skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I install those third party app stores on any Android phone?

Also, third party app stores on Android are not allowed to compete with the Play Store on feature parity because of limitations put in place by Google.

The only way to implement automatic upgrading, background installation or batch upgrading/installation of apps is via the Play Store.
Amazon becomes the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy
I guess I should have said "NixOS-based".

The only thing that makes always-ancient RHEL and CentOS attractive is that enough other people are using identically the same image, exploring its bug envelope thoroughly and sharing the costs of necessary updates.

The role of NixOS would be to reduce those costs.
> Documentation verifiably obtained from the attacker about the intent to attack, the methods used, the results and people involved.

Just to remind you where we started, as a contrast to the new goalposts you've established.
The Smoking Gun in the Facebook Antitrust Case
The article says most of the apps were Chinese. Still, I wish they could've provided a list.
I always knew there was something sinister about those conservatives.
Yes, which they would not be so compelled to do without the copyright Sword of Damocles hanging over their head.
AKA a meteogram.

Look for an app which lets you download GRIB files. PocketGrib and LuckGrib are a couple to try. You can download GFS data (produced by NOAA) for the area/timescale/data you are interested in, drop a cursor anywhere on the map and view a meteogram.

This is the same data used by "value add" weather forecasting sites and services to produce their forecasts.
Doesn't even mention Taiwan's recent weaponary purchases from U.S.!
This led me to https://mathoverflow.net/a/38319 which has wonderful pictures!
It is bullshit unless countries coordinate on wages and regulation. The EU (Italy/France) have let clandestine immigration go rampant so that their low-cost industry remains competitive. It also helps that these people have no papers and can be deported at a moment notice. It is slavery with some cash and with the benefit of blaming these people for all the problems they self-inflicted on themselves.

It is why some countries are racist: Poland/Hungary are unfriendly to illegal immigrant because they don't need them. It is also why Italy has recently become strict with illegals: They don't need that many workers now, so they are not welcome and they are ramping up the extraditions.

Illegal immigration is very easy to solve: You have all workers register with the government, you then put big fines (and jail) for those who hire non-registered people. But the current fines for hiring an illegal are a joke. You can simply pay the fine and hire another the same day and still be more profitable than going by the law.
Where does one find out about these random about:config values that don't exist by default? Thought I'd enabled all privacy.resistFingerprinting.* settings, but it turns out there's at least one that I'd never heard of. How much other functionality does Firefox have that is completely undiscoverable?
If I'm conversing with a Japanese photographer in Japanese, what word do I use for "that Japanese word that American photographers use for a special kind of blur?"

It can't be "bokeh" because that's just an everyday word that means blur; for instance "mae no shashin ga boketeru kara, keshimashou ka" (the previous picture is blurry, so shall I erase it?)

Also, since that term came into use in around 1997, if I could have a conversation with an English-speaking photographer via time telephone to 1990, what would be the wording used?
I also love this point.

It hints at a rule-of-thumb I use: try to wait making an important technical choice until you can explain a pro & con of each option (or, similarly, explain when you'd use each one instead of the other).
You do have a point.

I would certainly agree that your best shot at maintaining your passion would be to stick with 1 or 2 languages and get really good at them. Constantly context switching does wear on a person.

With that said, there are some caveats...

1) Businesses need to find that language useful and important. In other words, there must be opportunities to make money using that language.

2) The language must support great depth of work. For instance, learning Objective-C or Swift could become dry over the years as you master the iOS SDK. There's a lot there to cover, for sure, but I imagine after 10 years you might arrive at the same endpoint: Somewhat deflated, certainly less passionate.

3) The language must resonate with you. Everybody has a language or a programming style they enjoy. Personally, I love classic, imperative, low level stuff. C, C++, even Java. Not really a big fan - despite years of professional work - of declarative UI, or functional programming.

I'm curious since you have 20 years - what language / domain have you been focussed on? How did it work for you?
Love Your Cache
FDA advisers recommend authorization of Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine
You are conflating the IP of a company with the product people buy.
> youtube couldn’t have existed in a pre-broadband era

It could have existed, and, in fact, did, when broadband penetration was much lower than now, and “broadband” typically referred to DSL/cable/etc. connections of 256kbps down or better, not the 25M down/3M up it has been defined as in the US since 2015, or the 4M down/1M up it was immediately prior to that.
Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?
Hey HN,

I'm curious to know more about what automations people use day-to-day. Either cron jobs or other services?

Does it make your day easier?
> rather than painting a huge "hey, I'm using Tor Browser" target on your head.

