skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think by now it is clear that if you are developing a SAAS that is somehow going to run on iPhones, then you have to give 30% of your revenue to Apple.

You should plan your business accordingly and if you feel that you will not be profitable with this arrangement, then you should seriously reconsider if you want to spend the time and resources to build and maintain this business as you will face heartache later on when Apple takes either a major chunk of your revenue or outright removes your app.
It's not identical, hence "almost literally", but the notion of explicitly selling your attention to advertisers is getting pretty close in my eyes.
I love how you go right ahead assuming, at the same time you preach against it. It's really respect worthy.

I'm not Christian. I'm not religious. I'm not Republican. I'm not disliking trans people. I'm not afraid of any such issues. All wrong. Yet you were happy to assume all that?

What I don't like is people who take on for themselves the cloak of righteous moral positioning on behalf of others, and force others to conform to their thinking because they believe they're right. Or worse, believe they're better.

"They" is not singular. You know the person is a man. You want to neuter everyone's speech to fit your worldview for the benefit of a 1%.

Strong opinions do not equal anger. And not everything in the world should be solved by just "can't we all get along and let people do what they feel is good". Opinions and attitudes such as you're showing are deserving of objection and being opinionated in the opposite direction.
I read the page, not sure what is about it yet.
Where's this trillion dollar brick & mortar store?

NTDOY's market cap is two orders lower than AAPL and their impact on the worldwide software application market is comparably quite small. TGT is also under $100B and they have essentially no impact on the software application market.

What makes Apple different? Their size and market power. How much of the world economy is now dependent on their devices and services?
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Boo hoo. Crocodile tears.

I know this is probably the wrong audience here but I’m getting fed up with whining from companies who have dubious funding models based on trading something less honest and more invasive than money for gain. Operating like this is an existential business risk when regulation and platforms are heading in the direction of privacy and data security so get over it. Come up with a product which is worth throwing actual money at not proxy money, advertising, tracking, data collection or invasive crap. If you can’t do that, bugger off.
I'll be honest: I don't know what this is and I don't want to know. I want nothing to do with it. Google needs to give up on this.

They failed with gchat, they failed with google wave, they failed with orkut, they failed with google+.... They can't seem to stop trying to worm their way into social tech.

They just don't get that their brand doesn't work for this and nobody is buying it.
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https://archive.vn/Z8WKs
This perspective is reflexive. The "ObjC curmudgeons" didn't feel like the adventures that the "Swift zealots" were generating helped their careers in any way.
Or a moment of noise in solidarity with the engineers who got promoted for shipping the shiny new thing.
Why, because it places a price tag on user's attention? the price of which google and FB want to keep forever at $0?

If anything we should be asking google to name their own price
I mean there's nothing stopping me from creating a physical analog to this. I buy a space and set up stalls for businesses to set up shop. The conditions for being part of this market are:

* You have to use my payment system.

* I get 30% of your gross revenue.

* You have to follow my guidelines about what you can and can't sell and how you're allowed to sell it.

* You can't, while you're at the market, advertise how customers can reach you outside the market. I'm not about to just let you use my space as an advertising channel for free.

And in this hypothetical universe my customers love it! They do all their shopping here. I can both see how businesses that don't want to follow my rules would feel super frustrated but those rules are what makes my market worth coming to. My rules basically boil down to "fuck you pay me" and treat my customers well.
Literally every one of these questions pertains to real goats, too.
Are they copying Facebook 4 years after they copied snapchat?
This article is stunning. The design, the way it presents the information, everything. I don't think I've ever seen such a good webpage.

Edit: Now I've seen some of his other pages... This man is a genius.
Yeah, not gonna lie, I wasn't sure what this link was and clicked on it at work :| I'm not especially happy about that. Might be better to asterisk it instead?
A legal solution? Legal solutions are never "very simple".

There will be an army of corporate lawyers that are going to try to find loopholes against an army of legislators trying to close them. Plus a few trolls using the new laws to threaten businesses. What starts with a simple idea quickly becomes a monstrosity like GDPR.
And let's also take a moment of silence for everyone who invested time and energy into creating stories only for Google to just not be bothered anymore and switch it off.
Sure: by selling them software for Windows on your own website.
This isn’t new. Telephone infrastructure, power grid, roads and railways in some countries are using this exact pattern with some success.
I kinda got it working, ish; I ran:

innoextract --gog setup_cyberpunk_2077_build_3214677change_4155897_\(64bit\)_\(43299\).exe --language en-US

then added bin/x64/Cyberpunk2077.exe to Steam, then got it to start with Proton-5.21-GE-1. It looks like there's a big performance hit w/ nvidia-drivers 455.28-r1, though, and it's pretty crashy (~1 crash / 15 minutes until I gave up).
Seems like a TikTok ripoff
That, or hire customers to each say a little something on film. They all get to be essential workers!
Monopoly (n) (an organization or group that has) complete control of something, especially an area of business, so that others have no share

