skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Death is relief from observing the continual descent into madness for the human race. Ever wonder why smart but unacclaimed elders are so bitter? We've spent our lives watching the stupid evil win over the smart evil, and the good never having a chance. I'll be glad when I'm dead, if I could be glad. To not watch the human race destroy itself is all the heaven I expect.
> At least four customers complained that the merchandise was not authentic.

According to the article, one customer said the item didn't fit, and wondered if it might be a knock-off, but they didn't outright claim it was. And the other three complained about packaging. Depending on how you score it that's ZERO customers complaining, or maybe one at most.

> The evidence of authenticity was illegible. [...] And this is just what I learned from an article from HIS point of view.

That was Amazon's claim; he claimed he sent in the correct, authentic, legible invoices, and they were rejected out of hand because Amazon refused to accept invoices dated in the year the merchandise was purchased, and instead wanted invoices dated in a different incorrect year.

> If he had paid to have his stuff returned

He claimed he tried at one point and the web portal rejected it.

Obviously, I don't know who's right here, and some of his claims are a bit confusing. And he does admit to ignoring some notices. Still, if you're evaluating his story as he presents it, taking his claims at face value, then: His evidence was not illegible, no (or at most one) customer alleged fake items, and he did make an effort to retrieve the merchandise.
Somehow they don't see this problem, which is a severe blind spot. If they end up on the wrong end of their anti-trust issues when the dust settles, the only part that might be viable long term is search/ads.
On the other hand Apple might happily accept those payments for now, but realize that they won't keep coming forever.

It's quite possible that DOJ antitrust action would prevent Google from paying to be a preferred search engine in the future. Once Google isn't paying you, why not provide your own search engine (and cut Google off from that valuable data stream)?
You will probably have a good time reading about the history of the Mach OS.
I would look to my network as the primary option to look for jobs.

The Google type of questions is a pain, Companies are beginning to realize that.
For this to make sense, they would have to believe that the value of having their own search engine is greater than the cost of developing it AND the billions they currently receive from Google every year for making google the default search engine. Either that, or it’s a feint to undercut the recently announced US case against google.
I run a fully virtualized configuration and I frequently have encountered issues related to the virt stack during the initial months of new version cuts ever since switching to a virt configuration in 2016.

There has also been a ton of improvement, too. So kudos to Fedora, and kudos to everyone out there maintaining those libraries!
No where near as useful or powerful as Git
They actually discuss this at length in the Twitter 'thread'. Basically, they're pulling yeast spores from within the pottery, not from surface. Then they try to keep everything as sterile as possible after that (kitchen autoclaves, sterile handling with gloves, UV lights, etc.)
Previous thread here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24290613
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24338152

(the previous thread for the changes to Applebot).
Lynx was not a "web browser" in the current sense until 1993.
edit: I misread a thing.

Apple made over a quarter trillion dollars in profits in 2019 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/267728/apples-net-income...), and gets somewhere around $10B from Google. (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/21/apple-services-success-story...)

They can certainly afford to ditch the partnership.
Nice to know you've completely lost touch with the rest of the world in terms of being able to watch significant chunks of recurring revenue fly out the door, along with realigning incentives away from getting any ambitious or different music that isn't "investment grade".

>"Screw you, got mine," does not tend to score points with the youth of today, and it doesn't score points with me. Not that what I think matters one lick. All of my music has either been consumed via radio, adopted via possession through being the family backup media, or public domain/OST, typically from ye olde CD store.

Furthering the arts my arse. Furthering the exploitation and monetization of the Arts as business model through aggressive litigation is more like it.
Pretty likely, i mean it stands to reason they'd make more in the long term without a middle man.
Apple should buy DDG, rebrand it simply as Duck (plus they already have the domain), leave the privacy focus fully in place and have Weinberg run the search division, and push a large investment of capital into turning DDG into a full-fledged independent Google competitor. Of course I'd worry that Apple wouldn't be able to help themselves and would try to call it Apple Search (Search by Apple), and the web location would be something absurd like search.apple.com or apple.com/search instead of duck.com.

If Apple builds a modestly successful search engine for their iOS platform, it's going to hurt Duck's absolute growth potential. It'd be better for everyone if they just buy them and ride + improve existing momentum.
Underground doesn’t get affected by weather. I wonder whether simply having more tunnels side by side would help for servicing issues. Small, numerous tunnels instead of large tunnels.
JavaScript–Still a Ghost
A post about defensive reactjs and ghosts
A very good example to show to people that are still in the stupid mindset: "i have nothing to hide because I'm not a criminal"
This topic seems to come up every couple of years for Apple. But I guess there is actually some evidence for it now.

It is something I have wondered about for a long time, I am curious how they would handle it from a financial standpoint.

