skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot more than just free apps to consider in this scenario.

Paid apps will have to be re-purchased, your Airpods won't work as well, your Apple Watch won't work at all with Android, you won't be able to message your contacts who use iMessage without SMS, etc.

iPhone owners tend to buy into the Apple ecosystem which ends up being a whole bunch of vendor lock in, and it becomes unreasonable to switch platforms. The ability to switch to Android certainly doesn't give Apple a free pass here.
I think op meant that we can:

```ruby
# syntax highlighted as ruby
a = 1 + 1
```

And:

```js
// syntax highlighted as js
a = 1 + 1
```

So maybe we should have something like a "bang" prefix to evaluate and inline/embed like:

```!ruby
# evaluated
as ruby
a = 1 + 1
# renders 2 because of implicit return?
```
Maybe https://github.com/erpalma/throttled can help
A burner phone is really only useful one time. Each time it's turned on and used more and more statistical indicators are emitted.

- The location the device was turned on, used, turned off.

- The devices contacted by the burner phone

The kind of graph databases the government uses can round down the number of people that could be using any burner phone to a reasonable guess after just the first power on and contact (call/text). This is possible with only metadata. If you have the persons voice and message content it's even easier. As the phone stays on and contacts multiple numbers the graph database increasingly narrows down the possible user. I would guess within 3 calls/texts (not considering location data, or god-forbid other smartphone data) you would have 99%+ certainty who the user was if those interactions follow any previously known pattern.

You can't hide.
The layout and typography is frankly superb.
There's sympathy shown in the polls (Canadians are a sympathetic people!) but the polling shows a pretty clear super majority of people that want the protesters to go home (Canadians don't like disorder).
Which is the exact inconsistency under scrutiny here.
Firefox is losing market share due to shortsighted/poor decisions from leadership, and a harsh anti-competitive landscape from Microsoft/Google/Apple.

Firefox is difficult to save because it's been on constant life support from Google to misdirect antitrust investigators. Saving Firefox would involve not only raising its market share (which would probably have to involve a deal from Google/Microsoft/Apple or legislation because they currently preconfigure their systems/devices to use their proprietary browsers, which are mostly "good enough") but also find a way to wean Mozilla Corp off of the Google payments, which would mean investments in tangentially related services (like VPN, etc.)
Why wouldn't they? I've heard they're all over city cores and you wouldn't think a socially inept tech worker or teenager in a toronto tower would get annoyed enough on a pure noise basis to do something like this?
Yes! I recently told this to a friend of mine. She kept saying "I won't apply for that job because I'm sure there are more qualified people applying" and I kept telling her "let them reject you, don't reject yourself".

Finding a job and finding a romantic partner turn out to be really similar processes -- it's a numbers game and you can't sit around waiting for the perfect opportunity.
They also added a bunch of requirements. Example (besides what was already mentioned): You have to report every single transaction to them. Apple is making it practically impossible AND they put a 27% fee on top. This behaviour might really come hunt them. The EU is already set to add gatekeeper legislation. Apple‘s behaviour might lead to even stricter regulation or forcing them to split the app store off into a new company. They don‘t even try to mask what they are doing. A big middle finger to the EU regulators.
> Because pedestrians have the intrinsic motivation of not wanting to die.

Exactly. So it seems to me the pedestrian would want to avoid the 4 ton vehicular machines and the law here differs from common sense in my opinion.

Seems to me... by virtue of being a 4 ton death machine...the auto should have the right of way in almost every case against a small fleshy pedestrian.
Definitely not a win for BlockFi. Definitely not an endorsement of crypto by the SEC. As part of the settlement, BlockFi had to agree to stop doing all that illegal stuff.

