skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do we make money if nobody is willing to pay for apps…

App Store developers generated $1.1 trillion in total billings and sales in the App Store ecosystem in 2022.

Small developers on the App Store grew revenue by 71 percent over the past two years.

People are absolutely willing to pay for apps and in-app purchases.
Cash is still king in Germany, and it always weirds tourists out. Personally I think it's great, and just like you do much of my shopping in cash because I don't want my bank knowing everything about my diet etc.
_My_ flow, was the same flow shared by anyone else who used Firebase Dynamic Links, Adjust Links, and many others. I'm not alone in this.

There has to be a common sense compromise on this, like a revokable certificate for access without a prompt.

I completely reject your whole premise.
Yes, Stockholm syndrome is a toxic lie, a mix of mysoginy, covering up police incompetence and Swedish "holier-than-thou" attitude.

https://www.stadafa.com/2020/12/stockholm-syndrome-discredit...
Looks like this comment may have sold it
The margins on the beer and appetizers must be insane.
We have a 14 year junior engineer. She refuses to learn new tech, is difficult to work with, and makes a mean bowl of spaghetti code. She does it so quickly though and has so much institutional knowledge that it’s pretty much mandatory she stays.
Has Oppenheimer made Einstein into a bonafide sex symbol?
Huh? The patent system isn't for people to block anyone from using an invention for 20 years...

It's to protect the inventors while they license the technology.

If this works they'll be licensing the rights to use it to some massive companys... besides multiple Korean companies are already invested in it...

LK-99 would likely only be a first step... a brittle crystal doesn't make a great power line...
You can get a router and install OpenWRT[0] if you're concerned about the firmware. For commercial stuff without a custom firmware, there's no real telling without downloading its firmware yourself and going through it, and even then in many cases you're going to be unpacking a linux filesystem which may-or-may-not contain a backdoor in the clear. There will likely be proprietary blobs therein that you'd need to RE as well. That is a lot of effort, and that's assuming that the blobs are even available, full images, or not encrypted, which for many manufacturers many of those conditions are not met.

Then, I saw a post floating around this morning where you can build your own router from scratch. Interesting proposal... I think if you want true knowledge of whether or not something is back-doored, you'll need a lot lot lot of information on the provenance on everything in the thing :) which is a tall order.

[0] https://openwrt.org/supported_devices
The only other Slack alternative I found was actually better than Slack and not just a "sidegrade with different pricing and less integrations" was Flowdock - unfortunatley, now defunct.

It was all down to how Flowdock implemented threads. They did it better and long before Slack ever did; Slack's threads frankly kinda suck.

I've heard Zulip threads work really well but I've never had the chance to use it with a team that was willing to try something else.
That's an interesting idea. I'd keep it to a year to reduce the corruption chances. How would the "Here's $100k if you vote yes on passing this bill along" be detected though.

How can it be detected in our current system?
The truth is out there. But this UFO ‘whistleblower’ likely doesn’t have it
> David Grusch made a truly extraordinary claim. But it requires extraordinary evidence.

@see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898688
I went from being contacted once a day to once every two weeks. Market is definitely colder than it used to be. Much colder.

Part of me thinks it's gonna stay like that for some time, some of the weakest profiles may even have to change line of job entirely as the entry level got much higher.
I fully agree with your points. I’m not sure if it’s class or general inclination to travel etc. but I’m imagining if I went out with friends and peers at a conference, say, the horror at the idea people would have of going to a chain, including CCF, rather than some locally appropriate restaurant—even if a local chain.

But, yeah, most of my friends and people I travel with would think nothing of going to a Chinese restaurant and eating with chopsticks.

Not a judgement and we’d probably have a perfectly good time and dinner at a CCF but it would have pretty much a zero chance of happening.

I do find it interesting though how many people this simple observation seems to upset.
The documentary “Command and Control” [1] about the 1980 Damascus, AR, incident is more terrifying than any horror movie you will ever see.
[1] https://youtu.be/ZCPlm-mQ9Kk
Costco's profit was $2.7B when this was written. It was $6B over the last year.
You'd make Josephson Junction based microprocessors with superconductors (replacing the FET based CMOS architectures, and get rid of the silicon completely), and that might lead to a ~100x speed increase. And then the low power could enable integration in the third dimension, where you can stack active circuitry on top of each other, leading to another 10x in density. Right now semiconductors transistors are limited to living on the silicon substrate. There are efforts at doing silicon-on-insulator transistors, but heat dissipation has been a limiting factor.
Thanks for that link. Very interesting. The role of social media in making patients an "epistemic authority" and reversing the normal arrow or flow from doctors and scientists. I like that "long haulers" came from a patient truck driver's cap!
Early in my career I was an ace at learning just enough to talk the talk in an interview (I was playing the risky game that I'd have the chops to learn the skills when I needed them, which thankfully I always did)
Maybe your app just isn't worth the downsides of building an unaccountable, global surveillance panopticon. I'm sorry =/ If we destroy the panopticon, perhaps we can find new business models that aren't as destructive.
> iptables/nftables for firewall/NAT, dnsmasq/bind9 for dns, dnsmasq/isc-dhcp for DHCP.

or `vbash` in VyOS for all of those :/
You do bring good points, I was a bit too forceful with the language in my original message. "Most of the time" was probably better language to use.

