skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "In addition to lower fees, Paddle said benefits of its payment system will include access to customer data"

Blood is in the water, and the sharks are howling.
Well that's rather flippant. Where does it say that Apple is only talking about social media apps?

And what has it got to do with GDPR. Apple are not the GDPR police in my country. But now you mention it, are the app reviewers going to be trained in GDPR and document retention exemptions, or are they just going to hand out bans?

Getting sick of the down voting from the Apple fanbois of hn.
Agreed. Markets are ruled by majorities not minorities, no matter how right or wrong the majority may be. Let's stop pretending consumers always act in their best interests or even have access to: capacity to analyze (time, priority, interest) and knowledge to make good choices. This is all about the will and momentum of the mob and this isn't enough to sway a critical mass of the mob to exert their influence.
Well over the decades the value proposition has changed. In the case of manufacturing, the proposition was you give us money, we give you a quality, well built product that will last a long time. Also, we would recirculate some of that money back to the economy in the form of wages paid to US workers.

Now it's you give us money, we'll continue to figure out how to make it cheaper and it's ok if the quality slips because it's for our benefit of course, and we'll spend all our labor overseas.
>And even worse: most of them don’t give a shit about the reputation of FB. They just want to send messages and share pictures through those apps.

Yes. But those people will die eventually. And younger people aren't adopting FB or care about it.
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I am fascinated with bootloaders and kernel writing. I am not very good at it, but I am fascinated by it, and every so often I try to learn some more. It feels a bit like a useless skill to learn (legacy BIOS bootloaders, that is) given UEFI dominance. But it connects me with my childhood playing with 286es and wondering how to program them.

I love articles like this that break it down. The biggest challenges so far have been getting the assembler to output the correct format (ie, 16 bit real mode) and learning inline assembler in C (and getting GCC to output the correct format).
Ask HN: Wouldn't federated social network mean disinformation and lawlessness?
I've often thought about how to make decentralized or federated social networks... But I desperately hate the spread of disinformation on social networks, and I fear making a tool that makes it easy to spread illegal content.

What are your thoughts, HN? Should we make the decentralized social network, or would it cause more harm than good?
> - Sponsored Backgrounds: just random places of the world like tropical beaches, Buddhist temples or mountains.

No, these are just random backgrounds. At some point I started seeing backgrounds advertising Crocs and stuff like that, at which point I discovered the Sponsored backgrounds option and turned that off, leaving me back with random pics of scenery
Hey everyone: stop talking about your compliant tax strategies!

It’s been nice to want to help people but now, obviously, too many people know of some and their representatives are changing the laws.

It’s back to the way it’s always been: if you can afford good lawyers then you get to know of obscure tax codes. Lets leave it that way.
That's a slightly different problem from the Scunthorpe problem.

You have a customer who gives her name as "Fanny Batter". Is that a permissible name?

What about "Juan Kerr"?
Or "Amanda Huggenkiss"?

It's not about replacing "ass" with "butt", but detecting rudeness/humour in context.

I'd be amazed if machine learning can solve this one. It's extremely hard for humans.

* all those names should be rejected btw
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Not precisely fraud, but it is an example of the negatives of the product vendor (impressions, in this case) also owning the marketplace.

It would be rational for advertisers to pull down their spend to avoid getting hit with devalued impressions. Ironically, if enough folks did, that could cause a panic, which would make things worse for FB.
I haven’t closed my account but I deleted the apps and only access it via web, on a computer, and only when I need something specific from it. I’ve logged in maybe 3 times all of 2021
I think it's also 6 prime hours of the day too - if it was down between 12-6am I'm sure that wouldn't have been nearly a big of a problem (in the US at least)
Personally, a proprietary browser really rubs me the wrong way
Glenn Greenwood in my opinion is not a neutral party here. In recent times he clearly has chosen sides.
This recipient of hot coffee contains hot coffee that is hot.
Perhaps the next business for that set would be “personal assistants, but remote gig worker”.
I don’t share my phone with the 500+ people in my FB network, and vice versa.
With the help from IBM, Dell and Oracle's money.

