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> Why the necessity to force Apple to do the same?

Because both of us can coexist without forcing the other out of the room. John Deere didn't have a right to fleece farmers just because some people would pay for their premium services and others would not. They were sued for antitrust violation because of this[0], which isn't a far cry from the way Apple treats their repair partners or developers. The precedent of the law doesn't appear to align with Apple's business values, and I'm frustrated with the way they disregard the freedom of their users. They should put their money where their mouth is and empower users instead of trying to squeeze a few more dimes out of them. They are the largest company in the world, I should not be hearing "technical excuses" vis-a-vis distributing software like we have since the stone age of computing. It's not healthy, and it shouldn't take a village to argue that.

> I don’t want iOS to allow third party app stores because I don’t want another attack vector to be introduced into the system.

You don't need to use third-party software, or ideally even enable package installation by default (a-la Android). As-is though, Apple still has generic files for installing packages internally (IPA), and that "attack vector" is still there, just behind a small gate. Meanwhile, people are installing iPhone rootkits through invisible iMessage exploits... it's not a great look.

[0] https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/agriculture/john-deere-sued-...
Apple could just mandate IAP but also allow the app publisher to offer their own methods. It would force competition in pricing. IAP fee ultimately is passed to the consumer. Companies need to make their margins.
You can leave if you want. I might create an account now. For the life of me I don’t see how anyone can think this is a bad thing, unless you enjoy being in a far left group-think echo chamber.
Lets take a pumped hydro I know of, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taum_Sauk_Hydroelectric_Power_.... It's 5,370,000 m^3 of water, 3600 MW·h for 8 hours to empty, 28,800 MW total. Cubic meter of water weighs 1,000 kg aka a metric ton. So 5,370,000 Metric tons of water.

Looking at https://energetechsolar.com/1mwh-500v-800v-battery-energy-st..., they're around .88 LB / AH, so 880,000 LB/MWh. 399,161 KG / MWh. 11,179,036,800, or 11,179,036 Metric tons of batteries. I don't know what the breakdown is but global lithium production was 100,000 metric tons in 2021, which is off by 2 oom.

My math may be wrong, and you do have losses of water from evaporation, but with pumped you can go up and down. But that's 11 million metric tons of lithium and other metals. Water falls from the sky (in most places still). Lithium has to be refined. You can recharge the battery, you can reload the water or pump it the other way. Tomsauk is mostly concrete and water (by volume). You do need almost a mountain for that head, or a mine. Concrete breaks down over time and can be maintained,. Batteries wear out as well but can be rebuilt. Water seems the easiest of the things to replace currently. The only things I can think of that are easier are provably gasses and maybe salt or rock.

This is all napkin math, and I may have missed a decimal some places. But they seem within the same order of magnitude for efficiency. But is it even possible to build batteries that big?

Of course when they got greedy with Tomsauk they ruind a great natural area. I'd love to be corrected on my math and assumptions.
Yeah, my unit of analysis is the decade, sorry. Been reading Vaclav Smil too much (Energy in Nature and Society; Grand Transitions).

There was a news item on the BBC recently about battery swap being used by taxi firms in "second tier" Chinese cities (so, only 5M - 15M inhabitants).

That's how it starts: large fleet operators who want their vehicles earning revenue for as long as possible; then smaller fleet operators; then manufacturers sell to the public ("never worry about battery failure", with suitable horror stories like "the Tesla owner up for $20K just out of warranty". True or not).
The engine was fine, it was a square peg / round hole situation.

They picked an off-the-shelf engine that was designed to simulate tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons in 3D. Maybe they got a good deal on it.

The bird's-eye click-to-move camera mode is what the engine was designed for, but the developers kludged in some keyboard controls because they were making an action game.

The odd timing-based fighting styles sort of make sense, because the engine wanted to handle combat with dice rolls on a mostly-fixed interval.

It could have turned out a lot worse, when you consider what they were working with. I hope they keep some of the weird quirks, like the rhythm swordplay.
> OrangeDAO has 1200+ members and every one of those members is a graduate of Y Combinator

So to be clear, it's not affiliated with Y Combinator, but that's a hell of a lot of alumni from Y Combinator. I'm surprised I haven't seen any big discussions of this on Hacker News.
Whatever the admins are doing, I appreciate their work. I definitely like that the content on HN is "intellectually interesting" and not "hype driven" - for a lack of better terms.

I also am thankful for stuff I post, that goes totally unnoticed, brought back to life by admins days later, suddenly on the home page! The "second wind" effect.

If I cared about hype driven content, I'd go to Twitter. And in fact it's usually the main reason I close Twitter - incendiary content overload. So much shock-and-awe I should care about that I care about none of it.

