skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing so much in this analysis - the big advertising companies do much more than show ads - they stalk you in excruciating detail, they resell your private life information to untold abusers who try to gain advantage from you.

Taking advantage of you, by manipulating your mind is one of the basic premises of ads.

In some ideal 'fair' world ads would just present information for you to make rational choices - but nope, the reality is the ads industry is based on emotional/psychological manipulation. If you seek to understand you can research about the evolution of the industry since the time of Freud where they co-opted psychological techniques to sell things by exacerbating people's psychoses.

Put another way, your arguments would only make sense if the advertisers played fair but they are abusive and try to trick you. You can't make a fair deal with conniving.

The reality of this is so bad that it is destroying our society - at what point is allowing massive scale psychological manipulation/abuse for profit destroying society?

My post here is a bit ranty but I get upset at the lack of fair context in the presuppositions of your argument.
Does this mean Wordle was a free to play game?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglerfish
> Surely Wordle is a passing fad and, in a year, will retain less than 40% of all players playing right now.

I think you are off by two orders of magnitude, at least.

The entire pandemic has been full of these flash-in-a-pan shared experiences.

I don't get this purchase either.
Given their metrics (reportedly ~2M daily actives & growing) it struck me as cheap.
It's still true that UDP is necessary for realtime communication. I recently worked on an MMO project in which a sub-team attempted to use TCP as the main layer, but ran into huge issues, all of which were cured by switching to UDP. TCP is good at what it's good at, but nearly every realtime audio and video protocol is gonna keep using UDP. You have to be able to ignore dropped packets instead of blocking the entire channel waiting for a full RTT, it very quickly spirals out of control.

Of course, TCP is a much better protocol for infrequent and request/response type interactions, so while I was at Linden we converted as much traffic as possible to TCP/XML. But a lot of the "realtime" stuff like object updates had to remain UDP, for empirical reasons.

Second Life didn't reimplement fragmentation -- messages just got truncated if they went over the MTU, lol.
This number changes dramatically when you look globally. MSM is about 23% of new infections

https://www.avert.org/global-hiv-and-aids-statistics#footnot...
Free. No ads. Accessible to everyone. Convenient build-in share functionality and a common experience (as you mentioned the common daily word). And of course a clean, technically excellent implementation.

If it had a single barrier (install an app, create an account, click through ads, etc), it would have been yet another of countless word games. It was a brilliant confluence for a momentary explosion in popularity.

All along, though, people were yipping about the grand benevolence and moral supremacy of this version versus clones (when the app itself was, as you mentioned, not that derived from an existing game, even aping the coloring), and that all looks pretty silly now that the creator quite rightly managed a pretty lucrative "exit" for a trivial work. And I applaud them for it, and respect the brilliant choices made to get there.
What's the deal regarding that?
A simple example is, let's say you're making a small web service. Are you going to use a Clojure framework or a Java framework via JVM compatibility? If you pick a Clojure framework, then all the subsequent choices you have to make, you'll run into the "non boring tech" issues. Has someone already built a GraphQL plugin, a plugin that integrates with the Twitter preview API, etc etc it depends on your project but you'll run into things. If you pick a Java framework, you'll end up running into a bunch of cases where you can't use the "normal solution" for that framework because you're running Clojure.

It's not the end of the world or anything, and for a smaller project Clojure might be the perfect solution. But if it's something that you're trying to scale into a startup with dozens of engineers then you're probably going to pay a higher incompatibility cost for using Clojure.
> initially

Can't wait to phone them up to try and unsubscribe from my Wordle account some day.
> Full size A4 paper and bigger screens in cars you can stream movies on while driving (distraction leading to accidents);

Teslas will only let you watch videos if you're in park. This has always been the case.

> the Las Vegas Loop which is just a tunnel for only one type of car (waste of infrastructure space)

It cost $50m to construct, which is 1/5th the cost of similarly-specced people movers or trains. The second-cheapest bid was by Doppelmayr/Garaventa Group and would have cost $215m. The loop has met or exceeded all of the benchmarks set by the Las Vega Convention & Visitors Authority.[1] The program has been so successful that LVCVA purchased the Las Vegas Monorail system just so they could get rid of the monorail's noncompete clause and allow a larger Vegas Loop to be constructed.[2] Later, Clark county unanimously approved construction of the Vegas Loop, which is planned to have 51 stations and 29 miles of tunnel.[3]

> pushing untested AI (crashing and killing people)

No vehicle running the FSD beta has been involved in a death. You're talking about the autopilot features, which are a form of traffic aware cruise control. Many of the claimed fatalities turned out to be reckless drivers. For example: a fatal crash in Texas last April originally blamed autopilot and claimed that it was "100 percent certain" that no one was in the driver seat at the time of the crash.[4] The preliminary NHTSA investigation found that the driver was in the driver's seat, had not buckled his seat belt, and had pressed the accelerator to as high as 98.8%. (This was in a 778 horsepower Model S that could go from 0-60mph in 2.4 seconds.) NHTSA investigators could not engage autopilot on the road where the crash happened, since that road had no lane markings.[4] Also the owner of the vehicle had not purchased the the option to allow autopilot on surface streets.

