skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, I have this pile of 70 binaries that are inexplicably tied to my init system, and (in my, informed enough for me, opinion) they're all garbage. How do I remove them without breaking init?

Depending on distro, all can be substituted for alternatives (assuming they're used at all, I've seen a number of distros package the kitchen sink "just in case")

Nothing about using systemd as pid1 required using any of their other developed tools, even logind. Find a distro that doesn't use them, or roll one yourself.

It's a mistake to see "Systemd" as a single application - it's a collection of developed-together (so tend to work slightly nicer together) userspace tools - like FreeBSD without the libc and kernel, or GNU coreutils or similar. People don't seem to complain too much about those "Bundling Everything Together".
You could mitigate that by only linking to pages that implement the HTML subset deemed valid. And instead of linking away to another domain, you could syndicate those pages on a centralized domain so to prevent loading dangerous or slow content on the open web. We could call it something like Accelerated Mobile Pages.
The Spathi are cowards, but not necessarily weak, if I recall.
> The modern web sucks

I think that this premise is wrong. The modern web does not suck. FB is usable by my grandma (at 89 she posts semi-regularly!), but there's no way she could understand how to set up an IRC client, how to telnet into servers, or how to write markdown.

Of course, there's a lot of bad and a lot of baggage that comes with companies like Facebook and Google, but it's important to keep some perspective: there's also a lot of good. Gemini would literally make the web unusable for my grandma, and probably my mom, too.
pretty cool idea! would be interesting to see how the model's selection changes with more specific data
I don't think many people don't want updates.

I would guess that if someone is willing to pay $100 for it (because the person likes the features that Nova has over their other tools), that it's likely that person will also want the new shiny features every year.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised that some plugins might take advantages of some new features.
I'm not sure it does. Merlot isn't even the primary varietal in that wine.
It seems a bit dismissive to wave off pp's discomfort with becoming an unwitting UI test subject.

I also would not agree with any argument like "opt-in is necessary to reign in anti-privacy activities of bad companies like Facebook, but we're good UI designers at Mozilla so we don't need to use opt-in and can use opt-out with impunity."

A browser that collects and reports any information on its users without their explicit permission is simply not putting privacy first.

Any privacy-focused browser should make UI testing - or any other telemetry or analytics - opt-in and should generally clearly disclose any information being collected (and preferably make it available for inspection) and also describe all parties that will have access to the information as well as what it will be used for.
well you got what you wanted, you got your advertisement on hacker news currently sitting at number 10. extremely epic
Wait, I forgot which payment processor silicon valley liked? CyberCash, PayPal, Venmo (whoops), BrainTree or something, does Toast (but they're east coast, maybe not SV darlings) count? I like the name, clearly and they do process payments... Etc.

There's a ton of companies in this space, and a lot of them got funding from somewhere.
Awesome stuff, I love reading about DIY hackery like this.
Caffeine seems to stack with every stimulant. In my experience, in a way that isn’t really nice.
I work at Microsoft (not on Azure) and run Tor relays. My Tor Exit hosts are Psychz Networks, Terrahost, and OVH, along with a middle relay on CenturyLink Fiber.

Why? Azure egress bandwidth is too expensive for a Tor relay, even for a well-paid software engineer like me. I have ~1.5 Gbps Tor bandwidth. If I were to put that on Azure, I would be paying a mortgage worth of bandwidth fees. Same can apply to AWS and Google Cloud.

However, Big Clouds charge more for bandwidth because (a) they're a leader and (b) they have paid peering deals with Big Telecom (e.g. AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, etc.). Smaller hosts like Hetzner don't peer with those ISPs and rely on "transit", but that also means slightly worse performance to Big Telecom.

In short, big clouds can use their market power and advanced technology to command a premium, whereas smaller clouds have to win over customers with lower prices to make up.

Tor relays are ill-suited for Big Clouds, but then your 5000-node Kubernetes cluster is ill-suited for OVH or Hetzner.

