skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it makes sense to define monopoly as a binary state. There are ways that companies with monopoly power behave even if you can argue the company itself isn't a monopoly.

And, for what it's worth, copyright owners are the canonical monopolies. There's no suitable replacement for Stranger Things. What's new is that TV show copyright owners are now able to monopolize distribution.

I get that there's a more diverse set of good content, you'd expect that to happen with the explosion of the internet. But that's happening in spite of monopolist behavior, not because of it. Most of the wealth in movie/tv creation is getting captured by a smaller group of companies.

Hence the article focusing on Netflix canceling shows after the second season. The creators of shows make more money when they run a long time, Netflix would prefer to keep those people working for cheap if it doesn't create churn.
>Boeing won't lose any money provided that they keep their backlog full for the duration of the aircraft's life cycle?

The 737 (all variants) is/was/will be massively popular so I'd imagine as a project it's probably still profitable.

The danger here is reputation. Boeing has in the space of a year ruined a multi-decade reputation. I mentioned this before, but all these articles scream underlying institutional culture problems. Remember the one a month or so ago about a Boeing engineer saying he's uncomfortable letting family fly on a Boeing plane? Forget a lost order, that's existential crisis territory for an organization.
tangentially i can't stomach that word, "Influencer"
Very much the same for me. I try not to waste too much time watching movies, but also I want to keep up with the culture. But I find if I binge one month a year, I end up seeing almost everything that people are talking about.
It’s up to WebRTC and TURN server. Can be any number in theory. The layouts support 100 people, but each participant would have 100 peer to peer connections.

Perhaps one advantage of Zoom is that it rebalances things onto servers it owns eg via websockets? Is there documentation on this?
They need to start with a niche, like entertainment. Be the best search engine for gaming or something. That'll get eyeballs, then branch out. Would take some serious marketing, guerilla and otherwise, though.
Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks
how do you recover the secret key? you got to save it somewhere first, right?
I don’t know about the Prius, but there are plenty of non-connected devices that support voice control.

I have a Garmin GPS from like 8 years ago that did voice commands, it had zero transmit functionality.
Cryo-EM structures reveal coordinated domain motions governing Cas9 DNA cleavage
That's just the basic of marketing tactics : supposedly, more you are shown a product or a brand, and more you will accept it in your life. It works any where you can display a picture, from toilet papers to Instagram stories. Influencers are only one more channel to capture people's attention
Do you expect apps like DoorDash and UberEats to offer coffee pick-up in the future? I know some stores already allow pick-up for orders.
Because it's biodegradable, the carbon it removes is only temporary. Also you are lying when you say it removes carbon from the atmosphere day and night; some Trees remove it during the day, while others remove it at night, but none do both.
While doing this thing he must have thought of himself as a real stud, making money off copyright trolling and then shovelling that money into making more porn so he could get his rocks off.
Figuring out good timings, gathering intel, harrassing, doing big drops, when to invest in attacking with a gimmicky unit, etc. are all pretty big strategic decisions. A lot of people don't notice these decisions being made when they watch pro players play since they are the composition of many actions that, yes, at the end of the day are building units and moving them around. But that's like saying chess is all just moving pieces around too
CORS stands for Cross-origin resource sharing.

It allows you to make arbitrary HTTP requests across origins, even those that would normally be blocked by the same-origin policy, as long as the server collaborates and allows it, easily and in a secure way.

If you control the server (or can get someone to adjust it, or it already supports it), you can use it to make requests from one website to another, directly from the client.

For example, you can have JS on a site served on www.example.com make calls directly to api.someservice.net, without any kludges.

Any time you think of some contrived proxy solution, JSONP, or other kludges to bypass the same-origin policy, you want CORS.

