skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did though. It was delayed, they chose to delay it from October to December 18 to December 22 to Christmas instead of like the first week of January or whatever.

It’s not like this thing is launching to Mars and they’d have to wait a couple years if they miss this week - it could launch on 210 days of each year.

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/faq.html#launchWind...

I don’t mind at all, I just think it’s a bit funny.
Viktor Frankl man's search for meaning - great perspective I needed while going through an emotionally difficult breakup. Basically it's a story about a psychologist during the holocaust and his experience in concentration camps. How it changed people and the experiences he lived through.

The big question in the book he's trying to answer is why do some people give up while others Excell in life.
I know the opportunity to grab half a billion dollars was nearly impossible to pass up, almost all of these acquisitions result in the destruction of the original business and the abuse of the employees and customers involved.
According to AWS, most mail servers will not even count statistics for low-volume senders. If that is true, then it won't matter whether your personal email server has been up for 20 years or 1 year, it won't have any reputation.
No users - no launch. I have many conversations with potential users though... I'm 100% positive this is something that people want. E.g. right now the way they solve the problem of collaborating on flashcards is by using _google sheets_ to collect errata on shared decks. https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalschoolanki/comments/f0bj27/o... This workflow involves manually checking the sheets link, downloading it, converting it to the correct format, importing it into your collection, and hope it doesn't override/corrupt your own customizations to a particular card. It's absolutely fucking nuts.

I'm 100% sure it (or something like it) is desperately needed by the world. However, students aren't really well known for paying for software, so this remains a nights/weekends thing.
@ryanar - Good to hear but disappointing. I was planning to start the second book next year.
Best is

https://malicious.life/

and other good ones.

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/

https://theintelligence.economist.com/

https://www.theskepticsguide.org/

https://www.newscientist.com/podcasts/

https://twit.tv/shows/security-now

https://www.hanselminutes.com/

and here

https://www.securitydegreehub.com/best-cybersecurity-podcast...
Agree. Live life as you go. You could be dead tomorrow. Be in the moment, don't live for a future goal that will a) probably never happen anyway and b) is likely to kill you from stress and overwork along the way
Thanks, HN, for helping me learn a lot.
Is Hunter Biden’s son in any position of power? Was he elected to anything? Appointed to any position in government?
I kind of understand why Rust made buffered IO explicit and on-demand instead of going down the C route and making it the default, but still I think there's a significant risk lots of programs are going to be suboptimal due to developer ignorance or the expectation of having buffered IO by default like with stdio and iostreams.

It would have been IMHO probably less clean but safer to make the standard IO constructs like File buffered by default (which is what users expect in the vast majority of cases) and provide on the side unbuffered variants. Thankfully modern OSes with caches and stuff somewhat mitigate this thing, but it can make IO on less advanced systems way more problematic than it should be.
The way I worded it was weird... we never shipped to beta, despite having 4000+ people sign up to be beta testers. We only shipped a "closed beta" (you had to ask one of the devs personally to let you in) to people in our own city. It was a location-based game (like Pokemon go), so there has to be a bunch of people in the area if your actually wanted to do anything fun.

Regarding perfectionism: the game was very rough around the edges in regards to in-game assets. Performance was also a concern, both on the device and the back-end. The device could slow to 1-2 FPS if there were enough assets (100s of troops firing at once - which was easy to do with a few friends playing together at once) animating at once. The server would slow to 4s+ response times if there was enough activity in a single geographic area.

I was okay with shipping with these issues, but the other partners weren't.
Yep! There’s an entire school of thought that management and engineering are so entirely different that managers don’t need to have an engineering background.

I personally disagree, but I have a friend who insists that the best engineering managers are those who come from professional management backgrounds (project management, then people management usually) instead of engineering backgrounds.
Maybe you have a case of “the grass is always greener.” 1 million dollars a year is a lot. Couldn’t you pretty easily save up and take 5 straight years off if you wanted? What’s to stop that from happening?
Scuttlebutt sounded like exactly something I've always wanted, but I got a vague feeling of something about the project behind it being weird, disorganized, esoteric - basically a gut feeling making me worried about the protocol and whether it's soundly designed - and most of the documentation at that time seemed to focus on philosophy rather than the intricacies of the protocol.

The 35C3 talk about it (https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9635-scuttlebutt) turned me off from it completely.

