skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually that other explanation is for fractional tickets in other locations of the database, like prizes remaining.

Specifically in `num_tx_initial` it might be because they don't report the number of tickets printed. But if they print the odds of a win and numbers of winners available, then you can estimate how many non-winners there are and thus how many printed tickets there are.
I cut my teeth on Linux in the early 90s...

I know this is satire, but the devotion to vi an emacs when things like Sublime Text exist is ridiculous.
Careful not to pull something patting yourself on the back like that.
yes it's emacs ;-)
That’s where all the insights are…
starlink is possibly the most hyped on the financial side. there are virtually no scenarios where they can make money and still maintain the plans they have now. I know people will disagree, but we'll have to see in a few years.
I agree with you. Don’t math proofs build on each other on the assumption that previous results are true? So if you have an incorrect conclusion, you might end up building an invalid map of related results until you find it conflicts (or your a superstar that triple checks the meaningful dependencies you think might be particularly not well scrutinized). In spirit, that’s not unlike scientific lines of inquiry in other disciplines that compound on the errors of previous results (aka replication crisis).

It’s obviously quantitatively different in very important and meaningful ways, but the author I think is drawing an apt analogy.
> What is "the value currency" supposed to mean?

People are willing to trade their labour and opportunity cost for entries on this ledger.
The same is true for YouTube. Somebody sent me funny cat video which I don't usually watch, and now my feed is full of funny videos, or I quickly searched some Minecraft guide for a friend (which I don't play), and now I have many Minecraft guides in the feed.
So you had to modify your default Facebook experience to not see that stuff.
True for literally every site ever. Some people read the article and never comment. Some read the headline and always comment. I’m in the later.
At this point I'm convinced Satoshi Nakamoto was actually a public administration professor trying to teach kids why financial institutions have the rules in place that they do

given enough time the entire crypto space will have reinvented every regulation they tried to get rid of and understood why they existed in the first place
>particularly during the earlier rise from January 22 to 27 the price of GME rose as the short interest decreased. Staff also observed discrete periods of sharp price increases during which accounts held by firms known to the staff to be covering short interest in GME were actively buying large volumes of GME shares, in some cases accounting for very significant portions of the net buying pressure during a period

This is a deceptive way of putting it. Yes, if you fiddle with the window you are looking at, it is possible for the short sellers's volume to make a majority of volume (e.g. for a given 5 minute window). But a reasonable person would look at the graph in the report and come to a completely different conclusion [1].

If you look at that cumulative volume of short seller volume, it is not possible to close out the reported 122.97% short interest. Let alone the "unofficial" short interest of >200% that came out of the RobinHood hearings.

The controversy surrounding the stock stems from this disconnect of short volume and retail volume, and an article that ignores this (especially when talking about the figure who rose to fame off the back figuring this out), speaks to how little research was actually done. Especially when they spin it as a clear cut "short squeeze" when it appears to be anything but.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/K4ylLhk.png
Some people have never seen sidewalks, tall hedges, or kids riding bikes on said sidewalks blocked by said tall hedges, because they don't exist in modern suburbia, particularly in certain climates.
Twitter reportedly working on new feature to let users write full articles
The thing doesn’t even exist. It’s all just smoke and mirrors at this point. Not even that—where is the tech demo?
I also significantly improved my sleep with this exact same list (plus fasted cardio every morning and progressive weight lifting 3x/week).
they announced they hit 145,000 customers, so that math doesn't add up. they will need roughly 50:1 to be anywhere near profitable.
Yeah, randomizers are awesome. There's also Super Metroid Redesign, which changes the feel of the game substantially, with an entirely different map, different feel to the exploration, and different challenges. I'd recommend that one as well.
ahaha yep!
I believe you are mistaken. Have a look at the report as it's definitely an interesting read. From what I understand, retail was the majority of the volume.
Any software company with competitors.
I hate apartment brokers as much as you do, I assure you.

I don't know what to say other than there is significant value in (1) getting a direct connection to someone who is running hiring from a reputable source and (2) having your recruiter actually understand you well enough to directly recommend you to jobs that are a good fit (some of which aren't even publicly listed anywhere) and saving you a ton of time.

You are aware that pretty much no one looks at folks that are "applying on the website", right?
Yes, but a "smart contract" is not a (legal) contract: it's just a fancy name for "a software program that runs on a blockchain".

Thus, "smart contracts" behave like software programs (what happens is what is actually written in the "smart contract", not the intent that programmer had when he wrote it, nor the expectation of the user when he interacts with it), and not like legal contracts (where intents and expectations come into play, and courts can be involved for arbitration).

