skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not even it's still cheap where I live in France. But I agree that's convenient and there's not a lot of surprises in what you're getting
Don't see how politics or "bickering over the pettiest feature like [...] what colour the chart should be" is what "deliver[ing] maximum business value" is about, as you put it.
We have tax treaties with moat friendly countries so any tax you pay to the country where you reside is deducted from the US taxes you owe. That means that most Americans working abroad have to pay no US taxes since their domestic tax rate is higher.
Thanks for sharing this! In the last couple of years I've moved from being primarily a Java developer to a nodejs developer and I love exploring what dynamic languages bring to the table.
Why wouldn't tipping a busker be a taxable event?
http://keepstreetslive.com/faqs#:~:text=Yes.,tax%2C%20just%2.... UK example
"I’m open to the idea of selling ~5-10% equity in Kinopio for to live a smoother life right now."

And what would we get in exchange for that equity? Would you have a plan to give dividends to equity holders?
Wow thatt's pretty rough. Just recently I saw some old footage of when Russia opened to the West and all those 90's kids in Russia going to the first Mc Donalds opening there.

Then again McDonalds is a good example of a lot of things that are just plain wrong about western culture... so no loss for Russia I guess.
It helps when you realize that to the online segment, imperialism is definitionally something the United States does.
Those aren't facts. The reason the fees are low is simply because traffic is low. It has nothing to do with the design of dogecoin.
It goes to minus something imho, wherein lies our problem.
As long as you allow a vendor to deliver software updates, zero trust is impossible to achieve.
I also had a mini 9. I made it a Hackintosh, and my wife took it on a trip as it was the only remotely portable machine we had. It was fun, though I think I didn’t use it for a lot.
This seems to ignore the last 20 years of NATO occupation of Iraq which has been attacked based on false reports of some nuclear warheads that have never been found, I am not sure if you guys have short memory, are constantly brainwashed by your partisan media or just not that smart, If I was surrounded by a bunch of countries depending on the will of some guys calling freedom fries to force other to join, creating fake news and reports to force others to invade, I would be scared too
This guys writing was a savior when I found myself needing to implement a WeGL shader playground / engine for a client who insisted using BabylonJS want an option.
And, there's a couple of great write-ups about them [0][1].

[0]: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554

[1]: https://i.blackhat.com/us-18/Wed-August-8/us-18-Valadon-Reve...
Yes engineers can be at least as ignorant as the "MBA business types" they like to scoff at. I haven't seen that in a good engineer though.
However it is often the case that programmers "at the leaves of org charts" (to paraphrase another commenter) won't get to participate on meetings that can define if something can be replaced by "less code", let alone "no code".

In small orgs with a headcount of tens that's very easy for developers to grasp the value and the need for certain things.

But when you're in a 1000+ developer organization it is often the case that the reason you have to do something is because this is a requirement coming from two or three management levels above.

In some orgs, a lowly developer might even be unable to even sit at the table with the big boys. They might have a say and a good perspective in micro decisions, but not in macro ones. In this case, I can definitely see TFA being written.

To use the dentist example, imagine a dentist that's passionate about pulling teeth, but doesn't get a say on wether the teeth should be pulled or not.
Cats have friend cats? I'm surprised. This seems like the exception rather than the rule. Seems to me like most cats prefer a life without other cats around... with human caretakers and all the comforts they provide... kept all to themselves.

In my almost-50 years I think I've only met "cats with cat friends" a handful of times. Even when we had a pair of sibling cats that "liked" each other, when one of them died the other actually seemed "happier" after, which is kind of sad and dark.
Yes, that's the same Alex Soto for the link you provided. However, I'm guessing whatever Kickstarter you're talking about is a different guy (I would probably know if Alex had done a Kickstarter because of an online community I'm in).

I've talked with him about e-ink projects before (because I've got a similar project brewing). You previously caught him on the steep upward slope learning about e-ink where he had some incorrect information (e.g., your link), but he always took corrections and has kept at trying to make the e-ink laptop vision happen.

