skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key differentiator between the future and past, isn't strictly cheaper prices, it is flexibility.

Satellite/Cable had a huge lock-in factor due to equipment contracts and even monopoly/duopoly issues. A lot of consumers found themselves either hard or soft locked in as prices continued to rise/quality declined (and many still are).

The future is different not because content is guaranteed to be inexpensive, but because competition can exist and users get the choice (including choosing nothing for periods). In this case Netflix is raising prices which sucks, but the market is rich in high quality competitors, some of which are cheaper.
That and people buying the one last x86 Mac before the changeover.

This is likely the last Mac I will ever buy so I maxed it out for maximum longevity--that's going to help Apple's quarterly numbers for sure. I have been gradually shifting to my Lenovo Carbon X1 running Linux over time.

Linux support is still not quite there for external thunderbolt docks and multiple displays, but it's really close.
I have no idea about how widely used the offline mode is, but I'm curious to find out, should people run across relevant statistics.
I’ve always said they need to separate dev from creative machines. For most devs keyboard is way more important than gpu or display color accuracy.

Maybe that could be the differentiator for Apple Silicon. Keep x86 for devs who need compatibility. Creatives who need compute. Or they could just keep pushing iPad as creatives device even further...
is it really? Or people just dont like to be pointed out on needless consumerism?
Throwaway? The Apple laptops and IPads we have are extremely long lasting and robust (except for the laptop version which we all love to hate and for a reason).

The Ipad 2 especially was a masterpiece of durable design - that tablet lasted nearly a decade with two kids intermittently stroking it with their grubby hands, growing from toddlers to schoolchildren. Not throwaway!
Great book. I own the second edition.
A nihilist regarding truth, I see. You might want to watch this video to see why that's a dangerous attitude, and one that plays into the hands of morally unscrupulous actors and foreign adversaries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nknYtlOvaQ0
> he is noble for respecting the responsibilities he has delegated to his editors and not doing so.

He quit rather than allow them to perform those responsibilities. That's not respect.
youtube has ads?
OP is right and fuck you.
Several people are suggesting this on this post, but it won't work for input. The phishers will just stop using password forms. And if you make it for all forms, well that can probably be faked trivially with javascript.

It _would_ work for first time visits, but I propose that it will be too common that people will ignore it or brainlessly click through it, providing little to no security benefit.

Phishing is an artifact of the bad design of the system of remembering a password, and will likely continue until we design and widely deploy a better alternative.
TLDL?
Nah. In a week, some component will need a security update, and your "hello, world" will break.
> e fact that you would rely on Facebook in such a manner

It is the reality of the situation that a whole lot of people rely on facebook in such a manner, and because of the network effect they would be unable to convince all of their friends and family to switch to other platforms.

One person cannot defeat platform locking and network effects.

> while a phone network is fundamental infrastructure

Not really. It would be easier for me to never call someone's phone number again, than to get rid of other communication platforms that I use.
I mean that GitHub does not "try", in the sense of looking at the interdiff, doing fuzzy matching, trying to identify line-by-line similarity, etc. It places comments only if the hunk is exactly unchanged and gives up otherwise.

Phabricator does "try", in the sense that it examines the interdiff and attempts (of course, imperfectly, because no implementation can be perfect) to track line movement across hunk mutations.

My claim is that all comments which GitHub places correctly, Phabricator also places correctly. And some comments which GitHub drops, Phabricator places correctly (on the same line a human would select)! However, some comments which GitHub drops, Phabricator places incorrectly (on a line other than the line a human would select).

So the actual implementation you prefer is not one that tries, but one that doesn't try! Phabricator could have approximately GitHub's behavior by just deleting a bunch of code.

