skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was he essentially used the CIA and the US government to basically steal some other company’s software and slap the Oracle badge on it.
it is just a crawler
Yeah, I've seen a few different implementations of this. The pump one I was able to watch them remove had a clone skimmer attached where your card goes which sent it's data to a bluetooth module hidden inside the service door.
Right, think about it as a consumer. I don't want a gas station to run a credit check, or ask for proof of employment before I fill my tank. They just accept the card. But that does mean they bear risk for chargebacks if the card was stolen.
Interesting to notice the censorship of speech on social media is implemented the same way. The government does not remove undesirable information directly, instead it calls up all major platforms "for a chat" and tells them to voluntarily remove it, or face Congressional hearings and likely further unpleasantries down the road. An offer they can not refuse. Looks like they think they found a loophole in the Constitution and they are going to mine it for all the power they can get from it.
Wireless EV charging gets ready for prime time
> I never understood D&I in corporations. How is it diverse when everyone looks different but thinks exactly the same way?

Because it's not really about diversity per se:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/opinion/elites-populists-...:

> His argument, in brief: “In the past, upper-class Americans used to display their social status with luxury goods. Today, they do it with luxury beliefs.” With the lost salience of luxury items, “the upper classes have found a clever solution to this problem: luxury beliefs. These are ideas and opinions that confer status on the rich at very little cost, while taking a toll on the lower class.”
In Canada, we have a documentary about Kevins
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/penelop...

note the many ways to spell that wonderful name and how parents can get very creative.

also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhbrR4-Z5fw

Kevin is the guy at 3:26
I wouldn't be surprised to find it is most insurance companies. The insurance industry as a whole is seriously messed up and congress seems unwilling to do anything about it.
> Not everyone gets to live in San Fran or Chicago.

Chicago is actually cheap because the city has historically allowed buildings. Huge swaths of the city are made of mostly 4 flats and 10+ unit apartment buildings, which means that my rent in one of the hotter neighborhoods is $1500 for a 3 bed.
I'm about to build essentialy a render farm, so if eBay really is going to be flooded I need to hold off buying new.

Anyone have any insight into this? Will the second hand market really get flooded?

If so will it be soon, or are there other things these folk are going to mine?
That is a pretty wild thread to read. Also funny to note the update-
> Special thanks to @bennettf96052341 for his gracious feedback

I remember a youtube video from years ago explaining this problem with photoshop's gradient tool (and other naive implementations), but I can't find it now.

Colors are hard.
Now they aren't forced, but you wonder does this consolidation of assets/companies benefit customer in any way. For Figma this is probably a great move to become part of the biggest design/image/video/whatever editing company - you get your pay-day as well join the winning team in the market. To me it just seems less competition for them, higher prices for customers since there aren't really options (eg photoshop, Figma for collaborative design).

But if FTC says this is cool, I guess we'll just have to live with it.
I played with Godot back in the early 3.x timeframe (3.1? 3.2?) and then fell away and spent some time with Unity. But between some of Unity's missteps and Godot getting dotnet 6 support it is time to give it another go, plus a bunch of nice changes to gdscript that might make it something I'm okay with using (functions are first class citizens now unlike before where you just passed the name of the function as a string which always felt incredibly gross).

Though based on the discord conversation there are still a lot of bumps even in the beta so I would not expect smooth sailing yet, but lets see if it is any good.

For anyone interested, the main documentation on their site is still pointing at 3.x. If you want the docs for 4.0 start here

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/index.html
Hmm... A little over a year ago I enrolled in an interview prep program that was open to all levels of experience. I don't have as many as 17 years, but around 8 years which is still past junior/entry at this point.

Part of the program's requirement was that you apply to 25 jobs per week. In order to maintain that number, I had to send some of my resumes cold, usually via LinkedIn job listings.

I didn't get a good response rate but I just did it to meet that 25 per week quota. And if anyone's curious, no, I do not have a job yet after enrolling in that program.
If the lanes positioning is determined by embedded stuff, roadwork that diverts/shifts lanes becomes more expensive and more time consuming
How much ETH does Peter Thiel have been able to secure at a very early stage because of the grant?
> Shouldn't there be some power stations reducing their output as a reaction to reduced demand?

No, because ETH mining is/was quite distributed globally, let's say across thousands and thousands of power grids. A single grid or power station shouldn't be able to notice the difference.

Think about it this way: all of a sudden, domestic fridges consume 1/100th of electricity, compared to before.