Besides, which exact court would have jurisdiction over a smart contract exploit that happens in Ethereum, for example? A court in the country of the person deploying the contract? A court in the country of the person that interacted with the contract and lost their assets? A court in the country of the (unknown) exploiter? A court in the country of the blockchain developers?
At least I have the feeling that newcomers like TikTok don’t have this "embrace the web" thing that Facebook had during a decade with embedded tracking scripts everywhere on any website.

I feel like TikTok is more closed and that I don’t have a shadow profile on it like Facebook did.

But it’s also because the web (especially the browsers and mobile OS) learnt its lessons.

OTOH, it also means that newcomers will have to make even more efforts to to "compete" with the historical open web which can create even more situations of information disappearing from the open web.
FB is RSS for non-tech content.

In my experience FB is what you make it to be. It requires some curration effort but you can mold it to be useful. But you can’t just add, you’ll have to block as well, including ads - each ad source can be turned off.

For me, FB is the main source of news about local concerts. Sure, you’ll find about major ones anyway, but there’s no way to effectively track small ones. It doesn’t have to be music. FB is the easiest way to track niche local businesses, events, or groups of interest. Some of them even don’t have web sites and FB is where they post. Even when they have sites, you wouldn’t visit each of them every day to find out what is new and interesting and you’ll miss stuff.
Show HN: Create audio-reactive video for your music on browser
and the biggest chassis can handle 12 of those cards.
Gotcha. Reasonable inferences from whatever data you can access.
Define "stable." Millions were using computers with great success long before 2001. Windows 95 and Windows 98 both worked and you got things done fine with them. Are today's OSs "stable" by your definition? It's not uncommon to reboot 2022 desktops often to fix stability issues, and in fact Mac is arguably getting less stable by the year.
This has become me. Facebook encourages you to become confrontational with all your friends.
It is because this person is surrounded by toxic people.

My feed is updates from friends. I don't really hate speech or anything toxic.
That makes sense for revenue but how would that drive a loss of users? I’m not seeing the connection and would like to understand.
Minecraft is more than a decade old at this point, but I’ve yet to see anyone over the age of 16 be interested in this kind of content. I’m not convinced that this will appeal to anyone but children
They are also anonymous. I could be flaming somebody I know in real life but it does matter. Don’t ask don’t tell.
SF Bart: We are ready to open our long-awaited Powell St. Station restroom
Starlink is such a scam all my relatives signed up for the $600 beta and now more than a year later still no way to use the service. All the while they keep promising it's only 1-2 months out.
TheGivingBlock specializes in handling cryptoasset donations with tax receipts. (We don't yet (?) prefill returns in the US)

When you donate to a TheGivingBlock Cause Fund, you get a tax receipt by email and the donation is privately sent to each of the multiple registered nonprofit charities included in that particular Fund.

TheGivingBlock Cause Funds map to the UN SDG Sustainable Development Goals; are categorically aligned to the #GlobalGoals Goals, but not yet (?) to specific Targets or Indicators.
https://thegivingblock.com/donate/

Re: CharityNavigator nonprofit rating methodology, SDG-aligned GRI Corporate Sustainability Reports, setting up a CharityVest charitable matching fund for your employees, SDGs,:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24412594 https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-24412594 CharityVest feedback: https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#story-23907902

How should nonprofits be evaluated in order to invest impactfully?

If somebody says "Strategic Alignment" again, will less-impactful cashflows be eliminated?

When the government nonprofit invests in government services, nonprofits, NGOs, international aid, and for-profit entities, how do we evaluate per-investment/per-allocation ROI according to the predefined criteria at regular intervals, potentially with incremental commitment?

So, the specific fund allocation control adjustments being requested here are presumably due to feedback (sensor data and nonlinearity) which may or may not be traceable to an actual funding suggestion allocation task item in the near future, presumably
For example, the fact that the impact velocity of some random object is reduced doesn't mean it is reduced from a harmful range to a non-harmful range. It might be equally harmful or equally harmless either way, or there might be additional factors at play in the case of human parachutists that we haven't thought about yet.

We don't have enough data on people jumping out of planes without parachutes to conclude that the parachutes are actually working. They could just be superstition.
Autopilot crash so your saying autopilot (aka robot driver/car) is at fault and yet I'm spreading FUD?
highways don't go door to door, and that's what they were suggesting.
Why yes. Yes, I have. The John Muir trail in California. Three weeks, 213 miles, 47,000 feet of elevation gain, and all I got was a lifetime of memories.
It's visible in browser history
Especially in my uncle’s cherry trees to scare the birds.
Are you saying parachutes have never been reliably tested?
True but Facebook was valued for this growth. Better or worse if they don’t grow their stock price will take a well deserved beating.
Try TikTok.

It's completely unlike other social media and it's addictive without being negative, which kind of goes against our current instinctive thinking about social media.

At the start, it's completely dumb videos that kids will find funny.

