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I too live in Nevada County. While I largely agree with the claim that most people recognize and respect the safety implications, most years I still see (or hear) illegal fireworks. It’s clearly the odd individual doing it and not the majority of people, but the asymmetric risk they impose is a real bummer and I would love to see more/better enforcement of the restrictions on such individuals.

Per Apple’s rules, app developers are not allowed to explain the App Store rules and pricing models within their apps, leaving customers in the dark - a form of censorship, to be sure.

Do you know which sections of the DMA address this? Genuinely asking because I’d like to read from the source here.

Here to point out (friendly) a typo - their markup is 13% higher now

I'd say about 70 miles, near Auburn, CA

I'm next door in Grass Valley, and basically the same experience here.

Also, I don't run into many HN folks in/from this area, let's get in touch and maybe meet up sometime.

I found this notable because it's the first time I've received a push notification in the U.S. about an earthquake, which I received about 10 seconds before the shaking started.

I mean, it does take 3rd graders about 8 years of immersion to sound like 3rd graders…

This reminds me of a question I’ve had for a while, and have not been able to formulate it well enough to do any searching for an answer on my own (total layman here).

Do we have any hypotheses of what the matter inside a black hole might be like? I mean “hypotheses” in a strict sense; I do not mean “a good/definitive answer”

To oversimplify a bit: white dwarves are supported by electron degeneracy pressure, and if such pressure is exceeded by gravity then e.g. a neutron star can form. Neutron stars are supported by neutron degeneracy pressure, and if such pressure is exceeded by gravity then a black hole can form.

For each of those “steps” we have an idea of what the matter within must be like to support/exceed such pressures. Are there any hypotheses for what the matter might be like after such known pressures are exceeded and a black hole is formed?

This comment perfectly hits upon something I haven’t quite been able to put my finger on for some time. Thanks.

Can we add (2011) to the title here?

I would love to see/hear the original source for this

Then this leads me to wonder if interest rates are too coarse-grained for what would have helped folks the most. I don’t know what would have been a finer-grained approach, but universally lowering interest rates had a huge effect on other areas (like home purchases) which were not in dire straights like “keeping food on the table and a roof over their heads”

Phrasing like “2023 tax year” typically means for taxes paid in 2023 (i.e. your return will be due in 2024 with any concomitant payment/refund). So this won’t take effect for another year, basically.

One thing that still confuses me is that brokers/agents are very common, or practically a requirement, in other areas but not at all in vehicle shopping. I would definitely pay a handsome fee to a broker to just absorb all the shopping/haggling pain, to cut through all the BS, on my behalf.

I have tried this once with one of the very few brokers I could find, and it was definitely better but it was obvious there were several areas of the experience that could be massively improved. I chalked it up at the time to a lack of competition between brokers, since there really aren’t many.

Citation for these claims?

Energy imbalance; i.e. net positive energy intake.

Citation?

Agreed on Barbell Medicine over SS or TM. They are basically the only evidence-based company in the game.

If he’s so fond of user choice and isn’t using the argument disingenuously, then keep sideloading off the table but give all devs/users the choice to use a payment system other than Apple IAP - that’s the real issue for most people. If all other rules stayed the same but IAP became optional all this regulatory/PR pressure would drop to near-zero.

I’d like to add a #3 to the list, which I’ll half-jokingly name “ruined by working at a large company learned helplessness”

My company is small and we have very small teams (1-4 people). One person recently hired has been working at successively larger companies over the years (I’ve known him for a long time). Sometimes he’ll do something like this: stop working on a task he’s been assigned, say “test data needed”, and just totally bow out until someone else makes it for him.

As I said, this is a small team. He knows how to make his own test data, and sometimes there is even a UI dedicated to making the kind of data he needs. But he has learned from working at larger companies that he can sometimes just pass his work onto someone else (perhaps even an entire other team dedicated to the thing he doesn’t want to do) instead of stepping up to the plate to do such a trivial thing on his own.

To be clear, this is just an example (which has actually happened) and other similar “not my job” thinking/actions have shown up repeatedly. Many years ago we worked together on a small team and he was not like this at that time.

I'm been in the middle of dealing with app review for a client these last couple weeks. One part I find very frustrating (though there are many), but don't see discussed very frequently, is the hubris imbued by Apple in their review process.

They'll flatly state "you're in violation of the guidelines in Area A". So I'll submit a detailed and well-written response explaining why there are good reasons the app does what it does in Area A. They will basically say absolutely nothing in response to my submission, but instead switch gears to saying "your app is in violation of the guidelines in Area B".

I'll explain why what the app does in Area B is for good reasons, they won't verbally acknowledge it at all, but will then bring up Area C. Rinse and repeat.

It's rather demeaning and demoralizing to be constantly treated like "YOU'RE WRONG", explain why you're not wrong, get no "thank you" or "we're sorry for the accusation", then have to immediately deal with another "WRONG AGAIN". Much like an emotionally abusive partner.

There is a simple and far more humane alternative: they could go with something like "we have concerns about Area A and it might be in violation of the guidelines, but we'd like to hear your input first before delivering an acceptance or rejection - please respond with further details".

Thanks for attending my vent session lol

Do you have any issues with spam being sent to whatever_random_user@yourdomain.tld ?

This concern has been my #1 reason for not doing the same setup. Basically a fear of a never-ending list of random addresses to blacklist, which won’t have any meaningful effect because the next spammer will just use a different random value.

This rings so true. My company has been involved in several tech products created from scratch (we did the majority of the tech work), but the party/ies paying for the product/s were not willing to put enough capital into marketing. All of them have failed, which (despite us being paid for the work) has been extremely disappointing each time - aside from losing the potential for further equity/royalties in some cases it just sucks to see your “baby” die off.

> like has happened with automated license plate readers on tow trucks.

Do you have any good links that provide more info on this?

I promise I’m not trying to be terse, but... I think the entire article was his explanation for why he felt them to be magical?

Typo? Did you mean O(n^1000000) ?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when a fully preconfigured YubiKey is shipped to you as part of the EV cert fulfillment, then there is no way to do this after-the-fact.