skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why were phone books never a top 10 business in the United States?

They were always hyper local, or just offered by the telephone companies themselves.
Introduction to Arduino Syntax
Maybe they could... I dunno... work with Mozilla and see if they were interested in taking the changes?

It's not like they have to build this whole thing out, then hope and pray that Mozilla accepts the changes.
Breaks it up into smaller business models, each of which makes it easier for companies with a more narrow, yet aligned, focus to compete with.
There is certainly some features missing before it can be a production ready classroom tool with 25+ students, in particular having different roles and policies for the participants.
Luckily that is something that I am going to focus on implementing next.
Sure it does.

It undercuts their entire argument by making it look much more like a political stunt than any kind of serious action.
Fluid Framework (a project I contribute to/work on through Microsoft) supports this via token in our default service implementation, but we don't have integration with an ACL DB.
Wow, I truly have a different taste I suppose. Do you like Joel Spolsky's writings?
There's plenty of science being done showing animals exceeding the bounds you're setting.

For instance even ants have been seen to pass the mirror test. http://www.journalofscience.net/showpdf/MjY4a2FsYWkxNDc4NTIz...
It is the same way that "the mob" identified the ok-hand as a symbol of hate.

There is a real desire to be outraged. The mob members get awarded with internet points and smug self-righteousness when they are outraged. Combined with the zero downside they face, _any_ amount of mental gymnastics to be outraged at something is worth it. That's how they can think a completely normal thing, that millions of people do, is suddenly a symbol of fascism or whatever.

See also: wearing red hats is "bad" according the mob[1][2]. Its a perfect metaphor, really. They can't bother to look at the hat and see if its MAGA or not, they just see something vaguely similar to something they don't like and go off. This one in particular annoys me because I have an actual "red hat" baseball cap from redhat the linux company. Its a really cool hat but I get snide comments every time I wear it. Absolutely ridiculous that the mere color red "triggers" some people.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/style/red-baseball-hats-m...

[2] https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/liberal-author-normal...
2020 iPhone SE, just using Safari
Actually they can. Someone i know has a restraining order from ohio dmv (bmv) for getting into argument there and can’t get dl there. Hilarious regulation coming from the state that completely privatized their dmv services
"Organised crime" is a bit of a oxymoron.

These people are organised in that they make deals with each other in friend networks. But the people involved are not the sharpest knives in the draw. They get their positions via violence and intimidation more than cunning and planning.

There are cleaver crooks, but we do not often hear from them. A lot of them work at Wall Street, which contains the biggest and most profitable criminal gangs
Lit – Web Component Framework Developed by Google
When? When did we actually try that?
For me, this was related to an adblocker
I love the contradiction that you put between “shy away” and the rest of the comment.
right ... ISPs are not a public utility but a web service provider is? If you want to tackle this, best to start with the most common sense place, the ISP
The cost-per-search is negligible even if every user had to pay. Instead of running the search the government could implement policies that make search advertising illegal and thus forcing another business model.

Pay-per-search would be cheap enough for municipalities to negotiate subscriptions for their entire broadband network as a part of broadband service.
No, he does not live in Sweden.
There are still incurable diseases and cancers some are immune to and some are not due to genetics.
I feel it's pricy novelty product. And even with SDK, I wonder will there be new games in couple years? I don't think they will actually sell enough to justify development time...
Google also doesn't have a monopoly on search.
Wasn't GOP behind the net neutrality protections repeal?
> gives them the kind of power that we'd normally only see in regional monopolies like water utilities.

No access to water from the only provider in your reach, especially if you're kind of broke, really doesn't seem equal to having your email account blocked, when people have very accessible choices of email providers and what they tie to it.

The situation sucks, but looking at this from a public utility perspective seems like an XY problem.
CUE's philosophy is to wrap code in data, not data in code, as learned from the major configuration systems at Google. Being a logical language, rather than telling the computer what to do, you state facts and it verifies that you are correct. It is also intentionally not Turing complete do that you cannot program in CUE.

