skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory, yes. But even that is no guarantee. Travis Kalanick had control through supervoting shares at Uber, but the investors forced him to resign and passed governance changes that made all shares equal in voting power. Even with founders having voting power, it's possible for the board or investors to exert other leverage.
It's not as easy to participate in the informal economy as it used to be. Everything from one's bank to one's mobile number and govt id are linked. If you want to deposit funds in an exchange, you'll need some form of KYC--barring which your bank debit/credit card is linked anyway.

The banks, even before the ban (which has yet to come), were keeping track of customers making payments to exchanges. In some cases, they customers a letter, erroneously citing an central bank order banning cryptocurrencies that had later been struck down by the Supreme Court. Despite no regulation, they've been denying services to exchange, preventing their cards or UPI payment addresses being used to transact either. Most mobile wallets followed suit.

The only option that remained then was P2P. I should caveat that I'm not sure I fully understand how that works in this case, though.

The issue is there's no real anonymous way to pay someone besides cash, unless you already had a crypto account with a wallet that had been filled. So an informal economy will need a safe way of turning physical cash into crypto and vice versa, in a regulatory environment where it may be banned to transact cryptocurrencies.

Crypto adoption is a gradual curve where people will only slowly start putting their savings or investment funds into a crypto account.
You can meet North Koreans. US media generally doesn't have any interest in meeting them because they don't always answer questions about North Korea in the required way. US media prefers its North Koreans either silent or pitched to them by the wholly funded thinktanks of defense contractors.
See that's the thing. If we didn't have pennies, companies couldn't ask their customers to fund as much of their tax writeoff every year when they ask them to round up for some random cause.
> But by softening the feedback so much that it becomes fuzzy, the feedback-giver has inadvertently set up their teammate to fail.

I'm reminded of the idea of Yes, and... [0]. Seems like a great idea for improv comedy, but it's a terrible idea for clear and mature argumentation, where the goal should be to find the root of disagreement rather than to pretend no disagreement exists. Hard to imagine serious philosophers using that kind of approach, for instance.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and
This article doesn’t identify any statistical problems. It just points out that it would be possible to get a misleading result if you handle your data incorrectly. It provides no actual evidence that such a mishandling is actually occurring.
Plastic Waste Release Caused by COVID-19 and its Fate in the Global Ocean
Imagine if bartenders offered alcoholics 20% off if they bought two
What if Facebook never filed? Would Apple never be able to act on this?

If they would have acted, why didn't they do it before Facebook?
A top comment from reddit's sysadmin forum that is apropos:

> If SpaceX can list pricing for launching a payload into space on their website, you can do the same for your [...] software.

If I want to use your software as-is without access to your developers to prioritize features, there isn't a need for "enterprise" approaches.
Once their market share is so small that it doesn't protect Google from the next round of monopoly discussion anymore, they'll probably pull the plug anyway. It's a shame.
That's the amount of the wage increase, not their total wages.
That was already their second gig. They made their first millions by copying eBay for Germany and selling it back to eBay 100 days after incorporation.
To be fair, the ISS is already about 100m long, albeit not pressurized sections.
Proof and the Art of Mathematics
The interfaces have almost been reduced to a couple of options: A single mobile wallet, or P2P.

A ban would force the wallet's company to stop allowing its use on crypto exchanges.
Can we expect IPO next year :p ?
2advanced would be proud.
Costco is not low-end; it is inexpensive, but that is because its revenue model is near-zero margin on items with its profit derived from membership charges, focuses on large package sizes, etc. Reputation for quality is part of what helps it sell memberships, so its important.
Recently

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/three...
I've asked my landlord if they would let me buy back the quarters from them since it's such a pain getting them in a coin shortage. They didn't respond. Rent is already in the thousands, really my landlord should just stomach the $8 they get off me from the laundry room a month and just make it free. I'd honestly pay my landlord even higher rent if I didn't have to deal with getting rolls of quarters.
Different size class. The Outback is a lifted large sedan with an extended trunk, there aren't any vehicles on the market that compare to it except perhaps the Toyota Venza.

Outback "competes" with the crossovers which are usually shorter in length and have taller interior space.
(Not a lawyer, but this is the correct answer)

As much as people might look at this and think Apple is being heavy-handed, it comes down to the fact that iCloud, iOS, and the App Store are their IP and they can (within legal limits) set whatever terms they please.

Especially for these sorts of arrangements, it seems like a problem to me if the platform/IP owner doesn't have absolute, final discretion over what happens.

Giving them the right to destroy your business at any time or at least try very hard to make it unprofitable shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
> vaccination ... doesn't protect you from getting infected and infecting others

Thankfully, this is wrong on both counts.

1) Vaccinated people are significantly less likely to contract the virus

2) Breakthrough infections are significantly less contagious than infections in nonimmune persons

There's a good article diving into this at https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/22/most-pern...
You’re wrong here.

