skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Something like this can be mitigated by blocking localstorage access or using container-like solutions such as Firefox containers[0][1].

A nice project to work on would be to write a Chrome and Firefox extension that could watch, notify, and store localstorage and other tool usage on a per-site basis with an admin panel for whitelisting or blacklisting sites, similar to how uBlock functions.

Personally I run a few extensions that attempt to block or obfuscate fingerprinting attempts by sites inspecting system fonts, canvas rendering, etc. Some sites break altogether with these extensions.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
I tend to phone people I'm making transfers to, where they've emailed or otherwise electronically sent the sort code and account number, to verify. Adds a couple of minutes, but could save tens of thousands.
I don't think this line of argument would fly, because developers have actually a choice in developing for Android. If they don't make as much money that is not Google or Apple's fault.

What I think is an argument against Apple is that users want to have access to apps that Apple doesn't want to release on its store. In that case, they may be forced to relax their rules on the Appstore.
>> I'm railing against people perfectly capable of working productively

I get that and i’m in no mind to let them off but i’m not willing to hurt good actors just to be sure no bad actor ever scores a free lunch.
This is not what happened.

Microsoft “invested” a token $250 million in Apple. The same quarter, Apple spent $100 million to buy PoweComputings Mac license. The $150 net did not save Apple. Apple lost far more money than that before it became profitable.

What MS did was promise to continue releasing both Office and IE for the Mac.
Oh I see. But my post got more upvotes than that post.
TLS issuance is decentralized too, yet Certificate Transparency provides accountability, and inclusion into Mozilla's trusted CA list is basically the vetting process that binds CAs to legal entities.

In theory in crypto currency world "staking" is this process.
Instead of one optimization profile for a whole movie, Netflix is detecting when the shot of a movie changes (the camera "cuts" from one shot to another) and beginning a new optimization profile specifically for the content of that shot.

At least, that is my understanding.
I agree to a large extent, but the last 2-3 years have not been kind to the Dota 2 strategic landscape. In the strategic rock-paper-scissors of teamfighting beats ganking beats splitpushing beats teamfighting, teamfighting has been overpowered by Valve.

It's not really possible to consistently win in pro Dota by ganking or splitpushing strategies. Only occasionally, can you do it, when you have a clear draft advantage the opponents don't see, and a clear plan that you can execute flawlessly. While, if both teams go for the teamfight strategy, then there is much more room for mistakes.
I was very careful to word my previous comment to say the US Government represents the voting population. In 2016 there were only 157M registered voters, and only 138M voted in the presidential election that year. The population of the US was 321M in 2016 making the US Government represent approximately 43% of the overall population at best, most elections have a far lower turnout.

I didn't say the system was fair, but it's still not a fair to compare a private company to how a government is supposed to function. Governments enforce laws and provide public services. You want things to change? vote for it.
The 75% of people who don't know you get a choice.
Tim Sweeney has made some statements about this, to try and walk a line where, while the situation is equally true about game consoles, they shouldn't count/shouldn't be forced to be open because their platforms are less innately profitable. That is, consoles are sold at a loss and have a lot of R&D costs, and so they have more rights to maintain an exclusionary platform than Apple.

I can see the pragmatic sense in that argument, but I'm pessimistic and see it more as Tim trying to avoid destroying a relationship with strategically critical partners while achieving new strategic goals on mobile. Trying to have his cake and eat it too.
IMO, Apple is acting like a bully. It's using its position of power to coerce other into giving up a substantial amount of revenue for very little effort.

If they want to keep this monopoly, they should make their cost transparent and apply a reasonable markup. Otherwise they should be forced to allow competing stores. Anything else is ripe for abuse, as we can plainly see now.
email sure, who else other than Apple maps comes close to Google Maps ?
1. Safe Zig is(/will be) memory safe. It is not what you deploy, but it is one interesting aspect of Zig's design which makes it very different from "C with ASAN."