CUE is gaining traction while still being young and changing. Grafana is adopting it for validating dashboards and such. Expect to see it more in DevOps too
You can get the email address attached to any irl accounts reassigned by presenting yourself to the bank branch in person with ID. Probably there are mechanisms using certified mail as well for places that don't have nearby branch offices. It would be inconvenient but Google does not have the ability to unilaterally separate you from your financial accounts on any kind of permanent basis.
This, I think, is the true defeat of SeaSteading - most of the original proposals came around in an era of booming economies when Strong Towns wasn't even a consideration and maintenance cost for infrastructure was written off as inconsequential.

Maintaining a city partially submerged in sea water is going to cost far more than maintaining a boring one built on land. You'll be paying Hawaii prices for meat, and likely need to import either soil or nutrients (if going hydroponic) to grow any fresh fruit - otherwise you'll need to hover near large ports of entry to leech off the existing supply lines for produce. Shipping companies will happily deliver container on container of fresh diverse fruit to LA, Seattle or Vancouver to sate the known demand of millions of residents - it'd be far less appealing to supply the one seasteader who has a hankering for dragon fruit with his weekly fix of... like three dragon fruits.

Absolutely everything about SeaSteading is predicated on the idea that everything would be cheaper without taxes... while also marking up the price of everything. I too would love not to pay for the military, but that's about the only service of significant cost you're effectively dodging while accepting so many other fees and expenditures.
Google-avoider checking in! It's actually really easy to avoid it. DuckDuckGo's search quality is better, Firefox is deteriorating daily but still looks and feels better than Chrome does, email should really be avoided but there are dozens of really good email services, and their ad service doesn't need a replacement for obvious reasons (just block it).
I guess the thinking is that it could take years to know whether it's working or not through an RCT. I believe they are currently allowed 9 years by FDA to show efficacy. If the side effects aren't significant why not let people in need try it?
The terms "patent medicine" and "snake oil" didn't just appear from the aether.
If you have a lot of dynamic styles that respond to application state, then even with vanilla CSS you are often writing JS to manage class declarations to get the right CSS combinations. With styled-components, instead of adding/removing/combining class names, you can write javascript inside your declarations that use the state variables.

For me, writing javascript that directly sets css properties based on state variables is a more powerful and clearer approach to managing dynamic styles than manually managing class names.

Further, when combined with typescript, you can type a theme object in the styled-components theme provider and get auto-complete in your editor on your style tokens like colors, spacing values, timing in ms, etc.

So it has many benefits beyond scoping styles to a component.
OUYA was a good idea until no new games.. lol if I could get the play store on jt I'd be using mine to play games
If you are saying addicts commit crimes e.g. burglary well then prosecute them for those crimes, that’s the only way I can take the “blight on their surroundings. Taken a different way, there are a lot of humans in the us who use other drugs, alcohol e.g. who are not considered a blight on their surroundings. Street drugs could be like those drug, and in fact during prohibition alcohol was an illegal “street” drug.
Is there any hope for online ads?
Online ads have been in a downward spiral for years. The quantity, quality, performance, etc are all making the Internet a worse place.

I’ve been thinking more about this recently. Are there any hopeful solutions being worked on?
That's an argument for the break-up, not one against it. If Google is using their monopoly powers to create wholly unprofitable endeavors, then they are likely choking out competition. There can be no Youtube Killer if Youtube does not have to make money.
Try finding a smartphone under 250$, try advertising any small business on the internet, try avoiding meets meeting when you apply for a job
People opted in to that. You don't opt in to the water pipe monopoly.
The Snitch
Lawyers have a code of ethics. Written down and codified. Not a matter of opinion.

You are thinking of morals. That is a matter of opinion
Nice! I was thinking about building something similar -- just filed an issue for how you might extend this to work for migrating registries.

