skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started a company making and selling Android games (phone and tablets) around 2010. Made 5 games with 0 revenue, however couple years later Google Ads found widespread fraud and they re-distributed some earnings and I ended up with a few hundred $$ (I spent several thousand on those games working with remote designers/developers, marketing, etc).

It was already really REALLY BAD. People would "re-skin" games, so they would make a game (or more often just steal one and re-package as their own) and replace graphics/audio to make it look different even though it was the same game. If I recall correctly some managed to have almost a hundred re-skins of the same game. Of course the more games you have as a publisher the higher you are in the search results/easier it is for you to get new installs. Click fraud was rampant even then, with cloned and fake SIMs, real and virtual devices, botnets... It was nearly impossible to make anything in that market back then so I folded around 2012.

Of course it's loser's perspective, maybe somebody else has more optimistic take :-)
Twemex: Extension that shows the most interesting ideas from a tweet
Buzzfeed is still the #2 result, but at least there's no tabloids
For me, it was the founder announcing that they were going to de-rank "sites associated with russian disinformation".

https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318

https://www.pcmag.com/news/duckduckgo-to-down-rank-sites-ass...
I have started reading Introduction to Computer Organization by Bob Plantz, and I think it would also tell someone a lot about how computers work. It starts with hardware and builds into Assembly and eventually higher level concepts like OOP.
Inhaling combusted plant matter is worlds different than inhaling a nicotine/glycol aerosol.
Assuming I’m understanding Goggles correctly, I’d like to be able to have more than one search bar. An unfiltered, and a couple of custom ones.
I think this explanation is likely correct, but some of the reasoning seems irrelevant (or only somewhat relevant?). If cats were attracted to some other component of the smell of (specifically) these plants, and engaged in the same behaviors, it would produce the same benefit. The fact that the chemical they are detecting actually is the active ingredient seems... almost coincidental?

Unless cats, over their evolution, encountered a larger range of iridiod producing plants?
Microsoft usually has pretty good documentation. Maybe that lowers the need to use SO, which would lower the odds of those developers being active on SO.

28% is still pretty good compared to Java's 33%.
> HDDs, RAM, network speed were base-2 (e.g. 1TB = 1024GB) for most of my life

No, network speeds are the exception in that they have always used base-10 for a long time. For example, the basic ISDN data rate of 64kbit/s is exactly 64000 bits/s (8000 samples of 8-bit PCM per second); a 9.6k modem is 9600 bits/s; a 10 megabit Ethernet link is 10000000 bits/s; and so on.
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When someone calls you from Chase about credit card fraud – there needs to be a way to validate they are from Chase and authorized to work with you . Same goes for someone emailing you wire transfer instructions .
Large, slow ships are easily found and caught. If that's a problem, then you build smaller, faster ships, which are less energy efficient.

Losses of ships are only a financial matter because losses are very rare, so insurance is cheap. If losses become common, insurance costs skyrocket and the cost of doing business goes way up, reducing the amount of trade. That's what the article is saying will happen.

I'm having trouble understanding what you're saying in the second sentence of #1. But primarily, none of the examples you cite were on the military to stop, they were the responsibility of civilian agencies.
So we're already down to serious injuries to over 1 in 1,000 people who get vaccinated as "not a big deal"? What rates of subclinical harm might that imply?
Where is the proof that sleep loss does not cause Alzheimer’s and only reverse is true?
I just decided nothing I was savings (OS ISOs, school backups, music)was worth hoarding. For super super important things I just use dropbox (free tier) or email zip files to myself.
18 years and 9 months. Zeihan is very funny.

