skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are certain "properties" that will need to exist in a truly sustainable micro-payment system. One of which was discussed, but only to expose why the author doesn't think micro-payments will work.

I think the system will need to allow a user to allocate a flat monthly total they're willing to spend on micro-payments. Then, as the user accumulates more and more people they want to pay, the total gets split evenly (or at a designated ratio) across all.

Sort of like the saying "give what you can, take what you need".

I think there are several opportunities here:

1) I think government needs to be involved so they can create a new "designation" so we can provide rules this new designation follows. Most obvious of which would be taxes.

2) I think as the world becomes more and more connected, there will be a real need for tooling to allow users to manage the 10's or 100's of thousands of people they're paying with micropayments.

3) Probably would be good for standards to exist, so interconnected, de-centralized systems can keep "subscribers / payers" up-to-date with the latest from all applicable platforms, with all of the people they're currently paying.

Tons more, but not sure anyone will read this so won't go into too much detail...
YNAB (web version) has a pretty excellent web-first experience. And I'm not sure that I want a total web experience if half of my battle is recording transactions at the time they occur, right in the store. This is super convenient, no reason to keep receipts and enter them when I get home.
You can't have a one-dimensional knot in the fourth dimension, because it's trivial to pull it apart if you move part of it into the fourth dimension.
The State of the Awk
WebView2 isn't a replacement for Electron; it's a replacement for the Internet Explorer powered WebView component that's been a part of Windows 10 since the beginning. WebView2 doesn't have the same level of platform APIs that Electron provides. While you totally could build a similar app using WebView2 as you could with Electron, you're going to have to build all the non-web bits yourself.
A Quantum View of Markets
This doesn't really matter. Legacy apps need to be modernized but their owners can't afford/aren't willing to. It's not the mainframe holding these apps back... the problem is much much worse.

Also, mainframes are the most expensive way to run modern code so the fact that it's possible is not interesting.
The article hints that the project started around the time Maxis were closing on a $10m investment from a VC interested in the market potential business simulation and Delta Logic were to be acquired as part of the deal. So there must have been a lot of motivation on the side of the developers to do the deal at any cost. Chevron apparently publicly described it as a prototype, and I suspect the project documents did as well, along with ambitious outline proposals for how it could be expanded at much greater expense if the pilot was successful.
Only log that a IP address did a conversion, not what conversion or what file it convereted, there is no association to files and IP address.

After one hour the cache key of that IP address expires. I have gone ahead and updated the privacy policy to make this clear as well.
Those things also disallow entire classes of program. Good luck writing a webserver or game engine without heap allocation
I'm always grateful when the map-territory distinction comes along and slaps me in the face. It's a signal that I should re-calibrate.

It's been a while, thanks for making it happen!
Heh, got 'em. Can I interest you in some brain supplements?
That's lovely. Now please explain to so many of my friends and family why their only broadband option with remotely decent pricing (if they have an alternative) is Xfinity, and why many of them had to pay hundreds to get a line run to their house to use that service.

The market will not solve access issues, regional monopolies by ISPs, or similar matters without intense regulation. Even then they will use tax subsidies to fight those regulations tooth and nail.

I'm running 100/10 on a dsl type line right now because it's my only other option than Xfinity and it is literally as fast as I can get outside of Xfinity as they own the infrastructure here for anything better. At least I don't have a data cap and can skate by at these speeds, though my upload hurts quite often.
Yep. The article is pretty comical too - somehow, being able to write a C or Java app that runs on the mainframe, and having mobile access to the mainframe terminal, means that the platform is modern!
This is why the best path is to be pretty average-looking into your 20s (so you receive middle-of-the-road treatment and are neither beaten down nor coddled) and then just blossom (so you can enjoy the benefits of being attractive but know what exists outside of them).
Google’s app is getting a dark mode starting today
I paid once as well, but was forced to upgrade to Catalina for other reasons. Felt cheated, but I understand why they do it.
Sure there is. There's a super well-frequented bread forum that is kind of like HN. Experience reports, recipe recommendations, etc.
"One day before a top Florida Department of Health data manager lost her role maintaining the state’s COVID-19 data, she objected to the removal of records showing people had symptoms or positive tests before the cases were announced, according to internal emails obtained by the Tampa Bay Times."