"To settle the SEC’s charges, BlockFi agreed to pay a $50 million penalty, cease its unregistered offers and sales of the lending product, BlockFi Interest Accounts (BIAs), and attempt to bring its business within the provisions of the Investment Company Act within 60 days."
Business Booms at Kroger-Owned Grocery Stores, but Workers Are Left Behind
Mermaid has explicit support for diagrams that look UML-ish (never mind the filled triangle arrowheads for inheritance): class, state and sequence diagrams. Graphviz doesn't do that easily.
Which can be resolved by a consumer awareness campaign around card disputes & chargebacks. You can dispute any transaction even on a debit card if the merchant is being uncooperative or you haven't received the goods/services promised.
Most users don't care about the engine, they care about things like where your bookmarks are synched and configured, and the UI.

This is like telling people that a lexus isn't a real luxury car, it's just a re-skinned toyota. Most people don't care- they just want materials, tech, and nice seats. The skin is the car
Kroger profits are at record highs. Its stock is up 36% in a year. Its CEO got a 45% raise to $22M and makes 909x the median worker.

75% of its workers are food insecure. 63% can't pay their bills. Many are on food stamps.

[@DanPriceSeattle's comment from Twitter]
I miss those days.
> It is very very very easy to find many examples of governments breaking the law for their own benefit.

The current premier's father had feds planting explosive in people’s mailboxes [0] and tried to pin it on some political group he didn’t like back in the 70’s. Talk about a coincidence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involvin...
Quarantine != "barred". Perhaps inconvenient to the point of rethinking the trip, yes, but that's different than a citizen being denied the right of return by their government.

And even that inconvenience can be removed with a free, safe shot that takes 30 seconds to get for those that aren't prevented by some other health condition.
You could, but if you're doing that, it would be far easier to just build your own device that does what you want and nothing else. You can put together a ZeroPhone or something for about the same complexity as a network proxy device that might have to do things with group texts to make them look valid to an ancient device.

And then you're carrying an ancient device plus another proxy. At some point, it's easier to just buy a halfway recent flip phone and use it until it dies.

Technically possible, sure. Practical, I don't think nearly as much.

Plus, if you're actually rebroadcasting an old signal over the air, then the FCC gets involved. And that's an entire new can of worms.
Spotify doesn't have to sell you a phone and doesn't need thousands of developers (including Apple and Google) to build apps for that phone to make it a viable purchase option. Google famously refused to develop a YouTube app for Windows Phone and refused to allow Microsoft's home built app to connect to YouTube.

Just because it's possible to compete in one product area doesn't mean its possible to compete in all of them. A smartphone experience is networks on networks on networks to the point that breaking in is next to impossible despite the fact that one of them is based on an open source OS.
"War is the health of the state." - Randolph Bourne

s/state/media

See "Yellow Journalism" and the Spanish-American War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism#Origins:_Pul...
It is not so surprising when you consider how many laws have fixed age limits. For example a 13 year old sends an intimate picture to a 14 year old friend, the 14 year old has just committed a crime by having that picture.

The law is intended to target adult pedophiles. But when the people involved are basically the same age, it isn't pedophilia!
I think some Thinkpads (P51 at least) can be set to not exceed 80ish%, but I don't know if that can be done from Linux.
Page 9 of the PDF of the actual order (linked on the page under "SEC Order") explains how BlockFi made misleading claims:

> From March 2019 through August 2021, BlockFi misrepresented on its website that its institutional loans were “typically” over-collateralized, when in fact, most institutional loans were not.

(copy of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30335113 )
You might want to apply to work at GiveSendGo. They just got had a newsworthy data breach and could probably use your talents.
This is the sort of project which causes even me to break from wasting time on HN and go actually download things and try things.

In particular, a while back I came across an interesting tree-based hugenum representation in Haskell, Paul Tarau's "Hereditarily Binary Natural Numbers". It might be something (somewhat) practical that HVM can be used for right now. I'll see if I can translate it and get it to run.
Every time I restart Firefox, I get about 8 different prompts for "See what's new!" "Reset your Firefox profile now!" "See our new diversity initiative now!" etc.

