skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, nothing is ever assured, especially not success. Any one of these things could happen:

1. your problem is not as wide-spread as you thought, not enough for it to be profitable for you to maintain this long-term

2. it is not something the average person is willing to pay to resolve

3. the amount of money they are willing to pay is less than the amount you are selling it for

4. your tool gains some traction, someone else sees it and decides to compete with you, and they build something better and/or cheaper

5. people who are willing to pay your rates to do what you offer try it out, and just don’t like it, so they ask for a refund / don’t renew
i suppose you could start by not coming into threads and shitting on it sight unseen but instead look at ways you can make it better, so that you can have an alternative to shlfari and goodreads.
Tech to Have in a Natural Disaster
North is up, and up is better than down. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B14Gtm2Z_70

PS did I really need to add /s? Anyway the video is an interesting watch about the implicit biases that come from map orientation.
Is there anything about this compiler that keeps it from supporting the older Atari 8-bit machines? It's curious that it lists support for "Atari XE/XL."
> X was essentially built as a easy GUI version of Y. Once it went the VC route it kinda jumped the shark.

Pretty much applies to a lot of startups. VC money does weird things.
It does, but the support is not great. There’s active work to make it better. We don’t use WebSockets so that might be why my colleagues didn’t have too much attachment to postman. We have a list of bash functions we import into our zshrc/bashrc that just wrap around curl with some parts pre-filled and automatically grabbed creds from ENV as needed. It’s a better workflow since you don’t need to switch applications and you can chain calls together with some glue.
I fear it might be the other way around. The ingame rewards are real while the payout pretty much doesn't happen. It's a carrot on a stick, the donkey gets nothing. It seems to me that one can have a much greater sense of progress if there is actual progress.
Leather as well - kangaroo leather was rather prized in the motorcycle community for being more abrasion-resistant per thickness/weight than cow-hide leather. I think its popularity has somewhat fallen off but I believe it's still the most performant material.
> Another thing is that even today AI is perfectly able to translate both text and voice.

Oh no, no, no, no.

If I had to guess I'd say your native language is one of world's top 10 and translation works pretty well between those top 10 languages. My native language has less native speakers than there are people living in the borough of Bronx in NYC. Machine/AI translation is laughably bad. And we're in a good position because we've had written word and high literacy for long time now. For languages lacking those there's no hope basically, these languages will be dead in next 100-200 years. Even Irish is struggling despite having state support thrown at it for quite some time now, for unofficial languages that don't have neither prestige nor incentives to be learned there is zero hope left. Zero.
Other animals also practice cannibalism and so do humans. Killing other animals for food is not the same as killing humans, but also we humans differ from other carnivores and omnivores.

I find meat also very tasty and eat meat. There are several ways to reduce impacts though: Eating less will most likely also have a health benefit. Game doesn’t suffer it’s whole life but only when it gets hunted.
Money is not the only problem. Allthough my mom mostly plays "f2p", she is still a farmville (and candy crush to a degree) addict. She spends a big part of her daily life on those two games. And that is what I observe when she is with me, she probably spends even more when she is at her house.

The worst part I see is "water rush" or whatever that is called on farmville. The water is basically the premium currency you only slowly gain if you are playing free. But on that rush time you gain a lot more and it is 6 hours or so. My mom pretty much plays that game for 6 straight hours when that rush is available

I tried hooking her to other hobbies but it doesn't really work. Farmville's claws are hooked too deep on her
I realized that playing free to play online shooters was detrimental to my health. Fortunately I did not fall victim to monetization and only spent what I thought to be reasonable for the quality of the game. However I would stay up all night playing, hoping for one extra loot box or one more battle pass level. I've had to force quit these types of games multiple times. I'm fortunate in the ways games affect me, but others are not so. Their finances can be ruined, their lives taken over by a psychologically damaging product. I just can't support this. People are getting hurt. It's equivalent to the addictiveness of smoking and alcohol. This can't be the way we have fun
This is great. Finally kills off the last remaining user of CHAdeMO that I'm aware of in the US. In terms of unification of charging standards, killing off CHAdeMO is indisputably a good idea. It has literally no advantages over CCS1 or NACS and only disadvantages. Even if CCS1 sticks around (which is seeming less likely by the day) this means charging station vendors can slowly kill off CHAdeMO.
> Why do you need that? What's wrong with SLAAC and RDNSS?

It's handy in many situation where you want to assign specific devices specific addresses, or at least make a log of dynamically chosen addresses (e.g., networks with auditing requirements).
The ugliness is a feature. Declare HTML components that encapsulate the classes. Then each component is stand-alone WYSIWYG and composes easily with others.
>Bankruptcy proceedings have no bearing on bikes that are not property of the former

Well, not really. Bankruptcy laws can widely differ around the world, but for example if something of yours is on my properly and I go bankrupt then the bank puts a lock around my property then you must put a motion into the bankruptcy court to lay claim to and retrieve your property. It's likely you would be charged with trespass by both the bank and the land owner if you attempted to claim it.

