skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much. There's somewhere between 7-12 story archetypes. We've settled on ~36 different dramatic situations. "All is lost" is quite literally the entire second act in the classic three-act story.

That's your toolkit. Build from there. And that' been true since we're telling stories, more or less.
Also Safari might have content blockers (inferior, but better than nothing), however iOS apps don't open links in Safari but in their own web view. This is mostly a cultural thing, but due to Android's tighter integration (eg back button) Android apps at least admit opening in the external browser as an option.

There are two types of web views in IOS. One is an out of process web view where the app has very little visibility in what you do while you are using it. This view does support installed content blockers. Feedly for instance supports this web view. The other is an in process web view where the app has far more control and visibility. But doesn’t support content blockers. I use the Facebook website for just that reason instead of the app.
Yes you can. I tolerate cats but I also tolerate cat haters. If people wanted to ban cats, I can disagree with them, but I wouldn’t be opposed to tolerating them, hearing their opinions, and giving them a forum to talk. Tolerance does not mean endorsement or acceptance.
Yes, CGI is a good call out, from architectural style perspective it is equivalent to RPC.

And yes URL/URI became substantially Roy's work, an idealized digital reference syntax, as was also the fact that what you got at a particular address- if you were to get anything- was data- maybe structured as a media type. There was no commitment to behavior or semantics. Just data.

What I never got a complete sense of, from reading the docs and mailing list convos at the time, is how much Roy came to HTTP with the data-driven perspective, vs how much he absorbed from what were initially TBL decisions- organized around sharing documents and data- and from the presence of Gopher and FTP- dominant protocols at the time and both entirely data driven. And of course going back further- Ted Nelson, Vannevar Bush and others- their relevant work was almost entirely in the data driven vein.
Not agreeing with what are arbitrary rules on the App Store and with the percentage that Apple takes as a cut, but this paragraph opens up many issues with running a platform:

> The user has already paid to download my app from the App Store and Apple has gotten 30% of the cut. What users do on my App after that is none of Apple's business, though of course Apple would like to claim otherwise.

If the App Store runs the way you describe, then everybody would offer their apps for free to avoid the 30% cut and also not have any in-app purchases (since those also have a cut). The result would be the user installing the app and having to go to a website (even if it’s embedded in the app in a web view) to create yet another account, finish the signup process, go through a separate (and usually lengthy) payment process to actually buy the app and managing those payments in cases where those are subscriptions.

One can argue on the merits and demerits of Apple’s current system (which needs an overhaul, IMO), but the other option isn’t without demerits as far as users and user experience are concerned.
This isn't really about Visa-MasterCard, it's about a darling like Stripe charging 2.95% because 3% is customary.

People will freak about their customary rent/take being threatened. They gotta come out of the woodwork and justify the charge... somehow. A HN proxy battle!
Counterpoint, my partner got very sick and I burned my savings then borrowed money from every source I could, including credit cards. I knew I was accepting awful terms, but they gave me money and that’s what I needed at that moment and it was the only way I could get it.

I’m not asking for pity, I knew what I agreed to and I’ll pay it but sometimes high interest revolving credit (credit cards ) only choice you have.
That's because US federal law no longer allows credit card companies to forbid cash discounts.

The above poster was incorrect.
Ha well my eyesight is awful so for me the 1080p is a blessing, especially for battery. But I can't blame you for preferring the crisp screens.
You don't have to ask for the email at all, if you don't want to. Pinterest apparently does not, so for them SIWA is just an authenticator.
AutoCad and Emacs aren't really comparable in their use of Lisp. Emacs is essentially an Elisp interpreter with some features for buffer management, while AutoCad just uses Lisp as a traditional scripting toolkit. Emacs is built with Elisp, AutoCad is not.
LOL so a company I've never heard of is ragequitting my city because of a protest that didn't impact them in any way. But for whoever their employees are, screw you, move or be replaced! "Be free" my foot.
I wouldn't watch them though, I was flipping away pretty quick.

Hard to explain exactly, just saying that it really seemed unusual. Again it was also the amount that were coming up. I watched a descent amount of BLM related videos a few nights.. like, a lot. Then a few insane trump ones which maybe I watch a few moments but keep swiping away, only to be suggested more Trump and less BLM?

Anyway- I understand it's conjecture and hard to say what I was seeing.. just seemed off, and it's pretty easy to jump to the conclusion that it was attempting to manipulate me.
Twitter did have an answer to this. It was called Vine and was very popular before they shut it down.
I found it without paywall reposted to Fox news so... yeah.
To me those interested in an alt-reddit are interested because they want an alternative to the echo-chamber that is reddit. Those you mention could be found on any site & just have to be banned.
> all their arguments apply to all third-party sign-ons

What about the argument that users check their gmail addresses regularly but rarely check their icloud email addresses?
Well, in this case, a porn site wants to tie what it shows you to what you liked last time you visited. They aren't after your identity per se. They are after a conversion. And since you might be using incognito mode (no lingering cookies), they care about fingerprinting for that.

