skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I have been getting very threatening DMs from some very angry people threatening to do everything in their power to DOX and report me, so this post will be deleted shortly.

Why are people so angry, over nothing too
I've heard the same stories. People imagine "arbitration" is like Judge Judy: you both tell your side, and then she issues a ruling. Badda bing, badda boom.

NOT! You have to get a lawyer, and it drags on and on.
The only sales book I really liked was How You Make the Sale by Frank McNair https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Sale-Frank-McNair/dp/1402204...

A lot of sales books teach Jedi mind tricks and "tricks to close" and crap like that. This is much more practical. It walks you through a customer's buying process and shows how you can map that to your sales process. I find that making a better connection with my clients comes from putting their best interest first and being a good person. No need for psychology or tricks. Once you understand the buying process, and you understand the products/services you're selling, you're good to go.
This is a "class gets punished because of a few bad students" kinda thing. Without this rule everyone would and did just play the game of using their iOS app to drive people to their website to sign up to avoid paying Apple.

Apple, who charges for exposure and access to their users, I think is reasonably annoyed that people are trying to get that for free.
Would a Grocers Association or supermarket chain have any financial, political or legal reason to overemphasize that unusual or substantive shortages might be happening?

Contrary to what Hollywood and the internet would have you believe, not everything is a conspiracy. Inventing conspiracies any time something doesn't meet your worldview is just plain lazy.

As for providing the hard data, if that's what you're after, subscribe to the Wall Street Journal.

This is NPR. It's a radio network. It produces radio-sized reports. It just happens to also put those reports in text form on the web as a convenience.

It's great that you're interested in the data. Go find it. It's out there. NPR isn't going to hand it to you on a silver platter. That's not what NPR is for. That's not what radio is for.

Whoever is gathering supermarket pricing data on a nationwide basis

The federal government does this every month. The data is available. Go nuts.
I think the way we went to 1.2v for rechargables when we design to higher nominal voltage is really confusing. Why we didn't either shift the design basis to use 1.2-1.1 as a signal so we had better outcome when 1.2 drops off, or design the 1.2 cells to deliver 1.4 dropping to 1.2 and 1.1 is beyond me.

Because in practice, we're not designing for the consequences of 1.2 It shelves on 1.2 forever, tails, and then BOOM its gone. we should have designed for that curve, not for 1.5 -1.4 -1.3 -1.2 ....... BOOM
Anarchism rejects imposed hierarchy of authority. It does not reject governance in general.
This doesn’t apply to folks who want contacts for what’s in their profile, but: sometimes you’d like employers to know what relevant adjacent skills you have, without recruiters hitting them as search terms.

For that purpose, I masked all of my software terms like “java” from my EE profile with homoglyphs: humans can read them, but they don’t match search terms.

I used this site:
http://www.irongeek.com/homoglyph-attack-generator.php?decod...

This is an example:
ѕoftwаrе looks like “software” to humans, but I’ve pulled from Cyrillic characters, so the ascii codes don’t match.

I cut down my spam by about 80% instantly. (One weird trick!)
Deploying unaudited code is being lax with security.
This is a common tactic in the Senate to subvert legislative direction. Ossoff's bill is superior in that it prevents children from also trading (see Sen. Manchin's shady dealings).
The thing I've never understood about Opera is - what were they missing? They pioneered a ton of features that are now ubiquitous, like tabs and "speed dial," but somehow never managed to gain much market share. Why not?
Chatbots serve a real purpose: they hide information and frustrate users so that they will not request refunds and such.
Web apps that must run on Safari since no other browser engines are allowed.

Safari has dragged it's feet for supporting common web app features and fixing bugs. To this day there are no push notifications on web.
>between Lula and Kirchner, I’d rather have YOLO Bukele!

So you support dictators and are anti-Lula. Why am I not surprised?
The lengthy discussions about what qualifies as "anarchy" is a perfect illustration of why anarchists (and libertarians) never take power.

The devotees are more interested in being correct and arguing with each other than in the messy business of making coalitions and keeping them together.
If a non-EU site finds itself subject to GDPR because of Article 3(2), they need to then worry about whether or not Article 27(2) applies to excuse them from Article 27(1). If not then they have to deal with the hassle and expense of hiring a representative in the Union.

If they are indifferent to EU visitors but happen to get enough of them that 27(2) won't excuse them from 27(1), then it may be worth blocking EU visitors to try to reduce the chances that 3(2) applies. Article 3(2) is somewhat objecting, relying on whether you intended or not to offer goods or services to people in the Union so blocking is a way to make your intent clear.

