skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prior to canvas, you had Flash and server-side rendered round-tripped graphs. You really think this was better?

Browsers bring friction-free exploration, literally "surfing". Hit the back button, or clear all your caches, and you're done, but otherwise, it's fire and forget.

The installable App model creates "shit work". Everytime I install something, it permanently takes up both screen real estate, and storage, and creates a cleanup task for me to delete it at a later date. Steve Jobs said "don't give your users shit work", well, app install and uninstall is shit work.

I don't want to install stuff, I want to use stuff and get work done, and want things to go away if I don't want them without having to become a System Janitor.

You complain about notification janitor work, which is fair, but native apps have the same problem, my iphone is deluded with notification spam.

The whole app model is a complete reversal of decades of movement to thinner clients, back to the Windows model.

Every time I go to a new restaurant, a new milk tea place, a new airport, or a new airline, they're asking me to install their native app. How many god damned United/American/SFO/InAndOut/FiveGuys/Chipotle/Starbucks/et al apps do I need on my device?

And no, "Instant Apps" are a worse solution to this. Why do I need to download a friggin 5mb iOS executable, even if it isn't perma-installed, just to display a form with 4 boxes on it to pay for a parking meter.

Form-filling is literally the use case for SGML from the beginning.

No, we don't need a native-locked-down-walled garden for every physical point of sale in the real world. And since Apple will never own 100% of the market, this means developers will end up needing to write, x2, silly little point of sale apps which clog up people's phones.

Ephemerality, transparency, portability, are desirable properties in addition to security and privacy. Apple leans too much on the latter at the expense of the former with relatively dubious justifications that could be fixed with better design, instead of refusing to participate in improving the specs to meet the desired properties.
Oh yes, this tool situation is the worst part of our jobs imo. Every time I see a new layer coming in, I instinctively duck.

I hate how much time and brain space these things occupy. I can't even by lazy when working with them, there's always a ton of tiny things to read about and factor in, and often no shortcuts to just getting it over with. You have to be cautious and try to get it right the first time because most of them inevitably involve spending money, and your dumb mistakes will be quickly discovered.
Well yes.. I don't see why not. He brings a lot of different crowd, I'm not an American so I don't care about your childish bipartisan politics, but him talking to candidates gave me a better overview than watching 48h of your news channels.
So someone explicitly chose to hide their email, and then on logging into an app is asked to share their real email.

Anyone in that position would think the app is shady AF and user hostile.
Not my area of expertise but it would seem that "big tent" advertisers with broad appeal and universal recognition -- Coca-Cola, P&G, Chevrolet, McDonald's, etc -- are much more suited to mass media advertising and are a poor fit for the specificity, niches and micro-segmenting that Facebook allows. Cost per impression is likely far lower with TV ads, despite their high price tag, plus they can be 100% sure the surrounding content is family-friendly and not your crazy uncle's latest political rant. I think this is really about money and placement.
Not sure, but they might have to register as foreign agents like some Chinese news outlets did recently.

Would be interesting to see though.
And their whining about not getting email addresses is exactly why I would not want to give mine.
The pleasure of finding things out: the best short works of Richard P. Feynman
I don't disagree that no company has spoken out, but given that "the Hong Kong people" are not a singular entity and support for the protestors in so far as their methods go has been declining, it simply does not make business sense to do so, which is to say nothing about what's morally right as business rarely takes moral stances.
Apple operates on behalf of the user. Apple saw users with throwaway/burner email addresses and said why not make this easier for everyone?
Eleven mayors pledge to explore direct cash payments plan to fight poverty (US)
Or, google isn't as anti-competitive and anti consumer as apple. what a shocker.
Do you care to point to something that backs up that claim? I can't find any mention on that subreddit about anything relating to Youtube or Twitch bans.

https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+site%3Areddit.com%2F...

https://www.google.com/search?q=twitch+site%3Areddit.com%2Fr...
I agree. The layperson may not know the ins and outs, but most people say they want privacy. Apple doing privacy things, marketing said things, and getting news coverage of said things does eventually filter down to the average person. So while few outside tech may really understand IDFA, all the privacy moves Apples makes in aggregate do make it out to the regular person.

Unfortunately, as you touch on, privacy is yet another thing that only people with money get to have.
ah, yes, this is a very original comment that has not been posted ad infinitum on every "BigCorp boycotts Facebook Ads" thread in the past few weeks...
In one place, you say that programmers should pre-validate that inputs are not long. I would suggest quantifying that somehow. I suspect some developers will not realize that a 30 character input is "long".
>Conservatism has a place in society.

Literal white supremacists and nazis however, do not. Those people should be pushed so far off any platform that their only option left is to be the crazies screaming on Times Square that the end of the world is coming.

