skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The beauty of blendle was that you didn't have to think after every headline whether to pay to read the full article. They prominently had a refund option at the end of every article, so you could decide after you read the article whether it was worth the money or not.

What killed blendle was the lack of newspapers willing to sign on, and the lack of integration for the few newspapers that actually did - if I was presented with a micropayment option instead of a $10/no paywall when I clicked a link to an article on Twitter, Facebook, or hacker news, it might work. But blendle payment was only an option if you found the article through the blendle website, and their website sucked.
The Truth about Trees
They spread bullshit in a seemingly innocuous way. That's dangerous stuff that undermines society.
Certifications don't represent foundational knowledge in security and don't evaluate commitment to the field, nor is commitment to this particular field a reasonable thing for employers to measure; regardless, if anything, certifications represent the opposite.

Many further comments on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27494450
Trying to Fit into Korea’s One Size Fits All Beauty Standards
SiCl4 is also entirely non-persistent in the environment. It reacts vigorously with water.
The women's rights angle was only pushed to keep some Europeans in the alliance ( among them The Dutch ). And it fitted really well with Obama.

Disclaimer : Dutch.
Which spaced-repetition program?
I suspect the causality flows (mostly) in the other direction for that correlation.

The set of healthy and active elderly people consists only of those who can be healthy and active, while the set of sedentary / overweight elderly contains both those who choose not to be, and those who are kind of stuck with it due to chronic illness. Which aren't sharp categorical distinctions, mind you, but it virtually guarantees that the latter set will have shorter lifespans and worse end of life outcomes, even though plenty of nonagenarians are overweight (though very few indeed are obese).

I stay in the game for what it brings me now. I can think of little so grim as going to the gym with the goal of living longer— but that's my personlity, someone else might find it motivating.
> You and your friends are not the only consumers in the world.

I can use this argument against you.

Not sure why would users around the world pay for US newspapers.
"couldn't this be justified as punishment for the original sin, at least in the Christian/Catholic worldview?"

Then why did god create humans such that they could sin (and would sin, as an omniscient god knew full well they would) and then punish them for it?

It seems sadistic and perverse, and yes, it leads one to question whether god is really benevolent after all (which, if he/she/it is not would likewise shatter most major religions).

Of course religion has answers for all of these questions... mainly having to do with humans having free will or evil being a "privation of good" (ie. there's no such thing as evil, but only a lack of good), etc.. but that's where the arguments start.
There are tons of games these days, for PC, console and mobile, that are designed to just be time-sinks. MMOs, village sims (Harvest Moon/etc), Match-3, infinite runners... Even sports games and multiplayer shooters. They designed to be played for many, many, many hours without only slight changes most of the time so that you just keep playing. Yes, they're interactive, but you're doing the same thing over and over and it's largely non-educational, just a time-sink. Entertaining, but otherwise useless. They're the sugar of the game world.

I've played plenty of them myself, but there was a long time there that I played way too much of them. A great one will still reel me in, but I prefer experiences that have a built-in end now instead.

Anyhow, my point is that both TV and games can be things you can fill your time with mindlessly.
@thesephist, I have friends in West Lafayette. If you'd like I'll buy you a cup of coffee when I'm over that way!
Euclidean Division
OP: Love your title choice. It seems inspired by some of the 1-liners in the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy, or, MS was originally. Alas, Bill is long retired. Now divorced. Balmer is "running" a basket ball team like he ran MS. And life has moved on more or less just fine without either one.
PUNK ROCK SUCKS!
I think the home purchasing system can and should be streamlined radically, and good real estate agents can make too much money for their actual contribution in many cases, but there's a bit more involved than merely unlocking a door and giving a tour of the kitchen and living room.

For instance, merely putting together an offer to buy a house can be ultra complex. Once you've dealt with viewing the house and deciding to go for it, you have to deal with inspections and financing and insurance and other legal things. If there's a problem with the house, you have to know the right questions to ask and how to take the problems into account when making an offer. You have to know the local market well and what kind of offer to make or you could overpay by thousands or miss out on a dream home.

On top of that, client contracts aren't worth the paper they're printed on for a real estate agent. A real estate agent can in theory luck out showing a client one home, they love it, buy it without a hitch, and come away with thousands of dollars for a few hours of work. A real estate agent can also work with a client for weeks/months, show them dozens of houses, but then they go off and buy that exact house with another agent and lose out on the commission with basically no real recourse after investing many hours working for somebody for free. For every good financial thing that happens to an agent, they end up getting taken for a ride by others.

