skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yah, but $30/mo literally puts it out of reach for 60+% of households, and that's on top of buying an apple tv and an apple watch for each user. that's just part of the narrowness of its appeal.

apple has historically targeted the mass premium customer segment, able to command a higher price and still entice the broader public to buy. fitness+ (and apple one) has the higher price but not the broader appeal. it's just not differentiated enough.

a personal anecdote: i've had apple tv+ for free for the past year and have watched it maybe a half dozen times. the shows are so overproduced to be tone-deaf. they're now trying to buy their way into the market via awards, so we'll see if that turns into any compelling content and moreover, more subscriptions.
Clean room builds. Set up an environment with no access to anything (other than a NAT gateway). Copy only the files needed to do the build into the environment. Run the build. At the end of the build, capture the artifacts. Tear it all down at the end.

For a Docker container, that might look like:

1. Create an EC2 instance with no IAM permissions, and a user with ~/.ssh/authorized_keys to allow copying in files.
2. Install Docker.
3. Copy all files for your build to the host. Make sure not to copy any secrets (!).
4. Run the 'docker build'.
5. Set up remote registry authentication.
6. 'docker push' the built image to the remote registry.

In that environment, the only "secrets" you can bring along into the container came when you copied files to the EC2 instance (which shouldn't have been there, just like secrets shouldn't be in your source code). So then you also make sure the process that preps your files for copying also contains no secrets.
There are lots of english translations of "Patanjali Yoga Sutras" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali#Trans...)

To see how succinct they are, read Bon Giovanni's translation at https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/yogasutr.htm

If you are new to the subject start with Swami Vivekananda's Raja Yoga which is a very loose but accessible overview.

For a detailed study with notes from various commentaries, see The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali trans. by Edwin Bryant.

The above two should give you a solid foundation after which you can move on to even more exhaustive translations with specific commentaries.
Say yes to Deno? Let’s talk about Deno
Rainforest QA (YC S12) hiring back end and front end folks internationally, remote
That's not how you do type erasure in C++.

Have a look at std::any :
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/any/

you can place a value of any type T in it (well, obviously it needs to be constructible etc.), or a std::nullopt, which is like an "Empty" or "Nothing" indicator that is not in T.

Then you can pass the `any` around without knowing its type. Finally, when you want to restore the typed value, you use any::get<T>(). It will succeed if T is the correct type, and throw an exception otherwise.

This was introduced into C++ in the C++17 version of the standard. Before, it existed as a Boost library facility.
I think that 90 day limit is great, it would help my city a lot because of all the speculative market buyers who buy and hold just as a store of wealth hoping to flip it for a profit after a few years
Yea, I agree with you. Amazon’s retail isn’t the same as it was before.

I think this is consensus amongst the tech elite crowd on HN including myself.

I’ve spoken to my dad who buys all kinds of stuff from Amazon in his retirement in rural area. He loves it. He is still amazed by the fact that someone delivers whatever you want by the press of a button. People of HN are myopic about their position, education and knowledge of technology and try to project that the rest of the world must be the same. I am guilty of that too.

HN is such a monumentally tiny bubble.
Apple makes it really hard to buy some of its products outside the US legally. M1 Macbook Pro with 16GB RAM was not available in Costa Rica, so I tried to order it from the US. All official shops cancelled my purchase, as Apple forbids them to export. They didn’t allow drop shipping either. At the end I had to use EBay, which was much harder (and more expensive) to do.
I don't think you'd very much want to see a video of me failing to type character after character for five minutes :P
Last Week Tonight recently did a show on the meat packing industry. The lack of bathroom breaks was specifically mentioned. https://youtu.be/IhO1FcjDMV4
> Why hasn’t this been tried?

https://caniuse.com/sql-storage

Supported in Chrome 4, circa January 2010.

