skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree - the key innovation is that you buy the device, and get all the games included for free.

I think that consumers have grown weary of buying individual games, and would rather just pay a lump sum or subscription.
Just makes me think of when Gruber said "The story is about Playdate, the most amazing and exciting product announcement, for me, since the original iPhone." I can't help but roll my eyes at this thing.

https://daringfireball.net/2019/05/playdate
You meditated you just didn’t know it. Try sitting zazen now and again, a quick search can help you out with it :)
Let's say you borrow and invest $1 million into a business startup, like buying farmland. The land goes up in value 10%. Now you owe $40,000 in taxes. But you only made a $50,000 profit farming it.

How are you going to pay taxes on that "gain"? You already borrowed money to pay for the farmland, you can't borrow any more.

The only way is by selling off parts of the farm, which may not be feasible.

In other words, many enterprises will never start because it is an impossible business model.

You'll just wind up crushing existing businesses and make starting new ones infeasible.
Actually this isn't a big problem. Quads or RC planes at a reasonable height aren't audible. Add in night and lack of running lights and no one is going to notice.

If you are using a wing, then you just program your robot to come in high, cut it's engine and continue on a glide trajectory to the target. The flap servos make nearly no noise.

If you've got a quad, come in fast and basically huck the vehicle at the target.

Ardupilot + ROS make this all relatively straightforward to implement and provide an easy way to interface with necessary sub-systems.
> students who tended to speak more ended up doing _worse_ on final exams.

It is possible that this simply tells us that the final exam was only or primarily a written one. I know it is not directly comparable but my children learnt Norwegian starting at age 3 1/2 (after they already spoke English) without any formal instruction at all, just by speaking with other children and the staff at the kindergarten.
It’s a riff on the tone-deaf “learn to code”[1] thrown at miners and anyone else losing jobs in the transition to renewables.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/angr4k/what_i...
I thought white-collar crime was usually a person scamming a company. This is a company scamming their customers, which I think happens far more than 10x what we hear about.

Way back in the 90's I had a bank account that paid something like 5 percent interest, but only had a couple thousand dollars in it (maybe). I was between jobs and made no deposits for over a month - only withdrawals and only like 4 of them. I got to wondering about the interest and calculated it various ways. Calling the bank, they confirmed verbally that they use the average daily balance. By my calculations they exactly used the final balance (the minimum for the month). I concluded that someone somewhere realized that changing from "average" to "minimum" would make the bank a few extra bucks. Not a big difference if your balance is fairly stable, but a big deal if it's more volatile. They eventually got bought out a couple times, and interest rates are a joke now anyway.
I feel like the described events as depicted lack nuance, which is ironic because the essay itself describes nuance. It misses, for example, that Lauren didn't react this way to one Goodreads reviewer, but several, and didn't remove the reviewers' names when blasting people to her many many thousands of followers.

I totally and entirely agree that Twitter has too much of a mob mentality from a lack of nuance but I am very against depicting this lack of nuance with a lack of nuance. The backlash against Lauren was utterly ridiculous and indefensible but that is not a reason to sensationalize and flatten facts.
SaaS signup abandonment recovery – sound helpful?
I do have a problem with that. I would prefer the Mona Lisa to remain in the hands of the Louvre than be regularly auctioned off. I would prefer American Gothic to remain in the hands of the Art Institute of Chicago, etc.
I agree, but they weren't even penalized, so there's zero deterrent. It appears the court took into consideration that the company is bankrupt but failed to see the apparent criminal action taken by the company and CEOs.
New Revenue Models Needed for Online Platforms
Are we entering an age kind of like the 18th century when most people could own a musket and the government didn't have better weapons or effective defenses from these weapons?
Crushes business complexity! Eh
> I wonder how long until DIY weaponized drones are available to common criminals.

Common criminals are using commodity drones for reconnaissance [1].

[1] https://www.techradar.com/news/criminal-intent-fbi-details-h...
It was a tell about this guy's personality.
I've switched away from Vue to using Alpine.js, which makes it easier to combine backend templates with frontend ones, but here's the repo back when I was using Vue: https://github.com/spotlightpa/poor-richard/tree/eb816cac807...

src/entrypoints/donate.js defined a custom element, which was included on layouts/donate-page/single.html and layouts/partials/get-src.html conditionally included the Vue component either with Parcel's dev server in testing or precompiled files in production.

