skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's more nuance here - I have several domains (name related) that point to my router and serve solely private services, often on non-standard ports.

They'll appear empty unless you happen to be scanning high-number random ports, but I'm using them and they're providing value to me.
There was a recent article discussed here that made the case that our obesity epidemic was primarily caused by something environmental, not by individual eating choices. It seemed pretty convincing.
I disagree.

If there are two rival companies, and one of the two focuses on social initiatives to the detriment of it’s financial competitiveness, then logically the result is that it falls behind it’s less moral competitor until being crushed completely or subsumed.

In this scenario, you’re defacto punishing social initiatives rather than supporting them.

It’s illogical to expect companies to behave in a way that they’ll be punished for.

You clearly blame Milton Friedman.

I blame a political class with no morals or consequences for betraying their electorate. They’re at best too lazy to do what they’re paid to do and at worst utterly corrupt. Either way, they’re responsible.
Hwrein lies the problem that is at the core of our rot.

The system promotes the worst for office: as presidents , senators or house.

Washington came in to office at great risk and sacrifice to himself and his family.

For as long as US politicians are able to enrich themselves and leave high office richer than they started, we shouldnt be surprised that we attract the worst kind of people to politics.

This is easily solvable with the right laws but we need a small miracle to get another washington elected first
It’s very hard to understand addiction. I know I had two distinct addictions for wildly different reasons. With certain games or porn, it’s just, I loved it too much. Later, with alcohol and prescription meds, it just made me feel less shitty. The former I just enjoyed it too much, and the latter, I never found a better substitute for anxiety and self hatred.

One was truly an insatiable desire, the other was truly self medication. If you suffered from this, it’s very hard not to think you were born this way.
Did you mean Phil Zimmermann? The two last names aren't spelled the same (and it peeves Phil when people forget the second n).
Maybe that's a tautology. If something lives up to its hype, hype is renamed to "description".
I agree, just a discussion.
> How the hell did we get to this point? Where ostensibly reasonable people feel entitled to shove their crapware on any storefront they want without paying for it?

Apple and Google have a duopoly with their respective app stores, they hold the keys to the majority of the customers since the customers only buy through their platforms. So it's different in at least that way. It's not as if I couldn't host my own downloads, take my own payments and give my own authentication, but no one could install my app without a long-winded process they are very unlikely to go through.

It's not like they don't provide services for their cut, I get it, they host the infrastructure, maintain the platform and so on, but I only have to use their services because otherwise I'm selling to a void, a void that they created. This would not be the case had they not captured the entire consumer market with their app stores, and had all their default OS settings on their market leading phones default to only accept their app stores.

If there was a vibrant ecosystem of third-party installer capabilities, say the ability to install something from a website easily with all my own infrastructure like in the wild west days, it wouldn't be an issue (customer easy, not tech wiz easy).

But they lock it all up and funnel everyone through their stores, and so as a seller you're coerced into their ecosystem and they get to take whatever cut they want. We have no negotiating power, we are locked out of customers if we don't participate, and we are regularly screened and bullied by the app approval processes, so the comparison to extortion isn't as far-fetched as you're making it out to be.

Here's a thought experiment, whenever someone complains about the app store banning their app and them losing all their income, tonnes of people reply with "You shouldn't have put all your eggs in one basket!" so okay, where are the other baskets? Where else can I sell an app? And be reasonable, be sensible, it's nowhere. There are no other options for a real business operating in a commercial reality. You can technically sell elsewhere, but I can technically sell chocolate bars in the desert, that doesn't make it a reasonable option.
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That seems fishy, can you elaborate?

- bandwidth is not that expensive , so only if the giants would screw you over with inflated prices. You could force the giants to reveal how much it actually costs(though I seen that even in the face of a judge the bastards pretend they are clueless and avoid answering questions)

- app reviews, You pay per review or per hour, maybe you submit a game to Sony or MS and they want a review dude to play it all to ensure is not broken.

-ads , only if you want, this should be an auction system

- dev tools, you should only have to pay for Apple signing your stuff, compilers, SDKs, IDEs should be always an opion for the dev to chose.

Btw, I am including all stores in my critique (including Steam,Sony's Play Station, and Microsoft)
I'm no musk expert but he once got into a twitter fight where he called the guy a pedo. Which he later categorized as a "generic insult." To be clear, pedo is not racial, but it is certainly a slur. When you have a CEO publicly calling someone a pedo as a generic insult, it's easy to see how that desensitizes workers towards other slurs being used casully.