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/monopoly
I think this is a very valid concern. I've bought 2 games on Stadia so far, and the solace for me is I don't ever really re-play games I've finished like I relisten to albums. Same with books, tv, movies, etc. It's just not my style, so the potential for Stadia to go poof in a year or two is fine by me, assuming it was a good value while it was still going.
This might be ideal, but some people would not have the energy to do that much work in a week, and since the OP has a 12-18 month runway and probably can get another software job easily and quickly should they need to, it doesn’t feel as necessary in this case. But I do agree in general, and it would be wonderful to never dip into savings at all.
The cynic in me feels this type of jab is part of a broad trend by activists (and activist journalists) in tearing down the 'founding fathers' or 'fundamental principles' of America. Attacking those symbols leaves open a vacuum for other ideologies to come in - it's a key part of making a pivot happen towards different principles (whether that is anti-free-speech or pro-collectivism or whatever else).
> Where's this trillion dollar brick & mortar store?

Amazon.com

Edit: Actually I wish Amazon exercised the kind of control that Apple does so I wouldn't have to guess if the phone charger I bought will set my house on fire.
Again, it depends on how you define the market. They have fewer devices, fewer apps, fewer app downloads, and more revenue. You just picked the one that they have the biggest share in. And even 60% of revenue isn't enough to determine a monopoly depending on other market dynamics.
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So they should take the Google name off it?
You have remarkably taken a comment which makes little sense and made it make less sense with each successive post. Eventually, there will be zero meaning to it entirely.

Wait... I think we're there already.
It seems their brand is "socially awkward media"
"are at least more tenacious"

Well, this is true. Compare the average self made billionare to others and yes - they are more tenacious.

But that's obvious.
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An interesting hot take I read a while back (that I can't find) was that Google's strategy is generally "compete with every company on every product in order to build a moat, so that no one can touch search, which is the actual castle." And if you think about it makes a lot of sense -- Google competes with almost every other tech company on something, but no one competes with Google on search. The exception, perhaps, is voice search where Alexa / Siri are truly competitive.
How does this protect from nefarious actors? Shouldn't we (also) find ways to make fingerprinting impossible?
"Olson's team selected ibogaine because it seemed to have the most daunting side effects, including hallucinations and potentially fatal heart problems. It's also
increasingly hard to find the plants that naturally contain ibogaine, and synthetic versions of the drug have been difficult to make in large quantities."

"These obstacles make ibogaine "the Mount Everest of psychedelics," Olson says."

Another candidate would have been datura and related plants.
Am I the only one who, after reading the landing page, still has no idea what this is? I’ve been watching “immersive” websites for quite some time, mostly marketing-ish websites but also sometimes some special purpose pages from National Geografic or NYT.

What exactly is this? A JavaScript/CSS framework? Something like AMP? Or is it a social network like Snapchat?

I’m genuinely confused what I’m looking at and feel old right now.
Walmart, Target? I mean if you want your goods in Target you also have to follow their rules and use their payment system.
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a token as proxy for (the value of) your actual attention is just the innocent prerequisite to some incredible dystopia. as with javascript, Brendan Eich appears to be channeling technology up from the depths of hell. I wonder if he created the prototype in a 10-day fit of a fever dream as well.
Not the only way. Out of cycle promotion (8-10% base + 5% bonus increase) followed by standard cycle raise (4.5%) and then added stock comp (+15% effective) resulted in this for me in one year.

This was the result of very direct conversions with my manager about “I’m at $x, I’d like to be at $y” and he used all the tools he had to get me there.

But yes, normally that’s the only way.
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Wish they still had what they did when I started using it: send an SMS to a shortcode number with your pickup location.
I can already draft a PR to killedbygoogle for this.
> Is the great Chinese famine relevant to a discussion of colonialism?

It is relevant insofar as it addresses the question of private property and its value as an institution, which is precisely what the chain of comments I replied to was discussing.

I'm not sure why you chose to take issue with my comment, but not those preceding comments.

> The Bengal Famine

Another illustrative example of a famine caused by State policies and lack of respect for people's private property: Japanese raids and destruction of merchant ships, government-ordered destruction of rice stocks, trade barriers, the "rice denial" and "boat denial" policies, refusal of imports, etc.
Amazing the pessimism in this thread. Everyone looking for a way to tear them down. This is an incredible success story, and should be an inspiration.
They won't be Apple customers.

Apple customers will be on MacOS, which pretty soon will be signing binaries and denying anything not sold from the app store.