I don't think he is particularly 'smart' (wait for me a second here). I think he instead makes obvious conclusions from undeniable evidence like demographics and geography. The 'smarter' more institutional types from Brookings and Hoover tend to argue from policy and politics backwards and then the facts become inconvenient.
Salary part - I wonder if those results make much sense. I remember that question did not specify the currency and also the previous question to it was the country of origin, which could suggest to use your local currency. At least I was not sure what to put there.
LibertyOffice?
The desktop web version also doesn't seem to support it for me. Just shows me "Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else."
It depends on the house, the occupants, and lifestyle. 25k is the cost of a 9kWh PV array today, which will produce maybe 11GWh/year in Seattle.

$230/month is about 1700kWh/month at Seattle electricity price of .13/kWh.

That usage could easily be the amount of electricity used for an average efficiency 3000sqft house with 4 occupants and a couple EVs driving the median American commute. Add an electric hot tub, and $230/month isnt so crazy.

Yes, it's very high, but not crazy high considering the typical upper middle class American home and lifestyle.

In contrast, my home and lifestyle transplanted to Seattle would be 1/4 the usage and cost, but different preferences and all.

In the example above the PV array would provide about 50% of usage, so about $115/month in bill reduction. The 25k is 18,500 after the Federal tax credit, which puts the payback at 13 years.
What does politics mean to you? Isn’t every entity covertly or overtly political? What is it about keeping those politics secret that you like so much? Or is it that you don’t like their politics?
So am I, however it's really going to shine with things like SQLite for client side data storage, and for complex graphics client side by using desktop class graphics libraries.

Skia have a WASM port, I could see it being an amazing base for a graphics/rich-text product: https://skia.org/docs/user/modules/canvaskit/

I think the difference is WASM will be really good for content creation (see Figma), but we really don't want it for content consumption - unless its seriously clever visuals or background data processing.
I would wager that the majority of C/C++ codebases (e.g. internal business code) use naive allocation. In C++ particularly, naive allocation (I might define this as straight up "has-a" ownership-based heap allocations and deletions) is considered best practice by many.
> All the premium increases people complained about due to ACA are a fraction of the tax increases that would have had to happen for universal healthcare.

So why would I ever want universal healthcare? I was being sold on it being cheaper and more efficient, but now you’re saying that it will also cost more. What’s the point, then?
Now when I will hear libreoffice again, what will come to mind are clueless illiterate gringos ridiculing themselves on hacker news.
Part of the problem is the attitude that questions are duplicates of questions posted 10 years ago, so they get closed without answers. I am not sure recently most voted is enough. I think the culture needs to change substantially, maybe figure out some way to discourage closing as duplicate (cost N*5 points where N is the age of the supposed duplicate in months or years). Make it really expensive.
That was my number 1 concern about switching away from DDG. I put one into Brave for the hell of it, and was surprised that it worked. (!mdn, probably) That sold me on Brave.
That ship has sailed unfortunately. Most people are going to post in walled gardens--and, if Twitter is that walled garden, I'd much prefer they encourage longer form posting than long threads.
Same. Also, I liked thinking that a McCoy Pauley construct lived in my printer.
Hey, a nuclear cannon (catapult) is totally valid and feasible both scientifically and technologically. Politically..... well!

Now that I think about it, various cannon designs up a big mountain could probably get non-human payloads up to orbit with that budget.
> I wouldn't be suprised if there are windows users who are still downloading OpenOffice

It gets about 235,000 downloads/week, most of which are for Windows.[1] It doesn't seem SourceForge shows the absolute number of downloads, and while ~235k/week isn't a huge huge number, it's still pretty significant. Dunno how this compares to LibreOffice or other software packages (e.g. Firefox).

[1]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/
All of the examples above were licensed. But there's no way to verify that the person sending the email is the actual individual with the license. That's the crux here.
Court Rules DMCA Doesn't Override First Amendment’s Anonymous Speech Protections
The horrors of expertsexchange?
If you look at register size, you'll believe that different processors use different 'bases', depending on whether they're 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, or 64-bit...
Seems cool. How much coaching do you have for US companies to better understand the team's local culture issues?

