skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Toys R Us is back? Toy brand will debut in every Macy's store by holidays
i've been betting against btc from the beginning, however i truely believe there's something interesting in this field, that may end up getting some real applications sometimes.

Now what's still unknown is whether the funds that invested heavily on crypto in 2020s will have enough leftovers once this crisis is over to be a player when the crypto 2.0 era is coming.
>the economics of mobile apps might shift so that there could be third party app stores that cater to users willing to pay for apps up front.

>supported either by that intrusive adtech or by in-app purchases that range from subscriptions to outright scams or loot boxes.

This is like some cruel joke. Developers constantly making the claim that the 30% is too onerous and some future system will have some pass savings onto consumers. Please point to any proof that the future would be this way. 3rd party stores exist on Android _today_, and I don't see any thing you talk about. In fact what I do see are developers, like Epic, pushing their stores so they can charge you whenever you want for vbucks. Like where is this software utopia on Android if it's so important? Instead, android shows that these changes are potentially more user hostile.

Developers pretend its about making things better for users when its about making more money for them.

>I doubt they will sit still while third party app stores collect user data.

My friend, they are sitting still _now_, when supposedly GDPR was to fix all this. They are rushing to "open up" the one platform that pretends to care about user privacy
This is good feedback, I code faster in swift so i decided to build the mvp there, also apartment hunters like me to tend to scroll through listings to see if there is something better out there.
Can confirm the depth and longevity of mailing lists compared to classic forums and HN/Reddit with sometimes week-long threads if not necessarily with daily or more frequent cadence which also works wonders for quality. Think open-ended discussions and responses without time pressure but with good quotes and references rather than "quick wins", memes, and barely hidden intents of manipulation which is also a thing on HN. Also, the option of PMing.

Mailing lists should be used more again, they've become somewhat out of fashion for no good reason.
I'm not sure, but a big part of the reason for having amateur radio licenses is for experimentation and learning. I have no idea what I'd actually do with those frequencies yet.
2) Most VCs (and founders) hate down rounds. So a lot of existing companies are stuck because they previously raised at $X valuation, and now the market price is $0.75X, and either the VC doesn't want to push for a down round or a founder won't accept it, or both.

They discussed this phenomenon at length on a recent Odd Lots podcast, and I can’t understand it as anything but a market inefficiency that some smart VC firm will eventually exploit. Values (and thus prices) go up and down. Putting your head in the sand about it can’t be a winning investment strategy.
Agreed that the ~1860 civil war is not a likely scenario. Here are some other possible scenarios from US history.

https://www.history.com/topics/early-us/shays-rebellion
https://www.history.com/topics/early-us/whiskey-rebellion

Were those civil wars? Or did they fall short? There's no simple, clear line. What we can almost certainly expect is terrorism, civil unrest, and moves toward legal autonomy short of actual secession. It will probably be a decade or so before we can tell whether those things (plus the reactions to them) are leading to an actual civil war.
disagree: I've known lots of workers who are actually quite content.

Obviously, everybody wants more money/benefits/etc, respect, pleasant work conditions, etc. But the workers I know have ABSOLUTELY NO INTEREST in jobs like research scientist, politician, stockbroker, lawyer, doctor, programmer, etc because they involve all sorts of skills & tasks they fear, despise or seem wildly unobtainable. Many people are introverted and fear meeting strangers and public speaking. Many people are enjoy the physical world and "it makes my head hurt" to spend hours thinking about abstract stuff, which a lot of these "desk jobs" involve.

I highly recommend the book: How to Tell When You're Tired

source: 30 years working all sorts of jobs, from warehouse and retail jobs to executive and board roles.
Unfortunately' another reason for violent resistance is "I believe Clinton killed babies behind Abby with help of lizard people". Or "I believe Trump should be president regardless of election results and don't think democrats can legally win elections ever".
It really depends on what those charts are based on, what they measure, how they scope dependency etc. but considering the scale of population and reliance on industrial processes there is practically no modern way of living that is reasonably locally sourced indefinitely.

There are things that can be done with no dependency, but they themselves are not as useful without dependants. Take cobalt mining for example; it's not something you need anyone else for, but once you got all that cobalt, who's going to process it? Who is going to buy it?

Same goes for more fundamental things like wheat and corn, either you do it at a small scale where you can't really live off of the returns, or you do it at a large scale but now you need dependants to buy it off of you.

(in the concepts I wrote I assumed independence from an isolationists perspective which isn't realistic but somehow does seem to coincide with the not-very-well-thought-through independence wishers)
There is no "if this comes through". The law was adopted, all that's left is a formal step (getting the law signed) and then a standard waiting period (six months to allow companies to adapt).
But the problem isn't the product. That is the mistake that people make when they say it is nothing like 2000.

