skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Google, the most profitable thing (to my understanding) is advertisement on product-seeking queries. If you look and a SERP for a privacy-invading search, like Googling someone's name or email address, you'll notice that there are not really so many ads. I tried searching for my real name, my real name with my locale, and my email address. I was able to find an old breached password and I was able to find my home address, but I didn't see any ads. You could argue that this feature provides some halo benefit to Google's more profitable queries, but to be honest it seems like a stretch to me.

For Facebook, they make money from advertising to logged in users. Broadly speaking, they keep users logging in by offering users the ability to broadcast private information to friends, and by offering the ability to receive such broadcasts from friends. To the extent FB does invade privacy, they do so to more effectively advertise to users on their site. They don't make the results of that invasion -- the profiles they build from their tracking bits, in other words -- available for public search. What's available for public search is instead only what the users choose to broadcast about themselves.

The exposure of private information to public search engines is not what is profitable about either of these companies. It's an incidental effect of the persistence of digital storage and the difficulty of curating what is stored.
I don’t just listen to the person, I breath deep and listen to my body and the feelings and underlying emotions bubbling up as I hear their words. If I can recognize these feelings, I can acknowledge them before needing to immediately react and say what’s bubbling up. If it’s particularly important I write it down to bring up when they’re done speaking.

But this is a kind of mindfulness skill that takes lots of practice. Meditation helps, and anything that connects you with your body, so you can learn to accept, acknowledge and respond and not immediately react.

Also I forgive myself a lot for fidgeting. It's natural. I give myself things for my hands to play with.
Blah blah money laundering blah blah beanie babies. This is getting old, it's like when Google launches a service and comments are "So when will this be shut down?". It's lazy and brings nothing to the table.

On the topic, can anyone explain how the 'official' Beeple entry is identified on the blockchain? As opposed to any other address that claims to be the "Official Beeple '5000 days' NFT ownership token". My understanding of this is sketchy at best.
Read the motivation behind it in https://eitanyan.medium.com/continuous-deployment-in-mission...
Lol you think he’s critiquing press releases and documentation? Let’s be friends, you’re particularly my kind of dumb.
At least one US president was the founder of a petroleum company (Pennzoil).
One of the things I did when porting it to the M1 was "rm nand.c"... :-)

This thing actually goes back further than the name "mini" and BootMii; in the beginning it was a never-released thing called "ios_stub" and actually served the very same purpose on the Wii, to experiment with the hardware over a USB Gecko (which was a USB serial-like interface that plugged into the memory card slot) using the very same Python approach. That code hasn't changed much in checks Git history 13 years... though it obviously flipped endianness on its way from the Wii to other ARM32 platform experiments, before making it to ARM64 and Apple Silicon [1].

The Python side is still mostly the same too, other than getting ported from Python 2 to Python 3 and growing a bunch of utility functions. The Python-side malloc implementation actually got written when I was using all this to experiment with a Chinese MP4 player. That version ended up being called "minimp" [2]. Another thing that happened on the way to the M1 was deleting the "P_RENDER_BUNNY" command [3].

So yeah, what I'm doing now on the M1 is literally, down to the code, shell.py, and proxy command names, the same damn thing I was doing 13 years ago on the Wii. AES engine [4] back then, IRQ controller [5] now... though evidently I put a bit more effort into the MediaWiki register documentation templates back then; the GitHub wiki is a bit more limited... :-)

[1] https://mrcn.st/t/ios_stub_vs_m1n1.png

[2] https://marcan.st/2009/06/sunplus-spmp305x-media-player-hack...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tg7KSSUl8Q

[4] https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Hardware/AES_Engine

[5] https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/HW:AIC
It doesn't need to be that explicit. There's no doubt a group of people who already have large crypto holdings and who stand to make even more if NFTs take off. They can just buy and sell things amongst each other.
A qualified generalist ops admin should be productive on any modern UNIX or UNIX-like within a couple weeks.

