skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a big fan of an uncluttered instrument cluster, preferably with analogue gauges but I've seen some digital versions that are fine. The real problem seems to be the screens suffer the same fate as all software, adding gimmicks and superfluous information just because it's easy.

With a physical instrument cluster each gauge costs real money which enforces discipline on the design.
After a few moments research, I found this
https://github.com/barnacs/compy
Tangent: I can't help but feel like we're automating away the driving experience - although most people probably never appreciated it.

There's a magical zenlike state of flow that feels like a seamless merging of man and machine, and personally I think it's much easier to cultivate with analog features which force you to think carefully about control, and it is important that a driver is occasionally allowed to exceed the limits of control. That means standard transmission, no traction control, and arguably even ABS could be done away with. This goes for information display as well - it's hard to describe the qualia that comes from glancing at a purpose built, mechanical indicator, that you know will always be in the same place. These things together combine to give a car a soul. I'm no Luddite but I have no desire to drive what amounts to a high tech robot.

Where's the joy in pressing the gas and having a car simply drive itself? Sure, for the vast majority, a car is a tool for transport from A to B. But I think many of these people are missing out on a unique experience.
Auto racing, both all-AI and mixed with humans.

To all you self-driving car makers, put up or shut up. Until you can best human racing safety, I'll never buy or ride in a self driving car.
Does Reddit use semantics like <time> [or a microformat like <span class="dtstart"><span class="value">...] to allow proper parsing? If not then they should share at least half, probably most, of the blame IMO.
They said $150-$250k a year for the owner so you would get paid better too.
It's a valid question. State government? Local? Federal?

International agreement?

The franchise brand owner had no incentive, so while it's possible to abolish them through government. It's not clear why we'd go that direction. Given the franchise brand owner takes on additional risk it's not clear why they'd move to take on risk without gain
The SNES SPU is a sample based synth. You load samples in externally and use a tracker to sequence the notes.
Thinking of talking to a therapist, I'm curious to hear what others have on this interpretation (which I openly acknowledge as "could be wrong" and I've never seen a therapist aside from once in couples counseling where they asked if I was ever diagnosed with aspergers): you grow the feelings you feed.

What I mean is: when you dwell on things and focus on them in therapy, are you feeding negative emotions or traits and growing them? Could seeing a therapist make it worse?
Not just for that reason - Boeing are pretty important for the military for all sorts of reasons. They would never let them go bankrupt.
Diving 5 Storeys into India’s 300-Year-Old Toorji Step Well
Sorry I meant Howard.
It'd be nice if one could pay a bit more in advance, so one's data stayed some weeks or months longer than default, after the servers got powered off. — As an extra safety net, if the credit card expires when one is in bed for a month with a broken leg or some bad luck thing like that.
I would think Night Dive could force the issue in some way - perhaps sue the main publishers for a declaratory judgment that their releasing the game would not be copyright infringement. This would force some kind of definitive outcome as to who really owns the rights to the game, after which negotiations could start for the actual release.
By that logic, there would be nothing to complain about if the US takes over the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate since they already have an air base there (Ramstein).
If you don't subscribe, they severely restrict the number of articles you can read per month (in my recent experience, as few as one).

If you try to get around this with Chrome incognito mode, you'll see a message like this: "Log in or create a free New York Times account to continue reading in private mode." Seems like they cannot currently detect Safari incognito mode though.

Notes:

1) I am a paying NYT digital subscriber. I am happy to pay for quality, fact-checked journalism.

2) I do run ad-blockers so that is part of the picture in my environment. Maybe the way this enforcement works is different for people that are not blocking ads. I haven't tested.
It was probably 30 miles to school. I’m not sure how someone could get there other than driving. There was no public transit.
150-250k a year for a 60hr a week job as the “owner”.
What's avg annual revenue for A chick fil a?
Would take 2-3 engineers how long -- I can't really see it being more than a couple of week project. But, why would they? Seems they'd only do it if there's a ROI, is there?

If Google gives you what you want straight away then you leave; sure, you come back, but they want to be bad enough to keep you on there and good enough to be better than other searches. Their reach and resources cures the latter.
> PageRank, web of trust, pubkey signing articles...

What prevents spammers from signing articles? How do you implement this without driving authors to throw their hands in the air and give up?
“isn't a title of this post” isn't a title of this post
It's not even resistant to added \0, so you can trivially create an arbitrary number of collisions.

