skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring OS files, it's probably class projects or postal files from the late 90s when I was in college. My family first bought a computer in 1982 but the jump from that to the DOS/Windows world didn't include carrying over any files. I did have a small program published in a computer magazine in 1985, which I have typed in and run on an emulator, so perhaps that sort of counts.
ironic, because crabs remind me of bad choices made when drunk involving aliens
> I’m not sure the invention of nuclear weapons was a net positive for the world.

It was never an option that nuclear weapons wouldn't be invented. The only question was who will invent and use it first.
> the existence of some apps with extremely thin margins that wouldn't be viable otherwise

Isn't that great for me as a customer, though?

And I wouldn't exactly call 30% + x an extremely thin margin!
I imagine they're referring to things like this (a read through the comments should give you the gist of the concerns people have voiced):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808#40482165
Got took back to the stone ages
Using muscular avatars in VR to reduce pain perception
Yeah, I ostensibly haven't switched back so I don't have to deal with anti-cheat issues, but if I'm really honest with myself I don't game nearly as much as I used to and when I do it's usually single player.
> what was possible in Roblox was writing lua-ish scripts that handle events in Roblox and then alter the game flow.

Roblox is a game engine, like unity or unreal or godot, that produces games which run within their proprietary platform. But you still have to code the games from an empty starting point.
Yeah honestly if you're using Gmail as a "client" you're kinda causing your own problem.
Yes, but the question to me is how dangerous the dangerous is.

As a comparison, if you look at a single health inspection for a single restaurant, e.g.: https://stgencep.sccgov.org/sccdineout/INSPECTIONREPORT_DADW... is that a safe place to eat or not? Do you insist on only eating in restaurants that have a score of 100?
Lessons from Writing My First Academic Paper
Hacker news was traditionally an audience that's very hacker orientated. Over the years it's gained a significant portion of audience that are just 'in tech'. Some threads really show the clash between the two IMO.
Responsibility over Freedom: How Netflix's Culture Has Changed
In both cases you're "merely" experiencing the feeling of seeing those details. That's what it means to remember something with a brain.
You would still have FDA and the approval process, and it could continue to be strict (or even stricter). If vendors are lying about their product being FDA approved, that would be illegal (just like it is now). I don't see how this would change anything in that regard.
Backward compatible with 3.x or a migration module which magically makes it compatible. The migration from 2.x to 3.0 was long and painful. I'd be fine if 3.x just continues (Perl is at 5.40 now).
This is mostly a site for programmers. I can’t imagine working in computers and not believing at least that the intent is to make people’s lives more convenient and make work efficient.

If the dealers have the capacity to go around and run everything by pencil and paper, it seems like either the are really poorly run for the average case where the computers work and make life easier, or the programmers have done a really poor writing useful programs.
> "You can get this cheaper on website, but will no longer be able to cancel via App Store"

This seems like a reasonable compromise. Allow Apple to tell you what you won't get if you leave their store, but otherwise let consumers choose.

> Have they ever specified any reason why they prevent users from finding this out?

The reason is that every major retailer has anti-steering or most favored nation agreements with their suppliers, and Apple thinks they shouldn't be banned from it when everyone else does it. Applied to physical retail it does seem pretty absurd, e.g. The Cuisinart blender box at Target says it's 10% cheaper at Wal-Mart.
> indispuitable how wrong it is that Apple prevents developers from explaining these rules to their users

Absolutely. This is the same as giving Candy to a child and saying "don't tell anyone" or your boss saying you can't tell coworkers how much you're being paid.

The fact they want to keep it a secret shows something fishy is going on, and they know it.
In the early days of the automobile, auto manufacturers didn't have the resources to have stores in every town in America. People couldn't just get a vehicle in Atlanta from Detroit if they didn't have a way to get there. Dealers both organically popped up, and some manufacturers actively engaged with local dealers to get their cars out to a broader audience (e.g. Ford with the Model T).

But as those manufacturers and dealers grew, they then had the resources to operate at broader geographies, and dealers lobbed for franchise laws to "protect local businesses", etc.
Dealerships came about because car manufacturers were demanding that all service go through their dealerships at crazy marked up prices. So dealerships started as way to "protect the consumer" but quickly because terrible places all on their own.
FYI - I refactored the code so that it now enforces "return_from_same_city". enjoy.
> vote along party lines consistently to get the least evil choice, but that doesn’t make you less independent

I don't see how the cause of partisanship determines whether it's "real" or "independent" partisanship.
In many parts of the US, there are still red "call boxes" in working order and maintained as a backup to the 911 system, and was actually used when Massachusetts' 911 system went down last week:

“The current 911 system is down statewide, if you have an emergency and need assistance pull your nearest Fire Box, or call the Boston Fire Department at 617-343-2880. You can also get assistance by going to your nearest Firehouse,” the post read.

