skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Their store does not install or require this.

How does this matter? You've shown doubts that epic engages in user hostile behavior. I've shown you evidence. It shows that they can't be trusted with the security and privacy of their customer's devices.

> Amusingly this occurred under the current iOS app restrictions, which clearly didn't prevent this.

Amusingly the app wouldn't have been pulled if it was Facebook running the App Store. It likely wouldn't have made the headlines either because it would be common practice. This is the same Facebook, along with Google, that abused enterprise certificates to skirt the app review process itself[1].

> The app sandbox should provide plenty of protection, and if the user opts to give apps permissions, that's on their choice.

You'd be amazed at the lengths some users went through to install Google and Facebook's sketchy "research" app[1].

But to get back to the point, all I'm saying boils down to two things:

- Apple should enable FOSS communities to run an app store and also make it easy for power users to side load apps

- Consumers should be extremely cautious of big players demanding more access to their personal devices

Is this such a silly position to take?

[1]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/google-screenwise-unwi...
It's good to make titles less clickbaity. I don't quite understand the rationale for editing here though, because this is a claim seriously made by the underlying journal article in PLOS One.

Edited to add: it seems an exaggerated claim to me too, but it's not just in the headline
Yeah, it seems to be by design, hard to imagine otherwise.
I was writing a long rant regarding how either clueless or misrepresented the Director of the PaaS was, but I'm going to just ask a the following question:

* If not with Docker, how are you planning on building and running containers? Not only in linux but also in macOS and Windows. If not with Docker, is the alternative easier to deploy, use and maintain?

Red Hat's podman and buildah do pop up in the conversation often but they are not widespread and also only cover a small featureset covered by the Docker ecosystem.

And the k8 reference is simply absurd. K8 completely abstract away the container runtime, and you don't know or either care if you're running Docker or black magic. It simply never registers as a concern or useful info. Thus that sort of info never registers as an argument in favour or against Docker.
I agree with the sentiment but just want to mention Playwright isn't the "successor" of Puppeteer and both have pros and cons. Puppeteer is very much still in active development.
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.

Gave me a wider perspective of things.
Should have read it much earlier.
Kubernetes Operators 101
I agree with your comment and find it a shame you're being downvoted for expressing that opinion. I think people can't bear to have a mirror held up which exposes the naked & ugly truth.

We all have individual stories about the convenience of AirBnB when visiting a new city, but I feel a lot of us are unable to see the bigger picture beyond our own selfish need for slightly increased comfort levels. We either deliberately overlook or are blind to the damage AirBnB and similar tech companies have wreaked on society.

Flimsy, selfish delusions of grandeur from tech wankers who just want to print money in fastest way possible with total disregard for the destruction they cause along the way but don't worry, its "disruptive"! All to be lapped up and praised by people who were brainwashed into the Randian mode of thinking

I also find it quite amusing that some people come back with these replies of "you're just bitter" "jealous of the fact that they're rich and you're not!" just continuously beating everyone over the head with this idea that there's only one true way to measure success. As if, in questioning how that success was reached and the societal, ethical and moral issues it brings up are somehow not acceptable. I guess in pursuit of the American Dream no has no time for such trivial issues.
Excellent question. As a person with ADHD (but on meds), and a possible CFS, I ask myself this sometimes.

While I wouldn't use a disabled parking spot, there are some exceptions from social norms that I allow myself:

- segregating trash (keeping an apartament clean and organised is crazy difficult by itself, and I still learn to put things into trash after using, at the age of 36)

- getting a sitting space in a crowded bus, even if there are old people around

As for the disabled parking spots, when I was ~25y.o., I had a knee issue for half a year. I didn't limp much, but every single step was painful and difficult.
It was just half a year, and I didn't bother to get a disabled license plate, but still fully deserved to use the spots.

Since that time I always have doubt whether to point out to someone that they took a disabled parking spot. The way I handle it now is by asking someone who leaves a car, who doesn't look disabled, if they need some help (instead of pointing out that they are assholes). If they are indeed disabled, they won't mind, if they aren't - they feel like assholes :)
I'm making small startup about Stories: https://storista.io and my first impressions was "Oh, no", but when I realised that Google again using AMP.

P.S. Feel free to ask about longer trial or discounts!
the historical links between the sf bay area early technology/microcomputer scene, and recreational psychedelic substances are quite old...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WELL

there's a large venn diagram overlap between some of the earliest members there at the WELL (and, for instance, the people who founded burning man), and the california tech industry.
Yes. Interests of one player may correlate positively with those of others.
Cheapest way for 1M seed: convertibles or safes?
After your experience, what could be the cheapest structure for a $1-2M seed round (from the view for the startup)?
Convertibles without cap but discount? What are main points in the structure/terms?
What if I wear eyeglasses and have to fork anything from 1% to 10% of my yearly income (in many cases even more, driven up by taxation) just to be able to see properly? It's especially bad if your economies mean you cannot afford to have at least a single backup or have one that is many years old.

