skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They sue pirates where the LTV of the litigation is greater than the CAC.

So, they tend to go after businesses with predictable and large incomes, that are dependent on music, to varying degrees, for generating that income.

Peloton, for example, were sued into a royalty contract with the major labels [1]. It's a fun coincidence that their new CEO is the former Netflix and Spotify CFO.

Spotify wasn't sued, because their predecessors were sued into a merger [2][3]. Instead, they acquiesced [4]. The LTV:CAC ratio on this customer was super high.

[1]: https://exploration.io/exploration-weekly-peloton-and-nmpa-s...

[2]: https://www.wired.com/2000/04/riaa-wins-suit-against-mp3-com...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_Recordings,_Inc._v._MP3.co....

[4]: https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/19/8621581/sony-music-spotif...
> I have had to explain to people tons of times that the random word in the UI somewhere in an application is actually a button they can press to invoke an action.

Exactly this. I often help others use computers and phones. In the old days it was easy to see what could be clicked. Now input and output look the same. It makes it harder to use.

In many ways it is a victory of style over substance - UI's are now designed by the same crowd who designs high fashion, that is clothes not designed to be worn but to be gawked at.
> Cons: - The generated output puts the vast majority of the content in the JS files (vs having a least some skeleton or so in HTML)

Got it - thank you :)
Put controls in place. Monetary openness. Every dollar accounted for.
In 99.9 % of the cases you can tell women and men apart in a fraction of a second. We can identify sex from the bones of million-year-old humanoids. For the burka-dressed robbers we could identify they were men just by their gait.

You're trying to make it seem like the 0.1 % means we can't know anything about anything.
Exactly, demonstrating how laughable the comments here are. Malware is somehow supposed to be worse than the far more painful sanctions, it's fascinating to see how detached from reality many commenters here are.

Both the sanctions and wiper malware targeting Russia are good things.
Would estimating the prior help? Eg this study claims the sky is red and most people estimate that is wrong. Therefore this study is likely wrong and needs a lot of evidence to overcome the prior.
Oh my god I thought they sounded similar!!
As I mentioned before, Canonical and Red Hat have money and could afford proper designers. Programmers are expensive as well, and they have plenty of those on staff.

Someone is putting together standard HIGs for Gnome, writing these standard themes, designing the base apps, etc. So you can't just say it's all decentralized and so there's no hope -- there's a ton of collaboration and top-down work happening with Gnome. Pulling in great UX/UI design talent should be prioritized.
Huh- I hope someone at google looking for a 20% time project is looking at this thread… with their traffic data this wouldn’t be too hard! The “open” part might be the hardest part for that engineer to achieve though. I guess it’s not unprecedented for Google to open up something like this, especially if using static data.
>Russian society isn't anywhere near enthusiastic. That's why Putin has been searching for ever dumber excuses. Give him an actual indefensible incident to rally society around, and he'll get a lot more manpower. That could expand the war to Odessa and Moldova, and also 'retaliatory' cyberwar in the West.

That's just absurd fanfic. Sending in untrained "manpower" with no equipment would not help advance Russian goals.

"Cyberwar"? Russia has never before needed any excuses to unleash wiper worms like NotPetya onto the whole world.

>It's attacking civilians as to influence their government

Exactly like sanctions. Are you against sanctions too? If not, how do you explain that inconsistency?
Putin has subjected himself to multiple (distorted) electoral processes. he didn't have to. He decided to wear the lipgloss (on a pig) of a chimera of democratic process. He's been President and Prime Minister, and oddly, power has shifted with his alternate roles.
Yes it's possible for web apps to integrate things like FullStory that let devs monitor people like a citizen of Zalem. But local guis are doing that too these days. For instance someone posted a show hn thread a few months ago of a terminal gui they built that had fullstory integrated. The author was like mea culpa and removed it, since all he probably wanted to do was fix bugs. But my point is that everything creepy browsers are able to do, local apps can now do too -- and then some. On the other hand, local apps can be positively the most secure and they're the foundation on which big companies are built. But what distinguishes the apps that empower you versus the ones that disempower you isn't obvious, so I'll explain how I do it.

