skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It may not surprise you to learn that the Devoted Conservatives were the whitest of all seven groups (88% white), but would you have expected that the Progressive Activists were the second whitest (80%)?

I am surprised that the author is surprised by this fact about the Progressive Activists. In my FAANG employer, the people who are always most offended, making denunciations of racism, sexism, -ism, etc. are highly educated whites. One of them told me in all seriousness that no white people should be allowed to do yoga or own yoga studios.
Ah, I missed that at the bottom. That's quite the cut to distribute my 9MB APK.
That's not correct, peak demand is usually during mid-day, at least in the US:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=27212
Your bug reported 16,384px after accounting for device scale: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=992398

I knew it'd be this number right away, because it's also the maximum screenshot height thanks to being the maximum height of a surface in Chromium (Actually last I checked this technically depends on the GL backend used, but 16kpx seems common)
> By comparison Steve lived in a simple house on a public street.

Up until his death, he was in a court battle to demolish and rebuild his mansion that sat on a 6 acre estate.
To demonstrate that I’m arguing in good faith, I will bet you a $1000 donation to a charity of your choice if any developed country successfully commissions a new commercial nuclear generator (with energy actively supplied to a grid connection), that has not yet broken ground as of today, within ten years of this comment’s timestamp.

I’m not splitting hairs, I’m arguing very clearly that nuclear won’t get built, it won’t be needed, alternatives will meet demand, and that energy consumption and generation modeling by a variety of energy analysts (across commercial and academic institutions) supports my thesis.
On one of my sites it had made most important button "add to cart" unclickable
In what way do you see this as foreshadowing?

(It's a lot of information, and I don't see many strong parallels -- but maybe I'm missing something)
I've updated, and now the font rendering in the Tor's interface is FU'ed. Good thing I don't rely on the Tor browser. Otherwise I'd be so pissed.
You did notice I mentioned nuclear as part of the solution, and it was much more of the solution until the price of solar dropped precipitously over the past decade, but we still need it. I'm fed up with the politics too and I'm ready to move to problem solving phase here. Why are so few like that in my experience? Even without climate change, energy independence is strategic and further pursuit of coal is environmental cancer. This ought to be a lot easier than it is.

Probably should eat less beef and fewer almonds though or at least we should remove the subsidies used to artificially keep their prices down and see how that plays out.
Except when it's Chrome, it's probably a feature and not a bug. Remember that Google effectively controls the web "standards".
I was a kid during the 90's internet boom, but I'm curious to hear from those who experienced that cycle firsthand in Silicon Valley what they think about the current climate we're in. I saw a couple of guys (in their early 20s) wearing Bored Ape Yacht Club hoodies at a local coffee shop in SF this morning. I can feel the hype emanating... it seems like every other struggling entrepreneur and nascent VC in the Bay Area has tacked "crypto and web3" onto the end of whatever title they sport on Twitter and Linkedin. I can't help but think "am I living through a totally wild time right now? Is this how it felt in 1999 when guys were planning IPOs in their apartments before having actually built a company?"
> The burden isn't on me… The burden is on you

You made up a definition of what ‘vaccine’ means then decided that covid vaccines don’t meet it.

The vaccines do a pretty good job at preventing morbidity and mortality. Feel free to sue someone if you disagree and if American tort law allows it.
For real. It makes me wonder what the culture is like for the other people working there. Apparently, they're currently hiring; for their sake, I hope one of the open positions is for someone who can do PR.
My son might wear those though. He's pretty trendy.
I don't think you understand the true cost apple is imposing on everyone involved in the ios ecosystem.

That 30% cut apple takes means you are paying 43% more for apps than you would have if apple didn't take their cut. I'd rather deal with a shitty subscription cancellation experience than pay 43% more money for something.

edit: also I reject the idea that using third party payment processors will result in a bad experience. 99% of apps will use paypal for payment processing and managing subscriptions on paypal is super easy.
> both ended up saying to never ever touch anything in /etc/pam.d

As I've learned the hard way, at least keep a root shell open somewhere if you do...
Edge is now another Chrome-clone.
>My general recommendation is to make Safari your main browser for development work.

How do you that if you don't own a mac?
I agree, I can feel my own burning jealousy.
Well then, thank you for smoking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking_(novel)
Does this sound familiar? You have an amazing product or service, but hardly anybody outside your immediate network knows about it? This was exactly the problem faced by our client.
Before our client, SteelCon, partnered up with the team at Predictable Growth, they were struggling to grow outside of their immediate, local network and relied on referrals.

Then, in less than 4 weeks of launching their business development campaign, we created a sales pipeline worth well over $10,000,000 by converting 2% of prospects we reached out to into sales appointments on the calendar.

