skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't be ruled out, but I would first look at (improper) pesticide use and monoculture. At least this is the general observation in my beekeeping community. We noticed a gradual decline in colonies since the local farmers started growing rapeseed for biodiesel about 7-8 years ago. It has only gotten worse recently. Apart from the intensive use of pesticides, compared to other plants, one other problem that I face with rapeseed, is that the honey crystallizes really fast. If such honey is left in the hive during winter, its a sure recipe for failure. Even in the summer, it creates some irregularities in the food supply (I've seen bees taking it out of the combs after crystallization).
You’re right. It’s 25%.

https://www.quora.com/How-much-do-game-companies-make-from-e...
That's why a better alternative is necessary. I personally think the Dutch iDeal is pretty much perfect for online payments, with none of the many problems attached to credit cards. But most of the internet seems too invested in keeping credit cards alive.
$200 million, that’s seems kind of cheap to build an entirely new city
That doesn’t really sound like a good summary of centuries of Roman and post-Roman history.

History is complicated, but I would say that the Western European dark ages of 500-1000AD were caused neither by moon landing skepticism (or the 6th century equivalent thereof) nor its opposite.
Unfortunately we're now using the word skeptics for 2 totally different things
- questioning dogma with sound reasoning and reasonable first principles
- trusting one's own belief against overwhelming evidence of the contrary.

Galileo squarely belongs to the former, while flat earthers and moon landing 'skeptics' belong to the latter. Let's not conflate the two.
Sure, $8.25/month, but for fastmail you just picked the most expensive option that most people don't need. $5 is standard pricing.
They are available directly: http://www.compatt.com/Tutorials/NEETS/NEETS.html
I'm not persuaded it's that tricky.

Apple makes money from selling hardware devices at a markup, that's their core business and the reason people like them.

They're also laying the groundwork for the next computing platform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5J_6oMMG7Y

They could force IAP on iOS because it's better for users (track subscription, cancel) - without forcing profit sharing/rent seeking.

They could charge some reasonable fee for initially distributing the app or for a dev account (which they already do).

Taking a cut of all profits on the platform whether you compete directly (spotify vs. apple music) or not, is greedy. It's also lazy, you're taking money without providing equivalent value.

I'd argue companies that focus on doing this kind of thing end up fat, lazy, and hated. (Steve Ballmer's Microsoft).
No it isn't. Now you need to keep client state on the server. Have you ever used JSF? It's doing what you describe and it's the worst framework I have ever used. Yes it's even worse than using PHP+Apache without a framework.
All of your points are valid. I'd say this is purely about the relative price.

Apple charging 30% for access to an almost fully automated system is anticompetitive. Apple charging 1% to cover technical costs is fair and reasonable.
"FSB is men who regularly drink vodka"

And have a pet bear that plays balalayka.
Yes. You’ll get a whole bunch of scary warning messages from the operating system warning you not to do it, but to my knowledge all android phones allow you to. It’s possible that some corporate management software might prevent this, not sure. Also there are more and more android APIs which are baked into Google Play Services, which is another can of worms entirely. Still, Android is significantly more open to sideloading than iOS.
And keep addresses, phone numbers, alternative emails, payment details up to date with your domain registrar.

Recently my provider decided to randomly cancel my domain, getting it back from transfer with everything out of date was painful.
I think that's reasonable. The profit sharing is not.
> Hmm, a "sophisticated state actor" or a copy-paste script kiddy? Which one was it?

There's no contradiction between those two things.
People are still creating massive amounts of cool content, it’s just really hard to find. I play blood bowl, I care a lot about the statistics, and I’ve searched a lot on the topic over the past few years.

The best result I could find concerning some official data from FUMBBL (a place you can play blood bowl) was a blog entry from 2013.[1] My circle of friends and the different leagues I play in have been using that as reference for years. We’ve searched and searched to find the data source to no avail.

The other day I’m randomly site: searching for some thing completely unrelated and find a source for live FUMBBL data[2]. You’d think that was the first search engine result related to blood bowl statistics on any search engine, as it’s really the best damn source I’ve ever seen, but it’s not.

I know you were probably referring to something a little more interest based. Well I once sat next to a retired biology professor at a wedding, and it turned out he ran an interest site, detailing all the plants specific to the danish island Bornholm. I don’t care much about plants, but it was exactly a 90ies styles page. Unfortunately I didn’t save the link (I don’t care much about plants), because I haven’t been able to find it since, despite searching for his name.

So I think it’s still there, it’s just not easy to find it.

[1] http://ziggyny.blogspot.com/2013/04/fumbbl-high-tv-blackbox-...