I do use the free Azure credit for Tor Bridges, however.
24,000-Year-Old Animal Found Alive In Siberian Permafrost
I had multiple classes in university where the professor didn't finish their syllabus for the term and so the TAs crammed the last few weeks worth of class into a study session.
I've never saw a mention of this, but I've assumed Alpha Centauri got a lot of inspiration from Frank Herbert's Pandora Sequence [1] - specifically the native ecology. Book 1 and 2 are flawed but have lots of interesting ideas; book 0.5 and 3 are more a bit more iffy, though book 0.5's concept of soldering your way to the singularity is a very 60's take.

If Alpha Centauri's concept of parallel colonization by a group of rivalrous and ideological charismatic leaders is explored in a book as well, I bet that would be fun.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/series/129586-the-pandora-sequence
By add in Lyft, I assume you mean the fact that Lyft is not actually a YC company? (vs, the tweets refer to Lyft as Stripe's batchmate)
And that's the brilliant part. The eth developers figured out a unique method for keeping every last bit of control.
Wow, that's a lot of work! And yet it seems a shame to not capture more information than a single RGB color value per pixel. I can think of three other types of information you could capture: 3D information (which they did capture but only at a coarse level), the BDRF, and hyperspectral information. Of these the BDRF seems most important for viewing of paintings, and I'm surprised that there's no consideration of that given the thoroughness of the rest of the project.

With the BDRF you would be able to show the painting as it would appear under any lighting condition and any viewing angle. This would make the painting appear much more realistic in a VR rendering, for example. The current stitched photo assumes uniform lighting and a straight-on view, and if you simply mapped it to a texture on a plane in a 3D environment it would look flat and lifeless.
In blind tests it's the same for beer. And colas.
any idea what language/tool they are using? It looks fascinating.
Isn't payment processing highly complex?
That's awesome! Looks like you've been working on it for some time too: https://github.com/m10k/toolbox

You should put in a README on Github some how-to and explain what "modules" are available for inclusion and how they work!
You don't get it in the USA.
The issue is more "Offensive" depends very much on context - not a black and white state.

There are contexts that quote would not be offensive to anyone (more casual settings with a group that trusts each other), but also contexts where everyone would find it offensive, no matter their age or generation.
Video games that try to implement a D&D like experience.

Baldur's Gate 2 is the defining example.

Top down party based story focused games.
After Russ Hanneman yelled "These are not the doors of a billionaire" and raged off in his 4-door Maserati on Silicon Valley while playing Crazy Town music, Maserati Quattroporte sedan sales plunged as well.
If it was built on HTTP, there's a risk of a slippery slope type situation.
Remember when search engines supported boolean operators? Those were the days.
The point the article is making is not that the messages are "Good" or "Bad", it's that an automatic rating system that intends to allow some usages of profanity rates messages with the type of profanity that it purports to allow as very bad, towards the end of the scale that it uses.
All of the Elder Scrolls games (eg, Skyrim) contain ridiculous amounts of background text. I seen to remember lots of books in Pillars of Eternity as well. Oh, and the lore scattered around in Cultist Simulator is also quite something...
Why we've turned Rarchy into a Social Enterprise
FWIW Bolt (at least their official corporate LinkedIn, not sure about their founder) refers to Stripe as a "partner": https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bolt-com_the-fintech-50-2021-...
It sounds like you've discovered the secret to travel. You don't have to see all the sights or cram everything into each day. Usually you get more out of it if you take things slowly, be intentional about what you really want to do, and savor each experience. With two small kids now, we usually pick one city per trip and plan (at most) one morning activity and one afternoon/evening activity. Sometimes it's one activity per day, sometimes it's none (maybe we just meander around a neighborhood between meals, like your Virtual Japan experience). Like you said, if you see 10 different Roman churches in one day, the Sistine Chapel becomes just another fresco.
Text-only content is elitist ever since the masses started expecting everything to be video or at least have some stock images.
>Described as a rocket technician, the Chinese national was attached to the stateowned Aviation Industry Corp of China, where he helped develop a mid-range hypersonic boost-glide vehicle capable of carrying DF-17 missiles to a range of up to 2,000 miles.