2. Nobody's goal is to use a memory-safe language. The goal is a safe and correct program. A memory-safe language is one way towards memory-safe programs, but the belief that this is the most effective way to achieve safe and correct programs is an interesting hypothesis, but it is just that. It is certainly possible that trading off those guarantees for something else -- like increased confidence across the board -- could result in safer, more correct programs, or at least not any worse.

> Also, your writing in this whole thread is full of resentment towards Rust and I don't think your animosity is helpful in any way

If you go over this thread again you will see that this is simply not true. I certainly did not bash Rust once. It is a very cool language with a bright future that many people love, but it just doesn't suit my personal tastes, that's all. And because both Rust and Zig are trying to provide safe low-level programming and they do it radically different ways comparing their approaches to safety is interesting. If my points are incomprehensible to you that might be because it is you who are acting with animosity and resentment that cloud your judgement.
What command is ola^ ?
Startups and dogfooding thread / found on Twitter
Fair point but that’s largely due to security not Apple’s desire to lockout other browsers.
You would easily be able to tell the difference. 500hz vs 1000hz, I'm not so sure. And I don't think anyone knows, like you said.
The business model is simply to collect referral fees from Pharmacies and PBMs. Also to sell data back to insurers and pharmaceutical companies.

There are companies known as PBMs (Pharmacy Benefits Manager) whose sole purpose is to negotiate rebates and group discounts on behalf of insurers and employers.

GoodRx operates as PBM at scale or more exactly as an aggregator of deals from PBMs + Pharmacies. The pharmacies pay them because they drive volume and the PBMs pay them because they help to lower the cost of their medication programs which is one of the reasons they exist.

It's the same model of a coupon website.
I'm not trying to be rude, but you claim the most customizable habit tracker, yet I don't see anything on the home page that shows how that's true. I see:

"time-based, count-based, and simply completable activities and habits." which are things on many other habit trackers. I'm curious if you have something cool that's not coming across on the homepage?
That seems like a pretty impressive achievement!

Question for anyone here:

What do you use to play 4K/HDR? I have an Apple TV 4K, which can do 4K Dolby Vision playback and looks ok, but the Apple TV tends to have some jittering when streaming certain shows (very noticeable in panning shots of animation). The sound quality is also noticeably worse on my set with it (it doesn’t seem to be able to do direct pass through to my AV unit, always PCM/decoded on the Apple TV).

On the other hand I have a a Shield TV that does direct pass through of audio and sounds much better, and also seems to do video playback without that occasional jittering. It does not seem to support Dolby Vision though. Additionally the UI is very, very, very laggy after recent updates.

Does anyone use anything that doesn’t have either of these issues?
The difference would be that the same iPhone has access to Taylor Swift through Spotify, Apple Music, Play Music (does that even exist anymore?) and so on.

Put the app store on the same level of competition and level the playing field of Spotify vs Apple Music in regards to the 30% subscription fee.
Maybe those who identify as a truth seeker instead of as a progressive or a conservative find it easier to see what is happening in the world. Where do your first person video accounts come from? Are the edited? Are the missing content at the start or at the end that other first person video accounts include? Would your sources ever admit this or would you have to go to "the other side" to find the video in its entirety? Would you even know that the other side has a video with a more complete view of what happened? There are many ways to lie with video, lies of omission being quite common these days.
Not entirely sure I buy the idea that Cobain saved music from the recoded medium...
The IBM case was dropped after 13 years and nothing came of up.

