skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's interesting because she's asian and yet was was considered "diverse".

Asians are current and historic targets of discrimination. This sometimes gets masked in outcome stats because lots of Asians in the US are themselves or first generation descendants of immigrants through programs which filter for the top end of the socioeconomic, and more particularly recently technical skills, spectrum.
> They're crime ridden. Theyre smog ridden. ... riots became commonplace

Where do you live?
Why do you need to test against multiple languages? Don't you trust the review process for when you add i18n translations?

Why do you test Chrome and Edge? Don't you trust that they're basically the same browser?

Why do you test against both a Macbook and an HP? Don't you trust you can render buttons and image similarly on both platforms ?
Did you see the backlash to the knockoff apps that popped up? A cheeky milly or two is cheaper than a boycott
I'm having flashbacks to Zynga buying Draw Something right as it was peaking for 200 million before a total collapse.

That being said, Wordle at a few million for access to that many daily users... Doesn't take a ton of them signing up for NYTimes puzzle accounts to make the math pencil out.

Happy for the creator, avid fan of the game myself. It's the perfect 10 minute break in the middle of the day.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4136306/
Spotify’s Joe Rogan Problem Isn’t Going Away
From a basic science perspective, this seem irresponsible. We're just barely turning the corner on the second major mutation wave, and in many countries deaths are still coming in at peak rates.

I don't think anyone can say with assurance that we're out of the woods, or that we won't still be slogging it out in the mud with this thing 3 or 8 years from now. Certainly not on the basis of current numbers in their population of 5 million so.

We just don't know.
The best is when you try to pause your music on the computer before picking up your phone. Nope, while ringing this either does nothing (for phone calls) or picks up the call on the computer (FaceTime).
You really can't, and there's no easy way to selectively trust some. For example, one time I went through the huge list of certificate providers in Firefox and manually disabled a bunch of countries and only left in a few major providers I heard the name of before. My day to day browsing worked just fine, with no noticeable impact, but it was not something I can manage on a regular and just a one-off experiment.
I used to do this till I moved to brave
Youtube has a Patreon competitor service literally built into the platform, you can "Join" a channel and it behaves exactly like Patreon. They were just very late to the party and most creators promote their Patreon more heavily.
That's actually not what they care about the most. Yes it's great to have players that will buy both consoles and both subscriptions. The companies don't worry about them as much because they already know it's a guaranteed segment of the market.

What they care about more are players that can ONLY buy one OR the other. That's higher on their priority list. This is about buying the mind shares of tomorrow.
But but but Wordle is one step beyond Towers of Hanoi when it comes to basic programming exercises.
Gonna name my future kids in accordance to the GNU name system!
With AdWords text ads at the bottom of the video. Which is something they already do. It's less intrusive than showing a thirty second commercial in the start of every video.

Also, YouTube has a data trove of metrics that interest advertisers. Why not selling those? You have a commercial page that let’s say sells clothes and you want to upload a video to target women aged 18-25. Here’s the data to show you what you need to do, and we’ll charge you $15k to give you a detailed report. Brands would go bananas for metrics like these.
AFAIK There is no application of Blockchain other than consensus. Do you know of any to justify this distinction? (also why merkle tree? looks like a plain old list to me, with very few exceptions while it is being distributed)
"There is no worrying about whether a document belongs in the Letters folder or the New Project folder. It simply takes its rightful place in the time-ordered stream." https://www.wired.com/1997/02/lifestreams/
This makes perfect sense and fits in well with their games subscription offering [0]. I'll be sad to see Wordle go behind a paywall but this is great for the creator.

[0] https://www.nytco.com/press/both-cooking-and-games-reach-1-m...
Did you read the article at the link I posted?
Here's where you can find multiple tilde groups: tildeverse[dot]org
Finding a domain name is hard.

I like short names and make computer games, Zelda (or maybe just me) misspelled rupie rupy.

http://rupy.se

I did not know about Ruby Python back then... now I feel it's too late... eventually I'll try and change the name to binarytask since I bought binarytask.com...
Top 5 hits on google disagree - they're pretty close, and most years it looks like real estate outperforms.

