skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>How is it not illegal for the platform to force the use of their own payment service? Isn't this classic misuse of a monopoly?
>It is not a monopoly a per law definition across most jurisdictions.

It's not so relevant whether the stores are a monopoly or not. They're doing anticompetitive behaviour and misuse of market power, that's illegal regardless.
Notify them of what, exactly?
Thanks for the warning about this. I was already disappointed in the direction 1Password has been taking, and moving to Electron would certainly be the last straw. It’s totally reasonable that they want to cheap out on the actual software and expand their business into more lucrative services, but it’s not what I personally want in a password manager. So hopefully someone else, maybe a lone develop that doesn’t need perpetual growth, will make a good, standalone, native Mac password manager.

Keychain itself is getting better and more fleshed out UX, but it’s still not flexible enough to trust for everything unfortunately.
>If you are a developer today learning VS Code is a better investment than learning Emacs.

That is something which only time will show. Over the course of my life I've seen several hyped editors and IDE come and completely vanish: TextMate, Sublime, Atom, Eclipse, Netbeans. I have zero confidence that VSCode will still be hot in 10 years, especially given their poor choice of technology to write VSCode in and that MS is the sole driver of the project and can do or throw it out as it pleases.

A new developer is of course free to choose any tool, but in my experience every editor knowledge which is not vim or emacs can be treated as disposable, since it will not pay off in the long term. Thus, I would treat VSCode the same way as an IDE: use it for things which work out of the box and avoid investing time in any kind of fine-tuning. But certainly, if the experience out of the box is sufficient to solve problems, why not use it? An editor is not a religion and more than one or two can be used simultaneously. My "glue" for different editors are vim-keybindings. I use them in Emacs, IDEA and used them in VSCode, when I still had an usecase for it.
Tor browser has solved 100% of my ‘browsing the internet’ issues.

From Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube to newspapers, blogs and podcasts, if it’s not Tor friendly I simply skip it.

Haven’t had any regrets for years.
To stay within the food sphere, how about "kapsalon"[0] in Poland? Popular fast food created in the Netherlands in 2003. "kapsalon" is Dutch for "hairdressing salon". Etymologically, it can be tracked to a man who always asked for "the usual for the hair dresser".

Polish workers took the name home and it's now not an uncommon sight in Poland [1], amongst other places.

P.S. Don't eat it. It is disgustingly fat and unhealthy...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapsalon
[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=kapsalon+site%3A.pl
You're thinking of coal. There was a 60 million year period between the evolution of lignin (the key ingredient of wood, which allows plants to grow very tall) and the evolution of fungi which could break it down - so dead wood just stacked up, higher and higher. We call that period the Carboniferous, and almost all coal comes from then.
If you are happy as you are and don’t want to lose weight, why would you be eating less in the first place much less running into psychological problems preventing you from doing so?

If the part I don’t understand is that there is no such thing as being overweight and happy, and people who feel that way have psychological defects, then it’s not that I don’t understand your point but I do disagree.
I remember I used to get the pasta all the time and then the last time I went back to Japan I tried it again and it was one of those "why did I ever like this?" moments. May of the options at the convenience store aren't bad but "top-notch" is a little absurd.
LinkedIn challenger Polywork nets $13m from A16z, Collisons and more
This doc from the NYT mentions the whales. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlnfiULnmMY
I have blocked the popup and I block third parties requests and I have only two cookies at the moment :

ao_cookies_ok:0
eu_origin:1

So it's not ok (the irremovable popup), but it could be worse.
Hydro is far from green. Dams flood forest, which no longer absorbs co2 and further rots into methane.
The “child” would be alerted and given a chance to not send the objectionable content prior to alerting anyone else. Did you read how it work?

Also, a father would only land in a national registry of their child’s photos are known to be CSAM. Simply taking a photo of your child wouldn’t trigger it.
>Netflix and Office 365 you buy a subscription and then you simply use the app on a multitude of devices.

