skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most projects put 12 month or greater lockups on tokens (which I'd recommend for both vesting considerations and protections for the protocol against dumping).

The standard YC advisor templates are fairly easy to translate to token-based compensation and are battle tested.

Just like advisor compensation in stock, both the protocol and the advisor should weight the advisory scope, how early the project is, and determine fair %s from there.
It is. Leela Chess 0 (LC0) won in seasons 15 and 17 in 2019 and 2020.

LC0 is the open source implementation of Alpha Zero’s Monte Carlo tree search + neural nets for static evaluation approach.
Wasn't aware of that. It makes sense now. Thanks
Did you see they also changed the flag? Never thought I’d see the day. When I was a teenager growing up there, there was a big conversation about the flag (don’t remember why), and it seemed at the time impossible that it would ever change.
Yes. Without an email or phone number there would be no way to do an account recovery, but perhaps some other clever solutions (allow some of your contacts to reset for you, or sign a message with your key, etc.) may be an option.
Are you really claiming someone who landed a $100M+ contract on one of the largest streaming platforms in the world in addition to his Youtube channel and Facebook page, who is reaching tens of million of people every day is being censored? It's ironic how people who 'just ask questions' don't like being questioned themselves.
Yeah Leela even one once in 2019. Since stockfish moved to a hybrid approach (conventional evaluation + neural network) it has been unstoppable though.
Lots of software I use on a daily basis has no marketing team and became dominant on its merits alone. I would rather all software competed on its merits.

As for you main point about advertising helping me find products I genuinely want/need, this couldn't be further from the truth in my experience. Recently I wanted a new laptop, and one of my criteria was that said laptop should not have pre-installed nonsense like mcafee/Norton(I mean I would be wiping the drive and installing Linux anyway but this is on principle). Anyway it turns out that all large laptop companies install some kind bloatware and also advertise aggressively, so it's quite difficult to search for a laptop without bloatware, since all the ads/seo are for laptops by companies with large advertising budgets and therefore have bloatware. More generally if I'm looking for a product I want there are generally multiple competing providers/manufacturers of said product, and I therefore must figure out which is better, and often there is a clear winner. However the other sides advertising team are incentivized to muddy the waters in this situation making it less obvious which products are best.

Also can you please not yell random words it's actually kind of jarring to read.
The word 'use' is quite ambiguous. I didn't take it to mean 'use' as in 'play around for funzies', I meant more akin to useful products that make a tangible difference in my life (or any life).
I would listen to your podcast.
Threema, for example costs € 3,99 for a permanent license. The company behind it seems to be profitable and is around for some years now.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.threema.app
They don't enjoy participating in the space, they enjoy avatars and art.

And probably spending an absurd amount of money for more or less Auto-Generated art?
The signal-to-noise ratio is a symptom of there not really being any significant signal to begin with. You keep posting vague statements about how valuable the technology is but haven't shown any examples of how it is doing anything useful that isn't a) a hype-to-money scheme, or b) easily replaceable by existing technologies, as far as I can tell.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268278v...

It's less true for Omicron, but the study there looked at transmission in Danish households. Against Delta, vaccinated individuals were much less likely to get infected. Against Omicron, boosted individuals are less likely to get infected, and vaccinated are similar to unvaccinated.
> what FB wants from users

The way I see it, this is the biggest thing they need to turn around. To a point where they might need to launch a product - or maybe a paid tier - that is somewhat separate from what the FB experience has become.

What users want from FB needs to be explored on multiple levels. Ability to sort posts chronologically between a subset of your network, 'suggested' connections you can filter by relevance to a subset of your interests, customizable local community participation alerts... there are all kinds of ways of exploring vast social networks that can actually benefit society.

I strongly feel that prioritizing content which gets people riled so you can feed them more ads is such a massive negative, showing a willingness to change something so terrible yet fundamental to their current revenue would be the most significant thing they could do. It probably won't happen, but despite my increasing pessimism I still like to imagine better possibilities.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-ch...
Precisely. To be honest, the fingerprinting part was a very late addition and... I don't like it. The original version used a uuid plus a cookie, but "aaah, cookies!" so I looked for an alternative. Which sounds worse than the simple cookie approach.

One thing I'd like to do is try something like what you said server-side and compare how closely a hash of those properties matches the "accuracy" of fingerprinting. I'm only looking for something of reasonable precision during short periods of time (to avoid obvious double-counting) so if that tracked reasonably enough, it'd be a very interesting alternative.
I think you might be talking about Brian Acton's loans to them? If so, yeah, they have to pay those off at some point, which begs the question why they took a loan in the first place. They were getting grants and things like that, so taking millions that they have to pay back, especially from a guy who sold WhatsApp to Facebook is... an interesting course of action.
Leela Chess Zero is the open source successor of Alpha Zero, and has been the second strongest engine (except a few times where it bested stockfish) for the last few years.

