skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minor question: Why not use the PWA using a different browser engine? Since it’s in its own window anyway. I hear Safari is gaining them this year though I never touch Safari. Edge has it, and Chromium probably does right?

I wholly agree however, that mixing music and podcasts in one app is stupid though!

If by any chance you’re an Apple person, I’d recommend Overcast. It’s a measly $10 or so per year for ad-free but really, anything free is going to either have ads or be tied to some annoying larger monetization strategy like Apple or Google have. So I don’t think it’s worth putting “free” in your criteria.
Like on a possible iOS future, “don’t support what you don’t want to support”. You have the choice. Unlike current iOS, where some boogie-man chose for you.
I decided to change my preferences and it worked. It's simply evidentially true.
Once I figured eBay out, it's about 90% eBay, 5% Amazon, 5% other.

Amazon does a great job of making it appear that they are the best option to shop at. But they really aren't. Even with Prime Free Shipping, if you search eBay correctly - the prices are likely better there.

I know what some are probably thinking, eBay is full of scammers and knockoffs etc. That's not really accurate. Especially when you figure out how to use it correctly.

eBay policies are designed to protect the buyer. If the item doesn't arrive, you're getting a refund. Every. Single. Time. If you're unhappy with the item: tell the seller. Most will make it right for fear of negative feedback, and knowing they'll lose the INAD. INAD? If the seller wont fix it, file an Item Not As Described claim. You will win and they'll be forced to either refund you or accept a return.
Ask HN: What Is the Future of Rails?
we have built a huge rails app

we have seen our contemporaries build software across different industries, and with different technologies. react, javascript and microservices, multiple layers of complexity, k8s, and shit.

rails has allowed our hivemind to test a whole bucket full of risky assumptions quickly. i wouldn't even know where to begin if i were to start with something new

i got my start hacking on wordpress and made it do a whole ton of things it was never designed to do. then i learned rails and it helped me understand ruby, which is such a cool and fun language.

perhaps tools don't matter as much as the value or outcomes you can create. ruby and rails have worked for me but i dunno if i was getting started now if i would have ever considered starting with rails.

what is the inevitable of rubists and rails folk? with AI writing code and shit, is there a future where it makes sense to continue to learn rails? who knows? why do anything???? thanks

have i plateaued? how does rails die?
> were all very happy to use wix even though it cost the jobs of legions of developers.

What?
Fedora mostly works out of the box on my 2015 MBP
At that point, I imagine the overhead will motivate that bounds checks may as well be enabled as the alternative.
They seem to grow randomly throughout the body.

/s
The main problem with AI at present is it has no 'explain yourself' mode. That's what I was referring to.
> Zooming out a bit, local communities of people who practice virtuous habits are an indispensable cornerstone of society

That's a pretty big claim, and I'm the kind of person that tends to challenge almost everything ... but heck, I have to admit that I largely agree. Well said.

I've lived many places, and the lived experience in some particular places, in some particular ways, just works better. It often has to do with most people being both trusting and trustworthy.

I would add that _locality_ isn't only about spatial dimensions. Some online communities have high degrees of locality, in a sense.

> for by them we gain agency to desire and do what is virtuous.

Again, at first I was going to push back on how you used 'agency' here, but I think I see what you probably mean: being in a better environment _helps_ an individual to choose from a better set of options, allowing them to be the best version of themself.
>Competition is always good for the consumers.

So lets have a walled-garden OS compete with a sideloading-enabled/free-for-all/anything goes OS.

But no, instead they have to break a good thing.

Now every idiotic company like Adobe will demand their own installers, and updaters, and background processes that you can't turn off, and piss all over the iOS, like they do on the macOS.

And let's not get started onto forced sideloaded Facebook (or having to make do without), and such, with all the tracking mechanisms dialed up to 11.

Or Chrome getting closer to total dominance and Google having its way with the web.
> What I don't understand is why some people defend it,

Have you tried to understand it? It is pretty clear to me. People like not having to worry about malware, tracking, etc.
It's sad, I think there's a negative feedback loop of, supermarkets only selling the most common produce, and people only learning recipes that use the produce supermarkets sell.
What's the alternative?

Nationalize all online selling, and have a central pricing authority?

Where does one draw the line, with an interest in not taking it to the extreme?
This same argument can be used to block any action, forever. We have to start somewhere, and here is good enough.
Is what explicitly the case? The PDF for the allegations of this case are in the link. No mention of AWS.
Please purchase 30,000 copies of the paperback -- at a nickel royalty per book, it'll help with my kids' tuition this month.
Making it a really technically hard problem is great news for Facebook and Google. They will happily hire software engineers that do the best possible job of detecting who a user is, using machine learning and all sorts of other tricks. And then sell this functionality (either explicitly or implicitly) to developers that use their ad platforms.
i use GLM with my own hand-crafted features based on my knowledge of the business and the things that influence it. Works very very well
The person you are responding to was saying that dropshippers are being eaten because the products they are selling lack innovation.

