skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I like about this solution is fine-grained control over the compression. I've used xz on a slow connection to the other side of the world, I've used no compression on super fast connections. You get whatever you want.
>Honestly, I don't think that segment really exists. The ones that would search that out will just as likely be on android as iPhone.

Why. The type of people who want a curated mail experience might just happen to be the type of people who like the curated iPhone experience.

>If 33% of such an app is enough to cause this much angst, it makes me think it just isn't that popular.

Why 33%? If you're right and they're just as likely to seek out android it's going to be 50%. If I'm right it's going to be much higher than that. Where are you getting 33% from?
Google's icons are Apache licensed, if anyone is in need of a budget friendly solution: https://github.com/google/material-design-icons
The "SAS Survival Handbook" of the late 80s-early 90s by Lofty Wiseman is calling your name...
Fortunately i still have an Android phone and Android tablet where such things still exist (and i use them regularly). So I kept the iPhone because I also develop for the platform now.
Netflix and Amazon Prime Video as digital video content providers are specifically exempted from the IAP rules according to section 3.1.3(a) of the App Store review guidelines.
umatrix can block third-party images as easily as it blocks cookies.
I was obsessed with Clojure, and getting started with the language took me so long because I couldn't figure out how to do xyz when starting a project. Eventually I gave up and started doing things shittily and it worked out. I grok a lot of the build process, and I highly recommending just taking the time to read about it and getting familiar.

It's annoying to learn about cause it's not explicitly productive, but it's worthwhile.
> The overruns happen due to red tape and the overall loss of the heavy industry capability/capacity brought on - and these are the specific problems federal subsidies are supposed to tackle.

This might have mattered a decade or two ago, but that time has passed. Solar and wind have enormous momentum behind them, and they will only continue to scale up faster. [1] [2]

> Deaths per TWH for solar and wind have proven much higher than nuclear and that's before including their dependence on natural gas which is higher still.

Modern renewables are roughly as safe as nuclear [3].

> Utility scale batteries are so far still for peak shaving which is wonderful because the simple cycle plants they displace are super efficient, but won't be replacing combined cycle in our lifetimes.

Enormous amounts of battery manufacturing capacity is coming online for EV production [4]. Elon said on Tesla's last earnings call that demand for batteries for utility scale storage is tremendous and they can't keep up with demand [5]. I'll take the other side of that bet: overbuilt renewables, hydro, HVDC transmission across long distances, and battery storage will be enough to deprecate natural gas from the grid. South Australia's grid operator is already nervously preparing for distributed renewables generating so much power, there will be times where there is no net demand on the grid ("But it’s the latest “first” that is putting the wind up the state government and the market operator: Within one to three years, they say, South Australia could become the first gigawatt scale grid in the world where the growing amount of rooftop solar effectively eliminates grid demand."). [6]

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/renewable-energy

[2] https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/6/18/1868159...

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy#modern-r...

[4] https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/14/global-lithium-ion-batt...

[5] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/tremendous-demand-for-stati...

[6] https://reneweconomy.com.au/south-australia-the-first-big-gr...
My initial parse made me think it was something about a particular type of weed-cigarette soldiers used behind enemy lines.
If you don't know the difference between a bank and Hey, then there's probably nothing anyone can do to convince you that your position isn't tenable.
I only have a couple potential counterpoints:

1) The 2% fee might mostly be captured by the credit company and thus represent a net benefit to most consumers (at the expense of retailers) because retailers tend to want prices like 1.99 and would be reluctant to raise that to 2.01 because of the reduced sales. Over time there might be other options like slightly reduced portion sizes to help the store, but profiting a little bit extra on most products is hard, and profiting a lot extra on a few products is near impossible because consumers will buy from competitors.

2) The 2% fee isn't reimbursed equally to all consumers, so individuals with higher credit scores might have a preference for the current system even if it's a zero-sum game overall. (this point also easily allows arguments the other way in favor of regulating fees because we probably shouldn't be extracting an additional percent here and there from young people and those with financial hardships)
s/monopoly/anti-competitive
Recently enough that they happened to be working on Hey at the same time.
Many years ago, before MFA was really a thing, I changed my email address to get away from the spam list I'd built up in my youth. Still, I had used the account for some personal communications and was concerned some people wouldn't catch immediately update their address books, so I set up a forwarding rule to my new address for anything that got through the spam filters.

The old account has been silent for years, to the point that if I'd forgotten whether I'd even deleted it or not. So imagine my surprise when in the span of a minute, I get several forwarded emails from Google stating that the account was recovered, a new device has signed in, password was changed, secret question changed, and recovery email changed.