Disclosure: I do have my own biases here as a friend is a real estate agent and I see some of the good and bad parts of the job.
I surely get down voted for this as well. Good thing we can openly debate things on HN.

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It was/is important for young nations and you don’t have to associate it with negative things only.
I believe this is a direct by product of "rage news", where a newspaper used headlines to illicit an anger response in order to get more views / clicks

No one wants to pay a business that angers them all the time, if walmart pissed every customer off in every visit they would go bankrupt

Rage Bait has been a mainstay in "journalism" of late in part to the Ad revenue nature of the business, however in doing so they pissed off most of the customers that they now want to pay for their product.
> Why would any of the platforms join together? If all of the streamers had the same content, there'd be no point in having more than one streaming platform.

I don't think you understand. A 'union' is simply a group of companies aligning and talking about common interests, one of which is exactly what I said -- the ability to strongarm content owners into making content available internationally, so that their bottom line can be stronger.

It is not the same meaning as 'merger' -- you seem to have conflated the two? For the union I just proposed, there is historical precendece -- the International Intellectual Property Association and similar organizations put pressure on the US Government via lobbying to specifically 'protect' international copyright law (NB: I can't condone this organization, but it does exist). This is simply a different group of companies with different interests. It doesn't mean they stop competing with each other, it just means that they all agree to do one specific thing. In this case it might harm them all in the short term, but would be beneficial in the long term.

Without sales to Netflix and other content distributors the revenue of the content owners would dry up -- movie sales are dwindling due to increasing prices, DVD sales are drying up, therefore the content distributors hold the cards here which allows them to unilaterally negotiate better terms -- but that only works if they all do it at once. If one company decides to not participate, that leaves an opening for the content owners to go to them.

> I want to see a show on Broadway, but I don't live in New York so I guess I should just find it on the pirate bay? No? How is it any different? I should start complaining on the internet? I want to see a concert in my town, but no promoter decided to bring that show to my town. I should again start complaining on the internet? A TV show/Film is not available in my available ways of viewing is totally acceptable to complain on the internet? So I go to the internet and complain, and then someone else has the gall to call me out on it? Please children, dad has a headache from the banality.

Well this is the most jumbled wall of text I've seen today. You seem to be saying that someone complaining on the internet is bad? You seem to also be trying to insult me? It's highly immature and petty, whatever it is.

The original point was that the ire was directed at the wrong group of people, and I pointed out that it's not like the company is going to care that one single person is venting about them on the internet.

I'm still not sure why it matters that someone on the internet deigned to complain about Netflix as opposed to the content owners. Can you clear up why that distinction is necessary here?
It doesn't mean anything, virgin galactic was initially developed with this in mind. Space travel for tourist is just a side effect.

Space X and Blue Origin are design for space exploration
Do you have aphantasia? I can't voluntarily experience visualizations of a red spot, or any other imagery, but my understanding is that most people can truly "see" a red spot or a face when they picture it, as if they had an off-screen render buffer.
In my experience at a software company located in the Midwest, I find most engineers engage in a hard listening culture. They have things that may want to say but do not want to say their thoughts for a myriad of reasons.

My (soft) heuristic towards engagement in meetings is to call on others and ask their thoughts. Sometimes I get a squeamish non-answer but sometimes I get a answer worth it’s weight in gold.

There are some who engage in a hard speaking culture, too. My heuristic operates to hear from everyone, when practical and possible.
Please try Subplot, for acceptance criteria
I'm pretty sure they are doing it for a house near central park with a roof deck.
get over yourself. you think it’s going to be $250k in 10 years and the billions of people on the planet will not see benefit from the tech advances that come from that?
Because being a millionaire simply is not enough to do “interesting” things. Most people in tech become millionaires around age 30. It’s not uncommon.
I'm being a bit glib, but from the point of view of someone who used SFP optics once in a while, it seemed like the whole "standard" was a bit of a mess.

If it was known that vendors would try to push their thermals past what the device cage would support, why not address that better?

The general impression I was given is that thermal loads were one of the primary reasons given for vendor-locking pluggable optics, and that the original SFP spec didn't even address it.
Well, isn't it all a grey area though? What if the photographer's ad company is Christian, and she shoots a gay wedding? What if the SWE's work at Apple is on a product Microsoft doesn't compete with? What if the illustrator's friend's book is so low-circulation their company wouldn't illustrate it? What if the friend owed the illustrator a favor and wanted to give them some exposure, and would never have contracted the illustrator's company?

