skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Everyone (80%) does it so it’s ok”

That may be true but it may just be that Apple hates this but has trouble writing the right set of rules that don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

And then when they get the slightest excuse (the fake fake reviews yes double fake) then they take the opportunity to close the unpleasant account.

Actually if 20% of the apps don’t do these scummy dark patterns, I’d just as soon see only those better apps in the store.
That’s not what I was saying. I was referring to the history of branch tips.
Ask HN: Did Elon/Twitter face any consequences after it stopped paying rent?
Seems like they unilaterally backed out of a lease and there's some lawsuits pending. Wondering if they will ever face any repercussion from it?
That’s fair, and I agree.
USA might be best in the world for this, as they look at 30 day réadmission and 30 day post-discharge mortality for various conditions.

Of course these stats have their own gameability, but good luck getting this level of data elsewhere.
Perhaps you have not read the article? In your defense, the title is a bit misleading.

The article states that the Linux users report more bugs, but these bugs affect other platforms as well. Hence, the Linux users are probably even more profitable, because they provide free QA.
Can you think of any generic, like, rule of thumb that could inform that process for me in the future (above or below/before or after) You got me curious and self-conscious now aha
In theory through services like bandcamp infinitely more money than if I was passing around CDs or tapes.
It is truly unbelievable how bad it has become. Even informational articles might only have a paragraph of text between ads. Plus, the frequent animations/pop-unders/whatever.

Everyone can decry the loss of the "small web" as much as they want, but the cram-ads-into-every-pixel dystopia means why should anyone bother? Even big brands are not immune to this behavior. At least if someone stays on the Instagram/Reddit/Tiktok experience, the ads are a consistent frequency and intrusiveness.
Nevertheless it's an interesting addition, and I appreciate it.
also, using stash is only a first level. git cherry-pick, git rebase --interactive, git reset --hard HEAD^ and friends allows do such moves and cosmetic extractions after the commit itself. I also prefer to split cosmetic changes and feature changes, so I extract cosmetic stuff to the main all the time.
Not that I am arguing in favor for how things currently work re Apple's ecosystem, but from a quick look it seems like these apps bait you into paying and the developer is just completely ignoring that part. I think that's what Apple is not fond of.
No offense to Qt but if I wanted any of that I’d write my app for a browser. There is very little benefit to write something that works just like a browser with extra overhead when I’m trying to write in C++.

That’s usually what people mean by magic, extra complexity that is not apparently beneficial even when partially understood.
Play Store is the same level of crap as Apple App store (experience across multiple projects for like 10+ years).

No experience on Steam but a few indie-game devs I know think it's OK. I've not heard them complain like App-devs on those phone-stores.
> Russian guy saying that he is in Chile in the first sentence? Absolutely nothing suspicious.

Being Russian doesn't make you suspicious of anything.

There are lots of young Russian people coming to Latin America recently, presumably (if I had to guess) to escape the war. Source: seen this with my own eyes.
Try installing the auto tab discard addon (It is a recommended addon so it gets checked by Firefox). I’ve noticed certain tabs may slow FF down if they aren’t unloaded in the background.

I had FF slow to a crawl and when I checked it was using 7gb’s of ram. Turns out a site I had turned off uBO in had opened up a sub frame that was blasting ads. So it is interesting to try to see what is going on with about:processes.
I've seen this exact stunt from the MiT media lab
As someone with a long time in fintech, if your account is closed without explanation and nobody will talk to you, this is with almost 100% certainty the answer.

It sucks because people who have been clearly committing fraud then plaster you with negative reviews and sob stories but casually fail to mention it was their own egregiously fraudulent activity that caused their account to be shut down.

And it also sucks because people who may not have actually done anything wrong get caught up by these controls sometimes and have effectively zero recourse.
I also have the same (controversial maybe) opinion, the mobile stores are good enough for a hobby developer, they are not mature enough for real businesses.

I'm going to launch another mobile app for some side income in the future but I'll never launch a real business based on that, that's for sure.
Safari is at a disadvantage - it's behind a walled garden and people outside of that garden don't develop or test for it. Sure, that's a trivial issue for a company but not for small team or single person projects.

Not to mention that it feels like Safari is only fast because it does its own thing and doesn't strictly follow the spec. I've often run into CSS specific issues with it when making slightly more complicated animations.
It's very subjective, but I won't try switching again before certain things I value in Chrome are available or work similar well on Firefox. You can switch based on ideology alone but I want convenience more than that.
Charges haven't been leveled yet. In theory, if Apple suspects money laundering they should both freeze the account and tell the authorities. The authorities want time to piece together their case before the money launderers disappear, so they ask for Apple to keep quiet until they have a chance to review everything.
Indeed, although some of the same groups still feel supported but just not for the same reasons as before.
Exactly my experience as well. Gen Z are super good at "finding an app for that" or showing you how to do something on your phone, but give them a mouse and keyboard and many start to resemble Boomers. (Of course there are tons of exceptions, this is generational lumping after all).

