skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m fascinated by the effects on images caused by different display technologies.

Retro games on CRTs are an obvious one (CRTPixels on Twitter[0] is great). It’s not just the displays themselves either, some games on the Mega Drive/Genesis used the specific qualities of a composite video signal to produce a transparency effect from a dither pattern.

Even today with all-digital displays there are differences. The very high response time of an OLED panel causes lower framerate content to look stuttery to some, whereas the slower response time of something like an IPS LCD causes a natural interpolation of sorts.

I miss my PVM, but the geometry was starting to drift and I have neither the time nor the inclination to adjust and/or recap it.

[0]: https://twitter.com/crtpixels
Marketing at its finest
Great reading, but wow that is evil.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
This sounds like the same discussion I always see about the SRP. I think the root of it is that whether you're following the SRP can always be true, depending on how you're looking at your code. If the one thing your code is supposed to do is "run the whole application" then putting everything into one file called "Application" sounds just fine. If the one thing your code is supposed to do is "add 2+2" then abstracting a module that only adds 2+2 seems just fine.

I always found the SRP too vague to be useful for actual decision making, it seems to just lead to arguments where everybody (and nobody) is correct. "Unix philosophy" sounds like it is just about as vague, or am I just really missing something that everyone else gets?
Or world safe. There was a huge thing in 2000s up to 2015 or so with tiny little plastic beads in soap that will forever contaminate the water supply and soil it ends up in, and I think it is still legal. Glitter, which is also tiny pieces of plastic, is still legal.
That depends on your product.

If Duckduckgo were trying to raise (assuming they had good growth metrics) and they said: look because people enter search terms we can generate targeted ads with no tracking, no dark patterns, etc. People value privacy a lot more these days (see FB tanking in value) and we will capture that market. I think a lot of investors would bite.

If your hypothesis is "look people would rather pay than be sold" and your product is a /paid/ social networking site with 50% growth MoM for a few months and great retention. Then great, let's hear all about it.

If you're just starting some generic product with no revenue and "no tracking no selling data no dark patterns" is some unrelated value prop that 0.1% of users (all of whom browse HN) care about. Then it's just a signal that your voice inside your own head is probably so loud that it'll drown out whatever the market is trying to tell you.
When I work my side project I keep all ideas and tasks scribbled randomly on a page in a notebook. If I try to organize those pages or keep tasks away from ideas on a different page I just crash. I have to be sure not to try to organize any of it. I barely use the lines and just cram in little blocks of text wherever I feel they should go in the monlment. I flip back through the pages and have a record of what needs done, what I have done, and the things I need to do or think I need to do.

This somehow enables me to chew through a tremendous amount of work compared to projects at work that are rigidly organized. Sometimes I will write down a huge list of tasks, never look at them again, work for a few hours, and check my notes to find that I can cross them all off.

I have tried using the tools we typically use at work like Jira or Azure Boards. Total waste of time that stifles the mind.
The mouser they swapped out had a harder room layout too
A game so good that Dunkey has awarded it Game of the Year for 10 years running
"Even the exact match query operator (" ") doesn't give exact matches anymore, which is quite bizarre."

Why not make this optional. Why not recognise that there are some people who may want to do searches using exact match.

Google could still provide exact match but default to "smart"/"assisted"/whatever search. Nope. No can do.

Because how would that support online advertising.

The web that Google promotes and encourages is not the best one, IMO.
They don’t prevent crime, they prevent vigilantism.
You can buy pre-modded ones on ebay, although they are at a significant premium.
Magic the Gathering cards probably
Has building been accelerating in the areas where people want to live, though? e.g. lots of Californians wanting to move to MT or ID, but is building catching up there?
Game theory does not say this is the case in every game, only in certain games like Prisoner's Dilemma.

The fact about reality is that there are lots of games, and if you choose a game which is zero-sum or even negative-sum, it's easy to say "This is just how the universe works." But nevertheless, that may only be true locally. If you go somewhere else, you may find that there is a game which is positive-sum.

It may not be a big game, it may not be the most popular or prevalent game, but what do you care? Each of us only needs to find one thing that works for us.

If you like zero-sum games, great, play them. But it's a choice, it's not forced upon us by the universe.
The only Covid related statistics I somewhat trust for country to country comparisons are the excess mortality statistics. Here' a site that compiles them: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-deaths-...

There's quite a bit of variation between Western countries. Among large countries in Western Europe France and Germany are near the low end while the UK, Spain and Italy are higher by roughly a factor of 2. The US is above everybody and Canada is well below everyone else.

