skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that this sort of analysis sometimes misses, is the users who may well have multiple accounts (or influence over such), some on paid tiers and some on free. Then the "entitlement" can become a bit more of a grey area.

I have both free and (multiple) paid accounts with GitHub for example. If I complain about limitations in their free tier, I am still also a paying customer of GitHub at the same time which is important context.

That's not to say that the "entitlement bias" being talked about here for free services is appropriate, but it's just extra context to keep in mind.

By the same token, I use a lot of Cloudflare's free services, but I've also brought them a lot of business, have multiple accounts and external customers on paid tiers etc. So I am a revenue generating customer for them.

As a customer, I evaluate these companies' services on the sum total of my experience across my paid and unpaid accounts.

As a side note, this can also backfire when it comes to support. I feel that I get pretty bad support from Cloudflare at times, because they seem to treat me as one of their many freeloaders [0], when in fact I've had multiple Pro and Business plans with them and until recently have introduced new customers to them too (which they won't necessarily be able to track). When they respond to me, they don't really have a clear picture of my value to them as a customer, and I think it shows.

So when analysing how a company treats its "freeloader" users, its worth bearing in mind that a significant proportion of those users may also be revenue-generating for them, some in ways that won't be obvious.

[0] I use "freeloader" here as a purely descriptive term about the commercial relationship and not as a judgement.
Waaay off-topic, I was just struck by an ethymological speculation: Wonder if Eng "frolic" is related to Ger "fröhlich"?
> Developing capabilities & skills is what differentiates me from an animal.

I thought it's conscience and compassion. Animals can learn capabilities & skills, but they don't have the concept of good and evil.
That's a different argument to the one you were making. And frankly the "why isn't this cheaper, hasn't the company profited enough" argument is never a very compelling one. Amazon isn't a charity.
But if the linux kernel became paid you would quickly see free alternatives spring up everywhere. The paid contributors to the kernel are corporate developers who wants to put their corporate stuff into the kernel, or need to change something to fix it for their corporation, they don't do it for charity.
Light duty dump trucks are used for small scale loading and unloading jobs. Light duty dump trucks have a load capacity of up to 3 tons and are sometimes called compact or intermediate class dump trucks.
>I don't even see what the Kindle value prop is

The device itself seems pretty good (hardware). I don't own one, but I'm looking at the Kindle Paperwhite now and I can't find anything better for the same price. If you do, please let me know.

Yes, the lack of ePUB support sucks, but you can convert to Amazon's format pretty easily from what I've read.
America’s Longest Walks to the Airport Gate
You can pay the difference between the ad-supported and ads-free model to get rid of the ads at any point, yet.
It's not an either-or situation. In the UK we have a socialised health care system with a private health care system available to those that want it. I guess it's a question of how much you care about the plight of people at the bottom of society and how much you see it as a sort of civic duty to increase their access to high quality health care regardless of their life outcomes (low income).

I'm lucky that I don't rely on our national health service for everything but I still gladly pay towards it's running so others can use it. Of all the things the government taxes me for directly or indirectly payments towards the national health care service ranks very low on the list of annoyances.
yes, I would say it's probably possible now but not yet practical. It's really the forefront of AI research and only archivable with a team of top researchers and a lot of computing resources (you need to use a lot of self-play, so AI vs AI). But we still make a lot of progress every year, give it a few years and I would bet that it starts to get practical for game-developers to use machine learning.
I don't, when I get tired, I stop. Weeks or months later, I decide to have another go, and often find that that problem I was stuck on is actually easily solvable, so I get another burst of motivation for a while.
> I returned Crysis 3 a few years ago (because the Origin client wouldn't work correctly on my Linux machine)

EA market the game as being for Windows only, no?
From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sun:

sun noun
\ ˈsən \
1 a: often capitalized : the luminous celestial body around
which the earth and other planets revolve [...]
b: a celestial body like the sun : STAR

Or to quote Carl Sagan: "Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns."
That's not Kindle's only disadvantage. Kobo had distinct features I wanted that no Kindle offered at the time I last purchased.

Like a screen big enough to comfortably read PDFs. 10.3" on Kobo Elipsa vs 7" on Kindle. IMHO that makes the Kindle only really useful for fiction.

There's also Pocket support for reading offline web articles.

Overdrive support so I can borrow books from my local library for free.

Free Dropbox syncing without having to email everything when I buy a book from someone that isn't Amazon e.g PragProg, Packt, etc. (Dropbox does support email though if you do want that).

In theory I could also use the pen and take written notes on my Elipsa too but it's not a feature I was looking for.

The other stuff you mentioned, like Kindle having a large purchasable library, is also true for Kobo right from the homescreen.
They're also priced similarly if you match specs and available for same day delivery from Argos in the UK.