It feels like opening a Windows Me installation from 2000. I just want to get browsing done.
I have a new precision with, I guess, no power management. Query pwrcfg and it offers up hibernation. Period. Windows suggests I look in the bios, but if additional sleep modes are available there, I’ve yet to find them.
True. Amazon Music have incredible catalogue in CD quality and very nice apps (not bloated, pseudo-AI, pushing pop songs right into my face, half-music-half-podcasts app but just simple music service with minumum fuss) on most platforms...
I would:

- Prioritise getting the new extension framework fully functional. And continue innovating on the capabilities that are exposed. Especially on mobile where the new fenix engine is still limited to a small whitelist of extensions

- Sort out the multi-profile story. Container tabs are great, but the chrome model is also a great fit for many workflow (e.g. different people in a house or home vs. work profiles).

- Try and work on making Gecko easily embeddable again. Webkit/Blink gets all the attention because it's easy to embed into things. I suspect Gecko needs to compete in this market if it hopes to survive. It needs to have more than one company invested in it.

This ship has probably sailed now as they've fired most of their Rust and Servo teams. But IMO they ought to have created a rust-based cross-platform UI framework. They tried to do it web-based with Firefox OS but that was too slow. But with a Rust solution I think they could have owned both the mobile and desktop application spaces, which could potentially have made them a bootload of money and been a huge win for linux.
They were calling on the "SCGGC" to do those things, i.e. they were calling on unelected bodies to bypass the elected House (which, by the way, is currently a minority government and therefore is being held up with opposition support).
Firefox declining market share cannot be reversed. The users have stuck to Chrome for years and they don't care about the broken websites that Firefox can't render or support. In the long run it will continue to decline and Google will just see its not worth it.

Firefox is beyond saving. The question is, what can Mozilla do to save itself?

They had a chance with Rust to turn that into something like Erlang Solutions did with Erlang. ie. A Rust Consultancy and will be able to make a significant amount of money in the long term with that. Instead we were given a corporate foundation that is already in chaos by Amazon.

Mozilla has given up on its mission statement and has partnered and joined the anti-privacy gang: Google and Facebook as they watch them push whatever hostile web standard to W3C, and being powerless to stop or object them.

What a shame.
Bill that would give the US Postal Service a major overhaul moves to the Senate
Take a hint from Brave, which is growing fast. Go all in on privacy and ad blocking.
Or, instead of that, countries could use their full legal right to create laws, to force Apple to stop engaging in anti-competitive practices, and also fine them if they don't follow those fully legal laws.
I‘m sure the fee will be slapped down later too. It gives Apple unfair competetive advantages in the industries it operates in. (e.g Apple Music vs Spotify)
Or why not just have the occupant of said drunk tank fund it by paying a fine? Oh wait, they do that already by having arrested you and now commiting a portion of your future life dealing with the courts and the fines they levy.
That's kind of how I am with my college friends. At least we (pandemic-willing) have a reason to all be in the same city for the same weekend once a year. Some go for the trade show itself, everyone else goes because they know that's when everyone will be in town.
This is a little bit overdramatic, given that they only exert that kind of control over the frameworks that they wholly own and control.

Nobody ever accused Microsoft or Sony of "getting to decide what games were allowed to be made" because they strictly controlled what works are allowed on their platforms. There are always other platforms one can publish on.

The real problem is that consumers have accepted an Apple/Google duopoly over mobile computing, which isn't defeated by destroying the free choice of corporations, but by creating a viable competing alternative. This currently exists in the form of jailbreaking, the use of third-party app stores and sideloading. Ultimately it should take the form of a competing smartphone OS.

Quite frankly, Linux is beginning to look more and more capable of breaking into this scene, and this will fundamentally turn the current broken system on its head when it happens. Android being open source and Unix-based only makes it easier since a ton of the foundations already exist.
nope they kept her
Not sure how BlockFi works exactly but most lending DeFi apps have really high collateral requirements and liquidate positions in case of violation of collateral requirements charging a penalty to close open positions early and ensure protocol assets are preserved before a "default" event can ever happen.