I'm forgetting the name of it but there is a spec, I think in wicg, for low-level/byte-level file access. This should make using emscripten to compile things like sqlite far more straightforward, to build whatever you want.

I like the shout out to streaming changes out of the database, which the author mentions in terms of redux & time travel abilities from having a wal. Server side systems like Debezium for doing this have been gamechanging. At the moment, the high-level file api has no support for watching for changes (https://github.com/WICG/file-system-access/issues/72). Maybe post 1.0 we might see progress. I don't believe the low-level api has anything for watching for changes.

From a more meta-assesment level of this article: I do hope we can stick with HTTP centric entities, personally. GraphQL with it's generic endpoint that all operations get sent to is, in my view, quite a bad development. But not irreconcileably so: bridges could be built. I'm definitely in favor of experimentation, trying things out. But I also think there's good reasons to keep entities and their urls around, to not abandon that. GraphQL right now doesn't seem to think about that or care about that, but I also think it could be reformed.
Sounds like this could be summarized as a compute/currency exchange. Convert compute to currency which can be used to buy compute.

Does this have the built-in price correction of PoW crypto where economic viability determines how much compute is being dedicated to the network?

Aka, do prices naturally rise in this system until it's economically viable for someone to run their system?
Thank you for your in depth reply!
Considering the author responded with His intention, it seems you have read the tea leaves wrong on intended meaning.
> Look at pretty much all of Europe ...

Europe is actually reforesting, and not by a little bit either:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/...

http://coffeespoons.me/2014/12/the-reforestation-of-europe/
https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/ like this?
YouTube product reviews! People try to copy MKBHD, but as they don't get free products from Apple unlike Marques they buy them for a week.
Are we blaming listicles on Google now?

There's plenty of shit to throw at Google (Timnit Gebru). Let's not dilute concrete criticisms with bland whatevers like "turned much of the internet into a cesspit".
As an owner of both, I can't agree.
I hear you - it would probably need to be cross integrated with web.archive.org in order to actually vend most results given how rapidly we are seeing bit rot.
HEY I LISTEN TO YOU SOMETIMES
The consquence of everyone "simply using" returns policies in that way is businesses having much more restrictive returns policies, as we see in India. Most of us don't want that.
The DMCA is like the EU's GDPR: a law specific to affected countries, that nevertheless affects the entire world.

In the GDPR's case, that's because every company wants to be able to have European customers.

But in the US's case, it's because Internet commerce and ad-tech companies mostly exist within the US, and so you can't have a profitable torrent tracker / pirate-TV streaming site / etc. because — if the DMCA says you're not to be traded with — then you won't be able to get these US businesses to place ads on your site, or engage with US payment processors, etc.

And sure, anyone could run a perfectly robust torrent tracker over Tor, that nobody could take down through DMCAing the DNS provider et al. But, without a large accessible market of people visiting to show ads, there'd be no economic incentive to do so — so nobody bothers.
Apparently Bell blocks vpns outright already
What's really striking to me about timelapse videos of the Earth is how, at a grand enough scale, the growth of human settlements on Earth really looks no different than the growth of bacterial and fungal colonies on Petri dishes.

We think of ourself as special, as having conquered environments, technology and more - and when zoomed out you could explain everything we've built and accomplished as the achievements of a sufficiently robust slime mold simply using available resources to continue growing.
Take a trip to 1995 and check out what we use in Canada: SEDAR:

https://www.sedar.com/
Each horrible codebase I’ve seen in my career started by some early employee who thought « all we want is to expose the database over http ».

And it’s true this works. If you only have to manage a non-shared todo list.

tl;dr: nope.
Plutocratize?
From the same source:

> We get a lot of hate mail from people who think slang doesn’t belong in the dictionary. Comments on our definition for OMG include “I am a high school English teacher and heard that this was added to the dictionary and hoped that I heard incorrectly.” and “The human race is heading somewhere very sad.” These people are barking up the wrong tree: We follow language and delight in tracking its changes.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/slang-and-the-...

and

> Some “new” words are already in the dictionary. New words like hashtag and selfie get a lot of attention, but many of the new words we add are new meanings of words that are already staples in our language: think of the recent meanings of mouse and cookie that have nothing to do with rodents or baked goods.

