skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting Rid of the Brick
I'm a stadia subscriber, so I've been hearing this forever. It may be true, but given the number of games they've launched recently, the Stadia Makers program, etc. it seems they're chugging along just fine.

FWIW, I do expect Stadia to be canned at some point, I just don't think it's in the next year or two.
>How do you think gift card scammers cashed them out?

There wasn't anything rude there. Merely pointing out an overlooked facet.

Rude would be sprinkling in "What are you, daft? Never been out of your bubble?", or a similar insult on the end.

Unfortunately, the money laundering scene being what it is today, I wouldn't be surprised if more than a few mobile games were nothing but thinly veiled links in a laundering scheme. I certainly see enough game clones nowadays that are nothing but ad delivery frameworks with a thin veneer of genuine artistic credibility tacked on top that I can see games have shifted from being true labors of love to financial instruments.

The Socratic method of questioning is not rude. It won't make you many friends; but it isn't rude.
Show HN: Invoicing by Incomee on ProductHunt
This is along my initial-not-fully-formulated thought process. Majority of business doing the acquiring are still primarily in the business of what allowed them to do the acquiring. There’s only a few I can think of where the acquisition is a meaningful/noteworthy part of their current business. I don’t necessarily feel like valid competition was squashed in most cases. Following tech M&A headlines has led me to feel mostly it’s acquihiring and the underlying product has no value to the acquirer.
Interesting timing given that their CI/CD pipelines are currently down and have been for hours.
>When I showed her what I'd picked out, it quickly devolved into a lot of uncharacteristic tears and shouting. It took a few more tries, and then she explained. Apparently a lab grown diamond meant my love for her was also artificial, a budgeted ersatz stand-in for the real thing

I'm wondering how, if you picked it out, she even knew the diamond was lab grown? Did she start grilling you immediately? Or did she get the microscope out? Maybe I'm a total moron but I can't tell the difference by just looking at it.
Free will is an illusion it matters because it makes hatred pointless. You wouldn't hate a bear that ate your arm, it's just being a bear and it makes as much sense to hate a person who commits a heinous crime against you. Ofc that doesn't mean you wouldn't shoot the bear or kill your assailant
Show HN: Historico, an iOS app to discover historical events happened today
This is super cool, thank you!

Wait... I had no idea dplyr's database support was this good. https://db.rstudio.com/dplyr/
The reason why religion is probably Mandatory(tm) is because Indonesia is an islamic country. You see similar behavior in other islamic countries in the middle east and their documents.
I thought this sort of this was expressly verboten by the various Apple dev agreements?

You may not and You agree not to, or to enable others to, copy (except as expressly permitted under this Agreement), decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, modify, decrypt, or create derivative works of the Apple Software, Apple-issued certificates or any services provided by the Apple Software or otherwise provided hereunder, or any part thereof (except as and only to the extent any foregoing restriction is prohibited by applicable law or to the extent as may be permitted by licensing terms governing use of open-sourced components or sample code included with the Apple Software).
What do we do about the hazards of space junk?
It's not a conspiracy theory! proceeds to describe elements of a conspiracy and theorize the intent
You can serve dynamic content from nginx too. You don't need Apache in your stack at all.
The constitution is dead, and we the people, are left holding the bag.
Hey HN!

Historico’s maker here! My app is a clean & minimal iOS utility for people who like history and enjoy exploring interesting facts every day. Of course, it comes with handy and beautiful Widgets straight to your home screen. Currently, it’s available in 6 languages (English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, and Hungarian).

Feedback, as always is highly appreciated!
> Who exactly is the target audience of this article?

If I had to guess, it would probably be most useful for those companies that have not yet reached the stage where they can serve as the venue for the executive-musical-chairs stage of management you describe.

My assumption is that when the company is small enough, that which "makes me look the best" and that which "is in the long term interests of the company" are probably mostly aligned due to the higher visibility of those early executives and managers. Not that this stops the ladder-climbers, of course - it's just more obvious when they personally contribute to wrecking a company if the company is small, which presumably the personal-brand-conscious executive would try to avoid.

> Eating up all available slack is one of the more mundane ways to cannibalize the company for your own benefit.

Otherwise known as "maximizing shareholder value."
A little bit, but the p-value is so low it makes me give it some credence.
> we know that we can move the needle (often for a fraction of the cost) by spending on basic needs and not looking for a direct ROI

Based on San Francisco's experience, I'd say spending other people's money isn't enough to do much about the homeless issue. Further, I suspect a startup that moves the economy upwards results in citizens with more disposable income to donate to good causes. Ideally, the competition for those funds leads to increased effectiveness from those good causes (because I'm not going to donate to someone who doesn't efficiently get food to the mouths of the hungry so to speak).

