skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding (from reading arguments from language designers) is that curlies introduce error correction redundancy to a language. So if, for example, your editor decides to be stupid and mangle indentation of some copy-pasted snippet, the curlies provides the developer with semantic hints to deduce/reconstruct the original program.

This property is particularly important for readability of "embeddable" languages ("embeddable" in the sense of a language source code existing within another, for example JS within HTML script tags, or bash in a Dockerfile, or YAML string concatenation).
That has nothing to do with the App Store, but rather the platform which the app runs on.
Do you also support draconian punishments for people and organizations who blocked controlled burns and other wildfire control measures?
Apple still retains full OS level controls and perhaps a good level of controls on what app stores can do. In fact, I expect the OS level protection to become even stronger if this bill gets passed since that is the only way to keep Apple's controls on users.
I don't want self-hosted, and I definitely don't want subscription based. I, 1Password user for many years, want the local vaults!

1Password 6 is great, and I'll keep using it until it quits working on my devices, but no more after that! I used to recommend 1Password so much to people it was borderline evangelizing, but I quit recommending it once the subscription was pushed over the other options, and now that local vaults are going away I'm actively recommending against it to anyone that asks.

Guess I'll be moving to Bitwarden or Keepass myself; time to research!
What the US Infrastructure Bill Means for Crypto
Fucking over every single individual of a given group because of vague fears of what they might do if treated fairly, where these fears are entirely based on them belonging to said group, seems like the very definition of bigotry.
MH17 is very illustrative example in the context of OP. The MH17 coverage was a massive pure propaganda battle - no major media on either side voiced the true story (ie. the story compatible with all the related "before-the-fact" evidence). RT was doing bidding of its masters and trying to dismiss the truly obvious fact (confirmed by multiple "before-the-fact" evidence) that the rebels shot MH17 down mistaking it for Ukrainian military transport while the West media completely dismissed the fact that a bit more than 2 weeks before the MH17 the rebels captured an Ukrainian Buk launcher - that story [1] was widely publicized in Ukrainian and Russian media and confirmed by Ukrainian military at the time (i.e. "before-the-fact") - and doubled down instead on the unrealistic, yet politically very effective, theory of Russia transferring rebels a single Buk launcher "confirmed" only by the very bad grainy images surfacing only "after-the-fact" of MH17 shooting as well as dismissing various less direct evidence like the shrapnel type, related twitter posts made before-the-fact, etc.

[1] https://www.ng.ru/cis/2014-07-01/1_dnr.html ( i challenge you to find any mentioning of that story in West media :)
For me as a developer, I feel Apple's Mac App Store sucks. And it's probably the same for iOS.

Discoverability on Apple's Mac App Store is horrible. I released a game earlier this year on the Mac App Store and while it's not a great game (my first experience with LÖVE, so a pretty simple project), I got zero sales.

I recently finished a 2nd game and published it on both the Mac App Store and Steam this week. On Steam I sell some units every day. On the Mac App Store it's still zero. And I don't expect the sales on Mac App Store to be the same as on Steam (since I sell mostly to Windows users on Steam), but it would be nice to see at least a couple of Mac sales.

I am currently working on my 3rd game (which will be a bit more ambitious compared to my first 2 games) and I am considering publishing only on Steam, since publishing on the Mac App Store seems a waste of energy.

I don't know if this bill would help someone like me, but maybe ...
The fact that microsoft's user hostile moves haven't affected windows' market share does very little to reassure people that they won't pull similar shit with any other product.
Youtube likes to push its own agenda about masks or whatever , yet it's still under protection as an online platform , article 230 and all? Why are they not legally liable while literally every other agenda-pushing medium is? Why havent the other mainstream media taken this to court yet?
> he also knows that his ultimate job as a politician is to make arguments that will resonate with his constituents

Wider context check, his job as a politician is to serve his constituents by leading, even when it may be difficult. Pandering to the lazy and ignorant in a state of perpetual campaigning is an utter dereliction of duty.
Microsoft August 2021 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 zero-days, 44 flaws
Fair point - A good chunk of the story is about the father trying to figure out exactly how and where his son was killed, that frame of reference is why I phrased it like that, but you're right in hindsight it seems a little silly to say.
The simpler story would have been trump is a chump surrounded by grasping idiots who could be used / supported by Russia. I thought that would have been a bit easier to argue for than this big collusion.
I think this will create a race to the bottom on app quality, at least on iOS. I suffer from Apple’s seemingly random antics and app review process as much as the next dev here but as a consumer I’m all for paid, curated content from a trusted source. I like Sign In with Apple buttons and strict enforcement of permissions and privacy.

Many times I hear “just let me pay for what I’m consuming instead of having my data sold and spammed with ads”; the App Store, to some extent, pretty much does that.

