skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m a big proponent in “invest in things you can understand”

How many people understand the US banking system? What a bank is allowed to do with your $, how inter-bank payments are settled; how a bank secures its records; under what circumstances a bank might lose its records; what recourse you have in the case that your bank loses your records or makes what you believe is a mistake… yet everyone gives money to their bank.

2012 Bitcoin was great: it takes all of an hour to understand the entire protocol, the act of building/installing bitcoind shows you the entire surface area, and everyone interacting with it understood as much about it as you did. Contrasted to the substantially more opaque banking system, where most people don’t understand it, but trust it due to the test of time.

2021 crypto is indeed different. Now it’s approaching similar complexity to the existing banking system. But do I still understand it better than banking? For the low-level abstractions: BTC, ETH, etc: absolutely — especially so now that we’ve seen them fork and understand the hypotheticals there better. Higher-layer social protocols like NFTs… maybe not. So I stay away from those. Crypto gives you optionality that existing digital investments completely fail at. So that’s nice from your “invest only in what you understand” perspective, right?
A New Global Study Refines Estimates of Rooftop Solar Potential
I'm not suggesting by name, I just had no idea which platforms you think your law would target. Banning using user data to target adds is a lot more specific and actionable.

That would hurt facebook and Twitter's revenue quite badly, but it would do nothing at all to stop the toxic effects of facebook particularly. My main problem with facebook isn't targeted adds, yes I'm against their toxic attitude to privacy but it's not their most toxic behaviour. The main problem for me is the way they turn peoples feeds into firehoses of radicalising, enraging, adrenaline juicing hostility.
> Coinbase’s stock is currently approximately equal to the IPO price

Coinbase is down a little over 27% since IPO, at a time when the wider US stock market is up around 10%. That's not "approximately equal" in any meaningful way.

> At the IPO, the rocketship factor is already priced in.

I'll agree with you here - there was a ton of hype and the IPO price was largely based on an expected rocketship trajectory that failed to materialize. Its extremely telling that many of their executives have cashed out 100% or nearly 100% of their available stock options.
> it is absurd that the law places any limits whatsoever on the act of examining how an artifact you legally own functions.

You’re just smuggling in your own implicit definition of “legally own”.

As you’ve pointed out, “ownership” is a legal construct. One that can feature any number of limitations or clauses through the execution of a contract.
It's more like if you get into a boxing ring and complain about getting hit. If you knew what was going to happen and you chose to do it...
It’s not, it’s the systems fault. Cutting off access to healthcare is potentially devastating and it seems incredible to me that an employment dispute could end up preventing someone getting healthcare.
How do I use that to run windows games?
"...and whatnot."
I do wonder if there is also an issue with reduced testosterone causing weight gain, which in turn lowers testosterone... and so. In a positive feedback loop
The jobs are not in academia.
It was. You working at apple doesn't actually give you insight to what actually takes place at the multiple layers of internal abstractions.

Remember the loaded language of "nut case" and insinuating mental health problems is not OK.
> this bit is not proven, I'm speculating

Thank you. This is the first time I hear someone admitting we are running an open ended experiment with no long term data for guidance. The immune system is not linear. We cannot simply pile up 'immunity tokens' on top of each other. The specific immunization history matters.

"Original antigenic sin, also known as antigenic imprinting or the Hoskins effect,[1] refers to the propensity of the body's immune system to preferentially utilize immunological memory based on a previous infection when a second slightly different version of that foreign pathogen (e.g. a virus or bacterium) is encountered. This leaves the immune system "trapped" by the first response it has made to each antigen, and unable to mount potentially more effective responses during subsequent infections. Antibodies or T-cells induced during infections with the first variant of the pathogen are subject to a form of original antigenic sin, termed repertoire freeze."

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

We don't understand how vaccines interact with the long-term immune system. The OA cites one of the first studies I know about that looks into the issue. The answer is far from encouraging for mass covid mRNA vaccination campaigns in children: "Secondary immune response stronger after infection than after shot". "By comparison, vaccine-induced memory B cells are less robust, evolving for only a few weeks and never "learning" to protect against variants."

If you feel that child covid mRNA vaccinations are the way to go, provide evidence for your case, instead of obfuscating the issue. No, citing yet another antibody levels study is not very relevant to long term immunity discussions. Antibody levels suffer exponential decay over a few months. B-cells are supposed to kickstart antibody generation for the next infection event. If the vaccines are poor at eliciting B-cell generation, this is a major weakness.

"When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically. In this context the proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof."

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

Perhaps covid mRNA vaccine + infection works well in the long run. Perhaps it doesn't. At this point it's a gamble. I'm not sure what happened that we are willing to gamble the future health of our children.
Growing for aggressive returns is the deal you sign up for getting VC money.

