skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a middle ground. Providing clear options and deliberate choices can be done through not having a thousand options and buttons.

Wikipedia is a clear example of not taking this into consideration. There's a hundred links mixed with the text, and buttons and doodads everywhere around it, which makes it very clear to actually think about what you want to do.

If you compare Encarta '96 with Wikipedia:

<https://memex.marginalia.nu/pics/links/encarta.png>

<https://memex.marginalia.nu/pics/links/wikipedia.png>

It's clearly very different. The Encarta design is a lot more quiet. If you're reading, then you are reading. There are sparse inline links, but nothing near the shotgun linkedness of Wikipedia.

I've experimented with stripping down Wikipedia, producing this:

<https://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/wiki/Plato>

It's definitely several steps too far (but taking things too far is the best way to get the feel for an idea), but I find that much easier to read, because the choices are moved out of the text and into the bottom of the text. That is, you read first, and decide what to do next once you are finished reading.
How fussy are APNIC? I have a Pty Ltd I can put it though, and I'd like my own addressing and ASN and am willing to pay the $1500 a year fee. My justification with a networking plan however would be bullshit, as I just want to play and learn as an individual.
There are many uses for templates, not all of them need you to use advanced language constructs in the template language. Personally, I'd rather have templates be relatively dumb, and use something like {{mustache}} (https://mustache.github.io/).
useless use of js is a thing
> They had very, very good situational awareness about what was overhead and when, and established & practiced procedures on sanitizing things before anything got to where it could image the site.

Sure, but surely that was then and now is now.

Surely in today's world, you are increasingly fighting a loosing battle if you think you can play whack-a-mole with things passing overhead ?

With every day, week and year that passes, more and more things get launched into space by both friend and foe.

If you continue operating on the premise that you think you can hide every time a non-national satellite passes overhead then surely you are only playing a loosing game where eventually you can't get any work done because you're hiding all the time from birds overhead ?

A bit like checkmate in chess. Eventually the king is surrounded and can't go anywhere without being intercepted.
> Amazon is well known for training employees to defend the company on-line.

I left amazon 5 and a half years ago, but never heard anything while I was there about defending the company online.

Could you elaborate on this?
Research must get money from somewhere. Is it worse to be funded by the democratically elected governments, than by private corporations with obscure internal agendas? If there's a third way, I'm not aware of it.
Well, I hope you pay your mom 30% of your income then because you got big on the back of her work.

Seriously though, how you get started is immaterial, you should be free to change service providers, especially service providers that are price gouging you when you feel that you can no longer justify their cut.

As for the tax avoidance (not evasion, that's an important distinction here), yes all the big guys do it, but that does not make it right and if Apple were to actually pay their taxes I would see that as them at least understanding the pain of having to pay a good chunk of your income every year.

I pay my taxes and contribute to my community through them, Apple siphons off a very large chunk of the worlds wealth into the pockets of a very small number of shareholders and now wants to argue that they have an unassailable claim to 30% of the income of other companies. And I strongly disagree with that.

If they charged between 1 and 5% for their service that would be fine by me, but it would still not give them an automatic right to this fee, they would have to compete with everybody else.

Anti competitive behavior has one clear and common thread running through it the world over: an element of abuse and that is clearly present here.
Why? Because how much you have to pay is determined by how much the platform owner can get away with. There is no fundamental logic to it other than market power. Why don't you compare to better, open platforms instead - desktop apps, the web. Why does everything has to be as shitty as something else.
It is astounding to see so many people here argue for the 30% apple tax.

It is like the mafia demanding you pay for the privilege of doing business on your street.

30% is just too much.

My client is selling a service where they are selling a physical product together with something you do with it in the app. Currently the customers buy the service and device in a separate shop and the app is just for the convenience of the user, they could also use a laptop conputer or whatever else. The client wanted to include a link to the shop in the app, but apple wouldn't allow it without their 30% tax. With this 30% cut providing the service for apple users wouldn't make business sense, they would lose money on each sale. Should they have higher prices for iphone users to make up for that?
We should do our own research </sarcasm>
If you don't know the answers to these questions, why are you even active in this thread?

I've been running an international business for a couple of decades and this has never been a problem at all.
If you thought that article was a good takedown of "science", then I'm sure you'll also like this one: https://timecube.2enp.com/

Down with science!!
There's nothing desirable in dealing with multiple 3rd parties to reach your customers instead of one that is essentially providing equal service at equal price to (almost)everyone.
Regexp is one of the things you see attacks on all the time (mostly DOS). Users care a lot about security, and simplicity of implementation correlates with it. It's not something users need, but they do benefit from it.
> Be prepared to be very lonely if you do not have a friends' circle already established here.

