skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blocking the Meta Within acquisition is a worrying precedent because the app in question has a miniscule user base. VR just isn't that popular. I'm guessing they probably have 100k paying users, at most.

How can ownership of a product with 100,000 users (globally!) in a country of 330 million people become an antitrust question? FTC leadership's theory seems to be that VR could eventually become a giant market, and if it does, Meta might one day have a position that raises antitrust concerns.

But all this is clearly many years, even decades away. By the same logic, they can block any forward-looking small acquisition by any large technology company. And that ought to be a problem for the HN crowd because getting acquired by big tech is one of the primary exits available to interesting startups.
To be clear, this is an incredibly non-specific (neither her nor the merger in question) criticism, so you are proposing that no merger should ever be blocked for any reason?
Ever travel out western USA? The Strip city or then a mall grew from shops on both sides of the street, followed by parallel streets and cross streets.
This Saudi concept is a parametric variation. They have free desert and oil $$ - they know when the oil is gone, they are gone, so they want a linear city. The historic bull's eye city has it's problems of scarce land at the center, so they want to linearise add cross streets, covered electric car roads, and do on.
With the right build it might work out well.
The parent is sharing his preference in response to the grandparent’s preference. Surely turnabout is fair play?
After Copilot, and their complete refusal to explain their stance towards software license compliance with CoPilot, I don't think sticking to GitHub is the right thing to do.

And GitHub can afford to offer all of these things for free because they are owned by Microsoft and they are playing the long game.
CoPilot is probably one of monetization steps coming.

I have been planing to switch to GitLab because of it, even though I don't have any important public projects currently.

This Blog post is very helpful.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-la...

I choose gitlab because IMO its the only full GitHub alternative, Gitea lacks advanced CI, while Gitlab has everything GH has and more.

Also if dont really agree that if you care about the platform being open source, that you should use SourceHut.

New user experience is horrible IMO, its lacks a lot of stuff GitHub has, and the UI isn't great.

IMO the best alternative is GitLab for a complete GH alternative, and Gitea for core stuff.
"Semantic highlighting" might be an interesting concept to study further. As in, annotated or (semi)automatic highlighting of "pay extra attention while reading" parts of code – tricky, nonobvious, mem/thread-safety critical sections, code that assumes invariants or is responsible for their maintenance, and so on.

Some existing examples are "warning squiggles" added by IDE integrated linters, as well as language-level syntactic markers for "here be dragons" parts like Rust’s `unsafe {}` that can be highlighted by standard syntax highlighters (as an aside, it occurs to me that for simplicity’s sake most syntax coloring is in fact merely lexical coloring, but I digress…)

It seems to me that many color schemes these days choose to render comments in grayed-out, low-contrast colors. I find this to defeat the purpose of comments and maintain the unfortunate notion that they are something nearly redundant. A properly written comment tells me something nonobvious and should be displayed prominently rather than faded into obscurity!
i remember listening to a German-language podcast with the arc42 authors and they did mention volere. I forgot about the mutual history, but I think there was some resonance.
>My new marketing copy is going to start with "Unlock multiplayer super powers" - "Whether building a collaborative applicication or competitive game, the Adama platform will connect your people to global state and logic using a low latency edge network"

Not that it matters, but, personally, I cannot understand anything in that sentence, nor most of what you have on your site.

Maybe, just maybe, you could provide a couple of real-life examples, if you cannot find a way to explain in a simpler manner what the platform does.

In your FAQ's :
>For a more detailed answer, there is an entire chapter outline what Adama is within the book. The book also has examples of some of these use-cases in action.

I cannot find "the book".
I'd rather look into innovative formwork construction and cast-in- place concrete (pr slap labels here: concrete-like, energy-efficient green, zero-emission, insulated).
You mean the phone app icon? The symbol that's in the middle of the Whatsapp logo? I think it'll be fine for a while. Probably for as long as physical emergency phones exist.
There is more to a cashless society than debit cards and tech. It can work because for a great many people it works already.

However, I don't see any cashless society working well with credit based systems, simply because of the credit score/debt history connection.
I consider it a personal victory that I was able to get the 'fresh out of school' psychologist to laugh when I told that joke at the hospital.
I always thought of Hyenas as more like "big dogs" - compare with these canids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_wild_dog

But in reality, Hyenas are neither cats nor dogs.
Its solar city all over again
To continue on Canada. Or if you have you credit card/bank account frozen from being targeted by the government for protesting.
Exactly right.

I hate modern "search". I understand nontechnical people probably like algorithm-based "enhanced" search fine, but if I search for something specific I want THAT THING ONLY.

