skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The low average quality of online information does not undermine the parent’s point that the internet substantially reduces the marginal value of (physical) libraries. Free online resources like Wikipedia provide more comprehensive, current and accessible reference material than small local libraries, and non-free academic research databases provide more accessible, and arguably more comprehensive and current, reference material than any single physical library. As the parent recognised, there are still many books that haven’t been digitised, but it is not fair to compare the set of freely available online resources to the set of all copyrighted works you could eventually get your hands on via an inter-library loan. The fact that libraries need to pay for these books, and readers need to return them after a short time, makes them much less “accessible” than online alternatives.
The world is flush with seed money. So if you have a good team and a relatively good idea you will fairly easily raise a seed round from someone.

And it's generally an awful idea for founders: (1) because most assume they will raise a Series-A when statistically they won't and (2) you don't learn to hustle when you have millions in the bank.

The best way is to follow companies like Buildkite. Hustle your way to a few million a year in ARR and then you can reach out to Series A investors on your terms instead of theirs.
Unpopular Opinion: I think that if you're a game developer and you want people to go to literal prison for pirating your game, then you're a piece of trash.. In all honesty, I wouldn't trust anyone that disagrees with this even if they told me the sky was blue. Man capitalism has made people so heartless.

Edit: This is getting downvoted by people that are mad their version of agar.io hasn't made them rich yet. Oh please. I've made a couple games myself that didn't do good. You can't wish someone in prison for not buying your game...I'm sure if they had the money they would pay. It's not like you lose money. You simply didn't earn any off that one person.
Yes, I remember reporting a user some years back (not related to hacktoberfest) - the PR I got looked good until I looked up their account and found too many PRs (some of which didn't make a sense to the repo it was submitted) along with a link to their product. GitHub took action, said it was indeed spammy and thanked for reporting.
It's only cheating if you're breaking a rule to not sleep with other people. Swingers aren't cheating (assuming they're respecting any agreed upon boundary) when they're having an orgy for example.

A bi man with a wife and a family could very well be having sexual encounters with men once in a while with the agreement of his wife (who could well have her own stuff going on too) and it could be a very healthy thing in what is a fulfilling relationship for both parties.
there is an imbalance of power here...
I applaud what D.O. has done in a very short time to try and fix this with the community. I do however think that this could also backfire. I entirely agree with the comment made on the PR by sylveon https://github.com/digitalocean/hacktoberfest/pull/596#issue...

I'm not a fan of this change because:

- It significantly reduces the pool of repos that you can PR to. I've contributed to repos which haven't explicitly opted in to Hacktoberfest this year and in the past as well. Repos in which I am more comfortable contributing in than some random GitHub search result for the "hacktoberfest" tag. With this change, I am forced to look into those, or convince the maintainers to tag their repos.

- For intermediate or experienced programmers it voids the whole event because the vast majority of OSS projects won't get involved.

- After the spam fest that this year was, people aren't inclined to add the tag to their repos because it paints a target for spam over them.

- Maintainers can now gatekeep your contributions, so even if it's something meaningful the maintainer can deny you a +1 PR for your work. It can be frustrating spending a non-insignificant amount of time to get the t-shirt the right way and then have that time nullified.

- It doesn't address "hello world" spam repos. In fact, it encourages them because of the reduced amount of repos available to contribute to.
But could Epic afford it? Their largest hit is Fortnite, and will it be relevant (and bring them tons of money) in several years, if nobody will be able to play it?
Thanks!
I was thinking perhaps surveying customers after purchase/renewal to tick multiple selection boxes and say which features they liked which contributed to their decision. Still it can be a combination with the new marketing campaign but at least I will know that feature X is one of the reasons they decided for the product.
> in today’s standards, 30-40 inches is not enough screen real estate.

TF does that mean? What 'standard' indicates the amount of screen real estate that qualifies as 'enough'?
Why did Wave Computing fail?
The support site appears to have an expired cert. Are they still in business (or just limping along)?
Thank you for this... I still can’t convince myself to get one.

The health aspect I wonder if it really actually makes things easier to improve yourself... or is it just tracking new things for you that keep you accountable to yourself?

I guess they both work... maybe I’m old fashioned but my wife loves it and I can’t figure out why it’s so great to know how many steps (roughly) you walked every day...
Home is where the heart is. :)
I always figured it was heat. Of course it depends on size & build, but it takes around 1,000 calories/day to maintain body heat.
Even books that might of been scanned by google books but are unavailable to look at?
> in order to have legal standing for a lawsuit, you have to be actually harmed

They were paying the 30%. That’s harm enough.

Civil disobedience isn’t something courts deal with favourably. In a society with rule of law, they shouldn’t. It’s designed to get the public’s and legislature’s sympathy.

