skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A helpful way to think of it is by comparing how Uber and an OS GUI are different (since that's the comparison people are making, anyways)

With an operating system UI, the developer may reasonably know what the UI will look like, what features are present, where they are placed. With Uber, a single person may not know all the rules for a single feature, and the rules change frequently, sometimes in the most obtuse ways. Like when San Francisco decided to ban cars from one of its most important artery streets earlier this year (market st). Now not only you need to indicate to a rider that this is a thing, your UI also needs to to provide walking instructions to the nearest designated pickup spot, and the routing algorithm needs to not put drivers on market st. Oh, and don't forget Hebrew speaking tourists read right-to-left and that food delivery bicycles _are_ still allowed on market st. That's just one change in one city.

Consider that just about anything might change anywhere, any time. From how earning breakdowns are displayed for drivers in Sao Paulo (this differs by jurisdiction), to where the pickup locations are in Pearson airport in Toronto (airport rules change all the time), to what promos apply in Mexico City this week (which depends on marketing and finance analysis), to whether surges should be disabled in response to a terrorist attack, to what documents a driver signup rep should be scanning into the system as local regulations change.

Now build all the infrastructure required considering that the people on the ground reporting their local changes are not programmers, and conversely many of these changes may require making changes to the UIs that these people use, how the new data is aggregated, etc. There are literally thousands of greenlight hub / customer support employees worldwide using these internal tools, many don't speak english and timezones are all over the place. The nature of problems are often fuzzy, hyperlocal-specific (e.g. certain forms of fraud), or extremely meticulous (e.g. legalese, etc).

The trouble of scale comes with having to deal with numerous nebulously defined things from numerous stakeholders and having to distill which engineering teams are even responsible for which aspects of which thing. As the number of stakeholders grow, so does the risk of miscommunication, unclear chain of responsibility and other well-documented large organizations challenges.
As an iOS developer I agree with some of the arguments, the 30% are a bit too much and should be less. The 15% for small businesses is a start but it's still not always fair. At the same time, I think the arguments Epic gives for example are bullshit. I rather give 30% of the money Epic takes for basically selling digital nothing to millions of teens to Apple. At least Apple is doing something with that money, maintaining the App Store, providing and developing tools like XCode and Swift. Also for me it makes a difference that Apple is a publicly traded company, Epic is not. But off topic here, the very closed nature of the App Store is a benefit in terms of security, especially for users that don't know much about technology or don't care to care about their security. Having several app stores would water down the whole iOS ecosystem and has actually the potential to hurt the business of many app based companies. Yes, the App Store can be strict at times and quite of few of its restrictive policies need changing. But it does force you to make good stable apps. And it puts your apps right next to every other app in that category, instead of having to care about n different ways of how to distribute your apps. It's only the one, and there you got to get it right. Having more app stores won't really increase your audience either, at the end it's still gonna be the same customers, but a lot more maintenance. So I think if Apple would change its pricing model, the App Store review process, and lift some of the more stricter limitations, which I think it has to in the next year and a half, then the App Store will be a great way to get you apps out there. But that's my opinion from a personal point of view.
> with no government intervention.

Small amounts of people do not need a government because they can just represent themselves. Any city needs a government, tasting at any sensible scale needs a the government. 3000BC Egyptians had taxes, laws and a government.

Can you provide some historical example of thousands of citizens trading without a government? That would be an incredible experiment on anarchism.
The Airbnb experience seem like a good story if it's done voluntarily. But now we have a giant corporation "scaling" it. It seems like a good business use-case. But we already had Big Tech eating up the news. We may have Big Tech eating up the housing market. Can someone with knowledge in this space explain where this space is heading?

Will the kind of Airbnb business inflate the housing market?

Do people need to rent out their private living spaces in the future because paying for a property would become expensive?
> It's 220,000 square feet

Is it an old airplane hangar?
Adobe Animate (née Flash) still exists. It just exports games and animations to HTML now.
Very cool,

I've been starting to use ARKit from a different angle.

