skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iOS's developers community had a head start - transitioning from Cocoa to Cocoa Touch is straightforward. Android didn't have this. Android SDK was a giant mess initially, there was no decent IDE for it initially, plenty of things that are `[something doThingWell]` in iOS are much harder in Android to implement.

Then there is fragmentation, availability of $50 devices that guaranteed to have issues with your app.

IMO iOS development is very pleasant (if you have someone other than you to deal with code signing) and Android isn't pleasant at all. Combine that with companies not caring about android apps... All of that contributes to a smaller number of good developers available.
I fail to see an argument for this being a technical necessity.

And, you don’t offer any data or evidence for this.

There are thousands of businesses and million of users who don’t care about and don’t need this.
Actually you don't want to use credit cards between yourself and PayPal. They play a finger pointing game that can last months. Been there. I eventually had to small claims the CC company (MBNA Europe, now LLoyds) which took weeks. They didn't contest the claim or even turn up and judgement was made in favour in their absence then they did nothing until bailiffs were appointed then wrote the whole account off and closed it. Had numerous run ins with paypal unfortunately as a seller and a buyer.
That is a variation of a Benjamin Franklin quote about three people being able to keep a secret if two are dead.

There are similar principles in military science about limited sizes of surprise attacks because logistically at some point it becomes completely obvious to anybody with working eyes or ears if say, the PRC relocated the entirety of their army off the shore of Hong Kong. Let alone the cumulative probabilities of human failures including in blackmail and bribery or how quickly the finances would add up in paying off people noticing you paying them off, and then people who notice the abnormal flow of currency.

There is no guarantee in these principles in the same way there is no guarantee that WWI wouldn't happen due to the interconnectedness of the European countries and how much they would have to lose. They were still right about the latter being an unmitigated disaster, as the unprestigious "backwater hicks who barely count as civilized", the US and the USSR became two world leading superpowers instead of the other leading empires. But that same "Unlikely because would be incredibly stupid and lead to losing a lot." level of guarantee applies to nuclear deterrence.
It can also be used to disenfranchise minority voters.
being unable to fight the zeitgeist isn't really a moderator issue, and it's an explicit feature of reddit, and also Hacker News.

The reality is that if your opinion, no matter what it is, is disliked enough to overcome the default positivity bias (upvotes exist in higher frequency than downvotes), you will be democratically silenced.

This often affects the framing and scaffolding of your comments more than the core content, and encourages a style of writing that inherently seeks mass appeal.

There's something about the average highly upvoted reddit comment that just feels like a reddit comment, to the point that you can even ask ChatGPT to generate a highly upvoted reddit comment about "X" and it does a pretty good job.
Piracy is not Cheating (or rather it is, but a different kind: cheating the developer out of his money):)
Someone replied to that comment suggesting that's what happens when you export the chat session. I've never talked to Ebay support, can you try with your case and check?
It's not really an age thing. If you don't know anything about Dota or the MOBA genre, these concepts will be meaningless.

Let's translate to the more commonly understood First Person Shooters. In a FPS, you don't know if someone is hiding behind a door. But with cheats on, the cheat program could be reading game data and know that someone is behind a door. It could highlight that person on your screen in a red color, that way you can see them even tho they are hidden.

It could also move your mouse cursor automatically for you so you get an easy headshot without even trying to aim.

Neither of these involve modifying outgoing network traffic.
If it were GPL they wouldn’t have used it in the first place for that. And instead they would have based it off of something else, or written it from scratch.
> Assuming a human can carry 20kg

20 pounds maybe... but 20kg (44lb) would be a serious effort for most people.
For a balance check? Seems like it's a relatively innocuous piece of information. They aren't transferring money, it's pretty much the same amount of information they would get looking over your shoulder at the ATM.
"If you pay us for digital Hitler, we'll give you digital Hitler" --AI companies, circa 2026
>our elections are unacceptably slow

That is funny considering the primary benefit of electronic voting machines is speeding up the gathering of results. I'm not sure how you expect us to manually count 150 million ballots quicker without using any hackable electronics.

Otherwise, you are still falling into the same trap. You say we can just use "insider knowledge" to know where to commit the fraud, but that requires both insiders and the ability to actually execute the fraud in all those potentially close places. We are back to needing a widespread conspiracy that operates in several states and can attack in a variety of different ways.
"after reviewing my games and finding I was the only one not cheating in about 10 games in a row" how did you know that all the other 90 people were cheaters?
Except the horror stories are appearing with Stripe now. Really, the only safe way to transfer money is with traditional banks. But they have higher transaction fees and are slow, so maybe an occasional loss to Paypal is actually better than accumulated wire transfer fees in the long term.
Security through obscurity isn’t security.
WFH, it's a religion for some people. I personally absolutely must have my in-person work, but I understand the desires.
Installs fine for me from f-droid.
> False. zsh is not POSIX nor fully compatible with bash, while being default login shell in popular distros like Kali and Deepin (and macOS).