Van Moof cannot even give you your property in most jurisdictions, the parties in the bankruptcy must agree that 'your' property actually belongs to you, and that the person going bankrupt is not committing some sort of fraud by giving away assets.
> Does postman do anything curl doesn’t?

Yes! It's supports functional BDD-style tests, "mock servers" (really "fake" servers), a walled garden for saving and sharing data (to frustrate engineering managers and ops folks), perf tests (soon? now?), contract testing, and more. Did I mention that it's a GUI tool, so it must be "easier?"

They're trying to become a one-stop-shop for dumbing down web dev. Ideally, inside the walled garden. That has a certain appeal to management.
I'm not a parent myself so maybe I'm talking out of my ass here.

but how is this even possible? my parents never gave me direct access to a credit card as a child. eventually I got a debit card to spend my own allowance chore money, but if I blew it all in something dumb that was my own problem. no pizza/movies with friends until I built it back up
It's business, but we can also label it as predatory, unethical, immoral.
Heat is constantly lost to space as infrared radiation. The greenhouse effect slows this loss, and is driven by the output of "greenhouse gases" into the atmosphere. These gasses absorb the infrared that would be lost to space, retaining them inside the "closed system".

Greenhouse gasses have natural sources, but far and away the largest sources are manmade in the form of carbon dioxide as industrial byproduct, and methane as agricultural byproduct.

This is why experts are so concerned: stopping production of manmade greenhouse gasses will not immediately reduce the amount of those gasses in the atmosphere, so heating will likely continue for many years after peak output.
An engineer being overly optimistic with a time estimate? Say it ain't so!

"A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad." - Shigeru Miyamoto

The same goes for features. I'd rather Zig have a delayed/good async next year and forever after, instead of a rushed/bad async right this moment and forever after.
The common thread is these are utilities, not VC-backed start-ups wanting to dominate the world.
Ask HN: Was it possible to predict Carvana's rally?
Hello HN!

Carvana hit $3.55 per share a few months ago, and now it's rallying at $50+. Is it inflated or was it possible to predict it? Back then, it looked almost like sh!t has hit the fan for them.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CVNA?p=CVNA
US adds Euro spyware makers to export naughty list
Is there a modern version of this?
It's all about the config system. you can really make tailwind your own.
Some later submitted discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36785450
"Jet Stream" is more familiar to those in Europe I'd imagine.
Earth is a blackbody[1]. We receive heat from the sun in the form of radiation. We also radiate heat out to space.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation
Or a webp, much preferable for the size savings[0] if its not an image the end-user would ever want to save.

[0] https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/
It's just because they have money. It will take billions of dollars and multiple years for other companies to reach that but I don't see any moat except if money is the moat.

Same with postman. Right now they are so much ahead in features that it would take multiple years for other company to match it.
With limited space for tourist attractions, Singapore bets on augmented reality
I was finally coming around to systemd. Then they broke my laptop.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/25269

I'm still livid at this Luca guy gaslighting people on the "correct" behavior of a feature people were using for years already. They re-purposed an existing sleep mode and changed it entirely to mean something else. Originally you would set a timeout that your laptop would suspend and then hibernate. They changed it to mean that your laptop suspends until your battery hits 5% and then hibernates. As if people want to open their laptop the next morning only to have no battery left.

Ironically, the stated reason for this change was to "prevent data loss". Guess what they did? They introduced a bug in this "fix" that guaranteed your laptop would not wake from hibernate. You had to reboot the damn laptop each time you woke from hibernate because it would get stuck on a black screen, thus "losing" your data. I "lost" more data from their stupid fix than anything else.

They admit the original feature was broken because it didn't take into consideration for battery percent. Fine. But there was absolutely no reason to change the behavior. You can do both! The only reason I can think of is you just like being an incredible asshole to people. Which is obvious from that thread. Do they even use a laptop? Why would I want a dead battery next time I open the lid???
The golden age of streaming is long over. Pricing is going up, options are going down, and we're arguably in a worse place now than we were when cable was all but required.
I agree. My personal perspective is that I fundamentally don't agree that negative rights don't conflict with each other, or that there is a meaningful difference between positive and negative rights (which is of course a philosophical position that not everybody will agree with).
Good overview and background here:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/jet-stream-is-climate-change-cau...

