skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple has tons of goodwill with their users, and that's what matters. That's who pays the bills, and that's who funds the App Store. From the beginning Apple has had a very standoff-ish relationship with their developers. Their rules are clear from the outset: Play by them, or don't publish on our platform. To be honest I think developers occasionally still got entirely too much leeway to break their guidelines and get chances to fix it.

Their relationship to us has always been in very simple terms: These are the ways you're allowed to behave while doing business on our platform. Accept that, or do not publish here. If you publish here and break these rules, you will be removed without second chance.

Yet again, and again, and again, we get pleas from fellow developers who broke those rules but think Apple's just being mean. No, they're not. They outlined exactly how you should not Do the Thing, and you Did the Thing, and now you're off. This situation is fixed, and you knew the outcomes. You made your bed, sleep in it.
I wonder how long Rambo will have to wait for his account to get unlocked, relative to when this story hits the front page.

When it happens, everyone should act like it didn't, because any corporation that fixes issues only after they become known at a large scale isn't operating in the best interests of the user anyway.
That does not seem to show that this is not happening but rather explains how it happens.

They can punish him for unfavorable coverage by pointing at the Apple Developer Agreement.
Because it is in their long term interest - seeing the way Apple and Google treat developers has stopped me, at the very least, from putting time into learning their ecosystems and choosing it for a side project. It may be true that there are plenty of people who will replace me, but the aggregate effect can eventually hurt their marketplaces.
By default, cookies are limited to [subdomain.]example.com not *.example.com.
Howdy! It's actually $0.005. Agree that a nickel would be expensive ;)
I've been using a Vagrant VM and VSC remote via SSH for the last two months, and it works really, really well.
> The data relationship changes with first-party serving because it's now isolated to that site.

Except that when you decide to point to someone else's domain via a DNS CNAME on your own domain, you open the door to cookies, referrer information, and more being leaked to the third party.

Whether it's intentional or not, I think it's a bad thing to do.

Oh, and opens the door for malicious cross-domain scripting if the CDN you're CNAME'ing gets compromised.
Time and time we are proven again and again that Facebook has become the emblem of how far technology can go to support pure malicious intention with widespread support.
I plan to use this with my son because I think he's going to struggle socially as I did when I was a kid.

One thing about body language though - I think it's one thing to read about body language but a very different thing to visually train your brain to recognize it quickly.

I hope to one day make YouTube videos with lots of examples for this purpose. In the meantime, the best book resource I've found for that is the book "What Every Body is Saying", because it contains lots of example pictures.
This is actually really good and tangible advice - will defo support that project.

"Support Your Friends" chapter is really good! I've making mistakes mentioned there all the time.
> Or what's the "alternate" part of this history?

I'm not sure what you are asking. The alternate part is the part where the Soviet Union doesn't collapse a half decade before the handover of HK back to China.

Would a Cold War Britain have really handed over HK? What does China look like without the West's influx of money for manufacturing? (Maybe that still happens.) If it leads to war, how does that play out? Is it another Korea/Vietnam or does it blossom into WW III? Does it end with a new lease or an armistice? If 9/11 still happens during this crisis, how does a Cold War world respond to it?

A major part of such works is that they allow us to look at ourselves and our real history through a different light.
My version.
1. Be polite
2. Ask questions. (Interesting people like to talk about themselves) Elicit more than Yes/No answers.
3. Answer questions put to you with more than Yes/No answers. (Interesting people like to learn more about interesting people)
Automation that is in China, you mean? Because most of it isn't in the US.
i've always felt the closer you are to revenue the more money you can make. That's why good sales guys can make >$1M/year
>> Nothing stopping you from making your own brickish phone thingy that connects to lte, runs a powerful processor and has a huge battery

But the real issue is what does it run? Android? Seems contrary to the point of building your own device.

There has yet to be a serious Mobile OS in the FOSS world that’s not tied in to the evils of Google, and still has e.g. baseband or phone call support.
> There isn't that many of them displayed for me (maybe one ad per 3-4 10-15min videos). One can skip it after 5s and around half the time those ads are fairly well matched.

How many ads you see highly varies by person. Recalling Tom Scot's explanation that I fail to find, imagine when you play a video an auction is going where advertisers bid to buy your time from Google and winner shows you an ad, but Google also sets a minimum bid, so you don't see ads if nobody bids that minimum.
You're right, but this is not always true. I saw magazines where the actual content was 1/8 of it or even less (this is usually common with magazines that you see in waiting rooms, I guess it kind of makes sense :). At that point the experience is not great, or at least I hated it.
Right, third party app stores are not officially supported and for good reason. I am not sure what the alternative is, create a unmoderated free for all app store? That goes pretty heavily against the Apple ecosystem's philosophy and would make it easy for people to download damaging apps which Apple would then get blamed for because they added an official channel for installing them.
> If the publisher develops an analytics, user profile or whatever solution themselves, then it's 1st party - OK.

