skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I am in marketing, and all I can say to you is, if you hate marketing, then focus on public and media relations. Build a community if you don’t like ads.

But face it, almost everything that you use, from Logitech mouse, Apple or Lenovo ThinkPad computer, a Lexus or Toyota car is a result of marketing activities, public and media relations.

Now, you can do all that without marketing, but marketing is not only advertising, it’s much more than that. Advertising is just one tactic of marketing.
> it create addictions and should be illegal

a bit hard to tell how one entails the other
DarkMX – new decentralized communication app that utilizes Tor
This app was created by Kevin Hearn, the same developer who brought you Tixati, Fopnu, Super Simple Server, and WinMX.
they obviously want to get a good ROI on their stock holdings and try to convince potential buyers that the company is amazing and just held back by their CEO (which definitely is not the only problem that Peloton has)
"Office Space" reference for anyone wondering[0]. Another Mike Judge's gift to us.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNuu9CpdjIo
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> Why should I care for a piece of drawing generated by a computer? I care for something into which a person put their thoughts and imagination, yes.

Well then you are in good luck. The computers didn’t just spontaneously started creating these images. There is a person who programmed them, debuged (or bugged!) and tweeked the code until it was to their liking and then selected the best results. That’s right, here a computer holds the pen (sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively) but it is absolutely a fellow human being who put their thoughts and imagination into the process.

> But here, why should I be ecstatic?

You don’t have to be. But maybe don’t trivialize other people’s work either.
>> I’ll go sometimes months without talking to our CTO,

> ...leadership team who don't trust you ....

When did talking come to mean having trust issues!!?
https://www.facebookrecruiting.com

Yes of course, I'm not going to stop trying. Though my hopes of clearing the interview just hit 0%. I'll keep doing all preparations I can nevertheless
It would. On the other hand, I never had a need to wait for futexes and IO at the same time. If I need an internal wakeup while blocked on a poll call, I would use an eventfd. YMMV.

In any case generalized support for all or most syscalls in io_uring can only be a good thing. Especially if we get eBPF support for chaining.

I'm also quite excited for the new intel instruction to send IPIs from userspace. That would be great for non blocking io_uring.
Mental health damage from Covid could last a generation
The subscribers aren't subscribing for using the treadmill, they are subscribing for fitness courses and the likes.

Which... isn't a bad business model per se IMO. With the current trend of "self improvement", there are enough people willing to pay lots of money, for everything from gym memberships to individual personal trainers.

The issue is: this is not going to be an exponential-stock-growth-style business model, as many seem to expect. There is no hope for the usual "undercut the competition in pricing and establish a monopoly that can be used for rent-seeking afterwards" VC model, no hope for a make-everyone-filthy-rich acquisition by an established market player, at best this is going to be a steady, "boring" cash cow.

(Note, I don't hold any stakes in Peloton or competitors)
It's interesting but I think it's important to take it with a huge pinch of salt. It's obviously designed as a hit piece, pushing their opinion the CEO needs to go, and as such is chock full of selective quotes and figures designed to paint one picture.

ed: the top comment from yesterday says it better https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30272154
When done right, Bauhaus can look pretty good. However, living in Germany, I've come to mostly dislike it. The 70's style Bauhaus buildings are everywhere here, they are ugly, clumpy, and break with the medieval/Jugendstil facades in the city centers. It does not help that thet often were built with cheap materials and are hard to maintain bacaude of that. Unfortunately, they often now are under Monument protection so also can' be demolished.
Use CSS variables:

div {
—-width: 100px;
—-ratio: 0.6666;
width: var(—-width);
height: calc(var(—width) * var(—ratio));
}
I know plenty of people who argue about whether Netflix is a tech company - certainly their infrastructure is non-trivial but are they meaningfully different from HBO?

For Amazon though, it's incorrect to refer to them as a bookstore - AWS is a huge portion of their revenue.

On the other hand you have Google and Facebook that people call technology companies, but their core business is advertising.

I think at this point "tech" in "tech company" doesn't mean technology, because otherwise surely Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, etc would surely be tech companies?
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Hi HN!

We are going to be launching a new product soon and looking for a payments platform we can use to take payments from customers in Zambia and other countries in Africa.

Does anyone have any exeperience with this?
You can rather easily get "unlimited" (as far as I know, pretty much every operator caps at 40 GB/month) internet (in Switzerland only) for 20 CHF/month nowadays.
A Elementary Introduction to Sheaves (non-rigorous, loose, basic)
Was it black coffee or latte?

I can't stand black coffee but find soy latte very pleasant to cosume.
He's the Chief Enthusiasm Officer:

> Peloton has been horribly mismanaged, with unbridled enthusiasm taking the place of disciplined leadership
I'm German, unfortunately not (and I highly doubt that there would be a market for English news about local German dung market issues anyway).
Forbes... https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/02/an-incomplete-history-of-f...
I really enjoyed reading this, thanks!
It’s evidently good for you when drunk in moderation. Why would you want to ban it? It’s nothing like alcohol or tobacco. It also doesn’t lead to a dose increase or becoming seriously addicted.

