skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think its crazy - both my mum and sister are intimidated by gears and tend to go for a fixie every time we go on holiday and you need a bike (e.g. Centre Parcs) but struggle to keep up on the hills. Maintainability is not a big concern for them - someone else does it (The last tire change the local bike shop did it for us for £5 + parts).

They would completely be in the target market for this. If they were buying a bike, this is a system they would want. In fact, it's a system I would want them to have, because I'm sick of watching them struggle with a single gear and they really do not feel comfortable with multiple gears!

I've tried to explain the benefits of multiple gears and how it's actually simple, but they won't have it. They aren't that comfortable with riding a bike anyway, and they don't want something extra to think about on top of all the other things. I also don't think they are completely atypical.

I can also see this being a great rental option, and great for kids who want a step-up bike as they learn.

Your argument seems to be "advanced users don't want this" - but that's not the target market. Automatic gears on cars don't go into racing cars, and manual gearboxes can be easier to maintain and provide more control. Automatic gears on cars are actually really there to reduce complexity for the average driver, which is what this is for bikes.
Doubtful, the UK would suffer greatly from reduced demand for their goods and services.
* Sentiment regarding Slack will continue to decline regarding performance and increased micro outages. Perhaps a niche, light weight competitor slowly picks up steam

* Kubernetes/overengineering fatigue continues. Perhaps we see some fledgling attempts at a "platform" that handles external resources (load balancers, SSL) while still having a smaller scope and complexity. Sort of like k3s but a smaller footprint aimed at running on a single VM/host. I may just be describing Dokku plus some addons

* Evernote starts to slowly come back into the conversation as they continue with their wide spread refactorings (I just like their behind the scenes videos)

* More business get breached. No one seems to care
You can see the progress of the MWEB (MimbleWimble Extension Block) project here [1], headed by Grin++ [2] developer David Burkett.

[1] https://litecoindotcom.medium.com/litecoin-mimblewimble-nove...

[2] https://grinplusplus.github.io/
>>You're a bit over-reacting -- you just made GP an anti-vaccer.

Oh god, that was not my intention in the slightest. All I wanted to say was that right now we have access to an immense amount of knowledge we can use to help ourselves make decisions, unlike Romans or even just people 100 years ago.
Couldn't soldiers also just use cash to augment their trading? Or is that specifically banned?
I am their anti-customer by definition. I suspect a lot of people don’t know what they want. I’m glad I’m not one of them.
Not if you're using X branding to market the pizza to Y.

Especially, not if the pizza being resold doesn't live up to X quality standards because it got cold.

Try reselling from any major fast food restaurant, they'll stop selling to you, and if you paid different people to do the pickup, I bet you would get sued.
First rule is you don't talk about it!
Why markets boomed in a year of human misery
This is likely, I'd say it's due to the 90–9–1 rule[0] which states that the vast majority of your users would be lurkers, a small proportion would participate in discussions and the smallest number being the power users who generate most of the content on the platform

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
The firing might be legal and within the selective corporate guidelines, however, to me, this is the final straw, will never buy or even use any apple product again. The cowardice displayed by the managers and the company bending to a hysterical authoritarian regime borders a comedy. Too often have people "just followed orders" in the name of a payslip. Apple is a company of crooks (tax evasion, in bed with the chinese government) with a clientele of mostly fanboys/fangirls.
Happy if that clicked. It has been quite an eye opener for me.
I use Window Titler[0] for this because I use the same workflow of opening a new window for each "topic".

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/window-titler...
The Wikipedia article says it’s a combination of dangerous shallows and unfavorable winds all year near the shore. The way to avoid those was to sail around it, beyond the sight of land. This was something ancient ships couldn’t do because they relied on seeing the land for navigation.
I doubt that google will oppose PWA since they are the main force pushing it.
Multiple covid variants found and sequenced. Mutation rate and other factors determined and predictable.

Work starts on annual covid vaccination programmes, similar to current annual flu programmes.

As vaccines are rolled out, death rates in the elderly drop, and rise comparatively among those aged 20s-30s causing much debate about whether this matters.

Covid is found to easily hop from humans to multiple different animals where it mutates before hopping back to humans again. Epidemiologists become hugely worried about this, but nobody seems to listen.

