skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coincidentally, Behind the Bastards podcast has put out a two-part show on Mark Zuckerberg's background and the atrocities Facebook has let happen on their platform - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...

BTB is quite inflammatory, but the host eloquently puts together a lot of really damning and shocking stories from inside Facebook's doors.
I think that if you own a store, you should be able to make the decision regarding which products you want to stock on your shelves.
Not trying to take a side here, but Epic especially is not the company I want leading the charge here. I am vehemently opposed to their (and Tencent's) primary business model.

Edit: It isn't like there aren't policies that Apple has in place that should be pushed back against. But, Epic seems to have zero qualms about targeting children misleading and manipulative in game transactions, and I think that Epic having their way is far more nightmarish than Apple's equivalent, based on my current understanding of the two companies business models.
Other adults watch the news, read the paper, read forum posts by other adults who have also consumed similar information, and also think they are informed.

There is reality, and then there is each individual's perception of reality. Each person believes with near-absolute certainty that their personal model (based on a tiny slice of actual events, the majority of which are first run through third parties for ~interpretation and adjustment) of reality is accurate, and often enjoy chuckling at other people's models, but the unfortunate fact is that no person has an accurate model - and perhaps more importantly: hardly anyone seems to realize this (in depth, and on a continuous basis).
At my last job, I ran about 50 servers running Oracle Standard Edition. (Enterprise Edition would have taken each $25k license to something like $600k for our dual core servers). I was Sysadmin, not a developer, so I have different pain points.

I will never look back. There were so many things that we wanted to do, but were 'enterprise only' features. Like rebuild/create indexes online. We had a DB with a 1TB table. rebuilding that, while locking the table, would mean something like a 14 hour outage. With postgresql, online index creation is right there.

Oracle didn't support a proper incremental backup, except in enterprise edition. (and RMAN was a pain in the ass of arcane commands and black magic). pgBarman makes backups so simple for us.

Standby's on Oracle are good for disaster recovery. But you have to manually ship the logs, apply them, monitor it, and delete old logs. There were multiple thousand line korn shell scripts we utilized, and lots of cronjobs. With Postgresql, its stream based, and my standby follows production by less than 100ms most of the time. Plus, I can connect to the standby, and run read-only queries on it (we run large reports on standby, so we don't affect production) That is also possible in Oracle, with 'enterprise' edition (data-gaurd).

We filed a few ticket with Oracle Support. We never got any answers. I don't think we ever got an support person at Oracle that had been there more than a year. Even when we escalated.
Your perspective makes me sad. I'm honestly depressed because people rush to defend bad behavior of their favorite monopoly. Like, physically holding back tears. Serious.

What is wrong with us?

Our computers and technology have been locked down by anti-competitive juggernauts. Our legislators have written laws that cede more of our liberties and privacy. This modern internet sucks so much and I want to go back to when it was free.

I want a world where we're free to install whatever we want on our devices or distribute our hard work to others without having to implement it 5 different ways.

I don't want to be taxed by entities worth trillions. Before they stood up the walls, I could reach all the people I wanted for free. Now they've turned us into poor serfs.

The last bastion, the web, is even under attack by the forces of embrace, extend, extinguish. Mozilla is dying, meanwhile Google is removing support for adblock, removing the URL, promoting web bundles with baked in DRM, ads, and tracking.

These rent-seeking companies took all of the goodwill and amazing technology we developed in the open and they corrupted it. They saw the amazing capabilities we built, and realized exactly how they could adopt it, take control of it, and steer the public into their arms instead.

2020 doesn't suck. Everything since 2010 sucks. And it's getting worse.
If you're asking "is it possible for multiple people to be so annoyed by the business practises of tech giants that they complain about it online even when not directly related to the topic at hand"... yeah, yeah it is. No need to look for a conspiracy here.
don’t work at facebook
> Apple doesn't stop you from doing anything with your device, Apple thugs won't break your kneecaps if you subvert their restrictions.

Apple has added code that's explicitly built just to prevent running code without their approval. They even add code that prevents usage of compatible periphelas that don't have their own DRM chip. They've built dedicated hardware just to lock you out of doing "anything" with your device.

That's a really really bizarre definition of "doesn't stop you".
It makes sense to me that Facebook should attempt to follow the laws of the various countries in which it operates -- though obviously vague laws prohibiting "sedition" or "promoting unrest" make this hard.

