skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobusuke Kishi (Abe's grandfather) has an extremely interesting backstory:

> As a self-described "playboy of the Eastern world", Kishi was known during his four years in Manchukuo for his lavish spending amid much drinking, gambling, and womanizing.[34] Kishi spent almost all of his time in Manchukuo's capital, Hsinking (modern Changchun, China) with the exception of monthly trips to Dalian on the world famous Asia Express railroad line, where he indulged in his passion for women in alcohol- and sex-drenched weekends.[29] When not visiting the brothels of Manchuria, Kishi was demanding sex from the waitresses who served him at the expensive restaurants he patronized. When he was locked up in Sugamo prison in 1946 awaiting trial, he reminisced about his Manchukuo years: “I came so much, it was hard to clean it all up”.[29] According to Driscoll, "photographs and written descriptions of Kishi during this period never fail to depict a giddy exuberance: laughing and joking while doling out money during the day and looking forward to drinking and fornicating at night."[35] Kishi was able to afford his hedonistic, free-spending lifestyle as he had control over millions of yen with virtually no oversight, alongside being deeply involved in and profiting from the opium trade.[30] Before returning to Japan in October 1939, Kishi is reported to have advised his colleagues in the Manchukuo government about corruption: "Political funds should be accepted only after they have passed through a 'filter' and been 'cleansed'. If a problem arises, the 'filter' itself will then become the center of the affair, while the politician, who has consumed the 'clean water', will not be implicated. Political funds become the basis of corruption scandals only when they have not been sufficiently 'filtered.'"[4]

> At the same time, Kishi repeatedly expressed a disdain for Chinese people as impure and unclean.[32] One of Kishi's closest friends and business partners, the yakuza gangster Yoshio Kodama, summed up his boss's thinking about the Chinese as follows: "We Japanese are like pure water in a bucket; different from the Chinese who are like the filthy Yangtze river. But be careful. If even the smallest amount of shit gets into our bucket, we become totally polluted. Since all the toilets in China empty into the Yangtze, the Chinese are soiled forever. We, however, must maintain our purity".[33]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobusuke_Kishi
It’s amazing and very heartening that they were able to get the FDA on board in a matter of weeks.

Fascinating article. Although the page spontaneously reloaded while I was in the middle of reading, twice! Very annoying to try to read something with so much ad code doing reflows, popups and reloads …
Indeed the brain is pretty good at this, so much so that it is annoying when you are trying to generate a variety of textures by combining a small set of textures. This of course extends to audio patterns, temporal event patterns (e.g. post hoc, ergo propter hoc) etc.

That may be the cornerstone of "intelligence", but that's only one part of it. I think another one is making or finding relations between the parts of the whole.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations [1]

Once you have internalized relations of the real world, you can start to hack them in your head, run simulations of the results and take action.

[1] https://www.thoughtco.com/famous-education-quotations-herber...
A difference between Go and Java is that a null Regex in Java will not be implicitly converted to a non-null Stringable containing a null Regex.

If you'd like, I can post about "implicit conversion from nil pointers to non-nil interfaces containing nil pointers that can only be checked for nil using reflection, combined with interfaces that work by duck typing and an existing body of code that pervasively uses struct pointer receivers in methods that panic when passed a nil pointer, even if it was a nil pointer contained in a non-nil interface" but that's a bit of a mouthful.
Non-video review of this $25 pliers, https://motofaction.org/tool-reviews/tsunoda-kbn-150-kbn150-...

> 2-in-1 tool - with teeth to pull the cable tie tight and a flush cutting component for making sure that there's no sharp edge left on the cable tie

> [Rockwell] hardness - 42 to 50HRC for the body and 56-62HRC for the induction-hardened edge.
I think this is a sort of non-humility thing. A humble person with humility would react with something like "oh cool! I had no idea this existed but I love it! Thanks for sharing this with me!"

