skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a decently complete NES emulator[1], and the 6502 is definitely a fun CPU to emulate compared to other CPUs. The Z80-ish CPU in the Game Boy is not as fun, and as soon as you get into 68000 territory, it definitely stops being fun for a hobbyist.

Getting the graphics and sound in sync with the CPU is a lot more challenging if you're looking to support many games, but if you just want to play some of the super simple early NES games, like Donkey Kong, then you can get away with a lot of inaccuracies.

[1]: https://github.com/ltriant/nes
It would be pretty amazing for within the US USPS to not only search but find powdered drugs or pills. It's protected and they need a search warrant. Reasonable cause etc. Maybe if they already had an investigation on you and you were distributing.

Customs on the other hand...

Though if it's small volume they will often just send you a scary letter in the mail, especially if it's just sketchy looking pills. Or if the scammer is smart they'll just send you the letter and take your money ! Or at least that's what SWIM said from my wasted 20s. LMFAO I miss earlier internet sometimes
Because monopolistic business practices tangibly hurt consumers by reducing incentives to produce a good product and by artificially raising prices that get passed to the consumer
No, I don't think that can be done. No insult to the layman, whatsoever.
If MegaMegaCo forces MegaCo to give up X dollars, MegaCo isn't going to declare instant bankruptcy, it's going to use that as justification to raise its prices to you.
Because they provide the ecosystem?

If you look at demographics, iOS devices are the gateway to the most affluent and lucrative market segment. That's the value proposition of Apple, and also why app always ship first on iOS then get ported to Android.
A lot of times too many buttons/UI is just lack of design. I can't say if that's the case here as well, but I've seen it many times.

Usually well intentioned founders who know what they want to achieve, but fail to understand the subtleties of designing UI's and interaction. Or developers who sometimes lack the viewpoint of a "regular" user.

In most cases hiring a good (interaction/ux) designer can solve this pretty quickly.

Maybe a bit pretentious but it does kind of state it nicely:
"To complicate is simple to simplify is complicated. Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify." - Bruno Munari
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One of the simplest error handlers ever written
Just like silverlight amiright
In fairness, they're a monopoly in a market they invented--the iOS "ecosystem."

This includes:

* the app store

* subscription management

* payments

* any sort of digital media (music, movies, tv shows)

* browser engines...there literally is no way to release a different browser on iOS, even iOS "Firefox" and "Chrome" have to use Apple's WebKit binary
only those conceived will suffer ...
I think it’s similar to why Walmart deserves a third (or more) from manufacturers selling stuff in their store. Or Amazon. Or any store.

Physical goods have about a 100% markup between manufacturer and what a customer pays.

I think it should be less for digital goods, but you wanted a good argument. Apple charges because they are between you and the app makers, like Walmart and target and stuff.
lichess.org is the site the ancient game of chess deserves

i use the short puzzles to both focus my concentration, as well as gauge my cognitive depletion levels

good list, looking forward to more interesting responses ;)

simple geometric games work well too. the purity of ms-dos era xonix is profound

https://js-dos.com/games/
> The majority of the land mass of what we call China is culturally and ethnically different than the dominant cultural and ethnic group.

The land mass maybe... but the population of China is 90%+ Han

> The PRC will commit genocide in Taiwan if they need to

Agreed, but I still think that is significantly less likely to occur in Hong Kong or Taiwan because of shared race and culture.
This is not a problem, because there are other communities where the 10% of active HN users are indeed just lurkers, and another 10% are the active group.

We simply don't have the time to be active in everything that is interesting to us at all times.

But hey, when you're pandering to your twitter following, I guess you gotta grasp at weird straws like this to generate "content". Yikes.
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What other one existed first?
The gun could run out of batteries is another. The talk goes into two other attacks as well, including denial of service
Yes, not sure about the evil part (lots of industries rent seek like this), but am sure of the greed part.
Despite all the clueless politicians you see on tv the actual commanders of the people with the guns have a very clear idea of where the guns need to go and what to do when they get there. Civil power centers, production factories, shipping/trucking/train ports, power plants, water processing. That is where guns go all else is secondary.

The guns decide what money holds value in the first place. The best technology will ever do is play second fiddle to the guns. If you don't agree the guns will shoot you and now your opinions and tech don't matter. Also other people will fall in line once they see the guns doing their job.
The lengths that pintrest is going to prevent me from viewing the image full size is frustrating.

But these comics are great.
User mgmt on PG is terrible, same for replication, connection pooling also sucks, InnoDB is faster overall than PG. Tooling is inferior to MySQl as well as clustering and upgrade process.