The problem is: way too many staff, not enough revenue, no route to profit. It doesn't matter if you have a "best-in-class" tool...where is the money coming from, how are you making payroll next month with no VCs.

The main problem with tech companies isn't the products, the products are fine. The issue is that they have taken a profitable product and built an economic model around that product that incinerates money.
There's a big difference between forums where a few hundred to maybe 1000 people will see your content and social media platforms that "bubble up" popular content so that millions of people see it: Only loud mouths get the microphone in social media and calm "normal people" get the microphone in smaller forums.

Also forums are perfect for simple things like "Which nails do you recommend for siding: x or y?" You can't really get that answered in Twitter. I mean I get that people ask the same thing or one of the Stack Exchange sites - but there's no sense of "community" so instead of trusting Awesome Bob who's a veteran builder of 15 years your simply trusting the answer with the most upvotes. I mean I get it - that's the platform that gets us away from trusting AwesomeBob forever.

But that also takes away that "cohesive" single source of truth that we're looking for in the big picture (building a home for this example) where AwesomeBob recommends a series of things that works together.

In the stack exchange model you're just getting the top recommended things for each category but it's also wrong for different areas. Like the kind of siding we'd use in California may not be appropriate in other areas of the country (OK bad example - everyone should use James Hardie or LP Smart Side).
China’s SMIC Is Shipping 7nm Foundry ASICs
>Playground

> Sorry, we don't support smaller screens right now. Please use this on a larger screen.

Maybe I'll check it on my computer tomorrow. More likely I'll forget about it. How about a demo video for those small screens?
The Flip of a Switch Saved the Apollo 12 Mission
For engineering/product etc. that's the case. Doesn't matter if you move from San Francisco to Thailand or some other low cost of living area, your pay remains the same.
Try some movies by Andrzej Wajda, he's one of the most accessible directors (while still being great), so it might work well in the post-work time slot. For example "Man of Marble" (https://35mm.online/vod/fabula/czlowiek-z-marmuru). It's about creating myths of superhuman workers in the Stalinist times to get people to work more/harder.
If it's anything like the Macy's near me, this will be just in time for the store's permanent closing.
> The police and the military all have a noticeable conservative bend at least at the lower levels.

I think this is the gist of of it, i.e. what the leaders of the forces holding the monopoly on violence really believe, no matter if the lower levels are right-leaning (and I agree with you on that). If the majority of those leaders (both at the federal and at the state level) are pretty much on the same page I don't see any chance of an actual civil war, no matter the actual political hatred between the civilian factions.

But, and it's a very, very big but, it those US military and police leaders were to get divided, like really divided, the same as it happened in Spain in 1936 with Franco, then all options are on the table. Again, I don't think there's any remote "chance" for that happening, but imo that's the only way a civil war can start (in the US and in most other places). If it matters I'm not a US citizen, but I am interested in US politics.
It's at the center of the dispute over the credibility of the last election. While mail in voting has existed before, never at scale where potential fraud would decide elections. te.
Even with the Urban/rural split, are rural people going to come into Urban areas to fight?
As I've noted here a few times:

Over 10 years ago (2008 iirc), I conducted an experiment. I watched an hour of CNN every night but it was never that night's coverage. It was from exactly two weeks ago.

It was amazing how much "breaking news!" was irrelevant or just outright wrong, how many large trend predictions were wrong, and how many "[person] will do X" were wrong. While the predictions could have been portrayed as opinions, they were presented as facts and the obvious next steps or only possible conclusions.

I realized pretty quickly that avoiding CNN kept out the blatantly wrong information so even if I didn't replace it with anything, I was net ahead. (Odds are you could do this with other channels as well, CNN is what I watched at the time.)

Years later, I discovered this article and realized that some portion of it was probably on purpose:

https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-internet-flips-elections-and-...
You mean bikes? India is usually too hot to cycle.

Here’s another statistic which amazed me when I first heard - apparently 70% of working age Mumbaikars (Mumbai-ites?) walk to work.

That could be another reason why there are so many people on the road all the time.
The user experience is also terrible. In all the Bluetooth enabled cars I saw, the audio starts playing the moment the phone connects to the car. There isn’t anyway to disable it. This is a problem for atleast 5-7yrs now. Even Tesla and apple couldn’t fix it
Worth noting that this is the filibuster rule and it can be changed/eliminated with a 50% vote. We're only deadlocked by choice.
Monkey patching was the greatest thing ever. Until the community realized how bad it was. Don’t see it much these days
The real question is, why was "confidence in the media" ever so high? They have always been propagandists, since "the media" was whatever pamphlets and papers the local printer ran off. The rise of mass media with "wire services" and radio changed things only in that they began to advertise integrity as a value (without necessarily demonstrating it, there was some crossover betwixt them and the first radio preachers in developing techniques).

