skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm all for app store competition and not suppressing apps users want. The downside is apps aren't curated enough as it is. Malware and knock-off apps are the likely consequences of wild west app stores.
Media licensing, The broadcast industry, and the lawyers firmly attached to it, pre-existed the Internet.

So now we have laws and customs from the 1930s governing streaming tv on the Internet.
Even if the only effect of a law like this was that you could run a better browser on iOS, that in itself would potentially be game-changing. It is hardly a radical suggestion at this point that Apple might have consistently and knowingly nerfed the only real browser users can run on iOS to reduce competition to native apps bought through its own store.
I'm reminded of a companywide town hall at a place I worked at years ago. Lots of fluff about company initiatives on IWD, big talk about dedication to equality, token corporate donations to various groups, etc. Mostly light on meaningful actions and change. The usual.

Then, during the Q&A segment, someone simply asked if this meant that we could have pay transparency or public averages so we could see how the company was actually doing in terms of equality. The resulting nervous mealymouthed scramble and deflection was a sight to behold. I believe Q&A questions always had to be submitted in advance after that event.
Growing up in the midwest prior to working FAANG in the Bay Area, this is my exact experience. With a graduate degree and making ridiculous money, I and my peers had no realistic path to homeownership on any reasonable time-scale in the Bay. Family members working HVAC, plumbing, electrician or other skilled blue-collar jobs in low-cost of living areas bought beautiful craftsman bungalows within walking distance to a decent school for $80K. Professionals with either no student debt or a few thousand from land-grant state university degree paid off in 5-7 years. This has knock-on effects to family formation and number of children. Many of my high school classmates had their first kid at 24-25 and have 3-5 kids now, versus Bay Area average of what seems like 1-2 starting in your late 30s. When you feel like you can finally afford it. I started making plans to leave as soon as I got there, it truly was "structurally hostile to families."
How did it mess up the "make every fifth line bold" prompt?

Also, to follow up on the original comment, AI demos are nice, but being a student of history there are still fundamental challenges with these systems. My skepticism is in how much prompting is really required and how can it understand higher level semantics like code refactoring, reproducible examples, large scale design patterns etc.

This synthesis of sequential symbolic processes and probabilistic neural generation is really exciting though.
When the amount of human code edits and tweaking for complex programs goes down from hours to seconds then that's when I'll be impressed and scared.
fairly intelligent people come up with asinine solutions around it.

He posed it as a "modest proposal". [0] That pretty much guarantees that he did not intend it to be a serious or robustly presented option. Unless he actually enjoys eating Irish babies, which seems unlikely.

(If you check out the story linked, it's important to know that it was written against the backdrop of a not-completely-passive bit of Irish genocide)

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm
Such great points. The tech of today is constantly attempting to rerout user back into itself. In a way this is unprecedented. A product that necessitates your constant use. Books don't necessitate re-reads, neither does a flip phone. But, the tech of today is all about consolidating your experience.
This is definitely a widespread phenomenon. I find this most grating when used in reference to poverty relief, eg "increasing unemployment benefits is a worthwhile investment".

As if we can't raise simply raise welfare because preventing homelessness and starving children is the decent thing to do - it has to be justified as some kind of business case.
> In the past decade or so I’ve noticed more and more people referring to their discretionary consumer purchases as “investments”. “I decided to invest in a new couch.” “My newest investment is an xbox one.” “I thought it would be wise to invest in a new shower curtain.

A common sales technique, at least since the 1980s, is to replace the word "cost" with "investment". So, instead of "the shower curtain costs $50", it's "for an investment of $50 you get a shower curtain".
There are consensus protocols that allow a grace period for clock skew, and the narrower you can constrain the clock skew, the more transactions per second you can retire, improving both scalability and latency.
depends on the nature of the opinionated tool I think. If it's opinionated in the sense of boiling down well known concepts to their essence it aids in learning, say Clojure to me is like this.

On the other hand if it's opinionated in an esoteric way it can be quite hard. I remember a HN post about some decentralized chat app that had a language called 'Hoon' I think and it read like someone had reinvented Malbolge.
I always recommend the “Field Guide to Understanding Human Error” [0], which discusses a lot of similar ideas. Really helped refine my thinking about systems and errors.

[0]: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-field-guide/9781317...
The most marketable skills are going to be in logistics, or procurement.

Then - the corps (corporations) come looking for you.
If you're referring to in-game moves (e.g., moving in the map, aiming, etc..), we don't cover this kind of suggestions.
NASA has another hurdle to clear in 2024 moon shot: Its $1B spacesuit program
Should we be spending this kind of money for 2 spacesuits that we were capable of making over 50 years ago? Who benefits from this trip?
If your employer decides that they need such an analytics dashboard, one that is spying on every keystroke, then they will have one. That one doesn't depend on you working on a laptop, or in a remote environment - the company owns and is administrating that laptop, and they can install everything they regard as necessary.