Figuring out how the guy last year set up FreeBSD consists of similar effort and process as figuring out how the guy last year set up Debian or CentOS or SUSE.
Well a lot of CD's swapped out loudness (amplitude) for dynamic range and really they aren't much better than vinyl. So there's a bit of truth to it. A properly mastered CD is far superior to vinyl in a technical sense. Not being an audiophile though I don't mind either as long as the record ain't scratchy and it's not a cheap deck with crappy electronics. Obviously the best "sound" is in the ear of the beholder and some people prefer the sounds of their child/teen years to a higher fidelity version available on CD.
you are confusing encryption and signing
I built a site for that: https://weirdonecharacterdomainsuperstore.com
Just my perspective: being diplomatic practically never includes the term "wokeness". The term is pretty much exclusively disparaging. You're accusing people of being insincere in their preferences.

The word is a catchall ad hominem, used to dismiss any argument such that people don't really mean what they say, without having to address their actual argument at all. I'd suggest that any time you're tempted to use that in an argument, you might consider skipping that and talking instead about the actual thing under discussion.
Thanks. I was really asking an honest question, so appreciate you replying.

I do think ideas need a compelling reason to exist in order to be successful, but then again the people behind Gemini may not have my definition of "success" as one of their stated goals.
Personally, I'm skeptical of the "great for beginners" point. I've helped a few beginners in Python who had subtle, yet program-breaking bugs just because their return statement was indented to the wrong level. It would have been easier to just use a brace-delimited language and run the autoformatter to reveal any discrepancies.

(Or we could be using a lisp, but that's another problem :) )
At this point, I've just found it easier to block cookies and JS unless specifically needed. You get around all of these cookie warnings that shouldn't be there to begin with.
Something I recently heard on reddit, and my wife and I have been trying, is to go through the alphabet, and for each letter think of 3 unrelated words. About half the time it quiets my mind enough to fall asleep. I usually give up if I make it all the way through, my wife has reported that sometimes she's had to go through it twice to fall asleep.

Another thing that'll often put me to sleep is listening to an audio book, but I stopped doing that when my phone USB-C port broke, I only have plug-in earbuds, my wireless headphones are big cans, not really suitable for falling asleep in.
> the more deeply readers will engage with it

You're already hypocritical - readers don't want to 'engage' with writing. People don't want to 'engage' at all. This is not an ordinary way of talking about things outside a pretty niche circle of VCs and marketing managers.

Choose what to read and who to associate with as well as it will strongly influence your own language :)
No, don't trust the US propaganda used to promote its more expensive LNG and keep European countries in its leash. Both of Nord Streams are commercial projects first and foremost. IIRC they have payback period of something like from 10 to 15 years, which is quite reasonable for an infrastructure project. Look at the map, primary source of natural gas today in Russia is the Yamal peninsula, and path from it to Germany through the Baltic is shorter than through Ukraine. Also take a look at companies which invest into the project, almost half of the cost is paid by the European companies. Do you think they would invest so heavily into a purely geopolitical project?

Also it's a common sense to reduce your transportation risks, both Poland and Ukraine are clearly hostile towards Russia (does not matter why and who is responsible for that in your opinion), so why would you not avoid their territory for transportation of one of your main exports if it's possible? We already have seen how disputes can cause a significant disruption in 2008-2009 and now Poland tries to fine Gazprom for a ridiculous sum for building Nord Stream 2 (sic!). And finally Ukrainian gas transportation system is in a dire need of rehabilitation and modernization, e.g. due to its poor state they recently had a gas explosion near the Lubny city. The Ukrainian state does not have funds for it, Russia will not do it for obvious reasons, and Europe does not want to pay for it either.

