skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Access to customer data
See customers’ emails, so you can communicate with them for upsells, offers and product news.

As a seller, you understandably want that valuable buyer info.

But as a customer, I'd deliberately avoid Paddle to keep my privacy and avoid spam. If anyone thinks that Paddle's 10% fee might mean the final in-app purchase price would be lower which would make it worth the tradeoff to give my data, I'm not so sure about that since an interpretation of the ruling still gives Apple the right to get 30% via Paddle: https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/14/apple-can-still-charge-its-ap...

If anyone thinks getting a % of someone else's payment stream is unusual, consider how the "360" record label deals[1] with musicians are structured. All the musician's revenue (CDs, streaming, t-shirts) regardless of payment method (box office or website selling tshirts) is split with the record label. Why is that "unfair" situation even possible?!? Because the musician signed a contract agreeing to the revenue split.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_deal
Because socialists want to take everyone else’s money and redistribute it, so then nobody can be rich?
> his arguments are typically sound

Telling someone to kill themselves is not a sound argument under any circumstances.
Well, if Mozilla trusts someone - I feel curious. I would believe they have a chance to be better than others and my trust to them in fact goes from 0% to 25%.
A look at Bond cars past and present
Its not by default. You have to turn this feature on.
Perhaps the blame lies with outlook and confluence then?
Ask HN: Do USB-C cables without data channel exist?
Before USB-C there were many USB-cables that had no data-connection. This can be a security feature against hardware attacks.

I've searched for USB-C without data but I haven't found anything yet.

One could block D+/- on a USB-A to USB-C cable of course, but I wonder if commercially available USB-C to USB-C cables don't exist at all.

An adapter for public charging etc. would be a nice gadget for next christmas.
Go nuts, product creators! :D
> What are people doing with the time that they would have spent traveling to procure the item that is being delivered?

Scrolling Instagram and watching Netflix.
https://archive.is/h95AH
Thanks for the heads up, fixed it and pushed an update. Need to have someone professional check the copy out. It's bad taste to have grammatical errors on an author focused platform.
> GB sized assets

You don't need such assets to make good games anyway. The obsessions with AAA are unhealthy - many of the best games are not AAA at all, but strictly indie.
If you donate to Mozilla, you don't pay for Firefox at all.

Conversely, AFAIK, Wikimedia doesn't accept money for merchandising their users. At least not in any official, straightforward way.
Same; but exploration doesn't rule out greed and/or convenience.
Suggesting someone didn’t read the article is against the HN guidelines.
okay, thanks commenting here. With so less info, it felt a bit confusing. Good to know there are others as well.
Sounds like your country happens to have a particularly poor implementation of a national payment system, which has biased you into thinking Apple is somehow the only company on earth who is able to make a decent payment system.

Unfortunately for Apple that is not the case. With ideal, which again has been around for more than a decade, payments are instant and secure. Everyone has been using it for a decade. Works great! No need to pay apple 30%, and yet they demand it.
> UB was meant to be "this cannot be defined portably, refer to your CPU's documentation"

You're probably thinking of implementation-defined behaviour, which is the term for behaviour that, although not fully specified by the standard, is a valid behaviour for the program.

Undefined behaviour is different. From the article: "Undefined behavior gives the implementor license not to catch certain program errors that are difficult to diagnose."

Many people don't notice the distinction, and their intuition about what compilers should do with their code matches implementation-defined behaviour; and therefore they complain when, for UB, it does not behave this way.

There is a very strong argument for reclassifying many specific UBs as implementation-defined behaviours, but that's a rather different conversation from "the compiler should always do something sensible when encountering UB".
How Airbnb Manages to Do Business in China
Have you looked at Google scholar? Less than 5 minutes of “effectiveness therapy anxiety” gave me multiple pages of results going back decades.
Great fast fix -- I'm not sure you need someone professional but hopefully your potential customers convert long before they get down to the bottom of the page! :)

[EDIT] - Two more things:

- "Heyy" in the page title

- "we know you'll love [IndiePaper]" might be better than "it". Getting your project's name to stick in heads is probably easier with more mentions
That might be just the motivation needed to create a fork.
The world with a 70 meters sea-level rise
Surely a deadline is just an estimate you bet the farm on :)
The latter. The numbers are not precise, it's just to show that you really don't need a lot of paying people and they really don't need to pay a lot each.
I have asked very specific questions, and you are responding with vague references to "the protocol" and very bad economic justifications for the feasibility of it all.

> Bitcoin protocol to be immutable.

The protocol doesn't matter for the purposes of these questions. The point is that your proposed architecture relies on a "few specialized miners".

