skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google domains and namecheap.

Namecheap only because they accepted bitcoins back when they were still mineable with a gpu, and it was amusing to turn a ~kilowatt-hour into a domain name.

Google domains because in my estimation Google account security is the best in the industry and likewise their resistance to social engineering or direct hacking.

Network Solutions used to have an option to only accept changes from PGP-signed email but there's nothing close to that any more in terms of security.
I don't think that's how most business relationships work. When I buy a high end sintering 3d printer, for instance, it doesn't come with a mountain of consumer protections because it's assumed that if I'm buying one, I know what I'm doing and will make sure the purchase contract contains warranty clauses, support, and so on. The cheap FDM 3d printer I bought off of Amazon, however, is targeted at Joe Public and thus treated differently by the law with a mandated one year warranty.

I'm not sure what the legal test is for differentiating the two, but the difference is definitely recognized by the courts. IANAL but it's unlikely that the courts would decide that app developers are consumers in the classical sense.

That said, it doesn't matter (again, IANAL). Consumers are still being harmed, as Apple so graciously showed by removing Epic from the store - removing consumer choice in a free market is anti-competitive.
I think the rat eats better food than MRE's.
To avoid criminal charges beginning with sexual assault and rape allegations, I think, not from the US. Which may have been a tactic to extradite him before other charges

The Swedish rape case would have made it more difficult for the US to extradite Assange, as that case would have had priority in the UK (since it was first in time, and more importantly, actually proceeding when Assange went into isolation), and Sweden is less likely to extradite to the US than the UK.

When groups like the ACLU have pushed issues via lawsuits its often with a very specific, media attention perfect client like Rosa Parks who cannot be vilified or attacked for a past criminal record or documented issues with society and law enforcement.

I see that you are unfamiliar with the actual history of the ACLU, which has also defended neo-nazis/white supremacists, Larry Flynt, self-described terrorists, and other degenerates in precedent-setting cases.
So when Putin hires US advisors it's normal, but when Yeltsin did it was 'meddling'?
Anyone could theoretically negotiate a different license with any software vendor... that's not a feature of the license they are generally offering the software under, its a feature of the legal system of contracts.
> By the way, what's with antirez's colorscheme? I wonder if he really uses that blue background or is it just for the video.

I don't know what you were expecting but those all look like colors from the original DOS and Windows color schemes. It's probably just a guy using colors he grew up with.
In the macOS User Guide, it says "Font smoothing reduces jagged edges for some fonts. When text smoothing (or “antialiasing”) is on, smaller fonts may be harder to read."

That seems misleading, though, because there is clearly some amount of antialiasing happening regardless of which option is chosen.

I think you're probably right. To be honest, everything in macOS seems to be designed with that switch on, so turning it off makes fonts in many areas look noticeably worse.
git is the de facto VCS, so comparisons to it provide a reasonable baseline for comparison for possible users.
Is this just a wrapper around a subset of system calls? Looking at the code it seems to be, not sure.
The BBC, to me, over the last 2-3 years has demonstrated massive pro-Conservative party bias. The mechanism for that is not apparent, but look at Kuenssberg and you see someone who has regularly been followed by accusations of strong bias with ultimately, it seems, nothing being done about it. To my view she (or the team she's in?) directly interfered in the last election; she didn't seem to be hindered in any way. Someone caught divisively lying on several occasions (each damaging Corbyn/Labour) yet remaining in post says to me their is political control over the BBC. She did grill Johnson after the election when it no longer mattered though.

Ironically Radio 4 (taken as a whole) seems to provide a reasonably level playing field; but their listeners are a small fraction of BBC1's viewers.

I think the parties involved are smart enough not to leave evidence lying around in public. The "postal vote" debacle was either a direct attack on democracy, out in the open, or a complete failure of the entire editorial team that should have seen them immediately sacked.

Interestingly the Cabinet Secretary, head of the civil Service - which headlines itself as having open public recruitment - was chosen by Johnson on entry to Downing Street.

My personal opinion is this is a drip-drip-drip erosion of balance to allow the current government fascististic levels of control.

Most recently reports are that some satirical comedy shows are being stopped as the government see them as too critical of Tories and not critical enough of others (they must have forgotten who is in power). How is it possible the BBC aren't being interfered with in removing some of their most popular domestic broadcasting when the only extent reasoning is 'to reduce on-air criticism of the current government'.

I'm sure you'll wave your hand and say this is all anecdote. In general Trump's playbook has been copied by Johnson, control of media/reporting is a part of that.
this is not really one "industry", tech is just an enabler here. The only difference is what was once physical is now digital.
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Thanks, that thread was a good read-thru.

