skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me what keeps me on iOS vs Android is app quality. No matter how many times I try to switch to Android completely, the lack of quality apps on the Play store always bums me out.

The best apps on the App Store are unique to iOS, and Android apps always feel like an after thought, and many of the best iOS apps do not have Android counterparts.

Apollo for reddit, CoPilot for money management, Flighty for flight tracking, Foreflight for aviation, Halide for camera, Things/Muse for notes and todos, Overcast/Castro for podcasts, Tweetbot/Twitterific twitter, even Spark for email use to be iOS only for years.

I challenge you to compare the quality of iOS only vs Android only apps.

The iOS dev community seems vibrant, and I wish I could say the same for Android.
Few Wordle Players Use Consistent Starting Words, but When They Do, It’s Adieu
Not only that, but a whole load of the services in Amsterdam will only accept Dutch debit cards. Which is just great when you've got a Spanish credit card (that you've used all over the world, just not in Amsterdam...)
I think we'll figure out how to give your brain access to something like an AMD Ryzen long before we figure how to make a processor into an AI or make one that's concious.
> You don't see the same trend in the rest of the world where 3rd party messengers (Whatsapp, Viber, Line, snapchat, etc) are mostly used for comms.

Doesn't mean that there is a correlation. In the EU iPhones are way more expensive than competitors. The difference is bigger than in the US.
Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year?
For general consumers, the Apple ecosystem beyond just messaging is a legitimate reason. It’s not just messaging, it’s handoff of your browser from your phone to your tablet to your laptop so you can easily keep reading a website even if you swap devices. It’s Apple Pay. It’s Apple Music. Sure, there are Android apps for all of those things, but you have to spend time picking each app and setting it up. Starting a new Apple product is an entirely different experience.

It’s decent hardware and a consistent experience- sure, there have been misses, and sometimes there are non-Apple products that are better. But there is no other single company that offers a competitive watch, tablet, laptop, and phone. Not everyone needs this, which is why basically 50% of people aren’t in the Apple ecosystem. But it’s a legitimate draw for many people. And make sure that you don’t fall in the trap of thinking “just because Apple products aren’t right for me, then everyone that uses them must be an idiot.” You pay for the convenience, but for many people that is worth it, and the fact that not every Apple product is #1 is okay. Basically every Apple product line has something in the top 3.

Apple is like the Disney of the tech world- there are other companies that make good movies, and there are other companies with cruise lines and theme parks, but nobody else that does all that. They stand alone in terms of their breadth and consistency.
This seems incredibly blind to the realities of poor people.

$30/month (for a maxed out phone; you could be looking at $12/mo) is much more palatable to a lot of people than paying the full sticker price today.
On the main topic: I ran into this recently when someone said it was no big deal that someone in a story was a "drama queen". I was like, um, that's someone who unnecessarily escalates conflicts, of course that's the type you want to distance yourself from, are you using a different meaning? I cited whatever sources I could find that spoke to the issue, which agreed with my usage, and the other party insisted it was wrong but couldn't find backing for their own usage.

EDIT: Another great example of the dynamic on HN. One time I expressed skepticism that airlines could rearrange seats in a particular way because they were constrained in how they could reconfigure the layout, and would need special permission for a new configuration.

The topic experts were happy to roll their eyes and lecture me that "the FAA doesn't regulate configurations" but didn't seem to notice that there might be ambiguity in what is being referred to by a "configuration", and so could have clarified what kinds of changes are vs aren't permitted in a way that sidesteps the jargon.

Instead, they just assumed a) I was using the term correctly, and b) I was making an obviously wrong statement under that correct definition. This then let them conclude c) the only reason I would persist in being skeptical is because I automatically refuse to listen to experts.

The right approach would have been to 1) identify how the word "configuration" is used in this domain and how it might differ from the lay meaning of that term, and 2) use one's domain expertise to give detail ("color") on what the boundary is between changes that do vs. don't need approval, and why the airline's plan would fall squarely in the latter.

That would have made it a clarifying, enlightening experience for all readers, rather than a game of "I'm high status, you're not".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22665250
As an advanced case, CPS works within any functor (aka map-able data structure).

A standard CPS function returning type t has the signature (t -> a) -> a. More generally, the Yoneda lemma implies that the signature (t -> a) -> f a is equivalent to a return value f t, where f is a functor.

When f is the async/promise functor, this leads to the common pattern of passing callbacks for asynchronicity: Instead of eventually returning type t, you take a callback with argument t and eventually return its result (of type a).
Time to start building long distance (100+ mile) mesh nets.

Alternately, I wonder if there's any way to lay down fiber long distance that doesn't require govt authorization...and doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
There is an assumption in mathematics that if we use an adjective with a noun, it will specialize the noun, that is, it adds an additional constraint to it, yet it remains to be the original noun as well. (In other words, the Liskov substitution principle holds.)

