skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Opt out? It should be an opt in system in a for-privacy app.

I think it's pretty clear that they are discussing an App Store policy, not analytics collected by their app.
(I created that merge request)

Blokada's UI is without peer and so it makes for a very good "just works" for the majority (in fact, from what I know, it is the most downloaded DNS-based content blocker on Android by far).

However, it is disappointing that some of their decision-making is found wanting: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/papgeq/any_...
Reminds me a little of Goldsmith’s “what is the purpose of an economy?”. First few minutes set out the argument.
https://youtu.be/RowLyW5X52A
Alright gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.
Neither does C, most devs mix the OS ABI with the programming language used to implement the OS.
This article doesn’t answer the real questions: How much stock did he own, how did he own it, and what percentage of his portfolio was it?

Apple is one of the biggest companies in the US, so it comprises a significant portion of large-cap index funds. If any of your 401K or other portfolio includes an ETF or other fund with large-cap US companies, you own Apple stock.

If you’re invested 100% in a simple S&P 500 index fund, your portfolio is over 6% AAPL.

If the judge is simply reporting that he held large-cap index funds during this time, I think this is a non-story. Even a 10% drop in a company that makes up 6% of your portfolio is going to be negligible in your overall finances.

On the other hand, if he had something strange like options on AAPL around the time of his verdict, that would be a huge concern. However, I think these stories would have led with those details if they existed.

This is probably nothing.
No it is not the same issue. Airbnb doesn't have a say if I make arrangements of my own with the host. We lose the benefits and security provided by airbnb if we think that airbnb's cut is unjustified.

I only wish we (users and devs) could do that on Ios.
I remember this was one of the first things they teach you in Java but in web world eg. react do you even think about that stuff... Unless you see call stack exceeded.

That's why part of me does not consider myself a programmer since I'm just building out applications/basic server admin but I'm not worrying about nLogN or memory management. Unless something is really just blatantly bad/noticable lag/bad performance. I only recently started to learn about BST but personally have not had to use it yet.
Commercial Gang Rise Up!
Humanity was doing great before Linux happened, it will keep doing great afterwards.
I think we already have that (AlQada, ISIS, Haqqani, etc...)
And many of those domains are the exact ones rust would be a best fit in once mature. Flight controls, industrial control, medical devices etc. The places that want to eliminate undefined behavior at all costs would be interested in rust, though probably not crates.io.
The big concern that I have for an economy without growth is that it becomes a zero sum game. Collaboration is a strong method of keeping the peace, without growth there seems a reduced incentive for collaboration.
Been away from Fb for a few years. How does this relate to tbgs?
Apple and Google won't know what developers using outside payment systems for purchases such as subscriptions or "in-app" stuff are making. So they'd have a problem deciding what a publishing fee should be. Monikers such as popularity can be bad estimators. They might end up charging developers a lot less or a lot more - the latter of which might ruin some developers or hike prices for customers even more.

I am not against a publishing fee instead of what there is now, but it should be fair and transparent. Not that the current system is fair and transparent...
A lot of architectural work or system design type work I do away from my desk, sometimes while cooking or walking home or in the shower. Sometimes I send myself a Slack message to look at when I'm at my desk again if it was too much to remember.
Ask HN: Why don’t you use Linux as your daily driver OS?
For those of you who use macOS or Windows as your primary OS, what’s keeping you (application/feature/environment) from making the switch?
There are problems much more relevant, like war, food and health, than whatever OS runs on their TV.
The dominoes have been in place for a while, now they are slowly beginning to fall…
3 hours a week seems SO extreme.

As an introvert kid, socialising mainly happened via video-games for me (and most of my circle of friends). With 3hs a week of ANY social interaction, I doubt I'd ever had made any friends, or developed ANY social skills at all.
The docs seem to get to queries here: https://glean.software/docs/angle/guide
Not just rationing, but discriminating based on personal benefit to the provider.

This is a soul-buying operation, ironic since Catholics aren't supposed to buy and sell souls.
Linux was responsible to open countless drivers, and is the reason that I can enjoy my laptop with free drivers.

But fear not, you can still use non-free drivers with Linux!

edit: you said about chromeOS in another post. Congratulations, it uses Linux!
It's not just a few paragraphs at the very end of the page, it has been deliberately hobbled on Windows and likely macOS too: https://old.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/f62wlr/how_i_u...
Who gets to decide the definition? The blog uses the definition "Note that when we say 'free' here, we mean free as in speech, not free as in beer," but I would argue "free for non-commercial use" licenses _are_ inherently free as in speech, but not beer.
Like the quote in the beginning says, growth is good, but only when it improves the life of the people.
If an entity makes profit off the back of my labour without compensation a reasonable case could be made that harm has been done to me.

