skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They compete with each other in the same way the McDonalds and Burger King compete for the cows that are made into hamburgers ....

Google's and Facebook's customers are the advertisers, and they compete for those. But users are the product from which the burgers are made.
How do cdn providers (Cloudflare, Cloudfront etc.) avoid the subdomain blacklisting problem? Do they just have some agreement with browser vendors to whitelist their all of their subdomains because they're big enough?
Why would any person or machine care that the stack wasn't empty?
I like the concept. You could expand it quite nicely as you go, putting maps and possibly player icons in spaces on board for saving last positions etc. I noticed there was some stuff not working but i know its early. Maybe have it rely on rock solid data such as firebase or s3 or something to make it more reliant but good start.
Thanks. Regardless of who did what, columnar stores are non-trivial engineering and anyone who produces a production-ready one is worthy of admiration.
> US industry will be out of China by tomorrow

Yeah, I think you're under estimating the interconnectedness of the supply chain there. Would definitely make the pandemic disruption look small.

And you're assuming China won't retaliate. I wouldn't like to be a US national in China when that happened.
The article is misrepresenting the situation.

Jack Dorsey isn't attempting to sell anything here. The site allows anybody to make an offer, unsolicited, on a tweet of their choosing. Jack can choose to accept the offer if he wishes, but he's not the one who initiated this.

It's all in their FAQ.
Yeah, but isn't it a lot simpler and easier if I already have a copy of my data?

> as a user I wouldn’t want to use the app anymore

I still have a working copy of Corel Draw 10 from like 2005.
The way you added "Or was someone offended on their behalf, preemptively?" suggested a different intent. I read it as a distrust that anyone at Mozilla would actually care, and explicit doubt on my earlier description of 'LGBT people and their fellow travelers working for and supporting Mozilla'.

The overarching question I have: what does "cancel" mean? According to my definition ("negative consequences to rich, powerful, or famous people because of actions or statements that the left disagrees with"), Eich was indeed canceled. But of course, my definition is little different than "those lefties need to shut up and stop complaining!" - just couched in fancier terms. [1]

Then, if he was meaningfully "canceled", does that mean that what happened was necessarily a bad thing? Obviously, as a lefty, I don't, since that would mean my complaints would never be heard.

I'll construct a dramatic hypothetical. Suppose 90% of the staff threatened to leave if Eich stayed on, because of his support for homophobic legislation. This would have shown that Eich's leadership role would have been rather ineffectual, so decided to leave, in order that Mozilla survive as an organization.

Would that still have been "cancelling" Eich in that case? And therefore would it be an intrinsically immoral or unethical act?

[1] And I still don't know how "cancel" can be applied to this Suess case, where the copyright holder [2] has decided to stop the publication on what appears to be a voluntary decision with only scattered activism for the change.

[2] Really, isn't the problem that copyright is entirely too long? Why should we wait another 40 years before a book published in 1937 enters the public domain? When he wrote it, the maximum copyright period was 56 years - until 1993. As a public domain book, we wouldn't be having this tempest in a teapot!
This is still a massive improvement over the Cold War, though.
I haven’t read all comments so I don’t know if anyone made this suggestion already, but for a demo uploader, you could probably just have all the file contents replaced with zeros, or stand-in data of the same content type (eg all videos turn into a video saying thanks for trying it out, padded with zeros to the original upload size)
> Am I?

Yes, you are.

> Your other reply... Needs some citations

Done.
> According to the preface, even that is overstating it: "Actually, a great deal of the book requires no calculus at all and could profitably be studied by sophisticated high school students".

I'm pretty sure the harder the math book the more they claim a sophisticated high school student could study it.
The HP Prime does have an RPN mode. I bought it recently, for that very feature, when my HP48 died. The keyboard of the HP Prime isn't really optimized for it (some trivial operations on the stack require key combinations, while on the HP48 there were physical keys for them), but it's acceptable.
It seems strange to me that the article and some of these comments are talking about how the scarcity is artificial. Of course the scarcity is artificial! Magic Cards, Pokemon cards, sports trading cards, Supreme merch, yeezy shoes... all of these business models are based on artificial scarcity. There are time honed methods to figure out exactly how many to sell to keep the market thriving without flooding it.

