skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> get so worked up over boring niche elements of antitrust law

this post is about 233 words of quite upright & moral certitude, of a very real & serious getting worked up about anti-trust indignity that was foisted upon the world by a low & dirty corporation.

yes, it was overturned. by cowardly pro-corporate assholes.

we should be outraged. your attempt to quell reason, to dismiss indignity deeply scored against humanity: it's vile, and literally baseless: you've made no cause, set no reason, other than mockery & personal insult. get out. if you don't want to participate in discussions of civil society, please kindly find someplace else to go piss on & stop being a degrading insulting & abrasive jerk to me. you've said nothing of value, injected no concerns: just belittled & mocked.

"boring niche... antitrust" is in fact a major oppressor & wounds us all. you don't have to agree, but trying to degrade & mock people for caring is low. anti-caring is not a valid response. and it's deeply unkind. if you want to make claims, try to state why you think my concern are overblown: that's fine, make a stance. but just blanketly insulting & degrading someone, writing me off with cheap ad-hominem attacks: that's malicious, and gross.
The envelope recipient - the account to which the message is delivered - hasn't got anything at all to do with the contents of the "To:" header, which can be absolutely anything. That's how the "Bcc" feature of email works!

The "To:" header is not involved in any way with the delivery of emails.
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
It’s factual, but I think it’s there because it sounds exotic and makes the title more interesting.
I think global GDP would halve if this was implemented as written!
You know Enron did actually trade energy right?
Is he even renegotiating anything? If he tweets to the world that he's "putting the deal on hold", that doesn't mean the army of people who are working on it have been ordered to stop. His twitter followers are completely unrelated to the mechanics of the transaction.

Twitter's board would be nuts to do anything but ignore his public statements, as long as the gears continue to turn behind the scenes. As you say, he "wants Twitter".

How would you deal with someone acting like an idiot in this way, after they signed an iron clad contract? I think most people would politely ignore it, and keep on completing the paperwork. There is no leverage until the person that wants to exert it jams some kind of lever in the gears, and that is not done by tweeting stupid things to the public.
The only time I've felt the need to use Google instead of Kagi was earlier today when they were having service disruptions. Apart from that and some searches that take a little longer, Kagi has been indistinguishable from Google as a default search. I'm very impressed.
When I was a consultant, I sat in on a lot of meetings at startups who were getting near the end of their runway. So many of them talked a good game about privacy, but when they couldn't find enough revenue, they at least talked about selling user data. The main argument against it was not that it was unethical, or that they'd told users they wouldn't do it, it was that they didn't have enough users to make it worthwhile. Since then, I just do not trust any company not to keep, process, and sell my data, no matter what their nominal values or privacy policy says.
If you're serious about making music with keyboards, there are a lot of reasons why you would be spending anywhere from $800 to $3,000 on gear just for your basic setup. At these price points, you have the option to get analogue gear, and the tradeoff is that the analogue gear is less flexible (it's not more expensive).

I'm not trying to pick on people for using inferior gear, but explain that the people who spend more money on a keyboard are making very rational decisions. Just to pick your Pianoteq example, once you pair a $150 Pianoteq license with a $500 decent quality weighted MIDI keyboard, you're already in a price range where you could get good analogue gear if that's what you want.

Once you're spending $1k, $2k, $3k on gear, your main questions are going to be about things like ergonomics, personal taste, capabilities, etc. Not everyone is okay with using a laptop, getting a good laptop for use on stage has its own problems, and laptops add to the price. This isn't really that different from the amount of money you'd spend to get into other instruments, and is actually kind of cheap when you compare it to something like a concert violin--you'll even see high-school students with $5k violins, and I'm not talking about kids with rich parents, either.

Again, I'm not saying that there's something wrong with going for a $100 keyboard and your $180 license for u-he Diva. That's an excellent combo. Just trying to explain that there are reasons someone would want to spend much more money in the first place (ergonomics, portability, keyboard feel, etc.) and at those price points, analogue is an option.
Generally speaking your argument holds true for addition and subtraction but for multiplication and division there are almost no cases where integer units * (or /) float units are unreasonable, for example "man-hours" (discrete * float) or "pizza slices/minute" or averaging people's heights (centimeters / #raw number) e.g.
Financial technologies that serve the public must always have mechanisms for fraud mitigation and allow a human-in-the-loop to reverse transactions; blockchain permits neither.

