skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just don't get all the hate for cryptocurrencies around here. I benefit from using both Brave and Signal without being subjected to (scammy) adverts, and I just ignore the cryptocurrencies (you can too!!).. For people who are willing to take the risks with MobileCoin and the like, why not give them that choice?
Ask HN: How do carriers throttle streaming to 480p resolution?
I have seen that most carriers, by default, have a "stream saver" turned on, which, I am assuming detects when you're on YouTube or Netflix and automatically throttles your bandwidth to these sites. Assuming these connections are happening over SSL, how are the carriers able to modify the sites to disable users from selecting HD or 4k resolutions?
Laws around cryptocurrencies vary widely between countries. In a good chunk of them, while not considered to be "money", bitcoins are viewed as "digital assets" (that you maybe have to report for taxes) and as such theft laws fully apply (but of course the thief still has to be found and not be on the other side of the world...)
> remove the difficulty level settings

Removing explicit difficulty settings doesn't mean everyone gets the same experience. A well-designed game tailors the difficulty to the skill of the player either by providing progressively harder achievements/endings/sidequests or by dynamically altering the difficulty based on the demonstrated skill of the player.

> they fill sick fuck them

Completely agree with you that accessibility settings that minimize animation effects, increasing contrast, etc should be supported in every game that needs them. Having said that, GNOME seems about as good as KDE with respect to accessibility settings -- fine but should be better.

> not adding them is a "fuck you" to the customer

Do you really feel this way? Most games I play do not have some of these settings you mention (bloom, FOV, etc) especially on consoles. I have never felt particularly insulted by this. If anything, I find it more frustrating when I open a new game and the first task I have to complete is "look up three pages of cryptically named settings to get it to run acceptably well" because that makes it feel like the developer gave up 75% of the way through tuning the game for different hardware profiles and just said "screw it, we'll make the player figure it out".

> you can get away with it if you either are GNOME and your product is forced as default

I am skeptical that GNOME is popular solely because someone is "forcing" Linux users to use it. Most GNOME users I know have tried at least a few other alternatives before settling on GNOME as the least bad option. (Especially once they discover that GNOME's equivalent to "Advanced" settings are called "Tweaks" and "Extensions" which is odd at first but seems to work fine in practice.)

> we implemented this feature for this 1 customer

I agree you did the right thing, internationalization is always important, and you're right that the value is not strictly based on the number of people who would use a setting, but also on the necessity to the few people who need it.

The point is not that software should have no settings. That's a strawman, most software needs settings and most software (including GNOME) has settings. Supporting someone's language, accessibility needs, unique hardware, personal preferences, etc is valuable. The point is that settings have a cost for all involved. Products that chronically underestimate this cost typically have a tough time competing with products that are more thoughtful about which settings they support.
If that were the case why was it ever at 1.8 stars to begin with then? The drastic change (with no software updates) certainly doesn't make intentional manipulation far fetched.
Ok, compare urban areas then. USA is still cheaper.
Thank you for linking the article. I purchased my first cellphone in 2004 so I experienced the era, but I've never used AT&T or an iPhone, so this is all news to me. I also was a late adopter of 'smartphones' and didn't purchase one until 2013 so take my experiences with a grain of salt. (I also visited Japan in '04 and remember being blown away by their phone technology - "large" color screens!)
One of the many reasons why you should use SRI and other security measures even on CSS resources and not just <script>s.
I don't see why it matters.

I think the Roland TB-303 is the best example of what is being talked about here.

It was made by Roland to simulate bass guitars but spawned entire genres of dance music because of its unique sound.
Title isn't very helpful here.

Subheading: 'Seventy years after its publication, Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia is a warning against resurgent fascism'
Mississippi currently takes the right to vote away from 10.6% of it's voting age population (worst in the country), and 16% of it's black population (3rd worst in the country), due to past felony convictions. And there are many ways to earn yourself a felony in MS, often for things that wouldn't be elsewhere.

National averages are 2.3% and 6.3%.

https://mississippitoday.org/2020/10/19/study-11-of-all-miss...

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While there are both legal and legislative attempts to change it, as of now:

Mississippi currently has no provisions for re-enfranchising those with a past felony conviction, other than by a direct act of the legislature or governor for that specific individual (which is very rare).

Steal $1,001 of stuff when you're 18 and you'll likely never get to vote again in your life even if you never have another encounter with the wrong side of the law.
I love this article because it puts the metaverse in historical context, which is so important post the 'ahistoric turn' where people can't believe they are living in a unique moment separated from the rest of our experience.

That said, I think it underestimates the importance of improving technology.

