skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should try Linux. The small price you pay by having to hold just a little more symbols in your head gives you an OS outside of reach of normal people and all these "improvements" pushed onto normal people by the executives and large corps.
I've had to go to amazon several times to buy monoprice products since their website was just broken on multiple different occasions in the last year.
Aux.app unites all your favourite music streaming services in one place
Qbasic was the easy step into programming, but it was with turbo-pascal that I had most fun. I still recall eagerly awaiting for the monthly magazine that brought a floppy disk with source code I could study and try.
But the best part, in the IDE, was the documentation, every keyword had an easy to access text explanation and fully working example. Borland was really great at this, same happened with turbo-c.

But there’s definitely magic to Basic, from a sheet of paper with line numbered, easy to understand (closest to language), instructions you can copy into a simple ide, to immediate results. There’s no entry barrier.

Such a nice story to read, thanks op.
The new 'gold rush' for green lithium
There are a couple of TV series I know of that do this sort of thing. Check out Connections with James Burke, Modern Marvels, and Genius of the Ancient World, for starters. There's another TV series on Netflix that talks about stuff like the development of the bicycle, and the like, but the name escapes me. :(

If you're in the Bay Area, the Exploratorium and the Computer History Museum might be something you'd enjoy along these lines.
As a Japanese, I type it with IME in any day.
Stripe charges 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction.

https://stripe.com/en-ca/pricing

So for a dollar, it is a 32.9% charge.

I assume that there are other higher and lower priced options and that Google/Apple would get a bulk discount.
At what point does a flash player emulator just become a flash player?
Not exactly wrong. They do take low variable $0.10-0.25 flat fee, then another 0-3% from the purchase depending on the card and merchant.

They don't take 25% though, that's misleading. If the purchase is $100, they take around $2 in fees.

If the purchase is very low, they'll take 25%. Hence why a lot of stores say they won't take Visa or Mastercard on low value sales.

The seller also has a choice of not taking credit card and not lose 50% of their potential sales.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIBf7YuALr3/ works fine in firefox focus for me.
You should always have backups, but for this specific issue I think that snapshots are much better since you can run them more often (I do a snapshot of my system every hour) and it is probably easier/faster to recover a file from a snapshot than a backup
wasn't this in the middle of nowhere? seems unlikely they'd have heavy equipment out there. Seems more likely some jerks decided to take it for themselves for bragging rights.
CSP: Is it the right solution against web-skimming?
An overview of CSP and how it presents security challenges while trying to defend against risks created by third party code on websites, Magecart attacks and web-skimming.
I need more context or detail to understand the point you a trying to get at. I really do, because otherwise I am just trying to guess what you mean, or even how it correlates to what I said at all. Without further clarification, it seems to be tangential to me.
I wrote my own static site generator for by blog, and it turned out to be enormously useful for a number of different client projects, so I don't regret spending many months of part time effort building the generator at all.
He was kind of a diplomat back home and he worked 3 jobs when applying for the franchise.

If such a person knocks on your door, it would be foolish to not give him a franchise. He go the team slide in his pitch deck right, the franchise knew the market and the profit opportunity. An (angle) investor's dream made in heaven.
terminal-notifier does this.

https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier
MRNA: From a loose idea to a tool that may help curb Covid
I don't think they are for profit, if they provide a therapy service then it makes sense that they would charge for it though (as any other therapist would do).

I remember hearing about adverse effects of meditation in podcasts and blog posts and, perhaps some audio book? Can't remember. There are links to a few studies in all mighty wikipedia too [1], I'm sure you can find sources.

From hearing the pros and the cons I suspect many forms of meditation are healthy, and it can be unhealthy in the same way some forms of exercise can be unhealthy [2].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation#Potential_adverse_e...

2: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22exercise%20overdose%22
Apple still plans on releasing new Intel macs. I don't even think buying one of those is out of the question for some people.

If you look back at the Intel transition, if I remember correctly they released the MacBook Pro with a Core Duo in January of 2006 and Core 2 Duo in October. The latter being 64-bit. Sure, the latter ones were better, but the former ones worked fine. OS support seems to go with architecture generations. The early 2006 laptops supported Snow Leopard which had its last release in 2011. The next laptops supported Lion which had its last release in 2012 (but with hacks could get updated until 2018).

I think the major question is if you want to wait to see what the "pro" machines look like or if Apple has tweaks in 6 months to the current line up. The Mac Pro has some big questions about what may need to change if they're looking for parity with the current Mac Pro (improved multi-monitor support, more RAM options, upgradable GPUs). Those changes may show up in the high end Macbook Pros (likely not upgradable GPUs).
I love all the things we're still learning from nature! All of the secrets and intuition that's yet to be found astounds and excites me.
Cool. More cowardly downvotes. My respect for the users of this platform is plummeting. I get that I’m being snarky, but it’s just polite to tell people why their comment deserves a downvote. Am I wrong? Have I missed the point? Or have I butthurt a tender ego that can’t stand a minor correction on a trivial point in an online argument.