It’s not about recently infected. It’s about deaths per day of unvaccinated. If the amount of death among the unvaccinated is going down daily then it is. It has nothing to do with recently infected because at some point some of those people may die next week or the week after and it will be reported then.
What are the economics like on prepared drinks? Seems like transporting a bunch of water around is wasteful and expensive. I guess the revenues are so much greater than costs it doesn't matter - but here we have them shrinking the portion size.
> A pain point in for loops is getting that right, e.g. there isn’t a good way to iterate over files with spaces in them using a for loop

If those files came as arguments, you can use a for-loop as long as they're kept in an array:

for f in "${files[@]}";

That handles even newlines in the filenames, while I'm not sure if you can handle that with a while-read-loop. IFS=$'\0' doesn't seem to cut it.

for-loops seem preferable for working with filenames. If a command is generating the list, then something like `xargs -0` is preferable.
That's just keyboard elitism. You wouldn't be so bothered by them if they had a proper shift-key/fn-key press. Maybe you should step outside of your ASCII bubble an realize there's a whole world of Unicode to explore that can't be encompassed by a double key-stroke.
I think Douglas Baldwin's sous vide guide is a relevant aside to this discussion of pathogens on food.

https://douglasbaldwin.com/sous-vide.html
I’ve been heavily critical of Apple for their on device scanning plans but credit where it’s due. This act hopefully exposes the sheer abuse of Public funds to find and exploit vulnerabilities and somehow those same vulns find themselves in the commercial domain, available to the fucking despots in the Middle East and wherever else?

It’s about time those that took the oath to protect the nation from harm step up and do so instead of creating a million more problems by shipping these exploits off to a later time while they sit on them.
A whiny post was made before they have had the chance to respond to your support request, for a free service. Poor form.
Blizzard has been following the money like crazy, while Riot Games has been doing passion project after passion project. I think that pays off.
I would think a space colony would have to be far more authoritarian than the earth. In space much more can go wrong without a central authority with almost absolute power which makes it easier to dictate green space.
The findings from Salesforce example:

1. A lack of automation with safeguards for DNS changes
2. Insufficient guardrails to enforce the Change Management process
3. Subversion of the Emergency Break Fix (EBF) process

It looks a lot like somebody tried to push their agenda (personal or organizational) and write points that suit their preferred solution rather than try to understand actual causes of the outage.

These findings are essentially "Somebody made a mistake, let's remove accesses and/or put more controls on the process so that people are not even able to make a mistake".

This seems to be very low trust environment. My experience tells me the most likely course of action is that even if the problem is fixed, it is going to happen at the cost of more overhead in the process and making it even more low-trust, causing more damage in the long run.

You can apply this kind of flawed reasoning ("somebody made a mistake -- nobody can be trusted with it again") to any problem and soon nobody can do anything on their own. Productivity plummets. People are becoming disinterested in their work (try to be "engaged" when management takes all your tools away). Management blames people for not being able to do even basic things -- loosing even more trust and pushing even more solutions like that. Vicious cycle.

Take for example point #3.

How about figuring out WHY people need or feel they need to subvert EBF process? Isn't it rational to assume that if people have been subverting the process they might have actual reason to do so? Maybe their regular process is too onerous and they are using emergency process to meet deadlines? Maybe the effort should be directed at improving the regular process so that they don't have reason to subvert it?
I did an experiment on the interstate and drove at highway speeds to see if the mpg was comparable. It wasn't, so there's definitely another factor there. Here they cut groves in the concrete pavement on the interstate where as the highways are smooth asphalt. I've wondered if maybe rolling resistance is also a factor here. It was a pretty huge difference. Like more than 10% IIRC.
Would turning cash into crypto outside of the banking system not be considered money laundering?
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/autofill

Basically: when you focus an input textbox Android asks the service for autocompletion, and then you can choose one of the options which is entered as if the user has typed it. The service already has the password, and the destination app can only get it when you select it (same as if you write it yourself).

In the opposite scenario when you enter data in some inputs Android asks the service if it is interested in them (but without sending the content). If it does, it asks the user, and only when the user accepts the password/content is sent to the service.

In any case, you need to explicitly choose if you want to use or change a service for this purpose, and only one can be enabled at any time.
> literally treating any piece of software running on the device as a potential threat vector even more than they already do

Sounds amazing. Every operating system should be designed this way. Only free software should have full access. Proprietary software cannot be trusted and must be regulated and controlled.
This sucks. From the outside, Mozilla management just seems incompetent, killing good product after good product while not launching anything worthwhile to replace them.
Half of the atmosphere from a Ringworld is a stupendous amount of gas. 100 years is basically nothing on the timescales you need to think about when building a Ringworld.