It affects something so essential, but it's hard for people to recognize it.
Again you didn't answer my question. Why are you advocating to have your own rights/freedoms removed for the benefit of the company? Not even the company is asking for that. Why don't you leave advocating for the company to paid advocates of the company?

Let's be super clear, once you purchase the car, it's not their product, it's your car. That's how ownership works. Once it is in your physical lawful possession, it is your to do with as you please. The entire legal system is built around this idea.

For instance, if someone steals my car and wrecks it, does Volkswagen sue the car thief for damages, or do I? If you answered anything other than Volkswagen, it's not "their product" anymore.
I can't believe when sites are doing this. Dogfooding, or leading by example, is the bare minimum I expect, when someone is trying to show an alternative or a moral highground.
Do you (or anyone else who finds Google significantly better than DDG) search Google as a logged-in user, and is perhaps this the reason you find their results to be better?
The issue was an implementation bug afaict and from official responses.

Solana is clearly BFT, unlike what Emin claims.

To be fair, I don't expect Solana to be as centralised as other chains only for the reason that you need a gaming rig to run a consensus node. Solana is not centralised for the reasons you mention.
C++ did during the standardization to C++98 with template template parameters.

C++ before 1998 was a very popular language, maybe even more popular relatively than it is now.
Lol! the irony
I find this list a bit more definitive https://degoogle.jmoore.dev/
I feel like they've missed the point that a lot of those covers. A lot of them are exactly as cheesy, grotesque or as minimalist as they intend to be.

Does that make them bad if they serve the purpose they were designed for?
When you're working part-time at another company (hence "side" project), isn't it fair to not expose your identity? I'm genuinely curious. Because I heard companies can fire you or worse even snatch your "side" project from you if it's making money for you.

Do all founders leave their companies before doing side project startups?
Are they doing any kind of translation, too, or just pure emulation? Because if they aren't, then Windows will continue to run significantly slower on the already significantly lower-performance third-party Arm chips compared to how macOS runs on the M1.

My prediction is 50%-60% of the performance of M1 on the latest/highest-end Qualcomm laptop chip.
I’d happily scrap that lot too to be fair.

It’s a private company platform, if you don’t like my policies go start another facebook or whatever.
> Some people like myself (eg. digital nomads) prefer short term rentals, and AirBnB has changed our lives.

Good for you but AirBnB has a proven impact in increasing rent prices for long-term rentals in any touristic city, be it Barcelona, Lisbon, Amsterdam, lots of cities in Europe have suffered from AirBnBs pushing units out of the long-term rental market and being available for people like you. And people like you aren't the majority of the inhabitants of a city, when people that are born and raised in a city are pushed out by pricing due to 10+% of the stock of possible rental units being used as short-term just so landlords can make a bigger buck it's sad and inhumane.

Great that from your perspective it's helped you, it's definitely impacted the lives of a lot of young people that were born in the cities you like to live, AirBnBs are eroding exactly what made them attractive: a good city neighbourhood.
Showing Off Code in Presentations
Why startups don't understand simplicity
It seems that Rust just keeps getting more and more features.

Do people generally feel like the more features the better the language? I'm personally of the opinion that less is more.

Is this a pain point at the moment for Rust devs? Do you feel like the code you write is the same code 99% of other Rust developers would write to solve the same problem? Or is there actually a really large variety of styles?
When there is a lag in response and you click a button or menu item, it changes to something else in the blink of an eye and you've clicked something completely different.
TIL about the official "the handsome beasts" website.

http://www.thehandsomebeasts.co.uk/about.html
the interplanetary internet working group is a real thing: http://ipnsig.org/
I just don't understand. I really try hard to understand, but I physically can't I think.

Let's say that hypothetically, there was another store present on iOS. Does that stop you(or anyone) from only ever using the Apple App Store?? On Android, there are several other stores available, yet I have never felt the need to use any of them - they exist, they have their own customers.....but....that's it.

It's like if you already have one shop in your village, so you prevent others from opening even though literally nothing would force you to go to these other shops and you can still enjoy the original shop as much as you did before. Literally nothing changes in your life, but you want to prevent others from having a choice, even if you yourself don't appreciate the choice. That's mindboggling to me.
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Started my e-commerce business back in 2009 to earn some pocket money while studying and dabbling with entrepreneurship.

Since 2018 I work on it full time and have grown annual revenue triple digits 3 years in a row. In 2020, the company generated an average €56k per month at around 11% profit through 8 webshops in niches in the beauty sector.

I hired some specialist freelancers to improve SEO and SEA but let them go bcs of COVID. 3 weeks ago hired my first “employee” (freelancer 1hr per day) for customer service as I’m finding answering emails very annoying and time consuming.

