skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, makes sense. Sounds like that was the bit of context I was missing and also taking for granted: available natural sunlight. And I should have thought of that, honestly: I work next to a window with lots of light during summer, but in winter I use a high-power lamp to fake sunlight.

(plus I happen to treat blue light filters as an "default with opt-out possibility" kind of setting in general)
The Afghanistan army gave up rather than fight the Taliban, despite having far superior firepower and manpower.
Hello!

This is the HN comments of Facebook’s latest valuation in 2007:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057

I wonder if HN will ever be bullish on a product that’s targeting the general audience. We seem to only be able to see technical expertise as the only moat. I guess this is why product managers that can’t code get paid the big bucks. Anyone know if there’s a HN made up of folks with astute product sense?

Or even better: Anyone know of a Discord server I could join. ;)
They don’t have to necessarily deeply monetize to be successful, apple could play dumb and offer ad results based on search terms only. DuckDuckGo does similar and I do wonder at scale what kind of revenue this could end up being. Google doesnt behave in an entirely pro-business way as well. Google ads are not market efficient at the moment, with competitors taking keywords that are company names for example, forcing businesses to spend to be the first option even if the user searches your business’ exact name. Eliminating just a few insulting Google search behaviors and limiting data tracking could be a nice revenue stream
>With donkey votes (vandalised ballots) counted as votes for the current government

That is completely untrue. Informal votes are not counted at all.
This. And the worst part about it is that the Paris agreement's 1.5°C target was based on the use of yet-to-be-developed CO2 capture and didn't account for already-happening-feedback-loops (like methane from Siberia, reduced reflection from melting poles and the shutdown of the Gulfstream, which is beginning to look inevitable)

From the IPCC:

> All analysed pathways limiting warming to 1.5°C with no or limited overshoot use CDR to some extent to neutralize emissions from sources for which no mitigation measures have been identified

(Note: CDR Carbon Dioxide Removal)

On the CO2 budget calculated for 1.5°C:

> budgets applicable to 2100 would be approximately 100 GtCO2 lower than <calculated> to account for permafrost thawing and potential methane release from wetlands in the future, and more thereafter.
Using fear constantly is the most powerful tool to influence people, this became really clear to me the last 18 months. I hope politicians and media will get down to a more rational style of communicating, but I'm not too optimistic about it. Many countries experienced the dire consequences of a constant climate of fear in the past and might therefore a little more measured.
Fossil Plutocracy
I think that Apple would only consider building their own search engine if they had the ability to generate (close to) these $15B per year in value.

Since Apple wants to keep its privacy-friendly brand, these $15B would have to come from something other than ads; and I can't think of another realistic source of revenue. But who knows, the whole "vertical integration" aspect could unlock new scenarios...
The browser select-multiple widget works like that because that's how it's worked in most desktop OSs since Macintosh System 1.0 in 1984 (at least). It's been simple and predictable and easily learned for decades, calling it "borderline unusable" is just hyperbole.

Now, if you wanted to say that HTML's standard widgets should be allowed to reflect the platform-native look-and-feel (for example, adding a "selected" checkbox on touch-screens, or supporting long-press to select items, or whatever) instead of being tied to Windows 95 appearance and behaviour by backwards-compatibility concerns, then yeah, I'd agree with that.
Oh I see, that's a surprise for me heh
Do you know what keyhole can do?
Samsung Mocks Steve Jobs Turtle Neck
Many residential areas of the uk have illegal levels of NO2. Lethal levels. "adding an extra lossy conversion between chemical and kinetic energy" is not 'all' electric cars do.
You don't think the treaty is in dispute? There's literally an entire tribunal whose only remit is to adjudicate treaty disputes. Treaty disputes have been in the news on a regular basis for decades.
We're using it for work. It's serving us better than Team or Zoom did and it's free.
Yet if you move back to your previous country you are expected to pay and file US taxes forever . To renounce your citizenship you need to pay a hefty fee and pay taxes on all your assets.

But any point they can just take it away. WTF
They have far far lower revenue per impression than strongly targeted ads using ML.
I assume they suspected you of something or your name matched a person of interest. After all, while the US has no formal interview to leave, if you're trying to do so by air, the manifest is forwarded to the FBI and DHS well in advance of departure. If they want to chit-chat, they'll be waiting for you at the gate. I've seen people yanked off the jet bridge haha.

If you're trying to do so over the land border with Canada, I believe the Canadians will notify the Americans on your way over, and happily hold onto you for a hot minute.

You'll always have to answer to an authority when attempting to leave a country.

However, ordinarily, neither AU, US nor CA will stop you from exiting. Now re-entry is another matter.
I do wonder if you might benefit more (during daytime) from a high-powered daylight lamp though, since light intensity also matters when regulating sleep cycles.
I agree with you, and I think it can be done today, by taking matters into your own hands.

