skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a spec about a browser feature, "getting it" can mean a few different things.

1. Understanding the purpose of the feature ("why/when would I use this?")

2. Understanding how to implement the feature

3. Understanding how to use the feature

4. Understanding the feature's "corner cases" (surprising implications, cases where it doesn't do what you'd expect, etc.)

5. Understanding why the feature works the way it does (instead of some other way)

Most of the web specs really only explain how to implement a feature, and even then, they're not great at that, because they do such a poor job at explaining the purpose of the feature.

Assuming that you, like most of us, aren't working on implementing a browser, that means that web specs are mostly unhelpful to you. It's almost completely beyond the purpose of a spec to teach you how to use a feature, what its corner cases would be (which are often unknown at the time a spec was written), and why the specification says what it says.

This is an area where the web spec community has made some improvements in recent years. Nowadays, it's understood that new proposed specifications shouldn't just provide a specification, but also a separate "explainer" document to explain the purpose of the feature, and also persuade the other browser vendors to implement the feature. ("This will be really cool, and here's why…")

At a minimum, specs nowadays often include a non-normative "Motivation" section, as the CSS Nesting spec does. https://www.w3.org/TR/css-nesting-1/ I you'll find that you can "get" that spec much better than you can the CSS OM spec https://www.w3.org/TR/cssom-1/ which is old enough to buy alcohol and doesn't include a "Motivation" section.

You can often find explainer docs linked off of https://chromestatus.com/ e.g. https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/... I think you'll find that explainers are 10000% better for learning features than specs are. (They typically even discuss #3, #4, and #5, as they typically discuss alternative rejected approaches.)
It's been an on-going conversation that's been going on a few days.
I totally agree. I have had a LOT of complaints about Firefox in the past five years and all of them fall into one of two buckets.

A) Useful functionality being removed. Firefox on Android has been crippled to the point of ruin.

B) Pointless UX changes for the worse. This can be bearable, but are a regular source of annoyance and wasted time.
It's true that it isn't necessarily hypocritical at the detail level, but the question remains: to what degree is it actually like that at the detail level?
It's reasonable to assume that Apple chose 30% because that was the prevailing standard in the physical retail world.

That markup has been competed away in some circumstances (eg Costco) but otherwise still holds generally (Walmart 32%) It reflects unavoidable costs to all retailers, like local rents, staffing, transport etc
Given that tech does not have a retail's fixed costs why has that markup not been competed away to establish a markup based on tech's unavoidable fixed costs?
Related to your idea,

- modified gravity (MOND), which accurately models the centripetal acceleration of stars in hundreds of galaxies, models acceleration as sqrt(GM/R^2 * cH/(2pi))

- cH/(2pi) = c^2 / (2pi * 13.8 bly), which looks like some super extreme v^2/r centripetal acceleration

- like something moving at c, from a point 2pi * 13.8 bly away = 87 bly away

- maybe if ones goes straight for 87 bly, one ends up at the "same point" in abstract space

- maybe the universe has the shape of a hypersphere. maybe the radius of the hypersphere is 13.8 bly.
Was there a particular piece (or pieces) of research that stood out as the thing that convinced you MOND was the complete model?
Interesting point about what "control" means. If I can put up a message that can never be taken down, is that control?

The case here is "yes", that's a certain type of control: the ability to put something up and never take it down. Kind of permissions on a disk where you can only write subsequent files but no one (including you) can delete old files. That is more control compared to someone who can write files but an admin can delete them.
I suspect you would get more engagement on your comment if you provided some sort of supporting information for any of your assertions/forecasts.

Defining “industrial infrastructure” would be a good start. What do you mean by that? Remembering your audience are most likely the actual people who are building/built that infrastructure…this isn’t a Pol Sci 101 course.
and only 10 months ago...
haha . Too late for the edit unfortunately.
A person awake and conscious is, in my opinion, generally much stranger in its behavior than one who is unconscious. Unconscious persons generally just... lie there. Not all that strange, considering most stuff on Earth does that.
I e-mailed him about it days ago.

