skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see much point in a chat app that works only on Apple. That means I could only talk to Apple users, which are about 20-30% here in Europe (by the way Apple's lower marketshare here compared to the US is also why iMessage is not very popular and Whatsapp is instead).

There's so many of them already, I have heavy app fatigue :) I would really want something that reduces the number of chat apps, not adds one. (Like Beeper and Element One are doing based on Matrix).

However I wish you luck! Hope it works out.
It's a quote miss-attributed to Walt Whitman. Made very famous by Ted Lasso (in probably the greatest scene in television history).
However that's kind of cheating it would be nice to find ways to make money doing more casual tasks with just my phone.
Prodspec and Annealing: Google's Internal Infrastructure-as-Code
Grandma tech: keep rolls of sugar cookie dough in the freezer, and bake 'em when you get home. An excuse to hang out by the oven, and then you have cookies.
Digital art seems to be a narrow definition.

In the Philippines, people have been making money playing crypto games such as Axie Infinity. Before you can make money, you have to buy 3 Axie toons, which are NFT assets. Because many Filipinos can no longer afford the toons, people have created "scholar" programs where Axie owners can share usage of their inventory in return for a percentage of earnings. I could talk to Filipinos about this all day and the words "art" and "NFT" would even come up.

I think it's more correct to simply say that NFTs are simply a record on a blockchain. As with Bitcoin, it's just another application.

If you don't understand NFTs, that's fine. Maybe you're not meant to understand them. Maybe you're not the audience. Maybe there's something shady going on. We live in a big world with lots of languages and cultures. You won't understand all of them.

Sorry for the rambling reply. Christmas break hangover. ;)
Just Found This Book Analysing Anonymous Speech. Worth Buying?
Is something wrong about thinking about being more inclusive?
Description for the lazy:

Anonymous Speech: Literature, Law and Politics discusses the different contexts in which people write anonymously or with the use of a pseudonym: novels and literary reviews, newspapers and political periodicals, graffiti, and now on the Internet. The book criticises the arguments made for a strong constitutional right to anonymous speech, though it agrees that there is a good case for anonymity in some circumstances, notably for whistle-blowing. One chapter examines the general treatment of anonymous speech and writing in English law, while another is devoted to the protection of journalists' sources, where the law upholds a freedom to communicate anonymously through the media. A separate chapter looks at anonymous Internet communication, particularly on social media, and analyses the difficulties faced by the victims of threats and defamatory allegations on the Net when the speaker has used a pseudonym. In its final chapter the book compares the universally accepted argument for the secret ballot with the more controversial case for anonymous speech.

This is the first comprehensive study of anonymous speech to examine critically the arguments for and against anonymity. These arguments were vigorously canvassed in the nineteenth century – largely in the context of literary reviewing – and are now of enormous importance for communication on the Internet.
There are plenty of adverts during that video. He’ll be able to buy a new Tesla pretty soon…
Tesla bows to pressure, stops allowing drivers to play video games while driving
I don't see any ads on mobile. How does this generate revenue?
Yep I use my email Inbox to organise everything.
You're the Match Group of free sudoku sites
Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers. Describes the construction of the world's first electronic digital computer, used to break the Nazi's strategic-communications cipher (much more important and difficult than Enigma.)

[0] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/colossus-97801995781...
I hope I'm not the only one who has nostalgia for tables and frames. There was only one way to center content and it always worked. Now there's a hundred and none ever work without a bunch of Googling and troubleshooting.
Also fire danger
I also read the dispossessed this year. So, so good. I was shocked at how nuanced the book’s politics were too.
Ask HN: Have you had Covid? How bad was it?
I live in a part of the world where we haven’t had much Covid. At this point though Omicron seems to be evading vaccines and spreading rapidly.

I’m struggling to decide whether to treat it as something mild that I’m definitely going to get, or something really bad that I should be taking strong precautions against. Reading news isn’t overly helpful as it only shows extreme cases/views.

Have you had Covid, and what was your experience like? Do you have any lingering symptoms?
What are you mining? If it's ETH, what will happen to your rigs after the upcoming changes?
I wrote about the state of the art for this here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mL8KdftNGBScmBcBg/optimizati...
>How is it untrue?

You misunderstand; they are referring to where you incorrectly quote the website as saying, "ownership of a franchise".

>"For too long, ownership of X has been dominated by Y" is a typical sentence used in advertisements that go on to promise "Now, you too can own X"...

Which they don't really do here, so that point is moot.

