skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(rethinkdns co-developer here)

We are not affiliated with Brave and that's the primary reason we changed names https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app/issues/69 but a few popular blogs continue to refer us as BraveDNS and hence the footer.
Yes, Reynolds for SMAC and Sören Johnsen for Civ4, after Civ3 was his learning step.
How do the intelligence gathering capabilities of the SR-72 compare against that or the various reconnaissance satellites? Why do they need this plane, if they can get comparable information from space?
I think this is the biggest piece that gets overlooked by many. I still remember the first time I ran pihole and saw all the stuff attempted and blocked. It is one thing to know all those connections are made in theory. It is so radicalizing to see it first hand on your home network.
They've been doing it for years yeah. A decent source is https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkekmb/free-email-apps-spyin...
Tesla pushes U.S. to boost fuel economy penalties
Moot for now, though they call out explicitly that if wireless charging becomes common in the EEA they reserve the right to extend the directive to that domain as well.
NPM’s new access token format
I'm not saying that people don't have their own personal reasons/stories/experiences for losing trust, I just wanted to say that I haven't. And I'm also not saying it's wrong that someone has lost trust, more so to say that not everyone has lost trust.
This looks really cool.

But my pet peeve is hidden pricing for paid products. If it's worth buying, then show the price up front. I can't easily view the price anywhere on the website, and it's not displayed on the App Store description either. I was ready to download the app and try it out if I could view this information up front
Did you mean purchases from Google Voice, Google Fi, Google One, YouTube, Google Cloud, or Nest? Or purchases with Google Pay, Android Pay, or perhaps "send money with Gmail"?

Recently discovered these all seem to be unlinked, after I has to change my payment instrument in a dozen different places.
>In the case of Google, they already have acted on it.

And in the case of vendors who haven't...?
As long as those developers can still test their games on the platform, there will only be anti-Epic sentiment. Every game developer using the Unreal Engine is seeing this play out just like we are and they're seeing that it's Epic's actions that are causing that issue. With the state of game engines today, many may even consider moving away from Unreal for future games specifically because of Epic's actions.
I used to be in ad tech, and I did the same thing. I didn't use an ad blocker so that I could understand what the users were seeing.

A few years in though, it started to get bad enough that I enabled the ad blocker on my personal stuff and kept a browser session for work where the ad blocker was off.
I guess the underlying issue is that maintenance is afforded as few resources as necessary and is hence not somewhere most want to end up. So there is a lot of incentive to keep products from ending up in maintenance mode even if they really should. I find it quite sad. So many offerings seem to be made worse when people can't leave well enough alone.
Didn't Apple say that the reason they need a walled garden was to make sure this didn't happen?
The US Navy continues to research similar technology for manufacturing synthetic kerosene out of sea water onboard aircraft carriers. They aren't too concerned about economics. Their goal is to reduce the amount of jet fuel they have to haul around.
The point is that you don't have to pay for its continued existence, in direct contrast to putting a compute instance on AWS or any other cloud provider.
Yeah. Tho in all honesty, and I'm not trying to be mean, but looking at the sort other projects from OP I'm getting less and less interested in this. This is the kind of hype around techy/startupy type projects that I stay away from as confidence level goes down the more emoji mixed with dark patterns are being utilized. Your data is shared with an awful number of services to delivery something that's supposed to be as small and simple as a script.
My experience of ads is that they're much better than they were in the early 2000s. Back then major websites would have literal scams advertised on their site. Things like you're the 1 millionth visitor click here to collect your prize. Now I rarely see that sort of thing.
>It's not even just everything you buy from Google--from the post it seems like they actively compile and organize the data from every purchaser transaction that touches your GMail account.

Google literally buys a copy of most people's credit card transaction data.

