skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It utterly infuriates me that banks won't let you use their mobile apps -- which are inevitably their websites packaged in a bundle, with added tracking -- on a rooted (or jailbroken) phone, even though I am sure that the overwhelming majority of users on android who have a rooted device are likely to be the most technically sophisticated, with (in my case) the presence of mind to install updates to their four-year-old but perfectly usable device that would otherwise be considered EOL by its manufacturer. Meanwhile, the banks are expanding the contactless limit to £300 -- despite academics showing that covert antennas can do "wallet sniping" easily -- and have a horrendous attitude to security. 2FA is entirely based around random numbers and "Private Number" caller-ID barred phone numbers -- meaning that if someone was spoofing your account details, you'd never know. Their fraud detection algorithms tend to be quite good, but only if "your" criminal has stereotypical tastes -- I've been called up after I bought a computer at the apple store, for example, which is in-keeping with me, but not when my card was cloned and someone bought lots of drinks at a Weatherspoons.
It’s “just” about profit not revenue. And that was while companies like Sony still did smartphones in earnest. I remember being rather shocked when I read that… but I’m also far too lazy to google for it so… make of that what you will
Is it meant to be tongue and cheek? I personally didn’t get that impression. I assumed he was using the non-religious meaning of “fundamentalist”: strict and literal adherence to a set of principles.
What I don't get is why their search pigeonholes you into a certain category, and often the category isn't accurate. I find I get better results when I set it back to "all departments".
Also to allow people to take risks that might not pay off. You try your new molecule, it doesn't cure cancer, you still have a job.
you should be ok with market participants paying market price for a finite resource sold on a market.
Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)
Ask HN: What are some scams that are yet to go bust?
What's are some widely believed to be sound but hanging by a thread things around us that are not sustainable? Usually something a minority knows and talks about but most people aren't aware of.
The title is the name of the book written by the interviewee.

I’ve been inspecting the book this week and agree with many of the proposals (don’t grade homework, for example). The one I take most exception to after a first pass is the changing of the grading scale.

But still reading it. Shared the link here to get some other perspectives.
"Curious discourse in the 21st century" by dang. Title writes itself.
I suspect that's why Apple moved the URL bar to the bottom of the screen in iOS Safari. For better or for worse, it now stands out a lot more from the search boxed within websites.
I wonder, by percentage, how much of these profits are owed to click farmers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_farm

Apple devices claim to be "luxury" -- something I find hilarious, but the marketers certainly believe. It makes the clicks from an Apple device more valuable than a click from an Android device. Therefore, there's just going to be more sales to click farm companies. And they buy in bulk: https://www.equedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/clickfarm...

The entire mobile phone ecosystem is a hilarious ouroboros of marketing nonesense in the end. I would be laughing if the environmental and human costs weren't so extreme.
> Oh, I didn't know that.

In fact, F# has been open source longer than Roslyn (the C#/VB.NET compilers) and .NET Core!

There used to be a funny split in the repos: Microsoft had their own visualfsharp repo, and there was a blessed fork which was more community and Linux friendly.
>and we both were dumbstruck about iphone prices. We agree it's good hardware/products but the price is insane.

I'm honestly dumbstruck that people like you are dumbstruck. It's not very hard, and whether you your self use powerful handheld computers/cameras much it's objectively obvious others do a lot. Just do the normal ROI calc. Apple makes a feature for this called "ScreenTime". How many hours a day is the average iPhone user on their phone? A quick google search indicates over two hours. So that's over 700 hours per year, with a life time of at least two years on average.

Do the math. What is so shocking about spending <$1/hour on something so heavily used and important? What price privacy/security focus and long term upgrades? Subtract too the resale value. What is surprising here?
> Nuclear reactors cannot explode. It is not physically possible. It isn't even close to physically possible.

They can and they do (see: Chernobyl, Fukushima). But it's not a nuclear explosion (as you say, it's not possible with their fuel enrichment and geometry); it's a steam or hydrogen explosion.
Its using a wildcat round that nothing else does; that alone is reason to suspect this is an excuse to waste a bunch of money, not actually produce a viable weapon.

