skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same issue as GP… deleted around 2011 and it was back again with no indication I even deactivated it (let alone deleted it) when my password manager let me log in around 2017.

I can tell you with 100% certainty that I did everything FB allowed you to do to “delete” my account the first time. When I did it the second time, it’s not like it was more complicated or hidden than the first time, but it actually worked.

My conclusion is that, today, FB has a weird split between deactivating and permanently deleting your account (the latter takes more effort), but 10 years ago was nothing of the sort. They just let you think you deleted your account but didn’t actually do anything. Or maybe there was a bug with account deletion back then… or maybe they had an outage where they had to restore some stuff from a backup and my account got “recovered” in the process.

But the important point is that FB didn’t even acknowledge it with a message like “do you want to re-activate your account?” on my login in 2017… it was as if I never deleted it in the first place.
People evaluate large purchases - in part - on whether they can afford the monthly payment. Low interest rates and comparably high rents make people more willing to pay more for property.

Higher interest rates, which may be on the horizon, may put a damper on housing prices. However, I suspect that they'll have less of an immediate impact in the states, where fifteen and thirty year fixed rate mortgages are the norm. If inflation continues in Europe, it will be interesting to see what happens in countries where people generally borrow for ten to fifteen years at a time, and refinance once the mortgage term is over.
VR gaming has potential that is not realized due to people sticking with game formats they know work. Innovative game design is going to be needed, but once it's here it will definitely have something else.

And also yeah, VR porn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Aix8NuU8pE is relevant LOL.
>When has the housing market ever been normal?

When we had less regulation, the prices increases followed wage increases or inflation since housing was built and bought just so families could live in and wasn't a speculative/investment vehicle so others could get a return on their investment.
Thanks for reading!

Raw materials includes the $59k I have in inventory, so cost of goods sold would be closer to $200k on $460k in sales.

I've been iterating on the hardware to reduce cost and increase value. The Voyager 2 reduced costs over the Voyager 1 by eliminating some retail hardware components I had to buy. I was expecting to release a PoE version of the Voyager 2 in December, and I think customers would pay a premium for PoE, but it's taking longer than I expected to get that version ready. I'm hoping to ship it in another few weeks at a price that's about 15% higher than the non-PoE.

I should experiment more with pricing. I used to sell the Voyager for $249, and then someone on HN suggested I raise prices, and I thought, "I can't possibly sell it for more!" And I raised it by $50, and it didn't seem to change sales, and then basically the same thing happened a few months later. So maybe it's time for another price experiment.
Not really. It uses lots of JavaScript.
Housing is already very cheap in places no one wants to live in.

Housing is already affordable in the United States compared to other countries when you compare median house price to median income.

If you want to see where the United States is headed go look at London, Vancouver, Paris, etc.

As urbanization in the United States accelerates for many reasons, including climate change, I see house prices in desirable areas increasing even further.
Cannabis should be regulated no differently than tomatoes and cucumbers. It's great to see this baby step, but unfortunately a lot of medical states still gatekeep access way too aggressively. Everyone deserves access to this medicine. The rigid control framework ends up making it hard for producers too, and ultimately only the wealthiest investment groups are typically able to license/survive.

Support your local caregiver.
I've heard that they toyed with the idea of making iCloud end to end encrypted but government agencies convinced them otherwise.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you don't get into cryptocurrency work to make the world a better place. Or rather, those that do should not be trusted around secure code. /snark
unfortunately using a simple pipe is not going to work, because you're also looking for user input, and you can't do both easily with stdin.
Well it doesn't look like they're in a big hurry to "fix" this UX issue so I think it's worth pointing out
Hopefully all of them will. And more people will go back to searching out individual websites & forums for their reading and discussion.
> [4] Just use your brain for 5 min and realize that NFTs don't work.

Nothing says low-effort group think than the claim that "NFTs don't work". It is a certificate of authenticity (we know those work as the art world has been using them to sell intangible art for decades) in a spreadsheet (we know spreadsheets work). There is literally nothing there that could possible "not work".
Is this something that could be automated with something like https://aws.github.io/jsii/?
I suspect that more and more products will rely on the bitcoin network without using the word "bitcoin" in their marketing.

Would you be interested in the Fountain.fm [1] podcast app?
Are you still interested if someone told you it runs on a 2nd layer on top of bitcoin?

[1] https://www.fountain.fm/
Because not every site and restaurant info page is begind a walled garden tiktok video that profiles me when i land on it. Ditto for forums.

Facebook is cancer on society and zuck and sheryl sandberg are the pathogenic leeches
A dumb TV. Please someone make a dumb TV that otherwise is high spec
I very much like your analysis, but retail finance would be an uphill battle for a company like FB that has built such a negative track record of user data handling.
> More importantly it's probably to 2 redundant routers on SIX side also so that both can handle HW failure.

