skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It won't be a problem in this code because "%" is not handled. But could be a vulnerability for more implemented HTTP servers, and a few days ago I got this idea too.
The article gives a pretty comprehensive overview of why people might enjoy vaporwave and it's offshoots.

Politics, humor, the aesthetic itself.

Some releases even have a definite musical quality: Blank Banshee has put out very interesting music, and some production values in Vaporwave-esque music clearly made it into the mainstream.
For what it's worth, no, it was not obvious.
It doesn't really make that much difference. The vast majority of road wear is caused by commercial rigs [1]. Road wear from passenger vehicles is small in comparison, and the comparatively small increases in EV weight won't do much to change that.

Even with a few hundred extra kilos of batteries in an EV, an empty tractor-trailer weighs at least five times more [2].

1 - https://truecostblog.com/2009/06/02/the-hidden-trucking-indu...

2 - https://www.tcsfuel.com/blog/truck-weight-classification/
I noticed all the recent printers from HP required a setup which...

- Required me to install an app

- Required me to enable gps on my device (and allow app to access)

- Printer phoned home after / during setup (as did the app)

They really don’t need the dots any more when they know the gps coordinates and have the ability to send anything they want to and from the device.

I personally spoofed the gps, ran a vpn and blocked the device from phoning home (after setup). Had me saying “what the f**!?” a couple of times.
Vaporwave’s not dead
There's still the guilt when you have to tell the movers that this big stack of boxes is filled with heavy books.

I get rid of any book that can be found used for under a couple bucks or so used online, unless I am actively reading it or need it for something. I can always get it again later when I feel like reading it, just bookmark a link to the place it's sold.
On Google translate you can test new phonetic spelling. "Wii shäl miit tu dei in Nyy Jork" works best in Polish, Icelandic and Finnish. I suggest we just ignore weird sounds like θ and ð and just use "th" as "thö" sounds reasonably good in those languages.
I think a good salesperson or marketing person can bring way more value than a good PM or IT manager usually can.
You should rethink that phrasing. That's a heads I win tails you lose kind of proposal.
Then to reverse it, just put the page on top of a piece of yellow construction paper!
> If you decide to go with a external package and pay a recurring licensing cost -- which is pretty common in the software industry, then you'd be paying maybe 10% of whatever you save per year. One software package we were looking at was $6M/annum. That's roughly 30 engineers being paid $200k for a year to come up with an alternative. We're using 5 engineers to do the same thing for less.

Ok fair enough, now lets say I am an Accountant and I work out that I can increase profits even further by hiring 5 people offshore for 30K a year. I am paying now $150K to save $6m. You cannot deny me the accountant, the same opportunity to earn from cost reductions if you profit from it, that would not be in the theme of rewarding people for giving an advantage to a company.

If you look at both situation, mine is more efficient based on cost.

But most all you're playing an unfair advantage. You say the following: (* caveat lets say fair market value is 100k per developer)

> That's roughly 30 engineers being paid $200k

What happens if there are only 5 developers working for that company too, and working on the same profit-reward model as you are working on, they are getting paid 400K a year each because they are making the company $4m. So what's their true value, if they are being paid 400K and they can be replaced by your team for 200K it seems that they are being over paid 200K. Your way of justifying your 2x pay is that you decreased cost, their justification of being paid 4x is that they increased profits, but you're doing the same job, aren't they worth more than you are.

I the accountant see a business opportunity, and start a company the same as the 3rd party software company. I know that developers like you work on a profit-reward model of 20%. So your job did get outsource, but you were getting paid 200K to save the company a part of the 6m before that. I reduce the cost of the software by 50% to 3m, I offer you and your team 100K base salary and 20% of profits (2.5m for ease, 3m - 5x developers @ 100k), so would you take the job for 150k, a 25% reduction in pay for doing the same job based on the same model?

