skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lots of people are interested in using Gumroad for their extension, and here are my two cents: Gumroad is designed to work best for digital goods such as ebooks, photoshop brushes, and software that can be downloaded and owned. However, I'd not recommend it for selling browser extensions because of: 1. It doesn't make sense to download extensions and manually install them. (The first version of Spider Pro worked that way, and lots of customers find it confusing). 2. There's no easy way to distribute post-installation updates.

> However, I'd not recommend it for selling browser extensions because of: 1. It doesn't make sense to download extensions and manually install them. (The first version of Spider Pro worked that way, and lots of customers find it confusing). 2. There's no easy way to distribute post-installation updates.

What's wrong with putting your extension on e.g. the Chrome and/or Firefox web store where purchasing via your own site gives a login that unlocks paid features within your extension? That gets around 1 and 2, plus you gain organic traffic from being in the stores.

This is what I do for https://www.checkbot.io/, which is on the Chrome Web Store but I use Paddle for payments. This also means purchases aren't tied to the Chrome Web Store.

I went with Paddle over Gumroad as Gumroad seemed less flexible for team based subscriptions. Is anyone doing something like the above with Gumroad? How did it work out?

Also, I haven't used Chrome Web Store payments but I would steer well clear of integrating it. They've been disabling payment functional for various reasons the last few months as if it's not business critical to people: see https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/27/google_disables_web... and more recently https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom.... I wouldn't be surprised if they cancelled Chrome store payments soon.
See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23136482
you can also use the chrome extension "dark reader" to make every site dark mode, including HN
Followed by decades long monopoly over expensive new technology, likely crushing waves of innovation and usage, in exchange for slow, buggy, not-even-automated spreadsheets; plus the hemming of governments and organizations into endless software rental contracts and platforms, that maybe don't add value as fast as Moore's Law.
Just a suggestion. Have you considered trying hearing protection to create a “low noise” bubble?

I have a pair of shotgun hearing protection ear muffs next to my bed. I only use them for emergencies when I really need to sleep and neighbors are partying very late. However, putting them on cuts any noise to a mumbling like in the distance.

Not the exact model or make but similar. Not electronic.

https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/p/walkers-game-ear-pro-fo...
Wouldn't the display application here be something like a scanning AR/VR headset which constructs an image directly on your retina with a small number of beams moving very quickly (kinda like an old CRT display)? In which case you really just need three "pixels" of different colors (assuming it's sufficiently responsive to high frequency control).

1/0.17 = 5.9 ppd is about half the angular resolution of the commercial Index VR headset, so it does still need a bit more progress before it would be competitive. Or a lot more, giving it a few additional factors of 2 for the fact that it's not emitting from directly inside your pupil, and you probably don't want adjacent pixels bleeding into each other (fwhm is still... half maximum which is quite a lot).
You can do that in iOS with your photos library (and offline too).
> Lightning Network - A way to do micropayments, if it works,

You can stop the tape right there. You know it doesn't and it can't.
It's worth pointing out in this connection that breathing is both autonomic and volitional. Only blinking (and I think one other that I can't recall ATM) is also like that. In other words, breathing is one of the only two (three?) vital autonomic processes that one can do non-optimally!

You can't digest wrong, or regulate your temperature wrong, or pump your blood wrong, etc. but you can breath wrong.

In some (sub-)cultures breathing is at the core of knowledge and health while in others it's barely understood, eh?

(FWIW, I suspect that volitional breathing must have something to do with spoken language, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to do other than speculate.)
The issue is that you claimed that "there is no alternative to macOS", but you are talking about your particular use cases (not gaming) and subjective opinions (does not like Win10, does not like Linux).

macOS’ only strength for development is the ability to target iOS. For the majority of developers, a Windows/Linux setup is better because it covers everything. Linux is the best environment for most dev fields. Windows is the best for some of them (graphics, gamedev, C#).
Also once you develop a history/baseline, you will quickly catch health conditions that affect your lung function and be able to quantify the effect.
I think the bigger story is how insidious online disinformation is, how quickly it spreads, and the underlying cultural/political factors that drive people to believe outlandish things no matter how irrational it is or seems.

This is the 2016 election on overdrive, yet few seem to be talking about it very seriously yet.

Very worrying trend.
Hi GordonS, would love to hear about your use case if you don't mind sharing! ajay (at) timescale.com
Dr. Fauci, We Need a Second Opinion [pdf]
So then what are the friction points of the Singaporean healthcare model that prevents other countries from adopting it?

If it were a Bill up for a vote by politicians in the US then what issues would they have with it?

Also comparing healthcare costs of Germany, Netherlands, and Switzerland with the UK from the links I posted earlier clearly shows that socialised healthcare is more efficient.

