skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People really need to stop suggesting disabling Javascript as a solution. It’s not a solution.

First, it puts the blame on the victim. “Oh you got hacked? Should have turned off Javascript.” Stop blaming the victim. Browsers come with Javascript turned on by default and many sites expect Javascript will work, so it’s a reasonable expectation that users leave Javascript enabled.

Secondly there are a lot of devices that people access the web from. It’s not possible or easy to turn off Javascript on all platforms. If I ran my iPhone with Javascript disabled, every site I visited that needed Javascript would make me stop, go to Settings, scroll down to find Safari, scroll all the way to the bottom to find Advanced, then toggle the Javascript button. Then go back to Safari, view the site I wanted to see, then do it all over again to disable Javascript again. That’s not a reasonable workflow to even suggest.

Lastly... ah nevermind, I don’t actually want to know if you honestly believe anyone is enforcing GDPR with a gun. It’s not true in any way but it’s such a ludicrous statement that I honestly don’t even want to hear if you’re being serious or not. For my own mental health I will pretend you’re joking.
They basically want to run a cloud built around feeding enormous amounts of data to their GPUs, for AI operations and the like. This is also why they bought SwiftStack in March: to manage that storage.

Source: job interview
Provide evidence.

There is no ability to get the IMEI on iOS.
What do you mean when you say that their cash is overseas? I assume Apple does not have stacks of green bills in giant vaults overseas. Is it in foreign banks?
> Videogames are software products though so are a prime example of software products that are art.

Did you think about or read what I described? Because I specifically addressed how I think video games being art does not make software products and code art. You aren't elaborating and then just restating an opinion I've already discussed.

If video games being art means that software products and/or code is art, then you need to consider that the material (paint, metal, etc.) used in paintings and sculptures is art as well and all the other repercussions of such a conclusion. No one would argue that. The paint in paintings is part of the medium and brushes and other such things are part of the tools of the process. In the case of video games, the software is a kind of both tool and medium of how that art is created and experienced. No one is saying software can't be a medium for art, but it isn't the art itself. And again, like I've already said, I don't think video games can simply be defined as software products. Other things called software products, like mobile apps, also have artists and designers, but there the situation is even more removed from art because the app is not expressing anything but is rather solving a problem, providing a service, or giving functionality.

> To quote your own recent definition of software

That quote has nothing to do with this discussion, so I'm not really sure why you're pulling it here. It was from a completely different post, and a non-native English speaker had remarked about how they had thought that the firm in firmware meant something else. I wasn't defining software but rather discussing how hard, firm, and soft in hardware, firmware, and software could be thought of.

> Not to mention the other examples you studiously avoided.

I didn't avoid anything. I didn't feel I had anything to say that adds to the discussion without repeating what I already said. Yes, they're examples. And?
Homeland Security Seized $2B in Cash from Travelers at U.S. Airports
Nothing prevents you buying Android phone if you do not like Apple policies. The policies were in effect when you bought your iPhone.
unfortunately, self-promotion matters a lot, sometimes. Shitty or competitive places will require it.
It's evident that it wasn't an exploit. It was just a stolen password of an employee.
Well, you chose to own an iPhone knowing it didn’t meet your requirements. Do you need the government to protect you from your own decisions?
There is little technical skill involved in running common scams.
> Sheppard had used a personal driver’s license to verify himself with the Binance and Coinbase cryptocurrency exchanges, and his accounts were found to have sent and received some of the scammed bitcoin.

Didn't even layer the Bitcoin through an anonymiser like Monero and extra Bitcoin wallets. Just sent and received BTC directly to an account linked with photo ID on multiple exchanges. Incredible really!
Yes, because I want to be continue to recommend Apple products to friends and family who would definitely be scammed by fake payment mechanisms if Apple wasn’t preventing it.
That’s very unfair. I believe in capitalism, yes, because I believe in individual freedom and personal property rights. That really all capitalism is. But I also believe in a caring society, as citizens were all in this together. Citizenship comes with obligations as well as rights and we should look after our own.
There are thousands of different restaurants to choose from.

There are only two pocket computers. And they're both beating people up over protection money.

Moreover, computing used to be free like water. These companies locked it down so you have to go through them.

Imagine if you had to pay McDonald's to open your own restaurant.

Imagine if every restaurant in the US had to do so.

Imagine if McDonald's gathered data about your customers.

Imagine if McDonald's saw what worked about your restaurant, copied it, and then hid yours from consumers.

It's not okay. This is one of the worst abuses of the American consumer and small businesses in history.

