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App store would be there even if they could charge no money for developers and have 0% cut - it's a prerequisite for the iPhone and they are making huge margins just in the devices, this argument that without allowing anti-competitive behaviour there would be no investment in the appstore is nonsense precisely becaus it's a first party integration.

For example I have no problem if a third party store forced one payment option only, but only allowing one store and one payment option is just milking your market position/rent seeking.
sure, but it doesn't have to be U-235 (thorium maybe?). It's more geothermal power plant with fission booster.
I can't speak for all features in SCSS/SASS. I'd prefer JS (for reusability) to Python, Go and DSLs, but why open Turing complete Pandoras box in the first place when declarative works so incredibly well?

Regular CSS didn't have variables for a long time, which was the killer use case imo. I haven't been in the loop for a while but just found out that there is a CSS Custom Properties[1] standard which would solve most of my use cases. Heck, they're even scoped! Imo front-end folks have an unhealthy low threshold for taking on dependencies that are already supported natively, imo.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Using_CSS_c...
It's not really a surprise that they use conventional agriculture techniques like pesticides instead of going organic. These techniques are the convention because they increase productivity and yield, making food cheaper. If you have to pay for your food using manual labor, then your food is very expensive and it makes an even bigger difference.
Additional equity in a home is useful for a lot more than buying another home, which (assuming all homes inflate equally), you are correct that it is of not much value for.
(Yeah, I was not a TA then -- I took it under Paxos in Spring 2014 but only TA'd it after the switch to Raft)
> It is Apple's Devices, Apple's Software, Apple's Platform, Apple's user and Apple's Customer, everything belongs to Apple. But Apple is very generous and give "70%" of those revenue to developers and business partners.

> These companies and developers are greedy. They want even more than 70%! Uber and Lyft should be kicked out of the App Store.

> Laws and Regulations wants to fine Apple for Anti-Trust and Anti Competitive practice, Apple should pull out those market, that is the EU common market, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Russia, India!

I wish I made these sentiment up, except you will find many Apple apologist supporting Apple writing exactly that.

But none of these matters to the general public. Apple is Three Trillion Market Cap company, they are very successful, selling iPhone and Mac in record numbers. Tim Cook will continue to tell you Apple is making the world a better place. To enrich people's lives. And privacy is a fundamental human right. [ Subject to Terms and Condition ]. With a big smile on the face.

On another note it is interesting this isn't the first time Phil Schiller has been fighting the battle for users and developers. But now he is "promoted" ( cough ) to Apple Fellow. And Eddy Cue......
I sometimes get messages where they are searching for candidates with C# or Java experience, also telling me that I seem like a perfect candidate. I do have a little bit of that but for the past ten years I have only been working with embedded sw development (C and C++) so obviously they didn’t read very carefully. I have gotten good contact with good recruiters using LinkedIn as well though so it varies quite a lot.
OCaml has recently interested me for being one of the few languages that:

- Compiles to a binary
- Achieves good speed
- Is functional, while accommodating imperative styles.
- Has a static type

In particular, it interests me because of how Forth or a threaded code-based VM could be implemented in it. You could implement the operations of such a machine with a bunch of individual function calls, but that's slow and rather unnecessary. A jump to the next VM instruction's code is what you want instead.

Switch statements or pointers to labels are what are often used, but that means you end up with hundreds or even thousands of lines of code which cannot be split into modules. The solution OCaml and other functional languages provide involves tail-call optimization:

let rec first x = print_endline "foo" ; second(x)
and second x = print_endline "bar" ; first(x);;

first 1;;

In a usual compiled language, these two functions would only be able to print 'foobar' a few hundred or thousand times before causing a stack overflow. In a language like OCaml this can run forever, and quickly too. This allows for what this web page calls continuation-passing threaded code:

https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/threaded-code.html

I have mocked up the concept in lua, an imperative language with tail call optimization, and it was quite easy to implement a basic Forth while keeping the code legible. To take the idea further OCaml feels like a good choice. If anyone has experience with OCaml, or any warnings, it would be helpful.
There are ways to go past 7 days but all come with even more downsides to both the end user and company trying to get users to sideload. "You have to compile the app" is extremely related if you're a company wanting users to install your app, especially since that requires more than just knowledge to be able to do.