Not saying that Musk should be personally blamed for whatever racist hotbeds exist in Tesla. But as a CEO, you really need to be a role model, because anything you do will be magnified 10x by others.
The food market is much more complicated than the gas one. A lot of countries have protectionist tariffs to protect domestic producers.
> You can have videos of somebody actually getting killed and it's not a crime.

yet
For those of us who aren't totally up on crypto stuff, liquidity in this sense is basically buffering the money until the final Bitcoin transaction settles? So if you buy, say, 1,000,000 sats from Bitrefill, that means you can only have 1,000,000 sats worth of transactions "in the pipeline", so to speak?

If so, what happens if you do have more than that amount in outstanding transactions? The transactions fail? They hang around and complete after the pipeline empties out?

What if I just want to assume that the customer is good for the money and queue it up myself for settlement once I have the liquidity to spare. Does Agora let me do that?

I apologize if these are dumb questions.
I think it's very realistic.

Proof is the US has outlasted and bettered most other systems by a substantial margin.

Same as switzerland
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It's not about giving up hope, it's about recognizing whether a relationship is strong and supportive enough for a good marriage. Or recognizing whether a marriage is actually a source of wellness and support. If it isn't, then both people have to be willing to work to improve it, and as a last resort dissolve the marriage if it is irretrievably broken.
Jicama can absolutely be sliced that thin. It’s very similar to a turnip or potato.
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But has a curfew on sales right? Or are you saying it's state dependent and - err.. Illinois? - is more lax?

Every supermarket, convenience store, petrol station, etc. sells beer, wine, whisky, vodka, whatever, around the clock here. So I just meant that that's not 'wow Japan', (I'm in the UK, but it's true of most of Europe too IME) it's 'wow outside America' - or 'my state' etc. depending per first paragraph.
A good development - depositing papers in OA journals is extremely expensive and internationally, most funding bodies requiring OA don't give you money to publish OA. For example, Nature Communications charges around $5,000 for a single paper; I can send a student to an overseas conference for that kind of money!

Public repositories like arxiv or biorxiv are free.
If it is Electron, I don't think you can credibly call an entire Chromium instance a "very slim wrapper".
The way you constantly point out their (possibly ESL) grammar is seriously bad vibes. We can all understand them just fine.
For Huawei this has only been true since the US-china trade wars. There are still a ton of Huawei devices with GMS pre-installed.

A service like GMS would be important for Samsung, too, as there are quite some Samsung devices out there. However, with GMS pre-installed on all Samsung devices, the Samsung Galaxy Store is completely useless as everybody and his brother will use Google Play for app and in-app purchases.
As someone who is experimenting with domain squatting, I have found it to be profitable up to this point. You just have to find good names that are expiring. Good available domains are getting harder and harder to find... Roughly 300% profit up til now.
How the explosive growth in satellites could impact life on Earth
I would also like to know. Where are Stanford grads going these days? I doubt to FAANG.
Interesting; makes sense. I guess there are SaaS or perhaps self hosted solutions that facilitate that. Does anyone know what services are being used? Or are people mostly building their own pages?
Even as a long-time fan of, and defender of, Apple, that's a very thorny concern.

In the U.S., we can at least apply pressure to the politicians writing bad laws. In China, can Apple really say no to the government when they want to scan all iPhones for subversive documents?
Is this why people have trouble with the last 5% of finishing their personal projects?
The site made headlines in January 2008, when thousands of artifacts from the Ban Chiang and other prehistoric sites in Thailand were found to be in the collections of at least five California museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Mingei International Museum, the Pacific Asian Museum, the Charles W. Bowers Museum, and the UC Berkeley Art Museum. The complex plot functioned as a crime ring and involved smuggling the items out of Thailand into the US, and then donating them to museums in order to claim tax write-offs. There were said to be more items in US museums than at the site itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Chiang
Wow! I never knew this
How many of us here on this board specifically work at Google or choose to work at companies that integrate with Google or otherwise use their services.

It's always a choice.
Is that surprising? Weight is strongly correlated with height, which is absolutely genetic. I'm sure that BMI would be less correlated than pure weight, although I don't know by how much.
By chemical / geological processes, or as organic limestone (mostly shellfish / plankton skeleton) deposits?
This is the same concern apple has if epic succeeds.
I don't like you. You make money by stealing value, not creating any.
Stick to discussing the idea I'm suggesting and don't tell me and the world what I should think of my own father.

While I am making this follow up comment, I will add that no one ever once characterized him as an alcoholic, he never attended AA or any kind of treatment, and my mother did not care that he drank heavily because "he was never a mean drunk and there was always enough money."

All the stories I heard growing up about his legendary drinking were told as humorous stories that my parents laughed about from the good old days. I'm the youngest of three children. My father never hid his drinking from anyone. I just didn't happen to personally witness it because he largely stopped after he left the military even before he officially announced that he was quitting.
Yes, totally.

I was just surprised that something that was so obvious and "core" to the web to me (I'm in my forties) was unknown by others who are doing things which I consider more advanced or complicated as doing requests through redux, rxjs, etc.

