skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Have innumerable script kiddies, scammers, doorway site creators, etc, used PHP for doing bad things? Did / do they constitute a significant part of the user community? Yes."

Does PHP have a significant taint to the rest of the development community? Yes. Are its "nicely designed tools" recognized and used outside the PHP community? Not that I've seen.

Wikipedia is a web site I use and sometimes poke at. Am I going to go looking at its code? Nope. In fact, there are several tools that I decided not to fix bugs in, but also not to use myself, when I realized they were PHP.

(Aside: have they ever removed, or even deprecated, any of the layers of hideously broken interfaces in the stdlib? Or are they still lying there as a trap for the unwary?)
Lying to Congress is (I assume) illegal. But when it's done by a powerful entity, is there really much practical risk to the liar?

Perhaps I'm being overly cynical, but my impression was that high-profile Congressional hearings are mostly a form of political theater.
It could simply be that growing up in an environment where being taught music is possible (with tutors and teachers and instruments all paid for) is correlated with doing better in school. If you're growing up with parents who struggle to pay the bills, who can't afford the time or money to teach their kids music, odds are those kids are struggling in other parts of their life too.
This is really cool. I feel like making a project with this library. Any ideas of something I could build?
That would typically be known as a cartel and would typically be illegal. Typically.
Simply put, a FLOSS alternative to professional software isn't an alternative if it's unable to be used professionally. The barrier for freelance and hobbyist work isn't people's concerns with dethroning these proprietary applications.

Can you get hired at a large studio with Blender on your resume? Absolutely. And Krita is slowly heading down a similar path.

GIMP, on the other hand, is dead-set on being relegated to a corner for FLOSS purists. It still doesn't have a complete CMYK workflow. It can't compete with Photoshop, and its authors have stated they don't want to compete. And until something comes along that can, people will continue to learn and use the proprietary option first and foremost.
It’s not the same to discount a bill (that you legally owe) compared to an insurance company having pre negotiated prices.

If a healthcare provider decides to lower the amount they claim you owe because they believe it will cost them more to pursue you more than they will receive, that’s different than agreeing to a price before the services or products are exchanged.
> Sure, that'd be great, but we can't force authors into that scheme against their will.

We certainly can't force authors to continue publishing, but we wouldn't be forcing them into anything by revoking some or all of the privilege referred to as copyright. That would simply be a long-overdue recognition that we no longer consider this experiment in social engineering to be in the best interest of society.
Ask HN: I got Quick Experiment menu in fb account,do anyone have idea about it?
the screenshot of it:

https://ibb.co/QCMsRj3

https://ibb.co/FxQvZVm

I also tried creating test I got new Experiment Url : https://www.facebook.com/?qe[test2]=testExperiment3%3AtestGroup
but nothing else happened
Yeah, that’s one of the ways that it’s not all roses between them. Amazon has played hardball with Apple too, sometimes refusing to sell their products.
That’s called a cartel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartel: “Most jurisdictions consider it anti-competitive behavior”
Edit: Users below have helped provide context, thanks.

Maybe I'm missing the news here -- I'd be happy if someone could correct me or point out what I'm missing for why this is a big headline.

If you replace the company names with "Ma & Pa's Pizza" making a deal with "Dad & Sons Grocery", but keep the article the same (Ma & Pa pay 50% less of a fee for shelf space, Dad & Sons Grocery benefits from the great pizza Ma & Pa make), I don't see it being a Bloomberg story. My analogy might not quite line up (I have 0 clue how grocery shelf space is allocated), but the sentiment remains. Two companies negotiated, they had things to offer in lieu of the standard monetary compensation, and they came to an agreement.

If I am able to leverage assets other than money (intangibles like reach, brand, etc.) to lower the cost of something I am purchasing/becoming involved with, and the other company agrees to lower their cost because they will reap the benefits of the intangibles I offer, why is that wrong? Is it because of the scale involved here?

Two companies negotiated fees. What am I missing here?
Piling over your comment regarding YouTube - what is worse? Google owning YouTube and the search engine plus everything else or the fact that YouTube has probably more than 30-40% of the market? One is a problem of monopoly, the second is a problem of choice.

I think for tech, "monopolies" are natural and they stem from the lack of investment needed by the consumer which allows us to choose the best/coolest product at every moment.