Huge problem for criminals. Excellent solution for innocent people wanting to anonymize their browsing.
We were talking about routing choosing to avoid a left turn. What you are describing isn't a routing software choice, that's you missing a turn. Not equivalent
I agree with this and I also think it's relevant to the gist of any response to the article.
Personally, I don't think this is a good enough reason. Worst case, if I experience an unplanned shut down, I will increase my spending limit. Removing the feature entirely because of this just doesn't make sense.

When I also think of the fact that Google tied it to requiring a credit card for almost every single transaction even if it is free gives the impression that it is for financial purposes (aka a way to get more out of developers or those who might be free-loading on the free tier of App Engine)
Large dominant companies tend to consolidate their power through acquiring to remove competition and inhibiting the creation of competitors through their massive economical power. This is actually bad for capitalism since it removes the threats of competition.
Yes, and out of the box, too.
On the home page of Florida Today, there are right now 9 different articles defending or supporting Rebekah Jones, some of them linked multiple times, for a total of 12 links on the home page with the following headlines;

Rebekah Jones pushes back after dashcam released
Exclusive interview with Rebekah Jones
Evidence 'weak' for warrant on Rebekah Jones home
Jones reacts to release of FDLE raid footage
FDLE releases bodycam video of Rebekah Jones raid
Fired FDOH scientist denies wrongdoing
Rebekah Jones described equipment seized
Fired FDOH scientist: ‘I spoke out of necessity'
Rebekah Jones talks whistleblower complaint
Why don't they just charge their largest consumers?
I have wide feet and I buy all my runners through the New Balance store. Never an issue.
As long as the Apple appstore rules and support are reasonable, there's going to be a balance where being in the default appstore is very profitable / better than potential gain from use abuse. Phrased differently, if it becomes Apple's goal to be the appstore of choice for publishers and the safest option for customers, we all win.

Apple will always have control over what the apps can ultimately do using their APIs. If they don't expose "read all contacts without explicit confirmation" then even third party store apps won't be able to achieve that.
Scrum poker seems interesting.:)
Know who butters your bread.

I always did whatever the higher power wanted. It served me well.
Yeah I think it needs killer hardware before a killer app.

They're laying the platform groundwork early which makes sense since it's a bet on what's next for human computer interaction.

If they can pull the glasses off there's huge opportunity there for all sorts of things which will be really interesting and better than looking at little glass screens. Without that hardware it's super niche and I don't think has much broad use.

If anyone can pull it off when the hardware is ready it'll probably be Apple.

FB is obviously trying really hard to be there too, but I just don't think people will want it to come from FB (and forcing Oculus under their brand makes it so that it would have to be).

Magic Leap will be to whatever Apple ends up making as General Magic was to the iPhone.

The rough idea was directionally correct, but way too early with hardware that just wasn't good enough.
Show HN: Building a better way to find data for AI
> > It’s not like anyone will be forced to use another AppStore if he wants to stay on the apple one for security!

Up until some app you need moves to another store. Then the choice becomes do without or use another app store to get what you need. I don't want to have to shop for iOS apps at the Amazon, Google, and Microsoft stores, each with their own app policies, billing systems, etc... not to mention some other AppStores from some vendors I've never heard of.

For as much as Facebook gets beat up the reality is, it is still popular with people like my parents and other family members. Right now Facebook is not happy about the coming tracking restrictions that Apple wants to apply. Do we not think that Facebook would be the first app to jump ship to a place where Apple rules won't apply to them and drag a lot of people with them into these new AppStores? For some people saying you can't use the Facebook or some other social media app is not an answer.

I am not torn on this at all and that's coming from someone who makes the majority of their income from selling iOS apps. Don't get me wrong I'm happy to only have to pay 15% now rather than 30% but for me, that is still worth the cost for what I get from the overall experience of making and selling apps for iOS and knowing that someone is looking out for my interests as an iOS user.

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I understand your argument, but it considers that Apple is a philanthropic altruistic entity, that has only your best interest in mind when deciding for its "rules".

But, Apple (same as Google) are companies and not foundations. Their only "legal" purpose is to maximize the return on investment for their shareholders.

Take your example, and imagine that it is Facebook the gatekeeper of the unique store?

And if the App Store has so much "privacy" value, why do you think that people will accept to install another AppStore? So, there is no risk of the problem that you describe.

Still, if it is not the case, and people don't care, who is Apple to decide what is good and what is bad for people?

And you see positively their action mostly based on their marketing propaganda, ie that they protect and take care of you. But, for real, they will not hesitate to censor apps or features that are competitors to them, or that threaten their revenues.

