skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That encapsulates what happened in the transition from text parser (keyboard-driven) games to mouse-driven games: discoverability went up, complexity went down; the first generation of gamers lost interest and a second larger generation of gamers came into being.
Sure, but this person was probably given another set of more general policies to work with, and what they came up with was reasonable for the vast majority of cases. It's hard to imagine every single edge case (open source apps with donation links are definitely the minority) and policies will evolve over time to be more comprehensive.
I thought that Freedom was the most important tenet of the USA? If something doesn't harm anyone, should it be deterred just because it has associated behaviors that do? Should going to the shooting range be illegal because it makes people better marksmen therefore increasing fatalities in mass shootings?
Absolutely. You will get the best work out of an employee if they have as much autonomy and creative input as possible. I've never understood why that's so difficult for a lot of managers to realize. I suspect most people aren't cut out for leadership because they don't have the trust, confidence or lack of ego required to motivate people without power tripping on them.
Are there good city locations still available? (By water, large enough area available, not actively attempting to kill you)
Thanks for the suggestion. I had a cursory look at them but their interface wasn't exactly clear for nonprofits. For example, I couldn't figure out how to get email going for the org. I'll give their support a shout and give them a second look.
We curate the front page for interestingness (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Advertisement has nothing to do with it. If there's a class of articles you're seeing here consistently that you don't think gratifies intellectual curiosity, I'd like to know what they are. Usually the trouble is that users don't all share the same curiosity, but it's possible that we need to make a change somehow.

We also try to make sure that hard-paywalled articles don't appear on the front page, though that's gotten complicated because those publications work differently for different users.
I did, and I think she doth protest too much.

Again, picture the picture-fedora. What if the dude told you "it's just a natural part of the process of achieving goals" ? Would you think to yourself "wow there's a well rounded individual who handled that well"? Or would you think he was a fucking weirdo?
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I'm thinking more in terms of one such (possible) axis conservative-liberal, not in terms of two-party politics. So while there are countless numbers of ways we could categorize people I think conservative-liberal is a rather well-defined and by necessity over-simplified characterization.

"Conservative" can be defined as a person who wants to conserve society as it is now or as it was earlier, the good old 1950s.

"Liberal" means a person who would like to liberate what is currently oppressed.

I assume that "conservatives" want to conserve their own power because who in their right mind would want to conserve a situation where they are oppressed. Those who want "liberation" do not want to conserve the current state of affairs.
Minimalism, minimalist are you one?
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I wish they could use this to turn off touch input on the screen when I'm not looking at the phone.
I also built something that tangles with color, contrast and accessibility: http://strapless.io

I think the fun comes in working around the challenges you mentioned. The standards are sometimes lacking design-wise in what's allowed but they're pretty good at ensuring readability across devices.

I've been messing around with the Turbo colormap, another new one that seems really useful for UI design, and solving these problems in particular: https://rexriepe.github.io/tpcs/
For Latter-day Saints (Mormons), the entrepreneurship roots go back to the early church history. Between 1831-1847, members of the church established 4 settlements and were expelled from 3(Kirtland, OH; Western Missouri; Nauvoo, IL; Salt Lake City). These areas were all frontiers at the time, and grew to become the largest cities in their region, which drew fear and persecution from people in the surrounding areas. Salt Lake was many hundreds of miles from the closest white settlement, and Brigham Young intentionally assigned/coerced/funded as many crafts and industries as possible to reduce dependence on trade with the (indifferent to hostile) United States. And established dozens of settlements throughout the Mountain West. So you have generations of entrepreneurs that had a captive market that needed EVERYTHING, and only internal competition.

Also, many Latter-day Saints go on 2 year missions in their late teens/early 20s, where you mostly self-direct your proselyting in the area you are assigned to. Good sales experience, self-starting, persistence, etc.

It's a potent combination for business.
The included video stated that the comet is composed of similar materials to those that make up our solar system. I am assuming they discovered that using Hubble's spectroscopy capabilities (STIS).
Early in my career, I worked for two companies run by orthodox Jews that sold lots of goods on Amazon.
That's not how water works. It doesn't magically spread out throughout the entire ocean immediately
This comes to mind:
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
>This has caused me to come to the conclusion that people aren't aware of the trade-offs or what is going on.

But what exactly is going on? It's not like google going to blackmail you for 10K USD in cash, single payment please, once it will learn that you are going to the same pub and spend 2 hours there daily, "or we will let your boss know".