If you're trying to tell some kind of story about why some country is better or worse than another, it may be quite difficult to make it fit this data.
Transactions have already been reversed on Bitcoin via successful hard-forks:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=823.0
It vexes me (though, not as much as the apple variants).

The date the last ~active browser stops requesting favicon.ico if one was already inlined would make a good betting pool.
Ed Nash's Military Matters – Ukraine – Is the Clock Ticking Down? [video]
This channel is one of the best "facts on the ground" summaries of military matters in the news. Ed again does not disappoint with a sober assessment. This is very short and might be good to share.

If anyone has any recommendations for others sources I would be happy to see them.
This is an ex ante explanation, because it doesn't apply to (canceled) stamps, which are valuable and have been for a couple centuries.
I don’t think orthopedic surgery is a very good representative for all surgery ;)
I'm very disappointed at all the negativity here. I get it, I'm worried too. I hate the modern trend of the exit always being an acquisition. I hate that the big companies scoop up the good little companies and ruin them. I hate it all. I feel very jaded too, and I'm very worried about what this means too. I have significant investment running on linode and I don't want to have to move it, which also means paying more, and settling for less.

But that said, we are missing a lot of details. As worried as I am, I'm going to give a company who really deserves the benefit of the doubt, the benefit of the doubt.

I would really, really appreciate a blog post or announcement or something though from Linode that details what things are changing and when. I know you may not know yet, but when you know if you could share I would greatly appreciate it.
You can. Or at least you used to be able to, by putting your query in double quotes. Apparently it no longer works either.
It's not even fiction
https://www.propublica.org/series/sacrifice-zones
As a Franklin Ace 1000 owner (Apple Clone) I can say that there were no commands for sounds and the graphics were rudimentary, draw a point or draw a line or draw a pretty slow vector shape.
Listened to some of G.K. Chesterton's work through libravox, quality was great. I suggest that people check it out.
> One dying company absorbing another dying company

You know Schlumberger and Bechtel have really tanked in the consumer branding, But I'd hesitate to say they are "dying"

I think there is no world in which Akamai can be said to be "dying"

Unless you have some knowledge of the balance sheet, This is hyperbole
Oops, my bad, I did not properly take into account high quality printing. It is definitely too cheap to be anything high quality, they just get the job done for everyday printing at a low price.
That could apply to some local markets, sure. But we are seeing massive price increases rather universally, which implies it's a more widespread phenomena than just local undersupply.

But it will be true for certain markets. Most homebuilding is concentrated in the SMILE states (southern, areas where people are migrating to)
A sovereign state possesses unlimited authority - but that doesn't automatically translate to power. It's one thing to pass a law that tried to regulate cryptocurrency transaction. Trying to actually enforce it is a whole different story.
There have been zero reported ransomware attacks on Chrome OS. If you're in a hospital, for example, and all you do is interact with a backend running on an intranet site, that might be a big advantage to you.
Here is a commercial example of underground hydrogen storage that has been in service since 2007. It is a salt cavern in Texas. It is part of extensive hydrogen infrastructure connecting many industrial users (600 miles of pipeline)

https://investors.linde.com/archive/praxair/news/2007/praxai...
Non-fungible tulips.
I've been sealioned here, I've read the transphobic, genocide-supporting, and misogynistic takes, but those are not the worst encounters. There have been some utterly spooky encounters here. One in particular stands out as being like a conversation with an otherworldly being. This individual clearly had some amount of speech&debate practice and was equipped to take whatever was said in the worst possible interpretation, but framed in the most detached unaggressive manner. It was the conversational equivalent of quicksand. It keeps me up at night that some people out there roam among us.
When the Fed starts raising rates to try to counter inflation we'll see mortgage rates follow. If mortgage rates go up to, say, 7% (pretty close to the average mortgage rate over the last many decades) that's going to impact the monthly payment. If people are just barely able to afford a house at a certain price with 3% mortgage rates, they're not going to be able to afford it at 7% - it all comes down to monthly cash-flow. As fewer people can afford to buy at current prices with higher rates that limits demand at those prices and something has to give - either prices will fall to accommodate, or the market will just stagnate. Even so, a stagnant market can only last for so long before some sellers start lowering prices because they have to.

This is essentially what happened in the early 80s when we had mortgage rates in the upper teens. If you look at home price sales history during that era there were some quarters where average selling price went down 10% or more.
Honestly, if we're going to go old school, I vote Dogpile.

Let's start pitting the searches against each other again.
CRTs are relevant to gamecube players- in particular, super smash bros. latency.

For example, playing on 720p+ displays causes upscaling, which introduces variable latency into the game and renders it unplayable at a competitive level.

These days there are monitors that you can get instead, but the demand for CRTs is still high since they're cheap.
The point is to feed people not cows or cars, so your estimate is significantly off base.

