skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is fad advice and longer term solid advice. I know more about sales than marketing, but for example having a targeted video pitch rather than a cold email is probably a gimmick that if one person does it it's more likely to get interaction but if everyone does it its annoying. Talking to your customers and understanding their problems is advice that will continue to work, even if everyone does it.
> [CRTs] respond colourfully to magnets (also magic) held to their screens by curious children [...].

Look at the reflection of an LCD (not LED) panel in a non-conductive surface and try tilting it! (A glass window at night, a glass bathroom door, or a piece of furniture with a shellac finish works.) Hint: Brewster’s law.

Doesn’t detract from the article, just ... LCDs have some of the good kind of magic in them, too! Feynman talked about “sun reflecting on bay”[1], but “tablet reflecting in bathroom door” is even better I think.

[1] http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/46/2/LatinAmerica.htm
> - "There’s a fun conspiracy theory that popped up recently called the Dead Internet Theory..."
> I hadn't heard of this. Now that's some sci-fi level of conspiracy but in today's world it seems totally plausible.

I never believed in conspiracy theories, and after I read "Media Control" by Noam Chomsky I understood there is no need for conspiracy theories once you understand how individual incentives are aligned and how individuals always act to maximise profits.

Someone on HN phrased this and I am not taking credit for it but it explains beautifully whats going on: "Google is not making money by showing you the best search result they can, they make money by keeping you searching."
The answer to that is "maybe" ( https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11542901?hl=e... ):

> Support for Linux development environment on Chrome OS Flex varies, depending on the specific model. Review the Certified models list to check if your models support Linux on Chrome OS Flex.

The link on that page to the list of supported hardware doesn't actually show which machines support Linux.
> In addition to this, ProtonMail has no password requirements, and the Professor has tested it with passwords like ‘1’, ‘iloveyou’, and ‘password’, which are all trivial to crack in dictionary attacks. Once these can be confirmed, an attacker has your entire email history.

Surely, they could enforce password requirements, but for me every user is responsible of having a secure password. If your account gets compromised despite the service hashing password correctly and having brute-force prevention mechanisms in place, it's on you for not having a strong enough password (or reusing it).

> And the flaw is that it is relatively simple for ProtonMail to serve you a modified version of their web application or the underlying PGP implementation. There is no way to cryptographically verify that you are getting the official version of the web client as stored in their repository.

Yes, this is true. But for anyone requiring absolute state-of-the-art privacy, you could simply use your own pair of keys without ever sending it to ProtonMail (i.e. you would use ProtonMail to send and not to encrypt, even though you would still benefit from their encryption as an additional layer). All open-source web-based services have this kind of flaw.

> PM can once again replace the web application or PGP software to recover the original message and passcode.

(This is in reference to the "Encrypt-To-Outside feature".) Yes, this is true as well, but look at the alternative: I send an email to your Gmail account. Google can read it. Then, you reply to my email, and ProtonMail could catch it in transit while it's not encrypted. I mean, they don't need you to use that feature to be able to catch your communications. So, we're back to the fact that they could serve a different version of the source code than they advertise.

I really fail to see the point of this article. I'm sure most of the users use it to stay away from Google tracking, and even the author agrees that if you need total privacy you should use your own keys.
They had a death spiral PIPE deal, but they paid off the loan. The company was (edited: almost) shorted to death in the months during they had the loan.

Appreciate the advice.
And yet you still have to pay taxes on it.
I think it would be foolish to assume google hasn't spent hundreds of hours in meetings talking about what they can do about everyone having to type reddit. Problem is they are facing an army of SEO experts who are one step ahead of google. As well as legal issues. Imagine if it was found google was artificially boosting reddit in an unfair way.
Prices are not the same thing as costs.
Here's a real example of that bug:

Slack's message buttons (such as "Add reaction" or "Reply in thread") stopped working for Firefox versions >= 100 and <= 519. They mysteriously started working again for versions >= 520. The version string "100" compared as smaller than "52" in Slack's code, which activated some kind of webcompat workaround intended for Firefox versions < 52 that breaks on more recent Firefox versions.

https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/67866
Seconded. The way I look at this is to always build the allowable action space from nothing, and default to nothing. Most of the time it involves a state machine where each node comes with a white list of currently allowable verbs a client can send.

