skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to make note of this. The terraforming simulations of trying to make Mars and Venus livable are also interesting from this perspective. Mars is actually achievable by creating the greenhouse effect with CO2 generators, but I could never get anywhere with Venus.

I'm still baffled this hasn't been re-issued in a modern form or at least copied by someone else or inspiring another game.

Would love to make my trichordates sentient again!
> and a password I can remember.

This is going to be the reality of any data system which you want to have complete control over. I suppose it could also be a complex key you instead keep on your drive, but that has risks as well.
Guessing this is the beginning of the end of podcasting being an open medium backed by RSS, at least for "big" shows.
That button "I don't get it..." at the bottom right is genius.
The idea is not to move the password, or any derived key, but the clear-text data. GDPR and other laws enforce that you give customers the right to access their data (in clear text), if possible in an interoperable form. Notion does so in CSV and Markdown, which is good enough to transfer to another service.
I wonder if this is a response to Microsoft's recent moves.
That sounds like a spot where a human can step in?
I laughed out loud at this example, because I run a site with (what I reckon to be) one of the best domain names for exactly that use-case:

https://cycle.travel
Don't overlook the importance of the economy. It's tough to get individual customers to pay $4/month for a service like this in a good economy. (They were already giving it away to academics, which will never be a lucrative market.) I wouldn't want to be selling Notion to individuals in an economy like this.
Headlines used to include the most important information, and the text for a link for the article would be the headline or something similarly descriptive. Nowadays links to articles often explicitly exclude information forcing you to the article to even see what it's about.
I've already got a passphrase on my Signal app. Why do I also need a PIN on top of that?

If it's supposed to be an easier alternative to a passphrase, then okay, but stop showing me the freaking notification to setup a PIN...
I agree. Shouldn't you put your PIN in a password manager anyway?

Why call it a PIN and not a password to begin with? Is there a difference I'm missing?
Oh, I see. Gotcha. I use it for images and lists, so I've gotten used to it.

Cool. Thanks!
> Signal's been asking me for a PIN for about 2 weeks now.

And my copy started preventing me from using it entirely yesterday with a full-screen un-dismissable popup[1] :(

[1]: https://i.redd.it/4sip5dcw9iy41.png [2]

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/giw4if/the_signal_p...
Microsoft launches Project Bonsai, an AI development platform for industrial sys
Very true... and let's hope that day does come, because it means we can generate coverage reports even faster (if not with my tool, with someone else's)!
Just like how TV shows died once they became exclusive to one network or streaming service!
The "hungry" looters getting food by selling them is a much better outcome then the rich "gentleman" taking pleasure by seeing them in a museum. Just because one won the genetic lottery by being born in a richer nation doesn't mean their entertainment has more value than the food of "hungry" looters, who too are human beings.
You're parsing PDF? I'd imagine most places allow some sort of data export like csv or something? That's how I get the data out of Chase and BofA.
Clearly someone didn't see the episode with the re-neducation camps...
Or this is how the Joe Rogan show dies.
Yeah but besides the sanitation system,the aqueduct, the roads, the irrigation system, medicine,oratory, law, historians, dramatists,Vitruvius..what did those lousy Romans have?
Almost any local business.

Amazon is a terrible example of prioritizing customers--what part of selling counterfeits, putting sponsored products higher in search results, or retroactively deleting books off your Kindle serves users?
> IIRC, Windows 10 is faster than Windows 7 on slow hardware.

This has not been my experience with Windows 7 ==> 10.
I've tracked my finances for as long as I can remember. It's become even more important since getting married.

We track every penny. About once a month we sit down and categorize every purchase we made the last month. We only keep receipts if the purchase was for a non-obvious category (e.g. buying both diapers and groceries at Target) so that we can split each transaction between categories.

For some banks, we manually download transaction data in whatever nice format they provide. For others, we use a syncing service that works with the app.

It's been so great throughout our marriage to know that we're both in charge of the money and make decisions together.

That said, I've talked with many people who don't like that level of detail. At first, it was baffling to me that people didn't know the details of their finances, but as I've grown, I've realized that there's plenty more than one good way to manage your money.

Full disclosure: I actively work on and sell budgeting software.
GM is working on a hands-off advanced driving system for city streets
Worthwhile warning. While I'm not privy to all of the details, management was considering to make a complete move Notion but the whole plan for whipped due to privacy and data ownership / confidentiality concerns.
I don't think you realize how good those Bulls teams of the 90's, especially the 2nd 3-peats were. For the 2nd 3-peats, 96,97,98 championships, they had 3(Jordan, Pippen, and Rodman) top ten of all time defensive players [1]. So lets think, since the dawn of the NBA 3 of the players on this team are considered the best defenders ever to play the game. This is not all Jordan, this is a stellar defensive cast that is beyond anything the game has seen coupled with the best offensive player in a generation(Jordan).
Lebron has never had such a quality(defensive) cast surrounding him.

lets not forget coaching.
Phil Jackson has won 11 championships, more than any coach ever in the NBA. Who has Lebron had during his championships? Tyronn Lue and Erik Spoelstra, good coaches, but not one of the brightest minds to ever coach the game in Jackson.