Now, as far as I'm concerned, the account is dead and hasn't been linked to anything I've signed into for years. But that doesn't mean it was never linked to anything important and who knows what's still sitting in the archive or who's still in the contact list. So as soon as I saw the messages I jumped to figure out what happened.

But it turns out that all these security alerts from Google are just to "let you know about important changes to your Google Account and services" and if there's a problem just tell you to click a button to login and "Check activity"...which is difficult to do when all your security information has been changed before you have time to respond.

There are options to try old passwords and linked email addresses, but after several attempts all I got was "Unfortunately Google couldn't verify that <the account> belongs to you." and a link to "Recover your account"[1] that just tells you to try the recover options that have already been prompted for, and if all else fails "consider creating a replacement Google Account."

There is no contact information, no option to let anyone know you have a problem. The emails alerts are sent from the uncaring "no-reply" address while Googles "Contact Us" only gives a physical mailing address and directs you to the same help articles.

Now, again, the account is--has been--dead as far as I'm concerned. But considering the forwarding rule was still in place Google probably thinks differently. So now the account, and everything in it, belongs to someone else.

The moral of the story is not only do you need to practice good security now, you need to have done it your whole life, and go back to do it better when new security practices are adopted--before crooks do it for you.

1: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7299973?hl=en
12 is common though many allow for a couple of extension years to sell the stuff
I'm not disputing the fact that, barring some controversial edge cases, most people could probably agree on the classification. My point is that Apple clearly appears to be claiming that there are some very clear rules that are followed strictly without any personal judgement about any particular app or company. A lot of their PR about this stuff has been of the form "we're not making any judgments about you, we're just following the rules" (never mind that it's their rules in the first place).

But I think that's pretty clearly not the case, and moreover, I think people might be just as upset if Apple's policies said "we just use our common sense to classify apps and determine which features they can use on our platform" and then appeared to apply those determinations inconsistently.
you don't have to be a digital nomad. We've been living in a rural'ish city (Cedar city, UT), that isn't a tech hub for awhile now. I'm a freelance dev (underpaid probably $40/hr).

But, I like living wherever I want, and not having to move. Plus wife's family is nearby which comes in handy.

I think one big thing though about the have-nots divide increasing is this is going to speed up automation unlike anything we've seen before. Walmart is already testing getting rid of cashiers completely.

Remote work I think (and hope) will end the big cities / tech hubs and make people move further and further out and be more rural, and keep remote working growing..
On the third page of search results for 'irish setter' I found this: http://blackpeopleloveus.com/

That search engine is like a gold mine! I searched for "black people love us" in DDG and it was the first result, followed by an article written this year explaining how it came about and .. the web felt like such a smaller place back in 2002 and I just don't remember this at all.

Which makes me wonder about how newspapers and free to air tv kept the culture pretty shallow before exploding with the internet and now, possibly contracting again as our filter bubbles shrink? Just an errant though.

But so much novelty and interesting stuff at wiby.me - search for 'trump' and the first result is just surreal.
I can smell it from here.
> If Apple had promised customers that Age of Empires runs on Macs, then they would have a hard time getting Microsoft to give them 30%. But Apple has made not such promise to consumers.

Given that Age of Empires has actually had Mac versions, I'm not sure this is the comparison you're looking for here. :)
Except no one actually reads emails anymore.
It’s easy to accept that you have a right to complain. But after ten years of perfect clarify about how Apple intends to play this, your supposed outrage that the iPhone is still a walled garden seems willfully thick.

I’d be so impressed if one of you would just head over to Android and make a non-iPhone app that took the world by storm. Prove to us all that the 30% is a bad bargain, that Apple needs to change, that your software is valuable even without their store.

I guess it’s disheartening to see instead just another set of entitled complaints and dubious concern over end users, most of whom have no idea your $10 app exists and never thought about it when buying their $1000 phone.
Games for consoles are sold in many different stores, I don't know why that's even being brought up.
Correct. The division goes back to the Roman Empire and the reforms of Diocletian. Arguably however there were underlying cultural differences between the Latin Romans and the Greek Romans that were beneath those reforms and the later Great Schism between East and West.
I don't understand why some people think they have a right to be distributed for free within the App Store. This store is something Apple created and I think it's fair that they decide who can join and how. If you are a developer and you don't like this, then develop your app for Android.

This is something similar to Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo asking for $$ from developers if they want to sell their games for these platforms.
It makes me wonder if a life of white collar crime is worth it... Before MEGA, Kim Dotcom was someone who took investor money and spent it lavishly (his website had a lot of photos of luxury cars, villas and parties), skimming his Wikipedia, it says he only got a suspended sentences from the German courts...
Sure, that's the justification, but Apple wrote those rules. It's completely arbitrary in practice.

