skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Global Pawn Market size was xx million US$ and it is expected to reach xx million US$ by the end of 2025, with a CAGR of xx% during 2019-2025.

While many items can be pawned, pawnshops typically accept jewelry, musical instruments, home audio equipment, computers, video game systems, televisions, cameras, power tools, firearms, and other relatively valuable items as collateral

This report focuses on the global Pawn status, future forecast, growth opportunity, key market and key players. The study objectives are to present the Pawn development in United States, Europe and China.

Top Companies:
New Liberty Loans, Soundview, New York Loan, EZ Pawn, Pico Union, A Plus A, Strtori Jewelry and Pawn, Exakt, City Pfand, Leopold, Fish Brothers, Attenborough Jewellers and Pawnbrokers, H and T Pawnbrokers, PawnDirect
Leaving knowledge on the table out of arrogance is not the same thing as entrepreneurship. Although i am as surprised as you that someone on HN managed to make the distinction.
How about the ability to sell one's account, then? This is currently forbidden in the EULA, as far as I know, but I don't think it would hurt prices that much.

Or purchase a "license upgrade" to resell the game. That would be a deferred commission not everyone has to pay. Include the option to purchase it together with the game, and attach it to the license being transferred (I don't think they could get away with selling that upgrade multiple times in a row).

I do not see this as a black-or-white situation. I am all for giving consumers more rights, and feel like we have been brainwashed into accepting the status quo by Big Tech™.

I do not blame valve. They are one of the better players in the market, and it doesn't surprise me that they just used an existing commercial model everyone was already familiar with. I appreciate the fact that we are having this overdue conversation right now, and that at least some courts recognize the consumer some rights.

> How about the ability to sell one's account, then? This is currently forbidden in the EULA, as far as I know, but I don't think it would hurt prices that much.

That point was made again and again to justify the previous "no refunds" policy. It wouldn't surprise me if changing that policy actually kind of had the opposite effect (have people buy more games). Of course, people can also buy more expensive games now due to the same reason: not sure if the game is worth that price? Buy it and refund if it isn't (previously you wouldn't have bought it).

I am quite interested in seeing the same ruling apply to ebooks/others as well. The only thing I am afraid of is if they turn everything into a subscription. Subscriptions are evil (except for recurring donations, in my book).
I only use Firefox on desktop, but I stopped using it on Android because for a period of time it needed something like one minute to show a web page. Since I don't mobile browse much I just uninstalled it and use Chrome. Privacy is a lost cause on Android anyway. Maybe one day I'll be able to afford an iPhone + the Mac needed to make apps for it.
Wasn't there recently a link posted on HN to a service to help developers(maybe anyone) stay accountable with their projects? Perhaps someone can help me out here, as I can't find it.
It's a very nice proof. Note that this implicitly relies on a great trick used in probability theory, namely that E(X_1 + X_2 + ... + X_n) = E(X_1) + E(X_2) + ... + E(X_n), even if the random variables are not independent. In this specific case X_i = "the number of clumps where the ith slowest car is in front of" which is either 0 or 1.
But how many are actually using uBlock Origin? Nearly every person I come across is using AdBlock, AdBlock Plus, or some other adblocker, no matter how many times I recommend they switch to uBlock Origin. Most people are not aware of what Chrome’s changes mean (or of the changes at all) and for those that do use uBlock Origin, my guess is most people will simply switch to a different adblocker rather than switch to a different browser.

I doubt uBlock Origin being removed from Chrome will change the status quo. Maybe in a few years when enough powerusers convince enough casual users. If you just look at software out in the world, it's clear that powerusers have next to zero influence. It's why desktop Linux use, for example, is still just a blip after all of these years.
Looks like a space suit.
Putin: Hold my Vodka
Easier on the eyes, at least for me.
The simple example I gave can’t give you any sort of quantitative answer as far as how much the earth will warm, as you pointed out the earth climate is a complex system with many feedbacks. But it’s an easy way to see the basic principle.
We've explicitly avoided the predictions that Paul Ehrlich made in The Population Bomb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager

Predictions without deadlines are not useful because you can keep kicking the can down the road forever. That's exactly what Paul Ehrlich has done since all of his predictions didn't happen.
I work remotely and have recently taken on a bunch of responsibility with two non-profit orgs. And I've found my time getting crunched between everything. So, I've started detailed time tracking to make sure that I don't slip on work hours, especially since it's not 9-5.

I don't submit it to anyone, it's just for myself. And, it turned out that I wasn't slipping at all. But, the peace of mind of being able to prove it to myself was good. A nice side effect is seeing which projects or types of activities take up my time.