I've done it by testing with historic browsers alongside modern, and challenging myself to make it work with all of them, JS and noJS, without errors, reliably.

In the process, I found a set of "lowest common denominator tags which work across almost anything. I use these to build the "base" HTML. Then, I add JS with feature-checks to allow older browsers with JS enabled to still run it, though it doesn't do much at the moment.

I think it's a worthwhile exercise to learn where the roots of the web are, and how it evolved, and allows you to write much more resilient code in general. The reason for this is that the longer a technique or syntax has been in use, the longer it's likely to continue to be used.

Lindy effect is the name of the trend.
YouTube (and Google) has lost the little credibility they had back in 2016 when they went all in wanting to get Hillary elected.

I have no interest whatsoever in your "take" on misinformation. It's enough to watch the headlines to see where you're at (recent takedown of Rand Paul's video in which he cited CDC research, for example).

Jokers.
OpenSSH 8.7 Released
Notably:

- scp is deprecated. sftp is preferred going forward.

- Disabling ssh-rsa signatures by default, due to the low cost of SHA1 hash attacks.
I've definitely had my share of annoyances with musl-libc and would probably consider building my base images around distroless if that were something I were dealing with right now.

In the meantime, it's kinda shitty of someone to casually squat on the alpine linux namespace. If you want to make a small distribution that also ships glibc, then it's not alpine. Don't call it that.
this would be especially funny if you were the only person at the company who knew how to set up filtering on the Exchange server.
You are suggesting that Apple wouldn't touch ads, but that's exactly what they did with IAd
Even WebKit, smaller than both of those, is larger than all of Haiku itself

that pretty much proves the point that the webbrowser is an operating system in itself.

let's hope that webkit can keep up with web standards development. and that maybe someday someone will port firefox to haiku.
Building a decent search engine requires query/clickstream data.

Google has more, so Google is better. Simple.
I doubt many people change the default search engine on their device/browser, so it must be worth it for Google.

Whenever I speak to my mother she refers to the web as "Google" because it's the entrypoint to everything she does online. She doesn't type URLs, she goes to websites by typing them into the Google search box and clicking through (often the top result which is usually an ad)
> Australia foolishly believed that they could choose if and when Covid entered their country

No. They believed they could limit covid cases and they were right. Australia's still got some of the best covid results in the world, even with the currently rising case numbers:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
> With donkey votes (vandalised ballots) counted as votes for the current government

I've never heard that before. Do you have a link?
It takes significant evolution to just keep doing what you set out to do well. Running a successful mechanics business to repair cars means continuously updating your skills and tools. Eventually you become a flying car repair shop. It doesn't mean you have to grow to encompass every aspect of the automobile industry and compete with Repco and Mobil.
And in the 21st century how important is the 3rd amendment compared to the 4th or 5th?
Hey if you don't agree with him, just don't listen. But don't deny him his self expression when clearly he represents a lot of people who can relate.

Enforcing some sort of social responsibility on him is indirectly denying him his self expression.
> How might a streaming service be designed to increase user happiness and wellbeing?

Yesterday I worked longer, because we had a critical bug at an unfortunate moment. At some point my brain stopped working and I couldn't make progress. So I stopped work for the day, solved some solitaire, mindlessly played some chess, and watched a couple episodes of anime on Netflix. After that my brain unblocked itself and the world stopped spinning around me. I wouldn't be able to read a book in this state, or anything requiring any thought or much energy[1]. Doing completely mindless things is sometimes beneficial for you.

[1]: You might laugh, but you can absolutely play chess on autopilot without any thought and still win with people.
> if they seriously attempted it I don't see how it wouldn't be a very substantial business very quickly.

I have a hard time parsing your first paragraph. Are you saying Apple could build its own search engine?

Possibly it could. But it's not just about throwing money at it. Do you remember when Google didn't brag about how big a DC footprint they had? It was all hush hush.

Microsoft struggled to bring up a search engine. They even licensed part of it. Some of the queries sent on live.com (as bing was called back then) were actually sent out to third party search providers.

Then Microsoft started bragging about how they're able to operate just like Google, too.

... then Google turned on search-as-you-type, or whatever it was called. The one where you see search results after every keystroke (since removed, because it was kinda pointless). That feature was basically a big FU to Microsoft, saying "we can 10x our search traffic overnight. Can you?".

Google reportedly stopped being secret about its capacity because the secrecy was there to prevent Microsoft truly understanding the scale needed to compete. Once they did understand, Google stopped being so secret.

Apple is years behind. They don't have shovels in the ground. They don't operate services at this scale.

Sure, they are not a small shop. But they outsource so many things in this space.

Microsoft started from a much better position, but they still took years to not be a joke in this space.

But yeah, with Apple building DCs, you should maybe expect them to have a reasonable replacement ready in 5-10 years, if they really put their mind to it.