For non-anonymous APIs, authentication can still be a challenge.
Do you view privacy as an important quality? Nano seems like a pretty good attempt at making a cryptocurrency that's useful as a currency, but transactions are not private and I'm not sure how big of a problem that is
No different than every pro player smurf account, right?
Gate Tunable Dark Trions in Monolayer WSe2
At the moment it only shows up as an on-screen warning in my Qt Creator thanks to its clang integration. The default Serenity toolchain is using GCC-8.3.0 which doesn't support this trick at all, so we don't get any compile-time enforcement. :(
I keep thinking about switching over to a clang toolchain to be able to do more stuff like this.
Not only unit movement (micro), but your ability to macro (manage your economy, produce new units, expand your base) will be great affected if you have low APM. In that sense, APM is very important. I'm confident I can beat any bronze league (lowest tier) player with nearly any unit composition (even when they pick a build that is a direct counter to me) simply because I will way out produce the bronze player since I'll be able to stay on top of my macro due to superior APM.
Studies funded by companies selling Teflon products say 300 degrees. Others conclude it happens at temperatures as low as 200 which you can easily reach while cooking.

Anyways I'm almost always using plain old steel pans and pots. There are very few things that stick so badly I resort to the one Teflon pan I have.
If the lecturer gave a lecture and handed out fliers for the thing they were criticising without explaining that this was an example of the same problem the yes 100%.

The only way the article, its writer, the editor and the organisation should not be ridiculed is if they explicitly reference their own t's and c's in the article. Or if we all agree this is not news but entertainment and should not be takrn seriously (or shared on hacker news)
> APM is an interesting question I think. Like what is the relative importance of APM to strategy?

Depends on the strategy, and the skill level you play as, and what that APM is being used for.

Among the lower 90% of play, a player with a very good understanding of strategy, and good prioritization of their actions (Spend money, don't get supply blocked, don't lose your army to a dumb blunder) will win ~100% of their matches with ~40 apm, assuming they plan to use a low-apm strategy (no fancy drop play, preference to units that don't require a lot of micromanagement.)

On the masters/pro scene, though, you need a lot of APM just to stay alive. When there's three medivacs cycling drop harass in your main and natural, while helions keep running into the worker line of your fourth base, while your opponent's army is jostling for position with yours, trying to get a good angle to land EMPs, or to siege up in a good position, you're not going to be able to physically stay alive, unless you are devoting over a hundred APM to dealing with these threats.

> If I have 20% more APM than you do I beat you even if I totally pick the wrong units and build order?

That depends on what 'the wrong units and build order' means.

Some build orders will straight up die to other build orders, assuming perfect play on both sides. Assuming non-perfect play, it depends on which mistakes are made by each side.

Some build orders are soft-countered by other build orders. They can, theoretically, hold against a 'countering' build order - but will die, if the person using them makes some mistakes, and their opponent makes none.

Likewise, 'the wrong units' is huge a bag of worms. Are zealots better units, cost-per-cost than marines? Yes, unless there's a critical mass of marines, at which point zealots become the 'wrong units' for that engagement. Throughout a game, there are ebbs and flows of strengths and weaknesses, between two players, as they hit their various tech timings/unit counts/positional advantages, and try to transform those short-term advantages into economic damage, or efficient army trades.

A big part of pro play is knowing when you have an advantage you can exploit, how much you can exploit it, how to exploit it efficiently. You need game sense for the first, good strategic thinking for the second, and APM for the third.

[1] I'm a pretty casual player, but I've had no problems hitting Master (5%) level in every season I've cared to play. I generally sit at ~90 APM, when I don't spam - and I presume that if I were much smarter, better with my timings, and more knowledgeable about the game, I could be in the 10th percentile with half the APM. The amount of extra game knowledge that pro players have, compared to me, is staggering.
I do. If nothing else, I look for a binding arbitration opt-out, so I can engage that before whatever time period expires.
Or just an opt, where you have to make a choice during setup.
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I'm mostly referring to those that say the JVM is too "resource heavy" then go on to use JS/Python/Ruby instead, which have much higher runtime overhead.

