skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most products that are fun to build are free software because some developers built it as a hobby. But all the products that aren't fun to build aren't free, and there is where all the well paid jobs are and those wont go away since nobody wants to work on that shit for free, this is just simple supply and demand.
> His point was that it's not the electricity consumption (e.g. PoW mining) itself that pollutes.

Yes, because demand doesn't drive supply...

https://eurasianet.org/kazakhstan-energy-operator-cuts-crypt...
The move to rural could be countered by spreading, modernizing and connecting smaller hubs. Companies don't want to spread, so people don't want to spread, so companies don't want to spread, repeat ad infinitum.
Trust me this is a straw man picking at a hole of a yet incomplete theory to claim the whole deck of cards is invalid.

AFAIK none of these alternatives offer a serious explanation of gravitational lensing for instance (yet, I'm happy for someone to make a theoretical breakthrough that explains away the need for an unknown new particle, but that just opens more questions around CP violation and so on)
Well, some say that proprietary code is limiting because it doesn't allow for modifications and yet it creates almost all the innovation.
Removing a cheap tier is not a nice, though I still think that if the premium price is too much then you're better off on the free tier. And if that's really not enough you really were lucky all these years profiting from gitlabs growth hack.

The premium tier still provides a ridiculous amount of value for it's price.

For truly open source projects, they have a really generous program giving seats that normally cost 100 dollars a month away for free.
How and why we removed jQuery from Gov.uk
This was too much for me - I had to uninstall it and literally hide it from my Steam library after clocking up 20 hours in the first week. And no, I'm not a youngster with time to burn lol.
> How much more will customers pay for a skin that works in multiple games

The bigger question is to whom will customers pay for a skin that works in multiple games.

If they'll pay to the first game where they bought that skin, then that's a strong incentive for most games to prevent this from working and avoid or disrupt the ecosystem, because they would rather have the player re-buy the same skin on their platform (i.e. "this thing will allow free transfer of skins from A to B" is a property that works against the proposal, not for it)

If they'll pay to every game, then the blockchain solution needs to solve that very difficult problem of revenue allocation between all the stakeholders, ensuring that every company involved feels certain that they'll be able to extract a revenue stream from the process, instead of being permissionless, full ownership of your items, etc.
Thank god I did a control+F "web" before asking if there's a version one can play in a browser. What a time to be alive. Time for someone to make a proper, no-plugin-required Quake multiplayer game. Quake Live could've been it but the tech wasn't ready.

if anyone at id Software is reading this: do it. DO IT
> And second the browser manufacturer (usually) doesn’t make any money by tracking their users.

Don't they? Google, Apple and Microsoft are all in the ads business.
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Chile Is Blowing the Electric-Car Revolution
> The problem is that there's nothing between $0/month and $19/month.

A problem with having a smaller account is that once people are paying anything they expect, rightly so, more support than the free account, and the company has to account for this. It might be more trouble than it is worth to take the money for smaller accounts. You or I might never touch that support, maybe the majority won't, but some very much will.

Our apps (in DayJob) service regulated financial industry companies (T&C and compliance side, not dealing with the money) and we have paying clients who are essentially paying costs because of how much time they drain (one of my regular tasks: proving that bad data has once again been sent in a nightly feed from a 3rd party system which is why we rejected the data). Free users are obviously costs too (they use resource) if you ignore the market-share and mind-share aspects, but it may be that low-cost users would be a worse prospect for the business.

Also offering multiple pricing plans can cause confusion for some users who already don't 100% know what they actually want.
I hope this article is satire.

Users are absolutely right to be upset at Gitlab, Docker, etc. who pull a bait-and-switch on the community. Users adopt the product because of the infra foundation is free, and then comes the rug pull when the product reaches market saturation.

This almost always happens right after a capital raise...
The whole derive arguments is a ease of access gimick, with a heavy payment later in the game.

This is why lua is in beginner sandboxes like robblox, which then will later turn into jaded developers, yearning for types.
I feel like more monetization is the opposite of what the internet needs.

This might just be "old man yelling at cloud" stuff, but to me the "best time" in the internet was when people were just using it to genuinely share their weird interests, before monetization came along and ruined it.

I'd rather not have monetization ruin more stuff. Why does everything always have to be commercialized?
Netflix: Star Wars is cool, but have you seen our new exclusives?

Chicago Librarians

Chicago Janitors

Chicago City Planers

I mean, I could go on...
Why do all the jobs on the first page start with "javascript"? Is the site suffering from a Scunthorpe problem? Because right now it's pretty useless.
You said a lot of things but you forgot that they could have just been paid from the beginning. Then they could pay their bills and everyone's expectations would be ok and there wouldn't be a problem.