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What are the implications of this? Can’t you just curl/wget the html?
Ask HN: What was the process Theil used to put his PayPal stock in a Roth
I'm curious as to how pay pal stock was put into an Roth IRA at such an early stage. Who hosted the IRA? Was the company public at the time?
WebUSB is insane security-wise.

About the only worse thing would be a WebPCIe.
By "our current situation" I supposed you mean the US.

If so, I fail to see where the parallels are.
Using Flutter to build a native-looking desktop app for macOS and Windows
It's difficult to find valuable sources though. I'm currently spending over $100 a month on subscriptions, and and I still feel like my sources are biased and myopic.
Would the zfs command still even be installed on a system? I'd imagine that `rm -rf /` would remove /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin (or wherever the command was installed)
Link is 404 for me.
We don’t talk enough about how universities are scamming young people and ruining their lives. Even the best universities operate these cash cow diploma mills. How do they get away with it? People are outraged at payday lenders or whatever. How many people do you know with a payday loan? How many with student debt and a worthless degree?

We’re socialized not to talk about it. But it seems like half the people in my law school said they were there because their undergrad degree was worthless. But they keep feeding the beast by suckering the next cohort.
I clicked through to these comments expecting that it would be full of discussion about eggdrop bots, as that was where I experienced tcl. To learn that it is heavily used at places such as Intel for tooling controls was very interesting to me.

I still maintain a bot that began life as a mirc script, then a long time as an eggdrop bot, then ported to python based slackbot, and now most recently a python based discord bot.

Over the last 25 years it really has been a huge part of the way my group of friends interact. I recall the sheer wonder that I experienced when I learned about eggdrop bots and the huge amount that I learned while flailing around with tcl.
users won't see it like that
I am not a big fan of these distinctions. In fact, they're completely backwards when you look at it from the perspective of difficulty of the sciences. The so-called hard sciences, like physics and chemistry, are far easier than biology, ecology, psychology, etc. These difficulties should not mean that they are lesser as implied by the normal usage of "hard" vs "soft" sciences.

> empirical in nature and has results that can be reproduced and confirmed independently

All sciences conform to this. It's just that reproducing results in physics and chemistry is much, much easier and feasible than in the other sciences.
So I'm sitting in a corner of the world and suddenly I come in touch with this nugget of computer history told in the first person.

There is this feeling of an expanse, of seeing something way larger than oneself, that one experiences when this occurs.

Thank you. And thank you HN.
I noticed this effect when ACM CHI switched their format. When I was writing in two thin columns, my writing really seemed to act more professional. I have a feeling it is because of the association and not reading fluency, as suggested, but I do agree there is an effect!
I'm not really seeing how what you say is different from what I said, except that you don't think they were racist for it. But then how do you explain the extreme racism you experienced from those emigrates?
One could argue that the data becomes public, after it became sellable.

I’m all for the 4th. But restraining law enforcement not to use public data?

Now should it be so easy to give up your rights to your data is a different question.
McCaughey: New vax science shows mandates unwise
3 hours of storage is massive, and enable super high penetration of renewables, above 80% of electricity generation.

Even the much vaunted France doesn't have 80% nuclear on their grid.

Plus, energy storage production capacity is growing at an exponential rate. It's doubtful that we could grow our nuclear construction crews at that pace.

It's going to be very hard to nuclear to scale as fast as renewables and storage are, if there's even an economic case to be made for nuclear construction, and somebody finally solves the logistic problems of large construction projects in the modern Western world.

We know we can build storage and renewables, but we don't know how to build nuclear anymore, and none, absolutely none, of the nuclear proponents have any proposals to fix it. The best is an entirely new type of small reactor that has been rejects in the past because of its high per unit cost. Perhaps it will work, but who knows? It's a big risk, whereas storage and renewables are a sure bet.
It's quite the feat to convince someone to pay for something they already get for free, particularly in the digital space... Aha! The answer has been right under our noses the entire time: we need to sell online media subscriptions as NFTs!
> The polarization spiral, which is fed and accelerated by social media, is making extremists on both right and left more extreme, more powerful, and more intimidating. Both sides feed off of each other. Both sides are essential for a polarization spiral. And that means that neither side can win by attacking or humiliating the other side. Such tactics only serve to energize the other side.

It's not about who can "win". What would winning this "culture war" even look like? Everyone becomes a leftoid/rightoid and lives happily ever after?

That would defeat the purpose of all this, which is to make money. How do you make money on social media? Ads. How do ads work? Engagements. How do you maximize engagements? The best ROI formula is posting polarizing content that begets flame wars and hate-shares and thinkpieces. The "culture war" is an illusion perpetuated by the influencer/grifter industry that monetizes it.
The Costs of Requiring Accounts
I think it's that YouTube can be a nutritious meal (even though its frequently not), where as Instagram and Tiktok are both almost always McDonald's (with a few exceptions).