A bushel of corn is 56 pounds. Assuming a very high 1lb of corn per person per day only gives 2 * 365 * 330 million / 56 * 1.25 = 5.4 billion cubic feet.

Which still sounds insane except AT&T Stadium in Dallas is 0.1 billion cubic feet and cost only 1.3 billion to construct while including all sorts of stuff we don’t need. So roughly one building that size per state. Even if it was almost that expensive vs a more realistic 1/10th, the cost of corn + ethical subsides would hit that in roughly a decade and we would could then spend a 1 billion a year cooling the things while saving money.

PS: Having just one building would look cool but would be a massive single point of failure. Also, you can store dry corn for quite a while even in non cryogenic conditions.
Started one before both as an indie dev and with a few other fellows.

The main reason I switched back to employment for now is to both have a stable income (nest egg is running out) and to gather a great team.

I don't want to work on great ideas, I want to work with great people.
Linode is like a Digital Ocean that has customer support and doesn't hate their small customers. I really hope they don't change too much.
I will say I was pleasantly surprised to discover that their store credit card comes without a magstripe on the back
>> abelinkinbio commented Feb 15, 2022

Thank you again to all who provided feedback on the limitations under our previous license. As you can see in our developer documentation,

[ https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections... ]

we have updated the license for this project. This should be reflected in Github this week as well.

Excited to see what this unlocks <<
It must have been interesting to be at nintendo at that time. Simultaneously exploding in popularity while being so focused on creating joyful products.
Do you think education could also be a factor? More university degrees than in prior decades leading to relatively fewer people with low wages in cheap apartments and more high earners desiring luxurious housing, which takes more material and labor to construct? And of course the pandemic generated a desire to get into less-dense spaces with home offices.
I'd argue that university degrees don't even sufficiently prepare students to work for someone else. A lot of the "soft skills" required for career success such as: self-marketing, business communication, personal finance, sales, politics, etc... are picked up on the job or from the environment (parents, networks, ...).

A potential solo indie-dev would probably be resourceful enough to go the autodidact path, or cherry-pick their own course plan at a university. Since credentials are less important for a self-employed person, they can get the same value from learning resources.
This doesn't take even 10s to Google. You could verify it yourself. https://www.statista.com/statistics/241488/population-of-the...

It's age 40 where it evens out. Mainly due to suicide. (A lot of "accidental" deaths and occupational deaths are low-key suicidal behavior)

"number of men vs women by age usa"
So true. I mentioned this to some colleagues many years ago. Interested in the other people's comments.
Every CEOs I’ve met are super nice people; and they seem genuine about it.

I think it’a a trait that’s actually needed. Genuily nice + smart + perseverance will get you far.
Most building is concentrated in the migration destinations. You can find the breakout on the FRED website for different metro areas.

I would be particularly concerned about sustainability of prices for places like Boise or Phoenix. Lots of building there, and prices are far detached from local median wage.

Also lots of land and few regulations preventing further building.

Phoenix was one of the places hit hard in GFC. Prices fell 50-70%
Excellent citation.

Thanks for this.

"Meanwhile, journalists and federal health officials discovered several troubling lapses in the conduct of the study. For example, the researchers had earlier told the FDA they would tighten up the trial’s eligibility criteria, but they never followed through. When two patients suffered serious side effects, the scientists did not immediately inform the agency or put the study on hold as required. It turned out Jesse’s pretrial test results showed he had poor liver function, indicating he arguably shouldn’t have received the OTC gene injection.

But perhaps most damning were failures in the informed-consent process. Researchers hadn’t told Jesse about the earlier patients’ side effects or about two lab monkeys killed by high doses of adenoviruses. If he had been properly briefed about these previous issues, he might have dropped out of the study and still be alive today. Wilson was also accused of a conflict of interest: he had a stake in the company that owned the gene-transfer technology and stood to benefit if the trial succeeded.

...

The investigations drew attention to wider problems in oversight of gene-therapy experiments and human research generally. For example, the FDA and NIH revealed that 691 volunteers in gene-therapy experiments had either died or fallen ill in the seven years before Jesse’s death; only 39 of these incidents had been reported promptly as required. The agencies tightened monitoring of trials, increased inspections, and created a new system for reporting serious side effects, among other steps. Penn responded to the crisis by strengthening the institutional review boards that oversee its trials, putting in new protections for patients, and prohibiting researchers from having financial stakes in their trials."

Truly nothing new under the sun.
This leads to a pretty interesting comparison between plain cryptocurrencies and NFTs.

