skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about swapping listings, but it's fairly common for mostly-unrelated products to be grouped together as "colors" or "sizes". The reviews for all the variations of the listing are grouped together, which makes sense if they're really just different colors but not if they're distinct products.
“correcthorsebatterystaple” is guessed in less than 0.01 seconds
This year’s Nobel prizes prompt soul-searching among economists
This is flat out false.

> Which totally isn't in large parts due to the whole West exporting their trash there for years for "recycling", fully aware of the fact they just dump it in the ocean or burn it under the bare sky

There was /not/ much awareness about this in the West. People would not be so good about recycling if there was, as people generally thought they were doing a good thing by recycling and wouldn’t have bothered otherwise(at least in my experience). And nothing excuses fraud, which is what it’s called when you lie about what you are doing. China committed fraud in the recycling business and that’s not okay, no buts about it.

The Chinese “took our jobs” by not following the rules we have about how those jobs should be done. We should have tariffed them for not living up to our Environmental and Occupational Safety standards, if our government was principled in its ethics. It’s not the corporation’s fault the US government is cool with externalities in other countries.
The self dealing was not hidden, so I am perplexed why one would think a company with self dealing is worth more than a company without self dealing.

Neumann, as a seller, went out into the market and found some buyers. A seller sells for the most they can, and the buyer buys for the least they can. Except in this case, the buyer wanted to flip it, so the buyer wanted to over value it, so that they could claim it was worth even more (due to the rate of increase in "valuations") when they try to IPO it.

If anyone was lacking in morals, it would be the buyer who intentionally paid more than they knew they would if their aim was to hold onto it as a business, just so they could pawn it off onto someone else who didn't know better.
At first I got really excited, but the thought of walking through Ravenholm in VR made me uncomfortable and increased my heart rate. I'm a big wuss, so I don't think I'd handle scary games in VR. The headcrab jumping towards the camera in the trailer was bad enough.
The Wirecutter has made a very successful business off of reviews and Amazon referrals, so it's doable, but it requires a lot of scale, and a company willing to pay a small %age of revenue for the referral.
Because I own a toilet brush I feel a tiny amount of joy each time I don't have to use my bare hands to clean the toilet.

Your preference may be different and that's ok.
Dota 2 is its own engine, and has nothing to do with dota 1 which was a warcraft 3 map. How they even got the IP in the first place is... a pretty bad look for Valve.
Zwift Yorkshire route in 4K screenshots
The quote at the end of this piece is misattributed.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/12/05/fake-honesty/
Yeah, but one of the reasons I was excited about the Quest is because my PC isn't going to support any VR game well. It may become very useful if I eventually upgrade in the future though (but my home workstation is a docked laptop, so that's a large investment to replace since I can't selectively replace just some components).
On which platform?

Works well on Firefox on Android and GNU/Linux.
and there you have hit the nail on the head
To be fair, Obama didn't start a new war.
I believe he is talking about http://stanbright.com/ (not saashub.com) which is listed in stanislavb's HN profile which does indeed exhibit these problems.
At some point in the last 20 years, politics became a sport.

IMHO its due to the rise of cable news silos and talk radio charlatans taking on the role once reserved for journalists and experts. By oversimplifying very complex issues into Us vs Them, they created an environment ripe for exploitation. And since the currency of media is Attention, the more sensationalist you become, the more attention and money you receive.

This translates perfectly to social media, where the currency is also attention and the rewards, a bit more convoluted than just money. Its what this article describes, the need for attention outweighs the actual results...
Google Play Music/Spotify/Apple Music is next to free to run, it's basically just a CDN on their end. There's almost no user data that didn't come from user machines originally.

Stadia has all the user data on the backend, _and_ is expensive to run since all the processing happens on their end too.
> You can authenticate Linux clients against AD, but I doubt they'll be writing a Linux AD server any time soon.

