skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The move thowards SaaS started long before the rise in prominence of F/OSS, it was the creation of the Internet that was the catalyst to the rise of SaaS, nothing to do with the FOSS-vs-Proprietary fight. In fact, in the beginning of the Internet, the first wave of SaaS was all built on top of proprietary solutions, Oracle was the king, Sun Java was the up-and-coming go-to platform.
Or when they "accidentally" make a wrong turn, or purposefully take a "shortcut" just to take you a longer/slower route to drive up the meter, almost making you late.
The research on the oral transmission of epic poems should meaningfully affect how you read/think about the Iliad and The Odyssey. Further, the absence of knowledge about Homer himself is useful information (you might even try to use the text itself to make inferences about Homer but that is complicated by the oral transmission).

I agree that there are limits though (what the author had for breakfast on his/her third birthday is probably uninteresting wrt to the text). Drawing the line is necessarily hard.
90% of 43% is less than 40% voting for independence. Hardly overwhelming numbers, for a referendum that everyone knew would not actually matter.
There were well over 30k attendees at the Miami Bitcoin 2022 Conference last week. Every single vendor accepted Bitcoin payments over the Lightning Network. Many local shops and restaurants in Miami Beach also accept Bitcoin.

I purchased multiple coffees and meals using BTC/LN, with zero issues and the payments were processed faster than a credit card.

In addition to physical goods, some prominent online services have been accepting Bitcoin for a while, such as Namecheap (dns registrar) and Mullvad (vpn).
Cities Skylines ends up being a city painter after awhile once you’ve learned how to solve traffic problems (roundabouts and planning go a long way).

The parklife DLC greatly enhances the painting aspect.
Like a street performer trying to make it to the end of the month rather.
The Spanish civil war was not related at all to this issue and has no parallels whatsoever with the American civil war.
Webpc: Cloud Desktop/VPN
Or you can simply run an application level default-deny firewall and never use a web browser. You don't need to keep your software up-to-date in a homelab.
Yes, because Catalonia was resisting the fascist coup with their own revolutionary struggle to collectivize agriculture based on consent of the farmers, and worker ownership led by the labor unions who had been providing education and other community services for years.

Its a lesser known fact that George Orwell wrote a book on his experiences there, and that the people's struggle inspired him so much he took up arms and joined them. The guy who's work people claim is an indictment of socialism, fought for it against the rise of fascism.
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I wasn't comparing proprietary software to slavery. I was making the point that for Stallman proprietary software is as unethical as slavery is to most people. Maybe I picked the wrong thing to make the analogy, it could have worked just as well with theft, murder, or any other unethical behavior.

I wasn't making any point about whether Stallman is right or wrong on that, I was just pointing out that people are attacking the wrong part of his argument. If you disagree with him you should attack his base belief that proprietary software is unethical.

> Unless you have a low opinion of Stallman, why would you expect him to be so dismissive of the day-to-day concerns of someone who wants to support a family?

When have you ever seen Stallman be pragmatic instead of idealist about anything regarding proprietary software?
One of my old pals bought lots of drugs on the dark web over the course of 5 years, nearly a decade ago. They estimate that if they would have held that bitcoin instead of it (quite literally) going up in smoke, it would be worth nearly 5 million USD today. But that's the only real world transaction that comes to mind, buying illegal stuff (which is now legal where we live). Normal people don't pay for a coffee with cryptocurrency because it's not convenient, not fast, and and not "easy".
I think Immanuel Kant was around 60 when he wrote the Critique of Pure Reason. There are lots of examples of old people doing good stuff.
Cities Skylines: Industries DLC adds some logistics to the game, but it’s relatively rudimentary and the main challenge is not crushing your road network with trucks.
Ukraine's military is using it.

