skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, those real-time notifications of "{User} has done {Action}" always raise my suspicions that the website is a scam.

Since they are almost always on dubious looking ecommerce sites, or scammy betting or crypto web applications
Even smart phones didn't if we think of their unbundled precursors. Mobile phones for example were once prohibitively expensive.
What's the advantage to, say, using something like wget --mirror ?
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> Yes. For starters, it's referencing a conversation that occurred a decade prior. Maybe your memory is better than mine, but I definitely can't remember anything except the absolute vaguest of details from conversations I had in 2011.

"Hey remember that time I bugged the Apple store?"

"Haha yeah man, did you ever get permission to do that?"

"No idea! But I did get permission to film people's reactions!"

Yeah ok...

This isn't something you forget. You've had law enforcement down your neck for part of it. With a Grand Jury involved. This isn't some random conversation at a party in 2011. This is you committing a crime and having the US government follow up on that crime shortly after, with probably many conversations with lawyers, etc.
“Vaccine passports” would be used to open the door for this system.
They have been using its daily at work for many years. And they are very competent and productive programmers.

It’s just that it’s tempting to find the “perfect” combo when performing complex tasks, and that takes time and mental energy even if you don’t realize this. Small time admittedly, but still present and cumulative.
1. Yes, it appears every time a new tab is opened in Chrome.

2. Makes sense. I just wanted the first version to be light. Thanks for your inputs.
I’m sure many consider not having to get up from their desks and go to the loo a perk.
Seconds video to find Co founders
Non technical founders could communicate the problem they want to solve in a 10 second video (elevator pitch) in order to attract Co founders or even building teams or attract investors.
I think they do it by running background checks and meeting the job applicant in person. That wouldn't work very well for remote-only work that recruits people from anywhere. I don't see how you could vet people with anything approaching due diligence without eating up most of your first few months worth of fees up front.
> Nowadays at least in my country is difficult to find music legally to download and burn on a CD.

It's weird how at the same time the lack of option to legally download and burn CD and the lack of optical players "if there is no way of legaly watching the content piracy is the only way. (and importing expensive DVDs in an erra where literally none of my devices have optical bays is not actual option)" lead to the same conclusion: pirating.

> I miss the old days where you could find everything to pirate. These days thanks god there is Telegram that lets me download some mp3 in decent quality, otherwise I have to download YouTube videos and the audio quality is awful (but probably most people will not notice since they have crappy stereos in the first place).

Amen to that. Just yesterday I bought two tracks from https://christophertin.com/projects/civilizationvi.html (it's not the link I used, that one led to gumstore something which allows me to download FLAC tracks) and today I can't even find the store link.

I tried to buy in the same way the whole album but there are no "download" options.

Every albums/EPs has different streaming options but there are no download options for everything.

I ended up using youtube-dl on the music.youtube.com and I can clearly hear the differences. I suspect these tracks are amputated from some instruments or settings.
The Witcher (and now cyberpunk) series is the proof of that: insanely successful sale wise and 0 drm of any kind.

Make a good game and it'll sale.
""Big Pharma" in the eyes of the public..."

What the public does not see is how the patent system is gamed by generic sellers. How this works is not something that can be easily explained in a single paragraph.

The problem is specifically mentioned in the Fact Sheet/Order. This is a legitimate antitrust issue but it is exceedingly difficult to succeed in the courts.
Whether crypto is “valid”
or not isn’t the issue. Externalities are.

When power plants mine crypto, they are offloading costs to people that gain no benefit in the form of pollution. Therefore there is a reason for everyone else to care.

Crypto mining is not free of harm to uninvolved bystanders.
You can buy the original insulins from 80 years ago for $35-50. Those are human/porcine insulin and one called NPH that has an intermediate duration. Some people who used those before the newer long/short/rapid actings were developed still prefer them, and others use them for cost reasons esp. because they can be obtained in the US without a prescription. I only know of one brand, Humulin by Lilly.

For modern insulin, they were indeed patented but mostly generics called follow-ons or biosimilars are available. Lantus has an alternative Basaglar that costs about 1/3 as a much. Humalog can be replaced with Admelog. The manufacturer of Novolog makes a biosimilar of their own insulin and sells it for 1/3 as much, if that makes any sense.