It fails all smhasher tests and is pretty slow. There's a reason other hashes do more than just sbox mixing. It's a proof of concept of a bad hash function. But it works fine on javascript, I guess.
Similarly, photography during a traffic accident is enough to get you into trouble with the cops in Deutschland. There are plenty of ways to run afoul of law enforcement without actually breaching the peace.
It's possible to be predatory without holding people at gunpoint.
Google adding dedicated optimizations for popular sites seems like a bad trend.
You don't even seem to be able to simply get the URL of a search result any more: some hierarchical token thing is used instead to display each search result's address, and copying any link just gives you:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

with the url buried somewhere in the GET params.
Well, of course, it can be "much more than that" depending on how you interpret that statement. When I hear marketing blurbs like _"over 400" sources,[15] including Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, Yandex"_ I inevitably start yawning and realize "much more than that" for what is is, marketing that worked on people.

You can run an experiment: would you ever have to be persuaded that for instance Google is much more than just X? Well, no because it's usually proven that it is without someone on the internet having to tell you about it.

Crawling most of the web on a regular basis is incredibly difficult and requires resources that only a company like Google can provide.
As long as it is not behind NAT, most DNS providers would let you easily change it via an API call.
Ton-That was a scammer, reported on by Thiel's nemesis Gawker, and an HN poster (hi!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=hoan
https://gawker.com/tag/hoan-ton-that
That sounds like reasonable compensation for a 60hr a week job.
Not sure if you are implying this is not such a great deal but that's what it sounded to me.

Maybe from the perspective of a tech person in silicon valley that's not great. But in comparison with pretty much any other job out there this is stellar.
I discovered podcasts late, about 2 years ago, and now religiously tune in during my commute

I started with "In Our Time", recommended for the quality of the guests, the variety of subjects and number of episodes (near 900)

At the moment I switch between these 3:

"The Age of Napoleon" (https://podbay.fm/podcast/1223795973) and "Revolutions" (https://podbay.fm/podcast/703889772) rekindled my interest for History, especially the 19th century.

"The History of Literature" (https://podbay.fm/podcast/1048375034)
All of the major companies essentially use Illumina hardware, you can find private labs that will extract your raw data, but what do you plan to do with it?

Without the data sets of Ancestry, 23andme, etc. the raw data isn't very useful for most consumers.
You can potentially scale the chickfila to 2-3, though, and you can imagine you can get other franchises eventually.
> From a certain perspective, the internet and the web as we know them (including fundamental technologies such as DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, and even Javascript) are flawed in fundamental ways. Leaving the technicalities aside, how do these flaws manifest? It is hard to stop bad actors from doing bad things: sending too many emails, stealing sensitive data, flooding websites with traffic, spreading false facts and bifurcating the shared reality that allowed for a democratic global order.

I would argue that this is even more of a problem with decentralized services because there is no one to define (or police for) spam or bad content.
Also, using everyone's second language is going to be less controversial than picking either German or French.
Yes. It seems like the left is without the effect and the right shows the improvement with the technique.
A Reverence for Wood by Eric Sloane.

Accomplished its eponymous goal in a brief 110 pages, many of which are beautiful lithographic sketches.
Show HN: Lofi, a tiny CMS made from txti.es and Water.css
This has errors, including at least two problems with the wrong answer.
This article lists it as $4.2 million.

(vs $1.2 million for KFC and $2.8 million for McDonald's)
Show HN: Prehistoric – A browser based simulation of prehistoric economy [alpha]
Many people have told me quitting cigarettes has been easier for them than quitting infinitely scrolling feeds (FB, Reddit, etc)
The more time I spend in the industry, the more I tend to believe you should just hire programmers who have a demonstrated ability to produce a high-quality product. Any product. Programming languages and domain-specific knowledge can be learned quickly, and all the best practices and process controls in the world can't replace talent and experience solving problems.
They have a brand image to uphold. If anybody were to be able to open up a franchise and run it badly (ie, have rats running around), this would have a serious negative image on the whole brand and would sway people away from eating at the same branded joints again, even though other joints are run by different people.

As such, it is necessary to vet the potential franchisee to ensure they're going to support and improve your brand image rather than damage it. Requiring a "deposit" as such is part of this, as the franchisee will need to at least recover the amount invested by providing good service.
Severely underappreciated (IMO) is British psychiatrist Marion Milner's A Life of One's Own[1] (1934, as "Joanna Field") - an extraordinary recounting of the author's subjective yet diligent observational study of her own awareness and mental processes from first principles and with as few assumptions as possible.

The results were unexpected!

> As soon as I began to study my perception, to look at my own experience, I found that there were different ways of perceiving and that the different ways provided me with different facts. There was a narrow focus which meant seeing life as if from blinkers and with the centre of awareness in my head; and there was a wide focus which meant knowing with the whole of my body, a way of looking which quite altered my perception of whatever I saw. And I found that the narrow focus way was the way of reason. If one was in the habit of arguing about life it was very difficult not to approach sensation with the same concentrated attention and so shut out its width and depth and height. But it was the wide focus way that made me happy.