>It increased German and European dependency on Russian natural gas

Blatantly false. Consumption of Russian natural gas has been more or less stagnant for a decade and does not show any signs of future growth. It has even shrunk, in 2007 Russia supplied 626 billion m3, while in 2018 only 549. If anything it will only decrease in the following decades. For example according to a Gazprom's model it will peak in 2027 around 580 billion m3 and will steadily decline thereafter.
It's a shame that is only for Mac :(
Any plans for Windows(/Linux)?
> Even though OSI clearly defines what "open source" means

They define what they think it clearly means to them... but they don't own the term.
yup, I would not have that on the site. Or I'd reword it.
I'm big into Bitcoin, but I genuinely don't get the NFT craze. My understanding is that your ownership of the item is recorded forever on the blockchain, but there's nothing stopping someone from just copying the image.

The real value is that you are the immutable owner? But okay, what difference does that actually make for a digital image?
Similar project for time tracking and invoice generation: https://www.kimai.org/
https://xkcd.com/269/
You're not answering the question, the question was simply "what is a spoonful?"

The answer is that a "spoonful" is not precisely defined. "Tablespoon" and "teaspoon" are defined measurements, but "spoonful" isn't.

The answer from another comment is that the author meant "tablespoon."
Yeah this is great right! We stumbled on Halley's Comet at the local science museum here in Skövde and it'll really spice up travel around Sweden for the kids a bit.
Cmd-space launches Spotlight. Ctrl-space switches the input layout. Ctrl-Cmd-Space launches the emoji viewer (even in Firefox...)
I'm sorry, did you reply to the wrong comment? I'm trying to understand where "illegitimate car rental codes" comes from here, as I never mentioned that or anything related to it.

I agree with you, just trying to understand how it's connected to what I wrote initially.
I would really appreciate that, but I wonder if the right incentives are there to support its broad adoption.

Also wonder if the easiest way to fix online advertising is indeed to replace HTTP altogether.
When things like this are brought to light, it makes you realise that the UK ceased to be a democracy a long time ago.

The British people have been lulled to sleep, and now it's too late.
Czechia.
I don't think it was built this way with the intention to symbolize the Sun. Making it the center of a model Solar System was probably more of an afterthought (although a really cool one).
To spawn a sync function from an async context you use https://docs.rs/tokio/1.3.0/tokio/task/fn.spawn_blocking.htm....
I can think of two reasons why:

1) the Lindy Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

2) The mainframe's reliability-centric culture vs. today's flaky software design culture
21.7 cents per pixel.

Stock photos cost $5 to $100 and come with distribution rights.

Somebody paid a lot of money for bragging rights.
> An NFT is like a piece of paper titled with the name of the artwork and signed by the artist.

I know nothing about NFTs, but in the last few days I’ve seen a few people turn their Twitter accounts private where they previously posted their artworks. Supposedly to prevent sales of NFTs of their art without their approval. No idea if that’s a real issue or not. However there is another comment here saying they sold a NFT of Mona Lisa. It seems that a “piece of paper with a, possibly forged, signature” might be a better comparison.
Wood works well in earthquakes - when you design for it. Wood is flexible so shaking it won't damage anything structural and so repair is cosmetic. (the above is strongly an over simplification!) That is why Japan builds with wood a lot instead of brick/rock: after the earthquake you have a safe place to live while you repair it. Repairs might be so expensive that you rebuild, but at least you can a safe roof while building the new place. Not to mention if you were inside you don't die of building collapse.
> "makes you wonder what happens if you (somehow) send $70,000,000 to Christie's Ether wallet from a non-approved address"

Probably no different from sending an unagreed wire to their bank account? They'll just refund, maybe subtracting $50 for "processing" or whatever.
I guess I’m trying to figure out how rich people brag about their wealth. They can’t put this in a museum(?) and hanging it on your wall in your dining room isn’t particularly impressive either.