If they made it privacy focused, maybe no ads (probably a big maybe), and allowed anyone to use it (not just iOS). Could Apple search become the gateway to buying other Apple products like Google search has become for Google?

Plus any of the other benefits of building this (like improved Siri).
Do what makes you happy. For me I built a queuing system. Someone asked me why?. I said because I could. Have fun
A helicopter that can also drive on wheels and that is rated for driving on public roads.

So no, it's not a helicopter, is a car/helicopter hybrid, a.k.a. flying car.
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You still need a password, but you you don't have to choose/enter a separate password for your disk encryption. With TPM, your computer decrypts and boots up to your OS, where a thief would have to enter in your OS password. They can't bypass it by patching the OS files or cracking the hash stored on disk, because the disk is encrypted. They also can't bypass it with a patched kernel/bootloader, because that would change the PCRs, causing the TPM to no longer auto-unlock.
Of course it can, that's what most public transport companies are.
They tend to be government subsidized.

There's very little competition because there is not much to compete for, except in longer distance rail and bus.

You also need permission from the city to use public stops, consult routes and times, which is a barrier of entry. Not an insurmountable one and nobody prohibits you from running private stops or garages.
You can even negotiate the use of bus lanes or tram lines.

The other barrier is much higher capital investment. Both bus drivers, busses and stops are not cheap, while the margin on a ticket is thin. (Compared to taxi fleet.) But it can be done even encouraging competition - see South Korea for an example of where it worked.
That implies any kind of honest transaction took place first.
The Gamecube predates that by a few months and also used commodity hardware.
Ask HN: How would Marxists define the “means of production” in 2020?
Doesn't anyone with an internet connection and a computer technically "own the means of production"?
Asynchronous Education
Neuroplasticity Is a Pretty Useless Idea for Practice
Scaling my sites by 12x by moving to Tailwind
Haven't we seen this topic dicussed and dismissed before? I could have sworn...
Aren't you jumping to conclusions a bit here? Google search doesn't work only on Android and Chromebooks. I don't see how Apple would benefit from locking it down to their own devices.
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> Is "the idea that people don't lose liberty because others abuse it" too difficult to fathom as a possibility?

Considering the billions(?) of dollars of damage that it has inflicted so far and the sheer number of lives it has ruined in the process... and the fact that probably >99.99% of people in the world would not attribute their "liberty" to anything related to Bitcoin... and that neither the regulation of money nor "liberty" were invented in 2009... yeah, it very much is...
They'll be complete when users have absolutely no way to interact with a web page other than what was explicitly intended by the company serving the web page, and when every possible interaction between the user and their computer is reported back to the the web page they're accessing.

There will be three browsers: The "Safe Browser" which will be used by 85% of people, the "Smart Browser" which will be used by 5% of people, and the "Rebel Browser" which will be used by 10% of people, most of them in their teens and 20s. They will each have different skins (and t-shirts), but all be identical under the hood. The Rebel Browser will allow you to consent to accessing porn, and when the Smart Browser reports that it is the Smart Browser to sites its users visit, they will only be served articles, ads and search results that make them feel smarter than everyone else. The Safe Browser will have an "Important Business" mode that will allow you to consent to accessing porn, but it will examine your face first to ostensibly determine if you're a serious adult. The Rebel browser will also silently examine your face, and for the same reason - to track your porn preferences.

The day it will be feature-complete is when sites get an API for bricking your computer, which is routed through an algorithmic federal judge.
Google isn’t a very good software company. They kill off anything we like. Makes it difficult to buy into the Google ecosystem when you’re not sure if it will exist in a couple of years time. Other than Gmail and Google Search. Just too risky. I wouldn’t even touch GCE.

Edit: not a dig at engineers at Google who are crazy talented. In reference to Google as a company killing everything off.
This crowd will probably be more interested in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/33/ChangeSet which has all the good stuff.

* btrfs is the default desktop fs

* Java 11 is the default.

* ifcfg scripts won’t work by default anymore in favor of NM keyfiles

* systemd-resolved is used by default

* earlyoom used by default on desktops

* disabled automatic Python bytecompilation

* xorg-utils is retired
I don't think I've ever heard anyone actually argue that. Much like "trickle-down economics" it seems to exist almost entirely for straw man purposes.
Didn't they also drag down Panasonic or something? I remember there being a lot of rumors of them being an extremely bad partner at the time, basically no technical support, unreliable capacity due to by core business and not giving two shits about the success of the venture in general.
As many things Apple does, I think this will not work well world wide. As it is the case of DDG. In my country, Google Maps and Google Search blow everything away.
It's OKAY to not know everything
That was pre-tax income. Apple's profit for 2019 was $55 billion.
Why DDG considering they’re for-profit, closed-source and basically just a Bing wrapper with little transparency?

