skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> companies realizing they finally had some pricing power

So companies did not know they had pricing power, and they just realized that? All of them? They all had the same epiphany at the same time?
Older recently released USA ex con here. I recently gave up finding a job and am trying to start my own business. At the halfway house the only job I could get was at a recycling plant (aka sorting garbage) and came up with a idea for really simple machine recognition that would eliminate that manual process and maybe even allow for powerful applications in the larger world. I have simpler short term projects to hopefully make money, but having a larger 'mission' helps me keep going on the bad days.
Keep your head up and stay strong brother! I see you.
I heard[1] the Android team was pretty insular after being acquired: they wouldn't even let other Googlers into their building on the Google campus. So if it was the same leadership and mostly the same engineers as before acquisition, can you say Google built Android?

Even if they bought a prototype, the acquired the company to execute something Google would have struggled to without the talent, so IMO divining if Google were interested in the product or the personnel is splitting hairs.

1. I have never worked at Google, I'm pulling this information from my recollection of reports & forum submissions back then.
Not OP, but maybe they were alluding to the fact that App Store is the only store a user can use on an iOS device.
Good examples on this thread.
I'll add another one: Baba is you
> One of things I believe to be true (and which is probably offensive but here goes) is that the sexy work is a direct result of over-financialization of the sector. It's a form of signaling: "Hey, our business model is so successful we can afford this shitty niche technology and hiring too many people."

How much of that was a result of companies wanting to use Linux server-side and MS not supporting it?
Obviously switching away from Cloud Functions does away with the architectural limitation of processing requests serially, but from my (limited) understanding of Node.js internals, Express applications are single-threaded anyway.

Do you have any idea of where your performance gains are coming from? Is there a lot of async, non-blocking waiting happening in the process of fulfilling requests against your API?
I immediately thought of that post last week too. Found it:

Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784238
Our history books tend to glorify ancient gangs and call them things like "nobles" and "royalty". But if you look beneath the veneer, they were gangs very much like the street gangs and crime organizations we have now.

History is written by the victors.
I enabled strict sql mode in MariaDB for an website just last year, after noticing the database was silently corrupting data. What made the transition much less painful was noticing that when strict sql mode is disabled, MariaDB produces a warning for the queries that corrupted the data, but you must run SHOW WARNINGS; to see the warnings after running such a query. Knowing that, I made the website run SHOW WARNINGS; after every database query and logging if a warning occurred. This allowed me to deal with the most of the warnings before they were promoted to errors by enabling strict sql mode.
Grocery store shortages are back
Let me tell you one thing I've learned: There's never ever a good time to have children.
I really like the HexCells series and the similar (and slightly better) Tametsi, both available on Steam. They both play like classic Minesweeper, except the puzzles are designed so that you never have to guess--every move can be logically deduced from the available information.
Maybe the objects in question are so massive that relativistic effects come into play. To an outside observer, time would appear to slow down for objects venturing deeper into the gravity well.
Seems pretty obvious to me at least. I doubt your claim that not many would know this. Violence isn't illegal, but misusing violence is. Using the toilet isn't against the rules, but misusing it is.
> Taiwan that would require an invasion

Maybe at this date & time, but I'd bet in the next 100 years there will be a non military unification. To me it seems like there hasn't been much of a fundamental change in Geo-Politics around Taiwan in a long time... and that the main reason an invasion of Taiwan is being brought up in US media is ironically because of how poorly NeoLiberalism FP went in Afghanistan.
"suppose to" is another loaded and ambiguous word. You can smoke and inject your self with heroin everyday. It's not efficient and it doesn't mean you're not "suppose to" do it.

But there is something off with doing these things and I don't want to get into the pedantics of it all. Not eating meat is in the same general area without the social stigma of being a drug abuser.
maybe I'm a cynic, but why should I care that Evil Corp A tries to rip off Evil Corp B and Evil Corp C ?
Where do you think morality comes from? The ancient Greeks and Romans didn't have it.
Thanks for your perspective.

