skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like there is a law against companies writing contract clauses barring you or penalizing you for writing a negative review, but I don't know if there is a law that bars companies from deleting truthful, non-libelous reviews. Seems like a basic loophole to me that should have been covered in the Consumer Review Fairness Act.

> Whether your summer plans include replacing your air conditioning, installing new flooring, or riding the range, you will probably read customer reviews to learn what people say about their experiences with a business or product. Shoppers benefit from knowing what others have to say, and the Consumer Review Fairness Act (CRFA) protects people’s ability to share their truthful experiences and opinions.

> The FTC enforces the CRFA and recently sued three businesses (and two of their owners) for violating that law. According to the FTC, the companies used form contracts that barred customers from sharing negative comments and that imposed financial penalties against customers who did so. Under proposed agreements with the FTC, the businesses — including an HVAC and electrical contractor, a flooring seller, and a company that takes people on horseback rides — will stop using, and will not enforce, those contract provisions. They will also inform people who signed the contracts that the provisions can't be enforced.

> The CRFA protects your ability to share your honest opinions about a business’s products, services, or conduct in any forum, including social media. You can publish your honest review even if you say something negative about a business or the services it performed for you. If you have a signed form contract that restricts you from sharing reviews or penalizes you for doing that, the business may not be able to enforce those restrictions. If a business tries to enforce a restriction or penalty, let the business know about the CRFA, and please report it to the FTC or your state consumer protection agency. [0]

[0] https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2019/05/your-right-post-ho...
If you can get conned into a $1000 phone, that is really entirely your problem, not Apples.

Cables? Really? I am sure you are not ordering on Amazon, because that is an environmental mess.

NFC. Complaining about a feature you got and it seems, wanted?

Jesus. Stop whining.
> moral and legal needs to censor content

I for one would love for there to be a decentralized system that by design makes it impossible to censor any content, and if the content would be stored in a decentralized, encrypted manner it would also be impossible to legally enforce it as it would not even easily be known where it would be stored at all.

Think of perhaps a network that retrieves its content viā an union-routing-esque mechanism where information is published that cannot feasibly be altered any more once put there whose origins and locations would be computationally infeasible to trace and as it's stored in an encrypted fashion the parts of the network that do store it do not even know what they are storing.
The human body is incredibly efficient. Obesity is roughly 90% diet and 10% lack of exercise. Sugar puts the body into “convert and store all this excess energy into fat, right now, because we might starve later! overdrive” and most foods in the US are packed with sugar.

Of course the sugar and processed food industries fight tooth and nail to reframe the conversation and somehow obfuscate the above.
This sounds as chaos and most likely "hard-to-solve" errors to me :)
Even in the stock market the big institutions all use a prime broker for trading access and the sales and trading desks of IBs, and they all use bank run dark pools for liquidity.
Hoping to launch in January
Floats and clearfixes everywhere
Did you seriously just link an IETF document as the basis for an argument about the law? Never mind the difference between "should" and "must", do you understand the difference between an RFC and the law?

And there is no room for ambiguity in the actual law:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%...

> Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act establishing a freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her, such as by a written statement, including by electronic means, or an oral statement. This could include ticking a box when visiting an internet website, choosing technical settings for information society services or another statement or conduct which clearly indicates in this context the data subject's acceptance of the proposed processing of his or her personal data. Silence, pre-ticked boxes or inactivity should not therefore constitute consent. Consent should cover all processing activities carried out for the same purpose or purposes. When the processing has multiple purposes, consent should be given for all of them. If the data subject's consent is to be given following a request by electronic means, the request must be clear, concise and not unnecessarily disruptive to the use of the service for which it is provided.
It also has to do with licensing around the tool itself (git(1))[0]. FreeBSD is licensed under BSD-compatible licenses, and will avoid reliance on tools that are licensed in an incompatible way. The advent of git-compatible alternatives[1] with BSD/ISC licenses make the move easier.

NB: the git format itself is not licensed, so only the tooling needs to have a "correct" license.

[0] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/COPYING is GPL2

[1] https://gameoftrees.org/
You‘re right, i didn‘t see it like this. The current state of the web (past years) feels really like in the old times: many nagging „popups“ and despite using blocking solutions you cant get rid of all of them. Wikipedia is a good example: Their yearly call to you to spend for money is using about 1/3 of your vertical screen and you cant remove it. Sadly it seems to be very effective.
I don't think air-gapped audio transmission could ever reach a fast and reliable transmission so that it allows transferring files in reasonable amount of time over reasonable transmitter-receiver distances. It's just too many hardware and physical limitations for this approach.