Or at least a labourer may legitimately claim they wish to share "freely" only to some. And they can also choose to change their mind on any subsequent work.

This is especially the case when the entities involved are corporate, not individual humans.
Not OP, but Amsterdam based faangs/unicorns don't pay as much. I'm willing to grind leetcode, but I can't really find any companies in the Netherlands that are worthwhile (that pay significantly better than mid-size companies).
To be fair, off the top of my head, Clang and GCC:

- lex differently;

- have different baselines for what code even compiles: e.g. in GCC an out-of-range hex escape sequence in an integer character constant generates a warning; in Clang it generates an error.

Additionally, for a long time on Windows MinGW's std::random_device()() always returned 0, being a real-world depiction of <https://xkcd.com/221/>. So you compiled for Linux with GCC and everything was fine; then you compiled for Windows with MinGW and silently something broke, which resulted in a suspiciously big number of hash collisions.

Then again, those are illustrations of a poorly written standard, not of the idea of a standard, which has multiple implementations, being bad.
>SON and Rest waltzed in and (somewhat) did that organically without the hype.

This is a perfect description of how it happened, and how practicality trumped the bombast of the people pushing SOAP and what later became the terrible framework that is WCF (whatever happened to Don Box? He was all over the place for a while).

Biztalk also lands nicely in the 'conceived and designed by astronauts' camp.
Given that "Rust is the spec", and it changes on a daily bases, fuzzing it vs GCC Rust would give you a lot of disagreements, that would only tell you about the thousands of ways in which GCC Rust is not conforming with Rust.

I'm not sure what this tells you about Rust. By definition, it is conforming with itself.
Unlike you, he didn't actually label anyone, since he didn't talk about any specific assholes, he just described the category. Big difference.
Much more likely to me is that he had a financial advisor handling his money. The article specifically talks about the number of shares purchased, and for most vehicles like this that makes no sense. Also, what I have read about for these conflicts of interest is that broad based index funds and such don't require disclosure. Something like an ETF that was specifically heavy in Apple might, but something that is just tech stocks probably would not.
The quality of the meat in Berlin's canteens is low. The meals are more expensive and the serving sizes are smaller. Even before this move I saw no reason to eat anything with meat there. BTW: There is already a vegetarian/vegan canteen at the Freie Universität, it's called "Veggie No 1" [1].

[1] https://www.stw.berlin/en/dining-facilities/mensa-fu-veggie-...
Possibly changed after it was sold.
Aren’t the Haqqani network involved in significant smuggling operations?
This is highly inaccurate. The author is using Plausible via a proxy but Google Analytics directly (a very biased way to do things).

Secondly, PiHole, uBlock origin and most other adblockers also block Plausible analytics (there are discussions on their own Github Issues regarding it). If you are proxying Plausible to get accurate readings, same should be done with GA.
The $99/year gives you additional developer tools and access to the App Store storefront. It's up to Apple what constitutes a sufficient license fee for the commercial use of Apple's proprietary software libraries.

Apple's libraries are licensed to developers under whatever license Apple chooses. They could require a certain revenue share regardless of which payment gateway is used. Heck, they could license it under the GPL and require all developers who build programs against their libraries to release their source code. It's their code, it's up to them.

Similarly, Epic Games can decide when developers might have to pay Epic for software they distribute with Unreal Engine. Whether it's a flat fee, a revenue share, a profit share, if there are discounts or incentives—all of that is entirely for Epic to decide.
#first world problems
You are right about it, did that change recently? According to the reference below it depends on the degree of deafness or blindness...if you can still hear or see something still have to pay...

https://www.rundfunkbeitrag.de/buergerinnen_und_buerger/info...
> As a result of uncontrolled economic (and population) growth, our ecology is sick, and getting sicker every day.

I can get halfway to agreement here, but UKL's assertion invites the question of who is in control?

More pointedly, how do we agree upon the operating point and stabilization mechanisms?

THAT is the sticky wicket.
Not really. Source: I use Rust in automotive where MISRA C is required, and the only thing we needed was to certify it.

No ISO standard required.

We actually also supplied a "fork" of the MISRA C doc, crossing out ~80% of it, since it was just stuff that is just not possible in safe Rust. We covered the remaining 20% with clippy lints.

Most of the certification involved is just basic stuff like "using version control system", "has unit test", "tests run on changes", "uses a linter" (really, as vague as just that...), etc. We tried to explain that we used "miri" to run most of our integration tests on top of an interpreter that detects all undefined behavior, but the current safety processes don't even have a concept for this, so we had to left this point out to pass certification (we still do it, it's just not something that's accounted for).

The process allows us to use crates.io crates "as is", even those with "unsafe code", as long as these have tests and we run them with our clippy linters enabled.

