skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The family plan settings on an account are certainly not an example of getting it right. You can share a library, have multiple linked accounts, but the instant any one of those accounts fires up a game all other accounts are locked out of the entire library. Not just the game that is currently running, but the everything. Valve missed the entire point of having a family account setup and every time I mention this I get “shut up pirate” as the response because having kids isn’t a valid use case.
The vast majority of apps are malware. In both Apple's and Google's app stores. It's gotten to the point that apps are assumed to harvest all information they have access to, store it permanently and sell it to anyone who asks.
What is the last app with 800mm users for which the pundits correctly predicted its demise?
I don’t think it’s fair, just like I don’t think Standard Oil could have pulled off a “We’re in competition with millions of people’s feet” and millions of horses.
Should the novel be pro-soviet?
Sure. That's why many people have no idea how they get infected eg. in New York... the moment you step in to an elevator you are exposed.
YouTube Video Downloader to… download videos from YouTube. I mostly used this for conference talks I wanted to queue up and watch while flying, but not traveling so much these days.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-downl...
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Do you have a few examples of tasks you assigned? I struggle to come up with tasks that I think have the right level of complexity, but which can also be completed in a reasonable amount of time.
Warning: This is a very long read. The first paragraph should tell you enought to decide whether you want to read the entire article.
Somewhat related, Netheads vs. Bellheads https://www.wired.com/1996/10/atm-3/

I briefly worked at a place fully dominated by Bellheads early in my career. They were bemoaning IP and holding on to ATM stuff as late as 2001. I'm told that the last of their tribe (after I left) fought off VoIP as a passing fad well into the 2000s.
Last time I checked there wasn't even a good way to filter on Audible exclusives. They're typically the only audiobooks I get through Audible, as I'd otherwise wait for them to be available in my library app.
Isn't anything made by humans "DIY" at some level? Couldn't the same be said about all vaccines?
That's awesome! However, it WILL result in stripe attracting a LOT of the crappy billers (ie, folks who mislead / make customer unhappy etc). If your business is < 1% refunds, no worry if fees stay. A fair number of business have just 1 or 2 refunds PER YEAR.

Other business obviously have MUCH higher refund rates (sneaky autobill businesses etc). For these loosing 5% on the refunds matters if they have a lot of refunds, so they'll be very tempted by no costs if you autobill and get caught. They'll just autorenew everyone, autosign up and then be VERY good about refunds to avoid chargebacks. Even if just 30% of customers don't catch a few months you end up with real money.

Of course, CUSTOMERS may hate these players, but stripe I guess is focused on what works for the businesses generating lots of refunds.
I'm in finance too. I know a bit about it, but I'm not an expert. I've had business analysts tell me that they want a daily accrual but gave me requirements for a monthly accrual. When asking them about it and pointing out what the differences were, they told me to make it how they told me to make. After it was done they blamed me for creating a monthly accrual instead of a daily accrual even though I built it to the requirements and brought up my objections when they didn't make sense. I absolutely hate my job.
In the UK, the "probably won't use it" kind of probation is standard. You accept it because you don't get any offers without it.

It really is the case that companies rarely randomly fire people during probation, so employees are fine with it.
I personally think Amazon's dominance in ecommerce of physical good is fragile and it would be hard to argue monopolistic behaviour there. If Shopify grows like it is growing right now, it would be quite easy for brands to build their own stores through it without bothering to list on Amazon. At least the ones with their own name pull can afford to do this.
40% is the conservative estimate number the the US government faked for the net neutrality thing and that's with transparency in the comments. Let's go with 99% for China?
The perspective that there are “thousands of things that are illegal” but not prosecuted always fascinates me, that’s not at all a common perception e.g. here in Germany

It's definitely my perception in Berlin. There is almost no police, prosecutors and courts are completely understaffed.
The "these people are funded from abroad" rhetoric is employed too often by countries trying to control their population. Without hard evidence I wouldn't trust such things. I Russia, for example it's the number one way to try to discredit anybody who disagrees with the government. Yet the government, which has essentially total control over all spheres of life, has not been able to procure any evidence.
There's a couple starting back up.

https://geekring.net/

https://weirdwidewebring.net/

https://wiby.me/ (not exactly a webring)
A Developer's Jobs-to-be-done
Internet Archive's response to the Hachette eBook lawsuit [pdf]
I and my sister both had our first kids within 14 days of each other, she's in the UK, I'm in the US.

She:

- Elected for a home birth, so the NHS put an ambulance on stand-by outside her house once the midwife said things were coming to a head, in case things went south.

- Had regular home-visits by the nurse after the birth until she was happy without them, which focus was both the child and my sister's well-being. no question too foolish to ask, practical advice, that sort of thing, you know ... support.

- Got 6 months paid off work (state + company perks)

- Got free daycare when the kid was young.

