skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few things people seem to be missing in this thread:

- This ruling doesn't allow for supplanting IAPs, as the it only prevents Apple from prohibiting external links to alternatives. So apps still aren't allowed to have in-app payment alternatives, they can have a link to something else, and AFAICT they can still mandate an IAP option should be present if the app has such a link, like they do with "Sign in with Apple".

- If that sounds familiar, that's because it is: this isn't too far off from the agreement Apple reached with the JFTC that allowed "reader apps" (think Netflix, Kindle, Spotify) to have a link to an external website to set up user accounts: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/09/japan-fair-trade-comm...

- This is extremely unlikely to hurt Apple's profit margins all that much, because the judge also rules that Apple was entitled to a licensing fee, which it could still claim for payments made outside Apple's IAP system. This point is probably why Apple is fighting the ruling, because with external links they might have to put a lot of effort into getting their cut, as opposed to what Google did with their payment alternatives - i.e. adding a "service fee" to in app transactions but allowing alternative payment services. (This might not apply to the exception carved out for "reader apps")

Essentially, nobody wins. Even in the best case scenario, Apple will probably keep a significant portion (but not all) of its cut, developers still have to pay through the nose and users will probably stick with Apple's IAP if the provider can't make a significant difference, and can't sideload apps that the App Store won't allow. Yay!
Back in the very old days, early 1980s, magazines like Byte would include games in the magazine in the form of code you had to manually type in and save. The ones I did were multiple pages of pure HEX.

Later, magazines would ship with floppies that had the free software on it.
Why would viewing HTML+JS source-code reveal correct answers to a school quiz? It certainly doesn’t have to.
> Safari is out of the question as it is not even cross-platform (might as well be IE6)

It's a bit funny, and a bit sad, that this wasn't always so; I rather liked the Windows version of Safari, and IE for UNIX was apparently pretty good.
Nobody. AirBNB lived on the gray area where people rented properties that weren’t setup or insured for such.
> Popular dictionaries actually updated their definition of a "vaccine" in 2021 to accommodate this change

Some popular dictionaries noticed their definitions were wrong. Merriam Webster's old definition excluded toxoid vaccines like diphtheria and tetanus. And anything produced from a virus.[1] Other popular dictionaries didn't say a vaccine had to be made from certain things.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28486499
Solar doesn't work everywhere, nor wind. What is the environmental impact to create all those batteries? Does that cost include converting heating systems to electric? Would better windows have a better ROI?
In my brief experience in front-end, I've encountered weird Safari bugs on every single project.

In one case the code failed because the form object there doesn't implement the method to validate and submit. In another, it wasn't sending a form field if it was styled with "display: none;" (had to change to "left: -9999px;"). In another, playing a non-muted video would error out some of the time, if clicking an element wasn't recognized as a user event. In yet another, the mobile version refused to center text inside <button> no matter what. And so on.
I worked on an existing database once that stored geographic locations and used the signed bit for namespacing.

Positive IDs were home-grown, negative ones were Unique Feature Identifiers from some old GNS system import (from some ancient US Government/Military dataset).

Then when something had to be edited/replaced/created it would possibly change a previously negative ID to positive, fun times.
You'd have a hard time re-entering the usa after automatically losing the case by not showing up at the courthouse and not paying the bill. But in any case the scenario of leaving the country is not unique to airbnb and exists for rental cars, other loans, and basically any activity involving borrowing something
I learned years ago to avoid anything from Magnavox, after getting some real junk with that name attached. It was really obvious that the name was being abused to get trust for products that didn't deserve it.
I guess he does not want to be able to add Apples to Oranges.
It's more reality than an argument, apple has a lot of high end users that most companies don't want to alienate whereas there is much less worry about breaking things for lower market share browsers like Firefox, etc.
> These Host Damage Protection Terms contain an arbitration clause and class action waiver

So this insurance policy isn't even worth the pixels it's rendered on. It's not a good sign when a company purporting to be entering into contract is already trying to wriggle out of it, and this goes doubly for insurance.
I can see the logic in this. You seek less.
Side loading as a term makes complete sense because you're using side channels to load it.