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/19/florida-heal...

So I guess "makomk" was wrong. And your admiration for his baseless speculation was also wrong.

I wonder what percentage of all HN posts, almost none of which receive such honours as being reposted by an admirer, manage this sort of trifecta of missing its prediction, never actually having a meaningful argument or mechanism for the prediction, and, by its own admission, smearing the person concerned with these unsubstantiated claims of lying and/or at least acting in bad faith.
Sorry to hear about that. Naturally I didn't mean to imply that everyone had it easy. Some even died, tragically.
Your startup name is...
chlamydosaurusladybird.com

pretty catchy.
"exclusive"

From the second paragraph of the article
"The show will hit Spotify September 1, and become exclusive to the platform later in the year."

Doesn't this mean it will no longer be available via the RSS feed?

Edit: typo
Do you think we'd have more or fewer? It isn't clear to me. After all, back in the day was a bloody period.
YNAB can sometimes feel expensive. And while I could use an OSS solution like Gnucash or ledger, I don't have the time to deal with the tech support needed to be able to share my setup with my spouse. Likewise, we extremely value the mobile experience. To me, YNAB is cheap and well worth the money.

You might want to try "Every Dollar" which is free and has a mobile experience. It's not open source, of course, but it might fit what you're looking for.
I like to do this too.

It's fun to email an author when I really like their book with a short message that I enjoyed it. I do the same for little open source projects too.

Usually you get a small response back - I think it's one of the best things about the internet.
iteration is my middle name :) the point I was trying to make is you should be prepared - if only for the 95% of the cases that the runbook can solve. you also don't start with a complete runbook - you build it as you operate the service.
She's publicly asserting that one or more of her colleagues will lie when they take over her role. She literally cannot predict the future behavior of these people, and is thus acting in bad faith.

Life is short, and I don't get paid enough to deal with people like that.
Qatar Airways cabin crew to wear hazmat suits
My point is that they don't get to decide that, though. They decide whether they will pay for hosting, but they can't stop him from paying for his own hosting elsewhere.

Likewise, if the WSJ decides not to publish my letter to the editor, they aren't violating my freedom of speech, they are just deciding not to amplify it.
There is only so much you can do to cover up a pandemic and an economic depression. People won't need numbers to understand either event when their grandfather dies and they can't get a job to feed their children.
Young Workers May Never Recover from the Downturn
Pharo is moving down strange pathways and some questionable recent implementation choices made me lose my faith (for now). Squeak has always been and remains my Smalltalk of choice, and if you can look past some -probable- superficial ugliness (e.g. Morphic) it remains relevant and extremely iconoclastic.
Walmart's a big place, so I don't mean to contradict my sibling comment.

Across the Walmart.com websites I didn't see anything from jet tech. The only thing I heard talk of was essentially reporting to push Marc's basket economics passion.

I believe Jet's acquisition was essentially a way to buy Marc Lore as eCommerce CEO.

I've met with many Jet folks and they are an awesome crew to work with, but Jet didn't really operate at Walmart scale.
do you have more information?
You need to accept that is not going to happen any time soon. We don't have the luxury of sitting on our hands indefinitely.
gh Projects

Pro:

- Integrated with GitHub issues

Con:

- Can not move card to other board

- No import/export

- No themes

- No change background image

- Only basic automation of moving cards to Done list etc

Trello

Pro:

- Can move card/list to other boards

- Export to JSON

- GitHub Power-Up for GitHub integration

- Butler for automating, in English

- Themes

- Change background image

- API

Con:

- Only SaaS, can not self-host, not Open Source

- No Swimlanes

- Export to CSV needs paid account

- No Import from JSON/CSV on free version web UI

Wekan https://wekan.github.io

Pro:

- Open Source, can self-host on x64, RasPi3/4 etc

- Import from Trello JSON cards/lists/checlists/attachments/labels/votes

- Import CSV, currently importing custom fields in progress of being added

- Import from Wekan JSON including attachments

- Export CSV, currently exporting custom fields in progress of being added

- Export Wekan JSON including attachments

- IFTTT Rules wizard has translations, but less rules than similar Trello Butler

- Swimlanes

- Themes

- Gogs integration https://github.com/wekan/wekan-gogs

- API, Outgoing Webhooks per board, Global Webhooks at admin panel of (nearly) all board actions

Con:

- Not integrated with GitHub yet

- No move list to other board yet

- No change background image yet
I find it a bit unnecessarily politicized. I’m not sure President approval rating is relevant and rather than comparing total deaths to war and terrorism I’d like to see how it stacks up against Cancer and other health related deaths.

Otherwise, I love it. It’s easy to read and the layout is wonderful. I’ve bookmarked it! Thank you!
‘Way Too Late’: Inside Amazon’s Biggest Outbreak
Do you mail them the expended cartridge Or expended finger?
Interesting, mine keeps nagging me at the bottom of the screen every day, but hasn't forced it on me at all yet.
I guess the software analog of this is that the quality of code usually goes up when it’s open-sourced. Not just because of the contributions from outsiders, but because the original developers feel apprehensive about putting out low quality code.
I think you overestimate how much an impact merchant fees have on rewards programs. Rewards programs are marketing, they exist to make people feel like they are getting something "back" on their purchases only to lose all of it the moment they are charged interest on their balance. Yes, there are people who pay in full every month and reap the rewards of the program - but don't kid yourself for a second thinking that's the majority of cardholders.
... along with safety goggles, gloves and a mask during flights ...
Drill presses and (wood) jointers are also largely unchanged over decades.

You can still get good use out of a Buffalo drill press from the 1940s. A lot of those machines were made and went into small machine shops, and are just out there circulating around because the basic tool is so simple. (E.g., this well-known woodworker's shop: http://penultimatewoodshop.blogspot.com/2013/05/shop-tour-mi...)
The idea of an actually sounds your system with js syntax is very appealing when compared to typescripts deliberate unsoundness.
Who owns Jet.com? No, I don't think Walmart is a great competitor to Amazon, at least for the way I shop.
The strategy's three phases are [1]:

1. Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard.

2. Extend: Addition and promotion of features not supported by the competing product or part of the standard, creating interoperability problems for customers who try to use the "simple" standard.

3. Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot support the new extensions.

DirectX bindings are phase 2: encourage users and programs to depend on a Microsoft-exclusive variant of standard Linux (ie. WSL), touting compatibility with standard Linux. When enough users and programs depend on these Microsoft-exclusive features, Microsoft can start phase 3: break compatibility with standard Linux and marginalize it because it is now more popular.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/39...
I just checked outline out and went to try the hosted version, but looks like they don't let me sign up with my own email. I generate emails for each service I use, and am much too lazy to generate a Slack account just to use it to sign into this. I suppose I could spin up an instance and self-host, but don't want to dedicate 30 mins to just setting this up to test it out.
Is ASLR a capable solution to those weaknesses? ASLR is supported by the operating system. Though a system administrator would have to turn it on by following these instructions:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com...
Correction: Her MIT position (a Moore instructor, at least according to her own website https://sites.google.com/view/lpiccirillo/home ) is not a tenure-track job (see https://math.mit.edu/about/employment.php ). It's still one of the best academic jobs a fresh PhD can get these days (certainly more prestigious than a "mere" postdoc). I don't think you can get a tenure-track job right out of your PhD, even an MIT fake tenure-track job (they say it guarantees you tenure, just not necessarily at MIT).
Actually, they used to sell a trackpad that did that until last year!
This is an excellent roadmap (or the start of one at least) to build a nice side business with very little effort. People with a tech orientation, like the audience here, are VERY far removed from how most people use technology. So austincitytours.com turns you off? Me too. But the VAST majority of people are not like you. They click on the .COM that has the name/descriptor of what they want.