The alternative is an infinite action soup, which opens opportunities for inspiration by lateral thinking. I'm doing it this way for a single player Lovecraftian text editor I'm working on. It's a terrible idea for multiplayer things.
As a caching-only recursive nameserver.
Usually bugs, for example if the rng doesn't get handled in precisely the same way.
Wow, that some major root level compromise at linode. It's interesting how quiet they kept these things in those days.
Problem is, this behavior is so outside of the range of common expectations, it's really hard to say if it's harmless or not and what are the worst cases for (ab)using it.
I'll defrag that for the younger audience - the commodore 64 had a slow external disc drive and best explained "The 1541 was very slow in loading programs because of a poorly implemented serial bus, a legacy of the Commodore VIC-20" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64_peripherals#Flopp...
It is very loosely based on GTD which really makes sense to me. But I can't stand tracking tasks in dedicated software like Outlook or Todoist, there's just too much going on and too much to clicking to do. Roam's text interface eliminates all that and is perfect for quickly recording tasks with little ceremony.

I started off having a single page for all my tasks but it soon got very cluttered so I started making use of the daily notes instead. I found that the fresh page in daily notes each morning is much more inviting and it is helped make this process a part of my daily routine.

If a task comes up I'll write it down in the daily notes and put a `/todo` and `#Project-{some-project-i'm-working-on}`. I'll check off the tasks as I work, and if I feel stuck I will add more bullet points to break the task down into smaller chunks to help me get through it.

For any tasks with a due date or that I think I could use a reminder later on I will add a date using the date picker on that todo.

To see all my todos in one place I can go to the TODO page. This is better than scrolling through my daily notes and I can prune my tasks from the TODO page from time to time.

For anything I see that I won't do I can just delete it or I will put a `#someday-maybe` for anything that I can put off or won't get around to soon. I have a filter enabled ignoring anything with `#someday-maybe` to makes the TODO page more focused.

Sometimes I will go to the `#Project-{some-project-i'm-working-on}` page to review what's been done recently, this is good for quarterly reviews and at appraisal time.

That's about it all there is to it. I'm looking into making use of the query syntax to improve reviews but I found ordering by date is not working.
> Case in point: Falcon Heavy. It ended up being delayed so long that improvements in the Merlin engine greatly reduced the payloads that Falcon Heavy was originally built for to the point there are a couple of launches a year at best.

Did you mean that "improvements in the Merlin engine greatly increased" the payloads that Falcon 9 can deliver, therefore reducing the need for Falcon Heavy? Because if that's what happened, then there wasn't a delay as such and it's quite disingenuous to put it as such.

> All of this for <$20B in investment, which is about the development cost of SLS.

$1B is <$20B, and the cost of SLS will be much more than $20B. This sentence is particularly disingenuous if not outright dishonest.

> SLS hasn't even launched yet and will probably cost ~$1B/launch anyway.

SLS has been in the works for longer than Starship, has it not? And Starship supposedly will cost much less per ton to orbit than Falcon 9 / Falcon heavy, which means "~$1B/launch" is just nuts.

> Starship is incredibly ambitious but if it doesn't reach orbit before 2025 I won't be surprised.

Meh. They'll reach orbit when they reach orbit, but you've not shown any arguments for why it would take them that long.

> Blue Origin has had just as much money thrown at it and was founded years before SpaceX yet it still hasn't reached orbit and its BE-4 engines have been delayed years.

BO hasn't even reached orbit at all, while SpaceX sure has! What are you on about?!
I imagine Khaby Lame sitting at a desk, a laptop, a tablet, a printed out sandstorm logo and a phone next to him. He puts the laptop, logo and tablet away, grabs the phone and points at it several times, his facial expression saying:

"If you want your stats proper and orderly, play the game only from your phone, buddy."
Because back then the price of bitcoin was much lower. It is $124 million in today dollars, like $1,000 in back then dollars.
> Every single caller between the handler and condition site has to be able to handle both the happy path (got a result) and unhappy path (got a condition).

This isn’t terrible, 2 relatively popular languages, Rust and Go, do not have exceptions and do require the caller explicitly handle errors. Rust even has a question mark operator to make error handling this way a bit more ergonomic.

> Another issue is just in performance. In an error or try/catch system you unwind the stack along the way. In a condition system, you don't.

That makes sense. I’m curious if this is something that can be optimized statically by a compiler.
Did not see this coming. Interesting development.
> so long as the big players see it as a "Professional User" product differentiation point it'll always be more expensive than it should be.

Right. The more important Linus to speak up for ECC isn't Torvalds. It's Linus Sebastian, of Linus Tech Tips. He's made a few videos on ECC targeted towards gamers. Gamers drive the enthusiast PC market and when they start caring, more ECC gets made which will drive the cost down a bit. Last time I bought 32GB DDR4 UDIMM ECC there was literally one SKU. Not manufacturer. Not brand. SKU. One single item in production in the entire world. 16GB wasn't much better off, either.

