skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Virtual restaurants don't have the reputation to burn like a brick-and-mortar with a well-known brand does. Normally if a restaurant presents itself as primarily selling one menu item (common examples: pizza, wings, milkshakes) you expect them do do it really well. But with virtual restaurants there's no need to build up a good reputation by serving quality food since your strategy is to drown out competitors by putting up dozens of fake brands, each with a supposed "specialty". If one of your identities is tarnished it is trivial to spin up a new one.

I remember the first time I got caught by this, I excitedly ordered from a "Korean fried chicken" place on Uber eats, and when the food arrived it was heat-from-frozen chicken tenders drowned in unappetizing sauce. I felt scammed, and the food was so bad, I didn't even manage to finish what I had ordered. Later I looked up the restaurant and discovered it shared an address with an unremarkable local burger chain. I had a similar experience with another virtual restaurant and at this point I always check if it's a VR before ordering delivery from an app and treat it as a strong negative signal to the quality of food.

This is obviously a lot different from your hotel example because the hotel restaurant's reputation is inextricable from the hotel itself; not only do patrons always know where their room service is coming from, bad food/service reflects poorly on the hotel as well. The hotel has a lot more to lose than the virtual restaurant.
Ha, my experience was quite similar. I was a Unix nerd and a big fan of Gopher, and when the WWW came along I had much the same reaction as TFA. I remember lying on the floor of my apartment with my laptop - I think - and scrolling through lynx while I endured a bout of chickenpox, many years ago.

We eventually downloaded and built Mosaic for X-windows, and I still remember the look on my boss' face when we scrolled down in an article about Shoemaker–Levy and there was a photo of it hitting Jupiter. He nearly fell off his chair.

So, I suppose that means I've been on the Internet for at least 28 years... ugh.
Not one of Australia's finer moments. Like, we get benefit from the relationship but we're also an ICBM target and it's got "no US citizen associated with pine gap is arrested, ever" qualities.

"All the way with LBJ" indeed.

The Japanese on Okinawa and Diego Garcia with UK are more extreme extraterritorial deals, bit this one is pretty bad.

Jindalee over-the-horizon is good!
The times, they are a-changin'

Not long ago, every other comment about a case like this would say "well, Google is a private corporation, they can do as they please".

Now, those comments have disappeared and most comments call for more regulation.

The same thing happened with advertising. In the 2010s many people here advocated in favor of advertising, and often said ad-blockers were bad, useless, or criminal. And then the dominant view became that the Internet is absolutely unusable without a proper adblocker.

Not sure if any positive change will come out of this (advertising certainly didn't go away) but it's fascinating to see.
As a father of a young child, Spotify's algo's are completely useless to me. If their ML is so smart it should be able to determine that Row row row your boat doesn't mix well with Anthrax. Wish I'd be able to toggle 'don't recommend kids music' somewhere.
As much as SQL could be better, it's a very strong local optimum. There is no credible replacement whatsoever for what it does.

It's true people try to replace it, but most solutions are of rather questionable quality. I personally argue against ORMs in pretty much any situation.

> SQL is basically a DSL for data processing

Yeah and what's wrong with that? SQL databases power everything, including data sources with billions of records that serve millions of customers, with hundreds of developers/DBAs working on them. Does that not count as programming in the large?
> publishing code that can be used to do something is very different from running it and allowing people to use it

that difference is non-existent when code is published as a smart contract
It’s not, though. Consumers don’t buy ads. Apple wouldn’t have a monopoly, or be harming consumers.

Otherwise Facebook using its social media site to take over ads from Google would be
anti competitive. Or Google taking over with AdSense by using its search engine. Or TV/cable stations taking over from newspapers or radio.

None of this is anti-competitive. They’re different markets that change as the underlying communication medium changes.