I can understand why it was done the way it was done but it makes it difficult for outsiders to know what's up. An occasional "State of Pijul" blog post would be helpful. As we all know, the Internet is full of somewhat finished but now stagnant projects.
Rent? variable? It's one of the most predictable expenditures.

I'm not sure if that's more or less cut and dried than "hey I don't have this money anymore because I had to pay money to not be literally homeless".

Deductions are an approach to reducing tax burden, but ultimately we have to decide if more taxes or less taxes are the way to operate our societies. The federalized tax system allows different states to experiment with different approaches, and these kinds of deductions incentivize behavior in one direction.
Police rarely goes after theft here. They basically come to assess if it was a break-in. But don't expect to see your stuff again.

It's better to focus on making sure it's not worth someone's time to get in. Such as keeping expensive, easy to grab, items out of sight. And then just have good locks and a loud alarm.

Adding a camera should be the last thing you do to your setup.
While your last statement is true, it does not follow that maximizing taxation maximizes the desirability of living in that society.
They are absurd, because of things like virtual/livestreamed fitness classes. Apple isn't providing the infrstructure or bandwidth for streaming, their role is the same whether the class is real-world (impossible during covid) or virtual. But they take 30% of revenue if it's virtual.
Have you read the emails?
No, it's not. Marx thought workers could come to consciousness about their conditions through work, which Bourdieu did not.
More accurate and costs way less than a 75K Boston Dynamics dog.
> This doesn't explain their border differences with India though.

Access to the water. The border China would like to control would put the watershed from glaciers on China’s side.
The article does not say everybody. It says Facebook and AirBnb. It also specifically say many will still have to pay the tax. Where did you see everybody?

Obviously to me FB and other big companies get a favor, small developers can shove it and pay.
I'm not sure that the person you are responding to is making a dignity argument on the topic of government assistance versus private giving. On this topic, I usually come across these arguments:

1) in an economic downturn, one would expect charitable givings to decrease due to economic contraction. I think the evidence from the 2008 recession is somewhat mixed on this topic. Most governments, not reliant on personal donations, do not face the same sort of budget issues (which is another debate).

2) Charities have the ability to discriminate. They can choose how to allocate donations in ways that can include or exclude certain segments. This is in some respects true as well for government spending, but once again boils down to the allocation problem.

3) economies of scale. Larger organizations are often less redundant than a group of smaller organizations, reducing overhead.

> My belief is that forcing somebody to do anything against their will is inherently immoral. Taxation is included in that. It's not that simple of course- it's all relative, and sometimes taxation can do enough good to outweigh that morality.

Since you are not fully opposed to taxation, would you accept a taxation scheme for a government program if an independent and well researched study showed that government spend outperformed private programs by 2.5x, 10x, etc.? Or is it more that any issue that could be addressed via private charitable organizations should be off-limits for the government?
If anything, this somewhat refutes the GP's point. Giving money to low-income people and increasing their spending didn't make up for the larger decrease in high-income spending.

This is not to say that we shouldn't support low-income people, that's important as a moral and civil matter, but the economy at large, by volume, includes a lot of things that mostly high-income people spend on, and those things often employ a lot of people.
This is so cute and creepy at the same time (≧∇≦)
Attacking a gas pump with a high voltage lighter sounds like a good way to win a Darwin Award.
The makers of land mines should be forced to pay for each land mine removed
Yep, so the communists which drove USSR to the ground had to get 2nd chance to completely dismantle Russia that time? I'd say that was an interesting possibility.
I mean you could get away with it for a while but if Apple think you are only circumventing then they’ll have you thrown out. Which I think is fine. You can’t have rigid rules, you need a human to interpret.
Even if I wanted to relearn (I don't), you still have the problem of inconsistencies. In terminal copy is Shift-Ctrl-C, in Firefox it's Ctrl-C, and you don't have all of the emacs bindings my muscle memory relies on (which is a big deal for me - I use them all and all the time).
Could you send me an email because my company is starting something similar
“hill climbing” is a bad term for this since it definitely means something to computer science folks.
leaves Apple footing the enormous bill for providing the apps.

The enormous bill of having to pay for a dozen hard drives! Oh no! That would drive the world's most valuable company into bankruptcy! If they can't charge everyone 30% they'll go out of business sometime in 10,000 years when they run out of their 11-figure cash pile!

/s

Apple's costs for hosting app's is already covered by the $99/year they make developers pay. They have no justification for 30% on all transactions beyond base rent-seeking.
Someone sent me this screenshot and asked to post to see if this was some kind of spam filter or if HN mods are actively hiding it (trying to invoke the Streisand effect I guess). She said the first post was also hidden until it re-appeared with your response. I am now also very interested because as far as I can tell this doesn't violate rules, just makes some people uncomfortable or something.

https://imgur.com/T7GzfeE
I think part of it a cultural idea, perhaps driven by our employment system and antibiotics, that it takes about 1-5 days to get over a most illnesses.

