skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get it fine in the sense that it's a consistent and easy to understand viewpoint.

I don't get it in the sense that I think it's a terribly stupid way to approach the world, with an excess of dogmatism to the point it cripples your own ability to function like a normal person. We live in a society, trust is absolutely a requirement. If you can't trust any authority, either something is wrong with you, or you live in a really badly broken place and should consider moving at the earliest opportunity.

And sure, conspiracies exist, but you need to run some sort of analysis and try and figure out whether a conspiracy in the given situation would be at all viable. Eg, covid19 would be an absolutely terrible way of doing a world-wide conspiracy. Eg, if medical companies wanted to make lots of cash there are far easier and less noticeable ways of doing it.
I absolutely concur with what you wrote but unfortunately not every team, company, or industry shares such a mindset. My teammates meant no offense and my mistake became a running joke but we never even considered doing an RCA for the problem. We did end up fixing the hosts file thing by moving to a different server-side architecture to rectify more pressing DX issues but the shared credentials issue persisted. One or two devs would actually lock the account by trying bad creds and block everybody's access - it took me diving into some RDBMS innards to figure out the responsible party and block them by hostname until they were able to correct the issue.
It's not particularly common in Canada, although I do see it occasionally. The principal problem is that a dot (especially handwritten) is easy to miss, whereas an unexpected leading zero induces the reader to check for a dot.

I don't press the zero button on my calculator when inputting values, though, since it's an extra keystroke for literally nothing.
> Apple didn't help deliver my ebook or podcast

How true. Well, except for:

- designing and manufacturing the hardware

- marketing and selling the hardware

- creating and promoting the Books app

- popularizing podcasts with the iPod

- creating and promoting the Podcasts app

etc.

> They don't deserve 30% of that.

This illustrates my point: the core dispute is over platform fees charged by the App Store.
Judges get paid whether the state wins or not.
it came to me, from a previous employer.
Why can’t it round-trip Japanese?
> We should act better than our adversaries, because we are better

While I "appreciate the candor", it is ofc "hilarious" that there are still people like you out there

Before you write such blatant naivety, I would recommend you to at least read Killing Hope by Blum, you feelings of candor and emotional need of belonging clearly lack any sort of historical foundation
And what is it with all these websites that somehow disallow zooming so I can't even see what the diagram is? And why does my browser listen? Is there a browser I can switch to that will always allow zooming? I don't care if it breaks the flow or whatever, I just want to read your diagrams!

Not a front-end dev obviously
In a different world, Apple would embrace alternate app stores- by having them operate on their own terms.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32170848

Many walled gardens, growing different plants, landscaped in different styles, with different admission fees, but ultimately conforming to basic principles and paying their dues to the Apple botanical society.

Apple Authorized App Merchants.
Here's Doom running in a terminal using notcurses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_w5rh3c76g
OK, you mean when the creation of new bitcoin ends.

No, that's not what the article is about. The article basically says any cryptocurrency that relies on mining cannot be a store of value because mining requires capital outflow which means your bitcoin loses value without continued capital inflow in the form of new demand.

It is very likely miners vote in another consensus. There are ~118 years left before the supply capnis reached. If bitcoin lasts that long, it is highly likely that some major changes occur, consensus seems like the number 1 candidate for change.

The end result of energy usage dropping... if the energy usage drops, the security does also. So price decrease results in less mining, and therefore less capital outflow, which is great, except it results in less security. the only way to get 0 capital outflow (and therefore require 0 capital inflow to keep a steady price) is to have 0 mining, which means no blocks being produced and no security, which again, does not make a good store of value.
"flat rate" means a fee is a fixed amount of money, not a percentage
someone ports doom to it?
You can get a rough estimate based on cost (not perfect but it can be usable) and then own the thing long enough that the energy cost to make drops to negligible. A made in USA toolset from USA sourced materials is unlikely to cost less than the energy needed to make it.

Or you can “cheat” by insisting used items don’t carry the energy cost because those were already borne by the original owner.
Show HN: Figr.app – a multi-user, notepad style calculator (desktop app)
Hi all, just posting an update to my previous Show HN, where I announced a side-project I worked on which was a (web version) of a multi-user, notepad style calculator:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31817997

After a couple of user requests (and having a good think about it) I decided to migrate the web UI to create a Mac and Windows desktop app. After using it a little bit, I feel this is a much better experience than the webapp, and reduces a lot of the friction if I wanted to run a few small calculations.