They did it for SQL Server, and they built a full API compatibility shim to do it:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/17/how-microsoft-brought-sql-...
Should any domain registry belong to a private firm? Why should domain registration be a source of private profit?
Okc has gone to speed swiping format like everyone else. You can only message someone you match with now, which is unfortunate because you used to be able to demonstrate some kind of attractiveness other than initial appearances. I get that women have a problem filtering the deluge of low-quality messages otherwise, but I wonder if there isn’t a better way to meter the problem than mutual swiping.
DevSecOps consulting for a large brand that was hacked and a bank undergoing a transformation. Managed it for about 2 years, before that the standard rate was £700-£800 p/d.

Did have a large transformation under my belt and critical national infrastructure as feathers in my hat.
A gate keeping comment like that makes you look ignorant, petulant, and antisocial. Nobody is attacking your knowledge of cooking or your value as a human being.
Please, do suggest it. I, personally dont see a product group in oss that would function in that manner. Yes, you can set up LibreOffice with postfix, dovecot, nextcloud (with sh__load of plugins),... But the integration of it, even after some serious scripting is nowhere near from the microsoft solutions. You only have a bunch of lonely programs knowing how to do their job... more or less... well but completely unaware of each other. And quite frankly, I know it is "trendy" to run everything in browser, but to me (just a personal opinion, don't take it personally - I am old, I have seen mainframes, ibm,... and I know you will all be sorry for locking in into cloud vendors, saas solutions,...but at that point I wont care any more), browser is a joke. A huge step back in IT compared to what desktop apps already have.
The point is, for many users the computer is just where they run a browser

Well there is a big difference between MANY and MOST. There is a whole world of creative people to whom browser on a phone just does not cut it.
This is using GNU General Public License v3.0 which means commercial purposes are allowed, no?
The online Office 365 works great on Linux in the browser. And they're bringing their Chromium-based Edge to Linux to make sure users have a perfect experience.
Unless you're a pilot, try using good a VR airplane simulator for a while (DCS World for example), getting a feel for the airplane and then push it until you crash into the ground. The moment you loose control and start falling towards the ground, you start panicking, even though you know it's a game.

While not PTSD, I can totally imagine you can find ways of using VR to cause PTSD or similar. Like forcing someone to have a VR headset on with disturbing experiences for a long time and the person would surely eventually go insane.
Given the number of people in this thread advocating causal interpretations of this study, I disagree.
She was smart, funny, capable and likeable. The first game I played with a companion AI that didn't suck.

The eps made me genuinely care about her, as much as one can for a fictional character.

The fucking ending of Ep 2 haunts me to this day.
They ended up having their heads cut off, so, yes.
tbh I think its eventually going to be an enviromental requirement to put everything in the cloud.

At work we have an application used by financial advisors in offices during working hours only.

Why do we need to have 4 whole machines spinning 24/7 (in the name of reliability and availability) when we only need a fraction of that computing power and only between 08:00 and 17:00?
HN is the Moral Grandstanding scoreboard
Oracle built a 1,060 node Raspberry Pi cluster
You need big money, games and studios to help push the tech forward. I think that's the point of this game
He really doesn't. For that kind of investor, the portfolio is more about having strategic connections to big players rather than purely making money. I'd imagine the next time Son comes around to ask for money, MBS will have more leverage than he previously did.
George Carlin on Stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
It is not a gimmick. It seems that you have not yet tried it. There are a few improvements required, such as resolution and the freedom of movement.

Note that I did not mention price. It will come down – even more, that is.

Also, they need Half Life 2 Episode III. The series ended in a cliffhanger.
That's what I was looking for as well.
Remy has a song about it. https://reason.com/video/remy-people-will-die/
LEDs still have PWM flicker and buzzing problems. This is unpleasant, inhibits focus, and makes them inadequate for me in all cases. Perhaps the fancy "smart bulbs" aren't as bad, but I don't have $125 for a single light bulb. I also don't want to fiddle around with my lighting and by multiple $125 bulbs until one works. I just want to put in a bulb and be done. The only lighting which has successfully done that for me has been incandescent or halogen.
Ask HN: Why prefer CSS-in-JS over inline styles?
I've been using inline styles in my React apps for awhile now, and I've found it makes styling much, much easier.

