skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fdroid is too strict in being against proprietary software to be invested in. Your entire app has to be open source and you can't use any proprietary libraries (including proprietary dependencies needed to build your app). Fdroid has to build your app which can delay releasing updates. Fdroid thinks it's bad to track its users so you will not even know how many people have downloaded your app.

Fdroid would not be a good investment for Epic. Why would you invested in a store that you can't even put your own games in?
Apple and Google (and others) also allow loading credit using physical cards that you purchase at retail stores. I believe the stores get around a 5-10% margin on these, i.e. you buy a $100 gift card, and the store only pays Apple/Google $90-95.

There is a definite cost to all these so 0% is unreasonable. Epic is trying to be the "good" games distribution store and they reportedly take a 12% cut. Something around there, maybe down to 10% would be a reasonable place for Apple/Google to be.
>For me the Infocom games (Zork in particular) will always be remembered fondly but part of the magic was the time and you can never step in the same river twice.

Inform6, 7. Then get Anchorhead, Inside Woman, Spider and Web, Vicious Cycles, Slouch Over Bedlam, Curses+Jigsaw and get amazed.
Keywords “to allow.” You still don’t own your device or have control over it, they are merely giving permission to some of their serfs
If you are out there wanting to learn - checkout a local community college. You can transfer quickly, easily and finish up the last two years at almost any university you want (UCs, Standford, Caltech, CSU, etc). A high proportion of students drop out of these harder universities in the first two years anyway - so they have room. I took a few courses there to save cash - college professors in my classes taught at Berkley anyway and would use the same material. "Enrollment Fee: $31 per unit" - this is INSANE to not take advantage of this. The courses DIRECTLY transfer. Lambda school (or whatever fake bootcamp crap) credits have no transfer ability.

https://www.deanza.edu/
Chrome's Usability Crime
Why are you assuming the price of gas will remain constant. It will probably fluctuate along with the ruble as long as russia deems it profitable
> In her case I'm thinking specifically of her involvement in sanctions against iraq, and the human consequences of that

I think this is a little bit of blaming the jury for sentencing the criminal. Yeah, I think this is bad taste, because, wow, that's really placing an awful lot on her shoulders, that because she was involved she is thus morally responsible for the consequences, as though the UNSC had no part in it. IMO the Ba'athists themselves are entirely responsible for the consequences of the sanctions for creating the conditions that forced the sanctions.
You can only lower the percent with at least the credible threat of competition. Would you pay $13 for a $10 service for the privilege of doing it through the play store?

Likewise would you be equally OK if the dollar figures involved were much larger for example your cable subscription?
I'd be happy not having to read the words 'innovate' for an entire paragraph. SV PR copywriters use 'innovate' like some people use 'fuck' - it substitutes for just about any other word if you work at it.

'Engagement' is similar, but more of a case of people forgetting that customers to not care about your KPIs.
Windows Phone actually supported this! Your carrier would be listed alongside your credit cards when purchasing something.
When I promoted dark knight it just shows all other super hero movies when I really like Nolan movies more than other action hero movies.
Iraqi propaganda to try and end the sanctions.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5717930/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/04...

She got asked a loaded question for a soundbite. She wrote, "I had fallen into a trap and said something I did not mean."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright#Sanctions_a...
Hopefully I have actually insightful things to say about this fun toy. However before that

> elliptic curve “multiplication”, where n * P means “add P to itself n times”

Not very smoothly described but this is all multiplication meant for the natural numbers you learned in primary school too! Why is 7 x 7 = 49? Because if you start with zero and add 7, seven times, you get 49. Try it. This is an important and re-usable insight, it's part of a larger beautiful framework of mathematics and I believe is much better instructed via modern teaching of arithmetic in schools than "rote learning" of times tables did for my parents.
Google tells me that 0.0004BTC is over 16 dollars.

Credit cards are 2 to 4 percent.