For tech it makes more sense to have 1 search engine, 1 social platform, 1 video sharing platform. If cars were easy to change as you wish, I think everyone will gravitate towards a single car brand.
Bug report on the site itself: with the way you’ve styled both body and html, body is a separate scrolling pane from the document scroll area, which causes the header and the “give feedback” buttons to sit on top of the scroll bar, and breaks keyboard navigation (arrow keys, Space, Page Down, &c.) until you focus the body (by clicking on the page or with Tab). A simple additive way of fixing this is to set `overflow-x: unset` on at least one of html and body (if you just do one, it actually doesn’t matter which, because html and body are a bit special), but removing the offending overflow declarations altogether would be better. A top-level `overflow-x: hidden` is generally a bad idea anyway—if it changes anything, it suggests that you’ve got some other styles somewhere wrong (though there are one or two genuine cases where there’s no good alternative), and doing things that way invariably ends up going wrong and truncating important content sooner or later.
Would you give the same prices to someone who is buying a lot from you versus someone who is buying a little?

I’ve never seen a seller (of product or services) not give volume discounts. If they didn’t, they would be out of businesses quickly, as I’m sure other sellers would be more than happy to discount.
There’s ~21,000,000 years of human life lived a day. At 40 years per day uploaded, that’s 0.000002 of the human experience for that day.

It’s interesting to think that YouTube content is only a “two in a million” reflection of human life. Averaged out, that’s about 1 minute per person per year.
> Paying down debts in the optimal order to get on the path of long term savings is not something you can easily bootstrap yourself into without help. These people need mentors.

UBI, to a significant degree, keeps you from falling into debt in the first place.

> The state of Maryland provides free housing via HOC and free food via SNAP, yet the recipients of such programs I have worked with still frivolously spent cash on toys and luxuries (not to mention booze, cigs, and lotto) as soon as they got it and were in no way on a path to self-reliance. If free food and housing doesn't provide stability, I fail to see how UBI would (especially considering most UBI checks would be eaten as rent which is largely equivalent to HOC)

Means tests. The free food and housing isn't actually stability. It's only there temporarily, and only if you're poor enough. If you at some point attain "success", you lose the thing that made you stable. For SNAP that might be okay, but knowing that you'll need to move if your income goes up isn't stability, it's the opposite.

> When I helped them get their accounts in order, we found they were paying Comcast for cable despite not owning a TV, they were paying for all sorts of extraneous insurance and warranties they didn't need because the letters in the mail had predatory "amount due" stamps in red on disguising them as bills, etc.

Indeed, these things are bad. I'm claiming they're a symptom.

> That's largely just a roundabout way of stealing (if you consider defaulting on debts stealing, which I do in many cases). "If I frivolously spend my money before paying my debts, then I don't have to pay my debts!"

Sure, whatever floats your boat. I'm not applying value judgements, I'm offering solutions.
It seems like some people are having a hard time understanding what this is about, so let me try giving some context:

This author is interested in the "space" of possible experiences, including emotions, and the potential to manipulate them through drugs and future technology, especially in a future where technology and our understanding of the brain and consciousness are greatly advanced.

There are various problems with "drugs" of various kinds, like how some of them could make you an addict, withdrawn from the world, like a zombie, etc. There are different ways that people worry about the effect of drugs on their users, and even some people like this author (who are trying to be very independent of social convention and social norms) show some respect to those concerns.

Then one way of phrasing the angle of this essay might be:

In a technological future where we could get and make even more powerful drugs, and had fewer practical responsibilities (like not having to work), what would we want to understand about our relationship with drugs so that using them literally all of the time would be a good thing rather than a bad thing, in terms of the rest of what we value? What are the good and the bad of drug experiences, and can we tease them apart conceptually?

I don't have enough of a position on this question (or enough understanding of some parts of the essay) to be clear on whether I agree or disagree, but I hope that helps in terms of what the essay is talking about. ("Wireheading" basically means using some kind of artificial means to feel super-good all of the time, and people worry about it because people and other animals who are given this opportunity seem to immediately lose all interest in everything else, which seems kind of bad from most conventional perspectives of what a person can or should be!)
I alone don't bring much to the table. But multiply it by thousands of developer and that "not much" starts to add up.

Apple should want to encourage a vibrant app ecosystem, no? Who knows how many cool or useful apps just never get made because the developers can't deal with the App Store.
That yesterday Tim Cook stated a bunch of times under oath that they treat every company the same with regards to App Store policy and fees. Except Jeff Bezos got a special deal directly from Tim Cook.

So this is potentially evidence of perjury.
Offer "20% off" deals on the competing store, and Apple will be forced to reduce their cut if they want to stay competitive.
I was following a thread on twitter the other day about how facebook's decision to buy Instagram in 2012 was questioned by many. Some suggested it was Mark's amazing prophetic vision in hindsight, some suggested he feared innovation was not happening at FB.
Can this be extended to include entities as well?
I've attempted to negotiate medical bills and gotten no where in the past, so that's another anecdote.
I'd argue that job is impossible - the most heavily legislated areas are the most dysfunctional -- because they don't understand.
I actually like the homework assignments.

As an interviewer, I think they are the best at assessing the coding aspects of job performance. Not perfect, but better than high-pressure in-person whiteboard/coding tests.