I thought John Gruber laid this out pretty well: https://daringfireball.net/2020/06/hey_app_store_rejection_f...
The rise of AI capabilities.
So in this case the entrenched providers would typically try to influence at the regulatory level. For example, no spectrum, no business license etc. We, the public, weren't invited to those closed door meetings but I'd sure like to read the transcripts.
Sure, but how do we quantify that? There's no state board that certifies you as a professional free solo climber.

Say you're a park ranger at Yosemite. Lately, somebody has been parking a suspicious-looking van near the trailhead at El Capitan, so you're keeping an eye out for trouble. You see someone exit the van one morning carrying nothing but the clothes on his back, and you follow him down the trail to the cliff face. He grabs an outcropping and starts climbing like an escaped mental patient.

You have the authority to stop him, since he's clearly behaving recklessly. What do you do? How does your decision differ from that of a ranger who sees Chris McCandless leave the trail in an unmarked area?
On a Dell XPS with a small, pre-pulled image unpausing an existing function took only 0.19s and a cold start only took 0.39s,

I really have to question where we have led ourselves when this is touted as performance. We can nowadays render a frame of Crysis in 4k in < .016s (60FPS). But it takes us an order of magnitude to spin up a function in the best case scenario?

We really need to question all of this.
> My idea is: put up a sign saying “5 people died here” and let new visitors figure it out for themselves.

Hanakapiai Beach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanakapiai_Beach
Not entirely irrelevant, the thread is about browser support.

Also, I agree. I have a laptop with about 256 mb of working ram, so I only use terminal apps with it. If I'm trying to look up documentation and the site doesn't work with lynx it is not a happy day.

And that doesn't even touch on servers.
Well, I don't think paying 30% to Apple is the same as paying 30% to Steam. The former is mandatory, the latter is not. If you don't want to be on Steam, you can put your game in the Windows store/etc, or sell directly from your website. If you don't want to be on Apple's app store, well, too bad, it's the only way to reach 50+% of your potential customers (in the US).
You say we haven't gotten there as a society yet and I say we haven't gotten there as individuals. I really don't think most people, and I definitely include myself in this, know themselves and the world well enough to make such a tremendous decision by themselves in the abstract. It's one thing to want an euthanasia if you're in pain and want it to stop, it's an other to say "just let me die if something goes wrong" when that possibility is a remote and abstract thing.

Most of us have lived very sheltered lives. Most of us haven't felt what it's like to be really, really thirsty. Or really, really hungry. Or really, really cold. Or really, really tired. Or really, really lonely. Or really, really scared. Or all these things at the same time.

I can definitely imagine many people would sign a "don't help me if I'm in danger" waiver out of principle or motivated by some romantic fantasy. Then they end up shitting themselves in a freezing hole in Alaska because they ate bad berries, and they're crying and regretting everything and would be willing to do anything to be out of this place. Suddenly the lofty ideals and the romantic movies start feeling really dumb and absurd.

The principles don't matter anymore, the survival instinct kicked in a long time ago. Fortunately you have a satellite phone and you manage to call the rescue. "Sorry sir or madam, but you did sign a waiver. If you want help you'll have to pay the $300,000 standard search and rescue fee in advance. Thank you for choosing the Walt Disney Search and Rescue Services. Have a pleasant evening!".
You are mixing things that should never be mixed: when you pay taxes, road maintenance - including removal of rocks and trees - is a service that you paid for and you have to get. Enforcing safety belts is not a service for you, it is a measure imposed by coercion by the state that believes it knows better. There is no similarity between these.
I really wish Trump would've sent the FBI into Minneapolis to investigate before the violent protests started.
BMW and Mercedes-Benz put development cooperation in automated driving on hold
By the way, here's an example of cool everyday-AR could be, if done right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm-4GPSnj94

The killer applications of AR would be when glasses are as ubiquitous as smartphones and display the same virtual world for everyone:

Imagine walking outside and seeing your neighbor's favorite fictional character mowing their lawn, because that's the avatar they chose to display themselves to other AR users.

Or seeing kids battling their Pokémon in the park. :)
Making it a website is inconvenient for many reasons compared to an app. Making it Android exclusive sucks for people who have iPhones, and it's a tall order to ask anyone to switch away from an iPhone they have already purchased. The problem is categorically not solved here.
> What errors would preserving types help with here?

Pretty simple, it helps when you do a refactoring that changes the type of the value passed somewhere from number to number[] and the compiler instantly tells you that that’s illegal.

I did something similar just the other day when I had a shared config file read by both TS scripts and Python scripts and I needed to change the format to support a new feature. On the ts side I updated the typedef and the compiler pointed out to me every area that needed updating, on the Python side I had to spend a good chunk of time manually going through the script to figure out what needed updating.
The Tesla app comparison is just dumb, facetious even.