Other accountability things I've been doing lately is writing more comments, documentation, and focusing on writing code that is easy for others to jump into (well structured modules, one-click dev setup, automated deploys, etc). That is, even on projects for myself or where I'm likely to be the only person ever to touch it. It is good practice to get into and it does help a lot when you're coming back to something after 6 months.
Architecture at sea: Japan’s floating ryokan
SQL Aggregation Exercises
I can't help but find it vaguely amusing that you seem to find "toilet" (literally, "small cloth") and "lavatory" ("washing place") somehow more correct than "bathroom."

Also, people usually talk/write in their own dialect. "Bathroom" is how you say it in American English. If the article were about Victorian French bathrooms, would you find it weird if it didn't use "salle de bains" ("room of baths")?
Some are spot on - but most have a tiny bit of uncanny valley going on. Unmatched eye direction, wide faces or artifacts.
If you think all Afghans are accountable, why stop there? Why just 30? US can bomb the hell out of AF, all terrorists after all.

If you don't think that way, assuming that you're from US, you should demand an answer for each and every civilian death.
This is absurd. When I buy a game on Steam, I fully understand that it doesn't have any resale value – and I easily agree to this deal, because I choose to forgo resale rights so I can get the game cheaper. But now this court have effectively destroyed my freedom to make this choice as a customer. And to add insult to injury, it's done this under the pretense of defending my rights, as if I'm an idiot who's not capable of making an informed choice.

I really hope Valve finds a way to fight this. I don't want to go back to pre-Steam PC game prices.
There's so much error being displayed here I barely know where to begin.

> Civilians dying is bad and we should avoid it, but it’s obviously not morally dispositive since we do it too.

Of course the killing of civilians is "morally dispositive." If civilians were accidentally killed in the strike our military will exhibit some accountability, and if civilians were deliberately targeted it would be a crime and it would be prosecuted.

When the Taliban kills civilians, that's the point. The civilians are the target.

Civilian deaths are an outrage but there's no moral equivalence between the parties or their actions.

> If a foreign power occupied America, Americans would do the exact same thing. In fact, that’s what Americans did during the Revolution. You can’t hope to make sense of the issue unless you morally analyze the ends for which people are fighting. Islamic State is wrong and must be stamped out because the end for which they’re fighting is wrong. Americans fighting the British to establish a Republic, by contrast, is right.

We aren't talking about the Islamic State, we're talking about the Taliban.

This just scratches the surface of how badly you misunderstand the conflict. There are a number of parties involved in the conflict in Afghanistan - including the Taliban and IS - and some of them are our allies. It is literally nothing like Americans fighting the revolution.

(in that bizarre analogy, we would be... France?)
I prefer content blockers iOS style vs the alternate.
Here's a list of off-shore wind projects in Crown Estate waters. Currently, there's about 8GW of capacity in operation, and a further 19GW in various stages of construction or planning.

(This does not include on-shore wind farms, or projects in Scottish waters)

https://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/media/3308/offshorewindproj...
Not to distract from the good point made above that the kid is smart by arguing about the syntax of words of the article, but what makes you certain he didn’t actually put words what his mother implied he said?

The article is not explicit on this point, it does not claim she interpreted them, the article says: “As I learned on his birthday, my son had decided three things about smartphones.“ That wording does imply they may have had a conversation, on his birthday, which is now being summarized. That implication is reinforced with “(He was onto something there)” because it implies he stated an objection to being monitored.
You can tracking pixels to track per-user engagement. You can also use tracking links to connect the email address to website activity. As you say, it's possible to use these to track in the aggregate, but many platforms allow tracking by individual.

You are correct that the email was already personal data. But, GDPR requires that each new use of data be transparently communicated and legally justified (which may or may not mean consent), even if it's only using data you already have. The fact that they have already identified the user does not resolve the issue--GDPR still cares when you collect more data about a known user.

Meaning, even though you are justified using the email address to send the newsletter, you may not be in the clear building an engagement profile associated with that email. Which, apparently, some email marketers do.
Everyone should go to therapy. I don't think I've ever met a person who doesn't need to talk things out, from time to time, with a semi-objective, third party.

Most of us were raised by imperfect people trying their best who still made a lot of mistakes. Even people who had really prepared parents probably experienced things which might have left us with some unresolved issues.

Go see a therapist. Its not a big deal.
The worst thing about DNS based filtering is that it can’t block same domain based ads. For example, YouTube servers ads on the same domain, which totally makes DNS based blocking useless. I moved on to Safari content blockers for this reason, from the hosts file based ad blocking.
I find a bit strange that he didn't think of Pihole as one of the alternative.

https://pi-hole.net/
> in their behaviour towards creatures, all men were Nazis.

Which is more than a little ironic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism
People asking questions are being obtuse and also clearly aren't in the UK where this legislation is aimed.

It would be like a continental European going to America and going, "What are all these MILES things? It's confusing!".
Nope, rebel is the positive (or at least neutral) version of terrorist, the terrorist for your side.

