skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My young friend on a construction crew, was renovating a building in a small Iowa town. The place had been retail on the main floor, but had closed 20 years before and never redeveloped. The 2nd floor was the original downtown developer's office space, the 3rd was defunct Masonic lodge with peepholes, railings, bell hooks all still in place.

But the 4th floor was an apartment, closed and untouched for 50 years. The widow who had last lived there, was evacuated by the fire department when the stairwell collapsed (and put in the poor home). So her apartment was untouched from that day.

The boxes in the pantry were amazing - old stick-figure marketing characters from the late 1950's. Soap powder, cleaning supplies, tissues etc. all brands I didn't recognize.

The floor and walls were grey and faded, but behind and under the refrigerator they were still fresh and proved to be wild art-deco patterns. The refrigerator itself was weird - the shelves were lazy-susan style that revolved.

I was struck by how spartan it all was. She had just 2 forks, 2 spoons etc in the kitchen drawer. Just a couple of plates and bowls in the cupboard. A wardrobe with 2 or three changes of clothes. And that was about it. Not so much consumerism back then I guess!

Anyway it's all gone now. But it was cool to tour it (I had driven down to give him a lift, his truck had gone in a ditch and he offered to show me around). Had to climb external construction scaffolding to get up there, go in through the fire escape door. But it was worth the look!
Men who have sex with men are vastly more likely to get HIV, but account for a minority of the annual infections globally. [1] Sex workers and customers make up a larger percent of infections. Most HIV infections occur in women opposed to men.

I don't find the language particularly offensive, but I cant imagine them replacing LGBTQ+ in the sentence with sex workers.

Then again, this is a publication for lbtq audiences, not sex workers.

https://www.avert.org/global-hiv-and-aids-statistics
> Wordle was acquired for an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures.

Did I read that right ? Wordle was valued above 1M. It seems crazy from the outside but I guess I never realized how popular it.
Why do you prefer Dendron over Foam? Foam is also markdown in a git repo.
> Just dress normally and then put warm clothes on top (gloves, hat, a good coat, possibly some overtrousers for the rain) that you can remove at your destination.

Great. I'm going to the mall. How do I remove my clothes while I'm there?
I agree with sentiment. Sometimes I develop anxiety as it is sometimes difficult to tell if other side actually got my order correctly until I receive it. (Though this is definitely not limited to restaurant order.)

With apps or website, if orders are wrong, at least I can rule out miscommunication, let alone arising from a lossy information over voice.
I have no idea why a successor to TiVo never came out. The idea of "fast forwarding" TV ads was way ahead of its time. I've got cable TV and would pay good money for a service like that. The same applies to Podcast ads: I would pay for a podcast player (like Podcast Republic) that could automatically skip ads, and say let people mark ad segments in a podcast so that others could skip them.
Dordle is arguably more fun and won't be hidden behind a paywall in the near future :) https://zaratustra.itch.io/dordle
If there were zero UX feedback as to which gear the car is in, it seems entirely possible for the problem to be the software and not pebkac. In a thread discussing that the manufacturer's UX is horrible, blaming the user seems out of place. Of course the user bares some level of responsibility but the UX of a vehicle clearly affects drivability of a car. Eg BMW's widely derided iDrive UI.
For everyone here saying "Just use Let's Encrypt" - well, they've had some security issues over the last couple of years. Most recently [1]. They revoke certs and change challenges seemingly on a whim. I've had a number of fires to put out in the past 12 months because of LE.

Also, good luck using LE in a web farm type environment "easily". Given the challenge limits there's usually a fair bit of plumbing required to get multiple servers on the same domain with the same certificates. It's anything but "just works".

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lets-encrypt-...
I assume being a cellular transceiver it maintains communications with the tower at all times, even when not sending payload data.

This would allow the device to be tracked from cell to cell by IMEI, if this is indeed how it works.

Note that a mobile device does not need to be registered with the tower to make emergency calls (it works in a cell with no sim!) so it may not actually permit this type of tracking, but also car manufacturers might put a subscriber module in to maintain IP connectivity for additional services even if the car owner doesn't subscribe. This configuration (such as was factory installed in my 2015 BMW 4 series) does allow for carrier/tower-based location tracking.

I had mine ripped out.
I mean they bought it for 7 figures - so yes, it might be a subscription feature eventually?

Its not like they pulled an AWS and just ripped off an open source MIT licensed clone in their newspaper or something.
"Fun" is always a subjective perspective :)

I'm sure if she shared the news about the "artezian" (artisanal?) spring it would have added a bunch of fun for the archeologists, the city, historians, family who are/were related to the house (if they found out) and more, while maybe not being so fun for your entrepreneur friend.
Cold storage is next to toilet paper on their expense sheet. The vast majority of cost is in processing the incoming video and serving it, somewhere on the order of 25x more than the cost of storage if I recall an analysis from a ways back. Deleting the old content with such a system doesn't save much money, doesn't sound good to the users, and adds complexity. It'd be an interesting take on a popularity algorithm but they always seem to be toying with that too much as it is.
Is there any IP attached to wordle?

