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At the museum I used to work for, there was a full body VR flying simulator where you'd lie down on a message table thing and flap your arms to fly. It felt kinda like a dream and it was pretty cool to try.

https://birdly.com

Sadly, the software kinda sucked, with no real interaction (you just fly around kinda like in Google Earth). I wish they hired an actual game dev studio and made a real game with better graphics and gameplay. The input method is novel but the actual experience wasn't worth more than two or three minutes. Missed opportunity there.

Would've been so cool to be a part of a group of pterodactyls hunting humans, for example.
> D. It is no secret that the 30% fee has nothing to do with consumers, but will instead be used to increase the developer's profit margins. Expect to pay the exact same after the fees are lifted.

I could not disagree more.

> B. Android also charges 30%. It's actually better on iPhone, because developers making under $1M per year pay only 15%. On Android, everyone pays 30%. So you'd be paying more to Google on Android than on iPhone.

Android is bad too but at least you can get an app store without the fee.

> C. You can always sell your iPhone, if it matters to you now, and buy an Android.

Will I get refunded for the apps I bought? What about the macbook I bought because I entered the apple ecosystem?

> A. That's not exactly secret information, so your ignorance is not an excuse when you could have easily found that information if you cared. It's not a secret contract.

How could I have known to look this up before it became a story?
There are multiple documented instances of this happening where Israel is the one who denies the visa or fails to provide it.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2007/11/19/gaza-israel-blocks-670-s...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palesti...

From a cursory reading[1], it seems Israel had for a long time the ability to veto any human's exit from Gaza through the Rafah crossing in Egypt. Seems to only be the last 5 years where they were not able to do this and that border crossing was open. I graduated from University in 2017.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafah_Border_Crossing
Any kind of multimedia is compressed behind recognition. Basic texts are fine. Send me an image, and it’ll look like it came from another era.
I can't even tell what is satire any more.
Yes, as your own comment points out. Juries determine questions of fact. That can't (for the most part, there are of course exceptions) be revised by a judge. The applied penalty is a very different thing, and can be and usually is revised by the judge.
The lock-in goals are real, but so is legacy technology, contract limitations, and regional differences. From first hand experience I can tell you that every country, often even states:provinces had enough variation in their data laws that there is no common data schema.

And it’s all built on mainframes. Nielsen is a 100 year old company that was run like a monopoly until 15 years ago, now they are owned by private money, saddled with trash systems, a massive loss in market trust, and retailers have learned to sell their data directly to CPGs.

They often can’t get you what you want because their tech is from before the modern API era, and no one who is capable wants to work for them. It might have started as clever lock in, now it is just circumstance.
So Google should have never allowed competition to begin with like Apple. That doesn't seem like a great answer to me.
Sandboxing had nothing to with any app store, and Android security empathetically doesn't suck.
Internal DHS red team sounds like one hell of a job if they include physical security checks (aka “Airport Security”) in the list of things the red team is allowed to attempt to bypass/exploit … like this could be a boring government desk job … or… it could be professional heist movie LARPing with all the fun of sneaking past the real security stuff but none of the risk of getting thrown into a jail cell to rot… and the follow on question is how they monitor and supervise this, like if it is physical pen testing the airport security line, do they carry any sort of documentation to stop things getting out of hand or is it entirely up to their superiors up the chain to stop them winding up in jail for real…

I’m expecting it isn’t as exciting as it could be, but I really want to know more.
The way that the stock apps in AOSP are barebones and have been practically abandoned in favor of nicer closed Google-branded counterparts is also suggestive of them trying to have their cake and eat it too.
There were 70,000 attendees to COP28

https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/conferences/un-clima...

Any conference with 70,000 people attending (probably most of them flying) is totally unserious about actually solving climate change.
> Not sure where "Backyard" came from here

Whoosh? It's just a little headline joke to draw attention to the article.

Concept is interesting, need more designs like this to find some economic winners.
Yes, yes I do have family history with addiction

Both times my family wished for euthanization options rather than watch family rot

But patronizing high minds said no; in our society they must suffer until they die

Americans have spent so much time huffing toxic positivity whippets.

All the high minded worship and praise of the economy, tech, feeding notions of American exceptionalism has led us to believe we really can do anything

But we all can’t live forever and have no guarantee the future won’t just screw it all up again

Physics rules, not human philosophy. Reality itself is the root of our misery. There’s no eradicating suffering without eliminating humans; we cannot violate physics and the physical word fosters suffering. Erosion and entropy of all structure.

This forum is sounding way too religious. Thought it was science nerdy when I signed up but it’s just typical “America great!”
I've had very good luck with the tempered glass screen protectors and a cheap case thusfar. Broken a few of the protectors, mostly dropping my phone in parking lots, never had the screen actually break when I was using one.

