skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Germany really beating anything now? They sure did before but things have changed over here, the whole Europe is affected though.
I remember the origin of this idea. Glad to see him plodding along. I wish I had the stamina. Although I've done 3 things in 6 months that are finished and shipped, I really dislike the "putting myself out there" part. I just quietly move onto the next idea.
> Some signs that the candidate is good in communicating:

> 1. They number each point. This helps person replying to address each point separately.

I disagree.

For me the most important sign is that:

* They use bullets instead of numbers.

Other than that, I fully agree.
Apple is not affiliate, it's a gatekeeper. Affiliate increase discovery to something that was already reachable through other means. If you already know me and trust me, you still can't install my app without paying the gatekeeping fee. Apple does play the role of a payment gateway where the standard fee is around 3%, so they definitely are entitled to that much.

This may also be applicable to Steam, Sony and others.
Or if the author don't want to let Cloudflare control their entire domain and give away their users' data, since the author seems to self-host with nginx: Use certbot and python-certbot-nginx, very easy to setup and maintain

- https://www.nginx.com/blog/using-free-ssltls-certificates-fr...
I've had going through RefactoringUI on my todo list for a very long time. I'm working at a small startup [0] on a fairly complex product and design resources is always a challenge. Being able to make some of the simple decisions myself feels like it could be a super power.

0: https://kitemaker.co, super fast, highly collaborative issue tracker
Wouldn’t it be funny if the federal government released marketing like this exactly talking about progressive taxes aimed at Apple as it got larger and larger.

“If you are only a $1M company, we will tax 15%, when you pass the $1B threshold, your tax will increase to 30%, and when you pass the $1T threshold, your tax will increase to 60%”

Isn’t the goal of progressive taxes to introduce a kind of ‘you won at life, there is no need for it to be easy to go higher’ mantra?
Is that second picture someone touching their MacBook screen?
For Android there are at the very least alternatives for app distribution.
Sometimes it’s my colleagues that are using IM wrong.

> Hey I have a question

People are too lazy to type the rest of their request until they see a response from me indicating I’m listening.
Oh wow, my bad, I honestly thought you were joking.

You may need to rethink your arguments as I found them indistinguishable from parody!!
Within a days drive you have the French Alps, Jura, Pyrennes, Austria, Switzerland, Northern Italy, Slovenia, Scandinavia, etc etc. I guess for lockdown you need to get creative. My holiday plan for this year was to get the ferry over to Holland with my bike and tour around randomly for a few days, but unfortunately I missed out.
Ask HN: Will Apple M1 mean better support for Raspberry Pi?
With Firefox and chrome m1 releases do we think it will mean more updated builds for raspberry pi as well?
Oh wow you're right! I just checked again and indeed it even marked as such right in the menu.

The styling is way different from my linux desktop though. I wonder how that is...
At least review process is better than Google's because when we rejected on Play Store we can't get any feedback from Google. They send a template email which says the "problem maybe A or B, check what you have changed".

Apple provides screenshots and human written explanation on rejection. I have even talked on the phone with review team several times to discuss the problem.

Yes, it sucks that the update may be rejected by some reviewer and another one may approve the same update.
> Surfaces are very, very custom. Their x86 versions even are almost entirely bespoke: There are custom Surface drivers for nearly every component.

Yet almost all use Intel CPUs, and the performance of the Surface Go / Surface Go 2, is abysmal compared to the M1.

The Surface Pro X?

Single Core score ~800 vs ~1700 for the M1

Multi Core score ~3000 vs ~7500 for the M1

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/4799088?baselin...

It's a ARMv8 CPU... How is it 'very custom'
> So does he propose that people always spell out the full name of all components? To me it comes across as selfish, he only wants people to use acronyms that he personally knows, even when they're not talking to him.

