skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came across the Web Monetization standard a couple months ago when I was looking for alternative ways to fund my website [0], but I couldn't find a lot of information on actual implementations, so I decided to add it myself as an experiment.

It's actually pretty cool, and earnings from web monetized users now cover ~3% of the operation of the site during the first month of having it implemented.

You basically just have to add a meta tag to the site that directs to a payment pointer (you also have to sign up with one of the wallets for the payment pointer).

Definitely not getting rich from the implementation, and the earnings are much lower than if I just ran ads, but it is a nice feeling to have the users of the site directly contribute to supporting the product. Plus it is such a low barrier to set it up that there is very little downside to having it added to the site.

[0] https://www.runnaroo.com
If you are already productive with Gmail and its web UI, why change?

I love mutt and have used it in the past, but I'm very productive with Gmail in the browser, especially with the vim-like shortcuts it provides and with an inbox-zero-like workflow.
I use Wirecutter and then go search for the items I want on walmart.com, bestbuy.com, b&h, Barnes and noble, etc.

I boycott Amazon. I feel jerked around any time I use their site.
Even if they did all that, all the states would need reliable mailing lists. Oregon and Washington have been rigorously checking their lists precisely because of this problem, while other states don't need to do that if the onus is on the voter to show up at the correct poll.

It turns out that 17% of Nevada primary ballots had the wrong address.

If over 10% of votes are mailed to the wrong address, it would be a major crisis in a hotly contested election.

[1]: https://publicinterestlegal.org/files/NV-2020-Primary-1P-1.p...
That's what all pharmacies in South Korea do.
I'd never want electronic voting either, but this myth needs to die. Intimidation can happen with absentee voting too, so it's not a valid concern.
You overestimate the current government of the USA.
Hiding messages in x86 binaries using semantic duals
What is Shopify, Instacart, Walmart and the thousand other businesses you can buy from directly.
Gameplay and features are cheap, they don't take as much storage as assets. All the dances, outfits and gears in fortnite are heavy it seems.
"Gender dysphoria - as a general descriptive term refers to an individual’s discontent with the assigned gender."

That is a very weak definition, if you ask me.
Yes, it's not in the standard. IIRC they only don't do it because it's not in the standard, somewhat annoying for iterating on queries. In stuff like SQLAlchemy it's not as annoying, since you can write it DRY.
I might have misunderstood, but I took the comment to mean looking more like Erlang was a negative? Erlang's syntax is really divisive - just looking at Erlang code makes my head want to burst!
Show HN: I built a Threadreaderapp alternative in 1 day using the v2 Twitter API
It's not that much of a hidden gem, it's one of the top 2D game engines on GitHub. https://github.com/topics/2d-game-engine
The screenshots demonstrate a world in Apple where Apple isn't stupidifed by making everything simple.

MacTCP and PPP are complex and all of the configuration options given demonstrate a level of control that's unheard of in even Linux these days, let alone Apple or Microsoft or Google products.

I wish modern software had that level of configurability.
It absolutely does if you're thinking of building new apartment building.
When IBM starts to say they are going to deprecate something in mainframe, they will deprecate it in probably 10-12 years time. There will be 3 versions in between and each version will have a much better migration path. If a corporate don't want to take risk, they will be mostly the last ones to migrate, after confirming &consulting all the IBM tech champions, they would start the migration process which would last a year, before they install the new version.
If nature's your priority though, you don't live in SF or SV proper. You live in the Santa Cruz mountains, Marin, or further north along the coast or in the mountains (or in the Sierras). Those aren't cheap either in many cases of course until you really get out of Bay Area commuting range.
This is more specifically the assumption that a computer understands and more importantly cares about what you are saying, and maybe also you as a person. This assumption is obviously wrong for the computer, but also usually wrong when interpreting responses from an actual therapist, or any other human, so no difference really.
People in the US in maybe 6 cities
GTA V has seven or so years worth of major bi- or tri-annual DLCs. There are probably a few hundred hours worth of (fully voiced) co-op content in GTA Online.

https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Updates_in_GTA_Online (37 total)
It is not just faster. It also encourages sensible design and cuts down on the most annoying ad practices.