I like what you're saying in that I should stop worrying about being someone I'm not. Show up and be honest about what I am good at stop focusing on all the puzzles that might show up.

My interview today I felt went a lot better. I at least solved the problem, although it was super easy... but so were the others... I just felt unprepared (and hadn't slept), so I think my brain left me, maybe?

Today I at least had a plan:
1. Write a simple test case first
2. Get the most basic version working
3. iterate from there

It's what I do everyday. I just wish my brain would have remembered that for all the other ones.
> "Unfortunately, IAP being 'optional' means that no one will ever use it," writes App Store VP Matt Fischer

Um...yeah, that's pretty damning.
Someone give me a good argument for why Apple deserves a THIRD of revenue generated from apps on their platform? Apple's app store is pure rent seeking. Even the supposed curation everyone is paying for is lackluster. People are scammed left and right.

Funnily enough, this applies to Uber and Lyft too. These middlemen companies have too much power to unilaterally dictate what cut they get from their service.
And finally: https://startcaving.com/info/caves-are-cold-find-out-how-col...
I don't know if this is the kind of answer you want, but to this day I swear that playing Kula World (also known as Roll Away in the US, I think) made me smarter. It requires spatial reasoning, which maybe isn't what you're looking for. The game starts being ridiculously simple, but the difficulty ramps up fast, and it forces you to think carefully about your movements. And since the scenarios are de facto discrete, you don't need to be mindful about precision, just focus on the logic of the puzzles themselves.
should be little to no memory effect unlike NiMH
Non-volatile memory usually can't shrink to structures small enough to require EUV without either becoming volatile memory or reducing endurance down to a handful of write cycles. Most R&D on non-volatile memories is focused on novel materials and structures that can be made cheaply without needing EUV or quad-patterned DUV.

You especially don't want to be building a 3d memory array with dozens of layers of cells if each layer requires a few EUV steps. That's never going to lead to economical high-volume manufacturing.
Intro to the XRP Ledger (2 min Video)
I was curious so I searched Google. That specific image appears on the second row for me. I suspect some carelessness on the author's part and trust in Google's ability to return appropriate results. Though, to be fair to Google, the text underneath is "Download Microsoft Office 2003 Look...". The "..." expands to "-Like Kingsoft Office Suite - AskVG" when clicking on the image. So the text suggests that it is an appropriate image, and probably by some SEO and popularity metric it gets a place near the top in the results.
Why stop there? If I have money in my pocket and place the iPhone there as well, Apple should be entitled to 30% of it.
https://academic.oup.com/jcle/article-abstract/17/3/503/6210...
are you a lawyer? Your opinion doesn't really mean anything if you still lose the case at the end. By your logic there isn't a clear way to define DDoS either. Sounds like there is though?
Yet we ended up with POSIX everywhere there is a C compiler, with exception of hardware that is worse than a PDP-11.
> Which has nothing to do with you or any specific persons use of onion services

A false statement.

Anyone choosing to use such services should be mindful of the fact that the services are appealing to sociopaths and have no policing mechanism.
PlotNeuralNet: Use LaTex for making neural networks diagrams
Yes, 100%.
> In particular, I think it's strange to compare the F-16 with the F-35 when the former is regarded to be one of the best fighter jets ever made and the F-35 is infamous for being problematic. My understanding is that they are also different kinds of planes for different purposes, but at any rate, I struggle to focus on UX when there's that contextual elephant in the room.

Also bringing up fighter jets in general might not be the best comparison. A fighter pilot is about the farthest thing from a casual user of a fighter jet. My understanding is they're intensely dedicated to knowing how to operate it effectively, to the point of muscle-memorizing menu navigation button-presses to quickly perform different actions (e.g. memorizing something like the Konami Code to fire a particular type of missile).

