skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you trolling?

> Because according to their SEC filings Duolingo has pretty limited growth potential,

The global market for direct-to-consumer language learning is large, growing, and shifting online. According to HolonIQ, total consumer spend on both online and offline language learning represented a $61 billion market in 2019, and will grow to $115 billion in 2025, implying a CAGR of 11% over this period. Online language learning is the fastest-growing market segment, projected to grow from $12 billion in 2019 to $47 billion in 2025, representing a CAGR of approximately 26% over this period, and to comprise 41% of total consumer spend on language learning in 2025. We believe that growth in digital spend will be driven in part by a shift away from offline offerings, as consumers seek more affordable, convenient, and higher quality online solutions.[0]

> increasing losses (or in other words, negative gross margins)

That's not how losses and negative gross margins work. I just double checked, gross profit for DuoLingo in 2020 was 71.55% (sorry not 80%). Compare that to Mazda's abysmal 21.7%. Cars specifically require heavy R&D (which does not go into COGS), so the comparison is a nice one since R&D for DuoLingo also requires heavy R&D.

> spend a significant amount of money to attract each new paying customer

Customers who pay subscriptions, not a one-time car cost. Every new car created requires upfront capital to build the car. SaaS CLV vs a car CLV requires WAY less costly touch-points after the initial sell.[1]

[0] - https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1562088/000162828021...

[1] - https://a16z.com/2014/05/13/understanding-saas-valuation-pri...
Interesting. To be clear I'm a developer and my boss is a director of application development. He used to be a dev so he understands these kind of issues.

If my boss was a product owner or a stakeholder I would not want them mandating random details about how I do things.
I am a shy CEO and can confirm. It can be difficult but definitely doable. We currently have one employee, myself, and although I sometimes have difficulty confronting him we mostly get our work done.
And then Facebook encourages hack culture, conducts hackathons and has a programming language literally named Hack. But when what you promote hurts you back, you go nuts. Hypocrisy at its best.
> I’ve learned to cast a more cynical eye towards companies claiming to be accomplishing grand, ethical aims.

People have stopped talking about Google's famed "Don't be Evil" thing.. But hey, it served a purpose for Google when it mattered.
So what's the goto replication software to use for MySQL or Postgres these days?
> In many cases they aren't allocating these funds (and once available, landlords refuse to sign up for them) because they come with a "just cause" eviction policy if they are used.

Source? The clause in NY's ERAP says you can't evict them without a good reason, which is really no change to a normal eviction. What's protected against is a landlord collecting the money and then evicting the tenant anyway. Going forward, if the tenant fails to pay, comply with the lease, or anything else that would normally incur an eviction, the landlord is free to start the eviction process.

I don't think 'most landlords' would refuse that deal. Additionally, again, based off of NY's program, this isn't really something the landlords sign up for. It's tenant initiated. A landlord can fill out the application on behalf of the tenant, but the tenant still needs to make attestations and provide information the landlord most likely doesn't have.
i don't know current counts but tens of thousands of software engineers sounds (maybe 100x ?) too many.

there are huge numbers of hourly employees across the stores, though i don't know where they break down numbers of employees by type.
I suspect that Thibault is making money from it because he is actually deploying a web service, and the value there is coming from the network effects of its multiplayer user base.

Even if I deployed his code tonight, there's no guarantee users would switch over to my LeeChess clone :)

In the case of Dwarf Fortress it's just "download my exe and please donate if you like it!"
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You sound very confident about this, whereas copyright lawyers I've read discuss this issue seem much less confident overall, but lean toward thinking this would be fair use.

What makes you so confident that this would not be ruled fair use?

(And for people not familiar - if ruled fair use, it doesn't matter what the license is because fair use is an exception to copyright itself.)
Before my provider offered worldwide roaming on my monthly plan for an additional fee of the equivalent of USD 6 (that you pay whether you use it or not), I've used Flexiroam for data when traveling abroad. Good prices if staying for less than a month.
I think some cities are going to get ugly. Like I wouldn't be surprised LA will have a big rise in crime or a riot or two. I think without a social safety net on rentals (both sides to be honest) we're going to see Hoovervilles at a scale not seen in a long time. Probably worse imo.
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"Effort Asymmetry". That is a fantastic phrase and is so true.
I honestly wish I was in a position to write a whitepaper for this. However, I should not for several reasons:

* I have already made my position clear in public, [1] so I could probably be identified.

* I am not a lawyer, just some bloke who attempted to write FOSS licenses to combat ML on copyrighted code. [2]

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2021/07/poisoning-github-copilot-and...

[2]: https://yzena.com/licenses/
I think you are wrong: https://vscodium.com/
Liquid items are funny in the game.