I always say there are two parts in AMP, a very sensible set of guidelines for good design, enforced by code, and Google services. The first ones benefit users, the second benefit Google.

The unfortunate thing is that when I hear complaints, it is more often about the former than the latter. Something about "creative freedom", like the freedom to put up annoying pop-up ads and mess up with the "back" button and scrolling I guess.

As a user, I am very happy with AMP. Now we just need someone to take all the good bits, remove all Google crap, and make websites that are even better. AMP is open source, at least the good bits are.
Well I for one am happy that your deep seated curiosity is so aligned with an altruistic cause that despite my typical trait of believing people when they describe their motivations I still have some doubt about your true motivations. I've taught a number of people software or data science for free. And yes, teaching is its own reward and seeing people that you've taught land gigs as data scientists at companies like Shopify is gratifying, but ultimately it would be dishonest of me to say that my teaching others was purely for selfish reasons. It wasn't. I like helping people and I wish more people did too.

Thanks for doing what you're doing and please keep pushing forward to make the world a better place.
>Note that when ordering outside the country you still have to pay for the shipping fee of the return yourself _to_ the amazon store of origin you selecte

That is false - I do order outside and it costs around 10 + 10euro/kg for around 7-10days delivery (express within 2-3days is around double). When I returned anything (3x times) - amazon paid back the shipping costs, BOTH my own sending and the bill sending back to them. If the item was part of a bigger order, they paid back partially my own cost for sending it to me initially. And they always foot the bill for the sending back in full.

More also, there was a hard drive that failed 2nd day I installed, I complained, they called and did send one immediately prior I even returned the original one to them, which they reimbursed the bill for. The drive arrived the next day (shipped by courier/air). Like I've said - I cant say bad words about their service in the EU.
Quoting from here: https://www.sri.com/hoi/siri/

"Siri, the first virtual personal assistant, arose from decades of SRI research in artificial intelligence (AI). The technology was developed through the SRI-led Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes (CALO) project within DARPA’s Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL) program, the largest-known AI project in U.S. History, and joint work with EPFL, the Swiss institute of technology.

"SRI spun off Siri, Inc. in 2007 to bring the technology to consumers, raising $24 million in two rounds of financing.

"In April 2010, Apple acquired Siri, and in October 2011, Siri was unveiled as an integrated feature of the Apple iPhone 4S."
Error recovery with parser combinators, using Rust and nom
Stringly typed: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Since most voting is handled and tallied by county/sub-divisions of that county, and are published as such, wouldn't the number be much smaller? A few thousand per district since you only need to be unique to the place your vote is tallied.
A scenario where a family or workplace or other organization has everyone fill in their ballot in front of each other and then drop it off in the mail together.

“For convenience,” “to make sure everyone gets their vote in.”

The difference is there is no designated, guaranteed-private voting booth for the act of voting.
I wonder if they could just make this syntax work in Postgres:

UPDATE inventory
SET quantity = inventory.quantity - daily.amt
FROM
(SELECT sum(quantity) AS amt, itemId FROM sales GROUP BY 2) daily USING( itemId );

Basically just allowing a ON/USING clause after the first FROM entry as if it was joining to the table being updated.

Otherwise it's kind of annoying when you end up joining to several tables in the update, but have to use the WHERE clause to join back to the main table.
YYYY-mm-dd also plays nice with lexicographic ordering, which is why I always use it when I need to put dates in e.g. filenames
None of the options you mentioned force sites to spend money maintaining a second version of their site, so they're all better than AMP.

I also think you have an exotic definition centralization.

> sites

Sites is plural, so this is not a centralized solution. There are multiple competing options.