Lastly, Lebron is still playing, he could pull off a 3-peat with this current Lakers team, we just don't know. I say all this as a die-hard Jordan fan who thinks people underestimate Lebron because he's "nice".

[1] - https://bleacherreport.com/articles/519667-defensive-legends...
Does this mean we will finally be able to use Signal without a phone number?
Who? What?
Article really goes out of its way to let you know why you're supposed to hate Joe Rogan...

I think it's probably a good move for his bank account but will piss off a lot of his fans. I casually follow him on Youtube, just watching clips mostly but occasionally full interviews. I never use Spotify for spoken word or video---and I probably won't follow him there.
I've used a mac occasionally and there are really only two features I miss from the trackpad level:
- Add a finger to click. This is very useful to be able to click without stopping dragging your finger.
- The acceleration curve for pointing feels more natural. This was surprising to me because I use Linux primarily but I feel like I hit targets slightly more on MacOS.

With libinput I have found that multi-touch gestures work really well we are just missing application support. It seems that this project doesn't aim to work on applications at all so for me it seems like they are barking up the wrong tree. For example I would love to have Firefox wired up to linux three-finger swipe gestures for forward/back (and I bind down -> Scroll To Top and up -> Close tab).
Pi in the Sky: General Relativity Passes the Ratio’s Test
Why go for the unproven, when the old, reliable also is freely available :-) ?

I think part of the reason is non-technical.

Some companies won’t use Linux in their hardware because of its license.

Similarly, some developers prefer working on BSD-licensed over working on GPL-licensed software. Some may also like working on systems with fewer developers, so that they can have greater impact on the direction of development.
I love the look of this. Just make it so it's easy to make full offline backups and I'll be happy to leave hosting and server maintenance to you.
They didn't swallow, nor discount, anything.

They pointed out reasonable doubt without committing to a conclusion, which you interpret as taking sides; which makes a different point entirely..
To me, it seems like these tech giants want the internet to start and end with their platforms. Facebook is becoming (or has become) people's experience of the "internet", it has a lot of what people want.

My concern is there isn't yet a law or enforced guidelines (similar to the GDPR) about machine learning, and what happens when it gets things wrong.

Recently, we've seen with a postcast app and pushbullet being threatened on Google. What happens if an AI or system decides it no longer likes your shop, or factors outside your control cause it to be flagged?

A commenter worried about MLM's, which is a valid point. Will we know the identity of the FB user who made the shop? How does the ownership process works? (I.E who actually "owns" the FB shop on FB and get admin controls).

I refuse to engage with and use FB, it may be that some shops become entirely FB oriented and forget "mycoolshop.com", because FB provides all the tools a business owner needs.

Sad, but slowly we're seeing the death of the internet we all wanted and possibly knew for a time in the early part of the century.
OK but where does Fear and Uncertainty fit into this model?
I could name a hundred niche sellers too, but the allure of Walmart and Amazon is that they sell basically everything. I can buy a Macbook and Gatorade plus some brand name AA batteries for my RC car that I bought all in the same shopping trip.

IKEA has good products but they don't come close to general merchandise stores like Amazon or Walmart.
No. GET params in the URL should not have security-sensitive data this wasn't always widely known. Even in HTTPS-everywhere world, there are still security implications.

Early versions of some PHP sites, for example, would pass around auth tokens (think the auth cookie) in a URL. This soon became an obvious problem when users copy-pasted their URLs into forum posts, non-HTTPS URLs were logged by proxies, and web server access logs became gold mines for maybe-still-active sessions.
This looks fantastic, definitely going to have a go when I've got a spare hour. Thanks!
That’s the whole point, killing open podcast distribution. They want the only viable place to get podcasts to be the Spotify app which they control.
The way people reacted to the Ribbon disagrees with you :) Toolbars specifically were replaced with an improved chunk of UI, everything else was left the same, and people were furious. Rightly so, to a degree - learning to use it was an adjustment. Now imagine that the whole app's UI incrementally changed and not just parts of it... nobody's gonna be happy about that.
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long time notion user here. I was using notion for my personal life and it was serving the purpose but when I started using it as a project management tool for my dev team I realised how crippled it is (no dependent tasks, gantt view etc). maybe I'm wrong and notion is not built for this but then again why would i use it just for wiki? recently started looking for task management+wiki tool.. reviewed more than 10+ tools and finally picked an extremely powerful but a less known tool clickup.com
Mainly the mechanism for discovery & delivery - podcasts used to be RSS or Atom + Audio which allowed for repackaging and offline play.

