skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, we stopped delivering the servers after they didn't pay two invoices over a period of 8 months (€200k+). Which was part of the contract with them that we could if they didn't pay. The quickly paid once they couldn't deliver our service to one of their Fortune 100 customers. Paid all the fees, got payment in advance.

These companies only pay when themselves get in trouble with their own customers
FeedBurner is one that I expected them to have killed years ago, but it's still alive. They even went to the effort of moving it to "more stable, modern infrastructure" last year rather than killing it. Someone at Google must care about it enough to fight for it.
Apple blocks Belarusian developers due to sanctions
This is a great article (as expected considering the author). It is a much more nuanced take on the whole IPv4 vs IPv6 topic than the recurring heated discussions on HN.
It was not a safety reason. It's a financial reason. Any captain abuses the "safety" power should be de-licensed as a pilot.
Thats a rule change the FAA made because of David Dao

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/travel/airlines-bumping-r...
He isn't conservative leaning. He is pretty much a centre/centre-left anti-authoritarian. Plenty of people watch Joe Rogan that aren't conservatives. Most conservatives and people like myself who roughly describe themselves as anarchists (though I don't like labels as you end up having to defend other people's statements and opinions other than your own) wouldn't consider him right wing at all.
Yeah for me it was just the beginning of high school. It was pretty obvious that if I kept playing Ultima Online or whatever for 10 hours a day then it was going to destroy my life, so I gave it up before freshman year started.

Every couple years I'll get into a game and spend a few weeks playing it, e.g. with Breath of the Wild a couple year ago, but I purposely don't let myself play games that just go on indefinitely like WoW. Whereas that's not an issue with indie games that only last five or ten hours.

And similarly, it's been fun going back and playing Baldur's Gate, which I never got to play when it came out.
I’ve tried discord and other real time chat communities several times and didn’t find any value in them. What kind of value do you get from them? The continuously vanishing feed of messages isn’t the best data storage imo.
at any rate I think within a month or two we'll see the court case when Rogan inevitably sues them

i'll be rooting for spotify

your point is valid, but I would argue that by leaving content up on a website you're sort of publishing it at will

suppose you posted a picture I took of the grand canyon on your website

you paid me for that picture, so you have exclusive rights

you take it down?? ehhh maybe if you prevent me from publishing it elsewhere now?

this will be in court for sure
yep https://justpaste.it/9sm9l
Slightly tangent: Indian government has mandated all ISPs to upgrade all customers as IPv6 compatible by 31st December 2022. So India will be 100% IPv6 compatible by end of the year.

Once that happens, I wouldn't be surprised if IPv4 is deprecated along with 2G.
Add your comment as [After 10yrs update] section in your post :)
Also, can't Delta work with other airlines on maintaining a joint list? Why does this need government intervention? It should be easy to set it up among themselves.
Google has zero perseverance when it comes to product development. The video game industry is very mature with cutthroat competition; you can't enter it with a few billions thinking you can make an impact in a year or two. They should have spent the money buying an existing publisher/developer.
>The problems with comments like this is that you assume that your right to be exposed to objectionable content usurps the rights of people who don’t and the company itself.

How can someone have a right not to be exposed to something they will have to willfully look for and have actions for such exposure?

That's why I say: if the problem is the possibility of exposure (the absurdity), just paywall the damn thing, then no one can "trip over" a 3 hour podcast and sit around to listen to it.

>They are simply exercising their freedom to choose what content they want to host and be liable for.

Well that content was published and had views/listeners, so at some point in time that content was up to standard. If they are going to be liable for it, they should be liable since the day it was published. That's why I thought of the idea of doing it under a pay wall, so only users that are actively paying for will be subject to that content censorship.

Or simply don't publish content until it's vetted and approved.

Another idea: have space for contrarian points of views within the video/podcast.
Not only that, but the contract only allowed the airline to deny boarding on oversold flights, which the flight in question was not. So they would have been in breach even if they had only denied boarding instead of seating him and then dragging him out.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/omribenshahar/2017/04/14/david-...
Fair points, but holistically one could argue he causes more misinformation and controversy than he contributes to scientific progress and education.

Regarding censorship, where does one draw the line? Misinformation? A conversation encouraging self-harm? The harm of others? Without holding media to some reasonable standard an anything goes mentality develops.
Embrace, join the open source community, and buy github. Extend, add exclusive features private repositories which do not notify copywrite holders when packages use copyleft software which mandates publishing source.

Extend, add repositories which profit from copyleft software which mandates publishing source, but github enables the thieves to hide and exploit the original developers work.

Extinguish, community now works with the thieves and contributes to parasitic repos instead of open source repositories.

