skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What purpose does HN serve when we already have reddit? Replicated work!

I think you're missing the point. All of these are examples of successful centralized networks. The idea that mastodon will not fall prey to the same incentives facebook did is based on it being meaningfully decentralized. It is extremely unlikely to me that as the network scales (it has 100kish DAUs right now) meaningful decentralization will continue to exist.

> -What would you say about a site like reddit that "replicates moderation" at each subreddit?

It doesn't, in a meaningful way, because if the government wants to shut something down on reddit they contact reddit, not the moderator of a subreddit.

> -You also seem to be saying that creating a small business is a dead-end endeavor, that competition between similar businesses is old-fashioned. What if an entrepreneur wants to create a twitter competitor?

I would agree with that in most cases, depending on your goals, and would wish the twitter competitor the best of luck.
Very sad.

FYI, we're going to launch a Kickstarter for Solo, an open source FIDO2 security key (https://solokeys.com), and we're planning to offer free shipping in both US and EU. I'm an Italian living in the US, and I personally care a lot about this aspect. It's incredibly sad to see that companies with unlimited resources still completely ignore non-US markets.
Well this is fun, see other answers.

I agree that the extreme individualist end of the spectrum has downsides, for sure. Suicide rates make horrifying reading. But I think you can argue it's part of what made the west successful -- in HN terms, being forced to learn to deal with strangers, a lot, set you up to scale well.

Isn't the flip side of being on the other end of this scale -- tight happy families, or clans, maybe even castes -- something close to nepotism? Stagnation because once you've employed all your nephews then you can't grow, who would you trust?

Of course there are a million other factors etc too... anyway.
Err, yes.

The very video shows plenty of joinery error that would not be acceptable in any real setting outside of a hobby.
I'll do my best to break it down for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1heXNiwAB0s&t=1m35s

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1heXNiwAB0s&t=1m38s

Note the significant tearout there, and the ill-fitting of a number of hearts (despite it being cut oversize).

Note also the significant gaps between top and side due to not being able to cut the flat bottom consistently (vibration/rigidity most likely)

Ditto visible here:
https://youtu.be/1heXNiwAB0s?t=96

and

https://youtu.be/1heXNiwAB0s?t=100

here.

You can also see the side-to-side fit from the heart joinery has significant gaps for the same reason (they avoid showing in most shots, and blur the shot where they are spinning it, admittedly unclear if that's intentional).

https://youtu.be/1heXNiwAB0s?t=125

here.

That is why the edge is wavy.

Sorry, but none of this would be acceptable for real fine furniture joinery, etc.

Does this mean it's impossible to use a shaper to do it? I'm sure if you are super careful you could probably do somewhat better, but i don't think you'll solve the fundamental issues (or make it repeatably solved)

Look - i own one, i was an early backer, i've used it extensively.
I think it's a great tool for what it is.

But i don't think there's a good reason to pretend it's a miracle tool that can do things it can't.

Pretending otherwise will just make for unhappy people.

One reason Domino has been so successful for festool is that it's easy, it is great at what it is (invisible, simple, loose tenon joinery), etc.

Shaper should be viewed the same - it will be plenty successful for what it is good at.

But joinery is not that thing.
There are many things Google wants, for the past decade most people have been going along with those demands. Perhaps it's time for us to tell Google what we want.
Why is Google selling potentially compromised Chinese security keys?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-launches-titan-security...
So there are UV devices used to help disinfect rooms, and there's a lot of time needed for killing.

And then there's the whole cancer downside...
http://sevens.exposed/
http://www.1711141131131.xyz

^^ Possible 2018 puzzle ... though some claim that they're not legit because no PGP signatures have been found. Z 3301 has claimed to be a 2012 winner ... and now running the puzzles. (based on emails claimed to be sent in 2017 - http://www.defango.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/CICADA2017...)

The most recent thing I've seen get dropped is a video on youtube a couple of days ago ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fc990VvyvU

There's several groups still working on solving the Liber Primus from 2014 ...
Add /us to the URL so it works outside US:

https://store.google.com/us/product/titan_security_key_kit

Otherwise users get redirected to the regional stores that do not have it available.
From https://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/teenagers/fatalityfacts/t...

“About 2 of every 3 teenagers killed in crashes in 2016 were males.”
And as a public company, it is your obligation to not spend more money on tax than you are legally obliged to

[citation needed]
No, my criteria for success is a large network that is meaningfully better than FB, which we absolutely do not have and Mastodon will not deliver.
If your friend is interviewing at a startup, my advice would be to embrace and display an experimental and analytical approach to marketing. Don't act like you know what works, but instead have a few ideas and a plan for testing them, and then a way to find new ideas to test. If he's interviewing for a more traditional marketing role at a traditional company, I don't any advice to offer.
I still can't tell if these are just rebranded Feitian Multipass keys [0], which I've already owned for several years. Has Google added something that I've missed?