For example, Amazon cannot swoop in and sell a cheaper Amazon Basics version of a product to which you own a critical patent.
I have found the physical act of writing, and this is borne out by research, helps me retain what I have just taken down.
Shit happens, while unfortunate it does not substantially affect their long term prospects.
No, FreeBSD Update only does the base system. For packages I believe the relevant command is `pkg check -sa`.
They fall under general sales tax not a specific punitive tax for what they are.
And yet somehow Apple hasn't managed to lobby this away, despite having more cash on hand than either Facebook or Google.
Is this a billboard for Capital in the whole Capital vs Labor debate?

“Laborers fret not, you’ve been liberated from your job actually, and I sure hope you bought securities!”
Spotify thinks if they can get you into Podcasts, which they don’t have to pay a dime for, it will improve their bottom line, since you (probably) can’t simultaneously listen to music that they do have to pay for. Kind of a funny motivation to enter the podcast market, but probably a good business move, as awkward and annoying, and seemingly irrelevant to their brand and core competency as it is.
The transfer of image data only happens when we yield inside the engine which only occurs when you hit a breakpoint in script. Otherwise we're just rendering to the OffscreenCanvas and letting the normal flow blit it to the screen (not doing any copying).

I just did some profiling on Firefox and I feel like the profiling result doesn't quite make sense but it's saying that the majority of time is spent calling Performance.now() from the clock calls in C++. I'm wondering if that's because we're calling it too many times and maybe we should just call it once per frame.
I'm not the guy working on ordering, it's this guy https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TheEzEzz.

Nix sounds good for duplicating my setup on other machines I control. But I'd like a way to install it on user machines, users who probably don't want to install Nix just for my thing. Nix probably doesn't have a way to make self contained packages, right?
shouldn't you be #FIRE and living the #VANLIFE by then?
or robots fixing robots, and all our other things while they are at it
It's difficult for bugs to gnaw on solid wood, too. Termites still cause billions in damages a year.
Very, interesting
Why would anyone who wants to abuse me put anything on the official AppStore?
HN is not a news aggregation site. It's a site for intellectual curiosity.
Millenial (mid)... and know even Gen Xers and Boomers who would upgrade for new emoji.

OS to many consumers (and consumer extends even to web developers/data scientists) means graphical shell.
https://archive.ph/Bqglw
Yeah it still is unfortunately. Also good question.
European Commission – Statement on Code of Practice on Disinformation
Apple Iphone, airpods, ipad, macbook. Google search. Coke. Boeing. Caterpillar. Goldman Sachs. AirBnB. Exxon. AutoDesk. BlackRock. CME. Costco. JP Morgan Chase. Mastercard, Visa, Nike, TSMC and a thousand others.

They started out as a retailer, and opened up a bunch of their infrastructure to competitors. The idea that they'd make it easy for competitors using their infrastructure to beat them makes zero sense.
Why don't you move to mexico? It's about the same level of nonsense question.
> It went from 10% to 20% - which seems significant, your $500 shotgun now costs $600

I think you mean $550 to $600, since there was a 10% tax before.
(involuntary laughter) well played
I think you're technically correct, but "low" and "high" are often just used as shorthand for "what temperature it will be in the morning" and "what temperature it will be in the afternoon," respectively. A weather app may just be reporting the expected temperature at 8 AM and 3 PM, even if there are lower lows or higher highs at some other part of the day.
I doubt they care about Mac customers. If they did, they would have avoided ruining the app's UI so that customers don't have a good reason to jump ship at the first opportunity.
Being cruel to the point where the farmers that feed you are dying is also ineptitude.

Similar story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
It’s not connecting for me how breaking up monopolies is going to stop Chinese clones of Western products from winning price wars. It might change how the margin gets carved up between the people who make the clones and various middlemen but how would it stop the overall trend of cloned products?
I love love love the high aspect ratio devices. I'd love to see more 21:9 or what-not mobile devices.

One things thats weird to me though... when reading my phone, I notice fairly often I'm really only looking at the top ~15%. I keep scrolling content into the same area of space, rather than viewing down.

It suggests such weird things to me. At simplest, it suggests using a device like this in landscape mode. But more, it suggests that pure consumption doesn't need a big device. Yes, we need to navigate & browse, and that takes space, but actual reading? When we and the machine are in-line, knowing what's happening, on a straight path? At that point we actually only need a very small display area to work very well.

