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Because most of competition law is written such that practices only become illegal when then they demonstrably create or increase a monopoly or dominant market position. [1] The courts don't like to interfere in these practices as long as there's competition in the market.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law#Ty...
This should have been the case from the beginning, but I think maybe Apple thought that the app store was always going to be many indie devs and maybe a few slightly more organized outfits making some millions. I don't think they ever envisioned a day where billion dollar companies would have material stakes in the app store
> If it was just classical physics, then you get yourself into the thinking that you can rewind time and all the "billiard balls" knock into each other the same way, which is why you order a soup and not a sandwich every single time on that day.

I don't understand this line of reasoning. If I ordered a soup for lunch, and then time is rewound and I order a sandwich instead, it would appear that my choice is in fact random and therefore I most definitely do not have free will. If rewinding time is sufficient to change my past choices, doesn't that utterly demean them? I might as well flip a coin.
So what? They are, in fact have 50+% market share in the US on handheld general computers - and they disallow me from using this general purpose computer as I see fit. Even if they got into this position by feeding the poor in God knows where, the current state in itself is the bad thing.
He should consider the neuroscientific answer: The brain is a limited capacity model maker in a world that is only partially sensed. It was evolved to predict food and survival along the time dimension, not much more. Its model making is limited to extrapolating linearly (infinities) or nonlinearly (quanta) from initial conditions, and there is no guarantee it can make a full consistent theoretic universe. Even its notion of information is limited. It ponders many questions, mostly out of inertia, but not all questions are going to lead to useful answers, even the question 'why quanta'
Emoji has turned out to be a great way to enhance complex script support in much real-world software and they get my full support for that reason too.
I don't think time would change the severity of the situation. Imagine if someone did a prank at CES2022 and ruined a multimillion display.
Actually the music is not too much to my taste, however I find the public persona and manipulation of their perception to be interesting.
Contrarian perspective.

The model worked until it apparently didn't. If Amazon and online shopping hadn't happened, we'd still be going to the malls.

A large number of retailers fell not to online shopping, but instead to lowering quality of service and goods. Sears, Circuit City, JC Penny, and Kmart each have analogous stores and former competitors that remain and are doing well.

Outside of disposably fast fashion like Shein, it's usually more convenient to try clothes on shotgun fashion. In person.

Fragrance, jewelry, luxury goods. All better done in person.

Home Depot is peerless and will never be replaced with an online equivalent.

Touching and trying things on is an experience that just can't be matched online (sans metaverse, if it actually delivers).

Amazon is aggressively expanding physical retail presence. They're focusing on convenience, which is probably the biggest reason people avoid shopping in person.

People love shopping. And if the shopping experience is modern and fun, and interspersed with drinking and dining, they love doing it with friends. It's a social activity too.

If malls morph into "live-work-play" hubs like this old sears factory [1] or this entirely new construction in that mold [2], they'll absolutely flourish.

[1] https://www.poncecitymarket.com

[2] https://townbrookhaven.net
"moral responsibility, essential no, it cannot exist again unless supernatural is involved for the same reasons outlined above, there is no "you" making a decision, just a process."

This view is based on a misunderstanding of what moral responsibility is. Moral responsibility is essentially credit assignment [1]. It exists as a concept not because it matters whether or not you actually could have done differently before, but rather as a mechanism to teach you to do differently in a similar situation in the future. "You" is just a machine making decisions. When you make a bad decision, according to the other machines surrounding you (society) or your own brain's reward system, you are assigned blame or feel guilty because you should avoid making the same decision again in a similar situation.

To say that moral responsibility requires something supernatural doesn't make sense, since we successfully use the concept all the time. Its a mechanism for multi-agent learning.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08435
Tecnically the crystaline lens is in an anterior chamber inside your eye, so these contacts can't really squish the lens itself.

These contact lenses are squishing against your cornea. So in actual fact an anterior portion of your eyeball is being re-shaped.
I wish the times would come when people finally have the guts to just explicitly say what they think is true.

Without being shamed or accused of hurting someone’s abstract feelings.

For instance, this post would make much more sense and impact if OP would just write

“hey guys, cto of YC funded company ABC, in my opinion, is doing awful job and i as an employee have terrible experience. Here is why …. What do you suggest?”
There are some terrible YC companies but we really only talk about the successful ones and the process to get to successful is a messy struggle.

A good YC company would be glad you provided feedback they can use to make the process better. Other startups YC or not can learn.

Stories like yours are common and we all can relate. Honestly it doesn't sound all that bad, the CTO is letting you choose the stack and run with it. Distracted CTOs are much better than owners who think they are programmers (who get drunk and commit changes at 2am that break production). Hiring and firing/quiting is common in a startup. You need to build a team that fits together and getting that right is hard.. things usually stabilize.