That's perfectly fine: many other users also prefer comments be discarded rather than tracked to a possibly-wrong line, too. I strongly believe this isn't a good behavior for code review software, which is why Phabricator doesn't do it -- but Phabricator puts substantially more effort into trying to track and place comments correctly than GitHub does.
Developing free from censorship is useless if you can't ever reach the user due to censorship
I guess I should have been more verbose in my original comment. Windows is hot garbage, but there hardly exists a good reason for dual booting. Use a Windows VM from Linux if you can, WSL2 from Windows if you must.
Mailing lists are a great idea but I don't know how to use them. Last time I tried I ended up making some embarrassing mistakes. I tried to look up a guide but only found the manuals for the mailing list software.

Does anyone know of a good guide to mailing lists?
That's nothing. One of NYTimes top stories for the past 4 years was a fake dossier and "Russian collusion" that didn't exist. And they got us into a multi-trillion dollar war in the Middle East, too.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/s...
There are still sale prices, the difficulty is separating the land portion from the improvements portion. This is currently performed for many purposes, including insurance, which has the benefit of being tied to somebody's valuation, rather than a standard assessors estimate.

However, this idea originated from a time before we had zoning restrictions like we do today. Which also means that any change in zoning would result in a big change in land value too. One could also imagine transferring zoning allowances, much like air rights are sold in NYC, so that people that don't want to change their property can instead give their greater density allowance to person down the street that wants to change their duplex into a fourplex, or something. Such transfers would also be near to zero dollar activities.

But given our current difficulty with handing out any sort of zoning change to allow more people to live in high demand areas, I start to think that this idea is hopelessly poisonous to land politics of entrenched powers (land owners). Still, one can dream.
With all due respect, you long abandoned reason and now you’re just being an asshole. Someone decided not to reproduce - your opinions are of no value to their body.
If you are using desktop and a adblock probably not, but if you are using the mobile app...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine_(series...
Well, not everyone runs an adblocker!
There's still the minor detail of transporting it back to Earth in a cost effective way…
You're welcome :) I remember someone saying somewhere that most of the great computer programs probably haven't been written yet, if we remember that maybe we'll be the ones to write them!
Managing a Business from Home with KOTN's Husband and Wife Co-Founders
>Amazon Prime has already normalized it.

many people might have prime on an annual basis but amazon seems content with offering prime on a monthly basis as well. In fact the only way to get prime video (without prime) is monthly. https://www.amazon.com/amazonprime
Benjamin Franklin: "it is better a hundred guilty persons should escape than one innocent person should suffer."

Otto von Bismarck: "it is better that ten innocent men suffer than one guilty man escape."

I guess I know with who your views on justice align.
I wasn't even presenting a dichotomy let alone a false one. There have been a number of issues that have shown an increased urgency over the last several months, not just COVID. As those other issues become more urgent, space exploration falls further and further down many people's list of priorities for funding.
Could've told you that.
Surely I can't be the only one who saw the title "Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?" and thought ... sure mate, just go back to the 70's and you've got mechanical programming galore in the form of punch cards. ;-)
The site is Commissary Club: https://www.commissary.club/

We want to enable formerly-incarcerated people connect with each other, and find jobs, mentors, homes, healthcare, and more.

I welcome questions and suggestions: joel@commissary.club -- and we're hiring Elixir Phoenix developers.
You say this like its a "gotcha." Surely you've heard of the Streisand effect?

Imagine that you are in charge the the Biden campaign, and that the story is false. What action would you take? It looks like its not gaining traction on its own, would you really direct the public's attention back to it?
I don't understand. Why would mask advocacy mean the CoC people have a vendetta against him? Is the conference run by Trump acolytes?
Education with Chromebooks is their strategy to get a foothold in corporate services? Seriously?

