skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their initial success may not have been, but their sustaining success absolutely must be, or else it would have fizzled out, one way or another. Many celebrities tried to latch on to this style of success as their careers waned more generally, (Jessica Simpson comes to mind, she had a similar enough reality TV show and was a big star for her time), but there was no sustaining power there. Not saying she isn't in her own right successful (she is), but by all given metrics I can think of, the Kardashians are outliers here

How about these examples? Amiga had customers, and was profitable, yet Amiga is no longer a force in the computing, nor is Commodore.

Both had more (arguably) capable operating systems than Windows (until at least Windows 95), yet, no sustaining power.

Look at the sustaining power of iOS and Android, despite other more capable competitors that tried to win market share (Windows Phone, WebOS, and I really wanted WebOS to win, mind you)
Trump is arguably one of the first successful reality TV stars. He basically laid the groundwork.

The Kardashians took up the ball that Paris Hilton dropped.
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You could start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)

As always on HN there is a certain amount of ... discussion about some of the finer points, generally about typing. I suspect that if you follow the refs in the WP article most of the usual bikeshedding here will resolve itself satisfactorily.

For me (50 year old bloke) I dimly recall C always being available https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language) - apparently 1972ish so I was 2 or 3 when C came out and replaced B which probably didn't do much ....

Oh look at this (wrt B): "However, it continues to see use on GCOS mainframes (as of 2014)"
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Philippines man collects 20,000 fast-food toys
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Is PowerPC now going to show up in laptops?
> This isn't their problem. They are very wealthy, famous, and they obviously totally grok how their market works

Just because they understand how to play the game in their current situation, it does not mean they could replicate the process of getting to their current situation.
> which doesn't really correlate because victims can turn out to be assholes themselves.

And, in particular, victimhood is often contextual and temporal. The oppressed person today may turn around and oppress someone else tomorrow. (And, in fact, fewer things predict likelihood of abusing more than a history of being abused.)

If our culture's moral system is based on partitioning the graph of interactions into "victim" and "victimizer", then the system is completely unable to handle the reality that there are cycles in that graph. There are homophobic Black people and racist queers. Anti-trans women and trans mysogynists.

It's impossible to reliably take sides in an environment like that if your moral code just says "side with the victim". Which victim? When? Do we side with J.K. Rowling because she was a victim or domestic assault, or vilify her because she's anti-trans?

As our moral culture gets increasingly polarized, it gets increasingly unable to accurately model the world as it is.
I never knew how to feel about TempleOS given Terry’s increasingly erratic behavior until his death.

The guy was obviously very smart, but it’s hard to separate the work from some of the things he said. (Thinking about him dropping N-words in his videos)
>If you are a victim you are entitled to treat your victimizer with contempt and, increasingly, violence. It removes your victimizer from then normal moral calculus.

And more pertinent to today's increasingly popular political machinations, it provides a faux justification to exercise power over others for personal or in-group gain.
Viruses are actually described almost correctly by software security, it’s a piece of instruction(DNA) that can enter using various methods and replicate, but not necessarily bad.
I actually happened to get a personal demo of Xanadu from Ted himself a few years ago. While it has some clever ideas and clearly was ahead of its time, they weren't really able to execute on them in a reasonable timeframe. The web won because it shipped.
Better yet, disable cookies for every website not explicitly whitelisted.
But if it's encrypted properly, you still can't access the data, right?
Coinbase to close San Francisco offices for good, will have no headquarters
Women are much more likely to be aware of the pretty serious risk of somebody being able to easily attain your address. I think it's a fair statement
Brave already blocks ads on YT (on mobile and desktop).
Exactly and the pandemic basically disrupted the traditional celebrity info market.. you can't go to a party or restaurant etc... no photo ops.
My coworkers are talking about how many "shares" of Dogecoin they bought based off the advice they're giving one another.

Something something... shoe shine boy.

Today one talked about buying "BitTorrent" and that it will go up to $x because there's a petition to have it listed on RobinHood, so it will be "soon".

I've liquidated most of my cryptocurrency holdings. I believed in some of the projects years ago, but now the space seems too 'WTF' for me.
There's Firefox Lockwise: http://lockwise.firefox.com

Firefox also introduced a feature that offers to generate a secure password when it detects a sign-up page.
You provide 100% collateral (really > 100% collateral) for the privilege of borrowing a different asset. For example, I could deposit ETH and borrow USDC against it to go buy something, or go make trades with. Or, I could deposit USDC and borrow ETH against it.

