skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don't pay for little utility apps anymore since Apple/someone else will always end up providing a better version for free.

There is still plenty of money to be made in more powerful apps though. I recently spent $15 on Procreate (A drawing app) and it is currently ranked #1 in its category. The other alternative is subscription pricing which is also very popular with apps these days and often bypasses the Apple tax
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Yeah I'm not sure why I was down voted for that -- literally if you don't have these two "apps" (which the government monitors and censors), you can't function in modern Sino city life. Why we would want that in Canada is beyond me.

I agree with all your points.
Huh. I thought it was because you got a small plot of land (about 6' by 2', with a nice headstone).
Fonts can indeed have multiple colors per character/glyph/codepoint/rune.
Turnout is a huge variable.
He was "in tech for about a decade". During this decade he most probably had tech coworkers who are maybe on HN. But we don't "recognize his face" here on HN... we don't know him...
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Similar problem occurs with the Windows task bar and Mac dock.

I've seen new users in particular double click to open.

Then, since the machine is so busy, nothing happens for a bit.

Concerned, the user then double clicks again. At this point they start to despair or curse.
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Ugh, ugly... It's possible to at least have a clear version?
Imagine you have installed one of these things in your garage, or maybe better 10 or 20 ft below, to keep from sterilizing your offspring. You got it for a fire-sale bargain at only $50M, even including the turbine and cooling tower. It produces, what, 100kW? (Plus 100kW of waste heat you might be able find a use for.) Or is that too optimistic?

How many MW of solar panels can you buy for that $50M? Let's even figure in plenty of battery backup. (Hint: lots.) How many MW of wind turbines? (Hint: lots.)

Where would such a garage-sized fusion reactor be useful? And how long before it is a radioactive slag heap? (It was good planning to bury it up-front.) How many GW-years does the fleet need to produce before it pays off the tens of $billions already sunk, to date?

The only guaranteed product of all nuclear power schemes is monstrous exaggeration of cost effectiveness.

"Outputs net energy" is very, very far short of useful.
There are ways to monetize open source. GitHub could make the repository/PR code open source and host the repo management/hooks/actions/etc code for enterprise.
If you have colorful icons you'll need to duplicate the resources to account for light and dark variants unless you prefer sub-optimal legibility. If you emphasize color as a method of representing state you'll need to adjust by shipping images for each state value. With monochrome icons the emphasis is placed on shape so you can efficiently render the whole icon in a different color without obfuscating its meaning.
They sample as randomly as they can, but that's not very random, because a non-random subset of the people they call don't want to talk to them. If you've ever seen a polling organization discuss "weighting", this problem is what they're talking about - they have to adjust the raw poll results based on their estimates of how response rates were biased, or they'll get answers that they know are wrong.
This is very likely true.

There are other complex factors, too. I keep seeing polling/forecast methodology explainers mention calibration to historical data so that if the same method was applied to historical elections then it would have been accurate. But Trump is a way different candidate than any other Republican (or Democrat); he is appealing for reasons that other politicians aren’t. It may be that no historically calibrated forecasting methodology will be accurate when you have a Trump.
They would stay because they have a strong brand and a lot customers who will pay the higher price a living wage requires. They'll stay because they make money. They have giant advantages over taxi companies.

It amazes me that in this hub of free enterprise and cheerleading for free markets, people act like companies will fall over the instant they hit a complication.
> getting stuck paying for kids

It is telling that this is how you frame "caring for your own children."
I believe they used to not even mention it in their checkout and instead hid the $3 a month subscription in TOS.
I don’t think this is correct. I follow them on twitter and there’s almost nothing to indicate they even know what’s happening with youtube-dl: https://twitter.com/natfriedman

Unless you’re referring to the generic “our hands are tied” tweet that said nothing: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1321221940774723584?s... in which case, I suppose we’ll agree to disagree on what “all within their power” actually means.
We need a staging environment.
I'd be curious on what statistical approach we could use to reject the alternate hypothesis - what if the polls were right and the election was tampered with?
Similarly, my muscle memory for exiting insert mode in vi is ctrl-[ which does not work in Vimflowy.
You literally just described bureaucracy.
That was impressive.