The billion voices of the internet may not make Truth apparent, but they make the shape of bullshit all too familiar for us to swallow it whole and unknowing.
> All while having a $10k-20k lower MSRP

Civic Type-R is a 40k car, just like the model 3 and it probably has high markups above the MSRP on average.
I had a hard time taking this quiz because it feels like many of the points would be widely agreed with in the abstract, but I've often heard them suffixed with a "but ..." for the opposite intent. (eg "It is important that men are protected from false accusations pertaining to sexual assault, but ..." or "Many Muslims are good Americans, but ...").

So sure, partisans do need to realize that the "other side" really does share their core values. But from what I've seen cognitive dissonance is the primary force we're dealing with - the holding of conflicting thoughts with turning off of empathy for the "other side" that is taken as being in the wrong.

This groupthink dynamic even goes deep into what should be a relatively non-political topics. Many times I have ended up talking to Republicans about digital surveillance and big tech control, which they seem to be concerned about. But as soon as we get past their talking points, it's like they cannot process what I am saying. Simple and possibly actionable things like the fact that GPS satellites don't track your phone, but rather it's the software on your phone acting against your interests that does the majority of location surveillance [0]. The idea that these are systems we can understand and act on outside of the political sphere just doesn't compute. It's like the original concern was only thrown out to build consensus about how they're under attack by the outgroup.

[0] carriers sell surveillance data as well

(Funny enough I just finished the quiz and got -10%/-10%, so I actually gave the parties more credit than they deserved.)
The survey didn't ask whether people wanted a civil war, or would participate in one. It asked whether they expected it to happen. Whether the respondents themselves were fit/capable is kind of irrelevant.
Oh, the manatee: A natural particle accelerator quadrillions of km long
You must not be American otherwise you'd know the answer to the (rhetorical?) questions. The American Civil War showed us the atrocities each side was willing to commit. It was warfare at a level the rest of the world wouldn't experience for decades to come.

And unlike the first Civil War, the United States didn't have the means to destroy the rest of the world should their weapons fall into the wrong hands. The world has an interest to concern itself and intercede. When you say the end of the empire is going to be bad, that's not the half of it - it's almost unthinkably bad.
There are 120% the number of guns in the US as there are people. Only a great fool would believe they are all in the hands of a group that can't even muster up a popular vote win in a presidential election.
I bet you would have said the same thing when Microsoft killed browser competition decades ago using its Windows dominance. Fortunately, the govt acted against Microsoft.

If Microsoft continued its monopolistic practices, it's very likely that the iPhone that you like so much now won't be existing today.
came here to say that. Always use forums for repair advice.
So then what do you do with software that doesn't meet this standard? Software that works, that meets a need you have, but that is a fixed artifact, or at least will be in the foreseeable future. Do you refuse to use said software, and instead choose a less useful alternative that is actively developed?
This is not a "stance", Microsoft owns plenty of game studios which are more than happy to include in-app purchases for every skin, emoji, and loot box they can.

They are preventing this for the reason others have already mentioned: they don't get a piece of the action.
They don't want to secede so much as to be able to decide for themselves how to the 1/95th of the government money that their headcount happen to mean.

(I have no data, but as suspect it's actually only a small minority of local politicians clinging to keeping a large part of a the small part of the pie.)

I suppose the metro government has something to keep in here too (national waters in Mediterranean see, maybe ? Links to the drug cartels ? No idea.)

But I suspect the French government that will announce true indépendance for Corsica would be met by forks and pitches _from_ the Islanders.)
It can follow the fluctuations during the day. That's what is done in France. It is not efficient at all since a NPP cost mostly the same regardless of its power generation, and is technically a bit more complex, but perfectly doable.
> Road wear grows at the 4th power of vehicular weight, assuming similar tire pressures.

That's fascinating, is there an equation for road wear in relation to vehicle weight and other factors?

--- EDIT ---

Ten seconds after I posted this, I see somebody else also asked this question and there is this link.

https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-...

The fourth power rule, I guess it was empirically measured.
I agree social media is mostly the problem but I think the issue is that social media (and more generally a globally connected digital world) creates a _much_ tighter feedback loop. So you can see that politicians or anyone else with an agenda is able to test messaging and see how it succeeds/fails then iterate at a much faster pace. I don't think its a coincidence that we saw so many similarities in how certain world leaders mimicked Trumps approach of declaring Fake News etc.