Most of the examples I listed are also easily reproducible (how hard would it be to make a replica NBA rookie card with the right printer?), yet the fakes are worthless while the "Authentic" ones are work tens-hundreds of thousands of dollars.
This is built on top of Firebase :) Curious what didn't work!

And yes, it's definitely a plan to have a map with the party position, linked to calendar entries. Like a dotted line showing where you've been over time.
It's still not clear whether LE Audio supports high quality duplex audio. They say you can use it for microphone, but that doesn't certainly means voice communication (both listening and speaking at the same time).
Programming language is more abstract than mere collection of glyphs. I am curious if the glyphs were replaced by English alphabet, what are the special aspects of this language?
I'm not familiar with r/datahoarder, but if the name bears any significance, it seems they are mostly centered on hoarding data, which means just digital I guess? If so, I much rather would want to promote efforts like Internet Archive that back up all kind of things, not just digital data.
Pure density isn’t everything, magnetic storage doesn’t have the same power and heat increases with storage density as solid state semiconductor storage has.
Back when there were a lot of Ruby, Rails and CSS posts, I used the knowledge from those and the comments to change careers and it’s been a good move for me.

I recommend the Hacker Newsletter if you are busy and just want to know the big stories posted. It’s a quality curation and the writer takes suggestions from his subscribers.
For every useful reddit post that helps users get a shitty product working despite its useless official documentation (recently for me, this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/WeMo/comments/k2gem9/easiest_wemo_h... ) there are hundreds of dumb forum posts from clueless users that are not helpful to anyone.

Also, the quote wasn’t “you’re holding it wrong” - but “just avoid holding it that way” which makes a lot more sense/is a pragmatic answer when people are tightly wrapping their hands around the bottom of the phone for the purpose of intentionally degrading signal.
Here's a really great quote (cannot remember who it is attributed to):

"Want to learn something new? Read an old book."
If they didn’t cut the trees down, maybe a big storm left them with a lot of wood?
Javier I have a really interesting project for you. I will write you directly.
Interesting twist on a Wankel style design. It looks like the apex seals are moved to the block rather than rotor. I’m also curious as to the benefit/drawback of having the flow of intake and exhaust perpendicular to the rotor.
Yeah, right, it's usually the case, but I've used MS Word, LibO, and many others since that time and for a much longer time than I ever used WordStar (consistently that is). The difference with WordStar is that one doesn't get sidetracked with layout and other futzing about, it was all WP without distractions.
Yeah the timeless universal appeal of white ,15-25,male, nerdy American sub-urbanites. They are like 0.001% of humanity at best (talking historically)
At The International 2013 (a DotA tournament), in person viewers received "autographs" of the players that could attached to items in game. I told them on the Steam market place for almost $1,000.
I mean, I've seen parsers made up of Regex only. My eyes hurt after that.
Yes, it's pretty great by the standard of the time!
The fact that they are sometimes useful does not negate the fact that they have too much power to censor the web.
yes but its more like vitess. which is basically more like sharded masters, but most of the time this works way better than something like galera or bdr.
> It's easy to imagine scenarios where the first programming languages were based on Mandarin or Bangla or Hindi keywords.

I don't know. To me that seems pretty far fetched idea.