Strictly speaking, IXPs do not work at OSI Layer 3, but usually at Layer 2.

All the Layer 3 routing logic happens in the routers of the members/customers of the IXP. The IXP is just there to provide a neutral interconnect to everyone without any filtering or policy.

The IXP runs router reflectors where people can choose to advertise themselves, and then other folks see who is in the neighbourhood and make their own routing policy choices.

The folks at Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) have a series of videos on "IXP Design and Implementation":

* https://learn.nsrc.org/bgp

They're by Philip Smith, who helped set up LINX (London, UK) in the early days:

* https://nsrc.org/bios/PhilipSmith.html
Another thing to consider is pluggable storage (a key/value interface) and pluggable query language (relational algebra interface?) and how to fit the two together.
Building is quite expensive.
Wow, actual innovation. Amazing stuff. And that video is from 2014!
Virologist at Queens College? I stopped reading.
Declining population is a commonality in the developed world.

Regulation pushing investment out of homeownership absolutely is needed. Granted, the population decreases headed after the baby boomer generation starts declining will be interesting at least in the US.
You don’t necessarily get to pick being in a profitable location writing the software that connects it all even if you are Microsoft.

HoloLens has gotten a lot of criticism for cost and image quality, but it is a much more relevant brand than ‘windows mixed reality’ which is a (1) a whole lot of nothing and (2) associated with direct-to-landfill hardware.

I hate to praise Facebook but at least Facebook had the Oculus brand, the strongest in the industry, until they decided to throw it away. With competitors like that who needs allies?
You can reset your rating with a new release so maybe it's something to do with that, I've never actually tried it but maybe it keeps the total review count but resets the average stars?
Those are things I change right away but I don't really count things like that.

In windows I was changing fonts, sizes, window colors, sizes of things like title bars...
> during the first wave

Are there many countries which have only had one wave of Covid?

May 2020, Anders Tegnell [Sweden’s state epidemiologist] said Covid was a virus "we're going to have to live with for a very long time"[0]

November 2021, he said "Now, we’re two years into this and Sweden doesn’t really stand out. We’re not the best, but we’re definitely not the worst. That’s what I hear now: how much good did all these draconian [measures] do for anybody?"[1]

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/a2b4c18c-a5e8-4edc-8047-ade4a82a5...
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/0c07de5f-e852-4c23-823b-5f8f7d18e...
Normal was when you could afford to buy a home with a blue collar income, you had time to mull over making an offer, you could visit the house more than once before buying, you could have inspection contingencies, and had plenty of houses to choose from.
I think honestly your food for thought sounds more like a diversion after pretend agreeing and a character reference for a job offer.
Title is very misleading

It's just JavaScript that interacts with SQLite and uses CSS API's to render the results
Same here. I routinely am unable to get it to show latest episodes. I feel the UX is terrible and give it 2 stars.
I have seen all 3 things on Hacker News. In addition to large threads about conspiracy theories, antivax and misinformation.
This is accurate. But it’s also not: any time anything is done in any language we can just point at the language below it.

But yeah, this is probably more charitably described as “A CSS interface for SQL written in Javascript.”
FB does not have access to the M&A trick anymore. Those days are gone. Regulators are tired of seeing GAFAM buying their way out of their lack of innovation. They also want to see new companies succeed on their own. That's where the new GAFAM will come from in the long run. And this is a long run race.
Not really - I have old notebooks of notes that I havent thrown away but I also dont review - they are just musings and historical records, really you could throw them out but I like sometimes paging through them and looking at stuff I did.

New notebooks get a label on the front and only when they are full or I retire that hobby do they go in the notebook bin.
All they need is a good price and the people will come.
Absolutely not. Painting a political activist provocateur's experience online as representative of how women are treated online is ridiculous at best. No, that's called kicking the hornet's nest and then getting stung.

Her story... She's at a party and doesn't know anyone but happens to be sitting next to someone who is an expert in white supremacy, who knows her extensively including her work, and is aware of criticism of her work? This story is swiss cheese at best. Clearly a fabricated story that's casting shadow on the rest of the story. Then again the rest of the story is nothing but anonymous comments from random open forums on the internet? There's no credibility here.

Why is literally everyone is made out to be white supremacists? If you live in a world where everyone around you is a white supremacist; you're either a white supremacist or you have done something to create it. I'm leaning toward the author being a white supremacist. Hence why the white supremacist expert knew her so well.
All other people need non fungible cars.
I've tried many products and approaches – until I landed on https://raindrop.io.

That's my favorite tool now for capturing videos, bookmarks, articles, etc content.

Totally worth the price - especially due to the permanent copies. There have been multiple times where the content disappeared from online shortly after I found it, but since Raindrop.io had a backup, I got to read it still.

