skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a hot take: Once Digg/Reddit (and then later with the social apps such as FB) showed strong engagement numbers to VCs with a simple up/down community moderation system (or single button in FB's case), it sucked all the air out of the room for innovation in community-based moderation. Now all social websites just seek to grow in the same well-tread path.

I haven't seen anything really innovative since Slashdot. Has anyone? Is there any room for innovation in user-based moderation and curation for social websites?
> No one has ever tried to control all of anyone's hours.

If my employer says I can not do something in my spare time, then they are controlling all of my hours, and they should be paying me for all of my hours.
40 year old here. A few things:

- Forget about seeking a 'safe' job. Go find a startup to join. Don't worry about having to sleep on someone's couch.

- Save more.

- Go ahead and get that master's degree. It's pretty hard when you're married and have kids.

- Get into better shape and stay that way. At 40 losing weight is so much harder than it was back then.
super astute in pointing out there is the initial decision maker, and then the internal sell: associate->vc->partners->due dil

Something this misses, in both cases, much of the initial yes / no is often in the first minutes. it hints at it w putting best stuff first, so worth being explicit on that. Ex: "Amazing factoid about us X, like 100K people are using us to shine their shoes 100X faster!". That makes the rest of the story draw them in further, and should grow that: more excitement + less fear. Otherwise, you've lost them before minute 5, and they will likely only get more agitated & distracted as you go on.
On possible reason is that, at least in theory, it's far less computationally intensive to render voxels because the polygon count is very, very low. So the style not only has intrinsic aesthetic value, but will be less demanding on constrained devices like phones and portable game systems like the DS.
This makes me think: Earth's energy imbalance is around 0.5W/m2, while such a paint sends how much, 40W/m2 through the transparency window?

So we'd only have to paint 1/80 of the Earth. That's ~6.4mln km2, or 2/3 the area of the USA. Still a lot, but not impossible.

I'm sure paint manufacturing scales better than li-ion batteries, and those more than doubled in production volume over the last decade.
For sure the actual award would be a matter of judgement, as would any challenge in court. But right now patents are judged on whether they were “obvious to the person skilled in the art, at the time the application was filed”, which is both no less a matter of judgement, and a bar much easier and fuzzier to cross.

This is what fundamentally results in patent races, where any ideas that can claim to take any nominal amount of intellectual effort to think of must be rushed to the patent office before the competitor discovers it themselves. Because it doesn't matter for elligibility if three people all thought on a problem simultaneously and all stumbled on the same answer, as long as that answer took at least a little time to discover in each case.
Ha, the same thing happened to me until I saw the comment. The gorilla analogy is just right.
I’m going to use this.
It's probably an interpretation of why Bezos wants (he's been quoted as thinking workers are lazy by default).

So it's from the top.
There are plenty of other employers that pay that and more and aren’t Amazon. Amazon typically lowballs.

If anything you only benefit from being in Washington and not paying half of that 500k in income tax:
CP/M could probably be fairly described as "heavily inspired" by the likes of TOPS-10, right down to borrowing some command names and some architectural ideas.

DOS 1.0 could probably be fairly described as a CP/M clone -- it was intended to be binary compatible basically, such that translated (perhaps automatically - the 8086 had similar compatibility goals) 8080 CP/M programs would run directly on DOS without much if any change.
That was a bitter read. Most terrifyingly to me is those odds of 1/1000 (which only get worse) aren't even the most terrifying prospect for the region:

"There are two possible sources of this extreme jump in peak temperatures. The first is that this is a very low probability event[...] The second option is that nonlinear interactions in the climate have substantially increased the probability of such extreme heat, much beyond the gradual increase in heat extremes that has been observed up to now"

So something could have changed in the dynamics for the region which greatly increased the chances of this occurrence. Really hope that isn't the case here...
This is "Long Blockchain Corp", formerly Long Island Iced Tea Corp, first discussed 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15979024
I thought the short squeeze was in jan/feb, what’s that late spring jump?
I intended this as more of a jab at how asinine the Red Cross's claims are rather than Apple's, I'm a little surprised this post got dogpiled as hard as it did
An exhaustive response to Tseng's critique of Urbit's governance structure
Wouldn’t these shirts be extra easy to spot as they are essentially reflectors? It not really be helpful for hiding.
> Are they supposed to wait until videogames cause an issue

I'm asking "are they insinuating that appropriation of their trademark contributed to the deaths that they cited".

