skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. Buying stuff that lasts it's really difficult without seeing: quality of fabric, stitching, labelling, production, print, colours... Unless I've already bought from that particular store/firm or have solid personal recommendations, I still prefer in person shopping.
Science can't get a weather forecast accurate for more than a few days.

What chance have they got about being right about the climate hysteria on a longer term?

Why will a longer term prediction be be more accurate? They have had less chances to go back and amend the models than the short term forecasters.

> If you don't have faith in science to get that right

That's the fundamental point, it's a faith based argument. I want some real world evidence that these absurd predictions are likely to be accurate. That won't happen as it's all based on "models" that have no history of being accurate.
I just don’t understand what would make someone claim that. It’s oddly specific but totally wrong.
1. Easier to manage updates. If you control the service you can ensure it's up to date. If everyone is using their own version you have to deal with bug reports for bugs that have been fixed.

2. As many point out, subscriptions are best for a business because it's recurring revenue and you can grow. One off sales makes this harder.

3. The Jetbrains model is basically subscription model now. They only allowed you to have perpetual license because of backlash. However, I liked their approach of you can have a peretual license for the version that was available 12-months before your subscription ended. It's what I'm going to be using with my product with a slight modification.

4. As you point out, you're likely to forget about a subscription therefore the company makes money while basically providing nothing.

5. Overall, the problem is that everyone is accepting the current setup and paying for subscriptions instead of buying things so more companies are getting in on the gig.
It would be nice if we brought the rule back where it's against HN guidelines to post submissions for every new version of some software. Every Godot thread ends up with the same comments posted, none of them particularly interesting or insightful. And in this particular case, it's not even an official release; it's just a beta!
In my area people complain about needing new lights all the time. They theorize that there would be fewer accidents if they put in a light at certain intersections. The real problem are the drivers. Almost all the accidents I see at those intersections are from people being impatient and making bad choices. Those same people are going to do the same stuff by trying to beat the light or make a right on red and screw up. We can try to make the road design better, bit the biggest benefit would be to address where the ultimate responsibility for safety lies - with the driver.

Yet the people will complain and get their new light, and we'll impose largely arbitrary restrictions on new drivers while letting the chronic crash causers slide and the people who would objectively fail better testing drive.
The type of business matters if we're trying to guess whether they violated the TOS or not.

I completely agree with you that how these companies handle these issues is completely wrong, if not fraudulent.
It really seems like what we’re really discovering is that employment law is completely insane and ridiculously out of days.
It's not built-in, of course, but if you can live with the quirky API, LMDB as an embedded key-value store will be hard to beat in terms of speed. It can also do "one-writer, many-readers" and transactions.
> You don't think that this kind of trust exists outside of the developed world? Why do you think that your grandfather's experience is unique, compared to small farming communities anywhere else in the world where people have already known each other and done business with each other for many years?

You just wrote that trust is thanks to judicial system and that's what GP countered based on personal experience.

> You are going to trust people more if you believe that cheaters will be penalized somehow for their cheating.

Indeed. That's what we have with judicial system. And the opposite is true too, if cheating is not penalized if it was due to a maliciously crafted smart contract (because smart contact would be king) then I sure am going to trust everyone and everything much less.
James Coplien
As someone who built a SaaS for your 2nd use case (Homechart: https://homechart.app, lifetime license available!), the real reason is any kind of software that integrates with other things has an ongoing maintenance cost that needs to be paid by all of the users to keep it working. Like connecting to your bank accounts, that's not a one and done thing typically.
You are correct, vaccines are no longer offered for under-18, except for certain conditions.

Vaccines (two shots + one booster shot) is recommended for everyone over 18.

A second booster (i.e. a fourth shot) is currently only offered for over 50, except for certain conditions.
> that some people's votes would be counted more than others

It's hard to square that knowing these voters are in small states whose votes already count more than others, but I'll bet they are okay with that. It's also not really unfair since each voter is free to adopt the strategy the voter is claiming is unfair.

I wonder how representative the voters you talked to are of the population.

Did you catch this story on Croydon, NH about the school budget nearly getting cut in half by a handful of voters who were not all representative of the majority?

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/776/i-work-better-on-deadli...
Great, we've replaced regulated banks by a handful of unregulated and pseudo-anonymous entities (pools & brokers).
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"gratuitous, graphic descriptions of explicit sex acts,"

If you think a blowjob being described in seven words to make a point about vulgarity is 'gratuitous', 'graphic', or 'explicit', your moral compass is severely out of whack.
Yes, but my current understanding is that these minerals are in very miniscule amount, like 1% RDA a cup. You are able to remineralize after RO, automatically as part of the system, if you would like. I don’t, because I already supplement magnesium and calcium levels aren’t a typical concern.

