skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The AppStore pricing system and later the quick domination of the "free to play" model initiated at the same time a gold rush and a race to the bottom that has been immensely profitable for a few lucky companies that understood the trend early enough and/or had the cash to sustain large campaigns of so-called "customer acquisition".

I think the net effect has overall been detrimental for users and companies alike.

99p games should never have existed in the first place.
I don’t understand why people are obsessed with extinction as some great evil - it’s as evil as the concept of death itself; killing something is evil (or is it not? Outside humans even this isn’t considered unnatural), but something dying naturally is not.

Clearly many animals have gone extinct because of humans (many memorable ones before humanity developed a sufficiently profound collective consciousness that could ponder about this), but I don’t see how there’s any moral, ethical or natural urge to repent and offer reparations for this. Species die, that’s the natural order of things for species in general and if this round of mass extinction is humanity induced then we should focus on reducing its scale instead of trying to go undo it as if that absolves us of anything.

This says nothing about the scientific ability to do this, anyway, which as this article points is mostly BS. My general experience is if you try to do something that doesn’t make full logical economical and moral sense, you end up with this charlatan group. Crypto is another example of the same.
I can share further details by email, but the gist is we enable much faster gas exchange for microalgae cells compared to existing systems, inside a unique reactor design that gives us some other benefits for common cultivation processes.
It has to be company wide. If you take 80% and everyone else does 100% you end up missing important meetings or just having to make up the work when you get back.
With movies, I find it to be the opposite. I might recognize the old movies as better in many ways, but their pacing is excruciatingly slow compared to modern movies. It takes a layer of appreciation to get through many of them.
For your PC I would run, the green/recommended settings:

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

That turns off a lot of annoying shit but does not break your OS install like all those shady github scripts do.
Agree. The closer the display is to the eyes, the more pixels are needed to make it convincing. I feel the tech is close though. The 2016 HTC Vive (1080 × 1200/eye) is quite pixelated, but the 2020 Index headset (1440 × 1600/eye) looks smooth and clear.
A wedge for developers looking to boost Linux: make small, quality games that distribution makers can be convinced to include. MicroSoft did this with Minesweeper and Solitaire, and far more people than you might think demanded Windows not because it could do the tasks they wanted, but because it had the simple recreations they desired and had grown used to. The best way to crowd out the ad-laden and micro-transaction app models is to make small, very well-made, free games the norm. There are some of these games available for Linux, but most lack the polish and discoverability that are necessary to get attention and help bring people over.
Why it is so surprising, when delivery of product/solution in most cases prioritized over quality/efficiency to very large degree, eg. good enough delivery in 3 month is more profitable, then perfect product in year or so.
A decade ago mobile app gaming showed promise, no real hits but the medium showing that it has legs

A decade later it is worse than anyone imagined, no real hits just a couple games from that earlier era because they’re the only ones you can play offline at all

if I'm missing some gems let me know!
> Sure, the market is global though.

It can be in certain cases but not in all. I may have to hire someone with a certain clearance for example. Or, we don't have a business subsidy setup globally. Or we have TZ preferences because of communication issues. As a manager I wouldn't want to hire someone half way across the world because my 1-on-1 time with them would always be awful for one of us. So I don't.

You are of course free to set your own market rate. I think it's great you want to discuss salary expectations up front because there's no point in everyone wasting their time. At a smaller company you'll have a better chance of getting sway with it, but keep in mind they tend to pay below market rate anyways.

At a medium to large company they source data which describes for certain roles what market rate is. We know this because companies participate in giving this anonymized data so we can slice it up by region as well. From this we can calculate a "comp ratio" and your salary will gravitate towards 1.0, which is perfect market price for your role in your region. This is how budgets are set. Every region is put into a bucket (premium, average, bargain for example) and priced by that bucket. We can then open a role in "average or below" regions, for example if we don't want to pay extra. We tend to want to offer below 1.0 so we have room for negotiation and also for merit increases.

> I guarantee I can provide the same level or more productivity as a remote engineer in New York as I do in the rural south.

I don't doubt that but it's not really a surplus value theory thing here. If I could get the same person close to me VS far away for the same money then I'd hire the person close to me, which is almost always in a big city and not the rural south.
So Castes exist but should people start using the phrase different-caste instead of higher-caste, lower-caste, etc.
Wife and I were just talking about the idea a few days ago.
Swapping the entire big battery of a car seems like a big ask, and opens up issues of "swapping a brand new battery to an highly used one" etc. What I would rather like is an extendable range in EVs. Sell me a 100KM range car that I will use as-is most of the year. When I go on trips, I'd like to be able to stop the car somewhere, toss it a couple of battery modules (like filling up gas), and that should equip me to drive until next such stop in two or three hours. At the end of my trip, I could simply return the battery modules for a refund of deposit.
> We're owned and controlled by institutional corporate shareholders.

