skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber built their castle in Apple's and Google's kingdom.

E.g. nothing is stopping Google from offering a competing service, right from within Google Maps, or Android.
I saw this episode. Gillian kept moving the professor's measuring stick..
Or - as happens frequently in multi-party PR systems - large parties needing to form a majority coalition end up giving small extremist parties concessions in order to secure their support, meaning even a single electoral success can be parlayed into an outsized influence. There's no perfect system.
YouTube makes dislike count private
> My rent increased by close to 20% this year (US, FL) to the point where paying my old rent with a $250 month to month penalty is actually cheaper.

I have never heard of this type of rental agreement. Your contract says you can stay indefinitely if you pay $250 per month extra over the expired contract’s rent?
> “Kids in Cages”

There have been facilities before, but this isn’t happening the same way it was where separation was on purpose. There are stories covering the current conditions, but I think you’re overlooking the fact that the prior administration and supporters seemed to embrace and encourage that narrative because they saw it as a deterrent.

> I think journalists are masters of rhetoric

You should meet the average journalist. Just like any other industry, the vast majority are unremarkable people. They’re not rhetorical masterminds. Like most people they see and write things from their point of view.

What’s more interesting to me is how some of the biggest names in media are obviously the rhetorical masters you speak of. I’m referring specifically to the TV and YouTube stars. Some of them are incredibly good at being convincing even if often contradictory or wrong. I also think video can be effective in ways text cannot be.
I think there's now a blurred line between todo app and knowledge management, especially as tools like notion (and for that matter Dendron), are making it more viable to manage todos within your knowledge base.

As for YC, I remember seeing at least two other note taking companies within our winter batch. At AWS, the mentality for new services is to "let 1000 flowers bloom" (and see which one's make it). Something similar is happening in the note taking space right now
>Also, what weak economy? Economic growth is up, wages are up, unemployment is down, personal debt is down.

That usually happens in the beginning stages of high inflation scenario.

Also government debt is not the same as household debt, however it still matters especially at these high levels. There is a breaking point just no one knows where it is. 300% gdp? 500%? 700%. At some point it will break down.
This is exactly what we've done to the housing market in the US. For some reason, people intuitively get why it's happening with cars, but housing... it's some kind of weird mystery why it's so expensive in so many places.
I've seen a lot of people lose a lot of money because they bought into the "value the equity at zero" mentality. It sure sounds great and edgy to be blasé and just take your pay, but if that was true, you'd be better off working at FAANG 99% of the time.

IMO if you work for a startup company, you should only do so because you believe in it, and if you believe in it, you should exercise your option as fast as you can, perhaps with an 83b election if you can afford it. Otherwise what's the point of taking a job at a startup with a lower TC and higher risk outlook than a FAANG job?

Hence, I think:

- only join startups you strongly believe in,
- only join startups that offer good equity package, have raised good rounds, have healthy cap tables,
- get as many options as you can,
- exercise them as fast as you can,
- work hard to make it worth something,
- leave if it doesn't work out.

That's kind of the whole point of joining a startup. You're joining a bet, where you've got a significant chance of influencing the outcome.
> Plenty of states get recognition … because they have sufficient ability to defend their borders.

This is not always the case. There was a time when IS had control of a significant unchanging area of land (and much more contested areas too, of course) but were never accepted as a state by many (any?) others. Hence being referred to as “so-called Islamic State” most of the time in news broadcasts.
Screen readers are a lot dumber than you'd expect... And now web designers have come to rely on this dumb-ness, so making them smarter breaks stuff.
As a fellow MBA, would also love to read your thesis.
And I usually want to play them on the release date!
I love this idea and definitely would have been an adopter if I had not already built a custom solution.

BrainTool[1] is local- and private-first, I don't even want to know how to connect a user and their data. But I do want to enable paid subscriptions. I ended up using a Firebase library[2] built by Stripe. With Firebase I can create an anonymous account and use that to integrate with Stripe. I store only a user ID string which then maps to a Stripe subscription I can query for.

A couple of notes:
- Isn't Neologin becoming the third party SaaS you are trying to move away from?
- Even for costless coupon-paid subscriptions, Stripe requires ID proofing. So my users still need to enter an email and credit card (or GPay). The fact that my app doesn't have access to this information is not necessarily clear to users. This is probably something you'll have to account for.

[1] https://braintool.org
[2] https://firebase.google.com/products/extensions/stripe-fires...
> Over the last generation, indications are far over half experienced regular struggles.

Most people experience "regular struggles", by definition. Life is a struggle. But we have a way of defining who is poor and who isn't in terms of income, and it's good to use the same language as everyone else. The "large majority" of the U.S. is not poor. That's just obviously true from the income data I cited.

If that data is not enough, look at SCF wealth data here:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scf/dataviz/scf/table...

