skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a business called FontPeek (https://fontpeek.com). It doesn't provide the majority of my income, but it does provide a meaningful amount and it's constantly growing (pretty linearly). It's a simple tool that allows font designers to add a secure font previewer to their web store. Only needs like an hour of technical support a week, and it's currently costing me nothing to run because Firebase has incredibly generous pricing.

It started out because a designer who sells fonts wanted to hire me to build a font previewer for their website so that customers could demo the fonts without being able to steal them. I quoted them the price and they said it was out of their price range. I said I would build it for free if they subscribed for a low monthly payment. They were ecstatic at the deal and invited their friends to sign up. Turned out it was an unsolved niche in the font design community. I posted it to a few websites where people were asking for a tool that does this. The rest is history.
A slightly less breathless analysis from Krebs (2017):

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/03/post-fcc-privacy-rules-s...
>> stakeholders wanted an over-the-top bridge design [...]

> Nothing wrong with that!

Well, in this case, apart from the structural problems, the bridge just looked cheap and kitschy because of the fake cable stays. So yes, there was something very wrong with that, but this problem is so common in contemporary architecture that we don't seem to recognize it anymore. There is just no way for an over-the-top designed building to have any dignity.
Inference is typically much more power constrained, as it is often performed on a battery. For example in a mobile phone, or in an IoT sensor unit. This makes approximate computing for neural network accelerators an interesting field of research.
I love bikes. Obsessed bike commuter for many years. Anyway...

Maybe the big engineering project he's looking for is parking garages to get the parked cars off the street. Maybe also block side streets to reduce intersections.
Your claim that steam/sony/microsoft all charge 30% no negotiations is dated if not completely inaccurate. It might have been that way the last time you were involved in negotiations (if ever) but it's questionable whether that's still true - we know for a fact Valve offers a lower cut to big studios now. There's basically no guarantee that it's not possible to negotiate anymore, and I would be shocked if the Playstation or XBox business wings were unwilling to negotiate a cut down in order to land a big, million-selling title.

Is your claim that the iOS store cut is 30% because Steam was 30%? Kind of an odd argument given that the iOS store was heavily focused on "apps" initially, and still sort of is, even if games ended up being a big moneymaker.

The 30% is now coming out of a different sort of product than it did at store launch, too. Lots and lots of F2P stuff with in-app purchases, subscriptions, etc. Even if 30% was justified for single-purchase apps, does it make sense to continue giving them an ongoing 30% of all revenue when IAPs and subscriptions are literally not using any Apple infrastructure if they're things like 'unlocking premium features in the app you already have' or 'getting premium support'?
I cherish one on one encounters, especially with people you're accustomed with, but never really spent time getting to know.

Although my favorites are done travelling, which works with a walk long enough too. Inevitably you're breaking the silence.
While it sounds preposterous right now this problem will soon solve itself with already built "bike lanes". And bicycles are not the solution.

The solution, as this article touches on, is light weight electric transport using the existing road structure. There's a strong indication of this future in the fact that last year the Dutch bought more electric bikes than normal bikes in total. And they paid twice as much for their electric bikes ($2000) than they did for their pedal bikes. Let that sink in: The Dutch are already starting to abandon their pedal bikes. This is the future of urban transport: lightweight electrics.

One underappreciated, but critical aspect of electrics is their lack of exhaust fumes. This will allow much more of city roads to be covered or even inside. With electrics you could park inside almost everywhere.

Electrics will soon start to invade the "slow lane" of cities with bikes and mopeds. Even a cheap electric bike already feels much safer in urban car traffic than a pedal bike because it has super fast acceleration from a dead stop and therefore can ride in regular traffic without being an impediment or needing its own lane.

If you want to lead this revolution forget about city council; buy yourself an electric bike and ride it in regular traffic with a hi-viz vest. The more people that do this the sooner the transition will happen. The current urban roads are the 'bike' lanes of tomorrow.

(One thing city councils could usefully do right away is to immediately ban any fossil fuel motors under 125 cc from their roads.)
Because I pay taxes for those spaces — often I even pay for the parking space itself. I pay gasoline taxes to pay for those roads. What gasoline taxes are bikes paying to use the roads? Are bikes paying registration fees? Tolls? Are they getting mandatory inspections each year?
It's free, is it? How do I install it in a vmware image for automated testing, or on this PC with compatible hardware I built?

What you're looking for is something like "free for owners of Apple hardware", which is true, but very different. You paid for it.
You can truncate the history by reading events from the starting point to the junction, then creating a new snapshot that will serve as a new starting point, and finally deleting the previous history segment.
When I started http://fairpixels.pro (UX/UI Design for B2B Saas Companies) I grew it pretty quickly to a very profitable one-person business. (Not 1 person anymore)

The origin story is somewhat organic.