With Spotify you need their specific app to listen. You have offline on premium but not on the free level.

Joe is now a feature of Spotify rather than being it's own destination.
TigerDirect[1] is a solid alternative to Newegg, that doesn't appear to have succumbed to the easy buck of the marketplace model.

[1] http://www.tigerdirect.com/
In the meanwhile, Microsoft ToDo app is broken: when you sort alphabetically, inexplicably, completed items are not sorted alphabetically, which makes the app useless for grocery shopping. If someone from MSFT is listening, do please fix.
Given that Spotify engages in some of the same censorship and control that other bit tech platforms like Google/YouTube/Twitter practice, I don't see why I would trust them and invest in their platform as a fan of such content. See https://www.midiaresearch.com/blog/spotifys-censorship-crisi... for a past example where Spotify entered the fray of imposing their own worldviews by censoring content. Yes they ultimately backed off on that but I can't trust that they'll be the best steward for free thinking open minded content like Joe Rogan's.

EDIT: see the update at the bottom of the Tech Crunch article.

> Update: In response to a question the Rogan show’s history of controversial guests and subject matter, a spokesperson for the company simply responded, “All shows on Spotify are subject to our content policies.”

Given their content policies include a vague "hate content" policy (https://artists.spotify.com/faq/music#what-content-is-prohib...), I don't see how Joe Rogan can openly discuss controversial topics like "Should transgender athletes compete in women's sports" any longer. Just one more reason to not trust Spotify or other big platform arbiters.
Oh look another C overflow bug.
Parallel Projects
Sony's Clever but Flawed Playstation 1 Copy Protection (2018)
I’m pretty sure I learned all that in high school (in Virginia, 20 years ago when it was still a red state).
There's plenty of content and creators exclusive to services and often stuck behind paywalls. I can't muster any outrage about one more person joining their ranks.
The government could even want this. For example:

The tablet leaves the country. The government is aware, but pretends otherwise. Money flows into the country to pay for the tablet. The government reports the tablet missing, then gets it back. Repeat, for a nice flow of cash.

Selling the same object multiple times must be profitable.
I don't even know where to start with "mightbrabancon.com"
Agreed; that's what keeps me hopeful here too. Looking at my podcast player, I don't think there's any single podcast that I would download a new app for, if they tried this. So hopefully at least for the type of podcasts I listen to, this wouldn't be a winning move.
The buyer is still responsible for paying a 'use tax' in that case (which is typically identical to the sales tax rate).
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So Brave blocks AD from one creator, made gave you tokens to give a another person of your choice for watching their ADs?

What am I missing? You’re basically stealing, fencing the goods, and somehow giving away the proceeds makes that okay and I need to waste my time reading more?

As for doing more reading, sounds like a personal attack, if so, combined with your “Robin Hood” life style, maybe you’re the one that needs to spend more time.
Story of Google Maps and Otter.ai [audio]
Perhaps a better example is Howard Stern?
Didn't you just say that you stopped pretending to accept tips for people you have not signed up in January 2019? And yet here you say that you still have this same deceptive behaviour in your browser?
Url import is already there
https://www.npmjs.com/package/require-from-url
Thanks for the scroll.com ref. Had that idea several years ago, but was too early. Glad someone running it. Will check out their fraud prevention, that stuff is pretty hard. When fraud drains campaign money, who cares, kinda, but when it's taking member money- can't have that.
Direct reduction of iron ore with Hydrogen can eliminate most of the process emissions of smelting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_reduced_iron . Production of secondary steel (recycled steel) using electric arc furnaces also barely has process emissions.
Why is this sad? To me it illustrates that there is a lot of value in Spotify as a delivery mechanism and that the existing channels are not working.

If anything it should inspire creative new solutions to the issue.
Spotify is just as ban-happy as YouTube.
See "COCOM Limits" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinating_Committee_for_Mul...
All of those except Braze are just one company: Google.
It integrates seamlessly with excel online, ppt online, word online.

Which makes the concept of "file sharing" moot because one just has to paste the new file and the entire team can start working on it without ever leaving the teams app.

The same story holds for integrating with the other 365 apps that MS has.

Additionally, the PowerBI integration is absolutely game changing for sharing performance reports seamlessly to everyone on the team.
That's too bad, I hope at least the old episodes remain on YouTube.

Not only because it is simple and easy and free to find and listen to the episodes, but the associated visual content (clips, reactions) is good too.

