skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many ‚tracking-free‘ apps in iOS track users
It's somewhat mind boggling to me that the default messaging app for everyone that I know is WhatsApp. Everyone uses it from old people to young people to businesses. Doesn't matter if you're using iOS or Android or Windows or MacOS. We communicate via WhatsApp and it's just second nature.

But of course, I'm outside the US.
Heyyy, HN rolled over to 30 mil. Neat.
I second org-mode. I've tried literally dozens of notes apps, but org-mode just gets everything right.

Well, almost everything. If I have to edit in a simple text editor then I still prefer Markdown and of course syncing files is up to the user (I use a private Gitlab account). Hebrew text that spans a newline is also problematic in Emacs, despite ostensibly fully supporting Unicode. But these limitations are trivial compared to all the issues I've identified in all the newer apps. It turns out that two decades of development really does lead to a mature product.
A couple big hits seems to make artists really famous and sufficiently rich that they never seem to progress past the album/set of music that made them "big". It's not worth the hard work of touring/recording/creation.

Either that, or interconnectedness is suppressing the creation/germination that comes from isolation. It's all just a big cacophony of grey now.

A band cranking out four or five great albums/sets of music seems dead.

Music tools, processing, remixing, sampling, it's all way more accessible than it used to be. And yet creativity of popular music is far behind, say, the 1980s and 1990s. And publishing/serving tail audiences. That should be producing crossover / surfacing hits, but it is definitely not.

But it also could be the reassertion of dominance of the popular channels of music by the big boys.

Also, since the 1970s music, it doesn't sound alien to new kids. Elvis sounds old. The 60s is weird and primitive. But Led Zeppelin? Still just awesome. So large catalogs of great stuff, back when better germination and career dedication/craft was followed, makes for a lot of base competition for new music.

But it goes in cycles, we'll see.
Forgive me if this sounds flip- but how is this better than going to Google and typing "$songname chords guitar" or "$songname tabs bass"? Please explain.
Put a resume on Monster if you really want to feel wanted by a bunch of terrible options. I get some 30 recruiters a day from a resume I dumped on there out of curiosity.
Most younger Americans (and people of many other countries) use Discord.
Badiucao's Protest Art Against the Beijing Olympics Becomes NFT Collection
Got it in 6: https://imgur.com/a/uOnuyMD
> The problem is, they're more fun to make than to visit.

This is not true. https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
It's not only the languages it's the entire ecosystem - frameworks etc. I'm not saying it can't be done, but most devs won't want to do that. Why would they - from a selfish perspective they gain nothing.
In my social circles I know a grand total of zero GNU/Linux users. I am the only one
Mootools FTW!
I've had plenty of bad experiences with flagship Android devices. Nexus 5x bootlooped after about 12 months. I had an Essential phone that decided to be off, but not respond to the power button; a known issue with no fix other than to wait until the battery drained itself all the way (which isn't fast because the device is mostly off). If you wait long enough to find out if an Android device is long term reliable, it's not going to be available as a new devicd anymore, and even if it was, you will have a much shorter period of updates after purchase.

All that said, if you want value for money, you embrace the disposable nature of Android devices, and buy around the $200 mark. They may not consistently last much more than a year, but $/year on phones is much less. If you can get upstart flagship phones when they've crashed down to earth, even better: Fire, Robin, Essential was a nice period of commercial flops that made decent phones (baring that power state issue). And Mr. Rubin is rumored to be working on a new upstart phone, so maybe another good buy is coming up soon. (Hopefully with a headphone jack this time)
I listen to a lot of "new music" in my particular genres of preference, and that's mostly thanks to Spotify's algorithmic "Albums you might like" (on top of the usual music festivals and friends hot tips, of course)

Am I somehow in the minority of people happy with their stuff? I never go to youtube for music. Should I?
Ok, now I see.

I actually agree with that point.