Not that there's no chance of value in the basic platform, but compare the "toyota technical" to what the army buys to do the same job, and apply the same divisor.
You don’t have to read everything posted on HN. If you really do feel compelled, it might be a good idea to take a break.
Why would you need iMessages? I don't find it more useful than old school sms messaging. If you want secure messaging perhaps whatsup or signal are better options anyway.
Swift Documentation Compiler
OpenBSD devs monitor all GitHub users
openbsd devs wrote code to monitor all users on github. if issue or pr refers to openbsd it is link in irc/matrix. they then decide if it should be mobbed by their devs or attack users for thoughts

link to src:
https://git.sr.ht/~qbit/gqrss
Honestly that is a compliment. When it comes to evaluating tech, the best statements are those where you can walk away knowing very clearly that yes, this meets my needs, or no this absolutely does not meet my needs.
/lib/systemd/network

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man5/systemd.netwo...

or

find / -name '*.network'

But yeah, BSD's would have them at one place -> /etc ...linux-distro standardization is a terrible mess.
Apple has brand loyalty, and apparently, they earned it.

In buying an Android handset, your options shift over time. Samsung has the most brand loyalty, and some high-end handsets, as well as some lower end ones. The rest of the brands seem to waffle between trying to be high-end, and being the best value.

For example, OnePlus set out to be compete against the high-end with really low prices, but over time, the prices caught up to the competition.

Google has made affordable Nexus handsets, moved towards high-end Pixels, but then backed off and started selling mainstream handsets.

It's hard, as a consumer, to know what to replace your handset with when the time comes, because what was good might still not be good. And maybe a newer brand offers a better deal that sways you.

While competition is mostly a good thing in the Android handset market, it also makes for some unpredictability, and few companies figure out where to position themselves, and maintain excellence.
If I was to choose between Amazon and somewhat equal third party brand, I would pick Amazon brand every time. Reviews are manipulated all the time. When I buy amazon brand, I know that product has honest reviews and a seller that backs the quality guarantee. This is not a lie, that's the fact.
It helps to get 80% of the way there, on a logarithmic scale. The remaining 20% is evanw saying no to adding any kind of option, feature and the kitchen sink to this project, which is one of the reason Webpack/Babel & co. are some of the heaviest objects in the universe.
> Professors most certainly are not a "privileged elite class."

What is tenure if not a privilege? And if it isn't then what's the problem here? If tenure isn't something valuable then why are we discussing a story about it being taken away?

EDIT: Just lol at the downvotes and the comments here. Lots of snark, personal attacks, but no one actually able to explain how tenure is not a privilege.
Probably biased here, but back in the days before frameworks I found plain PHP with HTTP a good case of explaining, out of necessity. Every variable arrives as a string anyway and you need to check if it's actually an integer if you want to use it as such (let's ignore weird autocasting).

On the other hand I'm not sure it's teaching a good lesson here, because you're simply taking the un-typedness of HTTP parameters as an example, whereas in other environments you would simply explain there are number data types and strings and others...
Usenix Summer Conference Proceedings (1985)
>What Amazon does is the equivalent of putting their products up front and the alternatives (even those that are better rated) in a back room.

Is amazon burying results on the second or third page of the results or something? If it's one row down on the results page, it's closer to being one shelf down (which stores are known to do[1]), than "in a back room".

[1] https://traxretail.com/blog/eye-level-buy-level-importance-s...
Self publishing high quality programming books
It is funny that several frontend frameworks got suggested here. How can software engineers make that mistake?
It's so hard to not feel sentimental about this. Suffering to such a degree that you you take your own life is the most horrible way to go, and it's beyond heartbreaking that children are going through this. And the 415 kids are the ones who went through with it, who knows how many thousands go struggling for finding their will to live every day. Japan, and all other countries where this is an issue, need severe and disruptive interventions urgently.
Specialized (Brand) Bicycles Recalled in U.S. over Frames That Can Crack
Vanguard, riots anti-cheat, was one of the worst kernel anti-cheats system I had the displeasure if being forced to use.

My buddies started to play Valorant and they asked me to give it a try. I downloaded and installed it.

First major issue: Must start on boot and has to be running at all times. If you close it, you have to reboot the entire machine to play Valorant.

Second issue: (This has been fixed) All my VMs stopped working. I couldn't start any of them in my VMware Workstation.

Uninstalled Vanguard and Valorant shortly after. There should no reason an anti-cheats needs to run on boot.
Seems fine as long as no one tells 4chan.
Yes, there's a surprising number of people commenting on this thread who are really upset at marshallian scissors - it's funniest thing I've read this week.
Doesn't seem insane to me at all. When you think of the size of the organization and the tasks it does. We're talking several million people, infrastructure and logistics, and a plethora of hightech vehicles.
Supposedly the Chrome safe browsing service crawls the web looking for malware. Since that's focused on finding malware they likely make it look like a normal user in terms of user agent and IP address, so it can probably detect these pages.

