skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like software defined scarcity in this case almost defeats the point of the currency because if it's not based on anything hard and immovable it can be bypassed. It's almost as though you need some non digital impossible to fake process to back your currency. Like maybe digging in the ground and pulling out precious metals?
This still requires an SSH key.

From the link:

To start a session using SSH, run the following command:

ssh -i /path/my-key-pair.pem username@instance-id
The old-school style you describe is indeed old-school and was abandoned by most PHP developers ~10 years ago.

Modern PHP projects will have a single entry point that handles all requests, with path-based routing done in code.
I think it comes down to how we assess the cost of things. To me, the issues you identified with state (which I agree are real issues) are straightforward to overcome with disciplined design. On the other hand, I find not having application-wide state to be a handicap - e.g. I might want to have my application process batch jobs asynchronously or share state between requests in a highly efficient (read: in-memory) way.

Of course there are solutions in PHP-land, e.g. "run a job server" or "use Redis", but I find the overall cost of introducing more programs/services/components to be very high, in terms of learning curve, portability, maintenance and debugging.

I've spent the last few years replacing a crumbly, brittle, temperamental PHP/nodejs/Gearman/Redis/Nginx/Supervisor stack with a Go monolith so I'm sure that influences my opinion :-)
I know you're not the original commenter(s) and I don't want to falsely attribute their arguments to you, but this is all kind of arguing in circles. The things you describe seem to me to be market forces that go beyond, "consumers will just go wherever the apps are."

If Apple users are generally higher spenders, generally more advanced users that buy apps more often -- then that sounds a lot to me like market pressures that will make an official app store attractive even if iOS allows sideloading. In which case, why are people so frightened of sideloading?

If iOS allows third-party stores, all of the same demographic forces you describe will still exist. Consumers will still want to use a store that offers up-front pricing rather than ads, the iOS market will still be filled with power users who buy apps more often, and they'll still want their apps to be included in a user-friendly, secure store.

If those users you describe are attractive enough to force companies to target them now, then they'll still be attractive enough to force companies to target them after third-party app stores are introduced.

I don't know how to reconcile "devs target iOS because of its unique, opinionated user-base who want a secure platform" with "users are dumb and just follow bad apps without thinking". It can't be both -- either Apple users are too dumb to understand security decisions and can't be taught to avoid shady 3rd-party ad-filled stores, or Apple users are smart enough to consciously opt into a locked-down environment and they understand the implications and tradeoffs of that choice. But how can they be both?
Whatever configuration management you already use.
You’re in for a surprise because Maryland is centrist compared to the rest of the nation. It also has a repeat republican governor.
This creates severely "de-nutrinized" food, so much that it one might argue this kind of food is junk.

Many fishes are fed with grains, this destroys their nutritional value, which begs the question if it even makes sense to eat fish who are fed with food they wouldn't eat at all in a natural environment.
According to the article:

> Mozilla spends as much as it receives; its 2018 staffing bill was $286m with a headcount of about 1,000, or about $286,000 per person, on average.

Still doesn’t explain what they do with the rest. Presumably there are large infrastructure fees for things like Firefox Sync, which by the way just introduced storage limits:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/07/09/changes-to-storag...

But come on, how about saving some for rainy days?
I mean, depends who you mean by people? I'm pretty happy to go to amp sites. The thing I care about is the content.
A bike shop should choose its customer wisely
Your Old Radiator Is a Pandemic-Fighting Weapon
I wonder where within management this decision was made. I can’t help but wonder if decisions like this are made without considering the impact it will have, given their current circumstances.
I assume your interest in reparations is to create an even playing field. Reparations won't do that. It'll just create a lot of opportunities for capitalist predators to milk a poorly educated population that is now flush with cash. Once they've been squeezed dry, most of them will be in an even worse situation, because reparations will have assuaged the white guilt of their supporters while stoking the racism and anger of their opponents.
No, it is the case and is amply documented. Slavery helped propel the american economy to become an industrial powerhouse

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/8/16/20806069/slavery-ec...

Even if it was the case that the civil war wiped out the gains from slavery, it doesn't change the case for reparations as well as the other injustices that were being committed are are still being committed to this day
I think by this point we can guess what their intent, generally, is: to keep the money. Schools have had plenty of time to say that tuition will be reduced if the campuses are closed, but I have yet to find a single major school announcing this.
They even made 0.18 mods to be 1.0.0 compatible this way the game releases with all mods already up to date.
Those who live by the sword die by the sword.
Take a look at skaffold. Ours is under 10s
I think there could be a whole book about designing reusable Factorio blueprints, like "C++ Template Metaprogramming".

The kind you can easily stamp out rows of, and then hook up easily to standardized busses.

