letsdothisagain (u/letsdothisagain)

letsdothisagain commented on Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU macrumors.com/2024/03/12/... · Posted by u/Hamuko

pjerem · a year ago

> I don't think the EU can rule that Apple can't charge publishers to be on iOS.

Oh I think the EU can rule whatever they want on their domestic market. Apple can try to find all the holes they want, the Commission is probably just taking notes of those holes to fix them in the DMA 1.1

I really think Apple (and Meta, fwiw) is making a huge mistake if they think they are in position to negociate anything. DMA is here to fix competition issues on the european market and if the goal isnt reached, there will be enough iterations until achievement.

It's not a fight again Apple, it's about preserving the core of what is the EU : the European Single Market. The European Single Market was created after WWII with the goal to enforce peace on the european continent. The Single Market IS the European Union. There is no way they'll let Apple get around this. The only thing Apple don't understand is that the EU is traditionally really slow to act so they had an entire decade (and more) to think that locking access to the market in the EU was fine.

letsdothisagain · a year ago

Yeah that's why I'm expecting another change. When they tried banning Epic the EU said no, and Apple was forced to move to this point. I expect/hope that the EU comes back with a further "clarification" on Apple's contention that they can gate this to 1,000,000 downloads.

It is funny to see American companies scream "that's not fair" when faced with a functional government.

letsdothisagain commented on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS techcrunch.com/2024/03/06... · Posted by u/madtrax

Gormo · a year ago

Perhaps a better alternative would be to stop anthropomorphising abstractions, and not try to weirdly attribute intentionality, independent agency, or sociopathy to the same thing we're acknowledging is incapable of conscience because it isn't a person.

Corporations are organizational models employed by humans in pursuit of human motivations. They are not entities unto themselves. Everything is humans, all the way down.

letsdothisagain · a year ago

Corporate personhood means that legally they are. If we stripped that away and let the board of governors go to jail for doing blatantly illegal stuff, then they might stop being sociopathic.

I'd also like a pony.

letsdothisagain commented on Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data? (2022) arxiv.org/abs/2207.08815... · Posted by u/tosh

derefr · a year ago

You already made a faulty assumption — that we're interested in "classifying the data" in the first place.

Maybe we already know everything about the dataset. For example, if it's line-of-business customer data gradually built up by a sales team, then the brains of the salespeople have likely already done all the "implicit classification" needed to generate good questions about the dataset.

And this is, by far, the usual scenario for Business Intelligence questions: someone with "business-domain knowledge", e.g. an executive, has formed an intuitional hypothesis about the data based on their personal experience; and so they ask someone with "data-domain knowledge", e.g. a business analyst or data scientist, to test that hypothesis.

It's actually rare, in my experience, to have a tabular-data dataset that someone is motivated to understand, that doesn't also "come with" a set of people who can already act as (good!) models trained on that dataset, to aid them in that understanding. (Sometimes these people can't find each-other — but they do usually exist.)

AFAIK, having reams of entirely opaque and ill-understood tabular data, such that you need classification/clustering to get started on asking questions, only really happens in the sciences: sensor-network climate data; longitudinal-study medical-outcome data; census data; housing-market data; etc. In other words, it's almost always universities and governments — not businesses — that care about analyzing opaque tabular data.

And that's a key to understanding the constraints in play for choosing models! Because business-driven analyses are usually time-constrained in some way (potentially even needing post-training question-answers to be generated in soft-realtime); while institutional analyses usually aren't. Big difference!

letsdothisagain · a year ago

I'm really not clear on why you're arguing against this. A proper data warehouse tackles the known unknowns, i.e. supervised learning. But you can glean new insights using unsupervised learning, like the textbook example of Target knowing a woman is pregnant based on sales data.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

letsdothisagain commented on I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train metro.co.uk/2024/03/03/sp... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

chippiewill · a year ago

> Unlikely, the FAQ on the ordering page explicitly states that the Bahncard 100 can be used for "any number of trips"

They can change that though (if there's a material cost impact to them of this). They could just say from next year that you're capped at N journeys per month or something, where N is a very large number for anyone other than someone trying to live on trains.

letsdothisagain · a year ago

Tell me you're a landlord without telling me you're a landlord.

