skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems like an obvious use case.

We've had procedurally generated worlds for a long time, but this would take it from roguelike top-down or isometric to immersive fps.
I might be misunderstanding but is the app actually just a game that has links to a in-app web view pointing to the shady casino?

I am curious what Apple's vector for checking this would be. Look through an app and any of its links and check against a spam database? Add extra cautions when users click links that link them outside the app (lots of sites do this on the web when leaving their forums etc.)

In this case, it is quite obviously a scam based on the marketing and advertising that has been added as context to the app, but the app alone and probably most of it's app code looks like a running game. (Not absolving Apple, just curious on what they might do here that scales)
For the curious and lazy. where'd that money go?

168 million on R&D,
260 million on marketing&sales,
54 million on running the business,
10 million in interest payments

Wonder what all that R&D is for. Maybe they are working on a coronavirus vaccine.
If you draw out your argument inductively, I think you'll find you proved the opposite of your claim. You get smaller and smaller houses until they cannot go smaller. Side note: smaller also translates into not affordable.
A network can have significant impact on your "life prospects" though, which is what you indicated in your previous post was one of your considerations for choosing a school.
Links are definitely allowed so long as they're topical and contribute to a thoughtful discussion (which this does, in my book). Thanks for sharing
Code Complete

Software Design For Flexibility

A Philosophy of Software Design
As a normie, I've never in my life had to interact with a tech company's CS. Shit either just works, or I give up and switch to a competitor.

I have, however, wasted days of my life listening to elevator music interrupted by annoying, incredibly loud upsells, going through the same dumb, patronizing troubleshooting steps with customer support, multiple times for the same incident.
> This entire idea of stores being a "marketplace" for multiple brands is only a recent aberration.

Replace marketplace with platform, anyone who calls themselves a platform and competes on the “kill all competitors” level should be regulated as common carrier/public space.

There are numerous ways to identify platforms vs marketplaces and not all of them are related to total market penetration. But I think the legislation should look in that direction, give the FTC the power to declare a company a platform in its space and then allow it to regulate that company in the same way utilities are regulated but obv updated for the internet age.

I think the biggest hinderance to this sorta thing is that all law makers are increasingly biased and refuse to acknowledge their favor. They pretend instead that they are in fact impartial and any appearance to the contrary is simply necessary due to the importance of the issue at hand, or the extremists involved (“I’m really a centrist, they’re just nazis, so I appear to be far left” and vice versa).
Sponsoring YouTube videos :P
Shouldn't the title of the article be "Why no Goodreads alternative can (or has) beat Goodreads". I don't see anything about making a better one.
Graal is very clever, but that memory example is nonsense. I just tried the Find example they give and whether the graal version beats the java version is completely dependent on Xmx.

Obviously I don't have their dataset, so it's not exactly the same test.

edit: In fact the numbers in the blog are so far off mine they may accidently have been testing /usr/bin/find.
The market is quite insane right now. We have a second property we're likely to sell this year, and the market estimate is up over $70k from last year. When we talked to a realtor we were informed that it would probably move inside of 2 days with multiple competing offers. This is over 50km from the nearest major city.

Buyers are waiving nearly every contingency, they know sellers basically have all the marbles right now.

It's a 180 degree turnaround from 3-4 years ago when the same property would have lost us over $100k on the market. A nearly $200k markup over less than 4 years is crazy.
Ooof.

Believe it or not, the balance of nature depends on them. What would dragon flies eat? What would endangered birds that eat dragonflies eat?

Some animal populations are _only_ constrained by their food supply and disease vectors in the environment. For instance, local deer populations, where human's have eradicated their predators, quickly spiral out of control unless hunting permits can be issued in number to keep the populations in check.

Eradication isn't a good goal, but perhaps rebalancing is and removing those that spread deadly cross-species diseases.
With all due respect but the role of the "number 1 animal, that [...] is responsible for untold misery and suffering to humans, livestock and wildlife" clearly falls to humans.
Ok. This has nothing to do with what I said.
Octet is the word used for bytes in French. Data sizes in French locale are expressed most often in ko, Mo, Go, To ...
I've seen authorities like this "not consulted" deliberately, on the basis that there's a more expedient need for the product, than for the product to be secure.

If the experience of the procuring department is that "BSI finds everything is insecure", then you procure without letting BSI know or have a say in it, and then you look good for getting the procurement completed.

Getting cross-department cooperation on anything complex tends to be the exception rather than the rule - it's much easier for everyone to make the same (avoidable) mistakes over and over again, apparently, than it is to accept the process doesn't work and fix it.

"Intangible" non-functional requirements are simply something that don't translate well into the procurement world, and are the first thing dropped to try and lower the "headline price". Being secure enough to get past BSI is a cost that your competitor likely won't be factoring in.
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Same here, never used Goodreads (though looked on there for book info sometimes), but have been trying out The Story Graph. Is pretty nice for tracking reading and seeing your books, even in a beta stage.