It's a hard sell, though. Non-ECC will always be cheaper because it costs less to produce. Gamers don't really care that ECC prevents one crash in years because they are used to frequent crashes already. They are largely being fed dogshit from the AAA gaming industry and they have learned to just deal with it. Crashes are just part of being on the bleeding edge of gaming and Nvidia/Radeon drivers. One less crash in a sea of crashes isn't something gamers are lining up for. But a better model GPU or bigger SSD? It's an obvious choice.
Right, it's certainly cheaper, but my point is it's not a fundamental game-changer - she could've done it 5 years ago with the technology we had then, too.
It's too easy to give a glib answer, and feel justified because you're right.

I work hard to post helpful, constructive, conversation-advancing remarks instead. I fail regularly. But sometimes I get it right.

Some simple moves I make to help me be more positive:

Remove the word 'you' from my comment. It's rarely helpful to put words in someone's mouth, or deconstruct another comment. I try to limit my comments to my own ideas. It's so very easy for others to read 'you did blah' and feel indignant. I don't want to generate that. Looking for the word 'you' in my post is a red flag that the post isn't advancing the topic.

Accept criticisms, and respond in a meta way if at all. Getting bogged down in a dictionary definition or arguing who's statistic is more pertinent is low-leverage discussion.

Ask questions as often as making declarative statements. Offer new information and ask if it helps illuminate the topic. That adds something, opens the way for further dialog, and admits a topic may be more nuanced.

Anyway, thanks to those that helped me understand that winning karma points is not the real point.
That’s what it would be worth now. Was worth like 1/10000th of that back then. They probably covered it with their previously earned holdings that could have been another fraction of that.
I've used verbatim mode for awhile, but I don't know why the time/date filter work with it though :(
I imagine they repaid the value of the bitcoins at the time, which would have been a lot less
One could reasonably conclude that they will start doing this soon under their newly acquired Linode subsidiary.
> What you are doing is using the system and logic and inferences. High school stuff

And yet, used cars are now selling for more than new cars. I actually have equity in my car. So even in a market with a long history, it can still be wrong. And NFTs don't have a long history to go on. So accusing someone of fraud is a bit of a stretch.

> Do you have any stake in this venture (or exclusively a fee paying user)?

If I did I would have disclosed it when I linked it.

> I am glad to see you're making 9% in a market that's currently averaging ~15+% Net IRR.

Then 9% I'm making is just on the rent, it doesn't include appreciation. The IRR on my properties is closer to 20% when you include appreciation.

> Using deep neural networks in real estate? Wasn't Zillow's iBuying massacre enough educational experience?

Unlike Zillow, this company only uses the AI as a tool to identify potential properties. There is still a human that vets it and buys it, and then I get to personally vet it and choose if I want to buy it. This is the right way to use AI -- as a tool to augment your own capabilities.

> It's all about cashflow, tenant rolls and contracts.

And that's all I look at. Their website is a marketing tool, they are trying to get millennials/genZ into the real estate market by making it cheap enough to be affordable to them, so their website uses those things in their marketing. I don't care, I look at the cash flow and tenant rolls and they look good.

> We need even more ~speculation~ investors in RE in the U.S.

Speculation is not what is damaging the real estate market. It's local zoning boards preventing construction. It's simple supply and demand -- demand for housing far outstrips supply. Me not investing will not make any difference. In fact what I'm doing is providing liquidity to the market, so I'm actually making it better. I'm not buying real estate and sitting on it -- I'm helping turn homes into rentals for people to live in.

> So instead of NFTs, you could have used a shared, versioned, auditable Excel spreadsheet/AirTable to get the exact same effect without losing any functionality? ... What am I missing?

Not at all. You lack vision if you think that is the case.

First off, lofty would need to continue to exist to use Airtable/SQL/whatever. With the NFTs, lofty can go away and I still own my share of the LLC.

Secondly, a shared spreadsheet with audibility is what a blockchain is.

Thirdly, I don't need permission from anyone the sell my shares. A shared table run by lofty would require me to ask them for permission to make the transaction. Which means it's subject to US law. So anyone else around the world who doesn't want to onus of filing US tax paperwork can't buy these assets.

The permissionless part and the governance part are key. We (the other owners of the LLC and myself) don't have to rely on a gatekeeper (lofty in this case) to transact business with each other.

But also lofty provides a service, making it easier for us to transact business, so they take a fee for that and make money. We don't need them but they provide a benefit, so everyone wins.
I’m French and ahem, I’m selling to both US, Australian and Russian government entities. As in, .gov email addresses.