That said, I haven’t seen VCs pushing a founder out for this offense first hand, even in companies approaching somewhat of a zombie status. Usually VCs will just divest their attention.

I have seen companies run into the ground with the VCs pushing the throttles forward though.
There is a vibrant community releasing “new” classic adventure games in the spirit of the 80s and early 90s style - great resource to keep an eye out is https://adventuregamers.com/
You're right, thanks for the clarification, this is a "DIY air purifier" not a "HEPA" filter. (Apparently products today even have to clarify if they are "true HEPA" due to misleading marketing)

According to this website (https://freshairaustralia.blogspot.com/2020/01/how-does-merv...) a study for underground mining filtration found a MERV-16 filter superior to HEPA in terms of airflow and cost, with a negligible difference in filtration efficiency.

According to the study, the MERV-16 filters have higher flow rates than a HEPA filter, which would both make the MERV filter a better fit for an inefficient fan, and increase the air filtration rate. The author of that site also finds that the airflow rate can be more important than a filter's rated efficiency: https://freshairaustralia.blogspot.com/2020/01/why-air-flow-...

After some web searching, it seems you can buy smaller replacement HEPA filters and MERV-16 filters starting at ~$40. So I guess you can spend less if you only need "air purifying", and more if you want the real deal.
What amount of wealth makes a company inherently guilty of all accusations? As Ive expressed in other posts, I don't hold Apple in high regard as a company at all, I merely find her claims to give me an impression that counters what she is asserting.
if I'm not confusing it with some other OS, I think there was an emulated TOPS system online not so long ago
The Three Year Itch, the Second Scale
True, this isn't caused by Apple per se, but the threat of terminating someone's health insurance coverage is coercive, and companies can choose how to play that card.

In the organization I work with, we commonly offer to pay COBRA premiums for several months for employees whose behavior appears to be in the context of a mental health crisis, yet they persist in engaging in threatening behaviors and would rather separate than take medical leave.

This unfortunately is related to the lack of insight that is common during symptom exacerbations of serious mental illness, but we feel it is our last option to try to A) help the person recover even if they don't work with us anymore and B) hopefully help attenuate any threat they may pose to themselves or our organization.
I lost $8K on a $40M sale. Lost another $10K when a company "extinguished" prior shares (they are now worth $7B).

This is basically legalized gambling with a house that's allowed to have a rigged table. If you want to do well, become a senior engineer at a FAANG.
Frankly, probably the only thing worse than the flat designs are the skeuomorphic designs. Bring back the Windows95-like. Give me edges, shadows and colours, all clearly indicating what the heck this bunch of pixels is meant to be. But without pretending it's a yellowing leather-bound notepad.
Why are they trying to compare the required manifest to blockchain? Seems like an unnecessary comparison for SEO
- protest can be very effectively suppressed

- media remain in favour of the government (and will do all the way down)

- incredibly weak opposition

- no organizing locus outside of media and opposition

- no tradition of mainland political violence

- not actually that bad

- if the UK can shrug off 138k deaths from COVID, and the ongoing crisis of foodbanks, we can shrug this off too
Even at FAANG, not enough people have the seniority for their base salary to turn them into buyers of $10m homes. I appreciate your point that RSUs are different from options, but I still think it's indicative that cash rarely comprises the majority of the wealthy people's income.
In Rome (US) do like the romans (Google). They just give them Bing to search telemetry data.
> Louis Barclay the extension author felt that unfollowing everything improved his Facebook experience and helped him break his Facebook addiction.

Addiction broken.
Looks neat, although a pricing page would be helpful on the site.
Does it finally automatically mount my network shares?
Show HN: Turn any website into a GraphQL API
This a teaser trailer of a small project i’m building. What do you think?
What is this telemetry? My OS, computer model, IP, and VSCode version? Why is this so bad in comparison to any other web application or many other apps these days? I know many are up in arms about it, but what exactly is the hidden danger here? More ads about computer studs sold via a the meager Bing ads market?
>> with private media in this country having a financial motivation to knowingly lie is pretty reprehensible.

> That can be balanced-out with other media outlets voicing other side.

It's entirely possible to counter balance something with a lie, neither the original or response being the truth, which doesn't help inform the viewers either.
Microsoft Just Became the First Big Company to Commit to Right to Repair
This was before TOPS-20 and DEC borrowed a lot of ideas from TENEX into TOPS-20 while maintaining backwards compatibility with TOPS-10.

I had arrived at USC just after they had converted USC-ECLC to TENEX and connected it via the LA IMP to USC-ISI. I think it was host #32 on the ARPANET but I don't trust my memory well enough to swear to it :-).