Now, “what’s wrong with having an alternative” you say? Apps will migrate to the path of least resistance. No reviews, no rules? Much easier than the official store. Once you develop your app for the unofficial store, getting it into the official one would be like certifying a Mad Max vehicle at the Californian DMV.

In short, I like the ecosystem Apple created, especially for my kids. This seems like a big step forward for competition but is it really that good for me?
That's why the grandparent comment said "I'd support this if app developers were also required to release their apps on all the available stores".

Without that clause, your approach wouldn't work, because what incentive would Facebook even have to release it on the Apple App Store and follow Apple's tighter privacy/anti-tracking rules, when they can just release it on the Facebook App Store for iOS (or whatever else they decide to call it or, alternatively, another third-party app store)?

Sure, having third-party app stores helps smaller devs. But it also unchains all the anti-tracking and privacy shackles from the tech giants like FB who don't care which app store they are on (as long as they can set their own rules), because FB/Instagram/etc. users will follow to whatever app store their app is on (no matter how much or how little privacy protection that specific app store is willing to enforce on FB).
For an authoritarian thug, he hides it very well behind a surprising long-term trail of posts and opinions that contradict that.

Where this is going, of course, is that I think you're wrong and I think the evidence supports you being wrong.
No, I don't use autocorrelation. Of course, it isn't a pitch detection software.
You trolling? You know that wasnt their intention and was disingenuous of you to play it that way.
Because jokes & trolls often raise interesting questions, & prompt stimulating discussions?
What splitting the app store from the OS does is encourage stores to compete on the basis of quality of the store and not the quality of the store + OS + hardware. Apple and Google will have less leverage, but all the qualities of an aggregator will still apply. Google doesn't own the websites they index or the internet they're served over, but they still have tremendous control over the web.

We see this even in the PC space: people will refuse to buy games not on Steam and many of the stores that sprung up a few years ago (Origin and UPlay) have since conceded and narrowed in scope.

Some apps will bypass the Apple/Google store, advertise themselves, and supply their own infrastructure for distribution. When that happens, Apple and Google will no longer have control. Implicit in the argument that they should have control is the assumption that these two companies are the only two enforcement bodies that can be trusted. As should be evident by now, you do not control Apple or Google and have no recourse if they break your trust. These companies care, first and foremost about their profit margin. It is naïve to think that consumer choice reflects Apple's or Google's stewardship of the store. Not everyone buys a phone because they like the walled garden.

I used to think sideloading was/third-party stores were a problem because of what you describe, but I've come to believe that it's the most free-market solution available to curtail some of the excesses of these gatekeepers while minimizing design-by-government.
Does he have anything hosted on Amazon? They won’t want to miss out. Heck maybe DNS registers can start banning people.
Not the point of the story, but a college professor with three masters and a doctorate was enrolled in the EBT program. I'm sure people will doubt the use of several of his masters degrees, theater arts in particular, but that's still nuts.
If Accentures lips are moving, they are lying.
There are new ones made with nanofiber instead of the typical ones made of meltblown fiber. The nanofiber ones are more breathable, check out AirQueens, rated kn95.
That's a good point, I dunno, maybe you're right and I just get carried away when I think about this stuff, it's all just so disgusting. I see what you mean, the difference between pedophile and child abuser.
There are no coincidences.
Well... if they can fix the current cluster-crap, created by USA UK and EU quick visit, then they deserve a prize
Except that’s exactly how it works. Even in the U.K. where it’s 18 to legally drink, many places have a policy that anyone who looks under 25 will be challenged for ID and only driving licence or passport are accepted. Some places even have a policy that all purchases require ID irrespective of how old you look.

It’s better to pissing a few people off but still have a license, than lose your license and thus have nothing to serve your customers. Which is just as true for pubs and bars as it is for video streaming services. And content owners know this too, which is why they can place such heavy demands on 3rd party platforms.
How would you install two different versions of the same package using apt?
I'm trying to do hard copy paper backups of data onto WORM yet human readable bound paper that cannot be lost or removed from the book without evidence of tampering.

I have looked at pen plotters, handheld inkjet printers, and wondered about feeding a paperback print-on-demand printer a PDF that I generated.

Since I cannot afford an espresso book machine, I have tried to use a cheap Chinese knock-off pen plotter to try to write text from the computer directly onto a notebook journal page. The belt is too cheap and slippy so it sits there collecting dust.

One of these days I will have to break down and buy the axi draw and see if that one will enable me to print onto actual journal pages.

Any suggestions to effect such a goal that cross your mind, dear reader, I would be open to.
shut the fuck up, retard
That’s a good point, but the behaviour I’m talking about is enforcing the optionality of those functions in order for the app to work.

I might be wrong about this (not a dev, just play one on the internet) but Apple has the power to say that in order to submit an app to the App Store, user location/contacts/photos/whatever must not be required to be turned on for the app to work. ie. Apple enforces your ability to use WhatsApp without giving up microphone access.

