skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You wrote a good comment a couple years about about the dynamics here. "Leftists" oppose discussions about incremental regulation of abortion for the same reader "right-wingers" oppose those discussions about firearms: both sides assume the discussion is a slippery slope towards all-out prohibition, and both sides have valid reasons to believe that.

In this comment, you depict left-of-center resistance to these discussions as irrational. But of course, it's not at all irrational; in fact, it's probably vital.
OBS is worlds ahead - Nvidia only wins if they somehow cripple OBS on Nvidia graphics
They probably will, but they're pursing the less-disruptive option first.
As usual, it just takes a little observation to see how non sensical this interpretation is.

Do you really think that every company that can raise its prices is automatically defined as a monopoly? What next? Nike has a “monopoly” on sneakers because it can raise its prices on Air Jordan’s and people still buy them?

Should Apple also be regulated as a monopoly because it raised its prices on Mac Pros and people still bought them?

Could it possibly be that a bunch of posters on HN don’t know as much about the law as ... a real judge who didn’t agree with similar arguments.
SPARC's approach is for the blanket to be a molten salt, and also function as a coolant. That will surround an inner wall which gets replaced annually. They tested joints in the REBCO superconductors, so the reactor can be opened up on hinges.
As long as we do not treat this as a dichotomy, and agree that both #1 and #2 are on a scale, this sounds reasonable.

It also depends on income. If you have good income, you can survive a little bad luck, some suboptimal decisions, and a minor substance abuse. Let's not pretend that middle-class people are all without vice.

It is easiest to help people who have a one-off financial problem, but otherwise good education, skills, and habits. A one-off medical expense. A broken car you don't have money to fix, but can't get to your job without. Not enough money to start your own business, despite having a solid business plan.

It may still make sense to give cash to both categories, because it would be difficult (and expensive) to distinguish them from outside. Consider the salaries paid to the bureaucrats judging who is worthy of receiving the help, salaries paid to their managers, the expensive offices they would live in, the extra costs they would impose on the people being judged, and the costs of mistakes they would make -- just giving cash to all poor people unconditionally and expecting that half of it will be wasted on hopeless cases may still be much cheaper.
These are good tips but are likely dependent on the humidity of where you live. Here in the UK, since the air can be so damp, it's difficult to dry clothes without leaving it in direct sunlight for the 3-4 days per year that we get it, particularly the further north you go...
Public Apology
Apple has made it clear that if Epic complies with the conditions they agreed to when they signed up they will be let back on the store.

Every action in this case has been driven by Epic.
> Okay, so you don't own part of my brain, but StackOverflow would? Because I definitely commercially use information I've read there.

They have a well established license you need to follow to use the answers posted on their site and what freedom it provides you.

Using stackoverflow answer to add little bit of code in your codebase is different than reselling stackoverflow answers behind a pay wall.

> But we know what data I read, and we know what data GPT read

No unless you are under surveillance 24/7.

And as I already said, machines are different than people. Copyright laws acknowledge that so human situation wouldn't be comparable. You aren't mass producing creativity and selling it.
Yeah, go try selling a PlayStation game without paying Sony. Sony gets its cut no matter you got online or in store.
Never seen a siphon system toilet flusher. Even the oldest toilet we had nearly 40 years ago was valve. Poland.
Ever heard “I don‘t mind if people are gay, I just don’t want to hear about it?”

Remember “Don’t ask don’t tell?”

The truth is that what is generally accepted today will be guaranteed to not be the same exact things that are generally accepted tomorrow.

Society moves from being more liberal back to more conservative through culture. Punishing people for straying outside lines when they are not causing specific harm to others eliminates the very method by which societies evolve.

What you are describing has lead to the stagnation and ultimately death of many cultures and societies.
This is really really cool. Let me add support for my app - GitJournal which I still can't publish it on F-Droid as it integrated with Google Play for billing and uses Firebase Analytics (Sadly not Open Source).