Pleasantly surprised to come across this PR: https://github.com/safe-waters/docker-lock/pull/73

This is a perfect application of crane :)
True, but if you live near Presidio in SF or Prospect Park in Brooklyn (as examples) you can totally walk to a forest! And in many places where people own cars you and just drive 5 or 10 minutes. But clearly these circumstances are far from universal. Most people are lucky to have a half-decent park within a 10 minute walk.
Hard disagree.

Gmail maybe. Providing email as a utility service is a strained argument but could be made as there is a parallel to actual mail service.

Literally everything else Google does has a mainstream alternative that is a click away.
Bottled water, water tanks, septic tanks, solar/wind power, generators, ...
> slightly scammy

This is highly offensive to me. Making hardware is hard, everyone here should know that. Here we have a company, with a great reputation, taking a big risk to offer us something different, and people's first reaction is to assume bad intentions?

> Just because a well known name is behind a project doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be a good product or a great idea

Therefore it's a scam? That is quite some logic there.
By definition a stock is not a liquid asset.
It needs to be sold first. In order to be sold, you need a buyer. You don't always have a buyer.
did this happen? is there proof somewhere?
You have multiple choices for water, dig a well, buy it from the local grocery store. Same for sewage because self composting toilets exist. Also electricity isn't a utility just use a stationary bike as a generator or buy solar panels...

Just because you have multiple choices doesn't mean something is/isn't a utility. Its pretty arbitrary. They also aren't talking about Google products (most of which are completely irrelevant aside from their ability to help Google sell ads) they are focused solely on search. Not saying they are "right" just that Google's search dominance is a thing and they use it support their own stuff. Eg: You can buy our electricity but it only "recommends" appliances we also sell
> Perched on a barren volcano in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the Mauna Loa observatory is a benchmark sampling location for CO2. It’s ideally situated for sampling well-mixed air- undisturbed by the influence of local pollution sources or vegetation, producing measurements that represent the average state of the atmosphere in the northern hemisphere.

Time series plot (just need to click the Submit button to the left)
https://gml.noaa.gov/dv/iadv/graph.php?code=MLO&program=ccgg...
> The hooks follow similar laws to Monads.

And monads are impure [1]. If all your functions are impure then you're not doing functional programming.

[1] https://alvinalexander.com/scala/io-monad-doesnt-make-functi...
So what are we going to do about it?
banks do that all the time. try writing a few checks over your balance and not paying up. they will definitely terminate your account.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/banking/can-my-bank-close...

That said I do wish there was some regulation for accounts for Apple, Microsoft, Google, Steam, etc as closing an account can have huge reprocussions.
Credit unions frequently have exclusive membership, typically a certain geographical area though many started out specifically for members of certain unions.
Octal

It's nicer than using the web site and doesn't do anything obnoxious like harass me to turn on notifications or share contacts.
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It blows my mind that we know this is a massive problem and yet here we are frogs boiling slowly, arguing.
Somewhere in the 10x range.

The approximation for electrical use in heating is using heaters that can output roughly 10 watts per square foot of your house. 12-13 if your house is poorly insulated.

At full power, that means that a 1,600 sqft house requires 16 kW of electricity. At a cost of 13¢ per kWH, that's about $2.05 for that 16kW of electricity. Of course, no residential house will ever realistically have 16kW available to it, nor would heating ever require a 100% duty cycle. But this is for comparative purposes.

The equivalent amount of gas power would require about 54,000 BTUs from a gas furnace (about 3.4 BTUs per watt). One cubic foot of natural gas provides 1,032 BTUs which means that generating 54,000 BTUs of heat requires about 52 cubic feet of gas (we'll round that up to 65 to account for inefficiencies of a furnace; top end furnaces are in the 80-80% efficiency range). 100 cubic feet of natural gas costs about $0.48, so the cost for natural gas would be around 30¢

Again, neither will (nor could, nor should) run constantly, but it's a sobering comparison.