I can’t tell if this is a joke or serious.
lol, I think Glenn’s tweet with story and this thread on HN all got blocked.
So, yeah, will likely be faster then 8 years ...
Apple Financial Results – Q4 2020
all true, but in the end if you are an editor and you think the source is garbage, you can’t publish it. That’s your duty regardless of anything else.
Your phone is LISTENING to you – ultrasonic cross-device tracking [video]
> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. — https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I wish I could downvote this submission. I wonder whether I should flag it.
My kids school has chromebooks, but according to the kids, they are always out of power, and they suck, so all the kids bring their own iPad instead.
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The only way to control costs is to increase supply or decrease demand. If they want to lower health care costs, then increase the number of residency spots so there are more doctors...or reduce the requirements to becoming a doctor. Or make it so you don't need to see who went to school until 30 years old to get a simple antibiotic for routine conjunctivitis.
Although it's worth noting that Tupperware is also an MLM, so a lot of that 15x might not have much to do with their products as such.
Not upholding the first amendment; upholding the principle of the first amendment, that is, the first amendment doesn't create a right, it protects one that we all already have. The Bill of Rights are based on natural rights, ones we have by benefit of being alive, one of which is free speech. The First Amendment concerns itself with a very small corner of that universe, but the rest of it is ours, and should remain free.

The founders never imagined a situation where a very few private citizens would have the power to censor the speech of millions of others. Nothing even remotely similar to that existed at the time and there was nothing to suggest it could ever exist. The US Constitution is also a minimalist document so it wasn't concerned with enforcing behavior between private citizens.
I think what they were talking about is that before Rudy Giuliani approached the NY Post he tried to get Fox News to publish the story but they refused it.
That's my "stack" too, which is why I once called myself "real full stack developer" once in a conversation. It was intended partially as a pun on the "full stack" term, but I said it only half-joking.
> I mean what if the world was completely different to what it actually is and people understood visual security indicators?

The article is full of tweets by people, including Hunt himself, that use visual security indicators

Note: biased. Worked on a web verification startup for 4 years. Including campaigning for better indicators.
The namesake of the Pulitzer prize, Joseph Pulitzer, was one of the foremost proponents of yellow journalism. Rudy Giuliani, an American hero for a couple of years after 9/11, is now a foreign asset for all intents and purposes. Having prestige doesn't make you infallible, it just means you were in the right place at the right time.
The Art of (Not) Painting Pixels
That’s a nice thought, but their manufacturing process doesn’t seem easy to make more modular. The inside of these machines tends to be an elaborate, compact mesh of components, not well suited to accommodating much customization outside of the specs of perfectly compatible components.

I imagine a different keyboard would require space to accommodate both types in any chassis, otherwise making multiple processes for each chassis and keyboard. That gets expensive fast. It also increases surface area for problems, which is expensive in terms of customer support, preparing and fixing processes, reputation, etc.

Their limited options are partially to ensure quality, reduce price points, and decrease time to market. It’s a trade off. I’m personally content with their choice - it’s why I tend to stick with their hardware.

I could be wrong. This is just my uninformed take on it.
The randomly assigned ip every reboot is extremely annoying.
> Before YC, I sat here at my desk. During YC I sat here at my desk. Now I still sit here at my desk. This is perhaps the hardest aspect of doing anything remotely, you don’t have any tangible memories of going to a place, shaking hands with a person, coming away with a YC souvenir.

This really resonated with me. When people ask me, "what's it like now that YC is over?" I really don't know what to say, because it barely feels any different :P
Other than not knowing about them, why would anyone not use an adblocker?
Some of the channels I watch have so many ads that it reminds me of cable. Quite frankly I already have HBO and Netflix. If I also pay for YouTube and maybe even Disney Plus, it feels almost like paying as much as I paid for cable, except I also have to pay for faster internet — so at the end of the day, I’m not sure if I’m really better off as a consumer.

I’ve stopped using YouTube because of the crazy ads. And we tried Hulu but the forced ads were enough to have us immediately cancel the free trial. Thanks but no thanks.
Developer here.

Started this because I was looking for a cross platform backup GUI tool that let me create encrypted incremental snapshots to my NAS and B2 bucket on a schedule. The tools I found (both paid and free) were either clunky to use or didn't have a good engine (block-level deduplication, adjustable compression, encryption, speed, etc).