Governments (those who listen to the epidemiologists) attempt to divert more funds to bolster virus surveillance programmes, but are heavily stymied by rising nationalistic tendencies among the electorate. Investment in overseas collaborations such as surveillance programmes are attacked by populist/xenophobic pundits who clamour for protectionist policies. The political landscape becomes increasingly fractious.
Interesting that you came to this view. Boris seems to have handled COVID incredibly poorly (e.g. the death rate in the UK is higher than comparable countries) and the trade deal is considerably worse than deals he previously rejected (e.g. customs border inside the UK). I expect that once the world stabilizes again, members of his own party will want to take his job.
This is exactly how I "partition" my work; makes closing logically related tabs super simple too - just close the window related to the "topic".
OP's first link qualifies as an easy to digest resource on the subject.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Bojador)
I experienced the same when I first started using it. It was a bit unstable and you had to tread with caution. There has been a significant amount of updates and the stability has improved massively. The local storage option also means that there is less risk of something going wrong than with the GH sync - at least I have found it to be a lot smoother.

Hopefully you found something to meet your needs
> - Travel is going to be out of control once everyone is vaccinated and cases plummet after herd immunity is reached.

Sincerely doubt that: for once a very big percentage of the population will refuse vaccination for all the reasons one can think of, many businesses have gone bust so travel is accessible to less people and considering the state of the airline industry, I'm willing to believe that prices will be through the roof and into deep space.

> - Python will have a great dep management finally.

I think it's ok to dream but I've given up hope on that.
Isn't this exactly the kind of thing trademark laws is supposed to cover?

I'm pretty sure that if you tried to resell food at scale from a major fast food franchise without proper licensing, you would get sued.
There was discussion here a while ago, that effect is genetically affected as well. Some people have traits which makes them weak against asbestos, some go without problems.
I recently published my first app to App Store and failed in the same requirement.

Guess I was lucky since It was approved a few hours after I added it.

However the bigger problem with Sign in to Apple is that they don’t follow the standard implementation of oauth/oidc as pretty much everyone else does...
Note SNR explanation is ruled out exclusively because of ORCs' high galactic latitudes. Based on the appearance of these objects my bet is that they are high-latitude SNRs indeed.
Yup. When I was renovating my 100 year old house I discovered that behind the weatherboards/clapboards was a layer of old, mostly broken asbestos panelling. I called a specialist disposal firm and they quoted two prices - one for internal removal (I was only renovating the inside) and the other for external. External is a lot cheaper - for internal removals they have to seal off the rest of the house and place air quality monitors and check them for some time after the removal to make sure that there are no loose particles floating around. So it was cheaper to finish redoing the plasterboard inside the house, then remove all of the external weatherboards, have them come and do an external removal, and then rebuild with new weatherboards. The price difference made it worth it, even including buying all new weatherboards!
> On the whole i think hacker news tends to be pretty positive to big tech.

Perhaps to a fault, the same applies to the CCP Bots you see here posting anytime anyone questions China: you have people here with self-interest guiding their words and creating rationalizations like those above stating how erroneous 'the media' and 'outsiders' portray them in a bad light and that some how they are poorly informed and thus their views are nothing more than unsubstantiated conjecture.

But one needs to only look at the recent behavior of Apple riots in India and Amazon exploiting warehouse workers and firing them during COVID due to reasonable concerns--like lack of PPE and distancing/hygiene/prevention methods.

Its so commonplace and thus very easy to realize that if these massive monoliths, who benefit from very skewed tax, legal and labur laws, are not going to put Human Rights/Labor Laws before Profit or Market Share even during a Global pandemic, then they never will: and Governments on a whole are either/or both complicit as they ignorant on their business models making legislation solutions entirely moot. And I'm not even going to mentioned Google as this rebuttal would never end.

But nothing changes those objective truths regardless of how much you may want to sugarcoat things, and the fact that so many here still think FAANG is the end all and be all of Tech shows just how misguided if not entirely indoctrinated (from within or otherwise) they really are and how easily they are bought off with the illusion of prestige, a meaningless title and an often over bloated salary and by extension a sense of self worth for the things they've actually bring to the World often, most notably: Social media that creates discord and division and devices that promote further dependence on self-infatuated naval gazing while our Environment and hapless languish in mines and suffer ever greater exploitation, and these businesses make them increasingly more within the closed source, planned obsolesce paradigm business model. Not to mention the depression and suicide these addictive things are meant to create in a sort of intention span casino addiction model.

So, no, I don't think what you're saying is true, and what you are referring to is told with very obvious biases.

People should be critical of these exploitative and frankly often unnecessary and cancerous business models, the problem is that they wield so much power and money they simply destroy any competition they may have had in the past, assuming they didn't acquire them and we get less choices due to these monopolistic practices.

I think it was Chamath that said it best when he describes what banks and big tech excel at that most the Industries can't as the 'intellectual lobotomization' of a generation(s) best minds as they spend(t) their talents and drive to often pointless (facebook) and often nefarious ends (credit default swaps, naked short selling/high frequency trading algorithms etc...).
Happy Public Domain Day 2021
But I bet I can’t start a taxi service and call it Uber Shuttle Service for job applicants and build a website with Uber logo, phone number, and everything and when job applicants call me I pretend to be Uber?