I'd like to mention though that one model I really liked was what the one that Google landed on with Google+: a central identity only known to one entity and then as many pseudonyms as you want that you can switch between but that can only be traced back by the provider, and where they promise not to do it except for good reasons.

Of course these days we know that such promises need to be backed by laws to really be effective, but what a nice idea - as long as the identity provider can be trusted!

Also, when I think of it Telegram has something very close to this if someone wants to test what it feels like. And just like Google+ it is not totally obvious: you first have to create a channel, then you can reply to other groups as that channel. Maybe you must activate something in your channel settings too.
Yea that one surprised me. Everything else was pretty spot on…but she needs to add a guestbook
I lost all interest in the school system when experiencing all the "Inappropriate Instruction(s) for Gifted Learners" from that article. Started playing computer games instead and smoked weed every day for several years. University was the first place I really felt challenged. Ended up doing a PhD in physics. I sometimes wonder how much more (if anything) I could have achieved with the right instruction early on. Sometimes I wonder if I should try teaching.
Speaking of the Beatles, compare their first albums production even remastered and it definitely feels like an old record compared to Let it Be.
Murdoch part owns Foxtel, owns Sky News (Australia), as well as 70+% of newspaper readership around the country (almost 100% of newspapers in my state).

Don't underestimate the reach of Sky News too - it's big on YouTube and they signed a deal just a little while ago to put it free-to-air in many regional areas (which is really bad - their 'Sky After Dark' program is just as bad or worse than much of Fox News). As well, they provide it free as one of the channels available on 'ParlTV' which is what supplies every TV in Parliament House, and pay airlines and public transit agencies to get it shown on screens in airport lounges, train stations, etc.
Those marvellous marketers at Apple sometimes hit it out of the park and sometimes trip over themselves when it comes to naming. For their media services it's unfortunately the latter.

Here's the straightforward guide to everything named Apple TV:

Apple TV – the separate hardware box that runs tvOS, connects to your TV and enables you to view streaming apps developed specifically for this platform on your TV

Apple TV app - an application that runs on the Apple TV hardware box, iOS, macOS and third party TV platforms (Google TV, WebOS, Tizen)

Apple TV+ - the Apple streaming service that provides access to Apple Original TV and Movies that is accessible through the Apple TV app on all supported platforms

Apple TV Channels – third party streaming services (such as Paramount+) that can be subscribed via the Apple TV app whereby the subscription management and streaming data is handled by Apple and not the third party steaming service

So simple!
With renewable energy, there is an amount of storage or peaker capacity you need to handle a typical day. The sun shines during the day, people want to use a lot of electricity at dusk, you have to be able to deal with that.

Then there is the atypical amount of capacity you need for when something goes sideways. There is no wind for a week or it's cloudy and hot so there is less solar even though everybody wants to run their air conditioner.

The capacity to handle that rarely gets used, but you still want to have it. So the price you have to pay to the person who can provide it is really, really high, but (and because) it's only paid for a short period of time. Or nobody will bother to build that capacity and when that situation happens there won't be enough power at any price.
Like it or not, people had to be really creative to get things done the way they wanted.

Their creativity paved the way for new features, whether with HTML, CSS, JS, security, and whatnot.
The English probably have no good system for learning foreign languages for the same reason that (landlocked) Czechs do not have a good system for training sailors; absence of need.

Even our own bodies will shrink unused muscles or organs, because the resources are needed elsewhere. As anyone who returned to a gym after a Covid pause found out.
perhaps there's an internet exchange in one of the Graceville's, and it accounts for traffic from nearby cities too?

I noticed that San Jose makes the list, as does LA and Seattle right now, but no San Francisco. I suspect that SF traffic goes through San Jose and thus most of the bay area appears as San Jose in their numbers. Not a big leap to imagine this happens in other places too.
> my Android phone purchases were top-of-the-line models: Nexus and Pixel phones purchased off Google directly.