IP addresses are considered to be personal data under GDPR, so a site that is doing nothing other than serving content with no advertising or targeting but that has the default Apache logging enabled could end up with an Article 27 obligation.
Mice carry disease, and the hantavirus is extremely deadly.

I know, I've had it.

>50% fatality by some counts.

As mice in my area have it, I cannot in good conscience do anything but kill mice I catch. The risks are too high.
its likely that they chose the highest amount they believe the app developers would accept without trying to fight. Similarly at the time, steam and other platforms charged something like that too.

I couldn't find it, but i really want to know the margins of the app store compared to the revenue. How much ripping off are they doing? If the margins are 50%, it's way too high!
>I bought $1000 worth of BTC in ~2006.

that might be hard to do:

>On 3 January 2009, the bitcoin network was created when Nakamoto mined the starting block of the chain, known as the genesis block.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Creation
Google analytics is only used for advertising purposes if you have that setting is enabled for that website.
If you plan to live in the home until you die, an increase in home value can be tapped via a reverse mortgage to pay for in home caregivers if you are sick near the end of your life.
"get rich quick" by studying arduously for a full time job interview...
iPhones aren't a "market". If that were the case, then Amazon would have a monopoly on Amazon ad placements, and Microsoft would have a monopoly on Excel features.

In terms of overall downloads, Google Play Store probably exceeds what Apple's store processes.
I mean I pay for shit on my iPhone with PayPal, "Shop Pay", "Amazon Pay", or direct CC entry -- not digital goods obviously but still it's a frame of reference. None are half as good as Apple Pay's "hit button, double click, FaceID, done" flow. Like I will actually switch to using my phone to make purchases because I don't want to enter my CC info on some random site.
I find it fascinating that there are people who don't want to take vaccines that are developed by leading pharmaceutical companies based on decades of mRNA research because "its still not studied enough", but will happily consume a sheep dip inoculant that is still "under study" because Joe Rogan talked to one dude who hands it out to people.
I don't think they meant it was not exploitative when they compared it to Feudalism, hopefully everyone agrees that feudalism is extremely exploitative.

I agree however that what was done to Lula is so bad it's got to be one of the worst affronts to democracy anywhere. It's a shame our media give it so little attention.
The available evidence includes many galaxies. "Seems to have too much mass" and "seems not to have too much mass" are both things that a correct theory has to explain. It's not sufficient to explain one at a time with kettle logic.

Are you sure that any theory which allows for different things happening in different locations is inherently and unavoidably meaningless? Or is there something else that bothers you?

I would like to understand why people such as yourself viscerally dismiss "dark matter" as if it were inconsistent with all science and rational thinking. Can you describe what's obviously special about it compared to all of the other things we can't see and take for granted?

I assume we all accept the idea of matter that is invisible because it is cold and doesn't emit light...there's nothing particularly weird about asteroids and planets adrift far from stars that are "dark" due to lack of light, right?

And electromagnetic radiation that we can't see is everyday stuff right? Like radio waves, and ultraviolet, and infrared, and x-rays? There's nothing weird about feeling the heat from something and not seeing the rays that carry it, correct?

Everybody knows that nuclear radiation can kill you while being completely invisible, right? Gamma rays and neutrons don't look like anything.

It's not weird that gases are invisible, like air. We all accept that air is around us and without contaminants is transparent.

Gravity itself is invisible, and we take for granted that it exists. Gravitational wave detectors correlate sometimes with visual events, meaning the invisible gravitational waves have definitely traveled over unimaginable distances, passing through everything in the way without being affected.

Neutrino detectors are old hat at this point. Neutrinos are incredibly unlikely to interact with what they pass through, so the detectors have gigantic amounts of material underground with detectors to see mindbogglingly rare flashes when a neutrino hits something. I think neutrinos may still be a candidate for dark matter.

Sound is normally invisible, even though it is the motion of atoms around us which are real.

Heat is invisible within a normal range. If a frying pan is 350 degrees it doesn't look different from 250 degrees.

Electricity in a wire is invisible. Magnetic fields are invisible.

Even lasers made of light itself are invisible if you look from the side and there's no dust in the air.

Are any of these besides "dark matter" unbelievable?
Well said. This is a crime!
As an atheist, I find the current position of the Catholic Church perfectly respectable in general, and particularly so for that note.

It basically says that some of these vaccines may have been made using "evil" techniques, but if you get vaccinated in order to protect your own health or for the greater good, then you do not support evil. And while it says that getting vaccinated or not is a personal choice, if you chose not to, you have to find other means to avoid being a danger to others.

