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> Changing the accounting to decide what split multi-billion dollar company Epic gets versus multi-hundred-billion dollar Apple gets has nothing to do with innovation or competition, and this is particularly true in gaming.

I vehemently disagree. When a user buys a game, where does their money go?

On the desktop, their money is sent to the storefront where the game was bought. Their payment is processed, the service's fee is exacted, and the user is given their game while the developer is paid their revenue. This is true even for MacOS, where the Mac App Store offers it's own experience in fair competition with Steam and other third-parties like GOG. iOS is unique in attempting to appear as a multi-purpose computer while also restricting user options to a small subset of profitable selections. That is not fair, to anyone.

> In fact, it seems like these rulings are likely to have the opposite intended effect on new and innovative apps

Pending evidence, you're just wrong. As a user of Android I will tell you from firsthand experience that my absolute favorite apps would not exist without sideloading. MacOS and Windows simply wouldn't have games at all if their distribution terms weren't free enough to attract publishers. And if you sort the iOS app store by top-grossing games, you'll quickly realize that the iPhone doesn't have real games either. Publishers like Nintendo left after their initial experiments - others like Epic and Microsoft were literally forced to leave.

You say that Epic's fee is just as bad as Apple's, but you don't substantiate how that's worse for users. Having two similar fees encourages competition - it creates an incentive to innovate in delivery and provide a superior service to users. Apple can charge twice as much if they want, but they (same as Epic) have to justify their pricing for it to compete fairly. Currently Apple answers to no one, which creates an obvious price fixing incentive on their behalf. This is demonstrably anticompetitive.

> I know this is a contrarian view.

Have you ever considered that it's not contrarian, and just wrong? People are eager to look at this from an "us vs them" perspective rather than an "profitability vs righteousness" one. Apple's stance is literally indefensible. When asked to justify their market position, the absolute best defense HN can present is that Apple abused the market first and never reneged their abuses. It's time for us to stop giving Apple a benefit of the doubt they don't deserve - the iPhone is not an appliance, and can be perfectly profitable without service revenue despite Apple's complaints.
Im not a scientist and do not know how these things work out, but wouldn't it be possible for scientist to simply publish their papers online without peer review if that is what they want?

What's stopping them from doing so?
>In fact, it takes only $300 (real 2000 USD) /year to survive, and historically (>300 years ago) most humans were earning this much for millenia.

I get the point you're trying to make, but this isn't accurate. It takes more than $300 or $2000 to survive now. You can't just adjust historical values for inflation and claim they apply today when the historical values were derived from a system that didn't function like today's.
To oversimplify, evolution is a generate-and-test process and the evaluation step is critical. Something needs to decide which variations are better. Often, with generative AI, it’s people who judge the results. Still, generating interesting examples (the brainstorming phase) plays some role in that.

I don’t know a whole lot about Picasso’s art, but I imagine the way he evaluated his own work played an important role, in being able to see that sometimes creative accidents are interesting.
Android is a hell of a lot closer to 'open' than iOS
This book is really good; I’ve already gotten a lot of ideas from it.
I just don't understand how these guys could literally give terrabytes of free storage and free data transfer to everyone. I was doing some calculation of cost from my storage and transfers and if they used something like S3 it would costed them 1000s of dollar. And I don't pay them anything.
Do you use MFA? How about meetings (zoom/teams)? What about MS Office or Google Apps? Is the new email client up to snuff? All of these are much better as apps.

Users do not want to browse the web on mobile for all their activities, when Apps are generally faster, more secure, and has all their prefs recorded EVEN if a webapp is functionally equivalent (and most are only 70-90% equivalent)

So the new entrant has to curry favor with all these large software vendors (some of whom are now competitors) and offer something for some key uses of a smartphone.
No matter how well meaning or great it is, a large UI/UX changes without explicit user control (users clicking some download or update button) will always be met with vocal users revolt. I have not met a large UI change where I go "this is so much better than what I'm used to for the past years" Why do sites do this? Is the goal to attract new users? Just know that this comes at the cost of existing users irritation.

I will take around 1 year to get used to all the changes--just in time for the next large one to take place again. This is why I am always in a state of discontent.

Off topic--this came closely after my Sonos systems UI changes. It's like the whole world is telling me I am no longer their market demographics.
So what happened when those discrepancies arose?
I'm not ok with it (and said as much), but it's not equivalent to a foreign adversary surveilling us.
You know as well as I do that no company will ever do that. The result will be that there will be no new platforms that aren't either fully locked down or built by and for FOSS enthusiasts.