In my experience many dev think the scripting language heritage means these languages have smaller/lighter runtimes
Does it matter how much they're payed? They're probably payed the right amount relative to the work they are doing.

Also how is having access to small samples of audio a privacy issue? Are they also receiving enough information to attach an identity to the audio clips? How long are the clips? Are they randomly assigned to humans? Do those humans get to listen to multiple clips from the same Home device and can they tell that's the case?
Watch: Creating and sculpting physics-enabled objects in AR/VR
How do you monitor all these services?
Olivine beaches cannot be switched off, but you're probably right that the risks are manageable.
Whoa, downvoted to minus 4. No idea why. In my 9 years of HN, this is my worst downvoted comment. Maybe people thought I was being off-topic?

Let me clarify a bit for the public here why the comment is relevant: in the crypto mining community, some groups are looking into what minimal single board computer can provide a PCIe signal to connect a single GPU. Idea is to be cheap and reliable. If you have a many-PCIe board failure (http://bitcoin.zorinaq.com/many_pcie/) you have 10-20 GPUs going down at once. Not good. By isolating each GPU on its own motherboard, you can isolate failures, thus increase mining profits. When I saw the OP mention cryptocurrency in the blog post, I thought hey maybe that's what he is looking to do...
The direction we're headed isn't a la carte pricing, it's bundled pricing from different companies.

The thinking is a lot longer term than it seems. The US stopped enforcing antitrust laws, and if that continues it's going to take a lot longer than 3 years for anyone but consumers to feel the pain. We're watching Disney and Netflix execute a 2 decade "gather all the market power and reap the benefits" plan. There's really no one to threaten them.
I've had reasonably good experiences with filling out Basic Auth dialogs in Firefox via KeePassXC/KeePassXC-Browser. But by "reasonably good" I mean that it works, the password gets filled in, but the whole experience is still more clunky and error-prone than filling in an HTML login form would be. So yeah, lots of room for improvement here.
One solution is to start a 1000 year landfill pipeline. Plastic is usually inert and harmless in a landfill and will slowly decompose. Landfills >> Rivers
Perfect Andreev reflection: Klein paradox in topological superconducting state
Hera – High Efficiency Reliable Access to Data Stores
This. There’s nothing that binds today’s ethical company to voluntary ethical behavior when things get tough (or they get acquired).
Well jeez. I know it's not a popular thought on HN, but climate change is a problem of such scale that it's going to need government-level funding and oversight to find and validate geoengineering solutions, and global-level funding and coordination to implement them. This third-way aspiration to a non-government solution just seems like a pipe dream.
That may be partially a timing thing. One hour after your post, this page (HN) turns up if you use quotes. Now, I agree that it would seem that a smart algorithm would automate the case of "if it shows up on HN, add the source link to the results too." Especially since Gabriel is on here IIRC.
Hopefully someone is successful in suing for discovery. It might not have been 'mind boggling' it might have been deliberate action by management to cut costs, reduce MTBF (because 2 sensors fails more often), or the fact that 'Boeing' didn't design the system so much as an amalgamation of cut-rate 3rd party contractors with a 'yes-person' 'project manager' at the helm vs an actual engineer.
CORS doesn't apply to navigations by default, so anaphor is correct: evil.com can just submit a form to banking.com and it will send the banking.com cookies. This is the whole field of CSRF (cross-site request forgery) mitigation.

CORS was introduced as a way to allow requests that browsers used to not allow at all: things like cross-site XHR in the first instance. Then it was expanded so that requests that are not normally subject to CORS checks (image loads, script loads, stylesheet loads) could opt-in to being subject to them, for various reasons. The default for those loads is still "no CORS". And there still isn't a way to do a navigation subject to a CORS check, even with opt-in.