This exact oratory slight of hand is used constantly in media, virtue signaling through word choice.
“As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”

Pythagoras
Firefox on Android is a usability shitshow compared to Chrome on Android.

What makes you say that? Firefox has been my primary mobile browser for over 5 years, am I missing something?
Bill McKibben: The Climate Crisis Is a Human Issue
Relevant Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
I do not usually comment on Hacker News, but heck, I am actually proud of what I am building this time. I run an open-source WordPress hosting company focused on privacy — well, kinda, it is in closed beta —, so my stack is, maybe, a little boring.

Dedicated AMD 32 core RAID 10 servers from Hetzner running LXD for customer containers — seven containers per server on the cheapest plan. Each dedicated server has their filesystem encrypted with LUKS — including /boot — and each container runs the "default" WordPress stack, i.e., NGINX, PHP-FPM, MariaDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, Postfix, WP-CLI, fail2ban, monit, aide, etc.

WordPress is modified to leak less data by default — heck, by default you can use their REST API to get the email of anyone who leaves a comment —, have a better-looking dashboard experience, and each container runs a TOR bridge to help people in oppressive regimes.

All servers run a slightly modified version of Ubuntu, resolve DNS queries using one of my 8 DNSCrypt servers, are managed using on-premise Canonical Landscape and connect to a Hashicorp Vault instance for credentials and whatnot.

Backups are handled by another big Hetzner server — sitting at 60 TB of storage right now —, by Rsync.net in their Switzerland location and by another server in my house. All backups are encrypted by default, but I still need to implement a way to test them to make sure they work.

The customer portal is being built with Laravel and will connect to the Hashicorp Vault instance to get credentials for customers. We didn't choose the payment gateway yet, as the company is incorporated in Romania and options are kinda scarce, but we will probably go with Adyen and BitPay, which will connect to our Invoice Ninja instance.

The onboarding process for new customers is handled with Jitsi Meet — again, another Hetzner server.

The help desk was initially handled by Help Scout, but I migrated to Full Help recently — which I found on Hacker News —, and I could not be happier. The developer behind it is super awesome and went as far as adding GPG encryption and Postmark support when I asked for it.

I do have six other partners, but as I am currently building everything out myself, I guess it qualifies as a company of one? Partners will be responsible for different parts of the business, i.e., legal, documentation, and whatnot.
Autonomy = Anarchy
> devolving this question back out to the states, so states that overwhelmingly support restrictions regain some knobs to accomplish that (through licensure requirements)

The issue with this is that there are no border or customs checks between US states (with some rare, ad-hoc exceptions). The result of this is you get states like Indiana and Virginia selling weapons with relatively few restrictions that travel up an "iron pipeline" to cities with more restrictions like Chicago and New York.

The federal government is supposed to regulate interstate trade, but has decided that they won't regulate interstate transfer of guns _in this way_, so the most lax state law will de facto become the baseline for an entire region.
Oh I think you would be surprised and horrified at how many billion dollar companies with large development teams still don't do version control properly, or at all.

A pattern I see recurring from teams that were forced to start doing version control begrudgingly:

Pull down code from staging or production to local machine.
Make changes.
Push to qa or staging to test.
All good? Push to production.
All good? NOW push it to version control.

W. T. F. F?

Keeps me up at night.
The fact that triple A games have similar prices today on steam to the times when they also had both disk printing, physical distribution to stores and resale figured in seems to contradict that assertion. The main thing that’s keeping prices down seems to be the storm of smaller indie games and sales (which for Triple A games happen much much later in the lifecycle these days).
Well that sounds like a problem of "I run my own cloud". And not a problem of Kubernetes. You dont remember how you set it up, oh well.

If you use a managed kubernetes (not in aws since they suck, eks is not really managed). Like gke or aks, then you skip the whole "there is a problem in my own cloud of my own making".

btw, I also encountered DNS problems in kubernetes, on ACS, it took 5-10 minutes to resolve, and was caused by ACS not having services enabled to restart dns upon reboot, lol.
I'm not sure which point you're trying to make. Of course every new technology needs someone to do the work. That doesn't take away from the technology's merit. If Drew is now doing all this work, then great! Now is the best time ever to be adopting Wayland.

(Speaking as someone who just switched to Sway two weeks ago.)
I'm sorry folks have to confront this graphic imagery so often. If you could use ML to classify killing in a scene better, you could do the public and the researchers a favor. Use the classifier to limit the impact of a terrorist video before it is spread to social media and give researchers a chance to organize and consent to watching certain sections of the video when and if needed.
Why do you think he'd be out right now? Manning got 35 years, was only out due to a pardon, and is right back in again.

