skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google sees the writing on the wall. Their billing monopoly is under threat, and is probably not going to last forever.

This situation looks like Google allowed Spotify to add their own payment system with some terms. The obvious one is that they need to keep Google's payment system alongside their own. A less obvious (but IMO likely) requirement may be that Spotify cannot offer a much lower price through their billing system to incentivize users to switch (100% assumption here).

From the outside, this looks like a pro-consumer move: consumers get more choices (even if the prices are the same). But the reality is (probably; I'm just assuming here) that Google still has the power to shove their billing system down developers' throats, since there aren't yet any laws or rulings to prevent it.

So even though the writing in this press release makes it seem like a pro-consumer move, I hope it doesn't take any momentum away from all of the antitrust lawsuits. Google's (and Apple's) monopolies need to end. In an ideal world, Spotify would add Google billing (and others) as options to attract more customers, not because Google is forcing them to.
For those that avoid it on the grounds of "it is too hard to self-host", may I suggest a much simpler alternative? It takes two simple steps:

1) buy a domain name

2) Foment/patronize SMBs that can provide hosting for open source software alternatives.

That's it. By demanding open source alternatives, you are ensuring that the service vendor can not lock you in. By using your own domain, you get the freedom to port your services to anyone that offers better price/better support/better performance.
Some people value security and independence.

Owning provides both of these and renting does not.
Photos is great but lacking. It seems like all of the other iterations of Synology's attempts to make a photos app.

It starts off great and then never receives any attention. I bet their working on Gallerys next.

Photos can be great but the facial recognition is extremely poor and not there yet..
Scrapy Framework Architecture
I think I spend time trying to reduce the amount of (time and/or money) that other people will have to spend on those same items in future. Thus I'm reluctant to spend money on them (I'd prefer to reduce their costs).

It's possible I'm self-deluding, but your comment is wise and I felt like chiming in.

(late-30s here)
Yep, exactly. It’s surprising how many people don’t realize stocks are an inflation hedge.
3 month supply of everything is very expensive
I lived for a while in Chattanooga and really really liked it! It’s a bit of an up and coming city but with a 10 drive you are already in the midst of nature, mountains, rivers, etc. When I lived there there was a creek right behind my apartment and waking up to the sunrise, the sounds of birds and the creek is something I still miss a lot!

Chattanooga has a very chill culture, good food, tech meetups (I was there when the pandemic started so I went not got the attend one before the world stopped :( ), tons of outdoors activities, tons of rains and plants and water! (I really miss that creek!)

Had to move for work reasons but I’d love to live there again!

Oh, and the internet is by a local company (not xfinity or some other national crap) and it’s one of the fastest and most affordable services I’ve used!

Anyways, just my 2 cents. Good luck!
No, as far as I can tell it makes no difference at all.
As an America I say:

Russia: Right now, worth it.

North Korea: Who knows if it's worth it.

Cuba: Not worth it. We're still upset that they kicked out our dictator.

Iran: Not worth it. We're still upset that they kicked out our dictator.
I'd just like to chime in with my own alerting service:

https://ctadvisor.lolware.net/
https://github.com/technion/ct_advisor

Building this was exciting, I've been proud to run it and and it predated services from Facebook or Cloudflare. I'm not sure what the future should hold however, it's hard to bring it up anywhere without being told people should just use Facebook.
The first struggle (and it took a couple of years, and is still in process) is learning that my entire worldview is rooted in the presuppositions of the Enlightenment and of modernism (and postmodernism, to a lesser degree). That is not how people saw the world for most of the history of humanity. And most of the experiences of religion and God that I had growing up were through that same empirical, Enlightenment worldview.

Through the work of Jonathan Pageau, I began to learn to see the world through a more traditional mindset. And I began to look at my own thinking and my previous presuppositions more carefully.

For example, you said "convince yourself that supernatural things exist". But you already believe all kinds of supernatural things exist. You believe in numbers. You believe in categories. You believe in grammar. You believe in logic. You believe in cities. You believe in political offices. Those are all above the natural world. In philosophy, that's called "metaphysics". It's "above" the physical world. You have a hierarchy of values (which is not physical) that determines how you see the world, how you act in the world, and how you categorize what your senses are feeding your brain. This is completely in line with our current scientific understanding of how our brains work. The work of John Vervaeke can also be very helpful.

Anyway, once I got over my empiricism and began to see that empiricism is completely blind to very large swathes of the human experience, it got much easier to say "well, since I have a value system intrinsically, and since a value system is completely necessary, perhaps I should put more effort into structuring it around the highest good."