For me, coffee isn’t only the welcome stimulant in the morning. It’s also childhood memories of the smell of Sunday morning breakfast at my grandparents’ place.
Before dismissing MMS/SMS, consider it has an option for paid rich text messages and other media with carrier billing. Was used in the 90s for ringtones/backgrounds and such, but could be used for collecting subscriptions (mags, newsletters, literature). Of course, FAANG killed it (not least Google themselves with the convenient Stagefreight bug on Android), but I think we shouldn't sing FAANG's song here when the alternatives are closed, feudalistic ecosystems designed for ads such as FB's and Google's, or Apple's.
Also a democracy with smart voters could work. Why, you're the one who started with fantasy examples :)
> -290 degrees F

-273.15°C == −459.67°F
For me it's a feature flag service I built over a weekend: https://deploywithflags.com

Uses Cloudflare Workers to globally distribute the API, and I intend to keep it free for individual developers.

I might monetize it for teams eventually, but I just like having a simple, performant way to disable/enable features for my other projects.
Yes, it's quite messed up. I pay CHF 80 / month (USD ~86) for cell phone service while at the same time I can get 25gbit synchronous fiber internet for CHF 64.75 / month (USD ~70).
> This is what drives me mad about css, it's gotchas all the way down.

And don't forget, every time a new half-baked shitty piece of the spec is added to poorly address something people have been complaining about for 15 years, tons of people will write articles (and these days go on Twitter) gushing over how amazing CSS is for granting these gifts from the gods.

Front-end really doesn't need to be as difficult to do day-to-day as back-end (concern balancing, i.e. perf vs storage vs cost vs fault tolerance vs maintainability vs monitoring vs etc, is the extremely difficult fundamental problem you always face in back-end/SRE/DevOps, but that's all mostly trivial in front-end, which is why being a React guru isn't anywhere near as rare as being able to scale a legacy PHP app to 1M DAU), it just has a lot of pointless complexity because these technologies are designed like absolute ass, and only inch forward by committee.
Responding to and Learning from the Log4Shell Vulnerability
Inferring data based on youtube videos is quite tricky, as the algorithm favors more sensational data points. Protesting in the Netherlands is great as long as you ask for permission (which is not difficult to get) and don't go rioting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLNnK5q9pfQ
Interesting to note that the CEO (39.6%) and co-founders (18%) have 58% of the voting power of Peloton's stock.
Knew 10/20 UK and 9/20 US, as a continental European.

Fun article, but I am not really sure if these brand name catchall things should really count. Although Acetaminophen as a different abbreviation than Paracetamol is interesting, most people here would just ask for an Aspirin or generic painkiller (unless at the pharmacy, being exact) if they asked a friend for some painkiller - so it's either more unspecific or just wrong in this case
built this and using this: https://github.com/navyad/moviematch
FWIW, the author certainly knows about Shinkolobwe, which is mentioned in these book scans hosted on the author's site: http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/misc/1989-Hewlett-Holl-Atomsf... , http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/misc/1962-Hewlett-Anderson-Ne... , and http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/misc/1969-Hewlett-Duncan-Atom... .

At http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/02/25/the-secret-song/ we can see the author quoting from the first of these.

A look at Hewlett & Holl finds:

> The far-flung complex of mines, ore-processing mills, feed material plants, gaseous-diffusion plants, production reactors, chemical separation plants, metal fabrication plants, and weapon component and assembly plants was still largely concealed behind the security barriers established by the Atomic Energy Act ...

> Of the 3,700 tons of uranium concentrates (U308) that the Commission received in 1953, only about one-quarter (1,100 tons) came from mines in the United States; the rest was produced in the Belgian Congo (1,600 tons), South Africa (500 tons), Canada (400 tons), and Portugal (100 tons). ...

> As for foreign sources, the leveling off of production from the Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo would be more than offset by projections of rapidly increasing deliveries later in the decade from the Union of South Africa and Canada. ...

Hewlett was (quoting the author) "the first official historian of the Atomic Energy Commission ... [whose] volumes on AEC history are extremely useful resources."
On the contrary, UBI removes perverse anti-work incentives in means-tested benefits (the "if I get a job I'll lose my benefits and be no better off / barely better off" problem).
The comparisons with Nazi Germany are truly disgusting. In my view, it borders on Holocaust denial.

Nazi Germany murdered 6 million Jews. Nobody is being killed in Xinjiang. Before the Holocaust, the Nazis very openly espoused a theory of racial purity, called the Jews parasites, and passed race laws that systematically separated Jews and "Aryans." Nothing of the sort is happening in Xinjiang. In fact, the Chinese government espouses exactly the opposite view: equality of all ethnic groups.