Most people pay their only large payments(Rent and bills) with cheaper direct transfer schemes from zero to a few USD.

For a 16 dollar fee to be better than 3%, you would have to spend 480USD in one transaction, on the kind of thing that you'd normally have a fee at all for. Something I have only done an extremely small handful of times in my entire life.

A few of my more well off friends might have computer parts or jewelry worth that much. My laptop is the only single thing I own close to that price, and even then, it's not much over it.

For a trip to the grocery store for a single person, bitcoin would probably be a 8% to 20% fee.

Flat fees are a regressive sales tax.
What are you referring to exactly
> Hence the most powerful thing we can do is a 2-legged take-off into a vertical jump, where we can produce 32 watts/KG.

Would this mean the best bicycle is actually more like a rowing machine on wheels?
Interesting. Thank you very much for sharing your journey!
I know that. Are you implying that my "Edit" is incorrect, and you weren't referring to those events? If so, what were you referring to?

I don't get the sense that this conversation is locked down to the specifics of Albright, as plenty of people (and according to my understanding in the "Edit", you yourself) have made reasonable reference and analogies to events outside her time in office.
You may enjoy the mother jones obit. It highlights the US failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda as her deepest regret from her time in public service.

As for the Iraq sanctions, she was asked and famously replied that it was a hard choice but the price was worth it. People may disagree.
That game looks cool
> it gets overwritten by package updates

This doesn't happen. The package manager installs the new configuration under a different name so that you do not lose your changes and can merge them easily.
I think the biggest difference is that Spotify isn't a monopoly at the end of the day - it's a popular service. A lot of people still use different methods to listen to music like YouTube, iTunes, bandcamp and a plethora of others. If you, as a band, want to make money on your music you aren't required to do business through spotify, it's a choice that most people make because it's free money.

On the other hand if you want to write an app for a mobile device you're, realistically, either going to write it for Android or iOS. On the Android side you can distribute it as an apk assuming you can handle the cost of writing self-updating code - but on the iOS side you're hooped. Mobile devices are a part of modern life, the fact that one company dominates the market (and another company takes the remainder) leaves the market extremely unhealthy.
That's weird; the side-loaded apps I'm running seem to disagree.

I mean, I guess I'm not cutting my own silicon wafers in my chip fab in the basement so who knows what's really in the radio circuitry, but this is certainly enough ownership for my use-case.
Yeap... I went with Sennheiser 560S and I'm not pleased lol compared to the 7506 that I've been using for over a year. The 560S everything sounds blended.

Will give them a chance/listen for a bit. Just funny you get this obsession like "I gotta buy it" then disappointed.
They were 2000lbs! You are mad! =)
This complements the 2019 book

Hex - The Full Story by Ryan B. Hayward and Bjarne Toft

https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~hayward/hexbook/hex.html
My career has been various applications engineering roles connected with the semiconductor industry.

I used to have misconceptions about what ADHD really is -- that it was about the hyper kids who couldn't sit still or pay attention in class -- and the controversy over drugs that turned them in to calm, compliant little worker bee zombies.

Then I found this a few years ago from Dr Russell Barkley of Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center:
"30 Essential Ideas You Should Know about ADHD"
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzBixSjmbc8eFl6UX5_wW...

Too many of these ideas resonated with things I had literally said out loud about myself in the past.

This is breaking news, so I can't speak to how things may change, if at all. But in my 30's? Yeah, life would have been different.
macro-op fusion is not rocket science.
i guess TLS needs records because it wants to mix signalling data with the data stream (stuff like alerts, keyupdate, renegotiation for tls1.2). but i guess also they want to use block ciphers and for stream ciphers they want some kind of authentication so i'm not sure how you would do this without some form of framing. there is also some more strangeness with the TLS record layer because handshake messages and potentially other messages are allowed to be fragmented over multiple TLS records or you can have multiple handshake messages in the same TLS record (i think there are some restrictions on TLS1.3 about mixing different message types). this also might be a way to mess with TLS censorship middle boxes because they might not be robustly coded. i have a plugin for mitmproxy that does TLS interception using knowledge of the shared key but it doesn't handle fragmentation of handshake messages and a bunch of other quirks correctly.
Never tax work. Always tax finite resources.
The problem is very simple, isn't it? There are instructions that need a memory barrier after them. If the thread leaves the core, then from the view of that core no memory barrier happens.

