skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s totally out of the ordinary. Apple sells about half the smartphones in the US. There are many other options for manufacturers but they all essentially share one other operating system. This big of a market with this little competition and this much vertical integration would normally be an obvious example of a monopoly. None of your examples come close.
It doesn't. That's for fraud protection, not just-on-the-right-side-of-the-law subscription sketchiness.
Don't get me wrong, I hate all that, but it's not worth a 30% tax on every recurring purchase to me. As Apple admits in the linked emails, this is a cost passed on to the customers.
The beauty of the Office 2003 type of UI is that is 100% user configurable.

I haven't really felt in control of software since.
"Heresy" sounds old-fashioned, so now they call it "misinformation".
Those aren't mutually exclusive. Beef seems to be one of the things that have gone up substantially, but beef is a small fraction of most people's food budget. I'm currently paying about $0.65 per bell pepper which is something like 20% cheaper than they were when prices peaked in 2011, if you trust The Fed[1]

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000712406
I believe socket backpressure would have worked for my use case. Curious why you think it wouldn't be enough?

As far as I know there's no way to set buffers. IIRC there's a buffer value you can check which is what I tried to use first but don't think that got me very far. Seems like Chrome and Firefox handled it differently or something.
Another huge plausible fan here! I pay for the hosted version but the option to self host in the future is really nice.
Wouldn't a galaxy without dark matter be less strange than one with dark matter, considering "dark matter" is literally something we know nothing about?
Elevate, available on mobile. It will make your brain sharper, and more attentive to detalis. While also horning your quick retail maths skills.
Neither does Apple. You are free to buy an Android (or other) phone and to use their App Store and ecosystem.
Because the issue was resolved? Occam's razor says this was a bug.
If I buy a bread maker from Walmart, they aren't entitled to a cut of my revenue should I sell the bread I make. Similarly, if I buy a tablet at Walmart, that doesn't mean they're entitled to a cut of all the purchases I make using it.
The majority of those percentages is the various gimmick bonus programs that convince people they are beating the system and getting back more than they pay. In Europe, the cap for credit cards is at 0.3% and that's still making a ton of money.
Doesn't help if you're just terminating the springboard over and over, basically bootlooping the device
I get your point. still, in this case B and C are, in my opinion, equally evil in exploiting their workers. so having them raise their optimal price to something the consumer would not buy their service would be, in essence, a good thing.
Side question. Posthog describes an event pipeline. Is there a saas/open source server with event pipelines where you can do add logic to do things, like: send email, notifications, send api call, maybe add custom logic etc. Ive seen things like segment.io, but didn't find a straightforward solution.

Example:
- if a user finished three workouts, send this notification.
- if a user hasn't done a workout in a week remind them etc.
How large are your commits to need templates? Should a feature branch always be squashed into one commit before PR?
> The actually hard parts aren't about moving money around

Yes, they are, if you're trying to be censorship resistant and scale transaction throughput. Do you have any examples, or was your original comment about showing us there are no possible alternatives to the full feature set of existing payment processors at their current price point?
The only solution is to drop regulators hammer on their ass!
Legally it doesn't, but for practical purposes most recurring subscriptions probably won't pursue you over a declined payment and will just suspend your account. I don't advocate this, but I've heard that it works.
I live centrally, in my town. The nearest library is an hour walk. The bus would be at least 30 minutes. I'd have to know beforehand that I need to reserve a computer before using it, and that spots fill up quick. I'd need to get a library card to reserve the computer, which I need to do in person. I'd need the bus schedules, and presumably my device might not be capable of accessing that or I might not be knowledgeable enough. I'd need to have cash on hand to pay the bus fare, so I'd need to find an ATM or convenience store that offers cashback.

This labyrinthian effort is basically what being a poor person is like, on a daily basis.
Cheaper Intel Core i5-12400 has better performance than AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
Note that this is the first post of a four part series.

The final post, an addendum, is [0].

The post with the energy ratings is [1]

[0] https://goughlui.com/2017/01/31/great-aa-alkaline-battery-te...

[1] https://goughlui.com/2016/12/19/great-aa-alkaline-battery-te...
There is also dfmt, which potentially can be used as a style linter if you wrap it in diffs.

https://github.com/dlang-community/dfmt
>Apple's app store is pure rent seeking.

If you don't like the landlord, don't move into the building. It's not the only building in town, but just the one with the most lucrative customers. If you want them to be your customers, you gotta pay to play.
> Do we really want our devices to stop working physically, at the chip level, in less than a decade?

Unfortunately, "we" aren't really considered in the decisions. The math from a company's perspective is mostly, "Will this last the expected warranty period?" And, to a lesser extent, "Will the ill will caused by these catastrophically failing right outside warranty be a problem?" See RRoD and such.

