skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>guided by our Data Privacy Principles //

A cunning way of not starting any rules used for the VPN.

Then they can say "well we were guided by our policy when we secretly kept all your connection details and gave them to a marketing company".

How about being guided by your policies on openness and state precisely and fully how data is used/stored/shared.

Isn't privacy the/a principle feature of a VPN?

The irony of only being able to sign up from outside the USA of you use a VPN is not lost on me.
On the other hand, being a doctor pays really well and is often a rewarding and fulfilling career.
I still don't see the value in diversity for diversities sake. Having read much from Thomas Sowell on the matter I think most of these terms will lead to much worse outcomes than what we have present day.
I don't have firsthand experience, but craigslist seems to have what look like normal apartments to me in the bay area for around $2800/month. Something like 600 apartments below that if I filter by off street parking and washer/dryer in the apt, which is my idea of a nice place. Looking for ads that double that brings up furnished apartments and luxury high rises with "24 hour concierges".

My reference point would be, for a young single person in a "normal" area of the country, $55K and $1250/month rent means you have $2K/month left over. A lot of people don't make this much.

To have the same amount left over after taxes and rent of $2800/month, it appears you'd need to make about $78K. So anything above $80K seems on the face of it to be livable at least for one person.

By the way, I noticed that total income taxes seem to actually be lower than in upstate NY.
> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—

> (A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or

> (B) any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).[1]

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
You don't need to be a monopoly to have antitrust action taken against you, you just need to have sufficient market power and engage in behavior which is anti-competitive.

House Antitrust Committee chairman David Cicilline yesterday:

“Because of the market power that Apple has, it is charging exorbitant rents — highway robbery, basically — bullying people to pay 30 percent or denying access to their market,” said Rep. Cicilline. “It’s crushing small developers who simply can’t survive with those kinds of payments. If there were real competition in this marketplace, this wouldn’t happen.”

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/18/21295778/apple-app-store-...

Oh it is possible to get Apple to change. Not by asking nicely, but perhaps by carrying a big stick. The arrogance Apple displays today is much the same as Microsoft back in the day. Let's hope for a similar outcome as back then, which fundamentally changed Microsoft for the better. It's possible, but not if we don't try.
I'm also pro free speech and I also think this "intellectual humility" argument is a sort of a bad reason to be pro free speech.

Man might be a reasoning animal, but his construction of belief is often not rooted in a rational search for truth.

Man might be a reasoning animal, but the words he chooses to speak are often motivated by the wielding of political power rather than an attempt at expressing his actual underlying beliefs.

Or, in modern vernacular, trolls exist and trolling is often quite effective. A good justification of free speech needs to start with realistic assumptions about how speech is used. That typically means abandoning the underlying assumption that the end goal of free speech is to enable a search for the truth. In fact, I really believe that once you start talking about the goal of free speech as a way of enabling search for the truth, censorship becomes a lot easier to justify.
> The scale of content posted on social media makes it impossible to remove content that could result in lawsuits or charges down the road.

Impossible or just expensive?

Reddit amortizes moderation over it's user-base, couldn't they share liability too? FB and Twitter could do likewise.

On the other hand, if it really is too expensive to moderate at scale maybe these companies should be broken up?
They offered me nearly the same kind of raise over the position I was in before it.

The first company I worked for paid me $36k/yr. Given I don't have a degree, and it was the first offer I received (was my break-into-the-industry offer), I took it. After nearly two years, I was still below $40k/yr. Couldn't afford to rent a two bedroom apartment by myself, let alone support a then pregnant girlfriend.

That's when the next company offered right below market value, but when I started with them, it seemed like a fair offer given I had to learn new frameworks, containerization, etc. After a year, and the value I'd added to the company, I assumed I'd receive a raise.

Low and behold, it didn't happen, so like the previous position, I found somewhere offering a median salary for my region.

Still not where I should be with all the responsibilities and skills I have now, but at least the financial stress isn't nearly as bad as it used to be. Plus, I'm secure in my position, so that's helpful.
I wanted to check whether you've greatly improved the usability of Cedreo since last time it was flogged on HN.

But, when I tried to log in again I was immediately presented with an option to buy a monthly license (min $79/mnth).
This is a great nuance that seems to be being lost in the holy war.
Apple is charging developers for the rights to distribute on their platform. You will see this model everywhere around you: theme parks, grocery stores, e-commerce websites. The fact that the world's most profitable company has to play by different rules is quite frankly ludicrous.
Yes, although at this point I expect any adtech articles to be 90% inaccurate.