You can find the download links below:

https://www.figr.app/download

For context, Figr was a side project I worked on to get back into coding after being in management for the last few years. It's kind of a cross between popular notepad style calculators (like Soulver, Numi, etc), but also has multi-user editing (like Google Docs). I've got some example templates below which hopefully show what it can do, and hopefully is relevant to the community:

- https://www.figr.app/s/RUNWAY - An example to work out your burn rate / runway

- https://www.figr.app/s/LTVCAC - An LTV/CAC calculator

- https://www.figr.app/s/CONTRACTOR - Hourly rate calculator for contractors

Opened to feedback, or technical questions if others are in the process of moving, or thinking about moving their webapps to desktop apps, as it's been quite a journey!

Thanks!
It’s always minor and no big deal when it’s agreeable, but is disinformation, interference, and Big Brother style propaganda when it presents any kind of challenge, or comes from an official enemy, no matter how trivial in extent.

The fact that such things are done domestically and covertly is the issue. And it’s pure speculation on my part, but there is cause to suspect this is but one facet of a much larger program. https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-secret-u...

> The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade. Some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called "signature reduction." The force, more than ten times the size of the clandestine elements of the CIA, carries out domestic and foreign assignments, both in military uniforms and under civilian cover, in real life and online, sometimes hiding in private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name companies.

...

> The newest and fastest growing group is the clandestine army that never leaves their keyboards. These are the cutting-edge cyber fighters and intelligence collectors who assume false personas online, employing "nonattribution" and "misattribution" techniques to hide the who and the where of their online presence while they search for high-value targets and collect what is called "publicly accessible information"—or even engage in campaigns to influence and manipulate social media.

I’m not paranoid about such programs being everywhere and doing all things, but do consider them a totally undemocratic roadblock to proper civil society.
I think it makes way more sense to put a conlang in Unicode than it does a peculiar stylistic flourish only ever applied once to a single letter in a single document. If that belongs in Unicode, why not every bit of marginalia ever doodled and every uniquely adorned drop cap / initial letter?
I'd be in for LA!
Five dollars here, five dollars there. It gets expensive.
The narrative of "the NATO closet is bare" has been pretty thoroughly debunked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CmXz8Qd9yw

(I highly recommend Perun's channel for analysis of the Ukraine war)

Also, it's a bit hard to take seriously someone that says "so no jets, no F-35, no battleships". Sure it's a throwaway line but it seems like someone trying to communicate something serious wouldn't refer to literal battleships, which nobody in the world uses anymore. It's not something that Perun would say.
Right, good point. I was being a little salty thinking of workplace environments, especially large companies where this "ask more questions" is often said, yet it's not true and can get you in trouble sometimes. I've had experiences with a boss at the time, where asking too many questions on a new task would seem like an avoidance of work or lack of confidence in getting it done. The team had a mindset of "ask anything", yet in some contexts they would interpret questions in a negative light because I guess it can seem like something is wrong and work is not getting done.
I know. That's the classic argument that I get. Basically "what about..?"

Like I said, I know what works for me. I'm not gonna argue about it. I do know that some find my stance offensive, which I don't actually understand. I'm not attacking anyone. I'm just saying how I do it, in my own work.

I write lots of packages that I integrate into my own work. Each package is a standalone project, with tests and docs. Because they are written and maintained by a single person, I know that some folks believe this makes them "worthless," but not to me.

It's the way that I work, on my own stuff. I'm not competing with anyone here, so I fail to see the problem. If I'm just some clueless old boomer, making a hash of things, then God bless my little heart, and I'll just be tilting at windmills, over here.
Beyond Meat COO arrested for biting man’s nose near Razorback Stadium
I agree but Apple does not. If Right to Repair gets, as I say; “everything that it could in the interests of the public”, it would mean that software would not be able to restrict hardware.

No vendor-controlled unique IDs that need to be whitelisted in order to connect between chips or boards, no intrusive warnings about 3rd party parts that are installed, no undocumented protocols for basic functionality, and so-on.

And if they say they have to because of security that claim would be heavily scrutinized.

Way back in the day Microsoft tied IE in to Windows and leveraged it’s OS dominance to try to win the browser wars. Browsers, like hardware, are based on vendor-agnostic technologies and so MS felt it had to play dirty since there was no way for them to win a war where browsers are commodities. Back then the government stepped in as they recognized the fact that browsers are commodities and that paved the way for the majority of the web standards we rely on today.

Who knows what sort of fragmented web we would have if MS had been allowed to lock users in with their proprietary “improvements”. We may be at the same crossroads here with Right to Repair.
these days many website don't work in firefox. And the worst thing is you never know it was firefox that was causing problem. Last time I tried to login verizon it didn't work. Same with many website I can't remember on top of my head.

I still can't leave firefox due to multi containers tho :(
You seem to be ignoring the concept of an armory (the local Armory food hall used to hold weapons) which does not require individual ownership of the heavy arms, not a standing army.