But the problem is that "solid state" does wear out - this article is a list of causes of it. It's reasonably true that the older solid state technologies lasted extremely long, but as you start to push them, they don't last as long, and even things like power transistors eventually start to fail - there are a few companies that rebuild old Tesla Roadster power conversion equipment, because the transistors wear out and fail (at least one of those companies seems to regularly burn down their shop as well).

> It would suck so bad if we nickel and dimed what should be fundamentally physically robust devices to last for much less time than complicated mechanical devices from the past.

For you, sure. For the people in business selling replacement, a widget that lasts 30 years is an annoying pain in the ass to them.

GMC used to build transit buses (beautiful aluminum chassis, slanted windows, the works), and eventually stopped. Talking to the bus mechanics when I used to drive, their theory was that GMC couldn't sell new ones, because damned near every single one they'd made was still on the road. They didn't corrode, and a properly maintained chassis would last basically forever. In the early 2000s, we had 40 year old buses that were on their 4th engine, 3rd transmission, up near a million miles. They just kept trucking along.

Now, it seems consumer stuff is lucky to last 5 years before needing major repairs.
Don't you want to divide J by (J/cal) to get cal (as opposed to multiply)?

2.0e23J = 4.78e+22 cal
There are mitigations for the security concerns; the new architecture I envision is a new architecture, we can do things correctly and intelligently. don't let your x86 experience cloud your view of what can be done.

just like an MMU can restrict what process(es) can access a particular byte or block of RAM, something similar could restrict access to a common storage medium.

> Well, more than that happens when a program starts up.

of course more than that happens. I am trying to make a point and not document the minutia of the entire boot process of a modern x86_64 computer.

> I don't think we would want "program on hard drive" and "program in memory" to be isomorphic

that is one of the biggest potential reasons to use the technology in question, and one of the biggest reasons that it is being worked on.
Is OOP Pythonic?
I have had this dilemma ever since I started programming in Python 3 years ago.

I am a strong believer in procedural programming, with some functional goodness thrown in. My argument is that procedures and functions complement each other well. Procedures change state, while functions produce new state. Dennis Ritchie figured this out almost 50 years ago and granted us C. People loved and still love C for it's simplicity and clear separation of data and procedures. You were granted a way to introduce your own structured data types, and that simple but powerful feature was enough for all kinds of complex data representations.

So what all this has to do with Python? Well, Python has a builtin way of implementing structures, but because of it's dynamic nature, that representation in the end boils down to simple key-value pairs -> dictionaries. So, why Python programmers prefer making classes when the language has dictionaries? Not only is using builtin types faster, it should also be more Pythonic, since you are exploiting one of the core features of Python: it's dynamic nature. Just look at LOAD_ATTR opcode, it's insane how slow that thing is.

If it quacks like a duck...or better yet, if it has a key, it is easy to check. So why not use it more?
Given that they introduced measures in March last year and they're now pretty similar to the rest of Europe[0], that's not surprising.

[0] https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n3081
New info about cellular death process previously thought to be irreversible
I don't think you need to be 100% anti-capitalist to see the harm. It's a bit of a false dichotomy. A purely liberal capitalist market is bad, so is communism, so what? A market is a highly dynamic non-linear system that nobody fully grasps. We are thousands and thousands of years from having a fair world. We need to keep trying to make it better, by talking about it, exploring it, trying to come up with ways to fix it.
> Why do they deserve a cut?

I don't know if you're trolling or not... but are you seriously unaware of the value they're providing? Is this some kind of mystery to many people?

In the PC/Linux space -- where traditionally no online marketplace existed with wide reach -- if you want to sell your software you have to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps:

1. Create a website.

2. Market your software. Nobody will see it. Spend more money on more marketing, and then maybe -- just maybe -- you might reach 1-10% of your potential market.

3. Sign up with a credit card payment processor. Find out that people will navigate all the way to your store page, see the CC entry form, and click cancel. A lot of people. Like... 50%.

4. Discover that you're treated like the dirt stuck to the bottom of the payment processor's shoes, and they charge a lot of overhead too. Especially for small transcations. You have no hope, ever, of selling 1 million copies of your small app for $1 and make anywhere near a million dollars.

5. Get hacked because you can't afford a full security team to babysit your online store 24/7.

6. Discover that you're on the second page of Google's search results for your exact product name because of competitor's SEO.

7. And so on. And on, and on...

Apple's 30% cut is cheap. It's notably less than doing it yourself at a small scale, under one million dollars or so.

They instantly provide you with hundreds of millions of potential customers, free marketing and exposure, frictionless payment processing that goes down to the single-dollar range efficiently, secure systems for all of that, and more.

