skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Network effects.

2. Information asymmetry.

3. Barriers to entry.

Purely free markets only apply to toiler paper rolls, and not even that.
I would argue that time and again liberals have not reproduced at the level of conservatives/religious. This is why we still have the conservative/religious as the backbone of society.

This is why there is probably some genetics underlying religious belief: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7147-genes-contribute...

It may also explain why so many people are illogical about things like Covid in religious/conservative circles. They have genetics that incline them towards illogical religious beliefs in part because it allows them to ensure they reproduce the next generation, and some of the downsides of this illogical religious inclination is that they believe crap about things and are impervious to evidence to the contrary -- e.g. faith.
3D models are very variable: some are defined with just triangles, some include quads, some are NURBS or subdivision surfaces. Sometimes two sides per polygon are considered, sometimes just one.

Ways of navigating a 3D model also vary wildly. Sometimes you just want to pivot/rotate them around a little, but sometimes "walking" inside them makes more sense.

Then there are materials and lights, and here people go wild with ideas.

In our "current world", if you want a 3D viewer, you use WebGL and Javascript, and voila, what you get is what you see in all browsers that support WebGL.

> But wow you gotta get a lot of JS slapped together to just get something rendering

Indeed. But there are some quite nice 3D model viewers out there ready to roll, easy to embed, and full of features.
[0] really resonates with my "feeling" about it. Thanks for the link!

Although I wonder if I would want to get out of the industry. While I admire the works of Torvalds and Bellard, and every once in a while dip my toe into low-level works, I feel happy about end-user feedback and making someone's life easier by providing a useable UI to a dataset.
Like all moral panics, this is really quite overblown. The podcast You're Wrong About did a great episode on this recently about "cancel culture" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cancel-culture/id13800...

In it, they specifically call out The Atlantic's editors for their handwringing
America. Recall Washington crying foul when France wanted a digital tax.
Have a look at https://cocalc.com/ (I'm not affiliated), they provide essentially what you want (although I doubt at the price point you are talking).
This new wave of social discourse that's being labelled "cancel culture" (in spite of the protests of the people at the forefront of it) is often justifiably compared to a religion, just as in the linked article. My read of history is that religion is only ever overturned by a stronger religion - I won't be entirely shocked if we see a return to right-wing Christian conservatism in my lifetime that will make the 50's seem like a liberal utopia.
> After using Ansible for a while at a company I got massively turned off by the fact the version in apt-get doesn't work

FWIW: Works just fine here on Debian (using it since Debian 8, now on Debian 11).
"Note that in areas where there is still a reasonable chance of getting rich - coastal California, for example, or NYC..."

Where are these opportunities? Do people actually think they can get rich and then achieve it in any meaningful numbers?
To go to Google's platform which is just Eurasia painted a different color :-)
When I don’t understand
something, I ask lots of questions.
Years go UFC advocates would state it was much safer than boxing because you’d get knocked out easier and wouldn’t go round after round getting repeatedly knocked in the head. Not sure if the argument was valid but time will tell.
It is always helpful when you have a wealthy supporter.
The problem is that now we have all of these discussions on a stage in front of a mob.

Discourse is no longer a tool we use to approach a better mutual understanding, it’s a gladiator match where there has to be a loser and a winner.

I’ve run into this problem with people who use a lot of twitter. They would keep asking me to “state my position”, and also demand it to be about 1 sentence long. The problem being…I don’t usually have a “position”, but rather I have a set of things which haven’t yet been proven false. So it’s really a body of existing understanding, not an individual idea, which should be examined as part of a discussion. (I run into this problem with young people, in real life).

An prescient example might be my dislike of electronic voting machines. If I say this in public, to the audience that grew up on twitter, they’ll accuse me of being a Republican, an insurrectionist, racist, ivermectin conspiracist anti vaxxer.

I’m none of those things (although ever day I become close to being some sort of Republican), but the more complex discussion isn’t really possible on twitter. Because that is where so many people learn how to interact with others, snd where they learn to derive understanding, it doesn’t matter. And even trying to explain that some of these ideas can be bad independently springs some sort of Kafka trap.

Here’s a fantastic article that I think lays out a version of the problem: https://newdiscourses.com/2020/07/woke-wont-debate-you-heres...
And didn't get the life of the people improved? Maybe the US is an exception but on a global scale globalization lifted a lot of people out of poverty. (need to look at data for the US though, but still if you compare life of a worker at Steinbecks 'grapes of wrath' time to today's workers, today is still better, isn't it)

I found: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
If anybody has better data (and I care about normal people and poor, and do not worry that the rich get richer)
1. You still can.
2. Could be good, could be bad.
I very much agree that this app stores market abuse thing needs to end, and I am also really glad to see that at least one country is responding like this.

