skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I admit to a bit of head-scratching over some the comments here. The most common criticism on HN of Apple's approach to native iOS apps is the way they're locked down through sandboxing and various restrictions in the name of privacy. But a major criticism running throughout these comments of Apple's foot-dragging on supporting various Web APIs is that we should be using PWAs because, compared to native apps, they are locked down through sandboxing and various restrictions in the name of privacy. And... huh.

Yes, I get that in the first case it's Apple setting the restrictions and maintaining the control, and in the latter it's ostensibly open and not controlled by any one party. It's a good principle. But it's easy to forget that the first steps toward web apps were largely taken by Apple back in 2007, with Steve Jobs enthusiastically talking about the "sweet solution" they had for installing third party apps on the iPhone: web apps. There's a future we can imagine where if Apple had stuck to their guns and really ramped up their APIs, PWAs would have taken over mobile computing a decade ago. But they didn't, and the reason they didn't is because both developers and users hated them. Hated hated hated.

"But those web apps sucked and modern ones are much better!" Yes, I agree! But to users, the difference between going to the app store for their platform and downloading Twitter and going to the Twitter web site and tapping "Save as Web App" is pretty minimal, and there is no effective difference between the two once they're installed. Well, I take that back; I don't think a web app can provide a sharing extension, or be automated through Shortcut actions, or offer Siri suggestions. So actually, I'd rather have the real app still, thanks.

And, on point for privacy concerns, for me this isn't as much about "trusting Apple" as not trusting web sites. Yes, I'm sure there are valid reasons for all of these APIs to exist, but when push comes to shove, I'd rather go through the extremely mild inconvenience of having to download an iPad MIDI sequencer as a web app than discover that a web site -- or an advertisement on a web site -- has used that to track me or even deliver a malicious payload to me.
How to explain a 3-year gap (because of health issues) on my resume (developer)?
My work experience as a software engineer goes from 2008 to 2017, and there it stops because of health issues, so it's been three years without working. Now I must get back to work. So I've just picked up my old resume in order to rewrite it, and realized I have no idea on how I'm going to explain that. On one hand it seems there's no other way besides telling the truth, but on the other hand it feels like my resume will just be ignored. Should I place it like that:

<hiatus+explanation>
<job N>
...
<job 2>
<job 1>

Or should I write it before/after the jobs listing? Or should I just omit it?
In general, the less hours everyone works, the greater the advantage you have in working more. By just working 10 extra hours, I can be 25% more productive (there's a lot of simplying assumptions there, of course). This is why the 4 day work week never took off: I can just work one more day and realize a 25% boost in output, a major boon to my career.

Developers don't have much in common with the workers who originally created unions. Some of the differences are that work can be done at home, the potential for advancement and greater salaries is very high, and that the non-physical nature of the work allows you to work very long hours. All of these factors conspire to undermine any 40 hour max set by a developer union.

As average hours worked go up, the benefit of each extra hour goes down. I'm not sure where exactly the equilibrium is, but personally, I find that over the long term, over 60 hours per week leaves me feeling a little shitty and depressed, especially if I have a commute. I think most over can boost up to 80 and be fine for a couple months though.

If there's one profession where people are expected to work more than devs it's finance. New analysts in finance are pulling 100-120 For at least their first. I've done those kind of hours for maybe one week, but it kills you, both physically and mentally.
There's also cases where we have students spend a long time on truly useless stuff because none of the teachers involved understand that it's essentially useless. The example I'm seeing with my kids right now is "mixed fractions". They bang on and on about them... but they're just a special case that is basically used by cookbooks, and not much else. You don't need to know what 37 8/17s + 98 3/24s is, because the only mixed fractions you're likely to see are ones you'd see in recipes. 3½ is pretty large as mixed fractions come in the real world. I don't think I've ever seen in my entire life a mixed fraction as large as 12 4/5. They're always written some other way; 64/5, 12 + 4/5, 12.8, but never a mixed fraction.

In high school, I remember spending endless hours on trig identities. They are useful only in a similarly small situation. (And I actually think they're a fun target to fire Taylor polynomial expansions at, as a good exercise for using them and understanding infinite series, but even then, rather than "memorize this pile of identities" it becomes "prove or disprove this statement:", which is different.) There's a dozen things that time could be better spent on, by purely pragmatic or purely academic standards. But nobody responsible for the curriculum realizes this.

