jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Claiming that "this is not a bug" sounds a lot like "you are holding it wrong".

Software that doesn't perform as the user expects is almost always a bug. Yes, these folder-packages have been a problem for years. No, that doesn't mean Apple can just leave the problem as is.

For example, try emailing an app. Doesn't work. You need to zip it first. But why doesn't Mail.app just zip the file when I select it?

Why doesn't Safari automatically zip any package that I select for uploading?

Apple came up with the idea of packages, so they better fix the issues around them. Saying that Google should fix Gmail helps no-one.
There's plenty of US companies operating in China.
I'm always happy when we prove that nations are still more powerful entities than global corporation. Gives me some hope we're not yet living in a cyberpunk dystopia.

But following this logic (which I don't disagree with), shouldn't amazon be fined too for copying sellers' products and reselling them under their brand?
There was the same debate over Whatsapp vs Telegram clash.

The fact here is that network effects play a big role in these kind of business models.

Moreover think about the fact that whatsapp was one of the first entrants, and was bought by Mark Zuckerberg. Brand is another big player when we consider and analyse that competitive landscape...

Security is one of the most important factors nowadays, especially if we consider the data breaches number, that is increasing dramatically (600% since covid-19 outbreak). But are like p2p models, if there aren't many people to create traffic, it isn't worth it (for the moment at least). And in case of messaging apps these people must be your friends! (Word-of-mouth)

Do not misunderstand me, I am 100% for security and privacy, but here users are driven by other factors unfortunately.
This is some really strange stuff. Since shareholders own the company, wouldn't this mean that the shareholders who didn't sue are effectively paying the shareholders who did?

That makes sense if the shareholders who sued were somehow specifically affected, but if the effect is a drop in stock price, all shareholders were affected equally, so it doesn't make sense for some shareholders to compensate others.
>>It's going back to a democracy that HAS to be violent.

Uhm, you might be unaware, but Poland has gotten rid of communism and replaced the ruling communist party through both peaceful protests and democratic elections. I see these comments all the time ("all uprisings have to be violent") but that's just provably not true.
In the UK I don't know a person without WhatsApp, pretty much everyone uses it. I don't know a single person who has signal.

If I say to a friend "I'll message you on WhatsApp" they will be like "ok great".

If I say to a friend "I'll message you on Signal" they will be like "What is that? Oh I have to download something? Don't you have WhatsApp? Screw it just send me a text."

So you can't really say "Apart from larger user base why do people use it?". It's like saying "Apart from an inability to breathe, why don't people live underwater?"
While I prefer declarative languages, it is also interesting to note very simple imperative languages are often the easiest to verify formally (as transition systems).
How is this a fair comparison:

Vanilla JS
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jQuery
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looks like Oneplus One is on the list, or do you mean official OTA version? I have a feeling that's still month away.
As this is targeted internationally, they needed to account for some readers being familiar with the US English "flashlight" and some being familiar with UK English "torch". The compromise is a little awkward, but it gets the point across. I imagine local ads and marketing will adopt one or the other.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8726328

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8728359
We are a no-debt, always-profitable iOS/Android game company with 6 employees that runs in a bit in constant fear. Our games are "free to play", ad-supported, and have IAP only to remove ads.

We have nearly 7000 daily downloads, something like a 15% 30-day retention rate that absolutely blows the doors off of our competition, and still make very little of our revenue off of that IAP. Even some of our longest players continue to look at ads, because $1.99 seems too steep to them. The best business advice (and scummiest feeling advice) we get is that we're not milking our "whales" properly.

We survive, basically, because of volume - to make it in our business you have to have at least 50,000 daily users. And that's a minimum.

We'll continue to make games as long as we're profitable and can pay employees, but the 30% to Apple/Google, the incredibly low "ARPU" (avg revenue per user) and high costs of doing business have us constantly looking to where we might be able to leverage some of the tech we've built in other markets.
This new MacBook I got last month didn't come with Flash and I decided to not install it. I also decided to switch to Safari from Chrome.

I was surprised how many sites and embedded video now offers HTML5, obviously Youtube and Vimeo have been working for years, but just video on news sites that use their own video solution work.

The biggest surprise was visiting twitch.tv and seeing the live video stream work in HTML5 (only in Safari, not Chrome).
Happy to continue to debate this point (possibly on another medium?) but no, a comment 437 days ago on HN saying "I once tried to edit but was reverted" is not evidence that too many rules have "murdered wikipedia", your original contention with which I took issue.
...I don't know anything about compression, but 'gipfeli' is Swiss German for 'croissant'.
I really don't get your point. If the TV media is biased (which it is), why would I watch that over someone like Hank Green who has so far given me no reason to distrust him?
Reference counting is a GC algorithm.