Having said that, I am actually working on a small library for data-over-sound which can be used for small data chunk transmissions across the room [0].

[0] https://github.com/ggerganov/ggwave
Reading the Twitter thread I wonder if people just have unrealistic expectations.

Self driving cars are a billion dollar industry, and yet you expect a game dev studio to come up with a realistic AI for drivers?

It's a game. People know that it's not real. Sure, it's fun to discover the tricks that the devs had to pull off to make it work. But man, don't blame a game dev studio that they haven't come up with an algorithm for self driving cars.
The saving grace is that it's (relatively) easy to avoid Apple's ecosystem if you don't like the way they do business (like me).

Google/Facebook is much more difficult.
Yeah, no questions about that. Just by having it properly fit you are probably beating 99% of mask wearers unfortunately.

Though even that is magnitudes better than nothing.
Well the complaint is that one-star reviews get deleted.
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How many JS developers do know, in person, that are skilled enough to write a game or any other fully fleshed out application? I am being critical because I am a JS developer and everywhere I look the criticism is well deserved.

You wouldn’t need such APIs if the developers didn’t shove so much baggage at the user. If the problem really is the result of competence then even the best APIs ever written won’t fix this.
Wow, this is a coincidence. I've been languishing as a developer for 8 years, and languishing in the existential crisis of what to do with myself for many months. This is literally all I've been thinking about today, after recently having been rejected after 6 interviews. I don't know why I continued to pursue frontend/SWE as a career despite being terminated from every position I've held in the industry and repeated burnouts. The pay increases every time, and I dodge questions about my former positions as much as possible, but of the last decade I really only have about 3.5 years (generously) of experience. If I think about it, there's never really been any clear indication that I'd be good at the job, aside from being a capable programmer. It's really sad, and I don't really know how to pivot, because I don't really know why I'm not suited to it, or why I would be to something else. When I got my last job, I joked to my family that hopefully I'll be able to bank some of the salary before I get fired in 6 months. 6 months later, and now 8 months ago, I was. Now what? That's a tough question to answer, but maybe just letting go of being a software engineer would give me the clarity to find out.
If the food and service is good what incentive is there to write a review at all? It's additional work and time for nothing. I never write positive reviews for that reason. For negative reviews it's completely opposite. So completely "honest" unedited review system would always skew very negative, because only negative reviewers have any incentive to write a review.
I think we have different memories of the web; YOU ARE THE ONE MILLIONTH VISITOR was plastered all over the 2000s Internet.
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I was bitten by this issue already two times. First time wth magic links via email. Suddenly your application depends on the mail infrastructure that sometimes is hard to "scale on demand" or even isn't under your control. Second time with OTP via SMS. Both incidents led us to be unreachable for long periods of time, and the SLA provided by our mail provider and telecom weren't really known until the incident. We assumed that everything would just work under high load.
PDF, unlike HTML, is inappropriate for most digital documents.
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A lot of products have extreme monoculture.

For another example, most ice machines for consumer use all use the exact same flawed mechanical mechanism.

Someone cut a few cents of the BOM by dropping detection of when the water tray had fully rotated, and instead the mechanism will eventually break due to repeated stress as they just run the motor a few seconds too long. For occasional use it works. For frequent use and you'll easily cause them to break in the exact same manner each time after about a year.

Models keep disappearing, presumably because too many break within the warranty period, but then new ones with slightly different exteriors and the exact same broken interior mechanism appears. This has gone on for many years.

When I last bought one it took ages to find one that used another design, hampered by lack of pictures showing the tray. Finally did find one and never buying another brand again if I can avoid it.
No complaints about the product, but not happy with Stripe's ever increasing transaction cost.
For those, like me, having trouble parsing that: the capitalization is incorrect. It should be GPs (general practitioners), not GPS (Global Positioning System)
The latter is largely due to regulatory capture, US customers being banned from Asian exchanges due to US regulations. Almost nobody outside the US actually prefers Coinbase, the fees and liquidity is just much worse. The volumes on Binance speak for itself.
I often wonder what is the total time and money wasted the last twenty years because "vertical-align: middle" on a div don't do what anyone think it would and should.

Imagine if CSS had that and nesting and variables from the start :)
I do not agree about JSON. As a format it is so trivial one can cover it with few test cases. SQL dialect that SQLite uses is vastly more complex.
>On the "we con you to buy a new $1000 phone every year by manipulating the CPU/battery so instead you paying $70 for a new battery, we skin you" they did pretty bad and I will never buy another Apple device for that.

