skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine this whole mess could have been avoided if the major 'managed service' providers/software-as-a-service providers chose to kick some of their profits up to the Free and Open Source projects they're profiting off.

As it is, we have Free software projects feeling cheated (understandably), and their only recourse is to change to more restrictive licences.

I don't imagine going AGPL would mean much for curl though, or other such applications. It's projects like MongoDB (no longer Free and Open Source software, according to Wikipedia at least) that we're normally thinking of when it comes to AGPL.
> Some owners find out the hard way that they are also responsible for maintaining the sidewalk when the city hits them with a notice.

I live in Phoenix; in my neighborhood it's basically the same way. City comes around, tears up the sidewalk to fix something (water main or such) - and you the homeowner are responsible for fixing the sidewalk. Yay.

About all the city will do is put some asphalt over the bare dirt, but if you want the sidewalk to be concrete, you have to pay for that work.

Since a lot of the properties in my neighborhood are rentals, you can guess how often such asphalt patches are properly "fixed". Usually, you have to put in a blight notice to the city to have them contact the actual homeowner to get them to actually fix it properly.

One of the downsides living where I do. But then again, I live "below my means" (as an SWE), and I don't have an HOA, and block construction, and I can work on my cars when I want, where I want, how I want. If that means an angle grinder and welder come out at 8pm, so be it. Neighbors can't complain until after 10pm or so, and only then for excessive noise.

Take the good with the bad...
ouch
The Android code indeed looks like a copy paste of bad stack overflow answers.

I can't really hold it against the author .. learning several platforms at the same time is a bit much.
The major downside of caffeine is tolerance.
This is a pretty short-sighted way of thinking of it.

A tool like this could easily be marketed as a USP for a pharmacy:

"Only CVS has MedFinder: a proprietary system to find you the medication that's most likely to help cure YOUR SPECIFIC SYMPTOMS. No more standing in front of the racks of too-similar sounding medications. Enter your symptoms, get a recommendation backed with data!"

The product here is a kiosk backed with some real data that you can build a marketing effort around as yet another way to try to differentiate yourself in a heavily commoditized business. Pharmacies fight tooth and nail to get people in their door, and especially, to transfer prescriptions to them. One more small detail that you can convince people might help them, that actually gets them through the door? You could build an entire campaign around it.

(Think Dr. Scholls placing those foot-pressure-sensor systems in pharmacies. They drive, pun intended, foot traffic.)
I do agree Hollow Knight is a so much better game than Farmville (and most games, for that matter).

But in this case, global/regional matchmaking is an essential part of those successful games and their game experience (unlike in-app purchases which are essential for moneymaking but not essential for game play experience). If those games didn't have regional matchmaking, they would provide very different experience.

You keep saying you believe the global matchmaking is not important, but I'm afraid you have presented no coherent argument or evidence so far - hence it looks like you're simply ignoring the reality unfortunately. Given how much core part of the experience the global matchmaking is for those games, the onus is on you to prove the otherwise. So we'll likely have to agree to disagree.
It is, and yet the world of coffee drinkers still grows obese like everyone else. It's impressive.
> Eg. High saturated fat intake causes about a 20% increase in heart disease mortality.)

Not true. That was thoroughly disproved over the last 10 years of studies. (Sugar and industrial seed oils are the real problem)

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/news-womens-he...

http://www.drbriffa.com/2010/01/15/two-major-studies-conclud...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5437600/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4532752/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21118617

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30084105

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2017/apr/artery-clogging-sat...
The most disappointing thing in this story is that glaciermd.com doesn't even resolve anymore.

He started a business in 2017, and closed the doors in 2018. What?

Recently, I was contacted by a person who told me he saw one of my videos on YouTube about Ycombinator (it had 50 views!!!), he had to meet me in person. We met a couple days later. He was a very smart guy with an impressive resume.