So the problem is with Google's phones not with Android in general. Anecdotally my Samsung Galaxy S2 failed after 6 years (which is sad but fair IMHO), my Sony Xperia Compact still works after 5 years, same for a Samsung A40 after 3 years.
I'd guess either some ISP/VPN is masking to that location, or a block of ips incorrectly map to that spot (perhaps by the library they are using to determine location from ip)
You know what's underrated and underused? Encapsulation and common sense. You can't just do microservices for sake of microservices, but if you see that one of domains in your monolith is growing faster than others it MIGHT be good idea to split it to microservices. Every decision has to be reasoned by something. If you "don't know" or you haven't done basic designing like event storming, then you should start with monolith because it's easier to take step back.

Choosing architecture has to be conscious not based on trends or beliefs. Even small app can be easy to mantain and develop in miroservices manner if you know WHY you decided to split it up. Don't do (or don't stop doing this) because you read some comments on hacker news or reddit :)
I don't understand. That is not a shit website.
Hi GitLab #hn-mentions, Vsauce Michael here. Did you know that HN’s voting detector works partly by checking whether the upvote is done on the /newest page? cue Vsauce music
Wait until you see this:

https://www.lingscars.com/
I still use jQuery but https://umbrellajs.com too.

And native DOM API as well.
Steve Reich made a lot of music based on the phasing in and out of imperfect time sources in the 1970s. If you're interested, check out "Music for 18 Musicians", "It's Gonna Rain", "Come out to show them", and if memory serves "Pulses" (might have that title wrong) which is literally just a bunch of mechanical metronomes which go in and out of phase as they wind down.
Do they charge premium for data storage? Yes, absolutely. It is not cheap even if discounted.

1Gb of CSV would certainly take up more space when uploaded to their database: the schema is very complex and supports many features that you probably not fully aware at the moment.

Here's some further info:
https://www.siloconnectors.com/blog/understanding-salesforce...
In theory you are right but when talking specifically about poker, I can't think of any example of imperfect play that isn't exploited (to a certain extent) by optimal play.
Yes, playing the opponent would win more, but optimal play makes a (smaller) profit as well. Or would you know an example?
And a hit counter
FWIW:

>The HR was 0.87 (95% CI 0.78–0.97, I 2 = 59%, n = 3) in adults older than 70 years, and 0.88 (95% CI 0.82–0.95; I2 = 86%, n = 4) in the general population of adults (p subgroup difference = 0.11).
That makes sense considering Edge is a default browser on the most popular (desktop) OS, and this is from a random distribution of users.
Nor is it fun to visit (more than once).
I used to love Zim, it was almost feature perfect in my opinion. But if you're using it to store notes with code, check first to see if the formatting feature can be disabled, because that changes the stored note text. I had to stop using Zim due to that, though it was years and years ago so maybe this has been resolved since. Other than that show-stopper, it was a great app and it had a great developer.
Another example: Quechua, the lingua Franca of the Incan empire, is still widely spoken on its past territory, even though the empire ceased to exist 500 years ago and the conquerors brought with them a very different language and civilization (Spanish/Christianity).

The cultural switch brought about by the Spanish conquest succeeded fully on the coast, but not so much in the mountains.
If games could produce free money, they will not be selling games but producing those coins
Similarly, a lot of people get into learning Korean because of k-pop or k-dramas!
It is certainly discussed in Sweden. Everything from transporting German troops and materiel though the country on Swedish rails to providing most of the iron the Wehrmacht needed.