Please keep in mind this process took a couple of years and will last for the rest of my life, but I hope you can see the stepping stones along the way.
Google's post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30782640
People here made masks for each other, helped elderly and what not. I can totally see people sux in scarcity situation, but all in all, this pandemic was people trying to help and be helping.
In case you didn't know, they make bikes with carbon+rubber belt drives now, rather than chains. It's kind of nice for commuter bikes because there's no grease to get on your pants.
I believe AR will blow up but I don't believe AR entertainment will likely blow up except for a few niche games. It's arguably way too hard to fit every story to the environment you're in (AR) than to just put you in a different environment (VR) for playing a game or experiencing a VR movie.
He did "sing" one of the most brilliant parts in 2007 film 'Across the Universe'

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ahx9ckqIw]
100% agreed. a lift-and-shift migration to Galera and modern MariaDB wouldnt be hard, but knowing MS there are mid managers waiting in the wings to swoop in and drive this into the ground with azure/sqlserver, the former of which posted 8 outages in the past 90 days alone.

this is classic Microsoft. spend a ton of money for something very valuable -- in this case virtually all developer marketshare -- and then casually pedal it into the ground while you lie about the KPI's to C levels (IIS marketshare on netcraft as a function of parked websites at GoDaddy to dominate over Apache) and keep it on life support with other revenue streams (XBox) for the next 16 quarters until it becomes a repulsive enough carbuncle to shareholders that it gets the axe (Microsoft phone.) then in a year, limp into the barn with another product nobody else but you could afford to buy (minecraft) and slowly turn it into a KPI farm for Microsoft account metrics to drive some other failing product (Azure) and keep the C level happy while you alienate virtually every player with mechanics or requirements they hate.
keep in mind that it's not for everyone, it says: "pilot will allow a small number of participating developers"

it's also an agreement, so it's very likely that they are requiring price parity.

in that case the only benefit of picking a different payment processor for end users would be for they joy of typing their billing information again.

regardless, looks like a step in the right direction
Yes, it would be if it had done that. But it didn't.
I wish I had avoided debt better. In my 30s, I had enough money and credit to do stupid things, and I was still pretty materialistic, so everything looked good.

My 40s were sobering.

Got debt-free by about 48.

Now 50.
So, if Putin, or Stalin, believed they are doing the right thing, then their crimes become a “defensive moral choice”?
That goes into the history book, not the obituary. Obituaries are published when the death is still raw and you still have grieving family members. They're not supposed to be historically accurate (how can you compress someone's life into a page-long news story?), and are as much about breaking news & closure as about facts.

A history book has much more room to examine nuance & consequence, as well as more time to do thorough research and usually the benefit of hindsight and distance from the events in question.
I don't see the point of it even though I live 50kms from the border of Ukraine

- You need a self-sustaining (for at least weeks) nuclear fallout shelter otherwise I think the whole thing is pointless. This takes a lot of money and time to build.

- I can't legally own a firearm in my country
Have you read about albumin replacement therapy for Alzheimers? It's done well so far in human trials.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25023458/
I dislike Apple, and right now I wouldn't consider buying an Apple product again (I had an iPhone 1 ahead of most people in the UK). I spent the first ~5 years of my career developing on Android and I still use Android.

I agree with your payment hierarchy 100%.
If you don't check any and leave the default "Debian desktop environment" checked you just get GNOME. So that's probably why.
>If the world becomes the kind of place where those preparations are necessary, it's no longer the kind of world that I'd like to exist in.

That's my position in the case of a nuclear winter as that's fundamentally unsurvivable, so why bother right? However in the case of a total breakdown in global trade I'd be more willing to try stick it out.

Looking back at the historical record the collapse of the bronze-age civilization is the closest parallel I can see to what I would imagine will happen at some point to either us or our children. The best hypothesis I've seen on what happened there is there were a bunch of inter-dependent societies that traded with each-other by importing raw materials and producing finished goods and trading with others. There's evidence of drought over an extended period which led to both famine and migrations of people in famine affected areas to other locations in search of food that also brought people into conflict with each other and some evidence of internal uprisings from social unrest. Any one of those things in isolation seems not enough to take everything out, but when all occur at once it seems it caused a breakdown in trade which was sufficient enough to reduce the complexity of the society to the point that individuals that had come to rely on that complexity weren't able to survive it going away. There is a great talk on YouTube called "Social Collapse Best Practices" given by a guy who lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union and he compares it how he thinks the US would fare in a similar situation and gives practical advice as he sees the same structural forces at play that brought about that collapse. This talk was given in 2009. I've been digging back as far into the past as I can on people giving doomsday predictions and back-testing what they say to assess accuracy, and a very clear trend emerges that everyone who focuses on the fundamentals is largely right.
EU capped the rate to 0.3% for credit cards. That's also why there are no US cashback style deals or those weird point programs.
>He does not refer to damage

“Why would SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID 19, which we all thought about as a respiratory virus, attack the heart”

“Why would SARS-CoV-2, … attack the heart”

Are you suggesting attack the heart doesn’t mean to cause damage to it? I have trouble reading that as meaning anything else, how do you read it?
Apple is now a pivoting to be a company that sells services. They will sell a premium TV if it means they can get more subscribers and tie its users more into their ecosystem.
I agree that most forms of Christianity can be underwhelming, but Orthodoxy has a rich tradition that dates back over two thousand years of a mystical relationship with God, rooted in prayer. It's very different than any other form of Christianity that I have ever heard of.
Not quite self-hosting, but in the same spirit I've slowly been working on a simple local archival system for anything I don't want to lose. It's changed my life.

