skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iOS most certainly does not have real sideloading. You can if you recompile the app with your own key every 7 days. Or you can use testflight with some very serious restrictions like not being able to monetize at all.
Poker and 3d-platformers & first-person shooters.
It's a political letter which likely only makes full sense for people in Israel and under the influence of Israel's ministry of health to whom it is addressed
No. I would rather support an open source project and actually have the data myself on a server that I control.
I loathe "smart" interfaces that want to cram everything into a dynamically-adjusting control panel. Because what the programmer thinks I want to do is so frequently not what I actually want to do.

Give me panels that I can open, close, and arrange as I see fit. Let me craft the interface of your complex, featureful program into something that matches what I need most often. Pick a simple set to expose to new users that covers the basics, sure, great idea. But let the skilled user tell the program exactly what sets of knobs they want to have handy.
I always enjoy when the decision against having kids is subtly framed as a weakness or a character flaw.

I posit a different guideline: If having kids is something you feel is of vital importance to you personally and not because other people expect it from you, then by all means, try to find someone who feels the same way and have kids.
I don't think it's so black and white. Past a certain point playing chess isn't going to help you with anything besides chess. But I think games can serve as an introductory tool - for example a game isn't going to teach you to be a SWE, but it can provide a more approachable way to gain some initial familiarity with programming ideas.

Is a game the best way to learn or stay mentally sharp? Not when taken at face value, but after a long day of work most people can't sustain something like taking an online course. Playing games can be a good way to stay mentally active when the likely alternative is watching TV or browsing Reddit every night. You'll find studies on cognitive effects of gaming are highly dependent on the games used and the control conditions they were being compared to.
Omicron does seems to be less severe. But don't forget deaths are a lagging indicator. They usually trail case counts by a few weeks.
> Is there a good explanation for why Sweden was so hard hit that doesn't reference their total lack of response?

At this stage it is misinformation to claim that Sweden was hard hit:

https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2022/01/12/checking-in-on-...
That's not needed, what is needed is what they said they would do:

> and utf8 is expected subsequently to become a reference to utf8mb4

Once utf8 points to the right thing, the mistake will stop happening as no one is explicitly using utf8mb3 by accident.

Not sure why this wasn't done right away, and only will be "subsequently". Has it been done yet?
We don't talk about silverlight. Haha.
Why does your grocery store deserve a cut? I’m struggling w how to apply this to other industries.

I mostly support the argument that EVERY middleman is useless but…we kinda live in a world of middlemen.
Nah. I meant that it is a library, that needs to be included as a dependency.

That's a nonstarter, for me. I'm pretty picky about dependencies. If I use external ones, I like them to be something that can be encapsulated/injected, as opposed to being totally interwoven.

But I'm not trying to make money, I just want to write really good apps.
Well, more than that happens when a program starts up. It's mapped in, libraries will be dynamically linked in, an address space has to be allocated, a process structure has to be allocated, memory has to be mapped as executable, etc.

I don't think we would want "program on hard drive" and "program in memory" to be isomorphic for a bunch of reasons, one being security.
Tetris games (quick-paced modern Tetris clones/block stackers like TETR.IO) are good for improving pattern recognition and, at higher levels, memorization (as in openers, perfect clear setups, etc ).
That doesn't seem entirely fair of a comparison. If you built the canal, filled it with water, made sure it's wide enough for the boats that need to travel, etc, etc, then you are doing a useful service right. Apple has built something useful and yet we can all see it's wrong to take advantage of it to this extent, but we're having a hard time explaining why.

I think fundamentally corporations should only exist for the purpose of the public good. That is what's wrong with America and capitalism in many ways. It's not the shareholders but the public that they should answer to. If it does not serve the public good to take a 30% cut, then they should not be allowed to do so. As easy as that.
What tape? Could you elaborate.
And most importantly, seemingly not involved in the project at all.
> We are not yet shipping hundreds of kilobytes of CSS, are we?

Well, Bootstrap 5 is ~200K when not minified and a web site usually ships additional CSS resources as well.
I don't think they're talking about the language manual itself, which is certainly very good (though I have my quibbles with it), but the quality of documentation for packages/package ecosystems. Those vary a lot in quality: some good, some incomplete, some hard to access (another subthread here mentions cases where you have to know the implementation details of a package to know where to look up the docs), some poorly organized, some outdated, etc. It's not an insurmountable problem, just adds additional friction to the process and can make the experience more frustrating than it needs to be.
Laptop Repairability Scores (sorted by score)
Well that's the problem in a nut shell. It is and it isn't... but it should be.
I just wonder how history would be if in the 90s the Microsoft suits tried to get a cut of everything running on Windows.
"Oh you used Windows and Internet Explorer to buy AutoCAD?"
All business is based on greed?
Have you talked to Zooko about using his name for your project? He might not appreciate you trading on his reputation this way, particularly if your designs or implementations turn out to be fundamentally flawed.
I imagine raising children is much easier if you can afford round the clock nannies.