The book is full of arresting and innovative insights on awareness and perception. For example, the spotlight analogy for "covert attention" is often attributed to Francis Crick writing in 1984[2], but fifty years earlier Milner writes:

> At any moment there exist in the fringes of my thought faint patternings which can be brought to distinction when I look at them. Like a policeman with a flash-light I can throw the bright circle of my awareness where I choose; if any shadow or movement in the dim outer circle of its rays arouses my suspicion, I can make it come into the circle of brightness and show itself for what it is. But the beam of my attention is not of fixed width, I can widen or narrow it as I choose.[3]

On the topic of first person recountings of mental journeys, but from the other side of the analyst's couch, it's also worth mentioning Operators and Things: The inner life of a schizophrenic[4] a powerful first person account of schizophrenic hallucination and ideation which comes across a little more like a novel than an objective account but is fascinating nonetheless.

1: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/10/11/a-life-of-ones-own-...

2: e.g. "(The analogy was first suggested by Francis Crick, the geneticist.)" - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/how-cons...

3: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ntg6OE7haSgC&pg=PA77

4: Online at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/13476 it seems - I read it in paperback in the 80s and only turned that site up with google just now, so ... but the PDF seems to work.
Prisoner's dilemma. Dismantling the armies only works if you get all countries in the world to do it at the same time.
Not a hint of the chemical composition in the article, or did I miss it?
I don't know how good of an idea CRDT would be here, but from the pijul perspective the CRDT layer should not possibly create a conflict, in the same way a `git fetch` should never cause a conflict (assuming well behaved hashes).

The CRDT layer would produce a set of patches in an unmergeable state and then pijul would have to fix it; just like git.
Better air quality, lower carbon-cost of transport benefit you even if you don't use it. Similarly for sporting facilities in a state with any sponsoring of medical needs (I'm in UK).

For me Library was a primary place to work (prepaid heat and light!), and access books that couldn't be used online or cost too much to have a private copy (or for which it was more economic not to get one, like you only needed it for a day/week) - but that was a while back. I can't really see even the majority of course books being online though, maybe I'm wrong?
> Currently, Proton Native is headed by one high school senior with not enough time.

Well done!
Hello @MaxBarraclough and @anoncake,

Is there a simple solution for this?

DO reserves say $20 (just an example) when one spins up a new droplet, and if one forgets to pay — then, DO shuts down the server. But keeps the backups, until the GB-month cost is $20.

One could choose how much money to reserve, depending on how important the data one stored on the droplet, was. If it's just for running test: $0. Customer data: Maybe $$$ instead.

There could be a default that made the data and backup last for 2 or 3 months?

And any remaining money would be refunded, if one closes one's account or sth like that.

* * *

Actually I'll look into implementing this, in my own SaaS (which, like DO, takes monthly recurring payments and stores customer data).
My favorite game of all time, Oni, is also stuck in purgatory for similar reasons. It was the last game Bungie put out before being bought out by Microsoft. In theory Take-Two Interactive owns the rights to the IP, but it's really fuzzy and they aren't very interested in finding out if they actually own it for purposes of selling or licensing the IP. Distribution rights are also theoretically owned by 2K (Gathering of Developers [PC distro] and Rockstar Games [PS2distro]) are both now owned by Take-Two. (Source: https://wiki.oni2.net/Rights)

I've heard rumor that the person at Take-Two is fairly tight-fisted with old IP and not interested in anyone outside the company getting access to it, but that might be unfounded.

(If you work at Take-Two/2K Games publishing and are interested in licensing the distribution rights, shoot me a message. From what I know of the source, it should be an easy port to modern systems, and you'd make a lot of people very happy. It _should_ be profitable to do so. I'd be opening to setting up a small studio to do so. I have the time and the cash right now.)
I'd be curious to see how it handles infill. This seems like it has potential.
A thread from 2014, presumably pre-publication:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8096185

A bit more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9289890

Related from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9287426
And yet people choose to buy franchises rather than start their own independent shops. Proliferation of franchises indicates that this is mutually beneficial.

Also, bear in mind that the franchise's corporate brand reputationsuffers when a franchise fails, so there's inherently some risk sharing.
See also: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
There's nothing "predatory" about assuring that your business partner actually has enough capital to operate a business. The startup costs may be significantly lower for a freestanding restaurant but you also have to shoulder the burden of marketing and establishing a customer base. A national chain doesn't just sit on its ass and collect money from franchisees. The costs of marketing and R&D are enormous but in the franchise model these things are offloaded from the individual restaurant to the parent company.

The parent company has no interest in that location ever closing. They're not house flippers or day traders. They rely on stable long-term income, not random tiny spikes a few times a year. Franchise fees are barely even a blip on the radar of a company like McDonald's.
I'm in the same boat. I'm coming up to speed on a very large, 5 year old monolith RoR codebase.