I’m out
This outage highlighted our dependency on Cognito. Everything else we are doing can (and probably should) be replicated to another region, which would resolve these types of issues.

However, Cognito is very region specific and there is currently no way to run in active-active or even in standby mode. The problem is user accounts; you can't sync them to another region and you can't back-up/restore them (with passwords). Until AWS comes up with some way to run Cognito in a cross-region fashion, we are pretty much stuck in a single region and vulnerable to this type of outage in the future.
Don't skimp on those jack stands. Purchase only those made in the USSR
There were these yellow messages that popped up in the upper right-hand corner in MacOS 9. Those were just non-blocking notifications.
The comment you are responding to is comparing the USA in the 70s to the USA today. Your response seems to imply you think they are saying that in the US, we do not have it easy. That is not the argument they were making.
The natural human tendency, the base state, is fundamentally tribal in nature

[citation needed]

The problem with your statement isn't the claim that tribal behaviours are a natural tendency in humans. Of course they are. The problem is your claim that they are somehow primary. There are many other tendencies of comparable weight, and how strongly they are expressed relative to each other depends very much on the individual.

Not to mention that when it comes to tribal instincts, there's a huge difference between individuals as to what they perceive their tribe to be. Their nuclear family? Their town/state/country? Their profession? Participants in their hobby? Their "race"? All of humanity?
H2S and NH3, I guess.
It seems crazy to me that they're allowed to do this. Imagine paying 30% more for software on your computer. It's pretty obvious that very few competitors could pierce the phone market, even less the phone app store market.

At least on Google phones you're allowed to jailbreak it and install whatever you want if you're a power user, but you can't do this on Apple's phones.

They should allow people to download and install APKs.
I recently played Rainy Season (梅雨の日) that is a similar game where you play a day from the author's childhood that involves exploring the house (Gone Home style, this one looks more advanced). It is short and has some (non-gamebreaking) bugs but is still one of my favorites.

https://inasa.itch.io/rainy-season

It is also currently in the Humble Trove.

Unfortunately it looks like this one (It's Winter) isn't available DRM-free :(.
It is complications like this that make me happy that engineers are not expected to spend a long time in their jobs. Can just go find greener pastures.

I am not going to spend effort fighting for Gitlab. I am going to spend effort on my resume so I can go join a team with Gitlab.
I'm pretty sure that you are just a troll, but how do you substantiate this outrageous claim?
From Roblox's own website (https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/articles/developer-econom...), the game owner's share after all of the other costs is only 24.5% and Roblox also takes a cut of 24.5%, compared to an App store portion of 25%. So essentially, Roblox charges as much as Apple/Google for their "platform fee".

Who decides what is a right amount of "platform fee" in either case?
The source for scanner.pas looks recognizably like an implementation inspired by Niklaus Wirth's compiler books.
For small transactions you can easily get a rate of 5% + $0.05

If you're paying a 1/4 to 1/3 cut for $1 purchases, that's basically on you, not the credit card companies.
I would guess that there is some legal problem with even referencing original app as an inspiration. Paying bounty for it would be even worse.

If Apple were able to copy some app and in return mention your name as a co-author of some sort/tip you - that would probably be a life changing experience for most developers out there.
> Yet many of them still go on to get valuable degrees and succeed in getting a much better job than the average person.

Getting a 4 year degree requires planning.
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There goes my plan of having him do a novelty song with The Wurzels of “I’ve got a brand new Star Destroyer and I’ll give you a ride” in his Somerset accent.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tb63PdPweDc
Hell yeah, I forgot about ToD for a minute there. I was obsessed with that game for a while in middle school. I tended to play with a friend of mine who also had a TI-99/4A, and we very quickly figured out the optimal party was 2 fighters, 1 wizard, and 1 rogue. I'm not sure how many times we finished that game.

It's amazing how many people love ToD. There's even a Youtube video of a guy playing the theme music on a music box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euMH2fCERAc