I also recall some really abortive graph theory introductions and set theory... I'm not even sure I see the value in the terrible "15 minutes in high school" types of introductions of those topics. Nobody comes away with anything of either (again) academic or practical value, despite the huge value of the topics themselves.
I run a video game clan with a fairly active discord channel -- the stance I've taken is: there are no rules beyond:

1. nothing illegal (includes cheating at games)
2. no racism / homophobia / transphobia
3. no harassing other members
4. everyone has different beliefs and come from different parts of the world -- if you are offended, ask the offender to stop, otherwise see a mod

so far there are around 50 people in the chat and almost no issues even though we have members who are rep/dem/other, religions ranging from Christian to Satanist, and we regularly post political and religious memes and such.

I don't know how but thus far we've had no real issues.
Yes, but the eBay flywheel was already in place when she arrived. In a marketplace business it's hard to get started but hard to be disrupted, so while growing the company to $8B revenue demonstrates great managerial skill, it doesn't have anything to do with the skill of being the CEO of a startup without product-market fit. She hasn't ever demonstrated the skill of breathing life into a company.
Shame. Good job they have thedonald.win, which is proving to be a more than adequate replacement.
In the first half of the 1900's, there were "race films" from Black-owned studios that were actually financed like this. The studio would create a trailer that they'd then show to theater-owners. Exhibitors who liked the trailer would pay an advance against the box office, and if enough signed on, the film would get made and distributed to them. Kind of like authors getting an advance on a book they're writing.
I talked about paid or open source productive software, usually desktop based, nor ad-riddled mobile apps with the Facebook SDK which by definition are not trusted.

Mobile apps are increasingly sandboxed too, like websites, precisely because of that.
That's the default of how it works on Reddit.

https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004273892-M....

You made the claim that the admins added mods, what made you think so?
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The person you are responding to is based in Ontario and is therefore probably Canadian. I'm not informed enough to have an opinion on Canadian politics, but I do know that Canada is has provinces, not states. ;)
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Nice I will give it a try.
I don't think the claim is that social media is inherently leftist, but rather than leftists have mounted attacks on all social media companies that don't actively censor right-wing opinions (see current ad boycott targeted at Facebook). I think the success of these campaigns are extremely concerning and a reminder that peace and prosperity are not a given.
I'm not convinced that being true redeems any and every statement. For example you can lay out a case for eugenics unacceptable in almost any moderated forum while only making true statements.

As for the linguistic element in your question, "X is Y" in conversation typically means "X at large", allowing for some anomalies but otherwise making a statement about the whole group.
Good job they created thedonald.win.
Here is my take on the social dynamics: a subset of group A discriminates against all of group B. In defense, a subset of group B accuses all of group A. In return-defense, a greater subset of group A accuses all of group B of unfair accusations... and so on.
China restricts the freedom of its citizens, so other countries should restrict the freedom of their own citizens in exchange?
In this thread, you have asserted:

* Large profits don't make Google a monopoly
* Large profits don't make Google evil

However, no one in this thread asserted otherwise. On the other hand, above you assert that large profits alone are enough to qualify Google as a "good business." It's very easy to come up with historical examples of businesses that made lots of money, but which no one would describe as "good."

Google is a monopoly, not because it makes lots of money, but because it is a monopoly. It captures the vast majority of internet search traffic.
EDDM is not addressed, I get it in my mailbox every week and it absolutely is not addressed -- read further down the page I linked:

> Mailpieces are simply addressed to "Postal Customer" and your mail will be delivered to every address on your selected routes.

The area the customer selects are carrier routes. When you select a route, the carrier is given a stack of your fliers and they simply hand one out to each address.
As the head mod of a subreddit this really resonates with me.
In Windows 10 if I search for "sound" I see "Sound Control Panel" as the second or third option depending on which machine I tried. Accounts on both machines are opt-in "Dev Mode" so that may influence things, I believe "Dev Mode" turns on more old Control Panel items in search, as that is Microsoft's "Power User" opt-in.

Inside the Sound Settings I see almost all of the controls I expect to see from the Sound Control Panel, though they are broken into multiple pages in the way that the old Control Panel was broken into tabs. A lot of the Sound Control Panel is the Devices list, and there are multiple links to the "Manage Sound Devices" page that I see in Sound Settings. The link to the app-specific volume mixer is under Advanced Settings and labeled about you would expect "App volume and device preferences".

If that weren't enough I also see on Sound Settings as the second item down under "Related Settings" is "Sound Control Panel" to get back to the one you hoped for if you wind up searching and pulled up the wrong one from the one you preferred. (I don't think that is a Dev Mode thing and always is there.)

