skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discord doesn't appear to be profitable yet. Or, at least they don't appear to have ever said they were, and have taken about $500m in funding w/ about $220m in revenue since 2016.

They seem to be on a solid path, but I think it's too soon to hold them up as an archetype of a social networking service that can be massively successful on a freemium/subscription revenue model.

I also can't think of any company close to the size of facebook that is free for "users" rather than charging for their software/services. That doesn't mean it's impossible, but we're looking for a black swan event to change that, and it's unclear if Discord is going to have the hockey stick growth to make that happen, or if its recent increase in revenue is even sustainable as Covid becomes less disruptive.
How tiresome that all the posters think "trigger warning" should continue to be a thing. Haven't you figured out yet that it was, and continues to be, a dumb idea?

Life is harder for some than for others. Trying to be extra kind to the people for whom it's harder is simply infantilizing for everyone.
Just 3 more updates until Pithon 3.14
Start from first principles and look at the economic data directly (understanding game theory is a crucial piece of this). Make sure to ignore the narratives as these tend to obscure the understanding of the fundamentals (since most people pushing various narratives about the market are driven by vested interests rather than educational interests).
An ironic footnote is that the Apollo 12 crew deliberately landed next to the historic landing site of the Surveyor 3 unmanned probe, trampled the ground around it and even cut pieces off to take home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_program#/media/File:A...
The Committee did indeed release a bipartisan report making those assertions. Their assertions were bogus because no evidence is cited anywhere in the report. Claims of secret evidence are not evidence.
I think Jan 6 was a problem in its origin, not in its means or ends. As an American, I truly do not care about people attacking Congress, or the White House, or any politician, because they are not symbols of my power anymore than my local carwash or plumber is a symbol of my power. They are public servants, worthy of no more respect than the pizza delivery person (a lot less, actually, since the pizza delivery person is working to make a living).

If they were attempting to overthrow actual despots, about whom everyone agreed something Must Be Done, the popular reaction would be much different. I think the current reaction is on the money: they are violent, idiotic, hooligans.

But the ability to storm the capitol is a necessity.
It's so good, even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

The second chapter is the best of the best - as a pure adventure episode, the characters, and the way the Tines' strangeness is indirectly explained.
I'm waiting for Python for Workgroups 3.11
I thought that was Gab’s job? Looks like Facebook is in its own league of ‘enabling hate’ and is profiting off of it.

On top of knowing that Instagram is bad for teens, there is no limit to the scandals, leaks, whistleblowers, lawsuits or penalties that will bring the Facebook mafia down.
The business model is roughly $1/mile not including insurance.

Since uber/lyft are more than that, tech isnt going to help much. Nobody buys vans to share. Maybe a pod designed for autonomous Tesla trucks, but people today do not own what will fit in one pod.

Perhaps permapod. You graduate frome college and are gifted a permapod that will always be available to store or move your stuff. Like in the old days when we stored all our files in email tarballs because the university did not enforce filesize limits on email.
Over the Course of the Pandemic, Bugs Have Invaded the World’s Museums
Your daughter would first have to enumerate and negotiate to switch from 5VDC to 20-48V of USB-PD.

So if she can do that with her mouth, you have other things to worry about. (She’s an android, not some colorful euphemism).
I feel like he skipped over something. Which part of his algorithm requires “about 12 bits” instead of about 10? He’s storing 5 entries per word which is 12.8 bits per entry (which is quite a rounding error). Why not 6 entries at 10.67 bits per entry?
I didn’t know anyone took trigger warnings seriously.

I’m glad I don’t hang out with anyone who does.

Trigger warning:

The world is a harsh place by default. Thomas Hobbes said it best when he called life “nasty, brutish, and short”.

The first noble truth of Buddhism is “Life is suffering”.