Everybody in the mobile app industry knows that while there are more Android devices out there, the profit is in the Apple ecosystem.

An ecosystem Apple created at enormous expense.

An ecosystem that has devices that are mostly kept up-to-date (by Apple! For 6+ years! At huge expense!), massively reducing development and test effort. Notably, unlike the Android platform which is a shit-show of bargain basement garbage with either zero vendor support, or next to zero.

An ecosystem where customers feel safe because of the security guarantees provided by Apple! Confident customers spend more. A lot more. The Android marketplace is like 30% malware at this point, for comparison. Customers don't feel safe spending their money there. I know I don't.

I could go on like this for pages and pages, but I hope you get the point.

You're getting the end-result of the main product of the world's biggest company. If you think this is worthless, literally without value, then you're probably one of those people that also think that they could reproduce the Uber app over a weekend...
As I understand, bats are believed to be the reservoir for SARS-CoV, but the virus was spread to humans via an intermediate host. It would be the same with SARS-CoV-2, with an intermediate host acting as an amplifier.
The most absurd take yet must be that being against forced middlemen is anti-capitalist.
But why does Apple have 50% market share? It’s because of these exact things that I as a user prefer. And on top of that, while 50% is obviously a great position, the other half is Android. And then if you compare based on phones there are still tons of options. If customers hated things like privacy warning labels or sign-in with apple they’d buy other phones. But they don’t. So it seems pretty clear to me the best product is winning.
I don’t think anyone thinks they are special, which is why ideally they wouldn’t have such influence. I don’t think practically speaking there is much to be done about it, it’s just an interesting thing to note.
Will probably blog probably in a week or two.

But the tldr; is a lot of scavenged EPYCs and nvidia GPUs all in a large sound-proof rack.
Either side loaded apps get allowed to use payment processors, or the App Store apps are allowed to use whatever processor they want.
See this HN submission if you haven't already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27413934
git's purpose is to track change and provide meaningful insights into code written by many different people.

The fact that you can use it to deploy is just a side effect and using git solely because it makes it easier to deploy changes is thoroughly missing the point.
Now I'll try to address your points:

>Is he just saying that that all precautions for respiratory viruses like masks, vaccines and distancing are useless and should be stopped? Is he suggesting that we stop using the flu vaccine as well?

Prefer steelmanning this. We know cloth masks are not effective, yet we force them rather than alternatives. We never mandated flu vaccines (is/ought problem?), and why would he suggest stopping the flu vaccine? This seems like a needless dig. Distancing is basically theatre this point with the prevalence of Omnicron.

>The vaccine is far safer than covid, so giving the vaccine to millions is much safer than giving covid to millions.

Not for certain age groups. Even if they're equivalent, mandates should not be a thing when the risk between the virus and the vax is so close.

> I have no idea where he's getting this from.
The vaccinated still spread COVID at a high rate, especially with the prevalence of Omnicron.

>Is this a repeat of the "everyone over 60 should just die" line that went around the US in 2020?

I agree some may have said this, but realistically there was a 90%+ survival rate (IFR) pre vaccine for 60+. (Figures not exact)
Unless there's some conversation not shown here, it reads to me like they are using "garbage" to refer to random contents of people's messages and/or posts (and saying that the whitepaper is not garbage, as opposed to random messages and posts, which are not "useful" on chain). I don't think they meant to call your project garbage, just that it adds garbage to the chain.
Just the US?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/business/european-central...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-central-bank-cuts-reserv...
This is what killed me when I started swapping Alkalines for NiMH in the 00s. Every single charger sold in stores only charged in pairs, and because even then USB was creating a 5V world most things that needed batteries used 3 of them.

Even the charger that Panasonic sold with the Eneloops requires matched pairs.

The other issue being that NiMH seems to top out at AA size. Finding C or D sized rechargeables is basically impossible.
I do not know how one could see it that way; AOL has no plot, and "You've Got Mail" does.
Hey, glad to meet you. Maybe we can have a discussion. Glad we agree on modified gravity (MOND) being able to accurately account for galaxy rotation.

- galaxy clusters

- lensing

- Bullet Cluster, El Gordo

all have answers in the work of modified gravity (MOND) cosmologists. Stacy McGaugh does a really good job going through each one.

The essential thing, and I mean really essential, is that modified gravity (MOND) uses fewer free parameters than cold dark matter (CDM), by a long shot.
> The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection.

> https://gbdeclaration.org/

What's wrong with the Barrington Declaration? Thousands of scientists and doctors say there's a better way.
Thank you for your thoughtful response! I think we’re in full agreement — which is weird on the Internet.