When you look at an item listing and you see something like “Mead”, that is truly all the item is —- it isn’t a cup of mead, it’s just a vague amount of the liquid mead itself, as if your hand was the only thing keeping it from hitting the ground.

But there are containers that can hold your liquid. You have mugs and goblets that hold one quantity of “Mead”, giving the impression that one count of mead is like a generic serving size. You also have barrels and pots that hold stacks of “Mead”.

Creatures are kind of like walking containers and have their own detailed inventories. Among the things you’d expect to find like armor, weapons, and books, you might also find a “coating of tears” on a crying dwarf, or perhaps a “spattering of blood” on a murderous elf.

They’re not just static inventories for the fun of a story, creatures do interact with them and use them. Dwarves covered in a vomit item will (hopefully) put any available soap in their inventory and use it to clean themselves in water, for example.

Cats are simple and just clean themselves with no water or soap needed. The catch with them is that they ingest whatever they have cleaned off of them.

So, putting all this together: The problem was that cats pick up a whole “serving size” of alcohol and proceed to clean themselves, ingesting the entire serving. The bug surrounds the vagueness of liquid sizes.

And it was fixed accordingly! Cats are still vulnerable to the effects of self-cleaned alcohol, but the strength is now proportional.

https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=9195...
Military is one of the few jobs the federal government is Constitutionally obligated to perform. As another reply said, we spend more on welfare programs. Programs which the federal government is not Constitutionally permitted to do.
Most gas station in the Oslo area in Norway have fast chargers.
From a rational standpoint, buying and playing games is a waste of time and money.
I hear you. We need a better way of society to punish the individuals. The company is made up of mostly innocent people. Interns new to the industry, people that just got promoted and had dinner with their family last night to celebrate, and the actual victims of this behavior.

I never feel good about boycotting a company. I certainly understand the people that do though.
You are looking for a dissertation full of disclaimers to satisfy your sensitivities, following an article about a smell-dating event. This might be the moment where you take a step back and wonder why you are worried about this so much.
The first version of Options for Dummies was published in 2008. Robinhood was founded in 2013. So options have been reasonably mainstream for well before Robinhood too.

So basically the thing left to blame them for is good UX.
I tried to play DF. I even got over the ASCII interface.

But honestly Rimworld is better and a bit deeper.
From my experience, the core driver behind the data mesh architecture is organisational, not technological. Organisations are requiring more of data, be it for rapid product development, or self-service analytics. Often this involves large numbers of sources (e.g. external sources), rather than just larger volumes of the same thing.

If marketing, finance and sales is dependent on a centralised data team for every new thing, the data team quickly becomes the bottleneck, stifling innovation and frustrating teams. Incorporating the principles of a Data Mesh enables those teams to manage their own data, according to well defined governance standards that enable interoperability.

The reality is that different teams are already managing their own data (via excel spreadsheets, web-apps, etc). If we can apply a bit more rigor to how these datasets are managed (e.g. so they can be shared, integrated, secured, etc), then the whole organisation benefits.
Bill Cosby's character was a gynecologist whose office was in his basement (!)
> 1) The NSCC (DTCC) confirmed that all parties met their depository requirements.

...the morning of. The deposit requirements will go up as customers place more trades.

>a depository requirement change is not an extenuating circumstance in the least. That is part and parcel of this business.

If it's a 99 percentile event that nobody could have saw coming happened, why shouldn't it be an extenuating circumstance? Keep in mind, they're a discount brokerage. It's like getting mad that your vps from a lowendbox provider had a few days of downtime because their raid6 had 2 disk failures.
For the skeptical, "no database needed" really means "database-agnostic".

From the example code:

> In this example our users are in this array, but in the real world you likely have them stored in an API service or DB
Oooh I didn’t know that. Good observation. Thank you.
> Con-artists will mimic the people that actually know their shit.

Ah yes. A certain billionaire promises robo-taxis and full Level 5 autonomy by 2020, and then in 2021, admits self-driving is hard as FSD is still Level 2, after duping their own customers on buying ahead of their 'promises'.

This billionaire in 2019, surely knew what he was talking about. /s

> In order to tell the difference you need to actually look at the underlying tech for yourself.

Like the deceptive advertisement of FSD (Full Self Driving) auto-pilot software in Tesla cars that has tricked many Tesla drivers into paying for a product that not only doesn't work as advertised, but puts the safety of drivers and others at risk.

The worst part is that they continue to market it regardless of the missed deadlines, the safety risks and the fact that the software is still 'safe' for usage, which that is complete bullshit.

The FSD feature in Tesla cars (along side the robotaxis) was deceptively advertised as 'safe' and promised as 'Level 5' with lots of customers buying into it; and some have lost their lives over the software getting confused. If FSD is not regarded as 'actual fraud' or 'deceptively advertised', then I don't know what is.
Even if it were open source I doubt there would be enough impetus to implement multithreading.

