skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's only $29 inc worldwide shipping

Oh yeah, thanks for pointing that out. The one time I'm not in a shilly mood (Christmas and all) and the post actually gets interaction. Murphy's Law!

>Any plans to add an EU or UK distribution point?

Sorta kinda maybe. I did have one, but a whole lot of VAT compliance bullshit caught up with me. In most countries, GST/VAT is handled automatically by large eCommerce platforms (if you sell something on eBay to an Aussie, for example, we'll pay 10% GST regardless of the item's physical location and the seller won't even necessarily know).

However, the EU requires every single individual business with any stock located on EU soil to register and file individually in every single country where the stock is distributed regardless of revenue. I can only assume this is to create jobs for bureaucrats.

Now that Brexit has happened and the UK's laws have changed to something sane, I'll probably get something set up over there. This will be months, though. Trying to set up a (different) startup while raising a small child means a lot of Espotek stuff gets pushed to the side!
Please keep working on this.
surprised to see Windows users so high in the survey. any selection bias going on here?
Bought an NFT for 0.25 ETH on Decentraland that is making me more than 500$ USD per month. Does that count?
What is the point of remote start with a modern vehicle in the 21st Century? Report of this blowback reminds me of "Everything Is Amazing, and No One is Happy." [1] Perhaps in the 1970's during Winter in the Northern regions, remote start might have once had a valid reason to exist, but not any more. "Auto experts today say that you should warm up the car no more than 30 seconds before you start driving in winter."[2] So who are these idiots insisting on wasting their own money and gas for absolutely no personal benefit while spewing atmospheric carbon and air pollution?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBtKNzoKZ4

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/12/29/the-b...
Suppose you have a network 192.168.0.0/24, with the router at 192.168.0.1, and you want the DHCP server to hand out dynamic addresses from 192.168.0.50 to 192.168.0.240 to clients, and hand out static IPs from 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.49 to specific identified devices via static leases. Those static IPs are outside the configured IP range for the DHCP server, intentionally.
Performance only matters if you are in competition with others. You can win a marathon by crawling if you’re the only participant.

Who are Google’s serious competitors? Sure there are other search engines but I’d argue that none are serious or even marginal threats.

People will tolerate sub-optimal experiences if they perceive they don’t have any option; just ask anyone who has stood in line at the DMV.

The first sign of a monopoly is a rapid performance degradation which can’t be explained by economics of scale and which did not exist in prior versions of a product. Free market forces and incentive structures no longer apply to monopolies, which is why many large corporations can get away with sloppy work and treating their customers poorly, but do not see much if any consequences. Behavior that would have been disastrous in a startup is tolerable in a large corporation operating as a monopoly.

A product owner or dev at Google would be committing career suicide if they started to care about performance at this point, because that would not result in any appreciable changes or outcomes consistent with the incentive structures at Google.
I wish every person in silicon valley would read this blog post instead of being in the cult of Bezos worship.

https://deep-throat-ipo.blogspot.com/2018/05/amazon-walmartc...
TIL about the :target pseudoselector. I've actually written JS to implement this functionality because i didnt know about it. embarrassed.
We created a fitness app, available in iOS and Android. Currently it made 200$/month, hope to grow to 500$/month soon. Spend most of time to work with a professional trainer to create contents.

https://apps.apple.com/am/app/fityou-lose-weight-in-30-days/...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vietfitnes...
Can also recommend. It provides a great overview of the climate change problem and all the components of the solution we have, the economics of them, and what is still missing. This gets you up to speed on what will change in your life in the future. I believe it also provides a nice insight into Bill Gates' investment portfolio, quite a few of the startups working on solutions to the climate crisis are part of it.
Dishonesty is the Second Best Policy by David Mitchell.