He quit his job in equipment manufacturing to pursue entrepreneurship. He was a former USC student, so naturally he traveled back to California, rented a small room where him and his business partner churned on their idea. It was a sort of classified for colleges.

Not a terrible idea in anyway. He knew the college life so he must have known things I didn't. I told him he should have tested his idea before quitting his job and moving into a whole other country where he had only been a student. He showed me the website, and it was obviously made by someone who was learning React. There is no need to go fancy when you are still testing your ideas. But there was a problem.

They were paying thousands of dollars a month to keep this barely functional app running.

This is something I see a lot of young people entering web development are doing. They get beefed-up cloud services that eat up a good chunk of their money. Most people think this is the regular cost of being online. It's not! A year later, the domain name doesn't resolve either.

In the story, OP alludes living with his parents. I imagine to save money. But then there is $40k. I hope that it wasn't mostly on the AWS cost. But he gathered valuable data that did cost money.

Don't shut down the website. Keep it running and make the data available in read only mode and add a donation button (alternative to ads). It should cost $5 a month to host on linode or digitalocean. Don't let the money you spent go down the drain.
i think the value of un-sanctionable funds is high, but only in times of turmoil. Think hong kong and the recent bank account seizures of the protestor organizations. If the financial system is tied to a fairly anonymous crypto, then the gov't cannot seize funds of organizations that oppose it (for better or worse).
It's an example of a basic mainstream word in a lang (French) not being well-known in another (English)
It would be useful to find a website that aggregate words with such property because heuristically if one word is well known in one language, it's probably a useful one, and the fact that your language hasn't yet assimilated it is contingent.
One of my bikes is a Brompton mainly for theft reasons.

As a alternative to using a bike lock I just fold it up and bring it with me.

It’s still a heavy lump to carry any distance but it fits under a desk just great.

(Amusingly they now make an ebike Brompton too).
Direct primary care is (generally) much cheaper for better quality/more holistic care. I think DPC is particularly attractive if you’re a low utilizer on an HDHP and never hit your deductible.
I think you underestimate how lazy people are. Hell, I cycle every day to work and there are still plenty of times where I wish I could drive instead because I don't feel like bothering.

Ebikes will absolutely change that. Risk is a factor but not a hugely significant one (at least in Europe - possibly in America where you'd have to be a bit crazy to cycle on most roads).

The main barrier to ebikes being popular is their cost, and the perception of them being for lazy people.
It's a mindfuck only when the alphabet is all goofy compared to your native language imo.

Learned Spanish and was relatively easy...now learning Russian and yes...mindfuck!
I wish I could gain a tolerance for caffeine. Getting a coffee at a cafe is such a nice experience but I end up getting panic attacks from too much of caffeine.
Anyone could theoretically get sued for anything. But the chance of getting sued for providing an out of date meta-analysis is indistinguishable from the background chance of getting sued for getting out of bed in the morning. (assuming you're not doing something stupid)
> political problems can only be solved with political tools, not technological tools.

Yes and no. Some technology changes the balance of power.

One of the best examples is the innovation of gunpowder weapons and the rise of democracy. It's not the case that the invention of the musket and cannon was solely responsible for the fall of monarchy and the rise of democracy. But it certainly helped.

Is crypto-currency that sort of innovation? I guess we'll find out.
Well in old enough texts they might all be considered and described so. From our perspective,

eclipses or comets -- astronomy, drought or famine -- meteorology or climatology, war -- fun one that could come into several, e.g. a climate change or drought could trigger a war with neighbours, perhaps to try and migrate. War is only one of those I think does fall under modern view of astrology as, like earthquakes, they can't be reliably predicted until inevitable. Comets like Halley's or solar eclipses can be predicted, with decent precision.
Caffeine and modafinil have very different effects. Modafinil just makes me alert and wanting to be in action. I don't feel tired, but I can sleep if I want to.