The question people always ask is how can we build a technology that makes being evil impossible? Like sandboxing. And that's usually the wrong question to be asking, because it's a people problem, not a technology problem. What we need is transparency. The ability to monitor the monitors. If you can empirically see what a local app is actually doing, then you can say for certain that it's more trustworthy than anything else. So how do we do that?

Well, for starters, here's a 1KLOC tutorial (similar to Antirez's Kilo editor or Linenoise) on how to build your own version of the `strace` command in pure C. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/build/... If you monitor the system interfaces then you don't need to read the source code. It's analogous to watching someone's behavior rather than reading their dna. But the nice thing about ptrace() is it gives you the power to control the interfaces in addition to monitoring them. For example, you can disable the socket() system call and see if it breaks. If it does, and there's no apparent reason for it to need sockets, then maybe you shouldn't be using it. Another good tool that might help you control your digital spaces is Blinkenlights. Right now it only supports static binaries, but if you have one of those and you want to learn more about how it works, then you can watch what it does with memory in real time. https://justine.lol/blinkenlights/

This is the same philosophy behind Chrome's incredible debugger GUI (which is something that sadly local electron-like apps have the power to take away) because transparency is the bedrock of trust for those of us who aren't whole hog on faith in institutions. It's always surprised me that more people haven't been focusing on building tools like this. It also makes me sad when certain open source apps (which shall remain nameless because I don't want to be flamed) go out of their way to make strace output incomprehensible. The libertine use of dependencies is part of the problem. For example, you might not be using sockets, but maybe your programming language or ansi color framework library does, due to some API you didn't even know it had. So if you're a developer, you've really got to monitor this stuff, because if you don't your users will. And if you learn about it the first time from your users, then you're going to lose out on a lot of potential.
Note that this article is talking about "coffee", not "caffeine". Many of the benefits can be had from decaf. As I understand coffee is one of the major sources of antioxidants in standard American diets which is probably a big reason for this.
My big hate, is seeing the more common but much more dangerous activities on youtube not being called out for really stupid OH&S issues.

I watch a lot of car stuff on youtube and I wince ever time I see someone use an angle ginder without gloves, or worse the blade shield.

It's a lot more common to go turn on a power tool and rip a finger off than to do a bmx jump, or build a killer robot or some such. There's a degree of normalization of deviance there.
Having read most of your websites, as your blog suggests: I am absolutely crazy.

More to the point I am in awe of what you have accomplished on your own. Curious as to how you funded the work to date. The book value of your work, equipment procured and product development costs would have to be very substantial.

I perceive Gemini Stimdeck as being a valuable, but very niche product. I'm not surprised that VCs are disinterested. High production costs and small highly specialised market. That is the exact opposite of being a potential unicorn.

Have you considered going down the aquihire path? Have you explored the option of selling the IP, etc to your former employer or one of their competitors?

Whatever you do, don't rush. You have created very valuable IP and deserve to profit from your years of dedication to your vision.
It just loads forever :( Looks like the request times out on the video player
If you view source, you'll notice the site isn't really doing anything. It's been around since 2013 in Chrome, so I'm actually surprised it's the first time I've seen it.

Here's a page that tells you just about everything you need to know to do this yourself.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2014/01/Web-apps-t...
The assumption in "don't change for other people" is not that the person needs a nudge in a certain direction, but that they don't want to change
It's easier to develop and distribute.
The web has by a long shot the richest ecosystem for UI development.
There are tons of comparatively cheap developers available.
Browsers leaks the least amount of the underlying platform through.

Part of the reason is also that cross platform alternatives all come with massive caveats. The ecosystems are tiny, except for maybe Qt. Their cross platform abstractions are very leaky. They are often far more difficult to use.