How have you reached the conclusion that this is okay?
I think it's actually $0.005 which is 1/2 a cent. I hope so, at least!
This line of thinking just makes people sit on their hands. Individual citizens can always urge their Government to take actions against atrocities such as being committed by China.

The fact that I, a non-citizen can live in US and call out its mass killing of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan denotes the difference between US and China.
This is how google manages these changes:

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...

this was written 3 years ago and scale has only grown. But at the time the numbers quoted in the article are 25,000 authors / day w/ 16,000 commits and another 24,000 commits / day from automated sources
but they don't even have BAs and PMs...
Pretty disingenuous don't you think? We all know trump says a lot of bullshit and contradictory things. He isn't Obama who was really good with his words.

But if all you have is trump saying "good strong leader", then you don't have much. Show actions not words.
I'm pretty sure that twitter also tracks what you read even if you don't publish anything. I also remember there was no way to hide the list of people you follow?

> your statement is objectively wrong.

this wording may be excessively strong.
There's also Quizlet which is similar but I find it better because you can preview entire pre-built card decks on it which makes it searchable on google

https://quizlet.com
Your hypothesis comes up against the App Store breaking records each year and making tons of money for those who participate. It's the most profitable mobile store by a huge margin, and it's not as if these policies are new, this has been more or less the environment it's operated in since it opened.
I'd love to run this in Docker without manually setting the dependencies up
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I would be surprised if uBlock Origin continues to be published/available for Chrome at all in its current form. In order to comply with the new restrictions Google are placing on it, it would have to be severely neutered. They are not giving uBO an option to continue support. Any post-Manifest V3 ad blocker would essentially be a different product.
One word instead of four is quite expressive, I'd say.
Question : is racket still useful if you plan on building a DSL not based on lisp syntax ?
They have even more. They have effectively access to the largest behavioural database known to know man. You can query that for zero day exploits in behaviours. You can use that, to distract the public, manipulate the public, keep people in constant emotional turmoil instead of slow, but productive conversation and discussion. The big three have privatized psychology as a science.

In short, would we even know, if we as a people, as a society, have been pwned? Maybe should ask my always listening assistant. Ok, Google, who owns me?
I know at least 5 actual twitter users in my close social circle/family. Some users don't want people to know about their twitter life and use @handles that don't match their name. Maybe there are more people using twitter around you than you think.
Would it possible to somehow run a local proxy or tor-like program that hides your IP address from internal programs and only provides localhost or some such. And then on the other end I suppose you'd have to connect through some sort of tor node to connect to their actual servers too. Poorly thought out question, but I've never really thought of something like a reverse tor that hides things from your own personal applications.
These are all things I wish I felt more comfortable doing. When I buy a home, I plan on getting better at all of these, and investing in doing them with my kids while they're young. I'll always remember how much money my most handy friends saved in college while always having the nicest apartments.
Especially since most people really can't read or write code for more than 4-6 hours a day. If you're working more than eight hours, you're either in crunch (and consider leaving for a new job), or your day is being filled with useless meetings and other non-work.
yes, lots of good things happening on top of IPFS already. Also check out Textile & 3Box.
Off the top of my head: Things I was told as a kid that turned out not to be true:

- By 2000 we'd have flying cars

- By 2000 we'd have entire meals in pills

- By 2000 there would be no cars, we'd travel in pods in tubes

- By 2000 there would be mass starvation because the world can only support 5 billion people

- By 2000 the northern and southern third of the planet would be covered in sheets of ice because of the coming new ice age.

- By 2000 we'd live underground because the mean surface temperature would be 135°F.

- By 2000 we'd be able to take vacations on a space station, the moon, and Mars.

- By 2000 it would be possible to fly to the other side of the world in just a couple of hours.

- By 2000 there would be an undersea transport tunnel between New York and Europe.
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> z and s, or ce and se, are pronounced the same everywhere except some parts of Spain.

I didn't cite that because I'm already blabbing too much about this topic, and I didn't want to overwhelm people, but yes. Also, as cited by the sibling comment, the merger of /b/ and /v/. Also, in many accents, but not all, Y and LL are the same. Also, consonants like /b/ or /g/ are sometimes swallowed when followed by /w/.
Because the vast majority don't adblock and someone there has decided it's better to respect the wishes of the adblocking user than alienate them from their service and also they likely have other ways[0,1,2] of harvesting value from users than just showing them ads.