I wouldn't buy into much Apple marketing regarding its performance though,

https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages

It makes sense in the context of tracing GC having been a failure in Objective-C due to its C semantics, while automating Cocoa's retain/release calls was much safer approach. Swift naturally built on top of that due to interoperability with Objective-C frameworks.

Nim has taken other optimizations into consideration, however only in the new ORC implementation.

Still, all of them are much better than managing memory manually.
I bought it on a whim after somebody mentioned it and was very pleasantly surprised. Ahrens makes a convincing case for use of the zettlekasten, but the book is mostly about how to acquire understanding of something. You could read it without having any interest in making a zettlekasten and still get a lot out of it.

Having read about zettlekasten online I thought they were one thing, but after having read this I feel that I have a deeper understanding of them, and how to approach using them. The goal isn't necessarily to archive all your knowledge, it's to facilitate insights and new ideas. In a way, having your knowledge and ideas cross referenced is just a nice side effect. Prior to reading this, I would have taken an approach that would have just been a database of things I learned, which takes a lot of time to create and doesn't do much for you in the end.

It's a short, easy read at around 150 (small) pages and the author keeps it pretty interesting. I plan on rereading it pretty soon.

edit: I forgot to add that a lot of the book goes over study methodsmost people are taught growing up, and why they don't really work that well. I thought this was pretty interesting as well.
Kanye West 'patched' multiple songs on his album The Life of Pablo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_Pablo#Post-release...
What efficiencies? Those who demand energivore and polluting oil, gas, coal extraction and processing to a moderately near power plant + the energy you loose in transport + the energy you loose in battery and relevant inverter and intermediate transformers of the energy grid?

An electrical motor is very efficient, a battery system is moderately efficient and combined with all environmental costs to source needed materials, dispose of end-of-life batteries (witch means 5 to 8 years per battery in mean) are huge. Of course pushing refined oil around the world is not efficient either but such infra is already there, while no country in the world can recharge their potential EVs on scale nor we can produce them in sufficient numbers nor we know how to dispose of them.

Costs should be computed in total, not just in the running part. Like cost of trains must take into account the construction of the train network, it's entertainment etc NOT just the energy the train use.
K12 education used to be about teaching, but the No Child Left Behind policy changed goalposts. It’s now about maximizing the percentage of students that graduate. Since it’s unlikely students are getting smarter, the curriculum needs to be less intensive to lower the threshold for graduation. Net result is more students graduating per capita at the cost of a dumbed down curriculum.
From an April 17 Twitter thread from Gabriel Weinberg at DuckDuckGo:

> ... [W]e are not "purging" YouTube-dl or The Pirate Bay and they both have actually been continuously available in our results if you search for them by name (which most people do). Our site: operator (which hardly anyone uses) is having issues which we are looking into.

(Note that "site:" in his comment is how you restrict DDG searches to a specific domain e.g. "site:example.com")

https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1515636218691739653
I guess you're not going 270 north in the morning and south in the evening. I hear 40 and 70 coming out of and going into St. Charles is no picnic either. 44 always seems to flow though.
I think this[0] thread is a pretty good example of a hive mind in action. I disagree with a lot of those comments but I would have had to put a lot more effort to write a dissenting comment than most other commenters just to have a chance of not being downvoted into oblivion. But I can easily imagine lots of one sentence comments I could have made that would have been at worst ignored.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8838721
I have no idea what the OP was talking about in that respect. I was one of the many women at WWDC this year, and what? What interview?

A whole bunch of us ladies had lunch together one day, and an Apple photographer was very excited to take too many photos of us, but that was it.

edit: Oh, the original author wasn't specific about who was being interviewed, I presume he/she meant interviewing three specific women. And for what it was worth, the security/non-Apple engineer staff at Moscone West were sort of dismissive about trying to help us organize a lunch area and to let other women know about what we were planning for lunch. Only fellow attendees, engineers, and the photographers were excited to see so many women in the same place.
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that to get most of Nokia's smartphones, you have to pay full price? It seems like most people here in the US don't want to do that. They would rather get 60%-80% off at the beginning and stay with the seemingly standard 2-year contract.