I'm glad to see a concise, clean technical spec. Does the protocol have meaningful adoption anywhere?
> Getting spam? I am sick of you, whatever? No issue, just REJECT the whole address

I started using that with Fast mail, they call that Masked address. Best spam filter ever.
Who would have ever thought that delivering food to lazy people would require a degree and 5 years of JS experience.
>If we need X to kindergarten us against endangering ourselves and others

This sentence is confusing to me - at the risk of sounding curt, we obviously do need to protect people from idiots. Given a game to play while driving, some people will. The more convenient and present it is, the more people will do it. I'm not sure how one could formulate an argument that these people don't exist. The key here is of course that they endanger others - if it were just themselves, the conversation would be much more subjective.
>When you know who you are, and are confident in your values, then no amount of pressure from the outside world can make you bend a knee

Works great if you find this magic perfection. But in all likelihood you will not. You will be shaped by the biases of your upbringing and experiences that will put blinders on you. More so you will stick to your convictions with the justification of morality on your side, even when that is not the case.
I'll just leave this here - https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
Really? Which venues dropped support?
Interestingly those born in 2004 don't necessarily have them either - my neighbour was born then and mentioned that their year group don't use FB at all.
You give Facebook your phone number? Why? Is this a new requirement for an account?
Russian-Made Elbrus CPUs Fail Trials, 'A Completely Unacceptable Platform'
> Yeah, that was my takeaway too. I have never watched looters on TV and wished I were there with them looting.

You've never seen some slimey techbro that knows 10% of what you do technically go on to make million on a more or less worthless app/product/etc? Knowing that what they sold was basically snake oil and now they will never have to work again while you trudge along for the rest of your life "doing the right thing"?

If so, you are basically a saint if you have not considered the grifter path.

Or whatever similar situation applies to you. I doubt you are the type who would benefit greatly in social status by having a bunch of new sneakers like the example was.

The point of the article is we're making grifting more profitable than honest work, and this is a pattern I've been noticing for since I've been alive. Strange only now folks seem to be noticing.

The other point you made was "fear of getting caught" which is simply not a part of the calculation for many in some cities any longer. This part is rapidly eroding into a joke in many communities, and lets just say most do not share your moral and ethical compass but do (so far) share a fear of getting caught.
Would you be willing to share a quick summary?
I thought history suggested, when it is a class struggle, the billionaires ultimately lose. Usually lose their heads, are lined up against walls.
YouTube Premium doesn't have ads. You get what you pay for.
But what if... the TLD owner decides to 10x the domain price?
Yeah, what I don't care for (among others) is that when I type "brew install something" it also upgrades every package on my system and my postgres instance can't start until the databases have been upgraded (which may fail). I know the reason they give for doing this, but no other package manager does it and its a terrible default behavior.
I bought an Occulus Quest 2 last week and had to sign in with Facebook
Does gmail actually trust the incoming forwarded email? Or mark a lot of it as spam.

My understanding is that SPF makes forwarding like this no longer possible if the original sender's address is to be preserved.
This is true, but with the obesity crisis, clearly there is a need for something that tastes as good as fast food and is as cheap but that is actually good for you…
> Guns are only one variable

So? It's one variable that can be changed.
I would say TikTok is even more addictive than Facebook, considering its larger market share at this moment.

TikTok is a maximizer of wasted attention.
Replace shoes with life-changing sums of money, and replace looting with something more gray-area, and I think you can cast a fairly wide net.
I like NFTs, but not art NFTs. Having NFTs represent actual in-game assets with unique stats that can be used across different games in a permissionless way, seems like a way to empower gamers as we buy more and more digital-only items.

I also like the idea of NFTs as game licenses. If the XBOX uses something like an Ethereum address as your XBOX account, it can verify what games you own by checking if you own the NFT that represents that game’s license. At that point, even if XBOX live shuts down support for XBOX 360 games in 20 years, my 360 will still be able to play any game I have the media for (ex: digital game copy on a USB drive).

I also like the idea of universal login using Ethereum addresses. I don’t want my identity to be owned by Microsoft, Google, Apple, of Facebook. I’d rather it be something I own (a public/private key pair) along with some known place to store attestations about who I am and what I can do (a blockchain). Those attestations could be stored off-chain, but that becomes difficult for users to maintain and program.
I played a game like this before. The whole journey took about 6 hours to complete. Realizing who I was interacting with was one of the best moments I've had playing a video game.

Edited to add: I think I've played two games where the bots turned out to be people. The second game was much longer, and I never finished it - I only learned that the bots were people from a YouTube video later on.

This is a good idea, and it is under-explored!

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I'm actually learning Chinese right now.

If I get one of these magical FAANG offers, I might be able to retire by 40.

I imagine if I do try and retire in a foreign country it would be much more difficult as I'd have to get used to the culture.