What they do go on to say is that you can mint an NFT that represents a franchise, but what you're misunderstanding is the word "represent". Anything can represent anything - the pancake I just made (hooray, breakfast for dinner!) can represent the White House. The bicycle in my garage can represent the International Space Station while I'm out playing with my kids. That doesn't mean that the pancake is the White House, or that my bicycle representing the ISS now means that I own the ISS. Quite simply, it means that for the sake of whatever I'm doing - discussing politics, playing with my kids, or making a parody website that makes fun of NFTs - the NFT itself represents a franchise just because. It sounds stupid, but so are NFTs, and that's the point.

That is why myself and others have stressed to you that you need to read the FAQ and the parts where the site goes on to confirm that you do not own, nor have rights to, any Olive Garden franchise just because you have an NFT that represents one.
The non-taxation side of that argument is that Bezos can invest better than I can and he can leverage those investments more than I can due to the technology that exists within the company,
I don't really understand what you're saying. Is it that you need to say "I'm really only capable at $THING, but $THING is very, very important/takes 2x more time than I'm actually saying it does?" If so, I don't understand how you hope to BS all your managers and coworkers into believing either of those things.
Lawsuit for what?
Do you mean this channel? (Molly Rocket)

https://www.youtube.com/c/MollyRocket/videos
Amazon is a utility for most now and trumps everything except the most urgent. Here's my buying channels depending on how soon i need stuff

- do i need it today- Costco, Walmart, Target, Safeway, Dicks Sporting Goods

- can i wait till tmrow- Amzn next day to my doorstep. No? resort to above options

- can i wait 2 days for a better choice- Amzn Prime

- No hurry- a week ok?- Amzn marketplace, eBay
The number of hours you extend your life by running is the number of
hours you spent running. Apply a similar analysis here.
Well, it is definitely good that a DUI is taken seriously. And maybe it is necessary for alcohol to have specific laws against it in order to make that dissuasion effective. I can, however, understand the position that the current punishments are unnecessarily harsh. What would probably be nice, is if we had data to back up which approaches are effective.
There are lots of applications for having home devices and appliances on the network. The typical user doesn’t know much about security and tends to assume devices will do what they’re supposed to, so it’s not an obvious problem for those devices to be accessible by a cellphone app.
It's beginning to look like such patterns do exist. See this comment and the preceding thread: https://www.conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=137171&sid...
Believe it. I've never signed anything that constituted a binding contract. Nor have I ever agreed to anything like "40 hours." I have worked for multiple SF tech companies, including public companies. So, you're wrong on all counts.

Edit: here is literally the applicable phrase from my last offer letter:

> As an exempt salaried employee, you will be expected to work the hours, including evenings and weekends, required to perform your job duties.
This is a myopic view. Amazon's physical retail has been amazingly profitable for a long time. And when you go into the oldest categories of physical retail (books, electronics, baby, fashion, etc), they were each massively unprofitable for a time until they became massively profitable.

https://hurricanecapital.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/business-i...

>HB: So, let’s just establish this once and for all. Can Amazon make money?

>JB: Well, yes, and in fact we have in the past. And you have to understand, there are many ways of thinking about this, but the reality is that Amazon is a collection of several businesses and initiatives. And we have some very significant, very profitable, more established businesses that are free cash-flow generating. Very significantly. And fortunately, the way I think about it, we have lots of opportunities to invest in this new initiatives, and we take advantage of those opportunities. So, it’s kind of like we built this lemonade stand, you know, twenty years ago. The lemonade stand has become very profitable over time. But we also decided to use our skills and the assets that we’ve acquired over time to open up a hamburger stand, and a hot dog stand, and so on and so on. So we’re investing in new initiatives.

>JB: Look, you know. Warren Buffett has this great quote, he says: “You can hold a rock concert, and that’s okay. And you can hold a ballet, and that’s okay. Just don’t hold a rock concert and advertise it as ballet.” Investors come in all shapes and sizes. They have different investment horizons, different approaches, different beliefs about what the right kind of portfolio looks like. And, so it’s not when you know people use Wall Street as a shorthand. But there isn’t one type of investor, they come in different shapes and sizes. You have to be super clear about what kind of company you’re trying to build, what your approach is. We laid that out in our 1997 annual shareholder letter. We said we were going to take big bets. We said they were gonna fail. We said some of them hopefully were gonna work. We said we were gonna to invest for the long term, that we were gonna to take advantage of market opportunities as they arose. And there’s a certain kind of investor who is aligned with that approach. And so again, you could hold the ballet or the rock concert, and both can work. Just be clear about which one you are, and then people can self select.
I doubt most of these folks are even mining eth.
Re: your last example.

Where is the incentive for a company to actually bother reaching into the ledger to determine who holds royalty rights? The underlying media pointed to by the NFT is not restricted, it's infinitely reproducible and thus valueless. Why not just right-click save-as and display the media, bypassing the metadata encoded in the NFT?

