skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the selling points of the Apple Watch is being able to use it (though not own it since it needs an iPhone at some point) in isolation. Having to stream content isn't always an option or isn't the best option. I use mine on my runs, but it has no cellular data of its own so I downloaded music and audiobooks to it. Even if it did have cellular data, streaming the music would drain the battery even faster since I'd be using every capability: health stat monitoring, bluetooth, GPS, and cellular data.
LOL sure. I think it's arguably terrible behind the curtain. But the interface provided is pretty elegant IMO.
The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil
for my latest contracted small web app project, I didn't see the need to get an ORM set up—I opted instead to just go for plain SQL statements in a single PHP file, even going so far as to use `?> ... <?` for "templating" HTML blocks, and a fat query string switch for the different subpages/GET/POST actions on the site. I'm sure almost everyone here, especially web developers, would absolutely cringe at what I've done, but for the scope of this small project it works extremely well. after my last job at a remote django/react shop, it was a breath of fresh air to build something "from scratch" without setting up and configuring large amounts of boilerplate, class structures, etc.—instead, the website is quite procedural, just like I would've written when I was teaching myself web development in high school in the mid 00s (except, without the gaping SQL injection holes). designing the web app this way let me build it quickly and rapidly iterate on features as the client requested, and he ended up extremely happy with the results.
cutter has better arm support than ghidra. But getting a version they works on macOS Big Sur is tricky
The most common problem I see is not echo, but software audio ducking that happens as a result of using onboard speakers and mic.

Some people have a hard time realizing that they're interrupting someone else because that other person's audio is getting ducked while the laptop prioritizes mic input over speaker output - with the intent to reduce echo.
People who build housing create value. People who manage properties create value. People who speculate on properties do not create value.
That is precisely the reason that Madison and his collaborators wrote the constitution (with debates kept secret from the public). The nation already had popular rule and a federal organization in 1781. The problem for the rich was that state legislatures kept helping out the majority of their voters, changing various rules about repayment of debts and so on. The constitution put an end to all that, as it was intended to do.
Evil isn't really a word I'd use, but Bill has done some pretty damaging stuff. He, Allen, and Verhoeven helped create the patent regime that's now a huge bully tool in the hands of the megacorps. It's hard to put a nice face on Intellectual Ventures, a business whose model only works if independent rediscovery of a patent is common.

He was really nasty on a personal level too. Allen only saved his stake in the company because he happened to walk through the office late one night and heard Bill gloating with someone else about how they were going to screw him out of his shares.

I'm glad Bill has turned into the philanthropic leader he is now, but there was more ugly to his career than just some anticompetitive behavior.
This isn’t an especially helpful comment considering some people believe he’s trying to use the vaccine to microchip all of us or something like that
Yep, that's my interpretation of "advanced".

Yours could be one that retreats into hermetic shelters and plays Call of Duty between themselves all day long.
But then you'd own the option so you'd benefit from the volatility and can quickly cash out, right?
We'll all be video-chatting each other over hologram by 2030, experts predict
he is selling a subscription. if it actually worked as well as he purports he would do it himself. way easier to collect recurring subs from gullible ppl.
What all products do you get refund in India? I couldn't get a fucking refund for brand new clothes after 10 minute after purchase. Markets are littered with messages "once sold cannot be returned"

Besides government always loudly announces that any company doing business in India have to follow Indian laws. So why would any outside company bring more generous practices in India that is not required by law and not followed by most Indian businesses.
http://conal.net/papers/icfp97/

Functional Reactive Animation - 1997

Functional Reactive Programming is (one of) the current hotness.
My question is what would not look like microorganisms colonising? There is a range of manners that they expand from growing from a core, spores, milliary, fronds. I imagine most simple growth patterns possible are taken advantage of by microorganisms.
That seems more like type erasure as defined in Java where the container is the same for all data types and the compiler implicitly inserts casts from the base type to the parameter type.
That's basically what linq is. It's of course not identical to sql, but one big reason for that is sql is difficult to autocomplete. Linq purposely flipped things around to help with that (ie 'from foo select something' instead of 'select something from foo')
personally I think it causes the least amount of bad will if you leave the existing plans at $10*X/year for the people that are grandfathered into those contracts. If you increase the price only on new signups you will keep your happy customers... this goes well with an email that says something like "we are raising the yearly fee on the SAAS however the good news is that you're grandfathered into your current pricing for as long as you maintain your subscription"
Here's my two cents.. I would first off send your customers a survey about where they find value and why they picked yearly over monthly.

Next - I would not increase prices. I would add value, and increase pricing on that. Add more features, and add another pricing tier that people can find valuable with these new features.

