skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 on raising the Pro price.

I’d also reconsider the ability to publish a wall from the Free plan — you can get a hell of a lot of value out of this product with a single wall, and pay nothing in return.

Two alternate approaches could be:

1) Give away less value. Generate the wall for a proof of concept, but keep it in draft until payment hits.

2) Get something in return. Badge the free wall with a Shoutout link/logo/“what’s this?” that can be removed by paying.
But does Shoutout ask the OP for permission to display the tweet? I've never heard this "you can't just pull tweets from the web.." twitter provides the embed capability, and doesn't mention anything in their terms (from what I can find) about asking for OP permission.

This strikes me as something that took longer to build as a service, than it would take an individual to build for their own app.
Please explain to me how scaling is solved in bitcoin. The lighting network requires an on-chain transaction to create and close a channel both times. Even if the world population were static it would take months to open a channel for everybody. Companies also need multiple channels each.

LN also requires a constant observation of the LN network or malicious actors can just take more from a channel than allowed. This eventually leads to entities specialized in monitoring the chain for the average Joe. You could call those payment providers.
There’s bad failure and good failure. I try to find the “validated learning” in a failure and that helps me distinguish good from bad.

It’s funny when people talking about how great failing is and fetishizing it without getting the point that lots of failures are good because it gets you to success faster.

But big, stupid, so if failures that are repeated over and over should be a bad sign (eg, “I failed because all my co-workers are idiots” x10 is a really bad failure because it probably means I’m the idiot and aren’t getting better)
Same, Phrack was mind expanding for my teenage self in the 90s. Is there anything similar floating around these days? So much on the Internet seems filtered through corporate platforms that are antithetical to the counter-cultural spirit. Or maybe I'm just old now!
> The best system would be where people opt-in to more hours but are evaluated solely on the quantity of quality output.

More hours will almost always look better to management regardless of output. Even if it was possible to evaluated solely on the quantity of quality output (we still have the socks vs creative problem) management will still tend to focus on "lost" productively.

If person A is able to produce as much as person B but in half the time then management will tend to think person A should be able to product as twice as much in the same amount of time as person B! Person A isn't being a team player!
We're building Circles for Zoom (https://www.circlesforzoom.com) - to give you more control over your Zoom calls.

It's a fully native MacOS app (swift, not electron/etc) built on top of the Zoom SDK that transforms meeting participants into moveable/resizable circles on your screen and offers additional power tools to get your desktop back and have more control over your meeting experience.

It's just two of us now, working as fast as we can and listening to user feedback to drive priorities on our roadmap.

It's free to use - we would love to hear feedback from anyone willing to give it a shot!
"Honestly, why would you ever want to print out a screenshot of Google Maps?"

Long traveling/hiking.

To save smartphone batterie

to have something on your table, your hiking group can easier talk about, than by watching it on someones screen
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We didn't have an abrupt, acute disruption in the money supply, though - at least not a negative one. The quantity of money available went up by 40% in March 2020, and velocity went down correspondingly. We had an abrupt, acute disruption in the labor supply: people were unable to work. We also had large disruptions in trade and in demand.

This is not 2009, when there were plenty of people available to work, there was plenty of consumer demand, but there was no money to pay them because the banks gambled it all away. The primary feature of the COVID recession was a massive supply shock and demand shift. We had potatoes piling up not because there were too many potatoes, but because there were no truck drivers and warehouse workers needed to move them from farm to table. We also had record hunger and record food assistance during that time period.
Cool Edit became Adobe Audition and is still very nice to work with.
Yeah, sure. So when I argue with Brad and he doesn't like my commit, it's because I'm ... no, not black, no, not gay, not even a woman, even if my ancestors were enslaved (quite possibly) I don't know it for sure. Hell, why can't I find an easy explanation? Have to live with the white guy privilege. Of course I will never assume I'm a jerk (or maybe he is), or simply the code is not so great. So every time he tells me to type git (https://www.thefreedictionary.com/git) I feel his aggression. Maybe it's time to grow up?
> macOS has a really interesting feature that allows bag of files to appear like a single file

I think this is what you're referring to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_(macOS)

I used to have problems with running out of file descriptors on MacOS, and I recall that the maximum number was 256. I was wondering if this package abstraction could be used to work around it.

But then I checked `ulimit -a` and it looks like on Big Sur the max is now 2560. Progress!
I try to avoid pip and dependencies for these python scripts. This goal has it's limits.