EDIT: Comparisons were hours vs. seconds; fixed.
> How can something on the internet be a common carrier when the internet itself is not a common carrier?

The internet isn't a thing. It's not a single entity (or even a single idea).

It was different in the days of Ma Bell, when there was one entity for the entire U.S. with phone service (could we define that in today's age? is VOIP phone service? mobile? Whatsapp?), and it was even different later, when the baby bells blanketed the U.S. without overlapping areas.

What makes this more challenging is that by regulating "ISPs" (if someone could please define that, or even what the Internet is, in a legal sense), we might then be strangling new and interesting startups that might not conform to the definition of an ISP from a decade prior.
Maybe on net neutrality, but the point still stands. You are not going to be able to find many modern day republicans who think that it would be OK for electric companies, or water companies, to cut off power from their political opponents.

There are lots of common carrier laws, and anti-monopoly laws that are uncontroversial. Few people would come out in favor of the standard oil monopoly, for example.
I've heard that `clsx` is faster: https://github.com/lukeed/clsx
> CSS is for styling

The web has never lived up to that ideal. Sometimes you need to add a wrapper div with no semantics to make your layout work. Sometimes you need some Javascript to do a special layout CSS doesn't support or work around some other limitation. I've never seen a project that actually had meaningful "separation of concerns" based on technology, whereas almost every componentized project has at least decent separation of concerns along the component axis -- where you can drop a component into a design without thinking about it's internals at all.
'Bubble Barrier' traps plastic waste before it can get into the sea
Ask HN: Best online bank for small biz?
I don’t have unique needs, just want a solid bank that’s customer-friendly and doesn’t charge fees.

I came across Brex recently. Anyone tried it or have other suggestions?
Why the dream of truly driverless cars is slowly dying
I think it would be more productive to direct the attention to https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/1247 which catalogues a number of issues with the proposed approach and yet hasn't had any activity in 9 months.
400-1,000ppm Concentrations typical of occupied indoor spaces with good air exchange

1,000-2,000ppm Complaints of drowsiness and poor air.

2,000-5,000 ppm Headaches, sleepiness and stagnant, stale, stuffy air. Poor concentration, loss of attention, increased heart rate and slight nausea may also be present.

5,000 Workplace exposure limit (as 8-hour TWA) in most jurisdictions.

>40,000 ppm Exposure may lead to serious oxygen deprivation resulting in permanent brain damage, coma, even death.

https://www.kane.co.uk/knowledge-centre/what-are-safe-levels...
Ppl: The command line address book
Medicare would pay no where close to 56k/year. There are mandated rebates and price controls in medicare.
> "The ultimate control knob on atmospheric CO2 is fossil-fuel emissions,” said Ralph Keeling. “But we still have a long way to go to halt the rise, as each year more CO2 piles up in the atmosphere. We ultimately need cuts that are much larger and sustained longer than the COVID-related shutdowns of 2020."

That's extreme.
Just to add - much of the damage of Heroin, and other drugs cut with fentanyl is precisely BECAUSE it is illegal.

Heroin is smuggled in from Colombia in some mule's intestines and then injected DIRECTLY into the user's bloodstream. This causes many different kinds of fatal blood clots and bacterial infections.

When Heroin was legal in this country (given as a cough medicine to young kids in the 1920s) it didn't lead to a reduction in the life expectancy of the users.
I Put Blogging on Hold to Start a YouTube Channel – Here’s What I Learned
>A more capable, responsive and lower defect application that load 10% slower may be a net improvement.

The problem with this approach is that this 10% is not a one-time fee, but is collected on a regular basis, with compounding.
Related to the topic, what is interesting, is Switzerland home loans. When usually countries have max periods of 20-30 years, Switzerland has periods of 50-100 years, so you very well would not pay it back before end of your life.
You're correct. I know that I got a lot more utility out of the first $100 I ever made then a $100 now. I don't think mentally it tracked perfectly though - that first $100 was a lot but I knew in the larger scheme it wasn't really a lot of money and today I'll still price show to save $100 even though I know it's not a lot in terms of my income.