Edit: I see the disconnect now. I'm not saying Google/chrome added the midi API for fingerprinting. I'm saying the screenshot way up this thread is an example of a site using it for that purpose.
I believe in a free and open internet.
And now you understand why none of them work very well!
It's way more crippling and goes beyond IDFA and basic 3P ad tech - at least from my reading.

Unless I'm misunderstanding?

From my reading of the url below, Apple is mandating this consent popup on all apps that use any advertising (both 3p tracking but also serving their own 'walled garden' e.g. FB) - that is beyond basic contextual.

To me this seems to go way too far. For instance FB in the US would have to get consent to show any ads as they currently run for the vast majority of users. Plus if there is privacy a law like gdpr FB already gets opt-in in those countries this is just adding another opt-in on top.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/user-privacy-and-data-...
> My app is not the App Store. The user has already paid to download my app from the App Store and Apple has gotten 30% of the cut. What users do on my App after that is none of Apple's business, though of course Apple would like to claim otherwise.

It seems like you are the one who would like to claim otherwise, since to get your app in the store you have already agreed both to the terms of the developer program and to follow Apple's guidelines.
Yeah.

Side note, you probably know but OWL and RDF and related semantic data and graph model standards are "machine-to-machine" usable and have a clear lineage to Roy's work. HATEOAS was a stab in that direction, but insufficient.
Exactly, right? Can't believe people fell for Dropbox when you could build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
I have six CC , my total AF for them is $2500. Every year I got at least $6500 back from using those cards. Not to mention travel insurance, car rental insurance and purchase insurance which comes with those cards and it's worth at least $600 a year.
Exploring Monster Taming Mechanics in Ffxiii-2: Viewing the Monster Data
Don't cut yourself on that edge there mister.
yes, UK can cover itself with ground stations and thus can get the high precision on the island. That wouldn't help though to target weapons or even to just drive ships/tanks/planes anywhere else in the world.
Here's what I don't get about this.. I've seen all these various claims, and to be frank I did uninstall tiktok just recently as I only enjoyed it for about a week or so then lost interest, and there's all this stuff coming up about it....

All these claims I see sound like EVERY SINGLE APP could be doing the same thing. Are both iOS/Android really that exposed that they can just get all of this info without explicitly asking for permission? If they are bypassing shit and recording your mic under the radar.. how the hell would apple/google be letting a billion user+ app be doing this?

Something just doesn't pass the smell test here.
Stephen Molyneux is a single-minded crusader against corporal punishment of children. He cites IQ and demographic statistics as evidence that the high incidents of corporal punishment among African-Americans is harmful to the population.

But untangling that ball of wax is a lot harder than calling him a racist and getting on with life isn't it?
RTP is definitely a step in the right direction. It's coverage is s around 50%, which is good. I'm hoping FedNOW pushes is the rest of the way.

The clearing house is also owned by many of the large banks in the US. While this seems nice, I'm sure there's some paranoia from non owners about joining a network owned by their competition.

The UK went and interesting path of forcing all banks to implement faster payments, so it got wide coverage.
So a thing that you should know about YouTube is that if a video is demonetized, it loses ranking in search engines. Since videos seem to be automatically demonetized if they have LGBT related tags, it is much more likely that the lose in ranking is due to the demonetization that is due to the LGBT content.
He talks a bit about the channel width/range relationship in appendix H: https://www.duckware.com/tech/wifi-in-the-us.html#channelwid... There's some more in appendix I
In a small town, everyone knows everyone, so it's easier to exclude them if you want to.

It's a lot harder online when you don't know people, they show up unannounced, they hide their true intent behind plausible deniability and dog whistles, and they just come back with another account when they get sprung.

Inoculation is a good idea. I think this blog post sheds some light on how targeted, intentional, and childish, many of the tactics are and being able to notice them is important. They very much rely on people letting them scatter their pieces all over the web as you say.

https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/the-rhetoric-tricks-traps-an...
The idea that restrictions in human liberty are subject to when "a national community agrees on something" is laughable at best and evil at worst.
I was just about to say watch out for alt-left, they are going to try to cancel you know because you moved to Texas.
Most of the flags tell the Rust compiler what strategies to use when producing machine code. Actual Rust code rarely looks at these flags, so correct interpretation of the program generally isn't affected by them.

Contrast this with C and C++, where it's common to #ifdef in an entirely different program depending on the flags.