These miners (whether BTC, BCH or BSV) are few presumably due to the costs of running the operation profitably. PoW requires a lot of energy and blockspace requires ever more storage capacity - in the case of BSV, they would be requiring TBs of storage per week.

> And it's the police who verify

What police??? You just said before that miners can only act on their own interest, then you go to say there is someone that can force miners to do (or not do) something?

> If they can't change the rules, there's no profit for some miners to collude.

Like you said, in your design, they are few. If they are few, they can act as a cartel, which is effectively THE SAME as "changing the rules". They can collude to increase fees. They can collude to create periodic 51% attacks. They can collude to block transactions from certain addresses.

> ISPs are few in the world, but We are not saying they are centralized.

The cost to run one ISP is not dependent on how many other ISPs are out there. Its profitability may depend on market conditions and the market price may fluctuate due to increasing supply. But the operational costs are predictable and they grow slower than revenue. Also, it's very unlikely that once an ISP acquired a customer that they will be easily migrating to another that started offering better prices. Lastly, an ISP can use its servers for a long time, even if a newer/more powerful model comes to the market.

Mining does not give you that. The cost to run a miner goes up with the amount of competition. Every one is competing for more hashpower and if you don't keep up in the race, your revenue is lost. People running outdated mining rigs will be priced out of the market or forced to buy newer/more efficient rigs. No amount of specialization and optimization will let you compete with a miner that is running on China with subsidized and/or dirty energy.
Some random app store reviewer fella. Not sure if you've ever been on the phone with them, but it does not inspire confidence at all.
I really don’t think this is such a bad thing. It makes it much easier to develop software and has helped result in the explosion of awesome digital products that we see today.

I do have my fingers crossed that Rust+WASM+WGPU will bring about some more efficient products, though.

But I don’t think non-technical users value memory efficiency as much as we like to think sometimes.
The only thing I require from an SQL formatter is to make typos and boolean mistakes super easy to spot, especially as it grows in size. At first glance it might seem strange, but I like indentation on even the first term of an AND.

SELECT
a,
b,
count(*) as count
FROM
table
JOIN
table2
ON
table.key1 = table2.key1
AND
table.key2 = table2.key2
AND
-- 1 day apart
DATEADD('day', 1, table.key3) = table2.key3
WHERE
cond1
AND
cond2
AND
(
cond3
OR
cond4
)
GROUP BY
(a, b)
ORDER BY
count desc,
a asc
LIMIT
1000
;

Yes, that's a lot of whitespace, but it helps for complex queries.
Mozilla wants funding? Here's an idea. Track down the corporations using Firefox and convert them to paying customers. I'll start with the two I know off the top of my head:

* CVS
* Lowes
> It's also worth noting that there is a strict separation between the Mozilla Foundation (the tax exempt non-profit) and Mozilla Corporation (the wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary which builds Firefox). The Foundation is not directly involved in the creation of Firefox.

Wow I didn't know that. I always assumed Firefox was developed by a non-profit. So it basically means that Firefox is a commercial product (the purpose of which is to make money). Thanks for that bit of information which was not at all obvious if you don't pay close attention...
I’m not crazy about this development but if they were going to add any kind of advertising this is just about the least intrusive way to do it. And, importantly, it’s only based on the search terms, not anything about you personally, so it doesn’t seem like it would feed into the surveillance capital machine. I don’t like it, but if it keeps FF viable I’ll roll with it. I just hope it’s the ONLY thing they do and not the start of a slippery slope down
A used Chevy Spark is a great car if you don’t need more than 100 miles of range in a charge. I love mine, and it’s unbelievably zippy in terms of torque/acceleration.
There’s a very large nearly endless supply of laborers that can do this type of work though. The more niche your skill set the higher you can demand in pay. This is economics 101. You are putting this into a moral space that doesn’t reflect economic realities.
Congrats on finishing grad school.

I don't doubt that there are exceptions to every rule, which is why I qualified the above in terms of undergrad programs, which I've seen first hand to be a rather complete waste of time.

Even if someone wanted to go into a creative writing specific graduate program, they'd be better served getting other humanities fundamental learning from their undergrad courses, in my opinion. Everything I saw in undergrad creative writing could be learned in a couple of months.
Classic prisoner's dilemma
Another nail in the coffin. Mozilla has lost their sense of purpose.
Canada and Norway are constitutional monarchies and can not be compared to countries where the monarchs have real power.
Safari enables me to create accounts on lots of services controlled by third parties and, for some of these, Safari does not symmetrically enable me to initiate a deletion in-app.

(I’ll give you that Safari isn’t in the App Store but many other browsers are. It would viewed as anti-competitive for Apple to remove all competing browsers.)
Study about the impact of open source on technological independence
Justices learn about a habeas petition pending for 14 years
> you can also right click and remove it.