My closing words: Stop searching for the best manager and make Raindrop.io your new friend :)

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Still clever, though.
You’re trying to correct me about something I experienced first hand in my career — and you’re coming across as ignorant.

What you lament as “business trying to use math that is not made for it” is precisely the problem:

Mathematics can’t be reliably applied, even if you hire a dozen world class PhDs, hundreds of software engineers, and let them spend years trying to make it work.

That’s a crisis.
Yes and I’ve heard mostly complaints about management companies. All the classic principal/agent problems with the costs of bringing more people into the situation.

Edit-added “more people”
Wether you like it or not owning a home is always an investment. Perhaps not a good one but an investment non the less. To act like there are two types of people and that one disadvantaging the other because of their preference is silly.
The model city application is indeed currently developed [0] at the Miniaturwunderland [1] in Hamburg, Germany.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPUEOhMBpUw (in German)

[1] https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/
Because (they believe) the alternative is just as bad if not worse.
It's about as toxic as every other social network.
> Why is no one ever like “ByteDance is a drug cartel”?

"As a genxer with an addictive streak, TikTok is undoubtedly as addictive as crack."[1] "Tiktok is also addictive in a way that no competing app has managed to capture."[2] "Tiktok is absolutely more addictive than Facebook."[3] "I like to think of TikTok as the crack cocaine of addictive social media."[4]

The article wasn't about ByteDance's revenue. And ByteDance didn't try to organize public opinion against informed consent to my knowledge. Facebook campaigned for attention and got it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28137353

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28134963

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30188320

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28133824
Maybe it's time for me to switch to a text-only browser.

When CSS becomes Turing-complete it seems that even NoScript won't help me from nefarious web pages.
> the same audience

Care to provide examples of "same audience", aka same people and organisations criticising one and applauding the other? I can easily see how some extremely biased "entertainment news" talk show hosts might do it, but I'm doubtful of actual journalist doing that.
What a contrast. Skyscrapers, and horses.
There is a much much lower limit of people willing to wear something on their head for entertainment purposes. Couple that with a cost to buying good hardware and I think VR experiences will be limited to gaming industry. Second Life never really took off as a social space. A 3D social media app would be clunky for end users compared to a phone. I believe the interactions people value the most on social media are seeing others pics/posts and marketplaces for buying/selling things. Neither of those would transfer well to 3D.

If they are betting the company on VR and a "metaverse" then maybe they have reached a cap on unique users already and the growth of FB is done.
> But the fact that a company can do this to another company at the flick of a switch by changing the rules of the game on a whim is still kind of scary, even if I think it's for the better in this instance.

You've got it back to front. If one company is $10b dependent upon another company not having the option to disable privacy invasion, then that company has chosen to build their castle in a swamp. It deserves to sink by $10b.
How we use Slack to respond to service incidents
It tells quite a lot about Facebook's business model when you realize it's threatened this much by user consent. Apple has simply stated asking for consent for something that didn't require it before. It's merely people's choice to not be tracked.
Vice aren't anywhere close to where Saudi Arabia can get them and chop any one of them up.
Yeah, so many comments here talking about the 'original' Wolfenstein while meaning Wolfenstein 3D...

This is where it all started:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fgok9eHqO8
I've done the same (bought a house, kept the old one for rental) and used an agency as a middle man. They take care of collecting rent, and the day to day business if, say, a plumber needs to be called (I just have to sign off on it). This at a 6% fee of the monthly rent is quite worth it to avoid any hassle. The rent income also fully covers the mortgage of the new house so basically my living costs are for free.
Yes and yes.

> What is it that these apps offer that the default Google podcast doesn't?

For one, donating directly to the podcaster herself instead of to Spotify/Google/Anchor/Apple or whoever else runs the app.

> Does it give better discovery options?

Sort of, yes. Let me explain: All podcasting apps rely on the Apple podcast index. [1] One of the very early podcasters, Adam Curry, was worried about this index being run by Apple, who may or may not one day decide to censor the index or ask money for it. So he set up his own [2].

[1] http://adam.curry.com/html/PODFATHER-g6c2RMsVnxgTdZ2DgHlVfMv...

[2] https://podcastindex.org/
Interesting to read GIMP should add live adjustment layers from Photo.
Using Affinity for 4 years I’m getting more and more to the point of dropping it completely. So many nice features in theory, put in practice the number of never-got-fixed bugs piles up every day, making it a nice toy app but useless if you depend on one of the broken functions, or lost your work in one of the frequent crashes of file corruptions, or unable to save situations.

I always advocate to deliver a dependable app (fixing bugs, keep it in maintainable state) before adding nice functionality which always raises the risk of breaking something.

Affinity products are dirt cheap (for the average hacker news reader), so choosing GIMP or Photo is mostly no matter of cost, but of other factors. As even Affinity struggles with resources (to fix bugs) despite selling tons of licenses, how should the GIMP developers stem such an challanging feature?
A crash of 25% would take us back to..maybe summer 2020? A crash of 50% would take us back to...2015ish?

