skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But where did you get your definition of ownership?

Property taxes in the US predate the US as an independent country. Do you think the owner should be able to set the value? Should anyone be able to declare that their property is worth $0 and therefore no tax is owed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax_in_the_United_Sta...
"You're doing it, but in some subtle but very important way that's not at all obvious to you, you're doing it wrong."

How many tech startup patterns fit that? That's a sign that either the pattern does not generalize well or it's snake oil.
USD is the go-to choice, but the percentage of total volume that is involved in ponzi's and scams is much, much lower than in crypto.
Virtually everyone got the in lieu payment after being discouraged by the direct management to pursue the improvement. They immediately left.

The improvement was a two month program.
Maybe Apple will come up with a reality distortion field and will remove "urgency" warnings and informations from websites on Safari, as well as blocking "Join our Newsletter now and get a discount" pop-ups.

What once was ads everywhere, is now psychological gaming.

I hope someone comes up with a Google Extension, and maybe Apple with a new "Access Website" mode.

These messages are boring to be honest. Once you noticed them everywhere, game over for me. Time to move on.
Homebuyers cancel deals at the highest rate since start of the pandemic
Worth considering that OPEC members hold ~80% of known crude oil reserves.
> We are rapidly moving towards Feudalism.

I hate when people say that. This has literally nothing to do with the historic institution of feudalism. Its is the opposite of actually educating people on actual feudalism.

Its just using historical terms that people call not to be 'bad' so you don't actually have to explain the problem.

We are literally talking about people who can buy a BMW. Did BMW promise them heated seats when they sold it to you? Would you feel better if the service worker at the dealer would rip out 5mm of tubes to 'break' the heated seat? Would that make it Ok?

Also, this is the extreme, extreme minority of features from an extreme minority of cars, by the extreme of car manufactures. Calling this 'rapidly moving to Feudalism' is way overly dramatic.

> As the housing crysis deepens, average person will never own a home either.

High amount of home ownership is not the same as having a high quality of live. And its also not really accurate.

> So average person will be in the same position as a medieval serf, conpletely dependand on the whims of the lord,

The lord who sold the serf a BMW?

> probably living in debt starting from the student loan and dying in debt.

Many people manage to pay of their student loans and don't have to live in debt if they don't want to.

Many people want to take on debt in order to consume now rather then later, being in debt is not actually necessary bad.
I've been a mailbox.org customer for a few years and have found them to be very reliable and reasonable. The pricing is also great and they allow the use of one's own domain. My only criticism is their 2fa implementation.
We actually have a taxi app in Czechia (Liftago) that works as an auction. Drivers offer rates based on their distance, preference wrt. to the destination and can offer higher rates when they are confident in their cars or lower rates when they ride something older.

Yes, it is slightly more expensive than Uber, but the drivers have been vetted by the municipal government, proved their ability to speak the local language and know their way around the city and are insured to be able to pay you off if they crash.

Unlike Uber, they are - in fact - independent contractors. They are actually proud about their freedom.

Uber, OTOH, works here mostly by way of these shady folk who rent cars to disadvantaged immigrants who barely speak the language, collecting most of their earnings, forcing them to drive north of 12 hours per day before they return to Poland or Ukraine in 6 months.
> [...] this generation of old and frightful people finally resigns [...]

If you thought that replacing these people with the generation than invented "trigger warnings", and demands removal/cancelling of anything remotely uncomfortable would be the end of mass surveillance, then you're going to be disappointed. I think we will get much more instead.
>Documents and stuff are all in google docs/drive or something like that

There have been horror stories of people randomly loosing access to their Google account, probably because some automatic check decided that they violated some term of use. I see how convenient it is to work "in the cloud", but if those are important documents you should keep a local copy as well.
Waymo is already driving in SF. I'm sure there is going to be weather dependence and other factors but it seems like it's inevitable.
A wonderful, wonderful game. The cards are so simple. Gain 8 armor. Deal 5 damage each time you play at attack this turn. But, they synergize in amazing ways.

You realize, wait a minute, I could build my deck around drawing and playing as many cheap attacks as possible each turn. If I do that, then “Deal 5 damage each time you play at attack this turn” cuts them down even faster.

Finding these possibilities is so exciting. Highly recommend.
Some businesses are expensive, because they offer a very high coverage. In my country, traditional cab companies needed to offer their service pretty much 24/7 if needed, in order to operate. This, of course, meant that the expenses were thrown onto the customers.

When Uber and the likes came, this disrupted the industry. But the big difference here is that the Uber drivers obviously only

A) worked during peak hours and peak days.