Usecase - test out 3d designs of replacement classic car parts I'm manufacturing as a side project.

While crude right now, I think this sort of stuff is a game changer - I'm regretting not picking up a lidar enabled 12 pro instead of a 12 now to do better scanning and placement. I guess I'll pick up an ipad pro when it's upgrade time on that front.

Here are two quick videos I threw together:

https://youtu.be/M8dgrf7GBow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K0-vK2wafA

Workflow:

- build 2d models in solvespace (https://solvespace.com)

- export dxf to fusion 360

- convert dxf to sheet metal

- bend sheet metal in fustion360

- export obj from fusion360

- save obj file to icloud drive

- open obj file in AR Viewer app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ar-viewer-augmented-reality/id...)

Sidenote:

There still isn't a replacement for physically printing the parts before I have them laser cut out of metal. I 3d print models and test fit pieces as intermediate steps too.

Really excited to see ios developers digging into ARKit more, I'm excited to see what else is possible here.
Its fine to keep trying, its just that they keep forcing it down your throat by either tying everything to search, or not standing behind a firm commitment of support. As much as I dislike Google, if Google created a non-advertising, non-surveillance paid product that was quality, I'd definitely consider it. Heck I still buy Apple products when they're good, even if I don't like their anti-repair stance.

Anywho, as it stands now, Google seem to be finding new ways to set up toll-booths on the internet via search lock-in. That's their new mantra. Whatever happened to organizing the world's information? Even their "About 2,800,000 results" is total BS. I can't go past page 20 on almost all queries.
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Seems a good insight to me, it's a generalisation of "if you want to know your real relationship with a person, wait until your interests are opposed and see how they act"
I hear you but there is actual customer harm. There are obviously silly UX things that happen in Apple world.

Example: you cannot buy Kindle books in the Kindle app as they would be subject to 30% fees. You have to go to the web browser to buy the books. Apple inserting itself into this sort of marketplace transaction is highly questionable.

The google play store offers the same level of protections around their internal payment platform and you can confidently download apps from verified developers.
s/thusly/thus/
Generally, I tend to lean toward freer markets when it comes to major regulatory and anti-trust actions in internet tech. Especially the consumer web because it's so fast-moving and often disrupted. But occasionally major action is justified, necessary and the best available approach (or least-bad approach). I have no doubt when I read the allegations count by count I'll be concerned and even feel dismayed by the obvious privacy, data and trust issues. But whether the allegations are ethically concerning or morally problematic isn't at issue. They certainly are. However, I'm still unsure about the legal merits of the specific charges of this week's indictment. Mostly because I haven't seen them in detail yet but also because much of the existing legal precedent around these topics predates the rise of social media, the web and even the internet. Recent e-mail privacy cases are still being decided based on precedent set half a century ago in cases about analog phone system pin registers.

If this were a criminal case, going for a life-without-parole sentence sets a much higher bar for the prosecution. Whether prosecutors can meet a similarly high bar and secure a sentence that breaks up Facebook is a high-stakes gamble. It will take years to reach a final ruling and I'm sure FB will bring a defense every bit spirited and competent as the prosecution - and that's a good thing for us all. Regardless the eventual outcome of this specific case, these are deeply important issues and it's time they're more widely discussed, debated and fully litigated to a precedent-setting, internet-era court ruling.
I just close the tab.
It means nothing at all for gaming. The 5700/xt is a very good card for gaming on linux.

Where it fails is things that use the compute functions (not vulkan) like blender and many neural network tools. Basically AMDs version of cuda called ROCm. They only support ROCm on a few of their cards while nvidia has cuda on everything on day one.
I’d love 10G just for nerd points but even if they built it out where I live the equipment is still too loud (!) and expensive. You’re basically running a small data enter at that point.
> Sex work and pornography can be enjoyable for people on all sides of the equation.