The various types differ a bit... Lantus has a slower absorption and thus longer duration than it's main competitor, Levemir. Novolog differs from Humalog in one protein on one side of the chain or something. Some people can't use one or the other due to allergies to the excipients or unexplained resistance to the effects.
I wonder how I used to run Emacs on Windows NT/2000 without a VM.
There is a difference (sometimes) between what some find unpalatable and what is illegal. Malicious prosecution for non crimes is not something I find palatable.
Digging up and purifying your own water source is a bit more effort than installing a widely available and well documented crack
I cmd-arrow + click on it on my MacBook trackpad if needed. Believe it or not, it’s actually really really fast, and in my experience faster than any vim trick.

The reason why it’s faster is that it’s a lower level task: I can just visually go where I want without even having to read contents or even line numbers, just based on text shape, don’t even have to think about it, it’s just muscle reflex.

I don’t have to (consciously or not) plan a strategy choosing the best way among 5 different ways each time I want to select text. And no, this never becomes a true reflex. If it does then it’s just because you always choose the same strategy. You always have this part of your brain that has to think about vim tricks, and believe me, we can see that from the outside.
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Those subjects are not there for any meaningful purpose. Imagine having a CS degree program and teaching chemistry, physics, biology and a bunch of even lesser subjects is blatant and ignorant waste of students' money.
It seems highly petty to let people install and run random software and then try to bully them with legal action when they take you up on it.

Don't they have a term for it? Entrapment?

Also, what a great legal system where if you have money, you can bully people who don't for years on end.
Do you have a source? I wasn't able to find any mention of it on Walmart's website.
Similar policy in the EU. Has it changed anything? no, 1 year delay renders the policy useless and it does nothing for old papers. The fees for open access are too high. And the resulting work is not in some kind of creative commons license. We need sci-hub, especially during these times when many of us work at home
> if books had a webcam built into them

Amazon is way ahead of you on this one, the Kindle Fire HD has had a camera since 2012.

> would the pictures of people staring at them look different?

I would suspect not, apart from being taken at far less flattering angles.
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> and does not possess any underlying intrinsic value

And I'm out. Gold has no intrinsic value. Nothing in the world has intrinsic value. The closest you get is maybe food. Gold gets its value from the same place paper money gets its value, belief. People believe that when they take it in exchange for something, they will be able to exchange it for something later. Period. End of story. Fin.
Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
For me to use EdgeDB with RDS I would need to compile it [1]. But I don't think this is recommended usage of EdgeDB and there isn't enough documentation on using EdgeDB with an external postgres instance.

I see that I could use:

edb server --postgres-dsn

But I guess you'll release more docs on using EdgeDB with external instances soon, maybe before 1.0 release.

[1] https://www.edgedb.com/docs/internals/dev
Hi HN! After months of private beta, Obsidian is now finally available for Android and iOS!

Obsidian is a personal knowledge management app that works on top of a local folder of Markdown files [0]. Because "local" often means your computer, for the longest time, it has been a pain to access these notes on the go.

Our original plan was to build fully native mobile apps. Instead, we decided to build hybrid web apps. Hybrid web apps gets a lot of hate, and for good reason. There's heavy performance penalty for running JavaScript. Animations are often janky. A lot of native capabilities are restricted.

We know everyone's favorite argument for using the web stack. "We're a small team, and it's just not possible to....". Sure, we're also just two developers, but that excuse gets old.

We see it in a different way. We leverage hybrid web apps not as a shortcut, rather, we use it to put power in the hands of our users. This has always been a key principle driving Obsidian's development.

Obsidian is one of the few apps out there that lets users customize every aspect of the app. Themes and CSS snippets let users completely change the interface. Plugins [1] let users augment the GUI [2], run macros [3], build databases [4], synchronize with other apps [5], and much more.

It's unprecedented for users to have access to this kind of power on their mobile devices.

Now, it's reality, thanks to the web stack. Get it at https://obsidian.md/mobile

[0]: https://obsidian.md
[1]: https://obsidian.md/plugins
[2]: https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-calendar-plugin
[3]: https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater
[4]: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview
[5]: https://github.com/renehernandez/obsidian-readwise

---------

We have a vibrant community of passionate users: lawyers, database engineers, dungeon masters, medical students, CEOs and CTOs under their alternate identity. You can find them on Discord and our forum at https://obsidian.md/community

We're also launching on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/obsidian-for-mobile
These do indeed sound cool. Too bad that most vim users I know face these use cases rarely enough that it takes longer to remember how to do these tricks rather than just do it in a normal IDE.
As someone with a similar background that only applies if we are speaking about CRUD forms, anything else Web is a joke versus native tooling for GUI design.
I don't think Amazon outages have ever taken HN down (HN doesn't run on AWS). We've done it to ourselves a few times though.
Cool! The reason I sticked with org-mode was org-roam which changed my usage from a single document to a whole zettelkasten system and I love it. Any plans on linked documents?
As far as I know SecuROM is popular because it takes a bit longer to crack, thus helping the publishers secure the critical sales of the first week. Afterwards many studios remove it again to make it actually playable.