Caffeine is much harsher, and too much makes me nervous. And after a while, I'm tired, yet still too buzzed to sleep.
I agree with you, but at least she was honest. Many others would say no for the same reason, but wouldn't be honest about it. A prospect who is honest about their true reasons for saying no is extremely valuable when you're pitching an early product.

I think in general, if you're building a business, expecting anyone to do something that isn't in their own selfish interest in some way is a recipe for failure, even if people in your target market might claim not to have selfish motivations. If you want someone to change their behavior (and/or their organization's behavior), you need to be able to clearly explain why it's a win for that specific person.
Odd noise from that Audi, but effective enough to make you look.
SD cards. You buy those on Amazon and there's a not-so-small chance you're going to get a counterfeit item instead of the genuine thing. The odds that Best Buy are stocking their shelves with fake SD cards are much lower.

It's not just about price. Sometimes you want a reasonable assurance that what you're buying is the real deal. Amazon continues to get worse in that department.

Brick and mortar is also still faster. Not everyone or every item can be delivered on the same day, but going to a store can get me that item now instead of tomorrow or 2 days from now. Usually I'm not in that much of a hurry, but sometimes I am.

But enough about computers. I think the products that keep Best Buy in business are the vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, washing machines, and other large big-ticket items that people would rather not select from pictures on their phone, let alone ship.
maybe its for people who are kinda looking into disconnecting from the world but still be partially connected. I'd never buy this
I personally use Dart for almost every task.

Frontend - Flutter for the UI (Android, iOS and Web)
Backend REST Services - Pure Dart or Aqueduct.io for more complex apps
Scripting on my PC
Command Line Interfaces for different Tools
Advent of Code solutions
Blockchain stuff
Chat bots
... much more

So why do I like Dart?

The default libraries are amazing - dart:convert, dart:io and more.
The asynchronous language features like async, Future and Streams are the best ones I found in a language until now.
The Dart and especially Flutter docs (just look at the animation curves section) as well as the official YouTube videos do a great job of teaching different subjects.
The combination of dynamic and statically typed objects and variables works really well in most cases.
The List and Map operators are really good and easy to use.
Package management with pub works and is fast.

Disadvantages

The Ecosystem for non-mobile apps needs more libs.

Conclusion

Try Flutter and see if you like working with Dart, it's very easy to pick up.
I can barely read that low-contrast thin font, and I have average vision.
Kaggle runs first Reinforcement Learning competition
"no demonstrated advantage" - said by someone who doesn't remember what it's like to wait for a large check to clear.

or hasn't tried to fund their IRA via an ACH transfer but their bank won't allow it bcs rules..

or hasn't wanted to wire money (or receive a wire) for a fraction of the price (and hassle) of a wire transfer.

I have sent hundreds of bitcoin transactions. And I admit that it's not perfect. There's lots of room for improvement. But even given bitcoin's flaws, there are times where bitcoin is massively, gobsmackingly better than the traditional US banking system.

And the US financial system has been around 10x+ as long...

So much expectation born of such ignorance. It's a common problem for bitcoin. But not new. And it hasn't stopped bitcoin yet. and I doubt it will.

I believe we're on the cusp of a state change in the world of digital bearer assets. It's not that bitcoin will simply survive, it's more that programmable digital assets and digital bearer assets will steadily win over most other forms of value.

Unfortunately this isn't the kind of conversation that's likely to change minds - forum chats just don't tend to move the needle for most people who are entrenched in their positions. If we were to have a face to face conversation, I suspect we'd be able to find more common ground.

Oh well, I've watched the tide steadily turn over the last 7yrs. And I'll gladly watch opinion continue to shift over the next decade.
Google uses it for web apps and the Dart team itself uses Dart for all their command line tools.

In the latest release they added support for creating standalone binaries. I haven't tried it but it sounds promising.