> “In a situation like this, where the national bank is not fully operating, crypto is helping to perform fast transfers, to make it very quick and get results almost immediately,”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/technology/bitcoin-ukrain...
Not everyone, but a majority. Going to vote was strongly correlated with being for independence: it was clear the referendum wasn't legally binding and wasn't approved by the Spanish government. People who didn't want independence didn't even bother to vote in that.

And it's not an hypothesis: polls and parliament votes have shown for years that the support for independence (or for independentist parties) has been fairly stable at around 45-50%. Support for a referendum vote has been wider (up to 70-80% depending on the poll and how you count some party's positions) but similarly fairly stable over the years.
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> How can they complain, they literally don't know they've been banned.

Good point. My thought is they'll find out when their books aren't used in Florida.

> The internet is going haywire about the government banning textbooks while refusing to make public what books and why. I'd say anyone trying to pretend this is ok is being ridiculous.

The government isn't simply "banning textbooks": they're banning books with controversial political messages being shown to the most psychologically vulnerable population: elementary children.
Until we know the details, I have no issue with other math books with no politics being used.
Why wouldn't you change the program being built so it doesn't rely on undefined behavior, then?
I wonder if burning your corporate credibility contributes to GHG emissions.

Will be interesting to see which brands survive this discontinuity.
Forget the economics for a minute . Uber Lyft changed the way we pay for rides and rate drivers. Uber used online payment and GPS to create a simple app that works. I no longer have to worry about payment since I prepay. Cars are owned by the individual so they are cleaner inside. I can summon one from a distance and I can pinpoint the exact pickup Spot. I once called a taxi dispatcher and I felt berated. It's the user experience, probably something mr. Oracle should look into.
When users try to make a living as developers, income becomes something to worry about.
Samsung: Quantum-Dot OLED Displays Thin Enough for Future Scrollable Devices
I think if it it more like having a fire Marshall inspect a building, doesn’t mean it can’t catch fire the next day, but at least you know that it’s not death trap (smoke alarms, fire doors, sprinklers etc all check out)
I think that’s not an issue with jobs not paying enough but an issue where society doesn’t have a suitable safety net for when life does it’s unpredictable thing. A divorce sucks, but it shouldn’t destroy your ability to retire well. There should be government programs to ensure the elders of the community are set.
This is why I have so far avoided password managers: single point of failure. What if you forget your master password. Or worse - what if your master password is stolen?
But Québec would've been independant if the referendum was successful. Even at 50+1, it is now clear that the federal government would've accepted the results even if they didn't explicitly said so back in 1995. So I think there's a huge difference, considering that in Catalonia the referendum was completely ignored
Ask HN: How can this happen without the phone covertly listening?
Yesterday I had my 3rd 'tin foil hat' moment with my iPhone and although these were spread out over some time, I find it very hard to believe these were coincidences.

Long story shortish... yesterday we were sitting around the table enjoying our Easter lunch with extended family. Someone else was mentioning a new family at their church and I caught the first names in passing. At first it didn't click but then I said, 'oh are you talking about X & Y Smith? They used to go to abc church and lived in our neighborhood briefly.' Turns out they were.

Fast forward an hour or so and the kids were playing outside. I took a picture of a friend pushing the kids on the swing and went to send it to the friend. I pressed send, Messages and typed out the first 3 letters of her name. The Messages app showed 2 'autocompletions,' the friend I was intending and the woman I had mentioned an hour before!

- the 3 letters that I typed were NOT in the 'Y Smiths' name!
- my phone was in my pocket when I uttered the name
- I am pretty sure I only said their name once, but could have said it twice
- I have not sent 'Y Smith' a text in at least 4 years
- I have not called 'Y Smith' in at least 4 years
- I was shocked I even had 'Y Smith' contact info in my address book
- I have 'hey Siri' turned OFF

WTF?! How is this possible without the device selectively listening for random words and matching against a profile that includes my address book?
The legislation is just about to change in that regard https://www.verbraucherzentrale.de/wissen/vertraege-reklamat...
Apple doesn't make low-end devices.
If there was ever a time to pierce the corporate veil, this seems like it.
Three steps, first you buying intermediate currency, then transfering that, and then them selling it for their own. First and second are mostly solved, but is there sufficient for third? And what are the conversion costs or fees in each of these? And what are the market fluctuations?
Love him or hate him, Alex Jones is basically a walking brand. They can ruin him financially, maybe even auction off his domain names. His brand will remain attached to his person.