I guess that's also why AAA games are hyped so much before release, so that many people preorder it.
Lenovo and other manufacturers provides configuration app to limit State of Charge for battery over a decade ago. Apple just implemented similar feature (but automatic) in 2020. Without that, battery is unnecessary degrading while plugged into AC with 100% SOC.
> I have a hard time believing that compute power has been the bottleneck in chip design for many years now.

Considering that many of the bread and butter NP-hard problems are actually inspired by chip design, this is blatantly untrue.

Though I do believe progress is currently held back more by the closed software ecosystems and secrecy around design rules.
There was never a single platform, unless we are talking about 1950's in computing.
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Giants are more visible, I won't dispute that but I'm not sure I agree with a strategy of surrendering to them because of that fact.

I don't think we need a real hero here, we need end-user solidarity perhaps in the form of public policy and market regulation. Humans would have more freedom on the internet if corporate giants didn't.
The best they could do is recreate and rerender the videos, but that's probably too costly for EA's typical remaster project.
Where are the electronics in the battery?
To the extent there is a difference, I'd say that "ethics" is what you say you would do, and "morals" is what you actually end up doing when placed in a specific situation.

But, it's been well over two decades I was pursuing a degree in philosophy.
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How do elife and PLoS do it? It's not like their papers are riddled with typos and nobody needs glossy paper anyway. The quality of the paper and the reviewing is done for free so it doesnt factor into the equation
I'm a note-taking power nerd who has used all the buzzy apps on Macs. Obsidian is by far the best — it's become my personal journal, my knowledge base, a quick and dirty blog, a place to keep loose notes.

The development velocity of the (TWO PERSON!) team behind this app is ridiculous. They're constantly pushing updates, and seem to handle all facets of app development with aplomb.

No affiliation, just a happy user!
For a sedentary job there's no need to be fit. Some people are the weight equivalent of racists - maybe fat fascists? fat nazis?
But no matter how small the exponential growth is the result will be still revolutionary eventually.
Then why is every covid vaccine ouside the US, if other countries are "free-riding" the US R&D?
Show HN: Browser-Based Uptime Checks
Maybe yes, maybe no.

Take a look at the presentation of the original iPhone. It was presented (if I remember correctly) by Steve Jobs himself. But he knew exactly which buttons to press in which order, because otherwise the phone would crash.

I think such an important presentation may/must be done by the CEO, but he must exaclty know that to do and he must prepare very well.
> Many Electron fans talk about how apps should look and feel exactly the same on every OS

Don't you think it's a good idea to have consistent UI and UX cross platform? If a user switches between the mobile/mac/Windows/web version, everything should change?

> And it isn't like Slack or Microsoft don't have the resources to make native apps.

Considering Microsoft seemingly don't have the resources to make a functional Electron app for Teams, and the Linux and macOS versions are always late and buggy, apparently they can't.
The FDA approved 53 novel drugs in 2020. That was relatively high; most years have lower totals.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/817534/annual-novel-drug...
> Copy editing is about a lot more than fluff.

a journal will never edit the text beyond typos. their editorials are written from other peers for free. What copy editing?
Variety is the opposite of what I want. Putting all eggs in one basket is exactly what makes me excited.
Meanwhile no one at Apple is using windows unless they have to for very specific software.
There's something special about conversations between old people and young people. I don't know how well that holds up when one side is being paid, but it's not the same thing as old people talking to each other.

On the other hand, it says something about our society that you have to pay the younger people to want to talk to them. Arguably it ought to be the other way around, but that's not ho our culture works.
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> This one is particularly prickly because the high cost paid in the US funds medical R&D

Most of those money goes on marketing.

Moreover, I think that US citizens did not signed up to pay medical R&D for whole world while they are sick. In fact, US citizens tend to have issues with paying researcher, social support and so on from their money.

R&D paid from taxes or insurance makes way more sense then paid by those who already deal with health crisis.
Hey HN,

OnlineOrNot builds website monitoring tools - the first of which was a simple uptime checker.