I fucking hate the thing.

I've done quite a bit of web dev across a pretty large variety of languages (c/c++/c#/php/js/golang/other).

They all have rough edges, but never in my career have I been more frustrated than when dealing with Ruby on Rails.

The tooling is... the best I can call it is bad. Simple things like jump to definition just don't work, basically anywhere, autocomplete is non-existent. RubyMine is the closest to functional, but it's still MILES away from good.

Non of that alone is a deal breaker - I've written sites in plain old notepad or gedit, but when languages have bad tooling, I expect good documentation. Rails is off in la-la magic land though. Docs are hard to find and inconsistent. I'll frequently find documentation that contradicts itself (ex: Are middleware "Set-Cookie" headers delimited by a comma, or returned as an array? Ans - Trick question, the documentation says both in different places, but it's actually a newline, which isn't documented fucking anywhere.)

Trying to just figure out where a method definition lives is needlessly tiring. I asked a long time dev at the company how he finds the source for methods that are magically pulled in by rails. His answer: "I do a global search for "def [name]" and if that doesn't find it, I give up and ask the development slack channel". Personally, I find that mind-boggling.

And honestly, I guess most of my frustration isn't really Ruby. It's Rails. I don't love that Ruby seems to encourage the "make it a dsl!" type programmer, but by itself there are good times/places for that. Rails though? It just doesn't scale for humans.

Rails feels like it started off with a solid idea - Don't worry about the boilerplate, just write productive code, we'll handle the magic. And that works great... up to a point. But that point was years back. Now the whole ecosystem has grown to the point where I HAVE to understand at least some of the magic, but because they didn't want you to see it, it's really, REALLY hard to get good answers about how/where all the various bits play together. Instead you chase outdated docs, bad stack overflow answers, and shitty forum posts.

I came on board pretty excited to pick up Ruby on Rails. A year in and I'm pretty convinced that I'll recommend basically ANY other framework and toolset.
Love all the comments here from folks who haven't read the article and are going on about the browser. This article is about Opera's alleged fraudulent loans business. Well really this article doesn't have much of its own to say, it's mostly a rewrite / summary of this article: https://hindenburgresearch.com/opera-phantom-of-the-turnarou...
*The Devil's Dictionary[1] by Ambrose Bierce, a collection of sarcastic definitions, some of which are still funny today:

> LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

> SELF-EVIDENT, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

[1] http://thedevilsdictionary.com/
Do they accept job-shares for the position of owner. That's a pretty sweet deal for a $75k-$125k @ 30hr/week job?
It is only solvable for a short period of time. Then, when whatever replaces the current search is successful enough there will be an incentive to game the new system. So the only way to really solve this is by radical fragmentation of the search market or by randomizing algorithms.
Chick-fil-A corporate determines all new locations. Corporate cares about the success of their locations because they own the lot, own the building, own the equipment, own just about everything and lease it back to the operator. If an operator violates the franchise agreement they get evicted and or lose their equipment and can no longer operate. It's how Chick-fil-a is able to maintain quality and control. Ever wonder why a Chick-fil-a location doesn't buck corporate and open on Sundays? Because they'd lose everything they need to run their business.
From the article:

In most cases, they aren’t permitted to “own” multiple locations.
They aren’t permitted to run any other business.
Again, nobody is telling you to join them if you dont want to though. You can make a competing restaurant yourself.
oooo nice.
From the article. Already knew, but this summarizes the food business so beautifully.

“As a fast-food franchise owner, you’re often fighting a war for pennies,” says Rose. “Food is the most competitive industry known to man: It has the highest investment level of any industry, the highest failure rate, and the lowest margins.”
Get feedback before you launch. Id be happy to test it.
Not commenting on franchising, but I'd point out that, for example, loan sharks are "mutually beneficial" and exist across societies, but they can still be quite predatory.
Yup. Entertainingly I just saw an example of the “lying date” the original article pointed out: according to google the page is from 17 hours ago. However right next to this it says June, xx 2018. Really?
I also recommend Jocko podcast. I’ve truly enjoyed the perception shift of leadership and discipline.
> but without having all GPU vendors on board to continue supporting OpenGL, Khronos won't be able to do much to keep it alive

Please don't make things up. OpenGL 4.6 was released in July 2017. According to Wikipedia, modern AMD and NVIDIA cards both gained driver support for it in April 2018. Intel drivers have support since May 2019.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL#OpenGL_4.6)
Mimoona.co.il (local Israeli platform launched in 2012). Getting free access to software in that nature is something people are used to getting for free. I wouldn’t put my efforts on such campaign since it requires lots of time commitment. Spend that time on building the software. Just my 2c