Microsoft was also cited for forcing OEMs to pay for a license for Windows for each PC sold whether or not the PC shipped with Windows.
As I said these issue already exists with sideloading and private App Stores. Some of those issues are alleviated with the OS model, which simply doesn't allow to change the search engine and install keyloggers. If someone chooses to leave the App Store and be vulnerable to issues such as sex ad notifications and secretly uploading photos the issue should be how it's communicated. I haven't used an Android device in a while, but the last time I used one it was a simple dialog and you could install whatever you like. On the Mac you have to open the settings and permit every unsigned application if gatekeeper is active. Something like this seems like a reasonable solution.
> husky's explicit sole purpose is to be tusky without that blacklist

This is not true. It is just the personal fork of tusky by a1batross. It also contains improvements to the pleroma integration.
> given the choice between building the current system and some alternative, there is no way you'd say, "for sure, build again what we have now, it's great".

> Yet that's what we kind of do every year implicitly by continuing through inertia. Healthcare, financial/banking, transportation, rocket launches, etc.

Also on this absurd list: academic publishing
Even if the compilers are biased, isn't it reflective of what users would experience because most software is made with biased compilers?
I absolutely hate GoodRx.

Its a symptom of a horrifying lack of medical coverage and care in this country. If it actually becomes incredibly successful it will embody the same perverse incentive structure as Intuit -- to remain successful they would be best served by lobbying against universal healthcare and affordable medicine in general so their offerings remain valuable. In the same way Intuit lobbies against simplifying the tax code. Every time this happens it further entrenches the existing nightmare.

Medicine in this country needs wholesale reform, not coupon clipping for insulin.

[edit] Coupon clipping for life saving medicine is apparently as good an S-1 as it would be a Black Mirror episode.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24299307
> However, long-term trends show browsers such as Opera and Firefox losing market share in Europe

To Chrome, not IE/Edge, which benefits from the browser ballot as much as they do.
What network effect does Zoom have other than word of mouth? I've seen people enter meetings with links or meeting ids, not from a friends list.

Some of the conference tools need/want a client or a specific browser, so there's some amount of benefit from already having used it, so you don't need to install it, but not a whole lot.
How would you rate the Rifters trilogy vs the Firefall trilogy? (I thoroughly enjoyed Blindsight, hobbled my way through Echopraxia, and it's unlikely I'll read Firefall)
From our perspective: yes. But legally and from the perspective or the mass-marketed users there really isn't much for them to think about or consider in terms of flexibility of application installation. (freedom is such a vague term to describe platform access - are you really free if you don't harvest your self-grown silicon chrystals, diffuse the chips yourself, write the firmware and OS yourself etc?)

Ironically, we could turn this on it's head: when the iPad came out people commented humorously "nobody asked for this" but apparently it was a device we didn't know we could use or enjoy. The same could be said for personal platform access. But what shape or benefit (and downsides) it gives to the mass market user eludes me so far.
> Why is this the acid test? Buying a coffee is a solved problem so why is blockchain tech expected to address this use case?

Wait. If everyday transactions are not the use-case, then (excluding speculation and money laundering), what exactly is it?
You have to wonder why he even felt the need to make this. I mean isn't it enough to have an idea in your head about who your favourite people are? No, I think he is saying 'hey this can be your echo chamber too'. It's like he's trying to make his chamber more echoey by boosting all the people who think almost identically to him, to a group of people on the internet who also think identically to him.
But surprisingly Epic didn’t go after the console makers..
I suppose I look at this as sad from a different angle than you. The brand itself has been losing consumer trust for decades, due to changing tastes and increasing health-consciousness. Eventually, that makes it so the company can't pay on its obligations. The debtors say those obligations are non-negotiable, the company folds, and now we're left with the private equity firms driving down costs at the cost of what consumer trust was left.

If a company I worked for was ever late on a paycheck, or refused to continue paying for a pension/matching 401k, I think it's perfectly reasonable that the company should collapse.
One of the sources for "raw info" that I follow is the No Agenda Podcast (co-hosted by former MTV VJ and co-inventor or podcasting Adam Curry and former tech columnist John C. Dvorak). They position their podcast as "media deconstruction" and contrasting what the media say versus what is actually going on, and they slam Fox News every bit as much -- if not more -- as anyone else.