I'm curious what makes you attribute that selfish motivation to him? I thought he was pretty clear in saying that it's particularly tough for new employees:

"Individually, a few acronyms here and there may not seem so bad, but if a thousand people are making these up, over time the result will be a huge glossary that we have to issue to new employees. No one can actually remember all these acronyms and people don't want to seem dumb in a meeting, so they just sit there in ignorance. This is particularly tough on new employees."
I guess the volume of smaller apps is way more than bigger ones, maybe bigger ones are able to take advantage of easy to CDNs than storing lots of unique apps globally?
Biden’s infrastructure plans could boost startups
> Fortnite was also banned by Google.

I think the main reason this wasn't as newsworthy is that sideloading it was trivial for Android users. Untick a warning and install it yourself.
TLAs (Three letter acronyms) are indeed the worst and I try to avoid using any custom ones as well. I worked with a company where the code base was all organized into folders like "MCM" and "PCM" for every module... Of course this list of acronyms was nowhere to be found. It was just one example of many of how big a mess their organization was.
No, this is aimed at divide-et-impera the front of critics, by dragging you to their side with a little bit of carrot. And it’s working - you’ve been hoodwinked.
No, everything is not fine in Norway.

Norway invested a lot on Tesla and to help their investment, they removed taxes and tolls on EVs.

Most of Norway's electricity comes from hydropower and they have been building wind farms lately.

Meanwhile, Norway's entire economy basically relies on selling crude oil. So, it has been "donating" a lot to anti-oil interests in the U.S. so that the oil prices remain high enough for them to justify more oil exploration. As a counter response, the U.S. has been supporting Greenpeace Norway to try to stop oil exploration in Norway.

The whole thing is a clown show.

The only one who is benefiting from this is China. It produces most of the rare earth minerals required for EVs, makes all of EV parts and makes all the wind turbines.
I've used both.

I did a trial with a T490s and settled on it. The keyboard is better on the ThinkPad and it doesn't suffer from the heat problems and screaming fans of the Dell XPS 13.
Worked for me and happy that I am not alone. :)
If you need to deal with colors, especially dynamic ones, you might be interested on my writing¹ about HSLuv, which can help a lot in generating palettes.

1: https://www.kuon.ch/post/2020-03-08-hsluv/
I find it darkly amusing that people need a book to tell them to turn off IM tools, phone, email and other distractions for a while. I also find it darkly amusing that GTD is basically a system for dealing with IM tools, phone and email for people who feel they have no choice (they totally have a choice; it is a bullshit paradigm -even the president has plenty of goof off time).

I have no place else to say so, but latency in zoom is annoying as fuck, and it totally didn't happen with twisted pair. Back in 2016 times, I insisted on twisted pair meetings. Even then, dipshits with ipotatos on wifi would find a way to fuck it up. Now a days, even I don't have access to twisted pair, so we're in a new dark age, similar to how old fashioned 7 gallon flush toilet bowls were vastly superior to the atrocities we have now. Most people only dimly aware of what has been taken away from us in the name of "progress."
To add to this, if you don’t play often enough, when you do want to jump on the couch and play with a friend, you have to wait 15 minutes for your console to upgrade.
I would be just to afraid for certain ideas like the shop thing.

One credit card fraud going through my system and i might in a big dept if i did this under a company format which doesn't protect me from personal liability.

While i like the idea very much of getting exercise in this way, i'm wondering what the main motivation is?

I would like to earn money through my own company but only with my product i like and find 'worthy'. Trying out small concepts over and over again, might not bring any fruit in finding the thing you are passionate about and then the question arrives if it wouldn't be much more beneficial to optimize your own career instead.
Rust modules are primarily about namespacing, which is why the book only mentions the inclusion behavior in one short section at the end of the relevant chapter. For a non-namespacing include, there’s the `include!` macro.
> Sure, you can donate money to develop Firefox,

My understanding:

I'm fairly sure they've said they are not allowed to direct money from the Foundation to Mozilla Corporation, and it kind of makes sense until you realize it is the coroporation that creates the outcome you want not the other way around.