It is almost always wrong. An adjective can generalize the noun, which is funny, because in that case either the adjective or the noun must be wrong. It's called the "red herring principle"[0], that is, red herrings are not red, or are not herrings. Like:[1]

- a manifold with boundary is not a manifold, or it doesn't have a boundary, but can't be both
- a nonassociative algebra, is either associative, or not an algebra
- multivalued functions, partial functions, contravariant functors, noncommutative geometries, etc etc etc

[0] : https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/red+herring+principle

[1] : https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/red+herring+principle#examples
It still wouldn’t be the suction of nothing. It would be the usual metallic bonds keeping them together.
> Nominal proponents

Could you be slightly more specific?
It reminds me of these old MTV weird animations from the 90s. Amazing what kind of content can be created with this
I see no reason to think this won't continue to work for the rest of my life. There are a lot of old, used cars out there.

But I'm totally with you on fighting for the necessary regulation! In the meantime, I need to do the needful to protect myself.
Do you find it reliable or is it whack-a-mole with constants updates required as the main service providers close exploits?

Spotify surprises me because I would think the API is locked down and requests are authenticated. I guess it's abusing the free tier and spoofing the request to avoid rate limits?
> To be clear, I'm not implying that's your motivation

Then why say it? Comes across to me like a "no offense but..."

Well, offense taken.

I'm not puritanical and neither are the clubs I was referring to. However, American culture is so puritanical that they can't even think straight about sex -- can't even talk about and don't know how to get it.

And so idiots (all of them) end up at my tabletop clubs, my hiking clubs, my movie clubs, my woodworking clubs, and then chase someone's butt the whole time.

That makes it really uncomfortable for everyone else and also usually uncomfortable for whoever's butt is being chased. And then a club has to spend social energy creating a Code of Conduct and wondering who will enforce it.

Horndogs need not apply.
> This suggested change isn't larger than many of those, or groundbreaking. It's just another one like those.

Yes, I know. I grew up in Germany. That these restrictions are common doesn't make them any better.
Now imagine yourself sending anonymous tracking data to Gnome: "wow, this user is so happy with the swipe-up login screen, he didn't use the any-key bypass for two years! This is a 100% cool feature". And with you, 500 users like you.

Meanwhile, the 10-20 users frustrated and asking in their forums to remove the feature are ignored, because anonymous data tells another story.
Inside Fog Data Science, Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Police
A) the highest performance aircraft were all liquid cooled

B) combat aircraft have to deal with bullet holes
I wrote a comment below the article with background of what happened:

https://www.unseen64.net/2020/11/16/lunatik-pure-entertainme...
20% more wear. This is a pretty naked hit piece.
> where payment for plane tickets is processed upon check-in.

Well, then they’d check you in and cancel the flight. The payment needs to be processed on takeoff for incentives to be correct.
Wow, I haven't visited the NY Post's website, but it truly is the bottom of the barrel humanity-wise
It says on the website:

"But ultimately the project failed because the original concept (3D Defender) was next to impossible to do really well. We tried many different gameplay mechanisms to make it work, and none were working"
Which emergency are you referring to? And what censorship methods are you referring to?

For example, I think the media choosing not to cover a story immediately when it is being peddled by an unreliable political agent doesn’t qualify as censorship. Even if it turns out to be true.
Done that already a week ago! I not familiar with Python but the code is terse and looks fine and the information the collect looks reasonable.
It depends on individual circumstances. A thousand dollars plus no car payment, parking, insurance, maintenance, and fuel costs vs. public transit, occasional Uber and car rental might be attractive for some. It would've been much more effective though if they had gone with the original plan of $2,500 and no income limit.
Thanks, Drew, for calling out the author of QEMU and linking to his sight: Fabrice Bellard https://bellard.org/ I didn't know he had done so much! Incredible!
This is the fastest I've seen a term fracture.

I've seen it both used as you describe (meeting expectations and doing nothing more) as well as to describe simply doing no work and waiting to be fired while collecting a paycheck for the time it takes for your employer to fire you.

This fracture has created a explosive discourse where each side calls the other side selfish idiots. If we can pivot this instead to "work-to-rule", which is less easy to fracture, then maybe we can get some actual productive discourse around unwritten and unpaid labor expectations that employers place on their employees.
Android locks you in as well. We had a hell of a time when switching from Android. My wife's new iPhone wasn't receiving any messages, and we had never heard of "RCS (Rich Communications Services)" prior to this problem. It's incredibly stupid.
Are there terminal based keyboard first audio/video editors? Sort of like vim but for multimedia.
Governments which claim to support values like freedom of speech, but in fact do not.

