skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's not the consumers, it's the competitors. Instead of comparing apples to pizas, compare something like the Notes app compared to a 3rd party notes app. Any web/app dev knows each extra click adds friction and reduces retention, so that extra pop up can be a subtle advantadge to the one who manages the platform.
'This is the information age':How Bill Gates mapped out the internet era in 1993
I like this.

Imagine if people from the old village came to the new village and said that they wanted to set up the rules they had in the old village but they want to live in the new village. Some people are perfectly happy in the new village, but the people who came from the old village say that the rules are unfair.

As someone who actively wants Apple provide a tighter experience, this is how I feel. I have a nice garden that I'm playing in, and others have a sandbox. They like my garden because it's sunny, but they want the rules of their sandbox to apply to my garden. The grown ups let them in, and now there's nowhere to play that doesn't have sand anymore.
Ah, Sweden. Gave us “Enigma” by Phenomena and all of the music of Radix, Lizard King, Firefox, Mantronix, and Jogeir.

As good as it gets!
Are you okay with Trump having the power to do each of those quoted actions? To decide if the opposition is a threat to democracy or if elections must be canceled "as a last resort".

I read that list and it looks like instructions on how to end democracy, not preserve it
Yeah I think it's fine. I actually like that people who are short of money can put the effort in to knowing where and when all the sales are and live a bit cheaper, and I'm ok with subsidising them.
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It's a slippery slope from there to "the children yearn for the mines".
> Yes, but are consumers that knowingly bought into the Apple ecosystem harmed?

It seems that this logic would prevent any regulation of what happens on macOS or iOS, since anyone who is using either has knowingly bought into the Apple ecosystem. (And analogously for Windows, since anyone who is using it has knowingly bought into the Microsoft ecosystem.)
huge props to the team for open sourcing this
Apple doesn’t have a track record of abusing user privacy, unlike the plethora of third party apps that want to aggressively track you and sell that data.
As a health consumer, Epic is so dang slow that I wonder what it's like for medical professionals.
> Given the realistic chances of significant reform in the US around child welfare, I think maybe the NCCPR has a point, I'll explore that further

I'm over 45 now. "realistic chances of significant reform", in 35 or so years it got worse and worse, and worse, aside from very temporary upticks with a new building or something like a particularly bad worker leaving, and HUGE sudden negative effects (policies from above, suicide, "incidents"). What the study says is: it has long passed the point that if the system didn't exist at all, that would have been better for abused children, not worse. That point was already passed 35 years ago.

(which does imply that CPS workers are snatching children, btw, since they are not improving those children's lives. And CPS workers know that better than anyone)

> but its not that CPS workers are snatching well adjusted children from good homes. I see no evidence of that

They always have some excuse (usually divorce + fights between ex-partners, or school issues that are 100% the school's fault. Not something a child can do anything about, which is incredibly bad for their psyche, see attachment theory), so I guess you could say not perfectly well adjusted.

And these are "unintended consequences". Maladjusted children "fight themselves home". Either literally, through self harm or even through medical costs (that can mean actual cost, or something like epilepsy that necessitates 24/7/365 presence of an adult or the child WILL die. It's just a matter of time. People forget the frustration of that. An epilepsy patient takes one step forward, slowly, with INCREDIBLE effort, then falls 10 steps back. There is nothing whatsoever that can be done about that. Nothing you do will ever make any difference for more than a few days. Oh, and when the "mal" happens, odds are pretty good at least once that kid will hit you SO hard THEIR OWN bones break, in addition to yours. Best of luck holding on to those "good intentions")

(I put "good intentions" in scare quotes because if you can't keep doing it for at least a year or so, you're not helping)

Even when parents fight, physically, CPS. CPS workers hide their name (even judges now), but of course it's easy to find who they are. If a parent fights ... literally, their children are returned. If you press one of those therapists they'll say something like "it's not worth it", and send the child home.

Why? The state's failure in the child welfare system is not just failing to provide for the children. The state fails everyone and everything. Including protecting CPS workers or the workers in CPS group homes. Including also failing to protect those children against each other or outsiders (theft), but that, absolutely nobody cares about that, ever.

Who remains? Well adjusted children that regularly get extreme damage done to them by being in CPS. Most of all by never being allowed to stay in one place, even to finish a school semester.
> Alas, how would I tackle this issue with a kid?

by teaching them that work is good and necessary. There's a book by Neil Postman Amusing Ourselves to Death, the central idea of which is that "form excludes content". The problem with Youtube, or in his time TV, isn't just the content, it's that all content by the nature of the medium must be entertaining. If it isn't entertaining, it isn't content.