I love that with this I'm in control of when the updates are released unlike the F-Droid model.

Edit: On second thought I'll wait for a week and see if this project continues. I really hope it catches on. @redsolver: Do you plan to continue working on this?
Which is more broadly known about and used, Tk or React Native? It really doesn’t matter anyway, I’m just suggesting these things that work fairly well to avoid more standards proliferation. It won’t work.
> Who’s Behind Monday’s 14-State 911 Outage?

Microsoft's cloud went down, taking all dependent services with it.

People have been saying this for decades: do not depend on Microsoft for mission critical services. Just did a quick search for an early Microsoft licence to no avail. IIRC, the license specifically stated that one should not use the system for any application where a human life hung in the balance.

Would appreciate any source for an archive of Microsoft license agreements.
>It necessarily requires stifling the motivations of individuals so that they can work together.

This assumes that people are naturally and totally individualistic, which is untrue even at a biological level. People work together instinctually, and they also decide, rationally, to work together. Individual and collective motivations are often the same; and while collective motivations sometimes stifle individual motivations, the former often (if not more often) replaces a LACK of motivation. In fact, the appeal to engaging in collective action in order to fill in a hole of individual meaning (motivation) underpins some of humanity's strongest and most common institutions: military service, volunteer service, protest, religion, work. That is society: individuals working in concert, by each's determination.

>I'm making 0 moral judgements on whether the motivations of an individual are or are not valid.

You're making a moral judgment privileging individual motivation, separating it from collective motivation.

Your argument is simply wrong on its face. It tries to generalize a solipsistic perspective to the rest of humanity, to which it very clearly does not apply. Perhaps only in this thought are you truly as much an individual as you seem to think people must necessarily be.
The revenue model was very different for Nokia software, carriers were involved and revenue distribution was somewhat byzantine, if i remember correctly. One of the reasons developers jumped on the AppStore was that it simplified things pretty dramatically from the previous status-quo: they only had to deal with Apple. One of the reasons Nokia struggled to relaunch was that they couldn’t wiggle themselves out of these relationships with carriers, this albatross around their neck. In that sense, the AppStore was undoubtedly a step forward. That doesn’t mean it’s an eternally-perfect solution.

Like in many other issues involving Apple, what looked like a positive change in immediately-pragmatic terms ended up being a faustian bargain in the long run. Maybe we should just discuss this in terms of “10+ years have passed, things have changed, what was good before might be bad today”. Stuff like the single non-negotiable browser engine was a curiosity and a small impediment 13 years ago, but now it’s a real threat to the health of the web ecosystem. Same for the single-appstore model, which effectively enables a rent-seeking cartel (Apple and Google) which any serious antitrust scholar should find abhorrent.
If curious see also

a big thread from 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22748247
Goibibo's PWA improved conversions by 60%
NASA app allows you to find new exoplanets
Blue check accounts are expensive enough that, if you get the account banned, you can't easily make a new one. Bot accounts don't have this problem. If I want to trick as many people as possible into drinking bleach, I probably want easily-burnable bot accounts, so that when someone calls me out on it, I can just make a new one and pick up where I left off.

Of course, this also assists in Social Cooling, since controversial statements act a lot like totally false ones in the public eye.
Really? There is 100% probability of eventually dying for people of 0+ age. We probably should stop worrying about diseases at all. 1.7% is a very high fatality rate for everyone, old or not. And this is without having the hospitals overflowed.
This is so true. It makes me lose faith in humanity, to be honest. My oh my do I detest adverts.
Thank you for sharing that essay, it was very insightful!

I can see a lot of the parallels there. Precarity and "social cooling" are two very similar perspectives on the consequences of surveillance capitalism. It's still difficult to sell the idea that there is a systemic underpinning for feelings and experiences that, for most people, will only be interpreted as exclusively personal.
I don't understand why Epic don't persue the argument of an unlevel playing field.