Human-in-the-loop is costly. Twitter, Youtube and card payments can't manage fraud mitigation well with all-kinds-of-humans-in-the-loop. Can't hurt to give the blockchain folk some space and time to innovate on cheaper, irreversible transactions.
Show HN: Carbide – C4 Model Software Architecture Tool
I'm a satisfied Fastmail user, but it was down all day today for me :(
What is AGW? Who was looking for what?
It’s not wrong but it’s like selling your soul to the devil.

You’re wasting time doing meaningless stuff to earn money youll spend consuming. Contributing to Promoting this vicious circle.
Willful ignorance?

> In a phone interview, Chairman Rene Sindlev admitted to us “I knew that he had been charged for 14 (felony) counts” but moved forward with the deal and expanded the relationship anyway.
> It seem more like a stupid decision done by someone that became successful by being in the right place at the right time

This is massively underselling what led to Facebook's success. As someone who started using Facebook-alternatives in 2001, there were a ton of competing social networks at the time. Many very superficially similar to Facebook, and many with a multi-year headstart. FB drove them all to extinction and became the social network via a combination of great product management, and engineering execution. And this was all led by a teenager in his second year of college. The vast majority of people in his shoes would not have achieved the outcome that he did.
This sounds like a fascinating unexplored area. Are there any English texts (books/journals/theses) exploring this? I’d love to look into what limited analysis of this large reserve of literature does exist in English.
He's smart enough to say "self driving cars are coming soon" or "neural link will be done in five years" or the millions of other things he's said are right around the corner. The other grifters weren't as smart.
I agree in general. Extreme example I've witnessed ~8 years ago: dev team is building linux server. Dev team is not allowed to touch production. Server is deployed via scp by ops team. Ops team is on the other side of the planet and generally pretty unknowledgeable. Dev team is deploying by creating a ticket and literally telling ops team what to type in terminal. Ops team fails at copy/pasting instructions. Deployments fail, dev team has to fix things by telling ops team what to type over the phone.

Lesson learned: kubernetes isn't that bad
“Who is Moira Donegan? NYC Columnist Who Created 'Sh*ty Media Men' #MeToo List Faces Defamation Trial”

https://www.ibtimes.sg/who-moira-donegan-nyc-columnist-who-c...

The guy suing her: “How An Anonymous Accusation Derailed My Life”

https://quillette.com/2018/09/25/how-an-anonymous-accusation...

I think I’ll ignore Moira.
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We use not so much frameworks but combination of lightweight libraries:

- runtime assertions [0] - to map unknown values at i/o boundary into statically typed code (rpc input parameters, sql results etc)

- template based sql combinators to sanitize sql/generate sql [1]

- jsonrpc over websockets - for bidirectional comms between f/e and b/e

It works very well for us for hundreds of rpcs - it's easy to manage things like permissioning/narrowing visibility and other aspects you need in business/enterprise-like setting ie. performance monitoring is very easy/straight forward.

[0] https://github.com/appliedblockchain/assert-combinators

[1] https://github.com/appliedblockchain/tsql
For a sec there I couldn't tell if you were a software dev, or if you put out actual fires for a living.
Yes and it makes sense for a multiplication operator to support float * int or float / int. Suppose you take the average height of 10 people. Converting the 10 to a float before multiplying seems wrong because the compiler is implicitly suggesting "I am not letting you take this average until you consider the possibility of non integral human count.
Online Go Server (OGS): http://online-go.com/
I think the above reply is more along the lines of - if you get into more complex concepts the idea breaks down.

I love doing the bouba/kiki to ppl who know nothing of it. So far none of the "test" have given anything different that what the studies show.
Qualcomm has the GSM standard covered with patents as well. That’s ignoring that CDMA underpins 3G GSM and LTE. So really CDMA got absorbed into the GSM standards and became more of a branding thing as far as I understand it.
Vega Strike is back!
https://www.vega-strike.org/
I have also been building something similar at

https://ossdatabase.com

Recently released code under AGPL-3.(https://github.com/prithvi16/ossdatabase)

But I want to go beyond aggregation and add following things

- User reviews, ratings

- Researcherd guides comparing features in most common usecases

- Interviews with Opensource maintainers, founders.

- Being able to create collections like awesome lists

- Everything being user editable and basic karma system for accepted edits.

Edits: Formatting and added links.
Was about to write almost exactly the same post. Thanks!
Freedoom is an IWAD that's meant to replace all of the assets in the original game files with free versions. You can then use it to play any addon level, like the massive total conversions or level packs that win awards every year. A lot of modern level packs use a free texture set called otex that's a massive/near complete replacement of doom textures too. Sure you won't be fighting exactly the same monsters but Freedoom is surprisingly high quality and worth checking out.