"Modern" search made it really hard to ask very specific, strict questions.
I once attended a MS workshop at my school on Azure. The speaker kept saying “open x page in Edge”, until there was a page that didn’t render properly with Edge. He was very hesitant to say Chrome.
I think most of the criticism is fair and to be expected, especially as the design goals are very “opinionated” in a sense and on the other hand, everyone will have a subjective opinion on a colour palette themselves.

The original intent was really just to use it myself, but if at least a couple other people may benefit, I feel like putting in the effort to make it shareable is worth it.
Kagi has been pretty great in my experience
Is giving money to capitalists overall that much better?

Giving money to an international corpo which dodges paying taxes by parking their money in a tax-free country while selling overpriced products produced by third-world, low-wage workers(including children) seems wrong as well, yet most of us do it very frequently without thinking about it.

Signed, someone living and working in a capitalist society.
> Least expensive literally translate to more efficeny. To build cheaper things you need to spend less on electricity for manufacturing, less on transport (fuel), less on labor etc. Which means more efficeny.

You are just considering the production aspect of efficiency. Cheaper is not higher quality, cheaper goods have a higher rate of failure, higher rate of failure means increased consumption which pushes production up. More efficient and cheaper production with better quality definitely falls into your argument, anything else becomes highly variable if it will translate, ultimately, to better efficiency of resource usage overall.

> Sure. But this also assumes we are on the verge of collapsing because of sustainability issues. We don't know that. This also assumes somehow if we start pushing on sustainability now we are going to overcome that. We don't know that.

Why on the verge? I'm using the same time-scale as you did: eventually, which in mathematical terms would mean a function with its time component using a limit approaching infinity. Eventually automatically solving sustainability because "market forces" push towards efficiency doesn't mean that we should just accept that as a rule and that it's the best course of action given that we can actively model and predict if we should and could be more efficient and sustainable.

What's the argument against focusing on sustainability first? Hampering innovation and some warped sense of progress?
Is 1X revenue good?
I think baby steps: just do an IQ test with and without access to Google or Alexa, see where we are now with brain augmentation. There's a paper in that.
Like half the Chromebooks out there have ARM processors.
> getting acquired by big tech is one of the primary exits available to interesting startups.

Right, but the claim wasn't that it was bad for the capitalist class, and neither is protecting their personal interests the office's remit. Letting trusts happen is always good for someone, that's not a reason to allow them.
Amazon definitely cares about automated appliances (as demonstrated by their warehouse automation)
Yeah I went from a Roomba 960 (2018) to a Xiaomi Roborock S7 and in my research it was eye opening to see the level of tech difference between the two, even the modern Roomba is using a vision only model, and poorly based on reviews. For the same price, Roborock has Lidar scanning, AI obstacle avoidance and mopping. The thing is, it actually works in the Roborock, it can even spot cords and other misc items around my house and avoid them entirely.

Additionally since it maps using Lidar it completes a complete cleaning of my living room + kitchen area in 22 minutes, whole house in under 40 minutes. That is with it covering literally every square inch of carpet & tile instead of going around in random patterns...
100%. I take this opportunity to make people NOT forget 'Staingate' [1]. My colleague had horrible time getting his daughter's Macbook fixed by Apple, as officially they did not acknowledge that the problem exists for months (maybe close to year+).

[1] https://www.makeuseof.com/macbook-staingate-fixes/
Yes, but the parent comment also put all banks and hedge funds into a single category.

> If you think Uniswap is a scam, you haven't looked into it yet. Yes the tokens that get listed on it can be scams but that's up to to the buyer to assume the risk.

I never said anything about Uniswap personally, but using a company that can list scams as an example about how non-scammy crypto can be is a little strange to me.
And that statue block does? It's a cube.
I co-own third party repair shops (we are not Apple certified since we do more complex repairs) and the screens for the 6S-XS have 3D Touch on them even if they’re not replaced by Apple.

I will say this, in 50,000+ 3D Touch iPhone screen repairs (conservative estimate) I don’t recall any complaints about non-working 3D Touch. I think probably 0.1% of iPhone users even knew it existed.
Peter Hruschka, one of the authors of arc42, is a colleague of the Robertson family, who authored Volere. All are members of the AtlanticSystemsGuild
They did fill out the forms and that's how we know.

It's a question of culture and effective oversight.
You don't need a cashless society for any of that. Background checks and basic identification requirements can already impose oppressive regulation on everyone even if the products are paid for by cash.

Cash is just an IOU for the bank that can be devalued at any point in time. If you want to avoid government oppression, go back to bartering rare metals. "Yes but what if the government turns oppressive" isn't an avoidable scenario, cashless or not.
There are crackpots out there for sure.

There are also targeted people.

And even the paranoid have enemies. ;)
At work we use Gitlab. The feature to only allow fast-forward merges to master is awesome.

The result is a linear history, that is much easier to bisect.