The hacker mindset just doesn't seem to be present in Gen Z like it was for Millenials and some Gen Xers. We took crap apart as kids to see how it worked, and we could still. Now things are so integrated and miniaturized, it's much harder to do that.

Add on top of that how Gen Z is almost all iPhone users and actually looks down on Android (the platform where you can dig in if you want to), it's no wonder the default is only an inch deep. Their tech providers and advisors have been telling them their whole lives how scary the world outside of the walled garden is and putting technical controls in their way to prevent them should they decide they want to.

We absolutely could have had the Gen Z that is more technical than Millenials, but we ruined it. It's not their fault, any generation raised like them would have been the same way.

Side note: If you're a Gen Z hacker (of which I've known a few and they are super impressive), I consider you a gentleperson and a scholar.
Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks open source software maintainers!

November 28 is Giving Tuesday; are there any open source donation matching programs?

How can donations to open source be more impactful?
Remove HTML/CSS rendering and the other 10% of the challenges go away too. Skip the whole “browser" thing and just use `curl`. Zero harmful technologies, maximum user control - I’m sure all of the users will be flocking to this new approach in no time :D
Many platforms have this issue. While some freezes are deserved, others are false positives or account problems that are difficult to resolve.

Amazon sellers live in dread of this scenario, not only because of the frozen funds, but also the inability to get a clear answer of what policy was broken. Or, Amazon's automated shutdowns make accusations that are impossible to disprove such as review manipulation or running multiple seller accounts. You can see a sample here: https://twitter.com/AmazonASGTG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioresistance#Radioresistanc...

But hopefully the intersection between radio-resistant, antibiotic-resistant and dangerous-to-humans is empty.
Keeping samples is honestly a good thing as it allows for further research into the virus should it ever mutate and come back.
Outside of Alabama syphilis is an extremely treatable and if you are actively having sex with multiple partners you should be getting tested continuously. If you aren't getting tested in this scenario, then you _should_ be shamed as you are putting the health and lives of your partners at risk.
So .... All good? They deserve what they get?

Not sure the point of this comment.
This is a potentially big deal because the GPU blob in the Raspberry Pi is proprietary, in part, because it runs on ThreadX. Open-sourcing ThreadX is one major roadblock gone from open sourcing the blob.
Extended solitary confinement is torture that causes permanent physiological damage to the mind; we should not be torturing criminals, regardless of their crimes.
Looks like Rinse was the survivor? The others don't seem to be in business.
I think it was different within different communities. For certain, not everyone shared the "dream" of a totally fungible web, but some did. I recall at the time a lot of discussion about user stylesheets. People actually believed that the same HTML could be sent to multiple different devices and the user would have their own stylesheet to effect the design by overriding the website provided styles. That might allow, for example, one person to have one font that they found more readable and another person to have color choices that suited their needs (e.g. for contrast), and another person to have different margin/padding to provide more/less whitespace between elements.

This was particularly a popular idea amongst semantic web people and was talked about a lot in the communities around things like rdf/rss/atom. You might have a reader for desktop, for your palm pilot, for your e-reader, etc. each with their own stylesheets being applied to the original document. XSLT was also a player in this space since you might want to alter the document structure itself ... a stylesheet for the XML structure itself.

Almost all of these wild ideas died on the vine. XHTML was one of the first to go. I haven't heard anyone talking about XSLT recently although it sometimes sneaks out from under a rock in some places. RSS readers are now marginal at best and the format is mostly used for distribution of podcasts these days. And I am not aware of anyone using user stylesheets for the web, or even if it is still possible.

Strangely enough the movement moved more towards open data formats. That is what Tim Berners Lee is working on these days inside the ODI. I think the movement rightly discarded most concerns about styling data or even displaying it at all. But we still have this legacy from the original ideas discussed above. The original semantic web folks were trying to solve both problems simultaneously and the formats we have are tainted by that history.
thank you, was thinking Certificate Authority
Because if you ship code to users (library), you lose control. You may want to change something, but your users will just tell you to go pound sand. Conversely, if you keep the implementation on your side (service), you get to control how things work and when things change, and your users don't have a say in this.

It's an ownership and control issue.
Also:

> Fixed that and added a debug log there to just make sure it worked well, and after reviewing unrelated reports from windows I found that it would hit these players too, they just didn't report that.