Click is nice if you want a command with multiple sub commands. I use Go + Cobra at that point via https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hofmod-cli

The human understanding is a big reason why python has gained my favor over bash
I don't think that's true. I used Emacs for a couple of decades, then decided to try VS Code one day and was productive and comfortable in a couple of hours. My first impression of it was "oh, a programming editor with some options I can ignore for now".
The art for Indy 3 in EGA definitely shows signs of dither being desired but not used, which I always found made it feel sparse and unfinished, even in VGA. Mind, I was coming to this from the standpoint of really getting into the Lucasarts adventures after LOOM. It's likely that on this game they were stretched for space regardless, since it spans a lot of scenes.
Because of the open nature of the blockchain, the IRS knows all your exact movements, so there's no nudge-nudge-wink-wink especially if you have tied your real identity to a Bitcoin address using a centralized exchange.

Presumably, tools like cointracker (maybe even Visa themselves), etc, will take care of reporting these taxes for you, still a pita, but doable.
Audacity is a godsend for amateur audio makers, but man the UI is really really clunky. If I was a rich philanthropist I'd throw them some money to gut the core of the software and rebuild a decent user interface around it.

But hey, UI is hard and audio processing UIs are probably harder than most.
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Congrats on the launch, Dick and Noah!
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Apologies, I honestly must have stopped reading when I read your comment as negative, and missed the last sentence.
I remember reading Phrack during the early 90's, x.25 hacking days. Anyone remember QSD or Lutzifer? I've long forgotten those NUAs now.
> Somehow the news got around that here was this new way of listening to little green men on Mars. This is what radio astronomy seemed to the ordinary public. And the FCC was preventing it from being developed in the United States. We got rumors, George particularly from friends he knew, that gradually a huge accumulation of letters arrived at the FCC, protesting against this nonsupport of this new science, whatever it was. And that this finally persuaded the FCC that they’d better give in. Nobody knows. [emphasis added]

That's the part about aliens. McVittie's perception that the popular understanding of radio astronomy (listening to Martians) influenced the FCC decision (which, at least officially as described in the next quote, was not the case).
Yeah, well that's kind of my point. Recommending new users to install stable OpenBSD as their work/home PC/laptop is irresponsible, especially if the lack of updates (presented as stability / ease of maintanence) is explicitly mentioned.
I remember taking photos of phonebooths in Algeria on a trip to visit family as a teenager. They thought I was crazy.
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Sounds like a beautiful example of a false dichotomy.
> This isn't something I'd endorse doing often. Grice was making a descriptive statement about the linguistic pragmatics of human conversation; he was absolutely not saying that this is how people 'should' speak.

Advice is directional, not absolute. If someone struggles with correctly identifying and adopting the shared interpersonal protocols most people use in society, a documented, descriptive guide to those protocols can be used as a guide.

Even if Grice’s project was to document and model the set of rules that “everyone” implicitly knows and follows, if you’re not a part of that “everyone” and you struggle to reach understanding when communicating with others, maybe Grice’s maxims can explain what you missed.
It's Oracle and Accenture for me
A lot of these are multi use local run, in CI, and at onsite w/o internet, so we try hard to avoid dependencies and keep them small and pointed.

Once we need deps we need a more complicated setup, so Docker or Go usually prevail
Taleb changed his mind on this subject. :) I can see Bitcoin as a "stable" long-term Store of Value. Short-term, it's always volatile. It's not suitable as a Medium of Exchange.
Did they fix the macOS issue(s)? You had to run Audacity from the command line for whatever reason from macOS Catalina.
I love Drafts for the Mac ecosystem. It has two giant things going for it:

- It opens instantly to a blank window ready for me to type into.

- It's extensible with built-in actions and JavaScript so that I can automate things like posting the text I just wrote to Twitter or Mastodon, or add it to OmniFocus, or text it to my wife, etc. etc. etc.
https://www.elnuevodia.com/english/news/story/8-million-appr...

http://www.naic.edu/NGAT/NGAT_WhitePaper_v2_01022021.pdf
I doubt anyone manages to get with just the OpenBSD system on their desktop. Browsers in particular are a gaping security hole if not updated regularly.
I don’t think they have which is why they keep coming up again.

BTC genuinely uses a stupid amount of energy and there isn’t a terribly good reason for it since we don’t need a completely trustless financial system outside of some libertarian ideal. It would be necessary if establishing trust was impossible but it isn’t.

BTC transaction fees and throughput are still an issue. Off-chain transactions that use the main network as a settlement layer is a non-solution that undermines the whole point of BTC. Might as well just use banks as a settlement later for the lighting network for all it matters at that point.

Volatility and the fact that BTC is more of an investment vehicle than anything else matters if you want to actually use it to buy stuff.

The fact that there is no form of monetary policy means that the available currency doesn’t expand and contract with growth in economic output which makes prices unstable and naturally deflationary.