Edit: I think we're all being downvoted by corporate brigading. Every one of my posts is being downvoted. I made a compelling and respectful argument, and note the lack of rebuttals.
None forced you to buy iDevice.
I do agree that it's one deficiency, but it doesn't matter much. The vast majority of fraud isn't from people finding credit cards off the ground and going into stores with it. There aren't organized criminal rings for it because it simply doesn't scale. Not to mention that you have a very limited window to spend it compared to a skimmed card. The banks probably figured that adding pin adds marginal security for significantly more hassle.
I suppose they deserve the same fate if they didn't get security right from day 1? Or accessibility? Or monitoring? Analytics? GDPR compliance? Etc.?

Businesses are confronted with different problems at different times. Insisting that everything be solved/designed perfectly up front is silly.
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Some doctors will prescribe it for off-label use, but this is pretty rare. It's possible to purchase it from overseas websites as it is not scheduled, but this is technically not legal, and it will still cost quite a bit out-of-pocket. With that said, it can definitely be potentially dangerous, and dosing+frequency would have to carefully be paid attention to, as well as monitoring results via blood tests imo, and having done extensive research and so on. I wouldn't suggest anyone just purchases it to experiment with it without being very careful and having a high appetite for risk. But other things like glycine or spermadine or vitamin D or magnesium I'm much happier to gleefully suggest to people.
The context of this particular thread, though, is about why the user interface in an app might not be translated well. I responded by way of example explaining how translations can fall behind in a very similar situation, that of a website.

Neither of these are the same as the YouTube situation, because in the YouTube situation you're dealing with user-contributed content being translated, which is a crucial difference. Community contributions were never about translating the YouTube UI (or god forbid privacy policy, ToS, etc.); they were only ever about users submitting translations of other users' content.
There are not enough words I can write for this.
You’re overlooking that the non-white population is much younger (the median white person is 42, the median Hispanic person is 28) and they are driving all population growth in the country. (The absolute number of non-hispanic whites started declining in 2010). Given those changing demographics, when guilds act to limit membership (as you acknowledge they do) the bulk of those excluded are going to be non-whites.

And employment discrimination laws won’t solve the problem because the discriminatory effect arises from the legal practice of protecting existing members at the expense of potential new entrants.
Well, we finally have The Great Automatic Grammatizator. (1953) [1]

"No, sir, honestly, it’s true what I say. Don’t you see that with volume alone we’ll completely overwhelm them! This machine can produce a five-thousand-word story, all typed and ready for dispatch, in thirty seconds. How can the writers compete with that? I ask you, Mr Bohlen, how?’"

The story is amusing. They buy out all the hack writers and crank out content under their names. The very few good writers they leave alone; they're not a significant part of the market.

[1] http://www.bookophile.weebly.com/uploads/6/4/0/8/6408830/the...
If you can write to c:\windows why do you need to bypass UAC? You obviously own the machine already, no?
They'd have to write extra code compared to what they have now to do this, and then they've had to support that code. They don't want to. Why on earth should they want to spend time writing code to run other people's businesses that they aren't involved in.

Do you require that McDonald's will sell you a Pepsi, when McDonald's want to sell you Coca-Cola? Do you demand that you should be allowed to set up a Pepsi store inside a McDonalds?
"the notion that one's goal in life is to be happy, that your own happiness is the goal. i just don't buy it.

... i mean, happiness is... (pause) ...I've heard from several people an now I wonder... (pause) ...is that what postwar democracy has amounted to?"

-- Hayao Miyazaki (of Studio Ghibli) in "The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness"
Videogames are software products and are art. So my initial point that some software products are art was correct. Yay!
Would you also pass those rules for console makers?

Do you also complain that you can’t put gas in a Tesla even though you should have known that it was designed that way?

Did you watch the hearing the other day? Do you really trust those people to regulate tech?
Given that breaking up a major power leads to increased competition, it’s arguably more capitalistic and market-efficient.
> There are only two pocket computers.

There are thousands of powerful smartphones on the market, from many different companies and even countries.

> It's not okay.

I'm okay with it.
Back when a ton of software was written by graduate students... it was small (because no time), fast-ish (because small), and buggy as all heck (because no time).
NetBSD does similar (major.99.iteration), and before its alpha or beta, this is where things get hashed out. It’s a reserved magic number (one hopes there aren’t 99 minor releases that would start a conflict over x.99.y) so that sucks (being “magic”), but it seems to work out in practice.
Adding repercussions to the targets would be a mistake in my opinion - that would be very antitransparency as they would be encouraged to be willfully blind to cover their own asses. "Look it is clearly just the fault that these dumbass rich people didn't secure their passwords properly. Password reset logs? Why on earth would we keep those?"