And even it now sees competition from other POSIX platforms for IoT, with more business friendly licensing.

It isn't going away, but now there is more free beer alternatives for UNIX folks that don't want GPL kernels.
This has no impact on the average person in the low to middle class income range. This is just a loophole allowing the rich to put a bunch of money into their IRAs and watch it grow in a tax advantaged way.

The average person that's putting the max of $6k (or less) into their IRA is not impacted by this and it's business as usual for them.

I believe this is in response to people like Peter Thiel

https://www.propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tec...
You seem to be disregarding the possibility that Norwegians care about the environmental impact of fossil fuels. Do you not consider this likely?
Why have an IRA when you have Social Security?
I think the political party breakdown is very interesting as well. Trust from the Democratic side has not really dropped so much, but the mistrust from the Republican side looks absolutely staggering.

11% of Republicans trust the media - which is down from 14% 4 years ago. This doesn't seem like a big drop, but relatively, that is still a 20% decrease, in an already low amount.

Something is deeply wrong when half of your adult population just flat out doesn't trust you. Where do these people get their news about the world? Do they just live in a constant state of mistrust?
No, that lets the sellers contact apple who may or may not choose to forward the message to me. I want the sellers to contact me, since I'm doing business with them. What happens when apples proxy server goes down, or they start charging money for it? Very problematic for everyone involved if apple can keep the contact information of your customers hostage.
> there is already a double-digit premium Facebook must pay for talent

That's an odd way of putting it. Do Google and Netflix and other big tech companies face the same "headwinds"? Their compensation is comparable.

Facebook pays a premium because it's drawing from the top of the talent pool and is facing competition from other companies trying to acquire people with the same level of exceptional skill. The idea that FB has to pay extra to convince regular people to work at FB because FB has a bad reputation is HN fantasy. The world doesn't work that way.

No, Facebook is not a stain on anyone's resume no matter how fervently a few very online activist types might want it to be. The rest of the industry laughs at the idea.

Anyone saying that he won't fire FB alumni just has a bad case of sour grapes and couldn't attract people of that caliber anyway.
That is true, good on you.

Well the violence did occur in a school, and the rest of the school reacted the way they were trained to when they hear gunshots. However I think that to share the same category as other events where students show up distinctly with the purpose of indiscriminate violence and bloodshed, is a bit of a stretch. We are simply disagreeing over Diction, therefore we are both correct :D

Also yes I would be beyond terrified I believe, however I'm not sure that relates to your assertion.
Unnecessary like a native adblocker that won't get fucked over by Manifest v3, tracker blocking, anti-fingerprinting tech and defaulting to privacy friendly search engines?
You don't even need to read the article, just listen to the 10 second clip of Sen. Ed Markey. It's not a covert thing
What way would you suggest to change the school shooting issue without highlighting it? This actually could be the best way of doing that: Highlighting the shooting itself but not the terrorist responsible.
Actually this messaging has achieved significant impact in the past 3 years.
They might not have the majority of the public on board, but they do have the majority of Dems:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/18/more-americ...

Unfortunately for them it seems to be having the opposite affect on Republicans, but not to the same degree.
economist.com...well people running the actual economy don't seem to share the sentiment. fb pcr is trending low [1] & ~$400 is still the consensus trefis estimate.
[1]https://www.optionistics.com/put-call-ratio/fb
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>If this was a webapp I'd be willing to pay.

If this was a webapp, I'd skip it.
> But: most people I know have the slightest clue that Insta and WhatsApp belong the FB group

Citation needed.