It doesn't have a negative connotation, it's an accurate term.
Erm. So it works on Blink and Gecko... And Blink, and Blink, and Blink, but not WebKit? That's a symptom of a worse problem IMO.
Right, but the alternative has never been a crypto, it's always just a more stable fiat.
What bothers me is that you can already avoid paying the 30% to Apple by using a 3rd party payment processor. You just can’t tell your customers about that option or link to it. So it’s not really a commission on buying digital goods or on use of the App Store. I get that Apple can come up with whatever arbitrary fee structure they want, but when it becomes so divorced from the value you’re actually getting in return it starts to feel pretty anti-competitive.
Interesting, I wonder if screen writing came to a similar format for the same reasons.
I'm not going to take that bet because I don't have faith in the political will to follow science. That is a more general trend than just climate, mind you. Practically, I do agree with you, that we likely aren't going to see reactors built. But I do want to say that this is contrary to the advice from the scientific community. I do think it is important to push back on claims like yours though, because part of the political will is because a lot of people believe that this is in line with the scientific consensus (again, a common problem and why I call out armchair experts a lot).
Haki Benita always has the best database blog posts <3
Great point. Insurance companies have access to way more private data than the government.
You can purchase with a debit card to preserve your privacy if you'd like if your debit card is held by an institution that values that sort of thing. But the point of buying SIM cards with cash is to be sure nobody, not even Visa/Mastercard or your bank can tie it back to you. There's a difference between data privacy and having a phone number that isn't linked to your person (besides if someone manually reviews CCTV footage), the OP is advocating for the latter.
You're making a good argument for the reinstitution of debtors prisons.
Since there is zero chance of it being applied impartially, yes it would be censorship and yes that cure would be worse than the disease.
Better windows certainly have a better ROI, but they do not get you to replacing fossil fuels. Nuclear or solar/wind + battery does.

Nuclear fortunately works everywhere and does not require batteries. It does, however, take engineering skill in order to build and operate, whereas a solar panel can be ordered from China rather cheaply.

In the future, I guarantee you that China will mass produce small, safe, relatively idiot-proof nuclear plants and export them all over the world in Belt and Road version 2.0. They will bring in an all Chinese labor force to build it and quite possibly also to operate it or at least provide immediate support. Many of the people angry at China for not making meaningful CO2 commitments will praise them for saving the planet. As the West continues to de-skill and dumb down, we may even need them to come to the U.S. and generate reliable power for us.
The latter for sure - there is an ever-increasing number of fingers-in-the-ears crowd here on HN, which is disappointing because tough subjects should be able to be debated, instead of flagged and censored into oblivion.
I don't think your theory fits the facts...

The bug is from 2018, and was fixed three years later. So it doesn't seem like there was any kind of special prioritization going on here. It was also fixed by a person working at Microsoft, not by somebody at Google.
Side loading doesn't have a negative connotation?

Just a quick search on side loading and I see a million articles on how side loading only benefits criminals.

Meanwhile I just side loaded chrome on my new macbook, whoops.
Dear StackOverflow, students keep cheating by looking at the page source and finding the multiple choice option with the id "correct-answer".

How do I add a new feature to Chromium, submit a pull request to Google, get it past their various layers of checks and policies, and mandate that all schools use this new option?
>"...followed by a comparison to China and an insinuation that the US version may be worse..."

I do not see insinuation that the US version is worse in this thread. What I see is people being concerned that we are on a dangerous path and building our own version mass surveillance, hence comparing it to China. Instead of shooting the messengers you'd better be concerned about where are we going.

