skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many environments, fraud contains a definition of "dishonestly obtain financial advantage by deception".

Your example is flawed. It's not a crime or fraud to resell a product.

It is still fraud, not merely objectionable, to resell a product while in every way possible acting as if you are not a reseller but the original producer.
What!?? A Left-leaning hi-tech company ... LYING ?? Come on now. Don't forget they do all this "fact checking"... apparently NOT on their own company.
Your argument assumes that Uber is hiring contractors and customers interact with Uber... If that were the case, Uber would have to take responsibility for the full transaction towards both drivers and riders (Eg guaranteed payment vs time, rather than possibility of rides). Uber is instead trying to represent itself as a marketplace matching drivers & riders, with riders hiring divers as contractors. And Uber doesn’t allow drivers to negotiate terms with riders, which breaks that thesis.
This isn’t new, in fact it dates back to the earliest days of the App Store.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich

Without more context about exactly what the app is that has been rejected, this is simply not news.
Nothing has come close and nothing ever will. Mainly due to the fact that it wasn't just the game mechanics; but that all player types had no other option except to play UO. This, combined with the game mechanics, is what made UO a one-of-a-kind experiences. I feel blessed and honored to have had the opportunity to be a part of it. After so many years failing to find a UO replacement; I've accepted this conclusion as reality and as result, have stopped searching.
Reputable prediction markets don't offer contracts where they themselves, or someone in general, could profit from human misery.

Disclosure: I work for one.
yeah, have never seen the direct quote myself either. I got it from david galenson, a labor economist who wrote a book about late genius

https://magazine.uchicago.edu/0304/features/index-poetic.htm...
Consider any of the coverage of the dispute between Scotland and Westminster on the hotel quarantine regulations, e.g. [0] Westminster is only requiring quarantine from a certain list of countries, while Scotland wants quarantine on all arrivals regardless of what country they come from. Sturgeon also said bluntly this week that international travel this summer is "highly unlikely", even though Westminster has been much more cautious about making such statements.

The Scottish government has been particularly reliant on advice from Devi Sridhar at the University of Edinburgh, who wants a "zero-COVID" approach and says that allowing life to get back to normal within a country is worth Australian-style draconian border closings and quarantine obligations, even if they might last years.

[0] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/scotland-hotel-quarantine...
There's this photo of the rover being lowered to the surface:

https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/status/1362825545227018240
Make no mistake, it's still a dumpster fire. Just maybe less raging.
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You're debating a strawman. The argument is that NIMBYs oppose more housing in a place already zoned for housing. No one's talking about building a nuclear power plant next to a kindergarten.
This might be an overly rosy view of history :) prior to 89 C wasn’t even standardized, and C++ was a mess until 98. And those are just the years that the standards came up. It took time for existing compilers to catch up.
> Not everything they did worked, but when it did, they created history.

This reminds me of Seymour Cray... he had his share of setbacks, many due to ambitious designs, but when he succeeded, it was historic. (CDC6600, 7600, and Cray 1 come to mind immediately)
For most apps - wouldn't PWA's be sufficient as implemented today. Presumably, they'll expose more and more hardware APIs over time?
Some corporations did that. Most didn't. The main reason IE dominated was that most people didn't care, and stuck with the default. The main reason old versions of browsers were more common than new ones was that self-updating browsers hadn't become a thing yet, and most people didn't care, and just stuck with the default. The reason most browsers stay up-to-date now is that modern browsers are all configured to self-update by default, and most people don't care, and stick with the default.

I have never bought a prebuilt Windows PC, so this is pure speculation, but I am wildly guessing that the dominance of Chrome is because computers are now coming with Chrome preinstalled and configured as the default, and most people don't care, and just stick with the default.
Mostly because the virus evolves, it’s global, and various countries have differing containment strategies and vaccination capacity. Again, it evolves so whatever the most successful variant is will take root in areas which have poor containment and evolve again. Unless we can contain it and vaccinate against the latest variants globally and all at once, it will likely persist in some form or another.

Here's a good article on viral escape: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/vacci...
That is how your employer provided plan works, however. They negotiate a rate for the whole group, not an individual medical workup and premium for each individual.

If you want to move away from that to “just pay me the equivalent comp directly and I’ll get my own insurance”, rates are going to get ugly.
Also: a lot of our "Electron" apps are essentially Electron frontends to the existing web frontend.

For example, Slack-the-Electron-app and Slack-the-web-app are fundamentally identical, aside from likely some platform integration features and so on. That means that, likely, a lot of these Electron apps would already work in, for example, a Safari or Edge webview, since the web version has to anyway. I sincerely doubt that they're taking the time to strip out that compatibility, since the only reason to do so would be efficiency and if you're using Electron that's not a priority.