0: knowing what kind of users block ads, and what adblockers they are using

1: knowing how sophisticated users use the internet

2: I could go on

edit: formatting
| Interesting people like to talk about themselves

That, or they love hearing themselves talk.
> The financial incentives don’t help any Americans, and in fact, most of us are hurt by this relationship.

What a weird statement. We buy Chinese goods because it makes us better off. "The US is full of idiots that engage in voluntary transactions that make them worse off" is a hard claim to accept.

Obviously some people are worse off because of trade with China. And some are worse off because of technology. And a much larger number are worse off because of domestic competition. Open source software has killed lots of commercial software jobs. That's a good thing for most of us.
I don’t understand what’s so hard to understand about the fact that ads is what pays for Facebook to exist?

It’s a key part of the offering! You get free access and get to see ads in exchange. Others have tried other business models and failed...that’s how the world works, the better offering wins!

If the problem people have is ads then just make all ads illegal and we can move on. But trying to use GDPR as a lever is silly...it’s not what its intended to do, as much as some people would like it to
>Personally I hate this new move towards Apple/Microsoft/Google being gatekeepers for everything that can run on a machine. It's fucking bullshit.

It's what people want. The population is happily giving these companies all this power, and refuses to abandon them or pressure them in any way when they do this stuff.

And to be fair, I don't see Google acting nearly this badly. If anything, they're the opposite: they don't exercise enough control over their app store, so it has a lot of spyware and malware. As for MS, they seem to be incompetent and powerless: they tried to make an app store for Windows 10 and that was a big flop, and of course they tried to ape Apple/Google with Windows Phone, and that was a big flop too.
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Well, we do have it. Of course, it is Latin based, but still.
Most adblockers blockers doesn't just block ads from rendering, they block the entire call to the ad-server so it isn't counted as a view.
Yes and I felt betrayed by Obama when he did those things. I criticize them both.
Ayn Rand wrote about this in one of her books.
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Ad blocking is significantly more difficult on mobile.
To be fair, $7000 in 15 years probably won't get you the house downpayment but... you're right on the privileged part.

I imagine that people actually seeing some progress over time may encourage them to save/contribute a bit more, or to put some money in to somewhat larger CDs or whatnot (even excluding stock stuff). Or... they may be encouraged to contribute a small bit to a 401k if they end up at a job that offers it.

You may $40k/year - having, say, $3k in savings can really change your outlook and susceptibility to otherwise crippling 'emergencies'.
https://www.americanprairie.org/

Worth going check out what they are doing at trying to reset how the prairie was. We lost such a treasured natural wonder when we destroyed the flora and killed the fauna when we "won" the west.

Dan Flores has a great book called the American Serengeti that dives into how diverse it was. We literally had something on the level of the African Veldt and all the ecological riches that we've turned into a series of unsusaintable agricultural deserts punctuated with cities and suburbs. Here is a Joe Rogan interview with Dan that is worth the listen on this and coyotes in America. Conversation meanders a bit but really is a great episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH1RUk1w_xk
Honestly, if this "loophole" is allowed to exist then the GDPR is not worth the paper it is written on.

The idea that consent should be freely given is ludicrous if it can be overridden by simply including it in a term in the terms and conditions. Facebook could probably write that they can kill or castrate the user at any time and most of their users wouldn't notice it (until the media picked it up).
Exactly. That's what happened in the WWII. This nice tesla factory? Well, we need some nice silent patrol vehicles mr Musk, but we need you to come out with some kind of composite armor for it in 60 days. If you can't do it, don't worry, we will take care of your factory for the duration, and when this is over you can have it again.
Elsewhere in the thread somebody linked to the court order (http://s1.q4cdn.com/880135780/files/doc_downloads/2019/Alsup...), and I don't see how this explanation can possibly be correct.

In particular, (a) PG&E has a history of falsifying inspection reports, (b) PG&E must keep power lines clear of trees, (c) the power lines can't arc during high winds, (d) because of the history of falsified inspections PG&E must re-inspect things. These terms don't seem particularly onerous, especially with respect to making power lines safe during high winds---I assume that's the sort of thing every energy company does already anyway. In particular, what do you mean, in this context, when you say "best-in-class industry practises"?
I need that for my car.
Hasn’t there already been rulings against those kind of clauses being shoehorned in terms and conditions?

I can’t make you sell your soul for subscribing to a service.
You will be surprised how materialistic the average American will be when their basic cost of living increases.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say in your post, that you'd like to live like a WW2 soldier on the homefront rationing food without a phone? Or that you think there is majority support for your romanticised wartime lifestyle?

The replies to my original post are getting increasingly strange and unhinged
Interesting. It seems like you have a very flexible process of how to launch code which could contribute to issues with visibility and rollbacks.