Whether it is justly or unjustly done, it will only further cement his position as a martyr for his followers. Meanwhile the mainstream media isn't doing well in the credibility department either.

The schadenfreude in this thread seems a bit over-eager, perhaps even premature. The ruination of Alex Jones may remain a fantasy for some time to come. This certainly isn't the climax...
Now you get to enjoy them as JIT CVEs.
All of which have been replicated by my local taxi app
I personally wanted to thank you both for opening my eyes a little. It has been a while since I questioned my own assumptions when it comes to literature.

This is basically why I visit HN.
Agreed. The number of people acting like an antiandrogen is something that should be taken casually to slow a cosmetic issue is ridiculous, especially with how much I've heard about post-finasteride syndrome.
Uptick of Mastodon Signups
Other countries do have banks, and international money transfers are a solved problem. I have personal experience with sending money from Europe to Latin American countries. It generally works just fine. I assume Venezuela and at times Argentina may be exceptions due to their political situation, and yeah, for those cryptocurrency may be useful, as an instance of the general rule that cryptocurrency is mostly useful to route around laws and regulations.

In principle, cryptocurrency could act as competition to drive the price of transfers down (which would be awesome), but in practice and at the scale I was looking at, there was no price advantage, and the convenience advantage was clearly with the traditional banking system.
> Alex Jones is basically a walking brand.

Sure, like a Ford Pinto.
Looks a lot like it might be aliasing from resizing the image, maybe from github. Pixel art is notoriously difficult to scale.
> Companies want to build product identities that can last for more than a year, but also want to be able to react to changes in the supply chain.

A fixed product identity for something that materially changes would best be described as a form of fraud, and it is unfortunate that sort of deception is business as usual in too many places.
It's might be a kind of "expectation" outcome of one-man-one-vote, but it's not the point of democracy, IMO. I doubt it even has a universally agreed upon point beyond letting everyone participate. But averaging out interests, which is a sensible starting point, indeed requires that everyone gets to vote, old people included. The problem with "averaging out" interests is that the interests of minorities can get ignored for a long time. If that was the parent comment's point, it might have been formulated a bit better.
Well hey, at least we're not china or russia. Now pay your taxes and stop questioning things!
You don't need to be a hardcore fan of anything to want to revisit experiences from your youth and there's a lot more people playing games now than when Jetpack Willy released in the 80s, certainly not a niche market.

Think of the situation with today's games 40 years in the future rather than 40 year old games today.
There are some good trading opportunities. Anyone who has previously traded stocks can apply a lot of the same knowledge. See my auto crypto trading SaaS under development if you like: https://tradecast.one
I wasn't trying to draw any line anywhere. It is notoriously hard to draw any lines when it comes to disabilities.
Elon Musk wants a free speech utopia. Technologists clap back
I'm no expert, but my assumption for both is more liberal antibiotic use and the quality of the feedstock. Free ranging chickens (in my experience) taste better than battery-farmed ones. I don't think the chicken KFC buys is free-ranging. As for your second point, antibiotics are often used to get chickens fatter than they can get naturally within a very short timeframe. This publication[1] (from 2018) goes into some detail about the entire practice.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29537307/
'Twitter was not supposed to be a worse RSS-feed'

I was "meant" to be a micro-blogging platform - so the use-case is pretty central to how many people use it.
Wouldn't those doing the "de-banking" also make it impossible for anyone to provide service to the "de-banked" or punish those who allow it to happen? After all they still need to live in physical world and ignoring some customers is easier than being hit for bigger fine than the gains or outright stopped from operating.
Phew! I'm 59 1/2.
Interesting in that it avoids grumpily saying things like "were's my jetpack!?"