Have also looked a little into Library Thing (also mentioned in this discussion). Anyone use both and have useful comparisons, pros/cons for each?
Sadly I would not trust those Chinese chips. This is where 99% of counterfeit chips come from and often they either are sub-par to original specs or they don't function at all.

We have a similar situation - 13 month lead times. In one case we were able to substitute a $1 part for a $150 military version. The other situation can't be fixed so easily: Xilinx FPGAs. Each unit of our product has 120 of them and we are building dozens just for orders this year.

We've already had our assembly house lose $10K of parts through employee theft as well. They still don't know "how it happened" but honestly only a handful of people would know they were valuable and know how to fence them! Probably not minimum wage employees to be honest.

It probably is an angle to the war.

That and shutting down low-tech supply chains for routine things like TP - just so people know, the dominant standard supply chain for paper products is to use US/Canadian and Malay/Indonesian or Brazilian (tropical) wood chips, shipping these to China to make raw paper rolls, then bringing it back to the US to be cut into TP et al.

It's easy to disrupt things without even shutting down the supply chain - MOST JIT (just-in-time) supply chains (which are 99% of all supply chains today) are tuned to accept no more than 5%-10% volume variance so you can shut down supply chains by forcing the variance to 20%-30% without even going to 100% off.

This is part of what happened to TP in 2000; the other part was the fact that commercial and residential TP supply chains can not be mutually substituted - BY LAW.
Problems to Solve for Shopify Merchants?
I was planning to build a shopify app as a way to get my entrance into the world of entrepreneurship. I was doing some research and came up with 5 ideas and decided to write a piece on it [1]

Any shopify merchants who can give me feedback on it? Are you currently using another mechanism for solving any of these problems? Are they even real problems in your opinion?

Would love to have a discussion on some pain points in merchants lives; as I want to build a pain killer and not a vitamin app.
So while we're on the subject, is there a good book recommendation service? I usually just browse the Kindle store, but the recommendations there are pretty awful. Most of them seem to be NYT best sellers, which usually seems to mean "derivative crud".

It seems odd that Amazon's recommendation engine isn't better. Perhaps it works for most people.
This research is a proof-of-concept for future work on a larger scale.
One reason is that we can communicate with (most) other humans to establish the shared boundary in a way we cannot (as reliably?) with other life.

I make no particular claim here as to how this reason should be weighed against the various other reasons pulling in the various directions.
Your example is incomplete - let’s say the lot can support up to 100 apartments, but it’s expensive to do so and profitable only in the long run.

Now comes prospective buyer C who can’t afford to live there unless new developer D buys and builds. However B is ok with their profit and doesn’t sell.

Unless you tax in a way such that the maximum capacity must be used (and that can be gamed easily) you’ll always run into this. This is the ideal situation but then incumbents will fight to change what maximum means.

The problem is that there’s no standard. If it were said that a living space must be 300sqft + 300 soft per person things would converge, but without that you get sprawl or comfortable density. A decent compromise is locale adjusted limits but then you run into the same original issue. Rinse and repeat.
Do it a few times, and you'll reach caged houses and kowloon of Hong Kong. Not a desirable vision.
Hey, this is really cool! What's the optimal strategy? Would love to learn more
Isn't it true by definition? If an asset stays affordable in the long run, then by definition it cannot be a good investment, as the definition of a good investment is an asset that increases in value faster than most other assets.
Youtube business model is to make money of playing ads to it's viewers. Recent changes to Terms of Service allows Youtube to inject ads to content that has none.

Before kids get to their assigned video they have to often watch an ad for a game or a service. Sometimes multiple ads play throughout.

Also, at the end of the video kids get enticed to watch more videos that Youtube wants them to see (not the teacher or parent) - in order to play more ads.
> Converting renters into buyers without building more housing reduces both the demand for and the supply of rental housing. This will not reduce rental prices.

HTB is only available on new homes so not removing any stock

> Your sympathy is not required, but you should at least see how landlords paying higher prices for housing leads to higher rents for tenants.

Why? Someone is either willing to pay £1k a month for renting a place or not, they care not for the cost of the house they are renting.

> you should at least see how landlords paying higher prices for housing leads to higher rents for tenants

I owned a flat, I rented it out for the maximum amount of money I could get for it (balanced against other things like reliablity of tennant etc). It doesn't matter how much the flat sells for.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/75180448#/ sold in November 2006 for £150k, it's now worth about £320k, it's being rented out for £1k a month because people will pay £1k a month, it has nothing to do with how much it was bought for, only what people will pay.
A bit off topic but what is the status of the hypothetical norm that would allow to do DOM/Web APIs call natively from WASM without JS wrappers ? Because afaik it is one of the biggest blocker regarding WASM application (not compute-heavy libs) performance.
So... it doesn't really impact this discussion other than "shouldn't be an issue". I'll try and give a summary of what's happening technically, but HN is frankly the wrong form for a "how to use the C ffi in rust" tutorial. Also a big disclaimer that I don't know what precisely this project is doing, so I'm talking about C/Rust projects in general.