You can sacrifice some space and efficiency and cost for modularity and ease of building big banks of them with robots.
Find me a US payment process that takes 1% for credit cards
Seems like a good thread to ask then: What other digital bank options are there that are primarily EU based? N26 was the only one I found.

I keep seeing things like Monzo, Monese, Revolut but they're all UK based. Don't think they'd be too impacted by Brexit but nevertheless I'm looking for an EU-first solution.
Making Great Products and Writing the Founders Manual, with Ryan Frederick
You can achieve stability in Oxygen Not Included. It's not even that hard to do so.
Why I'm all in on Circle for online community building
Or we make sure the USPS is funded regardless of profitability.
Anyone who writes a blog and happily announces to the world that he thinks there are idiots everywhere should not give advice in the first place IMHO.

This is what I would call pretentious signaling behavior if there would be such a term.
Show HN: My YC app - a replacement for your File Explorer.
I'm guessing it's the same reason that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTU2He2BIc0 wasn't aired outside New England. The same description can be perceived differently depending upon whether it's intragroup or intergroup.

Our business is too big to fail.
They are on welfare.

Our kids' names are unique.
Their kids' names will be red flags on a CV.

We find it hard to get good help nowadays.
They must be too lazy to clean.

etc.

The Loved One is a short story which starts with the brit ex-pats in their bungalows, listening to the natives in the evening. Only gradually does Waugh reveal that the setting is that heart of darkness itself, El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles.
we do? How do you do heavy industrial production without coal, gas or oil?
Hi everyone, the subj is an Android app that I'm working on, that has mostly replaced a file explorer for me. The app is called Recall. All file explorers are about file location - folder, file name, etc, which you generally don't know or choose when you take pictures or download files.

Recall is about search, it indexes the file contents in the background and let's you search through content. It also recognizes text on images pretty well, so is really helpful with pictures of documents or screenshots.

I'm currently considering whether to keep working on this thing, so please help me decide in comments :)
> I personally can't see the standpoints being equally legitimate

I took your point. I was thinking of legitimate as in official decisions. There are already laws that implement gender or racial quotas in a work environment. Many companies already advertise this [0] and even public institutions were discussing it at least as far back as a decade ago [1]. One would logically have to assume that they're equally valid for a university. If the issue is indeed that Yale is using such quotas to maintain a certain balance between the different groups based on the population ratios but the courts agree with the Feds that this is illegal then we'll be left holding 2 equally (il)legitimate but contradictory views on the problem: quotas are legal, positive measures to achieve balanced participation and representation [2] but at the same time they are illegal because they discriminate against the other groups.

Since the details of the Yale case aren't all that clear right now we'll have to wait for the judgement. They may actually do something more onerous than that I assumed above.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgenehuang/2017/02/14/seekin...

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH...

[2] https://eige.europa.eu/thesaurus/terms/1203
what is the value of your tool over AsciiDoctor (https://github.com/asciidoctor) ?
I ended up with PyScaffold and never turned back again!
Yes, I've seen this too. Too often to be happy about. On the plus side, more and more companies we look at really get it and do their utmost best to do it right. The GDPR has definitely woken people up.
Except that it's literally impossible to distinguish between a "lost" bitcoin (no private key) and one sitting in a cold wallet (private key exists offline).
What's the value of your tool over using asciidoc tools https://github.com/asciidoctor ?
Maybe we'll get to that place someday, but that is a far cry from reality both in industry norms and regulations in place (and frankly, even regulations being discussed at this point)
It wasn't clear from the article, and I can't figure out the answer really, but I'm curious if this will impact any existing popular modules. For example the NVIDIA driver - is it affected by the symbol import limitation as proposed now?
Answer to all of these questions about predators solving prey problems: no.

if the cats eat all of the rats, there will be no food left for them, so someone will start starving to death and the population of cats will diminish. As the predator population diminishes, there will be fewer cats to eat the rats so the rat population will increase. There will be more food for the cats at that point, so the cat population will increase. This cycle is called Liapunov Stability and it has been extensively studied. Predators do not get rid of their prey for the same reasons that we do not erradicate cows and chickens.
Well it does make the host domain clearer which could making phishing attempts harder.

But it must be weird when navigating around a website, while the url remains static... ugh creepy
Azure Logic Apps: a recipe to handle failures gracefully
Also described by a perennially appearing post about Ivan Illich's concept: https://wikitia.com/wiki/Radical_Monopoly
It doesn't look that different, at a glance, than the e-book editor included in Calibre.
Yeah, in my case I'm talking about a thing that is largely a web app but also does other things which don't fit well into the one-script-execution-per-request model.

