skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Market decisions don’t do anything to prevent the tragedy of the commons - is the general answer. I have mixed opinions on this specific case, but I absolutely see how this could make things worse. If everyone starts releasing their own versions, and not offering the apps in the App Store anymore, than the people who prefer the walled garden (for which there are good reasons to want) then they lose that choice. It’s possible that doesn’t happen - and allowing people that don’t want the walled garden should also have that choice, but you can’t simply boil this complex question down to “free market”. It’s intellectually dishonest, at best.
I see this argument often, but I'm genuinely curious if it's actually the case - at least in my experience, a huge amount of apps nowadays have custom-designed UIs and very little conformance to "platform UI conventions". And that's even an expectation - if you see an app that uses standard UI controls, navigation etc - it comes off as basic and probably not really polished. I might be completely wrong.

On the other side, if users want standard UI and that's a factor in adoption, wouldn't people making PWAs then just make the apps in such a way - there's nothing stopping them, and there's no lack of UI libraries enabling that.
They continue to restrict it because look at how much trash was (is?) on the Android store; they restricted it even more in the early days because of the torrent of low effort fart / gag apps.
I’m not sure I understand your argument. If you’re suggesting that illustrating by hand requires more effort than automatically generating an image with AI, then we agree with each other.
> Nationalized properties are not the only litigation targets over anything Cuban, because the government from 1959 to the date took a lot of loans that didn't repay. The international legal system would find ways to ask for that money back to any future government, corporation, or individual living in the island

That would indeed turn it into Haiti, just as Haiti was made to pay for expropriated property (human beings): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti_indemnity_controversy

If the world, or more specifically the US, wants a free and democratic Cuba, it's going to have to agree to a blank slate and not try to take back the pound of flesh. "Come back to the international order, we'll impoverish you for generations" is not a tempting offer.
"Serbia very definitely started the Yugoslav war of fragmentation and its associated genocides."

How? As far as I know, it was Slovenia that separated first, followed by other republics. Serbia was the only one who wanted to keep Yugoslavia united.

But I knew this forum was dominated by brainwashed people when it comes to the civil war in Yugoslavia, even before making this comment.
And enabling this also allows Apple to collect the data from you to "improve the service". So Apple will now have more data on you.
I doubt a majority of users want side loading. It’s available on Android and very few (relatively speaking) take advantage of that feature.
It is already annoying enough without Apple needing to do anything.
You are (usually) buying a perpetual licence which is revocable, not renting a licence, so the language is correct.

Common usage of the word 'buy' also applies here - the term 'rent' would be confusing to a customer and would usually imply it being time-limited (often days).
If you want to continue to browse this website, please download MetaBrowse from the Meta Store.
JSON still wins because everything already has a JSON parser.
Average person does not know what they want. They don’t know how technology works.

They don’t even see difference between PWA and apps.

If everything becomes PWA, there is no transparency for the apps. No indication what data they collect. No control for the quality of the apps.
No moderation over malicious apps.

PWAs need more permissions to provide the functionality people need, it is not just website.
Movie Company Exposes 150 Alleged BitTorrent Pirates Using DMCA Shortcut
Show HN: I was frustrated with pricing of PagerDuty et al., so made one myself
When Cleopatra was alive, she wasn’t categorised by the colour of her skin
Yeah, if I'm buying a revocable license, the language should be "renting". It's not the same as having ownership over the thing I'm licensing.
Well unless there‘s a closed loop co2 - soy - animal - co2/methane - co2. Meat production will involve fossil fuels tho.
It takes up space for no good reason, especially if you want to use multiple numbers.
> how would that be harder than it is with the parts of Eastern Canada and quite giant portion of Northern and Northwestern Mexico, including over a quarter of its west coast, that actually was “swapped into” the United States?

Territories. Not substantial foreign populations. Hence the parentheticals.
Keyv: Simple key-value storage with support for multi-back end support
Yeah, the whole mainland full of Chinese people sure is a minority when compared to one tiny island. Those people aren't real Chinese, the Taiwanese are! /s

Also
"Sample size in April 19, 2022: 1071"

Bullshit.
> Since then we've had a decline in nuclear power and enormous growth in renewables.

The only reason we've had decline in nuclear is politics. That's why now Germany is busy burning coal and importing electricity.

> Unit economics prevailed before and theyll prevail again.

Wishful thinking is no substitute for reality. Where are the calculations? That include both the need to ridiculously overbuild renewables and the need for the so-far-nonexistent grid scale storage?
> The once-great Buran space shuttles lie derelict in Kazakhstan and Russia (not even in a museum!).

Buran was developed under the impression that the Shuttle would have a primarily military use, to place weapons in orbit, and so was made for a similar sort of imagined mission.