Also, the "shiny things" often bring tangible and less tangible benefits (e.g. technology advances, societal celebration of science & engineering), whereas quite a bit of our social programs seem like money pits with no real outcome other than feeling good about burning all that time and treasure (see above re: SF and the homeless). I'm reminded of people who protested going to the Moon, arguing instead that the funding should be spent on welfare programs. The difference is that going to the Moon is a quantifiable win and also brings interesting benefits to society, and there is an end state where the job is done. Welfare, as it is currently structured, does nothing to actually solve the problem of systemic poverty so its job is never done. It's not even clear if increasing or decreasing funding really does much about the problem.
If it weren't for many of the other problems of helicopters including convenience and noise.

How many helicopters will fit in an IKEA parking lot? And how many will be able to bring back whatever you buy there?

Extend that thought experiment a bit. You might be able to achieve the transportation of people in controlled circumstances, but not much else.
my thought exactly, its a feature not a bug. a way for a unit test to possibly "play" the game with RNG effectively "disabled"
It’s a very human tendency: we can see the downside so obviously, but the upside is a lot harder to see.

Open offices: another amazing example of enormous value destruction in the name of saving a little bit of money.
OriginTrail – This is how blockchain can help fight pandemics
You're correct, doctors/biologists still do not know the root cause of IBD (UC/Chrons). In fact, most autoimmune diseases are quite poorly understood due to the vast dimensional space that can influence the human immune system. If there is evidence that it could be controlled via an mRNA vaccine, it would give me much hope for the future of controlling autoimmune diseases without consistent drug intervention or surgery.
It's basically saying 'I'm chinese-indonesian'
Hence why land within 100mi of the border is known as the US Constitution Free Zone.

ref: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=+constitution+free+zone
I don't know if this app works or not, but if there were a piece of software that I could use for my Sony XM2 headphones to cleanly switch between devices, it'd be in "shut up and take my money" territory by default. Was tempted to buy the XM4 headphones because I thought this was what they were advertising with the bluetooth switching, but I've read that feature doesn't work well for the devices that implement it (not the Sony headphones specifically).

So agreeing with everyone, go with a different name. Also selfishly, try and figure out a way to do this with non-Bose headphones and add it.
Any RoR experience?
It's not Apple software though, right? It's Bose's software.
But if you never converted, then you never committed apostasy, and Christians and Jews are 'people of the book'.
Ookay. Not sure how you can glean all that from a statement like the one I was responding to...
The story is that - certainly in the early days - you could be fired from Amazon as a manager if your section made a profit.

The argument is that your entire focus as a software / service business is growth (aimed at profitability for some undetermined future date). If your section or company is making a profit this represents a failure to utilise all of your resources for the purpose of growth.

As a multi-national there are various tax shenanigans you can play - that is up to governments to decide how to crack down on those. The unfortunate fact is that you need countries like Ireland on board who have benefited greatly from being very corporation tax friendly.
Founder of Sudowrite [1] here.

> However, if anything, GPT-3 is mostly showing how little meaning there is, but in how many words.

We imbue words and symbols with meanings, and we strive to give our stories meanings that transcend the prose on paper. Yes, it's true that GPT-3 can spout non-sequitars. But overall, it does stay on topic quite well, as compared to previous iterations like GPT-2.

But sometimes, you WANT that, you want to be provoked to get unstuck on writing that tough scene or character. I've found that using a system like Sudowrite is not only about generating new text, but reading the generations and discovering how the neural net is interpreting what you've written. I believe this particular use case hasn't been fully explored, outside of summarization algorithms.

[1] https://www.sudowrite.com/
In zig you get a compile error if you exceed 1000 backwards branches (e.g. a loop or a function call). If you want to raise the quota you bump it with e.g. `@setEvalBranchQuota(2000);`. This is how we solve the halting problem :)

Anyway if you want to know why your compile time is slow in a given zig project, you can probably get pretty far by grepping for calls to that builtin.
Sure, but for the short periods of time I could potentially have my mask off for, I'm not sure how much of a difference it would make— I am generally not wearing my mask for longer than an hour or two.

Just a note, the article you linked doesn't seem to mention how long is too long to wear a mask if you want to prevent mask mouth, etc.. Maybe I missed it.
Sounds like the setup for some wacky sitcom hijinks.

Marc is from Belgium, Emma is from France. When it came time to decide where to live, they couldn't come to an agreement so compromised and live on the border. But what they didn't know is that neither of them ever truly gave up the fight. Tune in for their late night heists and hijinks as they try to move into their preferred country... by moving the border! Fridays at 8pm on the WEB.
>I disagree because fundamentally taxes are used to support public services that benefit society as a whole.