And ultimately the original games go on sale for digital purchase for a few dollars all the time so they're not a huge expense to eventually get and then play all the free levels people create as they intended.
OpenTyrian! Open source port of one of the BEST shmups of all-time. Awesome Hitchhikers Guide-like narrative. Secrets galore. Great upgrade system. I think you can find it available for most platforms, including Android.
That's why I always put legit but wrong answers in. Can't really guess because they're all different and made up, but also can't say, "Oh I just mashed the keyboard".
What percentage of EC2 nodes is that?
Communism is an ideology that requires/promotes an incredibly naive worldview. In order for it to function properly, everyone must act in good faith, which is obviously impossible. Once the communism is established, the expectation is to believe everyone is acting in good faith, which is even more naive. Hence your observation.
So how do you explain that life expectancy at for instance 50 years old keep increasing? For instance in my country (CH) life expectancy at 50 years old for a man was 26y in 1980, 29.5y in 2000 and 32.5y in 2020.
People keep saying that infant mortality is the explanation but this is only valide for life expectancy at birth. Life expectancy at all ages as been increasing.
Also made something similar to this, inspired by HandBrake:

https://alfg.github.io/ffmpeg-commander/
Does anyone have advice for setting up a catch-all email without self hosting email?
Yep, it has replacements for the graphics and audio assets. Just
"apt install openttd" :)
UN registers 'Türkiye' as new country name to replace 'Turkey'
We build a product in Clojure that runs on the JVM and in the browser (https://kpow.io).

Clojure/Clojurescript gives us a language/toolset that works in both the front and back ends. In some cases we have we have code in a single source file (.cljc) that works in both the browser and on the JVM with no modification.

The feature that cross-environment functionality implements in a single source file is complex in some cases (e.g. a grammar / parser / interpreter for a subset of JQ).

Both the front and back end use the same core functions and same datastructures to implement the product. Data is moved between front/back via Transit (and encoding format for Clojure datastructures).

In my experience the reduction in complexity through the stack is staggering. Once you've learned Clojure that is..
Verdaccio is an NPM registry server implementation, for hosting private packages. NPM doesn't provide an implementation for the server, they have their own closed source version that they provide as a free/tiered SAAS. The CLI and API specification are open source though
Liero is high up on my list. The original wasn't open source, of course, but a really good game with a few bugs. The author lost the source code in a crash and that precluded any future bugfixes.

Eventually someone reimplemented it faithfully! I love FOSS!

----

OpenMW is my current vice, but obviously content is not open source.
Even ignoring the fact that batch files still have their place in a world where PowerShell exists, that is a needlessly inflammatory reply to someone who shared their knowledge with everyone.
I'm not sure how much scientific value can be found in texts written before the scientific method was developed. Aristotle's writings on biology and cosmology are almost entirely nonsense, for example.
I've found https://honk.me to be great fun.
On Steam Mac accounts for 2.20% of hardware survey users.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
To take the tracking logic further, I think you'd do `businesscard-<date for that particular print run>@example.com`, `<name of conference>-<year>@example.com`, `<name of mailing list>@example.com` etc. Maybe come up with something snazzy yet still unique-ish for the presentation slides.

In practice, I suspect the intention is mostly to use catch-all addresses for situations where the email address is a key in a database and like a login and stuff and not an entry in an individual's contacts list.
Lots of fascists in America these days… I reckon this board is full of them too.
Yes they do provide that, but also restrict it because they have no incentive to really expand access to those resources. But part of their value offering is also in the selection process (for the merit based part at least). So they select, provide them with resources, and they really only have to do this enough to maintain their position and status to to sell their product: get an education with the best and brightest in our country. Their product is sold to the 1% of legacy admissions and donors who literally buy their way in. Legacy literally means intergenerational wealth preservation here.

But my point is they only have to maintain their core product well enough to serve that purpose of letting the old money rub elbows with the actual best and brightest. Their goal isn’t to help the second, or third, or fourth best and brightest get the education they deserve.

As someone who hires my goal would be to use these elite college filters, but then try to filter out the legacy admits… but that would be unfair to the truly talented legacy admits. It would be disruptive if somehow that high quality education was scaled so anyone could access it, and that stamp of approval from being associated with the elite colleges was also scaled out and handed to only those that are actually exceptional. For the most part the current system serves the exceptional decently well. Where it fails is with the rest of the population. Given two people of equal 50th percentile exceptional abilities, the one that is really wealthy can buy their way into fake exceptionality and get treated by society as if they were actually smarter.
I didn't see it in the FAQ - will Orion be available for other platforms besides Mac, or why only Mac?
Yeah, BAR is a hidden gem
No longer moderately depressed! I think I’m well north of neutral almost every day now. I feel better, look better, my knees don’t hurt as much.
Yeah, that reminded me of Rorschach test and other projective tests. That thread was an example that shows that people benefit from general education and erudition… and that people need a bit more humility to not put forward grandiose claims.
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Big email providers need to set a flag day after which they will drop all email from domains that don't have DKIM+SPF. Their servers also have to support TLS for sending and receiving mail.