I have no economic concept for this but I strongly suspect it's true.

How about this? If you go rooting around underneath my couch cushions you'll find quarters. If you do the same for Bill Gates' couch you'll find ... Not $100 bills. Even if in respect to his entire wealth a $100 is less then nothing to Bill Gates he can still see the utility that money has in the world at large and that changes how he views it - maybe he doesn't see it the same way I do now or I did when I was 15 but he'd value it more then would be expected in relation to his over all wealth.
My gripes with traditional CSS styling are:

- Styles are global

- Styles are targeted via brittle, untyped, and opaque "magic strings” basically. This means mistakes are more likely to be caught at run time than compile time. Eg, I wouldn't get a compile time error if I did `position: oops` or `class="oops"`.

- Styles are often "far away" from their target which makes mistakes more likely; ie this deeply nested HTML element in one file is coupled to a deeply nested style sheet in another file

- It is easier to perform complex manipulation of styling if it is made up of JS objects. Eg, if I wanted to do math or I wanted one style to be a function of another (eg `marginLeft: PAGE_MARGIN`)

That being said, I’m sure there are some better ways of doing traditional CSS since I last tried it that I’m unaware of...

As far as the performance trade off, I'd love it with styled components did not come with this but, at least for my use case, it is usually worth it
Considering that living an aquatic life necessarily raises the cost of absolutely everything you use or consume - do you think that SeaSteading is actually a fair way to evaluate a competition. It seems to me that absolutely anything terrestrially based has a long list of natural advantages including: soil, a lack of being constantly exposed to salt water, potential access to natural resources.
Also, is social media really the best way to take action against terrible inequity? I would think if one believes the uninvolved are complicit, they would also look for more effective methods than saying something is bad on Twitter.
Reminds me of Snowcrash, the novel by Neil Stephenson. Technology was so far ahead of conventional people that the US govt became vestigial and largely ignored.
Comcast lobbyists bribe better.

Allegedly.
> we're talking about what makes an apology an apology.

Ok, and in the situation of the stabbing/assault, you really think it would be unreasonable for someone to point out that they got attacked first?

That does not seem unreasonable. If someone got attacked, and then responded with too much force, it would still be reasonable to point out that someone got attacked first, while also saying that attacking back with too much force was bad.

In the case of someone getting attacked first, it is both OK to point that out, and also say that the response was over the top.

If you disagree then you are basically saying that attacking someone unprovoked is equivalently bad as to attacking someone in response to an attack.

And I am not sure why you don't recognize the importance of also pointing out that an attack was in response to another attack.

That seems pretty important to point out.

It is pretty reasonable to both recognize that something went too far, while also explaining that there was a cause to it, and that it was in response to another attack.
> But only one is signed by Rolex's keys

How do you sign a physical watch with keys?

> Let me ask you this; if you buy a Rolex watch on eBay that includes a QR code as proof of authenticity, how can you be confident that the same QR code has not been included with 100 other duplicate watches otherwise?

I can't be confident. So, once again, how does blockchain help?

> A correct blockchain implementation would have allowed me to spot that within minutes of receiving the package as well as irrefutable proof to present to eBay/law enforcement

- What's a "correct blockchain" and who implements it?

- How would it help if both watches/headphones/whatnot point to the same record in the ledger?

- more in two comments to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27435785
You really think someone couldn't build a business out of YouTube independent of Google? Just because it is hardly profitable _now_ as managed by Google in support of ads doesn't mean there isn't another model there.
It's not an integer overflow that would be needed but an unsigned overflow. The way I see it, on 32-bits, that means that the size HTTP request would have to be bigger than what's available to both user application and the OS together. In short, one just can't get the input request that big. Of course, if you manage that, you'll disprove this claim.
Somewhat tangential question: there are all these new drugs with -mab and -ab suffixes. Why is that?