skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The underlying factor here is the 30% commission charged by Valve corporation - which is fundamentally uneconomic.

If Tencent can move Klei games (new or old) off Steam, and onto a platform they control (ie. Epic Games Store), then they have boosted PC revenue by 32.5% (accounting for the 60% of Epic games owned by Tim Sweeny) just from this single change.

Now admittedly this is just the PC portion of sales, which probably account for roughly 50% of total sales.

These economics are the same for all other acquisitions by platform holders. If you don't like it, then agitate for Valve, Sony, Microsoft, Google, Apple to reduce their commissions to 10-15% - or for Governments to do it for them.
Fish and topsoil are also among the resources that are at high risk of being depleted within our lifetime.

Groundwater in many places is running out as well.
Somewhere around 2005, most of my job as an Oracle DBA/developer for a pension company seemed to consist of writing small scripts to automate some process. Somewhat like little Unix daemons to do my bidding - hence the handle ”daemoncoder” :-)

I often joke that I'm just writing a small script to replace myself with.

Currently I do a lot of data wrangling and analysis, mostly in Python, so still plenty of small programs to automate the boring stuff.
To me the image of the table with Putin, Flynn, and (?!) Jill Stein was the strangest bit.

Is it real?
Theres a lot of talk of cancel culture these days, but the UK has a long an shameful history of shutting down the hard left.

You can argue about whether or not you agree with people like Arthur Scargill, Gerry Adams, Tommy Sheridan, George Galloway or Jeremy Corbyn, but what cant be disputed is that they represent the interests of a large proportion of the electorate, yet they have been treated atrociously by the media. The SWP also falls into this category.

I'm not a huge fan of the SWP, but I do respect their engagement, and its really important to have political candidates who dont feel like they have to pander to those in power. The loss of the SWPs voice is a loss for all in the UK.
That totals to how many minutes at a gas station a month? Charging at home is zero.
How do you land large colonization facilities, landers, etc. in an atmosphere that is 1% as dense as Earth's?

With supersonic retro propulsion on a rocket that can be reused.

How do you then have enough fuel to leave?

You don’t, so you need to make the fuel with robots landed on one-way missions first. Luckily there are plenty of raw materials on Mars (in the atmosphere, soil and water deposits).

It’s very hard but it’s certainly doable if you can do the first part.
A new robotic vacuum cleaner isn't going to offend Communist leaders, but a bold new TV show or video games series might. This chilling effect is the factor behind limited creative output.
Because it's not an attempt to interfere in politics and they are assuredly not being banned due to their political views.

Facebook bans groups and people all the time, it does not imply that it's political.

It seems FB has no given their reasoning for the ban, which is rather odd given the significance, I suggest we'll either hear from them forthcoming with evidence of 'violence' or they'll walk back their mistake. My hunch was that this was a mistake ...

And the bit about 'no explanation' is a bit outrageous, I mean, how blatantly unfair is that.
When I was young a wise old man once told me: 'Push harder until something breaks, then back off just a little bit'

He was talking about something else but I think it's good advice in general
Varies on engine size. I used to drive 1.8L with broken thermostat. I had to drive for an hour until it started to get warm.
As with most of the forest in the UK, it was cut down for timber and then did not regrow because of deer. This has been happening for thousands of years.
That’s some nice, completely irrelevant what-about-ism
> unless you are not greedy and contend playing F2P or limited 5* characters

That honestly sounds reasonable to me. I don't see that deal as nasty. There's so much content, I didn't miss the extra characters at all. I actually almost completely missed the idea that there are more characters, so when I got the free extra one, I just though "oh, that's cool".

It doesn't limit your gameplay unless you really want to grind and complete 100% of Genshin. (and at that point you're sinking many hours a day - maybe it's worth paying for?) It's emphatically not "pay to win".
You just plug in, no card. The car identifies itself. It needs an internet connection to report the usage so it can be charged to the correct account. Gas stations obviously need a network connection of some kind too for card swipes to work. Otherwise you'd have to fall back to cash or manually writing down card numbers (is that even allowed anymore?) Almost all Superchargers are unmanned so no cash.
Single resistor can easily be added yourself. It doesn't have to be inside the transceiver, just close enough to end of cable. Bigger issue is the arbitration feedback as others noted.
There are cheaper and faster combustion sports cars.
>I don't get why we gotta stop trying to take care of each other

How would ending food stamps stop you from taking care of other people?
I think Australia should call their bluff. Even if they have to pay, they’ll still be making a profit. It’s just a matter of degree of greed.
> even though the SpaceX rocket is reusable.