Hey why stop there? maybe I can ask the job applicants for their personal information letting them believe they are talking to Uber and if they look like good candidates, I can build a website with information I gathered from them and start my own employment agency, call it quadruple bites or something and then call FAANG companies and offer to place candidates...

I think a big part of the problem is the misrepresentation/false advertising.

However, the goal I think is more sinister. For example, I believe Walmart decides how much it wants to pay suppliers who want to have their stuff sold at Walmart. If a delivery app is big enough, it can dictate the prices and terms of sale with a restaurant and demand deep discounts and forbid restaurants from making the deal public. The challenge is how does a delivery app become big enough to do that? Feels like a chicken and egg problem.
And that's exactly what's described at the end of the article:

> If dreams are visual hallucinations triggered by a lack of visual input, we might expect to find similar visual hallucinations in people who are slowly deprived of visual input while awake. In fact, this is precisely what happens in people with eye degeneration, patients confined to a tank-respirator, and prisoners in solitary confinement. In all of these cases, people see things that are not there.
I think there’s a key difference between what I suggest here and doing the entire thing in JavaScript: this is purely using JavaScript to set the initial time; the actual time keeping is done by the browser with a CSS animation, and thus it’s still a clock if JavaScript is unavailable or disabled, just one that starts at 12 o’clock instead of the correct time.
Flutter, probably, with the added benefit of the same code base (including UI) working on iOS and Android.
then by that logic it should go to infinity.
It would be cool if the DOM was exposed. Then you could write one liner bash scripts to do simple tasks like “download all images” or “delete script tags referencing spammyads.js”, all with nothing more advanced than find, cp, rm and mv in the shell. E.g.

cp html/body/*/img/.hero-img/hello.png ~Downloads/

You would need some clever way to express the DOM with ids and classes etc but it could be done with some subdirectory structure and long names, sometimes having multiple names for the same thing.
Chinese gov to Apple: so, we've heard you are building (edit: and selling) your products here huh?
This is undeniably a good thing if you put yourself in the shoes of the restaurant.

Imagine if someone went around impersonating your business online, leveraging the good name you have built for yourself over the decades. They create ads offering your expert development services, ostensibly competing with your existing website, but with intentionally slashed pricing and a ‘creatively’ misrepresented offering (aka growth hacking). Then they subcontract the job to some crappy outsourcing firm that bungles it, but who cares, they got their cut and you signed the TOS.

Now bad reviews are piling up online about the bad experiences people had with your business, your reputation is destroyed, and your business is next.

I know it’s not a perfect analogy but try to empathize with the restaurants here.
Reading the PDF I really can't understand how the court says there was no harassment..

And 80 app reviews per day? Do they even have time to eat or take a dump?
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VSCode Source Code Organization
https://youtu.be/wNGnCLod-qg
I sometimes wonder if replacing the hand-coded FSMs of UI ravioli callbacks with a more parser-generator-like declaration would be a cleaner approach.

(or maybe it's already been done? I haven't done UI code since last century...)
China is a major problem for 'western' companies. From sports and media companies that are walking on egg shells in case actors or sports stars, or even fans, say things critical of the Chinese government. De-funding or sidelining of movies potentially critical of the Chinese government. Imagine a film like The Manchurian Candidate being made now? It's not gong to happen, not from a major film studio anyway. The problems Apple is having here, and also with Chinese supplier companies possibly using transported Uighur labourers working under some form of coercion, can affect pretty much any foreign company operating in China.

In this case the App in question was pulled from the App Store in China. On the one hand I can understand it's the Chinese market so Chinese Government rules apply. Clearly this would not be acceptable if the App was pulled internationally. On the other hand, if the US government tried to get an App pulled when it's not clear the App violated any US law or App Store rules, Apple would fight it to the courts. That's a tricky course to take with China, but it's obviously the right thing to do.

If Chinese law says the App has to be pulled and a Chinese court says so then fine, I've no problem with Apple complying with that, the alternative would be to expect them to criminalise Apple employees in China. That's clearly not a reasonable expectation on any company. But at least it would force the Chinese authorities to account for their actions and make it clear what they are doing and why.

The problem is it's not really possible for individual companies to fight the Chinese government. Even for a company like Apple, the asymmetry in the power of the CCP relative to Apple is overwhelming. The CCP could crush Apple, and they know it. They hold enough economic power now that they could quite feasibly drive a major film studio to the wall, or slice off the whole profit margin of many US media or sports organisations.

It's time for western governments to work together on this. Congressional hearings in the US, debates at the G7 and G20. The WTO is pretty crippled at the moment and that needs to change. Whatever side of the US political fence you are and think about US imports, surely you all want to support US exports and the rights of US companies abroad right? I'm a Brit and ok we're out of the EU now, but on things like this we're all in the same boat and need to work together. We need to all support Australia in their current spat with the CCP.

