skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I was going to point out that growing up I'd eat the nuts extracted from the cone of the Araucaria tree, which - depending on shape and how ripe they are - could look remarkably like a green pineapple [1].

... but that introduces another issue, because I grew up eating those in South America and it turns out the tree originates in Australia. But it's not unthinkable that a similar pine cone could be found in Europe (and the vast Roman Empire of the time).

[1] https://jerry-coleby-williams.net/2015/02/15/bunya-prehistor...
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I have noticed every time I open my windows, the no2 levels reported on my Dyson filter spike. Not sure what to make of it but it’s interesting.
You would need to live in a biodome. The only way to remove all the CO2 you exhale would be to grow all the food you eat. Carbon in equals carbon out.

Plants still look nice though.
I remember vividly HN cheering attempts to doxx Parler users. Some misguided members of the public even volunteered info to LE agencies. This is what happens when people feel and consequently think they can and ought to have a right to rat out other fellow citizens. I don't see the difference here.
Must have been a tough choice for the author between that and "slammed".
I too am interested but I'm from Chile.

(replying to you to not pollute parent level replies)
clean your glass four eyes, it's grapes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome_and_wine
If Spotify is $10/month and paying $3 to Apple they get $7/month.

If Apple enters with Apple Music and charges $10/month - they're undercutting Spotify while charging the same.
But where they common in ancient times? Or are they things like tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, corn, chocolate, etc. that were introduced after Columbus?
They write "Our vision for the future is clear ...",

But not "Our future is clear, there will be ...".

There is a big difference.

> How do you interpret that as a goal as opposed to a clear quota?

They explicitly say it's a vision (goal).

(Still, goals and monetary incentives can have the same effect, it seems, looking at what thu2111 wrote nearby, about Google.)
> You don't have to do business on the App store.

Yes, you do. If you want to reach 50% of Americans, you're forced to build and distribute an app on the App Store.

Try building Netflix without an iOS app.

Try writing a new social media app and not building for iPhone.

Pick any modern vertical without an iPhone app. You just can't do it. Apple is the new AOL for a lot of folks.

You immediately surrender 30% to reach 50% of your customer base, and on top of that, you have to dance to Apple's arbitrary rules and app approval release trains.

1. This is not how technology should work.

2. Apple's fees are extortion.

3. This is using monopolistic advantage to strong arm an entire industry.
You can get some really high power induction stoves now. This one we have goes up to 12KW at full power. Boils a pot of water real fast.
Tesla publishes data about their own cars with autopilot engaged vs. disengaged. This should get rid of a lot of the variables that you cited.
Alienware = dell for the top end stuff like 3090s.

And to that end: https://i.imgur.com/oXgofp7.png
Separating your DNS provider from your domain registry is always a good idea.
First we have to get to the point where basic insulation and noise dampening are figured out. House quality is really terrible.
They only targeted young children that were already heavy drinkers.
A 3700x? That’s less than two years old. We’re also in a year+ long pandemic.
It's this, but as a business model
Many content creators are starting to move to a Patreon+Twitch model, in addition to YouTube.
We are at that point from a technology perspective - look up passive houses - but it's still far too niche an area. For new construction, it's actually not that much more expensive, and is also far more comfortable and energy efficient also.
The other issue with plants is that having them in any decent numbers means you’re likely to have at least some with a mold/fungus/pollen issue, so they actually reduce air quality. Outdoors that’s not so much of an issue because there’s airflow and the mold/fungus/pollen is dispersed, while inside your room it’s limited to a very small amount of still air.
Imagine this would be the case for physical stores and only 2 companies in the world could decide what products you are allowed to sell. You start a coffee shop and 1 day later a representative of company X walks in and shuts down your entire store because you "violated our conditions but we won't tell you which one. You can beg us to reopen your store but first you have to tell us why you didn't violate our policies".

This sounds like a dystopia. And yet it's already reality in the app world.
On this National Geographics page, in the inspector just select the <body> and in the CSS pane remove the "position: fixed" and "overflow: hidden". This allows scrolling.
this article talks about this more:

https://molekule.science/should-you-choose-an-ultrasonic-hum...

quite interesting
I've seen an argument that we have reached the end of benefit from being the global reserve currency and that the US dollar should weaken to balance out trade. We have been a net importer (of goods) for so long, the upper class has reaped the benefits of cheaper goods while the manufacturing class has lost their jobs. China moved away from feeding the system by ceasing US bond purchases and starting the Belt and Road initiative. It seems like we're there and I'm pretty excited about a domestic manufacturing capability.