Finally, I know I could hack my last Kindle but Kobo make that really easy out of the box. Installing Koreader, Plato or anything else is simple even if it's not required for everyday use.

So for me it's the other way around. Amazon offers nothing I want that Kobo doesn't have.

Different people have different usecases but I don't think I'll go back to a Kindle now I've switched. Kobos are very easy to live with.
It's not a normal case but it's on the spectrum. Missing a flight because your on a list is still really annoying and sometimes it can be terrifying.
> So why wasn't it Tokyo or Osaka?

Presumably because of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_1... and ... can't find the corresponding wikipedia page, but Osaka, Nagoya and Kobe were fire-bombed shortly after. The fire-bombing of Kobe is probably what wad depicted in the animation movie Grave of the fireflies.

This is not talked about much, but led to more deaths than both Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined...
Stranger Things has been the main theme at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights in the past
There's some issues with it but I've played multiplayer Quake III Arena here: http://www.quakejs.com

There's also several other ports to js. Most of them run amazingly well for being in a browser. At the very least it's nostalgic trying them out.
that’s actually true and a lot of other commenters are saying it.

But the deeper issue is why they had to offer free tier in the first place. I highly doubt GitLab could’ve achieved nearly as much people even if they charged $1. And that’s a bad thing, because then their competitor (GitHub) would be even more dominant and be able to push more ads/other dark patterns without users leaving because they have nowhere to go.

The bottom line is that organizations which don’t just sell software but tangible resources (servers = storage and compute = tangible) need to make money. You shouldn’t blame them for charging. Yeah they shouldn’t be taking free tier stuff away, but GitLab may literally not be able to afford keeping it up. Linux is never going to not afford not becoming a subscription.
> people who would love to be dead weight just to float around in a company.

Jim Keller had an interesting perspective on how you should think if you are in managing position and need to fire people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TmuJSbms9c he and Peterson discuss it somewhere in the middle
Here's a good explanation and source: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-gdp-decoupling.
I use emotion.

It beats every kind of "system" and "rational" framework.

Think of the people you love. Think of how your project will help them
in some small way, even if that is just making you a happier,
wealthier person who can give more to them.

Think of the people you dislike, whose values you detest, who will
gain and triumph in some way by your failure.

Picture a fantasy vision of a better world, where your contribution,
however small, brings value to many.

If none of that stirs anything in you, and gives you a burst of energy
to redouble your efforts, then two unfortunate things may be the case:

You may be incapable of emotion. About 5% of us are, in which case
ignore all of the above and find a system. Stop looking for ways to
"motivate yourself" because "motive" is connected to "emotion" (same
root).

What you're doing may not be at all worthwhile. That isn't a reason to
give up. The road to a project that's genuinely fulfilling and is
"emotionally self-powered" passes through many mediocre and failed
"learning" projects along the way. Completing it many be all you need
to do to move on.
That is a stupid name. Why not just say somthing like slacking or coasting?
Nitrous Oxide from Nitrogen fertilizedrs applied to broadacre grains is another gas being watched and thought about:

> In broadacre cropping, fertiliser production and use accounted for 58 per cent of the Australian wheat crop's greenhouse gas footprint in the past five years, according to the Department of Agriculture.

> Of that, 31 per cent occurred on-farm, a large part of which came through the volatilisation of nitrogen fertiliser, where nitrous oxide is released into the atmosphere.

> Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas that is almost 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

There are mitigating strategies, in principle the most appealing would be legume crop rotation, however:

> "I guess naturally the go-to option is to grow more legumes in the rotation, because when we grow legumes we don't need to apply nitrogen to meet production," he said.

> "But it's not as simple as that, because there are greenhouse gas emissions such as nitrous oxide associated with the breakdown of legume stubbles."

so that needs quantification and further study.

Other approaches are discussed:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-11/grain-industry-push-t...
Looks like Debian is doing that work, but only in experimental for now...

https://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/libpod

Some context/discussion and an experimental ppa for Ubuntu:

https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/14302#issuecomme...
If there’s no deadline there’s no problem I think to stop working on it for a while. Do you have any other projects or things to work on? Then work on those instead for a bit. Then return to your big project whenever you feel inspired to work on it again, I don’t think that’ll take long.
Don't dishonestly use free users for marketing purposes and dump them when you don't need them anymore.
A few times when I was working with a new technology in a project, I've found it extremely useful to set it up in a completely clean project, learn everything and proceed from there. I have seen people who tried to read the docs and jump straight into implementing stuff in the existing code base struggle with the basics.
Domino’s Pizza Exits Italy
I like games like this, but they suddenly become a time sink and I'm short on time. So glad that there's a bunch of OS games being show on HN.
Ours have :(
You are not wrong, but I'll write my apps in Rails. JavaScript is a worse language (for me) and still doesn't have a Rails equivalent.
You also have RHEL 9 then.
Obligatory subreddit recommendation: /r/linkedinlunatics
Amazon gave me a Kindle Oasis (the prize for being a finalist in last year's 'Amazon Storytelling' contest). I would never have bought it myself since it costs €249 (!) but I have to say it's a fantastic device.