AVIC make planes not missiles.
> However, Big Clouds charge more for bandwidth because [...] they have paid peering deals with Big Telecom (e.g. AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, etc.). Smaller hosts like Hetzner don't peer with those ISPs and rely on "transit"

Wait, this seems backwards to me. I'd expect companies that can peer with Big Telecom to charge you less for bandwidth than companies that have to pay for transit. What am I missing?
> Stripe and YC effectively co-run the most important media asset in Silicon Valley: Hacker News.

A few of my articles [1] have made the front page so I can weigh in on this a (tiny) bit.

> The readers know: any time Stripe comes out with a new product, it’s #1 on the site

I do believe that "the mods" have the ability to boost articles at their discretion so I would not be surprised if YC companies frequently get a boost. This is a separate admin feature from the open role posts that YC companies post (which cannot be commented on and which drop from page #1 over a fixed timeframe I think). I will have to dig for the source on that but I believe dang has publicly commented on it here. That does indeed feel somewhat shady IMO if correct (and let me be very clear that I could be incorrect here).

Edit: let me elaborate on this because I'm sure dang will see it and possibly take it the wrong way. dang, isn't there a feature where you can boost "interesting" articles? I believe it was described as "articles that are probably interesting to the HN community but have not gotten enough attention" (bad timing, etc.) Are you the only one with the permissions to do that? That feature is never used to boost YC company posts? I.e. it's only used for intellectually stimulating content where no YC-related conflict of interests is possible?

But on the other hand, if you have a huge name like Stripe (or Chrome DevTools) it really isn't as hard to make it to page #1 as the Bolt person is making it out to be. The hardest part IMO is crafting a title that succinctly summarizes how new feature X is a big deal.

> Getting a #1 ranking is INCREDIBLY difficult and generates millions of views.

Millions of views sounds like a stretch. 250K to 1M sounds more accurate to me.

[1] I wrote the Chrome DevTools docs for 3 years. DevTools docs made the front page probably 10-15 times. I also was content lead for https://web.dev for a couple years. Those docs made the front page another 10-15 times. I've also had 2 or 3 personal articles make page #1.
YC is indeed different from VCs in this regard.

VCs generally don't fund direct competitors to those in their portfolio, which I agree with you is a good thing -- conditional on there being a lot of VCs out there (which there are).

(Btw, in case any reader is not aware, dang is employed by YC to manage HN - and YC acts differently from VCs in many respects).
Stripe's messaging seems focused on infra for the "internet".

I think Swipe is more niche ie: focused on Indian SMBs who may have a very different workflow. Swipe is focusing on WhatsApp powered payments. (See: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/swipe-2).

Though, you'd think they would compete for the same customers over time.
Yesterday, after painstakingly creating an auction listing, fighting with eBay's terrible UI, fiddly buttons and Byzantine listing form, getting the pictures in the correct format (no HEIC, and nothing over 12MB!!) and agreeing to their usurious fees, I was finally ready and hit the Submit button...only to be greeted by an endless spinner.

After waiting about 4 minutes, I decided to refresh the page. Poof - the entire listing was gone. Title, descriptions, pictures, all of the fiddly bits.

This led to the dinner discussion with my wife: Why hasn't eBay been disrupted yet? Is the online auction business so terrible that not a single entity dare challenge them? I remember thinking the same thing like 15 years ago, yet here we are in the exact same place.
Just like Mailchimp! "We're never going to sell! Oh, hold up, you said twelve billion? With a B? Uhh, okay, we need to talk."
If you have trouble sleeping with the fan noise, the CO2 fire suppressant will put you right to sleep :)
Including a filter for a platform could be seen as criticism. "Gotta use third party custom filters to make the platform useable."
Former Jigsawyer here. I think this article is pretty fair to Perspective given that it was never meant to be used in a fully automated way, just as a first pass to help forum moderators.