Seems like a business-centric approach to The Future: all we need to do is lavish the money we spent on electronics, and we'll have jetpacks!

I'm not too sure about this. Passenger jets are still about the same size, shape and speed as a DC-8 or 707 was 50 years ago. We've clearly hit a wall on that technology.
I've worked for startups that have done projects for big companies like:

* a "big five" accounting firm
* a major aircraft manufacturer that isn't Boeing
* a leading ISP that isn't Comcast

The people I worked with on these projects were smart AND nice, at least to us.
I highly doubt it. And even if it’s true, there is no reason for city mandated taxis anymore.
There is probably some value in the generality/ambiguity/multiplicity of notation, but in my experience it hindered the learning process - eyes glazing over more often than they should
Not only old news, but fake news. There was no "threat", and the same risk had been disclosed in their security forms for years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30303585
No, but the CDC isn't my manufacturer so I'm not sure this applies.
Right: I forgot about the higher end encodings. 50kB/s is a speed similar to that of the "base" 360p ("format 18") - ~100MB every half hour.
Sxmo: Freedom on mobile devices through simplicity and hackability
I refused to get reading glasses when I started having trouble reading small labels some years ago. I blamed the problem on computers and that might have something to do with it but probably mostly age.

Instead I got this book: https://www.amazon.com/Better-Eyesight-People-Gillian-Snoxal...

It's not even a book. More like a pamphlet and could fit the whole thing in a <li> almost. But it worked in my case at least. A few weeks of doing the exercises and I could read find print labels again!
Fallujah and Raqqa were pretty large scale destruction. The official civilian casualties were only in the thousands, but it's not like we dug up the cities afterwards to find all the bodies.
Same reason they wouldn't let one of their cities vote for independence of Catalonia. What about a small town of 100 inhabitants?

You can't just start voting to secede from the country you belong to. Voting independence for the sake of it doesn't make any sense.
> Re transferring money: Do you think transferring money abroad is expensive because of technology? It's not, it's because of regulation, international agreements etc.

Yes! And this is artificial and problematic, and cryptocurrency is an inevitable symptom of such an artificial regime.

There are a handful of communication functions that people in every society want to avail themselves of: to talk to each other, to read/write and find information, and to transact value for commerce. For the first two applications the Internet has made those functions possible in increasingly powerful and useful ways: we went from 300-baud modems and BBSes to broadband and Twitter. Search and unlimited music catalogs and electronic bookstores are all available in virtually unlimited amounts at 1/100,000th of the 1990 cost on amazing portable devices we carry in our pockets.

So you’d expect that the ability to transact value on a computer would also have followed a similar trajectory. But weirdly (and crucially: artificially) it hasn’t. Sending an international wire is better than it was in 1990, but not orders-of-magnitude easier or cheaper like the functions I listed above. Similarly, buying products on retail websites has improved in many ways, but it still involves typing in a 16-digit number off a plastic card (and then insuring that card expensively to guard against fraud.) Sending money to a friend is just barely possible in small amounts recently (thanks to a few services like Venmo etc.) ACH will go from 3-day to 1-day settlement “soon” (has it already happened?) There’s nothing like the visible improvement and IT cost reduction you see in every other electronic product.