PG is great but its still has a lot of issues.
Maybe Apple forces Uber and Lyft to cost $3 upfront then.
I think, if they did not insist on the %30, which I believe is fine when it comes for stuff that scale with almost no cost increase(like crystals in a game), and came up with something reasonable to accommodate transactions with thin margins they would have actually provide a good service. Receiving payments via IAP is hugely valuable because it reduces friction big time, however it is unreasonable to ask %30 in businesses where margins are %10 or even lower.

I think Apple realised that to some degree as they have much lower commission for certain categories like 1:1 tutoring etcetera.

Anyway, I think Apple might have crossed a line on these commissions and we see rulings all over the world requiring Apple to allow alternate payment methods.

With my user hat put on, I'm not excited about that because it's actually much much pleasant experience to use IAP because you have all your subscriptions in one place and Apple is super good on refunds.

What I would like to see one day is some kind of "Universal payment protocol" that provides standardised UI for mobile payments. Imagine the IAP interface being able to accept any kind of payment(like paying with your card of choice with Apple Pay) and keeps track of these payments in your iDevice with a button for cancelling subscriptions that makes an API call to the payment provider.
I’d rather see more of the stdlib usable on wasm32-unknown-unknown, or at least wasm32-wasi, than a generically bigger stdlib.
The main thing about Google Photos is they won't lose my photos. How do I know you won't lose my photos?
Linking to the email would be really good.
Guns are not illegal but misusing them is
Organizations have bylaws largely because without them, chaos reigns.

A movement that hopes to continue must become an organization, that is, a collection of humans who agree to engage with each other according to an agreed upon set of rules.

Your whole “movement != union” is a distinction without a difference.
Apple Pay isn't the only payment processor that's convenient like this. But of course, Apple has created a market where their processor is the only one allowed.
> Evil Corp B and Evil Corp C

Because Evil Corp B and Evil Corp C will pass the 30% commission on the consumer.
The whole business model of https://www.gog.com/ is that you can just buy old games and they work on Windows.
Because they have tons of competition and don’t dominate the market. By revenue, android is way higher.

Monopolies have a few characteristics like barriers to entry and competition. Apple doesn’t command this because the market is mostly not Apple.
I know for sure 90% of you are smarter than me, so please...

continue with the regularly scheduled programming
The link goes to the Wayback Machine because the original publication tried to memory-hole it by putting it behind a paywall and hiding the first paragraph:

> Ralph Baric, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, last week (November 9) published a study on his team’s efforts to engineer a virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of to one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice. The hybrid virus could infect human airway cells and caused disease in mice, according to the team’s results, which were published in Nature Medicine.
And you know that because? Have you seen those things yourself?

Will they also shut down email, I'm sure a lot of death threats are sent via that?

Even if a few crazy people are into such things, it doesn't mean they have a huge impact. You can use Telegram just fine without ever seeing anything of it.
On an iPhone SE 1, you literally get 5 lines of readable text, and 3 if the Safari navigation UI is showing.

I also can't close the chat bubble because the X is off the screen to the right, and the scroll position jumps around near the top of the page as you scroll because some calculation or CSS is wrong.
Who pays the anthropologists? And what cultural biases do they infuse in their work?

Modern gangs also sometimes organize via voluntary cooperation. Their ability to commit violence and control their territory is merely the foundation of their legitimacy in any non violent agreement. Same foundation as all "official" governments.
Both Apple and Google enforce using their payment methods on any app distributed on their app stores. That means that there's a 15% to 30% rent incurred on all revenue in the mobile app space. Just to participate in the mobile app market, you need to give up to 30% of your revenue to either company.

The entire mobile app market essentially has to pay either company a significant chunk of their revenue just to exist. That's insane.
I agree. Not having flown a fighter jet, myself, it's not clear to me which I would prefer. I can easily imagine problems with the "simpler" F-35 cockpit requiring the pilot to navigate a modal UI while navigating the aircraft.
An implementation can dereference a resource and provide failover to a static archive. There is also probably an opportunity to use DOIs here.
> … deserves …

That’s your problem right there. We don’t allocate resources or make business deals based on how deserving a group or person is. They can charge it right now so they are
There is a mutual benefit. More apps means that Apple benefits from a stronger platform (and can sell more copies of iDevices/iOS). That's why Microsoft never charged 30% for the privilege of selling an app on MSWindows, back in the old days.

A platform is largely "made" by external developers who contribute to the platform. It is unfair to start charging them (or anyone who comes later) for being on the platform.

Of course, Apple execs, who have no pride in making things but only in extracting money out of things, will have a different opinion on this.
Great example! In retail it’s bad if there isn’t a 300%+ markup.

