skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kerosine came first as a high-flash-point (for safety reasons) lamp fuel somewhat comparable to whale oil.

Gasoline is very volatile intentionally, but kerosine is supposed to be not-so-easy to ignite.

If you ever had to light a kerosine furnace on a cold winter day, you can drop a number of lit matches right into an ounce of it and a few will simply be extinguished before one finally catches fire.

Later, Diesel type engines could then then run on it, generally better than they could on the animal and vegetable oils which are similar enough.

Then came jet engines and industrial turbines.

Benzene and light naphthas are low-flash-point gasoline-range hydrocarbon components not found in measurable amounts in jet fuel.

However, other hydrocarbons found in jet fuel could one day be determined to be just as much of a political pollutant as Benzene.

It's possible for the same diesel-range tank to pass all modern specifications for kerosine, diesel, and jet, though rarely done.

Kerosine still has a lamp burning test, diesel has cetane requirement, turbo has various stability and trace metal specs, not shared with the other usages.

No. 1 Diesel is lighter and allows for better acceleration (but use gasoline when you really need to accelerate uphill) so it's great for Mercedes or big pickup owners, No. 2 diesel is the heavier stuff for long haul trucking MPG.

YMMV
It doesn't even get to that point. They have no _desire_ to actually ensure those aircraft are safe. It's criminal disregard for their public duty.
Might be just me, but (having never used this "Data Crayon" website before) the page text content doesn't seem to display for me.

I see a table of contents, and an interactive chord diagram, but none of the links in the ToC work (I see no Preamble/Introduction/etc.)

Have tried every browser on my system...
Do you know why they have built their own software?
His characterization of people's behaviours is quite colourful, easy to pick a bias out of that.
If you get 10,000 attempts on port 22, you're probably connected to the internet. If you get 10,000 attempts on port 63290, someone has taken a specific interest in you.
>I can order food from hundreds of restaurants and have it delivered in less than 30 mins with the tap of a button.

Where do you live? I would say the same but in under an hour. Is this a little hyperbolic?
I like how you describe focusing on your plot of land as a positive coping strategy. I had been doing it instinctively (or necessarily), but had thought of it as some kind of failing. Your comment makes me feel better about it.

The end goal of software I work on is to help airplanes land safely. But actually, I work on the software which presents the user interface that displays and sends configuration settings to a device on the ground that helps achieve that.

So my day to day is figuring out whether two bytes in a serial buffer an ad hoc protocol are actually transposed, or if the comments are in 20 year old code are lying about which is which. Or trying to figure out whether a Win32 font setting command from two decades ago is still interpreted the same on Windows 10.

The rabbit holes and yak shaving just go on and on. I have it in me to enjoy doing the work, but when I think about how many steps I am removed from the actual airplanes and I feel badly for filling my brain and my workday with trivia.
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F-Droid, Amazon, Google, etc. have all shown that they can run an app store better than Apple.
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> For these big conglomerates, the trendy thing is to have your own games store. Complete with exclusivity deals

How else are they going to get people to use these stores?
Oh np!
So assuming the phosphine is in fact indicative of life on Venus, there's a wide range of possibilities on where life started how many times and where it spread, but I think the most hilarious possibility would be if we realized we'd accidentally seeded Venus with extremophiles on one of our early probes.

(Which would basically be the least exciting option, although still kind of exciting WRT the possibility of terraforming.)
> I can remember one night out where I’ve purchased quite a few bagels.

This sounds like the kind of person I want to go on a night out with.
id Software -- the makers of Doom 2016 -- is owned by ZeniMax Media, which has been acquired by Microsoft as per the featured article we are discussing
Adblock Fast has received 2 reviews in 4 years, and was last updated 3 years ago. Did you mean to recommend?
$100K for a staffer that reviews merchants and product listings is probably more than their yearly salary, in fact it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s not even about double.

This aren’t people on high comp packages the bulk of Amazon’s workforce even if you discount the warehouses isn’t paid SV salaries.
Personal story time, few months back me and my buddy got asked to help our non-dota friend get into the game. We are both playing occasionally in lower brackets.

Both of us created new account to so that noobie wouldn't be thrown into deep water right away. Note that me and my friend were 'baby sitting' - playing neutrally not trying to win vs lower rated opponents.

Out of 10 games 7 had hardcore smurfs in them. People in stack dominating their lanes. I don't see how anyone new and without any friends could possibly survived through such acid pool.

Imagine you are starting to play chess and 7/10 opponents are rated master and will crush you. And its kind of crush that you can't really learn from either.

