skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the cynicism, but part of me wonders that if the market opportunities the tool finds are so valuable, why isn’t the person behind this pursuing them instead of selling this data?
Don't you mean interventions? ;-)
I think we should place a QR on every product label, and scanning that QR takes me to data about the product such as its historical mass/volume, cost, and unit price, as well as its brand owner right on up the chain. I see you, Nestle.

Of course, giving customers information to make an informed decision is Bad For Business.
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We were so convinced of an upcoming recession. The pandemic, domestic politics, a trade war, inflation, all of these things were signaling a downturn. We got articles like [1] "100% probability of U.S. recession in coming year, according to Bloomberg Economics forecast model".

Except the underlying foundation for the economy was strong. All the people who said it was strong were shouted down but here we are now, with a roaring economy.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/100-probability-of-u-s-rec...
Millions of kids and their sticky iPads would like a word.
I fundamentally disagree about unreal being design first. What do you think the teams of programmers implement features in unreal games are doing?
Ha, I started using Bitcoin in 2009. There was maybe a three month mania back in 2021 where everything was valued 3x higher than it should have been, and now we're back to the mean. The idea that a 60% dip from ATH is "obliteration" is pretty laughable.

Verifiable computation doesn't require your faith. It works, and it's powering several billion dollar economies at the moment, and growing like crazy. By all means you're free to demonstrate that the math is faulty. Basically every project in that space has a million+ dollar bounty program for such bugs.
A Russian puppet was overthrown by a revolution of the people, and replaced by a democratically-elected president, followed by multiple successful elections, and the peaceful transfer of power from one party to another, over nearly a decade, and Russian apologists call it a "coup".
It's elixir, but this provides a lot of nice tooling https://nerves-project.org/
you know how it's not too much? they can afford it.
So a page full of massive banners and popups?

How would that benefit most consumers?
Twitter has DMs. Are they not private?
> What about 2 cents, which would be the cost on a pro license,

2 cents with the pro-license only applies after the first 1M installs, tallied per month. If a game is under 100K installs per month, a pro license only lowers the install fee from 20 cents to 15.
The Impact of Biodegradable Microplastics on Living Organisms in the Food Chain
To add to this: the code you are writing and how you access it can be distinct. A static function with all parameters available is accessible but hard to use; adding a builder layer in-front makes it usable without changing the logic.

CLI, RPC, Rest, are all different methods of interfacing with the underlying core function. I too-often see folks make a "microservice rpc server" rather than "function exposed via rpc microservice".
Prices should come down. They have not. I will not pay these prices. I will go without a cellphone before I pay that sort of money to make calls, send sms and read hn. I can’t understand why people buy these phones unless they’re rich, in which case the prices could actually be significantly higher. These are sucker prices to get poor people money. “Inflation adjusted your 1000$ telephone is actually saving you money!”
Pt Barnum quote.
That travel deal you found online may be a one-way ticket to misery
GDPR generally only seems vague if you're trying to figure out exactly what you can get away with. The spirit of GDPR seems pretty easily explained.
I would be very surprised if his contract didn't have the word "exclusive" in key places, which this change of ownership will now make incorrect, creating an actionable tort (in my layperson understanding). I like what the author is trying to do here but I expect it to fail when inevitably challenged.
Please abandon this idea (that so many have) that the only thing worth aspiring to is "being the first choice"/dominating an entire industry.

We need standards, sure, but we desperately need better competition between high-quality products.
Byron Allen Makes $10B Bid for ABC, Other Disney Networks
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This is great, shrinkflation is one of these disgusting practices that play on the human psyche to trick people.

But also carrefour (and large retailers like them) are notorious for abusing their power when buying, and are a large part of the systemic problem. I don't know how much this is negotiating technique.
> You can like an alternative better without shitting on Plex for no reason

Have you not noticed the topic you are commenting on? It's pretty clear why Plex is now unusable for a significant number of users. Other commenters likened Plex to a honeypot. How did you fail to be aware of that fact?
That was this summer, not last summer. It's seems that there's a lot of discussion even today about usage going down: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/16icvv2/1_month... . I have noticed a continuing decrease in quality on reddit for many years (as it attracts more people), like all sites that grow and depend on ad revenue, and activity seems to have gone down substantially lately in the few subreddits I still watch.

Developers / professionals are more judicious in where they spend their time / money / effort than most people. When I select a technology for professional use, I look at the long term prospects for the company. Open source is always a positive, as I don't have to worry about a company raising rates and trying to extract more money from us. Feature completeness can be a concern, as is ease of use, but we really only need our needs met and a path to meet our future needs.
IANAL obviously, but nothing now stops me from selling T-shirts, figurines and lunchboxes of fable with my own drawings/designs. Any such sale is money not in DC pockets.
Maine has one of the most stringent bans on facial recognition. I am curious if this can still be a method for finding multiple credentials issued to the same person as this law was passed in 2021 after this investigation began.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/maine-enacts-strongest-s...
It doesn't always happen, but if the company can operate like this successfully, why wouldn't they?