Hopefully it’ll allow me more time to develop the company further. I have more niches in mind and can always expand into other countries with my current niches (which is not always successful).

The work itself is liberating, though and frustrating. I often flow from feeling alone and incapable to victorious and relaxed, and back.

I personally know few people who own a company and I know no one who owns an e-commerce. Something which makes asking questions or getting help difficult.

Online I often feel overlooked; the startup world focuses a lot on programming and building software. I’m fully aware building your own product ánd a business at the same time is million times harder than what I do. Nevertheless, I’d love to be in contact with people going through similar issues and phases as me.

Not sure the ending of this post totally fits the topic intended, so to finish on a positive note:

Only a small percentage of companies make it to €1M annual rev, a barrier I expect to pass in 2021. Moreover, growing a company brings hard and interesting challenges; eg being a solo entrepreneur I’ll need to let go of my individualistic nature and improve my social and management skills in order to work well with my current and hopefully future employees.

For the curious, one of my shops is https://electricnailfiles.co.uk.
At this stage… what’s the point? I’m bored of this lazy and dishonest simplism cloaking itself as enlightened rationalism.

You know, because it’s self-evident, that any decision to “end lifestyle restrictions” is a complex one that involves trading off the risk of further COVID deaths versus the economic impact that lockdown causes. This is compounded by the external pressure of funding which constrains the operating parameters of states. None of this is controversial, and is a constant public discussion in every country.

Of course it’s not literally “impossible” for such a decision to be made. If I encounter someone making a good argument that this is the most effective path forward, I’ll listen to it.

Framing it as a rational choice which can just be made, free of consequence, at any point is a bullshit argument, and that’s what you’ve done.
Are eyeglasses that expensive in the Netherlands?

I live in the Czech Republic, good glasses with a titanium rim will cost about 500 eur and last for around ten years.

I personally prefer daily contact lenses (the kind that you discard before sleep) which cost me about 400 eur a year; I know this is a bit of a luxury, but even this only touches the 1% of yearly developer income. Glasses would be in the 0.x% category, depending on how much your acuity changes over time.
No, engineers don't suck at time estimates
Eh, i dont understand. Cameras are pretty good at capturing night scenes. So why is point tracking at night a issue?
It's interesting too that of the top 5, only Go is a non-functional language, the others all are: Clojure, F#, Scala, Elixir.

Right now my guess is that, if you also look at one of the other questions, it turns out Clojure has one of the highest ratio of senior to junior, like Clojure devs average a higher amount of experience as well. I haven't checked the others like F#, but my guess is that most dev using functional programming languages actively and professionally tend to be more senior and thus command a higher salary mostly. That means there isn't as many junior or mid-levels to skew the average salary down, where as my guess is other languages might have an even bigger number of new devs using them like JavaScript for example, which would skew the salary average towards their pay levels.
>I find the act of castrating an animal horrific, first because of the violation of its bodily autonomy and second because genitals are not just a piece of meat but alter how the brain works which to me means it's also a violation of the mind. I think people who care about animals should think twice about having a pet if it means forcing that kind of procedure on a living being.

There are two different situations, though: preventing reproduction and preventing potentially undesirable hormone-fueled behavior. You don't need to castrate just to prevent reproduction.

I don't think there'd be anything wrong with performing a vasectomy, for example. I'm not sure if there's a similar analog for female animals, though.
Exponential growth can not be based on recycling. Tesla wants to recycle whole batteries, but 8 years ago they didn't produce even 1/100 of what they need to sustain current production. Once production levels off in 20 years, it should be perfectly possible to produce new batteries from recycled ones.
What happened to the patent issues surrounding x86 emulation? For example I remember reading this: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/intel...

First Apple and now Microsoft. Do they license the patents from Intel or did they expire? Or are they working around that somehow?
For it to work, obviously the budget has to be per month (for instance, $100/month), instead of an absolute limit. Most of the time, that's what you'd want: if you calculated that what you use will cost $50 each month, setting a budget of $100 per month would give some room for growth while preventing billing disasters (and you can always increase it a bit if necessary).
If I was Microsoft, I would be very reluctant to support Windows on M1 Macs.

The obvious disadvantage is the consumer will get Mac OSX for free with the hardware, and won't be too keen to pay much more to Microsoft. Apple will end up earning most of the revenue.

The strategic disadvantage is that as windows users move to M1 based macs, sales of PC hardware will drop, since the PC ecosystem is hobbled by a lack of deep integration, lower performance CPU's, lower profit margins, less R&D, etc. If volumes of sales drop too, it could trigger a cascade effect (fewer sales causes less R&D causes less desirable products causes fewer sales). That could kill consumer PC's entirely, which would be very bad for the future of Windows.
Django hacking: clickjacking and how to preven it
I almost feel bad when something like this get on top of hn because, you know it will do well, and you feel for their bandwidth bill.
A slide show
We had the same issue regarding external domains. It has been somewhat addressed in the current Cypress releases.
Because people are supposed to just read your mind? If you want people to know about you, yeah, you have to to tell them about you, regardless of your personality type. How else are they supposed to find out?