I really don't see how dota can grow when there are so many alternatives.
I think Mozilla should publish a list of what things they are going to fund and support.
But why do you trust the VPN provider more than your ISP?
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I resonate with this rant very strongly!
Please please please tell me this doesn't mean ES6 will be an Xbox exclusive!
Yeah, but for the fact that Melzer is full of shit. He's basically a demagogue; making many vague, unsubstantiated, unverifiable or nonfalsifiable claims.

Turns out that Melzer's only concrete accusation is based on a misreading of evidence at best; the one against the Swedish police, of how they supposedly tampered with (even fabricated) one of the testimonies. The evidence for that is inconclusive, Melzer was possibly confused with the format of the Freedom of Information documents released by the police, but in any case Melzer is making a big fuss out of nothing and downplaying rape with his other comments at the same time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22209868

EDIT: also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_...

> One of the women interviewed by Melzer later sharply criticised him and demanded his resignation. She said that by defining how a "proper rape-victim" would have to act, Melzer was engaging in victim blaming and that his report was partially "untrue and defamatory".
Low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood network coming to Echo and Tile devices soon
3 column is used for anchoring you to get to the desired pricing (the middle one).

https://www.nickkolenda.com/conversion-optimization-psycholo...
Open Source Meets Super Resolution
That is not true. A protectionist policy, as the name suggest, is protecting people. A person is not just a consumer, a person is also a worker, a student, someone who pays taxes, someone who raises a family and children, someone who has a mental health and so on...

While it may be true that initially a break up would reduce the offering of giant tech companies and give consumers less choice of some product, in the long term they might benefit as a whole person a lot more than the little cost that has been added just to the consumer role itself.

The replacement companies might pay more tax, the might be better regulation to stop fake news or other damaging content circulating, law makers might have more influence in sanctioning companies who do not behave in an ethical way, children might get sucked less into addictive habits where their behaviour and data is being further exploited into sucking them into more damaging habits, etc.

So yes, possibly a consumer might miss out on some addictive and damaging products which initially might seem a loss, but the human as a whole is probably going to benefit magnitudes more than what they lost.
The worst ones have no opt out at all except for a general referral to the browser page for deleting cookies.
On the other hand, the alternative is worse: a proprietary platform which shifts unpredictably and from which the owner can ban you.

I'm not sure that's the only alternative. I would actually describe the web as shifting, unpredictable at the behest of one company with the controlling browser and search engine.
Indeed, it is not my calling. I think earlier in my career I thought that way. But I also don't know what my calling in life anyway for now.

I think I'm pretty good at my craft because I spent time after work honing it. I am in the same boat as OP and you, already went through the disillusionment, but I have other things that satisfy my creative side and physical side, besides I need the money as well.

In regards to social media, I stayed away from Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin (pretty satisfied with my current job I don't need other roles). I still use Reddit, Youtube, and probably other visual/audio social media for reasons related to hobbies.
I ate these quite regularly as a kid. We were poor, and fish sticks were cheap protein.

Then a few decades went by when I wouldn't eat them at all.

Then I married someone who grew up on an island and couldn't understand why I don't eat more fish (I live in Dallas!). So now fish sticks are back on the menu. And still pretty cheap!
Great. Now that you have vast resources to work with start making a new Quake based on Quake 1's themes.
How many writers who worked on New Vegas are still in the game industry? Obsidian's latest games writing was pretty mediocre.
Emissions of richest 1 percent more than double the emissions of poorest 50%
Defense in depth. I don't care if the first level of defense is a speedbump. I don't absolutely depend on it, but why should I _not_ put the speedbump there when it is so cheap and easy.
Study Shows 84% of Wildfires Caused by Humans (2017)
I do not have a good opinion of Julian Assange or of Wikileaks, and I am not afraid to say it. At best it has been an unwitting tool of Russian disinformation campaigns; just as likely it is complicit.

One must also wonder why Assange spends so much time talking to folks like Sean Hannity, Dana Rohrbacher, and Charles C. Johnson.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/09/19/wherein-wikileaks-brag...
Lol, basically exactly what happened to the Palm group at HP. Except, I believe they ended up firing the whole palm group.
This is the first time I've seen someone call AWS pricing simple :)
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>> "St. George Security and Alarm".

isn't this why Vivint has been so successful? I thought they pioneered converting recent missionaries into DTD alarm sales...
Lifetime? Really?

I'll still be able to use this service in 2075?

Do you expect anyone to believe that?
The worst kind of failure mode, hope you lit it on fire or something.
From HomeKit Accessory Protocol specification (https://developer.apple.com/fr/support/homekit-accessory-pro...):
"a HomeKit accessory that will be distributed or sold must incorporate the Apple Authentication Coprocessor"

Do you know what the Authentication Coprocessor do?

At least those proprietary processor and proprietary protocol are the opposite of the WebThings approach to home automation.
You might equally assume that the 100 million of revenue uncovered in this case was not the only $100 million dollars earned this way on amazon.