They optimized for battery life by sacrificing some performance. That's basically what they did.

The rest is BS and media circus.

I had iPhones since 2008 and never felt compelled to "buy a new" every year, just because there was tiny percentage perf drop.

For one, the drop in battery (and thus perf tradeoff) happens after 3 or more years of use, not after the first year.

Apple is the only company that supports old phone models with new releases for as long, and the company with the best resale value.

So, don't buy into the media/ambulance chasers hoopla...

>On the "we force you to buy our OWN UNIQUE cables because f... the global standards and nature" they are still doing pretty bad

Most people already have 2-4 cables at home. Why include new ones if they don't need them? Just to churn out more plastic? Or is it a problem that in your $600 to $1200 purchase also needs to factor in a $20 cable if you don't already have one?

Environmentally speaking I'd force companies to mimick this: (a) use standard chargers and cables, (b) do not provide them in the box. People that already have several don't need them, people who don't can buy a standalone one (even third party for cheaper). The Lighting cable is not a standard (i'd force Apple to move to USB-C), but it's ubiquitous enough (it's not some obscure, per-device cable, like we had in days of yore).

>On the "you can only buy (iOS) apps from us and nobody else, yeah!" I don't find that so good either.

I do. I wouldn't want to be forced to use the Google store for certain apps, the Facebook store for other apps, random third party stores with shady malware apps imposed upon the less savvy users, and so on...

I buy iPhones because of the integration. Go get a Librem phone for the "ultimate" open experience...
Link to actual page: https://www.playstation.com/cyberpunk-2077-refunds/
maybe adding googlebot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25464280#25465039
I keep reading the worst about cyberpunk on hn but when my soulmate played it (on pc) they really enjoyed it and only stumbled upon very few bugs. As for seizures apparently it had a warning at the start about them.
When it comes to publishing, it doesn't matter where you publish, only that you can put your words out there. If someone has a web browser they can read what you say. The only thing that suffers is engagement, which you'll have a hard time getting regardless what website you use to publish if you're just starting out. But engagement is either meaningful or noise, and meaningful engagement comes from thoughtful words, not the size of the website.

So don't worry about critical mass. Pick where you want to publish based on what is important to you.

I almost exclusively use FOSS, federated networks to publish my thoughts, the only exception being this site. I engage here pretty often because I like the quality of the discussion and the rule of only contributing if you have something constructive to contribute, but ideally this website wouldn't be a silo.
These assays are very skewed toward producing false positives.

Exactly for this reason.

It's not perfect. PCR can miss the early stages of the infection too.

These are just signals.

Luckily we know that viral load is the factor for transmission rate (infectiousness). So even if someone is (false) negative, but has symptoms, should self-quarantine.
What happened to single-file HTLM formats ?

There's EPUB, but it has some shortcomings, like the lack of mp4/webm support...
If they don't Microsoft will, with Edge - they've already shown willingness to give it more privacy options than Chrome, and they can go further if it gives them more of an, uh, edge.

It's interesting that Apple and Microsoft are the original PC gang and they seem to be making a resurgence (just missing IBM) against the web upstarts.

I don't think anyone has any illusions about their motives being pure, but there is something more clear cut about "sell me useful hardware and software, I give you money in return" as at least a part of the relationship, compared with Facebook/Google where the value exchanged is my attention/eyeballs to advertisers..
Good. Software performance should be held in much higher regard.
hundreds of millions of iPhone users in the world are definitely bothered by the "walled garden", so much, they keeping buying new iPhone models.
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Twitter got popular because early adopters used it, then celebrities, then Oprah and then media journalists and then Arab Spring and then news journalists and then early adopters left.
I've heard that it's common to use the phrase "fish and chips" to distinguish between Australians and New Zealanders.
Consumers care about "privacy" so products are getting privacy-washed
What is everything that I need to know before starting a business?
Parler is a no go for me partly because I don't like ideological monoculture, but mainly because users have to have an account to even see what you say. IMO this makes it worse than Twitter, you shouldn't publish your thoughts somewhere with conditions on who can see what you say.

I've never used Minds and dabbled with Gab when it first came online only to find that it is as noisy and worthless a place to engage as Twitter is, possibly moreso.
"It’s a no brainer that the search engine giant will be compelled to bring a similar anti-ad tracking feature on Android to keep the mobile ecosystem in sync."

Is this a no-brainer? I don't know the intricacies of the industry well enough, but seems this is a clincher...
I think there's a tangent here for wardrobe and set design too.

