arjunbajaj

Question for the Discord team: Was implementing the same service in Elixir an option? Did you try it/why not?

I enabled it and Todoist would show me a dialog on every page reload to set my timezone to UTC. After I realized that resistFingerprinting was causing it, I had to disable it.

It would be nice if the settings inside resistFingerprinting were configurable. I understand that the point of it is to make every browser look the same to analytics engine, but having timezones and zoom levels reset is not the best thing.

Honest question: What would be the alternative to DRM?

How would video streaming companies “protect” their content without DRM? Or is the debate that they shouldn’t be able to?

Having the ability to stream directly in the browser is definitely a good thing IMHO.

Not quite. Since March 2019, Disney fully controls Hulu [1]. In 2024, Comcast can sell its remaining stake to Disney.

[1]: https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/disney-full-control-hu...

Why not just ask the user for permission for all APIs that interact with hardware?

Not all apps need it, and the ones who do, should be able to explain why.

The Battery API was removed due to fingerprinting concerns, but a permission-asking battery API would still be helpful to bring web apps closer to native apps.

I've seen Burger King use Linux on their displays in India...

I agree. I believe a subscription which bundles articles from different publishers and brings down the cost and pricing, would be more effective.

A company doing this is Noa[1]. They have humans read articles from a bunch of publishers, and have a subscription.

[1]: https://www.newsoveraudio.com/

I agree. If Apple would support push notifications for PWAs, it would almost level the playground for most kinds of apps.

Looks interesting!

Yes that's the one! Thank you so much!

I have stumbled upon this, but unfortunately, this is not it.

That was a hosted web service and it extracted the text and figures from the research paper but didn't maintain the structure. You could read it on a phone too.

I remember it didn't work on all research papers but was slowly expanding its database of supported papers. There was a place to paste the URL of a research paper to be processed.

A service that converts PDF research papers into a clean readable webpage.

Their example paper was a research paper with two columns and diagrams to show their service actually works well.

I searched a couple of times but couldn't find them again...

I believe Elementary OS's terminal has this in-built.

None of those support payments from customers outside India, a requirement most online businesses have.

I don't understand, how do governments plan to have a long term sustainable basic income for citizens when AI and other technological developments put a large percentage of people out of jobs?

A few days ago I found an Asimov story, The Last Question[1] on the comments on some other HN post. The story talks about computers which are far more advanced than today's and no human can completely understand their inner workings.

I think, even today, a modern microprocessor is out of the reach of any single human to fully comprehend. This is definitely the case for the extremely vast field of computer science.

Maybe the future of computing and artificial intelligence are systems that are in our capability to build but beyond our understanding of why they do what they do!

[1]: http://multivax.com/last_question.html

What did you use to solve these two use-cases?

I'm using ZTE Open as my only phone for around 5 months now. It works for me. I have upgraded a few times, though you have to download a lot of git repos to compile the latest builds. Compiling the build takes a lot of time too. I'm running on version 1.3.

It's a good phone, enough for my needs. Sometimes background apps crash when you are using something else. This is an issue if you are listening to music while reading HN... If you use a single app at one time it works great. The phone cannot handle pages with a lot of data or JS.

ZTE Open is a good phone if your needs are low. Otherwise check out the other phones out there...

$ npm install github-zens -g

$ zen

A Node Module which prints the zens (offline list). https://github.com/arjunbajaj/github-zens

Why don't you try telling him the same thing. That you need more time and more money to do this project. Maybe he'll understand...

Heroku is easy to use, but it's definitely not cheap compared to other PaaS out there.

Come on guys, every provider goes down some time or the other! Unfortunately, today it was their turn.

Let's just give them some space to improve and they will!

I think Nodejitsu is a great company! They are cheap, and awesome in support! :)

I would love to use such a thing!

I'm bugged with programs I don't use anymore which start on system boot. Even after removing some programs, they just don't go away.

A sandboxed environment would be really good to use!

I like the new page with the ordering and all, but the old one was way better in giving more information about the addon!

Also, finally they have Addon Search! :D

Looks like Tumblr can't handle HN! The site is down. :(

Haha! That's why i'm never gonna use Tumblr! :P

Not available for Linux! :(

I'm certain that Programming Languages are! :)