Wouldn't surprise me if a lot of the unreported bugs were Windows-specific and they're just not seeing reports of them, or not managing to find the cause because the reports are so nonspecific.
I think the point is that ultimately, only 3 bugs were platform specific and most of the additional reports were bugs that affected everyone.
Their imagined future resurgence scenario -- someone in a lab gets infected, then travels abroad -- highlights one of the reasons developed countries need to help less developed countries: Out of enlightened self interest, not "charity" nor "the goodness of their hearts."

We currently are de facto breeding antibiotic resistant infections in places without adequate sanitation or water infrastructure and you can go from pretty much anywhere on the planet to pretty much anywhere else these days in 24 hours or less. When people from developed countries get sick while someplace else, they are often medevaced out to get them good care in a modern facility, thereby potentially exposing people in their country to whatever they have.

We need to do a better job of providing basics like adequate water infrastructure worldwide if we want to be free from such diseases in our cushy developed countries.
I would change your licensing to be something along the lines of 1 year of free updates, pay again for future updates (seems like the standard pricing model in the space if you're going to be adding more features). This small tweak can massively swing your total earnings over a couple years.

Other people have mentioned pricing and $12 doesn't seem unreasonably low. Especially early on when you're building word of mouth. Long term maybe you could double it.

Opinionated Technical Notes:

Shake to hide, I wish it only acted on one screen (or a setting to enable that).

I have my dock setup vertically, it'd be nice if the previews were also arranged vertically.

Love that this just exists in my settings instead of adding a millionth app to my top nav.

Overall great work, congrats on the progress. It's exciting to build something people actually find useful and more importantly pay for. You just got yourself another customer.
When the USSR collapsed, a lot of defense companies pivoted to civilian production. A factory in my town was producing titanium shovel heads.

They were awesome, unbelievably light, but very durable. They also made nice sparks when dragged across concrete pavement.
> don't pretend like "remember when you could say jokes" is anything but a dog whistle

If it's a dog whistle that you can hear, then it's your whistle, summoning you, not the dogs
The real world also has rewards and risks. It also has a judicial system where the actions of both parties are weighted and judged by an independent party. In that world, one party cannot summarily forfeit an outstanding balance owed to the other party.
This is getting to be a lot like "no sane peasant should farm the feudal lords land"
My grandmother died from a hospital acquired infection after very minor surgery.
Just 2 cents. What about the undisclosed deal with OpeanAI and UAE ruling family? UAE was the first country to congratulate Taliban on taking back power in Afghanistan and to open embassy there. Both are based on sharia law, stoning, cutting off hands etc. Combine OpenAI gptvision tech with stealth screen surveillance and boom, you have automated extrajuridical sharia punishments based on screen activity and why not throw in security camera monitoring as well. Also check what sharia islam says about jewish people. Welcome to the dark ages, Sam. What good, good man you are to your people. The UAE man who owns the company that signed the deal with Sam himself is also orchestrator of Quatargate ie. bribing EU officials, that case is still ongoing and one can just expect it to expire. He controls a fund in worth of 1.5 trillion USD among long list of companies, mostly related to oil money. 2nd wife fleed to Europe then dissapeared etc. The ruling family and their wives are all close blood relatives. What is really going on? I got this info just before Bing Chat disabled my web search functionality and refused to discuss the topic any further. More biases than weights I would say.
The question is if any judgements can be collected before Twitter goes bankrupt. Elon knows he can kick this into the future, he’s just trying to buy time. Like FSD and Tesla: Tesla got big enough fast enough the fines or consumer reimbursements become a de minimis cost to the business when FSD judgments catch up (~5-10% of Tesla cash equivalents on hand as of this comment assuming worst case scenario).

No one will know until the legal wheels finish turning.
Pattern recognition is a critical skill for good bug reports, and for software developers. Not surprising that there's a lot of overlap, and that people who aren't developers may not have honed that skill when it comes to computers.
Email fraud poses challenges for consumers and companies during holiday season
Nothing opens?
Yes, but Rust for Linux won’t be using these kinds of dependencies.
What a lazy comment.

What doubt does it spread?

What’s the key take away?

Is it just a crank video?

A famous proof published in 1931 that has had much discussion and testing is debunked and disproved on YouTube!

No way of telling except to click through and watch a 15 minute video that isn’t even vouched for or elaborated on by the commenter posting it.
correct, this is my understanding.
https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answersescheat
Thanks OP - I love whenever this article comes back across the waves and give it a read when it does. While not directly related, if you want another lyrical look in to the world of containerized shipping, check out Sekula and Burch's The Forgotten Space. Well worth the watch. https://theforgottenspace.net/ Looking just now, apparently a lot of reviewers had a problem with how polemical it is. I didn't. But even if you disagree with the top line message, it's still a fantastic look in to a world (or worlds) 99% of humans will never get to see into.
>>"vaccine" doesn't mean what you think.

yes they keep changing the definition to include more and more things legally as "vaccines" are shielded from any liability so you can not sue big pharma if they injury with their "vaccine"

this however does not change the fact that the way the law (and you) use the term is very very very different than what the ordinary person thinks and understands a vaccine to be

When this person then discovers that the government uses a different (your) "correct" definition to include things they traditionally would not think of as a vaccine this erodes trust in the entire system.