B) only used it as a side hustle, which meant not staying up at 3AM waiting for customers. Sure, in large cities, there probably are some of those drivers, too - but they're not obligated to that.

Traditional cabs couldn't compete on price, and had to either start laying off drivers, or close shops all-together.

Then the gov. budget, and started opening up to more uber-friendly laws around the taxi industry. They are no-longer obligated to offer 24/7 service, nor do you need to work for a cab company.

In the end, I (living out in a rural place) end up paying the same rates as before, but with zero options should I need a cab 04-05 in the morning. Not really a problem until you need one, like catching a very early flight, getting stuck somewhere after a party, or whatnot.
This is exactly my problem with all of this. Microsoft makes a way to run Linux desktop programs on Windows, meaning that they DO care about the market share that _desktop_ Linux represents. At the same time, they make steps to make running actual desktop Linux OSes as inconvenient as possible, which incidentally makes WSL appear more and more convenient every time.

At this point, the simplest explanation is malice.
Recently I got an account on a developer tool (Checkly) because the company I joined uses it. I then got 5 different emails from them in a 48 hour period.

Like I'm sure many users sign up then drop out of your funnel but I'm part of an organization that's a paying customer. I'm already going to use your stuff. What possible business benefit could there be to you spamming me? If anything you're risking the inverse - it made me want to migrate away from the tool.
It does seem to rub people the wrong way. Of a 'wait I have the part but you want 20 bucks a month for me to use it?!' get out of here.

I watched one restaurant try something like this. It was a fairly high end restaurant. They came in and started charging for salads. They were so proud of 500-1000 extra per month they were making. What they did not notice was their clientele just decided to not be treated like that. The place went from 2 hour wait to get into, to the servers fighting to get tables, within a year, out of business 2 years later. They could have put the cost into the meal and no one would have batted an eye. Instead they came off as cheap and gouging.
Yes they do. See: bittorrent and webtorrent-based streaming services.

My friend uses private trackers and his download speeds are unbelievable. But even on public trackers the download speeds are quite good. It does not take that many seeders to serve even a giant video file like an HD film, because even if upload speeds are a fraction of download speeds, the total upload bandwidth will be multiplied by the number of seeders. In fact, even an adequately-seeded torrent is orders of magnitudes faster to download than a youtube video or HTTP file for example.

People like to keep backups of their favorite creator's works. On youtube, when a popular youtube video is taken down, it will usually be reuploaded by fans. From this, we can probably surmise that maybe 1/100000 viewers will archive a given video. That's basically enough to keep a video alive forever on bittorrent, even throughout times of peak viewership as downloaders will also seed the chunks that they have.
I don't know how anyone could not see this as a pretty clear sign of a toxic workplace. There must be a reason they named it that way and you can deduce a lot from that. Nothing that speaks well for the company.
We are progressing towards a ban on a sub set of reviews. We can for example require evidence that one actually purchased a product or service and we may group those reviews by price. If I remember correctly EU websites already require evidence the reviews are left by real people. I didn't see anything about disposing of bad reviews.

I do think the way we read reviews can be unproductive. Say there is a cockroach in your soup. An independent investigator wont necessarily discover how it got there. Would you still want to eat there? What if I hire 3 people to put a cockroach in their own soup 3? Wouldn't that produce a strong signal to avoid my competitor?
> Every app update was a risk of the app rearranging itself, or features appearing/disappearing.

This shit drives my parents insane. Me too, when I have to help them. I've had to spend tens of seconds looking at a major screen in the phone app, of all things, to figure out WTF I'm looking at so I could help them figure out what was up. Re-arranged every update (or new phone) for absolutely no reason, terrible affordances, poor use of their own design language. Ugh.

I'd get them on iOS but they need larger screens and the $400 small iPhones (what I have) are already more expensive than they think a phone "should" cost, so they keep buying $200 Android phones about once a year (hoping the next one will be better) and not being able to use them because the UI is garbage.
I’m not sure this addresses the core criticism of using your users as a testbed.
Wonderful! Good work.
As a European, to me US online banking and payments look like Stone Age technology.
How do Voronoi diagrams help you figure out the trajectory of a finger in a photo?
We make a product which sends data to some gov't system. If a user needs to send a correction, it should be done using the rules that were in place when the initial version was sent.

So all code lists, including country codes or EU membership, needs to have a validity date range per entry. Fun!
Even for a mature product where you might be doing A/B tests to explore hypotheses that you think will improve the product for the user, it is also worth considering doing mountain tests where you try to escape the local maxima.
I wonder if the oddity here is really the ISO alpha-2: Spain and Germany get abbreviations based on their native-language names, but not Greece.

But the standard 2-letter code for the Greek language is "el."