Also, additional upside is, any scratches are on the glass protector, so, if you get a particularly bothersome one, you can just replace the glass and you're back to brand new for way cheaper than a new screen.
It was very high - but this was a business purchase. It was EASY to spend $6k for a high-end PC in 1993. Also consider that $6000 is $12000 in 2023 dollars.
Figure it out lol. That’s what Apple had to do. Why are you expecting a free pass to do what took them decades?
Microsoft already had competitive models, especially Megatron-Turing. They were even using on Bing Chat before...
I'm pretty sure they still use their model on Bing Chat today (Balanced mode).

It was a competitive model for the time, it was made in 2021 if I recall in cooperation with Nvidia. The largest model at the time (and still remains one of the largest models ever made).

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/using-deepspeed-and-megatr...

The thing here is that OpenAI managed to create GPT4 - that no one matched yet.
Not only that, but the patent system is 100% essential to pharma research. Pharma takes a crapload of time from patent to market because of the many layers or trial safety. There are drugs that just plain miss their deadline -- setbacks during the testing process for enough time and then the patent expires and a medication with useful applications get lost to history.

If you substantially screwed with that without a very careful and thorough knowledge of the consequences, drug discovery could grind to a halt.

Remember, this is an industry that's more than happy to just stop making drugs and let all the sufferers die if it's not profitable enough.
Yeah. Sorry, I was being sarcastic. Was thinking of the time a junior dev json serialized an NHibernate entity and it was essentially serializing the entire database.
I’m not making the claim, OP is. It’s not hard to arrive at this conclusion yourself though. Here is Yannick’s take on it:

https://youtu.be/zut38E-BHH0?si=oj3S3qWLgvx3743I

If you need more than that, then I’ll admit to being more cynical about big tech companies than you are.
Seconded. It make the lowly programmer feel intelligent.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38604470
Oxycontin was legal, how well did that go?
We know that Epic asked and were refused prior to the lawsuit.

Beyond that there’s no evidence one way or another that there are any sweetheart deals. None of the public documents from the trials showed that.

Anything beyond that is speculation.
No, this was not a court case about if Google has a phone OS monopoly. This was about if Google has a monopoly within the android ecosystem when it comes to app distribution. The jury ruled that they have a monopoly within android, and that they used this monopoly to stifle competition. They cited that Google used its influence as the makers of android to get phone manufacturers to not preinstall third party app stores, and paid off companies to not compete with Google Play
Isn't this just as simple as: if you claim to be open/allow something (alternative stores) you can't then do back room deals to prevent competition with them.

As someone else said: Google wants to make big loud claims about android being "open" but also wants to prevent anyone from competing with them.
And Intel has just been poorly managed for over a decade now.
> You have to either support iOS, or get out of mobile apps entirely.

What? That’s not true. There are plenty of Android-only developers.
> They invested huge sums in shelters, treatment programs, counsellors, etc.

That's false. I'd say "prove me wrong", but first, define "huge". Compare and contrast to cities of similar size in the US and globally.
A lot of drug users are trying self medicate their ADHD or BPD (the most common), or just their sense of existential dread.

So at least in the case of ADHD some amount will be actually treating their condition with the stimulants whether they realize it or not.
You allready have 2 stores on samsung devices: goole play store and the samsung store. They both work the same. Choose an app and install it. They work like any other app...

You can also download apps from the "f droid" depository.

You can even turn on developer options and install raw apk files. Those can contain viruses. (Or more probably: are pirated)

Funny to have this discussion hacker news? I thought everyone was using side loaded apks from apkmirror when you needed an old version.
The other comment on this thread mentions that it also does something else:

>disables all the system calls not explicitly invoked by the program text of a static binary

This means that if the original library didn't have an execve call in it, you would'nt be able to use it even if with ROP. In short, this seems useful to block attackers from using syscalls that were not originally used by the program and nothing else. It can be useful.
The TSA has mechanisms for that already.

I have fingerprints. But because I have Cerebral Palsy that affects my left hand, it’s almost impossible for me To stretch it out to get good fingerprints.

TSA can bypass it and just say “missing fingers” with a note.

When I had to get my fingerprints rolled at the police station for a background check, they also have a standardized form
Really? The lesson I learned is that if you make a product that the US government relies on, you are immune from prosecution. It works across industries from oil to manufacturing to computing.
Banning competing browsers is illegal and Apple should have never gotten away with it. Not only an abstract absolute monopoly is a problem. Apple has a lot of leverage on the industry and is causing harm to the market with anti-competitive behavior.
Yeah of course you could, why wouldn't you? That is one of the easiest ways to get VC funding, up there with making a website.
No.

From what I see daily, if what Portland is doing is working in any way, then I’d hate to see things if they weren’t working at all. It’s a very sad state of affairs here and it’s hard to recommend that anyone move here unless you’re being paid extremely well AND you love the outdoors AND you’ve lived in a city with a severe drug/homelessness/mental health crisis before.