What was preventing them from paying someone to build a clone?
"According to the press release, Catapult's funding for the $600 million deal is just a $450 million loan, which will immediately be given to BlackBerry in cash. The remaining $150 million is a promissory note with the first payment due in three years."
ah that's very interesting, especially considering that I like sailing!

(hopefully Musk's planet-covering nodes will make the internet ubiquitous even out in the ocean...)
> Sony panicked and bought a company that has one franchise (Destiny).

Beyond the fact that this has supposedly been in the works for months, so not exactly a panic, Bungie has a new IP in development, and has announced their plan to expand Destiny beyond video games, to movies, books, and other media. So while you're right in the sense that today, Bungie only has Destiny, they've already been working on making that not true, even if they're not there just yet.
Backlash. https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/creator...

> A developer who created a copycat iOS version of Wordle admitted that he was "wrong" to try to monetize the daily word game after he generated backlash online and Apple removed the clone from its App Store.
This article comes off as basically victim-blaming, when it comes to "not my problem" if some bad actor injects ads etc.

The arguments against Caddy are no longer true. Caddy runs on a ton of platforms, essentially any that Go can use as compile targets (except for plan9 for the moment because of a dependency of Caddy's that has a compatibility problem https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/3615#issuecommen...). Caddy also doesn't have to run as root, nor does it by default with our apt/yum packages.

Also a passing comment essentially calling Let's Encrypt... with their track record at this point, I don't think that can be said.

The rest is basically just vitriol.
Does anyone know if mRNA tech can be potentially used to cure food allergy in the future? I know that the pattern is to train immune system to recognize a foreign object and attack it but is it possible to train immune system using mRNA to not attack in certain cases? I did come across a paper from 2018 regarding potential use of mRNA to fight food allergy but I haven't come across any updates since then.
What's the best way to set up this platform? I keep looking at the docs and there seems to be a lot to-do, and their configs by default are just for hello-world type projects, not 'secure' projects.

Any potential tutorials / books / resources you could recommend? :)
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1488264128422678535

> for a price "in the low seven figures"

That's a lot cheaper than I expected, considering it has a dedicated daily user base in the millions. ~$1/active user is an absolute steal if you are just talking customer acquisition, let alone the actual asset and brand. NYT essentially just bought the hottest new social network.

On the other end though, a single developer getting paid millions for a few days worth of work certainly doesn't hurt.
If you only look at scarcity gold should be 6,55x more valuable today when 1.600.000 tonnes of silver has been mined vs. 244.000 tonnes of gold.

I don't know what the mined quantities where back then but 1:10 seem arbitrary, maybe because we have 10 fingers like everything else (decimal)?

The ratio is today 1:80, an order of magnitude!

Oxidation is that important?
Odd that they (understandably) don't disclose what they paid, but then drop the rather unambiguous hint of "lower seven figures." Congratulations to Wardle; not a bad exit for an ingeniously simple web-based game.
Here is the page about Tmux from the public portion of my knowledge graph:

https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/notes-in-org-format-...

See in particular the passage "send text to a tmux session|window|pane".

In Emacs, `M-x desktop-save` and `M-x desktop-change-dir` will let you save your session state and restore from a saved state. Also handy is the command `process-send-string`. I use it in the below (from my .emacs config[1]) to mark one buffer as the "receiving GHCI buffer" and then send text from another buffer to be evaluated in that one.

;; https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/37889
(defun mark-receiving-ghci-buffer ()
(interactive)
(setq receiving-ghci-buffer (buffer-name)))
(defun send-highlighted-region-to-receiving-ghci-buffer (beg end)
(interactive "r")
(process-send-string receiving-ghci-buffer ":{\n")
(process-send-region receiving-ghci-buffer beg end)
(process-send-string receiving-ghci-buffer "\n:}\n"))
(global-set-key ( kbd "C-c s")
( lambda () (interactive)
(send-highlighted-region-to-receiving-ghci-buffer) ) )

[1] https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/play/blob/master/dot...
Note that they didn't mention advertising
I think it's just the speed at which it has happened though. Most children born in developed countries today receive a slew of vaccines which will provide immunity to catching those diseases for decades. It's discouraging that we're looking at shot no. 4 for the mRNA covid vaccines within a year and a half, and despite even that, infection rates are still very strong.
Sure, but Tesla recommends charging to 90% for daily use (except for LFP batteries), personally I charge to 85% to help increase battery life.