These people actively contributed to fostering hatred in societies, And no, you will not fight them off with debates. The time it takes you to rebuke a single one of their arguments means they can spew a dozen more of theirs.

By the way, it's not free speech. The government isn't banning them.
Wild mixes of consumer and provider API's for example in Swing. The later designs have been much better in that regard.

The built-in http client library is borderline horrible.
I agree with the pandemic part... Best deals on cars however is likely correlated negatively with natural inclination of sale of new cars. July I think, barring pandemic, in fact might be one of the more popular months to shop for a car from a consumer's perspective.
But Russia would be on the winning side. But that's just some alternative history.
I think disinformation has an information-theoretic advantage over factual information when consumed by someone who can't tell which is which.
Isn't ad space by auction anyway? So if the highest bidders leave it just means the highest bid is a bit lower
Well, IntelliJ Idea is a fantastically better IDE than XCode from a functionality standpoint, and Kotlin + Compose is IMHO, better than SwiftUI. Compose isn't a SwiftUI clone, it's a pure-functional memoization framework with compiler support.
funny how people used to say that 90s were the worse decade.. Yesterday I was hearing the acoustic from Pearl Jam.. aaah the 90s, best decade <3
We started seriously looking into git in 2007/2008, then launched git.kde.org in 2010. We had set ourselves the goal to lose zero history, and doing a perfect import while transitioning from a monorepo (with lots of interesting code movement within the hierarchy) to hundreds of individual repositories was quite challenging back then! We had to invent some of the tooling (svn2git) along the way.
TrustNet: A comprehensive computational trust system
I was wrong then. So cat owners should start buying remdesivir then.
Aha. I was already thinking: what does Gitlab add next to Phabricator? And the KDE Bugzilla instance. Will that be moved over as well? KDE has many parallel systems like that unfortunately.
Then switch off the Mail option in iCloud settings on their devices. Poof, mailbox disappears.
I have had SVB see transactions from Transferwise in my account and then call me up and offer a better rate on their foreign transfer services. Interesting!
Exactly. Plus Apple is shipping new intel macs.

The thing to be critical of Apple for is the vague and mysterious guidance re roadmap. That's ante for playing with Macs. After years of defective laptops, it's ridiculous that we need to read tea leaves. As a commercial user, do I wait for broken 2018/19 keyboards, or replace with a potentially obsolete device? We wont know until Apple controls the CPU pipeline.
Even if this is cost-cutting move by advertisers it is still a huge win for all promoters of censorship.
The problem is the British sea. If it's just the land mass it's really not a supper big problem. It's still kinda big as devices would need to specially manufactured for their system, which can drive costs up.
China has a history of data snooping to support its totalitarian goals. Software and development that comes out of there should be considered to come with elevated risk. Some companies work with this by ensuring that China-only data is served from within China. If there is no audit of code pushed from China and ran in the US, I'd be suspect that no backdoors or anything else have been introduced by coercion from the state. Perhaps I'm just paranoid, but just because you are not paranoid, it doesn't mean they are not after you.
Sometimes you have no choice, I guess.
I just don't see a lot of reasoning for these claims. The reduction in business and travel, absolutely, but people suddenly having more diverse travel interests and desire to go to national parks because of the pandemic? I just don't know where that comes from. If anything, I would think that there'll be more pent up desire for people to go see all the big cities they can't visit right now.
A lot of learning involves interaction between the cerebellum and the rest of the brain, and the cerebellum has a different structure. "How the brain works" type descriptions should mention the cerebellum quite a lot, but usually don't. Partly because when I was looking at this stuff a while back there was much less known about this interaction.
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That's a though one to argue. 90% of people in a peaceful country take peace for granted, so their opinion on what should the military do is honestly nonsense.

Anticipating the downvotes: if you think peace is "easy" and are no aware of how much a strong military power is required to hold it you are delusional.
Brexit becoming a path-setting event encouraging other EU members would only happen if Great Britain gets a visibly good deal while EU makes a visibly lousy deal.

However, it would make absolutely no sense for the EU to make such a deal that benefits Great Britain more than EU. Leaving the EU must be seen to have its consequences; political, economical and otherwise.

The question to ask then is: is it reasonable to expect Great Britain to get a good deal?

The answer is no, a good deal won't happen. The EU will negotiate, but only to get more gains, they won't agree on anything that is even remotely bad for the EU. The EU doesn't need to accept just any deal for the sake of a deal.

And actually, to me it looks like the EU is content with a no deal as a starting point. If they get anything else, nice. If not, shrug.

