skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know I'm biased since, um, I do customer support for Plaid (sort of), but I think Plaid's customer support is pretty good, actually? It's all in-house, the agents are all technical and it's rare that they give a wrong answer, and I see them going the extra mile all the time to solve stuff for customers. The main cases where I've seen people get annoyed at support are when the issue is on the engineering side (or, more commonly, the bank side) and support can't really do anything about it. Sorry, I just had to chime in there since support never gets enough credit.

To some of the rest of your questions -- IMO, Plaid and Stripe both have pretty good developer experiences and are fairly easy to integrate with. I can't say much about Stripe's product offerings as I'm not an expert there. It also doesn't have to be one or the other -- you can use Plaid and Stripe in the same app for different use cases, and there's even an active Plaid / Stripe partnership.
I use both these and am happy with both. Porkbun was the best deal I found on the AI tld.
> The two hotels, as appraised in 2016 for the current loan, were worth a combined $1.56 billion. So it's a significant move that Park Hotels would walk away from debt that is less than half that amount — and as one analyst tells the Business Times, "it says that they are not optimistic that the business travel or convention and meetings business is going to return soon to downtown San Francisco."

$1.56B marked down to $275M (the value of the loan)... Things may be getting real bloody in commercial real estate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe

https://www.pcworld.com/article/486995/jailbreakme_30_how_do...
But there is no similarity between Reddit and Substack, how are they competing exactly?
I've found this to be true of many Starbucks locations. I usually do buy/drink a tea/coffee or two, but have never felt any pressure to keep buying. It might be an unwritten/unknown policy to allow this. I recall reading that Starbucks intentionally serves as a kind of 'third place'. Here's one[0] I just googled.

[0] https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2022/reimagining-the-t...
i said effectively because the s isn’t really in reach for most. i mean even the x isn’t really
Meta Wants Companies to Make Money Off Its Open-Source AI in Challenge to Google
I seem to recall very Android phone I've had came with an app called "Files". If not named "Files", they always had some kind of baked-in file browser. The last few phones have been Pixels, I don't remember exactly the specifics of the one on the Motorola devices I had prior, but on the Pixel devices its this app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

No ads. Sure, it tries to group things by categories and searching at the very top, but its still easy to see "Storage devices" which lets me navigate the actual folder structure. My Pixels have come with USB-C male to USB-A female adapters which allow me to plug in things like flash drives, memory card readers, cameras, external hard drives, even other Android devices and access the files through the Files app.
For my gaming group, most of the appeal of Tilt5 isn't "AR Dnd maps", but being able to play complex, multi-piece tabletop games without as much up-front expense or setup time.

There's games like Big Trouble in Little China that are a blast to play, but require quite a bit of setup, maneuvering minis around, managing mini character-sheets, etc. If Tilt5 could automate most of that, it would be fantastic. Essentially, let it push the miniatures around for me, to the right places, and without me having to purchase and store the enormous box containing all of the gear. I'm sure Tilt5 takes up a fair bit of space, but so do 10 games of the same complexity as BTiLC!

Not to mention the many great games that were only ever sold as a limited release, have gone out of print, etc.

Is this actually possible with Tilt5 today? I'm guessing licensing issues would make it a challenge. TableTop Simulator seems to get around licensing by essentially being a big sandbox the community can create anything for, but the application itself is so heavy and complex it's not very fun in practice (IMO, for our group).
It's probably some contractual obligation as a registrar.
isnt it interresting that ghislaine is captured, a trial happens, where it is established that girls are traficked for wealthy individuals, and yet it was never thought of to ask whom these wealthy individuals were? oh well, i guess im just retarded to think this might be important information.... carry on, nothing to see here
As someone who dealt with Java and Python 20yrs back, I don't think Java is a valid comparison.

Java had a terrible or non existent OS integration story - it didn't even try to have OS native stuff. It was it's own separate island that worked best when you stayed on the island. On Linux, Python was included in the OS so you had the two worlds of distro packaging and application development/deployment dependencies already in conflict. Macs also shipped their own Python that you had to avoid messing up. And on Windows Python was also trying to support the standard download a setup.exe method for library distribution. Java only ever had the developer dependency usecase to think about.

Before Maven most Java apps just manually vendored all their dependencies into their codebase, or you manually wrangled assembling stuff in place using application specific classpaths and additions to path env vars etc.
Washington is not separate from the United States, and income is
taxed in the United States, and 7% at $250k plus doesn’t close the gap between it and normal (or, a fortiori, specifically labor, which has additional taxes on top of general income tax) income.