Fortnite appears to offer a subscription. What would've stopped them from doing that when the game was still available on the app stores?
Sheesh that abuse of powers of ten notation. Is this common?
Alternative app stores can finally do automatic updates with Android 12: https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-alternative-app-st...

I don't know the details, but I imagine this is pre-emptive move from Google to avoid monopoly judgements.
Old content (this is from 1992) should have a year in the title. This is a summary of Fortran 77. The latest standard is Fortran 2018, and Fortran 202x is being worked on. Some features of Fortran 2018 have been implemented in compilers.

For current information on Fortran one should visit https://fortran-lang.org/ .
... or even better, infrared telescope. (Both, really, at once.) With the mirrors separated from the focus by miles, they could be simple optically flat surfaces, as many as you like; and so far apart, the resolution would be unmatchable. It would probably be most useful for deep-field imaging, because to can't point it; you rely on it happening to point at something interesting, which likely means stars in galaxies very far away.
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A comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility
The University of East Anglia built a green building which won a large government grant. All electricity was to be provided by biomass, using a biomass plant which cost £10m. Unfortunately the biomass converter didn't work. Instead, every week a truck would pull up and deliver natural gas to the generator....

"...students and staff told the Guardian that the plant’s wood storage area is now being used to store Christmas decorations."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/03/uea-aban...

"Once the decision was taken, the estates team appear to have been driven by a need to meet a timescale to qualify for a DEFRA grant.

The estates team seem to have struggled to find a proven technology at scale, but were introduced to Refgas, who convinced them that their design would work.

With time pressing and due diligence on Refgas incomplete, the standard procurement and contracting processes were bypassed."

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/confidential-report-reveals-str...
I had the exact same experience. I don’t want to care about the app UI etc but when you use a password manager as often as you do it really matters. Not to mention selling the idea to less tech-savvy family members, it really does have to be as simple as can be.
Ok interesting, but I still wonder if that’s really analogous to choosing to eat less food?

That the person who did it has their own Wikipedia page makes me think it is probably harder.
Monopolistic behavior in markets where you have limited market power is just shooting yourself in the foot.

I didnt even realize symbian HAD an app store.
Lomborg is not a credible source for anything. Those pictures are basically lies packaged up to look legit.
I'm very happy to use green technologies when they're equivalent or better than the classic technology they replace.

Low power bulbs were one example of this, some models taking minutes to reach full brightness, nowadays led bulbs do well, I gladly use them.

Smart cooling in some office buildings do stupid crap like allow you only plus or minus two degrees of freedom on the placebo thermostat, or disable the air conditioning of the entire open space as soon as a small window is opened (of which the space had 20, so it was inevitable). Supposedly the system cooled the walls rather than circulated air... Summer sweat doesn't go away fast. But it's okay, the building's efficient and green on paper.
Other meta stylesheet stuff:

The maximum font-size of 26.666px is extremely large as well. (I’d say never ever go past 24px for body type, and even 20px is pushing it.) But in reducing that, you’d certainly want to increase the max-width from its extremely narrow 28em, and possibly bump the line-height a bit. (On the other end, the 14.666px cap at 320px is a little on the small side.)

And as configured, the superscript footnote references mess up the line-height too, producing a very jarring effect. `.footnote-reference { line-height: 0 }` is a very simple way of roughly fixing it, though I’d probably want to tweak the vertical-align and font-size too (or even instead).
I think a tax should be added to discourage the behavior and the money put toward cleanup (CO2 reduction) in order to remove the risk of further damages. I don’t think much of the clean tech spending is speculative at this point.

I’m not as worried about us getting it wrong because I think we are already well wide of the mark and have plenty of opportunities for improvement. We’ve continued down the cheap and easy route of fossil fuel extraction and haven’t been looking to make the seemingly more painful choices. It’s not too hard to imagine how we could ween off a good quantity of fossil fuels.