As I pointed out already, the original NASA contract was signed long before SpaceX recovered a single core. Tose prices don't take into account reusability at all. SpaceX already has two pre-flown crew rated first stages ready to fly again. NASA has recently approved using them, and refurbished capsules, for upcoming missions. The cost calculation today is nothing like 2014 when SpaceX signed Commercial Crew.
This is wonderful news to host sensitive internal documentation without bending over backwards. Too bad it's only for enterprise accounts.
Are electric vehicles cheaper to manufacture (ignoring self-driving and batteries), including needing fewer computer chips, than fossil-fuelled vehicles? I would imagine more moving parts, plus a complex engine, fuel and exhaust system, would need more monitoring and controlling, and thus more chips.
Not OP, but we have a farm in India. Mostly we let it remain stagnant for a few years, so it's just been giving us coconuts.

Now we are starting an integrated fish farm + jackfruit farm + subsistence farm + livestock (goats only) approach. We have the fish farm because there's a nice irrigation stream that passes right by the side, wholly part of the farm (most farms of a certain land size will have some irrigation arrangement of the sort). The jackfruit is grown to sort of cater to the export demand for jackfruit abroad (especially with the whole "jackfruit as a meat trend"). Jackfruit trees grow thickly, so they provide a nice shade for any agriculture under the canopy at a reduced temperature (for stuff like spinach, tomatoes, pumpkins, etc) but that's mostly subsistence scale unless you go inorganic. Jackfruit leaves are really good as a feed for goats, which are the only animals that eat them and actually love eating them. The goats are sold for mutton to caterers for weddings and other functions.

Government gives electricity on the cheap as long as you show proof of agriculture (you cannot use it for your homes - they connect it separately and check it very often). The only issues have been theft of fish, for which we fit a bunch of security cameras around the place, so we were able to nab a couple of bastards. The main issue has been the semi-manual irrigation system, but I tested a prototype irrigation system using a Raspberry Pi for our small garden here, so I might try something similar for the farm back home.
We (Flaticon) tried that years ago. Very quickly got a letter from their lawyer pointing out that a) that was a violation of their ToS (right) and b) they have a sui generis database copyright that applies to whatever we got (doubtful, that applies in Europe to "big" parts of a collection).

We deleted everything we got from them. We got a second letter when we reached independently to some authors with CC icons, got their explicit approval and got their icons from their site. The same icons were also available on the noun, and I guess they thought we had downloaded them there. This time we answered back and never heard from them again.

They seemed pretty protective to me, and I would not recommend touching their site if you want to get a CC collection of icons without troubles.

Btw, Iconduck looks dope :) congrats!
Gentle? Is that how we describe 10,000lb bombs over Baghdad?
NASA had no vehicle for launching a replacement. It didn’t even have a domestic vehicle for launching astronauts for 9 years. SLS ate up any funds that were left.

Private industry doesn’t need a station.
Which would make it 8%?
Most likely rupees, which is still a few hundred thousand.
no, that's trivially refuted by considering the simpler but still consistent explanation that video calls are employed to more closely mimic the contemporaneously rare in-person meetings without considering (negative) utility at all.

in any case, your argument is circular because you're implicitly asserting utility must exist ('if they use video, it must have utility'), and then pointing to that just-asserted utility as (unsupported) refutation.
As a fan very disappointing. I imagine dunking on the CCP while living in China is the real life version of one of their games.
> IBM + Microsoft. Expected: OS/2. Actual: MS NT kernel

Not entirely true, because in fact NT is heavily "inspired" by VMS, that Dave Cutler, the main architect of NT kernel, used to work in DEC as a technical fellow. This is also one of the reason DEC Alpha can run Windows NT out of the box, as it is quite similar to VMS in nature.
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I co-found companies and recruit/coach/develop CEOs to run them.

This first happened with a huge ($1bn turnover, 500+ people) online travel co i started when I realized that my COO loved solving everyday problems while I loved sitting and thinking and not being stressed out. So he ended up running all ops and then became CEO, and I am a large passive shareholder.

Over the last several years I co-created many other companies – all either venture backed or about to be – from biotech to SaaS to mobile apps to fintech. In all these places there is a team I trust to run them already in place, or being created.