I mean, either we're talking "might makes right" and your employer just bulldozes you with "our army of lawyers defines what the grey area is", or the line is "you can't use our resources for your personal gain". I think those are really the only two options here.
I explicitly mentioned those factors for the USA already. Do you really want me to be more explicit about Saudi Arabia?? Oh well, ok: oil.
No, but I was just contacted by a programmer who worked there after me, and who had just read my book. The programmer told me that the bad spelling continues. He joked "That was a nice touch. Anyone who knows John knows about the bad spelling." John was just sloppy and uncaring I think.

The company ran out of money and died, but I've just been told that in 2018 they got a new investor and the project came back to life.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the story.
Wow. I feel like a cliche, but after reading the link I realize that I have the same, and had just assumed that it was something that everyone else also experienced and so never questioned it.

For some reason I’m better at getting triangles to form.
I’m also the same as you- no migraines or anything that’d I’d consider a negative symptom.

The other optical-related illusion that someones happens with me is that if I’m focusing on something, occasionally everything else may ‘dim’ and that object will ‘feel’ subjectively closer/zoomed in, but a couple blinks and everything goes back to normal.

Edit:
I’ll also add that I consider myself to have a terrible visual imagination. If I try and imagine a face (even my parents) I basically don’t get anything. If I concentrate very hard I can imagine something basic - like the wireframe of a cube - but requires a lot of effort to maintain.
In the US, politics (Democracy) seems to be widely considered a "sacred institution", literally. If you observe how people talk about it in forums, this seems very true to me.
No for all the countries on that list. Communism also had a role...
I ended up getting these Montavue 4k cameras largely because they have really good low light performance. They are ONVIF and work with blueiris, which is good because their NVR sucks for use on a mobile phone.

The hardware is the same as many other cameras, HIKvision also has this hardware but I couldn't get it working with blueiris or the HIKvision NVR.

The cameras are indeed amazing at low light. I felt like that was a good feature, and maybe that was misguided. But I can be fairly dark out, looking out the window, and the cameras are still in color mode and look like it's daytime. Think: Google Night Vision camera mode.

I wish there were a better mobile experience though, that's the only way we use them. Both blueiris and Montavue apps suck. Ubiquiti has the best in class here, but I've been burned by them too many times now. This replaces a unusable Unifi system.

For remote access to BlueIris.i plan to use ZeroTier.
You think it would be efficient to move vats of molten salt on railroads "at scale" (at what scale?). Where does that expectation come from?

Here is a very efficient method for moving power: a copper cable.
I do. Can you suggest a trustworthy alternative?
> Some comments may come off as racist or biased, while all you're trying to do is engage in discussion and present a different viewpoint.

At the point where it "may come off as racist or biased" for me to say that many Chinese people who grew up in China think the Chinese government is good and will be offended by attempts to demonize it, we've entered into some kind of toxic mental pathology that goes far beyond questions of whether I'm pretentious (I guess I am) or off-putting (undoubtedly at times, perhaps always), or whether HN is "something like a professional conference." God, let's hope that never happens!

HN can avoid being degraded into a professional conference without becoming the Salem witch trials. Those aren't the only two alternatives!
I did test it! I had no VM with Windows 98 SE already installed, so instead I used someone's "Windows 98 Live CD" from the Internet Archive. I integrated hicolor.exe and some test pictures into the ISO with ISO Master and booted qemu-system-i386 from it. The program passed manual testing. I realized I could automate the ISO mastering with a shell script and the actual testing with a BAT file to create a Windows 9x approximation of fresh-VM CI without messing with HDD snapshots, but (somehow!) decided not to. I don't think I will be integrating Windows 98 SE or Windows 2000 into the CI pipeline, so support for either may break.
I think someone with next-to-nothing risking everything demonstrates significantly more risk than a billionaire risking a fraction of his wealth. One person has everything to lose, and the other isn't really risking that much (I've personally risked more than 50% of my entire net worth on a single bet when I was already doing well - it's a ridiculously comfortable position to be in and doesn't really demonstrate anything other than privelege).

I think a more interesting question is comparing someone with $100 to someone with $1 billion risking their entire net worths - who has taken on more risk?
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Very little about work is universally optimal. Work is made out countless compromises so that people can function together. “Optimizing time and energy” is not the same as doing the universally optimal thing.

Optimizing for time and energy has to do with how one uses their waking/working hours.

At some point in my career I worked at a private Catholic college where many of the professors were 60 to 80 year-old nuns.

They were very smart people but their predisposition to learning computer technology was minimal. Something that might take me hours to learn might take them weeks of frustrating, unintuitive trial and error. Frequently, they couldn’t pick up certain new computer skills at all.

