skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why everything has to be a "solution" for something. True innovations don't bring solutions to old problems, they just change the paradigm.

Cars didn't solve the transportation problem. Horses still worked fine. What problem did the internet solve specifically? We think of the infinite amount of possibilities it created (along with new problems) not the problems it solved (most of those would be irrelevant today anyways).

I think trying to apply the standard startup pitch (problem -> solution) to everything in life is a terribly reductive perspective.

There's just so much that can be done with blockchain: financing new ventures, generating a financial incentives for sharing behaviors (whether files, computing powers or potentially tangible assets), transferring funds...
Yes you can frame all of those as "solutions" to problems, but I think that's still missing the points. Most of my net worth is in crypto assets, I use it to store value, invest, buy goods, send money to friends, etc... Give it a couple more years, and I'll probably close my bank accounts. It doesn't "solve" any problems for me, it just provides a more convenient service than traditional banking and more opportunities than traditional ways of investing. I'm assuming a lot of people see it that way too and that more will come to see it that way.
There is so much misremembering of the Microsoft antitrust case, especially by people who didn’t follow it closely at the time, and you’re very right to remind everyone that the core issue was asking the government to intervene to maintain the viability of $40 closed source browser licenses.

MSFT “lost” the case but the remedies amounted to a slap on the wrist. Meanwhile the market in its broadest sense innovated in ways that no court or legislator could have reasonably predicted in the late 90s. Not just innovation in terms of superior technology, but in intellectual property (open source), culture (the web standards movement amongst devs), and organization (W3C getting its act together).

Beyond browsers Microsoft’s expected dominance on internet server business ran up against Linux, which like gecko and webkit, won out not because some Kommissar deemed it worthy, but because competitors to Microsoft were incentivized to think way outside of the box.

If App Store policies truly are as untenable as half of the people posting in this thread believe them to be, then the desire to solve the problem by bringing the coercive power of the state to redistribute some revenue seems more like a lack of imagination than anything else.
There is some history here (PDF)
https://www.stokab.se/Documents/Nyheter%20bilagor/Stokab_eng...

"One important part of Stockholm’s modern ICT history is the company Stokab, founded by the
City of Stockholm in 1994. The deregulation of the telecom market, which had taken place
the year before, was the reason for establishing the company. Despite proposals by a number
of national parliamentary parties to divide up what was then the Telecommunications Admin-
istration into an independent, neutral infrastructure organisation and a service organisation, it
remained intact and instead became the company Telia.
Stockholm’s politicians believed that a neutral stakeholder was needed who could provide
basic IT infrastructure to all on equal terms in order to generate competition, diversity and
a range of choice within telecommunications and data. To achieve this, the IT infrastructure
company Stokab was formed through a political consensus. The company’s mission is to build,
lease and maintain a passive fibre-optic network to help foster favourable conditions for IT
development and the positive development of the Stockholm region."
3-4mg/kg is more than sufficient for subduing an adult human. 7-10mg/kg will cause unconsciousness, and is dangerous without CLOSE airway monitoring.

Injecting a suspect with a drug without medical necessity or consent is a major human rights issue, and you wouldn’t be far off if you called it rape.

The whole thing is quite obviously pig lies; they had dogs and tasers on this 140lb black man who they had already had multiple cops choking out. Nothing about their dodge adds up.
Is that really any different than things like Pokémon or MTG - other than cards have a lower environmental impact when landfilled than toys, due to the smaller volume?
Look up software consulting and marketing agencies. They always do their best work for themselves
I hope drivers end up being forced to be employees with a set schedule. It would hopefully weed out all of the REALLY bad drivers both platforms have that I even wonder how they have licenses.
The only people I personally know in the former group were ideologically pre-aligned towards any currency that promises anti-government or anti-inflation capabilities. The people I’m thinking of were either libertarians, gold bugs, or both.

I don’t actually know anyone who was persuaded by the merits of bitcoin or similar.
> There is a name for this behavior: a lynching.