It's possible to talk about abuses in Xinjiang without engaging in massive, offensive exaggeration and comparing it to the Holocaust.
The problem is that CSS is not (and continues not to be) designed to minimize such conflicting specifications, and does not provide a unified, explicit and systematic way to control conflict resolution.
I want this, but I don't see myself dropping so much money on a phone to do it... $400 seems acceptable to me (another mobile platform).

But also speaking for myself it's like a fantasy situation (I always have access to a desktop/laptop). Unless it is really the only computer device you have which would be cool if it can indeed do everything... maybe with cloud gaming and virtualization/I guess ssh'ing into boxes is good enough.
In my chrome it's located at the very right side of the bookmarks bar under "Reading List" where I can click "Add this tab to read later"
What about some middle ground? I’d like my IDE to remain constant between reboots, my browser to some degree is already (if it crashes, it reopens all current tabs on start, which is effectively the same).

I would have thought some clever hacks on an existing kernel would be reliable enough rather than an entirely new OS just for one feature, though.
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I guess you don't eat any sugar either?

Also, strange to suggest banning caffeine when discussing a study finding that it reduces risk of death.
These phones should be able to push 4 years in fair condition between the software support assurances, larger batteries, longer battery life, and higher efficiency.

In any case, it’s apples to oranges. I can use any old junker for a desktop but a high end phone still means very practical things like longer battery life, longer support assurances, and maybe a handful of exclusives (Dex, full galaxy watch support, uwb tags, etc). The average person is far more likely to notice the difference between a cheap and expensive phone compared to a cheap and expensive computer. Samsung charges what it does because they can because they’re aware that Apple is the only company that offers the whole “package” the way they do and they’re just as expensive.

More and more people switch to midrange and budget phones every year all the same.
> I didn't like what it did to adults

Or perhaps what you saw was the normal effect of aging: decrease in melatonin leading to tiredness in the morning.
Stars, anyway, have Kuiper belts full of useful materials, with lots of room to spread out, and far enough out not to be inconveniently warm. Any civilization working with very large energies will have large cooling needs: if there is anything we can say confidently about future technologies, it is that they will remain bound by thermodynamics.
I see what you did there, but I won't look at it.
Show me where coffee causes violent or asocial behaviour like alcohol or heroin and I'm with you.
At the low end of the spectrum ($10/month prepaid), at least in Canada, unlimited international SMS/MMS is part of the menu. It's gone from an overpriced premium feature to all the way down to the baseline.

At about half a megabyte of payload, it works very well to send photos, voice clips, even videos (10-15 seconds, or the quality degrades too much), also contact cards.

These days you have to actively resist Google upgrading you to their enhanced messenger app; once you have that picture messages will be sent using normal mobile data.

It is a little known legacy feature even here. I find that about 80% of random phones have it provisioned correctly; for the rest it can be manually done by fiddling with the APN settings but virtually nobody knows how to do that.
Indeed you can get all sorts of stuff there.

https://www.bauhaus.eu/fileadmin/_processed_/b/9/csm_teaser-...
While not really specifically about Bauhaus but covering the later movements it influenced up until the present, Gary Hustwit films in his "Design Trilogy" (Objectified, Helvetica, Urbanized) are a brilliant study into the influence of various design movements and designers over the last century. Very much recommend them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectified

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanized
The fawning over Steve Jobs (and I don't mean apple coolaid folk) is always bizarre, and I think really drove a lot of the "super star ceo" nonsense these days.

I'm not saying he didn't save apple or whatever, I'm just unconvinced that being that particular model of arrogance was necessary part of said "saving". Obviously we can't roll back time and replace him with an identical clone with the only difference being that he didn't shout at people or have personal vendettas against other people.

I don't recall similar stories about Bill Gates, and yet MS clearly did well.
Every American should thank NWS (amd their equivalent state/local meteorology offices if they exists on your area) for basically doing their job.
This kind of system will suffer from the ratchet problem. A single bug that negatively impacts state is no longer fixable by rebooting. Instead, you have to format/reinstall. Unintended state becomes permanent, and upgrade paths constrained to the point where you must do intentional damage. I'd also be leery of fragmentation.

The project is falling into the "simplification trap", where all it's doing is moving inherent complexity around (which eventually requires users to do a bunch of work-arounds) rather than eliminating it (because inherent complexity can't be eliminated; only needless complications can be eliminated).