Without that model, yes, permissions are still granular. But WhatsApp can tell you to turn all of them on, or you can’t use the app. To me, that’s not a meaningful difference to the “just don’t install it” crowd’s preferred suggestion.
It's a two-parter.

One, you only give the hardball problems to people you want to filter out, as the paper mentions.

Two, you use hardball problems with a simple solution, so that if people make a scandal / complain to political authorities, you can point to the simple solution and "No, look, it's actually really easy, these people just weren't good enough!".
I guess i don’t give advice to people my age ;). getting into tech companies also seems easier when you are young and don’t have much of a resume. Having a resume with years in not interesting companies and uncool tech also seems to make you toxic.
I keep thinking of this burger joint 22 km from my house who do free delivery when I order a rather large 6 euro burger menu. The micro-margins and the monumental effort involved blows my mind. They have to be cheap enough to get enough orders to be able to chain together enough deliveries most of the time. Surely Apple and Google in this settings are entitled to 2 euro for all the work they did. Seems only fair.
I’m fine with app restrictions as they are. The problem is even apps which do not do anything special get removed from the App Store for a ToS violation. You can not for example publish an app that lets you download YouTube videos for example even though this does not require much access to anything.
Don't wait, just cancel now. Netflix has gone rapidly downhill in terms of content quality in the past couple of years. They have ceded ground to their competition by removing the broad range of content they once had, in favor of their own mediocre content.

I think there could be a genuine market opening for a streaming platform that exclusively has films made before 5-10 years ago. Somethjng curated, with less attempts at using AI to predict what you like. Something for movie enthusiasts (and perhaps TV) to enjoy good cinema, not watch the latest politically charged soap opera with poor dialogue, instagram filter cinematography, and overly safe humor.
Microsoft wasn't historically an "internet company".

They were an OS only, non-internet company, compared to the rest. When the acronym was created, it was still that way.

Even now, they make most of their butter from OS installs, although yes, they have branched out a lot.
Yup, it's precisely this narrow minded view of software development that's churning out more and more shitty software.

Maintenance is NEVER prioritized by anyone in management. They think "What, we put in the bug fixes, what more do you want!" but they never put in the "Hey, if we reorganize some code here, things will be a lot faster and easier to extend".

Devs on the ground can consistently see "Hey, this system right here, is a major issue that'll cause us a bunch of problems in the future" and that does not matter. Because, quantifying how much money is lost by not fixing the issue is really hard to do. You can't reliably say "If I spent 10 hours fixing this, I'd save 100 hours implementing new features".

It's this sort of short sighted vision that has dev teams running on 20 year old software with a bunch of known CVEs, handcuffed because the answer to "What will upgrading to the latest bring us?" is almost always "some bugs in transition but mostly piece of mind that we won't be vulnerable to a cyber attack."
I suspect that most people decry subsidized inherited wealth through things like stepping-up the cost basis for inherited wealth. Generally, I don't think people have a problem with parents giving their kids gifts in some form - though I do acknowledge that there probably is some notion of what is considered a (un)reasonable upper limit.
From here:

* https://signal.org/docs/specifications/x3dh/

... I understand that the prekeys are signed. I will confess that I have no deep understanding of how everything works together. Signal protocol is somewhat baroque.
I subscribed because I had to. I have no time to follow the last changes of a company and its app.

The current app is already bloated by features I don’t use, so I hoped for another evolution of this software.

(i also don’t like the web platform with all those emoji and cheesy design)
Participation trophies weren't a big thing for GenX or Millennials, according to Google's N-gram Viewer, showing up instead for Boomers and Zoomers (and the Silent Generation).

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=participation+...
The US has four times as many people as Germany but 27 times as much land. Public transit to every national park would be expensive.
I'm not sure this tack is sufficient to defend YouTube's policy. This is quite close to arguing that a sitting senator shouldn't have opinions on what government policy is meant to be achieving.

Rand Paul is (1) elected (2) holds a medical license. YouTube is suspending him because (1) he is disagreeing with government policy and (2) they don't like his medical opinion. I think it is fair to say you are defending (1) here?

He is far more qualified to decide what the public discourse is than you, I and YouTube's censorship team.
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> they already had a built-in customer base using them for ordering point-to-point rides

I never understood the value of that.

The value is in the driver network, which is hard to build with human drivers, but trivial with self-driving cars. Given a driver network, building a customer network is trivial.

You can have a large fleet that moves to a city that you want to bring up. The novelty of a self-driving car will help find users, the sudden large presence of highly recognizable, branded vehicles will automatically serve as a billboard for your service, an offer of free rides does the rest. Once people realize that the self-driving option is a) cheaper b) faster (because of the excess of cars) c) safer (because there is no unpredictable human driver that could be a bad actor), human-based competitors will have a very hard time.