The again with globalization and all that I guess I could just hang out in Starbucks no matter where I'm at
Right!. But did you inform your customers that You were shutting down, what did you do with all the Datum that you collected(User Auth). Did You give them the opportunity for them to properly delete their account data stored on some DO droplet VPC waiting to be harvested?
You're talking about rewriting performance sensitive code when it makes sense to do so. I'm talking about rewriting random libraries because developers like to wallow in their tooling.
I get where they’re coming from, but this just sounds insane. If there were FOSS CPU microcode that could replace it or something and they only wanted to support that than fine, but if there’s no FOSS option why create security risks for users?

I love the FOSS community, but sometimes their rationale is a bit too extreme for the average person to get behind.
That's what almost every project advertising it is free of non-free stuff is: some other project with the non-free parts removed, nothing more. Trisquel (Ubuntu), linux-libre (linux), libreboot (coreboot), etc. When your sole selling point is lack of non-free stuff, there is no need to invest time adding anything else.

E.g. linux-libre is just a big script that removes the nonfree parts and firmware support; they just run it against every kernel release with minor tweaks and that's their new release. libreboot is similar.
Get off the computer, put down the phone and spend some time with loved ones if you can.
Trying to get back with an ex. Almost never works, but I did it anyhow.
Plainorg is awesome. Keep up the great work. The app has enabled me to use the org-mode based plaintext productivity system I've found most effective on my phone. Super useful.

Incidentally, the system I use is from Mark Forster's 'Autofocus' constellation of productivity experiments. Unfortunate that his work is not more widely known because it's quite effective (for me at least).

Here's a link to the version I use: http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2021/11/16/the-final...
The title is misleading. The list is about languages, of any kind, no matter if open source or not, or even if related to computing or not.

So much so that some entries that initially appeared weird to me are:

- morse code

- arezzo notation (a musical notation system)

- Balanced ternary

Then you look better... and you realize it's about languages in general, not about open source or programming at all.
For what its worth, this would be the bash equivalent:

for i in {1..1000}
do
wget --quiet "somehost/$i" -O "$i.html" &
done
wait

Takes 1.8 seconds here. But will obviously depend on the network situation and server. And there probably is something faster than wget.
Extensions are imporant to give you full support for a given language which essentially turns VSCode from a text editor into an IDE for said language. The rest of it is small modifications, cosmetic changes and convenience.
My life-partner and I both used to work in separate WeWorks, for our full-time jobs. My colleagues (and hers) were very supportive and bought a couple, then people would see them around on desks and word-of-mouth kind of just spread that way! The product benefitted from a bit of a viral effect in the pre-pandemic days :P

Also, one thing I'm really proud of is that a lot of our sales (around 12%) come from repeat customers. I've reached out to many of these customers and a lot of them tell me they buy the first one for themselves, and then the next orders are gifts for their friends.

Eventually I started running facebook ads. That worked pretty well for a while but I really noticed a change after the iOS privacy ads opt-in change. I've run experiments with reddit/pinterest/facebook/instagram ads since, and paid ads are overall just not profitable, at least the way I'm running them! We stopped running paid ads entirely two months ago, and I wish I had stopped a long time ago.
Turkey's Financial Crisis
Ding Ding Ding! The author is pushing a narrative, not reporting reality.
This actually makes sense. No need for the big survellance net.
I don't disagree, but it's important context to note that

a) if something is gold in this context, presumably this means that any fixes that need to be applied will be applied by proton, and the process will be opaque as far as the end-user is concerned

b) needing to apply fixes is not exclusively a "get it to play on linux" thing; I have many store-bought windows games that require fixes (often unofficial) in order to actually get them to play on windows.
I constantly wonder whether there is something I am missing about Web3. Am just too old and perhaps out of touch to understand the hype? Sometime between 2015-2019 I probably made upwards of 20.000+ manual trades with smart contracts, and even build my own dapps. I felt like a ETH/Decentralization and Web3 apostle. But everything just felt so useless to me in the end (except the easy money I was making). Nowadays, web3 feels even more useless, and even more scammy. The "use-cases" and "scarity" to me sound like some exotic products that are packaged for the gullible to waste their money in a unregulated, hyper gambling echo chamber of the internet. But of course, perhaps I am still missing the point.
I have a medium publication and an online ML course. On average, I make about 1.5k per month. Mostly passive. I've been working on it less than 12 months.

When I started, I want to make about $300 per month. Now that I make more, I struggle to find a way to scale. I'd be much more content when I reach $10k per month.
You can’t store more information than a fixed multiple of the number of atoms in the observable universe. The set of integers is infinite but there is a bound on the size of the set of integers we will ever be able to store.
Their filings don't suggest that. If you have specific examples I'd certainly be interested to hear them or see a link. They were doing physical only commerce for years before anything digital and it wasn't profitable. Now that's understandable, but the claim that physical e-commerce was massively profitable seems very overstated.

