skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How and where and what USP (Unique Selling Point) is there to OF that Patreon/OpenCollective are missing?

"Network effects" doesn't mean jack, this isn't surfacing a plumber to a user on facebook because friends of friends have reviewed them in their local area..
Cool! Thanks for deriving the equation. A lot about super massive black holes that become unintuitive at that scale. For example, I understand that the black hole at the center of the Milky Way has a lower density than iron.
Very good point about the first of them. I've heard the second as more of a brag, explaining fluent performance.
it’s working already actually (in alpha) :)
You gotta love the HN crowd who finds a way to remain skeptical after cryptocurrency continues to occupy more and more ground in the financial world. Cryptocurrency continues to expand and grow by every conceivable metric and some people still think it's a fragile scam. Here's a hint: when your politicians already own cryptocurrency and are arguing in its favor, that's the signal that the industry has already basically captured the regulators and the game is over. Crypto is here to stay.
QR codes and having a phone for menu is a brutal experience.

Personally I go to a restaurant to have face time with people, the phone (or tablet) is a wrench in that, and not worth it. I’ll pay a premium to not use an electronic interface.

Edit: it does make sense for fast food, especially mobile ordering (I salute the McDonald’s UI/UX(though recent updates are making it worse.. typical))
So few people realize the untapped, and unique, power this provides the US.
Yeah, getting 3 years out of a machine in 1990 was about all that was possible. I had an AT clone (so 286) that I took to college as a freshman in 1988, and had the fastest machine in the dorm by a SIGNIFICANT margin.

Three years later, I bought a 386/33 because the 286 was, by comparison, dog slow. And it cost less than the AT had.
Off-topic, but another option for visualizing networks is Graphia. It's a qt5 program that can use the GPU to display pretty large graphs in 3D.

https://github.com/graphia-app/graphia

https://graphia.app
Tank Man from Tiananmen Square image comes to mind.
Ha, my wall of shame would be thousands of entries all from the same formula:

Google [github issue] [gitmemory page for same issue scraped from github] (add inurl:github)

It's insane. I can only assume Google is actively downplaying GitHub/MS. Still yields better results than bing though, go figure.
There is also the fake "high growth". I worked at startup where the CEO was growing the organization like crazy, just for the sake of showing that the company was growing, even though it was not.
We were on-boarding engineers almost every day and did not have any work for them to do.

I am talking like teams of more than 10 engineers that took months to deliver simple features. Most of the engineers were spending their time fighting their IDE, local setup and finding a purpose.

Best project I worked on, it was in a team of 3 people: manager + 2 engineers. I built the whole backend and the other guy the frontend stuff. Worked like a charm! We delivered on time and things just worked.

Sometime, less is better.
Well, 26000 people could have walked out of Paradise, but it would have been a lot worse.
Yep, transparency leads to illumination, so in that way those two analogies work together like sunlight and window panes. But you can lie with data, was my singular point. More data is harder to fake, seems to be yours, and I suppose I would agree. But once faked, albeit at whatever difficulty, more fake data is more dangerous and less illuminating than less fake data. (Edit: Not only because there's more of it, but because it ironically has that very property of being or seeming more truthy or trustworthy because there's more of it.)

Anyway I have no idea what you're saying in your first sentence I gotta say. I recognize the existence of delegation, and yet still trust any party's data (and the completeness, honesty and transparency thereof) in direct proportion to some estimation of that party's general trustworthiness and whatever I know or can surmise about their aims, agendas and interests in relation to the subject of the data. And when the subject of the data is the very party collecting it, you can surmise immediately some of the probable interests and aims. They probably want to look good and not bad for example, or make more money and not less, etc.
Is this the project that triggered Antirez to change the license on Redis?
Stablecoins are an obvious exception. That's not what people mean when they talk of paying with crypto though.
Heist episode and Citadel of Ricks episode are my favorites. I quote the bit about getting a Netflix show (“it’s a very achievable goal”) quite often.
It’s possible to minimize evaporative losses by covering reservoirs. Cisterns don’t generally do that well by comparison because they have so much surface area exposed to dry air compared to their volume as well as leaks etc. https://www.awtti.com/reservoir-covers-info/

What’s not obvious is how cheaply these things contain water. The hover dam for example can hold back back over 14,000 m3 of water per 1 m3 of concrete. Ignoring profit from hydroelectric power in 2020 money it cost about 1$ to store ~13,000 gallons for 85 years and counting. With the added upside of minimizing flooding and hydroelectric power.