BTC is fine as a nerdy digital cash and commodity market based on its value as such but a general purpose currency it isn’t.
This is largely cherry-picking revisionism. I saw CGA on the displays of the time at the time with the games of the time, and can confirm it was mostly terrible. EGA couldn't come fast enough.
Might be useful but I just spent half an hour trying everything at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16715103/bash-prompt-wit... on a MacBook Pro and none of it worked.
But that's just not true, check out how often they rebuild Chromium for their stable branch.
> What we do know here at least is that a four day work week implemented as it was in the experiment did not result in negative or neutral effects.

We don't know that, though. Maybe sales would've increase 10x with a 5-day work week and the 4-day week hurt significantly.
Thank you Audacity for an absolutely indispensable piece of software for anyone who works with audio.
use js + scroll-wheel observer, profit.
Well - the usage of "Fuck" in the title of this post is itself extremely sexist. See [1] and [2] and [3]

[1] https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/what-filthy-word...

[2] https://kathmandupost.com/art-culture/2020/06/23/the-underly...

[3] http://www.mountholyokenews.com/oped/2020/3/6/common-swear-w...

I hope someone here sees the irony.
> Actually, consumer router running openWRT is quite good

Really? Can the *WRT releases finally run at full speed? Can they ping from the wired to the wireless? Can they actually do MIMO?

As much as I love open source, the *WRT developers have a bad hand and it's not their fault. There are a zillion router variants that change with zero notice, no documentation from anybody, and not enough people.

This really is a spot where an actual open source hardware design is probably the only real solution.
That's some pretty tricky wording there. They are basically saying that you could target someone who reads something in Apple News for an ad in the App Store. This is behavior that they are preventing other companies from doing effectively by making others go through tracking screens but exempting itself.

Despite how much you might trust Apple, you can agree that they should have to have the same tracking restrictions that all other apps have.
Ya, I don't know exactly what to think of corporate tax per say. On one hand it seems like taxing the machine that makes you the pie, which sounds counterproductive to making the biggest pie possible. But if you look in the details it could be a way to avoid tax evasion, easier to audit corporations then individuals, and it also somehow gets less pushback when it is increased if there's need for a bigger budget. Increasing the income tax people will see the effect directly on their wallet, but increasing the corporate tax passes through more undercover.
isn't it trivial to patch?
Not all cases of pain insensitivity lead to these kinds of deficits: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-case-of-a-wom...
I wasn't talking about bitcoin not being backed by anything (which is true, incidentally), I was talking about NFTs.
Based on that wording, they could use the data to perform their own targeted advertising in those places. They just won't share the data with third parties.
I wonder: Is it like the new Office formats, where it's actually a zipped bundle? In this case, maybe they just zipped up all the files they already had and saved a lot of reimplementation in other parts of the system.
If they had the kind of sway over the public you say they had, then Trump wouldn't have recieved a record 72 million votes in 2020. They spent 4 years lambasting him over every single thing they could and the impact was an election about 90 million people in the US Think was rigged.

Stuff like this doesn't help the optics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRnhBmHYN0

Nor does Zuckerberg spending $500 million on ballot harvesting initiatives and skirting the law where he could. The one thing this last election prooved is that when rich and powerful people feel threatened with losing power or fortune, they often decide to use whatever power they have and spend whatever fortune they've got to maintain what they have. We'll find out, as the forensic investigations drag on, exactly how compromised this election was. Suffice to say, an awful lot of people on the left are acting like they have nothing to lose which is a strong signal indictments and convictions are on the road ahead.

Look at the MSM's SEC 8k and 10k filings.
https://investors.newscorp.com/node/10126/html

Free news is done to sell advertising, which also finds its way into their subscription businesses and even if you pay for WSJ, the articles are often paid for or done as political favors.
It's like the Microsoft Paint of audio editing.
> The core issue I've seen that goes unanswered is what problem does BTC solve?

To me, it's trustless money. I don't need to trust the US gov, I don't care about who they will elect or which wars they are gonna start or which banks they are gonna bailout.

You can verify everything through code and math. If that's not valuable to you, maybe there's some other use case you're interested. If you've done your research and there's really no use case that excites you, then you can just ignore it.
Better get a used ICE truck. Nothing about an electric drivetrain requires this, and nothing about an ICE drivetrain prohibits it.

It's just that PEVs allow manufacturers to reset expectations and greenwash a lot of business practices that would otherwise trigger a consumer revolt -- make the machines not serviceable, make them disposable, and make them constantly tracked/remotely controlled. Kill the secondary market for repairs and sales, and own the total automotive spend.