So they're almost certainly not like the users of whatever web app your building, so maybe it's not the best idea to let a photo of their controls inspire your UX.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code
I like HexCells Infinite for the huge amount of content from procedurally generated puzzles, but I love Tametsi for the incredible difficulty.
Did you check the sponsorship page? https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/sponsorship/ For that matter, does the donation page really state that donations are only used for community events? That's not what I see there.
They are not a monopoly from user's perspective, but for iPhone apps they are monopoly as the only way to reach iPhone users is by their approval.
Ook is pretty funny though, even if its a trivial BF derivative. Whitespace (use of tab, space, and newline) is also quite funny IMO.

Heart emojis is somewhat uninspired compared to Ook and Whitespace though.
At the end of the day the consumers also hurt, so you should care. If basic economic theory puts the optimal price for this service at 10$ without the middleman, then perhaps it becomes 12$ with the middleman.
It's like the model of the world of a turtle resting on another turtle's back, which is itself atop another turtle, but instead composed of FAANG C-levels doing dickish things to each other (and by follow on effect, the end user)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
Fiend of mine bought a luxury home for 500K a few years ago in Phoenix he was paying 7,000 in property taxes annually Now that these 4 bedroom shacks go for 500,000 I can't wait to see what happens when their their property taxes double.
Ask HN: What programming language should I teach my child?
Should I start them off with js, since they can get quick feedback and interactivity in the browser? Or should I start with rust, since that will teach them more about how computers work on a fundamental level?
Nyxt Browser: Newsletter #3
It's more than that: it's the fact that all of the payment info is there. Every step, field entry, hurdle you put infront of a consumer is usually associated a significant increase in "cart abandonment". By apple allowing you to just apple pay straight in and avoid CC, and billing address etc, they are decreasing the hurdles and increasing the conversion.

Is it worth 30%? In 2013? Maybe In 2021? Definitely not. It should be closer to 5%.

That being said I do like using Apple subscriptions because they make it REALLY easy to cancel them, all in one place, something that can't be said for a lot of other services.
Swift and Kotlin are partial matches. Sadly, that’s about it.
Calgary. It amazes me that despite the Chinese money laundering, the Trudeau Federal government willingness to back residential real estate through monetary, immigration, and legal policies; and just the general Canadian willingness to pretend everyone is well-intended and no one would lie in a mortgage application; that Calgary is the one place in Canada that remains somewhat reasonably priced. Multiple road and rail routes that would make it almost impossible for the city to be cut off (a la Vancouver last year). Reasonably good international airport that is set for expansion - although the expansion was very tied to energy.

Very well protected with mountains on one side (but far enough to avoid the major floods or mud slides). Some rivers in the city do flood, but stick to the higher-placed properties and you'll be fine. Some exposure to forest fire smoke, but only smoke, the land around is generally farmland or ranching, and well protected from catching fire. Great self-reliance for food and energy.

Problems: generally just the Canada-wide ones (e.g. healthcare system has collapsed but they haven't noticed, Ottawa largely doesn't care about the West, economy is 50% real estate, immigration is 95% of population growth and has resulted in a very exploitative and corrupt system that lures in young people to be poorly-paid expendable labour under the guise of Canadian Permanent Resident through exorbitantly expensive but low-quality education). Locally, Calgary leans very left (NDP, the Left-most party in Canada), but this balances well with the Conservative provincial government.
It doesn't, because these backups go to a parallel branch.

What it's doing though is polluting your git repo with these commits.

A daemon which backs up projects that you're working on, so you have fine-grained snapshots to go back to if you screw up is a good idea.

Backing up only files known to git, and backing them up into git, is not such a hot idea.
I wholeheartedly agree. 30% ongoing is criminal in my opinion.
Obduction. It's from the creators of Myst. The puzzles are mostly well thought out and the entire experience is unique and highly enjoyable.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/306760/Obduction/
Why should either be discouraged?
They had more than the Catholic Church does.
Also Killer Sudoku and Kenken for the more arithmetically inclined.

https://www.killersudokuonline.com/

https://www.kenkenpuzzle.com/
I did this, in fact. I also had other colleagues. A lot of UI/UX depends on the browser (Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Opera) and the OS. So I wanted to confirm precisely what he was seeing.