And people do this in traditional markets - it's known as "asset backed lending" or margin trading. Both things that my investment account allow me to do.
I find going from 0 to 1 much more interesting than 1 to n though, since 0 to 1 seems far less understood.
GitHub pages with Hugo:

https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/
Ah, makes perfect sense. My brain was glitching a bit trying to make sense of it as "Anything that [...] is asymptotic with respect to the time horizon"
Thanks, I’ll have to read about this more. That makes sense, gives you system to precisely describe particular pronunciations I guess. TIL :)
>I dont have an issue with this specific case, more the industry shift to rent seeking. Cars have subscriptions. Next your thin client hardware needs to pay rent to work.

I think that's just called "switching to a subscription model". "Rent seeking" has a different meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
Regional accents won't play nice with that.
A colleague’s son specializes in stripping old industrial sites that are no longer in use. They move into some abandoned part of the rust belt and systematically tear out every piece of scrap metal they can find. They’ve been pretty busy. I’m sure the concrete and brick stays behind, but the in situ lifespan of useful, durable materials is much shorter than you’d think.
I don't want to put words in the GP's mouth... but I believe GPs point is more akin to "one snowflake = one snowflake" (to use your analogy).

In other words: California does not value water equally between use cases -- to the point where certain crops are exploiting that imbalance. E.g. almonds might be a special case since, while water intensive, there may be fewer alternative geographies. Cattle, however, are plenty-viable elsewhere & shouldn't receive such an imbalanced incentive to consume water.

One natural starting point: One liter of water is priced uniformly regardless of use...
Phonetic spelling is useless when you’ve got more than one dialect. For instance, consider the word ‘castle’. Is this [kæsɫ̩], or [kɑːsl̩], or [kɑːsu] (as it is for me), or something else entirely? Having an orthography which is not purely phonetic avoids this problem.
A soldered SSD is absolutely putting a real limit to the lifespan of your pc

I hadn't really thought of this, but it's a concern for personal use. Not so much for data - I do backups - but because I tend to keep my laptops for ages (currently using an 8 year old MBA). Something to think about, certainly.
ACIC believes there's no legitimate reason to use an encrypted communication
Some days I can't tell which comments on HN are parody and which aren't...
The Minesweeper one was good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs
I mean I want a social media product with only my friends on it that filters out all the crap.
Community property refers to property and assets acquired during the marriage. Italy has almost the exact same concept in marriage/divorce law, called matrimonial property. Community property is split equally if the couple divorces, though many exceptions and possible lawsuits apply, and couples can sign a prenuptial agreement before marrying.
Maybe, but its not giving you the piece that worst on average, just the piece that is worst for the given situation. Well, tries to anyway.

Often they end up being the same, but not always. Tile the S's in a row and it will give you a cube because the s would let you complete the line.
Yes, please make this market so I can take the other side of the bet.
This is kind of crazy thought experiment, but would the Internet be really different today if there's no ads? (e.g. somehow it's been considered extremely uncool from the beginning so it's naturally shunned.) Many ad-supporters spread a doomsday scenario like "without ads, the vast majority of the good Internet will die". Is that really true?

I dunno. Maybe it's different. But I still put up my contents (writings and source codes) for free with no ads. And it's not so strange to imagine that there are many people like me. Maybe a newspaper would put up a part of their articles for promotion. In that case, the contents themselves are ads. That's not such a bad world either!
> limiting the supply of doctors

Possibly, but the cost of doctors (+nurses, technicians, etc) is in the noise, just a distraction. The vast majority of the cost of medical care in the US goes to the middlemen who contribute no value at all, just extract profit.

A 15 minute session with a general practicioner here (CA) costs around $300. That doctor isn't making $1200/hr ($2.5M/yr).

That doctor is likely only making a bit over 200K:
https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/family-phys...

The other $2M+ are going hangers-on who're not contributing to health care, just inserting themselves into the chain to get rich. Take a look at the billions in revenue collectively by all insurance companies. That's all a tax on health care that provides no value.
Fed says it's mainly a paperwork thing, with M2 savings accounts and CD accounts being reclassified as M1 checking accounts. But they say they can't think of a reason why it's happening, which is kind of scary.

They also say that since insterest rates are 0, there's no reason for depositors to prefer M3 over M1.