I've long been a fan of David Mitchell, and his writing in this book and also Thinking About it Only Makes it Worse is utterly hysterical.
I always knew my home country was dark but, geez…

/ Greetings from Sweden.
At this point any system that is running this should not be called "UNIX derived" or "UNIX like" as systemd has subsumed all of the pre-existing architecture around system startup and management. Not arguing if that is a good or bad thing just saying we should stop putting systemd managed systems in the 'UNIX' column just like we don't put Windows NT systems in the UNIX column.
> People will tolerate sub-optimal experiences

Implying the Google Search homepage loading experience is sub-optimal? Chrome starts loading it before you finish typing google.com on your keyboard.
I definitely understand where you're coming from. One can make the argument that a search engine is used with an incredible amount of frequency for most people – dozens of times per day. It should be worth a lot.

One thing that's great about search engines in terms of entrepreneurship fundamentals is that is is such a massive market. You only need a fraction of a percent to be a viable business, I'm sure.

I can also understand how underpricing a product can be a big mistake. Somebody who wants this kind of product has already made the conscious decision to pay. Pricing a product too low can be a signal that it's not a good product.

Perhaps one might say that this is an example of how complexity and cost of production is a bit detached from the customer's willingness to pay. The most complex software product, the operating system, is essentially given away for free. People are mostly not willing to pay for it, even businesses don't want to anymore. On the other end of the spectrum, there are SaaS products with very low levels of complexity pulling in a lot more than $0.

If it's truly barely breaking even at $10/month, that fascinates me. It must mean that search engines have to do a lot of computing.

In any event, I wish you the best, because the features do look cool. I like the idea of being able to set site preferences (e.g., when I search for a movie I might like to see Wikipedia over IMDB).
> I just produced painting 123 and generated NFT 456 for it on the Ethereum blockchain"

Upon which you have to trust the artist that they actually did produce the painting themselves, and own the copyright to it, and are authorized to mint an NFT of it. If it later turns out they didn't, the NFT is a fraud. So you're still relying on centralized trust.

You also have to trust the artist not to "double-spend" their work and put it up as an NFT elsewhere or sell its copyright. The NFT itself is not tied to copyright, so there is no legal nor technical protection here.

NFTs are solid blockchain technology resting on a foundation of centralized trust (sure, distributed, but still individually centralized). It's completely against everything those crypto people claim they stand for and they don't even realize it.

It's in the damn name too. Non-Fungible Token. Token. Not Picture. The only thing you're buying and selling is a meaningless token.

I say this every time NFTs come up: go commission some custom artwork from your favorite artist instead, the normal way. At least that way you'll have something unique and personal instead of a procedurally generated monkey, and you don't need cryptononsense to know it's yours.
It's really absurd to call any labor performed by Uygur inside China forced labor. Are Uygurs so lazy to deny any labor? Or can they not prefer working in factories than, say, farming or herding cattles?

As to the ideology and gratitude part, I think people may alter their ideology if they so choose. After all, the Romans switched to Christianity, and slavery was once legal in the States. And people should be able to express gratitude to people giving them a chance to work for a better life. Even now, people from abroad are moving into the States to work, are they all forced labor?
Here it is: https://mailman.science.ru.nl/pipermail/clean-list/2002/0021...

The code I've asked contains two calls instead of one, aside of that it was quite simple and would allow at least Russian users of Clean to have proper dialog titles.

I guess it is nothing like "major piece of work". It was a fix for peculiarities of Windows UI of that era - dialog titles required different approach than dialog fields.
And now it's even less scalable to larger sites because you're forcing the eager loading of resources on pages you'll never click on.
For me, it's that it's almost guaranteed a C++ compiler is available for the platform I'm targeting. This could be for various reasons, but it's usually either:

1. The chip isn't supported by LLVM (which most new languages use)

2. The platform owner /requires/ the use of their C++ only SDK and will not approve any other compilers for use on their app store, so C++ becomes the "machine language" of that platform.
I get that you live in a tent and eat peanuts and lentils everyday with water? Imagine if you calculate your savings with this lifestyle. You could retire a decade before everyone else!
I think this is substantially cleverer than merely "not using frameworks". Nobody's surprised you can do this without a framework, but I suspect a good number would be surprised you can do it without Javascript.
Agreed, also no judgement here as well.

