skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going off my now shown to be incorrect memory. It appears to be too late to edit the comment. Apologies for spreading any incorrect information.
The growth of hypercasual games
Why is the per-transaction fee the rent-seeking part?

I get why MC/Visa have a per-transaction fee. I don't understand why there's a percentage of the transaction on top of that. It's not any more work for a $1 transaction versus a $1,000,000 one on their end.
Depends on the organic produce.
Point to point you would have to get into HF or lower frequencies and use the ionosphere. For the hobby of talking long distance as a competition, check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXing.
Go isn't as portable as it should be.
This should be interesting to watch. Most of the big issues are moving online payments over to a 3d secure spec. 3DS is analogous to what the chip and pin did for physical credit cards when upgrading from magnetic strips.

The thing is, it requires the capturing of all of the information Apple claims to not be gathering and then some....in fact, depending on the device you are using it on some of the data capture for 3DS can be downright creepy.
Create hand-drawn, sketchy, comic shape in Swift
ADHD is a diagnosis based on a group of issues primarily owing to dopamine management. ADHD at the end of the day, is just a word.

The way I see it, there's a spectrum of procrastination issues and those that are explosive enough to be diagnosable get the ADHD label and medication. If you have ADHD symptoms but they're not bad enough to warrant a diagnosis you get nothing.

It's well known that ADHD medication is incredible for procrastination -- statistically speaking any student should be able to tell you that.
Yeah, everything is perfect in modern food industry nutrients and dangerous non-food crap substances-wise...
What are the biggest reasons companies send jobs overseas? It has always been my impression that companies do this because regulations in the US are too strict, and minimum wage is too high to support certain work.
Official announcement https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/introducing-apple-car...

"Apple Card will be available to qualified customers in the US this summer." so US only
Have you tried it ?

One neat feature is the ability to select a DOM element of the page, like with the inspect tool, and take a clear picture of it.

You can also screenshot the whole page, including what's below the float line.
Well if you want to maximize rewards you could use:

- Chase Freedom / Discover It (Quarterly 5% categories (examples: Wholesale, Gas, Grocery, Department Stores, Mobile Pay, Home Improvement, etc.))

- Uber Visa (4% Dining, 3% Travel, 2% Online Purchases, 1% everything else)

- American Express Blue Cash Everyday (3% Grocery, 2% Gas/Department Stores, 1% everything else)

- Citi Doublecash (2% everything)

- Costco Visa (4% Gas, 3% Travel/Dining, 2% Costco, 1% everything else)

- Amazon Prime Visa (5% Amazon, 2% Dining, Grocery, Pharmacy, 1% everything else)

These are just the cards I use right now. There are no annual fees, although some require membership like Costco and Amazon. Pay your balance in full every month and it's a much better option than debit. There's a bunch of different ways to maximize rewards. See /r/churning [1] for more info.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/churning
Apple unveils Apple TV+, the new home for the world’s most creative storytellers
2% if you use Apple Pay, and 1% if you use the physical card. That's not a very competitive offering.
Most recently, I've done this with postfix, dovecot, and rspamd. In previous lives, I've used sendmail and qmail...
"Lol, you just yelled strawmen over and over and called my comment propaganda without furthering your point at all." is also unneeded.
So, by them "never mentioning the numbers" you derived that the parent "guessed correctly"?
Press Release:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/apple-unveils-apple-t...
The HF bands (below 3 and 30 Mhz, also called shortwave) propagate by bouncing of the ionosphere. A major part of amateur radio is using them for intercontinental communication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_frequency
Offical press release: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/apple-unveils-apple-t...
Reminds me of Raymond Chandler's technique:

"Raymond Chandler and I discussed this once, and he admitted to the most bitter reluctance to commit anything to paper. He evolved the following scheme: he had a tape recorder into which he spoke the utmost nonsense – a stream of consciousness which was then transcribed by a secretary and which he then used as a basis for his first rough draft. Very laborious. He strongly advised me to do the same … in fact became so excited that he kept plying me with information for months about the machine that helped him."