[1] https://lczero.org/
musk said it https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-ch...
See, it's kind of a trick question. I ask you to rate the shopping experience but you rate the product you bought. Out of nowhere, a really bad shop can have very good reviews because some customers really enjoy the Mars bars.

There's really no mystery in the Podcasts app getting very good reviews, people really love the experience even if the app itself might not be that good.

It's just like happy Tesco customers that enjoy their Pringles and not nerding over the store design. From customers perspective, the store design and the Pringles are not separate experiences.
\o HN reader here. Blockchain jargon gets passed around without clear definitions, a lot. Reminding of fundamentals is helpful for clear communication.
Title seems slightly misleading. It's not like we found some sort of "first draft" script of Ted Woolsey's translation that was expurgated. It's a bunch of guys attempting to do a retranslation in Woolsey's style. And there are other "retranslation" attempts already out.[0] So it feels like they're just hanging Woolsey's name on it for authority.

[0]https://www.romhacking.net/translations/697/
Vegan here. Based on the screenshots, I don't think I'll use it. It looks like it just recommends brand name products to buy.

Not all recipes call for the same substitution for the same ingredient. And not everyone has the same philosophy about how to substitute.

For instance, eggs. There are several different uses for them in recipes; binding, leavening, moisture, protein content, etc. There are several different substitutions and most do some of those things better than others. Picking a good egg substitute, or choosing to simply leave the eggs out, requires knowledge and experience, or at least a flow chart.

There's enough of an art to it that I'd rather see how others solved the problem than consult a browser plugin that seems geared more to sell me stuff than to help me solve problems.
NFT This
We hired a builder about five years ago to build our home. What we found after talking with a dozen (or more) local custom home builders was that the math doesn’t make sense for lower-cost custom homes. A custom home, in this case, is anything that is not a part of a development or subdivision. The GC (general contractor/builder) charges about a 20% management fee on top of all costs that are paid to build the house. GC have minimal full-time staff of their own and use sub-contractors for most everything. Builders with really good reputations might charge up to a 30% management fee. The net income, after the builder’s operational costs (insurance, taxes, overhead) are 10% of the home cost if the management fee is 20%.

A builder can only take on so many projects per year. Typically three or four. The amount of work that goes into managing a $300,000 project (not including land) is mostly the same as one that costs $600,000 or $1,200,000. Why make $30,000 per project when there’s an opportunity for $60k or $120k?

After 2008, I believe banks started being much less willing to provide construction loans to builders, as many went upside down on projects when the market crashed. The bank doesn’t want to repossess a halfway-done new construction project, which is the hardest thing to resell. There are fewer speculative custom homes being built now, compared to before 2008. And builders are no longer taking any kind of risk on projects, so their customers need to acquire financing on their own.

Relatively few banks offer reasonably priced construction loans. We were required to have the land paid in full and also bring 30% as a down payment for the construction loan.
Surely you can see how you might have less than a second to react if Autopilot swerves into the oncoming traffik? I can't search all tesla accidents by 'least time to react'
BASIC-DOS: PC DOS Reimagined
This. Bad for newer companies since big guys already have it and everybody still needs v4.
If you want to impress Hacker News, you have to write a browser in CSS, too, because currently your work depends on C++.
For me I often feel it's a refusal to accept that life is short and I'll never have time to explore every single thing that has ever interested me in enough depth, and that no matter how much I learn and explore in the time I do have, I'll never be satisfied. So I keep on piling bookmarks on top of bookmarks and thus avoid having to choose what I will intently dedicate my time to.

I gotta bookmark this comment and review it later. Keywords: digital gardening, data hoarding, Buddhism, hedonic treadmill.
>If a user is seeing it, it's because they want to use your app.

It could be because they want to try your app. It implies nothing about long-term goals.

>Highlighting "later" is a user-positive nudge

The label "later" is itself a dark pattern. It's forcing a user who only wants to try the app to lie, which exploits the principle of consistency (as documented in Cialdini's "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion") to manipulate them into continuing to use the app.
A ledger can be implemented using a database. A database is much more than a ledger.
I wrote a simple tool, which is modeled after puppet in terms of syntax. It was mostly an experiment to see what minimum required features are enough to provide something useful - and I settled on a few primitives such as creating files, installing packages, and running commands.

Despite the minimalism it turned out to be more useful than expected:

https://github.com/skx/marionette/

I added extra things, such as the ability to pull docker containers, and clone git repositories, and despite being single-host I'm using it to setup several virtual machines.