Personally I suspect the security of the systems could be improved best over time by a radical measure of legalizing hacking and social engineering. Going after hackers is a bandaid measure.
It would be unapologetically darwinistic but this domain doesn't behave the same as meatspace and imposing its assumptions on it is a mistake just as much as putting closing times on websites.
Apple is very accountable. If users don’t like their products, they can buy an Android. Apple has to give users some reason to pay the Apple premium.
Every major cloud vendor has zones outside the US. Just because you’re hosted on Azure doesn’t mean you’re hosted in the US or that US law applies to you.
The Kinesis Freestyle 2 [A] with the VIP3 Tenting Accessory[B] (for wrist rests and tenting) will run you $125 on Amazon.

It's got two independent halves that you can angle how you want, and put at actual shoulder width apart. It lacks the ortholinear layout, mechanical switches, and programmability of the Moonlander.

I went from the MS Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 (which I used for years and loved) to the Freestyle Pro (same layout, but with mechanical switches and programmability) and it made a huge difference in my posture and shoulder tension.

It definitely takes up less space than the MS 4000, but it's still two pretty bulky halves that don't pack up to travel particularly easily.

[A] https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-for-pc-us/
[B] https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-vip3-accessory/
No, it's a myth:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/10/384948585/ta...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5533136/

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/11/truth-about-...
This doesn't make sense to me. Apple absolutely could return most of this to shareholders via a dividend if they chose to (less taxes if they bring from offshore, etc.) It's not at all clear the best exercise of the boards fiduciary duty is to hold cash.
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This is a recipe for a very poor education in my opinion. This sort of mass produced educational content, taught by professional educators rather than researchers, produces students who merely know facts and can perform basic algorithms.

Real understanding of a field comes from long hours engaging with the subject and playing with ideas, and from interacting with others in the field. Working through educational material (where it exist) is obviously helpful, but it's not enough.

tl;dr: Nobody becomes in expert in anything by working through a textbook.
Except this is not expecting perfection, it is expecting a level of security that can prevent children, literal children, from walking right through it. Which would not even be a problem except for the fact that this is far, far less than what Twitter has led their average user and stockholder to believe. To illustrate my point, if Twitter told the truth in big bold print at the top of every page so every user knows: "Determined teenagers can take over your account at any time." do you think this might outrage their users or harm their stock price? Did Twitter at any point say anything that might indicate that this is the truth of the matter and that would not be easily misconstrued by users? The evidence indicates yes, they would be outraged, and no, they at no point ever said anything that would lead anybody to believe that this was possible and hilariously easy. So, it hardly matters that maybe they or anybody else (say the FBI) can not provide a high level of security, what matters is that they committed material fraud in egregiously misrepresenting their product security to their users and stockholders.
I'm not an expert, but I'm not sure if that applies here. Google isn't in the business of making news, and isn't competing with these news companies directly. If you get 90% of the traffic to your portfolio from my blog, does that make me a monopoly too?
Like others, I give my dogs glucosamine and it seems to have clear health benefits, but I have tried numerous dosages for myself and when I consume any meaningful amount it gives me absolutely wretched headaches about a day or two after consumption. Something to be aware if you start taking glucosamine and get headaches, it’s probably the glucosamine.
Yes, the left blocked holding a voluntary postal survey to enshrine basic civil rights because it’s dumb on its face, but the Liberals threatening to end the careers of the people who would vote isn’t?

All the Liberals would have needed to say is “conscience vote” and it would have been done. That aside, if passing basic civil rights would threaten the stability of the party, then that’s kind of a shitty party.
If you are interested in digging into this stuff, and what really works medically/scientifically based on reviewed evidence and sources such as Cochrane Reviews, I can't recommend Dr Stanfields youtube channel high enough:
https://www.youtube.com/c/DrBradStanfield/videos

Also here is his video on Sulforaphane which Glucosamine activates. He goes into detail as to how this mechanism works. Because of his video/latest research presented I changed to taking Broccomax because you need Myrosinase to actvite the SGS for it's full effect, he goes into detail on this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAb1eQbRAe0

Cochrane Review he uses as his primary source:
https://www.cochrane.org/CD007176/LIVER_antioxidant-suppleme...
It is always a bit paradoxical to discuss articles like this over a message board where we compete for votes and the top comment haha.

I often think that happiness is a shallow goal, and you leave a lot on the table if you are unwilling to suffer. Success and achievements are answers to that old question 'why?', they justify our existence.

Contrary to that, to paraphrase Gene Wolfe from Book of the Long Sun: "When something is good it needs no justification."

another relevant quote (just because!) from East of Eden:

"On one side you have warmth and companionship and sweet understanding, and on the other - cold, lonely greatness. There you make your choice. I'm glad I chose mediocrity, but how am I to say what reward might have come with the other? None of my children will be great either, except perhaps Tom. He's suffering over the choosing right now. It's a painful thing to watch."
This is a tendency when people buy luxury goods to feel good about and defend their purchases. On HN you alway see the most intense loyalty towards Apple and Tesla.
> Exactly! There is a reason why personalized ads are a thing. You are not shown stuff that you have no interest in!