In my experience shared infrastructure is less prone to breakage on reorgs because "platform" teams usually get the axe first as they are not directly delivering value (from upper management perspective at least)

IMO each team should maintain their own infra and tools and be free to choose what works best for them within reason, a few exceptions need to be made of course like having unified authorization and the like, infosec is usually better to be a separate team consulting to individual product teams, etc
The microbes that could protect grapevines from climate change
Which was exactly during the time she was being spied by US agencies[1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spie...
It won’t if we can’t even be bothered to delete cookies or use private mode in our normal browsers.
I call that industry "holistic agile" because it is to agile what holistic medicine is to medicine.
Something's off about this list. I can't find Brooklyn Syndrome on Wikipedia and think the description is confusing.

The main source I found on Brooklyn Syndrome is from the Names journal [0], which has a nearly identical description.

I wonder if this article is a direct copy of that journal article with lazy paraphrasing from the Atlas Obscura writers to avoid plagiarism. If so, this makes me wonder how much of Atlas Obscura was created this way.

[0]: (PDF) https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/2019/2018/40...
Try visiting this from incognito and clearing cache/cookies: https://fingerprint.com. This can't be legal, right?
The obvious answer is "don't." I just looked, and I've spent $250 on mobile apps this year. They are all mobile applications that do useful things for me, be it improvements to HomeKit or media creation tools--Affinity has me for like $150 by themselves this year!

If your mobile apps don't make money without invasive ad targeting, that's OK: others clearly can (see the sibling commenter), and we can get by with fewer mobile apps that don't when they are are presenting so thin a value proposition as to be unable to get users to pay for them through conventional means.

The "hard men / strong times" line in your profile (which, to be candid, is a pretty gross pretext for a lot of bad-actor politics, but you picked it not me) echoes deep here: there are plenty of endeavors that sell something people want enough to pay actual money for them, and you can always do that instead. I haven't worked for an ad-supported tech business since my first job out of college in 2010, and most of their business was actually in air travel and hotel bookings, the ads were tertiary. The jobs and the products exist.

Let's unleash the hot take cannon for a second: users basically don't need apps. Businesses do--and there's a ton of money in LOB mobile apps even--but almost every B2C mobile application I can think of is some form of luxury good. Making the case for a luxury good is harder than making one for one of self-evident value. Congratulations--you picked hard mode, and nobody is obligated to make it easier.

Optimize for making value to people who will pay for it, not virality or shareability, and perhaps you have a path to not needing to play with edgy patterns.
No it's not a clear line at all. In fact Lotus 1-2-3 was literally the direct predecessor from IBM in terms of everything but the brand name and some design choices.
Yeah, to me it seems like a skeevy browser for people without the IQ to use Firefox with good add-ons like uBlock Origin and not be put off by crypto integration.
This is exaggerated, we just hired someone and don't give these kinds of tests or expect this level of correctness.

I feel like this is fed by anxiety. I really doubt a large amount of ordinary companies have switched to FAANG leetcode + system design interview formats because of a downtown.
If there were opportunities for people with little education and skill it wouldn't be such a big problem
Junior is mostly related on the scale of responsibilities. Juniors take on tasks, middles on features, seniors are responsible for products, staff for a series of related products, and distinguished engineers are responsible for huge leaps in key core parts of the business.
It is $650 online. Holy cow!
They must show an identity card or passport when they cross the border into the Schengen area (or into Bulgaria, Cyprus or Ireland, the other non-Schengen states). Citizens of Schengen states must do the same when travelling to RO/BG/CY/IE.

In some places this is done efficiently — I'll bet Irish and Cypriot airports are fast — but at others, especially the land borders between Romania/Hungary and Bulgaria/Greece, there can be long queues.

Visas for foreigners are managed separately, so a Chinese tourist can take a holiday round Austria and Hungary on a single-entry Schengen visa, but will need an additional visa to enter Romania.
Primitive graphics accelerators are exactly why console games were much more advanced and fluid for a long time.