To ask you the inverse question, in what way is any of this "nearly identical" to Android sideloading which allows indefinite sideloading via any delivery method, including installation of 3rd party stores, with no more than a click on an approval prompt from the user?
No, I have never been asked to rate apps before. Perhaps because I am in China.
https://tritonstation.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/btfr_off.p...

> Baryonic Tully-Fisher relation showing the ultradiffuse galaxies discussed by Mancera Piña et al. (2019) as gray circles. These are all outliers from the relation; AGC 114905 is highlighted in orange. Placing much meaning in the outliers is a classic case of missing the forest for the trees. The outliers are trees. The Tully-Fisher relation is the forest.
1.5% to 3.5% is extortionate for handling a transaction, in my uninformed opinion.
isn't the problem described in the jira ticket?
Fascinating… I had no idea they grow sour grapes in america :-)
As an European under 30 living in a country whose our society isn't so worried (and we should) about climate change, and I don't personally feel it like a crucial factor in order to have or not a child. Most important factors for us are economic stability and having a couple who also want descendants.

I personally want to have child, and probably would do when I met those two requirement, and probably the most problematic of them are one you also have: Finding a woman who wants that.

Having a child in a modern European country isn't the same as our parents or grandparents had. We have paid parental leave, decent health, nursery, and education services, a society where both parts of the couple can go to work, share home tasks, and care of their childs (independently of being a man or a woman) without having to give up on other things, and so on.

I find it very sad having 40 or more, wanting to have kids, but having conception problems due to your age. I don't if there are statistics about this, and I don't want to influence anyone with this, but from personal experiences, most of the people who decided to not have kids regret that decision, and not too much of those who had them does.
Every year, it seems like we get closer and closer to the end. One day, temperatures will be so hot, and they will not go down. They will only continue to rise, people being kept alive by AC. Then the power grids will fail, and AC won't work, and people will just pass out from heat strokes and die off. And the world will be left with only the few who can withstand the increasing temperatures. And then the temperature will increase even more, and those too will die, or starve from nothing to eat. Bare shelves, dead crops. This is how the end will be. Crime will become rampant as rising temperatures make people more violent and people take what they need to survive by force. Grim.
I lived 5 years in Korea, parent's advice is good.

Additionally:

- Sponsoring a work visa (most likely E-7, maybe E-3) is trivial for big companies. Don't get married if you don't need to.

- Big conglomerates hire foreigners all the time. Samsung, LG, ... Give it a try.

- To a lesser extent, big American tech companies too. I have friends who managed to stay in Korea and who are now working at Microsoft (specifically GitHub).
I am more talking about "Only ever include the CSS rules we need." instead of "Lets take the whole of bootstrap! Oh damn, we have to somehow reduce it!".

If memory serves me right, you could compile the Bootstrap library and choose the parts you needed. Not sure if that is still true for Bootstrap 5. If it is not possible, it stands to reason, that perhaps one should not use Bootstrap 5 and instead write good styling oneself, without all the stuff, that will never be used on the site anyway.

CSS can be tricky, but in the end, reasonable styling is usually not that hard to do. Even responsiveness can be done mostly without media queries these day, unless you want content to change, if layout changes. It used to be much harder, when our browser standards were not that far. Nowadays we have flex and grid and more standardized interpretations of CSS rules in browsers. We can make navigations, menus, tiles and whatever all responsive without that much work put in.
Yep 5th figure at that link. Also McGaugh's words here, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-matter-may-b....
That article mentions "the senseless attacks on hydroxycloroquine" as an example of scientific failure. I disagree. Small initial studies with low sample sizes often find effects that fail to replicate in larger studies, and to the best of my knowledge, that's what happened here.