> And how would you ever prove such a thing?

Presumably *if* they are alleging a causal relationship between trademark appropriation and violence against personnel they have some reason to suspect that the causal relationship exists.
According to this [0], the water comes from a natural spring. The electricity could be generated on site with solar panels. Doesn't seem that outlandish to me.

[0] https://www.greenlodgingnews.com/how-xanterras-furnace-creek....
I wonder what the scope of what would be a competitive service now that Earthly's license changed to BSL from MPL on 2021-02-01 [0]? Seems like Earthly Technologies Inc will launch a SaaS [1]. However, I'd assume it won't matter for most developers except for those selling a CI/CD SaaS. In any case, I'm looking forward to seeing what they end up offering!

[0] https://github.com/earthly/earthly/pull/730
[1] https://earthly.dev/tos
the problem is that the name "montessori" is not protected, and schools take advantage of that.

so you have to look closely if the teachers are actually trained and certified by one of the training schools that actually provide proper montessori training, and whether the classrooms have the proper environment.
Yes more on 3D printers:

The first FDM 3D printers went on sale in 1995 for $50k. Ten years later they were $25k. Then in 2008 the patents expired. By 2011 a halfway decent printer was $1800. By 2018 $300 3D printers were available worldwide.

I joined the community in 2010, bought my own printer in 2011, and I saw the community operating with my own two eyes. Thousands of people all over the world innovating without patents to improve the situation.

The idea that patents promote innovation is absurd. The primary function of the patent is to stop innovation. All those thousands of people who wanted to improve 3D printers were legally prevented from innovating while the patent was in effect.

I remember in 2012 people on the mailing list talking about 3D printing on to a belt that could move. Literally no one on the mailing list wanted to risk infringing on the Makerbot patent for this even though makerbot quickly stopped selling their belt printer and never sold a new one. To this day the only belt printers that are for sale is a printer with the carriage off angle from the belt to avoid infringing the makerbot patent that hasn’t been used in years.

The rate of innovation would be higher without patents. We’re hurting ourselves for the benefit of those who amassed large patent portfolios so they can charge rent on old designs instead of innovating.

Imagine the health and wealth that could be generated worldwide if we let every country copy the best MRI machines we have, and all our battery factories and chip designs. That wealth would immeasurably improve the lives of people the world over, and it would come back to us in the US as new economic trading partners with their own infrastructure. Along the way they’d find 100x cost savings or better and our medical care would be cheaper.

We are truly shouting ourselves in the foot with patents.
> Philosophy tells us that you can't compute truth without relying on axioms.

Philosophy tells no such thing. It is not the province of philosophy to tell us the final word on what is what, and without corresponding it to any empirical exploration, asserting such a claim is mere dogmatism.

Computationalist model of "truth" (by which I think you mean reality) is dying. Embodied-embedded cognition offers an alternative in which your intelligent system has to be deeply embedded within all the other networks it has to interact with, and its adaptivity and constraints define it more than anything. There is no making an intelligent network in a test tube (talking about general intelligence).

> After all, biology did it with the human brain.

Biology might have put the required machinery, but machinery by no means is a guarantee that it will be neither intelligent nor adaptive. You could "engineer" your own network that is your body-brain to get better at conforming to reality, which is called self-transcendence and cultivating wisdom, and arguably the same principles would work for our social networks, artificial networks and us alike.