You use free software every day. No matter how legit the argument is tomorrow your Linux became a subscription, I think you'd be a little miffed.
Norway here. Most suburbs had fiber installed around 2010. Cities were a bit slower due to the complexity and cost of running it underground. It's expensive and inconvenient to dig up city streets. But I think most city buildings have fiber installed these days. Rural parts of the country mostly relies on 4G/5G these days as the old cobber network is being phased out.

Even our cabins have fiber installed these days ...
> even for a solo game — one human player and any number of AIs — you need to run both the server and the client programs.

https://freeciv.fandom.com/wiki/Introduction_to_Freeciv
but they still didn't get breached
This. The problem is companies (ab)using a free tier in order to lure a huge amount of users into using their product and when they get enough of them, they change the free tier to be almost unusable, trying to force as many of free users as possible to convert to paying customers.

It's not that users are entitled to free products, but companies using dishonest marketing of a free tier for their own gain.

Free users may not be paying costumers, but they do invest their time into the product (that they probably wouldn't have otherwise), and more importantly, they spread the word about the product.

Imagine the amount of advertising money the company would have to spend in order to reach as many customers as they have with the help of free users.

If you can't afford to offer your free tier permanently, be upfront about it. As there are business models that can afford permanent free tier and users can't know which kind of free is your offer. Don't dishonestly use free users for marketing purposes and dump them when you don't need them anymore.
Immigration to Japan pre-covid was about as strict as going to the US from EU. All countries restrict severely to skilled workers only. US has the bonus of not requiring a barely spoken language globally to integrate.

The US definitely isn't the shining example of "import whatever" people like to make it out to be. It just has the money and social structure to attract skilled workers far more easily.
Yes, and it is a very nice experiment.

However, "dark matter" is an admittedly lose framework it could be due to 1 new type of particles, 10, or higher dimensional effects and new physics we don't understand yet.
Saying "therefore it doesn't exist" is ignoring the mountain of decades old solid data showing gaps in our knowledge exist.

And as for dark energy... "The universal expansion is accelerating". Well done you now know as much as 99% of the physicists in the world on this strange unexplained problem.
The ads are only in the launcher, but the addition of the launcher has caused major crashing and stability problems with the base game.
The various crypto meltdowns of the recent years show that crypto actually involves lots and lots of trust.

From the frontend doing what it really says, through intricacies of how the smart contracts work, manual control over wallets, and trusting the business logic.

Transaction security is kind of the last thing to worry about.
The kindle's value prop is that it has existed for a while and I'm pretty sure my 8y old model would still work if I hadn't left it on a plane. So I bought a used one from a friend and that's been working for many years. I see no reason to upgrade e-readers all the time.

I'm not telling you or anyone to buy a Kindle, but from a VERY quick look my Kindle cost half of what a Kobo costs (tolino seems to be available around the 70-80€ mark though and so far has worked fine although the default seems to be some nasty Adobe ebook management software). Maybe 150 or 200 is worth it to you if you use it all the time, but for me it was mostly 1-2 books a month, which weren't necessarily cheaper than on paper.
Why? Why should a company do that?
There is no "Elon's Twitter" unless you mean specifically his twitter profile or something like that.
> So why are we still talking about PoW then?

Outside of speculation and regulatory evasion, has there been a sufficient use-case for Bitcoin and other proof of work chains that justify the costs, inconvenience, and disruptive impacts that go along with it?
It's the ultimate triumph of shallow capitalism over all that makes us human.

We should do our best not to let it come to pass.
I really enjoyed how you could make so much energy late game that the meter just broke out of its UI box.
Trove of Discarded Cassette Tapes Brings Back a Lost Shanghai
5% performance increase is worthwhile though?
I have a PocketBook, and it feels more expensive than the Kindles I've had before.
Well, looks like I'm going back to old good Mantis and Jenkins on my own server. Good old times are back :)
This article makes a solid case that not only did the US not need to drop the bomb in order to precipitate Japan's capitulation, but that it did so knowing that it's not necessary:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-08-05/hiroshima-a...
I know that it is a polarising topic but it is possible to capture this methane and convert it into Bitcoin for a profit.[0]

[0] https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/turning-garbage-into-...
CoinFLEX Pauses Withdrawals and Files for Restructuring in Seychelles
since you seem knowledgeable..

I noticed when apps are installed on Chinese androids they generally magically work just fine. I remember reading that at install time the app detects if it's on a western or Chinese phone and it reconfigures itself accordingly (this was with Signal)

The issues appear when you install on a western phone and disable Google play services and the apps keep trying to access them

For instance on my mainland xiaomi Instagram works just fine, but on my Taiwanese xiaomi (with the global ROM) it won't do notifications and I don't know how to fix it

If there a way to have apps install in this Chinese mode?
If you have more than 5 users, the free tier is not an option.

