skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The dirty little secret people won't talk about is that monetizing anything is so much easier on iOS because Apple users have, in some combination, more disposable income to offer, and are more willing to spend money.

That fact is neither dirty nor secret. I know you were using a figure of speech, but still. Everyone knows it.

>This has been the elephant in the room for my entire career, almost 11 years working in apps. Monetizing on Apple is easier. Getting Apple users to put down money for good software is easier, and Apple users will pay more for the software they want.

That's also pretty obvious, and likely because Apple users, whether mobile or computer, tend to spend more per capita on hardware than Windows or Linux users, simply because Apple hardware is more expensive.

It was already true on desktop, before laptop, and before mobile, on Apple devices.
If you want to move the goalposts by introducing a lack of skill and materials, sure the argument falls apart.

You are debating a different point entirely.
That's because there's the actual texas environmental report doesn't claim high levels of mercury in the samples. The high level comes from a typo of putting the decimal point in the wrong spot.

https://www.tceq.texas.gov/downloads/permitting/wastewater/t...
Yeah, but this is good advice precisely because most people don't do it and it's not intuitive.
Regulation is itself neither objective nor fair. Additionally, regulation is not immune from market pressures as the legal environments and incentives they create are also subject to competition. No nation-state has a monopoly on hospitable business environments.

Fairness at its most objective is merely a process. It's not and should not be proselytized as a guarantee of equal outcomes irrespective of circumstances.

> Or is there possibly a level of “fairness” that’s evident to the average person?

The "average person" does not exist and thus doesn't have an opinion representative of an arbitrary individual or group of individuals. A rational flesh-and-blood person can only speak for himself.
One nice thing about eSIM is if someone steals my iPhone, they can’t remove the SIM card and keep the device offline.
>Quine is ponderous.

No kidding. I tried to learn predicate logic by reading his works (mainly Methods of Logic). I wanted to throw his books across the room. I made it, but comparing his treatment of the completeness and compactness theorems with Tao's treatment was enlightening (and infuriating).

It's as though Quine worked hard at being obscure.
> Ideally someone could create their own spec to replace or supplement declarativeNetRequest in mv3. And ideally write specifications to support that.

Or include it in MV3. Firefox's implementation for MV3 avoids this problem almost entirely by just not getting rid of the specification and integrating it into the new system.

There are technical problems with MV3 in Firefox (it's extraordinarily buggy right now), but my suspicion is that by the time it matures it will be a straight-up improvement over MV2 for both privacy and capability (especially if Firefox ever gets around to supporting extension service workers).

It's not really MV3 that's the problem, it's specifically Google's implementation of it and which APIs they've chosen not to include.

The downside for other browsers based on Chromium is that even if they go Firefox's route, they're all largely dependent on the Chrome web store for extensions, and I think it's unlikely that most extension developers continue to develop Chromium extensions that don't work in Chrome.
Is brutalist architecture actually unpopular, or is it just popular to rail against brutalism?
You have to make mistakes to improve.

This has been expected, and it will happen again.
Brutalist buildings are not the sole domain of the poor. You'll experience them as government and university buildings, where the class that read NPR can be found.
If this was about discrimination of race, as a rights violation, it is clear that good faith is irrelevant. Rights supercede good faith and the presumption or previous decisions are improper.
1) when software is developed with legitimate purpose in mind, it is not malware. If a developer of such software is persecuted, it would be easy for their legal defense to demonstrate it _unless_ there’s some other regulation that prohibits such use cases (eg something similar to EU Chat Control proposals).

2) it is very unlikely that police will go after such software. They need to connect it to their case first and that requires technical expertise, so it will likely be a cybercrime unit.
It seems like the employers have a lot to gain by spreading the fear of a recession to make the job market to be more favorable to them.

Didn't the Treasury secretary quip “The enemy keeps postponing when the recession’s going to come... They are dying to have a recession. They can’t bear going into next year’s election with the economy the way that it is.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/wilbur-ross-democrat...

Wait, that's the former Treasury secretary, they sure knew how to do petty.
I’m not claiming that there was no violence. However there is no evidence that the rate of violence went up during this time. The Dillingham Commission (who weren’t open borders types) even concluded during that there was no substantial evidence for immigrants as a source of increased crime.

However it’s very clear you’ve made your mind up and everyone else is uninformed. Enjoy your enlightenment. Have a nice day.
It doesn’t, so why drag it out for 60+ days when you can do it in 3-5
How do you do migrations that drop those indices if they're potentially differently-named on dev/prod?
TikTok is fine. Criminals need to be locked up in a prison.
Weird, I'll fix that later but meanwhile you can also find it here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victorian_house_on_W...
I use eSIMs exclusively for travelling. They are extremely convenient and the cost is great. The alternative is often handing over your passport to a random shop seller that then does who-knows-what with it before handing over an expensive and easily-lost SIM that usually costs a lot more and only works in one country, and may not be rechargeable.

