skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What I see in the article is a bike shop I probably wouldn't patronize because it rationalizes treating some people badly.

100% agree. bike shops need to stop trying to pick their customers, and just sell stuff to people who want to buy it. it's nice that some bike shops can function as community hubs, but there's way too many run by people like the author of this piece, who have the "i didn't get in this business to get rich" attitude and use that as a justification for treating "their crowd" well and being rude or dismissive of the others. I eagerly await the future where 90% of local bike shops have been killed off by online sales, because then i won't have to deal with the jerks who run bike shops.

i actually get nervous going into a bike shop in a new town, because i never know if they're going to accept me as part of their crowd. when i just want to buy a bottle of chain lube, that's not something i should have to think about.
In my area, you used to be able to sign up for 2-3 different cable internet providers on the Time Warner Network.

I’d bounce between EarthLink and TWC to get new customer bonuses. EarthLink was cheaper ($25 iirc vs $45 several years ago) but slower.
Phil Salvador wrote an article about the long lost SimRefinery by Maxis Business Simulations, and somebody who read it was able to dig up a floppy disk with the original game!

When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery

https://obscuritory.com/sim/when-simcity-got-serious/

SimRefinery recovered

https://obscuritory.com/sim/simrefinery-recovered/

A close look at SimRefinery

https://obscuritory.com/sim/simrefinery-analysis/

The sprawling, must-read history of Maxis’ former “serious games” division

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/05/the-sprawling-must-re...

A lost Maxis “Sim” game has been discovered by an Ars reader [Updated]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/06/a-lost-maxis-sim-game...

SimRefinery EXISTS! Let's play it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ6Cqn5rTfs
Track NPM and Pypi Versions of GitHub Projects on a Google Spreadsheet
Which app are you using?
They're not just a publishing company. They're also a software company that develops the Unreal Engine and actively produce games such as Fortnite and Gears of War built on top of their engine.

Also, Apple's stance on iOS is radically different from their stance on MacOS where we do have an App Store managed by Apple but customers are free to install apps outside of it.

Epic is the one that's done the work to create and build something new. Why should Apple have to right to charge 30% because they own the hardware business?
> I know people who went to college, but lived at home with their parents "to save money". In reality, they didn't need to save the minimal room and board fees of a state school; they were mostly just cowards. They are the people that haven't changed at all since high school. They're the people that are afraid of everything in the world outside their small circle.

In reality, required room and board (usually for freshmen) is merely a way for colleges to make money. The whole "experience" angle is a pretext, but not the real reason. I'm glad my undergrad did not require it.[1] I don't doubt some people benefit from it, but I'm sure most don't. Anecdotally, those who stayed in dorms were more likely to party a lot more and be less focused on studies - lots of distractions. I personally knew quite a few who eventually moved off campus for the sole purpose of eliminating those distractions because their grades were dropping.

[1] I did not stay with family, I paid rent in an apartment. Definitely cheaper. The amusing thing is we folks who had our own apartment generally perceived those who stayed on campus as being less mature. They had meal plans, etc, whereas we were responsible for cooking, etc. I forget what else those who lived on campus had spoon fed to them, but it went beyond just meals.
You seem to have misunderstood both points.

> And yet I believe crime exists regardless of its legality.

Well over 99% of the time, the government does not go out of their way to break laws. I didn't claim that the fact that it is illegal proves they didn't do it. I simply said that the fact that it is illegal makes it more likely that they didn't do it. Do you disagree?

> Why on earth should the secret keepers be the ones to vet documents about themselves when they are being whistleblown on?

Who said they should? My point was that despite the fact that they weren't combed through by the secret keepers, the documents did not say that the NSA did the illegal things that GGP claimed. Instead, these documents supported the opposite conclusion — that the NSA didn't do those things — by repeatedly citing the laws that they follow that don't allow them to do those things.
Microsoft didn't make the computer, and has no incentive to ensure a high quality UX.

Apple cares about their hardware customers and fosters a well-earned trust. The AppStore rules are a huge part of the foundation of that trust.
The same protest saw the National Guard flying medical helicopters directly over protesters well under the FAA’s minimum flight altitude.

Definitely looked like an unsafe altitude to fly at and the National Guard has no flight records of any patient pickups that night.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/dc-national-guard-in...
This kind of intuition can be dangerous:

"Students who believe that spontaneous processes always yield greater disorder could be somewhat surprised when shown a demonstration of supercooled liquid water at many degrees below 00 C. The students have been taught that liquid water is disorderly compared to solid ice. When a seed of ice or a speck of dust is added, crystallization of some of the liquid is immediate. Orderly solid ice has spontaneously formed from the disorderly liquid.