The fact that Washington wasn’t further widening that gap between labor capital taxes by taxing regular income before adopting its capital gains tax is tangential.
Are these new statements or rehashed from earlier in the week? If they're new, this guy seriously needs to hire some PR firm to review what he says, because he's putting on a master class of how to dig yourself into a deeper hole:

> “I didn’t know — and this is my fault — the extent that they were profiting off of our API. That these were not charities"

Only non-profits can use our API. So now we're charging for it (but we're not offering any exemptions for non-profits). And if it's too expensive for anyone who had the gall to generate revenue in exchange for spending years of their life improving our platform, then it's best they shut down! If our arbitrary prices are too high for them, then we don't want their money anyway!

What a ridiculous implication. I mean, this is one step away from announcing that you're suing Apollo for the money they made in App Store purchases.
It actually does, it just can't decide if it wants to be authoritarian or permissive in dealing with its social problems, so even though we throw a lot of money and resources at these problems, they aren't very effective. What's more is that every city/state/locality has its own strategy, and they are all different.
Try hover.com. They have never sent me spam and upsell attempts are very minimal during purchase (mostly for their email service, I think).
Reddit CEO slams protesters, calls them “landed gentry”
> Giving away a service for free, Huffman said, is not something Reddit would be able to do forever.

> "We've been subsidizing other business for free for a long time. We're stopping that. That is not a negotiable point," Huffman said. "We simply were in a unsustainable position."

We’ve all seen this playbook a million times. Apollo is an excellent product and I’m sorry to see anyone put in a precarious position, but what could you really expect? They’re not going to grow at a loss till the end of time.
Only in that they are the last line of defense for non commercial content
Ukraine HIMARS Strike Kills 100 Troops Waiting for Commander's Speech
Holy crap, I totally missed that requirement. This product now goes straight in my do-not-buy list.
Yes, one could install a Windows VM, set up a passthrough USB port and do everything from there, but seriously, what's the logic behind requiring Windows for a board that runs only Linux?
For stuff like stadia, which has no real identical products, a transfer would indeed be nicer.

But the whole sell of the google domains product is that you are getting a domain from Google. If it is no longer from google, the product is largely indistinguishable from those from other large cloud providers like Cloudflare or AWS (or more boutique or focused offerings like Porkbun and Namecheap).
> Mostly because they either don’t know any better..

Who is disrespecting the users now?
Let us not forget many other app develops revealing they got the ghost up until at least the ama and he was all “woops”

I find it ironic he says they should grow up. You know who makes up narratives in their head and when challenged on it still tries dig in and blame me. My 5 and 7 year old…

There’s your sign.
disagree, the 1% one is more unique and does display individuality
Cassette Tape Data Recovery [video]
The arrow points are pretty amazing too
How do we know the Apollo guy is innocent either? I get a populist kind of vibe from him.
It's obviously unattainable for most of the population to accept the are seeing something they can't explain (even if "the government" knows what these things are), nor they get to understand the further consequences of the several rational hypothesis available.

Even being rational, these hypothesis and what happens next if one of them is true, surpass everything recognizable for the daily standard human experience anywhere in the planet, hence these things can't exist.

That's it.
> I don't think we are in any way equal in abilities both inborn and acquired.

Well, sure, I didn't say anything that disagrees with that at all. But you phrased it in a more general sense of being less capable.

Perhaps I read it wrong, but that didn't sound like you were saying "I'm less capable at X", rather that you were saying you were less capable in general. That was the sentiment I was pushing back on.

And I wasn't even saying that assessment was wrong. I was just saying that it's the sort of sentiment that can easily come from incorrectly underestimating one's self and so deserves a deeper look.
Good thing you can pay them to take care of those things if you don't want to invest effort in finding out for yourself.
> 17.27% of men don’t live to age 60, and another ~6%, or 23.57% of men overall, don’t make it to age 65.[1] For reference, one must typically be age 59.5 before they can withdraw from their 401k without penalty.

You are making the almost certainly mistaken assumption that the population of men who "live below [their] means to max out [their] 401k" are representative of the overall population of American men with regards to life expectancy.
So, another Framer.com.
I read the book long before I went to work in tech. In my mind, it really helps with troubleshooting software issues as I feel better qualified to "fix the thing that's wrong" if I have a complete understanding of all the moving parts. So many people i work with freeze if a restart doesn't work. They don't consider at all the overall design of "the thing"
I'm not familiar with how IT works in Germany. What's different about it? Got any stories?
A CEO trying to play the class card on its own users is of course -- serious cognitive dissonance.
Didn't they have some controversy recently where they screwed over their initial users?
Maybe, instead of having two password fields, they should have a single password field that you cannot type in, but can only paste in, forcing everybody to use a password vault.
If it's a retro-reflector, how's all the footage on the site showing that images are appearing outside the retroreflective area and on top of the tracking markers?
No it is not.