Is this your first startup?
People Prefer Moral Discretion to Algorithms
This post helped me so much when I was using the graphviz library. I was trying to use the layout functions in graphviz for another tool, and graphviz spits out layout in bezier curve points. I was plotting the points directly, and didn't realize I needed to interpolate the actual points of the curve. This post helped immensely.
When you've got huge market power, not necessarily:

> In general, any business — even a monopolist — may choose its business partners. However, under certain circumstances, there may be limits on this freedom for a firm with market power.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Programmation fonctionnelle avec Arrow-kt sur Android
Would still love to see a source if you have one!
I found Sam Harris’ book on Free Will, named as such, to be extraordinarily compelling. It’s short, at 96 pages, and I feel worth the read.
Do you know how many massive mining/logging/oil corporations operate most of their hardware outside of "normal" internet connectivity? There's for sure money in that market (if you can work your way past the environmental/ethical issues)
I thought it was a lovely reply, thanks for sharing!
There is also some evidence that Ortho-k lenses slow the progression of myopia.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21037497/

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03465748
Here's a wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthokeratology
> But these traits are in some ways at odds with each other. The most simple code is probably not the most testable. All those interfaces and injected dependencies make for convenient testing, but have a cost in terms of simplicity.

Exactly

The same code snippet might be good in one context and an annoyance in another context

Here's where "generic rules" fail. Like python's avoidance of lambdas and favouring just having functions. Well, but, depending on the context, they make a lot of sense.

"Oh but lambdas are less readable" not if you need 20 different short functions and you need to combine them. Too implicit and it's hard to read, too explicit it gets boring and also hard to read.
IE6/7 launch times were much faster than Firefox (this was important before SSDs were common) and general performance was better on IE. I used Firefox for about 15 years mostly because of it's ad-blocking capabilities, even though it was generally a slower browser than IE. IE was "slow" only after Chrome became a thing... which was faster than IE. Firefox wasn't.

Having said that, in this context, these things don't matter at all. You can make a barebones browser which only supports HTML and CSS and get several fold improvements in battery life and performance. That is why IE was bad. It did not support newer better functionality that other browsers did.
oh, you meant the position contains a popular letter because that brick shade is green! I thought it was yellow
Within the boundaries of the law, which should (ideally) be modified based on arising new problems in the benefit of people.

Also, this starts getting into the “temporarily embarrassed billionaire” mindset, which is a really bad lens to view politics through.
CA has always been light on big tech imo. A particularly egregious case was Gavin Newsom staying completely neutral on prop 22, while tons of out-of-state democrats were quite outspoken against the proposition. Even Biden and Harris came out against it.
> Apple’s vocal focus on privacy and safety constitutes a significant aspect of their product marketing, and it makes sense they’d want to walk-the-walk, so to speak, to ensure their product lives up to the claims they make.

The solution for anyone who wants this is to not use any browser other than Apple's. It's no excuse for not giving the customer a choice. They can still choose the existing thing if they want it; just don't install anyone else's browser.
Forced sterilization and kidnapping children was also seen as fully legal. Contrary to wikipedia article stating this was repealed in 1973 recent senate committee https://globalnews.ca/news/7920118/indigenous-women-steriliz... found otherwise:

>Most of the women interviewed for the report were coercively sterilized between 2005 and 2010. The committee says it is aware of a case of forced sterilization as recent as in 2019.
Well, if their pilfering town funds by 'employing' the surpivisors brother-in-law's landscaping company for 8x the normal cost...

I'm not saying that's the case, it's a made up scenario, but it's exactly how underpaid public servants "make up the difference", and it's why you need an auditor. The hired CPA wouldn't see anything wrong.
Wow it really would be!
> Maybe they changed the process at some point.

I think it is more likely that, depending on your geographical location, they use different printing shops (they pick the one which is closer to you). And printing shops have widely disparate qualities, impossible to predict beforehand.

In the last years I've returned several 100-dollar Springer "hardcovers" because they were of laughably bad quality. Now I take only second-hand copies or buy them in bookstores, it's the only way to be sure.
Exposing eyes to sunlight (or high intensity light) is a very important factor preventing and reversing myopia [1]

There was also Australian paper I cant find now, showing that prevalence of myopia in Asians in Australia is much lower due to school systen encouraging more free time and play outdoors. (not explainable by genetic factors)

Children must play outside in the sun or they become myopic.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29371008/
Ask HN: Why do LinkedIn recruiters give so little details about their offers?
It seems that +80% of linkedin recruiters want a phone call before giving you the most basic details: sector, salary range, remote...

Isn't it an extremely inefficient way of hiring people?