Hobbies feel like work because they are like work, because most things worth doing have a component of work to them. Rather than just trying to see what sticks, the best thing you can teach kids these days is that they should stick to the thing and that expecting "fun" at all times is a bad expectation to have.
Fair point. I guess this is the cost of dynamic languages.
Only among certain kinds of people. But a European PM doesn't go watch professional wrestling, but if his country is doing well enough in association football and there's nothing incredibly important going on he will go to the match.

This is because winning in this game is seen as an achievement, and a natural and reasonable achievement-- after all, there are many world records that nobody cares about.
Ryan here too - will try to respond to some of these with more info.

The two biggest missing pieces from both my discussion and from the video are:
1) stand down rules for affiliate, and
2) cash back to the user.

I was trying to address the claims he raised in the video specifically and since he didn't mention either I didn't in my reddit post except for a little bit in a couple of the answers.

1)
For the case where the store only uses last click (which is most of them) Honey and other browser extensions follow a rule set by the affiliate networks called 'stand down'. This means they attempt to detect when another affiliate link is clicked (e.g. from a creator) and then either fully disable the functionality or at least don't use affiliate links. Only browser extensions are subject to these rules (e.g. if you visit a coupon code website they will use their affiliate link and override the creator).

Detecting this can be a bit tricky across numerous affiliate networks and I suspect the NewEgg example was selected because it used a non-standard way to manage affiliate tagging and therefore wasn't detected by Honey's stand down logic.

fwiw I agree with the sentiment that Honey shouldn't have been tagging on a 'hey we didn't find any codes' or 'use paypal' click and I personally wouldn't have approved that, though it probably technically does meet most of the affiliate network stand down rules (well, at least it did - I'm sure they've been updated which is a good thing).

2)
Jonathon's video is completely silent on the other core value proposition of Honey: cash back. Honey, like Rakuten, Capital One Shopping, etc, offers cash back funded by affiliate marketing. The model is not new - Ebates (now Rakuten Rewards) was founded in 1998. Honey added this program in 2015.

When a user is shopping with Honey on a store with affiliate commission, Honey almost always gives the user cash back. There are a limited number of exceptions, generally because of the store's policy, and occasionally because there are so many exclusions to the affiliate program that it makes offering cash back confusing to a user.

A valid question to ask is: if a user clicks a creator affiliate link AND has a cash back tool like Honey or Rakuten should they or should they not be eligible for cash back. Personally I think absolutely yes, the user's preference is the most important. But I've heard reasonable people argue the opposite.

What I don't think is that offering it's users cash back makes Honey a scam and I think Jonathon was negligent in presenting this narrative without even considering this primary use case for what is actually the #1 business model in affiliate marketing.

I'll stop there. Happy to answer a few more questions here.
I picked up chess a few weeks ago after having a lift time of never getting around to learning it. This is great fun and I'm getting to use my newly found skill set of knowing horses move in L shapes.

EDIT: Just scraped through level 9 with zero moves left. Felt tense.
Seemingly, most companies have a terrible ability to judge if a technology is superior, hell most of the time they lack the ability to judge if a technology is massively inferior. Companies may understand what they do but they commonly have no understanding of what they do in relation to the abstraction layers between them and said technology.

Often this technology has been in place for some time and the original creators are long gone for one reason or another. To migrate away from this system the business will need to spend a significant amount on contractors/consultants to understand both the system they have well enough, and the system they are moving to. It can be a huge expense and companies are very willing to push that off into the future.
> The SECOND consent this case is about is the in-app consent that needs to happen according to French law. I can't give an example of that because I do not live in France but I assume this is probably some horribly designed page inside a French app that asks you to share your data with the ad surveilance industry.

I don't live in france but I'm familiar with the popups. many apps on first install will give you an in-app prompt asking if they can send you push notifications. If you accept, you get the system prompt. if you decline, you don't. I'm not a regulator, but it seems they've misread this one IMO - they only need to provide the conseent at the platform level and can opt out at the platform level if they so wish.
> Instead, everything is locked down...

There's an argument that that just raises the bar.
That's more probable, but that's also the reaction that should compel us to consider the possibility that we're looking at an insurance scam. If I owned a Tesla dealership in a country that was seeing sales drop the way they are, and if I didn't have ethics, I'd be thinking about the potential to get rid of unsalable backstock at no charge.
Back in the '90s I used to consider sun.xxx the cooler version of Java.
The US seems to always be first with innovations, while the rest of the world follows & learns from what works and doesn’t. The playbook being run by DOGE et al is impressively complex since it is up against a complex system of checks and balances, but so far said playbook is working..