Private repositories and paywall repositories are absolutely not open source.

Github must have independent auditors review private repositories and paywall repositories to prevent theft of opensource or be treated as part of the theft itself.
A shock jock? Howard Stern was a shock jock. Have you ever watched Joe Rogan?

He has a 3 hour conversation with a guest where he talks at lengths about pretty much anything he wants to ask them about.

That isn't a shock jock!
Monolithic platforms are dead. More and more creators will take lesson and put their content under their own brand. Youtbe will be just "dump host" embedded from other domain!
Selecting guests is a palm on the scale.
> Individual contributor sounds like a human resources rebrand for lower pay or power.

I’ve been in companies using this term for the last decade and definitely do not think this is the case. If anything it’s a movement to empower people that don’t want to be on a manager track by offering them a precise term to describe their track.

It simply means people with no direct reports.
This! So much this! I do 't even watch news anymore, I just keep my head down and follow everyone else. I'm post-propaganda :)
There are 3 things. Learn, Build, Show. In your words Do things, Tell people, reflect… repeat .

This is the smallest feedback loop of intentional development.
Time to cancel the Spotify subscription.
I used to listen to the "quacks" and the "conspiracy theorists" on Joe Rogan because back in the past most of the conspiracy theorists he had on were pretty harmless... people like Graham Hancock, Jacques Vallee, Stephen Greer. Additionally back in the day he used to have a good balance of scientists and those discussions were interesting esp since he would ask questions from a layman perspective.

I haven't been listening to it in recent months because it seems the show has become has obsessed with covid and is all covid all the time with some comedians thrown in now and then, not to mention Spotify as a platform is kind of a chore to use for podcasts.
A paying tenant in your house has the right to stay even if you demand him gone. Same with a paying passenger.
The article says they can bump you. “Generally, no” is not “no”.

> Generally, no. If you have met the following conditions, airlines are not allowed to deny you permission to board, or remove you from the flight if you have already boarded the flight:
You have checked-in for your flight before the check-in deadline set by the airlines; and

>A gate agent has accepted your paper boarding pass or electronically scanned your boarding pass and let you know that you may proceed to board.
However, airlines may deny boarding or remove you from a flight even after accepting your boarding pass and informing you that you may proceed to board if the denial or removal is due to a safety, security, or health risk, or due to a behavior that is considered obscene, disruptive, or otherwise unlawful.

They can easily use safety under “weights and balances” as the reason.
I agree with that, it’s the same for conventional TV advertising: pick a channel, pick a time slot, target your demographic

I think it’s different from modern web advertising that targets specific adds to specific individuals based on detailed profiles obtained by tracking them across the web
> it seems that due to the nature of X11 it is not possible to know which running process owns the window that is accessing the clipboard. A shame.

You definitely can. Search for _NET_WM_PID. Now this being X11, this is again just a convention, and a client could put any information it wants in that property.

> While very useful, this raises a lot of security questions.

Really, it doesn't.

If these programs want to share information, they already can. If these programs want to spy on each other's memory contents, they already can. Unless you are running these programs as different users and with different home directories, which is not usual right now in desktop GNU/Linux (but is on Android).
> Most websites just want to give you a great experience or to offer you something that you value and may even pay for in the future.

Despite being selective, I find “most” of the current web to be a pile of dung whose sole concern is to monetise users, experience and value be dammed. I wouldn’t even say most try to give you a good experience, let alone a great one. There are good websites with positive goals, but I’m doubtful they are the majority.

Am I reading too much into your use of the word, or is that really what you believe? If the latter, would you consider expanding the thought?
Amid Slowdown, Immigration Is Driving U.S. Population Growth
I work in an industry (sports analytics) where most people now doing it professionally started out tweeting terrible charts based on scraped data. It's certainly still a very rich pipeline of talent even now. That said, be aware of the biases this introduces into your hiring pipeline - many people don't have time to do all the things, nor the platform to be heard by the people.
No it isn't either. Micheal Malice (who had some episodes where he appeared removed) was unaware of them removing them until someone told him via Twitter. A lot of people aren't going to buy it was a mistake considering the timing.
And yet, people’s grandmas somehow do fine on their non-iOS platforms.

I don’t know why it’s OK for Apple to protect us from ourselves, but not for regulations to protect us from Apple.

BTW, I think Apple’s model is good and people (users and dev) are widely satisfied with it — you said “great” and “love”… I wouldn’t go that far, but we’re on the same page. So if there were a choice of stores, a great many would be unaffected, probably including your grandma.
>Does the program halt when the power cuts out?

Yes. A computer can be in an infinite loop, lose power, and then stop functioning.