Also there is no "no sanding Army" requirement. There is only a requirement that the army can only be funded for 2 years ahead, presumably to require ongoing consent from Legislature, to prevent a Chancellor Hitler-type situation or a President becoming King by getting a huge multi year funding and then turning against the future Legislature and the country.
Pressure and slow cookers are beasts for energy efficiency - pressure winning because they’re on for shorter time, but slow cookers can do things too (especially if you have “waste solar” during the day).
Maybe the entire Manifest V3 concept is "Gish Gallop" applied to software design. Create so much of a bag of questionable features that people are just trying to keep up with the nonsense, and hopefully it keeps us divided and unable to actually able to mount a solid response to their (not really buried) real goal, which is to stab at the ad-blocker industry.

It would be interesting to consider their business values on proxies too; while on the abstract level, it dilutes tracking data quality (I don't really live inside a data centre in Stockholm?!), it might improve the value of their more broadly aggregated data (we've seen this user's fingerprint elsewhere, so we can give you a more accurate location than Geo-IP lookup does)
> In Hawaii, public access to beaches and shorelines is required by law, but exceptions were made for Lanai Resorts at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Emergency measures resulting in unintended consequences, who would've thought?
> As I understand it, 30% pays for all of the frameworks Apple develops that is available to you when you fire up Xcode, as well as everything involved with running the store, and they take their cut when you post on their store and sell stuff.

Xcode is free, though. Apple 'takes their cut' when you pay $99/year to be a registered Apple developer. If that's not enough, then maybe they need to review the checkbook again. Whatever the case is, Apple made a mistake by attaching the success of their software platform to the success of their App Store. The future of the internet was never going to be proprietary, they should have known that back when Microsoft was sued over IE. It's not illegal, but they're certainly teeing themselves up for the most radical antitrust scrutiny witnessed to-date.

It's just a dick move. Consumer advocacy groups should have fixed this by now, but Apple's legendary PR and reality distortion field has fended off most attacks so far.
> And the latter is a perfect example of what goes wrong, when someone adds "gov" to the regex but doesn't notice the comment to update it.

That always gets trotted out, but it's sort of like "don't write code unless you can guarantee the code won't have any bugs, so never write any code."

The trick is write code and comments, but be a little skeptical of both. If you're disciplined (especially with commit messages), it's usually pretty easy to figure out a mistake or omission after the fact.
In both places you may get most of the benefits from moving down - underground rooms mitigate temperatures.
What are the exact consequences of this for the end-user compared to no user agent header? Does it only reveal your used browser and version no.?
True! I like this formulation of your statement
> * Full disclosure, I haven't played Tales, or Return yet.

Yes, I can tell. Return to Monkey Island explicitly references events from all the previous Monkey Island games.

When it comes to the timeline, I won't comment on it, as that's kind of a spoiler. It becomes obvious early in the game though.
Even shorter:

An entity gets to demand exactly as much from me as we agreed it could demand.

My giving it more does not mean it can demand more.

Therefore, without an agreement, nobody is allowed to demand anything of me.

(Laws are another matter, of course, unless you bring the social contract into it.)
I listened to at least one proto-podcast back in the pre-iPod era of the late 90s: Pointless Audio with Kevin Pereira. It's still available in some form: https://youtu.be/XXqxUAzt6u4
Who wants to hire a biter, even an ex-biter?

R.I.P. Doug Ramsey's career as COO of Beyond.

Is there a meat joke in this? My brain is cooked after working all day, please help me out.
Do you truly think antitrust scrutiny will stop if Apple lowers their rates again? I don't think that's all developers hate about the App Store...
Collapse implies that it was sudden and unavoidable. All of this was the result of an executive team that didn't want to sit down and have tough conversations with staff.

As the article mentions, tons of other VC-funded companies have gone bankrupt before, but those bankruptcies did not end in disaster like Pollen did.
It was an effort to change the material fact that Americans were dying and not an effort to distort/hide the truth.
The real "practical" changes are thereby going to have to come from proactive regulation that prohibits certain forms of protection or corporate behavior

Indeed. Of course, trying to regulate crypto will bring everyone against (individual) privacy and freedom out in opposition, and forcing companies to not tie functionality to their private keys / force them to make public those keys would also make you an enemy of the "security" industry.

We live in an awkward time where bugs can be features

As the saying goes, "insecurity is freedom". We only got into this position because of corporate interests that oppose those of the user.
>GNOME is probably worst DE imaginable. After 20 years, they still don't have thumbnails in filepicker and even dropped preview side pane in GTK4.

Really disappointing to see this very lazy and trite criticism upvoted. If you look in KDE Plasma or Sway, you can also find plenty of missing features and bugs. You can find those anywhere.
Nice idea, thought it would presumably shift the dispute over platform fees to a dispute over "Apple botanical society dues."
How? Through a membership system or through ads or sponsors?

