skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most developers aren't paying 30%.

From a bit ago: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-announces-app-s...

> The new App Store Small Business Program will benefit the vast majority of developers who sell digital goods and services on the store, providing them with a reduced commission on paid apps and in-app purchases. Developers can qualify for the program and a reduced, 15 percent commission if they earned up to $1 million in proceeds during the previous calendar year.

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If you are making more than $1M, then its 30%. If you are making less than $1M, its 15%.

For subscriptions...

https://appleinsider.com/articles/16/06/08/apple-announces-i...

> Although the company's current 30 percent revenue cut will remain in most cases, once a customer maintains a subscription for over a year, that cut fall to 15 percent, giving developers a larger share of revenue for long-term subscribers, Schiller told The Verge. Subscriptions are also opening up to all kinds of apps, including games, instead of just categories like music services and magazines.
Yup, drupes and nuts account for about 10% of California's water usage, behind only domestic animal agriculture (~30%) and feed exported for foreign animal agriculture (~15%).

None of these belong in the desert, if anywhere.
If Apple breaks Chinese law in any big or meaningful way... there is no iPhone 15. Full stop. Apple is dead in the water without their CCP-jurisdiction manufacturing which produces approximately 100% of their products (and all of their biggest moneymakers).
The real title and the principle are "your friends more likely have more friends than you". It's not true in every case, and obviously not on both sides of a reciprocal pair.
> I think it's a pretty futile effort to make a completely open phone.

No, it's not: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5.
The question isn't about the amount of labour needed to produce food, it's regarding who collects the profit from the labour that is done. Not sure what point you were trying to make with food production there.
This Gmail rule seems to do the trick for now: delete anything that has "To finish setting up your Microsoft account, we just need to make sure this email address is yours"

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/%22To+finish+settin...

It seems the spam has something to do with inadvertently confirming new Microsoft accounts or something?

Screenshot: https://twitter.com/ArtemR/status/1597351257370374144
Amazon Verified Permissions (Preview)
I played around with SwiftUI a bit last year and I can't remember the specifics, but there was some kind of syntax in it that wasn't even a language feature. Like it was a weird special case just for SwiftUI where you could call functions in some sleeker way that you wouldn't normally be able to do or implement if you were making your own library (I assume?)

That seemed so bizarre to me
Thats just human survival at its finest.
If one was to be a purist, you'd remove the boost option.

With a boost you want to increase the visibility of a post by somebody else. Probably because you agree with it. Something has to happen with that boost signal, otherwise boosting is pointless. Hence, in some way a boosted or often boosted post is promoted over ones that are not boosted.

As the boosted post gets more eye balls, it will get even more boosts. Not necessarily because it's so awesome, simply because it's the post that is shown more prominently.

This simple snowball effect has viral potential, hence it's just as corruptible as Twitter. It can and will be used agenda-driven. Power always consolidates, hence soon you'll have the elitist layer with large followers boosting each other's posts. The other 95% gets zero traction or engagement.

The other downside of boosts, retweets, quote tweets is that it discourages writing your own original posts. More than 80% of what Twitter calls tweet activity is simply retweets, not new tweets.

Finally, if you want organic social media, people to follow should never ever be automatically recommended. This triggers the exact same snowball effect.
We have posted a challenge with the respective data set of ~ 500k tweets from 100 regions around the world - https://github.com/1712n/yachay-public/tree/master/conf_geot...
Literally nothing. I've never received any kind of fornal training that wasn't my own pursuit outside of work, even if it stood to benefit my employer. I've received more training at Starbucks than any job doing programming. Except for 2 days of Agile training at a corporate gig, which was obviously worthless.
Psychedelic shrooms are not ordinarily consumed "as food", though they are eaten. But they taste like ass and often cause nausea. The primary purpose is unambiguously to get high.

Also, psilocybin is probably still scheduled explicity from before the law was passed.
I would love to learn more about backroom emoji politics. It sounds foolish on the surface but emojis have a big reach.
I just checked it for some place in the middle of South Dakota that is a flat plane with no tall structures (or any structures...) nearby [1].

It looks like right for today it is 12 or more about 40% of the time [2]. That includes satellites very close to the horizon which most devices won't use. Limiting it to satellites that are at least 10 degrees above the horizon, the max visible at once today there is 11, with 9 being the number visible that vast majority of the time.

Looking at other days it looks like the pattern of number visible at various times throughout the day repeats, but with a period that is slightly off from 24 hours, so the percent of time that a given number of satellites is visible is about the same every day, the the specific times that number is achieved slowly changes day to day.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@44.5831536,-99.4535123,3a,75y,1...

[2] https://satpredictor2.deere.com/chartvisibility?addr=&lat=44...

