skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% this. I book a decent amount of my leisure flights on Sapphire points only. Rebooking is trivial if you book directly with an airline, you can often do it within the app for that airline itself. Rebooking with Chase is often a 30-60 minute ordeal that can only be done over the phone involving 2-3 transfers. Often this is not even something that is your fault - the airline can rug pull the flight by changing the time or cancelling it, forcing you to undergo this ritual.
Labeling a comment “Toxic” is a good way to shut down interesting discussion.

The parent said:

> [international flights taken often] completely dwarfs any [CO2] savings I could reasonably expect to make.

What dwarfs CO2 savings isn’t so much an individual’s international flights, it’s an individual creating more individuals that create more individuals.

Your thirteen kids on a farm cooperative are likely to have and eat cows, which is plenty of tonnes of methane. Not to mention the number of children that 13 couples will produce afterward.

My 0 kids will require 0 cows and 0 methane.

Having children is important for the propagation of the human race and I want our race to be propagated.

But it makes no sense to lecture somebody about their greenhouse gas emissions while taking action that results in a thousand or a million more greenhouse gas.

If you believe having children is a net positive, go for it. I’m not lecturing you to avoid it.
I’m wondering if they will also do this with jazz, which has similar issues.
I don't understand what PayPal's justification here is.
Isn't 30 seconds a lot of time just to start a browser?
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> I have yet to see proof that airlines or hotels or car rental companies directly put out different prices to customers based on the device being used, or even anything else.

That's much less fair, but try this which explicitly states that airlines in the US set prices according to a customer’s personal information.

https://catalaconsulting.co.uk/why-hotel-personalized-pricin...

and note this source in particular:

https://www.duettocloud.com/press-releases/duetto-gamechange...

Companies are already prepared to sell this to hotels as a service:
https://blog.guestcentric.com/personalized-prices-the-next-s...
IMHO a voluntary reduction in human population by a few billion through reduced birth is a perfectly viable, sustainable long-term strategy; all the drawbacks and criticisms appear when someone wants to encourage that with various means (i.e. not fully voluntarily) or when it's posed as some solution to things which need a faster reduction than possible this way, e.g. climate change won't be prevented even if we went totally zero-birth for a decade but the current population kept the current emission rates.
> The claims that TikTok will become a covert Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda channel are similarly possible but hypothetical.

Isn't the claim the opposite ? tiktok china (douyin) is all about propaganda, education, tech, nationalism, success, &c. while the international version is dumb challenges, addictive content, memes &co

> Douyin vs TikTok also differs in terms of popular content. The most popular on Douyin is definitely educational content, with videos helping to improve skills and grow personally, while on Tik Tok the most popular is narrating videos, which is a great opportunity for artists, singers, and music producers. Therefore, global TikTok is more art-based, with musicians, dancers, and so on, while Douyin is skills and lifestyle-tips-based, with automatic voiceovers with no personal touch.

https://marketingtochina.com/differences-between-tiktok-and-...

> “It’s almost like they recognize that technology is influencing kids’ development, and they make their domestic version a spinach version of TikTok, while they ship the opium version to the rest of the world,” Tristan Harris, a former Google employee, and advocate for social media ethics, said of China’s approach to TikTok.

https://www.deseret.com/2022/11/24/23467181/difference-betwe...
The iOS implementation doesn't allow this. You have to add the app to your homescreen (i.e. "install" it) to allow it to even request permissions. This is actually for web apps.
They don't do this on Linux because there's no unified way to do it on Linux. It also happens on macOS if memory serves me right, but macOS makes it aggravating enough for people to usually disable it because of that (you can't do a silent application launch when logging in on macOS from what I can tell - sole exception being iTunesHelper on older versions - so any browser that sends push notifications opens a new window when you login to the computer, making it obvious and annoying).
> Do you find them useful for apps? Email?

No. I can check my email on my own time.

> Messaging apps?

Same. I can check my messages when I feel I have time to.

> Taxi apps notifying you when the taxi arrives?

Not really. Usually I can see when the taxi is arriving. (I almost never call a taxi anyways).

> Calendar?