Therefore the real question is if Codespaces is helping to get your job done; I guess that depends on the complexity and structure of the code, the complexity of the build environment/how you work with the CI environment and how the project is being deployed. I guess that this complex of issues will increasingly dictate how things will get done - if these are too complex, then you are better off with a remote environment.
Maybe messenging apps ought to be forced to accept messages from well behaved clients. Perhaps over a reasonable standard like email.
I think its safer to assume that all major and some minor social media sites are manipulated by more than one group/agency/etc.
An ad submitted by the CEO of windsor
A decade and change ago we had Second Life, a 3D game world built like an open system.

After many struggles, Second Life achieved social stability. The company has mostly a hands-off attitude and a minimal "governance" group of about half a dozen people. There are landlords and tenants, with grumbling on both sides, in more or less balance. Griefing is rare. The large-scale scams, such as a fake bank, are gone. Copying and uploading content happens occasionally but is not a huge problem. Land use is all over the place, but there are coherent communities. The main viewer is a third party open source system, and Open Simulator still chugs along, offering an option for people who want an environment under different ownership.

Ease of use is a serious problem in many dimensions. Just becoming a new users is frustrating. Upon entry, you go through a basic orientation and are dumped into a transit point full of jerks and scammers. It's like the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City. You've been dumped into a large city, and, other than some signs suggesting various destinations, you're on your own. It really is a virtual world, not a game. What you do in it is entirely up to you. The world is indifferent to you. This throws many new users.

Then they discover their default avatar sucks, that the clothing system is really complicated, and the good stuff costs money, or good free stuff has to be searched out.

If they make it to day 3, they'll start to get the place figured out. But the new user experience is harsh.

Most of the people making metaverse noises are not far enough along to reach these problems, let alone solve them.
I’m keeping my 12 on iOS 14 for as long as possible. Keeping an eye on this issue and their potential antitrust case.

Voting with my wallet and canceled my 2TB plan. Will not be buying any of their hardware anymore.
I think you missed a little thing called 'Brexit'.
It's not that they haven't thought about it. It's that it is not legally and economically viable (for them).
Nobody cares what you want for other people. I think those other people ought to pick for themselves
There is nothing libertarian about mass media convincing a herd of people to reject common sense mitigations for a respiratory pandemic. The FUD on this topic is as top-down as you can get, starting with an authoritarian conman whose most intelligent moment was brainstorming about injecting bleach.

As a libertarian I wholeheartedly reject this fig leaf of "freedom" touted by anti-maskers. Freedom is an ability to choose the right thing, not simply being a contrarian for contrarianism's sake. I think hard drugs should be legal, but I similarly wouldn't support people becoming junkies to spite society.
Doubt there is manipulation as you suggest. Your assumptions of HN demographics are being challenged instead.
The submitted URL was HTTPS www – lily – camera. We've taken it out above
What’s the math look like if they roll those 12 years into a fed position?
This is an amazing idea! Thank you very much. We'll definitely consider how we can execute on this.
> If the app isn't usable by you (and this is a general you, not specifically directed at you), then the answer is simple: don't use it. Nobody is forcing you to use Electron or any app built with it if you don't want to.

> If as a user your needs are not met, whether that's due to sluggishness from Electron, incompatibility from having a native-only solution, whathaveyou, then all you really have to do is wait. A competitor will come and take its place eventually; that's what the market is there for.

not the first time we've heard this argument used in different industries. I'm old enough to remember this argument about DLC's, DRMs and games being released before they are finished and get charged DLC packs to finish it. This argument falls apart when everyone starts doing it due to economic factors and complacent users/customers who blindly use what everyone else is using.
nah - but I think it's funny that someone else would lmao. Wouldn't be suprised if you're just saying this hoping it gets my account banned.

Virgin? Got a wife and kids...not sure how I could do that being a virgin, but nice attempt - probably projection. Keep seething.
OP is the CEO of windsor.. seems like a #fullDisclosure moment
I read the pod cast's transcripts and could not see the reason why misinformation was claimed. Apparently Dr. Osterholm made reference to a misinformation statement and did not make the statement as an advocacy position. None the less the statement was part of the transcripts in black and white. I think it was an algorithmic error by the search engine because it could not pick up on the context on why the statement wording appeared.
No, but I think I should get around to it. Been hearing that, for ages.

I capitalize “Quality,” because I consider it a Core Tenet of my personal philosophy. I picked that up from that company I mentioned.