If you want to reach peak performance single-threaded app with no locks is the way to go, and work being sharded (not shared) among multiple single-threaded apps.

Multi-threaded apps with shared state introduce more complexity, than the performance when compared to multiple single-threaded apps running asyncio event loop.

For example LMAX Disruptor
"Apache Kafka"...
Talitrix Prison-Monitoring System Tracks Inmates Down to Their Heart Rate
Good luck. Even with a CS degree it took me months and hundreds of applications to find a job.
Quora became rotten before it riped, Medium was blogger 2.0 and was doomed from the start
According to the App Store rules for iOS, An app can’t withhold functionality when you deny it GPS access unless it’s required for the app’s functionality.

Why would I use an app that requires unnecessary permissions?
> As of today it's $6014 a year without tax.

Wow, that just sucks, even more so if you actually shopped around.

I was quoted $2-300/month for my BMW i4, switched insurance companies and got it back down to $100/month.
No more noise!
I believe he was making a pretty decent joke there. At least, I'm pretty sure he knew that Socrates didn't literally say "Mo money mo problems", either.
Um. Copious phone/meeting recordings he shared that you can listen to yourself?
The whole point of the filing-cabinet abstraction is to reify my access to something in some app. It's not a purely technical concept, it represents an affordance that users do care about. We went through this before; programs used to be written without any generalized notion of a file, and you'd have to work with things like "unit" records represented on punched cards, and "datasets" meaning collections of unit records. There's no reason to go back to that kind of chaos.
I’m sorry to hear of your pain but it’s good to hear you’re managing to cope with it.

Buddhism is an interesting philosophy definitely. It had an influence on David Hume’s bundle theory (that an object is just a collection of properties, instead of having a single substance that persists as the object’s properties change). That recently reminded me of structural vs physical/referential equality in programming.

It’s kind of weird come to think of it that an atheist like Hume was so heavily influenced by “religion” come to think of it (some ideas like his version of Occasionalism were influenced by Islamic philosophers too). Didn’t notice the before.
He posted recordings of all the calls. Feel free to review those before spreading FUD.

Reddit has not disputed the validity of the recordings either.
Making Sense of SSD Smart Stats
> “And I think on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get their first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”

The moderators are volunteers who work for free. The landed gentry were rent seekers who sought to live entirely from that income. If anyone is the landed gentry here, it's Hoffman.

Maybe he should allow Reddit users to vote on retaining him as CEO seeing how important democracy is to him.

What an asshole.
Being able to save the state of the board, for easy resuming later, is a killer feature.
That sounds great! It actually only dawned on me that I could have a setup like you describe as I was writing my comment above. Thanks for sharing your details!

The only downside for me, and I've been reluctant about this for years, is I ssh into a lot of Linux machines that usually just have the standard stuff and default configs. This has kept me from experimenting with a lot things so as to keep my muscle memory also standard (thus avoiding i.e.: zsh, extensive .vimrc with plugins, etc).
I think once you escape the system you don't find games or other distractions enjoyable anymore. When you're fully actualized and are capable of "going your own path", satisfaction then comes from making things and trying to improve the world. That is if you don't want to have children, as is the case with me.

I think we've been conditioned from childhood to get a job, work for the corporate world and chase material goods. All of those further the interests of those in power.

Update: Wild foraging, living with nature, moving to another country, or doing what hunter gatherers did. Running your own business. Camping out in the wild, while still making money from something. There are so many other options, you need to be creative about it...

Anyway @NoMoreNicks I've flagged your post and I'm closing this HN account down (by deleting the password)....
50% conversion is laughably high. The number of people in that Relay thread saying they wouldn't pay for the app was unsurprising to me. Not to mention that 3rd party apps would still not have access to NSFW content. I'd be surprised if the conversion rate was as high as 10%. The estimate I saw for current subscribers ($1/month) to Apollo was 50k which is a little over 3% of users.
Almost every country has regional differences; for a variety of reasons. "Integration problems" is overstating the issue IMO.
> Wasmer Edge Regions:

> US West Coast

> US East Coast

> Europe Central

Can someone please fill me in on how this is edge, these are the 3 regions every cloud provider has
> And to be clear: I think the fact that it's decentralized doesn't preclude it from having those other properties that users value

And yet:

> > Federated services will never become mainstream. This is just the reality that people need to come to accept

> > Centralization works. It's convenient. It doesn't require a user guide. It's approachable for laypersons. This is just the reality

> > Lemmy is an alternative to Reddit like water is an alternative to beer. Sure, they exist in the same kind of universe, but no sane person would tell you to switch from water to beer because they don't meet the same needs.