I suspect the US situation helped France treat Le Pen as an actual criminal rather than going with a light touch “just in case a criminal is what voters want”.

The lessons will be learned but it’ll take 10-20 years for forward-thinking leaders to emerge and help bake them into the political systems of the future. Your unborn children will thank you for living through this.
> The article specifically says that many apps feel like they need additional consent which means they have to request it through two channels.

Surely the same argument can be applied to the cookie law - many sites feel like they need consent therefore it's unfair over people who think they only need one prompt.
Consumers are only part of the competition equation. I bet consumers also love the initial phases of dumping, but regulators have to look beyond short-term consumer preferences.
I think the media is attributing too much to the bats. I was at the Yankees game, and the wind was blowing straight out and hard. Many of the home runs I saw hit would have been fly outs on a day with more normal wind.
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Yes, it is real, but a bit tricky to setup with caveats: https://abparenting.substack.com/p/effective-youtube-kids
Why not invent say "Field Golf" or "Lolz Golf" or whatever you fancy calling it? Set the rules and equipment to around your ideal time. Get some mates together to give it a go and refine it.

I think the toughest part will be equipment - golf bats cost a fair bit to make but perhaps a price limit might help fix that. You could define club classes akin to how sailing has standard class boats. You could even require that participants make their own for an added twist. I'd keep the current standard balls for now.

Why stop at the bats and balls? What about the format? You could do three holes with a very short shot clock and go straight to the 19th for a bladder wrecking session involving a golf themed drinking game. Instead of running in a Triathlon, do nine holes after the swim and before cycling to the finish. You could replace the cycle phase with knocking a polo ball from a pony along the course to the finish. The swim could be ... yes ... underwater croquet!

Could be a lot of fun even if it never takes off - and that is what any past time ought to be.
>but please come up with something to discourage mutability)

Records?
Happy user of Replicache. You and the team got it right.
I don't actually use Aider or Cursor myself - I still mostly work in the ChatGPT and Claude web interfaces (or apps) directly and do a lot of copy and pasting.
Wouldn't they presumably be the ones selling crack, meth, heroin , etc to the government?
As an Apple user, I don’t want third party apps to be able to have access to that data. Apple has earned my trust, but most third party apps have not.

I buy Apple specifically because I want the level of privacy that their platform provides. If third party devs don’t like it, they can ship for Android.
I may not agree with your ugly scrollbars, but I will defend your right to style them.

(If you want to annoy your users, that's your prerogative)
why do you think they're on dangerously experimental PEDs as opposed to the standard PED profile in combat sports?
By this metric, United States is doing very well. Over 50% of Americans aged 25-34 have completed tertiary education, putting us at the 5th position within OECD, well ahead of countries like Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, Denmark, or Poland.

I don't think it's a meaningful metric, though, because most tertiary degrees are a waste of time, and higher university graduation rate can be worse if that translates to more people getting useless degrees.
Yes. Apple's competitors are suppressed by Apple. Competition would reduce. Thus, consumers would be considered harmed.
It actually provides MORE information in my opinion. It now states what failed.

Removing the extra fluff string that no user cared about anyway is fine.

I'll miss the frowny face though.
The advertising industry was who filed the complaint, it wasn’t a bunch of normal users. If the ad industry wasn’t so shitty, I might give them the benefit of the doubt.
Used ZFS on Debian in production for 8 years, yet to experience rough edges but always interested to learn.
I'm not sure I know what Bluebeard is, so I can't comment on that.

The original somewhat gory Cinderella stories? I might wait until they're a bit older.

I don't have kids, so this is all hypothetical, of course.
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I have absolutely no idea if you are being facetious or naive there.

Yes. Oracle is absolutely the tech vendor that's going to be dropped on the engineering team with zero input and no consideration for whether it fits the problems they have, after your CTO spends a a few days on the golf course and high end steak restaurants and, depending on how much money their enterprise sales team thinks they have, either high class escorts or sleazy strip joints. Given how common that story (or one very like it) is, I'm close to 100% certain those trips also include discreet photographers and hotel rooms wired with 4k video recording.
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A fundamental blocker to AI truly participating in shopping is the lack of access to real-time inventory and the ability to place orders. Retailers, restaurants, and marketplaces often actively block AI agents and rarely offer open APIs for these functions.

This creates a bottleneck: AI can generate interest and intent, but it can’t complete the transaction. It reminds us of the early days of fintech—before OpenBanking and Plaid gave developers standardized access to bank data and transactions, financial apps were mostly read-only.