Lots of people hate the ad system, won't pay for an individual blog, and get tired of hearing/seeing thr same 10 generic internet sponsors (nordvpm, express vpn, skillshare, etc.)
Tell HN: Be aware of the Cloudflare vanity name servers
Cloudflare has been suggesting vanity name servers, which is an automated process to get that and generate the name server records. This, of course, is not enough - you also need to manually submit a ticket to them if they are your registrar, and so far, after more than 3 calendar days, they have not updated our domain putting our email delivery at risk. If you're using decent domain registrars (they don't seem to be one!), this feature is built right into the interface, and you can do this yourself. Not with Cloudflare! After submitting an urgent-level request, 2-3 hours later, there was no response. Then I reached a general support team member on chat and they promised that this will be escalated (although priority was already "urgent"). It didn't get escalated - it got de-escalated to "high". And more than 72 hours later, the issue still exist and MxToolbox gives us a bunch of warnings and our email ends up in spam! So, the moral of the story is that you shouldn't use Cloudflare for domain registrations! if it takes them days to attend urgent issues, and you cannot chat or speak to their registrar department!
I experience this too. People would literally rather make things up than admit they don't know or are not sure. Or they dress up a shallow/obvious response with impressive words and people accept it as a great answer.
Sacramento is like Austin without the PR… (if you know you said this lmk)
This isn't a contradiction: until you need Bitcoin (to leave) your demand for local currency is, effectively, infinite - because you're taxed in local currency. That's non-negotiable.

After you want to leave, the situation flips on you - as the only sort of person who would have local Bitcoin, you (the royal you) are the only potential source of it to people who want to leave, but now you want to retain it.

And there's the other side of the equation as well: once you leave, your situation flips again: you, and if there were actually a lot of people doing this you'd be in trouble - now have a desperate need to exchange Bitcoin into whichever local currency you actually land in, and you have to do so urgently in order to purchase food/shelter etc.

This is the fundamental problem with an unpegged exchange currency: the optimum rate of exchange is either 0, or infinite. Market factors, imperfect information etc. are why this isn't the case, but it is why Bitcoin swings wildly compared to any properly managed currency.

P.S. This is excluding other practical issues, like Bitcoin needing computers and internet access to work but in a time of instability access to banking is going to be extremely limited. Even if satellite internet is a thing, you're no longer going to have escrow services to conduct currency exchange - transacting in Bitcoin in a warzone involves taking a bunch of your actual resources in hand and somehow ensuring you don't get screwed in the exchange - and vice versa.
"Gift article" link: https://wapo.st/3do9Yev
The WTFPL is FSF-approved enough for me:

http://www.wtfpl.net/faq/
The cost of innovation is maintenance.

Well, no. Maintenance is the cost of stagnation. Look at New York, Chicago, or Berlin to see how electric rail has evolved over the years. BART is still the only system in the world running 1 kVDC. That means no matter who they buy from there's no commonality. For the most part it doesn't matter that Rohr went under. Although per the article current manufacturers are having trouble recreating the cab windows from the original BART cars - something that didn't need to be innovated on in the first place.

Muni (with a lot of effort) can run a fleet of trams that are 70–100 years old. They've modernized the propulsion where necessary and made whatever other changes were needed for compatibility. Part of the reason that's possible is that Muni runs a 600 volt system which is common worldwide (although largely supplanted by 750 volt setups). These antiques run in revenue and charter service all over the city and yet BART can't find windows for its cars that were built to its specifications.

BART ordered brand new bespoke trains from Bombardier and still uses a bespoke traction system (1000 V DC). Factor in BART's one-off driverless cable car and their standard gauge diesel line. In 15 years when stuff starts wearing out, which agency do you think is going to have a more difficult time with procurement and maintenance?

Caltrain is "heavy" rail, sure. Muni isn't. When they were new the PCCs were used globally (including in San Francisco) and serve as the basis for a number of modern designs. BART set out to be the sexy anti-rail and that's the problem. Fifty years on and they've doubled down on bespoke gadgetry.
So, they should also delay blocking of MV 2 if they aren't gonna give time to other developers. But nah, chromium team just wanted to block the comments so they don't get bad PR. Google is such a shame these days.
> R.I.P. Doug Ramsey's career as COO of Beyond.

You'd think so.

But I actually think this is great for his resume. The food and beverage industry is brutal. You need a tough competitor.
My point was more that it is not odd at all to be that way if you actually right about it (are the best, etc). Plus the fact that he is trying to suppress it shows that he knows it is the right thing to not be a dick. These things combined make your asserting that he somehow out-of-bounds statistically (personality wise) invalid, in my view.
Reminds me of Conway’s Game of Life, emulated inside Conway’s Game of Life:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8
That's actually not true.

The distance the ball flies has a lot more to do with bat speed than ball speed (something like 5mph for 1mph, if I recall correctly).