Here's the final point, how much do you pay a cleaner, they are a cost they don't produce profit.
Sort of? I mean, if you asked me to visualize, say, a Dalmatian, I can definitely say that I can summon up an image of a medium sized dog with a mostly white coat with black spots. I can even rotate it and look at it from different angles, etc. But the issue is the detail / specificity. Could I count the number of spots on the dog, or tell you definitely if he has a spot at the tip of his right ear? No, definitely not.

So yeah, there's an image of some sort there, but it's certainly nothing like a high-res photograph or anything.
I don't get why this article conflates machine learning progress and racism. Machine learning is not inherently racist though it may be implemented, intentionally or unintentionally, to produce racist results. It's much easier to solve racism in machine learning models though then in humans and easier to test to confirm that you have corrected it.
There wasn't any Morrison related news, but my cursory search shows a resurgence of the quote circulating on the web in the 2017/2018 period. Maybe this was when the author first heard it?
yeah, that's partially why i'm a bit stuck on Balsamiq -- they're refused to add all the other stupid shit I don't need, so it's still usable.

Some stuff is native-app only, and i need cloud.

balsamiq can be used for under $200/yr if you only have 2 projects. not good enough for me, prob.

the others i looked at:

- Mockplus; non-web, $200/yr, no bueno
- Adobe XD; non-web, $120/yr, no bueno
- Mockflow; $168/yr, might work, but don't know these guys
- Figma; $180/yr, bit high end, but they do have wireframes
Just choked because I worked at a (now defunct) startup that was solving this exact problem (though targeted at b2b with thousands/millions of transactions and many/unknown number of columns). There are a couple of products in this space but nothing consumer facing (read: cheap) afaik
> P2W Cashshop

That is branded as a convenience feature though, it is very convenient to buy a maxlevel character or buy gold.
Do you actually know anything about the judge, jury, and DA in this case? Or are you content to drive-by smear them using the same prejudice youre supposedly protesting here?

So are you "sure"? Please tell us more.
I thought this was going to be about music.
Fireside chat with Kary Mullis (credited with inventing PCR)
> I think company founders are often great, idealistic people. People who genuinely want to make the world better.

> When they step aside, however, the people who take over after them tend to be terrifying: zero empathy creatures who favor profit maximization over any and all human cost.

Seems to me like this has more to do with going public. When a company starts being treated as a money-printing machine, and its actual business is nothing but the implementation details of that machine, it either crumbles or it becomes a destructive force. Almost all companies whose products thrive and/or have a net positive effect on society have somebody at the helm who cares about what the company is actually doing. At a public company, investors are the ones at the helm, and they usually just want money. The company tends to switch from value-creation to value-extraction. If their dominance is entrenched enough that innovation and quality aren't very important anymore, they become vampiric. If it isn't, they slowly whither away.
> Firefox uses their own engine called Spider Monkey. I don’t know of anything outside of Mozilla which uses it.

Some non-Mozilla projects do embed SpiderMonkey, including Bloomberg (since 2001!), MongoDB, CouchDB, and 0 A.D.

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/survey-where-are-you-embeddi...
I think you’re more explaining what happens than why it happens.

Personally I know every project or initiative I’ve pushed for is because I have a vision of how things should be. When I give up the reigns to someone else, usually they’re just doing it because they have to.

There’s no replacement for passion.
I didn't say it was good. I said if you want to argue the benefits/costs of censorship that's a different story. But it's not a surveillance dystopia issue.
Science Reveals the Best Age to Start a Thriving Business
The plain ole todo list works for me as well, but where I really tend to stall out is on the things I don't really want to do and don't really need to do but probably should do at some point. ie- getting the knives sharpened. Eh, I guess they could go another couple weeks/months but on the other hand the big knife was so dull I almost sliced a divot in my finger the other day so maybe I should prioritize actually getting that done!

Same with scanning and digitally filing/archiving a bunch of old family paperwork my mom just snail mailed me.