It would literally be easier to completely make a new game from scratch with async and threading designs taken into account, instead of trying to adapt an existing monolith.

Async and multithreading are complex and introduce many subtle bugs. It's not so easy to just move to that from a single-thread event loop.
I found The Wirecutter quite useful. It's been purchased by the NYT, I hope they keep it going in the original form.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/

In Germany, there is the Stiftung Warentest, which has in depth tests of many household appliances and goods. According to Wikipedia, they cooperate with Which? in the UK and Consumers Union in the US.

https://www.test.de

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Warentest

(For example, when they recently tested shaving blades, they had 23 testers shave their face half with one, half with a different shaver, randomised, then had each (half of each) shave assessed by the tester himself and an external expert blind (ie the tester did not know which shaver was used, or how the tester had judged the shave). Assessed where: quality of the shave; comfort; burning, reddening and irritations of the skin; cuts; how many shaves until the blades were blunt; ease of use & switching blades; cleaning of the blades; presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and other chemicals in the handle; and more.)
Edit: wound up finding the text, it is there. The link in the article doesn’t take you right to it though.
Surely storing Unicode in thin layers of dried tree mush stitched together in a bind is a bit outdated these days, right? Yet the demand for transmitting useful information into brains is higher than ever. If we rethink of books as a medium for thought transmission, especially the actionable thoughts of domain experts, then physical books should seem to us like dinosaur bones. Its the inertia of the dusty university library and the Madison Avenue publishing industry that keeps book relevant. If the sole goal is learning, there is still much unrealized potential to be innovated in web and mobile apps.

The iPhone is still only 14 years old. Somewhere between now and universal brain-computer interfaces are many education unicorns waiting to be found.
"I haven't purchased new Blizzard products since the Hong Kong censorship debacle"

I don't think Blizzard has released any new products (other than game updates) since then anyway, so I expect most people can say the same :)

By the way, check out Grim Dawn with the Reign of Terror mod if you want a "Blizzard-free" Diablo 2 experience.
In Germany you just find an appartment to rent - any appartment - and the government foots the rent, heating, electricity, water, health insurance, etc. and gives you 400$ or so for food, booze, whatever (which is enough to live "safe").

It does not have to be an special "low income housing".
If naked promises are taken seriously and suddenly recognized by courts, everything will burst in flames. This is simply absurd.
Literally when I first heard about the company, being interested in EV I started looking in to them.

10 minutes into a interview with the founder I was instantly convinced that they were a fake, fraud company.

They had a very clear strategy, and as a scammer, one must give him some credit. He managed to push a company to higher evaluation then GM based on literally nothing but marketing and false claims.
I think for many people, but certainly not all, the wider culture of an escapist work is important. Looking at a fanciful image doesn't automagically distract you, there needs to be some amount of collaboration between your mind and the media you're consuming. You need to accept what it offers as an alternative. That can be harder for people when they learn about how things were really made. It would be hard to take a work arguing against slavery seriously, for instance, if it used slavery to produce it.

I also think that these kinds of products, because they are indivisible creative works, suffer from rotting from within. Where you might be able to use the "reasonable" parts of Facebook or Google, once you start to think about a core element of a narrative as being in-geunine or compromised, that can undermine the other elements of the story.

Especially in this golden age of game development, I think there are many other alternatives to Blizzard's games that allow people to think less and escape more.
> Collective bargaining takes away my right to bargain for myself

But it doesn't, you can choose to not be part of the union
what if the sociological truth is that untold suffering will come naturally as a result of natural human patterns of fighting for control and resources?

and what if one of the main resources is human attention and devotion.

and what if the main way to capture human attention and devotion is to sell fear at large of something, ANYTHING, other than the fight at every and all levels of humanity for control and resources.

fear is sold inside of society and external to it.
fear is sold within the family and external to it.
fear is sold within the individual mind to be afraid of itself and to be afraid of things external to the individual.
AK-47 had been superseded by AKM after less than 10 years in service. AKM was, in turn, superseded by AK-74. And AK-74 has been superseded by AK-12. The last transition, in particular, was heavily motivated by ergonomics and difficulty of adapting the original to typical modern circumstances of use.

So, I'd say the analogy still holds up pretty well.
For their hosted system, it's not particularly worse than hosted Postgres on RDS. RDS costs $0.50/hr for a 4 core/32GB db.r5.xlarge. Azure-hosted Citus for multi-node workloads on a similarly sized node are $0.618/node/hr. Both double in price to have a high availability backup cluster.

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/pricing/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/postgresql...