But it seems quite difficult to navigate less codified cultural topics. For example, the problems in Ethiopia turn on old lines of ethnic division. It's tough for me to imagine that Facebook will somehow arrive at a way to manage a problem that's troubled Ethiopia for so long, even (especially?) if it uses local employees as moderators.
I was told in other threads that taxes, especially if they are progressive, are a good thing and that they help the society and the government to function, and that we pay them because we receive services in exchange, and that it doesn't matter how satisfied we are with those services. If you call Apple charges taxes, be consistent and respect them as any other tax in your life. Or denounce all of them. Or stop calling them taxes.
OpenAI is even more out of control than Elon!

Elon was accidentally working against his stated goals. OpenAI is deliberately working against its own stated goals.
What do you think about a dystopia were GPT-3 / GPT-4 bots post comments to Hacker News including references and links without being distinguished from real humans?
Sure, but it's of course surprising such people would be present on HN.
You can initialize ERD by exporting database metadata, and you can manually edit ERD through web UI, and finally you can export sql, including mysql postgres and mssql format.
No it does not. Sony isn't like Apple. I can freely buy things in / for PlayStation games with my credit card. Not so in iOS apps. There all payment goes through Apple, taking an additional 30% cut above the 30% cut of the app price. Neither Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo does this.
> One store may allow some content while another may prohibit it.

Yes, that's a good thing.

> How will iOS sandboxing be enforced for apps delivered via third-party stores?

This seems like a non-problem. Sandboxing is a local OS feature.

> e.g. what happens if a store starts writing malware?

The same thing that happens when the apple and google app stores do that. Reputation loss, or more likely: Nothing.

> How will that privilege be regulated to prevent abuse?

Why does it have to be? Why can't the used give an app the permission to act as an app store and install apps? This permission exists in android but can only be granted by the phone vendor (or google)

> Controversial content like porn may still ultimately be bound by Apple's ruling on such matters, rendering moot the freedom of third-party stores in what kind of apps they may offer.

It shouldn't be.

> iOS Parental Control and Screen Time restrictions may be ineffective on other stores (and browsers too if third-party rendering engines were allowed).

How so? Especially screen time restrictions is a non-issue for different stores. How is the rendering engine for a browser the restricting factor for content control?

All other points are questions of convenience.

Also many of these problems have the opposite too:

* What about content that is deemed inappropriate by apple, but users don't share that value judgement?
* What about web features that are not implemented by safari, but users might want?
* What about apps that are not implemented for iOS because the developers don't want to or can not abide by apples rules or got removed by apple for no clear reason?
These things aren't mutually exclusive, a testimony in Congress is inherently a public memorialization.

Tim Kendall has been an outspoken critic for a long time and also a recent central figure in the movie "The Social Dilemma" which is the about the same thing and will lead to more speaking engagements on the topic.

That doesn't dilute the message. If you think it does, what does a better arbiter of this aspect of reality look like? Who would that person be and what would their credentials be?
It might be that steam doesn't consider it a transaction fee? (Which is weasley wording imo)
There is absolutely no meaningful equivalence on this axis between the American right and left. Your projection about white men is totally incoherent, laughable.
I will take the opportunity, then, to particularly make the point and install this lovely version 13.
Over the past ten years, neural networks have been extremely successful on a range of problems that prior seemed impossibly difficult. One downside to that though is that people have forgotten the No Free Lunch theorem, and now see neural networks as a silver bullet to use everywhere and always.

NFL shows that no learning method works across the space of all possible problems. Every method bakes in a set of empirical priors. To the extent that the problem conforms to those priors, the method does well. But the contrast is that you must "pay the cost" by underperforming in other problems which contradict those priors.

To be fair often times the areas that you underperform in are so pathological that they're hardly ever encountered in the real world. Many regression type problems rely on the empirical prior that arbitrarily close real numbers are more similar than random. For example you expect the answer at 2.84394 to be closer 2.84395 than 150,000. In actual physical reality, this prior tends to hold up so well that we're barely even aware when we rely on it. But when it does break (like trying to treat Hamming distances as real distances), it breaks spectacularly. There's no free lunch, but sometimes we can pay the bill with cheap currency.

The point of all this, is that you shouldn't be picking learning methods without understanding the empirical priors embedded in your data. Just because a technique works really well on a hard problem, doesn't mean it works really well on all problems. Especially if they're two very different types of problems.
Native apps have always been major privacy leaks with little oversight while Apple has spent most of the effort on Safari. The app store doesn't change that fact.
Your style of thinking cannot be popular on HN, but we all know why this is good for the consumer - in this day and age, businesses will completely rip apart the consumer in every which way. They'll not miss a chance to fuck the consumer's privacy, financial state, psychology, innocence and addiction.

HN crowd wants something they can run sudo on. But people here have not got a slighest idea of how to run a device for close to a billion+ people.
That makes me very happy to hear! :D
>> I mean if the jews feel attacked because their families get gassed so much, maybe they should take a closer look at themselves.