One could justify the spent tax money with high expected CO2 reduction choices. This would, in my view, gets us to a better outcome faster.

Here’s my opinion on a some of the consumer side products that can help today. The tax money could go towards credits for purchase of products like 30-50% off EV, solar, battery, insulation purchases. Government side decisions like replacing coal plants are also high expected CO2 removal projects.

We might ramp up more speculative tech based on the needs (e.g. carbon capture and power to gas).

Hope that helps explain where I’m coming from. With any luck we have more margin for error, though I’m not wanting to count on it.
> and my users asked for more performance yesterday (and the year before, and the year before that too, and likely the decade before that too).

That made me think of the traditional response of throwing bigger and faster computers at a problem. The thing is, much of the performance of those bigger and faster computers comes from architectural optimizations that can only be fully exploited if the program takes advantage of them. In some cases, putting the code through an optimizing compiler may be enough. In other cases, the program needs to be explicitly designed to take advantage of those optimizations. (The cache is an okay example of this. There was a time when caches did not exist. The introduction of caches would have sped up some programs more than others, depending upon the program's design.)
During some periods Bronze in much of Laos and far northern Thailand was at least partly alloyed with tin from Gejiu in Yunnan to the north.

In terms of logistics: geologically, most tin in northern Thailand / southern Laos is much further west along the Myanmar border or in deep mountains on the Laos/Vietnamese border which (either requiring a long overland journey or an upriver trip toward Ban Chiang / Vientiane) is a lot harder to access than just floating down the Mekong from Yunnan.

In terms of supporting archaeology: Dong Son bronze drums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dong_Son_bronze_drums.JPG Note the density of findings directly downstream of Gejiu in the Red River valley which flows to Co Loa / modern Hanoi.
Suppose google's chrome started charging websites 30% of their revenue to be accessible in their browser. Is this an abuse of monopoly? Yes.

The issue is HNer's are still living in the "website era" of the internet -- that's ending. We're now in the app era. And devices are the browsers.

Their app stores are monopolies on their devices; in that the person who controls the road is a monopolist, despite the existence of air travel.

That android devices compete with ios devices is irrelevant, in as much as comcast/et al. can say, "go to a different state". The app store is an iOS monopoly -- the hardware apple provides is a road/telephone/browser device for access apps -- the new predominant mode of social/economic communication & infrastructure.
obligatory re. quadratic https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...
Cui bono? Perhaps there are political motives?
We have the americana all over central Texas; the stalks that grow here are more like vertical rope, smell like death & are green/brown all the way through. They’re also segmented & don’t get nearly fat enough as shown.
From their website “No one will ever find your website.”

Seems like a strange thing to claim on the record.
Not sure what kind of audience they’re targeting.
https://www.savills.co.uk/insight-and-opinion/savills-news/2...

that's results at a glance: all residential real estate made it's owners 2743B pounds in 10 years, or about 15% of the GDP in the same period.
Wow, shocked to hear this !
mmm why? not really. stocks have been giving on average same returns - a bit shy of 10% before taxes - since inception. and proportion of earned income stays more or less the same.
Ah, excellent, just wanted to make sure there wasn't some magical insight i was missing out on by not being familiar with emacs.

re: clicking/squinting/dragging/animations those i would usually handle by things like keyboard shortcuts, configuring your global search to list tabs first, configuring animation.

I think what is more interesting is the idea to use the same buffers/windows for non-text-files. So, the first half is the idea of having all your tooling be text-based. There's some slider along, text driven by keyboard => gui driven by keyboard => gui driven by mouse. And then the second half of the idea seems to be how you separate text-editing/config/applications. So maybe along that slider, emacs mixes all sources / IDE groups sources within an application / separate applications for each source.

Maybe pushing everything to one edge of the slider is able to put one in a zen-like state. I guess for now I just try to find a sweet spot with my tools, where stuff i want to do fast i can do fast, and everything else is ok as is.
Agree, I have been using it for years. It has a nice, non-browser based client on all platforms including Linux.
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> Are children born today likely to spend most of their waking hours looking through VR goggles?