No, it isn't like it was 10 years ago where people would type the thing in and add ".com" BUt it's not that far off either. A LOT of traffic will gravitate to the trustworthy sounding .com

Additionally, as a guy in the lead gen business I can tell you that every business out there wants more demand. Finding partners to offer fulfillment takes almost no time at all.

The hardest part, perhaps the ONLY hard part of this whole model is getting traffic in the first place. As for me I don't spend any time at all on dropshipping or service fulfillment but rather on simply selling the leads. Leads are worth a LOT more money than many people realize.
Absolutely. I just searched way back one chat to find the size of a bike helmet I bought that I had mentioned there years ago, as mine has been stolen this afternoon. Others contain fond memories, cooking recipes, there is a group chat we have with locations and restaurants to visit. It's been useful on many occasions to have those logs as a kind of informal diary, because I mention most important events to at least one of my closest remote friends. Not having persistent chat logs is a dealbreaker for me.
I don't know how often I've looked at combinatorics and yet I still harbor a secret belief that you can pre-calculate a hell of a lot more than we do and just use the result when the time comes.

Its like part of my brain lives in an alternate universe where some entire field of dynamic programming has flourished that we don't (or categorically couldn't) have here.

When I think of the fan spinning in Skylines I am transported to a memory of staring at an empty chunk of ground, watching the trees blow in the wind, and wondering if they really needed to be calculating this just right now.

There are tricks you can do with animation cycles where if all cycles are relatively prime, then the pattern only repeats every few minutes, hours, centuries. It's part of why we have 13 and 17 year cicadas. They align on a frequency of over 2 centuries, and they have near misses (appearing in successive years) around every 50 years (with a conspicuous 118 year respite in the middle that has me wondering about how public policy and cicadas work...)
Effect of Acupuncture on Postprandial Distress Syndrome: A Randomized Clin Trial
Haha, this company was great. They just took money and burnt it on customer acquisition through fantastic coupons and then sold to Walmart. I love these businesses. I bought so much stuff I needed on Jet coupons. 25% off max $50? Don't mind if I do. Hope there's a new one.

I think I must have gone through like 4 different emails using slightly modified addresses and all my CCs.
XWiki, a FOSS Alternative to Confluence
Shopify is definitely not looking for a suitor - no way. They still have so much growth potential - that rocketship is looking to add more channels. Once on Shopify it's tough to leave - that whole switching cost.
That advert is an incredibly tone deaf advert. Support the little guy! Yes, support little Mark Zuckerberg and his sole control of a $600Bn company. Has it ever occured to anyone in a multi billion dollar corporation that maybe it doesn't come across well to pretend you're fighting for the little guy. Why not take a break for once and just say "Hey, we're fucking enormous, no one even browses the web anymore, they browse facebook, so we've deigned to give you the smallest sliver of access to our amazing hoard of treasure - customers (in exchange for 90% of your profits)". At least it would be honest.
I think you can change it as long as you still have access to your phone
I didn't think about this!! That could a big performance hit to pay for nice API's.

I think inlining might save us here? I'm not sure what the metrics are around inlining lambdas... Does it look at the size of the code wrapping the lambda or the size of the lambda block itself to decide inlining eligibility?

If it only considers the size of the wrapper, maybe the small forEach method will always get inlined with the block it calls?

EDIT: according to this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44161545/can-hotspot-inl...
HotSpot will inline lambda method calls as long as depth doesn't exceed maxinlinelevel (9 by default). Assuming the API designers made their methods small enough to be inlined, they should all be flattened out.