Yeah I'm being facetiously inflammatory there, but c'mon you can make a better argument than that?
Even today, self-hosting video is very far from trivial, and requires a lot of bandwidth and traffic if you aren't just sharing your videos with a couple of friends, that's not something I'd want to do on a small VPS.
Even if you think that Hootsuite is allowed to take whoever they want as client, the craziest thing is that they first lied about it to a journalist last night, and then had to change their mind this morning once the proof of the contract went out. It's insane because the employee denouncing the situation went on the record to talk against the deal. How could they actually think that lying about it would allow them to get away with it?
Bad analogy. All of that stuff is paid for by taxes. All of the stuff offered by Apple is paid for by hardware sales and software fees.

You're closer to suggesting wanting to open a store in a town but refusing to pay property taxes, income taxes, and payroll taxes because you feel they're too high. You're welcome to go open your store somewhere else that doesn't have those taxes but presumably there won't be too many people that live there that would frequent your store and you know that.
Gen Z Calls for 'Unity' Tattoo, Chooses Nazi Symbol
Some of the most interesting excerpts (although it's worth reading in its entirety):

> My path in technology started at Facebook where I was the first Director of Monetization. [...] we sought to mine as much attention as humanly possible and turn into historically unprecedented profits. We took a page from Big Tobacco’s playbook, working to make our offering addictive at the outset.

> Tobacco companies [...] added sugar and menthol to cigarettes so you could hold the smoke in your lungs for longer periods. At Facebook, we added status updates, photo tagging, and likes, which made status and reputation primary and laid the groundwork for a teenage mental health crisis.

> Allowing for misinformation, conspiracy theories, and fake news to flourish were like Big Tobacco’s bronchodilators, which allowed the cigarette smoke to cover more surface area of the lungs.

> Tobacco companies added ammonia to cigarettes to increase the speed with which nicotine traveled to the brain. Extreme, incendiary content—think shocking images, graphic videos, and headlines that incite outrage—sowed tribalism and division. And this result has been unprecedented engagement -- and profits. Facebook’s ability to deliver this incendiary content to the right person, at the right time, in the exact right way... that is their ammonia.

> The algorithm maximizes your attention by hitting you repeatedly with content that triggers your strongest emotions — it aims to provoke, shock, and enrage. All the while, the technology is getting smarter and better at provoking a response from you. [...] This is not by accident. It’s an algorithmically optimized playbook to maximize user attention -- and profits.

> When it comes to misinformation, these companies hide behind the First Amendment and say they stand for free speech. At the same time, their algorithms continually choose whose voice is actually heard. In truth, it is not free speech they revere. Instead, Facebook and their cohorts worship at the altar of engagement and cast all other concerns aside, raising the voices of division, anger, hate and misinformation to drown out the voices of truth, justice, morality, and peace.
What's the path to actually make these domains usable? Does a browser just have to start supporting Handshake?

Too many blockchain pitches say things like it "would be great" if everyone used it. Yeah, it'd be great if we all moved to a decentralized everything, but users don't care enough.

Could a browser like Brave or Firefox decide to start supporting this? Then some websites would only work on Brave/Firefox, eventually forcing Chrome and Safari to support it too.
Kurzgesagt has a video on small black holes. If memory serves, it's slightly worse than you suggest.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8nHBGFKLHZQ
If you want LUKS encryption with signed policies to prevent brittle PCRs, rollback prevention with monotonic counters, and user pin to prevent dictionary attacks, plus TPM sealed TOTP to attest to the state of the firmware: https://safeboot.dev/
Placing the onus for all these problems squarely on the consumer is misguided and ineffective. Even if a large percentage of the population gave up meat, it would not be nearly sufficient to curb C02 emissions and prevent further climate change. Such that, both innovation and policy changes targeting the private sector are needed.

Reducing methane from cattle is important, finger wagging at consumers is a red herring that will deepen partisan divides.
Unless you don’t have parking meters where you park... It’s very rare that I park somewhere with parking meters near.

For myself and many others, our cars will never see a driveway, a garage, or any place that could have a charging station. I think this will be a hugely limiting factor in adoption.

As it stands, electric car owners are home owners more often than ICE purchasers and I don’t see that changing - maybe ever.
Roughly, what you shouldn't be able to do is distribute a product with that requires a contract in order to build upon it or extend it. You'd have to tease out the nuance of this more in legalese for sure, but that's the gist of it. The application to OS+software is a special case, the same principle applies in e.g. why Keurig's K-Cups DRM scheme should not be legal.
Speak for yourself. I try to pay everything I can via the App Store subscriptions precisely because it’s easier to cancel. I made the mistake of subscribing to nytimes and I have to call them to cancel. That’s a major brand making me do this.
I covered that. "The surface you're driving on" in this case would be the belt of the treadmill.
> I want a world where we're free to install whatever we want on our devices or distribute our hard work to others without having to implement it 5 different ways.

