skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will always be a cat and mouse game, although you would think Apple could have done better here.

Perhaps a more effective solution would be for Apple to aggressively legally pursue bad actors like the group that churns out these apps. Make them hurt financially as an example to the next people who might entertain similar ideas.

If Apple doesn’t start handling this better, eventually there will only be bad/fake apps on the store. Real developers will widely choose not to play the losing game.
Practical Use of the Monad Abstraction
Yea, something in return like speaking and a Q&A.
Nothing wrong with RSS! Podcasts are primary served through it too!
Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s Technocratic Despotism
"How, exactly, would government agents manipulate these groups of citizens? Sunstein and Vermeule’s answer: They would draw on the latest work in cognitive psychology and sociology. Social science could exploit certain mental and social mechanisms to make available a vast new form of power. Such action was ethically justified by the consequentialism common to technocratic thinkers: In this view, a morally responsible political actor was one who was willing to manipulate a population on the basis of his mastery of the complex methods and theories allowing for quantified risk assessment."
Since neither Amazon or Netflix allow you to pay cash, the transaction settles much later. You get the appearance of immediate settlement, not unlike the stock market in normal conditions.

I'd assume if one were to check out from Amazon with say several millions of dollars of goods, there would be some phone calls being done in the back offices.
> This was totally unsolicited and it blew my mind.

That is small time customer service. Even Costco and Nordstrom’s and Trader Joe’s do it.

But the big time stuff, like Amazon providing retail products via a trusted supply chain, are where they screw you. It’s a low margin business, and Amazon wants as little to do with it as possible. So they removed the filter for showing only items shipped and sold by Amazon.com years ago, and they commingle inventory, so you have no idea of the supply chain of your product. Could be coming from some random product by some third party seller. Who knows?

Obviously, Amazon wants that 15% top line revenue from being a platform rather than the 2% to 5% they get from sourcing and selling retail products. That doesn’t align with my interests as a consumer.
This is a problem. Haven lets you share magic login links with people if you don't want to give them an email/password combination.
There's tons of stuff i do as a product manager that neither tech nor ux will do:

* Finding new customer needs that are not yet covered by the product (new products, so not existing product),

* determining how a product might address that need,

* determining the alternatives, competing products, customers may choose,

* the (financial) risk of not addressing the need,

* the business case of creating a new team to implement this need product/capability,

* the pricing of said new product,

* determining what the key product features of the competition are that we need to address to be able to win deals when in competition,

* and what features are relevant according to gartner, to ensure we're part of the short-list of potential customers

* determine how to prioritize product releases and features to ensure we can win markets (think crossing the chasm).

* ...
Just pointing out typo on "hosting" page

"possible for all peoeple"
Why are long-pants long?
Back in Russia, my family knew all our neighbours, now in Uk i have no idea who lives left or right of me.

Perhaps thats related to the phenomena that although crime rate has gone down fear of crime and kidnappings has gone up.
No amount of sunlight on the issue seems to make a difference here. No expert on the issue, but there doesn't seem to be any outside leverage that would outweigh whatever benefit China gets from the forced labor and oppression.
Even then it's better than nothing. If every company used different salt, rainbow tables would have to be completely regenerated for each company.

(This is still awful, because then two users with the same password would have the same digest. If you know that joe@example.com has password "badpass", and jane@example.com has the same hashed password, then hers is also "badpass". So use randomly per-user salts, gang! Even better, pick a tested implementation of PBKDF2 or Argon2 and use that implementation. Don't roll your own crypto!)

But still, it's better than nothing.
>But cmon, there are highly upvoted posts in this thread speculating all video games are digital only within 5 years. Do you believe that?

No, but simply because the console lifecycle is longer than 5 years and physical games can't die with the PS5 and Xbox SX around.

However, PC games are absolutely digital only already. Even if you buy a swanky collector's edition of a game, you don't get the game in the box. There's just a piece of paper with a download code. And unfortunately Sony and Microsoft have an incentive to kill physical games since they can get more of the profits if everyone just buys from their stores.
I wonder if people realize that any time a decision is made between option A and B, unless it is a completely random choice using a stochastic number generator, discrimination is being used.