Police Commissioner and Boston Police Chief Michael Cox said earlier Tuesday that residents looking to contact officials while the 911 system was down could call local police departments for assistance, and pull the local red call box on streets and corners to alert fire/EMS.

https://www.kake.com/story/50917965/statewide-911-system-out...

The technology, patented by Gamewell in the 1880s, is based on telegraph technology from the mid 1800s - you pull the handle, it releases a notched disc which starts spinning and transmitting a number to the central fire command. The number corresponds to a street address and emergency services will be alerted.

Old call box still in working order: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5bwxFoJc56/
There are tradeoffs for everything. There are a few horror stories about cloudflare charging companies using terabytes of bandwidth or doing legally gray activities an arm and a leg but on the other hand there is no other way to get things like analytics engine, queues, or stateful websocket servers for the price they offer along with $0 for bandwidth egress.
> It's a platform for games.

Primarily. Some can also play Blu-ray disks and all can stream music and movies from a bunch of different sources. The PS5 also has integrations with some social media sites and a built-in web browser. The PS5 Game Base application also lets you call and text other PS5 users.

> With input devices targeted for games.

But also bluetooth keyboard and mouse support.

> With an operational system target for games.

Did you have something specific in mind for this?
> it isn’t a managed SaaS product. It’s open source software purpose-built to self-host on Cloudflare’s developer cloud, in such a way that anyone can do it.

This doesn't sound like self-hosting, it sounds like self-operated.

Is it possible to run Counter scale on-prem against logs from HAProxy, Nginx, or Apache? That would be cool, and is the benchmark because AWStats [0] has been around for decades and works just fine.

There's also a newcomer called Plausible which has a FOSS Community Edition [1] which can be self-hosted.

[0] https://awstats.sourceforge.io/

[1] https://github.com/plausible/community-edition/

Edit: @xorcist Thank you for the recommendations, I'll check them out.
To add to this, pages sometimes have comments or footers or other bells and whistles after the content that I’m interested in and it makes me think the post is longer than it is. This leads me to either leave the post for later or straight up close it because it’s too long.
It wasn't until I used TikTok that I understood why it's so scary. Just based on how you interact with the app: how long you watch, what you like, how fast you're scrolling, etc. it starts to show you videos that are eerily related to what's going on in your life and what you're thinking. You don't even have to search for topics. You just start getting videos that seem to be reading your mind. The idea that they can tell what huge swathes of the population are thinking and feeling is scary. I think that's got to be a huge reason they want it under their control: it's sort of a mind-reading app.
Nope, their two flagship games (The Finals, and the soon-to-be-released Ark Raiders) are all using Unreal Engine.

Seems that they're trying to earn money by shipping games in Unreal first, while developing their Rust-based engine behind the scenes.
Found the shill, folks. Thanks for your terrible take, friend. This lady is negative about Apple because they literally poisoned her.
Not a ferrari, but I had a Mercedes AMG for a few years and it was exactly like that too - put a stupid grin on my face on the track or on the autobahn(5am drive at solid 160mph for like 30 minutes near berlin will always remain my favourite driving experience), but day to day it was awful - loud, uncomfortable, ruinous on fuel, and people wanted to race you constantly, every now and then people wanted to take pictures as well etc - which I imagine with a Ferrari it's even worse. Nowadays I settled for a completely inconspicious family car that no one would even look at twice, but which still has enough power to go fast if I want to. But owning "flashy" cars is definitely not for me anymore.
> just about no one on the planet looks at the marketing for a PlayStation 5 and expects to be able to use it to file their taxes

Ah, this old chestnut of circular reasoning. It's not a general purpose computer because people think it isn't, so they don't use it as one because it's not a general purpose computer.

> The consumer is pretty well aware of what they're getting.

Is the consumer not well aware that iOS is a walled garden?
> , based on common mistranslations and the technical jargon of the European Union (EU) and the native languages of its non-native, English-speaking population. It is mostly used among EU staff, expatriates and migrants from EU countries, young international travellers (such as exchange students in the EU's Erasmus programme) and European diplomats with a lower proficiency in the language.

This sounds niche, scattered and irrelevant as far as language making goes. Erasmus students and expatriates? EU staff?

It seems that you need some sort of concentration (virtual or geographical) to make a supposedly second-rate variation of some language. I don’t see how people from all across “continental” Europe which are also so scattered domestically (Erasmus students?) could make something cohesive enough to call it Euro English.

- A Spaniard might say “how you say” but would a Polish person do that?

- A Polish person might drop a lot of articles but would a Spaniard do that?