It also helps the battery when it gets cold, the car will use power to help keep battery warm, which also helps increase battery life.
Also this ongoing thread:

Upcoming new HTTP QUERY method - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30153995 - Jan 2022 (51 comments)
This is really nice - is there one like this for graphics cards too?
I think it's more likely that this is an abuse-prevention scheme rather than a censorship scheme. If so, "what's up" is that the Internet is full of assholes, and preventing assholes from wasting your money and ruining things for everyone else is very hard to do perfectly, especially when you provide a free service with anonymous sign-up.

One way to do so is to limit the privileges of accounts without much history.
Surely a free alternative would quickly eclipse any paywalled NYT version in popularity. Part of what made this game so popular is that it's so accessible... no accounts, no ads, nothing.
But the only things that have them are appliances. I rarely buy appliances, once in, I dunno, five years? Maybe rarer?
'If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.'
I own two Toyotas myself ;) An 8 year old Corolla that I only occasionally drive, but it never fails to take me from point A to B; another is a new and exciting Highlander hybrid which I only need to fill once every 500 miles.
There doesn't seem to be any reason you'd acquire Wordle in the first place. It's trivial to recreate it.
Honestly, I'm not sure if Activision's IP catalog would attract and retain high-value talent in the same way that Disney's does.

Yes, the catalogue is deep, but much of it consists of dead horses that have been beaten for years or once-great icons that were mismanaged into relative irrelevance.

Budget constraints didn't seem to be what was holding them back before, and I can't see Microsoft suddenly managing the IP any better than Activision were (if anything, I can see it going downhill faster).
You can do that too.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7491256?hl=en
Netflix: Let the Games Begin
Can you expand on how the culture is different?
Digital readouts are the best choice when you need to know an exact value. Like the radio frequency display, since 89.7 is a different station from 89.9.

The downside of digital readouts is that they take mental processing to actively look, read and interpret. You can't notice in peripheral vision if 89.9 suddenly changed to 89.7 (ok bad example since you'd hear the radio progam change, but assuming we're talking about visual display only here).

Rate of change and peripheral vision of approximate values is where analog gauges shine. I don't care to know if speed is 36 or 37, it's more valuable to know the approximate spot where the needle is without ever having to look at it directly. Same for tachometer, there I care about rate of change and will definitely never look at it directly since as I approach redline my eyes are far ahead on the road.
I'll admit straight up when I fire someone I am usually so relieved if they leave peacefully that I don't just say they worked for me, I will usually even give a semi positive review of them. Not a glowing praise or anything of the sort, but usually a review saying how they're a good team player, they get along well with others, and other aspects highlighting mostly soft skills.

As I've indicated many times on here... most incompetent people are genuinely good, nice people who get along well with others and it's devastating to have to fire them, so when I do fire them it can soften the blow for them to leave some good words, give some positive feedback which allows them to leave on good terms.
Wordle is basically the 2022 Flappy Bird. It isn't particularly fun or challenging, but there's a weird social experience behind it. That fades fast, and I would say is already fading rapidly. If he got a lucrative exit strategy, good for him (though it makes all of the moralizing around clones pretty nonsensical).
Ongoing current thread:

Upcoming new HTTP QUERY method - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30153995 - Jan 2022 (52 comments)

Recent:

IETF: The HTTP Query Method ( Draft) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794838 - Jan 2022 (125 comments)
This is a great first step towards better online signing of contracts. I agree with what the FAQ says: "I've always thought that the fake cursive signatures that most electronic signature platforms make you use when e-signing a contract are silly". Quite true. Drawing a cursive signature online is like dancing a waltz in a nightclub. Signing via a simple action like a click / tap / keystroke should be fine.

But I'd expect a tool like this to have mathematically verifiable signatures, for example by using GPG keys, or perhaps by using blockchain. Ideally, the signatures would also be calculated based on a hash of the body of the contract. That would be a real game-changer, it would allow you to prove that a given party signed a given exact version of a contract. Magistrate doesn't appear to have anything like that right now, the signature is literally just the text "/s/ Jane Smith". Unless I'm missing something?
i don't get it.

wordle got popular because NYT publicized it, then they buy it.

why would they buy it? They could've just cloned it in a few days with their team, no?
Well, following this view, I suppose that there is not point in sanctioning Russia as they are threatening them, as sanctions can't cause inflation.
Doug Engelbart Institute
I think Click can do that. I’ll look in to it for the next version.
Who knows, NYTimes could use it to justify the next Iraq war /s

More seriously, the creator promised to never have ads in it[1] now it's going to be in a site that has ads. Whenever a product/company is sold the creator can no longer make any promises and prior promises are null and void.

NYTimes isn't some benevolent benefactor, WORDLE could have stayed in the realm of relatively untouched private enterprises that makes people's lives a little bit better (think Craigslist) and now I can look forward to a banner ad telling me I need to subscribe to NYTimes to save democracy a couple times a year.