For example, I worked with teams in Brazil in the past and while they were smart, kind, etc they were slow in every sense of the word. They didn't have the US culture of respond quickly, unblock people, get shit done, etc. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, in fact working slower may be a benefit, but the US company needs to understand this as they establish the relationship.

Your pricing makes sense, but I would like to understand some kind of ballpark numbers based on role title. Can you share that?
Nice! I was just complaining about the CI/CD environment startup time that causes a lot of friction in our local testing. This seems like a great solution!
Not really. I count about 19 stories about Brave in the past 30 days. Compare that with at minimum 33 stories related to just Google searches. That's not including non-search related threads about Chrome, Analytics, Maps, Alphabet etc. Otherwise it's hundreds of stories.

I'm not a fan or user of Brave yet I don't consider a story every other day or so to be excessive.
I wonder if there might be a bias in lang/framework popularity results towards those that give more challenge to devs. Like the more problems you have with a tool the more often you go to SO and it makes it more likely to fill the survey.
It’s funny how brand reputation and impression works.

I do not remember every story that has been posted about Brave since its inception. I always remember my emotional takeaway, which is that I don’t trust it.

My fuzzy memory on it is: something about brokering my private data, which I never want shared period, something about optimizing my relationship with ads which I want nothing to do with, something about a crypto scam.
Yes, we couldn't agree more! People shouldn't have to uproot their life. My mom moved half-way around the world for work and building a family away from your family, while professionally necessary, was very hard on her and us. In today's modern society, it's simply not necessary anymore.

And to answer your question, top tech companies aren't usually price sensitive and are willing to pay for top talent. Because of our transparency in our fees, everyone knows what everyone is making and it's the developer who sets their own rate.
I wouldn’t suggest nicotine is safe, but patches are likely safer than vaping excluding risks associated acute nicotine poisoning.

The non nicotine components of vaping are also harmful. Smoke machines operating on similar principles are a known workplace safety hazard. It’s likely decades of inflammation from vaping would present it’s own unique hazards.
Inductive pickup (foreign voltage) from even fairly long runs (20kf +) of well maintained copper is usually much less less than half a volt, measuring either T-R, or T-G/R-G. It's supposed to be floating to ground - nothing on a twisted pair should be ground referenced, if you do have voltage to ground, you have a short.

If it was not floating, you'd get atmospherics, hum, and other issues that you saw in old fashioned ground return systems.

Indeed, measurement of voltage and continuity of T-G and R-G is a standard way to check for faulty cable
I've seen cabinets with multiple doors, and can even imagine them reaching the same space. But I've yet to see a cabinet lockable with a chain:-(
I'm not buying that all the solar panels, batteries, and grid infrastructure will produce little waste. Do you have any references to studies this or are you just going by gut feeling?
The weird situation they got themselves into with Tank Man was revealing.

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/microsoft...
100% I am an old man and all I vape is bubble gum juice
"Last week I happened to find a Golang book"

which book?
This could have been avoided if twitter had distinct URL schemes for user accounts versus site functions (like how mastodon has /@user versus /path), or it could have been avoided if they reserved enough words early on to avoid this collision. Now I wonder how they would reclaim the paths that were parked by early users. Pay these users to rename their accounts, perhaps?
So what's the solution here? Signing bonus?
Awesome to have your input on this. I'd love to talk to you in person to learn more. Reach out at josh@botblox.io
Software upgrade for 19-year-old martian water-spotter
In my experience, under OpenBSD hardware either works well or not at all. No "sorta-kinda works unless there's a lunar eclipse". So when it works, it just works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catnip#As_an_insect_repellent

> Nepetalactone is a mosquito and fly repellent. Oil isolated from catnip by steam distillation is a repellent against insects, in particular mosquitoes, cockroaches, and termites. Research suggests that, while a more effective spatial repellant than DEET, when compared with SS220 or DEET, it is not so effective as a repellent as it is when used on the skin of humans.

The research for the spatial repellant aspect is: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/08/010828075659.h...