This was made very very clear with COVID.
To be honest, provided none of the tax/profit makes its way back to Russia through illegal channels to circumvent sanctions, I don't see the problem. I know plenty of my colleagues migrated out of Russia to Germany, Israel, Turkey, and Greece following the war and started businesses there or continued already existing ones in a new locale. They wanted a new life for themselves, not under the rule of a crazed dictator.
I experienced that exact moment upon watching Andrej's video on backpropagation.
What have been the main lessons from your C to Rust migration? Was there anything that surprised you?
I recently watched this hour-long instructional video for time travellers into medieval Europe and found it very useful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aSdFrPnlRg
Ostensibly this serves a purpose beyond the MAD incentive, having stocks of the virus on hand makes manufacturing the old style smallpox vaccine easier should the need ever arise in the future. As we saw with monkeypox last year there is much more limited capacity for more modern pox vaccines due to the more advanced manufacturing process and limited demand.
But that's a knowledge issue. Which is fine, if I can say one thing for sure is that none of us was born knowing anything at all :-)

C++ programmers would probably be used to lower level kind of technologies, but when talking about this I think it just helps to think about what would you do if you wanted to embed an HTML and JS file into your program and wanted it to work like QML works.

For an experienced C++ dev, a list of stuff will naturally start flowing through their mind:

* A mechanism to inject the files into the binary upon compilation.

* How to interpret the HTML and paint on the screen? We'll need an HTML rendering engine and a surface painter.

* About JS, how to run it? Well, maybe time to include V8 into the program. It will take care of running JS code.

* Now to make calls between both languages. Probably V8 already provides callbacks because it implements FFI already for you.

* And other stuff you mentioned, like a property manager that remembers what has been registered and creates change observers in order to trigger events for C++ to know.

Thing is, Qt already gives you all of this done, otherwise their proposal of QML wouldn't have gone too far...

These series of articles touch on the topic and can enlighten a bit about some details:

* https://www.kdab.com/qml-engine-internals-part-1-qml-file-lo...

* https://www.kdab.com/qml-engine-internals-part-2-bindings/

* https://www.kdab.com/qml-engine-internals-part-3-binding-typ...

* https://www.kdab.com/qml-engine-internals-part-4-custom-pars...
There's something incredible about rust in that once it clicks, it results in profound changes in how you are thinking about your code. I know it has certainly improved mine in numerous ways.
> I'll do you one better; data that exists will eventually be leaked. The government already collects, holds and distributes background information on gun owners.

There's not federal database of gun owners, or at least there isn't supposed to be as Congress has explicitly refused to fund such a project. If they are doing it, it's in violation of the will of the people (through their elected leaders).

> If you don't want that data to be leaked, you shouldn't live in an overt surveillance state like the US. Sorry.

Or change your government. Giving up and simply accepting a shitty situation is a coward's way out.

> I dunno, ask the researchers. I'm not defending the collection of data, but your overreaction here is kinda unnecessary.

It sure sounds like you're okay with them both collecting it and giving out that level of detail.

> Wait until you find out about FIVE-EYES...

The government doing something bad is not justification for doing something else bad.
which hopefully means Brave and friends will switch to being based on Firefox instead. Could lead to some positives.

Alternatively it could be that all alt browser companies will maintain one chromium fork that preserves manifest v2. Or V3 but with a lot more rules.
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38381066
> I guess the App Store fraud prevention team hasn’t necessarily found a good solution yet.

The most essential device of the century is owned by two companies. The ability for them to completely control software and business activities on top of something that is almost as essential as public transportation is appalling.

The DOJ needs to remove the "app store" racket for essential computing devices. Software needs to be freely installable, sans vendor control, unfair competition, scare tactics, mandatory taxation, and adversarial ad placement by the cellphone duopoly.

Not only is cell phone compute freedom essential, but we desperately need more than just two vendors.
It is strange to mention that he is in Chile and not mention that he is a Russian citizen, and the apps come from a Russian company that was recently re-registered(??? or not) somewhere else.

It could be sanctions, and it is not related to reviews at all.
Nothing will ever grow in pure alcohol, but there exist some spores which can last varying lengths of time in alcohol before being destroyed.

To continue the same analogy, humans will never become resistant to nuclear explosions, but we can build bunkers that allow us to last for varying lengths of time after one happens. The better the bunker, the longer we last.

If the alcohol isn't applied long enough then the longest lasting spores can make it through.
You just did!