- Gets child-support payments from the government every 2 (?) weeks. Not much, but every little counts.

- Gets free-at-the-point-of-need healthcare, of course.

- Gets excellent free schooling, all the schools are rated above average where she lives, in a Northern city not known for its largesse.

I:

- was kicked out of hospital in 3 days because that's what the insurance would pay for

- had the nurses give me stuff to handle the first few days (bottles, nappies, etc.) under the table because they weren't actually allowed to.

- Got no support after we left the building

- Got 2 weeks paid leave.

- Almost had a nervous breakdown because of what we didn't know, had parents fly out to help and finally got some sleep after 2 weeks (he's an "active child"...)

- Had to bump up the insurance costs significantly from X+Spouse to X+family, because there's no X+Spouse+1, so we're indirectly paying for those with X+spouse+4

- Paid a fortune for daycare in the valley when it became time.

- Realised that our designated local school was bloody awful (3/10) despite being in a "good school district". Didn't win the lottery. So we pay for private school, currently about $15k/year

I can afford it, but the difference between the "people before profits" approach the UK takes, with its much more diverse social safety net, and the "profits über alles" approach the US takes is stark. The only reason I'm still in this country is because my partner wants to stay, if I had my way, I'd be living on the beach in the UK, probably retired...

Oh, and she's an air-hostess for BA, her partner works for telecoms companies doing their wiring at the top of poles. THey're not particularly well off (I have a lot more disposable income as a FANNG s/w engineer) but their actual life is a lot easier.
Advanced Zen practitioners most definitely do report what many would call spiritual experiences. The difference is they let those experiences go instead of chasing them or attaching much significance to them.

See for example the later chapters of "The Mind Illuminated", or the excellent "Science of Enlightenment" audio talk by Shinzen Young.
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A Statement of Tim Cook for the House of Representatives claimed that "For the vast majority of apps on the App Store , developers keep 100% of the money they make." [1]

How can this be even remotely true if Apple takes a 30% commission for every sale in the App Store?

[1] https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20200729/110883/HHRG...
3 sales of $100 ($300) means 3x$30 ($90) in fees for Apple.

That should mean 3x$70 for you, $210.

But then one of those is refunded. Apple takes $100 from your account and gives it back to the customer. You end up with $110.
According to the news sources behind the great firewall they're all legitimate.
May I suggest my own invention, smver? It's MajorPatch.Minor, where Patch is lettered. For example, this spec itself, which I wrote today, is at v0a.1. The first stable version will be 1a.0.

Basically, it's the same principle as comver, where any breaking change must increment the first identifier, but with some added metadata to hint how big of a change the developer intended this to be. You can omit the patch if you want, in release announcements, so marketing can have the "6.0 released!" moment (I am considering omitting the patch letter for the first major release, so 4a.0 follows 4.0).
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The normal structure for credit card processing is a few cents flat payment plus a percentage of the transaction[1].

Something like 5 cents + 1.5% would be a great deal on payment processing, generally. (Apple is a juggernaut and may have been able to negotiate something else, of course.)

That does mean that for a $0.99 app, keeping the fees would still be more than that 3%, at ~$0.07... but not wildly divergent from the 30% amount.

Where the 30% gets really abusive is for things like Codea, the app being talked about in the Twitter thread. It costs $14.99. So it had presumptive fees of ~$0.28, while Apple's keeping $4.50. That's outrageous.

(Also, I see mixed reports on whether credit card refunds refund the processing fees. It might be contract-dependent.)

[1]: https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/research/average-credit-card...
Not all that GLITTERs is gold.
No idea, sadly. Capital One just started doing it a couple of years ago, the others since the beginning.
I think people are assuming that it's relying on questionable sources.
I don't get it. Isn't "every MLB player who agreed to play" too small a sample size to be useful?
Depends on the market. But generally speaking, search engine and social (and dark social) just about evenly account for a vast majority of entry points.

However, consider that social share counts can and often exceed measured view counts. As in, viral articles are not necessarily ever read by people who share them.
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PWA web app needs a store to be the distributor for small web apps, making it easier for small developers to monetize more than just ads. Where is Mozilla, MS, Google, Amazon?
2) I can see x64 hardware on bit costlier machines. And,i can see arm64 on cheaper machines. On general computing devices, as price increases ,you get to see less arm64 hardwares.

I had low cost laptop with AMD processor. It compiled faster and handled load better than Rasp. Pi. of comparable hardware(similar specs not exact specs).

Rasp. Pi was ofc cheaper than AMD laptop.(about 0.4x of AMD laptop).