The fascination with making Apple a boogey man on this is bizarre. Your local corner store — which you should very much support! — has a markup that makes Apple look lazy.
Magic: the Gathering is basically writing software and teaches how to optimize randomness ― high barrier to entry, unfortunately
"Do no evil."

Sure there are firewalls between departments, but how is this not blatantly anti-competitive behavior?
Waterworld. Unfortunately a boat is a big hole in the water that you pour money into.
The argument against an app store being controlled by a private entity is to me similar to that of other infrastructure, like broadband, roads, utilities, access to the market itself, etc. It should be available to everyone at self-cost or less. Major and common infrastructure must abide under special rules.
If it's anything like Google Subscriptions, there's the danger of disputing charges leading to your Apple account being banned, so it's probably in the users' interests to avoid it.

But of course, when you've just come off of a plane at 2 AM and want to get a ride to your hotel so you can get a few hours of sleep before checkout time, this is probably not something users will think about.
Both apps still exist on the App Store. That’s really all you need to know. If this was untenable for Uber and Lyft they could pull the apps any time.
maybe we could avoid that issue by saying that some sort of minimal central authority is naturally emergent
Beyond caring about the larger issues at play here, the way it can effect you is if you have to pay 30% more for every subscription because companies need to account for paying Apple so much

This is not theoretical. In 2018 Netflix would've paid Apple around 256m [0] and Netflix also had a fair number of price raises in the past few years. Obviously the app store commission was not the only factor in these price raises, but it's clearly a factor the tune of about 250 million per year.

[0] - https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/31/netflix-stops-paying-the-a...
I walked away from the crypto community at large, highly recommended. There are many more meaningful things to put you talents towards.
Thank you for this. I’m replying so it’ll be easy for me to find your post tomorrow when I’ll need to remember the name of this.
I downvoted your parent comment not because I didn't catch your meaning, but because I didn't think it contributed meaningfully to the conversation (basically, a throw-away 'ha ha' comment).

Elaborating on your perspective on the situation, sharing how it's affected your behavior or though processes, or engaging others in discussion would have produced a more substantive contribution.

I am very sensitive to HN sliding into a 'Reddit, but for nerds' situation where facile comments dominate the conversation and the signal-to-noise ratio is unbearably low.

Looking at your other comments, in general you do a pretty good job of holding back the tide -- please don't take this as a general comment against you, but more as a signpost for others.
I say let them do it. But we need some anti-competitive regulations in place to prevent Apple for penalizing companies that want to offer a cheaper alternative elsewhere.
Uh, you link me to something from 2018, and yet the CEO of Brave apologized in 2020 for the very thing I stated about inserting affiliate links: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...

Think twice, write once. It was the #1 result on Google. That someone who actually uses Brave knows less/is ignorant of problems with Brave speaks volumes about how seriously we should take your recommendation. "Out of the loop" doesn't even begin to describe it.

Try harder. No wonder misinformation and fake news spreads like wildfire when people can't be bothered even doing basic fact-checking yet can write countless words attempting to defend something. With that in mind, I'm expecting you to reply attempting to justify it. Don't waste your time, nor mine.
Text your boss using iMessage? Then Apple is entitled to 30% of your paycheck, too.
They might have a point when it comes upfront sales of apps and games. Steam also charges 30%, and the Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo Switch stores also charge similar if not higher premiums, as does other comparable app stores.

Where it get’s ugly is when Apple wants a cut of everything that happens after the sale of the app, too, like wanting a cut when I buy a new book in the Kindle app (and Amazon refusing, instead making it impossible to buy books in the app).
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> Just seems like GGP is trying to avoid being hired by a string of people not detail oriented.

I'd add that recruiters that spam people without any criteria or attention are a telltale sign that you are already expected to be treated as disposable and unworthy of attention even way before you are even made an offer.

So, strong start.
as a side note - is there something that does not require to install shitload of unnecessary software, databases and services? Let's say simple PHP+MySQL
Ask HN: Jumping from FAANG into a seed round company?
Currently work at a big FAANG and am kinda bored, but making good/great money.

Recently got hit up with a request for some founders who just quit their jobs for their new venture.

They're in the process of raising a seed within the next couple of weeks. I think the project is pretty viable and will almost certainly be funded. (it's SAAS and Web3/Crypto, and the founders worked for VCs prev as well as/top tech companies ;)).

Generally speaking prev advice with seed startups is you can expect to live off ramen but has that changed in the current environment where everyone is flush with cash?

Would you leave if the product was both technically interesting and viable? I'm relatively early in my career, college grad during the beginning of the pandemic, and don't want to get totally screwed if this doesn't work out.