Seems like an active area of research, as climate models don't capture these large-scale blocking events well. They're not a new phenomenon brought on by warming, but their scale and intensity might increase due to increased moisture in the atmosphere and Arctic amplification. A warming Arctic means a lower summertime temperature differential between polar and mid-latitude zones and hence a weaker jet stream more likely to meander about, which leads to these blocking events.
It seems like some people want to figure out laws for everything - literally every. last. thing. If we have enough laws there won't ever be another problem, or so it seems. Regardless of the impossibility of that outcome or even agreement on what "good" and "bad" is.

Nevertheless, I think many people can agree with you that action should be taken when one party is no longer able to make a choice. Perhaps it's fine for gamers in 1st world countries to choose how they waste their money.

What isn't okay is when people have no other choice but some shady practice like the company that employees them also setting their rent prices.
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> I remember when it was a fairly safe assumption that almost all content would end up on Netflix in time, with only a few odd-balls going to Hulu.

If by “all content”, you mean, “everything produced originally as a TV series”, sure; movies (particularly, anything older that wasn’t alrrady there or anything not super mainstream) had a nuch better chance of reaching the Netflix disk catalog than Netflix streaming, up until the point when content owners having their own streaming platforms meant even the TV stuff and mainstream movies would often miss Netflix unless it was Netflix-owned.
Coming from a life time of Visual Studio, when changing to Rider, the first thing I did was to change the font to that of VS. I can't quite explain it but reading the code in the Rider default font (which I believe is JetBrains Mono) made me feel nauseous/queasy.
Maybe these companies having no moat is part of the problem, though I would argue "stickiness" or "inertia" props a lot of them up, Hotel California style.
That depends on if you have an ethno-centric or a hydro-centric view of the world.
That is absolutely the PS3 stage of an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. It is a very unique upper stage in that that 'tank' is actually a Kevlar wrap over a solid Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) propellant. The part that is broken on the bottom is where the nozzle sat; they use a 'submerged' nozzle where much of the nozzle core is actually up inside that.

So, it is not a vessel for a liquid propellant like many people would think.

This page has a few photos and a cool cross section of the type of construction, under 'PS-3':

http://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets_1/India/PSLV/Gallery/PSLV....
Insomnia isn't as far along the enshittification process yet (emphasis on yet)
Show HN: Turtlecast Podcast Player – Android App
Android podcast app with minimalist aesthetic.

I know there a million podcast players out there but none of them worked exactly like I wanted them to. It's completely designed around Material You and has the features you'd expect of a podcast player. The parsing logic is completely custom and I focused the app around showing users what is actually in the feed.

Thanks for trying it out.
>Jung believed that the collective unconscious exists independently of individual consciousness and is common to all human beings.

Didn't he believe that each culture had its own?
This is all moving so quickly that slight degradation doesn't really matter. I assume the coming DeepMind model, Gemini, will outperform GPT-4. At least in some areas.
I have found that the fast talker is often trusted more, even when they have a higher percentage of "misses" There is an inate bias to trust someone who appears to be very sure of themselves.
Seeing this is action is what started me on my study of all the different ways we can be decieved. I wish I had started looking at these far earlier in life.
Fwiw, I use VSCode with the ’REST Client’ extension and it’s pretty much all I need: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
Not when you’re the one getting scammed, and it was stated in the comment I replied to that employment is a scam, specifically:

> Isn’t the entire concept of employment meant to scam you out of more value for your labor than what you put in?

But yeah sure, if you’re the one scamming people then maybe you eat just fine. Not really the context though.
I'm not sure what "maintained" means for a CSS toolkit. Unless the CSS directives it uses are deprecated at some point, what maintenance is needed?
But you're arguing in circles.

If attention is paid, if the architecture is good, all else like programmer salary/skill being equal, any of those languages (and plenty of others) will work fine. (And honestly, not a huge difference in the work to achieve that, a good design will look about the same in all four.)

It's only an interesting question which to use if attention is not paid, or you don't want to invest enough to ensure attention will be paid; in which case you need to look at the causes and effects of that.
I don’t think you understand how moat is used in this context. A moat isn’t impossible to cross, just harder to cross than a lawn. Also, I don’t think you can saw two features are the same unless the quality is the same. Two sms apps are not equal if one of them occasionally fails to send/receive messages.
Sure, when you pit investments of billions of dollars into researching the psychology of addiction and marketing against an individual's willpower, it's not technically a "forced choice".

But of course the customer's going to lose. They never had a chance to begin with. Regulate these like we do gambling. Because that's what it is under the hood.
> its been a while since there have been a La niña sandwiched between 2 el Niño events, contiguously. Not sure when that happened last.

2014-16, 1986-88 and 1957-59 since 1950 [1]. (Before that, 1913-14 and 1940-42 [2].)

