skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steam.

It was the case - and may still be - that during a sale if you bought a game, then another, then another that your account would be flagged and purchases blocked, effectively ending your sale. The only way around was to credit your account before the sale and spend through Steam's Wallet.

The 'own' thing is the same for Steam.

I go to my Steam Library and it shows games I 'own', but in reality I own none of them. I simply have a licence to play, a licence which can be revoked by Steam or the Developer or the Publisher or the Online Retail Store where I bought it and at any time they choose.

GOG. Itch.io. I own games that I purchase games there.
I don't know that I have any good questions to suggest that you ask yourself but I just want to point out that "average" or "normal" are not pejorative terms. There's absolutely nothing wrong with doing a fine job at work and then going home to enjoy reading a book or whatever hobbies you have.

The reason I point this out is that whenever I feel like you're feeling I eventually realize it's because I'm buying into the lie that I have to be a paragon of excellence at something for my life to be worth living or to get the most out of it. I think IT work, programming in particular, makes us think in terms of optimization but that's just not the way humans work. Of course we may want to "optimize" in small ways like healthy living or gaining skill at a hobby. There's nothing wrong with aspirations but there's also nothing wrong with being happy where you are with what you have.

I fell backwards into IT work after failing at the career I wanted out of college and then taught myself to program so I could sidestep into a developer role when I thought that would fulfill me. It didn't. I still have good days and bad days and sometimes the suspicion that I'm not fulfilling my potential creeps up on me. These are the ups and downs of real life, not problems to optimize away. My greatest pursuit lately has been growing in my ability to accept disappointment with equanimity.

To address your specific request, maybe some questions you could ask yourself are: Do I have realistic expectations about what a job is supposed to do for me? Is my job about me and what I want or is it a role I use to serve others?

One suggestion to top it off: It sounds like you're close to answering your own question when you talk about "humans and how we work, and how we use our brains." So, at the risk of being too blunt, maybe don't think so much about yourself. Maybe spend some time thinking about how you can grow in learning about humans, how they work, and how you can be of service to them as they ask themselves the same questions you're asking yourself.
> I must admit though, personally I still find it hard still to make someone else do something I myself loathe doing.

Not sure how you avoid it. I assume you don't pick all of your own apples or slaughter your own cows or mine your own iron or cobalt. Delegation is the cornerstone of civilization.
Armchair thought that the author never brought up - food with high protein “tasted gross” per author, until starting what they thought provided anti histamine activity. I know that if I have a stuffed nose from cold or allergy, I also find that food tastes miserable, because sense of smell is so important in human perception of taste.
Switzerland (I was as surprised as you are).

As far as I know, successful SEPA transactions are impossible to reverse. She was tricked during a weak moment into confirming via 2FA what she deemed a legit transaction, but as far as I can tell, she was on a fake banking website. The bank can claim willful negligence, which is hard (but maybe not impossible) to disprove.
See also /now pages[0] (a federated version of your gist points 1 and 2, i.e. creating and updating a post about what you are doing now)?

[0] https://nownownow.com/about
Does it? It looks like a generic photo sharing app to me. The iconography is different, the UI controls in the top are different and the list of faces at the top of the page are gone. The only matching icons I can see are the heart shape (hardly original) and the speech bubble for commenting (also hardly original).

For a company shamelessly copying from other apps, it's quite silly for Instagram to send a cease and desist letter to Pixelfed.
Are there any ”api from postgres db” projects that are written in Node.js?
Giuseppi Peano tried to get people to learn an "unconjugated latin" by writing mathematics in it. eg https://archive.org/details/formulairedemat04peangoog/page/n...
(mini rationale https://archive.org/details/formulairedemat04peangoog/page/n... )

Maybe set theory wasn't the best way of introducing a conlang, but I have to take my hat off for the weird flex.
I wish we could just buy DRM-free physical copies of ebooks, music, and movies on SDCard-sized ROM cartridges.
Not even remotely surprising.
> so for each of the purchase I created a new virtual card and bought them. After a few minutes my Amazon account is blocked for suspicious activity, and ALL my kindle library is wiped, and the funds are returned to my company.

I understand generating a virtual card for a per company basis, but what's the point of generating a card for every book you're buying? Besides the added hassle for little benefit, surely you can understand why such behavior might be considered "suspicious"?
Where does history show that? Are you serious? Humans are an outlier on Earth for which there is no other that has anywhere remotely the same level of intelligence. You may think that is aggrandizing humans but it is categorically true. You would need to provide sone world up-ending evidence to prove the contrary.

If you are also saying AIs will be a more intelligent species, able to adapt better on Earth than humans, that requires extraordinary evidence. A human could solve complex problems no other species it machine can solve on nothing more than a handful of rice for a week. Where is the similar scale species/machine?
My 6S does everything I need from an iPhone.
More but not three times as much according to your molecular weights (there are two iron atoms in the rust molecules)
This is pretty naive. Privacy is a great good and what parts of your privacy you give up and when should be up to you.