We estimate at least 150 million children engaged in child labour, an increase of 5% in 5 years. About 1 in 10 of all children worldwide.

About half the world’s population lacked safely managed sanitation services in 2020.

“One in five children globally does not have enough water to meet their everyday needs” – UNICEF
OTOH, by the time the Death Star arrives at Yavin, the Rebel civilisation will have collapsed a couple times and won’t even remember why they even got there in the first place.
Doesn't need to be a monopoly, could simply be case of illegal price fixing because all big players took 30%
I think you are biased, and falling to the age-old "young/old people bad" where young/old is picked on which one you are not

Commodari E, Guarnera M. Attention and aging. Aging Clin Exp Res. 2008 Dec;20(6):578-84. doi: 10.1007/BF03324887. PMID: 19179843.
Some time ago there was comment on /r/gamedev from someone who implemented their own payment system and visa has like $20 payment cancellation fee, imagine someone buying a game skin for $1, then cancelling and you loose $19, suddenly 30% doesn't look like bad deal at all.
Sounds like Apple’s Vector & Numerics team only serves internal customers and/or does not have anyone who understands the developer experience. I saw a lot of similar dysfuctionality at Nokia and other mobile phone manufacturers where an external developer was considered a true stakeholder a team should cater for. Because you were forbidden to speak with external developers in the first place.
As I heard it at the time, they had to actually physically carry the book overseas.
Due to stigmatization policies they can't use the normal ad channels to advertise their patreon, so it only makes sense to go the "organic content" route. And from their PoV they are sticking to the rules of the relevant subreddits, yet still get their content deleted or banned. I don't find it surprising people get upset when viewing the situation from their side.
> Is this an abuse of monopoly? Yes.

It isn't though. That is my point, monopoly doesn't just mean big market share + you don't like it. Half the web would go dark to Chrome and everyone would dump the browser in a couple of months if they pulled a stunt like that. Because they don't have monopoly. They only have a very high market share because Chrome is the best browser.

If the best-browser part stops being true there is not reason for the highest market share part to stay true.
Yep, the whole of society. Most of us have a great deal of control over how things are run in this definitely real democracy
Interestingly, solar panels and LEDs are more efficient than plants directly in the sun, due to the spectrum inefficiency of the green light absorbing dye.
China’s Demographic Manipulation
Ask HN: what are the best AI/services for product categorization
I have a bunch of product names and images that I scrapped from different e-commerce platforms.
What would be the best algorithm/service to map them against a category from the Google Product Taxonomy (https://www.google.com/basepages/producttype/taxonomy.en-US.txt) ?
Exploration of deep intraterrestrial microbial life: current perspectives
And your punishment for this sin is well earned! /s
The acquisition happened in 1991 so it’s not a new thing.

I’m really curious to understand how the relationship works though. And wonder if the US operations are largely independent or not.
What a community of preppers taught me about survival
That's clearly not what they are saying, given that the C standard library contains (only contains, the safer ones are platform-dependent) the vulnerable form.
Terry Pratchett.
Maybe in the 1930s.
Perhaps they are getting bribes from the street vendors to look the other way, and that reduces they spying abilities.
Seems like Medium. Isn't all of the internet like this? Accounts at the top make exponentially more?
That's the one, must be the UK autocorrect!
> 30% of every sale is extortion

This is either ignorance or delusion. Brick and mortar stores take a lot more of a cut than that, and it isn't like Google's distribution infrastructure is free or something. It's a bit like saying developers demanding 6-figure salaries is extortion.

How the hell did we get to this point? Where ostensibly reasonable people feel entitled to shove their crapware on any storefront they want without paying for it?

> but even worse, and further proving the point, is that they prohibit taking payments through any other channel.

