skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A healthcare system foiled by bears" sounds completely awful.

On a more serious note, I think your description of 'libertarian ideas experimented one segment at a time' is a pretty good description of a normal state. You experiment with throwing trash everywhere, realize it draws bears, then ban throwing trash everywhere. Do this for a few hundred years, and you'll get a pretty normal regulatory apparatus.
Down vote me here too no-coiners, gimmie them tears
For non-emergency surgeries it's often a long-term relationship where the same doctor who has seen the patient a few times would be the one operating - so if that particular surgeon isn't available for whatever reason, the planned operation would be rescheduled to a different date with the same doctor, not to a different doctor in the same day.
Lots of negative EV bets have asymmetric upside potential.

Should any rational investor put some over their portfolio in roulette spins every year?
Gatsby is a weird platform. It's gotten absolutely humongous for a product that is designed to only solve the simplest problems. Netlify has taken it to it's limit by adding redirects and lambdas. But it's still a platform for fancy brochures and blogs.
Can you explain your logic here?

BT could easily crash back to $3k if people get spooked

That said it seems like a more solid foundation of interest now.
Hahaha. I was wondering the same thing.

Did he really, truly mean that? Was it sarcasm? Was it something PR asked him to add? Was it something PR added without asking him?
Given their lack of audits/transparency coupled with a Tether supply increase from 4 billion to 20 billion this year alone, I would by inclined to apply Occam’s Razor and view this as primarily market manipulation driven by Tether’s free money printer.
RISC V Assembler :)
Trendsetter!
High res photos can be found here.

https://modgallery.wpengine.com/collection/
How to live in the present and the best books on mindfulness
I'm not so sure it's been any good. What's actually happened is supermarkets have replaced the thin plastic bags with far thicker plastic bags. While sales of plastic bags has went down, considering the ones that are sold are vastly thicker, I'm not really sure if there's been a net decrease in plastic use by weight.
Ask HN: Successful one-person non-SaaS online businesses?
The question about successful online business has been asked a few times in HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535)

I'm curious about non-SaaS business models because nowadays with all the press that SaaS gets other viable business are not heard about often.

> How many people on hacker news are running successful non-SaaS online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?

> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.
I think Ethereum is much more technically interesting and has more capable leadership. I'm surprised the rise in ETH has been so muted comparatively. Any conjectures?
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No offense, I think people are crazy to rely on a stack they can easily make themselves vs. a series B startup. It's not that difficult to build and deploy full stack apps on your own server.
React is just one lib used by Vercel
"If you mean Common Lisp, I'd say install SBCL and start playing with with the repl"

I meant any lisp. Common lisp, clojure, ccl. I am new to this so did not have a choice. But in this thread I get the feeling that common lisp is the most suggested.
I use it as a one line deploy tool for my personal sites. It’s incredibly simple / set-and-forget and supports custom domains, rollback, etc.

For my simple sites it feels like hosting is just solved. Every time I rev my site I just push to git and I’m done.
Get to root problem of customer problems by categorising
It rains a lot there, not in other places.
i3 is one of the reason I could never run macOS. It's so ingrained in my workflow... I even wrote custom firmware for my keyboard (built off QMK) that has keybindings specifically for use with i3.
A great aspect of bspwm is that it is relatively unopinionated about how it is configured and controlled. You can easily invoke bspc from any language of your choosing. No need to be limited by an inexpressive configuration file. No need to write the configuration in one specific language that the developer favoured.

Another feature I appreciate is that it does not bind any keys. It is left up to the user to implement. I get to choose which keys are used, and what they do. I wish all programs I used allowed me to configure their key bindings like this.

bspwm is less of a window manager in the traditional sense, and more of a tool that can be used to build your own window manager.
Right. After more thinking it's not that new, it's "panem et circenses" all over again, just way more scalable.