I'm almost always glad when form factors get explored & tried. Markets are so centrist, regurgitate the already proven schemes without exploring boundaries. This is stasist & centrist, a self reinforcing cycle, and it is against my nature & what moves me, but I understand it. I salute the attempts at different. Even if, in this case, I'm not really sure what the major advantage is. Very short scanlines feels weird, feels like it means moving one's eyes quickly back and forth. But at least it's a friendly portable form factor, better than most epaper devices. I wish it well.
That's like "having the choice" to decide how to defend and protect yourself in a shithole city of competing kingpins and anarchy (the bad kind, not the theory of government) in the streets, vs having a police.
> The negatives can't really be trusted, but if they say you've got it, you've got it.

All of these tests have a non-zero false positive rate, they're not definitive proof that you have COVID.
> 2. This person likely has considerable disposable income be able to pay $499/month.

This is deeeeep into try-hard territory.

Fancy cars work because fancy cars are cool regardless of dating status.

But what kind of "loser" is so desperate as to pay $500 a month to meet people?

The badge is not a plus. The other stuff is.
Ironically, I believe all this scrutiny on Apple really started with degraded developer relations and their 30% take on in app sales.

If they had invested in better dev relations and dropped their 30% take (instead of coming up with all the weird ways you have to qualify for lower rates, which don't cover all scenarios), I don't think there would have been enough noise from below on this.
There will be more companies making things and providing things than there are today because there’s more labor available. We can do the things that aren’t of higher necessity today.
I have a bit of a challenge seeing anything of substance of Facebook without an account. Might this be a relatively potent way to attach the tos to those who scrape the site?
Does anyone know any more about Boox & GPL compliance?

The wiki page effectively says they are in violation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx_Boox#GPL_Compliance

> As of 2022, Onyx International Inc. has declined[20] to release the source code with Linux kernel modifications licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 in response to a written request by a user. The GPLv2 license states that if a modified version of a covered work (such as the Linux kernel) is released, the corresponding source code must also be released under GPLv2.[21]
> If it's legal they should do it because it's evidently profitable.

Is it? The moaning from higher in the comment tree seems to disagree with that assertion.

Maybe it was once profitable, but it seems as Amazon's reputation for hosting tons of cheap resold goods gets worse, it's becoming significantly less so. I personally have known for years that it's possible to oftentimes find the gadgets sold for $15-20 on Amazon on AliExpress for a few bucks. This isn't exactly arcane information anymore.

> You're criticism seems to be grounded in a distaste for the kind of business being done (and I think it's quite fair to be critical of the business model based on cheap Chinese labor).

My criticism is that the same people who cry from the rooftops about how free commerce is essential and how they have a right to sell marked up goods under any name they like to people who can't trace their supply chain have zero basis to complain when consumers get wise to their shenanigains and go elsewhere. It's literally this kind of "business owner"'s fault that Amazon is becoming near unusable now. I'm not shocked one bit that Amazon is cracking the whip; their reputation is on the line and has been trending steadily down for years.

"Buyer beware" they chant. Until the buyers start bewaring, and then they start whining about unfair competition and high fees for their store that is entirely operated by a third party and literally cannot exist without it.

Amazon is no angel here either of course. They have monopolized the absolute shit out of online retail, one of the ways they did was offering reseller services and getting businesses on their platform in the first place. Neither "side" of this is right, per se. Both of them would send me as a customer up the proverbial river to make a single dollar. As far as I'm concerned, them fighting in court is strictly entertainment, apart from whatever precedents get set that might affect other businesses I actually give a shit about down the line.

But like, the businesses I give a shit about are like, local ones. Ones run by people, to serve people. Not ones pulling tag clouds from trending social media topics or buying ad space on instagram to sell an egg beater shaped like a cat for $35 that they got from a Chinese manufacturer for $5.50/10,000 and dropshipped to people. This is just that, with an extra step. And the entity that's the extra step is realizing how raw of a deal it is, and they want a heftier cut to put up with these middle men. And on that particular point I don't blame them one bit.
Yeah, originally GPM actually had the ability to actually upload your whole music library, matchable or not, and let you listen from the cloud. All of that was available without a subscription fee!

I migrated my account too, since I have YT Premium anyway, but I don’t even know if that’s a feature anymore or how to access that aspect of my library, like, to add new songs from MP3s I own.
It’s a modern Palm Pilot. I think I love it.
Incorrect. The layperson will, as they always have, continue using the default app store while remaining blissfully unaware of any alternatives.
Because good beef is cheap here. Yes it's that simple.
> pre-Bruen court acted like the 2A didn't exist.

You mean, before Bruen the court acted like that first clause of the 2A was more than just flavor text.
All of that is already accounted for and protected by in the OS. An app cannot normally register daemons or agent (or even an XPC service). Installing is already limited to FrontBoard standard installation mechanism. All that will remain in a possible open iOS future.
That's something you'll have to code up yourself, however to get you started this script checks for pressing the W key and moves forward:

https://pastebin.com/8kMTCu3Y
The app store rules and review process are essentially the only thing that prevents Facebook from tracking you across all applications that use the Facebook SDK. It probably isn't possible to prevent tracking in a purely technical way. Even if two applications can't share data directly, they can each share fingerprinting information with a server, that allows Facebook to track you.