[3] https://satpredictor2.deere.com/chartvisibility?addr=&lat=44...
Could be desktop. Mobile browsing still seems to trigger demands for the app to be installed followed by login requests, though I just picked a few tweets at random rather than checking systematically.
When you start missing payroll...
What do you mean by 'actually profit' and 'your data' ?

For sure companies are still selling data from their platforms. Does that include what the company would consider to be a user's data? I doubt they are selling private contact data associated with their users but any user activity on their platform is likely being sold off in bulk. Whether they 'actually profit' from those deals is an accounting game.
What do you think the word "issue" means?

It's a neutral term.
Neither do I, ambience is a solid option when you need to fully isolate (at least from my experience).
Phrenzy ditches Epson.
Modified question: Are all coins that are possible
in this universe 3 sided coins?

A: No at an microscopic/atomic/quantum level there are trillions of sides
Note: AirDrop is unsafe for broadcasting message anonymously. It will also broadcast your hashed phone number and email[1], which can be reversed by rainbow table.

[1]: https://privatedrop.github.io/
What are the reasons for such long builds?
I like the comparison of stocks to buildings in terms of cap rate P/E etc.

And to his question that we don't know when the bottom is (totally true) but I suspect we still have a ways to go. FTX + Housing + global macro + Interest back into the market = downward pressure
> One thing we know, or at least which we're assuming when we choose to invest, is that over the long term prices go up.

Right, but what if the prices went down during that 10 month period, even if you were bullish? You invested at the top in one chunk, when you could have smoothed it out in increments instead.

That smoothing function is the entire point of DCA and takes the guesswork out of reading the market, like trying to find entry points.
Doing it without killing battery life is... challenging. There are good non-user-hostile reasons it's centralized. Google was a bit wild-west about it for a while and lots of Android apps used custom push services, and the results weren't great.
WhatsApp rolls out a feature that makes it easier to message yourself
Never had a positive test. Feels extremely silly to be concerned about this disease two+ years in.
And they chose to be reliant on a dictatorship... The reasons don't matter, the fact is Apple cooperates with whatever the CCP demands.

What happens when China invades Taiwan? Will they aid our enemy?
If you can afford one, which most people can’t.
I felt like this was a really solid explanation of some dynamics at play I've been seeing a lot of. Thanks for putting such succinct thoughts to it.
What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away
I wonder if that's because the lower power consumption of an 8 bit Atmel is now in itself a premium feature consumers think is worth paying for? Definitely useful for remote IoT nodes at the very edge, where battery life really matters.
Soundness of loans can't really be regulated. Everybody who makes loans thinks that they're sound. They just turn out to be wrong sometimes. e.g the mortgages in 2008 we're thought to be solid because they were covered by collateral. But as it turns out that collateral wasn't worth what it was assumed to be.

This is not to say the space shouldn't be regulated, but all regulation on the soundness of loans suffers from this. e.g bank leverage limits rest on the same type of assumptions about the value and liquidity of different types of collateral. And if those assumptions are wrong they will fail no matter how solid the regulatory model says the bank is.
You might like Librem 5 phone with the smart card running GNU/Linux.
There is some legal precedent around trading cards and the secondary market mostly set in the 80's and 90's if I recall. Magic the Gathering et al might be on a little more solid ground due to this.
Author here, you are both correct and not correct - in your example the two equations represent an impossible constraint (there's an evaluation loop), thus a program (or TLA proof) containing those two statements would be invalid.
> The other downside of boosts, retweets, quote tweets is that it discourages writing your own original posts. More than 80% of what Twitter calls tweet activity is simply retweets, not new tweets.

I don't really see a way around this unless you explicitly try to prevent people from posting things that have been posted before. IIRC, retweets were originally just normal tweets that people tacked the letters "RT" in front of. It was an emergent social pattern that got reified into a feature.
Hm.

Parent is likely referring to Apple's position in the market[1], where their profit - not revenue - alone ( 141b in 2021 ) dwarfs many nations' GDP[2] in the world.

I would not call it a lie.

[1]https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/gross-p...
[2]https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?most_rec...
I was super bummed out when steam switched to chromium. Goodbye super fast interfaces, hello slowmium.

it crashes waaaaaaay less now though. It's easy to forget how often old steam would crash
It is inflation, the central Xer bank keeps printing better developers.
It became a toy because Apple unilaterally changed it, and then everyone had to follow because it would otherwise lead to things like this: https://blog.emojipedia.org/content/images/2016/08/emojipedi...
Well, I was careful too trying to protect my elderly parents (86/87) - and then (in November 2021) I got it from my father! No idea where he managed to get it from, as he doesn't go out much, except when I drive hime somewhere - probably from a delivery guy (although I told him to wear a mask when going to the door - he was living on his own at the time). Needless to say I was worried sick, but, being vaccinated, he got through just fine. The way he tells it, he barely had any symptoms except for a sore throat (which was the reason why I insisted on testing him). My wife and I then both got it, were sick for ~ 5 days, nothing really bad, just losing your sense of smell is a bit scary...