>"The commenters have the same playbook to work from because the Russians wrote it in the mid 20th century"

Sure, I start my day by reading user guide written by Russians on how to fuck up the western world. Check under your bed btw. Maybe couple of them are hiding there.
AirBnB did. I forget the exact terms, but a while back someone's house got trashed and it hit the news. AirBnB announced they'd cover the damage to her house and started an insurance policy.
Wow, this was not a thing where I grew up. I never even saw a real pc until I was in uni. That sounds awesome. Thanks for explaining.

EDIT: Still totally fascinated by this. I asked my husband because I remembered that he had a much-beloved Spectrum when he was a kid and sure enough, he had digitized Your Sinclair issues on his iPad and he showed me several examples of games in Basic and hex. Super cool.
Fabulously well put.
If you look at /r/Instagramreality, on reddit, you'll see that people on instagram don't just look good, they use filters and editing to change their face-shapes, body-shapes, and almost anything else.

There's zero way that people can look as "good" as many of the popular instagrammers.
Preventing side loading allows a single company to get 30% of sales. If side loading were allowed users could purchase apps from any source they trust and make a conscious choice to install purchased apps.
> Sadly, it's the only way to become your default as a new search engine

This is simply not true. Just confirmed on fresh install of Chrome that setting the default search engine to a self-hosted searx instance works fine without any extensions.

If they can do it, so can You.

Context issue for searx implementing it: https://github.com/searx/searx/issues/1666
Wow, the astroturfing in this thread already is happening.

0. This is nothing new, airbnb always had a free "guarantee" they just rebranded it basically from what I see to a trademarkable name.

1. Umbrella policy is better than airbnb. Umbrella policy will go after all parties including airbnb on your behalf.

2. Airbnb has a history of ignoring or mitigating damages unless you get famous on social media - this includes sexual assault/rape and murder of animals.

https://community.withairbnb.com/t5/Help/Guest-caused-the-de...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/16/airbnb-ne...

While these are just two incidents, there are countless more that can be searched, or you can probably filter through other incidents, and yes, while airbnb did "compensate" they did so only after intense media pressure.

3. If you are a tourist in most countries and "fly" back home, you are judgement proof. There only liability is the guests airbnb account, which, is worthless. You can create new accounts, and in most places you can use alternative government identification to bypass previous bans.

You can read the link I posted earlier about the death of a dog, the PII that airbnb released was not enough to start a civil court case. And even if you have a name, you have no guarantee that the nae of the airbnb account is the ACTUAL guest that stayed.
> Demand is highly price inelastic and inversely correlated with the supply of renewables.

The first is dubious, the second is... highly location dependent.

Peak demand in California matches peak solar output pretty well; before solar was big, supply concerns focused on peak demand hours, in the afternoon; now they are in the evening because solar has made the highest gross demand time the time where there is the least concern for supply.

> No, but the labor cost of hooking up your pile of rocks battery will be impractical for almost everyone.

The labor cost of hooking it up isn't that bad, geothermal heat pumps aren't that costly.

Insulating the pile of rocks battery is probably the hard part.
> The act of buying 3rd party data is tantamount to a search and seizure, regardless of whatever TOS was signed by the user who provided that data.

Legally, this is false, but obviously most people here would advocate for data ownership and control, even when it's transferred under a contract (regardless if it's via a checkbox, or signed and notarized).
Maybe we’re just getting older and realizing forced social interaction isn’t necessarily a useful goal?

There’s no center of the universe; why does social life, big picture, have to march along with root principles?

Why are school schedules the way they are? Why is school in a bunch of dumpy buildings and not like a sole proprietorship that serves its neighbors, reimbursed for resources so long as it follows some curriculum that in the end just provides basic problem solving skills acquisition?

We need people with skills to make life supporting things. A whole lot of the rest of it, retail jobs peddling disposable crap people could make if they didn’t need a retail job, is just serving old stories.