I tried a few different services before settling on Airalo, which I now use exclusively. Nomad did not work at all. Some others like 3HK or DENT were cheap but unreliable.

Also, using Airalo in China gets you around the great firewall.

Oh, I also use Keepgo for cheap 365-day LTE access on an iPad. It has been reliable.

Although my experience has been good with iPhones, it has not been good with Android phones. This may be related to your experience, or your poor experience may be due to a shaky rollout from a legacy carrier.

For my main phone I will still prefer a normal SIM as the service can be easily transferred if the phone is damaged. Maybe this perception will change as eSIM client-facing features improve.
There isn't any significant levels of mercury in the water. The "high level" comes from a typo.

https://www.tceq.texas.gov/downloads/permitting/wastewater/t...
On platforms that have app stores (including desktop operating systems like Windows, some distributions of Linux, and especially macOS), the apps you download from the store are sandboxed (UWP; Flatpak/AppImage; Apple) far more than raw binaries. Tauri apps are raw binaries; Electron apps are too; those are both different from visiting a webpage in a browser, regardless of whether such navigation happened manually or automatically (as in from a PWA shortcut).
> I hear that a fair bit: "that's what the legislature is for". Has the Congress ever responded by actually passing a law?

I’m not 100% clear on what the question is, in the sense that I want to give you a good-faith reading but, of course, the answer is obviously no. I doubt congress has even read any of our posts, haha.

I think the general expectation is that when chatting about politics the best hope we could have is that we could cause the other person (or some other person reading along) to vote differently, and maybe we’ll all get some better representatives if this conversation repeats enough times. It is a pretty indirect strategy, I don’t think it will have any big obvious wins.

> Passing a law is a very high bar, especially with the filibuster, and a President can still veto it. It's supposed to be for checks and balances, but I see a lot of checks and very few balances.

I agree that our system has a lot of checks and might be too logjam-prone. (Although, over the last 8 years we’ve probably both appreciated this feature at some point or another, maybe at different times). But that’s the system we have, we should fix it in an above the board fashion, not hope for judges to circumvent it.

> I know that it's not the court's responsibility to fix the rest of the system. But it feels disingenuous to say that the legislature could fix it when they know perfectly well that they won't.

Well, to be entirely transparent, there’s a dual purpose to this. So maybe it is a bit disingenuous. I mean the ingenuous element is there: it is always good to keep in mind how our system works, and I do think people should target their irritation at the correct party.

But also, not many of our (democratically elected) representatives are willing to argue for increasing surveillance. So the reminder that it is their job is a slightly circuitous way of indicating that it is maybe not a popular idea. If it were, somebody would run on it.
True, but I think the point of the article is that, in modern life, we tend to err strongly in the other direction.
I'm already using Manifest V3 in Firefox for a few personal private addons that I develop, and I can confirm that blocking network requests already work perfectly fine in it. The only issues I have with Manifest V3 in Firefox are technical, I haven't noticed any issues that I think are problems of direction.

Firefox's Manifest V3 implementation arguably isn't ready for prime time (it has some pretty egregious bugs), but whenever they finally do get around to dropping Manifest V2 (which I have no idea when that would happen), I'm not really worried about extensions not being able to jump over.
Go has one of the worst FFI support IMO. Code as comments? It doesn’t ever support C callback without a “bridge” method. MSVC support? Try debugging when CGO is enabled. Worst of it all, it’s also one of the slowest too.
I used one on my iphone for a work trip and now my iMessage stuff is all broken after switching back. There's still some rough edges.
This is an interesting decision in historical context for several reasons.

First, the Fifth Circuit is conservative. It includes Texas, Louisianna and Alabama. It's become known as the fast-track to the Supreme Court as it has ruled very conservatively at both the district and appellate level. This problem is exacerbated by how the Fifth Circuit is organized where the districts in the circuit are divided into divisions of often 1-2 judges, allowing plaintiffs to very effectively "judge shop".

Second, in modern times the Fourth Amendment has been consistently weakened by successive Supreme Court. A notable example if the 1968 case Terry v. Ohio that allowed police to stop people and search them without probably cause. Another huge example if the whole concept of civil asset forfeiture, which was justified by (IMHO) the most contorted mental gymnastics: this pile of money has no rights. But it was found in someone's car. How is it not their property and thus the Fourth Amendment limitation on unlawful search and seizure should apply?