Of course, this is all just anecdotal evidence, but it supports the point that vaccinated old people are generally not that much at risk anymore. What's bothering me most at the moment is that everyone's pretending things are back to normal, but to visit my mother in the nursing home I have to get an appointment, get tested, wear a mask the whole time, and, especially during wintertime, they will still regularly be in Covid quarantine for weeks.
Hopefully by the time it's mainstream I'll own my own micro farm, raise my own chickens and grow my own veggies

This world is becoming more dystopian by the minute
Generally speaking, the idea that the average person uses more than 4 cores is insane. Even as a power user/dev I can count the times when I needed more than 4 cores on one hand.

All the benchmarks that these CPUs are evaluated by, test either games, or run the same crazy stuff like fluid simulations that OPs article complains about. Hardware reviewers need a reality check.
Assuming the MAC randomization does not work as advertised and airplane mode does not actually disable the cellular and satellite modems as advertised, and airdrop's identity hashes are not as secure as advertised, or the attacker can fingerprint your specific radio and trilaterate its location via satellite, then sure, it can be tracked. Boy, do I feel stupid.

If on the other hand you want to enjoy having your phone broadcast your name and picture to everyone just because you forgot to change that setting back after the last time you AirDropped a video to your coworker, then by all means, Apple has done you a disservice.
Thanks! COVID is a great example of the use case, and we agree problems like this need more attention - we've shared some data already, and will continue to share more with the public to encourage collaboration on this. Hope you will find something useful there for your future projects:)
Skinner seems like a way too outdated reference to use.
Isn't that just a result of public companies having to chase forever growth to keep their valuation?

A company starts with a product, sees growth and investors pour in with the expectation of accelerated growth (and hence profits), at some point their product can't really attract many more customers, it grows until the market it is in starts to saturate and growth slows down. They need to chase other verticals to validate to their shareholders they are still aa valuable and so it begins the slow downfall of the product, not necessarily of profits.

I really don't see another way given the incentives of the current crop of capitalism, a public company that stops chasing growth will see their valuation drop and with that the board might decide it's time for a new CEO. If the board sticks to their guns and stop chasing growth, a mutiny of shareholders will ensue to replace the board.

The incentives are wrong if what you expect is the best product ever, they're aligned to chase growth as the only metric and everything goes to Goodhart's Law from there.
New Programming tool turns sketches, handwriting into code
I owe much of my personality to Chris Morris ;)
I think the approach in this article is great… for some people.

It really doesn’t apply once you have a lot of responsibilities and limited time. Commitments can quickly eat up your time, whether it’s caring for elderly, kids, a family or all of the above, on top of career.

As the author mentioned, most of these techniques don’t apply to people you need to be around fairly regularly, which tends to be almost all the people you meet once said responsibilities are established.
It doesn't. Developers build native apps for push notifications. Nothing else gives higher engagement and retention.
No, it’s because Number is internally floating point and cannot represent all integers.
Author here. We consider new endpoints to be non-breaking changes, so they’ll be available in 2022-11-28.
It's real shame it's kinda bad language for it. Looking at what people did with Rust macros it's shame that Go code generation story is either "just run some random binaries to compile stuff" or "put code instructing the compiler to do stuf in fucking comments"

And I say it without being sarcastic but Go makes me miss C preprocessor and nothing should make anyone miss C preprocessor.
Are bison more thermodynamically efficient than cows?
Except .. they're using VSCode, GitHub and Typescript, probably still on a Windows laptop.
I was surprised when the only way to purchase the new Twitter Blue was through Apple. I tried to pay on the Twitter website so that Apple wouldn’t take 1/3 (I’m one of the few who is excited about what Musk is doing) but the only way to pay was with an Apple sub. Which is odd because I was a Twitter Blie subscriber before and paid through the website, so I know the infrastructure was there. As I recall, they used Stripe.
I haven't read the source, but I was under the impression that boosting is just retweeting. It increases visibility because it is now sourced from another timeline, not because there's a hidden value that's being incremented.
And Apple has removed all their tweets. Or did Twitter remove them?
China didn't become an authoritarian police state AFTER Apple went in there with their manufacturing. They absolutely knew about CCP behavior, but they went there anyway in order to save money. So, they can't really play the helpless multi-hundred-billion-dollar-corporation victim card.
Another falsehood programmers believe about UB:

- Compilers and language designs could not improve on this situation without sacrificing performance or portability.
From what I've seen, folks that are long term with a dentist are likely to get decent advice to not do unnecessary work. New practices, especially chains, are heavily incentivized to do the work, though.
new relationships = low commitment

never ask a new friend to hang in X, where X is days away.

instead just do, i'm heading to this arcade want to join?

or i'm at coffee shop now, want to stop by and catch up.

this is how you can turn casual associates into friends.

if someone cool i knew asked me to spend 2 hours with them i'd get nervous.

plus, if they know that you are cool even without them they are far more likely to join you.
A bit of related trivia: Twitter was a service that only worked over SMS in the early days. The character limit was set at 140 since that was a length that could safely work with all carriers, as well as leave enough room for your Twitter handle.