Also, I think Americans are culturally just much more market-thinking and transaction-oriented. In many other places it's a much higher threshold for people to give out money for something. Now, surely this is a function of disposable income as well, but "paying for stuff left and right" is just a basic thing for many Americans, while e.g. Germans would much rather save up. So marketing also has to adjust to local circumstances: Germany has very cheap supermarkets (discounters) because brand loyalty is lower and price weighs in stronger.

This also means that innovative people much rather go to the American market, because there's just more willingness in normal people to try and pay for new things there. It's both good and bad.
Disclaimer: self-promotion

I wrote and maintain a FOSS Hazel-like tool called pushbroom [1] that works on both macOS and Linux. It’s worked extremely well for me for several years.

[1]: https://sr.ht/~gpanders/pushbroom
I looks like it’s written in Rust which isn’t super special but would be far easier to embed as a library in other languages compared to Go in OPA’s case. Polar also seems like a nicer policy language (strong Prolog vibes) though this is subjective as I’ve not done a deep comparison yet.
I still have no idea what it is after reading that blurb. AWS “fits perfectly” with my workflow so in concrete terms how is this different?
Congrats team - excellent product! I e used it since Zeit and absolutely love it.
It’s so strange to listen to Bitcoin advocates talk about hypothetically unlimited upside. I think a side effect of the realization that Bitcoin had no real underlying fundamentals that can explain the price, and therefore it’s difficult to think of an upper limit for the price using traditional metrics.

This leads to weird rationalizations where people compare losing their $1000 investment to the “what it” scenario of Bitcoin going to $500k or $1 million, in which case $1000 suddenly feels negligible. Of course, Bitcoin going to a million dollars per coin doesn’t make any sense, but the “what if” and FOMO are strong drivers for some people.
Vercel is like Netlify, but I would not say it is "like AWS Lambda". Vercel a deployment + hosting platforms for static websites and "serverless" functions, but Lambda extends past what Vercel/Netlify is for.

In terms of actual hosting (removing the build/deployment pipeline), Vercel is a subset of AWS Lambda.
For the last two projects I really wanted to use Vercel but there is something about its interface that makes me unable to understand it. I ended up both times on Netlify instead.
Is it me not being a dev by trade or it happens also to others?
What agriculture has going for it
Does anybody know where to find the download link for the Octave 6.1 Mac binary (dmg)? I see no way to install it without HomeBrew or Macports, even though the Octave website claims otherwise.
In a similar manner, most laws in the US regarding the internet don't use phraseology like "American Citizens" or "People who live in the United States" and instead use words like "Persons" or "One", so in theory they also apply outside of the US however since the US has no jurisdiction to enforce those laws, they don't in real terms.
Take a look at the CAN-SPAM act[0], then at your spam folder for an example of how this played out.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003
I've always seen it like camel case when it's not important if you capitalize the first letter or not and lower camel case or upper camel case if it's important.
The term "serverless", to me, makes as much sense as "No Software" (Salesforce) did back then: none. I do get the point of "you're not managing any actual servers", but still.
USD weakness may be playing a part, does anyone know what EURUSD looked like at the time of the previous high?
Surely someone has already posted a solution on GitHub somewhere...
Not an expert. But for me the most important factor is that Bitcoin’s supply is limited, whilst Eth’s is unlimited.
I somehow never warmed up to automatically tiling window managers, so I've been using notion (successor to ion3), a manual tiling / tabbing WM, for the past few years. For me this is peak productivity. I am on a MacBook Air on the go, but I wish I could get a tiling WM with focus-follows-mouse on that. Or, you know, Linux running on the MacBook Air M1 ;)
Does the new cli allow multiwriting yet? I'd like multiple computers to be able to modify the dataset.

Similarly, it seems the protocol supports keeping around all versions of the hyperdrive, but it looks like that isnt made available via the cli. Is this correct?
No shot.

If you think it will break the previous floor on fear alone, absent the technical uncertainty and unsustainable rapid growth leading up to the 9k crash, let alone the institutional investment this round, you are speculating without any real basis.
I think this outlook is very much part of the reason that Britons are worried about Facebook's move to Californian terms.