Kali is a purpose-built distro that is not a daily driver for nearly anyone.

Deepin is a Chinese distro, and while it may be popular to some, it is not a popular distro at large.

My point remains standing.

> Shell scripts typically lead with a shebang, making your login shell inconsequential as long as you have the target shell available.

Of course - but having multiple shells installed is not common. What's the point of using another shell if all of your scripts have to use bash anyway? You are still effectively using Bash, and have unintentionally exposed the problem with all non-POSIX compliant shells - they don't allow people to get work done.
This. They can and will steal money out of your account if your cards don't work.
Maybe the lesson is just that competitions tends to have arbitrary rules and limitations. If you think the rules are stupid, don't participate in the competition.
Yes I'm seeing now how unsophisticated and probably incorrect my approach is, clearly running into the limits of my understanding of compiled programs / cheat engines :)
It was their exact signup funnel.

- Sign up.

- List a product.

- Use seller hub (it’s free)!

- Enter in payment details (don’t worry you have until the end of the month!).

I was assuming my product would take a while to sell (used receipt printers). They sold almost instantly after I listed them so I had to catch up. I never made it to step 3. I didn’t want to cancel the order because it was my first one and oddly enough didn’t want that to be the reason my account got suspended.

There were so many problems in the eBay backend I encountered only after my items were in transit. I couldn’t add _any payment method_ until my order was received and then I was promptly suspended without warning (before the month they said I had was even up).
I wonder how you feel about secure enclave chips
And a worry from progressives that any "Voter ID" system is being manipulated to disenfranchise black people and poor people, as has happened in the past.
This happened to OP 5 months ago...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32855559
Tech’s Productivity Obsession Is Toxic
I think everyone knows it's not that no one can lie, its just that number-of-people * odds-someone-breaks-the-lie * time conspiracy would have to be held means that conspiracies that have a lot of people in the loop for a long time are unlikely to go unexposed. A conspiracy requiring a significant footprint of people, money, resources, and generated artifacts can hold for only so long. E.g wartime atrocities involving hundreds of people might hold for a few years, or until the end of a war, but not longer. The lies of the Bush administration could hold long enough to get into war, but not for say 30 years.

Usually this argument is super solid against the kinds of "long running super conspiracies" that people argue for. E.g:
- The earth is flat and the fact it is a sphere is a lie told by generation of scientists and elites. 1000s (or more?) of people * hundreds of years. Ya right.
- The moon landing was faked and everyone at NASA at the times knew it. 60 years * hundreds or thousands of people * massive resource spend and physical footprint: ya right.
I remember joining games of Dark Forces: Jedi Knight in the '90s and finding someone playing as a TIE fighter. Like, a full size TIE Fighter, not a model scaled down to person-size. And insta-killing anyone who came near. Mind you, this is a (mostly) first-person shooter that doesn't normally have player-drivable vehicles of any kind.

That and similar ridiculousness were fairly common.

I actually didn't mind that stuff, it was funny enough to outweigh the irritation of not getting to play a real match. The ones cheating without making it overt were the ones who'd truly ruin a match.

> You wouldn't cheat at tic tac toe despite the inherently low stakes of the game so it doesn't seem any different in any other video game.

I don't get it, but people do cheat. They cheat in online games, they cheat at board games, they cheat at tabletop RPGs(?! and no, I don't just mean the DM fudging some roles in the name of fun—they have a screen for a reason) [EDIT] What I mean is, there must be some impulse to do it, even when the stakes are nonexistent and it might even ruin the fun for everyone. It's not even uncommon. I don't get it either, but it must be there.
Contracts are often overly restrictive and I want to use software I've bought in any legitimate way I can.

For example - VR mods for older games give me great pleasure and a ban because they used internal hooks would make me very angry.
Yes, they should be starting their own companies that do the same things, but for [blank]
What will the elevator speaker do if it received 2 music packets instead of 1?
At the rate dairies are going under, it won't be a problem forever (~5-10% shutter each year). Milk is just a word, the definition will likely shift over time as consumption continues to trend down.

https://www.fb.org/market-intel/usda-report-u-s-dairy-farm-n...

https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming-news/news/there-are...

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2022/june/fluid-milk-co...

https://sph.umich.edu/pursuit/2019posts/cows-milk-human-heal...
link to a not main account and only setup one way transfers from one to the other i.e. You have your main account, and you have your paypal receivables account.

Paypal receivables account has no overdraft protection and not overdraft allowance. If a withdrawl over the value of the account comes in, it is denied.

Connect that account to paypal.