- Started as a logo design company

- then kept getting requests to help with UI/UX Design so I did

- then realised the most fun projects to work on were B2B SaaS companies

- today we're still growing and can happily count Fortune 500 companies, an Elon Musk company alongside awesome startups to our client list.

//Advice: Start with something small. Anything. Don't worry too much about how to grow. Then.. Just keep your eyes & ears open. Your customers will point you in the right direction towards bigger pinpoints & thus better growth opportunities. You don't always need a ton of traffic. Just start with something small and go from there.
I have a similar experience with sporting activities with people in the office. Every week at work we get together and play floorball ("innebandy" in Swedish). It's a mix of people from all departments, and invariably I end up talking to all of them (especially on the way back to the office). Apart from having fun playing sports, I now know various people in different departments. This is good in many ways, not least when you need something done and need to find somebody to talk to.
Of course this only works with people that join the particular activity. Nevertheless, I've found this "random connections" very useful.
Please don't cross into personal attack like this, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. It makes this place worse and, assuming you're right, discredits the truth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's quite common for developers at least to not enjoy the interactions of a one-on-one time with a non direct relation (ie. someone you don't know well/don't have much in common subjects). So while this could be a good idea sometimes, don't "force" this on people who might not decline but also might not enjoy.
> you can't do multi-line lambdas because whitespace sensitive languages are awful.

like Haskell ?
Please don't use HN for flamewar like this. It's tedious and you're breaking the site guidelines.

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But Eisenhower wanted the interstate system to go between cities, not through cities. And it's the latter that's the real problem.

That we have freeways between cities is no real issue for bikes, in Germany they have the Autobahn system and they still have reasonably bike friendly cities like Munich. Similar situation for Dutch cities IIRC.

But the autobahn system doesn't cut through the middle of cities in Germany nearly to the same extent as it does in the US. Actual high speed parts of the Autobahn basically stop a certain part of the way into Munich, and you have to get off onto surface streets.

But anyway, that's just one problem among many for car dominance in the US.
I had no problem biking in 100+ degrees weather up a 50 meter hill. Just take a shower when you arrive at work.
Learning to read isn't easy or comfortable, so we force everyone to do it, because most would default to illiteracy if we didn't. Not destroying the planet is even more important than literacy.
From whose point of view?
Please don't cross into flamewar, regardless of how wrong or annoying another commenter is. It only makes things worse.

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Its the same in France - though those that go to ENA are an order of magnitude more competent than some one who does a PPE at Oxbridge.
Don't do it one-on-one: you are exposing yourself to false harassment allegations. A single one can ruin your career.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking
Renegotiating the basics so that bicycles (and other light vehicles) get similar status to cars and buses was always going to be an uphill battle.

It's possible that a shift to driverless cars is an opportunity to do it. If driverless cars do succeed, there could be a shift away from private ownership.

At that point, there's an opportunity to be encourage much narrower, slower, lighter vehicles in cities. You don't a 2 ton car to transport one person 9km @ 25kmph. The cars we have are so big because they occasionally need to transport a whole family long distance on a highway. With self driving taxis this could (plausibly) be handled by a different car.

The conflicting road needs of bikes and lightweight vehicles (say <25kmph & <200kg) are much more manageable than bikes and pickup trucks (or buses).
I'm guessing this isn't what you meant, but the endgame of "Apple, please make things hard for developers" is there's no apps left for you to use that aren't made by Apple, because they made it too hard for developers.

A balance has to be struck somewhere. Developers increasingly do not like where Apple is placing the balance (generally on the side of 'go screw yourself, time to rework your app for our latest guideline and API changes, also buy some new hardware to run the latest xcode')
Spam and malware destroyed the open experimental Internet.
Podcast interview about SwiftUI with Josh Shaffer, engineering director at Apple
the book was written in 1999, far before a blockchain existed
On a side note, the whole website looks pretty interesting to me.
Depends on where you are. At least here in Berlin there's always a special lunch pricing and it's certainly cheaper than cooking yourself most of the time. In our office we always go out for lunch every day. Mostly the whole team in one group.
I don't think those are separate categories at all, it's simply a tool. Modern companies are also internet companies.

That coffee shop over there? On the internet. Order something at PizzaHut? Over the internet. Want to move some sand? All on the internet.
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授受する verb
I tentatively added the slack bot 'Donut' mentioned in my company because I was starting to see a divide between the two colocated offices. I was pleasantly surprised to see over 60% participation, and people personally thanked me for setting it up. Yet another reminder to me how important communication is!
This is common in Israel where all but the largest companies (FAANG) give you lunch money instead of free food, so it's a matter of choosing between eating out or ordering in - the cost is the same.