I think the trade off is well worth it to ensure there’s no lead, plastic, hormones, or hexavalent chromium at all.

Cost is around ~$300 initial, $50/yr filters, and maybe $5/yr increased water usage.
This is really cute. As a self-diagnosed crazy bird person, I appreciate seeing educational resources like this for folks interested in being bird owners.
Fair enough, payments (credit cards, in particular) is a particularly hard area to decentralize... or at least democratize a bit more.

I'd love for an open payment standard for p2p payments and individual-to-business/institution payments to become available so that individuals could establish their own connection point to a fair payment exchange network.

This will only come with regulation that forces it, though. See India's UPI system, for example.
The "sigma event" math is very dubious

In Germany birth rates are way up for April and May

I'm sure Igor will find something else to get upset about, as hysterics typically do
I'd certainly be interested in any legal differences if there are any!

My opinion is that if the outcome is the same (a view from above is made publicly available) the how isn't a "large difference" from a moral perspective (which is what you were asking about).
Are there any high-speed rail lines in planning in Czechia? I am desperate for a high speed Berlin-Prague-Vienna link.
The API is pretty simple! Not close to Firebase but simple to pick up.

Here's some Kotlin:
https://appwrite.io/docs/getting-started-for-android#fullExa...
https://appwrite.io/docs/databases#create-documents
There are a lot more FOSS tools than GIMP. Also, don't criticize the tool for a lack of understanding.
You also had to learn adobe tools, after all.
Vacation sure. But if you want to work from these countries then you can't be on a tourist visa.
The difference is software companies hire programmers while companies that sell physical goods hire engineers. Engineers work hard to get it right the first time while programmers are constantly fixing their mistakes.
Timelines we can share? I don't know... but soon ;)
A lot of people really didn't like the fact they were going from having a perpetual license to having a subscription. The reality is, the way it worked out is basically the same as before but I could pay monthly. Since I paid for my own license instead of allowing an employer to buy it (so I could get IntelliJ for all languages instead of getting a language specific version) that was nicer.
"Magazine" to "Periodical literature"
Time: 1.113 Seconds

Number of links visited: 1

The path you took:
[ "Magazine", "Periodical literature" ]

:)
"The Unix Programming Environment" by Kernighan & Pike
There are use cases where Figma and Adobe already directly compete:

- Product wireframes/mockups

- Memes/social media posts

- Simple vector creation/editing

And that list is only expanding.
There is also "Chemins de fer de Provence"[0] separate from the SNCF. I took it once in the 80s when I was kid traveling from Nice to somewhere in the Maritime Alps for a day. I remember a rickety old train that did not travel fast, but nevertheless had its charms.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemins_de_fer_de_Provence

Edit: The French Wikipedia page is quite a bit more interesting: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemins_de_fer_de_Provence
In the US there are already many states with population centers that cross state boundaries; those states often have negotiated with each other to solve some or most of these issues.

So if you live in Wisconsin but drive to Minneapolis for work each day, they know how to handle it.

We need more of those and closer to pairings for all states to make true "work from anywhere in the US" possible. I doubt it'll happen, because the states won't agree on the baseline level.
miners are driven purely by the market to find cheap energy sources

its not altruism by any means and it doesn't matter

this is what happens, frame it any way you prefer, it doesn’t really matter as the constant is that North America is the best market for this

all levels of government are noticing and investors are noticing and they all need the sustainability framing, I don’t think I had made any framing in my reply

Articles that talk about the “amount” of energy bitcoin mining uses are going to keep coming out, if you’re more familiar with that framing, the source of energy has been more important than the amount for a very long time, to convey environmental impact, and this is just one example
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> It isn't terrible

Mind you, I didn't call it terrible. However, the comment I was replying to -- coincidentally the author of TFA on modulo bias we are discussing -- did:

> java.util.Random is not a CSPRNG at all and is terrible, so even tho the nextInt() method is using rejection sampling, it's still producing biased values and also completely fails to be "unpredictable" because java.util.Random is weak and predictable.

and

> [...] using fast, but bad random generators such as Java's Random was shown to be an issue multiple times in the past already for things such as Monte Carlo, and so on, not just for things related to security.

Of course, "CSPRNG" means "cryptographically secure", but his comment made me think he considers it a terrible implementation regardless.
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Baby sling / baby carrier is just miraculous. First daughter with second wife was crying a lot and we had to carry her much. With the sling you can basically carry the baby and still have the hands free and keep on with your stuff.