And it’s not like ads are somehow killed by Apple. It’s the surveillance based customized ads that have been made less common as customers can deny their use (or approve them!). Ads existed for a century without that level of surveillance.
Delta chat: A messaging app that works over email
You're right to be scornful. They should have included NFTs!
There's lots of startup and "just kicking ideas around" energy all over the city. I hang out a lot at the Atlas Cafe in the Mission, whose owner organizes all kinds of events, talks, presentations, and small hackathons. But there's also lots of energy in meetups for specifically people looking for cofounders, pitching practice, maker spaces, etc.
Nice! Finally a web scraping library for the programming language most websites use. It was about time lol
I think companies that have sufficiently significant market capture should be laden with a "universal service obligation" as an antitrust-type measure. They shouldn't be able to refuse service unless they can prove the customer is doing something illegal. If they do refuse service, the customer should have grounds to sue them to restore service.

This might go against some people's idea of a free market. I think it should only apply where there isn't a free market - when a customer doesn't have many other options, such as in the case of Google or Apple, or Visa/Mastercard, a major supermarket, or the choice of cellphone provider or Internet provider in markets where there are only a few options. It wouldn't apply to small independent traders by definition.

Capture enough of the market where there isn't enough competition and you get obligations to treat them fairly.
LinkedIn is one of the most protected websites out there so you always risk getting the account banned. But at small scale, it should be fine. Crawlee has support for Playwright + Firefox with statistically generated fingerprints (you can also pass your own fingerprint) which looks pretty human-like. Put some random sleeps in between actions so it looks like you are actually using your mouse.

To send emails, you can use any 3rd party tools, check out Apify as Crawlee is well integrated there and they have email sender easy to use.
“Drone” is a perfect name for these wee, buzzy, soulless, robotic horrors…

Thanks to its big eyes, a drone spots a queen in the melee. It zeroes in and grabs her. Mating is completed in less than 5 seconds, during which the drone’s endophallus is turned inside out into the queen and inflated by haemolymph under high pressure. As haemolymph rushes into his endophallus, the drone loses control of his body and falls back, unable to move. Ejaculation happens at such speed and force that it can be heard by people as a ‘popping’ sound.

Alas, these amorous moves will not end well for the lucky suitor. His endophallus breaks off, leaving its extremity inside the queen. The drone dies shortly after.

https://scottishpollinators.wordpress.com/2020/09/21/drones-...
arab and muslim countries are very productive? can you give some examples?
Docker is one of the most popular containerization platform, which provides ability to package and run an application in a loosely isolated environment called containers.
My theory: Pure speculation. I don't mean my own speculation, I mean speculative investing. Someone (well, a few someones) saw the chip shortage coming and invested massively buying up the inventories of failing rental companies in early 2020. Then they have been slowly trickling those cars into the market at high prices rather than selling them off en-masse at lower prices.

Relatively new rental cars are a large part of the supply where used car dealers get their inventory. There were so many of these suddenly up for sale in 2020 that all the analysts were predicting a huge drop in used car prices. Instead we got a huge increase. The only explanation I can think of is that someone organized enough funding to soak up a lot of inventory and sit on it just long enough to squeeze the market and reap massive profits.
Because it was hosted on GitHub initially, and they took it down. There's clearly a protest angle here, and it'll be interesting to watch this play out.
It's a spurious comparison. I wouldn't pick COBOL as part of my stack for a greenfield project. I would definitely 100% pick SQL as part of my stack for a greenfield project.
It reminds me of stealing a cool car in GTA and then every car you see is that same model.
Should you always solve the root cause?
For project maintainers, yes absolutely Monero.

But then either only ever use Monero for everything (like pre-2013 bitcoin), or exchanges will need the will to "proof" the source of funds aren't illicit.
> I’ve collected these tracks in a playlist so you can listen for yourself

Plot twist: the author of TFA also made the tracks.
I think about these kind of activities and their motivations a lot.

Money is too valuable and rewarding that many people will constantly chase these hustle practices no matter the ethical implications or if they are shady. Even more so if they are legal.