Plus you need a place to live. Factor in rent costs to the investment side, and you're losing value for investing returns. Factor in a lot of nice tricks you get with real estate (tax break for interest, ability to flip up with no capital gains along the way, dozens more), and housing is a pretty good investment.

https://www.investopedia.com/investing/reasons-invest-real-e...

https://www.millionacres.com/real-estate-investing/articles/...
Off the top of my head sourdough, Clubhouse, everything on TikTok, Animal Crossing, Amongus…
https://www.nowinstock.net/computers/videocards/
Considering there is no revenue at all right now, and he’s likely spending thousands on hosting, he was probably dying to offload it. Especially bec there’s 100s of knockoffs now.
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Easier said than done. In 2019, the estimated number of HIV infections in the U.S. was 34,800 and the rate was 12.6 per 100,000 people. Consider that normal clinical trials are a few hundred people. Men who have sex with men are ~25x more likely to get HIV, so you are still looking at 1 in 3,000 per year. You are talking about some pretty huge trials here even if you are focusing on MSM only.
I think she was talking about fuel consumption and drag, not just drag. But like I said, it was a really long time ago.
well, hopefully that market demand results in getting a drug that is more than adequate at what it's supposed to do, because I'd imagine the consequences would be much worse.
Who could have predicted a game with no strings attached would end up selling for so much.
> I wish there was a way non-sensitive data could be transmitted plain-text, but signed with a server certificate. This solves many of the same problems, while avoiding many of the problems with HTTPS.

Isn't this, more-or-less, HTTPS? I think you'd end up with something very similar as you'd likely need to solve the same problems HTTPS attempts to solve:

1. How do you know the authenticity of a message? You need some out of band channel of communication or trusted intermediary to verify anything you receive (e.g. a certifying authority)

2. How do you know when somebody's signature has changed?

3. When does a message expire? Can somebody replay a previous valid response?

And stepping past a few of these implementation issues; how much overhead is HTTPS really? TLS is definitely a chatty protocol, but as I understand things that has more to do with TCP and the complexity of the CA system than the encryption itself.

I like your idea of a faster HTTP variant that only guarantee message integrity rather than secrecy, but I myself can't see how you'd get there without implementing a lot of the things that makes HTTPS slower than vanilla HTTP.
It's insane that they purchased it - the game itself is a rip-off of a UK gameshow from the 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(British_game_show)
Actually, I have seen government web sites with ads in the last couple of years.

The Cook County (Illinois) Assessor used to have them. There's a new assessor now, and a new web site design, but you can still see the space for the banner ad on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20130708043842/http://www.cookco...

As for banks, yes, some banks to have ads for other companies on their web sites. I see them when I pay my bills online. Not all, but some.
For anyone interested in a good history of using gold as money, Peter Bernstein's The power of gold: the history of an obsession is worth looking into:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249245.The_Power_of_Gold

Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein (of NPR's Planet Money) is also good:

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50358103-money
> You can't buy a dumb TV any more.

FWIW, you can.

New dumb TVs are marketed as "digital signage" and sold to businesses at a much higher price point.
I think the New York Times got the perfect price for it, given that half the comments in this thread are "wow, that's a lot cheaper that I expected", and that the other half are "wow, that's a ridiculous windfall for just a few days of work".
Fun Bitcoin Trivia
When wordle first started to rise in popularity, I saw a lot of comments that the one-a-day format was too limiting, and people would get bored and forget about the site because one puzzle doesn't offer enough engagement. I think that actually it had the opposite effect, keeping people coming back every day. It just goes to show that what people say they want, and what actually works, can be very different.
Not claiming anything, just want to bring more context to the link you posted, since I'm seeing it's being shared all around, with no references what the video is.

The video/audio in question is from September 27, 2005, from the show called _Opie and Anthony_ [1]. The guest was Bill Burr. The full show is here [2], the segment starts at 2:00:17. Also, during that time, it seems that some "mystery apes" were a thing [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opie_and_Anthony

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXX0J6d0i6s&t=7217s

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bili_ape
Inflation is a form of taxation. A perverse one, because the poorer you are, the more you pay.

And a lot of people on this forum still don't understand the value of adopting a non-inflationary currency which governments can't control supply.
Many people who (until recently) perused Reddit's /r/antiwork will tell you that all managers are out to get you and all business hate all of their employees. They will do this with a straight face and accuse you of every kind of evil under the sun if you cite counterexamples.

It is irrelevant to them that there are managers and even Corporations (ew! boo hiss!) that do not, in fact, act that way. They really hate it when anyone points out that treating employees well can result in greater profits, not fewer.
New Israeli imaging technique gives unprecedented window into genes deep in body
The unsubscribe process has become easier. Last time I unsubscribed–a few months ago–I didn't have to talk to anyone, not on phone and not via online chat.
> NYT essentially just bought the hottest new social network.

No one comes to wordle wanting a social network. It's nice because there's no built in social or ad bs and the results can easily be shared anywhere you want if you want.
It's nothing to do with the higher wattage, but they didn't Xiaomi implement USB PD up to spec. Likely missing the pulldown resistors on the CC lines.

You can read more about how they should implemented the PD sink here: https://medium.com/@leung.benson/how-to-design-a-proper-usb-...
The Pis, and especially the compute module forms, are used for more than just clasroom toys and low power geek desktops. The CMs are a long term support item that, in recent forms, are FCC certified with wireless. Because it's a "module," with onboard wireless/antenna/etc, you don't have to perform the (quite expensive) certification tests for a wide range of products that can then have a perfectly good little computer and wireless in them.