The Shuttle just didn't get used the way the US hoped to use it at the start, and ended up wasting a lot of resources and money. It made a lot of sense to cancel Buran then.

But yes, the remains of the program could have used better treatment. One of the models was used as a roof for a bicycle rental at a public park in Moscow. So at least you could see that very easily.

https://i0.wp.com/www.travelsinorbit.com/wp-content/uploads/...

https://i0.wp.com/www.travelsinorbit.com/wp-content/uploads/...

> Investment in nuclear power has collapsed as projects like this show (and Germany's recent decision to shut down all nuclear power plants).

Investment in nuclear made a lot of sense back when countries wanted lots of nuclear missiles. As far as peaceful applications go, nuclear just doesn't compete on price. I think the tech is very cool, but nobody is going to spend tens of billions just for the sake of cool.
Look at the supported wearables for GadgetBridge

https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge

FOSS, doesn't have network permissions, can export data or interface with other apps
Now you’re saying that—I as somebody that very much appreciates the advantages my…for instance…Apple Silicon MacBook Pro has over a ThinkPad running Ubuntu—should not have the right to purchase the product I like because of your ideology dictating arbitrary restrictions over what’s on the market.

Don’t conflate user freedom with just…being salty that not every product is for you.
I compiled it myself. It’s not signed as far as I know. I didn’t disable anything…
> Do you have any evidence backing this idea?

First search in Google.

https://source.sheridancollege.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

Also, from my own discussion over the years with different people, security topic popped up only when iOS fans tried to diss Android users.
For years Google been stamping "standards" one after another even though other browser vendors were against many of them and they end up being Chrome-only.

No matter what Apple itself does Safari being major non-Chromium browser helps Firefox a lot just by existing and having huge marketshare.
This whole article illustrates a huge benefit of solar over nuclear: if you deploy 90% of the required solar panels, you get 90% of the energy, while if you build 90% of a nuclear plant, you get nothing. The power of incremental deployment.
I read it more as jeering at private companies who promise the world and deliver a fraction of the product with price-gouging tactics.

Somewhere in there is an innovation that might do a public good, but most people are realising that corporations don't do public good. They do what they want.

If it was a government entity that tried and failed to reach for the stars, I think there'd be jeering too ("there go my tax dollars") but a large portion of the scientific community would be happy with the result.
Yeah. I use a lot of linear regulators. And they have even more advantages. For example, they are simple. They do exactly what you think they do. They don't leak. They don't create noise. They convert voltage right away and you don't need to wait for it to stabilise. And they have simple failure modes. You just throw in one part and it magically converts voltages. What simpler thing you would really want?

In most realistic designs you put multiple power supply rails in your designs because you need a lot of parts that don't need a lot of power but have different voltage requirements or might need voltage offset. In those cases linear regulators are perfect solution.

More than that, those power supply rails usually have standard voltages and there exist standard linear regulators that output those voltages to make everything even easier.

My strategy is to use linear regulators default and only use anything more complex on those voltage rails where I need to step the voltage up or where the inefficiencies would affect my design's performance significantly enough for me to care.

Oh, and use voltage dividers if you want to convert signal levels (unless it is fast signal and you care about signal integrity).
Well if you are buying something, of course the language can be "buy".

And you do have ownership of the licence.
> It's kind of really, really important how high that "steady level" is and how fast we'd reach it though, no?

(Update: In hindsight I'm not sure you were talking about methane emissions in general or about methane from meat production. Here, I'm focussing on the latter. Meanwhile, fossil methane is of course a huge problem.)

As for the second part of your question: When it comes to meat production, we have already reached the steady state.

As for the first part: Yes. But it is not that high. Let's say the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere due to cattle (and rice and other types of agriculture) account for a fraction X of the world's yearly emissions. (In Germany, for instance, X = 0.06, i.e. 6%.) Let's assume for simplicity the remaining emissions are exclusively due to fossil fuels and all emissions are the same every year. Let Y be the fraction of agricultural emissions relative to fossil emissions, i.e. Y = X/(1-X). (= 6.4% for Germany)

Then, after N years, the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere due to agriculture, relative to the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere due to fossil fuels (burned during that timeframe) will be Y/N. This is because agricultural greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will stay constant – because we're in a steady state – but greenhouse gases due to fossil fuels will keep on accumulating.

Putting e.g. N=20 yields Y/N = 0.3% (for Germany). N=100 yields 0.06%.

In short, the amount is negligible. Fossil fuels are a real problem when it comes to climate change, agriculture is not.
then fish is maybe not for you for now. i like fish exactly because it broke out of the limitations imposed by POSIX. in my view, POSIX should have never even gone as far as specifying any kind of shell syntax. imagine what we'd do if it had gone even as far as specifying programming languages. that stuff just doesn't belong there.

compatibility should be limited to interoperability. but it should not limit how we can design our tools.

and the tools do adapt. more and more of them work just fine with fish. maybe some day in the future your tools will work with fish too.