Distribution of desktop apps is difficult and users are content with web apps. Asking someone to run your untrusted code is a big ask. Big downloads and lengthy installation procedures further raise the bar.

Users also don't expect desktop apps anymore. Not having a mobile app can seriously inhibit your product, but if it works mostly fine as a web app from desktop or in a wrapper like electron few will complain.
Is it that hard to make a legacy theme for libhandy/GTK4?

Edit: Elsewhere in this thread it is implied that it was deliberately made impossible.
It's not something you can query, but many extensions inject JS or markup into the DOM, and you could scan the DOM for such changes. For instance, password managers inject a "fill password" button into login fields that you could detect.
>I don't see a good way around that possibility that doesn't risk a huge escalation. Actually I may see one very imperfect option: Cede Crimea and maybe other concessions to Russia in exchange for and agreement of neutrality backed by allowing a very large build up if Ukrainian military power, and a guarantee of support from the West, to significantly deter Russia from doing this again.

Yes, I've thought from the start that this is the likely best case for Ukraine; acknowledging de jure the de facto loss of Crimea and Donbass since 2014, in exchange for

* an end to the war

* Austrian-style neutrality

* specific US/UK/other Western powers' guarantee (not NATO) of territorial integrity for rump Ukraine if Russia attacks it again

This would give Putin a way out by giving him a "win" for the domestic audience, cause no/minimal loss of additional territory for Ukraine, and give it as much security as it can hope for (since NATO membership isn't happening).

Maybe I'm wrong, the incessant reports of poor Russian morale and logistics really are completely true as opposed to having been massively spun by Ukraine's PR department, and we really will see that (as claimed just today by Ukraine) Russian troops will run out of supplies in three days. But I wouldn't bet money on it.
Maybe worth a small reminder that the oh-so-fabulous situation of outcasts mostly came along because outcasts in the 20th century had to be of outstanding value to others around them, or they got flat out murdered.

So maybe not all roses and sunshine for the 21st century.
New list ranks Ohio, Detroit as the best overall places for pizza
Yeah it seems like the current version of InfoSec is closely tied with compliance and audits. Meaning they don't really care about getting hacked as long as we filled out the right form, and checked the right check boxes and the lawyers are happy.
I also agree that these days, the average InfoSec Engineer is less technical than the average Software Engineer and it shows. The security tooling is just terrible relative to other areas.
I can't quite put my finger on it, but there's something in Osman's style that feels like contempt to me, where he's kind of ruthless in his critique of many things, and then very sensitive to criticism coming his way. Admittedly, many commenters are over-the-top critical of him, and there are a lot of commenters. I can imagine he might feel ganged up on.
That said, the UBI inflation would incentivize construction. But this requires zoning changes, approvals, and consecutive land reclamation anyways.

Might as well start with:

- Removal/reduction in zoning

- Automate construction approval workflows

- Leverage eminent domain to aggregate land, and sell for profit to the builders.

Its just a win-win-win (given the views / property values would be reduced regardless without extra housing causing SF/LA/Seattle levels of homeless people):

- Homeowners get paid, by the city / local gov, at market rate or slightly above market rate.

- The city / local government has a new profit stream, to be used for more housing / services / reduced taxes. They would aggregate land, re-zone it, get approvals completed, and sell the whole package to the highest bidding developers.

- Developers reduce costs to aggregate land and due to interest payments while waiting for all the land + approvals.

- City gets to better plan the hosing market, i.e. superblocks, transit, etc.

- City dwellers get more access to housing (i.e. cheaper housing), and possibly reduced taxes. Also reduced crime and homelessness because the city is affordable for everyone.
California is subsidized by the people living in their cars.

Wage adjustment like that will drive some of the market effects that are suppressed by the inertia that unchanging property taxes creates. Grandma would move out of her 4 bedroom home that costs $300/yr in taxes if she had to pay the gardener $40/hr.

Those cost increase tax would reduce property cost. In states where property tax adjusts you can see that dynamic.