That, and it seems like most of Nokia's smartphones only works on T-Mobile's network. While T-Mobile has nice customer service, it isn't the most reliable network in US.
There's a line to be drawn somewhere. At one extreme, the content is buried by the obscurity (but precision) of the language used. At the other, the content is lost to words that are too general, that have essentially no meaning. It's like trying to highlight a certain point using a laser so fine it can't be seen, or a lantern that illuminates the entire area. (Obviously they just need a flashlight.) To maintain a balance between educated and readable, they have a standards editor.
If you read the article, you would notice that it is reaction to changes in the app store terms, changes which entail "we can reject your app for any reason whatsoever".
If you want more than the 20, you just need to save a bigger stack.

In general, you just need to plug in your target income from your investment, and your expected long-term return in percent. That gives you the amount of money you need to save.

The more you save per year, and the lower your target income, the faster you get there.
The question reminded me of a workplace.stackexchange question I found years ago: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93696/is-it-un...

They arrived at your current goal through automation and were wondering if it was ethical to not reveal that to their employers. It also generated discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14656945
you've just shuttered my world cry
I think it really depends on your startup (SEO, advertising, bloggers, etc)

I saw this the other day:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2461271

Also here is another great resource!
http://blog.traindom.com/places-where-to-submit-your-startup...
While appealingly efficient, I don't think this is sound practice. "In the margin of error" does not mean that it's a 50/50 tossup. But you're usually pretty accurate, so what am I missing?
I found K&R a difficult slog. It could have had twice as much explanation text.
Yeah, it's probably more accurate to say that they're competitive while preserving their margins.

Apple will never sell a device for which they can't keep a healthy margin. They've optimized their supply chain and component procurement in such a way that they can make absurd margins on an iPad 2 and competitors still have a hard time beating them on price. They have to compromise with smaller screens and pretend that's part of the design strategy.
They have Andressa Vieira. That's beauty enough for any man.
It seems more likely to make English less dominant by (for example) letting people read all of Wikipedia in their native language. Same goes for countless other resources that are currently published only in English.

Either way, if someone cares enough about learning English to put in the huge amount of time required to do it, I would bet they have a pretty good reason already. Giving them a free tool that helps is a clear win for everyone.
Ignore the names "Photoshop" and "Illustrator"; they are historical artifacts. Illustrator is pretty much the last thing you want to use for doing painterly work. If you see digital paintings, there is a very high probability they're done with PS. Pretty much every piece of concept art you see for a video game was done in PS.

(That said, I'll be spending the next few years doing a painterly comic book in Illustrator, but that is honestly more a function of me having used it as my main medium for fourteen years than it is of it being the best tool for the job.)
I'm just going to say that you should research this a bit.

How much sunk cost do we have out there in fossil-fuel-based infrastructure and technology? How much would it cost in energy to replace all that sunk cost? Where's the investment capital going to come from for all that in a shrinking economy?

Many people thought we'd hit "peak oil" in the 2000s. They were wrong. That's the nature of bubbles -- they always go higher than anyone anticipates. The amount of oil we produce will continue to rise with demand on a kind of stair-step function until it doesn't. The people who predict the bubble popping always sound like fools until they don't. Then they sound like prophets, but then it's too late.

When will this point be? Next decade? Four decades from now? Nobody really knows. You're comfortable with that? Do you have kids?

Also keep in mind that we might be able to keep stretching it out very far if we adopt things like coal to liquids, gas to liquids, etc. But as we do that, the environmental damage will increase exponentially as will the CO2 emissions per unit energy generated. If you think we have a CO2 problem now...

I would think our recent experience with economic bubbles would provide some sense of how these things unfold. Bubbles make everyone look like a fool in turn. First they make the skeptics and "bears" look like fools, and then they pop and make the believers look like fools.

Fossil fuel extraction -- the self-catalyzed exponential utilization of a finite resource -- behaves quite a lot like an economic bubble and will ultimately end the same way because physics. The question is whether we will have moved on enough by then that the blow is cushioned. That's an existential question IMHO. If the answer is "no," there won't be much of a future.
The Room is not objectively bad.
It’s on GitHub[1] so I’m sure the author will welcome an issue or even better a PR.

[1] https://github.com/bpb27/tta-elastic
To be honest I really dislike this analogy.

Where I live there is indeed no importer of certain brands of products that I could easily get in the US. Not even an equivalent alternative.

But life goes on and aside from me complaining about it on the internet every now and then I don’t let it bother me.

Social media and communication are a different beast.
> There may be a fine line between a "film" and an "advertisement"

To me a manufacturer doing a video that focuses on their products for their youtube channel is definitely an "advertisement".

> this is surely not a SAG film

SAG states that "Choreographers and assistant choreographers are covered for purposes of health and retirement contributions only." [1].