It also encourages developers to make small commits, since they are easier to rebase.
> 'bigger version' by two orders of magnitude surface wise certainly seems innovative to me

Is it even one order of magnitude?
I understand your questioning, and I think it's fair to want to know that. But my whole point was that care should be taken when making comparisons, because the actual use of different people can have an effect on the metric of battery health.

I'd agree with your point that people keeping the phone plugged in all the time are a minority. But even so, I wonder if screen time is enough of a metric to gauge "similar use patterns".

For example, my phone absolutely drains the battery when using Google Maps, whereas browsing HN on a basic text-only app doesn't seem to make a dent.
I think I’ve unintentionally trained myself to hold the phone on it’s sides when pocketing it, for this reason, now that you mention it.

I don’t think I’ve ever had the flashlight accidentally left on (not in a long time, anyway).
Whereas not stopping climate change will also lower standards of living. Deadly so!
Can someone explain how they are actually implemented? How/where can I create a new DID?
It's relevant? I don't know if it's been "relevant" this decade.
The police will soon appreciate access to an interior diagram of your house and the number of people inside, along with the exterior Ring camera video feeds. For public safety of course.
Discipline is a multifaceted thing. The discipline required for success is not merely a "go put yourself in the chair and type it out", nor is making the task "fun" or "play" quite the same thing. Discipline is also for the mind itself. To be more successful, one must curate the thoughts that he/she has. If there is a thought that is particularly destructive it might be time to apply some CBT/meditation/therapy to figure out why that thought is there and how to make it stop. There is a difference between doing the things one must do and fighting oneself the entire time, and doing the things that one must do and not minding doing so. In one of these, you have imposed discipline, and in the other you have self-discipline.

I am still not as productive as many people I know, but if instead of comparing myself to others I compare to who I was vs who I am... I have made outrageous improvements.

EDIT: To me, the single most glorious thing about being a human is that I can choose to change my mind and then actually do so. It may be difficult, it may take time, but I can change my nature unlike the other creatures of this Earth who seem to be a bit more static.
All the signs are marked as public domain or with a CC license on wikipedia. So you definitely wont have to buy the standard.

If you are producing warning signs for selling you might want to buy it to get the true colour data etc.
Imho, the insight is that placebo work well for many people.
ISO is a "traditional" international standards body whose members are sovereign entities (well, national standards bodies on behalf of those sovereign entities). If they'd like to pay ISO to give this stuff away I'm sure that would be fine.

Conveniently your government (as one of those sovereign entities) also decides what the laws about "intellectual property" are where you live. If you live in a democracy of some sort, this is in some sense up to you.

But if you live somewhere with like, poverty and kids dying of preventable diseases and so on (which you do, that's basically all of the sovereign entities regardless of whether they've got democracy), I can already guess why they didn't fix those, and the reason to not make ISO standards freely available will be similar: That would cost money.
How the US Gave Away a Breakthrough Battery Technology to China
Hi.

Do you think SpiceDb is a good solution when massive distribution is not a requirement?

I need the flexibility to defined policies based on accessing object and accessed object criteria, but can be a centralized non globally replicated (in a single cluster) solution.
I bought my 12 Mini at launch and it's at 84% capacity. If I'm remembering correctly, it was at around 86% at the start of this year.

There were some battery drain issues in different versions of iOS 14 and I believe there was some unnecessary wear in there, as well as a couple 'recalibrations' of battery health in iOS. Maybe the phone was falsely reporting 100% at release and was corrected to a lower percentage.

I'd be curious to see if anyone with a fall 2020 still has over 90% battery health.
Possibly scripts automatically scraping from GitHub.
>> Yet I find what is described as the goal of this startup as absolutely dystopian and evil.

Why?
As someone who only occasionally has to use macOS and iOS for work. The gestures and key combos required to do even the most basic things are insane.. and there is (almost) zero discoverability or affordances for them. On iOS gestures with multiple fingers, on macOS keyboard shortcuts with 3 or 4 keys.

I also dont often use Linux, but I could try some new distro with a completely different windows manager I have never seen before and I can figure it out and be happily computing in no time.

apple stuff always requiring searching on the internet to find out how how to do even most basic functions.

Also, not relevant, but I gotta mention as it grinds my gears so bad.. The only reason I have to use macOS is that it's required to build to iOS, which is just uniquely egregious. That sort of business should actually be illegal. Hopefully it will be in EU soon.
I though OLED burn-in was still a real issue?

"How real is risk of OLED burn in?":
https://www.reddit.com/r/4kTV/comments/r0l7cj/how_real_is_ri...