I don't think AMD laptop consumed lot of power than arm64 Rasp. Pi. arm64 being lower in cost consuming lower energy ,you can feel that arm64 is better than x64 in perf/dollar or perf/watt but reality is that there is no comparable hardware of both architecture in respective product range and difference is not that apparent when it comes to arm64. Also my AMD laptop compiled,cross compiled,handled large load much better than arm64 hardware of comparable specs.

1) Yes, power saving is desirable feature. I can't see arm64 workstations around. So,if you need performant hardwares,i think that x64/ppc64 becomes inevitable.

3) Definitely a bummer , still unresolved. Let's see how it goes. x64 has benefit in this point.
In that case it's extremely likely that the test result was wrong, no?
Same here, Vivaldi is flickering and smooth. Safari works correctly at a noticeably lower frame rate.

I have found that Vivaldi uses the Macs Intel GPU, and Safari is CPU bound. WebGL 2.0 experimental support in Safari doesn't seem to have any effect.
As I said, I'm sure a minority of people are in the same boat.

But most young people are not going to pack up and move to a small rural town in the middle of nowhere.

Companies came to big cities because that is where young talent wanted to live. Not the other way around.
But the popularity of Delicious then was proof that it was useful. It was a major internet destination.

Today there's no similarly popular equivalent. Sure general-purpose social URL bookmarking sites still exist but they're niche, not mainstream.

So thanks for trying to invalidate my question, but it's not that simple.
Probably for the same reason that other CCP propaganda attracts downvotes.
> More significant than that, I think, is that modern 64 bit ARM is actually tend to produce denser code than modern 64 bit x86

Do you have a citation for that? Everything I've seen says the opposite, including http://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/papers/iccd09/ll_document...

The strongest wording I've seen is that aarch64 is 'competitive with' x86_64.
Is this a custom GDB server stub that the kernel serves up, or some sort of ptrace-like implementation that GDB can talk to directly?
> The Pascal/Modula-2/Oberon family, a fast garbage-collected compiled family

Pascal wasn't garbage-collected, was it? At least not in the original form.
Greenfield City in Minecraft
Harm means to hurt or injure. If I write a book and exclusively circulate it among my closest friends, am I harming you because there is 1 less book you for you to happen upon?
Casually lumping all pundits together as if they talk with a single voice is as claiming HN commenters all speak with a single voice.
All communication is tough for me. I have to manually assemble the sort of language skills that most folks take for granted. To achieve even basic communication, I have to collect and process huge amounts of social/human data.

For speaking, this means composing & practicing entire conversations until I've mastered enough variations that I can sound reasonably natural.

With text, I need rewrite my sentences numerous times, before I achieve basic readability between them.

However, when I can pull off mundane communication, getting out something that's excellent or interesting is normally ~0 steps further.
As per the thread:

You buy an app for $10, Apple gets $3, the developer gets $7.

You refund the app (through the Apple App Store), you get your 10$ back, but that whole 10$ comes from the developer, unlike the 7/3 split when you first purchased it.

So in the end, the developer has lost money due to the refund.
WRT food waste, not really in any practical sense. Maybe if you include food loss, but that’s a much more serious/difficult problem.
I don't think this is their biggest problem. Libro.fm is selling their audiobooks at what appears to be some kind of absurd MSRP.

Audible offers audiobooks at that price point too, but you'd have to be an idiot to pay it. Amazon will sell you the Audible version of a book you've purchased the Kindle version of at a steep discount. So steep that purchasing the ebook+audiobook is cheaper than purchasing the audiobook by itself.

Compare the pricing for All Creatures Great and Small, which is atypical mostly in that the combined-purchase discount is unusually stingy:

Libro.fm: $37.94

Audible: $29.99

Kindle+Audible: $17.48

I don't like buying DRMed audiobooks, but it's not that hard to justify at $2.99.
I don't see any problems with that since he isn't using public funds or selling anything:

"By July 2019, it had received $158 million in funding (of which $100 million was from Musk)"

(from Wikipedia)
> When they finally release the algorithm how will we know that's the whole story?

We already know the algorithm won't be the whole story; it already isn't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22610829

There's also a section on censorship in the middle of that FA. My younger brother who does lots of TikTok says that he doesn't see anything about China, good or bad; but he has seen plenty of the stereotypical Chinese anti-USA stuff (coverage on riots, unrest, etc.). But of course that could just be because he doesn't care about China and doesn't view Chinese stuff on TikTok. Anyway, we can't tell anything unless the moderation process and decisions are also made public.
What about a KEBAB that brings you kebabs?

That company exists, and it's called Uber Eats.

Sometimes an idea just needs a small tweak to be viable!
Its not an outliar. It's quite common.
Currently listening to the biography on Musk, he jokingly accepts that his timelines are all off, but he doesn't feel too bad about it because he eventually hits the goals. When asked about comments that a timeline for an electric car took a couple years longer than he had predicted (like a 1 year prediction, and it took 3.5 years, or something like that) he said roughly "Oh yeah, that's crazy. But I didn't know that yet, I'd never done this. We got it done eventually, but that's an unrealistic timeline".