I spend half a day trying to export my two decades of bash/zsh customizations

don't. if you switch to fish, you should not want/need those customizations, because if you want to make fish look or work like your old shell, why are you even switching? you are learning a new environment with new features. get used to fish as it is first. after a while you may discover fish's own customization options, and the many tools that provide customizations across multiple shells. your own handcoded adaptions are probably not even portable to any other shell.

Reinventing the whole wheel to make it look exactly the way you want, while disregarding compatibility with everything that already exists, is probably the biggest violation of the UNIX philosophy

fish is not reinventing the wheel. it is creating new wheels with features that we never had before.

the popularity of fish just shows that this incompatibility is not a problem to many. if it were, fish would be dead by now. other shells are gaining ground that also break compatibility and maybe we'll find a future where these compatibility issues are not issues anymore because we will have learned to build environments that don't depend on that compatibility.
I agree, eventual consistency is many times an UX/CX problem
>Everyone in America is immeasurably better off than the median in some countries.

1. This is not a logical argument - it is a red herring combined with whataboutism (forget American gini! whatabout global gini?!).

2. If you take into account that they have to pay rent in America, go to college in America and pay for medical care in America the median American may live in the richest country in the world but that doesn't make them the richest median citizens. Not even close.

>Are you under the impression it’s not?

Of course. I'm not the one playing dumb for political effect here.

>It would push down inequality ... to cut cheques to the poorest rural Americans. That’s obviously not what was wanted by those protesters.

No, it is. And the US establishment violently crushed the protest precisely because this is the furthest thing from their preferred outcome.

I'm guessing you approved?
Yep, you can probably dig up some Victorian era writings of the same nature raging against whatever was new then. People not liking change and projecting their irrational fears is nothing new. They'll spell all sorts of negative outcomes, most of which never come even close to happening. Some of the Victorian age writings on this are quite hilarious to read in the modern day because of how ludicrously wrong and cringe worthy they were. The shelf life of these articles isn't very good.

AI is providing us with new tools. That's all. And there are lots of people that will use those tools in all sorts of ways. Some interesting, some misguided, some dangerous, but mostly mundane things. Some people will be more skilled using tools than others. Or have better access.

I had an interesting conversation with a friend whose kids are in college and are adapting to having chat gpt available. It's great. They are using it for all sorts of things. AI won't replace us. The next generation using it will. They'll be more familiar and comfortable with it. They'll have never known a world without it. They won't get hung up on the past. And they'll move us aside without much thought. This happens every generation.
There are multiple companies like Airalo offering pre-paid $5-15 eSIM cards for most countries in the world. They also offer continental and global eSIM working in multiple countries if you are moving a lot. The offering is a lot better than what you find at the border and you don’t have to get your passport scanned by a random person. Most backpackers I know switched a long time ago.

It’s actually the scenario that finally convinced me that eSIM was a good idea.
Sure it's interesting! Maybe a bit much to load on beginners though? Maybe the author can say.
That's nice, but Cloudflare seems to be missing the point.

No consumer is going to say "oh, now that you've provided me such a streamlined tracking consent experience, I'll give you consent to track me across sites to show me personalized ads". They'll just click the "reject all" option you're legally compelled to give them.

Also, the example includes a consent option for anonimized pageview counts data, which under GDPR you don't need consent for.

An approach that would really respect user would be to store traffic analytics anonymously (in a way that resists trivial de-anonimization, so with binning and stuff), and throw away the rest. There, no consent popup needed.
Fact of the matter is that bribery is common in many places, and, yes, often those places are poorer countries.

Regardless, I think your judgment of the author is a little harsh. They even acknowledge and question their assumed superiority in the very next paragraph, which I think is refreshingly honest:

> Of course, it was equally possible that the guard simply wouldn’t accept a bribe on moral grounds – and as we walked back to the car, I wondered whether it said more about me or about him, that this possibility only came as an afterthought.
Recent example: https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-suspends-chinas-pi... Malicious app in alternative store, the one in Google Play is different.
> Not for people of Donetsk.

It was 100% right thing to for the people of Donetsk, who got invaded by Russian forces in 2014.

> I am not that good of a legal expert to track each and every treaty, but I doubt that there was an agreement formulated exactly like that. For example the Budapest Memorandum article 3 was technically broken when Europe and the US were fast to support a coup in Ukraine.