They're not really "capital efficient".
my favorite was this one which you can find here called Trojan.JS.YouAreAnIdiot [1]

The beauty of this one was how easy it was to customize and send to someone. The sheer terror people would go through thinking it was a targeted attack when the popup, bouncing everywhere flashing at them calling them an idiot, has their name and stuff in the javascript alert that came up... it was just incredibly funny, especially if you just set it as something that opened from putting it in their 'startup' menu with a couple of minutes at their computer

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSgk7ctw1HY
Wow, I had no idea! I nibbled on them because I thought they were the same as the edible ones but that was a one-time experiment.
In Celsius 0 is also cold as hell and 100 also hot as hell.
Are there non-authoritarians that want jab mandates so badly that they will hack websites to doxx innocent protestors? Could be, I haven't met any (thankfully)
A forester friend found a sizable American chestnut on a survey and collected a fair number of seeds. My back yard should be an ideal environment for one, so we are planning on trying to germinate some this year.
US is not the only country in the west where you can buy a SIM anonymously, though certainly one could say it would probably be the last country in the west such law would be implemented.
The EU really tried(and succeeded, for the most part) to pressure european countries to implement mandatory ID when buying a SIM card.Certain countries have withstood this push from Bruxelles, not surprising more than 50% of those on the eastern side of the continent [0].(To give a bit of a context: communists 'used' to do this back in the day and it was very known --monitor communications-- that's why many people don't want it, even under the umbrella of "protection from terrorists")

[0] https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/sim-card-regist...
Why would you expect proprietary tech to work with anything, though.

That’s what I don’t get - people buy locked down stuff and then complain that it’s locked down. There are plenty of alternatives that aren’t locked down.

By FairPhone, use Signal, use Webapps, etc.

I don’t get the defeatist mentality.
> I'm a minimal linux, i3wm type user

> sometimes I will play a game which will get it a bit hot

Off topic, but how did you configure i3 to work nicely with gaming? Last time I tried i3 with programs that expected to be able to arbitrarily draw windows it didn't work super great.

These days I use Pop!_shell where I might want to game, and Sway where I'll just want terminals and a browser.
Bug out. Nuke from orbit.
> If you know what they are, you know what they are.

I don't know what they are! Perhaps you could clue me in at hn@ycombinator.com?
I've used Firefox only for a few years (up until last month or so).

I'm no expert and would actually like to know, from the experts here, if the following is my subjective experience or not:

I find that for not very heavy or for heavy, but well-behaved sites, I can't really tell the difference between FF and Chrome.

But for very heavy and badly designed sites, Chrome seems to be much faster and have much less latency.
Haha! The irony; I found your comment in a HN search for Lisp.

In the search result, your painstakingly indented code appears flattened to the left margin, destroying the correctness of its structure.

https://i.imgur.com/jAB0tBn.png

Just, no.
I moved back to my hometown 20 years after leaving. At one point I thought I should pull out my old yearbooks to try to remember who everyone was. I decided that was a bad idea. It would be better to learn who everyone is.
> The section set between - hyphens - is too long

Pedantic, but: while you use hyphens here, the part quoted is actually set between dashes.
No there's not a formal requirement or spec for how markdown blocks are rendered. Even things like syntax highlighting are optional choices different renderers make (and even the whole idea of highlighting is not specified or defined, how do you define the grammer, etc?).

Some tools in the computational notebook space use markdown with fenced code blocks as blocks of executable code, see for example jupytext: https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext/blob/main/docs/formats.md or myst markdown: https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/syntax/syntax.h... or nbconvert: https://nbconvert.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Yes, it has a link component that allows routing to other Retool apps or external pages.
There are multiple "simple magic flags" you can wave - e.g. monetize using ads or make a "reader" app where users have to subscribe elsewhere. Apple doesn't make you pay them 30% that way. I hope governments force them to not take 30% elsewhere too, because neither devs nor users can do it.
So is somebody physically blocking a bridge with a giant truck and refusing to move it less militant than somebody pulling their music off Spotify and writing a letter explaining their choice?