(from an interview with S. J. Perelman)
TLS with a NULL cipher does, in fact, sign every message. (effectively)
Ummm... Could you pick a name that isn't already taken by something we all already know?
Indeed, but it matters how much of the data you want to recover and how fast you want to recover it. Getting 100gb from glacier is not expensive at all if you can wait a couple of days.
One Nation Under Stress: The Documentary Lifting the Lid on American Anxiety
Your two points only matter if game makers want to roll their own rendering engines. If you use Unreal or Unity, you’ve got first class Metal support out of the box.
I love this description! Your father in law sounds like a character from a Steinbeck novel.
I think a lot of people underappreciate that they are a chemical computer and that therefore their feelings and decisions are chemical reactions.

So if a behavior changes the chemicals, it can change what you want, and now both these statements become equivalent: "I could quit if I wanted to, but I don't want to" = "I can't quit smoking."

A more accurate description of addiction is probably something like "I can't want to quit smoking."
Disable automatic update installs, and check if updates being suggested make sense.

It is even more easier for Windows users, as updates for you come in big clumps, and truly emergency level security updates do get into mainstream news.
Isn’t the natural extension of things being “closer together” that they were at a singularity at some point (the Big Bang)?
I find this comment kind of funny because the incredible byproduct of modern agriculture (including pesticides) is that the vast majority of the human race can now do something besides toiling away at food production.
5-HTP is created by your body, from L-Tryptophan, which is an amino acid. Your body converts many micro-nutrients into various amino acids and hormones. Some vendors pre-convert these things so they are in a safer form to use. 5-HTP is much safer to consume than L-Tryptophan.
Speeding Up IPFS Through Swarm Connections
> I’m not into the kink which caused it (and I won’t repeat it here) but that left a bad taste in my mouth

The kink, or the policy change?
"I would be concerned about unintentionally running afoul of FCC regulations since encryption is not allowed on US amateur frequencies, that means using something like SSH or loading an SSL webpage with this modem would be a violation. I would also be very concerned with the OS background processes that may use encryption by default."

And I wouldn't. Not trying to be an arse here... but more importantly, who cares? Someone has to discover whats happening and actually care that a rule is being violated. There really are not many hams that have the skill to figure out what is happening when they hear this on their precious 70cm band and THEN realize encryption is happening on top of the network layer. Sure, they exist, but they are also generally busy doing real things that matter rather than volunteering for the Amateur Auxiliary.

Queue: the relentless flood of pitch forks that "CRYPTION IS AGAINST THE RULE OF LAW ON MY HAM BANDS".
Yes, unless it's broken or the cashier doesn't know how it works. Happens a lot.
God these apple events always tend to get massively cringey. Was it the Goldman Sacks partnership? Perhaps it was the titanium credit card I didn't know I needed... Maybe it was the 30+ minutes devoted to a Netflix clone. Or, maybe it was Oprah... "All connected throoough APPLE!!!!!!!!!!"

I'm not sure. But somewhere along the way, I lost my lunch.
Actually you can remove Apple Music from the music UI. I did this a year or two ago and it has persisted between phone upgrades and restores.

https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/turn-off-apple-music-ios/
good point, I added 'make a mailing list' to the todo
Few interesting bits that are buried at the very end of the article and many might have missed it:

>They said they found similarities between the ASUS attack and ones previously conducted by a group dubbed ShadowPad by Kaspersky. ShadowPad targeted a Korean company that makes enterprise software for administering servers; the same group was also linked to the CCleaner attack. Although millions of machines were infected with the malicious CCleaner software update, only a subset of these got targeted with a second stage backdoor, similar to the ASUS victims. Notably, ASUS systems themselves were on the targeted CCleaner list.