I suppose there’s lots of art just sitting in storage because it’s an investment medium, and this isn’t different?
I mean, it is a big spherical venue. Representing the Sun is more of a secondary use.
He absolutely could. He will have the title of "Mr." until he does.
It isn't a shining beacon of vibrancy, but it does show that it was, at least at one time, a real possibility. An existence proof.
It's both, i.e. FLOSS.
This was a big HN thread about a year ago, when Amazon switched off their last Oracle instance and went fully AWS on the store backend.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21258127

That's what I was getting at. There's no way AWS is going anywhere if the entire store is running on it.
Sure, but as a side benefit. Maybe someone has actually proposed doing SMRs distributed over the country and heating all houses directly, but as far as I know it's never been done. It's usually preferred to have nuclear plants isolated from residential areas.
The website is in Russian though. The author probably knew that because he had to use some online translation tool to go through the purchase process.

Fun fact: the Kazakh government decided to replace Cyrillic with Latin for the Kazakh language. Apparently the process is supposed to end in 2025, but I have no idea how widely adopted the new alphabet is at the moment.
I've seen a lot of freelance design services going this direction lately: https://designpickle.com , https://www.manypixels.co/ but I guess you focus only on UX/UI?
Are you saying taoism's longevity comes from the application of superior models of physics?
On this topic, does anyone know what process GoDaddy follows when they snatch up a domain that has lapsed?

There's a domain I've wanted for decades for sentimental reasons. I randomly checked on it a few weeks ago and noticed it had lapsed but GoDaddy had picked it up and was asking $3,500 for it.

Obviously I'm not going to pay that, so I'm keeping an eye on it (through searches on other registrars) to see if they drop the price (I'd pay a few hundred bucks for it).

I haven't contacted them or tried to make an offer yet, cause I don't want to let them know that someone is actually interested in the domain and ruin any chances I'd have just by waiting.
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Yes, newest was probably not the best word for it.

The best technologies can be chosen, new or old.
We are using this tool extensively in our development flow on a daily basis.

It gives us an automatic way for more coverage we ever had and improved the product quality significantly.
It seems like a digital signature of the work. If the artist signs 100,000 copies of photographs, the signed versions are worth a lot less, but if they only sign 5 in their lifetime, then they have more value.

At least this is how I'm going to currently reinterpret NFTs—as digitally signed artwork/merchandise—I may see it differently tomorrow.
Thanks for explaining "based" - I didn't know what it was. But I don't understand how your example is actually an example of that. "Rowling is better than Hemingway" is a matter of opinion, so it can't be "unpopular but correct".
"If the Moon were only 1 Pixel" gives a good sensation of the distances through the medium of scrolling:

https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....

Edit: Notice the option to travel at lightspeed.... this isn't quite as exciting as you might think.
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Great product, works well, but can't see the need for this to be a monthly cost. Should be a one time purchase
I don't think the author made a compelling argument as to why open-sourcing his code led to the problems he describes. It sounds like having the code open sourced took too much of his time away since it allowed people to make requests for things. But I don't see why that means he necessarily has to take time to fulfill the requests.

Sounds like he was too focused in one area of his project, and needed to take a step back to get a broader view of the state of things. I'm not convinced the closed/open source nature of his code is responsible for that.
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I think you mostly getting downvoted because you are trying to assert preference as somehow empirically supported, and using a weak argument-from-authority to try and justify it.

It doesn't really matter if most of the commenters here have far less industry experience than you; obviously it isn't hard to find far more qualified industry insiders than you who would disagree with your take. I'm not sure how much it matters though, cuisines don't live in restaurant kitchens anyway.

There is nothing wrong with having a food philosophy or aesthetic preference and pursuing it as far as you can. Pretending it is somehow demonstrably superior or some how "more mature" is at best problematic, and usually foolish.

You say "I cannot stomach Indian food"; fine - accept that it's your loss and move on. Trying to turn it into a virtue isn't going to get you far.