Of course that water is stored a long way from where it initially fell, but that’s a different story.
I went to public but got math tutoring from an Indian guy. It costs money but it’s not some outrageous expense. The best tutors are educated but underemployed Indians and Russians. My uncle was an electrical engineer “back in old country.” His degree didn’t carry over in Canada, so he does math tutoring.
GEO is only above the equator, i.e. launches beyond it shouldn't be seriously affected if there was a debris belt, unless it reaches a significant density beyond a narrow belt.
A honest question I have is if PhotoDNA results where ever validated? Is there a chance that collisions have been occurring with no one looking to see if actual CSAM was in use?
Hey, I'm the CTO/co-founder of Sourcegraph. Thanks for the feedback here. I've opened up a pull request to make it clearer how to disable non-critical telemetry: https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/24171. Please let us know if you have any feedback on that!

Will respond to the OP's concerns, which I agree are important, in a direct reply.
Yeah, it's great, but it's also less fun.

Our 9-year-old Air went to live with friends who suddenly needed another computer (for their kid) at the beginning of COVID. It still works fine, though some sites are slow.

Sure, APPLE isn't releasing updates for it anymore, but that doesn't actually affect whether or not Word runs, or whatever.

I'll also say that biggest and most dramatic upgrade I ever had was moving from a 1988 AT clone to a 1991 386/33 (Gateway 2000, baby). We'd pick a directory with loads of files in it and do a dir just to watch it scroll by so insanely fast. Simpler times for sure.

The next most impressive upgrade I ever had was about 10 years ago. I had a 2010-era Macbook Pro (early Intel) that shipped with a spinning drive, back before everything was SSD. At some point in its life -- it was ultimately stolen in 2012, so call it 2011 -- I swapped the spinner for an SSD and OH MY GOD THE DIFFERENCE.

No other machine upgrade in my 30 years of computing has come close to the "holy shit!" moments of these two. I wonder if my ultimate shift to Apple Silicon will bring some of that -- I hear good things, so I hope so.
I believe no. As far as I understand RedHat already provides user space "iptables" utility which simply converts any input/output to/from nftables, so there is no kernel iptables in latest RedHat.
Idiotic. Ceding to puritanical, moralizing PHBs is weak and throws away their core business model. They might as well declare bankruptcy and get it over with.

Leadership with backbone would deleverage themselves from controlling investors and utilize other payment methods like crypto.
Why would an employer test employees, at the company's cost, unless they felt like it was in the company's long-term financial or regulatory interests?
Rofl. The author wants you to build a site, social accounts, and a supplier then spend $15k and it’s rebuilt? Anyone can do that. Running profitable digital advertising is a highly skilled job and not something anyone can do. It takes a lot of learning and a lot of money to burn. There is a reason media buying agencies exist.

Taking over just the paid search account is worth more than $15k.
> I find it utterly fascinating that Reddit is able to maintain such a huge porn collection with relatively little attention.

I suspect they're working in the same direction, no? For example a few months back they removed NSFW from /r/all. They didn't just make it user-config'd SFW by default, to my knowledge you cannot browse NSFW content on /r/all. So they sort of ghosted that entire genre on their site.

Maybe they'll stop there?
My only conclusion is that Apple is not arguing in good faith. That CSAM prevention is an excuse.