And it's a particular kind of memory barrier that nothing else does incidentally.
You are right, I think I miscalculated. Wonder if anyone beats this trio though.
how is it guaranteed that games do not not end in a draw?
Seems to me that there's a middle way. Self hosting is too hard, but making sure you've got local duplicates of all your stuff is less so.

As a simple example: I use Dropbox and Google Drive extensively. I'd like not to but the utility and ease is hard to beat. But I have made an effort to only use Word and Excel (rather than gdoc/gsheet) and have hooked up my Synology so it backs up all my cloud services whenever there's a file change.

So - I'm not strictly self hosting, because it's too hard, but if Dropbox doubled price or Google stopped doing GDrive, I'm safe. Same with photos and other critical assets.
Compare a bunch of chemical formulas and equations in this blog with Richard Feynman's explanation of fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pIYI5JQLE
Awesome to see your progress! Good luck deploying more solar!
You may want a patron system, where individuals donate to a prize fund (with recognition and maybe some input) instead of organizations. Idk how many people would actually be willing to pay but lots of individuals have success on Patreon.
This is one of the most boring and insignificant things I've ever seen on HN. The amount of intense discussion it's getting is very funny.

I would consider it a much bigger event if Costco announced they'd take American Express.

(No judgment against anyone who finds this event fascinating! You all clearly know more than me...)
I largely expect this to be true. I also expect that with the passage of time there will be a decrease in population density to the point where an equilibrium is found between people and resources and behavior becomes more sociable again as that balance is restored. So, enough to get passed that initial period seems like a wise investment compared to being caught short. Will you survive the potential violence? I'd say that's stochastic, but you may as well take the chance.
For those suggesting e2e encryption of data in Cloud services, how is that possible? How could you, for example, run Salesforce and have Salesforce only see encrypted data? Seems extremely complicated or impossible -- isn't the point of encryption that nothing can be done with it?
I can completely understand your concerns. we sell directly to the customer. we do not calculate retailer margins in the price. We have delivered the first Kwiggle by the end of 2019. 95 % of our sales are currently still generated in Germany. we have started selling to US in december 2021. We have now sold Kwiggle all over the world and Kwiggle is now already riding on every continent. Our first customers have made more than 5.000 km and up to 8.000 km with their Kwiggle. You can't do such a complex product with a lot of high tec parts with a production of some. You have to set up big production lots.

There is a first test report from a journalist of SPIEGEL:

https://www.spiegel.de/auto/faltrad-kwiggle-im-test-achtung-...

Kwiggle was part of a test of folding bikes from BikeBild:

https://www.kwigglebike.com/web/image/37936?unique=b95a1aead...

There will be further longer test reports from various journalists/media this spring.
It's not a pleasant process for consumers at all, in my experience. I'm not a big fan of hanging around in awkward support chats or calls for things that can usually be resolved with an email.
> Is it just physically impossible to collect or is it an engineering problem?

Engineering as in you’d need to create and measure a shielded black hole. (Shielded because you need to isolate it from the CMB.)
Unfortunately Epic can't honestly comment on what cut they're taking while their storefront loses immense amounts of money[1] - I agree that a lower percentage is probably a lot more reasonable but I don't think EGS can serve as that example.

1. https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-has-sunk-dollar500m-into-the-ep...
I self-host everything but my email.