[1] https://origin.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitorin...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Niño#cite_note-BoM_El_Nino-...
Agreed. Postman is a classic victim of "Enshittification" to try to recoup the VC money.

I prefer this VS Code plugin for the very simple stuff https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...

I'm sure there's a gap for a "better postman" that's more complex that that, but a lot less encrusted than postman.

However IMHO, the more complex scripted testing is better done in your main dev language

Source: I have been working with Postman a lot this week. It's bad.
FIN8 retools backdoor malware to avoid detection
Out of curiosity do you oppose the tobacco lawsuits and restrictions on how tobacco companies do business? It's not a forced choice, people buy tobacco of their own will and at this point everyone knows what they are getting into and the odds of bad outcomes. So can the tobacco companies really be held responsible for anything?
If you're not careful about in app payment settings, your kid can rack big bills with just a few taps. I know parents in Silicon Valley who have had this happen.
Usually the coloring problem IME goes the other way: you want to run a synchronous/blocking function in an async context. How does Zig deal with that?
He was the author of the jEdit editor too.
I would note that while the US Constitution is a valid authority with regard to legal justification (in the US!), it is very much not with regard to moral justification.
> Who reads a 1000 page book to learn a programming language?

Uh, I did, in 1999. My parents would drive me to Barnes and Nobles and I sat there and read the definitive guide cover to cover.
Great to see the integrations (Stripe, Zoom, Google Meet, Google Calendar, Slack, Daily.co, and Microsoft Teams) [0].

In general, is there an "open" calendar-sync protocol? Would that be CalDAV (often paired with IMAP mail accounts in my experience)? (But then, would that typically require giving email credentials to the to-be-synced endpoint?)

One thing that sort of surprises me is that the appointment-scheduling apps seem to have such a practical dependency on Google, if one wants to facilitate syncing with arbitrary external calendars. I get that Calendly has tons of integrations, and Neeto has a useful selection, too. But say I want to sync with Fastmail, which does not have a specific integration with Calendly or Neeeto (but which does support CalDAV/IMAP). The answer is to to mutually sync through a Google Calendar. (I guess a generic "data workflow integrator"--Zapier, IFTTT, or custom code for APIs--might solve this, too, but only at the cost of some additional party and some additional complexity for a glue layer to set up and upon which to rely.)

- I love having a slick scheduling web page interface as a service. Cool. But why no "generic" sync (CalDAV/IMAP or something better I may not know about)? (It seems weird to not have a more direct-line scheduling approach--is it just me?)

- For example, I'd like to have no Google dependency, but use Calendly (or, Neeto, or another scheduling service). But even when I don't plan/need/want/intend to use Google, much less for scheduling, Google still finds its way into being the most convenient dependency! Wow!

This wasn't meant to be a rant, so, apologies if it reads that way. I get that building a SaaS, the first integrations will be the ones that >90% of the target probably uses. It's just slightly boggling to me, though, that there seems to be literally no open-tech solution in place. Since even the 500 lb gorillas seem to not have it, it's not just a matter of scale/time. Maybe just literally not enough people would use it, period, I guess. Or does one of the many competitors do this?

So-- what's going on? Why's calendar syncing kinda convoluted? (Some reading online tells a similar story for a big company's mail product requiring specific sync tools as of late; so I think the issue is not limited to purely-scheduling apps or smaller companies.)

Does this plight register with others? To me, if the product/service truly is a commodity, then that might imply having a corresponding "common" open/standard tech-integration component--no? I suspect something about security, or maybe lock-in, or market size, or maybe ruthless focus on schedule-making (new bookings on top of existing ones) over schedule-syncing, but I don't know enough about it. I would think this might be an area where one of the competitors might be able to stand out, for a niche within the niche.

I'd be happy to be schooled on this, if anyone's willing.

[0] https://www.neeto.com/neetocal/features/integrations
Seems like the special sauce is nothing at all but what seems to be well known prior art:

[0038] In preparing the xenograft for use, the tendon is surgically
dissected and removed from the paratenon (tendon sheath). The tendon is
composed mostly of an extra-cellular collagen matrix, which is non-
immunogenic. The tendon may therefore require no denaturing
(decellularisation) prior to implantation into a mammal. In some
embodiments, the tendon may be subjected to a decellularisation process
prior to implantation. In removing the cells from the tendon, the
immunogenic antibodies within the cells are also removed, thus rendering the
tendon non- immunogenic. Methods of decellularisation of tendon tissue are
known in the art. Such methods include physical, chemical and enzymatic
treatments, wherein the cells within the tendon are lysed, leaving an
undamaged extracellular matrix having the same physical and biochemical
properties as the natural tissue.
I have a few qualms with this app:
1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to perform presentations, but they still carry a USB drive in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue.

3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?