Fridges are 0.1% of average power consumption. Thousands of fridges in a given area are powered by the same power station. The power station barely notices the ~0.1% reduction in power consumption, compared to the day before. Shrugs.
Even that is a good thing for local developers and homeowners.
Queen's funeral: Heathrow cancels flights on Monday
SQLite, KVM, Firecracker, GraphQL, Serverless... if this was written in Rust it would hit the holy trinity of all the HN buzzwords that pull a post to the frontpage ;)
> People looking for rational informed discussion about covid have realized it's no longer on HN, so they just don't participate anymore. Meanwhile,those who think this is all a giant conspiracy have found fellow travellers with bottomless cynicism, and those people now dominate these threads.

My reply, which got flagged for some reason:

Adversaries of the west want us to be unvaccinated and sick. Knowing what we know about "troll farms", I would not be surprised if there is an effort by some states to discredit the vaccine on English speaking forums.

I'll add more to make it more clear I wasn't talking only about anti-vaccine: These troll farms play both sides. They want discussion forums to be toxic.
Personally, I find it a lot easier to address bugs on the producer side of SaaS. Back in the Bad Old Days where I worked on a proprietary database delivered to a customer to run on their servers with general-purpose staff, getting high quality bug reports and working our way to resolution was a major issue, and a very expensive part of the development process.
Our forests are in really sad shape in 2022. Nothing like what I remember as kid, so many dead trees now.
https://www.fwlaw.com/insights/is-hair-a-protected-class#:~:....
Are you saying you should empty your account constantly (nightly?) in case paypal gets shut down your account, for unknown and un-communicated reasons?
This really sounds like you're biased since your YC affiliation means you're invested in Stripe, and your statement essentially reads as "the (YC company) is always right, and the customer must prove otherwise." This mentality is largely the reason people hate tech/SV in the first place.
> Cardinal voting systems ask for information few voters really have

Voters don't know which candidates they prefer? If you really believe this (in the strong sense, not the weak sense) then I think you have to throw out voting all together. Maybe I'm missing your point?

> voters may still want to express the ordinal preference.

This is a feature, not a bug. Cardinal systems can capture ordinal preference but ordinal systems can't capture cardinal preference. (obviously not exactly)
This is also often how you end up with 1/2 addresses - a lot is split and rather than renumber the block, they have one of the lots keep the original and the gets (e.g.) 408 1/2.

And that's why I have a home address that doubles as an input fuzzer.
Reminds me of the Wiki Game: https://www.thewikigame.com/
There are a few reasons:

1. Higher total revenues. If you compare the subscription fee with the sale fee and how often sales happen.

2. More predictable revenue. There are many reasons people want that.

3. The more information (metadata/telemetry) they have on you the more they can use that for something else. That could be details on how you use the app. If they host your photos they may use those photos to train an AI. Things like that.

4. Finding and tracking unlicensed users is easier to stop and manage. Everything is tied to a SaaS. Less stealing software which cuts into revenue.

There are other reasons, too.

In a capitalistic society where the goal is constant revenue growth, SaaS provides a means to do that more effectively. Look at the goals.
A media relations department is a savvy thing to have in order to keep your brand’s reputation healthy. An order backlog stretching into 2023 doesn’t mean much for the next decade of Tesla. Public opinion is important for sales. I’m not going to claim to speak for the car-buying masses, but my impression of Tesla (false marketing claims, shoddy workmanship, bad working conditions, etc) is bad - you’d think a competently run company would want to try to shift that narrative.
from the article,

>>As much as we love exciting new features, we also want to see people create games on the full spectrum of devices for everyone to enjoy.

This is one of the main attitudes of the Godot team I really appreciate a lot. It might be easy for people in more developed nations to upgrade their hardware every few years, but there's people still playing games running on computers from 2002 and before. I used to know of a player who used to play (an old MMORPG) games on a computer he aimed a table fan at to keep it cool. The whole casing was open, it was kinna funny to look at it and it had hardware he got as a birthday gift more than 10 years ago. He played that old MMORPG because newer games wouldn't even start on that old thing. But most people who played that MMO were in the same boat, it was one of the very few ones they could run.

The requirements for some of the games coming out these days is sometimes so insane a lot of people from around the world are unable to play them. I always found it funny how we had so much developer time wasted on supporting ie6 because a small percentage of people were unable to upgrade their browsers, but when it comes to gaming, all bets were off and you are now expected to spend a few grand a year on upgrading your computer to play newer games. And don't get me started on the bandwidth costs to play some of the new games.
As a resident of New Orleans thanks for posting this.
The major distraction is that a 'digital original' is a fiction. I can ignore your blockchain and make any digital IP fungible.
The Story Behind My Investment In Figma (2015) - https://semilshah.com/2015/12/06/the-story-behind-my-investm...
The agencies I've worked at only started dumping Photoshop around 2015-ish, going for Sketch and XD.
Build two cities, quick!!, on the two ends of the testing facility!
'Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy".'