Disclaimer: I work on Gecko and I've reviewed/implemented parts of the CORS spec.
I think you're going to hit difficulties getting most local coffeeshops onboard. Unless there is a brand of local coffeeshop I am not familiar with, and it's probable that this in-between brand exists in cities without much space and more of a focus on pumping out volume, most local coffeeshops identify with the opposite of this ethos. They are focused on the experience of being in the coffeeshop and standing as a clear contrast to everything that chains like Starbucks and Dunkin offer. Namely an emphasis on quality and "realness".

I know many a coffeeshop owner whose immediate response to being pitched this would be "Starbucks already exists".
I can't help but to link all the outage in the summer together. Has anyone studied their post-mortem and find common causes?
You're unique. Most people just keep paying for it.
It's not supposed to be a bad decision. Bundle economics actually work¹ in the absence of key reselling. Bundle keys are not allowed to be resold by the terms of any bundle I've ever looked at, so it hardly seems fair to blame the developers when the users are the ones breaking the ToS, and marketplaces like G2A are actively soliciting this behavior.

¹For the most part. It's not always good for 100% of the people involved, but on the balance it's supposed to be a good deal for everyone.
Facebook’s main game is Calibra, not Libra
Cryptography is hard to implement correctly. What you consider to be obscure and destroying readability is not necessarily there because of semantics, but in order to avoid particular vulnerability categories, such as timing side channel attacks, due to using particular coding patterns or the compiler optimizing things in a certain way.

The good language you talk about exists in crypto libraries that are meant to be used by us mere mortals.
This document discusses some of the problems and solutions that are important if you are building those very same crypto libraries instead.

On that note, veorq is an absolute authority in the field so I trust his writing on the matter.
Yes, for the game creator but if anyone else where to do it it would be "BANNED" which is the point of this comment chain "do as we say not as we do".
Are those bio-degradable?
Why smartphone can cause major stress, anxiety in children
It protects against attacks where the bad actor is trying to get your browser to do something you don't want. It's OK for browser security measures to rely on web browsers to implement them.
An easier solution would be for challenger to supply a new account id, and if claim is successful, all the funds are transferred there. This can all be done via smart contract. Brilliant idea, love it!
I might be remembering the wrong bot, but iirc it was limited only in average APM, and targetting pro-level average APM.

So two immediate and obvious flaws were:

1. It could still burst, with overwhelming APM during combat

2. Pro APM is not the same as bot APM, as humans have far more limited precision, and a lot of human APM is wasted on redundant behavior as a result (eg spam clicking to make sure the order goes through)

If its still the same, then the bot probably still has lots of excess APM to burn through without impacting micro performance.
Life on this planet is not possible without nitrogen compounds either. They are also pollutants that can harm people and other living creatures when too much of them enter the atmosphere and water. They were among the first pollutants to be recognized and controlled under the original Clean Air and Clean Water acts. "It's just plant food" is a bad reason to leave emissions of NOx, nitrates, and ammonia unregulated. "It's just plant food" is also a bad reason to leave CO2 emissions unregulated.
Does this surprise anyone?
Traffic doesn't not equal conversion, it never did.

If you need to call yourself an influencer, you are unlikely one.
Instagram's policies to market itself don't change facts.

Marketers used to pride themselves being hidden persuaders.
Hey, so I wanted to do some digging and dig into some questions I had about this space. This is what I found.

https://foodtruckempire.com/coffee/fail-rates/

These are the #1 and #2 reasons given in the survey that coffee shops fail out of a survey of 232 former coffee shop owners:

Unprepared for business ownership – 128 responses
No Distinct Brand / Experience – 94 responses

So it's clear to me that the "Independent Coffee" sub vertical is struggling. Further I'd worry that "Cloosiv" (and this would be true with "Grubhub") dilutes brands if they're not already strong. The distinct brand / experience goes away when every independent coffee shop has the same app for order ahead that the others do. Instead of the "Stomping Grounds" ordering experience, you get the Cloosiv ordering experience for "Stomping Grounds".