I'll tell you what gives me hope though: podcasts like the Joe Rogan Show where Joe, who is very progressive, will talk with ANYONE in order to discuss and understand differences. And this is one of the biggest weakness of mass media these days: if it cannot be condensed to a sound bite it's ignored. A thriving democracy is supposed to be a place where differing points of view are debated vigorously but with mutual respect between the parties debating. Unfortunately, these days it seems to be a race to get to the point where you can dehumanize your opponent, and this is a fault of both the left and right.

You ask who people on the other side think about you: I'm not a progressive but I don't think it's black and white either. I think we could probably agree on 80%+ of RELEVANT political issues... assuming we don't let a polarized media exaggerate what is actually relevant. We all want to be happy, we all want to be loved, we all want the next generation to prosper... I think that's universal.
> If you want to stay in Apples walled-garden you have that choice, otherwise, install your own apps.

That’s not the only option here — you could also just use an Android phone to begin with.

I’m a happy iPhone user and the fact that it is a closed ecosystem is part of the reason why... I’m happy to pay that premium (both in cost and flexibility). I don’t want my phone crashing because some developer pushed out a buggy update and they didn’t want to pay the iOS developer fee.
This is a super special case and I am honestly amazed that some bot is watching for it.

The common use-case on Ethereum is sending tokens from A to B, and that can't be front-run or falsified by a bot. This is the original use-case of crypto: sending around symbolic tokens that represent money.

Ethereum also has a lot of other usages though, and here is where it can get hairy. For instance, exchanges exist (Uniswap) where you can swap Token A for B. However, your intent is an Etherereum transaction which can be read by bots as you publish it and can be front-run if you are not careful.

In this case, someone basically misplace money: instead of sending it to an account, they put it onto their car rooftops, up for grabs. And then, some Mexican stand-off happened: the bots wouldn't notice but once the white-hat hackers moved, the bot would try to grab the money faster.

Ideally, the white-hatters would have crafted their Uniswap interaction in one transaction - they are atomic and the bots wouldn't have a chance to interfere. But it got late and they tried to hammer away the problem and allowed the interaction to spread over two transactions.
There's at least some with 8kg payload

https://www.halodi.com/ever3
This RFC makes no mention of the root of the problem; the Federal Reserve system.

In our fiat monetary system, all new money which enters the economy comes from banks as credit; companies then compete against each other to earn the biggest possible share of that newly printed credit. This means that new money doesn't originate from consumers (so-called end users), all new money originates from institutions... So why would companies care about end users (consumers) when all the new money they get actually comes from financial institutions??? Why not get money straight from the source; cater to the paymasters and use consumers as pawns?

These days, it makes more financial sense to manipulate consumers to please financial institutions than to manipulate financial institutions to please consumers... The dynamics are out of whack. That's why we need UBI urgently - Make consumers the source of all new currency, this would force big companies to forget about cheap institutional money and focus on consumers. Let consumers be the paymasters of the economy.

This game of allowing banks to decide who gets access to cheap credit and who doesn't is inevitably going to lead to the kind of corruption we've seen over the past decade.
They could just charge a single upfront amount of money.
> Trump just negotiated a peace deal between Israel and UAE

There are lots of Christians who favor Israel but ultimately hold anti-Jewish opinions. This is weird, yes, but support of Israel should not be mistaken for support of Jews (the reverse is also, but only incidentally) true.

> Trump's son in law is Jewish.

So were Emil Maurice and Erhard Milch, at least according to German law. Didn't stop Hitler and Goering from making exceptions for them.

I have quite a few conservative friends. Most of them don't support Trump, because Trump isn't a conservative. He doesn't stand for God or individual freedom, nor does he stand for loyalty to the country. Don't conflate conservatives and Trump supporters. They're not the same thing, and trying to present a bait and switch between classical conservatism and Trumpism is a bad faith argument. This is why you see so many conservative politicians that are no longer in office supporting Biden over Trump. Because Trump doesn't extoll conservative values. Instead he represents a populist and proto-fascist wing with more than a couple white supremacist tendencies.
> Point 1) - I don't think so.