They probably don't want it to look accurate, but either to look like what we felt it looked like then through nostalgia, or how we wish it looked like then, depending on what type of media you're making. You always want a lens over what you're showing, in the feel of what you're making.
I don't get the folks who expect, exactly from this studio, to have perfect bug-less game on Day-1. I mean, how far detached from reality and clueless about games in general must you be? There are very few studios who can produce such quality prior to release (ie last Zelda), but I guess they are not under such pressure to release on many platforms in parallel just before christmas.

It will be an amazing game once the patches progresses, and if you are tolerant I am sure it already is. I would expect decent in 2 months, great in 6 months, awesome in 1-2 years (unofficial patches/modding including). Just like many other open world games.

Personally, I'll wait for those 2 months at least, also due to getting better/smoother performance out of my current PC rig. I have no doubt its a game I will enjoy tremendously, again and again, it fits my preferred style very much.
Classified networks are typically air gapped.[1] Doubtful that hackers obtained anything useful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gap_(networking)
Are they using seeds ? ;)
Ah of course, all niche communities have existed for 16 years...

Your example of rockbox forum seems disingenuous because I assume they're not recommending you buy particular products (maybe recommending some particular mp3 players that the cfw works well on, but I think they try to target a wide range of players).

> Ads on the other hand you can trust to lie to you 100% of the time.

Exactly my point. You know exactly what you're getting and what their incentive is.

Well actually, maybe not exactly my point - it's pretty clear to me that ads do not "lie to you 100% of the time". Some ads are going to exaggerate the quality of their products etc., but some ads literally just inform you "this is a thing that is available", which is typically an easily provable claim.

But the point is that yes, with ads you know that it's being paid for by the people who have a direct financial interest in you buying the thing. You can make an informed decision.
They're not just diffs indeed, they have a bit more information, see an example there:

https://nest.pijul.com/pijul/pijul/changes/XTMYHJZLWWT5I2PJA...

First, there are explicit dependencies, and also each section starts with a somewhat cryptic machine-readable description, for example:

B:BD[2.1195] → [2.1195:1291]

One of the challenges in the new version of Pijul was to find a description that was printable in text, and not too-unintelligible to humans.

Darcs isn't alpha, but merges patches in exponential time, which was the initial motivation for Pijul.
> (No idea about git.)

Quoth wikipedia[1]:

> "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#Naming
Their share price is down nearly 15-16% on open. Must be absolutely terrifying for them. I hope their management's ego recovers well.
Is it really useful if many / most people will need to look it up in a dictionary?
> Namely, the relative lack of pre-baking and lighting "tricks."

Possibly this explains the issues on ps4/xb1 hardware. If cp2077 were designed for the new generation of GPUs where those tricks are unnecessary, it clearly wouldn't backport well onto hardware that requires those tricks.
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Is there any tricks I can use to beat a time of 5-7s for an API that takes parameters and gathers elements from a set of webpages in parallel?
Recent iPhones getting twice as many years of software support after the sale is also a big factor.

The original iPhone SE and iPhone 6s are both on their sixth year of support.

The iPhone 5s got a security update a couple of days ago, after it's own six years of support had ended.
This topic has been explored since the advent of photography and cinema. When advances in technology allowed to produce indistinguishable copies.

"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935), by Walter Benjamin [1] is a good starting point on this topic. He was the first to ask what actually constitutes a work of art, if you can cheaply mass produce copies of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_...
The SQLite website is a little more positive than that, but as a "quite a bit in the future" option, rather than something that can happen today:

> All that said, it is possible that SQLite might one day be recoded in Rust. Recoding SQLite in Go is unlikely since Go hates assert(). But Rust is a possibility.

https://sqlite.org/whyc.html
Some people will. A lot of people don't know about online privacy or simply don't care. Also Apple phones are expensive.
You can use one subscription for however many sites you want (well,they use a drop-down to select site, so might not scale to huge numbers), and the pageview count applies to the total, so if you're the one who need the stats for all the sites, it can still work quite well.

But I agree, it'd be nice with a smaller option.
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I am really fond of your vocabulary.
There's a difference between resisting and wondering if there's some evidence to look at. I mean if I was a sophisticated attacker (and this attack looks sophisticated enough at first glance) it would be my first idea to make it look like the attack is coming from Russia or China to cover my tracks.
In return for more effective ads.
Not to be rude, but do you have any problems at work? Like communication or interpersonal? Surely there has to be some reason given when fired, or you can at least guess why.