Russian, or German, maybe? But I don't really see how the computer revolution could have started in SE Asia without fairly major changes in history
I hope this attracts attention from someone who knows more than I do, but I can’t see anything wrong with that. The arbitrary and immense power FAANG wields is fucking terrifying.
> (I'll have to trust your answers since I don't have a Windows machine, let alone a Visual Studio license)

You don't need a Windows machine or Visual Studio license to use VS Code, which is both cross-platform and free.
> Again, I think you might be mistaking the effect for the cause. While it may be true that applying the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount might lead to social stability, I don't think that's what Jesus intended exactly. I don't think he was doing social engineering, rather that he was really trying to convey his ideas of what a right and moral life would be. The fact that leading good lives as individuals leads to better societies is a fortunate corollary, not the main purpose.

Then what is the purpose of leading a good life? In my mind, morality is precisely in order to stabilise society. I know we don't talk about it in those terms, but then we never really talk about the purpose behind good and evil. It's just "doing this is good, doing this is bad".

> Incidentally, if you think about it honestly, it's quite clear that Christianity didn't actually lead to particularly nice societies, once it became the politically dominant religion.

Compared to what? Today? Possibly not no (though I think we fail to acknowledge how much we lost in our transition to secularity), but compared to what came before Christianity was pretty great, as I understand. To be honest I lay a lot of the historical nastiness of Christianity at the feet of the Church rather than the teachings of Christ too, after all power does corrupt.

> For the record I also need to mention I'm not American and was raised Christian (although I don't consider myself one anymore).

I'm not either. But I do see nerd-culture (or tech-culture or whatever) as being broadly very dismissive of the value of religion, and generally having no understanding of it either. Funnily enough I was raised Atheist but am now a somewhat-practicing Buddhist.
Step functions are interesting in theory but they become quite messy in my experience. Are you using Chalice for your Lambda functions? Or something else? What kind of problems are you having with SNS? With Chalice it should be pretty easy to just trigger on SNS messages that come after each step, though I’m not sure which steps you would need for your app. Is it TTS with Poly running async or something?
Node centralization is a lot less concerning for monero because the privacy by default nature of it makes it very difficult if not impossible to censor transactions. Even if stupid large blocksizes results in only a handful of datacenter sized nodes running the network, there's not much they could do to try to denylist particular coins.

However, node centralization does still carry the concerns about powerful actors being able to arbitrarily change the supply issuance and debase holders without explicit taxation or seizure.
Instant.io
Agreed. I couldn't immediately see if it was "DOLT" or "do it", as in "just do it". It's the former.
I think my father worked on that chip, although it may've been just before his time at Weitek.

IIRC, the names of all the contributors are etched into the chip, and the spelled his wrong.
Those debates continue - to Scrivener or not to Scrivener is quite the topic with long-form writers. And Final Draft is heavily discussed.

But the reason the debate is dying out is because the competition is dying out: Word won. And that doesn’t mean the app, it means all the Simonyi-type ways of thinking it brings with it: paragraph-level formatting with overrides, single frame with embeds, no visible codes beyond P-marks, output-dependent page definition, local fonts, etc.

It’s like if all editors were just vi variants and nobody was trying anything else any longer.

Which is a damn shame, because there are an awful lot of alternative approaches to rich document creation that could be explored, especially now the printed page is probably the least important part of things, but developers don’t care (plain text obsessives, usually) and the industry doesn’t (because competing with Word and GDocs doesn’t make you rich).

Instead what action there would be in the space has moved to things like Notion. Which is great for note-takers, less so for writers.
Been in love with this tool recently. So helpful for transferring large files between friends/devices with a simple link.
,,Currency was never meant to be a value store, ever. ''

It's not that simple. If people wouldn't use it for store of value, seignorage wouldn't be so profitable for banks.

Gold backing was also very profitable for banks, as they could sell the gold and lie to people about the gold still existing. It wasn't like people wanted it: gold was taken away by force and by shaming people who hoarded it.
This kind of thing turns up in post-scarcity sci-fi works. Are we really post-scarcity, yet? All of us on this planet?
Jack tweeted a link to the page where you can buy the NFT, so I think it's accurate to say he's selling it:

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1367990471759306752
Twitter sentiment as a weak signal in venture capital financing
> a Greater Firewall outside China, right on all fiber cables, blocking/filtering all traffic from China.