Such a fun architecture the DEC-10, I'm glad you can run both TOPS and TENEX on simh, there are still good things to be learned there.
With Steam and/or Proton
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
At some point I have to wonder if it is actual racists or HN users poking holes into moderation, security, etc. This seems a bit too niche to be the target of random actual racists.
What is the appeal of WebKit?
These are all corporate sources that openly brag about censoring content. My favorite is when they censored an academic conference on censorship. Straight out of a Monty Python skit.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-censorship-conference-ce...

The HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26008217
Funny, I'd say there's less, no, a LOT less, startup / business oriented discussion here than in the past. To me, the big thing that has emerged over the past few years has been a lot more "stuff" that can loosely be described as "politics / culture / public policy / society" or whatever. And if I could wave a magic wand and change anything, I'd ban that stuff. Because I agree,

"I'd like to see conversations about software, hardware, computer science, and hacker culture resurge and dominate here"

That said, there is still a lot of that stuff. But the proportion of various topics have definitely shifted over the years.
The whole setup with WSLg is pretty nice. Virt-manager works, but more importantly with nested AMD virtualization (which I believe is indeed limited to Windows 11; Windows 10 has nested Intel support, though) it was super easy to use macOS-Simple-KVM[0] to run a Mac VM, even if the FS performance isn't great and I don't have an extra AMD card lying around to passthrough for hardware acceleration.

0: https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
Reddit comment explains that the software that handles app sideloading gets preinstalled by carriers: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/q4nltn/comment/...
Is this still the case? When living in Poland 15 years ago I had an account with WBK and they had this idiotic system where I had to write my password on a piece of paper with numbers below to be able to give the 3rd, 5th and 11th character. Goodbye password managers (at least the automatization part).

Then, suddenly, they got back to a normal login and password (I think I had the choice IIRC) but then I left the country.

Poland is a beautiful country, I lived in Krakow for a few years and it was A-WE-SOME.
How has China ‘pushed’ Australia at all?
Don’t miss the nice retrospective about Tenex by Dan Murphy on the same website domain - https://opost.com/tenex/hbook.html
ScummVM is an outstanding project. Originally an interpreter for the LucasArts SCUMM engine games, it has now seemingly become effectively a centralised home for assorted open source game engine reimplementations.

I sometimes like to say that the Linux kernel is the world's largest collection of open source drivers, with a decent kernel attached; ScummVM is like that for old video game engines.

Really, this is an incredibly valuable thing not just in practical terms for enabling people to play these games on different systems and with open source code, but as I see it this is a significant culture and heritage preservation effort too. Having these open source reimplementations ensures these games remain available to future generations.

I also think it's pretty interesting to consider just how many of these engines had to be completely reverse engineered, and the time investment that implies. The effort to develop the engine in the first place probably took multiple people much effort when these games were first developed, and those programmers were paid; reverse engineering is harder and requires more effort and tenacity, and yet we still see a seeming overabundance of fully-functional complete reimplementations.

One of the things I find fascinating about this is how the original programmers effectively cause the creation of the subsequent project, and their design decisions determine how successful that project is. The reimplementation project is like a weird "echo" through history, echoing off the original engine, caused by it yet done by wholly separate people, who are reduced to piecing through the original binaries like some act of software archeology, yet are motivated to do so by the merits of the original game. In other words, suppose you wrote a random engine for a company many decades ago, complete with assorted warts, retrospectively questionable design decisions, and kludges that were ultimately put in just to ship on time. It must be pretty weird to find, decades later, that random hobbyists have rebuilt every piece of that architecture, painstakingly replicating every aspect of the original architecture, reproducing it as some verbatim gospel, even if it was something you barely put any thought into at the time.
A closely related topic is "the tail of game sales." You will probably find game developers talking about it if you search for that. Honestly, though, the (frankly ridiculous) propensity for pre-order success radically upsets this argument.
This has been known for 100 years, the mussel byssal threads do indeed bond and stick under water. This deals with the mechanism, so it is indeed good news.
Plus mine has a sensor too, so the fan is only loud when it needs to be.
I'd argue that YouTube has a better UX than a large majority of sites on the internet. If it was actually terrible, no one would use it.
The reason it's cost effective in those circumstances is because it's produced from hydrogen rich fossil fuels. If you want to use renewable energy to produce it, you'd likely have to fall back onto electrolysis, which is cost prohibitive because of material cost. If you check out DOE research, they point out capital necessary for materials as the factor that needs to come down, as efficiency is already > 50%: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

If you just want 'hydrogen from any source' and aren't trying to get off fossil fuels, then yes, the materials costs are that horrible. But I don't believe that's where anyone is going with this conversation.
There was no one click
Address Line 1
Address Line 2