Apple customers are under lock and key. You can't reach them without paying the Apple tax or obeying the arbitrary Apple platform rules.
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I thought it was a step beyond that?

Market dominance paired with leveraging that dominance in a way that hurts consumers.

If it’s levered in a way that doesn’t hurt consumers, that may be hyper competitive and other businesses may not like it, but that’s not a monopoly abuse.

At least that’s my layman’s understanding of the law.

Apple’s behavior is arguably good for most users (restricting tracking/spying). I don’t think Apple’s behavior meets that consumer harm standard.
Given the number of regulations ignored or just outright broken, given that I expect to live next to neighbors and not a hotel in my suburban neighborhood, given that it is "terms-of-service for thee but not for me", I'd go with your first choice. 'cuz is sure is hell isn't "let's make the world a better place" if that means spamming Craigslist and ignoring local zoning laws.
That's great to hear. It's been on my radar for a while, but I've not dove into yet.

> I would recommend even taking the time to listen to the parts that seem basic.

Thanks for that recommendation! This is my default style, although it's enabled by not knowing much anyway. Lol.

Regarding your last point, this is my exact feeling knowing F# and Racket before being forced to use Python in some capacities.
Where is end-to-end encryption for iCloud?
Stories are popular because they can be quickly viewed. I don't know anyone in real life who has the attention span to read anything more than a 500 words article without graphics in it everywhere.

This is a natural extension of web.
I came to make the exact same comment - what on earth is this?
Normalization of non-deviance (Abandoning index.php)
Congratulations on your Milestone. Website looks very professional. Like the colors and theme. I also watched the youtube on getting started. Very nicely done overall.

I have an adblocker installed. I see that there is a grey area under "Share your tracks anywhere". It says the request had been blocked by ad-blocker. May be googletagmanager or new-relic

Good luck :-)
The grammar of a language isn't about what "makes sense". A particular usage making sense or being reasonable isn't the same thing as that usage being part of a language.

If non-homophobic circles of Russian-speakers actually use "они" as a gender-neutral singular third-person pronoun, that's news to me. I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find out that's true. If it is, I would expect that to be a recent development, as in the last decade or so.

But it sounds like you're basing what you're saying on just mapping the English usage to Russian, or basing it on ground principles about what makes sense or doesn't, which is pretty unconvincing. Are you aware of examples of "они" being used this way in the wild by native speakers?

Anyway, whether it expresses politeness is a whole other can of worms, and I would be quite surprised to find out that on top of that in these circles "они" is used to express politeness in place of "он" or "она" (or I guess "оно") the way that "вы" is used to express politeness in place of "ты".
I have to turn adblock off to see many of these. Strange.
A lot to myself. Next to nothing to most others.
CentOS has been forked by its founder
I play on mac, I just installed the Stadia+ chrome extension and it told me I was using vp9, though maybe not hardware decoded? I don't really have a way to verify that for you though.
would be fun if they feature Timnit's story
There are no goalposts to move around here in some PR flack's hapless dream of muddying the issue. The market in question is the mobile applications market.

It is one that is separately analyzed, well reported, clearly delineated, demonstrably an arena of choice, and significant to the consumer. This makes it difficult to ignore on any taxonomic basis of irrelevance.

No threshold is itself enough, since there's no strict liability; generally speaking, it's not unlawful to have market power, it's unlawful to abuse it. Any regulatory or private action has to make a qualified case. But as far as thresholds go: that 60%, plus Apple's contractual requirement for market participants to actively mislead the consumer, is pretty terminal.
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This is out of date as of the CentOS Stream announcement (such as the part saying CentOS is "Supported for 10 years with security and maintenance updates, until 2029"). Today, if you are choosing between CentOS 8 and Amazon Linux 2, you are choosing between one soon-to-be EOL OS and one that is focused on stability for several years to come.
Web is now hot garbage.
BAT has always seemed fishy to me. All the crypto advertising inside Brave asking users to connect wallets has nothing to do with the BAT rewards system, but they present it in a way that implies it’s somehow related. BAT itself is not really what they claim either because as a user you are not actually given tokens, you are given entries in a database which they then reconcile monthly and send you some amount of BAT of their choosing once you’ve passed KYC with a single sketchy KYC provider. There is no way around this if you want to actually sell your tokens. So the fact that it’s a “token” is for marketing only.
I was (jokingly) humoring the technical interpretation of "Apple customers may also be customers of other platforms, so you can do business with Apple customers by doing business with them on other platforms".
I was also befuddled by this. I was using event tracking with GA at least 3 years ago I think, so it was difficult for me to take this article seriously as it hammers on this point repeatedly
And as a customer, I'm super happy about this. You can't charge me a subscription that I can't figure out how to cancel. You have a much harder time slipping in "features" that abuse my privacy. You don't get my email address or my information unless I want you to. I am guaranteed that this is all true on any iPhone I pick up.