Rust talks the C ffi really well. It can call external functions that follow the C abi the same way it can call native unsafe functions [1]. You can tell it to layout a struct the same way that C does, etc.

Because calling the C abi requires unsafe code, it's common to provide wrappers around the C abi that are safe against missuse. I.e. that make it so that the only way to call C functions is the correct way. This is doing things like making it so the only way to get a `struct` is to call a (safe) `new` function that calls the (unsafe) C initializer internally, and exposing the C "methods" on that struct (that expect it to be initialized) as safe methods on the rust struct that internally call the unsafe C functions (and they can do so because they know the struct has been initialized). Obviously for any particular C api you have to look at what it requires to be called safely, and then figure out how to encode it in the type system, but that's usually surprisingly easy.

Calling rust from C doesn't really require any "unsafe" code (other than the fact that C is basically a giant unsafe block by nature), because the assertion that you're calling it correctly happens on the C side of things, not the rust side of things. Just like rust can call C abi functions, rust can make it's functions follow the C abi by simply saying

extern "C" fn foo()

instead of

fn foo()

But many of the data structures you might pass from C to rust will need a wrapper to use "safely". E.g. if I pass a doubly linked list, it's going to need raw pointers more or less by nature (at least if rust wants to be able to mutate it), and someone is going to need to do a similar wrapping thing where they expose some functions that correctly work with the list, that internally use unsafe, but expose a safe api.

[1] So what unsafe here means that the compiler doesn't know that the function is safe to call, so you have to tell it "I checked and how I'm using it is fine" by putting the call inside an unsafe block. This looks like the following. Note that you can also have unsafe native rust functions (e.g. if you want to index an array without checking the array bounds that's an unsafe function implemented in rust)

unsafe {
c_function_here(arg1, arg2)
}
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective by Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron

A bit of a look into how your computer works as a whole, from the CPU, through assembly, how C is translated into this assembly, a bit about caches, Amdahl's law, virtual memory, processes, threads, I/O and a dozen other things.

<https://www.pearson.com/store/p/computer-systems-a-programme...>
This result depends on assumptions about the future that would not sit easy with me.
I really don't think OP has the required skills for a dev job. It's not just the writing style, it's also the complete lack of any relevant education or experience.

I didn't say anything about their mental capacity, it's quite possible that they learn the skills.
It's popular. If everyone else has it, that means you are missing out if you don't. As a child, saying "No sorry, I'm not on instagram" means they're a social outcast in their heads. Of course, no one actually cares, but social interactions matter a lot at that age.

Edit to add: A lot of teachers are also trying to be hip and cool. Three times in the past year I have been assigned "tiktok" assignments where I either had to record a tiktok or watch a tiktok. Of course there were other options that I took, but if some kid doesn't have it simply because they don't care, not out of privacy reasons, they'd probably download and start using it regularly after thinking a grade rides on it.

That's another thing: I am 100% serious when I say that my peers are addicted to tiktok. I know people who regularly spend 6+ hours a day just scrolling through it. In fact, I don't know anyone who doesn't spend at least 2 hours daily on it. I don't think any other social media comes close to it in addictiveness. It is literally almost everyone I know, even tangentially.
for the US Market, how does price inflation, local govt collusion and rent-seeking by boomers fit in, in your opinion?
> The list goes on. I'm happy that it's being suggested, I'm just worried how it took so long to get here.

Because this is a Gish Gallop of weak individual reasons batched together to make it seem like a stronger obvious argument when it’s not.

> How can Google own the entire ads market and still be allowed to compete in it?

They don’t. Amazon and Facebook both make a fortune from ads. You need to be more specific.

> How can Amazon be allowed to sell competing products in their own marketplace, when they own the actual marketplace?

Go to a store, this is what Walmart, Albertsons/Safeway, Costco, etc have been doing for longer than any of the FAANGs have existed.

> How is Apple allowed to disallow any other web browsers on their mobile devices? We already went through this with Microsoft in the past but suddenly it's different?

The same reason you can’t put software you want on a Xbox/PlayStation/Switch.

> Why is Google allowed to rank their own products in front of more general results?

Because it’s their algorithm to do with what they want. If they want to erode public trust by using it to advertise their products, that’s their choice. Other things they adjust the algorithm to do: filter malware, filter porn (by default), filter unreliable sites, etc. You’re going to have a really hard time defining what’s “fair” for a black box algorithm to do.
They could be back, but maybe in a different form. It will be interesting to see where the energy of WBB will go.

