skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am only okay with online only if all online forms strictly stick to open standards and protocols and require no data collection besides what is strictly necessary for the forms.

When I have to agree to a "Terms of Service" on a third party website to get my drive license and these Terms have a mandatory arbitration clause and leave this private entity with the ability to ban me for any reason, I will understandably be upset.

All government forms must be accessibly to all. If internet is required to use government forms, internet access must not be cut off to anyone without due process of law. The same goes to electricity and the ability to use electronic devices.

If the main computing devices available are Google Chromebooks, Apple iPads, and Microsoft Tablets, the user's ability to log in can be restricted at the drop of a pin by a faceless corporate entity. While it may still be possible to access the internet on some of these devices without agreeing to the TOS, this can change. If the government certificate expires, then the device will need to be updated. Updates almost always require a TOS agreement.

No private corporations should be able to ban people from using government forms without due process of law.

So yes, I am okay with online only, but only in a world where all software can be used by all users for any purpose without threat of revocation from extra-judicial private overlords.
Using the distinction gives you a superpower.
Sex sells. Young attractive women attract the most sexual attention of any demographic (see any online dating/hookup site's stats, porn stats, etc).

And the commenter didn't say "only". Yes, people follow non-sexual influencers all the time, but it's much easier to get followers if you're sexually attractive.
I have so many questions as to how they're handling controlling knob changes! From the pictures it looks like they've yanked the pots out and hooked the boards up to their rig, which raises more questions.

This is something I've tried myself, and it's not trivial. Digipots won't work in the signal path and are noisy and imprecise, so companies that do this (there are very few!) like Chase Bliss use vactrols. Using those precisely is still tricky, as pot values in many circuits are all over the place and have different tapers, whereas most vactrols have a voltage/resistance curve that looks more logarithmic.

Would love more information on this, as it's a topic that's difficult to research.
Their terms seem a little unclear to me, but it seems that they claim they are due a percentage of anything you charge a customer who uses your Shopify app, even if you don't bill extra for use of that app.

However in practice I have found Shopify not too strict about fees charged outside of Shopify. I suppose if you were actually charging your customers specifically for the app but doing it outside Shopify to avoid the cut they would come after you.

I find BigCommerce a worse offender here. They copied Shopify's terms and constantly hound you asking for a cut of money even if you offer a free plugin with your standard service. Their method of collecting this info is also arcane, manual, and threatening. I would drop BigCommerce support in a second if they challenged us on this. So far they have backed down when we tell them we don't charge extra specifically for BigCommerce. But they still hound us monthly to submit a $0 report.
"questionnaire will be available in the coming days in 14 languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Urdu."
not in Turkish! Great!
What feedback?

Does anyone think Donald Trump ever actually read those one-line zingers random celebs would reply to his tweets with?

Do people think some dictator is going to ignore the people they're oppressing but listen to @xx69destroyerman calling them out?
> Instead of running it all, you can take a look what’s possible and apply it individually.

That's true of any script. The fact that this one is well commented doesn't make it not a script.

A cheat sheet is something you hang on a wall and glance at every so often. A script is something you run to make changes to a system. You can't run a cheat sheet.
> Instead, this should be done department-by-department, app-by-app. Design the process from the bottom up."

Sounds great. If you can do this in less than a week for each form (the author managed 100 forms in 2 years) then you're perfecting processes _and_ moving them online faster than the author.

But just in case you missed it, let me quote a couple of bits of the article:

"Getting city workers to accept online submissions rather than traditional paper ones is the bulk of this work. On average, it took me about 30 minutes to make a digital form and five weeks to meet with, earn the trust of, and get buy-in from the employees who would use it. Even if they were excited, the nitty gritty details took a lot of back and forth."

"Some departments had sort-of insane business processes for submissions. If I tried to change those, I would spend a whole year on a single department. By focusing on the priority, moving forms online and making it easier for the customer, I could make consistent progress rather than be consistently blocked."

My guess is that you're going to spend decades perfecting processes, only to find the world has changed (or the politicians in control of the City of Boston have changed the law that governs the processes!) by the time you're ready to begin digitize forms. You're letting perfect be the enemy of good.

> You should never just move things online. The web is different, and enables different business processes. Change the process first. Forms come later.