That said, it seems the winds have shifted a bit and more people are eschewing inline styles in favor of CSS-in-JS solutions such as styled-components or emotion. I've tinkered with both of these libraries a bit, and I have to say I can't see how these are an improvement over plain inline styles. They introduce additional build steps, the use of string literals instead of plain JavaScript objects, and they mess with the core React.createElement function. The upside is you get to use pseudo-selectors, which is nice, but I've found with a real programming language at my disposal (i.e. JavaScript), I don't really need many pseudo-selectors beyond :hover.

What am I missing?
If you're using a VPN only to block ads, consider https://blokada.org (Android) or DnsCloak (iOS) [0]. Both these open-source apps run a local-only (no servers) split-VPNs (tunnel port 53 traffic to remote DNS resolvers). Whilst Blokada NXDOMAINs ads and trackers using on-device blacklists, DnsCloak can forward queries to any DnsCrypt or DoH resolver (for ad-blocking purposes, one could use AdGuard [1]).

If you want to point Android/iOS to a custom DoH/DoT resolver, https://getintra.org (Android) does DoH whilst Nebulo (iOS and Android) [2] does DoT. Setting up DoH/DoT resolvers (say, using NLNet's Unbound) might be cheaper than a full fledged VPN?

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dnscloak-secure-dns-client/id1...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18788410

[2] https://git.frostnerd.com/PublicAndroidApps/smokescreen
>WeWork deflated more than any company in HISTORY.

Cisco went from 77$ per share in 2000 to $10 per share in 2002, while being public (so the value was much more real than WeWork, you could hit the 'sell' button to make it real money in 5 minutes, unlike WeWork equity).

IIRC it was valued around 500 billions in 2000, so it was much larger destruction in value. It still hasn't recovered, with $45 per share right now, never reaching its 2000 peak during these 19 years.
Reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa0b2Kd2xhU

Comical and also accurate.
TIL! Lucet is being switched over to Wasmtime as well [1]. I'll have to take another look at it.

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/11/announcing-the-bytecode-al...
Sorry, I have no interest in Libra as a currency. I'm sure your work is good.
PlaidML is super cool, but it's not used by Google.
> blocking "Paste" into password fields

Change your `dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled` in about:config to false.
Hmmm... possibly testing a patch... I still can't get it to work and checked for updates before trying. There could naturally be a difference in our sequence of steps, too. Once "foo()" is entered and detected as code, I can't add "bar." after the fact. I can add new code text in the middle of the detected code.
I agree. I have no idea why so many people praise steam endlessly. The last two games I tried to play through the app were unfixably buggy at times. These games were Portal and Doom2016. Boooooo.
Darn.. I hadn't heard of this density limitation yet. I was getting rather hyped up for nothing :(
You don't need growth hacks, you need an actual marketing plan. To come up with that you need to figure out your target audience. In the tech world it is common for companies to market to people who don't actually provide them with revenue. For instance, a typical SaaS company might target developers. Developers rarely have direct say in expenditure. The goal might be to get enough developers interested in a technology that they just get some street cred. The SaaS company then tries to land some big clients with salespeople who say "our adoption rates are huge". The money happens at a much different level than direct from consumer, which is what a ballet company would want.

A lot of tech companies spend a huge amount of marketing effort getting people to use something that is FREE. Seems weird, doesn't it?

But, what you are probably asking for are some guerilla marketing/free PR/social media tricks. Lots of blogs cover that.

Try video. Words about ballet might not be effective getting people in the door. Short looping gifs or <60 sec videos would probably get better engagement on Facebook and Instagram. Skip Twitter and Google AdWords.
I don't think the wirecutter is that good though. I think that is what I was trying to say in my 1 billion words ;)
Google won't sign Android up for this. People passionate enough about FOSS to run Linux desktops won't go for it. And those two pretty much are the Linux client ecosystem.
So, who will play Adam Neumann in the WeWork movie? Jim Carrey?
> This has got to be the most narrowly targeted game ever.