> The Staff & many members are hoping that the Domain name being retained by the owner is a hopeful sign there may be a chance for a http://Warez-BB.org resurrection in the future.
But until that day comes best wishes to all of you & we promise to post any good news we may hear
Are you referring to your GP comment about how I must be ignorant about governments killing their own citizens because I dared suggest that governments can help the poor? If so, I agree: a straw man and lots of other fallacies to boot.
>The scientist you interacted with was probably a very nice person—but just didn’t seem to think that the animals they experimented on were very sentient and probably in enormous distress.

just a bit more than 100 years ago they were cutting dogs and cats alive without anesthesia.

and that is one of the popular calf castration methods which is still done without anesthesia even today - as described it is painful "only" the first 12-36 hours (left to your imagination what the calves feel during the next several weeks as the testicles and scrotum slowly necrotize and ultimately fall off)

https://www.amazon.com/calf-bander/s?k=calf+bander
Thank you.

Parenting is really about saying « no » everyday to the person you love the most on this universe when he deeply want something, while knowing you would have want it either, really wanting to say « yes » because you want him to be the happiest person on the world but knowing, as a boring adult, that you must say no.

And if you want to succeed, you have to explain why.

And you have to do that everyday.

And I have to admit that you probably have more interesting topics to discuss with your 9yo than explaining what’s wrong with social médias and its dangers, and why you won’t change your mind even if all his friends already are on Instakids.

It’s not that the the topic is not interesting to discuss with your child, it’s that at 9yo, they just don’t care about it. And they shouldn’t even have to care, because a 9yo have really, really more interesting things to live than being on Instakids.

Zuckerberg is forcing every parent on this planet to have this useless, meaningless and boring conversation just because he want to spy children with the hope of selling them some Coca-Cola. That’s another proof of his total absence of ethical limits.
If poison, cigarettes, alcohol and porn were explicitly marketed towards children, you'd have a point there.

Note that cigarettes and alcohol were both implicitly and explicitly marketed towards children in the past until governments stepped in and there have been steps to attempt to crack down on fast food.

> Trying to cancel out harms in the world is futile.

You missed the word "all" there but I don't see how that statement is relevant when discussing one specific new harm which we can literally cancel out before it sees the light of day.
Probability Is Subjective
It didn’t take too long, there was AOT compilers available two decades ago as well.

There was just not much interest in it, because performance gets worth, and startup time is seldom interesting. (Pretty much only command line tools would require faster startup, and recent serverless)

And memory usage is a tradeoff. Though most of the time java could run with almost half of the currently used memory, it is unnecessary work to GC if memory is available.
Price and selection. You may love what Amazon offers today. I think they're moderately terrible, even compared to the Amazon of 10 years ago, and I have fewer alternative marketplaces to choose from and products in those marketplaces. Try finding the exact thing/seller/manufacturer you're looking for... for some things I find it damn near impossible due to how they now consolidate listings. I'm also pretty sure that the prices aren't as good as they would in a more competitive environment but can't be certain as Amazon has wiped out much of it. Competition is a key mechanism that allows markets to self regulate.

The vast majority of companies are incapable of self regulating because it is contrary to their primary mission of 'maximizing shareholder value'. This generally just means eliminate your competition and then maximizing profit. In the absence of competitive markets, the government often needs to step in at some point.
Because humans that extract value from animals outcompete the humans that don't.

It's in a humans best interest to believe the narrative that allows them to extract that value without moral uneasiness.
Ask HN: Interesting problems to solve for Shopify merchants?
I was planning to build a Shopify app as a way to get my entrance into the world of entrepreneurship. I was doing some research and came up with 5 ideas and decided to write a piece on it [1] Here is the gist:

#1 Task management
#2 Local pickup app
#3 Enabling renting products
#4 Customer and products insights
#5 Virtual show and tell app

Any Shopify merchants who can give me feedback on it? Are you currently using another mechanism for solving any of these problems? Are they even real problems in your opinion?

Would love to have a discussion on some pain points in merchants lives; as I want to build a pain killer and not a vitamin app

[1] https://www.kasrakhosravi.com/7-app-ideas-for-shopify/
I think the point is that every generation thinks they're smart enough to wield the powers of the day. Humans have been wrong many, many times about that presumption.

We can't look into the future to realize how much or little we actually know right now. You can only look back and remark on how foolish people were a few decades or centuries ago.
If it's based from OTP we should give it proper credit and call it OTP/OARS.
Why does someone's primary home need to be an investment vehicle at all?
Any no dilution no debt growth funding for SaaS companies you know of in Europe?
We run a SaaS with €12k MRR and we're looking into non-dilutive and debt-free funding options in Europe. Any platforms you can recommend?