"Of course, thermal energy is evolved in the process of this thermodynamically metastable state changing to one that is stable. Energy is dispersed from the crystals, as they form, to the solution and thus the final temperature of the crystals of ice and liquid water are higher than originally. This, the instructor ordinarily would point out as a system-surroundings energy transfer. However, the dramatic visible result of this spontaneous process is in conflict with what the student has learned about the trend toward disorder as a test of spontaneity.

"Such a picture might not take a thousand words of interpretation from an instructor to be correctly understood by a student, but they would not be needed at all if the misleading relation of disorder with entropy had not been mentioned."

http://entropysite.oxy.edu/cracked_crutch.html
In some organizations, 25% layoffs are not considered a sign of success. If Mozilla isn't tied to Firefox, yet has the ability to siphon from Firefox success or increase existential risk due to debatable roadmaps, new side effects of this principal-agent gap may appear.
Yeah, with greg, neither side did well.
Russia does the same for years. CCP as a newcomer have to compete with infamous St.Petersburg Troll Factory.
"At some point we'll probably have at least one popular decentralized P2P communication medium / social media platform thing, backed by cryptography, and there'll be no central authority able to control communication in any way"

There's not a chance that would ever get traction with a majority of people. The "normies" would be revolted by what they find on there, and trolls would have no one to troll but other trolls. Only the biggest trolls enjoy trolling other trolls. That's what 4chan is for. What you described is a more sophisticated version of 4chan which will have such gruesome content that half of 4chan's userbase would turn away in shock.
> Are you actually arguing for using "this" when it's syntactically unnecessary, or against?

I'm arguing that C# should have made it mandatory or never required, so "sometimes unnecessary" is no longer a thing, so having to learn when it is and isn't necessary isn't a thing, and "I know when it's unnecessary and that makes me better than other developers" blog posts aren't a thing, and "I use it even when it's unnecessary because {other good reasons}" retorts aren't a thing, and that if we pushed for that kind of consistency universally, instead of admiring the cleverness of shaving 5 characters off a mountain of verbose C# or admiring the people who know when you can and can't do so, many things would be simpler, and that would be better.

For example, merging "your" and "you're" one way or the other, because everyone knows what they mean from context and they sound the same anyway, or removing "you're" in favour of "you are".
Well this is certainly an interesting account history for one created today. Not that that necessarily means anything, but I've noticed oddly similar patterns on Reddit beating the drums for civil war.
It’s “Telstra Velocity”. It just got a special exemption to not make it operate like the NBN renewed because, and I paraphrase the federal government’s words: “because they couldn’t be arsed and if we didn’t renew it they’d turn off the Internet and blame it on us”. I too would like to have regulatory exemptions extended indefinitely with the excuse being that I can’t be arsed, but elected officials can just tell people to use mobile data instead like my local one did. Charging taxpayers more than $30,000 over a year.

No other providers are available. Technically OCCOM and probably still Exetel, but they can’t offer faster speeds and have to charge more than even Telstra.

My most recent communication with the federal communications department included this wonderful phrase:

> “Please note that this legislation applies only to the capabilities of the network. The plans offered to individual consumers may be limited to slower speeds.”
Just because you're willing to take 70% shouldn't mean others should be forced to take it.
> In reality, they didn't need to save the minimal room and board fees of a state school; they were mostly just cowards

I don't know when the last time you've lived in dorms was, but they're glorified summer camps for adolescents. Having meal plans and an RA aren't exactly badges of courage.

If you don't come from means or have parents that will help pay for you to move out, then taking on living expenses to study is not exactly a good financial choice.
>- forbid you to just add the 30% to your price on iOS compared to other platforms

But google does exactly that for their Youtube Premium(and Youtube music). I'm sure this isn't prohibited.
I agree in the distinction you're making, I just think that many of the degree programs for these older subjects are effectively acting as "diploma mills" today because their result for the student is about the same.
The entire article is poorly written
Cross-Platform Controller Area Network Support with Python and Rust
Take education as another example

Parents a and b are considering whether to enroll their children in a private school.

Parent A lives in a nice neighborhood that can lobby for better funding for public schools.

Parent B lives in a worse school district.

The private school realizes that parent B has worse options, and that they can upcharge parent B. The private school knows that at a certain price point parent A will simply decide to send their child to the high quality public school in their district, so they charge that parent less.

Parent B is disadvantaged because they have weaker bargaining power, and the price discrimination is simply exacerbating existing inequalities in the community.

I don't think that price discrimination is inherently unethical. But the criteria used to discriminate can certainly be unethical. Look up "reverse redlining" for example.
It seems to have been met with the Hug of Death? (I'm seeing a 504 gateway timeout)

Also, the first link on the DeOldify github page [1], runs much quicker than 30-40 seconds so something seems less than optimal about this implementation.

[1] https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/colorizer
That's not uncommon. But normally the mall isn't the only mall in town.