So because the US / Europe broke the Budapest Memorandum the Russians can also break every single part of it because they feel like it?.
Chrome is also one app, what's your point though? That Google will come up with more favorable app store on iOS? Hardly unlikely, given how much inertia people have.
When I bought my phone last year at a carrier store, they really, really pushed me to get a physical SIM card. I asked them why they wanted me to install a physical SIM they told me I’ll get higher data speeds.
- tobacco is a vile habit
- developers belong in offices
- unreachable is the default OoO state
I taught at my local CC and it was a blast. I was relatively young at the time and more than a few of my students were older than me, so I probably learned a lot more than they did.

I think HR (and frankly PR) departments would be very smart to connect themselves with schools in their area for tutoring or teaching at any level.
If Apple's social media team is hiring, you should apply - this is exactly the irritating kind of replies I get when I criticise some Apple product. :)
This paper does not show that being closed was negative to the success of the iphone.

It does mention that "perceived security" was a factor.
> you deploy 90% of the required solar panels, you get 90% of the energy

No. You get 0% to 90% of energy.

E.g., right now in Germany solar is at 22% of its capacity. Wind is at 11%
F these guys. It's the start of Text spam, after that pretty much we will be seeing ads 25/8 nonstop. This is how the apocalypse happens.
> That means if you do, say or compete with something that Microsoft or Apple doesn't like, they can prevent your apps from running on their platforms.

Are there examples of Microsoft actually doing that?

Ability to prevent known malware from being run in the majority of PCs after detection seems like a useful feature from the Internet health point of view.
Never had a problem with hover.com
I would like to point that duolingo is not only a great tool to learn languages - coupled with other stuff, but it's also a great tool to re-study languages you learnt and you forgot ! Then you already know the grammar, the pronunciation, etc. You used to be able to read books, but you can't anymore. There I found duolingo to be especially useful.
It'll probably depend on where you live, what type of person you are, and what communities you're a part of; teenagers will see them a lot different from tech bros; others get really excited when seeing a new model. I mean the first people with smartwatches or Google Glasses were the center of attention (positive or negative) for a while.

In my own communities (work), I'm one of the few with an iphone, most have Android.
That's a problem of having a single app store everyone has to go through. Why would you care about a thousand fart apps existing as PWAs online? They wouldn't affect you at all.
I would say that Britain (maritime power) has been playing off European continental countries against each other, certainly up to WWI.

The U.S. still does this. Now the Eastern European countries are used as a wedge against the Western ones. Pipelines are blown up, which is not supportive.
> The classic multiplication algorithm is completely mechanistic. You just need to learn the multiplication table and then even a trained monkey can do it.

So's the 'Common Core' one though? (I didn't go to school in the US, learnt both ways in the UK before 2010.)

The difference is it requires some addition, vs. 'long multiplication' requires some carry. I would always prefer addition personally, assuming I'm doing it in my head. And frankly if I'm not doing it in my head then I'm typing it into a calculator, not writing it out.
Dhall is the most interesting alternative because it can be compiled to JSON easily
Only when various performance metrics are not important enough to consider alternatives.
I use ActivityLog2 which also reads FIT files.

https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2/releases
Social media is underdefined buzz word. Anything is social media. Nothing is social media. Is sitting on the toilet reading messages while taking a shit the next big thing? My bowels seem to think so, and one startup agrees!
The main strategy for Microsoft is slightly different IMO - It's to use GPT-4 to make their products even better.
How do you run scripts in bash while using fish as your shell?
This has not happened on Android and it will not happen on iOS.
Np, I'm apparently equally bad at spotting it :)
If I'm buying Bastion, the language currently on Steam isn't "buy a license to Bastion", it's "buy Bastion". That's misleading if what I'm actually buying is the license.
We aren’t overcomplicating the issue. The premise of this question is wrong, and you like it because it has a very obvious “winning side”, which happens to be the “side” that you’re on.
iTerm's session restoration. It just works, without manually saving or anything. Saved me tons of time from reboots or crashes.
Same, lol; that really is the only unique selling point for me at the moment. Although I'm sure there's a lot of subtle things (performance, font rendering, tabs, etc) that do it for me as well.
Release LXQt 1.3.0
Oops, of course that is what I meant
Everyone should help get this guy to fuck you money levels throigh his patreon https://www.patreon.com/inigoquilez
That's like the least interesting feature from Dhall, and also probably one of the most common features of any new format. Not sure I could mention any even semi-popular format that cannot easily be converted to JSON.
There’s still a massive leap in logic that you aren’t including in your comment. It sounds like you should check your priors.
"Just got back from Taipei. Don’t think anyone there sees our committing to defending their homeland as sacrificing them."

They don't have to see it that way. In fact, it's much better that they don't.

Easier to sacrifice them when it's convenient.
Ouch. That was sharp.
Distribution is centralized and Apple can end distribution if the app gets reported and add the malware to their malware scanning.

While possible, it should be more rare. When working on massive platforms it is typically the goal to minimize metrics like malware installs as opposed to trying to make them 0. The relative probabilities are important.