That's an absolutely prohibitive cost, and not how I want to spend my 20s and 30s. Thank you for mentioning it.

I'm not sure the high salaries are worth everything you mentioned. My current area is a bit like that, but at least the big cities are closer. Do you work there? How do people deal with the isolation?
They aren't mutually exclusive. There exists a multitude of political organizations. All of them want power and status (there's nothing wrong with that; up to a point, egoism is a virtue), but not all of them want the same things.

So yeah, they want power and status because they are humans. They join party X as opposed to party Y because that's their preferred direction.
Nice summary.

I think old school they A/B tested using focus groups and so policy took a long time to get to Policy-Voter-Fit... but now that we have microtargeting, it's compressed these timelines by factors. You see this as politicians can announce something in the morning to then compeletly backflip by lunchtime.

... though I don't see this political hyperism letting up. In fact, I believe it will not only get even faster but will change from a passive targeting of ads to actively manipulating of content to individuals in order to slowly cause an action i.e make a politician or union member think a certain way, get a competitor's employee to perform a certain task etc.
Do you look physically old? I can't tell apart people from mid 20s to late 30s, especially people from another ethnicity.

You see younger people because it has lower barrier to entry that's all.
I was at that sort of company, finally. They got bought out. It changed. I’m staying for the retainer at the moment.
Why? All content is already loaded, but it's covered by loader.

Every site should be usable without CSS / JS. Nobody remember Progressive Enhancement nowadays?

https://wikiless.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement?lang=en
This whole thread is childish and pointless. Literally 14 year old me would have recognised these arguments and relished getting stuck into them.

I've seen a stack built almost entirely in TCL which handled 10,000 transactions per second for a FTSE 100 company. If that's possible then language is just one choice in the infinite possibilities of production stacks.
Couple of possible factors (with speculation)

— Most apps nudge you to accept tracking before the dialog comes up. Probably influences some users
- A lot of people probably don’t even read the dialog properly.
- a lot of people who have apps like facebook installed are either unaware of the tracking stuff or don’t care
My daughter just built her very own Raspberry Pi 4 based computer[0] last weekend for her 10th birthday. Key points:

- She picked the components herself (with dad's supervision to make sure they would work together), so the case and keyboard and so on are ones she likes the look of and wants on her desk.

- She assembled it all and installed the OS herself (again with dad supervising but trying really hard not to help except when requested), so I'm hoping she'll have a much stronger sense of ownership due to the Ikea effect[1].

Still too early to see how well it has worked, but she's been very excited about it so far and proud of her accomplishment. It's the 8Gb model and (as per dad's recommendation) she installed 64-bit Ubuntu on it, so she can use all the same systems and tools she sees her dad using. They are doing Scratch and Python in school, so the plan is for her to use it for at least those things, but she has shown interest in learning how to develop a mobile app, and I'm hoping it'll be a bit of a gateway for other potential interests like video editing, graphics editing etc.

Also want to add that I wouldn't be doing any of this if she hadn't seemed genuinely interested - I have this theory that trying to push children in a certain direction will end up being counter-productive, i.e. you push and they rebel and end up wanting to go the opposite direction just because.

[0] https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect
There's a basic communication problem IME. When I've been in this position (an impossible deadline) it's been because some Sr VP or C-suite type decides that something HAS to be done by a certain date. Like, they want to unveil a new product/feature at CES or some other trade conference so the date is fixed. So this filters down through 3-4 layers of management to you, the dev lead who actually has to build the thing. You take one look at it and it is basically impossible and you can list the 17 reasons why. BUT the problem is that the person that needs to be convinced is the Sr VP/C-suite type. So your analysis has to go back up, filtered through 3-4 layers of managers, each less technical than the last. And of course nobody in that chain wants to disappoint their boss so they hedge/soft-pedal your analysis at every layer. Now the SVP/C-suite type, who typically does in fact have good reasons for wanting this project done by whatever deadline they set originally, only gets a watered-down, possibly incoherent version of you analysis of why the project is impossible by the given deadline. Not surprisingly, they don't find it convincing.

tl;dr; everything in a large corporation is a game of telephone where everyone is incentivized to muddle the message. So any deadline/commitment handed through multiple levels of management is really difficult to negotiate. And the more unrealistic it is, the harder it is the negotiate. Nobody wants to tell their boss that the thing they want done in 3 months will actually take 2 years.
95% of people also want a stable experience, and dislike changes. Which is violated when they don't control the interface.

Spotify is the worst. Elements "randomly" change spatial location all the time.
I disagree strongly with this. Do you really think, for example, we would have the James Webb telescope if it wasn't for government funded science?