Amazon don't have to pay 30% for every transaction I make through the Amazon app on my iPhone. Same with eBay. Yes, I know Apple class these as different categories, but when push comes to shove what's the real difference here?

Epic are providing electronic assets that they have paid in-house artists to create and want to distribute in exchange for their in-game currency (V-Bucks). Why should Apple cream 30% off the top of that revenue?

Other than the electronic distribution, Apple has no fixed or variable costs relating to these in-game assets.

I fully agree Apple should take a cut of Fortnite being a reviewed, and therefore trusted, app on their store. I find it hard to justify the ongoing 30% cut of additional assets that bear no discernable cost.
> I would bet on EV planes replacing regional jets

Energy density of batteries are around 1/40th of that of kerosene (0.9 mj/kg vs 44mj/kg) so we are talking 44x the energy density we need to make up for to get perfect parity. From what I can find I’ve seen 35% thermal efficiency for modern airliners and I believe 95% for electric motors. Ok so this means we can reduce the density gap required for parity to just under ~ 44/2.5 so ~18/19 mj/kg? (I’m doing this in my head so it’s rough). Rough calls show we need batteries with 20x the capacity to replace what we have right now with electric alternatives. While the gains in battery densities have been impressive we need to keep these gains in mind that we need to be making much bigger gains for this to become a reality. Personally I don’t see it being feasible for a very long time given the progress and I believe we’re better off taking fewer unnecessary flights than hoping on some miracle battery breakthrough

(Edited for clarity)
Good point, thanks for correcting that.
Earlier on I had agreed with your assessment that this is probably not a shill's account. But now I see a repetitive pattern in his comment history.

For example, this comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23039938 is copied again and again several time.

I don't know of any normal person that exhibits such behavior. You and I don't. Now I am leaning towards a shill after all, perhaps an unpaid one.
Something about a kids tutorial being hosted on LinkedIn makes it almost 'Onion-esque'
As a org supoporting a curated content-set, one could implement IPFS backed by S3 persistence (or some other cloud bucket). Possibly as an "open frontend" part of ones CDN infrastructure, where others can also freely "peer" and contribute CDN power.
The benefits for package management I believe can be pretty good, given widespread deployment. At our office, or hackerspace there are many computers which are likely to have the packages. Though until these things are enabled by default (can we ever get there?) I suspect only large IT departments or very interested people will set it up, unfortunately.
Benchmarking vol. 2: Pitting Actix against Rocket v0.4 and v0.5-dev (Rust)
No, it's always been a valid response to BLM. BLM puts the focus on race and race alone. Effectively excluding every other major source of causation and axis of variation. You know, things like extreme poverty, heart disease, malaria, etc.(All of which kill 100,000s every year and very disproportionately affect black people, but you never hear a peep about it from BLM) By making it a race issue (especially without solid evidence), you deliberately antagonize people who are either disproportionally affected by the other factors of variation who belong to the "privileged" race or who care about other issues that can be convincingly argued to be far more serious.

To extend the house analogy, there aren't 2 houses, there are 7 billion and you're saying we should focus our attention on the black ones rather than the ones that are on fire because they are more likely to be black.

Unfortunately, you can't quite capture that logic with a catchy jingle like BLM, so your left saying ALM and crossing your fingers hoping racial tensions don't escalate.
I assume this is satire but I’m probably lacking content to understand it.
Not without coordination with other vendors, no.
I feel compelled to point out that selling software isn’t “selling out”.
Wow, I can relate to this so much.

What are some techniques anyone here has found to help push oneself to get started on things?
I hate those, I spill gas everywhere when trying use them. I have seen Youtubers, etc. showing DIY mods to disable the spill spouts.
So it should be an open and shut case then shouldn’t it? We don’t need things like expensive lawyers, trials, a complete reading of the law and precedents. All we need is a laymen’s summary interpreted by random people on HN...

So this case should be a slam dunk, huh? But you know the actual judge in the case must not have read the website. You should send her a link.
Brendan,

I attended a talk you gave at AWS Re:Invent 2019. You need some serious, serious help.