PCs staggered on thanks to much faster 32-bit CPUs, but they didn't really pull ahead until 3D cards became the norm towards the late 90s.
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What data do you collect that "driv[es] the experience forward"? How are we to know you aren't a bad actor?

People just want privacy. App developers are not entitled to every piece of information on a user. If I have sensitive information in my pasteboard, you're not entitled to it. I just want an app to serve a singular purpose then I want to close it and go about my day. I don't need an app to glean my personal info in order to show me ads.
The Zip Code Challenge: Response of the American Public
Self ref: One more that is highly extensible and fully open source (MIT): https://github.com/ppipada/vscode-flexigpt

With multiple ai providers, customizable prompts, select to ask, comment to ask, history saving, SO search, command line exec, etc.
what if the price is significantly increased rates of lymphoma amongst the human population?
Do you have skills outside of front-end?

I've said for years that heavy front-end development is a luxury. In down economies companies are looking to do more with less.
According to Wikipedia:

> He (Olsson) later got engaged to a woman who was not, despite what some state, one of the former hostages

that being said the other hostage taker, Olofsson:

> He went on to meet the hostage Kristin Enmark several times, and their families became friends.
>I have been diagnosed with ADHD this year. How do I best tell prospective employers I might need some accommodation in this process?

As someone who was diagnosed with ADHD a decade-and-a-half ago in my 20s: You don't. You don't even think about using your diagnosis as an excuse or a shield for behavior that is unacceptable. You never consider thinking that you deserve special treatment because you were diagnosed with ADHD. You accept that there are tradeoffs that come with it, some positive, some negative, and that you will have advantages in some areas and disadvantages in other areas and you don't let it define you or your behavior.
Oh wow, I’ve misread that for as long as it’s been there. It doesn’t look like a button, but tapping it scrolls the page down to age rating.
I haven't been on the "applying" side, but in my company we just had four replacement openings in the tech team (after more than 9 months without having a new hire) and to our suprise we received 5x times more applicants to all positions than we used to get one year ago, and salary expectations were at least 15% lower than in 2022.

We ended up hiring five devs on the same budget of the four original positions.

We are a data analysis and digital/mobile marketing survey startup located in São Paulo, Brazil. So at leat around here the job market is much different than the hiring craze of 2022.
No, just my memory of how to spell it being wrong!
One of them was expected to "die at her post" by a bank executive.

I wasn't a bank executive, it was the the social democratic prime minister Olof Palme.

During a phone call he asked one of the hostages: "wouldn′t it be nice to die at your post?"

https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/591659

(https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2021/03/the-murder-of-swedish-prim...)
Few companies do long-term testing which is why most fail
Sounds as if this could have been a Show HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
The article states that the swapped display ipads still allowed the pencil to work, they just had non-straight lines... This seems like the article stating it's a "lockdown" is simply not true. Seems like there's some per-display calibration that is not getting transfered between displays.

If they wanted to prevent you from using the Pencil, it seems like you wouldn't be able to use it at all. Not just use it poorly.
This is exactly what people were really talking about a few years ago on Reddit with the post about being in New York, but then eating at the Times Square Olive Garden.

Only a few blocks away is Bryant Park Grill. Prices at the two restaurants are surprisingly similar and both have over 500 seats. However, different people will enjoy their meal, or be uncomfortable or even offended at either one.

- https://bryantparkgrillnyc.com/

- https://www.olivegarden.com/locations/ny/new-york/nyc-times-...

It could also explain why Yelp restaurant reviews are so baffling. They need to figure out how to cluster reviewers by what “language” they’re actually speaking on restaurants.
In general, Sicily has a very tight economic and cultural bound with oranges and lemons. Citrus fruit are extremely difficult to grow where winter gets cold (that's why the richest in Europe had enormous rooms in which you moved whole trees during winter, called orangeries [0]) and Sicily was the lead world producer of oranges in a time when it was impossible to grow them systematically anywhere else. If you're Italian, the correlation Sicily - oranges is almost automatic.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangery
If I get pancakes, eggs, bacon, and toast, which of those was prepared off-site?
A Retrospective Look at ‘Independence Day’
Hear-hear for Flowdock. Been a decade and I still can't help but think of it when I bump into the latest annoying Slack-ism.
The suggestion in the other comment about OpenWRT is the way to go, but I will also suggest you can absolutely build your own router using a PC using OpenBSD or whatever you like. That's how it is done at scale.

Of course then you go down the rabbit hole of the ME/PSP is a backdoor independent CPU and OS.. except you're reading this on a machine using it.. so..