Can you elaborate on why you think it's an effective treatment?
I feel like my attitude has a chance of creating change, whereas the attitude of going along with whatever as long as you get paid is guaranteed to change nothing. And yeah I have worked at and gotten offers from FAANG and adjacent startups with hard interviews - competence has nothing to do with it.
A million game devs cry out with their 500GB project backups on their external drive. Good luck Dropboxing that in a way that makes sense.
The cost is mostly being passed on to the purchasers. The same app is nearly always more expensive in Apple's store than in Google's.

But the funny thing is that even with the premium, Apple users spend far more on app purchases than Android users. And in turn developers make more money on IOS app sales - which is why they flock to the platform.

To sum up: developers make more money on the platform, Apple makes lots of money from running the platform, and customers are indicating they are getting value on the platform (even if you personally don't see why) by spending more on the platform. I don't see grounds for outrage here.
we want RCS
Absolutely not. That's the equivalent of just ignoring an invoice.
> They are spammy as heck

Spam sandwiches can be tasty though: that's how I got my current job. A recruiter sent me a LinkedIn message that was either intended for someone else, or she forgot to change the name at the beginning of the message.

Didn't matter; got job. I just replied "Hi Rebecca, I'm not Bhargav, but that position looks interesting" Fast forward a few months and I'm at a new place that seems pretty nice so far.
> the “charge more” mantra that is (or at least was) extremely popular on Hacker News

You'll need to ask patio11 for comment. He might have had some disciples regurgitating it, but he's ultimately responsible for this viewpoint. (Not saying I entirely disagree...)
And right there, you have the thesis underlying the plot for Idiocracy, a time-shifted documentary masquerading as a comedy, in which the value of t is claimed to be 500 years, but is actually unknown (and current data suggest far lower value).
But at least it’s not a security bug \o/

At least that is the logic that occurs. I am not saying it’s good logic :)

Honestly I feel the bigger bug is something going wrong in HomeKit taking out springboard.
In a past life I worked in the entertainment biz. Duracell ProCells were the go-to battery for important things. Britney Spears' headset would have had a Procell in it. They would all get tested before use and maybe 5 in a thousand were bad and not used. They weren't the absolute best in the world but they were acceptable and cheap enough to use and toss. After a show we would all take the 'used' batteries home and use them until they were actually flat. The only time I ever saw one leak in a device was if it got submerged or very hot. Now, the procell in my pencil-sized flashlight seems to leak after a month. I switched to energizer and, at least in my sample size of one, I haven't seen a leak.
No wonder they're poor!
Title:

> M.I.T. Media Lab, Already Rattled by the Epstein Scandal, Has a New Worry

Stopped reading there.
That is an insane perspective. The favelas are a site of extreme exploitation, no matter how you try to rationalize it.

This article is obviously propaganda meant to counter the headlines about the Worker’s Party leading in the polls.

The working people of Brazil have suffered tremendously under Bolsanaro’s neoliberal government and Lula (Worker’s Party candidate who Bolsanaro imprisoned for 2 years on bogus charges) has a big lead. After the recent socialist victories in Chile and Bolivia (following the U.S.-assisted coup), western states will do everything they can to prevent the Worker’s Party from retaking power in Brazil. Expect more of this and other hi-jinx as the Fall election nears. It’s going to be a messy one.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MJm08zHWaKA
Or offer a competing platform.
I think the comment was confused about what 'LAN sync' actually means within the context of Dropbox.
Very cool, and useful. I'll try it out on my next PCB.
But the interesting thing about the S3 read bug, because AWS blocks support from reading S3 data on the control plane level, even though the IAM permission had read permissions support COULD NOT read any customer data.

https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2021-...

