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The comparison Apple made in the court case was not primarily to Steam or Google, it was to the consoles. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all take a 30% cut of all of Epic's transactions across their respective platforms. Apple argued, and persuaded the judge, that Epic's targeting of Apple specifically for it's 30% share was unreasonable given that Epic was happily paying the fee to all the other platforms:

> Indeed, for example, Epic Games has agreed to such a rate on all Fortnite transactions via the Microsoft (Xbox) Store, the PlayStation Store, the Nintendo eShop, and Google Play. Epic Games has also agreed to extra payments for certain platform holders above and beyond the standard 30% commission rate. For example, for all Fortnite transactions via the PlayStation Store, Epic Games agreed to make additional payments to Sony above this commission rate based on the amount of time that PlayStation users play Fortnite cross-platform.

The judge forced Apple to allow transactions to take place off of the platform, but she explicitly noted that Apple would still be entitled to a commission on said sales.

Apple sees their App Store arrangement as similar to Upwork, Rover, or any number of other marketplaces, which all have policies preventing users from meeting through the system but transacting outside of it. From their perspective, if they hooked you up with the sale, then they're entitled to a commission. If you think you can do better without their sales, you're welcome to pull out of their marketplace, and if they find that you're abusing their marketplace they'll hasten you to the door.

That is, as far as the judge was concerned, perfectly legal, and I'm having a hard time not seeing it as a reasonable position to take.

[0] https://casetext.com/case/epic-games-inc-v-apple-inc-2
Because this isn't a tax on web purchases.

As a developer you need to pay the 30% commission similar to how if you're using Unreal Engine you need to pay 5%.

You can legitimately argue this fee is way too high but the courts have already said that they are allowed to charge it.
Not really. That links to a list of all enforcement actions.

If you search for "technical" you get "organisational and technical measures", and most are organisational rather than technical.

If you search by the word "hack" which seems to be the seems to be the usual terminology used there for vulnerabilities being exploited. There are 18 of these of 2182 entries. Not even one per EU country since 2018. Given how common data breaches are it is a tiny number.

Most of them do not give details, but those that do suggest the fines are levied only in extreme cases (for example allowing unauthenticated internet access to medical data: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ETid-1015 ) or for certain types of failure (e.g. not having MFA). Most do not give details.

its better than I thought, but still far too little, and all the cases where any details are given it is for only a very narrow range of failures.
As a developer, if Apple's fees went away, would you drop your price or just make more profit? Prices may have been pushed up but there is little incentive for them to ever come down.
> If a would be dictator were elected in the United States, would it be better if the courts had broad power to check the executive branch's actions, or would it be better if the courts' power of review was very limited in scope?

That obviously depends: are the judges ideologically friendly toward the wannabe dictator and the dictator's supporters, or toward a large faction of the executive branch that suddenly finds themselves under the rule of a wannabe dictator they may not personally approve?
It's in the interests of the wealthy and powerful to do something about inequality. Revolutions don't usually end well for those in power.

Recommended reading:

End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration

https://www.amazon.com/End-Times-Counter-Elites-Political-Di...

"Peter Turchin, one of the most interesting social scientists of our age, has infused the study of history with approaches and insights from other fields for more than a quarter century. End Times is the culmination of his work to understand what causes political communities to cohere and what causes them to fall apart, as applied to the current turmoil within the United States.

Back in 2010, when Nature magazine asked leading scientists to provide a ten-year forecast, Turchin used his models to predict that America was in a spiral of social disintegration that would lead to a breakdown in the political order circa 2020. The years since have proved his prediction more and more accurate, and End Times reveals why.

The lessons of world history are clear, Turchin argues: When the equilibrium between ruling elites and the majority tips too far in favor of elites, political instability is all but inevitable. As income inequality surges and prosperity flows disproportionately into the hands of the elites, the common people suffer, and society-wide efforts to become an elite grow ever more frenzied. He calls this process the wealth pump; it’s a world of the damned and the saved. And since the number of such positions remains relatively fixed, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. Turchin’s models show that when this state has been reached, societies become locked in a death spiral it's very hard to exit."
One can probably say that there exists a level of abstraction where there’s not really a difference between a database and a file system. That's not a lot :-)
I took this writing as a way for him to still reconcile unresolved feelings, seeing how he wants follow up with more writing on cultural shift at Google.
Chess was the drosophila of AI - something one could study in detail and invent newer and newer approaches to solving it. It's no longer having that function, was surpassed by Go for a brief moment until that one got solved as well. A whole generation that was raised on this drosophila is slowly fading away, for the new entrants its no longer the game to beat, more like brain stimulating fun exercise/hobby and not something capturing imagination, telling us something about the very base of our intelligence anymore.
ty for pointing that out!
The bigger problem (in my opinion) is that the new policy is practically paying for a single link with full-blown transparency. Other than paying for those leads, you have to:

> (a) still offer Apple’s IAP for those items; (b) pay Apple its adjusted 27/12 percent commissions on web sales that come from inside iOS apps; (c) send Apple sales data monthly and submit to audits of their sales; and (d) follow Apple’s stringent design edicts for these in-app links to the web.