The real issue is the poor security practices of this company, especially under Oracle's watch, and how much data is shared by partners. BlueKai can't get personal details unless someone shares it with them.
One of my favorite phrases comes from the obscenity cases, and I tend to use it as often as I can:

“Appeals to (Your) prurient interests”

Many other jokes to be made at the expense of the justices on these cases, Which get far dirtier, such as the pinnacle case being Miller v California which was essentially about mail order dildos/sex toys, one would have thought double-sided dildos were about as obscene as it gets at the time, and yet leave it to the justices to develop the Miller Test which is coincidentally a “three-prong Obscenity test”.
What I find interesting is that developers usually complain about the one time app purchase, saying that this doesn't incentivize big updates and the way around it is to use in-app purchases. Some even propose an update app fee. Also, developers complain that Apple is squeezing a fee from every transaction. Which seems like the same problem, Apple wants that constant stream of revenue just like developers want that constant stream of revenue to incentivize updates. Anybody else notices this symmetry?

On a side note, this could be fixed with

1) Unpopular apps don't pay a fee until they reach a certain amount of downloads. This promotes apps created by devs just starting out.
2) Fees only apply until an upper limit is met which corresponds to the total cost they generate. i.e. Every year the count resets, the first 50k downloads have 30% fee, the next 100k have a 20% fee, the next 200k have a 10% fee, etc.

If you play with this parameters there might be a win-win scenario for everybody. I wonder if Apple will propose something before EU or USA governments start looking deeper into the problem. I'm guessing Apple and Google lobbyist are measuring the temperature of Congress right now to see how to proceed.
I like the stability of Maven, despite XML and people complaining about it's complexity, I just find it stable enough and does the job quite well.

For one of my clients, we created lots of similar microservices, similar setup but slightly differ. What I did was creating a template using maven archetypes so spinning up a new microservice for a new piece of work or simply to try something out or an ad-hoc job is a matter of seconds, so setup time is stopped being a hindrance to start something new.

Also these days there are quite few tooling that supports project generators which can give you a bit of setup to start from.
Hypothetically, let's suppose that the entire Internet was controlled by one private company. (This is very plausible - I see no reason why couldn't have developed this way if history had gone slightly differently; in fact I think it's a miracle that it didn't.) Would you be okay with that private company unilaterally deciding which political opinions were worthy of publishing, even if it was their full legal right to do so?

I'm not a free speech absolutist and I fully agree that not everything that people publish on (say) Twitter should be allowed to stay on Twitter. The problem is the growing centralisation of power and the lack of democratic oversight. One day everyone who currently works at Twitter will be dead, but Twitter may still exist, staffed by a completely different bunch of people. Can you be so sure that the reins will always remain in hands you approve of?

I don't know what the solution is to the problem of centralised private power to control the internet, but it baffles me that anyone could deny that it is a problem.
when those old folks warned of worshipping false idols, i wonder if they could've imagined these big shiny apples and Gs
Don’t like Apple? Just build your own multinational global corporate hegemonic superpower, bro.
But people have been speaking up for years.

At what point do the people speaking up just stop using the thing that they dislike so much?
BSD Unix :-(
Right, so the becomes "where do we draw the line on censorship/discrimination?"

The answer to such a question is always "somewhere".

In the case of censorship, I would argue that the line should be drawn to encompass much more than just government sponsored censorship (and even exclude some government sponsored censorship).

In the case of discrimination, I would agree that the line should be drawn before discriminating against unqualified canditates.
Ok, but then you've given up on an entire technology set. You haven't avoided Apple and Android, you've avoided the tech entirely.
There are several options; fetchRSS, RSS-Bridge, etc.

I personally have RSS-Bridge running on my local webserver, and use it for Twitter feeds, Instagram, Facebook, etc.
Is Nikola Motors a Gigantic Fraud?
I’m very serious. It has never been my desire to start my own business. I go home and sleep well at night not worrying about customers, investors, funding.

It went well for several years...the party ended after leadership changed and they had new opinions on what R&D meant.
It was my dream and theirs for a period of time...then it was no longer my dream, just theirs.

And when that happens, I email recruiters and get another job usually paying more within a few weeks. The shortest time from looking for a job to having an offer is 4 days. The longest is about 7 weeks. But I only applied for one job. The process just takes a while for $BigTech.

Which brings up an even better example. The company I work for announced an across the board pay cut because our customers were losing money because of Covid. The company is having to cut prices, come up with payment arrangements, get money from the government, etc. I bet the owners aren’t sleeping well at night.

The next day after they announced the pay cut, a recruiter from $BigTech reached out to me about a remote role. I applied for the job, got it, with a 50% pay bump and I still sleep well.