There is a good package manager and a decent selection of libraries. I haven't tried it out lately though.
Why now? Lawmakers question timing and legality of Trump's strike against Irani
I’ve heard from different people that is trapware. You getting it, investing time and building process around it. And when you starting to get valuable amount of data your bill grow to the deep space. The same time they said that it is good, but very expensive.
Best web dev stack for long-term open source SPA
I would like to be able to live the dream: develop an open source app, long term, while staying sane.

I’m moving on to a new stage of my academic career and want to invest in learning a new tech stack for building open source web apps. Preliminary choices:

“Sign in with Apple”, ZEIT (less sure), Tachyons, Discourse-based messaging

Look right? Or any other suggestions for “must be free, open source, and not require an email to log in”?
How quickly do I get to see my driver's most recent location to show up in my rider's app? Is it as good as Uber's or faster?
You have to send more than that for the game to be playable, if your game involves fast movement or turning (which is pretty much any FPS). Otherwise the player would see empty spaces after e.g. turning around, before the server can catch up with the movement.

This problem is as old as competitive multiplayer itself, and various approaches have all been tried.
Despite their advice not to write a lot of Ruby code, the fluentd plugins are Ruby code, so I ended up just writing one big custom plugin with all the rewrite/routing logic in it. It was very simple to do, and so much easier to read than the convoluted fluentd config files you end up with to do anything mildly complicated with filtering.
The worst part about caffeine induced panic attacks for me is the unpredictability. I can drink a Coke/Pepsi or two occasionally with no problems, but I had a sweet tea this afternoon and am now completely jittery.
> If you call a function and it doesn't exist, it won't get auto-generated for you on the fly.

People want these features and the end up making them (badly) using Macros. Also, as to "a + b", it's either trivial enough to be inlined immediately by the compiler or obvious enough that it's your fault.

> If you call a function and it doesn't exist, it won't get auto-generated for you on the fly

As opposed to you writing the function manually every time and then it guaranteeing your binary gets cluttered?

C is also not portable assembler as some people claim, modern compilers are way to complicated for it to be that simple (unless you're working on microcontrollers)
Reduce management overhead and align merged facilities with cookie cutter standards. Ironically a lot of merged systems keep their previous IT infrastructure, so it becomes a big interfacing job rather than standardization.
I can see why you might think it was a shallow dismissal, but it actually has depth. You see, the words I was highlighting for their lack of meaning are themselves talking about meaning. It's possible this was an accident on the author's part, but it's also possible that it was deliberate, in which case the author is using irony (actual irony, not that rubbish the kids say is irony) to make their real point, and I'm applauding it. Hardly a dismissal.

Either way, the reader extracts extra layers of meaning at this point. Remember all that stuff in school about literature and how to read beyond the literal, that HN tends to ignore in favour of pretending to be rational cyborgs? It was for this sort of thing.

You missed the possible original point of the author, and my point as well. On the plus side, this comment could well have been a learning experience for you, so you should be happy with it.
Because you claim all scientists agree when clearly that's a lie. Add that in with the peer pressure to follow the climate cult or else and that did it for a lot of people.
"By the time I'd fired up a VM to inspect it, major browsers were already blocking the site as suspicious."

The system sounds pretty safe to me, even with its warts.
For things I wanted same day, I now got forced to re-open a Synnex account. They supply companies like Central Computer.
I don't see maps mentioned. If it lacks that it lacks the largest killer app of smart phones.
Parking meters in NYC malfunctioning since the 1/1/2020 due to software end date
What? No.

A real priest/minister/pastor/rabbi/imam is someone who... well, let's split this into two possibilities.

Possibility 1: God is actually there, and has told us real things about himself and how we are to relate to him. A real priest/minister/pastor/rabbi/imam has lived some of that, and can relate to you as you try to live it, and hopefully help you. In contrast, a robot can give you answers programmed into it by some Silicon Valley engineer.