In the UK we do have very well established "Consumer Law" which is there explicitly to protect the consumer and recognises that they are often not otherwise in a powerful position.

The most relevant stuff for Facebook is the data protection stuff, but another example, relevant to other online transactions, is the Distance Selling Regulations ( https://www.gov.uk/online-and-distance-selling-for-businesse... ). This gives the customer the right to cancel, without a reason, for up to 14 days after the goods are delivered. If the business doesn't explicitly tell you this then your right to cancel is extended to 12 months.
> I can handle 4 different windows opened easily without any tiling wms

But you're still using a desktop environment to open these windows? Which requires many more dependencies and breaks more often IME than a twm, while being a huge solution to the simple problem of 'open 4 x windows' in your case. One of the things I like about twm's is the massive reduction in dependencies on my machine since switching actually
Ask HN: What do you call a male lady bug?
Interesting, in Canada we have Mars Bars and 3 Musketeers. I don't think I've ever seen a Milky Way.
But it costs you, and they still collect your data and will sell it for ads elsewhere.

Ublock on PC, youtube vanced on android!
ETH is still undergoing migrations, which will be completed in 2 years. I expect ETH to be muted for a while.
Someone will almost definitely get Linux running on the Mac, but only because of talented people working on it for free (which is both a shame and slightly concerning given how some people seem to be completely suckered in by Apple)
C# standard doesn't define the standard library, it only gives you the class prototypes (from pages 463-473 from what I can see) while the C++ standard does give you preconditions and postconditions for every function, complexity bounds for algorithms, etc. (from pages 458 to 1609, so by far the majority of the thing). C# also does not define threads, linq, etc... which if it was C++ would all have to be defined in the standard.

If you compare only the language definition itself, C++ is actually shorter by a couple pages than C#: it ends at page 457 on the pdf:

https://isocpp.org/files/papers/N4860.pdf
The only way to make the results believable is if they pre-registered the study based on a proposed mechanism of action, and then validated the results. Otherwise we can never know how many different attempts at crafting signal from the noise were attempted.
Slightly off topic, but this “Snowflake” jewelry from Pandora irks me. It’s a pentagram instead of a hexagram. I’m not sure if the designer was ignorant or they did this to reduce their cost.

https://us.pandora.net/en/jewelry/necklaces/pendant-necklace...
Hopefully this doesn't get used in some kind of registration flow in full since for example if you register with an aliased address, or you have a catchall address or email is just proxied the SMTP checks would fail.
Because is also much more technically complex than Bitcoin. Also none of them are solving real problems, but ETH has the capability to become that with DApps, once the current generation of politicians die and the next one, that is more technically capable will replace them. Going to be at least another decade before that happen though.
Seaweed: The fastest-growing source of food
I use bspwm daily and the benefit is that you get a predictable behavior when you launch a new terminal or w/e, which is especially nice when you navigate almost entirely by keyboard; you know where the window will spawn.
Facebook is standing up for Facebook. Hard to imagine them getting much sympathy from any customers. Only other large companies that make money after using customer data extensively and would prefer customers not be aware of that.
Interesting video, but it doesn't explain how we will get there. He highlights the issues people have raised about "MID" (mediator of individual data) (4 of them), but doesn't actually address them in depth.

1. "My data earnings are too small to be worth it": Not sure why someone would raise this issue. To me, it's better than getting tracked and not making anything, its not about data profits. If they really don't want to transition, its clear they don't care about facebook tracking them. Many people don't.

2. "People will never pay for Facebook!": What he means is people will never pay for the alternative that is more privacy centric. That is still a concern, just because Netflix can charge money, doesn't mean a Facebook alternative can. Netflix is cheaper and more convenient for most people who don't use their previous solutions: cable.