> just stop indexing or boosting the garbage sites forcing them to change, that's what amp does yet again.

No it doesn't. AMP is faster, so AMP sites get boosted based on being faster. It's an indirect effect, at least according to Google. Google could have stopped at applying a big penalty to dog slow sites. No lock-in promoting tech required.

There was a huge missed opportunity for Firefox here to do some aggressive garbage removal in these sorts of pages. They'd probably have a much bigger share now if they had
> What’s the consensus on whether Roman statues were intended to be realistic

Would be a pity when people don't recognize you as the emperor when for some reason you are disconnected from your usual chain of command. Could those depictions have played a role that we would today describe as biometric fallback authentication? In that case they wouldn't want to overdo it with the idealization.

Also, looking at it from a completely different angle: many Roman busts simply don't look very flattering at all, and to me those of emperors don't seem like a big exception.
>In theory, mail-in voting carries these same problems, and we're about to hold the largest mail-in voting election ever.

And the president is - right now - conducting a denial of service attack on it.

If that doesn't show that remote voting is vulnerable I don't know what does...
Worth noting that the Green-Tao Theorem is a very special case of this conjecture, using the (comparatively easier to prove) fact that Σ 1/p diverges.
The overwhelming majority of the population doesn't have the capacity to understand what you wrote or why that is true. Even the majority of those who understand why it may be true, cannot say for certain that it is true without inspecting the codebase and its operation. That's a major problem.
What does the page for writing/editing posts look like?
Yes I tried to call that out in my post. Even towns like Bend, Bellingham, etc(even somewhat places in Idaho and Montana by now) are by no means cheap and on top of that they don’t have a robust job market to justify the cost.
I could see something like this being extremely useful when working with legacy code. In the book "Continuous Delivery (Humble, Farley)" they suggest when working in legacy code without tests, to begin adding testing to systems starting only with the parts you changed. If this is hard to determine, a test feature that shows unit dependencies could be really helpful.
Welcome to the Turkish language, where we have ı, i, I and İ. In our language the conversion is as follows:

- i <-> İ

- ı <-> I

We love our dots and preserve them. For a more detailed read, please see:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-wrong-with-turkey/
Well, I wasn't trying to argue against "no strings attached housing". Actually, there used to be a lot of low-cost/no-cost options including the aforementioned dirt-cheap rooming houses, mental care residential facilities (including voluntary and involuntary incarceration), and shelters run by nuns and the like. Note that some of this still exists today but not the same scale as before.

I'm afraid also that Finland's socio-economic situation is rather different from that of the U.S. Up until quite recently, they have had a homogeneous culture, a much smaller population, and more social stability, versus the U.S. with its vast and highly diverse population and relative instability. I don't see how a Finnish solution would quite fit our situation, though we should of course study their methodology since they tend to have good ideas :)
Or maybe fructose intake and absorption correlates to both obesity and cognitive function.
Like with having to dig into WDEF and CDEF resource fork entries to make a GUI application, I am inclined to view that more as a limitation of the technology and the era, not a feature. It certainly wasn't what Apple wanted to do.

Mac networking was, of course, supposed to be Appletalk, a system with no configuration dialogues for normal use beyond a human-readable setting for the computer's name. It also worked surprisingly well. The idea you could just connect two computers together and they'd automatically network was absent from most of the competition for another decade or more.

(For the record, I consider myself an anti-Apple fanboy. But it's only honesty that Appletalk was a big deal.)
Sure - but that doesn't answer my question:

was the product

- 3P

- Sold by Amazon

- Fulfilled by Amazon

As a customer with agency, I have the ability to not buy things on the Amazon site that aren't sold by amazon. When FBA stock contaminates sold by amazon stock, I lose that agency. That is a problem for my own personal uses of the Amazon site.