Hosting email is just too much. Big providers just treat you as guilty of spam, unless proven otherwise. Just too many hoops to jump through.
If I am being honest (and by no means want to come off disrespectful) but your list comes off as if you're looking for confirmation to move to the PNW. As someone who lived in both Portland and Seattle for years (currently in Seattle and looking to leave) you should add some criteria to your list that doesn't self select for "small cute fun towns near enough to Portland and Seattle without having to compete on price."

The people in Portland and Seattle are actually very different. For the most part people in Seattle are assholes (check out the urban dictionary for the Seattle freeze) people in Portland are a bit nicer but it's a hard town if your focus is your career (maybe this changes a bit with remote opportunities - but I am still in the camp that remote devs are always going to play second fiddle to the devs at HQ/in-office if thats an option).

If you are going to move somewhere with a remote job, Seattle would be a terrible place. And to be honest the surrounding area is not a much better bet. With how bad traffic is, 90 minutes isn't going to get you to small cute cheap towns, in fact most of the towns just outside Seattle are more expensive. It's not an undiscovered gem.

As someone without a remote job currently in Seattle, I wish I could just trade spots with you. I don't even care how bad your situation could be. Feel free to reply if you want any questions about Portland or Seattle. Happy to help if I can.
For those advocating e2e encryption instead, is that even possible with most cloud services? How can you encrypt Salesforce data, for example, and still have Salesforce perform all of the necessary operations on that data, if they can't even see it?
I understand what you’re getting at… but why is it you presume that the employees now at planetscale are the reason GH couldn’t shard out their databases?

Like, there’s another angle here: management, yeah?

Another way of reframing it is “maybe the folks hiring at planetscale know the inside baseball about GH infrastructure”. For example: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isamlambert
As someone who bought it 4+ years ago in alpha it's a game that has come a long long way, same with rust really. Its not without it's issues, hard to say which are engine problems or just bad decisions made by the devs, which is hard to blame them for as their situation is a bit different compared to many other game companies.
The most likely outcome in a world where you need to use all your prepper supplies for a lengthy amount of time isn't that you (smart, prepared, ahead-of-the-curve) get to live while your neighbors (short-sighted, ignorant, arrogant) starve; people stronger and more ruthless than you are going to take your prepper supplies (over your dead body, if necessary) without thanking you for your foresight.
I'm not implying anything about your edit, although I tweaked the verbiage of the original comment to be clearer, thanks.
I would stay from either. The caffeine, aspartame and acesulfame potassium will take a toll.

I can trace back a year in my 30s where I went heavy on the regular.

If you don't want to get randomly sick don't order in.
The hexagonal diamond board topology is such that an east-west connection can only be prevented by a north-south connection. For more formal proofs, see

https://sites.google.com/site/javhar1/hexcannotendinadraw
Sanctions hit trade harder than Soviet collapse, Finnish customs says
what they are saying is that they edited the file in /usr/lib , which definitely would get overwritten. You're supossed to copy it into /etc/systemd/ for the appropriate service type.
Depends on what you mean by entry level, but generally I would say yes. Do you have any sort of portfolio from school projects?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowing_cycle
Corporations are tools. They'll just do their thing in the environment that they find themselves in. Hoping or depending on them being "good" or lamenting them being "evil" is a fool's errand. They're unthinking automaton.

Absolutely blame the politicians and "experts" who conspired to allow corporations to circumvent our progress on labor and environmental regulation the past 100+ years.
I keep wondering why Epic (and Valve for that matter) haven't tried bringing their own stores to Android.
Stock exchanges have a central limit order book.

Crypto exchanges are like foreign exchange brokers at airports: they act as market makers, earning the majority of their fees from the bid/ask spread rather than some fixed comms afaik.

So comparing NYSE to Coinbase revenues is apples to oranges. Coinbase is thus closer to a market maker like Citadel, both having similar revenues (7B)
I believe that we'll see a centralized subscription cancellation service for credit and debit cards before too long.
If you draw a hex board and try out some connections it will become immediately clear. There can never be a deadlock. No matter how you fill out all the tiles, either the white OR the black sides will connect.
> As a user, why would I choose this

Because I don't even have Google in my phone?