(In the past I toyed with another project which used a combination of ssh+scp, also written in golang - https://github.com/skx/deployr )
An insurances covers risk over time. That is a completly different thing than a little app that hardly gets any new features and doesn't require expensive server infrastructure to run.
Wow! The dripping/drying effect is really cool! Reminds me of a concept I wanted to try a while ago - a machine that produces watercolours, so like a "printer" that uses a camera and actual watercolour paints, brushes etc to recreate the scene as best it can. The idea was for it to be live on the scene, as opposed to looking at an image file or whatever, so it would be seeing the scene evolve like a human painter would. And there would be some element of art to how you wrote the software, making tradeoffs/guesses about how the paint will behave and how the colours will mix, plus maybe some kind of ML inspired approach to how best to identify and capture the most salient aspects of the scene and to produce something that conveys a particular style.
This is a misleading comment. If I have euros and I need dollars then obviously I have to exchange them. If we're talking about currency then we generally assume we can skip that part.

Additionally, ethereum fees are pretty reasonable for layer2 and getting cheaper on a regular basis. Right now on the order of $0.15 per transaction. That could get 10-100x cheaper with some tech on the roadmap.

So I think it'll end up cheaper than stripe.
For me DEXs are an even better example - having p2p exchanges where you require much less trust from other parties (nobody holds your funds, you just trade via a single function call which you can read the code of as your only interaction) and with profits going to users instead of necessarily a central party - that's just something you can't do outside of blockchains.
Seems like any magnets on the same coil will move in the same direction. So it boils down to how well you can isolate the coils and/or orchestrate their motion so they aren't sharing a coil when you don't want them to be.

I wonder if you could use induced currents in the pucks instead of permanent magnets to create the opposing force. Then you could tune the PCB coil to target specific elements. So 212kHz moves puck A, 241kHz moves puck B, etc
This is exactly how I've come to use bookmarks. Thanks to Firefox's ability to tag bookmarks, I can add a few tags each time I make one and then a few months down the road when I want to find something I've seen before, I will just search in the address bar (begin with * to search bookmarks). It's been working very well for me.
You are free to not use the product if it and it's roadmap doesn't meet your needs. Lots of messaging options to choose from.
One idea a bit in this direction I have heard about is if a language is "Pacman-Complete" that is it can be used to implement Pacman
They’re not completely absent, but design decisions by Hacker News make these three factors less visible.

>maximize engagement

It encourages engagement with upvotes and additional privileges when an account gets more points. However, the site’s design doesn’t maximize it. I don’t get push notifications to check the site, awards, or suggestions for other relevant articles in the comments.

>promote outrage

Outrage can be a factor that causes posts to rise, but deliberate policies avoid optimizing for it. Specifically, the avoidance of editing the submission title, unless the purpose is to make it less clickbait.

>instill a fear of missing out.

This is most subjective, but I get the sentiment that if someone posts an amazing project, there’s a good chance of constructive critique in the comments, or more information from the developer about how they made it.

Other social media websites don’t have the depth of discussion (just photos of the best parts of their life, without talking about the challenges). This is relatively more of a cultural/user base observation versus an interface decision, however.

For conspiracy theories, antivax, and misinformation, the alternative is heavier moderation. It looks like a judgement call by HN moderators to err on being less interventionist with user discussion. There are tradeoffs, but I think the benefits of free discussion outweigh exposure to misinformation, so long as one reads skeptically and critically.
Russia shuts DW's Moscow office, withdraws staff credentials
> Moderate inflation is a feature not a bug. It drives investment and increases the money supply.

Hah! Indeed. By 'drives investment' do you mean massively inflated asset prices (you may have heard the term 'Everything Bubble') and wild speculation (i.e. crypto, VCs) such as hasn't been seen since the Roaring 20s?

> We shouldn't even call them "currencies" because they're not. They're assets and hugely speculative ones at that.

Quite. I was going to point out that there's a difference between 'currency' and 'money', but I can see you're busy trying to school me. Please continue.

> It's really just as well it's an asset because deflationary currencies aren't good for anyone. Ostensibly your money goes up in value over time but no one spends it so the economy just grinds to a halt.

Well, I'll take that over the USD dollar, which has collapsed in value by almost 99% since 1913 (when the Fed was created), and is about to collapse even further. All of your bullet points are perfectly in line with government and central bank propaganda—I mean, talking points.

Overall, I would posit the complexity of our 'modern financial system' is a great way to obfuscate the truth about it—don't confuse knowledge of facts with understanding. Plenty of people smarter than you have both, and have come to the opposite conclusion[0].

[0] https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/henry_ford_136294
Ethereum transactions are moving to layer 2 which is a lot cheaper. Right now some layer 2 providers are as cheap as $0.15 and getting cheaper on a regular basis.
The parole board is a gamble to some extent, but it's better than the alternative. No possibility of getting out early eliminates the need to be on your best behavior in prison, which creates a bigger management nightmare.

