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And yet SC2 didn't really deliver on that in its two expansion packs (the base campaign was great though).

Meanwhile the non-campaign gameplay, while polished, is hardly innovative (a common issue with the commercial RTS games compared to the fan-made ones).
How would that void a warranty? By the way those stupid stickers they put over screws also don’t void warranties either. Just because a corporation says something doesn’t make it true.
OMG I think this is EXACTLY the phone I want. Modern mobile OS; small; hardware keyboard; lasts forever. Put a decent enough camera in it (I don't need to see the photos on my device) and it's an instant buy.

I hate touchscreen keyboards, and Apple will absolutely not relent on this.
> Apple devices are superior to their competition in just about every objective measure.

Their vehement success in Xserve proved that Apple does so well in low-margin markets. Wait a minute...
Wait till she learns of Photoshop.
They definitely talked with their lawyers and the EU regulators, but this doesn’t mean that where Apple ended up today was mutually agreed. They very likely ended up in disagreement and basically told their EU regulators to take them to court if they don’t like it. This happens all the time.
I don't think the DMA factors into it too much. In the Netherlands, AirBnB got fined for billing service costs both to renters and landlords. I think the legal term was 'serving two lords' or something along those lines. Dutch law (and I suspect European law) prohibits billing intermediary fees to both sides. I'm very much being an armchair lawyer, but you can probably make a very similar case here: the user has already paid for the Core TechnologyTM as part of the phone, therefore you can't bill app creators for the same thing.

(Disclaimer: I'm no lawyer, armchair or otherwise)
I absolutely am.

Part of the appeal about iOS for me is that apps are reviewed for quality and don't have obvious scams or spywear inside.

I'm happy to guide my parents to use and download apps from the app store without worrying about it. Compare this to the constant education and guidance I need to provide about websites, phone calls, text messages etc. The amount of targeted scams and spam we receive nowadays is excessive.

I think this is the problem: people want access to the 'app store' while forgetting/ignoring that the tight security and rigid processes are a feature, not a liability.
Insider info. I know people who know people who terminated Sam Altman from Y combinator. In general there's no solid evidence about Sams character on the surface but you can glean details. There's other people on HN who know of his character as well. Maybe you can find them when sifting through the posts.

It's like Trump. Is trump really a snake? depends on who you ask but there's controversy around trump and in direct parallel there's controversy about Sam as well.
They didn't compare Ossian to Homer. Read it again. They compared Ossian to Irish legends and then compared The Odyssey to The Illiad. Ossian was suspiciously close to the Irish where Odyssey and Iliad were quite different.
Holy fucking shit. I've never seen anything like that last comment on HN before.
Does Apple charge Mac developers a price per notarization? Because it sounds like that's effectively what they're doing here with iOS developers, since they require notarization and also require a fee per install for distributing outside the app store.

It's a protection racket - pay us and we won't flag your app as malware.
Someone else mentioned Slack as well. I guess web apps for chat products are actually a big use case.
You are mistaken. Malicious apps hurt their users and hurt their brand.
Gatekeeper/notarization are intended to stop malware, which Unreal Engine is not. Apple may well have a valid business dispute (over another application on another platform), but it's an abuse of the system and control they have to obstruct a Mac owner from running non-malware software on their own computer.

Luckily the court stopped them retaliating in this case, but it gives me reason to be concerned about expansion of the "it's Apple's device and will always act in Apple's interests over the owner's" mentality from iOS towards Mac desktops.
Tech debt is extremely easy to quantify if you're not talking about code, which in my experience, usually isn't what it's referring to.
> I feel her generation won't own anything anymore

I don't know if the age ranges of our children are similar or not, but once my kids discovered that I have a huge music collection that doesn't require an internet connection, they've started assembling their own.

I think that there are a lot of people who just don't understand there are options other than streaming, or that there are benefits to having your own collection that streaming can never provide. Once they learn otherwise, they may want those benefits as well.

With my children, they still stream music from commercial providers -- but they also maintain offline collections for the music they really care about.
> I also consider the harmonization of automobile and pedestrian traffic to be an open problem. Maximalists on both sides just talk past each other. Car-oriented development is bad, but at the same time we aren't going back to a pre-car world.

Of course we're not going back to a pre-car world, but I feel like even advocating for relatively minor changes like protected bike lanes or limiting car access in city centers gets you labeled a maximalist.

Drivers have a countrywide pedestrian-free transportation network (the interstate highway system) but there is practically no place at all in the US that you can walk or especially bike for transportation without frequent potential conflict with cars. And even small steps towards establishing such spaces meet fierce opposition.
I came here to post exactly that. Knowing the cost is irrelevant if you don't know the benefits.