Are they attracting anyone besides crappy/desperate developers?

I really don't see how it makes any sense business wise, how do they stay in business acting that way?
There's no particular reason why native desktop software can't support online collaboration - online video games all somehow manage to support networked interaction while running on the desktop.
Many products have huge production chains with thousands of suppliers around the world. If there is a disaster today, I'm pretty sure we'll lose all knowledge of modern inventions in a few generations and revert back to a medieval society.

In theory, humans can rediscover that knowledge in a few centuries/millenniums. However, it's also possible that we'll never regain that knowledge since we've already exhausted natural resources on the surface. Without easy access to iron/coal/oil, we wouldn't be able to create machines that we have today to extract resources deep underground.
> Low level stuff has always been interesting to me, I just have no clue how one would even get started with it, or who would even pay me to work on it.

One keyword is embedded programming. You can start out bare metal basically doing everything in a while(1) loop until you get to a point where different tasks (in the literal way) and peripherals get so much that you will end up doing exactly this, but on a much smaller (and comprehensible) scale.
20 short functions definitely sound as though they should be explicit. Named, documented, testable. 1 or 2 you could get away with being implicit. 20 requires a lot of understanding as to what's going on!
Though unfortunately uMatrix is no longer maintained: https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
Monitoring Dynamic API Routes
We rolled out a feature in Apilytics that allows easy monitoring of dynamic API routes by combining a set of fixes API routes into dynamic routes based on a user-defined pattern.
Python releases adoption since 2016
They could be free to put sideloading behind 10 warning/error flags, in which case google docs would be effectively forced to use the still de facto AppStore.

Yet I still get the opportunity to install whatever program I want to on a device I payed a huge sum of money.

And no, switching between 2 things is not consumer choice, so with all due respect, saying switching to android is disrespectful.
I very much enjoyed this comment - it sounds like it was a great experience. It’s a nerdier kind of beatnik prose.
There was a recent link posted exactly about this... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30068020

Early versions of Creative Commons (CC) license had a bug in which the license would terminate on breach of terms. The terms were easy to mess up, like requiring attribution and linking to source. There is now a new form of copyright troll that is basically fishing for CC violations.
Wait until you work on a 100k line code base where someone enforced this kind of thing
Isn't it amazing to think that the Sixth edition of Unix was 2.3% the size of a base Wordpress install.
Hell you can't even start a website to compete with these giants or you get smeared through their very long reaching tentacles or even banned at the DOMAIN LEVEL!
Coding is a highly subjective and creative endeavor. "Clean code" is akin to "well written" for writers. Sure, you can analyze and even be able to define some good practices, but because we are always creating something new that has never done before, and the field is infinitely complex, no rules can be set in stone and applied across everything.

In my opinion there's nothing wrong with calling code clean, we don't have to analyze every line of code we write. There's just too many things to consider and viewpoints to take, we'd be trapped in analysis paralysis forever, as you can continue it to no end. There's never a point where the analysis will be "done". You just have to be able to recognize when the analysis reaches a point of diminishing returns, and when moving on is the better option. Sometimes just calling it "clean" is enough.
>As long as they don't take it as an excuse to reduce bitrates further.

I actually think it is easier ( comparatively speaking ) to push for improved Networking so someday bitrate becomes less of a concern. Just like what happened with Audio. Even with the state of the art VVC Encoder, you only get about 65% ( or 2.8x ) reduction in bitrate in most common cases compared to x264. 65% reduction in 20 years isn't exactly a lot. We have easily got 20x bandwidth reduction in cost in the past 20 years.

Netflix are testing with 800Gbps per box now. May be when PCI-E 5.0 is available along with higher memory bandwidth they could try 1.6Tbps per box within the this decade.
This topic transcends machines as we know them including binary and Turing and Neumann and all that Jazz. These are things philosophers 2000 years ago could and might actually discussed and though about. Dividing a piece of land into states, then counties then cities, etc. is an example of a tree. These "foundations" are mostly useful with computers as we know them, but they don't have to. People might discover new species of computers that do things very differently, but I think will still use these foundations.
I also agree with you that something like gates and binary would be a great introduction to computers. This book doesn't seem like an intro to CS, but for somebody who has already programmed or somebody coming from a mathy background.
Yes, in bright light your pupils are narrow enough to create a pinhole focus effect. (It works the same way with a camera: stop down your camera lens enough and you get infinite depth of field with every visible object in focus.)
I think it was implied they meant tech businesses, seeing as this is Hacker News
You just described corruption. Regardless of how many dollars it is about in the end.

I can think of 0 valid reasons to ghost and undermine your elected auditors.
Yes - any account can have snapshots. The discounted ones just don’t have free snapshots. They count against your quota.