IOW, for many applications, there's a near-100% chance that everything would function with little to no extra work, and for most of the rest it would likely take very little.
I wasn't suggesting removing all technology, as I agree that wouldn't work even if I wanted it. I just liked idea of a parallel low technology track fighting the good fight against pointy helmet disc-wheeled ten rider weeknight TT. Something odd just for fun, like the 24 Hours of LeMons¹ on beaters from the shed.

I'm kind of aware of Keirin from watching track, but wasn't aware of the depth in the local market. That Chris Hoy video was great, thanks!

¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hours_of_LeMons
That was Wing Commander 3, which hadn't been made yet. Wing Commander 2 was mostly just using the Wing Commander 1 game engine, which is probably why Snell liked it so much. Savage Empire and Martian Dreams were the "Worlds of Ultima" series of CRPGs, and were based on the Ultima VI engine - very little new programming involved - just new content. That was probably pretty cheap too.
> Maybe it would help my understand if you could provide a chart relating the pronouns someone chooses with the pronouns other people are then allowed to use?

I think this is everything wrong with the world currently. Provide you with a chart, so I can justify using gender neutral pronoun?

https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/singular-they

This is barely more than a year old, is it already outdated? I am an asshole for daring to use “they”?
With tor it's required because otherwise any privacy benefits (literally the point of using tor browser) will be negated by dns leaks. On the other hand with firefox it's not required, and the privacy benefits is debatable since the queries just get funneled from one corporation (your ISP) to another (cloudflare).
Yes, these comparisons are kind of senseless. But spending so much money on atomic weapons is kind of bullshit!
These are weapons, if ever used again will probably take-out humanity because if some of those are flying to you, you will answer with everything you have.

In my opinion military spending should be reduced greatly. But if they want to invest so much invest them in technologies which may have more impact on other areas. Like the laser concept on navy ships.
The U.S hasn't built a new nuclear warhead in almost 30 years, any changes since have been modifying existing nuclear warheads. A new program had to happen eventually.

Where's the teacher salary comparisons for the $1.9 trillion dollar stimulus package anyways. With that much money we could almost convert our country's entire energy production to green energy.
When I ran a campaign I experienced similar problems. Received likes from very dubious looking Facebook profiles who likes all sorts of random stuff.
> Roughly 18 percent of the trials resulted in this level of clear and accurate communication from the dreamer; 17 percent produced indecipherable answers, 3 percent ended with incorrect responses, and 60 percent did not provoke any response at all.

Sounds like a stretch to label this as a success. What are the chances that a "correct" response was randomly encountered?
I'd like to sell you a bridge
I work in geospatial stuff and we use OSM data. There's things I'd contribute back but the community is notoriously prickly. You make a couple of mistakes not made out of malice and they'll assume you're corpos out to fuck everyone because that's what evil corpos do.

The downside is high (you get a bad reputation as being an evil corpo) and the upside is limited. So, for the moment, we just hold the corrections on our side and overlay them on top.

If you're an actual corp you don't care about that, but being labeled an evil corpo will ruin things if you want to cooperate. And we're a small startup.

I'll revisit it some time but we're being cautious about it.
Hum... Define "normal".

If you mean "perfectly fine", then no, it isn't. But it's normal¹ meaning is "what happens most of the time", and it certainly is.

1 - That's intended.
> It is the main communication infrastructure for the majority of the planet.

sure? afaik whatsapp is "only" domniant in five-eyes, europe and latin-america but thats not where the majority of ppl live.
Aren't you just describing traditional RPC calls? Many tools for this: DBus on Linux, Microsoft RCP on Windows, and more that I'm not aware of.

If you've only got a basic IPC system (say, Unix domain sockets), then you could stream a standard seriaization format across them (MessagePack, Protobuf, etc.).

To your idea of gracefully moving to network-distributed system: If nothing else, couldn't you just actually start with gRPC and connect to localhost?

Is there something I'm missing?
They are already called QPUs.
Researchers looking for mRNA were ridiculed by colleagues
From the roadmap:

> Go, Nim, Python, C++ and other bindings are possible with the stable API.

I think something like this might actually have a lot of potential, specifically because it's much easier to create bindings for other languages with Rust than with JavaScript.

You're stuck with a NodeJS runtime to run an Electron app, even if you "compile" it. You could theoretically make bindings to another language, but you'd still be dependent on that NodeJS runtime. But this could theoretically be compiled to a relatively lightweight DLL and interfaced with using practically any language you want.

The page logic would still need to be JavaScript, of course, but that's just the nature of webviews for now.
So if I install a Tauri app I can access it with Firefox?
Why do you expect that? The four other endemic coronaviruses endemic in humans don’t require anyone to be vaccinated. They just cause a simple cold. Why should this one be different once it’s endemic?
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Why? The "public" telephone network is still provided by a business. You can't host your own phone server for people to call.
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That's awesome :). Yes, you are able to use any BI Tools as Tableau, Power BI, SAS BI, or any other BI Tool that you can connect to external databases. Tutorials and examples of BI Tools should be published soon on our documentation.
Because then you'll get a more efficient app that people don't constantly complain about?