I moved here in 2007 from the extremely rural South. The day I moved into my Old Town apartment a homeless guy spit on me! What a wake up call to a kid from the country. But I ended up living in that apartment for 10 years and never once felt actually scared in that neighborhood. But now, I actively avoid that neighborhood and getting spit on might be the best possible outcome!

Source: I live in Portland very near Downtown.
I remember at the time thinking how much they could pull off with so little hardware.

An IBM mainframe could do a giant block move (with padding) in one instruction.

but a normal person couldn't afford that. But a 6502 was in reach.

With the 6502 you had to be clever and do something similar in software.

But yeah. It was enlightening when the 6502 didn't have an add instruction.

(you had to do clear carry, then add with carry)

These kind of tradeoffs persist through time. People do all kinds of ridiculous things with an inexpensive ESP8266 or ESP32.
I cannot speak to AMD, but for the case of Intel, it is hard to be a fast follower. The billion dollar factory translates to hundreds of millions of dollars of depreciation each year - a fixed cost that means declines in revenue hit the bottom line very hard.
Clear just updated my fingerprints and Face ID last week. I’m sure TSA can do it to
You may have survivorship bias. Most humans can't handle it being legal.
> Our approach has clear semantics, i.e. our extended SQL returns subsets of all tables with only those tuples that would be part of the traditional (single-table) query result set, however without performing any denormalization through joins.

Yes, that sounds just like a GraphQL connection result with associated nested connections. I believe that there's link deduplication for GraphQL which can also be enabled to avoid the copies.

The main difference is avoiding multiple round-trips--one for each table--which within a datacenter network doesn't add a whole lot of latency compared to the time serving those queries and some can also be done in parallel.
> Prohibition of drugs just doesn't work.

It seems to me like there are places where it does, and places where it doesn't. In the places where it works, everyone agrees that it works, and in the places where it doesn't, everyone agrees that it doesn't.

I'm very curious about the underlying factors for this.
I’ve never been to a support group, and you have, so take this from that perspective. It seems to me that the support group wouldn’t want outsiders dropping by to share their opinions.
Javascript was designed to be secure-by-default, and it takes a vast amount of effort to keep it that way

Native apps were designed to be powerful-by-default, and the amount of effort to bolt security on after the fact is orders of magnitude more
Banning public drug use will simply criminalize the actions of the poor and vulnerable. Rich people can continue to hoover up kilos of coke in their gated enclaves. Where is a person living on the street supposed to go to enjoy their completely legal cannabis product?
You're looking at it from the user's perspective, this case is about B2B.

Imagine you're working on a hardware product that can communicate with your other devices over Bluetooth. How exactly do you avoid Apple in this scenario?

You can't, or you won't be in business for very long. You need to develop an app because Apple intentionally gimps their browser, and to release the app you must agree to their terms.

They're in a dominant position that allows them to dictate unfavorable terms to the rest of the industry which, among other things, stifles innovation.
Linus Tech Tips video from a year ago on CAMM - usual disclaimer about clickbait thumbnails but the content is very good.
https://youtu.be/WXp4g-KzdAI
Without drug patents drug discovery would completely stop.

I'm not averse to looking at alternative models for providing revenue to the drug discovery and testing infrastructure (the current model of patents is flawed as hell), but if you like new medications like the COVID vaccines then you have to respect the important of protecting the incentive to create them.
This is definitely not true. Most people do pre-check and not global entry. Most people care about traveling domestically much more than internationally and the process is longer for approval
There's some nuance to the 30% fee. Under $1M in revenue it's 15% and after a year it's 15%. No fee for free apps. No fee for physical things.

30% is way too high. 15% seems high as well without knowing the costs or benefits of the App Store.
This in fact shows one of the artificial limitations of SQL (and not of the relational model):

It does not have a `GROUP BY` functionality!

What `sql` calls `GROUP BY` is `SUMMARIZE`.
Apparently you read only half the comment. Do you understand the distinction between destruction and construction or don't you?

By your logic there would be no towns, cities, countries, unions, companies, any kind of organization at all. Because any time you need to pay for something, you feel like it's the mafia.

- Is it the mafia when it comes time to pay time for rent. "I HAVE to pay rent or I'll be kicked out on the street!"

- Is it the mafia when it comes time to pay your bill at a restaurant. "I HAVE to pay my bill or I'll be hungry!"

No one owes you anything. You ask for money for your apps, don't you? Because why are you complaining otherwise? 40% of $0 is $0, isn't it? But you require money, despite maybe someone could be like "you're mafia unless I can play your game for free".

Things cost money. Grow up and start acting like an adult.
The 30% is only an issue for the jury in the context of the trial where it stands to gain against competing stores.