I've written two articles about my position on this, way too long for a comment here.

https://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide/

and

https://jacquesmattheij.com/trackers/

The latter got made into a play and still results in regular mail. "Giving up on Privacy" is the easy way out.
So long as society isn’t willing to address some basic matters, slavery and exploitation will exist.

Finite resources, unrestrained population growth, paired with rampant individualism where everyone wants more than their neighbour.

I wonder what the effects of having a perfect enforcement mechanism against exploitation would be ?
Would we finally plan resource allocation and population growth more reasonably ? I suspect it would just go horribly wrong somehow and we would end up in some version of Malthusianism.
It's a logical word (and, as I recall, I eventually went with it) in the sense of someone or something that pares. https://www.thefreedictionary.com/parer But it's fair to say that it's not especially common in the US. Someone would normally say they were going to the manicurist or ask you to hand them the paring knife--though, at least in the latter case, they might intuit the meaning from context.
Thank you. I wasn't catching that.
This is what .plan files we’re back in the day.
ChatGPT integration?
Don't forget that you don't even know which streaming service something is on. Americans will tweet something is on HBO or Peacock or whatever, but where the hell is it in Australia?

And Amazon is now doing this shady thing where the subscription includes every episode except the hold the last episode of each season hostage and make you buy it separately.
They are all WEF cronies.
Given that you earn more than most people ever will, do you not think you could save and attend school when you want?
You just listed a bunch of revenue sources SWA doesn’t have.
Pixelfed: just remove filters. They’re a relic of a time when phone cameras were basic.
Or just "rent" because that seems pretty close to the reality of the situation. Just have the rental term be long, and have it 'renew' for free. I'd be ok with that.
when i look for an ebook, i usually just do a google search for: "book name" intitle:"index of" "parent directory" pdf
Do you have kids yourself?

Just curious.
The irony when you supposedly pay for convenience.
What "stack" are you using for your personal projects that is both widely used but so poorly supported that a bug crops up that prevents you from forward progress? I am genuinely curious about this because I can say that I have never had that experience with something that is popular. Then again, I am an extreme minimalist when it comes to introducing 3rd party dependencies into the code that I write.
US farming is rife with indentured servitude / slave conditions, in cooperation with ICE and law enforcement
Barracuda Email Protection
"The world′s most comprehensive email protection, made radically easy." Why not GPG?
Apologies, I did not cut-and-paste but wrote it out, that was not intentional, and any change in the expression can be ignored, to me it still reads just the same, I checked my original comment and there I fortunately did get it right.
If you want to sell diet advice in many states, you have to be certified by them:

https://www.cdrnet.org/#
The studio execs literally went "well, we can't just have one dude in the movie, so let's add sex appeal by making GERTY an actual hot woman - but she is tied to the place and can never leave the premises, just like that robot".
I'm somewhat into FP concepts, and here is how I de-jargon these terms:

> transducers

Just a function composition operator. Notes: is aware of iterators like `reduce`, and merges multiple consecutive of such loops into one. (should optimizing compilers not strive to do this anyway?)

> monads

Literally just an "interface". For instance, you will be able to .map() it.

> algebraic effects

Resumable exceptions (you can go back to the "throw" with the corrected data)
Then they would be doing the same work for even worse pay and conditions back home.
You hit the nail on the head. Three questions that perfectly sum up the essay of a comment I just wrote.
My father did a Masters of Mechanical Engineering at age 70, as a full time degree. The only affordance to his age was being given an extra hour in the exams.

Following that, he started a Masters of Aeronautical Engineering. Until my mum suggested he spends more time with her at home.

Now he does gym circuit training with a group half his age, at 6am three mornings a week.

Hope I have that energy when I am his age...
This could only have been naively said 12 years ago. To me, this is cowardice.

Edward Snowden summarized it well.

"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."
They arrive at the same endpoint through different means. Too much concentrated power and wealth.
The idea behind Solana was and is fantastic. Designing for scaling on the native chain is the way to go. This is what Bitcoin was originally meant to do before its development roadmap was diverted from the original plans of Satoshi and to a lesser extend Gavin. There's nothing technically centralized about Solana, but the early VC funding and later support by FTX and SBF was unfortunate.
As a Brit, it seems useful to know whether it's literally true that people can buy slaves online in the UK, from amazon-style sites.

Modern slavery certainly happens - but I've never seen it on silkroad-style websites.

A post by someone online, who once talked to someone who said you could buy slaves online ain't exactly first-hand evidence - Perhaps someone was mistaken, or taken in by darknet scam artists.
In my experience (studying for my masters) most interesting professors have one class that they care about (the precise field that they are working on) and the rest could be taught by anyone else.