Also - from my point of view it looks like the Foundation is overfunded the last few years while the guys who create Firefox are underfunded, but I'm not an expert so it might very well be more complicated.

I also don't want to say Mozillas management are useless: they somehow managed to land a huge deal earlier this year, but I will admit I sometimes find some of their decisions puzzling.
It doesn't need to be an ICBM, it could be in a shipping container or a fishing boat. They just sail right into position.
I think cringe fits here.

If I met a developer who said they were a gopher or rustacean or whatever. I'd feel physically embarrased for them.
> Can they come from anywhere other than the actual store?

If I have a link on my site that takes a customer directly to the store page, and they buy it, then Apple did nothing at all to earn an "affiliate" level payout. They didn't drive any traffic. Or if the customer puts in the exact app name and buys it.

> In any event that is a different issue.

It's very relevant to whether 30% is reasonable. Apple acts as a legitimate affiliate some of the time, but they forcibly take that fee all of the time.
I'm a bit surprised about the assumption that remote work is more expensive than on site work for the company. I guess it could depend on the location of the company's office.
I agree, but if we’re being honest, iOS is probably the prioritized platform for developers of apps like Hey that are commercial and used for professional work. Also, Apple doesn’t allow sideloading in the way Android does and PWAs are not as powerful because Apple is years behind with modern web standards.
I have to agree you.

It's intolerable that Apple has been allowed to lockdown their device for 10 years, completely control the market for apps and when it looks like regulators will take action they reduce their price and claim to be acting in the interest of small business.

Third party app stores must be allowed. Apple should not be allowed to dictate what software I can and cannot have on my device.
Alternatives technically exist, but they suck. We tried some alternatives but PWA was by far the only one that got any traction.
Don't argue, you'll get more down votes. People here are not interested in discussions but in being right.
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I was unaware this happened (last console was SNES).

Did they offer users gift cards or anything?
It doesn't have to be a real court case to be a real fight.

And they're also making PR against Apple's cut which is a very good thing.
When Apple added Screen Time, they banned other competing apps.
We could call it Apple ARM.
This is laughable. You can setup Shopify to sell your physical inventory worldwide plus get an invoicing solution that deals with MOSS etc. for fraction of what Apple charges for hosting a file in an app.
Plus they don't allow competing app stores, so they can dictate these extortionate prices.
I imagine this is an error. The ps5 has a platformer game (very cute) called Astrobot[1] where the goal seems to be to collect Sony “artifacts” of PlayStation consoles from days gone by.

These artifacts are 3D renders of all the old hardware.

[1]https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/astros-playroom/

Also this generation 4->5 seems to be backward compatible
Apple to reduce its cut from in-app purchases as it faces new lawsuit
Ask HN: Email Tracking
I run a service that emails users new vulnerabilities custom to their stack on a weekly basis, but I'm finding very limited options out there for good email tracking and analytics. The mail service I use has the basics like opens and link tracking but is there any service out there that can do a bit more? I'm looking for data such as inferring scroll depth, per email address tracking, just wondering what the state of the art is in the space.
Trivial for you, a reader on HN. Not trivial, and potentially unsafe, for my grandmother.
> I believe there's a big advantage to this "micro-bet" approach of launching many tiny businesses

These aren’t businesses. These are websites. Most people on HN can build a website. It takes some coding and some tech knowledge. Not everyone can build a business. That involves marketing, advertising, customer acquisition, cash flow management, legal, on and on.

While what the author did was neat and fun for him, let’s not pretend this is the path to a successful web business. I’d bet there’s few “micro-bets” that are generating any meaningful amount of money.
Imagine the outrage if people learned the markup that distributors make on vegetables and dairy as well as the monopsony power they wield against small farmers!
It's not very clear but it seems to suggest they deploy to production before all the tests pass? That seems silly. Why not just wait until they've passed?