>Google has been able to track your location using Google Maps for a long time. Since 2014, it has used that information to provide advertisers with information on how often people visit their stores. But store visits aren’t purchases, so, as Google said in a blog post on its new service for marketers, it has partnered with “third parties” that give them access to 70 percent of all credit and debit card purchases.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/05/25/242717/google-no...
https://lemmy.ml/c/socialism with the symbol of Communism. I laughed pretty hard.
There's no implied agreement - a product is offered at no cost, and I'm under no legal, ethical or moral obligation to look at anything. I'm a weirdo who still buys the paper newspaper. I throw out the Thursday auto advertisements and the Sunday ads.

Content producers made a conscious decision to aggregate their screen real estate and outsource ad placement to unrelated third parties. The result is a cesspool of awful, low engagement content. Its so bad that they enter into awful agreements with aggregators to repackage their content for pennies. That's their problem, not mine.

On the flip, I live in a state capital, and when the legislature is in session, interest groups spend 10x what they spend on useless online ad spots to buy full-page or panel ads in the printed newspaper. Presumably they aren't doing that in an effort to set money on fire.
Any one of the keyboards listed on https://github.com/diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards would be better than that.
I find it really odd that the OP is staring down the barrel of an RSI that's going to inexorably lock them (presumably) out of their career and passion, but the learning curve for a proper ergonomic keyboard seemed to high. I was up to an acceptable 40WPM on the Ergodox a week after switching, and his complaints about "the Cherry MX" switches fall a little flat since there's about a dozen different kinds, all with different noise and tactile characteristics.

I just can't fathom all that unused space on my desk (two halves of two keyboards, going totally unused!) when the investment in some natural-feeling typing infrastructure was relatively small given how much pain I've avoided, and will continue to avoid.

Edit: clearer word order
They could release their sources. That would be nice.

I'm still getting use out of a Nintendo New 2DS XL thanks to the homebrew community. It's really nice to write software for it thanks to the efforts of talented folks to develop and maintain the toolchains... but the more advanced consoles are getting harder and harder to maintain by design.

It's one thing to maintain an NES or DMG-001 but to maintain PSPs and Nintendo Switches once they go out of fashion?
For screw drivers that may be the case now, or it may not be. Screws became popularized in the 1700s, but it wasn't until the early 1900s we see evidence of people trying different heads (square head), and it wasn't until the Phillips head in the 1930s that we adopted a standard. Even then it was a while before it entered consumer goods; I encountered a 1940 Fibber Mcgee and Molly episode (which is what led me to looking up the history of the screw) where Fibber went to buy a screwdriver, and literally asked for "a screwdriver with a black handle", no other qualifier, and the shop keep didn't ask for clarification.
Ask HN: Book recommendations for learning about SaaS history?
You are missing the wood for the trees here: Apple may give up some money for the Fortnite game, but meanwhile they get to hold on to the money they rake in on other parties' products. If they accepted the Fortnite change then they would lose that other money, which absolutely dwarfs the money made on Fortnite.

I'm a bit surprised that this needs to be explained.
The intention is clearly that the consumer be able to charge any phone using a generic usb-c charger.
Apple's proprietary wireless charging would fail that criteria.

I imagine that if Apple made their technology an industry standard, that a) others could implement, and b) Apple were themselves governed by, then the EU would consider it in addition to usb-c.
How would they build these things? In a practical sense? The world has moved entirely virtual. Humans are able to achieve their every dream in another reality. They can even make dyson swarms, on their own, and fly with it, in VR.

But in the real world? Actually make a Dyson Swarm? Elon Musk is trying to go to Mars with the help of thousands of people directly and the indirect help of hundreds of thousands of people. It takes a huge collective effort for an engineering task so big.

Yeah, sure there might be a few 'real worlders', but it'll be a lonely place out there on their own, they'll have no infrastructure, no backing, nothing.

So while they may want to build that Dyson swarm, they won't be able to.

There might even be all sorts of laws in their way to make sure no-one can spoil it for everyone else by eating up resources unnecessarily or putting others at risk.

As for your side note, the speculation was about what's most likely, not what's possible.