Stems from https://xkcd.com/903/ alt-text. Might not be the original source, but that's where I know it from.
I spent 10 years in the same boat.
Sometimes it is hard to distinguish a irrational market from one you simply dont like.

Hosing prices have always been higher than I would like them to be. However, there has been no shortage of people willing to pay those high market prices.

At the end of the day, I had to ask if it was the market that was irrational or just me.
> Depict? I've held off from the ASCII art here. Though I recall a 1975 Ascii art of a Playboy centerfold (in 1975, no vulva in Playboy at that time). Yes, I was in computing at that time, though as a prepubescent at that time not super into porn.

to depict: to represent or characterize in words; describe.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/depict

Then you keep babbling about your life like anybody cares.
> If you go too far of course, then your workmates might notice that it's winter when it should be summer.

I am curious as to how. Working from home, no one has ever seen the inside of my home. Much less outside of my window.

The temperature of my office is stable through the year.

I can think of fashion colour schemes, makeup and tan. But that would require a lot of observation and not everyone changes those each seasons.
Exactly the same as you or I could have secured had we bought it early enough.
https://www.equal.vote/accuracy

Star voting outperforms IRV on both 100% honest and 100% strategic election strategies.

Decision fatigue is easier for Star than for IRV—just rate everyone you don't care about as a 2, whereas for IRV, if you want to distinguish between "8 people I don't know" and "person I hate", you have to decide on a ranking order for the 8 people.
> It's like when you approach a traditional 4-way intersection, some of which add a left-turn-only lane and some of which add a right-turn-only lane: once you learn the general philosophy, you will be fine.

Those bug the shit out me to too. Sure, you get used to them quickly enough when you drive on those roads all the time, but everyone who hasn't encountered it has to figure it out and depending on how well marked it is even people familiar with the rules have to deal with confused people who haven't figured it out yet.

I especially hate those left-turn-only lanes which leaves people who could have turned right on red stuck behind people who just want to go straight. The people who want to go straight would have to wait for a green light anyway, so why not leave them stuck behind the left turners who also have to wait and let traffic flow for the people making right hand turns?
>I understand the advantages of Saas - transparent updates, cloud based, redundancy, subscriptions, scaling, unicorns etc.

You answered your own question.
It does, just not by much if you look at individual cases. But insurance companies don't look at individual cases, they aggregate risk. And if millions of people buy carbon neutral HVAC systems, it will definitely decrease aggregate insurance liability for hurricanes.

The flaw in your original argument, and the reason we don't generally see insurance companies on the front lines lobbying for positive changes for consumers, is that they have the option of simply raising their prices in response to the risk landscape, rather than trying to change the landscape itself. This is why free markets, as useful as they are in many contexts, can't be relied on by themselves to provide a healthy, stable society.
Arbitration doesn't mean no-recourse or bias toward to the provider.
Why not both?

I get that financial systems have a purpose, I'd argue there's far more negative utility in them. They have positive effects, but a lot of their utility is not to protect people, but to control them to someone else's benefit. If they protected us without attempting to control us to the benefit of others, or brazenly looting us for our labor, nobody would be trying to build cryptocurrency in the first place.
> This section contains policy, procedures and guidance used by IRCC staff. It is posted on the department’s website as a courtesy to stakeholders.

My point, which I also made in another comment in this thread, is that law isn't code.

If you spend 3-6 months every year on a tourist visa in Canada working for your US employer, Canada's going to cotton on eventually and take action. If you do it a few weeks a year, you'll likely be fine.

Their test is "are you directly or indirectly competing with a Canadian worker?". If your employer is really ok with you being abroad 3-6 months/year then they should, presumably, also be ok with hiring Canadians or legal permanent residents to do the same work 12 months/year from Canada.
Where is this “Sierra desert” do you mean Sahara?
For the elf/linux target, I hope the build containers have a really, really old glibc (dunno which version it is) and the "-static-libgcc" and "-static-libstdc++" are defaults.
Reading this as I download patch 3.4 for WR, I believe in the simulation just a bit more
One of my heresy's is I think things like classpaths are an antipattern. In that determining the location of files and other resources should be a separate process. One that's explicit and debuggable.
Your list omits BASIC, much of which looked like this:

https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games/blob/m...
> I've literally never seen a link to an HN comment go viral on social media

I've never thought about this, but now that you've pointed it out, I'm realizing this is genuinely a fantastic feature.