NYC metro area is cheap compared to California, and the depressed upstate cities feature high taxes and incredibly cheap property.
> The difficulty in distinguishing the two is likely intentional.

That would not surprise me. Back when we were considering virtualisers many years ago, the issue was one of the reasons² I recommended against vbox despite using it at home - it felt a bit too dark-patterny¹ for my tastes. We went with a VMWare tool instead.

[1] though I'm not sure the term “dark pattern” had been coined, or if it had it was in my vocab, at that point

[2] another being Oracles general behaviour at the time - this was after their purchase of Sun and therefore Virtual Box.
Yes? Unless the article is really strangely worded, then the group they looked at was people asked about 20 symptoms similar to long covid. If it was only people who think they have long covid, then it would be kind of weird if a bunch of them claimed they'd never had covid.
Show HN: Later Cam – a disposable camera app that mails you photos
It's not like everything was perfect in the past and so we're done. Far from it.

Even beyond that, the world is changing. New needs, new expectations, new styles in design. Just like we wouldn't expect cars to be frozen in time in the 1950s, we shouldn't expect UI/UX to be either.

Linux DE's have never had a particularly well thought out, well designed look. There's been a lot of themes that people create to mimic other commercial systems out there, but not a lot of very high quality original work going on. Yet we can see plenty of good work technologically. For a long time when it was largely grey beards most people didn't mind so much, but now people expect good design across all products. The standards have risen, and the FOSS world should meet that challenge head on.
> -5kg of carbon per m2? How? The lignin based binder absorbs more carbon from the air after it is placed into the road? I may be misreading but it seems like these numbers are based on the amount of carbon in the lignin itself (i.e. since it isn't burned which would be positive, you can count it as negative as it is not burned)

Replace the lignin with some fantastical material that contains no carbon and requires no carbon to produce, and after it is laid on the road it quickly absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere equivalent to the amount of carbon that lignin contains.

Would you say that is carbon negative?
IVO Ltd Introduces the World’s First Pure Electric Thruster for Satellites
Is this a thing?!
What mechanism is used to protect the key of the certificate authority?
https://www.theonion.com/eggs-good-for-you-this-week-1819565...
Reddit didn't turn into an echo chamber due to time and algorithm. It became one as a result of company policy and censorship. For much of reddit's history, every form of viewpoint, opinions and speech were allowed. Everything changed once Trump got elected and the company reached for the ban hammer and decided to take sides on all cultural/political issues. Now, it's a ridiculously botted political propaganda outlet for the establishment. The 2012 reddit is unrecognizable compared to 2022 reddit.
I've listened to hundreds of artists in my life. Been to maybe 3 concerts. I don't like the environment; I'm a bedroom listener at heart. There's no reason why I should have to attend a concert or buy a hoodie to support music I enjoy. Just sell me the music.
Oh it's more advanced now. I'm banned from a whole slew of subreddits for daring to even exist in another subreddit. Preemptive silencing is widespread.
Putting aside cats, there are plenty of diseases that impact humans which don’t get researched enough due to very rare, e.g. <1 in 100 million people.

> maybe not that big of an actual need
Not that big of a need to who? It’s certainly a very big need to the people who suffer from or are dying from rare problems.
IIRC, Shiny Flakes went back into the business after the Netflix show and ended up getting busted.

Talk about horrible OPSEC.
I'd say the inside of a rock is exactly as messy as the outside, but we can't eat rocks so that might be out of scope.
Again, it’s how you see it. They brought jobs at mass scale there. We on the other hand, ship jobs out at mass scale, AND squeeze the people that are here. You can’t get away with both.
On working through difficult problems
Exactly!!! It shouldn't be terrifying, and everybody "knows" that.

But that doesn't help if you have a weird PTSD reaction to the idea of "questioning your own beliefs and then changing them" because you're afraid you'll Completely Lose It, or Wind Up A Completely Despicable Horrible Person, or Get Mobbed On The Internet And Have Your Life Ruined, or, or...