If you read older literature, you see people taking months to get over things like the flu, a whole process of recuperation completely unheard of even among those who may have the affluence today to do it.

There are the outliers who may never recover from COVID, people who assign their general discontentments to it, but I suspect there is another group that maybe just needed more than a week or two to recover and are suffering the consequences of not taking it or not being allowed to take it.
> the typically dismissive HN attitude that's been persistent on this site (and the engineering sphere in general) since the on-set.

Isn't it a good thing to show some scepticism? It's for this type of comments that I like HN.
>In general, people seem to assume that: 1) although there was some degree of mystery or luck about how YC got going, it can’t be that hard

Who are these people? Have they heard of supply and demand? How can anyone think making a profitable company from ground zero 'can't be that hard'?

> 2) if you can get it off the ground, the network effects are self-sustaining.

Why would a company that's essentially a filter in between people with money and people with promises have network effects? If anything, the reverse is true - as any company gets bigger, it gets worse at maintaining quality.

This can be trivially seen empirically with how much large tech corps spend on R&D and yet how boring, incremental and downright sad many of their new offerings are (new emojis anyone?) Where are the results from all the billions spent? I guess the new macbook keyboards are an innovation, oh wait...

The only way a filter is strengthened by network effects, is if the filter is increasingly irrelevant and through-put is what matters (spray and pray > being picky).

So either it is spray and pray and then it 'isn't that hard' indeed if you have the right connections (born rich, have been introduced to billionaire friends of your father/mother), or it isn't spray and pray, but then there are no self sustaining network effects to be had.
Oh I can see a whole new method here.

Buy an iPhone for %15 off price if you use Apple's App store or buy it at full price if you don't use Apple's App store.

As in, let Apple subsidize the cost of the phone with the app store, I suspect a significant number of people would go for it even with just a five percent price drop.

The problem currently isn't that Apple is charging what they do for the App store, the problem is they are in effect selling customers of their hardware for that amount.
So, in tidal breathing air goes into and out of lungs from the same opening. So there tends to be some air at the bottom of the lungs that sticks around and the whole thing could be more efficient. In a bird air enters the lung at one end and leaves from the other so there isn't any stale air that stick around.
I think Apple would rightly judge this as violating the terms of service.
C and C++ articles are ignored, though, which is where most high-performance work is done. This isn't an optimization article that incidentally mentions Rust. It's a Rust-evangelism article that incidentally mentions optimization. HN has been a dumping ground for Rust content marketers for almost a decade now.
I'm confused as to why anyone would presume to be able to use company equipment, resources, email, etc for these types of activities. Obviously you have a right to organize, but I don't see how they have to let you use their systems to do so, and anything you send on company email they can and should be able to view. I've seen this sort of thing with the Google protests and whatnot too. The forums, message boards, and email accounts you are using belong to the company. Use external resources if you're going to do such things.
If organizations that have some credibility apply for observer status then nothing could possibly change.
This is exactly what bothered me when I heard parts of Mozilla Devtools team were let go in the recent layoffs. It's as if they don't get the equation at all.

Better devtools = More developers = More testing = Smoother website = More market share.
If you've ever used Darcs, that might help motivate why Pijul is interesting. Darcs was the first system I used with an interactive mode, sort of like `git add -i`. Obviously that's a UX-side change that can be (and has been) replicated in Git. But at the time it was fairly mind-blowing to work that way.

The other part is the theory of patches. Darcs took the lead here too, but the algorithms and implementation left something to be desired. So Pijul could be really cool if it finally gets this to really work.

On the other hand, if I'm being honest, all of my really hairy merge conflicts are not things that I think could be resolved by this---not without changing the way we think about code from being about text to being about ASTs. So I'm not sure if Pijul would have any practical day to day consequences for me. Certainly, when I moved from Darcs to Git, aside from UX issues, I don't think I noticed any major practical headaches due to the loss of the theory of patches.
The way science is funded, and the fact that it is used to justify politics pretty much guarantees that it will be captured to work as power tool and not truth tool. It happened long, long time ago. At this point academic "science" is more of a state-religion and people in it government appointed priests.
The issue with remote access is you need a service in the middle to provide that remote access, and provide it securely. Otherwise you're just talking something in the home (BLE, etc).

Does Apple use iCloud for HomeKit, or is it all on the iPad/AppleTV that acts as the home hub?
You can set the default browser on iOS14 [1]

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/google-chrome-default-brows...
Why not both? You get the AppStore and are allowed to sign apps for your own devices.