The solution is to try to make things better, not to deny reality and act like a two-year old rocking back and forth telling yourself everything is hunky dory.
It's a good thing that the two are separate. You really want good scientific advances to be put in textbooks, and the rest should be left for history books. You really don't want to have the scientific debate get muddled in pointless historical fights like in heterodox economics where people are still debating what mArX rEaLlY mEaNt centuries later. Scientists should read textbooks that reflect the current state of the art, not 40 years old papers that will necessarily be flawed.
He has majority control of the company. There is no balancing input. As long as Facebook is around with Zuckerberg at the helm, he is by definition the root of the problem.
I dont disagree with your assessment. Only the applicability of reason. If you're so close to your limit that you're incapable of closing an additional 6 spam PRs daily for a month. 6 spam PRs a month isn't really the real problem you're facing; thus the comment you responded to is correct that it shouldn't be this much of a big deal.

All of that said, I don't actually think anyone is really complaining about it's severity. My impression was the complaint was trivial by intent. Choosing to complain about spam because it's a near universal agreed 'bad thing'. Not because it's actually imposing enough to demand attention, just hey DO, can you do something to discourage low effort spam?
> Computers may have been used, though.

Marvel Comics's former typesetter (and editor and technical artist and all-around production guy) Eliot R. Brown maintains a blog where he posts a number of pictures and stories from his time at Marvel in the '70s, '80s, and '90s.

One of his articles concerns the typesetting computer he used at the time... it's well worth a read: https://www.eliotrbrown.com/wp/one-shot-erbs-custom-typesett... (there's a picture of it in the article)

> The miracle of type that you could do in your own office was quite a while in coming. But for Marvel, it took place in 1982. There was a first “digital” typesetting computer, but you wouldn’t believe how it worked. To really appreciate it, I would have to draw diagrams. You still might not really believe it—such a wild contraption. But then Marvel got a Mergenthaller Linotype Print Maker and paid a low $15,000 if I remember correctly. Mergenthaller used to make the hot type monstrosities and were probably sighing in relief when cold type came to be. There's a picture in the article

> ‘Cold’ here means, simple black type on white paper. You do a little typing, press the ‘go’ button and remove the paper cassette from the machine, put the cassette in the light-tight chemical processor and bang, in as little as 3-4 minutes, cool, calm and collected—there’s your type.

> There were several “tricks” here. There was a high-resolution CRT tube (just like a TV set, but about an inch across and able to resolve 2400 lines per inch) and a primitive digital computer. It ran on DOS. The machine was an inert piece of junk until you loaded in the “operating system” via a disk. Disk Operating System meant the whole shootin’ match of a program was on a 5.25” floppy disk.

> And you had to load that program every time you turned the machine on. It forgot how to be a typesetting machine every power-down.

> I kid you not. No “hard drive.”

> This was an early computer. It had a green monochrome monitor that was a whole 9” across! No mouse. Only arrow buttons to move the cursor around. It also used a series of commands that would make font changes, from regular to bold or italic. But don’t forget to change it back—because you did not see a representation of that type style. In fact, you really had to pay attention. For one thing, the monitor displayed letters in a grid. Very simple. All the same size, from periods to the letter “M.” I used to quip, “Every letterspace counted.”
How about bringing U-Haul-like service to other countries?
> It's useless trying to deny supply&demand setting prices

And yet you keep positing a model which entirely ignores the effect of supply, by pretending that quantity of consumer goods traded is fixed constant and prices are set only by demand (i.e., assuming no changes in preference, supply of money among buyers), so that with a given supply of money being spent, increase in price of one good must be offset by decreases in other goods rather than decreases in aggregate quantity traded.

> The law holds whether it's a personal fantasy of mine or not.

Yes, despite their basis is known-false rational choice theory, the so-called laws (which aren't at all laws) of supply and demand are a reasonable approximation of real behavior of markets in aggregate.

But they don't predict the behavior you describe unless you assume perfect supply inelasticity of all goods other than the one whose price is assumed to increase.