Eg, the US — who is outspoken on that issue, but during an emergency used social media companies to censor doctors, politicians, etc who did not agree with them.
> plenty of experiences with various hallucinogens in my late teens/early 20s

Stop.

If you're reading this, don't necessarily do psychs when your brain isn't fully developed.

Don't do psychs more than once or twice a business quarter. Once or twice a year, if possible!
You might want to check out Pixel phones. I'm still rocking a Pixel 2 and it still works great.
"The Captain Class" is a great book that glorifies the "water carriers" of a bunch of successful sporting dynasties.

It certainly gave me a lot of encouragement to try to develop more of the traits shown by those great captains.
Exactly at the same time I sent my cheeseburger recipe to McDonald's to implement. Ie never.

If I don't like the Cheeseburger at McDonald's, I just go eat elsewhere. No need to regulate the taste of cheeseburgers, nor exactly how many pickles or what kind of cheese should be on them.

You'd do the same with airline contracts. And people already do that, for the all the conditions that are not regulated.
> It sounds like Gavin went beyond that, cutting into Sony's forbidden library space

Sure, this wasn't an exhaustive list of every trick we had to do, it's just another war story. This is the one that I remember the most vividly, but there were myriad tricks to bend the system to do what it didn't want to do :)
That's totally unrelated to the topic of how services are invoked.

SELinux is indeed a PITA. I usually just turn it off.

Your complaint about the community says more about you than about the community. It's certainly not true as a rule.
not having security updates is a big deal, but apps also target minimum OS versions, and oftentimes the “minimum” is a year-old OS
In the case of the protest in the article, how do you see their demands as being representative of only the upper class? Same with the protests at the Louvre?
I don't know if this is supposed to be a serious comment.

Everyone I know who uses an Android is frustrated with it all the time.

I'm sure the people who make Android also think it's fine. You just tap the button and then an app opens. Who cares if it's janky and freezes half the time? Certainly Android developers don't seem to care.
> But it’s not the case for someone who has built wealth for themselves.

I used to think so untill I encountered:

"You young people don't know what it's like to work hard, I started with nothing and bought a house. You can't buy a house because you spend all your money on Avocado on toast."

Now I realise it's a polite way of saying 'you are an idiot'.

It's a mindset where you don't understand what life is like for the person you are trying to lecture. It doesn't matter if you are hostile or helpfull, it just means you don't understand the relevant problems.

You think avocado is relevant to house purchasing, you design benefits system for homeless people that asks for your address. You asks people how is it a problem that you need to file a lawsuit to get your money back - like who can't file a lawsuit. Or who doesnt have internet?

If you 'self-made' your wealth 20 years ago, you will have forgotten how it was, and times have changed. So it helps, but is not strictly relevant.
Wait, you use iMessage instead of Whatsapp in the US? I tried iMessage with some friends and I feel like the experience is so much worse, not to mention not having my entire contact list there.
Google employee resigns, saying company ‘silences Palestinians’
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In the US, maybe. EU Regulation caps interchange fees at 0.2% of the transaction value for consumer debit cards and at 0.3% for consumer credit cards, although most member States have set lower fee caps.

It's always more expensive to handle cash here. Business plans usually estimate the total cash handling cost to be 2.5%, compared to 1% for cars payments.
Or rather, it should be a free market.

In any case, have the budget carriers ever gotten a bailout?
They passed laws making those social media companies censor them?
I get it. Thank you.
I found that a really interesting development, and they embraced it. Probably the best example of "go with where your users are going" I can think of.

And it's silly as well, because anyone with a few weeks of software development knowledge could probably hack a Twitter-like together. Not that at that scale, admittedly, but still, prototype-twitter was nothing fancy.
I always found Android buggier, even when I wanted to love it. Even just opening the camera could crash my phones pretty often.
> “And Knosso whatever-his-name was a physicist. That’s the Library of Nothing.”

> “Nothing?”

> The old woman had her spiel ready. “Physicists long since determined that most of space was empty, and most of each atom was empty, so that the overwhelming nature of the universe is nothingness, with tiny interruptions that contain all of existence. So their library is named for this Nothing that comprises most of the universe. And the mathematicians share the space, because they are proud to say that what they study is even less real than what the physicists study, so their portion is called the Library of Less than Nothing.”

> Rigg decided he was going to like the physicists. It seemed to him, though, that the mathematicians must have an annoying competitive streak.

Pathfinder (2010) by Orson Scott Card
> How long do they keep private calls and messages?

7-10 years, in practice. 2 years, in requirement. [0]

[0] https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Depart...
They didn’t have to.
Hacker Public Radio, episode 3675: Plan 9 – An exercise in futility
And don't forget fallacious conclusion #2: all introverts are good.