I had a similar app on my Volt but in the case of Tesla the app just works if you have the car whereas GM kept threatening to force you to buy into an Onstar subscription to continue using some features of the app; that would be something I could see Apple taking from.
Is it anti-competitive? Apple literally told them how they could reapply the app in a way where they would owe Apple $0.

Which again, Basecamp already does. They know this is how it is and how to work around it, but they're pitching a fit because they don't want to do it.

I'm a bit ornery about this because Basecamp is using the plight of other developers now only because it suits their bottom line. Where have they been for the past decade? They've been raking in money off the App store for years.
Robinhood increases guardrails on options trading after customer suicide
Stackoverflow: New Reactions Feature
From the UK Competition Commission's report on digital advertising:

"The available evidence suggests that the user data used for targeting digital adverting is highly valuable to advertisers and publishers. For example,Google ran a trial in 2019 to compare the revenue publishers received from personalised advertising with revenue from non-personalised ads. The results indicate that UK publishers earned between 50% – 65% less revenue when they were unable to sell personalised advertising but competed with others who could."
In which case, cut out the (biased, unreliable, deceptively narrated, and ultimately detracting-from-the-point) middle-man, and cite sources directly.

The problem with fabulatory conspiratorialists isn't that they are always wrong. It's that they are so indifferent to truth that teasing fact from fiction is far more effort than reward. Citing them directly and credibly only feeds the bullshit cycle. See Harry Frankfurt: http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_...

I realised this some years back watching a 3h40m epic conspiracy fantasy which does, yes, contain numerous actual, verifiable facts. It also contains numerous uttlerly unsubstantiated claims, and in either case draws supposed conections between individual items --- the narrative --- that are entirely invalid. One key tell was about 20 minutes in, where a fact (Kennedy's "Secret Society" speech, referring not to some hazy/hazing Ivy League drinking club, as claimed, but the Soviet Union: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy#.27Secret_Soci...) was both utterly falsely narrated and very selectively edited. Going a few lines outside the cited bits makes this clear. Lather, rinse, repeat ad nauseam for another 3h20m (and there were likely earlier whoppers I didn't catch).

The reward for my sunk time cost was a realisation of the distinction and relationship between facts and narrative. These can be thought of as a graph or network, whose nodes (facts, real or claimed) and links (narrative relation) can occupy almost wholly separate truth worlds. False facts may fit within a true narrative (an essentially true though fictional novel or film, say, such as Sophie's Choice), true facts, possibly with or without false or invented ones, within a false narrative (a key element of fabulist conspiracies, though often also popular cultural mythologies), both may be entirely invented (usually seen as entertainment fiction, or mad ramblings). The case where both facts and narrative are largely true makes for the most compelling accounts.

There are other dimensions to this: Facts void of narrative or relation are raw data tables. Relationship diagrams tend to narration without facts. There are the various storytelling elements and techniques which strengthen narrative and make it more compelling. All these still seem to work best within the fact-narrative-truth relation I've described above.

The problem with fabulists is that your time is very poorly rewarded, and your own views become slowly warped. Again, going straight to sources, or following more credible narrators (Surveillance-InfoTech ties are not hard to find, recent example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23435499 ) is a much better use of your own, and your audience's, time.

Again, it's not that Corbett is uniformly wrong, and the directive would be far simpler were he. It's that he's indifferent to, or incapable of distinguishing, fact from fiction.

Use a source that is.
iPhone sends your location data to Apple, not just when you dial an emergency number, but every time you use GPS, and there is no way to turn this off. The absurdity of a company marketing a phone that does that (among the other things I listed) as private is astounding. The fact that people fall for this marketing is even more astounding.

This Hey example is another one. If you want to sign up for Hey on an iPhone, Apple is saying that you have to let them know that you are subscribing to Hey, and moreover, you have to give your billing details to Apple, which (unless you take some extra steps) means telling Apple who you are and where you live.
I believe that macros can increase the complexity of debugging.

However, I believe they're much more debuggable than dynamically-generated functions in most languages. There's another layer of translation from your baseline code, but due to the nature of macros, you can usually just step right into them and see the expanded, generated macro code, if my rusty memories of debugging elisp are correct.

Here's one person reading about Common Lisp's debugging infrastructure, FWIW.
That's also not allowed. I think Hey would be fine charging $142 a year for a subscription in their app, with a little note below saying "you can get this for $99 on our website, the difference is Apple's cut." In fact, if I understand it correctly, the price in-app has to be the same as the price anywhere else. They're literally not allowed to do what you're suggesting and pass the cost of Apple's fee on to consumers.