It's just surprising to me. Feels like we're failing at teaching web dev by starting from the top instead of from the bottom.

Like if we're teaching physics by starting from relativity and quantum mechanics without having thaught people to do basic maths.
A lot of “green” stuff amounts to a jobs program. Saving the earth and energy efficiency and so forth is just the pretext, to a large extent.
If you believe Peter Askew's writing, then yes, I do believe domain squatting is still a profitable venture.

https://www.deepsouthventures.com/build-a-side-business/
"the module began trying to line itself up in preparation to fire its main engines using an attitude adjustment thruster."

One thing that I am curious about is what would have happened if the module had achieved the alignment it was seeking, either as as result of its own efforts or during the procedure to stop and correct for its actions. If the main engine was capable of firing, would there still be an ISS?
FEC Asks Congress to Ban Prechecked Recurring Donation Boxes
It look interesting. Some suggestions for HN:

Use a more descriptive title like "Bufferway: Capture high quality 3D tour in minutes"

Avoid shortened links. By the way, it goes to an empty page in Dropbox.

Do you have some technical page about what you are doing? Sometimes it's easier to get traction here with technical articles.

It's good that you add a comment explaining that you are the author/owner/developer, like you did.

About the site:

The green button that says "Start Tour" also goes to an empty folder in Dropbox.

The main page redirects to a strange URL. What is launchaco?

Are you selling 3D camera, or the user is supposed to own one? (I think this is clear in your site, but not 200% clear enough.)

IIUC people can add fake furniture. Only the owner? The buyer? Do you have a demo of this? Can furniture be removed? What about paining the walls or changing the carpets? Day vs night mode?

You create only one 3D tour, or an interactive 3D demo?
Sure do - you could even buy them yourself with ingredients list and everything until they switched vendors this year: https://www.amazon.com/Farmer-John-Dodger-Wieners-Package/dp...
Whatever works for you to keep you sober. If you're feeling tempted and want someone to talk to though, go to an AA meeting. You don't have to agree with any of the religious stuff they say to be around people that know what you're going through and can help.
I had specific incidents in mind. Boris Johnson has been sacked, twice, for dishonesty: https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/times-boris-johnson-flat-lied-13...

> Johnson was hired by the Times through family connections, and fired for a front-page fabrication within months – on his very first front page story

> In November 2004, Boris Johnson was a shadow arts minister under Michael Howard, Conservative Vice-Chair, and editor of the Spectator – when it was reported in multiple tabloids that he had a years-long affair with one of the magazine’s columnists, which had resulted in two terminated pregnancies.

> Johnson publicly stated the allegations were untrue, calling them an “inverted pyramid of piffle”, and made the same assurances they were false to Michael Howard. When proof of the allegations was presented, Howard asked Johnson to resign, only for him to refuse and therefore be fired for dishonesty, for the second time in his career.

[sidebar: I'd forgotten that Michael Howard was editor of the Spectator. It's basically the official opinion journal of the Tory party]

Grant Shapps is another one with a significant career of failures; https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/16/revealed-gr... he ran a spammy business under a false name.

He's also got previous for cryptocurrency bribery https://www.ft.com/content/cd8f78f8-2850-3109-b577-269eedb1e... and a bullying scandal that involved the suicide of a young activist https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/grant-shapps-...

Gavin Williamson is a fairly minor offender; his only previous sacking was for leaks, and everybody leaks all the time https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48126974

More broadly, the UK has a whole category of unelected legislators - the House Of Lords - who are political appointees, sometimes with money changing hands, who are not accountable to the electorate and cannot be removed. Can't get less meritocratic than that while still being a democracy.
"using 3d printing" ... let's wedge in another buzzword! How can we get "blockchain" in? How about "distributed"? I see they worked in "AI" already.

If going through an extrusion nozzle makes a foodstuff "3d printed" then the snack food market was taken over by the technique ages ago.

Meanwhile, any actual developments are buried under mountains of hype laden, buzzword bingo, investor masturbating persiflage, such that an innocent bystander might think that describes the whole discipline.

I could apply this rant to any number of "hot markets" right now.
my less savvy family members all use bitwarden with sharing and don't see any major problems fwiw ymmw
My grandfather was similar - he started drinking after he returned home from WW2. He kept the outward appearance of an old-school hard guy, but he was plagued by nightmares and was obviously very disturbed by some of the things he'd seen and done. As kids, we used to love listening to his war stories, but every now and then he had to stop and wouldn't finish a story. As kids, we didn't understand how this seemingly invincible man, who we basically idolised, could have such demons.

He drank heavily for decades - vodka and super-strength lager. As a kid, I don't think I ever once saw him without a can of beer at his side.