If you can pay less someone for the same result, it's an obvious win.
It's nothing spectacular yes but if you're due for a replacement then it's a fair value proposition.

I've got a 13 Pro which the AppleCare is out on soon. I'm just going to renew that and keep it another year and see what the 16 Pro looks like.
https://helloweblink.com/
Computer scientists don’t believe verifiable computation is make believe, it’s real and here now, and all of the ones working in cryptography or adjacent fields know it.

It’s only the rest of the mainstream business world that hasn’t yet caught on to the value it can provide. There are numerous good ideas for using it in business contexts that aren’t being done yet. It’s mainly the cryptocurrency ecosystem that grokked its value first and have been rapidly deploying it into production.
> I do not know the reasoning that was used to calculate these guidelines. It is quite possible they were focused on factors other than CO2, such as maintaining comfortable moisture levels

I feel like humidity (or lack thereof) is what most are struggling with when it comes to comfortable air. A non-trivial % of my energy use goes towards dehumidification. I have to run a central unit 24/7 if I want to keep RH below 55% during summer months.

You can immediately tell how long the HVAC system has been running when you walk into a building in this area. Some mornings you walk in and it feels like a mild sauna, even if the outside temps are mild. The problem is that in most systems the dehumidification is linked directly to the cooling. If you decouple these concerns, you can much more easily achieve comfort. Variable speed heat pumps are another way to approach this issue.
> They are free to license it if someone else can do better at making money from it.

An exclusive sublicensable license is effectively identical to transfer, so there's no meabingful difference between licensable and transferrable (especially the status quo “transferrable, but reclaimable after a set period of years irrespective of the nominal terms of transfer”.)

> The problem with this seems to be group works like movies.

Movies generally don't rely on cooyright transfer, they rely on legal (not merely natural) persons being original copyright holders, and works-for-hire having copyright owned by the hiring party ab initio.
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The book "Linkers an Loaders" by Levine is the Bible on the subject
You should clarify the difference you perceive and why you think it's an issue.
> Because Congress is neither the investigatory institution for things that may result in prison nor the entity that makes determinations of guilt in such cases, Constitutionally?

Lying to Congress under oath is a felony. Grusch testified under oath to Congress. He could be indicted and sent to prison.

I would appreciate a little bit of charity in the interest of having a friendly conversation.
Yeah and also visa versa, just to be fair. My experience with HR folks and accounting folks makes me so glad I'm not doing their job.
I don't think I've done that with an iPhone for about 5 years.
Unbelievably low. It's really pathetic at how not serious these fines are
This is irrelevant. Expensive* parking isn't a significant portion. And the amount of space doesn't matter when the space is not limited.
Yeah sure let's reduce my advice to a hyperbolic niche situation.

This has nothing to do with performance. I'm explaining general rules for designing maintainable systems - it is possible to follow them and write performant code at the same time. It is also possible to break them if necessary. Though it usually isn't a problem at all, you're just reducing it to absurdity in order to make your point.
> vs the possibility of the company you are licensing from sending you engineers to actually help you fix the problem.

How often do you think that happens for unity? _Maybe_ for some massive developers, but I don't think this would be very common for most customers.
Playing Evil’s advocate for google

Google has abandoned a ton of projects, and this repo kind of looks abandoned. It’s likely google loses interest in it like they have a deserved reputation.

Google has no obligation to pay anyone other than their employees and vendors.

If Oz doesn’t like what google is doing, he can continue on his own repo right?
How do apps utilize permissions of other apps? How does the filesystem app communicate with the network app if it does not have network privileges and other app has no filesystem privileges (ie there is no shared channel)?
Because it's a club and you ain't in it
We learn new things over time. Birds are wildly important to the world's ecosystems. House cats, not so much. They're more useful to humans in keeping rodents away from our food but that's not as necessary these days.
Isn't this generally because they didn't fire low performers one by one, but instead those people just build up and get laid off all together? It's a terrible pattern (firing known-bad staff is good for morale, layoffs are bad for morale) but extremely common.

As much as people hate stack ranking and enforced "unregretted attrition" at places like AWS, it seems like the only way to ensure managers actually fire deadweight.
NASA's 36-Page Report Investigating UFOs
It seems somewhat out of linguistic character for them to use the English-"shrink"-based portmanteau, but hopefully there's a universal commonality (especially coupled with the hashtag format) that makes this move more effective.
I think if people have courage then they will stand up for Willingham and publish their own Fables content.

Easier said than done but if some artists can manage it, the theory is that DC can't sue thousands and thousands of people.