Full price accounts have 7 days that don’t count against your quota.
Zerodium to pay $200k and $400k for zero-day in Mozilla Thunderbird and Outlook
The memo you're linking to was recently updated and did have force. The DOD, one of the largest federal agencies, issued its own memo with similar deadlines, and this & others have had the result of jumpstarting IPv6 / dual stack support for all of the major clouds & Kubernetes.

If FedRAMP qualification is tied to IPv6 support, you'll see every major contractor and cloud provider support it promptly.

If you look at the recent updates for cloud providers - AWS and GCP support for IPv6, Kubernetes going dual stack by default - you can see that this memo had a substantial impact.

Sometimes these things take time, but in this case, the recent memo you link to lit a fire under everyone.
Or they don't want an auditor to see how much the supervisors brother-in-law landscaping company gets for mowing the park lawns.

That's why you need an auditor, hired CPA's will only verify that the checks were indeed sent to the intended party, not that they are used appropriately.

Don't be naive that these things don't happen, they do.
> As a general rule, one can assume that anybody who refers to humans as an infestation or their homes as hives is not a good person. Have the day you deserve.

Anything concrete to say, aside from weak ad-hominem?

I grew up in post-USSR, I'm pretty sure I know much more about human hives than you do. And I never said anything about infestation. Every family should have their own home.
Theres definitely clean code, theres just no rule book for how to define it or course you can teach for how to write it. Some people are just better at the art of writing simple software. You definitely know it when you see it.
A very short term difference. We would not make much of a dent (or bump, if you are into being literal) in the thermal balance of our planet if our greenhouse gas activities did not involve unearthing large quantities of carbon that had been buried away "forever" in climate timescale. Years are not the issue, the problem is that everything we unearth won't re-bury itself in centuries and millennia.
Apple has been getting away with serious anti competitive practices in the name of better user experience and arguably they do a good job with the user experience part. but in the US they hold an absolute majority share and shouldn't be allowed to maintain all their existing practices of locking out everyone else because they are the ones who control the iPhone OS.
> of scheduling our event postmortem

Did your group somehow started using 'postmortem' instead of 'afterparty'? Because if every event you organize require scheduling a postmortem then it is no longer a postmortem and just a regular activity.
If you add up the energy inputs to create and supply the consumeable ingredients with the energy to run it, can it run off of solar cells with equivalent surface area so they just consume sunlight? Needs to be truly energy-neutral to be unequivocally useful. Burning more coal to use than it takes out, or hastening the day that alpha and gamma radiation screw us all up, aren’t acceptable. Of course, steps on the right path are to be celebrated.
Not sure I buy this argument. Are you only going to ever judge people based on first hand experience?
While I understand the complaint, I can say that I believe a victory for Epic would benefit anyone besides Epic, a few larger companies and scammers.

Sure, Apple should have reduced they cut to 5% years ago. I don't really see what service Apple provides that justify 15 or 30%.

Allowing third party app stores, and alternative payment solutions, isn't something I can see benefiting anyone. There might be countries where credit/debit cards aren't accessible to most, and that's a problem Apple should have dealt with.

Having multiple payment option and stores bypassing Apple will result in people getting scammed and that will hurt Apple. Right now people complain about Apple having total control over the platform. When a third party payment provider or alternative App Store starts selling information stealing credit card numbers or when Epic won't refund some kids $5,000 spending on in game purchases, Apple WILL be criticized for not doing more to protect users.
>And all of that needs to be preloaded ahead of time just in case the user decides they're going to fly to Mumbai tomorrow.

This is Interesting. So essentially Uber is a "Global" App by default?
I'd say it's much easier to make this happen compared to a few years ago. While there is a culture of working part time where I'm located (Sweden), I've found that being employed and working part time is messier than being a contractor.

As a contractor, I just tell my clients in the negotiation phase that "my availability is X hours/days per week" and not one has had any issues with it.
The supermarkets around me here in Belgium are also being rebuilt with apartments on top, Colruyt at least. It just seems logical, otherwise it's a waste of space.
> Yes I'd love for a new license to exist and join that, but with 2-3 alterations;

I once worked on a codebase that was "authored" by non-software-engineer founders based on the same principle: an actual SWE wrote the core, but to extend functionality (think adding a route and its handler), they'd copy the example and change a few lines. The result was as horrible and broken as one might expect - I wonder if lawyers will shudder at the brokenness when they look at such franken-licenses. Sure, it works on the happy-path, but the failure modes can be nasty.
Almost every government and/or military organisation in the world. Do you know how long it takes to certify a new OS for deployment on a warship?
Ortho-k lenses won't fix it, but they do have some effect on it (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21037497/).