My loading screen in WhatsApp clearly states "From FACEBOOK".
high-appreciation residential real-estate of all kinds is attracting "investment" like flies on the beach; its not fake.. if a financial law intended to help low- to middle-income earners is being abused by a few with many multiples of common money amounts, why is that a "scare tactic" ?
> The culture is perceived to be dishonest from the top down. That is why they get bludgeoned more than Twitter, or even Tik Tok.

Are you sure? My guess is 95%+ of Facebook critics don't know about any of the three instances you linked. In which case, it's unlikely to explain why Facebook is being targeted.

Perhaps a better explanation is that Facebook is an order of magnitude larger than Twitter.
>Under these provisions, you would no longer be allowed to invest your IRA into private placements and single-member LLCs, regardless of your level of income or wealth.

Huh. So under current law, you can take your IRA money and "invest" it in a single-member LLC? Wild. Does that let you circumvent the proscription against living in properties you own through your IRA? Since in that case, the "owner" would be the LLC, rather than yourself per se?
"These people", really?
How would it be useful? Can anyone show me a non-SBC embedded system in which busybox/toybox are relevant?
Gemini (GUSD) I believe is fairly solid
The modern 401(k) practices emerged from one of these then-obscure tax codes, which I view as an unabashedly good outcome.
Interesting tidbit that countered my assumptions:

> None of this was inevitable: At the time of the sale to GateHouse, The Hawk Eye wasn’t struggling financially. Far from it. In the years leading up to the sale, the paper was seeing profit margins ranging from the mid-teens to the high 20s. Gannett has dedicated much of its revenue to servicing and paying off loans associated with the merger, rather than reinvesting in local journalism.

Like many of us I'm sure, my local (Gannett-owned) news website is awful. On the news page, you might get a handful of stories a week related to the actual town.

It's high school sports results, PR for new businesses (or remodeling of existing ones), some crime reports, health code violations. Granted there may not be much happening in a small town, but it's very surface level. I get the impression the journalists are told to live off a diet of aggregated reports sent to them rather than getting out to speak to anyone.

Like the linked piece suggests, it bears no relationship to what locals are talking about in Facebook and NextDoor groups. The community chats about constant flooding in certain areas, discussions related to Covid including staffing, the changing weather, personal allegations which if were true would be scandalous but go unchecked, the availability of public services.
Yeah 100% - Java lacks many of the features required for serious FP and the ecosystem of libraries is heavily OOP too (although functional wrappers can usually be implemented).
>it seems like most of the critiques of social media coming from big / old media are just symptoms of having their revenue bled away

I feel that so many people blindly hate Facebook that they overlook this point. The loudest critics of social media are the old vanguards of news who are upset that the new kid on the block took their ad money.
this looks useful...does anything like it exist for Android?
Some other tech giant with similar issues that are not getting as bad a press at the moment.
But she doesn't even explain what the "mistake" was (moving OSS projects), and even down plays it by only mentioning merging a PR and not the intent behind the PR.

She also doesn't say why she thought this change was needed, or why on earth she would even think to do such a thing without talking with the maintainers.

These reads as a weak, non-apology to me - makes me wonder if the text was really written by her, or by legal.

For context, I've been working in Microsoft shops and with dotnet for 2 decades, and I'm pretty much a dotnet fanboi - the actions here have burned a tonne of goodwill, both with dotnet developers and those others who are/were tempted by it. I'm not angry, I'm disappointed :(
Ivermectin was first recommended by leading US clinicians, and has been successfully used in India, Mexico City, Czechia, Slovakia etc. A journalist's opinion on this highly politicized subject is of no value.

Maybe part of the studies that they reviewed have been purposely falsified (there are suspicions about the studies on the efficacy of the vaccines as well), however, it is also known that the studies finding no benefit of Ivermectin use were using very low doses of it - way below those recommended. I consider that sabotage as well.
Far-left Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen, who has advised lawmakers to pass legislation that would empower the establishment media at the expense of independent creators, worked for a unit at Facebook tasked with preventing “misinformation” around the 2020 election — the same group that would have been involved in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story.
You'd have to find it first. If the search engines don't promote it you'll never see it.
It’s a scare tactic. These rules are really aimed at people Peter Thiel, in response to the pro public’s investigation - they don’t even hit other famous IRA (ab)users like Mitt Romney.