It seems like there'd have to be some person or collection of persons who are responsible for enforcing that the company treat the terms of the NFT as a binding agreement. Using force, if necessary, either legal or physical. Something almost like... a legal system associated with a state. Which would be centralized. Which would beg the question, what's the value of the decentralized ledger in that case?
One bases for damage is that if that project would have complied with GPL you would have saved a lot of money by being able to use that instead of rolling your own, in which case the damage would be development time (potentially very specific) + damage due to time delays (vague).

Depending on the situation a 3rd party beneficiary might have a easier time to lay out the damages and the amount of damages then the first party.

Through not sure how far that would work.

But I mean it is a contract, you are a 3rd party beneficiary and the contract is breached. So it might work.

Anyway that still isn't useful for trolls because they don't lose out on anything as they tend to not produce anything.
This too. I know a guy who spent 4 months full time and several algo bootcamps prepping for a Facebook interview.

Didn't get in. Total cost to him was about 30K between courses and foregone income.
SF Bay Area.
I wouldn't call that a limitation. In fact that is one of the major selling points of the PDF format. The document looks as intended* by the creator on all platforms whether display or print media.

* Yes, I know, PDF doesn't -always- do this, but a well designed PDF generally does.
If you give me something that I can read with my eyeballs, then I don't think you should have the right to tell me what I can and can't do with that (absent copyright, or some sort of NDA or other agreement).

Certainly you (or the platform you are using) can put technical measures in place to make it hard for me to do automatic manipulation of that data, but I don't think "the right" has anything to do with it.
less Co2 emissions
I just finished a re-read of the "Commonweal" series by Graydon Saunders, which begins with The March North:

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=MoIOAwAAQBAJ

I've never been sure how to sum up these books. They're thoroughly strange fantasy books, oddly written and frequently chewy reads. They have an interest in politics and metaphysics; but they also have magical railguns, the sorcerous application of FOOF [1], and a five-ton battle-sheep named Eustace.

The first book is fairly straightforward: A quiet backwater of the Commonweal is under threat, and its only defense is an understrength territorial battalion, a handful of experimental artillery pieces, and three of the mightiest sorcerers of the age.

Then the second book (A Succession of Bad Days) isn't at all about the military, and is more like the weirdest going-to-sorcery-school book I've ever read. It also has an extended, detailed section on using sorcery in canal construction. If you ever wanted a book about the best ways to use magic in the service of civil engineering, this series is your jam.

These books really aren't for everyone, but I kind of love them, and they aren't widely known, so I'll always take an opportunity to shill them.

[1] https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
> [...] triple click for remote start is unintended and undocumented.

I have a hard time understanding how a feature like this may be "unintended". Someone needs to add this functionality to the car, it's not like it's an undefined behavior of the circuitry, akin to a C compiler. If they wanted to remove it, they should've just removed it.
600$ a month from my open source project (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash) whose idea came from the infamous HN launch of Dropbox (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863).

I made that cool frontend for FTP server with an interesting twist as I've abstracted:

1. the backend storage: meaning it connects to a wide range of existing storage like FTP, SFTP, S3, Dropbox, ...

2. the authentication layer: meaning you can use your own identity provider to put your S3 buckets behind your corporate SSO

3. the authorization layer to create business rules

At its core, the software is a framework to develop file manager like web applications by implementing a simple interface (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/blob/f7a4e52703...). This does enable all sort of interesting use case. For example, the mysql implementation shows database name as first level folder, tables as second level folders and each row in a table is shown as a file within the table folder which a user can edit directly through the generated form built from the schema information. That way people who are used to the Dropbox interface can edit the database directly, create shared links, search through stuff without having to know about sql

Most of the money comes from companies who needed various degree of customisation and support or didn't want to host on premise.
Right—and in the loose model that I use to make sense of it, crypto/web3/blockchain/whatever becomes the setting. You actually don't need to understand a whole lot about any of that stuff to get involved.

So to generalize:

Introducing a limited supply to the right early adopters creates perceived exclusivity and value.

Perceived exclusivity and value draws attention.

Attention increases engagement creates FOMO.

FOMO attracts audience and grows community.

Community stabilizes value, and with enough momentum spins off new projects where the cycle starts over again and the system expands. This is often where outsiders and newcomers begin to enter.

Plug that flywheel into crypto where it not only facilitates effortless transactability, but the barriers to entry drop to the point where access is determined by who can get there first and the price of entry.

This is a huge factor in the explosive and viral growth that many NFT projects have seen.
There was this discussion a while ago about how ncap changes its test progressively so the bar is raised year after year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29486093

It’s not just about feature checkboxes, there is gradual improvement on how the car handles impacts inside and outside the car.
I even had the book back in 2005! I felt so empowered to reign in IE6 https://www.amazon.com/Zen-CSS-Design-Visual-Enlightenment/d...
Yes. Kotlin is good, but there is a lot of Java out there that needs to be supported.