So you sentence someone to 2-10 years and the idea is if they behave they get out in 2 years. If they don't behave, they will have to try again each year to convince the parole board they are no longer a problem, or if they never get their act together then they are released at the 10 year mark (this is called maxing out).

Oftentimes for non-violent crimes they get their parole automatically at the minimum time without having to see the parole board, unless they became a management nightmare in prison.
A friend had it but out and burn 400 GB bandwidth for like 3 GB of podcasts. Dumpster fire of an app.
Digestible intraoduction to anomaly detection without diving into data science
>As urbanization in the United States accelerates for many reasons, including climate change

Studies actually show the exact opposite.

"Rapid urbanization is making people more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, according to a new UN report" [0][1]

[0] https://unfccc.int/news/rapid-urbanization-increases-climate...

[1] https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2017/sbsta/eng/inf03.pdf
This is what I have observed as well. It substitute the brand instead of the alternative itself.
I think it's worth being mindful of who effectively owns the bridge.

Jump acquired certus one, who developed the wormhole. Jump has invested quite heavily in the solana ecosystem, so while $300mm is a lot of money, it's a small price to pay for a firm of their size.
> interest much higher than in banks

> no-loss lotteries

The Ponzi hallmarks are getting more obvious by the day, aren’t they.
To be pedantic here, you're never connecting directly to a database, but rather to a DBMS, and it's nowhere set in stone that the DBMS must not offer a web interface.
It regularly costs 50-100+ USD to send a transaction with popular coins, how is that reducing fees for anyone?
Not to mention that they keep investing in things that people don't necessarily care about (like the crypto currency embedded in the app).

It is kind of beyond me why people would submit to monthly donations to a company which only care about its own interests.
Many companies will take it on in earnest, thinking they "should" do it, not realizing that it provides their core business with no value add. They'll search for "web3 developers" and hire them, get them to "web3" enable their product, and be dumfounded by the way that it's exactly the same as before.

If your product is based on the value provided by blockchains then that is one thing, but Web3 simply can't be like Web2.0 because so few use cases actually benefit from it.
I lived in Vicksburg MS in the late 80s. Went to vote with my dad once, we had to drive out into the middle of the boonies to do it. I asked him “why did they put the voting place way out here?” We lived closer to the city, most black people in our district did as well, so they put the place to vote in a place where you would have to drive 30-45 minutes to do it.

Voter repression is not just historical.
Facebook requires employees to provide their personal account, which will be used throughout the work.
And, conversely, it's entirely possible to get a CS degree but still have great interpersonal skills. I've done a CS degree. Trust me, they don't un-teach communication.
Subscription management platform Chargebee nabs $250M as SaaS soars
Sorry, I did not mean to imply that I disagree with your post. Rather, I was trying to provide context for why existing land owners are incentivized to vote for restrictions on new construction, or even restrictions on higher density construction.

You are right that there is no normal. The US in the 1900s, especially western US, was probably a right place in the right time event where the parameters of the environment allowed for that number of humans to live at a certain quality of life, and the parameters have changed now that there are billions of more people in the world.
Hilarious to the max
Up until now, I thought OpenWRT and OPNSense were the only robust options out there. Glad to know about this featureful open source router.
I think that technically you met the objective: you did make a css statement to query a database. What you have to construct on the side so it works is a lesson to learn, but at the end there was a valid css line that will reach the db.

I think purist try to process the feeling by going on deflecting and denial, which is a personal reaction. A common one at that, but is not a popularity contest.

As for me, I am having a lot of fun seeing my coworkers cringe asking them the question. It is fun.
> I reduced a portion of my ecommerce store checkout fees to <1% by using a crypto payment processor > stripe's highway robbery of 3% per sale.

Maybe the fees are worth it for currency stability? Saving 2% doesn't help much if the price of crypto plunges 10% the next day.
They're selling pre-orders in several countries where they almost certainly won't launch at all, or won't launch for a long time, due to huge regulatory hurdles. It does seem a bit like the same scummy behaviour as airlines still selling tickets for flights that definitely will not operate, thus getting cashflow for the period between sale and refund (which can be many months), as well as real profit from the people who don't bother to request a refund.

For example, Starlink claimed in early 2021 to be launching in Viet Nam "within a year", and have been selling pre-orders, but they can't legally operate in VN unless they form a JV with a local partner, since foreign companies aren't allowed to provide telecoms services there. The relevant government agency went on record saying that Starlink hasn't even applied for permission, yet they're still selling pre-orders.
What do you mean 'not fully released'? It's here: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
I see.

I only use those for specific applications (mostly testing actually).