skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://microcorruption.com/'s a good place to start.
> Democracy is essentially populist, because elites fight for votes through media.

Media are just well, a medium to deliver the "offer". The real fight is about handouts, especially the short-term ones. Pork barrelling is still effective at winning the elections.
Not even mobile computing. There was a Windows Mobile long before the iPhone existed. They may have really brought it mainstream, but if they hadn't, someone else would have.
I dont think thats true at all. Most politicians get into politics out of ambition and a desire for power and status.

Dedicated activists are kind of rare as politicians. I can think of a few but not many, and they normally become politicians precisely because they're fighting for a popular cause that mainstream elites are suppressing.
I've noticed that people really want to feel righteous; particularly about their political choices. This leads to an arms race where each point of view must be backed up by a theory of righteousness or morality.

This leads to situations where some people cannot even say the phrase "Black Lives Matter", and where "Wokeness" is a crisis. Every crisis must have a counter crisis. I don't think this is particularly new, but I think social media has magnified the personal impact.

I don't think that "both sides" thinking is relevant or helpful; I do think that stories of personal experience based on shared principles can help. Among other things, strong partisan divisions are currently a winning way to raise money.
That's an easy one. Let's look at the other big ecosystem Android. There we have a couple of alternate stores like Amazon's. They take 30% as well? I am not sure why it should be different with Apple.

Maybe, just maybe, running a well-curated app store is just something that is expensive.
Reminds me of kindergartens in Soviet Ukraine (early 80s, I was 4 yo). Speaking Ukrainian was forbidden, only Russian. Standing against the wall or facing the corner, stressful positions (sitting/standing with arms raised up), beating with rulers, forced feeding.

CCP didn't invent this; they just took all the tools from Russians.
It is a very interesting find. But why is it "rogue"? It is gravitationally bound to our galaxy is it not? I would suspect because our methods of detection classically was dependent on nearby objects, but the interesting part about this is that we could detect the probably "normal" case of a black hole within our galaxy.
> Can you imagine what our ABIs will look like if we're still hacking in kludges for another 40+ years?

Stable, reliable and backward compatible?

Extensions are a better way to grow widely used APIs. They put a burden on the implementor, but don't force thousands of consumers on the eternal treadmill of obsolescence.
This is very clearly about a professional research project, not some hobby code a guy wrote over a few spare weekends.
Even with minimalist distros you fiddle with your terminal to get wifi and x working once and then it's done. It's not like you have to do it all the time (unlike windows 10 which would mute my headphones every single time it updated. still can't remember how to fix that even though it happened twice it was so non-obvious).

Also I haven't touched gnome in years, it's either been i3 or openbox. Feel pretty sane.
How do you think big apps started?
What can I do if I don't like all products? And yet, something I would like existed in the past and even had customers?
How do you replace the window manager? the default one is really bad
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Web servers and web browsers, which is a lot of todays dev work.
The thing about your childhood memories is that the actual output was not possible any other way. Paint Shop Pro banners made at home was awesome! Writing a program that took your age in years and returned the number of months was, in the 80s, mind-blowing. Remember, we thought that digital watches were cool! Now, you can ask Alexa how many days there are until your birthday. So writing software on a PC is a bit <meh>.

Any attempt to revive that sense of wonder has to be something that seems like an achievement, which is why Lego Mindstorms keeps getting a mention. Along that vein..

- If going down the Raspberry Pi route, look at doing stuff with sensors, servo drivers, that kind of thing. The CrowPi seems to be good for that.

- An Arduino educational kit with a bunch of electronics is really good - particularly if you can get it with a proper accompanying educational programme and all of the bits. Arduino is probably better than a Pi to get some introduction to embedded and electronics, because you don’t have to have an argument with your parents about whether or not systemd is a good thing.

- Good projects are buying LED lighting strips for their bedrooms and finding ways to turn them on and wire them up. It has to be something that you can’t get from Amazon Prime, so LED strips that you have to cut and solder make it much cooler.

- 3D printing is still amazing. Kids feel that they have produced something from nothing. The sense of wonder is definitely there.

- Radio controlled electric planes or drones are good. There is a fair amount of ‘programming’ involved (of radios, ESCs, etc), and it is surprisingly more complex than you would think. Start off simple though with a kit that has some self-assembly and upgradability.
I don't understand why they don't just provide a regular Gmail account with a custom domain.

Many people used Gsuite for this and didn't care at all about any other Workspace features.
And that's why video broadcasters should be mandated by law to follow standards for interop: whether it's HTTP+HLS over a specified API, or simply FTP/NFS. When you think of it, it's crazy how backwards we've gone now that you need a netflix client to play netflix videos and a youtube client to play youtube videos: it's like VLC/mplayer never existed!