For those who didn't know, the police culture becomes quite a bit more sickening when you find out that one of the arresting officers, along with 2 other colleagues, posed grinning in a photo mocking their brutality against McClain just days after he died! Across the street from a memorial to him, no less.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/us/Elijah-McClain-aurora-...
Uber trying to compete with Japanese taxis didn't work very well, at least until I left in 2016.
> I find the group think here to be incredible, and you all will likely be very disappointed when the legal system winds up supporting Apple.

You partially addressed it in your edit, but I'm pretty doubtful that the legal systems of every major state support Apple forever. It's really just a matter of time before some country gets the critical mass of popular opinion and legislative support for the idea that app stores should be treated as public goods and require regulation as such.

Many locales have regulated interchange fees for payment processors, or have threatened regulation to force voluntary reductions and caps on interchange fees. The legal arguments here are similar - I'd place Visa/Mastercard/Amex on a similar level as Apple/Google app stores in terms of competition.
Uber and Lyft are behind a proposition that is on the November ballot that will undo AB 5.

Stopping service now would leave customers scrambling, but would also give them a strong incentive to vote for that proposition in November.

Although I'm sure the companies will say these two things are not connected in any way.
I am the designer/developer of AngelCAD. It began from a desire of a fast Constructive Solid Geometry engine, based on a strongly typed scripting language. It is not a goal of the core AngelCAD package to develop a traditional CAD GUI, the emphasis is on scripting.

The boolean engine used is xcsg https://github.com/arnholm/xcsg based on Carve https://github.com/arnholm/carve
Depends on how you see it. Many see cars and buses and (insanely expensive) light-rail on streets as a visual blight.

The Wuppertal footprint is very large. Compare to (the very economical 1970s design of) the Dortmund H-Bahn: each pylon uses about 1m2 of ground. Clearly designed to please engineers, not contractors and investors.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Dortmund_H-Bahn

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Dortmund_H-Bahn#...
Cannonball Record Broken: 25 Hours, 39 Minutes from NYC to LA
The easiest, laziest way to remove google from your life is too simply stop using services as they shut them down. Instead of transferring from play music to YouTube music (play music is shutting down sometime after October, according to an email I got yesterday), I'm looking at setting up funkwhale or some other self-hosted music service (maybe just nextcloud? Not sure yet).
The people who initially called themselves “incels” were presumably not using it as a pejorative, but on the other hand there are people who, having not called themselves by the term, have been referred to by others using the term as a pejorative.

I am no longer sure what the word “slur” means.

My best guesses are “a pejorative which morally should not be used”, “a pejorative which social consensus has condemned the use of”, “a pejorative against a class which social consensus has decided should be a protected class”, but I’m not sure.

Is “truescum” a slur? Idk.
When California adds a new regulation, businesses often adapt by charging an extra fee. Restaurants in SF did this when the health insurance mandate was initiated. Uber and Lyft could charge a $0.50/ride fee (or whatever the number is), but it seems they don't want to.
Monitoring Your Apps
> This is clearly transformative

It clearly is not, as evidenced by the lack of transformation of the banking sector since Bitcoin first came out in January 2009.
So cops are doctors now? Or EMS even? Neither have any real medical training, at all. No offense meant, EMS grind for little money, but they're not medical doctors.

Narcan I was already uneasy about, but it saved real lives in obvious situations. This is absolute lunacy.
> you do have to use a standard paid US mobile number to set it up, but do not need to retain it afterward

If someone else registers Google voice with that number, you're going to have a hard time. It'll be removed from your account, and you can't use Google voice without a US phone number.
Setting aside the fact that this kind of thing happens at all: How is ketamine the drug of choice?! Although it has a very high active dose:fatal dose (alluded to in other comments), accepted practice for "chemical restraint" is Thorazine+Valium (or equivalent); ketamine is basically never used for behavioral "sedation" by any medical professional.
What’s wrong with eating jerky every day?
Antifa isn't a centralised group, let alone do they have a website that speaks on their behalf.
The Pink Popsicle Ice Cream Make You Question Everything
I dunno guys, I think we cabn prepend blockchain to anything like "blockhain sex".