Disclosing sales data and submitting to random audits is fairly invasive and has wide anti-trust implications. E.g.: Apple can see how effective external linking is compared to IAP and use that metric. Or they can use that metric from a similar app and guesstimate your customer base, and adjust their speed building a competing service.

Not to mention the added cost of compliance, suddenly an indie developer who could withstand a Shopify/Stripe payment processing setup won’t dare to bother linking, out of fear for messing up a report and getting randomly audited.

(I mean, I get the reason for doing this, since a % of companies will fudge numbers to pay less commission, given the chance. But it’s still just a can of worms.)
I agree. Why should my money go to a private prison to restrict an "unsightly" person when the same money could buy them a lot cheaper housing facilities? It costs a lot of tax payer money to throw people in jail (especially if it's a private prison).

A more humane treatment of the homeless is also a benefit to the tax payer.
How do geodesics address the argument?
Question for both of you: What would it take for the MRISC32 CPU to use FuryGPU as a peripheral over PCIe?
YouTube will pay creators 50 ish % of net revenues from ads displayed. Creators take home just as much as the platform does.
Tenured professor tip: you don't need to convert to seconds, you can use:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=38m35s
Addressing Security Concerns for Large-Scale LLM Deployment
I've just played around with dalle and discord on toaster designs and tbh I wouldn't mind something that can store bread and automatically toast it by voice command (also remembers my preference via profile). And it shouldn't cost more than $150.
Hi, your issue with nvidia on Wayland is probably Xwayland (see: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...) I'd see if https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xorg-xwayland-explicit-sy... and possibly KwinFT works out for you.
The answer above it: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/396697

Spoiler: It's axe clipart
Responses to this talk about how the ecosystem and hardware is great. I wonder if it would be so good if they were more squeezed to chase profits?

I’m usually skeptical of companies with this many users because of the potential to mine and sell data. I’m glad Apple hasn’t had to focus on that to stay profitable to the extent others have.
Since the author requested alternatives at the end, and I also became frustrated with Hugo for the same, and more, reasons...

I'm now using NextJS with MDX and ContentLayer
Of course 2.4 GHz microwaves don’t penetrate tissue (cotton clothing is probably fine), but line of sight should not matter that much. I admit that i haven’t experimented with putting a sheet of lead between my phone and problematic headphones, but considering they work fine from the next room, I think it’s the actual mechanical jittering that’s the issue.
Sheryl Sandberg to Leave Meta Platforms Board After 12 Years
This would be incredible if coupled with smartglasses
That’s really kind feedback, thank you!
There are hundreds of thousands of developers with apps in the App Store. They only need a couple class representatives.
What monopolies have emerged out of venture capital in the last 3 decades? In any industry?
Quality aside, art still has copyright for these exact reasons (and photographs are no different, long settled case law). So you can't just say "well no one cares about this blurry dog photo". Courts need more precise language than "care".

If it needs millions of photos of dogs and trees you

1. Take them you self

2. Pay someone with a db of dog and tree photos soem agreed upon amount (Aka someone did the work for you already and you value their work)

3. You scrape only on photos you are sure are CC0 or any other kind of permissive license. I'm sure you can find a few million dog photos this way.

But clearly they value #2 without payment so lawsuits were inevitable. Maybe because #3 took too much time and they decide #2 is worth the legal fees to be first to the race (something else I'd want fixed, but that's another rabbit hole).
This is a fair point, but I would note that physical distribution exists for the consoles, which necessitates an alternative marketplace — the used market.
Funny, I'm the opposite. Objective-C was my first language, and I absolutely love it. It's so beautiful and chaos-free.

Swift on the other hand? Full of chaos and ugly (func, let vs var - really).
There are non-sober shelters out there, but homeless are afraid of them because they allow drunk, on drugs, or belligerent residence, so they refuse to use them. Drug addicts don't want to room with other drug addicts, they feel like (and are often correct that) they have better chances sleeping outside.
Sigh.

I know that everyone is chomping at the bit to logically own me in this thread, and that's fine -- have your fun. There are a dozen comments informing me that "IP law around AI" and "fiat currency" are both made-up, and that's obviously true.