I'll have you know that this honor goes to the point-and-click adventure game / noir detective story that licensed the "Fables" comic book series, "The Wolf Among Us." It was great, and I may be the only point and click adventure game enthusiast who was also a fan of "Fables."

But seriously, I think that the low spread of VR is the whole point. Valve wants people to buy VR headsets. How do you convince them to do that? Create content that people want that needs a VR headset.
Personally, I think a little more feedback into what effect each action has would be good. I couldn't figure out if the buttons did anything at all except change the animation. Perhaps a status bar showing the hunger/thirst/boredom going up or whatever.

The animations and the aestetic are great though!
Hey, it's the bank's fault they approved a 20K credit limit without even checking my ID. They should've done their due diligence beyond seeing the credit score /s
Feature flags can’t work for everything; a more complete testing methodology is required, and I hope there is more planned than we see here.

One issue with feature flags is identifying what a “feature” even is. A single flag is insufficient to enable target features in systems of interconnected frameworks. There will be an entire graph of dependencies! Testers will need to understand the series of flags that need to be enabled for a target feature to work.

And of course, there is a risk that this will make disabled features seem like bugs themselves! I am imagining Apple colleagues having to waste time reminding their testers how to enable a feature, after receiving a “bug” report about something not working.
https://protonmail.com/blog/search-risk-google/
NOTHING is objectively right and wrongs in politics. Right and wrong depend on your personal morals. By my personal morals there are objective rights and wrongs, but every moral I have there is somebody will disagree. For things like planed killing of otherwise healthy adults there is a large enough agreement that it is a wrong and we send those who disagree to prison. Note even there how many qualifies I had to put in - every one is required to get around a large fraction that will disagree.
Maybe they should aim for a different market segment then. Common Projects, a plain but very well made luxury sneaker seems to be doing well. I'd imagine fighting for scraps against Amazon/Walmart isn't going to go well.
Anyone have opinions comparing Fastmail with Protonmail? I know they're not going for the exact same market, but in the more generic market of "email services for people who don't want to use Gmail" I'd be interested in someone's comparison.
>Maintenance is a big catch. You can either pay other people to maintain your things, or you can maintain them yourself. The former is expensive, the latter involves keeping an array of tools & materials. Cooking is another, and similar.

But how is minimalism related to maintenance? I mean, minimalist just have/feel the need for less stuff. They still take their cars for service (if they have a car), wash their clothes, call the plumber, etc.

In that sense, minimalist is the opposite of consumerism. It's not about fixing your fridge yourself or making your own furniture. It's more about buying less furniture.

Same for eating. A minimalism and a non-minimalism can eat exactly the same, there's nothing much about minimalism as commonly understood that dictates how to eat.

Minimalist just says you don't need 50+ kitchen gadgets, fancy coffee makers, etc. A simple kitchen (with an oven, fridge, pans, microwave, etc) will do. And you can always cook (if you have the time regarding work) or eat out. Minimalism doesn't say anything about not eating out. Just says "don't amass stuff / consume less clothes/furniture/gadgets/shoes/etc / simplify your surroundings".
Is there an article link?
I will just say the government is petty. Your scenario seems easy but the percentage you lose converting coins in and out would add up. I have witnessed civil forfeitures in the amount of; 3k money orders, 5k money orders, 4.5k, 7k cash, 11k cash, 19k cash, 58k cash, 240k cash, assets, bank accounts. Never charged with a crime. They keep a closer eye on this then you would think and FYI TSA gets a bounty on cash collected along with local agency's in most counties. I like the coin idea though. I can ensure you its not the first time I have heard it and ironically the first solution Ive heard from a couple of engineers when broaching the subject.
You can do that endlessly. The reaction to Stadia could well have been “how could this be any good? OnLive already tried that and failed...”.
Yay very cool! Been using them for 5+ years now and I love it. Happy to pay. Their web interface has stayed very fast and well organized I think. Love the fact that you get a huge list of domains to choose for your email(s)! imap.cc is one of my favorites. ^_^
Considering the price of the VR headset you must buy to play this, this might be the most expensive game ever.
I have few laptops. One is very old, 5-6 years I think gaming Asus. It still runs all titles just fine. If I was not a programmer why would I upgrade from that one? This can obviously make people upgrade less.
Different games will do things differently. Some will display hands, others will display the controllers. You can do either.