With the current potential of AI and automation this just makes the resulting impact bigger for the 'good citizen consumer', like the sheet amount of autogenerated videos on YouTube that just read out loud some scrapped content, or even the stolen and reposted content, all in seek of finding a semiautomatic money cow that they can milk. After all, if that can give you easy scalable money, why not trying?

The bad part is that now consumers have to deal with a polluted search result and recommendations list, that is really hard to filter by the media owners because its a tough issue.

I understand the motivations, but I hate that the product degrades the quality as a result of a few actors .

Sometimes I wonder if this will always be the status quo in our world and I'm actually missing out on joining these practices as well and see if I can hit some jackpot, but I hate these side hustle practices.
I'm not saying taking photos of your child's groin is normal. But, whatever the reason may be, a father is allowed to do so (unless the law of the land explicitly prohibits such as thing).
You are incorrect. The miner does not intermediate transactions in any way, shape or form.

Firstly, miners do not technically intermediate transactions. Transactions are fixed and sealed by the parties involved and can't be modified. Transferred funds are never in a possession of a miner, not even briefly. Miner can't take them, can't redirect them, can't change the amount, etc.

Secondly, it's not a specific miner that confirms the transaction. It is the ever-growing group of miners. Transaction finality is ever only probabilistic. If you think picking by law the "first" miner then this is completely arbitrary and 1-block chain tips are routinely orphaned in all cryptocurrencies.

Finally, many persons and businesses accept unconfirmed (not mined) transactions, for relatively low-risk goods and services.

If you really want to regulate miners (which is making a crime running certain algorithms on your personal computer - a terrible idea), then at least please come up with a new name and new framework, because "money transmitter" or "financial intermediary" is simply incorrect.
In season, I usually go to one of the roasters set up in a parking lot. They’re all over Albuquerque and most of NM but also Denver and Pueblo and probably other cities in the southwest. There are several stands on Federal in Denver, for instance.

You choose your variety of chile (and the heat) and buy it in 25 lb increments. They fresh roast it for you at that time. 25 lbs is a lot of chile and it’s perishable, so you have to take it home and process it. Ideally will last most of the year. I peel and eat as much as I can while it’s fresh, and for the rest, it’s best to freeze it with the skins still on, as they’re easily removed when it’s thawed.
"Turkey" is also a country, and yet through a combination of context and capitalization, we don't seem to have any trouble telling whether that or the bird was intended. This seems like a non-problem.
As a producer, I feel like this could be more related to people using Splice and other popular sample packs in order to just get something uploaded onto Spotify? I've come across a lot of very similar tracks on Spotify which utilise all the same sounds from the same sample packs and they're almost identical.
>The only way for you to stay alive is to hike to lawless desert city of "Kowloon 2.1"

And this would be the best thing that ever happened to you.
MJ has announced a new beta mode, that uses SD under the hood.
Will be interesting to see things like stove sales for this year, because I'm quite sure there's a massive shift going on right now. My parents wanted to replace their old oil heating with gas, but now moved to a heat pump instead. My girlfriend and I wanted to buy a new gas stove but are now looking in more efficient induction stoves instead.
Crystalis is a good linear ARPG, but it's not a good zelda game.
If you find this interesting, then read the book or watch the film "The Mosquito Coast" by Paul Theroux. The whole story is about a fridge such as this operating in the heat of Africa.
We aren't far from that future.
Hmm yes, in the same way they are loyal to employees despite being able to fire them with no notice? Terrible ideology.
> Typically, it involves three steps: placement, layering and integration. First, the illegitimate funds are furtively introduced into the legitimate financial system. Then, the money is moved around to create confusion, sometimes by wiring or transferring through numerous accounts. Finally, it is integrated into the financial system through additional transactions until the "dirty money" appears "clean."

https://www.fincen.gov/history-anti-money-laundering-laws
We need laws that bar these monopolies and near monopolies from being able to deplatform people.
If YC or other investors hadn't thought it was an outright joke when I asked for $500k to get a license in Malta in 2011, for what at the time was the only full Bitcoin casino that I'd handcoded with 25 socket based multiplayer games since 2008 before Bitcoin even existed, then I too would now be accepting Visa and Mastercard. And between me and now, dozens of players have come from both traditional to cryptocurrency and vice versa. It's really all who you know, or who you bribe. My policy these days is just to write good software that makes money for me personally, and no longer share it with any of these assholes.