I do too, but your appeal to emotion is off-topic. This has nothing to do with the lawsuit. None of these companies want that, nor are they working toward that. Epic and Spotify are pushing their own walled gardens, they just want to do it with a bigger profit margin.
The PostgreSQL community tries to keep a list of new features that are added in its feature matrix:

https://www.postgresql.org/about/featurematrix/

This is not an exhaustive list, but it contains a lot. You would still have to cull information from release notes:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/

Or looking at the documentation page for a command (e.g. SELECT), or as per other suggestions, reading blogs/articles.
> Apple's advertising is built on security and privacy — allowing other App Stores on their system would only open up users to invasive tracking & attacks.

But why? If sideloading requires explicit user action and acknowledgment of danger, why would this affect their brand of safety and privacy in any way? The users who want a safe controlled environment can easily choose to stay in that environment. I just do not understand this argument.
For reference, all of these practices are abusive and will void the subscription contract in civil law (Europe). Ask for a refund and perform a charge back if they don't refund.

I wrote a detailed article about it, what every developer should know about software subscriptions and civil law: https://thehftguy.com/2020/09/08/what-every-developer-should...
It seems that the post is highlighting how the subscription and refund options of these companies provide a far worse experience than the Apple App Store which is a legitimate concern for why providing a work around can lead to worse user experiences if these companies provide their app via a different chancel that doesn't enforce certain UX requirements.

For that reason the comment does seem helpful and relevant.
Why? As a developer it sounds like a nightmare, but as a costumer, I like it. It makes for a great experience.
> Do you mean understanding intersectionality, or agreeing with its conclusions?

> It effectively tells one set of people they are justified in organizing together and lobbying for their group self-interests, while denying that justification to another set.

That is not a conclusion of intersectionality. That is, to the extent it is a component of the anti-racism movement, much older than intersectionality and operates on a level logically orthogonal to intersectionality. It's basically the discrimination + position of power view of racism combined with the idea that group organizing is neutral or blandly positive but racism is strongly negative.

(I get that this is confusing because right-wing critics of the movement keep taking the names of individual elements of theory embraced by segments of the left and attaching everything they disagree with by everyone on the left [and then, every generally-seen-as-bad movement in history whether it relates to either the particular element or the left] and attaching it rhetorically to that element, and the mass media—including the center-right corporate media attacked by the right as leftist—covers the right-wing attacks more than the theory itself, so that those attacks shape the understanding of the terms by people outside of either strongly-interested camp.)
> I assume partly that designers do that since textual labels require translation, but icons generally don't. What fits perfectly in English often doesn't fit in German.

Except that icons need tooltips, which would require translation anyway.
I noticed Aurelia isn't getting any love when pushing for TypeScript.
Graeber, the anarchist anthropologist who coined the phrase "we are the 99%" and wrote Debt: The First 5000 Years talks about the idea of revolutionary non-confrontation in Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology.

One of the ideas he discusses is intentionally keeping your literacy low and your population itinerant.

"...under the French, administrators would complain that they could send delegations to arrange for labor to build a road near a Tsimihety village, negotiate the terms with apparently cooperative elders, and return with the equipment a week later only to discover the village entirely abandoned—every single inhabitant had moved in with some relative in another part of the country."

Graeber on the myth of the ignorant savage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvUzdJSK4x8

I'm not sure that itinerance or illiteracy are strategies I would recommend to anyone. :)

Dreher's Benedict Option seems like a Western perspective of a similar strategy.
> Personally, I think MySQL died when Oracle got involved with it. The momentum was sucked right out of the project.

This statement is completely baseless, and you clearly haven't followed the MySQL developments of the last 10 years. It's ironic that around the time Sun was acquired, MyISAM was still a thing; MySQL has gone a long way since then.

Independently of a value judgement of "how good PGSQL/MySQL are" (I'm not making any implication in this sense), MySQL's development has been proceeding steadily, with no particular change (on the engineering side, at least). Oracle has actually put considerable effort both on the engineering and marketing side, of the 8.0 release (but again, I don't make any implication about the value of the products per se).
Almost 80% of the usable land is used for livestock agriculture. In which other areas do you propose to increase trees and plants?

This seaweed additive they propose is a distraction. Even if it would work, it's a band-aid at best. The real, more simple, cheaper and healthier solution is to make meat and dairy from plants directly.
Commercialising Quantum Computers