After some time, you forget you are even holding controllers (on the Rift, I'm not sure about those clunky Vive controllers, and I haven't tried the Index).
>You can't develop PTSD from VR because VR isn't real. Even if you get scared it's not the same kind of fear as being in a situation where you can actually get hurt, or die, or you actually kill another human being.

Weird, this study shows the exact opposite with regards to regular video games.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6370668/

Conclusion from above study:

>Accumulating evidence led to a clear consensus that a high frequency of exposure to violent video games significantly alters important interpersonal behaviors in negative ways (Bender et al., 2018). Atypical disadvantageous defensive reactions and higher vulnerability to PTSD symptoms, revealed in the present study, add to other shortcomings for the heavy players themselves.

I would assume the same in VR, if not more significant as it is more immersive than regular video games.

I do not have a study for VR video games however as I do not know of any that have been done off the top of my head.

I would like to add, I by no means want to make light of the impact PTSD due to real life trauma. I personally know a few people who suffer from being in active combat and would never wish that upon anyone.

I personally feel that PTSD developed due to real life trauma will always be far more severe than any sort of PTSD developed through video games or other virtual means.
Life isn't Economics 101 where labour is perfectly mobile and comparative advantage can be activated instantaneously.
I am getting the impression the author is fighting yesterday’s war and on top of that has not been following what's going on in windows/.Net development lately.
There has been a large-scale effort to open-source and port chunks of Windows and .Net Framework

WinForms 'the win95-style UI' https://github.com/dotnet/winforms

WPF 'the Vista-style UI'
https://github.com/dotnet/wpf

WinUI3 'the Modern-style UI'
https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml

Windows Communications Foundation https://github.com/dotnet/wcf

And more stuff I am not aware of. Judge as you wish, but if you are going to discuss the topic, they are important.
That is all available in WebRTC.
I'm sure Valve is thinking of this as a killer app to drive VR adoption. All it takes is one amazing game, but it's been a chicken and egg problem for buying VR hardware before sufficiently compelling games are available.
I sold myself as a one man consultancy without the land and expand bullshit. I hit £1500 a day, which was the max before you hit a world of bureaucracy. It's a lot easier to sit on about £1000-1200k a day.

The intention isn't to brag, it's just to point out there is a market here that can be tapped even if you can't travel to SoCal.
Thank you! Super excited to show what we’re working on. Yes, our product is fully automated - our customers can choose to review items that we’ve flagged as problematic, but they can also choose to reject them outright. As for the pricing, we’ve found that our price is competitive in this space, and we can provide significant volume discounts.

Drop me a line at (my first name) @berbix.com and I’ll shoot over a demo link so you can try it!
Could you expand on this? I have heard many people say this about Rust, and I would like to know why.

I myself am now so used to Rust's syntax that I don't know what is confusing or unreadable about it, and would like the outside perspective.
You should feel lucky you can even type to have it delete one of your characters. On both (different) models of iPads I tried, the digit entry for screen time password was stretched out upon wake up so that there was no physical way to hit the “0” digit. You have to change the orientation for it to get back into a good state so you can press “0”. This one has survived all the updates so far! Pretty wild...
Ask HN: I'm a WeWork employee about to be laid off
I've been at WeWork for about 2 years as a data scientist

Can I negotiate severance?
What leverage do I have?
What is a reasonable ask?
Does anyone have examples of doing this successfully?
Should I retain a lawyer?

Very lost right now, thanks in advance!