Obviously there are many other countries with abbreviations based on English and there's some decision-making related to avoiding conflicts, but it is a little odd. My first guess would be that the ISO country code logic went something like: prefer native names, if they use the Latin alphabet.
Explaining the Bluetooth LE Audio Spec
It's not a game. The founders could not have foreseen the types of weapons that we quite arbitrarily consider to be 'guns' as described in the constitution, therefore if anyone is playing games it is the people who call themselves 'originalists' when they pretend that it is that philosophy that informs their judicial opinions.
I think yours was a good question in a way (it may make sense in some contexts, and with undefined translation): it may be part of the "paperclip maximizer" idea of the strategies a non-commonsensical agent may adopt to achieve its goals.

In automated chip layout, for example, already one can be proposed odd NOP circuitry that reveals to be just relevant to timings - all tricks are possible.

"Sighs" could presumably be the reversal manouvers in decision trees walking.
Ah, Amazon. I appreciate your efforts at single handedly reviving the union movement!
Elvis was a hugely popular rock musician when there were still a lot of potential fans to convert to actual rock fans. Jon Stewart entered no such market for political talk shows. The format had long since saturated the market.
Modern Data Stack (OSS Version)
It’s worse than a zero sum game; unless the utility gained outweighs the value of all the energy spent on mining (which it clearly doesn’t) then it’s actually a negative sum game.
Platform.sh is another (employee here). We're a French PaaS and DevOps platform. So we provide hosting, but also every bit of operations needed to provision infrastructure and true staging environments for every pull request/branch with just a `git branch`. We work with Azure, GCP, AWS for 9+ regions across the globe, many of those in Europe. This has allowed us to also provide the backend for OVHCloud's WebPaaS (https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/web-paas/) behind-the-scenes.
I didn't see the author ever clarify that they were talking just about downsizing engineering. They talked about the total headcount (7,500) and criticized job postings that weren't for engineers. I'd go back and check, but the post has been taken down.
> They think this benefits them, because they can get a device (for example a printer) at cheaper prices at what would be possible

They think that, but that's wrong. It creates an industry with skewed incentives and less competition. The company can obviously sell the item at the lower cost and thus provide more competitive options to the marketplace, but they're trying to limit competition via software locks instead.
That should indeed be possible. And ideally it'd be illegal for the manufacturer to try to stop you.

I've thought about this a bit, and I feel like many of these sort of abuses could be mitigated rather elegantly with some sort of right-to-repair type legislation focused on providing consumers with the ability to modify their property as they see fit. Far less costly than trying to anticipate and ban every possible anti-feature manufacturers could build into their products.
I have 2Gbps symmetric fiber at home for $100/mo. There are a couple fiber vendors, cable Internet (although low upload speeds, but better than Comcast in the US), fixed wireless, and now Starlink. Internet, cell, telecommunications are all great after deregulation/privatization back in 2000; the problems are power and water (which are more government run, or monopolies selected by the government).
In todays world of algorithms optimising marketing, and constant updates on marketing channels, it is hard to say if an A/B test worked as quality of users is never consistent.

I currently work in a game publishing company, here are 2 anecdotes from it

1. We run an A/B for game performance but we keep changing the bids for our games, and thus get varied quality of users, A/B tests don't really help in such a case
2. Once by mistake we ran the same creative on FB for 2 different ads.. both ended up having totally different metrics
opensesame is clever, but it only works on fixed code schemes decoded with a shift register or equivalent. This vulnerability affects rolling code schemes.
Lots of people say privacy doesn't exist but for some reason they'll usually refuse to follow up by publishing a full dump of their email and instant messages.
I think of it as validating and improving imperfect user assumptions.
Hate to pile on (lol) but I have a xiaomi phone and it actually shows ads when I install a PWA. Everytime I install something (from play store or PWA) it has this "security check" screen on which it shows ads.

I'm not sure what's more ridiculous, running a security check after installing something from the play store, which has already been reviewed by google, or running one after installing a PWA, which doesn't have any security relevant permissions anyway.
Ask HN: Is there anything wrong with splurging on tech?
I was made to feel bad by my peers for spending money on my favorite gadgets now I’m introspecting if it was really a bad choice. What does the community think?
> 1 day (not 24 hours)

Just to spell it out, some days have 25 hours or 23 hours due to daylight savings, or 24 hours and 1 second because of leap seconds, etc.
Puter: An Alternative to Dropbox
I prefer to get my zinc supplement from cooking in galvanized containers.
There's also https://j2html.com/. I've been wanting to try it.
Fun fact: Buddhist monks, after having given up everything, still fought over "right view". Even during the lifetime of the Buddha. Even though there were many arahants around. The urge to be right, and the antagonism toward those that we perceive as wrong, runs very very deep.
I'm both a Software Engineer and an MBA, and I can assure you that you're wrong, and with a comedic, glib kind of 'Musk-ian' lack of self awareness that's weirdly common among technical types. I mean it's getting funny now, I was hoping that your comment was satire (!), alas, no.
Taxis in Spain are generally ok. Not always, but the offer an acceptable service, and services like Uber etc are not really competitive.
Haha, wow... where are you from?