And then there's the ad side. It's not just the tech (where Google has a 20 year head start), but also the business deals (where again 20 years head start), the inertia of existing advertisers, and integration of search ads and display ads.

But of course, with a closed ecosystem, and actually being the biggest private company in the world, they will absolutely get more monopoly accusations for integrating search, app store, and phone, than Google has.

So no, you can actually throw billions and billions at this problem and still fail. It's not obvious to me that such an investment will have positive ROI for 10 years.
The data indicates so, yes. I suggest you look up the numbers.
> pro-hitler neonazis

hyperbole?
Reforesting is a complicated task, it is nothing like

for (int i = 0; i<= 100000000; i++)
{
Tree t = new Tree();
t.plant();
}

You need specific types of trees for specific microclimates, otherwise they won't thrive and might die. You need a healthy species mixture, otherwise you are creating monocultures vulnerable to mass pest infestation. You need the right amount of rain. You should not reforest good arable land, because we are almost 8 billion now and everyone wants to eat.

Israelis are very good at reforestation, but it took them over 100 years to recreate some modest forests there.
What is broken about it? Did anyone tell the discord creators to involve other shareholders?
The Trabi (east german car) sold out in minutes, so that is a non argument since corelation does not imply causation.
Where do you get that bueraucracy idea from? Stalinism? That's not what people envision when they want UBI and a strong social system.

Universal basic income reduces buerocracy, as it reduces the number of management required by classical welfare systems. It also increases freedom and enterpreneurship because it allows people to pursue their passion projects.
Where's the freedom in having to wash plates to side fund your startup or pay of your giant student loan?

The reason why our tax systems are so bloated with bueraucracy is because neoliberalism has been pushing for tax breaks of the ultra wealthy for decades, which results in an increased tax burden on the middle and lower class.
Since you can't tax those easily without risking stalling the economy you have to create these elaborate taxation schemes.

If you want to reduce bueraucracy start lobyying for a bracketed tax system that reduces the total tax rate for households up to 1 million per year and a quadratically increasing tax rate to 100% at 100 million. Include stock transactions in those numbers, and you might even have a decent chance at returning the stock exchanges back into a kickstarter like system of funding and rewards, instead of the grotesque casino like playground for HFT algorithms that it has become.
At the same time abolish all other taxes. You should probably reuntroduce a pollution tax, to prevent companies profiting from externalising their costs, and frankly if we want some shot at climate change we need to introduce some incentive to not pollute the living hell out
of our planet, and not dying in a 60C heatwave, flodding, tornadoes, or refugee crisis is apparently not incentive enough.

Less people taxed with less forms of tax means less management required. The walthier the people taxed, the less they are incovenienced by the tax.

Trickle down economy didn't work, and "but if people can't earn billions per year they won't work anymore" is a joke. It's time we structure our society around enterpreneuship, hard work and passion, instead of giving all the power to people that are a statistical artifact of an exponential reward system. Multi billionaire are a bug in capitalism not a feature, and you are not a temporarily embarrased billionair.

Fablabs are a good example
of communized production.
These should be state funded, just like schools are, combined with UBI, it'd give you the resources to tinker and experiment and a community for others to partake in that process. Less bueraucracy, less government, less involved state and politicians, yet more social, more community, more freedom.
Regrettably Digicert has gobbled up not just Symantec assets, but also its business ethics and practices. Their undoing from a top notch certificate company to a dumpster fire that it is now was as rapid as it was devastating to watch.
Exactly this is also my problem. I regularly find illegal downloads of Netflix movies that seem nice but are never shown in my homepage.

I cannot believe I have to manually 'find' those movies.

My default homepage always seems to show the same movies. Many of them I saw already and others that I do not want to waste time watching.
I'd hardly call it a killer feature when it's something Teamspeak, etc have had for ages.
The killer feature, i.e that which sets it apart from the rest, is the rich text chat and that it's free.
It's an abbreviation for accessibility (because there's 11 letters between 'a' and 'y' in the word.)

Similar to i18n and l10n for internationalisation and localisation.

Interestingly unlike w3c, so it's not standing for aaaaaaaaaaay :)
Because in reality there is no such thing as C ABI, only the OS ABI.

On OSes that happen to be written in C, most devs tend to misunderstand the OS ABI for C ABI and then use both interchangeably.

A new OS update can bring changes, also on platforms whose OS isn't written in C, several C compiler can opt for different kinds of ABI thus not allowed for cross compiler linkage without extra steps.
Ask HN: Thoughts on Appsumo?
Past 2 months, I've gathered good feedbacks on our MVP and now I am working on the update.

Thinking of launching the update on Appsumo to get some acceleration at first.

Read some success stories but still there are hundreds of products with 0 sales on Appsumo.