I left to find my dream....I now make 5x as much doing something I love.

Survivorship bias. Statistically how will most software developers make more money over a lifetime - starting their own company or in the immortal words of r/cscareerquestions, “learn leetCode and work for a FAANG”?[1] Or depending on where you are living, just bring your run of the mill “Enterprise Developer” in any major city in the US that’s not on the west coast.

[1] Not that I went down that road to “work for a FAANG”. I took another route that pays as well to get into $BigTech.
IMO, the problem is that some fields are natural monopolies. This has long been known to include things like electric utilities, water, etc. I don't think anybody but the most crazy extreme libertarians objects to these types of companies being heavily regulated by the Government. The question is, should this apply to internet companies, and how?

It is a bit tricky. I think there is a solid case that, once social networking companies get to a certain size, there is a dominating network effect that makes them sort of like natural monopolies. Thus I think there should be some kind of regulation of their behavior. Maybe not as strict as other types of natural monopolies, but I think they have too much power to be allowed to just do whatever their owners feel like.
The meltwater would have to be removed, or the cable itself heated.
I don't know. Probably better to ask a lawyer something like this.
EU might solve this for you, I remember how it was years back, with mobile phone providers, there was no monopoly just a few companies that split the market and hold the users captive. So EU does not care that Apple and Google are not monopolies or that a large potion of citizens are busy watching football, if there are enough people complaining they will investigate and if you see what happen in the past force interoperability and true choice.
Reuters read HN?
I used to include their RSS feeds on radfi.com and now I have to find a replacement for them.
It isn't supposed to be instant message box? Is everyone just that dry and I'm the slow guy not getting that everyone gets it?
I didn't say "absolutely" free of consequence, I said "largely". No one is debating about whether you can kick someone out of your house. The kind of "social consequences" that I (and others) are concerned about are things like:

- being fired from a job

- blacklisted by an industry

- canceled by a payment processor

- being kicked out of a university

Imposing financial consequences for having a difference of opinion is a very insidious way of manipulating public speech. It doesn't actually change people's minds, and is a great way to get preference falsification (like what was seen in the 2016 U.S. presidential election).
Free speech is only useful if applied to controversial matters. Everything else doesn't need free speech.
All the optics come from Zeiss, the laser from Trumpf.
> but clearly as was shown with Microsoft in the 90s, they could be forced to allow competition on their devices

But as the parent comment you're replying to said, the situations aren't comparable.

Microsoft had over 90% of the market in the 90s. You could not stop using Windows, because there was simply no credible alternative for most consumers. That's not true for iOS.

If Microsoft at the time had, say, 50% of the market the outcome would likely have been extremely different.
The Miller–Urey experiment applied an energy gradient to a soup of water, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen.

This produced a smorgasbord of organic compounds, nearly all of which were the building blocks of life on Earth.

It's possible that applying energy to a different soup would produce different results - but all of the chemicals I listed are incredibly common across the universe.

Given that, if life exists somewhere else in the universe, it's incredibly likely that it will be quite similar, in chemical composition, to life on Earth.
You internalise mathematical notation by using it to solve mathematical problems and express mathematical ideas.

Two excellent resources are:

1. Introduction to Mathematical Thinking (if you prefer moocs) - https://www.coursera.org/learn/mathematical-thinking?

2. How to think Like a Mathematican - https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Think-Like-Mathematician-Underg...
This is true, there is very little stopping someone strapping a grenade to an off the shelf drone and flying it into a crowd, other than regulation on the explosives themselves, but that's not something that can easily be mass produced. Anyone with enough skill and determination can produce a weapon by themselves, I just think mass production makes it far easier for ill-willed people to obtain a ready-to-go weapon.

I still think the bigger risk, currently, is from the people buying these legitimately. These are not much more than precision bombs in their current state, and the risk is not from terrorism but war, and specifically how close to home that war can get. When the Salisbury poisonings happened it scared a lot of people, so imagine the panic if something like this was used to attack a van or a small building in a populated area.
Looking at all of history, I'm very optimistic. Going way back to Cuneiform and the printing press, and the internet itself, they all point to a general principle of the breaking up of monolithic information sources over time. It might take a while, but it'll happen with the internet too.
Using Protobuf with Kafka Streams
https://twitter.com/ductionist/status/1102990274203127811
People who believe wild coronavirus conspiracy theories rely on YouTube
Yes Google has in app subscriptions.
Contentful vs. Agility CMS: Which Headless CMS Is Right for You?
If you were very familiar with the history, you would be well aware that virtually no one is expressing a concern about generics turning Go into Boost. That's a straw man of your own creation. You're welcome to see my characterization and perspective however you like.
According to this article https://www.guntrustlawyer.com/maryland-man-arrested-fuel-fi... they have been sold on Amazon before. If they are considered a silencer by the ATF then it would fall under Amazon prohibition on selling silencers.
After 15 Years, Apple Prepares to Break Up with Intel
> It's really so interesting that these groups of politically motivated people think they're ending what they perceive as racism ... by being as racist as it's possible to be.