But going back to the notion of embeddedness, can a social network that will ultimately aim to conform to the norm of making more money be wiser? Can a wiser social network really out-survive a dumber one? Isn't both going to be ultimately embedded in the collective intelligence that is our economy? Therefore both will be constrained by the limits of the intelligence/wisdom of the economy, and unless there is a bunch of benevolent rich that will implement the engineered wiser social network and gift it to the humanity and get humanity to actually use it, there is no such place, i.e it is a utopia.
A few years ago I stopped sweating, almost completely.
Trying to cool off is nearly impossible now.

I have an ice vest if I really want to go outside for then a few minutes.

Mirror clothing sounds like a dream.
Mostly riffing on the title more than the content (which is about Win 11),

I've noticed a massive degradation in how software is managed (as in bug fixes, quality designs etc) over the years and it straight frightens me that cars, planes, financial apps etc are all being "disrupted" by this new software. It seems to me the future is going to be so full of edge bugs that if one is an outlier you're going to basically be smashed back into the mean by the bureaucracy.
What's ruining cinema is the utter dreck that most people are gagging to watch. I look at my local cinema today and every single movie, save for The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, is either lazy nostalgia bait, generic marvel film #4715, yet another sequel to a summer blockbuster franchise or a kid's movie. And you people just eat this garbage up.
apple has an order of magnitude fewer device models to support. I'm not sure android will ever have similar performance and feature support as apple - the business models are so totally different.
Google is too big, Facebook is too big, let's bring back Altavista and MySpace. I wonder why users left Altavista and MySpace in the first place? Maybe because Google and Facebook were better way better.
Absolutely, this is a great idea! We're in early stages of exploring partnerships with large employers, especially in tech, who typically arrange homes for expats. They sometimes use serviced apartments (which are significantly more expensive than renting and using Pabio) or use short-term rental agencies -- both are interesting channels for us.
> https://www.bikeexif.com/ducati-sidecarcross

They seem to have accidentally replaced the word 'awesome' with 'obnoxious' - a common mistake.
Or just open up the book of disquiet without any context about the author. It’s better that way.
It has the same meaning in the US.
There is no such thing as a free lunch and so reduced real estate costs bring with it an environment of potential poor local governance, poor job market, neighbors that do not share values that are conducive with rising home prices.

A most recent example is poor compliance with things that benefit the masses (ie. Vaccine, mask etc.)

I suspect the next thing will be poor compliance with switching over to energy efficient power generation as the world moves to clean energy + things implemented to discourage clean transportation (ie. extra taxes on EVs/banning solar installs without major caveats). All these boneheaded things drive down the cost of the real estate to its true market value.
I wouldn’t want to work at a place like Netflix that doesn’t comp with equity, especially after a year like 2020. A 500k TC could easily be 800k+ now, if that’s cash it’s still 500k and worth less due to inflation.

If the stock significantly depreciates there will be layoffs anyway.
Direct link to the article: https://www.alephcorp.xyz/urbit/to-the-stars
Heh, thanks. It's more of a passion project - I find that dealing with AppKit is sometimes a lost art, and I'd like to see a cross-platform GUI toolkit in Rust, so I figure this is the best way for me to contribute currently.

I maintain that someone (or a team) needs to just take winsafe/cacao/gtk-rs, slap a declarative layer on top, and do the bare minimum set of controls with hooks for users to do custom things.
> they want guaranteed returns and they do not want to gamble about it

This is how Hollywood is. It's the same as Silicon Valley. They don't want to gamble if they don't have to, they both just want as much money as possible.
Methane in plume of Saturn's moon Enceladus could be sign of alien life – study
Pirate Chain – Most Private Cryptocurrency
Unless they dump the entire senior management and bring new folks in, its not changing. That culture is at the core of Amazon, and perhaps even a contributor to its success, at the detriment of its own employees of course.
Bravo. Yeah, I learned my lesson.
sweetened wine vinegar with water? You could just grape juce for the sweet bit, too. Obviously not wine, but somewhat related?