[2] http://fumbbldata.azurewebsites.net/stats.html
Well it does mention that its single-threaded nature makes it a poor choice for heavy compute workloads, which I agree with. I also think it’s fine for pretty much everything else.
You know what, i'm just gonna say it: Javascript and NPM.
That's a good point. I don't suppose there a way of leaving Gmail and bringing your @gmail.com address with you, is there. That was one of the changes that was forced on phone companies years ago to make it easier to move provider.
In my personal life I serve HTML, CSS and native, gracefully degrading JS (if any), for the same reasons.

In my professional life though, I realised that 95% of the things I build will be changed in the next year or so. We often inherit projects that were only just finished, and our first task is to start changing it entirely.

So I aim for robustness of maintenance rather than robustness of the finished product. It's inevitable that it will change, but I can anticipate that in the same way a well engineered car can anticipate it's maintenance cycles.
What comes as a compiled binary?
Osint Amateur Hour
an API is an abstraction. you can do away with that if you generate html in the backend

You can still and should have an API but it will be an internal one(in-process, not at the network boundary).
Oh come on. Push notifications is just a modified XMPP connection that exists in the background. Actually, both FCM and APNS use XMPP to transport notification to devices.

The only 'special treatment' that happens is on Google/Apple servers which determine the priority of some of notifications.

How do I know? We're very involved with the XMPP protocol. The irony is that it is insanely hard to maintain an XMPP connection to a client on both Android / iOS, despite devices under both these OSs being an always connected XMPP clients.
Even faking the landing would require cooperation from parties with nothing to gain, since independent parties were able to bounce a laser off the mirror that they placed when they landed.
While running the app store is not free. People seem to forget that with out the app store then no one would buy the iPhone at all. Or a much smally subset of people would. I bet the number of iPhone that have zero apps is nearly 0

This idea that the only value the store has to apple.is the fees from app sales is missing the actual value of the store

It makes the iPhone more valuable allowing them to charge a premium price for the hardware

Their push of security and privacy in the store give the ecosystem more value. I know many people that have choosen to by iPhone over Android for this policy.

The appstore is one of apples market separataing feature to sell the iphone
People at the time thought the geocentric model was obviously, irrefutably true.
Because all of the technology and machinery necessary to go to the moon was designed and built. The massive and massively expensive Saturn V rockets(many of them) were designed, built and launched to witnesses. The LEM, CSM, suites, computers, and etc were all built. The simulators were built and simulations run. Etc and etc and etc; hundreds of thousands of people invovled.

So, pretty much all the cost of going to the Moon and now add on the cost of faking it and maintaining that lie for 50 years.
> Nobody believes the WMD lie any more.

Not many believed it at the time:

https://www.theregister.com/2003/07/03/google_bombed_by_miss...

NOTE: Check the date off that page.
The evidence about vaccines causing harm is piling up. The question of whether there is a conspiracy at least motivated by greed is also piling up. I personally think there is a even higher conspiracy, one on a spiritual level that is also involved in orchestrating the overall deception and harm caused by vaccines but I have no solid evidence for that.
It doesn’t seem reasonable to describe any party getting over a third of the vote as “extreme left” or “extreme right” — they are mainstream almost by definition.
And nearly every app pivoted from a buy it once model to a pay monthly/annually model. Absolutely made the state of iOS apps worse for end-users :-(
Pascal's wager never made sense to me. There are infinitely many possible belief systems. The odds of picking the right one are infinitely small.

Picking the wrong one may even come with greater loss than picking none of them, because praying to false gods may bring upon me the wrath of the true gods more so than simply keeping an open mind.
This website is just rendering a blank page on Safari ios13
Four stories over podiums would alleviate much of high rents in California. Lack of willing and able renters is not why they’re not built. Holding fixed the legal supply of housing makes apartment pricing behave in the same way as land rents.
> The tracking ID sent to DoubleClick could be used to target groups of people, such as "people who rarely update their browser".

The hash sent to the various google websites when you make requests to them is determined by chrome/chromium on the client side, at approximately installation time. So this would require the RNG thats sitting in a publicly auditable source repository to be flawed and abusable in such a way that chrome could bias the hash based on various system attributes that we're just going to assume for the sake of argument are correlated with various ad demographics.

> Shifting the goalposts to "well we don't abuse it" is classic gaslighting.

I never shifted the goalposts. You just did. Please don't accuse me of gaslighting you when you're the one changing your argument.

> Why should I trust an advertising network with a hard-coded, impossible to disable, opaque tracking backdoor in the first place?

If you don't want to personally, that's fine. But don't presume to get no criticism when you accuse any person or group of actively lying based on literally no evidence.

> No other browser is doing this. Why does Google need to send such tracking information to DoubleClick? You cannot justify it without also explaining why Safari and Firefox don't need this.

