skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm saying sometimes we don't need to accept tradeoffs.

Sometimes, sure. But we're not discussing "sometimes" in the abstract. We're discussing a particular kind of situation.

> The fact we don't have this right is a problem

The fact that we don't have what right? The right to demand support from businesses that say up front that they don't provide it? No, I don't agree that we should have that right. As others have said, all that will do is make it much harder to start a business.

> There are many other rights Americans enjoy

Not everything that is claimed to be a "right" in today's American society actually is. The actual rights embodied in our Constitution and laws are not rights to demand that other people do things for you. They are rights to have other people, and the government, not do things to you that deprive you of your liberty, like jail you for speaking your mind or search your house without a warrant and probable cause or force you to testify against yourself. To compare those things to a business not providing you with the support you think you're entitled to, when you haven't paid for it and the business explicitly says it doesn't provide it, and say the same kind of "right" is involved in that case, is ridiculous.

If you really think it's a problem that businesses offer products and services but don't provide the support you want, here's my suggestion to you: start your own business that does the things you complain that other businesses don't do. I think you will find it a very enlightening experience.

> To draw another analogy, think of anti-monopoly laws...on the macro level, for most citizens, and even for most businesses, they are good.

No, they're not, they're terrible. The main effect of their application has been to make products and services more expensive for consumers, not less. The "monopolies" that were driven out of business or forced to break up under such laws (e.g., Standard Oil or Alcoa Aluminum) got their huge market share by providing their products more cheaply and in greater quantities than any of their competitors. The anti-trust suits against them were not instigated by consumers who weren't being well served (there weren't any); they were instigated by the competitors, who found it much easier to get the government to invoke laws to their benefit (and to the detriment of their customers) than to actually compete.
Intellectually, we know that they have to pay to develop it somehow - M$ is still a business. That doesn't help the rage that is instilled by the "free trial has ended" message.
I believe this is the point at which a Brit might say something on the order of "he likes the smell of his own farts, doesn't he?"
Are programmers makers?
Tessa Violet is example of an artist who has blown up on TikTok and I believe has parlay that into real world success in terms of shows, merch, etc.

First 2 Eleven is a YouTube cover band who I believe are still fully independent and

On the streaming side, musicians like Danielle Allard are killing it, though sometimes in a scenario like this it's unclear if it's even the goal of the person to "go mainstream" vs just carving out a cozy and sufficiently monetized space to achieve financial stability and practice their craft.
Absolutely the opposite, loads of crows in the city,
few ravens if any.

Above holds true in Western US and Eastern Canada at least.
After interviewing all founders who sold the project, I always asked one question. "What was the actual selling price?" And 100% of founders replied the same number as it was in the asking price.
Okay, follow up question: Is therapy never bad or diverting for anyone?
Great story! I love the image of the huge airships looming over the city. A lot of my stories in my "Fahrenheit 52" project have been extended versions of dreams. Whenever I have a particularly weird one, I try to tap it out quickly on my phone, even if it's the middle of the night.
This is pretty cool. Cryptocurrency mining is a great use for "stranded" energy like this. Rather than just being burned off, it secures the distributed network.
Not in the US, nor did the software relay anything back to the 'patient' in any way. They came in and gave permission for phenotype measurements for genetic studies.
It's a shame to see them price themselves out of several markets. In the "agency" model of work, there will be many users that very rarely connect, while there is a much smaller core group of active developers. Impossible to justify paying the full price per month when all these barely-active users count as full users. For years the free tier was good enough, but while wanting to pay them, the lowest priced paid tier was too pricey to make sense. Feels like they are leaving money on the table, and now they are also pushing away people who previously would be championing and advocating for their product and service.
I don't need any of MDN plus's features. Just give me Firefox at $5/month without ads, pocket, sponsored news, telemtry, affiliate links and all the data collection.
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Well the question contains the answer. The OP thinks React Native is how you build desktop apps.

Thats why no one builds desktop apps any more.
My first employer used Excel "in production": A C# app would read numbers from a shared network drive, feed them into a timeseries database, and the real-time part of the system would be reloaded. Eventually a web-interface was put in place instead of the Excel sheet that provided for faster input validation.
The fact the change only impacts 1% of users doesn’t mean much on its own. How much are those users costing GitLab?

Agreed it’s a weird point to include in an announcement, especially when 100% of the people affected by the announcement are in the 1% of users.
What is a woman? Some might answer that woman is a mother, a sister, a daughter, a protector and someone who needs protecting -- but if you generalise these to parent and child, you get a protector and a protectee without gender anyway. So that can't be it.