[1]: https://www.sagaftra.org/who’s-covered
This comic is very relevant to your point:

http://stonetoss.com/comic/build-big/

Don't complain when it starts happening.
It wasn't exactly an attack; it was a bunch of protesters, trespassing into the building during a very important session. Illegal and wrong, mind you, but hardly a terrorist attack that it's being painted as. A group of kooks and extremists who should have, and could have, been kept out by proper policing. The Capitol police really screwed up.

Actually in a way it's good that it happened; exposed some major security holes. Not good that they shot an unarmed woman, though.
> If he's impeached and convicted he's prohibited from holding office again.

Technically, that's not necessarily true: if he is convicted the punishment can consist of any combination of removal and bar from holding future office. In theory, he could be removed but not barred on conviction, though that seems improbable and, AFAIK, every actual conviction in an impeachment trial (most such trials have been of federal judges) has resulted in both removal and bar.
Nobody is going to call you a racist because you claim that 1=2.

If you want to debate in good faith whether people are too quick to call others racist, maybe you should start the debate by enumerating what kind of speech have sparked those claims? Otherwise you're just being hyperbolic and increasing the political divide.

I get that people are pissed for being called racist, but if they REALLY wanna fix that, the first step is admitting that the other side might be pissed about something too.
> I find it somewhat implausible that half the population is dumb, racist and all those other labels

Why do you think this?

Racism was the absolute norm in the US until ~not that long ago. It’s literally written into the constitution and it took literal bloodshed to change that. And then when we did, there was massive pushback in the form of Jim Crow laws.

Statistically you’d expect half of people to be dumber than average. Our (non-higher) education system in the US is nothing to be proud of and wildly inconsistent at best.

Add in politician deliberately lying (e.g. republicans ignoring climate change, republicans denying covid while adjusting their portfolios to take advantage) and stupidity is clearly the norm.
Yes, context is important. The building is The Capital of a government and their aim was overthrowing that government by disrupting the democratic transfer of power. You can pretend that computers weren't stolen from congressional offices and that bombs weren't planted in the building, but playing dumb is a weak defense.
How do you know that IT pros are less likely to implement a workaround than hackers are to exploit it?

How prevalent is deploying workarounds and mitigations versus deploying patches? I don't know of any research in this area; it would be very interesting to know.
I wonder if it is possible to implement blacklists so that each relay operator may exclude their node from serving requests for hidden services they don't approve of.

E.g. a law abiding tor relay operator in Mauritania may decide to block the infamous underground apostasy discussion forum. It still remains accessible via other routes but the Mauritanian relay is now not involved with serving the site in any way.
If they do, they're not very good at exercising that control. There is plenty of heavy (and heavily upvoted) criticism of the CCP all over Reddit.
The two major SQL libraries in the Scala ecosystem these days are Doobie (https://tpolecat.github.io/doobie/) and Slick (https://scala-slick.org/).

With Doobie you manually write your queries, and then map the results into the objects in your domain model. Nothing is generated for you. OTOH, nothing is hidden and you are free to write queries as optimized and specialized as you need. The real selling point of Doobie is a typesafe API for manipulating and combining queries, and fragments of queries, into larger wholes. This works very well when your application interfaces with a database it doesn't own.

With Slick you get access to a DSL that lets you layout how your tables look. From there Slick offers an api that let's you treat SQL tables as-if they are basically mutable collections, with Slick handling all the SQL generation itself. You also get DDL, so that you can automate db creation and upgrades. This work very well when your application owns and controls the database it is connecting to.

Both of these have diverged from that traditional ORM model. Slick bills itself as FRM, or Functional Relational Mapping. And Doobie is embedded queries on steroids.
This company is dedicated to vertical ergo mouses, they offer some pretty neat features: https://evoluent.com/
Dyson proves we care about beautiful things. Aesthetics matter.
I'm always astonished by how it's 2021 and Amazon doesn't know my shoe size. Rather, they must know it, they just refuse to use it to help me find shoes.
You guys are so good at sales, your N95's are sold out :(
https://www.armbrustusa.com/products/pre-order-n95-mask-10-p...

"If we do not get approval, you will get your money back. You can also cancel at any time."

What does this mean? Are they sold out or are they waiting on government approval? Not very confidence inspiring.
> My credit card pays me 2% to use it.

That's not how it really works, but you're right that $8 is a pretty insane transaction fee.
Rootless docker only left experimental status with 20.10 which came out in December 2020, so maybe they would have addressed some of those issues...

As to swarm, I was comparing Docker rootless to podman, which is more a developer use case than prod. container clusters.