Especially on macOS, where Chrome/Chromium have historically been extremely inefficient, swapping the Chromium engine for WebKit2 WebViews would mean battery, memory, and CPU savings which would absolutely be worth the effort IMHO.
The only one I played was Ultima VII. Found a few easter eggs, then one day I'm walking through the woods and get attacked. Two of my people are on the ground, bleeding out. They are completely clipped behind trees and I couldn't figure out how to heal them. And that was the end of that.

Older me probably could have worked out the UI (maybe clicking on the character image) but young, post-fight me got lost and felt helpless, which is exactly the sort of thing you should not feel in an adventure game.
Not much different but enough to be dangerous. Older Windows use Trident, 10 still uses EdgeHTML, many people are stuck with old Androids that don't have up to date engines (not sure if Android is a target, wasn't easy to find in their website), and webviews have access to the system in ways a website doesn't (like reading files or using the camera without having to ask for permission or being allowed to issue requests to arbitrary domains).
Congrats, we're building a similar platform but trying not to be a middle man as much as possible (https://ontwik-dev.com)
There's another possibility, which is that "Crypto people," are another isolated pocket separate from any mainstream faction, that come up with their own weird beliefs for their own divergent reasons. An uncorrelated niche faction would be expected to go closer to one mainstream faction's beliefs over another's about half the time.
> even if 90% of the stuff ends up being total crap or a fraud

Working on something that turns out to be total crap or a fraud is actually very demoralizing, not to mention not great for your resume.

In the distributed systems space, I've interviewed a lot of burnt out engineers who thought they were getting in on the next big blockchain company that turned out to be a couple founders use blockchain as a get rich quick scheme.

For every story we hear about people getting lucky by timing something blockchain-related just right, there are many more people who got the timing wrong and lost out when the hype collapsed.

Be careful out there.
Searching this database by typing keywords reminds me of the "search engine" gameplay in Sam Barlow's game Her Story.
> That's why I stopped worrying about which implementation technique is the fastest and chose the one that made it the most trivial to extend the interpreter.

I like that, it appeals to my sense of pragmatism.

I wrote a Joy interpreter in Nim the other day, and when it came time to switch from machine ints to BigInts it was a breeze. There was a library already written, I updated the type and the compiler told me what else to change, the whole thing was over in fifteen minutes. And if I ever find that integer math is a performance bottleneck there is also a wrapper for GMP ready to go.

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BTW, I'm a big fan of Oberon, and I think Astrobe is awesome and admire you for making and supporting it. Cheers!
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Unlike smallpox, the only virus that humankind has successfully eradicated, there are animal reservoirs for COVID-19.
> A major benefit of Electron is that you can develop against a single browser version and don't have to deal with all the small but time consuming compatibility quirks.

Somehow I doubt the ideal solution is to bundle a web browser with every app. Electron feels like a prototype that went out of control.
For years, I’ve had a recurring dream where I’ve returned to a location of many fond childhood memories, my grandparents’ home. More recently, the dreams focus on the impossibility of my being there again after all these years, the paradox resolved by some handwaving of my subconscious.
Brave Help Article https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018121491-Wha...

In which they, themselves, say (and always have been saying): " If your personal safety depends on remaining anonymous, we highly recommend using Tor Browser instead of Brave Tor windows. "

Also this is a known issue, see https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/7909
The primary key serves a database function, and its data type should be optimized to suit that function. If you need an enumeration resistant id for public use, a uuid is a great idea, but it's a mistake to make the primary key in a database do double duty as a public identifier and impose inappropriate constraints on it as a consequence.
> Stuff is going to get rewritten in Rust.

Yes it definitely will, but not only, specially among groups where not using a GC is more of a religious issue than an actual technical impediment.
Vitalik is worth hundreds of millions (if not more - I haven't checked in a while). He can afford to play games like this.
That's similar to short sellers trying to manipulate a stock: pretty much only works in the shallows (small cap, thin coverage, moderate liquidity).

You could manipulate the dogcatcher election (or, more profitably, a bond initiative) but a presidential election is probably too hard, especially in this case (amount of money you'd need to spend is much larger than the amount you could make on these markets).
IPIP/IPsec and OSPF would do nicely for efficient site-to-site meshing.

But, adding docker to the equation makes it much more complicated. I'd prefer just operating the machines over IP and get rid of all remote desktop related latency all together.
I have solved various unsolvable issues in a dream.

And I actually remember one solution because I constructed a mental model so I would remember the unique groundbreaking solution I have just invented.

Thus I now remember a ball with curved arrows coming in and out, but I do not understand what it means and what problem it solves.
Think about chargers.