Virtual Reality has been a north star of our culture since at least the 1980s being a persistent theme in fiction and science fiction (you knew Star Trek The Next Generation had jumped the shark when in half the episode they never left the Holodeck) and in culture such as video games, as much as the reality was a pale shadow of what we imagined.

I remember the bad old days of VRML in the 1990s when I argued with people who thought it was all junk because it didn't measure up to games like Doom and Descent and others didn't realize what a big problem it was that it was inevitable that you'd wind up turning your back to a 3-d model and not being able to find it again. Today I dream about turning an abandoned big box store into a VR park -- the other day I found out that Disney tried this and failed in the 1990s.

What I do know is that culture lags technology. Futurists in 1970 expected people would be getting personalized news from a service like the web in the early 1980s, and they did in the form of services like VideoTex, MiniTel and Compuserve.

One thing that killed it was that the technology was expensive; in principle a single corporation could have designed an end to end system (the phone company in France did) but without a clear plan to make money on it (or save money by not printing phone books) they wouldn't do it. By the time the web came along people were able to build it without worrying about what it costs and think about paying for it later.

Facebook became a household word and insinuated itself into commerce not because it was adopted by firms like Apple, General Motors, and Disney, but because the Thai Restaurant with great food and terrible atmosphere put "Like Us On Facebook" in all of their marketing materials and made Facebook a key touchpoint for their customers.

I agree with Ralph that 2-d presentation will always coexist with 3-d presentation, but 3-d presentation may well get better and much more accessible to a wider range of organizations. The frustration we've had since the 1990s might very rapidly fall away to something that looks like Ready Player One.
My wife and I are both vegan.

We got this book as a Christmas gift: https://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Everybody-Foolproof-Plant-Based...

It does a great job at the beginning of the book addressing various substitutes for things like eggs, mayo, etc... Since it's done by America's Test Kitchen, they've tested everything extensively, and explain which subs are the best for baking, flavor, and other factors.
No one said it’s a solution, I’m simply describing reality, as you’ve also concluded.

Also the rate of increase is not fixed. Areas with more propensity for development will see smaller price increases compared to areas with less propensity for development.

It’s more complicated than simply supply and demand, though it does reduce down to that in the end
Should be easy to fix. Firefox already shares such data with other Firefox instances on other devices. And a UI to export the bookmarks is already present, so exporting to other browsers should be easy to automate.

But, I use Firefox everywhere except for one Android table that because of Google stupidity/cupidity/rapaciousness doesn't have room to install Firefox even though it has a nearly empty 128 GB SD card.
The phone number requirement is the only thing making Signal remotely close to usable for the wider public. Similarly, non-phone messaging is niche in the extreme. Unusable software is not an ally of user freedom.

The actual problem with Signal is that they took US State Department funding. That doesn't mean it's an op necessarily, but suspicious nonetheless.
That’s correct, but Stockfish uses neutral nets differently than AlphaZero.
It really doesn't, but those selling those boot camps sell the dream it does it.

I did technical school before university, which are the last 3 high school years in Portugal (10 - 12, from 12), as alternative to go to the university, just in case I would fail the national admission exams.

Yet after those three years there was so much to learn, how come a 2 month bootcamp teach anything beyond basic programming knowledge.
Veed.io raises $35M from Sequoia Capital
I quit twitter years ago, too - but every other social media platform is filled with screenshots of the very worst of twitter, pretty much all the time. You can quit all you like, but Twitter is inescapable.
This to me is another example of Crypto Andys so often just not understanding the financial system. I like this tweet [1]:

> Honestly I think we emphasize flashy defi things that give you fancy high interest rates way too much. Interest rates significantly higher than what you can get in traditional finance are inherently either temporary arbitrage opportunities or come with unstated risks attached.

Put another way: there's no such thing as a free lunch.

[1]: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/127444312437552332...
Sorry about that, I didn't intend to come off so belligerent, but it is easy to appear so with rapid replies.
I don’t mind a subscription model provided it’s a very useful application with few competitors in terms of features. $5 each month is nothing in the grander scheme of things.
Did Dr. Malone not have facts and studies at his disposal?
Yep and they’re fully deployed within one frame of this video.
An ASN isn't needed unless you are multi-homed. If you're connecting through just one ISP, you can do BGP peering with them using a private ASN. That said, if you do need an ASN, I don't know why they should be so expensive.
Also in Brazil
Here it is on one page - fun to watch $300+ million come off Binance, and get wrapped and transferred to the contract:

https://etherscan.io/address/0xe4f6df25710e75a08cb967e831ea5...
I’m not seeing the contradiction between your link and what I stated. Your link says more people will go to cities, which will increase demand and subsequently prices. Which is also what I said
Agree with most of this, but I'm curious where Facebook groups fit in here. We recently moved to Florida and have been scrambling to find non-religious home school friends for our daughter (homeschooling because of Covid). Facebook has been pretty much only resource available, and I've joined a number of local groups that have proved somewhat helpful. I'm wondering whether groups may provide a level of stickiness and user retention that the timeline may not?
If software engineers at Tesla chose to break the law on purpose, which is what seems to have happened, then I believe they should be criminally charged.
Even if they can't look into an SSL connection they can measure the amount of data going through it and rate limit it.
The thing is, Photoshop has had non-destructive adjustment layers since version 4. 1997 I think. They are common to basically all other photo editors and it's really an essential part of most photographers' workflow.

And this isn't just "nice functionality" -- it's absolutely core to the compositing model. This sort of thing is built into operating system graphics layers now, and there are other, newer apps on Linux (Krita for one, I think) that can do it.

This is all the stuff GIMP users are promised for the future when the new GEGL gets integrated. But that's just like Infrastructure Week: it never arrives.

I'm not saying it is easy to implement; I don't know where I would personally start on much of this stuff. But I do think that it is indicative of the GIMP project's peculiar focus on scripting that something as crucial as the compositing engine in a photo editing application is routinely outsourced to another project.

It's such a basic function in other applications that it has to be holding back donations from interested users.

(I'm not sure where you're using Affinity Photo but on the Mac it has crashed on me about a dozen times since 2015. It does not strike me as more bug-ridden than GIMP!)
Fairtrade games?
> It drives me nuts to deal with the typical Java "Each class has its own file -no matter how small" thing.

Couple this with extensive use of inheritance and design patterns, and you have a recipe for awfulness. One of my previous teams had an implementation where rendering a piece of HTML would involve digging through about twenty different source files, each with maybe 3-4 lines of actual code other than the class definition boilerplate. One top-level line would send you down the inheritance hierarchy of ClassThatGetsData/ClassThatGetsDataPlusThisOneOtherThing/...PlusThisOtherOtherThing/... etc etc, then the same thing for ClassThatProcessesData/... and then ClassThatRendersData/...

Adding a single bit of data to rendered HTML (e.g. a tiny star for 'this product is well-reviewed') would involve altering every single source file in the multiple trees, and maybe adding some new specialisations to make the trees even deeper.

At the time, fresh out of Uni with a head full of design patterns, I thought this was just how enterprise code was meant to be structured!
I use Facebook more these days than I did 5 years ago. It has replaced Craigslist as the place to go for local things, especially buy/sell/trade. Our town, and even certain villages within the town, has a few discussion groups that is where I hear all the important talk/annoucements about what is going on. Groups tend to be like a Subreddit but with geographic IRL connections instead of anonymous interest-based associations.

Perhaps I'm just an outlier, but it's the same with Twitter for me. I use it more these days than I did some years ago, but I also use it mostly like an RSS feed. I follow video game devs, musicians, etc. so I can be kept in the loop on the latest releases and whatnot.

I think you make a good point about content graph. I think there is some truth to that, although I have never really taken any interest in anything but the kind of content that YouTube offers.
I'm still waiting for its NFT compatibility
Several fields have tiered roles where bootcamps/community college programs are used to fill some of the roles. Several of these are now considered trades jobs, like electronics repair or certified nursing assistant. Depending on the regulations there might or might not be a path from community college program to an advanced role in the field without a college degree. In most of the world, you can't go from a CNA to an RN (Registered Nurse) or an MD with just experience.
I will agree with the other comment that it's between "stargate and farscape in terms of quality" and also point out that it's a great comparison and a glowing recommendation.

If you go into it expecting 2020s era prestige production, you will be disappointed, but if you liked the 90's SciFi channel it's fun. That said, not every episode is good, and ymmv.
I hear you, but I'm not convinced. Retail finance is being hammered by future giants like Revolut and Stripe who are not complete noobs in leveraging customer data and start from a much better position PR-wise (relatively).
I use the SingeFileZ Firefox extension to save pages that I want to be sure of being able to read again.
I just wish the Pixel remasters would release on an actual console. Shame to play these things on a phone.
is there anything of this sort, but for go?
Steam will start showing actual download size
It's really a perfect assessment. I couldn't articulate why exactly Facebook felt like I was purely wasting time each time I engaged with the experience (few times a year). This description completely crystallizes my thinking.
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Eh or buy at a high price now and find yourself unable to sell when prices lower. The long term population trends in the US are decreasing. My guess is it’ll be driven by baby boomer population decline. It’d be interesting to look into that deeper.