Yes, that's the only case in my opinion when notifications are useful, otherwise I tend to forget meetings (not that all meetings are useful though).
A very significant fraction will be natural history specimens. A long time ago, I did the London Natural History Museum's MSc course in biodiversity. For one of the modules, in curation, we visited the museum's external storage site, a warehouse complex in southwest London. I barely have the language to describe the scale of the collections there except to say it was on an Indiana Jones 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' level and there were still vast unprocessed archives of material from biological expeditions dating back to the 1800s. There were entire slowly decomposing cetaceans in enormous metal chests, aisles of taxidermy zooming off to infinity, floors and floors of fossils, large to tiny. At the museum's main site the entomology collections alone have over 34 million items.
I am so happy someone else put a comment to this effect before I did. As a long-time lover of the Gibson novel Neuromancer, I got a lot of joy out of the article and I look forward to the day we learn that AI actually found ETI years ago, but hid it from us because it was an AI that convinced our AI to hide it from us. Life isn't science fiction of course, but still.
Weekly reminder to not associate vital business / personal accounts with PayPal. They can't be trusted with your finances.
Copyright violation? Copyright should not even exist in the first place. It's the 21st century. There should be nothing to "violate".
Another hidden penalty of some (but not all) GCs is that they can't handle interior pointers so anything that is addressable need to be separately allocated. So not only you have more allocations to track and more space and time overhead, you also add indirections where they are not needed.

Of course a Sufficiently Smart Compiler can remove the overhead, but well...
The git files aren't supposed to be seen by a human being.

What you're suggesting would mean that a Korean user saving a file on their desktop and naming it in Korean would in turn see the filename turn into garbage, which, I hope we can all agree, is not a reasonable suggestion.
> In your experience, how often do criminals come in and tell the guy behind the counter that they need gas to commit a crime? Be specific.

And do you think criminals come in and tell crypto exchanges that they are about to commit a crime? AML regulations do not apply to gas stations as they're not "money transmitters", it is that simple. I'm a bit surprised so many on HN don't seem to be aware of that. And luckily they don't, because those laws are immoral, ineffective and costly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34667051
> I like drag-to-side-to-go-halfscreen for window management and search-to-launch.

FWIW, KDE had both of these out of the box long before Windows 10. Sucks when you have to rely on some company that doesn't care about you for your desktop UX.
> There are two algorithms on Twitter - the "For you" stream of recommended tweets and stream of tweets from people you follow.

You should only be using the latter anyway if you are using Twitter, which is why I'm a little surprised he didn't make it so you had to pay $7 to use the better option versus the algorithmic/manipulative one.
I don't get the point. Does this imply that function signatures are to be trusted and bodies not? As I'm working on an implementation, I can't be sure I choose the correct input/output in functions, hence I can't decide that signatures are the final source of truth. I can get wrong both. Or it just means a "soft" precedence of signature over body? Sure, I read signatures first and deeper into function bodies later.
It's to be freer than china
That is exactly the premise of a pure functional programming language like Elm.

https://elm-lang.org/
But it is not at all admirable to post passive-aggressive comments like they did here.
> An app has much more control over your phone without your knowledge.

On iOS it doesn't. Apps are heavily sandboxed and most interactions outside the app require explicit user permission.
I'm really keen to dive into this however as someone knee deep in the ecosystem it's baffling that it doesn't have proper native integration with Apple TV/HomePod. You can Airplay with your phone as the source, but not with the receiving device being the source (which is typically a nicer and more reliable approach as some phone applications can interrupt the streamed audio).
We were talking about flights?
> Generally, bigger companies have too many of these people and you get a bit of analysis paralysis and too many captains on the ship type dynamics. I've seen this in multiple companies where the number of technical vs. non technical people got out of wack to the point where you have more non technical people obsessing about what the handful of technical people are actually supposed to do.

I have seen this happen many times ... I've just never seen it change. And once I asked THE captain, and he was pretty sure he was going to increase rather than decrease project managers and lower the amount of engineers.

I mean, clearly this is exactly how companies like it. Many people discussing, with as little actual real information as possible, what to do. Then they use heavy-handed tactics attempting to enforce it.

90% of time this doesn't work, because while people bend (and break), reality neither bends nor breaks. A lot of stuff just can't be done.

This was invariably solved by increasing management and all the kinds of project/program/... managers. Usually the more successful ones among them were the ones that were better at lying to higher up management. (and yes, usually by "not lying", but by redefining the project until it was done "successfully", half the time by destroying the actual work done and declaring the situation before the project started as the success management wanted)
and a solution still looking for and creating more problems.
Taking paternity leave in Japan is a giant PITA if you're living paycheck to paycheck. Because of how it's paid out I didn't see any money until I went back to work three months later. How are you meant to keep the lights on until then?
It's not the formal certification that's the problem - it's the actual breakage in very old code that everyone expects and nobody wants to deal with.
4G internet is set to arrive on the moon later this year
So it's a boring version of Mornington Crescent?
Do I want those apps to be slow, sluggish, non-native feeling web apps?
not open source? Why not?
> The problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's profanity filter prevented residents of the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England, from creating accounts with AOL, because the town's name contains the substring "cunt".[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
If you're worried about climate change, you should not spend your time and resources trying to reduce your own CO2 emissions, but instead, supporting and promoting regulations that force people like yosito to not being able to travel that much, so they will also forcibly start to reduce their footprint.
If you spot it in time. Plenty of people don't actually monitor their bank account all that closely. This is how lots of money gets stolen.
Bear in mind that the amount of people that are trans are hella tiny and the amount of people that are trans and de-transition are hella tiny of hella tiny. That Jorden Peterson decides to dedicate two entire videos to the subject implies a bit of a bias.
Another one bites the dust.