I don't need a better todo list app. I need a personal assistant! :P
Tech savvy people, what is a computer tip you are sure most haven't heard of?
I think overzealous copyright quietly killed Vaporwave. It focused on being anti-capitalist & satirical, where Vaporwave as a genre spawned out of this retrofuturistic desire to return to the 80's and 90's era of rosy nostalgia to chill electronic music like the K-Mart store tapes[0] fused with graphics from the era's games like Ecco the Dolphin[1]. The genre stood out because it was a new artform that encouraged stylistic experimentation, where listeners appreciated the nicheness and relative unpopularity.

One of the albums, Floral Shoppe[2], that helped create the movement was taken down on YouTube after receiving tens of millions of views because it directly used modulated (slowed down, reversed, autotuned, etc) samples from songs owned by Sony that fell outside the scope of fair use to the point the artist couldn't claim the album as an original work. This may have doomed it from the start to be a victim of its own relatively small success- as soon as more listeners discovered Vaporwave, it would be co-opted by the mainstream in the form of 'A E S T H E T I C S' and would cease to be the creative & original subgenre it set out to be.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2015/10/12/448059164/putting-the-k-in-mu...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Person%27s_Eccojams_Vol....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral_Shoppe#Lisa_Frank_420/M...
Thank you so much! Gumroad is exactly what I was looking for. I didn't even bother researching them after I saw that they weren't recommend by https://opensubscriptionplatforms.com but that was silly because it's almost exactly what I wanted. I'm more than happy to take the hit of not being able to export customers fully if it means not having to jump through weird loopholes to get money in my bank account at the end of the day!
> workers have moved on

Moved on to what?

Not other jobs, obviously.

Unemployment insurance for income, eviction moratorium (reducing expenses), maybe, but that's all ending.

Lower income standard of living? More efficient higher density households? Dropping out of the rat race?
Vaporwave is a different genre from synthwave. Synthwave is based off synth-heavy 80s music, especially action and thriller/noir movie soundtracks. If you watched Stranger Things that has a very synthwave sound track.

Vaporwave is more sample based and is traditionally about looping distorted samples of 80s/90s songs, though it branched out a lot. Personally I'm a fan of naturewave, which is looped and edited "nature" or "new wave" sounds. But, key difference, it normally doesn't use a lot of classic synth sounds.

Retrowave I think refers to the over all aesthetic genre; so vaporwave and synthwave both fall under retrowave.
>If we want to make a difference here we should be helping developing nations to better manage their plastic waste so that it doesn’t end up in waterways.

>The Yangtze and Ganges are releasing plastic into the ocean at a rate far greater than all of North America combined,

It should start by developed countries not dumping their garbage in developing countries, China has banned the practice recently, But other developing countries do not have that luxury yet.
Do you think worker-owned businesses can mitigate this? After all, one of their pluses is supposed to be that the workers can choose to prioritise things other than profit.
My bf loves vaporwave and is sharing new artists in this genre with me all the time. 3D BLAST, Mélonade, Death's Dynamic Shroud and Runners Club 95 are a few of the producers / bands I like the most. I don't understand the fuss about labels; it's all electronic dance music to me.
Corporate businesswave is so perfectly my aesthetic, thank you so much for the recommendation.
I had an idea about To Do lists a few years ago. I realized that one of the biggest problems was the hidden complexity of the tasks, and unexpected roadblocks that I'd encounter. Some tasks involved a lot of unknowns, or things that I would have to figure out as I went.

The idea I had was premade To Do lists for various common tasks such as automobile maintenance, planning a trip, organizing an event, etc.

Never did much with it.
Subsequent callers of getBackend also need to be able to await on the backend boot before they can do anything useful. If the backend is currently booting, your function will return undefined in the “no-op” case, giving the caller no way to tell when it’s finished (other than retrying, I suppose).