A large part of my point is that this claim is not true. The purpose of a system is what it does. Taxes are used to appease constituents, not improve society. They may be related, they may overlap at some points, but they are not the same.

>The fact that they don't means that they have other priorities in selecting politicians and are willing to compromise on those things.

Not necessarily. People aren't machines of pure rationality. They do not vote for their best interests or their moral beliefs. They are misled and trained against seeking alternatives. They vote for their "tribe," not out of a sense of moral duty. And your impression of democracy is extremely idealistic - you should read the book Democracy for Realists. It sheds a lot of light on the actual patterns and causes of voting behavior. In any case, votes don't matter as much as you think they do. The democratic process acts more as a relief valve for societal tension than an effective method of enacting change in government. Policy implementations remain relatively static across the aisle; much ado is made over the 5% difference between blue and red, and every other position on the political spectrum is quietly kept out of the public's eye.

>If we want our government to be better all we have to do is vote for better people

Strongly disagree. "Better people" doesn't fix the problem, just like "Kill the dictator" doesn't fix the problem. The problem is systemic. One good person in a position of power, two people - it doesn't matter. The solutions to this problem, historically, have been extremely painful for the societies implementing them. Hopefully the US can do better, but I've never been an optimist.

>Then vote for that person and encourage others to do so, that's how our society works. You are extremely arrogant to think that you should be able to dictate to society how it should work and then get pissed off when it doesn't listen to you and claim moral superiority by not paying your taxes.

1. I don't have voting rights. 2. I'm not dictating how society should work, I'm explaining my preferences and ideals for government. 3. I'm not angry, just disappointed. 4. I'm not claiming moral superiority, just denying moral inferiority. 5. I pay my taxes.
Good timing, the pipelines seem to recover in this moment: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/4...
And the same happened to everyone else too, just with smaller dollar amounts.

During my high school and early university years, I was in love with the concept of being able to run errands over the Internet. Why go to the bank when I can order a transfer on-line? Why make orders over the phone when I can choose what I want on a webpage with few clicks? Why ask anyone to do anything, when I could just click or type my way through?

As an adult with a bit more years behind me, I now feel the exact opposite way. Why on Earth am I doing these errands, when I could ask or pay someone else to do them? Why do I waste my time clicking on this bloated, user-hostile page full of upselling garbage, when I could just phone the company and tell them what I need? Alas, companies jumped at the opportunity to outsource the effort to customers, so increasingly I can't phone anyone. Self-service becomes the only option.

I suppose the shift in perspective comes from the fact that back then, I had no money and a lot of time; these days, I have some disposable income, but very little time to spare.
Who said anything about slavery? The vast majority of third world workers mining diamonds do so in the regulated commercial sector. These are largely technical engineering jobs that bring investment in infrastructure into the country, certainly much more so than many other local opportunities. A single mine like those in Botswana can employ thousands of people, and be the core of the local economy. I'm not saying there are no slaves in diamond mines, but if so it's a marginal source.

Oh my good grief. What on earth did you think I was advocating?
Huge fan of eBPF but admittedly less informed than I could be; could someone point out some instances where this wouldn't be able to replace agent instrumentation eventually?

I understand the bits of the kernel we're able to hook this way are still being built out, but 5yrs down the road what would we still need other instrumentation to capture?
There was nothing beta about it: it was money-for-product and money-for-service. It was just a crappy product, and crappy service. The controller is hot garbage, too.
Maybe i'm just an idiot, but this:

>For this NFT, they're going to issue a public report tracking how this specific tranche of money is spent, and estimating the number of lives saved as a result.

In my opinion, that is vital.

Many donations to non-profits are used for many various reasons (some justifiable, some definitely NOT).

This actually allows tracking on that money.
So isn't this a good thing? People can easily manipulate stats on documents without having to worry about someone else double checking the work.

With the ability to track the NFT's currency transactions is good, no?
Domain not found. I think this is the website https://aretheyflocing.me/
Because you might love security for your family’s future more than your work. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. You can always start another company.
FWIW, sucrase (written in TypeScript) has done a great job of being in the same ordinal of perf as esbuild: https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase#sucrase
Ask HN: What L2 ethereum options are available today?
If I have a working dapp on L1 ethereum what L2 options do I have available to me today?

- how much additional effort is needed to deploy on this L2 platform (i.e. do i need to change the existing smart contract code substantially)?

- do i need approval from the platform owners before deploying?

- ignoring speed and fees, how will the end user experience be impacted (for example, on Matic network a user of the dapp first needs to move assets from his/her ethereum wallet to the matic network)
I live in Washington State, where the state legislature recently voted to ban sales of gasoline powered cars after 2030.