What would be the point of duplicating Reddit, Product Hunt and Twitter? I come here to see something different.
For a while I experimented with giving easy problems like that during 'phone' screens (usually over google meet, with a shared text editor link), and whatever their first answer was I always asked if they could think of another way to implement it. I liked the simple "is this odd/even?" question, and could prod for alternates by asking to use or not use a loop/modulus. My favorite alternate answer was someone doing the bit-and moral equivalent in base 10 by converting the number to a string and checking the last character. I felt like it gave good bang-for-buck with respect to https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/five-essential-pho... in that it takes hardly any time, it's probably about as good as fizzbuzz in catching out applicants who for whatever reason literally can't seem to program (only encountered two of those but that was only after someone else had screened them and passed them on), and it's an opportunity to show awareness of the 'bit nature' of these things (not very important to the work and lacking it isn't a sufficient reason to reject, but all else equal, I'd rather take someone with that awareness than someone without).
Bufotoxin : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufotoxin

Toad Toxins : https://www.erowid.org/animals/toads/toads_health1.shtml
Nicely illustrated article and all but title only gets me grug brain go "What is Code? Baby Don't Hurt Me! Don't Hurt Me, No More."
that's not true in my case.

every single webgl demo i open up on my 10 years old macbook air sends the fan spinning like crazy. this demo works fine and chrome is there sitting under 0.2 cpu usage.

this is one of the most cpu efficient 3D web demo i have seen in a while.
"Other"? But is it really a tomb at all?

Wasn't the word "cenotaph" invented for things like it?
He is trying to get in front of the lawsuits, this is not the first time for that shill, I remember more than 20 years ago he was on CNBC bad mouthing a company so the stock would tank, later you find out he had a huge short position. I feel bad for anyone that took his advice, but certainly don't feel bad for him, what a crook.
it really spooked me when they did that to my mac
the future is outsmarting states like China and Russia and avoiding, not profiting from, social collapse. I think he is just choosing something easy enough to accomplish but which might have a reasonably large addressable market.

really hard problems requiring actual innovation? so-called tech guys can only sell ads and personal data, sorry.
> Your reply looks like "tell me you work for apple without telling you work for apple" or "tell me you are apple fanboy without telling you are one".

Why are you making this so personal?
I mean if you want to go back, this is the original post from the horse’s mouth:

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2021-January/006...
> Just tells you most people are susceptible to emotions

This is not insightful and an obvious aspect of being human.

> In this case, visceral contempt for Musk being against censorship.

This is an emotional opinion without the support of facts. Are you sure you are being rational?

Very nice glass house you have there.
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It's not a "narrative", it's called the Terms of Service, which specifically forbid inciting violence and hate speech. Trump, Kanye West, and other nut cakes broke those rules and that's why they got banned, after repeated warnings.
Apparently, SpaceX has used Tesla engineers in the past, to help them evaluate/integrate Tesla parts into SpaceX designs. If Tesla is okay with doing consulting for one of Musk's other businesses, why not another?

Legally, Musk has to pay Tesla for this, and someone very senior at Tesla (the board or the senior executive team) has to approve – without Musk being in the room. But, why wouldn't they say "yes"?

So I don't think this story is fundamentally implausible. (As I pointed out in a comment on another post, the "code review" was probably actually an "architecture review", but it is easy for non-technical people to elide the difference.)
I really miss payphones and the death of the not always connected world.
Yeah, it's crazy how to the right their Overton window is, and it's only going farther right with the new brand of Republican candidates (note: i choose to classify empty narcissistic obviously wrong populism as a far-right thing, simply because it's politicians generally on the far-right that exhibit those traits (same as there's nothing particularly "lefty" about being environmentally conscious, but mostly people on the left seem to care, so "green" is considered "left").

From a French perspective, where there's a literal communist party, and empty far-right populists, and everything in-between, seeing what would be classified as center-right here be labeled as "far-left" is funny. The two party system really is a disaster.
Very neat, nice work!
I've been intending to for a while, but felt locked in since some folks I never got a way to IM with them when they stopped using AIM or I had no PGP or Signal for, so while they're not encrypted at rest it was at least better than plaintext.

I never was an IRC user, I'm from what I term the "vBulletin era". Folks were super adamant I shouldn't be writing malware, building botnets, or siphoning up large swathes of credit cards and selling them to the Russians... but then they'd never connect me with anything except a PhD, the FBI, the CIA, or some other... agency.

That sort of annoying obstructionism is why I bounced around a lot in my 20s, then loudly declared they're gonna nuke DC, not Pittsburgh, and moved back to 412.