It's very difficult when you blur the lines of code and ethics, as real world ethical judgements aren't necessarily consistent or well defined in a way which is easily translatable, even by a large ML model. Jigsaw is a great example of this -- right across the aisle (pre-pandemic) from Perspective is a team fighting internet censorship. Obviously Perspective's "censorship" is different in quality from the Great Firewall, but it shows the hairiness of the problems.

All this is to say the people at Jigsaw are some of the most brilliant people I've ever met and I'm glad they're out there working on difficult problems.
Morrowind is much-beloved among fans of weird, complex video game fiction with tons of depth and plenty of text. I once read (on here, I think) that there was one person responsible for most of the weirdness and quirkiness of the setting in Morrowind (and the earlier two Elder Scrolls games, surely?), who left Bethesda after it was released, and that's why Oblivion and Skyrim feel so much more like a generic fantasy setting.

It's playable on any common desktop OS via OpenMW (you'll need a copy of the game for the art, level data, sounds, et c, though), which is also far more stable than the official binary, and has some nice QOL improvements baked in.
With all due respect there have been 2-3 HN posts in the last few months about YC and HN being biased towards Stripe. Surely it cannot be so much smoke without a fire.
Flagged.

You want to give this article a shot, but then when you get to the cartoon where it says "Will this make me immune?", "Will I have to keep wearing a mask?" -- with the innuendo that, because the vaccines are are not 100 percent effective, that they are basically useless (and that the entire narrative around them is basically deceptive) -- and then followed by the usual misleading statistical arguments --

You can just feel your intellectual curiosity shutting down.
And Facebook tracks your grandma's internet activities and manipulates her emotional state for profit.
Depends on what you're doing. I've been pretty find of Digital Ocean, but there's lots of smaller or in between options.

If I'm targeting AWS, Azure, etc. Then I'm going to leverage their services in a lot of cases. Wether it's AWS Dynamo DB, or hosted PostgreSQL, there are places you will save in either resources or personnel.

A set of Dokku servers behind a load balancer can go a long way. Kubernetes further still. Taking the issue of DB management, static assets or backups goes a long way to freeing up time to make solutions without buying into lockin too much.
Your story is all too common. Have you ever seen that old TV show Lost? I think these kinds of stories are the reason why pointlessly pushing the button in that show was such a popular and memorable trope. Things that people "have to do" but no one knows why, and they just keep doing it over and over...because what if? I feel your pain
if you zoom in you can see the text in the mirror at the top middle, anyone know what it says?

Here's the 44.8 gigapixel image from the museum as comparison : https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/operation-night-watch/...
Doesn’t a lot of software break hardlinks on edit? I think non-database software usually completely replaces the file via overwrite or atomic rename.

Sometimes you might want that behavior, but other times you might not. But there’s no option in any app I’ve seen to choose how to handle hardlinks on edit/save.
My theory: Alcoholic drinks have the basic problem that they are generally unpalatable to most people, especially the first time you try them. The alcohol industry has a high advertising to sales ratio [1], presumably because they always need to remind people that it is cool and fun to drink hand sanitiser. Thus one movie can easily shift consumer behaviour, because nobody really ‘likes’ merlot or any grape the same way they may like fried chicken or coke (which seem impervious to bad press).

(I am not advocating for prohibition or anything like that by the way. Clearly many people enjoy wine, beer and spirits in moderation, although often this follows ingrained sociocultural norms.)

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/470961/ad-spend-to-sales...

Data for other industries here:
http://www.rab.com/research/10014.pdf
Doesn't square up with the novel, either --- and Sideways was shot very soon after the novel was published.

There's even a sequel to the novel with the same characters.