The reason other people want to do this with me is that (a) people like being CEOs and having responsibility (b) i have certain superpowers, especially around identifying opportunities, crafting stories, pulling together talent and capital, coaching people, and – thanks to plenty of MDMA/LSD use – quickly build deep relationships with a lot of trust (c) most people find it quite difficult to take the first step when nothing at all exists, and I find it very easy and exciting because I instantly imagine how things could work (d) I have been a VC-backed founder for a decade and have gone through a lot of stresses of firing people, dealing with complicated situations, motivating teams at times of hardship etc. (e) i am completely unwilling to do things i do not like doing and as soon as these arise i start looking for someone to delegate them to

I love this because I love creating things, building relationships, empowering other people. It feels extremely high-impact, and creates both very significant financial assets and ability to decide my own cash income. More importantly, it constantly builds more relationships and skills and knowledge of how to continue doing this. The flywheel spins up.

The work is quite intense and i rarely take holidays but i can do so whenever i want to, because i am constantly delegating and am rarely in the position when something cannot function without me. i don't take holidays because i don't enjoy them that much. i relax by spending time with interesting people, and that also happens to be a core part of my job since it builds relationships and ideas for the future.

Now. i get that this is not a standard "job" by any measure. however, it is a job i have created for myself because i understand myself well. and i think the answer to loving what you do (thus not being stressed) and getting paid a lot is to build your own job. to refuse to be constrained by existing ways of doing things, and to just not be afraid of doing things differently. there are many people out there doing this across many domains and in very different ways.

at core the reason i am able to do this is a lot of meditation, psychotherapy, psychedelics, coaching, and a lot of close friends i love. you have to deeply understand what you want, not compromise despite difficulties along the way, and build support systems for yourself. stress management is a skill.

good luck figuring this out, this is a very cool and interesting question to consider!
Feeling lost in an enigmatic codebase. God, I hate that feeling.

My very first day as a software engineer, my boss had me pull down a massive code base, showed me the backlog, and told me to get to work. No training, no mentor. Years later, and I still only have a faint idea what that goddamn program did. Stuff of nightmares.
Somewhat tangent ownership factoid.

~30% of Tencent is owned by South African multinational Naspers.
How do you protect your knees from damage?
On the other hand searching for xkcd is very easy, searching for resolve (or even resolv) would take more searching skills.

EDIT: actually, searching for rysolv -> resolve :)
> In December 2019, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that the United States did not plan a military intervention in Venezuela, saying that "we have said that all options are on the table", but that "we have learned from history that the risks from using military force are significant".

There has been zero proven connection between that operation with any US gov office nor even Guaidó himself. It was 100% amateur hour and initiated by a con man’s security company.
> And this is why the US lost the war to Japan. No, wait.

You honestly think the Manhattan project, and by extension operation paperclip, was a byproduct of bureaucracy? The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The inhumane levels of carpet bombing campaigns over civilian homes in Tokyo that actually killed more than the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined?

And this is not to even mention the event that preceded Pearl Harbor bombing, the US' American Volunteer Group Mercenaries (I actually met one of the pilots of the flying tigers in San Diego when I was in my early 20s at an airshow event) intervention and involvement in aerial warfare in China against the Japanese Imperial Air force.

The US was already at war with Japan before Pearl Harbor which led to its formal declaration of war, and had been in an economic war long before that with restricted oil sales.

Japan was not innocent here, and I'm not an apologist for them as they quite honestly were one of the worst in committing acts of barbarism and war crimes all over the Pacific in that war. It's appalling to see the level of cruelty they were capable of with the notion of 'racial superiority' driving them, which was in direct odds with their allies' (Nazi) supposed belief about Aryan supremacy, and put the entire Asian race at a very low, perhaps even sub-human, position.

And what's even harder to believe was this wasn't even that long ago, either. Many of those people are still alive, perhaps less now due to COVID.

But if you think for one second this was done from bureaucratic decree, rather than Imperialist ambition and a lust of global and corporate hegemony you really have a narrow view of that war.

To be honest the Nazi's records were kept way better and operated in a very systematic and bureaucratic way (very Germanic) throughout that war which was very useful in lining out the SS' fiances in the last years of the War and its relationships with major Corps/Banks on both sides of the war.

I highly recommend the story of Martin Borrmann to see the pinnacle of bureaucratic and corporate-state power at its best. Consider that almost all of the biggest Corporations that supplied the German/Nazi regime ended up becoming some of the biggest in the World afterward, and that extends to auto manufacturers, banks, and pharmaceutical corps.
It apply also to Chinese developers. There is a good article about this from a few years ago: https://egmnow.com/the-closing-walls-around-chinas-independe...

I am guessing things did not change much since then.
That does sound like an interesting approach but I think is only applicable in first-job or entry level positions right?