Or even just retired physically able grandparents a few doors down who can help serve as a redundancy.
Greedy fucks get 30% for doing nothing. You already got your massive nut [from iDevice sales and first party subscriptions] and now they want a piece of everybody's smaller nut [from the developers via "IAPs" shares].

Not to mention the yearly fees you pay to apple if you want to publish to the App Store. I really hope the anti-trust laws come down heavy on Apple, Google, and et al.
how does this compare to using stash?
With a whimper.

As long as Taiwan doesn't declare its independence, China won't be in a hurry to integrate Taiwan. Why would it attack Taiwan and destroy its own assets? That would be like the US attacking Hawaii and bombing Honolulu.

On the other hand, if Hawaii declared its independence, the US would not hesitate to attack it and bring it 'back to the fold', as happened with the Confederacy only a hundred and sixty years ago. As the US goes, so then China.
scrolled down too far to find this.

yes, google/visa/xxxx probably deserve their own discussion on the merits of breakup or regulation.

But that shouldn't be a primary reason why this specific discussion regarding Meta shouldn't take place.

(there may be other reasons why the meta breakup should/shouldn't happen, but handle those on their own merits)
I'm 30 and lived with my parents until I was 26. Not gonna lie, it made me soft.

When my kids turn 18, we'll fight to the death in the backyard. If they win, they get my stuff. If they lose, I'll have some more & repeat the process. Don't think I'll be around long enough for a third go.
that's implied by every Evil Corp, but yes, you are correct. still, to the consumer it does not really matter which of the Evil Corp gets the money since they will pay it anyway. I don't, for a minute, think that the 30% would not be paid by the end-user if Evil Corp A was not in play. B and C would just raise prices.
> A platform is largely "made" by external developers who contribute to the platform. It is unfair to start charging them (or anyone who comes later) for being on the platform.

> Of course, Apple execs, who have no pride in making things but only in extracting money out of things, will have a different opinion on this.

I think they've always known, that's why they created an artificial ecosystem where this equation is backwards. No developer can harm Apple, but Apple can harm the biggest of developers on a whim.
Sideloading on iOS is nothing like sideloading on Android, you have to compile the app from source with your personal key and even then it's only valid on the device for 7 days.
We need to throw it back on the user. Apple uses this line of reasoning all the time. They justify their tracker blocking stuff on "the user clicked a button saying they wanted this". So for Apple to justify their fee they need to be able to convince the user that clicking the Apple payment option was worth the 30% fee while allowing other processors on the same playing field.

Users might be ok with some extra fee for conveniences like trust and the ability to easily unsubscribe. Let the user pick and let Apple compete for those sales.
Two things:

Google Photos/Drive has lost my photos before: https://twitter.com/hammyhavoc/status/1462734780143968257

This uses IPFS. "They", the people asking the question, don't "have" your photos. Did you read the description in the original post?

I don't want to use either for my photo library versus my own server and backup solutions. Go figure.
Could you please explain the mechanism for a consumer sideloading apps onto an iPhone?

I've never heard of this being possible.
>I have a sinking feeling that either the idiots over leveraging themselves on bubble priced homes will get bailed out or the idiot banks who facilitate them will get bailed out… probably both. Which ironically makes me the idiot for not participating in the idiocy.

This is the case for all forms of money making in the last couple years. It's quite depressing that actually being protective, smart and risk adverse to this idiocy is the worst situation to be in.

It's like everyone is playing with fake money and you're standing there saying it's not real, but they keep finding new ways to convince themselves it is. Meanwhile your real money is getting old and dusty.
Under a set of solar panels in a viable watershed that’s not too cold in the winter where you need to burn fossil fuels to heat your house.
But… this is not true just about anywhere. I can’t go to. Ford dealership and buy a new Chevy or go to Kroger and buy Costco brand. Or when I go to some stores they don’t allow me to use American Express.

And yes you do have choices. There are plenty of other phone manufacturers out there. Can I install Ford UI on my Tesla? Do you think those companies won’t make you use their own payment processing once apps become prolific in car UIs? Can I hail Uber with the Lyft app? Why are they locking me in to only using Lyft on the Lyft app? Can I buy PlayStation games on Xbox?

If you’re against all of it fine, but let’s not pretend Apple is doing anything out of the ordinary here.
It's not weird (is there anything wrong with being weird?), but if it's done without his consent, it's bad.
I have had success in removing the battery leakage from my toys. Baking soda + water on a q-tip works really well.
There are some YouTuber travel channels that have fascinating on the ground footage of the favelas in Brazil. It's not as extreme as you think. I very much recommend these two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og9kpw5vxh4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZW-V3_-FgA
agreed. but neither Lyft nor Uber are not small businesses. they also just exploit their workers.
I love that Apple forces subscriptions on their platform through Apple Pay. As a consumer, it's incredibly easy for me to view and cancel subscriptions in one central location. I've signed up for tons of services in the past and all to often they decide to make it a nightmare to try and cancel.

