skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument is nonsense because Apple decisions are not driven by security but are there to ensure they get a cut of every revenue stream on their platform. If this was just about security there would be a way to verify secure 3rd party payment processing methods - I trust Stripe as much as I trust Apple for example. And you wouldn't be forced to offer the same price on other platforms either.

I don't mind personally I see the value they offer - they make products that are better overall for a large majority of consumers and their ecosystem just works for many use cases - it doesn't fit me particularly well but I see the value proposition.

Pretending that these store policies are driven by security is nonsense, those kinds of arguments tick me off.
It also created a market that pushed prices up in residential zones in major cities, kicked out neighbors and screwed up the rental market. For example, in my city, rental offers for residents almost duplicated when COVID hit due to AirBnB rentals being empty. If we're talking about people not affording things, we need to focus on people not affording housing before tourism.

> some of the communities that understood how to balance its pros and cons

AirBnB worked against a lot of those communities that tried to balance the pros and cons

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-airbnbs-guerrilla-war-aga...
HB tried to break into Europe in 2017 and rented some prime real estate in NL, which were former Vroom & Dreesman stores.

Vroom & Dreesman, a Dutch HB equivalent, went bankrupt in the same shrinking market and after been robbed empty by a PE ( Bain IIRC ).

It was a strange move, a bit of we are losing money on every unit, let's make it up by volume. They were gone by 2019.
What solution do you imagine that isn't a worse user experience? I can think of lots of obvious ways to simplify the client, but they all seem likely to make things worse for me as a user in pretty predictable ways.
I run TinyOctopus LLC. I create apps and software for niche markets. 100% a one person gig.

All of my products have started as something I wanted for myself, but also realizing that others would likely pay for them too. My first iOS app is now 9 years old but it existed on the Pocket PC and the Palm Pilot years before that.

https://TinyOctopus.net

edit: forgot to add, I do make the majority of my income from these apps. It is possible for small players to make real money on apps - 5 figures for me. A key for me has been to not undercharge. Despite my apps being priced much higher than others, I rarely get complaints about pricing.
Uh, it has a pretty obvious answer right?

> Republicans have high Congressional results because the true result is a high Republican surge.

> Democrats see this counting.

> Democrats “pause” counting election night and add Democrat votes in just presidential race.

> Ballots in suitcase; “broken” water pipe to exclude Republican observers; weird Biden surge after pause in counting in PA; counting machines not reset between batches per testimony; etc.

> Election results have abnormal statistics, eg discontinuities and breaks in normal correlations.

Strictly speaking, the theory fraud happened explains more — both the break in correlation and other strange events.
Again, I need to point out that this extreme example is hypothetical for the sake of discussion and I've established that it is not possible. I'd like to stay on topic so I'm not going to get deep into why I think this, I allude to my reasoning in my previous comment, but I disagree that war is authoritarianism. That isn't to say war is good.
> Meanwhile, an estimated 54 million Americans will struggle with hunger this year, a 45 percent increase from 2019, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. With food aid programs like SNAP and WIC being reduced, and other federal assistance on the brink of expiration, food banks and pantries are being inundated, reporting hours-long waits and lines that stretch into the thousands.

And meanwhile, in the other America:

> When Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump start building their new home on the 1.8-acre lot at 4 Indian Creek Island Road that they purchased for $30 million, they’ll have plenty of equally famous neighbors to get to know.

> Indian Creek Island, sometimes called “Miami’s Billionaire Bunker,” is home to an eclectic group of some of the world’s wealthiest, from singers to hedge fund managers, inventors to developers — even the founder of a company dedicated to collecting blood donations.

> Just how pricey is Indian Creek Island? According to the village’s tax rolls, the median assessed value of homes on the island in 2019 was $13.6 million. Taxes from real estate jumped 6.4% in 2019 to $87,234, along with a city property tax of $63,000.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article247709685.h...
I wondered initially if the title were "Air B N B S" as in sounded out, so it finishes AirBnB with an S, so the B S is like BullSh--

But no. Anyway, critics could/should use that. You're welcome?
Man even though the third party Fever apps were mostly terrible they had such a scrappy vibe to them. Really liked Fever, back in the days when you could sell a self-hosted thing for 30 bucks.
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Except in unusual circumstances, I normally find that #1 and #2 don't change much on the one or two week cadence that 1:1s usually happen. Every couple months there might be a significant amount of time spent on one of these, and then there might be a few check-ins on that afterwards, but in most cases it's not anywhere near enough time to fill a 30 minute slot every 2 weeks.

I also at some point personally started making a conscious effort to spend less time on #2, bringing up concerns/issues. Nine times out of ten nothing will come out of it anyway (most things are out of your manager's control), and nobody likes a complainer. Your effort is better spent practicing meditation, or else applying to new jobs if things are really bad, rather than spending half an hour every week "voicing concerns" in a 1:1.