Possibility 2: God is not actually there. All that spirituality is junk. The only thing religion has is, maybe, some wisdom in how to live well. As I'm trying to live life and run into challenges, a real priest/minister/pastor/rabbi/imam has still lived some of those challenges, and has some idea of how to live as a human being, and can maybe help me as I try to do so. A robot, on the other hand, give me answers programmed into it by some Silicon Valley engineer.

In both cases, the robot is less helpful, because it doesn't actually know what it's like to live. But it's worse if case 1 is true. It's still worse if I, the seeker (or whatever term) think that case 1 is true, because I'm just about dead certain that the robot hasn't lived the spirituality that it's trying to help guide me to.
re ETA2: if it acutely raises blood sugar levels by pulling it out of storage cells, then it makes sense that the baseline chronic sugar levels would be lower, by mass balance; and the development of T2D is more dependent on chronic blood sugar levels, not acute swings. Not saying this is the mechanism, it is just that the correlation should not be suprising.
> If you consume more calories than you use, you gain weight.

People throw around this idea as if it was simple.

Just the concept of calorie, which is bound to water temperature changes, is at most a vague second or third order approximation of a body’s energy intake. Petrol would be of super high calorie for instance, but it makes no sense for the body.

We have no clear idea of what any food gives as energy to a body, nor how each body reacts differently to any food, nor how much of that goes out, when that potentially stored energy is used in what amount (would CO2 production measurement help in this regard ? even if so but then it might be get rid of in unexpected ways)

So while the in/out idea may not be completely wrong, it’s effectively useless to anyone seriously thinking about diets.
interesting, lest reuse old batteries manganese dioxide and remelt glass bottles :)
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHMDrhBREXU
(Destroy all Humans - Offical Remake Trailer, 2m10s)
I was referring to C's macros.
“Ozzie and Harriet,” “$5.00? ” and “Lunky Goof”
Ask HN: Greatest consumer tech innovations of the 2010s?
In the 1980's we got optical discs (CD), micro-computers, video game arcades/consoles, microwave ovens...

In the 1990's we got mainstream internet (the "web"), mobile phones, digital media formats...

In the 2000's we got smartphones (essentially the portable reunion of computer + mobile phone + internet), social networks, YouTube, Amazon (the rise thereof), G Search...

What did we get in the 2010's worthy of making such a list, in your perception?

Bonus question: what didn't make it that you'd anticipate for the next decade?
Presumably the government will be incentivized to try to save lives in a way that simply doesn't exist for doctors and insurance companies trying to make a profit.
I can't understand the last part of the article

"Doppelganger has created value for the customer but not for the company."

Isn't the value for the company created through the value for the customers? I.E. you take a percentage of the value for the customers as the value for the company.

What would be an example of creating value for the company?
Ask HN: Leetcode grind thrown out the window?
I've been doing leetcode for the last 5 months in prep for getting a job at FAANG as a developer. I've got much better but still struggling with some medium level problems around DP and such.
In the meantime, got an offer from a non-FAANG company (in Fintech) for a lead devops role. Interviews were long and extensive but didn't focus much on algos and more on the devops/cloud ops knowledge.

Struggle is, should I reject the offer and keep grinding leetcode to get into FAANG, eventually? Total comp is clearly lower than FAANG-level (still 6-figures though).

Pros: Lead devops role at a public company sounds very appealing and more promising for the future (devops is generally less competitive and requires more seniority)

Cons: Interview prep for the last 5 months is thrown out the window. Lower paycheck than FAANG, could be like 100k lower. But I don't like my current job so desperate for a change
https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/
> So find a suitable psychiatrist.

And then wait 4-6 months for your appointment.
Who and/or what decides by what mechanisms and when satoshis would be divided into smaller units ?

Doesn't that make it virtually valueless by definition ?
Interesting suggestion, unfortunately I don't know Go so I can't really respond.
It's also not super great for your heart (not saying it's TERRIBLE, but it will raise your BP/pulse rate a bit), and it's diuretic effects can indirectly dehydrate you, as well, which will increase blood sugar.