Basically, you just need to pay an entity to say that you don't have absurdly horrible software practices. That's where C and C++ have set the bar, and this bar is absurdly easy to meet with Rust, given that it has support for unit tests, most code available already has tests, has a linter built in, etc.
Often the interviewers ask variations of the same question. Variations of "What's your weak spot?", "Tell me about an example where you coached someone", "Walk me through an ethical dilemma you've had", "Why do you want to work here" and so on. Seems unfair to penalize for "same story" when there's "same question".
> If content producers are willing to put in the hard work of developing a reputation for quality output slowly, disseminated through trusted sources, surely augmented by some form of paid marketing but not by just spamming the web with links in the hopes that they can get clicks and then use dark patterns to keep people on the site long enough to monetize 20 seconds of their eyeball time, then maybe they can get people to willingly pay them.

What do you think traditional print media organizations were trying to do for decades before they gave up and embraced the new normal with layoffs and consolidation? Substack is an extremely, small, extremely premium part of what used to be the whole.

> Consumers don't want to pay because most content on the web is not worth paying for.

Maybe much content on the web is not worth paying for, but the vast majority consumers don't want to pay regardless of the quality, not because of it. It has literally been impossible for most news organizations to survive because people would rather read the advertising-funded "22 year-old" than a quality outlet where they have to pay any amount of money.
I agree with your point on semantics. "Free Software" means whatever you define it to mean.

That said, sharing your code to be used in certain ways, not others, or for purposes you hate is maintaining control. That is relevant to "is it free?" I don't think it's morally bad, unless you take an absolutist stance that all software must be free.

To the normative point... As more of the software industry is concentrated in monopolies, the benefits of Free Software tend to concentrate there too. At that point, it's harder to feel good about it and sharing your code selectively often feels better. I also think that server side software breaks some of the Free Software logic. Users of the software aren't technically users, and they don't inherit Free Software's rights. Again, this makes the normative point bland and unattractive.
There is a strong argument that cooperative populations are more effective/efficient than non-cooperative.

Structures and processes that place a high value on all people and their many quirks instead of conformity to an arbitrary leader are likely to do better in most situations than ones that don’t.
What are you talking about?
They pay sales tax based on revenue, and they provide a lot more than facilitate payments.
To the people down-voting this, I realise that my post espouses a controversial opinion for Hacker News. But could you please explain what you disagree with?
Things cost money.

Things that don't cost to buy at least as much as they cost to make, are not sustainable by definition and will be riddled with systemic problems like shortage, rationing, etc.
Deutschlandfunk alone is worth it imho
We have more than five senses. A neuroscientist explains our hidden abilities
Isn't that exactly what this is?
> Well for me personally, a big part of it is a conscious desire to reduce the unilateral control that the Rust Foundation and core rustc developers have over the language

That's not really something they can do without hard-forking the language.

They either stick to what the reference implementation does, or don't. But as soon as they don't, it's essentially a forked language with incompatible nuances.
I expect HN to be close to 90%
I think their point is that this isn't really social housing, it's a perk for a very exclusive group of people. Not all that different from a waiting list for membership to an exclusive golf course.
I just checked. I own Apple stock through my RRSP mutual fund. Looks like 0.5% of my investment is Apple.

Can I ascertain, about myself, that this wouldn’t affect my decision making?
> is it morally bad to add a license that stops this behavior?

Maybe not, but such a license will stop me from including it into Debian or other distros that provide Free Software only, and I won't be able to use your code in or mix with projects under a copyleft license such as GPL. If that's what your intention is, then go for it. If not, maybe rethink.
Is there anything better, though?
Why should they? They want OEM diversification of Android ecosystem.

And for what matters, non-techies love Samsung´s UI skin.
It's odd a company of the size of GM cannot roll their own gas station and toad construction network.

What's the purpose of the Mozilla organisation? Is it in creating a analytics platform? Mind that value of GA comes from all the info they have and thus can estimate age, gender, social things, ... of users etc. Building an comparable service is a notable effort with little synergies to what Mozilla does. (Whereas Google can combine with information from other businesses)
> I mean that if K or some language is actually interpreting without a virtual machine at some stage, that is indeed going to be slower than any language with code running on a virtual machine.

Not necessarily. The VM itself will introduce overhead and potentially blow out cache etc.. You can argue, as the article does, that this is a small proportion of execution time if you're executing a lot of loops, but that's inherently workload-dependent. If the language being interpreted is denser than the VM bytecode - something that's believable for a language like K - then interpreting directly makes more efficient use of memory bandwidth than interpreting via bytecode.
It's just how the site works, not a mistake by OP. If you go to the Afghanistan article and click to the link to the article you'll get the link that was posted to HN.

