skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Substack was really good at getting writers with dedicated followings on their platform and properly monetizing their skills.

Take a look at someone like Freddie deBoer. He was a very popular blogger, had written for all the prestigious publications, and was about to accept a $15/hr manual labor job before substack offered him a contract. Now he's making 200k+ a year.

Once enough popular writers were on the platform, and with some help from twitter controversies, the network effect took over.

I love it because it's fast and minimalist. No ads, no nonsense, just the text.
DAMN SON, WHERE'D YOU FIND THIS?
D-D-D-D-D-DJ XYZ EXCLUSIVE.

Jokes aside, watermarks are generally a detriment to what ever medium they're applied to, but as someone who doesn't have a bunch of audio/visual IP I'm much less invested in them outside of being a consumer so I have no idea what the trade off an artist is willing to make in order to balance the IP preservation vs artistic preservation. It feels like a personal question, but once you move your IP over to universal or any other publisher, in my mind you've given up a bit of that creative control in exchange of the publishers services.
The Russian people and the Russian government are largely in agreement and the oligarchs are out of power. If you can bet on one thing it is that oligarchs like international business and do not like wars and having their yachts seized. That was the Russia of the 90s.

I've got family and friends in Russia, most of them highly educated and with access to international news and all. War support is pretty strong through all social strata. (also backed by independent pollsters like levada, if you want to look at data).
Currently, people share block lists to accomplish the same. On Facebook groups, WhatsApp groups, IRC channels or even BBS you also had some users with the ability to throw trolls out.

On Twitter, there’s nothing like this. There’s no way for someone to make a group, post content only to that group, and add/remove users to/from the group.

For millennia, most human conversation happened in such groups. Our social mechanisms haven’t changed quickly enough to hold pace with the technological mechanisms of posting an opinion and having literal billions of potential readers – and commenters.
Great, now people are going to be asking: "Is this plane vegan friendly?"
Well I suppose it depends on bidder mentality, sure, but in that case it's still better - you would have seen & bid the extra $25k and got it (maybe).

> In open bidding, you are competing against other offers and the ceiling is basically what you can afford to pay.

Well, what someone else can afford (and is willing) to pay. i.e. you never overpay, pretty much by definition.

(I think there probably exist 'open' auction system where the highest bid (not second) is paid, but the main ones don't work like that, and nobody's suggesting that as far as I've seen.)
> 1 house - tax breaks

Why should society be subsidizing home ownership more than they already do?

The real estate market already discriminates against people who cannot afford a deposit (an increasing proportion of people, since house prices are increasing so rapidly), and the design of North American cities encourages urban spawl which is unsustainable with current property tax rates. [1]

> and I think to promote everyone's owning a house

Why? Half of German households rent [2] and no one is wringing their hands about how people should be owning their home instead of renting.

As someone who has lived in Europe and North America, there seems to be a borderline obsession with owning a house in anglophone countries, and I don't understand why. If the rental market is sane (e.g. rent is approximately equivalent to a mortgage) then it's up to the individual if they want to purchase a home (e.g. to renovate how they see fit) or is comfortable just renting.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI

[2] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/04/global-percentage-ren...
If your company isn't profitable or relies on refinancing your debt, the next decade is going to be brutal.
Or maybe it is related to tech companies earning record profits year after year and obviating entire other businesses year after year. There is still much upside to be had, especially on the recurring revenue front.
Yeah, despite the semi-joking nature of my post I have found good things in both Medium and Substack.

This may be really bad over analysis combined with misremembering, but both sites felt like they reflected the HN users-base (or vice versa).

I remember circa 2015-2016 Medium posts and HN comments felt in sync in regards to the tone, content etc. I feel the same thing with many Substack blogs seem feeling like an HN comment section turned into an article.
The patch for Pegasus has been out since September 2021.
FYI FedEx ground is a separate company. They are actually locally owned / individually owned franchises that pay FedEx to route and ship their packages. The routes are owned by individuals. Its a great biz as many are making very good livings managing the routes.
Looks really cool!
4 hours! Wow great job
FWIW, Dave Van Ronk's nickname is "Mayor of MacDougal Street".
Thanks for this! last time I went looking for video reviews none of the reviewers actually made a phone call with it which annoyed me to no end.
No it wasn't and it's pretty obvious it wasn't. The Magic Trackpad 2 and Magic Keyboard released at the exact same time as the Magic Mouse 2 yet both actually let you use them wired, not just charging but actually with signals going over USB and not Bluetooth.

If Apple had a serious hard-on for getting rid of cables as is claimed from everyone's desk they would have done the same thing to those devices. It's much more likely they just wanted to recycle the old Magic Mouse chassis, parts and tooling and this was the only way.
Several of the absolute best journalists working today, some of whom were more or less canceled elsewhere (e.g., Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Alex Berenson), are featured there, and are making serious money -- enough to hire whole crews to help in their reporting.