It's certainly possible to do something like this in Rust, but in practice it's rare.
With rare specialized exceptions, pretty much nobody needs all this complexity. Certainly not a simple app like AnyList. All this flexibility is not free, it comes at the cost of obviousness, as they described. It's not worth it much of the time.

The real problem is Apple shoving their proprietary, poorly designed services down everyone's throats.

No, I don't want to use icloud email, I already have an email address. No, I don't want to provide a "real" email address after I provided an obfuscated one. No it's not my fault that messages sent to the obfuscated one will go to some icloud inbox that I didn't create and I don't read. No, it's also not my fault that when I contact support I do it from my normal email address and not from the obfuscated one (how would I even do that). It's not the support's fault that they can't connect the two.

It's not the user's fault, and it's not the developer's fault. Apple is the sole designer of this mess. There is no excuse.
Nice article, thanks. For anyone interested in the topic, I highly recommend Trefethen's Approximation Theory and Approximation Practice. It's approachable, intuitive, and fun while still covering a lot of technical detail.
VBA How-To: If/Else and Checking for Empty Strings
This pattern of out migration is more common than it sounds: https://chiefexecutive.net/business-exodus-california-troubl...

The most apparent reason is lowering business expenses associated with either employee cost of living or state taxes.

There are many other supported reasons though:

* Access to more geographic markets. North Texas, is the major inland port of the US due it’s combined rail and air operations and geographic center between the coasts.

* Most people find the west coast phenomenon of bringing personal politics to work and then walking out on your employer when they don’t support your personal politics really entitled, exclusionary, and off putting.

* Increased diversity. According to estimates and census data major Texas cities are more diverse than west coast cities and that diversity is increasing as the cities are experiencing unprecedented growth. My city of Fort Worth has almost doubled in population since 1990 and will have more than a million residents within the decade.

* Political stability, wealth distribution, and home ownership are also major intertwined concerns.
This is me. I also learned from the Klutz books, and at the time (when I was 12 or so) I was pretty meticulous. In the time since, however, I haven't kept the skill up and now I can barely keep three balls in the air.
> Because if we start classifying ideas as "problematic" and shutting people out, then what is remaining to iron out differences?

I don't want to iron out differences with a person who thinks that jews, queers, women, people with dark skin, poor people, or any other category that isn't defined entirely by hatred of the other are less than. I think I'd rather throw that person into the ocean.

Not because they say wrongthings but because they want to bring harm to me and those I care about because of who we are in regardless of anything we say or do. There's a difference between "freedom to speak" and freedom to desire to be an oppressor. I don't desire to throw them into the ocean. Hell, that might feel oppressive to them. But I do desire them to not want to be oppressors, and in the absence of that, I'll accept throwing them into the ocean.

> You don't "defeat racism" or "defeat Nazism" by

You absolutely do by shutting them down at every turn, because those ideas don't spawn en masse on their own. Those ideas are spread, and they only spread because people with libertarian "every voice is sacred" positions don't immediately stamp them out.

> I see a rise of an illiberal mob from both right and left

Let's see. So on one side you have people who are willing to get violent because they want within their lifetimes for everyone to have healthcare and a roof over their head and food to eat and equal pay and to not have to worry about nazis and they're angry that some people actively obstruct liberty, equality, and fraternity...and on the other side you have rampant ethnic, gender, or economic bigotry including real actual nazis...and your answer is "both sides". I mean...ok...that's one perspective.
It seems deeply embedded historically. The "Traitorous Eight" split off over petty discontent like starting hours and suit requirements as opposed to a desire for more money or something higher minded like their projects with potential being ignored.

The entrepreneurial disruption mentality historically has been a "we are sick of your bullcrap and trappings, you idiots haven't been listening so we'll start our own".

That it has worked repeatedly and utterly devestated many titans corporations run by "professional" men in suits effectively validated their iconoclasm and rejection of the standards of old. It may be arrogance but there were enough validating moments to understand why.

Suits have taken on a negative connotation. It is implicitly seen as hidebound dinosaurdom and an admission of form over function. Sort of an assumption that if they are wearing a fancy suit then they are an empty suit.
>cryptographically secure hash function

I doubt that would help you. Hash tables take the hash and mod it by the size of the array. That will lead to collisions after the mod even if it's essentially impossible to generate collisions before the mod.

What you actually need is a secret hash function, so attackers don't know what the values hash to. This is done using a keyed hash function with a secret key.
This recent research from China suggest another possibility..that it acts as an ACE2 blocker.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.22.164665v1....
He mentions the flat tire, but he ignores the fact the pressure of a flat tire is 0, leading his measuring method concludes that the weight of the car = F = PA = 0A = 0. His measuring method flunks his sanity check, but he never notices.