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/Feitian-MultiPass-FIDO-Security-Key...)
I listen to Jocko too- It's an excellent podcast! If you like Jocko, then you'll probably like Jordan Peterson too. His audiobook "12 rules for life" on audible is great because he narrates it.
Didn't Hotmail have some problem where microsoft took over and forgot to pay for the domain name [0]?

[0] https://whoapi.com/blog/5-all-time-domain-expirations-in-int...
Also elastic back then was used as a place where you copy your data, not your main data store. (Their positioning changed later) MongoDB was supposed to be used for your primary data store.
> taboo against lending friends or family members money for any reason.

It's less taboo than years of hearing stories of ended family relationships where money was loaned and then abused, mishandled, wasted, etc without any intention of paying it back. I've heard these types of stories my entire life.
Funny I just got tasked with updated a PDF form and using JavaScript to validate it.

I have the acrobat/JavaScript API Ref open right now. [0]

[0]https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdf... for those interested.
A modern CPU may have multiple cores, each executing a serial instruction stream (or with SMT aka hyperthreading, each core may execute on some sepecific number of instruction streams). Within a core, there may several execution units such as instruction decoders and adders and what not, if you have multiple adders, you can sometimes be processing arithmetic instructions in parallel. A CPU that can do that is a superscalar CPU and the parallelism shown is often discussed as instruction level parallelism.

Instruction level parallelism (on common platforms) is an optimization a processor applies, based on the conditions when an instruction is decided, but it isn't visible directly in the code. You would really need to inspect the low level interpretter loop, with some idea of the specific bytecode it was processing and specifics about the processor you're using. Setting up the order of instructions to reduce data dependencies is one of the things an optimizing c compiler does, to help the processor be able to utilize instruction level parallelism, but to compute things with thread level parallelism would require too much coordination -- starting a thread is a many stepped thing, and then transferring the values is too, even if writing to memory addresses, there's hidden coordination there.
> a Kickstarter campaign, bank loan, or VC investment doesn't diminish one's pride in the way that the same support from someone's parents might.

I don't think it's about pride at all. I think it's about face (something most Americans don't even have a word for, but which is very relevant in this case.)

Americans don't want to give face to anyone, ever. They don't want anyone to have social power over them. When an individual loans you money—or, even worse, gifts you money—you're giving them a ton of face in exchange. Americans find that idea horrifying. It's like signing up for indentured servitude, except—since it's a social rather than legal obligation—you can't even get out of it by declaring bankruptcy! (See: the way "favours" are portrayed in The Godfather movies, for an image of the American mindset on what owing someone a favour / being in someone's debt is like.)

Bank loans and VC investments are better precisely because they're legal rather than social obligations, so you can get out of them (or, say, sell them off to someone else along with the business.) And Kickstarter is better because no single individual is responsible for enough of the loan to actually attain much social-obligatory power over you in exchange. You're maybe beholden to your Kickstarter backers as a class, but you aren't scared to talk to any individual one of them for thought of what they might ask of you.
> One, or a small number, and because this is the history of these types of things.

It's worth teasing this apart.

There is a befuddling belief on the part of some decentralization advocates -- and of some decentralization detractors! -- that decentralization must imply an even distribution of power or influence.

That strikes me as unrealistic in the extreme; meaningful networked ecosystems essentially never converge to uniform distribution. Power laws are the norm, not the exception.

I try to avoid "decentralized"'s linguistic baggage by using the term "federated" instead. Email is federated; Gmail is its behemoth... and that's okay.

(As for Mastodon: today, the majority of the network's traffic resides on the largest 5 of 3500+ publicly announced instances. It's power laws all the way down.)
> I looked through it, saw lots of intricate stuff, but wondered just why I should dig into that. Since then I read a story about Rota about how, apparently, he felt much the same about the material

Ah yes, the classic rant by Rota. Entertaining read, and good perspective (10 pages). Apparently written in 1997.

https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/Rota.pdf
I’m very curious about this idea, is there any good resource you can recommend on this?

How does splitting companies help? I don’t understand the value or the point of this, giving the history of Ma bell and they ended up being multiple larger bells in the long run.

Is the split intended to require regulation reviews when someone want to merge or purchase companies later?
I used a scale and measuring cups. I measured the cream I put into my morning coffee, and every handful of Macadamia nuts I ate.

I also did not eat out, since the estimates on most restaurants for amount of ingredients and total calories/macros are wildly off the mark.