Median Household networth of 50-75 percentile - what you call "large majority" - is $240K. That's not poor.

Median Household networth of 25-49.9 percentile is $58K. Also not not poor.

Median (50th percentile) networth is $121K.

I really encourage more of a reality-based approach to throwing around phrases like "the large majority of Americans are poor".
Perhaps you just get pickier about the jobs you take.
Hiring: Smart Contract and Production Engineers
At some point, we need to accept that The Fed is not God of the World Economy. They can have a major impact on the country's economy, and they can influence foreign markets to a degree, but they are not responsible for everything. They just don't have that kind of power.

If commodity inflation is caused by an over abundance of USD, then there would be a whole host of side effects from this. One of which, is as I said, price inflation localized to the USA. The second would be a weakening of USD relative to most other strong currencies. So let's look at that:

USD : Euro - Slightly weaker relative to 2020, but overall, right around the average strength over the past ten years.

USD : GBP - Same as the Euro.

USD : CAD|SGD|AUD - Weaker than 2019, but much stronger than the 10 year average.

USD : JPY|INR - Very strong

USD : CNY - much weaker than 2019, better than 2018, right about at the 10 year average.

It's there, but only slightly. And only after 2-3 years of crazy strengthening.
The VAC team (https://vac.dev/) @ Status.im are hiring for a Smart Contract Engineer & Production Engineer to continue growing our modular, peer-to-peer messaging stack for private, secure, censorship resistant communication.

Happy to chat about it on discord: LilChiChi#0021 or via emial angel@status(.)im
I have been thinking about this every now and then - I, and many others, hold no loyalty to any particular ride sharing or food delivery app, and the cost to switch to the one that is offering deep discounts is almost zero. I know people who are constantly exploiting these sign up offers across many businesses that are pulling the same sort of ridiculous discounting that Uber pulled - and therefore are effectively living off investor cash.

I've always wondered what the extreme end of this could look like. It seems like here in London companies in this same area are popping up almost weekly in areas like grocery delivery, food delivery, ride-sharing, etc, and they almost all have absolutely crazy initial sign up discounts. I suspect there is an entire class of people that are effectively taking advantage of this and I wonder how much they manage to save.
That is for this instance where they were caught and it took a huge amount of resources, willpower, and luck for that to be followed through on to get to the fine.

Basically in this case it was breakeven minus lawyer fees if they get caught which only happens X% of the time.

That is why there are usually punitive premiums so that the business calculus never makes sense as the cost of doing it x risk of being caught is always a negative compared to potential profit.

TLDR: Fine should be 2-10x times benefit gained or higher to prevent even thinking about trying to get away with it.
Im curious if this has anything to do with the mountain of dislikes on anything COVID or US presidency related content.
> they'd list their menus on the blockchain

Why does that need a blockchain? Wouldn't that just be an API?
Who are you going to believe, your wallet or a government stat laundered by bureaucrats who want it to be as low as possible?
Ask HN: Chrome extension that highlights new posts on HN
I was relying on hckr news extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hckr-news/mnlaodleonmmfkdhfofamacceeikgecp) to get a highlight of the new posts in a thread but it has recently stopped working.
I don't know why since there wasn't an update to the extension and HN doesn't seem to change.

Is there another extension that is doing this?
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29172101
Yes, that's where the practicality comes in. But I'm sure there are people who have FOMO over all that data collection we missed over the last 14 billion years. And that's good! Maybe somebody will come up with something clever that is better than nothing. E.g., all the CMB work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background
I joined a startup a few months ago, and yeah...I don't know what my stock options are potentially worth.

I can buy 20,000 shares at $3/share over 4 years. We got a second round of VC funding in Spring with a valuation of $250M. Let's say in 5 years, we go public, I had exercised all my options, and we end up being worth $25B. Would that mean the $60,000 I spent on shares would be worth $6M?

Would another round of VC funding affect this?

Or is there more information needed that I don't know and might not have access to?
>Ps. it would have been nice to have monkey patching when dealing with btoa and atob in JavaScript, since they have different function on NodeJS vs the browser.

The better solution is to encapsulate the class and override the methods. Monkey patching is terrible because the behavior of the function is changing at run time. If someone is not aware that you are monkey patching a function the only way for them to determine what is going on is to step through the code with a debugger.
Or “New Sealand”
> Why not just buy an Android phone with the features you want? That’s what I don’t get here.

"Vote with your wallet" is a bogus argument because undercutting the rights of the consumers that actually pay for the device and own it, in effect means that consumers end up with no choice. If Apple says you can only install apps from App Store, and Google says Android phones will spy on you, who do I turn to if I don't want both these features? There is no real choice, not only because corporates form alliances and behave like cartels to not only stem competition but also to ensure the rights of the consumers are suppressed (e.g. Apple has actively lobbied against the right-to-repair movement). Suppressing consumer rights only benefits big businesses.
Hmm. For me the dislike button was informative. If feels like they are trying to create a world where everything can only be good, better, even more better, which just doesn't represent reality.