I'm happy to pay $50/year to support these independent voices.

So they are a proven-successful platform, and that attracts other writers.
Use PDF.js and magica to do the rendering and processing. You could see the credits in GitHub repo page.
> FedGov doesn't know the basis of your stock (or crypto) transactions

Aren't brokerages required to file forms for every customer they serve? Let the regulated businesses deal with bureaucracy and accounting, they are expected to hire people for that job anyway.
the one feature it needs is the ability to add punched holes down one side, or optionally other binding techniques like spiral binding.
"Astroturfing" means many fake accounts pretending to be real accounts. Hence the name. Like fake grass.

Celebrity endorsements are not astroturfing.

You could make the argument that there are enough celebrity accounts and that those accounts are run by the substack marketing team that it should be considered astroturf but that seems like a long stretch to me.
"low 20s" is such an outlier you need to provide sources that "most European countries" are in that range or people should take this comment as an outright lie meant to deliberately deceive.
I'm not sure how that would refute GP, perhaps people prefer the salty fries due to salt deficiency...
The idea is cool. But - which existing language is not neurosymbolic?
On the other hand, this could allow him to easily contest any future parking ticket.
Yup.

This bill seems perfectly tailored to really screw medium businesses that aren't big enough to treat everyone like interchangeable cogs and are in blue collar industries where most employees are hourly.

Companies hiring low cost labor already play stupid games to keep people well under 40hr because benefits. They'll just plug a different number into their excel formula and send everyone their new schedules.

Salaried professionals are the ones who's time gets wasted in meetings (because there is no obvious marginal cost to doing so) but they're mostly exempt.
So you are saying they are lying in the title when they say "randomised, controlled trial"?
Don't forget more influencers and of course, crypto.
How much is my car worth?
AIM-9X has a 22 mile range...
I don't think the article pays enough attention to drones. It does mention their importance, and the possibility that they will do away with armor altogether -- and then says, "well, we don't yet know if that's right, so tanks are probably still important." Seems to me that whether or not that is right is the big question.
It's not that simple. Yandex has a frontpage that is viewed by tens of millions of users daily and is equivalent to TV. And Yandex since long ago has been intentionally filtering news that are shown there, for example, keeping silent about anti-Putin protests etc. So Yandex has been helping to spread propaganda for many years.

Please don't portray Yandex as a victim of strict martial laws (although oficially there is no war, only a "special operation". Calling it a war is an offence).
The effect to me is noticeable. If I gave it to my SO or some average user I dont' think it would be noticeable. But at the same time, we're all here, so we're not average users. However, on that monitor I have terminal or documentation so for me it works quite fine. Increasing the tracking speed or mouse refresh rates won't help in this case.

I will say though that the system is rock solid for me. I've read complaints about monitors not waking up or similar, but I've never experienced anything like it.

Also the mouse does keep up. The 60Hz refresh rate will keep up with it. There is just a small amount of lag, but that's that. Better than not having additional monitor in my case.
Masks Are Off
Feed Wrangler is shutting down
I just got an email saying:

Thank you for being a Feed Wrangler subscriber. This service was created nine years ago when Google announced the end of Google Reader. Unfortunately, today I'm making a similar announcement about the future of Feed Wrangler.

I will be shutting down Feed Wrangler next year, on March 1, 2023. This date is one year since the last member was billed for their subscription. No further membership fees with be charged.
> They might not know about the hiring candidate directly

That's what we're talking about. It's not hard to understand overall housing market trends as a housing buyer, but you don't know what a specific seller is going to do with the offers they have on the table. That's where you're blind, just as an employer is blind to what else a candidate has on the table.

If there's a difference, it's that the housing market is hotter (in Canada, at least) than the labour market, so you feel more pressure to buy a particular house when it comes up for sale. If you miss it, you might not find another one for a long time. If, on the other hand, you don't get one employee because you didn't offer enough, you can just wait for the next one that comes along the next day and try again. No big deal.
Japan researchers develop electric chopsticks to enhance salty taste
You have a very different definition of “free choice” than I think is typical.
First, direnv (along with nix-direnv) is really the glue that makes all of this work seamlessly.

It depends on what the dotfiles are for and how they're used.

Here's an example of a problematic one: AWS configs. You can theoretically override the default location of these files with environment variables, but a lot of tooling doesn't respect this and will break as a result.