Better tell the people in the Netherlands they can't ride bikes then!
What’s funny is how ethics around this get compartmentalized. I still refuse to use spotify because it’s only a viable model for the biggest artists (I buy digital albums mostly).

But then I don’t seem to stop myself from using Netflix.
Yeah, I booked a flight on WizzAir two days ago, and this felt like a low blow even from WizzAir.
Bad management can certainly ruin things without A/B testing.

It doesn't excuse A/B testing simply being a poor tool among all you have access to. Talking to users and stakeholders, for example, provides infinitely more input. (Edit: yeah in many cases measuring what users do, directly watching or via analytics, is also useful.)
Your comment is a bunch of straw-mans taken to the absurd.

Medallion systems aren't that common, and you have no idea when and where "workers rights people" have showed up to punish the local taxi industry.
I am using mailbox.org and they are very good at what they do. The company behind them do mailserver stuff for 20+ years.

BUT their UI is from the 90s which rules them out by the requirements. It‘s not a bummer for me as I never use the Web UI.
FWIW Blueprint is basically a scripting language, except instead of having you type something like "vector Foo = bar.GetPosition()" it has you create a "variable reference" block, a "variable assignment" block, a "GetPosition" block, a "reference to bar" block and then connect all of those blocks using "wires" alongside a wire that specifies execution flow.

But for all intents and purposes it is a scripting language - the blocks are even converted into an AST-like intermediate representation that is then either converted to a bytecode VM or is used to generate C++ (though the BP-to-C++ conversion generates very weird code since BP allows -conceptually- multiple things to run in parallel).

But the Blueprint "front end" can be replaced with another (text based) scripting language that generated the same IR and the rest would work the same. While i haven't seen UE3's source code so i can't be 100% certain, i'd bet that the IR and VM have their roots in UnrealScript - and chances are Verse is also targeting the same IR.
"Running experiments and A/B tests are popular" ... because you can give up on your own judgment and opinions and say "the data says"
> This seems like a good thing, right?

If your alternative is working to death I guess it is? Or was that a serious question?
the same thing with games and that you only own a license of a game and not the game itself.

Started with WoW and getting kicked for "using" exploits which are ultimately just faults in a product that I purchased - why should I as a customer know and care for what an exploit is and what not?
> Are you refering specifically to Lyudmila Denisova's rape accusations? They were pretty serious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_violence_in_the_2022_Ru... just pick anyone of them.

> Genocide has quite a high bar. Biden's opinion is currently that what Russia is doing doesnt meet it.

Genocide is certainly a high bar and the Russians are certainly doing their very best to meet it, its arguable if they are meeting it but per the definition of the UN they are easily meeting it.

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

Even without anything else Russia is already doing.

> Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Eugene Lazowski, doctor who saved thousands in WWII by creating a fake epidemic
Machine Learning University Expands with MLU Explains
Seems to be a new thing, see [1].
Would you expect the USD to devalue against the EURO in that decade? I don't think we see that.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-03/europe-in...
That's horrible. The Turkish "i" is a never ending source of locale nightmares. I really wish they would pick a new letter for one of the sounds and use the standard "i" for the other. Like maybe use a diaresis.
MS accounts are mandatory for all home editions of Windows, and likely soon to be for everything that's not an enterprise edition.
I recall when Booking.com rolled out the false urgency features. I was amazed at how utterly trashy and desperate they were.

The problem is it's not subtle at all; there's a handful of those features that, when combined, end up being overbearing and noisy: "3 people looked at this listing within the past 3 days! 12 rooms left at this rate!" I don't care. I'm looking to book business or vacation travel. If a spot fills up I'll just go somewhere else. It'll be fine either way.

I don't use them anymore for that reason. Old soul (me) is old. (I'm probably in a minority, judging by their advertisement budget.)
In a world where we are asked to refer to people by their chosen names and pronouns rather than what they were asigned in the past, why should we not refer to a country by its chosen name? Especially if it's going through the proper channels to promulgate its name change?
I miss GWT. Glad to see I'm not the only one. Then again I don't like web programming at all and I'd rather write a desktop UI, which explains it, I guess.

I miss the times when UI didn't necessarily mean web. I guess I'm obsolete.