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/01/whats-behind-the-rec...
I was really hoping that would catch on when I got my first yubikey some years ago. So far it seems that basically no one is using it. Which really sucks because it's so much more secure. Makes it impossible to accidentally send credentials to the wrong site.
I get all my calories watching Doogie Howser reruns.
>I’m long past being frustrated about being misinterpreted,

Thanks for adding to the discussion. While dang was trying to defend your character, I was emphasizing the peculiar wordsmithing of your text being an enduring magnet for memes. Are you aware of snowclones[1]? Here's a recent snowclone example[2] from HN: For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by installing an x11vnc server on your host, setting up a SSH tunnel to a remote server which forwards the host's VNC port, [...]

Here's my theory on the phenomenon and why your old comment keeps getting cited...

Your 1st bullet point's text about ftp was so poetic that it hijaacks the mind and it overshadows the rest of your comment(s). It's like people think Bruce Springsteen's song "Born in the USA" is a celebration of patriotism when actually, the total lyrics are about disposable veterans from the Vietnam War. It's the "born in the USA" chorus that more people remember and not the nuanced verses of sadness.

If you had written about ftp in a more hesitating way with more qualifiers...e.g. "Maybe I'm reading the Dropbox application incorrectly but it seems like it duplicates what ftp already does [...] blah blah blah" -- your skepticism would have been forgotten because the text would have been boring and safe.

But your text of, "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account," -- combined with obscure tools unknown to the masses like "curlftpfs/SVN/CVS" -- was irresistibly quotable. That unintentionally became your "born in the USA" chorus.

Even before your 2007 comment, there was already a "too many techies are out-of-touch about the needs of non-techies" criticism in the air and the internet punching bag to express it was the famous 2001 Slashdot comment[3] about the iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."

So the HN collective found a new example of "out of touch techies" in the "famous Dropbox comment". But only the 1st bullet point and it doesn't care about the rest of your thoughtful nuanced conversation and replies. It's unfair but I'm glad to hear you've made peace with it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24230416

[3] https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
It's the same character in both dialects. I don't think a particular romanization counts as somebody's language when plenty of native speakers can't even read or write it. If you want to respect spellings, we should write all Chinese names in Chinese characters, but we don't because we don't respect them enough to actually bother with effort.
The water and land that they use isn't necessarily useful for other crops. Marginal pasture land can't be magically turned into cropland but almond orchards can.
I don't want to manage my backups or I guess file syncs between machines.
Someone trying to do SEO by getting links to their site from a popular one?
OK but we're discussing Google, which users already trust with essentially all their data.
you should do it! and make sure to post a "Show HN" if you do ...
And then your house burns down, or your backup account gets hacked.

People are bad enough with passwords. They'll be worse with recovery keys.
On a practical level, this is a bad view to hold.

Individuals with an external locus of control have worse life outcomes. Having an internal locus of control, the idea that you do have a large amount of control over your life, results in better outcomes.
Or we can use WebAuthn.
I’m sorry what seems to be satirical about my statement?
It's amazing to see the amount of people in this post that don't click ads. I really try to avoid to click them, I quite often open an incognito window to search for product I've just seen in an ad (I'm sure Google will find a way to figure out that an incognito user with the same IP as me is... me, but it feels better to try).

But I do click ads in my work, if the top (ad) link on Google is something relevant I might click it if I don't care for the company. I try to avoid clicking links for companies I really like since I work in a very ad heavy industry and know how much CPC can cost.
Depends how you are wired, all of my group study interactions in college were thinly veiled romantic efforts, whereas I got my actually studying done at 2am in a mostly empty cafe.
It's just jarring because a lot of these projects I'm talking about straddle the line between mission-driven nonprofits and companies trying to monetize that space. Mozilla is both. Canonical is a company, it just happens to be based around a mission-driven open source product. Ditto for CyanogenMod, or Brave.
We're both going to get in trouble for this but Hu was the president of china in the 2000s?
People who don't know how the sausage is made expect that when they're alone in a room, what they read about or watch or listen to is between them and no one. Imagine for a second your fishing interested potential customer didn't have any digital devices at all. They just asked friends and neighbors for word of mouth recommendations or went to the nearest Bass Pro Shop where they expected the people who work there would know what they're talking about.

Fishing retailers have a choice. They can rely on the strength and quality of their products and organic interest in fishing as a recreational activity. Or they can contract out their marketing to a commercial version of a spy agency that invents a silent, invisible device that follows their customers around when they're otherwise alone, recording everything they ever do to learn how to better predict their future spending preferences.