As such, I judge it poorly based solely on timing. In the middle of a pandemic and recession, in the midst of an election year, I suspect most Americans would be livid if the Congress prioritised a developer / tech giant compensation dispute.
The user is the product if the user is not associated with a payment object in the system.

Being associated with an advertising object implies that the people selling products gets to dictate what is valuable or not. It literally removes the user's ability to judge if something has good value or not and puts it into Factbook and the advertiser's control.

Nice try spinning it, Facebook.
> wattage (energy output)

Nope, power output.
The differentiator is immediacy of choice. Putting a gun to your head isn’t there for your benefit of choice. It’s there so that the criminal is liable for robbery instead of a capital crime, because they could more easily kill you and take the wallet off your body.
Powerful. Flexible. Easy to use.

Pick two.
I learned this from a Ted talk, and surprised me quite a lot. The audience seemed surprised too.
Thank you for saving the clicks! Got excited there for a moment tbh!
I am the biggest fan of Unix commandline tools but I think you vastly overestimate how universal unix pipes are. For example, if I asked you to guess (no reading man pages or trying commands out!) how `find(1)` interprets input supplied to `stdin`, what would your guess be?

Comparing your guess with what you learn from the man pages is an indication of how inconsistent most of the classic Unix tools are.
I'm not a lawyer. But that sounds like a textbook example of tortuous interference.
Ask HN: Experiences / recommendations for virtual debit card services?
My debit card stopped registering when swiped, which means I need to order a new one.

This is always a pain for me because I have the card listed as my recurring payment option for a bunch of services, and I'm never really sure if I caught them all when I get a new card.

I was thinking tonight, what would be really great is a service where I could link my bank account and auto-generate multiple cards that would be linked to my account but not be the single physical card issued by my bank.

It looks like Paypal maybe offers something similar to this, and I found a site Privacy.com that looks to offer a more elaborate form of the service.

Was just curious if anyone had experiences or recommendations for these kinds of services?
OMG that one looks like it'd fit right into a Fallout game! How many bottle caps? Here, take them all! Anyway, mine is a Samsung. Affordable too! Edit: Note to self: Stop telling dad jokes on HN.
Are you aware that Boeing is not allowed to operate an airline while also manufacturing commercial airliners? Do you think this is reasonable?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Aircraft_and_Transport_...
Very well written. Couldn't have said this better myself, while also being politically correct.

Here is an old paper on the problem of coaching industry, written by someone at an IIT.

https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/hk/jee/press/currScienceJEE...

The coaching is a fucking big industry and it needs to stop if we want the currently best institutes keep sanity.
I have a friend who reacts to psychedelics like this, you are the only other person I've encountered (including reading forums) who has this reaction. It seems to be very rare, I wonder if there's an underlying cause or if it's just one of those things.
I have been really happy with the Garmin Fenix. It has an "exercise load" feature which I've found a lot more useful than "exercise minutes" (which Garmin also collects.) Exercise load uses some sort of a dynamic scale that weights time based on how long you spend in the heavier heart rate zones. Walking on level ground pretty much never counts for "exercise load" since my HR stays under 130, but hills/running/biking can get up to 140+ where I get exercise load points.

A slightly clunky thing with the Fenix is that you have to explicitly tell it you're doing an activity to get some metrics - but the heart rate/step count/calorie data is always being gathered. And the Fenix has at a minimum twice the battery life of an Apple Watch, and keeping it in no-GPS mode lets it extend to weeks of battery life while still gathering most of the key metrics.
I think he's talking about companies that don't know what they're doing. Keeping track of changes is one thing, but even if it takes companies like Tesla years to become compliant, it's seems pretty clear that companies might not know what they should do once they start shipping devices.

Raising awareness and offering alternatives all seems good, but I still hope litigation is a last ditch effort.
Perhaps I was imprecise. It has a stepped dial, with pre-set wattages. Caveat for not being an electrician. ^^
Re: "macro life form" and "trees communicate", Gabe Brown and/or Elaine Ingham also talk about that. IIRC, Brown (regenerative farmer for ~20 years), quotes Ingham (soil biology scientist - soilfoodweb.com). So do some other regen ag people whose videos I've been watching, e.g. Richard Perkins of Ridgedale Permaculture, Sweden. Recommend his and Brown's YouTube videos for good overviews and even good solid technical details of what regen ag techniques are, and why they work (well, and cheaper than "conventional" ag). Both are regen ag farmers who have been doing it successfully for years.
I just tried Chrome on Windows, and the scroll bar works OK on HN.
I am sure you didn't intend for it to be this way but your comment is very arrogant. It seems you are coming from privilege and haven't really interacted with the real world yet. Perhaps you are still in college/ have only had high paying jobs like software engineering. Most people are not looking for high-risk jobs, they want a stable source of income that can enable them to provide a stable living for their family. This is especially true for people in countries like India. There is nothing boring or backwards about that. Especially not to someone who is not privileged.