You might even say I'm paying them to protect me from your poor business practices.
Well, Covid-19 will eventually go away. At least as a major threat.

But I am also worried, that much of the emergency legislation is here to stay. It is rare, that laws get softened, once they are implemented.
I think as long as you have enough acreage you can qualify. Texas privileges wealth so I imagine he can gain the privilege if it's limited as you've described.
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Looks interesting, seems like an AMP like format (or AMP extension? Unclear.) for publishing stories that can be picked up by other platforms (likely at this point only google). I realize people hate AMP, but this seems like a strictly better alternative than a closed platform like snapchat, instagram, etc., present.

Edit: here's the technical documentation, https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/?format=s...
I have heard a lot of murmurs about "horrible industry practices" regarding CD Projekt Red, but nothing concrete. Is this just a smear campaign, or a half-truth being thoughtlessly repeated because it fits preexisting narratives?

Or more to the point, were they violating Polish or EU labor laws?
This is such an ignorant comment. 1) actually paying attention to an advanced academic lecture requires serious mental effort, so by your definition it is work. It is also not useless, unless purely academic work is useless to you 2) I don’t know what kind of experience in academia you have (my guess is not much) but grad school can be very intense in terms of work. Sure you can slack off, but if you want to do well you’ll likely work very hard.
I understand that the fast pace development of the first app versions was also related to have to be faster than uber's rivals.
Really weird he wasn’t charged with allegation.
So good job Google, the page is unreadable on an Android phone without having an epilepsy attack!
I don't know how to solve Google's problems and I don't pretend to. If I did I'd write a carefully thought-out Medium post and get claps and reshares and so on.

All I know is that as a user I can only describe my emotional reaction as "revulsion" whenever they unveil one of their new cash-grab copies of someone else's platform.
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Classic Google and social. Last on the scene, overdoes it, no users+

Social is Google's Moby Dick haha. You'll get it one day big G.

+ This last one's a bet. I'll check back next year
I love this story, I never knew how close to failing airbnb was, it just shows that with enough hard work, a decent business plan, intelligence, and some optimism anything is possible. Also, alot of luck, airbnb is one company that did make it, what isn't being said is the graveyard of thousands of companies that were not so lucky in similar situations.
I think they are just trying to make it easy to make a story-like webpage (as you mentioned nat geo or NYT do this at times). However someone with no web experience who just wants to tell a story can't make a complicated site like that.

So, it seems like this is just a tool to assist with that.

Which is interesting.. however their landing page sure doesn't make it at all clear as to what is going on.
Brave's model fixes very little. Being tracked by advertisers is just part of the problem, the other is ads are a horrible business model.

The best case for content creators is that they have to worry about upsetting their advertisers and them pulling their ads.

The worst case is that content creators turn into traffic farms with click bait titles and shallow content.

The worst case for society is the use of AI to pull people into spending more and more time on websites and redicalising them into conspiracy theorists or worse.

This is all due to the advertisement model as opposed to paying directly for the content we consume. Most bad incentives would disappear and creators would focus on the quality of their content.

So Brave 'removing' adverisements that track you, if that is even truly possible with regards to fingerprinting, just fixes a small piece of the problem and in a way that thinks like uBlock Origin are already doing anyway. And something that would already be fixed by not having the ad model in the first place.
I have a (good faith) question for you: since it seems as though many large corporations accumulate skeletons and incentivize negative behavior, is your position effectively against large corporations? Or is there a counterexample? Is this a complaint against the FB(/IG/SNAP/whatever) style feed, or do you feel this is endemic to any communication platform at scale?
I wouldn't say that in this context which is an entirely voluntary proposition.
Mathoverflow has their "long-open problems which anyone can understand". This includes things like the integer brick problem: Is there a brick where all its dimensions (width, height, breadth, face diagonals and main diagonal) are integers? And Singmaster's conjecture: How many times can a number (other than 1) appear in Pascal's triangle?

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/100265/not-especially-fam...
Interactive advertisements similar to those that already exist on snapchat/instagram
I have no doubt pretty soon these stories will be in a carousel at the top of google.com search results, just like featured snippets. And like AMP, this will bring you higher in the search results, so everyone will be making these.
Another way to keep people on Google instead instead of proceeding to the host website...

(It looks like they already do this in their mobile app)
According to Google's n-gram viewer, the answer to the question is "it hasn't happened yet": see https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the+Internet%2....
That's the role of staffers, though the rise of the lobbying industry has perverted this somewhat.

Some folks in congress are savvy about technology however, such as Wyden.