You might be able to slow down the loss of gas by putting lips on the tops of the walls and maybe even air jets blowing downward though. Or leave it mostly closed except for a few openings for spacecraft to enter or leave. Also, working out the practical considerations for a Ringworld is an exercise in futility anyway. You are already well beyond practical when you start building one.
Ossia looks impressive. Does it use Qt or some other GUI library?
The comment where a single person said that they heard that the elites of North Korea have fairly normal daily lives?

Are you saying that HN is biased because they haven't deleted the comment and tried to have the poster arrested for supporting terrorism?
what demographic has a 1 in 50k chance of dying from the vaccine but a 1 in 200k risk of dying from covid?
Indeed. No more than any other farm animal really.
Thank you! There isn’t a way to submit directly, rather it searches via the vendors. The base data is via the iTunes Search API[0] which is surprisingly accessible. Then it tries to grab more data from the other vendors.

Originally, I built it so all access was programmatic, it never stored anything but rather just triggered API calls, a bit of scraping and a matching algorithm.

But it does have database backed models now so you could technically add releases directly. Although deduping might be a bit of a nightmare.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Au...
That accusation is actually not supported by the facts, as detailed elsewhere in this thread.
I am most intrigued by Calendly valuation and their game plan.
Banks can block accounts of centralized exchanges (and have done so in the past when govt asked them to). And once conversion from and to fiat money is disabled, there's very little value left in cryptocurrency.
I sometimes feel like that and agree with other comment about the oncologist.

To add one cent: most of us have to be "productive" in a sense that requires us to use a LOT of abstractions.

The author went the other way, understanding how things work under the hood in quite a deep level.

It's truly awesome, but you also have to appreciate how abstractions have their place in modern software dev industry.
Transparency is the most important tool in becoming a better society.
Europe has very progressive policies on some level, but also very regressive or unfriendly policies for business owners. Classic example is bankruptcy. In the US, chapter 11 is done as an almost routine "get me out of debt". This was impossible in Europe until very recently (EU Restructuring Directive, July 2021 was the deadline to implement).

Personal bankruptcy is another good example where Europe just has no equivalent.
that whole saga was so fascinating. the culprit ended up (likely) being one of the scientists involved, with the motive of justifying funding into anthrax research. because of the incredibly low mutation rate of anthrax, they couldn't identify the strain by DNA testing.

they had to do new science to fingerprint strains based on the quantities of different populations in the samples vs. the bottles - an investigation the culprit himself was involved in. as they uncovered the flask responsible and the very limited number of people who could get their hands on it, the attacker killed himself.
It's hard to participate in a funding round when you don't have much money, as the parent says.
You can seek to block cryptocurrencies but you can't block decentralised protocols.

P.S: I'm someone important at LongShort.Finance
Note: parent comment to my comment stealth edited, in case anyone else noted the difference in quote and comment.

Point understood regardless. Basically enterprise sales are unwilling to sell a product, would prefer to sell an associated labor cost.

My prioritization remains though. If you obfuscate price, I want as little to do with your product as possible.
What Trump believes or uses for his political gain does not magically become incorrect by virtue of being believed or used by Trump. I don't think you're trying to suggest anything as silly as that, but still worth explicitly pointing out.

Trumpian tempests should remain in a teapot of their own, and lab leak theory should be discussed on its own merit. Xenophobia innuendos and "but Trump" dog whistles are unhelpful in sussing out the truth.
The market today is so big that many competitors can live side by side . At least in B2B. I mean there are hundreds of CRM companies.

You can have other companies eat your lunch. All you need is to get into a default alive state. I.e. have 5-10K MRR. The rest is nice to have. It should be possible in any billion dollar market.
It absolutely makes a difference, because we need to stop this from happening again. We can't just accept that labs are going to continue to release dangerous viruses and then just deal with the effects every time.
This isn't a very good comparison. It singles out certain products that are probably the worst deals in the store. I am a very value contentious person and there's so many things that are great values at Dollar Tree. To name a few:

1. Dishwasher pods 10/$1.00. The best deal I've found anywhere.
2. Seeds packs 4/$1.00 - local hardware store sells the same seeds for $1 a pack.
3. Office supplies - 10 packs of ballpoint pens, 8 packs of steno-sized paper pads clipboards, poster board, foam core
4. Pasta and beans are cheaper than most of the grocery stores around here.
5. Kosher salt and other spices
6. CA (superglue) in various bottles add pack sizes.
7. 100% cotton t-shirts
8. Mylar balloons and other party supplies
9. Ziplock bags, sandwich baggies, etc.
10. There's often random bulk buys that get orders of some name brand thing in that's a really good price ($1 for a $5 or $10 item, for example).
> [snip] that doesn’t mean people need to talk so dismissively and condescendingly of them “recruiter spam” and such.