Would Elon's blunt hit have been nearly as entertaining in purely audio form?
Their UI is not my cup of tea either. I find browsing channels and the way personal chats are listed not to work well. I've also seen a bug numerous times where the UI shows a notification for a message when there isn't one but that's not a UI problem per se
If this were the case, wouldn't the podcasts would choose to use spotify on their own without having to be paid for it?
I was referring more to the first sentence attributing the strength of walmart.com as the reasoning to shutting down jet.com. Walmart isn't shutting down jet.com because of "the continued strength of the Walmart brand", Walmart is shutting down jet.com because jet.com lost $2b last year and failed to gain the success they'd hoped for. The business failed.
I see. That makes more sense. That being said, you are still framing life as a competition/game which I'm not sure I see the point in. For what it's worth, I view religion mostly as a mechanism for encouraging behavior which is collectively beneficial. We are all better off if we act in ways that are trustworthy, even if that means individual sacrifice in some cases, and so the whole afterlife b.s. is just a way of suggesting a lifestyle which is pro-social. Case in point, even people who supposedly believe in paradise don't act like it.
Because of the way engineers habitually run batch jobs with more replicas than there are machines, this one broken computer had crapped up every map/reduce job in that facility for a long time, and it had been sent to repairs many times without benefit. Many people knew instinctively that if their job was stuck it was probably because of the shard on xyz42 (or whatever the node name was).
I don’t want my messages to be stored anywhere other than on my phone. I hate when companies push this bullshit on you. I keep on getting reminders to set a pin and I can’t turn it off.

I think one of the issues with software is that because it’s infinitely extensible, people just add more and more features, they don’t know when to stop. So they keep pushing features that satisfy 10% of their users to the detriment of the 90%. Slowly the app becomes bloated and extremely confusing to use.
> In the west, we take fungibility for granted. The fact that a dollar is worth the same in Los Angeles as it is in New York, or Vancouver as it is in Halifax, is worth celebrating.

Except that this is both blatantly false and also not at all analogous. First, a currency's "worth" is expressible solely in terms of what you can buy with it, and the price in dollars of a McDonalds Quarter Pounder is absolutely not the same in different locations. And second, the Yemeni city isn't the important distinction between the different Yemeni bills; the minting authority is.

A comparison between French Euros and Spanish Euros would have been far more reasonable, as they're produced by separate minting authorities but still both Euros.
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Boeing, for years, 'delivered' jets at the Portland, Oregon airport to avoid Washington state sales tax.
It will likely lead to centralization.

If third-party cookies and device fingerprinting are blocked, then how can you track users who saw an ad twice, before deciding to buy?

You can’t with much certainty, unless they’re using Chrome, and you’re Google.

For the NYT who can rely on “brand” (as opposed to “performance”) advertising this isn’t a big deal. They can charge a lot just to show the image on their site. They have strong enough prestige that many advertisers will not require a third-party arbiter of tracking or impressions.

But I worry that the direction of change will favor Google as an advertising behemoth, and extend their influence over the web and publishing.
The comments here are insane. Why do HN readers have this defeatest attitude about absolutely everything?

One prominent podcaster takes his show to one of the most popular music streaming services on the planet and the reaction is really "this is the end of podcasting as we know it" ???
Not disagreeing too much, but I really think podcasts have a limited "parallelism" to them

Sure, you can do the dishes or go for a walk and listen to podcasts.

But it's impossible to do anything mildly intellectual or that requires some attention
This article assumes that things like transaction costs are fixed, and customer support is legally required.

If you removed those two assumptions, micropayments make sense.

Crypto currency actually can solve those problems elegantly. You can have low transaction costs. And, transactions can be anonymous and irreversible (depending on the currency).

Critics will rightly point out those promises are not always kept (ethereum gas prices, for example), but they are the goals. Lower transaction fees, I would assert, are not the goals of PayPal.

The problem is not technical. It's that there isn't mass adoption. If a well funded startup did a "Fresno Drop" they might be able to overcome that. That would be interesting and could be very effective.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-fresno-drop/

Full disclosure: I'm working on such a system and have a patent pending on the process.
Despite already being a customer, I find this disheartening.

In my mind, this is the real headline: Spotify paid millions to harm our right to choose where we consume content.

Music services have so far avoided the library fragmentation and exclusivity wars that soured streaming video. You can generally get all music on all services. Spotify was big enough to keep Apple Music from getting too hostile in this space, but they've lived long enough to become the villain.
I'm looking forward to hearing how they plan to prevent brute-forcing of these. A physical hardware device can wipe keys after a certain number of failures.

I definitely look forward to the ability to move Signal forward to a new device without losing all logs, and the ability to use Signal without tying it to a phone number.
According to the Nazis they were a National Socialists, they did not see themselves as totalitarian. I suppose it is an illusion of reference. People inside U.S.A think it is a free nation ... whereas those on the outside can see its totalitarian tendencies more clearly.

To take the case of France, what is it doing in Guiana ? France may be liberal to its people but it suppresses people in Guiana in a totalitarian way.