It will show you more relevant ads, right. But do you really expect an average person to be scared by this?
This was a Tory policy. It was never about enabling parental choice; there are already tons of products for that. Taking away the option for parents to be "liberal" is part of the point.

The main point however was to generate favourable headlines in the Tory press, at the time of passing the law, which is why they lost all interest in actually implementing it.
Assistant is so far ahead.
That will at least be earthquake proof (assuming we are still discussing SF bay)
I'm not talking about global sea level, I'm talking about flooding outside of the dikes. This happens all the time in the Mississippi river.
It's not an either/or. It's often both. 11% of the homeless population is US military veterans [1], often returning home with undiagnosed or untreated mental illnesses. They're failed by our healthcare system (same as opioid abusers) and sent out onto the streets. I'm sure there is significant overlap with prescription drug abuse and homeless veterans as well.

[1] http://nchv.org/index.php/news/media/background_and_statisti...
Michael buble is one of the worst offenders. To a studio trained ear the production and crude pitch correction is all over.
If I finish stuff early there’s always more that can be done to help the team. Our ci can be improved, our ux can be polished, app perf can be profiled, engineers can be mentored, customers can be listened to, relationships can be strengthened, unit tests can be added, refactoring can be done, architecture can be simplified, etc.

It feels good to help people, as long as it’s with healthy boundaries so as to prevent burnout.
This is a great summary and I agree with the findings mostly. I think we should separate the "DoH the protocol" from the "DoH decision of using a public resolver". For "DoH the protocol", widespread adoption by most users' default resolvers is about as likely as widespread adoption of DNSSEC and DoT. For "DoH decision of using a public resolver", that decision can be done today with resolvers that support DNSSEC/DoT.

So if we want users to use a hardcoded default resolver different than their ISP's, come out and say that and stop conflating it w/ the protocol. If we want users to use the DoH protocol, we're in the same boat as asking them to use DNSSEC/DoT. Therefore, for the idea of a hardcoded default resolver in one browser, if it's really something a browser wants to do, why are they waiting on a protocol? And for the idea in another browser of checking known protocol support of the existing resolver, do/can they do that with DoT too? And can they do something besides a hardcoded list to check resolver capabilities (i.e. can I return an additional record/bit from my DNS servers that is essentially DNS equivalent of HTTP Alt-Svc to say I support DoH)?
> You could provide home broadband using a wireless, mobile-network like system if you wanted to.

Why do you continue referencing one of the most densely populated cities in the world as the unit of measure? This is for un-served and under-served areas which is half the globe. Of course they aren't building this to displace NYC's current ISPs. They clearly ran financials before investing... you seem like you're just trying to find a reason to say it's stupid without bothering to consider that someone smarter than you MIGHT have done a little research before spending a couple billion dollars.
You seem to be presenting confused ideas.

Here's what I believe:

If I pay you a salary, I want (roughly) 40 hours per week of productive work at your current skill level. Note: I consider sitting around thinking about things relevant to the product or company to be productive work. If you believe your level of output deserves higher compensation than you are receiving, come talk to me or find a company that will pay what you think you are worth. However, accepting a salary and then doing tasks really fast and then going idle (watching netflix, working on side projects, etc.) until your manager cattle prods you is not acceptable for a salaried employee; that would be more appropriate for a contractor where you can idle on your own dime.
It's a bit different than that. The decay of a neutron into a proton and an electron conserved charge, mass-energy (to an expected degree), and momentum. However, spin was not conserved. The neutrino was dreamed up as kind of a placeholder for the spin. However, it turned out that it was a real thing!

The mass-energy arithmetic should not be the thing you look at for a couple of reasons. First, it's quite difficult to measure with exactitude. Second, the binding energy for particles and their constituents plays a part that is easily within error bounds.
Yeah it does stump me. mass transit doesn’t cover this case 99% of the time. Sometimes there is a greyhound bus line or Amtrak that will get you where you need to go, but even in the best case driving will usually get you there faster and cheaper.
> I’m guessing so many people on HN are anti-car because they live their lives through their computer and never feel the need to travel outside their immediate area?

Not at all! I just rent when I want to go camping. Although, the commuter trains open up a lot of nice options for weekend trips that don't require a car. And that way I can read a book or enjoy the scenery instead of driving.

> What if your job involves visiting many different locations in your city throughout the day?

Unless you are counting Uber drivers, I don't think this describes many of the cars on the streets.