Here’s her Talon config:

https://github.com/2shea/talon_configs
> Ownership semantics are a form of an affine substructural type system1112 which means that they are fundamentally described by a linear logic, and explains why it struggles to express non-linear problems

What is a “non linear logic” or a “non linear problem “ in this context?
Is it unreasonable of me to lose all interest in linux development upon seeing a command line exe to add two numbers is 3.1MB, and not just that but have it's being 3.1MB treated casually as just interesting/cute by a linux dev?
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-se...
Rewrite it in Strategic communication [0]

[0]: https://github.com/rotoclone/strategic-communication
Portugal did not make much of a difference as you can privately use in many EU countries for a long time already. In the Netherlands, in the 80s, we used to hear about drug tourism and that made us think it was all very strict in neighbouring countries, but when old enough to go there (germany, belgium, france, spain) to campsites etc, we saw it was everywhere and the cops only take action on dealers. In Spain, at least where I always go, almost everyone under 50 smokes weed in public, most drink and many do cocaine in the weekends. There is no violent crime (some break-ins in holiday homes, but those are rare enough that when it happens everyone knows about it) and you can get your fix everywhere even with the Guardia around. Practically, you won’t have too much issues in most of EU so PT did not change much.
So many pixels are wasted on the goofy super magnified trends of today. I really wish we weren't so wasteful of screen space, most of the time.

I'm not saying that we should all aim for maximum information per pixel or anything, just that we not be wasteful like what I've seen recently. It's maddening.
So mosquito experiments seem to fail with dangerous consequences but we are accelerating them nevertheless? Nice

https://newatlas.com/science/genetic-engineering-mosquito-ex...
https://newatlas.com/science/gm-mosquito-study-oxitec-rebutt...
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> Have you ever heard a dad half-joking about how reluctant he felt to let his daughter go out on her first date? (Or jokes fathers sometimes tell about cleaning guns when first meeting her new boyfriend, etc.)

You're arguing against yourself here. That this trope exists for daughters and not for sons only reinforces the concept of women-as-property.
Probably because some kids will grab the most complex book they can find and read it without being able to understand anything.
Yep, I did it many times by now, it takes literally a few hours in the countries I moved between, paperwork wise.
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With Microsoft's resources they could easily ignore the DMCA takedown and battle it out in the courts. But Microsoft is a paying member of the RIAA soooooooo
Some people are much better with theory than the application of that theory. I've met a lot of theory people that just care about implementing something that does something to get the result they want rather than the nitty gritty of making things efficient.
It's no wonder people lie about their vote when the wrong answer can get them into trouble.
> The parties never address or even acknowledge the criticisms about them.

The Democratic party did address and acknowledge criticisms in 2016, which is why the party leadership put their thumbs on the scales for Clinton over Sanders. Indeed, it's why they have super delegates to begin with--to prevent a Trump-like nominee. But doing that burned them.

The Republican leadership also tried to push back against Trump, at least very early on, but everybody fell into line fairly quickly once it became clear Trump was the front-runner.

At the end of the day a party can't simply wish away its fringe subgroups. At best it can occasionally give their leaders a cold shoulder, like Pelosi did with Ocasio-Cortez. For Democrats the cancel culture fringe and (much larger) equality-in-outcome movements cause tremendous difficulty in keeping moderates from straying, yet there's no easy way to assuage those moderates' fears.

The Republicans can keep winning with their white majoritarian populism even in a diverse America because the criteria for being "white" is rather flexible, especially for non-African Americans. For the plurality of Americans who have very short term memories, and who perceive everything as a zero sum game, the easiest default choice is choose what would be good for the "white" majority, or at least what they image it as. So long as minorities, particularly latino and asian, make some minimal progress--and with a growing share of the population that's inevitable--the GOP can continue to coast on their fear, uncertainty, and doubt strategy. "White" and majority will be synonymous in perpetuity. Republicans don't have to change, and with Trump they finally figured that out.

People keep repeating this mantra that the parties don't reflect the majority of Americans when what they really mean is that the parties don't reflect their own concept of America and American sentiments, and their own particular set of preferences. Even when we can all agree on general goals--liberty & justice for all--what matters are the particulars, and Americans have pretty radical and divergent ideas about the particulars. For example, most people agree we need stronger job security, especially for blue collar, semi-skilled labor. But the word "union" has become a dirty word even among many Democrats, and conservatives have preferences for "less regulation" and the "free market" at least as strong as they do for job security, preferences which are fundamentally contradictory.
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I can imagine. I'm not touching anything Apple are making due to such kind of attitude.
I like that they are exploring ways which are not comparable to the way it's done in other languages:

> Don't confuse the term generic as used in this design with the same term in other languages like C++, C#, Java, or Rust; they have similarities but are not the same.