>The Kaspersky researchers believe the ShadowHammer attackers were behind the ShadowPad and CCleaner attacks and obtained access to the ASUS servers through the latter attack.

>“ASUS was one of the primary targets of the CCleaner attack,” Raiu said. “One of the possibilities we are taking into account is that’s how they intially got into the ASUS network and then later through persistence they managed to leverage the access … to launch the ASUS attack.”

These attackers have planned this for a very long time. CCleaner was just collateral damage in NSA's quest to infiltrate high-value OEM targets. The NSA probably also got HDD firmware source code and certificates through a similar "shotgun" approach.

I also found this part interesting (from [0]):

>Although precise attribution is not available at the moment, certain evidence we have collected allows us to link this attack to the ShadowPad incident from 2017. The actor behind the ShadowPad incident has been publicly identified by Microsoft in court documents as BARIUM. BARIUM is an APT actor known to be using the Winnti backdoor. Recently, our colleagues from ESET wrote about another supply chain attack in which BARIUM was also involved, that we believe is connected to this case as well.

Which leads to a copy of the lawsuit filed by Microsoft against BARIUM actors [1].

I wonder what the status of this lawsuit is when the defendants are probably the NSA employees. Even Microsoft gives lots of hints about BARIUM being the NSA. They even filed it in Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, Federal Court... which is one of the favorite places where intelligence agencies file criminal complaints. I bet the US Gov will stonewall and ask the MS to drop it.

[0] https://securelist.com/operation-shadowhammer/89992/

[1] https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ba...
> Why would they intentionally go out of their way to disable that?

I hope that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486SX is a not-excessively-snarky reply by appeal to history.
High Technology Brings Small Bank into German Homes (1981)
You can turn off the Apple Music tab in Music. Go to Settings > Music > Show Apple Music and turn it off :-)
Nintendo Is Releasing Two New Switch Models
> As they said, it only works where Apple Pay works already.

No, they showed a physical card as well.
One modern trick to earn a tiny bit of extra money: Use credit cards for buying/paying anything at all, never use debit cards or cash: Credit cards usually pay a small reward point for spends which can often be redeemed as a cash discount later, and also since the expenses go to the credit card, the cash in the savings account stay untouched till the day you make the credit card bill payment, which will keep earning interest for the additional days it remains in your account(Which may be a significant amount over long term, in a high interest rate country).

In some countries you can route large payments like insurance premium payments through the credit card. Sometimes insurance companies even have investment products which they claim are "insurance policies", that can be bought with credit cards too.
Wasn't expecting a vanity number but creating a different number for each service. Something like what capital one has [1]. There would be a number for Netflix and a different number for fios.

[1]https://www.capitalone.com/applications/eno/virtualnumbers/
That's what happens when you're effectively an apex predator - you eat the things that eat the things with contamination and much of it gets concentrated into you, particularly the things that bioaccumulate over time.

Outside of pesticides but similar, that's why it's important to limit things like tuna consumption particularly from larger species that can build to high mercury levels.
Just message the mods for approval first.
I want to know how to do it
> When you understand that nobody wants to read your shit, your mind becomes powerfully concentrated.

This reminds me of a scene from The Inner Circle [1] where Tom Hulce's character has just told Stalin that the Russian projectors were just cheap copies of the Germans'. The bureaucrat who is responsible is standing right there and realizes that he is now literally begging for his life.

If beforehand he would have been officiously polite to this mere underling he now becomes powerfully concentrated. His every word is chiseled with a singular intent, to convince the projectionist to moderate his view ever so slightly, just enough to spare him his life if not his dignity.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103838/

More to the point, I think this writing advice is appropriate (very appropriate) for proposals and cold calls, where you do not have an ongoing relationship with your reader. In that case you are literally begging for your relevance. But in normal communications, clarity and simplicity is the rule. Orwell's advice comes to mind: insincerity is the enemy of clear language.
Likely impossible to be fully self-sufficient while also working full time, but you can be strategic and pick fruits & vegetables that get you the most bang for your buck- e.g. how much it lowers your exposure vs gardening effort per kilo or calorie.