Yes. This is not the limit of my criticism, far from it. There is a world of difference between sleeping with 15 truckers a night, ie physical prostitution, and a middle-class student selling nudes on OnlyFans. The problems with the middle-class version of prostitution are the second order effects. I briefly touched on those in another reply in this thread.
For Trump to nearly maintain his vote share in Texas while dramatically lower percentage of people voted 3rd party would have taken ~100% of third party defectors voting Biden. That’s simply unrealistic.

Your nationwide numbers are also off for several reasons. For example many people voting in 2016 skipped the 2020 elections for various reasons like death. Further pooling including exit polls doesn’t match up with actual voting very well suggesting a significant portion of Trump voters are unwilling to say they voted or plan to vote for Trump. That or a truly massive pro Republican voter fraud which seems unlikely.

Anyway looking at hard data. In 2016 Clinton got 65,853,514 votes Trump got 62,984,828 votes. A Democratic margin of 2,868,686 million votes. In 2020 Biden got 81,282,896 votes vs Trumps 74,222,484 a Democratic margin of 7,060,412.

Using the middle of your range 62,984,828 * 0.075 - 65,853,514 * 0.035 that’s a net gain of 2,418,989 votes which far less than the actual net gain of (7,060,412 - 2,868,686) = 4,191,726 votes that Biden over Trump.

To gain the (4,191,726 - 2,418,989) = 1,772,737 votes from a 3 million 3rd party voter drop would have taken a truly extreme margin of ~80% even assuming your other assumptions where correct. That might be reasonable if they where mostly green voters, but it’s largely from the Libertarian party.
Host a PeerTube instance on this connection to be able to own your content :-)

(unless your content is watched by too many people at the same time for this, of course)
One of the things I think is overlooked in stories about AirBNB is how bad the idea conjured by the explicit meaning of the name airbed and breakfast. Airbeds are a terrible guest experience: you have no privacy, no reserved space, you're sharing a bathroom, and you probably have a backache when you wake up. Almost no one on AirBNB actually offers airbeds. It's not until you parse "AirBNB" as something completely unrelated to airbeds that you start to think it might be a good idea.
Thanks, I was just going by the note on the MDN page.

I tried changing your example to have the transition be on the <detail> element itself instead of the child <p> but it didn't work, maybe that's what the MDN note is about.
Contact your state's Attorney General. They usually have offices that handle consumer complaints.
Off topic but it’d be funny if the censored text was literally just put in span elements with “background: black” styling.

Anyways, cool story and I like the phrasing of “borrowing the Lunik over night”.

Also, I think this document was probably digitized using OCR and then cleaned up by hand afterwards, considering the mistake of the word “film” having instead become “fihn”. That’s the type of error OCR would typically make, not a human:

> They filled one roll of fihn with close-ups of markings [...]
Clearly swamp gas or ball lightning. Move along, people.
Last time I looked Google position was:
"Regarding which headers will be allowed, we'll look at the feedback from devs and the current metrics and decide. In general, we want to take a closer look at the security implications of header modification."

tldr: CSP modification was strictly forbidden. Digging in further it seems this changed somewhere in 2020 and appears to be working now https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=111648...
Yet, you cannot have a link to Netflix or Spotify from their app to their own website as you could subscribe on it.

And the browser is limited to whatever Apple allows. If it doesn't support some web API that has a native equivalent, you're out of luck. There are many of those.
I'm not sure if your drunk or just plain stupid ;)
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Adobe Animate (née Flash) still exists. It just exports to standard HTML/CSS/JavaScript now.
MilkyTracker 1.03
As the former PM, can confirm it's not Turing complete, and there's a reason many of those innocuous features haven't been added ;)
I think you're spot on. The documentation for AR Kit is top notch, and includes TONS of sample code that is easily understandable with minimal iOS development knowledge.

Perhaps I'm still too new to AR Kit, but to me it doesn't look entirely straightforward (more backend lifting) to do someone of the things you are mentioning. I hope Apple releases some updated Geolocation API's to better enable the experiences you mention.