Facebook also lets engineers (and only engineers, oddly) eat out on Wednesdays.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, and please especially don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar.

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Even electric bikes are not the solution, at least not in many parts of the world. What happens when it rains / snows? I don't know what the solution is though, maybe small electric cars, self driven, as part of public transportation service?
Come on. My point being - VPN isn't the limiting factor here. It's the people you're downloading from. If you can't see the connection I can't help you.
You're not dealing with an excel spreadsheet here. Apple has rules that are enforced by humans. If you try to cheat them out of the 30% they believe you owe them, they will punish you for it by removing you from the store. So far, very few (if any) companies have gotten away with it. You can't just point to a tiny asterisk or typo in the terms and get them to go 'oh well I guess you got us then'. They have the power.

This is why you can't purchase kindle books from the iOS app and have to use a web browser to do it. Even that is kind of an exception (people already have existing Kindle libraries, so it's not really reasonable for Apple to tell them to go screw themselves - but you bet they're gonna demand 30% of on-device purchases!)

One pattern I've seen however in modern mobile games is that instead they use an loyalty program, where if you buy direct from them (at the same price) they give you free bonuses that you don't get on the iOS store. That satisfies the "equivalent price" and "no crippling" semi-rules but I suspect eventually Apple will decide to punish it too.
Depends where you live. You have lot of places in the world where eating out is as cheap or even cheaper than cooking for yourself.
>> stakeholders wanted an over-the-top bridge design [...]

> Nothing wrong with that!

Well, there's nothing wrong as long as they are not spending their money.
> Those language extensions are numerous

Java is complex as well, it has a 800 pages manual, and that's a language only and no libraries. It has a complex memory model, quirks like pointer-only parametricity, quirks to bypass quirks like autopromotion to help with pointer only parametricity.

Oh, and java have pretty much obscure extensions as well. Ever heard of metaprogramming via Java Reflection?

Haskell without extensions is 300 pages only and way more simple. And extensions are not that numerous and often intersecting.
Coffee is also an option (often free in some offices)
Nobody's suggesting getting rid of roads for cars entirely. Munich is radically more bike friendly than any big US city, but they still have trucks and stuff. Even in the city center portion that's off limits to regular cars, businesses can get deliveries.

And you can do some deliveries with bikes, I do see people doing it for DHL here on electric cargo bikes for that last mile. Doesn't work for everything of course, but I don't think the goal is literally zero cars ever, it's reducing the unnecessary usage.
For single member electorates, the count is done by hand. On the night, they quickly allocate ballots to their first preference, and then they allocate them according to which of the two most likely winners is on top. (Usually, that means whoever came first and second last time, even if a repeat isn't all that likely, but with a powerful enough justification they sometimes make a different choice.) The full count is done by hand starting on Monday at the earliest. It may have to wait up to two weeks if it's close - government is formed on the basis of the unofficial, indicative counts.

OCR is mostly used for multmember electorates which aren't a problem in the US due to being prohibited by federal law (when they were used, it was block voting not proportional, so very badly antidemocratic). In that case, when the machines confidence is low, it gets done by hand.
You having a computer or your friend having a cellphone didn't change the world, internet and cellphones becoming cheap and mainstream did.
That would be Rakuv רקוב, just Raku doesn't have any meaning in Hebrew. It does sound similar when pronounced though.

(Hebrew word formation is from 3-consonant roots, not concatenation, so removing a letter doesn't give a related word. It's either an invalid word or a different root with 3rd voiceless consonant רקוא which is a not a root / רקוע Raku'a "flattened" but that doesn't sounds quite differently.)
SSH is much slower than VPN, it can be an issue in some use cases.
Showtime Is Making a Limited Series About Uber
I think that was the best speech I have ever read.
She is not famous in Japan.
Most of the time,it's as real as day.
It's basically why Windows 10 is also so much buggier than previous versions: Nadella cut a good portion of Microsoft's Q&A team.
Not necessarily. QtWebEngine strips out a lot of code from Chromium, including anything talking to Google servers.
Of course, and all major browsers have background tab throttling features[1]. But there are multiple goals and limited dev time.

[1] E.g. Firefox added some in version 58: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibi...
I’m supposed to commute with toddlers in -42?
German Startup Is a Step Closer to Making Flying Cars
iOS is already at 13.1.3
> The reason developers pay the 30% is probably because there's no other channel that offers access to such a huge market for free, and mostly because they still profit.