Is the only way to do this, btw. any other options are going to be broken in other locations. I’m thinking specifically of apartment/unit number, eg

Street address
Apartment number

This seems equivalent, but due to country specific differences, street and apartment is impossible to do correctly, or at least way harder than using line 1, line 2. This is because sometimes apartment number should come first, other times street needs to come first so the user has to second-guess your system in order to get mail delivered, while numbered lines are (hopefully) less ambiguous.
There were times in the first half of my career when I intentionally cultivated the illusion that I was an expert. Really, I just had a decent overview, plus documentation-reading skills. This led to me being promoted beyond my abilities, and it bit me at least once. Over time, the reality of my skills and the perception balanced out, so I wasn’t pretending anymore.
Is there anything wrong with just "stealing" market share from bigger companies with some unique features?

I see it all the time, these services definitely have a product market fit. It's just very small.
I'm a consulting hypnotist (hypnotherapist), albeit with a strong technical side (e.g., I've trained my employees to use desktop Linux for remote work).

I'm essentially in the business of thinking clearly about client problems and communicating that thinking as effectively as possible, which means that I gravitate toward communities that take pride in the same. Although this is a technically oriented forum, I find many of the discussions here to be intelligent and thought-provoking, especially when they have to do with philosophy, psychology, sociology, economics or business -- those topics that we all must be concerned with, whether we work in tech or not.
I wonder how practical this is in reality. Production databases need Day 2 operations and capabilities like backups, replication, etc. Enclaves aren’t connected to the network, so you can’t practically back them up, nor can you replicate them for HA or DR purposes.
A founder-friendly term sheet is not necessarily an employee-friendly term sheet, but a founder-unfriendly term sheet is 100% of the time bad for employees as well (low valuations, liquidation preferences, etc). All things being equal, as an employee you want to be in the company where the founder is laughing all the way to the bank.
Isn't COVID unemployment all over now, though?
I created and deployed my first full-stack web application in just 4 days
I want similar, although I don't want oneDrive - the level of spying that's used for is unacceptable imho.
Doesn't look like it, this is using the "On-Device Platform" by Digital Turbine, which is used to preload bloatware onto phones. It's pre-installed on many phones for ad money.

Based off the "SingleTap" demo video, it even works in a browser on an ad, which is a bit scary.

According to the partners list, phone/provider brands affected are: Verizon, At&T, Samsung, LG, Xiaomi, Motorola, Panasonic, Acer, T Mobile, Cricket, US Cellular, America movil, Tracfone, Telfonica and Tim Gruppo Tim.
It gets better (or worse).

https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/4280/how-to-cl...
> The EULA is still an agreement.

Agreements can't violate the law. They most certainly cannot deny people their rights.

> Potential end users have an opportunity to not accept the agreement and walk away.

No, they can and should be able to use the software regardless of any abusive clauses included in the contract. Companies should be punished for even thinking they could get away with confusing laymen with their illegal conditions.

People have the right to reverse engineer. Companies are just gonna have to deal with it. It doesn't matter if they lose money.

> Undermining property rights has never resulted in freer societies.

Real property rights, yeah. Intellectual property is not real property. It barely makes sense in the 21st century.
I don’t think he was one.
>The Longest Journey

Oh YES one of, if not the best adventure game ever!! (HD patches strongly advised)

Thanks Residual and ScummVM Devs!!!
I've actually used a PID controller on my thrust vectoring rocket (actually there are two controllers, one for each axis). I made a sim to try and find the correct PID terms needed before flight :

https://codesandbox.io/embed/rocket-sim-final-with-position-...
Nothing at all to do with about 1/3rd of customers who refuse to get vaccinated against the pandemic and probably are extremely pushy and aggressive about not properly wearing PPE either?
Run “SELECT * FROM table” on the client side and give the results to them.
Pigs at least are susceptible to some of the same harmful digestive tract bacteria that we are.
The sound increases with the air pressure requirement. A true HEPA filter requires much greater air pressure than a typical air purifier filter.
Too late. Policy has been made and polls gauging the publics perceptions of said policies have already been taken. Now the pundits can use the fake polls from the retracted news items to justify ever more increasing regulation of daily life.
The key bit in the article:

If Apple wins the stay, which will be decided by a judge in November, a rule change potentially allowing developers to circumvent App Store fees of 15% to 30% may not take effect until appeals in the case have finished, a process that could take years.
I have been finishing up on also serving my Linux Phone site, FOSSphones, over Gemini.

https://fossphones.com
gemini://fossphones.com
Link should have been to Arch Linux. 3/10