We are desperately in need of a broad and international political debate about these issues. It affects all of us.
> Also, they really seem to not be interested in supporting the tournament communities for their games like Smash.

In this one in particular, they dont have to be supportive of anything at all. Why would there be an entitlement to get support from them?
Nintendo has used microkernels for the Nintendo Switch, I think it would be interesting to see if microkernels would also fit for the N64 or similar constrained devices.
But when talking of other solar system bodies, like Mars, isn't it the other way around? I.e. astronomically unlikely that contaminants haven't already found their way to earth, undirected, for billions of years now?
Octopuses Punch Fishes
Oh right, it's more that google will regulate PWA's to follow mobile's behavior, such as tracking, ads, etc, to more enrich play store apps.
My wife is exactly like this.

She says she feels tired because she feels she lives paralel lifes in her sleep.

But objectively she has NONE of the symptoms of bad sleep I get when I can't actually sleep.

So she maybe just feels emotionally tired for the first 5 minutes after she wakes up.

I once gave her my fitbit and checked her sleep -- she had almost no restless sleep like I do, she had a lot of REM and a lot of deep sleep, I'd love to have her sleep pattern.
The DX7 was the first of this kind of digital musical instruments. Every keyboarder at that time had to have one. They were pretty expensive, so Yamaha came out with some cheaper models with 4 oscillators instead of 6. The sound was also very good and the E-Rhodes is still a classic. But soon after that Roland came out with the D50 and that changed everything again, because now you could mix samples and digital oscillators. Yamahas answer to that was the SY77. A monster synth that nobody could program any more.
* Bitcoin will rise up until the point where vaccinations are widespread and then rapidly decline. Same goes for inflated tech stock prices.

* There will be dev layoffs in areas where low/nocode handles most work, especially internal tooling and APIs for corps.

* Intel will give up on manufacturing and catch up to AMD (maybe towards the end of the year or the one after). Until then stocks will plummet.

* Most big game companies will be bought by Microsoft, Google, Amazon, maybe Apple, maybe Sony. Microsoft Gamepass will get them into a leading position (but wont beat Sony in 1 years time, more like 3 or 4)

* Environmental catastrophes will become commonplace, including massive refugee crises due to water shortages, heat waves and other hazards.

* There will be 1 more economical crisis before it gets better, maybe after covid when people realize that it won't get back to pre-covid levels as fast as they hoped.
> Westerners love chairs and shoes

I am missing the reference here, how do chairs and shoes compare to radium and lead?
Thank you, that is very helpful. I will be pulling my mac out of storage and fix that :P
In Firefox, you can click at tab bar and select "Select all tabs", then bookmark them all, then close them all.

Also, "Auto discard tab" plugin does a good job by keeping unused tabs closed, to save resources.
Potlatch 3 for Desktop
Overexposure to Covid-19 website banners made me numb to warnings
White House wins ruling on disclosing health care prices
Learn to design a beautiful Login/Signup (registration flow) in Flutter
It is a really great book, unfortunately it just feels like the first chapter of a book.
Look at how the law is formulated: "A food delivery platform shall not X without Y."

X is the action the law allows or prohibits.

Y decides whether the action is allowed or not.

If "authorization to take orders and deliver meals" exists, then they can deliver. If "authorization to take orders and deliver meals" does not exist, then they cannot deliver.

"take orders" does not appear in the law anywhere else. It's only in the phrase "authorization to take orders", and in that context the law is only checking if that authorization exists. This particular law does not say when taking orders is allowed or prohibited. This law does not care if a platform is taking orders. It cares about whether the platform delivers, and it cares about whether the platform has "authorization to take orders and deliver meals".

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Edit: Pretend for a second the law said "A food delivery platform shall not arrange for the delivery of an order from a food facility without first obtaining an agreement with the food facility expressly authorizing the food delivery platform to own puppies and deliver meals prepared by the food facility."

Would that law have any effect on whether the food delivery platform can own puppies? Nah. The restaurant has to say "you are allowed to own puppies" before the platform can deliver, but that law is not imbuing the puppy clause with any other power. It neither allows nor disallows actual puppy ownership.

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So my main point is not that a platform should get cheeky by trying to take orders but not deliver, or something.

It's that even if they're not taking orders, this law blocks them from delivering. If they don't have the authorization, they can't deliver, end of story. The restaurant didn't say they can have a puppy, so they can't deliver, and it doesn't matter whether there actually is a puppy.
Certainly more good than news media taking an occasional drive-by shit on them will admit. It behooves people who still read the news to develop a healthy skepticism about motivated negative coverage.