I’m curious as to why you had a queue instead of a develop branch before moving to CD? Was this to allow arbitrary commits to be launched to production rather than getting them batched by time?
I wrote my own console-based client and server to get around this problem. It uses its own protocol on its own ports and runs on servers that you control.

https://github.com/chrissnell/sparkyfish
Rolled up newspapers work well for this too, albeit I doubt a lot of us here get a newspaper delivered everyday anymore
I feel like Jonathan Blow's most recent talk[0] touches on why communication is important from a selfish perspective, for us as "artisans"/creatives. It's doesn't have to be about pleasing someone higher up in the hierarchy, it's about communicating in such a way that the diff between what's in your mind, and the other person's mind is as small as possible.

In doing this, we can more often achieve what we want, and have more support to do so. As Jon also touches on, there will always be people who just aren't interested in giving you the benefit of the doubt, but more often than not, based on the explanations you give them, they extrapolate to something completely different then what's in your mind at the time.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVb6-Rkz7W4
Is it a situation in which the state would have to step in and force a controlled burn on a municipality? Are there viable alternatives to controlled burns?
I'm hearing, "The tolerances on our gears aren't that great to begin with so why care if sand is falling in?"

You're making good points, but the undeniable fact that CompCert is not a panacea doesn't contradict the fact that other compilers are buggier?
You know, I never though of this before, but I'm sure there was an episode of Northern Exposure that ended with Etta James's "At Last," and I'm positive that the DVD version doesn't have the song.

I remember it because it was one of my favorite episodes. I lost my box set years ago, so I guess I won't be verifying that.
Bury the power lines. Will cost more than $10M though. But less than we're spending on fire recovery and prevention.
Another nice touch is they reprise the Atari ads from the original.
Correlation does not mean causation
Hey mods is there a particular reason this post is being penalized? As of writing it's #22 with 400 points in 1 hour, while #5 has 119 points in 3 hours.
I'm not saying I am in favor of how locked down iOS is currently, but you have to admit it does create the safest mobile environment especially for less technical people.

Apple is selling a product in which they have not decided to include a way to easily download unsupported Apps. I do not think it is the government's role to tell Apple they have to allow a easy way for users to install Apps from different channels.
So you’re claiming if manufacturing had stayed and it offered decent wages those service workers would still choose to stay in the service industry?
It's not the ads that are the problem, it's the widespread tracking + use of personal data that large ad networks like facebook perform. That's why they're using the _data protection_ legislature against facebook.
Using Nvidia with Linux is like buying an Apple phone and expecting to be able to do whatever you want with it.

Linux has been "solid" for decades now. Just don't use Nvidia. Some people use it and it works just fine, others don't. But people using Intel or Radeon video just don't have these issues.
Sure, I'm well aware of their previous lack of maintenance, but if they really wanted to change the discourse about it and deflect the blame, "a judge made us do it" seems like it would be effective at redirecting public anger toward the government. I'm just surprised that PG&E, as a huge bureaucratic company, isn't spinning this story as hard as they can.
Minority Report was fairly 'near future' in the grand scheme of things, but I thought its vision of the future was quite well conceived (everything aside from the pre-cog fantasy aspect of course).
Binge drinking is defined as 4 drinks for women or 5 drinks for men in a 2 hour period [0]. That's hardly falling down, puking on the sidewalk levels of drunk.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/binge-drinking.htm
I commuted by train for a year and it was 2 hours each way. Even being able to do whatever I wanted, the commute was absolutely soul crushing.
People will care about that as much as they care about ceasing to use websites that are hostile towards them: pretty much not at all.

The entire ad-blocking concept shows that people will do anything to continue visiting a website they are desperate to consume no matter how user-hostile it might be.

Also, this "No-Tracking" pledge seems like a thought experiment that only considers the rare website with more or less drop-in alternatives. So, maybe just general news and some brochure info sites?
Remember "In the Year 2000" on the Conan O'Brien show? Seemed like it would never actually get here.
This is why using Firefox is so important. We are not there yet, or at least most sites still work fine with FF, but once that changes Google will essentially own the web. There are multiple browsers that also use Blink engine, but they basically just a Chrome with a different skin.

I also really miss that Opera gave up on their Presto engine and at the same time decided to not open source it. Yes, the source code leaked, but without license no one will touch it.
> the fire services has shown itself not capable of containing the blazes

You realize how large these fires are, right? It is an incredible achievement that they are contained even a little bit. These fires can be so large and burn so hot that they create their own weather patterns over hundreds, even thousands of square miles.

Saying "fire service has show itself not capable of containing" fires is nearly as ignorant as blaming beach life guards for being "incapable of containing a hurricane storm surge"