I'm calling "shenanigans" on this whole "Miles kills himself" meme.
the second definition you didn't list is "the attitude or behavior of a person or group who regard themselves as belonging to an elite", which is the meaning used in this case. I don't agree that's elitism either, just wanted to point this out
I wonder if I’m the only one who read your comment and flashed back to a time in the distant past when some genuinely, maliciously, irredeemably batshit crazy people used to post on the FreeBSD mailing lists. One memorable guy who I will not name went on later to become of all things an investor and finance blogger and apparently claims to have helped found the Tea Party, which is all just absurdly hilarious.

> Discourse used to be a thing.

That is adorable.
Same as how browsers compete with new HTML tags and such - CommonMark + few extensions could be standardized) with others left to the browsers to decide.

HTML inside markdown is anyway legal as per the standard, so anyone could use <table> for anything complicated anyway.

Such an implementation would also lead to users having more control and say in how the web pages look (similar to Gemini), by letting you read most content across most websites in fonts, styles, and colors of your choosing. This aids a lot in accessibility as well.
The great thing about crypto is that anyone can make a coin.
Crypto is not anti-democratic. It's not pro-democratic either. It's simply egalitarian in the classical sense of the word.
But these are all subjective opinions – I could just as easily say that it _is_ a surprise to me that it's flagged as offensive, or that unnecessarily using profanity isn't toxic or impolite. And I feel like that's where this post is gesturing toward – not a judgment on what should or should not be considered toxic, but just a reminder to be intentional when writing definitions and sourcing training data.
Could something like 'lottery ticket' review approach make this process faster? I might be wrong but I am not sure if that is parallelized.
HIPAA compliant?
The link you sent shows a heavy bias towards age being the major contributor of people not having smartphones. According to it, 96% of age 18-49 have smartphones. Knowing the income distribution of the US, it's not possible that there's a 2000 bps gap caused purely by income disparity given that 96% number. What's more likely is that for older low income people the smartphone adoption rate is very low, but for younger generations it's very high (even though they're poor). That lines up with what I anecdotally see - even homeless people have smartphones.

> There is no profit in a $5/month smartphone plan

$15/mo plans with multiple gigabytes of LTE + unlimited 3G exist (Mint Mobile). There's an entire class of MVNO dedicated to the low cost market. I myself pay $25/mo for 10GB of LTE through AT&T. And the reason the price isn't lower is because the carriers (who are an oligopoly - that's why they pay massive dividends) lease time on the towers to the MVNOs and determine the price at which the time is leased.

> Markets aren’t a solution for improving the floor.

In the long run, they are. Smartphones coming into existence did more for the vast majority of poor than any amount of government subsidy of telecom bills did. (If you didn't know, the FCC subsidizes low income Americans' wireless bills!) The reason internet prices haven't been a race to the bottom yet like smartphones is precisely _because_ there is an oligopoly and a non-functioning market.

If you compare markets where Google Fiber entered to ones where they didn't, the impact of a competitor actually trying to win market share and compete is obvious.

Can you give me an example of a market with substantial competition that has ignored the 10th percentile of customers?
> And right out of the box now, no support for Go files, not even syntax coloring, and it thinks go.mod is a media file and won't display its text.

I just had a similar experience, no Go or Swift (ok understandable maybe) support out of the box. But I paid for it it anyway since I like what they’re going for and have admired the company for a long time.
> manipulates her emotional state for profit.

Can you share more on this? I've heard they conducted large-scale studies of emotional state[1], but I never heard about a link to profit before.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788
It would be nice to use a platform without actively working to fight the intentions of the pages you visit.
You should be able to do 50% of mediums < 30 mins before you start

Great. So if they give you 2 or 3 mediums in the course of the interview process, with a strict 30 minute deadline -- what is your chance of failing?
Isn't the problem that we can't hack time? Otherwise we would have a million monkeys on a million typewriters everywhere.
Evidence suggests North Korea has a naval marine mammal program (2020)
if you can build a small watch circle like thing that vibrates every 30 mins if you haven't moved it'd be great
Synthesizers of the Marche Region
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