> a reasonable (single percentage) fee for facilitating payments.

I want to point out, though, that the service Apple provides is not merely payment processing. They offer total customer management. Which, when integrated with their entire developer offering (TestFlight, App Store, etc) is pretty neat. I’ve integrated my app with Apple for iOS and then had to do it all over again with Braintree of web. You might say that entire exercise speaks to the inanity of the App Store monopoly, but the experience illustrated for me how much more Apple provides than just mere payment processing. You won’t find the words “chargeback” or “dispute” in Apple’s docs, because they take care of all that for you. With Apple, you don’t have to program UIs for changing subscription tiers or viewing transaction histories. And many other things.

Is it worth 30%? No. 15%? I don’t think so. Should I have to maintain and juggle different integrations for every app store? Definitely not. But Apple’s offering is decent and comprehensive. It would be made much better if it wasn’t a racket that held developers hostage. Think App Store competing with Play Store on Android devices. And vice versa. Now that would be cool!

I really hope similar legislation is passed in the United States and EU.
Who is preventing exploration of installing these on the tops of buildings in the very cities that create the power need?
And Oracle should pay IBM for having practically invented SQL.

And everyone using virtualization should be paying IBM for having practically invented virtualization.

Repeat ad nauseam.
>I expected these numbers to be higher.

Home vs office.

On my company laptop I am often not allowed to install software (but I'm allowed to develop the software that companies trust to handle billions of dollars in transactions) so my usage would look 60% chrome with no add blocking and 40% completely locked down firefox.
The grammar is not a big issue. The assertion it trivially true through how much C++ features interact with one an other, badly.

Just understanding the generation of special methods depending on which you implement by hand is an 8x6 matrix, and that tells you nothing about how they misbehave when you fail to follow the “Rules of Whatever” (variously 0, 3, 5, 6) properly.
Can you suggest why that would be relevant? It's not like the software license model of general purpose computers is enforced under law.
Thanks for elaborating, really enjoyed that read. The Libertarian and Populist takes are particularly interesting.
In the white community, I think race matters more Protestant vs. Catholic, especially during the 1920s-1950s (When Kennedy was elected, folks would say "Put your hope in the Pope" because he was Catholic). While in the black community, we simply don't have that much of a Catholic or Muslim population for such in-group conflicts.

Yes, I'm the same low-agreeableness person from Reddit.
This movie sounds great and I would love to watch it. It's a shame there's no legal way to watch many international movies like this if you are in the US.

I make a point of watching a non-US film on every international flight I take - I find it to be a unique opportunity to watch interesting non-US movies with English subs. I have discovered two excellent oddball comedies from in flight movies (Die Goldfische from Germany and Le Grand Partage from France), but when I tried to rewatch these films with others in the US, I discovered it was basically impossible. There must be so many other great movies from around the world we are missing out on.
That aside, I think the answer to the question is still "very little". People engaged in these crazy ideological battles on either side are out of touch. Most people are, in fact, reasonable.
> assuming that people are genetically predestined to be conservative (or liberal) is both silly and incompatible

But there is evidence of that. I linked to some of these papers in my previous comments.
This is what people keep telling themselves and yet FB isn't showing any signs of failure or making stupid purchases.
I believe this has something to do with the statistical distribution of compensation - normal-like for electricians, dentists, and more power-like for coders and people from highly creative or sports fields.
Instagram Requires Users Birth Date and Warns It Will Catch Liars
Closed software?
You mean being used by every person on earth every day of their lives?
It's a problem when small companies have to pay company tax, and large multinational companies do not, merely because the latter has the legal know-how and the funds to achieve it. As an analogy, it'd be like a road worker paying 30 percent tax on a $70k income and a company CEO paying 0-5 percent tax on a $10m income.

The necessary solution is obviously systemic change rather than asking large companies to pay above what they're required to, the latter would actually be a breach of their agency duty and anyone who thinks companies should do that are foolish.

I don't know what the solution is. Perhaps abolishing company tax, which is my favorite proposal. Perhaps a worldwide company tax as Biden is pushing for (which concerns me for other reasons, even though I do admit it would solve this specific problem).
All prominent smartphone OS come with an advertising id. It wouldn't have to be this way. I think Android is open source done wrong to be honest.

But yes, in the end they are both crappy vendors.
At the end of the day though, Atlassian won't even sign NDAs with it's clients.

Make of that what you will.
Why is this even at the front page of HN? I give them credit for the brilliant marketing.

This is an ad disguised as an article targeting the "tech savvy" by bundling HN and Reddit (a truth + a lie makes the statement more true), a common clickbait tactic

> This makes sense especially considering how difficult it is to install an adblocker on Chrome, the most popular browser on mobile devices.