>What about words that don’t make it into the dictionary? They’re still real words!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/how-does-a-wor...
You're well over the karma threshold for flagging, so you should have been able to. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cflag for how.

Even so, posting like the GP will get you banned. Obviously, "the Bible is bad fiction", "you're kind of a shit person", and "idiotic drivel" are way, way beyond the pale. The pale is depicted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Please don't ever post like that to HN again so we don't have to ban you.

Edit: that includes not calling names like "drivel" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26819803) in general. You can make your substantive points without that, and if you read the guidelines you'll see that they explicitly ask you to.
Though it is quite possible the ship was due for refit anyway.
It's really strange to see that on HN when a company is paying only the taxes it legally has to, it's called "business acumen", but when a person is extracting all the value it can from a policy, it's "abusing the policy".

I wonder if the same people hold both the opinions.
> I spend about $5 million every year to offset my family’s carbon footprint.

It's not like this money magically got created. In order for him to have $5 million, someone had to pay it, maybe by creating even more pollution. At least he is aware that he is doing bad thing, but the attitude "I am rich, so I can" is narcissistic and wrong.
I don't reckon he is honestly, deindexing and blocking piracy sites is just another facet of the same censorious tendencies.
I hope the intent was to show this is not necessarily a partisan issue, representatives on both sides of the aisle are clearly engaging in suspiciously successful trades.
Was that a precursor to let's say the Elgato Streamdeck[0]? Or did displays in keys already exist before the Maximus?

[0] https://www.elgato.com/themes/custom/smalcode/image/products...
One could argue a cancer spreading faster is bad news
I appreciate the cool stuff, but I could also accept a reality where there's much less tracking going on, and Google Earth and smartphones are less impressive.
Maybe I was using too much understatement:

The kind of marketing is not only "aggressive", it is overly aggressive IMHO. It is vilifying, demonizing.

You can do aggressive marketing all you want, but in my eyes when arguments become hyperbolic, they get less and less believable.

The way they write their piece, FLoC is the worst thing that has ever happened, worse than everything that came before (how on earth is this worse than strictly personalized cookies all over the place?!) and only DDG and their extension can save you.
Frankly, it's insider trading and should be restricted/prosecuted as such.
Apple One lacks a compelling tentpole offering that most people would want. TV+ is what, the 4th place streaming subscription service? Apple music has 1/2 the market share of Spotify. Storage, maybe, but 2TB is quite a lot and I doubt most customers are buying that much.
AFAIK the imagery you want has been relegated to the desktop app (now called google earth pro), and is still available.

There is a little clock icon above the imagery area with a counter clockwise green arrow you must click to access historical imagery.

Luckily they do release a version of the desktop app that works on linux.

[Download page] https://www.google.com/earth/versions/#download-pro
I agree, it's a start. But importantly it (attempts to) align their interests with the broader US economy. Also it still allows them to invest for their personal futures, which I believe is a right.
Reddit’s Public Bug Bounty Program Launch
I would like more oversight here but I don't know if these are great examples. I do (without evidence) believe a lot of these people use insider information.

Pelosi's husband has been very bullish for a long time on Tesla, Apple & tech in general I do believe.

Gottheimer did what I think is a Bull Call spread which means in February, after a crazy run up in market prices in January, he bet that MSFT would go up a little more but would eventually come back down or at least trade sideways & not go over $160 by 6/18. If he sold his ITM calls before March or in early March, he probably did good. If he held on to them until closer to the 19th, he might have got crushed. This doesn't say when he sold. A lot of people argued stocks were overbought after January. Also, if he owns a large share of MSFT it's common to sell calls when you want to keep your shares but think the price is at the top or there is a lot of volatility that will soon go away. It's a way to earn some income without selling.

