skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Throwaway for obvious reasons. I cannot understand what executive thinks this is a good idea or that it makes any sense in the broader organizational structure of Microsoft.

It's been so nice to see five years or so of relatively GOOD acquisitions. LinkedIn made sense: it's allowed for a legitimate Salesforce compete, especially when paired with Dynamics. GitHub was incredibly smart and it aligns well with the resurgent dev tools division and the cloud. Even Beam (Mixer), which was an utter failure from an execution standpoint, made sense as a vertical integration play with Xbox. It failed, but the idea behind it was solid. The OpenAI investment and other AI initiatives have all made tons of sense. Buying Xamarin was brilliant.

But this? What about Microsoft has any of the same DNA as TikTok?

Insanity. I really, really hope this is just a bad joke and us being used by TikTok to juice offers from other people.
College degrees only became a so-called "requirement" for a good life in America around 1970 as a way to maintain racial segregation as a response to all the civil rights legislation in the '60s :/
This is a good point. An area steeped in sectarian violence and racism must surely take a completely different approach than an area with purely political struggles. I wonder what mechanisms other that political pressure might make progress in the Middle-East or if there are any success stories to learn from in other areas?
For me too.. And I'm usually extremely sceptical of food supplements and general quackery.

My joints have also been really cracky since I was a child. This seems a bit less but still present with the glucosamine.

But my elbow joints are often sore due to being on the computer way too much and every time I start taking it again it fades in a day or two. I don't think I'm imagining it :) Many other stuff I don't feel much benefit to.
Speaking about games - I love HyperRogue: https://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/.
I really never got credit cards, I didn't even own one until I had to make some purchases on American websites. In the Netherlands and most EU countries we all have debit cards protected by a pin, and all transactions are basically instant and increasingly contactless.

As for purchasing stuff on-line we have a system called 'iDeal' which is supported by every bank. You just go the the checkout, scan a QR code with your banking app, accept the purchase in the app and it's done.

It still comes to me as a surprise that in a connected world like today you can make a purchase in someone's name by just knowing a bunch of numbers on a piece of plastic, no verification needed.
Academic achievement in UK high schools is correlated to gender roles
Just imagine the unlikely scenario that a pandemic shut down factories in China.....
I think you're confusing the common-usage meaning with the legal definition.

Generally in Europe the market share threshold for monopoly investigations is 25% - Apple's market-share for mobile app sales is well above that threshold.
It probably will look like the windows game stores, everyone could create one and sell games.

But so far we only got:

EA, UBISOFT, GOG, STEAM, epic and windows store.
I don't think any of the relationships you describe would qualify as "meaningful".
So is it a duopoly or a monopoly? I'm fine with just throwing around words in casual conversation, but the closer the conversation moves towards the orbit of law, the more words will matter.

> If some big app owner like Facebook or AirBnb came out and said "We're only supporting Android now, so please switch phones to use our service" they'd just go out of business. That's the essence of monopolism.

I think that's just called bad decision making, which vendors are completely free to make. There are plenty of apps that are Android only, and I'm sure they fully realize their revenue will be less as a result. There are also plenty of third party game developers making exclusive titles for Playstation or Xbox all the time. They're roughly neck and neck outside of Japan, but in Japan, it's no contest, Playstation is completely dominant. Assuming we ignore Nintendo, would you then suggest that Sony has a monopoly on consoles there? One could claim that if you're a developer in Japan and you don't target Playstation in Japan, you're going to lose. But if the goal is maximum revenue ...that's just bad decision making. If the Xbox market in Japan just isn't coughing up dollars, how is that Sony's problem?

Rather than continuously trying to compare Apple to a monopoly, which it isn't, I think the more effective comparison would be with RAND and FRAND. I don't know what kind of legal hoops would need to be jumped through to make the legal justification work, but it seems like Apple has an essential technology (the App Store), and must be obligated to license it (arguably reflected via the fee it charges), but that is an extant example of government regulation where the fee could be legally managed.
Price bundling for one - even without any synergistic benefits like telling a whole story over an album.
He's not hacking.
I disagree, I don’t see happiness as a shallow goal. But for me happiness does not mean that I won’t suffer. Kids make me happy, but they also bring great suffering.
The other day I said “Hay Siri, take me to Buena Vista park.” She responded “the entrance buena vista Avenue?” and I responded: “oops I actually meant corona height park” and she instantly started navigation there. I actually held a productive conversation with a computer. Magical.
For sure! With this offshore thingy one could create a mind bending structure to trap tax authorities in an infinite loop trying to trace the origin.

I was completely ignorant about this menace until I started reading couple of books to educate myself —- Treasure Islands and Moneyland...recommend them both.