That basically leaves a large majority of 1:1 time spent on #3, which I totally agree with the parent comment gets awkward after a while.

I have started wonder if the 1:1 in tech is an "emperor has no clothes" type of situation. Am I so unusual? Or do we all just go along pretending that these are super essential to a functional team, while in practice not much really ever comes of them?
Agree that blaming individuals makes no sense. It's the system that is pushing the poorest into more debt and insecurity while making the rich richer that is the problem.

A lot of talk about building a healthy middle class but we've lost track of that goal decades ago.
I think the answer is Linux on Linux. Fault Tolerant Linux on Distributed Machine Linux on traditional multicore Linux. Distributed machine Linux just sees the multicore Linux boxes as devices. Fault Tolerant Linux does reruns when things fail.
More Americans are shoplifting everything. Crime is up across the board this year.

In my locale, it's an open secret that most retailers will not detain you if you shoplift. And it's widely known that you wouldn't be prosecuted if they did anyway.

So yeah. Shoplifting is up.
"Paid Plan Affordability" for Heap is listed as "noticeably better" (green), but on Heap's website, they either have a limited free tier, or a business plan "Starting at $12,000/year". Is that what's considered affordable for a startup? This whole website seems like a shill for YC companies.
If you ever wonder if HN is in a bubble, remember that there are people in these comments actually arguing that access to water is not a human right.
> Does the US not have a government and state-level and federal-level representatives whose job it is to take care of their citizens and keep them out of starvation?

It’s patently obvious that no, the US does not.
Is SceneKit still alive? I had the idea that it was abandoned by Apple.
I grow lots of plants.

Try to stick to discussing the topic and my point rather than attacking me personally, it is much more effective and productive.
> Tl;dr please stay the f* away from my iPhone, I chose it for all the reasons you hate it.

How would my ability to use another App Store or payment provider affect your ability to continue using Apples'?
A US court of law will find it hard to agree that she was fired.

In the UK and probably the EU there is a type of illegal firing where the employee is effectively forced to resign. Often due to toxicity, bullying etc. If anything this has more weight in this case but I'm not sure it works in the US

Constructive dismissal (could it be called I can't recall)
Yeah, I remember people jailbreaking iOS 1 and installing various goodies. Then I remember getting an iPod Touch and a Mac Mini when (I think it was) iOS 2 came out add the SDK and app store so that I could try developing on their platform.
The US is probably inches away from a serious catastrophy caused be the extreme inequality that's only gotten worse this year.

Inequality is one thing, but when you're forced out on to the street to starve to death and there's nothing you can do to improve your situation that's totally different.
There's a big difference between

* rooting the phone with an exploit

* rooting the phone with a modified boot image from original firmware (is this even possible any more?)

* installing a new ROM that allows root access

I think if I rooted my Note 9 it would permanently mark the phone as having been "tampered with", and at least on a 3rd party ROM I'd lose Samsung/Google Pay
Coral: SQL translation, analysis, and rewrite engine for modern data lakehouses
Very cool idea. I'd be curious to find out more about what it is being/might be used for
>It would mean a catastrophic interruption to the customers application exactly when its the most popular/active.

Making the worst case scenario no worse than traditional infrastructure.
For a 2014 game, Watch_Dogs 1 was more prescient and innovative. Watch_Dogs 2 didn't innovate much and was instead tapping a 90s esque "Hackers" vibe but in a 2010s setting which I feel has been overdone in the media.

Watch_Dogs 1's tone was more serious and the mechanics really drove home the subtle but negative consequences of widespread surveillance capitalism.
From a lot of knee-jerk responses in this thread, one would think that Wall Street has just privatized water or now has the ability to raise prices or deny people water.

No. Water is already bought and sold for money in California. Now a company allows for people to make bets on how those prices are expected to change. That's the development. Adjust your outrage accordingly.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-06/water-fut...
Unfortunately, relying on vaporware is never a good strategy.
Agreed. Self check is such an obviously dumb approach, especially with high value stuff like meat. People do stuff like swap tags or enter invalid PLUs all of the time.

Was that a cherry (11/lb) or a potato (0.69/lb)?
There are ways it could be done relatively benignly, such as defaulting to paranoid and explicitly opting out.

And for those that are heading into that financial barrier it should be a straightforward problem to look at trending to anticipate the shutdown and send out an alert.
Curious, do these outages affect Oculus users too?

I am so looking at VR in the near future but crap like this rules certain products right out.
Designing Robotically-Constructed Metal Frame Structures [video]
No people are not stealing food to survive. US have food banks and food stamps. People steal because they can.