By the way, are you familiar with Zooko's triangle?
I'm not making a statement on what the right or wrong rate is, but in the case of credit cards there's also a level of risk involved with fraud, which does scale with the size of purchase. Debit cards have less risk and thus have a lower, if not totally fixed-rate, fee.
I think you're missing a huge part of the point of prison; prisons aren't designed for the prisoner's benefit, but for society's benefit. Somehow who shoots his wife and lover in bed, or someone who deals drugs, or someone who steals cars isn't someone I want to live near or around.

I'll give you an example to pair with your drug dealer example. A small community store is run by an old couple. Everyone who enters is greeted with pleasure. Shoplifting increases, and the old couple sells to a young person, who is concerned about shoplifting and doesn't greet everyone with pleasure. Then there's an armed robbery. Now there's cameras, bulletproof glass, and the store clerks are openly suspicious of people who come into the store. Now society is worse to live in, and the only people who caused that are the ones who did the crimes.

Crime causes poverty of spirit and weakens social bonds; prison is a place to keep prisoners so they don't disintegrate society.
Funny you should ask. I just wrote a book called Effective Pandas[0] that discusses ways to use pandas (in Jupyter) that leads to easy re-use, sharing, production, testing. Here's a video with many of the ideas if you prefer [1].

People tend to have strong feeling when they see my pandas code as it is different from much of the (bad advice) in the Medium echo chamber. Generally, most who try it out are very happy.

The basics are embrace chaining, avoid .apply, and organize notebooks with functions (using the chain).

Oh, and Jupytext is a life saver if you are someone who uses source control.

0 - https://store.metasnake.com/effective-pandas-book
1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgbUk90aQ6A
Technical amendment: UTF-16 can represent the full range of Unicode scalar values with surrogate pairs. Code points includes the surrogates U+D800–U+DFFF, scalar values don’t. Like all other Unicode encodings, UTF-16 cannot represent surrogates.

That’s where the real problem lies: almost nothing that uses UTF-16 actually uses UTF-16, but rather potentially ill-formed UTF-16.
> Interoperability has never been legally mandated in the past

This is pretty similar domain where it's happened:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics
How old is your child? If they're between 10 and 14 years old you can teach them Hedy (hedycode.com) ! A gradual programming language that's easy to learn and transpiles to python!
Uber paying the cost and passing it on is the customer paying the cost.
Is that non-volatile? (retains its memory without power)
A useful, related trick. Enable commit.verbose to have Git append a diff to the commit message template, which you can quickly consult when writing a commit message.

git config --global commit.verbose true

https://tekin.co.uk/2020/03/git-commit-verbose-mode
This is a forum of professionals though, how many production apps can actually run a database with no HA, no replication, single process access, no remote access, and is weakly typed?

And if you suggest "$project that's built on SQLite" to do all that then congrats you just reinvented MySQL or Postgres but with SQLite as the DB engine.
As an attempt to steelman their point, Apple has more employees than about 30 countries and has more CASH on hand than the GDP of over a 100 countries (220~ total worldwide).

As far as regulations go, I think those points could be an argument that more regulation could be warranted.
Has there ever been any studies on caning + prison and whether it has any efficacy in reducing recidivism in Singapore vs. just prison?
> I can't tell if the people posting and endorsing it are naive or predatory.

If you believe the post, the author is giving this advice because it worked for them. There are a lot of people like that.
Much different point than the other comment was making. As far as their choice in using Apple’s platform I don’t disagree that it’s not really a choice and it’s potentially a problem.
Web?
steam charges 20-25%
Note that if you reverse the direction, r/cryptocurrency has a much higher correlation to r/stockmarket, r/investing, r/fatfire, r/realestateinvesting, and r/collapse than to r/poor. Same goes for r/bitcoin. r/poor does not even make the list when viewed from the crypto subreddits.