He is a true open-source advocate and while I don't know about Modos beyond the website, I trust he really is hoping to help such a project see the light of day and empower others to be able to make their own e-ink laptops.
I've been using YAML for years and years, and will always hate it. I understand why it exists, but I still can't stand it, nor do I have a desire to force myself to love it. I just generally hate white-space defined scopes. I love Python, but still hate it has white-space defined scopes, too!

You can't make me love YAML!

(but I'll still use it and put my hatred to the side!)
I briefly did devops with Softlayer in 2011 (dedicated hosting) and now I do devops in Azure.

To be quite frank: Both hosted and cloud have a learning curve. The difficulty is about the same.

Furthermore, many businesses shoot themselves in the foot worrying about scalability too early. Are you really going to jump up to Google scale overnight? (No one does. Chances are your software has bugs that will prevent this, even if you are running "in the cloud.") When your business is well-run, your scalability needs will be predictable enough that you can provision hardware in advance.

That being said: I really like Azure. If you want to "save money for the company," focus on making sure that your software is reasonably efficient. This way you can pay for 10 servers instead of 100 servers.
Adhesive Bras, 1949
Sweden to Apply for NATO Membership
It is not at a five year high though. Seems to be 10-15% down than five year high against USD.

Even the initial sanction shock has petered out as it seems oil and gas sales have been going well
I think this is actually because real, fluent literacy is still rare even in highly developed places. It may be easier for a very literate someone to dash off those instructions but most people are 1000x more comfortable making a little video. Same goes for reading vs watching the video.

This is my same theory about meetings being universally preferred to asynchronous email, even when literally all the questions someone asks at a meeting have already been answered in my long form email.

Most people, even if they can read, are not really comfortable with it. Doubly so for writing. There used to be no choice to function in society, but increasingly we can use technology to substitute for reading and writing effectively, so people do.
This site feels highly curated to me and that is a thousand times more thoughtful than most cookie cutter blogs out there. I’m from Los Angeles and I think the idea is to present a little slice of it a time in a thematic way.
Not sure why it's happening, but ISS passes overhead for me multiple times every few seconds. I'm in India. Firefox 100.
Having recently disengaged from full stack/front end, I have to say that I agree with this.
Lately India has even suspended some passenger rail service so that they can use the tracks to transport more coal to power plants. Power demand is at record highs, presumably at least in part from air conditioning to cope with the heat wave.

https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/power-crisis-india...
The first time I saw someone share a 3D game from this website, I was confused: https://now.gg/games.html

The graphics were good, so I though what a nice use of WebGL. But then I noticed them being blocky,.. in a video compressiony way. Could it be? Yes, server-side rendered web games, streamed to you in real time without requiring account creation.

(The game I originally saw was https://now.gg/apps/paradyme-games/4102/solar-smash.html but seems to be down at the moment)
"That's a real nice clean browser window you have open there. Be a shame if it was covered in popups"

That would only work if the ad networks made more money off you with micropayments than they do with ads. If that was the case then you could be sure the ads would become so irritating to virtually force you to pay.

Plus, instead of just having your browsing habits, the ad networks would now have your credit card details. That sounds less than optimal to me.
Colocation consolidation: Analysts look at what's driving the feeding frenzy
> you might be better off getting more recent ARM based stamp-sized SBC for the same price.

Can you suggest any examples?
As someone who'd adopted syntax highlighting somewhat grudgingly, it's something I do miss significantly whan it's gone.

That said, working on an e-ink device and doing mostly lightweight scripting occasionally, it's not a showstopper, and greyscale highlighting (which I've not looked into yet) could well work out.