>how do you define infinite loop and forever

Infinite Loop: A system is in an infinite loop when that system keeps returning to the same state making it unable to progress (depending on the context the definition might change to where making progress is okay and it in only returning to a partial match of an existing state (think of an echo server for example))

Forever: A time period that ranges from t=now to t=infinity.
I don't understand why that's a problem to some people. Isn't the whole point of the "free market" that I'm allowed to cancel my subscription if I disagree with whatever Spotify is doing?

From my perspective it is a very obvious double standard when people consider not wanting Spotify to air anti-trans rhetoric an attack on free speech, but calling the acceptance of trans people a sign of societal collapse is not a problem at all.

Is it not a form of censorship when someone tries every tactic in the book to discredit a group of people to an audience of millions?
A Sheep Ate My Internet
But they could before and they still can if they use safety as an excuse: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/travel/airlines-bumping-r...
> 80% of users search less than that monthly, even average HN users (who are majority of our beta users).

I suspect 80% of your users also are not daily-driving though, are also using other search engines at the same time, and have not set Kagi as a default on all their computers and their mobile devices (which I did!). In order to do that I had to change my mobile browser from Safari to Firefox, which is part of the reason I suspect most people have not done this.

1000 sounds like a lot more than 33 a day - particularly when if it is a search with a lens applied that drops to c16 per day, or a search that then clicks through to images.

I also think that the people that are willing to pay for search are likely to be the 'power users' which use search more. If your target market is 'people who are willing to pay for search, but don't use search that much' I suspect you will be limiting the market that find the subscription valuable.

> I would argue that our monetization strategy is valid as it is the only one that at least has a chance of making the business sustainable. Whether enough people would pay (which is what I think you were getting at) is another matter.

I think the problem is a monetization strategy is only valid if people are willing to pay for it. Anyone can create a monetization strategy that is designed to cover costs, but it's not going to lead to a sustainable business unless it generates more value for customers than the fee provides.
To rally in defence of the Wii, I'm a PC gamer through and through. I could never get on with consoles, particularly for first person shooters, although I had good times playing some casual games on friend's machines back in the day.

The Wii was fantastic though, I loved playing shooters on it, and the fun factor of things like tennis, golf and such made it a regular feature of family evenings.

That's over with the Switch. We occasionally play Mario Kart together but that's it. My eldest got addicted to CotW, Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing but now she's into LoL on her laptop the Switch is dead to her as well.

I'm not saying it's a bad console or machine, far from it, it's fantastic. But it's a fantastic console, whereas the Wii was something special. I wonder how many people bought Switch due to a halo effect from Wii. We certainly did. If they brought out Wii game controllers and games for it I'd be all over it.
Indeed. As I saw someone say a while back Joe Rogan is Gwenyth Paltrow for men and that is spot on.

The biggest problem, for me, with Rogan’s podcast is he brings on people that know nothing about a subject but let’s them talk as if they are some kind of expert. They have long conversations where Rogan as little if anything of value and just let’s a lot of weirdos that will get views ramble on endlessly for 2 hours. Then things get cut and paste around social media and misinformation spreads like wild fire.

A recent example is Dr Jordan Peterson talking about climate change. He lacks even a basic understanding but was sitting there talking about it with the confidence of a climate expert and as he is a Doctor people take him seriously about everything and it’s just god damn awful.

The same problem exists on a lot of “news” shows/channels where they have a genuine expert that has studied a subject for 20+ years and is known and respected world wide and sit them next to someone that read something on Facebook then got very vocal about it as it matched their feelings on the subject.

This whole “we need two sides” concept is bullshit when the two sides are not equals but are presented and treated as equals.

It gives credibility to people that deserve none as they have done nothing to earn it.

I think multiple points of view are extremely important but you need to ensure the people involved are as close to equal as possible with regards to their professional standing and experience. Not some random blogger.
Not referring to this case in particular, barring someone from ever using a service which may not have a decent or equivalent replacement always seems like an abuse especially when we're not talking about something criminal on a certain scale. Fine the person, increase the fine for every subsequent incident cause by the person, have them pay damages in court. The imbalance caused by these rules being applied one sided by a company in a strong position of power against an individual with no power whatsoever is not healthy.

And the imbalance of power is core here. Boeing resolved the criminal charge related to the 737 MAX scandal by paying $2.5bn. The CEO isn't on a "no freedom list" despite his actions leading to the deaths of 346 people. The CEOs f airlines operating the 737 MAX who were informed by the pilots of the dangers but did not cease flying that plane, endangering tens of thousands. What kind of list should that land them on but didn't?