There are many legitimate criticisms that one can level at Musk & his companies, but you haven't made them.

1. https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/tourism/boring-co-s-t...

2. https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/tourism/lvcva-expecte...

3. https://twitter.com/ClarkCountyNV/status/1450877187779796992

4. https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/19/22391890/tesla-driverless...

5. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/driver-was-behind-wheel...
Can't plug in for a few hours are Grandama's? Even 3-4 hours @ 4mph (120v) can make a difference.

Do you set a departure time so the car and batteries are at the optimal temperature?

If you charge under 25% I'd expect to charge at 550 miles per hour at a supercharger (again nav there so the car knows to arrive at optimal temperatures), so if you charge around 275 miles I'd expect another 100 miles in 10-11 minutes. If it's bitterly cold I'd expect another 10 minutes or so.

Shouldn't take anywhere near 45-60 minutes unless something is seriously wrong.
Well, there's no timer in wordle whereas in lingo you are against the clock. You only get to play one puzzle a day.The solution is the same for the whole world every day.

Part of its success is the simplicity I think, and the fact you don't need an app.
You're exactly right. The signature reflecting some sort of hash of the fully executed document is on the roadmap. There are some nuances around what exactly is fed into the hash. And, there are lots of other great ideas in these comments and outside of them that would make this product better.

I'm going to spend some time reflecting on all of these comments and being deliberate about about what to develop next. Then I'll build it quickly. If you want to know when something comes up, submit your email for updates.

I won't spam you. You'll get emails from me personally and only when there's something interesting to tell you.
Yuck, zero interest in that :)

I wish Sony could make a decent FPS with a great story. Something like Mass Effect or Halo. Killzone was okay I suppose, but the story was lackluster and the combat involved far too much hiding behind boxes.
Since it's impossible to actually discuss with anyone (replies randomly vanish), I would ask what value they bring to anyone.

You can create vanishing messages even without youtube providing the service. Write a comment on a piece of toiletpaper and flush it down.
Several people and devices could be shared by the same IP though, either who are on the same network or in the vicinity of the same mobile mast (or in the same mall or restaurant)... that's why IP often isn't used as conclusive evidence that you are the same person just because you are on the same IP.
That looks really interesting. Thanks
> It would have cost them that much in developer time to build it

I’m not really into the backstory but isn’t this game a quick project of one software engineer in his free time?
IIRC: Al Capone.
Ask HN: Do you use a desktop or mobile device more?
I've been curious to see how folks are changing their behavior. I get a feeling that most people use Desktop/Laptops for work mostly and their mobile devices for more casual activities.

The shift in behavior is interesting, but I believe we're spending a great deal of time on our mobile devices for multiple reasons. The devices are more powerful, screens are larger and the functionality provided by applications has improved greatly over the last 5-10 years.

How would you break your time up on your laptop/desktop vs. Mobile?

For me:

Work: 95% Laptop/Desktop and 5% mobile
Social/Casual: 90% Mobile and 10% laptop/desktop.

I would also throw tablets under the mobile space.
Pokemon isn’t AAA
>>now ATT time warner

You mean Warner Bros. Discovery, since ATT is spinning off the Media and merging with Discovery to from the new company Warner Bros. Discovery
SAP has (or at least had, back in '98) a policy where the first 3 months after being hired, you'd be entering a full-time training program: during this time, you would get your full salary paid and receive a free set of training courses 9-5; people usually just checked emails before and after, so this wasn't really on top of another job. The process got you certified in SAP basis, ABAP, effective teamwork and other modules.

After that training, we would maintain monthly lunches with our training group and exchange anecdotes about our respective departments. The company benefitted enormously in the sense that employees that started at the same time, but would work for different departments, already got a wide network across different functions and departments from the beginning, something that normally takes decades to build, and employees already had valuable contacts and information that they could task about with their co-workers in their own departments.
I'm sorry but this post is ridiculous.

By following the advice in it no one would ever recommend a book that requires knowledge/reasoning skills beyond a high school level.

This goes for literature too.

I also call bullshit on his definition of "Goals". There are plenty of books whose content is valuable enough that the work put into extracting the information is more than worth the effort.

The correct message is to understand who your audience is before you make any recommendations.
It’s not superior per se, but with real estate you can get cheap non-callable leverage that is almost impossible to replicate with equity investments. That’s how it becomes superior.