Right now "fiat currency" or "contracts" is settled. We are not radically redefining what those are (despite the web3 crowd's insistence). The story around IP with regards to AI is quite different. We are at a fork in the road. It is actually up to us to decide what AI fundamentally is, as it relates to IP. It's genuinely up in the air, and gives us an opportunity to re-examine some aspects of how we treat ownership of information. In my opinion, this is a good thing and an exercise worth doing. A chance to re-do some of what the internet failed at. Remember Aaron Swartz?

Personally, I'm quite cynical: I think the existing social power structure will win and absorb AI into its IP regime. AI will be locked down even faster than the internet was, because value can so obviously captured. The winners will be Disney, Sony, Warner, Elsevier... we'll all be poorer for it. But yeah! Good thing people can't make images of Spider Man?
No. They’re allowing alternate payment processing with a link from an an iOS app to a webpage, and reducing their commission to either 12 or 27% representing a 3% discount for not doing the payment processing themselves. They’re basically following the ruling based on some California law being applied nationally that the Supreme Court declined to hear on appeal. The judge said Apple would have to allow links out to alternate payment and would be required to collect their commission, which she suggested might be a bit high, but didn’t order any changes because everyone else also charges 30%, too. They are basically trying to act as an affiliate or partner with commission, which is pretty much the way it was before, but accounting gets more complicated now. (The judge was okay with Apple continuing to collect commission on sales.)

Apple is still requiring they also make Apple in-app purchases available for the same digital goods. And also being pretty restrictive on how to link out. I have no idea if that is in the spirit of the ruling, but I think so, because the law that was cited had to do with allowing links to app publisher’s site for alternate payment, and that Apple
couldn’t deny apps including such links.
Great story. I'd be sorry to convict this guy if I'm on a jury and maybe wouldn't. The father would probably be quite happy to die in prison if the result is a live son. Maybe there was a better way via calm words, or handcuffing himself to the son, or something else. But with his son's life on the line it's hard for me to blame him for choosing a more certain route without knowing more.
Seriously!

I still remember his early fanboy/apologist days and whenever I read him writing (actually "link quoting" because, well, that's what he does) anything even seemingly or notionally "against" Apple, my first suspicion is whether he has seen a drop in his readership and is just working to pull some page views from the other side? There was another one in those days - someone probably working at TechCrunch (I am forgetting his name) among many; Sig.. someone.
the established terms for these concepts are rents and rentier capitalism.
Came to post zoxide. Also if you use `ranger`[1] (vim inspired file manager) then you might like to add the `ranger-zoxide` plugin[2].

1. https://github.com/ranger/ranger

2. https://github.com/jchook/ranger-zoxide
It is good that we can finally agree that Gaza is occupied by the Israeli military.

> Alleging that blockade did not happen in response to Hamas is just flat out false.

Never alleged that. The current variation of the blockade is in response to Hamas’ takeover. However there were blockades before Hamas’ takeover:

> The special envoy of the Quartet James Wolfensohn noted that "Gaza had been effectively sealed off from the outside world since the Israeli disengagement [August–September 2005], and the humanitarian and economic consequences for the Palestinian population were profound. There were already food shortages. Palestinian workers and traders to Israel were unable to cross the border

> On 15 January 2006, the Karni crossing – the sole point for exports of goods from Gaza – was closed completely for all kinds of exports.

Hamas is elected to government in a fair election on 25 January 2006

> Between 1 January and 11 May [2006], more than 12,700 tonnes of produce were harvested in Gaza's greenhouses, almost all of it destined for export; out of it, only 1,600 tonnes (less than 13%) were actually exported.

Hamas takes control of Gaza in March 2007 after winning the civil war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip

So for 2 years between the partial withdrawal and Hamas taking power Israel is limiting imports and exports into the Gaza strip.

The blockade follows a similar pattern as other illegal conduct in other occupied territories, is to limit the potential of a free Palestinian state. Israel didn’t wake up one day and decide to blockade for fun. It remains a colonial power with aims to keep its colonial holdings and limit any potential of its colonial subjects.

> Subsequently, the expectation was that the security situation would improve. Had that happened, then you could talk about airspace, waters, etc.

You are arguing in alternative history, any argument rooted in alternative history is pure speculation. You have no proof that would be the case. Who is to say that without the rocket attacks, the Gaza strip would have continued to be subjugated, economically suppressed, and turned into a bantustan for Israel to exploit?
It's a technology in the sense that the financial system has been very carefully built, over centuries, in order to not collapse, and to make transactions easy and efficient. It's easily as complicated and sophisticated as any mechanical device ever created by the human race. It basically lets us create modern society.