Continue to do that until you have multiple pricing tiers; (if you don't already). Then add value into those tiers and increase cost to reflect that extra value add as needed.
"personal policy position"

Once she announces it in the media, wouldn't it be a professional policy opinion? CEOs are similar. They can believe what they want, but what they say to the media can be punished (like Elon was). The real sticking point is how is she of one opinion then flip to the complete opposite the next day without giving a reason. If they have to report their intended trades then it could avoid this short term play.

Spouses and household members are held to the same restrictions as the regulated individual, regardless of the conversation or not. The only reason it's hard to prove is because they are in a position of power. The SEC would jump on any normal people doing the same thing.
But Washington also shocked the ruling elites of the world by stepping down when he did. Clearly, he was cut of a different cloth than other largest landowners in their respective countries.
I miss the ability to get the cached version of a page easily, without having to jump into the advanced search settings - if it is even possible to do that anymore, they may have pulled it completely.
I had an issue with a propane company contractor failing to secure permits before installing a line, which caused an expensive backyard project to grind to a halt, while still incurring cost. Every call to support was met with very friendly folks who promised a call back same day.

That never, ever happened and I had to resort to a nicely worded note to a corporate VP on LinkedIn to resolve it. Even then, I'm pretty sure that "unpermitted gas line work" was the real driver in getting it resolved, since that's a big deal.
one reason resolv.conf is/was so sticky is that gethostbyname (and friends) is a libc thing and pretty low-level
That's like deciding to marry a man because he doesn't beat you as often as other men. He is still a bad man.
Do people know you can just go for a run or cycle. You don't even need to pay someone, just go and do it.
Clearance time varies but can take months. They've already collected profits by the time they are disclosed
How to use Ansible to configure a reverse proxy
Placing a load balancer in front of your web server infrastructure helps ensure any spike in traffic doesn't bring down the site. https://red.ht/3dlMfbG
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26824485
Is there a community aspect to your site?

the typical two-months-free-if-you-pay-annual thing
you see everywhere

Anecdotal, but --

When I ran a dating/social site back in the ancient mists of time, it was $4/month or $20/year.

So, more like seven-months-free-if-you-pay-annual. I felt it was successful at driving people towards the annual subscription. Since the annual subscription was such an obviously "better" deal.

In my case I was actively trying to encourage the network effect. I wanted long term community members, not monthly ones. After all, when paying for a site like that, you're really paying for access to the community.

Is there a value to having your customers around longer-term? Community aspects? Promotional aspects? ("40,000 active subscribers for $PRODUCT_NAME!") For many businesses perhaps the answer is "no" but it's worth considering perhaps.
What I mean is if you can hear background noise in your room, it will be audible in your recording.
Personally I hate monthly payments for things. If it is something I'm going to use I may as well get a bit of a discount and not have yet another payment coming out of my account each month.

Additionally I'm in the UK, so this won't apply everywhere. Some (Many?) bank accounts charge a flat fee on top of the currency conversion rate - again a reason to make just one payment a year.
Sure, playing correctly against a maniac, novice, or otherwise unpredictable player can be more difficult and have higher variance, but it's also as lucrative as it gets if you know what you're doing. All the strong players I've known would be elated to play against people like that.
For a company we planned to acquire and integrate, one of our devs was wondering why the search requests the frontend made to their API suspiciously looked like raw ElasticSearch queries.

Two hours later that dev sent me a screenshot with our competitor’s production catalogue consisting of memes.

I told him to delete them so we could sign the purchase agreement without further ado.

To this day they don‘t know and I sometimes wonder how they ever got so far.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you leave backend query languages to backends and just use GraphQL...
There's no problem - the word farm is being used differently in different contexts. In the quote you posted, farm is in reference to hashpower. You can have many smaller miners (zombie farms, in your quote) that know nothing about the transactions they are mining. That is how mining pools work today. All that is required is one big central node that can validate the transactions and build the block, which is what my quote was referencing with farm.
If I was a foreign government, I would just monitor these announcements and impoverish the US politicians.
This is true, and there is definitely a place for raw sql, but in my experience ORMs cover most cases and I only have to write SQL queries for special cases.
It is a universal rule as if you don't do that, you are part of the problem and are creating a drag on the society, reducing the value for everyone to use and enjoy. Your argument sounds like You want to see the society to fail and collapse.
That happened on Ethereum with a game called exit.scam where the last person who buys a token wins, but every time someone buys one the timer resets. In order to win the game a bunch of miners colluded to make it impossible to get a transaction through, guaranteeing they bought the last one.
Sounds like you are creating value, and customers are confident in doing business with you for a longer period of time.