Or does "deploy" really mean "merge"?
Has anyone released a GTP-3 annealing program that will take what you wrote and make it perfectly clear to someone with less reading comprehension by some fixed amount?

That would be amazing..
That "X" would basically be what's running on the ARM surface and arguably the whole line of precursors back to CE could be described like that. They end up wildly unpopular because they have all the bells and whistles people begrudgingly accept to get the one feature they want (continuity) but lack this one that they accept the others for. Continuity isn't just for enterprise. Non-technical users abhor having to re-learn anything or give up the procedures they struggled so hard with adopting (there are probably still some who feel uneasy if they haven't run defrag for more than two months, despite of having switched to NTFS more than a decade ago) and gamers and the like have lots of niche hardware and software solutions that easily puts the unsupportedness of vintage enterprise software to shame. Continuity is a key feature.

What I think could work, and would eventually lead to the same situation as "Enterprise/X" would be the reverse: a "regular" Windows aiming to eventually build a Microsoft equivalent of the Apple walled garden and a "continuity subscription" that's more conservative than what Windows is now (trivial example: opt into Cortana instead of opt out, barely)

PS: I understand that you are talking about low level technological differences and I seem to be hung up with UX, but I believe that separating groups on the high level would be the only viable way to eventually follow different paths on the low level.
Do you daily-drive Debian?
First impression is that it looks, feels and works well. I can see this working for designing workflow system UIs. Very nice!
Except Teams default is to ping for everything. Someone writes in a chat channel for a meeting from a month ago, watch your phone vibrate. It's madness.
> If you are still using PBKDF2 for new codebases please take a step back and do 10 mins of research, please.

Unless you offer services to the US government and so must use a NIST-approved algorithms.

Unless bcrypt and/or scrypt and/or Argon2 [1] have stamp of approval now?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_Hashing_Competition
False. Betting markets claimed a Clinton victory in 2016. [1]

[1] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/betting_odds/201...
> You act like I invented the custom

I think you've misunderstood, it was I don't think there should be a product which encourages littering. We have paper plates, paper bags, paper napkins which when littered will 'vanish' in probably a few weeks. They are still a litter problem even though they eventually disappear.
You say this as if sarcastically. I love this feature.
Its the responsibility of you to communicate your state so people can act on it. you might not be very good in transporting to people who need to know, what you are doing and how it is going?

And don't get me wrong but when your solution is to disable/block communication ways instead of communication with others on how you want/need to communicate, then the issue is on both sides.
When did Firefox last crash on you? Aren't we optimzing on a problem which is practically non-existing?
This I can understand because I'd argue most of the creative uses of Apple's ecosystems rather come from smaller indie developers meanwhile meanwhile larger companies also need to look at cross compatibility and sharing codebases.
The latter explanation is the winner. They needed an arbitrary threshold and went for an easy-sounding one.
Honestly, I doubt it. Just as investments into macOS support don't typically help Linux much.

It'd be awesome if Apple would let Raspberry Pi use their M1 chips, but clearly that's never going to happen!
Does anyone seriously believe this would work in a war.

To me this is the military’s Mac Pro: “look general public, we are awesome, here is something no one can afford, etc.”

Meanwhile leaders know the future of warfare is decentralized swarms of force units that converge when needed.

E.g. this technology is cheap using open cv and mass manufacturing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=stHLrBs-_iE
I find that passion is much more about investment than inherent joy. When I invest in a project, I become passionate.
Oh, fancy pants up there gets codeine! After my extractions, I was sent home with straight-up Tylenol. But it isn't just the USA. In France, my wife had to nearly beg for strong pain relief for her back, but at least the doctor only charged 35 euros for a visit.
I hate it when i get a voice message from my family through whatsapp.

Reading stuff is so much quicker.