How do you propose to coordinate hundreds of countries to cut one country off the internet?
This is cool, but the parent dolthub project is even cooler! Dolthub.com
? Yes. Paying $500 for shoes you won't wear is less important than food, or making sure that your kid is supported and shows up to class so that we don't have to blame it on the schools.
I've developed an obsessive fascination with the social and political aspects of masks. I think very little of our masking behavior is related to actual scientific evidence, on either side of the debate. Many people feel like wearing a mask and cleaning surfaces obsessively is the obvious response to a disease of any sort, even though the evidence overwhelmingly says that COVID is not effectively spread on surfaces, or outside of confined spaces with people sharing breathing air for extended periods of time.

On the other side there are people who associate masks with the political left, and would be so humiliated to appear cowed by "liberal" authority figures, that they'd refuse to wear a mask even if they were convinced of the medical risk.

I think I'm coming to the conclusion that the majority of mask adherence and refusal isn't rational, but rather religious, in the sense that it's shaped by beliefs that are immune to evidence.
Because the US in large part is ruled in the interest of the international capital and the ruling elites, not in the interest of its general populace. It was more profitable to deindustrialize the US.
And also similar to https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
You have better experience with JS/HTML/CSS in VS than VS Code?

that's unheard :o
Show HN: Hosty.page – an API for deploying web apps with a single API call
Hawking Radiation has never been observed so we don't know if it's a real physical phenomenon but if it is, it's that weirdness at the intersection of relativity and quantum mechanics that makes it a phenomenon worth naming. QM is chock full of these caveats, especially at the event horizon, and Hawking Radiation is an extreme example.
In the UK at least, these consequences (website going offline / certificate warning / unsearchable in the search engine) would likely be deemed "pure economic loss" following Spartan Steel & Alloys Ltd v Martin & Co (Contractors) Ltd [1973] QB 27 and Murphy v Brentwood District Council [1991] 1 AC 398 where the Court of Appeal and House of Lords respectively held that unless some sort of physical harm was suffered to you or your property, the losses were held to be "purely economic" and so not recoverable in tort.

It's unlikely that any claimant would be able to show a contractual provision that enables them to claim for damages against Google (thus allowing them to sue in contract), so a cause of action for tort would be the usual way to sue Google - except unless Google makes you suffer some form of physical harm or damages your property, you're unlikely to be able to recover any damages for your website suffering these consequences, in the UK at least. I understand US law may be quite different.

There's a testable argument to be made about the requirement for "damage" to your property (the website) being inflicted by the certificate warning, but policy arguments on the matter of "ripple effect" liability makes it seem likely the courts would hold that Google isn't liable.

Also Google is probably far better placed to weather lawsuits than most ordinary people; they can probably afford to induce the other party to settle out of court, and presumably the relevant monopoly and abuse of market position laws only allow a regulator to take legal action (the ordinary consumer being restricted to contract and tort lawsuits).
> would be perfectly acceptable to charge here since abuse of this can rack up quite a bill

Not according to Wikipedia. Wikipedia much rather beg people from all corners of the world to donate, than restricting access to their data. That's what a good, honest and well-meaning foundation does.