That car manufacturers made the association between this power-grab and an electric powertrain is truly a genius public psyop. Even now, if you point out how anti-consumer and anti-freedom these practices are, you get attacked as destroying the planet's future. Just incredible what is happening under the hood, so to speak, of the current PEV movement; which has nothing to do with new sources of power generation and everything to do with new business models.

I wouldn't be surprised if, in the future, manufacturers refuse to sell cars to end users at all, but will only lease you a car if you license various features on an ongoing basis. The whole concept of an ownership society of people who can do what they want with what they buy is under incredible attack by everyone from nanny-state regulators to corporations who want a subscription model and a locked down platform.
Your own scenario was a large percentage of gun owners rising up, wasn't it? I'm simply telling you I think that's far harder to pull off than an alternate version of the Capitol raid where they managed to get their hands on representatives.
Also may recommend to read FLOSS Manuals' book on Audacity[0]

[0] https://en.flossmanuals.net/audacity/_full/

[1] https://en.flossmanuals.net/audacity/_info/

[PDF] https://flossmanuals.net/pub/audacity-en-2018.02.pdf

[EPub] https://flossmanuals.net/pub/audacity-en-2018.02.epub
Does implimenting worker quotes address racism at it's root?
I was more impressed with the human on stage, than the AI. Maybe it is because I am getting used to being amazed with things that computers and AI can pull off, but if Harish Natarajan was the one who truly impressed me.
> The owner only needs to keep a copy for their own collection, and can put it online themselves if they like.

Do NFTs come with actual redistribution rights? In a way that a court would actually say "yes, you bought this digital artwork, you are allowed to redistribute it", as opposed to "lol, you paid fantasy money for a database entry claiming that you 'own' a URL that was hosted by some startup that is now out of business"?
I think an interesting technical problem is: How can a person reliably understand the amount of consensus within the black (or any other) community for a given idea?

It's an challenging problem that could apply to any demographic group or subculture.

Any person only interacts with a portion of a demographic and thus developed biased impressions based on the slice they see. Ex. "Are black people nerdier than portrayed in the media, or is my social circle just disproportionally nerds?" or "My liberal friend group is more pro-gun more than liberal political rhetoric implies, is my friend group or the political rhetoric closer to the median liberal position?"

Currently, we have polls and extrapolation - but this system has a number of its own flaws and selection biases.

I think there would be a lot of technical and social challenges to succeeding, but building a web service that could measure community sentiment and quantify consensus more accurately than current polls would be incredibly powerful and valuable. Perhaps there is a method where you could measure the size of each tail of the bell curve (people who love or hate idea X enough to create an account to make their opinion known) to estimate the position of the mode.
they choose garbage wedge issues and will continue to foment them when they cant find any: biden's dog was a recent controversy

I can't believe anyone really believes that story
The elephant in the room is Google and Apple's duopoly in mobile app distribution, which is the cause of the two problems in your post.
The most sophisticated pyramid scheme ever, hidden in plain sight; so obvious that everyone second guesses themselves. “They all seem to be going along, I guess I must be wrong.”

Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely: https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/cryptocultscience.html.
> This change only affects newly created repos, how does it create tech debt?

Every book and piece of documentation on git is now obsolete. People learning git will now hit a wall trying to do very basic things.
> It's a deflationary currency.

It's not a currency, that's a misnomer to a great degree.

Which nations are supporting it as a currency? Essentially none. If something doesn't have the currency status backing of a single major economy, it plainly can't be considered a currency. It's a store of value.

Sure, we could be pretend about it (any medium of exchange), be idealistic, and say that you don't need nations to back something for it to be considered a currency, however that's repudiated by every possible aspect of how things actually work (and will continue to) both locally within an economy and internationally in trade.

Gold also is not a currency today, it's a store of value. I don't think anyone confuses gold for being a currency and there's no reason to confuse Bitcoin as being such.
In the not so distant future, we'll neither need sperm nor eggs from humans. We'll need is at least one person and a lab. You could grow your own sperm and eggs from pluripotent stemcells (which can be made from any cell, even skin cells).

Inseminate the egg, put it into an artificial womb, and voila, no need for sex or even a partner. You could make your own child, same sex partners could have their own kid, and it would even be possible to have kids with DNA 4 parents.

Maybe the best news for women would be, that they wouldn't have to deal with any of the evil that comes with pregnancy since that could be externalized. It would render the menstrual cycle futile and push research into its elimination without side effects to the forefront.
Not really. Eclipse has been my daily driver for python and web development the past 12 years. Every time I try another IDE, I find myself missing features that PyDev does so well, and end up going back.