I often wanted to strangle the inflexible, stubborn bastards, but I have always been in awe of their singleminded focus on Quality.
There’s a way to avoid the slippery slopes of over-optimism
You might get fired plus sued.
This is a slap in the face to all of their long time customers. To me it looks like a risky decision more than a smart one.
Note that new customers just go the subscription path because that is the only option advertised.
Open source theme for open edx using tailwindcss
Open edx is one of the best learning management system out on the market and it's open source. But when you install, its default theme just isn't appealing or user-friendly looking which is why we decided to design a new modern interface for it using tailwindcss. Open edx uses Django as it's framework and using tailwindcss for django wasn't hard at all. If you want to see how it looks like take a peek at https://lms.demo.cubite.io
I think your product generally sucks, and should instead be a service for pairing players with coaches that see nothing but what the player sees while they play, maybe for an hourly rate.
That's encouraging to hear wrt JavaScript!
This. This actually hits the nail of my imposter syndrome precisely on the head. I've advanced to a pretty good position, and I'm definitely good at a fair number of things; but there are also things I am very much not good at, and I often worry that I got promoted to this point by "lucky" breaks that leveraged my strengths, but keeping the position will require me to do things that I don't even know how to develop.
I have been using this app for 9 years because of its polished UX. I don't even mind paying for subscription model because of it, but this is killing its top selling point for me. Bye bye 1p.
My point was equating a “multi dose defense shot” to a vaccine.

After the immunocompromised have had the opportunity to protect themselves, the booster will be made available to all, just like the initial shots earlier this year. Those will be followed by another booster or more next year and so on.
Right - the legal system didn't have this problem before.

If you took a vacation in France, you could only watch what was on French TV or in their Cinemas.

Times have changed, and we'll suffer while old industries catch up.
> Since 2000, global production of clothing has doubled.

> We’re buying 60 per cent more clothes now than we did 15 years ago.

> But we’re only keeping them for half as long.

> An estimated 85 per cent of all textiles go to the dump every year

I hardly buy any clothes, preferring to keep them until they wear out beyond repairable.

But what can I do with them then? Is there any better way to dispose of textiles than land fill?
For some reason I doubt Russian bots are upvoting an article about Russia doing shady espionage stuff. I agree it's not particularly HN worthy though.
To be clear, I'm not suggesting. I'm actually asking. If it's happening, how would we know?

I was surprised when I read the suggestion on the other thread. And it got me thinking, how would we know? How could we protect against it?
Stacker News has some solid content and features. Yeah, check it out!
Temporal takes much simpler approach to updating code while a program is running. For any code update, it keeps both old and the new version of the code. Then it uses the old code to replay already recorded events which allows to reconstruct the program state and takes the new code path when it is executed for the first time. Eventually the old code is removed once all the executions that used it are completed.
To downvoters, I'm curious who should force a platform what content they should be compelled to carry. Government? Should YouTube be compelled to carry anything permitted by law? They don't allow pornography, graphic violence, or hate speech. Should they be forced to carry those? What freedom does YouTube have to decide what sort of platform they have?

Allowing them to suspend people at their discretion is far better than the alternative.
I'm building an online interactive course that helps you learn Tailwindcss
I believe it's data privacy advocate?
There have been some long term shifts in HN more towards the mainstream (as far as I can tell). That includes more political interest (and different distribution of political stances, too).

Reddit, for example, also had these shifts, but much more so, since they don't even try to be niche in the first place.
Why not let employees use what the tool they believe to be most productive? Are microsoft sliding to become what we knew it was?
If categorically labeling those who disagree with you “ideologically captured” and “no longer able to entertain curious discussion” isn’t itself drowning out dissonance and discouraging curious discussion, I honestly don’t know what is.
Need a "(2013)" in the post
Everyone’s vision of the metaverse seems to be directly tied to their pre-existing business interests.

Call me when you work on several of these projects in a row and debias yourself and your financial interests from what ought to be done to create the best possible future for spatial computing.
Maybe it's a bug. ;)
I guess if we now know for sure that he was not even close to diplomatic affairs, it warrants a headline update.
> - He chose to live in his small rural town

Having grown up in small rural towns, your comment makes me suspect you may not be familiar with what rural America looks like.

Also having known quite a few electricians, I have a hard time imagining one lugging all their equipment on a bus or subway.
Apple user for over 20 years. I loved my powerbook 4g and loved the first iPhones. Even though they were not the first mobile nix systems (love for the n770 Nokia tablet with Debian and root!).], I felt empowered being able to hack them easily, getting shells running and recording/analyzing sensor data on them.

I feel more and more uncomfortable in the Apple / iOS ecosystem. It’s getting closed down and commodified. Even when there is something cool in terms of tech, they know how to spoil it.