Seems like it would make more sense for Apple to build their own Bing wrapper, team up with Microsoft, or build their own search engine from scratch.
So many things about this don't make sense.

1) A proper, popular search engine is incredibly expensive to run. You can't do it for free. It's going to have to be ad-supported. But ads are the very opposite of Apple's brand.

2) And financially, they'd trade their incredibly lucrative deal with Google for such a high risk? It just doesn't seem like something a board would approve.

3) The timing of this feels very suspicious, though maybe that's just sudden journalist interest rather than leaks... but if you were Google, this is the best thing that could happen to you lawsuit-wise. Can't you imagine a conversation one or two years ago? "Hey Apple, OK we'll pay you the $8-12 billion, but you also have to spend a little chunk of it -- just $10 million, really -- to credibly claim you're 'developing' your own search engine. Don't ever deliver it, just always be 'working' on it. Cool? Awesome, thanks."
Unfortunately it’ll be about as good as Siri and Maps.
This comes up every few years, especially with facts like them owning siri.com and running the AppleBot crawler already.

2015: https://searchengineland.com/apple-confirms-their-web-crawle...

It would be nice to have a more private search engine but with Apple's track record of building web services I'm not so optimistic.
Hopefully better attempt than Siri and Apple Maps.
It could also be that the stats point to heavy MacOS use before. But trends change.
Ahh private equity, is there anything it won't wreck.
This is exciting!

Although I'm worried about BTRFS being their new default. I've had horrendous experiences with it and I wouldn't recommend it!

I hope it has improved and requires to be less hands-on otherwise it's a massive turn-off
How much money would ads that are broadly targeted (city, gender, age bracket) like Google used to, be able to make relative to the uber personalized Google/Favebook ads?
I personally don't think browsers need to be able to do stuff like exposing USB, Bluetooth and MIDI to websites. They aren't a substitute for a real OS as an app platform, and they should stop trying to become one. They're for reading (hyper)text, writing text (including filling forms), and watching videos.

An aside: as someone who comes from Android app development and now makes a hobby project that includes a web interface, making the browser do what I want it to feels like I'm building a UI in a Word document, complete with macros. The ability to have this free-flowing text that isn't contained in anything, this whole concept of "inline elements" still hurts my head. I'm too used to real UI frameworks where any text is only allowed to exist inside a TextView.
I don't know Peter Coad, but the approach reminds me of domain driven design (DDD). Most business logic would be in objects named entities, but DDD has also services, since there might be logic that affects multiple entities (actually special entities called "aggregate root").
I believe you confuse revenue with profit
I tried to find the official doc that explains it clearly, but cannot otherwise I'd share.
Same, or save to a file, temporarily, check that, then run the resulting script.
The On-Demand Communication Fallacy
Real-time chat (aka Slack) doesn't always work well for teams because they expect people to ask other team members for the information they need. The opposite of this model would be the passive consumption of relevant information.
Malta Eyes Repeat of ICO Boom with First Regulated Crypto Sale
Autogyro. Looks quite cool https://youtu.be/RFpNTykIYM0?t=132
Not only a flying car, a flying _dutchcar_, which is way more interesting.
Every year while it lasts
Ad-blockers can only remove content you don’t want to see. What they can’t do is get Google to show you the results they’ve buried on page N because they’ve reinterpreted your query in order to steer you toward popular, commercial sites that happen to be Google’s partners.
A convergent reference type for Clojure(Script) via an OpSets-based CRDT
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There are other non-financial factors that I'm sure would also be part of the decision making, particularly because Apple can afford to totally forego that $10b from google if they wanted to.

Off the top of my head: (1) the reputational cost of marketing privacy but partnering with google on search; (2) the strategic benefit of pulling some portion of iPhone web traffic away from google...
All the server side parts are now deeply linked to Vercel microservices infrastructure.

As a static site, nextjs is probably a little bit more complex than gatsbyjs (with its zillions of fantastic themes)
Great insight. Thanks for posting your thoughts.
So... you literally just described "progress" throughout all of human history. The Greeks and Roman are a good example of that. The entire back and forth history of the Silk Road (the real one). Even the Crusades had cultural dumps back and forth. Um, Japan is also considered the modern day "Rome" when it comes to taking other inventions and improving on it beyond their creator's imaginations. Like, are we going to yell cultural appropriation against the Japanese for building the Mitsubishi Zero (I don't know enough about sushi to talk about it beyond the california roll being a fucking abomination)? They didn't invent the airplane, but I dare you to find a history nut who isn't going to talk kindly about the engineering and general marvel that plane was for its time, along with how it forced the USA to adapt their learning and counter maneuvers to combat it. It was a super important plane to both military and aviation history, even though it's technically a piece of cultural appropriation.