To be fair, it's possible to use 3rd party youtube clients, but Youtube changes its pages/APIs just often enough (~ once/month) to break everyone's apps which is evil.
I think FB is understating the cost (the drop in revenue growth is more and Google's revenue growth hints on what it could have been); maybe because they are negotiating a deal with Apple.
Yep, Quest 2 feature.
Use twitch? Or any of the other hundreds of live video platorms out there.
But why even have the mobile hangar without a tarp if you want to show off your gear? Just land it and let it sit on the runway for a day or two.
https://www.teamblind.com/post/The-guy-got-PIPed-VBvKiiXu

90% of the point of blind is to shit on your own company anonymously (at least, that's what I use it for). I find it hard to believe that it's false, given that probably hundreds of amazon employees have seen that post and no one's refuted it.

If Amazon is astroturfing blind, they're doing a spectacularly bad job at it, the general consensus (from Amazon employees even) is that it's a hellhole compared to its peers.
> you see multi billion corporations pretending to be advocating for the little guy.

And they are.

The little guys won't stand up to 30% of their gross taken but the big guys can and do. As a result after all the lawsuits have run their course Apple will be charging a much lower fee in the hopes of regaining their payment processing marketshare.
Following your logic than all PC makers should be paying a fee to IBM for creating the PC? It doesn't make sense, it was never done this way in the past and it only goes on because sadly most politicians are borderline computer illiterate and are easily bamboozled by the complexity of the matter. Just look at when Sundar Pichai testified at the US Senate, most lawmakers have zero ideas on how the Internet works, and they don't really have the means to understand the similarities that exist between what Apple is doing and the "brick and mortar" world they are accustomed to.

If you create an industry, a platform, you already have instruments to monetize on it. the Apple software platform is already tied to its own devices, from whose sales Apple has earned a vast amount of wealth over the years and profited thanks to their massive margins. What makes Apple different from Google in this regard is that the Play store has won due to consumer choice, while Apple has basically prohibited side loading and alternate stores in any possible way and shape.

The Amazon Appstore has failed to gain marketshare because people simply didn't like it, and Google play was just superior, end of it, and if you want to use Google services in order to give your customers what they want you have to pay Google's fee, fair and square. On an Apple device there are no ways to sell people anything without paying Apple because Apple does not allow it.

If Apple starts providing a shitty service with its Appstore, there is no way to circumvent it, you must choose either to quit the iOS market entirely or play along whatever rules they decide to adopt. This is basically extorting protection money, with a few extra steps on top of it.
What are the compelling use cases for template languages that don’t support the full host language?

Or: what do I gain from intentionally limiting myself to a bespoke language that lacks many of the constructs of the language I’m writing the rest of my project in?

If I can’t be trusted to responsibly and successfully use that full language in templates, how can I be trusted to use it in all the rest of the code base?
This is exactly why I think contract work is the most honest form of employment in the software industry. "Mission statements" and "customer zeal" are meaningless when you're having to do endless weekend and evening hours. If it means so much to you, pay me by the hour first, then we can talk about devotion to the customer.
But wouldn't it be fairly trivial for the State to make crypto exchanges illegal and just forbid banks to work with them? You would still have the Ethereum network, but exchanging eth for $ would be illegal and a couple orders of magnitude more difficult (from mundane operation to mafia-level money laundry operation). Given that almost every commercial establishment in the world still operates on meatspace currency (and it would be trivial for the State to make illegal to operate with any other currency), would it really be important to still have an Ethereum network if it can't be used by ordinary people in practice?
This 15% happened after all the outrage. Yes, all these mega corps don't care about the little guy but apple allowing third party options doesn't take away from their ability to continue to provide the services to developers who see value in apple's payment services.
One of the most insightful comments I've ever read here (lost the link to it, sadly) pointed out that search engines don't have to give you the best result to your query, they only have provide you with a result that you accept as a valid, good enough result.

In fact, it probably benefits them to avoid giving you the best result immediately, because once you found what you're looking for you stop searching, and if you keep searching they get to show you more ads.

(this insight generalizes to market places of all kinds, but one domain where I feel this particularly rings true is dating apps)
To be fair, they kind of did that to themselves with the GPL. BSD for example has no problems whatsoever with including ZFS.