The jury did not set precedent that 30% fees in and off themselves are bad. It has very little relevance to Apple or other single market platforms (consoles etc) since they have no competing store product.
It worked pretty well.

Should we ban cars since there are people who cannot drive?
> it's very easy for a runtime to use a zero-cost strategy to enforce that memory loads/stores are all in-bounds

I believe your statement is only true for wasm32 on a 64-bit host where guard pages can be placed around the memory.

Has anyone come up with a zero-cost strategy for wasm64?

This is something that CPU vendors could help with. x86 used to have segment registers but the limit checks were removed in x86_64 so FS/GS cannot be used for this purpose anymore.
I think Quake/Quake II/Half-Life were the last generation of engines where one person could easily understand the whole engine.
Doom 3/Half-Life 2 are approachable too but require a bit more knowledge.
No, Google shouldn’t have given Riot Games $10m in marketing to prevent launching a competing android store, or give OEMs 20% cut of Play revenue to prevent them from bundling competing stores. Or cut a special deal with Spotify where it pays 0% while still using Play Store billing.
This implementation has a trivial buffer overflow, ROFLMAO
They did not allow competition, they made illegal deals to keep their App Store installed on other devices.

If they left it alone and all OEMs chose to keep Google play store and billing, nothing would’ve happened.
There was a whole trial about this. If Apple had these deals, it would have come out. Google and Apple ran things differently.
> You're acting like people aren't emotionally attached to their home cities.

Respectfully, you misplace the responsibility. When people go through a rough breakup, we don't call for the person experiencing attachment anxiety to be housed with their ex just because it would make things easier for one party at least temporarily. Life is full of hard moments and challenging choices. The fact that something is hard doesn't mean giving up is the healthiest path that the society should encourage.

Talk to people who work in social services. The fact is, visibly homeless (street homeless, most often addicted people) are in this situation not because they have tried everything else and have no choices. They don't seek employment and often refuse help. They are not part of a community (unless you consider other homeless people they randomly ended up living close to their true community).

As usual, the discussion about homeless is kind of pointless without clarifying which segment we are talking about. Homeless families with children, disabled non-addicts, etc are not someone I include in this discussion, and I never see them living on the street.
I'm just going to say that everyone's parents have different abilities. She can quilt like crazy, but the phone isn't her thing.
The problem is that this "choice" in iOS is an illusion, if both Google and Apple employ user-hostile, monopolist tactics. That's like saying someone chooses to stay with an abusive guardian when the only alternative, foster care, brings its own sets of challenges.
Wait a second are you saying Apple is a government unto itself?
The articles you've cited don't show a problem with "vacancies", but with mismanagement, lack of funding, and lack of sanitization/maintenance.

To add an independent voice, here's ChatGPT responding to "summarize this article in one paragraph", for each article you linked to:

> https://www.kqed.org/news/11668623/why-do-thousands-of-l-a-s...

The article discusses the significant problem of empty beds in Los Angeles County's homeless shelters, despite a large homeless population. Investigations reveal safety and sanitation issues in many shelters, such as bedbugs, rats, foul odors, and lax medical care. Half of the LAHSA shelters had 78 percent utilization. Homeless individuals cite issues like theft, harassment, and violence within shelters, prompting some to prefer living on the streets. There's no unified oversight system, and the is much room for improvement to ensure humane conditions in shelters.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/san-f...

Approximately 7,800 homeless people in San Francisco, 2,100 have been approved for subsidized housing, yet challenges persist in moving them indoors. The city cites issues such as a shortage of case managers, complicated paperwork, and resistance from the homeless to certain unit conditions. Although efforts have been made to address the problem, including a $62 million investment in case managers, the average wait time has increased to five months, a significant delay considering the program's annual budget of $356 million. The article calls for an in-depth audit of the permanent supportive housing program and urgent action to house homeless individuals promptly.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/top-stories/story/2020-...

The article discusses California's Project Roomkey initiative, launched by Governor Gavin Newsom in April 2020 to lease 15,000 hotel rooms for homeless individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the program's progress has been slow, with only about half of the rooms occupied over a month into its implementation. Challenges include delays in preparing rooms for occupancy, a shortage of service providers, and difficulties in transitioning residents into permanent housing. While some counties, like Sacramento, have seen relative success, others, such as San Diego and Orange County, struggle to fill leased rooms. The initiative, funded by FEMA, targets homeless individuals aged 65 or older and those with health conditions susceptible to COVID-19, but the article raises concerns about the overall effectiveness and limited coverage of the program in addressing the state's homelessness crisis.
Sure and containers give you syscall restrictions and OS protections, but you don’t see people embedding containers inside of other applications. People generally sont like sidecars, so embedding wasm makes a lot of sense to have in process
Would you mind sharing how and where in the code, specifically.

Geniunely curious.