You also have to learn to recognize the stages of sleep. Hold the arm of the baby up and down. If the arm remains in the air, this is light sleep. If the arm feels heavier and goes down all the way, this is deep sleep. Only then put the baby into the cot. This is quite important to know.
> I personally, would say open source provides a much larger business continuity risk.

I feel the opposite, open source gives people and companies options and the ability to soldier on if someone loses interest in a technology. This site is littered with notices from companies that they intend to discontinue some paid product or service suddenly with very little notice. If a group of people or companies really care about an open source technology, it's easy enough for them to ensure the continued maintenance of something they're getting for free. Also, if you care deeply about a technology, chances are others do as well and those projects will continue well past what a commercial vendor would maintain.
SoundForge was the better option, cracked, just like Microsoft used it, of course. That was in the Radium days.

It went over to Sony and is now at Magix.
One thing I don't see addressed in this article is that as far as I know, it's basically impossible to trust the reported price or volume of NFT transactions, because there's no way to distinguish fake wash trades from real ones.

So it's hard to draw any conclusions about whether the data reflects an actual peak in user activity, or just a peak in scams.
Why? They are a net benefit to society and above board businesses.
I really dislike the subscription model and avoid it wherever I can. It serves the software publisher at the expense of the user. If I can't license your product, I'll pay by usage of resources or usage of minutes or hours. I won't pay for access. I will pay to use the product.
Back in the day, Paypal had to build tools to detect fraud because no one else was doing it at scale, at the time. I recall something about investigators outside of Paypal started to use those tools as well

Palantir came out of Paypal fraud detection

https://thehustle.co/%F0%9F%92%B3-how-paypal-fraud-made-pala...
yes, back in 1990-2000. See https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/40278/1/338823255.pd...
though I was thinking of another paper which I couldn't find with a quick google.

See also Mandelbrot, fractals and scaling in finance, 1997 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4757-2763-0
We want to open-source our design file format
As a runner and cyclist, in terms of difficulty swimming is in another dimension. It requires all four limbs to act in coordination with breathing, it has higher temperature stresses, and if you get tired you drown. The average swimming duration of a triathlon is less than a fourth of the others.
The Figma acquisition by Adobe triggered us to take things to the next level. We want to open our design file format and enable people to use a design editor that does NOT tie them to one specific eco-system. We are working on an editor that can open any design file format.
I'm pretty sure this would be considered a deceptive business practice by most courts of law. You can't just straight up lie about the terms of a business agreement - i.e. if you say you've evaluated a customer's creditworthiness but you really haven't I think there is a very good argument that any agreement was not made in good faith, however, Stripe's ToS probably requires mandatory arbitration, etc, so I'm not sure what recourse you have as a customer.
..on ML
Kinda weird complaining about Adobe subscription pricing in a Figma thread when Figma also has the subscription pricing model.
Where software goes to die.

Can someone remind me of a product that came from Adobe, rather than an acquisition?
my fav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaie3a78jmo

Colin Benders
> (a 2013 study conducted in the Netherlands found that women were taller than their male partners in just 7.5 percent of cases)

Don't men also tend to prefer women who are shorter than them? I know I do personally (though my first two girlfriends were taller than me, go figure.)
Because businesses with a recurring revenue/subscription model are valued far higher than comparable "buy" businesses.

And of course, the more guaranteed revenue you can demonstrate, the more valuable your business is going to be for potential acquirers. “Because a high percentage of the revenue of a subscription-based business is recurring, its value will be up to eight times that of a comparable business with very little recurring revenue,” claims Warillow.

https://www.techradar.com/news/how-recurring-revenue-can-inc...
JavaScript functions and basic data types have member functions and object prototypes, so...

It is like writing React in Smalltalk and arguing that because the code uses code blocks it isn't OOP.
Yes, this is why my previous company never went the IPSP route (letting customers accept payments with your merchant account). They are incredibly arduous to get approved, you practically need to have a bank CEO as your godfather to get it. Also you need to be at least PCI Level 1, which involves actual auditors going through your business and policies. That part is significantly easier than the IPSP though. OP doesn't sound like they were trying to do that though. They talk about their client's individual Stripe accounts being turned off.

This is probably what a business like OP's would need to do. When their customers are small, use a processor like Paypal or Stripe. But as customers get larger, OP should probably do what we did: partner with an ISO, who can get the customer their own merchant account. OP still does the processing for them, but the risk and finances run directly through the client, not OP. The ISO can also add in a margin on the transaction fees for OP if that's part of their business model.
Money and power. It lets companies squeeze more cash out of their customers over time and it lets them make whatever changes they want to something people have already paid for, leaves the door open for things like continuously collecting their user's personal data, and can help make it more difficult for users to migrate away from their product.