Like I said, the mind has no gender. If you genderise the mind, you're just falling back on, or forming new gender norms that aren't accurate and shouldn't be accurate.

The more interesting question is what is identity? If someone chooses to identify with effeminate behaviour, are they doing so authentically? Or because they like the way it encourages others to behave? Or because they like the way they think it encourages others to behave, even if it really doesn't?

In a perfect world, we would categorise nothing by gender. That residual primitivism exists even today with the toilet division thing. It's only because in our past humans were sexually predatory and remorseless for such behaviour that today it is deemed civilised to separate the genders, but if the species were truly civilised, that civility would speak for itself and we would just all piss in cubicles for the sake of privacy, or perhaps this would be optional. But we don't trust ourselves even now, and why would we? Most people I've met are driven by the same things that animals want. They want to eat, sleep and reproduce, have a decent nest, look better than the other animals and make sure their offspring are going to be good at all of the above.

I personally have no interest in any of these things. I'm most comfortable alone, speaking with others when I can be bothered, I sleep and eat out of necessity, and the only thing that really drives me is my desire to learn and master things, to understand the universe and its contents, and to write or create things with that knowledge. I care not for what I leave behind, when I am dead, my consciousness presumably dies too, and being conscious of things is what I truly take pleasure in, so I wish to learn of as much as possible before my death. There is no gender in this, but crucially, there's no gender in the instinctive desires to have children or to eat, to sleep or to have a nice warm secure home.

Genders are around because people were taught that there were two genders, and that each gender should behave a certain way because that's what was taught before. These behaviours were taught for a menagerie of reasons, some of which to guarantee that children will grow up behaving in a manner that would not offend a future mate, others to make sure that children would grow up being employable, and so on.

All of this is based on the same daft notion that the way you behave with respect to your reproductive organs somehow has any bearing on your ability to produce a child or be good at a job.

Gender is just BS. There is no female brain, and if there are differences in a brain from a woman compared to one from a man, they will be the result of thousands of years of stereotyping having a physiological/epigenetic manifestation.
Honestly, with no specific reason. It just looks good :)
How long does that work for though and for how many artists? If you get on a new platform early you can find success, but once the platform becomes swamped with content it's impossible to stand out without creativity, luck...and funding. Unless you're lucky enough to find the next platform.

Additionally - 15k monthly listeners on Spotify is a pretty great starting point. Most indie artists, regardless of quality, will struggle ever even reach that without a lot of outside help (or luck).
That's not it. If it's made by a plant it's more likely your body has enzymes and pathways to metabolize the item (the chemical structure is "familiar" or "compatible" with yours if you will). This means it doesn't build up and cause low toxicity over time. i.e. it's pretty obvious if it's poisonous.

Not so with lab created stuff - your body may not have the ability to do anything with it, so it either sits and causes slow damage, or gets excreted very slowly, and can cause hard to detect damage.

For example acetone is not very toxic because the body can metabolize it.
Taking infinite time to determine whether it halts is not considered a valid answer.

When do you give up and decide it’s not going to terminate? Your answer will be wrong for any program which simply waits one second longer.
Here in Québec the vaccine passport and the curfew was touted as the pinnacle of "following the science"(tm). Anyone contradicting their usefulness as effective sanitary measures were accused of "spreading misinformation"(tm).

The curfew was implemented twice. The vaccine passport was only recently removed.

Turns out, one FOIA request later, that they never consulted the data scientists of the public health institute. They made it all up.
BBC launches 'BBC Select': documentaries streaming service for US subscribers
Could IPFS Filecoin solve this problem?
Was it really the fallout from this video? William got hit by the same thing most other good Youtubers like him struggle with: Burnout. Youtube and the algorithm want you to put out content every day, and will penalize you, and literally give you less money if you don't. This sucks for the "science" youtubers because their videos are projects that often require months of work and sometimes don't pan out.

NileRed, and close friend of William Osman's, has also significantly reduced his output, because it's absurd. Google wants you to kill yourself putting out as much content as possible, and doesn't care if you have to reduce quality or literally die as a result. If you quit, someone new will take your place.
How grocery delivery apps are affecting SF corner stores
> an X-Ray tube is hard to come by

I don’t know what energies you need for medical imaging, but a keV linear electron accelerator is commonly called “a CRT”, and it’s already powerful enough to screw you up if you really try.