With GrubHub, your customer has no personal experience anymore with your store, employees, or brand. Instead, you get a GrubHub employee (hopefully not too grubby) and trust that your customer experience / brand is handled by the delivery person -- something which is completely out of your control.

So one way to think of this is that the independent coffee shop market is a scourge to investment opportunities and you should pivot off coffee shops ASAP.

Another way to think of this is that the independent coffee market is the right market, but the ordering ahead app is not the solution they need. They need strong branding.
Disclaimer: I do not work at FAANG. Having said that, if you are sincere in trying to understand, consider the following:

1. Not every tech person agrees with you on the degree of evilness of Google. The set of such people is huge, despite what you read here on HN. Google employees are a mere tiny subset. I wish I could remember the name, but there's a fallacy that goes like this: "If everyone has the same information as I do, then they will have the same conclusion. If they do not, then it's likely they are deluding themselves or are malicious". Consider if you are falling for that fallacy.

(I too fall into that camp - my angst towards Google is not their monopolistic endeavors, but the fact that there hasn't been any good user visible thing from them for years. They're not innovating in that space any more).

2. Most people have to work 30-40 years to retire - even in the tech industry. The companies where you don't are the outliers. And in most non-Google companies, life is very mundane. The company/employee relationship often isn't good. There's always politics, and there are always problem people. Furthermore, if you're fairly smart, the level of incompetence you'll perceive elsewhere is large. I could make a rather large list of annoyances in the life in a typical company. Say you're working in one of those, and now see you have 30+ years to put up with this.

From what I've heard, Google has a lot fewer of these immediate, local problems. Overall, Google treats its people much better. I'm sure they have their own problems, but I suspect they're a much smaller subset than the problems at your average workplace.

The key thing to understand about human nature: Local factors will always play a much bigger role than global ones. In the long run (think decades), working for an employer who treats you better is a big gain. After about a decade at a mediocre company, it's hard to tell yourself that "Yeah the working life sucks, but at least I'm not a monopoly!" for 2-3 more decades.

I'll take myself as an example. I was recently asked if I wanted to interview for a company in an industry that had been my dream since childhood to work in. The work they do is changing the world in a way I advocate (as opposed to serving ads). In the beginning of my career, I would have said "Yes, sign me up!" But now that I've worked for a number of years, I know better and immediately turned them down. Yes, they're doing good for the world. But also yes, the work/life balance sucks, and although the salary is larger than mine, it's not near Google level (i.e. if I move there, I still have to work for decades to retire). The company has a reputation of being abusive to its employees.

Local effects matter more.

Now of course, there are companies out there with good employee satisfaction, and with a lot less pay than Google. I would wager most of their employees do not leave for Google.
This just sounds so dystopian to me. You can't replace early childhood interpersonal relationships with a computer. I can remember a number of teachers who had a positive impact on my life because of the relationship we had. I understand you'd want to have other things (mentorship etc) but in reality it would get stripped down to videos + teacher.

Replacing a career teacher with a low-skill babysitter who is half-disinterested does not seem like an improvement. Neither does having students glued to a screen all day instead of interacting with other humans. Those interpersonal skills are more important -- even in tech -- and an educational model like this would inevitably cut back on those by providing a cheaper alternative to human interaction.
for Windows: OpalCalc

more than nostalgic website but actively maintained: https://www.skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/

calcing with time is a bit jumpy at times, but other than that I love it for quick napkin calcing stuff

costs 15 bucks
Maybe consider places that sell supplies to metal foundries; olivine sand is used as a refractory in some ferrous casting processes. Or maybe check eBay or Mercadolibre or whatever your local equivalent is. I don't think there's a construction or pottery use for olivine sand, so the usual sand suppliers may not have it.
But in order to tell if it contains PII it has to be listened in by a human to transcribe it... It's like Schrödinger's audio assistant ;)