It's super-legible, has enormous memory, is water resistant, and has buttons for page-turning.

Other than Kindle books that arrive directly after buying, I send books to it via email through Calibre, which removes DRM in the process. Calibre also did the mobi conversion, and now this step is not even necessary anymore.
Creel has a great channel for that: https://youtube.com/c/WhatsACreel
Programmable large-scale simulation of bosonic transport in optical
Russia should generate bitcoin with that. And people say blockchain isn't a solution for everything.
That is fair. I don't use Red Hat anymore really and their marketing and naming around modules was just confusing at the time. They took a common component of package management called repositories and made it confusing.
That's very good and any ISO 270001 certified small-medium company would need that. But it would be better to have stand alone web interface and not only relay on Slack.
I had extreme social anxiety (would only go shopping minutes before closing time or the moment they opened to make sure I was the only person in the store) and had just enough money to buy a plane ticket and hotels for a week. I’m still generally solitary, but have no worries about being outside and around people and money is no concern either.

Pushing yourself far outside of your comfort zone can be a massive shock to your brain that forced you to adapt quickly. If you’re going somewhere with a job already lined up, savings aren’t really a problem. Outside of the US, most employers are eager to help you get your living situation set up.

Plus, as a foreigner, you’re somewhat exempt from social norms. People judge you less harshly for minor cultural things. Eventually you’ll adapt, and at that point people will generally accept you as one of them.

It’s easy to worry about the negatives, but for the most part, living in another country is generally a good experience for self-growth. There are undeniably hard times, but it’s easier to overcome them outside of your home country due to your brain switching to survival mode and having less time for trivial anxieties.
No, it's much closer IMHO.
Selling essentially feature complete software as a subscription makes that even harder to swallow.
I'd like to join the chorus of warnings. I've had this on my phone for about a week and I've already had dreams of arranging conveyor belts.
It was forked from Fedora 5 years ago and it has versions from 10+ years ago?
Purely accidental!
Kobo's are like a stone's throw in price from Kindles. Depending on features/market they can be cheaper and they don't even sell lockscreen ads. The only cheaper Kindle is the awful 800x600 screen one which should have been put to bed years ago. They also have a huge library open to non-US people with non-US credit cards. Kobos are considerably better at formatting text with far more options and are even easier to tweak. I literally could not find a font size I liked when I had a Kindle because the smallest was too small and every other one too big.

And Kindle STILL does not support ePub. All Amazon has done is started letting people email epubs to their Kindle and their backend will convert it to an Amazon format. This has conversion warts, means you lose cover support too. You still can't copy an ePub over USB.
IIRC the imperial palace in Tokyo was nuclear target #3 assuming Japan didnt surrender.
I think part of the answer could be that the global population is older and wealthier than it ever has been. This has certain effects on our collective psychology.
Here's your answer: because if we continue on our current trajectory, in a mere 30-50 years, we will be experiencing significant effects of societal collapse due to climate change that make the current societal effects of ecological collapse we're experiencing (breakdown of supply chains, erosion of institutions, loss of biodiversity, record high global temperatures, etc.) seem like "the good old days." I'm talking "kids born today will die in a world that resembles Mad Max" kind of effects. We don't have 500 years to do something about that. We have to do it now.
Amazing links. Thank you for posting.
Shout out to Twitter @StateOfLinkedIn also
celebrate the small wins, talk about it, pop a bottle about it
Great to hear that this would solve a problem for you! Do you have somebody else helping you with account creation/removal or are you still doing it on your own?

I agree that we need to put more work into our website and list all integrations there. But I guess most of the applications you use, we're covering already.
Thank you. Guess mods (like OSP/CPMA) don't work but still. Quake 3 on the web.

Forgive me for asking but judging from your nickname, you're likely from Bulgaria. If that's true, then it's amazing we don't know each other as the Quake community (now long dead) is rather tiny.

Edit: Well, it does not work in Firefox but I'll check out later in chromium. CPMA is the default I see. Truly amazing.

Edit 2: I am getting rock solid 120 fps on a Ryzen 5800H. On battery. This really made my day
A Beginner’s Guide to OpenTelemetry
Just wrote a "A beginner’s guide to OpenTelemetry". I hope you all find it useful.
Play it coop with them, it's great fun as a team with your kid if you have 2 computers.
I.e. just pipe it to a genset and just contribute to the local power grid.
I'd say a good definition for a "natural amount" is the average amount you get in a hunter-gatherer setting. That's what most of our evolution has prepared us for.