I believe the signals from the safe browsing service are used to affect search result ranking, but I have no idea if they look for different content being served to the Google crawler.
I think it is fair to say Gitlab is already eating Github's lunch. For some time.
How do you propose to identify fake reviews? What is about a fake review that makes it fake? What is about a person writing a fake review that makes a fake reviewer?
A lot of people in tech like to say this but I'm never sure it's genuine. When Microsoft made a go of it there seemed to be a concerted effort to laugh them out of the room, and they had a genuinely decent product that should have been a third option in my opinion.

I think we've now reached a point where a third player is pretty much impossible
Not to start a political off topic war, but the then sitting president of the US was heavily mocked for suggesting treatment options with UV be evaluated. [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/health/sunlight-coronavir...
The problem is that Amazon said that they dont do it (Copy successful products and then manipulate search results so they appear before the others).

The available documents show that its an official Amazon strategy.
The most expensive (non-novelty) phones sold right now are from Samsung. At every price point that Apple sells at, Samsung has a similar product.

Apple also sells their handsets through carriers, big box stores, and online through places like Amazon. You can often buy their stuff for less at these places yet the stores are still packed because people will pay more if it's a better experience.
How many consumers are even paying more? iPhones start pretty cheap — not as low as the cheapest Android phones but they're starting with much better hardware and are supported considerably longer so this starts to feel more like Sam Vimes' boots[1] where someone buying cheap Android phones spends more than an iPhone SE over the service life. Flagship Android phones cost the same, often even more, than an iPhone despite the lower performance and still have a shorter service life.

What I think it's really showing is that the Android economic model creates different incentives: Apple gets money when you buy the phone, apps, purchases in apps, and things like music or movies through their services. They certainly like it if you buy a new phone every year but all of those different groups share a common leader who wants to keep you as an Apple customer.

When you buy an Android phone, the CPU manufacturer won't see another dime until you buy a new one. A vendor like Samsung may or may not depending on whether they have some other service you use or get kickbacks from the carriers. Google likely sees ongoing revenue but they don't care about the hardware as long as it doesn't make you switch to iOS. Each of those parties adds overhead which Apple doesn't have and they will make decisions which are rational for their business but perhaps not your satisfaction.

1. https://samvimesbootstheory.com/
From my own experience as student, having only final test matter, removes the motivation for doing work during the semester and only preping last month/weeks before the test. Which is not as good learning as putting work thru the whole semester.
The earlier assignments/tests/projects are covering only chunks of materical, which students supposed to learn in incremetns as they progress thru semester. If student is getting Ds thru all incremental steps, they are not magically getting A at the final test.
$10 per household for every household in the US? It may not sound like much, but when it's something the vast majority never asked for, that's entirely happening to line the pockets of the few, and is damaging the environment at the same time? Sounds like those households should get a say in it.
I didn't have any proof, only the word of a few people that were still working for him and couldn't afford to lose their jobs.

I do however know that he was reported and investigated at least once by a former employee, but the investigation unsurprisingly found no proof ("agreements" were all verbal and everything was done in cash). The cops said that with just one testimony a conviction was unlikely and nothing really came of it.

In general, these things rarely get resolved because the worker can't risk snitching because they'd lose their only source of income and once they leave and get a better job, they're just happy it's behind them and don't pursue it further.
If you're working from home and getting your job done to the satisfaction of your employer in six hours, I think you can do what you like with the extra two hours. You may need to be available to your coworkers, but the rest is up to you.
Products usurping partnerships, you mean? Less about trust, and more about just taking more of the profit. It’s a classic move to wedge yourself into the market at one level and then move up and down as you become a chokepoint. Cloudflare is doing it to Amazon.

I only buy stuff on Amazon after running it through FakeSpot, because metareviews are what we’ve come to now. If that site could ever make itself as indispensable for everyone, it’d have a chokepoint to steer people away from Amazon, especially as better prices are often found elsewhere.
Last time I looked into it, Japan’s suicide numbers were not as high as I’d been primed to expect. Japans suicide rate is less than America’s (14.5 vs 12.2 per 100k), and roughly equivalent to Sweden 12.4) and Norway (11.8). Still relatively elevated for OECD countries, but Japan’s reputation as an extremely high suicide rate country appears to be unearned. Countries like South Korea (21.2), Russia (21.6), Lithuania (20.2), and Ukraine (17.7) should generally get more attention on this matter than Japan does.
Here is some fuel for your flamewar: this is the exact treatment Trump was riffing off of when the media collectively lost its mind and claimed that he told people to drink bleach.
> Everything old is new again! Parcel embarks on the path that Webpack did

And Webpack embarked on the path that it’s forefathers did.. gulp, babel, browserify, grunt, and others. But that didn’t stop Webpack from improving on what was there.