Being a good researcher is not correlated to being a good lecturer. Even at graduate-level I'd pick someone who is good a teaching over the absolute #1 in the field 9 times out of 10.
This is interesting, and would have been the relevant information for Guardian to provide in the article.
An IBM Quantum Computer Will Soon Pass the 1k-Qubit Mark
I wonder if somebody will file a class action... if it didn't happened yet, is maybe because some obscure corner of the law is on their side...

But seems strange that it is legal.
Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation (2020)
Consider the logic just as a sheet of paper. Sure, you DO need SOME sheet of paper to write down your proof, but that's about it.
It sounds like you have informed npm about the issue? If it is a widely faced issue, chances are that the maintainers will fix the bug. On the other hand you might be using npm in a way that is rather fringe.
> Hard to understand what 'πόλις' means per se, but not if I take you up a mountain and point at [3] while saying "πόλις".

This works in theory, I guess, but in practice it's just absolutely awful. the Rosetta Stone courses work like this and I spent about 6 months maybe? working through the Korean class. I was only able to form my own sentences because I also bought some grammar books that taught me about particles and the "topic" of a sentence that you put -ga or -i after (depending if it ends in a vowel or consonant) and several other similar concepts.

But also, even pointing at an object or showing pictures didn't work. I remember at one point being shown two pictures and thinking I was being taught "behind" and a word that English doesn't have, for "far behind." Ah, how interesting I thought! Nope, not at all. It was "near" and "far." The only reason I learned this is because I started screenshotting every slide to an actual Korean friend I had and asking for translations of every word (I'm sure I drove him crazy). The reason I stopped doing the class in fact was that he wasn't always awake when I wanted to do the lessons (ironically since he was Korean-American and I was awake in the middle of the night usually lol - if he'd lived in Korea our schedules would've aligned better).

Anyway, after that experience I don't agree with this method at all. Maybe complete immersion does work, because people can correct your misconceptions, but learning from a book without any feedback is a horrible experience.
Sure, that is chatGPT in late 2022.

What about Open.ChatGPT in mid 2024?
It has the actual API docs and all the SO questions to draw from. The GP is only using it as a summarization engine. It's quite impressive how well it performs this task.
In Poland there is no DRM on ebooks. Nobody uses Amazon, there is plenty of e-bookstores that sell them in all 3 formats (PDF, mobi, epub) and You can just download them od send via email form bookstore to device.

examples:
- https://virtualo.pl/ebooki/
- https://ebookpoint.pl/kategorie/ebooki
It’s now time to grow up and stop being outraged at people wanting to be paid for their work.
Bra fitting, no. It's a surprisingly hands on process (one reason I picked it up first as a side hustle was 'oooh automation proof work').

Bra production absolutely. There are certain markets of women who are almost completely neglected when it comes to well fitting bras. Large band small bust (40+ A-D) are completely screwed by the good bra brands. Same for women who are under a 28 or 30 band. The economics just don't make sense for the brands to produce those sizes. Also bras for elderly women or the disabled that have more hooks, rely less on tension, etc. and basically accommodate for mobility or sight limitations.

Where I think tech could be very helpful is marrying JIT manufacturing with CNC fabric cutting to produce single bras or small batches for this economic 'long tail'. Think 1 hour glasses stores where you could go in, get fit, and just have one made if you happen to be one of the neglected demographics.
‘The sheer strength of the dollar’ is weird to me. Inflation rates with the dollar seem to speak to it weakening, but local non-US economies must be doing even worse if the dollar is coming out so strong. Perhaps there is a factor I am missing?
I don't understand this anecdote. What was objectionable about what the woman said (if anything). I'm a leftist and I think its important to recognize that value does not come from nothing, but is the result, one way or another, of labor, which is all she seems to be acknowledging.
The limited monopoly isn't just for survival though, it's supposed to be an incentive.
right but what fraction of ppl follow these dieticians. Let alone whole of "us nutrition"
> Ok yes all true. But if authors cannot make a living then what?

97% of authors do not make a living off their writing. (https://authorscast.com/how-many-writers-make-a-living-writi...)

> What if the content was sourcecode for your non-open-source software - would you still feel the same way?

Personally I like to write code, not run a business. I let others pay me to do that so I don't have to deal with that when I work on my own projects. I like this arrangement as a creator as work keeps me exercising my writing so I can build more interesting things. I find I'm more creative when I stay in that programming mindset.

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I think the best idea we (humanity) has had for supporting the arts has been patronage. It lets artists build up a following over time who might include enough people willing to contribute to supporting them produce more work. The internet gives this idea a lot more power than it used to have and has become the default model for many artists on the net.