This is that kind of example, even with a total possible failure here, even AWS support staff still couldn't actually do anything.

The transparency is very high on AWS. All S3 access is logged, the policies for the support role are public (does Azure provide this) and all changes to polices are logged.
> I had to fight NY Times like crazy (it was sign up online, call to cancel kind of thing).

This is same with The Times. I would not expect such scammy practice from these companies.
You can do something good, bring it to an extreme exaggeration and turn it into something bad, you know?
This is yet another sign that we the people should have a good open source phone.
I disagree. I think Apple should get nothing from them. The rent seeking has to stop. Anything with a service fee should be outside their grasp. The product isn’t the app, it’s the service.
There could be solid position there, as I have argued in the manner you have stated here.

"Tech Immigration" is largely H1B immigration is prefectly valid to be opposed to H1B while being pro immigration.

H1B is a predatory program designed to lower wages and put immigrants in a terrible stop when in comes to the immigration status, i.e the employer holds not only their income, but their ability to remain in the nation in the palm of their hands. This created a toxic and coercive relationship with the employer.

At the same time a correction to this program, and a correction to the low skilled workers is simply allowing more open immigration, if you want to come here to work you should be able to.
I think the difference is the rent-seeking.

Imagine a web developer gets hired to build a landing page for a product. Yes please, charge twice as much for your work, sure. But say they tried to charge an ongoing 30% of all future revenue for that product. Do you think HN would be behind that?
This article is obviously propaganda meant to counter the headlines about the Worker’s Party leading in the polls.
The working people of Brazil have suffered tremendously under Bolsanaro’s neoliberal government and Lula (Worker’s Party candidate who Bolsanaro imprisoned for 2 years on bogus charges) has a big lead. After the recent socialist victories in Chile and Bolivia (following the U.S.-assisted coup), western states will do everything they can to prevent the Worker’s Party from retaking power in Brazil. Expect more of this and other hi-jinx as the Fall election nears. It’s going to be a messy one.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MJm08zHWaKA
https://pimbook.org/ - is quite good.
Are we supposed to be rooting for monopolies now? Of course not.

But you are right, HN used to be about the little David entrepreneur. Since ~2012 it's all about "fuck making a startup and go work for The Man"
It’s gross, and all because of the inability of Congress to allow a rational identity framework and the investments made to make it difficult for poor and minority people to vote.

State Departments of Labor have access to extensive consumer data and are unable to utilize it effectively. ID.me shouldn’t exist.
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29 y.o., software and philo dropout, jack-of-all-trades, lover of music, ADHD & depression, completely lost with respect to figuring out productivity and a career path.
I have a degree in Computer Science from Yale. I built https://zedtime.live and I'm building https://spase.io, and I've been in direct communication with cold dark matter (CDM) and modified gravity (MOND) cosmologists for the last 20 weeks. I basically ask the questions that I'm gonna guess everyone has on their mind, and I'm just moving the conversation along faster.
"It's your fault for being beaten and suck in this relationship!"

_terrible_ analogy
> But it’s also true that the market is not iPhones, it’s smart phones. And Apple is most certainly not a monopoly in smart phones or smart phone apps.

Apple certainly has a duopoly with Google in the mobile device market, mobile operating systems market, mobile app distribution market and the mobile app payments market.
What you're saying applies to some modern and historical states, but not all. Would you consider the IRA in the early 1900s to be nothing more than a gang looking to control territory? Or were they an independence movement? What about the Continental Congress? What about the Viet Cong? The former two led to a democracy and the latter to an authoritarian dictatorship; all engaged in violence; but none was a gang whose primary motivation was to gain personal wealth by criminal activity. The IRA would be the closest to a "gang" but even there, the state they produced renounced violence.
You'd be wrong about going to a Ford dealership and buying whatever you want in most states. They are independent operators that again, have a high amount of independence from the manufacturer. They will gladly but your old car and sell it on their used lot.

