling API, which I wouldn't be surprised if they're actually already working on due to earlier rulings this month. In other words, you might be able to subscribe to FooCalendar using their Stripe API system, but FooCo has to make sure that your FooCalendar subscription shows up in your list of subscriptions, maybe under a "Non-Apple Subscriptions" list, that still lets you cancel with one tap -- or at least one tap to take you to that app's subscription management page.

(I'm sure there will be some people upset at that kind of interfering overreach, but it's the kind of interfering overreach most of us would actually like.)
Study: When everyone works remotely, communication and collaboration suffer
If Apple only pre-installed a free leveling app on iPhones. What happened to time tracking is they also banned existing tools and APIs they used.
But I don't want to have to care about any of that stuff and containers let's us not care about it. That's a huge solve.
Imagine your car refusing to start because you didn't get your required CPAP sleep last night.
It says they can't prohibit developers (so they must allow) adding links to non-IAP.

OTOH it doesnt force apple to allow any link, they can still filter which payment providers are allowed
- They make it hard for consumers to shop at other stores.

As a user of Apple, Google, and Amazon tech for decades, I simply disagree on the other two. You'll have to clarify in what way Google and Amazon make it hard to shop at other stores. Google, in particular, enables side-loading on every Android device. Of the three you've named, Apple is the biggest offender, and it appears they have touched the hot stove, unless this Court's ruling becomes reversed. But they touched it in a way that Google and Amazon do not, unless I'm missing something.

I don't think a world where F-droid continues to exist is one where we can claim Google, in particular, is a supermarket that makes it hard to shop at other stores.

- They're doing all kinds of things a supermarket would never do

That's not by itself illegal, or discouraged. Traditionally, companies have considered such expansion a bad idea because they expose themselves to outsized risk in a market downturn. But there are examples of other companies doing that. Sony is a hardware manufacturer and a movie producer. Disney owns theme parks and movie production. Proctor & Gamble make some 90% of what goes in, on, or around the American body and home that you can buy off a store shelf (including many apparently-competing products). ViacomCBS owns theme parks, television studios, book publishing, heavy-industry machinery, and nuclear technology.

- The really sad thing is that before the giants sprang into existence, you could distribute your software and services without the need for a supermarket

I remember, and what I remember is, I think, one of the reasons American law tends to take a relatively hands-off approach in this space.

The user experience from the era you're describing, to be blunt, sucked. Mobile devices, when apps could be loaded on them at all, where hard-to-manage, the apps were buggy, and they were hard to find. Lack of standards, lack of oversight, no trust that any given app wasn't a security mess (or just a Trojan) without something like brand recognition to rely upon. It wasn't just Apple and Google who changed that; we saw Steam come along and regularize the games-on-PCs space, we saw package management get more robust in the Linux ecosystem... People weren't forced into software catalog ecosystems, they ran to them and brain-drained alternatives because most of the alternatives were actively painful.

The government wants to avoid stepping on the neck of a better customer experience inadvertently via over-regulation.

And perhaps most importantly: you can still do that. You can still write an Android app and put it on F-droid, or self-sign it and give users instructions for enabling side-loading. But you won't see the adoption you will in using the big app stores, because the big app stores are a way better experience for most users. Outside of those app stores, discovery, reputation-tracking, consumer communication, anti-Trojan safeguards, etc. are '90s era.
It doesn’t really matter what customers want. If companies have an option to offer a lesser user experience but keep more revenue, they’ll nearly always take it. The only exception would be if “underdog apps” start seeing “we still use Apple IAP” as a selling point.
i’ve gotta ask, why name it Medusa?
I'm not sure apple is interested in destroying user experience to spite developers. IPhone will still make incredible amounts of money with lower app store margins because it's still the best product on the market. Pissing off users isn't how they built the best product.
I support that but … how often has that happened? That Juniper incident didn’t seem to be widespread and it certainly doesn’t appear that a notable percentage of breaches are due that kind of thing.
Those same jobs:

A) Typically ban smoking indoors because the state has banned smoking indoors

B) Also typically provide areas for smokers outside the building in compliance with local regulations. Are those places generally outside? No. Is the onus of responsibility on the business should an employee smoke inside? No, the employee is the one that would face the consequences, including possible termination and/or criminal charges. A business doesn't have much in the way to worry about.

There is no such provision for the vaccine. You either need to get the vaccine to continue working there, get tested every week, or find a different job. This is also without taking into account two things:

1) While the testing is offered according to OSHA, with potential fines up to 14k per instance what are the odds that employers are actually going to offer that to their employees? You actually, as a business, face less fines for leaving a piece of paper in plain sight that has someone's SSN, Name, and Address than you do for not potentially following this regulation.

2) That we are also looking at good odds of the testing option going away. It's not an option for federal employees, I don't think it is unreasonable to assume that it will be going away for those under this mandate in the near future.
It's great for healthcare to general public. Think of cheap non contact heart rate monitor.
For a limited-run dev board with the CPU, board, and that much RAM I'd say it's priced fairly appropriately.