Here is a quick benchmark I did comparing BlobBackup to Duplicacy, Duplicati, Arq, and QBackup a few days ago. The benchmark doesn't cover all use cases (I'm going to try to do some to different storage destinations when I find time), but it's a decent measure of backup engine efficiency and speed.

https://blobbackup.com/10_gb_benchmark.php

I also put quite a bit of thought into the UI so it's much more usable (subjective I know but try the free version yourself) than the alternatives.
Disney, Amazon, Netflix, Apple TV+.

Apple intends to "give away" Apple TV+ for free with their bundle Apple One. ( It is sort of included in the bundle as offering value )

Amazon Prime Video is ~85% of US household and increasing. And again it is included for free as part of Amazon Prime. And it is working hard on its intentional expansion.

Disney - I dont think any family with kids is ever going to cancel that. Not to mention their low price.

Netflix, with all their quality originals and their confidence to raise prices seems to suggest there are little to no lost of subscribers.

I wonder how this is going to end.
Sad for them. Seeing Youtube on mobile makes me gag each time. There is more ads than content, how can anyone actually bear this?
It's interesting to see the proportion of revenue of iPhone vs. their other products. It's unparallelled, but based on the dip from last year seems equally volatile / subject to competitive forces.

You can see everything else (Mac, iPad, accessories) trending up vs. last year.
I've gotten quite a few political ads in the last few weeks. (CA with ad personalization turned off)
Bilinear could mean downscaling with a triangle kernel, but it might well be the standard bilinear interpolation that's native to most GPUs and OSs.

Also area interpolation still has some pretty terrible aliasing, since box kernels are terrible at filtering high frequencies.

And of course with downscaling you could still freely manipulate the downscaled image if you're allowed to use ridiculously high or low values, provided you knew the exact kernel used.
They didn't win the lawsuits...most of them were dismissed, and in the few that were not they settled for each side paying their own costs. (Most of their targets were publicly traded companies, so those legal settlements would have been disclosed in their SEC filings.)
It's amazing to me that anyone on this site would not be using ublock Origin or content blockers in ios/macos.
I think a good first step would be to stop making exclusivity deals. Is there some good (for them) reason they do that?
Because 10k is a drop in the bucket for most startups. Expenses generally far exceed that, especially at the beginning.

Further, 6% is almost 1/10th of the entire company in terms of ownership.

It'd be like buying a permanent seat in someone's minivan, even if they replace the minivan for a lamborghini minivan in the future, for about $100 one time fee and a vague promise of "we'll help you set goals on how to get that lamborghini!"

It's a nonsense offer.
Letter just received:
Dear Sean,

We are writing to update you with additional information on your CredEarn Program. Cred is still in the process of assessing the business impact of a fraud incident in consultation with its Counsel and specialists. We are working hard to assess the situation and expect to share more next week. For now, all inflows and outflows of funds will remain temporarily suspended for the November 1 program.

We also want to acknowledge the concerns expressed about Cred being hacked. We can tell you that's not the case. No Cred systems, customer accounts, or customer information have been compromised.

We know this limited information is not sufficient to understand the status of your funds, we deeply regret any stress this ambiguity has put on you. Many Cred employees, family members, and partners have their funds with CredEarn as well.

Thank you for being vocal. We want you to know your voice is being heard; and we are committed to keeping you updated on the situation.

Sincerely,

The Cred Team
It starts out reasonable enough. When it gets to Burisma, though, it falls off a cliff:

> But that claim [that Biden wanted the prosecutor fired so his replacement would better fight corruption] does not even pass the laugh test. The U.S. and its European allies are not opposed to corruption by their puppet regimes. They are allies with the most corrupt regimes on the planet, from Riyadh to Cairo, and always have been. Since when does the U.S. devote itself to ensuring good government in the nations it is trying to control? If anything, allowing corruption to flourish has been a key tool in enabling the U.S. to exert power in other countries and to open up their markets to U.S. companies.