This is why we talk about Tesla direct sales all the time. Because we are moving car sales to the apple model.
As long as so many coal plants are happily smoking and even more are about to be build, I think the first priority is to shut them down and replace those, instead of experimenting with the already quite instable global climate, by injecting more chemicals.

And after we stop emmitting CO2, we can focus on artificial decarbonization. But I would rather invest in proven technology, like reforesting first.
I’m pretty sure the average spending of consumers on software today is far more than just a 30% increase from the times before the App Store. Realistically, the market easily tripled with its introduction.

From that angle, it’s easily worth a 30 % fee. Not because it costs that much to run it, but because it creates that value.
Like all these projects, making it hard for yourself is part of the plan. Any sensible person would use GMail and call it a day, or another provider, but certainly not something like that.

But using GMail doesn't give you any experience in system administration, is not satisfying, and no one will hire you because you know how to create a GMail account.

Also, if you pay for a server, you have a server, you don't have to limit yourself to email. You can host a few web pages, make a personal VPN, maybe even a small Minecraft server, or whatever fun project you can think of.
I made that mistake when I started university. I managed quite well in high school without doing lots of exercises. Didn’t work quite as well later and I had to sit and really work through the exercises.
Developers have to pay Nintendo a lot to get access to customers with a SNES, Wii, Switch, etc as well, which is the OP's point - if someone makes a good product that gains a lot of market share (iOS, Nintendo Switch, Tesla, etc) that doesn't mean a bunch of 3p companies are entitled to access to those customers.
personally, knowing the cuts that either app/play store take, I would _never_ subscribe to a service through either of them, that's luckily still an option. netflix raising prices _because_ of a store tax, even for users subscribing outside of them, would be worrying, but your link has no evidence of that, right ?
Jeff Dean: AI isn't as smart as you think, but it could be(Ted Talk)
It's a good way to sell a commodity for sure, where no one really cares about the pillow. But they may buy it from you because they need one anyway and they enjoy your personality / the entertainment value you provide.
This article is obviously propaganda meant to counter the headlines about the Worker’s Party leading in the polls.

The working people of Brazil have suffered tremendously under Bolsanaro’s neoliberal government and Lula (Worker’s Party candidate who Bolsanaro imprisoned for 2 years on bogus charges) has a big lead. After the recent socialist victories in Chile and Bolivia (following the U.S.-assisted coup), western states will do everything they can to prevent the Worker’s Party from retaking power in Brazil. Expect more of this and other hi-jinx as the Fall election nears. It’s going to be a messy one.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MJm08zHWaKA
The MTG Arena is free entry and free to play ...
> This is Hacker News after all, a lot of us owe our careers to the fact that computers have trended towards open platforms without gatekeepers collecting rent.

I daresay a lot of people here owe their careers to the actual (and aspirational, especially considering the site sponsor) gatekeepers collecting rent, too.
In fact I think Standard Oil wasn't far above that by the time action was taken. They were also cutting prices and modernizing heavily.

To get much beyond that I think you need some special advantage like govt protection. I suspect the patent system, which literally guarantees monopolies to companies in return for a fixed fee, creates a big advantage for the leaders in tech markets. Hence modern leaders last a lot longer with more market share (and way higher margins) than they should.
I love these headlines that breathlessly assert "Scientists and Doctors" are demanding these changes, or 1000 Scientists have signed a letter saying X, or things along these lines. There are a lot of scientists and doctors in the world, and I'm sure you could find thousands that support just about any position. In fact, the "disinfo" in question here is being pushed by a doctor! But you won't see that in the headline.

At the end of the day Rogan's power has pissed a lot of people off, and they are desperate to find something, anything, that sticks to him. But it's so blatantly obvious that the end result is nothing but further loss of media credibility.
The companies that don't take their business out of app stores deserve all the pain in the world. I'm with apple on this
You should do some research on abusive relationships before making comments like the one your post opened with.