Sometimes "just moving things online" is a big improvement over the status quo. But the author agrees with you in at least one case. See the paragraph about what they are doing about death certificate requests.
If any folks want to learn more about data mesh, we have a (vendor-independent) Slack to share ideas and insights. I teamed with Zhamak, the author, to launch it. It's still in early days but at 1K+ in a month so hopefully can really help people get the content they need to learn about it all.
[0] https://launchpass.com/data-mesh-learning
I also compiled a list of public user stories
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/datamesh/comments/m6ecuz/data_mesh_...
Rather think about "What portion of the population wants to follow a sexy girl on a bike?" vs "What portion of the population wants to follow an uncle?" rather than "does a population that wants to follow an uncle exist?" I think it is pretty clear that the size of the group that wants to follow the sexy girl is larger than the group that wants to follow the uncle. Larger audience to be able to pull from.
With this clear example of separation between individual and identity, it calls into question the need for real celebrities. What difference does it make if you're watching/following someone real/digital?

https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/lil-miquela-digital-avatar-in...
I've changed the URL above to that one from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7899267/, which has the paper.

Generally with specialized papers we've found that it's best to link to the best third-party article and then have a link to the paper in the thread. Unfortunately the third party article often isn't great, but it's at least an easier place to get some context, and we can replace the URL when people point out a better one.
From the horse's mouth:

https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=200812&curpost...
I do it because it makes my life easier on the system I use 99% of the time.
Ask HN: Is WhatsApp Down?
If you want a similar vibe, another space is VR. I am part of that mass adoption wave from oculus 2 and before I got it I binge watched a lot of content about VR on youtube. The amount of excitement in those videos was amazing and infectious. With the quest 2 also doubling as a dev platform I think next few years in this space are going to be exciting.

Edit: There are a few differences though, mainly a lot more female representation.
You've forgotten to include cost, in your cost/benefit analysis.

That's kind of important.
eBay only allows annotated versions of Mein Kampf.
Exactly. How is this any different than any Instagram filter that many influencers of any gender use to make themselves look younger?

I think this was only a news story in Japan because feminism / LGBTQ rights in Japan have a long way to go before people feel comfortable being themselves in public.
The systems that use it as a native threading model are obsolete, but there's also this sentence there:

>Cooperative multitasking is used with await in languages with a single-threaded event-loop in their runtime, like JavaScript or Python.

There's no reason rust can't have an executor that does the same, and you only use that within the event loop on your one or two HTTP worker threads. If you're waiting in a thread for an HTTP request to return, that's never going to be CPU-bound. I still am failing to see what the problem here is besides a complaint about some rust crate only supporting a multi-threaded executor, which again is a different problem than whether it's done with async futures or not. One could just as easily write some C code that forces the use of threads.
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I'd like to be done with Homebrew. (I asked you to install pv, not thrash the world.)

Anyone tried Nix? I'm trying it soon. If it doesn't stick, yep, back to MacPorts like it's 2007.
Youtubers are mostly content creators, while most instagram "influencers" only try to look pretty.
I'd be less inclined to give my phone number to a random shop on the Internet myself.

Regarding access to the old invoices, maybe ask for the zipcode instead of a password? (my local post service does that to track a parcel for example)
There's also a video showcasing this project over at their synth channel at youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lBYRQUTzYk
AWS style small payments existed at coin-operated arcades. They're all dead, Jim.

Micropayment news services have existed (Blendle). Unpopular.

Pay-as-you-go prepaid cell phone service is also niche. So is the a-la-carte gym membership. It's not that billing/accounting is difficult. It's that it plain straight up makes less money. SAAS vs one-time upgrades, etc.
Every day I give thanks that I live under a system of government that protects the individual from the wishes of the majority. It's not perfect of course, but it does work.

No doubt people felt good about following "her" because of her authenticity.
You jest, but distributed publicly verifiable proof that a certain piece of information existed, and was cryptographically signed at a certain date and time, and has not since been modified, is basically the only thing blockchains are actually useful for. And that sounds much like what we need here.
Yeah, my kids are fascinated by the Roomba and Braava too.

When we bought our first Roomba it was the dog that kinda felt threatened. I think the dog thought Roomba was another pet. Our dog absolutely never ever pooped or peed inside home. But in the first night with Roomba, we put Roomba to charge in an unused room, and the dog went there and pooped right in front of the Roomba. It seems to be she was basically saying "this is my territory!".
Looks like Linus Å moved on from Axis (the IP camera manufacturer now owned by Canon) to Teenage Engineering, job-wise. Probably a good move in terms of having more fun at work.
Now do Instagram and Tiktok
*API

But not natively within Shopify's UI, You have to use 3rd party apps have to make use of this API. For merchants this is useless to them if they don't want to use a 3rd party app for this feature.
Oh no, whatever will we do without finance people who work to make imaginary numbers go up on a spreadsheet? Our whole economy would collapse!
The post above you was saying the sandwich bots were detecting the trade.
Twitter and Facebook have continued to exist well beyond the lifetime I would have expected for either platform.