Find me a broker that will lend 5X the value of my stock portfolio at 3% fixed for 30 years, and won’t issue a margin call if the market drops 50% as long as I pay the interest and monthly repayment, and I promise I would never look at real estate at all. Until then, it makes complete sense to dabble with it.
"Free" does not mean free from advertising and upsell.
>a lifelong illness

Another thing to consider is it isn't a life long illness anymore. It's a life long subscription to a drug which neutralizes the threat and lets you live an entirely normal life without any problems other than having to take the drug periodically forever.

Certainly not ideal but its not like you suffer illness.
> Daily stand-ups are mostly also not really that useful

This is my feeling. Wouldn't a weekly meeting where we don't need to stand up be sufficient for this?

I guess it depends on the people and how they function. And how the team communicates throughout the day or the week.
goodwill. And he was looking for someone to take over 'running it', surely offloading monitoring it/any kind of server upkeep and a department of NYT games ppl making the clues etc would be helpful at this point. Hats off to him.
How do these pyrosomes break fishing nets, without muscles or teeth?
I'd agree if they don't touch it at all, but since they bought it they're going to monetize it. what difference does it make at that point? do people not go on instagram for shamelessly ripping off snapchat? wordle itself is just a clone of lingo, etc. etc.
Yes, but American suburbs aren't like other countries' suburbs. British suburbs, for example, are much denser and usually very walkable.
I am very not a biologist but I can't picture how this would work. Immunotherapy for food allergies, specifically peanuts, involves basically microdosing the allergen until the immune system chills out. mRNA wouldn't help there, even if you made a vaccine that exposed a peanut protein it'd have the opposite effect you were going for. If you took a different approach and expressed a protein that suppresses the immune response, then in just days when the mRNA degrades the effect would be lost. I'm sure we will get many miracles from mRNA tech but this doesn't seem like a likely one to me.
I think this is the post you were talking about where the Rust Moderation team resigned

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306845

There was a lot of speculation about Amazon's role in what happened, I'm not sure if any of it was true but worth noting.

My take is that someone on the Core team violated the Code of Conduct and refused to listen to the Moderation team, and the moderation team felt undermined and resigned in protest. But they were purposefully vague (probably so as not to burn any bridges).

It seems very likely that some of these changes in the Core team are related to that
Nice job to the developer, this is probably the perfect time to sell. Honestly, I could imagine the price dropping by half in a few weeks as the fad dies down.

Let NYT figure out how to monetize a simple easily copied game like this. I don't envy the team who is responsible for making this deal profitable for them.
What else? This is the only one that I am aware of.
Just to state the obvious, the common factor in all your 1x1's have been you.

I have no idea about you, so in very general terms to have them be unreasonably effective there needs to be preparation and input from both sides.

Even if nothing else happens in the 1x1, it is where you can build personal relations as well. That will happen regardless of how prepared anyone is, but it is not always a positive one.
So you are using Click and not Typer?
yeah yeah separate but equal
I would suggest an experiment, to move one single (well ranked) page to HTTPS, and see the traffic impact over some reporting period that makes sense. In terms of Google search, nowadays I'm not sure link longevity really matters; otherwise I don't think I would get spammy pages consistently as results.
Debian has support for all of these architectures except for 486 since support in the kernel package was accidentally dropped and nobody noticed it for a year, so the baseline was bumped to 586.

> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/
NFT wash trades are 99% of transactions on LooksRare
I think 1-on-1s can be "unreasonably effective." In one group I managed, I implemented 1-on-1s and watched year-over-year attrition drop by ~80%. I thought they were so effective that I implemented them in my marriage and saw great (albeit, not directly measurable) increases in marriage satisfaction. If nothing else, my wife enjoyed them enough that she is now the one who insists that we have a "weekly connect."

With that said, I think that almost all of their effectiveness comes down to who's leading it. When I first become a manager, I assumed that I would probably suck at it, so I read everything I could on how to be a better manager. That was especially true when it came to leading 1-on-1s. But, when I've worked with managers who just didn't care for them, or didn't care to learn enough about how to do them properly, they were invariably a waste of time. So, despite my own experience, I don't begrudge anyone who thinks 1-on-1s are a waste of time. In many (most?) cases, they are.
> That's a lot cheaper than I expected

Yeah, same here. I would like to compare the most valuable numbers to something like HQ Trivia, which was far more expensive to run (even when they weren't giving away $X00k per day in prize money).

Something very special about it, a few items that jump out at me:

- No permissions nags or signup required

- Massively popular seemingly overnight, despite no multiplayer features

- Sharing your score is both cryptic / interesting to noobs and a big network factor

- The one-puzzle-per-day part seems to put bring everyone together
Upvoting because I'd like to hear a thoughtful deconstruction or two of this piece.
Also, if you add a new target that would benefit from tracking dependencies between files, then make is already ready to do that.