Heck, just look at WordPress for an example of what happens when a company tries to create a purely open platform and then still be a for-profit company. You can have open platforms maintained out of altruism or closed platforms maintained for profit. Android was a middle path that has now been shown to be illegal.
This is a fine argument if you're a US citizen, but if you're a citizen of another country it's also a good argument to go after Instagram, Youtube, and all the rest.

There's also the opposite argument that the Chinese government has little ability to influence your life and so surveillance by a US company is worse since there's a higher risk that the information gathered can be used against you.
> not open for investment

60% of ByteDance is owned by global institutional investors such as the Carlyle Group, General Atlantic and Susquehanna International Group
National Academy members still get to pick the reviewers (if they choose to go that route rather than regular submisssion), and the review is not blind. The reviews themselves are not public, but the identities of the reviewers are made public once the paper is out. So members can't just say whatever sh*t they want (and you can imagine some do), but still a highly unusual process.
Hookpad
Wonder when Anna will get her share since she's making all this possible by making the articles and books available (Anna's archive).
How Chinese Are Chinese Language Models? Lack of Language Policy in China's LLMs
That is a large part of it, but the shift was underway 20 years ago. Villains from WWII naturally get less airtime during a time when the public wants to mentally process WTC or Bataclan.
Buy an e-book reader, and load it with a mix of fiction from genres you like, and non-fiction on topics you're interested in. Make it your primary form of entertainment. You'll build your patience and reading stamina back up in no time, cabin in the woods not needed.
It seems wrong to be able to force people to sell a company because they're foreign
I have questions about some edge cases I've encountered in dealing with money.

- Let's say I load two money values from a database. Value A is 1 USD and value B is 1 BTC. If I try to add them together, what happens? (I would expect a runtime exception. In fact, I would hope for a runtime exception, because the operation usually indicates a programming error.)

- If I divide $2.00 by 3, do I get $0.66 or $0.67? If I want to specify the rounding rule, is there a simple way to do it? I see there's support for allocation by percentage, but sometimes the allocation rules are more complex and I need to be able to specify the rounding rule.

- Does this library help parse user input? When parsing user input, what happens to extra digits? Does "0.015" get interpreted as $0.01 or $0.02?

Edit: one more question. Sometimes people bend the rules on the number of digits; for example, gas stations may charge $3.599 per gallon. Can the library deal with that or would I have to convert to decimal, multiply, and then convert back to money?
Fine - but that took Google billions and a decade of work to reach near-parity. A new entrant will not have any of that. Web apps can do much more than they could 10 or 15 years ago but still takes massive effort.
I definitely think their work is deserving of awards, but I kinda agree with other commenters in that this says more about the Nobel committee than anything

i.e. Hinton has already won a Turing Award in 2018, and there is no Nobel for computer science

And this work was already recognized to have impact ~12 years ago, when he auctioned his company of 2 grad students to Google/Microsoft/Baidu/Facebook, for over $40M, ultimately going with Google [1]

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i.e. IMO it feels a little late / weird / irrelevant to be giving this award in physics to machine learning research – it doesn’t feel like that would have happened without the news cycle

At least IMO the scientific awards are more interesting when they're leading indicators, not trailing ones -- when they are given by peers, acknowledging impact that may happen in the future.

Because it often takes decades to have impact, and it may occur after the researcher has passed away

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[1] https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Makers-Mavericks-Brought-Faceb... - good book if you’re interested in how technology transfer happened in the last 10-15 years
I’m guessing they just don’t have camera links so they don’t make the best videos, i.e quiet sucess
The prefetching works like this: a list of assets is provided, and in each main loop iteration, the engine opens and loads a single one into memory (an unordered map of shared pointers). It would be more effective in a longer game, where as the player moves, the assets are already being prepared for use.

There’s also a mechanism to collect and remove unused assets from memory.
Game studios are quite literally producing research papers about using their game to experiment on their player's emotional well being. Riot Games and League of Legends being one of the most notorious examples but more than a few studios do this.
widespread social media ban for children under 16. just make it happen.
because these devices are intended to be always on, which is not possible with iphone?
> strongly expect that they will disappear from the main US App stores on 19th January 2025

Eh, they'll still be on TikTok.com. Keep in mind, too, that the app store monopolies are being dismantled.
Unfortunately, there are too many people now who believe they are liberal and tolerant but don't know what it means since they preach and practice exactly the opposite values. It's sad because they spit on gains of the sexual, gender, and cultural revolutions up until about the 1970's and instead behave like hypocritical, ignorant fascists similar to the ones who were worth resisting centuries previously. I think the core problems are a lack of mentors and lack of pushback from previous generations of academic and cultural thought leaders to say "that's absurd". Instead, academically weak and immature instructors in academia are inculcating subsequent generations with misguided and absurd ideas about as equally insane as the MAGA movement. The result expressed on the greater society is we now have these 2 extremist cults who are doppelgängers of each other who suck the oxygen out of public policy and discourse.
I don't see it as luddite at all any more than not allowing your kids to use cocaine means you are against pharmaceuticals or medicines.