There are free clones, but talking to friends and random distant co-workers about todays word was fun. That won't last.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/wordle-will-s...
Kinda wild since it's just a javascript ripoff and slight mod of Word Mastermind, which was itself based on an older but similar game.
But people were debating about all these things, war on Germany was not declared for a very long time, war in Vietnam was abandoned not sure if consider that good or bad.

The initial stance on masks was to lie that they are useless so that people don't buy masks that were needed for doctors, so if CDC was to stay on message it would stay on that message not the one that masks are good.

Your proposed approach of a few people making decisions and the rest not even being allowed to debate, can not create trust, it can only create USSR or North Korea.
GIRUGAMESH
The zinc majority penny has been more valuable than 1c several times since it was introduced. It was a big story in 2005/2006 as zinc prices surged. Yet there wasn’t large scale arbitrage of this in large part because it was illegal and comes with hefty fines.

It’s also due to the difference not being worth the effort most of the time but that doesn’t change the refutation of the claim that no pegs work. The penny peg works even in a world where the actual utility of a 1/100th usd coin is probably negative.
you are very lucky to be in your 30's, there are so many things you can do after work. Join a gym, volunteer, online dating is fun in my 30's I had dates almost every week got to meet a bunch of beautiful girls, also got into running and joined a running club, volunteer. also going to a bar is fun you can go to a bar and just meet a few locals in your neighborhood. Also it depends on where you live. maybe if you are working as a developer you can get a job that is fully remote and travel and work from some fun place like Thailand or Spain .
Denmark Declares Covid No Longer Poses Threat to Society
I prefer to build trust through actions rather than meetings. My 1:1s are mostly chit chat or occasionally sensitive topics because I am already keenly aware of what people are working on and what their bottlenecks are.
Is the raspberry pi fab still in the UK? So the issue isn’t the arm chip but some other components?
At a higher level, here's the real problem.

Consider the web today. We have web pages that display some text and a few pictures. Yet viewing one requires downloading tens of megabytes of data, perhaps a hundred network transactions, a few gigabytes of RAM, a CPU or two running at upwards of 3GHz, a little help from a GPU, and several seconds of loading time. This is an awesome level of inefficiency.
Today's web browsing uses at least an order of magnitude more resources than it should based on what appears on the screen.

We cannot afford that level of inefficiency in good quality 3D worlds. Just doing a good 3D world with every known optimization is at the upper limits of what available hardware can do.
Watch the Unreal Engine 5 Matrix demo to see what's possible with the best known techniques.
Then read up on what's done to put those meshes into Nanite format, an appallingly complex, insanely optimized, and very clever representation. One full of internal offset fields, so hostile content would be a huge problem.

That's the problem with adapting web technology to virtual worlds. If you make the system as general, portable, and robust as web services, it's too bulky, too slow, and too low-rez.
On my father-in-law's land a normal wheat crop is 50 bu/acre and the neighboring organic farm averages about 10.

Even more relevantly, it wasn't long ago that 25 bu/acre was a good crop. But the price of wheat and the price of land have gone up a lot in the last 25 years, so farmers have responded by using a lot more inputs.
A lot of times they get them and don't update the inventory on the website. I had the most success by just popping in once a week during a week day for a few weeks, eventually got almost what I was looking for (had to get 8gb instead of 4gb, oh well).
I think the biggest bug bear with this approach (an approach I agree with, fwiw) is that the content of a page can be modified to include malicious content, including legitimate looking forms.

This wasn’t really a widespread problem before “https everywhere” became a thing, but it’s definitely possible. I distinctly remember projects that replaced images with cat pictures in-line, or made everything upside down; by exploiting the fact that can be modified in transit.
> I think price-fixing works in, for example healthcare, because then you also have a single payer system. So there is one entity that buys almost all service capacity and thus gets a lot of say in the price.

That'd be the monopsony option I mentioned. When you have (actually, or effectively) one buyer, they tell you how much profit you can make, and can pressure you even further to pressure your own suppliers to bring prices down further.

> Source: I’m an extensively trained armchair economist.

Same, to put my cards on the table, but I've spent an unhealthy (haha) amount of time reading about healthcare systems and when I started to draw a line between all the non-US systems among OECD and other rich countries, that was the single thing that stood out as being common to all of them, despite there actually being a huge variety of approaches. They all seem at least medium-term stable (which is more than I can say for our US system, which seems like a train racing straight for a canyon wall, while also coming apart at every seam and bolt) and none appear to exhibit, to a significant degree, the usual problems Econ 101 (and, indeed, plenty of real-world examples) tells you price fixing ought to raise very quickly, which means it's "never a good idea" or "never works". In fact, in this case... I mean, it sure looks like it works, doesn't it? And it's not like we only have one example.
I simply do not agree with you. But the good news is nearly every car has one million buttons.