No company should ever be speaking to you like that. You should be showing companies the door, not the other way around.

Early on in my career I learned most tech companies are absolute garbage and are not worth working for. You're worth a lot more than they are, brother.
> (terminals don't publish their colors so the defaults have to work on light and dark)

Hi. There are actually some possibilities there, but it is not entirely reliable. Examples are xterm sequences and the COLORFGBG environment variable. Some terminals can be assumed to be dark such as the linux/bsd console or now vintage hardware.

Windows is most often dark, but there is an API to ask as well. However, I don't think fish works there. Perhaps from LSW.

Sounds like having default colors closer to medium gray is easier.
whoa, you should have led with that ;)
I thought our cats were generally stupid because they could never do the jigsaws I assigned to them, solve a Rubiks cube or see 2cm in front of their faces (they are long-sighted).

But I have come to believe they are far smarter than me, particularly with scheming methods of sneaking around to quietly appear when they can get food. One used to push donut boxes off the side so that they would burst open, and would then run off with a donut. I have no idea why he wanted to eat donuts. He also tried to eat bread through the wrapper.
Or they fein illness. Our one cat had an operation on his leg so we put a little box as a stepping stone so that he could get onto the bed, and then onto the window sill. Turns out he didn't need it at all and could jump perfectly fine, but would still use the box all the time.

They're really clever, just not at jigsaws or sudoku.
Okay, allow me to be hyper technical.

You body will hold excess energy in it's fat tissue if you consume more energy via food than you expend through metabolic active.

If you consume less energy via food than you are expending through metabolic activity, your body will convert fat tissue into the molecules it needs to meet it's energy needs.

You don't just shit the pounds off.
In particular I think Fish struggles with backgrounding of functions (backgrounding of non-fish commands seems to work fine).

# these behave the same in bash but differently in fish
some_command & # this works
some_function & # this does not

The relevant issues are listed here if you're curious about why it's difficult to implement this in Fish: https://github.com/pirate/fish-functions#issues-with-fish
> Its only when you got caught out on how shady the source is ( [0] admission on twitter by the editors of OpIndia and 43 cases of fake news) that you now invent an excuse for quoting them.

Debating 101: The way you refute a point is by providinga counter-argument against it.

Not by showing some unrelated stuff, here discussion is about amnesty. Not, did OPIndia, ever create fake news or not?

> You attempted to school me on Koregaon history and on NorthEast. Not sure why, because I was referring to Teltumbde incarceration by the NIA.

Because, you are speaking in support of Teltumbde, so called dalit actvist, who create fake-history for dividing societies.

I'm giving a lecture to you,to show how fake news is generated by your masters.

> I refuse to get dragged into the muck that you want to drag us into.

Didn't refute a single point, When challenged, kept moving goal-posts all over the place. When pointed about goal shiftting say, "I refuse to get dragged" nonsense.

Claims oneself to be more intelligent than National Investigating Agency, How?

> By reading propaganda articles on internet.

You seem to have too much of a high stature of yourself: As Russians say it:
"You are nothing but a 'Useful Idiot'".

It seems you lack 'sense', you can get some here:
https://youtu.be/UrS1qDcgdTk
https://youtu.be/Y9TviIuXPSE

Please be careful, regarding the above videos it may break you, as your whole life is built on top of lies.
CFL bulbs never lasted as long as halogen for me, and often less long than incandescents, particularly when recessed.
Hmmm. I wonder if it is legally possible to sue any company/recruiter who sends you emails with a tracking pixel. Since you have not accepted any EULA you can claim surveillance. And depending on the state, if you were not aware of the surveillance it is illegal.

It is stretching an idea, but I want this to happen to stop them.
No! I detest the dialog boxes that ask a question and then the only options are "Yes" or "Skip for now"/"Set up later". I want to confirm "No".
I was going to say: adding the word "who" here is kind of clickbait.
I have 5-gallon cans, holding them high enough to use a funnel with a car would be very difficult or hard to control.