Anyways, I can't tell you how Mastadon is, socially. But I can tell you that the folks who were on Twitter when I joined it with the pormanteau of my first and last name I also stupidly used on a video game forum when I was 11ish to ask for help... I thought we were all on the same page about not showing up in what was obviously a public facing account and interacting in the same way you would on Facebook, which was, at least for me, always a walled garden -- I'd blocked a few family members and the intent was nothing went out to the public internet, as well as quite obviously a personal account.

Anyways, the short version is if you just want to have technical discussions, I've heard it's decent, but I have no idea how they navigate the ever present issue in online communities of sea lions[1] who have the same interactions over and over, waiting for you to respond in a way that gives them more cause to complain.

Like, at one point this week someone knocked on my door, and I had to politely remind them I'd asked them not to come into my apartment building without permission, then I wanted to say how about I throw you out the window if being politely asked not to come in here doesn't work... but despite that being a perfectly legal thing to say to someone who is trespassing -- or to just do it -- to just grab someone, throw them down the stairs, then throw them straight out the back door, possibly injuring or killing them along the way.

There's a type of person, on Twitter, who reads stuff like the above then has an absolute fit if told well gee, if reading something dontbenebby posted on Twitter scared you then... don't.

I guess I could file an appeal or something, but this has been a problem all they way back to when the folks who'd make a show of not giving you detention for standing up for yourself as they stat raped their way across the county... someone obtains an unpaid volunteer position they're only energized enough to do because they're a privlidged white man (or woman) -- then abused their access to that position to keep folks from expressing ideas they don't like.

(And I know that sounds Qanon-y -- I'm talking about ideas like "I'm not a communist, I'd be part of one of the largest political parties in a country like Germany and conflating the two is fascist".)

Anyways TLDR: Mastadon might be cool, but it might be better to just lurk for a bit OP
> Hardware IP people are paying licenser people, with consumers eventually paying hardware IP people.

On Windows, at least, the end users have to purchase individual HEVC licenses.
It's likely a combination of loiter time, capabilities, safety and availability. First you need something that can stay up for a long time so you either need a fleet of medium size devices or a larger device. Then there's the type; a plane type drone can't maneuver and tightly circle an area in a crowded downtown so to keep eyes on something you want a helicopter. Then however you run into issues operating that inside a city remotely, relying on GPS and you might have control interruptions so it needs to be able to safely navigate independently or at the very least stop and hover all on it's own.

It's a pretty tight set of requirements that might not have anything that fully ticks all the boxes yet as easily or fully as a human piloted helicopter. It's partially also familiarity and existing infrastructure. Most large cities have had some form of police helicopter service for a while so there's already support infrastructure and helicopters bought that won't all convert over to autonomous/remote operation and for those that don't it's much easier to follow an existing pattern than it is to pioneer something.
When reading the project list, I thought there was a project called "fapbot" lol
No controversy on the front page and that’s the way I like it. Fully support whatever HN is doing, it’s the only forum with reasonable discussion.
There’s things they could do like not procreate and travel on planes if they wanted to have a bigger impact than what they did.
Apps have to respect the opt out to be listed on the app store. If they could be sideloaded or installed via a third party app store then they would no longer have to abide by Apple’s policies, such as not tracking users if they have opted out.
Does this mean the we're not getting robotic dinosaurs? https://surfacesreporter.com/articles/72322/neom-a-500-billi...
It depends hugely on what you’re trying to do. It can be as little as a few days or as long as a few years.
I'm curious what the legal obligations are for the person that left. AFAIK, there aren't any requirements that they continue supporting the systems they maintained after their employment ends.
I used this trick to land my first Silicon Valley when I was asked to generate the power set in an interview. It seemed to impress my interviewer a lot.
VR tech is not ready - hardware is too week so peoples (eg. soldiers) getting sick and optics is too pricy.
A submarine patent approach implies waiting for it to become popular enough that you can extort companies into paying, rather than just dropping the codec in lieu of something else.
Thank you! Interesting read
> Otherwise I don't see how that kind of failure is possible.

Don’t you just love the USB C “standard”?

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-my-headphones-only-charge-with-...

Just so you don’t think I’m choosing some no name headphones as an example

https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00271328
I definitely do NOT come here for flame wars so what ever they are doing,
please keep it up.
If I need a dash of pop culture I know where to go
Our forum database was breached – what you need to know
Twitter already has integrated NFTs lol
Paul huh?

He runs... this... right?

I came here from Slashot, I don't pay attention to the whole.. incubation... thing.

(If anyone has any cool science links, I'll read 'em)
I don't know why pros who already have gear would move to mirrorless. Its a step back for them. Battery life gets slashed by 2/3rds at least. AF is probably worse. Plus now you need to buy into a new lens ecosystem for the first time in 40 years.
What's your device it's quite smooth on my desktop.
He has sold more Meta shares and probably has other personal investments that he'll never run out of money. And it won't go to zero. They have 3 billion users. You think he'll hang on until $0?
May (followed by April and June) are the most active months for storms, especially tornado producing ones in virtually every state in the Midwest USA, well before “hot summer” days.
This is clearly the best option. Apple would be pressured to reduce their prices and/or increase the app store value, app publishers would be incentivized to not use sleazy subscription cancelling practices.
I don’t have rocket engineering expertise, but I do have AI.