I tried writing some code for this comment that used an explicitly constructed Promise as the intermediate value with some logic to resolve it once setup was complete, but then I realized that it had exactly the same problem with that being implicitly waited on. Maybe there’s some clever way to work around this but it’s going to be a lot more complicated.

Of course, if you do insist on a JS dialect with implicit await, the easy fix for this problem (since you’re transpiling anyway) is to just introduce a `noawait` keyword that turns the await insertion off for a block, to explicitly mark it as atomic.

[ETA: also, in the general case there’s a race condition if someone calls the function again while it’s awaiting the initial flag value. That doesn’t happen with your code because the OP library happens to not await literals, but that’s kind of fragile: I can easily see a situation where someone tries to introduce e.g. a counter into the flag and causes a non-obvious race.]
The article wants you to be confused; acknowledging clearly that he shot her, or giving more details to humanise her, would detract from its position.
On a mac, you can drag and app or tab or window to the side of your screen (left or right, until your mouse touches the actual side of your screen), and the app/tab/window will 'snap' into place.
In this context, sexier is used interchangeably with cool. It’s a common phrasing.
Yes. I've always been able to see "pictures" in my mind for memories or otherwise. It is a talent that comes in very handy for navigation, in that I can "see" (as it were) a map and plot a route just from the mental visual imagery.
Agreed on the B/W laser printer suggestion, The Giver is just HP propaganda. I ditched their color printer after a few months and bought a Cannon B/W printer[0] for ~$75.

It's been a few years now and while I don't print enormous amounts, I regularly do need to print out forms or documents. I still haven't used up the original ink cartridge it came with.

There's also a Linux driver provided by the company for this model.

[0]: https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/products/d...
Why Upper caste Brahmin / Bania / Kshatriya hate Winston Churchill https://archive.is/XlOXf
How many of your friends are the same way? According to studies the prevalence of aphantasia is in the range of 1-5% of the general population. Yet whenever I see the topic discussed on social media it seems to be a lot more common, more in the 10-15% range from what I've seen. Already the two only replies so far are both by people without the ability to visualize.

I'm really curious how common it actually is, because that's quite the discrepancy.
What is "old people news"? What is your unique news that is immune from that. Hell, most social media reposting is from one of those sources.
It might be helpful to think of it as "the first one in is the first one out"; 'first' describes the order of adding/removing.

Also, it may be helpful to remember that FIFO means you'll get data back in the original order while in LIFO they'll be reversed.
As I’ve gotten older I just don’t have time for discovery. The proliferation of sub genres has added enough friction for me that I largely don’t try anymore. That said I play music pretty much every day and I have made music for 24 years. I have always liked downtempo music that wasn’t overly bright and was generally lofi. When describing what I like, sometimes it is golden age hip hop sounding. Sometimes it’s Boards of Canada sounding. Sometimes it sounds like Air. I occasionally bump into new music I like but the fragmentation of genres makes it difficult to discover new things. I wish that music was defined more by mood/mix/tempo and overall production aesthetic. I think there is a need for a Shazam like app that can listen to a song you like and find others for you that are similar.
The Vintage Computer Federation West 2021 is this Saturday, Aug. 7, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. I don't actually know if CP/M will be featured anywhere, but I wouldn't be surprised.

Full disclosure: I'm speaking about my new book on the Xerox Star, "Inventing the Future." The cover is a stylization of someone [1] "playing" MazeWar on a real, restored Xerox Alto. There's a guy in Bothell, WA with a basement full of old computers, including two Altos and many VAXen, where we shot the photo.

[1] The someone is Jeffrey Smith, the son of Dave Smith, the inventor of icons.
Their way sounds much easier than using dots on a page to try to trace it back to a specific printer... especially because they already knew it came out of the NSA... the question was which person who had access to the doc and a printer in the org did it.
Personally, I'd prefer the former to the latter. Rhetoric matters, as do principles, even if actions and policies fall short of perfection. I find accusations of hypocrisy in a geopolitical contexts to be naive and lacking in nuance or understanding of how the world works.
Thanks for the suggestion! If I were working on something bigger this is probably the way I'd go.