Even across years of content, it's required less storage space than I expected. The more I archive, the less I need to rely on online search engines or worry about linkrot. It's also helped me cut down on how many tabs I keep open in fear of losing information.

If I can't recall some piece of information, I can do a fuzzy global search through the text of all articles I've saved in a specific category, for example. If I find some obscure fix for something deep in an old reddit or HN thread, you bet I'm archiving that so if I run into the same issue a year later I can easily fix it again without trawling through 50 Google results.
This is encouraging. Thank you
Yeah, never mind the dictator who used chemical weapons against the population of Iraq on multiple occasions. Never mind the invasion of Kuwait, either, the monster in this story was clearly Albright. /s
I suspect you’re right about this. I would love to see the data on how many users end up choosing Spotify’s payment system over Google Play Billing.
> yet crypto exchanges continue to charge around 0.5%

That's not true. Coinbase charges 0.5%, but little trading is done there. The derivatives exchanges, where most treading actually happens (Binance, FTX, ...), charge around 0.05-0.10%. Some even charge 0% if you use limit orders.
Or monthly SEPA transfers. That I can set and revoke at will. I wish that there was an error-proof (on my side) way to set the exact amount though. And a range acceptable for the company for what day of the month to do the transfer.

I don't understand why I would need to go through anyone else for this than my bank(s) ?
And what are the boundaries of the law?
You said this in a different comment.

"blaming powerless besieged people for their own suffering is a special type of reasoning that only seems to pop up whenever brown people are mentioned"

I agree with you. And Hussein was a US ally when he was fighting Iran. OBL was a US ally when he was fighting the Soviets. That can't be ignored, either. The US helped make those enemies. And the difference in public reaction to Ukrainian dead and refugees vs those who are Palestinian, Syrian, Yemeni, Ahgan ... it is shameful. It is hard to believe racism isn't a part of the disparity, certainly enormous lack of capability for empathy. That being said I think that Albright's comment is out of context and - taken at face value - is not reflective of reality, though. You can blame a lot of people in Russia, the UN, the US, in KSA, from a lot of places.. and, add Madeleine Albright to that list, for what happened to the people of Iraq in the 90s. It will feel great to righteously hate on her but it won't promote understanding what happen or prevent it from recurring. ps - I removed, "You can play that video over and over, but" because I sounded like a jerk and regretted it.
You can try somewhere near Olympia or Spokane, WA. Both have better housing prices but proximity to major cities with decent employment opportunities.
"Cruise missiles are too expensive for Russia to keep using (and are among the cheapest of long-range missiles)."

A NATO assessment last week concluded that Russia has already expended nearly all of the missiles (Kalibr cruise missiles and Iskander ballistic missiles) they had staged for the invasion. Since then they've used a couple hypersonic missiles, but those are fabulously expensive and thus not available in quantity. Russia won't be blowing up Soviet era apartment blocks with hundreds of those.

So yes, I think you are correct; if they're going to continue the missile attacks they'll need to use up Russia's reserve munitions. Otherwise, as you say, they have to turn to artillery.

Turns out Ukraine is pretty effective at artillery duels. The blasted Russian armor we see isn't all down to Javelins and NLAWs; they're directing artillery with UAVs to great effect.

Bottom line is, short of turning to nukes, Putin can't actually rubbleize all of Ukraine without a epic number of Russia casualties. They just don't have the munitions.
Check out the Jefferson Bible. I'm a fan of Christ but consider him one of the great moral philosophers instead of the son of god. This reading of the surmon on the mount moves me even though I'm not religious: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-3nN9-C1yKU
Towards the end:

> In addition to vertical partitioning to move database tables, we also use horizontal partitioning (aka sharding). This allows us to split database tables across multiple clusters, enabling more sustainable growth.
Why would I care what a cashier _thinks_ of me when I pay for products with common legal tender? It's a completely normal means of transaction in exchange for products and services.
I think we agree if you realize that talking to just talk, and talking to solve a real problem, are both good reasons to talk, while almost anything that involves concealed motivations is not.
Try posting on a FB BuyNothing group for your area if there is one. I've seen rides given for things like this and other things (like taking trip down to the South Bay to go to the only remaining Arby's).
Should we do this? My understanding is that solar installation is the next (semi?) skilled labor that could potentially be careers for many people.