This sort of tracking can work even if you don't have a Facebook account, because so many different applications will include the Facebook SDK for ad tracking purposes.

Nothing specific to Facebook here, of course, it works the same way for any company with a large ad network.
Which phone has iMessage and a non apple app store?
For example you want to display a small blurred thumbnail of an iframe.
Well, given that mobile is a much newer platform, and a lot more regulatory scrutiny than desktop, perhaps the itchy regulators at the EU and the current FTC might be predisposed to go after those companies, especially since most of them are already in their crosshairs for other misdeeds. I don't think regulators are going to be asleep at the wheel and just let Meta force users to use a Facebook store stuffed with trackers.

Not to mention, what if Apple still exerted influence over alternative app stores by providing the SDK and certified security/privacy standards for them to build them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37667144
Amazon's "potential competition" in this case is driven by ads via Meta (or maybe Google). I'm all for Apple preventing Meta from spying on me, even if it makes it hard for small companies to advertise to me.
AFAIK, Firefox has all around awful webgl and webgpu performance.

I know personally, anything 3d in Firefox is a slideshow, even with a 4090
Exactly, just like how they avoided all those windows malwares by not clicking on untrusted links and not installing random applications.
Read my other comment about the "unnamed source". You just eat up the propaganda from the legacy media. You for sure would be want to be named if you were the source.

Sy Hersh is a senior master investigative reporter, he trusts his source and people with a brain trust him. Biden said his administration will end Nordstream 2 and so he did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSPfXLPUJHM how brainwashed did you have to be to not believe the obvious. Its not "wild claim" there was the threat and then there was the fulfilled promise.
> There are pretty reliable custody options

When the best possible description someone can use is "pretty reliable" I think that underscores my point.

FTX was considered to be in this category for years. Question now is, when will the next "pretty reliable" custodian go the way of FTX? When, not if.

I've been following the space very closely for years and the shenanigans involving other people's money are unreal. Are you aware the former CTO of Kraken was completely anonymous? Literally an avatar - try to find their name anywhere. Kraken employees didn't even know who they were - never came to the office, events, or even turned their camera on in meetings. I would imagine someone in payroll/HR or something knew who they were but maybe not, and they were getting paid in crypto?

Kraken, also considered one of the "more reliable" custodians for years, where the entire platform was in the hands of some random person who could disappear in the night with no reputational harm. Speaking of Kraken, take a look at their executive turnover. Very reliable.

I wanted to believe in the underlying technology for years but it's fundamentally and inextricably linked to other people's finances and there has been plenty of time for this kind of clownish behavior to work itself out. Crypto is almost old enough to have a Driver's License in the US which makes it a senior citizen in technology terms. It has had plenty of time to grow up but I think it's clear it never will.
People say this, but I don't think it actually plays out like this.

People like and use the app if they get matches.

I'm not convinced there's an appreciably good way for the app to give you matches and keep you single.
Intel has managed to get their drivers on 23.04 Ubuntu with no additional packages needed to be installed for their Arc dGPU offerings.
I wouldn't say empirical evidence but here is one of many that keeps popping up in popsci news: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/confirmed-we-live...
> The huge downside is that VAT is taking money from businesses regardless of whether profit is made or not. Cooperate Tax is fair; it is taxing on profits made. VAT, on the other hand, is not. We should not tax a transaction where a struggling customer is paying a struggling business.

Why not? It seems like you're arguing for a tax break for struggling businesses, but those are the ones that most need to be subject to capitalism's creative destruction. If business A is making a lot of product and consuming a lot of resources, but that product is barely worth buying, and business B produces less but does so more efficiently, it seems to me that business B is more socially beneficial and it's better to tax business A.
With the Play Store, the only times I ever see people not use the play store is when:

- They're using an Amazon device

- They're installing fortnite

I'm not so convinced that opening up the app store to competition would result in a deluge of developers forcing people to install their own store apps and sideload everything. The only reason I could imagine that happening is Apple continuing to charge extremely high rents for the privilege of using the app store, in which case the competition isn't a bad thing?

I believe the much more real threat is non-technical users getting duped into installing malware through some shady third party store or sideloading scheme, but how often does this even happen on Android? I don't hear much about such schemes.

I am just generally unconvinced the App Store needs to be protected from competition to be used >90% of the time on iOS.
The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing
I’ve heard credible rumors that SIDS is the “parent accidentally killed their child but we won’t tell them that” polite fiction.