> If you can explain how increasing the price of oil causes money to appear in my pocket to pay for it

It doesn't, decreasing the quantiry of oil traded at any price (increasing the price at any quantity traded) also has the same effect on all goods and services oil is used to produce or deliver. As a result, if the unit price of oil increases (and there are no changes in money supply, pre-purchase distribution, consumer preferences, etc.) so does the unit price of most consumer goods and services, with the quantity of goods traded likewise dropping.

What does not happen is the same basket of goods being traded, with those impacted by oil getting more expensive but that being offset by other goods getting cheaper, leaving overall nominal price levels the same as before despite shifts in per-sector prices. That would be expected if all non-oil goods had perfectly inelastic supply, but not otherwise.

> Nowhere did I say that supply was inelastic

No, you just described an effect that is total nonsense unless you assume perfectly inelastic supply.
Correct.

The problem nowadays is that most therapists simply don't want their patients to get better.

Once you help someone recover, the revenue ends, not just for you, but also for purveyors of fine psychiatric medications.

It's never stated that succinctly, of course, but that is absolutely the result. It takes real work to find mental health professionals that actually want to heal their patients.
Wow, that's a remarkably insensitive take coming from someone who's experienced an anxiety disorder. All you needed to do was remember that not everybody gets to have therapy. You didn't even need to accept that not everybody "gets past" trauma.
Agree. I was the CEO of a successful small business for 5+ years but realised that I didn’t enjoy it. I am much happier slinging code.
just spent about 4 hrs getting Python 2 and pip setup on my Mac. Any time I have the misfortune of needing to use python I get cold sweats at the thought of the environment stuff.

Why is this still such a massive problem?
Not if the fuel comes from carbon-neutral sources.
These maneuvers are in the terminal phase. Knowing the reaction speed and the moment at which LOS is achieved as well as estimating the speed of the missile and it's acceleration one can calculate a relatively short period under which interception is possible. Outside of that there is basically no risk and thus no need for any maneuvers.

As for flight envelope we know from the X-15 that not that much is required to pull 10Gs at hypersonic speeds. There is no need for much more.
You're right. They absolutely are. They don't have to be.

From where I stand, corporations should be afraid of the societies that grant them their charters.
What’s the plan of attack? Feign outrage on the internet in hopes that someone else will do the hard work of holding these companies accountable? Have Greta stand another day in front of a building as a symbol of triumph of the youth in their struggle against these companies? Have BBC run a few more weeks of environmental destruction pieces saying how the damage is irreversible?

No wait, we got one - front page news: “N more species went extinct recently”. Yeah, that will show them.

Worked before, might work again, you reckon?
I listed 25 alternative indexing search engines, including Neeva: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...

I'd forgotten about Kagi, thanks; someone mentioned it to me on IRC but it slipped my mind. I'll add it to the list later today.
Oil is not naturally occurring on the surface of the earth. It can only be formed underground, it is extremely poisonous, it kills almost every living organism. You can say that deep underground oil is natural, but on the surface of the earth certainly not.
Jessica Berg Wilson – Johnson and Johnson Death – Telling Our Stories
I live in Milwaukee, WI. Not the biggest market, so you're probably right about the competition. And their local dealer network is undoubtedly a massive advantage. I still think there has to be an opening to wedge in and take a slice of their business though. But there's also a chance I'm thinking like a crazy person haha.
Did Bic contribute to the Unabomber's reign of terror because he used one of their pens to write his manifesto?
Such sweet pavlovian whining, your courage is shining.

So bright, you have to be right.

Because licking boots and asses are the roots of the enslaved masses.

Where you seem to belong. Am I wrong?

RESIST!
No such problems on Linux, which is free and open-source. I think 'open-source' is the key.
I didn't even consider this! Do you live outside of the states?
>There are 31" and 42" e-ink displays available, but they cost a few thousand dollars. The 42" is pretty close to 2ft by 3ft, 25" x 33".