> probably many other countries as well

Maybe. Enforceability of the GPL outside of the US is flaky, so whether or not this specific case would matter is always up to the courts to decide.
It appears that all except for the last three Culture novels were written prior to 2001. It's not as if there wasn't pro-interventionism from the liberal side, under the elder Bush and Clinton administrations the U.S. became "the World's Policeman" after the Cold War, but within a multilateral aegis (U.N.-authorized interventions in Iraq, Somalia, NATO missions in the Balkans, etc.).

The second invasion of Iraq was a drastic sea change. Many of America's traditional allies (France, Germany) rejected it. China and Russia condemned it. The U.N. was not behind it. It was preemptive and extrajudicial.
There's also the Olympics side of the equation. I think as awareness of all the problems with the Olympics has increased, the threshold for its rejection has lowered.

I love the basic substance of the Olympics, but the infrastructure around it is rotten. We need a more environmentally, financially, and socially principled Olympic games.
There is the option of runnning a LTS kernel on Arch: https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/linux-lts/
Oh yeah thats another trick, out the cheaper ones somewhere illogical! They just are doing price discrimination based on how much time you have to hunt for the best deal.
As far as serverless Go is concerned my experience has been only with Heroku as I prefer hosting on my own instances and Heroku seems to be reasonable for my use case. I hear fly.io is better in terms of performance and they do offer distributed PostgreSQL.

I guess those who are already into AWS would probably be choosing Lambda for serverless Go. If the experience is same as Node JS or Python on Lambda, Then I don't think there would be much to complain other than the cost; But of course cannot match the speed or cost of a CF worker for the reasons you've pointed.
I come to that conclusion as well. Literally millions of people died of this thing you called ‘minor.’ But those deaths don’t register because they happened out of view, in an overwhelmed hospital or out in the street or at home when capacity ran out. You don’t think about them because you didn’t see them. All you can see is the inconvenience to yourself.

Let’s flip this conversation on its head. why is it that people are surprised that a failure to make a basic decision to protect both oneself and others from a potentially lethal illness is met with sharp criticism and scorn, as it should be?
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I'm old enough to have used an Apple II in my early teens, and then the BBC models A and B. My parents bought me a Vic 20, and later I bought myself an Acorn Electron from money I made helping out teaching people basic computer skills. I hacked the hell out of those things. I also typed-in a lot of code from magazines. I remember the feeling (really almost ecstatic sometimes, to my teenage self) of possibility and exploration. I wrote Mandelbrot set programs and blew my mind a bit. I typed-in a planetary orbit simulator and then played with the constants to see what would happen. I learned 6502 assembler and wrote a simple (what I now know to be) cooperative multi-tasking scheduler. Information moved at the speed of monthly magazine publishing schedules, so you mostly had to figure stuff out yourself. It was fun. This was all pre-PC.

Now I'm older and I have teenagers and I did try to recreate this experience for them: Logo, RasPi, MicroBit, electronics kits, etc. But the truth is that simple stuff just wasn't that interesting to them. They played a lot of minecraft and built huge automatons with redstone and chickens, and they explored worlds like Mario Galaxy (impressively huge to me). I guess they got out of that something similar to what I did with my Vic 20. I can regret that their experience is built on a deep stack of tech that they know little about, but I don't think they really cared about that - if they thought abut it at all.

New technology attracts enthusiasts - but then it fades into the background or fades away. When cars became things that normal people could own, there were car clubs for people who enjoyed messing with cars. Some of these clubs still exist. When sound recording became a consumer tech, there were clubs were people met to listen to and share recordings. Domestic CB radio was a thing for a while. Astronomy clubs still exist - from their origins in a time when it became possible to buy a telescope and actually do new stuff with it.

My advice is to look for ways for them to actively explore the world in a positive, non-passive, fun way. Equip them with the means to explore - don't try to teach them web development. Don't ask them to stick with one thing. There's a lot more stuff now - so its ok to try things and abandon them and move one. They'll do that anyway.
Yes, exactly my point. I was not commenting that it is normal to have a rather traumatic experience but that it ought to be normal (and frankly, healthy) to have "trust issues with management".
There is definitely some value to the App Store and Apple's management of it and the payment service, listing, etc. But I would not say it is "immense" value, and 30% is a lot.
> Well, that's the other thing: there was a time when the UK did have top-tier per-capita death rates, so that's where the idea came from that the UK was 'number one'.

I fully agree with this.

> In regards to CR, you would expect the Czech republic to do worse than the UK. They have an older population, somewhat poor state, and a horrible vaccination rate (63%).

But not this.

The Czech Republic began to handle Covid badly before vaccination was even possible; it's not sensible to blame their low vaccination rates for their troubles.