Combining this with low interest rates, a ton of money is exiting the bond market looking for yield. A lot of it is flowing to stocks, decreasing earnings. Overall, I believe it means greater investment availability. It's really the perfect storm for a very prosperous time in the US (expansion!).
You could reconstruct that any way you want to later.
"Don't make a phone app, anyone, ever." is the absolute lowest tier of advice.
> Please don't part out keyboards from old computer systems so you can use them with your Macbook. Give them to people who are actually working on collecting and preserving the old systems.

...Or do with them as you please, so that they may continue pushing the world forward instead of uselessly sitting around in a museum corner collecting dust.
I think the tesla wrecks are newsworthy, new technology is involved, and should be talked about (as they mention).

What I find the media does not make any effort to do is is to communicate the level of risk.

It may be an unintentional bias, but it really is there.

I think they try harder when it's something like the J&J vaccine risk vs the risk of getting covid.

I'm uncertain what the high road looks like.
Yes, that is how it works currently. I should've linked to the GitHub directly, but I will rectify this as soon as possible. Thank you for the feedback!
I'm definitely interested to build one of these. Located in Vancouver Canada. Maybe you can mention in a reply to your own post how people can contact you (if you can't still edit your post)?
Doesn't matter. They're banned from re-uploading any updated version of the app; they're not allowed to fix the problem, even if they knew what the problem was.

This non-profit org was highly focused on the educational market. I think they would have gladly stripped _all_ advertising out of the app while they worked on other funding schemes to try to eke out survival. Google is not giving them that option.
> if you spend $300 in a month, and miss your payment by a whole month once in a while, even at a crazy 20% APR, you'll have to pay $5

Careful with this though. The interest rules are very complex. One would think you pay the interest + penalty + balance in full and that's that, but no. Once the account goes into "charging interest" mode, it keeps charging interest on subsequent months even if you pay in full as long as there is a balance on the day of the cycle close (which if you're using the card, there always will be!)

The way out of that trap is, if you ever have a late payment, stop using that card entirely and pre-pay the entire balance (including charges not billed yet) before the close of the cycle. The goal is to get a statement with $0 balance. That will reset the account state to normal.
Well based on this article I sure wouldn’t want to work at Vice, sounds like a toxic nightmare.

Basecamp on the other hand sounds great, having introduced a 10% profit sharing and removing a bunch of superfluous programs.

You can fight your culture war once you’re done working for the day, just do your damn job. That applies to both left and right IMO.
Retailers stopped stocking when things shut down. An example is rental car companies selling off parts of their fleets. Now that things are opening back, they are anticipating demand and attempting to meet it.
Then you will get flagged for creating too many accounts...
I suppose it's better than balck pearl. Good night.
+1 agree, especially for video editor + rendering
Nobody can take these experiences away from you or discount the difficulties you went through.

But saying that you don't have white privilege because you grew up poor is not quite right either. The thing with privilege is that there's more than one kind, and they all add up (and most likely they interact as different factors, so they're more than additive).

* If you're non-white in the US, you're underprivileged.

* If you're poor, you're underprivileged.

* If you have a disability, you're underprivileged.

* If you have a health problem, you're underprivileged.

* If you're an immigrant, you're underprivileged.

* If you're a minority group, you're underprivileged.

There's no neat division between totally privileged and totally underprivileged people: it's a multifaceted and highly textured aspect of human experience, and all of the above statements are true.

If it helps, don't think of it as privilege "adding" anything to your life. Think instead of the opposite: being underprivileged subtracts from the opportunities you're given.
If they publish the aesthetically pleasing file source code doesn't that defeat the point?
Thank you for your feedback! Did you try entering in a time value and then pressing "Start"? Without entering a time, the default behavior is for start and reset to be no-ops. However, as I described in another comment further down in the thread, I'll link to GitHub (and also add some usage docs).
I also have this problem--also an LG 5K. Disconnecting and reconnecting seems to fix it for now.

No idea if it's the monitor of the laptop, but it's the exact same problem and hopefully hardware doesn't glitch in such a consistent way and it can be fixed in software.
It does take a while to boil water (although not nearly as long in my experience), and food tastes the same, but there's essentially zero time waiting for the heating element to heat up. For me that's the big difference -- near-instant control over the amount of heat being applied.
I wanted to play it but not enough to throw myself into an acquisition tunnel for it. :/

I mean, I understand why the signup form is there, I still don't want to do it.
In the USA yes, especially the west coast. In Poland I was about to get a condo constructed but not doing that anymore, but the process was quite interesting. The insulation blew most everything in the USA out of the water. Mostly because they have no choice given the really cold winters. During the winter pollution gets really bad and if you shut the windows, pollution goes down indoors, but so does CO2. Ideally you have a hepa filter + outdoor A/C that brings in warm filtered air during the winter.
I've heard so many good things about pipewire, they should really get the pipewire guy to refactor systemd too :)
Thank you for your feedback! Did you try entering in a time value and then pressing "Start"? Without entering a time, the default behavior is for start and reset to be no-ops. I'll add a link to GitHub and add some usage docs soon.
nox is a combustion byproduct so probably that?
The "mechanisms which have allowed them to clamp down on malicious financial activity" are their payment gateways, the rules surrounding their use use, the ability to perform oversight over app payment activity, and the threat (whether actual or perceived) of total banishment if they are caught—particularly in Apple's case where there's no alternative path to customers.