And worse, so far they are all scared of possible antitrust issues, but otherwise, the day they will have all the market locked, they will racket everyone as much as possible.

Think about it, some people say that the current appstore "fees" are rights because they need to pay for the service and co. But now, look at Apple financials, their margins, and you can see that very few companies in the world have their level of wealth with hundreds of billions of cash pilling up!

Also, one day, the boss of the company can decide that anything he don't like (ex. Blue candies) will be banned. And the world would have to accept it unilaterally.

To conclude, I would like to paste this nice quote that I just saw on internet:

<< ‘The main effects of monopoly are to misallocate resources, to reduce aggregate welfare, and to redistribute income in favour of monopolists.’ (Harberger, 1954: 2) >>
Someone else mentioned something about rewriting history too,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25379386
The burden of proof needed to break up a company should always be lower than that needed to execute or incarcerate a human for life. People regularly have their freedom taken away for much less impactful crimes. If our values are that companies are sub-human (as they should be) then we should at least treat them equally under the law, not better. The individuals making these decisions are almost certainly shielded from liability, and on top of that the fractional damage fines do to large companies tends to be a rounding error relative to profits. Companies should be fined comparable fractions of their income as humans, yet we persist in special treatment for them. Breaking up facebook is the only corrective action left with any teeth.
Because this means for you as a person suffering from anything that isn’t extremely common, life threatening or severely disabling, pharma companies have no financially viable path to develop new treatments for you.

When kids say “I wanna grow up to develop a cure for cancer” the default answer shouldn’t be “That’s stupid? Even if you found a cure it would be to expensive to get to market. Why not do something that will actually benefit society like getting a law degree?”

I know it’s hip to hate on pharma companies, but at some point you have to realize that all those kids grew up to become scientists that are now working in these pharma companies trying to find drugs that will help people 20 years from now. But the fact is that the scope of research is limited by the financial reality that these companies face. If the net ROI on R&D goes negative that just means that companies stop investing in R&D and the first thing to happen is that scientists working on potential high impact low chance of success get fired. So out goes cancer treatment, while the team of people trying to figure out which color packaging for aspiring tablets maximizes chance of customer retention gets doubled.
I genuinely think platform like brave is in the position to do good things with ads. A few things I have in mind:

First, I want my browser to be upfront about what they are doing. "We monetize through ads distribution." Honestly that won't throw me off. I don't dislike ads. In fact, I used to insist on not running ad-blockers when YouTube started to play ads. "that's how you support internet", I thought to myself at the time. My attitude changes when I realize YouTube is not a great representative for the internet.

Second, I want to see more diverse ads. Not new amazon prime titles, not the same mobile games, not Udemy, not square space, not the same thing over and over. I remember the first few years the ads on podcasts are quite interesting and diverse, and I can even find helpful business and products from the ads. Maybe it is because the entry fee is low so small businesses have a chance to market themselves. And maybe all you need is to write a appealing script instead of hiring professionals to make a Hollywood grade video with celebrities shouting brand names. Unfortunately that dynamics is certainly lost today.

I know I am asking too much as someone who's opinion does not matter at all. But place like Show HN and products hunts kind of give me hope that someday maybe paid ads can become something useful instead of hateful, someday maybe people with good products and honest marketing strategy can have the equal chances to get attention as big players.
Related but somewhat off-topic: how does a regular retail investor buy shares early on the first day of trading for an IPO like AirBnB? Is it just a matter of luck in being able to acquire them at the IPO price or just above it (before it pops upwards)?
I tried using the JMAP bridge to develop a modern client as you mention, but there were huge problems with it. It appears to be abandoned, and Fastmail’s demo install of it is entirely broken too.

I ended up using the underlying lib that this project uses (also by andris9) and have had basically no problems whatsoever, it was a night and day difference.
Apple has the majority of the mobile OS market in the US, and more than 3x the App Store revenue that the Play Store has.

But that doesn't matter when it comes to antitrust laws[1]:

> Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Wow, had a feeling something was coming down the pipeline. Didn't they submit some legal challenge about being closed due to covid?
I think this is a fair environment though, Apple wants to vertically integrated technology with limited 3rd party API access, devs might hate it, but I think from a business perspective its a total reasonable strategy and from a consumer perspective I like the tight integration they provide. I think you are wrong about installer on their platform being up for grabs being "much better for society" because I don't think you are considering all of the second and third order consequences.