Are you sure? For me, I can only "Disable" it, and it gets promptly re-enabled right after clicking on some other item in the sidebar.

There doesn't seem to be any way to disable it permanently, or, preferably, removing it entirely.
Try just installing base Brave

- "Sponsored" backgrounds (often crypto ads or credit cards!)

- "Cards" with more weird Crypto ads!

- Brave "news"

- Brave "rewards"

Yes I can turn all that of, and I have, but hard to recommend to normal users that dont spend 10min turning all the shit off.

They also did some weird link shit a while back.
A guy at my school(in Poland) got in serious trouble because of his hoodie with the huge FCUK logo on it. It took actually showing the principal that this is a legit company[0] and not just a play on "FUCK".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Connection_(clothing)
I'll take a look at this for a future content piece. Please email me austinpena \[at\]taloflow . ai if you've used it, I'd love to hear your thoughts!
It really does seem so incredibly unlikely that biology works!
I think you may be living in the 90s. The global population has decided what their privacy and autonomy is worth. An individual cannot move the needle.
> Firefox still has no alternative in the privacy / user-centric space (don't mention Brave, I'm gonna get mad).

Vivaldi perhaps https://vivaldi.com/ ?

It is still a chrome derivative, but it feel less shady and less spyware than Brave. And it's pretty good and configurable.

Firefox remain my first and main browser tho. I never ever used "proper" chrome, not even one day.
The only way to make profit on bitcoin is to make someone else poorer by that amount. That's what makes it a ponzi - anything with this property that pretends to be an investment is one. Implementation details are irrelevant.

>Goods and services provided by humans have no intrinsic value but become precious simply there being demand by other humans.

Nonsense that's easy to disprove: try to stop eating food and start 'valuing' dirt as food. You will, of course, starve to death. Why? Because actual value is objective and exists regardless of what people think.

Intrinsic value objectively exists, but in most cases can only be estimated, correctly or not. It depends both on location and time coordinates.

Civilizations that estimate objective value too incorrectly collapse or get conquered. Those that estimate it correctly enough prosper.

The long term metric for any civilization is fortunately clear enough - energy use, also called the Kardashev's scale. It's a long term metric because foolish civilizations can waste energy in the short term (eg. by mining bitcoin) - but because it's wasted it results in less available energy in the future.

In cases like bitcoin there are no unknowns - it objectively has negative value and destroys wealth. It's backed by nothing and generates no income.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying don't play in crypto.

Never in history was it so easy to get rich by extracting wealth from others - which is what bitcoin and 99% of crypto in general is for. Is it a scam to promote it? My personal definition is pretty simple: it's a scam when promotion involves lies. Telling people bitcoin has value, while being a developer (thus smart enough to know it's worthless)? Scammer. Telling people it may go up in price (because other people may buy it)? Not a lie.

China was smart to ban crypto - they're too big to hope to profit at the expense of the west, and in fact most coins and tokens are held by Westerners, virtually guaranteeing it would end up as wealth transfer from China.

Crypto tokens can have real value - if they monetize efficiency increase in the real world. A smart contract economy is a possibility and it can exist - but right now it's all in the proof of concept stage. Without the ponzi factor I think eth should be valued between $1B-$10B (based on future potential, not current income), other smart contract platforms collectively at 20% of it, some defi tokens like MKR in the upper 8 figures - lower 9 figures. Everything else - worthless.
Let’s not forget about onestop.mid
I don't understand why comparing to needlessly unsafe workplaces of the past (or inherently dangerous jobs of the present) is useful. Is your argument about more than just the semantics of what constitutes "extremely dangerous"?

The point being made is that the number of deaths attributable to grocery shopping (!) will rise sharply due to these ventures. Would you support a policy that every employer over 10000 employees has to sacrificially murder an employee annually (0.01% fatality rate per year), because "it's not as dangerous as being a policeman so it's fine"?
Was surprised it's SQL but guess that makes sense/faster to be done there
I pay for my VPN provider because I love the way they work, with Open Source clients, fancy docs like how to set up a mullvad wireguard VPN on an OpenWRT router etc.
And they come across as convinced security nerds to me. It needs no registration (it just generates a code) and you can pay in cash :)

This is by no means a reason to trust them of course. But I see no big difference to trusting my ISP so they're my go-to solution for my guest network at home and a better feeling when browsing in public Wi-Fi, even if that's just a leap of faith.

That said, there are quite some reasons to pay for VPN. Using Tor for my router is no more secure as exit nodes could be operated by anyone. Using my cellular data as suggested by the article is falling back on my ISP.