> There is some reasonable cost involved […]

Apple is just taking a profit like your corner store, COOP, Migros, etc. Is it reasonable? Don’t know! Are profit margins how most business operate? That is for sure.
isn’t otherworldly generally strange tho?
ofc at least some people are enough like cancer they should be at least be changed... there's a lot of people. But no, I don't think this alone would be a sole distinguishing feature in that regard. It would be more "cancer-like," but there should definitely be more nuance before it's decided that a person "is cancer" and eradication should only be a last resort after everything else had been tried.
HN is full of these cognitive dissonances; another example is the generally pro-immigration stance when it comes to low-wage workers, which is contrasted with the anti-tech immigration stance. I used to think it was different groups of people on different threads, but I have come to believe that many maintain diametrically opposed views.
Could tell right away that this guy has a very simplistic analysis that mistakes the laboratory for the real world. Another academic blowhard who doesn’t understand the real world consequences of what he’s suggesting.
The problem is that, effectively, it is customers making the decision to buy Apple products, but developers who have pay to get access to them. This split means the incentives don’t get to the people in power, and the mechanism breaks down.

It’s exactly the same dynamic as in net neutrality.
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. “Just business” or not, it's sad to see that innovation in commerce has shifted from the relatively open platform of the web to the relatively controlled platform of App Stores.
Try ALEKS. It's basically an online grind session that identifies which underlying concepts you've got wrong or haven't got, and builds you toward them organically. I recently used it to get myself sufficiently intimate with trigonometry that I don't have to stop and look things up all the time "just in case." It's not free but it works well: https://www.aleks.com
Agreed. HN cheers in the name of disruption and competition when rideshare apps gouge taxi drivers and when delivery apps gouge restaurants and couriers. But when it’s developers being gouged …
You wrote this block of text but missed the whole point of the link: they didn't end up charging this fee, at all. They got 0%. The cut didn't go up. The store didn't close. There was never a basis in cost, whatsoever.
Just now there’s also an ongoing coverage about scammy Wordle clones that currently haunt the App Store. Their whole protect the customer narrative is a sham when it comes to the App Store. I think the only upside are easily cancellable subscriptions, which, if you think about it, is actually a problem that is a result of their push for the subscription model and should be solved by regulation: mandatory reminders for subscriptions and easy cancellation. There, problem solved for all platforms not just Apple’s.
Reading this, I am not sure what is the "right" policy in the author's mind.

The author argue that the ups and downs of infection is more of a innate dynamism of covid spreading, than any society wide policy. Is that suggesting there should not have been society wide intervention to covid? Like just keep things as normal.

Although I agree with the conclusion that the covid policy in US definitely has not been effective.
I'm an EE and never had a chip fail when working inside its recommended operating parameters and properly protected and I have devices in the field over 20 years, I do see failures when poor soldering or electrolytic gone bad compromises the power supply. My main worry is some flash memory is only guarenteed minimum 25 years, Not sure how they determined this but yet to see any issues.

I would hate to be on a generational spaceship or the first settler on another planet with currently designed commercial stuff.
My wife and I are those grandparents, and frankly we don’t want the job.
I like ideas such as this however for important personal data how can I trust IPFS? How do I know that the encryption used won’t be cracked?

Also when you store it fully encrypted how can I trust that that is the case, all I see (I assume) is my data once I provide the correct password.
I also want to say that I'm not necessarily arguing against MOND here. I really like the work done by Stacy McGaugh et al. But from a more cosmological point of view, I see a lot of support for CDM. (And more than just TV cosmologists agree with that.)
High degree of overlap between r/poor and crypto subreddits
Please understand, you might like it so much and download it, that would be like shoplifting, no no.
In part.

Apple allows you to block the company from doing tracking of you and connecting that to other info. These things are hard to block technically sometimes.

I had a company threaten collections action over an unpaid subscription because they continued to provide the service (that I didn't want) and I hadn't paid. It doesn't matter that I had an email saying please cancel. You have to dial XXX.

On the business side we are seeing more deals where you have to provide written notice 60 days BEFORE the end of the 5 year term but not more than 90 days (check your copier lease agreements). All these are essentially tricks to force renewals in my view (and are totally allowed).
For startups, the advice is specifically given in the context that cheap customers are often "high maintenance", whereas deep-pocketed customers w/ accounts payable budgets provide more reliable income streams with less drama.
Google "Ban the box" a scheme at least some employers including my own use. Which looks to not take into account in the early stages of the recruitment process about criminal convictions.

I am no expert on but I believe it works quite well. By allowing people in situations like yours, at least getting a chance to get a foot in the door.

Of course some roles may not be available.

Good luck in your search.