Government is still in charge.

It just chooses to be captured, even though its first job - which it gets paid for by extracting money by force - is to not be captured.
It's not like there aren't a lot of other games to play out there. The market for mobile entertainment is about as competitive as any.
They supplied data from the state showing the longer trend line. Scroll up a few comments.

Both posters are correct, and supplied data.

Crime rates are half what they used to be, that's true. Crime rates have also gone up very recently, that's also true.

No need to be so hostile.
Doctors, lawyers, and engineers are generally treated with much more respect than engineers.
For enterprise, yea you/they would and should trust MS more than Google for sure.
The owner of the gas station also sells crack cocaine on the side. The longer people stay to fill up their vehicle, the more likely it is they'll purchase some crack cocaine. Right now, most of their clientele fill up without leaving their car, but the ones with electric cars will stay for up to an hour. So, considering both the refueling business and the crack cocaine business, the best move is to rip up the gas pumps and install more electric vehicle chargers.
Probably. I wonder how many people will just lie.
It's been drifting from melting pot to multiculturalism for (at least) the past few decades - distinct independent cultures that interact with each other, without leaving the baggage behind.
I believe the tool takes data from multiple sources including airline reservation systems, baggage handling systems, refuelling systems and cabin crew confirming people are correctly seated on handheld devices and validates it for consistency before performing a standardised set of calcs. In which case the safety argument for having that airgapped from the flight computer, which receives only a few final calculated values (manually input by a pilot who also can potentially spot outliers) is probably stronger than the safety argument for integrating everything or manually inputting a large number of values into the flight computer (creating potential remote attack vectors and increased likelihood of human error respectively).

Would have thought lower than ideal safety margins on takeoff speed (the calculations were apparently <20% off the true value) were a more concerning problem
Roman soldiers were side-hustlers
Found this one interesting. A rare papyrus was discovered in Masada, Israel. It’s the paycheck of a Roman legionary soldier dated to 72 CE, during the period of the Great Revolt of the Jews against the Romans. This is one of three paychecks ever discovered in the Roman Empire, and it includes some interesting info. It details the soldier’s salary over two pay periods (there would have been three periods per year), and includes deductions for boots, a linen tunic, and barley fodder for his horse. Basic equipment would have been covered by the Empire, but apparently, these items weren’t quite basic enough (who needs boots or a shirt, am I right?). The deductions almost exceeded the soldier’s salary, which begs the question, “Why enlist?” From a monetary perspective, apparently looting and various other side-hustles often made it worth their while. One example is a loan between a Roman soldier and a Jewish resident from the time of the Bar Kokhaba Revolt (132-135 CE). The deed was found a while back and the interest rate was so high that it wasn't even legal at the time.
Show HN: Graphic – A grammar of data visualization and Flutter charting library
Graphic is a grammar of data visualization and Flutter charting library, with there features:

- A Grammar of Graphics: Graphic derives from Leland Wilkinson's book The Grammar of Graphics, and tries to balance between theoretical beauty and practicability. It inherits most concepts, like the graphic algebra.
- Declarative and Reactive: As is encouraged in Flutter, the chart widget of Graphic is declarative and reactive. The grammar of data visualization is implemented by a declarative specification and the chart will reevaluate automatically on widget update.
- Interactive: With the signal and selection mechanism, the chart is highly interactive. It is easy to pop a tooltip or scale the coordinate.
- Customizable: With the shape and figure classes, it's easy to custom your own element, tooltip, annotation, etc.
- Dataflow Graph and Operators: Graphic has a internal structure of a dataflow graph and operators. That is how the reactive reevaluation and interaction is implemented.
To be fair, I do think they were referring to Sony Online Entertainment. However I do admit I have no idea why as using Sony would have been understood just as well.
Not a single one of those movies are an actual argument against a real de-extinction project.
Show HN: UpvoteRate – Towards a fairer ranking formula for Hacker News
Hello HN! About 1.5 years ago we published an idea on how to improve the Hacker News ranking algorithm (https://felx.me/2021/08/29/improving-the-hacker-news-ranking...). The main idea was to counteract the rank-upvotes feedback loop by using attention as negative feedback.