Maybe constantly needing to socialize is an application of agency we don’t need. Maybe it’s reinforced a lot given institutions push us into competitive groups to haggle in Germanic/Romantic/Arabic/etc gibberish.
Not even true, at best a civil case after months and you must provide service to the defendant or defendant attorney - depending on who booked and who stayed can be different and will not proceed normally.

tl;dr mostly nothing if they don't value their airbnb account.
Korea Is Airlifting Thousands of Gallons of Urea to Keep Diesel Engines Going
This is also the type of thing that plants the seed of interest for a career or hobby of computing, which is another reason it's stupid. Reward people's curiousity instead of punishing it, especially in a schooling situation!
Whirlpool still makes good shit. GE appliances will still be very good for a while. I remember using Amana microwaves in restaurants. I literally tried to destroy them and they survived and thrived through very harsh treatment...amazing machines. Hobart...meh.
Nothing, your airbnb account is banned, they'll probably try to bill your credit card, but not much.

You can send a fee request, but mostly you do that to show airbnb you tried and they'll maybe compensate you if they agree.
There's still the issue of false hope. Every now and then I'm looking for something specific that I don't necessarily know what it's called, but I know I'll recognize it when I see it. So I try different queries, and finally find something that looks exactly like it so I click, but end up on Pinterest, where there's generally zero information about the image. It's just a piece of someones random collection. Plus the login-wall of course.

Even the most basic website would have at least some information about the image.

To clarify, this isn't an issue if you get multiple versions of the image, in that case one of them is hopefully not from Pinterest.
So they are not using it with hdr yet, which is probably what all those new TVs that do support av1 support as well, meaning they won't get av1?
> I thought that prohibition was much older?

Posse Commitatus Act of 1878. The Insurrection Act provides one statutory exception, which would have applied to Little Rock, but I’m not sure if that was the legal justification at the time.

Edit: indeed it was. Here’s the presidential order: https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/resear...

Note the references to authority granted US Code Title 10 Chapter 15 Section 332 which covers insurrection.
> Poor people who can't afford e.g. smart water heaters

Will have them subsidized in units they own (not that poor people generally own) and mandated in units they rent
Not really. no time to re-enter, they will not enforce this upon entry. It is not criminal, it is civil.

It is not criminal yet to not show up in a civil case.
searx (self-hosted open source) can be set as defult in Chrome just fine without any extensions.

If you need some hints from them: https://github.com/searx/searx/issues/1666
Graduated high school in 2007 in Slovenia. Saw the heyday of public IRC chatrooms (city based), tail end of MySpace, heyday of personal blogs, the beginnings of Facebook, but Twitter took off like wildfire in our corner of the world. Everyone was on twitter, especially tech enthusiasts. My Twitter account dates to July 2008.

My Instagram user ID is sub 1,000,000 :)

The really cool kids in college had hacked iPhones from Italy and USA. I think iPhone 5 was the first officially available for us ... I managed to import an iPhone 4 but missed the jailbreak by 3 days and couldn't use cellular on my phone for years. It was basically an expensive iPod touch. Good times.
Yeah.

I don't miss doing web dev in the Win XP days when one had to test everything on IE, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox, etc. but at least there were options back then and things legit ran with different HTML and JS engines.

Now it's just Chrome/Chromium and Firefox representing cross-platform browsers, and most other things are platform specific WebKit mods or Chromium reskins...
After working for years with both, I'd say that PostgreSQL is much more friendlier to the developer and more pleasant to work with. In any area: documentation, features, error messages, available SQL features, available extensions, available docs, available books.

One tiny example: I prefer to work with databases using CLI interfaces (mysql and psql).

psql CLI is a tool which is pleasant to use, has no bugs in the interface and it even gets improvements from time to time.

mysql CLI is awful to use (e.g. doesn't display long lines properly, has difficulties with history editing, etc) and looks like there wasn't a single improvement since 1996 (I'm sure there were, I just never felt the effect of such improvements).
I think the author is ultimately wrong.