On the other hand I’m equally surprised by the number of weird little websites that just fail to die.
It sounds like you're proposing something where some politicians can participate in discourse on Twitter but not their slightly more successful rivals?
Do you know of any other group of people who are menstruating and are not women?
Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is crap". Classics are, at least in theory, better than that - they're the 10% that have proven over time to not be crap.

But of the "wokism" stuff, 90% of it will be crap - morally and intellectually bankrupt junk.
It would be an interesting case, but doesn’t change the situation.

You can’t distribute the book for people to read and criticize.

It really is censored.
Instagram too.
It was a lot of luck. Today, you would need access to oil for energy (which needs USD), and far more complex technology, which needs money to acquire.

The US could also support massively extractive industries internally. Most countries can't do that.
YUP! I live in Orlando FL, a city with no county boarders on the ocean. Orlando is 1 of 2 "inland" cities in the state (the other being Gainesville), but I drive 35m east and I'm at a beach on The Atlantic Ocean, or I can drive 90m west and be at a beach on the Gulf of Mexico.
We are definitely a coastal city even if we aren't a coastal city :)
that made me LOL harder than I should have.
Twitter says Marjorie Taylor Greene was locked out of her account by mistake
Isn’t spreading political disinformation, hate speech, etc. not allowed on Twitter? I think that’s generally a good policy; and they should just treat this kind of speech from political leaders, the rich and powerful, etc. the same way they’d treat it coming from a nobody.

The most visible accounts should be the ones subject to the highest level of scrutiny and moderation. Doing it the other way round is bizarre, IMO.

We’re living in a time where most people on Earth have an unprecedented ability to broadcast their opinions to the world, effectively free of editorial oversight, and I think a lot of people forget that. Especially given how quickly this change has happened, it’s kind of nuts to see so much hand-wringing over media platforms exercising a bare minimum editorial oversight to prevent incoherent toxic bullshit from dominating the information landscape they host.
> At some point, your fans will start spinning

This problem has been solved with the M1 MacBook Air.
Because it does not make HN frontpage when "normal" woman uses Instagram filters.
I got to see Dick Hoyt while waiting for my friend at the top of Heartbreak Hill in Boston. My friend is a more than competent marathon runner (you have to be, to get into Boston), but Hoyt and his son came sailing over that hill a good 30 minutes ahead of my friend.

I didn't realize he was a full 30 years older than us. Damn. And he ran Ironmans, too... pulling his son in a boat for the swim leg.

A story I've heard: given that he was so strong, people suggested that he could win races if ran them for that goal.

His reply: "I don't run without my son".
This is similar my experience with making Shopify themes. It definitely feels like the third-parties that support the platform are not really considered. The developer experience is generally terrible and there's little incentive to change it because the developer isn't Shopify's customer, that would be the shop owner.
Not offering any way to communicate with them would be even more cost effective, but might cause difficulties for some citizens.
It was probably so successful precisely because it was seeing the world through the eyes of a 50 year old Japanese biker with the face people expect in influencers.

Most young people aren't that interesting. Older people tend to be more interesting, but no one wants to look at them.

It's like when movies show Charlie's Angels or James Bond fluently speaking multiple languages and efficiently wielding various weapons and skiing like Olympic skiers. You know that's not real. Any one of those things takes all your time to master. But it makes for a cool movie to bundle them all together.

And maybe people fell for it in part because we watch nonsense like James Bond. So it hit that note and didn't immediately set off alarm bells.
Yes, and instagram as well
The DOS CGA Version of the Kilobyte's Gambit
So why is this a thing that has to be posted here? Any context?
Hey Nono!

We love all those guys and know them all really well, great people.

Captivate has a lot of unique features and approaches and generally we’re all doing good work to help the podcaster!

This may help: https://www.captivate.fm/blog/buzzsprout-vs-captivate

Drop me a mail on Mark (at) rebelbasemedia.io and we can get deep into it together?

Mark :)
What’s ‘extreme’ about people bidding high amounts for a now rare book?
I was just reading a recent "George Washington's Final Battle" which details Washington's struggle to get the capital built where it is. The main reason for the location was to be somewhere halfway between the Northern and Southern states; any other more partisan location may have caused a breakup of the Nation. (at least that's what Washington believed)
Not in any real way for most people. It's only available to enterprise accounts, and from what I saw when I worked in IT, Microsoft strongly discourages it's use for normal user desktops.
Hysterical to blame "liberal Societies" when in places like the US, the GOP have made health Insurance so un-affordable with the removal of regulation (which obama at least tried to address), allowing CEOs and investors to profit from a known unfair system.