I have found myself on the other side of the coin many times. I have researched something, or invested a lot of time/energy/money in something and then someone who I assume (unconsciously or not) has not done these things and I instantly dismiss. E.g. if my mum turns up one day with a new phone and tries to tell me how great it is, there is no way (in my closed mind opinion) that she would have found something that I was not already aware of and using etc - what I picked and what I use is clearly superior for reasons X Y and Z and I will sub-conciously reassure myself that I am correct by pointing out why she is wrong. I guess it is a sort of pride/arrogance (and maybe even tribalism) thing - a sort of "you think you know something, but I know better than you, so I will explain to you how you are wrong as I know more than you about this.
I am right and you are wrong, and I need to prove the point so you know that you are wrong" etc. Not just tech - people will do this about cars, sports, tools - anything.

I try to stop myself being in this mindset as much as possible, and try to be more open to what others suggest.
Investopedia were pretty sure they were:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171230012928/https://www.inves...
> And wherever the price is between those two is a direct function of what experts believe[...]

I wouldn't call the hordes on Robinhood "experts": they are the marks that Elon plays like a fiddle on Twitter.
> The people spending the money on Goog's platform are the ones hurt.

It goes deeper. The increased marketing costs due to the 'fraud tax' are passed through to customers. So it's we the people who are getting screwed by fraud.
I work in payments. I'd guess the 1% on top of 3rd party integrations is to encourage folks to go through Shop Pay, which is owned by Shopify.

As for why people don't self host, it's likely just easier not to. You start off on an easy platform because who knows if your business is gonna work, then the business grows and you're already on there so why self host when it's working right now? And you continue down that path until it doesn't anymore.
There’s been a boom in outdoors living, camping as well as DIY cabins in Japan the past decade, and with these comes the all too familiar wood stove as part of the imagery.

Many professionals I’ve spoken to advise against the wood stove, because it complicates contruction, is a huge fire hazard in a neighbourhood of wooden houses and not really economical at heating a dwelling.

But it looks cool (present imagery of American country side) so it sells.
That's strange. I did not have to. I wonder if it was based on your user agent, or some anti-crawler detection?

I have noticed this with a lot of websites recently, things like Twitter and Instagram only sometimes ask me to log in to view things. Reddit as well, will be happy to show me some article, then later that same day it'll ask me to log in.
That's really cool. Bill is a legend. I've studied with Peter Andrews this year on his farm. Assuming you're in the IT space, Have you found a way to concile work with green regenerative ethics? Still looking on how to find that remote job myself.
This is already starting to feel like the Star Trek voice computer interface. You ask it questions, follow-up questions about anything.
> The technology for organizing the world’s knowledge should be owned by everyone.

This is what really nails it for me.

There's far too much black box in pretty much every major search engine out there. Maybe it's by design "so that people can't game it". Even so, it's not working very well.

I'm excited for the next 10 years to see what we (humans) come up with to solve the state of the internet, because something's gonna give at some point.
Ask HN: Bots in YouTube Comments
I subscribe to a few YouTube channels and noticed one in particular has had a recent explosion of bots in the videos' comments section.

However unlike a traditional spam bot posting links or other advertising (like you would see on HN if you browse with showdead enabled), the purpose here is a bit unclear. The bots all fit a similar profile - they are young attractive females with Hispanic-sounding names that leave generic pleasantries or inoffensive non-sequiturs. Due to the channel's niche subject matter, a person fitting that description is probably the least likely person on the planet to be a subscriber so they stick out like a sore thumb.

I'm trying to understand what is going on here, since they simply add noise to the comments section. One theory is this particular creator - who is vocally obsessed with viewers and hit count - has purchased bots to artificially increase the views, and these comments are a method to evade Google's anti-abuse software by posing as legitimate viewers leaving innocuous-sounding comments. Does anyone have any other ideas?
... and claim that they got the data from "apps".