I use makefiles for my Rust code with just default+test+install targets that do no dependency tracking (since Rust's build system already does that much better). But if I need to add a target for, say, validating some OpenAPI spec that only needs to run if the spec file updates, then that can go in the same Makefile.
This is commonly referred to as Yerkes-Dodson Law [1]. This is typically where one's performance, whilst performing a task and being watched while doing said task, will result in decreased output compared to if the individual was not being watched at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes%E2%80%93Dodson_law
Blob of Theseus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
May I ask what you’re doing in your deployment script?
Man, I am kinda shocked not so much that this is a thing but seems to be a bona fide _movement_.

It's highly interesting but my one job keeps me more than busy enough, thankyouverymuch.

Edit: A few other thoughts I had since hitting submit:

1. It feels to me like the most challenging part of living a double working life is making sure your mandatory meetings at each job don't conflict. I wonder how people get around that?

2. Many (most?) employers already have a "no moonlighting" clause, I wonder how long before there will there be explicit legal language stating you cannot have this full time job plus another full time job?

3. I believe there are a few places in the tax code where there is a difference between having a full-time job and a part-time job, are there any areas where you would have to lie to the govt when you have multiple full-time jobs?
Roll Your Own Crypto
The CAA dns type indicates which CAs are allowed to sign for a domain.
Are there really sliding seals that are good enough to contain a combustion reaction while handling an occasional redlining at 25,000 rpm, and capable of lasting for decades of service?

If so, then the fact that you can have two involute shaped mating surfaces as valves (almost no sliding, just a rolling contact), and a rotor that could be statically and dynamically balanced to almost zero vibration, would be amazing.
NYT have probably the strongest crossword puzzle bases in the world, they probably saw Wordle as either a competitor or a nice addition. They have a side quest basically of owning clever little games like that.

My guess is they've been hearing about it a ton from their crossword userbase and wanted the traffic, users, and IP.
> Users must keep themselves safe. Software can't ever do that for you. Users are on their own to ensure they use a quality web client, on a computer they're reasonably sure is well-maintained, over an internet connection that is not run by people who hate them.

And not use insecure websites, I guess. I don't know how that person expects the browser to magically protect the user if their server transmits in plain text.
All the points you're saying here are the usual arguments for choosing non-boring technology (I think I've seen this argument essentially verbatim for CL, Haskell, Clojure, Elixir, etc.), which is fine in isolation, but doesn't really fit in a thread about Clojure as boring technology.
It works for a whole lot of people and usecases. It's not perfect, the whole CA system is pretty terrible, but just as the site says, it's what we've got. The kinds of sites which don't have HTTPS to this day likely don't need high-availability. It's sad LE doesn't work well for your usecases, but you shouldn't dissuade people from using it in the many cases where it really does "just work".
this is a known short cut in consulting. Quit at your current firm, goto a competitor then come back 2 years later at a level up. Had you stayed at your current firm it may be 3-5 years to level up.
FWIW You can't conterfeit coins, but you can deface them as I understand it. They're not protected - just currency (folding money).
> I was shocked when uBlock got flack for arranging an "Acceptable advertising" practice on their filter.

The Acceptable Ads program started in AdBlock Plus (owned by Eyeo) in 2011. In 2018, uBlock (not to be confused with the highly recommended uBlock Origin) was acquired by AdBlock (which was itself acquired by an anonymous buyer in 2015, not to be confused with AdBlock Plus) and then implemented Eyeo's Acceptable Ads program by default.

The complaint against the program is that it turns Eyeo* into a rent-seeking middleman that profits from giving its users a degraded experience compared to ad blockers that block without selling exceptions, such as uBlock Origin. Eyeo is acting just like an ad seller, taking money from advertisers in exchange for its users' attention.

* And other companies? We don't know for sure who acquired AdBlock and uBlock, but it wouldn't be surprising if Eyeo did or if they have a common owner.
How does cheating yourself out of fun 'stick it' to anyone but yourself?
You definitely know more about wheat farming than I do so I’ll defer to you on that.

However, the graphic shows at that the principle reduction would be in rangeland, not crop land. Is any of that land suitable for growing wheat if it’s not longer being used for cattle?
We don't have to make a blanket statement that covers all cases. I don't see how this is a slippery slope when there is so much friction to get even one of these industries banned from advertising. Do you really think politicians will ban CAR advertisements? Let's be reasonable about this

EDIT - Okay I think I see a concrete reason why gambling advertising should be illegal. The gambling industry makes money by negatively affecting people i.e. gambling wins if you lose. That's literally it. The gambling industry does not make money when their users win. They are specifically advertising so that more users lose. The car industry makes money by providing you a utility. The car industry is not advertising so that more people die in car crashes. But gambling on the other hand _is_ advertising to get more people to lose.
IIRC, think NewPipe actually requests the channel pages and parses the html.
That sounds fascinating. Got any links or search terms?