I think this is simply that crypto subreddits are big, and so if you try to find the overlap between r/poor and anything else, a big subreddit will be high on the list. Same reason that r/bayarea is high up on the overlap list for r/poor - at first glance, the assumption is that poor people live in the Bay Area, but then when you reverse that causality and look at what Bay Area people are interested in, r/fatfire, r/costco, r/realestate, and r/cscareerquestions are way higher than r/poor, which again doesn't make the list.
Let's not depict Uber and Lyft as victims. They would do the same - and they do, when freezing rain is falling on me and I need a ride to protect my health.
* None of the countries who paid lip service to "protecting those who are at highest risk" while letting the virus spread freely through the rest of society spelled out how exactly they were going to achieve that protection, and indeed, none of those countries managed to protect the vulnerable.

* Identifying those "at minimal risk of death" is not at all simple. There seem to be as yet poorly understood genetic factors in play that determine who is and is not at risk at a younger age, and rolling the dice seems like a poor strategy.

* Even WITH precautions (and eventually vaccines), more than 50,000 people under 50 and more than 200,000 people under 65 in the US died of COVID. Under the Barrington strategy, the outcome would have been far worse.

* There are other adverse outcomes than death, and those seem to disproportionately affect healthier patients.

* The strategy they advocated would have led to the health care system being flooded with cases, with adverse consequences for level of care.

* Every extra patient is giving the virus more lottery tickets to develop new mutations. You don't want to give away extra lottery tickets.

* And the whole strategy is predicated on achieving an "immunity" which pretty obviously does not exist to the extent propagated in the declaration. People can and do get reinfected.

The strategy was a bad idea even in 2020. In 2022, advocating for people to get infected when vaccines are available can hardly be characterised as anything but an utter crackpot notion.
Heh, yeah I totally found the wrong tom lane on linkedin

In fairness, I didn't find the postgres contributors list until I'd gotten a little further down the list.
Slay the Spire changed how I think in some ways. It's a brilliantly designed deckbuilding roguelike that asks very clear questions about how strong your position is and what you can afford to gamble, one after another -- and it eventually turns out that betting too much and betting too little are very much alike in how they make you fall off the power curve in an iterated game.

I agree with others that games won't improve thinking in an abstract sense, but some games definitely become analogies that I come back to.
1. Enroll in Korean language school.
2. Pay admissions, get expiated visa.
3. Do 14 day quarantine.

AFAIK, UK may not be restricted, USA still is not restricted just mandatory 14 day quarantine with only 30 day visa waiver being issued.
This sounds similar to the idea of branes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brane_cosmology] which were a proposal to explain why gravity is "weak" relative to other forces - the idea being that gravity expands through extra dimensions.
A writer at NR pointed out that most national papers haven't picked it up yet (this was on Tuesday), but many local ones had: https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/empty-shelve...
So is passing on any other cost. I’m pushing back on the idea that the problem is passing on the cost. The problem is that they don’t get to choose whether or not to pay this cost.
Poor people desperate to make money. Who'd have guessed?

Seems wrong to try to shame them like this.
I was at a local Trader Joes on the 3rd of January, the store was much more barren than normal, and when I went up to the counter I asked if the truck was delayed, it wasn't. They had a larger rush on Jan 2nd and 3rd than they had leading up to Christmas and New Years. It was very odd to see.
A company called Xooa has tricked AP into collaborating on this. Its definitely embarrassing for AP though and shows how far people are able to go in on something despite no understanding.
Nouns DAO and Brave
No lockdowns since around the 2nd dose (pre boosters) if I'm not mistaken

I believe tourism is blocked for a couple of months? Citizens can still fly out to almost all destinations and return with no/minimal/2 week quarantine

Statistics say about 1 out of 5 infected was found positive in the airport PCR test.
s/Uber/Costco/ to see a better example: an iOS app is at best a minor convenience to an average costco member. Almost all costco customer acquisitions are through word of mouth / brand recognition and the vast majority of sales happen at brick and mortar stores. Why should costco fork over some 30% of revenue to apple?