Really, we swear. But we can't tell you which ones. Maybe the apps running on the cell towers.
sure you can, but don't claim it's alternative to HN
Is Our Ground Meat Safe to Eat – Consumer Report, USA
It sounds like you’re affiliated with last10k.com? If so, I have a little feedback: on my iPhone 13 pro approximately half of the screen is taken up by not-the-content, leaving only a small reading area.

I recommend making the giant last10k.com logo much smaller (perhaps 50% the current height or less) and having the blue title header (“Hashicorp, Inc. (HCP) SEC Filing 10-K Annual Report for the fiscal year ending Monday, January 31, 2022
“ etc…) collapse or scroll away when the user scrolls (also just make it smaller).
Because pretty much everything nowadays is a bloated SPA with Javascript unnecessarily sprinkled on top to add "interactivity". The back button worked well when everything was a static page, but unfortunately now every site just has to make their own complicated twist on top of it to seem unique.
There's definitely a culture of brothels that still exists thats pretty foreign to the West. You won't really hear about it because Japanese people don't just offer there stories up to foreigners... but I've had sources inform me of places where people can go for orgies (in a way Americans may casually visit a strip club which is a toned down version of this) and I believe in some cases can even be expensed to the business as entertainment.
There are times I don't miss dealing with random hardware mystery bullshit.

This one is just ... maddening.
sure, it's bad UI and bad UX, but many bad UIs and bad UX exist because it would be prohibitively expensive to fix them, fixing them gives no benefit to the business that pays for them (have you stopped Reddit over this and gotten a message to them about it that they will understand?), or fixing them actually is actively against the interest of the business (when you use the back button on Reddit you get new showing of "most popular in this topic", their request count for "most popular in this topic" goes up, you are forced to scroll through bunch of stuff again increasing 'engagement' and everybody who makes decisions about how Reddit should work is happy)
Can it find and explain vulnerabilities such as SQL injections or buffer overflows?
> He's not the type to intentionally deceive others.

Have you seen him tweet that he was in a deal to take Tesla private?

Have you seen his Solar Tiles marketing stunt, where he was claiming all of the houses around him had functioning solar tiles, when instead they were pure props?

Have you seen him sell FSD with a promise that it will work in 1 year, and that it will literally pay for itself by letting your car be an autonomous taxi while you are at work?

Have you seen him claim the Tesla Cybertruck will be available for pre-orders next year?

Have you seen him claim he is backing out of this Twitter deal because of the many bots on Twitter, when he was previously claiming that he is buying Twitter to fix the bot problem?

There are instances where he might have indeed believed the ridiculous promises he was making, but he has a long history of directly lying to consumers and investors to get his way or manipulate stock (or crypto) prices.
I don't know how Shop Pay is engineered, but Shop Pay is Shopifys payment processing platform. I don't know if they're using another provider such as Stripe on the backend though or if they've gone through the PCI compliants.

With that said, just because you're not the one processing payments doesn't mean you're not the one holding it.
Popularity is a very poor relevance / truth heuristic.
I believe GP is asking about the CP-80's aftertouch. Her usage of the Fairlight is super well documented, including in the original post.
My intent was not to point out a „silly question“. I was legitimately interested if there is a reasoning and what a use case for that would be.
Thank you for responding nicely!
Humans :eyeroll:

Changes make or should make the impression of progress.
I don't get this logic - why shouldn't he express his anger, frustration and annoyances with shopify publicly? If I was in his position I would do the same too, whether it gets me some response from Shopify or not. Even if I hired lawyers, I would still prefer to tell the public about shitty customer service, especially if it costs me money and time.
Why though? 99.9% of people don’t care, and the internet (Facebook, instagram, TikTok, YouTube, gmail, the occasional Wikipedia) work fine for them.

The overwhelming vast majority of people just don’t care about the internet outside those major few silos, so as far as “humanity” is concerned the internet is working as intended.