I don't think people appreciate quite how much good governments funding science has done historically. People generally know that the Internet and WWW come from projects that have been funded though taxation, but a lot of people are unaware that a lot of the other elements of the infrastructure - things like media formats (JPG, MPG etc), protocols (like wifi) also come from tax funded projects. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that these things have been a huge positive in the history of mankind, and wouldn't exist without government funded research.
Trusting the science just means trusting the government's and Big Pharma's accepted interpretation.
Well, being on delay doesn't detract from consciousness. Think of it this way: No matter how incredibly fast a monstrous AI ever becomes, it will always suffer some delay.

>> in which world I am the first seconds after the alarm clock rings.

Do you actually believe those are real, other worlds? I'm tempted to, sometimes. But if they are, it's more an argument that consciousness is real and something even grander than we acknowledge, if it can flip states and universes like that.
None of these stop the % commission they merely say it has to be applied fairy and equally. The fees aren't a gatekeep since everyone has the same treatment and no one is being 'gatekept'
Just out of curiousness, does the Xbox have a shell like my iPhone? Can I ssh from my Xbox? I can from my iPhone, for all intents it seems like a personal computer (PC) and can do anything my computer can do. My phone wasn’t marketed as a gaming console either. I’m not sure comparing an Xbox and a phone is anywhere near the same thing. I could be wrong though.
Exactly. It's the good old "government bad" trope. Thought process complete.

What is missing is, that the scientific process does not adhere to any ideal, in the long term. Think tobacco or sugar. Even the author almost mentions it but then decides for memes instead. So pathetic.

EDIT: And there is of course the part where unpromising ROI research is completely ditched and vanishes from the academic landscape, like pedagogic research. Or very risky foundational research where scientists barely scratch together funds, only to get bought up by hawking large corporations once the risks clears.
Facebook failed to pay the big money to Apple that they should have been paying for years.

If Zuck had been handing Apple $5,000,000,000 per year as google does, then Apple would never have kneecapped Facebook.

Larry and Sergei know how the protection racket works. You pay your dues to the local mob, you get to do business in their street corners.

What do google pay Apple $5b for? Ummm… to be in the search of Safari. Yeah right. They all know google simply pays Apple because they don’t want no trouble, so they say “Safari”, write a huge cheque, and google gets to keep doing business in Apple devices.

Tim is The Godfather. He who owns the platform owns the city. Everyone must respect and pay their dues, if they want to do business in this city.

Apple has sent Facebook to sleep with the fishes because zuck didn’t show no respect and didn’t pay no dues.
They could obviously forbid apps to show ads and implement a powerful, default-enabled adblocker into Safari.
But why would they?
The outfall would likely see many important developers pull their apps at least temporarily. Of the Top 10 Downloaded Apps of 2021 (https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/02/apple-most-downloaded-a...) only a single one doesn't have ads.
This could be Pyrrhic victory for Apple.
It would most likely also seal the deal on sideloading regulation.
I'm not unhappy about my own personal situation, I'm unhappy because I think that the response was net negative overall.

The relevant variable is not my or your own personal situation but the sum total of all of the experiences of the people in the country.

I disagree that not supporting restrictions is not showing empathy with those who have lost loved ones from coronavirus. I think that this is a false dichotomy.
Cisco reveals three 10/10 rated critical router bugs
The fact that there's a shadow at the top for the wall, but not on the right side tells me it's not covered with anything solid. (Compare to the shadow of the other building.)

Look at the top of the wall shadow. The canvas/whatever material isn't attached at the peak and is sagging, and you can see the shadow of the top portion of the arch above it.

I'd say they pulled the cover back to the end and it's hanging over the side.

Actually, that's probably not even be a 'wall' shadow, but just the roof covering hanging. Which would sag but otherwise look like a wall.
Corporations are authoritarian by default.

I think the trend becomes visible when the people who use the service are no longer customers - they don't get the quite so friendly face of the corporation.

When we users are just free users, we don't pay, and we are the product - we are the audience for ads or other systems, we see this more "authoritarian" face.
> if anyone has come across the sources for the OS

Wouldn't that be this one?

http://www.phkimpel.us/B5500/webSite/SoftwareRequest.html
Spot on. Another relative point to note is that I learned pride should be ranked well below dignity.
So, you take easter european states (half of eu), and choose Belgium and Italy with 'caveats' to make the UK look bad. I think this is exactly what the gp was talking about.

I just checked, the deaths per million, the difference in the UK and France is of 0.03% (yes, 0.03%, basically 300 more people/million died in the UK than France).

ps: not even British, but hate selective cherry picking.
I think you are under impression that ad industry depends on tracking of individuals. That's incorrect. It just a tad less efficient without tracking.
I wouldn't get it mistaken. This isn't a study that actually proves that they are bad at arithmetic it's just a fun little anecdote.
It's a bit like the glass half full/half empty, right? Nearly everything that's not crap is also published at a publicly funded university. Private universities also publish crap (including the famous MIT, I've read a disappointingly bad paper with an MIT first author last week).