Since then I just use the term offshore to encompass any of those hundreds or so possible structures.
> a selling point more than an ideal they hold dear

I agree. Note that I didn’t mention privacy. We both understood that implicitly. That’s partly marketing. But it’s underwritten by some truth, if not a comprehensive truth.

Values, in my view, are meaningful if strived for. They don’t need to be perfectly attained to be valid. Apple has made tradeoffs and incurred costs to strive towards protecting privacy, and it’s been consistent in that aim over its history.

Even to this imperfect standard, I struggle to come up with analogs for the others.
If you turn on the acrylic mode, yeah, it covers the whole window. I have the preview of WT installed here and acrylic looks awful compared to how it did back in Windows 7. Probably a function of the way Microsoft wants you to use it in "modern" Windows 10 as opposed to Windows 7 as there are marked differences in how acrylic looks compared to the Windows 7 era and less configurability.
> is there any way I could prove that I was a victim

Sure, you just need to find the transaction hash, and prove that you own the sending address.

> and get my crypto back?

Now that the government has control of the wallets, my guess would be probably, eventually.
This article is the problem.

It's the same freaking fallacy I see again and again on here - It's simple, easy to understand, and dead fucking wrong.

The vast majority of the complexity you're dealing with in modern computing comes from three sources. In the order of impact

1. Networking. It turns out there are real and hard limits on how fast we can pass data around over copper wires. Fiber is better, but you just literally cannot move faster than light, and latency is a big deal when the items you're accessing and changing live somewhere else (and basically everything of value does live somewhere else, or thinks you are "somewhere else").

2. Security. This is a direct consequence of number 1. When everything is connected, everything is connected. You can't just lock the lab door and call it a day now.

3. Compatibility. This is a direct consequence of both 1 and 2. Value is a consequence of compatibility (this is why a good chunk of you on here still support IE, even though you don't want to). We have more devices, of more kinds than ever before.
We have more people, with more use cases than ever before. There is value in being as compatible as possible with all those devices and people.
All those devices are connected in ways designed to keep them compatible, but also secure. It turns out this is not an easy task.

If you'd like to go wank off over how fast your pre-network, unsecured, unsupported, inaccessible and manually configured systems are, be my guest (oh, and I hope you read english...). The rest of us will continue to produce items of value.
It seems like "Kirk" is believed to be some other individual. From the complaint against Sheppard:

> On July 21, 2020, federal agents executed a search warrant authorized by U.S.
Magistrate Judge Alex G. Tse at a residence in the Northern District of California. Among the
occupants of the home was a juvenile (“Juvenile 1”). ““Juvenile 1” was believed to be a Discord
user identified in chats as an individual who assisted “Kirk#5270” and “Chaewon” in selling access
to Twitter accounts. Upon execution of the search warrant, “Juvenile 1” agreed to be interviewed.
“Juvenile 1” admitted to law enforcement agents that he/she was the Discord user who was
identified in chats as assisting “Kirk#5270” and that he/she participated in the sale of illegal
Twitter access. “Juvenile 1” admitted that he/she worked with “Chaewon” to sell Twitter account
access. According to “Juvenile 1,” his/her knowledge of “Chaewon” was that “Chaewon” lived
in the United Kingdom and “Juvenile 1” knew “Chaewon” by the name “Mason.” According to
“Juvenile 1,” he/she and “Chaewon” had discussed turning themselves in to law enforcement after
the Twitter hack became publicly known.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/press-release/file/1300126...
It's also just another case where those not in power who attacked those in power are swiftly and promptly dealt with versus those in power perpetuating the same attacks go free. I would rather see them gloat over putting people with real power and influence with their attacks in jail versus bragging about locking up teenagers and people in their early twenties.

There's a quote in the article, "There is a false belief within the criminal hacker community that attacks like the Twitter hack can be perpetrated anonymously and without consequence", which just reiterates this perception of the justice system being "hard" on crime. Yet it conveniently ignores being soft on crime if you're rich or in power.
The "Who am I?" enquiry as described in "Self Inquiry Practice" [1] (just the first few minutes of the audio will suffice) and some combination of listening to the various Nisargadatta Maharaj audios on YouTube ([2], [3], for example) helped me.

It should be easy and effortless once you get the knack of it; you should be able to suspend all thought and enter silence on-demand. "Observe your breath", etc; are things that naturally occur AFTER one becomes silent (the intensity of the silence causes you to be attentive to each little movement in the here and now with new eyes). It seems to me that common meditation practice has this in the reverse order and unfortunately, I am not sure that mere imitation is going to help. Instead, abandon all postures and practices except one: the question "Who am I?". Please let me know if you have any further questions.