- None of this is financial advice & I'm fairly ignorant on this topic.
> Don’t bail out corporations, give people money directly and let them decide if they want to acquire a stake or not.

I haven't thought of it like that, but it makes a lot more sense than "trickle-down" economics. (Quotes because of the disgust it triggers)
> In a world with a growing global economy

That’s assuming there’s no end to the growth. But the resources here on earth are limited.
Yep, but not just for data journalism.
^ Indian culture

Every culture
I also have an Apple Watch. I looked at Peloton's offerings back when we were in the market for a treadmill. Would have bought one, too, except that giant-ass screen is good for one thing: watching Peloton classes. No Netflix, no nothing on that screen but Peloton. And people complain about Apple's lock-in? So we bought something else that works with Zwift and a host of other offerings.
> they can live off of their general UBI

More like their landlord can live off their general UBI.

Abolish rent!
Is it worthwhile to call it illegal when it's not enforced?
How is this scamming or abuse? There is a return window that people are taking advantage of whose purpose it to let unsure people decide whether they want the device or not. People are using this promise at face value and then being called abusers and scammers
However the Type Erasure described here doesn't need to know T even when you use it. E.g. it enables things like

for (auto x : vec) {
x.foo();
}
My company[0] is building someone very similar.

* Cloudflare seems to be taking the approach of "trust us with your SSH keys we are cloudflare".

* Whereas we are taking the approach of "trust no one".

I believe both are viable approaches. If someone is already trusting cloudflare for everything else why not this additional trust assumption, vs. bastionzero allowing someone to reduce attack surface and trust assumptions.

[0]: https://www.bastionzero.com/
Mughal empire started probably just after the Middle age but there were several separate Sultanates namely Gujarat, Bengal and Delhi. These were very rich Sultanates probably not as rich as the Mughal empire because they were smaller, but they were rich Kingdoms nonetheless even by modern standards. India was not at that time in dark ages, by any stretch of imagination. They probably economically fare much better than India nowadays, and you would not call India now as dark ages, would you?

The jizya is tax for non Muslim and for Muslim they have got zakat and other normal taxes. It is not like Indian do not have any tax nowadays.
The reason things like steam can "best" piracy is because piracy is so crippled by anti-piracy. Between sites disappearing, spotty content, abusive ads, viruses, malware, and risk of prosecution, it's not hard being better. Imagine if that weren't the case and the free experience were seamless.
From crime scene handling, to forensics, to specialists like SWAT, all the way to non gun carrying police (uk/colonies) vs America’s gun carrying cops to access to medical and mental care and even labor unions, these are modern inventions.

Compare to things like Spanish brotherhoods or the military handling policing in Rome.
I think, basically, yes. What GraphQL really solves is letting the frontend compose complex, yet specific, queries. SQL lets you do the same thing. But REST APIs and gRPC-based APIs generally do not.

I guess what I would argue against in this post is that SQL is the right language for this. The post starts off with the assertion that we're just using SQL on the backend anyways - not so, in fact my company doesn't have a single SQL database.

But I think the overall point remains - if you want powerful clients you can't beat a query language.

Apache Calcite comes to mind:
https://calcite.apache.org/
Sure, but the network consensus does speak for bitcoin, and it overwhelmingly rejects bcash, bsv and the many other 'false profits'. Count the nodes. Count the hashrate. Count the accumulated work in the chain. Bcash offers simple (broken) solutions to hard problems. Pushing it over BTC is just technical ignorance.
Tech workers are top earners. And at my last company in Berlin we haven’t had a German developer in years.
This is a very astute observation. There seems to be an assumption that only people, but not organizations can act in bad faith - and that deceiving the government is a virtue.
This isn't a case of we need providers to license. The issue is providers thimking of all money not collected as left on the table, leading to the jacking up of prices, for ever diminishing quality of product.
>Poor guy messed up the timeline so much that even his stock market knowledge was useless!