But getting you angry enough to defend his wealth is much more difficult than obscuring the fact that you won’t be affected by them, so we instead get vague and scary warnings about the bill.
Meh, maybe it's the Republicans who have the right idea on trusting the news media here vs. the Democrats.

The problem is of course they're probably getting news from even less trustworthy places as you mention, but the news media simply doesn't deserve the trust of anyone in the general population.
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Thank you! I just tried it and --max-filesize worked great, ... -o also worked however it would be nice if -o showed a bit of context around the match (maybe 50 chars or so before and after), still useful all the same. Thanks again.
I don't think I will get any boosters, the behavior of authorities is atrocious and irresponsible on this matter. We wouldn't even have had a problem when we had fewer people out for the evil anti-vaxxers. I think authority needs a clear bump on their ideas. They already got enough, but they seem to learn quite slowly.

> I am vaccinated and favor vaccination

Me too, but that doesn't matter. That should be nobodies business from now on.
"Solana, up 9,801% in 2021 for seemingly no reason at all"

No reason at all, huh? Anybody with even a remote interest in crypto knows why Solana has exploded. It's L1 season and Solana is a direct competitor to ETH, which suffers from high usage fees.

Every other L1 has exploded in value. As said, L1 season. These kind of statements make me suspect the author never used crypto in their life.

The cultural gap between crypto and non-crypto is pretty hilarious. The reason crypto holders don't give a shit about any of this, is because to them, a 50%, 80% or even 90% pullback of a coin is just an ordinary Thursday.

You can't threaten a crypto holder with "losing it all", because that's an everyday reality for them. And so is multiplying their wealth by 2, 5, 10, 100.

Why would so many people engage in this degenerate gambling? This is the part skeptics just won't get. Because the existing financial system/situation doesn't work for them.

Young people are locked out of any and all assets. They can't afford real estate or any meaningful amount of stock. Savings accounts have a negative yield.

Crypto is the asymmetrical bet. There's the sizable risk to lose it all, yet an upside potential that is countless times larger. And in the case you lose it all, it wasn't that much anyway.

It is an act of desperation and a sign of very unhealthy issues in our "regulated" economy: low wages, job insecurity, student debt, inflation, low interest rates, inequality, the list goes on.

For sure there will be another crash. Nobody cares. Because they have nothing to lose anyway and will just start over. Because the underlying economic issues did not change.
It would be, were it a definition of volunteering.
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You’re essentially arguing that your group of acquaintances is a bellwether, or at least strongly predictive of national or global outcomes for one of the biggest companies in the world. I don’t know your acquaintances, but in general that seems pretty unlikely to me.

The threat to Facebook is not mass consumer hate and abandonment. It’s that no one likes them enough to stand up for them anymore, which empowers the relatively few people who seek advantage against them.

A lot of things in politics and policy become possible with relatively small shifts in public sentiment.
I apologize for OP, let's all stick to unbiased, objective reporting like the New York "Enhanced Interrogation" Times in the future
This is basically what I did. Downloaded my data, said "message me on Signal/iMessage/SMS, here's my phone number" and deleted my account.

I haven't missed anything, and friends/family that lost my phone number usually reached out to someone else to get it. They also don't mind using other platforms to get in touch with me.

Surprisingly, my mother formed a Signal group with my extended family and that's how we chat now. She's not exactly tech savvy, but found it very easy to use.
This is something I hope my own work can avoid. I like the idea of building accessible and powerful tools for regular human beings. I don’t want it to be aimed towards some version of themselves people want to be. I suppose the intent is to inspire and motivate, especially in the context of scheduling and tasks.