In theory, this sort of setup would be nice in a perfect world, but in the real world of buggy software and faulty hardware and cosmic rays and failing network connections, it's a disaster waiting to happen.
If you can do that kudos to you. Just yesterday I got a video on WA that was around 30MB and it was downloaded automatically. When you are in roaming WA is smart enough to not download it unless you click on it, but when you have a data connection in your home country you have no say (to the best of my knowledge).
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Why do you send a MMS when sending an emoji?
That doesn‘t make sense to me…
So weird, I pay 13 eur a month for unlimited data...
That's just a USA thing, rest of the world use 3rd party platforms to chat.
Great article! :)
(Private) pilot here - relevant for this question only because I hung around airports and runways long enough, not for my piloting.

You can see the light easily even during the day when they are flying towards you. It's like cars using their high beam lights - and looking at them on the same straight road from the opposite direction. You are directly in the main cone of where that light is focused.

These days even bikes with their LED headlights on during the day can be quite annoying to people having to look straight at them on the same path even when they still are a hundred meters away. That light on the airplane, the landing light, is meant to illuminate the runway when landing - small airplanes may have to do a night landing on barely illuminated runways. I did some of those, you could only see the outline of the runway and everything else was a blackhole, the surroundings and the runway itself. The runway itself only became visible when I got within a few meters above it. I'm just saying this to show that those lights are not just decoration or position indicator but actually quite strong.

It would be hard to miss that light in the sky (unless you take off towards the sun of course) when it's flying towards where you are and you look straight at it. Fortunately I only ever saw it from such a position waiting next to the runway, not standing right on it (now that would be a panic attack moment). Also, usually takeoff and landing use the same direction, into the wind, in both cases to reduce the amount of runway needed (speed in relation to ground is less than speed in relation to air in that case).
I wonder if coffee consumption is correlated with white collar work.
Thanks, but I'll wait a few years for the retractions. The same was said about alcohol (specifically, wine) a couple of years ago.
I use it to send photos to Android-using friends and family, mostly because it means I can stay in a single messaging app (iMessage). MMS is unlimited on my plan.
Where this road is going, it looks highly likely it is going to Amazon or even Meta.
I mean I get the sentiment but months? Which kind of company size are we talking? I'm not saying you should talk to your CEO every week, but twice a year sounds really weird to me.
I am not so sure why this sounds odd. All successful startup that I have seen, had a great builder and a great seller. A CFO/COO running internal operations and finance is great to have. So since he is not the builder and obviously not the CFO/COO, he could still be a very successful CEO by being the seller, who is advocating for the company on the market. Think Steve Jobs. Wasn't the CEO of Peloton not that kind of guy?
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Covid, the disease? ...or the general state of lockdowns, media, propaganda, everchanging rules, "new science" and uncertainty?

History will tell, but a lot of the blame here is on the governments not dealing with covid in the optimal way, especially for the young(er) people.
Where can I do a (respectable) on-line degree in this structure?

While I'm fantasizing, the second unrealistic requirement is affordable. ;-)
I think of "tech" companies as companies where you've got large fixed costs to build out and maintain the product, but the marginal cost of your product is very close to zero.

So Facebook and JCDecaux are both advertising companies, but only Facebook is a "tech" company.

Lockheed Martin is a tech company, but Google is a "tech" company.

I don't think it's a great term for that kind of company.
Sometimes, given multiple means tested benefits with their own cliffs and clawbacks, materially worse off, not just no better off, because of outside income.
I wish the projected stuff caught on like the side keyboards that would be projected on the sides of your phone for "full size" typing or alternate extra interfaces.
The stars that make the elements we need form and blow up in only a few million years. A billion years is plenty of time, once you get the hydrogen gathered together enough to get things started.
I don't understand the reasoning there. It describes your view of your job, but what does that tell us about other people? It states several claims and theories about other people's jobs, but where is any basis? It also says little about their job satisfaction, only what you think of their jobs. Finally, it conflates 'willing to work for free' with job satisfaction, which I don't understand.

I think I do understand your personal view of working, which you are entitled to, but I see no basis for why you think (or I would think) others agree. Also, I have evidence (in the GP) that they overwhelmingly don't and my experience of people also disagrees.
> Classical music is highly limited?

Yeah? It is music for one, not sculpture, not painted glass, not artistic arrangement of galaxies or grass skirts weaved by self replicating robots. And then the category is further limited by the fact that not all music is classical music. Rythmic thumping of girrafe legs can be music, but is not classical music. Rap is music but not classical music, and so on. Obviously it is limited.

> Is this a joke?

Perhaps you feel that way because while classical music is a sliver of a sliver of a sliver of all possible art forms it also contains a wast space of possible expressions. Something can be limited while also amazingly rich in itself, there is nothing wrong with that.
>We talk of “making discoveries” as if forming them out of clay. As if we craft discoveries from the malleable world with our own two hands

I don't get this opening. Do we? Isn't this more like "invention"?

My understanding of the word "discovery" (today) is exactly as what "the 18th-century lexicographer Samuel Johnson" defined in his dictionary, (cited in this article), “the act of finding any thing hidden,” or else, “the act of revealing or disclosing any secret.”