Because there's no choice you mean? When the developers have choice, on the Mac or on Windows, they generally avoid the store. The AppStore still works on mobile because they force it.
A little more context:

Maker Bites is an aggregator-based community site that helps surface the experiences, lessons, and thoughts of members of the maker community. Submissions generally include blog posts, interviews, stories, lessons, experiences, and tips.

Since submissions on Maker Bites are aimed at spreading knowledge and fostering discussions, most content is timeless in nature. In fact, outside of "Show MB" style posts, announcements and news submissions are discouraged.

In most contexts, a "maker" is someone who's involved in a technology-based project, generally as startup founders or bootstrapped developers building businesses.
Can anyone detail what exactly this is about? This link just redirects to a 404.
I understand the point that you are trying to make. But aren't false allegations equally possible otherwise?
> In what sense are they different sides of the same coin?

One should look at AR and VR as a spectrum. Eventually, you'll be able to mix and match with the same headset.

> Instead it's just been fits and starts for the past 26 years since I experienced that demo. Big tech has pumped huge money into VR the last 5 years and the uptake is just not happening.

This is incorrect. The Oculus Quest is super successful measured on any conceivable metric, outperforming (sales and retention-wise) any other headset that came before it.

One key barrier to adoption of VR (or any consumer tech) is convenience. The Quest is the first headset that makes it convenient to use VR, as you don't need a PC, no external trackers, but you still get the same level of immersiveness.

There are other areas that need improvement until it speak to a bigger TAM (such as improved resolution, more software, better performance, better ergonomics) - but those are all problems that have a more or less clear path of solution.

In 10 years, everyone will be working in VR headsets, not laptops.
Monty Python's pratfalls aren't funny, either

Physical comedy isn't just "pratfalls". Consider Cleese's Ministry of Silly Walks, Blackmail, Lancelot storming the wedding, Arthur's duel with the Black Knight, or Brian's graffiti on the Roman Garrison.
The guys latest video shows his frustration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxwhb_ukmgY
The only way it would be comparable to CA flown in lettuce is the greenhouse/vertical farms are fully automated and there is a super short supply chain and absolutely no wastage. This can be achieved by supplying to local markets which would shorten supply chain. But the scale would have to be massive to make a buck out of this.

Automated greenhouses must also look into growing underground. In tunnels beneath or near water treatment plants or anywhere where there is steam.

Further, energy will always be an issue. There are two ways to go about it. Cheap electricity by going nuclear. Or advances in material sciences to develop new kinds of indoor lights/batteries or greenhouse material that can help with light/heat/thermal insulation.(one company is doing it with quantum/nano dots as greenhouse material. ETFE can be a better material than greenhouse plastic or glasshouses)
You can have false allegations without having to go one-on-one with people just as well. That's the thing with the false claims.
This is definitely a decision which requires a long term support, as any solution regarding storage. This is not a technical debt unless you see it as a temporary solution, waiting for a better time to replace it.

You highlight the "need to preserve the conversion code for as long as the history exists". This is a point so decisive that I even wonder if Kafka should provide some support to keep that relationship.
Plants-as-a-Service: Office Plants Made Greener with the IoT
Jobs, which allow you to work remotely
https://web.archive.org/web/20191020051643/https://meta.stac...
Two projects:

1. The web is completely broken. We need the equivalent of an immune system for it to filter through the rapidly-increasing pathogens and misinformation. Facebook sucks, but so does Google.

2. A tech community centered around collaborative research, curation and content discovery. This turns out to be a good way to connect smart, capable people together.

Email in profile.
Over the Shinkansen's 50-plus year history, carrying over 5.3 billion passengers, there has been not a single passenger fatality or injury due to train accidents.
Firefox tends to follow Chrome closely. And as time goes on, they limit extensions more and more.
The latest preview of Firefox Mobile doesn't support them at all. Hopefully, it is just temporary but it used to be the killer feature of Firefox mobile.

It is not pure evil, there are security reasons behind that. Manifest V3 is also a security improvement so I wouldn't put it passed Mozilla to implement it.
We developed a cross platform solution called LEAD that connects people for lunch, coffee and speed mentoring too.(not just via random matching.)
LEAD just graduated from Alchemist Accelerator recently.
The bot can be download from https://slack.com/apps/ALBRU32RK-leadbot
Also, if your company doesn't use Slack, we have an email version for the matching.
"The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company"

https://broadcast.listennotes.com/the-boring-technology-behi...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985875
I had an N70. It was slow, slow, slow. I had a 5800. It was as slow as the N70 and the resistive screen made me want to cry. I never had the original iPhone but I guess it wasn't as bad.
I appreciate the good intention, but it's still unsubstantive and needlessly personal. If you get to the point of posting about how condescending someone else is, you've left the path of the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. It's also just off topic and uninteresting.