The author does strike me as the caricaturish Hollywood movie nerd, whiny, full of self-pity, bad faith, envy, and repressed narcissism, putting down everything to do with the "popular kids" or jocks while craving all the same things. Either own up to it and saddle up, or take a good hard look at your contradictions, disingenuousness, and self-deception. Pick up Nietzsche and Scheler and learn about ressentiment because this is a textbook example.

Take this revealing quote:

> The school’s emphasis on networking above studious reflection makes outcasts of, for instance, many brilliant but introverted Asian students who feel out of place in this cheerleader hell.

Why would this be a cheerleader hell? If the networking milieu is superficial, thoughtless, and crass, why the desperate desire to fit in with them? To be accepted by them? (Or, later on, play the game of sour grapes?) After all, aren't they worse off? Aren't they less desirable? This is incoherent. You say these introverted students are "outcasts" who feel out of place with these glad-handing extroverts. But if that is the case, then why would it ever be their goal to fit in with people you believe are so deserving of scorn and contempt? Why do you put them up on a pedestal and pout about not being accepted or even adored by them? If you were being honest, then they would never feel the need or desire to join their ranks, to receive their affection and approval.

Fortune favors the bold. Hiding in your basement and expecting the world to come to you, to appreciate your ostensible greatness, while denying that of others, is perhaps the height of arrogance and egocentrism. Everyone is busy living their own lives, dealing with their own problems, just like the introvert, yet the latter expects special treatment.

One of the greatest lessons I've learned in life is that it is a waste of time complaining about the state of the world. It is a waste of time blaming the world for your dissatisfactions, thinking all the while that if only the world would be a certain way, THEN I could finally flourish. This is the creed of the effeminate procrastinator. But life is a meat grinder. Waiting for it to be easy, for it to be comfortable, for the stars to align before you make a move is to waste precious time and to wait for one's death. Life is struggle. Do not pity those poor, immigrant students, dear author, because they are still better at bearing the pains and discomforts of life than the brats of the first world who can only survive in the rarefied confines of their warm, padded cells. Their children, however...
It is indeed abusing the free tier, and in my experience it's very low maintenance. I now have a subscription though.
> quality apps on the Play store

After 10+ years of making apps, the discussion with new clients is still the same here (EU/USA) every time:

Client: we want an app

Me: iOS or Android or both?

Client: both

Me: Ok, which one first?

Client: iOS, I have an iPhone 13 Pro max, make it work on that!

... app designed and built in close co-op with the client

Me: What do you think?

Client: Great! Publish it! Let me put it on my phone!

Me: shall we do the Android design? On which phone types should it work; premium or also mid or budget?

Client: Who cares, just do something and publish it whenever. Here is money, Bye!
> Did you manage to utilise any of the tech in another project, or was the whole thing just completely binned?

At that time we used to bin everything and start again (from the engine point of view at least). Usually it was so complex and hacked together by the end that there wasn't a generalised system to extract. We'd obviously take what we learned into the next title, but less so the code.

PS2 was probably the first time I remember reusing engines.
The GDPR didn't fester the web with cookie popups. There are literally zero cookie popups that exist because of the GDPR. Businesses who wanted to inconvenience customers festered the web with cookie popups in the hope that the customers would complain and obligations would be revoked. Every time you see a cookie popup, it should be a reminder that businesses are out there to screw you, not to engage in a mutually beneficial exchange.
I know that case, and you are right. However, no normal vendor would fall under the "public interest" argument made by the courts.
It's also a lot of fun/a huge adrenaline rush. The people I've met who do nothing but scam and con love "getting over" on others. (other crime is the same I guess - drug dealers are notorious for being addicted to "the life", and I've never met a thief who wouldn't steal for fun)
Minecraft comes to mind, if you want to think out of the box.
I've done it twice. Once in 1992, to get out of the defence/aerospace industry, once in 2017 because I got a voluntary layoff with a payout.

Both times were major disruptions, and maybe for a year or more didn't seem worth it. Two years out for either one seemed well worth it. You absolutely will regret it at first, and intermittently for months. That's not to say you shouldn't do it, though. Sounds like you're in an ideal place to make that kind of career change.
I think the social networking aspect of GitHub is one of its worst features. It carries with it all the negatives while also being required to use at work.

https://bower.sh/github-as-social-network
They are wedge shaped and usually made of rubber. You stick it under the door, hold it in place, then pull the door to get it stuck on the doorstop. Some doors also have built in door stops that are different- more like a kickstand on a bike.
> it needs to measure and optimize for something deeper

I thought you were going to call this out. It should read "something more shallow"
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How is this zoom effect achieved? Do they zoom in a little and then re-imagine the image?