The existing system is already very biased against them, I don't have a problem with some corrective action.

"In fact, companies are more than twice as likely to call minority applicants for interviews if they submit whitened resumes than candidates who reveal their race—and this discriminatory practice is just as strong for businesses that claim to value diversity as those that don’t."

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes...
I know this will be hard to accept, but no matter how many people tell me that minorities are being killed because of the color of their skin, I've noticed that not a single one of these people ever include any facts or data to back up that claim.

Sure, black people are killed by police. So are white people. So are people of every race. All the actual data I've seen is that black people are killed less frequently, in proportion to the violent crime they commit than white people are.

I believe your thought process is no more than a mind virus, a viral meme, that's wrapped up in emotion and pushed as hard as possible for political gain.

There's plenty of videos of white people being killed by police that you all just ignore. You don't look at the actual data or think critically, you're just driven by emotion and group think.
In my opinion, developers do have the right to articulate critics - be it towards Apple or any other gatekeeper. Just stopping to use/develop for a platform isn't enough.

However, I feel the discussion often misses a central point when it is focused on "developers" against "Apple" (or be it Google): the interest of the customer.

Of course, a developer wants to maximize return, as wants Apple. But what about the users? As a user, I love discounts on iTunes gift cards. I love Apple handling subscriptions instead of a developer I don't know. I choose iOS because of the perceived better support and lifetime value (and perhaps even the feel of some security and privacy, but of course, one can argue about that). And I even like the editorial content of the AppStore, which is some form of marketing but also a form of recommendation.

As a customer, the AppStore is much more than a simple storefront, some sometimes wonky review processing and some servers and payment processing: it is a 360-degree-experience. Sometimes, as a customer I'm frustrated by the AppStore as well, but I would not buy my apps at a developers site. I even buy Mac Apps in the AppStore if I can, for similar reasons.

As a developer, I sometimes hate myself for not giving other developers more than 60 or 70 percent of the share. But on the other hand, I remember the old days when software was sold on CDROMs and was only available at Frys and other large electronics/computer shops. Getting your software listed there cost much much more than 30 percent ... and you had to prepay all these expenses as the developer/publisher.
Well, there are no people who have used Slack who have never used email, because you need email to sign up for Slack.
Balancing Protecting Citizens While Preserving Online Innovation and Free Speech
We also need to keep in mind that you can't get your toys and leave, your applications and media is locked into the store, you will have to start over, buy everything again, and before someone mentions "What about Xbox or Stream" those are bad too.
Apple is just using its position and over-protecting their app store by bringing more bureaucracy to for developers. In my case, when I submitted https://zudvpn.com to their app store, they require me to be a business entity because they require all VPN apps to be a business entity. Their argument is that VPN apps should not log their users, however, there is no proof that public VPN apps won't log the users.
Destroy, or show there are ramifications for speech?

I find the "I can say whatever I want, it's just words" to be an immature stance to hold. Words hold power, and power can be used or misused. We know words hold power; otherwise protesting wouldn't work, MLK's letters from a birmingham jail wouldn't matter, even the very constitution itself would be pointless.

So if that power is being applied to harm people, there needs to be a check on that. I fully agree it isn't the government's role to play that part; it's society's full, universal, democratic decision what to do with it.

The final result is "if you say something so upsetting that you can get a large group of people to use their own words and freedom to associate to harm you in return, then that's on you". If you don't like the worst that the so-called "cancel culture" response can bring you, then the solution is relatively simple: choose your words carefully and own them.
Easy to say, were Android not a complete dumpster fire of an OS. Stop using the iPhone and... buy into an ecosystem where every phone manufacturer installs random crapware on your device, google gets to spy on you, and whether or not you get security updates is a game of Russian roulette? Nah.
Is this one?

"The Westerly Condominium" https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Westerly+Condominium/@...
Still showing up on RSS apps and populating new entries. https://imgur.com/a/GiE37KC
A warp drive wouldn't result in time travel though.
Despite the literal phrasing, server-side rendering, as in SSRing a SPA, is not even close to what was happening in the 90's. That was much simpler, pure, and fun.
Yes, it's available on both iOS and Android in most countries. We'll refund your gift in full if we can't get it to work!