And yes, no sane person shuffling a lot of data around is using AWS because of their awful bandwidth pricing, Wikipedia included.
And that's before you consider that much of what appears on reddit isn't "real experiences of real people" anyway, it's self-indulgent, exaggerated or downright made-up rubbish posted for meaningless "karma".
...Also, because the "classics" are so readily available online, free of copyright and in easy-to-use, open formats. You can't really say that about much modern literature; of course there's plenty of good content on the web, but if you're actually looking for actual 'literature' meaning stuff that's been commercially published, that can be quite hard to access in anything other than dead-tree format.
Maybe you already know, but ‘cloze’ is another keyword for this that you might want to pepper around to get more people finding you.
Really? You know of examples of passenger planes taking off with only one engine turning? Or of any twin engine airplane doing this deliberately (other than a test flight or desperate emergency, like the volcano is gonna blow any moment).
The real history of cryptocurrency starts with Cypherpunks and all the tries before Bitcoin.
I collected all the git for data open source projects I could find a few months back, there have been a bunch of interesting approaches https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jGQY_wjj7dYVne6toyzm...
And there is actually no such thing as an empty stack on an RPN calculator. A four register stack, as is common, always holds four numbers.
This looks really cool! Am I correct in saying this is competing in the same space as something like Zapier?
Ask HN: NFTs legit or mania?
There's a lot of buzz around NFTs (non-fungible tokens) lately: https://www.coindesk.com/what-are-nfts

Some uses cases like NBA Top Shot seems like they could have lasting value, essentially a digital version of trading cards backed by the official sports league: https://www.nbatopshot.com

Other uses cases like buying Jack Dorsey's first tweet for $2.5m seem a bit more like mania to me: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/5/22316320/jack-dorsey-original-tweet-nft-cent-valuables

Do you agree or disagree? What are your thoughts on this space and it's future?
I never had much of a call for word processing but I do know that a good deal of the WordStar command-set and philosophy made it into a host of DOS text editors for several decades. And that in turn influenced the "easy and familiar" design of pine/pico/nano editors for *nix...
While his environmental impact point is true with PoW, Ethereum is moving to PoS so it won’t be as problematic as Bitcoin.

People fail to realize that it’s still the 1997 Geocities moment for NFTs - there’s a lot to be explored and experimented with.
To be honest, reading that essay reminded me why I (personally) don’t enjoy classics more than modern work: the language of modern works is already familiar, making for a far more enjoyable experience.

I do enjoy some classics (love Dostoyevsky), but in general if I open a book and find the prose to be more of a hike than a stream, I don’t open it again.
Both. Schema changes are versioned like everything else. But depending on what the change is, it might make merges difficult.

(I haven’t used it; I just read the blog.)
If you want to see what the image would look like at high resolution -- I couldn't resist making a small JS implementation: http://ianhenderson.org/kickstart-vector.html
This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read about here, and bear in mind that people like to post articles about Bitcoin.
Huemul Project
> Additionally, I don't like the aspect ratio of the floppy disk.

The Amiga used a standard 320x200 pixel mode [1] for it's boot screen. On a normal 4:3 CRT this mean the pixels are non-square. Since CRTs are analog, it doesn't really matter to the monitor, but if you just look at the digital bits without stretching them it looks a little flat.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_13h
OP is a sharp, highly perceptive individual. Commies took American post-Nixon politics, what other than the total red dominion could explain:

Invasion to Grenada

Invasion to Panama

Invasion to Iraq

Bombing of Serbia

Bombing of Somalia

Invasion of Iraq

Invasion of Afghanistan

Bombing of Libya

Trickle-down economics

Iran-Contra

24 years of Republican presidents out of the last 40 years.

This is the kind of high-quality comment that this site is well known for.
Having lived with a relative who used a prosthetic, I saw how it was a struggle every day to get the leg fitting just right, and how fatiguing it was to use for more than an hour. The popular perception seems to be way off here, most people think that modern prosthetics “solve the problem” when in fact, as this article explains, they are inconvenient and painful at best and worse than useless in many cases. I’ve got great respect for prosthetists and the “art” side of their work - the dozens of adjustments they make for each patient - but people should be aware of just how much time, effort, pain and inconvenience prosthetics cause their wearers, the technology is impressive but has a very long way to go.
It's called Douyin in China.
That doesn't sound right. If you charge money, you have to deliver a product that's fit for service. You can't take people's money then refuse to deliver.

At least here in the UK, EULAs that say You have no recourse if we completely fail to deliver are generally disregarded in court, as it should be.
Sonantic Brings Artificial Intelligence to New Path for Voice-Overs