I propose: "UNIX-ish" or Sysd type Linux.

Shit, what am I thinking!

GNU LINUX was the older discussion and development.

SYSTEMD LINUX is likely most applicable nomenclature, given current development.
My uber driver a couple nights ago had a 2022 Hyundai Sonata. Rear facing cameras so his eyes did not have to go far when he wanted to change lanes (which he did a lot at 90+mph). I could see from the rear seat that his front passenger tire pressure was low by about 5 psi (!!!).

I was impressed by the tech package on the vehicle but had all the same concerns: What is this thing going to be like in a few years?

Well. I have a 2013 Golf which came with a pretty sweet 2 DIN media head unit. 250 dollars and I have an android replacement head unit which supports all the steering wheel buttons and shows various status info based on a direct connection to the CANBus.

Granted: my car is far simpler than a 2022 Sonata. However there is a bustling aftermarket which can future proof your vehicle (somewhat). Assuming the car companies do not manage to lobby congress into outlawing aftermarket parts (and you can bet they would love to).
> ABS is banned in Formula 1. That should tell you everything you need to know about whether humans brake as well as a computer

Not at all. It tells you something about whether Formula 1 drivers brake as well as a computer. Most humans driving cars have a very different level of driving skill from a Formula 1 driver -- especially when it comes to handling extreme conditions that they don't often encounter.
Weed doesn't help me program at all. It just conspires with my ADD to ensure that I have a really fun time playing video games. :) However, it does help with a lot of ancillary things: Helps me relax and reduces physical stress and tightness, helps me sleep, helps me enjoy workouts more (dunno how that one works).

I've basically stopped doing weed altogether though, except on holidays and vacations when I really feel comfortable forgetting all responsibility for awhile.
Uhm... you're not alone :s
WHERE should we do this?!

The whole point to Grindr is that you can meet so many people online. It's not about replacing flirting, which you're suggesting. People flirt on Grindr -- don't worry. I think you need some experience in how the hook up scene works to really understand it....
Good luck! It's always nice to have more options available.
I also routinely make visualizations of geographic and weather data (including satellite imagery) as part of my job and it doesn't surprise me.
Once you've 1) acquired the data you need (in this case, we're talking about images of countries without clouds and corrected for exposure across the Earth) and 2) fixed your data (because it's never in the shape you want, or the map projection you need), the core of the algorithm can seem pretty trivial sometimes, especially because R and GDAL come with a very large set of ready-to-use algorithms (and I'll never thank the creators of their respective libs enough for that).
Please, don't make me run React to read your document, and don't make my device parse Markdown and generate HTML on each visit. This is wasteful. I and the planet should not suffer because you decided to author your book using Markdown (which is a fine format, but my browser does not understand it natively). A virtual book is best served as plain old static HTML pages. Shareable links is indeed an impressive feature, but it has been a given on the Web since 1991, I think we don't need to be impressed by it in 2021.

You can add some JS here and there for the few really interactive elements of the document but my browser already has all the features to render documents and links perfectly fine. People have been able to "click around" since 1991 and we never needed to download, parse and execute 2MB of JS for this.

Your book is probably big, and I'm probably not reading it in one go, so if it includes images and videos, downloading it all is probably unnecessary and the book is probably best split in several HTML pages. If you want to allow me to consult it offline, that's very kind and noble. Just put a zip file somewhere I can download.