Imagine Google pulling the same stunt for inclusion into their app store and it quickly becomes apparent how the pricing structure is laughable at face value.
On the other side of this, depending on the breadth of your data, it can be non trivial to run pipelines to redact someones information. It takes man hours to verify, and processing time ($$). Plus, what if they don't have that process in place? They will need to do it manually, and take up more time from someone. Plus you need to communicate with the requestee and verify their identity as well as give them updates when they ask.

This is fine if not abused. But if a mountain of redactions came in, I could see a company just deciding it wasn't worth it to serve the EU. Not to mention the fact that there are a non-zero amount of people that will make GDPR redaction requests and hound the company down in hopes of suing them if they don't follow the law to the letter and/or can't process the redaction in time. If a company doesn't already have that process in place, it could be a momentous task to initially process.

I'm 100% for user privacy. But it can be tricky with the way the GDPR law works, so I understand why companies outside of the EU don't bother with it.
> What if we flip it to: "Why do app developers deserve access to Apple's customers?"

As I posted in another comment, part of the reason Apple has so many customers is that their platform has so many apps. If all developers left the App Store overnight, would anyone go out and buy an iPhone the next day?

Apple benefits greatly from their app ecosystem, even ignoring the 30% App Store cut. They should be careful not to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
They were talking about safe investments. I’m not sure most should or would consider ARK funds anything but speculative. The only difference is the companies held have some underlying assets and value.

The hate I usually see in crypto discussions is directed towards index funds or blue-chip stocks.
Is Apple collecting rent from Uber? Apparently not.
I bought an iPhone before I knew about the fee. This is like the landlord telling me there's a 30% convenience fee on paying rent after I've signed the contract.
>What if we flip it to: "Why do app developers deserve access to Apple's customers?"

>30% is the price to access Apple's customers.

That goes both ways. Would Apple's products be as popular as they are without 3rd party apps? The apps are what is bringing in those users.
>Yet every time a company actually does a “charge more” type move, HN reaches for the pitchforks.

This sort of cognitive dissonance is pretty par for the course for communities like this.
The fresh seafood was completely empty at my local grocery today
There is generally no typing in run time. One of the practices in writing compilers is to skip type checks during run time, because you know beforehand that no type errors are possible. That is type erasure.

If you're interested, lookup existential types. Very interesting stuff.
It's never been easier to build a custom branded Chrome than to build a custom branded Firefox. Building a custom branded Firefox is very easy, which is why tons of people have done it.

Google achieved market share by taking the embeddable WebKit, wrapping it in a non-embeddable wrapper called Chromium, and eventually forking WebKit to Blink in large part to make it non-embeddable and more tightly coupled to Chromium.
The QFC (Kroger owned grocery stores in the PNW) by me had to close early this past Sunday because it ran out of people to run the store. I had been there earlier in the afternoon and the site of bare shelves and lines as long as the entire length of the store was actually unnerving.
We have seen it too. And they did point to data: a rise of posts about it on social media. They also interviewed experts about the issue and why it's happening.
Shopify now takes zero share of your revenue for the first $1,000,000 each year (resets annually), then takes 15% (if I recall) after that.
Different things are different, sure. I just wonder who is the authoritative source of morals and who deserves what for doing what.

Creating and providing access to a lucrative market is valuable. What's the moral imperative for allowing others to provide access to the market you created or reduce your fees, both of which would reduce your profits for the benefit of everyone else who is trying to increase their profits?
Agreed. You're already setting up SSH and deleting it soon so why bother setting up the IPs, adding your public key, getting the server's public key, configuring iptables, and configuring wireguard locally when you could just SSH?

Only benefit I'd see is wireguard would be easier to use on a mobile device, but the setup requires the ability to run ansible and do ssh already so... that's not really practical.
Masks are effective: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

The letter author brought up the flu when he stared talking about respiratory viruses.