It pisses me off what’s become of the internet, but I don’t personally see it changing.
Ironically, this messy approach seems to produce machines that are very resistant to all sorts of damage, while clean engineering designs are not.
Wouldn't that be very inefficient though?
"easily"

Is the Internet full of idiot engineers at LinkedIn etc?

I humbly submit it is not easy, these days, to deliver well-behaved SPAs.
another thing you could offer is really nice clean themes. I've paid for more than one app in my time JUST to get dark mode lol.

obviously good search trump's the dark mode tho.
Even their sales leadership is eroding (at least looking at global figures). The next biggest three combined (VW, Hyundai-Kia, Stellantis) have sold as many BEV cars as Tesla in 2021. And there are many big players on the following ranks that clearly have the money and willingness to grow

https://www.jato.com/the-global-electric-car-sales-2021-in-n...

// Edit: Added BEV
> he's now has exposed that the "less than 5%" of accounts are bots

He did the opposite of that. The Twitter CEO's explanations are quite believable, and Musk has not presented a single tiny shred of evidence against them. He hasn't even presented any methodology he used to arrive at the belief that the 5% is wrong - and note that his lawyers were careful to call it a belief only, since they know full well that claiming it as a fact would be indefensible in court.
> Comes off as rather high-and-mighty

Cantrill is, shall we say, very opinionated. And does not suffer fools gladly.

Edit: but also, it's a YC (Anti)Application video, so being high-and-mighty is practically a prerequisite.
I didn't realize the percentage of manual transmissions was so low, no wonder the car culture there seems to idolize it.

In my climate, on a 45c day, inside the car's going to be more than that. It's definitely a workout for the generally imported car's A/C unit. I am guilty of turning the car on and waiting under a tree or something for the AC to bring the temperature down to at least ambient.

I'm looking at a series hybrid car. I must admit, pre-conditioning the car off the battery would be pretty luxurious.
Are you saying you always boiled it and still ended up sick? If so, terrifying.
You are right. I logged out, and then proceeded to view the gist without logging in. Maybe they left some tracking cookie after log out (like device id), or they invalidated my previous session and triggered login on that invalidated session.
> Grocery stores have been out of all sorts of products this year and the normal response isn’t “this is an outrageous failing of Kroger” it’s “Kroger isn’t able to source Wheat Thins because of various supply chain issues.”

There's a level of trust that you have to have with a service provider over something like a grocery store.

If you're at a grocery store, and your card is declined due to Visa blocking you, you did not lose out on money. If you're selling things on Shopify, and have shipped orders that you're expecting Shopify to pay you for and they do not pay you, there is now a loss involved.
>Going through court will lead to even more dragged out speculation and hurt Twitter more than any other party

>The winners at the end of the day would be the lawyers and millions of dollars dumped into fighting a case instead of settling.

I don't understand this popular hot take.

There's no rich egomaniac foil for EM, is there? There's just a corporate machine that he offered a piece of "candy" worth tens of billions and then tried to take back.

As many people have said, if EM just walks away and Twitter does nothing, the stock price is probably half of what it was supposed to be acquired for.

Ten billion dollars will fund a literal battalion of lawyers for a decade if necessary.
I'm not implying those people are idiots. They just have different priorities, cause marketing and growth hacking keep them busy with other things.
For most Shopify sellers, that 1% is still less than it would cost to pay the person to setup what you're suggesting. Really not weird at all.
That would be the case if they had disrupted some market, but Tesla has only succeeded in creating a new niche vehicle, and cornering that market to some extent. They are still bit players in the overall car market (and they are losing market dominance even in BEVs, mostly to Chinese companies).
100% agree, cookiengineer.

PMs have never cared about it in my 20+ years of experience.
This attitude is exactly why things won't change. .1% of the world is still 7 million people.
It took me a long time to figure out how I made a turn on a bicycle. No, it's not just turning the steering wheel in the direction you want to turn. You actually slightly turn it the other way, then the bike tilts into the turn you want to make, and you turn the steering wheel into the turn to stop the tilt from turning into a crash.