That some large portion of Amazon functions like a more industrial Ebay is for others to enjoy - YMMV.
You're assuming those in power want to increase enfranchisement.
Five Lessons on Power from the Life of Lyndon Johnson
"Looking at Mozilla's finances, it's reasonable to conclude that Google is keeping them on life support to keep the anti-trust hounds at bay."

There seems to be an implicit assumption by those commenting on Mozilla's downsizing that the antitrust case against Google is going to take the same path as the case against Microsoft.

Google's anti-competitive conduct under examination will not be focused on Chrome, it will be focused on the markets for search and advertising.

Mozilla does not provide any potential competition in those markets.

The case against Microsoft focused on the software industry. Today, the focus is on the onlilne advertising industry.

Netscape was a software company, like Microsoft. Mozilla however is not an online advertising services company like Google.
The size is typically from assets, not gameplay and features.
Holy moly, how did I never know this? I've worked on ARM based systems for years and never run across this tidbit. Thanks for sharing!
Not well. I've never seen it and I spend way too much with Amazon (meaning I'm an ideal customer).
The Gartner Hype Cycle is hype. Don’t use it as an excuse. (2019)
Wouldn't converting to nfkd/c first solve this issue too? My understanding of those forms was that they're made exactly for this case.
Yeah - FBA is actually a really awful attack vector. I hope that they internally are able to track sub-ASIN level inventory, otherwise they have made a fantastic laundering platform.
no need to look for Oil anymore when the terrorists running the US will send their military to steal it for you - https://old.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/i7iokj/donald_tru...
You can make the vote anonymous with electronic voting, in a way only you can verify if you wanted. There are existing voting systems with that property.
What this gets right down to is that Unicode is a flawed idea: the meaning/behavior/whatever of characters is insanely dependent on their context.

The problem was never gazillions of code pages, but our inability to write C to deal with that amount of complexity circa 1990.

With modern machines, and good programming languages with good type systems, I absolutely think we could store a language per string, and concatenate into a polylinguistic rope if needed.

This would hopefully push us away from stringly-typed crap in general.
Yes, you are correct
> The chain subsequently reversed their stance on the matter and actually redeemed themselves on social media.

“The matter” referred to here is their stance on LGBT rights, and they “actually redeemed themselves”?

What does that mean? That they now have a positive view in the LGBT community? That > 30M people in the US who said they boycotted them have come around?

There’s a entire 3000 word Wiki entry on what the author breezes past:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_and_LGBT_people
In Java, there is Locale.ROOT, which can be used in a similar way. In particular, it is useful when performing locale-dependent operations in locale-independent contexts (e.g. working with case-insensitive identifiers) where you don’t want the behavior of your code to depend on the current default locale.
Yes, not sure how it's related.
I just ran a bunch of example searches that Rossman and iFixit said have no small business ads. I saw a lot of small business ads.

Obviously Google isn't fine with policy breaking ads, but they aren't perfect at catching all of them immediately.

www.reddit.com doesn't workmcon mobile.

Use old.rrddit.com

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/i87jfj/vpn_cumshot...
I'm getting an unauthorized error on usernames and nothing on threads?
In my experience it depends on how the product is sold, some manufacturers have a very tight supply chain and prices do not very much. You can often find products that sit on a retail shelf on sale at some point. It takes more time/searching - and expect slow shipping. Its not the same as the Amazon experience but cheaper, its hunting down the right deal and waiting for it. Be ready to use some scrappy web sites.
The grandparent obviously meant “latin i”; none of the three languages you mention have any latin letters, but at least Russian and Greek have some lowercase and some more uppercase letters with the same glyph/shape as latin ones.
I can order online from all of those stores, and get it faster than if I ordered from Amazon because they all have better last mile infrastructure.

Walmart supports 3rd parties as well I think.
Hi! Author here. I built this because I wanted to be able to unroll Twitter threads to markdown (for import into tools like Roam & Obsidian). It was also a great chance to try Twitter’s new search API released this week.