The core thing Parcel does (or at least did when Parcel was started) that is/was a fundamental improvement over Webpack is parse your index.html (or whatever you name it, of course) to figure out what to do. I always thought Webpack was silly for asking a human to re-describe it’s html dependencies. I haven’t used Webpack in the last year, so I’m unaware if Webpack has fixed this shortcoming.
I haven't used gitlab much, but I was shocked to hear GitHub's CTO (at the time of the interview, he has moved on since) state that GitHub didn't consider them a competitor.

"I do think that people still, to this day, think of GitLab as one of our main competitors, and I never have ever saw GitLab as a competitor."

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud...

Anyone have thoughts on that? Or pointers to more reading?
How long before you start to wonder whether it really is still your own belief?
Not anxiety but I do get incredibly frustrated by the experience. Even when you search for a specific model number of something you get other similar items returned above the item you specifically searched for. Wtaf?

And God help you if you search for something generic. You will see an endless list of the same item from 2000+ rebranding outfits. If you search through a bunch you can see they all use the same product shots just edited slightly. A green star added on a flipped image or the tint adjusted so the colour is different, etc. Maybe their editor was more creative so they photoshopped in a different stock background.

Another thing I have noticed is many resellers on Amazon will use the correct product item in the search result but when you click through it is clear a different, albeit very similar, version of the product. You have to be so so careful to read the product description to ensure you buy the right product. USB items are notorious for this sort of thing with USB-C to C cables shown with two C connectors in the search result image but the actual item is a C to A??!

It is infuriating.
From what I can tell Beanie Babies were not a pump and dump scheme.

There's a high likelihood that a lot of NFTs are getting bid up by the sellers.
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Was the Internet a Horrible Mistake?[audio]
little birds say Boeing has already made the move to bring the part in-house:

https://www.aviationpros.com/aircraft/news/21230827/delaware...
I don't like React or anything having to do with it, and Next.js is too bloated for my liking on top of that. I use Surplus and not much else, which tends to handle state, updates, re-renders, user interaction, and a bunch of other things much nicer and as such results in cleaner code. It also tops the performance benchmarks consistently.

Plus I don't want SSR most of the time in my apps. If I had a landing page, I might consider Next.js. But at the same time, I might just do static HTML in such a case.
I grew up in the era of dialup, BBS's and USENET - and it did warp my perceptions a little. I can't imagine how being exposed to social media as an adolescent - or younger - could have seriously screwed up my perceptions of society.

Elsewhere someone sarcastically asked about video games - if 1/10th the concern that was shown in the 80's and 90's over video games towards social media I think we all would be having a much different conversation.

I dunno why up until recently social media has been pretty much getting a pass. It's nice to see at least some discussion of it, especially in relation to kids, showing up in more places. I'm always amazed and somewhat appalled by how many of my peers I see just hand over phones or tablets to their kids to occupy them. At least in the past when parents parked kids in front of the TV it was one way and limited to fairly "safe" content.

Ha - after having typed that it sure makes the concerns voiced over TV in the past feel very, very quaint in comparison. Something I really hadn't considered before now.
If you believe that everyone smart values the same things as you, sure.
Lego Titanic
Maybe. I'm not so sure. In theory, a company like, say, Samsung could stop making cheaper, money-losing phones and invest primarily on making increasingly better, premium, profitable phones like the Galaxy Fold, but they choose not to do that, year after year.
I believe it was because a large majority was making losses. So the total profit was less than Apple’s profit alone.
The legal consequence isnt on you, its on the company selling shares. So just like the Texas law, it deputizes everyone else to shut out poor people instead of being a prohibition from the state directly on the poor person. In practice that means just never talking to poorer people about opportunities, and letting them figure out that they cant even raise capital because none of their friends are accredited. Just American things.

Its Super effective!
https://archive.is/nD3c6
Misinformation is a topic of recent increased interest so citing it will likely bring more engagement.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=m...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=m...
China has no problem using the power of the state to ensure that factories and suppliers don't relocate out of china.
I went looking for this after the reference to Jack Inman's "Implementing Loosely-Coupled Functions on a Tightly-Coupled Engine" from the recent (excellent) HN submission on Rust in the Linux Kernel[1]. The whole thing looks like a goldmine of great systems papers.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826246