Instead of dealing with Pegasus head on and starting to fix the security culture of iOS/Mac, they make our systems less secure (less open and less hackable).

I find it sad that there are no viable alternatives for non-tech users. I switched last week to a Librem 14 with Arch Linux, KeepassXC and a pixel 5 running grapheneOS, Miiband 6 with GadgetBridge, a System 76 for work. I honestly love it, there are some hiccups, yet it feels exciting, similar like switching from Microsoft to Apple did 20 years ago.

Also moved from programming objective c / swift to rust, elixir and flutter/react. That seems where the innovation happens today for me. As I work in research I have the Privilege to easy switch … we need better alternatives and I feel even stronger about supporting open source and projects and companies that care about it (pine, purism, system76, mozilla, …).
>reasonable confidence it can be a priority.

hahaha, you so funny
True should have been more clear that breakups and resulting kids being raised by single parents are not accurately under the umbrella of divorce because low income people aren’t even getting married anymore, since it’s become a status symbol more and more.
Yes, we're living in a particularly polarizing time. I'd suggest that's probably not random, and it's probably not due to typical human behavior of politicans. Were politicians of the past paragons of virtue? In large part of course not.

So what is different now?

My pet theories for suspects are: social media algorithmically enhancing negative emotions and behaviors, a relative lack of enforcement of white-collar crime (especially amongst the rich), large media conglomorates (not a new phenomenon really, but the current ones are a bit different than past) and wealth inequality.
I really want to gripe about "Ernest Cline's" Ready Player One. There was an element of dystopia to it, yes, but it was only the movie adaptation that came away with the takeaway that the virtual world was bad. In the movie they decide to add in the protagonist making the executive decision to shut down the virtual world on a couple weekdays or something. That pissed me off. That world was people's livelihoods. This kid lived in a poor junky slum and had a great social life and presumably some level of income in the virtual world when the movie starts. At the end of the movie he is super rich and has a hot girlfriend (who's character arc was largely that she perceived herself as ugly?). There's really not that much in the film or the book that says that forcing people to go unplugged made any sense.

The actual book was about a virtual world gone extremely right. The dystopian part was the corporations that sought private control of the platform.

Bonus complaint: The evil corporation in the film literally enslaves people and brazenly murders others in public, yet it's CEO is brought down by some unremarkable local cops? What?
Why ought a developer be forced to accept all terms on offer?

If I released an app store that forced you to offer the app for the lowest price it's available elsewhere while charging the dev 1/2 of the profit and inspired users to use it by giving them a rebate equal to 30% of the cost I presume I could get some takers.

After all if it's 10 bucks on the apple store it's 7 on mine.

3rd party stores aren't a check on unreasonable terms if developers are legally forced to do business on the oems terms no matter how unreasonable.
We don't have to protect against a thing that's not happening.

https://upvotetracker.com/post/hn/28149974 looks completely normal, the story is just interesting
MBA is a walk in the park compared to CS. Seriously.
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I wonder if this is why the price for used items is high enough that I buy new every time.
Why are you required to install them?
Bitwarden's model is consumer friendly. I really appreciate being able to self-host a fully functional vault, even if I don't exercise that option. I feel confident that they won't hold my data hostage. $10/year is a great deal. +1 for bitwarden.
It’s economics 101 - labor vs leisure time is a fundamental division of time, which is influenced by wages and is an input into a firm or economy’s production function. Even if you don’t assign your leisure time a monetary value, someone else (an economist) will.
I find fuzz testing works great for things like this. Make a function which, given everything you know about a user's state, randomly generates an action that user could take (and the expected result). Then you can run your user model forwards and backwards through randomly chosen actions. If you support undo, check that if you play any change forward then backward, the resulting state is unchanged.

I usually pair that with a "check" function which just verifies that all the invariants I expected hold true. Eg, check the user has a non-negative balance.

It sounds complex, but you get massive bang for buck from code like this. 100 lines of fuzzing code can happily find a sea of obscure bugs.
The real question here is how much time it takes to setup this experience and how much time it takes to maintain. You could argue that the true cost is the labor cost of implementation and maintenance at your current pay rate.
I doubt kids are getting anything bad out of the games, not clutching my pearls here. It just always seemed like a weird premise for a kids game.

Then again Mario went around killing turtles. Maybe Bowser was the tragic hero there.
I don’t get what you mean. I have no children, am in my 50s, and still try to maximize my wealth to the extent possible while still having the particular lifestyle I like. I work hard because it’s fulfilling and I work to generate wealth so I’m not screwed over after one health mishap.
> Then they discover their default avatar sucks, that the clothing system is really complicated, and the good stuff costs money, or good free stuff has to be searched out.

In snow crash most of the population wanders around with a default avatar to save on cost
But then you have solved nothing...