Not judging on the value of thaat diet though. "Natural" doesn't necessarily mean "good"
Can you explain what thermal forcing is in this context?
Phased array antennas do not put all of the power into a spot and then no power elsewhere. It's all about the ratios and the distribution.

This example is from the wikipedia article on directional antennas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional_antenna#/media/Fil...

This is the standard way of showing the performance of antennas - it shows the varying amount of power that is sent out from the antenna in different directions. Note that (a) it doesn't roll off immediately outside the target zone (usually the 3dB threshold as shown here) and (b) there is measurable power in completely off-axis directions. In fact the tighter you beam steer, the more lobes you get in weird places.

Both of these mean that you can't just parcel up physical space into perfect beam spots and just keep adding satellites. There are all sorts of things you can do to help as you go up, but it gets harder and harder.
People do it because documents that go through the e-mail thing sync across devices like Amazon purchased books.
Absolutely. I've found probably 20-30 great channels thanks to YouTube's recommendations successfully recommending me stuff I actually enjoy.
Backyard hens’ eggs contain 40 times more lead on average than shop eggs
> They want to see what you do with the link they gave you.

Except they didn't give it to me, my partner/sibling/parent/friend did, in a message sent through their app. We should expect that kind of interaction, to not be tracked; should expect, but obviously can't expect it today, these news are not surprising.

This is just one more aspect of their tracking that may be non-obvious, and that it's good to know about.
> to detect empathy of a workplace

A family business is usually a place, but you should expect that a kin selection will prevail when it comes to promotions.
Interesting angle - higher risk aversion as a driver.
To me, this actually highlights how we like to vilify individuals who are emblematic of a larger trend - to make ourselves feel better (while ignoring the disturbing or ridiculous 'norm').

I saw this post around when it came out; I thought it was ridiculous, but not even top-5 cringe on LI for the day. How many of the people slamming this guy are authors of 10s or 100s of histrionic self-laudatory posts that try to deliver some big lesson? It's all gross. Don't act like this guy is uniquely terrible!

It reminds me of how Americans love to point to the outrageous actions of other countries as a way to whitewash our own sordid past...but I digress!
> cyborg Hitler clones

In this particular case that isn't the concern. Hitler has a single excellent strategic insight at the start of the war (movement wins, "Blitzkrieg"), but one reason the Nazis lose is that his later strategies don't work. Hitler really wanted to do Sealion (German ground invasion of England) after it became apparent Britain under Churchill will not surrender, but it's just not practical and his general staff persuaded him not to smash his face against that particular wall.

Sealion would be like a Civ AI repeatedly moving a just barely sufficient army from the French coast towards England, each time losing some to the water because they don't have good enough boats yet and each time discovering they can't be reinforced because that's too much movement - so the defenders have an advantage, and the advances all fail. The opponent is bloodied, but loses no territory while the AI's best troops are destroyed for no gain.

A Hitler clone, but perhaps not in the way you meant.
I always wonder why the second nuclear bomb in particular isn't much more prevalent in the Zeitgeist as the atrocity that it was.

The first bomb is somewhat understandable, still you could argue that the US might have figured out a way to demonstrate its destructive power to the Japanese without killing over 100,000 mostly innocent people in an instant. Maybe at the trade-off of temporarily risking US soldier lifes and resources of the general public. Still, you can argue the other way and see it as a terrible conclusion to a terrible war.

But the second one? I've seen many docs and historians perspectives on why it was considered necessary, but I can't find the point of view from which it was anything but a total atrocity for which the people who made it happen should be remembered in shame forever. So much of Japan not immediately surrendering after the first bomb dropped was down to the fog of war, to simple and understandable slow speed in government decisionmaking, etc.

Even if you can't be sure that the first bomb would have been enough to have them surrender, just the chance of it should have been enough to pick a different strategy, at the chance of saving a couple of dozen thousand innocent lives.
I am sure the game works just fine, as Crysis 2 works without any issues but it does not require the launcher. So yeah... Their loss, not mine.
I assume any app can see everything I do if I use their in-app browser just like I assume every brick and mortar store can see everything I do inside their store.
>I do agree that SFSafariViewController should use the newer style of sheet that can be pulled down on to be be dismissed.

SFSafariViewController can be presented in the newer sheet modal style, it would seem Twitter specifically chose not to in this case.
Taking blender as example of a successful open source project, with a strong incentive for developers to create a great tool, you still have the problem that proprietary software is probably better, otherwise major 3d studios would use blender.
What I came here to say
I don't. I no longer have some grand vision because I no longer have faith in the future.

But I try to have fun while I'm still here. Not for profit, just for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

The war needed to end immediately.
>I'd prefer someone that can infer the algorithm without knowing it before hand than someone who just memorized a bunch of them.

Can someone do the latter without the former?
all of those numbers are less than starlink though?