Perhaps to counter that take, I've been lucky enough to experience first rate offerings from all of the cuisines you mention and universally some of it has been really great for me. Does that just mean I'm somehow limited by a plebian palate, and somehow if I was just better educated I would have likes some of it less?
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I don't understand this either. Who is actually making sure all this stuff is owned by the correct person before it goes on the blockchain. can't a 5001 Days version just come out next?

This honestly seems so stupid, but maybe its the future of humanity. Lord knows we earned it.
In lots of countries, butter isn't sold in sticks, and using measurements like "sticks", "cans", or "packs" of something is annoying if the unit sizes differ between the author's and the reader's country. I can deal with cups or ounces - they're not intuitive for me, but they can be converted. But "cans" or "packs" are just plain guesswork. That makes it unnecessarily hard to try new dishes where I don't already know what the result is supposed to look or taste like.
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There are real benefits to owning shares in a company. It's not as tangible as owning a more conventional object (like a book or pen), but there's actually a meaningful difference between owning and not owning those shares (like dividends or voting rights).

There are only the faintest wisps of connection between the NFT and the art. It's like an autograph on the cover of a book, but without the book inside the cover. And it's not even that tangible, because the autograph is digital, and there are no limitations on infinitely and perfectly reproducing the book.
The production cost is not zero but it's been mostly externalized.

These tokens are like burning down a forest so you can press the ashes into a cute little trophy.
Smart sex toys: appealing to you, exploitable to hackers
Do you have an idea when, roughly, main line OCaml going to be fully multicore? (Or even a close/not close judgement.)
I'm sorry that the curtain has been pulled from your eyes this morning. But this has been the case for a very long time.

I used to work in the home alarm industry. Nearly every company operates this way. They have big banks behind them (the one I had worked with used Blackstone Capital and Goldman Sachs) who would pay out a 5 year contract up front. So when they sold you a new alarm in your home for $30-$50 a month, they would take your contract to the bank and get a 5 year payout on that instantly.

This is why it is so hard to get an alarm company to go away. If you cancel, they have to give back several years of your money that you haven't even paid them yet. Essentially the alarm company has already spent the money that you aren't even going to pay them for another 3-4 years. So when you cancel, they need to go sell another contract in order to pay the bank back for your cancellation. Now imagine if the guy who's contract they sold to cover your cancellation also cancels... yeah, its pretty darn close to a Ponzi scheme.

I know a guy who operates a commercial water delivery company. It works the same way. He gets 24-36 month payouts on water delivery contracts. He gets paid upfront by a bank before the customer has even made their first payment.

Car dealerships are selling credit notes and trading inventory that they don't even own. Home mortgage companies take your mortgage, bundle it up with a bunch of other people, some who have worse credit than you, and some who have more credit than you, and they sell it off to a bigger bank as a nice beautiful collage of mortgages called a mortgage bundle.

Sometimes you don't want to know how the sausage is made. And in today's economy, banks are making sausages with some pretty nasty shit.
I think this is PG's worst opinion.

The man is undeniably intelligent, undeniably successful, and undeniably talented in business (and deserves huge credit for his contributions to the startup community).

But I just thing he's deeply wrong here. His simple writing style (and those that have inherited/copied it) is a detriment to the community.

It's the take of a (talented!) engineering mind. It's the same attitude that engineers often take with building digital products ("we don't need a designer - just present the UI elements simply and people will get it.")

Design is an art. Communication is an art. Writing is an art. Essays are an art. They have function, of course, and a simple straightforward style is, indeed, a style that is more functional for some.

But it also diminishes the joy of reading and purees it into the blandness of an economics textbook. I've tried to read his essays and yes, they have some great ideas, but they're just....bland.

They're like Soylent for the mind. Does it deliver nutrition to your body in an maximally-efficient vehicle? Sure. Do you enjoy drinking that Soylent shake?

shiver

EDIT: I should explicitly clarify something: I'm not arguing that one should use jargon or unnecessarily complex words in their writing. That's obviously bad. But there's a gap between the "simple writing style" and "enjoyable rich prose".