skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So let the apps opt out of "exposure", which tends to be very minimal. And "access" doesn't belong to them, they owe their users access to apps.
Should Apple take a cut when I order my groceries using an iPhone through my grocery's store app?
I have theory on this, I don't think I'm worse at remembering (yet!),
I think what matters is the energy you can bring to focusing at the time your absorbing information in the first place. I have to plan to have that energy in advance, doing some exercise the day before so I can sleep, go to bed at 9 pm the night before with one earplug so I can still have an ear out for emergencies but not the snuffles and shuffles of children and pets, get up at five when the house is dark, go outside for a bit - then hit the books uninterrupted in the quiet morning. If I do that, my fifty year old focus is better than I ever had as a 20 year old - but! If I look ahead, at the older generations of my family, I'm confident I've got a good ten years, maybe fifteen, but don't see another 20.

Like many on here, I think I had a high potential - low discipline brain. I was never setting the world on fire, and even if as I age the potential ceiling of my cognitive capacity has come down, it was never an ceiling I was in danger of hitting, and now with a little more willpower I'm getting more out of the (possibly diminishing) total mental horsepower I have, than I ever did as a younger me.
Would anyone here be comfortable using their official identity to confound a company with a pseudonymous cofounder? To me this feels like a gross asymmetrical information disclosure.
> "We're really seeing the perfect storm,"

If these "perfect storms" happen six times a year maybe it's not the storm but their own logistics to blame?
One of my enduring memories was in my school years visiting a friend whose family had recently moved to Australia from Asia. At the end of their kitchen bench, they had a food-grade plastic bin larger than the stereotypical Oscar-the-grouch trash can, full of rice. We buy rice in 5-10kg bags but maybe I should be trying to find larger.
Uber eats has a fraud problem, Doordash is the superior service. That doesn't answer your question however.
Honest question, is this satire?

The only hint is their mention of "KYC processes."

As an investor, I am confused who would agree to this. I would like to hear from someone who has done this.

Is there any binding legal action you could take if there is fraud? It says blended teams of anonymous and identified people but then you are just investing in the identified people and will have to go after them.

One only has to look at the history of the Silk Road to see how this goes. There was repeatedly tons of "reliable" pseudonymous sellers there who would maintain their reputation until they took a bunch of orders and pulled the rug. Over and over.
Flashlight nerd here.

This behavior is still common in flashlights. Flashlights using three alkaline (or NiMH) batteries in series, or a single Li-ion cell can drive a white LED via a linear regulator (or occasionally just a transistor), and it will dim as the battery falls below the forward voltage of the LED at its maximum output. At higher price points, a single Li-ion cell and a regulated buck converter is common to see and much more efficient, but maximum brightness is still usually limited by battery voltage.

A flashlight using a single AA or AAA battery must use a boost converter because all white LEDs require about 3 volts. Even these often don't produce stable output as the battery drains, which is sometimes intentional because that behavior would produce terrible battery life with alkalines due to their high internal resistance. It's fine with NiMH.

Even Li-ion lights with boost converters don't always manage full output on a low battery because it's common to find overdriven components on a 20mm driver board (it needs to fit in a pocket) that's trying to push as much power as possible (lumens sell lights). Inability of the electronics to maintain full output isn't necessarily a significant limitation in the real world anyway; a 25x100mm aluminum tube pushing 40W gets hot fast, and there's almost always some sort of thermal-throttling mechanism. That said, full output on a low battery usually earns praise from reviewers.
If its dependent children, the difference between Hawley and Ossoff's bills are inconsequential and Manchin's example is irrelevant in the OP's post.
No one is trying to get it for free. They are trying to get it for [significantly] less than 30%.

If it's so great to use Apple Pay (one click, easy to revoke payment -- sounds great!), why would a customer not use it over browsing to a random page, entering CC details, and worrying if it will be hard to cancel?

I'd guess the convenience is not worth 10%, much less 30%, to most users.
College students who are paid for by their parents can also be claimed as dependents on tax returns. I have no idea whether that is the criteria in Hawley’s bill, but it would be reasonable. If you want to trade stocks, don’t take senator dad’s money.
If you read the link, it specifically says dependent children, which seems fair. I don't see how how the constitution protects your stock trading rights if you are likely to be privy to insider information.

If you work in the financial industry, there are already draconian rules on oversight for all trades made by you, your spouse, your dependents, and even roommates. Why shouldn't this oversight extend to members of congress?
Until you see the banners put up in the favela: anyone defending crypto and nfts, etc will receive a beating

This is an atual banner
Eh most smoke detectors are only rated for 10 years, you may want to check those and chuck them based on what the manufacturer says.
Thank you for holding up a mirror, dang! Being publicly called out came as a bit of shock and really got me thinking.

The comment above really isn't me. Or rather, it is clearly me (since I posted it), but I don't want it to be.