I’m from Scandinavia and a supposed mistake that people from the Nordic countries commit is to use “blue-eyed” to mean “naive”. And sure that’s a direct translation of the “naive” expression but I have never heard anyone from Scandinavia say that in English.

I see the footnotes for the opening paragraphs are The Independent, the Financial Times and a British linguist. I don’t know what the deal is with the British (similar to Americans but their distance from Europe excuses them IMO) and their insistence that Europe (really “Continental Europe” i.e. Europe which isn’t a bus drive under the English Channel away from the mainland) consists of this uniform blob of non-Anglos who drive scooters, eat baguettes and go to raves. And speak the same pidgin apparently.

> The divergence is presumably going to accelerate after Brexit, now that there's even fewer native speakers around to anchor it to British English.

That’s a laugh. Language isn’t spread by way of EU diplomats. Regular people are more likely to be “anchored” to American English.

One Czech guy I was talking to recently sounds like he moved to California at the age of nine.
The decision makers still have agency, but structures exist to prevent those who would make un-profitable decisions from reaching the top of the corporation in the first place. Once they’re there, their choices are constrained somewhat and (with nuances) profitable decisions are incentivized over others. The consequence is that, while individuals possess agency, we can also observe that the average individual’s behavior is predictable and in service of the corporate machine in aggregate. You can punish the ghoulish person who decided, along with a few others, to dump toxic waste into the river, while still recognizing that their actions were an inevitable result of the incentives we created for them. The most productive thing, of course, would be to change the incentives, but baby steps.
Proper tail-call optimization! I know Guido doesn't like this, but proper TCO enables you to write elegant solutions to many problems, and I think that far outweighs a marginal improvement to ease of debugging. You can still debug TCO'd code just fine; a stack trace isn't your only tool.
>Specifically, it's a place you can go to test drive cars and they have OEM-certified garages for warranty repairs. Can't test drive when you buy online.

Tesla doesn't have independent dealerships and it's quite easy to test drive their cars before you buy.
I'm excited to see where this goes. Whether you agree or disagree with Apple, them losing (or even just lessening) their monopoly status would make room for new and upcoming businesses. New apps, new app stores, etc etc. Disruption may not always turn out better in the end, but if the status quo is not good, it's often worth the risk.

"Move fast and break stuff" is very divisive, because of course 'stuff' could include optimal stuff, people, the environment, etc.

"Move fast and break monopolies" on the other hand, should, as a forum for startup aspirants, be pretty easy to agree on.
'It's All Happening Again.' The Supply Chain Is Under Strain
So to answer OP's question - yes, this port of React APIs in Lua is intended to be (and is being) used to render UI elements -- things like text boxes, windows, titles, buttons, etc.
Sorry to hurt anyone's feelings who prefer to focus exclusively on the possibility of also bringing something to life that nothing else will bring to life either.

My bad.
Moving from the plant areas to downtown houston has brought a massive improvement in my health. I suspect that 4 years of living next to the plant has caused long-term damage ... but it's extremely difficult to prove anything, especially when there is no data at all that supports an assertion that my apartment was exposed to any leaks at all - not a single one of those near-daily emissions events was caught by the air quality monitoring stations, only a few were voluntarily reported to the EPA, and all of the emissions are permitted by the EPA / TCEQ either on an ongoing basis or one-off "forgiveness" basis after voluntary pro-active reporting.

In one unit that I personally worked in and was responsible for, an intern was analyzing our procedures for emptying our tanks of waste products and realized that we had been "illegally" venting (without a permit) a lot of vapor from a waste tank every couple weeks when the liquid was full and needed to be emptied into trucks for proper disposal. We told the state regulatory authority that we realized we were out of compliance, and asked for permission to continue doing it this way until we had time to fix it. We got permission to continue doing what we were doing for another 2 years, with options for additional extensions. So the "illegal" emissions became "legal" overnight once we reported ourselves, and there were no consequences for the 10+ years of "illegal" emissions. This is very typical - in general if a company "self-reports", they do not face any punishments, but will face some small punishments if the regulatory agencies are the ones who find the problem. This encourages companies to be upfront about acknowledging, reporting, and (eventually) fixing their own problems.

One woman I know worked in a facility that produced a chemical known to cause issues with pregnancies, and suffered 4 miscarriages while trying for a baby before she simply refused to go out into the plant she ran at all during her fifth pregnancy, which she successfully brought to term. It's still not cut-and-dry that the chemicals caused her miscarriages, and there's no hard "evidence" that she was even exposed to those chemicals at all, or in concentrations above EPA limits.