I don’t say people are wealthy or eat enough. I’m saying your statement about survival is untrue, and as any false statement does not help to resolve the issue.
Which is unfeasable for game streaming services, so in practice they do reject any game streaming service that functions as consumers expect them to.

It was a deliberate decision that was made to make it highly impractical to actually do. GeForce now has over 2000 games available to stream - do they actually expect Nvidia to submit 2000 apps? From a dev-infra POV that’s obviously largely impractical. Would Apple even allow that?

It’s also a baffling from the user’s point of view. What happens a single game is available on multiple platforms? I search for “Destiny 2” on the App Store and there’s 3 different listings for it on Stadia, GeForce Now and Xbox GPU.

Would it be reasonable for Apple to require Netflix to submit each movie and TV show to the App Store, and then say "no no, we do allow streaming tv!"
Yeah but I wanted to attempt to think about the problem myself before reading more on the article in case they gave away a very simple clue.
The engineering org had doubled in sized almost every year prior ... Teams began shifting all their focus to bringing their features to the new app ... Apple’s recommend maximum number of libraries in a single binary was 6. We had 92 and counting ... But as the app kept growing. Soon we hit the cellar [sic] download limit (100 mb) for our universal binaries ... All this time the Swift code growth continued ... discovered that our compiled code size was growing a rate of 1.3 mb a week ... But the real problem was the growth curve. It was always eating our winnings back.

This is one of the main reasons why I have no intention of going back to BigTech any time soon. I am sure the author is an extremely capable engineer but he is obviously missing the elephant in the room: that the root problem is app growth and feature creep caused by uncontrolled growth of the eng. workforce (who are all incentivized to ship their code because it's good for promotion). As if app growth was some kind of god-given fate that can't be changed! But instead of fighting the real (organizational, political) issues within the company, they blame it on technical issues (Swift is not mature! 100 MB app size limit is too low! etc.). Incredible.

The larger community benefited from our learnings.

No. The larger community would have benefited if you had written a story about how someone in the org. stood up to management, fought the feature creep, the crazy app growth and doubling eng. each year, and brought the whole project back to sanity. But that didn't happen.

So my advice. Everything in Computer Science is a trade off. There is no universally superior language. Whatever you do, understand what the tradeoff are why you are making them. Don’t let it descend into a political war between opinionated factions.

No disrespect, but no choice / tradeoff in the world would have led to a satisfactory outcome if you have hundreds of engineers burying this app under an avalanche of code day after day. The tools / tech are alright. The company is not.
Prior to COVID I would have said that retail space could be office space, but now? No idea. I feel it would be really hard to convert to residential, so I have no serious ideas. Maybe schools?
Go, according to its creator Rob Pike:

"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt." [1]

[1] https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Fr...
Turn it all into housing, schooling, clinics, and community centers. It's already happening in some cities.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-30/a-case-fo...

https://livability.com/topics/love-where-you-live/retail-res...
Take a look at Pixie dynamic logging [1].

Deploys eBPF kprobes (based on bpftrace) and uprobe (based a custom front-end language) and instantly get rich data (arts, return value, latency), query data in a Pandas-like scripting language and visual dashboard.

[1] https://docs.pixielabs.ai/using-pixie/code-tracing/
Google is around a trillion dollar company, your $75,000 is a completely immaterial amount to them. Not to mention it would be a one time payment that would drive away customers and lead to bad PR like this post.
Maintain an open source project, it'll help that passion fade somewhat quickly.

(I kid, but more seriously, it did indeed help dampen some of my own passion for quite awhile. And then a bit of resurgence...)
It does work with basic Rust compiled to Wasm, but most of the ecosystem uses wasm-pack / wasm-bindgen, which currently doesn't support DWARF.

You can subscribe to https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/issues/2389, but, unfortunately, wasm-pack currently is maintainerless until someone steps in. (see https://twitter.com/ag_dubs/status/1319651621698232322)
>I've been filling this bucket with water, and it's never overflown. Therefore the bucket can contain infinite water.

I'd say a more apt comparison to the point I'm making is "I've been filling this bucket with after and it's never overflown, and it appears that there is no way to overfill the bucket and exceed it's carrying capacity." I never said anything about continuous population growth, in fact, my point is that it is not possible to grow the population beyond the carrying capacity.
Winning the Game of Weight Loss
Perhaps is something happening at AWS https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

Strava, Reddit, Elite and Apple seems affect.

I also noticed that around midnight there are always some failed requests on AWS.
Ads are not the only use of tracking.
I was struck earlier this year when my local pharmacy started locking up bar soap. This isn't some expensive item to resell, like razor blades. It's a basic necessity that people are struggling to acquire.
> You aren't going to just click a link on a Facebook ad and suddenly have malware on your phone.