People, just don't use PayPal, Stripe and other "inovative" payment providers.
They are doing this since at least 10 years yet people never learn.
This is such a terrible business risk, why are their customers not fleeing them like clients fled SVB?
Turns out you can easily convert many cryptocurrencies into "real money" to pay for things like food and rent.
Negative equity capital simply means that on the Fed's balance sheet, equity (assets - liabilities) is negative. The Fed's operates on the same fundamental accounting principles as any other organization, so it has assets, liabilities, and equity ("book value"). Its total assets (such as government bonds) is actually slightly higher than its liabilities (e.g. the value of deposits by other banks), but not by much, so it's book value tends to be quite small.

The book value represents the net investment made by the owner of Federal Reserve banks.
I’ve run into this before - last year I was booking flights domestically in Peru paying in soles because it was half the price of booking in USD. I managed to get two of them booked but ended up having to pay the third via a travel agency in USD because the LATAM site simply stopped accepting my USA credit card. I can’t know whether it was some arbitrary security measure or whether their system caught on to me trying to game it and denied me because of it, but they denied both my USA credit card numbers as well as my debit cards.
Sure, this is what i do - i guess i would prefer https://youcanuse.com
Don't even get me started on the "Upload" dialog that can't remember that I want it to show dates and sort by them. It resets every time to the worst possible view - list, sorted alphabetically. So annoying. All other desktop OSes I've used got the upload windows remembering their settings, but not MacOS. Maybe the technology is just not there yet.
They actually want that data to exist and the USA companies to freely to give it to them when asked "nicely" without any warrant or oversight.

They might fear that Tik-Tok might apply some oversight to this process...
IMHO the core point is John Gruber equity, so it is basically a business promotion not an article: "Not only was my feedback warmly received, it begat a series of discussions that culminated in my gladly accepting a position as an official adviser to the company, in exchange for a small amount of equity. I’m happy to disclose this now, and will continue to disclose it when writing about Wavelength henceforth.".

The disclosure was made almost exactly in the middle of a long article. Not at the beginning.

Excuse me but gentlemen don't do that.
146%?

Any source on that? It would need to go from 20K to 50K.
It is because it's in their T&C's. And they fought tooth and nail for years to avoid being classified as a bank so the normal bank regulations and customer protections don't apply to them.
I did not claim it was secret, and you provide no explanation. The example you provide is 1985 Soviet economy, no coop names (for other readers).

I wanted to ask instead of assuming before making the following argument to the previous claims:

> You might be surprised to learn that companies still existed/exist under communism, with not a single investor around ;)

> Those were not actual companies that existed. They were just another part of the government with a different name.

> no, there were worker owned coops.

As I suspected, these "worker owned" cooperatives are completely dependent on the party (unlike current cooperatives). That is not my idea of "owning", since party members that are "workers" of the cooperative only in name would be deciding a lot of things in how the cooperative is run.

> Many cooperatives were vulnerable to exorbitant taxation by local officials, high interest rates on loans, and protection rackets run by criminals, the cost of which inevitably were passed onto consumers in the form of mark-ups. “Kooperativshchiki” (cooperative owners) thus became a term of abuse in ordinary Soviet speech.

So I agree with user nradov here: "Those were not actual companies that existed. They were just another part of the government with a different name. "

I must concede, at some point the lines can become blurred.
I’m quite fond of the Thai Lanna script visually: https://www.endangeredalphabets.net/alphabets/lanna-aka-tai-...
> 70% of bugs are memory-safety bugs

70% of security bugs.

Approximately 0% of bugs that I had to deal in my career are memory-safety bugs.

That doesn't mean it is not important to fix or avoid security bugs (it indeed is!), but you have to be clear what you are selling.
Remember oil companies came up with the concept of a carbon footprint

They want you focused inwards
systemd has been helpful in the way it has standardized service management

From where I sit, absolutely not. And it's brought over-complexity, and monolith design, and far far far more bugs than other options, as a result.

My point is, the only reason systemd is less 'contentious' these days, is because fewer and fewer know how stable, streamlined, and more functional systems were before it. Systemd won by Redhat (via Gnome hard requirements) forcing it into all distros, and now, by the fact that it is now a Linux standard.