Third, the Supreme Court will likely take this case up now. Why? Because the Fourth and Fifth Circuits have issued conflicting rulings. That's when the Supreme Court steps in, more often than not.

Fourth, if a user's location data has a rasonable expectation of privacy, it raises the question of what other data has a reasonable expectation of privacy? What about law enforcemen tuse of Stingrays? Or facial recognition systems?
Apple's longstanding App Store guidelines always forced a certain level of "quality" and good customer experience, yet they're now allowing apps that are the exact opposite.

Most of these apps use dark UX patterns to trick new users into scammy free trials which convert to $100+/yr subscriptions after 1-3 days. These apps also make it difficult to close out of the subscription window, or make it seem like you have to subscribe when you don't.

It's entirely contradictory to everything Apple once stood for in justifying their gatekeeper App Store experience.

Apple could easily ban these types of scammy UX patterns, but they won't because it benefits them. That's my point.
Tesla no longer has a wait on their $100K CyberTruck model, if you order it now Tesla says it will ship this month or next.

Tesla may have ramped production up dramatically - but it also means there is no remaining demand in their two million long preorder list for this model/price point. Also, they are only selling the "Foundation Series" which has all the options included.
> the retreat to on-prem

On-prem only makes sense for really large organizations, exactly the ones that can negotiate with cloud providers.

What I do expect to see eventually is a large movement towards commodity IaaS providers. And those tend to be middle-sized and not design their own hardware, so they act like the on-premises market. (But I can't say I'm seeing any movement here either.)
For Microschools, 'Location Has Been the Hardest Thing.' Florida Made It Easier
I hate the changes to the regular Paint app. They added stuff like layers and now it is really hard to do simple things like cut and paste and move parts of the image around because now you get a transparent hole in the image. I used to use it a lot to touch up or fix things in images of Excel graphs for slides, etc.
NLP: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I didn't make that argument.
And now the wheel turns... Two or three years ago everyone was quitting.
https://github.com/bflattened/bflat
> more advanced built-in search

Do you have any specific feature requests? I would love more suggestions and ideas!
Wow! Congratulations and good on you for putting in the work to bring it back around. We'd be better as a society if more had the emotional fortitude to do what you did.

I've seen too many marriages fall apart because a single party was apathetic long enough that the second party finally got the memo. It's a tragedy in every sense of the word; especially for the kids.
God I hate pages that hijack scrolling..
It really seems like the obvious solution. I can't believe that they haven't considered it, so then that would mean they _did_ consider it and decided that it's better for them to do what they're doing and just blame any issues on Apple. Doesn't seem right to make Apple out to be the bad guy when Patreon made a shrewd business decision at the expense of the creators.
"If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people"

No amount of studies will change the mind of people who fall for woo. Because they believe what they want to believe, not what's likely true.
Is there some particular reason Python is similar to go with regards to GUIs or are you saying everything can do everything?
FDA Declines to Approve MDMA Therapy, Seeking More Study
If you want to skip the journalistic fluffery and go to the technicals here's the paper:

Reading Akkadian cuneiform using natural language processing (NLP):
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
People genuinely worried about this. If you go back to around the time SSL is announced, the media coverage says well, you can't really have shopping on the Internet because there's no way to secure credit card purchases. Clifford Stoll has a rant from around then in which he just plain asserts it will never happen, even though that's actually written IIRC after SSL shipped.

A few years later it's much more about whether this is really going to take off, there's no doubt people can do it, but is there any desire? There's a BBC clip on Youtube from the era when Amazon is an exciting new business, it has a lot more different books in stock than any bricks and mortar store, but it doesn't have the enormous sales volumes compared to real world book stores yet, Bezos could just be another entrepreneur with an idea that sounds good - he isn't yet incredibly rich and so he also seems much less weird.
the only thing I can think of is the military and that's only in some circumstances
That's a really cool idea and also likely doable. Probably won't ship it before we release, but will add it to our backlog.
Wait, really?

If police say they have extremely good evidence to believe the drugs are in the garage, in the scenario you described, a court wouldn't issue a search warrant for the garage including any cars it contains?

I'm genuinely surprised. Is there a name for whatever legal principle prevents the court from doing so? I'd like to learn more about this.

Because from Wikipedia [1], I'd have assumed that this would be a cut-and-dried instance of probable cause [2]. Is it about the vehicle owners being different from the garage owner?

Edit: some quick googling seems to indicate that search warrants in the US can be issued to include all or specifically identified vehicles on a property, but no indication of what conditions need to be met.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_warrant#United_States

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probable_cause
A generative model makes no sense for this application. I think they are using the machines to surface possible matches for humans to consider, similar to the use of RNNs for potential drug candidates.
Search term exclusion: TIL! I swear I've tried that w/o luck before. Possibly was confounding that with OR pairing, usually given as "(termA|termB)". I'm pretty sure that doesn't work as expected (and just tested it). It's also annoyingly absent from DDG search, which is out of scope for here.