Sorry for the rant, but I'm a bit fed up by having to download run megabytes of Javascript I can't control (and even read, because yay, bundles!!) to browse the web, just because.
The government has asked people to eat healthier and to exercise for years. What do you propose they do in addition that you think will have a large enough effect on obesity to affect COVID outcomes but be less divisive than current policies around getting vaccinated? At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if merely increasing public health messaging about obesity would cause many people to eat fried butter sticks out of spite.
As a frontend developer, I love this game, thank you.
i made an iOS keyboard app with custom fonts which makes 20$/month on in app purchases

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fonts-for-stories-reels-art/id...
I've spent the last two years building Syften for that purpose. What would you like to know?
Thanks for providing the link. It was surprisingly hard to find places to buy the book
> Ok, so you now seem to be conceding they likely didn’t lie or have intent to defraud people at the beginning

I feel like the first sentence of the post you're replying to says the opposite of "they likely didn't lie" and I wouldn't say I have "conceded they likely didn't intend to defraud people" either. I said they likely didn't intend to flagrantly violate the law, which is altogether a different claim.
The short answer is outsourcing.

The logistics are covered by a mixture of Amazon FBA (USA/Canada) and a Chinese 3PL company (all other countries). The only orders I handle myself are the Aussie ones, as well as large orders to overseas universities.

I try to keep at least 6 months' work of stock at any time spread across multiple locations. Given the way social media and online communities work, sales tend to be very bursty. When it got on Hackaday, for example, I sold something like $12k worth in a weekend.

I did run into issues at the start of COVID, as American universities would place huge orders or ask 100+ students to do it individually, but we're now robust to this too!

In terms of manufacturing, this is also outsourced. Full PCBAs are made by a group in Shenzhen. The only work done in-house is packaging them. Combined with the above, this makes the chain immune from the Slashdot effect. If (when) we go viral, I just fulfil every order remotely and then replenish the stock with a large order.
I totally agree, this was my best read of the year too.
Backwards compatibility is GOLD. I hope they will NEVER break it (too much) for Java...
It pairs well with Mark Fisher
Cool to hear CSP is considered your main competitor.

My wife is both a software dev and artist. She loves CSP - if you (and I) manage to sell her on Krita someday, I'll be impressed :)
While it's not a single HTML file, the framework Remix has been wonderful to work with and makes building complex websites and web apps without any client side JS exceptionally easy.
Ha, great parallel, thanks for pointing to this, but I think not. More likely, since I've had literary ambitions myself, I was really curios to find out what exactly keeps me immersed in this book. Technically, how does the author accomplish this? I have some clues: simple, casual language with occasional to-the-point metaphors, lots of dialogues, then stream-of consciousness-sections and philosophical cross-references out of the blue, hundreds and hundres of pages with no chapters, etc. Knausgård sure knows how to keep a strong pace. It's somewhat a mashup of all sorts of things, and so is life, isn't it?

In a way, it's like the Perl programming language, lol: often times impossible to read, and often times impossible to not read. Easy to get immersed in all that mess.

But I'm not entirely satisfied with that answer.

(Though, wow, man, grabbing in Perl -- this sure has to be the best ever metaphor used to describe the style of Knausgård's book.)
You had an FRS and just bought a BRZ.

I have really wondered how fun they are to drive. They are super fun, right?

They seem really fun and they look great.

Also, Be honest: Initial D fan?
I'm at a MWP provider that shares something in common with SpaceX ;-)

My only misgiving is that twitter itself is extremely negative, and that the signal to noise ratio (no pun intended) is fairly bad. I've been on the front lines of answering twitter during outages, and I'm scarred for life. It's been 6 years since I was at ASO and I just now can stomach visiting twitter without having a PTSD like response. So gathering review and comments from there is gonna be a hard one for me to swallow. I do like the fairness of the concept, but in practice I think the source (twitter) itself is flawed in this regard. I've seen people paying <$10/mo go to absolute war against a host on Twitter because the host wouldn't fix their hacked site. So... I'm biased against it lol.
Interesting. I read this book and became entirely disenchanted about the series (initially very excited as it was a favorite of my dad's, the TV show came out, Bill Gate, etc.).