I consider Amazon and the Apple App store to be not like stores or malls but like streets or cities.
They are the market, not in the market, and if someone wants to enter the market they have to pay Apple/Amazon for the privilege. They bought/built the street and now instead of charging a cut they are charging a tax.
Pro-China Propaganda Act Used Fake Followers Made with AI-Generated Images
This is part of a quote, you might want to comment on the parent.
Local loop unbundling hasn't been a thing in the US for a long time, and never applied to cable or fiber to begin with. Separate ISPs means separate infrastructure. The coax, POTS and fiber cables in my yard all go to different places. However, a well-placed backhoe at the nearest major road can probably still take them all out in one swipe.
Qt has a WebKit thingy so you can build a WebKit browser across platforms even in Python:

https://pywebview.flowrl.com/
I had a colleague who would like to put "this" on member accesses so that it was absolutely clear from a glance that it was a member access and not something local.

Similar to people who use a prefix like "m_" or an extra underscore or capitalization scheme for member names.

These are all matters of opinion and style and no one thing is correct.
Had the same happen to me when I was younger and drove a BMW 525i. It happened in a corner where the car basically just spun and did a 360. I managed to limp home as the car was sort of drivable still.
The solid ROI on arts degrees is the market saying that they are needed, no?
I'm no expert, but anecdotally in Australia I see lots of brand new brick houses.
Will it happen in the next 10 years? Probably not. But will something like this exist within 100 years, especially as the public grows increasingly wary of shady for-profit social media companies? I think it probably will, and I think it'll probably be used by at least 30% of the population, and perhaps much more.

I'm not suggesting this would function like an anonymous imageboard (though there'll still be plenty of things like those for people who want them), either. Imagine using the app Signal without having to rely on Signal's servers or having to own a mobile phone. You'd use it just like you do now; there'd just be no middlemen between you and the people you talk to. The same can be true of Twitter or anything else. People would still have some control over what they see and don't see; they're not going to see everything from everyone at all times, unless they specifically decide to use such an app. We just need to wait a few decades for those alternatives to become much more polished and user-friendly for the average person.

The trend towards mesh-like, blockchain-like, decentralized, distributed, P2P networking seems pretty clear. I think the majority of things will probably still remain centralized even in a century, since there are many advantages to centralization, but these alternative mesh worlds are only going to get bigger and bigger.

It's definitely a complex issue, and many of these future decentralized apps may end up re-implementing some aspects of centralization through elections of volunteer moderators or some other kind of democratized system, but in those cases at least the mayors will actually be elected and have limited terms and could be recalled, unlike Zuckerberg.
I assume because the article gets more clicks that way, but if there's a deeper explanation I'd be happy to be corrected.
They are both a might. Both are a probability distribution.
Ask HN: Advice for Dealing with Crippling Procrastination?
Hi HN,

I'm a person who's tried WFH or remote work in the past and quickly realized that it was very much not for me. My ADHD takes over and even with stimulants makes the inertia required to start work or get over the anxiety of encountering something that will fuck me over seemingly overwhelming.

For some reason, in an office a lot of this goes away. Once I can get started, I don't really have issues.

The first four months of quarantine was honestly fine, I'm not super social so that simply was not a negative factor for me.

However, the past few weeks have been crippling. To the point where I'm lucky to get 2-3 hours of work done on any given day. The rest of the time I'm distracted, packed with anxiety or sleeping.

I'm generally a very regimented person, as it's one of the more effective ways I've found to deal with my ADHD / focus issues.

I consider myself to be a relatively infragile and durable person both physically and mentally but I'm incredibly scared where this path is going to lead with my current innability to pull my shit together.

Do any other HN'ers with ADHD or a quickly declining level of productivity (but not necessarily mental state - yes I'm otherwise stable) have any advice or tips?

I'm scared I won't be able to hit deadlines or keep my job within a few months.
Joe Rogan had a hilarious but accurate piece on cat owners who are vegan for moral reasons but feed their cats canned cat food. The very same vegans are in your face about "animal rights".

People take positions for a variety of emotional reasons - in-group, virtue signaling, etc - and then choose their rationalizations.
Probably because Syrians are considered cheap low quality labor (due to their desperation from having a decade long civil war), so it's kind'of like the US picking up laborers from Home Depot to figure out how to clean the Nukes.
What he said. From the article:

> While 60Mbps isn't a gigabit, it's on par with some of the lower cable speed tiers and is much higher than speeds offered by many DSL services in the rural areas

LOWER?! Cable doesn't even serve non-television use near me. Phone lines can carry 5 Mbps DSL if you're lucky. I happen to have a line-of-sight to a major radio tower so I get wifi from a mom-and-pop ISP, with a 10 Mbps cap. If I was on the other side of a hill, I'd be screwed.
Correct URL: https://www.foxnews.com/science/nasa-headed-towards-giant-go...
And the thought occurs that those might have been Hezbollah rockets rather than fireworks. Is there a culture of setting off fireworks in Beirut in particular, or Lebanon in general?
It could be true that this is the normal cycle of moving boxes from low-use to high-traffic areas, as claimed. Without transparency, it's hard to be sure.