Catholicism has done terrible things, like most religions. But it has done a lot of good too, and in general, what the church teaches makes a pretty good code of conduct. Of course, there are many points that I disagree with, abortion is one of them. And I don't expect the church to support abortion anytime soon, or homosexuality, it is still Catholicism. But the church tends to do a rather good job telling people to actually do good when it matters rather than to follow misguided principles.
We would see something like that against the cosmic microwave background. Instead, we see that about 5/6ths of the total matter of the universe interacts with the CMB only through gravity.

Also, more hidden (somehow) baryonic matter would change our current theories surrounding Big Bang nucleosynthesis in ways that aren't supported by other observations, like the percentages of (visible) matter like helium and lithium.
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As long as you still need Apple, prevailing is a temporary state.
Wha? How?! Plastic?? That's bizarre.
Not in practice. For example, not issuing an international passport effectively amounts to a travel ban, and many countries do it for all kinds of reasons (e.g. to combat conscription or child support evasion, or for "national security" reasons).

It's even worse if you look at history. For example, US routinely denied passports to "communist sympathizers" until 1960s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_v._Dulles).
I think this is one of the best mouse traps:

https://www.automatictrap.com/

Electric traps work too, but are a pain to clean.

Snap tracks are effective, but when I had both mice and rats I found that a mouse trap could break a rats leg but let it walk away, and a mouse could eat from a rat trap without triggering it. Neither of those were good outcomes.
Sure, why not. In order:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...

https://generation180.org/the-absurd-truth-about-fossil-fuel...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/04/exxon-po...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jan/19/undercover-police...

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/10/steven-donziger-loretta-p...

https://generation180.org/the-absurd-truth-about-fossil-fuel...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/m...

Disclaimer: I have not read all of these specific sources; they are the result of quick searches. There are many other sources to choose from - if you have a nit to pick, I suggest DuckDuckGo.
Yes. Switching from Android is difficult as well. But, I disagree it's always been like this. When I buy software directly from the developer/publisher, I often can get a license that works on both Windows and macOS (or can get a dual license for a nominal fee). It wasn't really until mobile app stores took off that I needed to repurchase software if I went to another platform. And repurchasing that software would not be cheap. It's an actual cost of changing platforms.

I switch between Windows, Linux, and macOS with regularity and while there are platform-specific services, the mobile platform is considerably more walled off. Mobile storage stagnated for years while the apps and any captured media became larger, really pressuring you to use their cloud services in a way I've never had with a desktop. I can store data on a NAS and access it pretty easily with any of the desktop platforms. I'm not sure how someone is supposed to be able to be able to migrate off iCloud when moving to Android without involving a non-mobile computer. It doesn't appear to be anywhere as easy as copying files from one SSD to another or using AirDrop/SMB/NFS.

The iMessage thing is another layer to this. You may not want to call that lock-in, but there have been extensive threads about this topic recently [0][1]. The Epic lawsuit surfaced some emails that strongly suggest Apple views iMessage as a way to lock customers in [2].

Regardless, the original point is switching platforms isn't going to happen without a fair bit of cost and likely some social upheaval. Switching platforms is technically an option, but it's not a realistic one for many. I don't think it follows that if someone has stuck with the same platform for several years that they tacitly agree with all the policy decisions made by that platform.

[0] -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29889492
[1] -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29851317
[2] -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26753014
It’s a win relative to a depression, especially for the poor.
`ssh -qND localhost:8080 user@ip` sets up a SOCKS proxy at localhost:8080. In your browser connection settings (at least in Firefox) you can set it up to route your traffic through the connection. It's not as good as a proper VPN for prolonged use, but for a quick one-off, it'll do the job.
It's hard to think about anything but this:

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/09/how_does_the_shutdow...

>If Senator X "makes a concession" the relevant media will proclaim him a loser and a coward, they don't want representatives, they want cage fighters. There's no reward for compromise and there's no safe place to attempt it, either.

>[...]

>Or, said differently, if there was a government shut down at a time when the news came out only weekly, it would mean we were getting a new flag.
Er, what? No.

According to you, I can jailbreak and sideload my iPhone 13? Or iOS 15?

Huh, doesn't appear so: https://www.getdroidtips.com/jailbreak-iphone-13-pro-max/
"LOST" your weed.

L = Like,

O = Obfuscatedly

S = Sell Me

T = The Weed
Apps charge more because apple takes a 30% commission. The app market has strong competition forcing prices down.
Don't really have the time to go through these right now, but I'll look through them later. Thanks!

Initial impression is that taking the average of every published paper across different metrics makes you vulnerable to publication bias (and probably other stuff), but I'd need to make a funnel plot and check out the opinions of actual trained scientists to know whether that's true here. I'm guessing that some studies on each side are probably going to have suspicious or outright false data, too (like the one you mention).
As Kazakhstan Descends into Chaos, Crypto Miners Are at a Loss
> Is anyone on HN reconsidering having children because of climate change?