Either that, or YouTube runs a better PR campaign, I guess.
There was a video by linus tech tips recently that pointed out how ridiculous the term side loading is. It's installing not side loading and we've been doing it for years on windows and mac.

None of us would use Mac OS based laptops if they made it so that you could only install apps from the app store. But somehow installing apps from sources outside the iOS app store on iphones is a terrible and dangerous experience?
"If I get the immunization, I won't get it."

That is what the word vaccine means to ordinary people. Stop accusing me of changing a definition that your side is changing. [1] That kind of behavior belongs on Reddit.

[1] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=50886
That is neither simple nor does it prevent some of the most common npm supply chain attacks (I think, no export with appamore).

The most common attacks is to mess with thinks you build for release in ways which then allow attacking the consumer.

For example by tweaking package, package lock, or even the source code.

Only the last one is prevented here.

Then there is also the thing that installing (user wide or even global) system utilities with npm is a thing, and wouldn't work with your apparmore profile (all need their own profile)

Similar locally running node programs are an attack vector and your profile allow modifying the `node_modules` of such programs even if they don't use npm...

Also you need root rights for loading profiles which can make having a profile for each project a problem as the dev doesn't necessary has root rights. (E.g. in a company with company managed desktop systems this is the default.)

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying you shouldn't use apparmore and other sandboxes. I even think it's the future of Linux.

My point is appamore isn't simple and it's one of the most simple solutions out there.

Or in other words we still have quite a way to go.

And it's not just about doing sand-boxing, but also about managing sandboxed programs, e.g. last time I looked the app stores of both snap and flatpack where a horror-house of not-properly maintained packages with security vulnerabilities, as well as doggy potentially malicious "unofficial" packages. Even if you sandbox is perfect you still care about security, e.g. you don't want a openoffic package to send copies of all documents you use somewhere else... and that's if the sandbox if used (... flatpack ... facepalm).
From the blade article:

> It pointed to an Electric Power Research Institute study that estimates all blade waste through 2050 would equal roughly .015% of all the municipal solid waste going to landfills in 2015 alone.

While it'd be better to do something useful with them it's not a problem to put them in a landfill.
Starting a year or so ago, for most developers, Apple takes 15%, not 30%.
From the lab homepage it seems that he eventually graduated with a PhD (https://raivn.cs.washington.edu/people.html).

A few years ago he said he’d thought about quitting research and opening a vegan cafe or something. Not sure what he’s planning to do now though.
Hard for developers to ignore when the developers' manager is using an iPhone or iPad.

Who will the developers' manager blame: Apple or the developers?
"...i have a long list of applications that break every time there is an update..."

Updates to Wordpress / WooCommerce and accompanying plugins can make one go suicidal.
ECT is not as brutal or risky as it used to be. You can now opt for unilateral treatment (only shocking one hemisphere) rather than bilateral for the same outcome with lessened side effects. I agree TMS should come first, but I think the comparison of ECT to lobotomy is misguided.
it depends on the length, really.
I don't know about doing yoga, but when you have some studios promoting "goat" yoga or "beer" yoga or heaven knows what the latest abomination is, maybe he does have a point on the second one.
It actually literally says that: "The Court concludes that Apple is entitled to some compensation for use of its intellectual property."
Is this culture war (illusion) dangerous? Are we against it, and if so, how do we end that?
So what would happen in practice if I completely trashed an Airbnb for $1M's worth?
Safari - for better or worse - is setting the standard for many privacy updates, especially around 3rd party cookies and tracking.

Those updates broke a lot of websites - you might have noticed SSO failing, iframes failing, or websites confusing unmodified Safari users for adblock users.

Firefox adopted the changes a bit later. By the time they made the switch, I think most had resolved their sites because of Safari. Last I read, Chrome is slated to implement similar for 2022.

Not intended to be a defense of Safari, especially for OP's bug. But at least some breaking changes were deliberate and in the name of privacy enhancements.
Wow, that's impressive
There's nothing wrong with the browser being the next generation cross-platform execution environment. All the older options for this (Java, Flash etc.) sucked...

I would like to see a strong competitor to Chrome someday though...
- Firefox still has weird issues occasionally (most recently scroll position randomly jumping sometimes). I still keep it around though because its sane when it comes to standards and will remain sane even if things like HW acceleration are not available.
- Safari is out of the question as it is not even cross-platform (might as well be IE6)
- Chromium and derivatives aren't distinct enough from Chrome and a lot of the new ones have weird cryptocurrency integrations that just don't feel right.
- Is Opera still alive?
7-10 years is a death sentence if we need to transition in the next 15 years, by 2035. Especially since we don't know which design to build, and our current nuclear fleet is rapidly aging out.