I often deal with a large number of AWS accounts, so my solution is to have one main way for populating AWS config files that lives outside of projects, and then, because I have a rubric for account/role assignment naming, I can select the correct account/role for each project, and I can even have projects that switch them based on specific code/deployments.
What's stopping Canada from increasing its housing stock? Surely Canada has plenty of space for its 30M citizens, right? (Yes, I understand that much of the territory is uninhabitable, but even still...).
Most employees, and I'm willing to bet about 98% of those reading HN who aren't contractors, are exempt and salaried. So "work week" in the legal sense has only a vague correlation to the work actually get done. If you're assigned the same amount of work, you don't really have much of a choice.
We aren't in the early 2000s anymore. Tech companies won't be seen as a "fad" any time soon. As long as VCs keep making money out of diversifying risk, the "bubble" will never burst.
If they have the same time requirements, then the hard job because keeping yourself intellectually stimulated will (I assume based on question) fulfill your self-identity and keep you mentally healthy and you and your family will benefit from that.

If you are the kind of person who, it appears, takes some sort of pleasure in being able to tell themselves they’re doing things that are hard then that self-actualization will keep you happy.

If there are trade-offs then the linear combination of the various things to produce your personal score requires your own coefficients.
>And of course, I integrated #GPT3 with the Microwave's API so it could still function normally as a voice-controlled microwave.

GPT3 was linked up to the API of the smart microwave so it had the ability to turn the thing on
Economics has the concept of a "substitute good": a product or service that consumers use as a substitute for another (StumbleUpon), to achieve the same outcome.

In StumbleUpon's case, the product is the output - a steady supply of fresh, reasonably relevant/somewhat curated links - not a specific mechanism for doing that. In those terms, I'd argue that the biggest substitute is Reddit.

Obviously the curation/relevance process is different, but many subreddits and Reddit itself deliver the same output that StumbleUpon did.
How Gary Gygax Lost Control of Dungeons and Dragons
It would seem to me that the Democrats do see that it's headed toward disaster in November. Disaster for them anyway.

>Across this country, voters agreed with us — and gave us a majority in Washington so that we could deliver on those promises.

Yes they did. Democrats have had 2 years to do what they wish.

>Republican senators and broken institutions have blocked much of that promised progress.

Wait no, literally the last sentence was that you got a majority to deliver on promises. Republicans havent done anything, you can blame only yourselves here by your own admission.

>Republicans want to frame the upcoming elections to be about “wokeness,” cancel culture and the “militant left wing.” S

No doubt. Even Obama agrees with the republicans here.

>we should use every single one of the next 200 days or so before the election to deliver meaningful improvements for working people.

YES! lets see this happen! It wont happen... but lets hope it does.

>Democrats win elections when we show we understand the painful economic realities facing American families and convince voters we will deliver meaningful change.

Painful economic realities that you caused.

>Democrats are headed toward big losses in the midterms.

That's true. Something must be done in those last 200 days.

>We can also act quickly to rein in costs for middle-class families. In the very short term, that means stopping companies from jacking up prices to boost their profits.

I wouldn't recommend doing that, but then again they already started with diabetes meds pushing producers out of the US market.

>With the stroke of a pen, the president could make massive strides to close gender and racial wealth gaps.

Lots of people are framing this in a 'we hate trump, that's why you won. Stop with your far left agenda'

In essence these democrats are also pushing the anti-woke narrative.

Meanwhile AOC said their problem is that they are not progressive enough. Perhaps AOC is right? Perhaps the democrats need to embrace the far-left far more in the next 200 days.

Elizabeth Warren is a native american. Perhaps they can do something progressive to help the natives?
Dogfighting is a thing of the past. 20 Cessnas approaching from different directions, with decently ranged AA missiles ( which is the point of the discussion, OP compared drone performances to a Cessna, and everyone is going in on the allegory, but the real question is if slow drones would be able to tackle an F-35, and the answer is it will depend on their armament, but probably) could overwhelm an F-35.
This is inspired by baicunko/scanyourpdf and previous HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23157408
That's a question we won't really know the answer to until we get a nice big shooting war between peer air forces again. So hopefully not in my lifetime. I think what they really learned was dropping guns is a gamble and when you don't /really/ have to control costs that much it's safer to include a limited gun in case you need it. AFAIK the current doctrine thinks dog fights are going to be a small part of air to air combat as both the f22 and f35 have less than 5 seconds of ammo.
I took the easy job. It made me a little anxious at first, like I was doing something wrong. Picking up some side work filled that hole. The side work can be paused at any time. It's pretty much ideal.
It's very useful to keep track of changes and to be able to have text to describe and explain, so for me the simplest tool would not be to use a spreadsheet but to create a git repo and to have one file per requirement, which can be grouped into categories through simple folders. You can still have a spreadsheet as top level to summarise as long as you remember to keep it up to date.

Top-level requirements are system requirements and each of them should be tested through system tests. This usually then drips through the implementation layers from system tests to integration tests, to unit tests.