It's South Africa :/
That's the old minimum wage. $15 is the upcoming (catching up to inflation) minimum wage. People (especially people who have experience and education!, which is most people!) are really done working for below living wages.
No game ever brands itself as P2W, so that's not really an argument.

The phrasing made it pretty clear that their issue was with the LFG tool and that you get ported to dungeons when using it to level.
It doesn't work to use @dang in comments - you have to email https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html if you want to contact us, as the site guidelines say: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Shadowbanning on HN is reserved for spammers and serial trolls, where telling people that their account is banned leads to further abuse of the site. When it's an account with an established history, we tell people we're banning them and why: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

There's lots more explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... If you browse those explanations and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to answer it.

By the way, that quote is a bit silly since all people have to do to find out why they were banned is ask us.

Btw also, a lot of the time people think they've been banned when they haven't been banned. As one common example, their own-stuff posts may be getting killed because they're breaking this site guideline: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." That's not the same thing as banning an entire account, though it can look that way if all the account ever does is promote its own stuff.
"Einstein-Cartan-Evans theory" of the "Evans field equations" proposed by... Myron Wyn Evans. Full crackpot but still. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Cartan%E2%8...
What would someone do if their to do list was finished? Presumably a person always has more to do. And presumably people think of doing a lot more than they actually can do. Your reach should always exceed your grasp. (Or, less politely, when all is said and done, there is a lot more is said than done.)
It was from a radio interview I heard the other day, not sure what the actual figure was or the official source. So, take my comment as unproven.
The population genetics of the Jewish people
Too bad the steps where you extract oil and turn it into goods produce and emit a whole bunch of co2 into the atmosphere, otherwise this might make a believably simplistic solution. Oh, and the pesky problem with needing to burn a bunch of oil just to produce plastic and get it delivered.

BTW the term carbon sequestration is talking about extracting co2 from the atmosphere today to slow co2 pollution. It is not referring to using fossil fuel carbons from the ground or carbon that was in the atmosphere millions of years ago. It doesn’t even make sense to suggest you’re ‘sequestering’ carbon by pulling it out the ground and then putting it back.

Curious, what parts of the argument against plastic aren’t making sense? The main problems with plastic is it’s non-renewable and doesn’t decompose, so we’re going to run out and we can’t get it back. If you’re a proponent of plastic, these facts should worry you, no?
You might like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToonTalk
I'll like to download a csv with product pics zipped.. of my wishlists.

I've found that items often disappear from the wishlists - sometimes there is a placeholder with 'no idea if ever back instock' - but many times there is just a blank slot.

I have many things in various wishlists I'd like to hunt down around the globe when the time is right if I can't find them via amazon in the future.

This makes the wishlist less useful for me, and I've resorted to trying to infinite scroll down many pages and doing a ffx screen shot and 'save page as' to try to get some backups before items vanish from the list.

then I realized after many minutes to accomplish this, I have a half dozen or more wishlists that will require the same - meh!
The point, I think, is that we were expecting them not to have an opinion about international affairs, but Blizzard went out of there way to take a pro-CCP position.

> don't [...] conscript game companies into fighting idealogical battles

Quite right; China conscripted Blizzard into helping them fight an ideological battle, and I think that's reprehensible.
When did this start? Maybe you can buy an old printer that does not do it and get a USB adapter for it? The early HP Laserjets were fine.
Wolfram language has the `RemoveBackground` which does this in a single function call: https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RemoveBackground....
Wow, this guy has drunk all the koolaid.
Last.fm used to be popular and still does an alright job at that. Usage numbers are down so there might be less variety, but I especially liked the "neighbours" to find people with similar music taste and then I lurked at what they played and I hadn't heard myself before.