The per capita cost in Germany ia 32% higher than the UK, Netherlands it is 28% higher, and in Switzerland it is a whopping 88% higher compared to the UK.

Even France and Greece which are more socialist than the UK and both also have national insurance schemes are much better value than their private counterparts.
Unable to think of a title for this URL, I just copied the creators' from the Reddit post [0].

I found it very interesting in the quirky spirit of the word 'hacker'.

And the original thread which triggered the creator's itch is here [1]

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/gonivi...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/goa4ej/whats_the_di...
But you’re missing the essential point which is that the FHS a set of rules that only apply to the distribution.

> Applications [shipped by the distribution] should not...

> Distributions should not create new directories in the root hierarchy without extremely careful consideration of the consequences including for application portability.

The OS is free to break 3rd party applications that don’t follow their rules but strict adherence to the FHS is not the justification for doing so.
I don't disagree. But what you (or the prior posters) are saying is that the law should prevent companies from trying to optimize for the best user experience. If only showing things in time-order is "safe" for the company, but filtering out spam becomes "unsafe", then I as a consumer am forced to endure a crappy experience for solely legal reasons. Neato.
SpaceX Gets Go-Ahead for NASA Astronaut Launch Next Week
I did say fabricate and install you'll notice. If they came up with something really light and cheap to produce installation costs would plummet. Compare the cost of installing windows to installing solar panels - windows don't even have a rate of return but everyone has windows. It is a no-brainer to install windows. Solar panels are not a no brainer decision (yet, hopefully).

And that was the point - weight and difficulty of transporting the final system is a very important variable. Probably more important than efficiency when orders of magnitude are concerned. From a 25% base efficiency can double and double then it stops improving. Weights and installation costs due to the panel technology can halve and halve and halve and so on - and each halving reduces the cost of transporting the panels. There are more gains to be made there. It would be worth trading efficiency away to make big gains there.
Firefox switched to DNS-over-HTTPS recently and it uses Cloudflare. (I may be talking nonsense here... This could have nothing to do with it.)
What I'm watching is not on anyone's list.
Relax: A Protocol-Oriented Swift library for building REST client requests
I would never trust any self driving car that didn't use LiDAR. It's an essential sensor for helping to fix issues like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cSw4fXYqWI&feature=emb_logo

And it's not contrived since we've seen situations of Telsa Autopilot behaving weirdly when it sees people on the side of billboards, trucks etc.
Friction is a very high-level thermodynamic concept, and I certainly think that fluid friction is effectively the same concept as viscosity.
Minecraft's new music festival, Electric Blockaloo, with craziest lineup of 2020
When I was comparing Mac laptops to PC alternatives they usually ended up within a few hundred dollars. Sure, saving a few hundred dollars is nice, but I'm fairly confident I can sell the Mac in a handful of years for a decent price, confident I'll use it for a handful of years, I'm familiar with the build quality and avenues for parts and replacements, and things like trackpad, biometrics/fingerprint, and battery life are a known quantity for me on a Mac. Saving only 10-15% made it less appealing to make the jump--conversely, I can see people not wanting to pay an extra 10-15% to jump to a Mac.
Of course it's relevant! Software is a form of expression. Apple controls what types of expression are allowed on your phone.

A developer made a game depicting bad practices at FoxConn. Apple removed it for "Objectionable Content"[1]. How is this inherently different from Apple saying you can't use your iPhone to read a certain book?

Apple's restrictions also make it easy for authoritarian governments to ban software they dislike: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21210678

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2012/10/12/3495466/apple-bans-anoth...
Also why you have hugh f-serious cars and not more reasonable sized cars like Hilux's
Mine starts spinning up the fan (theres kind of a pattern as to when), heating up the entire computer. The computer previously had been fine.

I usually have to restart and reset the "SMC" to stop the fan from nuking the computer.

I can let the computer drop to 5% battery life and the fan will turn off and the computer will cool down. Which is the opposite of what you want if it was actually overheating.
Yeah interestingly the New Yorker does not split articles with ads in the middle. It’s one of their things.

I love the New Yorker and enjoy all of its quirks.
It would be nice if other subscription based products did this also.
I am not really seeing the problem here, nor do I agree with the premise that scrum turns X developer into Y developer. Your success as a developer is primarily driven by your desire to succeed, but also by a combination of the team, project, and company culture. Scrum is not at fault here, because bad management, lazy team members, and a toxic work environment can make any worker in any discipline complacent, no matter which system is used. I’ve worked for 20 years in this industry and have seen various management and development methodologies used, and my conclusion is that what matters most is the attitudes of the people themselves. If you have even one toxic coworker or even worse, a toxic leader, it can change the morale of an entire team and possibly even put an entire project at risk. That’s what can turn a great developer into an average one. If you have below-average developers, scrum will do nothing to actually make them more motivated; they will probably remain average, despite appearances that they are moving tickets quickly.