That's what would really make this effective in some way regardless of legal outcomes. For the culture in general to de facto start ignoring DC's claims.
Five nines of availability calculates to 5 minutes, you can calculate up and down from there. If you don't want to do the conversion from percentage to minutes there's lots of calculators like this one: https://uptime.is/five-nines

I wasn't assuming what status pages are used for, I was speaking to my experience working in reliability engineering. I can't speak to Amazons practices as I've not worked there, but when I've seen this happen it's because we struggled to identify customer impact. The systems you're talking about are vaste and a single or even subset of applications reporting errors doesn't mean there's going to be customer impact. That's why I mentioned it usually takes a human that knows that system and it's upstreams to know if there'll be customer impact from a particular error.

I'd encourage you to read the wording of an SLA in a contract. They're often very specific in terms of time and the features they cover. Increased error rates tells me you'll probably run into retry scenarios, which depending on your contract may not actually affect an SLA. Error rates are generally an SLO or an SLI, which are not contractually actionable.
The EU is about to vote banning on end-to-end encryption which makes them quite evil in my books.

https://www.wired.com/story/europe-break-encryption-leaked-d...
I wish your home is never fortunate enough to suffer such a US/EU "intervention"
Why Don’t German Apartments Have Kitchens?
Except that also just ends with

> ** For devices prior to 2021 that will receive extended updates, some features and services might not be supported.

which doesn't really say anything...
I wonder the same thing. It had a lot of 'renegade cool kid' energy early on, I suspect this was done on purpose. However, if you look at the investors, and people working on the project now (lot of industry types) it's moved slowly into the corporate sphere. I think rather than legal assault, they are going to slowly start to boil the frog and users will find themselves in a system that differs radically from what they expected (or want) and by that time moving all their files etc will be too much.
I stayed far away, and have supported Kodi the entire time.
Mostly bad for business because of the massive data and engineering effort required.
This is one of those things where I'm super scptical that it'll perform well and it's very expensive but I'm almost ready to back it, just to see what it's like. Traditional bike tires are expensive and a pain in the ass, especially if you're a year round commuter on unswept bike lanes.
> Did I say that every person in the gaming community is awful?

No, and no one said you did. For the second time, argue what someone says.

> Your comment that “not everyone is bad”

Here you even put quotes around something no one wrote.
Ask HN: How do I work to live, instead of live to work?
I had a realization talking to my wife last night that I've been very bad at letting a job just be a job for a while, something I enjoy doing, certainly, but also something that just exists primarily to pay the bills.

I recently took a job as a software lead at a Finnish company and, barring some unusual cases I got handed early on, it's going quite well. But I am realizing that now is the time to really learn to dial in my 8 hours and spend my rest time doing other things, like continue to practice the language with friends and support my wife in her studies. I'm finding it hard to create that kind of distance mentally from my work, and I hope some of you can help. Thanks.
Web Components are still relevant, see e.g. Lit Element, Stencil.
You keep throwing around the "unbelievable" and "unreasonable" fines.

Why do you think that these fines are "unbelievable" and "unreasonable"? Because for me they are rather on the low side, given the business practices, the reach and the potential for abuse that these companies have.
> I don't know how much this is negotiating technique.

100%. What else would it be?
Is this a clone of trendsvc, as advertised on the home page?

"Originally, I took pre-orders for my Trend Reports on Gumroad. But I received... exactly $0. So I changed tactics: I made half of my report free, and the other half paid. Today, 99% of Trends.VC revenue is recurring in the form of annual and quarterly subscriptions.”
Dru Riley sells business insights and expertise"
Still, the $999 price started with the iPhone X (2017), they have been keeping it for 6 years. I know because I'm finally upgrading my old iPhone X for the iPhone 15 Pro, and it surprised me that it would be "cheaper" this time (inflation-adjusted).
I spent years in the Delphi ecosystem, starting with Delphi 1. In the early years, it was a great tool for building desktop apps. I haven't used it in 15+ years, but no regrets.

The $5k limit for the Community Edition is very limiting. Unless you are a student with no income, you'll hit the limit almost immediately. Even if you were to write an app for a non-profit, you'll hit the limit.
I don’t think many companies do this or could be successful doing this. Unless the senior person is just performing like a junior one, they should have got laid off long ago. Most companies have the opposite problem (difficult to hire/retain a senior SWE, easy to hire junior ones, but you need experience to balance the teams out).
It's like the classic startup ideas around "People need to organize their consumption of X, so if we just put in a button allowing them to buy X next to their lists they'll buy it from us!"