You only have to look at the speed with which things went wrong in Autumn 2020 (and the fact that their early autumn death rate peak was as bad as their mid-winter death rate peak, unlike most countries with mitigations in place) to see that their problem was fundamentally that they had failed to act politically in the quieter summer months; complacency is the issue.

This was pretty widely reported-on in the media at the time; people were very surprised at how the mask-wearing success story had messed it up so badly.

By that time even the UK was culturally better prepared for accepting restrictions; our autumn wave was considerably blunted by them.
It depends on what you're trying to do. Front-end Java (applets/webstart) is dead. But on the server, or even some embedded devices, Java is working fine.

I'd like to ask 'why not' - Java is supported, fast enough for lots of applications and a great ecosystem of third party libraries.
That is not the kind of argument that works in an anti-competitive setting.

The fact that I went to your school does not give you a right to a chunk of my lifelong income, the fact that you once sold me a tool doesn't either and so on.

If there is no performance there is no right to invoice. The only entities that can do that legally are called governments, which - incidentally - Apple is doing their damnest to not pay taxes.
It's now difficult to remove that as you already pointed to that :)

It's not meant like she needs one to be put in her.. it's just a statement that she needs something bigger then taking care of some actions for her believes. She needs a true care-giving and having a child is the only thing on earth which is true. All and the only aim of life.

It's not meant offensive or belowerering that girl. She is also a friend of my.
These aren't referral links. They are a curated list of products that are available in each of our supported countries - USA, UK, India. We tried to get coverage across all categories of non-vegan ingredients as much as possible. Don't plan on ever doing affiliate links.

Being a long-term vegan this may seem easy but most people don't know of most plant-based options available to them and how easily they can make a recipe vegan. So that's the purpose - to show that to them. What is also needed is user reviews and feedback on how the products work in different recipes, so that they can make the right choice.
Well they tolerate it because there is no other choice. You can't say f** all the apple users.

Would you have the same argument if Windows took a 30% cut of all transactions that happened on "their platform" ?
Absolutely. The reason is that whatever you throw at it, it'll handle it well. The technology won't get in your way and will scale in just about every meaningful dimension.

Use java until you just can't bear it. You may get bored of it, we are humans after all. Ill even claim its desirable to build enough experience to be bored of it. Ideally, by this time you'll have developed the skills needed to evaluate a technology for adoption. At minimum, use java until you have learned this skill.
See also them exempting themselves from the cross-app tracking thing.

Personally, I predict that they'll need to either give up on service revenue growth, or roll back on these changes.

This will occur as the next big f2p games will find it much, much harder to monetise profitably without being able to measure/optimise at a user level.

It'll be interesting to see what happens here.
PSPs typically charge between 1 and 5% depending on the amounts, the kind of transaction and the risks involved.
F-Droid is a thing. And I think it's gaining popularity, too.
I mean, leaving propaganda issues aside for a moment, you still have a sample size of two. I'm not sure that qualifies as data.
I think the article is very "colorful". It does address a real problem though. If public officials want to nudge people towards a behavior, we will get a respective study that supports it. We see this with diversity in the field of economics or in countless studies about climate change.

Another problem here is that you can turn something that is true into a lie. And people in opposition suddenly have an excuse to reject any findings. Science gets a bad reputation too which can have severe consequences.
The unique part is that it’s Apple. These devices have been on the market for years, it’s only now that Apple has made one that it’s a problem.
Are you a developer? Can I see your apps? I'm curios about your business model where selling coins or unlocking premium features at %30 commission instead of %15 breaks your business to the point that incorporating in 175 countries is more desirable.
I’ve become increasingly skeptical of both cognitive and cyclomatic complexity metrics in recent years.

I think for 2 reasons.

Firstly, they don’t account for complexity you need to solve your problem. And secondly, they seem to suggest that splitting up the same functionality over more functions, so each has a lower complexity, is “better” - this isn’t always the case, at least for me. Often I find following the flow/logic of loads of small functions more difficult than through lines in the same function.

The examples I’ve seen in articles such as this are always fairly clear cut “well yes of course these small re-written functions are clearer”, but they don’t really seem to consider the wider context of complex requirements?

I don’t really have an alternative metric to suggest though… I wish I did!
I remember ordering the CD Rom from the States and the nights spent configuring /etc/X11/XF86Config for a Matrox Millennium on a 486DX.

I may be wrong but if I recall correctly, Slackware, was the "De facto" standard at the time.
Are there any corporations that explicitly tolerate personal work during work time?
Are you taking into account property taxes ?