If you do something on the internet that endangers someone's safety do you go on a national "no internet" list? If you cause an accident on a public road do you go on a "no car/no access to public roads" list?
I guess I incorrectly remember, when the contract was first reported, that any censorship on the part of Spotify would be considered a breach and Rogan could walk away with his show and the $100M payment. Anyone else remember it that way?
Did you read the article either?

> While it would be really hard to describe here in detail all of the new features, the code architecture improvements enabled by the React v16.8 Hooks functionality are so significant that it will eventually become harder and harder to recruit developers interested in working in a pre-Hooks codebase. In order to keep up with the rest of the industry and provide our current developers with the best tooling available, I believe it should be a high priority to enable use of Hooks and other modern React functionality. This definitely isn’t anywhere close to the only new feature worth upgrading for, but it does represent an extremely large shift in how developers will be able to write React code.
This logic very quickly crumbles when you are confronted with the fact that Joe Rogan saying trans people are the downfall of "western society" is also intended to curtail the speech of another.
> Statements like "vaccine does not protect against infection", or "vaccine does not stop transmission" are obviously true, because vaccine cannot be 100% effective.

Are they obviously true? I present you exhibit A: https://youtu.be/jDtUWXOmLLg?t=373 This is false and blatant misinformation.

> But the data clearly shows that spread and 2nd order effects are reduced in a heavily vaccinated population.

How is this relevant? The OP claimed that anti-vaxxers are endangering people. Whom are they endangering? Other vaccinated people?
It seems to me that lot of 'loosing free speech' is about loosing racist privileges.
This is cute, but ultimately kind of unplayable.

The keyboard controls are non-intuitive as observed by others.

The playing "field" is plain and for me at least (possibly due to vision issues) this means I can never be confident of the position of the piece before it is very close to the surface.

And fundamentally the square base and horizontal clearing make it a question of being lucky enough to get at least one of the two door-wedge pieces at the right time; otherwise you get too many unfixable gaps.

What this means is that the initial difficulty is too maddening to make the game fun to play, and I feel you must hate me.

Make the base and row clearing a V shape and you might have a game, rather than a cognitive punishment beating!

It is much easier to play on a touch device -- great work here! -- but at the same time in Safari on a 2018 iPad Pro (no slouch) it suffers slowdowns and non-responsive moments as play continues. Which may be out of the developer's hands.
Like I explained with the initial post, 99% of the time I try to avoid exactly that - averting my eyes, scrolling and using peripheral vision to see when the ad's gone. Not taking screenshots or pausing because that's engagement. I've tried both tactics of pausing to click "Hide ad - irrelevant", or just scrolling past as fast as possible.

I did, twice apparently, stop and take screenshots because my therapist wanted proof. If I get an ad for pistachios or moisturizer these days I do the opposite - pause, click the ad.
> That is not how any vaccine works. A vaccine decreases the chance of a catching a disease, it does not eliminate it.

No, a vaccine decreases the chances of developing a disease, but they rarely if ever decrease the chances of "catching it" (getting infected).

> The way the disease is eliminated is by getting as large a fraction as possible of people vaccinated, so that spread is stopped.

This didn't work as COVID mutated and the vaccine is not effective against the new strains anyway.. But once people will get infected with Omicron this will sort itself out: https://www.wsj.com/articles/herd-immunity-is-over-superimmu...
Someone housetrained you very well
> Unfortunately you cannot simply HODL IPv4 because authorities can come over and take you blocks back if they are not used.

You can lease addresses:

* https://circleid.com/posts/20210608-leasing-vs-buying-ipv4-a...

The addresses get allocated to Company A which then turns around and allows Company B to use them for a monthly fee and they become routable/pingable.

If someone doesn't have enough in their CapEx budget to buy a block then they can put it into their OpEx.
> What about if the fan project contained inappropriate/sexual content? What if it's a buggy mess that people start to associate with your brand?

Tough shit. Japan has a huge fan-made media community[1] and the original creators still somehow manage to exist in the same market. I really dislike the modern idea that because you created something, you get exclusive control of every component of it for the rest of eternity. I think it's really harmful to try to lock down our shared culture in that way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doujinshi
Simple sites are easier to make.
We have one of these and 3 pairs of KPH30i. All fantastic headphones for under $30.

Cool thing about the KPH30i is that it has the in-line mic so they are perfect for work meetings as well.

You don’t need to go back and forth between a work headset and music headphones— just use this for everything and it sounds great !!
It means someone who is not a people-manager. That is, someone who _contributes_ to the team/company by actually doing things, rather than by supporting/directing the work of others.

Trying to think of other words for this... programmer, software developer, software engineer. But those words are all role-specific. IC has the advantage of conveying that the person is not managing, but is generic with regards to role. Non-manager works, but that emphasizes the negative.

Hmm.....