As long as the benefits are outweighing the costs, then everything is good. The net result of the technical debt is positive.

That's not to say that technical debt never gets out of hand, just like actual debt can. But it's a tool to produce greater value in total, when used right.
a lot. I do the integration for my employer. we saved a lot of manpower by automating tasks that used to be done by an employee.

this mid-size company already sold twice. I highly doubt these investment firms care about technical debt. they just want to pad up the company (cut costs) and make it look good so they can flip it.

we are not in IT
Does metformin prevent long Covid?
> To a much lesser degree, but yes. The DMA explicitly allows for this.

Very surprising. A reference or pointer to the relevant section would be great.
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NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has last flight after suffering rotor damage
Any data on the number of votes for the finale vs. average episode votes? I wonder if there might be any correlation showing that voting on the finale was made only by the most persistent of fans that may impact the findings.
This makes it sound like complying is supposed to be a good thing. That’s an unfounded assumption imho.
RSV Vaccine Administration Errors
In the image above, imagine a knight on H3, which covers g1, g5. Neither a bishop, a pawn or rook can help that way.

After one move, it can go to f4 where it can add on as a second attacker to the queen on 4 squares. After another move it can go to d3, where it can again cover squares the queen cant (e2,e5).

So I guess its both because it has a lot of alignment in doubling as an attack, and covering nearby squares the queen cannot.
That argument carried a lot more weight when OS updates were $129 instead of $0.
Is this how you kill superman?
Apple overall makes $100B, not the App Store.
Besides the obvious less screen time in bed, the major ones for me were

1. Reducing alcohol consumption down to zero during week nights makes my percentage of rem sleep go up and percentage of light sleep go down

2. My deepest sleep is after 4 am. So dark blocking curtains help my sleep tremendously.

3. Certain workouts, such as light cardio, make my sleep and recovery better as opposed to others, such as playing a sport.

4. My ideal sleep temperature is between 68 and 70F.

These are all I know so far.
When I read your article title, "Dexter" popped immediately into mind. When I had finished watching the finale of Battlestar Galactica with my kid, they turned to me and said, "At least it had a better ending than Dexter!"
> there are options.

There are, but very few of them seem to provide for downloading full albums in nonproprietary lossless formats.
So true! I used to manage a project where one star engineer would always say we needed to stop work on features and re-engineer parts of the project so it "made more sense" or "wasn't a mess." We didn't have a lot of bugs or performance issues but this person felt parts of the code base were terribly designed and slowing down development. Other star engineers sort of agreed but did not consider it as urgent. But even when we set aside time to plan it they couldn't agree on a better design for the parts of the backend / app in question. One person's refactoring would have become another's technical debt.

So technical debt is certainly real but also sometimes in the eye of the beholder.
There are billions of dollars SAVED by strategic use of tech debt as well.
Wasn't a joke..that was before my time
Well, Not Yet But Maybe When They Roll It Out For Everyone Rather Than Just A Subset Of The Population

Always nice when an article answers its own question in the 2nd paragraph.
If they don't like it they can make another regulation.
Looks cool! It would probably be useful if there were a way to include dependencies that aren't shipp packages though. Otherwise, since most projects one might depend on right now don't have shipp support, there's a risk of ending up having to use other dependency management solutions alongside shipp, making everything even _more_ complicated rather than simpler, right?
NSA Buys Americans' Internet Data Without Warrants, Unclassified Letter Says
Is there human review for notorized apps on macOS ?

I thought it was only requiring a signature from a registered dev account.
> I can’t understand why it’s so much used.

I used WP for the first time this week. Its value is in giving non-programmers the capability to build a functional website (so long as features are within the norms). If the user has a sense of design and moderate graphic design skills, the site will also look beautiful.
Where did they talk about the Wrights? This on the wrong article?
A little OT, but does twitter not show tweets in (reverse) chronological order anymore? It seems to be a random stream of Dec, Dec, Nov, Jan, Nov, Dec type posts that render a resource like this somewhat useless.
https://archive.is/tDuhR
Ah cmon, take a few minutes to gen up on flexbox it’s not too hard and you’ll thank me.