When I see him talk about AI (which he claims to be an expert in), it’s like hearing college freshman, after first 5 classes of ML 101, who read a lot of pop-science blogs about it.
I found it very, very easy.

Giving up cheese would be hard.
Are you doing that with the apostrophes on purpose? Apostrophes don't mean "here comes an S".
I think Twitter will have a standard, organic death that comes from a space with absolute free speech. It’s going to be too soul sapping for most people and will gradually lose its audience except the fringers.
The Facebook (Meta) stock price was on the front page yesterday [1]. But it was probably flagged by users after a while because, well, is it really that interesting of a topic?

https://web.archive.org/web/20221027141959/https://news.ycom...
The best case scenario is that Elon runs out of money to fund the money losing machine that is Twitter, and we can all finally stop using the damn site.
It's a bit more involved than that. There are factors like nonURL posts etc. It's been some time since ycombinator.com/arc held the source code of HN (it no longer holds the source code) so I can not verify the actual formula.
Given that the IPCC projections have been consistently conservative, and have been revised upward repeatedly, i personally do not consider 2.9 an extreme value.

>It assumes that we never hit net zero CO2 production, and that GHG emissions continue on their current path through 2050 with only minimal mitigatons

You mean...the path we are basically on, and have been on, since decades despite knowing the consequences? "Not the stated plan" is doing a lot of lifting here.
5 purely defensive statements and a flag-censor.

You guys aren't big on self-reflection.
I'll play it, of course.

But I'm still enamoured with the perfect imperfections of their first effort.
If you're inclined to close your account to protest the Musk takeover, it would probably make more sense (and carry more impact) to do it when he reinstates Trump's account, not simply because there was a change of ownership.

And yes, I imagine there are some people who resent Musk's takeover of Twitter yet who would welcome Trump's return. But I can't think of anyone who would fall into that category.
This is one of my favorites. So much of industrial AI is about replacing labor (usually cheaper but lower quality). In a way, AGI is only slightly more ambitious. We should be setting higher goals for AI, including helping individuals be superhuman, and helping organizations coordinate betteele.
> At the end of the day you still drank 1 milk for the same effective price.

Why don't then people just buy 1 milk today at today price instead of buying 2 and throwing one away? They'd still have drunk 1 milk, but for half effective price. Why aren't people already doing that?

People often make fun of economists with their very specific mathematical models of perfectly round customers, production functions, etc. They often have a point. It is important to not forget, however, that the popular understanding of economics is even worse, and your comment is a great example of that.
$6 billion in profit on $30 billion in revenue is hardly a collapsing empire.
Given the apparent (yet possibly unfounded) concern, it might be useful to discuss this issue in the blog post. Would you consider updating it?
Every new stage of technology development does this. People marveled at the wealth that oil created. Steam engines and coal stunned people by how much stuff they could carrier or quantities of steel they could make. Hell, even hunter-gatherer societies were amazed by the huge populations and cities that agriculture provided. Any future technology will be equally unbelievable, and I daresay even more profitable than what Apple is achieving.
Even ten years ago there were much much higher quality versions of this same concept: https://youtu.be/QGxNyaXfJsA
To achieve what? Crater a public perception of the company he’s buying?
I've had a Mastodon account for a pretty long time, but I've never really done anything with it. I've found discoverability to be quite difficult.
Who are the prominent people advocating for leaving Twitter?
> Now that Elon owns twitter, and free speech will be defended

I lul'd
No one wants to work for those companies, either. In software engineering, the only metric needed to gauge performance is to track PRs and tickets. We have a bi-weekly sprint velocity that tells managers how we're performing.

Only lousy workers are going to put up with having hours wasted on "cake day" and forced water cooler discussions.
Is it really gonna turn into a hellscape just because people you disagree with will no longer be silenced?
It's different business leaders. The ones who expect their companies to survive are tightening their belts now, to give themselves the runway to survive. The ones that understand that their companies are dead anyway if borrowing costs skyrocket are spending like they won't skyrocket, because otherwise it doesn't matter. The former group is preparing to lose the latter group as customers.

You see this in the media too - some business leaders (often in tech, or finance) are predicting doom and gloom, while others (like in retail or experiences) are saying that it's business as usual and they haven't seen a downturn yet.
> it turned out it was the neighbor's HVAC unit

The problem is everywhere. The HVAC industry really cheaps-out on rubber grommets.