Many critics complained in the past that Go ignores language resaerch results of decades. Thats true for a certain extend but in the same time they are exploring new ways to approach language design problems.
Will you support custom domains? I love this platform tbh
Microsoft is an enterprise software company that suckles at the teat of government invoicing to the tune of tens of billions of dollars, they are nothing like Apple in this regard.
I don’t feel like I double click much at all in Windows and macOS nowadays at all.

Literally only to open a file from finder, which I use in column mode so navigating is single clicking.
Yes, I'm sure it would, but that won't always stop them from trying.
Shouldn't exit polling be immune to most of these problems?
> Yes please, there’s so much grammar that just refuses to support any user-defined type.

Nothing embodies "the tale of two cities" esque paradox like Go does. If you're a programmer, Go is so simple that it isn't easy to do anything but the simplest thing.
There is at least some regulation of what churches preach. Hate speech and incitements to violence can and has brought the attention of the FBI on various churches and sects. But I would say there's already a very similar light regulation on advertisements. Truth in advertising is a thing, but not much of one.
Thank you. I stand corrected. It appears to be a normal response to a legal DMCA notice.
You mash up the black swan events and the face saving arguments. Black swans have nothing to do with the predictability of face saving. And, yep, the clickbate "simple reason" is a clickbate.
How should we choose whose opinion matters?
Politicians have no idea what to campaign on, or what their constituents want.
I use a ~2500 lumen panel intended for video lighting, pointed at the ceiling as a room light (not in a nasty cold blue color). It produces a similar level of illuminance at my desk. So does a 75W incandescent light bulb from a meter away.

That's ridiculously bright for a footpath.
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I hate to be cynical, but I suspect there's an Intel exec who will "benefit enough" from Intel having shipped this. I share your bafflement.

It feels like, at best, a 'pipe cleaner' (i.e. a product that's put through the whole process to debug it and ensure that a later product goes smoothly).
People hate Nate because he’s pretty ruthless in calling out bullshit and there’s a great deal of bullshit produced by amateurs and professionals on both sides
No way does pot smell worse than tobacco. Cigarettes have the worst, most acrid smell that carries the furthest. Just horrible, like burning plastic or something. Just my own opinion, of course.
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Are you asserting he did not attempt to have anybody killed? Or just saying that a court never determined it?

Regardless, court convictions correctly use a very high standard of proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(law)#Legal_st...

That's appropriate because a) it's important to be very careful when assigning criminal penalties, and b) they spend a lot of time and money getting at the truth.

But when discussing things casually, as here, neither is true. I'd say HN runs somewhere between "reasonable to believe" and "balance of probabilities". And that's about right. If I'm wrong about Ulbricht, no particular harm comes to him; if more information comes to light and I change my mind, there's no damage to undo.
The problem arises when the infra providers’ setup stops being aligned with yours. Which, given a small organization and a long enough period of time, is guaranteed to happen.

The question is then: is it just cheaper in the long run to deal with the hassle of your own infra (we are still talking about the cloud, btw, the thing that supposedly already solved it) or would it be ok to follow the practices and changes in the providers offering?
It is basically down to experience and efficiency of those operations and know-how. Beijing tends to be a tad slower and stricter. It is still infinitely better better than say, Nanjing, where no one in the branch has a clue how to do it.
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I didn't know that was a thing (but why wouldn't it be?). I have four layers of painter's tape over the LED on one of my USB power supplies. I've been tempted to take it apart and solder in a resistor.
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Could you quantify the extremely wrong part? You can see their forecast map here[1]. Even if we just look at whether the probability of Trump winning a particular state was > 50% (and ignore the magnitude), the only state we have some semblance of results for that they got wrong is Florida, plus one of the Maine congressional districts. For over 50 discrete predictions that definitely doesn’t look extremely wrong to me.

Given how negative you are about them “over time”, I wouldn’t have expected you to take a detailed look at their model this time around. Out of curiosity, what drove you to take a look this time around so you could claim their errors are “shocking, stunning, and increasing”?