(Bonus: the best app-specific volume mixer in Windows 10 is the Audio widget in the modern multi-widget Xbox Game Bar which you pull up with Win+G or the Xbox "Home" button on Xbox controllers. If you've never used the Xbox Game Bar or remember only a flat single bar without a variety of widget windows, trying the new Xbox Game Bar is a good idea, even for people that don't necessarily use Windows for gaming some of the Widgets like Audio and Performance are generally useful and faster or as fast to access than their Task Manager or Settings equivalents. Of course, likely to be disabled by group policy on Enterprise systems; it's unfortunate when Power User tools are Gaming focused/branded.)
T_D was chock full of calls for violence since its early days. In particular, I remember looking one day and seeing its whole front page covered in posts glorifying Pinochet for the way he treated his domestic enemies. The mods quite clearly had no good faith interest in keeping this kind of content out, only stepping in (except to ban users going against the narrative) when they were threatened from above.

I am mystified by how often I see the opinion that "T_D did nothing wrong". Speaking as someone who also finds the far-left spaces on Reddit frightening and repugnant, there is no question that T_D was among the worst of the lot and had the most mainstream reach, which makes it a fine target for responsible moderation efforts. If you want to question why Reddit doesn't follow their content policies to the letter in perfectly even-handed moderation across all users and subreddits, that's fine, but the claim that T_D didn't have a serious penchant for calling for and glorifying violence kind of makes it difficult to take that question seriously coming from you.
Are you talking about their ships that would be rendered unusable by Ukraine in Europe? :)

What use does a fleet have, if it can't go out of the harbor. That would be a very weak position to start with in any game ;)

I wouldn't forget what happened in Japan, when Russia wanted to show their "superior" naval strength.
It isn't similar at all. What are the serious downsides of the mask requirement? I guess a little bit of inconvenience, but there is nothing fundamentally terrible that it can directly lead to, which isn't the case with app bans.

Like, first they made us wear masks, what's next? Kind of literally nothing, there is nowhere further to push this specific requirement towards. And the requirement itself is very specific and leaves no room for ambiguity. This law doesn't give the government any power to make arbitrary decisions. Neither does it require trust in the government. It is just a very specific one-off thing. The effects of this law remain within the specific scope of what this law was intending to do and have no room to escape.

With app bans, you can easily imagine tons of "worst case" scenarios, where they ban arbitrary apps they don't like or don't want people to use. Why? Because the right to ban apps includes a lot of room for ambiguity. It gives power to the government to decide which apps they want to ban, based on their own criteria that don't need to align with reality or what people want. Given how digitized our lives are these days, this is an insane amount of power that can be used fairly arbitrarily. And it relies solely on your trust in the government acting in the interests of their populace at all times.

P.S. Mind you, my sentiment on app bans by the government doesn't apply to app bans for super specific scenarios, like certain app bans on work devices for groups of people with access to classified info. For example, banning WhatsApp and TikTok on work devices for active military and people working on classified contracts for the government? That's a fair game, because the reasoning makes sense, and there is way more at stake than just "personal data" or something like that. And the devices aren't even personal, in the first place. And, it is something you can sort of choose to do by working on classified projects. You have agency over this and can take concrete steps to avoid this ban affecting you. Blanket banning apps for everyone in the country? Yeah, I am not a fan of this.
That incident ... I doubt it is that.

Larger tensions and security concerns, yeah I'm willing to bet it is a larger issue.
I’m pretty sure GP meant why bother implementing sysex messages.

Personally, I think that’s the solution. Provide access to the most common and safe features while disallowing the unsafe one. You’d still get far more functionality than you have now and only sacrifice a little in exchange for safety (vs not having any at all).
It's because the media world is hit driven. Big expensive productions get thrown away all the time because one huge hit will make your career (or your bottom line). This might work for movies but it doesn't work with companies. The Lean approach is to learn and iterate, but the movie people never learn.
I would put it as "the problem is society" essentially as opposed to size per se. I personally doubt that what is essentially a forcibly sharded technical approach akin to what MMOs did to deal with larger loads and content saturation would be useful. Content depends upon O(n) users subdividing it would reduce the utility and make it lose out and worse breed a new tribalism. Combine that with side channels and I am skeptical it would get better.
> However, US is not about expansionism.

... wait, what? Since when? You don't think US military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan are about expansionism?

Besides, the concept of expansionism includes economic expansion, not just border expansion.
Ok, but this is an unreasonable request.

Apple regards their platform as an advantage for developers. You are free to disagree and choose another platform if you like.