Next, in the Paypal receivables account, setup an external transfer from the receivables account to the main account. You will have to validate the ownership of the second account usually by posting two small transactions that were auto posted to the account as part of the validation process. This takes a couple days. Once that is done, you can transfer money from receivables account to main account but not the other way.

Transfer money out of paypal to the receivables account, transfer money from receivables to main. Use a credit card to spend money with paypal.

You can set up two way transfers if you need to put cash into that account for transactions and you still get a similar level or separation, I just prefer to use a CC instead because they'll help you out if you want to dispute or reverse a transaction and paypal may not.
Why should we allow self appointed "biomedical ethicists" to dictate what interventions we can use?

The medical industry seems to be largely divided into two camps: Camp A would happily sell allergy medication that triples your risk of diabetes, and Camp B would rather ten thousand terminal patients die in agony than kill a hundred of them with medication that cured the rest.

It's simply the momentum of the world we live in. It's perfectly legal for a 45 year old woman to get pregnant by an elderly man, then chainsmoke, take caffeine pills, and get shitfaced every day of her pregnancy and create a profoundly disadvantaged baby whose life will be full of hardship. They can even do it on purpose if they want. The powers-that-be don't give a damn about human happiness or suffering; they just want to make sure it isn't them who gets blamed.
it is very human.
> this could just be something built-in to the device instead of being some kind of app you'd get from an app store.

Yes, I wasn't asking about where the app came from. Preinstalled or user-installed doesn't matter.

So what I hear you saying is that the app doesn't need to communicate with anything, either to add/drop accounts or to make payments. Is that correct?
Would you make a Twitter thread about it if you had been trying something obviously illegal though? Wouldn't you just silently make a fist and say "damnit, they've crossed my plans again"?
“Is it oat milk or cow’s milk?” hardly requires reading the fine print. The oat milk says oat milk on it, usually prominently.
I don't think that it's a good idea to have the majority of Americans dependent on a single manufacturers drug to maintain a healthy weight.
Or they could carry about 2 liters of kerosene.
There are all sorts of security software that could do this. Antivirus, DLP, and more.

Conflating a variety of possibilities and relying correlation doesn’t reduce to intent or prove causation.

OTOH: Don’t play computer games on company hardware unless it’s part of the job.

I don’t have skin in this computer game. To stay ahead of cheaters requires constant vigilance and creative solutions to scale detection.
That's why we have decentralized exchanges.
> Why do you think we still have resumes

As opposed to what? People just showing up to interviews unannounced?

> or equate a university degree with ability to program computers?

Most of the really successful tech companies are doing this to a small degree. You're at a pretty big advantage if you try to get an early internship at FAANG if you went to Harvard or Stanford or whatnot - and you probably should be (and this is coming from someone who believes strongly those universities are mostly a waste).

The unis already did the hard work of sifting through students to find ones who are willing to work 100x more than necessary just to get into a slightly better school. If you're FAANG, that's sort of who you want to hire for a tech internship, and eventually take advantage of with an underpaying salary for namebrand recognition upon graduation.
I was expecting survival analysis to show up at some point.

Perhaps it did, at some point I started to skim.
PTFE breaks down above 250 centigrade. That's pretty normal for frying pans.
"tens of millions of dollars of illegal campaign contributions to both Democrats and Republicans."
What I was trying to get at was to have a visualisation of ones biases. Something like a mindmap that makes it clear where ones own opinions come from, from where were these ideas sourced.

What I have done is to collect all my writings together and all the things I have read and read, built a mindmap and joined the dots. That is, which articles have influenced the things I have written. Which ideas did I incorporate into my texts and from which source these ideas come from.

From that, I now know I spend a lot of time collecting my ideas from HN and Aeon magazine (for example). That tells me that a) both sources seem to be feeding my bubble b) both seem good at giving me content that fits into my bubble.

I also know that I should perhaps spend more time finding other sources for other views. Whether those views gel with what I believe is another question, but at least I know that I have to confront my beliefs with other content and sources.

Finally having done this little exercise, I wonder whether others also do this? Or how does one sort and manage ones ideas and thoughts? Before I did this, I kept all my ideas and thoughts in one long electronic document but I had no appreciation for how and what influenced those ideas.
> conspiracy theories

No, it is none of those.
Show me the money.
A voter id card required to vote is akin to a poll tax.
If we have a voter id requirement,
we have to have all voters have a place
to go get this ID.
Seven days a week, at least ten hours a day.
Who will pay for this?