Aside from the fact that I enjoy drives through some pretty empty parts of the country, especially in the Southwest, where range is a concern (e.g., I drove the Great Basin Highway a few years ago), what bothers me about that measure is this sort of data collection thing.

I wouldn't mind a move to all-electric vehicles nearly so much if it were possible to get a "dumb" electric and the range was better.
What I want is recognition of the structured and the unstructured.

For instance a tool like this

https://www.drools.org/

maintains a database of timely information and can use rules to match events and could be used to manage the numerous problems of event-based architectures.

That particular tool mangles Java source code badly in the process of compiling rules so it gives error messages that make no sense at all, even if you are looking at the compiler's source code in the other window and at the running compiler in the debugger.

In the light of the interest in "low code" and the real success of "business rules" for domains they apply in I am amazed there has been less effort to apply production rules to the "update the ui when the database changes".

Even though that can look unstructured, the implementation of the rules can be done with the same relational operators that all those other methods used. A few year ago you would have had to specified the indexes by hands, but the self-optimizing database patent from Salesforce is run out now and there is no reason the system can't learn the frequent query patterns itself.
Localizing Dates in a Perl web application with JavaScript
Some past threads:

Lisp Badge: A single-board computer that you can program in uLisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23729970 - July 2020 (25 comments)

A new RISC-V version of uLisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22640980 - March 2020 (35 comments)

uLisp – ARM Assembler in Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22117241 - Jan 2020 (49 comments)

Ray tracing with uLisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20565559 - July 2019 (10 comments)

uLisp: Lisp for microcontrollers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18882335 - Jan 2019 (16 comments)

GPS mapping application in uLisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18466566 - Nov 2018 (4 comments)

Tiny Lisp Computer 2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16347048 - Feb 2018 (2 comments)

uLisp – Lisp for the Arduino - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11777662 - May 2016 (33 comments)
The Willow Garage PR2 robot could do that for $440,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Operating_System#Willow_...
I had an off-topic thought that the ideal of Slack (the chat service) is actually very well explained by "slack" as defined in this article. This article holds "slack" as the ability to respond to a new task immediately, and Slack (chat service) is built around responding immediately to tasks or questions from peers.

However, executives clearly aren't quite getting the benefit. They expect employees to respond immediately to every new need and new task, but they didn't actually give the employees enough time availability to do so. So instead of getting faster responses from employees, the employees just get overloaded; this leads to the tasks actually being completed LATER than they would have without Slack (chat service) and employees getting burnt out quickly.
We're giving away our interview process
Probably true, but good luck with that.

As my grandfather said: "You might be right, but you don't want to be dead right."

CBP already have extra authorities due to border control because crossing the border is not a constitutional right.

The most egregious expansion was the declaration that all territory within 100 miles of the border is 'authorized' for all CBP's nonsense. That happens to cover about 90% of the US population.

There is a lot of anguish about the intelligence agencies doing their jobs against very serious threats, including Nuclear, Biological, Chemical. Meanwhile the real damage to civil liberties is from the CBP and INS, who literally storm homes every day, and engage in this kind of 4th amendment trashing.
> Each kilogram of fish sticks produces about 1.3 kilograms of carbon dioxide, which “rivals the climate impact of tofu,” she says. Beef, by comparison, produces over 100 times that amount of carbon dioxide per kilogram.

These estimates vary a lot from one source to another, but even then 130 kgCO2/kg is an unusually high estimate for beef. Common range, I think, is from 20 to 60. For example this estimate is 26 [1] and this is 21 for beef from dairy herd and 60 from beef herd [2].

[1] http://css.umich.edu/factsheets/carbon-footprint-factsheet

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
Well of course, that's what I'm saying, just taking away jobs for miners doesn't do that.
I dislike this whole concept, really wanting to be proven wrong but reality shows me otherwise.

Picking popular, marketable ideas and piggybacking on it, choosing strategies of putting your stuff out there under the pretense of "free", "paying it forward", "for the community", "right thing to do", "for the planet", etc. this actually works in the short run.

More people out there looking for free, sharable stuff, memes and buzz than those who know what they want.

And when all that matters is sales numbers, followers, likes and shares, its a volume business. Quality suffers, depth disappears and overall value in creating and consuming content worth consuming drops. This is what I ser happening today.
"What you have built is illegal" is hardly the same as "I don't believe in your vision."
> home has no value at all to me unless and until I decide to sell

Buy. Borrow. Die.
Register.com outage: account logins down, DNS records deleted
Register.com is currently having an issue in which some sizable number of user accounts are inaccessible and DNS records associated with those accounts have been deleted from their nameservers. No notice to customers of course.
Perhaps everyone who was ever an SRE at Google added one new configuration option to Kubernetes, and that's how it ended up this way.