He says he makes timelines based off what he knows, and as he gets more data, he gets more realistic with the timelines. I agree he is getting better with the timelines. And he generally builds everything he talks about eventually.
Man who can read letters–but not numbers–exposes complex roots of consciousness
The major difference is there're multiple investors in capitalist society. Essentially they compete with each other and more successful investors get to invest in more stuff.

Meanwhile in SSRS-style society, there's a single point of approval. There's no market of ideas/thinking. It's set by power games, usually not related to the subject at all.
Awesome talk. Thank you for the link!
From your other comment, I see you're in the US. Do you mind if I ask which state?
I think your oversimplifying here. I think economic growth is strongly tied to stability but it's also strongly tied to mechanisms. Pricing as a vehicle for measuring supply and demand simply outstrips everything else we've tried. Even this article mentions how difficult it is to centrally plan supply and demand and how large the bureaucracy needs to be. Perhaps some technocratic socialism could create a computerized bureaucracy large enough to solve this problem somewhat well, but I still think computer models are going to be inferior to actual markets. While markets do have plenty of imperfections they are kind of like democracy, the worst system for supply and demand except for all the other ones. As for why having good systems of supply and demand affects innovation dramatically the short answer is that it forces innovation to conform to an approximation of useful (creating demand) rather than just novel (which is what happens in a lot of purely academic projects). Non-capitalist systems have also done poorly at creating competition and competition seems to be a central force in generating quality (in fact the biggest failure mode of capitalism seems to be anti-competitive monopolies).
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Looking up just one of the papers in your example [1], and it looks far from convincing.

The paper is about the correlation between two separate manic episodes after meditation with two different methods. It further cites other papers - but in common for them is episodes occurring after meditation in patients with severe mental illnesses who in several cases are off their medication.

The paper goes on to give a case study of the patient, who had a manic episode the first time after a full weekend yoga retreat, and secondly again two months after entering a Zen retreat that she had been associated with for two years.

Notably there's no evidence of causation at all, of course, but more importantly there is also no reliable pattern of repetition despite her persistent involvement with meditation:

She was involved in meditation extensively over a long period before the second episode, she recovered without medication and re-entered the retreat. Of course we don't know if she further episodes, but that the case study only mentions two is a strong indication.

There's no discussion in the case study about other causes other than suggesting insomnia as a result of the practice as a possible cause. But the paper does not present any information to suggest any data on sleep deprivation was collected from the patient.

Maybe the other papers are more convincing, but this paper basically boils down to:

* Some reports of correlation have been made.

* Here's another example of correlation... Where the second incidents happened months into intensive practice, and with patient going back into intensive practice, yet no suggestion it happened more.

If anything, the low number of incidents the author uncovered has further convinced me of the safety of meditation. Maybe people with serious mental illnesses should be a bit careful.

[1] Mania precipitated by meditation: a case report and literature review, Graeme A. Yorston.
Wow click house is right up there.
Maybe not a major flop, but Facebook’s original TikTok competitor, Lasso, was shut down. They tried to go after the Musical.ly half of TikTok’s user base that likes dancing to music.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut...
Like the comments earlier mentioned - he got electric cars to the consumer market, in bulk, in less than 10 years. That alone brings a ton of respect.

Now, if I were an investor, I would be inclined to agree with you.

I do see that I am "moving goalposts" and should have specified what I meant in my initial post.
I'll need to spend ~$3,000/month to raise the two kids.

Sure, before they go to school (up to ~6 yrs old), but after that cost goes away. Sure, new costs pop up, but they aren't $3,000 per month.
New Israeli tank features Xbox controllers, AI honed by ‘StarCraft II’ & ‘Doom’
I think the previous posted got confused.

Should be like:

You make three sales of $100 each. One is returned. You get $70 + $70 + $70 - $100 = $110. Apple gets $30 + $30 + $30 - $0 = $90.

That is, you get $70 for each purchase but lose $100 for each refund. Apple gets $30 for each purchase and loses $0 for each refund.

Apple has real costs for each transaction and the refund is not really its problem so it makes sense that it keep those transaction costs. But those aren't anywhere near 30% (well, actually on a $1-$2 purchase it might be, but too far beyond that).
Add this to the long list of how the App Store doesn't serve the needs of application producers are their customers, and because the needs of these very important members of the app ecosystem aren't being served it really isn't serving Apple as well as it could either.
They did just have an antitrust complaint in the EU from Slack in the last week...

And there was some hoopla a year ago about the windows licensing terms changing in a way that made migrating Windows workloads from on prem to cloud difficult for the main cloud providers except for Azure.