There's a difference between "want" and "think it's the best decision". I'm certain there are people at both Apple and Mozilla who would prefer to have more robust client side analytics. I have no doubt about that. But whether they think that's worth the perceived loss of privacy is another question. Right now, Firefox has a comparative advantage with certain types of privacy conscious users. Why throw that away? The increase in development speed may not be worth the loss of user trust. And that's okay, but using that to then imply that Google is lying about things, again based on no evidence.

Let me put it this way: I trust Google (obviously), and so I'm fine to take them at their word that they aren't using this for ad targeting.

Someone who didn't trust Google could reasonably say "I don't put much faith in Google's press release", but without any other evidence that there's actually any targeting happening, the most you could reasonably say is that they might be.

You're taking an even more extreme position that given the opportunity to do a nefarious thing, Google must be doing it. Despite other reasonable explanations existing. This is a weird position to take and I don't get it.
Very interesting, making simulations "easy and accessible" really resonates with me having spent far too many years single handedly trying to get traction for my "easy to use" engineering physics, FEA, and PDE ideas and simulation tools [1]. I would be very interested in collaborations if anyone from hash.ai (or anyone else) is reading this and ever think of including/or moving in to the "easy to use" PDE based simulation space.

[1]: https://www.featool.com
I suspect you don't realize how firmly people at the time believed in revealed truth and the evidence of their own eyes that the sun revolved around the Earth.
The best argument I've heard about DoH (at least Firefox's forced implementation) is that it turns a distributed collection problem for the bad guys with guns into one-stop shopping for the bad guys with guns.
Curious what you mean by the API flexibility Vs security point. To me, the API for a SPA is just another view over the exact same data that would be accessible in the HTML output of a server render (which, indeed, is the 4th point in the article). Your access to that data is gated by a cookie with a token in it in both cases.

On the code level, it's really not all that different - the operations you perform 'directly' through function calls in a pure server render model you simply put behind another HTTP interface.

I get that this mapping work might be a bit cumbersome and take some extra work, but I'm unconvinced that it introduces some kind of security tradeoff - the client ultimately has the ability to call through to exactly the same operations, just getting the data back in a different format, right?
Yeah, that's true.

Anyone can distribute their Andrioid app using their desired way. Even via web site. Exmple: https://signal.org/android/apk/

Sending push messages to Android phone using Firebase Cloud Messaging(FCM, formerly GCM) requires "Google Play Services" installed on that Android device. Google Play Services is not depends on Google Play Store and is not requires that applications using Play Services should installed by Play Store.
If you're going to host anything on that domain, then it will be collected in domain lists. I got rid of my contact@ email address because of that.

Email addresses that I use now look like this: reddit@subdomain.domain.com

If this leaks, I can track the source and I can bounce messages for this address.

While what you're saying is possible, a spammer needs to target you personally and that's not cost effective. It's not easy for them to try every possible English name at that address, because then they quickly get blacklisted.

Spammers collect addresses via scripts that crawl the web or via data leaks. It's more cost effective for them to get addresses that have been validated. All the spam I get are on these aliased addresses, biggest problem being the one I publish on my website, which I change periodically.

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I like using my own domain even for aliased addresses because I can change service providers on a whim. I love Fastmail, but if they ever piss me off, I can change to Google Suite or whatever over night, the only thing required is some flexibility in setting up aliases.
Software is more like a Ship of Theseus in a way that roads are not.

That is, the cost to "switch out" one version of software for another is effectively zero, so if makes sense to "maintain" the product in perpetuity.

For a road and other capital expenditures with heavy dependencies, your "lifecycle" is

As few changes as possible; and then, all of it changes.
You don't need a mac to debug safari on iOS. There is remotedebug-ios-webkit-adapter. You need a Mac to debug Safari on Mac. Maybe that's the reason why some people only support Safari on iOS.
It is a godsend only up to a point when you can't run an app in the background even if you badly need to. The computers (and Android devices are computers) should not be putting their users into straight jackets so they won't hurt themselves. Users should have an option to do what they want. The system's job is to inform that what they are doing is using battery. If a user is OK with it, the system SHOULD NOT interfere.
Who at verizon gets the retainer fee if the consultant is never requested? How is it distributed?
Slight correction to avoid confusion between Open Source product and PaaS(?) company in people's searches: Next.js the product is still named Next.js. The company behind it, Vercel was formerly Zeit :) Their command line tool "Now" has been renamed to Vercel
Perhaps this is apophenia, but it appears that societal tensions are boiling over from all corners, against all kinds of established authorities, no?
I know naming can be difficult, but "Caffeine" is already taken and well known.

http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/
Proposing the following modification to the English language:

For your interpretation: "drop by X, to Y"

For author's intention: "drop by X-Y"
Securing Your Apps with AGC Auth and HMS Fido
We have spoken before. Hashed module ids? Cli that figures it out? I based webpack external import off that. Then rearchitected webpack for MF. IMO MFEs were a cumbersome idea, however the mechanics of module Federation make it hard to locate real issues. 10 repos, likely overkill. However there is a very real use case. I’m working companies that have 300 teams of 20 devs per team and over 50,000 handwritten modules. No matter how efficient you make something. The build still takes 40 min.