(No idea whether Spotify will support that, but if they wanted they could.)
systemctl edit --full does what you want.

I wish package managers would make patching packages easy, this kind of thing is so much more manageable on Nix.
Don’t take me down to Bitcoin City: El Salvador Volcano Bonds delayed
If I'm guessing, they're likely trying to convey the formality or informality of the pronoun used in the original, what's called the T - V distinction (from Latin, the informal tu vs the formal vos)

In English, thou was the informal, you the formal, as the subject in a sentence, with thee and ye the object form. Hence "God rest ye merry gentlemen" is better translated these days as "God rest you, merry gentlemen".

The T-V distinction is also why the Quakers maintained the thou form for some time, to indicate equality among all men (in the gender-neutral sense of the world), as you implied a difference in status.

The question of why the Bible used thous and thees is another interesting rabbit hole.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/16/opinion/sunday/pronouns-q...
I'm not too picky on lifestyle, wherever I end up I'll likely spend most of my time indoors. My perfect location would be a large town/small city but again, not too concerned either way.
I think this web is quite revealing:

https://plain-text.co/#the-office-model-and-the-engineering-...
https://plain-text.co/#two-revolutions-in-computing

It boils down to a tradeoff of learning your tools while retaining full control vs use apps that abstract away complexity by giving up control.

If your work needs some strict technical requisite (reproducibility for example, or any other of the -ilities in software engineering), you need to have the control to tweak your tools so that you ensure it (Engineering Model, plain text files), but mostly is not needed so you can get away with working in the Office Model (binary files)
Stock exchanges have a central limit order book.
Crypto exchanges are like foreign exchange brokers at airports: they act as market makers, earning the majority of their fees from the bid/ask spread rather than some fixed comms afaik.

So comparing NYSE to Coinbase revenues is apples to oranges. Coinbase is thus closer to a market maker like Citadel, both having similar revenues (7B)
Yep.

Traditionally printers/publishers took 85-95% of revenue from authors. Now perhaps you can argue that there's more costs involved in printing that running an app store, but an app store taking 30% sounds like a great deal in that context.
Interesting. I'm assuming Olympia is the typical rainy weather associated with the region, what's weather like in Spokane?
>all in all, this pandemic was people trying to help and be helping.

Even here in South Australia where we were had tiny numbers (a few 10s of cases a day), the supermarket shelves were stripped bare of toilet paper, sanitizer, hand towels, food).

People suck
The CA and NTP server would hum along just fine.

The DNS servers, less so: CoreDNS is reading my internal DNS zone from an Amazon Route53 private zone. This was my way of dealing with running two DNS servers concurrently, but it wouldn't do well in a WAN outage.

And, once I lose internal DNS, I lose everything else too

I've written about the CA for Smallstep:
https://smallstep.com/blog/build-a-tiny-ca-with-raspberry-pi...

I wrote a piece about the NTP server, but I haven't had a chance to post it yet. There are some good resources out there for creating a local NTP server, though. It takes some time and effort to get everything dialed in, because GPS and NTP are both finicky and easy to misconfigure.

I'd LOVE to write more about my homelab, but it's a work in progress that continues to evolve, and I haven't documented things as well as I'd like to!
My suggestion is coming from a place of thinking about those who have no opinion. Maybe because Madeleine Albright was out of office before they were born, or maybe because they weren't paying attention at the time. There is a moment now where these people can be exposed to her legacy, good and bad, and it can help inform their understanding and their choices going forward.
Isn’t this the root of what OP is getting at?

Why do you think you’ll be first? (How) can someone else get that confidence?
> - Firearm license is not that hard to get. It's just an excuse.

Maybe not in Poland, but there are plenty of countries where it is difficult to acquire a firearm license, or outright impossible (for the purpose of being able to have actual firearms at home). GP never outlined what country they are living in either, so not sure how you can tell them it's just an excuse.