* I'll leave a trigger warning *

Let's have a real conversation.

- Half of the US wants their country, traditions and values

- Half of the US doesn't want a country (no border), upended traditions and no values

There are two countries and will destroy each other.

One country believes the world is going to end from climate change; that COVID19 is 10-100x more deadly than it actually is; that men can transition to women; that abortion is not murder.. I can go on.

The other believes the climate is always changing, but humans can adapt over years; that COVID19 is only 5x-10x more deadly than it actually is; and that a man can be a eunuch and dress like a woman, but still is not a woman; that abortion is murder... again, I can go on.

The polarization isn't really mend-able.

Both sides believe in polar opposites. Only one side believes this is the land of the free where anything is possible. The other side wants believes it needs to impose it's will to "stop climate change", "stop the spread", "stop the hate".

Don't you see it!? The hypocrisy of it?

Only one side wants to take away peoples ability to work, to travel, to raise a family, to educate your children, even your bodily autonomy.

This polarization is driven by hate. Hatred of traditions and of a history.

> “With those three words—‘very fine people’—the president showed that he was sympathetic to the men who staged the most highly publicized march for racism and antisemitism in the United States in many decades.”

Yes, because there were "many 'very fine people' on both sides", the omitted words are important. "There's no excuse for what happened" indeed.

This stops when both sides can admit that last years riots which left at least 38 dead were not "mostly peaceful", but a deadly riot. Similarly, that "January 6" was not an "insurrection", but a deadly riot (as the FBI already stated).

Yes, there were and are 'very fine people' on both sides, but the extremes on both sides are violent. We as a free people should not oppress our neighbors and that collaboration is required for us to continue as a civilization ... if we can even agree we want a civilization any more.
Yeah For surveying large populations I think you only need around 270 samples to get 90% acuuracy. Something like that, might have mixed up at word it's been awhile since I did stats.
CCPA calls these companies data brokers[0], which are still subject to the CCPA. They might be acting facetious in saying that, since you'd usually have to also go to their customers to get your data deleted in addition to asking them for deletion [as in, they don't have to inform their customers to delete the data].

> Data brokers are subject to the CCPA. On the Data Broker Registry website, you will find contact information and a website link for each registered data broker, as well as additional information to help you exercise your CCPA rights.

0: https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa#sectiong
Ask HK – What do you think the future “Metaverse” will be like?
Hello, everyone.

Like everyone else, I've been hearing the word "metaverse" being bandied about, and it makes me wonder just what it might actually be like, when it exists.

I'd love to hear everyone's unique insights and perspectives.

-- Jds
Ask HN: Experiences with AWS, Azure, and GCP?
Hi all

Wondering if anyone here has a good understanding of the differences working with the Big 3 cloud providers? Which one’s better for support, reliability, etc? What are some differences that set each other apart?
Thanks for looking. I don't think that effect is similar enough though, but maybe that's just me?

After I wrote my original comment I thought about the filters. If Photoshop had a similar effect available as a filter, I'd assume it was achieved using a similar architecture as the OP presented.
For some users this might be true, but not for everyone- whether the advertisers realize it or not. I refuse to buy anything from an ad. If I want to buy a widget and happen to see an ad in the search results for the widget, I'll then refuse to buy the widget because I saw an ad for it. I block every promoted tweet, and enable as much ad blocking as I possible can on all of my devices. I am probably worth a negative amount to advertisers because seeing their ads actively makes me disinclined to buy the product.

On the other hand, I realize that services cost money to build and maintain, and if the subscription came with ad-free (and data-mining free! "ad-free - same great ad-tech data-mining flavor" doesn't count) I would definitely subscribe.
> Are there any risks to changing ACL rules on a production database server from a stability perspective?

i've never seen anything impact postgres stability. they test their code.

i've made DDL changes on live systems; that seems far more concerning than ACLs.