And then there's this:

> > I find Lemmy frustrating to use and it isn't just growing pains: it's the same reason I find Mastodon frustrating. Do I care if username@somecommunity.infosec.somecommunity matters? Do I care if I use lemmy.world or do I have to find some server? Which server?

> > I see the value of the Fediverse. I see the intent. I understand it. It's not complex.

Which one is it? Complex or not? Do you need a user guide? No? Which one?

You're all over the place. Saying centralisation is required for mainstream adoption which means decentralisation isn't, but somehow decentralisation isn't the problem that the fediverse has?

One thing that I haven't pointed out in all of this is that signing up and using reddit might have been easy for you, but that isn't the case for every body. I'd wager for most visitors to reddit, whether or not they have registered an account, they simply consume the content there like they would a Facebook wall. Many users don't understand the concept of subreddits or fine tuning their account to their interests. They aren't getting the same value out of it that you place so highly on it.

Centralization does not necessarily make things user friendly. Nor does decentralisation make things less user friendly. You have implied both to be true and then contradicted yourself.
Oh, some thing have too much time, with comment bulk, I must move on. However, how would OP know that I downvote? I tell him. This is allowed.
Progs: People should feel safe where they work. Workplaces should be free from violence & Harassment. Businesses that can't guarantee employee safety should be shut down.

Businesses: Our workers are being harassed daily, several have been held at knifepoint. Please help.

Progs: That's just an isolated incident. Crime is down.

Businesses: People don't feel safe and there doesn't seem to be anything we can do about it so we're shutting down.

Progs: Wow I guess you're just not really committed to this city SMH.
I can only speak to DDG but the quality of results are worse than Google. I still use it anyway as privacy outweighs accuracy for most of my searches.
i think what is happening is that in earlier generations (before computers were common) there were not many "childrens"-activities that translated into adulthood, so the games for adults necessarily looked very different from the games for children, mostly sports, and classical games like chess, playing cards, maybe model trains and model building, etc.

this is no longer the case. besides computer games, things like board games have massively expanded, lego and compatible bricks have sets targeting adults, and more.

the difference between childrens games and adult games is no longer so clear.

and to add another counterpoint to the article, all those supposedly kids games that i am playing now, except for lego, i did not play as a kid. so i didn't preserve my teenage likings. and even lego i stopped playing as a teenager and i didn't get back to until i had kids of my own.
I go to state and national parks all the time. You don't really see vagrancy problems in the majority of them, but they all have park rangers whose job it is to police that. Many parks, of course, let you camp overnight up to two weeks at a time.
If it is not connected to the internet in any way, sure.

But we got of TVs that are now useless because originally they just needed to "display a simple web page" but:

* no new TLS support, near-everything dropped old TLS

* sites that did not, use CA that's not on the device's list
Could we bring back the UI people from that era though? Trying to standardize good software is insane but having a consistent UI with standard elements for all programs that's usable with both mouse and keyboard was kind of nice.
I love how this article is just a PR puff piece that doesn't even attempt to seek out the third party app developers, talk to any users, etc.

Also glosses over the "breakdown" in negotiation with Apollo and others. Dude got caught lying through his fucking teeth because the Apollo dev was recording their phone calls (and a damn good thing he did, too.)

2-party laws only protect the wealthy and powerful, who don't like how recordings level the playing field.
There's a bigger issue. Reddit basically runs on free user content and free moderation. All this is saying is that they are going to only take and not give. A lot of these "what did you expect" takes never seem to mention the other side of the equation.

So... what did Reddit expect? Apparently no one to complain about massive changes. How many times have we seen THAT playbook? What did they expect?
Many early first-person games (pre Wolfenstein 3D) were dungeon crawlers, not shooters, so the labyrinth design of early Id games reflects that heritage. Modern single player shooters have now very much abandoned this approach in favor of linear level design (Half-Life / Call if Duty approach), or they went straight into the "open world" direction (Farcry approach), which also doesn't feature dungeon/labyrinth levels. Closer in terms of non-linear level design is perhaps Metroid Prime (which recently got a remake), but it focuses more on environmental puzzles than on shooting.

There are probably indie games which are close to the original Doom formula. They often feature genres that have been neglected by big studios.
That’s a straw man. The 3P client devs were willing to pay. 2-3x the ARPU but Reddit is demanding 20x. At one point a dev could even do a 10x multiplier with paid subscription but the admins are only interesting in killing them off.