Ever think the whole thing is just making a mountain out of a mole hill since it's never the "offended culture" that's ever offended, but some random person in San Fran or Los Angeles without a real job?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24132494#24134844

Q: So how to donate to (or buy products from?) the Mozilla corporation that develops Firefox?

A: You can't donate. But you can purchase some of their paid products, like their upcoming VPN.
Well, if we assume that both are doing the same work, then the explicitly named variables y, foo, and bar of my second example would, in the first example, have to be global variables, or at least things that are defined in the scope of the definition/call of x.

Given that, I have to say that I, err, and I'm sorry if this sounds a little arrogant, but I don't really believe you when you say that it's easier to understand. It might be easier on the eyes, sure, but to really understand how the first one works, you'd have to look into all the defined helper functions, and see which outer-scope variables they touch (global/module/class scope), and also, probably, have some knowledge of where x is called. In a style closer to the second example, there are less outside dependencies.

Of course, this is all very abstract. I'm not saying there aren't cases where a few variables in global (or class) scope that get mutated by bare functions can't work at all, but as a rule I don't consider it a good style.
Some people create busy work.

With someone who will keep everyone busy with meaningless work at all times. Took years of painful effort for her to accept “no” without a complete meltdown.

On the flip side she will let her bosses do the same. 20 hour days, 7 days a week. She kept at it until she ended up in the hospital. I had to threaten to destroy her work computer for her to finally back it down to 18 hours a day six days a week.

Some personality types are just strange.
I've never gone to therapy but have always thought that in an ideal world everyone would go, from time to time. People go to the gym to keep their bodies fit and healthy, why not go to a therapist to keep your mind fit and healthy?
> I don't understand why people like you keep ranting about "universal healthcare" when obviously about 50% of your country so strongly opposes it that I think it's sooner that hell freezes than US getting social healthcare.

Maybe you mean something different than what I think of when I hear "universal healthcare" - could you share some data on that? The proposed Medicare For All policy, for example, is supported by around 70% of the US, including a (admittedly thin) majority of Republicans[1]. The problem isn't popular support, it's getting politicians to do what their constituents want.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-elec...
AYe karamba!
Am I reading the parent comment wrong or did the breaches happen before PE takeover ?
Or you can watch it for free October 30-> November 1 (I think those dates are right)
> But ads are the very opposite of Apple's brand.

They have ads in the App Store already. Search ads are probably the one kind of ad they could make work, since you can sell keywords without tracking and profiling your users.
Tesla Autopilot 'a distant second' to GM's Super Cruise in hands-free test
Download taco Bell or McDonald's app. what is the current price for 400 calories? Mine is $1.30, in February this was $1.

For stock info, look it up. Not sure where to get historical real estate prices, I'm just looking for a second property and everything is at least 10% higher than in February as you need to offer more than the selling price in this economy.
Hi dear, I was thinking about the same idea for a long time. My final thought is that you should look for another marketing term and to not only label your service javascriptless, but try to find another interesting point like e.g. more compatible for devices for people with disabilities. Also bringing back an old look and feel from a service that changed a lot overs years would be appealing. Try to add value that goes along with javascriptless.
I'm sure there are exceptions (yours might be one) but this:

> I've written micro-frameworks for specific projects intentionally, because they did a few things that the established frameworks either didn't do, or it was very difficult to get them to do.

Is a false statement in most projects. I'd even argue in all projects except those that have a very strict limit on time or memory usage (or a legal one).

Can you share an example?
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> 1) A proper, popular search engine is incredibly expensive to run. You can't do it for free. It's going to have to be ad-supported. But ads are the very opposite of Apple's brand.

They could also use ads, just in a more subtle and privacy friendly way like the search ads (https://searchads.apple.com/ or previously iAd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAd) in the App store already.
I’m always struck by how much large systems tend to have release notes that amount to “nothing major” and thousands of commits.

Of course, in every last one of these grab bags of minor changes there’s something that makes all of the difference for hundreds of people or more.
faster page loading, lesser resource usage comes from javascriptless approach. other values comes from usability, clean ui/ux.
There have been previous discussions on HN about why it should be illegal to pay a ransom to hackers. Here is a very good reason why it should not be illegal.
You have two options for a job:

A. Boring big corporation paying $80k.

B. Boring big corporation paying $160k, but you need to spend a few weeks practicing to pass their tests before joining.

Many people say they choose A since they don't want to waste their free time coding, like the guy I responded to. That is just plain stupid. Money is ultimately free time, you don't have to work as long as you have money, and many of these well paying companies lets you go down in time.