This makes me very sad.
lol, you havent worked with road workers

if a self driving car cant handle something like a guy in an orange vest directing traffic then its a very questionable venture even for scroogle or crapple. unexpected things happen on the road and corner cases happen all over, every day.
It works I’m reverse as well. The owner of a socialist magazine just recently fired most of his staff for trying to unionize. He wrote a bunch of articles purporting to support all these ideals but the moment those ideals threatened his power he shut it down.
Actually, keeping interest rates at nearly 0% and printing trillions of dollars/pounds/euros over the last 14 years is the catalyst for sustained inflation.
How does taking crypto improve lending or the customer experience. What value was created?
Your crypto logic doesn't matter. If the end good isn priced in dollars, why would the finance company price it in something else?

How many US mortgages are priced in gold or Yen? Even internally?
I’m sure if you’re a store with a bunch of Karen’s asking if you accept an OF card for payment, you’d probably reach out to OF to figure out how to get that money that just walked out the door…
Null encoding is entirely uncovered by the CSV format - if you want to communicate nulls you need to have an internal convention - some sort of reserved string. Quoting characters are pretty commonly agreed to be " (aka &quot) and escape characters are technically unnecessary. Deciding to support \\ and \n is a pretty nice thing to do since some producers and parsers will erroneously choke on mid-string newlines but the only character that actually needs to be escaped (the double quote) can just be doubled up as per RFC4180[1]. The indecision on escaping means that the literal character sequence "\n" is very hard to represent in CSV consistently this is an unfortunate malus of C programmers getting all up in the standard.

RFC4180 is an after-the-fact RFC to try and codify common practices in the industry so some tools may refuse to conform to it - but it's really clearly written and like... super short. If you've never read it just go ahead and do so since it lays things out with exceeding care.

1. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4180#section-2
> ostensibly servers located in China but not directly controlled by the government

"ostensibly" is the key word there. If the datacenter is physically located in China, then there's a CCP official on the board of the company that controls it.
makes sense but automation is hard, it doesn't fall from the sky like manna.

Reality is that automating the easiest jobs is the hardest (old Minsky observation) and most essential services you can't substitute fall into that category. No robot plumber or roof tiler in the near future.

Article is right to point out that the pandemic together with the anti-migration stance and isolationism is going to push the cost of labour as well as goods.
Searches will always have the problem of the lack of context. A song or a literary work can mean totally different things if we lack the context or understand the years when they were written.

The second and more serious problem is people thinking that algorithms are so smart that are infallible. This, when a much more sophisticated human brain would have a serious trouble trying to navigate the long lists of random dictionary words that we enter in a browser.

Netizens in general don't understand, or don't care, and just simplify and fill the gaps until they have a caricature that can fit in some "well known stereotype" slot. The result is that our societies are being more and more fractured, radicalized and isolated into different groups.
>> Important to note to non Americans that this does not mean that 61% paid no taxes

"Federal income taxes do not include payroll taxes. The Tax Policy Center estimates that only 20% of households paid neither federal income taxes nor payroll taxes. And “nearly everyone” paid some other form of taxes, including state and local sales taxes, excise taxes, property taxes and state income taxes, according to the report."

-- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/61percent-of-americans-paid-...
Love the mission! It's also such a glaring light on how broken and stupid the credit system is.
Yep. It's pure FUD used to moralize and control behavior of consenting adults. It's one step removed from criminalizing homosexuality and abortions.
I have a tuned-out linux (i3) setup and it really is my productivity superpower. I remember how much time I used to spend clicking between open applications, and now I am 2 macros from basically any open window.

I think the important part is building up over years. When I tried to set something like this up all at once when I was young, but difficulty remembering anything made it get in the way. By adding incrementally, I get to understand each piece, and incremental pieces that aren't useful are forgotten.