And the reason you don’t see that improvement is not because the technology makes it impossible, or that sending money cheaply and easily is technically infeasible. The reason you don’t see those improvements is entirely artificial. The technology can exist but has been deliberately held back by cozy business arrangements and government regulation. I will even grant that much of this regulation is well-intentioned. But the thing is, nature abhors a vacuum. The result of trying to artificially stop technical progress is that the technical progress happens anyway (when PCs and p2p gets cheap enough) and then it happens in weird ways that are outside of society’s control. That’s where we are now, and it’s our fault for letting things get here.
My M1 Mini is the best computer I've ever owned, bar none. Most of that junk you are whining about is irrelevant niche stuff. Nobody GAF if they can replace the internal SSD, or if there's any difference between replacing the SSD and replacing the entire motherboard. It has two USB ports, two USB-C/TB3 ports, HDMI, ethernet, bluetooth, wifi, and a headphone barrel jack, like any other computer. WTF are dongles?
What are you talking about ? Both the 13" MBPro as well as the iMac start at $1299.

The $2k MBPro with M1 Pro can drive 2 external 6k monitors, which seems reasonable. If you're the kind of user who needs 4 external displays, you're probably going to want the M1 Max anyway.
> It feels like at least a third of the content

I think that's just you. I'd be surprised if it's 5%, although the % of AskHNs that could be called "self-help" is, I'd guess, usually higher than on the main page.

"So much" compared to what, anyway? You assume it would/should be 0%, or what? It sounds like you don't want any, or at least think there's too much.

Personally, in my life I've gotten an enormous amount from self-help, psychology, spirituality, philosophy-of-life books of all kinds, but 95% of the time on HN the subject comes up in comments, I read that self-help-type books are nonsense, worse than useless, full of filler when they could be a list of points, etc. I get the impression people don't know where to find the good books, or don't believe they exist, so they ask on here.
There are already gyms that do not cater to the people who buy memberships and don't show up. Bodybuilding and powerlifting gyms, for instance. They cost about 2 to 3 times more from what I've seen.
> Except we're talking about video games, where time and time again performance was crucial

In that domain speed is pretty important, but even there it's not as crucial as you might assume. I'm not saying discount it altogether, just good gameplay will trump good performance. They aren't completely unrelated, but there are diminishing returns.

What are the titles that need to be that much performant? AAA titles are just rehash/sequels with latest monetization tactics tacked on.
On low end you got shitty mobile games that only optimization is user conditioning.

That leaves you with Indies, that can use GameMaker/Unity and still get their game out.

Sure some AAA use Unreal to their absolute limits. In same way some people develop drivers for embedded hardware. You still don't want to develop games and software in general, the same way those few studios do.
If you lose your memory you better have instructions written clearly on paper not some app which you won't remember how to build or install
You are missing so much more.

Ecommerce: "Timed" offers or "low/limited" stock for FOMO, fake customer reviews for validation - outright made up (Shopify) or from another product (Amazon), real-time "purchases" ticker, priming, etc.

[1] Dark patterns list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27328863

Below is an example of Disney using priming for deceptive marketing - these are used in ecommerce in a diff. manner

If you watched the movie, you know that it has nothing to do with the other Avengers, yet this ad makes imprints Avenger's images at the start to increase the probability of people watching the film.
PS: The end was just to gather interest for a sequel

[2] Shang-Chi promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pgdfDDdYpo

[3] Priming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)
Was in a small town recently with a few Uber/ lyft drivers. During peak times there was never a driver available when i tried to get one through the app. I talked to one driver and she said to give her a call next time -- during peak times she turns off the Uber app and drives for whoever calls her.
They’re only skeptics about electrification when you’re talking about battery electric. If you start talking about the horse they’ve spent the last decade backing (HFC) they’ll change their tune.

Toyota is just bitter they backed the wrong horse. Their blatant lies and lobbying have ensured I’ll never buy one of there cars again.
Happened because of the "Velvet Revolution" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Revolution) which was yet again the people pushing the government to do something. I think when parent said "No country likes itself to be split apart" they refer to the current people in power (the government), not the people actually living in the nation. Otherwise all successful independence efforts can be considered "The country wanted to be split".
This. Same as in belgium. The part with lots of industry wants independence, the part without does not want them to leave.
On which HDCP won’t work on televisions manufactured earlier than yesterday.