Surely, even if this resulted in better sales for the fishing industry, lower prices for the consumer, and the ability of niche publications to exist by predicting that their readers also like fishing and charging the fishing industry to sell them this information, you would not find this okay.

You've convinced yourself that this kind of surveillance and profiling is totally okay and different when it takes place on network connected computing devices and that people have even consented to it, but the actual people being monitored do not feel this way.
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The Epicenter Podcast is also an excellent source for technical content that I don't see mentioned in any of the children comments.
Everyone is attacking the author's credentials, but I'd like to see what people have to say about image 30.

Even if it's not organic, they are pretty odd looking formations that I haven't seen on Earth in any inorganic way.
That's... exactly my point?

Your original comments were that you wanted to outlaw certain types of ads entirely, war-on-drugs style. Not "take care of people who might be adversely affected by certain types of ads", but rather "these ads shouldn't exist", even if (from the broader perspective) that approach could cause more harm than good.
As do I, what I'm addressing here is a question of "do they have some kind of special staying power" which is in my mind, an absolute yes.

Its understanding how they managed that that you can work your back to 0, I think. There is value in that
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>Am I the only person who loathes this form of 2FA?

Not in the slightest. I tried to configure TOTP-only and Google effectively tells me to go fuck myself, because they apparently know how to secure my account better than I do.
Not just his own name, nobody at that time could spell English consistently. Which might have had something to do with not even being able to read or write.

People's names are fundamentally oral and spelling is just an encoding to communicate them in writing. Being worried about spelling correctness it like being worried about the choice of binary encoding of the spelling. My name is only correctly encoded in binary as ASCII, not some bastardized similar-looking unicode codepoints, and certainly not that archaic IBM encoding! Future generations had better respect my preference! /s
That argument wouldn’t stop them arresting you at the border.
Ah, the App Store tax. The gift that keeps on giving... or taking, whatever.
It's probably better that people find their way to it through mentions on a connected story.

I'm pleased that it's gained traction today, and also a shout out to Linus for featuring it. As Rossmann later commented, it will likely have a real cost to him in terms of peeved off industry people. For people like myself though, he's truly earned my respect.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nvVafMi0l68
That seems to be an orthogonal issue. Namely, the expectation that whatever wrong you have suffered should be righted. The message is to shut up because nobody is going to help you. Certainly effective to getting the victim to stop complaining. But that's not the same as actually coping with the issue, or better yet, solving it.
Same :( There are plenty of sites using U2F, but not WebAuthn. I hope that's because it's still relatively new.
How do you respond to the fact that development of the feature was led and announced by a woman?
You can be poor and still be a white supremacist, because white supremacy is not about being rich or successful. It's about believing that non-whites are not just irredeemably inferior and threateningly different, they're born that way.

Just because you personally haven't experienced it does not mean it doesn't exist. That's such a self-evident logical fallacy it shouldn't even need to be stated.

Systemic racism means that people are treated badly for the same reasons. It's why black lawyers are regularly asked if they're the defendant in court, why black youths are stopped and searched far more often than white youths, why there are obvious differentials in sentencing for identical crimes... and so on.

If you think these discussions are fraught, consider the position of those for whom this is about everyday experience and not just about "discussion" or "rhetoric."
Even more discouraging is that the whole SV-influenced tech hivemind appears to have adopted them as their professional tools of choice.
I still don’t believe audio surveillance exists at this scale, and I still haven’t seen any evidence that these events are anything but coincidence.

It seems to me that Facebook is extremely good at targeting me with ads (via Instagram) for products I might be interested in. I’m also much more likely to talk about products I’m interested in. I’m also much more likely to notice the spooky scenarios where the ads match what I was talking about, but not so likely to notice the ads unrelated to my conversations.

There are so many ways we could detect such surveillance. Power consumption, network usage, mic activity indicators, etc. but I still have seen no such evidence.

What do you think could be going on?
Is it true?: "ACIC believes there's no legitimate reason to use an encrypted communication platform" - I don't see it mentioned in a skim of the PDF. Maybe it was said rather than written down. It's a bold claim so they should back it up in the article.
An active component like the T2 can ensure the keys are erased after N failed attempts. A passive encryption key cannot. There are indeed also disadvantages to this.
EXACTLY.

Name one crypto project making any sort of impact.