Have you experimented with converting entire projects of Java to Kotlin?
> "mega-corp" is a term from dystopian cyberpunk

I just meant companies worth exorbitant amounts of money... like $1T+ ... not sure on the amount though... Do you work for them or the government?
Yes, and that is a non sequitor.
He has quite a while then....
Throughout the overwhelming majority of the year, I wasn't in a position where I had a lot of "sit down with a good book and a good drink" reading time, but I've gotten some in during the winters at each end. I think best overall was one of the ones I read way early in the year, Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche. I had been saving The Pale King by David Foster Wallace for an "in case of emergency break glass" book because I couldn't bear to finish all his writing and I just had to break the glass recently. I've been enjoying that thoroughly and should finish before the year is up; it may win out.

I know this probably paints a bad picture of my reading habits because of the present public perception of those (previously publicly praiseworthy) authors, so I feel the urge to get in front of that and (1) insist I have eclectic tastes and this year had a small sample size, (2) insist those books (well, many parts of those books) really ARE excellent, and (3) provide one more suggestion even though this is already a wordy comment: why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby. Someone shared a link to the web version on HN earlier this year, maybe it was even in a deep, 1-upvoted comment, I don't recall - but that was what occupied the whole next part of my day, and I quite liked it (having already known Ruby from some ancient rusty Rails experience).
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Given you like survival stories, I'm guessing you've also read Unbroken. But on the off chance you haven't, definitely check it out!
https://www.slatervecchio.com/bc-drunk-driving-laws-saves-li...

TLDR: British Columbia implemented the toughest anti-drunk-driving laws in Canada. Automobile accident rates dropped 20%. Pretty damn effective.
Technical analysis is snake oil. Don't believe in it.
> I suppose I should instead be curious as to why anyone would be comfortable with such a system?

My assumption, informed by a few anecdotes of people I know - people want to feel like they're living with modern amenities, or like they're in the future (Star Trek people talking to their computers, for example), and this is obviously aided by marketing.

Remember when Apple referenced Dick Tracy when introducing the Apple Watch (or a subsequent model?), and how they had always wanted to have the same cool device? I suspect that this is a huge part of what drives the "smart" home.
The Poppy War trilogy is excellent albeit depressing.
Each generation toils away to solve problems that were first solved more than 200 years ago
Oh good. I’m glad that was just a wooosh.
Oh I’m sure I’ve spent a non-trivial amount of time total on maintenance, trial and error, watching videos, reading, etc. The thing is it’s my hobby, I have fun doing that stuff. I work with my hands and use my brain, and the output is money. It’s pretty great!
It would mean more if it wasn't coming from a player with a lot of skin in the game.

He is right in his technical concerns, but what I see is that Telegram is used in a different way around here. I and my friends don't use it for 1:1 chats. But for finding public chat groups on topics. For example I joined a public group where people mentioned drops of hard to get video cards. I got my Founder's Edition card for actual RRP because of that, instead of the inflated prices due to the shortages.

It's a bit similar in the way it's not a problem that IRC has no E2E encryption. The channels are meant to be public. Anyone can join them at any time.

I also use telegram for notifications because they're open to bots and you can even add images. So I have my own server notifications coming through there. Nothing sensitive in those. Signal in contrast does not allow any third party app on their network, moxie has said so many times.

I never use Telegram secret chats because they suck. Both parties need to be online at the same time and it can only be used on one device. But I don't view Telegram in the same way as Signal or Whatsapp. There's a place for both.

My real favourite is Matrix though. It does have good E2E encryption and also has good public channels (which don't need encryption). It's also decentralised, you can run your own homeserver with complete history right on your own system. It has bridges to other networks so you can reduce proprietary apps, and it welcomes third party apps. It's the best of all worlds IMO. Signal is still a walled garden even though it's a more private one.
Funny how we both gave disclaimers with our recommendations.
Again, I told you, I never agreed to work X amount of hours for any tech company I've ever worked at. In fact, it's always been made clear to me by my managers that time and effort spent is irrelevant, and only results count. Deliver on your sprint commitments, and you're gold, regardless of how long it takes.

Oh, and let's not pretend companies won't do "whatever they can get away with," either. Read the news if you need examples.
In the case where I have to use popualr browsers, I use local DNS and a forward proxy to do what this extension does, i.e., replace URLs. Google/Mozilla/Apple/Microsoft/Opera have control over extensions to their browsers, but they have less/no control over a proxy server written by someone else.
The Absurdity of Renting a Car Will No Longer Be Tolerated
I had the book back in the early 2000s. It was great.
> Noted. FWIW SMS is not a requirement to use /tap. And I would love to build more messaging integrations. email me with suggestions!

LINE messenger in Southeast Asia
KakaoTalk in South Korea