Where I disagree with you is the implication that undesirable people bring bad behavior with them and pollute this site. I think it's the opposite: something about this site brings out the worst in otherwise reasonable people. Or maybe it's all social media.

In any case, the negative effects clearly outweigh the benefits from participation. This will be the last comment from this account; I'll send a request for deletion. Thank you for accidentally curing my HN addiction! I'll be mindful of the door on my way out :)
Yeah Dropbox turned greedy by not standing out among competitors.
Even OneDrive or Google Drive (free) are good alternatives
I can see that working as a part of a private contract, I'm just not sure it's constitutional for the government to prevent one person from doing something based on their relationship to another person. Especially spouses, but perhaps even children.
Out of curiosity, how does this cause a problem for you? I’ve been using SQL databases heavily since the mid-90s and I’m not sure I’ve ever been in a situation where I had to use SELECT * but couldn’t either process the results by column name or have the client read in whatever order needed. I strongly favor only selecting the fields I care about, however, so I’m assuming there’s a case you’ve encountered.
Depends on how young. Logo if they're in elementary school; it was designed for children of that age. A large number the students I teach started with Logo as children and went on to learn other languages.
I'm not qualified to say if it's constitutional, but it would seem that it's widely accepted as constitutional if existing insider trading law applies to similar situations.

Can you explain the reasoning more? And why making laws for Congress would raise a novel issue?
No, I think it's pretty easy to point at: They monopolize distribution. (Un)fortunately Microsoft missed the boat on that one.
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The tweets above are good questions! This is how to do science!

Meanwhile it's good to restate the obvious.

Modified gravity (MOND), where acceleration at galactic scales isn't just GM/R^2 but modeled as sqrt(GM/R^2 * cH/(2pi)), works for 100s of galaxies, and is more precise than cold dark matter (CDM).

Modified gravity only has one free parameter. cH/(2pi) = c^2 / 87 bly.
If that's the case why is a new law needed in the first place? The adult children are independent of their parents and can be prosecuted under current law.
100% agree.

There are a lot of business comms and networkers on linked as well as your standard social network content, in but the greatest value is what it provides to recruiters.

Recruiters use linked in as a 'direct sourcing' (head hunting) tool.
LinkedIn provides a recruiter with a whole recruitment toolset to make their jobs very easy.
I realize that the only reason they don’t have an iOS app is because Apple didn’t let them, but OnlyFans is doing very well as a web based service. It’s certainly not iOS-or-nothing.
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You're now complaining that a BMW costs more than a Toyota. Shop where you can afford. You know how the prices are not too high? People are buying apps left, right, and center.
Apple pay is great!

Apple pay has a tiny fee.

Maybe they should let apps use Apple pay?
What does that even mean, to "acid wash" a server?
There are a million laws which take marital status into account, so not sure where you are getting that assumption from
It could be Ozone. Possibly harmful for human depending on concentration but sometimes used for human.

EPA says that just HEPA filter is enough to catch covid, so it seems that there are less chance to upsell filter only. Selling more appliances would be good. https://www.epa.gov/coronavirus/air-cleaners-hvac-filters-an...
"rich"
> From your username I'm guessing you're in your fifties, that's my age and I have fond memories of EMM386.

Pretty good guess :)

Late 40s though. Started programming at 8 years old on a PcJr and a Compaq "laptop" and am still at it.
I think the point they're making is obvious. Being a pedant doesn't further discussion.
What do you mean "horrible optics"? It's outright corrupt. The issue here isn't "Nancy Pelosi supporting local businesses". The issue is her husband acting on private information to reap enormous profits.
On the other hand, the penalties in Hawley’s bill have teeth, and having the GAO investigate is probably better.
> Honest question, is this satire?

Tom Lehrer once said: "Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize."

I feel like with Bitcoin at $40-50k and Tesla at $1T we are in a similar place when it comes to investing.
I used to be a land surveyor and I did a lot of work in Lancaster County PA. Funny story I still think about sometimes. The Amish have discovered roadside barbecue and many of them have turned it into a cottage business. One afternoon after completing a survey we were hungry to grab some lunch, and we saw a group of Amish women in bonnets on the roadside tending to barbecue over one of those grills made from a sawed-in-half oil barrel. It was on a farm next to a barn and as were pulling around to park our truck we noticed a teenage Amish boy walking while talking on a mobile phone. He noticed we saw him and he immediately picked up his pace and started walking faster in order to get behind the corner of the barn so we couldn't observe him anymore while we parked the truck.

So what I learned from this is that even though the Amish may be allowed to use certain forms of technology, they're not necessarily proud of it or want outsiders to know they're using it.
Very interesting read!
I live in the Seattle-area where we've been hit with some serious winter weather in the mountain passes, to the point that for a period of a few hours, there was practically no route to drive to a neighboring state, and the passes were closed for the better part of 72+ hours.