So good job!
I've often thought that coding - for me - is more visual / graphical than anything else. If you could find a way to quantify + test people's ability to do that, you could throw rubbish coding challenges out the window and, given the state of tech hiring, be an instant millionaire.

Having said that, for me it's impossible to describe. There is a part of my brain that is putting things together (graphically, sort of) but simultaneously thinking dependencies, potential problems, optimisation, etc.. Then there's a part that is doing things based on experience and repetition - to be fair the second and third parts are more based on experience than anything else.
I don't think we need to PAY them more to eliminate corruption - I think we need to change how campaigns are financed. Needing to raise millions every few years to keep your job makes you beholding to whoever has the money
> s the best option for a store of value, or even a good or acceptable option for that. It's really just not.

Completely disagree with this point which invalidates everything else you say.

Your opinion doesn't match reality. The reality is that it's been a great store of value since its inception. Anybody that has ever bought and held Bitcoin, at any time during its entire history, has had a positive return.
Template heavy C++ (which is a lot of nontrivial C++) DOES have immensely increased compile times hahaha. It's not too bad if you have a decent number of hardware threads and incrementally (re)build in parallel though.
> Ie, do you think that advertisers rebelled specifically because they thought Microsoft was hypocritical about tracking?

No, but I don't think Firefox would've done that, because they had no interest in killing the feature (which was predicted to happen soon as they announced, certainly their smart people were aware of the consequences of their actions -- and they have very good connections to ad-tech, they're part of it, hence their understanding of the response and interest for the events to play out exactly like they did).

For Mozilla, I would have had a much easier time to assume good faith, for Microsoft I find that very hard to believe, much like their Shenanigans with IE on Windows and not allowing removal, making browser install hard etc wasn't done because they thought IE was the best browser and users couldn't possibly want to switch.

Similarly, I don't believe Google suggests FLoC because they want to protect privacy by any means necessary. But that doesn't mean that it's not better for the average user than what we have today. And we won't get any movement without Google.

> But an arms race where browsers close tracking vectors where they find them is better than a legal status quo where browsers add new tracking vectors of their own volition.

Two of the four major browsers are built by ad-tech companies, another one is almost entirely funded by an ad-tech company. That leaves Safari, and Apple has no intention to offer it to all users.

Google will not fight against itself (and it's the only relevant player on both sides), there will be no arms race. As for US Senators: who in ad-tech has more to spend than Google, Facebook, and Microsoft?
The grain still needs to be hauled to somewhere else though.

If the grain only ever exists on your farm, it has no value to anyone else whether for coins or axe heads.
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Our treatment can be taken alongside traditional allergy care like antihistamines and corticosteroids to manage allergy symptoms until immunotolerance is established.
Peloton also has a more of a cult following. A better comparison is probably cross-fit
Are the numbers current subscribers or new subscriptions?

Hard to speculate without comparing churn.
Robinhood sues to invalidate Massachusetts fiduciary rule
It comes down to each individual I guess, but I'm doubtful that such people are really very happy. Smoking every day to offload stress can seem nice, until you're looking back on all the time you could've used better, and realize its not making you happy, it just distracts from what makes you unhappy. It can be really fun to add to experiences that are already enjoyable, and every now and then it can be helpful to offload stress during something undesirable, but if its use is too frequent, given my own experience and those around me, it does become a black hole of time. The old South Park explanation was quite spot on, it makes you alright with being bored, when being bored should motivate to do something.

All that said, with conscious planning to use it in a productive way, I've found incredible enhancement of working on creative projects while stoned out of my mind.
"The idea that we're pawns doesn't cross most people's minds."

Maybe. The fact that two of us here are even discussing it is something. I know quite a few people who feel this way. But it does usually take at least the witnessing of a blatant violation.
Just for the sake of fun and clashing some worldviews, I am quite concerned that the population size will be shrinking.

As soon as some nation makes contraceptives economically available, the native population growth goes negative. Do you know many families with three children? Because that seems like a minimal number, no?

Immigrants who (1) come when younger, and further (2) have more children mask this problem a bit, but their supply is limited. (Sorry for my insensitivity, I'm not from The West myself.) The easy contraceptives will get to even poorest countries in a generation or two. There will be a Big Shrink before the narrative of fertility takes hold again.
Peers and predecessors are not the same.
I'm obviously for electing honest people.

It's probably (I don't work at the SEC) true that it's still difficult to catch all perpetrators. The SEC has limited resources and they probably have a way of prioritizing cases that they think have sufficient evidence. No system is perfect, but from my perspective the SEC is a respected organization whose authority is treated seriously. I have frequently been told that I will face serious jail time if I engage in insider trading and am later caught.
When I had my prescription it really helped me feel "normal" for once in my life. Completely fixed my brain fog as long as I was taking care of myself and my schedules.