In any case, it's hard to know quite what these numbers represent specifically. You also don't really know exactly what a real estate developer "earned" by bribing a city planner to approve his building.

Take it as an approximation, an estimate of the scale. The $trn market caps and >$100bn revenues of modern tech monopolies can dwarf everything else.

Make no mistake though, $100m in sales is entry level industry-scale. That is, there are industries where $100m of sales due to outright bribery of market officials (what amzn employees are) is enough to make the industry a corrupt industry.
Unfortunately, it probably does mean that you won't be playing ES6 on your PS5
Given Todd's history on, well, anything the past decade... why would anyone believe literally a word out of his mouth?

As a Playstation gamer, anything Todd Howard related can stay on Xbox for all I care. What I will potentially miss are games like Wolfenstein and Doom.
For the most part it's that Europe always considered very big companies a problem and the behavior of tech companies in the law few years has increased the perception that this was correct. So, now they adapt the existing legislative options to the modern world.
Just breaking this down so we can map the possibilities and not fall apart into binaries: First, the female gender has, until very recently been literally hobbled and socialized to avoid sweat and any kind of physical efforts. My grandmother wore girdles and her mother wore corsets and they both only wore heels. So, we are new to sport and training and, we are catching up. Give us a century. Second, It depends on how you define stronger: “The hypothesis that the survival advantage of women has fundamental biological underpinnings is supported by the fact that under very harsh conditions females survive better than males even at infant ages when behavioral and social differences may be minimal or favor males.” https://www.pnas.org/content/115/4/E832.full and https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/7b6484fb-3b00-46d6-a5...
Some key learnings. But you should probably read it.

# Charge more.

- It helps keep low money, high support customers away. See "[pathological customers](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=patio11%20%22pathological%20cu...)"
- "If an insurance company builds their entire business around [your SaaS product value] then that is a six figure deal, minimally."
- Just charge more [[1](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=patio11%20%22charge%20more%22&...)]
- SaaS entrepreneurs overestimate the benefit of low prices early
- AppAmaGooBookSoft are doing their best to convince customers worldwide that software should be free (or as close at makes no difference) and subsidized by extremely lucrative advertising/hardware/e-commerce/etc ecosystems attached to it. That is a hard market expectation to go against.

# Pricing pages should continue the sales message

- The title of the pricing page should act like a sales representative. E.g. avoid "Plans & Pricing" or Transparent and Flat Pricing". Provide your value in the headline.
- Reduce decision fatigue for customers. Up to 3 plans + contact us. Clearly distinct each value proposition
- $X.99 pricing is not generally used in B2B or prosumer services because it communicates cheapness; I’d suggest you drop the 0.99 accordingly here, for aesthetic reasons
- Lite / Standard / Premium are weak names for SaaS plans because they don’t help a user make an instant decision on which plan is right for them.
- Don't use "Dedicated support". Use "Priority support" instead. Plus charge more for priority support.
- No free plan on the pricing page
- Name pricing plans to sell them to the right users. Avoid "Premium". Use "Hobbyist", "Small Store", "Sophisticated E-Commerce Retailer", "Enterprise"
- You should only include the most salient details on your pricing page. If there is a difference between plans which is not salient to your customers or to you, it should not be a difference between plans;

# Others

- About removing the credit card / free trial : most B2B SaaS companies find that removing the credit card requirement increases the number of free trial signups they get but decreases the activation rate (the number of users who make material use of the software) and conversion rate to paying use. It is generally not worth it early in the lifecycle of your company.
- All decisions about the pricing page are optimizations to approximate the value creation curve and charge for it.
- Free is not a compelling value proposition to well-monied buyers.
CCTV has been around since the 40s.
I've often said:

"I see your [bet] and raise you [x]" - would that be accepted?
Main discussion at top of front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24543121
> There are sites (like wwe.com) where after you have successfully located the preference to opt out from everything it shows a "processing" screen which is stuck at 98% for about a minute. But accept is "processed" in an instant.

How desperate does one have to be to work as a developer on projects like this?
Mobile Gaming: MPL raises 75M $
Why trust your "buck or two" VPN provider over your ~$30-100 ISP?
> sounds to me like someone trying to give their argument more weight

People do this all the time on any subject, it's a weak rhetorical device. "I'm not one to support Javascript but", "I don't normally disagree with @pmachinery but".