Even with that, and the rest of the aforementioned issues, I have had virtually no problem shopping for what I needed with some small changes, like buying a different brand of eggs or getting organic bananas. This was even after 2-3 days of mountain closures and the panic shopping that goes with that.

This seems to mainly be an issue with convenience - decades of excellent logistics have trained us to basically expect a store to always be in stock of a wide variety of perishables. It's no surprise that when something disrupts that finely-tuned machine, we have to deal with some small setbacks.
This makes a lot of sense. In the case of the Dark Web I had always wondered how people felt secure in their purchases, especially considering the wide degree of fentanyl contamination in the recreational drug movement right now.
Could you say more about the fraud problem? I've used Ubereats a few times a week for a couple of years and I don't think I've had a problem, though only ever in a tier 1 city.
If Apple wasn’t user-hostile this would all be an API that any payment provider could use.
Just use ASCII.
That’s a genuinely hot take, and I do think there’s some merit.

That said: I think your hypothetical is better than our current, objectively ridiculous situation. “Everyone’s doing it in the open” is a pretty lame excuse, and definitely doesn’t preclude the possibility of kids + shell companies anyway.
>"You've got to be willing to read other people's code, and then write your own, then have other people review your code. You've got to want to be in this incredible feedback loop where you get the world-class people to tell you what you're doing wrong." -Bill Gates

https://libquotes.com/bill-gates/quote/lbs9p7l

>"My favourite is when you're a solopreneur working in your own repos and still asking yourself "who wrote this shit?!" -rozenmd

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29874627

>"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a
violent psychopath who knows where you live. Code for readability." -John Woods

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c++/c/rYCO5yn4lXw/m/oI...

To summarize: Some day you might discover that you need to maintain your own code you wrote a long time ago, and you've turned into a violent psychopath who can remember your own address.
After medical and recreational weed was legalized, the lost weed company is not really needed. Their prices were pretty high and have stayed that way.
[Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/) is the free version that doesn’t need a subscription. People on here seem to swear by it, I haven’t gotten around to ripping the bandaid of migrating to it yet though.
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What makes you think the West would have Lula over Bolsonaro?

I come from a country ruled by a literal monarchy. That country is on very good terms with many western countries, such as the US. For the countries we aren't on good terms with, it's a question of geopolitics and trade.

A few years back there was a wave of revolutions in the area, that were touted as liberal (a lot of them really weren't). Oddly enough, there was little media attention, no agitation, and no support to that movement when it came to our country, even though we are even worse as a literal monarchy (in theory we have elections - they don't matter, think China but worse).

So it seems clear to me that the West will align with whoever is going to give better deals economically and geopolitically. In Brazil that's clearly Bolsonaro over Lula.

And of course there is plenty of corruption in Brazil. You can't root out corruption at the ballot box. It doesn't work like that.
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> Ossoff's bill is superior

I disagree.

"Hawley's bill would have the Government Accountability Office provide oversight, whereas Ossoff would leave that to congressional ethics committees."

Congressional ethics committees are notoriously partisan and unreliable in enforcing. You are trusting Congress members to police themselves, which isn't remotely reliable. In reality, they only police members of the opposing party. The GAO would be far superior.

> in that it prevents children from also trading (see Sen. Manchin's shady dealings).

Were Manchin's adult children "dependents"? How is that defined in the bill? Also, it's been interesting to see negative attention on Manchin suddenly get ratcheted up the minute he wouldn't vote in a manner popular with people who don't live in his state.

> This is a common tactic in the Senate to subvert legislative direction.

The assumption that the purpose of this specific instance is to "subvert" is speculative. I'm no fan of Hawley, but he has been very public about wanting to ban stock trades by members as much as Ossoff.

I tire of the red/blue tribal loyalties on this site. I see two corrupt tribes, filled with people who won't vote for this bill. But both, and their foolishly gullible supporters, just sit and point at the misdeeds of the opposing side, unaware of their information bubbles.
I suspect these amounts are ultimately a pittance compared to the 20% annual price gain in housing. A common theme of those choosing to no longer work is that housing makes many jobs cost prohibitive to do.
You can get a divorce or stop being a dependent.
> I had to fight NY Times like crazy (it was sign up online, call to cancel kind of thing).

I had that issue several years ago with Sonic (the broadband provider).

However, if you're in California, it should be possible to cancel a subscription by the same means that one subscribed to the service in the first place. For example, if one signed up online for a newspaper, they should be able to cancel online as well. This has been in place since July of 2018 I believe.

New restrictions coming into effect in July 2022 require having a link or button to cancel a subscription as part of a customer's profile page, as well as notifying customers of an impending renewal for trials that have an extended free trial period.
Solid state electronics was supposed to mean longer life for everything.