But seriously, wish blockchain was replaced by zsnarks as a hype term.

Zsnark sex for everyone! (Just kidding, hope humor is allowed)
Sex work between consenting independent adults is something (while illegal) many do not find unethical. The main issue with backpage was they were supposedly not taking down or helping with trafficked people and children (at least this is vaguely what I recall when they got shut down).

(As an aside, the legality and ubiquitous acceptance of pornography and the illegality of sex work is a weird inconsistency in modern culture that I really don’t understand.)

Free speech protections in the US are pretty strong, but I’d suspect the harassment from that farms site is probably illegal.

Credit card processors are within their right to refuse to support white supremacy content (which I think is reasonable). BTC enabling these people isn’t great, but it also enables people in situations where it’s the government that’s objectionable (someone taking money for a blog about banned topics in China or Saudi for example).

In many hostile countries just getting your money out without it being taken by bad actors can be hard.

This resilience is a strength of BTC which can be used for good or evil. It’s also clearly an existing use case of the blockchain.
It helps them to enforce rules arbitrarily depending of their current strategy and how important of a developer you are.
Well, Apple Maps, Photos, Siri, and Messages.

(I'd be willing to pay a subscription fee to have them on Android. As is, I just do without, and deal with ridiculous workarounds like having my Android phone save my photos to OneDrive and them manually copying them over to Photos on my Mac.)
I was and still am what I’d call a blockchain skeptic, even though I work in the field. However, I am seeing more and more use cases where I’d struggle to think of a non-blockchain design, such as a decentralised computer where you can guarantee the code executed is what you’d expect and the owners of nodes get reimbursed for their work, or decentralised over-collateralised loans.

On a side note the work involved with blockchain is the most interesting stuff I’ve ever done. I’ve got to learn and play with cryptography, formal methods, programming language theory, and work with some developers famous enough to have significant Wikipedia pages.
"The president acknowledged in a 2017 meeting with civil rights leaders that he benefited from Black voters staying home."

That says nothing about voter suppression.
> More like a VM running alongside windows instead of on top of windows.

It's not like that, it literally is that, because to enable WSL2 you end up running Windows itself on top of Hyper-V, and the Linux VM as a parallel VM.

> It's lighter and partially integrated.

I don't know what you think it's "lighter" than - it's a VM running on Hyper-V.
Not a fair comparison, this’s between developers and Apple, Apple doesn’t change you anything after you buy their phone.
The banking sector moves slowly (an understatement) (they still use COBOL, IMS, etc.). Its current low adoption of this tech does not mean much.
You are cherry picking your examples. Uber eats didn't really become popular until the pandemic, I'm not sure if it will even sustain that after things go back to normal because a conbini is good enough most of the times. Uber's ride share never took off in Japan. Slack/Github are tech tools, they don't have much cultural influence because it's not used by general public. Look at iMessage vs Line for example. Or instagram vs Twitter. No lime/bird in Japan, Docomo is trying with Bikeshare since 2011 but it never took off.
I was a Bliss programmer for several years in the mid-1970s. It remains one of my favorite programming languages.
Glad I am not the only camera nut out there, my personal speciality is the pre-SLR era that I know far too much about to be healthy. The use of high-end, off-the-shelf cameras for military and scientific purposes does not surprise me that much. The “Luftwaffe Leicas” [1] for example are famous in camera circles and even today I frequently spot Nikon and Canon gear in physics labs when I walk around campus.

[1]: https://cameraquest.com/luft.htm

My guess for 5:01 [2] is a Zorki 6 with a rigid Industar-50 [3]. The top plate matches the Zorki 6 from what I can tell and the rigid Industar-50 has a very distinct shape when attached as it looks a bit “fat” in the middle.