We liked and paid for Gitlab, but the price hike from $4 to $19 per user is absurd. Forcing an annual subscription on us was the motivation we needed to migrate away.
Perhaps the reason was partially also to make the Japanese surrender to the US, and not have Soviets split Japan as well.
Austin has more current permitted housing construction than any major metro in the nation

I see residential construction of all kinds (high density, low density) all over the city including in the middle of downtown

Austin will never be a dirt-cheap city, but it is cheaper than the Bay Area and they are actually trying to build

Yes, the result will be some sprawl but Texas is big and families do not want to live in apartments
All the answers in the stackexchange.com are trying to justify it rather than provide actual/factual reasoning.

Having holes definitely weakens the material strength and will cause those holes to only grow bigger in size.

Just like it's often said that the most basic explanation is likely the correct one, I think it's nothing more than JPL trying to put their mark on the Rover/on the surface just because they can.
They're not inactive so there's no reason to move them.

I also have Github and Bitbucket accounts if necessary.
Interesting you mention hijacking, only yesterday Curve’s .com DNS was hijacked and users lost funds as a result[1]. This is also possible with ENS but ownership can be secured more easily, two ways this could be approached:

1. ENS ownership is held by a 5-of-7 multisig. Attacker would need to socially engineer 5 entities instead of just one, Namecheap. Users can also clearly see when ENS ownership changes as it’s broadcast to the network.

2. ENS is set to a 100 year expiry and ownership records are then set to the burn address. Now, short of faulty RPC or frontends, there is no way that the domain can point to a different address.

My previously linked example was that of Meta entering into a court battle with a domain name registrar, who has full control over these records and may decide to alter them to avoid paying the cost of defending themselves in court. See [2] which is loosely related to this discussion of centralized services exerting control over name aliases. In a hypothetical blockchain application where usernames are secured with ENS or another smart contract, there would be limited recourse for anybody except the owner of these aliases to be able to transfer ownership.

[1] https://coingape.com/crv-tanks-over-10-as-attackers-stole-57...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/technology/instagram-hand...
Don't worry it's a sane reaction to an insane world. It's
cultural. Prozac won't fix it. Universal basic income won't fix it.
Renouncing post-colonial guilt and solving climate-change probably
wouldn't fix it immediately. Hell, if extra-terrestrial life turned up
tomorrow in a giant flying saucer and said:

"Hey Earthmen, there's a huge party happening at the centre of the
galaxy, hop on in!"

We'd say:

"Sorry I'm busy with work".

We've collectively lost sight of what there is to love, the difference
between Eros Thanatos. We have been, and for some time will continue
to be, in a war by other means, presently expressed as in-fighting,
inter-personal hostility and anti-intellectualism. And in war one must
choose to live and love despite, not for the world as it is. Read the
Greeks and you'll see this kind of thing happened for hundreds of years
in a stretch and they were wise enough to know there's nothing you
can do but keep yer chin up and keep pushing on.

I think William James had the best handle on the Thanatos struggle
with the "Moral Equivalent of War", but most people dismiss this as
some sort of case for "National Service". It is a much deeper text.

"There is only one really serious philosophical problem, and that is
suicide." - Albert Camus

"To be, or not to be. That is the question" - William Shakespeare
(Hamlet)
I'm on my 3rd kindle now and have had all the previous ones for like 7+ years or something before I broke it or an issue arose. I bought a different e-reader between the first and second kindle I had and returned it because the similar kindle at the time was cheaper and way nicer quality (and everything I read is transferred through Calibre). I looked again when I was buying a new kindle last year and it seemed similar that there was no clear winner for what was better than the kindle or similar but cheaper and a reputable brand.

I'd love not buying Kindle if I knew what to get but every-time I look into it, seems like people suggesting similar products for marginally worse prices or its just personal preference of the person with no real justification.
> It's very likely that have spent less than 2 hours on it. Would Valve let me return the game? Don't want ads, and additional launchers in my steam games.

I'm not 100% certain, but I think you can only return it if it's during the first two weeks after purchase AND you've played under 2 hours.
Why?
There is Urakami cathedral. Render unto Caesar.
To avoid garnering a ton of bad press & ill will from users who now feel like you've deceived them, and that they've wasted their time on your service.
How does a blockchain enable you to avoid ownership, tracking, and governance?
... they still can use CentOS to test things now that it's upstream of RHEL. That's a weird complaint.