(Of course, the power supply, the flyback converter, and all the other stuff you get at immediately upon opening the case are plenty dangerous even without all the effort it takes to get ionizing radiation out of the tube.)
> This is assuming that you actively want to purchase MDN Plus. If you don't care about the perks but would purchase it solely as a donation, then it's understandable if you give a higher scrutiny to charities than to sellers.

I would bet you that most people are in the latter group, not the former. I certainly almost never purchase such services from ordinary companies, as I don't see sufficient value in them.
Did you know that

We humans store learned words and so just a few letters

your brain reads faster

are enough to recognize whole words.

than your eye?

I'm embarrassed how long this took me to understand.
However practical this question is, I'm ashamed to see this in my feed.
There's a huge amount of suffering happening right now. Figure out how you can profit from it by yourself please.
I'm not saying it's impossible, it happens for sure. But the death of labels has been predicted for the last 20 years and somehow they've managed to continue to make themselves relevant.
Where can you buy (drm free) music these days? After google play shut down, I haven’t known where to go
> However, the problem with that is, if I don't listen to Taylor Swift at all, why is a portion of my subscription fee going to her?

Because Spotify needs to pay extra to have the right to stream Taylor Swift, or Dua Lipa, not OBX.

> If I listen exclusively to Obscure Band X, then all of my money should go to them

Well, that's the thing, some of your money will always go to Taylor Swift or whatever label she is on, regardless of whether you're listening Taylor Swift or not.

As an musician myself I'm NOT on Spotify and actively prevent my music to be on that platform. "Exposure" is meaningless. I make 1000 times more money slapping ads on my music on Youtube than these streaming services.
>preppers would be better off hiking, hunting, fishing, gardening, and learning homestead skills for the psychologically grounding effects

For me at least this is definitely an aspect of it that is very important. My assumption is that globalization will break down either within our lifetimes or that of our children and it's not too hard to imagine the same thing happening to us as happened at the end of the bronze age. There are many levels on which what we are doing is fundamentally unsustainable, so it's not a stretch to say that it will not be sustained. I think people have a rosy idea that technology will save us or that there will be some gentle transition, but so far technology has only increased demand for energy, and in terms of food production there are inputs to that to which there are no alternatives. Combine that with the picture demographics paint and it all doesn't add up to "it's going to be business as usual forever". We've already seen how vulnerable supply chains really are and eventually if enough of the supply chain collapsed then there comes a point where it becomes a positive feedback loop as the base level of complexity needed to support society goes away, so too does the complexity in that society. In such a case even the typical things preppers do are kind of useless as long-term solutions except for the stuff that is about those fundamental skills of living alongside nature. Even then there are a lot of assumptions baked in for a lot of people who have some of those skills currently like "I can go to a store and buy NPK fertilizer".

I see the typical prepper stuff as giving you a great level of preparedness for most everyday disasters you might face, but only giving you what amounts to a "solid buffer of time" to figure out how to survive in a fundamentally new reality. All things considered I think it's worth having that buffer and a level of calmness than not, but also in addition our family is starting to learn to live more off natural resources to build that base of skills. You need both.
Just think of it as throwing the old button away and buying a new one. Buttons come idle from the factory. Once the old button is hauled away and the new one is installed under where your cursor happens to be, it transitions to hover.
It costs that much in an emergency room, where the price is based on having multiple x-ray machines + radiologists available, 24/7, 365 with a 5 minute wait.

If you go to a clinic, which works 9-5 M-F, they're $40 (chest x-ray for a green card), 20minute wait.
I also hung out in Vietnam, but only for a month.

I found the custom clothing that was not brand name to be an absolute steal. Just great custom tailoring and fabrics for basically nothing and ready the next day.

That said, the real brand name stuff that westerners would recognize and prize was not cheaper. There were very well done knockoffs, to be sure, but if you knew what you were looking for the watch or shoe wasn't quite right. If you Google "how to spot counterfeit [brandname] [product name]" and double check you'll see that 95% of the time it's a knock off.

I've learned to just learn what makes a given type of hide or fabric high quality and shop based on that. Most brands are merely shortcuts for the busy to make sure they get reasonable quality and a possible status symbol if it's especially luxurious and expensive. But if you know what quality looks like you can usually find something way better at half or a quarter or even a tenth of the price. Or even if it's more expensive to purchase (e.g., a fullgrain leather belt with properly protected metal[0]) it will last much, much longer.

[0] https://saddlebackleather.com is one of the few places I will shill for whenever I can. They make the very best stuff and it lasts forever. I wish more online retailers were like them. I've saved so much money over the years because their stuff truly lasts.
There are loads of people making indie movies/docs out there, I think, it's more a question of exposure— there's a long tail of them that get uploaded to Vimeo or YouTube and then just die there. There's some limited curation going on with aggregator channels (eg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7sDT8jZ76VLV1u__krUutA), but it's not mass-market in the way that a Netflix series is.