Unfortunately, when those aren't available, it's a problem for not just those who want Raspberry Pis, but for everyone who wants to buy or sell any of those products based around a Pi. You can't just trivially redesign to anything else, not that there's anything else available...

I'm trying to build some YARH handhelds for various projects, and outside the stock of Pis I have a few of, that's just going to end up on hold, because I can't get any of the boards I figured would regularly be in supply places.

It's another breakdown of JIT.
Without aggressively blocking the hundred or more ads on a webpage, I honestly don't think the web would be that useful now a days

Advertising has gone absolutely bonkers and filled the web with complete trash SEO farms with 40 links to some shitty slideshow

I don't believe the web would have caught on like it did if this current condition was v1.0

I wonder how much the website designer even views their own site. It's astounding anyone would approve of this. It now represents the brand as extremely low quality
I really miss the days when EV certificates where highlighted in the address bar. I feel like nowadays it would be easier to get scammed, due things like unicode characters in URLs for example.
> The code will deteriorate in one way or another. You need to prepare to fix it since you can't avoid it.

Lehman's laws of software evolution 1 and 2:

"A system must be continually adapted or it becomes progressively less satisfactory. As a system evolves, its complexity increases unless work is done to maintain or reduce it."
Due to it being so simple to make, there are also tons of clones of the app on the app stores since there isn't actually an official app. I imagine a lot of people are actually playing those clones and not the website.
You can clone a website but you can’t clone a million people searching “wordle” every day in Google.

So imagine they did clone it then they paid a million dollars in paid traffic to it OR they would simply be preaching to the choir.

A million is probably a fraction of NYT total paid ad spend monthly and look at what they’re getting for that!

It’s a bargain
Mass CO2 from volcanic activity?
Whats absurd is thinking I should allow attempts at psychological manipulation in my life.
I haven't looked at the SL Viewer code in over a decade. Maybe it's better now.

I have. It's a little better. Bulk file transfers over UDP are finally gone, moved to HTTP.

The commonly held belief was that if you want speed, you have to use UDP. But then the first thing people do is they re-implement TCP poorly at the application layer to get fragmentation, reliability, windowing or large datagrams.

Yes. The protocol Second Life uses has both unreliable and reliable UDP datagrams. "Reliable" means they have retransmits, on a fixed timer with a fixed retry count. Some get lost on overload, because the viewer's one-thread implementation discards if too many packets arrive in a frame time. In order delivery, reliability, no head of line blocking. - pick two. You can't have all three. TCP picks the first two. The Second Life protocol picks the second two. This results in occasional trouble where there really is an in-order requirement imposed by the way the state of the system changes.

Unreliable messages are common in game protocols. "Unreliable" means that lost messages should be superseded by the next one of the same type. The intent is to be consistent-eventually. Second Life is almost consistent-eventually, but not quite, which results in occasional viewer out of sync errors which make some objects in the world look wrong.

(Personally, I'd do this with one UDP path of unreliable messages, plus two TCP connections, one for high priority, low-traffic stuff, and one for lower-priority bigger stuff. Get rid of "reliable UDP". Only a very few message types, such as user mouse activity and movement updates, should be unreliable, because those can tolerate a lost message.)
https://www.ssl.com/article/dv-ov-and-ev-certificates/

There are several types of certificate. The most basic is DV where you only need to upload a file or modify DNS record to prove you own a domain.

EV certs used to be visually distinct in browsers but it was shown to not be that useful and in fact counterproductive. The browsers are going in opposite direction: show nothing special for HTTPS, and show red warnings on HTTP.

At this point EV certs are mostly only used by legacy SSL sellers to milk rich customers who can't tell the difference.
Probably worked out as a better monetization strategy than slapping AdSense on it...
> Unaffordable for the City

Isn't this the city that gave a few hundred million away from it's earmarked infrastructure and maintenance budge to the police department over the past half decade?
> If you are in pain without knowing how serious it is, you would likely get opinions from several doctors.

> You're not going to walk into the first hospital you find and say "I'll pay anything you ask just fix me."

these two statements are functionally equivalent. by running around paying every hospital for opinions you're literally saying 'I'll pay anything you ask just fix me'. It also tracks with my statement that medical pricing isn't influenced by rational markets which are what is required for a capitalist free market to 'work'. people need to be able to say 'this is unnecessary' which never happens in health care.

In healthcare you have two modes:
1. I can afford the care, price is fairly immaterial make me better.
2. I can't afford the care, doesn't matter what the price is.