Consider this passes and then the Facebook app (or, probably even worse, Amazon) immediately becomes an app store. At that point what's to stop them from loading and running literally any arbitrary code on the phone's of everyone who updates the facebook app? Same goes for an "utility class" app where consumers have limited choice of competitors. Sure, technically inclined people might figure it out and try to raise a stink, but I guess I don't feel like the public understanding of this is good enough for this not to end badly? Remember the "Facebook Research" VPN[1]? And as a society we would be trading this massive surveillance liability for... the opportunity for a handful of developers to make a killing creating a competing store? an upper middle class group to make more money? Apple to make less money?

Sorry, but we live in a world of Titans, and me, the little guy, can't really stand up to them. At least for the moment I can stand behind Apple.

[1]https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/?gu...
Someone else also mentioned revisionism,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25380961
In theory yes, but as I noted upthread, the reference JMAP bridge you linked is abandoned and Fastmail’s demo install is broken alas.
> Illegal immigration is very easy to solve: You have all workers register with the government, you then put big fines (and jail) for those who hire non-registered people.

That doesn’t solve illegal immigration, it just promotes illegal documentation forgery and illegal under-the-table employment on top of illegal immigration.

OTOH, illegal immigration is easy to solve, you first align the numerical limits of your immigration system with demand by retaining only in-total and not per-country caps, and then, if you want a more complete solution, you make those caps soft caps instead of hard caps by allowing supernumerary immigrants that would be qualified but for numerical limits to temporarily reside while waiting in line for a regular slot (or just bypass the line entirely) by paying an annual (or, for the bypass mechanism, larger one-time) impact fee to address expected social costs.

Now, the problem is that many people who say they want to “solve” illegal immigration don’t want to solve illegal immigration, they want to limit total immigration and, particularly, limit immigration of certain nationalities for which there is high immigration demand, and are using “illegality” as a cover.
Most of mine are non-fiction and related to something that I'm working on or a skill I think I will find useful. I don't read very many books though.
"Without manual pickup location entry people’s location would just show up as whatever the GPS location was last received. This can be very inaccurate (especially in cities with tall buildings) and drivers would end up on the wrong block. This was a horrible customer experience. So to improve location pickup we changed the location permission to collect signal in the background so we could send the drivers to your current location. People freaked out."

This doesn't make much sense. When you open the app to schedule a pickup, and you have location tracking enabled while you use the app, Uber should be apprised as to your current location within seconds. Where you were before you opened the app should not matter.

It would be useful if the author could clarify this.

As one of the people who started a petition to Apple to disallow developers from disabling location tracking only while using the app (i.e. all the time or never, which Uber tried to force at the time), I am partly responsible for the outcome. But from what I can tell, no customers were worse off as a result.

If Uber has data showing otherwise, that would be interesting.
Wes McKinney and Ursa Computing
Big tech is eating up housing both through AirBnb as well as Zillow, OpenDoor etc... Zillow and OpenDoor will buy your house basically at a "fair" price and you don't have to "fix" it up but really the advantage is that you get a 3 month window to close while you find a new place to live. This means you don't have to find an alternative rental in the meantime or sell your house on contingency. The definitions of a "fair price" and "fix up" will depend on your negotiation ability, demand etc... This model is eating up realtors margins. In some sense you might be able to arbitrage VC money here in the short term as OpenDoor and Zillow buy market share. In another sense you may want a realtor when you buy in a new market since you may not know the area and the regions future development plans. Yes you can find that out yourself but it's not easy to know the market. In the long run someone like OpenDoor will own the buy and sell side entirely, I think it is inevitable. Worse case OpenDoor has to pivot to rentals on their inventory. VCs will invest billions in this and shape the market for sure. Oh and you will be able to get a Zillow mortgage or OpenDoor one.. housing in the very real sense of the world will become vertically integrated. In that world you might get a better deal than dealer financing but you'd have to do your homework.
An important reason London is always better than Frankfurt & Amsterdam at least is that its a big city and the city needs literally hundreds of thousands of skilled people.

The fascinating thing is that is changing, computerization is replacing people and Covid has shown people working remotely works. NY is the same, used to be special but slowly teams will be moving out. Your friendly stock broker is already a server, right now your fund manager is turning into one as well. Bond market is slowly chopping up people as well.

So London is much more easily dissolved now.
Evidence of Long-Distance Droplet Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by Direct Air Flow
From what I observed, the killer AR game so far was the one involving Pokémons.

Even though people rarely play it while on a sofa, would it be workable with the current Apple AR hardware?
the insolvency phase hasn't even gotten into full gear yet
Competition is key though. Plenty of publishers know that ditching established installers and app stores comes with a price, and so publishing or at least co-publishing on steam/epic/gog/etc is pretty important.