Shit, they could even use Fedora.
You hate what I love :) I love heavyness of my laptop, and the fact I have all resources I will need in predictable future. Bu as I said, many of my colleagues are ranting about this so it's not for everyone :)
> Delays in bank transfers is NOT a technical problem

Often they are, but they also already have practical and common solutions
Is there a reason that there is no de duplication? I wonder if Privac Notice and T&C prohibit to exchange data on a personal level (identifying level)? Does one know what is allowed or not if these are separate entities?
In my opinion, the best way to dispose of Old cloth is to either sell it to the second hand market or give it to someone else.
It's a waste to just throw away old clothes. Now second-hand goods trading is actually more popular than before, especially during the epidemic period, supply chain crisis, more and more people are willing to buy second-hand goods and clothes.

Based on a report from CouponBirds, sales in the used market are expected to reach $54 billion in 2022, up more than 50% from $35 billion in 2021. The US second-hand market is set to double to $82 billion by 2026, 16 times faster than the overall fashion retail market.

Selling to second-hand dealers and donating, this is the best way I can think of to dispose of old clothes.
> The good news is that what we have started to decouple our impact on the environment and economic growth.

I fail to see how this is true in any meaningful sense.
These are expensive server CPUs and don't really make sense in gaming machines.

Also, I find their naming scheme more and more confusing. Can someone explain it to me?
Yeah, see the guide here from the linked thread: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/how-to-bypass-the-stu...

I had crashes with the launcher, and bypassing it fixed it completely.
How do you get articles onto your Kindle?
Original poster here, I just wanted to say thank you!

Despite some snark - which I totally deserve, but I can't change the title anymore - I also received some very helpful advice, learned something new, and got introduced to people who plan to use this technology to help others. I can't think of any better outcome for me publishing my research.

Thanks :)
All the features you describe are the ones that major developers definitely do not want - not as in they don't care or don't understand, but they would want to ensure that they aren't possible for their content, that their content is not made available on any platforms with such features, and that any existing platforms which have their content will have legally binding promises that they won't.

Owners of major franchises definitely don't want their assets to be able to be used permissionlessly, that's effectively a taboo word - they have strong interests and will (demonstrated by investments, declined deals, legal action) to ensure that they keep effective control over how their assets will be used.

It's not about technical features enabling interoperability, it's about Disney saying that they will permit Vader skins that can be transferred to game B only if it is clear that this will increase total revenue i.e. if someone pays them a significant amount of money corresponding to what users might have spent on re-buying these skins if interoperability wasn't possible (and IMHO no one in the ecosystem would be willing to pay that) and under conditions that they will be able to control further interoperability to some future game C.

Sure, if users 'actually owned' these skins, that wouldn't be an issue - so that's why content owners would never ever permit users to actually own these skins, not at any reasonable price, since that would permanently harm their long-term potential of extracting more money from that IP. Licensing their usage for everything from toys to other company advertisements is their core business, and they are very much aware of the value of control. They'll license it for a limited time for a limited use under terms that they'll control, that's it.

And for the many platforms that thrive on user-generated content, asserting at least some control over that content (again, contrary to being permissionless and interoperable) is their key value proposition; being a privileged unavoidable intermediary is their whole business model which they would harm by adopting your proposals, so they won't.
Sadly, the answer has nothing to do with Japan and everything to do with the Soviet Union:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-08-05/hiroshima-a...
So then the free tier has you covered right? It's still there, with 5gb storage, unlimited private repos and everything.
On the other hand I am almost always annoyed at apps opening websites in SFSafariViewController, and would prefer to be able to completely disable it and have it always open in the real browser.
Agreed, problem is with everything SpaceX hard numbers are hard to come buy. So wireless will be cheaper, if satelites are cheaper than 5g and other groind based solutuons is hard to tell.
Global coal demand set to return to its all-time high in 2022
I wonder why Fedora doesn't provide an official WSL package on the Microsoft Store as other distros do. My guess is that they feel that the WSL kernel and init diverge too far from the Fedora kernel and systemd. Can anyone from the Fedora project comment on this?
Are you already upper management, or just have aspirations at this point?

Don’t forget to mention avocado toast. Those employees expecting more than $50k are just spoiled, aren’t they.
If you have a "stock" IBM PC, just the standard dual 360K floppy drives without a hard drive, it's actually possible to run this demo!

Use DOS 3.30 and FORMAT /S a blank floppy, copy APPEND.EXE to the floppy, and copy as many of the AREA5150 demo files as will fit. Then copy the remaining files to a second floppy. Put first floppy in A: and boot off it, put second floppy in B:, and then run APPEND B: followed by AREA5150. Behold, it works!

You absolutely do need the full 640K of RAM though, refuses to run with only 512K.
In europe there are companies like MOMOX that allow you to sell to and buy from used clothes.
You could also use the generated electricity for something more useful
I wouldn't kill, but probably pay for an app that builds that on top of HN.