I'm currently working on trying to get it to run in MAME. I have a TI-99/4A successfully booting to BASIC, but I haven't got ToD itself to boot yet.
Sounds like you need a better desk/chair.
It was comparison to people that are seen as major leaders today. Perhaps to you, kindness matters, but most get excited just by the execution and success. Thanks for asking clarity. N
Gotta be more specific when you say AMD chip. Was it a newer Zen chip or one of the old ones pre-Ryzen?
This works too but I personally prefer etcet's way as it don't require to change anything in root user.
I worked for a mobile games publisher in my last job. 30% platform fee, followed by a 30/70 split on revenue (70 to the dev, 30 to the publisher). It's a tough market. Combined with less profitable ad monetization and paid installs being less predictable - it was not always a phenomenal business model. You had to really hit to make money.
The genre term for this type of game, lacking in explicit goals or win-state, is Walking Simulator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_game#Walking_simulat...
Slavery is very profitable for slave owners, it’s just not very productive. Think about it this way: imagine you run a business, and suddenly one day you no longer have to pay wages to your employees. This obviously makes your profit margin shoot through the roof. However, it doesn’t make your company produce more stuff. That’s the point: slavery was indeed profitable for slave owners, but it did not produce any more wealth than in an alternative scenario, where the slaves were free wage labor instead. Thus, while slavery surely made some slave owners wealthy, it did not make America wealthy, and in fact, it did quite the opposite.
Everything here is 100% correct. I have even said in interviews that almost all difficult software problems in the real world are actually social problems.
Not for me on mobile with adblock and pihole.

But there are many sites that hijack back button and is disgusting.
originally Facebook was created to find people like this
I made my own markdown based blog site. Its took ~1hour, but then I went a bit crazy for few posts and added a lot of complexity. The blog site itself is very simple. I describe it here: https://n-k.freeddns.org/blog/posts/2020-11-06-3.md

Thinking about it again, I should probably have just done something simple like gh-pages.
Let's stop using $1 as a bar since it's extremely misleading. The lowest purchase of Robux is $5 USD, which would make the charge $0.46, or less than 10%. This is also Stripe's added-on fee.

Large players also get very little interchange fees charged onto them because they can negotiate.

https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-much-walmart-pays-...

Walmart pays very little interchange, I can also assume Google/Apple negotiated good rates.
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/articles/developer-econom...

Wow, that's crazy.

If I understand correctly, someone can buy 10,000 Robux for $99.99 and spend it all in your game. You'll get 7,000 Robux and you can cash them out for $24.50
Please describe some choices that aren't really choices for a typical healthy person in a free country?

I can list a few:

1. having a baby is a choice

2. getting married is a choice

3. buying a house is a choice

4. buying snazzy furniture is a choice

5. buying a new car is a choice

6. buying lottery tickets is a choice

7. where you live is a choice

8. using drugs/alcohol is a choice

These are the kinds of chains that people forge on themselves.
Interesting, like a laser version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag-reducing_aerospike

without the LSD Wave.
You think you had some nostalgia when you saw it... I used to work with the guy who wrote winamp.js. Good dude, now working at Facebook, I believe.
The guy who wrote it is not an American and it's a fact that e.g. opening a business in U.S. is easier and cheaper than in most other countries.
Yes, restic would be my pick: easy to deploy and use, well-maintained.

If you want some assurance, CERN are deploying restic:

https://indico.cern.ch/event/862873/contributions/3724442/
Or flash. Flash player. Drop "simulator".
Guess somebody is taking pages from Russian handbooks ('firehose of lies') [0].

[0] https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE10...
Citibank Executive Says Bitcoin Will Trade at $318,000 by End of 2021
"General purpose computer used to hack something" is not really a story. This attack requires a salvaged ECU from another Tesla, that's a more interesting and informative part of the story in my opinion. "Using a computer salvaged from a wrecked Tesla to pop the door on any model X" would be a much more interesting take!
I agree 100%. One other thing I dislike about OSX is the behavior of the green button in the title bar. It just never seems to do what I want. :/
mWh? Otherwise that's one hell of a battery.
Because of this annoying practice, I disable automatic redirects on Firefox. I highly recommend doing the same!
Ask HN: Why is there “ Is hiring” on HN jobs?
We know that a company is hiring when they posted the job on HN. The "is hiring" phrase is annoying. Please remove it.
In your examples X and Z are events of the same kind but not the same event.
True, but it's still kinda funny to hack a $50K car with a $50 computer.
there could never be one. since (non open source) intelligence is by definition outside the realm of ethics
I believe the advantage of having “law as software” would not necessarily be the increased readability of the documents, but the ability to simulate outcomes / ask questions about the law and get an automated answer instead of having an expert as the bottleneck.
There's actually already some open source progress for this at the Eyetap project [0]. Looks like it might be dead though.

[0] http://eyetap.org/
Expertise is just experience. Which only applies in situations which you have seen before.

Or put another way: that one is a good plumber does not mean one is a good heart surgeon. Yet for some reason we assume that is the case in intellectual pursuits because we don't see the stuff ideas are made of.
Having known a couple of Finns, "janky and weird as fuck, but fun," seems like exactly their style.
Dramatization (article says by Wouters)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clrNuBb3myE
I help out with my wife’s online shop and have noticed the same thing.

Personally, if I don’t see an obvious co-branding for Stripe or another trusted service I will usually pick PayPal over a naked credit card field. Who knows what the heck is going on in the backend. People are still doing stupid shit like storing untokenized cards in 2020.