In the same breath, Google and Apple are also being told that these very same mechanisms are a concern to the ACCC.
As a developer, I’m hyperventilating with anticipation of a tool that significantly advances past the previous generation. Finally, something more than an incremental bump.

Nothing gets me thinking about disruption more, than new, faster, cheaper platforms. We’ve had to accept 10% better per generation for way too long.
Hey you're one of the very very few sentient beings, in a universe with hundreds of billions of galaxies each with hundreds of billions of stars (read that in Carl Sagan's voice), that knows they live in an enormous universe. Other people is not the context of your life, existence is.
Remember when Facebook targeted housing ads based on race (against federal law)?

Remember when Facebook conducted an experiment to manipulate teenagers' emotions?

Remember when Facebook paid users a paltry sum to install a malicious spying VPN?

And of course, the recent leak of millions of people's personal data is just the icing on the cake.

This isn't even the full list of scandals Facebook has had in recent years. One after another, scandal after scandal comes out and nobody is punished and their stock price continues to soar.

Facebook is too big to fail. They're part of our digital infrastructure now and need to be regulated as such.

"They 'trust me'. Dumb Fucks"
Can confirm this solid advice.

Even at a mega-scale social games publisher like Zynga, we had to deal with automated bans all the time. That's why at one point we used an avatar for each game that was separately managed and was basically a separate identity with a separate bank account with a holding company etc.

- Invent an avatar that has their own profile, residence, birth date, gender etc.

- Use separate email addresses, not on your company's domain (to avoid domain bans).

- Use a separate mobile phone number, if possible.

- Use a separate smartphone device. There's Android devices for less than 100 bucks now, so that shouldn't be an issue.

- Make sure the geolocation of the Android device doesn't change too often. Paypal and others block you immediately because they're too stupid to realize people can actually travel and work from multiple locations; even with 2FA and SS7 enabled.

- Use a password manager, use 2FA, and make sure to backup account data and every security question. (and all the other standard practice advice)

- Treat your app's / game's avatar as a separate identity, which means don't have the same friends that your private accounts do. Don't link to other accounts of your ownership. Don't mention other projects of your company, otherwise they'll likely ban both accounts for click fraud.
I'm not sure digital forensics is invalid, but it certainly needs a process of validating that the evidence wasn't tampered with due to the easier nature of tampering. Independent review/auditing is insufficient because it could be fooled by tampering. Independent oversight, though, perhaps could work.

Imagine a scenario like FBI Bob and EFF Alice show up to image a suspect's hard drive. Both of them image it, Alice hashes it and throws away the image, Bob keeps the image, then if there's a dispute, Alice is called in and provides her hash and if Bob's image doesn't match it, the tampering alarms go off.
> Also, people who can't get in touch with you because you don't use some fad-of-the-year app are not your real friends.

I'm in touch with many people, most of whom are not close friends. To break up a social contact just over this is too high a price to pay (and acquittances can be upgraded to close friends over the years, too, but not if you start by badgering them in to using some other app).
I assume your are stating that putting businesses out of business will solve either of these issues? More competition for workers increases wages not the other way around. If you decrease the number of competitors for labor in a market the cost of labor will actually decrease since there will be less employers for workers to seek out better opportunities.

This is simple supply and demand.

What we have in this case is what happens at times in the commodities market ( before you bash me, no people are NOT commodities but the example serves ). Short sighted thinking may tell a government to for instance buy 25% of the corn from the market ( or force ethanol into gas ) to create an artificial raise in the price of corn. However, in the long term farmers will plant more corn and the price of corn will soon tank from oversupply.

What we have here is the government removing employees from the employment market to force wages higher. The problem is that it is not sustainable ( remember the businesses creating tax revenue to pay for it are now out of business ). Eventually those unemployed workers will be forced back into the labor market ( just like the extra corn ) and there won't be enough jobs for the number of workers and labor prices and benefits will tank.

Helping people through the COVID pandemic was necessary and appropriate. Using that as an excuse to restructure the market seems like bad timing.

"If unemployment benefits pay better than your job, that says something about the employer, not the unemployment benefits."