That’s how choices are made.
Even more taking into account that the true value of their information is not the one they are going to share publicly...
Yeah it's a problem they don't need to have. A few oathy entrances would help. "Login with Google" "Login with facebook" "Login with outlook", etc. If the user's added foo@gmail.com, it's fair to let foo@ to log in with the same identifier.
Software Development Company by Analogy
Shape shifting lizard people, Israelite slaves, and other theories (2008)
Actually that was very normal for a new Internet user of the time. In the early 90's there was no web as far as the public was concerned so Yahoo (1994)/Altavista (1995)/Infoseek (1994) did not exist yet. For users of the pre-1993/1994 Internet, to use it you had to learn a hodge-podge of protocols and software including UUCP, gopher, FTP, telnet, NNTP etc. since that was the Internet back then. It wasn't until online services like AOL started providing web gateways (1995/6?) when 'normal' people really started flooding onto the 'net and it took a few years longer before there were useful web frontends for the majority of services.
I don't get it. If you want the same privileges that Billionaires have then you should work on becoming a billionaire not complaining because nothing will change.

It doesn't make sense for Billionaires to be taxed as it would lead to poor capital distribution in the economy.

I'm all for philanthropy but there is also no law that says Billionaires should give just because they are a Billionaire.
So actually, my gripe is that Plex refuses to show the content at all. I'm looking at Fix Match and it looks it's for incorrect matches, not content it refuses to index.

I recognize the perils of asking for the moon and stars from free software. The issue is, they chose to make it insanely featureful at the expense of Just Working :)

I'm not afraid of work; I've spent days across local and containerized solutions for downloading, proxying, and outputting. It's possible to rename files in my download software, I estimate it at about 1h additional effort. However, the content I most often download is not yet available, so I'm not investing the time in generating those rules. So far I've been just playing with content that doesn't justify the time investment in creating rules. For example, often this content is uploaded by different people in different file formats. There's no one renaming catchall until you know specifically which sets you want to use.

I never asked for automatic categorization or metadata retrieval or album art or IMDB links, but it's forced on you by Plex :)
Do you have any evidence or is this pure speculation? There are fewer treasury securities and fed chairs than there are CEOs of major financial institution. If they were really bribed, I'd expect the bribes to be much bigger.
It is certainly true that Racket has a ridiculously low number of books on it that aren't textbooks. It's a real pity. I like Racket a lot, but there is so little focus on use outside of academia that I don't hold my breath on it becoming a production appropriate tool for typical business software.
Yes and that's why the short interest is still high.. they took more cash to short when it was at 450 / 300. Basic hedging
On the one hand $700k is more than a lifetime of savings for many. On the other hand I sometimes get surprised by how cheap the most influential politicians in the world are. I guess this sort of thing is regular enough so it adds up?!
>"There's a long road between the lab and production"

Very well put, and often overlooked. As is the road to actual viable commercialization.
Maybe banks & brokers could add an extra delay. I'm kind surprised how you can be so passionate about 2 day settlement though, does it really affect your life so much? I can't see how it really helps the financial industry.
There is no software that is not laden with ideology. That ideology is either free software or proprietary software (or some variants of either).

Your comment is like when people say they don't want to 'politicize' a discussion, by which they mean they are comfortable with the status quo politicization.
People now expect them to cancel, abandone, or otherwise fuck up any product they announce.

Certainly true for me. They could release the most amazing new thing tomorrow and I'd wait 6 months to see if it's actually going to go anywhere. That's branding and their brand, while not bad, is certainly not "dependable."
People are bored and trapped at home. It isn't that surprising that day trading as a hobby has picked up a little.

A market correction wouldn't be that surprising in general, but keep in mind a bubble and a correction aren't the same thing. Plus, and maybe more importantly, even know a correction could occur without knowing when isn't actually actionable information (could be tomorrow, next year, or three years from now, and you would lose money if you react at the wrong time).

So people saying we're in a bubble/correction is due, what action would you have people take? If the answer is "nothing" or "I don't know" then what good is that?
...according to a SEC filing in september 2020. Not exactly the up to date information.
Footer still shows 2020 as a copyright date, too. Not that it really matters - but i've always thought it was kinda funny when people just don't use a static start year with a dynamic {{ now.year }} so it is always up-to-date.
Many HN threads and articles (including this one) about Jeff Bezos link to interviews or speeches where he tells the primary reason he chose books as the first articles Amazon sold: because you could not build a physical book store offering millions of books.

I don't fully understand that reason. It was trivial to get one of the millions of books not in stock at a book store even before Amazon. You could just ask for it, or call them, and they would order it. You could usually pick it up the next day. After all, they were using exactly the same infrastructure to order the books as Amazon. So basically any half-decent bookstore was offering millions of books decades before Amazon did, and any half-decent bookstore would also do home delivery.
Movim sits on top of XMPP, which handles a lot of these already https://movim.eu/

It's also federated, so people not using your instance can still interact from where they are
Why don’t people point out how terrible screen readers are then, instead of criticizing people posting online who cannot be reasonably expected to stay up to date with Unicode and screen reader functionality?
Well, for video conferencing etc. what we have is fine. But, for test/exam proctoring/invigilating software, oh god... have we forgotten what happened and how students were treated? This needs to be fixed!
> Once automated/easy/rapid sample prep comes, there will be mass adoption in the space.