Setting aside labor, it's generally considered that self-sufficient gardening requires anywhere between 0.5-2 acres of land, which is far bigger than your typical backyard.
Chase Freedom gives you 5% on rotating categories. That combined with the Uber or Amazon card, you're getting pretty high percentages. Apple's 2% is just not competitive, and they don't even give you a signup bonus. It's basically a privacy card.
This talk is all well and good between us here on Hackernews but I don't think your Joe Plumber really cares that these things are going on behind the curtains enough to vote about them, protest, or write his congressman. Look at the "uproar" Snowden caused - it just pushed these activities further under ground within US cyber intelligence.
This is a writer's blog, not a professional developer. Heck, I'm a professional developer and if someone asked me how they should create their blog, I'd suggest going to Wordpress too.

I know a little about CDNs and statically generated sites, but only through skimming a few articles and reading online comments.

How is a writer supposed to know about the latest trends for serving content to a high number of users -- just to handle rare one-off cases when your blog gets hammered?
Those darn flatspacers
I'm not one to cry foul every time a company turns a profit, but this industry seems pretty anticompetitive if it's not outright rent seeking.
The Rust team adopted a rule in December 2016 saying that all new language features must be documented in the language reference before landing on the stable release branch:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1636-docu...

As far as I can tell after adopting the rule they didn't proceed to enforce it.
I don't think it's fair say that.

Jobs had an unparalleled way of steering that innovation into productive avenues. He always had his Wozzes, though.
What's your point with this outdated article? Tons of companies have branded credit cards, it does not mean they have the credit risk. That's what Goldman is for in this situation.
The Firefox tool is simpler in a couple of ways:

1. It's aware of the DOM, and allows you to select an element easily. If you're making a series of screenshots (say, for a QA report or something), all the images will be exactly the same size. No having to be fussy with your mouse selections.

2. You don't have to take your clipboard contents and go visit another image sharing site. You can just click the little cloud button and that's it. A new tab opens with your clip and all your editing/markup options.
Well, given the recent spat with Spotify I'm under the impression that they have more than enough curators to clean up the app store from scammy apps. I just think they make enough money from microtransaction "whales" not to care
I don’t get it. China Israel n Korea Iran Russia uk France are not shy violets in aggressive hacking. There is also a bunch of up and comers in India and Saudi that are flexing
Haha, that's funny.
Ask HN: Will Disney's CEO Bob Iger Leave from Apple Board of Directors?
The great Drayton Bird would broadly disagree. People who care about your shit do want to read your shit; as a rule, they matter much more than people who don't care about your shit.

As I'm typing this, Apple are an hour and forty minutes into their "special event". Thousands of viewers from around the world are watching a movie-length sales presentation. Apple will at some point promote the same products through 30-second commercials, but those long presentations play a vital role in building the culture that surrounds Apple.

If you're selling dish soap, then sure, nobody really cares and nobody is going to read your shit. If you're selling a video game or an industrial machine or a piece of fine furniture, a substantial proportion of the people who might actually buy your shit will enthusiastically read your shit.

That doesn't give you license to be sloppy or lazy or needlessly verbose, but it does give you the freedom to use as many words as you need to communicate the merits of your product.
Yeah, I know the usual terminology is for a PET "scan", which sounds passive, so I'm not sure if they're doign something different here.
Apple Card
On the "My Time" graph:

25% of time spent 'Battling Cancer'
Correlating British and German Cities – Where the Bloody Hell Is Bielefeld?
Bob Iger is currently on the board of Apple

https://www.apple.com/leadership/
That's the first thing I was thinking reading that comment.

Why, on earth, would I want to write a game in Direct X? Is there really a compelling reason not to use Unity or Unreal?
> I don't thing it is healthy to have big entities like this control fundamental services like payment processing.