As an interviewee, I like the flexibility to work on it as I have time (rather than using up PTO).

The point of using algorithms isn't to test your algorithm skills (though using job relevant algorithms is a good idea if you can) but to test your ability to translate requirements into code by eliminating the quality of requirement specification as a variable. That is, because algorithms have an unambiguous specification, failing the coding assignment due to poorly specified requirements should impossible (or much less likely).

For the non-coding part of the job, I find a (relatively short) structured interview works best.
Sure, and that’s exactly what I’ve done, too. I have agreed to discounted prices, with surgeons, before the surgery was performed. I am not an insurance company. It only requires asking.
This person considers any degree outside their personal preference of "important" degrees a pseudo-degree. I am guessing this personal preference probably closely aligns with whatever is currently considered "job-ready" degrees, and ignores the historical context in which some degrees used to be much less valued than presently.

For instance, a degree in math (the M in STEM) used to be considered a dead-end for a job, except to teach primary school, and was very female-dominated. This was true to such an extent that it was women who did most of the ballistics computing during WWII [1]. Many others invented new processes, like Grace Hopper, who designed the first compiler for a programming language. Sometime after the widespread media attention around the first personal computers - and who they were marketed for - this trend reversed, so that by the 1990s computing became seen as a "male" interest, and thus came to be dominated by men. Notably, this media interest was a Western phenomenon, which is why you'll encounter a lot of female Russian or Indian programmers working for American companies that are trying to boost their quotas of "diversity."

Another example of a reversal of trends of "real" degrees is aerospace engineering, a degree which used to be very lucrative (with the end goal working for any of the companies affiliated with the cold-war era space race). But when the United States decided to shut down their space program, a lot of these engineers lost jobs fast, and newly minted graduates could find no work.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing#1940s
Most antitrust laws are binary "is it or isn't it a monopoly". They're usually concerned with abuse of market power.

In the US, we have much more stringent antitrust laws than actually get enforced by the DOJ. So the answer is, yes they're subject to antitrust intervention, but only if the people responsible for antitrust intervention choose to intervene.
Part of the recent unrests were the George Floyd protests, which lead to numerous changes against systematic racism, including the reformation of numerous police departments. These changes have only been incited because people are not on their normal day-to-day routines, and have the time to go out and protest, and thus to socially contribute to the betterment of society.
My memory of the claims I came across during my time in Educational Psychology Ph.D.: tests in the distant past (early 1900s) were often culturally biased (even if unintentionally). I couldn't quickly find examples, but the gist is language or customs more available to rich white kids than otherwise (think playing golf, polo, etc).

One quick post I came across when looking just now is about "oarsman" and "regatta", words more-likely to be familiar to rich white kids than otherwise:

https://www.clearchoiceprep.com/sat-act-prep-blog/the-most-i...
It’s worth restating that I don’t agree that a significant percentage of lower income families would raid their child’s trust funds. I think that perpetuates an inaccurate stereotype that people with lower income are somehow more inclined to unethical behavior, or more willing to steal from their own children.

But I directly addressed the impact of both the hypothetical trust fund and the hypothetical theft: if my hypothetical parents stole my shiny trust fund money to pay rent, I’d not need to spend my own part time earnings on it, and all of us would be way more likely to be able to set aside money for college, what with us not having to use our incomes for rent.
Kudos! Very well done. Kept me engaged in the site and found some great things to read.

Nice job!
Michael Jackson grew up dirt fucking poor.
You don't need to be rich to play music.
Show HN: Quick Copy – a superpowered clipboard inside the browser
How is Google a way, way worse monopoly than Microsoft was?

(Disclosure: I work for Google now, and I think I would not have worked for Microsoft 20 years ago)
I like the idea but 20% of cloud spend in perpetuity is completely ridiculous and rules out anything above personal toy projects

Even if someone did sign up for the paid tier, they are strongly incentivized to cancel and keep to code
..vaporware
Paywall on this, can someone provide the text?
That's fair, he probably shouldn't lie under oath I agree.

The article has a very small paragraph about that, and the remaining 95% was just discussing that a deal was made. I guess since Bloomberg gave much more weight to the fact a deal was struck (rather than weighting the fact that Cook potentially lied under oath), I was focusing on the wrong thing.
The more I learn about the Plague of Justinian the happier I am that our current plague is relatively "mild". I am also amazed how much of an impact these kinds of things can have on the world.

I wonder what the long term fallout of the current situation will be (will there be a large one?). Death tolls are nowhere near past plagues, but the lockdowns have had a large economic impact for some countries. It's an interesting thought experiment, what do people here think?
We've been playing a lot with OSv. But unikernels aren't strictly sandboxing or isolation.