Sounds like Elon calling biology a “software problem”.

Not saying that you’re wrong, just saying that the computational folk tend to discount the challenges and skills required in the wet lab.
There’s a paper trail regardless.

It’s not similar if the person in power enacts laws that directly benefit the person who paid for the speech.

Association with fame has relatively small value.
> most homicide is domestic

This doesn't seem to be true. According to Wikipedia, there were 2340 domestic homicides in 2007.[1] There were 18,361 homicides that year.[2] So <13% of homicides were domestic. You may have read a statistic that most women killed in homicides are killed by romantic partners - but this is not true of men, who are the overwhelming majority of homicide victims.

Even if the rate of domestic homicides doubled it would mean only a 13% increase in the overall homicide rate, far less than what we've actually observed.

> people were home more and under a lot of stress.

This explanation does not seem to fit with the social mobility data presented. The pandemic struck in March, people were staying home far more in March/April/May than in June - but homicides did not rise until June. Why?

> An increase in murder can just mean the same number of people shooting each other as normal, but more of them died.

It could mean that. But no: shootings and shooting victims increased dramatically right along with murders:

- in Chicago: https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-2020-shooting-crim...

- in NYC: https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-homicides-and-sho...

- in Portland: https://www.koin.com/news/crime/shootings-in-portland-more-t...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence_in_the_Unite...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6203a28.htm?s_ci...
Ask HN: Differences between Berlin tech/startup culture and NYC culture?
I had a bad freelance experience at a startup where we agreed on fulltime work & hourly rate. I worked normally, some days working late on features into the evening, some days wrapping up early. After a month I invoiced for ~38 hours per week & the founder who was also my manager literally threw a tantrum saying that my invoice was "immoral" and that I "should only bill for productive hours." I don't know what he means by that, as I was working full time, sometimes with him side-by-side or clearly committing code at 8pm, 9pm etc. I left that role because of the founder's lack of professionalism.

My next experience with a Berlin startup we agreed to a full time role. I got great feedback from them for 6 months, they said the app looks good & is fast, we didn't go live but they showed investors in meetings and we were in good shape. They said things were great and they were happy with my first hire to the dev team. Then just before my 6 month probation as "Director of Engineering" was up, they abruptly hired a CTO above me, kept me for an additional week of onboarding the new CTO while dodging my questions of "how does the new team hierarchy work?", and then fired me. All without ever giving me anything but glowing feedback (this is the short story, leaving out a few promises made by them and not lived up to). It felt like I was being used as a 6 month freelancer.

Before I moved to Berlin I heard that there's better work life balance here, more vacation, etc. Though lower pay. In my experience the people I've worked for have seen their employees as disposable. Or had a general lower level of respect for dev contributions to the team and less professionalism than I experienced in NYC.

In NYC I got accustomed to a culture where if a company has a developer that is productive and professional that person is a valuable asset to keep around.

Is that not true in Berlin? Is the culture different? Or have I had a couple weird bad luck experiences?
I would say the fraud protection from T+2 is very minimal and there are better ways to implement reversible transactions. Nearly all of the large banks have their own instant payment methods to send cash to friends. If you receive alerts on withdrawals & transfers those happen nearly instantly so if you are going to notice a suspicious transaction it will either be the same day or at the end of the month when people log in to their bank account. Plus, you have to hope that the bank/etc. is going to actually use the T+2 delay to your advantage.

A fairly easy way to add fraud protection would be to have T-0 or instant settlement only for previously used accounts/routing numbers. A lot of services already implement this on their end such that new bank accounts take a few days or a week to transfer but future transfers appear instant or within a day. Other options include allowing the first $X-thousand to be instant and the rest settles in T+2. This is pretty common if you get automatic deposits over a certain amount or use a phone check scanning feature.

I guess my point is that a lot of edge services (services that people interact with) already cover the T+2 delay in their own manner but that leads to confusion when some middle service provider decides to change the rules. Making the system itself adopt those strategies would just distribute the risk not increase it.
It does really damage both consumer and developer trust to not staff this problem more. At the core of Apple's marketing is trust... trust us to build a better device, trust us with your information, trust us to stand up to the data-hoovering tech giants...

If Apple can't stop gaming of reviews, malicious apps, developers getting hurt then they fail on this. I really don't want to see the App Store go the way of Amazon listings in terms of reviews, but it really is starting to get hard to defend.
What I particularly like about rss feeds, is that I can keep up with anything whatsoever, It is perfect for any serialized content, what I find important is not the notifications, that is just a side effect. But about choosing what to stay up to date with. you have control over the content you consume, when you want it. The same way you'd use a bookmark in books.