My point is that while Dyson swarms might be theoretically possible, my belief is that they're not practically possible because by the time you reach that level of technology, society will have already moved to a different reality.

And mine is a speculation just as much as the GP's.
An App distributed on the immensely popular iOS platform can be used to advertise alternative platforms at different pricing. The “fair” price if this was allowed to happen would be a 0% cut since no one in their right mind would pay any amount extra if given the option.

The only real restriction Apple currently has is that apps should do no such advertising of alternative platforms (payment methods).

All arguments about the fairness of this are moot because see Netflix, which happily complies with these rules and avoids Apple’s 30% cut. https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/31/netflix-stops-paying-the-a...
one that sort of fell by the wayside when Meteor and Ember got popular, was/is Derby.js/ShareDB. https://github.com/derbyjs/derby https://derbyjs.com/ https://github.com/share/sharedb

The LiveView lead resurgence in server side rendering is exciting. Does anyone have any insight as to why ShareDB never really took off?
I think none of those assumptions apply in this case, or even in general. If there were no money in it, then the products would not have been actively maintained. VB6 was ranked 20th in TIOBE last year, so it is not just used in my company, either. In fact, if it were so unused, Microsoft would have dropped support for it already, but they currently support it until Windows 10 EOL, and possibly will on Windows 11 as well. I have not looked at the codebase behind the VB6 products in question, but there is no reason for me to assume that it looks any different to any other long-established codebase, or that the developers who maintain it are paid less. I would assume they are paid more because they are harder to replace, which in turn makes their work more rewarding.

I have worked on products with old tech stacks as well, e.g. a C++98 codebase for the core product of a multi-billion-dollar company, with no plans to migrate. New features were being frequently added, and the company's own standard library replacement that bridged the gap was itself actively developed.
Yeah exactly, and with covid making concerts uncomfortable for me for the foreseeable future I've just been doubling down on bandcamp and merch purchases (but wow I miss live music).
Really? You just unzip the thing somewhere, then run the program. No install necessary.
The Craft and Community of Ice Harvesting
Wesnoth is tactical, not strategy. Its a good game (albeit too luck based IMO... Just get used to the "luck swings" of battle), but a totally different genre than 4X / Strategy.

Civilization is on the easier / simpler end of 4X / Strategy... and believe me, this is a good thing!! Things get really complicated. Paradox games (Victoria, Hearts of Iron, Crusader Kings, Europa Universialis) are the "complicated" games, technically realtime but the underlying simulations "feel" turnbased. (Hearts of Iron progresses the simulation in 1-hour increments. They're "realtime" only because it'd be too boring to hit "next turn" so often, but you can hit the pause button and really think about a situation at say: September 1st 1939 @ 1pm if something terrible is going on)

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is also a strategy game: war, tactics, resources, diplomacy, etc. etc. The elements you'd expect.

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"Tactics" games that focus on a singular battle as the core gameplay loop. Fire Emblem, Wesnoth, Wargroove, Advance Wars, Heroes of Might and Magic, Panzer General, Starcraft, Age of Empires.

"Strategy" games approximate the battles and focus on larger scale elements.

A good rule of thumb is that Strategy Games have an element of siege and supply lines, while Tactics games often just "teleport" the resources where needed. Tactics are about maneuvering your troops to get an advantage, Strategy is about finding / securing resources (ex: placing your defensive Pikeman on the enemy's mine in Civ2, or in their districts in Civ6)

Civ leans towards the simpler/tactics side, but is just barely enough "Strategy" that I'd group it in the strategy side of things.
https://github.com/t-mullen/wrtc-to-ffmpeg

Or https://github.com/pion/webrtc/tree/master/examples/save-to-...
Good thing they keep track of all the spam I get! The membership to something long forgotten, marketing emails from US shops(I don’t live in US anymore) and some developer mailing lists from that one time I had to write to get support.