I do this this soda and my apple vinegar. I like it.
Pretty much describes one of my (former) neighbors. She was a programmer who discovered that she could make a ton more money doing sales instead. Then moved up from there into a Sales Management position and never looked back.
If I start putting the toilet symbol on doors without toilets behind them, eventually you're going to stop expecting toilets behind the door. You don't need an example to know that.

This also isn't about trademark, the red cross is outlined in the Geneva Conventions as a symbol with a specific meaning. That meaning is specific because it's meant to protect aid workers as neutral parties in conflict.
1) A device's location can be guessed with your IP address at the very least.

2) Wifi networks.

On iOS, I'm almost sure that apps cannot access the list of wifi networks that the device sees. As you may know, the list of wifi access point MAC addresses can be used to triangulate a device's geolocation (there was a related case with Google Streets View cars gobbling up that info[0])

On Android, wifi network MAC addresses may be available to apps? Is there a special permission that apps need from the user?

[0] https://www.wired.com/2012/05/google-wifi-fcc-investigation/
I've noticed we often reiterate our own string of thought, but fail to uncover and acknowledge other people's best intentions and perspectives. It is tough to know what is behind short and long strings of online text. Also discussions rarely go well with participants out to convince eachother, while failing to really listen.
History of Technology on YouTube
Death Valley: The hottest place on Earth where people can survive long enough to keep a temperature station manned.

I am confused how 66.8C can be "the highest recorded temperature taken by a satellite", while the Aqua satellite found a maximum temperature of 80.8C.
Mario Kart built using CSS only (2018)
That sounds like employees who are well-connected enough to know to even ask that question will get more information on their status than people who aren't as extroverted/social/charismatic/privileged.
+1 for MUBI, really great cinephile resource.

One can also find very interesting stuff on YouTube, depending on how good your search skills are, I know that at the start of the pandemic I had discovered a user who was uploading Italian western spaghetti movies in HD format. I think I might also have found something similar for Hong Kong wuxia movies from the 1960s and 1970s but I'm not sure.
The Halo series quietly switched from a red cross to a red H to come into compliance (as the international Red Cross didn't gel their position on the symbol's use in videogames clearly until after the first game was released).
FWIW, it's rarely developers who establish the incentives for "antipatterns and trackers".

There's a very, very strong sentiment out there about what does and doesn't qualify as a "fundable business" with respect to both business models and shapes of products. This backdrop creates very strong incentives to make one's business and associated products conform to those archetypes. Right now "antipatterns and trackers" one of the allowable archetypes. For better or worse, depending on the perspective.
When’s the last time your “list of great comedy movies” got a new entry, regardless of whether you saw the new entry in the cinema or even if it was a new film at the time you saw it?
LOL My manager used to discuss my promotion doc with me, and talk about who we can approach for promotion feedback.

I found out about 'focus' or my 'performance issues' when I resigned from Amazon.
Are performance improvement plans actually genuine in most cases? If I were put on one or got a negative performance review, I would assume that I have essentially been fired but my boss is waiting on key paperwork.
This is actually really cool, and something I would seriously consider for my house.

One question about the economics. You are going to get a lot of cases where people stop subscribing after the furnishing, and then decide they don't really want it / don't think it's worth it (think good faith - not abuse).

Would you be able to handle that without too much of a dent in your costs? Would you offer refunds / cancellation, and then own the costs to take the furniture back etc?
Wow reading this "The most significant minicomputer vendor was a company called DEC: Digital Equipment Corporation." Made me feel old. In college circa mid nineties SGI and DEC machines used to be the big machines. Both companies are gone.
Personally speaking, the carbonation in shandies prevents me from chugging them down. Besides, when I prepare them myself I tend to water down the mixer a bit, otherwise they end up being a little too sweet to my taste.
> PDS: Which means that an electron -- is a quantum of electron oscillation...