And for the skin based one: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16119554/
I mean caffeine and nicotine are roughly comparable, sure caffeine is less bad but it's still an addictive substance that's incredibly hard to quit, gives you crippling withdrawal, and has long term negative health effects, and is really easy to OD on if you ever stray from natural sources and commercial drinks with measured doses. People would be battling quitting caffeine everyday too if there was a huge push to do it.

You're allowed to acknowledge the odd double standard the world seems to have where because the most popular delivery methods for nicotine are extremely harmful that we treat nicotine itself as more harmful than it really is and say that we would still be better off simply banning nicotine. If it was an established cultural norm that gum just had nicotine in it and you had to buy "denic" gum like decaf there would never have been a massive push for people to quit.

Also, I think you're overestimating how many young people vape. I promise you it's not that cool.
> It was already really REALLY BAD. People would "re-skin" games, so they would make a game (or more often just steal one and re-package as their own) and replace graphics/audio to make it look different even though it was the same game. If I recall correctly some managed to have almost a hundred re-skins of the same game

Mobile games are a pit.

Modern phones can run pretty impressive stuff now, hell iOS has Civ 6 and Total War Medieval 2 ports.

But instead the stores seem to be filled with endless reskins of the same tired concepts as a decade ago.

And then the ads are all lies. They'll legit just rip some footage from a well established and well liked PC game, say Age of Empires II, and use that in their ads when the actual game is just a shitty Clash of Clans ripoff.
Maybe part of the problem is that we consider these things ”sins”, with all the subconscious burden of suffering for all eternity in a fiery pit thanks to a belevolent god who made that place, and who also loves you.
There's one that can do over 500MB/s : https://www.storagereview.com/news/seagate-exos-2x14-hdd-del...
Meanwhile a relatives system failed before 2 and is now a pile of panels leaning on the side of their house. No way these things are actually lasting 20 years. Or if they are, it's by dint of enough repair & maint to destroy the math even more.

What does seem to be true though is that it's getting better/closer. As the panels get both more efficient and cheaper, it becomes less of a waste of motion.
Yes... hypocritical in almost every way. They should just ban cigarettes and alcohol and caffeine and sugar.
All consumption taxes are regressive, by definition. That doesn't necessarily mean it didn't do what it was intended to. I'm curious how (if?) the consumption patterns changed.
You’d have loved inline quoting on Usenet.
> Essentially, Goggles will act as a re-ranking option on top of the Brave Search index.

The idea is amazing. Just the "no pinterest" and "copycats removal" examples have me super excited.
You've been out of the loop for a while. Certain HDDs have been able to achieve such speeds for about a decade, if not more. Most of their (slow) gains over the last 10 years have been in capacity.
Thanks! Getting a faster inner loop instead of abusing CI/CD for running tests before PRs are ready is definitely one of the reasons we built vcluster.
I don't disagree, but this position commits you to removing all petrol cars from cities, too.
And it just happens to be a coincidence those are all powers of 2?
> is that Teleport gives you transcript-level audit logs of your SSH sessions

That is extremely valuable. Just in case 'transcript-level audit' didn't sink in, it's a session recording – not only you can see the all keystrokes typed but you can see all the outputs, the whole state. Someone doing a TOP command for an hour? You can watch the same thing later.

Think asciinema (https://asciinema.org/).
Apparently the rat things are down with it. It's all puppy dog heaven until they have to go into action, and they like that as well.
individual losses are a financial matter and not existential threat

That's entirely a function of the loss rate. If 50% of voyages are seized by pirates, that's not just a financial matter.
Thanks! We eventually want to see vcluster as a CNCF sandbox project down the road.
Cost and Fragility.

You can push around 1GHz of bandwidth on the normal hardline-feed line with taps system cable uses, each node is designed to pass by a certain number of households.