"Being an Early Adopter SUCKS - Trying to Fix Burn-in on my LG CX":
https://youtu.be/hWrFEU_605g
This is cool but I think technically minded people vastly overestimate how many people would use it even if they knew about it. It's just another thing to remember. I have an iPhone 8 and the 3D Touch version of it is clever but it doesn't seem to activate all the time (I'm not sure if that is a bug or not).

Apple probably collects usage statistics and knows no one (by approximation) uses it so they scrap it. That's sad, but understandable as well.
"The snippets we display for search results (meaning the text you see describing web content) will be formed around where a quoted word or phrase occurs in a web document."

Keyword-in-context (KWIC) is useful and well-tested, with a history going back to early scriptural concordances. The context tells the searcher that the right sense of the phrase is talked about in case the quoted phrase is ambiguous.

Snippet extraction has a long history, the standard paper is Turpin et al. (2007), there are regularly new improvements:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=snip...
Which change in particular do you dislike?
I’m not sure if I’m already using the closest colour in terms of luminance or not, I’d have to check.

If not, I’m very open to pull requests on the theme, including fundamental reworks.
Otherwise there might be an argument whether one would want to make the closest de-emphasised colour less so, but that would require more fundamental changes to the palette (which I’m also open to for the background colours!). I think for this part I looked at what others were doing so I might have gotten it wrong from them.
Worth recalling that some major concerns have been expressed about this stuff. See discussion a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31939871
All the signs in the article are listed as "Public domain".

Edit: this is discussed on https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/8586/can-i...
Mohamed Arif Birya, Dilip J. Patel, M/S. N.R. Doshi and Co., Dubai, UAE
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First rule of housing discussions, everyone is for housing as long as it's the "right" kind of housing in the "right" location

Second rule of housing discussions, nobody agrees on what is the "right" housing and what is the "right" location
> "To the first problem you can use a classic mod 10 divide by 10 loop to convert into a string digit by digit."

But the "physical" size of the number as represented in memory can change across platforms, no?
Yep. Or if you're into the blockchain scene it could be argued that this centralised historical record is open to abuse and needs to be cryptographically verified and distributed in order for it to be in any way reliable? ;)
Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
Unless your kids are network engineers who can join wifi networks or get around firewalls, or hackers who can defeat parental controls, you should be able to control what they do on an iPad pretty easily, including making it an offline device. You can even lock them in to a single app if you really wanted to.
A strange product, If I felt I had to use a rpi as a router(To be honest there are many other platforms I would choose before the rpi for a router) I would get a vlan capable switch, a pi4 and do the old router on a stick setup instead.
I had similar experience. Passing a USB2 NIC to pfSense in VM. The performance was horrible.
French mayor demands €15,000 fee to climb Mont Blanc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354969
Feel free to make either an issue or even a pull request, I’m very much looking for feedback on the implementation!

Do you have the same issues with the Dark Contrast++ version?
Thanks. Yes, I understand about the punctuation now.

About 'napoloen', I often search for non-english words that differ only one letter from an English word (English is my fourth language). I wish there was a way to permanently disable "Did you mean?"-results.

A new one... I just got this, searching for: libmad +tutorial

Several results with "Missing: +tutorial"... Why are results included that do not contain the word 'tutorial'?
The real problem is that we have run out of infrastructure. The wealthy don't even have enough money to build it. So we fight over housing policy that involves areas with existing infrastructure.

Why doesn't Marc and his lovely wife just build a house far away from the plebs? They can't!
If it doesn't have a brain I'd be cool w/ it
> will probably be out offering integration with home plumbing to avoid any manual intervention for months at a time.

I can't even get a chicken waterer to work for months at a time, no way I'd let a robot access. Even so, is it so bad to let China take the lead, western design can go on vacay and rip off the results when they get back!
I've always wondered how iRobot hasn't been more successful. They have a cool name, brand recognition, first-mover advantage. It's been nearly 20 years since their IPO. I would have expected by now that robots would have taken over more household cleaning tasks, but it doesn't seem like the technology has improved much in the past two decades.

I gave up on my roomba because it would always get stuck in something before it could finish cleaning. I now use a Dyson stick vac.
Is Amazon in the position where they have so much cash on hand that the most promising short-term growth strategy is for them to aggressively buy new companies? It seems like this is a model of growth for over-expansion —- or world domination along the lines of tech-campus states in Oryx and Crake.

They have their fingers in so
many pies and realms of data that it seems like they are quickly becoming hegemonic data holders. They’re already expanding into healthcare, which chills me to my bone, beyond that they’ve basically covered every facet of the typical Westerner’s existence with no sign of stopping.

It’s high time for anti-trust laws on data, including the sharing and mass aggregation of data through and by intermediates.
Shrdlu agrees.
This is EXCELLENT, I've been looking for this the last +10 years

Thanks for sharing!
Who TF needs this? And how much is the repair?