It all happens so subtly, and your body does it perfectly with no input from the brain other than "I want to turn".
I use duck duck go. Recently someone showed me their screen where they were using google to do a search. I was absolutely aghast. The last time I used google when you searched for something you saw a simple text list of sites (which is how DDG still works). Instead the google results were… a disaster. You had to scroll through some much garbage before finding actual search results - a list of sites. It was like google was saying, “here, look at all this trash instead of clicking a link and going to a different site”. When did google become so bad?
Regardless of what layer ICMP works at, its traffic is still transmitted using datagrams, and the call to do so is socket(), yes?

Are you just trying to point out the misnomer?
God of War Ragnarok bundles include cases with NO discs inside
What alternative for PayPal?, and what for cloud?( I know things like linode, but I mean big cloud).
The hemoglobin molecule is different for every species, and if you chart changes in the molecule, it forms the same tree as evolutionary biologists had already figured out.

Humans have the most complicated hemoglobin molecule.
Your hypothesis sounds reasonable.
The article ends implying the Japanese media is wrong by downplaying and leaving out the name of the church, but when I was reading more on wikipedia about the Unification Church they referenced this article from the media, which I will need to translate but would seem to refute this:

https://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/97322

For those who are in Japan is that a good take by the author of the submitted article? Is (edit: it fair to say) the media hiding the connection?
> Sort of relatedly, a lot of marketing suits hate feeling "left out" of trends;

Oh yeah definitely related, it's an existential crisis for marketing/media to not be producing something new. To be fair to them, software developers are worse I feel.

If these industries were pragmatic, there'd be far less work to do. Instead, we re-brand/re-build every year, lest we all lose our purpose and our jobs.
ads. SEO.

i have a guy in digital marketing tell me that his friend does SEO and he does wonders with obscure keywords and shit. that friend is a freelancer and earns a good payday.

When you want to insert your brand in every fucking imaginative keyword as opposed to people "searching for something",

why does internet advertising revolve around everyone assuming every person googling something "WANTS TO BUY SOMETHING"?
Thanks for the guidance! I'll look into how typingclub works, I'm new to this business stuff.
The paragraph following that one is more important in this context:

> For the avoidance of doubt, my warranty or license as set forth above applies to the Content exactly in the form provided to the PSF, and does not, other than as may be provided in the Included License, grant the PSF or any users of the website a license to make or distribute derivative works based on my Content.

So yes, you have a right to download and run the package (which I didn't know about), but you do not have a right to bundle it with your software and distribute that.

It is even debatable if a package that explicitly depends on the initial one, even without bundling it, would be legal - I think it probably wouldn't be, since as long as it is dependent on that package, it is arguably a derivative work of that package, which the PSF terms of service do not authorize you to make.

It should go without saying, but IANAL. I'm basing my opinion on 3rd party dependency legal reviews that I've gone through at my company (from the software engineering side), and here using a package without an explicit license was explicitly prohibited.
Thank you. In fact it can replace gumroad or others.

I'm afraid about permissions, I just need read_only, but know the app is asking for full permission. I guess this is blocking new sign ups.
YaCy?
Not even just code names; I worked at a place that had rebranded both the company and products multiple times, so source code for com.companyA.productA was deployed to server production-productB-01 and served to customers as productC.companyC.com. They had dozens of products, many of which had been acquired from smaller companies over the years and intermittently rebranded. There was a spreadsheet that helpdesk used to try and route support tickets, listing as many names as they knew and who had last admitted to knowing anything about the product. The spreadsheet was nowhere near comprehensive. The whole thing was wild.
This answer agrees with my experience. Business people want to redesign sites, logos, etc. because it gives them something to do, gives them something to report and show to their higher ups, makes them feel useful, allows them to expense field “research” trips, allows them to expense offsite meetings with design consultants, allows them to do something fun instead of focusing on their real, but harder, business priorities, etc.