My reading from the British newspapers and articles is that the pro-Brexit elements of the GB government have an almost cargo cult like belief in Great Britain carving out a fantastically awesome deal, somehow emerging as the sole victor from the process and taking down the EU in flames as they go. I don't see any way how this could happen unless the high leadership of EU were to somehow sell out the entire block in favor of British interests. It is simply not going to happen.

As for more speculative thoughts, I think the next big things in a post-Brexit Great Britain will be Scotland becoming independent and also perhaps joining the EU later down the line; the two Irelands probably end up doing something similar.
Making a kitchen-table data center
It's about time now to declare the "social media" experiment dead. We're basically learning that there is value in excluding. The all inclusive buffet only brings you down to a neutered lowest common denominator. You're not really going to get any real thought or discussion when you're conversation is monitored by outside moderators. It was doomed to fail anyway.
He used lwjgl library
Cards still account for less than 18% of US payments (source https://go.plaid.com/rs/495-WRE-561/images/Plaid-Modern-guid...).
‘Floor Is Lava’ Is the Most Popular TV Show in the U.S.
That protection of speech, mind you, doesn’t just extend to the KKK. There are a lot of things people on HN probably like (pornography, violent video games) that have been protected by exactly the same principles.
Patroni might be interesting: https://github.com/zalando/patroni
Has anyone ever actually seen a Coca-Cola ad on Facebook? I can't remember ever getting any advertisements that weren't for obscure scientific equipment or scammy mobile apps.
That's what we call freedom of association.
Based on what?

Is the 9th stuffing company?
I don't disagree, but would you expect such a significant drop in Safari usage?
Wouldn't it be crazy if mega corporations could be used as tools to circumvent the first amendment? If Visa could tell Stripe who they're allowed to do business with when people in power get a little worried about what's being said?

And when did the first amendment stop protecting (some) dehumanizing speech? It definitely still protects dehumanizing progressive speech. How long before we have a list of types of speech no longer covered by free speech. How long until what I'm saying now is no longer covered?
Maybe, but all of the companies involved can go f!ck themselves if they return to FB with no concessions.

So, a one time ping for an eternal f!ck you?

Doesn't seem to make strategic sense.
HN... where people go to complain about both companies requiring access your email, and companies requiring you to be able to block other companies from access to your email. I don’t get it.
We make money on debit card usage (interchange) and deposits that sit with us. We will be adding a couple of other revenue streams this year.

We have pretty good unit economics and the bigger we get the more money we make. Agreed that you should be skeptical of anything that makes a loss on a per user basis.
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That's the same slippery-slope argument people user to complain about Reddit banning pedophile subs in 2012.

Extremist subs and their brigading were the biggest treat to free speech and creativity in the site.
The boogie man, no doubt
A book riddled with methodological errors, and not even peer reviewed, does not a good post make
Yes, that part about not being able to back up his claims wasn't there, when I first read that comment yesterday. And I also don't like that he mixes the technical critique with the moral critique of TikTok, which makes him look biased.

Still, it's a well known fact that authoritarian regimes tend to use all the tools available to them for spying in foreign countries. That's why Russia's Yandex, VKontakte, and Mail.ru are banned in Ukraine since 2017.
Regarding the composition of political domain in UK and the fact that it doesn't have much engineers taking active/prominent roles, it speaks more about the local culture than about the relation between politics and engineering. I understand that China has a lot of engineers in its leadership.

Regarding the politics in a democracy (UK and beyond), yes, it's a good point to look for the political apparatus as it presents well enough the essence of the underlying game, with its public image grooming and selection, all tailored to the perceived status in the masses. But then, looking at engineering (CS and other fields), I fail to see anything detrimental to public image buildup. May it be that engineering is a gate with a higher cost for a mere pass through when one aims to politics and thus makes itself a deal-breaker to that end?

Regarding the perceived lack of social status for engineering in general, I consider it a blessing. I'm quite glad there is a field where people have to be paid well (for their hard-earned skills and due to the sheer market demand), yet the status whoring game is relatively limited. I'm only afraid that it won't last.
Those things are literally not related, and, conveniently enough, panampost if a far right "news" website.

Supporting Maduro doesn't invalidate their fight.
Supporting marxism doesn't invalidate their fight.
Supporting Cuba doesn't invalidate their fight.

Oh, by the way, those three are countries or ideologies the US have actively tried to destroy. Should I go and make my own website claiming the US government for dozens of years has been the number one exporter of terrorism in the world ?

Oh, right, it actually is. And still, it's still not related to the damn subject.
I hope you realize that for the uninformed, like me, your response is as dubious as OPs. All you are saying that this is false and it has been proven by empirical evidence - trust me.
All the boycotts I've seen reported are for less than a month, one for half a year. It's barely a blip on the radar for Facebook, but lots of good PR feelings for the boycotters.