How so? Unlike with Apple, You can deploy Android applications without the store, or distribute on a different storefront for Android.

> How is it not illegal for the platform to force the use of their own payment service?

Companies choose what methods of payment they'll accept all the time. I can't buy a pizza with XBox Bux[0] or whatever the fuck either.

> Isn't this classic misuse of a monopoly?

No. For one, Android and the Google Play Store are not a monopoly. Android doesn't even have a majority market share in the US.

I generally agree that giant corporate conglomerates like Google are a bad thing for basically everyone, but I don't think that diluting the meaning of "monopoly" helps anyone, and neither do silly entitled arguments against paying a commission for distribution.

[0] As an aside, it is especially silly to me that people claim Google Play Store and Apple Store are bad but seem completely fine with the exact same practices on their game consoles.
> wouldn't that mean it would take them billions of years (as experienced on the ship) to traverse the universe?

No, because time passes more slowly in the ship frame. This means it’s billions of years for your friends back home, but it could be hours for you.
It sure helps legionella, influenza, and coronavirus to spread.
Wages have never directly reflected the value workers create. Rather they reflect the supply vs. demand market clearing price for labor.

Arguably the "value" even the highest performing onlyfans people create is neglible.
Exactly what I was saying. Some of the those greenhouse gases is coming from fossil fuel combustion.
> can't be sliced that thin.

Loló in San Francisco slices jicama that thin to use in place of a tortilla in tacos:

http://cyneats.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screenshot-201...
From a time where music television actually played music
Others have done a good job addressing the political and social issues with this sort of endeavour, but I'm puzzled by something else. Isn't this just trivially bypassed? Just changing a few bits in the image won't be noticed by the human eye but the hash will be wildly different.
Neither Amazon nor Huawei is selling devices with Google Play Services right now. Both have their own alternatives to Google Play Services. Amazon offers an unnamed collection of APIs (the push notification one is called Amazon Device Messaging) for its Fire devices, and Huawei offers Huawei Mobile Services.

Amazon Device Messaging: https://developer.amazon.com/docs/adm/overview.html

Huawei Mobile Services: https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/hms
So like what bitwarden does? So far I've been happy using bitwarden after 1password boiled the frog with their pricing.
If you stop paying them, you stop being able to update your passwords. Also if you can't connect to their servers, you can't synchronise your passwords between devices. Also non-US companies will have a concern about storing sensitive material on US-based services given the powers the US is giving itself regarding intercepting communications or seizing data centres.
The article: "And this is what I am complaining about — that the API looks like it is safe for an untrusted user input, while it is not"

It is a bit sad to read that.

Spawning applications from your application is dangerous, so you need to be careful, and at least read the documentation.

This shows that a lot of developers nowadays just copy-paste code from StackOverflow, don't read the documentation and don't know the real low-level calls in a soup of unorganised abstractions and libraries.

This behaviour is documented, is actually intended, and is all explained:

https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#child_process_chil...

There is even a warning:
"Never pass unsanitized user input to this function. Any input containing shell metacharacters may be used to trigger arbitrary command execution."
few lines later:
"do not pass unsanitized user input to this function. Any input containing shell metacharacters may be used to trigger arbitrary command execution."

Please read the manual before you want to operate a dangerous machine.
7-Eleven US was bought by the Japanese parent in 2005 out of bankruptcy.
What I’d like to see is a coalition of companies pitch in and develop an open platform to dethrone Android and iOS. If every big corporation with an app contributed to Mobian, say, it could be done.
The form of censorship in the west here I'd argue its financial oppression. Granted in his case he's been lucky enough that his support went the press so he might get something for his efforts, but financial oppression by bullies isn't new or unique to any culture I fear.
So they're pulling a Facebook/Instagram?

Here's hoping someone with investigatory power is reading this.
Yea totally. Little boys with genitals showing in public (eg urinating) is a common thing in many parts of asia for example. No one bats an eye at it.