Don't worry too much about it. OpenWRT or a PC you put together.
If a repo has been repacked, that turns it into actual deltas. ctrl-f "git" on this page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_encoding

I value good mental models. What behavior did the difference between fake and real deltas explain?
They use the RT1 data which is (if I remember correctly) 11 month of data using like 6 research engineers sitting everyday, remote controlling the robot. They might even use ROSIE data which is data-augmentation using Stable-diffusion inpainting.

And for that they can do mobile manipulation, which have been possible for a long while (as long as we know ground-truth of object location, and have a some-what consistent map. Although the latter is solved with SLAM). it is way, way more versatile (if their claims are correct) so this is cool result.

as for sim2real, that's a whole different set of issue.... Simulator have come a long way, but from last time I talked with team-lead of Mujoco sim, it seems like completely realistic ones (at a reasonable compute time) is still far away. Deform-able objects are hard to simulate

My point is just that the "reasoning" you mention have a limit;[1] there's no amount of reasoning with language that can zero-shot a robot to do gymnastics or ride a bide. I'd be more than happy to be proven wrong on this point though, then my line of research is not dead-end =)

[1] https://youtu.be/x10964w00zk
So let's say I store a UUID in UserDefaults - I know on any app install on another device or delete and reinstall I lose track of that ID. In my mind, I'm using this just as an 'App Session' marker to keep track of how many 'events' a typical user goes through in the app.

Is that considered fingerprinting? I really don't care who it is, I'm just trying to make sure the features I'm building are actually being used.
Have you ever tried the wavy one? I'm curious to hear from a first hand experience
This is the "workaround" now that websites aren't given free range access to your cookie jar. They make a unique identifier out of a range of info like OS, browser, screen size, whatever seemingly harmless info they can get.
> which is worse: not getting cash into the economy or having to try to claw back fraudulent dispersals? There isn’t an easy answer to this.

There is an easy answer to this that was obvious from the start. Give people money instead of businesses. You can get a great estimate of which people need how much from the tax returns. This is going to relieve most problems.

There are other problems, like rents that have to be paid even if there are no employees, but you can address that directly instead of giving free money to people buying lambos.
> _My_ flow, was the same flow shared by anyone else who used Firebase Dynamic Links, Adjust Links, and many others. I'm not alone in this.

No, you're not. And that's good. It's a bad pattern! It's a bad pattern whether one app or a million use it.

> There has to be a common sense compromise on this, like a revokable certificate for access without a prompt.

You seem to think this is the extreme position, and it's not. The extreme position is "you cannot access the pasteboard directly, at all, under any circumstances, and only user-triggered actions through OS-served and unintermediated controls can do so."

You have your compromise already: "ask for permission and be sufficiently clear about why you want it to get people to say yes".

> I completely reject your whole premise.

That's fine. Apple doesn't. That's why I like them. You started this thread with what sounded like a reasonable objection, but you've kept digging to the point where it sounds like you're kind of the reason they're doing it.
> 10 year career veteran

A 10 year career does not make you a veteran..
But how would room temperature superconductors over a lead-based material like LK-99 lead to any of this?
> worth more to me than 4 cents/gallon off on gasoline.

The stores are getting wiser about this. My local Fred Meyer (a Kroger brand now) has a fuel rewards program -- for every $100 you spend, you get 10 cents off per gallon on your next fillup. Given how expensive groceries are, a lot of people are saving more like 50 cents per gallon, not 4.

They've also started doing instant discounts at the register, which was something that Safeway aggressively did from the beginning. FM isn't quite that aggressive yet, but when I scan the shopper card just before paying, it isn't unusual for it to knock $20-30 off a $150 purchase.

If it really were just 4 cents a gallon, I expect less people would bother. But it's not. The stores are steadily increasing the penalty for shopping without a loyalty card.
You can set up same limits via systemd units as they are using same interfaces as containers. They can be set up via systemd overrides to existing services so they are pretty straightforward

Just be beware of same problems like swap trap (limiting only memory and not memory and swap will just make apps hitting the memory limit start to swap like hell)
Fibers in yoga pants may burn your skin in an MRI
Single-Cycle and Multicycle Do Not Describe Processor Performance
> Cypherpunk-styled creations — think of Bitcoin, PGP, Tor, and WikiLeaks—were to be transformative because they challenge authority and address basic freedoms: freedom of speech, movement, and economic engagement.

I know it's not a widely accepted view on HN but you shouldn't downvote just because you hate cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin and Ethereum (Ethereum which has switched to proof-of-stake, now consuming a negligible amount of energy) are actually two semi-successes of the cypherpunks. They were created as challenges to authority and released as free for anyone to use.

What happened next is open for discussion but I don't think the intentions were bad.
Unspecified initial cost then 12% of first year salary (RSU unspecified) on success. Think I'd better off hiring a PA but still nice to see new approaches to hiring.