The 30% might suck as a developer, but then just charge more for Apple customers. As long as the rule is applied to all apps on the platform then everyone is playing by the same rules. Nobody is forcing you to release your app on the Apple Ecosystem, you -want- to because it's a huge potential customer base. If you want to participate then play by their rules. If it's too expensive, then don't build your app there. If more developers refused to release their app on iOS they would start to re-evaluate their 30% fee.

My only qualm is the news that in certain situations they have lowered their fee's which isn't fair as it gives those companies a competitive advantage as they can charge less.
I myself would really like to have a blog again, like I used to have. Sometimes write a post or write about some software I am trying to write. However, I do not have a blog. Not, because I could not easily make one. I could indeed easily create one. I wrote multiple blog software thingies myself in the past. I do not have a blog, because of laws, where I live. There is a law, that you must put your contact information on the site, if you do any of a few things. Even though I am not doing any of those things, there are lawyers out there just waiting to send you a letter, when you do not have contact information on your page. You be careful, that nothing you write could be interpreted as "journalistic" or "ads", otherwise that lawyer might win the case. Actually you do not want a case in the first place.

I would like to write about anything I want online on a blog, for everyone to read or ignore. I would like to make fun of politicians and write about how they are doing things wrong. Or about philosophy and ethics. Well, if I did that and did not provide contact info, I would be making myself a target for greedy people, who do not care about free speech.

So I stay without a blog and simply manage my git repositories. It is really sad, that the law is this silly and basically antagonistic towards blogging and not wanting every perv on the net to know, where I live or how to give me a call. I know very few blogs from my country and I think the blogging scene is basically dead here.
The 30% cut was worth it to me early on when there weren't a bazillion apps and they handled payment processing, return processing and gave you some decent visibility. Now it's just payment processing and return processing, which typically is around 3-4% using a credit card, not 30%.
There are several methods for doing it but they are all crippled in ways that make it impossible to actually use the system for anything but QA testing and development.

You can install any app you compiled with your own key and it lasts for 7 days before requiring it to be recompiled.
win (founder) - win (YC) - lose (VC), to be correct.
A charge for payment processing should be closer to what Visa or Mastercard charges, something more in line with the cost for providing the service. They charge on the order of 1.5% to 3.5%, depending. 30% is extortionate.
I understand your view, but the hilarious (or sad?) thing here is we are applauding a multi-trillion dollar company for the most basic functionality. This is like saying “this restaurant sucks, but hey, I am glad that I got at least something to eat!”

The bar has been set so low, that allowing customers to cancel easily is worthy of praise! This is a shitty situation for ordinary people to be in.

Another thing to think about - if Apple were a bit more nicer to developers, they can have the developer loyalty for ever and ever. But they are so big and their competition is so bad that they don’t think developers have a choice. Short term profits is apparently more important than long term goodwill. Of course, they aren’t alone in this.

The saddest part is - after all their shenanigans, they are still better than other companies:(
I’m as concerned as anyone about apples behavior with services in general, and the App Store in particular. 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. They’ve very carefully built up an ecosystem that attracts the best app dev talent and the most lucrative app customers, but that does not make them a monopoly.
You're really taking the most innocent stance possible on scraping.

The article talks of large scale scraping, which includes all kinds of bypassing tools, proxies, hardware, or commercial services that abstract this away.

This industrial scale level of scraping is not the same thing as you saving a local copy of 3 web pages. The scale is a million times bigger and for sure it will not be for personal use.
For me, self-accountability isn't about shame. It's realizing that in my better & stronger moments, I identified my goals and what I wanted to accomplish. So now, when it's time to execute (and I'm perhaps in a weaker moment), I trust the previous version of myself and follow my original plan.
Retail provides a necessary service of managing a large inventory of vetted goods readily available under reasonable terms 5-10 minutes from most everywhere america.

There is no way I'm flying to South America for a banana or to Taiwan for a toaster. Their profit is payment for this service.

Your oem provided you a device which is perfectly capable via your ISP and your vendors infrastructure of arranging products and services. Your oem is only an essential part because they insist on it.

FedEx and ford could have in theory done the same or Dell and Verizon.
They are stress tested to up to 5.5% interest, so it will take huge moves to cause insolvency. This isn't like the US subprime issue, these borrowers can afford the higher rates.
It's the industry standard. Most similar marketplaces (e.g.: Steam store, etc...) charge 30%.
I really liked RudderStack for gathering the data, also has some extra nice features for pushing upstream to other providers. Apache Superset for building the dashboards to display the data.
Maybe, but man, money can't help you be a good parent.