3. "This will price poor people from the internet!": Well it depends how expensive it, and how it's designed. Didn't you say people are making money in this scheme anyway.

4. "The tech giants will never go for this": Why would a tech giant miss out on this. The tech giants will go for what makes money. If you make a solution which is viable, tech giants will be able over you. Its just validation. You're not making it p2p are you?

The only concern I have, which he hasn't addressed (also there aren't many articles on MID): what exactly is it, and how would it be viable? Someone still needs to make money to pay for infrastructure and development. It still needs to work.
Yes, and water waste from reusable coffe mugs is not an issue. Styrofoam in oceans is an issue.
I don’t think you are using Occams Razor correctly.
Cardano is an even more interesting prospect to me.
You can spam kids with ads for things without a direct exhortation to buy or persuade their parents to buy, with zero reduction in effect.

The knowledge that a thing exists and the indication that it has desirable traits works perfectly well (just as it does for adults); children don't need to be told to persuade their parents to get it for them, persuading their parents to get them things they have been convinced they want is what kids are programmed to do.

That regulation is, like, the definition of making a show of doing something about a problem while doing absolutely nothing at all.
It's starting to look like welding two disparate financial systems (Bitcoin and USD) is a bad idea.
Ultimately they had to if they wanted BIOS to be able to boot CD-ROMs. The BIOS boot sequence sticking around for so long is an unfortunate consequence of it becoming a decentralized standard outside of any one vendor's control, and so the only way to make it all work was for vendors to agree, and the solutions wouldn't be obvious or trivial in most cases because that boot sequence is incredibly primitive and full of assumptions coherent in a system with two floppy drives and maybe a disk if you were lucky.

But I'm sure the bad blood was measurable, especially for the higher-ups.
I would be surprised if it did. I believe the reduction in doctors’ overtime was a wash for parent safety as more shift handoffs and less sleep deprivation more or less canceled except in surgery where it increased mistakes.
They still force you to give your phone number, they still refuse to be on F-Droid, they still force you to go through their own server and not self host, their UX still sucks.

Once those points are addressed Signal would be great
Is is? I thought they both ran on similar deflationary policies related to diminishing block rewards
The US is a lot bigger than just NY and SF/LA. Further, there is a tremendous amount of poverty and near-poverty in these cities as costs like housing continue to rise. It is a great setup for software engineers at top companies being paid hundreds of thousands. It is less good for the restaurant chef or the retail worker or the car mechanic.
It seems less "waging a personal vendetta against the person's hobbies" and more "acknowledging that this is an amoral human being who is perpetuating a broken system for personal gain."
It just depends on whether they were made for cross-eyed or wall-eyed viewing. They look correct to me using the cross-eyed technique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereogram
Did they pre-register before conducting the study? If not, then how can you possibly assume the opposite? They can always write the justification for choosing the hypothesis after the fact.

EDIT: This need not be done maliciously, that could very well be the actual reason why they decided to look at the birthday. What is concealed is how many other possibilities, equally well justified, were considered.
I can make three conjectures off the top of my head:

1. Bitcoin has some sort of "first mover" advantage which gives it a critical number of investors/PR that allows it to keep trading high, and no other coin will ever be able to catch up to it.

2. Bitcoin is actually technically superior to other coins, and it won't be supplanted until whatever the special sauce is, is replicated.

3. Something is hinky in the Bitcoin markets, eg, Tether, and this explains its divergence from other coins.
Couldn’t this be that surgeons don’t want to schedule surgeries on their birthdays so they end up only scheduling the sickest and most urgent?