(We actually already have a workaround for this: https://altstore.io/ but it still requires Apple to sign your apps and is relatively difficult to use)
Hey HN'ers :wave:

Searchbox is designed with the goal of being a lightweight (16KB to 35KB when minified + gzipped), performance focused library for building search UIs declaratively. We have variants for React, Vue and a headless library that can be used with any framework.

Direct Github link: https://github.com/appbaseio/searchbox

With this release version, Searchbox assumes the backend to be an appbase.io/Elasticsearch server. While there are other libraries that are backend agnostic, making this assumption allows the library to support tracking search analytics, displaying popular suggestions, and configuring advanced search relevance options. Searchbox comes from 3 years of learnings we've had in maintaining ReactiveSearch - one of the most popular search UI libraries out there.

Key benefits of using it:

- Searchbox lets you create versatile search experiences. Think auto suggestions, highlighting, incorporating fuzzy search, voice search, setting search relevance (fields to search on, weights to apply), showing default suggestions, rendering your own UIs.

- In addition, it lets you measure search/click analytics, set query rules, show popular suggestions. Most other searchbox libraries don't offer these capabilities.

- It's built with the open web in mind. Search is designed to work with any design system (Bootstrap/Material/Antd/your own), and it can integrate with any kind of UI components. See a demo here for an integration with React Table: https://codesandbox.io/embed/github/appbaseio/searchbox/tree....

- It supports tree shaking. If the built-in searchbox component were not used, the size of the library comes down to 10KB when minified + gzipped.

Read more over here: https://medium.appbase.io/searchbox-1-0-a-javascript-library...
> So a single person decides they don’t like my comment

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Note that many people read downvoted comments, and upvote them to counteract “unfair” downvotes. If you regularly get downvoted by more than -1, I would read it as a strong signal that you need to be more critical in how you present your thoughts.

I think that your comment deserves the downvotes (despite how factual it may be), because you are bringing in contentious subjects without sufficient nuance, and without tying them into the topic very well.

Don’t give up!
> I’d be perfectly happy to buy tons of gadgetry like ring and nest products just so long as it doesn’t need some kind of cloud service, and it doesn’t need any kind of subscription.

Same here. Is there any company working on this product space?

It will never be created by a large corporation or VC-backed startup because those have a need to extract every penny of income from the product line which means there will be a subscription and there will be cloud data gathering which will be sold to advertisers.

But a small privately held company could sustainably target the niche of stand-alone home automation devices for the target audiences who care about privacy and/or prefer no recurring monthly fee.

(I worked on a startup addressing a small segment of this space but over time we (the initial engineering team) lost control to the investors and it morphed into a cloud-dependent service and then promptly died. Would love to work on that space again but without the investors to keep the focus sharp.)
As this impacted G Suite much more than GCP, it's possible it will be posted on https://www.google.com/appsstatus instead.
Wow, did that help business, or was it more of a vanity thing? I was thinking domains didn’t matter all that much.
They aren't taking 30% from anyone. That is their price for services provided. You are making it sound like thievery. It isn't. People know this price going in and agree to it.

If you don't like the price, use (or create) an alternative.
Who'd've thunk, two sociologists on the orange website! I thought about including Marx, but it seemed a bit complicated, because there is no trans-historical conception of social cohesion in his work. Marx arguably thinks the glue of bourgeois society is ideology. Work is the glue of a class-in-itself, which is not coterminous with "society" under capitalism.
Traffic laws especially are absolutely made for everyone as are most laws and social rules.

The parable is upside down:

The man was almost assuredly 'not late for his job' (though possibly), he was probably just driving the wrong way because he could, because that's what everyone else does, and it's the 'de facto' rule.

If he and everyone else actually followed traffic rules - then they would all be less likely to be late, they would all be probably somewhat wealthier, especially if they followed the other rules as well.

"He took a bribe to feed his family" - maybe - but we need to stop taking bribes.

I think there's a good bit in Sam's point about why PG and Jessica were able to do it, but it also has to be taken in context: they were starting from a place of exceptional place, arguably from 'privilege' (is how some people would describe it).
You're right! It's better that for profit medical & insurance companies, with CEO compensation 800% higher than their average worker pay, makes these decisions.
Isn't pragmatism about choosing actions with a clear eye toward their practical effects? My perception is that if he can't even stick to his principles on credentialism when talking about a hobby, he either takes extreme care to shape others' opinions of his hobby or doesn't really personally buy anti-credentialism.

(I don't mean to pick on Paul Graham, but it's kind of hard to resist with all the essays.)
I think some Rust components have been written and integrated into Firefox. But the core Firefox codebase - including Gecko - is still C++ so it's not easy use Rust there.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation

On a related note, Chrome is looking at integrating Rust into its C++ codebase.

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...