Kai Faust's [1] work with Infopop [2] is definitely worth playing around with

[1]: (https://twitter.com/kaifaust)

[2]: (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/infopop/id1530246692)
I suspect the GP comment is referring in context to the use of the Fourier transform to efficiently implement convolution.
MacOS was never a large enough target for malware and adware.

Think pre-SP2 Windows XP. Think the JRE updater installing the Ask Jeeves toolbar. (Or Chrome, that was slimy....)

Drive by app installs initiated from Safari on iOS would be Bonzai Buddy all over again.

Right now if a handful of misbehaving apps makes it past the app store review process, it is in the news.

What happens if that review store process is no longer there? How many alternative keyboards will be going around stealing credentials? How many apps spamming ads 24/7?
The funny thing is, all the arguments against Flash on iPhone also apply to HTML on iPhone. Flash and the Web have a concurrent development history. Hell, AS3 almost became JavaScript 2.0 - Adobe even gave Mozilla the AVM2 runtime to replace SpiderMonkey. Conversely, pretty much no website was designed for smartphones before the iPhone. Everything was sized for large screens and had hover content.

The difference is that Apple put a lot of time and effort into making old content work. They wrote dynamic JIT compilers for JavaScript, sliced up webpages into GPU layers, downscaled old content to fit on tiny screens, changed the behavior of hovers so that you could use them with a finger, and added detects for undersized tap targets and form fields. Adobe's approach was to shove all that compatibility work onto the developer. Why make a JIT for AVM1 when you could just make a new version of ECMAScript and make everyone rewrite their movies in AS3? Why embrace GPU rendering and composition when you can just hand people a thin wrapper around OpenGL and tell them to use Starling Framework? Why bother fixing broken hovers when you can just throw more events to the developer to handle?

Like, imagine if Steve Jobs went up on stage and told people that the iPhone would run webapps, but only if people wrote everything in Angular and WebGL. That's kind of what Flash Player was trying to do. Apple knew that you had to get the existing, broken, not mobile-friendly-at-all content up and running first and they they could push through more mobile-friendly web standards. Adobe figured they could just entice developers into writing not-terrible Flash movies and then they'd be allowed on smartphones again.
It’s certainly different in some relevant ways. Actual use of prostitution services requires money (which limits how much you can consume, unlike online porn), requires interacting face-to-face with other human beings and sometimes even leaving the house.

There’s also a dynamic where people quickly get bored with porn and start consuming increasingly extreme or fringe porn to get the same satisfaction which I think is new. To clarify, kinks aren’t new, but just like political extremism, the internet is much better at radicalizing people into them.

I’m not sure if it’s good or bad, and I’m somewhat libertarian on the issue if only out of resignation, but I think that online pornography is extremely new and unprecedented and may indeed be very detrimental to society.
I use a mix of Bing and DDG, about 50/50. I also know multiple people who use Bing, mostly people not in tech as it’s just “there” if you use Windows.
The last place I lived at had Google Fiber. Now I live in an area where I am stuck on 200 Mbps.

Telecommuting, it's a whole different animal. Upload speeds are more like 6 Mbps, which bottlenecks when my wife and I have meetings at the same time.

It's a first world problem for sure, but coaxial cable is a 'deprecated technology' imo. Glass fiber cable is the way to go. I understand why a typical consumer might not care.
I think what gets lost is that it's your 1:1, not the manager's. Same when you go to a skip level.

If they are the one driving the agenda it is indeed probably going to be a waste of time.

This cartoon is a useful prompter for different things to think about going into them:

https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1037186572234498048?lang=en
The Legal Urban Sheep of Oakland
I’ve worked in both. Companies are dumb in different ways than government.

Usually companies have better leadership and are more merciless with people. Unless they are unionized, problems get pushed out (unless they don’t). Big companies waste lots of money on other things.