It's not very different from what you'd do in any not-JS web framework.
> I'm also curious how much of that bandwidth couldn't be offset by a CDN or mirrors

As you say, at $40/m it's academic for a lot of people, but AFAIK, the whole site is static, so presumably if you put it behind Cloudflare’s free tier it would serve all but the file downloads from the edge. A pure guess, but I'd imagine that would mean serving 75% of requests from the edge.
Every time there's a thread on this I want to bring up the fact that Amjad still has not listed what this open source project stole. You cannot go around accusing someone trying to start their career (this intern) of IP theft and not present evidence. Release a statement clearly stating NOTHING was stolen or release evidence.

We have the public commit history of the project. Feel free to go through each commit and point out what was stolen from you.
sorry, i posted the wrong links on 3&4, then hn was down for hours thereafter; couldn't edit by the time hn was back up.
Wow, not enough apology from the guy. The apology is not sincere. That guy is flawed. All the perfects are judging a flawed guy. Man, this is a strange world we are living in.
Hey now, the government isn't messing around:

> violation of such an order may result in a civil penalty of up to $43,792

Oh. I think it would actually be more punitive to literally slap them on the wrist.
How to Build and Deploy an NLP Model with FastAPI: Part 1
I understand that.

Such a proposal cannot be introduced on a given day and applied to all. It can only be a slow implementation done over say two generations.

People would need to see it coming, take that into their understanding and calculations as they move towards it.

In other words, grandfather clause would need to be there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause
> The mob is a huge problem with Twitter (and adjacent social media), and the issue with a mob is purely that of its size.

There can be no mob without twitter's involvement.

There are always two parts to social media; social media the people at scale and social media the recommendation engine with impulse driven features that actively rank orders and promotes what content meets what eyes. By definition internet brings the scale, i.e. the size. But size in itself does not create a mob. You could walk around in a crowded square and mumble all the controversial things to yourself; people will at most give a bad stare, but mostly ignore you, a mob will not form after you.

It would take a shit-stirrer to actively salience the thing you said to the people in that crowd who would be most motivated to come after you.

Twitter et al are the shit-stirrers that makes money every time they can make a person engage with a content, regardless of the thoughtfulness or the sentiment of the engagement.
I don’t see why your sexual activities are relevant.
Because the beta experience is looking pretty good and the feature gaps are shrinking. It’s almost to the point where I would switch away from a DIY alternative for calendar, file sharing, etc.
Seeing as how Windows 11 is reportedly coming up soon, this may not be a problem.
Of course, Windows 7 may run into trouble in the next 100 years or so...
Ford builds an affordable, efficient small truck: The new Maverick
And the entire concept of ownership.

It's actually quite unbelievable how there can be societies that do have the concept of a death sentence, but don't have the concept of a property nullification sentence. "You may live, but you have to start at zero and any obligation someone might have to you is nullified". The inverse of bankruptcy, basically.
Yes PNC Bank also does this, I bet they have hacks that they don't want to disclose and just want to smooth over the problem.
Putting a stop to gun violence By, Evon Latrail
great. Ignition from inductive automation is good, but old players like Allen Bradley / Rockwell Factory Talk, Citect, Wonderware, need a kick in the pants to get with the times.
Now a result I can believe in this vein would be: "that attempting to lean heavily on sentence construction and grammar exercises to induce speaking could have a negative effect on language acquisition" and that's what I believe Stephen Krashen is actually advocating against.

But that's a very specific claim as opposed to "avoid speaking".
you still get get to retire in comfort, but you don't get invited to the really swank parties

seriously - maybe narcissism isn't the best character trait to structure your society around?
Someone on HN suggested buying a profile and rebranding it. I think that’s much better ROI than buying followers
True, Our problem is they don’t think they have a problem when they clearly do.
Great Callout! I've updated the text to reflect the correct word.
Four door hybrid pickup that gets 40mpg. This is going to sell like hot cakes.
I disagree, and agree with Mark Seemann's take[0]. If something is better, switch to it even if it causes inconsistencies. Over time you can refactor the old code.

You've limited your projects progression to if a billion dollar company has created a framework that is more productive such that they can be taught it in University. You'll never get hackers like pg who can code LISP if you go that route. You should hire good talent and then train them such that they understand, and hopefully keep them and they stay long after they work on your one project.