If they are so evil and clever, I at least make them work through a lot of bull shit before they profile me.

My emails are at Fastmail as a paid user. Hopefully they are away from advertising companies. But, any Gmail user I have emailed would leak that info to Google.
Yeah, this is why my comment led with “I trust the author”…

I’m surprised you need the full 4 bits to deal with ambiguous bases, but it probably makes sense at some lower level I don’t understand.
My list seems to stop in May 2021– maybe something to do with being Gsuite user?
My God, it's just a cool weekend programming project. Calm down and tone down the elitist attitude.

> You probably don't want to entangle this API with your frontend, even though you can.

How about you build a SaaS with whatever gets the job done? Could be a single PHP file as long as it ships.
Ah yes, good one. That would have been an even better choice.
Did you build this in Swift UI?

Would you make different technology choices if you started today?
I am thinking a more authentic experience than that.

Up end the can into a metal bowl, chuck it on the floor and whistle that dinner is ready. Then if you have been a really good boy, hang around under the dinner table and hope some people food scraps will find their way into your lap.
This discussion is just silly. Claiming anything about art in general is gone be wrong.

Sometimes a singular vision leads to something great. Something it doesn't. Sometimes a single vision contained by bureaucracy leads to something great. Sometimes a vision helped along by others creates great things. Sometimes nobody has any vision and they somehow end up with something amazing. Sometimes you have a bad vision and others turn the core of your idea into something awesome.

There are literally tons of examples for all of these. We have 10k+ years of human history of art.
Or, if you like it this way, the Halteproblem for transcendental reasoning is universal. There are no computable propositions regarding the mystical. ;-)
It's pretty deceptive that they don't disclose these are categorized and stored for advertising purposes. That's unethical IMO.
I've done a decent amount of research on Prometheus Fuels, and I'm a believer.

They've licensed a couple of key technologies out of Oak Ridge. First is a catalyst that converts CO2 + H2O + electricity directly into ethanol. The other is a membrane with parallel carbon nanotubes that are just the right size to filter that ethanol. The rest of the business involves the chemical conversion of pure ethanol into other types of hydrocarbons.

The result is the ability to efficiently create carbon-netural fuel, effectively capturing a percentage of the electricity as gasoline (or jet fuel, etc).

Of course, this is less energy efficient than simply burning fuel that you found in the ground. The advantage is that they can bypass the expensive drilling, refining, and transportation steps and use cheap renewable energy to create fuel literally anywhere they can stick a shipping container.

That's the goal, anyway. I really hope they succeed.
A Chinese friend once explained to me that local governments in China have very little ability to tax. Taxes all get sent to the central government and the central government never sends enough back to the local government. The most efficient way for a local government to raise revenue is to turn farmland into developable land and sell it to developers. Many of these empty homes come from such schemes. Obviously some of these developments turn into vibrant communities, but there are some that remain mostly empty and are held by individuals who are speculating that the prices of these empty condos will go up.
Yeah Meteor was an interesting example of an amazing project that fell into a hole based on a couple of bad decisions. It's basically fixed those at this point but become something pretty different in the process. It sounds like it may be something I can use now but I haven't tried it.
Not OP but here are some of mine:

- Universal package manager (replaces pip, cabal, npm, etc.)

- Declarative OS-config which makes deploys on new devices and servers a breeze

- Scheme declaration language (I prefer it to Nix-lang)

- Bootstrapable from 512 byte binary [1]

- I can build a package from source or download the binary

- Easily modify package source, deps, or compiler [2]

Cons:

- No official nonfree software [3]

- Smaller package set than Nix

- No KDE yet and old version of Gnome (it takes a lot of work to update)

Neutral:

- No systemd

- Works with GNU Hurd

- No MacOS or BSD support (yet)

[1] https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-boots...

[2] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Defining-Package-Va...