If you're deploying a unikernel to ec2, you're just using their underlying isolation. You can't safely deploy multiple unikernels on the same ec2 instances without figuring out your own, nested isolation.
> The value of these assets is only determined by what other people are willing to pay for them.

According to William Stanley Jevons, Léon Walras, and Carl Menger, the value of every asset is only determined by what other people are willing to pay for it. It seems a good match for cryptocurrencies.
There are tons of industrial conglomerates, from GE to Samsung to Siemens and there's not really any universal agreement that they're any worse than more focussed companies.

This goes all the way back to the most basic theories of organization - why do companies even exist? Why is everyone not effectively a contractor? Why do companies not outsource every non-core function? And there are good reasons why companies exist - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm External transaction costs are real and breaking Google up could significantly increase those.

Someone from Siemens once told me "Siemens is an investment bank that happens to own all of the companies it has invested in." I'm not sure whether that's true or not, but it's a good description of conglomerates in general.
This webextension provides persistent storage, shortcut keys and a UI for searching/managing clipboard contents.
For now, it works for Firefox. A version for Chrome will be released as soon as it is approved.
It's similar to "The history of Rome" podcast if you are familiar. From what I gather, the host offers a quasi-linear narrative of the history of the Byzantine empire, with small asides that focus on clarifying important aspects of daily/military/religious/bureaucratic life. It can be somewhat dense in the presentation of a lot of names, places, and religious concepts. But I find it very rewarding.

EDIT: If you are asking who the host follows, it is the Byzantine (Christian) perspective, with generous asides given to explaining the myriad of cultures surrounding Constantinople and how they shape the emerging empire.
I wanted to take this article seriously, but had to stop right about here.

To some American companies and Florida men, COVID-19 is apparently a war that will be won through antimicrobial blasting, to ensure that pathogens are banished from every square inch of America’s surface area.

This is a straw man. No one is suggesting that cleaning surfaces (by itself) will "win the war". Only that it is one avenue of defense among many available.
Is that a surprise? Containers can mostly be summed up by file system isolation on top of process isolation. I think this is why we're seeing some work done on capability based OSes like Google's Fuchsia.
Started reading the first few lines and could not make head or tail of what was being discussed.
>Due to rises in housing prices and rent over the years we UBI receivers had to be relocated to these new cities.

Wouldn't that increase the supply of housing and reduce the price?
I've not heard of or used Trailforks before. Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out now.

However, my go to website and app for off-road adventures (on foot and two wheels) is ViewRanger[1]. Maybe it's a bit too UK and EU focused for you, but I've found it to be really good and the app's improved a lot over the last five years. Their BuddyBeacon[2] is also a nice feature.

While not open source, the best part is they provide a direct apk download, so you're not locked to Google or Apple's store to download and install[3].

[1] https://www.viewranger.com

[2] https://www.viewranger.com/buddybeacon/v2/

[3] https://www.viewranger.com/software/software.php - visit on your phone.
Wallace Defines ’American Fascism’ (1944)
Fun thought I just had...

If a significant number of readers here on HN click that link, driving traffic to that specific listing, I wonder if it would cause the agent to think there's more interest in the home than there really is, giving them the suggestion that they should increase the price.

It does have a "HOT HOME" banner on the first picture. Could that be from HN readers?
Julia language survey 2020 results [video]
How many robots could you send with the same budget (both financial and mass) required for a human mission? If a rover can do 5 days worth of human science over its liftetime, and a human mission would take 100 Billion over the course of the program to send 100 tons (approximately the cost and weight delivered to the lunar surface of the apollo program) then you could do 500 days of science, which is approximately what the human mission would be capable of. That's with less risk to human life and much more flexibility.
I don't think my post re-characterizes publisher's claims at all, the part you mention simply claim that they offer a way to license those books in another way and they're trying to separate ownership into physical and digital, denying any form of digital ownership (by licensing instead).

> Normal public libraries can do digital lending (and have, for decades) because they get proper licenses from publishers or authors to do so.

Normal libraries do not need any licenses to lend books they own at all, but they can get a digital-only license, which is not ownership

> The IA is claiming that they don't need a license for physical books they own under the first sale doctrine, which is blatantly false: the first sale doctrine means they can sell or lend the physical copy of the book they possess, not that they can distribute the underlying IP of the book without permission of its creator.

CDL is not distributing the underlying IP of the book at all, its lending a single copy of the book using DRM to prevent anyone from copying or reading after the lend time is over. Only a single person can read the legally owned copy of the book at any given time.

> And even to the extent that the IA claimed it was limited lending on a one-to-one basis, it abandoned those limits and simply lent out as many copies as people wanted.

Yes it did it for a limited time (which I believe was an obvious mistake), and that's not what I'm talking about. What I'm saying is that the complaint ALSO goes against CDL in general, not only against their IA's national emergency program, as its clear from the parts quoted by you and me.