Cryptocurrencies are beanie babies: Once available for a trifle, their value has ballooned based on speculation. But that already happened, you missed out on it, and it has no bearing on their future prospects. And if a bunch of people ever feel the need to cash out at once, they'll find out just how much value they really have when there's nobody buying.

NFTs are Collector's Edition items: Their original purchase prices are artificially inflated (normally by distributor's decision, for NFTs by wash trading). An association with some pop-culture property or pretty artwork attracts eyeballs to it. You could buy it, or you could just get the regular edition (which, for online artwork, is free.) And the price they're available for doesn't necessarily have anything to do with what you'll be able to get for it.
> On the other hand, how many times have you heard "works by binding to the same active site as <something the body produces>"? It'd be cool if we could get the body to produce more of that something.

Note that binding to the same active site as something the body produces is also a strategy for imagining that you produce less of that thing. There's "binding to the same active site [and triggering it]" and there's "binding to the same active site [and plugging it]".

As to how often this strategy is used... what other strategies are there? You produce the effect you want by triggering it to occur. You inhibit the effect you don't want by blocking it from occurring.

You could think of something like a lactase supplement to help you digest milk, and that wouldn't be binding to active sites of your own molecules, but it still works by binding to particular sites on the lactose. Chemicals have their effects through chemical reactions.
How often do you audit that the app hasn't changed to collect data? The idea LocalStorage-based apps are safe is silly if you're always loading them from a remote server.
Well, duh, she could just travel in time to say her past self to do it then.
good. :)
I can't think of many cases where an acquisition served customers well. Often the distinctive things that make a company appealing are lost as costs are slashed, good staff flee and the parent tries to capture customers into their existing products and services.

My impression of Akamai was always if you have to ask the price then you can't afford it. It seems an odd match. I guess the thinking is that they both have to compete with AWS and provide a one stop shop which is probably true to some extent but certainly not for a customer like me.

I have been a small Linode customer off and on for over 15 years and in that time they have had ups and downs, made very public mistakes and learned from them. Overall they generally supplied a competitive product and decent customer service. So I hope this works out well for all involved. If not there is lots of competition still in this space.
I think you can put advice into two buckets. You've got core tenets you need to follow, then there are time sensitive advice, which can only work before it's popular, or can only apply to certain time periods for other reasons.

"You need a good hook", "you need to focus on a target market" is good marketing advice that even if everyone follows it, will still be good advice.

"You need to be on tiktok/insta/youtube" is only good advice before too many people start doing it, and you just become part of the noise.

"You need to advertise in the yellow pages" is only good advice until people stop using the yellow pages. Different from there being too many other marketers doing it.
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Sounds like a brand of condoms
What are you comparing? Surely DigitalOcean isn't bigger than Cloudflare or do I have my perception entirely backwards? Guessing that you're comparing DigitalOcean to Linode instead, 50M seems like a very small difference actually.

Btw I find the large split words as numbers ("makes 150M more" -> "makes a hundred fifty million more") quite hard to read, but maybe that's just me.
> Creating the installation media via a Chrome Extension sure is a wonky process.

I disagree, it actually is very smart, it is easy to do, you do it from your browser, simple, no weird .msi or .exe to run

For me it worked on first try
Yes. Battary capacity.
The resulting fork isn't Bitcoin, though, so no Bitcoin transactions are reversed in this manner.
This is going to sound ridiculous, but ecommerce? Between the .com crash, and a few high-profile failures like Kozmo, Outpost, and Pets.com, there was definitely an era of skepticism about the whole idea. Also keep in mind Amazon didn't show a profit for the first 10-15 (?) years. They had a decent reason for it (reinvesting it all back into the business) but they took a lot of criticism for it.
Minesweeper with Phoenix LiveView on free-tier fly.io
Agreed. I think we are all a bit too wary of destructive or anticompetitive acquisitions... but this really doesn't look like one of them, from what I understand they genuinely complement each other.

Linode already use some of Cloudflare as part of their offering e.g nameservers, so I can already see how Akamai could begin to replace those under the hood and then augment Linode's existing services further to offer new capabilities to the small customers (that's how I envision it happening, Linode has a good customer experience and the Linode Manager is very polished now so it would make sense that Akamai would lean on it).

I'm discounting all the anecdotes and handful of past explosions, as any company as old as Linode will have them, and I find comparisons to AWS kind of absurd where you will likely be talking to a robot.
I could see Oracle buying DO
You might be buying into a sociopathic definition of "success". If your definition of success is to be #1 in the market, focused on profits over everything else, and have no non-work criteria for success, then yes, being a sociopath helps.

But if you define success by happiness, life satisfaction, family and friends, enjoying your work, and fulfilling your personal goals. That can be done more readily without going sociopathic.