I do appreciate the non-downvote, btw. I'm drunk and prickly tonight... these topics about society eating itself get my hackles up.
Show HN: Ddosify Docker Extension
Apple does same exact scanning of iCloud photos and ban iCloud accounts with the same glee as well, so I'm not sure why do you think recommending another megacorp will help the OP (outside of buying into Apples marketing schtick).
I don't mind it myself. If you like the food it's OK if a downtown bar and grill is also sidelining as a chicken restaurant online. They have slow times and a paid kitchen staff. Go for it!

And some of the other ghost kitchens / home address food prep is pretty good. Like there was an ice cream place that delivered until midnight ( out of somebodies garage ) their ice cream was cooled down to well below zero so it was not melted when you got it.
But that WAS a medical reason...
What does GMail have to do with Google Photos? Fastmail doesn't provide the same service.
Because COBOL has been replaced with better languages for most purposes. SQL is entrenched. I'd also pick SQL for a greenfield project, because... what else?

This says nothing about the quality of SQL as a language.

What I think is more interesting is: if you were to greenfield a language for a relational database, how much would it look like SQL?
YouTube’s Fake Views Economy
Like, just don't work there?
The other useful feature is that clay tablets are mostly fireproof, infact a good fire (like one that destroyed alexandra) makes tablets waterproof
On Corpspeak
They couldn't have made less distinguishable colors in charts, could they?
It's faster, it's more fuel economic and it reduces engine wear
Google has a policy that they delete permanently the contents of any account that has been suspended for 30 days or more. They do this to comply with European GDPR regulations (which require they not hold any data they no longer have the users permission to store, nor have ongoing legitimate interest in), and they have written it into their own privacy policies.

Therefore, this account and all the data contained is already gone. The most they could do is allow him to create a new account with the same name, but to my knowledge that isn't supported technically in their systems (too many bugs to be found by re-using unique identifiers).

That's why they stand by their decision - they don't have the capability to implement any other option.
>We should fight first for a proper legal recourse

It does not matter, because we don't have any fight left in us at all..
Confidential computing lets you reduce your TCB to the software running in your guest, be that a full OS like Linux or maybe some unikernel type thing, and the hardware itself. The intent is that a malicious host could not read or modify guest state, though of course they could simply refuse to schedule it.
Yeah the speaker on my 2015 12” is still better speaker than my 2021 Lenovo legion 7 and 2022 dell XPS 15.

I kinda wanna get an M2 Pro but I personally dislike macOS. :(
People were moving to version control for web sites in the late 90s when their projects started turning to chaos.

Virtualization of servers started when the tooling became available around 2005. Linux containers were available, and used where it made sense, in 2010.

The name Ajax dates from around 2005, and before that it was called "remote scripting". First version of Google Maps dates from this era, and would be called a ~SPA~ today.

I think the difficulties you describe are caused by cargo-culting - being lured into using platforms/frameworks because their landing pages are just so damn glitzy, with little understanding.

The visual surface of the web makes into a medium for fashion, and people are drawn to shiny things and vulnerable to fashions.

What's needed are people who are both cold headed and have good taste.
The author seems to be suprised by this, not just founding it on Spotify, but the whole process. E.g.:

"I love it, because it’s so strange, so dizzying, and — credit where due–because our mystery producer is truly going with the grain of the medium, in a way that no one merely “making albums” does, at all. What could be more 21st century, more “liquid modernity”, than releasing your music as a haze of variations into the swirling currents of the algorithm?"