We should just try to make our point without trying to artificially weigh it with rhetoric.
What really still bugs me, was that it was much easier to build an application on NeXTSTEP in the early 90's than it is today with the modern web.
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From one month ago : "Flu levels are unusually low right now, even for the summer. And the number of death certificates mentioning influenza or pneumonia is currently below the five-year average"

https://fullfact.org/health/flu-covid-deaths/

I tried to find more stats but it's clear that no two sources are using the same protocol to count deaths and death causes, op's website doesn't seem to give data pre 2020 for this report so really there is no easy way to tell what's going on. All I can find is that flu is lower than usual and covid is going down, which both support the fact that masks and lockdown work.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6937a6.htm?s_cid=mm...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/10/lockdown-engla...

edit: btw OP's graph only goes back to the beginning of the year, it doesn't matter if influenza goes up or down in that timeframe, what matters is to compare it to the average at the same time during the last few years
I agree with you, tooling is better - even much better around C/C++. The issue I see is that programs today have more bugs than ever.

I don’t think that is just a symptom of more developers, but of the quality of development employers and such want to pay for.

Suppose that is an issue of software becoming a commodity.
I worked at Turn 10 (the Xbox studio which makes Forza) about a year and a half ago. Work life balance was amazing. The tech director of the studio made it a huge point that staff get adequate time off. He brought it up in almost every dev team meeting, "Let me know if you don't feel like you can take time off". He also made a huge point about having a sustainable team.

I don't know that this is a characteristic of all Microsoft studios. Departments in Microsoft can almost be like little companies all of their own. It _did_ leave a positive impression on me though and I can see myself working at Microsoft again in the future.

I left on good terms to see what it was like to work at startups.
I feel like the powers that be have decided to make this extradition happen.

Most people don't care because they don't pay attention. Of those that do, the noisy attention payers like us, a sizeable group have decided Assange isn't likeable and so should suffer for upsetting people more powerful than him.

Now we have to go through all this theatrics simply so those people can say things like "he got a fair hearing" and "the magistrate ruled against him so that must be the law".

It's very disappointing, because the whole point of laws is that it shouldn't matter whether you're pretty or funny or sympathetic. And after thousands of years of civilisation, people still rely on their gut feelings.
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The OS implementation language is irrelevant: there's no reason that applications and the OS core need to use the same C++ standard library.
That app looks like what i want. Thank you! Curious why it uses some third party keyboard shortcut creation tool. Doesn't mac os settings have ability to create keyboard shortcuts? Does that only work for built in mac os features?
To directly name some of games you seem to be implying are automatically bad; I'm personally very happy with Doom (2016), Doom Eternal, Breath of the Wild, and Mario Odyssey. I am glad that ID and Nintendo have been "milking" these IPs.
The people that made GTA great left so that well is going to dry up pretty quick
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It is compared to the "pick one of three plans none of which make any sense".

I know investors like recurring revenue, I sure do.

For many things I have no idea how much I am going to use them in six months if at all, but it seems they feel compelled to price something at "$X a month" even if I just could spend $Y on it this week, solve my problem, and maybe buy some more later. I am thinking in terms of $Y.

There are just so many monthly bills out there that the only service anyone needs now is one that cancels all the services you don't use.
It's fun, but it's pretty much on rails. It's not open world.

In terms of game area progression it's more like Borderlands than Skyrim/Fallout. You can't just wander around the map to a random town and possibly spend a whole game mucking around in that area.

But the quests are more like Fallout NV.
I think it depends where you spend time in each language and what projects you do.

I use both regularly, and with Rust my time to productivity is faster because I'm not dealing with a build system first and with splitting code between headers and implementations.

I find rust is also better for letting me keep less of the program mentally in mind since I can localize my thinking about data a lot more.

Where rust is worse for productivity is the learning curve is high for many (though personally I found it much less so than C++ given how large the language has gotten). The other issue is most libraries I deal with are built in C++ so I have to either bridge them or drop back to C++
I stopped working at age 59 to help with an illness in the family. I was afraid that I would miss exercising my mind and interacting with people the way building software often did. I had a decent job with interesting work, good pay, and good working conditions. But I haven't regretted walking away to take advantage of our life-long prudence and hard work.
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Thanks for the recommendation. This and the rectangle app recommended here seems like what i want.
Here is another interesting take on purchasing power parity pricing model used by Wes Bos and Robin Weiruch to sell their digital products(books/courses). The idea is to have a single pricing for all your products but adjust the pricing based on where in the world you live. https://purchasing-power-parity.com/
Open source as an art is inclusive. Or at least as a social model for developing software, has greater potential than startups, which are exclusive to those with financially viable skills

A working culture tuned to movement of a minority of capital “haves” isn’t much different mathematically than a monarchy and his lords and barons, etc.

There’s a gentler temperament, but “work the jobs we will pay for, while deflating your buying power to maintain historical human narratives” isn’t exactly fostering free flow of capital, labor, and ideas.
I also quite like a lot of the blockbuster games as well as the indie games. An indie dev will never release a game like Red Dead 2, for one example. I definitely play more indie games, but I would rather the blockbuster market be healthy too.