To date, all data states that the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine is safer than covid for every age group that has sufficient data. I would assume many other vaccines are similar.

Looks like I accidentally deleted a section before I posted. I was referring to his claim that people are arguing that vaccinated can't spread covid. This is ridiculous because it's been know for a while that vaccinated can probably still spread covid. The CDC has had this on it's FAQ for a while: "Early evidence suggests infections in fully vaccinated persons caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 may be transmissible to others". Which is basically science speak for "yes it happens, but we don't have a good idea of exactly how much."

There are almost a billion people in the world in the 60+ demographic. That's a lot of dead people. Covid also kills a fair amount of people in the 35-54 range. This paper(https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsob.200213) estimates ~1% but it's from 2020 so the numbers may have changed a bit. The number of people in the age group 35-54 is several billion, so that's also a lot of dead people.
Personally I was against this stupid tax. Of course I drink Coca-cola. But the main reason is because it doesn't really do what they want it to do.
It raises a can of coke 20 cents. A glass at the restaurant about 25 cents (of course a glass goes up by that much every year it seems.) As a Coke drinker I would barely see this tax.
On the other hand if I drank sweetened ice tea, it works more than double the cost. In fact the less sugar a drink has, the more this tax works increase it, on a percentage basis. Which is ridiculous. What is worse, the funk that has the most calories per ounce, a milkshake, is exempt. Alcohol, also with a high calorie count is also exempt.
According to https://matadornetwork.com/read/where-canadians-live-south-l..., 70% of Canadians live south of the 49th parallel. That line is the US/Canada border for much of the country. (It isn't the border in the east, where Toronto, Ottawa, and Montréal are.)
subredditstats.com results look plausible, based on another example: https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/bayarea
Consumers don't pay for:

- SDK / iOS updates

- Bandwidth to upload the compiled app to their phone

- Support from Apple

- Hosting / security of aforementioned

- etc. etc.

Who pays for all of the infrastructure of the App Store and the Apple SDK then?
> perhaps have to think rather carefully about if you wish to do business with them

This seems to be precisely what happened--and the thinking involved invention--a way of circumventing what prevented acquiring the needed medication. (I assume that alternatives were considered, and found wanting for one reason or another).
Definitely an odd choice for a representative subreddit. I hadn't heard of it until I saw this HN post.

Far more interesting (if predictable) is the list overlapping subs with r/povertyfinance subscribers: https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/povertyfi...
Apple intentionally limits the capabilities of its web browser to keep it from being competitive with its native platform, and I’m sure there’s an email out there that says as much explicitly.
who won this space? Uber eats?
MySQL or MariaDB/PerconaDB most likely. For all the footguns people are bringing up in this thread it's an extremely well trodden path where anything you could ever imagine doing with a DB someone has already done a hundred times with MySQL and documented it.
Technically, also true for a ponzi scheme. Anyone invested in crypto will increase the value of their holdings by getting others to buy in and exiting before they do.
pie crust is easy

So is pizza dough!

I make it about once a week, and every time I'm reminded of my younger generation boss who didn't know that pizza dough is just flour, water, salt, and yeast. She though it was some kind of magic plastic or something and refused to eat pizza because of it.

People really are getting too far away from their food sources.
I guess we don't know how long of a gap we're talking about in the OP's case.
Ocaml is so nice and fast! The very fast feedback you get from the compiler is amazing.
Except that just means they'll get less subscribers. The margins on these things are razor thin. If people don't think they're getting a deal they won't sign up.
It's very sad. I strongly believe that far, far fewer people would be doing this kind of risk-taking if their savings account was yielding at or above inflation, as it did from the 80s to around 2005.
Right, but don’t ignore the knock on effects of housing payments sucking up more cash, reducing consumer spending. And it won’t be fun refinancing at a higher rate and finding out your house is worth less than when you bought it.