You can be introverted and still talk to people.
How I made a mask detection algorithm
Maybe it's just a joke by Google? Showing a reddit conspiracy ( no results for /r/conspiracy ) if somebody searchs for 'reddit conspiracy'.
> it seems like the majority of commenters here are completely unfamiliar with the format

I would be guilty of this. I don't use social media, so this is new to me. It is difficult to see the appeal at first glance.
I'm wondering what's happening at Microsoft's camp regarding M1.

They are in a weird situation. They depend on AMD/Intel to deliver. This is a massive dependency for Microsoft. Are there other large corporations have this big of a dependency?

I understand that Microsoft's revenue is shifting towards cloud, services, etc. But I think Windows is still "the" key to a lot of those offerings. Take a massive chunk of market share from Windows and I'm pretty much sure all those services will have a hit too.

What are their options?
Ask HN: I made a mobile game called Swoopy Boi. How would YOU market it?
This year I launched Swoopy Boi on iOS and Android. It has done quite well with about 15K players to date and generating 1K in revenue.

http://swoopyboigame.com

I'm no marketing expert and have actually not pushed hard on marketing the game. So have been surprised with its success.

If you were in my position what would you do to push the game reach to a new level?
Webpage from 1998 salutes you!
ahaha!! i love that website, so genuine and wholesome! and also super fast and to the point.

and it is more entertaining than the endless scroll of boredom of the eternal september.
I've found testcafe [1] to be a good alternative.

[1]: https://devexpress.github.io/testcafe/
ONNX Runtime v1.6.0 Release
Your comment is a very good counterpoint to Sapir-Whorf-hypothesis-like opinions, but unfortunately it's also so general that it could've been posted on any article about language and culture, since you don't reference any specific content.

The submitted article doesn't talk about grammar and morphology or other typological features, so criticizing it on the grounds that there's no relationship between typology and geography is rather beside the point.

What it does talk about is specific vocabulary like amiraijaut for September, the "time when antlers lose their velvet". That's reflective of Inuttitut speakers insofar as that they must've been living close enough to animals with antlers to observe the loss of velvet at the time when that translation was coined.

That kind of connection between language and culture is rather uncontroversial. For example, it was inferred that proto-Austronesian speakers already had pigs, dogs and chickens based on the words for these animals across different branches of the language family being cognates that allowed reconstruction of those words in the proto-language. That hypothesis also squares with the archaeological evidence http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n2320/html/ch1...

Of course vocabulary can be learned (as the author herself demonstrates) and transmitted outside the original context (e.g. this comment), so the cultural link is rather weak. People who've never seen a velvet-covered antler can still talk about amiraijaut in the same way that people who do not worship a god of war can still talk about Mars and his month March.
This reminds me of "Gallery of Shame" talk from a computer games festival/conference, I saw on YouTube some time back:

"Love them or hate them, the covers of some games leave a lot to be desired. Ashens has found a goldmine full of really, really bad ones. Really."

https://youtu.be/wFF9O73iwko
Basically the main difference is that Selenium executes outside the browser and controls the browser through the network. This has benefits like you can use any language. The likes of Cypress and TestCafe execute in browser. The main downside to this is you have to use JS or a compile to JS language however the argument is you have less latency and better access to the DOM making tests more quicker and more robust. Arguably JS is a language that is well suited to asynchronous event driven applications like e2e tests
Puppet’s Journey into Continuous Compliance
Yes, if you buy albums, they are completely DRM-free.

Many people just stream these days though.
Among Us developers reveal an all-new map, The Airship, coming early 2021
I've added OPML import FYI.
> recent research shows that the more you talk to your child, the higher the child’s IQ will be. The fine print that the researchers don’t mention is that this IQ boost comes at your expense, as you must donate those IQ points to the child via non-stop one-way conversations: “Look. Yams. Mmmmm. You like yams. You liked yams yesterday. Oooh, yaaaaaams.”

Full of great quotes like this one.
WASI fixes this https://wasi.dev/
Show HN: Simple Spotify Client built in go
Sure, but you need cracks and fissures for water to freeze and thaw into, and without heavy trucks compressing, stressing, and wearing away the road surface, those cracks take much much longer to develop.
This might be the best advertisement for me picking up Clojure (or Lisp/Scheme) that I've seen so far.
Adopting Ruby 3 types with RBS
Don't worry scro. there's lots of tards out there living really kick ass lives. My ex wife is tarded. She's a pilot now.