[3] https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
I absolutely adore Civ V, it's one of my top played games of all time (behind SC1, SC2, and now Dominion the card game). I play an Earth style map, large size, with 10-15 other Civs, and just go to town on Science/Industry. I love to play as Babylon, Korea, Egypt, and Poland, and I love to play on Emperor (Difficulty 6). I've tried playing other Civs and on Other difficulties, but this set-up of "strong civ" on level 6 is a nice mixture of ease/challenge. I also love the raging barbarian and random personality settings, they really add an element of chaos and unpredictability to the AI's and the early-mid game expansion and wars.

One of my all-time favorite starts was as Poland with 4 salt resources next to Warsaw. Salt is such a baller resource because it's a luxury good, but it also allows the creation of a mine which boosts production, and production is super key in Civ. I could blast out wonders and the cutting-edge buildings in 5-10 turns, and my tech lead meant almost none of the wonders were unavailable. Don't you just love having 20 wonders in your capital by the end?
Of course is matters. Not because it indicates some "grand understanding" or "aha" just because it shows how we spend our entire lives trying to look life head-on without flinching but, in the end, we almost all flinch.
I don't think companies should be forced to maintain their software forever -- that's too much of an unpredictable burden for the company to bear. Also it's fraught with problems, like what happens if the company goes out of business?

But what I do think is they should be forced to release their source code if they no longer want to maintain it. If a server is required for the software, then they should release the server source such that anyone can run one. If there is a hostname that the software connects to, they should be required to push an update that allows you to change that before shutting down the service and releasing the source.
Google doesn't scan business Gmail accounts, so that's not a concern at least
Either this person has incredibly broad shoulders or they have their arms splayed out or something. I can't imagine the 20 inches of separation available on the Kinesis Freestyle is "Not far enough apart" to "keep the shoulders in a natural, pulled-back position" for all but the most extreme outliers. I have a Kinesis keyboard and the only possible complaint I have is no numpad.
Can a TPM be shared by two operating systems? As in, dual boot configurations? Is any sort of deconfliction required and does the relevant spec account for this?
I.e. forcing you to use their platform to access this data, instead of an independent platform that is e-mail. Nice way of taking away users' control over their own data.
Fair enough. At this point all we have is conjecture. Their policies seem congruent with my view, and it's also how I would design a system like this. On the other hand, you may be right that this is data they retain forever.

There is no way to know for sure unless someone wants to do an experiment. It would be pretty easy to conduct: do takeout to find a purchase in the history, delete emails associated with the specific purchase, empty the trash, wait sixty days, then takeout again and check if the purchase is gone. But we won't find out today.
Great-looking application! I really love the direction to use html; kudos for supporting data longevity!
It's good to have a long-term plan for HDR, but it doesn't make sense to do it until you are ready to do it right.
I assume they did that because they had to (GDPR, the blog post is tagged as Google in Europe, even if they did it worldwide). I think I opted in.

In typical Google fashion, you had either the choice to enable everything or nothing. I want the tabbed inbox, I don't want smart compose, or assistant integration or... anything else from that post, really.

They also lock all kinds of basic features of Google Maps (like manually set and store my home address) behind the permission to record, store and processes indefinitely my location history.
If you ever wanted to chat more about how you built and deploy your app I'd love to have you on my podcast at https://runninginproduction.com/.

There's 0 Haskell episodes so far, you'd be the first one!
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Yeah, I got the same impression -- they really wanted to make Star Trek, and were like, "Exactly how much parody do we need to include to make a lawsuit unprofitable?".
Gmail Search is getting subpar now than it was before. It didn't show the email that I knew the subject, or the body have that. Sometimes I have added the email address or several names to get it to find the email. Sometimes it works. 5 years ago, it has no problem finding those emails. And now, it is hit and miss. This is on my Google Workplace account.
Google reads your Gmail. They admit it. They've never hidden it, as far as I know. If you choose to use Gmail, you've chosen to let Google's computers read, analyse, and store information about the contents of your email.
Finding the needles in a haystack of high-dimensional data sets