Government agencies have by design a split between political/professional management. Sometimes that results in strange stuff. Also the programs in government are very meaningful — legislation limits how money is spent, one unit or function may be drowning in funds, another may be dumpster diving.

Companies waste money on things like exec compensation, marketing, etc.
Both things can be true.
I live with one other person but I'll exclude their stuff:

* work laptop
* desktop
* phone
* alexa
* tv
* nintendo switch
* roomba
* raspberry pi I use for retro games
* an ancient android tablet I use to play spotify
* a more modern android tablet I use for web browsing in bed
* a e-ink reader
* 3 wemo plugs

That's 14

* support wifi that I don't use: tv, instant pot, washing machine, garage door opener, a gopro-type camera, thermostat
* I don't have wifi security cameras but lots of people in my area do

I'm probably forgetting things, especially things that support wifi if I wanted them to
I see, I thought it could be used for some simple thing, like a load balancer / proxy with a bit of logic in it, but I guess it's too constrainted to do something useful as a server
How is Flash more cross-platform than HTML/CSS/JavaScript?
(Cloud Run PM here)
I am sorry for the experience described in the blog post, we could definitely be better at bill management. I am glad that it worked out in the end and the customer was not required to pay for the bill.

Based on this experience, we decided to lower the default value of "max instances" to 100 for future deployments. We believe 100 is a better trade off between allowing customers to scale out and preventing big billing surprises. Of course, customers can always decrease it or increase it up to 1,000, or even above with a simple quota increase request.
LF1 to co-found the future of litigation
We're automating the practice of litigation and need a co-founder with a background in data engineering (no legal experience necessary).

Our goal is to automate hundreds of discrete procedural tasks involved in the practice of litigation to effect an aggregated, massive reduction in requisite labor.

We will change the practice of litigation, lower legal costs for the public, and improve the lives of burnt out attorneys.

You: an ambitious engineer interested in forcibly shoving the practice of law into modernity.

Me: a comedian-turned-litigator with 5 years of complex civil litigation experience and two fingers on the pulse of the AI-backed legal services industry.

Let's talk.
RHOS is OpenStack. The only two ways two get RHEL 8 sources are from your account’s download page (very tedious) or to use the *-source-rpms repos (reposync/manually) that are available with your subscription.
> I'd argue the product managers/developers do not understand their customer's needs well enough. I'd assume that at this stage in the product's life, a basic Postgress installation is likely a better choice.

You mean compared to DynamoDB?

Because Fauna is just as flexible as Postgres.
1. What concrete and specific thing did Mother Theresa fail to do for the suffering people when she visited the nun convention?

2. What specific and concrete thing did Mother Theresa do, to be called a murderer in the plane crash?

Most of Hitchens arguments are against the character of god, how he's so totalitarian and capable of causing suffering. There is little to respond to because it isn't based on arguing concrete realities. The game is based on arguing interpretations of events in the most negative light and using that as a reason to distrust the character of god.

God is a necessary concept and arguing how terrible is his 'character', is beside the point. We can endlessly rework history with a nominalist historicism completely devoid of the context that god occupies, to show how terrible god's ethos is and how his adherents are evil, but it is a pointless game in the end.

God isn't going away and this endless attempt by UK atheists like Hitchens, Dawkins, et al to have all the benefits of 2k years of Christanity without the theism is a tiring waste of time.

Hitchens is a christian athiest. He is a product of his context and all the secular humanism and gaping at the awe of space won't save you from the fact that the past 2k years were successfully led by christians in the west.

He was in a limo with dawkins and once said even if he had the most complete and destructive argument against god, that would end all arguments about god, he wouldn't do it. He was man who built his career on arguing the endless topic, religion. In his own words he chose this topic because it doesn't run out.

So yeah, preach to me about magic soap labels, if you think that's what god is, then you are welcome to it. I won't join you in nominalist hell and I won't lift you out of a well.
I wonder: is it possible for reddit.com to go down without teddit.net also going down? (I didn’t test while reddit was down, both are up by now).