Also, all it means is that they're not spending any more money on FB ads. They're still represented on their Pages and accessible via FB.

Just halftime show during the game.
> Another issue is Sign in with Apple’s “Hide My Email” feature. With this feature, if you create an account with us, Apple will generate a special email address just for that account. So rather than your email address being john.doe@icloud.com, we will see your email address as something like dpdcnf87nu@privaterelay.appleid.com.

Ironically, this is also why I use Sign Up with Apple at every opportunity I can
+1 for Mercury. We (FeaturePeek) started on SVB and it was a terrible experience. Mercury has been great
The problem is that when parties are highly polarized, politicians who want to be the sort of leaders you are talking about can't get into leadership positions and often are voted out at the primary election stage.
Who's going to report on it?
> Doesn't "all social-media advertising" mean ALL social networks, like Twitter too?

Yes. Activist "journalists" are trying to bully Facebook into censoring their political opponents, and the best way they know to do that is to set the narrative that Facebook in particular is “too toxic” for any brand. The brands themselves are choosing either to play into that for pricing leverage, or to tell the truth: that everything is too polarized for most advertising.

Twitter is trying cave right now to deflect the heat to Facebook, it seems, and I'm sure it looks to them like it's working, but it's only a matter of time before the window shifts and they're next.
Exactly! Which is as it should be. Way too many websites take for granted that they can do anything with the email addresses provided, including sending spam by default or with no way of opting out. With Sign In with Apple, if they don’t get in my email, that’s because I don’t want them to have it. Then, their poor marketing practices are irrelevant, which actually makes me more likely to create an account on their website.
If someone is planning to buy a car this year, I don't think they're going to find a better deal than right now. These companies are desperate for business right now. I'm seeing 0 interest loans for 5 years at multiple dealerships near me, which is basically the entire life of most loans.

I bet you could walk in a dealership, offer cash way under MSRP and drive off the lot right now. Nobody is spending any money and businesses are hurting and are willing to take miserable deals just to sell a car.
Fooling 1 person a thousand times
Parent simply asked for citations on the ideological leanings of Molyneux. I make no claims on how best to to regulate the massive multinational corporations who control what amounts to the digital commons, as I have no answer :)
"Just because they're the problem doesn't mean we aren't."

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-problem
It doesn't cost a million. But me too, I will pick the virus over the million. Obviously because I don't have the million but with a massive loan for the rest of my life, it may not be impossible. So time to pull out the micromorts.

Case fatality rate for COVID-19 is estimated to be about 1.4% (still uncertain). That's 14000/1000000 chance of death, or 14000 micromorts.

Studies in the US have shown that people are ready to pay ~$50 per micromort. If we assume that remdesivir really is the ultimate coronavirus killer, it means that following statistics, people would pay $700k for it. Not that far off from your million.

In reality, safety standards in the US put the micromort at around $10, so that miracle cure would be about $140k.

Of course, it is just general statistics, a wealthy old man will pay much more than a poor kid (risk of death increase with age). It assumes remdesivir is a miracle cure, which isn't, we are not sure if it is effective at all.

In reality, it looks like treatment is going to be around $3000, which, if it improves my chances of survival by a few percent, is actually a sensible price.
What do you think is the best way to accomplish this?
A big chunk of that sub was transphobic posts.
Computer science is hard and even Knuth is humbled by it. And he's been writing several programs a week for about sixty years.
While I agree with the sentiment, things have certainly opened up lately quite a bit with the mainstream-ization of the crypto currencies. One could conceivably avoid Visa / MC in a way that just wouldn't have been possible before.

Visa / MC remind me a bit of Ticketmaster in that they've got parties on both sides defending them because of kickbacks. You charge the merchant the "interchange fee" plus some amount and that fee goes back to the "card issuing" bank, so they like the system.

The merchant passes on the cost (generally) to the consumer, so they don't really notice, and the ease of moving the money in 99% of cases means everyone is happy.
How does a virus assemble inside a cell?
So we can never denounce hatred and bigotry without being hypocritical? We don't want to be hypocritical, right? So we should never denounce hatred and bigotry! Brilliant!

I am super, super tired of "if you denounce bigots that makes you just as bad as them."
I've commented about this on HN earlier. Censorship will end up swallowing us all.

Now I guess it's ok to hate me as I'm part of several majorities and people seems to like it.

What am I supposed to do now? Hate myself? Allow others to discriminate me? Make a blind eye to those who think it's ok to hate me?
A klan member, at worst, wants to literally commit genocide.

A marxist wants that every person's needs are fulfilled, the removal of class and equality. Marxism is the definition of an utopia.

Yeah, I'll take marxism. You go on ahead and keep on with the bOtH SiDeS rethoric.