The nuclear industry will be lucky if its able to pull off enough construction to replace reactors that age out. There's no chance of nuclear becoming a backbone of our new grid, when we would need to produce 400GW of new nuclear. The napkin math does not work out.

However, renewables and storage are scaling their production at just barely a high enough rate, if we continue on the same exponential growth curves we have been on for the next decade.

Hopefully production will scale even faster, now that solar is the cheapest form of new energy.
And if the 30% commission is removed, the prices will remain exactly the same.
Wouldn’t you have to have a guest rent it out via airbnb to be eligible?
People mean the steps are not easy. Because it's now about copying them but being able to create them yourself on the fly for whatever you need.
Ask HN: Do you love low-code / no-code tools or are you against it?
The 1619 Project and the Long Battle over U.S. History
You're right, coal is much worse. It releases it into the air and kills people while nuclear waste is collected and contained.
Network isn't even necessarily smaller. Since it has a lesser emphasis on exit nodes, each node is a relay and there are more of them than Tor relay nodes.
A lot of hate here, but I for one love it! I'm quite tired of having almost the entire first page of search results be ads, and then having to also scan passed a ton of undesirable SEO-hacked results to get what I want and this is perfect for not having that. Keep up the good work!
What if I'm the guest?
Who writes those scripts? How do you hire and attract talent to manage that stuff? How industry standard is it? Can you train them?
Well, you can't, but it'd be the same story as if you only had a Mac in 2006 and wanted to test IE6. Consumers have a choice for the devices they use, so it might make business sense to test changes with hardware your customers use at the same frequency or more often than you do on your own preferred hardware.
The landing page seems...busy. Is this what results will look like after a search? I'm not being facetious. And I'm certainly not a dev-dev (filthy casual, some might call me) so maybe I'm just not seeing what the advantages are, apart from the much-touted privacy thing.

Also, I moused around and the search bar which I initially thought would give me a chance to try things out, is actually a tricksy button. Even your average, somewhat-privacy-conscious user is gonna be annoyed by that, at the very least.
Be careful what you wish for, USB4 supports PCIe tunneling. Looks like we're just a slippery slope away.
There you have it. Remember the 'death of Kim Jong Un' reports? [0] Same thing all over again.

When the narrative that the media distorts for years has been blown wide open, they start running away and hide it from being reported, even if new developments are announced elsewhere.

When it comes to Big Tech, they are just as worse and will unleash whatever Orwellian powers they have to continue to spread the false news and label the truth they don't like as 'misinformation' or whatever.

The mainstream media cannot help themselves to be in search of the villain of the week; with Big Tech on speed dial just in case.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/kim-jong-un-a...
As other have said, the problem is that Safari is only available on Mac OS.

Say what you will about IE, at least Microsoft make an attempt to make it available to everyone (via free Windows VM preloaded with specific IE version).
You would be sued for a million dollars in damages by the owner, and it would be an open and shut case.
OK but for the ~88% of Americans who don't live in California the point stands, at least today.
It would be interesting to find out whether you can get the same effect by moving the screen further away, thereby reducing the field of view you have to scan through.
Not just health insurance. What about vacation time (I get a day each pay period + 11 fixed holiday days + 6 week sabbatical + Fridays off in the summer), stock, life insurance, fitness facilities, etc.?
What makes it "for devs"? I tried searching some programming queries that I'd typically make during a workday and the results were... fine, I guess, but it was basically just web results? Sometimes there were a few enhanced results, but they weren't very good or useful, like when I searched for `java string split` and got back enhanced results showing me how to split a string in Python and Javascript.

There's a bar of "search apps" along the bottom of the page that doesn't do anything if I click on any of them, so I dunno, maybe it would be better if I made an account and added some apps... or I could keep using DuckDuckGo and just type `!so java string split` when I forget trivial method signatures and want to search StackOverflow instead of figuring out what a "search app" is.

Also, this is really, really pushy about being your default search engine. That's a big step! It's like someone talking about moving in with you on the first date. Maybe convince me first?

I don't get it.
> I even think it's the future of Linux.

Let me correct it:

It MUST be the future of Linux or Linux will have serious problems.
I use revenuecat, makes it a lot easier
The lender is probably the federal government. The make the political choice to make loans without asking about credit worthiness, because we mistakenly treat university education as the only path to upward mobility. The schools abuse that social status.
This only applies in areas that already use electric heaters.
Anywhere else poor people cannot afford to replace their gas heater with an electric one. And if they rent they have no choice, it’s up to the landlord. In some locales it is common for the renter to pay for the heat bill. So the landlord has little incentive to install a different heating system. In other locales the average cost of heat is factored in to the price of rent and the incentives are basically the same.