NOTE: I had to counter the assume statement here. I can get people may have differing opinions, and that people may view systemd differently, but cannot sit by when someone just says "this has been helpful!".

It's been more harmful than helpful.
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> Instead, you appear to be enforcing in which arbitrary location to place ignore rules for debris, seemingly having spent considerable time implementing that, for entirely puritanical reasons.

They're "puritanical reasons" right until you have to migrate to a new version control system, at which point they're the rules that all migration tools enforce -- because those are usually written against the two VCS' specs and current implementations, rather than the myriad of alternate practices that software shops everywhere devise.

I've done migrations like these before -- while the parent poster may be doing all that for the wrong reasons (puritanism) they are absolutely right to do them.
and theverge is serving the CCP
Yes, an inadvertently great analogy.

Stopping doing something stupid that was bad for us (progress!) reframed as a sign of poverty and societal collapse from "the good old days".
Well something is needed. The alternative is:

1. Building apps with manual mutations (which is what we did before in the jQuery era). This involves a lot of boilerplate code, and it is hard to ensure that the UI state stays in sync with the app state properly.

2. Re-render the world on every state change. This works and allows you write simple code that is react-like in that it is pure transformation of app state into UI state, but it's slow and quickly runs into performance issues even in small apps.

1 still makes sense in the most performance sensitive scenarios. And 2 can work for the very simplest apps. But React and similar frameworks are great for everything in between.

> I don't see a whole lot of innovation from a computer science standpoint because the most complex js projects don't use it.

That seems silly. You could make the same argument for something like SQL. The most complex data manipulations won't use it. But it's still useful for the 90% that aren't that complex.
It doesn't deserve a generous interpretation; it began with a generalisation about a group of people and an unfounded assertion.
"spam (n): irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the internet to a large number of recipients."
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Did you ever created a simple arcade game?

There is indead still nothing, that beats flash in this regard.

And flash games were somewhat popular with users as well.
The entire browser shouldn’t have to run in the background just to receive push messages. If a browser really does that, that’s pretty bad.
I'm the only one who thinks w3schools bootcamp is expensive?¿
I mean wtff
Yeah, and then at some point of time the "time" input becomes a bit too large for "%" to give accurate results and the whole thing freezes and updates only once every ten seconds. Whoops!
India is not cheap if you want good engineers. Many folks I know (who are good, but not great) make more than what they’d make in UK or Canada. The US is the only other country that pays more. And the flux is just too much (though this likely is not the case in recent months).
All that says is there’s no such thing as utopia. They have problems like anyone else. Our society is full of sexual abuse, violence in the home, murder, suicide, drug addicts in the streets, valueless people, money obsession, loneliness, ignorance and stupidity, etc. Our institutions are corrupt in many ways, wealth is power, and we are just as hierarchal as any other organization because it’s unavoidable.

So I think it’s unfair to dismiss them because they have sexual abuse in their communities and have values other than education. They don’t want to change much but it’s not a conspiracy to maintain the hierarchy. It’s to maintain their way of life that they’ve found creates meaningful, stable, happy lives with authentic connections to each other. We lack this as a society so much that we have multi-billion dollar industries trying to bottle it up and sell it to our desperate people.

They don’t do everything right but they get a lot right.
Fiat currency owes its value to the threat of violence and/or loss of liberty? We are effectively bullied into buying into the system? And have little recourse but to comply?

Makes sense, but I do need to think about it.

That said, on the weekend I did listen to a podcast where at one point taxes were (indirectly) described as behaviour modification.

re: The right gov response...

In theory yes, but only if the system's purpose is to maximize the benefit to all. On the other hand, if the system's purpose is to tilt the game to favor the few then responses can take many forms, as long as they enforce the tilt. A simple graph of income inequality and wealth distribution tells us all we need to know.
For homeowners, I can’t imagine why anyone would have gotten an ARM when 30 year fixed were so low. The US standard mortgage only really exists because of government intervention and was a huge gift.

I mean, I know people did but it’s hard to figure out what they were thinking.

What SVB should have done was raise additional capital much earlier. Rates didn’t just start rising in the last year. Even if rates did start falling again they could do a dividend or stock buyback. We expect banks to be conservative.
Not really responding to your question, but one of my friend jokingly returned money to another friend with a bank transfer titled "for jihad". Needless to say, both banks were not amused. They both were "verified" on the phone and confirmed they are not, in fact, actually terrorists. I wonder how many people-years banks waste on pranks like this.
> There is a large and vocal community of “detransitioners”

The "large" part is arguably the attention given to them by conservative news organisations who are dying to put them on air, as their existence justifies their existing views without every having to pay attention to the numbers.