I've also recently switch my rss feed client into just my email client, installing rss2email, throwing all the content to email, means I can use any phone whatsoever and have exactly the same content.
I think it's you that is lacking nuance, no offence. For instance: the climate crisis is one of the most serious issues we will have to face in the following decades. Yet, millions of delivery vans every day will depart half-empty rather than wait to be full in order to deliver funko pops in 2 days instead of 3 (yes, I realise the hyperbole). Emissions may be 40% greater because of this, according to one analysis. And because externalities like these aren't properly accounted for, some people can get fabulously rich off the price that will be paid for us all, in illnesses, deaths, and price (with heavy "interest") that we'll all have to pay later to clean up their mess. Also, I'm pessimist that they will never be properly accounted for, since the people acquiring huge sums of money with this state of affairs also acquire with it huge power to kill any meaningful reform or progress that would endanger their cash cow.
Oddly one-sided partisan whataboutism aside, this is a sitting official right now. Entirely different level of stink.
I'm picking the year 2015 because you're clearly talking about the past in your statement, so bear in mind the numbers change over time.

In order to hit 8% (8.82%) in NYS in 2015, you needed to make a little over a million dollars a year (single) or 2 million (joint).

The next lowest is 6.85%, for 212k single, 318k joint.

For federal to hit 35%, you need to make 411k (single or joint.. which makes no sense).

So your numbers more or less stand up to scrutiny for marginal income, but I would guess not even close to that for effective tax rate. I don't think it's fair to present your marginal tax rate as "your tax rate" in a discussion about how much of your income you get to keep. That's even more so when it's before you account for deductions.
My point is that if Amazon e.g. directly integrated with any one of those solutions you'd enter an adversarial scenario, and all of the scammers would try (and almost definitely succeed, even if just by brute force chasing false negatives) in finding a way around it.

The same would happen if e.g. half of Amazon customers would use one of these solutions.

The difference between being online versus being in an adversarial scenario largely depends on how / to what degree you're visibly impacting the bottom line of the scammers.
Yes, short attacks are complete gibberish and never existed before the past week. Just a conspiracy by the poors and those dirty people without our shiny degrees.

Let me google that for you. OMFG, what's this 2014 article that details how this works?

https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/11442671-gerald-klein/309...
As far as I can tell, because RSS requires the cooperation of actors who have no incentive to cooperate. If I use an RSS reader to support content, then it is under my control when I read it, if I read it, and what format to read it under. I can view the content however I'd like, and no tracking is there.

All of these are unambiguously good things for me, and are anathema for the advertising industry. I cannot use RSS to read a site unless that site provides an RSS feed. Sites whose primary goal is to bring in ad revenue, rather than building a community, have no incentive to provide RSS feeds.
I agree except for the prohibition on other sources of income. I do want some of these people to write memoirs for example. The exact amount is something that needs careful consideration as well, more is not always better. At $10M a year you’ll end up with a “rest-and-vest” congress full of checked out do-nothings (granted some people prefer that).
Imagine getting punished by a robber for trying to evade getting robbed by him. That is basically what happens with "tax evasion". And the IRS are the robbers.
https://github.com/AppsFlyer/donkey
I'm sorry, but you seems to be void of any refutation of my logic.

you iterated some famous people who are supportive of WSB, but... so what? Are they 'the wise ones of the stock market'? Are they financially supporting financial damage-takers?

They're just famous people, and that's all.

I agree that making a more level playing field is good. But that should be done by congress and law makers, not by burning gullible people's money.
I have thought for a while now that Lobbying[1] is legitimized corruption

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying
So, they're YouTube circa 2007?
> You could just ask for it at the next book store, or call them, and they would order it

Going to the store in person? Or calling them on the phone??? It's not 1874 anymore, nobody wants to do either of those things.
If the website is still accessible, it's possible to generate an RSS feed using the main page URL. I work on a project called Feed Creator that does this. You give it the page URL and the item selectors: http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/
You're probably right, but so what? You can rail against past injustice but nothing you can do will make nuclear power a rational choice in 2021 or beyond. Solar power is cheaper than just the steam turbine in a nuclear plant.
I feel that Season 5 works a lot better if are a book reader. I totally get why the shift away from the gates is a bit confusing.

The Expanse was never a planet-of-the-week show. Exploring the impact of the new planets on the solar system and its people is also important.

One thing I'm a bit disappointed is the fact that they drop part of Mars storyline.