Edit: talking about smaller merchants in case it wasn’t clear.
Sounds a bit tautological doesn’t it? Of course a site that uses a lot of JS will not work well if you disable JS
It wasn’t clear from the article, did they need physical access to the key fob? Feels like some details are missing and the raspberry pi angle is pointless.
> Imagine paying 30% more for software on your computer.

That is not really hard to imagine. Most of what we purchase has markups.
> The USA is an absolute paradise for an immigrant.

This is really the key point.

When immigrating to a country, you’re already taking a huge risk. You’re leaving behind extended family. You’re generally a little more well off than a typical person in your home country. You’re not really bound down by debt histories (who’s going to collect when you’re 5000 miles away and your bank accounts are out of reach?). Your debt future isn’t as much of a concern (who’s going to collect if you just pack up and go home without telling anyone?) Your past work experience and education experience isn’t as much of a concern because nobody is going to call up a former employer in a foreign country or look up transcripts or know anything about the reputation of foreign schools. You’re generally willing to take bigger risks because you’ve already taken a huge one by up and leaving your old lifestyle, and you also abandon a bunch of your burdens.

A bunch of people will say their home country doesn’t have great opportunities, but America does. 100% of the time, without exception, there’s an American living in that country making shitloads of money because being an immigrant there presents unique opportunities and they’re laughing at people saying America would be better.

Saying this as someone who immigrated to a country outside of America.
What conspiracy? Google has been rather open about this for years.
The article we're discussing is about a non-white Asian immigrant becoming a millionaire in U.S. by opening donut shops. He also helped a hundred+ other non-white, Asian immigrants to become small business owners.

And if you ever worked in Silicon Valley as a programmer, you must have noticed how people from India and China are over-represented in that profession.

Not to mention plenty of white males that are not rich and successful.

Being white male is neither sufficient nor necessary for success.
This was the article I read about the Donut King back in 2014 and the genesis for the movie

https://story.californiasunday.com/ted-ngoy-california-dough...
The stabbing thing however points to toxic relationship even if they are kids.

Even as teenagers those are massive red flags.
They work best when there's no one around to rebut, or no one allowed to.
Especially if it's the one I'm thinking of, too. It's a damn solid architecture.
Pants Build
I too was surprised that the article mentioned nothing about blocks or fragmentation. The deleted file has an inode yes but that inode also describes all the blocks that contain the data for that inode and it is no guarantee that the blocks are contiguous. It seems that was completely overlooked, but in this case it turns out everything apart from one part in the middle of the video was recovered leading me to believe that a few of the blocks were in fact fragmented.
Good things are indeed just as bad as bad things.
Negative reviews of scented candles surge after increase in Covid infections
The platform gets to decide what the right fee is.
Did I just time travel back to the 90s? That site looks like it's straight off Geocities. :) All it needs is an "under construction" GIF somewhere, and it would be perfect.
You razor is also described here (and called "moloch"): https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/.
Intelligence is useless if you don't train it, use it, apply it towards something useful, etc.

It's like Michael Phelps who was born with a talent for swimming. But that talent was worthless without putting in endless hours of directed training.

Similarly, a no-talent swimmer can actually learn to swim rather well. And certainly being very successful in life does not require you to be the best swimmer in the world. Just an adequate swimmer will do just fine.
I found myself in a similar situation (after 20 years of work, though, so my expected remaining lifespan is probably shorter).

While I did invest most of it, raising means is only half the job. The other half is lowering needs. This is already how I managed to save most of my pay each month, but the older I get, the more extreme I take it. Not only does it ensure my stash will last as long as it needs, but I acquire lot of new skills on the way (by learning how to build rather than buying). Oh, and I don't have a family, it probably helps a lot.
Oh they're able to sell the M1 however they want. They just don't want to.
I wonder how much major apps save in marketing cost by being on app stores? I’m always shocked at the cost of marketing.
Install uBlock.
We didn't censor the peddlers of not so much alternative opinions as elaborate hate fueled fantasies in which real people feature as alternative versions of themselves dressed in pedophile drag which are conspiring against the rest of us and if you visit the places where these degenerates congregate they happily talk about how people guilty of imaginary crimes ought to be imprisoned or murdered.

Some of them have taken the cues and actually committed such murders. The problem is there is money and importance to be earned by trivial to construct lies that a functioning marketplace of ideas would trivially discard but it turns out ours really doesn't work so well and freedom without responsibility is a clusterfuck.

We let the liars run wild and ended up with a reality TV star killing hundreds of thousands of people with his incompetence and working hard to start a war that would kill hundreds of thousands more in the last days of his regime. Perhaps visualize every one of those corpses stacked one in a reeking pile and realize that censorship may be the lesser of two evils.