[0]: https://blog.ploeh.dk/2021/05/17/against-consistency/
Haven't been following this except for reading the post yesterday, but these words strike me as kinda vulnerable for him to admit (in the good way), and I want to applaud it. It seems like he's admitting that his environment shaped him, and his hustle mindset and "me against the unfair world" might not always be appropriate. * shrug *

Though yes, he seems to have some personality flaws. I hope he's working on them, but also don't think he should get a pass just for admitting them.
Drones are the new infantry and land mines. For sea battles missiles still dominate, since all you need to do is destroy the ship with the drones.

Drones fly around and autonomously eliminate targets while maintaining perimeters, which replaces infantry doing the same thing. Drones are easy to launch from land-based bases and due to their limited range are best suited to land-based operations.

Aerial drones are easily countered by autonomous weapons systems that fire on drones quickly and accurately. Drones are able to be disabled with a single large bullet, which makes their cost exceptional once countered. I expect that land based drones will become a pretty big thing, since they can take advantage of cover and camouflage.
Scikit-Learn 0.24: Top New Features You Need to Know
I suppose it’s still a bad experience for the user if some % of attempts to connect fail or if some % of scripts/styles/images fail to load. So I think that means dns information about failures needs to somehow be propagated quickly. Not sure how well that works in practice.
Would very many HN'ers get up in arms about someone copying an iphone? It's not like apple needs more profit.
Lawsuit claims iOS 14 battery drain bug is example of planned obsolescence
Sounds like the FTC has drawn a hard line on dark patterns. Hopefully, they wake up to other deceitful, anti-consumer design patterns.
Anyone know how these applications work the architecture of them? To me it seems that encryption apps are trivial. Yet they keep getting compromised. You have a public key and private key you give public key away. You keep private key safe, what is so difficult?
Not quite, Akamai is more large corp centric (they don't serve average Joe) besides that they do also security. If it went down you would get all of sudden e.g. a lot of DDOS possible.
Boredom is the mother of curiosity. Take away the dopamine factories and let your kid be bored enough to be interested in learning things.
I suspect that jamming would push people to make drones fully autonomous, so that they're capable of carrying out their mission even is comms are down.
Doesn't that put a label on temporarily homeless people, like people with experience in homelessness, which they can't get rid off. Being homeless ends the second you're not homeless anymore.

the term "unhoused" suffers from the same thing, it's just not precise.
In general I agree with you. IMHO there's a big disconnect on how we approach housing based normal market dynamics with the reality where land is a resource that not only is scarce but also keeps getting more scarce over time when you account for population growth and immigration dynamics.

It's crazy how we normalized just sitting on a empty land downtown as a way to accumulate wealth. And not just that, we encourage it as this could very easily outrun any gain you would have by doing constructions on that plot of land. And the cherry on top is that this "investment strategy" is good not just for the owners of the plot of land, but also for all the neighbors that also own land around the area, which make their NIMBY argument a very conflicted one. So I agree that making sure there's no money to capture on this situation is really important.

Another thing that's important to understand is that the use of land also should be adjusted according to the population growth expected. It's ok if you could have a single family home downtown with a huge backyard 50 years ago, it's not ok to have it now while people on the top 1% income struggle to find a place to live with a commute time lower than 60 minutes. If you do want to maintain it you should probably have to pay the difference on taxes based on whatever could be built on that area. You want to have a small house on a place where a 40 apartment building could be built? Fine, pay a property tax for 40 apartments and you're good to go.

Overall I think we approach home ownership as something that should never change after you built it but the very simple fact that lots of these plots of lands we know live on were one day just farms tell you how this is simply not true.
IPod with a 40G disk was the only Apple product I ever liked.
I think it's important to help people understand that the stated goals of the government are completely out of alignment with their behavior. The state pretends that it wants to stop the drug trade, but its behavior is the opposite. I have no reason to believe that the CIA and other three letter agencies care one iota about sovereignty.

What the actual policy should be towards drugs is downstream of helping the public understand they are being misled systematically, and have been being misled since school.
All people make mistakes and need to learn to introspect and learn from their mistakes to not make the same ones.

Really, this was a great opportunity to acknowledge and learn from aggressive mistakes while still running just a series A company. It was a blessing to the CEO to be highlighted now before the real weighty damage occurs. Unfortunately, it's pretty apparent to most of us and future investors that his public persona will get eviscerated if his company proceeds to ever become more in the public spotlight.
I wish there was a way to turn off "external content", and only view content created by your friends. If my friend has an opinion about something (even if political, or a social issue), and they post it, I'm interested in reading. But I don't care if they are just posting a link to content that some stranger wrote, or a meme that someone else is spreading. It seems like social media has intentionally blurred the lines between "posting your content" vs "spreading someone else's content".
I signed up for Moviepass the month they came out.