Unless a pipe bursts suddenly and coats you with a chemical and sends you to a hospital, it's very difficult to prove that you were ever really "exposed" to the chemical. Even if you do get an obvious harmful exposure, it's difficult to assign any long-term consequences to that particular exposure.
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/a...

"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

Final clause.

(this is why unrelated sub-clauses should be numbered, not just appended with semicolons)
why didn't Silicon Valley try to disrupt this market?
I wish Alexander and the rest of the Multi team all the best at OpenAI. I'm saddened by the loss of what I consider the best remote pair programming app around (if Mac-only is acceptable). Other than Tuple.app, are there any strong competitors? I tried Datadog's CoScreen early on, and the amount of chrome it added to windows made things a little janky (perhaps it's better now).
> The FDA, like other regulatory agencies, exists for a reason: to help prevent people from being ripped off, or worse, by snake oil salesmen.

This is obviously false given the existing supplements business. The idea that we have a way to prevent people from being ripped off is naive. But even so, the "reason" for the FDA doesn't change its incentive structure: allowing a drug that kills a few people will reflect badly on it, while disallowing a drug that would have saved millions of lives likely would have little consequence for the decision makers.
Who would invest in building a company to compete in this market? It's limited in size, has deeply entrenched competition, and technological progress hasn't unlocked an obvious improvement or efficiency that can be capitalized on.

Best case, this startup gets bought out by a larger competitor. Worst case, they get crushed by it.

Oligopolies going to oligopoly.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40776951
> We are moving to Fastly. Sucks because we built so much around Cloudflare.

Are there concerns about getting locked into Fastly’s cloud services instead of Cloudflare’s? Will you use some level of abstraction to make the deployment more portable, or that’s another bridge to cross if needed?
I think it varies and depends a lot on your connection speed and latency from the nearest source. There's a lot of effort to give a "good enough" quality at different screen sizes, throughput and devices.

Even if you look at torrent content, you can find a given movie anywhere from a few gb (1080p) to a few dozen gb in size at 4k with higher relative throughput and quality. Not to mention the encoder settings.

Personally, I don't go for the highest quality encodes because I don't see the difference well enough. I tend to favor x265 over x264 only because the blur degredation is less annoying than blotchiness imo.

When you are streaming, the level of encoding will swap out, even at the same resolution a number of times depending on what you're getting. You may well do better with a 1080p stream over a 4k stream depending on your screen and device's upscaling behavior. 4k takes at least 4x the bandwidth, and has tighter latency needs. There are others that can go over this and explain it much better than I can, but it's not malicious, it's partly cost sure, but it's also a matter of what your connection can handle.
Then you should be aware that Pepsi/Coke are notorious for their exclusivity agreements in some of their retail channels

e.g. I drank Coke products in my undergrad because of my school's exclusivity agreement.
Can you recommend some good resources on these over and above their main websites ?
"Young people" are not being taught cursive in school. Schools are not teaching cursive to students any longer since 2010 if they're following the Common Core curriculum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_handwriting_instructio....
Insurance already has plenty of leeway to deny coverage for medications, even ones that are FDA approved. If the political unpopularity mattered that much, I'd expect it to already be the case.
> The more time goes on the more I think a good rule...

That's my main investment rule. I invest in companies who's products I like and own. But then I also buy the dip. So when a company I like/whose product I use is at a discount, I invest.

It makes me feel better too when I buy something from them: "oh, some of that money I just paid is going back to me"!

There are people here who bough NVDA at a bargain with the same reasoning.

I did an exception for Meta (no FB, no WhatsApp, no instagram: all the Meta CIDR blocks are blocklisted by my firewall and all the Meta domains are blocked by my DNS resolver: that's how much I hate that turd) which I hate with a passion because the stock at $100 in 2022 (was it 2022?) was just too good to be true. But then I do use React so there's that!
Canada has a significant automotive sector but it's basically all foreign automakers. So this is about protecting local jobs and 'encouraging' Chinese manufacturers to, one day, follow their Japanese and American counterparts and open plants in Canada.
Some more updates from bleeping computer last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40751754
Another way of looking at it is CDK's main product is an ERP tailored to the automotive industry. These aren't systems with short setup times and there is major risk to trying to replatform you're accounting system. How do you pull of an ERP migration while you're existing one is down? Further, almost everything the dealer does from inventory management to service is integrated to this system of record either directly or via data integrations.

Some of the smaller mom-and-pop stores just use small business accounting systems like quickbooks but those get pretty tedious to maintain with any sizable number of sales or employees per month.
This is still very much a feature.

I often write/compile .NET Core code in watch mode and then use LinqPad to explore existing libraries.
This hasn't really been true for a while, most React projects that I encounter nowadays don't opt for things like Redux or MobX, they just use React Contexts. Which isn't a third party thing anymore