But the idea that you would expect Apple not to use it’s own platform to develop its tools makes no sense.

You would be expecting them to give up their primary advantage.

And for what? To satisfy people who don’t want to buy their products?
Thanks for taking a look.

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To this list we could also add Cassandra, ANTLR, Spring Framework, JUnit, Jetty, Tomcat, Android etc. The list continues. The beauty of Java is not Java/Programming language - but JVM. It inspired people to make other languages such as Scala or Kotlin.
True. China did not slaughter 20 Indian soldiers and it's not building up on Indian border. China good. India bad.
Shedding Light (and Sound) on Hidden IoT Devices in Your Next Hotel Room
The parent comment isn't talking about spyware.

Imagine if US.app and China.app were both clean, no spyware. If China subsidizes and allows China.app to have access to their domestic market but bans US.app, while US allows China.app to rake in billions of dollars in revenue in the US - this is purely an economic fairness and global trade issue.

There is no sane defensive argument against this. Chinese market is 1.3 billion people. It is massive. Not allowing western apps/services to serve this market is unfair in every imaginable way. I would say the US should ban all CCP services/apps, etc until China opens up its borders for any country to service their people.

This shouldn't just apply to US. Are you an Italian software company? Do you need to kow-tow to the CCP or plainly banned from serving in China? Swedish company? English? Australian? German? French? This has nothing to do with nationalism or politics which divides us all. It is about preserving global trade to the benefit of all nations and following fair practices and requirements set forth by the WTO.

All democracies need to get together and put light on this problem. I think that's happenning: https://www.ipac.global/

There is also no mystery around this - China does not want to expose their citizens to international values, services, culture and information. Thus, this diplomatic/economic pressure hits the nerve center of the CCP machinery.
You can't confront fascism with the truth, because they've no interest in playing that game and will laugh in your face. There is no statement you can present that will trigger a Damascene conversion.
People always say this, but it kind of seems like superstition to me — I haven't seen much evidence to support it. After the last wave of subreddit bans, it was "Well, obviously they'll all just go to Voat." But the corresponding Voat communities were anemic, and most died out, and now Voat itself isn't even around anymore.

Will some people move to an alternative venue? Almost certainly. Will most people do that, and will the alternative venue continue growing like the old one did? I'm pretty skeptical. The reason so many communities are on Reddit is because it's relatively easy to maintain and grow a community there. By denying them that tool, you make it harder for them to do that.

I'm sure most people here who are old enough can think of some old forum they used to love that isn't around anymore. When that one died out, it wasn't simply a matter of everyone going to another one and everything was the same. It works the same way for negative things as it does for positive ones.
I'm not surprised that Vuze (or its clone/successor BiglyBT) is not there. But it's one of the oldest desktop torrent clients, and is still being developed.
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Trump literally signed an executive order which was threatening social media companies to take on liability from anything their users posted. When that happens said companies will simply outright ban the subs that are causing problems, which are usually the far-right subs because they insist on making threats of violence and racism.

The 'extreme left' has little to no political power compared to the president telling companies to either obey him or risk having their site go down in flames.
not as common as ordering an entire season but lots of mid-season launches are 6-10 episode orders. Also, they don't put out the entire season before feedback, hence many mid-season cancelations. I think this is a hold-over from when the airtime had a lot of value, where as now the broadcast bandwidth for your typical cable timeslot is effectively zero and the content is actually valuable. Async, on-demand consumption has pretty much killed the concept of prime time...
See the paradox of tolerace for why people might not agree with you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Sure, here are some DDG results. You'll find the phrase used in various contexts.

- https://www.facebook.com/theonlygoodtoryisadeadtory/

- https://old.reddit.com/r/northernireland/comments/e9dlk8/a_g...

- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/sep/04/my-husb...

- https://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/news/bath-news/bath-man-unde...

- https://twitter.com/killallt0ries

- http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=1190

I have to say, I'm saddened that bringing this up has caused such a fuss and has caused others to make assumptions on my position. That these sentiments are common is not a new development but it is depressing.
I was able to save $200/month by finding a different apartment (I live in Minneapolis, so this is a roughly 16% decrease in rent).
> On the other hand I tried introducing Rust for a small part of a larger ecosystem and the cold compile times were so bad we rewrote the functionality in C. It shaved minutes off our CI build times, which costs actual money.

Yea, we have this issue (as a shop now using Rust for all of our backend).

I have a couple of hacks in place to cache the majority of the build thankfully, only needing to compile source code unless something changes. When our build cache works our builds take ~60s. When it doesn't, ~15m.