But the algorithm is smart and will find content you like.

My feed is now ultra cute cat and cat rescue stories, and really, really sharp non-professional comedians acting out vignettes, they are better than anything pro, and better than anything on TV, and, amateur musicians playing solos, odd instruments etc..

I enjoy TikTok more than Television or Netflix.

It's very hard to describe to non-users because on paper it's very much like YouTube, but the format is so short, and the kinds of bits are so much more ephermal ... and for some reason most of the toxicity is not there.

Also, you get to see first hand some 'live events' because people stream from everywhere, and it gives you neat perspective. For example, the 'Trucker Convey' in Ottawa Ontario. After watching the event live from various perspectives on TikTok, while simultaneously watching broadcast news cover the event, it became unsettlingly clear how aggressively misinformative broadcast news was of the event. (Even if I fully disagree with the protesters, they should be represented fairly)

TikToks has radically changed my view of content moderation and demonstrated that it additivity does not have to be based on fear and anger.

They censor aggressively, and get away with it partly because it's not really seen as a platform for 'information'. So you won't see a lot of controversial things there, and also I don't mind that technically 'Tiannamen Square' content will be absent. I mean, it's just TikTok (is what I tell myself).

It's disturbingly addictive without being particularly political or controversial and for that reason alone it's worth having a look at for those who care to pay attention.
I’ve seen some of it. But it’s an essential app to maintain contact with my friends around the globe.
Admittedly, frontloading the deposit to determine market interest and where to scale with actual dollars is a bit scummy (see: Cybertruck/Model S/3/X/Y/everything Tesla does deposits) but the service IS live in a lot of markets and DOES have real, actual users. Calling it a "scam" implies that those things aren't true.

But I agree that Elon time is absurd and irritating and sure feels like a scam. (I would argue FSD being sold for SIX GODDAMN YEARS on Teslas is _absolutely_ a scam.)
Android has more market share.[0] Is there something intrinsic to FB ads that are significantly more successful for iOS users rather than Android users? Does FB cater their apps to iOS somehow more successfully, e.g Android users are more savvy and less likely to take to digital nudges?

If that's not the case, then the 25% of market loss doesn't make sense to me -- are FB ads bulk purchases somehow, or are they by user?

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-sha...
Go look up how to create a load balancer on gcp. Last I looked there were six pages none of them simple and clear. I just want to know how to create one. It’s one simple thing. The essential part of any cloud service.

Now go read the aws documentation on an ALB. One page, this is how you create one and this is how you use it.

Azure on the other hand arrived late with a spectacular business plan. “You already pay me for software, cloud is part of that”. They won enterprise cloud in the blink of an eye.

Meanwhile Gcp wrestles with writing task oriented documentation, easy things are obscure or weird. (Compare security groups at aws with gcp, now look again. You didn’t get it the first time ) also if you’re designing a service there’ll be some critical thing that just doesn’t work. The old thing is deprecated the new thing is beta. (You fool! Don’t use beta things in production! Oh sorry there’s the non beta thing I can use? There isn’t one) or the feature you need to complete your task will never arrive because there’s a pissing march between gcp and k8s over who’s job it is to make the ingress work as desired.

Also, as others have said their support is garbage (I found a customer evangelist who was amazing if I could wait 3 days to get a response)
That's absurd. The mechanics of gravity, parachutes and jumping out of planes is well understood. Plenty of people have fallen from heights without parachutes, and we know what happens to them and why (acceleration of gravity and the force impact on their bodies). We also know how parachutes, used properly, mostly prevent that sort of harm (slow people down enough to prevent excess force when impacting the ground). There's nothing superstitious about it.
Another one? But why? The blurb mentions typescript but the language snob in me prefers purescript, which is not mentioned. Any further comparison?
Good collection, thank you!
TikTok is very different and will probably turn your view of what drives engagement upside down. Try it for a bit, it's an alternate universe.
Would you mind sharing your setup?
By definition, paid products are walled gardens from the beginning.
When I hear about something being much more expensive in the states, I assume it has to do with our litigious nature and everyone is afraid of taking on liability. But this is outside my expertise ;)
> the only remaining obstacles to higher quality paper at a lower price are industrial process and marketing issues

Why is hemp paper competitively lower priced and cheaper than normal paper? Could that also apply to cardboard?
Not rarely. This talk shows several examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9RiR9AcXeE

One of the more important results discussed was not salvageable.
I agree, but the article is talking about an event that happened a year ago and how the main actor in said event has not had much social media presence in the last 8 months. They have had plenty of time.
> So, yeah, it seems like a pretty extraordinary claim to insist that they can handle stunt doubles, fake props, and painted backgrounds... but a single green screen painting is just too much for them to handle.