I must have 4 or 5 old Kindles in a drawer by now, somehow. I wonder if you could hack together a grid of old Kindles to make a giant e-ink screen?
You can locate your own target if it's close enough - say 10-30 miles or so - from where you expected it to be. With a slower missile your target will have drifted a lot more.
I've always wondered what would happen if you offered the top high school students a chance to take the Harvard/edX class CS50 together.

In the real world it's taken by incoming freshmen. But it's such a good foundation for future studies in computer science.
In Europe there are many universities where you can register for as many courses as you want, ignore lectures, sit the exam, and get full credit in case you pass.

In principle, nobody prevents you from passing the whole BSc in two semesters.

This opportunity gets especially interesting when you consider national open / remote universities, as you won't need to travel to pass the exams.

However, coding is one thing, theory is another one. Even if you know theory pretty well, you will need to review a bit which kind of imposes a speed limit on how fast you can pass said courses.
Once CouchDB switches to using FoundationDB I think it'll surpass most NoSQL stores. Can't wait. The main issue right now with FoundationDB is that it's very nontrivial to setup and interface with IMHO.
Damn b, you just flew right over my head with this permapod talk haha.
You can buy a hat for the pi that allows you to connect via serial to a mister fpga such as this one https://misterfpga.co.uk/product/mister-fpga-mt32-pi-hat-v2-...

From what I've seen it works great with the old computer cores. I've only gone so far as to emulate Roland over network on a PC but even that works pretty great with the Mister. Thought y'all might be interested in one of the more common ways I see this being used.
If you use pyenv, it shouldn't be that difficult.
Interesting, I don’t use Python much anymore, but my project setup was always something like:

virtualenv -p interpreter venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install . . .

These days, I just use nix
I don't think you understand what trigger warnings are.
Slightly tangent: https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/keyless-ssl
Pinscape the Virtual Pinball Cabinet
Considering the polarizing nature of the topic, it seems unlikely there would be a bipartisan agreement on the issue without classified intel to get people on both sides of the aisle behind it.

That, of course, is not proof. But we have also had reports of activity traced back to Russia from other organizations.

They could all be lying, but then that claim takes us strongly into the conspiracy theory territory at the same time that it runs afoul of the "lack of evidence" problem quite a bit more than alternative explanation.
But cars aren’t safe, many people die from cars every year.
Critically, a trigger warning is specifically NOT "please don't mention rape in this law school". If you weren't going to mention it, you wouldn't have a warning, would you?

Even if it's true that trigger warnings do not help people who go on to read the material, and even if it's true that reading the material is generally a good way to manage one's PTSD, I still think the students should be able to make their own informed decision about what they want to do. If they would rather avoid upsetting material, that's a decision they should be able to make. The only one they might be hurting is themselves.
Covid-19 Scenario Modeling Hub
I mean jeez. This can't seriously be the bottleneck of CLI/TUI programs, can it?

It seems like low hanging fruit.
I’m not sure I have heard deplatforming being touted as a long-term way to fix anything. All the efforts so far seem very “last-ditch”, which probably doesn’t bode well
Ask HN: Host of Software Engineering Daily likely needs help again
I started listening to today’s episode of Software Engineering Daily and the host did not seem to be in the clear mental state. After a while I found this submission on HN from 3 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28504276
I think Jeff needs help from his friends again.
Are there no consumer protection laws which forbids a company from pushing a product to market that they know to be harmful to their customers? IANAL but it seems pretty illegal to my eyes.
Let's assume it's true that FB/IG users are abusing each other and FB indirectly encourages it and magnifies per A/B testing for engagement/profit. (And that FB/IG isn't just getting the blame because that's where all the users are.)

What does that say about the users? FB isn't creating any of this harmful content.