And that's dramatically easier to wind up with than you might expect from the term "PTSD". Surprise: everybody's got bad shit that's happened to 'em, that's life. Some of 'em lose it in rage and lash out. Some of 'em shut up entirely, dissociate hard... apoptosis, even, unfortunately. Sometimes literally, sometimes metaphysically- one's not much more sad than the other, but the literal apoptosis isn't reversible from the perspective of others.

I can type like this, show off Pure Unfiltered Self, and then switch to my work laptop and write up client reports. Can you? Why not? Anybody can write weird meaningless stream-of-consciousness stuff. Some people just don't want to. Most people just "don't want to".
I wish you weren't joking, those things are neat
Anyone can be annoying.
Is Yandex, Russia's Marquee Tech Company, in Trouble?
In my roughly 10 years of experience at megacorps, security related work towards products is generally treated like a compliance matter for the company, for better or worse. My experience in summary:

Testing: the security team run a few ad hoc tests, or only run the app team's automated security tests, or not at all.

Models: Once I built a threat model interactively with a security team member, but most times they'd ask the app team to put it together and send it to them. Usually would be reviewed with a few questions.

Paperwork: most of the is spent filling out forms, looking at automated tool results and addressing as needed, providing spreadsheets with new features or changes and their security requirements.

Code analysis: I don't think I've ever had a security team member read source code. Maybe I'm not remembering, but I genuinely can't think of one. I would love to have this happen though.

So, I guess I haven't had a good experience with security teams overall. I don't generally attribute that to the team itself though. They're often way over taxed and trying to oversee upwards of 10 projects with tons of reporting requirements and deadlines for releases. There's really no way in their structure or funding they _could_ do more than this. It's kinda amazing they even get this much stuff done now that I think about it! But yeah, I've never had an experience like you describe.
Only 72 hours to join hype-free crypto!!??
I know several couples making over $200k a year still getting this credit. I don’t think that is appropriate.
Flat design is pretty awful. It really does seem to be popular because it's the minimum possible amount of design.

Skeuomorphism definitely is harder to get right and different elements can clash. But that's less of an issue when you're making one unified theme for all.
Communication in Times of Russian Invasion
"animal testing" and "healing animals" are two diametrically opposite things
The Serif Sheriff wants you in jail if you use Serif these days
Indeed, costs for storage are falling even faster now than solar or wind ever did. Solar thermal, already cheaper than nukes, is far from the best.
You can block Javascript for reddit domain by default and still use old.reddit.com url if you're just browsing the website. There is absolutely no need to run Javascript for that.

It's true there is a need for a programming focused community that is outside reddit. Reddit host objectively depraved material along with scientific or programming subs, and has been caught spreading revenge porn or grooming minors multiple times. Never used discord.
It's super addictive (at least for me). I'll go from one cup a day to 5 in a flash, and wonder why I'm anxious all the time.
I'm under the impression that there's one thing that works almost 100%: nominal payment for account creation. A few bucks. Or more, if you also want it to help run the site. Bonus for the latter case is that you're also helping to protect your users from advertisers running a train on their browsers.
> TASKS WILL APPEAR HERE

Another one of those things that irritates me about "modern" design --- instead of showing an empty list, which would've been obvious that it was empty by having subtle cues like gridlines (also now disappeared by this trend), it decides to treat you like an idiot and show a giant banner stating what should be obvious. The "Add Tasks" button probably disappears after you make the list non-empty, and just looking at that UI, I'm not sure where the "normal" one is. But I guess it gave a designer an excuse to create some more bland Corporate Memphis art?
The old non-flat button styling looks entirely symmetrical to me. Not to mention that designing applications to look nice when viewed upsidedown is just silly. Even if it was your primary use case to have two people opposite each other view your app your biggest problem is all the text being upside down!
Wouldn't that be because of stay at home orders? I thought most people used TikTok in 2020 to keep connected, especially teens