Nope, it is really easy: is just an extension
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-%E2%80%94-...

It makes me think Reddit users are inflating/manipulating this article w/ votes and comments

Correction: "difficult to install adblocker on mobile devices"
I think apple should just fix their webgl implementation.

They seem to be missing a fundamental feature of the web it's interactive. They have an interactive attribute for the tag but no description of what this means? What does it mean to interact with a 3d model? Can 3d model interaction be accurately defined in a single attribute? Why not just use javascript for that logic?

The whole point of having multi media like a 3d model on a website is so people can interact with it. If the interaction is as simple as spin the model there are three.js and a million other javascript libraries that can do that in a few lines of code.

Another fundamental the proposal doesn't address is the model format? As far as I know all model file formats are proprietary OBJ is probably the closest to an open standard and its anything but standard. Another issue that javascript easily solves.

A fake problem their solution found is DRM, obviously the DRM could be removed as easy as HLS encryption (Super easy, did it yesterday). The main problem here is again the file format, no one would share their 3dmax file because its fucking huge they would export a low poly model for web that would be useless to anyone wanting to steal your model.
https://mitm.watch/ its not working?
This reads like an overly polite way of saying "you're either with us or against us."
Yes, the perceived risk profiles regarding head injury are different between the two sports of "grab the ball and run" and "punch him in the head".
The bad industrial factory farm kind, certainly. The wikipedia link certainly presents a horrible picture. It seems that it's how a lot of places where there should not be meat production work, though.

I'm not so sure that how most German meat production is that kind of bad. It's got a lot of pastures, cows naturally graze or eat localy harvested grain feeds, no irrigation for feed b/c there's enough rainwater, etc).

I might be wrong though, as in France there were examples where they cut corners with soy and did it the "US way", which caused several scandals throughout the years.

Anybody with knowledge how the German meat industry actually works ?
The whole thing is complicated and companies do, eventually, adjust.

Anecdote. I am in process of looking for a full time remote since my mega boss decided that hybrid is good enough for me and no amount of paperwork could convince her otherwise. Right now I am remote until delta dies off or HR changes its mind.

I told no to recruiter 2 weeks ago, because the job was not remote. Just today it seems the company received a lot of nos, because I got a very similar job description and it is now remote.

Now.. the companies are trying to make remote less appealing ( and trying to argue that you should be paid less ), but, quite frankly, remote is worth a lot to me now. You would think smart companies would want to use it to their advantage.

Instead, most of the stories I hear from my social circle goes smth like this 'old guard wants us back in office'.
Seems like I am asking. Let me understand what do you want to tell me in this thread about considering to give money to a psycho specialist.
The article describes gains made by "superstars", who can be seen as self-motivated and capable of making a big impact. I am extremely concerned about how we cultivate superstars in the remote work world.

I have been working remote for over 5 years now, but I wouldn't have survived without a lot of luck and years of experience as an intern/entry level employee at an office with some brilliant mentors.

I have tried mentoring in the same vein as those who taught me, but it hasn't caught on as well. I am concerned about how many people entering the workforce fail to reach that superstar threshold because they are missing a few key elements (which may be face-to-face interaction). I am also quickly learning that the high-impact employee does not necessarily make the best mentor.
because they have intention on delivering and not just manipulating people?
USD, glTF and COLLADA are all "widely used" in some parts. I would like to see some data that USD is more popular than the other ones.
What about people who leave you alone but try to push their opinion on others with less political power?
> love working from home but it’s easy to get distracted with side projects, feeding birds, germinating seeds etc.

For programmers at least “productivity” comes from writing leveragable code, not by working more hours. Watching birds, gardening and generally being relaxed and rested will increase the quality of the code you write. It may even allow you to envision solutions impossible to come up with under the daily grind of commute->stand up->lunch gossip->meetings->commute. I think managers that understand how to develop good software are few and far between.

Productivity aside, your routine sounds awesome and everyone who can should try to achieve something similar without concern for their employer’s productivity. I assure you the concern for well-being is not bi-directional.
>What was pretty interesting, and something I've never heard before was "some Peloton instructors earned more than $500,000".

It's not really new in that you had doubtless well-paid "personalities" who had workout shows on TV forever. It just stands to reason that with mass broadcast, the money flows to a relatively small number of popular people rather than a large number of fairly modestly paid people teaching small classes in local studios.

Though I suspect that a lot of this current phenomenon is out of necessity rather than preference from the perspective of participants.
Preview: The SQLite Llibrary as a .NET Assembly
Not sure where you got the idea of yet another format, no one seems to be mentioning that here or in the proposal.