Any thoughts from people that tried launching on it or experience would be great
> If I were running the show, anyone coming into the country would be treated like they had the zombie plague and nobody would get within 10 feet of them.

> Surely good in theory, but where will you find a remote location with a big enough airport and enough accommodation you can just take over? also remember staff want to have days off, food must be delivered, people in quarantine want packages delivered, etc. etc.

The planes full of zombies can land in an air force base with a suitable air strip and then they are lead to quarantined trailer camps like you would find in many remote mining and oil and gas operations around the world.

At the end of it all the camp that you've built can be dismantled and either sold to the mining industry in Australia or redistributed to the armed forces.
Thanks I think I did get that much, but your example still helps a bit.

Some questions:
- how does (both formally and from an implementation point of view) does shift find the corresponding reset? Does it relies on some sort of dynamic scoping or does the reset need to be lexically visible from the shift call? It doesn't help that in all the examples shift and resets are always called in the same expression (with shift in a lambda).

- Related to the above, how does typing work? Is the captured delimited continuation typed (i.e. does it take parameters of a specific type and returns typed values), and if so, does the typing of shift and reset need to match (racket is dynamically typed so this is not an issue there of course).

I have no formal language background, I just implement coroutines and (one shot) continuations for fun (in C++), so the key to my understanding is from an implementation point of view.

edit: from a comment elsethread it seems that I should look into effect systems.
Nor is this related to Qt in any way. As far as I know Qt has never shipped .cire files as a way to sign the libraries. This is something the vendor of the software token library (stauto32) has done when embedding Qt.
If you only use a super-basic subset of HTML tags, design carefully, and ignore "standards", you can write a website which works across 25 years of browsers, mainstream and obscure, with gated enhancements for browsers which support them.

I think that's pretty impressive as far as API age.
Notable recent discussion, all within the past two weeks:

105 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28264097

93 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28257860

52 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210642
I don't think I've ever been able to be completely focussed on work for 7-8 hours. I can plod away on routine work all day long but it seems I only ever have three hours worth of intense thinking in me. Trying to push past that always creates more problems than it solves.
Not women, though. Multi-century statecraft is a long, iterative process. The founding fathers were hardly perfect, and that doesn't detract from the scope of achievement.
There's a better article here (which is the source):

https://www.toshiba.eu/pages/eu/Cambridge-Research-Laborator...

Basically their achievement is that they have done quantum key distribution over a distance of 600km, which is apparently a world first. And I suppose it demonstrates commercial viability.

For people not familiar with the idea: They didn't send a genome over the quantum channel, they sent a private key over the quantum channel, and then encrypted the genome with that key using conventional encryption, and then sent that encrypted genome over a conventional network.

Without QKD this process would have been done using public key encryption, which means the sender would have to have received the public key from a trusted source, usually you trust that source because a third source trusts it, etc, this is called the chain of trust. You can see how if a malicious party injects itself into the chain of trust the confidentiality is broken. With QKD you only have to trust that the person you want to talk to is on the other side of the quantum link you've established, i.e. the security is put firmly in the physical realm. Because of the quantum entangling properties of this link, a malicious party can't inject itself physically in the middle of this link, and can not eaves drop or manipulate it.
You're absolutelly right, just a small caveat for the 60% figure: most well-maintained plants capture between 35% and 40% of heat energy. Peakers can reach 35% too. Pulsed coal and new gas tech can get to 50-60% in ideal conditions. Also, most of these techs are new and are available on recently-build plants. That 60% could be as low as 45%.

Still at least twice as effective as ICEs.

However, a 2-tons electric car compared to a 800kg ICE? without taking into consideration the wear on infrastructure and on singular parts of the vehicle, i still think you are in comparable zone.
I meant the idea of spreading crushed olivine on particularly wavy beaches. The CO2 comes out of the ocean water. Still moving the olivine artificially, but relying on the ocean's natural mechanical energy and greater concentration of CO2 than the atmosphere.
Note the author is comparing `cattrs` with Pydantic, not `attrs`.

You're right, `attrs` solves a different problem, but `cattrs` builds on top of it to tackle the same ones as Pydantic.
I can't find how much revenue Apple is generating from iAd, but all hints point to a fairly small number. I'm guessing that Apple keeps it around to "help" small app developers who build free apps.

And more importantly, iAd seems to focus on advertising apps themselves (like a game ad inside another game). This is a far less intrusive model than a general-purpose search engine (where you find all kinds of advertisers).
On Web apps your data lives on someone's else computer, including basic stuff like credit card information.

Every horizontal line on the network tab in developer tools is yet another piece of telemetry information.

Native apps have access to whatever user they run under.

Again whatever native apps can do, web apps do all the time.
I would not confuse the need for further developing ones tech, with the need for growing (in employees, customers, and whatever else). A product can stay relevant, if it keeps up with the tech, but does not necessarily need to capture every possible customer on the planet, not even as a goal.