Nobody said that the problem is a single green screen painting. Since you read the OP, you know that the OP laid an argument against the prevalence of CGI, specifically how overt use of CGI leads to movies feeling less realistic. This single green screen painting is merely one small thing contributing to the overall problem. But now we're asking for scientific studies to conclusively prove at p<0.05 that having a single green screen painting on set reduces actor performance? If you genuinely want that level of proof, why are you reading anything on the internet at all? Nothing you read should be convincing to you of opinions you don't already hold.
It might have very much to do with their shoddy 2FA rollout.

I have heard of quite a few among my circles who got locked out.

They hurriedly pushed out something that did not work in the first place.
Foreign government to who? US doesn't constitute majority of users on any platform.
I think you're on to something
Object pools don’t turn off by one errors into complete remote code execution exploits.
I mostly disagree with this. To quote Joel Spolsky [1]:

> Every time you provide an option, you’re asking the user to make a decision.

At least the author differentiates on types of settings:

> There’s a difference between product settings that a product needs to get right by default and preferences that designers deliberately shouldn’t have a strong opinion on.

I can get on board with separating cosmetic choices and non-cosmetic settings.

If you're shipping a product, every setting is a potential bug because you don't test that particular setting necessarily. Worse, every combination of settings is a potential bug. Ideally, settings shouldn't allow you to put your product in an invalid state. That almost always happens with any nontrivial set of non-cosmetic settings however.

I've brought up this example many times but many here won't remember the early days of connecting to Wifi. On Windows this meant answering questions like:

- Encryption type (eg None, WEP, WPA, WPA-PSK, WPA2, WPA2-PSK)

- Passphrase (is this a password? Is it something else? Well, that depends on the encryption type)

- SSID

Apple came along and reduced this to SSID and password.

The principle I take from this is never, ever ask users to enter something that you can figure out on your own. Like you can figure out the Wifi encryption type so why ask?

Another example: why ask me for a state and a ZIP code? The ZIP code tells you the state.

Settings so often fall into this bucket. You have settings for things that don't make sense, that you can figure out the answer to and are dependent on other settings.

Practically speaking, settings become a cultural disease because product and UI/UX people can't agree and someone "compromises" by saying "let's make it a setting" rather than figuring out the right answer.

Design is the art of compromise. Settings are the art of not making a decision.

[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/12/choices/
According to contract theory, it may not be possible, in practice, to write "complete contracts", that is contracts that specify what is to be done in every possible contingency. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_contract
US is mostly iOS users and I assume major source of revenue for FB.
Resources. The Internet is huge, it takes a lot of hardware and energy to index as many pages as possible.
you can change the default meeting behavior, it isn't really a vendor lock in type situation, teams is included with office365 you don't have to use it if you don't want to but you need to set it up properly, company i'm at just started allowing teams meetings as we are transitioning away from webex due to costs, until the change was made it didn't matter what changes were made to gpo, you could restrict the addin sure, to a degree, which you should have a whitelist for office addins already, but if you got the addin loaded say were in a non covered ou for that gpo, then you could only do some things, and was quite manual not at all automatic, plus you had to have permission in o365 admin center to use it, so its controllable.
Hah. Noted - my friend's English is not the best, but I think his example was like a someone tripping over something in the street. He physically performed something, and I guess I misunderstood! Ah sorry for butchering another language ;)

It reminds me of one time I was sitting in a bar in Spain, and a chicken walked inside. And it was a female chicken, not a rooster, so I thought it should be "polla" instead of "pollo". So I waved at the bartender and said "Mira! Está una polla en la barra!" and all the guys in the bar started roaring with laughter because "pollo" is male or female for any chicken, but "polla" in Spain does mean slang for "idiot". After that every time I'd walk into that bar they'd ask if I saw a "polla" hahahahah
Oh dear god, DONT miss the TRAINING!! WHAT will happen to YOUR MONEY if your MISS THE TRAINING?!?!?
Thanks, it's nice to have a name for this kind of feeling.
Thanks for sharing! We built Grafana 8 alerting to address all of the problems you've mentioned.

Appreciate the second look and please let me know if you have any additional feedback.
Emacs, in Vi mode :-)

http://www.billharlan.com/emacs/#:~:text=You%20can%20switch%....
>"The problem starts with humans having languages with uncountably many different characters. A webfont can be efficiently small if it includes characters only for the latin script. But what if I want to write Greek? Or Korean? Or Tamil? Something semi-terrible happens then. Thankfully, (probably) the text will still be displayed because the browser will fall back to another font for the characters the webfont of choice does not define."

Hmmmm, what about downloading webfont package language character sets piecemeal? Load the Greek alphabet if the page needs a greek character, etc. Granted logograms will be pretty heavy, but maybe with some statistical analysis they could be subsectioned into "frequently used together" categories.