Once the city is brought up, they can leave the number of cars that they deem appropriate (gradually worsening service), and have the rest of the fleet drive to the next city.

What does Uber have? An app (easy), a way to handle fraud and abuse (totally changes and gets a lot easier when you remove the driver), network effect (see above).

Google has a special advantage, the maps app. If they manage to not ship the org chart, they can add a "order Waymo" button to navigation. Boom, everybody has their ride share app already installed on their phone, and many of the users have payment data in their account.
It's instructive that it took Senators from MN, TN and CT to bring this forward. Nobody from CA.
This, he doesn't care about the science or saving lives. He cares about maintaining and growing his power and he thinks the way to do that is with these sorts of dog whistles to his base.
Yeah, I feel like the most likely outcome from this path is that Facebook launches a competing app store and offers developers lower fees than Apple in exchange for their users' data.
It's not just that. There is also the matter of laptop getting broken (we all have proper backups, right? right?), stolen, ...

So I do see the appeal in thin client. My only issue is that the experience his closely tied to latency, so sometimes working over ssh is... irritating. Especially on mobile connection.
This is 100% cheating based on Riot's rules, only because of the Spike Timer. The rest is mostly ok. The reason for that is that there is no visual indicator in-game for the spike timer, it has to be memorized.

I'm not a LoL player but to my knowledge Riot just doesn't really enforce their own rules outside of tournaments where tools like this are not allowed. For Valorant, I have played in many tournaments, and every single one has explicitly stated that tools like this are not allowed.

There is no way this product is ethical or legal, and even if it /currently/ doesn't break any rules, Riot could just add one sentence to destroy the entire app. Seems really questionable to me.
> Why havent the other mainstream media taken this to court yet?

Standing, for starters. "My neighbor hasn't been busted by the cops for his huge marijuana operation" isn't actually something you can sue your neighbor over. They'd have to harm you directly, somehow. Similarly, "My competitor in this industry isn't being held to a standard I'm being held to" isn't something you can sue over.

Rand Paul might, might have standing to bring such a lawsuit. Maybe.
How common is it for European companies to hire developers living in other EU countries to work remotely or for a local office?

I'm not planning on leaving my current company or country soon, but Spain seems like a nice backup plan should things go south in the US. Unfortunately, their economy doesn't seem great. Assume knowledge of English, Spanish, and a willingness and ability to learn the language of the hiring company.

Is this a pipe dream? It seems like the ability to hire across the Schengen zone would be a great advantage to European tech companies.
It’s not like learning stops but the curve flattens out a lot. Another problem is that in tech 20 year old knowledge is worth way less than 20 year old knowledge in for example cabinet making.
I don't have any skin in this game, but how's the saying go? Possession is 9/10s of the law?
Nodewebkit and CEF are some of the main alternatives. And really, Electron is "just" something that does a lot of housekeeping for you, but at the end of the day you could do it yourself - you ship Chromium (or WebKit or ...) libraries, then create a native container window and then hand its drawing context off to the browser instance, shuttle events back and forth, etc.

CEF is kinda clunky, but also has bindings for just about any language.
I think you got it. I'm pretty sure he's saying: VR bad, AR good. VR = escape from reality, AR = richer engagement with reality.
there isn't really an exploratory aspect to (vanilla) CS. it's a competitive shooter with a small number of small maps, and the weapons are pretty clearly balanced with this in mind.

mods and community maps are a different story, of course, but they diverge quite a lot from the main game.
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/m20-6817

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/

(hope i dont get banned for 7 days)
Ah yes, keep it all bottled up and under no circumstances talk about it. Totally leads to improved quality of life.
This doesn't even sound like a hack. The beneficiaries executed the digital contract in way that was explicitly permissible by the contract. It was perhaps contrary to the original intent of the contracts creator but that intent needs to be irrelevant for digital contracts to serve any useful purpose more than just traditional non-digital contracts.
Using all the bandwidth on the interwebs.
I think rehabilitation should be prioritized where improvement is possible. Reading about his alleged behavior -- muttering, pulling a knife on a witness who was trying to help him and agitated outbursts -- this seems like some mental issue that could be helped in time.
>They intentionally keep quiet about it because the reaction

This sentiment can go fuck-itself...

Its HIDING the fact of how rampant this is.
What, specifically, is your problem with gpg?
https://tether.to/fees/ claims that fiat withdrawal is possible, with a fee of "The greater of $1,000 or 0.1%".
judging by alternate app stores on android, the vast majority of people will probably continue to stick with the apple app store, and only that. I'm not so sure whatsapp could get away with having people download the facebook store to download whatsapp. and I suppose apple can still impose restrictions on apps via other means besides the app store
Would love to hear about some of those companies