You see the same thing in a lot of app development frameworks / languages being more homogeneous in features these days after github and open source has really taken hold. Its much quicker to see something working in another ecosystem and then adopt it into your own.
Why would you pay two people doing the same job vastly different salaries because one lives in A and the other lives in B? That's the better question to be answered. I am not bottle of coke, and neither are my colleagues, we're humans, so your analogy makes zero sense.
There is no legal requirement for a 60% supermajority to pass anything in the Senate; it’s just a Senate rule. The filibuster has been modified before, and could be modified at any point in the future. I personally am a fan of leaving it, but you HAVE TO TALK. If you stop talking, you yield. If you want to grind up the gears of Congress, you have to actually do something.
Sometimes these things come from the bottom up. In some countries, a small number of violent people set the spark and the flames start. The elite do have far more power than the rest of us, but sometimes they're also caught up in a wave they can't control. Just like the rest of us.

The elites of the South wanted to keep their slaves and their wealth. Many of them ended up having their plantations burned down or seized. Their wealth diminished or vanished. Their cities occupied. They lost control of the situation fairly quickly.

And it's not like the wealthy are unified exactly. Some, maybe most, would like to avoid future conflict. While others give money to the groups that seem hellbent on creating a conflict of some sort.

You're correct. No one's going to immediately start the civil war based on abortion. But, to me, it feels like dry tinder being set. Just needs a spark.

I'm not saying it's a certainty by any means. We have a decent chance of muddling through the current crises. But it does feel like the stage is being set.
None of these are a "large fraction" of people.

edit: for an example, the entire US military is around 0.45% of the population. Only a small fraction of that is not purely support. Around 0.2% of the population are police. The vast majority never kill anyone.
That is correct. And of course you don't just need to prepare for your own moves, but also consider your opponent's moves. So "just" 6 moves = 30^12 = about 500 quadrillion possibilities.

Though, like you said, the vast majority of those moves will be somewhat nonsensical though.
Thanks, I enjoyed every one of the 115 pages of it.
The landlords in NYC don’t like to do anything so they hire property managers, and those are approached by brokers/agents that work for “free” and bring leads to them. In reality whoever brings a solid lead to the property manager wins. I have rented all my apts without paying broker fees by finding who’s the property manager, called them directly, and sign a contract at their offices. Of course I have good credit/finances. I just automated that manual process in software
Take off your tinfoil hat, Science is one of the most respected academic journals in the world, and it is a US-based publication (its twin is the British journal Nature, together they form the pinnacle of academic achievement). This specific article is about a preprint, not a Science publication yet, but do be aware that the organization behind that website has a lot of reputation to lose if they were to engage in the weird sort of propaganda that you are alleging.
Yeah, I've been hearing about the "cold civil war" since Obama's administration, it seems to have been part of the right's attempt to stoke fear among white voters about his "radical Marxist agenda" or some such, making it seem as if there was widespread populist anger against him that could flare up into a wave of violence if he weren't stopped. I'm convinced Trumpism and its accelerationist messaging is, among other things, a reaction to the Tea Party not getting the noose party they were promised.
> It isn't a language problem, it is a developer practices problem. Developers code like security isn't a thing then are confused when their programs aren't secure.

I'd prefer that the "fix" for this isn't "require that millions of developers around the world all change their behavior, and never screw up in the future".

Languages can still protect against these sorts of bugs. Effect systems can describe as a part of the type system or function signature what kinds of things a function can do. For example, you could have a logging function where you know that the only side-effect is that it can write to stdout or stderr, or a file. Running arbitrary commands would not be allowed, and would cause the program to fail to compile.

As a real-world example, I've used the Slick SQL library in Scala, and the query type has a type parameter for whether the query is an read or a write. It's easy to build a simple abstraction on top of your data layer to never allow a write to go through, for example, if that's something that's useful to prevent bugs. I think one thing I did with that was set things up so callers could not accidentally write to MySQL replicas; only reads could go to them, and writes had to go to the primaries.

Granted, it takes discipline to build and use such a system, especially one that has such fine-grained effects. (I would expect most are more like a binary "does not do I/O" or "does I/O".)
Yeah no. The political and especially terrorist acts are not two side issues, they in fact flow from right much more. It is just that right always gets benefit of doubt.

But also, overturn of RoW is long term work of evangelicals.
You can make that argument about anything, though.

You need roads to have a civilization, otherwise you have no way to transport the goods you consume, or get to the hospital quickly, etc. What you're arguing is that you don't like the current implementation.

I don't like the current implementation of medicare / medicaid / social security. It definitely is suboptimal for people's (mental) health, including those in my family. It still comes out of my paycheck. It's also an order of magnitude more than whatever gas taxes and tolls I pay.

That's just the nature of living in a democracy. If everyone paid for exactly the services they used, taxes wouldn't exist.

I just find it curious that people on HN rally against the cost of roads, when they absolutely benefit from the roads being there. Military, SS, or Medicare are services that the average citizen doesn't use at all, and cost much much much more than roads.