It certainly changes things as a C++/embedded dev using a custom build system. The Jetbrains ecosystem is not an option.
Seeing how "well" app review works, I would not be surprised if the "peon" sometimes clicks the wrong button while reviewing, bringing down a world of hurt on some innocent apple user, all triggered by the embedded snitchware running on their local device.
Congrats on the launch! The idea is very attractive. Btw how do you solve the confidentiality problem where you have to put private data into public blockchain?
Except that Waymo's vehicles also have cameras on the back, and can accommodate that scenario as well.
What does it mean to be Swiftian?
Dont worry, ill fix all this by creating a unique javascript framework that will change the world.
If:
Well the business case as of late is that the global supply chain isn’t as resilient as previously believed, with all of the disruption seen during covid. Primarily with surgical masks and medical equipment at first, but now with nearly every good experiencing disruptions of some sort.
U.S. Podcast Report (By Networks, Downloads, Users; July 2021) [pdf]
> I feel if it's legal it might be harder to punish those that do.

Or it could be easier because it becomes regulated and controlled?
Are you sure?

As far as I understand, it may happen that everybody stops using the old interface (the distros choose what they compile into their kernels, I guess), and after a few years of that the kernel maintainers may decide to remove the old code, assuming it wouldn't be too much work. Don't know how likely it for this to happen in the near future, though.
There was no 40MHz 286. It maxed out at 12MHz (Intel), 20MHz (AMD) or 25MHz (Harris).
OnlyFans to ban adult material after pressure from payment processors
The gold standard is a terrible idea. Here's why
I'm a big fan of nftables, but anyone using iptables with a large ruleset is (or should be) using ipset, which is just as fast.
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> Another thing I don't understand, is your end goal in life to get rich? And do you equal being rich with being happy?

Here's the deal: in a capitalist system, being rich may not equal being happy, but it certainly does equal being secure. The average worker is a lot less secure now that the days of "a job for life" are gone, and prices for housing, education, and health care have gone through the roof.
Eh, bullshit. Go try running Max Payne from 2002 PC on a 486.

Then, show me the equivalent of a 2015 game on par on the gap to a game from 2021 as a 486 game like Doom compared to a Pentium III game like Max Payne.
How quickly though? Given the size of the constellations that are currently being launched, could all of LEO become an all-destroying debris cloud, forcing us out of LEO for a year or so until it has decayed?

Possibly not a disaster now, but once people start relying on Starlink & co, it could be.
Anything is better than commuting to a unnessary meeting.

I have found most office meetings are unnessary.

I am for anything that prevents me from commuting to that office I don't like.
Interesting that no one thinks holding 100% gold is an investment.

I wonder why people don't think holding 100% bytes is either.
Are you saying parsing html is easier than parsing rdf triples? Because i dont know about that.

In real life you use tools for both.
Isn't "archive" already Latin?

Quis archivet ipsos archives?
We are lucky to have a Dem in office so we at least get something vs just spinning our wheels. Who knows, the next republican might just tank this strategy in the long run anyway.
Based on the pigeonhole principle alone, it will always be the case that collisions exist. The size of the digest is very likely smaller than the size of any given image.
The dependabot issue is insane, and the whole way this issue arose (it used to work before this limitation was introduced) indicates that the security team and the dependabot team at GitHub just didn't talk to each other.

(There's a workaround for the dependabot issue though, use pull_request_target instead and explicitly check out the sha of the branch. Then the run can access the secrets.)

I would also add "you can't rerun single jobs" and "actions can't call other actions" to the list of grievances.
I wonder if HN was skeptical during the dot com bubble...

Politicians are as gullible as the public when it comes to quick money.

Some organizations today which are scams are allowed to live due to certain freedoms, does not prove the contrary - ex: Scientology, MLMs, etc.
That's a neat idea, thank you for the suggestion. Where did you pick that up?
I don't have to answer this question for cryptocurrency to be successful. If you don't understand (or don't want to), that's your financial prerogative.