I do remember when monochrome ANSI sequences were all I had on early serial terminals: regular, bold, underline, and reverse video. That's at least four gradations, and with a few greyscale shades, the palette should be usefully broad.
What Is ONDC? India’s Plan to Take on E-Commerce Giants Amazon, Flipkart
Yea we should live in little boxes, with ice blocks and fans, because Obama said (from his oceanfront mansion) that the sea levels are rising and we need to make sacrifices for the greater good, less we destroy the planet by being alive or something.
What about young people who are new to the internet? Should we increase the cost of entry (or just flat out ban it) for them too for their lack of online reputation?
Yeah, as soon as you start customizing emacs (which is the whole point of emacs), you run into bugs. Everything is always slightly broken all the time; I don't think it's actually humanly possible to fix this -- too many parts. Fix one thing, another thing breaks.

I'm addicted to the flexibility, but I dream of something that offers the same level of flexibility in a more robust ecosystem (e.g. statically typed, statically scoped, what else?). (Is such a thing even possible? I don't know!)
All these meetings, reports, plans and apparently useless things, provide insurance to the different stakeholders of the project. Projects fail in many ways, and you need everyone to feel safe. That's why you need to document things a lot, in order to say “this was explained in section 3.2.1 of the manual” when the other team doesn't correctly use your tools. And this is true for everyone, the finance guys, the product guys, the programmers, the marketers, everyone. Providing insurance to everyone is very expensive, but it makes the large organization stable. If everyone worked like cowboys in an small company, then the large company would disappear in a large fire of infighting.

I never worked in a large company, but I work in academia, and we academics are also working on insurance a lot. The funding bodies want us to detail all expenses and justify all the changes in the plan, because they don't want people to say that the public funds are mismanaged. This is just an example. We also write tons of useless papers, to justify that we are productive with this money. This makes research very difficult. If you really want to do science, you should become rich and do it from home, like Nassim Taleb does, but in Academia we must work on all this insurance stuff, like in corporate world.

That's how things are.
Oh! They have increased the prices! I went to the page hoping price reductions. Looks like inflation is changing the dynamics for the hosting business too.
Aggregated framework release notes by the major version
Cats are weird. My mom's cat fights will all the neighbor cats except one, whom she just started hanging out with one day. I suppose it's possible they are long-lost siblings or something.
No, NIMBYism is destroying Canada. What's needed is to lift restrictions on new housing construction. Abolish parking minimums, floor area ratios, setback requirements, etc.
Why aren't they showing a comparison between old and new price? This seems deliberate...
The Onyx BOOX Max Lumi features 16 greyscale shades, with more available via dithering and/or halftoning, which is mostly tolerable on text, given 220 dpi resolution.
> I felt sorry for the shopkeepers as they had to bear the 1.5%-2% as transaction charges of the total amount paid

I used to feel that way. Then I discovered how much time/effort is spent counting cash. Credit cards are all electronic and so the money goes directly into your bank accounts without needing to count and recount all that cash. Companies are money ahead vs cash once they account for all the labor cash costs. That is before we get into all the costs of theft that you avoid.

The above assumes a straight 2% transaction fee. If you are paying $.25/transaction then for small purchases the transaction costs are way too high.
>> This time I’m really not sure what the solution is.

As with everything internet, the solution is to have solid, verifiable user identification. I realize the downside is that sites would love to have all your activity logged under a verifiable identity, so the other problem is we need to ban collection of such personal data.
I didn't even read the article because the headline was so stupid and now it's this Smil guy again?

How did he get this reputation for being smart when he's had so many dumb takes on energy?