Which definitely does seem like a missed opportunity for the streaming platforms. Maybe one of them needs to step up with the equivalent of Stream's Greenlight programme— an opportunity to temporarily have your stuff listed alongside the AAA content, and if it hits whatever the numbers are, they'll buy it from you?
It's a classic and highly regarded physics course although these days there are many options to choose from. It's not for median laypeople, though - the original audience was CalTech undergrads so there's a fair bit of mathematical (and, realistically, physics) pre-req.
I definitely agree, per user pricing is also awkward because it prices everyone the same when there's a huge disparity in how they use the product.

The same price for developers and testers who use it every day, but also the person who logs in twice a year to generate a report.

You end up with a product that's more difficult to use because costs end up influencing who can access it.
> Maybe next time we get a pandemic

... we will never repeat what we just did. Forcing people to "stay the fuck home" for more than a year with absolutely no shred of hope. Filling them with fear mongering and stories of doom... Good news was forbidden.

The public health policy for covid was perhaps one of the greatest "bad decisions" society has ever made. The fall out from the last two years of bullshit will be studied for decades and centuries to come.
>Do folks who ask this question scrutinize every purchase or business they make to this degree?

If they did, the donations to some charity type orgs would probably drop to 0. Lots of unhappy people about the pink "awareness" org and others that spend as much money doing the events and paying for staff than doing anything else. Yes, we're "aware" of breast cancer.
I'm a big fan of OpenBSD's pledge and unveil syscalls; the best overview of them is from SerenityOS' implementation:

https://awesomekling.github.io/pledge-and-unveil-in-Serenity...
For the bigger players, they miss out on market segmentation. An EOS M with Magic Lantern has a number of features that are featured on Canon's cinema line, for example. The M is perhaps no longer competitive in key ways, but had ML been available with today's level of polish in 2012, it would have eaten into higher-margin products.

Fuji is perhaps best poised to enable open development -- their pricing structure is more around hardware variations on a common sensor/processing than strict differentiation in capability.

The far future of camera development probably does look like open-source (or, at a minimum, common-versioned closed-source) software/firmware riding on commercially-manufactured hardware platforms (just like computers today). We're not there yet, but the technical success of Magic Lantern shows that the door is open.

A dark-horse entrant like Sigma could, in addition to Fuji, be a hardware vendor that could crack open a "commoditize your competition" market.
Years ago I was putting out the garbage in the back alley behind our building where I lived on the 8th floor. A crow attacked me out of the blue. Distracted by the attack, the back door slammed shut behind me. Since my key was only good for the front door, I had to walk around the building. That damn crow followed me the entire time, dive bombing my head, and screaming bloody murder at me. It was a little spooky.

When I finally got back inside and upstairs, I went and looked out the living room window, which looked out the same direction as the back alley. The crow had flown back around and was at the 8th floor looking in the window, from the other side of the pigeon netting we had on our balcony. On the inside of the pigeon netting, was another crow, desperately trying to figure out how it could escape. Not really sure how it had got itself through the pigeon netting in the first place.

I went out and sliced a hole through the netting and the trapped crow quickly joined its mate outside, who finally stopped screaming bloody murder. To this day it still amazes me that the crow's mate, knew which apartment I lived in and spotted me downstairs.
>it's been well over 3 years since the introduction of hooks in React and people still don't understand how to use them

s/how/why/
So.... War Games?
The Power, Pt 1
The Canadian truckers and their supporters would like to have a word with you.

As would the citizens of Cyprus and Sri Lanka who will have or have had funds from their Bank accounts taken because the powers that be decided that the customers money was better off in the banksters hands.
I was yelled at by some people I know quite well when I pointed this stuff out. Only covid mattered to these people. Even when we knew it wasn't nearly as bad as the original models predicted society doubled down on the nonsense.
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Why Isn’t There an Oscar for Best Stunt Work?
Thank god we don’t. Now I have Linux apps!
Well, congratulations for the SnapKit project so far. I have now got my project to tinker with this weekend. :-)
For this to be an accurate comparison, there should be two free sources of peanut butter, one that I want to donate to because it helps keep the peanut butter playing field level, while the other has a massive majority of the peanut butter market and uses that to do various anticompetitive things. But the one I want to support doesn't accept donations, only the parent conglomerate does.
What is "chemotherapy radiation"?