I remember having discussions online with people who passionately argued that open source software was effectively theft from programmers at large--permanently filling niches that used to gainfully employ coders. I remember a guy who had some little utility he'd been selling online, which had been providing an income stream for him for years--and then along came some little free tool (that he claimed was an obvious rip-off) that did the same thing, and his income dried up. He absolutely thought OSS was theft.

Also, SCO, MS, and other companies certainly did try to paint a lot of open source software as explicitly stolen or copied. They always stopped short of providing proof, but that sure didn't stop them from making wild claims. SCO in particular went on and on about the sheave of Unix code they'd identified in the Linux kernel (while asking the judge to extend the deadline yet again for them to have to present evidence).
Remote education is forcing US to confront the digital divide
What's wrong with rocket launches?
If you’re claiming that Spotify would get all the benefit of a break in the fee, you’re implicitly claiming that it bears all the economic burden of the fee (ie. it doesn’t pass on the fee to users). Spotify currently charges $13 to sign up in iOS and $10 to sign up on the web. This is strong evidence that Spotify is currently passing through the fee to users. It seems much more likely that Spotify would give iOS users a price break if the fee was cut. Music streaming is a competitive market, so they don’t have much choice if everyone gets the same break.
"scamola" -- as in, scam. ^W implies closing the window and starting over.
Or better yet, nobody.
hmm i compare it in the sense of how you visually look at it. top down, from usually a birds eye view.

I do agree it might be hard for an extra casual person to watch. Maybe i'll say its soccer for 'cerebrals' who want the best of chess + soccer + rts. They want a juicy 'programming style' logic problem injected into the veins of their esport (i'm thinking 150 champs x (4 abilities + 1 passive), incl % reduction math and item build meta strategies)

yeah i guess some people don't like watching competitive league, but after 10 years or so, its still pulling in massive crowds and is _huge_ in china (ofc tencent owns it though)
certainly, but biology is amazing. our muscles are basically chemical ratchets interconnected throughout a mosaic of levers (ignoring the complex control and feedback mechanisms, as well as the energy and waste systems, for a moment).

also, your point is why i mentioned pearls--not all tissue needs to be activated or enervated similarly, or at all.

we should have no doubt that biology would find a way given enough time.
>The receiver account can still be seized by government institutions

That is hardly an advantage for the victim. Come to think of it, that's a (rare but realistic) threat for normal, licit commerce.
This is primarily an issue for contract writers[1], of which there are relatively few. You get similar kinds of automatic exploitation on exchanges of all kinds too (stock, currency, futures, etc), though I think it's fair to say Ethereum makes it (quite a bit) more complex and more automate-able on average.

[1]: transitively it affects users too, but it's a bit different either way.
I’m curious how you’ve even achieved $100 per day. Did you have a sizeable following on social media or an email list to get your first customers? I wouldn’t call any of these milestones “small” or “easy”, that’s just ridiculous.
While I agree, in the short term, the existence of GoodRx is probably better than not. It's expanding access to prescription drugs, even if in a sub-optimal way. Perfect is the enemy of good.
I used to use Linux, but the DRM makes that really hard. I'm restricted to HD from Netflix, so some media I access 'differently' for the media format of my choice.
I know next to nothing of ethereum or how it works, so the whole thing read like a cyberpunk caper that I couldn't put down. I imagine the author on his Ono-Sendai deck.
> A little hard to turn down 10 million.

What if the game would have made $20m if it was non-exclusive?

Exclusivity deals mean both parties - or either party - is making a huge risk or there's information-asymmetry involved.
That sounds so intuitive that I want to follow up with the question: Why isn't this the default?
Is detecting a cut particularly difficult?