[2]: https://youtu.be/nbC7BxXtOlo?t=301

[3]: http://mattsclassiccameras.com/rangefinders-compacts/zorki-6

At 5:08 [4] I think we have a Zorki S [5] based on the top plate. Those familiar with screw-mount Leica cameras can note the striking similarity, more on this later. I have no clue about the lens though, it looks akin to specialist lenses from the era that I have seen.

[4]: https://youtu.be/nbC7BxXtOlo?t=308

[5]: http://mattsclassiccameras.com/rangefinders-compacts/zorki-s

For 12:38 [6] we again seem to have Industar-50s, but now with four Zorki S’.

[6]: https://youtu.be/nbC7BxXtOlo?t=758

A word of warning, I am far far far more familiar with German and Japanese cameras from this era as it is what I have used in the past – corrections are welcome. Also, if you spotted other camera gear (no film cameras though, ask someone else…) do poke me.

To end on an interesting historical fact. The Zorki S you saw and plenty more from the era produced both in the USSR (do not say Russia, from what I remember plenty were made in the Ukraine) and Japan (both Nikon and Canon) were “Leica copies” that either looked very much like to their German counterparts, accepted lenses with the same mount (M39 or Leica Thread Mount), and/or had very similar lens designs. This means that lenses/cameras produced during this era tends to be compatible between makers and countries, which leads to a lot of fun if you can muster a little courage and try film. In particular the USSR-made cameras/lenses are dirt cheap these days.
I would absolutely love to see this. All ad supported games and games with in app consumables get kicked off the App Store and are forced to use a ghettoized third party store. The only games allowed on the App Store are pay up front and demos with a one time fee to unlock all content like Nintendo’s games.

Then charge 10% for all the apps that are on the App Store at most.
Since when is it illegal to be (let alone accommodate) far-right conspiracy theorists?

Even if it was, shouldn't the decision to shut it down come from the courts / police, and not PayPal / VISA?
I don't think it's easy to change that. Must be interesting to experiment in the countries where Tech options are available, in some countries, Google is the only thing known.

More education is needed to implement something like this.
Here's the problem. It would be astoundingly unlikely that we would still exist if such a civilization existed.

For this to have happened, it must have happened much less than a million years ago, otherwise your hypothetical civilization would already have easily consumed the entire galaxy.

Since we are still here, if that civilization exists, it must have arrived on the interstellar scene less than one quarter of one tenth of one percent (< 0.025%) of the age of the solar system ago. That seems like a crazy unlikely chance.

This is the fundamental problem with Von Neumann probes / AI grey goo in general : They eat the galaxy way, way faster than anyone can imagine. If they exist, why are we still here?
I use F-Droid everyday to install and manage apps outside the Play Store and it works out fine for me. Android is also open source. If I don't like the way something is done then I'm free to change it, and there are multiple ROMs that I can choose from as well.
I dislocated my ankle rock climbing a few years ago and had to be taken to the hospital. After a few doses of morphine had zero noticeable impact on my pain, they gave me ketamine so I couldn't feel the pain of the reduction (aka pulling my foot out and moving it back into place).

The ketamine experience was far worse than my fall and any subsequent pain I experienced, and I would gladly take the pain of the reduction over the ketamine any day. It basically felt like I was dying and there was nothing I could do to stop it. Think of the hypnosis scene from "Get Out" where you can feel your consciousness slipping away but you're not asleep either. I could hear everything happening around me but couldn't move a muscle or feel anything. My perception of time went out the window and it felt like I was in an empty void for an eternity when it was only a few minutes.

I thought I couldn't talk because I couldn't feel my mouth or move any other muscles, but realized I was actually speaking my thoughts after I heard a friend in the room responded to something I thought in my mind.

Overall, 0/10 would not do it again and the thought that police use it to pacify someone during an arrest is sickening.
1. Yes, over at https://twitch.tv/pyatl
2. Because its a great way to pay it forward by sharing my knowledge/experiences
3. Python related stuff for the time being
This is the important bit:

> among the oldest tracks on Earth of shelled-egg-laying animals, such as reptiles, and the earliest evidence of vertebrate animals walking in sand dunes
I love the term "dogwhistle". It basically translates into "even though you didn't say X, I know you actually meant X".