That being said, I would still prefer a monolithic application for a small blog with comments because I think it's easier to manage, deploy, encapsulate, test etc.
This is a really great summary of Unicode. I wish it had been available when I first started getting into the complexities of multilingual string searching and normalization. Ultimately, reading the official documentation (unicode.org) was necessary, but a succinct and clearly written introduction like this would have saved me hours (if not days) of effort.
Anbox on Mobian on the PinePhone
Keep in mind that employee expense != employee salary since there are also taxes, insurances, pension contributions etc to be paid. Plus you need IT, office space, infrastructure.
Road to Genius: Beginner No.14
>> If you cook a lot, you'll soon realize that cooking without all the technological advances is actually easier.

Another thing it's important to realise is that a cooking recipe, unlike a computer program, is not a set of precise instructions that are necessary and sufficient to produce the same result always, but a template that can be modified at will. For the majority of cases you don't need to create precise chamical conditions to reproduce a certain dish with perfect accuracy -and that's just boring anyway.

Also, despite appearances, people who publish recipes (as books or websites, or what have you) are usually not trying to communicate with you how to cook a dish, because that is something you can easily find out for free (e.g. on wikipedia). Instead, they 're trying to, well, add value - by using an uncommon ingredient or revealing some "secret" of the dish, etc. So there's no reason to try and follow most recipes to the letter, because they're not really meant to be followed at all. The majority are only there to make you buy a book or click on some link etc.

For me the best way to cook is to know what you like to eat. The rest comes on its own. It takes some time and you have to start out with simple, boring stuff like boiling rice or frying eggs, but eventually you get to the point where you taste a dish once and you know what to do to cook it yourself. Without any need for a thermometer or a precision scales!
Yeah the endgame would involve a play-store like 30% cut of any revenue, subscription, ads, anything. 30% cut from non-Google ad network revenue as well. At that point publishers won't have a choice any more because of the Chrome and Google search monopolies.
VR won't have a picture of your face at all. How does that help with eye contact?
Not on Windows, but on the Xbox the official store is certainly the only app distribution method. The iPhone/iPad actually have a lot in common with the Xbox/Playstation/Nintendo: they are devices that come bundled with a locked down operating systems that only allow the user to buy apps from a first party store. You can argue phones are more general purpose than gaming consoles - but with current consoles containing video players/photo viewers/web browsers/etc that is not exactly true either.

Windows/Android are different because the operating system itself is the product. People don't necessarily buy a Google phone or a Microsoft desktop, but they can still buy and run the operating system separately from the physical product.

The question is: if Apple should be forced to open up the iPhone ecosystem, why shouldn't Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo be forced to open up their systems for third party stores? Why are they allowed to take a mandatory cut from anyone that wants to publish on their platform, but Apple is not? To me it seems like a double standard if only Apple is forced to open up, but Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo are not.

Perhaps all hardware that is sold should be open and customisable, and I should be able to install a fresh OS on any piece of hardware I buy. That makes sense to me, but then that doesn't actually solve the problem at all. People will still buy an iPhone and use iOS, so now the OS itself needs to be open in some way. How do you write any of this in law at all?
I assure you nothing Square is doing is illegal or even "possibly illegal". Square takes GDPR deletion and right to be forgotten incredibly seriously. But you must understand that soft-deleting an image that the user uploaded is not in violation of any regulation in place in the USA.
Wow. Could not be more glad I’m not in the javascript world.
This is an excellent answer. When you read their blog you realize that all those points have guided the current design of the game. There was multiple iteration of the tech tree to invite the player gently into the different "phases" of the game. (see https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-275).

They carefully thought about the name of things, the cost of things to communicate clearly to a new player what he is supposed to do next (manufacture new thing, ramp up the production of old thing, etc).
Sometimes I wonder if we could price things to reflect their true costs, would many of the complex, interconnected problems of the present just naturally start to untangle.

For example, I pay ~$60/mo for Recology to drive to our house and take our trash, recycling and compost away. I always think, it can’t cost so little. Yet so many products come with excessive amounts of packaging, which adds to those costs, but no one seems to be overtly paying for it. If it were literally more expensive to buy a product with wasteful and excessive packaging, then maybe company’s would be motivated to invent more creative and effective packaging that wastes less, to compete on price.

Another is how most of our internet experiences are subsidized. It’s not like that doesn’t cost us more somewhere else? Advertisers have to cough up the dough for their ads and they’re going to build those costs into their price. However, if we lived in a different world where paying for apps and our online experience in general, then I feel like there’s a much more direct and efficient mechanism to connect the costs of the internet with supporting what you actually like about it.