I am about to try siphoning.
I don't have a particular epistemic position one way or the other, but I'll suggest the alternate hypothesis that the text "experiment about censorship on reddit" might have had more to do with the lack of removal than it being posted on a minor subreddit.
No, this is a larger trend. Both major mobile platforms are moving in this direction as well (SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose).
Please don't give me nightmares now. There is enough totalitarianism going on in this country already.
The behavior is based on your 'Referer' header in the http request that gets the page.

You can inspect the network request your browser is making to see what it's setting the referrer to.

Why it uses certain values is a combination of your browser's code and the w3c standards, which you may look at if your browser's one of the reasonable open source ones.
Not sure, you may want to drop to 720p and maybe lower your bitrate. For my latest project I was using a Macbook pro 2015 to test it, running my app and streaming at the same time fine. I was running Windows 10 though on the mac. If you're running Mac OS try using a utility like SMC Fan Control to set the fan RPM high. Mac OS by default wants to be as silent as possible which could be leading to some performance issues.

I'm very new to streaming so take what I say with a grain of salt.
Not at all - sort of an oblique argument for the unix way / "worse is better" and reasons why JSON and the disorderly REST-ish array of techniques has come to dominate over SOAP, XML, WSDL, etc.

The unix way: text files in /etc, human-readable, each kind of does its own thing, but it works.

Compare to: WMI, Windows registry, complex NTFS permissions, a bit more unified but ultimately a drag to deal with; complex app servers like Websphere; CORBA; and all the WS-* stuff.
But persistence would undermine the anonymity by carrying over cookies and other files that can be used to connect a user's different sessions.

I think this is why it's not being offered.
This is the sort of thing that's cited when people say they hate Perl. I'd consider a more readable version if performance isn't really a 1st class requirement. It doesn't appear to be in this case. A temporary array solution would be much more readable.
Do you mean main in Gnome? I prefer KDE and Qt to anything GTK based if it's not about Rust. And if it's about Rust, I thought it could be good to have some alternative that's neither GTK nor Qt and is just using Rust all way through.
> a presumption(that was false)

We won't know if it's false until we've experienced both summer and winter in both the northern and southern hemispheres.

Yes, cases increased were high in the summer in the US, but that doesn't tell us anything about whether it will be the same, or lower, or higher in the winter.
This is why we started Satchel (https://satchel.com/). It's like The Wirecutter or Consumer Reports for SaaS.

The goal is to provide an independent opinion and overview of different SaaS categories, as well as recommendations of the tools we think are best. The main downside is that writing high-quality opinions are difficult and time-consuming, but we've got some ideas on how to sidestep a lot of those challenges.
It's the law of unintended consequences. I used cloth bags thinking I was doing awesome. Then I found an article saying I had to use them 1000 times to equal the same carbon footprint of a plastic bag. (Not the article I'm linking below, can't find it.)

I've also been to countries where these bags make it into the ocean and become micro plastics. As with all things there are pros and cons. Most of our civilization has cons for the environment, but from what I can tell the best situation for most people who's garbage makes it to a landfill is to use mult-reuse recycled plastic bags.

Being as I've already made the commitment to the cloth bags I just have to keep using them until they hit their 131st use, then keep going.

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/paper-plastic-or-reusable
The only way to effectively offset energy demand is with a very large temperature range, which is not a comfortable temperature range.

This is largely and unavoidable problem. It's a big part of why Germany mostly heats it's houses with natural gas while France mostly heats with electricity.
>It is simply cheaper to feed off desperation than to value human lives

When the inherent costs are externalized, of course. The public pays the bills of these people who can't afford medical care or end-of-life expenses. My last job was a late-night warehouse position, where the hazard pay of 50¢/hr in no way covered the health consequences of a disturbed and atypical sleep schedule (driving heavy machinery, in my colleagues' case).