After running a few million checks, my customers started asking why I didn't support Single Page Applications (SPAs) like React - and the answer was pretty simple: the basic uptime checker just fetched the page, it didn't render anything.

OnlineOrNot's Browser Checks is how we solve that problem - by plugging Google's Puppeteer and real Chrome browsers into OnlineOrNot's existing uptime monitoring service, you can now reliably check whether your React (or Vue, or Angular, or whatever comes next) apps successfully render, and display the text you expect. When things go wrong, you get notified via Email, SMS, Slack, or via Webhooks.
If you release software that runs better pirated, you are objectively stupid.
> Julia has nothing to do with Lisp.

Riiight... https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/src/ast.scm
The ArchiveTeam has tools that do that. In fact, they have a number of different tools, some of which I believe are closely related to httrack.

Disclaimer: I tried to get involved with ArchiveTeam to help get some websites that I care about properly archived and saved to The Way Back Machine, but they weren’t allowing new members to sign up. They were happy to talk to me about what needed to be done and one of their members set things up to archive everything that was available, but I wasn’t able to help in that process.
When I have studied economics, our professor went into long lengths in explanation what makes one an economist.

And the main thing is. To be economist, you have to act in discourse of economics. And discourse of economics is defined by economs.

You don't need any particular profession or education to be economist, just participation in the discourse makes you one. When you are paid to participate, you are professional.

A question is, whether you must participate in research. If yes, you could say that for example economics teacher is not an economist even when they have studied it, they understand it and they teach it. And you could ask the same for 'company economists', CFOs, accountants. They have studied it, they understand it and their main discourse's within of what economists study.

One more thing is. I have met lots of economics grads who had almost no understanding of economics. They learned for tests, then they forgot. A few years after graduation, they remember maybe 5-10%. And I have met lots of amateurs who study, read, think and discuss actively. They might not have a degree and their understanding of economics is superior to a huge percentage of econ grads.
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That's... an impressive twist on Proof of Work. Threat of Work?
I love using Obsidian and it is where all my notes live.

Last year when I was searching for wiki-type note taking tools, I stumbled upon many of them including Roam Research, TiddlyWiki, and then Obsidian. Obsidian is what I chose because of how it stores my data - markdown files.

And it does not lose any functionality even if it uses markdown. Bidirectional linking, block references, heading references, a beautiful graph - Obsidian features almost every feature you need.

It is also very customizable. You can use custom themes and build your own plugins to work better.

Though the only thing I think needs improvement is the outlining ability - it does not feel very intuitive in Obsidian. This is the reason I use LogSeq along with Obsidian.
Now this also shows why interoperability is necessary, I do not have to worry about any data lock-in. I am free to use any notes editor along with Obsidian.
Ask HN: What Biden's latest executive order means for open banking?
Biden has signed a new executive order Promoting Competition in the American Economy: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/09/fact-sheet-executive-order-on-promoting-competition-in-the-american-economy/

Among other things, the announcement says that it will "make it easier and cheaper to switch banks by requiring banks to allow customers to take their financial transaction data with them to a competitor".

Does it really mean that regulated open banking (like Europe) is coming to US or its still uncertain?
Doesn't that approve of the thesis of OP. People who are not going to pay for a license, are not going to pay for it. No matter what. It makes more sense to have light license keys.
It is really not. The price disparity between US and rest of world is quite massive.
How does adding a simple toast-style message saying "We had some trouble finding that" alongside the homepage stop that?
> If you are allowed to add fields to a class at runtime, you have to box all your objects.

Do you? You could restructure your data in memory if you wanted to, at least if the assumption is that adding a field is a rare operation.
If you are willing to accept web sites (or rather web apps) that are popular among designers, then Figma is one notable example.

https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...
text or die.
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I've absolutely been loving Obsidian since I started using it, which was only 3 months or so ago. But the plugin ecosystem has well and truly hooked me in. It's brilliant that they have a mobile app now, I can easily use it as an inbox/dump now.

The features I'm waiting for (I know they're in development) are the WYSIWYG editor and hopefully some integration with dynalist, the other amazing app from this team. Once that's done and dusted, this will be awesome.
Note that they're talking about a technique that _may_ be applicable to high temperature superconductors. The actual result here is a distinguishable phase change due to pressure being maintained after the release of that pressure, causing the material to be a superconductor below 40K, instead of the 9K that material would otherwise require.
The sound of coughing.