The problem isn't the screen. It's what's on the screen. It's specific products that are engineered to maximize addiction.

Our kids play video games and we don't limit access to kids Netflix and many other things. They'll play games, watch a show, whatever, and then do something else. With YouTube they would watch, and watch, and watch, and watch, forever, to the exclusion of all other activities, and when we looked at what they were watching it was 100% repetitive content-free mesmerizing trash.

The biggest difference we saw is that when friends were around they'd drop video games or shows to play with their friends, but with YouTube they would not. Nothing could compete with trash YouTube videos. Examples included random incoherent blabbering while playing video games, videos of cars running over expensive things, unboxing videos, disturbing AI-generated trash, etc. The algorithm seems to have a bias toward increasingly mindless content. You can start with something mildly interesting and pretty soon you're watching someone smash things for six hours.

I see a few replies here questioning this and being like "but my kids are fine." It's possible that different people vary in terms of their susceptibility to this stuff in the same way that different people vary in, say, their propensity to become addicted to opioids. There are people who can use opioids for a while and then just walk away and there are people who use them once and think about them for the rest of their lives. The difference is probably genetic or brain developmental.
I don't have any sources for you, my comment was just from observation of random polls that track daily usage habits. TikTok consistently ranks significantly higher in watch time than Instagram for nearly all polls and demographics I've happened over the last couple of years.
What don't they like about it?
> the worse is better approach is better.

I think this ties back to the idea of "get it working, then once it's working go back and make it fast | preformant | better for whatever meaning of better".

I think much of the consternation towards "worse is better" comes from re-inventing things to achieve the "make it better" improvements from scratch instead of leveraging existing knowledge. Re-inventing might be fine, but we shouldn't throw away knowledge and establshed techniques if we can avoid it.
Great question! Rsync also uses a rolling hash/content defined chunking approach to deduplicate and reduce communication. So it will behave very similarly.
> The fact that they're the only major foreign owned social media company in the whole pool

Kind of out a big question mark over ‘free and fair competition’ thing.
Regarding the article you linked, NPR is very biased in favor towards the current progressive stance on trans, and they present that perspective as if it's true and correct, without substantial coverage of opposing views.

For example, here's an interview transcript on the topic of whether male athletes with a trans identity have an unfair advantage over female athletes in sport: https://www.npr.org/2023/04/09/1168858094/arguments-that-tra.... This was from last year. There is a considerable body of sports science research that demonstrates male physical advantage across a range of sports, and how even with long-term testosterone suppression this isn't mitigated. None of this is even mentioned. In fact the interviewee just brushes over all of this, claiming there is no good evidence, without being challenged on this.

That sort of bias is unfortunately quite typical of NPR, not just on trans but many topics.
> seems wrong to be able to force people to sell a company because they're foreign

Forced sale to stay in the country is the same as forced JV to enter. Most media markets have, historically, been regulated with respect to foreign ownership.
Understanding Confounding Variables: A Comprehensive Guide (2024)
Some of this dates to the idea that if we’re not making education always be fun we’re doing it wrong.
Please don't take HN thread further into flamewar hell. We're trying to avoid that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It means one of these things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex#Standard_simplex
Apps are rarely self-contained you build on layers all the way down to the OS and BIOS/Firmware, I can fire up an old windows or DOS program only because Microsoft still support ancient API's or the BIOS API's still exist on the PC. The older phone processors are still perfectly fine but Apple and Google are not going to support them as they may be slow with new (bloated) code or may not have some fancy feature they use for one tiny part of their latest OS, same with the frameworks that build on top of them and with everything web these days there are a lot of layers.
TikTok has no real political allies in the US so it is vulnerable to a pile on attack that American tech giants (that commit the same sins) are not. This would make it easier to win a case against them and set a precedent that could be used to sue the American giants.