A couple of the issues I had:
- The story is a bit contradictory in that "Psychohistory can't predict the live of 1 person" and then the story repetitively relies on a single person to pull people through Seldon Crises.

- The entire story is a stereo typical "battle of wits" and you can instantly predict who will win/lose by their emotionality (if they are emotional, they will lose, if they are calm, they will win).
A protip for Snow Crash is that you can just skip ahead 5-10 pages whenever there's an info dump about Babylonian grammar or the history of herpes simplex. You'll miss a bit, but not much. However if the first chapter doesn't get your interest at least a little piqued you probably won't enjoy the rest of the book any more.
I like to sync bookmarks, tabs, and history, tabs so if I open a page on my browser and leave it open, my phone will tell me what I am working on on the other machine. Same for history and bookmarks. There's really no downside I can think of in this feature.
I think most products from Microsoft are relevant in this context. Teams is horrible and every week another thing breaks. Almost every page by Microsoft takes more than 10 seconds to load on my side. Yet everyone including me uses it.
> in general a 'guilty mind' is a requirement in criminal law, no?

It's called "mens rea"
You’re authenticated here? What’s the difference?
Just an example! Being frugal is a balance, because if you go too far on the extreme of that spectrum you end up doing really crazy stuff to save money, and then die and leave your stash to your next of kin. That's certainly not what I'm advocating for!

Still, $5 for a cup of tea is a really terrible example because it's an incredible waste – tea is very easy to make. Technically, when you buy some tea somewhere else you're wasting time rather than saving it, since an electric kettle is much faster.

A mildly better example: at least when you pay $5 for a Starbucks nitro cold brew, you're getting something that isn't realistically available at home (unless you want to buy/clean/store/operate a nitrogen coffee kegerator).

$10/month for a search engine...I mean, you can just block ads and trackers for free. Microsoft literally pays you money to use their search engine. It's not like streaming services where paying for ad removal saves you time.
Why didn't he un-do it? Cost? It would open the platform up and take people away from Twitter (the platform itself, where the ads get displayed) which is bad for the stock?
Dr Morning's assertion is that "race is a social construct" is a minority position, and one that sociologists overemphasize.

This is very different from saying "race being a social construct is an idea of social justice ideology, not of science". She is arguing that the perceived consensus or widespread acceptance of the idea is wrong. You're asserting that "social justice [ideologists]" or sociologists (you seem to be using them interchangeably) themselves came up with the very idea.

We're 15 years later. Is it still a minority position? I honestly don't know. Based on OP, it seems like no, but maybe we're in the same position. But it was clearly never "an idea of social justice ideology, not of science"

> It wasn't a social construct, and its emergence as a recognized concept wasn't motivated by a desire to justify doing horrible things to people

So if our understanding of race was never a social construct, do tell what is the science behind this:

> Finally, I am of opinion that after all these numerous instances I have brought together of negroes of capacity, it would not be difficult to mention entire well-known provinces of Europe, from out of which you would not easily expect to obtain off-hand such good authors, poets, philosophers, and correspondents of the Paris Academy; and on the other hand, there is no so-called savage nation known under the sun which has so much distinguished itself by such examples of perfectibility and original capacity for scientific culture, and thereby attached itself so closely to the most civilized nations of the earth, as the Negro."

I'm not asserting, either, that reasoning around races was used to justify things before the act, but rather that by attributing ideas like "genetics explains people" carries historical consequences. Like that some genes are superior to others. I don't know how you can deny this took place in our history.
During the pandemic, I got heavily into the "Revolutions" podcast, and I wondered about these "liberal nobles" who were always cropping up trying to push for civil rights. So I wanted to read something about the history of liberalism. The typical story is "John Locke, Adam Smith, America's founding fathers (rah rah), John Stuart Mill, etc."

But Helena Rosenblatt's "The Lost History of Liberalism" makes a really strong argument that this anglo-centric definition of liberalism is counter-historical, and liberalism as a named, coherent political ideology developed in France after the French Revolution.