And so would be setting up a VPN to my home network, which unfortunately isn't even covered in this article even though that is not too difficult either (for some, at least).
Many people misunderstand the meaning of the word "conservative", which is proof of how much the overton window has moved. If you want to progress on social issues, you are not a conservative, but a progressive. Those two things are completely incompatible. If you support gay marriage, you cannot be a conservative. You want to "progress" on social issues, which makes you a progressive. He did not support gay marriage, which makes him a conservative and nothing else.

There also is a big difference between not wanting gays to marry and being homophobic. I don't want people to be able to marry tables, and that does not make me a tablephobic. I'm not disgusted or afraid of tables, but I don't think they should be able to be part of the sacrament of marriage.

>he hasn't publicly gone back on his stance AFAIK

If, as a tech worker, you told me to publicly declarate my stance on a political issue, I would rightly tell you to sod off.
Trying to hurt someone with words also induces a reasonable assumption of that person wishing you ill. You don't know how far they will go in either case.
I bet some mozilla devs have their own Github Sponsors or Patreon.
Maybe, just maybe, it's possible to have a funding model that isn't a derivative of a newspaper from 1927.
> Brave is outright corrupt

I am sure I will regret asking... but why do you think that?
Real-life relationship advice for would-be couples
All of the Mozilla Corporation's profits are reinvested in Mozilla, being a nonprofit charity caused tax issues that caused them to spin off the Mozilla Corporation.
Have they tried setting up a Patreon?
Really? (Author here)

What browser are you using?
Sure, roll your own payment system.
And the no button needs to be equal prominence (size, location) with the yes button, not hidden away.

I understand Mozilla needs money but it is very disappointing to see them do the same dark user patterns as other tech companies.
Calling out a problem with Chinese research in general is fine. Asserting that an individual piece of research should be dismissed due to broader trends related to one’s race instead of evaluating it on its own merit is racist. And it’s even worse in this article where the comment refers to an unrelated article which has flaws that clearly don’t exist in this paper’s case (as such a study could not be a product of a paper mill). This fact should be obvious to anyone who has thought critically about the fundamental reason why racism is wrong for more than five minutes.
> High EQ individuals have told me this is wrong and the appropriate reaction would be to take offence and try to make them feel bad, but I've argued this would just result in an objective reduction in happiness in the world so it wouldn't make sense.

As the sibling comment eluded to, you definitely seem to be the "High EQ individual" in this story!
Many of the people who need the food bank have jobs. Wages just aren’t high enough for some. You could donate a few hundred dollars and make a world of difference for a lot of people.
Could be worth exploring. :) If you do have ASD, its possible some random thing you do or say at work limits you, and you could possibly learn to behave a bit differently if that got a better response from neurotypical people. And/or declare your ASD publicly if you've got it, which might make some people more considerate of you. This doesn't seem entirely fair to have to do this, the world should be better about neuro-diversity, but it may be a pragmatic thing to do. As a random internet stranger, I'd say some of your posts might slightly display "rigid" thinking, not thinking out of the box and what you could change about your situation as much as some people. Which is a red flag to me for ASD. I've a family member who is undoubtedly ASD, no official diagnosis, he's stayed years in a job that's doing him no good whatsoever, pretty much because he doesn't like change. Hopefully this comment is taken as helpful and I don't wish any offence. :) I'm surrounded by family and friends with ASD, and not 100% sure I'm not slightly on the spectrum myself. ;). (not always writing in tactful or diplomatic way is my own red flag.. so please forgive if I haven't been tactful in this post!)
I felt likewise.
which overflowed hospitals?
I agree. 68k was one of the most orthogonal architectures ever.
I created Newsy - it's a different way of parking domains. I'd say it's the "modern" way and it's way better (but I'm biased).

https://www.newsy.co

Newsy turns your unused domain name into a content aggregator (think of Reddit-clone).

But it's completely automated so you set it up once and you can leave it running. It comes with all the features you'd expect from a Reddit-like content site (e.g. membership, newsletters, comments, social sharing). Contents are discovered based on the keywords you specify.

Monetization is also built in. You can add your own ads, get paid for sponsored posts or even charge membership fee.

Would love for you to try it out.
I just want to see them implementing their policy against the transactional companies and the very rich class before believing it is possible to severely restrict carbon emissions
Perhaps it's time to revive the IceWeasel. Actually, I wonder how Debian will handle this situation...
> Mutation in animals typically lower it's viability in humans.

What is that based on? The Marseille IV mutation of COVID19 came from an animal reservoir and had no issue to cross species and it was one of the deadliest variants.
Why should someone who is making $100 revenue off a transaction pay the same fee as me who's making $1 revenue?
Not really. The ads are just annoying. The cryptocurrency implies fraud.
> In Japan, ivermectin has been far less politicized than in the West

Would you say that ivermectin is politicized in the UK, where this article comes from?

I am in the UK and I would not.