It probably won't play out that way though since the whole political push isn't really about harming kids or addictive behaviors of social media, it's just about destroying an outside interloper that isn't part of the existing propaganda apparatus and competes with American tech giants.
The author made this game for his son. I think this qualifies more as a hobby/side project than a serious effort at delivering a marketable game. In the hobby case I think the conventional wisdom no longer applies. That puts this sort of project in line with folks building hot rods or restoring classic cars right down to the last bolt. Rebuilding a car's engine is a similar exercise which rarely makes commercial sense but can be an absolute joy for the hobbyist mechanic!
Postman Pat looks quite nice, stop motion of pupers with a lot of joints.
Show HN: Moto API – Dataset of common complaints for 8000 vehicles
Hey this is a dataset I made of common complaints for vehicles by year, make, and model using NHTSA data. NHTSA is the best source for car issues and a lot of their data is open source. My dataset organizes the complaints and makes it much more user-friendly.
It's not terribly surprising that a former Nazi guard would be able to immigrate to the US and integrate with American society.

Nazism and its adjacent movements and organizations like the KKK have been a persistent background feature of the US cultural landscape for a long time [1]. The post Civil-war American racism/segregation model (AKA Jim Crow) was seen by the Nazis as a model for their own society. There were and still are many who agree with many aspects of the ideology, especially if they aren't specifically associated with the term "Nazi".

WW2 may have caused overtly Nazi-associated movements to fall out of mainstream regard, but as examples like the individual in the article demonstrate, it wasn't that hard for him to hide his level of involvement in the Nazi party, especially in suburban America, which was itself born of America's own internal racist convulsion. Those who grew up in American suburbs during that time period are aware of the persistent background racism and anti-Semitism they harbored. This was a society primed to give a well-spoken and hard working white immigrant a huge benefit of the doubt, as it demonstrably did.

In the end, it seems like he was legally deported based on the law that no Nazi camp guards can immigrate to the US, not because the society itself hadn't found a comfortable place for him.

1. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/nazi-town-...
I mostly agree, though I don't think the concern would be as much if TikTok were British or Canadian or French, since the US doesn't have an adversarial relation with them. The concern is that China, a country that we sort-of-kind-of have a problem with, surveilling and potentially influencing us.
I just sold one of these last year on a local marketplace website. Mine had a working home button but was otherwise similar to yours. I think I got $40 USD for it.

I feel like there's probably someone out there who would still get some use out of it if you gave it away, and might even be willing to pay you a small amount of money for it.
Related: calligraphic Ambigrams --

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ambigram&iax=images&ia=images
What are we making together?
Using the "Novelty Effect" to Slow Down Time
Stirring call to action for creativity, but it is unclear how a comment that boils down to "new things might be good" applies in this context.

as OP refers to, custom operators are considered harmful in languages ranging from C++ to Swift. It's a great contemporary example of goto.
> They seem to think that LOS is actually usable without rooting,

Depends on what software you want to run on your device, I guess. I build LineageOS from source, so I'm perfectly capable of rooting my device, but I don't bother.

I don't use Google Play Services, Google Play, or any apps from Google's store at all. Banking apps are not only unnecessary on my phone, but also unwelcome, mainly because they all demand overreaching permissions. I do my banking in a web browser, on a computer. This way, I have more control over what the banking client can do with the device it runs on, and no worries about what might happen to my accounts if my phone is lost or stolen.

With no need to trick software like that into running on my de-googled OS, I haven't had any need to root it.
Perception of time can be skewed by what we see
> With high energy physics, many particle colliders and synchrotron light sources seem to be undergoing major upgrades these days.

AFAIK synchrotron light sources are tools for materials science and other applied fields, not high energy physics. Did I miss something?

I am also puzzled by the "many particle colliders". There is currently only one capable of operating at the high energy frontier. It's getting a luminosity upgrade [1] which will increase the number of events, but those will still be the 14 TeV proton-proton collisions it's been producing for years. There is some hope that collecting more statistics will reveal something currently hidden in the background noise, but I wouldn't bet on it.

[1] https://home.cern/science/accelerators/high-luminosity-lhc
like everything else coming from startup people, none of this means anything.

none of the items listed there preclude a CEO from only talking to direct reports and viewing the org chart as a set of black boxes that their reports are responsible. having "engineering and design report to the founder" doesn't mean anything. is that saying everyone who does engineering and design has an executive as their manager?

nothing in that list talks about hiring or firing practices.

whomever wrote this post would have great success as an object-oriented clean code thought leader, where their skills at saying nothing would earn them slots at conferences and social media followers.
> Do they get to go to the ceremony with the other laureates, meet the king, etc?

Yes.
Research firm alleges Roblox has exaggerated user data, compromises child safety
Some people who come off the GLP-1 meds (acheiving goal weight) are recommended by their docs to take metformin as a maintenance drug to stabilize weight.
Roblox shares react to Hindenburg Research's latest report
I never said it was.

FYI, whataboutism in a thread about Nazis makes it look a little like you're defending Nazism. Was that your intent? If not, what did you intend to add to the conversation with this (true) observation?