--

Without the time available to go down the Englebart rabbit hole can you distill the story down some and share?
Kicking Off the GNU Assembly
Not really in some cultures talking about money and displaying wealth is not considered good and people look down on this behaviour.
Ford lengthened 50s-era freight ships used for hauling raw materials in the Ford River Rouge Complex an additional 120-feet in the 70s for increased capacity. [0]

Someone uploaded a TV special centered on the SS Byron D. Benson and its captain, in which he speaks to the lengthening and how it affected the ship. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_William_Clay_Ford

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFiF5LUsi1A
There's a massive difference between exposing SQL as your API and exposing the database over a proxy. Your exposed SQL may have a separate model, or a more limited model, than what's actually in your database.
Yeah but their side actually is much more corrupt. No whataboutism! /s

(How does this comment contribute to the discussion? It preempts long partisan threads that derail the conversation which always get kicked off when someone points out it’s all rotten).
You can make the same argument about Biden/Dems. It seems both party supporters are unwilling to see what the other side is coming from.
> We are presently stuck using the pre-built SPL and Trust binaries from Rockchip-Android until mainline ATF is released.

Anyone know what SPL and ATF are in this context? Web search gives me Secondary Program Loader and ARM Trusted Firmware, but I don't grok what that means - some early boot blobs?
Bezos' Final Letter to Shareholders [pdf]
Beware that they have a 24-hour minimum on pricing so going in to test something for 5 minutes will cost you $26.
Definitely check out the mechanical keyboards part of Reddit. There are a lot of ordinary keyboards with fancy switches but I’ve enjoyed getting into the ergo layouts like [Soufle](https://josef-adamcik.cz/electronics/let-me-introduce-you-so...) which I’m just about to build for myself.

The Romac is a numpad version. Same techniques all around. Use a Pro Micro chipset and install the QMK firmware and you’re off.
Well if this is an improvement or not depends on the use case. E.g. std::function does exactly this.

What it achieves is exactly erasing the type (conforming to an affordance). The cost is definitely there. You pay vtable lookup when using std::function.
"The very people whose job it should be to stop this sort of thing are the ones who are profiting from it."

Welcome to the system. This is pervasive in many other aspects as well (court, police, DA, etc).
Abstraction exists for a reason. It comes with trade-offs. Often they are worth it. To me, abstracting the DB layer seems like a no-brainer so often but I’ll admit that may be a bias due to getting minor heartburn when dealing with the DB layer in general...
A lot of people are disagreeing with you, possibly because of your overly-reverential treatment of Satoshi, but I think ultimately this idea makes more sense than some of the commenters here are giving it credit for.

Chrisco writes:

> The whole reason they have multiple clients is to make the network more resilient for moments like this.

But to me, it seems like this was a minor bug in which more contracts were being added to access lists than needed to be. Ultimately, I think that the network could have functioned normally if either this implementation or the Geth implementation was the only one on the network, without causing problems for anyone.

Other sibling comments make reference to the fact that Ethereum is much more complex than Bitcoin. But doesn't this just make it even more suitable for all development energy to be concentrated on a single client, since it's inherently harder to maintain?

Certainly there are benefits to having multiple clients, but I think there are drawbacks as well.
Europa universalis iv
The protection of person and property oftentimes runs counter to the benefit of a subset of corporations. Given this, government has to do a balancing act. It's in that balancing act that lets them enrich themselves - either through happenstance or on purpose.
I think I read somewhere that behind-the-scenes the Google crawler is in-effect a super-archive.org, keeping a copy of every page it has crawled. This sounds outrageous, but I believe it's feasible with compression.
Ah so many parties with just a playlist on winamp and drinking cheap spirits in college :) . Thanks for bringing back a couple memories haha.