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
I don't, and who ever does raises the poverty threshold over time.
Today's first world borderline poor can enjoy things (hot water, variety of food, healthcare, transportation) that only nobles could afford mere 150 years ago.
That fee was per install, not per install-user-year.
Account security is a bigger concern for the network than it is for the user. If someone steals my HN account, I won't really care (it's around my 5th account anyway). But if the hacker uses my account's reputation to evade spam filters, that becomes an issue for HN.
this really is getting at something important. however the question I would pose is, if the thermostat is conscious, does it have a sense of self, i.e. an identifiable boundary between itself and the world around it? I would say not. My understanding is that humans have an identifiable region(s) of the brain that correspond to a sense of self:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_basis_of_self#:~:text=T....

I think in a lot of these conversations people say consciousness and assume that consciousness always mirrors their own, which just so happens to come along with a sense of self for 99.9% of sober individuals. So I think it's important to distinguish between the two things.
It's not approved above age 45 and thus insurance isn't going to pay. But that's simply a matter of not testing. It was intended to be used before exposure and the pool of people >45 who aren't exposed and might be is pretty low.

However, there is a case where it makes sense: Someone who went into a monogamous relationship early and it has now ended. I'm not a sex-only-in-marriage type but I ended up taking my first partner down the aisle--chances are I was never exposed. I'm still with her, but all relationships end eventually.
The big draw for me is the curation, articles, scene reports, bandcamp weekly, all nicely and simply integrated with a way to listen to what you're reading about on the platform. Recommendations from humans as opposed to the Spotify algorithms. There's a lot of music on the internet, Bandcamp's offering for me is helping me to find some of it that I can connect with.
lol somehow I hope you forgot the sarcasm
Rather different (less daft?), but also working via email: https://delta.chat/
Firstly, I can say that I definitely would not be offended, since people have said that about me, and I wasn't offended.

Secondly, we are talking about a performer while performing[1] Sharing personal reactions (both positive and negative) to public performances is, IMO, well within the bounds of polite discourse.

1: This is harder to distinguish when the actor's name is "Fred Rogers" and the role is "Mr. Rogers," but the original comment referred to "Mr. Rogers" rather than Fred Rogers and used the phrase "especially while singing," so I think it's a safe assumption here.
> If Apple didn't allow me to install outside the AppStore on my MacBook I will complain as well and hopefully you won't be like "IDK, Windows exists"

If Apple suddenly changed Macs, sure. But, iOS has always been this way. Anyone who bought an iOS device over the last decade+ knows exactly the limitations and how it works. Android exists for those who want more open, yet the market has shown ~50% don't care about Android level openness.

I think it's wrong to legislate something just because it doesn't work how I want it to work, especially when an alternative does exist and consumers have spoken with their money.

Of course, this would be different if Android and iOS operated the same, or one had an overwhelming majority of the market. Because then consumers wouldn't have a choice.
Yeah it's a total double dip, similar to ISPs trying to extort internet companies for access to their own customers.
TIL: Tuvalu mints a ton of official Simpsons silver dollars
Unity wanted to charge for every single "install", where that category was defined so broadly that even loading the game in a web browser was an "install", and someone downloading and deleting and downloading the app over and over on a device was also repeated "installs".

Here Apple is tracking an install across the entire user account per year, so even if you have tons of devices and install the app on every single one of them, that's still just one "install".
Sure, but if Apple assumes that any non-notarized app is malware, then they're not just preventing malware - they're requiring non-malware to notarize every install. And since this is coupled with a new policy where non-app store installs cost money, this means it will be enforced through the notarization mechanism.

It's not the notarization itself that's an issue, but the fact that it's also the enforcement mechanism for collecting fees per-install. It's basically a mafia protection racket where you need to pay Apple to say you're not malware.
Very cool! Have you considered local LLMs for a free/lite tier?

I do agree that 3rd party LLM services (e.g. OpenAI) are much more powerful. For basic tasks (e.g. summarization, Q&A), local LLMs seem to perform decently.
> The App Store makes on the order of $100B profit annually.

> Yes, we know they talked with the EU, but we don't know the content of those discussions.

Geeze, that's a lot of money. Out of curiosity, how bribeable are EU regulators? If this were the US, they'd just make a few campaign donations and it'd all go away and the citizens would just shrug at the business as usual in DC.

Do EU regulators typically have more integrity and teeth?
you cant MITM HTTPS unless you're are doing it to yourself for testing.
How do we know they wouldnt like it? Surely their intention wouldn’t be to stop Apple receiving a benefit from providing a platform.
One solution could be to add a `build` and `install` field to the dependency in the project's manifest, I'll see with the feedback if this is worth implementing.