Also consider that he's been able to advocate for privacy for years now, something he couldn't (easily) do from a cell.
William Burroughs: Cut-Ups
TLDR from the TechCrunch article:

> This [...] is in addition to the $7 billion the company has invested since 2007 in the EU, [...] today’s announcement was focused on Google’s commitment to building data centers running on clean energy.
Solution for React and TypeScript and Emotion and Tailwindcss
As usual, SV tech founders have a fix for all that ails mankind, one that takes a data-driven approach and is 10X effective!
I think his status makes him more believable, considering he is one of the only ones who told the truth about the American surveillance system. You know his conscience is more important to him than his job or family. I would say that makes him pretty trustworthy.
"convicted"? It seems as though this would be a civil issue, not criminal. I'm not sure to which case you're referring in Australia, but it appears this case was civil.
WebSocket Inspection in Firefox 70
Please, read this idea regarding use of superoptimizers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GSv89tiQmPDcnFEu4n4CqfaJcUJ...
How can you go into the private thinking of people? Are we going to surveil them? It’s impractical.
Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard [pdf]
^ this is they key to being wealthy, counterfeiting :)
I highly doubt that smaller ones are able to sustain themselves using ads. I'd put the number in thousands, maybe tens of thousands.
They fragment on trivial parts which is pointless for the evolution.
Rent control only applies to buildings built before a particular date. So unless the developer is using a time machine, rent control can't affect the potential profit from building.
Is this for real? Are they really using open networks at WeWork? The only ones I've been to had my own company's private wifi running.
What are you saying is the privacy advantage exactly? Regular adblockers also block requests before they happen - there's no "phoning home."
The agencies responsible are unable to deal with requests, so for all intends and purposes, the laws are toothless until they start cracking down on it, and there's nothing I can do/nobody I can tell about it.
> To cover this contingency, I would like to propose an analogue to Pascal's famous wager… If I'm right, we will save the world. If I'm wrong, people will still be better fed, better housed, and happier,thanks to our efforts.

Thanks to our efforts...how arrogant to claim future responsiblity for our success at feeding and housing 8 billion people. Of course our present ability to do that has nothing to do with The Population Bomb or the mania it encouraged.
From a Failed Facebook Interview to Founding a Profitable Business in Under 12mo
Ugh. Now it's like England. I didn't know that either but I suppose because I'm old I've not tried to drink after 10pm recently.
We still have gas in the North Sea. However we do import LNG too now fairly regularly so it is costing more.
Are you not concerned by the permissions Adguard requires?
Unless I am missing something, his point seems to be different. He doesn’t seem to care about the non-repudiation of a user
People keep repeating this on HN but I've been on Firefox for about a year no and everything just works.
https://www.electricitymap.org/?page=country&solar=false&rem...

Looking at that I get a very different view of UK electricity grid, one where natural gas plays its very very common role when wind/solar is not at its peak production.

Would be very interesting to see the UK pledge to get rid of the natural gas plants at some date in the future, rather than say build more of them.
I want to learn Julia but I have a very big concern: does it actually alter your personality in a way that makes you condescend to everyone about their inferior programming languages, or is it just that people who already are condescending choose to learn Julia?
What's the argument to support the claim he'd have served a 5 year jail sentence only? Reality Winner, who leaked far fewer documents in a far less damaging way several years after Snowden's leak and who had not become a real political football, got 5 years in a plea bargain. Chelsea Manning got 35 years commuted to 7. We know Obama wouldn't have commuted Snowden -- and at any rate the Obama pardon of Manning seemed as much about the human rights issue of a transgender woman in military prison receiving fairly poor treatment -- but even if we assume Snowden would have gotten commuted at 7 years he'd still be in jail.

Ending a claim that starts with "He'd be out of jail by now" with "He'd have a better reputation if like these other two guys he let himself get executed" also makes it a little hard to reconcile.
Firefox on iPhone doesn't support addons either unfortunately
> he'd be out of jail by now

What are you basing that on? There have been no comparable cases that I know of. On the other hand, from known hacking punishments, Kevin Mitnick served 5 years - I doubt Snowden would get any less. Manning got way more as mentioned in another comment.
When I did remote work I had a similar issue, and still have it with my own projects. The way I overcome the self-lag is to compartmentalize - I have an internal boss hat / worker hat. When I think about goals, timelines, progress etc. and set those goals I don't think in terms of "I want to / need to", but "My $boss would want /need..." and think of bosses that I respected and did good work for.

tl:dr; I get myself into the headspace that I'm working for someone else to overcome my own ability to undervalue my own projects.
Bitpacking faster when SIMD is not available
Zelda Games on the Philips CD-i
would the organizer of the biggest metal festivals
It's only fitting drinking water molecules that millions have already drank and urinated before, next to said urinal.
People do terrible things and being exposed to it in concentrated form will make you less happy by some amount related to what you're exposed to, the concentration and your personal tolerance. Water is wet. More news at 11.
No benefit in growth mindset theory, study says