And please do elaborate on why/how a career in medicine boring?
They would open it up to maintainers to reward outstanding contributes.
Could say that is still consistent. If your articles arise out of a need then that is the formula. What you could do is delay the publication if there is no urgency.

I found a really cool blog one time where the author was writing a book spread out over 4 blog posts (or so) that he kept updating. His daily new posts briefly described the updates he made. It was a cool rss subscription for me. I certainly didn't visit his book every day but his updates gave a sense of involvement and I ended up reading the "same" articles multiple times both for the content and to see the progress. Had he just updated the postings I would never have returned.
How does it know the time? Can't you set it to 1971?
> With this change, I am forced to look into those, or convince the maintainers to tag their repos.

That is a very false premise. You can help any open source project! That's the spirit of open source! It'll make things better for you and for others. Now, if you want that free t-shirt, sure there are rules. But no one is "forcing" you not to contribute to OSS. All of the points here seem based on this false premise.
IMO, the courts should deal with the issue at hand, and not judge if the parties have been being good bois.

It's interesting to think about this in the context of "smart contracts" etc. -- the rule of law is stronger if it is more unambiguously encoded.

If our current judicial system is deliberately interpreting morality, rather than encoding our sense of morality into the laws themselves, that seems like a rather obvious opportunity for advancing legal systems, especially in an age where we will be forced to codify human morality anyway. The check-and-balance can be moved to judging laws instead of individual cases, and a new system can be grown for bringing cases against laws instead of parties.
Off topic, I am wondering what are missing in mobile browser before we can completely move these games to web and get rid of native apps? Faster JS? Accelerometer and other censor APIs?
we should hang out
No. They don't say a word about PVA production. They are bringing number of emissions for glass production, but they aren't trying to predict numbers for this technology.

Also, comparison of materials is done without any numbers. Very low-quality article.
Just stating the obvious: punks jump up to get beat down.
But no one is dieing!

How old is trump? Bet you he survives easy, because it doesn't kill hardly anyone lol.

Yet you have allowed the powers that be to shut down the world 9n a power grab!

Good goyhim! Doing what you supposed to!
There's another way to become less skeptical of the rhetoric too: see for yourself. There's no shortage of scientific literature on the safety, so that's a fairly poor excuse to deny obliging your curiosity.
The Garmin Fenix is waterproof. I swim with it, I find it really great. I can even operate the watch in the water since it's not a touchscreen. And it would be worth the price just for having an ultra-compact GPS navigation unit for hiking. (It can run turn-by-turn navigation for 2-3 days, in the default low-power mode it can last 3 weeks with heart rate + step tracking + other basic metrics.)
Is there an equivalent of "Uncle Tom" among Indian-Americans? Because you seem to be it.
I agree, but they should both be charged with colluding on pricing (neither can justify the prices and it's obvious no market price discovery ever happened.
So Sceptre. That’s all we have. Yeesh.
I have no idea why you think that there were no studies in April. A quick search shows that's wrong. There were initial reports in March, followed by many peer-reviewed studies that started coming out in April, which were then followed by studies with more objective measures (rather than retrospective self-reports) and larger sample sizes.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/71/15/889/5811989

[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00405-020-05965-1

[3] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alr.22592

[4] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765183

[5] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0916-2
Merriam-Webster Reports 30,500% Spike in Searches for Schadenfreude
I guess you're right, Martin Luther King Jr. did get beat down. But his cause sure as hell didn't.
Lots of praise for the Apple Watch here. Here's my take as a first-time Apple Watch Series 6 user who really tried to make it work, but just couldn't. I returned the watch today as the 14-day return window came to a close.

For a smart watch, it's remarkably dumb. To me it felt like you have to tell it everything you do, when you plan to go to sleep, when you start exercising, etc. You can enable the "automatic workout detection feature", but it's automatic in name only. Instead, it will literally pop-up a dialog for you to pick an activity from a list as you're working out. Same thing when you stop, another manual confirmation required. The heartrate function isn't continuous at all, something I was unware of. It samples at a 10 minute internal, except if your arm is moving (what). The sleep tracking has zero details. All of these are things that a $150 Fitbit nailed 5 years ago (I haven't worn one of those either for years): automatic workouts, continuous heart rate, automatic rem stage tracking etc. The audio handling is bizarre, press play in Spotify or Overcast and my iPhone 50 feet away starts playing, despite having Airpods in and paired. Why would you ever want to do that? Audio routing and making the watch have a silent vibrate-only with no alarm on the iPhone is two things I never did figure out in the two weeks I had the watch.

But worst of all, as someone else said, it's a massive notification factory. I mean, constant, continuous, incessant pinging, buzzing, vibrating, unread red dots etc. Out of the box, it probably pinged me 25 times an hour, a lot of it emails sure, Slack, but also remembering to breath and stand and wash my hands and everything in-between, all of the latter ones I ended up disabling within the first week as too annoying. Yes, you can (must) configure notifications in detail (depending on how many apps you use, literally hundreds of toggles), but what a terrible experience.