If FB should be accountable for delivering and promoting the posts, shouldn't the users be accountable for publishing them? Where's the movement to shut down the Kardashians who are also billionaires from toxic posts of their own intentional creation, and who are doing it on many different platforms?
Citibank wants that too: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/16/business/citibank-revlon-...
My FB generally give "content warnings" - describe any intense or disturbing content a post might have.
Perhaps I am of the minority opinion, but I damn sure was never worried about a bunch of selfie-taking unarmed rednecks destroying the United States of America. My faith in this country goes a little deeper than that.
I wrote a similar project that generates Gameboy art from a collection of roms on a Raspberry pi and displayed them on a 8 color E-Ink display.

https://github.com/crzysdrs/slate
> pledge to not hire ex-Facebookers

I agree that Facebook is a plague, but this divisive, realpolitik, tough-guy power-play nastiness really nauseates me.
Ryder's a fairly established competitor? As is Penske?
You shouldnt blame others for your short comings. I wish you the best.
This. Thank you for a thoughtful comment.
Using Python 2 is a big part of the problem. Modern Python 3 is a lot nicer. Also you're much better off if each Python project has its own virtual environment using the venv module.
Don't waste your life.
I know at some point I'm sure I asked for fewer connector types. Seeing it now: I suspect unique connectors to a purpose is insanely useful usability. Immediate failure feedback has it's uses.

See NEMA outlet variation [1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#/media/File:NEM...
Because "code is law" and if there was a bug, that was part of the law of the code. It's not fraud. If it was, the threat would have been different, right?
Every company will do this if they can, this isn't a novel or interesting accusation.
In the long run for the environment, and consumer closed hardware should be outlawed. Hardware should be open and built with repairable, upgradable, recyclable design, everything else is waste.
Looks are just one factor. And good looks are a strong sign of good health (absent artificial enhancement).
The general progression is one writes:

1. machine code

2. assembler

3. macro assembler

4. high level language

At each stage, the effort required to produce the tool is justified by increasing usage of the machine.
It’s not even realpolitik. Talent is talent, if 90% of the market isn’t competing it provides financial edge for those willing to break the cartel.

The chances of it working are near zero because there’s always some asshole capitalist like myself to f it up.
What are you trying to do? It generally is not a problem unless you are using old or obscure packages. Sure some projects need those things, probably a lot of them, but I don't think that is really pythons fault. Not that this couldn't be done better in python. What issues did you encounter?
A Simple Bug Is Leaving AirTag Users Vulnerable to an Attack
I dont know how its actually possible to spend 4 hours getting lyton2 and pip setup at all. The issues deal with managing upgrades, not initial setup
Cars and Social Media is pretty hard to compare, but I’ll give it a shot:

The equivalent here is not that a company produces cars, and that cars are dangerous. The equivalence is more in the line of a specific car manufacturer makes a car which they know is more dangerous to a subset of their customers, but still continue to push it to them.
It doesn't have to be illegal or fraudulent to reveal bad things about the company that the company doesn't allow its employees to reveal. Looking up various definitions of the term, the activity reported on doesn't necessarily have to be illegal. Though I acknowledge that in many cases the activity involved is illegal.
There's apparently a chain or tree of "Awesome" lists. This one is inspired by Awesome Go, which is inspired by Awesome Python, which is inspired by Awesome PHP. Per their READMEs.
Engineer Identification Test (1996)
Facebook is going to become a hollowed out shell of itself if they do not change. They’ll get hollowed out by litigation, legislation, investors, or all of the above.

They need new leadership. The tactics that got them here will not carry them further. There are tons of examples of the positive impact of new leadership, on companies like Apple, Microsoft, Uber, Disney, Ford, etc.

And there are certainly plenty of examples of very successful companies who thought they were not touchable, but received tremendous financial harm from the rest of society.

There is a time for a company to fight, and there is a time to make peace. Facebook is geared up to fight, basically, everyone. No company can win against everyone. They need a leader who can let go of what they wanted Facebook to be, and see clearly what it is. Only then can a path to the future be plotted.

Yes I know Zuckerberg cannot be ousted by typical corporate maneuvering. Unfortunately I think that probably just increases the chance he will take it down with him.
It's so hard to say more without spoilers, but Deepness plays with this trope in a way that is both satisfying and may actually improve your enjoyment of other sci-fi works!