You mean big entities like transnational banks and payment networks?
This is an interesting point you may have raised regarding re-post. At one end, repeated information will lead some to think it is counter-productive, think it is a karma-hungry person or lead to backlash. On the other end, there are many individuals that can benefit from older articles that they have yet to see.

Where to find the balance? We have yet to see.
Is this supposed to be novel in some way that I'm missing? Of course you have chemicals in your body which are heavily sprayed on your food.
Maybe 1/10 Americans only eat meat and over processed grains. They have different problems.
What do they gain from offering the card if they are not harvesting transaction data? Is it possible that this is some legal gymnastics (i.e. Goldman-Sachs receives the 'Apple doesn't know' data and promptly send it over to them under an opaque 'we share information with our affiliates' clause)?

It does seem like a lot of work and potential risk if the sole purpose is to increase user dependency on the Apple ecosystem.
Not deleting OpenGL support would be nice, too.
Apple TV+
Apparently this phenomenon predates video games...

I think Ovid would agree:

Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor.
Why can't they be judgemental ? I mean, it's not clear how much control they have over being judgmental.
The new Apple Inc. | Hardware, Software and Services
I understand the gist of this rule. But it seems confusing, at least on a technicality. What is encryption?

Can I speak a language only known by me and one other person over HAM radio?
> The first company to figure out how to leverage the massive unlabeled data that is available will win the AI arms race.

Well, in many tasks, this is already solved. E.g. speech recognition or translation. Or just think about language modeling.

The main problem is mostly just computing time and/or computing resources. We have enough supervised training data to train our model for weeks. We basically have an almost infinite amount of unsupervised data. So yes, we could in theory make the model bigger and then train it for months or years. But that's not really practical currently.
> democratically accountable regulators

do you write for the onion?
To never start smoking during my teens ive convinced myself that im allergic to tabaco smoke.

Anytime i "tried" to smoke i would choke myself to near blackout.

After 20 years im happy i did that. I was not the "cool smoking kid" but at least im addiction free now.
The book doesn't say to defy deadlines... it just states that almost every negotiation has the deadline being an arbitrary thing being chosen at random.
And people still wonder what problem cryptocurrencies tries to solve.
I would say contactless card payments in general are very popular in the UK, but seeing people use Apple Pay (much less Android Pay) is something of a novelty.
Let's put it this way:

(1) if someone says "I want to do X" we can take them at face value. We don't have to argue that "they secretly don't and only say it because they can't quit". That's BS.

(2) if someone says "I want to quit X, but can't", we also take them at face value. Sure, they might enjoy X, but there's nothing to make us believe they are lying when they say they want to quit X or only say it because they feel ashamed.

Now, what we want to do as a rational plan (e.g. quit smoking) and what we want to do as an impulse (e.g. smoke another cigarette now) is not the same thing.

And the impulse can be far more powerful than the rational plan.

So, no need to second guess anyone. We can both taking them at face value (when they say they want to quit for example) AND understand that there might be impulses in them beyond what they rationally want.
Skepticism is a rather paradoxical word/concept to imply trust-by-default.
How much of PC laptops' touchpad quality is due to hardware limitations? I seem to recall back when I owned an Apple laptop (circa 2010) that its trackpad was connected internally via USB. Meanwhile, PC touchpads almost universally used PS/2 which provided far lower bandwidth. Is this still the case?
I'll believe it when I see it. Their gaming experience to date has been pretty poor, which they openly admitted in their presentation. Their offerings have been swamped surface-level, micro-transaction driven games. And despite the gaming-friendly Apple TV that dropped a few years ago, they still weren't able to get serious contention.

And still, gamers looking for high-quality AAA titles like Breath of the Wild probably aren't ever going to be satisfied with this more casual type of gaming.
T. rex fossil suggests many dinosaurs were bigger than we thought