Could Sweden have joined the allies and fought against Finland though? Many Swedes even volunteered to help the Finns fight the Soviets, so don't be so cocksure that we would have joined the right side if we would have joined.
At Meta, we also use them widely. They're critical to understanding large systems and how non-functional features are affected.
In Italy no one use iMessage, everyone use whatsapp or telegram or both. I also don't know anyone using signal. I also don't knwo about facebook messenger, I don't use facebook anymore since 9 years ago.
Discord is just the current iteration of the free messaging app treadmill. They aren't (or at least weren't, last I checked) profitable. Eventually they'll be bought and have to monetize somehow, which everyone will hate, and then we'll all move on to some other platform. As long as they are spending investors' money, though, they'll be great!
It's also about controlling both the hardware and the software and the resulting integration. Like people were able to create not stuttering games with 8 bit CPUs in the 80s.
Language and phrasing is of course important. I have disagreed with my management on many occasions and I have never been fired.
Thanks. The free tier looks good. The only issue I have is I use a different alias for every account so I think I'd run out with only 25.
Moore's Law says nothing about "bits stored" or "cost" of storage, and it makes no sense to extrapolate it before the invention of integrated circuits.
In theory, you cache a good copy from sometime before the attack.
As an ESL person I wanted to sign up for this to improve enunciation but price was bit too much
Oh Google Talk was sweet :)

Also about Duo - even though I agree that it's kinda half-assed, strange interface app, it consistently has lower latency and better video quality than WhatsApp or Signal. I use it wherever my contact has it.
In most large cities, there is not a single government which has a monopoly on public schools: there are generally multiple individual school districts which each try to compete for the wealthiest students. That results in some school districts being more amenable toward a focus on gifted programs and some being less so. School boards are subject to elections, which does mean that the priorities of the schools are not homogeneous.

Of course there are lots of layers of laws and bureaucracies above school districts that can apply curricula or regulations to temper this, but unlike state governments, where representatives are elected on a slate of issues and tied to political parties, school boards are elected on just 1 issue: how are they going to run the schools.
Is Discord profitable yet?

I suspect we'll all be very annoyed at whatever they have to do to make money.
No communications to my account from '06 either, first read about this here.
Much better article - https://rekt.news/cryptocom-rekt/
I have this account. I am disappointed that I found out about it here, I don’t see any notifications that reflect this just one message saying I should /consider/ upgrading.

I’m just using this to host my personal email domain, I don’t have users, I don’t use any of the rest of it. Just email@mydomain hosted on gmail.

This is the strongest link I have to google, strange to see them shoot in the head like this. Looking through the thread, Fastmail seems to be the consensus?

Edit: As if by magic, there is a Gsuite vs o365 discussion in the leadership channel, I have an opinion now.
No, it's because, this is BS, just like expensive $5k - $10k bikes. These are "new golf" areas for mid-age men with excessive wealth to play with. Unfortunately that drives the market prices up, and hostile plays like this one for everyone.
instagram and tiktok are full of zoomers lip syncing to songs, with links to the songs in the post
for starters: https://www.tiktokforbusinesseurope.com/resources/how-to-ele...
one wonders if a 20 second clip of a song nets more royalties than a play count on spotify
For Gitlab, it is not. They're incredibly transparent.

I hope other companies will follow the sane trend, but realistically this will probably never happen.

In any case, Gitlab's strategy is IMHO a winning one. It's literally embracing the Open Source culture, where you get contributions from people outside your company and help back the community. Good job Gitlab!
I hear this a fair amount on HN and it doesn’t chime at all with my experience (I’m in the UK). WhatsApp is popular with parents of school-age kids but even then there’s no “second nature” expectation that you’ll use it - I don’t and no-one bats an eyelid. I don’t know any older people who use it at all. Facebook Messenger is popular too, and SMS/iMessage is the default for “I just want to contact someone”.
The GitHub repo made me lol: https://github.com/SaraVieira/make-frontend-shit-again
Good enough for me. Let's do it.
You can still get notified and be up to date with the world even while caring about privacy and not bothering with social media. Just pretend like its 2002 again. Where do you get notified about your favorite bands new music? Your favorite band's website. Where do you read about shows coming to town? Your local venues website. If you don't want to keep checking manually there are services today to generate an rss feed or an email. Where do you find new music related to your existing music? Your local record store. Where do you see whats popular? The billboard 100 or who is on festival setlists.
My guess is this is mostly related to immigration and travel related
It’s interesting that this is a government service in the US. That would probably not be politically possible in Sweden - there are already online stores where you can buy tests, the government would be competing with them.