Sounds like yet another of the many perks of the spartan design here. All substance, with just a hint of (cascading) style.
Over 100 cancelled flights and the legal entitlement to compensation won’t apply because of “extraordinary circumstances”. This is in addition to cancellations yesterday also due to movement of the body to Westminster.
I find it much more interesting to play by fewest links clicked. Having a timer running is too much pressure.
This stands in such stark contrast to its view as a "freedom of religion" here in the USA.
Yes, this is a risk. Which is why instead of putting all your subscriptions towards one company, it is a good idea to balance your subscriptions across providers. That way, you might lose some customers or have to ask them to come sign up again, but you don't lose all or even most of them.
interested to know what you see in sqlite here? why is there so much interest in this all of a sudden lately? am I missing something?
Banks loan out the "same" dollar multiple times since each borrower ends up keeping their money at the bank. Interest rates don't have to be above inflation for the bank to make money on the loan.
The largest Pictionary-like web app for the good part of a decade or so (early 2000s to early 2010s) was a Shockwave/Director app. Newer clones are yet to match its amazing features. Unfortunately isketch.net got too old for the newer generations to pick it up. I can only guess what happened to the site. The technical debt must have been too great to port it to a newer platform, or perhaps the devs/maintainers moved on.
I didn't initiate or authorize the transaction though, how am I to decide what the rules of transaction are when somebody else set up the transaction and authorized it?

The trust is that the bank recognizes when a transaction looks off, and holds it/notifies me, without my involvement
Yup, better get rid of your GitHub account then as well
Distributed computing research is focused mostly on increasing throughout, reducing latency and enabling parallelism and concurrency.

OTOH cryptocurrency consensus is mostly about answering a question: "How do we prevent bad guys from stealing money or doing other nasty things?"

While a concept of Byzantine Fault Tolerance was known before Bitcoin, it was never really applied in practice AFAIK - people thought it's overkill. Also I'd say doing it within a private network is one thing, and doing it with random weirdos on internet is completely different.

Distributed computing researchers like Lamport were considering models where e.g. up to 30% of nodes are compromised, that won't work on internet where an attacker can potentially simulate billions of fake nodes. Nakamoto consensus is really elegant as it combines Sybil protection, incentivization and consensus into one thing.
>whether the mass market wants digital possession that transcends a single centrally managed database

Even if the market wants this, it's certainly not what is being offered. If OpenSea delists your NFT in their single centrally managed database, it may as well no longer exist.
This correct. Power lines wear induced by pantographs is the limiting factor for TGV top speed.

The engineer that can solve this problem will allow top speeds in the range of 400/500 kph on /existing/ TGV tracks. Much better problem to solve than hacking a lame hyperloop.
re: sex toys, potential felony in texas

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

or google "texas six dildoes"

<edit>
https://www.theregister.com/2016/12/13/us_purchase_governmen...

and
https://onwardtexas.org/trending/is-it-illegal-to-own-more-t...

which was posted on HN about 3 months ago and flagged.

</edit>
"value" is kind of a made-up thing, so I'd argue that by selling something for the first time you're setting its value, not determining it
I've been travelling recently which pushed my daily step count up from ~5k to ~20k for two weeks. I packed 3 pairs of shoes but pretty quickly decided to stick with the Revolution 6.

Also: soles wear out! If you walk/run more, you need to replace your shoes more often.
Ultimately it’s the HN community that collectively votes on what makes it to the front page.
If you’re working remotely in the EU, you are treated like a local worker with respect to taxes etc. this can cause issues if your employer doesn’t have a legal entity in the country, which a whole range of third-parties will solve for a cut until employment and taxation law catches up with the 21st century.

Source: living and working in the EU for employers from other countries for 15 years.
Best run so far:

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"Performative verb" to "Mammal"

Time: 41.101 Seconds

Number of links visited: 4

The path you took:
[ "Performative verb", "Verb", "Grammatical gender", "Human", "Mammal" ]
> most customers, other than those on HN, are used to the subscription model and prices, and would encounter sticker shock at the high prices required to make a one time purchase work

This one has basically come full circle last year. [1] Many "customers, other than those on HN" have been burned by subscriptions in the past and are rightfully using pricing models assuming a 10x service spike in the future. We've found it easier to sell one-time units for $25000 than subscriptions of $250/mo

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28372532
What Im talking about is to add another abstraction layer, so you can have both payment processors and decide which use on the fly, both integrated with any ecommerce framework you use
There are also many banks that specialize in lending and borrowing in really large quantities.

One of those can keep an store open with no visible movement but still highly profitable.
Yeah, but you probably hire contractors? It's not the same as employee.
ah thanks for pointing that out, since this is new its bound to change. will be surprised if this didn't eventually scale to zero but if I had to bet I would back AWS here going forward. This is way too critical for it's serverless stack to get the Cognito treatment.
Everything is a game once you look for an equilibrium.
One reason is that SaaS pricing is an easy way for people to "hack" corporate spending restrictions. You need accounting approval for that perpetual $10000 software license, but a $500 monthly subscription payment is totally at your discretion, even if you end up spending more of the company's money in the end.
Thanks so much. I'm going to bookmark those and have a look soon