> This is also NYC which is considered a model city for public transport.

Only in comparison to other US cities, which is an incredibly low bar.
Are you intentionally missing the point?
Maybe, just maybe, the people doing the catching know what they are doing?
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It was the same with opting out of the backscatter scanners when they started rolling them out. They had signs up saying you could opt out and instead receive an "enhanced" pat down, but TSA would make a big deal about it. They'd shout "We have an opt out!", pull you aside, and you'd have to wait for someone to be available to pat you down (which was itself an unpleasant experience). The vast majority of people don't want to go through that and just accept the scanner.

These days I don't even know if it's still possible to opt out. I haven't seen a sign saying you can in ages.
You should ask FastMail - maybe they’d be willing to do something for a non-profit even though you don’t fit the “standard” non-profit requirements.
Unfortunately "you can take this code and do what you want with it, but you can't make the code proprietary" is not the Open Source definition AT ALL. This applies to software released under the GNU licenses, or copyleft licenses.

Open source can MOST DEFINITELY be made totally proprietary.
Interesting.
Two-three years ago I had such idea but in a Pokemon-style called ReademonGO = Read them on Go

The main idea was/is for adding attractive ways to the education system with achievement badges

People as constant learners can gather achievement badges during their lifetime
I am a Mormon SMB owner, and I agree with your point, but in the interest of full disclosure, there is a darker side to this tendency as well. Utah (read Mormons) is the MLM capital of the world, with other get rich quick schemes being pretty popular as well.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/theslice/mormon-utah-valley-mu...
I mean... Masayoshi Son must be one of the worst investors in history, at least in terms of absolute losses. That guy loses more money than anyone.

Lost 70B during the dot com crash. Writing down billions in 2019 on Uber and WeWork. I know a few folks that worked at other companies he/Vision Fund invested in. One received $200M and they had no idea what to do with it. They spent it on headcount, which isn't the smartest when you don't know what direction to go. That investment will never see a positive return.

Anyways, other than Alibaba, does Masa have any other big wins?
So if I write a legit open source app and release it, and link to a donation page, that's wrong? I don't deserve some credit for my work?

Oh right, it's because Google wants me to have some kind of "pro" app that is effectively a license, that they can get their 30% cut of.

They don't give a damn about fraud via this method. They want their money.
For rural coverage, fiber builds are _very_ expensive.

For cities, you're right - 5G + high frequency wavelengths is probably cheaper - but not by that much assuming SpaceX's numbers are accurate.

The problem is 85% of the population is absolutely not covered by high frequency spectrum - tower/DAS coverage is optimized for sub 1Ghz bands. We would need billions upon billions of additional tower builds to deliver an adequate experience on spectrum that basically requires line of sight. Even in cities. Some of that has been invested already (e.g. VZ can reuse their Fios plant in many locations), but certainly not everywhere.

Satellites may very well be more cost effective.
Eggs last a deceptively long time. I've had eggs for a month after the expiration date. I always do the "sink or float" test and then make sure they don't smell like sulfur once I crack them
Hit and a miss, but you still managed to be offensive and elitist.

People always tout these things as if it invalidates the whole idea. You like to go to the mountains in the weekend? Cool, do so, doesn't mean you need to drive to work everyday. Want to visit your family in a city having banned cars? Sounds awful the way you put it, but don't you think things change with time? People adapt. Maybe the closeness to family becomes a factor next time you move. Or banning cars improves public transport infrastructure.
That's a good question, now that we have [u]int8_t, [u]int16_t, etc. for explicit bitness values. (Although both can have more than specified number of bits on some platforms.)
Sounds horrible. Have meetings when they are necessary. Talk to people throughout the day. Send weekly status reports.

Don't waste a day resolve that issue now.
>I have never understood the appeal of BitCoin as a means of purchasing or selling illegal materials. The entire transaction history is literally encoded in a public ledger!

In defense of it, there are various sites where you can find a local seller online and go give them cold hard cash and have it sent to a one time wallet. Then go home and then, or at some date in the future, deposit it into a DNM wallet and order whatever you want.

From that point you basically have to have a DNM compromised, them to track every single external deposit, track down BilboBaggins17 that you traded cash for, then attempt to get the records for the site you contacted him via as well as try to get him to remember where he met you and when to go attempt to get surveillance then hope either the logs of the site or the surveillance video lead them to you so they can hope to find some way to catch you buying another ounce of shrooms in the future.