We also don’t have a national postal service, it’s a deregulated market. There’s an operator owned by the state, but only 50%, the rest is owned by Denmark, so it’s unlikely it could participate in something like this without it being an open contract for all delivery companies.
This is roughly how I explained it to my mother. I told her that no, I'm NOT an engineer and I used this analogy:

An engineer is a guy who measures stuff upfront to create a plan of action (like measuring how much concrete we need if need a bridge to carry 500 cars). He never gets his hands dirty nor does he build the actual bridge. He has a ton of responsibility and must call on vast knowledge to know what patterns will be needed and if they will cope with the loads.

On the other hand, programmers are more akin to gardeners (my mom is super into gardening) and carpenters - we have to get our hands dirty and build the thing. We have to use and stay true to the spec (from the engineer above) as close as possible, measuring a piece of wood 3 times before we cut it (not the fail fast nonsense) and carefully plant new plants that won't kill the whole garden. We also need to pull out weeds and prune the bushes and so forth. With a bit of careful implementation you can have a gorgeous garden and bird/insects/squirrels visitors and so on.

Software Developers I would say, is then a combination of the above, depending on your experience you might lean more toward one side or the other. The best developers have a good balance of Knowing stuff and Doing stuff.
Incentivising people to build more solar and wind turbins creates value for society.
Dojo would like a word.
This does not seem to work correctly. I visited from separate browsers and the number remains the same.
I'm on mobile.

It loads quick.

I saw no ads.

It was reasonable straight to the point: no explanation about this being grandmothers pie recipe or anything to that effect.

(In fact, if you consider the point of the website to be funny it is actually straight to the point.)

If it is fast, doesn't track me and provides the answers I need I can put up with some animations.

I'd say what we have today is far more problematic than a few animations.

Also, most surviving websites from that era aren't that bad when it comes to animation: use marginalia to search for food recipes and see what I mean.
The record industry is failing to seek out new music. But people who love music will find it. They will still play shows in basements that will go unnoticed by the suits above. Music is just going back underground. And, you know, if you want to find it, you can absolutely find new music on any streaming platform. I'm listening to a track right now called "There's a woman at the station" by a band I've never heard of called 20 point buck, and it's amazing.
Ditto. Bosses vary. Don't take blanket advice like "the boss is evil".

The other part of the advice, namely that your colleagues will backstab you, is even more worrisome. I'd go so far as to say that if you don't have at least some colleagues you can safely tell something like this, then you are in the wrong environment.
Fetch is great. I never understood the need for installing axios when fetch works fine. I remember the good old days of XMLHttpRequest.
Sounds highly unlikely. You surveyed these people? “90%…”
Fixing the artifically low price makes sense. Setting the new price at $9000 instead of ~$25 does not.
Do you even look at Swedish mainstream media ever? Both the neutrality during the war and the sterilisation programs are regularly brought up in mainstream media, written books about and discussed.
Cultivated Meat Passes the Taste Test
I feel like I had a literal flashback seeing the little Netscape gif at the bottom. Wow, what a trip.
A comparison of the dev time to check a value in an array and modify your entire business model is absurd.

Mitigation against abusers of a service is a valid strategy.
Just as a data point from outside the US: a 4MB MMS is about 5$ in Germany, even on a 30+$/mo base price package. Sending that to a group call multiplies the cost with the number of recipients.

MMS (and in all likelihood RCS) is a complete non-starter for this market.
webrings, anyone?
Apple covers 45.3% of the visits, that's insane
Perhaps we should be happy they're apparently running COBOL on a mainframe, so the price limit was not INT_MAX.
Can we do it while it's still mixed with indium?

Is gallium oxide dissolved in EGaIn?
I leave the cone in a bowl until the individual seeds just start separating. Then I pull them off and put them on a tray and in the oven (~150 degrees) for 10 - 15 mins.