You're tired, at work, and not part of their day-to-day life. It'd almost be easier to be 20 and have mom/dad still around and just start career at 35. Hell, I practically started my career at 35 and have nothing to show for the delay!
Cause he’s rich and can afford it regardless what happens. Why would you pay for ice at a convenience store when you could make it yourself at home.
There is tooling to manage self-signed certs beyond the seven day window. Unrelated but I find it weird that “you have to compile the app” is a bad thing now.
If you consider the compiler to be part of the platform, that’s mostly true.

I think the hard problem in practice is that headers and templates make for a very fuzzy boundary between library code and client code. Calling C++ from Rust already works fine for traditional OO code, but it’s hard to imagine that anything could ever use modern templated C++ code that isn’t a full superset of C++.
> One of the strangest things about rent increases in my area is that everybody complains about them, but few people ever bother moving out.

Why would they move out when everyone is increasing rents?

It's a net neutral result. If you're upset that rent is going from $1200 to $1500, then voting with your wallet and moving somewhere else doesn't work when rent is $1500 everywhere.

Apartment complexes don't compete on price. They don't have to, since every basically needs a place to live, and so they will charge as much as they possibly can. If minimum wage goes up $2, you can bet the landlords will be salivating over how they'll be able to increase rents by $300/month and capture the money, and renters will be stuck paying it because the alternative is to go homeless.
For concrete numbers, here's my experience on a super-crappy laptop:

* `add Plots` on a new temp environment takes about four and a half minutes, most of which is precompilation.

* `using Plots` took 16 seconds, and

* a `plot` call after that is 7 seconds.

For comparison, on 1.6, the times are seven and a half minutes for precompilation, 17 seconds for `using` and 10 seconds for the first `plot`. I'm not patient/masochistic enough to try the same on 1.5 too, but the trend is definitely one of continuous improvement.

This is certainly not the sort of machine any production Julia code will be run in, but it is in the category of machines that a lot of students and many others trying out the language will have access to, so it gives an idea of their experience.

The times on 1.6 and 1.7 have been a qualitative change for me. plot being sub-10 seconds means that instead of it being "run it, switch to something else while I wait (potentially losing my mental context), come back and hope it's done", it's now "run it, stare at my dog for a few seconds, the plot is ready".
Ploomber 0.14: Modular, Production-Ready Data Pipelines in VSCode and PyCharm
Oh my ... Does one need all of that? Isn't there a process of reducing it to only what one needs? I think there was something like that in the past. Not sure how well that works.
You stated an opinion about some law enforcement agencies being domestic terrorist organizations. You did not up this assertion. You provided no evidence other than to mention Waco. Was this opinion of yours, the certainty with which you made it, an example of Dunning-Kruger? If not then when is my stated opinion that federal agencies deserve no blame for Waco such an example?

It’s strange that you don’t see how your reasoning about Dunning-Kruger applies to what you’ve written. You should strive to be consistent in your reasoning and apply it to your own arguments. It’s sloppy thinking to engage thusly.
Maybe the dark matter got used up? Some civilization found a purpose for it. What could we make with dark matter?
Good work! Here's our git commit template which we use with tags for categories, keywords for searches, links to issue trackers, etc.

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/git-commit-template
I really like that idea. I think it's really compelling. The latest features/bug fix can be made available at a price before a certain time limit. And then of course you eventually end up with the advantages of FOSS.

I need to think about it a bit more. And I'd like to hear more opinions on ideas like this.
Seed pays 40% of market cash and integer equity. 1% of company if you’re intermediate to junior and they have raised seven figures. Entirely up to you, FAANG will mark you as regrettable attrition if they like you and then you can walk back on if it doesn’t work.
You forgot the rest of the quote from your 3rd source:

"Courts look at the firm's market share, but typically do not find monopoly power if the firm (or a group of firms acting in concert) has less than 50 percent of the sales of a particular product or service within a certain geographic area. Some courts have required much higher percentages."

Most anti-trust cases have historically been against companies with 90+% market share: Standard Oil, Bell Telephone, Microsoft. I'd love to see an example of a company that was found to have a monopoly with only 60% market share.
How is people being right funny?

Inflation being a side-effect of not having a depression is still inflation. The blame doesn't just suddenly evaporate.

The US caused most of the world's inflation.
Scuzzy rent seekers
This is business. I don't see the mustachio-twirling evil here unless you're coming from an anti-capitalist perspective. I won't won't debate the merits of that perspective, but this seems pretty mundane strategic business planning by today's standards.

Edit: To clarify further, I'm not saying "the status quo is fine", I would be in favor of legislation that would force Apple and Google to allow alternative app stores as first class citizens, but in the world we live in, I don't think trying to extract profit out of the platform you built is that crazy, this is what every big corp does.