I could not imagine teaching the nuns how to use a password manager. It would be a disaster.

This is an extreme example, but somewhere in every skill there’s an inflection point where it becomes impractical to learn that skill if it’s not part of your core competency as a worker.

Many, if not most, users who would benefit from a password manager simply can’t develop that skill if they are expected to finish the normal duties of their work. They are optimally using their limited time and energy because learning a new skill would impact their functionality in their primary responsibilities too much.

If you can’t imagine users from your work-life that would have this problem... I feel like you just don’t know very many users.
Yeah no one actually wants to be torn apart by wild animals.

I thought that was a completely obvious stand-in for some gentler not-medically-assisted suicide but nothing is obvious here on Hacker News...
But it's not just financial risk, it's the risk to his physical safety / life that he takes.
There are many little things that depend on what you’re trying to address.

In my case, a few of the most helpful things I do now are:

- Focused box breathing for ~5-10 minutes several times throughout the day to relieve tension in my body. I find it helpful to do this to figure out what I should try and address next.

- Walking indoors in different ‘patterns’ to break my body out of the limping pattern it found itself in after my injury.

- Walking indoors as normally as possible with an increasing cadence. Ie. I’ll walk in a straight line extremely slowly as normal as possible. If there’s no pain, I’ll turn and walk faster.

- Contrast baths for my foot to properly circulate blood flow in my foot and reduce inflammation.

There are plenty of other things, but I think I’d do very little justice trying to write things out. I’m still essentially just a patient and learning more about this as well.
Yes. Imagine that a class like "me.grishka.app.something.SomeDescriptiveClassName" gets renamed to "zzq" in the default (root) package. You end up with thousands of classes in there, none have sensible names, and nothing inside them has sensible names either. So you do have to spend extra effort to rename them back to something that makes sense. A good starting point for figuring out what an obfuscated class does is to look for log messages.

Java classes must still have names, and methods and fields must also retain type information for the JVM to work. Inside a JVM, classes and fields are accessed using names, and methods are accessed using name+signature, the signature being of the form "(Ljava/lang/String;II)V", that's a method that takes a string and two ints and returns void.
> Compliance: "compliance is counterproductive for security." Most security practitioners don't necessarily like compliance primarily because it's not enjoyable for them.

I have a B2B micro-ISV in the cyber security space, largely targeting a compliance niche - you get out what you put in.

I have customers that treat compliance as nothing more than a pointless burden; a series of boxes to be ticked, "check-box compliance" - all they want is to prove to their auditors that they are following the letter of the compliance standard. I imagine security consultants see this kind of thing a lot, and it's easy to see why they might view compliance negatively.

However, I also have customers that look past the letter of their compliance standards, and look towards the intent - these customers get a lot more out of it, and are actually increasing their security posture as their compliance standards intended.
You can set your HIST_FILE per project. That’s what I do in vscode (terminal env), so I have a history per project.

Other than that, I usually document some ops/quick read me about how to use or prepare the project
FTFY: with no obnoxious ads.

Also, if there were an easy way to pay for just the article, say, 10¢, most people won't mind. But wherever it exists, it's not easy, and generally the big players are not interested in implementing it, even if it were technically trivial (it's not), because they prefer a smaller but captive audience which pays more (and watches ads).
Interview with author of The Friendly Orange Glow about tools for writers
Slavic Macedonians are Bulgarians though.... and Macedonia is a made up buffer state with two different ethnicities (Slavic and Albanian), and a name that borrowed it form completely different region and time, which most of it is connected with Greece anyway.

Hence Greece was blocking NMKD to join Nato, because of the name and cultural appropriation, Bulgaria is currently blocking the ascenction to EU for similar reasons, and the Albanians there really want to join Albania if they had the chance.

It is kinda of a made up country... but so is Belgium and some others. Lets see how it goes in the long run, but if one day it disolved, where the west part goes to Albania and the Central and East part goes to Bulgaria, it makes perfect sense.

The fun fact, is that there are two villages in Albania that have a large slavic composition, and the borders were drawn in 1912 before the making of the macedonian state.

They all say they speak 'bullgarski' and consider themselves bulgars, and not Macedonian.
The ancient kingdom of Macedon is geographically located in Greece:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)#/m...

That region is still called Macedon and the modern inhabitants of that region are themselves called Macedonians. As opposed to the slavic macedonians, they do have strong historical, linguistic and ethnic connections to the term. Do you see the problem here?