1. Self Inquiry Practice - Ramana Maharshi - Audiobook - Spoken by lomakayu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymvj01q44o0

2. I AM THAT excerpts pages 236 to 250: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VxOFa0GE9Y

3. I am only the Self: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzd0txiRN2E
The novel Red Plenty by Francis Spufford has an account of Kruschev's visit to the US. It includes his visit to California but I can't remember if it includes the IBM visit . It's fiction, but Spufford took pains to be accurate. He writes that any words he gives to an historical character in the book were actually said by that character (although maybe not on that same occasion).
This is perjury: the Big Tech hearings, summarized
That's a truly silly comment. Based on that there should only be one grocery store to shop at and one place to work.
The Anatomy of Open Data Projects
it... doesn't know the word "how"? literally like the second word i typed in. it seems like this must have some holes in it?
It's fascinating to see so many commenters here automatically assuming "relationship" must mean "spouse".

It's important to invest in some kind of close relationships, but that doesn't have to mean marriage.
Does the .99 versioning irk anybody else? It seems like a very inelegant solution.
Not to mention likely have better access to hardware and other resources
It was the norm.
Sometimes I feel like it's only a matter of time laws in this area take an unfortunate turn for the worst in many other countries (US obviously being one of the biggest). Every time we fight tooth-and-claw to get a terrible act from passing, a new one pops up a few months later.
We provide both the hardware and the software. Our clients are pretty small, with no IT staff, and no technical expertise.
you cannot start world war 3 or become a billionaire through some tweets, this is not a movie.
Sure, and if you order food at a restaurant and and want to modify it, don't expect the chef to let you into the kitchen and use their tools to do it.
I can only imagine that both users of the curtana app must be devastated.
I don't know, tbh I'm still surprised.

The Discord connection was known early on. I was really surprised anyone would do something like this and communicate over Discord about it.

The fact that no VPN/Tor were involved, the fact that Gmail was involved... that's really crazy. It's hard to tell when being dumb ends and being self destructive begins?

Is it possible to be this ignorant about the Internet while perpetrating something so big?
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Apple retaining 30% on the store is fascism, but the open web is a utopia? This argument completely ignores the reality of the situation. One of the greatest abusers of the open web is Facebook who tracks users on almost every site and infringes on the privacy of everyone despite whether of not you hold an account.

I'm not interested in Facebook, TikTok, or the next VC social media company, getting native, unfettered access to hardware on my phone or anyone around me where they would be free to run the GPS 24/7. That's the reality of the "open web" today.
Anyone can get a developer license and run whatever stupid apps they want. That seems like sufficient opt-in that you are likely competent to assess the risk of the apps you're installing.
I think a lot of us view that as merely marketing. I don't think apple's values are any more concrete or "real" than the other companies you mentioned.
As an interviewee, a full-day onsite is much more of a turn-off for me. I don't want to use up PTO for my current employer for such a long, stressful interview process, especially without any indication of the likelihood that I will get an offer.
> Apple should be able to do this - but they shouldn't be able to do it without those companies being able to represent themselves independently, through another app store.

I dont think they should. They should only do enough to comply with the law. eg. child pornography

Each human being has its own moral standards and should be allowed to choose and not let others choose for them, unless as stated before, its considered illegal.
> CC companies in the US made the moronic determination that the American consumer could not handle the complexity of the PIN

Or maybe they did the math, found that the average US consumer has a handful of credit cards, and figured that if they put a PIN on their card it would get used less. Resulting in less profit for the credit card company.
> Taxes are payable wherever the profits are made.

No, with regard to income tax that's simply wrong.

That said, public companies typically have subsidiaries in other countries and these subsidiaries have to pay corporate income tax in their country of residence (but also regardless of where the profits are actually made). This is often used to avoid (or delay) tax payments, especially if the subsidiaries are in low-tax countries.

But if the parent company Apple Inc. sold an iPhone in Germany, they wouldn't have to pay income tax in Germany, just like BMW AG doesn't have to pay income tax in the US.
Any specific examples?

According to https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-migrating-3-x-to..., the changes were pretty minor.
I think competitive personalities and globalization just don’t mix. When humans lived in much smaller groups it was possible to carve out a niche if you wanted to. Aside from the monarch you probably didn’t know of many other people outside your community who were really good at X/Y/Z. Now there are 8b of us and it’s not hard to find out how many of those people are really good at something. Survival in wealthier countries is also so easy that all the competition is really for prestige/glory/status (having a moderately bigger house, nicer vacation, sending your kids to a better school) anyway.

The other thing is that our financial system is so well-defined it can gamify “success” as just increasing a simple, well-understood metric: money
Any other advice for folks? What do you think of NR?
Palestinians got screwed over by something geopolitical. Again and again they were egged on by their Arab neighbors to walk away from more equitable treaties. All in the name of geopolitical Arab nationalism. Today their Arab neighbors are building cutting edge cities, while Palestinians are asking for a fraction of what they were offered in the 1920s/30s.
ROFL paulpauper
Having just completed the 32 hr train trip from Los Angeles to Seattle I would love a high speed alternative.
No, the Woke Won’t Debate You. Here’s Why
I use Siri once or twice a day, mostly for setting alarms.