We received very valuable input from the HN community (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28391659), and have since come up with something that we think could be a real contribution: the upvoteRate metric. upvoteRate is an estimate of how much more or less likely users are to upvote a story compared to the average story. We think this provides more stable and meaningful comparisons between stories. We would propose it as an alternative to the simple upvote count (which is distorted by feedback loops) in the ranking formula.

A Hacker News client called "Quality News" shows this metric for live Hacker News data (https://news.social-protocols.org/). And you can read about how we calculate this metric here: https://github.com/social-protocols/news#readme

We hope for interest and support from the Hacker News community to encourage official ranking experiments on the Hacker News frontpage.
I lived in the Yukon for four years, been all over Alaska hunting, hiking fishing.

I’ve Been stalked by a big grizzly a couple of times, almost rode into a big female who the started frothing at the mouth, stamping her feet and snarling while 10 feet away. I assure you, there is no fight.

Even a modest grizzly will take the door off a cabin in one swipe without slowing down. The bear will annihilate you in a second or two.

Of course a gun changes the equation, Though plenty of people have shot grizzlies many times and still been killed. I believe the outcomes are statistically worse for those with a gun
Track Errors in Your NestJS Application with AppSignal
The generic law for that is: any methodology that intends to take power away from the managers will be thoroughly corrupted and inverted after adoption
IKEA used to ship solid wood products -- and laminated pine-strip items too -- in flat boxes.

Back in the 90s, I bought a solid wood bookshelf and a laminated pine strip coffee table from them. They were structurally sound and very durable. In fact, a couple of years ago, I repurposed the bookshelf to create a built-in.

So it's definitely do-able!
Part of our org operates a couple of box trucks for equipment delivery and other stuff - this type of thing would be a boon to us, I’d assume the an electric truck would be like an electric car with reduced maintenance, etc.

Being able to keep these things rolling and deal with battery warranty claims without downing a truck would be a real cost saver - when trucks break down it’s really expensive to either reschedule or lease short term.
Yes it's down. There's downdetector.com for this, BTW.
It isn't what the author intended but I come away from reading this more confident that mammoth de-extinction will happen.
No? The issue is that a tragedy happened and the community wants their leaders to show a shred of empathy. If people found out that the text came from a website selling email templates written by humans, they would still be upset.
I would be just happy to pay for new, interesting and challenging, levels for Angry Birds "the thing" 1.0.

But, when the gameplay is so absurdly easy you can beat everything with one finger, all the levels are pointless, and most of screen real estate is dedicated to selling you gems or ability to resume playing level after losing it, it just does not make any sense. You have to seriously be mentally retarded to play it.
> I don’t want to be A/B tested for retention and mean time between visits in my doctor’s office.

They'll have to be a bit careful with regulation here if they do try it. Clinical trials are where you do that sort of thing.
I was searching this a bit more online and someone suggested another "good" reason for such a sign: backing in hides the rear-mounted license plate. I'm sure that's the reason in at least some places (such as airport parking), as it is common for police to run the plates of every car both to determine how long you've parked and also to check for outstanding tickets.

Most states in the US do not require a front-mounted plate.
Yeti AT72, on Jan 15th 2023, both propellers went into feather
Language (and, equally important, language culture) absolutely does matter. There is a reason why Julia ML development is pushing academic boundaries and doing really cool experiments with automatic differentiation, while Python ML development is more focused on applying ML to different fields and developing and deploying simpler, more robust, models to production in industry.
The thing with mobile games is that you make 90% of your money on 0.001% of your players - the big spenders. It's "better" to have a free game where a wealthy player can spend $10k on gems or whatever, than a one-time paid game. It's a sad state of the market, but that's how the big companies make money.
I don't understand, is it because they do not want to change its monetization to ads and IAP's? How is having this game in the App Store making them lose money?
Yes. You can argue about the bytestrings being identical until the cows come home, but the vast majority of people believe that natural language text has invisible metadata tags denoting who wrote it and why. When the task is “communicating with people”, you have to respect their consensus reality.
I switch health insurance systems when I switch jobs, in most cases, causing me to switch my network of providers. I haven't had a years long relationship with any medical provider sans a specialist I pay out of pocket, if necessary, to see. Maybe the service Amazon provides won't enable what you're looking for, but what about this instead:

- Standardize health records (detailed visit summaries, all tests and lab results, all visits to referrals or specialists)

- Fast appointment times (single digit days)

- A minimum standard of service. Doctors who won't immediately rush you out the door without solving the root cause, who won't prescribe you medication that they were sold over lunch, who'll listen to your symptoms, and because the outcome is measured by Amazon's uncaring data collection machinery, they're incentivized to actually solve the issue.