TLRD; support the people directly without holding their work prisoner
It seems this applies to other countries as well. E.g Colombia is expected to increase it's GDP this year between 8.1% and 8.3%[1]

[1] https://www.oecd.org/economy/colombia-economic-snapshot/
i was chalking it up to the language difference as well, i was aware that english isn’t your first language. i see what you are saying but for example i have a black engineer who works for me, and he’s one of my best. and neither of us think he is a slave. nobody native speaking english would bat an eye at that sentence even formed that specific way. with the comma though, i would agree with you. it’s subtle.
As Amazon announced Kindle services will be shutdown in China, they informed that all your books will not be downloadable after close. Books will be readable if you keep it in your original kindle devices.
They won’t provide DRM-free books you purchased even before server shutdown.
I’ve used Prest (the Go reimplementation of PostgREST) because I could more easily customize or bring it in as a library in a larger application.
> Amazon doesn't have a shopping card for kindle books

I think you mean shopping cart? And yes it's astonishing that on Amazon today you can't add a Kindle book to a regular shopping cart (or any cart), or even save it for later! Which is something I would want to do often.

I don't understand the reasoning (or the technical difficulty). It's just bad service.
There are plenty items on this list, but here is a few:

* No infrastructure unless you drive a bike. So children, older or disabled people mostly have to stay at home.

* Lack of recreational infrastructure in cities. There are some parks, but it not a place where you would want to go.

* Air quality in big cities is actually terrible.

* Smaller and more touristic places have better infrastructure and air, but have no entertainment whatsoever. Like having single shopping mall for city with 300,000 population.

* Free education is very lacking. There are paid options, but they are expensive even for rich vietnamese.

* Same true for medical services. Yeah you might find cheap dentist, but for some health problems you will need to look options outside of Vietnam.

* No pension system unless you been working for government.

Some of issues can of course be compensated by fact of how cheap human labour is, but unfortunately having personal maid and cook wont help you with entertainment for your family or quality of air.
It also wouldn’t be an issue if you just didn’t create a new card for every transaction. I feel like I’m missing context on why anyone would do that.
The apps that I write pull data, process it, and write it to another sink.

There are many different sources and sinks, but the processing pipelines tend to be the same.

Based on my research these abstractions are designed for this. Feel free to elaborate why I'm incorrect, or better abstractions.

I brought it up in the discussion relating to CRUD, because it's very similar to the code I used to write for straight CRUD. In fact both ends of the processing pipelines are identical to CRUD.
Is supabase what you're describing?

I could be wrong but I think they use postgREST underneath.
> People think slavery is a relic of the past but We have the highest number of slaves now in history of humanity.

Like Eva Kaili who was defending Qatar in the European Parliament. In that case it seems that a few bags of money was the culprit for her ignorance though, along with a few drinks in some kitsch club there.
I've always wondered about this without trying it myself. Isn't this be something that looks ideal to start with, but as the project progresses and the edge cases keep stacking, you end up writing a complete middle layer, which effectively turns out to be your own framework?
Core I5-1350P Benchmarks Leak: Barely Beats Predecessor
You don't even have to do that last step and you'll be doing more debugging than is necessary to do that. Just do the elephant carpaccio yourself then feed it the slices and glue the shit it excretes out together and boom you have MVP.
Via reddit/r/bestof https://old.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/zw5lsl/southwest_pi...

"So the storm came and it impacted ground ops so bad that many many crews were now “unaccounted” for and the system in place couldn’t keep up. Then it happened for several more days. By Xmas evening the CS department had essentially reached the inability to do anything but simple, one off assignments. And to make matters worse, the phone system was updated not too long ago and it was not working well."

"I used to work for a large company trying to fill the void [huge gap in the market for good aviation scheduling software], and our software was damn good too. SW was one of the airlines interested, we would demo it exactly like the scenario today, but it was "too expensive" and they stayed on their homebuilt stuff."
As Silicon Valley Retrenches, a Tech Talent Shift Accelerates
I do not know, but the people they certify, and only they are allowed to certify, are working in hospitals and advising patients, and their advice is legally protected by various state governments.

I doubt the dietician giving advice to patients is announcing the conflict of interest.
The study itself: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01463-5
Are you aware of how lithium ion batteries are made?
Do you have any references to learn more? I've looked at [1]

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-pr...
That is strange that Amazon does not let you “shopping cart” Kindle books since they support batch buying audio books on Audible.

Some people here mentioned that Kindle books can be taken away, like 1984 was. I try to split eBook purchases between Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play Books. Google Play Books have the advantage that they are almost always shareable with family members.

Also, I write in the Leanpub.com platform and I also buy a fair number of other people’s leanpub books. You get 3 formats without DRM: Kindle, ePub, and PDF. Authors also get 80% royalties.