My fear is that marketing to regular people won’t work, but I suppose the data will eventually reveal that.
That's why I donate to charity.
The actual question:

> In general, how much trust and confidence do you have in the mass media -- such as newspapers, TV and radio -- when it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately and fairly -- a great deal, a fair amount, not very much or none at all?

The article reports that those responding with "great deal" or "a fair amount" is the second-lowest on record.
If they can also ship algebraic effects (and even better, typed algebraic effects), then I think it will push the language back firmly into "state of the art". This will mean it continues to get the attention it deserves. I'm excited about algebraic effects, I think they are much more intuitive than monads (and don't require code to be rewritten).
Julia is one of those products that is not only 10x better in one dimension, but is also at least marginally better in most other dimensions compared to Matlab. I think they have a bright future.

Julia is lucky because they are targeting not just a niche but a userbase that has been amassed already. Really what they're doing is directly taking on Matlab it seems, where Matlab users have gotten frustrated with how stale and expensive the language is. Julia has the fortunate task of convincing unsatisfied people who are paying a shit ton of money for an inferior product to try a superior product for free.
In any environment where most people have nearly indistinguishable from $0 in their private retirement accounts, I don't see the risk of someone blowing up their IRA being a material socialized risk.

1 in 4 Americans have no retirement savings: https://news.yahoo.com/1-4-americans-no-retirement-191314425... (same study: 1 in 8 over 60 have $0.)
Would it be cheating to use that Lisp interpreter written on-top of Malbolge?
I'll bite. What can I use Solana for?
The world would be a better place if that outage were permanent.
The income has already been taxed. The economics are identical to other qualified retirement plans. This is simply more about restricting freedoms and making excuses for targeting Peter Thiel personally.
I’d say inertia and unawareness of the FAANG salary market on the supply-side, and ageism and preference for demographic diversity over experiential diversity on the demand-side.
I really hope this doesn’t go away. My self directed IRA in Bitcoin has led me to prosperity. There was no other way to do it with my retirement funds really.
>there is already a double-digit premium Facebook must pay for talent

Really? Are they forced to pay more because people are actively avoiding the company, or because they have to pay more for top talent due to competitors?
That's all OP cares about, success. To them, computing isn't worth it if it's not popular. There's no reason to write code that won't be used, no reason to research if it won't literally change the landscape of consumer computing.

But consumer computing will never change, it will remain made of a stack of legacy parts in a trenchcoat. The only real change we've gotten in a decade is Vulkan/DX12- and those APIs just expose graphics the way consoles do. We've done that for decades it's still not new.

Research because it's fun, because it's an artistic outlet. make tiny virtual computers you can run in weird places and then run them in weird places! Because you can! Learn because it is engaging, and because sharing what you learn is rewarding.
slow news day?
Same engine.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584738
You could tell me that washing dishes for a crowd would cure cancer and it would not fill me with joy, pride, humility or reward. That doesn't mean I never find reward in helping others in-person or otherwise, and in some instances there's a sense of moral duty. Ultimately most people favor volunteer work that suits them, even if they don't admit it. An easy way to confirm this is that there are usually more effective ways to be charitable qua saving lives than chosen avenues; that doesn't mean it isn't meaningful, but there is a selfish element. I would also consider those aforementioned emotions you listed as personal benefit. Those aren't elicited through mere rationalization, but human contact, which releases Oxytocin. They scale not with real-world impact (which can feel too abstracted) but social contact. That's why charities struggle.
Same here. I've always wanted a timeline style scheduling program like this.

I've used a notebook exactly like this project, sort of a hybrid bullet note system. Eventually when work got too complicated I started doing the same thing in an RTF notes program.

But the biggest thing for me though is being able to add info VERY quickly without more than a few taps. Otherwise I'm just not going to bother with it.

My notes, I have a full keyboard and dedicated "open notes" button on my touch bar. Works excellent for me.