Like any other system, scrum can be abused and twisted into something it was never meant to be. A project I worked on had daily scrum-style standups as well as daily, weekly, and monthly status reports; We also had Jira and our boards were closely scrutinized by every level of management and the customer. We happened to use scrum, but you couldn’t look at this and say scrum was at fault for such duplication of information and ridiculous reporting requirements.
I did not. The original question was framed poorly. What was meant was "Name one endpoint provider who will serve your content for free." That would indeed be a short list. The ISP has nothing to do with serving the file. Only the transit. He got the answer to the question he asked because I'm getting weary of people strawmanning that people are freeloaders while they seemingly intentionally miss the bigger point that a behemoth of a private company is being leaned upon and taking upon itself the mantle of arbiter of appropriate content.

The fact everyone else seems to enjoy getting cavalier withthe details of just who does what in the context of Internet business transactions doesn't mean I have to perpetuate it.

Also, I do serve things for people without charging them. I have an Internet connection I need for other things. So why not? The ISP doesn't care. It's another packet among billions. It was what the hackers, anon's, and webmasters before me did; so I figure I should return the favor to the next gen. If that means a bunch of people end up getting in a tizzy; take it up with them (the people whose content to which you object). I'm not doing your dirty work, and no one else if they value the principles the web, and the country who invented the damn thing we're founded on.

I've been writing and rewriting the end of this damn post for about half an hour, which is generally a good sign I'm out of sorts. So let me wrap up with an apology if I've come off as abrasive. I do care. I don't like that the web seems so ripe a tool for the misinformation specialist. Now, even more than ever though, we need to be coming together and not figuring out how to push people or ideas off the Net, but being able to engage them head on, and bring the light back to what have increasingly become the "dark corners" of the Net. You may hate having the same argument over and over again. I understand that. Society though is a complexemergent organism all it's own built on the aggregate result of our collective signalling and behavior. Right now, the only outcome I can from the direction we're going is the complete ruin of everything Western Civilization purportedly held sacred because we've let the implementation run away with us, without keeping it chained to the spirit of the damn thing.

I know none of that probably makes any sense to anyone else but me. I just... Wanted to get it out there.

Anyway... Good night everyone. Stay safe.
> That's a lot of compute engine for $400.

So excited for this as a PC gamer, hardware prices are going to have to plummet. I don't think supercomputers a likely, the PS2 was a candidate because there was [initially] official support for installing Linux on the thing. Sony terminated that support and I really can't imagine them reintroducing it for the PS5.
For those curious, Gumroad does offer support for generating license keys which they state "are primarily used for creators selling software."[0] From my own experience implementing this and having used other extensions that also relied on this system, I think it works well for bringing monetization to browser addons/extensions.

EDIT: just wanted to add that you don't need to distribute your extension through Gumroad (though you can). You just make it so that anything behind a paywall requires adding the license key which is generated by Gumroad upon purchase and later verified via their licenses API.

[0]: https://help.gumroad.com/article/76-license-keys
The Steve Bartman Incident
Zig Programming language.

Because it's basically C-+, It's extremely easy to use, and also extremely easy to parse, so (and maybe this is self-serving because I did it) I see a lot of automated code-generation tools to hook Zig into other PLs.

C's age is starting to show (and it's becoming a problem), and I think it has the opportunity to be sort of a place for old C heads like me to go to stay relevant, modern, safe, and productive.
I also had the felling that it was somewhat a US tradition.

Open offices a much rarer in e.g. Germany. Through then
Germany also has more strict labor protection laws wrt. office "safety/healthiness" so it might just not be as profitable to do an open office? (Note that I'm mainly referring to regulations about chairs, desks, light and noise in offices. Which exists but are in practice hardly if at all enforced on small companies. But from time to time in larger ones.)
An example I can give:

I use WebAssembly for a few cross-platform plugins. E.g. An AR 3D rendering engine in C++ and OpenGL. With very little effort it is working in browser. No bespoke code, same business logic, etc. Saved a lot of time vs creating a new renderer for our web app.

For me it allows a suite of curated plugins which work cross-platform. The web experience is nearly just as nice as the native mobile and desktop experience. This in turn increases market growth as more of my clients prefer web vs downloading an app (which is a large blocker for my users). I also enjoy the code reuse, maintainability, etc, :)

Another:

This year Max Factor (via Holition Beauty tech) won a Webby award for in-browser AI and AR. This was used to scan a users face, analyse their features, advise them on what make up, etc, would suit them, after which the user can try it on. This would have been impossible without WebAssembly.

This tech is also used by another makeup brands beauty advisors (via WebRTC) to call a customer and in real-time advise them on their make up look, etc.