Unfortunately my GP is very hesitant to get me a proper test for ADHD so I'll have to see if $8000 for an eval with a Psych for a chance at a diagnosis is worth it.
Not stockpiling, a lot of people just do actual hoarding, and speculation.

Buying out all stocks of some rare MCU which only has probably few million units on the market at any given time at $0.1 just to resell for a few dollars later is quite real given the unprecedented squeeze.

How much would a car company pay for a rare, out of stock chip which is the only thing missing in a car worth $100k?

There is murmur in Chinese BBSes frequented by industry insiders about distributors intentionally either stuffing their part stock counts, or diminish them to play the price.
Well that's fantastic news for me then. I missed that detail in their comment earlier.
I get an alert saying "please view this website with chrome, Firefox, or safari" on my up-to-date Firefox for Android...
It seems crazy to think there is demand for new cruise ships, now.
Can't forget bats. There's a reason why their order is Chiroptera.

>The name "Chiroptera" derives from Ancient Greek: χείρ – cheir, "hand"[4] and πτερόν – pteron, "wing".[1][5]
What if you want to make an app that doesn't work without a trust feature?

Can you sell your trusted account?
> I wonder if the same people hold both the opinions.

I suspect there are a lot of business owners on HN. Current, future or past. So it's definitely possible.
I use to build sites in PHP where the front and backend were basically the same thing, with only the database existing outside the single codebase. It was definitely common for there to be sql injection vulnerabilities and years later i shuttered at the thought of some of those companies still writing code I wrote when I was young and knew almost nothing I’d security. Luckily now days most of them have switched to new code bases (or went out of business) but this wasn’t the case even 2-3 years ago.
Agreed. The issue is it's "easy" to do if you have a massive data model and can feel pretty fun making a query-able API. What's more fun? Making your own DSL or writing a billion "/foo/{id}" endpoints. Usually the DSL is a lot more fun and rewarding, however, "/foo/{id}" is a FAR more stable and easy to maintain API.

That's where I've often run into the problem. When someone wants to make a monolith into a more microservice thing the hard part of carving out monolith usages takes meetings with consumers. Devs don't want a bunch of meetings and requirements gathering and a lot (at least in my org... :( ) would rather just write something cool and throw their hands up and say "We don't know how you'd use this, so we made you the boss".
Here's a specific example of your slime mold hypothesis [1] in which a slime mold grew a network just like Tokyo's rail system.

Slime mold doesn't have the same ring as "rail network planning AI", but it seems that's what it is.

1: https://outline.com/t8hxKh (original: https://www.wired.com/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-network-just-...)
That line of thinking doesn't get you far with anything. Nothing is universal. You can always find someone with some disability that prevents them from using a product.

Accommidating as many people as possible is good, but you can never accommidate everyone. Same goes for all of these "things programmers believe about X", be it names or whatever. You absolutely need to provide working product for majority of people first and majority of people have at least two names or in this case 5 fingers.
The first question I have is whether a resource lender have a say in what's being computed on their resource?

If yes, it's not 'censorship-resistant'. If no, how can one be sure he's not transcoding CP at home?
> 3rd highest GDP in the world

Yes, and slowly sliding down the list.

The demographic one is the real killer. Debt is high compared to their GDP, and their GDP is not growing, and there is a big structural headwind with the population shrinking and getting older.

> Germany looks almost no different, yet I rarely hear about German stagnation

Germany has smaller versions of the same demographic and growth problems. However, Germany's real GDP has increased by about 30% in the last 20 years, versus Japan managing about 18%. About 50% for the United States.

Over the past 30 years: 53%, 32%, 102%.
It's simple to me. The policy is based on "good faith" that people won't lie and abuse the return policy as a free rental.

You claim it's okay to follow the letter of the policy and abuse it. When too many people do that the policy is removed.

Result: You live in a culture where returns are disallowed.

Me, I'd prefer to live in a culture where returns are allowed. That only happens when people don't abuse the return policy. The fact that Apple changed their policy because people abused it is a loss for everyone that had no intention of abusing it. It's even a loss for those who were abusing it if they ever have a legit reason to want to return something.

There are a many many policies that only really work on social norms. Living in a society that respects those norms is "almost" always a nicer society to live in.
Aaah I see you experienced Mac ooks 2015 battery issue. Or Macbooks 2016,2017,2018 butterfly keyboard issue.

Not sure why people buy Apple...
Yeah, people keep asking me to download their apps, but they stop asking when I pull out my feature phone and slide out the keyboard. I'm going to miss that a little.