And we're already working on fixes.
Okay, but is HFaaS[1] on the roadmap? I'd ask if there is a PoC of it running Doom, but with all this love Chex Quest might be a more wholesome choice.

[1] - https://zserge.com/posts/bfaas/
At first glance, capacity seems to be the main benefit, from the above link:

Battery Capacity: 3400mWh

Compare that to Eneloop pros: 2500mAh

Using this converter https://convert-formula.com/mwh-mahz 3400mWh at 1.5v is 2256mAh so the Eneloop pros actually have more capacity.
Exactly. The platform is only as decentralized as the codebase. Most people are going to blindly download and run whatever the developers put out. Decentralization and immutability are illusions. See: Ethereum DAO fork.
This is a thread about software licensing. If you’re looking to have a theoretical debate about whether in general unethical behavior is unethical to support, I guess that’s a fun debate, but it’s not really relevant to this post or comment tree.
friends don't let friends pk on variable length columns
Daily snapshots of the system configuration, personal documents and databases sufficient to rebuild the system to where it was last night in less than an hour or so.

Daily backups of the 'write once and keep forever stuff' - videos, music, photos, etc.

Three copies of the above backups on external drives.
That's quite the spin on paid vacations or maternity leave.
Not charging 30% for ongoing revenue would immediately result in all apps being “free” with an in—app subscription.

Like… within months.

Why do people not get this?

Apple wants their cut. This is the only way for them to get any cut at all. It’s either this rule or $0 revenue.
Depends if you consider the ~$80 billion / year gross flowing through the app store for iOS apps a market or not.
There's an advantage to long-lived interpreters/REPLs on remote machines for the kind of work done in notebooks. Significant amounts of data may have to be read, expensive computation performed, etc. before the work can begin. Notebooks are an ergonomic interface to that sort of environment if one isn't comfortable with ssh/screen/X-forwarding/etc, and frankly nice for some tasks even if one is.

There's also a tacit advantage to notebooks specifically for Python as the interface encourages the user to write all of their definitions in a single namespace. So, the user can define and re-define things at their leisure within a single REPL/interpreter lifetime. A user developing against import-ed modules can quickly get stuck behind python's inability to cleanly re-import a modules, or be forced to rely on flaky hacks to the import system.

It pains me a bit to make the argument _for_ notebooks, but it's important to understand the attractions.
If you think that every corporation is an Evil Corp and actions are evil because evil entities do them then there's no reason you should care.

But if you ascribe the degree of evilness to the action rather than the actor, then you absolutely should care because it's anti-competitive and poisons the general health of the market.
The tweet seems to be gone. What did it say?
30% is obscene. Apple obviously deserves to get paid. Either abolish app store fees (Apple gets paid by selling hardware) or force them to allow 3rd party stores on their own store with transparency reporting requirements to foster competition.
> I'm thinking about choosing a new place to live right now. Climate change is a big factor for that.

I'd honestly love to hear your thinking about how to find a climate-change 'aware' location to live, thanks.
Downside being that the eneloop pro needs its own charger, these should be able to charge from any phone charger, or come with their own 4-to-1 usb cable.
Actually it's written by anthropologists. If you look at how our species came to self-organize, there has always been a strong component of innate, voluntary cooperation (and of course violent subjugation as well). It's a mixed bag for sure, but I just think your characterization is way too oversimplified -- and it probably wouldn't get too far you tried to pass it by people who have devoted their lives to studying these things.
I wonder if Venusians tried the same thing which lead to the concentrations of SO2 we see in Venus' atmosphere.
I'd recommend starting with Scratch, then moving on to Python with Thonny.