So when the OP is flirting with arguing for tearing it down, there are three alternatives: 1) reform but stop short of tearing it down (legislation has done this several times before), 2) propose an alternative system that has a realistic way to preserve modern life, or 3) admit that you're going to destroy modern life in order to attack wealth inequality.

For 3), you're going to find very few people who are willing to go along with you. For 2), if you can't convince us that your plan is realistic, we're going to assume that you really are at 3).

As for 1), you're going to have to get it through Congress. It's been done, as I said, but usually after a major crisis. You probably don't have the urgency in voters' minds to drive it now, and Congress isn't great at passing anything right now. (Am I the only one that thinks that "can't pass a budget, which is the basic job" should mean "fire them all"?)
I don't think the issue is how high the fee is, the issue is Apple forcing developers to use their payments platform. Apple is within its right to charge whatever they want. Unreal Engine is free to charge whatever fee they want. But you're not forced to use UE. You are forced to use Apple IAP system, or their alternative now, is to allow you to use your own system, but still pay them a ridiculous fee, for what exactly?
A privileged one, compared to one made of silicon, in the eyes of the law.
WOW! I was undergraduate chemistry (decades ago) and if these visualizations had existed back then... I may have actually done something with my chemistry training! The `SMILES` number text input had me in flashbacks about some of the fledgling research I half-assed waybackwhen.

Thanks for providing such a wonderful resource for future chemists!
When you view it so narrowly, all developer costs are anti-developer. My desire to charge less for my app isn't reason I should have to pay less at the grocery store, though.
I am honestly not that surprised anymore to see that HN commenters don't remember Microsoft or Oracle antitrust suits, or how Twitter rose to prominence, or etc x 1000. Laughable.
Its a rule that has disproportionately harmed the major cities in the metropolitan regions that are forced to bear the load from other cities in the area with more "move-it-along" type policing of the homeless. Its certainly a thing in LA county that's for sure. You can go to Venice Beach where it borders with the city of Santa Monica, and its pretty telling how things are really shaking out when all the tents are set up on the LA side and the Santa Monica side of the border is free of tents somehow.

It builds and builds, until you end up with these small cities having homeless populations that can be sheltered in a single apartment complex type build of say 500-2000 people or so, and then something like the city of LA that might have something like 45000 homeless people. That's a project on an entirely different scale, that's half the population of Burbank right there just in homeless people of shelter space that has to be built in one city by this rule. On top of the existing housing crisis of a lack of places to live for everyone else too. If this is the law set by a federal judge then it seems the federal government should pay for it, if its going to be so amazingly costly for cities to bear this build out.
This makes me very excited. I have Spinal Muscular Atrophy type 2 [1] and I have lost most of my physical capabilities save for 2-3 fingers and of course speech. Although I am now on Nusinersen [2] treatments I am still becoming weaker over time, albeit extremely slowly.

One day I would love to use this device because for some reason my tongue has not experienced any degradation in all of my life so it would be nice to know I have a fallback, should I need one.

Note that specialists are saying that another promising drug from Scholar Rock [3] would probably prevent any further weakening if used in conjunction with my current treatment. Unfortunately, the FDA takes a long time to approve new medications and I have heard this one is particularly special because there is potential for abuse by athletes.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_muscular_atrophy

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusinersen

[3]: https://scholarrock.com/our-pipeline/spinal-muscular-atrophy...
My user experience on a Pixel 6 Pro was better than on the iPhone 15 Pro Max (had to switch for family reasons).

I do not take away from Apple that their customer service is top notch and for many users that matters as much as how good the SW is.
Tim Sweeney is mad about having to pay Apple's App Store commission. Developers for many years believed that by having their own "payment processing" they could pay nothing to Apple. However the district court ruled that Apple is entitled to collect a commission because it wasn't just for "payment processing," it was for its intellectual property. They are just doing it in a convoluted and less efficient way as a result of the one claim Epic won in Epic v. Apple.
Must be a regional thing? It appears that all of the major universities in this country offer software engineering programs.

That said, someone wanting to learn how to program would be best served by a community college/vocational school.
Hi lolinder, welcome to HackerNews. Your comment implies that Stack Overflow isn't currently fun. You are of course well within your rights to make that assertion. However, I find that your comment may be improved by removing any implication that Stack Overflow isn't fun. So I invite you to explain your reasons and maybe consider future improving edits to your post.
With the exception of abortion - which I think is the hardest ideological gap to bridge - I agree that the media and government keep the focus on trivial culture war issues to create the illusion of having multiple options in the voting booth. Sure you can pick a side on book banning, mask wearing, etc. But if you care about class and the distribution of wealth, you only have one option. Republicans and Democrats are the same party when it comes to class, wealth, and power. Both parties demonstrably work for the ruling class.

But I don't think you need a conspiracy hat to see that.