When you say "digital" do you mean like Prime Video? Or kindle books? Or something else? When you say devices do you mean kindles? I'm struggling to believe that the kindle book line is run at a loss. I'd understand specific titles might run at a loss and I'd understand if the devices run at a loss but kindle books overall? Prime Video "losses" are sort of my point - they can almost be thought of as marketing expense.

As for the capital leases - those are accounted for at the corporate level and mostly run through the cashflow statement. The numbers they quote as operating income for the non aws business don't include those capital lease costs. ie on page 17 of their most recent Q (https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/0001...) those reported operating earnings don't include the capital leases. If you look on page 3 of that filing (Principal repayment of finance leases) you'll see the (big) number there.

All that said - you still could be right. But if you are it's almost like they are going out of their way to deliberately make their numbers look bad on the non-AWS side. There is a big difference between not caring and actively making it look bad.
The world collectively has allowed China to be able to throw its economic & supply chain weight on the rest of the world. If a state’s opinion runs contrary to Chinese whims, consequences follow. Lithuania isn’t the only country. Australia & China have rubbed the CCP in the wrong way & economic warfare has ensued in the past.

What is noteworthy is that world needs distributed wealth & supply chain opportunities. China will continue its practices, which are termed to be in its political policies. And it isn’t the only country. If we change the optics, almost every major economically powerful country has done it.
Neither Go nor Python are languages that encourage composing functionality out of higher order functions, so I think the point stands.
How do you vent to the world without the publish button?
Just as another data point, I work remotely and I have an office about 3 miles from my house. It makes separation of work and life MUCH easier.

I realize this isn’t normal but it is a much better way of working for me. I think if others could get past paying rent to work remotely that they would generally agree, too.
> I've survived all my life just fine not being able to drive

Interesting. We have public transportation for those who either choose not to drive or cannot drive, or cannot afford a car, etc.

Is Meta starting to act like a government if it can ban you from "driving" in Meta's Metaverse, if Meta's Metaverse becomes a dominant mode? Will there be public funded options with less restrictive access than driving in Meta's Metaverse?
You can’t store a value that requires more storage than is available in the observable universe.
Yes, and there is no equivalent for rowspan/colspan in a grid or flex grid without resorting to CSS modifications in the former and nested containers in the latter.
I still regularly play the insanely solid Saturn port practically every other day. What a solid title.
Do they have version that doesn't mimic windows? I do understand that it is intended to take on board as many former windows users as possible but honestly some people including me are getting sick just by looking at something that even slightly reminds it ...
I wish the project the best, please understand.
"piss on the workers". I made no such remark anywhere in my comment. You can prioritize the company and still take care of the employees. It is not a zero sum game but hating on managers is obviously a cool thing to do.
>to essentially execute a hostile takeover of open of source WordPress

The software he himself first created? Could have gone to worse hands. Not to mention it's still 100% FOSS and has been going from strength to strength.
Is it really such a big deal for them to build hype around a potentially promising medical advancement? What's the downside of this kind of reporting? Even if the drug fails, maybe it will spur more research into similar candidates
Not sure if it's intentional , but your post reads somewhat like satire.
Thank you! I'm a supporter of the FSF and FOSS but I also think these ideologies have to be taken in consideration with security tradeoffs and current mitigation implementations. Free software is wonderful, but we should be honest about its capability to respond to some security threats like this. I think it would be better to include such warnings, even if it included an extra 'proprietary blob' warning.
Ask HN: What are you asking for this holiday season?
Sergey used to demand that the payload of the home page be tiny (I think it had to be < 100K, if I recall -- or maybe even smaller). That was part of the appeal of the simple search page, nothing but a logo and a search field. Now it looks minimal-ish, but contains a bunch of crap that serves only Google, not the end-user.
“is a bit too extreme”

Understatement of the year. You are a dev who wants to make some money on the side and keeps her software proprietary because monetizing open-source is a rare exception than the rule? F!@# her and her lack of ethics! And don’t touch her software, or her, with a 10 foot pole, let alone pay for it!

Oh, there’s a proprietary firmware blob that this device requires, but it runs off onboard flash so the OS doesn’t see it? Perfectly fine! If the OS doesn’t see it, see no evil, speak no evil, there is no evil.

The FSF are the Puritans of the 21st century. Both in extremity and hypocrisy.
Great book! Was on my list for years and I finally read it a year or so ago. Strangely, though, I couldn't get into Fall of Hyperion and set it aside. Perhaps it's time to dust it off and finish that series...