I used NextJS, plus several great OSS projects of note:

https://next-auth.js.org/

https://github.com/draftbit/twitter-lite

https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor

https://github.com/system-ui/theme-ui
Reverse engineering an AI spaceship game at DEF CON CTF
Hi There. The writing page is a simple form with fields. These include: Name, Description, SEO Tags, Content (this is where you are able to design your content), Display Image and Banner Image (this gets displayed at the top of your article).
There's way more mail during the holidays than what would be generated by a national mail-in election.

So it is not unprecedented.
Something we (people who work in tech) should be acutely aware of is causing unnecessary distractions from important issues. When there's a discussion about the Google very often the first few comments are about how some other tech company also does something unsavory. This is a thread about how Google's engineers are actively working to take over the web as we know it and become the gatekeepers to all the benefit (not to mention profit) the web has to offer, and now the top comment isn't about what Google are doing.

While your point is valid and reasonable in it's own right, posting it in a discussion about Google isn't really the right place.
> not to defend Amazon, but maybe the scale of the problem is too big

There is no defense for Amazon. The solution is simple. Put back the ability to filter for items shipped and sold by Amazon.com only, and stop commingling inventory.

Amazon will never do this because they don’t want to be in the retail business with 3% profit margins, they want to be in the platform business with 15%+ profit margins.

Hence I take my business to other retailers willing to sacrifice some of their profit margin to ensure I don’t receive garbage the first time.
For peoples looking for the truth about blockchain voting:

https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/PSNR20.pdf
Law breaking ads are inappropriate.
"I can have 1PB it will be all I will need"

You can have a 1PB file without a 1PB drive. I think md has a limit of 8 Zib. Several filesystems allow files up to 8EB.
> On the other hand almost everyone abuses the minus sign as a dash

Unicode calls it HYPHEN-MINUS. It does also have an unambiguous ‘−’ MINUS SIGN as well as ‘‐’ U+2010 HYPHEN and the various dashes, but most people use bad keyboard layouts.
I frequently type German with a US layout with dead keys (so I can type "a to get ä). I also imagine that most Turkish developers type English on a Turkish layout, since Turkish contains all characters used by English.
Hmm, did you sign in first? Just ran a username example: https://the.rip/@benzguo-likes-1284546444796412000
The first point is a strawman. The second is obviously something the system would have to be built for, and that would be arguably more verifiable than what we have now.
Didn't ask you
Annnnd comments like this are why I'm on HN daily. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Recent developments in visual editing specially for 2d games is wonderful. Wondering if there's a visual editor yet which also supports multiplayer games.
Honestly, I'm very pro case-insensitivity, but my experience with SQL servers have impressively demonstrated how not to do it.

For example, MS SqlPackage, used for deploying schema, is case-insensitive... But that also means changes to text constants within your stored procs do not get treated as changes.
http://www.moserware.com/2008/02/does-your-code-pass-turkey-...

This is old but still valid reading...
SaaS just implies someone else hosts the software. Multi tenancy is one architecture you can use for a SaaS application.
No, these are ASCII strings, so they are already normalized.
it’s a false sense of security
Everyone should xperience Startup Life at least once
Who to Vaccinate First?
> The problem is that, IMO, centralization of the internet is simply the natural course.

> I suspect that if you broke those companies up you'd only win in the short term, then it would consolidate again.

The natural course of humans is to walk around on the ground too, yet we fly. Regardless of whether it takes energy to do, it's something we should obviously do anyway because the alternative is worse. Sorry for the bad analogy but "it's natural" and "hard" isn't a valid argument against doing something about something.

I don't really buy your story anyway though. It assumes it was a fair fight and I simply don't think that's true in the case of the web.
Are they scammy or just content you aren't interested in?
I think what they mean is that they statically compile those in their builds, therefore producing a binary with no runtime dependencies. Homebrew builds use dynamic linking instead.
My good friend got a math degree and works retail.
Complicating things has always been the aim of foreign policy for about as long as England has been a thing.
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