I don't think the Fed etc have the guts to allow a 80% drop, so that the 2 million dollar house would drop back to $400k, and become reachable for the majority of people
Technically you could do any web requests which contain SQL in query paramaters even before with images/backgrounds and return data to the page. The thing is that it cannot work just between CSS and DB.
TicketMaster might actually compete with Comcast for the most universally reviled company in NA. It's as if every single component of their business has been designed to piss off their customers. I'm aware that, for TM, it's much more that event planners and venues are their prioritized customers, but I'm at a point in my life where I will refuse to go to any event that uses TM. TM could easily make their systems work better, but they just feel no need to out of naked greed and market capture.
The question is, can the riot and the government that's supposedly bringing social order both be just, at the same time? Or is the riot a sign that the government is in need of changing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_%281946%29
TIL CSS Paint worklet.

Someone could use that to hook in a utility css framework.
Bold of you to assume you'll get the minimal privacy of a cubicle's partitions.

The VR office is probably going to be open concept, like a bunch or chairs in a room.
> live broadcast

As in, real time to the computation? Why though.

The SC2 bots don't compete in real time, many of them can't, most of those that can are clearly hampered when playing against a human (necessarily real time) versus a machine (not real time), but you just watch the matches as if they'd happened in real time after the game is finished.

Why not just have a fixed pace unrelated to how long the moves "really" took to calculate, with a (no longer real time) clock shown to indicate how the machines used their allotted time?
Part of this phenomenon reached Portugal during the pandemic, some people from "big cities" went to the interior to buy houses for cheap to then either rent their houses in the city or the other one acquired.

Basically they removed a lot of houses from the market from locals, making them reach prohibitive prices completely off the reality of what locals can afford... where will they go?

What's the value added from the new-comers to those markets? They are not developing new houses, they aren't creating new jobs, and they shop mostly in big supermarkets.
> Bookmarking is broken in all browsers

The author suggests bookmarking is broken in all browsers.
I'm personally pretty happy with the bookmarking on Chrome.
I try to stick with only enough links to be visible in the Bookmarks bar.
If I have to click on the >> arrows to expand I might just as well Google it.
So yes my simpler guess is that browsers bookmarking is indeed good enough.
when a recruiter asks you to connect to a db with css is it really wrong to mislead them in this way though?
At some point we need to ask who's asking for these CSS features?

Unless it's coming from the NSA who just wants more attack surface, I don't see the point...
Bookmarks used to be useful with Opera up until at least version 12 (around the time they killed m2, their JS perf fell behind and chromes process isolation made it overall more stable.) because the entire bookmarked page was indexed.

Chrome's poor bookmarking must be intentional to push people to search – other browsers poor bookmarking I can't as easily explain – but some browsers used to have better/more useful interfaces for these kinds of things.
Contrary to what most people on hacker news seem to believe, or believe others believe, yes, it's a crime, and yes, the FBI / law enforcement is often involved. (But don't seem to catch people.)

In US law, theft is taking someone's property with the intent of depriving them of it permanently. It's very established in US cases that cryptocurrencies are property. The taking part is very public record. I don't think it would be hard to prove that someone intended to steal this money, given all the work involved that is publicly viewable.

It is indeed a Wild West in crypto land, but not because stealing is legal, rather because the odds of getting caught are slim, and so successful bandits keep right going.
I use a credit card with patreon or memberful when I want to support creators. What would bitcoin offer me exactly? It seems it would pay creators that I don't actively want to support rather than just the ones I do.
One part he mentions is that avoiding tracking cookies means avoiding the "I consent to tracking cookies" popup.

> However, GA has grown exceedingly complicated, installs cookies (thus requiring the utterly annoying cookie warning in the EU)
If you want to look at US you should look at EU. Don't compare US to France, compare California to France and Montana to Romania.
If that was the punishment, what would you (hypothetical, no evidence it happened) do about his sister, best friend and college roommate all having won in the past year? Or the money he already spent or moved out of the country?

I'm a fan of sophisticated white collar criminals going to jail for longer, and drug users and nonviolent dealers not.
It's perfectly okay to consult a therapist, but I didn't mention psychotherapy specifically. Could include budgeting for books and experiences, massage therapy, etc. For some people random shopping or a pedicure are therapy.

Other analogs: theraputic, playfulness, goofing-around, exploring new media and new sights, de-stressing. The OP sells their dynamic kalaidescope software for $30 IIRC, also iirc explicitly mentioning theraputic use.

And s/should/could/ in my post. "whatever floats your boat"
Recently found this app was hoarding 40gb of podcasts when I maybe open it twice a year.
Next stop, Bitcoin as legal tender.