[1]: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-biden-election-ma...
I'd like to see some examples that are more complicated than Bool. Like, how would you encode an integer?
I 100% agree.

I also trust fast food employees to effectively sanitize, even if their position does not command a wage increase.

I stand by my initial argument with the wording and I'd rather not tangent down ethics, policy, hypotheticals.

I am just expressing a bad taste, that is all.
The advantage of not having a monorepo?
> Reselling AWS's offerings would cost more than running it on bare VM's, I'm sure they would be able to compete on price with them.

True -- I do think passing on the cost and taking a tiny margin with drastically reduced maintenance cost could be an attractive business model at scale though.

> It also doesn't make sense to rewrite their current software which is probably abstracted for multi-cloud to support re-selling.

I have no idea what their current software looks like, do you have any inside knowledge?

If they have abstracted, then they probably have multiple implementations of a similar API -- this is just changing one of them (or maybe even cloning it to reduce possibility of breakage). This might be as simple as just changing the AWS-specific provisioner to call out to AmazonMQ instead of EC2, or changing some code that generates terraform/pulumi scripts.

One thing I think they'd have to deal with is the fact that they support custom plugins that AmazonMQ may not.
Seems to me if you want to do this, you're missing out on the experience. Push a button, get a prize is not very rewarding in the long run.

When I started my backyard growing habit, it was never meant as a self-sustaining venture. It became part of my morning routine, I'd water the plants and just keep an eye on things. Watching the plant's growth from day to day is rather impressive. It's amazing how fast different plants grow in 24hrs. I even did a timelapse overnight of a squash plant's journey. I also started checking things out with a flash light right after dark. The slug hunting became sport. TL;DR if you honestly think you can have a small raised bed/container garden survive with nothing more than drip irrigation, then disappointment is in your future.
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Thank you for this comment. You haven't sold me, but I'm sure you've sold other people reading this thread. I read your two cites as well. I have two small points in response.

First: I ran tech operations (as employee #2) at what became Chicago's most popular independent ISP, in the mid-to-late 1990s, and had a similar "front row seat" to that sector. And I'll say right now that the claim that "deregulation killed the independent ISP" does not at all ring true. Economies of scale is part of it, but so was consolidated billing, coax Internet, "triple play" packages, and wireless. Also, the market just consolidated; even among the indie ISPs, by the end of the 90s, everyone was doing roll-ups.

Further, while I loved my time in independent ISPs, I'm confident that as a consumer, I'm far better served by AT&T than I was by any independent ISP I've used. My service is faster, more reliable, less expensive, and simpler than it was in the '90s in Chicago and San Francisco, or the early 2000s in Ann Arbor. Honestly: even Comcast did a better job than most of the indie ISPs I used.

Second, while the additional detail you've provided here is interesting, you really haven't engaged Rayiner's central argument, which is that however many billions of dollars you're saying telcos were "given" to build fiber, you're just counting dollars in their prices that you think are unreasonable. Which is not what people people on HN typically mean when they cite this "200 billion dollar scandal".
That depends on who you are. Most notably, political campaigns use polls to decide where it’s most useful to spend their money. It’s also relevant to people who want to donate time/money and betting markets.

It also may have an effect on turnout and peoples votes, but that’s a lot more wooly.
This is HUGE in terms of lowering the barrier to entry for making a viable youtube competitor. Google spends tremendous amounts of money on video conversions that could be done in the uploader's browser. Maybe this will tip the scale.
Never been to an outdoor concert?
33% success rate on first try is better than I'd expected.

Anecdotally, I've heard it usually takes several tries to find an antidepressant that works for any given patient. But once you've found a drug that works, that helps a lot.
> In the end, polling averages will probably "call" the winners of all but 1-3 states correctly, along with the winner of the popular vote, which should wind up at Biden +4/+5. That's not great. It's better to look at margins and some of the margins were off.

- Nate Silver

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1324149741463228416
I for one, like monochrome icons, this allows me to add color based on context and theme. So the icons now also take primary, default and warning color as defined in the theme.
The “I’ve encountered” caveat means you’re probably dealing with significant sampling bias, however.
I am also not convinced. It is very easy to paint Microsoft as the villain of open source movements, but action speak louder than words. With their latest commitments to Linux, Github and the NPM ecosystem, I'm willing to stick it out and embrace the new era.