The GOP have also made sure in GOP "run" states to try and suppress worker wages while at the same time legalize owners tax breaks to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone. Its no secret how we got to where we are.

so I ask anyone, who in their right mind would have kids? Its simply becoming un-affordable to purchase a home, have kids, and health insurance and some sort of life.

Stop property speculation and REITS purchasing homes to drive up their other property investments.
Bring in socialized healthcare like in the UK (and most of the rest of the world) and stop the insane medical HI pricing (check for basics like insulin in the US compared to everywhere else, its gouging.. plain and simple.)

.. and then.. maybe... would consider it.
Ah, I remember decompiling Quake mods, and learning about how the AI worked, A* search etc. At that time I was still on dialup, and there was a fraction of what's available now on the Internet available - it was really useful for learning, and game mods was a big part of keeping me interested in computing.
But those kinds of things also could reveal the fraud - adding a blemish where the real person doesn't have one, features that move around frame by frame in a video. The difference is things which look believable might be details which are trivially verifiably false - sure you can simulate my face and my voice, but can you accurately simulate every pore on my nose.

Here's a random example:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6619284

They can detect a persons pulse from tiny variations in head movement, I'd like to see a deepfake simulate that! And it's not about this one thing, I'm sure you could design against these tiny measurements one by one... the key is that there are a lot of them and a deepfake is going to have to simulate an enormous amount of data in order to pass what will become trivial tests for realism. This is made a much easier weapon against deepfakes when you have progressively better videos.
So crazy this is trending. I was just talking about how great and silly this game was with a complete stranger I had met yesterday!
Synchronicity also came up as a topic...
There's a few creators who often have a block at the end who tell you that they won't ask you to like or subscribe because even though it's good for the channel they hate doing it and refuse to do it.
Morally? It certainly seems like it.

Practically? If there is no accountability, no loop closure on the delivery of such a thing, then no.
They do it in Japan. Everything has a cute anime mascot.
> sacrificing compilation times by running in a VM that's too slow

Fwiw wsl2 runs in a vm now (hyper-v). AFAIK it's in order to increase fs performance "inside" Linux (so faster compiles if compiling in wsl).

It's also possible to use cifs/samba shares - but I don't know what you're compiling? Chrome/Firefox sized c++ projects?

Might be worth it to try with a tmpfs/ramdisk either way?
No, not really. The engine needed a lot of help from the map designer to make mirrors work at all, and those weren't even traversable without cheat codes, nor were they more than the flex foone describes them as - that's the reason you see one early on in the first level, and very rarely thereafter.

Arbitrarily placed, see-through, traversable, Portal-style portals probably would not have been beyond the skill of the engine implementers. But to make them work smoothly, along with everything else in the game, under the constraints of the hardware on which the game had to run? I find it hard to imagine anyone being able to pull that off, tbh.
That works for some use cases, but what I've found makes the best demo is to ask the potential customer what pain points they are experiencing and then I cater my demo exactly to their pain points. Making the demo interactive helps get the prospect to engage. When I get the customer talking it's amazing what they will tell you and the demo can take better shape.
I've often found that getting work to do after starting a new job is surprisingly difficult.

My suggestion is to find out what your manager is doing... and try to do it for them. Or otherwise, do this with some other people in your team.

Possible outcomes are that they'll be happy, or they might say "no, don't do that, do this instead!".
The terms "wash trading" and "order stacking" come to mind, even though it's not strictly either of those things. It's more a combination of them.

order stacking == placing bids(or asks), lots of them, that I have no intention of letting them fill. The reason I would place them is to falsely give the impression to retail traders that there are tons of buyers just waiting to snap something up...if you don't buy it first. The moment you buy it, I cancel them, and re-create them as asks. This tanks the price on the contract you just bought.

wash trading == lots of transactions with yourself(or your partners), to give the impression of high levels of activity. This can lure other traders to place a trade they wouldn't otherwise place.

front running == illegal with futures, I don't know about stocks. But the idea is this... I [as a broker or market maker] receive your orders to buy. I buy for myself before I execute your orders - your buy orders increase the price, which is good for my own position I opened initially.
TD Ameritrade. Check out all of the sibling comments here.
If you continue being okay with every loss of speech, then the only endpoint will be to have no speech at all.
Plastic particles pass from mothers into foetuses, rat study shows
I would argue that the GOP is in that as well, and that it is Trump/alt-right and Progressives that are not part of the "club".
... no it didn't. Didn't even imply it. Literally there was an aside that used "20 years" and that's it.

Why would you lie about a comment I can literally just scroll up to read?

The pandemic and its effects doesn't need to last 20 years for Ghana and the Ivory Coast to take greater control of their cocoa crop.

We're literally watching it happen right now.