I foolishly believed that. I gave Google every chance under the sun: clicked not interested, verified my ad preferences, waited another month etc.

For over 10 years they have showed me ads for scammy dating sites!

Someone will typically come to their defense and say basically: Google know what they are doing.

They do not!

They refuse to understand that a father of more than three kids - all with the same mother - isn't interested in scammy dating sites.

Well, maybe on average it works?

Well maybe on average I get so fed up I start to inform scammy dating sites that they are getting ripped off. The volume seems to have decreased lately, but I mostly use an adblocker so what do I know ;-)

So for anyone who pays Google for views: be aware that their targetting is painfully bad, their feedback systems so broken that they seemingly cannot take a clue if it came gift wrapped and so big it needs a truck for delivery. Keep an eye on the metrics guys and gals.

It still makes sense economically for many companies but be very critical, because Google is not.

Edit: to rub it in: Facebook manages to personalize ads! Again and again I get ads that are relevant and interesting. I've even bought through Instagram ads. Which is a shame since I dislike Facebook even more intensely than Google and only keep an Instagram profile to keep my lovely wife happy. I deliberately keep my contact with Facebook small and yet they seem to know exactly what I am interested in and what not.
I think that is just further proof.
There’s a few issues with this post. It starts off great but falls down hard.

For one, PHP did not start out object oriented. Nor did it come with an IDE. Sure, it was dynamically typed (unlike Java). If I recall, it was 1994 too but I can’t be sure.

It was only PHP4 that added an abomination of a class system that motivated the current object system in PHP5. In fact, the problems with PHP have more to do with that pattern: creating abominations that motivate the development of something that isn’t a total abomination (often whilst retaining said abomination for a while).

And, as others have said, small “libraries” is exactly why the todo app needs 13k NPM packages.

I say “libraries” but you can’t call them that. I mean where’s the analogy? A library of one function? Behave
1. Glucosamine is not a protein.
2. The claimed benefit of glucosamine is not anti-inflammation, but providing the building blocks for cartilage repair as synovial fluid is circulated in the joint.
3. It's very difficult to get sufficient protein from a plant based diet, especially when avoiding soy, which raises estrogen.
> Through AREXX any application could control any other application, which is something Windows and OSX still don't really do. I mean to some extent it's sort of possible now, but not as easily as it was with Amiga OS.

AppleScript was introduced in System 7.1.1 back in 1993. Maybe ARexx scripting was much better, I don't know.

(Support for scriptable Macintosh applications actually arrived in 1991, but there was no built-in scripting language for it.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript
Birth of Radar Memorial – Northamptonshire, England
If you go to a a McDonalds and get upset that you can't buy Pepsi, you're unreasonable.

If you buy an iPhone and get upset that you can't install your own apps, you're unreasonable.
Only the part about the dog is cut. The "dressed in our best" scene is in the theatrical version.
Monopoly or anticompetitive regulation is intended to prevent behaviour enabled by market domination. Nothing Apple is doing is like that, they’ve been doing the same since they had 1% market share. The public chose them because this is how they do things. It makes no sense to punish them for that. Justifying punishment simply on the basis of success is morally unjustifiable.
No. I actually like the fact there is no sideloading. Why should I be forced to like what you like.
Purely anecdotal data but a I know a good number of dogs and cats that had really good results supplementing with glucosamine. As for me personally and few other friends and family, glucosamine supplements didn't have much of a noticeable effect.
I don't really know of anyone who eats pig ears but chicken feet aren't that weird for the American South.
The average income indifference between artists and software developers, and how many of those who make up those communities are able to find any sense of financial stability, are vastly different, so even under your logic that a “hit” is a “hit” no matter the industry, is still really misinformed and I’m sure we are all out here just doing what we are doing for the “love of it”.

Speaking as a producer and developer, they are not the same things in any way and I love doing what I do deeply, thank you very much.
> If something bad happens, the "close relationship" ends faster than you can say "divorce".

I think it's important to note, close relationships can take forms other than marriage. I think even for those of us who are married, having your spouse being your only close relationship probably isn't the healthiest.
Github is not a social network, and is should never be one.
It's in bank accounts in Ireland.
The only thing between the inside of a home and the outside is a thin layer of glass. Should we hold home owners responsible for people breaking in and stealing? Lots of things are fragile, we have a laws to act as a deterrent to violations
I'm saying you can have private mutable state if you stick to method variables. If you take a method variable and promote it to a field (private or not), or return it via a public method, you have made it more public - that's what I meant by "The opposite of private/encapsulated".
Using GPT-3 as a marketing consultant
Why didn’t they use the one provided by the tax cuts a few years back?
I'm not sure what you're saying. Is it that all software companies should be required to support developing on every platform for free?