Even that transparency would not be demanded were the postmaster general not actively and deliberately taking a role in make USPS services worse. With the status quo, nobody would care about 13 boxes removed in Missoula, Montana.

So either the USPS needs to be clear about what they're doing and when and why, or they need to improve service so much that people assume the best, rather than the worst.
>No it really wasn't. Nobody except tech geeks care about Servo. What Mozilla needs to do is to provide a privacy aware browser that doesn't inform Google

Nobody except geeks and politically minded people care about privacy that much (if they didn't they'd already use Firefox with DDG, or Brave or at least Safari).

People do care for faster, more conventient browser -- that's why we switched from Netscape to IE (when Mozilla bloated and a for a little while IE6 was faster/better), then to Firefox, and then to Chrome.
That is actually not at all true. Those seeking for more than a year are removed from the unemployment statistic, as well as anyone who's employed for at least one(!) hour a week (this was changed a few years ago).

The Dutch government is at least as skilled as making its people believe things are going well. Its a actually a bit of a rabbit hole, just like it is for Americans.
I think they mostly do lack that insight, but it's not their fault. They've been taught from a very young age what the "right" path to adulthood is. It's hard to overcome that programming, especially since (US) K-12 schools aren't exactly about teaching creative, independent thought. People who come away from K-12 schools with that kind of thing usually arrived at it outside school.

(Also I think the parent meant that the 20-year-old would take $50k from their parents, not $200k. But agree that $50k is likely out of reach for most people in that situation as well.)
In Australia I moved to a very rural place, buying a house based on where I could get wireless broadband as part of our nationwide broadband rollout - I now live in a beautiful remote place overlooking the ocean with 50/20mbps Internet. Before here, I lived in another rural place near the ocean, however there was no broadband and 4G was too expensive. I ended up making friends with someone who had a 1gbps fibrelink 10km away - we spent weekends building a point to point network, and I ended up with an extremely reliable 20mbps connection for about $300 in parts over Mikrotik routers.

As other people have said, you can make it happen if you really want!
I don't want to think about it but this is a coup not too much unlike Turkey.
Without the donation of Maps credits from Google, findthemasks.com couldn't have happened exactly as it did. I can't imagine what our bill would have been otherwise. Donations from a number of companies were (and remain) essential to leveraging the skilled volunteer workforce into something awesome.
From a practical perspective, the larger problem with this implementation is that unless you happen to have heard of your service (unlikely), it's not obvious what to do with the code, or even how to find out what it is. You need a distinctive, unique string format that yields to googling. Overloading the hexadecimal notation was a poor choice, in my opinion.
> No, I don't believe any piece of critical infrastructure works if privately owned. I'm glad the highways aren't privately owned. I'm glad USPS exists so it can deliver mail unprofitably to my rural community. I'm glad water isn't privatized.

Aren't some highways in the east coast privately run toll roads? And right now Trump and the Republicans are trying to gut the USPS.
> If we could perfectly know which URLs have useful semantic information for users and which don't, and then only present those with full semantic meaning, I wouldn't mind much.

That's a very large if, IMO. We cannot do this, practically speaking.

Even in semantically meaningless URLs like the one in your example, there is still an important part of semantics retained and that is identity. By having the URL available you can at least compare two URLs and judge whether they are the same URL or not. Additionally, there is a 1-to-1 association between URL and content: for each unique URL, you get some unique content.

I agree there might be some UX improvement possible here, but faced with the looming threat of Google AMP, it's not a time to twiddle our thumbs and idly fantasize about this without a complete and robust plan on how this improvement might be done.

I also think that by hiding the URL we will make ordinary users even more ignorant about how the web works. It will truly appear like magic, since they will see identical strings in the URL bar yet they will be served different content. How does this even work? No one knows! Expect users that won't even know how to copy a link to someone.
That deprecation was deprecated :)
IIRC, the QR code is basically telling an app which merchat to pay. The QR equivalent of 'dTal@paypal plz'.
Helped how? Getting charged that for 100mb in LA, and feel it is too high.
We didn’t read the same article. The owner describes giving the same service to bike club members and grannies. They just have an opinion on which they value more.
> And you better be 100% certain of each customer's lifetime value, otherwise you'll have a problem.

This resonates with me. When i was younger I used to get ignored a lot at certain kinds of store. Now I have more money I still avoid them on principal.
IIRC, Starlink satellites operate at a much lower orbit, are much more numerous and are a lot closer together which reduces the tracking complexity a fair bit. Also the inter-satellite links on the Iridium network are radio whereas the Starlinks have 4 motorized optical links (laser). They're highly reflective objects against the background of space.