Ultimately I decided that I want something that makes my life simpler, not another gadget that I have to babysit (and charge every day), with anxiety inducing notifications. That's without going into the bugs... in the 14 days I had to unlink and re-pair the watch twice as it permanently lost the connection to my iPhone 11 Pro despite power cycling both devices multiple times. From reading Reddit this seems to have been a persistent issue over the years with the watch and nothing unusual. Except when you do, you have to literally start from scratch in creating your watch faces, configuring your zillion notifications, etc. After returning the device, I just felt relieved.
I believe books and libraries are more important than they ever have been in recent times. Whenever you go and read a book from your library, you librarian doesn't keep a profile of who you are and judges your value based on what books you read. Books are still the best way to expose yourselves to new ideas and libraries are still the cheapest ways you could discover those ideas because your library is not earning by showing you an ad for each book you read and hence, its not in their interest to trap you in a bubble that echoes your own bias.
> Maintainers can now gatekeep your contributions, so even if it's something meaningful the maintainer can deny you a +1 PR for your work. It can be frustrating spending a non-insignificant amount of time to get the t-shirt the right way and then have that time nullified.

As someone else replied, if you say you are making a significant contribution but the maintainer says you are not, you are not. If you strongly believe the maintainer is wrong and care enough, forks are always there.

Would also like to note that "putting a non-insignificant amount of time" is also not a valid premise for contributing to OSS, what counts is your actual contribution, not the time you spent making it. (e.g. for a given fix, it doesn't matter if it took 1 min or 10 hours, what matters is other things like the quality of it).
My problem with apple and google charging 30% is when they are the competitors. So in essence you are asking your competitors to finance you. If apple wants Apple music or a video subscription service they can't charge as Spotify or netflix 30% same for google etc. And I think this should apply to almost all market services/stores not just mobile app stores. If you want to be market infrastructure provider you should not be allowed to compete in it or allowed to charge 30% rather it should be a nominal fee.
I probably had decreased smell, and it felt like I was tasting with the sides of my tongue and cheeks(2 weeks later the middle of my tongue peeled off almost looked like I was getting a snake tongue).

I did test multiple times and I could still smell and taste, though it felt like maaaybe my smell was decreasing, but every article I read said completely gone smell and taste.

I realises my smell was reduced when I was in the hospital and I suddenly could smell how stinky the room and I were, then it hit me "yeah, my smelling was probably bad untill now.

My wife "realised" she lost her smell and taste right after her test came back positive.
But she most likely lied for the attention(I know this sounds harsh, but I have goos reasons to think so).

So I wouldn't call this reliable.
Always blows my mind what some people are capable of when they put their mind to it. The physical preparation matters, but the mental fortitude of special forces team members is approaching beyond human.

"And as you think through how impossible these challenges sound, you are are met with the realization of how quickly you would fail participating in the same. But then you have to be honest with yourself — you wouldn’t just fail, you would, in fact, die.

And this highlights another useful truth — unending resolve is not enough to ensure success. You must also be competent.

All the perseverance you can muster today won’t do anything for you if you haven’t lived a life up to today that has prepared you for the task at hand"
Holy crap! I had an Xecuter3 modchip on my Halo Edition Xbox. Crazy stuff.
Who do you think sets them ransom demands up?

Lol.

Talk about problem, reaction, solution!

That's how it All works! And everyone goes along with it.

Idiots, which is a Greek word for people who do not understand or follow polotics. All Greeks knew what was going on more due to them paying attention and understanding that polotics is involved in everything g you and others do.

Today, your just all dump has a block of ice! True idiots today, who like to think of people back then as stupid!

Oh, the irony!
There's enough room to tinker with the dimensions that adding a temperature probe seems feasible. Like the stem of the Pros is actually shorter, which was clever because it means people know you have the fancy new ones. This couldn't add more than a few cubic millimeters.

Breath tracking is pure software, offloaded to the phone, opt-in to auto activate when in exercise mode.

I think we'll see both in the next few iterations, the fitness push is huge and the temperature monitoring would be timely. We'll see.
JQuery to React: How we rewrote the HelloSign editor
...that isn't how stand notifications work.
I think Boeing should be free to jump into the airline business. But even if they could they never would actually go for it. The exposure and risk is simply too high.
Monitoring Apache web server performance (2017)
You realize Boeing was in the airline business and was specifically forced to break up because it was anticompetitive?

> After the Air Mail scandal of 1934, the U.S. government concluded that such large holding companies as United Aircraft and Transport were anti-competitive, and new antitrust laws were passed forbidding airframe or engine manufacturers from having interests in airlines.