Anyone have experience, esp recent experience, with working for these super early stage startups? E.g. the founders just quit their jobs a matter of weeks ago.
Postmates founder here. I am subscriber to Internal Tech Emails and I couldn't help but smile reading these emails this morning. It was in 2017, around April 12th when we launched Postmates Unlimited - the subscription program that inspired all this. Now, we all know Postmates didn't win the space but some product decisions outlast a company and this was one one of them. I still remember the meeting when we decided to launch the subscription. No one had ever done it, the board thought it was nuts. It became the industry standard. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
oh nice. You should come to the discord channel to discuss that, we are still thinking about how to solve this complex problematic.
Tl;dr from author in comments:

> The best choice is to avoid disposable batteries where possible and use low-self-discharge Ni-MH cells such as the Sanyo/Panasonic Eneloop. Even though the upfront cost is higher, it only takes a few recharges (in some cases, less than ten) to be financially (and possibly even environmentally) ahead.
How well this system works depends directly on the delta between how influential the platform is vs how influential the accused is.

As you mention, eBay for the longest time was one of the only/biggest way to sell things online, and reputation on there could make or break how successful your business would be. Similarly, if this forum is used by the majority of people doing business on the dark web, then obviously it isn't "moot" as not following the decision is equal to heavily handicapping your business..

On the other hand, if the group accused is large enough, like some of the $20M ones mentioned in the thread, I assume said groups could easily spin off their own community or still have business even if they were banned from this forum.
You should definitely focus on quick feedback early on to get some basics about programming down. The specifics can come later. I would recommend something even simpler than JS or Rust at first, like Scratch, FreeBASIC, or PICO-8 (PICO-8 is $15, but may be well worth it)

https://scratch.mit.edu/
https://www.freebasic.net/
https://www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico-8_manual.html
What's ancient? There were continental supply chains in the Bronze Age and earlier.
Can the US decouple from China ? Nope. There isn't the industrial infrastructure anymore.

Should the US decouple from China? Yes. But the US no longer has the capability to do that.

Will the US decouple from China? Nope. The US will be demoted from 'exceptional' to 'also ran'.
Someone once told me this joke, why does the dog suck his genitals? Because he can.

Same with Apple, of course they will do this as long as they can. There is no moral or ethical reason why they are doing this, simply they can get away with it.

I mean if you found a hack where you could get 1% of all the world's transactions, would you really say no to that, or try to find out why you deserve it?
Local corners stores have profit margins below 5%. Most supermarkets make barely more than 1% profit.
Escape Rooms. As in the real life variety. Best played with good friends.

Each one is a unique experience, so YMMV.
Simony
> from apps on their platform

More like apps that also happen to use iOS as a frontend in addition to other funnels/marketplaces. Costco is one of the examples cited, and I frankly didn't even know that they had an app even though I have a membership. How exactly Apple is planning on justifying taking a cut of this membership fee is completely beyond me.
Yeah, one MAJOR issue I have with the folks complaining about apple. Many of them have HORRIBLE cancellation policies.

I had to fight NY Times like crazy (it was sign up online, call to cancel kind of thing).

Match is also in the "alliance" fighting apple with Facebook. They also have scummy practices (either tracking you or again duping you).

The other thing I like with Apple, the trial periods are REALLY clear. When you sign up with comcast it's like $29/month (and then in tiny tiny print 10 pages later you find out that after 6 months it's $69/month or whatever).

So until these folks clean things up where they ALREADY have full control (on the web) I'm willing to cut apple a ton of slack.

Apple will remind you to cancel a subscription when you delete a related app. It reminds you if a subscription will renew and you can cancel then. I willing spend money through the app store I'd not spend ANYWHERE else. For folks willing to spend money but who don't want to f'ed around with constantly apple is the place to be. And it is super easy these days. Double tap or touch and done.
Are public libraries not readily accessible to everyone? I thought that was one of the few government services still running fairly well.

Every town I’ve lived in has had at least one well run library if not a network
If I have a brown name won’t I just be screwing myself visiting the dark web
Absolutely right answer. And plenty of places to play with others like https://online-go.com/
> Someone give me a good argument for why Apple deserves a THIRD of revenue generated from apps on their platform?

If you say “X doesn’t deserve Y”, then roughly I hear, “I don’t like that X is getting Y”. It’s like you’re asking, “Why should I like Apple’s revenue streams?” I don’t think I can answer that, but can you tell me why I should care about whether you like Apple’s revenue streams or not?
In the US, it is in fact mostly Apple.
use web apps, pay 0%
Actually the problem is that a sizable cabal has come to understand the exponential function all too well. And has applied it to the theory and practice of capital investment in exchange for increasing returns (back to the investors) -- while externalizing cost (onto the environment, and those less empowered).
That's just the characteristics of your region. In my country, apps go to Android first and then to iOS. It all depends on the market.