Turtle is a fun thing to work with. https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html

Would avoid anything tedious, learning it all is hard enough already.
You're missing the point. It's not about Bitcoin mining per se, it's about people's willingness to run illegal services.

> The market will provide.

Nope, sorry. The market doesn't guarantee whatever random distributed thing you like will be resilient.
'Hmm, wonder what law I'm actually breaking '
Apple is a small country disguised as a company. This is nothing else but essentially a tax, collecting economic rent from their digital fiefdom. Of course unlike actual nation states, Apple's not really in the business of providing many public services in return.

Seems like we're kind of at the point where actual nation states should take that as a sign of peer competition and do something about it because I honestly have no idea why we're tolerating this.
non numeric primary keys are generally a bad idea

can't you specify collation by column?
Engineer Tackles Cholesterol
I came across this when investigating keto and lipid profile. Experiments such as this one and continuous monitoring impact makes me believe that the revolution in medicine to keep us healthy will come from tech innovations.
https://cholesterolcode.com
https://citizensciencefoundation.org
https://ownyourlabs.com
The cut apple takes is too big, and, afaict the cut seamless and Instacart and probably Uber and Lyft take is way too big too.

Technology can increase ease while also lowering prices, but it’s just so easy for it to go the other way.

I think Uber and Seamless are most obvious to me in NYC. The overall cost of doing basic stuff was initially depressed and now has increased way over inflation.

Regulators have played their part.

Contrast with Amazon who we all like to hate on, and who may be abusive to retailers and manufacturers, but the savings is clearly passed on to the consumer.

No real ideas. Just an observation.
No possible percentages in between 0 and 30%?
> Apple wants their cut. This is the only way for them to get any cut at all. It’s either this rule or $0 revenue.

Why do they deserve a cut?

Uber and Lyft, deliver a material service, Apple have not contributed to that in any way beyond existing as a general purpose computer manufacturer.

Take an alternative, food delivery service, you pay a monthly subscription for a set selection of fruit and veg delivered every week. The cost is made up of food cost and delivery cost... You could sign up through a website, or you could sign up through an app on Apple's app store, in the later case the only option would be to increase the price by 30%, because there is no where near 30% profit left over.

Not convinced? Ok lets go to an extreme, what about a mortgage monthly repayment app, that's essentially a subscription to your home right? Do you think Apple deserve to have almost 30% of the value of your house for the privilege of letting you use an app to pay? Does their App store really deliver that much value?

Before, it was sort of justifiable when people were trying their get rich quick schemes with flappy bird clones... because the argument from the other side was a weak "but that's my get rich quick scheme", Apple's platform and what they shove in front of users faces made a real difference to the almost pure profit of those Apps, the apps simply would not be popular without Apple... but as soon as we start talking about apps that deliver material services and other significant value it makes no sense to argue that Apple deserve even 1 penny. Apple have gone completely fucking mental with their own greed, they think they deserve a slice of the entire world.
When a site's CSS is well written, with a capable web developer knowing, what they are doing, such a tool would not be necessary. People pump out megabytes of JavaScript, but then they worry about a few kilobytes of CSS being saved by compressing it, at the same time making it less readable by minifying it. (We are not yet shipping hundreds of kilobytes of CSS, are we?!)

When there is a need for a tool that minifies CSS, then people seriously need to ask themselves, how it can be, that they have that much CSS. How much redundant CSS can you accumulate? Was there no coherent styling idea or strategy, so that every thing on the page needs separate styling?

What many forget is, that data is often sent gzip compressed anyway, which naturally takes advantage of repeated parts to compress. Text usually compresses pretty well. Especially something like a description language with many repeating parts. It is great, that Parcel CSS is faster than some other tool. However, for me, these kind of tools are merely treating the symptoms of not doing styling properly. I'm glad, that I got to know the web, when you simply could look at all the source of a page and learn from it, instead of facing a multi megabyte "minified" script and "minified" CSS.
This is incredibly enlightening for me.