When I fill in forms, it’s often quite simple since we’re all French developers under regular employment contracts.
It was probably not Buffett, but either Todd or Ted. Before the Microsoft Deal was lucky, both of them had incredible returns - as their allocation capital is much lower.
That was my first thought too.

They charge in like heroes to extend the life of laptops with other company's operating systems and yet the four year old Chromebook that perfectly suits my parents' limited performance needs is being abandoned even though it's still fully functional.
>- It contains 100% signal- no noise- and provides helpful related links if you need more information.

This is not true anymore. From Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger:

>Wikipedia Is Badly Biased

https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/

It's completely untrustworthy on anything remotely political. Very, very mainstream narrative compliant/reinforcing.

- Every page has a steward who (thanklessly) keeps the information accurate, up-to-date, and ad-free

And many of them inject their personal biases.

For hard science stuff, math, and celebrities, it's pretty trustworthy but as I said, anything remotely politicized will always have the same slant.
Maybe I am not understanding something, but I thought that total memory bandwidth is critical for Deep Learning applications. This is where HBM on-die would shine, no? I am deferring the purchase of a new desktop/server until processors with HBM come to market. I think AMD is shipping EPYC engineering samples with some version of memory and Intel is slated the release by the end of the year. Am I wrong about this?
> I suspect it still loses data

It deletes history entries once they're too old, and it also only keeps the last timestamp of when a URL was visited, so you can't know how often you visit a URL.

https://superuser.com/questions/1054833/does-mozilla-firefox...
A captured signal may represent a pathway for intervention, a cause, or a margin to address.

Imagine if we found that schizophrenia or other potentially debilitating mental health condition were 99.9999% correlated with this signal being weak or strong. That would be telling. If only for diagnosis, and possibly as a cause.

EDIT: a word - "would be telling"
That does not make sense. If searches did not result in satisfactory results, then people would stop searching.

Which they are, evidenced by restricting searches to HN or Reddit.

This is a problem for google, maybe not right this minute as growth might offset dissuaded users, but nevertheless, it does not behoove them in the long run to provide garbage search results to people.
Yikes! Nonetheless, their fist point is accurate:

>...if you’ve used the Webmail client, ProtonMail has always had the ability to grab your password and private encryption key without you knowing, giving them backdated access to your emails.

If the keys are stored on the same server as your encrypted data, your data might as well be unencrypted.
I can't find any stats on the Famicom Disk System, but it was probably not a beast.
Spanish estate agents selling property in Valencia for foreigners drive very nice BMWs I can tell you.

Capitalism, unlike what Marx claims,does not exploit. It co-opts. The locals always get their share. Some more than others perhaps but what can you do?
Disney releases Moana Island as USD scene
What specifically are you pointing out as the toxic behaviour?
It is only a matter of time until "Search term + Reddit" leads you to a thread with multiple, legitimate looking comments with varying degrees of upvotes and downvotes, and the entire thread has been ran by a marketing firm/search engine hit squad.

I too am guilty of trusting the Reddit concencus when searching, and if there were a few legitimate looking threads that had been planted I probably would have eaten them up.

Sure you get the occassional comment or link share, but I'm talking like 300+ comment thread carefully executed.
> There's a well known effect in advertising that advertising a product to a person that has already bought that product generally increases their satisfaction with the product and the purchase, and may cause them to recommend the product to others.

Do you have a link for further reading on that? That's fascinating if true.
I was thinking something similar recently, and I also believe it's an idea worth exploring. Something else to add to this conversation. There's an obvious difference between two cases in which a trusted person trusts a url:

1) Single contributor website (blog, personal page...): It seems that we could spread the trust the whole website in the algorithm (at least more than for the next case)

2) Multi contributor website (forum, newspaper): It seems the trust should be given at an URL level

Something worth delving into if we are designing this trust based search engine in real-time here at HN ;)
Terminal Lucidity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30348980
I read tons of comments and reviews -before- I travel to a new area and take note of multiple destinations that might be worth checking out.

Thieves target people who are distracted so they can run by and grab a wallet before you see them coming. Scammers and sales people target people who look lost.

When you take the time to learn the things you want to do in advance and where they are you can walk alert, tall, and confident without your head buried in a phone during precious vacation time. This body language wards off many predators be they human or animal.
As a German, I don't buy into that. No matter what party, no one ever touches the automotive industry, as it would be detrimental to your next election results.
Absolutely. If too many people do one thing. Its no longer useful advice and see as obvious.