Your use case sounds like overkill, suboptimal with 10 MFEs that are similar. I’d suggest a monorepo if you’re not bottlenecked.
The irony is, FCM is a modified XMPP
Apple invests an enormous amount into R&D to make their devices. For example, they make their own CPUs, which happen to be some of the fastest ARM chips you can get.

I don’t think it’s any different from consoles. The main difference is that with a console you know what the deal is.

With an App Store app, the problem is you don’t know if Apple is going to deny your app on an inconsistently applied rule after spending 2 years making it.
Discord believe it or not. When it became clear that we all had to work from home we evaluated a bunch of web conferencing tools that needed to work on Windows, macOS & Linux. And the one tool that worked right out of the gate with screen sharing and decent audio quality was Discord. Everything else was flawed in some aspects.
One of the nicest things about Gmail is to send myself an email with info or an attachment that I can't think of anywhere logical to put it so I'll find it again. Their search makes it the best filing system, a no-file filing system.
> Is it innate to the average human biology?

I think it is an natural personality trait gone haywire. Just as there are some people who are pure herd creatures, completely trusting of authority, there are others who are inherently skeptical as a genetic trait. Humanity benefits from a certain degree of skepticism but since it's a spectrum, some people possess it in excess. In antiquity such people may have been heretics who questioned the Church, and they led us to the Reformation and to scientific progress. In the more recent past, they believed in alien landings and the Bermuda Triangle. Nowadays they're anti-vaxxers or flat Earthers, viewing the government or scientific orthodoxy as windmills to tilt against.

Perhaps our current environment is to some extent conducive to runaway skepticism. Consider, obesity is rampant because human beings evolved in relative caloric scarcity, but in today's plentiful, carbohydrate rich diet, we find it hard to self-regulate our food intake. Perhaps conspiracy-theorism is rampant because humanity evolved in an environment where people were much less free to pursue their "alternative" urges, but the shackles have been loosened in the modern world. Freedom for better or worse also means freedom to hold fringe points of view.
Yes, but their approach to it is essentially relative lockdown of the students. Obviously that has benefits, but there are also costs.
> It's not that hard to tell apart the Galileos from the Kyrie Irvings.

Easy to say that today since you've been taught from birth that Galileo was right.

Just the other day I confronted a person who insisted that Edison electrocuted an elephant. He dared me to look it up. I did, and presented irrefutable evidence that Edison did not. He was unconvinced - after all, it's common knowledge that Edison did the dirty deed.

Except he didn't.
You're barking up the wrong tree.
I could swear it also has a `mkitso` mnemonic.
As much as I agree with the stance against I hate the coverage and the press this is getting with people evangelicizing the CEO. He's regularly referenced on this site by his initials (which even as a regular reader of tech news I had to look up) which comes across as cult of personality at best and astroturfing at worse.
A better link may be the launch blog, which is linked in the above post.

https://hash.ai/about/mission
Yep.

The most common questions nowadays seem to be about wheelchair access, wheelchair-accessible parking, and whether the business accepts cards (which is another weird one for Finland - who doesn't accept cards here?).

For restaurants, they may ask whether there is takeout, lunch, vegetarian options, whether the place is romantic, etc.

(And of course you can turn the questions off, but I kinda like answering them.)
An API is not an abstraction. It is LITERALLY how your program is communicated with. The API of a website is http.

The code inside the API is an abstraction.
If you don't understand the node event loop, don't use node.
So let me get this straight:

The main innovation of handshake is they reinvented DANE on the blockchain? Don't get me wrong, DANE in DNS has some issues, but how is that an improvement from namecoin? Are you saying namecoin is incapable of storing the hash of a certificate in its name records? I'd also bet the cost of a 51% attack on handshake is significantly less than the cost of hacking a CA. [Edit: after posting this i realize im not sure the 51% attack is a relavent attack here, since "double spending" isn't going to help someone pull off a MITM]

The other inovation, is instead of scoping it so it doesnt conflict with existing system, instead handshake directly conflicts with existing DNS names. I fail to see why that is a good thing.

I will admit the auction system is an interesting solution to the cybersquatting problem. I dont think its what most people want out of a naming system (if own microsoft, i want my domain to be microsoft.com, not to wait 10 years for it to be released), but it is an interesting solution.
AWS Lambda Powertools Python
I can't count the number of times I had to write a HTML template for a small component with just jQuery and it was horrible every single time. Something like htm+preact [0] would clearly do the job much better and only add 5kB of Javascript to your site instead of leaving an unmaintainable mess.

[0] https://github.com/developit/htm