Has he accepted that EVs are viable yet? (edit: having now read the article, no he's still arguing that EVs are bad) Does he really not know that fossil fuels are not required for any of these things. Did he just intentionally lie about it? For what purpose?

edit: He contradicts himself at the end of the article, so he knows the headline is false. Is this basically an ad for fossil fuels?
market is frozen

unless you’re Russian you can’t sell assets

at the same time government purchases stocks and rouble with euros made from selling natural resources
I wonder if this is the first time a cat cafe has meaningfully contributed to scientific discourse.
The Big Four was also a railroad. It cross the Pennsylvania Railroad in Crestline, Ohio.
Does anyone have an ad free search engine? You'd start with blacklists from ublock origin, pi-hole, and similar, don't bother even crawling those, then have easy reporting for new or self hosted ads. Not much money in it if any, but it would be refreshing. Might even have a mode to nix anything with a payment method on the site, or that links to a site with a payment method.
I went out of my way to turn it off before logging on to those sites. I thought it could also be because I religiously remove my cookies.
They're really just a sign of how weak general purpose computing has become. Almost all uses of Raspberry Pis for hobbyist projects could and should be done just as well with the computers that you already own and already have running.
I suspect that redesigns (e.g. packaging, UIs) should happen in a lean agile way. And over time, the new design would replace the old. I just think that redesigns are too risky to do all in one release. Redesigns can cause too much cognitive overload and dismisses the emotional connection with the old design that customers have built up over time.

I think redesigns should still happen, but maybe is smaller steps. Where these small steps can be easily A/B tested or rolled back.
From a very quick look I think the cheaper basic droplets have gone up 20%, but larger ones (such as the "general purpose droplets") have only gone up as little as 5%.

Edit:
Yes, it's only "Basic" droplets that have gone up 20%, everything else is only 5%.
It's off-topic grievance peddling. Pretty annoying. Often the larger (HN specific) context is missing when finding these sunk posts.

Conversely even weird or offensive posts that are thoughtful or genuine are perfectly fine I think as long as they are on topic or at least topic adjacent.
Pricing page still shows current prices. It appears to be a roughly 20% increase across the board.
You provided a lot of questions and no real answers. I already gave the answer: issue tracker, higher management prioritizes. For absolutely critical must do now changes, you ask for a direct line of communication, but only in that absolute immediate state where something is on fire.

A similar question arises from a team that depends on Qt for their GUI. How does a team solve any issues it might have coming from Qt? If you can answer that question, do the same internally.

If you are in a situation that does not work like this, you don't really have 2 teams, you have 1 dysfunctional team and no amount of buzzwords will help you.

EDIT: Also I work for a large enterprise company where these issues were identified :). If you have two teams, you have two projects, period, or you have 1 highly dysfunctional team. I've seen all the issues with Team A not being able to deliver because they depend on Team B which has 6 month release schedule.

The problem here is one of expectations. Team A should not be expected to deliver things that depend on things Team B has not yet delivered. How stupid is that even? The solution is to not ask for stupid things or realize that you're being stupid and adjust. "Hey higher management, we can't release because these guys have 6 month releases and we need their partial results now". Maybe higher management should listen?
China's economy skids as lockdowns hit factories, retailers
Current leader of Shanghai Li Qiang is Xi’s best buddy since 20 years ago.. quite the opposite the plan might be from someone else to take Shanghai back
Samba 4.11 disabled it by default, but the code is still around as of 4.16:

* https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.16.0.html
Ask HN: What counts as self-care anyway?
Recently I'm starting to think that maybe part of the reason I have such difficulty getting my needs met is because my definition of "self-care" has been too strict.

When I think of self-care I usually only think of "healthier" things like talking a walk, meditation, reading a book, etc. But I'm certain we all partake in all sorts of other activities that, even if they don't necessarily sound all that honorable, still help us maintain stability and get through the day in general. For example, doom-scrolling as a way to wind-down after work, beers with friends on Friday night, watching funny youtube videos, etc.

Anyway, I'm really curious to find out what you folks do regularly, deliberately or not, that would fall under this bigger umbrella of self-care activities. Listing the various things you do and explaining what you think it's effect is would be super helpful for me, because I'm really struggling in this aspect...