Absurd. Maybe we should just call it "mind-reading"?
Alternately, repurpose a wake-on-lan NIC as a reset-on-lan trigger: https://www.i3detroit.org/reset-on-lan-an-ethernet-aware-rem...
That problem seems to rely on ignorance/a lack of perspective. That can be fixed with education/travel, both currently limited.
It feel it might not be fair for other participants in gambling industry that are more strictly regulated.

It's like selling drugs that are not yet categorized as drugs.
You don't sound very skeptic.
You can backup your data but the big fear that caused me to move off was GMail. When Google drops the ban hammer on any of its services (eg. YouTube for using too many emojis) it does it at the Google account level which kills everything. Even worse I've also seen reports Google continues to accept new email and the sender has no knowledge that you're locked out and unable to respond.
Do you really think that's a fair characterization of my point?

If any of it was all sunshine and lollipops they wouldn't have to pay us to do it because people would be queuing up to do it for free.
Most of the nuclear fallout on a nuclear explosion is from detonating at or near ground level which turns the dirt and dust around there radioactive while blasting it high into the air. An air burst bomb only has the radioactive material that failed to explode in the bomb, and like someone else mentioned that is easy to deal with and isn't a real big problem in the first place unless you intentionally are making your bomb inefficient and dirty.
Ugh. Full of ads and full of inaccuracies.

To learn about Python’s dictionaries, I’d recommend watching the talks by Brandon Rhodes and Raymond Hettinger.
It's weird to admit you believe that something is occurring based on analysis of the situation, but to still demand an explicit single quoted admission of unsavory behavior.

I think that's called "being honest".
Apple has been charging 30% since 2003 with the iTunes Store. This is no secret.
DragonFly BSD: Remove P_SWAPPEDOUT flag and paging mode
I am - I happily call out things that don’t require a blockchain, and call bs on projects that shouldn’t use it, but having spent significant time looking into it I’m becoming less so about particular use cases.

Edit: If someone can show me a non-blockchain design for decentralised over-collateralised loans then I’ll concede and go back to full skeptic :)
Like that paradox for self-help groups: anyone in the forum who was actually successful in self-help wouldn't be on the forum anymore. The people who never got out would be the ones who looked at the wrong things.
Because I wanted a strongly typed language that among many good things provides the opportunity for better error messages. Also, the AngelScript compiler is 100% embedded in the application and does not rely on an external environment like Python does. This makes it very easy to install and use AngelCAD.

I know Python is popular, and there is nothing to stop you from developing an alternative front end in Python or any other language of your liking, and still use the AngelCAD boolean engine, just implement the xcsg protocol https://github.com/arnholm/xcsg/wiki
> Oh wait, it's HN. You want to hear about how I pushed and pulled C++ objects to and from Oracle in 1994, and how integrated that into NSAPI, amirite? :)

No. In fact, everything you shared is really interesting.

By the way, I was at AWS from 2008 to 2014, I started when the team was about 150 people or so. It's now in the ballpark of 50k I think, or even north of that.

It's interesting how the "beginnings" of a business that eventually gets big are always "adapted" to current times.
Gum makes you chew a lot but it doesn't seem hard to chew. Not sure if that fits the bill.
Huh, I wasn't even aware of this. My business has an app that's only usable by our B2B customers. (Which are low in number, but high value.) It would cause significant consternation if Apple decided to reject it.
I don't know because you started off by making claims about "broken ecosystem".

The App Store may have undesirable qualities for some parties but to claim that it is a "broken ecosystem" just tells me that you're looking to exchange ridiculous hyperbole.
Good luck with the “open source” version of Android and running apps that depend on Google Play Services.
First, I think that's his mum because the video said it was his mum.

Second, I think it doesn't look like her eyes are directed at the camera like his, because they are not.