But this:

> The more bureaucratic and government funded, the worse

is definitely untrue. You are thinking too much of hollywood-movies, this is not reality.

Just think of ML and Deep Learning. The university of toronto is publicly funded, as is the technical university of Munich, where schmidhuber (and hochreiter) produced a lot of the groundbreaking research we are all relying on. Or the university of montreal with joshua bengio. And the technical university of munich is not even in the states! SHOCKING! No private universities to be seen anywhere.
Yep, nothing gives you complete assurance of correctness. Even formal methods can have bugs in the specification.

It's good for the compiler to provide correctness guarantees where it can, but tests find different bugs. I think they are useful things to have.

Having said that, I once did an analysis of tests vs bugs in a fairly large code base. There was almost no correlation between number of tests and number of bugs.

Most bugs caught in the wild were actually failures of the developer to fully understand the spec. We had tests that enforced the incorrect understanding!
How so?

Safari hides so much info from google search by default. The money google pays apple is strictly for marketing purposes.
I think this is a lost cause. Other have already mentioned this, but I'll state it again. The computers themselves are the trivial part, both the hardware and the software. You can buy a budget 11- or 13-inch laptop, new for $300 or used for $100, load them with emulators of all the 1980s and 1990s machines, and have literally the same software and much better hardware than we did back then.

If you give that to them, odds are overwhelmingly (I'm guesstimating at least 99:1) that your kids might show some interest for less than 5 minutes, and them move on to their current preferred form of entertainment. You might stretch it a bit if there is a knowledgable and enthusiastic adult sitting with them all the time, but most will only continu when the adult is present. How many hours can you spare?

Back in the 1980s, we had 3 tv channels (with mostly boring adult programming), a library that we visited a few times per month, to take out 6 books per visit, a video store where we rented movies a few times per year. Even in that restrictive setting with far less competition for attention, most of the (few) children who hade home computers only used them (personal schoolyard experience) to consume (cracked) games. Nowadays, with the endless streams of highly optimised attentions sinks (all-you-can-eat video channels, adware/IAP touch screen "games"), just giving them open-ended ways to create or great creative experiences does not stand any chance.

Now maybe your children are among the very few that do have an aptitude for open-world creativity. You can probably tell with something like Lego, or paid games with some creation tools (Minecraft, Super Mario Maker). But don't be too disappointed if they show little interest or enthusiasm. It's not you, nor the hardware/software. It's the children themselves.
I'm asking you to enlighten me. Currently I don't have to deal with any of these, Apple handles all that for me, I like that and that's why I'm active in this thread. I'm defending a service that I see value in but maybe you can shine a light and demonstrate that all these can be handled for cheaper and easier than using Apple's service that charges %15 to %30.

I'm asking legitimate question, I'm puzzled by your dismissive tone. How do you sell software and services in 175 countries for less work and commission than Apple's service?

Good for you that you are running international business for a couple a decade know, would you share some of that knowledge?

Thank you.
People are arguing for that tax because they genuinely believe that Apple will somehow respond to this in a way that will cause their own income stream to be affected negatively (for instance: if Apple decides to raise the 30% to make up for the shortfall of companies that go outside of their platform).

It's Stockholm Syndrome.

Apple got away lucky that they weren't ordered to be split up and to run their payment service provider as an independent entity. It could still happen, the EU is pretty aggressive when it comes to monopolies overreaching their legal limits or abusing their position.

The various phone operators here have been smacked down pretty hard time and again on things like roaming, service fees and so on. Apple is no different.
Cool, basically, "I can abuse you in any way I want because I`m paying you a good money".
So, why this is shitty?
Mainly because thats inside thing, and there no way to learn it during interview.

>> Not a single engineer in Amazon that has or is getting PIPed is losing their livelihood.

Can you provide source for this claim?
Amazon confronts pandemic costs and raises the price of Prime
Yes, I do not want to have to disable them per app or even being asked if want to enable them.
Sorry, trades people earn not that much.
If you had got an NFT for your pizza, this wouldn't have happened since this would prevent them from... Oh wait...
> If you are feeling pain, for example, this gives you very actionable knowledge about what you should do next in order to survive.

This seems exactly backwards to me. The visceral sensation of pain exists precisely in order to bypass your conscious decision-making. When you're hurting, your body doesn't want you to start weighing the pros and cons of various courses of action, it wants you to deal with the injury right now. That is the reason that pain feels very different -- much more urgent and harder to ignore -- than (say) getting a text message informing you that you have been hurt.