Do Android users who are part of the Google Home or Alexa ecosystems not use their phones for `OK Google` or `Alexa`? Or do such people only use dedicated Google/Amazon hardware?
Are you saying you are not fine to use the governement's force against a company that is removing podcast apps from their store because they talk about what's happening in China?

I mean, i thought everyone agreed across the political spectrum that what China is doing in Hong-kong is bad. Reading this thread, i stand corrected.
I used to be able to do reverse phone lookup by typing a number into google. People have turned that into a business and now it, to put it simply, does not work at all.

This is the music equivalent of that. It's also why there are gajillions of crappy cover songs on the streaming services. It's turned into a money extraction thing and is crowding out the, you know, music.

Once upon a time, not that long ago even, a talented musician could make a living from their music. It's depressing to read biographies of entertainers who came up in the first half of the twentieth century who needed a job so they became entertainers. We've traded our culture for a mess of pottage.
Not just that US income tax needs to be paid, but also that cash needs to be converted into USD, which poses a problem in relation to fluctuating rates on currency conversion. Currency conversion rates is a running theme in Apple's SEC filings and was also mentioned in yesterday's call. In fact, there is an entire paragraph in last year's annual report that discusses how they built a model to not just optimize conversion to USD, but also predict the total cost so that they could also hedge against it.
There's also a note which says their foreign tax obligations are still under review from 2016 forward, so they might be prevented from moving the money until that picture becomes more clear as to how much is owed.
This honestly would take the cake for for stupidest purchase ever. I couldn't think of a way to lose money faster. Maybe they should also purchase Snapchat too.
Show HN: Kyubin, the bin that works like a queue
Note that minority shareholders have some rights, though this varies by state of incorporation:

(PDF warning)

https://www.ibanet.org/Document/Default.aspx?DocumentUid=F20...
I tend to process as I read, which makes me a slower reader. I will also reflect on it at the end of the book/article/show as well.
You are assuming nothing else can be in place to solve all of those problems. If you and many other consumers want that then services will appear to solve those problems barring regulation and market barriers like a monopolistic app store and platform policies.

PayPal comes to mind.
I don't believe Arabs are under the illusion that their government is non-tyrannical. I live in Egypt and there's not a single person I've met that doesn't think their government is corrupt, oppressive and inept. So there's really nothing revealing or surprising that a newspaper could report.

"BREAKING: Egyptian government is corrupt. In other news, water is wet."

On the other hand, there are perhaps many Israelis who believe the false narrative that the Palestinians sold their lands and left, but changed their minds and started the aggression.
I think a part of the West could indeed understand (if not approve). Many things such as you mentioned happened in a large part of Europe as well, 19th century included: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_Horrors

You can justify many things if you go digging through history this way.
I agree with what you said about albums as a cohesive piece of art, I will miss that for sure.

> Forcing artists to pump out strings of singles and EPs

But who is forcing the artists? The market? It's clear people don't want to listen to LPs released every 3-4 years, they want singles and EPs released frequently. If it is indeed a market effect, then artists need to evolve or perish. If you want to make money selling art, you need to make it in a way that people want to buy it. It's that simple.
This isn't true. The costs of some things are going up while others are going down. Transportation is much cheaper, for example, even without taking into account remote work. The cost of cars, gas, and auto insurance is lower than it was 20 or 30 years ago when adjusted for inflation. Education and Healthcare are getting dramatically more expensive. Clothes are much cheaper, and the cost of consumer goods in general is decreasing a lot. Think about how much a microwave cost in 1980's.
i was assured by the cybersecurity experts of hacker news that REALLY this was all a mastermind ploy to steal and sell twitter DMs. who would they sell them to? doesn't matter! what information of actual value is sent through twitter DMs? doesn't matter! we did it, hacker news.
Why would eggs, for which there isn't a chemical formula, nor a standard preparation, be easier to study? What even does "good for you" mean?

Don't get confused between mass-media popular "science" and things science can actually do - like measure whether a dozen eggs a day will raise your LDL and HDL (cholesterol) and cause heart disease - and drawing wild conclusions (especially right now) from pre-print articles that are used to sell magazine articles to use as justification to eat chocolate and drink wine under the guise of "it's good for you".
There is no definition of monopoly. People complain about monopolies when they lose or don't get what they want so resort to the government to cheat their way to competitiveness/success.
Isn't it just the age old problem that most people like crap and people who like art aren't willing to pay for it?