And before you mention water weight, I had DXA scans done that showed both fat loss and lean tissue gain. I also did not modify my workout schedule at all.
They require tolerances that could be achieved in the day, but not reliably was certainly not standard practice. When the funding was cut they were basically running a research program to develop better machining. With the research program failed to bad project management is kind of irrelevant. My point was it was still in the area of being a research program.
One of them is Dutch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenschuurman/
To heal wounds, cells time-travel back to a fetal state
I might have missed it, but I do not know if they tested for significant quantities instead of just presence. A presence of all sorts of pathogens is pretty common everywhere (you can find all sorts of stuff under kids nails), it is the concentration above certain thresholds that significantly increases disease risk.

I would be interested in how concentrations of different pathogens compare between, say an airport, supermarket and hospital ER reception. My 2c.
I agree that making a one person demo good enough that it convinces "the boss" to sign up for a team building exercise sounds hard. It may be an important problem.
I would have put it more at not about lending them money but the strong desire to strike out on their own. plus throw in sibling rivalry where culture tends to put self first and family second. there are communities within the US which still lean family first but they are not common in the cities
The most impressive pseudonymous technology person I can think of to date is IceFrog, the brains behind the longest iteration of DotA 1 who Valve somehow unearthed to lead DOTA2 design.

People have tried to discover who he really is for over a decade, and only have a guess for his real name and age. Given that people have known of him since 2006 (for a twitter account with ~100k followers and known lead for a game with a million MAU), in this era, that's super impressive.
President accuses social media firms of election meddling
Their useless, annoying and most importantly toxic ads are one of the main reasons I stopped using it. At least advertise me something I am really interested in and not stupid ripped of play store apps.

Reddit is now doing the same thing. Yea no thanks
Anyone figure out which product/services are driving the majority of this revenue?
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Twitter is now the center of gravity of the entire Internet

Journalists and celebrities certainly seem to think so, and I'm glad they do, because I can easily avoid them by simply ignoring Twitter.
Really great reply - thank you for sharing. I was just researching the company more for investment. I agree also with regards to Horton/Cloudera. They had so much promise - but felt out of favor.
Or to put it another way, income assistance makes sense if it's not abused by having largest companies pay minimal wages to lots of people. (counting on people surviving on government assistance)

It's supposed to be assistance for people who don't get enough even though they managed to get some employment. Not assistance for companies to lower their spending on wages.
> what abstractions are we missing today that will be obvious to future generations?

And how many people have already recognized them, only to have been ignored because they're working at too high a level for their listeners to appreciate?
But you can’t be sure that splitting the companies doesn’t prevent them from doing it again alas Ma Bell > ATT + larger mergers of Bells over times.

I just don’t understand how it helps. It would be nice if you can recommend any resources I can look at on this topic.
Also there is cell sectorization, which is why most cell towers are arranged in triangles of antenna arrays.
Indeed, I agree. I'm ~70% through the translation by Gregory Hays. FWIW I've picked up this translation after some research; there are several of them. Hays' translation also as a nice reference on related reading in the book's introduction chapter.
Hey thanks for the really thoughtful response!

> The current approach presents itself as a kind of socialist/libertarian communal utopia, and it can be depending on how a given instance is run -- but in practice, each instance is a monarchy with absolute power over not only your presence in the kingdom but which other kingdoms you're allowed to talk to. Your social graph can be broken at any point because your admin has decided, for any reason, to stop federating with an instance you have followers on, or vice-versa. The net effect is that you can be punished for transgressions, real or imagined, that you weren't a party to (and might not even be aware of). And I don't think that has a technical solution, just a policy one.

This is so spot on! It's easy to say Mastodon is solving all these problems, but the reality is that it's just not big enough that it has faced any real challenges, and the challenges it really faces are mostly philosophical, not technical. AFAICT it hasn't scratched the surface on the philosophical governance issues.
Change your job.
To some (admittedly fuzzy) degree what you describe is a symptom of what I describe, not a causal reason for the taboo or individualistic tendency to exist.
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Thanks for informing me I appreciate it (I’m a happy user of a Yubikey).
What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like (2017)
I'll stop now, but my church claim was only that the medieval church had a hand in changing the culture, in places which are now mostly protestant or atheist. The places which the post-reformation catholic church has thrived are indeed pretty different.
I'm easily distracted, particularly from internal digressions. Taking notes helps me hold on to the thread.
No -- the original author is continuing to maintain BetterSlack as BitterSweet, albeit without publishing to the Chrome store.

https://github.com/g3rv4/BitterSweet

I felt it was better to unpublish my (likely to be unmaintained) fork. Probably should have left up a note to redirect folks.
find the cause of your unhappiness and try to block it from influencing you. maybe you think a lot about what you no longer have or compare your past career to current. so try to isolate from that. find someone positive and optimistic to talk to
How do you feel about the travelling part?
Why aren't other markets like that? Lots of firms in lots of industries have single-digit margins over COGS. They're at "the bottom" all the time. In some industries, defectors from the commercial collusion you describe are punished through non-market means. In telecom, FCC prevents them from existing in the first place.
Ask HN: Where to seek for technical and economical guidance?
For the past months i built a website / web app which i want to release in the app stores soon. However this is the first time for me. There are several options to promote an app these days but i just don't know which way to go - where to invest smart.