Coax is.. cheap, forgiving, easy to terminate, and inexpensive to replace - Fiber is more expensive, unforgiving, and much harder to terminate.
There are probably crypto-fintech-medtech jobs out there that pay 500k but we'd never get to the salary part of the conversation because the whole idea feels shady. Security might also pay well but there are too many personalities involved in the domain for me to find out.
“OpenText”

(gets PTSD shivers thinking about LiveLink)
I see lots of LoRaWAN for sale, but nothing really using it. There's 802 series standards for WiFi-compatible-ish packet switched radio on the ISM bands, I suspect that will get more traction once it's finally in real products.
I mean, it is the same discussion right? It's just the costs and benefits are different. Obviously some people feel more strongly about some of the costs, and some people feel more strongly that the government should allow people to make their own decisions.

It just seems oddly specific and too "big government", why is one specific vaping product being banned when the science has shown that they're less harmful than cigarettes, you can still buy cigarettes, and there are almost certainly other more harmful substances (like alcohol) that have a bigger impact on the health of the USA that are not banned.

I don't feel like anyone would argue against more regulations, but an outright ban of sale feels super weird.
That does seem like bad UX/"DevX" that that configuration of rules is "valid" syntactically and there weren't better equivalents of "linters"/"compilers" flagging that before it ever got sent out as an announcement. UX issues are a "proneness" to error/fragility. It sounds like there is room to build a "higher level language" (like a "Typescript : Javascript :: ? : BGP") for BGP announcements that is less prone to "accidentally bad programs". Not that I have immediate suggestions, just that my gut reaction from skimming these sorts of outage reports is that if it was a "language" I was writing in I can hear that I'd want a lot more (type) safety nets.
> I would think that cats' fur would already protect them from mosquitos pretty well.

While camping in Big Basin during a really bad year for mosquitoes, my neighbor campsite had a pet Husky. Whenever they let the dog out of the tent dozens of mosquitoes would quickly converge on its face and nose. It looked like something out of a horror movie.

I'd assume cats have similarly vulnerable areas on their head where the fur is thin to nonexistent. And that's an especially irritating region to have covered in itchy bites.
my mind boggles at the sheer number of people being employed over SEO so removing that bias is like literally killing their livelihood. i don't care anyways because i don't use google and use a pi-hole AND ublock origin so i am insulated from ads but just saying
Zeihan is not any better than Perun about the war, and arguably much less right.
Single payer health care seems to be another reasonable way of aligning incentives, although as it’s critics will point out it also has other drawbacks.
One of the problems with OpenOffice was/is that it's a trademark in Brazil and the Netherlands. I don't know much about the Brazilian case, but in the Dutch case it's a small IT consultancy focusing on Linux and other Open Source stuff. Especially given they operate in the same kind of space that OpenOffice.org (the office suite) it's led to some amount of confusion.
If the auth flow was as good as Touch ID and no window switching, yeah it would be acceptable but this flow would give me a headache with all the flashing.
> There are significant debates about what is fueling some of Seattle's current problems, and whatever people's ultimate opinions on who is right and wrong about those debates

I only know what I see, I live in Ballard so most of our crime is driven by that segment of the population. I've caught more than a few prowling my car (I have an open garage). I have to dodge people in crisis often with extra care, I don't want to get a baseball bat to the head like that poor Amazonian in Belltown. I see shoplifting at Target with impunity, I saw a guy run out with two small TVs just a couple of weeks ago.

These people that are doing this look way drugged out. They look gone. It is not regular crime at all.
The way we talk about companies is kind of weird, in my opinion. "Phillip Morris" didn't make those decisions; individual human beings did. And those individual human beings are dead or retired. You see kind of a similar thing with Monsanto (now Bayer) where someone drops into a conversation about GM crops to remind everyone about Agent Orange and it's just, like, what in the world does that have to do with the debate about GM crops?

It can both be the case that the people who ran PM in the 1950s lied about the dangers of cigarettes and that Altria today is, "a very legit operational business."