But yes, it's stupid for things like the above where creeps probably went to an exchange, bought bitcoin with their bank account then transferred it to their wallet then the ring (or directly to the ring).

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Now as a seller, yeah bitcoin is generally just dumb. Sure there are DNM vendors that will convert it to cold hard cash for you (I suspect in the U.S. this is probably being done by some dispensaries, or companies serving dispensaries, to get some of their cash digital) but there is a lot of trust there. Aside from those services, there's no really semi-anonymous way to convert your bitcoin that you obtain from illicit trade into fiat unless you want to get really complicated and shift it from bitcoin to some other crypto, then probably go another step and shift it from that crypto to a third crypto, then from there convert the crypto to fiat. Each stage you are losing transaction fees and probably paying some sort of premium which is going to really start digging into your profit and then you still have to clean the fiat to make it legitimate if you're talking about money you plan to live off of. If you were a small-time seller of something you might fly under the radar by claiming it's various mined and day-traded crypto you've been holding for years but you're probably going to want to pay short term capital gains on it when ou convert fiat and get hammered hard on the taxes which to me would make breaking multiple laws just not worth it.

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What I really want to know is how are the larger ransomware operators converting it to fiat unless they are just using it to buy drugs and/or carded merchandise then sell that for fiat.
There are numerous variant "capitalism (is|as) the engine of (growth|wealth|progress|innovation)" quips and assertions which are trivially found.

Most seem to have emerged since the 1950s, at an increasing rate through the 60s, 70s, 80s, and onward. Largely (though not wholly) from right/libertarian propaganda mills and commentators, repeated liturgically as articles of faith.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=capitalism+engine+of+growth&ia=web

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=capitalism+engine+of+(growth%7Cwea...

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=engine%20of%20...

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=engine+of+prog...

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=engine+of+inno...
>> Note: The day after this interview took place, the Sun, Britain’s largest
newspaper by circulation, ran with the front-page headline, “Putin’s Puppet:
Corbyn Refuses to Blast Russia on Spy Attack,” as the leader of the Labour
Party did not unreservedly endorse sanctions on Russia.

I've noticed this sort of thing and it just doesn't make sense. The UK press
(not just the tabloids) loves to present Corby as simultaneously a "Red" and a
"Putin's puppet". How does that work? Putin is not a communist. He's probably
as far as it's possible to be from being a communist without being a
Stalinist.

Corby is clearly a leftie, so what's his affiliation to Putin supposed to be?
Why is the British press _still_ associating Russia to communism? They missed
the memo in 1989?

(Ask me for refs on the press calling Corby a commie if you are curious).
I think it is a matter of critical mass. Crawl had so few instances of "you need to be spoiled or try random stuff to get this" that pressure got them removed (although always controversial). Nethack lives and breathes it, and it has so many that you are likely to feel the benefits of this whimsy
I grew up LDS my whole pre-adult life. There's a big focus on self-reliance. Also, the men are supposed to serve missions for two years (go teach about Jesus and the church). I imagine the skillset required to go door-to-door teaching people about something is very transferrable to other sales, which is very important when being an entrepreneur.
> This is also NYC which is considered a model city for public transport.

It is? By who?

NYC has probably the best public transportation in the US, it's true. But the US is known for generally having awful public transportation.

> What are you supposed to do if you like to take trips to places hundreds of miles away? What if your job involves visiting many different locations in your city throughout the day?

It depends. For longer trips, trains or planes, combined with bike/walk/transit at the end will work. For visiting many locations, well it depends on how far apart they are, what you're doing, how good the bike/transit setup is, etc. Here in Germany, you see people from companies (I think including DHL?) delivering things via electric cargo bike.

Of course, in some cases, a car is the right answer. Few people actually want to ban cars entirely from cities, as there are some uses, like business deliveries, emergency vehicles, and vehicles for the handicapped, where they're difficult to replace. And cars are less of a problem for long distance trips than they are in space-starved urban areas.

But the truth is that US cities near universally push cars as the dominant mode of transport, to the detriment of other means. This is less true in NYC than elsewhere, but even there, there are very few protected bike lanes, and walkability can be hampered still by wide roads full of fast moving cars.

Cars have some upsides and necessary uses, but they also have downsides: expensive for the government to support, expensive for the user, space-inefficient, very loud, polluting, and dangerous to others. It's long past time their allocated space was slimmed down in favor of supporting public transit, walking, and biking more.