- Affordable health insurance plans and prescription drugs

The above is already leagues ahead of what my friends and family have access to or deal with. For those with the means, I'm sure there will be premium offerings that may check some of the boxes you're looking for. I think there's space for Amazon's uncaring, industrial approach to do good for people and improve quality of life.
My favorite was one where the top answer was:

> No, there is no such feature, so I made a custom hotkey: Ctrl + `

And then a few years later Microsoft implemented the feature and made the default hotkey Ctrl + `

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I felt a bit of trepidation editing a top answer with >1k votes, but I did it: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/43012779/revisions

Probably they need a deprecate-answer feature instead.
The techno optimist in me sees this as so cute and quaint.

In the future all of these messages may very well be generated based on rules and training provided by the organization itself.

Hand crafting communication will fall in to the "why bother?" bucket of work.

The only difference will be that nobody will ever put a message in the footer to declare it was generated by AI. The cultural Rubicon has probably been crossed already, or will be soon.
I think there’s a claim in there that’s probably wrong. The author says that a person can perform poorly on an IQ test and still seem witty, or that a person might seem bright and engaging but be bad at math, and uses these facts to claim that human social behavior is a low cognition task - rather than that the particular benchmarks they have chosen are weak predictors of human cognition.
I must need more coffee, my first thought was that the bug must have been enormous for anybody on the plane to feel it being run over.
> Critics say that Colossal’s money would be better spent in protecting existing species

Ah, ye old whataboutism canard... it seems to be forgetting that this technology would have an immense value by itself!

> True de-extinction is nowhere near possible.

I'm not sure I can parse the convoluted English here. Are we saying it's impossible? I see no evidence in the article that it is correct. Are we saying it's really hard? Sure, but no one claimed otherwise.

I am not the kind of person that tends to have starry-eyed faith into any appealing idea, and perhaps it is truly hard to "resurrect" a dead species. However it seems to me that it's obviously doable at some level: Craig Venter has created a synthetic bacterium so I don't see why a particularly simple life form can't be "de-extincted".

I realize though that multicellular organism are much harder and quite far away from our current capabilities, but impossible? I don't see why.
For enterprise, it is accurate.

More and more are switching to Edge as the default if they have Office 365 as it all syncs and you are paying them so there is some trust there.

It is also an OS thing. If you are on Windows, the best protection, NOWADAYS, is going to be Microsoft stuff. Yes they used to be bad in the XP days but Edge + Windows defender + ublock now you have good protection for free.
I and several other programmers I know use a 43" monitor an arms distance away.

I run it at native resolution, like it's 4 1080p monitors glued together with no bezel.

I can definitely tell reading text is exactly like reading from a 1080p monitor compared to my retina display macbook screen right next to it.

A 43" 8k monitor for $750 or so would be an insta-buy for me.
Funny how the United States is speedrunning ""sensible"" legislation without considering what it entails in the country the practice originates from. And yep, once enforced it's never going away. I guess people can now look forward to ever-convoluted steps for mitigating issues caused by this, and it'll fill the coffers of anyone that puts his stake into it. Better for the lawmakers, crap for literally everyone else.

BTW, to anyone that hasn't lived in India: you don't understand how extensive """caste discrimination""" is or how it impacts society. You just don't.
I always thought that such sites only ping web servers, that they don't check functionality.
> Why not just send a (< $1000) low cost drone to kill these?

Where can I buy this for < $1000 ?
Hi. Would you use the phrase lower-caste?

Do you think a potential change would be to stop using that phrase?
C-f "cultural appropriation"... nope.
The article also illustrates the problem of the gap between research and development.

We have a bunch of technologies mentioned that are perhaps out of the pure basic research stage, but need to be developed a bunch. Developing those can be done independently and in parallel, but is that happening? Trying to put them all together probably is premature as the article suggests, and yet this is the easiest way to raise money because it is catchy.
"When" that happens, I'm extremely curious how and if the remaining incumbents will be able to leverage their dominant positions/technology/ip/etc to establish a footing in whatever new technology supplants the existing.

I'm not really talking about whether they'll be too ignorant to recognize the impending existential risk and take action, but these companies are much more than just ASML customers that know how to use lithograph machines. They have layered stacks of mind boggling processes, expertise and experience.

Will this new technology be so revolutionary and disruptive that all their advantages are rendered obsolete insofar as competing in this new arena.

I guess if anyone could answer any of these questions they wouldn't be sitting around here talking about it on HN :)