Imagine Stack Overflow only having the option to upvote Questions and Answers. The ratio of likes vs dislikes of a TED talk does help me to decide if I should stop watching a video which just isn't getting better.
For everyone who says this is government spending, pork, and bad:

We're already competing against governments subsidizing this work. The Chinese, the Europeans, everyone else who is competitive is subsidizing their industries, to bring, keep, and grow the knowledge base locally.

To be against government spending here, is to hand all of semiconductor manufacturing over to other countries in the name of the "free market" - it is not free, and we've decided to "play ball" by subsidizing the industries here.

FINALLY.
Yes, one of the causes of coastal erosion can be the effects of climate change. But what is the likelihood that the cause, or even partial cause, of this particular coastal erosion is climate change? I could be wrong, but I doubt that that causation is readily provable in this case. Hence some people that value a strong, empirical case for things like this will tend to take it more as theater than science. I personally think that stunts like this hurt rather than help the cause. But that's just my two cents.
Snow Crash as well, although their physical world is less ecodisaster and more corporate hellscape.
I'm not said expert, but authentication is definitely one of the things he does. I actually think it would be fairly hard to create a forgery. With enough work, you can source period-correct (ie. actual old) components, and indeed dedicated replica builders try to do so. I don't think that's a big obstacle.

The main two difficulties are:

- Getting the PCB layout exactly right. AFAIK, the original was laid out by hand with tape on mylar sheet. Bends in the traces were made by stretching the tape. Recreating all that exactly in modern PCB software is somewhere between difficult and impossible. I also seem to recall that the best existing replica PCB designs intentionally have small discrepancies from the original to make them detectable as replicas.

- Getting a PCB made with period correct materials. The specific materials used to make those PCBs in 1976 aren't in use anymore. I know at least one replica builder has tried to get as close as possible by having a PCB manufacturer go back to older methods, but even then, I don't think they were able to get it 100% accurate.

Additionally, there are few enough Apple 1s in the world that most if not all of them are known, named, numbered, and accounted for, so you'd have to have a great backstory explaining where your forgery came from and why it has been unknown for so long. See here: https://www.apple1registry.com.
The single most problem-reducing maneuver I've tried with home network printers is getting the printer off plain DHCP and make it consistent (set a static IP manually [outside your DHCP range] or by DHCP reservation).

After sorting this out in the router, then add the printer to the various desktops/laptops/tablets/phones.

Maybe I'm imagining the improvement, but I don't think so (and it can't hurt).
This resonates as true to me - chat software encourages urgency over quality in responses. The archives are mostly unusable because they're so stream-of-consciousness where context is essential to understanding messages.

Forum software is just so difficult to use and manage. It often requires setting up a server from scratch, and take some technical chops to run or manage.

I've wanted asynchronous forum software for my groups - whether professional or personal - for some time. And, I've wanted something that's as easy to set up as a Notion or Slack - meaning no domain tinkering, no custom server, and easy for less-technical folks to use.

So, I'm attempting to build it! My project is called Booklet, and I am trying to make it a better Google Groups - with a focus on asynchronous, threaded conversations alongside a robust member directory. I'm a few months into building in the open, and hope to be ready for some early testers before the end of the year. If you're interested in trying it or following the journey, check it out: https://bookl.et
Because those economies functioned in a relatively closed system of finance, and the actual cost of delivery was covered within that system. The actual cost of delivery is reflected in the price of getting the delivery. Or, if no delivery was easily available, it was because the cost of keeping such a system up, running, and easily available was higher than could be managed profitably.

Doordash works today because venture capitalists are throwing millions of dollars at it, and dramatically subsidizing the cost of the delivery.

In other words, you can do that today because someone else is willing to pay. The VC's money won't last forever though. The question is if the economies of scale it creates will be enough to reduce the cost of delivery such that it is a sustainable business.

Most available data says "Probably not."
Others are citing various examples of states without territory, such as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta or various governments-in-exile throughout history, so I thought I'd throw Estonia into the ring, which has its government backed up in Luxembourg in case the Russians invade: https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-governance/data-embassy/
A loose remaining proxy will be the ratio of like count to view count. Perhaps one of those will be axed next. I don't understand why complaining creators don't just turn off voting.
> So why not macOS backups in iCloud? If anything, you'd expect it to be the other way around—in iOS devices, you/apps can't litter your homedir with random garbage, while in macOS you can. So it's more useful to back up macOS.

This is somewhat the reason why no full macOS backup to the cloud. iOS naturally normalizes the content due to its use of iTunes Store content (apps, movies, television shows, books, music).