Paying for stuff could probably save the world, and it wouldn’t even require invoking the scary words like “socialism”. Just an old fashioned simple solution.
Yeah like, rust also uses fat pointers. They should be equivalent. The issue is pervasiveness not speed.
Which is the reason why I not use Safari on OS X (additionally, the Safari devtools are atrocious).
> Fortunately thanks to the GDPR

Or invoke COPPA and say your 11 year old cousin used your account, can’t remember what they did, but wants it all removed now.
Trying hard not to sound like a conspiracy theorist. However, it's pretty obvious this benefits a walled garden strategy. With things like AMP, "rich snippets", etc, they keep eyeballs on Google owned properties longer. Slowly deprecating urls over time makes it less visually apparent.

AOL was able to sell "keywords" this way, because it wasn't always obvious to their users how to get to the real internet.
Also, please happen during wintertime in the northern hemisphere. Covid means I won't be escaping the gloom this year.
I think the by far coolest part about this, is that you dont need to tag your dataset on a token basis. Could be interesting to see results by using the graph convolution approach by Liu et al. as opposed to just feeding raw images.
Once again - they are not market dominant, they do not have the largest marketshare of phone users. This is false.

> and are enforcing rules that do not have political (as in citizens') legitimacy.

This is basically saying to me "yea you're right, it isn't illegal, but I don't like it!!" They're charging for a service, there is nothing unfair about it. Frankly, it could be even higher.

> Same goes for Amazon/Google: extracting rent from a market-dominant position should be illegal (it isn't) regardless of how that position was won.

Google is a clear monopoly - they dominate the market. Amazon does not - Wal-Mart, Target, are all viable competitors. BestBuy, NewEgg, Ebay, etc.
The human potential lost to poverty is heartbreaking. Unfortunately, it seems like the political toolbox we’ve been bequeathed is filled with wooden spoons instead of scalpels. Open to ideas.
Musk has joked in the past in some Reddit AMAs that he models all his rockets in Kerbal Space Program first so who knows.
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I’m not picking a fight I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t walking into expert level trolling. It’s not an accident at all, you’re right. But this was not some happy thing in the 1800s. They picked George because it’s historically a male gendered name, so that small men would know they’re reading men’s work and it’s to be taken seriously and not laughed at in derision.
What is scope creep in project management?
This is exactly why people say "all lives matter", because there has been a significant focus on black, female, and LGBT lives, but not for disadvantaged people in general. There are many of them.
>"Crucially, the organization vowed to double down and "ship new products faster and develop new revenue streams" – products like its bookmarking app Pocket, its virtual social meeting rooms Hubs, and its $4.99-a-month VPN subscription service.

>“The people who are included in the reduction are both true Mozillians, and professionals with high degrees of skill and expertise and commitment," CEO Mitchell Baker said in a memo. "This action is not in any way – not, not, not – a reflection on personal or professional qualities.”

>Mozilla's Servo team, which was working away on a new browser engine for Firefox in Rust, was closed down by the cuts. The group working on the Mozilla Developer Network – the essential bible for web devs and programmers – was hit hard, too, as were some of its security, policy, and tooling staffers.

How exactly would folks working on things like browsers engines, Security, policy and tooling not be extremely valuable for working on "products like its bookmarking app Pocket, its virtual social meeting rooms Hubs, and its $4.99-a-month VPN subscription service."?

Further the fact that $400-450 million dollars in new funding is announced days after large layoffs is says a lot about CEO Mitchell Baker's management and values. This CEO is the one who should be looking for a new job right now.
I think the justification is that some people will think the website is legitimate if a legit hostname appears anywhere in the URL e.g.

http://scamsite.com/microsoft.com/phish

"looks" legit because it contains the string "microsoft.com" (and most "regular" users won't appreciate the different parts of a URL); under the new scheme, that would display only as "scamsite.com" and hopefully people are less likely to enter their microsoft username/password if "microsoft.com" doesn't appear anywhere in the address bar.

I'm not overly convinced of this personally, but I think that's the supposed idea behind it.
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Musk would load a factory built by someone else, then sue his way into owning it (re: https://meaww.com/elon-musk-tesla-cofounder-lawsuit-settleme... )
Can you define what you mean with necessary more precisely?
I hate Skinner box games too, but Factorio is definitely not one of them. The entire game aside from uranium processing is completely deterministic.
But there is only so much time that you can be effective at running a business or running. Some people need to relax from the stress of work and tiredness of exercise by playing games for example.
> But clicking delete or unsend on a photo is not that.

In Google, a user clicking delete is treated exactly the same as a written deletion request.

In fact, the law requires that they be the same - "Therefore, an individual can make a request for erasure verbally or in writing. It can also be made to any part of your organisation and does not have to be to a specific person or contact point.". (https://ico.org.uk/)
From an advertising perspective if the cost to serve amp is less than ad revenue, this makes perfect sense. Every click on google goes to google, and you’ll like it too bc you won’t have a choice.