That's the easy half. Next, we need a stronger system of domain reputation. For this, we grandfather in all existing domain names, but any newly registered domains need to put up a bond for good behaviour. If one of the big email providers detects high levels of spam from the domain, they can slash the bond, but after a few years of good behaviour the bond is returned.

Of course this gives a lot of unelected power to the big providers, but guess what, they already have that power, except they're using it for making their moat bigger, not for actually solving the problem. If this bond system used a public ledger, then smaller competitors would be able to see the reputation decisions that these big providers made, and crypto-currency would also be suitably international for a global system like email.
Return to the root (Rttr) a settlers 2 engine reimplementation. Also Widelands.
Anthropogenic Global Warming. A bunch of critics looked at the weather scientists saying "we moved the probes, the local city was affecting temperature" and said "ITS A CHEAT GLOBAL WARMING IS A SHAM"

There was no good will in the room. They took "we moved them" to "you lied" to "its all a lie" to "evidence is big here, you will be first up against the wall"

They weaponised science adjusting in the light of emerging information.
> Musk has been described by his former partner as someone who lives "below the poverty line" - do you know musk better than his ex-girlfriend?

How many people living below the poverty line do you know who happen to live in a friend's lavish waterfront mansion in Austin, Texas?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-says-he-lives-in-a-50...

It's very easy to sell off your 7 luxury mansions including your family mansion in Bel Air when you can just live in any luxury mansion without your name on it.

The only people who fell for the spartan shtick are gullible fans who want to believe a myth and the IRS.
Capitalism is only marginally less naive. It assumes that markets behave in a way that optimizes for the public good and that regulatory mechanisms will be independent and without conflict of interest with regards to the corporations themselves. Both extremely naive.
> those that know this bog standard trick can still automatically derive your email address and get around your filters

Not if you default the other way around and autodelete all mail that doesn't have a "+thing". :V
We need laws that makes possessing such data a liability for companies. It's the only way to make them handle it with care and reduce misuse. Should feel radioactive to them.
> Warzone 2100 was originally developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. In 1999, it was released commercially for Microsoft Windows and Sony PlayStation. Pumpkin Studios ended their support for Warzone 2100 on January 5, 2000.

Huh, if it was designed with a PlayStation controller in mind it might actually control nicely on a Steam Deack. And it has Linux support!
I really think you and others should actually read the actual terminology used in established law/documents regarding patents instead of trying to throw in your opinion. This isn't a matter of opinion.
This is one of the heuristics I use to judge the trustworthiness of newspapers and magazines: do they choose photos of people that make them look like idiots? If so, their bias may show up in more subtle ways, too. Whatever you think about the possibility of objective journalism, an editor can do better than choosing a demeaning photo of someone they don't like.
Congratulations! This looks awesome!

I think this is very inspiring. I have always wanted to have an impactful side project. But every time I ran into some technical difficulties, I seek for an alternative idea. I ended up having many prototypes, instead of a single solid implementation that can be called a product.

I often see other smarter people can stick to an idea for years to deliver something really awesome. This is what I should do. I need to calm down and be patient.

I only have one question, for indie game development, how to get high quality game assets cost effectively? Did you learn to diy everything, or you purchase/outsource the work?

Thanks.
no. if you want the patents to "expire" faster, you'd just change the base to something higher. no company will pay multiple billions to keep a patent into its 20th year. you'd use all that extra money for more plentiful enforcement against monopolistic practices like qualcomm's. that results in fairer markets overall, which benefits customers and new entrants the most.

the jurisdiction is the US, since this decision was made in a US court.

it actually helps small companies greatly. many frivolous patents by large companies (flanking defense patents, for example) would fall into the public domain within a couple years. companies would maintain patent only on the things that actually matter. small companies would enjoy many more ways to compete and many more unencumbered ideas to serve as jumping off points. what they wouldn't get is a surefire monopoly of their own.
Paid for search engines (Kagi) are dead on arrival
My favorite open source game is figuring out how to navigate GNOME's file picker.