Of course, the answer is that both are insane markups. But it's worth being able to focus on other things!
They know a couple of reasons for sure. They want more reasons, or more detail on other reasons for which they aren't as sure yet.
Brand new fuel cars may be forbidden in many parts of the world.
As I understand it (I may be in the wrong), the problem is that those copyright claims do not have any DMCA status. Which is the crux of the matter, as there are no real consequences to false claims other than those eventually effected by YT.
I can't help but think that YouTube is the right target. I don't believe that the three strikes system is a part of copyright law or the DMCA. This is something that YouTube did beyond the law to avoid getting sued to oblivion. They might actually be the right target if their copyright claim system isn't the law but their own system.
Yup. I add ?t=20 to the end of the url and that fixes it most of the time.
I doubt this will be dramatically cheaper than lithium. Lithium itself is fairly cheap considering how little of it a battery has.

Basic LFP batteries can be made pretty much in a garage, both cells, and chemicals for cathode/anode.

Most LFP cells were actually made exactly like that 10-8 years ago. People mixing cathodes, and anodes on a bucket, somebody smothering them on foil, and then somebody doing winding, packing, welding, and, finally, sealing all by hand.
it resonates so closely with this[0] excellent article by berthubert.

[0] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/
Terrible people can say good things, but there are a million good people out there saying good things that you could listen to instead.

Why spend the limited time you have in this world on consuming the works of terrible people? There is more out there than you could possibly experience in a lifetime. Why not dedicate that time to people who are not awful?
Twitter had an intern investigating making this situation not suck for screen readers (some magic to detect and convert sequences) last year but seems like it got abandoned. Not high enough priority I suppose.
No, you missed the point.

The union puts a limit on the contracts that I can make with the company.

So I would be prevented from bargaining for certain contracts with a company.

So me and this other company's mutual right to make an agreement would be limited by the union.
Worth noting: ContentID is not the DMCA. If it was a ContentID takedown, you basically have no recourse outside YouTube.
Sure, but you need to carry a fuel cell or ICE, and a hydrogen tank full of hydrogen. I don't think hydrogen based cars will be fundamentally lighter than battery powered ones.
And this is why Facebook has no business being part of fact checking.

While it may look different, this is no different than two folks on the phone getting interrupted by ATT and being told they are incorrect on their assumptions about topic X.

Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are the carrier, and should be treated as such.
I get regularly errors with Safari on M1, the engine is apparently too fast for Twitter.
As I've told my wife when discussing BMWs: "we'd really, really like to buy a BMW car, and BMW keeps telling us, 'we'd rather you didn't.'"

And I say this as someone with two BMW motorcycles in the garage that we're pretty happy with.
They are different problems. Stripping the final character from "3.14159" does not produce the same result as rounding to 3.1416.

The first action concerns a syntactic property of PI's decimal representation while the second action concerns a semantic property of PI's value.

A related example given on https://xyproblem.info is a user asking (Y) how to extract the final 3 characters of a filename string when he probably intends to ask (X) how to retrieve a filename's extension.
Let's face it, Big Social Media's "disinformation" label is no more than "things that go against the mainstream narrative" these years.
I did not notice this until after posting, but the xkcd fan wiki is still tracking the predictions: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/887:_Future_Timeline
Yeah I agree with this, I would feel hurt too. For some reason the word "passion" has this hidden connotation for me which makes me feel like the project isn't serious, isn't making money, isn't popular, and is just eating up all my time as it is something I constantly obsess over.

In the case of Dwarf Fortress, I would say for him it is "the sole project he's been working on for 20 years now, which takes up $large_number of hours per week, and which has been sustaining his life now thanks to a fan base which have proven themselves reliable contributors of financial support. And he really enjoys writing the code too"
gigglesnort

if true, that is maximum irony and exposes the folly of Facebook's positioning as an arbiter, or exposes the power of their positioning
Other picklists might be handy too, especially something that would narrow to higher quality sources.

And they need a report button with a picklist of reasons.
I never knew I could get pranked on HN. Kudos!
I use fish. My biggest pro-tip is don't chsh to set your shell to fish. Instead configure your terminal program to launch fish.

* do you have any trouble running shell scripts?

Nope. fish will run bash for most shebangs.

* What about bash one liners?

You will have to translate these.
!w handball is enough (or !wde for the German version, !wes for Spanish, etc.)
could as well be. or they could be bought off by big oil and the like. idk. but it's not ideal
The problem is that the infrastructure of ICE and oil massively profits from scale, as this drops many of these assets will turn negative.

Even if per mile the car would be competitive, the lost of value of the car itself would be incredibly.

Who will still buy an ICE car in 2030.

And that is before the new regulation that potentially makes these cars even less wanted.
Reminicent of California's anti-flavor approach to smoking prevention.
US patent 3659779, "Punch mechanism", assigned to IBM. This is how card punches worked. A little solenoid moved the interposer into position, while a big motor with a flywheel provided the punching power.
China Discovers the Limits of Its Power