I don’t even know what to say other than that that’s an absurd caricature of US foreign policy. Yes, the US sometimes allies itself with corrupt regimes. That doesn’t mean it’s not interested in fighting corruption, especially in a potential future NATO member.
From your link:

“(a) the commission in Canada of a designated offence; or

(b) an act or omission anywhere that, if it had occurred in Canada, would have constituted a designated offence.”

I wasn’t aware Canada had a $50,000 limit on moving funds from China.
Docker for Mac isn’t on x86 so it seems likely it will continue not to be.
My impression was the opposite. Greenwald went around slinging wild accusations of censorship and bias, and the Intercept's response was fairly measured in comparison. They even included an acknowledgement of respect for his work.
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Proposition 22 ads everywhere.
Apple is the most environmentally responsible purveyor of mobile devices in the game.

Not because of all the fluff about mercury-free this and that: simply because they support their products for longer than anyone else. Much longer.

As a result, they hold their market value better, meaning they're more likely to be sold than chucked in a drawer or thrown away.

You can apply a similar argument to their laptops, although the community around old ThinkPads makes me wonder if Apple might be #2 in that sector.

Ah, but AirPods! You've got me, that's 14 grams of high technology which is only good for a couple years of enjoyment. Basically anything else Apple sells is designed for a decade or more of daily use.

There are millions of iPhones 4 still in use, mostly in developing nations. They still receive security updates. Show me another manufacturer which does this: you can't.
Rails has been relatively consistent over the past 10 years with few breaking changes, especially compared to most other frameworks.
>I’m not sure if I’m really better off as a consumer.

You can at least watch what you want when you want.
Nice! Makes sense.
I used to have one years ago and it was a real joy to use. They’re pretty incredible machines. Unfortunately I’m not much of a desktop person... although oddly, I’d like to be. I find it hard to give up portability for my main machine though.

I’ve sat and ogled the newer iMacs for sure though, and I’m looking forward to seeing where the line goes.
You don't get ads asking for donation?

CA appears to be politicians' (from both parties) ATM.
Extremely relevant reading: _Purity_, by Jonathan Franzen https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374239215
The experience of ads on youtube must be misery. A YouTube sub is the best $15 you can spend.
Tip for avoiding them (on my
Samsung TV anyway) - if you see 2 ads queued... hit back, then play again... often you get just 1 ad or even none at all on the second play
Not just more ads, but longer ones as well. We used to use youtube to put nursery songs on in the living room for our kids. All of a sudden we notice it's 15 minutes into an ad for the state of Ohio. So many less interruptions now that we play them off Spotify.
> It is the reality of the situation that a whole lot of people rely on facebook

You're just wrong. The overwhelming majority of people use a variety of communication services like e-mail, imessage/sms and many others, and this is common knowledge, people who only use Facebook for communication are frankly extremely rare.
Information asymmetry leads to Power asymmetry. Transparency is a bitch to people involved in power games.
it's not that low. GCP is a distant third, nothing surprising there.
Haha... I remember talking to a teacher in college that used punch cards when he was young and I thought it was awesome, people were closer to the hardware you know? Hopefully my version of mechanical programming is a little more convenient :)
What I've been able to find is that Rosetta will run 64 bit Intel apps, but that won't help the likes of Parallels.

So there will be no way to run Windows/Intel in a VM? Or even Linux/Intel or older versions of Mac OS for that matter?

That's bad.
Wall-Mounted PC Build Examples (2018)
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If you use Android Youtube Vanced is really awesome. Removes ads and has function for skipping in-video annoyances (sponsors, intros, etc)

https://vancedapp.com/
Yes, I am waiting on a 16" MB Pro too, they have very long delivery times. I need x86 support, so it was now or never :).