Because i think that my app could perform quite well and has a lot of potential i want to do this right.

What i need right now would be someone who has successfully released an app with 250k+ downloads or works in the industry and has a lot of experience to look at my project and give me his opinion and some advice which steps i should take right now.

Furthermore i am looking for some expertise in:

- scalability
- performance
- advertising

I'd be very thankful for some suggestions where to look for an professional/experienced person that i willing to look at my project.
I've been using an ErgoDox for 4 or 5 years & absolutely love it.

I went with a mix of switchs (the keys my pinky hit take less force than the other keys) and it's really nice.

It took me a day or 2 to get to typing most things without errors, took a couple weeks to get back up to speed (I type much faster now, though I imaging switching to any unlabeled keyboard would have done that).

It does take patience to build, or you can get pre-made ones like the ergodox-ez or from falbatech. I went from almost 0 experience soldering to making the ergodox, the guide on massdrop was very thorough, also watched a few youtube examples.
There's plenty of Finnish TV shows that are popular within Finland. Children and the elderly do not have English literacy rates as high as the rest of the population. Most kids shows are either produced locally or dubbed in Finnish.
Somewhat funny how your argument works the other way around too:

Spending a lot on outside security research for flagship phones is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for security.

I like what Purism does, and those firmware blobs are one of the most significant issues I have with current smartphones.
Doesn't sound very difficult to simply prorate the amount of taxes by the number of hours worked.
> There is a befuddling belief on the part of some decentralization advocates -- and of some decentralization detractors! -- that decentralization must imply an even distribution of power or influence.

No, it's that if you observe that power laws are the norm, as you stated, then you start to see decentralization as a process, not a state of being. The idea that a network (or governance structure) "is decentralized by design" makes no sense. If you know decentralization is temporary, it's hard to take Mastodon etc. seriously.
So? Walk onto a set and I bet you'll find people from every continent except Antarctica there. People born on those continents too, not just descendants.
IMHO you need a good workflow and as few tools as possible. It sounds like you're using many different tools. Is there a reason for that? Do you have a workflow you routinely use?

Suggestion: Treat one tool as your "canonical" todo tracker (these could be separate tools for home / work). Take todos from other sources (slack, email, meetings, whatever) and routinely consolidate them into your canonical tracker. When you're working, work exclusively off of the tracker.

Offline, I keep a simple paper bullet journal during meetings. I'll note action items with a bullet point (other notes get a hyphen). After meetings are done, I review the bullets and either complete them or commit them to my canonical tracker. Bullets get crossed out when this happens - full cross if I completed the bullet, half-cross if I committed it to tracker.
Why Aren’t You Trying to Be More Like Elon Musk?
> Eventually, I started weeding out people who fell below the level of a real-life friend, because I didn't want to share family photos with them. Facebook became a place to share kids' photos and see kids' photos from friends and family.

I'm fairly sure that the opposite is also occurring. That is, people who aren't interested in seeing a constant stream of your kids are weeding you out as well.

In the last few years, I've been aggressive in unfollowing people who post nothing but pictures and updates about their kids. It's not something I'm interested in seeing, and honestly I just can't identify with people who have kids. Seeing people who used to be close friends do nothing but post about their kids just reminds me that we no longer move in the same world.

The only exception is my cousin. I'm fine with seeing pictures of her kids, because they're family (in fact, I configured Facebook to send me a notification whenever she posts), but I'm not interested in seeing anyone else's kids.
Very nice work – great choice of aesthetics! Thanks for this!
I stayed at a very good Gujju run one in Ukiah last summer, maybe the same family?
The Allure of China’s ‘Silicon Valley’ a Boon for the Economy
Very true. Could just as easily just count the number of times we've looped through this and multiply by our sleep to get a sense of time taken place. Thanks for the poke at that!
Just to clear any confusion I am not saying the success comes at the expense of breaking the law. In some cases it is true but at fundamental level it is about "establishing trust". You can break a lot of victim-less laws and get away with it when you can establish trust. Most often these are minimum wage laws and immigration laws (both of which in my opinion some of the worst laws in the world).
If it's usb-a, nfc & bluetooth for under $50, I'll take 2.
That whole article is based on a tweet from an IT Consultant saying the Titan key appears to be the same hardware Feitian keys. No proof is offered...
Fair point about the length leak.

Good luck with this.
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