I'm not sure why the previous page is tracked like this but I guess they have their reasons.
I did try to search for John Deere to remind myself before posting because I wanted to draw that link, but the best I could find was that farmers were installing software from Russia (where it's widely available, unlike the US) to enable repairs. The articles didn't say this was illegal (which makes sense under my limited understanding of the DMCA), but did mention it'd break warranty under current rules.
Cliffhanger of the day :-)
> Because the history of other platforms which have done this, shows that ads didn't go away.

This is classic negativity bias, I can think of plenty of platforms that transitioned to paid models without ads
These aren’t examples of questions you’ll get in the Amazon interview process. It’s also 4-8hrs of interviews just for the final loop. So you’ll get some overlap, but also literally hours of other topics. If hours of conversation are anchored to the same single event it’s unlikely to reflect well.
Like craigslist 2.0? They could capitalize on the fact that there are existing sub-communities around various niches.
Flexible products cost more to design, implement, and support than simple ones. Outside of expensive tools for professionals (and web browsers oddly enough) the market seems to have spoken that not enough consumers are willing to pay for that flexibility.

(Personally I like designing expressive/extensible products, so that constrains me to working on tools for professionals.)
That's exactly the kind of semantics shenanigans the grandparent is talking about. The article you linked to uses a very specific definition of freedom that may or may not be shared by others intuitively, and uses that specific definition to argue that restricting certain uses are not actually restricting freedom but restricting another concept that they excluded from their definition of freedom in the first place.
major parties all support crap like this

That's because the major parties represent what they think the people want, and the people aren't motivated enough (or actually don't give a shit) to get a different message through. Cue my commentary.

Every democracy gets the government they voted for.
It's going to be a hell for the users and the smaller developers.

Devs will have to support multiple platforms, different API and options. Also different legal arrangements would be needed as each country has different laws and processes. Remember the agreements and forms we fill for different countries when we want to sell paid apps/features on App Store? I also can't wait to pay account fees for many app stores and modify my apps to fit specific app store rules.

The %30 cut, for me covers this boring complexity. I'm sceptical that the potentially lower commissions will offset the added development and administrative costs.

As for the users, people will start forgetting where they paid what. They will get frustrated, blame devs etc. It would become tiresome and many will be turned off the moment a payment is requested simply because they don't want to go through the same stuff multiple times.

I despise platform fragmentations. Instead of telling companies what they must do, I think the regulators should intervene for market fairness, i.e. Apple&Google getting heavily fined when enforce different rules on different developers differently or compel them to accept an app in the App Store if they can't clearly indicate which rule is being broken.

I would like to remind you all the troubles we need to go through to support just platforms: AppStore and Play Store. I am NOT looking forward to start paying fees and do development/Marketing work/Adjustments for Epic, Microsoft, Oracle, T-Mobile, Vodafone etc. just to reach the exact same users as of today.

Edit:

I, as a developer, don't want to deal with multiple platforms and their management and fees. Please tell me if you are mobile developer or is your opinion ideological. The Arguments so far look like coming from people who have no real experience with getting an app into the AppStore.

How do you plan to sell Apps in the UK, France, Turkey, charge VAT and pay it to the respective governments for example. How do you plan to file your export paperwork in the US? How do you plan to deal with compliance?

Seriously, are there any indie developers here with hands on experience? How do you handle international trade and taxation outside of platforms like AppleStore?
I Put a Job Listing on Floppy Disks and Hid Them in SF
The title seems to have been truncated. Presumably it meant to end with “, according to a Google Analytics competitor”
Are you really asking that? In EU paper shopping bags are mandated due to environmental reasons https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/27/the-last..., just like longer product lifespan https://www.beuc.eu/press-media/news-events/european-parliam.... None of those are directly beneficial to consumer at the moment of purchase in an obvious way, aka you pay more so almost no one would pick that option on their own accord, but have wide ranging long time ecological and usability ramifications.
Is rationing ... bad?

How would raising the rent change the wait time for ground floor housing? By forcing poor people to move out because richer people want to move in?

That doesn't sound like a good thing.

According to standard economics, since there's a demand, why isn't there other, new housing along these lines - where costs are paid for by investments and entrance fees rather than rents?
These are all the very same reasons why MBAs and B-school grads work for the "Big 4" Consultancies (Deloitte, EY, KPMG, Accenture). They work there a few years for "Resume fodder", all the while being ground down with 80+ work week hours, not working on anything particularly enjoyable, and learning primarily how the Big 4 Work and not really how the industry works.

There are other comparisons between the inner workings of the FAANG and Big 4, but I'll leave that for those in FAANG to make the comparisons.
China mounts wave after wave of cyberattacks on Australia