Wealthy people refuse to pay their fair share of the tax.
I can't afford to pay any more tax.
Something has to give.
What government services will you cut to fund this noise?
> Just for fun

It's mentioned right there
now equate tech executives to specific Nazis - circle complete!
Toxic attitude. I hope to hell to not work with someone like that.
a good point. And what about companies that have on-premise storage?
This site is run by volunteer sleeper train fans, working with WordPress, not some paid web developers. But they’d probably welcome some more technical volunteers.
That's not how it works. Even the act of having a customer dispute you hurts you are a merchant, so it's better for the merchant to avoid them entirely.
> your bank sends the necessary keys to your phone

Ah, that clarifies things. Thank you.
Plus a machinery to convert it to electricity :)
Similar thing happened when I returned to playing Rust after a long break. I had even just upgraded my HDD specifically to get Rust to load faster. Maybe 2 days after upgrading my HDD I get a VAC ban on it(my only VAC ban) for no apparent reason from their third party anti cheat software Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC). I tried to appeal to EAC but they won't give any info. I think what could have set it off was either 1) the hard drive upgrade 2) maybe my anti-virus since it once tried to sandbox it and run it virtualized or 3) EAC scanned my hard drive and found that I have unrelated source code/python scripts on it since I'm a dev.

w/e I'm done with it but I don't like having a VAC ban on my account for no reason :/
part of it, for me, is that this policy says, 'hey googlers, we order you to _not_ come to the office -- at least, not at the same time or day as your desk friendo, or your desk friendos.'

so when CEO 'x' says, 'everyone back to the office, we need to whisper sweet idea nothings to each other on our way to/from the bathroom, in the office, so that we can $$$$$' -- ceo google just said, "that's obviously untrue, and completely ridiculous, besides".

either that, or ceo google just said that the money we save by creating desk friendos will surpass the alleged value we gain by whispering sweet idea nothings to each other in the hallways, or at our covid- and flu-covered desks.

but one commenter said 'stackable desks' like bunk beds - which makes sense - kind of like that vertical pig farm in china. not sure how productive that will be -- for the desk jockeys, not the pigs -- but worth a try i guess.

https://medium.com/halting-problem/open-office-floor-plans-g...
Bots have been improving a lot in recent years. It may be that the future is not multiplayer but single player with excellent bots... maybe Sliders got the end times wrong :)
Spend it.
Yes, I can’t say this enough but a really great way to preserve wealth in CA is to (1) buy an expensive home with a low interest 30 year fixed loan, (2) live in said home as long as possible so you can pay roughly the same tax you did when you purchased the home. After 10 years in the home there’s only downsides to moving.

I actually rented in SF from somebody whose grandparents bought the home I rented. The value of the 1800 sq/ft rental home was around $1.8m, but the landlord was paying property tax on the value of the home from when his grandparents bought the property in the 70’s. The tax bill should have been about $20k/year, but it was only a few thousand because the tax rate was locked into the value of the home in the 70’s. Meanwhile a neighbor bought a $3m home next door and was paying $35k in property tax. For me it meant I got a slight discount on rent.

The whole thing is absurd.
>With further development, we expect our new design for the lithium-air battery to also reach a record energy density of 1200 watt-hours per kilogram

"With further development". Somewhat misleading title. From the published paper:

>The results shown in fig. S9 indicate that this solid-state Li-air battery cell can work up to a capacity of ~10.4 mAh/cm2, resulting in a specific energy of ~685 Wh/kgcell.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq1347

Still impressive, but not 1200 Wh/kg!
Can you buy your own phone and chargeback after you receive and confirm it is indeed yours (jave original paperwork to show)? Get law enforcement involved if they fight?
I have come to see it as a sort of "Maslow's Hierarchy" for Data-needs
where the base is getting data and the top is producing "results".
Where in academia "results" is publishing papers in other industries it may be something else.

Somewhere between the top (glorious presentation) and bottom (no data) we can draw a fuzzy line that partitions the "glam stack" and the "drudge stack".

The more the reward structure is skewed toward the top,
the greater the incentive is to just cook the data.
You don't even have to own Apple stuff to be impacted.

"My phone's dead, can I borrow your charger?"

"Sorry, I have an iPhone."
Spring is coming up, the perfect time to re-watch Detectorists.
In general, people who learn a language later in life are far more prone to errors where the language has two or more words that all map to one word in their native language.

Chinese does not modify words--thus things like develop vs developer are going to be a problem. Likewise, they only have gender on family and on written pronouns--thus the problem with Chinese speakers being bad at gender.
Another reason to remove your bank details is one-time login codes. PayPal is testing a feature that lets users log in using a 6-digit code sent over SMS, bypassing both password and TOTP/hardware authenticator, and the feature can’t be disabled.

I refuse to use SMS as a second factor, so using it as the _only_ factor for what is effectively a bank account is absolutely batshit insane. They’ve completely lost their mind.

https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Managing-Account/How-do-...
A getter? If I write a cheat, I'm just reading bytes from the address of the honeypot in ram
> Even the good ones don't hold much heat and tend to warp,

They hold more heat than non-stick coated aluminum pans!

But yeah do they warp, I have an induction stovetop and my fancy carbon steel wok got warped after just a couple uses.
I already closed my PayPal because of this and other stuff.