Let P_m be the pressure recommended by the manufacturer. A better sanity test would be to fill the tires to .75P_m, then to 1.5P_m, and see if the area in contact with the ground has shrunk in half.
Well, it's a fair point - if the only people who get banned are actual Nazis, everyone will get called a Nazi before too long.

Actual Nazis are rare. They were rare during WW2 and they're really rare now.
My nephew receives Remicade infusions to treat Crohn's Disease. He typically receives the treatment at a local, children's hospital; however, due to Covid-19, my sister elected to have an in-home infusion performed. Appears to be a fairly efficient process.

Interestingly, their insurance company has been trying to push them into performing his infusions at home for a couple years, as it is more cost effective. My sister has to fight them on it every couple of months to continue having them performed at the hospital.
honestly, the minute i saw "mobile only" i pretty much lost interest in quibi, and in fact i had entirely forgotten that they existed. i'm glad the guardian called that out as one of the factors contributing to their demise, and would love to see the entire trend of mobile-only apps and services go the way of the dodo.
I think that's the entire point of the parent's (and my as well) position: the so-called convenience of not having to type a few more things to set up an account is not worth giving more data and control to FB/Google/whomever.
Ask HN: Is “No Code” the future of web/app dev?
It's been "the future" for 40-ish years now, with dozens (if not hundreds) of failed attempts. At some point, one has to wonder: are we there yet? If not, why aren't we?

To me it seems logical that designers should one day be building frontends through visual interfaces that are almost as malleable as tools like Sketch. It seems to me that many features from design programs (like Framer) seek to make design closer to development, and we've even seen a Git for design workflows. So why hasn't it happened yet, and will it ever?
One issue I know smaller retailers sometimes have is that it can take a long time to get cleared funds into their account.

One small cafe near a place I used to work said it usually took 30-60 days for funds to clear into their account after a card transaction. That, for them, was a major problem as it meant that they couldn't then pay their suppliers in a timely manner when cashflow was highly variable.

Then again, a bakery I visited that was in a small town said they'd stopped taking cash, as they got robbed some huge number of times.
Got any examples this that don't conflate conservativism with nazism or white supremacy?
This is good news on the competition front.

The traditional problem with bank-to-bank transfers in a retail, or point-of-sale, setting has been speed. Cheque was about the fastest that could be mustered.

But with developments like UK Faster Payments (which is mentioned in your link) bank-to-bank transfers are getting faster, in some cases instant. And so usability at the point-of-sale is now on par with cards.

In Holland, iDEAL is used a lot for retail purchases. It's an instant bank-to-bank payment option that competes with the card networks.

The equivalent in Sweden is Swish. It too is moving into point-of-sale payments.

As for the US, I suspect that at some point Zelle will pivot into retail point-of-sale payments. At which point the card networks will have a big competitor.

All of this is good news if you are worried about the card oligopolies!
Ugh, where do I start? The UK did not buy any satellites. They bought a stake in a satellite company. Actually, they didn't do that either, they submitted a bid to buy a stake in a satellite company. The bid will be reviewed, and after it's approved by the US, they may win it.

Once they have the stake, the satellite company, OneWeb, may build for the UK some satellites for a new global positioning system, or they may build some other satellite capabilities. If they go for the first one, they can build satellites at the same altitude as the ones they have placed in orbit so far (1200 km), or at a different altitude. If they place them at the 1200km altitude, it's not clear at all why this would be bad, except that some self-declared experts pointed out that the current GPS satellites are at a higher altitude.
Every time I see this argument I have the same question. How many successful web apps are there for Android? Apps that make the most money on the App Store are free to play games with in app purchases of loot boxe, coins, etc. how many of those are feasible on the web?

On the other hand, which apps that make money via in app purchases would be viable and successful as web apps?
they did just remove r/theDonald so obviously not just any topic is open for discussion. Basically you can talk about any color as long as it's blue.
> It would be nice if the US had PINs like Europe does for credit cards.

Some cards do offer this feature, all issued by credit unions as I recall. Spokane Teachers Credit Union, First Technology Federal Credit Union, and State Department Federal Credit Union are the three I know off the top of my head. Target's MasterCard version of its REDcard also has a PIN but you cannot apply for that card directly.

(I have cards from each of them, except SDFCU, and have considered getting that one simply because it would be a chip-and-PIN Visa card and I don't have that particular combination.)
I'm not advocating for any of these people. I'm saying there's going to be scenarios that require nuance to navigate, and that the rules that delineate hate speech should be very explicitly spelled out.
Find a big thrift store near a big university. Slightly old and decades old textbooks for $3.50 . Plus interesting books.
I think there are also tons of other optimizations currently missing in DuckDB, vectorization probably the most important.