Presumably browsers would support the most popular formats, just as they do with images and video. And just as with images and video, we'll likely end up in a situation where m most formats are supported by most browsers, with a couple odd formats that are only supported by some. Doesn't seem like a huge deal.
Nextdns is giving me an ID. Why would I want to be tracked by unique ID?
That's even worse than GA
It's Karl Popper's tolerance paradox.

> The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
It seems history teaches us the exact opposite. Nobody uses the native input elements because they can't be sufficiently styled and customized but simultaneously have significant behavior differences between browsers. They also of course languished for the longest time, at points looking out of place with the browser chrome itself.
Innovations in Imaging Neurons in the Cervical Spine
Even just a short video of someone using the web interface would be helpful.
Future Predictions: Arthur C Clarke Predicting the future in 1964
All of this is very much IMO: Work sucks. The happiest at work I've ever been is working with people I like, almost (but not quite) regardless of the work. Sometimes I get to do interesting and fun projects, but it's a lot of annoying meetings and stupid bugs and projects I don't give a shit about. I'm grateful for my gig, don't get me wrong, but I have to remind myself that I'm not living for this. In a perfect world I'd be living in a small community of family and friends and working in ways that directly support and aid them.
The Afghan minister who became a meal delivery driver in Germany
How do you know this? Is there a control group?

Did government and media propaganda tell you this?
> When a process enters capsicum mode,

Can it be forced to?

> it loses all permissions normally associated with its controlling user, with the exception of "capabilities" it already has in the form of file descriptors.

What if we want to grant an app already running a new capability on the fly? E.g. I imagine a case of user opening a file in a GUI app as an OS-level file selection dialog getting invoked (provided the app already has a capability to invoke it, as by the manifest) and producing a capability for the app to access the file the user choosse in an explicitly specified (RO or R/W) mode.
The price of Playdate also fits with Teenage Engineering model - well designed but priced above the standard 5x BOM model.

Not a critique (since it is surely a better pricing model for longevity than underpricing).

Also with 20k units I am sure they will sell out.

PS. Hmm GameBoy was $89 in 1989 so probably about the same adjusted for inflation.
Used nuclear fuel will probably have uses in the future, and storing it should not be a problem. Amounts that needed burying are vastly different.
Those things happen in markets with price signals too. Rationing and persistent shortage are happening in housing markets around the world broadly.

It's kind of a given that any social housing like this is going to have a limited number of rooms. And as a result, only so many people will be able to live there.

That's not some clear proof of market theory. Because the other half of market theory - about how price signals drive behavior of rational actors - doesn't hold up.
Predicting exactly this was the premise of the famous Netflix Prize, one of the first open machine learning challenges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize
Applebaum talks about Twitter and cancel culture. Of course, her bemoaning of "judgement" on Twitter is odd, because she has used Twitter to throw mud at "Russian spy" and "Russian propaganda" tool Edward Snowden ( https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aanneapplebaum%20snowden&... ), "apologist for Milosevic" and Nobel laureate Peter Handke ( https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aanneapplebaum%20milosevi... ), "bizarre" Noam Chomsky ( https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aanneapplebaum%20chomsky&... ) etc.

Ok for her to judge and cancel on Twitter, not for the "mob" that judges her and her friends.
https://archive.ph/PYJQc
Airbnb can ban you from their platform. This is more of a problem for hosts (since Airbnb dominates the "home-sharing" market) than for guests (who have plenty of hotel and vacation rental options).
> In a world with ubiquitous housing, there is no need for social housing, because that which is ubiquitous (oxygen) is affordable.

> In a world with scarcity, social housing protects the poor against unaffordability. That's commendable. However, scarcity also means there is not enough for everyone.

And in a world with landlords, housing can be both ubiquitous AND scarce! (At least in the USA, the number of vacant homes greatly outnumbers the number of homeless people in the country)
exactly (can't edit original post anymore, sorry)
While I do accept the point, I think part of this is just that Google and Apple are the companies doing a large amount of work in the browser space. Because of this, they are likely to be the companies who see the hole that should be filled, or the opportunity to improve something.

Who are the people that should be making browser spec proposals, if not the people building browsers?

Yes, it sucks if you want to write your own browser, and now have to play catch up with the big boys throwing their weight around. But I don't think this is points against Google or Apple. Our browser technology shouldn't be held back by some romantic dream of individuals being able to build one from scratch, despite what many HNers seem to think. Even the best mechanics and engineers will struggle to build a car comparable to whatever rolls off of the large production lines. (I understand maybe that's a poor analogy, since you don't need all the bells and whistles of a new Toyota to be road-legal, while you do kind of need to keep up with the spec in order to be internet-usable (although there still are some IE11 holdouts..)).