One college asks me if i have time to do a short video chat for the update i need; The coordination take sprobably a higher effort then just writing it down.
For a B2C app, if we are not on the default distribution platform of the system, our user acquisition costs would be skyrocketed.
It's only standard as Apple was first through the gate with this scheme for online marketplaces. They got to copy the split from brick-and-mortar (without the accompanying costs like restocking) and everyone else followed suit.
Ignore it until they ask the question. Eventually they'll learn.
How to Price an Election
They are proposing to charge for parking spaces, like installing meters.
It seems to me that trying to either stay under $1M or above $1.4M is harder to manage than using a slightly more complicated formula to calculate apple's tax.
Show HN: Fast Arrow, a vscode extension/snippet to write arrow function quickly
Well, some parts are forced anyway e.g. you can't play original Xbox games on Xbox Live anymore.
Hidden side of Document IDs in RavenDB by Alex Klaus
Ask HN: Are you a product led growth startup?
Startup name:
Startup url:
PLG ideas in use:
What Is the MVC?
> Or, even more annoyingly, I've just got an interface and no clue about where to find the implementation.

That bites me often times. Does gopls help in this regard? Can any tool besides the compiler help me to answer, what methods in a particular piece of code implement what interface?
It was better indeed, now it is worse.
Now Google sends you screenshots and explains what is wrong and Apple just quotes like a dumb bot their policy (which is not even acceptable in many cases)
I took this same approach and from about ~50 things, 5 made enough money to make it time well spent overall.

They were tiny like the projects listed here, so it's possible it could work out for the author, and I'm still sticking to the same approach now.

Launch something quick with little self-criticism, then double down on anything that seems to have traction.
you can use archlinux ARM on your Pi if your want up-to-date packages, it works fine.
I don't think that the Apple store (or Google Play for that matters) can be called "marketplace".

They are more like "the only authorized place to sell your goods", they are more like a pharmacy/chemist, i.e. a place licensed by the State/Law to sell specific products that cannot be sold in other shops.

Let's compare it (Apples) with oranges ;-).

You produce oranges, you plant the trees, water them, when they are ripe you pick the oranges and carry them to the city with a truck.

Than you can choose to sell them (after paying a nominal license fee/getting an authorization) directly from the back of the truck on the side of the road or rent a dedicated space in the city central market.

Now, selling them in the central market gives you some advantages, as people are more likely to go to the central market than to pass near your parked truck, but, on the other hand, the cost of the stall is very, very high, like 30% of your sales.

So, to get even you have to sell an orange for 50 cents (or whatever), but you want 20% margin, you can choose between selling them at 60 cents each by the roadside or sell them at 85 cents each in the market.

The city then decides that (in order to protect the citizens) your oranges needs to be tested and can only be sold at your (rented) stall in the central market and that you have to pay a 30% tax on sales for the rent.

Oranges end up costing 85 cents each, of which 25 cents or more go to the city, and the citizens are safer.
I tend to agree with you, however, there's sometimes so much complexity that you really do have to abstract it to manage sanity.

The issue I often see is that when abstractions are created, the thought process or design of those abstractions aren't well explained. When you create abstractions, more verbose documentation and design is needed to share the ideas. Anyone using this in the future needs to understand your abstractions and there's a cognitive cost of dealing with it.

You reduce this cost when you explain everything well, give examples, show use cases, etc. When you don't provide this sort of verbose documentation, you might as well have made it a large sequential program because it likely would have been easier for the next person to understand.
Same story.

As long as they treat big companies like royalty and small devs like trash (like they do now) I couldn't care less about their fee.
This is pretty cool! Do you think people will use this as opposed to individually searching forums or just using the 'site' feature on Google?
30% snarky:

I think majority of devs does not really care about west coast startup scene or generally VCs.

Also there may be better news aggregators when it comes to Linux or LLVM or Postgres or famous IT/Math people or dramas with computer stuff involved.
Considering we're talking about Fortnite I would suggest that it's trivial for anyone who can figure out how to play Fortnite.