Interestingly, this maxinlinelevel default was increased to 15 in Java 14! https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8234863 . Probably because more people are using streaming/reactive API's?
Perhaps they should make that an official option at that point…
Thanks for the population numbers, I didn't know they were so different. I just ranked them from (my perceived) livability - SLC close to skiing/nature, while Minneapolis/Ann Arbor are not destination cities like the other ones.

I think Seattle / Boston can be T1, but then you'd have too many T1s. My logic was "do lots of people want to move to this city?" and I think the answer is "no" compared to the demand for the T1s.

I see your logic though, and maybe it's better to just have a T1 and T2.
The impressive thing here is that it's (sadly) pretty rare for a company to actively cease a revenue stream and think of the longer term benefits.

GitHub and Notion are two recently examples, but for every one I see in the market, I can point to at least 10 that failed to take the obvious action.
A lot of people saying that this decision is because of adblockers, third party scripts, and future laws but...what if they just don't need third party ads anymore?

They've likely been collecting reader data for awhile and are probably at the point where they can spin up their own internal ad service.

Good example piece:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/01/upshot/are-yo...
iFixit launches world's largest medical equipment repair database
I love apple notes for its simplicity too but I think it lacks a good search engine and taking down technical notes with code
Java [audio]
Funnily enough I am growing rooftop potatoes right now, so I'm in the market.
> Jordan also had the benefit of Scottie Pippen who is a all-pro/50 greatest player [2] and far exceeded the skill of any of Lebron James teammates(Dwayne Wade prb being the closest to Pippen.)

Dwane Wade is arguably more accomplished than Pippen, and LeBron also enjoyed the help of the likes of Chris Bosh and Ray Allen. This means that 2 of the 3 championships won by LeBron counted with 3 or 4 all stars and all of famers, either current or future.

While Wade and Bosh were seasoned leaders who respectively carried their teams single-handedly, Pippen never really reached that level. In fact, arguably he disappointed in that domain during Jordan's retirement.

And let's not forget, that unlike Jordan, LeBron shopped around rather intensely to hand-pick which players would pick up the slack.

If he was on a fantasy league that would be a kin of getting the cheat codes to the game and burying the competition.
From what I understand, they are fine with forks of Signal as long as these forks have distinct branding and don't depend on OWS services to operate, I'd imagine because they don't want the operational burden of ensuring the compatibility of third party clients nor confused users going to OWS for support instead of the third party devs.

Which, imo, is a pretty reasonable decision.
I was hoping they would have integration with the Sticky Notes application in Windows 10.
I'm long Notion. I've been using it since the beginning, and it's hard to beat its flexibility. I had a brief stint using plain markdown, but at the end of the day, most of the notes I'm taking are meant to be shared.

Not sure if it's the rich formatting or customization, but I find myself coming back to notes and utilizing them much more frequently in Notion than I did with plain text.

The latest releases have resolved some of my larger issues like performance, search, and quick notes on mobile. I'm happy they're making their product more accessible, and I'm looking forward to the API.
Conspire - To join or act together; combine

Censor - prohibit or restrict the use of something

Yeah, they conspired to censor.
It's been known to happen. Would that all of our Ph.D.s were that easy.
> Everything was on mainframes until PCS were good enough and now 'everything' is on a PC, on prem or in the cloud

100% agree with this - as a business, why would you want to pay the IBM support contract costs? As a developer, why would you want to waste your time learning about this sort of tech (I can't think of a more risky ecosystem to invest your time into learning in terms of chance of the skillset becoming obsolete)?

I've yet to hear about any legitimate usecases that couldn't be accomplished using x86/amd64 VMs/machines. Monzo has clearly shown it's not required in banking (and frankly, have shown how slow and generally useless the other legacy banks have been when it comes to innovating on top of these mainframe-based platforms).