Missing the point that most people don't want that.
"Now available to pre-order" is more like it. It's a Kickstarter.
Tiny nanocarriers could prove to be the magic bullet for acne sufferers
We need laws to require special labelling with the price per net pound or price per net kiloggram clearly shown, and the previous price. Something like:

$2.99/Kg (since 18/09/2023)
$2.79/Kg (previous price)
As a layperson I find these Neanderthal DNA numbers to be rather confusing. I'm confident the following is wrong somehow, and I'd love to hear why:

I've read numerous times that the average European's DNA is ~2% Neanderthal, but I've also read that the difference between the human genome and the chimp genome is only 1-4%. So, that ~4% of DNA is 'human DNA', while the rest is basically hominid boilerplate. Neanderthals were presumably similar--~95% boilerplate hominid DNA and 5% 'Neanderthal DNA'.

So, if only 4% of my DNA is 'Human DNA', and 2% of that is 'Neanderthal DNA'... wouldn't that make me half human, half Neanderthal? (i.e. 96% boilerplate, 2% human, 2% Neanderthal). My assumption here is that the 5% 'human DNA' and the 5% 'Neanderthal DNA' overlap, and so any 'Neanderthal DNA' in my genome replaced 'human DNA' as opposed to boilerplate DNA, which might be wrong, but even with zero overlap, wouldn't that make me at least one third Neanderthal, two-thirds human? (i.e. 94% boilerplate, 4% human, 2% Neanderthal)
Not Weta FX but Digital’s Tools, Pipeline, and Engineering.

"Weta Digital’s Academy Award-Winning VFX teams will continue as a standalone entity known as WetaFX under majority ownership by Sir Peter Jackson and helmed by CEO Prem Akkaraju."¹

1- https://investors.unity.com/news/news-details/2021/Unity-Com...
The 2012 car I'm usually driving (if I am driving) has zero "modern" amenities - I consider electric window lifters to be state of the art! (and playing CDs, or plugging in via AUX) ;) Not even unlocking via remote. The trick is "small and cheap", in this case a Kia Picanto, perfect for the city.
Yeah but what’s the alternative? Things are expensive, you’ve got to eat. I have to purchase things even if it’s affected by shrinkflation.
Why would you need godot to be "developed further"? If your game is shipped, it's developed. You can continue doing this. When the source is private and behind a license you are forced to agree to the new terms when the old ones expire, or if you can't agree to them then you can no longer ship the game. These are not equivalent circumstances.
New camera offers ultrafast imaging at a fraction of the normal cost
There are so many more failure scenarios!

I wrote a post about common TLS errors recently: https://www.svix.com/blog/ssl-tls-incomplete-certificate-cha...
It’s always people. People press buttons. Culture might be a reason to WHY people do stuff. But still, people DO stuff. Shifting the blame away to entities that can’t act, or change, actually stops the people from changing their behaviours and attitudes..and as such keeps the culture alive!
It's headed that way, I recently bought a "self inflating" air mattress for camping and I love it. Basically memory-foam, still has air pockets but no pump needed.
well, real value of salaries of teachers are plummeting. of course the same thing happens in other hard-to-scale demand-for-quality service sectors (like healthcare, but also construction work, where standards simply increased, which have a lot of associated labor, which now cost a lot more due to multiple factors, eg. less immigration, shrinking of the active population - end of the positive effects of the baby boom demographic boost, of course there's also the inescapable Baumol effect).
How about, instead of looking at the average, you look at the median.
I’d probably bet that the majority of games on steam have less than 1000 sales, so being a popular game on Steam probably doesn’t mean much compared to being a popular game by daily active users viewing unity ads.
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but not one single time was it to stop the regime from torturing and killing people by the thousands.

This is literally one of the arguments put forth by Putin for intervention in Ukraine. The most often-cited example I hear from Russians is the fire in Odessa: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/ukraine-dead-o...

And the government was resorting to airstrikes the same month: https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukraine-launches-air-strikes-a...

Can you imagine if the US response to CHAZ/CHOP was to drop JDAMs on Seattle?

Now one can counter-argue "not enough people were dying to justify foreign intervention", to which the obvious retort is "who gets to make that determination?"
Please, just no...
Companies/governments should support Open Source they use. While I appreciate OSS and have donated to software I personally use, donating to stuff I use at work feels like I'm paying money that my employer owes.

Why is the emphasis on one developer donating to another, rather than companies that make money from that work?
United States probably.
When you say

> If you want to consider dark energy perpetual motion, sure, but then it's excluded from the "we know that perpetual motion is not possible" rule.

That's the incongruity here. You can hedge it around in various ways, but it is still an incongruity, which was my point. I personally do not believe in any perpetual motion mechanism and I find the "dark energy" concept to be in that same set of mechanisms.

I somehow think that we will see soon enough a new set of theories and models that have a better explanatory power that what we see being expressed today in cosmology. How long? Don't know. But I suspect it won't be too far away. I think the same thing will happen in regards to the Standard Model.

What the fun will be is seeing what comes up. Hopefully people will be able to laugh at themselves when it arrives - though I don't think that this will happen. Too many people take themselves too seriously over these kinds of matters instead of dealing with the matters that really matter.