On macOS, you can't necessarily just ignore apps and say you'll download from the store - not only can you move applications around, you can delete parts of them and _many_ devices have apps which were not downloaded from the store.

So a 1TB Mac backup will take 1TB of iCloud Data and require 1TB of data to be uploaded/downloaded to their storage account.

This also affects the speed of restores on higher-speed connections - a lot of the iTunes content winds up being cached by CDNs.

Apple's solution so far has been to back up just the user's Documents and Desktop folders to iCloud, since these are the two most important "general purpose" locations on the Mac.
The Inspection Paradox Is Everywhere (2019)
There is about £2.5k of income tax and national insurance to pay out of that £19k... then you have council tax and other bills.
Tuvalu is just 26 sq km. How many bulk carriers filled with dirt you need to raise that by a few meters?
I also wonder if it has to do with the notorious Win11 announcement video: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Damage-control-Microsoft-delet...
Most jumpers probably have no idea how dangerous it is to spin a multiengine aircraft, and anybody who would classify as "lazy" a pilot's avoidance of an asymmetrical thrust condition a hair above stall with a large, draggy mass hanging off the opposite side of the aircraft is, frankly, not really qualified to opine on the subject.

Spinning a King Air is, from an aviation safety point of view, unacceptable. Accidents happen, but the point is that great pains must be taken to prevent them from happening again; and if the skydiving community wants to convince the aviation community at large that this procedure is perfectly safe, they really need to show that what happened here was a freak accident rather than a totally predictable one. That will be a tall order, because it was a totally predictable accident.

Safety needs to take precedence over convenience. If the King Air can't run skydiving operations safely and conveniently, maybe it should not be used for skydiving operations.
Maybe we should start a petition for Twitch to start donating a portion of their profits towards ensuring Tuvalu can keep existing in some form or another... perhaps ideally a fund which can be used to relocate citizens when the island is no longer inhabitable?
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29177091
Keeping things simple, fast while maintaining super high iteration time is the way to go for success

A lot to learn from this success story
Didnt they already try this and it was a huge failure
And despite it having left the everyday vernacular of your average computer user, its solidly embedded in many other protocols (and frequently tends to be the "working" part) because like TCP, AT command sets, etc tends to actually be pretty good following 20+ years of "bug" fixes. Even the glorious NVMe (which initially just looked like the merging of a hba+scsi) just embraced SES in its entirely.

So, when you say USB, I reach for my SCSI manuals.. :)
This.. isn't a bad idea? We have a hill full of young trees. It didn't occur to me to plant food producing trees.
There has been no clear evidence showing that to be the case, and an independent factchecker concluded that was misinformation. Please refer to youtube.com/help for the most accurate updates.
It's the best kept secret of Wikipedia that the volunteers generally despise the Foundation, and their long history of being unresponsive to their concerns and slow to act on their priorities while forcing the volunteers to adapt to what the Foundation finds things to spend all this money on, is a big reason for it.
*which exists.
So now I can't quickly see if a video how-to is a complete waste of my time or not. Great.
> Google isn't doing evil to warrant $70b fines.

Proportionality doesn't work with companies that are disproportionally rich. The purpose of the fine is to get them to stop violating people's rights and it's clear that pitiful 2 billion dollar fines are not going to accomplish that objective.

> It's pretty clear where that kind of insane behavior leads.

It leads to Google no longer being a monopoly as well as being more respectful of people's privacy.
I too have treated MDD with psychedelics along side CBT therapy (not in official conjunction) and found that my suicidal ideation and anhedonia subsided for about a year after my first big trip. Since then, I've done heroic doses and microdoses and found that the most beneficial to me was infrequent large doses combined with integration in therapy afterwards. I agree with your take that it's more akin to a "shock therapy" than a regular medication.

I'm curious, do you work with a talk therapist? If so, do you feel like the therapy + psychedelics is better than either alone?
This isn’t about small content creators. It’s almost certainly about big brands (advertisers) that hate it when their high budget movie/game/trailer/whatever gets publicly downvoted.
Well in many ways the supply chain crisis are economically equivalent to the Arab Oil Embargo. Add bad monetary policy akin to going off the Gold Standard and I can see how Stagflation is a real probability.
This feels like one of those changes where they already decided to do it and used an experiment to justify their decision. The binary choice between showing only raw dislikes or no dislikes as well tilts the table towards an extreme change.

There's lots of interesting design choices they could have made of not encouraging dislike storms while still giving valuable info to viewers like highlighting if any video has an unusually high dislike to like ratio or attaching comments to dislikes and highlighting highly upvoted reasons why certain people are choosing to dislike a video etc.
Lumber is cheap for anyone who can build their own home. Home Depot as packed this weekend.
They are ‘robbing’ the ones who wont allow others to flourish like they have