Yes. One of the reasons. A major one.
Client side error. Return home. Anyone have an archive?
What's a flattened version of the parabolic reflector look like?
Huh? No, I'm saying something very specific that you may have missed.

Many people in this thread are using the word "egg" in the same way as a female mammal releases an "egg" in estrus, i.e. the cell which will become an organism once fertilized. Hence the discussion elsewhere of how the mutation has already happened in this cell.

For instance, besides this thread, another person said "resulting in the very first chicken ever. Which of course started out as an egg.

I'm saying that a bird "egg", from the Wikipedia link, is not the gamete cell but rather simply the container, created by the mother.

So statements such as "[the chicken] started out as an egg" or "a chicken was once an egg" (your statement) are simply incorrect, just as saying "a human baby was once a uterus" is wrong.

It's not pedantic "for no reason" (at least any more than the rest of this by-definition pedantic discussion is).
I have an iPhone and I certainly would.
Quite agreed, Excel is great, more important than Word or PowerPoint if you ask me.

But in terms of writing organized, readable code that can be used by other people, there's very little guidance.
I see the second part routinely pushed by crypto believers.
Starbucks has been completely out of espresso beans on multiple occasions this past month too.

The Starbucks down the block hasn't been able to get the flavor syrup I like since before Christmas. Like with your chicken, the manager says they just can't get it.

The Starbucks store actually closed for a week not very long ago. I thought it was because of the 'rona. The manager said it was just that they didn't have enough staff and had to cover other stores.
A couple oil changes ago the guys at the shop were all talking about investing in doge. They were so excited about it. Now I'm not going to say they're poor, I don't know, but they're probably not rich. Someone wound them up good.
I am hoping that the same scrutiny is quickly applied to other platforms that are getting a pass.

Like Roblox which only pays developers 25%. But even that is better than Peloton where I can't even install any other apps.
Is this a joke? Of course it's the 'most efficient' way to distribute an app on iOS - it's literally the only one. 30% wasn't determined by market forces, because it's a monopoly and there is no competition. Your only other choice is to forsake >50% of total smartphone users.
European Digital Identity, CBDC, inflation and negative interest rates
Vertical integration is not illegal if it's built internally, as opposed to from mergers [1].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/012615/what-are-leg...
How is preventing children (I suppose you mean adult offspring) or even spouses constitutional?
Levels of Dunking: Easy to Complex
That is a very different argument than the one I replied to. It’s one thing to say this situation is ordinary, another to say that you’re fine with it.
A lot of the middle class has a straightforward shot at retiring wealthy. If you invest $X per year (and adjust it for inflation) for 43 years (22 to 65), and get a return of 7% after inflation, then you can withdraw $23X per year until your 90.

For whatever income you define as wealthy, a huge chunk of society can afford to save away 1/23rd of that annually.

Under today's taxes in the US, those gains are tax advantaged compared to income, so take whatever salary you define as wealthy and put away 1/29th of it per year, roughly.

It's not accessible to everyone, but calling it "fucking dire" is just fearmongering people into being even worse off with the lottery.
Mapping where HIV hides its genes suggests cure strategy
A union is recognized by the NLRB and has certain statutory entitlements regarding strikes and the ability for employers to fire striking workers. "Labor movements," writ large, do not require those statutory entitlements. Modern unions can be understood in terms of their ability to collectively bargain without fear of direct reprisal in terms of employment. Otherwise, collective bargaining has always been an option (it's just humans acting in concert), and long predated the concept of "unions."
Correct. And Chromium, as shipped and supported by Google (not third-party projects like CEF), is no better than Firefox at embedding (and certainly wasn't when Chromium was taking off in market share). There is a reason why Chromium-based browsers are forks of Chromium, not embeddings of Chromium.
WTF are NFTs? And why are they currently so important? – The Drum
> Every step, field entry, hurdle you put infront of a consumer is usually associated a significant increase in "cart abandonment".

Yeah, that's annoying, but for new vendors I just use Paypal.
Oh, you mean this Apple:

Ten former members of Apple's supplier responsibility team told The Information that Suyin wasn't an isolated incident, and that Apple had refused or was slow to stop doing business with suppliers that had repeatedly violated labor laws or failed to improve workplace safety when it would have cut into its profits.

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-knowingly-used-child-l...

If you're going to use child labor, i don't see any issue with charging 30% for anything you can get your hands on.
>There's an element of symbiosis between Apple and app developers.

Which is why they take a 30% cut.