Thanks so much!
If you need real, physical RS-232, rs-422, rs-485, CANbus, 2wire, or parallel ports you're not buying a mass market modern laptop either.
Define the market rate, that's the trick. If I define the market rate and I'm the only one to do that, I say your $200K house is really only $180K, then that's what payers will be willing to pay assuming a not-fire market. Right now, it's a seller's housing market, it's also a seller's market in tech. One market has sky-high prices, one does not.
Good one! This just makes sense to me.

WP is high on reads, low on writes and caches easily. It would also make backups so much easier and without the need to rely on wacky, untrustworthy WP plugins.
I had a similar thought when the Chinese government recently restricted outside travel for non-essential purposes [0]. It might be a rational decision given their comparably low rate of population immunity, but it should be combined with a reinforced vaccination campaign to make sense in the long term. I can't help but wonder how much their legitimate public health concerns and their obsession to save face regarding "zero-COVID" combines with an excuse to use the current COVID-19 outbreak to further isolate the Chinese population from the rest of World.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-strictly-limit-unn...
Yes, this is the main argument in Clay Shirky's "The Case Against Micropayments" (2000) [1]. It holds up pretty well 20 years later.

Micropayments are not "pay $2 or $3 per month" (either flat-fee or average), there are plenty of successful examples of that. Micropayments are "pay $0.004 or $0.02 for reading this article or using this service now". As Shirky noted, the problem with micropayments are not the technology or transactions costs. The problem is that they require a huge amount of user time and attention, relative to the value of the item being bought. This has not changed in the past 20 years.

[1] http://mx.thirdvisit.co.uk/2002/10/04/theacaseaagainstamicro...
2008 ThinkPads are machines from a different era. Lenovo doesn't build them the same anymore.
One of those brands has endured for over 125 years, is today worth over $18 billion dollars, and is the 36th-most valuable company in the world.

The other is Coca-Cola.

Pepsi gets an absolutely undeserved amount of shit[1]. It's one of the most successful companies in the world. It's impressive on every single metric other than "is Coca-Cola." The fact that they can have that level of success while competing head-to-head with one of the most successful brands of all-time ought to be reason for accolades, not insults.

The takeaway that I choose to get from that graphic is that there are multiple paths to success, and one need not imitate the market-leader's strategy.

[1] Except that one logo document. It absolutely deserved all the shit it got for that one.
Would be great if this is do using a patch file.

Now it's near impossible to see what changes they do over original WP core.
I agree that this seems way too reductive. I was recently reflecting on this and noticed that I constantly run across new blogs and sites whenever trying to learn something. I just don't usually pay much attention to the site name in the way that I remember HN, Reddit, Twitter etc.

So, while I would agree that some aspects of the old internet are dead (like 'small' ~1000 user forums focused on specific topics having largely been replaced by generally inferior subreddits and discord servers), I think it hasn't gotten as bad as you're making it out to be.
Just a reminder, always add on some static page generator on top of Wordpress so you completely avoid the class of problems with "too many database connections". Yes that error is MySQL specific but the class of problems you're avoid is: not hitting the database for fairly static content like blog posts.
nah usually they're the keys where your thumbs are and aren't hidden behind a layer because they're so commonly used... so the bottom left down arrow is the spacebar and the bottom right up arrow is enter
You know, Eastern European leaders are even harder line against Russia right now than the US is, let alone Western Europe. I guess having living memory of having been invaded and occupied by Russia makes you especially eager to sign up to, and enforce, a pact that will commit a much, much larger power to go to war against Russia if you get invaded.

I'm not worried about nuclear weapons, and this is why: nuclear weapons are the last form of escalation possible. If Putin uses nuclear weapons, there is nothing he can do to further deter NATO from invading Russia, and I strongly suspect that public opinion would be in favor of NATO doing so. I don't see any scenario where the use of nuclear weapons wouldn't harm Russian positions, let alone a scenario where nuclear weapons are actually helpful.
Compare with ~80% intermarriage rate for "poor" Italian immigrants

https://books.google.com/books?id=Tj1E7-j8w1MC&pg=PA290&lpg=...