I'm not sure this would be too much of a burden. After all, it wasn't long ago that the Amazon Prime app had to be side loaded on android devices [1]. If the most vulnerable users are presented with "you need this to do what you want, here's how to install it", they'll follow the directions, even if difficult, because everything tech is relatively difficult and convoluted anyways.

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-prime-video-app-finally-av...
Thanks, going to fix soon-ish! Not sure how it slipped by.
"We all talk about free college education and how we should strive for that ..."

We don't all talk about or strive for that. But that's a bit off topic.

"It's crazy seeing good news sources not available to the general public freely."

Why is this crazy? This has been the norm. Want a newspaper? Have to buy one. Radio and TV emerged as a news source and are still "free" today. Quality papers on the internet have typically been paywalled all the time (think Elsevier etc).

I don't think Facebook is a major news source for everyone. I see local stuff come up often, but it's not the stuff that would typically make the papers. I don't see very much national stuff come up on Facebook. When it does, it's usually low quality, one sided, stuff that someone is using to support a political opinion.
Many of those wealthy individuals (or their companies, at least) have lobbied to ensure that we don't have a government which takes upon itself to keep citizens out of starvation. Not sure about Elon Musk specifically, but politicians don't just magically decide to ignore the needs of their constituents.
CloudFront is a CDN. What the poster you've replied to is talking about is a competitor setting up a server that repeatedly downloads your content to rack up a huge CDN bill. OVH is not a suitable replacement for a CDN so you can't migrate from Cloudfront to an OVH server because a server is not a viable replacement for a CDN.
Because money is power and it's clear people like Musk have a bigger responsibility to push for an accountable government.
I was creating some side-project. I already incurred around $100 fee. I imagine if I made some looping/recursion bug I could've easily incurred a cost of $10,000 or frankly, infinite cost. How easy would it have been for me to get this pardoned? And at the very moment I would discover that I just lost $100,000 - would I know in advance that they are definitely going to forgive this because I'd be full panic mode? It was very scary for me to use cloud in this case.

I didn't even have any customers at that point.
They've since reopened, but it doesn't look good in the long term:

https://www.tricitynews.com/local-news/hudsons-bay-coquitlam...
> That first impression was not misleading.

In other words, YC got lucky on Airbnb. Because YC's first impression of hundreds (or thousands) of other founders has been wrong. Basing investment decisions on first impressions may be worse than random chance but, as long as it works some of the time, they can convince themselves they're geniuses at picking founders.

On the basis of the idea and progress, the Airbnb founders were judged as bad founders.

But on the basis of personality, estimated in a few minutes, they were judged as great founders.

It explains a lot about YC's success rate that they use this fuzzy "culture fit" test to filter founders. Anyone able to seem genuine, earnest, and flattering ("oh, look, they took notes of my ideas!") for 10 minutes can game the system, as the Airbnb founders did.

Of course, it's lucky for YC that the Airbnb founders were able to manipulate them into investing. It's just kind of pitiable that YC can't do better than this.

A huge improvement for a YC-like investment firm would be to do something more objective. Competent people do not hire employees on the basis of a first impression, they spend many hours assessing their skills, abilities, personality, etc.

A better YC would spend a lot more time interviewing founders and really delve into their abilities and personalities. YC has excuses for why they don't do this, but they're bad ones. But, again, they've had enough success to not feel the need to improve.
They have a 30+ year old system that runs on DOS. It takes forever to buy anything.

If you have a gift card, you should be prepared to wait 1h+ for them to figure it out.

Prices are not at all competitive, their products are awful. They deserve to die.

I bought a $220 sheet set there that the "expert" told me it fit larger beds and that would not shrink. I wash it from the box, and then when I try to put it on, the fitted sheet doesn't is like 2' from fitting.

No refunds since I washed it. Complete BS.
> Note: There is a delay of up to a few days between incurring costs and receiving budget notifications. Due to usage latency from the time that a resource is used to the time that the activity is billed, you might incur additional costs for usage that hasn't arrived at the time that all services are stopped. Following the steps in this capping example is not a guarantee that you will not spend more than your budget. Recommendation: If you have a hard funds limit, set your maximum budget below your available funds to account for billing delays.

(Source link in parent post, emphasis mine).

In this case they had a additional cost due to delay of $72k. Which, lets be honest means this feature kinda useless for anything but the somewhat harmless case.

Only by combining this with resource limits in load balancers, instance and concurrency limits and similar can the maximal worst cost be limited. But tbh. this partially cripples auto-scaling functionality and it's really hard to find a good setting which doesn't allow to much "over" cost and at the same time doesn't hinder the intended auto-scaling use-case.