For now, you simply have to add a `shipp.json` file. For SDL I have a repository `shipp-pkg-sdl` (not yet published) which contains only the `shipp.json` file and a submodule to the latest release. It's not perfect, but it works well for now :)
I don't know where you are getting your numbers from, for 2023 their net income was $97b. At some point the tax stuff won't be possible, and it will be even less than that. Apple's gross profit was $169b, which excludes a lot of stuff, but even then I don't think it's possible over half of it would be from the App Store.
For the other HNers out there not deeply into Figure Skating, the other comments here go into the 'new' scoring system very well.

One thing that I think needs stressing is that the base value score is a pretty good system; it's the Grade of Execution (GoE) score that is bad. The GoE is where all the shenanigans are hiding and where all the corruption lies. The 'new' system is a lot better than the old one, that is for sure, and it's a real improvement. But if you thought that Russia was going to let any system be implemented without the ability for them to bribe or threaten their way to a medal, you've got another thing coming. GoE scores are where that happens nowadays.

As an aside, now is the time to revamp figure skating with Russia being sidelined. I hope that such an opportunity never comes again, but now is that opportunity. The lack of push to really get the sport ready for the 21st century just speaks to the deep and embedded corruption at the international level.

I love the sport and still follow it. But my kids are not going to be participating at senior level (or whatever it's called these days) because of the futility and geopolitics.
It is a very common theme in Elite Dangerous, to the point that the station controller will sometimes say "Oh seven, commander" to you.
It was not about the contribution but about the moment.

The Wright brothers achieved the first powered flight on earth and Ingenuity achieved the first powered flight on another planet.

I think people are well aware that it's neither the Wright brothers nor ingenuity as a singular entity that did what ultimately concluded in that achievement but rather the scientific effort of humanity as a whole.
Free file fillable forms has existed since at least 2012.

Free file as a concept has existed since 2001 when Congress passed some legislation about it.
Also, I think a large part of "I don't know" is purely the fact that the mind is driven by chemicals. I can't explain for example why I can't focus or why I am tired, or why I no longer feel something that I used to.

There just isn't a perceivable reason for everything, as we can't fully perceive our internal state. But if youre aware of these things, they can be explained too. For example, you may identify that when you eat greasy foods you become lethargic and that if you don't eat all you become irritable.
Apple has successfully delayed an equivalent to F-Droid for iOS users for another year.

Plenty of useful apps like the Orca card reader (see your transit card balance by just tapping your card, no internet required), fun games like Antimine, and such where the devs will only target barrier free platforms as it's a passion project are missing in action on iOS.
that is such a common thing people have to do, why doesn't it do it out-of-the-box? (probably a plugin somehow)
So when i was building castles in VRML in 2000, and used PROTO nodes to cut down on repetition, i was doing parametric architecture? Cool.
At least five years, under the upcoming Cyber Resilience Act.
This is not the topic I expected from the title :)
doesn’t recommend ≠ recommends against
I've done more 30min-2hr sub-zero F bike rides here in interior Alaska than I can count, as well as many 5+hr rides for things like races and backcountry trips. Some of the coldest days are at -30F or -40F. I use a simple wool balaclava as well, and it works great.

The author here seems weirdly obsessed with the idea of "breathing cold air" resulting in heat loss? While breathing cold air isn't necessarily pleasant, in my experience, if you're actually _exercising_ (raising your heart rate to say, 120 or more?), then even down at -30 you very quickly run into the opposite problem. You're generating a _ton_ of heat from exercise, and you're sweating your ass off. Most of the time I end up periodically pulling my face covering off to help cool down.

I'm not above trying one of these, but it feels a bit like a solution in search of a problem. Maybe I'm underestimating the difficulty of the average bike commuter's ride, and they're not regularly getting their heart rate elevated? But I can say that in 5-10 years of winter bike commuting, racing, and backcountry travel, almost everyone I see is using a balaclava, despite these things having been around for a while.
Not necessarily. The college student population might vary over time in ways that the general population does not.
It's part of the video of Bill Nelsons speech that's embedded in the article.
Ah... it makes sense. I thought it was a head being scratched.
This is how vaccines are expected to operate. You don't need perfection, just enough to drive the reproduction rate below 1.

However, note that this is in a population where there will no doubt be leaks. Even if everyone in the area got the jab that doesn't mean they won't have sex with people who didn't. Thus an infection rate of zero is a good showing.
This is a tablet. There is no microphone. They used 'phone' 36 times without actually checking if it makes phone calls. Perhaps paired with a Bluetooth headset it makes sense, but not as a standalone device.
Not with the Core Technology Fee, nor with the Apple app review process standing in the way. These are severe restrictions that prevent something like FDroid from being operated on iOS.