It's terrible for users who value their money, security, and privacy, but vastly more profitable for companies so most companies will offer it increasingly leaving users with fewer options for anything else.
And yet I still get jobs working in Flash, there's still no comparable program for frame-by-frame vector animation. A package that you can draw into but also rig puppets in. I'm rooting for Grease Pencil to catch up but really it's nowhere near in terms of fast usability.

That's not so say they didn't run it into the ground - I still remember the nightmare of CS5.
> That's a different type of system, though, and it is hard to reconcile with a per-constituency election system.

One way to reconcile it is with different legislative bodies. Exchange the house of lords for a proportional body, and keep the commons local to constituencies.
Yes! For me, having some sort of structure is key, otherwise I can easily fall into my comfortable defaults of barely leaving my apartment, despite living in walking distance to my downtown area.

Nothing wrong with being lazy once in a while, but I just don't want to fall victim to "Covid Time Machine" if I can help it.
"start with strings unless you're doing math"

lambda calculus tells us, stick with strings even when you're doing math
I agree with the part where they describe existing on chain games as too simplistic.
The handful I saw indeed sucks.

No skills really needed beside being able to click and pay the initial fee.
Yes, in fact the first deployment of these trains will be over the france-italy frontier (despite what this article says, I read the opposite in french news, and premiering a TGV on the Paris network makes no sense at all).
This sounds different from other GCP free tiers that don't have a time limit. The post says Spanner is free for 90 days only.

I wish Spanner had both a fully free tier and was fully managed like Firestore.
> Close to 100%

Can you share the source for this data? I find it exceptionally difficult to believe.

I do not condone people doing anything illegal. But you can maintain the lifestyle of a 'digital nomad' while not breaking any laws whatsoever. I definitely do not believe that 'close to a 100%' of people would risk their jobs, the wrath of the tax man and potential prison time by not abiding by the relevant legislature, especially given that there are usually many available options.
Very cool discovery, and your biztoc.com work as well!
I don't think so - there have been many examples of plastic or FR4 cards which sit in PCI slots.
40% Peltola

32% Palin

29% Begich

Begich's votes split to 3: 50% for Palin, 29% for Peltola while 21% were exhausted.

That adds up to: 49.67% for Peltola and 46.5% for Palin.

And you said "52.5% of people preferred Begich to Peltola" ignoring that 40 + 32 percent preferred other candidates over Begich. What this says is that if Begich didn't run, more people would have picked Peltola oved Palin.
What's wrong with posting milestones of a great open source project?
I would respectfully ask for someone to show me EXCLUSIVE UPPERCASE code which was not assembler, fortran 77, nor cobol.
not they aren't fungible
Baby sling / baby carrier is just miraculous. First daughter with second wife was crying a lot and we had to carry her much. With the sling you can basically carry the baby, have the hands free and keep on with your stuff.

You also have to learn to recognize the stages of sleep. Hold the arm of the baby up and down. If the arm remains in the air, this is light sleep. If the arm feels heavier and goes down all the way, this is deep sleep. Only then put the baby into the cot. This is quite important to know.
How do Australians vote when there are a large number of candidates for a single position - or does the Australian system somehow ensure that doesn't happen?
Thanks, I've never actually seen anyone use it in practice but turns out that Figma has a 31.73% market share in the Collaborative Design And Prototyping category, while Adobe XD has a 15.14% market share in the same space
The coastal forests in Northern California are beautiful. One geographical note: Eureka is in Humboldt County.
Huh... I didn't even notice that in the source code. Definitely off-putting. These boards do boot off PiKVM directly, so their prebuilt images aren't even necessary. They do have open issues on that git repo, I would suggest opening an issue and asking them to either remove the code or make it fit the license (preserving any of the statements as required by MIT).
Agreed - you can't fight back against labeling by telling people they are wrong. Instead to you must fight-forward with a new proposal going in a different direction.
The contention that being aware of IRV-vs-Condorcet materially matters in terms of strategic voting is also a pretty unprovable contention. People should be instructed to vote their honest preferences in IRV anyway.
Considering that you can get penalized if your validator is offline, I think any gain in reliability from using the most reliable provider you can is going to pay off.
Calling CryptoKitties a "game" is a bit generous.
> "liberation of people" can only happen by having a working democracy

If 51% democratically voted to enslave the other 49%, that would be a working democracy but far from "liberation of people".
I'm glad to see that from comments on threads like these that the cargo-cult worship of Stripe is starting to crack.

Same goes for PayPal, Google, Mailchimp, and all the others.