Why did you use the term “militant” to describe the side that is not using military tactics.
Yeah, I've been aware of the demise of the American chestnut tree for years now, but I'm just seeing it in heightened frequency lately. You're right that social networks can get bursty.
>You cannot ignore that California alone has a larger tech industry than the entirety of Europe. It's not like Californians are smarter than Europeans, the difference is regulation.

The tech industry in US has so much money that is just burned on shitty products, so I am not a bit surprised if you start too many projects and also buy your way into the market you get on top. There are examples where big US companies bought competitors so it is clear that money is keeping this giants on top.
Here's how the MoU actually reads:

"Give us our shit back, Randy."

"No."

"Fuck right off, Randy."
I don't think most users care about that, the Google tie seems like a weak point considering most users choose chrome
The management of society is the politicians and government. People following orders of government when something is broken... hmm, what time period did that happen?
I have divorced parents due to father's alcoholism, and grew up in poverty by American standards (lower middle class by Russian standards I guess - we always had food, a flat and basic clothing, but no car nor any fancy stuff like cellphones or >1 TV :)), bullying exists in schools in Russia but is mellow by American standards as depicted in media. Again by what I understand from American teachers on how schools are, teachers were constantly "crushing our spirit", although I don't think of it this way, I think discipline is good. Yet, I was pretty happy throughout my life so far. I think the main contributor to my unhappiness is constantly worrying about the future, including macro future (like political instability in America) but sometimes I just look at my present life and remember that I was happy as a student who had to choose between internet and beer every month, I often didn't have money to pay for both ;)

I wonder how much of this is simply genetic...
It's been pretty clearly established over the last 13 years that TPM isn't some evil plot to prevent ~2% of users from installing Linux. Even hardcore free software distros like Debian aren't pushing this narrative anymore.

https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot
So you're saying that your country, Canada, yearns for freedom?
I think a lot of these yields from “crypto” are on paper, and it’s misleading the “defi” operators and their investors in to thinking they have huge returns. That’s the only way that would systematically explain lending tokens at very high interest rates.
They are an important value add only because iOS restricts background processes and forces developers to rely on push notifications.

You may do without push notifications on Linux, or Windows, but on iOS certain classes of apps are impossible to implement without them.
And buy a new phone, figure out why contacts didn’t transfer correctly, take it to a store so they can use a special machine, etc… yeah, super “easy”
I remember I read in HN somewhere that, people _want_ to feel useful in code reviews and one way is to leave comments. So one strategy is to send stuff out early with some small imperfections so that people who want to feel useful can pick on them. IMO, following this spirit, and in this case, an efficient but not necessarily personally beneficial strategy would be send out a PR early (so that you're not investing in too much time and not too emotionally invested in defending your solution later), then get them to suggest solutions, and implement in their way. This takes away pretty much all of the pleasure of creation in coding and deprives one of the sense of accomplishment, but it's far less frustrating and mentally straining than having to argue and defend which solution to adopt, to me, when working with that kind of people.
Not in today's zero tolerance world. This would probably be construed as assault on the teacher. citizenWithCriminalRecord++
> Think of the strong traditions behind birthday or annual holiday greetings, for instance.

And I don’t know of any meaningful relationship that is maintained just by that bare minimum.
The Laffer Curve was a made up justification for a policy (tax cuts for wealthy people and corporations) a GOP administration wanted to implement as a favor to their political patrons. Laffer came up with it on the spot and sketched it on a napkin.

It (and “supply-side economics” in general) is not a serious economic theory.
Can you suggest a resource for getting started with disengagement, geared towards people like myself that have more money than time?