Somewhat. If you want to do down that rabbit hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_field_theory Warning: It's a very deep hole in the bottom of a very deep cavern. Don't forget to enter with a lamp and enough book of Math to make a Math student cry. (And some technical details are still not clear, so you actually need more books than what are currently available. But you can use the Physicist approach an explore and hope the technical details will be fixed later.)

> Well, they're all just vibrations, at different rates of time, aren't they?

It's more complicated, they are like vibrations of different fields.
Being fired for complaining about dysfunctional corporate bureaucracy is absolutely ridiculous. I’m not saying someone lying about or slandering their employer should go unpunished, but everyone, everywhere should be entirely free to criticize their employer for valid concerns, in private and in public. Anything less creates a further tilts the power imbalance between employees and their employer in favor of the employer. This is bad for labor markets and can slowly destroy companies from the inside.
Does the cashier at McDonald’s not enter your order into a similar system? Maybe the public UI is just inefficient.
Where I live it was possible (a few years ago, they since stopped that) to pre-order with a mobile app. I always preferred that and felt it was a step in the right direction, because food was usually finished when I turned up.
Innovation would have to come from making it more expensive to downvote, if one assumes downvoting has inherent issues (it does). It's simply too easy to knee-jerk react by clicking the button. Same thing with upvoting, too. I think both directions of voting should require some "payment" (if you will) before they go through.
Unless you're using a heat pump for heating (we should be, but it's extremely rare), heating almost always uses more energy than cooling.

This can be an unexpected problem with electric vehicles in cold climates, which have to waste a lot of power on heating the interior. Only recently have EVs started to use heat pumps for this purpose rather than resistive heating.
I'm amazed at all the great history videos on Youtube. This is my small curated list.

I wish I can make this list larger!
I think you might like Death Trash, I’m running to catch a plane so you’ll have to google it!
The issue isn't profits, per se, but profit sustainability. Right now NA beer is trending, but what happens when that trend dies down?

Also, our entire market economy is based on constant upward inflation/growth, and rewards those who grow faster.
I don't work in the movie industry, but it seems to me the superhero and fast and furious type movies are designed to appeal to young people in America, China, India and Europe. A movie like that offers an incredibly large potential audience.

Three films I watched recently that might have a hard time getting made today are Broken Flowers by Jim Jarmusch starring Bill Murray, After Hours by Martin Scorsese and The Muse by Albert Brooks. I know Martin Scorsese and others have been complaining about the death of cinema, but I don't understand why the two types of movies can't coexist on streaming media. The audience for the latter type is nowhere near as big as the former, but it's not nothing. The world still wants thought provoking art.
I wonder how this dynamic would affect virality in relation to truthfullness?

As in, will this dynamic tend to reward the spread of "edgy" fake news more than current network paradigms already do, or will it tend to slow its spread, or will it be neutral on that axis? Seems like a hypothesis that would need to be tested, but maybe you have a hunch or insight on the matter.
it's so true. These days a "fun" movie will be super dark and violent, or insanely cheesy. There's no slick, fun, adventure films anymore.
Not go all in on the Macromedia Director Lingo + perl cgi scripting stack. It was not the future of interactive media like I thought it was at the time.
Agree, I fat-finger the arrows a lot.

But thanks for "undown"/"unvote" links (which are bigger and thus easier to hit) this has not been a big problem so far.
Ah right you are, and I've only experimented with Graal to build native images.
Every couple of years? But I do think the frequency of straight up comedies being produced is dwindling, and aren't popular enough to go to a movie theatre for.
WW was still quite formulaic. ER, NYPD Blue, etc were all shows that maybe pushed for more consistent storylines but they were still boxed in by old school network expectations, and they got their starts in the mid-90s.

Sopranos was a very clear break in writing style. People like to slot in The Wire next to it, but The Wire was more episodic/restricted and honestly felt like an R-rated network tv show to me.