I'd been made aware of the undocumented endpoint but didn't want to spill the beans ;-) It's apparently expensive. OK to run manually, but don't script it.
Was "Stop and Frisk" by the NYPD also in good faith for the decade or more that it took to get it declared unconstitutional?
Damn. 30% to apple, 30% to patreon, 30% to government that leaves you with 0.7^3 = 0.343 = 34.3%.

I mean pretty much every part of this is incorrect.

Lets say they are single in the USA and made $150k on Patreon:

(12% * 47150)+(22% * (100525-47151)) + (24% * (150000-100526)) = $29,3000 -> 20%

<https://support.patreon.com/hc/article_attachments/288492020...>

WEB

* $10.00 sale -> $0.80 Patreon + 0.59 Fee, $0.00 to Apple, $6.89 to creator, $1.72 to gov't [FED]

* $10.00 sale -> $0.80 Patreon + 0.59 Fee, $0.00 to Apple, $6.02 to creator, $2.58 to gov't [FED+10% State]

IAP + default price bump

* $14.50 sale -> $1.15 Patreon + 0.00 Fee, $4.35 to Apple, $7.19 to creator, $1.80 to gov't [FED]

* $14.50 sale -> $1.16 Patreon + 0.00 Fee, $4.35 to Apple, $6.29 to creator, $2.70 to gov't [FED+10% State]

Users who care about the cost increase will go to the website. The others will pay in app and be stoked that they can just go to one place to cancel any iOS subscription. If they use their Apple Card, they can literally click any transaction in the Wallet app to see exactly what sub they were charged for.
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If the objective is to check whether anyone's hiding an AR-15 in their hotel room, presumably you have to check under the bed and in the closet and in the bathroom, which a fixed camera couldn't do.

Also I think the average hotel guest is completely fine with maids entering during the day when the room's unoccupied, but would not appreciate a camera in the bedroom, with or without a big sign and a big red light.
Anymore, it's rare to find. UPS used to create lifers because their benefits were so good, including free education and a stipend for an apartment even. That's all gone, I think, as they were paring it back in the late 90s already.

And nearly everyone has gotten rid of pensions, sadly.
In the days of the ipod every single user of it I encountered had apple's UX wipe their music collection.

But maybe that was by design as they decided to call their music shop by the same name as their ipod management software. That is the essence of Apple's UX. Shiny destruction of your property. It remains so.

The UX everyone wanted was copying files onto and off the device presented as storage on any computer it was plugged in to.
It comes down to how the standard library makes you do things. I don't think there's any reason why a more stringly-typed way of handling JSON (or, indeed, a more high-level way of using HTTP) is outside of the realm of possibility for Go. It's just that the standard library authors saw fit not to pursue that avenue.

This variability is honestly one of the reasons why I dislike interviews that require me to synthesize solutions to toy problems in a very tightly constrained window of time, particularly if the recruiter makes me commit at the outset to one language over another as part of the overall interview process. It's frustrating for me, and, having been on the other side, it's noisy for the interviewer.

(In fact, my favorite interview loop of all time required that I use gdb to dig into a diabolical system that was crashing, along with some serious code spelunking. The rationale was that, if I'm good with a debugger and adept at reading the source that's in front of me, the final third of synthesizing code solutions to problems and conforming to institutional practice can be dealt with once I'm in the door.)
Looks: nice

Usability: useless
Not sure why you attracted downvotes with that comment. It's 100% correct. You can buy an eSIM while still in the US and just leave it turned off, then flip it on when you get to your destination. Some providers do still advise waiting to install the eSIM until after you reach their home territory, but that's not any more difficult.

We just did exactly this a couple weeks ago when we went to the UK & France. Super easy, as soon as the plane took off I toggled roaming off on my regular US line, and turned on the traveling eSIM when we landed. Bam, phone works as normal, still gets calls and texts, etc, but way cheaper than paying roaming charges.
One thing I find interesting about brutalist architecture is that the name originates from the term 'Béton brut', which translates to raw concrete.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9ton_brut
People out here really forgetting the rest of ML exists
Too little info in the article to judge the value of the position suggested.

Brutalist buildings are hard to maintain and update. They tend to not be accessible.

If you believe they "should" be preserved, perhaps write up guidelines on how to update them and publish it.

They are raw concrete. Surely someone could potentially paint them to improve their appearance.
Pour me another Tequila Shelia
Reading Akkadian cuneiform using natural language processing (2020)