(Sorry if that’s already been suggested)
Simple guess is that the institutions that are getting into the space are going to be conservative and dip their toes in the better known coin first.
Bitcoin up 62x since Nov 2015, when google started tracking

TSLA up 15x over same timeframe

BTC only 4x Tesla rn

(So BTC is only 4x more of a scam than TSLA is)

Maybe BTC should split so retail investors don't have to look at any big impressive feeling numbers
Mashinky
https://store.steampowered.com/app/598960/Mashinky/
I live in a municipality which banned the bag years ago. I wasn't thrilled but honestly the difference is a negligible annoyance. You use paper, reusables or do without. It's fine.
This is the argument aws uses. In a dc you might need a bunch of high price Cisco equipment, and that’s part of what is getting priced into the bandwidth.

the cynical part of me agrees though that making moving out difficult/expensive is a large part of why too. Probably some combination of both
Point me to somewhere I can buy them as a private individual, and I'll happily try just that.
The better model for Creators isn't subscriptions but SuperChats, it's the digital version of "don't buy the CD, buy the concert".

It's quite common to see people drop $20 for their favorite Creator to read out their comments. It's fun and provides that direct/live link that fans crave.

This provides a unique monetization channel that's not available to regular businesses while helping Creators circumvent the pervasive "why should I give you $10/month if Spotify is $10/month" narrative.
One of the least-liked brands tries to smear one of the most-liked brands. Facebook will not come out ant better from this. It may even remind people how much spying facebook does to them.
Alas, this is not true:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/01/20/facebook-and-ins...
Partially related: there seems to be a ton of money around. I sold my startup about 18 months ago, and I’m already being contacted by VCs (4 in the past 2/3 months) to see “what we’re working on next”. We’re not even looking to raise money.

Seems like interest rates are very low, and monetary supply is going up in the US. Investors are looking for better alternatives to escape ZIRP. Don’t quote this as financial advice cause I’m no expert, but ill keep betting on BTC.
Land of lisp by Conrad barski is a pretty great book too.
If an MX record isn't present you can fall back on the A-record.

(If, and only if, no MX record for the domain is present, treat the domain as if it had an MX record with the given domain as the target hostname and a preference value of 0)
“Stripe's payments APIs: the first ten years” [Evolution of their API]
>I feel a duty to point out the white washing. Nathan made his money on the basis of patent trolling,

I feel a duty to point out this "black washing". Nathan made the bulk, if not all, of his fortune at Microsoft. They bought his startup in 1986 for 1.5M in stock. He then went to MS and founded MS research, which has turned out a spectacular amount of good CS research under his leadership.

Here's [1] Nathan's worth in 1999, all from MS, at 650M. MS stock went from around 0.10 in 1986 at the purchase to around $40 in 1999, so pretty much all of Nathan's wealth was in MS stock.

Today Nathan is worth around 800M, which, inflation adjusted back to 1999, is 200M less than where he was in 1999. [3]

Also, Intellectual Ventures is not his - he co-founded it, and now owns around 40%. Also the entire income stream of IV is tiny compared to big patent players at big tech firms. They look to have around a few B in assets, after 20 years of existance. IBM does over 1B a year simply in licensing of it's patent portfolio. Some other big tech firms are similar.

So while it's true he founded Intellectual Ventures, it's not at all true that is where he made his money. At best it gives him a place to play with ideas, but a massive money making machine it is not.

Don't cast aspersions without checking your claims.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/1011/6409172a.html?sh=6ae...

[2] https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/nathan....

[3] https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
Individual podcast creators might be via Patreon, but larger podcast networks can and do have their own donation systems. Same principle and probably a similar amount of money, they just aggregate it between multiple shows and don't want to pay a cut to Patreon.

I know Relay.fm and Radiotopia are both set up for that, presumably there are others.
Some first world citizens.

Personally I want to reduce road traffic in favor of electric public transit, heavily reduce meat consumption, ban fast fashion and all but eliminate single use plastics, completely stop fossil fuel extraction and use.

And I think the way forward is for the globally privileged elite (that's primarily us in Europe and the US) to lead by example and use the greater resources available to us to make a difference first, improve our spotty record instead of leaning back and just dictating to others what we think they should do. Historically, we've already done that more than plenty already.
Oddly Telegram went down just as this occurred: https://downdetector.com/status/telegram/