Regression testing really is just running your test suite every time something changes in order to check that everything still works fine.
How would this affect distributed companies? Would Californians receive special treatment?
Guy Buys NFT for $2.9M, Asks for $48M, Is Offered $3600
Yeah I was in a company using Nix for around 18 months where some of the DevOps team were contributors so everything was Nix’d. CI, dev environments, deployments, cluster management. Want to add a library to your Python app? Don’t use pip or poetry, update Nix. But because DRY this nix isn’t even in your project, it’s in another repo somewhere. Want to update Haskell? Well you can’t use Cabal or Stack, you need to use Nix2Cabal or whatever. It slowed down so much stuff that anyone could usually do to a ticket for a Nix-versed engineer to fix and was a choke point on everything. I’ve since vetoed it very hard at two startups I’ve worked at.

I want to like Nix, I made my primary computer NixOS, but it’s just so much complexity. For small dev environments I kind of get it - I might still use it to spin up a Haskell env - but when the total Nix lines of code > 10k for a project then have fun!
Considering the companies they are talking about here, wouldn't it just be better to work towards a more goal driven work agreement? Show up, do what is required and then the time is yours?

If you're being paid regardless then what does it matter if you're "on the bench" for a few hours or you leave early for the day? A lot, if we're talking about employee morale. Not much if someone is sitting at their desk trying to find stuff to do.

So long as there is effective communication (which I know can be a challenge) then it really doesn't (or shouldn't) matter when a person is working if the gets done. No?

40h (or 32h) work weeks make even less sense when you work remotely.
i think it is much easier for substack because of this.
“link between sodium intake above a certain level and heart disease in a previously healthy individual”

I know this is common knowledge but could you provide any recent studies or citations for curious readers? Anything from the past 5 years? I could never understand how they factor in body weight and physical activity, which should change the recommended levels. Someone who sweats a lot because of intense exercise might need sodium above that limit. Or if you drank more water than average, etc…
Air support is as vulnerable to MANPADs as tanks are to a Javelin, that's one of the (potential) reasons why neither side has air dominance over Ukraine. And long-range guided weapons are awfully expensive. And they need eyes on the ground. And they cannot carry infantry into battle, nor can infantry hide behind them.

EDIT: The point is that a tank will be made obsolete by weapon system that replaces the tanks function on the battlefield. And not by a system that can destroy a tank. Because those anti-tank systems exist since WW1. Initially the Germans were not that impressed by tanks, large caliber rifles and re-purposed field guns worked just fine against the first tanks the French and British used. Nobody stopped tank, or anti-tank weapon, development then so. I don't see a reason why anybody would stop tank development just because we have impressive Javelin footage. If anything, tanks will improve to increase protection against ATGMs and drones. As will tactics and doctrine.
> The enemy is the Russian government and the rich oligarchy behind it, not Russian people

I think we're all getting real tired of this line. This is, what, the 3rd time that place has collapsed in the last 100 years? This is a pattern. And I think it's time to start holding the Russian people accountable for it.
No offense but there's a huge difference between tiny Finland and pretty small Alaska and the giant Canadian North. Finland has a large border shared with Russia but it's nothing compared to the massive mostly undefended coastline along the arctic ocean that Canada shares with Russia. An absolutely potentially huge operating theatre.
Interesting, the separate compute and storage tiers is another system going that direction which I think is becoming almost the standard at this point, especially for "cloud-native" things designed to run on k8s. From what I can tell (it isn't very explicit on this point) they are avoiding a distributed consensus at the storage layer and instead relying on a single writer/multiple reader model with the single writer being enforced by assignment of the tablets in the compute tier, with the tablet being responsible for writing to multiple storage nodes for durability? (But I might be wrong)

Assuming yes this approach, I think, is under utilized and is pretty similar to how Apache Pulsar works (my day job),but I am not sure how many distributed RDBMS have tried it out, will be cool to see how it evolves! It isn't clear how they ensure the assignment of a tablet to only a single compute node, but I think that is an easier problem relative to distributed consensus at the storage tier.
>giving people the impression that those celebrities joined by free choice

Paying writers for their work means they didn't choose to join Substack?
Not fully. Nor are the air traffic control costs paid by airlines. The entire ATC infrastructure is government run and funded and most of the airports are run by local governments. Very few airports actually make money or are profitable for the agency that runs them. They are subsidized. Done with the idea that they are essential for communities and are a part of our underlying infrastructure.
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Also: look at what FedEx pays in Fed taxes. Its zero most years.
I will never give Medium a single dollar and big part of that is their lying paywall. It always says "Login to view the rest of the article" or something like that. After you login you have a 50-50 chance that it will say something like "you've reached the end of your free article limit" or some variation on that. Sometimes visiting the same link again will show you the content. It makes zero sense and pisses me off every time I run into it.
I hope they don't. If you don't want things archived, don't put them out there.
> A lesser restriction would logically also have no effect.

How can you "logically" come to that conclusion?