It doesn't seem to be the most socially stable thing to cut out humans from this job market before it really booms.
1,000 words is much more challenging than, say 4,000. It's also limiting in terms of several of your stated criteria. You get a certain kind of story at short length. Generally you can get a higher level of literature around 3,000-4,000 or more.
Ants have cattle (aphids), they even drink the honey dew straight off the behind!
So given the facts about obesity in India (high) vs. obesity in Africa (low) and the median age, I'd say that there is no mystery.

Three risk factors for Corona are Obesity, other comorbidities and age, the rest of the factors are pretty much insignificant.

The best way to protect yourself is the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, which is what people in any of the three groups should do.
I was trying Supabase on a toy project in Elm, ran into a weird CORS error. Even in React when using supabase-js the api call works, but using `fetch` (copied from chrome dev console) in dev console fails with CORS error. Supabase-js does something, which is not visible in the dev console.

Asked on Discord on two different channels after googling it for a while, no response whatsoever.

Supabase seems like a fine project, but without someone answering these kind of queries it's impossible to use.
What do you use to organize all of this unstructured data in a way that is searchable and retrievable?
Is it? It always seemed like more of a cash flow question to me. You buy whatever you are going to use, put it at the back of the shelf, and grab the thing you bought 3 months ago. Clearly, we're talking about only non-perishables here. But the goal of a 3 month supply is not a hoard in a closet that is pulled out in an emergency, but a flow of goods through your normal life. You build up to the supply a bit at a time, so it is never a full 3 month purchase, but a slow steady growth until you hit your goal.
^This exactly. Doing the right thing might get you fired, but at least you did the right thing. Update your resumé and move on as best you can.
Definitely, we've experienced workers being sent home for a number of reasons (too cold, too windy, too rainy, materials didn't show up as scheduled). Fortunately with an autonomous system there's no logistical overhead, if some external factor prevents us from working then we aren't stuck covering hundreds of per diems and sending everyone home. Yes, we'll have some equipment depreciation as it's not working, but it's at a similar rate to the rented or depreciating trucks/skid steers/telehandlers on existing sites when no one's working them.

Totally hear you on the CA vs MA weather swings (I've lived in both!). We actually see this as a key advantage for us. Sites we've visited in central CA have significant water distribution logistics, frequent shade breaks, and still have high heat exhaustion rates. Sites we've visited in northern climates report about 50% speed reduction in work due to gloves/cold, and will send workers home if the temperatures drop far enough. Our robots can handle both climates without an impact on installation rates (or any of the associated health risks for workers!).
It is also old-school in a way of supporting Xresources based config, while at the same time being super strict on UTF-8 support.

Supports strange edge cases that I saw break other emulators like urxvt.
When the wealthy deign to give "access" to the poor while using the arms of capitalism to enrich themselves, that's not charity. People getting rich off financial derivatives of the transactions of the rest of the world are just getting rich. They aren't providing value.
Is it a business phone/for work? I wonder if it might have an admin profile on it that restricts that.
Ask HN: Looking for Internship in Dhaka
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#5 Is it plugged in?

Build&Configure server, A few hour drive it down to the DC, rack the server. Get back home, try to access. No luck. Turned out I had forgotten I had forgotten to connect power and turn it on.
The lack of free api’s for traditional exchanges is by design.

It’s a risk mitigation technique that only members or sponsored traders can trade on those exchanges. This allows for there to be real ramifications if the sponsor doesn’t do due diligence and allows a counterparty into a trade that can’t settle.

Perhaps this limitation is precisely what the trustless features of the coins gives us or perhaps the crypto exchanges just haven’t been bitten by a really bad counterparty risk incident yet. Time will tell.
So I've told this story here a lot before. We've been working toward living the self-reliant 'homestead' lifestyle for 20+ years at this point. It's not something you can 'ease' into, and it's not slower. It's a different pace, yes, but it's certainly not slower.

If you rely on the land for your sustenance, and not just as a hobby, expect to spend an absolutely staggering amount of time, energy, and money (or more time and energy if you don't have this one) just getting it running, let alone running well.

We've literally been at this for decades, and are juuuuust getting to the point where this property might be able to sustain itself without our constant intervention.
There is always a lot more commission to be made for an unpredictable and risky asset. The trick is really to keep the fees within the bounds of daily or even hourly volatility. If you buy $1000 worth of Bitcoin, and expect to see anywhere between $800 or $1200 in your account a little while later, you don't really care that the exchange has kept $5 out of it.