Canceled the month they started to have blackouts.

Great deal, would do again if any VC wants to try again for the goodness of the movie industry.
That’s what I’m thinking too. A lambo looks faster, but in reality the beat up Toyota will get you around faster. You can park it in the sketchiest neighbourhood, go over 3’ potholes without slowing down, take a dirt road, park 1’ away from the next car and bash your door against it to get out, etc.
This is how it works in the U.K.

The MHRA decides which drugs are safe and effective and for which diagnoses.

Then NICE decides which of those drugs are available on the public health system (NHS) by evaluating £/quality-adjusted life year. I don’t see why Medicare should be any different.

If it’s not available on the public health system you can still pay for it yourself or via private insurance provided it’s licensed by the MHRA.
The Opening Gambit of the Next War
Identity verification company Trulioo lands $394M
Please. We all have struggles in life, all of us. Nothing can justify bad behavior, and straight up bullying. I do believe anyone can change though, so here's hoping that he does so for the better.
That makes more sense. Maybe I was reading into the parent’s use of the term “beneficial owners”. Every shareholder of a public corporation is a “beneficial owner”.
Can you not just skip all non-merge commits?
> I suspect you'll have trouble convincing a forum of primarily engineers that a high frequency trader is more worthy of sympathy than an engineer.

Engineers are paid because their companies have customers. The it is pure madness that #hugops is the thing. I sincerely hope that Fastly's customers wack it $$ wise so hard that it actually affects #hugops engineering culture.
I am very much a fan of Apple products and enjoy a lot of the commentary from these apple pundits but it does feel a lot like this in-club that once you are a part of it anything you do will be praised by that group.

I feel strongly that that is the case here. From anyone outside of the bubble I feel like ultimately it’s a quirky toy for rich techies that will probably be used a couple times before the novelty wears off and you go back to playing games on almost anything else.
MoviePass actively tried to stop users from seeing movies, FTC alleges
It certainly seems like he's trying to weaponize that "apology" call against the intern. This continues to be so gross.
> And the consequences for the accuser are nothing.

That's a great point. Accusers are not only incentivized to whip up a mob, but have virtually no downside. No skin in the game if they're wrong. That asymmetry needs to be resolved somehow.
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"I apologize, but not really. I am still right, you're not." This only happened because of the public eye. Immature apology is reflected in evocation of a sob story about a (presumably struggling?) kid rising from whatever - that's manipulation, an excuse. Guy didn't learn anything but at least there's a close.
A thing I haven't heard addressed: housing is more than walls. Building houses also requires more utilities, more schools, and above all more roads. San Francisco currently has the 7th worst traffic in the US. If you build more walls for people to live in, will the rest of the city's resources be able to keep up?

I realize that we're talking about a situation where people are already living there and putting strains on those resources even if they don't have walls around them. And we do want them to have those walls, to keep them safe and make the city more livable for everybody.

But San Francisco especially is simply limited in where you can build more roads (and schools and playgrounds and other things). Even if we could create new housing with the snap of a finger, wouldn't the city still have enormous resource problems?

I'd expect a city that wants to build new housing would demand a charge to help cover those costs. That's going to make the housing more expensive. So would it actually end up solving any of the problems of homelessness?

(I do apologize that "just asking questions" often looks insincere. I don't live in SF and I'm not an expert on housing or homelessness. You seem to know what you're talking about and I'd be interested in filling in these gaps.)
To me your interpretation seems to miss the point RE: struggling kid from Jordan.

I think the point the founder was probably getting at was to recognize that he is no longer in a underdog / position of no power / have no resources (aka struggling kid from Jordan) but is now in a position of power and needs to reset his mindset and no longer have the 'do anything to win' mentality that it often takes to get out of poverty / fight as David against Goliath, etc.

Not sure why you would think he is implying anything about people from Jordan not being kind rather than just state you don't get what he's trying to get at.
In general, it appears that the reduction of poverty requires an influx of sufficient wealth to “escape” the poverty trap. The amount of wealth depends upon the local economic situation.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/poverty-trap.asp
Precisely! In the PG world-view "success" means a unicorn start-up and a billion dollar "exit."
This was not a court ruling. The FTC is a regulatory body, not a judicial one. It is up for prosecutors to make a an actual criminal case.
I think the author did the right thing by being transparent about the incident. IP trolls need to be exposed, disgraced, and defanged. We don't need another SCO.
Add in a startup fee and it would be a gym membership.