This is a rare situation. It used to be you received about 80% of your wage on unemployment. Now you can make as much as 200% your wage on unemployment. Remember unemployment benefits were intended to catch you if you experienced a crisis not sustain you for the long haul.
Sure, that is why all big gorillas are there. Go talk to them and see how receptive they are. Or try to convince you government to cut all ties.
I confess I'm torn between

(a) admiration for the work you put into this, and the nice result;

(b) wondering how much easier it would have been to get a similar result if you'd downloaded a free word processor or desktop publishing program. :)
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> I wonder why furnaces have these fancy high-efficiency heat exchangers and stoves don't? Cost?

I don't see how a design like that would work for a range. The purpose of a range is to heat small, movable objects (pots) to high temperatures (~500°F) with good responsiveness (= short time constants). The purpose of a furnace or water heater is to heat fluids contained in large spaces or tanks to modest temperatures (~100°F) with very limited responsiveness (= long time constants).

The heat exchanger really helps the case of heating a stream of fluid, as that's where the exchange is most useful. The physical and thermal mass of the heat exchanger and flue condenser are both considerable.

I'm not seeing how to make a gas rangetop significantly more thermally responsive without making it no longer practical. For people who can't abide gas for whatever reason, induction units are supposedly excellent these days. (I've never tried one. They can't possibly be worse than an electric smoothtop range, though!)
>better than anything today

Pretty bold claim. Do you listen to a lot of modern music?
If your product is literally an Android app I don't see how you take this advice even if it is good.
dunno. i know there’s the el for trains and some old streets were paved over and effectively buried 1 story down, but i didn’t think they were in use.
Dupeish of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26964249
I wholeheartedly agree with that. I just find it difficult to blame Apple when the accusation is that the competition sucks.
I am extremely interested. Willing to pay you the cost of the PCBs too.
Consent is too often treated as this magical concept that makes everything right when it's present in some form. Many people seem to think of consent as a "yes" when often it's more a lack of "no". Someone not protesting or going along with something doesn't absolve the other party of responsibility. Heck, even explicit consent doesn't do that. Would you accept someone repeatedly offering another person in their company drugs when that person hasn't outright refused them but not really shown interest either?

When someone goes along with something but ends up feeling uncomfortable or even resentful about it, they can talk about it with the other party. And that party should acknowledge it. They may have meant no harm or even be surprised or feel hurt, but a decent person would consider the other's feelings and admit they may have had poor judgement. This Jon Pretty guy allegedly has a pattern of maneuvering women into vulnerable positions, inappropriately bragging about his "conquests" and from what multiple sources confirm shows a bunch of telltale signs of an emotional abuser and manipulator. It wasn't one instance of them being drunk, it was an extensive period of pushing boundaries, coercion and probably gaslighting.

You'll always hear questions along these lines. "Why did she stay around him if she was uncomfortable/mistreated/abused?" "Why did she wait so long to talk about it if it bothered her so much?" "Why didn't she collect proof?" "Why didn't she just say no?"
These questions interpret the situation as far too simple. Abusers are great at creating doubt. They do something wrong, they make their victims feel as equal accomplices. Good and fun times are alternated with bad ones. They don't outright break the law or force someone but will push boundaries and wear someone down repeatedly to get their way despite the discomfort of the other.

That's why it's so hard for a victim to come forward. It's exactly because everyone says "well you didn't set hard boundaries, did you?" It's because maybe no crime was committed according to the letter of the law so they don't feel like they really have a case to make. It's because the victim initially feels like they share as much responsibility or it's their own fault and they should have known better. Abusers are great at walking that line where they get what they want while still maintaining plausible deniability, making it impossible to fully dismiss the argument that the other person is responsible too. It lets them justify their actions to themselves and others, believing it was as much the agency of the other party as their own. Meanwhile they're constantly using a position of power and a victim's weaknesses to manufacture precisely the situation they want.

They call them predators for a reason. It's cause they seek out prey. They know what to look for in a potential target. Don't blame a victim for being possibly naive, inexperienced or easy to sway when those were exactly the preconditions to be taken advantage of. It doesn't justify someone doing just that.
It’s simply invalid science.

It’s equivalent to having variables x, y, z, setting x = 0 and then exploring the correlation between y and z. That’s a fair experiment, but you simply cannot generalise the conclusion outside of the tested range for x (i.e. for x != 0).
Engineering mastery is pretty cool all by itself, right?
What about a git merge with conflicts?

What about a git rebase with conflicts that you were doing interactively and is going to squash some of the commits?

In the first scenario I've learned to very carefully tread the golden path: make changes to the conflicting files to bring them to the state you want (I do this manually because it's less mysterious), and then "continue" the operation (usually I do this through the GUI; when I have to use the CLI I have to look it up). What would happen if I tried to commit something in here? Or unstaged and restaged something? Or stashed? Or pulled? Would it stop me from doing those things, or would I end up in some new weird state? I have no idea; I just avoid all anomalies and hope it goes smoothly and I end up back in a good place.
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