> that backs my point, right? Those hospitals aren't funded by emergency care either, which means the point about costs being a one sided negotiation while the other party is dying is still inaccurate.

not sure how you get to this idea. the point is you're hung up on the dying aspect which is basically immaterial. I can torture you and get you to say anything I want. medical care is basically the same thought process for those who need care. The only thing that prevents people from paying any price is literally not being able to afford it. Otherwise people will 100% bankrupt themselves to make pain go away.

Given that the majority of bankruptcies in the US are due to health care just proves this point.

There is no way to make this kind of market work in a 'free' market system.

> I don't see any reason why taxpayers should pay so a small mountain town

we already do. you can argue whatever you want but as a society we've already mandated this level of access. for the same reason we've mandate fire and police coverage. its a public safety issue and a tax payer in bum fuck no where have the same right to have their taxes ensure they're covered as joe shmoe in NYC.

There are MANY reasons why this is economically a good thing via 2nd/3rd order effects that more than pays for itself.

> I don't think recognizing the limits of a given resource is cruel or immoral, it's reality.

every country with universal coverage disagrees with you. I'm not going to belabor this point further. Reality has proven otherwise. The US system is just completely dysfunctional. and thinking otherwise DOES make you cruel and immoral. If you want to discuss how to make a healthcare system that works, fine, but I'm not going to moralize with you on a clearly disgusting world view.
Ah so this is how they will get subscriptions.. dastardly plan!
I've encountered this myself as someone who maintains small open source games. Engineers with vastly more experience than I do have approached me with contributions, but needed me to walk them through installing and using git. You could tell they were good engineers because they were so eager and happy to learn it. I can't speak for how big of a demographic these types of engineers are but they certainly exist.
So what does an example name look like?
> Tons of different focused text chats

How every "niche" server is organized:

#memes

#politics

#vidya

#off-topic

#news

#the-actual-topic
It's worth it in my opinion:

you can listen to any video on mobile in the background, also no ads on mobile (so you don't need some hacky 3rd party app)

And you get YouTube music, which is comparable to Spotify (I prefer it in fact)

There's more content on YouTube then any other video platform, so in my opinion 15 per month is worth it
OREOS will be the answer once a week.
Is the couple days work thing really relevant? You could have a solid Airbnb clone in a couple months (I'd imagine) and it's worth thousands of times Wordle. I think it has to be customer base, IP, and developer team that they're really paying for.
Link to the game: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

Pretty fun. If you read his homepage https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/ he mentions he created Reddit's "The Button" and "Place" April Fools games. Dude's pretty creative.
Spelling Bee already is free and shares many qualities with Wordle: one puzzle per day, simple premise... I wonder if you see them try to add more "sharing" features to it. I see people share redacted screenshots of Spelling Bee every once in a while, but it's more work to do that.
I've dumped my SMS logs into my IMAP mailbox since 2010. I've used the "History Trends" browser extension and religiously archive my browser history. I store client IP addresses and timestamps from my IMAP server as another data-point on my physical location in the world (i.e. what network my phone is connected to when it checks-in for email). My credit card transactions dump to email as well. EXIF from photos is helpful but I haven't automated dumping those into my email.

Most of my personal "note taking" is either time tracking entries for Customer billing or emails sent to myself with keywords in the subject line and the notes in the body.

I wish I could get at my phone's (iPhone) browser history, call database, and location services database easily to amalgamate into my "digital life panopticon" too.

I love being able to search over even this limited corpus of data. I can "remember" where I was and what I was doing on a given day pretty easily. I discovered that I can often get "organic" recollection when I prime my brain with a few context details gleaned from the digital corpus. ("I was at xxx site that day, I had lunch at yyy restaurant, and when I got back I looked at these websites... Ah, and now I remember what Bob and I talked about that afternoon!")

I'd love to have audio and low frame-rate video recording on my person during all my waking hours. If I had that, though, I'd keep it completely secret (and use parallel reconstruction if I need to divulge "memories" gleaned from it to others).
"You can't help scarcity at all by fixing prices."

Yes, you definitely can.

The price which incurs maximum profits for producers has little to do with consumer surplus or the maximization thereof.

Price fixing alters the distribution of surpluses one way or the other, because we don't measure consumer surplus directly, we often think of 'reduced profits' to the producer, but fail to regard the increased surpluses to consumers.

The term 'scarcity' is a bit of canard, because very, very few things are actually truly 'scarce' like Gold, most things depend on labour inputs, materials, and especially opportunity cost.

Vaccines are an example. Phizer could probably make a lot more profit by charging $150-500/vaccine in the USA, which might leave 65% of Americans in the lurch.

But the surpluses to citizens arrived at through a 'not really market price' negotiated between the US Gov, and Phizer, are much more vast.

Especially the moment you consider longer term effects (i.e. limited deployment of vaccine hurts the economy badly and thus other lines of revenue) you see the systematic effects.