Somewhere in the product description, advertising, is the word "FOR".

Lightning cable FOR Apple iPhone.

Belking trying to sell the same cable as "Apple iPhone Lightning cable" would be problematic. Leaving aside licensing issues.

The proof is in the pudding. Go to one of the websites they register for a restaurant, and see just how many references to "We are not the restaurant, but we are reselling and delivering their food". Hint: rather few.

Call the number on the website. "Hello, I can take your order for [restaurant name]!"

"Is this [restaurant]?"

"I can take your order!"

Because all of the above isn't defensible. They're not just (re) selling the restaurant's food, they are implying that they -are- the restaurant.

Behavior here becomes important. Deception and context. Why in these cases if Deliveroo/Uber/etc were comfortable with their process would they not say "This is Uber Eats, and we can take orders for [restaurant]"? This again comes back to one of those definitions of fraud, "dishonestly obtaining financial advantage (your cut of the order, inflated pricing, etc) by deception (explicitly stating or repeatedly implying that you are the restaurant)".

and other vague hand-waving answer designed to imply that you are talking to the restaurant and avoiding the answer, "No this is a call center for a delivery service".
Local small businesses have other acquisition methods (walk through traffic, local search, etc.) and don't rely on FB.

Facebook disagrees. It's even taken out full-page newspaper ads to tell people that if small businesses don't advertise (and permit invasive tracking) on Facebook, they'll go out of business and take the economy with them.
The issue around Tor is not a reason to avoid Brave. It has a lot of other good attributes for the common people. And I like it’s attempt to let you support websites while blocking intrusive ads.
SQS wrapper to easily onboard with SQS on your Golang service
Because this one doesn't just cause a simple cold?
> hundreds of millions of users

Just curious, but how many employees? How many specifically are responsible for writing code that interacts with SQLAlchemy and/or the objects it creates. While I don't doubt it is _possible_ to make SQLAlchemy work great, I think it's mandatory to overstaff with engineers/programmers in order to do so.
Given there is freedom of movement within the U.K. and that is a competency of Westminster not Holyrood, it’s going to be difficult for them to do that.
>Or a participant in some sort of fantasy vote-rigging conspiracy.

This is even more relevant outside of the US. In the US vote rigging conspiracies are impossible for some inexplicable reason, perhaps related to magical soil, but outside of the US they are a real concern.
Step 1: build something and have fun doing it.

Step 2: post something slightly decisive on HN that mentions your product and use case at least 1 time.

Step 3: monitor conversions, wait for signups.

Step 4 (optional): repeat

This obviously isn't bad. I enjoyrd the reading and honestly deadpendancy seems very useful and I'd have never heard of it if not for this post.
Author here. Great points, I agree 2 extra round trips are not strictly necessary.

The advantage of P2C is the simplicity that comes from its stateless/just-in-time nature. If you cache load, either by servers broadcasting or including a load indicator in the response, you have to consider cache invalidation and TTLs. The longer the TTL, the higher the odds of a thundering herd (all clients think one server is under loaded and proceed to overload it). If you're undertaking this complexity, it may be better to go with a proxy, which can have other benefits too (connection pooling, no client cooperation required). Like all such decisions, it depends on the situation.
I don't remember where this observation actually comes from but it's been said that the Military Industrial Complex always prepares "for the last war". So it makes perfect sense that we are spending so much on established doctrine and neglecting the modern information/disinformation conflict.
Yeah. I was using a lot of hyperbole in an attempt to get my point across. However, in the time between writing my earlier comment and this I've actually been out for a lunchtime ride on my fixie. Just good fun for a Friday in February!

The response here makes me think there are others who like the idea though, so I'll try to float it in the local CC forum.
> Why have 1bn users and make $1 per user? Isn't it better if then have 200mn users and make $20 per user?

In one case you make $1BN and in the other you make $4BN. So yes, the latter would objectively be better. :-)
Are you thinking of Ultima VII? It was indeed an excellent game where you could do endless things unrelated to the main quest, and was the precursor to Ultima Online (set in the same world, mostly similar game engine).

This article is about Ultima VIII, a very different experience.
I've had the naked dream a LOT, usually taking place at work. It's the place where I'm most anxious and insecure.

Another I've had is being at the top of a very tall skyscraper that starts shaking from an earthquake, and I have to get down somehow. Like everything around me is about to crumble and it's totally out of my control.
I agree, for the actual handling part, I think CL's error system is the best I've seen, and I'm surprised that more languages don't implement a similar system.

It doesn't solve the issue of forcing programmers to handle errors..but then, CL doesn't care a lot about hand holding.
Awesome.

I'm opting out anyway.

"What are you in for, son"?

"Being outside without an excuse."

Clown world.
Why anyone surprised? Facebook DGAF.