Is this tech necessary? Probably not, but it is a lot nicer than having to go to a store. Especially when we are all in lockdown :)

1) https://www.holitionbeauty.com/

2) https://winners.webbyawards.com/?_ga=2.215422039.1334936414....

3) https://www.maxfactor.com/vmua/
I’m glad they are concerned about it.
This is happening at my company already because docker performance on Macs is terrible.
Lots to unpack here - is there a more straightforward way to word your argument here? To put GP's post in terms of yours, the planters and water cost much more than the plant, so even if "starving kids in Africa can afford access to plants", it doesn't mean greenhouses are free
Fact-checking reduces the propagation of false news in social networks
Three Card Monte?

I find this happens with computer game UIs a lot, too, especially for dynamic UI elements that float above static UI elements. Especially when there is a lag due to animations.
We already have underground chambers akin to this.
They're commonly called "content blockers", because they can block more than ads.
How good is it, grouping duplicates with different jpeg Q and helping pick the best, where JFIF flags have also changed date/time?
Wow.

> The loose ball was snatched up by a Chicago lawyer and sold at an auction in December 2003. Grant DePorter purchased it for $113,824.16 on behalf of Harry Caray's Restaurant Group. On February 26, 2004, it was publicly detonated by special effects expert Michael Lantieri.

> In 2005, the remains of the ball were used by the restaurant in a pasta sauce. While no part of the ball itself was in the sauce, the ball was boiled and the steam captured, distilled, and added to the final concoction.

> Today, the remains of the ball are on display at the Chicago Sports Museum, while further remains are amid various artifacts at the restaurant itself.
You condensed the entire history of Western civilization into a tweet...

"Discovered atomic bomb, didn't notice breathing."
Blazor seems like the only one application of WASM at the moment that goes in the completely wrong direction.

People are already whining about JS bundle size and even the small .net runtimes are >60kb.

Yew on the other hand seems to fit right into what WebAssembly was made for.
I can't wait to read into this. Switching formulas to tau was incredibly useful for me when I was doing a lot of 3D math for game dev.
I was researching this last week when I was debating someone and I collected the following sources to explain my reasonings:

80,000 Missed Cancer Diagnoses in 3 Months:

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/930066

The UN's World Food Program says that 130 MILLION more people worldwide could be on the brink of starvation by the end of 2020 due to coronavirus lockdown. They predict that 300,000 could die every day over a 3 month period if people are not able to get the help they need:

https://www.wfp.org/news/wfp-chief-warns-hunger-pandemic-cov...

Another source if needed:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-n-warns-hunger-pandemic...

> California doctors say they've seen more deaths from suicide than coronavirus since lockdowns

> "We've never seen numbers like this, in such a short period of time," he said. "I mean we've seen a year's worth of suicide attempts in the last four weeks."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/california-doctors-s...

Another source:
https://abc7news.com/suicide-covid-19-coronavirus-rates-duri...

The best explanation of lockdown vs no lockdown was this one - If the coronavirus lockdown leads to a fall in GDP of more than 6.4 per cent more years of life will be lost due to recession than will be gained through beating the virus:

http://archive.is/z7FvB

Elective surgeries haven't happened since March despite empty beds. People with crucial surgeries like hip replacement, fractures etc are all suffering because they can't get surgeries. And delaying surgeries often means the condition gets worse.
The speaker in the video runs a community for people interested in geometric algebra.
https://bivector.net/

Check out the demo https://observablehq.com/@enkimute/animated-orbits

Job the discord https://discord.gg/vGY6pPk
Isn't that the purpose of Rmarkdown?
Yeah, I don't disagree with any of that. :)
thanks! Longtime user of nvAlt and I never noticed that.
> UV light treatment of blood.

What? No... No don't do this. This is a discarded idea from the era before molecular biology, and it was discarded for very good reason.
> No worker (as I general rule, I know there are exceptions) prefers open offices to either cubicles or real offices (I wonder how many HN have ever had these?).

I guess I’m the exception then. I had an office to myself with a closeable door once and I HATED it. So quiet and lonely. Everyone around me had closeable offices too so you had to get up and deliberately make an effort for human interaction, or you’d spend all day without seeing another soul.

Occasionally as we would staff up and down I’d end up sharing the office with someone else and that helped tremendously. But when I had the room to myself it was awful.

It drove my so loony that I basically abandoned it and set up a makeshift workspace in the break room where there were always people coming and going. You’d have to put a gun to my head to go back to a traditional office room.
That's not necessarily true because it ensures that you own an entire namespace separate from the OS install, which in Nix's case makes a lot of design sense given its use case(s).
Was also going to post Bazel.

Here's the best 'elevator pitch' for Bazel that I know of. 3 minutes from Oscar Boykin about why Bazel (or at least a Bazel-like system) is the future.

https://youtu.be/t_Omlhh7IJc?t=40