I remember the same being said about LEDs (and before that, CFLs) for lighting, that they would have a much longer life, but in practice, they didn't precisely because making something that lasts longer means less profit in the long term.
The talk was of a bill to bring congressional trading in line with executive trading (I.e. totally transparent with 6-12 irreversible lead times on any trades). I don’t know that anyone was pushing for an outright ban.
What private information?
Fair enough. I understand your point. Also, there are plenty of really good type families available for free. From what I’ve seen, though, pricing based on traffic is pretty common among those selling type.

Plus, these are single purchases, not recurring fees. For most organizations that makes these costs trivial. (I.e., License the font indefinitely for about the same cost as an hour of a consultant’s time.)
Agreed.

I'm a mathematician by training. So when I said pedantic, I didn't mean 'bad'.
DoorDash operates only in the United States, Canada, Australia and Japan. [1]

Uber Eats is almost everywhere (45 countries). [2]

Also there are some very big players outside of the US, e.g. Rappi in LATAM (Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, etc). [3]

[1] https://help.doordash.com/dashers/s/article/Where-is-DoorDas...

[2] https://help.uber.com/ubereats/article/when-and-where-is-ube...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rappi
I hate that even though I paid for the service, the web version still has a banner ad asking me to upgrade. It's so stupid that the "share" button on mobile goes to dropbox's own share and "export" (Android's share and what I usually want) is buried deep in a menu. Also photos, the whole reason I got dropbox (to switch away from Google photos) is a terrible experience. The web photos page is awful, you can't see albums made on mobile and it's slow. Also I have a bug I can't fix where on desktop if photos are downloaded for offline, the thumbnails disappear.

It's frustrating that so many developers have taken such a strong mobile-first approach to the detriment of the desktop; especially something like Dropbox.
Cities have tiers? Anyway, in San Francisco I order food and the driver doesn't move for an hour and a half. I call in to customer support, get another driver and he drives to the other side of the city before coming back and picking up my order (I paid for priority)

Not a fraud issue but in Miami over the break I ordered food from Uber eats, I got 5 different drivers who all got assigned then dropped the order.

On doordash none of this bs ever happens.
What is Postmates?
roommates too?! I guess you weren't kidding : https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/9seqfv/the_sec...
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram deleted millions of posts for simply discussing the mere possibility of a lab leak.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/may/27/facebook-...

That's not conspiracy, that's fact; and it's weird no one called you out on it.
It could be an incorrect reading on my part, but it sounds like the “capital” described in this post refers to mostly unregulated securities. I think giving an anonymous entity actual capital would probably run afoul of KYC, right?
True, which is why I switched from 1Password to Bitwarden about 6 months ago.

If you told me my options were between LastPass and 1Password, I would rather use a physical pen & paper than LastPass, but I would at least be able to live with 1Password.
Audited code can still have bugs.
Yes but also if you want to reach people you can't "side" with them or you will be losing business. That's the power of the monopolies for you.
The Apple ecosystem isn't "optional for consumers to use"; if you want iOS then you absolutely have to participate in the ecosystem. Same reason why the "buy an Android if you want to sideload" argument doesn't work for me: the platforms aren't interchangeable.

A lot of what you're describing here are things that absolutely should be illegal, and a properly-funded government should be investigating and prosecuting. What Apple has done is turn iOS into their own sovereign territory, written their own laws, and levied their own taxes. In other words, they are a digital warlord. If we are going to ban loot boxes or data exploitation, we should be passing actual laws in actual Congresses and Parliaments to ban loot boxes or data exploitation.

Yes, the consumer harm might be minimal, but the consumer is not the end-all, be-all of the economy[0]. Apple bossing developers around creates compliance costs and higher barriers to entry for smaller businesses. This is inherent to monopolies of any kind, pro-consumer or otherwise. Yes, I can absolutely point to scams that Apple has judiciously removed from the App Store; but for every one of those I can also find stories where Apple just absolutely dicked around with a smaller developer and held up their app for no reason. In contrast, large companies like Zynga, Facebook, or Match Group have dedicated staff for making the Apple warlords happy, and know exactly what they can get away with. This isn't an open and vibrant marketplace; it's a group of warlords negotiating who owns what.

[0] More generally, the "consumer welfare" standard that modern antitrust enforcement has adopted is effectively a tacit agreement to not prosecute antitrust violations.
Another big difference is that both of them were absolute dictatorships at the time, which means they would develop differently from democracies in general, let alone a very corrupt and flawed democracy like Brazil.
But someone chooses to be married to an individual. You don't choose who your parent is.
Anyone else holding a Sun Ultra-5 or Ultra-10 where the MAC address has zero'ed out?

Sometimes, the reason you can't be bootstrapped is as simple as a soldered-on battery backup

(there's a hex boot load sequence to give your host a self-assigned MAC and get over this problem)