What else would you call an unsolicited, undesired, insincere, largely irrelevant, automated message if not "spam"?
Myself and a group of friends were RF hackers back in the early 90's. It was really easy to do and honestly back then, people didn't overshare like they do today. It was (and is) not hard to keep things in our past a secret.
Both list look very similar, where is exactly the censorship?
Ltds are a common thing all around the world and work as you'd expect. What OP mentions seems to be specific to Portuguese law.
>The only points that can be controlled are interfaces with banks.

That's... A big deal?
"What if Facebook never filed? Would Apple never be able to act on this?"

If there wasn't precedent that Apple's TOS venue clause was binding, then the case would have been thrown out as I just previously explained.

"If they would have acted, why didn't they do it before Facebook?"

Because the case would have been dismissed as I just explained.
Headlines like this sound more like they're trying to convince the reader of something that isn't actually happening.
Soon $3.50 tree.
Ditto. I came to HN after seeing the email, looking for the best way to migrate my passwords out of Lockwise.

Well, still looking. They are outta here.
>You can't seriously expect people to tolerate restrictions indefinitely.

I honestly think there's a small percentage of society which would, we've all come across people out there with the personality trait of being utterly unable to resist wagging their fingers at their fellow human beings. Whatever your opinion on the restrictions and their effectiveness, nobody with eyes can deny that this social finger-wagging has been a huge part of the zeitgeist of the last two years.

I'm hoping that this attitude starts to die off as covid becomes endemic because aggressive moral authoritarianism rarely ends well for people who have a less black-and-white view of the world.
What does state-sponsor mean here exactly? Is NSO supported by Israel intelligence?

And if charges are laid against NSO, will its sponsors be charged/sanctioned too (for sponsoring terrorism)?

If this was a company in another country, the reaction would have been totally different (in some cases calls for bombing would have been made, and continued for decades).
Unless you want to spend the money abroad.
I biked over to the employee health center yesterday and got my Moderna booster. Early April and May were when I went for the initial vaccinations.

34 Male, 31.2 BMI

I'm going to Las Vegas after Christmas, don't want anything disrupting the fun.
What Is Qtum (QTUM)?
Why are vaccinated people under 60 are dying at a higher rate than unvaccinated in England?

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/vaccinated-english-adult...
The go gc was greatly improved in the versions subsequent to the ones used by Discord. The timing there was unfortunate.
Are we just talking about cel-shading here, or something more specific? cel-shading goes back at least to Jet Set Radio in 1999 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Set_Radio).
Every Israeli citizen, except religious extremists, serves in the IDF or equivalent; if you look useful to the intelligence apparatus, that's where you'll end up.

You literally cannot find an Israeli company that isn't founded, run, and staffed by people with military or intelligence links, unless you're only dealing with religious extremists.
Mozilla is out of their minds to think that paying their top executive $2.4 million per year for 2018 onward (and rising exponentially, it was "only" $1 million a year in 2016) is a good idea.

It's egregious by average nonprofit levels, particularly one that advocates "ethics" like Mozilla, and considering they laid off a major part of the development team, that's like 20 developers.

Hiring 20 developers to work on your core product so that Google keeps paying you, versus raising the top executive's pay for absolutely no good results other than adding failing side projects. Insanity.
in europe, you cannot file for personal bankrupcy. you will be stuck with debt forever.
This is nice. I have CI config on GitLab that builds and publishes the documentation automatically to "GitLab pages" with MkDocs and in the process to add something to push to PyPI automatically as well for that project, and we're in the process of adding Docker image building and pushing to a registry a spart of the CI as well (exploring Kaniko: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko)

I also subscribe to several GitHub repositories' RSS on Thunderbird. I read release notes for libraries we depend on regularly, as well as their commit logs to predict the direction they're taking in some parts of interest.
Those used to be 8oz cans, too, I think.
Ellsworth is a personal hero of mine - incredibly smart, wildly talented and has a real vision for this space.

All that being said, it's a nightmare of a space which is why I don't think there's been a big funding event for Tilt5.

"Meta View" was an AR company that raised $75mil, had a star studded list of VR/AR technology folks, only ever shipped a couple thousand units and now is defunct.

Magic Leap raised $3.5 Billion and now has given up on shipping a consumer device (Enterprise only).

Microsoft's Hololens exited consumer applications even earlier, enterprise only.

Oculus Quest is the most successful consumer VR tech (about 5 million sold) but it's really unclear if they're anywhere close to turning a profit and they've spent tons to try and jump start game developers in VR.

Tilt5 would require from the ground up games to be made, large volumes of orders/units to be profitable and even if all that came together could still be kneecapped by chip shortages and supply chain issues.
This reminds me of an argument I had a few Thanksgivings ago with an aunt who loudly proclaimed that the $0.49 can of black beans from the bargain store is exactly the same as the $3.49 can of black beans from the supermarket.