What kind of seniority are we talking about here?
>You can simplify this by using a different payment rail (in my case, Lightning over Bitcoin), but now you have a different problem: nobody has Bitcoin.

The problem is that Lightning essentially is a subscription service. The user has to lock much more Bitcoin in a channel in order use Lightning for micro transactions, which defeats the purpose. The minimum fee to get a Bitcoin transaction confirmed in a reasonable amount of time is often over $20 USD at this point. That's a very large deposit for a $20 fee to be worth the effort.

They could deposit a smaller amount of Bitcoin in a custodial wallet, but at that point you might as well use a credit card or Paypal. It defeats the underlying appeal of Bitcoin, which is controlling your own money.

More people would have, and more importantly use, Bitcoin if it was allowed to scale on-chain. Why that hasn't happened yet is a different rabbit hole.
After lots of notifications, warnings and headers:

> first they disabled it for one hour, then reenabled it, then they disabled it permanently two weeks later.

> There's other tricks too: Android added increasing delays to deprecated native APIs in 2015, eventually going up to a full 16 second wait, before finally turning off the API entirely.

I feel that this is the crux. You never know who actually uses the API until it is really unavailable.
As a person that's previously owned a Zodiac-type boat, I really wonder what an ISS patch kit looks like.

What sort of adhesives, covering materials, chemicals and application stuff do they have on hand for quick "we need to stop air escaping through this hole NOW" type situations?

Obviously the problem is sort of reversed, if you have a leaky zodiac you're patching it from the outside and trying to stop air escaping into the atmosphere. If you have a leaky ISS module you're inside it, and applying some sort of quick-setting malleable chemical goop into a hole that's sucking your air outwards...
True! I would guess that was the original motivation from the author - to make it unique, short and be able to purchase a .com domain name.
“What we end up with is a membrane with these short and very narrow channels through which only very small molecules can pass,” Hurt said. “So, for example, water can pass through, but organic contaminants or some metal ions would be too large to go through. So you could filter those out.”
its 'cause the trade war that force China to allowed this. if there is no trade war. do you think China will allowed what have been working for them for the past 40+ years?
The important thing is that it can probably run NetBSD:

https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/news68k/

(admittedly, there's a warning for this model - 'not tested in many years')
There was a recent post from an A16Z insider that basically made it clear that they are nothing more than a media house with VC capabilities. This is probably why the person writing it doesn't make much sense to you.
While I am horrified by the sums of money, I think there's a slightly less cynical take than the congressional districts one.

If you want to have an industry of people who make X, then there need to be people employed making X, every year, for decades. And at more than one company, so that it isn't too fragile a career path. When X is single-use rockets there is the advantage that after one flight you have to re-build, whereas when X is tanks (or other long-lasting hardware) you have to choose to throw the old ones away.
Some bugs:

When clicking the grid view, it does not work with åäö. And probably other character as well.

https://multy.me/x7R7AB

If I add two urls, most of the time, the last one does not show up.

If i add a URL that has a 301 to another url, it's the target url, not the one i entered, that get's published.

When clicking "create list" it takes 5-8 seconds before the list is created. This seems like a long time for such a simple operation.
If Sheryl Sandberg is the name of a program scanning messages for references to Mastodon (or decentralization, or whatever) and banning accounts promoting it, then yes apparently some people do believe that. It's not like some inconceivable idea. Or perhaps it just bans accounts "promoting" anything without paying for the privilege.
Stonks go up. Shitron will rot under the WSB banner.

This is the way.
I live in downtown Oslo (capitol of Norway). I park my car on the street, but we have a decent amount of type-2 chargers around so its hardly any trouble.

We’ve charged on a fast-charger three times the past three months, all of those times were on longer trips we usually don’t do.
First they came for the Trumpists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trumpist.

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

(to be continued apparently!)
I used to just charge at work. Workplaces seem more likely to be able to persuade to install charging points.
As an European, I'm curious.

How many women has Joe Biden raped total?

How many kids has he raped?
Interesting that we had a warmest year on record simultaneously.
Tesla is the only one who doesn't support J1772. The compatibility problem has mostly solved itself with the industry adopting CCS, which is backwards compatible with J1772. Teslas sold in North America are the only new EVs without CCS.

The reason charger pricing is inconsistent is because there isn't regulation requiring a standard the way fluid pricing is regulated.

https://www.nist.gov/document/00-20-h130-iv-c-final-80pdf

Both of those issues are easily solved by legislation.