Probably the best home buying scenario right now is to buy as little as you need. At least the eventual hurt is lesser.

I mirror GP though. I graduated into the Great Recession and couldn’t find work for many years. The work I did eventually find wouldn’t have afforded real estate, ever. Now that my incomes up to buy home territory (comfortably) there’s this huge land grab. Not going to start on things like family formation. Feels like chasing a hundred dollar bill that’s being pulled on a line away from me.
Have you actually looked into it? Have you used it? Do you know how it works on the deep level? Do you know what smart contracts are? Are you able to read them?

If you answered yes to these questions, you wouldn't be saying what you're saying; I guarantee it.
What are the chances that they bought the vulnerability from the same place? Finding something like that at the same time if it was there for awhile is rather suspect.
International Space Station to Crash into the Pacific Ocean in 2031 per NASA
I'm reminded of a Twitter joke from (according to the WaPo) @KevinFarzad:

"HEY IT'S ME your facebook friend from high school who never left our hometown & thinks Olive Garden is fancy. Anyway, here's a racist article."
It's not that surprising, nor unprecedented. Many exchange hacks were immediately refunded.

Trust is the most important thing in crypto, exchanges are making billions in profit, not covering a $320m loss could generate billions in damage by crypto prices plunging, so it makes a lot of economic sense to avoid that.

There are investors holding billions in Solana crypto, so it's in their interest to avoid a Solana loss of trust.
I think you're under-appreciating how unsympathetic and narcissistic this argument is. If you're suggesting that the original response didn't take into account that it would literally be you who would be losing money, please rest assured everyone made that assumption.

Being the smaller agent of a parasitical industry doesn't make you or your bid to continue the status quo sympathetic.
Banking 101. It's not pretty.
If CSS property value is not limited in length, you could actually put the whole browser source code in it... :-)
It's also good for caching/performance reasons.

I don't know too much about compilers, but if you're improved proximity results in better proximity of the byte code then you're less likely to have a cache miss. That's a big deal.
What model do you have? The 3 definitely doesn't read speed limit signs. Or at least doesn't use the information if it does read them. It will drive right past a sign that says 25MPH and still say the limit is 35MPH. Or drive past a 45MPH and say its 35MPH. Things like that. And there is no way to even report it being wrong, that I have been able to find.
Well the original comment is flagged now, make of that what you want... Yeah, the return on investment seems to good to pass on.
He's just probably late to the game and doesn't want to accept. Ignore and continue.
The Lisbon Treaty did at least need a referendum in Ireland. It was rejected initially, partially as a warning shot to the then unpopular government between elections, and partially because of genuine concerns about the impact it would have on Ireland's military neutrality and for the concerns that the EU could then impose a minimum corporate tax rate on the country.

As a result, the EU agreed a set of guarantees [1] that the Lisbon treaty would not be used to do either of these things (to Ireland specifically), and only then did it pass in Ireland.

An EU army has more widespread opposition these days, so hasn't been raised since. Minimum corporate tax rates did not pass through the EU, though this year the US led an effort that is going to result in them globally via other avenues.

[1]: https://www.iiea.com/images/uploads/resources/230535195500_L...
>Ignoring the ethics of the adverting for now

Selectively ignore the worst part so we can feel guilty about improving it? for what purpose?
Australia is also a fairly conservative country in many respects, so these requirements (which are definitely conservative sounding) don’t surprise me.
Lightning has very little adoption, is hard to use because 1. you need to always be online to receive transactions and 2. routing is failure-prone, and costly in capital lock up - in an internet-connected hot-wallet no less - for payment channel collateral requirements.

Ethereum Rollups are much more promising L2 solutions.
I agree. I love using signal and have converted most of my friends to it, but $60/year is too high for me for a chat app. I’d pay a dollar a month, maybe two.
Don't forget us little people on your way up
Old school quality shit posting all the way down. I appreciate you man.
Totally buying this. Thank you very much.
Why my projects keep failing
> I think there's enough doubt about my technique here that I can submit this for YC2023 and make bank in maybe a decade or so.

Dropbox was doubt. The response you're seeing isn't doubt or skepticism. The responses are proclaiming that your technical claim is factually incorrect. They're right - your premise is false. You know you can't connect using CSS, which is what the quoted text at the top regarding recruiters clearly states, and you changed the wording: "using CSS" vs "in CSS."
Yeah Montana is actually wildly more expensive than Romania across the board. Some areas (like Big Sky) are on par with other luxury resort areas like Vail or Tahoe.

But I see the posters point, the US is larger and more diverse than one European nation.