The shortness of messages was also a perfect fit for what early users of Twitter were doing: answering the question of "What are you doing?"

There was a trend when Twitter began of adjusting your AIM "status" message to reflect what you were doing, or what music you were listening too (there were scripts that automated this for you).

As an early adopter of Twitter, I can recall that people started using it in similar ways. One of the first Twitter messages that I received in the early days was from @ev saying "Peeing."

I think it's fair to say things haven't changed much.
As mentioned in the response below, we have posted the challenge with a respective data set of ~ 500k tweets from 100 regions around the world - https://github.com/1712n/yachay-public/tree/master/conf_geot...

We are working on adding more data as well - feel free to create a GitHub issue if there's more you need - we're going to be working on everything there is to do to help the developers here:)
Lol I time my morning shower around my coffee so I have a clean butt!
You're consistently surprised that people don't evaluate Musk's companies based on his unrealistic pipedream of a Martian colony instead of their real worth (or damage) to the public?

That is surprising, indeed.
How to run Stable Diffusion 2.0 and a first look
> There's no particular reason why C doesn't allow you to assign one array to another of the same length

Actually, there is a particular (though not necessarily good) reason, since that would require the compiler to either generate a loop (with conditional branch) for a (unconditional) assignment or generate unboundedly many assembly instructions (essentially a unrolled loop) for a single source operation.

Of course, that stopped being relevant when they added proper (assign, return, etc) support for structs, which can embed arrays anyway, but that wasn't part of the language initially.
Alright, who changed the title? It's now completely incorrect, because AirDrop is only limited to 10 minutes _in China_.
There are some with redundant data feeds.

It means any one LED can die, and the rest still work correctly.

If two LED's next to one another die, then the whole strip still fails, but obviously the chances of that are far lower.

When looking at them, each addressable LED has 6 pins not 4 if it's the redundant data feed type.
Author here. Operational semantics are a way of "talking about" a programming language, whereas temporal programming is a way of expressing operational semantics more directly from within a programming language.
Oh no, you've caught me red handed 1attice, I am indeed a fascist. I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for your brilliant insight, you truly are an amazing person protecting the marginalised communities from evil. Truly a life well spent, your father must be very proud to have a son like you.
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Robitussin (dextromethorphan) is now a prescription in several countries for its abuse potential, like codeine. It is a dissociative hallucinogen that can be abused, but it is generally considered a poor substitute to other substances like ketamine, rarely a first choice.

Nutmeg is a deliriant on really high doses, and most deliriants are not controlled substances, though they may be classified as poisons. The reason is that tripping on deliriants is generally considered unpleasant, and enough to turn people off quickly.
How can this be commercially viable?
What goes into becoming a fully licensed geologist? I'm curious how it compares to engineering.

Generally speaking, though it varies by state, Engineer in Training after passing the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, then you must work under a Professional Engineer (PE) for $x years and pass the PE exam to officially call yourself an engineer.
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>>You can't even run WhatsApp on a 6S, which is just 7 years old

This is simply wrong.

My wife's still has her IPhone 6S and she absolutely loves it. We are able to take advantage of Apple free battery replacement program a couple of years ago. She doesn't see the need to upgrade to new phones as Whatsapp, Facebook, Insta and Google Maps etc. work just fine on her device.

I, on the other hand, have gone through several Android Flagship products in this period.
"...for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument..."

That's Popper.

Does that sound like "we can't let people speak"?

Or would that actually be more in the lines of "we should expose their followers to the arguments their leaders don't want them to see"?
Being proud of your abilities and accomplishments is not mutually exclusive with curiosity and joy of learning.

More generally: Your perceived correlations are not necessarily causal relationships.
It's a very difficult problem, no doubt. Implementations are currently battery-constrained, hence the usefulness of GCM/APN for efficiently batched polling. I suspect a fully decentralized system could be feasible for use cases that can tolerate higher latency.
Corrected Headline: Musk Raises Stink About Apple Advertising to Distract From Coming Deplatforming Due to Hate Speech, Child Pornography, etc.
What, the big banks don't have "internal, poorly labeled fiat account" on their spreadsheet tracking their finances?