"How dare this fucker weasel his way out of giving me 50% of his income! That's MY money!"

letsdothisagain commented on Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report ainonline.com/aviation-ne... · Posted by u/elorant

schainks · 2 years ago

The leaders of Boeing are clearly fumbling the ball, paying themselves more than ever, shitting on their labor and supply chain sub-contractors, all while costing ME as a taxpayer and occasional user more money and stress than ever.

Such a small group of leaders extracting maximum value for themselves at both the cost of the company, greater economy, AND the US Taxpayer sounds, I don't know... criminal?

letsdothisagain · 2 years ago

It's not new either. Teddy Roosevelt ran on trust busting and defeated both the dems and republicans.

letsdothisagain commented on We might want to regularly keep track of how important each server is utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/pabs3

outofpaper · 2 years ago

In moments of crisis, immediate measures like physical tagging can be crucial. Yet, a broader challenge looms: our dependency on air conditioning. In Toronto's winter, the missed opportunity to design buildings that work with the climate, rather than defaulting to a universal AC solution, underscores the need for thoughtful asset management tailored to specific environments.

letsdothisagain · 2 years ago

I know someone who did that in the Yukon during the winter, just monitor temperatures and crack a window when it got too hot. Seems like a great solution except that they were in a different building so they had to trudge through the snow to close the window if it got too cold.

letsdothisagain commented on We might want to regularly keep track of how important each server is utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/pabs3

j33zusjuice · 2 years ago

That seems like a poorly run company. Idk. Maybe we’ve worked in very different environments, but devs have almost always been aware of the criticality of the app, so convincing people wasn’t hard. In most places, the answer hinges on “is it customer facing?” and/or “does it break a core part of our business?” If the answer is no to both, it’s not critical, and everyone understands that. There’s always some weird outlier, “well, this runs process B to report on process A, and sends a custom report to the CEO …”, but hopefully those exceptions are rare.

letsdothisagain · 2 years ago

Welcome to University IT, where organizational structures are basically feudal (by law!). Imagine an organization where your president can't order a VP to do something, and you have academia :)

letsdothisagain commented on Why do people still use VBA? sancarn.github.io/vba-art... · Posted by u/sancarn

liotier · 2 years ago

I suspect that dystopian environments of locked-down mandatory corporate Windows laptops with no software installation privileges, firewalled networking and even the USB ports disabled are also part of the reason for every function being crammed into the browser to the point that the browser has become an operating system host... Creativity (and catastrophes) happens where there is freedom: local scripting and browser scripting !

letsdothisagain · 2 years ago

Yeah in the early 2000s Java was supposed to be the universal platform of write once run everywhere. And then every IT department locked Java out, so we said fuck it and wrote everything in PHP.

letsdothisagain commented on Tell HN: Enterprises spend 10x more to build no-code solutions than coded ones · Posted by u/nancyp

threeseed · 2 years ago

This is the worst type of post.

No data. No facts. Clickbait topic that reinforces HN preconceived biases.

The fact that no-code tools are recommended so heavily should indicate that it is useful for at least some use cases.

letsdothisagain · 2 years ago

How dare you deny their lived experience? The OP clearly stated that it's BAD.

As someone who runs a low code dev shop (I have a low/high mix of frameworks), I've already started reflecting on my BAD behaviour. I will repent and jettison all of my cruds, and web forms, and other dumb little things that provide so much value to my clients.

letsdothisagain commented on Tell HN: Enterprises spend 10x more to build no-code solutions than coded ones · Posted by u/nancyp

granshaw · 2 years ago

I’ve long thought of starting an agency where “we’re developers for marketing depts”, ie, we’re seasoned devs, hire us and we’ll jump into the dev side of things and the company’s codebase, make the changes needed that you want, keep us on retainer if you want updates, and that’s that.

What do you think of that?

letsdothisagain · 2 years ago

Yes, it's called consulting and it's great work if you can get a consistent client base.

I genuinely wish you the absolute best of luck getting a consistent client base.