But tons of artists have done the same in the past, whether in streaming platforms or in the vinyl and CD era. The most famous is probably Brian Eno who has made several albums using algorithmic generation.

In general, algorithmic composition is a sizable niche, both in academy (tons of music PhDs on that), live performance, and recording settings. And yes, people release those things too.

Even "generated content" to make bucks is a well known thing, both in music platforms like Spotify, in Amazon (tons of auto-generated Kindle books), and in YouTube (https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...).

The strange thing is, the author should already have known all this, as his previous post goes:

"My band The Cotton Modules, formed with the composer Jesse Solomon Clark, also goes with the grain of the 21st century: our process combines AI tools with human skill and imagination, metabolizing a huge archive of recorded music into something genuinely new and exciting."
The same "discovery" happened to me half a year ago. Suddenly my queue contained just awful music at some point and I have googled the artists and found nothing. I decided to ditch Spotify altogether, because not only was I paying premium for this shit, but also it seems that Spotify doesn't really have the situation under control: https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/spotify-bot-takedowns-...
In a way, I hate you, but at the same time I love you. It's because I'm working on something similar to get data for my product. Seems like I'm going to use Ampify instead to save my life.

Just a feedback from the developer point of view tho. I think the documentation (both clawlee & Apify) need some work. I took me a while get the difference between clawlee & other headless crawler like playwight etc.
I like how you think labels correctly label anything. I happen to work at a music streaming service (not Spotify) and I can definitely say that those datasets are insanely noisy and generally you can't really trust labels to, well, label their data correctly for anything.
Replacing the entire fossil fuel system is a big job.

But, the fact that this guy mentios the gold standard, criticizes the EU, the WEF, and talks about EROEI means he's mostly a conspiracy theorist.

It's a repeated pattern to say "big numbers mean this is impossible!". Solar PV was impossible, Wind Power was impossible, EVs were impossible, on and on and on.

His numbers aren't wrong as far as I can tell, but he's just repeating the same things that people who think it's a good idea are saying, then adding on the lie that "they never considered this, the fools, they'll doom us all".

About 25 minutes in he reveals that we'll need to double our electricity production.

Except we know that, we also know that it means we'd need half as much primary power, since we wouldn't be wasting so much of it as heat.

Here's a 2018 government report looking at this phenomenon in electrifying the US. This is entirely typical of real work in this area, despite his attempts to imply that clueless beaurocrats are just making things up.

https://www.nrel.gov/news/program/2018/analysis-demand-side-...

edit: I particularly enjoy his "The ERoEI for renewable energy systems is much lower than fossil fuel energy systems. Renewable energy systems may not be strong enough to replace fossil fuels".

Oh, it's not strong enough. That weak, puny renewable electricity.

Followed up with "energy is becoming more expensive". Wow, no wonder he's so pessimistic.
Amusing, I have run into the same idea with a call from someone on HN. We discussed using crypto to stream payment and auto bid for ad slots against advertisers on pages in the browser. The browser would get rid of ads based on how important a page is for you.

I definitely think it is viable. Execution is going to be hard.

Brave does something similar to what you are saying and they've struggled to gain enough traction in practice.
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> He says he wanted to try "XeTeX" (which supports Unicode) but "...I was going to download it as an experiment and they wanted 5 gigabytes and 5 gigabytes at the particular boonies place I'm living would...mmm..not be finished yet!"

I'm struggling to understand this sentence. Who are they? What's a boonie? What's not finished?
>Children should see pornography and taste alcohol as early as possible.

Sometimes I'm glad that "idiots" are in charge of things, rather than reckless intellectuals.
Vim users don't use the Esc key either. We have remapped it to something less inconvenient. If you haven't done this yet, I really recommend remapping Caps Lock to a Ctrl/Esc combination, it's in a really convenient position, unlike the two keys you'll use it as.