One day when I was 16 or so, he ended up in hospital because of his drinking. He decided he would stop drinking - and he just did, having only a single hiccup in the 10 years or so before he died. It was really quite incredible - that must have taken incredible strength and will power after decades of abuse.

I've had my own brushes with drink a long time back, and I fully agree with your reasoning - I think most people that use drink and drugs are able to do so safely and responsibly, and most of those that don't sink into habitual drink or drugs for a reason; trying to ease pain (physical or psychological), make life more bearable, or to escape it altogether.
This could well be the "new normal".
An interesting point. RAII makes you do work by forcing you to think a certain way. In Rust that manifests as borrow checker struggles, which are huge productivity sinks up front, but which we all hope saves work down the road. Time will tell, I suppose.
Not sure why this is on HackerNews. PDP-11 Assembly was my first Assembly Language, taking a Harvard Summer School class it in when a high school student, maybe '82? If I'm remembering correctly PDP-11's instructions are augmented with an Assembly Macro System, Macro-11, providing an ability to create high level language structures and facilities. One of my big surprises in that class was the last two homework assignments: one took several previous assignments and combined them with the content of the new assignment, and we had a mini VI editor! The last one was similar, combining previous assignments, but this one used every assignment in the course, and when combined we had a C compiler. Blew my mind.
I was concluding the opposite: all that abuse is probably because it's only a few bucks a day with advertising. Without the abuse they'd probably rarely get anything.
And this whole discussion is because they’ve announced that will be dropped with version 8. No more standalone licenses, local vaults or syncing via Dropbox/iCloud. Even this (potential) “self-hosted” option sounds ridiculous; users are going to have to run a version of their cloud server locally and use that for syncing instead of just having a vault they can sync locally or through the service of their choice.
It doesn't strike me as an expensive hobby to get into, and the tech is kinda cool. Crawl whois records to build a list of domains expiring soon. Automate registering them for 1 year and pointing to your squatter page. That's the main loop; from there you can optimize efficiency with all sorts of weekend projects. I wonder if ppl are doing it just cuz it's something to do, and it costs less than golf clubs
The ironic thing, as a former smoker, is that we never lose the power of choice. We simply choose not to exercise it, and perhaps forget that we can. But it's always there. And the one weakness of many of these programs is that they never force the person to confront that uncomfortable reality within themselves. IMO.
The .com domain still carries a lot of legitimate weight. I don't have the source handy but I read somewhere circa 2017 that 25% of all internet traffic is still direct navigation to .com domains. The corollary was that if someone was searching for a thing (say, "toilet seats"), there's still a sizable chunk of people who'd just type "toiletseats.com" into their browser and buy from whatever vendor pops up.
I have a lot of domains. I think it is worth it if you develop the domains and interlink them. Especially on some of the growing marketshare TLDs. You've seen the massive growth on NFTs, and domains are just another scarcity asset. Eventually domains being auctioned for ethereum, even if they're on the alt TLDs like .dev and .app, will go for a lot of money. If you develop several sites with very decent domains as MVPs and interconnect them you can still make a killing.
"Not sure why this is on HackerNews."

From the FAQ:

Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
And you don’t really know if anyone wants an engine, although the word got banded about in some initial conversations. You could ask the customer but they want faster horses, and you are not allowed to talk to them anyway as you are assumed to not have stakeholder skills plus you are paid too much to not be coding.
The landing pages of my previous company was a mess of custom react code with an in house disaster of CMS with a 2hr build for publication.

It was a fucking stupid landing page with a few images. The thing didn't even handle the contact form because it was too much work to implement apparently.

A fucking landing page.

But people wanted to React all the things because react is modern and other stuff is not.
I don’t care how we get there but I’d like to see a pic revolution of sorts for phones. I’m continuously let down by how quickly modern computing is being locked down. Unfortunately the opposite appears to be happening, PCs are becoming more phone like.
Thank you! The software has come a very long way since that first blog post (and so have my piano playing skills :) ).
Yes, but the point is the approach to proof (proving this for all cases) that represented a paradigm shift in mathematics, largely attributed to Thales.
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Nit: aviation jet fuel is typically kerosene, not diesel.

That's roughly chains of 10--16 carbon atoms, rather than the longer deisel chains of up to about 25 atoms. Kerosene is lighter, more volatile, and has a lower freezing point than deisel.
My nearest convenience store in Bangkok is a FamilyMart, but sadly: not have chicken.
One can argue that the solution where they add a 4th gimbal to the stable platform to avoid the possibility of a gimbal lock is kinda-sorta a mechanical equivalent for a quaternion. See for example the famous exchange between CapCom and Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins:
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/30953/did-michael-...

But when I wrote that really all I meant is that it is advised to use quaternions to represent the attitude information in the software which fills the gap between the sensors and the actuators.