We built MealMe Connect to solve this problem for commerce.

MealMe Connect acts as a universal layer between apps and the fragmented retail ecosystem. It enables real-time product availability and direct order injection—even for platforms that don’t expose APIs. Our goal is to unlock what we call OpenCommerce: standardized access to commerce infrastructure for developers and AI systems alike.

Without a layer like this, AI remains read-only in the commerce stack. We think it’s time to change that.
>There is nothing "intimate" about your DNA, especially not the SNP form of it they store. You literally leave it everywhere you go.

Wow there. There's plenty intimate about your DNA and all the stuff in it that some shitty insurance company, for example, could use to justify screwing you. And the other obvious thing: sure you leave it all over the place, but generally, nobody follows you specifically around to vacuum it up for analysis and ID-tagged categorization. Having it handy in the databases of 23&Me, tied directly to you as a specific person and sold to third parties on the other hand....
You are probably right, just saying in general...
I'm shortening my time-line to 10 years before we can watch fully generated in real time movies about our preferred prompt.
There are similarities in the problems, but there are also fundamental differences. With inlining, the JVM can always decide to deoptimize and back out the inlining without affecting the correctness of the result. But it can't do that with tail calls without exposting the program to a risk of StackOverflowError.

We've been using TCO here ("tail call optimization") but I recall Guy Steele advocating for calling this feature TCE ("elimination") because programs can rely on TCE for correctness.
yes indeed. and the article provides no evidence of this being arson. it might very well be either another battery fire as you say or insurance fraud (South Italy after all)
This is not plagiarism.

These two works express their ideas in very different ways and with very different details, structures, and styles.

That's like saying that Orwell's 1984 is a plagiarism of Yevgeny Zamyatin's We or that Harry Potter is a plagiarism of Ursula K. Le Guin's Wizard of Earthsea.

You are just tackling similar topics. Maybe he took some inspiration from you. You should be proud instead of being butthurt for 15 years.

By the way, the notion that all beings are manifestations of a single consciousness—or that we are all God—is far older than either of you.
> Is the socially conservative right concerned about humane prisons now?

> Because that would be great. But unlikely.

I don't know where I'm at on this, but this is ad hominem. You can't discredit an argument based on who's making it. If you're opposed to humane prisons, just say so. But that's not what I'm getting.
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Will AI be crueler than man?
> Unfortunately, the MLB reviewed the torpedo bats after the game and somehow had zero issues with them?

"Unfortunately, the MLB reviewed the torpedo bats after the game and somehow had zero issues with them", isn't a question; adding a question mark just makes me read you with an obnoxious up-tone.
Do you have any automation on ytdlp and Jellyfin?

I built this with Jellyfin and Home Assistant for my kids: https://github.com/philips/homeassistant-nfc-chromecast
The technology behind ChatGPT4o's new image generation engine?
There’s some consensus though that currently, pitching has evolved much faster than batting due to advances like Trackman and deeper understanding of the relationship between biomechanics, pitch tunneling, spinrate/flight path/movement, and so on. In conjunction with that has been a shift towards “TTO” (three true outcomes - HR/BB/K) on the offensive side, which is a statistically motivated perspective that batting for average is suboptimal. In short, you would rather have a lower BA and a higher home run rate even if it means a higher K rate, since home runs (and 2Bs) are so significantly more valuable than singles, and fly outs are also much more valuable than ground outs (or really, less bad) due to the opportunities for sac flies and the risk of double plays. TTO tho is also partly a response to the elevated pitching capabilities - velocity and spin.

This is all just to say that batters are falling behind and there’s an argument that it hurts the on-field product from an entertainment perspective since balls in play are what we ultimately watch for - if torpedo bats make it more likely that players can bat for higher averages by barreling up the ball more consistently, it will be good for the game.

Other alternative proposals include lowering the mound (famously done in the 60s), adjusting the ball (eg lower seams, which makes it harder for pitchers to generate spin and makes the same spin rates less effective), and so on.

One good (bad?) thing is that to some extent pitchers are starting to reach a biomechanical wall, evidenced by the greatly increased rates of Tommy John surgery, though that is partly also an effect of better surgical techniques and recovery times.

Point is - it’s complicated.
Nitpick? No. I'm kind of a fan of Mason and Dixon and I think it's a great story.
The other day they forced me to give full consent to all advertising cookies in order to read without a subscription. I found this surprising, I do read them a great deal, it might only happen for heavy users.
ChatGPT's new image generator is good at faking receipts
Noticed the object pooling doc, had me wondering: are there any plans to make packages like `sync` generic?