YoY metrics such as total number of users, total number of on chain txns, total number of exchanges and companies are all increasing. No conversation on HN is going to change the fact that an ever growing population of people and companies DO see value in crypto. So maybe ask yourself why it's only getting stronger if there's zero value to be found in this industry.
Yes but it is a supply demand. If putting in the automation infrastructure is going to cost be $500,000 and $100,000 a year to maintain it then as long as I can keep an employee for $30,000 a year that probably doesn't scale. Whereas if the cost of the employee moves to $50,000 or $60,000 a year it becomes more advisable and prudent to do so.
AMD sold lots of K6 and Athlons.
They are probably referring to the Obamacare initial rollout which predates 18F right?
anti-Kubernetes is rpm/yum/apt/dpkg/pkg and all the other oldschool package managers.
How do you think keeping it illegal keeps sex workers more safe?
They did have a lot of contact. I read about it from some Buddhist scholar, but I can't remember where.
The weird thing is that this is starting to happen to low-margin businesses that price their goods in dollars.

Restaurant prices around me have gone up anywhere from 25-100% in the last 6 months. I had the surreal experience of telling my wife, as she was phoning in a take-out order, "Ask them what their current prices are. I got different numbers from their Yelp page, the menu photos posted to Yelp, their webpage, and their DoorDash page, with the highest being twice the lowest." That's some developing-country shit right there - normally you think of needing to ask a business what their day-to-day prices are as something you do in Venezuela, not in the U.S.

I'm told this is because their food suppliers have jacked up prices 80-100%, so the restaurants that don't will soon go out of business. Memo hasn't filtered down to all restaurants, though, and some are more reticent to raise their prices than others for competitive or moral reasons.
> What value was created?

Borrowers want to pay with crypto. Originators add a new FX-esque transactional revenue stream. Seems like a classic win-win.
No, we can't - since people who aren't on Macs may potentially need to use this standard and that metadata descriptor file has failed to gain any adoption traction outside of Apple.

That said - all sorts of programs that bundle files inject rando metadata files and if there was a codified standard it should be flexible enough to ignore these files (possibly agreeing to never require any files to function that lead with a `.` since most of the random junk that gets thrown into zip files tends to at least consistently follow that habit.
>During his presidency, Trump tightened the enforcement of immigration from Mexico for two reasons: protecting American jobs, and national security. [...] Without immigrants, industries such as agriculture and hospitality fall apart at their seams. This is yet another isolationist policy, and it asserts an extreme pressure on the supply of workers willing to take minimum-wage jobs.

Yes, Trump did that, but he hasn't been President for a while.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/12/politics/us-mexico-border-mig...

>(CNN)The Biden administration is facing a "serious challenge" at the US southern border, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday, saying the US has encountered an "unprecedented" number of migrants illegally crossing the border.

>During a news conference in Brownsville, Texas, Mayorkas stressed the sharp increase of migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border, many of whom are fleeing deteriorating conditions in their home countries.

>In July, US Customs and Border Protection apprehended 212,672 people, up from June and amid some of the hottest summer weeks -- when arrests usually dip -- and of those, 95,788 individuals were expelled. Twenty-seven percent had previously tried to cross the border, Mayorkas said, acknowledging that a Trump-era policy that allows border authorities to turn migrants away has contributed to people trying to cross the border multiple times. July marks the highest monthly number of migrants detained at the US-Mexico border in two decades.

Adding 116,884 immigrants a month will solve a labor shortage pretty fast.
Android already allows sideloading.

Epic's lawsuit against Google is about the Play Store being an all or nothing affair. If you want in the play store you use their IAPs, or you do what Epic has done and make your users sideload and deal with the extra tech support and discoverability challenges that presents. Epic want to be in the store but not use Google's IAPs.

This is a bit different from the listed act and the complaint against Apple where you're just now allowed on iDevices without complying
What's with the expectation that students must discover by themselves that a regular n-polygon maximizes the area and thus solves the problem as stated? Is this some super grotesque bizarro version of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_method ? It certainly sticks to the adage that "the student is taught best who is told the least", but that's not generally thought of as a very "inclusive" teaching method. It's letting the students sink or swim, and most of them will just sink to the bottom and never catch up.